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nesty.
There were two important matters under
discussion in Congress yesterday-the affair
OF st. Domingo In the Senate and that Of the
Amnesty bill in the House. The former came
up in the shape of Senator Morton's Joint reso-
luton for the appointment Of a commission 70
visit the island and report upon its natural
resources and the sentiment Of its people on the
subject Of annexation to the United States-a
very harmless proposition, and one which in
in no way binds the government to any par
ticular policy on the subject. Even Senator'S
who avow themselves unfavorable to the pro-
posed treaty confessed, in the discussion yester-
day, that they saw nothing Objectionable in
the resolution, but only very proper means
of procuring information on subject on which
the Senate was called to act. Nevertheless,
it received the determined opposition OF
Senator Sumner and Senator Schurz not so
much, however, on its own merits or dement's,
as because it afforded them an opportunity Of
feeding fat their grudge against the Presi-
dent. The question was not pressed to vote
yesterday, but will be taken up again to-day,
and, according to present appearances, the
joint resolution will be passed. 1t is doubtful,
however, whether it can be acted upon in the
House until after the holidays.
The debate in the House upon the Amnesty
bill occupied the whole Of yesterdays ses-
sion, and was not concluded at the hour of
adjournment. 1t will come up again to-day,
when the indications are that it will be recon-
mitted to the Reconstruction Committee and
be heard of no more this Congress. It
will be just as well 80. The proposition Of
Mr.. Farnsworth for universal amnesty cannot
get the necessary two-thirds vote, and the
original bill, as reported by Mr.. Butler, seems
to have hardly any supporters in the House or
in the country. The whole thing may, there
fore, be consigned to the tomb Of the Capu-
lets until the republican party in Congress
realizes that universal amnesty is demanded
by the good judgment and common sense Of
the American people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

VEyEzUELA.-A few days since we pub
lished news from Venezuela to the goth ult. =,
giving accounts of the fall of Maracaibo
This statement was premature, bat to-day we
have dates to the 2Sth ult., announcing the
capture of the fort of Maracaibo by the forces
Of Guzman Blanco. The insurgents appear to
be making rapid progress, aud present pros
poets are that the whole country will soon be
In the power Of General Blanco.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21
TR p L E SH L l. Il
CONTENTS OF TO.DAY,s HERALD.

advertisements
acknowledgements.
3-Ihe War in France-The Spanish Throne:
National Agitation Against the Duke OF
Broadway-The Erie Track in Hoboken.
a-froceedings III Congress-George I. Downing
versus schurz--News from Cuba and Mexlco-ee
Republican Reform The New Jersey Guillo-
tiDe-Ihe Cam en- Election Riots-Close OF
Navigation on the Connecticut River.
0-The Coming Woman: Meeting OF the Female
Suffrage Association at Bridgeport Coun.-
County Board of Supervisors-Lectures Last
hignt--Alleged OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tugboat
New Jersey-New York city News-A Well
Dressed "vagrant'- Daring Burgaries- Army
and Naval Intelligence Canal Business at
Rocnester-Bureau OF Agrlculture-Racing a
Locomotive II Brooklyn Finances-The Re-
leased Fenians What Is Life: Proceedings in
the Court OF Special Sessions Yesterday
Arrest OF Schenectady AbortIonst.
6-Ealtorials: Leading Article, 'The Spanish
Volcano Once More in Eruption: Popular
Tumult Throughout the Peuinsua"-Amuse.
ment Announcements
" Ed orias Continued from sixth Page Personal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS News from all Parts
Of the orld-The Impeachment Of Governor
Holden OF North Carolina-The Rapid Transit
Observation-Disclosures Notices.
S-ProCeedings in the Courts-AnneRe JAMS Heirs
Again Folled-The Tehuantepec Expedition
Yacht Race in Bermuda-The Vacant State
senatorship FINANCIAL and Commercial Re-
ports-Brakemen's Strike on the Erie Railway.
9-our shipping Interest: the American Steam
Commissioners-Assassinat OF Two Amerl-
can Citizens IN Honduras-The Eclipse Of the
sun Observation-Disclosures of a New Yorker to
One OF the ROYAL Family OF Spain-Personal
Notes-Marriages and Deaths-Advertise-
mentS
lO-News from Westinghouse Republican Row
Shipping Intelligence-Advertiseme
I1-Europe Premier Gladstone's Letter on the
in 1he roP sna he Sn
tenance OF Peace in Europe; Count Beust on
the Conference.-The strike on the Erie Rail-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
acknowledgements.
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BEN Buffers AMNESTY is on the board
aud will be voted upon finally in the House to-
day. Ben wouldn't back down an inch yes
terday nor give way an atom for any of the
proposed amendments. He insisted on a
square vote on his whole BILL to be taken alto
>sther or thrown over for good. His prin-
pal pet clause is that relative to war litiga-
ons. He wishes his Southern brethren to be
free of that harassing experience of the laws
delay and the uncertainty of verdicts which so
weighs upon the mind. ''He knows how it is
himself"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

HAzING THE FRESHMEN" in our colleges
low, cowariiy and rufianly sort Of amuse-
ment at oest--has been carried to degree of
rascaity in ''Old Harvard" with an expert
.-eatai keg OF gunpowder, which calls for the
Iothing system of the State Prison Ia
feiaware, where they have still those good
nd-tme Institutions of the pillory and the
whipping post, such fast young rowdies as
Ecse c. Harvard would be apt to behave
themselves in fear Of the lash; but at sold
Harvard, for such brutal devices as this gun
powder plot, there is, we believe, co available
remedy but the State PrisoE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

SQUABBLEs AMONG THE Cry Press. We
are sorry to observe that several of our great
contemporaries are becoming alarmingly per-
sonal and vindictive towards each other.
This does not appear to arise as much from
partisan opposition as from purely personal
motives. 1t is beneath the dignity of
respectable journals to indulge in these petty
squabbles, and we trust that moments
reflection will convince our editorial brethren
OF the necessity of exercising little more
courtesy in their intercourse with each other,
and to keep their columns as free as possible
from those vituperative expressions which
have recently characterized them.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL says that
Governor Hoffman has no power to appoint
Senator to succeed the late Mr.. Blood or to
order an election to fill tho vacancy. The
Legislature will therefore have to take the
necessary steps in the matter.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

THE PARKS OF PARASITIC Parisians, it
is reported are converting the trees of the
Bots de Boulogne into charcoal for cooking
purposes, while the Germans are cutting fear
fully into the parks and woods around the city
for firewood. At this rate Paris will soon be
shaved pretty clean--chin, mustache and
whiskers. Let the Parisians, however, be
thankful for their trees for if they had none
their dwellings, inside and outside the city,
would suffer.
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Poor OPINION OF THE BENCH AND THE
BAR was that expressed by Judge Emmett at
the gathering in the New York University on
Monday. 1t is worth while quoting his
words, for they are very strong and uncom-
promising. Moreover, they may be supposed
to reflect the experience Of an observant
mind. He says, in the first place, speaking Of
the chicanery of the profession of law
.sBut the chicane of the trade to-day steps
outside the ground Of legal bubbles and
subtleties, and now it means the secret APP
proach to the bench, and series Of wrong
doings and double-dealings which tend to
make the law the oppressor of the weak and
leads to one system of gigantic fraud. There
are charges made against the purity OF the
bench and the bar. / am not here to arraigh,
but if these charges are true there Is such
decay at the root of our government tnas
sooner or later it must fall. If they are false
the Indifference with which they are heard is
also bad omen" Aud again he said We
know that orr credit abroad has been injured,
and al home the Judiciary has fallen into .
bvword. Where there is an unjust lawyer
there must be an unjust judge to approach,
and there must be an unjust client to en-
courage it," These are words worthy Of some
reflection, coming from an ex-judgc, and
delivered in the presence of SO many respect
able representatives of the bench and the bar.
Public opinion has undoubtedly been DRIFT
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unhealthy democrats who ought to be Gagged
Or preserved in alcohol at once. He is a
blessed boon to the republicans just like
McCreery. Next to seeing the right of seces-
sion acknowledged or the graves at Arlington
dug up the republicans will hate to see these
two leave public life.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

THE GEORGIA ELECTION so far goes peace
ably enough. Only in the larger towns like
Savannah does the negro vote seem to be I'M
qualifedly republican. In the country pre-
cincts the coored democratic vote is heavy.
No negro fries or burning at the stake yet.
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-. -
United States Weather RepOrts.

Several days ago we suggested through
these columns ''the Importance Of Fortress
Monroe as an initial point for the weather
observations of the United States signal
service for the benefit of commerce. on the
ground that our heavy nor'easters all along
the coast north of Virginia come in from the
Gulf Stream between Cape Hatteras and
Fortress Monroe" We are gratifed with the
information which is now before us that the
officers engaged in this business have been
enlarging their field of observations as rapidly
as their means have permitted, and that by
the LIST of January their reports, they expect,
will extend to Norfolk equivalent to and
more convenient than Fortress Monroe) Balti-
more, Wilmington, N. c., Charleston and
Savannah. With regular reports from these
points we shall doubtless soon be able to tell
whether heavy nor'easter in this quarter
has come up inside the coast line only from
Norfolk and thereabouts or from some point
farther south. In any event, we are sure that
telegraphic signal of the opening of
roaring nor easter at Norfolk will give our
sea captains up here warning of some fifteen
or twenty hours of its approach; and SO we
would call the attention of our seamen to
these signals from the South when we begin
to publish them in order that they may be all
right for these heavy nor casters. -...-ss..
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THE RESIGNATION OF JOHN BRlGHr.--John
Bright, according to a cable despatch which
we print this morning, has resigned his posi-
ton as Secretary of the Beard of Trade. In
present circumstances this step on the part of
the greatest tribune of the people whom Eng
land has known in many years will be vari-
ously interpreted. 1t is well known that Mr.
Bright has been in poor health for some
months past. AS Cabinet Minister he has not
been much known. Mr.. Gladstone however,
was most anxious to retain his name. 1t will
be said that Mr.. Bright has retired from the
Cabinet because he was not in harmony with
his colleagues, or that his known peace-at-any-
price principles were damaging to the Ministry
at this crisis. The truth, it may be found, is
that Mr.. Bright is, on account of feeble health,
unequal to the duties of his office. When
strong men, in the full vigor Of health, arc
needed, Mr.. Bright wisely retires.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-12-21

HARD ON THE BRYANT FAMILY Mr.. In
gerssll, of Illinois, in his personal explanation
yesterday, said the poet of the Eoening Post
was down on him because of the removal of
the poets brother from government post in
Princeton, ILL.,, through Ingersoll's influence.
Mr.. Ingersoll must be mistaken. The poet
believes in free trade and is too fond of the
unities to object to free trade in Offices.
Besides, his brother has influence enough for
bigger things than little Office in such an un-
heard of locality az Princeton. Ill.
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner gOth st.-Perform.
ences every afternoon evening"
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

ADJUSTMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
LIMA EDwIS's THEATRE. 72O Broadway LITTLE
sAoh SHfPrARD.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner OF s,h av and ESD ST.
BAREE ID RUIZ
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. pAnromiMr or
VIE WILLIE WINNIE Matinee at 2.
WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner sOth st-Perform
ances every afternoon ami evening.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twcn.ytour,h street
SARATOGA.
GLOBE THEATRE. 72s Brosdway.-vArrrry ENTER
TAISNrST, &C. Matinee Mt 2N
BowERY THEATRE, Bowery.-NKoa Asp NICK
rnE sUNEuRsr
BooTH'S THEATRE, I'D 81. between tn ana 9th avs
RIP VAN WINkLE.
NIBLo's GARDEN, Broadway.-THr SPECTACLE or
ilih BLACK SRooh
wALLAc4's THEATRE, Broadway ana 18Th street..
CoQuETrEs.
NEW YORK sTADT THEATRE, IS Bowery-GERNAN
0rERA-TuE HCoUENoTs.
MRS. F. B. ooywAt's PARK THEATRE. Brooklyn
THE EMERALD RING
sTEISwAY HALL, Fourteenth street-MIss GYMS
GRAND DRAMATIC RESDERfSG.
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 9ol Bowery.--vA.
alEIY EkrERrAGNMENr. Matinee at ~.
ism, MICRO Aors. &o.-THE BLACK DWARF. Matinee.
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 5sb Broa away
MICRO MlNsTEBLsY, FAEoEs, BuRLEsQURe, 40.
BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 23d ST., between 9th
7lh avs-NEeRo MISsrRELsY, EooEN rnroIrIEs, &c.
APOLLO HALL. corner Gsh street and Broadway
DR. CoERy's DloRAMA OF IRELAND.
H0OLEYS OPERA HOUSE, Brookyn.-NEGno MIN
sIRrlsy, BURLEsQuEs, &C,
BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE--W RLoH, Hu6HEs
WHITES MINeTRELs. CARRY THE NEWS TO MARY, DC.
SoMERvILLE ART GALLERY, 81 Fifth avenue'-Day
And Evening WONDERS OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sree,.-ScENEs
VILE KING, AcRoBAIs 6o Matinee at *.
DIR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 7is Broadway
SCIENCE AND
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. us Broadway
ScIFNCF AND ART.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Rroadway.-Tna PANToMiMr or
VIE WILLIE NINRIr, Matinee 9.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner Of s,h av. and Esd ST.
BAREE BI RUIZ.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twcn,v.tour,h street.
SARATOGA
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GLOBE THEATRE. 72s Broadway-vAEIEry ENTER
TAINNrNT, sc Matinee Mt 2L.
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LIMA EDwIN's THEATRE. 72O Broadway.-LIrr
tApn SinprARn
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BowERY THEATRE Bowery-NFoH AND NECK
The SUSEURsr.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-22
WAS 1T A SUICIDE!
MutiIated Human Remains Found Hanging
10 u Tree-A Man Eaten by Hogs.


The st. Louis Democrat of the 20tA instant says
A short distance below Carondelet is fine tract
OF land known as the Allen place. The farm is
rented by a Mr.. Wagner, who, with his family.
evening MIR. Wagner told his to search for
missing steer in the TIMBER and the boy, with two
companions started out to look for it On reaching
a point about three-quarters of a mile below the
river pes Peres, and within few yards of the track
OF the Iron Mountain Railroad the boys saw a dark
body among the trees which they at first supposed
to be the missing animal. On closer approach,
however, they found the body of man hanging by
leather strap from the limb of a small tree, within
twenty-five feet OF the railroad track.
The body only of the man remained, as the limbs
hogs. The man had apparently been hanging there
for several months, and the skin and flesh on the
hands, arms, and face had dried and shrivelled
under the fierce rays Of the until the corpse ap
peared like an Egyptian mummy. The eyes, lips,
and tongue We're gone, aud the weight OF
the body upon the strap had burst the skin of
the chin, and the jawbone was exposed to view. The
intestiIes were also gone, and the sight was
altogether one OF the most horrible that Gould be
imagined. The strap by which the body was sus-
penoed had evidently been used by the deceased as
belt. No knot or moose tied in II, but it had
been buckled over the limb and the suicide, II
suicide IL was, had deliberately thrust his head
through the loop, and with his feet resting upon
the ground had leaned forward upon the strap
two OF the ribs, one on the right and one on the
left side were broken, suspicion was aroused that
the man might have been murdered aud placed
in that position to create false impression that ne
had committed suicide. With the exception OF the
two broken ribs, however, the other bones were
found entire. 1t is possible that the may have
been accidentally injured ana out OF the reach OF
human assistance, may, In his agony, have used this
method OF terminating his sufferings Be this as 1t
may, nothing was found by which the mutilated
remains could be Identified and the COroner's jury,
believing that the man had committed suicide,
turned verdict In accordance with the suppo-
SitOQ.
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ST. THOMAS.
Formal Announcement the People of the
Failure of the Annexation Scheme-Procla-
matiou oil The Danish KfuH.

Formal Announcements TO the People of the
Failure of the Annexation Scheme-PrOcla-
nation oil the Danish King.
The following is a translation OF the proclama-
ton of the Danish King to the people OF St. Thomas
and ST. Johns, announcing the failure OF the scheme
to annex those islands to the United States, through
the refusal OF the Senate to ray the treaty sought
by the representatives of our Government
We, Christian TX, by the grace OF God King of Den
mark the vanoals and the Goths, Duke OF Sleswick,
Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsch, Laurenborg, and
Oldenborg, to our beloved and faithful subjects in
the islands OF ST. Thomas and ST. Johns our royal
You are aware of the motives that actuated us
at the time to give ear to the repeated and urgent
requests Of the North American Government for
the cession of ST. Thomas and St. Johns to the
United States. We expected that we In that man.
ner should have have been able TO tighten our
realm Of the heavy burdens incurred by the then
recently ternatea MAR aad ahe we aSpeG nd 1ss
have afforded the islands advantages so important
that they could have contributed to soothe the pain
which separation necessarily must cause in the
colonies no less than in the mother country. You
for your part and the Danish Diet the part of the
Kingdom, have concurred in these views, and We all
met ia the mutual readiness to accommodate our
selves to what appeared TO US all to be recommended
by the circumstances
Unexpected obstacles have arisen to the realiza-
ton of this idea and released US from our pledged
word. The American Senate has not shown itself
willing to maintain the treaty made, although the
initiative for IL exclusively proceeded from the
United States themselves Ready as we were to
subdue the feelings Of our heart where we thought
that duty Dade so TO do, yet cannot otherwise
than feel satisfaction tnat circumstances have re-
neN ed US from making a Sacnnce Wnlcn, nOJWltn-
SANDING the advantages it held out, would always
have been very painful to us. We are convinced
that you share these sentiments and that it is with
ghtened heart you are released from the consent,
which only at our request you gave, to separation
of the islands from the Danish Crown.
In iher, fore making known TO you that the con-
vention made on the 24th OF October 1861, for the
Cession OF the islands OF ST. Thomas and st. Johns
TO the United States OF America has become void,
| we entertain The hrm belief that our Government,
supported by your osn active endeavors, will sue
ceed in promoting the Interests OF the sia ads ana
by degrees efface all remembrances of the misfOr-
tunes which OF late years have SO sadly beiaen the
islands. To this end pray Almighty God to give
| us 9Th and wisdom.
Commencing you to God! Given at our palace OF
Amalienborg the 7th May 1s70 under our royal hand
| and seal. CHRISTIAN r.
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The Tobacco and Liquor Tax.
con q H II 3 ..
EORTY-FIRsf TERM-sKCOND SESSION.
House..


NIr. Brooks N. ~ presented a memorial OF a
large number OF insurance companies, merchants,
and others, for the better security OF life board
OF vessels, by the use OF improved steam gauges.
Railroad reported bull to authorize the cOnstruc-
ton OF bridge across the Missouri river at Omaha
and Council Bluffs
Mr. Wells offered an amendment requiring the
spans to be 800 feet In width.
The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr.. Wilson (Minn.) }, nom the Committee on Pub
lie Lands, reported bill authorizing the claim of
the State OF Minnesota for lands for the support OF
state university. Passed-yeas SO, nays 76.
Mr.. Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and
Means, reported bill to organize the Department
OF Internal Revenue and TO regulate the collection
OF taxes, and moved that 1t be printed and made the
special order for wednesday next. He stated that
the bill embraced all that related to the organization
chinery for the collection OF taxes, and whatever
connected itself with that branch of the. public
revenue. 1t reduced the number OF officers clerks
ana employees OF the department propOrtiOnately to
passed by the House and now before the Senate or
about one third Another feature OF the bill to
re-enact the old law in relation TO the collecdon of
internal taxes, leaving entirely out OF the system
and repudiatiDg all informers spies, moeties, ETC.
/ Mr.. Wood asked Mr.. Schenck whether the COM
mittee Intended to do anything TO simplify the mode
of collecting taxes, and compel the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue TO give plain, COMMON sense
construction TO the existing law.
Mr. Schenck replied that as TO Simplifying the law
the commissioner had sought ia the bill now re-
ported TO make the law clearer, simpler and palmer
than IL is now. AS to legisating to give COM
mon sense, II that were needed, to commissioner
or anY other onlcer OF the Government, the Com
mittee mad nots attempted anything OF that kind,
but left that TO the Almighty and the President
who selects such officers.
Mr.. Wood remarked In an under voice that he pre-
lerred 70 take his chance with the Almighty.
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PhiIadeIphia Trade Report.

WEDNESDAY, June 22-Bark-ln the absence OF
sales we quote No. Quercitron at s2T per ton.
Seeds-There is steady demand for Flaxseed,
and il commands s2-25, but the absence OF supplies
restricts operations.
There Is no abatement in the demand OF Flour,
and our quotations are well sustained. The sales
foot up 1900 barrels, including superhne at f4S7N9
b'25; extras at S5259550; Iowa, Wisconsin, and
TO 81 for choice; Pennsylvania do do. at s696'62H;
Ohio do. do at se31H H@662N, and fancy brands at
SI-5069, according to quality. Rye Flour sells at
$685.. In Corn Meal no sales were reported.
The Wheat market is poorly supplied with strictly
choice lots and this description is in good demand
vania red at 81 451 go and 1000 bushels Indiana do
do. at 81 45. Rye is unchanged; 1000 bushels West
ern sold at sl04, and 400 bushels do private
terms. Corn is in steady request and holders
firm at an advance OF &c. Sales OF $500 bushels
Pennsylvania yellow at S1'l0 ahoat and in store:
1000 bushels Western do In the at 8l07 and 400
bushels high Western mixed at s1'OS. Oats are
ST. ady, ana 2000 bushels Pennsylvania sold at $50.
Whisky is selling at sl'O5@1 O6 for Western IRON
bound.