The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE PRESENT OUTLOOK REGARD
ING GERMAN INTERFERBNcE.
A Novel soleme for Coast Defence-The
Report OF Mexican outrages I'M
founded More Bills for Ter
ritoriai Admission.


Phelps, the American ambassador.
The Secretary OF State has received
cable from the consul at Colon, say
ing that affsirs on the Isthmus are
quiet.
The English cabinet dlsclaims CO.
operation with the United States re-
gaiding the present misunderstanding
with Germany.
Vice President-elect Morton has
leased the residence of Alex Graham
Bell, at Washington, and will occupy
it for the next four years.
The supreme court has decided that
a bruker who fall to obey the instruc-
tions of his principal in a stock trans
aclion, is liable for damages.
The United States District Court, at
Baltimore, in recent d. cision, says
that the law of civil rights must be
interpreted by public opinion.
Senator Dolph has presented in the
Senate petition of sixty-eight citi-
zens Of Bellevue, Idaho, praying for
the enactment of prohibition laws.
The War department has been in
formed that rapid progress is being
made by the contractors in supplying
heavy guns and armor-plate forgings,
and rapid firing guns.
The Department OF State is in
formed that the Japanese government
has abolished the export duty on
drugs, woven goods, timber, cereals,
spirits, beasts, fuel, etc.
Dispatches have been received at
The State department from the Amer
lean minister at Berlin in regard to
the Samoan question. Their con-
tents are withheld from the public.
A late dispatch to French journal
from Zanzibar says an American sail
ing vessel, bound from Zanzibar to
Madagascar, was fred on by German
vessel. One of her mass was broken.
1t is charged that attorneys and
middlemen hive used up owe. 81 ,OO0,-
600 of the $4,000, 900 awarded by Con
gress to the Choctaw claimants and
that the latter will get little or moth
ing.
United States Consul Willard, at
Gu iymas, Mexico, has sent dispatch
to the State department denying the
report that number of American cit
izans had been killed by the Indians
IN Sonora.
Many leading Senators and Repre-
sentatives of all parties scout the idea
of a war between the United States
and Germany. Nevertheless the arm
ament and equipment OF war ships
is being pushed at the various navy
yards.
Representative Springer will intro
duce In the House another omnibus
bill, providing an enabling act for the
admission of Arizona, Idaho and Wy
oming. The bill embodies all the
features of the omnibus bill recently
passed by the House.
Petitions, said to contain the sigma
lures of IA, TIA, ,734 persons, were fled
in the Senate at Washington last
week, praying for the passage of SEN
ator Blair's sunday rest bill, and all
were prepared, bill and Ill, by the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
The conferress on the bill to amend
the interstate commerce law upon
three amendments of Importance
agree, with the exception that the
House members recede from the one
re quiring the missioners TO adopt
uniform clasiifications for all rail
roads.
A letter from the Secretary of the
Interior in response to a Senate reso-
Iution, says there is not on the files
of his department an; thing to show
what part the citiz ms of Washington
Territcry and Idaho took in volun
teer service to suppress the Nez Per
ces war.
The report of the commissioner Of
schools OF Utah, for the year 1888,
says the taxation in the erritory for
scEol purposes is in insufficient. And
that the leaders of the Mormon
church are actively pushing the
scheme to establish Mormon denomi-
natioral schools in each county in the
territory.
Congressman Morrow says his views
of the Samoan affair are positive. and
that the statu quo at the time the rep
resentatives of the United States, Ger
many and England met, must be re-
stored, and this would necessitate the
replacement of King Malietoa III the
position he was so unjustly removed
by the German agents sent to the Mar
shall islands.
The Canadian lumbermen are re-
ioicing over a measure which has
been introduced in Congress, and
claim that it will protect the Cana
dian forests from American invaders
1t is provided that no raft of logs or
timber shall be brought into or taken
out of any harbor or port of the Unit
ed States, or brought into or upon any
of the great lakes, from any part OF
Canada.
1t is stated that powerful com
pany of capitalists has proposed to
the government plan to defend the
entrances to the harbors by forcing
petroleum to the surface of the water
through pipes laid at the bottom, and
lgniting it with burning bomb, thus
creating a sea of fire through which
the enemy's feet must pass. An ex.
pertinent is soon to be made, the nee.
essary apparatus being now ready.
Germany's views of the Samoan
muddle and the Z4nzibar question
causes distruct in English admiralty
circles. Mysterious silence is main
tanned rt tgarding Germany's nava
preparations. Among leading mer
in Washington the idea prevails thai
The present truble between this coun
try will have tenden " to cause Con
gress to vote sufficient money for the
proper protection of our coast citiei