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. UP TO THE SENATE President Sends Santo Domingo Treaty With Letter. GIVES POSITION OF GOVERNMENT I f United States Does Not Take Hold o f Bankrupt Republic Some Foreign Nation Will. Washington, Feb. IB. — The senate must decide the question as to whether or not the Monroe* doctrine is to he maintained and upheld. This is the contention of President Itoosevelt. He made the issue clear in a confidential letter to the senate late this afternoon, in transmitting to that body th e«tri’aty entered into between this government and the republic of Santo Domingo, relative to which the treaty-ratifying body of the government has heretofore indulged in some caustic criticisms. The president declared that foreign governments were pressing Santo Do mingo for the payment of claims; that while the republic should be prosper ous, its reveues were depleted through insurrections and that, if the United Stales didgiot exercise such a just par ental supervision as would naturally be expected and as was desired by the re public anil arrange for the payment of jnst obligations, foregin governments would set about to enforce collection through the customary diplomatic methods. The message was referred to the com mittee on foreign relations. The treaty was not read. It was the expectation o f Chairman Cullom to have a special meeting of the committee to take the convention up for consideration. Briefly stated, the protocol or treaty provides that the United States shall ■collect the customs revenues of Santo Domingo and turn over to President Morales’ government a specified per centage necessary to meet the expense o f administration and disburse the re mainder among foreign claimants. The United States undertakes to repsect the integrity of Santo Domingo and the protocol or treaty must be approved by the United States senate and the Do minican congress. CAN T DECIDE T H IS SEASO N. Not Enough Time to Reach Vote on Sm oot Case. IN T H E LE G IS LA T U R E . Salem, Feb. 14. — Settlemier’s b ill authorizing the attorney general to assess property which has escaped assessment in the past and to bring suits to collect the taxes due upon such assessments passed the house to day. The house committee on salaries and mileage reported this morning. Smith, of Josephine, protested against some of the items, but failed to get any support. Supporters of the normul schools are endeavoring to have the cut made in the appropriation by the house restored by the senate when the bill comes up in that body tomorrow. Governor Chamberlain has also declared himself in favor of consolidation of the schools and threatens to veto the measure when it comes t6 him. The appropriation for the normal schools is coupled with those for the asylum, penitentiary, re form school, deaf mute shcool, blind school, state university and agricul tural college, so it would be necessary to veto all in order to reach the normal appro) riation. The ways and means committee of the house introduced a b ill in the house today appropriating $70,000 for new buildings for the deaf mute school. Four other appropriation bills were in troduced by the committee carrying a total of $113,542.13. The senate committee w ill not at tempt to please either side in regard to the Jayne local option b ill. The b ill w ill be reported without recommenda tion. Several votes are lacking of enough to pass the Cascade county b ill. Many sorts of influences are being brought to bear to secure the necessary number. Salem, Feb. 15.— The Cascade coun ty b ill is only a memory. The com mittee having it in charge in the senate rep ort«! favorably is thmorning and a vote was called for. The result was 18 against and 11 for. Employes of state institutions w ill lie paid monthly hereafter if the gov ernor does not veto the b ill passed by the senate. The house bill providing for a com mission to examine the subject of assessment, taxation and collection ot taxes was passed by the senate. W ife beaters are to receive punish ment up to 20 lashes according to the senate b ill passed by the house. County and city boards of health are created by a bill which has passed both houses. The committee having the Jayne lo cal option bill in hand is still Wrest ling with the measure and does not ex pect to report before Friday. It appears probable that the bill ap propriating $70,000 for a new deaf mute Bchool building, passed by the house this afternoon, w ill go through the senate, as many in that body favor it. According to joint resolution the leg islature w ill adjourn Friday without day. The work w ill be well cleared off by that time, say President Kuyken dall and Speaker Mills. No official notice w ill be taken of the develop ments in the case of Senator M itchell and an adjourn«! session w ill not be held next winter nor the present session prolonged unless something unforeseen should happen in the next two days. Forty-eight bills were passed by the house today and eight failed. In the senate 18 bills were passed, besides 15 charter bills, and seven were indefi nitely postponed. The governor today signed 14 bills. Washington, Feb. IB. — Chairman Burrows has called a meeting of the senate committee on privileges and elections, to be held on Saturday, to consider the arguments of counsel in the Smoot investigation and determine on some course of action. There has been no meeting of the committee since the hearings were closed, and no consultation of members to discuss whether it is possible to decide the case at this session of congress. In view of the limited time that remains of the present session, the disposition is to postpone action until the next session. There are so many points involved in the discussion that it is estimated that 8alem, Feb. 16.— The b ill exempting a week or more would, be required in mining corporations producing less than the senate to bring the case to a vote. $1,000 a year from the corporation tax was passed by the senate today. A bill was passed tonight creating All May Again Quit Work. the office of state engineer, to be ap St. Petersburg, Feb. 18.— The report pointed by the governor. Commence is circulated here with great persistence ment of suits are authoriied to condemn that a renewal of the general strike will property where the government may be declared in 8t. Petersburg in the wish to begin construction of irrigation An appropriation of $5,000 course of Friday. The only evidence so systems. far which could be cited in favor of is also made by the bill. Two hours’ work are in sight in the such action on the part of the strike leaders is that the unwillingness of the house for tomorrow, but 70 bills are employers to make concessions pending before the senate, besides the Jayne the governmental arbitration discussion local option bill, which w ill require has created great dissatisfaction among considerable time. The b ill taxing sheep driven in from the radical element of workers. other states has been passed by both houses. The yearly pasturage tax is placed at 20 cents per head, and when sheep are driven through the state the tax is 5 cents per head for each county travers«!. The hill prohibiting the sale of liquor to females under 21 years, and forbid ding proprietors of saloons to permit Buch females in their establishments has passed both houses. Both houses held sessions tonight. In the house 30 bills were passqd, and Bix were indefinitely postponed. The senate pass«l 22. RECORD IS BROKEN _____________ i Blizzard in the Southwest Worst In Six Years. INFLUENCE OF STORM IS WIDE Salem, Feb. 17.— At 8 o’ clock to Extends From Great Lakes to Texas, night the 23d bienial session of the From Atlantic to the Rockies Oregon legislature ended and the law — Many People Frozen. makers were adjourn«! without day, after 40 days’ labor. The punishment of wife-beaters by whipping was authorized; small min Chicago, Feb. 14.— Not during the ing corporations were exempted from last six years has the equal of the pres the corporation ta x; railroads are com ent cold weather been experienced in pelled to make connections with each the West, and in many places no such other and transfer cars at reasonable low temperatures have been record«! rates, and several fishing laws were since the establishent of the weather enacted for the purpose of guarding bureau. against the taking of fish on spawning The cold wave extends from Canada grounds. to the G ulf of Mexico and from the The total appropriations of the legis Kocky mountains to the Atlantic. In lature aggregate something over $2,- the North the mercury has register«l 000,000, of which $500,000 is for the all the way from zero to 45 degrees be state insane asylum. low zero, the latter mark being scored After six weeks of turmoil the Jayne at Richland Center, Wis. local option b ill was indefinitely post- Trains everywhere from the West p o n «l by the senate. and Northwest are anywhere from 2 to Other measures defeated were to 12 hours late and from the packing of make gambling a felony; to abolish ri j the snow in the cuts it is expected that parian rights; to amend census law so it w ill be several days tiefore the roads as to make it more applicable to pres are able to revive the schedule time of ent ne«ls, and to create a mining bu trains. Several people have lost their reau. Thirteen bills were on third lives, the majority of the fatalities be reading in the senate at the time of ad ing in the Southwest. journment and received no attention The loss of cattle on the ranges, par from the upper house. ticularly on those lying in the north Governor Chamberlain w ill be kept ern part of the states, w ill be very busy for the next four or five days scan heavy. In Nebraska and the Dakotas ning the many bills which were passed and Montana cattle are being sheltered at the close of the session. Í from the cold and it is not expect«l A compromise was effected by the j their losses w ill be nearly so heavy as governor and the legislature whereby j those on the ranges further to the \ the emergency clause was left off the ! south. general appropriation b ill and it was The severe cold has brought upon the signed by the chief executive. He had j South a renewal of all the troubles already written the veto when the visited upon it by the recent storm of change was made. ! sleet which has d em oraliz«l railroad The senate today passed 49 bills and traffic and almost destroyed telegraphic dispos«! of 19 otherwise. In the house 'communication in some parts. The four bills were passed and five killed or cold spread with great sp e«l all over the south. Railroad traffic is seriously indefinitely postponed. h in d er«! by the snow all through the ■ central part of Georgia and in the cen Mexicans Palmed O ff as Indians. El Paso, Feb. 17.— H . B. Pears, agent tral and northern parts of Mississippi. for the U n it«! States Indian Bureau, The Baltimore A Ohio road is the great is here investigating the report that est sufferer and it is reported that there Mexican children have been sent to the have been no trains between Meridian, government Indian school from various Miss., and New Orleans for a week. parts of the country on false affidavits The only news from the entire South that they were of one-fourth Indian came today from Western and Southern blood. It is claimed that hundreds of Texas, where a slight moderation in reported. From children have been rejected recently temperature was from the Oklahoma school for this rea Western Montana ami Nebraska come A ll son, while others, it is said, are to be reports of 20 to 25 below zero. through these states the month of Jan found in all the Indian schools. uary was the coldest known, and the month of February haB so far shown T o Dredge Tacom a Waterway. equal sever'ty. Washington, Feb. 16.— Senator Fos ter today offe r«! an amendment to the river and harbor , b ill authorizing the A L L IN SU SPE N S E . dredging of the middle waterway in the Tacoma harbor. His amendment appropriates $115,537, and stipulates No Federal Appointments in Oregon that none of this money shall be ex Until After Land Fraud Trials. pend«! unless the city of Tacoma shall Washington, Feb. 18.— “ No more pay to the War department $38,512, one fourth of the cost of the improve Federal appointments in Oregon until ment. He also o ffe r«l amendments after the trials.'' This conclusion was reached last authorizing other surveys. night by Secretary Hitchcock, Attorney General Moody and l ’ostmaster General P O R T L A N D M AR K E TS . Wynne, and applies to all appointments Wheat — Walla Walla, 87c; blue- coming under the jurisdiction of their respective departments. As a matter stem, 94c; valley, 87c per bushel. Oats — No. 1 white, $1.35 (8 1.40; of fact, this decision w ill affect only | postoffice appointments, for there is no gray, $1.40(81.45 percental. lla v — Timothy, $14(81H per ton; ' likelihood of vacancies occurring in clover, $11(812; grain, $11(812: cheat, either the Interior department or the j Department of Justice while the land $12(813. The district Eggs— Oregon ranch, 2 2022‘{ c per fraud case are pending. attorneyship must necesarily remain in ■ dozen. Butter— Fancy creamery 27)^(832 S,c abeyance until the rases are concluded, Potatoes — Oregon fancy. 75085c; there are f i o land office vacancies pres ent or prospective, unless the register common, 60(865c. Apples — 4-tier Baldwins, $1.25; and receiver at Roeeburg should be dis m iss«!, and such action is not contem Spitzenbergs, $1.25(82. p lâ t«! until aftef the trials are over. Hops— Choice, 25(826c per pound. Wool— Valley, 19020c per pound; So the agreement of these cabinet offi Eastern Oregon, 12017c; mohair, 25(8 cers really narrows down to postoffice cases. 26c per pound for choice. »