The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899, March 04, 1899, Image 1

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THE PROOF of to pudding kt In the eating and the proof of liquor IS IN SAMPLING That't aa argumant taat't ooa-elnatv- demon. traUoa. Ow will ttaad the teal HUGHES & CO. U LEBECK Corpcnlcr nnd Builder (lenernl Contrnctop HOUSE RAISING AND riOVINQ A SPECIALTY H.F.PraelTransferCo. TalatlMM . DRAYING AND EXPRESSING All Good. Shipped to Our Car WJ1 Receive Bpaeial Atteatts. No m Duane at, Astarta, Ore. W. X COOK. Iter. Km. Tel. UX LAST HOURS OF CONGRESS Animated Scenes in Both National Legislative Halls Yesterday. IN SESSION ALL NIGHT Heated Delates Prevented Either House From Transacting Much Business. THE SENATE DID THE BEST Passed the Army and Deficiency Ap"; proprUtion Bills Ho Cbatfe Id River and Hirbor B I II- I WASIIIN'iTOS, Mrh t-Kxrtlm til. jconfualun ln-avy nlrnln alxl huril w..rk liuv rlmru. J'-r:t.l tlilx, thi la.t U-g . halve dny of ihn Klfty.flMi cni;re In tlic m-wiii". At tlnw-e th r-wftimon w . an Itr.-a! Ill thla unuall)' In.1 atul i, . i.iroua lnnly n to ri'mlr thv liana tti (Ion nf liuallii'aa tt!ltint lmiiiii)l. Tuwiiixl in Hi 11 It; lit iinli-r nan li-iu i vuH ihI trim Him iw mliiK ( hBim of ihi" uriy purt of ihr day inn cvt-ninK, uinl i (! in'n. i l n f ilr (li.it riunsriiii '-iiiil v'ljourn ai noun tumorruw with It h!.i. hn.-ly 11.-.K ,-a.iry 'rk rompleie.l Whi n m-nnti' fotiviMiwl II II o'clock Oil tiinrniuK II t .u "J ihn lajik con a it'Tlii ut tht gr.-ai tti'irn'il;l"n bllln. Ukiw! fur thr amiy anj for nui plv. IiiK tlic Ki-nira! ilifWIi ii'lia. Tlio form -r rarrltnl iprirlilnn. xdliiK l),l"X' ,. imi. T(inl(lt liolli tiilla Miaaitl. t A wu-tliU rrlrl on tb auniiry civil IHirt'lrtaitun Mil i wtrrl to. tiut th Inability uf the eoliato Ounluroa lo ar ure nn U8i"x iiient on ihi1 llaaalLin X'm prut'oMitlon crtmtnl a hi-ttd die. cuatlun, Ui the (iurm- of hicli hiwuker Kwl wiia ui!ul I" In u.iMni:iiiKnury term.. TnlBtit, wtirn Hie nv-r and harbor conference r"iort prent'l. a ile Utt uin X risriitm of tho arnut confw.t from tho wimt anionilnient provKUng for a rracrvolr to lrrlKte arid IuiiO. at th hiadiitm of the Missouri rlvrr wa prclilmiMl by tho advouaut of th propoKltlon. An effort wa made lo rwuiiimlt th bill to lhr confvn-e. but It fatlml. At the dbai I. Kill In progi-Mi. with ao Indications of early adjournnh-ni. IN TUB IjOWEH HOISK. WAaiUXOTON. Mitrch J.-Crow0ed gall-rlr looked iotra upon the trug. Bllng- mcmbert of the houne toJay an the dosing tveuea of the la.t kgisiailve rws. Ion of this congrtvs wer oelng enaoh-d. 6top by ttep tho lender. In charge of the appropriation bill, pushed them through the final tKe, and during every lull in the. consideration of the conference rejKirts member, clamored for recognition for belated local bills. In the vain hope of rescuing them frvm death on the calendar. At time the hou.e was like brtllam. I'ouihI us tho ipuker would with hi gavel, it wan almost Impossible, to pre serve order. Thousand upon thousands werv attracted to lhe brilliantly illum inated whi,-i of the caplK'1 where ilie two Iiouih. were to sit out Hie nlslil. In iho reserved galleries of lhe houxe were con gregated lhe elite of the society of the national capital, while the public gal leries were hanked to the dvxirs. Srj-t. Ishlv sviwned ladles and gentlemen in evening dress added eclat to the occasion. The big questions In dispute between the two houses, being naturally the last to be adjusted, were postponed far Into the night. Krom time to time short recesses were taken. These wero simply breathing .polls, however, and soon the loaders were at It harder than ever. HAItnOU IUI.L VNVHANGBD. WAS11UNUTON. lUldl t-At Ibis hour l2:K a. m.) conferences are being held on the dollcioncy, naval and river and har bor bills, while the tundry civil and Dis trict of Columbia bills are. still unsettled. Luter Conferee, on the river ami har. bor bill are unabie to make any change In the toll, and It will be reported back to the senate a. It was llrst agreed upon. FRIENDLY SETTLEMENT NOW SliKMS PROBABLE. Presluent Errasurls Hopeful That the Chile-Argentine Differences Will Soon Be Adjusted. NBW YORK, March 3.-A dispatch to the Herald from Valparaiso, Chill, says: In the course of an interview, President Brrasutii said: "I bring a most pleasant Impression from the conference held with President Rooa. I am fully convinced that PresL dent Roc and his ministers warmly seek for a friendly settlement of all questions ponding between the two ooun trles. "I do not know whether tho confer ences about Punta de Atacama, which began yesterday In Buenos Ayres, will solve the controversy without recourse to United Statos Minister Huchiinan a. final arbitrator. The commissioners of both countries are hHgh-ly tespectab'.e men, upon whose mlnde neither Piesl. dent Roca nor myself can bring Inftu. ences to bear. If aJl the commissioners had been present at the Magellan con. Terence, they presumably woulu have anticipated the solution of the problem. As for commercial matters, the trana. AntJlne railways, etc, the commissioners carry full Instructions. President Rooa expressed to me his desire to pay a visit to Santiago, but nothing Is yet decided. Tho same Is true as to my alleged visit to the president of Peru." Ttia Cliiliiin war oINco and h military uurtirln Unve Hrtltilirty d-MriJ fi rMlncn tlio rmjr by V),it nv-.n. HoliHON H I'ltoMOTION THK OKBATKHT IV NAVAfi IIIHTf;Ry. He Will lie a Captain at 20. and III Ad-vitvnv-nt More P.emarkaMi! Than That ut liewry or Sampson. NKW VOftlf. Marvh 3.-A illanateh tn thn Trll.imfl from Washington says: The prirsldiit's nmlivitlon of ICUhard Per 'n H'llavm to fee advanced ten numbers from no one on the list of navel eon. tructors Is snid by naval ofll'.T. to "mstltute the griie.t matrl;d promo. Hon as recognition of galinfitry In the history of the naval service. It will mak Tfohion a c.ptiln t the sge of VI. Ilia adv.normant amounts to 2T.0 num W In th line of the navy. Which la remarkable In cmip.rlwn with the sin. tC'.o numW received by Dewey, eight numWs by Admiral Simpson, and from three to five each by other officer, dur. I rue the war with Bpaln. Wheji It was proposed to promote Hob. wm tn the foot of the grade of lleute.n. ant lyimmsniVrs. the "Jump" amounted W alwut IM numbort only, but under the nomination mad today, Hobson aklpe over all the lieutenant commanders and goes nearly to the top of the command, er.' Hat, so far as relative rank Is oon. cemed. Of the seven navai constructors who will continue superior to him, thre will speedily retire-Constructor K 'Sca lar nat Auguat; (Vmstriaetor Vanium In Arll next ymr. and Chief Constructor Wellborn, who under the new personnel law ranks as rear admiral, oi. M.ri 4'h. isi. On that date. Constructor Hulnum will tukrt the rank and pay of captain. Not until August 17 folbwlng will he reai-h the age of II. The Junior captain of the navy cn Jan. uary 1 was Captain Edward White, com niaiiillng the battleship Philadelphia, and hit w.m 'Jl years old when he recelvcu hi. comrnllon. Constructor Hubson irnfffor gains about X years In the ordinary ciajrtw of promotion. In the naval construction orps however. Hott. sun will not rwii'h the si-nlor pusltl 'n of I'hlrf constmctor before 12, or ten years before h:s own retirement and In the meantime he will remain It year. In the snide of captain, which la nearly three times as long as officer, generally re. lain that mnk. Whether Constructor Hobson will ac cepl the prmvt!on glvn him Is curi.iusly ciiouch a motier of doubt to those with wh m he talked before he started for Hung Kong. lmm-diiite!y after the sink ing of the Merrlmac the advancement of ten numbers given lum today was of fered him. hut he hesitated to accept It. exhibiting a strong preference for trans fer and promotion In the line of the foot of lieutenant commanders. He 'eft the Impression with Ms frlen that he as. plnil to secure the aim proportionate advanciunent In that arm of the ser vice as hnd be,i offered him In the staff oorps amounting to 260 numbers, which would have resulted In his be. coming rtw senior rear admiral of the service at the age of X VOLUME OF BUSINESS NEVER WAS GREATER. Clearing House Exchanges Aggregated Over Seven Billions Material Ad vances In LAborer." Pay, NEW YORK. March i-R. G. Dun's Weekly Review of Trade will say tomor. row: Business for the past month was the greatest ever done In February. Cletvr. Ink house exchanges were about 17.000,. Oun.tXO, against 15.567.553.&44 last year, and U S larger thun In 1S92. In all the years of weekly commercial reporting there has been no other week in which reports from all parts of the country have been, on the whole. sv good as they are this week. Moreover, during the rast week there h.is been a general advance In wages, immediate or prospective. At mora points the advance of 10 per cent or more was. entirely voluntarily; It has averaged 5 to 10 per cent In tlnplate works and about 10 per cent In other cases, and It afreets much over loO.OOO hands. It will greatly add to the purchasing power of wage, earuers. Returns of the failures In February, while showing larger liabilities than In January, are highly encouraging. The nit her unusual number of large failures in scattered branches of manufacture has swelled the- aggregate, Including one concern of Sl.000.000 In electrical appar. atu., but in nearly all branches the state, ment Indicates a remarkably healthy condition, In spite of these failures, while in trading the defaulted liabilities are smaller than In January or any prevtoug winter month for six years. In prices the striking feature has ben the rapid advance In Iron and steel pro. ducts, resulting from a demand greater thun the works In the country can sup ply. Failures for the week have been. In the United States. 186, against 191 last year, and 47 In Canada, against 33 last year. LEE WII.L APPEAR FOR MILKS WASHINGTON, March S.-JilaJor Lee will hereafter appear as the regularly accredited counsel for General Miles be fore the beef court of Inquiry. The ap pearance of Major Lee In the case Is the culmination of considerable corre spondence between General Miles and the court as to the accuracy of some statements made by witnesses on the stand, and which General u.Ues consid ered he bad official data to prove Incor- reot. This does not place General Mile, in the position of a defendant before a court, but glvet his counsel the right of con. ducting cross-examinations as. fully at be desires. DON'T WANT SOVEREIGN. BOISE, March 1-The governor tooay j nominated George M. Payne and James j It. sovereign, toe latter Deing me lormer leader of the Knnghts of Labor, as mem. bers of the board of arbitration. Payne was confirmed, but Sovereign's nomlnu. tlon was rejected by a vote of U to 10. SCHLEY GOES TO hiUROPE. HAVANA, March i-The United Btateg armored cruiser Brooklyn received orders today to sail Immediately for Hampton Roads to take Rear Admiral Schley to Europe. , FRANCHISES PROHIBITED Senate Amendment to Army BiU Against Cutan Con cessions. VOLUNTEERS'MUSTEft-OUT A Great Deal of Hard Work Is Before the War Deparlment Officials PROVISIONS OF NEW BILL Present Volunteer Regiments to Be Mustered Out-Mew Troops for Washington Binacks- WASHINGTON'. March J.-The follow. ,lng amendment to the army appropria. . tlon bill was passed by the senate today: j "That no property, franchises or con. (cessions of any kind whatever shall be granted by the United State., or by any military or other authority whatever In i ! (he Island of Cuba, during the occupation 1 th.-re of the United States." ' RKQUIREMENTS OF NEW BILL. ' WASHINGTON. March J. -A great d'-al , of hard work will be required of the war department In changing the army estab lishment as contemplated by the bill , which has Just become a law. Tho Pres ent volunteer regiments will be formally mustered out of service, but the expecta ' Uon Is that many of the men, after pay. ing a visit to their bonus, will again en list, so thai this branch will have for its nucleus much of the present element composing It. ' Recruited volunteers will not have state designation., but will be called volunteer regiments of Infantry and cavalry, re- !iectlveiy. organisations In each arm of ; the service being numbered from one up. ; Colonels ar to be appointed by the pres. Idem. i One effect of the new army law will be lhe severe crippling of the signal service and the disorganisation of Its force In ' the field. REGULARS TRANSFERRED. WASHINGTON. March i-The war de partment today made some Important c harases In the disposition of regular troops, in part Incident to ttoo orders made In sending reinforcements to Ma nila. One company of the Twenty-fourth infantry from Fort Duglas. Utah, It or dered to Vancouver jvrracais. Wash., and one company from Fort Douglas to New Fort Spokane, Wash. NUMBER OFl GENERALS TO BE MUSTERED OUT. Only Five Major Generals and Nineteen Brigadier Generate Can Be Retained. NEW YORK. Morch S. A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: Ac. tion la being taken by the wax and navy departments to recognise the services ! under the compromise bill and the navy personnel bill. Under 'the titter b.i; , the president will send 300 naval nom inations to the senate tomorrow, j Under tire army toll the president is , authorlied to appoint five major gen erals and nineteen brigadier genera's of volunteers. It Is the purpose to continue al those holding the rank of major gen. eral In the Philippines In that rank, al though some of those In Cuba will have ,to be reduced to the rank of brigadier. The list of major generals of the new es tablishment, besides officers of the regu : lar service who hold that rank will be: Major General William R. Shafter. commanding the department of Callfor. nla; Major General E. S. Otis, military governor of the rhlllppiines; Major Gen eral Henry W. Law-ton, en route to the Philippines; Major General Thomas M. Anderson, commanding first division. i eighth army corps, now at Manila; Ma 'jor General Arthur MeArthur. com Imandlng second division, eighth army 'corps, now at Manila. As a result of the retention of these , officers In their present rank, ' wll be 'necessary forttie president to direct I the muster out of Major General ' Thomas F. Wade, who will re 'turn to his rank of brlsradier general in the regular army; M!aJor General H. jC. Merriam. Major General James H. Wilson, Major Qieneral Joseph Wheeler, 'Major General John C. Bates, Major I General Fttshugh Lee and Major General ' William Ludlow. Some of these officers ' will be appointed brigadier generals: in Cuba William Ludlow, Fitshugh i Lee, James H. Wilson, Leonard Wood. John C. Bates, L. H. Carpenter, G. W. Davis and E. B. Wllliston. ! In the Philippines Samuel Overshlne, i Irving Hale, H. G. Otis, Charles King. ! Robert P. Hushes and C. MoReeve. I Under the naval personnel law these nominations for rear admiral will be : sent to the senate tomorrow: E. F. McNair, J. A. Howell, H. L. mm VVbSClUTIKflaHJRE Makes the food more aot mmimo HowUon, Albert Kauts, Ocorga'c. Rcmy, N. H. Farquhar, J. C. Watson, J. W, Hilllp, II. B. Ilofieson, W, 8. Schley, Silas Casey. W. T. Sampson, II. J. Crom well, r. J. flignrinson, H. V. Tl king. Frederick lUxlgers. I .on Is Kumnf an.i Ooonre W. Bumner. Ily the confirmation of Commodore fkhley all talk of hit be. ing oripped from the servba na a r,in Of the promotion of Cummmlw. ITIotn . son will be effectually ended. Failure to connrm, ttietr nominations for promo. Uon will result In niacins: tha mm. t Rear Admiral B.-hlev ahead f ht of Rear Admiral Sampson, accord. rng to their standing before the wr. The officers who will be nominated fa be cnptalns are; Chief cvnglneers W. O. Rurlpe T J Allon, O. W. Melville, Jos. Trilley, p. A. Rearlck. A. 11. AWe, O. J. Burnap, C. Andrade. Jotn E. Lowe. Chart. 1 Vu. connell and Lewi H. Doblnsoo. Commanders a. W. pltrman John Me. Gowan, J. O. Green, C. II. Rockwell. J. M. Forsyth, O. A. Converse, D. B. Rradford, J. E. Craig, C. M. Thorns. A. S. Snow. C. C. Delter, W, H. Brown. son, H. E. Nichols, W. W. Mead, E. 8. Houston and Edwin Ixmgnecker. NAVT DEPARTMENT PLANS ARB BERIOU8LT IMPAIRED. Prairie Statesmanship la Congress Will Result In a Material Reduction In Our Naval Force Mea Short WASHINGTON. March 1-Te navy department has put the bis double tur. rted monitor Puritan out of commission at the Norfolk navy yard and It Is. said at the navigation bureau that this ship must be followed by other, speedily to the great detriment of the plana of the aVpartniKnt. The estimates submitted to congress, based on tha minimum require. meats of tha navy, provided for 23 OOfl sailors. Congress cut this down to 15.000. The are now 18.000 in the service, so that S of these must be dropped lm mediately. That means, according to the navigation officers, that a large part of the North Atlantic squadron must go out of commission. The Asiatic squadron cannot be reduced In view of Dewey't necessities. There Is only one st.Ip, the Philadelphia, on the Pai-lflc station. The European and the South Atlantic sta tions have been abandoned, and there Is only left the North Atlantic station as material lor a cut. The. 1ob of three thousand means the cutting In half of fhls splendid home defense squadron. It Is probable that the heavy reduction hi the number rt enlisted men. and con sequently of ships, will Interfere seri ously with the conduct of the naval maneuvers this year, notwithstanding the enormous benefit that has been de rived from such drills in the past. An. other difficulty is going to be the In. possibility of putting Into condition the new ships as they are turned over to tha government by be builders, simply for want of men to man them. WHAT ADMIRAL MONTEJO GETS FOR HIS SERVICES. The Unfortunate Spanish Commander Thrown Into Prison General Linares Will Get It Next MADRID. March t Admiral Montejo, who was in command of the Spanish squadron destroyed by Admiral Dewey in tha battle of Manila bay, and the commander of the Cavtte arsenal wers this evening Incarcerated in a military prison pending trial for their conduct at Manila The government has also ordered the prosecution of General Linares, who was in supreme command of the Spanish for. ces at Santiago at the time of tha capitulation to General Shafter. ROGERS IS OBSTINATE. OLTMPIA. March i-The governor has approved the following bills: An act for the protection of employes, and to prohibit the practice of black, listing, and providing a penalty tor viola, tlon: an act to amend section 55, volume I, at Hill's code relating to the compe tency of jurors; an act repealing the act for the board of pardons created by the last legislature: an act to authorise and regulate the parole of convicts. The capitol commission bill passed the senate this evening and was transmitted to the governor at his residence In order to have the bill presented to him on the sixth working day before adjournment, and compel the governor to retransmit It with his action thereon to the legislature before final adjournment, but the gover. nor refused to accept It. FISH COMBINE IN CANADA. TORONTO, Ont., March Application will be made at the coming session of the dominion parliament for tho Incor poration of the Dominion Fish Com pany. This "will ' correspond with the great fish oombine in the United Statos and will control the whole fish business of the dominion. Over 100 companies or plants of greater or less magnitude are operating on the upper lakes, while a total of 3.000 men are actively employed in fishing. Last August an agreement was arrived at between most of these toy wlUch the price was to be maintained for the advantage of the fishermen. This Is said to have worked well and to have given encouragement to the com panies to pursue their organization. An arrangement has already been effected betweenl .the Canadian land American companlea prohibiting underselling. WILL TRY TO MAKE RAIN. LOS ANGELES, March 8. Under the direction of Professor T. 8. C. Lowe, a series of experiments is to be made at artificial ralnmaklng. A committee has been appointed by the chamber of com merce here to raise S0OO. the amount deemed necessary for the apparatus and chemicals for bombarding the skies. Rain Is very much needed here. PdRVBKEB delicious end wholesome sowi. ee atwvow.