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ASTORIA. .OREGON
SPOONER AND HALE
IN WARM DEBATE
Cuban frauds Cause Controversy
and Tillman Helps Out.
BLIND CHAPLAIN'S PRAYER
General SJie S) Philippine laurjtnn
Arc Holding Out fur DcmiKr.lIc Success
Tbi Till - S.y Brv.n Will OK. Tbcia
the Islsnds II tlccltd.
WASHINGTON, May 23. Thin was
a duy nf ruiplng pohthMl controversy
mil oratory In the kenute. With the.
controversy those on tin !.-iii-rtti Ic
shlu of the chamber, unauiulous us
It may - in, lui'l MUlc to
What, ty far seeing senators, I. re
garded u Ilk. ly to be the paramount
Isstu of the approaching campaign,
was the subject of wu nutublc
speeches, oii by Plait r-p.) of Con
necticut., and Hi" other by SNUir
(rl.) f Vim-onsln.
Tli fiuni.'i. In answer to u speech
lU-llveied a few days uo by Haeon
(Ot-in.l of Ueorglu, in IiIn rtsolutlon,
ih-muiitiinif Oh fxuiill.atli.il of the
(liiiir- liil comtliloim In Cuba:
I'lutt fnv.inJ the adoption of the
resolution, but deprecated what ht
calliMl u rlii-up I ffurt to tnuku polltlcnl
iniiltul out of the kluiimful i'lullton
of nff.ilm wlilcli th riubllan party
mcdid no imxMinK to liuluc it to
pro! to th biittont.
The .pewit of Hpom-r nut roiitluu
Htlon of Ills uildnii of yHtorduy on
the riilllpplnf qucKtlon. In It. couriw
he bcrunie Involvi-d In a ht-utcd and
fi'tmatlonal colloquy with llule (rep.)
of Maine, over thr itovernnifnt's con
duct of (Tulrn In our ''Itmulur ponsc
lon." It was a rcmitikublc conirovemy be-
IWfcn two of the b'-Ht ciulppcd m-na-tor.
In th .eniUe. IUIb Interrupted
Ppooncr to .ay thut. In view of what
had happened In Cubn. It would have
been better had vve abandoned" It.
' I think." s.tld Halt, "we would have
been better off If wc had not tauiclit
the Cubtma the lewun that luut been
tauitht In the liu-t few months."
flpooner "What lehHon?"
Halo "The leasrin of fraud, specula
tion, cheatlnir, a proprlatlon of reve
nues, stealing, carnival In every direc
tion of corruption and fraud."
Hpooner, warmly "It Is a little tire
some for me to be called upon, on this
itde of the chamber, to reply to a
democratic speech."
Tillman (dem.) of South Carolina,
declared that our agents on the Island
were carpet Ixirkits und the sooner
they got out the better.
"Oh," replied Spooner, "If the sena
tor from South Carolina Amis a carpet
butiger In Heaven when he gets there,
he will prefer to go to the other
place."
"I certainly will." replied Tillman.
The blind chaplain. In his Invoca
tion In the house Unlay, rather startl
ed the house today by referring to the
Cuban frauds which, he said, brought
a blush of shame to the cheeks of every
true American.
"We pray," he continued, "that the
culprit will be brouKht to a speedy
Justice, that we may give an object
lesson to the world In dealing with
perfidy and fraud."
The house adopted a resolution to
empower the ways and means commit
tee to sit during recess to consider
a reduction and revision of the war
revenue taxes.
The senate bill to provide a collector
of customs at Honolulu at a salary ot
6,000 a year and deputies was passed.
The house today posed the Noely
extradition bill. The democrats ob
jected to the language of the bill, which
covered "any foreign country or ter
ritory, or part thereof, occupied by
the United States."
The democrats wanted the bill to ap
ply specifically to Cuba, contending
that the broader language assumed
the possibilities of farther acquisitions
by the United States of a character
similar to that ot Cuba.
Mr. Plseher, dne of the Boer en
voys, spoke freely to a representative
of the Associated Press today, of their
general plans for the future- Ha said
It was their purpose to visit ten or
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twelve of the principal cltlc. of the
J Htnlc and explain to the p'-o-il
whatever th-y tiiIkM wish to know
of llnlr (liljw, lie WUIlte'l It dix'lnct
ly tiiiderHt'tfid that he, and his frletiils,
parll'-ulurly wished to avoid any pur
tlxllll iletniilintrallo I '.hut might be
construed lu lin. an I feat tin li' 'in
pa'hy wlih one jmlitical party In th
I'nii-'i Kiaiex was sirori)("-r than with
.tiMllnr. This uftetn I they dined
wild hici'itaty liny
The war department has reieived an
lH-r "SHU report frm lirlgadK-r-fieneial
Theodore Kchwan, U. H. volun
teers, !utd Slnrh 12. (ieiieral Hcbwan
muds thut the sole hon entertained
by (lit- Insurgent for a revival of the
HifUirc' Hon, lliH In the supposition
that the I'lillul State troops will be
obliM-d ( ahundon many of their pres
ent poMtmns ut the opening of the wet
m-,iii(iii, and also "the possibility of a
victory fir the democratic or uriti-ex-puiislon
party In the coming presiden
tial election." (ieiieral Kchwan says
Uie Insurgent think suth a victory will
iihuii the withdrawing of all the mili
tary force now In the Mauds.
Th? .enute committee on appropria
tions today ror eluded Us work on the
kundry civil bill appropriation bill and
repotted the bill to the senate as
ai.u-n led by the committee. A net In
crease of $l,ni6.C0." Is made over the
amount curried by the bill as It pars
ed the house.
An Increase of $25,000 U made on
luroun. of Improvements In the Colum
bia river. Tre other Important ad
ditions are as follows; Itillef light
v.shel for the Twelfth and Thirteenth
llht-hcuse dint lilts (TacUic c-nsst)
$m.iwo; light houe and fog slKnal sta
tions in Alaskan waters, $1.Vi,0o0.
WASHINGTON. May 23. Secretary
of the Treasury Gage has n-nt to tin;
national hank deMmltorl-s the follow
ing letter of instructions as to with
drauul of deposits:
"You are hereby dlrt;ted to detsislt,
on or before June 5, proximo, with an
ukkIhuhiI tn-asurtr of the United States
to the credit of the treanurer of the
United States, as a transfer of funds
from your bunk, the am of .... dol
lars. 'This direction is one of a series,
this Jay Issued, which will operate to
tmnsfer to the suo-trvasury $5,000,000
of the surplus public moneys tempo
rarily placed with depository banks,
and the actl n Is taken in anticipation
of disbursements from She treasury In
the redemption of the $25,264,500 out
standing bonds of the funded loan of
1801. continued at '.w-o per cent, which
ver called by tho department circular
of the lSih Instant.
"It being the Intention of the depart
ment to utilise temporary balances. In
depository, banks, for the payment of
said bonds, further transfers will be or
dered from time to time to keep pace.
In a genera! way. with the demand for
bond redemption. Public notice has
been given to the holders of the bonds
in (iiestlon, that they nay present said
bonds for payment at any time before
August 19th next, at which time the
interest will cease."
WASHINGTON. May 23.-Booker T.
Washington, of Tuskegee, last night
delivered an address on "The Future
of The Negro" at the Metropolitan A.
M. E. church. In part he said: "In
these latter days we hear much of r'
moving from our fundamental law, the
precious magna charta of our cltlxen
ship, the fiftieth amendment. Whether
wisely or unwisely, this guarantee of
our rights was placed In the constltu
tloii by the ripest thought of the nation
at the time It was enacted and was
put there. In my mind, st the behest of
the conservative and patriotic opinion
of both the north and south. It will
stands.
"What the negro asks, la equality of
opportunity. Close the door against
the negro now and within a few years
the temptation will be to close It
against a class of white men. The
minute you recognize a law which tax
es a negro for support of government,
and denies him the opportunity to
moke his wishes felt at the ballot-box,
that minute you begin to undermine
our whole theory of government and
throw to the winds the principles for
which the revolutionary war wag
fought." -
LABOR COMPROMISE EFFECTED.
NEW YORK, May 23. The arbitra
tinn enmmittM of tho International
ITniinilrvman'B Association Of EmDloV-
ers and th Iron moulders Union of
North America, have reached a settie
mnt nf their waie controversy. It
v., unnmlneAd lAAt ntirht that the
agreement was entirely satisfactory
but the details were wunnem.
AGENTS TOR
TERRIBLE STORM
SWEEPS THE RIVER
Four Fishermen Reported to Pe
Drowned.
MANY IJOATMHN MISSING
Southwest (isle Suddenly Sweeps I. From
the Set intf Tikes the Bo.tnea cm the
River Unawares - Life Stvers'
Oresl Work.
Four men drowned and thirty fish
ing boats capsized and upturned on
the bench along the river, Is the rec
ord up to midnight of yesterday', ter
rible storm.
That the roll of those drowmv) will
lie Increased today Is almost certain.
The names of thiwe known to be
di owned are:
Mike I'ellomaa.
Albert Johnson.
John Varanxang.
Kakrl Korpcll.
l!ut two of the four bodies were re
covered. The mol violent storm that ever
swept aeros,: the lower Columbia rag
ed (rom sunrise until almost sunset
yesterday and left In Us wake death
and disaster, the full extent of which
cannot now be stated.
Tuesday was an ideal day ushore
an duflout- The sky was cloudless,
the sun shown warm ind bright, und
there was Just breeze enough to tem
per the heat. The weatjjer forecast
Tuesday night predicted "light show
ers" for Astoria.
Man proposes, God disposes. Is an
old saying but a true one.
The fishermen finished their midnight
catch on Tueslay and again set their
wis for the morning coach of Wed
nesday, most of the boats being an
chored close to the spread nets, or
lying Inshore, but a short distance
away. As the eun rose the wind fresh
ened and suddenly, without a second's
warning, there came from the south
west a gale that was little short of
a typhoon, at times.
The fishermen, and men In boats on
the river, were totally unprepared for
such a stprm and a few of the wiser,
or more timid ones, ran at the first
Indication of a "squall for shelter.
Events proved that, whatever the
cause of their abandoning the river,
those who fled at the approach of the
storm were wise.
From a stiff breeze the wind Increas
ed Into a gale and then Into a verita
ble typhoon, blowing at times almjst
seventy miles an hour. The fisherman
who had elected to stay by their nets
and weather the storm, now made fran
tic haste to raise sail anl run to the
nearest port To" attempt to row a boat
against a wind would have been the
height of folly. To remain anchored
was equally dangerous, for the wind
drove the water Into waves that swept
across the boats, filling them with wa
ter faster than they could be balled.
There was but one thing to do. raise
sail and try Mid run before the wind
to shelter.
Just how many of the boats that
fled from the storm reached shore with
a living crew, Is not known. Certain
it Is that on the Chinook and other
beaches, over thirty boats had been
found up to midnight that had drifted
ashore upturned. What became of
their crews Is yet to be learned.
The suddeness of the storm, and es
pecially at this time cf the year, when
It was least expected, was what caused
the terrible disaster to the fishing
fleet, for the man who works a fish
ing boat Is a sailor capable ot weath
ering an ordinary storm, and the boats
they sail are the staunchest and best
made.
No small voat could Jive In the open
water In such a storm as that of yes
terday and but few boats could run
before the wind and keep afloat
The highest praise must be .given the
life-saving crews at Fort Stevens,
Sape Disappointment and Point
Adams. But for their brave and
prompt assistance the death roll would
be doubled now. The crews launched
their life boats in the midst of the
storm and went to the rescue of men
they could see clinging to upturned
boats.
Not only did they rescue the living
but, when possible, recovered, recov
ered the bodies of the dead. Time and
again they changed their course to
cross the river to boats In distress.
The life savers did magnificent work
and deserve unstinted praise.
The details of the storm, as far as
learned are as follews:
The first man reported to have been
drowned was Albert Johnson, whose
boat capsized at a point nearly abreast
the Fort Columbia dock.
One of the ojcers at Fort Columbia
chanced to see the boat upturn and
the life-saving crew at Cape Disap
pointment was immediately notified.
Owing to the distance of the station
from the point where the accident oc
curred over an hour elapsed before the'
lifosnvinfr ci';w could reach the point,
and It was then only after hnrd .pull
ing t!itoui,'h a treacherous s a.. John
Peterson, the b'-at-puller, was found
hanKlriK to the up-turned boat. In a
half-in. wnc I condition, and wm Im-fii'-'iait-ly
pl' ki up. All.- rt Johnson,
eapiuln of the boat, could not bj found,
and U Is UII-vH that his body has
drift"'! out to sea. tmioediniely afii-r
the rce ue of P-t -r.-i.--n. the cannery Un
der HiI"ii SoU, a frail ilule launch,
W'-iit to tie; ajwiHiance of the crew and
towed the boat to town. The members
of the life-saving cr.-.v have nothing
but the high-.-st pnUe for the .-ap'.aln
and crew f the Helen Sott. One of
them said lust night:
It not b-en for the plucky lit
tle Helen Heott it Is doubtful If we
coiili have reached shore. We never
couloi have pulled to town with oar.
The water was so rourfh that, at tlm-s.
it wa impossible to see more than 100
yards away. Th'-re were a number of
tugs and launches In the neighborhood
at the lima but the Helen Hcott wa,s
the jr.ly 'one to take the risk In order
to save the lives of trn.M; who were be
ing ti.rH.ii alx.'jt on the naves.
Petersen had been in the water for
fullv two hours when we reached him
and he vus growing black in the
face lie was more dead than alive
when we lifted him into th boat and
it was only through the hard work
of m-'mbers of the crew that he was
resuscitated before we readied the
Elmore cannery, where he was landed
and taken to his home."
The m mb-r of this crew were Cap
tain Stewart. Lyman Nutter, Nels Ad
ams, n, Alf. ftoberton, Alf Anderson,
Chaeles Thompson, Lawrence Klllsaon,
f'larenc-e Uolce, Myron McGulre and
Cerporal Larson, of Fort Canby.
Mike Peltomaa was another of the
unfortunates who lost his life in the
storm. Paltoniaa and his companion
had cai-t their net In the lower end
of the bay and were about to take
it up when the gale broke out in its
greatest fury. They had decided to
abandon the net and get to the shoro,
but no sooner had the sail been spread
than the boat capsized. The boat
puller, whose name could not be learn
ed, saved himself by clinging to the
strn of the boat. Shortly after the
accident the Fort Stevens life-saving
crew, which had been notified by the
lookout, arrived on the spot and the
struggling boat-puller was rescued. A
search was made for the captain of the
boat and upon suggestion of the res
cued boU-puller a search was made In
the vicinity of the net. It was soon
discovered that Pal-omaa had become
entangled In the net and was drowned
while struggling In the meshes.
Immediately after the crew had ar
rived in this city with the unfortunate
boat-puller and his dead comrade, a
couple of fishermen were seen clinging
tc a boat In the middle of the stream.
The party at once went to' the rescue,
bringing the men ashore little worse
for their experience.
The third victim reported was John
Varanzang, and no report of his i-ody
having been recovered was recrfved
before the hour of going to press.
Varanzang s companion was rescuid.
The missing man had been fishing on
the lower Columbia for the past ten
years. He was an active member of
the local lodge of Knights of Pythias
and the United Workmen. He was
about 55 years of age and leaves a wife
and several children.
Late !ast night it was reported that
Sakrl Korp-?la and his boat -puller,
whose name Is not known, had been
drowned during th? storm. No fur
ther particulars were reported.
TRYING TO STOP INJUNCTIONS-
Members of Labor Unions Are Making
A Strong Fight to Overturn
Decisions.
NEW YORK. May 23. The matter
of the injunctions that have recently
beer. Issued against the Cigarmakers'
Union, forbidding It to picket the fac
tories of manufacturers whose em
ployes have struck, and forbidding it,
also, to pay strike benefits to the
strikers, has been taken up by the
Social Reform Club, which last even
ing listened to a report made by its
committee on Injunctions.
The report contained the following
tvcommendaUons:
'That an attempt be made to ob
tain concerted action throughout the
country In favor of urging upon the
national and state legislatures the pas
sage of acts providing that injunc
tions shall not be Issued against any
but parties to the action, their agents
or servants and attorneys.
That when an injunction, however
valid in part, prohibits the lawful use
of the highway, or the right of fre3
speech, or lawful combination to ad
vance Joint Interests, It shall be void
in toto.
That all persons who are charged
with disobedience of an Injunction, In
respect to the matter which might be
the subject of an Indictment, shall
have the right to demand a trial by
Jury upon issues of fact to be prop
erly framed.
In regard to the injunction of Jus
tice Freedman against the Cigarmak
ers Union, the committee was of the
opinion that the justice had not care
fully read the papers In the case and
believed that It would be set aside.
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
SPOKANE, May 23. A freight train
on the Northern Pacific collided with
a handcar on a high trestle, three miles
east of Cheney, and Fred Mohr, a sec
tion hand, was thrown nearly 130 feet
to the bottom of the deep gulch and
killed. The other men on the hand
car escaped by hanging to the cross
timbers of the trestle-
A special to the Chronicle from Leav
enworth, Wash., says an eaBtbound
Great Northern-freight train ran into
a boulder on the track this morning,
The engine and five cars rolled Into
the Wenatchee river. Engineer Norks
will killed. ..
SIEGE OF PRETORIA
IS DRAWING NEAR
Roberts Forcing His Army For
ward Many Miles Eatli Day.
DOLR FORCE RETREATS
Report From V.rieu Sections .1 the Brit
ish Army Show t Succession of V It lo
ries Free Slatcri Surrendcrin -Arms
tad Horses Captured. .
LONDON, May 2I.-The war office
late hm evening published the follow
ing from Lord Roberts:
"South Bank of Rhenoster Rlvef,
lfay 2!, 1:30 p. m. We found on arrival
here this morning that the enemy had
(led during the night-
"They had occupied a strong posi
tion on tie north bank of the river
which had been carefully entrenched,
bat they did not think it advisable to
defend it when they heard that Ian
Hamilton's force was at Heilbron, and
that our cavalry, which had crossed
the Rhenoster some miles lower down
stream, were t'oreatt nmg their right
and rear.
"The bridge over .the Rhenoster, sev
eral "Ulverts and some mile, of rail
way were destroyed. Ian Hamilton's
fore drove the Boers, under Ret Dew
et, before them from Lindley to Heil
bron. The passage of the Rhenoster
was strongly disputed. Our loss might
have been heavy but for a well conceived-
plan which brought Smlth-Dor-ren's
brigade on the enemy's (lank Just
at the right moment.
"The ofllcer commanding at Boshof
reports that upward of 350 Free Stat-',
era have surrendered during the last
few days and that they have given up
30 rifles. 100 horses and a large amount
of ammunition.
"Kelly-Kenny reports that three
companlts of Yeomanry, who were
sent to repair the telegraph line and to
clear the country between Bloemfon
telrt an3 Boshof, have returned to
Bloemfontein, having performed : the
duty excedingly well."
Lord Roberts is drawing near to the
frontier of the Transvaal. His Infan
try ma-ises nre 73 mllea north of
Kroonstad, at Rhenoster river. Some
thousands of cavalry are already
across the river. The Boers are re
tiring towards the Vaal, with their
heavy baggage. They are reported
from Pretoria as already across that
river. Twelve thousand men and four
guns compose the retreating army.
Trains continue to run from Verron
nigipg, at the Vaal to Pretoria. For-.
elgn englnears assert that Pretoria Is
able ot stand a year's selge. Acord
ing to advices from Lourenco irarques, '
Pretoria fortifications ure described a.
complete, but Johannesburg 1-as not
yet been placed entirely In a state of
defense. Th? Transvnal government
papers and war chest have been re
moved to Lldnburg. Foreigners con
tinue to leave the repuuil;.
The Dutch cruiser Frlesland is at
Delgoa bay, so It Is reported, to fur
nish an asylum to fleeing Hollander,
and a passage to Europe. The Boer
forces continue to dwindle. Some of
the correspondents assert that proba
bly only about 21,000 of the Nirditst
fighters yet remain, although there are
detached parties In various parts of
the Transvaal.
SULTAN MUST SETTLE.
United States Makes a Second De
mand on Turkey's Ruler for Im
mediate Settlement.
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22.-The
United States legation, having vainly
waited four weeks for a reply to the
note of April 24 regarding the Ameri
can Indemnity claims, Mr. Lloyd P.
Griscom, United States charge d'Af
fatrs. yesterday handed to Tewflk Pas
ha, minister of foreign affairs, a new
note couched in more precise terms,
and insisting upon a prompt settle
ment. The note produced a great Impres
sion, as the Ports thought the matter
postponed. If not abandoned. It Is be
lieved that the United States will not
wait so long this time for an answer,
America's Indulgence thus far not hav
ing made a satisfactory Impression up
on the Porte.
MINERS ELECT OFFICERS.
DENVER, May 23.-The Western
Federation of Miners today elected the
following officers: Pr?uldent, Edward
Boyce. Wallace, Idaho; vice-president
Daniel McDonald, Virginia City, Nev
ada; secretary-treasurer. James Ma-
hcr, Butte, Montana, Members execu
tive committee: John C. Williams
Grass Valley, California; William d'
Haywoo.l, Silver City. Idaho.
IRISH PEER PROMOTED.
LONDON. l!ij. .-3;..r.;
one of the Irinh recipients of tlTe
lun-ii i uuuiuay nonors, wno was toe.
ated
a life peer In 1-S3. was vesterd.n-
made
a hereditary peer.