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Bohemia Nugget Mwsyot IBsV OOTTAGB GROVE. . . OREGON. NEWS OF THE WEEK'S la a Condensed Form for Oar Easy Readers. A Returns of tha Lets Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Past Week. Muniipnl ownership has suffered a blow in the London eieevtione. The Interstate Commerce commission is considering plans to curb llairiman. San Francisco authorities are pn' par ing to seize the water plant as city property. The house has passed a bill prvilinir for three-cent fiues in the District of Columbia. Jerome is striving to send Thaw to the insane asylum without the case over going to the jury. Charges are made in Salt I-ake that the police fore, inecluding the chief, Stood in with gamblers and thieves. Congress has made big appropriations for officers, quarters, barracks and sta bles at the Vancouver and Bohe army posts. Butte people are finding how difficult It is to get along without a paper. None have been issued in that city since February 12 and the city is dead. There Is no hope of saving the steam t Corona, which lies on the rocks at Eureka. An effort w ill be made to get the cargo off before the vessel goes to pieces. Harriman says if he were to build and run railroads on the same princi ple the Tana ma canal is being dug a re ceiver wculd soon be in possession of his property. The Nebraska legislature lias passed an anti-pass bill. The British premier favors action on disarmament at The Hague. Reform of land laws will go over to the next session of congress. Russian terrorists have planned a wholesale massacre of officers. The president may create many for est reserves before the new law takes effect. Forty-two Greek laborers were in jured in a smashup of a construction train on the Salt Lake road at Leith, Nev. Railroads affected by the 2-cent pas-, senger rate laws passed in several states will combine, to carry the fight into the courts. Fighting between Nicaragua and llonduras is now general. The former seems to have the advantage, though Salvador is helping Honduras. Sylvester R. Rush, of Nebraska, ha3 been appointed special assistant to the attorney general. He is to ha,e charge of the land fraud inestigations in the Northwest. He has had much success in convicting land thieves in Nebraska. Chinese famine sufferers are dying by thousands. Hill has purchased the Astoria fc Columbia River railroad. A number of senators and representa tives will isit Hrwaii this summer. General Koslevekj was assassinated after joking about threats made to kill him. The National Arbitration an! Peace congress will meet in New York April 14 to 17. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root have been asked to urge the peo ple to help the Russian famine suffer ers. A Baltimore & Ohio express train was wiecked near Connellsville, Pa., and two persons killed and eight in jured. The Iowa legislature has adopted a resolution calling on congress to call a convention to amend the constitution bo that United States senators may be elected by direct vote of the people. The San Francisco water board has revoked the franchise supplying the city w ith water on the ground that the company has been collecting excessive rates. The property is estimated to be worth $5,300,000. The French accuse the church of hav ing meddled in politics. The St. Paul railroad has stopped all improvements till popular wrath cools. Sixteen children and their teacher were burned to death in a Montreal school. Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia nar rowly escaped being blown up by a ter rorist bomb. Stoessel is called a coward by Smir noff, one of the generals at Port Arthur during the siege. Fire at Los Angeles destroyed proper ty valued at $200,000. Firemen rescu ed 12 people from the flames. The English parliament will arrange a loan of $5,000,000 for Kingston, the money tc be used to rebuild the busi ness portion of the city. George Von L. Meyer, former Ameri can ambassador to Russia, has returned to tne United States to becc me post master general in President Roosevelt's cabinet. MUST NOT OWN PROPERTY. California Legislature Passes a Bill Against Orientals. Sacramento, Cnl., Mar. 1. The low er house of the legislature Uxhxy passed n MVtHM'ing nnti-Jaiwiese and anti- ""hinose measure, Introduced bv Assem- lynian Prow, of Fresno. The bill is known as the "nnti-nllcu property holding bill." It is aimed at (he Japincsc and Chinese property owners in this state and Is Intended to prevent them fiom acquiring and owning prop erly fur a longer period than live years. . In urging the jvissage of the bill Drew stated that since January 1 of this year one-third of the property transfers in Fresno had been to Japan ese. The bill provides that any alien who dHs not Ixvomo a citizen of the I'nitod States shall acquire and hold tit le to land in this state for not more than live years. If within that time the alien does not Invome a citizen, the district attorney shall compel the sale of his land or houses. Japanese ami Chinese are not specifically named, but, as they cannot Untune citizens, the bill is aimed directly at them and pre cludes them from owning property for more than five years. The measure also provides that no ;ontract, agree ment or lease of real estate for a long er period than one year shall U made to any alien and any lease, agreement or devise of real estate made to any alien for a longer period shall le null anil void. The impression is given out that if the bill reaches the govenor he will sign it. LABORATORY FOR NORTHWEST. Agricultural Department Will Estab lish One Soon. Washington, March 1. In the near future the department of Agricultuie will locate a pure food laboratory in some Northwestern city and make it headquarters for the examination of all food products imported into that section from abroad. Investigations are now being made to determine whether it shall be located at Portland or Seattle. Senator Bourne is urging the depart ment to locate the laboratory in Port land, but before this can be done Port land must convince the department that its food imports exceed those of Seattle, or else offer advantages in the way of quarters that cannot le obtained at Seattle. The department desires to loci te the laboratory in i public build ing. It is of the greatest importance to Portlar d to make a creditable show ing, for if the laboratory is located there rather than at Seattle, it will have a tendency to increase importations of food products at that port, where they can be properly examined, rather than at other ports where there would neces sarily be delay. Mr. Bourne is looking to the chamber of commerce to support him in his efforts. STICKS TO HERMANN. Former Private Secretary Says Good Things for Defendant. Washington, March 1. The prosecu tion in the trial of Representative Her mann consumed today in a futile at tempt to breakdown the evidence given yesterday by hlhott P. Hough, former private secretary to the defendant which was most favoiable to Hermann Hough had leen put on the stand by the prosecution with the expectation that his testimony would le damagin to the defendant, and District Attorney Baker was incensed that he should give evidence so much in Hermann's favor as his statements yesterday that Her mann and John A. Benson, who is un der indictment for alleged land frauds, were not good friends; that, if official letters got into Hermann's private books it was through his fault; and that it had beer the custom of all out going commissioners previous to Her mann s time to take their private let terpress copybooks with them. ChristTian II. Mullerand Alexander E. Foster, who hail been messengers in the land office under Hermann and who destroyed the lettei press copybooks by his ireciton, testified to the part they had played. Mr. Muller received an order from Hermann three weeks be fore the latter retired to take the letter- books, about 35 in number, from Her mann s private room. Beatty to Continue Duties. Boise, Idaho, March 1. "In answer to a telegram received from the attor ney general asking me to w ithhold my resignation for a time," said Judge J. H. Beatty, of the United States District court, today, "I sent a telegram stat ing that I would willingly continue the duties of my office until after the March term. If by that time my successor has not been named, I shall probably urge the people in Washington to push matters." The telegram to Judge Beat ty arrived some days after his resigna tion had started for Washington. Stands by Wickersham. Washington, March 1. It was an nounced today that the president would not send the nomination of Judge James Wickersham for the judgeship in t Third Alaska district to the senate this session, but will trive him a recess an- , pmntment. As soon as circumstances will permit, a suitable person will be sent to Alaska for further investigation. This action was determined on at a con ference between the president and At torney Oeneral Bonaparte. Favors Philippine Bank Bill. Washington, March 1. The house committee on insular affairs today de cided to make a favorable report on the Philippine agricultural bank bill as passed by the senate. ! IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS ! i - ...... - Saturday, March 2 Washington, March 2. The h use devoted most of Its time today to con sidering the rcuatc amendments to the sundry civil and agricultural appr 'pri atiou bills. The senate ametidm Mils to the nindrv civil bill directing the department of Commerce and l.abor to make an investigation of (lie indmtiial co ulit ions of female and child lnl or, relating to a further examination of black sands, appropriating $12.".tHH for the trnsportation of silver dollars were disagreed to and a further confer ence ordered, the niglit session msuhi until 1 :25. Washington, March 2. By a r U call vote of t'2 to 1 , the senate todav in structed its conferees uihui the pension appiopriatiou bill to insist on retaining the IS pension agencies throughout" the country. The house abolished all ex cept the one in Washington. 1 he senate today pissed the deficien cy appropriation lull i no tun carries slightly less than $40,740.lH0. It whs amended by the senate by the inclusion of sevreal provisions aggregating $SO0,. 000, among which is an item of $15, 0l0 to reimburse Senator Smoot for his tight to retain his seat. Friday, March I. Washington. March 1. It has been years since the house was the scene of so general a nail le nenvoen iwo great parties as took place today over the ship subsidy bill. The bill was passed. but not until it bad toen dotetitoil, and this fact in itself shows how close the alii gment was. Immediately after the first lal!ot dis cuss ions began and on the final vote to pass the bill as amondmod the work done bv the Republican leaders during the heat of the battle was made mani fest. The bill was passed, 155 to H'.. Washington, Man-h 1 . The dena tured alcohol bill passed the senate to day by a vote of 05 to 1. Pet t us of Alabama cast the negative vote. This action was taken after the committee amendment requiring the presence f a government storekeeper whenever alco hol is lieing manufactured had been de feated by a vote of 47 to 10. The bill as passed contains a senate amendment permitting rum to lie denatured. Con sequently the measure must le returned to the house for action. The bill is intended to make it possible for a farm er to establish stills of limited capacity for the manufacture of alcohol to be de natured. Thursday, February 28. Washington, Feb. 2S. The senate today passed witlfout division the bill extending government aid to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held in Seattle in 1900 and debated for several hours the denatured alcohol bill, reach ing no conclusion on the latter measure. The conference report on the army appropriation bill was presented and by the senate's receding on the point in controversy its provision for the retirement of jay musters' clerks a complete agreement between the two houses resulted. Washington, Feb. 28. Central de bate on the ship subsidy bill in the house teminated at 2:15 p. m. today, whereupon the bill was read under the five-minute rule for amendments. From that time until the recess at C, o'clock amendments were offered and the discussion proceeded thereon. The leaders on both sides were drawn into the debate. Bv a vote of 112 to 127 the house do- feated an amendment offered by I.it tauer excepting the Sierra, the Sonoma and the Ventura, of the Ocaonic line, from the operation of the provision em powering the postmaster general to make contracts with citizens or itie United States for carrying the mails on steamships. This was regarded us a test vote in relation to the I'acitic lines. Wednesday, February 27. Washington, Feb. 27. After listen ing to an argument by Patterson oi Colorado in favor of government owner ship of railroads, the senate today agreed to the conference report on the river and harbor bill. Protests were made against the reduction from $050, 000 to $250,000 of the amount for Im provements in the Mississippi river be tween Cairo and St. Louis by Hopkins, Cullom, Stone, Allison and Overman. The smaller amount prevailed. Washington, Feb. 27. Humphrey of Agree on Appeal Bill. Washington, Feb. 27. The coner- ence report on the bill regulating ap peals in criminal prosecutions to per mit appeals by the government, as adopted by the senate today, allows writs of error within :50 days on ijehait of the United States in the District courts direct to the Supreme court or tho United States on all criminal de cisions on demurrers to inaici menus or arresting of a judgment of convic tion for insufficiency of the indictment, where decisions are based on tho in validity or constuctlon of the statutes. Major Goethals' Record. Washington, Feb. 27. Major U. W. Goethals, named by the president as chief engineer of the Panama canal, was graduated from West Point in 1H80 and after two years at the engineirs school at Willets Point, N. Y., was for two years on the staff of General No' son A. Miles as engineer officer of tne department of the Columbia, and in numerous other positions. He was a chief engineer of the army corps during the war with Spain. Washington held the center of the stage for a eonsldeiablU' time today during tin debate lu the house on the ship sub sidy bill, lie had a hot exchange of compliment w ll h Sullivan of Massa chusetts aUmt tho attitude of the Dem ocrats on the Japanese controversy. lie said he would not vote to report any bill that would not provide that the llag shall go to the Philippines. I le charg'il the Democrat ic irty with trying to keep this country fioiu hold ing communication with the Philip pines "in order to bring dl-giuco upon our administiation of those Islands, They hope to inveigle us into a war with Jaun, to make us mo weak that Japan will attack us, and then they Itope to ride itb power over their coun try's disgrace," he said. Tuesday, February 20. Wnshingbn, Feb. 20. The senate today passed the sundry civil appro, priatioti bill carrying $1 14.57S. Sdl, an increase of over $10, 000,000 as com jwtrcdwith the house bill. It also passed the Aldrich currency bill by a vote of 43 to 14. The currency bill authorizes the issu ance of $10 gold certificates, t the end that the $ltl greenbacks may be broken up into $1, $2 and $5 bills, for which there is a great demand. It also au thorizes the dctosit of customs receipts in national bunks, as internal revenue receipts are now deposited. It raises from $11,000,000 to SO, 000,000 the na tional lunik circulation that may U re t;red in any one month. Washington, Feb. 2(5. licticrauV hate on the ship subsidy bill eoutiiiued throughout the day in the house. The rule limiting the geneial dclnte to five hours was by unanimous consent amended so that geneial delude shall run through tomorrow, with anight session from S o'clock until 11 o'clock, when the delude will terminate. Mr. (irosvenor was the princijial champion of the bill The conference reports on the fortifi cations and the omnibus revenue cutter bills weie adopted. The onfercnco reports on the army and liver and hur lor appropriation bills were presented. Monday, February 25. Washington, Feb. 25 The senate today passed the agricultural appropri ation bill, carrying nearly $1H,IKKI,IHI0, with an amendment providing thai forest reserves in certain Western states shall not be created or enlarged without an act of congress, the post office appropriation bill, carry ing $210, 000,000; the jicnsion appropriation bill, carrying $145,000,000, and the bill authorizing the establishment of an agricultural bank in the Philippines Bv a vote of 4.'l to 10 the senate to night ratified thu Santo Domingo treaty. This was one more vote in the affirmative than was required. Washington, Feb. 25. Ship tulidy secured a marked imiMtus today in the house, which, just U'fore adjournment , adopted a rule that will probably in sure the jmssage of the Littauer sulmti tute for the senate bill and result lx fore the final adjournment in positive legislation. The rule was reported by Dalzell in the shars? of a resolution providing that the compromise bill shall be consid ered, with debate limited to five hours, and that the final vote shall be taken not later than next Friday afternoon at .'5 o'clock. The rule was adopted by a vote of 158 to 122, 24 Republicans voting with tho Democrats in opposi tion to the rule. The conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was adopted, as was the conference report on the bill pro viding for the allotment and distribu tion of Indian tribal funds. Retain Foreclosures Ten Years. Washington, Feb. 20. The Ilgo argicutlurul Philippine Imrik bill, as passed by the senate, contains an amendment suggested by Culberson re quiring that the bunk may not hold lands which it has acquired on mort gage foreclosure longer than ten years. Telephone for Lifesavir. Washington, Feb. 27. Senator Ful ton has secured tho adoption of an amendment to tho sundry civil bill ap propriating $5,000 for a telephone line from the Umpqua lifesaving station to the mouth of the Siuslaw river, also $20,000 for rebuilding the lighthouse at Cape Arago. Beatty Will Hold Over. Washington, Feb. 27. Judge Beatty, of Idaho, lias boon requested to remain on the bench to hold the March term of court, which means that his resigna tion will not bo accepted until after congress adjourns. It is understood that this arrangement is made so that the president, in making the selec tion of a new judge, may have tho views not only of Senutor Ileyburn, but of Senator Borah. No recommendation can properly be filed until Judge Beat ty 's resignation has been accepted. Tho president wants to get the right man. Smothers Piles' Pet Bill. Washington, Feb. 20. There Is trou ble ahead for Reresentative Cushman, because ho today defeated the pet bill of Senator Piles, authorizing tho ap pointment of an appraiser of customs for Puget sound. The bill passed the senate and was called up in the house, when a motion was made to attach an amendment removing the office of col lector of customs from Port Townsend to Seattle. Mr. Cushman objected, and the bill was put aside. LET NO CONTRACT. President Decides to Let Army En gineers Dig Canal. Washington, Feb. 27. P.y an order addressed to Chairman Shouts of Ihe Isthmian Canal commission today, President Roosevelt, as far ns lay in his )ovcr under existing law, trans ferred to the engineer branch of tho army the responsibility for the fuither construction of the Pinmnia canal, lie also formally recorded the abandon ment, for the present at least, of the projet t of having the canal work done by uuitract on the percentage system. Another feature was Ihe announce ment of the resignation of John F. Stevens ns engineer in chief of canal construction. Mr. Shouts is in New York, where ho will tomorrow preside at a meeting of the directors of the Panama Kn iln.n l company, of which he is president, ii i it I will formally re sign that oll'ne The president intends thai there shall Is' an entire reorgani.at ioji of the commission with three army ollieers of the engineer corps as its lending mem beis, who are to have charge of the en giueeriuu' h'ultires of the canal work. The chairman and engineer in chief of the commission will be Major (i. . (ioethals. 1 1 is a-sociatcs will be Major Dull, (iaillard and Major William 1.. Siebert, to rank ill t he order named. These ollieers are nil comparatively young, ambitious ami energetic. Senator Joseph S. C. Itlitckhutn, of Kentucky, who will retire from the United States senate on March 4, is to be made a member of the reorganized commission. HELPED LAND THIEVES. Informer About Frauds Betrayed by Hermann. Washington, Feb. 27. Interest In the trial of Representative Hermann mis revived today by the introduction in evidence of letters written him In 1!H1 by Benjamin T. May of lit (iiandc, lull ill j his attention to specific land fmu. Is in O.-cgon and a later letter criticizing Hermann for omitting to make an invest igal ion id tin alleged frauds, and also for having made know u to interested mrtics the name of the Informer. Alter their identification by May, the letters were read to the jury. The first was from May to Hermann and In formed him that sawmill owners were securing title to public land in the Blue mountains by fraud. Their plan was to get an employe to file on a c r lain trai t ami, when t he claim was pioved up, the employe was to deed the proH'tty over to them and receive $' for his work, due firm kept a inuu employed to look out for the best Mill iter land and to secure it in this man ner fir his firm, lu the year pteceding the writing of this letter May charged that this firm had placed on record about til) deeds secured in this manlier. May concluded his letter w 1th the state ment that he was a jxior laborer ami had no ax to grind and only desired to keep out laud grubbers. HARRIMAN EXPLAINS. Tells Interstate Commerce Commis sion a Few things. New York, Feb. 27. An asset tion by F.. 11. Harriman that Stiiyvesunt Fish was dejsised from the presidency of the I lliuois Cent ral because of misconduct us to the funds of the company was a leading feature of today's session of the Interstate Commerce commission. Mr. 1 la r i i ii hi n was the only witness of Ihe ilttj, the events brought out by his tes timony making the hearing a mi mor able one. Other features of Mr. llarriinan's testimony follow: A continued refusal to answer ques tions relating to Individual stock trans action. Kxplanutinns of tho transfer of IIOO, 000 shares of Southern Pacific stock to William (i. Rockefeller during the at tempt of James R. Keene to secure con trol of the roud and of the delayed an nouncement of the dividends on Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Attempts of the government to show that the Union Pacific charges unfair rates, stilles competition in the vast territory traversed by its lines and its dividend of 10 per cent and its expend iture of $240,000,000 on Is'tterments came from an unfair loll on its patrons. Miners Vote for Advance. But to. Mont., Feb. 27. Tho vote of the Miners' union on the increase of wage scale resulted 2,340 in fnvoi ami 1,008 against, the new scale of $4 to take effect May 1. Many miners did not vote. The mines of Butte w ill con tinue in operation, notwithstanding tho demand, but development work in all of tho Amalgamated properties will ci-ase. Ollieers of tho union ure em phatic, however, that there will he no strike. Companies will dovote all time and energy to taking out ore und mak ing copper. , Returning to Coal for Fuel. Piltsburu. Feb. 27. The Southern Pacific Railroad A Steamship Co. und the St. Louis Otis company have con tracted with the Monongahela River Con 1 A Coke company for $1,000,000 worth of coal. The largest contract was secured from the Southern TiiciHc com any, w hich contracts for 250,000 tons to be delivered at Its wharves at Now Orleans Tho order means a he inning of tho end of oil as fuel in New Orleans. Two-cent Fare Is Law In Indiana. Indianapolis, Feb. 27. The governor toilay signed the 2-cent railroad fare ai t. It has no emergency clause, and go s Into effect with the publication of the new laws about May or June. ALL BUTONE SAVEO Steamer Corona (iocs on Rocks 0(1 Eureka, California. VESSEL IS A HOPELESS WRECK Hinh Sua Have Running and Hard Task to Doomed Ship, Llla-savers Reach Mtirckn, March 2. The hleamer Corona, Captain Boyd, considered the lust Isiat inthe Pacific Const Steam ship eolnniny's scivioo between this city and San Francisco, lien straddling the north jetty on the Humboldt bar, a hopeless wreek . The Corona, with neatly 100 pas-engers ulsiard, sltiick at III: 10 o'clock yesterday inoi niiik', us : Captain I 1 was attempting. Intlie teeth of a st inging w ind and a terrific bur Hood, to dl h e hel Into poi . The usual scenes attendant upon u shipwrtvk followed. 'Ihe jvis-eiigers rushed into the social ball. Some of ihe women were hysterical and some of the men were (mlsnd with fear, bid reassuring words from lie co w , ! Some of the calmer pu-sei calm. Thereafter the I .f- I , n:gid ' I seniiiled Upon I he till . i ' e where they remained u '! work was undertaken iii '.I. ait. Soon after t lie shin st riM'U . i 1 ,1.1 ri .i ii rno hi eat. : charge of IJuitrtc rmute r (mini, lowered awav. It culita lei1 Ut the crew and three stccra a.- i 'M. This bout ea'sied at onci ,i. the b II ing surf and II. Frrickson, a Swrde, was dr-w ned. iunn and the otheis Mici 'ceiled ill leaching shore, tln life saving crew under Captain llrnnig having come to their assistance. A sM'otid lxut, in charge of Second Ollicer H. V. Jocim, was put oft. Pa lly fluttered and leaking like a sieve, this Ismt reached the shore. Mran wlnlc, T. F. Solliern, nL'hl salis.n watchman, formerly a mat ine in the United States navy, stripped to the waist and attempted to ciiriv a lino ashore. The small line he bad tied lilsmt his waist parted, however, beforn he had gone fur. Scthern was picked up by the life-savers. Seveial attempts were made to sll'xit II I i lie a I .oil I I with the I.yle gun, hut each time the line fell far short . Finally it was divided by Captain Ilennig and the life-savers to go out In the billows, and they made lis fllllnlit ii vovatfe as ever men undertook, finally reaching the side of Ihe Corona and picking up the line. Within a short time after the Corona st ruck , new s of t he accident w as com municated to I 'hi e). u and seveial thous and people during I ho day went to tho bench opposite the wreck to watch Ihe Work of rescue. Several inisilii'essful attempts were made to work early in tbeilav, hut it was not until 4:50 o'clock in the afternoon that Captain Ilennig und his men worked effectively. SAYS SLNATfc WAS BOUGHT. Story About Caune of Spanish War Excites Span. Madrid, March 2. A sensation has been caused here by t he political ion of a story credited to the Diaro do la Ma rina, of Havana which purports to show by documentary evidence that tho I'nibsl Stall's congress was bought in 1HH7 hyToinas Kstrada P.tliiui to insure war Is'ing declined against Sjaiii. Ac cording to the Havana newspaper, bonds to Ihe value of $.'S7,0oo 000, re deemable when Cuba should become independent, were issued In Washing ton to scmiti rs and a contract exists which contains phraseology like that of the joint resolution of April, IKHH, voted by congress. The article suvs further that Ihe value of the ImiihIs fell heavily in 1K!0, and therefore a new contract was made between Palma and the American senators. Count Salaar, minister of foreign affairs, has telegraphed to the Spanish representa tive at Washington for the fullest in formation. Japanese Crtlsers for Jamestown. Yokohama, March 2. The Japanesn cruisers Tsiikiba ami Chitose left at 11 o'clock this morning for .himcstow n, Va. Naval Minister Vice Admiral Saito. Admirals Togo, Itc, Inouye, tho naval attache nt the American embassy, Consul (ieneral. Miller and local Jap anese officials wero present upon tin occasion. The emperor and crown prince sent special aides do camp with a farewell message to Admiral Ijuin on the flagship Tsukilsi. The pier, which was decorated, was lined with an in terested but undemonstrative crowd. Congressmen to Visit Panama. Washington, March 2. . parly cor. sisting of Speaker Cannon, Somite r Curtis, Representatives Tawnoy, Mir nesota; Iiudeiislngor, New Jersey; Sherman, Littauer and Olcott, Niw York; McKinley, Illinois; Moore, Pennsylvania, arid L. W. Bushey, sec retary to Speaker Cannon, will sail from New York on March 5 for a cruiso to tho West Indies, South America, tho Panama canal and Cuba. Tho parly will bo absent one month. New Treaty Causes Uproar. St. Thomas, D. W. I., March 2. . There is intense excitement in Santo Domingo regarding the new American Dominican treaty. Tho ministers de mand the withdrawal of Senor Velas quez' portfolio or that the president ac cept their resignations.