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WEEKLY. UNION. Etab. JuLjr. 1897. UAZEITK, Kitab. Uee., 1868. ( Consolidated Feb., 1899. COE VALIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGOCT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902. VOL. XXXIX. : no. so?; - H EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented in Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. Franca will expel many more relig ious orders. The Chinese government is planning a steamship line to the Pacific oaet. It is announced that President Roose velt contemplates a hunting trip in Alaska next spring. The prospects are that Oklahoma only will be admitted as a state at this session of congress. An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up a train in which the em peror of Japan was riding. The bank at Bridger, Carbon county, Montana, was held np by three masked robbers and $10,000 secured. The opinion of the press all over the world is that the president's message is one of the ablest-ever delivered by any president or monarch. A bill has been introduced into con giess amending the irrigation law. It would permit reclamation and pur chase under cash entry law, also allow the leasing of water power developed by the government. A bill has been introduced in con gress which, if passed, will have the effect of abolishing the office of com manding general of the army, now held by General Miles. It creates a general staff corps to act with the secretary of war. During November the pnblic debt was lowered a trifle under a half mil lion dollars. The United States will not mix with Venezuela's financial affairs in the pro posed new loan. The international copyright treaty with Spain has been restored to full effect by the exchange of diplomatic notes. A bill will be presented to congress asking an appropriation of $50,000 to pay the expenses of the coal strike commission. Already there is a noticeable relaxa tion of sanitary laws in Havana. There is consequently much more sickness than during American occupation. Minister from Colombia Concha has been relieved and will be succeeded by Thomas Herran, who has full authority to prosecute the negotiations looking to a canal treaty, with considerably enlarged powers. Chairman Hale, of Ihe senate naval committee, has made the statement that he favors increasing the navy, but does not think any more big battle ships should be built. Vessels of the Oregon type and cruisers are more ser viceable. Lieutenant Robert E. Peary says the north pole can be reached. The United States government has been asked to help Venezuela. President Loubet, of France, will be invited to visit the United States dur ing the St. Louis fair. A number of German farmers are coming to the United States to study American ways of farming. All steamships running into Mar seilles, France, are tied up on account of a strike among the workmen. . The engagement of the daughter of Commissioner Hermann to H. P. Gate ly, a Washington lawyer, is announced. The Siamese crown prince, who is touring the United State, snubbed Mayor Williams, of Portland, on the occasion of his visit to that city. Russia and France have both deco rated Ambassador Tower. In order to evade the American law the time be tween Mr. Tower's leaving the ambas sadorship at St. Petersburg and taking np his new post at Berlin was chosen. Four men were killed, and three fatally and five Beriously injured by the explosion of gas in a coal mine near Shamokin, Pa. An investigation is be ing made as to the cause of the explo sion, but it is believed a miner opened his safety lamp. Dr. Parker, the most famous preach er in London, is dead. Debate on the tariff question in the German reichstag ended in a riot. The Big Four railroad has announced an increase in the wages of its yard employes, to begin Dei-ember 1. Secretary of the Government Tamayo, of Cuba, who sympathized with the strikers in the recent troubles, has lost his position. Chas F. Kelly, one of the St. Louis boodlers, has returned home and given himself np on account of the death of his son, whom he wanted to see. Kelly is regarded as the only man who has the evidence to convict the boodlers now on trial. Fire destroyed over one-half of the village of Rockford, S. D. The loss will be great with only a small amount of insurance. Two of the Fort Baker, California, batteries have been named Mendell and Alexander, in honor of two army offi cers of those names who served their country with distinction. Emperor William, of Germany, hor ored Ambassador White at his farewell audience uj presenting him with a medal. 5DEATH IN EXPLOSION. Thirteen Killed and Scores Were Injured in Chicago Accident. . Chicago, Dec. 2. With a deafening report a boiler in Swift & Co.'s plant exploded shortly after 10 o'clock yes terday morning. Thirteen lives were sacrificed, and scores of employes, vis itors and others were injured. Huge boilers were sent through the roof of the boiler house, and hurled hundreds of feet. Nobody within the boiler room survived to tell the story of the accident, and it may never be known what caused the explosion. A care ful investigation today, however, con vinced the experts that the explosion was the result of carelessness on the part of an employe, whose own life was lost. Five minutes after the ex plosion nothing of the boiler house but a pile cr twisted iron, bricks and mor tar remained. Flames sprang from the ruins, and the spectators realized that it would be impossible to save the lives of those who were caught in the wreck. The explosion was of such force that adjoining buildings were wrecked, torn and twisted like toys. Men, women and boys at work in adjoining depart ments were hurled through windows to the ground below. Many of them es caped with slight bruises, but most of the victims were hurt to such an ex tent that it was necessary to remove them to hospitals. The others were taken to their homes. It was soon rumored I. t from 50 to 100 persons were caught i.i the wrecked building. . This report caused great ex citement, and in response to repeated calls, a dozen patrol wagons and as many ambulances were sent from all parts of the city. Extra calls for fire engines followed, and soon the flames were being fought from every side. While the fire was still burning fire men and employes of the packing house began digging in the ruins. Soon the mangled remains of a man were discov ered. At the same time other rescuers were digging with desperation to res cue several victims who were still alive. Bodies torn, bruised and man gled were taken from the ruins and sent to the morgue. A boy, scalded from head to foot and bleeding from cuts and bruises, staggered toward the office of General Superintendent Yjung. The boy was Mr. i'oung's personal messenger. The lad, however, had been so badly disfigured that Mr. Ypung did not recognize him. It is not thought that the los? to Swift & Co. will amount to more than $50,000. The officials of the company declare that this will cover the damage, as nearly as they are able to estimate at the present time. The building in which the boilers were located was the, only structure to be entirely destroyed, and it was a small structure, one story high. The storehouse, which stood close to the boiler house, was badly damaged, a portion of its walls being torn, but it is only two stories high. AMERICANS BETTER OFF. Mosely Compares Their Condition with That of English Workmen. New York, Dec. 2. Alfred Mosely, the retired English merchant, who with a number of workmen has made a six weeks' tour of this country to study in dustrial conditions here and in Cana da, says: "Our trip, on the whole, was emin ently satisfactory. We were all im pressed with the thorough up-to-dateness of everything we saw. Another thing that impressed us was the courte sy and frankness of American employers and the pains they were willing to take to explain the methods in use at their respective factories and works." All the delegates will report their impressions to the unions of their re spective trades on their return to Eng land. Terrence Flynn, of the tailors' union, said: "Counting the extra outlay in rent and clothes for food and all else are cheaper the Americ tn workman is 25 per cent better off than the workman in England. On the whole he is far better cared for in respect to good san itation, general comfort and better equipment than we are, and on the whole he lives as long or longer in har ness than the English workman. This 'too-old-at-50' principle does not pre vail among the workmen, wherever else it may be found. We speak from ob servation. Here pauperism or penury in old age is almost unknown. The records of the English workhouses speak for themselves." Explosion on the Texas. Hampton, Va., Dec. 2. The battle ship Texas had a narrow escape from being blown up yosterday afternoon. She left the Portsmouth navy yard yes terday piorning to the Capes, where gun practice was held. Two of the large turret guns exploded,, filling the gun room with glycerine and water, but the magnificent work of the gunners saved the vessel from serious damage, as well as the lives of those on board of her. The ship returned to Old Point this afternoon and a special inspection board is making an examination. New Tunnel to Brooklyn. New York, Dec. 2. Work has been Inaugurated by the Interborougb. rapid transit company on the extension of the underground system to Brooklyn, through a tunnel underneath the East river. The opening was made at Broadway and Ann streets, Manhattan When this work shall have been conx pleted the subway system will be in operation, and it will be possible to ride from Brooklyn to any part of Man hattan without change of cars. Safeblowers Successful Raid, Bloomington, 111., Dec. 2. Safe blowers made a successful raid last night upon the State bank at Stanford, a village 10 miles southwest of here, snd 3,000 was taken.- The burglars I escaped. PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS Chief Executive Delivers Annual Message AN ABLE DOCUMENT SPEAKS OUT HIS VIEWS IN FORCE FUL LANGUAGE. Favors Revision of Tariff on Some Plan Which Will Not Disturb the Country Heartily Commends Action Taken In Irrigation Matter Alaska Should Be Given Needed Laws. THE MESSAGE AT A GLANCE. Build isthmian canal. Perfect public land laws. Protect game on fore reserves. Give Alaska needed legislation. Create a ijcretary of commerce. Extend free rural mail delivery. Establish reciprocity with Cuba. Irrigation act should receive attention Organized capital and organized labor must work together for the good of the nation. International arbitration should be extended. A general staff should be at the head ot the army. Filipinos" are enjoying greater liberty than ever before. Control of corporations should be in the hands of the government. Build up navy so as to be able to treat Monroe doctrine as cardinal feature of our foreign policy. Revise tariff laws to the extent of bus iness demanc'a, but do not jeopardize the workingman or country in general.. All future financial legislation should look to an interchangeable currency, . convertiLle into gold at the will of the holder. Washington, Dec. 3. President Roosevelt's annual address to congress was read in both houses yesterday. Following is a synopsis of the docu ment: To the senate and house of representa tives: We still continue in a period of un bounded prosperity. This prosperity is not the creature of law, but un doubtedly the laws under which we work have been instrumental in creating the conditions which made it possible, and by unwise legislation it would be easy enough to destroy it. There will un doubtedly be periods of depression. The wave will recede, but the tide will advance. This nation is seated on a continent flanked by two great oceans. It is composed of men the descendants of pioneers, or, in a sense, pioneers themselves; of men winnowed out from among the nations of the old world by the energy, boldness and love of adventure found in their own eager hearts. Such a nation, so placed, will surely wrest success from fortune. In my message to the present con gress at its first session I disensesd at length the question -of the regulation of those big corporations which are popu larly known as trusts. Our aim is not to do away with cor porations; on the contrary, thee big aggregations are an inevitable devel opment of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. I .believe that monopolies, unjust discriminations, which prevent or crip ple competition, fraudulent overcapi talization, and other evils in trust or ganizations and practices which injur iously affect interstate trade, can be prevented under the power of congress to "regulate commerce with foreign na tions and among the several states." If it prove impossible to enact a law that will regulate these corporations, then, assuredly, we should not shrink from amending the constitution so as to secure beyond peradventuie the pow er sought. Stability of economic policy must al ways be the prime economic need of this country. This -stability should not be fossilization. The country has acquiesced in the wisdom of the pro tective tariff principle. It is exceed ingly undesirable that this system should be destroyed or that there should be violent and radical changes therein. Our past experience shows that great prosperity in this country has always come under a protective tariff; and that the country cannot prosper under fitful tariff charges at short intervals. It is most earnestly to be wished that we could treat the tariff from the standpoint solely of our business needs. The well being of the wage earner, like the weil being of the tiller of the sou, should be treated as an essential in shaping our whole economic policy. There must never be any change which will jeopardize the standard of comfort, the standard of wages of the American wageworker. One way in which the readjustment sought can be reached is by reciprocity treaties. Lhey can be used to widen our markets and to give a greater field for the activities of our producers, on the one hand, and on the other hand to secure in practical shape the lower ing of duties when they are no longer needed for protection among our own people or when the minimum of dam age done may be disregarded for the sake of the maximum of good accomp lished. It would be both nnwise and un necessary at this time to attempt to reconstruct our financial system, which has been the growth of a century; but some additional legislation is, I think, desirable. It is suggested that all future legislation on the subject should be with a view of encouraging the use of such instrumentalities as will auto matically supply every legitimate de- ' mand of productive industries and . of commerce, not only in the amount, but in the character of circulation; and of making all kinds of money inter changeable, and, at the will of the holder, convertible into the established gold standard. - How to secure fair treatment alike for labor and capital, how to hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employe, without weak; ening individual initiative, without hampering and cramping the industrial development of the country, is a prob lem fraught with great difficulties and one which is of the highest importance to solve on lines of sanity and far sighted common sense as well as de votion to the right. This is an era of federation and combination. Organized capital and or agnized labor alike should remember that in the long run the interest of each must be brought into harmony with the in terest of the general public; and the conduct of each must conform to the fundamental rules of obedience to the law, of individual freedom and of jus tice and fair dealing toward all. Each should remember that in addition to power it must strive after the realiza tion of healthy, lofty and generous ideals. Every employer, every wage earner, must be guaranteed his liberty and his right to do as he likes with bis property or his labor so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. It is earnestly hoped that the secre tary of commerce may be created, with a seat in the cabinet. The rapid mul tiplication of questions affecting labor and capital, the growth and complexity of the organizations through which both labor and capital now find ex pression, the steady tendency toward the employment of capital in huge cor porations, and the wonderful strides of.this country toward leadership in the international business world justify an - urgent demand for the creation of ich a position. I hope soon to submit to the senate a reciprocity treaty with Cuba. On May 20 last the United States kept its prom ise to the island by formally vacating Cuban soil and turning Cuba over to those whom her own pecple had chosen as the first .officials of the new republic. Cuba lies at our doors, and whatever affects her for good or for ill affects ns also. So much have our people felt this that in the Piatt amendment, we definitely took the ground that Cuba must hereafter have closer relations with us than with any other power. - As civilization grows iarfare becomes i less and less the normal condition of foreign relations. The last century has seen a marked diminution of wars be tween civilized powers; wars with un civilized powers are largely mere mat ters ot international police duty, essen tial for the welfare of the world. Whenever possible arbitration or some similar method should be employed in lieu of war to settle difficuties between civilized nations, although as yet the world has not progressed sufficinetly to render it po. sible or necessarily desira ble to invoke arbitration in every case. The congress has wisely provided for building at once an isthmian canal, if possible at Panama. The attorney general reports that we can undoubted ly acquire good title from . the French Panama canal company. The work should be carried out as a continuing policy without regard to change of ad- mi iLtration; and it should De begun under circumstances which will make it a matter of pride for all administra tions to continue the policy. Of Porto Rico it is only necesasry to say that tbe prosperity of the island and the wisdom with which it has been governed have been such as to make it terve as an example of all that is best in lrtu'ar administration. On July 4 last peace and amnesty were promulgated in the Philippine islands. Some trouble has since from time to time threatened with the Mo hammedan Moros, but with the late insurrectionary Filipinos the war has entirely closed. Civil government has now been introduced. Not only does each Filipino enjoy such rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as he has never before known during the recorded history of the islands, bat the people, taken -as a whole, now enjoy a measure of self government greater than that granted to any other Orientals by any foreign power, and greater than that enjoved by any other Orientals under their own governments, save tne Japanese alone. Too much praise cannot be given to the army for what it has done in the Philippines, both in warfare and from an administrative standpoint, in preparing the way for civil government; and similar credit belongs to the civil authorities for the way in which they have planted the seeds of self government in the ground thus made ready for them. The army has been reduced to the minimum allowed by law. It is very small for the size of the nation, and most certainly should be kept at the highest point of efficiency. A system of maneuvering ocr army in bodies of some little size has been begun and should be steadily continued. Without such maneuvers it is folly to expect that in the event of hostilities with any serious foe even a small army corps could be handled with advantage. Our officers and enlisted men are such that we can heartily take pride in them, but they muht be thoroughly trained, both as individuals and in the mas. In the circumstances of modern warfare the man mnst act far more on hid own individual - responsibility than ever before, and the high individual efficiency of the unit is of the utmost importance. I urgently call your attention to the need of passing a bill providing for a general staff and for the reorganization of the supply departments on the lines of the bill proposed by the secretary of war last year. "."' . I For the first time in oar history maneuvers on a lager scale are being J held under the immediate command of ! the admiral of the navy. Constantly i increasing attention is being paid to the gunnery of the navy, but it is yet far lrom what it should be. There should be no halt in the work of building up the navy, providing every year additional fighting craft we nave aenrjerateiy made our own certain foreign policies which demand the possession of a first - class navy. The isthmian canal will greatly in crease the efficiency of cur navy if the navy is of sufficient size; but if we have an inadequate navy, then the building of the canal would be merely giving a hostage to any other power of superior strength. . The Monroe doctrine should be treated as the cardinal feature of American foreign policy; but it would be worse than idle to assert it unless we intended to back it np, and it can pe backed up only by a thoroughly good navy. The striking increase in the revenues of the postoffice depattment shows clearly the prosperity of our people and the increasing activity of the business of the country. Rural free delivery service is no longer in the experimental stage; it has become a fixed policy. The results fol lowing its introduction have fully justi fied the congress in the large appropria tions made for its establishment and extension. Few subjects of greater import ance -nave been - taken up hy the con gress in recent years than the inaugu ration of the system of nationally aided irrigation for the arid regions of the far west. A good beginning therein has been made. Now that this policv of national irrigation has been adopted, the need of thorough and scientific for est protection will grow more rapidly than ever throughout the public land states. Legislation should be provided for the protection of the game, and wild creatures generally, on the forest re serves. The senseless slaughter of game should be stopped at once. It is, for instance, a serious count against our national good sense to permit the present practice of butchering off such a stately and beautiful creature as the elk for its antlers or tusks. ' So far as they are available for agri culture, and to whatever extent they may be reclaimed under the national irrigation law, the remaining public lands should be hold rigidly for the homebuilder, the settler who lives on his land, and for no one else. In their actual use, the desert land law, the timoer and stone law, and the com mutation clause of the homestead law have been so perverted from the Inten tion with which they were enacted as to permit the acquisition of large areas of the public domain for other than actual settlers and the consequent pre vention of settlement. Moreover, the approaching exhaustion of the public ranges has of late led to much discus sion as to the best manner of using these public lands in the west which are suitable chiefly or only for grazing. In view of the capital importance of these matters, it might be well for a commission of experts to investigate and report upon the complicated ques tions involved. I especially urge upon the congress the need of wise legislation for Alaska. It is not to our credit as a nation that Alaska, which has been ours for 35 years, should still have as poor a sys tem of laws as is the rase. It is a ter ritory of great size and varied re sources, well fitted to support a large, permanent population. Alaska needs a good land law and such provisions for homesteads and pre-emptions as will encourage permanent settlement. We should shape legislation with a view not to the exploiting and abandoning of the territory, but to the building up of homes therein. The forests should be protected, and, as a secondary, but still important matter, the game also. Laws should be enacted to protect the Alas kan salmon fisheries against the greed which would destroy them. It would be well if a congressional committee could visit Alaska and investigate its needs on the ground. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House Dec. 2, 1902. MITCHELL WANTS COAST DEFENSE. Is Busy Getting Official Endorsement for New Legislation. Washington. Dec. 3. Senator Mitch ell has been- busy throughout the past week collecting recommendations from the secretary of war and other officials, touching upon needed legislation for the coast defense of the country. As chairman of the committee on coast defenses, the senator proposes to advo cate the passage in the short session of such legislation as is urgently de manded. In years past, the duties of the com mittee on coast defenses have been cared for by the committee on military affairs. The growing importance of the coast defenses and their present inefficient equipment has appealed to the senator. He is particularly anx ious that some legislation be enacted which will permit the complete fortifi cation of. the mouth of the Columbia river, but says most of the harbors are yet inadequately protected. Found Desperadoes Unexpectedly. Denver, Dec. 3. A special to the News from Lamar, Colo., says that while pursuing three men suspected of having held up and robbed the post master at Carleton, near here, Sheriff Frank M. Tate and Deputy J. H. Frisbie came suddenly upon the men encamped this morning. The latter opened fiie upon the officers, wounding Tate in the arm. Frisbie's horBe was shot from under, him. The three men escaped. As soon as the affair became known, a large band of cow boys, heavily armed, took the trail. NEWS OF OREGON ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. Prosperous Southern Oregon Mine Real Estate Transfers in Marion County In creasing Aged Man 56 Hours With out Food or Shelter Benton County Hog Discovered with Jaundice. A case of jaundice has been found in a hog killed by a Benton county farmer. - Pendleton commenced free city mail delivery December 1. There are four carriers and three deliveries of mail a day will be made. . - . Much local interest is being mani- 'ested in the city elections throughout the state, which occur from December 1 to April 1. Several cities have three tickets in the field. Hosea Stokes, aged 78 vears. became lost in ,xne woods at Looking mass, Southern Oregon, where he resides. and when found had been 56 hours without food or shelter. Mrs. Bride Sinnott, widow of the late N. B. Sinnott, died at her home in The Dalles Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sinnott was-one of the most widely known pioneer residents of that section of the state. Prospects are verv encouraging in the gold mining district in the Santiam country. Considerable development work is being done and new macninery installed. A smelter will be shipped in early next summer. The real estate transfers in Marion county during the past week amounted to over (52,000, which is the largest for a similar period in many years. Activity in real estate has been'steadily increasing for over two years and there is every indication that it will gain in intensity during the next two years. While there is some movement in city property, the transfers are principally of farm property. The Greenback mine, on Grave creek , Southern Oregon, has a new 20-stamp mill completed and ready to begin a much larger business that it has been able to do in the past. Over 50 tons of ore will be crushed daily. Nearly 300 people are supported by the Greenback mine, the houses of which have made a thriving little town with a store, hall and schoolhouse. The town is known as Greenback and has recently been made a postoffice. The postoffice at Pokeama, Klamath county, has been discontinued. The building boom, which has been in progress at Weston for several weess, shows no signs of abatement. The citizens of Helix will hold an election December 10 to vote on the proposition of incorporating the town. But very little of the 1903 wheat crop in the big Umatilla belt will be fall wheat, the rain proving so heavy that all seeding has been stopped. Dr. Leckenby, of Union, Has discov ered a process whereby he can take photographs in which all natural colors ar reproduced. He will not keep the discovery a secret, but will give it to the world. The soldier who was arrested at Fort Stevens for setting the numerous lecent fires has escaped from the officers and no trace of him can be found. He con fessed to having started the fires as ac cused. The second term at the state normal school at Monmouth shows a marked increase in interest and attendance. One noticeable feature is the unusually large number of young men, some 190 being enrolled at present. The sugar beet crop this year in the neighborhood of La Grande was excep tionally good and more beets were turned into the factory than evei be fore. Ihe amount received is 17,500 tons, which yielded 4,600,000 pounds of refined sugar. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 7172c; blue stem 7P80c; valley, 74c. Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew ing, $24.00. Floor Best grade, 3.603.90; grah am, $3.203.60. Millstuffs Bran, $19.00 per ton; middlings, $23.50; snorts, $19.50; chop, $18. Oats No. 1 white, $1.151.17 ; gray, $1.121.15 per cental. Hay Timothy, $1011; clover, $9.00; cheat, $89 per ton. Potatoes Best Bar banks, 6080c per sack; ordinary, 5055c per cental, growers' prices; Merced sweets, $1.75 $2 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00 4.25 : per pound, 10c ; hens, $44.50 per dozen; per pound, 10s; springs, $3.00 3.50 per dozen ; fryers, $2.503.60; broilers, $2.002.50; ducks, $5.00 6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 13c, dressed, 15c; geese, $6.008.50. Cheese Fall cream, twins, 15 lQHc; Yoong America, 1817$ factory prices, llc leas. . Butter Fancy creamery, 3032c per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20 22)c; store, 1518. Eggs 2530c per dozen. Hops New crop, 23 26c per pound. Wool Valley, 12K15c; Eastern Oregon, 814)c; mohair, 26 28c. Beef Gross, cows, 334c per pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 67e. Veal 7&8Xc. Mutton Gross, 3c per pound; dressed, 6c. Lambs Gross, 34c per pound; dressed, 6c. Hogs Gross, 6J6Jcper pound; dressed, 7370. -jr- CONGRESS MEETS FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION IS CONVENED AMID BRILLIANT SCENES. . i Adjournment Taken Immediately Out of Respect to Deceased Members Visit ors' Galleries Crowded and Hundreds Were Unable to Qain AdmLssionThe Usual Flower Display. Washington, Dec. 2. The second session of the Fifty-seventh congress convened at noon yesterday. Lone be fore the gavels fell in the two houses large crowds thronged about the doors of the visitors' galleries, seeking ad- -a. orignt, sunny -day brought out many women, who wra conspicuous among the visitors. " As the hour for the opening approached the crowdi about the doors increased, but many were neeessarilv Haan;n. ed, as the space allotted to outsiders was claimed early. There were many out-of-town visitors. Opening of the Senate. Washington. Dec. 2 was in session 12 minutes yesterday, the first day of the session, an ad inn. ment until todav beinc respect to the memory of Senator Mc Millan, who died during the recess. Rarely has the historic chamber pre sented SUCh an Armnrnnrn Tl, ., torn ot placing flowers on the desks of senators on the opening day of a ses sion is one which has long been fol lowed, but the dianlair v)o .o -J ' IT '"""J U' mittedly the most magnificent of any that has yet been seen. Many of the senators were early on the floor and kept busy exchaneinir cruetinoa with old acquaintances. The galleries were packed to suffocation, and hundreds stood outside the corridors gain admission. Among the interested B Dec ta tors were RAVAral momnnM " - "'-'" utl a V trXiO diplomatic corps. Senor Quesada, the Cuban minister, occupied a conspicuous place and exhibited much interest in wo proceeuings. ine absence of Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain, was particularly noticed. His place was taken by Rev. J. F. Prettyman.' of Washington. No hnsinfiss vao trandonM w " ni -..v. i vi UDJUUU passing the customary resolutions that the senate was readv tn nrnmui . J "VUVU KyJ uuir mess and fixing the hour of convenin i.ue sessions ai ii o clock. Oay (lathering in the House. Washington. Dec. 2. Th the Fifty-seventh congress Jnthe house. wo, as usuai, a spectacujar event. 1 be naileries of the fresh lv Wnrw? Koii were packed to the doors with people prominent in society and political cir cles, and the flower show although not as elaborate as usual! mieu iub cuamoer witn perfume and added grace and beantv to tha The members- were good natured and jovial, and mere was no outcropping of. partisan feeling. Speaker Henderson received a cordial reception as he as sumed the travel, hnt liounnrl tlia tlm.n was no demonstration. The proceed ings were purelv Derfunctorv. A er, the calling of the roll, the swearing in of members elected to fill vacancies created by death or resignation during the recess, the adoption of the mi Atn fri ary resolutions to appoint a committee io wait upon me president, to inform the senate that t.hn hnii ha nraa -raaA-rr ts transact business and to fix the daily hour of meeting, summarizes what was done. Then the death of the late Renre- sentative Russell, of Connecticut. which occurred in tha earlv full nraa announced bv his successor. Mr. Rran- degee, the usual resolution of regret was adopted, and the house, as a fur- 11 r , . ... mer mars oi respect, adjourned until today, when the president's mnnmim will be received. The session lasted less than one hour. RUSSIA MUST PAY. United States Wins Sealing Arbitration- Over $100,000 Will Be Received. The Hague, Dec. 3. Professor Asser. the Dutch jurist, who has been arbitrat ing the claims of American sealers for the seizure of their vessels by the Rus sian government, about 10 years ago, has delivered his award in favor of the United States. . He appraises the dam ages m the case of the American schooner C. H. White at $32,444 ; in the case of the James Hamilton Lewis at 128,528; the Kate and Anna at $10,- 488, and the Cape Horn Pigeon at $38, 750. Professor Asser delivered his judg ment in the arbitration court in the presence of the representatives of the United States and of Russia and others, including the foreign minister of the Netherlands, Dr. Van Lyndena. In giving his reason for the award, Pro fessor Asser held that the schooner White was seized octside Russian terri torial waters, and that the Russian con tention that a warship of one nation was entitled to pursue beyond the boun daries of its territorial seas a ship of another nation guilty of illegal action within those waters was untenable. The arbitrator declared that the juris diction of a state could not extend be yond its territorial waters except by special treaty. Pensions for Railroad Employes. Portland, Dec. 3. The O. R. & N. Co. will inaugurate a 'pension system at the beginning of the new year for the benefit of its employes. The Southern Pacific will also put the new system into effect at the same time. It is a move that includes all the Harriman lines. The details of the plans will be announced some time this month. It is somewhat like the plans that are in effect on many of the large Eastern roads.
