VOL. IX THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1896. NO 84. ON COAST DEFENSES Squire, of Washington, Ad dresses the Senate. OUR CONDITION LAMENTABLE Oar Entire Coast Eipoicd and Helpless Affalnst Foreign Navies Senators Morrill's birthday. Washington, April 14. Senator Mor rill, of Vermont, reached the age of 86 years today, and the event was referred - to in the opening prayer ot the chaplain, who spoke of the white-haired senator as hale in body, clear, sound and vigor ous in intellect, .and esteemed by his brother senators, by his state and by the . whole country. At the conclusion of the prayer Morrill received congratulations from many of his associates. Shortly after the session opened Mor rill announced that Thursday next he would speak on the necessity of. addi tional quarters for the national museum. Squire was then recognized for a speech on coast defenses'. He said all the evidence taken by the committee on cost defenses is lamentable in the ex treme. The defensive works are of a character incapable of resisting modern aitillery. The evidence is overwhelm ing that in case of war our whole people would suffer immeasurably. He con cluded : "We are encircled as a nation -with a chain of foreign fortresses and while our rich sea coast cities or port?, coaling stations impervious to attack, including San Diego, . San Francisco. Portland and Puget sound lay exposed add helpless against the attack ot for eign powers that possess navies." WILL DEC1DS IS A WKKR. Whether Nicaragua Canal Bill Shall Be Reported to the Boase. Washington, April 14. The Nic aragua canal and Hawaiian cable ques tions were considered by the house com mittee on commerce today, but no vote was taken on any of the bills. It was decided to dispose finally of the question of reporting the canal bill to the house one week from next Friday. In the meantime hearings may be continued, and 'probably some of the government engineers will be called upon to give their views. General Wagner Swayne, who repre sents the Pacific Cable Company, of New Jersey, of which Colonel Spaulding, of the Hawaiian islands, is president, made a statement to the committee in the interests of that company. A reso lution was adopted, by a vote of 10 . to 4, expressing that the sense of the commit tee is that the government should aid, by subsidy, the construction of a Pacific cable. Neither of the two rival compan ies, which are competing for govern ment patronage, were named in"the re solution, and no terms were suggested. IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE. , Southern Faolfle to Create Similar to Pullman. a Town San Francisco, April 14. In connec tion witu the plan 'of the Southern Pa cific company to construct a short line to Baden, via Potrero and South San Francisco, there is another important enterprise. This is said to be nothing less than the creation of a railroad town, similar to that of Pullman, near Chicago, on the property of the Southern Pacific company and its individual shareholders in this and San Meteo .counties, where the two counties join. It has long been known that the rail- ' road contemplated constructing a short line through this section, and that this - would have been the original route, but "for the opposition of certain landholders - 25 years ago, but it Is only recently that numerous developments have indicated that the Southern Pacific people have something more in view in making Highest of all in Leavening Power.' heavy . land purchases in the Potrero, and , more particularly in South San Francisco, than securing a right of way It ia proposed to remove the company's repair shops, and rouDdhouse to the new town. It is said that work on the pro ject is only delayed by the company's lack of ready money. IT WILL BK REFUSED. Cleveland's Offer aft Mediator Said to Save Reached Canovaa. London, April, 14. A dispatch from Madrid to the Pall Mall Gazette, says Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish premier, is ill, and cannot be inter viewed. His relatives, however, confirm the existence of a "communique" from President Cleveland. But, in the pres ent state of public feeling, it will be im possible for the government to accept his offer. - Matters are very complicated, and while the government' will do every thing in its power to avoid a quarrel with the United States, it will prefer to figrVir ather than lose Cuba through foreign pressure. The coming cortes will grant Cuba every reasonable franchise which has been enjoyed under the Spanish flag. ' Unheard of at Washington. Washington, April 14. Nothing is known at the state department of any such communication from President Cleveland to the Spanish premier, Senor Castillo, as is referred to in the le'egram from Madrid. It is surmised 'however, that the matter is entering into Spanish politics and is, perhaps, being more or less distorted to serve party purposes. Head of Pearl Bryan Thrown Into the Ohio. Cincinnati, April 14. At Newport, Ky., today, the attorneys for the com monwealth made an official announce ment that they would prove that Jack son and Walling were together on the Covington suspension bridge soon after the murder, of Pearl. Bryan, and that they were seen throwing the bead of the murdered girl into the Ohio river. Another Catch "Phrase. "Just tell them that you saw- mo," that is the catch phrase of the hour these days. It is the first line of the refrain of one of those maudlin ballads ' that attain sudden popularity in certain circles that tell in mournful cadence the story of the rural visitor to New York, who recog nizes in a hollow-eyed and pale, woman of .the street, Madge his schoolmate, once the village belle. 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