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THE DALLES, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY G, 1897
NO 23
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MUST HAVE ABSOLUTE FREEDOM
This I Cuba'M Ultiiuatum, and No Com
proinlae Measures Will Be
Accepted.
Washington, Feb. 5. Senator Aldrich
and other friends cf the Nicaragua ca
nal bill have had conferences with
Speaker Reed and other house leaders
during the day regarding the possibility
of the bill being brought up in the house
in case it should pass the senate. The
result is that the bill wil be abandoned
in the senate next Monday, and the
bankruptcy bill being brought forward.
Friends of the Nicaragua bill, while in
a majority, doubt if the senate can be
brought to a vote, but they know the
futility of their efforts unless there is
some assurance that the bill will receive
consideration in the house. Nothing
but a physical test would bring the bill
to a vote now, and a large number of
those supporting the bill will not subject
it to such a test when it would not even
be taken up in the house.
The conference today convinced the
senators that the Nicaragua bill will not
receive consideration in the house, and
they decided it was better to withdraw
it.
our army will be no party to them or
give an inch of the country conquered
by eo much sacrifice of life, property
and money. If Spain were confident of
ultimate success, do you suppose those
so-called reforms would be offered to us?
Tbey would not even offer us bread."
These expressions are made with the
approval of the other members of the
junta. Most of them were more bitter
in denunciation of the proposed reform
than Mr. Palma had been.
"There is no autonomy in this
scheme," said one ot them. "If real
autonomy, such aB Canada has from
Great Britain, hid been offered us be
fore the war, it would have been ac
cepted. Do you think it would be fair
or just to those who have fought and
fallen for our independence for us to
outrage their memories by accepting
such terms as these? It would be a
virtual surrender when we are satisfied
that our cause has been won.
"After the 10-years war, Spain pro
posed the Arbazuza treaty, which was
founded on practically the same lines as
the present scheme and which we
spurned on the same ground as we shall
reiect these reforms. Some of these
terms, such as the creation of a local as
semblv. whose members would be
elected by popular vote, sound very
well, but let them once be put in opera
tion and It would quickly be seen juBt
how much of a voice we would have in
theadministration of our country."
MO KEFOKMB ABB WANTED.
Cubans Must Have Absolute Independ
ence or Nothing.
New York, Feb. 5. The Herald
says:
Tonias Estrada Palma, Cuban delegate
to the United States, in an interview,
eaid the royal decree proposing the
promised reforms in Cuba was a trap for
the Cubans and a confession of the
weakness of the Spanish cause. He re
iterated his emphatic statement that the
Cubans would accept independence only.
Rather than to allow Spain any voice in
the government of Cuba, he said, the
Cubans would suffer death and the de
vastation of their island.
"The reforms which I understand
have been signed by the queen regent of
Spain," Mr. Palmer declared, "amount
to nothing. They are practically the
same that were voted before the war
broke out. If the Cubans did not then
accept them and rose in arras can they
be expected to accept them now, after
so much bloodshed and after so many
have' fallen for the ubsolute independ
ence of their country?
"The only solution possible for the Cu
ban problem and the only one wbich
the Cubans In anus would accept is
tbeir independence. As for the effect of
reforms on the island, I will say that
Executions at Cabanas.
New York, Feb. 5. A World special
from Havana via Key West says :
The sharp ring of rifle shots from the
gray walls of Cabanas fortress is heard
daily at 7 a. m., with unfailing regular
ity. It is the hour of execution.
The morning's programme was varied
Monday by a double execution with an
added chapter of cruelty and horror.
The condemned were Enrique Heilders
Osma, a lad of 19, and Antonio Perdoma
Guzman. Tbey were charged with re
bellion and incendiarism. Usma, a
virile, handsome youth, carried the true
patriot's heart. In an engagement, the
boree of his chief, Perez, was shot;
Osma, quick as thought, but barely in
time, gave bis horse to Perez and the
chief escaped. The lad, by a desperate
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chance, also escaped. A few weeks
afterward he and Guzman were cap
tured. An execution is a semi-public show,
and people who cross the bay to witness
it are permitted to gather on the outer
walls of the fortress. On Monday they
saw again the usual careless and even
jaunty preliminaries of death. Bands
playing a lively march air marched
cheerily into the enclosure. Several
hundred troops followed, and within the
inner walls formed a noiiow square.
Eight soldiers separated from the ranks
and took a stand on a mound forming a
slight elevation m the square. They
had drawn the short straws the night
before, and were to be the executioners.
Six priests then appeared in double
line. Between them were Osma and his
fellow-prisoner with' hands tied behind
their backs. They stumbled and would
have fallen but for assistance. They
knelt to the ground with their faces to
the wall and their banks to their exe
cutioners. The band stopped playing.
A priest stepped forward, and gently
stroking the boy's cheek, whispered a
few words of hope and retired to the
lines.
The executioners moved ten feet for
ward. The rifles were raised and the
command was given. Six shots rang
out, and two bodies fell forward to the
ground. But the boy was not dead.
His left arm twitched and vibrated.
Even the soldiers, inured to the scenes
of execution, turned tbeir heads, and a
groan of horror went up from the spec
tators huddled together along the edge
of the great wall above. It was a grew
some, blood-chilling sight, but it was
only for a moment. Another command
was given, and two of the firing party,
who were held to give "mercy shots,"
stepped up. One placed his rifle almost
at the boy's back and fired. It was over
at last.
The spectators returned to the city
barely in time to see a crowd about a
crying hysterical young women. Min
gled with the Btrains of music were the
wails of dtspair from Guzman's wife.
The shots were still ringing in her ears
when she read the name of her btieband
in the awful daily bulletin which means
so much. It is published in the even
ing papers, and is a list of those who are
to be executed the next morning. The
grief-sirickeu women had not seen the
list until the sound of the shots told her
that another of death had been carried
out. Two little children, ignorant of the
grief, were at their mothers 6ide when
the crowd moved about and asked the
meaning of her wild incoherent cries.
A few minutes later a priest was de
livering a letter to an aged, white-haired
old woman. It was datsd the night be
fore, and began : "Dearest Mother, to
morrow I die, a patriot for the freedom
of Cuba." The old woman, the lad's
mother, fainted without reading it fur
ther tor it was her first information that
her eon was to be put to death.
IN THE SENATE.
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Resolution Presented to Reduce
Number of. Clerk.
Salem, Or., Feb. 5. In the senate
tbis morning, after the usual prelimina
ries, the committee on penal institutions
reported favorably on Driver's bill for
the employment of convicts on public
roads. Holt made a speech against the
employment of clerks and moved that
the special committee to regulate clerks
be required to report. The motion was
lost.
Johnson then introduced a long reso
lution to cut down clerks from 60 to 25.
After a short debate, the resolution was
laid on the table by a vote of 15 ayes to
13 nays.
The ssnate had a long debate on
Price's bill to create laborers' liens on
crops. The committee proposed an
amendment extending the time In which
the laborer may file a lien from ten to
thirty days. Nearly every senator ex
pressed himself on the subject. A mo
tion to re-commit was lost, and the dis
cussion was continued. The amendment
was f nally adopted, and the bill ordered
to the third reading,
The committee on railroads reported
favorably on Brownell's bill to abolish
the railroad commission.
Several bills were introduced and the
senate adjourned till 2:30 Monday.
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