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upper house of congress; legislation
a necessary nature is neglrewd
trades of all kinds become&fifob,
The Walla Walla Union, a stanrish'rV
publican paper, is tired ofr.JbejMi
that is going on at Olympta, afld says:
"When the voters of Washington
elected their representatives to the
state legislature, knowing that a
ITnftflfl StAtea apnRf.fjp wag to ha elected.
MR. ALGER'S DEFENSE.
Testifying before the war in vestls jj
log commission. Secretary
aid:
"During the early days fne war,
, with a large body of menjpD provide
lor, some aeieota were apparent, it
was not because of a lack of funds, but
because it was impossible to handle
properly so large a body of men on
such short notice."
In the February Scribner's Theodore
Roosevelt describes some of these "de
fects." He says:
"It was four days later that we dis
embarked in a perfect welter of con
fusion. Tampa lay in the pine-covered
sand flats at the end of a one
track . railroad, and everything
connected with both military and
railroad 'matters was in an almost
, Inextricable tangle. There was no
one to meet us or to tell us where we
, were to camp, and no one to issue us
food for the 24 hours. We had to buy
; the men food out of our own pockets,
and to seize wagons in order to get
pur spare baggage taken to the camp
ing grounds which we at last found
had been ailoted to us."
This was not exceptional experience.
It was the lot of every regiment sent
to the front. . The Sixteenth infantry
' from ' Fort Sherman had identical
experience at Tampa. : . . "
Secretary Alger wants the country
to ' believe that this dire confusion
suggestive of military forays of the
middle ages rather than the military
science of the nineteenth century
bad to be; that it could have been
V avoided. With Alger as war secretary
it vas unavoidable; but with a better
man in that post of great responsibil
ity, there would have been a different
story. The record of the army would
have been, equal to that of the navy.
Indeed, it should have been better.
The navy had to deal with new con
ditions and unsolved problems. The
methods of naval warefare hd been
revolutionized since the war of the
rebellion. The whole world was in
doubt over the efflolency of the types
of warships, and many believed they
would sink themselves from, the recoil
f of their great gun
- For the army there was no new
. problems, and the army had the ad
vantage of having bad veteran seryice
n extensive campaigns against re
bellious Indians. '
Secretary Alger says the confusion
," and blunders attending the campaign
in Cuba were due to tbt difficulties of
moving "such large bodies of men."
The truth is the campaign was con
ducted with a force considerably less
than the United. States army on a
. peace footing. i
r. ; Mr. ; Alger can not hoodwink the
American people This nation knows
that something was radically wrong
with the army with the line, or the
staff, or the department at Washing
- ton; and the superb record of Santiago
" proves that the fault was not with the
line. Spokesman Review,
they expected th"atlEey"sh"6uld fulfill
this part of their duties without delay.
The republican members have the
p'ovrer' lo',ameTl Senator, and it is ex
pected they shall exercise that power
jwififa "party, without the help of
.tbMiueUn party members. The re
publicans of the state have desired and
xpect that their representatives shall
oceed to name a senator in the usual
manner, by a caucus, and there settle
the differences as to personal choice
It is yery true that it rests with the
republican members to chose a senator,
and they could do it if they would dis
play a little independence by breaking
away from their favorites and asserting
the privileges belonging to them
But will they do it? Hardly. They
are tied so closely to certain senatorial
candidates that they cannot readily
sever their connection. This is the
fault of the system of electing U. S
senators, and will never be done away
with until they are elected by direct
vote. Men who aspire to be United
States senators work the conventions
to get men favorable to them nom
nated for legislative offices, and by the
time they are elected are so much un
der obligations to the would-be sen a.
tors that they dare not exercise any
independence. They become slaves of
bosses instead of free men.
OUR UOWN.
The Dalles always has been and is
today the best business point in East
ern Oregon. Possessing as it does
natural advantages which are not en
joyed by other locations as a trade
center, and having better facilities for
handling a large volume of business
than any neighboring town, .it
naturaly draws a large trade from the
interior, which makes it the distribut
ion nolnt for a very large scope of
country.
But there is no reason wby.it should
not also be a trade center for a larger
scope of country and also become
live manufacturing town. Being at
the head of navigation on the Colum
bia, and enabled to ship produce direct
to tide water, either at Portland or
Astoria, it offers better freight rates
than any other point east of the Cas
eade mountains. This should, and
will some day in the .near future at
tract manufacturers to the town. Be'
sides the low freight rates, there are in
ducements in the way of cheap land
for building sites, a healthful climate
cheap living expenses, which means
reasonable wage rates for the menu-
lacturer. All in all. The Dalles has
many attractive features that are pos
sessed bv no other place, that cannot
remain hidden forever. The Dalies
has a future ahead of it, if its citizens
will but push matters, stand together
as a unit for the advancement of the
town, and the encouragement of every
practicable new industry that is pre
sented.
old War issues.
FOB POLIlICAL PURPOSES.
The reapportionment bill recently
" passed by the legislature was not found
ed on reason, justice or representation,
' or even common sense, but to suit the
whim of politicians. ; It is the most
nonsensical apportionment of senators
and representatives that could have
beep. made,unless it had been arranged
to make ail representatives and sena
tors elective at large. '
It scatters senatorial and represent
; tlve districts around as . if they were
: playthings, and with no view whatever
'. to the compactness of the districts or
' or the interests to be represented; the
only object .seeming to have been,
5- "how can the state be districted so as
to secure the1 greatest number of re
publican legislators?"
.. For instance, . the ninth senatorial
disttict is composed of Klamath, Lake,
" Crook and Wasco counties, a strip of
country reaching entirely accross the
ute. This district is given one sena-
. tor, to.be chosen by the people of the
four counties, and who will have in
teres ts . to represent that are more
varied than those found in most slates,
- This district is 250 miles in ..length
with an average width of 80 miles
Outside of a fewrwool growers lathe
northern part of Klamath anfl Lake
counties, who bring their wool to The
Dalles, the people of those counties
have no intercourse of whatever nature
.- with the people of .Wasco, and it is
doubtful II a candidate for senator
dominated from among the citizens of
Vfaeco would be known to a dozen
voters, of those counties, or that oue
' who might be nominated in either of
those counties would be one whom tin
people of Wasco bad nevei"heard of.
Ha therefore could he only a poor rep-
. resentative of the interests of this
county. The twenty-first senatorial
district is but 'little more consistent.
It comprises Grant, .Gilliam, Sherman
and Wasco.' The twenty-first repre
sentative district covers the same ter
- rltory as the ninth senatorial and the
tweaty-eigbth representative district
the same as the twenty-first senatorial.
Each of these districts is given three
representatives, so that Wasco's heavy
republican majority will be utilized to
assist in the election of. eight legisla
tor. Other districts throughout the
tate are formed as absurdedly as these
just mentioned, strong - republican
counties being attached to eeuoti&s
that are doubtful wherever it has been !
possible.
So strongly partisan ' ere the f rum
ors of the bill, and so willing to foist
ahair parties interests were the men
The voted for the bill, regardless or an
o,ukble apportionmentof legislators.
eiiat it is a wonder that they did not
attach esery county in the state to
Muttnomahao as to have made repub
lican success jabjplutely certain in the
nture. '
The' United States senate proceed'
ings were halted for a time sufficient
to permit Senator Butler, the populist
from .North Carolina,' to deliver a
speech on his proposition to pension
the ex-Confederate soldiers, in ..which
he defended the position taken by the
South' during the great civil conflict,
He declared that the South was right,
and that history would so record, and
that every shot' fired by a Southern
soldier was fired in defense of the
rights of his state constitution, in self-
defense, and in defense of his home
and fireside. A more inopportune
time could scarcely have been chosen
for the making of this speech.' Inas
much as the amendment to pension
ex-Confederate soldiers was with
drawn, it would seem that the whole
performance was gone through for the
purpose of giving Senator Butler
an opportunity to vent bis feelings on
the secession question. That it so ap
peared to members of the senate was
demonstrated by the fact that Senator
Pettus,1 a democratic member from
Alabama, appealed -to the senators not
to attempt to renew the war.. . All
agreed, he said, that it bad' ended at
Appomattox, and nobody wanted, any
more of it. - ' . .
IHE BOUNTY GRABBERS.
The lower house of the legislature
has undone one of its best acts. After
having defeated the sugar-beet bounty
bill, it , reconsidered the vote and
passed, by a majority of one, the bill
abpropriatlng 950,000 for three years
to pay a bounty on. sugar-beets raised
within the state. If the bill succeeds
in the senate and should meet the ap
proval of the governor, then the way
will b? paved for general bounty laws
to encourage every conceivable indus
try that Cranks may 'conclude - to es
tablish. f '" .. . .
A legislature that votes to foster on
industry at the expense of the people
cannot consistently refuse to foster
another, hence there can be no end to
bounties. Whenever an individual
wants to make an experiment all he
will need to do is to in vesta few thous
and dollars in a plant, then go to the
legislature with a pje.a that his hew
business cannot survive . without state
aid, and the tender hearted legislators
will rote away money taken troro the
taxpayers 'to support mm. Should
this bill becemo a law, there will be
an army or bounty grabbers before
ach session of the legislature seeking
to fleece the people. J - - '
SENATOR CLA2t&
$m eloff. AQiarS to the
senate Orncgjnnau states win om m
aVjod:p(sibljr the richest man in
h&Wbflft says the Salt Lake Tribune.
He has much realized wealth, while in
reserve be has a sum he cannot at
present compute, but which a shrewd
man last year estimated as being (al
ready in sight) $350,000,000. We refer
to his Arizona copper properties, and
since then copper has advanced 40 per
cent. And that was the amount act
ually blocked out, while there was no
sign of exhaustion in the marvelous de
posit. Some years ago the London
TlmM. notin? the Vanderbllt and
Pennsylvania and other railroad sys-
terns of the country, and the swelling
commerce to supply theee systems with
traffic, ventured the prophecy that it
would not be extraordinary if, within
a few years, some individual American
should, in wealth,, attain to the 1000
million mark. If W. A. Clark's life
and success continues for fifteen years
longer, he is liable to be that man
He be?an life with no advantages of
education, but in that respect be has
struggled to keep up with his growing
fortune. He has read much; traveled
much: he is f shrewd judge of art, he
is posted thoroughly on all national
and many international questions; he
has a natural pride in the land that has
broucht such priceless blessings to
him, and both on grounds of personal
pride and patriotism is anxious to be
an instrument through which his
country's honor and power may be
exalted. There is much said about the
manner of his election. Of that we
know nothing save what has been
wired to the country. He was a candi
date four or five years ago and was op
posed bv Mr. Marcus Daly. The latter
did not want the place, but did not
want Mr. Clark to obtain it. The mat
ter was purely personal between them,
and it was understood that both spent
large sums of money. It was a strik
ing reminder of the old feud between
Wm. Sharon and J. P. Jones, on the
Comstock twenty-eight years ago,
and the men are not unlike the Com
stock men in their methods. Sharon,
like Clark, did not care how much
money he spent, so that it was on a
square business basis. His ledger had
to balance eyery night. Jones, like
Daly, in tjie very exuberance of his
"battle eeatacy," fired whole batteries
of gold, where one man with a revol
ver could have held the line.
COMBINES THE ORDER.
At the present rate of forming
trusts it would seem that only a short
time can elapse uutil every industry
in America, except the produc
tion of raw materials, will be in
one big combine. In speaking of the
recent combines that have formed, the
Iron Age says:
Reports relative to pools and con
solidations continue numerous. The
feeling is gaining ground that the
American Tin Plate Company is on the
eve of consumating control of the tin
bar supply through the purchase of
the plants of the Shenango Valley
Steel Company, the Ohio Steel Com
pany, the Buhl Steel Company, King,
Gilbert & Warner, and the Wheeling
Steel & Iron Company, having also
made long-time contracts with other
plants making tin-plate bars in the
Pittsburg and Wheeling districts.
The sheet mills are working on a
consolidation similar in its lines to
that of the tin-plate company and the
Western bar iron makers, and trying
to gather once more the same elements
which once. co-operated in the loosely
bound old Western association. Five
of the largest car builders are on the
eve of fusion, one of the plans being to
establish close relations with the prin
ctple steel car building concers.
The cast-iron pipe consolidation does
not seem to be making much headway
although more powerful financial in
terests may yet take a hand in the on
dertaking.
The wire rod market is in a peculiar
position, being now In complete con,
trol of the large wire interest, the un
derstandmg bein? that the entire pro
duct of the only large independent
producer is contracted for. In the
smaller branches of the wire industry
there is much alarm over the future
although it is reported that the re
quirements of tbe majority of the
smaller works are covered for some
time to come.
In the pig iron market quiet has
reigned so far as the Southern makers
ar? concerned. In districts in which
Northern irons compete, Southern
prices are now relatively above the
market. The additional offers of large
contracts of Southern iron for export
have been made, but have not been
met. i
against the commanding general of
the army, but the court has taken the
only course open to it.
His defense was not as consistent
with the facts as might have been ex
pected in a case of such far reaching
importance, but the court-martial
over-looked that when it recommend
ed the culprit to executive clemency.
In the light of the evidence it does
not seem possible that General Eagan
can be continued In his present office.
To do so would be almost an admission
that general Miles is the real culprit
and that vilification is courted by the
administration.
THE MONTANA SJCNATORSHIP.
Tha election of W. A. Clark to the
United States senate from Montana
shows what brains and money can do.
Clark is one of the richest men in this
country, being a multi-millionaire.
It is evident that he has put some of
his moaey where it did the most gocd.
He is a silver democrat, and among
the votes that elected him after a long
struggle, were eleven republicans,
who claim that they concluded to sup
port him in order to widen the breach
in tbe democratic party in Montana
that is to say the breach between Clark
and Marcus A. Daly, who have been
fighting each other for many years.
Under the circumstances, and in view
of the fact that it was impossible to
elect a republican, tbe excuse of the
eleven republicans seems very plaus
ible. But it looks a little suspicious
when eleven gold standard men vote
to send a sliver man to tbe senate,
their act would lead to the belief that
some of Clark's wealth had found its
way into their pockets, and that they
are richer and -he poorer than a week
ago.
SIXTY MILLION
DEMANDED
That is the Amount Go
mez Wants For His
Army.
His
hour
EDITORIAL NOTES.
AFTFR A , GRAFT.
BUT WILL FffEYT
There is apparently a deaijck in
"Washington on tbe senatorial election
imilar to iaoae we used to have, in
regon, wid inconsequence the people
of that state are suffering tbe evil ef
fects that always attend bitter sena
torial fight la the legislature: every
thing else is made secondary to the as
piratious of a few men who hare a
jfeoira tn represent the state In tha
Let tbe legislature put ' revolving
fund ' of $35,000 in the ' hands of the
three principal state officers for the
treatment of flax by convict labor, and
the next legislature will find this fund
ioerevsed to $100,000 at its meeting in
nd the greatest industry i a this
state for U jjme fairly under way,
This is the eu4ook. It is not a free
gift. It is merely the pperatlon of
good bussnee Judgment , od fpre-
sight. Salem Statesman.
Would the Statesman guarantee
such aplendid results from the pur
chase of the flax businese? ' If it would
probably it might Induce tbe ' legisla
ture "to take hold of the scheme. It
will, however, Cot do this, and-tha
casual observer might be led to be
lieve tha Statesman had some direct
interest in taddleing the flax experi
ment upon the state. Wonder bow
mui stock it has in tbe concern?
The house did well in voting down
the bill to pay a bounty .on sugar beets.
It is class of vicious leaifalation that
should never be tolerated to tax every,
body for tb benefit of a very few, and
that was tbe intent of tbe bounty bill.
TRUSTS THRIVE BY TARIFF.
Whenever a gigantic trusts inserts
itself into American economics it may
be regarded as evidence that the pro
ducts it proprses to control no longer
require the fostering care of tbe pro
tective tariff' The principle of tariff
protection for infant industries can
not be contorted into governmental
ooonivanoe in prompting trusts'. The
prohibitory tariff of fS per tpn on
printing paper and the.exQegsive tajf
of $1.67 per ton on pulp ought in the
interests of the people and the per
petuity of the good faith the adminis
tration party owes the . people, be
repealed without argument and with
out delay. The duty on these articles
under existing conditions, amounts to
a, fax pure and simple, not upon
luftutfes. but upon actual necessities.
The existence of a monoply is irrefu
table evldenae (ibaf. such is a fact.
There is no room for doubt. The
government stands in the light of a
sonaplrator against the interest of the
people until the appearance of its
connivance is removed. '
WASHINGTON'S NEW SENATOR
Addison Q. Foster has been elected
by tha Washington legislature to suc
ceed Senator John L. Wilson. The
change is probably an inprorement,
since Foster is not ao muoh of a rail
road man ar Is Wilson, 'and will be
freer to represent the, state than the
Northern Pacific attorney has been.
Mr. Foster is 61 years old, and is a
Bttiva pf Massachusetts, but was raised
lu Wtsooosis, where bo engaged in
the lumber business. He came to
Washington in 1887 and besajge inter
ested in a number of large lumber
ing industries on the sound. He is
also interested in coal mining and is
an extensive shipper of lumber and
coal.
X AO AN 8 SENTENCE. ,
General Eagan's sentence, as pres
cribed by the court martial, may seem
harsh to bis friends, who now begin
to believe that tbe chief of the sub
sistence department was out of bis
bead when hs wrote n4 read hit tirade
Those who bad been building up
hopes that Alger would be speedily
bounced out of the cabinet after Egan's
downfall are to be disappointed. In
stead of being fired, he will be rewarded
by being sent off to Cuba with tbe
senate and house military committees
to study the military needs of the it-
lands, and possibly to show the Cubans
how little he knows of military affair J
Admiral Dewey is made one of the
commissioners to determine what is
best to do with the Philippines. And
since the American people bare toe
utmost confidence in Dewey's judge,
ment, if he recommends the retention
or annexation of the islands, that poli
cy will be adopted by congress regard
less of what it may cost in money and
blood.
The bill introduced in congress
authorizing the increase of the stand
ing army to 100,000 men has passed the
house and will probably become a law.
Tbe imperialists in congress are begin
ning to realize that if we are to extend
our territory all over the worn a
large standing army will be necessary,
and if this policy is pursued, about the
next request will be to increase the
army to 250,000 men.
W. A. Clark, recently elected sena
tor by the Montana leglalature, is in
favor of restoring silver to the status
it had before its demonitization in 1873,
and is also favorable to protection on
raw materials. In these propositions
Mr.-Clark is consistent, for all pro
tectionists should favor tbe encourage
ment of the sliver industry, and the
only way to encourage it is to give sil
ver equal mintage privileges with gold.
The party in the majority in con
gress has submitted . a measure for re
forming the currency that 'proposes to
Irrevocably fasten the gold standard
upon the country. It is the Hill bill,
and if it becomes a law, which it prob
ably will at the. next session, the silver
money of the country will be nothing
more than credit currency, as it will
be redeemable in gold. The bill re
ceives tbe endorsement of the admin
istration. Again at the next general election
in this state the voters will have an
opportunity to express their approval
or disapproval of extending the right
of suffrage to women, tbe resolution
submitting a constitutional amend
ment to that effect haying passed both
branches of tbe legislature. The feel
ing as regards women suffrage has
somewhat softened down since the vote
was last taken on this question and it
is not improbable that it will carry.
A senator, who is close to the ad
ministration, in discussing the Philip
pine question the other day, said if
the Filipinos did not submit to Amer
ican rule, he would have them "whip
ped to death." When it is remem
bered that the war by which we
gained a shady title tq the Philippines
was waged In the interest of human
ity to free the Cubans from Spanish
oppression It would seem that this is
rather harsh -treatment to propose.
But it is justified by the radical imperialists.
John Morgan, of San Francisco, has
rendered a curious decision which
holds that a person receiving a street
car transfer has a right to give it
away to another person if he wishes.
He did not decide that the second per
son has a right to ride on the transfer
so obtained, and hence the value to
the public of the decision ' is not ap
parent; but p is, established that a city
ordinance cannot make it a crime to
give away what one has honestly ac
quired. .
Why don't some philantrophlc legis
lator introduce a bill placing a bounty
on flax fiber? This is an Infant in
dustry that has about swamped those
who were interested in the experiment
of.making it one of the products of the
state, just the same as the sugar-beet
experiment in Grande Ronde valley.
If the sugar-beet growers are entitled
jbo a bounty, give one also to the flax
growers: and then keep on passing the
bounties arouud until we can all get
something out of the bpunty business.
Le-jt's majce the thing general, and take
money put of Que pocket pQ pay taxes
go that w.e may get it back into tbe
Other, Jess expenses 0? colecng, In
the payment pf bounties on our products.
NEW York, Jan. 31. A special to
the Tribune from Washington says
Maximo Gomez, the Cuban Geueral.
has demanded nearly $60,000,000 from
the United States and refuses to dis
band his "army" until the money is
paid. Ho has repudiated the arrange
ment made by Calixto Garcia, who
came to Washington with authority
from Gomez to provide for the return
of the Cubans to their peaceful pur
suits, and whose work was barely ac
complished before his sudden death
of December 11.
It was then agreed that the United
States in order to secure the prompt
resumption of labor on the plantations
of the island with a view of promoting
the speedy revival of prosperity and
settled conditions, should distribute
about $3,000,000 among the 30,000 men
said to be still under arms in the ratio
of a $100 a man, the officers in propor
tion to their rank to receive a greater
amount, tbe ordinary enlisted men to
be discharged with sums less than $100
depending upon the length of service
and other considerations. For over a
month the pay corps of the army has
been making ready to carry out this
arrangement, the national defense
fund being available for tbe purpose.
In the meantime General Brooke
and bis chief subordinate have been
endeavoring to give employment, most
ly of a permanent character, to large
numbers of Cubans, in order to restore
the number requiring a bounty, and
at the same time give the inhabitants
opportunity to begin governing them
selves. ':.
Gomez has come out against this
scheme, which was operating satisfac
torily to most Cubans, and has struck
for trreater stakes. It is officially
known that he is endeavoring to dis
suade Cubans from accepting office
under the American occupation, and
is urging all the natives of every grade
to stay with him in the field until the
United States is compelled to aooede
to his "terms of disbandment." Go
mez alleges that his army consists of
40,000 men, and be insists that most of
them shall be paid for three years'
service at the ratesthat prevailed in
the United States army.
for the want of a single vote,
change of heart at the 11th
carried the day for the bill,
Tbe bill to create a state board of
barbers' examiners and provides for
the registration of all barbers did not
have the close shave in the house that
some predicted for it. Although
Roberts declared that it was somewhat
"barberous" measure to spring upon
the legislature, the bill passed by a
vote of 33 to 23. The bill makes tbe
board self sustaining. If It becomes
a law all resident barbers in the state
will have to register at $1 per register,
and newcomers will haye to pass an
examiniation to determine their quali
fication.' An examination will cost $5.
The bill also provides for an appren
ticeship of three years for beginners.
Hill made an eloquent appeal in
behalf of his bill to prohibit the
maintenance of armed bodies of men,
in the house last night, and secured
its passage by an almost unanimous
vote.
THIEVING Iff PORTLAND.
Two BobberiM by Highwaymen In On
Wight.
J. G, Wey, a butcher on Fourth be
tween Harrison and Montgomery
streets, was the victim of a lone high
wayman at 7:30 last evening. He had
just closed his shop and was going to
look after his horses, when an un
masked man with a pistol In hand or
dered him to unlock the shop.
"Don't look at me sharply," quietly
said tbe thug, "and don't say a word,
or I'll blow your head off!"
Mr. Wey obeyed these Injunctions
more respectfully than asy since he
went to Sunday school.
After getting into the shop the rob
ber ordered the butcher to unlock bis
money drawer, which contained a little
more than $5, which the fellow appro
priated. Last night about 10:30 o'clock a
colored man named William Stevens,
whose occupation is that of a janitor,
was held up by an armed man and
robbed of all the money he had 75
cents. The hold-up ooourred near his
home, at Fourth and Sheridan streets,
South Portland, and Stevens did not
hesitate about throwing up his hands
when commanded to do so.
BCBN
THEMSELVES CP.
A Lot of
a Bad Fire In
THE BILL MUST STAND.
Efforts to Reconsider the Reapportion
ment Bill fall.
Salem, Jan. 31. The effort to ob
tain reconsideration of the reappor
ment bill ia the houee, which gave
promise of a bitter fight at the close of
the session yesterday, has failed.
After a debate of over an hour this
morning the decision of the speaker in
holding that .the bill had passed be
yond the jurisdiction of the house was
sustained by a vote of 32 to 20; absent
7 , 1
. Stillman s amendments to the house
rules providing for reference of bills
before being read and ordered printed
in the interest of economy of time and
expense was adopted, and the senate
concurrent resolution adopting the
the Oregon grape as ths state flower
was concurred in. Upon motion of
Young,, each member was voted 100
more 2-cent stamps and 100 more 1
cent stamps.
. In the senate Selling moved to
reconsider the vote by which a reso-
lution, was passed yesterday authoriz
ing tbe secretary of state o make
certified transoripts of all laws fop tbe
use of the state printed, at -the usual
rate of compensation," saying be in
tended to introduce a bill to reduce
tbe fee allowed for such transcripts.
Fulton objected to reducing tbe fees
before the expiration of the present
term of office, and Smith came for
ward with the argument that all such
fees were unconstitutional. The mo
tion to reconsider was carried and the
resolution tabled.
Mulkey introduced a resolution for
a constitutional amendment' abrogat
ing the article providing for the office
of state printer, wlch was referred. ;
THE BISHor PROTESTS.
Rpfgiief to PermU Prqtestenf Services. In.
a Catholic Cemetery.
New Yobk, Jan. 31. A Havana
special to the Tribuue says; Bishop
Saatander has declared that the Pro
testant service eannot be held over
the graves of the Maine yictlms in
Columbus 'Cemetery. Committees of
Americans were preparing to decorate
the graves on the anniversary of the
explosion and desired prayers by Pro
testant clergymen. The bishop says
that tbe cemetery is consecrated
ground and Protestant services could
no more be permitted there than, in a
Catholio church.
The bishop Is algo preparing a pro
test to General Brooke against tbe
action of tbe munoipal councils in
Trinidad, Colon, Matanzas and other
towns, in declaring cemeteries free.
He says that . cemeteries are churh
property and that to take possession
of them is both desecration and con
fislci.tion. The Havana council is
likely to take simlllar action. Fees
required for burials and simillnr
abuses were one of the strongest
grievances of the Cubans against
Spanish rule. . The agitation is going
to have all cemeteries declared free.
Chinese Cante
Vancouver.
Vancouver. B, C. Feb. 2. China
town at the big Chemainus lumber
mills near Nanaimo, the coal center
of the province, has been almost com
pletely destroyed by fire, and a num
ber of Chinese burned to death.
After work, the Mongolians built a
hughe fire in the center of the Chinese
quarter, and proceeded to smoke
opium. All became befuddled, and
andi the flames catching the flimsy
cabins of the settlementgained head
way before the opium-drugged Chinese
realized their predicament. Then
they rushed blindly into the flames.
Scenes of the wildest description were
witnessed by the white settlers who
went to the rescue.
Ihe flimsy shacks burned fiercely,
and soon they were a mass of smoking
ruins. It was ascertained that at
least two Chinese were burned to
death. A number of other were badly
bupned, and it is reported that several
others are missing.
Will Go Junketing-.
Chicago, Jan. 31. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Sec
retary Alger and the members of the
senate and house military committees
and their wives will
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prtant Notice.
To the Ladies of The fialles and Vicinity:
In anticipation of the approaching Elk's ball, we
have just received from New York a few high grade
novelties in dress trimmings for evening wear. The as
sortment, though limited, comprises the choicest crea
tions of the largest exclusive manufacturers of dress
trimmings, both in this country and Europe.
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EVERYTHING IS
: NOW ' LOVELY
Germany Will Investigate
Affairs as Samoa.
through the West Indies. Tb v will
sail fiom New York on March 6, which
is immediately after -the adjournment
of congress, in the steamer Berlin,
and will be gone until April 1, The
party will live on the steamer during
the entire trip, and make short trips
into the interior of the islands of Cuba
and Porto Rico.
They go to study the military re
quirements of the islands.
JUA0e Qulcfc Trip.
SEATT8, Jan. 3i.-All records of
ice travel on the Yukon have been
broken by the recent feat of the mount
ed police of the Northwest territory
in bringing a big shipment of
mail . from Dawson to Skagway in
nine days and ten hours. The mail
left Dawson on the morning of Jan. 15
and was in Skagway before noon last
Tuesday. '
The record was make by the Canar
dian officials, it is said, to show that
they could greatly reduce the time
being made oy tbe United States mail
contractors.
tn.
New York, Feb. 1. A special from
Washington says: In reply to the
representations of Ambassador White,
Germany has assured . the United
States that she will investigate the
oonduot of her agents in Samoa, and
should it be shown that they have
acted in violation of the treaty of
Berlin, she will recall them.
- By this assurance Germany has
removed the Samoan question from
the- dangerous position - it occupied
The authorities here anticipated that
Germany would decline to accept
go on a tour responsibility, from representations
Frosen to 1
Buffalo, Wyo., Feb.. Mrs, J. H.
Yost, wife of a ranchman, and ber
daughter, Hying six miles from this
town, were froies to death during yes
terday's storm. They had started to
drive home from town and became be
wildered in the storm. Finally their
sleigh overturned and the horses broke
away. They were beyond help when
found some hours later.
x nere nave been several narrow es
capes from death, and losses in sheep
and cattle will be large. Tbe snow is
o badly drifted that the roads are im
passable for vehicles,
Holleben, the German representative
here, who informed Secretary Hay
that he felt that the German consul
and Herr Rafael had acted without
authority from Berlin.
Secretary Hay Is quite willing to
give Germany all the necessary time
to Investigate, and it is expected by
this time that she has taken action.
That there may be no doubt of the
fact) and to protect the American
representatives, Rear-Admiral Kautz,
who left San Diego on board the Phil
adelphia, will make a thorough Inves
tigation and report the facts without
delay. '
The state department has received
from Apia by mail copies of the proqr
lamations Issued by the American and
British consuls for the protection of
Chief Justice Chambers and his fami
ly. A proclamat'on by the British
consul is conspicuously absent, and
the reason It was not issued is ex-.
plained by dispatches sent by Mr.
Chambers.'
QBUCpfNtt 4tOSfl SLOWLY.
burden in consequence.
Since the expose of the little game
that was being so carefully nursed,
however, it is not believed that the
district attorneys will accomplish
much through further iobbvins.
There is a feeling among the legislators
tuat these officials should return to
their' homes and attend to the bust
nesB for which they are being paid
by the taxpayers. The lobbying of
of these officials places them in a most
unenviable light, and it were perhaps
better for them if they had remained
at home.
She Snubbed a Lord.
The New York "swagger" set received
a breezy sensation recently when one of
the choicest young heiresses on the Avenue
married an American, who earns his own
uviuk , woijc on mc same oaic went sail
ing homeward a distinguished little prince,
ling whose yard -long title rumor said
had been placed entirely at her disposal.
"Bless me1' exclaimed her self-made tether
WOBK OF THK LEUISLATOBE.
The House
Bounty BUI
Congressman Tewpey, of Minnesota,
has introduced g bill "to ipcrease the
efficiency of (ihe public service by
optional and- compulsory retirement pf
superanuated and disabled ..govern
ment employees, and for the crea
tion of a fund for the retirement
of 3uch employees." Mr. TaWney's
bill 40S pot impose any additional tax
upon (be people, but assesses all gov
ernment employees under (he civil
service 3 per cent of their salaries an
nually for tbe purpose of a retirement
fund. This easement, it i6 estimated,
would produce $3,439,800 - annually,
while the yearly outgo to retired em
ployees would be but 13,335,080, thus
leavinr a surplus for safety. - If this
bill would become a law it would make
about 4,000 vacancies in civil service
positions at once, and cause 20,000
promotions.
Reconsiders the
Sajsv, Feb. 1; In view pf tbe facf
bat th js day has been set aside as a,
sort pf holiday, nearly all the members
of tbe legislature baying gone to
Corvallis to accept the hospitality of
(be citizens of that place, both
branobet of tb legislature held night
pesspn fait night.- In the bouse four
bills were Passed, besides the senate
joint resolution paving the way to a
vote by the. people upon the proposed
women-sufferage amendment.
The roost Important bill passed in
the bouse yesterday . was the Serwin
bUl, providing for 'an annua bounty
pf f5fl,000 for four years fop the en
couragement pf the sugar-beet In
dustry. The bill bad a close call,
passing by 31 votes just enough to
carry it through, but the Menus of the
bill can thank McCourt of Marlon
county that the bill passed at all. Had
not McCourt changed his vote from no
to aye before tbe result was announc
ed, the bill would bay been defeated
A Bis; Whisky Trust
New York, Feb. . . Tbe largest
combination of whisky and distilling
interests yet attempted has been con
eluded in tbls city under the title of
the Kentucky Distillers & Warehouse
Company. Fifty-seven of the firms
making Kentucky whiskies nave en
tered into the agreement. The new
company will be captilized fur $32,'
000,000. Incorporation papers will
shortly be filed in New Jersev. The
new company is expected to produce
15,0T0,000 gallons of whisky annually
at an average net profit of $1,500,000.
Mexlo Aeeepts.
City of Mexico, Feb. 1. Mexico
has accepted the inyitition to parti
cipate in the military 'congress at
'famp, Fla. February 8, and tbe re
publics two delegates have left for
tbe nortli.
rue Mexican representatives are
Brigadier-General Jose, Maria de ia
Vega, chief of the marine bureau and
president of the committee on military
regulations, and Colonel Felix B.
Estrada professor in the Chaupultepeo
military academy.
How to make
&awmakefa at Salens Disposing
Routine Work.
Salem, Feb. 2, The greater por
tion of the forenoon session of the
house tody was giyen up to hearing
reports of standing committees. In
addition to this, two bills were passed
and eight new bills introduced.
The bills rassed were those by Cur
tis amending the salmon-fishing laws
passed at the special aesalon so as to
conform with the regulations agreed
upon by tbe joint fisheries committee,
and by Myers, to apply to the military
fund of the state all moneys that may
be received. fr.o,m, tbe government for
transportation and equipment of the
Second Oregon Volunteers.
The Curtis bill to fix tbe salaries Of
district attorneys was reported with
amendments by the judiciary commit
tee this morning, and the bill was
made a special order for 4 o'clock this
.afternoon.
In the senate this morning a resolu
tion to authorize the exchange of the
old blind institute, owned by J. H,
Albert, was tbe special order, and,
after a vote carrying the resolution
was nearly completed, it was recommit
ted on a statement from Selling that
he bad just beard something about it
that needed lnvestigotion.
Smith's constitutional amendment
to provide for a vote on the initiative
and refereudum was adopted after a
brief discussion, by a. vote of 20 to 8,
those who objected doing so because
they believed the " scheme 'imprac
ticable. Some favored submitting it
to tbe people, who frankly said they
would vote against it on such submis
sion.
. THKT rBXT HBK DNHKadTTJliT. " .
facetioaslv. " If this sort of thins- keen on
we'll all be Americanized 1 "
There is something- about the air of this
country which inclines our women to act
independently. A girl may try to wrap np
her womanly instincts beneath a cloak of
fashionable vanity, hot the little love rods
find out the weak spots in her armor and
pelt her unmercifully. If she is a true
American the chances are after all thai
nine times in ten she will marry the man
she cares for. The vast majority of our
yonng women seek no, greater blessing
than to be weUOoved wives of strong
bcartcd men ; and mothers of healthy,
happy children.
The natural hardens of wifehood and
motherhood have been amazingly lightened
in the last thirty years. Advanced science
has found a way to overcome the physical
weakness of women and make them strong
and capable of performing their wifely ana
motherly duties.
TRB MOPBUf WOMAN'S OrPOXTUNITT. '
At the present day there is no need fir
any woman ia this country to be weighed
down and overburdened with physical
weakness or disease. A woman suffering
from any delicate ailment peculiar to her
sex, no matter what the circumstances may
be, may obtain such eminent professional
advice and asaistaa.ee as a queen could
hardly command a feneration aeo. Sh
can have VI the advantage of that splendid
American Institution, the World's Dispen
sary Medical Association of Buffalo, N. Y.,
with its stau of nearly twenty eminent
specialists in the different branches of
medical practice. At their head as chief
consnltinar shvsidan is Dr. R. V. Pierce.
one of the most widely experienced phy
sicians living. Any woman consulting him
by mail and giving a careful statement of
her case will receive sound erofessional
advice and suggestion for home-treatment
tree 01 cnarge.- ,
It is impossible to estimate the immense
amount of suffering that weak and ailing
women have been saved by Dr. Pierce's
suggestions for home-treatment and the
nse of his matchless prescriptions. His
favorite prescription " nas done more to
promote the health and strencth of women
of onr land than all other remedies com
bined. It is recornized throughout the
world as the one greatest supportive tonic
and special atrengthener that has ever been
devised for women.
It gives healing and power and endur
ance to the delicate special organism o
women; imparts natural vitajityau4 vigor
to their entire nerve structure. It nanistwii
abnormal and regular conditions stops
pnnararai prawns; creates neauiui capacity
AN ALLY OF THE ;
UNITED STATES
General Gomez Will Co
operate With this :
Government
Remedios, Santa Clara, Cuba, Feb.
1, via Havana, Feb. 2. Maximo Go
mez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban
army; placed himself squarely in a
position today as an active ally of the
United States government In tbe
work of reconstruction in Cuba.
As the result of a conference which
Robert P. Porter, special commission
er of President McKInley. has bad
ith Gomez, the latter cabled to
President McKInley this afternoon
assuring him of his co-operation in
disbanding the Cuban army and dis
tributing among tbe Cuban soldiers
13,000,000 appropriated for the pur
pose of enabling them to return, to
their homes. Gomez also telegraphed
to Major-General Brooke, saying he
would accept the Utters Invitation to
goto Havana.
The success of Porter mission
greatly simplifies the returning of
military Cubans to pursuits of peace.
In view of Gomez' supposed prior atti
tude of hostility towards the United
States, Porter came there clothed with
absolute authority and his tender of
93,000,000 was practically a verbal ul
timatum. Had it not been eeeepteJ
no more proposals would have been
made.
In brief, the compact Is as follows:
First The Cuban officers In each
province shall assist the America v
officers in distributing tbe funds.
Second The officers shall at eere
meet at some convenient poiet ai.d
devise when and where settlement
are to be made and arrange any other
details. '
Third The sum paid to each m.i
shall not be regarded as part payment
of salary or wages due for aeryloc
rendered, but to facilitate disbandmen t
of the army, la relief of suffering and
to get people to work. - ,
Fourth The Cubans shall surrender
their arms to the Cuban assembly or
their representatives.
Fifth Tbe committee on distribu
tion shall use its best ondeavors to
distribute the money among the popu
lation so all may secure work.
Sixth The $3,000,000 shall be placed
subject to tbeorder of General Brooke,
and action In the matter shall be Im
mediate. . '
gnd stamina.
It
t prepares women for motherhood, ear-
ties them safely and comfortably through
(he ordeal ; takes away all it dangers and
nearly all its pain; promotes abundant, nat
ural nourishment for the child and, through
the favorable influence noon the mothr
Increases the little one's natural atrenvth
and hardihood.
Mra. Betsev If. White, of Stone wlr w.ra..
Co., N. Y., in a letter to Dr. Pierce says: "Your
-Favorite prescription has done wonders la our
ABB TOO FBBSISTBNT.
a pew ape heathful
city out pf the old Havana, if the sub
ject that is occupying the mind of
Major-General Ludlow. He wants an
underground sewer system, and other
improvements, and the city is now
pretty well loaded with debt. He be
lieves that a judicious system, of
taxation will yelld a revenue of tl5
per capita or upward of $3,000,000.
The revenue of Philadelphia is $15 per
capita. If honestly and judiciously
collected and expended, General Lud
low believes it would be twice the
actual net revenue now enjoyed by
Havana.
piatrict
Attorneys Making Themselves
Obnoxious, at aniens. -
Saiem, Feb. 2. Since the discovery
Of the mare's nest in Curtis' bill pro
viding for the extrusion of the tenture
of office of all the district attorneys in
the state until 1902, the lobby of dis
trict attorneys on tbe ground has been
more aotlve than ever.
Cleeton, who Is believed to be the
author of the bill, is as active as a flea.
Russell E. Bewail, of Portland, Wat
son, of Ashland, and White, of Baker
City, are also again on the ground,
and tbe lives of many of the members
of tbe leglalature are being made a
8bc
hoping to get
d Dr. Pierae's
souae. sty oi l wile oma seen lor yean a great
sufferer : all broken down and Mv
nerroua. SheVM troubled with all the pains
vaoK cveryining sue neara of, hi
help, but in vain: so sbe tried
Favorite rreacriDtion and it did mmndm
her. The doctors said she could not liv t
anothet child as she came near dying so many
times. This spring she had a nice boy weigh,
inr eleven nounda: ahe rat thmnirii yfr
ould get any one there. I was afraid she would
sm live, we cnea lor Joy when we saw how
ir aba srot alons-. May Ood hltaa mm
the good you, Mff done,"
Becord Breaking Voyage.
Washington, Feb. 2. Tbe Buffalo
arrived at Manila today, having made
a record-breaking run from New York
to Manila in 54 days. She bason
board about 700 sailors to relieve tha
men in Dewey's fleet. She will be
used as a regular transport for ui'H
and naval stores, making regular
trips between Man.Ha. aat San Francisco.
ttnra Uaa
8AN Fbancisco, Feb. 2. Fred Hess
who sued the San Francisco Typo
graphical Union to recover $25,000
damages for baying been forced out of
employment by tbe union, be being a
non-union man, has been awarded
$1200 by a jury in the superior court.
Bstny.
There came to my place on Nov. 26,
a red cow and calf, with white line on
back, marked with swallow fork and
back bite on right ear, branded with
an inverted T. Owner can have same
by proying ' property and paying ex
penses. JOHN BEATTTJB,
dec284m Celllo.
Aa Offer for Oewey. ,
Washington, Feb. 1. The senate
committee of naval affairs has decided
to report favorably the joint resolution
reviving tbe rank of admiral In the
interest of Admiral Dewey. The reso
lution was so amended as to extend
tho time of his retirement ten years.
Snow at Taeosns).
Taooma, Wash., Feb. 1 Four inobes
of snow fell last night, accompanied
by a high wind. It drifted badly and
street cars were delayed an hour this
morning. The temperature at 9 a. m.
was 24 above zero.
Bow is four Wife?
Has she lost ber beauty? If so, con
stipation, indigestion, tick headache
are the principal causes. Earl's Clover
Root Tea has cured tbese Ills for half
a century. Price 25 cu. and 60 eta.
Money reiunaea ir results are not
satisfactory. Blakelev & Houehton.
druggists.