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t -.;t f IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Their Friday, March I. Washington. Murch 1. Ifc has beon years since tlie houre was the scene of so general battle between two great parties as took place today over the whip subsidy bill. The bill was passed, but not until it had been defeated, and this fact in itself shows how close the alingment wub. Immediately after the first ballot dis cussions began and on the final vote to pass the bill as amendrned the work done bv the Republican leaders during the heat of the battle was made mani fest. The bill was passed, 155 to 149. Washington, March 1. The dena tured alcohol bill passed the senate to day by a vote of 65 to 1 . Pettus of Alabama cast the negative vote. This action was taken after the committee amendment requiring the presence of a government storekeeper whenever alco hol is being manufactured had been de feated by a vote of 47 to 10. The bill as passed contains a senate amendment permitting ruin to be denatured, Lon aemiently the moasure must bo 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. 28. The senate today passed without division the bill extending government aid to the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held in Seattle in 1909 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 paymasters' clerks a comnlete agreement between the two houses resulted. Washington. Feb. 28. General 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 6 o'clock amendments were offered and the discussion proceeded thereon. The Wilers on both sides were drawn into the debate. Bv a vote of 112 to 127 the house de. feated an amendment offered by Lit tmior excepting the Sierra, the Sonoma and the Ventura, of the Ocaenic line, from the operation of the provision em powering the postmaster general to make contracts with citizens of the United States for carrying the mails on steamships. This was regarded as test vote in relation to the Pacific lines. Wednesday, February 27. Washington. Feb. 27. After listen Jncr tai an argument bv Patterson of 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 $650 000 to $250,000 of the amount for im rjrovements in the Mississippi river be tween Cairo and St. Louis by Hopkins Onllom. Stone. Allison and Overman The smaller amount prevailed. there is a great demand. It also au thorizes the deposit of customs receipts in national banks, as internal revenue receipts are now deposited. It raises from $3,000,000 to $9,000,000 the na tional bank circulation that may be re tired in any one month. Washington, Feb. 26. General de bate on the ship subsidy bill continued throughout the day in the house. The rule limiting the general debate to five hours was by unanimous consent amended so that general debate shall run through tomorrow, with a night session from 8 o'clock until 11 o'clock, when the debate will terminate. Mr. Grosvenor was the principal champion of the bill The conference reports on the fortifi cations and the omnibus revenue cutter bills were adopted. The conference reports on the army and river and har bor appropriation bills were presented. Monday, February 25. Washington. Feb. 25 The senate today passed the agricultural appropri' ation bill, carrying nearly $10,000,000 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, carrying $210,- 000.000; the pension appropriation bill, carrying $145,000,000, and the bill authorizing the establishment of an agricultural bank in the Philippines By a vote of 43 to 19 the senate to night ratified the Santo Domingo treaty. This was one more vote in the affirmative than was required. Washington, Feb. 25. Ship subsidy secured a marked impetus today in the house, which, just before adjournment, adopted a rule that will probably in sure the passage of the j,ittauer budsii- tute for the senate bill and result be fore the final adjournment in positive legislation. The rule was reported by Dalzell in the shape 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 3 o'clock. The rule was adopted by a vote of 158 to 122, 24 Republicans voting with the 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 distnbu tion of Indian tribal funds. Saturday, February 23. Washington, Feb. 23. Although the senate devoted four hours to legislative matters today, nothing was accom plished except epeech-making. The agricultural appropriation bill received further criticism. It is proposed that $1,000,000 be added to the fund at the' disposal of the Forest service to make up for revenue taken away from it and tuined into the treasury.. While this amendment probably is to be accepted Heyburn will not permit to receive final action until he has exhausted every to gitimate means of opposition. Palouse Farmers Will Carry Wheat to Elevators. Waverly, Wash., Feb. 26. The farmers and wheatgrowers of this dis trict have decided to do away with the 'sack profit," and elevators for hand ing'wheat in bulk will be be built all along the Spokane & Inland Flectric road. A very enthusiastic meeting was held here recently and the matter thor oughly discussed by the farmers. The meeting was addressed by a representa tive of the elevator company, who ex plained the advantages to be derived from the farmers handling loose instead of sacked grain. The company will be organized to en able the wheatgrower to handle his grain in the most economical manner, and thereby save the price of Backs, which sell for from 10 to u cents each. The farmers feel that they have been mposeduponby the "sack grafters" long enough, and they have to decided to stop buying sacks and handle their wheat in bulk. Wagon boxes that will hold 100 bushels of wheat to haul to the eleva- tors will cost the farmers but $15 each, and these boxes can be used nora year to year. All elevators will be equipped with the most modern machinery lor the handling and cleaning of grain in the most economical manner. Wheat PLAN TO 8TOP SACK GRAFT. ALL BUT ONE SAVEDl &U8-TREASURY ROBBED. Off Eureka, California. Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Theft Uncovered in Chicago. rv, Steamer Corona Goes on Rocks day say: One of the largest if not the largest thefts from the United States treas ury has been unearthed in Chicago. Somewhere between 1175.000 and VESSEL IS A HOPELESS WRECK $200,000was stolen from the local Bub- treasury last week. The money has disappeared as completely as if it had Hijch Sea Running and Life-savers vanished from the earth. The authorities here and in Wash ington have been working night and day on the robbery since it was discovered. Chief Wilkie, of the United States Secret service, has been keeping inform ed by telephone and telegraph of every development, and, according to tele graphic adviceB, he will leave Washing- Have Hard Task to Reach Doomed Ship. Eureka, March 2. The steamer Corona, Captain Boyd, considered the best boat in the Pacific Coast Steam ship company's service between this city and San Francisco, lies straddling ton today to take personal charge'of the the north jetty on the Humboldt bar, investigation can be handled fully a cent a bushel cheaper than through the warehouses in shipwreck followed - . i it I i if i ii i sacks. Waeon dumps and snipping rusneu into ine social scales will be provided at every eleva tor. These elevators will probably be built all through the Palouse country this season, as farmers all over Eastern Washington are anxious to do away with sackB. TRUST IS REALITY. for Farmers Holding Back Produce Better Prices. Chicago. Feb. 26. The farmers trust has arrived. It has stretched its big, strong hands over the states of In- was drowned. diana. Illinois. Iowa, Kentucky, Wis consin, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas. Its knotted fin gers have piled up millions of bushels of grain and fruit and thousands of bales of cotton into a mountain heap, and the trust has said to the dealers of the world: "You can't have any of this until you pay us what we think is coming to us. How do your worst. Ever since early last fall, board of a hopeless wreck. The Corona, with nearly 100 passengers aboard, struck at 10:10 o'clock yesterday morning, as Captain Boyd was attempting, in the teeth of a stinging wind and a terrific bar flood, to drive her into port. The usual scenes attendant upon a The passengers hall. Some of the women were hysterical and some of the men were palsied with fear, but reassuring words from the crew and some of the calmer passengers brought calm. Thereafter the passengers as sembled upon the hurricane deck, where they remained until the rescue work was undertaken in the afternoon. Soon after the ship struck, a boat, in charge of Quartermaster Gunn, was lowered away. It contained three of the crew and three steerage passengers. This boat capsized ot once in the boil ing surf and H. Errickson, a Swede, Gunn and the others succeeded in reaching shore, the life saving crew under Captain Hennig having come to their assistance. A second boat, in charge of Second Officer B. V. Joenn, was put off. Badlv battered and leaking like a sieve, this boat reached the shore. Mean while, T. F. Sothern, night saloon watchman, formerly a marine in the United States navy, stripped to the waist and attempted to carry a line ashore. The small line he had tied Secretary Shaw, of the Treasury de partment, was told of the big theft - when in Chicago last week, and was m conference with Sub-Treasurer William Boldenwick and secret service officials. The money was stolen either a week ago Saturday, the next day or Monday. The chances are it was abstracted on Monday. The loss was discovered Tuesday. All the money taken was in large bills bills of the denomination, of $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. Just who discovered the loss the sub-treasury offi cials would not admit last night. Neither would they tell from what de partment the money was taken, nor how the loss was discovered. DANGER TO HARBOR BILL. trade men and shippers of grain have been talking about the scarcity of cars. To that scarcity they have attributed almost entirely the fact that corn, wheat and other farm products do not move to the market centers with more haste. The dearth of cars is an every day theme in the speculative and com- ercial gossip. That there is a great deal in it nobody disputes, but a still more significant phenomenon of the day is that grain is being held back be cause the farmers are determined they shall get the price they have set on their own property, RATES ON DECLINE. Washington, Feb. 27. Humphrey of Washington held the center of the stage for a considerable time today during the debate in the house on the ship sub sidy bill. He had a hot exchange of compliments with Sullivan of Massa chusetts about the attitude of the Dem ocrats on the Japanese controversy. He said he would not vote to report any bill that would not provide that 'the flag shall go to the Philippines. He charged the Democratic party with trying to keep this country from Hold ing communication with the Philip pines "in order to bring disgrace upon our administiation of those islands. They hope to inveigle ue into a war with Japan, to make us so weak that Japan will attack us, and then they hope to ride irto power over their coun try's disgrace," he said. Tuesday, February 26. Washington, Feb. 26. The senate today passed the sundry civil appro priation bill carrying $114,578,861, an increase of over $10,000,000 as com pared with 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, to the end that the $10 greenbacks may be broken up into $1, $2 and $5 bills, for which Washington, Feb. 23. The house adopteud an amendment to the sundry civil bill providing that no bar or can teen where intoxicating liquors are sold shall be maintained in National sol diers' homes, In view of the campatign throughout the country against the can teen in soldiers' homes, intense interest was shown when that feature of the bill was reported. Four hundred thousand dollars was added to the appropriation for the geo logical survey. The sundry civil appro priation, the largest in the' history of the government, carrying $105,000,000, was passed. Retain Foreclosures Ten Years. Washington, Feb. 26. The Lodge argicutlural Philippine bank bill, as passed by the senate, contains an amendment suggested by Culberson re quiring that the bank may not hold lands which it has acquired on mort' gage foreclosure longer than ten years Telephone for Llfesavers. Washington, Feb. 27. Senator Ful ton has secured the adoption of an amendment to the 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. Senator Elklns Files Long List of Railroad Statistics. Washington, Feb. 26. Senator El- kins, of West Virginia, has just com pleted and filed in the senate is minor ity report on the railroad rate Jaw. it presents a comprehensive history of the economic development ot American railroads, together with exhaustive tables which tend to show a constantly decreasing freight and passenger rate, and the relation between such rates and the price of commodities and cost "of labor. The average passenger rate," says the report, "advanced .slightly from 1870 to 1880. During the next 24 years there was a decline equal to 17.85 per cent of the average for 1880. The net decline from 1870 to 1890 averaged 16.14 per cent. The decline in the av erage rate per mile per ton ot ireignt was 58 71 per cent during the years from 1870 to 1904, the rate for the earlier year being about two and one half times that of the latter, and the net saving to the shippers averaged 11.09 mills per ton per mile." The report says that the cost of tiansportation in 1904 was nearly $2, 000,000,000 less than it would have been had the rates for 1870 still pre. vailed. Dry Farming in Malheur. Vale, Or., Feb. 26. Persons here from Pendleton and Walla Walla state about his waist parted, however, before he had gone far. Sothern was picked up by the life-savers. Several attempts were made to shoot a line aboard with the Lyle gun, but each time the line fell far short. Finally it was decided by Captain Hennig and the life-savers to go out in the billows, and they made as gallant a voyage as ever men undertook, finally reaching the Eide of the Corona and picking up the line. Within a short time alter tne corona struck, news of the accident was com municated to Eureka and several thous and people during the day went to the beach opposite the wreck to watch the work of rescue. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to work early in the day, but it was not until 4:50 o'clock in the afternoon that Captain Hennig and his men worked effectively. May Co Killed Entirely to Avert Big Treasury Deficit. Washington, Feb. 25. Since Chair man Xawney, oi the appropriations committee, called attention to the prob ability of a deficit of $100,000,000, in consequence ofjjthe large appropriations made this session, there has been con siderable talk around the capital about defeating the river and harbor bill, thus removing the possibility of such deficit. The river and harbor bill as passed by the house carried $83,000,000. As amended by the senate, it carries $92, 000,000, and the prospects are that, if the conference committee agrees, it will report a bill carrying in the neighbor hood of $90,000,000, or approximately the amount of the deficit predicted by Mr. Tawney. Friends of the river and harbor bill, since the rumor started, have become active in urging prompt agreement on the bill in conference, so that it will not run the chance of being talked to , death in the last day or two of the ses sion. If the report is delayed until the middle of the week, and a few senators determine to kill it, they will have the bill entirely within their power. STOP FOREST RESERVES. SAYS SENATE WAS BOUGHT. Agree on Appeal Bill. Washington, Feb. 27. The confer 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 30 days on behalf of the United States in the District courts direct to the Supreme court of the United States on all criminal de cisions on demurrers to indictments or arresting of a judgment of convic tion for insufficiency of the indictment, where decisions are based on the in validity or constuction of the statutes. Beatty Will Hold Over. Washington, Feb. 27. Judge Beatty. of Idaho, has been requested to remain on the bench to hold the March term of court, which means that his resigns tion will not be 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 the views not only of Senator Heyburn, but of Senator Borah. No recommendation can properly be filed until Judge Beat. ty'e resignation has been accepted. The president wants to get the right man. Story About Cause of Spanish War Excites Spain. Madrid, March 2. A sensation has been caused here by the publication of a story credited to the Diaro de la Ma rina, of Havana which purports to show by documentary evidence that the United States congress was bought in 1897 by Tomas Estrada Palma to insure This is satisfactory to Mr. Fulton, Fulton Would Give Congress Author- - ity to Create. Washington, Feb. 25. Senator Ful-- ton has offered his amendment to the agricultural apropriation bill, prohib iting the creation of further forest re serves in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado, except by au- thoriy of congress. Senator Lodge, who threatened to raise a point of order against the amendment, withdrew his objection, and it was generally agreed that the amendment would be permitted to go in the bill if it was not debated. and war being declared against Spain. Ac cording to the Havana newspaper, bonds to the value of $37,000,000, re deemable when Cuba should become independent, were issued in Washing ton to senators and a contract exists which contains phraseology like that of the joint resolution of April, 1888, voted by congress. The article says further that the value of the bonds fell heavily in 1899, and therefore a new contract was made between Palma and the American senators. Count Salazar, minister of foreign affairs, has telegraphed to the Spanish representa tive at Washington lor the fullest in formation. Japanese Cruisers for Jamestown. Yokohama, March 2. The Japanese cruisers Tsukiba and Chitose left at 11 that they will take up some of the bench o'clock this morning for Jamestown, he expects to have the amendment ac cepted by the senate when the bill is taken up. Western men in congress are thor oughly aroused at the Forest service for its attempt not only to regulate all gov ernment timber land but public range land as well, and in consequence legis lation recommended by the president,' looking to the leasing of the public range and the reservation of all public timber land now In reserves, will be tabled.' land just west of Vale and use dry farm ing methods. They feel certain that the soil is similar and better than that around Pendleton, on which such excel lent returns are being made. No dry farming has ever been tried in this sec. tion of the county, and the outcome is being prophesied as a failure by some of the old settlers, but those who are studying the situation state there can be no doubt as to success. Va. Naval Minister Vice Admiral Saito Admirals Togo, Itc, Inouye, the naval attache at the American embassy, Consul General Miller and local Jap anese officials were present upon the occasion. The emperor and crown prince sent special aides de camp with a farewell message to Admiral Ijuin on the flagship Tsukiba. The pier, which was decorated, was lined with an in terested but undemonstrative crowd. Forty of Crw Perished. Canea, Island of Crete, Feb. 26. All the passengers on board the Aus trian steamer Imperiutnx, which ran on a rock Friday evening near Cape Elaphoniso, were saved. Forty mem bers of the crew,' of whom 32 were Aua trians and eight Indians, perished. New Treaty Causes Uproar. St. Thomas, D. W. I., March 2. There is intense excitement in Santo Domingo regarding the new American. Dominican treaty. The ministers de mand the withdrawal of Senor Velas quez' portfolio or that the president ac cept their resignations. Japanese Will Investigate. Seattle, Feb. 25. The Japanese asso ciation of Seattle has appointed a com mittee of five to make a full and impar tial report on conditions existing in the Pacific Northwest, as regards their countrymen. The result of the com mittee's investigations will be sent to the government at Tokio, through the Japanese ambassador at Washington. A. Hatton, president of the assocition, declared that the meeting was not called as a government function, but merely through a sense of national pride to in vestigate conditions. ' ' No Hope for Seattle Fair Bill. Washington, Feb. 25. Senator Piles has about abandoned hope of securing the passage through the senate this session of Senator Ankeny's bill appro priating $700,000 for the Seattle expo sition. Senator Hale refuses to with draw his objection. As the bill cannot pass the house this session, the whole matter will go over to the next con gress, when it stands a fair chance of passing.