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TElEGRAPHIo NEWS.
BatiIe-ship Oregon.


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.-The big
battle ship Oregon was successfully lsun-
ched at the Union iron works shortly be-
fore noon today, in the presence of fully
$4,000 people. The morning broke cold
and cherries, and heavy fog over hung
the bay and land, but the unjnvitlng
condition of the atmosphere did not deter
those who had made up their minds to
be present at the launching from starting
out even at an early hour for the scene.
On ths hay, yachts, tugs, steamers and all
available small boats were crowded to
their utmost capacity. Nearly all were
gaily decorated and had their flass flying
and presented very pretty picture when
they were In position in the vicinity of
the iron works. The fog lifted by IL
o'clock and the sun shone forth to lend
its glory to the scene, and at this time
the shores were black with great en-
thusisstic throug snxIously awaiting
the moment when the tide should be
highest and from the iron and steel hui,
would take its plunge into the waters of
the bay. A Aprlvate stand had been erec-
ted right under the bow of the battle ship
and here stood the invited guests and
those who were to participate in the cere-
mony OF launching. Irving NJ. Scott,
president of the Union iron works, was
present, giving directions to the last min
ute. General Ruger, commanding the
department of the Pacific, and staff; CAp-
tain Howison, commsndant of Mare
Island navy-yard; Governor Markham; {;
Mayor Ellert; General Compson OF Port
Io
of OreG on; and other distinguished per-
sonages were present, and in addition
there were the two young ladies who
were to take most important part in the
ceremony. They were Miss Daisy AIMS
worth, representing the state of Oregon,
and Miss EugsnIa Shelby, representing
the city of Portland. Miss Ruth Dopb.
daughter of Senator Dolpn, of Oregon,
had been designated by Secretary Her.
bert to repsesent the navy, but was nm
able to be present. On the arrival of
the final moment II: 5S A. NJ, the cord
connecting the dog shores, s,instead of be-
ing severed by the historical Ratchet,
was cut by q guillotine set by the pres
sing OF an electric button by Miss Shelby.
The gulllotIne In its fall severed a cord
that held two 25-pound weights struck
the dog shores, and knocking them out,
set the vessel IN motion. At the same
moment Miss Ainsworth pressed another
button, allowing bottle of California
campagne to crash On the bow and spill
its contents over it. Thus was the big
ship christened on her departure from
the ways, down which she glided easily
out into the bay, mighty cheer arising
from the sdmiFlDg crowd, bands playing
national AIRS and every whistle round
about sending forth screeches of enthu-
siasm.
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Reasens for one surrender.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 90 The arguments
advanced by the administration to the
Democratic leaders which caused such
sudden about-face IN ths position of the
anti repeal Democrats yesterday, we're
that up to the present time the Demo.
Gratis had by no act given countenance
to tilibustering; had made no speeches
for delay; had come to the front and
helped make quorum during the long
night sessions. To continue the fight
longer they must take an active part in
filibustering, which 1t was urged, with
the record they had made, they could
not afford to do, Such course would
only result In giving the Democratic
party very black eye, as it would ap
pear their course was prompted by
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Exceeded his instructions

WASHINGTON, Oct 25. - The navy
learned by authority late today by tel
egram from Rear Admiral Stanton, in
command of the United States naval
forces at Rio de Janeiro, that this officer
had saluted the flag OF Admiral Mello,
commanding the lGsurgent fleet. This
salute was unauthorized by any instruc-
tions the admiral had received. 1t was
an untriendly act toward friendly
power, and the secretary of the navy
after consulting with the president and
secretary of the state, issued an order
detachirg Admiral Stanton from the
command of his squadron, turning 1t
over TO Captain Picking, the next officer
In lank. This was IN reply to telegram
of inquiry.
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A Barber in TrauhIe

CORVALLIS, Oct. 24-A warrant was
sworn out late last night before Justice
Holgate for the arrest of one Hermann
Schroeder He is charged with burglar
izing a room in the Occidental hotel,
from which he took suit of clothes and
other valuables belonging to Geo. Bow
ers, who claims to have supported him
for the past several months. He was cap
tured at Albany and brought back here
by Sheriff Osburn, and was today bound
over In the sum of $500 to await the
action of the grand jury. There can be
no doubt of his guilt, as he left note
stating he had taken the property, and
threatened Bowers with prosecution on
some other charge if he made complaint.
Prior to coming to Corvallis, they were
both engaged in the barber business at
Albina.
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We have received letter from q
kind, motberly old lady, who feels sor
ry that the TIMEs-MoUNTAINEE still
supports Republican principles, and
has not entered the prohibition fold
and began valiant work for total alb
stinence. While the editor entertains
very high respect for those ladies who
are waging an unceasing war against
intemperance he believes their methods
are not liable to result in much good.
The drunkard and glutton should be
claased together, for both are slaves to
appetite, and perhaps over-eating is as
injurious to bodily health as excessive
drinking. AL jurists speak against
sumptuary laws, or snactments provi-
ding what shall be ate or drank, and
their enforcement is most difficult. Our
statute books are now burdened with
measures, and it would be
useless and injurious to public morals
to increase the list. Men or women
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DIR. PETERS ON AMERICA.

DR.. Carl Peters, the celebrated Afri
can traveller, was impressed by two
peculiarities of this country-the de-
mocracy of our society and the advan-
tages given to women and workmen.
"This country is an Ell Dorado for wo-
men and vorkmen," says DR.. Peters in
an interview. "Nothing Is too good
for women, and as for workmen here.
they earn three or four times al much
as the workmen of Europe receive.
They have plenty of meat, milk and
all those things which make life COM
Portable for them. American work
men are the best paid and the best
provided for of all the world"
DR.. Peters cannot be accused of
having any interest in the protective
tariff In America, for he is a German
citizen and an officer of the German
empire; says an eastern exchange. But
when Americans have talked in this
way they have been accused of talk
ing politics and misrepresenting the
facts to help political party. A year
ago, when the American worknen
were all at work at good wages, they
would not believe that they had pecu-
liar advantages because of a project
i've tariff. They were told that the
workmen eff England and France and
Germany were just as we'll paid con-
sidering the standard of values as were
Americans, and they believed this.
There are probably few American
workmen to-day who do not realize
that free trade would be mistake for
them, because the losses would fall
upon the workmen rather than upon
the capitalists, who are always able to
protect themselves. If there are any
American workmen who still think
that labor is as well regarded in
Europe as America, the steerage rates
from New York to Liverpool, Havre
and Hamburg, are so low as to he
within reach of all. They need not
believe what DIR. Peters, of Germany.
tells them, they can soon reach the
other side of the Atlantic and learn
by experience, as they have learned
that the election of Cleveland did not
help the laboring men of this country.
There are many men who will only
believe themselves and their own ex-
perIences. To such it is useless to ex.
plain. The rates to Europe are low
and the ocean voyage can be made in
a weeks time. Why don't some of
the labor agitators who still believe
that the workmen of Europe have
better chance than the American
woxrmen start an emigration society
to induce workmen to emigrate to
Germany or France2
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Question of Chinese ExcIusI.o.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26-The senate
committee on foreign relations met this
morning to consider the Chinese ques-
tion, with d view to action upon the
house bill amending the Geary law SO as
to extend for six months the time in
which Chinese laborers can register.
Secretary Gresham is in attendance and
affording counsel. 1t is understood he
was questioned upon the attitude of the
Chinese government upon the subject.
The committee considered the question
of the cost of the deportation of the Chi
nese residents of the country, which the
secretary of the treasury places at $10,-
100000. The committee did not reach
any conclusion concerning the bill,a and It
is quite probable that 1t will not be re-
ported to the senate before the beginning
of the regular session In December. There
is a disposition on the part of the COM
mittee to investigate all the facts bear
ing upon the question and also to give
the people of the Western coast an op-
portunity to be heard thoroughly.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
The Ratt;e fsEnded

WASHINGTON, Oct 24.-At 12 80 Sena
tor Harris, acting for the silver Demo-
Gratis, Informed the silver Republicans
that the Democrats had concluded, after
taking ell the circumstances into consid-
Grafton, that their best course was to
drop the fight against repeal and allow
II to come to vote. If this decision is
not reconsidered, and it does not seem
at all probable 1t will be, the end of the
present fight will soon be reached and the
result will be in accordance with the
presidents wishes and those of the repeal
forces of the senate. The silver Republi-
cans will not undertake to prelong the
night beyond the time necessary to COM
plete their speeches and will after that
permit voting TO begin on the anend-
ments to the bill. 1t is genecally bell =,
eyed this will take place before the end
of the week
The Republican silver senators say
their course will depend entirely on the
Democratic silver senator's They have
said from the beginning that whenever
the Democrats should refuse to aid them
In obstructive measures they would allow
the voting to begin. There was a con-
ference during the forenoon of some of
the repeal leaders of the house, the pre-
else Iature of which could not be ascer-
tanned.
The report that the silver Democrats
IN the senate had decided against further
effort to prolong the fight over the repeal
bill is correct beyond question. The
policy was decided upon in a conference
OF silver Democrats, who have refrained
from fillbusterling, but who felt inclined
yesterday to enter upon champaign of
that character in opposition to the bill.
Cockrell, Vest, Harris and Walthall were
among those present. 1t Is understood
they discussed the question at some length,
and decided that, inasmuch as the silver
men could hope for very little IN the way
of compromise, If they should succeed in
defeating the bill it was better to submit
without further heated discussion and
allow the question TO go to the country.
1t is believed now it may be possible to
begin voting upon amendments to the
oil py Thursday, as 1t seems probable
the speech making will be concluded by
tomorrow evening. There are a great
many amendments and it Is possible
there will be more or less debate under
the tive-minute rule. 1t ls generally
agreed, however, vote on the bill itself
can be reached by the close OF the week.
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The press of the state is following
the lead of the Oregonian in agitating
the question of an inheritance tax as
an available means for the state to Sc
cure revenue. In New York and
some of the New England states such
a law undoubtedly has merit, for in
those old communities landed estates
have descended from father 70 son for
generations, and it is just that these
should bear the greater burden of the
expenses of government; but in new
commonwealth, like Oregon and other
states in the northwest, settlement has
not been made long enough for men to
be to "the manor born," and there is
little property that has not been dearly
earned by the owners. Taxes are con-
sidered bardens, and are evaded by
different means. If the inheritance
law was in operation We presume there
would be the same difficulty. Men
cannot be legislated honest or truthful,
and while the expenses of government
are not borne willingly there will be
originated to evade their pay
ment.
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MORE BODIES DISCOVERED.
Labor Shall be Free.

SAN JOSE, Guatemala, Oct. 25.-Presi-
dent Reina Barrios yesterday decreed
that labor should henceforth be free al
oyer the country. BIZ this decree the
oldest Institution of enforced labor is
abolished. This pernicious system was
nothing less than a form of slavery,
shinly disguised.
The police are busy tearing down
posters, calling upon Guatemalans to de-
tend their rights. Circulars are secretly
distributed, denounclng President Bar
rios and his wife, the latter beng char
acterized as an 'InterlopiDg American. )"
1t is stated that the government is ban
ishing all arrested persons, but it is be-
lieved that one or two have been shot.
The prisoners are confined in the mill
tary barracks, which no one else is al
lowed to enter.
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FINANCIAL DEAAGOGISA,

In June, 1892, the ational Demo
cratic convention clared with great
vehemence and with every show of
oagerness that everybody ought to be
ANXIOUS for the speedy repeal of the
Sherman act. According to the latest
reports from Washington the repre-
sentatives of the Democracy on Capt.
tol hill have agreed upon bill which
will postpone repeal until Oct. 1, 1894,
more than two years and a quarter
later, and nearly two years after the
Republicans favored its repeal. 1t
will be remembered that last winter
the Republicans of congress, with a
few exceptions, favored repeal, but the
Democrats hung back. Evidently
their outcry against the bill was cam
paign hypocrisy, rank and now trans
parent.
Looking at the proposition OF its
merits, apart from all political ante
csdents and collaterals, it must be con-
csded in all fairness that it does not
matter very much when the bill goes
into effect, says Chicago exchange.
What the banks and business interest
of the country want is to be protected
beyond apprehension from premium
on gold, a disturbance of the parity
between two kinds of hard money. 1t
will be remembered that the Sherman
act did not 60 into effect as soon as
enacted. By its own terms the date
of operation was fixed. 1t is no un-
usual thing to allow a margin of time
for adjustment to new legislation, es-
pecially if it affects business. The
Mckinley tariff did not go into i'm
mediate effect.
The contrast between the declsra-
tion of the Democrats in national con-
ventlon and the actual record of the
same party in congress is not merely a
disgrace 20 the Democracy, but cal
amity to the country. The panic of
last summer was largely due to the ex
treme language of that platform. The
party to which the people in Novem-
ber gave their Endorsement had said in
the June previous that the Sherman
act was "fraught with possibilities of
danger in the future" and read in the
light of election returns that declara-
ton served to scare capital, which is
proverbialIy timid and always looking
for burglar under the bed. To use
violent language about the federal
election law or any other purely poll
tical subject did not matter much,
but it is perilous thing to play the
demagogue in business affairs, es
pecially in matters of finance. The
lesson of the ordeal through which
the country has just passed ought to
be a perpetual warning against that
sort of demagogism.
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Too Many Societies.

We asked an old colored preacher
the other day how his church was get
ting on, and his answer was, Mighty
poor; mighty poor, brudder." We
ventured to ask the trouble, and he
replied: DE 'cieties, de 'cieties. Dey is
just drawin all the fatness and mar
row outen de body and bones OBJ de
blessed Lords body. We can't do
muffin without de 'ciety. Oar is the
Lincum 'ciety, wild Sister Jones an
Brudder Brown to run it. Sister
Williams mus march in front of de
Daughters of Rebecca. Den dar is de
Dorcases, de Marthas, de Daughters
of Ham, an de Liberian ladies'"
"Wen, you have the brethren to
help in the church, +" we suggested.
mo, sab. Dere am de Masons, de
Odd Fellers, de Sons of Ham, and de
Oklahoma Promis' Land Pilgrims.
Why, brudder, by de time de brud-
ders an sisters pays all de dues an
tends all de meetins dere is muffin
left for Mount Pisgah church but jist
De cob; de con has all been shelled
'f and frowed to de speckled chick
ms. Bible Reader.
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The efforts which have been made
by the friends of repeal in the senate
to effect compromise with the silver
ties are not likely to be successful.
They can only be assured of the sup
port of 80 senators, and it will require
four more to constitute a majority.
While Republicans are in favor of re-
peal they will not support any measure
giving to the advocates of free-coinage
greater advantage than they now pos
sess under the Sherman act. If the
Democratic party is pledged to bi-met-
alism the Republican organization has
a record for the past thirty years of
being staunch supporter of honest
and it cannot afford to stulIify
its reputation by any Irritation with
The platform, adopted
1T Minneapolis, was plain and unequiv-
peal on monetary matters, and its po-
sition on the financial policy of the ma
ton is we'll understood. This fight in
he senete is Democratic squabble,
md that party should settle all differ
,nces either with or without compro-
mise. not expecting the aid of those
Who have opposed the platform which
'aissd the question in dispute.
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Testifying His Gratitude.

In these days of business women,
as well as of business men, it is be-
coming evident that readjustment
of certain social and economic ques-
tions is necessary. It has, in fact,
taken place in at least one family
where each side of the house earns
an income.
The husband was i'll not long ago,
and his wife was his devoted and un-
hring nurse. On his first outing upon
his convalescence he felt that he
would like to testify to his gratitude
and appreciation in some tangible
way. What did he do9 Pick out a
bunch of roses, book or a trinket
for her adornment2 Not at all. He
bought a box of candy and paid the
gas bill, which in the division of
household expenses fell to her sharei
Her Point Of View in New York
Times
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Railroads Cannot Agree.

Omaha, Oct. 24-General Passenger
Agent Lomax, of the Union Pacific, was
seen this morning regarding the immlgra
tion situation. and said be could not
understand why so much stress was beng
laid on the matter at this particular time.
A month ago Chairman Caldwell, of the
Western Passenger Association, took up
the matter and about week ago spec.
ial committee, composed of White Knis
kern and Sebastian, were appointed to
investigate the matter. He said :"White
wired me asking if be could have a meet
Ing Saturday of this week in Omaha.
Certainly l replied, since which time
haye heard nothing. The Santa Fe is
all right in its position regarding the
business, but as long as the
Canadian Pacific, Great Northern, North
ern Pacific and Southern Pacific remain
out of the agreement, where is the use of
the Union Pacific signing any agreement2
When the agreement IS presented to me
with all the roads in interest on it, the
Union Pacific will JOIN the agreement,
not before"
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In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Oct 26-When the sen-
ate reconvened, the repeal bill was taken
up and the vice-president stated the
question to be on the one offered by Pef-
fer, reviving the coinage law of 1887.
Teller resumed his speech against the
bill. Teller, without finishing, yielded
the floor to Squire, who spoke in favor of
his amendment to the repeal bill of which
be gave notice October 10.
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President PeIxoto's Decree.

Rio JANEIRo, Oct. 25-Peixoto's gov
eminent issued degree October 10
which extended the period of martial law
under which the city has been placed
from that date up to Oct. 90. The same
degree restricts the liberty of the press
entirely, provides for the expulsion of
foreigners from the country who may
render themselves obnoxious to Peixoto,
and removes any guarantee for the safety
of their lives and property which hereto>
ore has been rendered.
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Indians OF Perm In Rexolt.

LIMA, Peru, Oct 26-News Of serious
Importance has just been received from
Huancayo. 1t has been stated that the
Indians there are rising revolt against
the government. They are in favor of
ex President CARES, whose citizenship
was recently taken from him by the Peru
Wan congress. Congress has disapproved
the proposed treaty with Ecuador, dehn-
ing the boundary limits OF the two coun-
tries
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A Volcanic Eruption.

VALPARAISO, Oct. 25-The volcano on
Mount Calbuco has again become active.
The streets of Orsomo are filled with piles
of ashes which have been thrown up
from the crater. Traffic is almost stopped
by them on the roads near by. Great
alarm exists among the residents lest the
eruption should assume more dangerous
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olive r in Peru.

LIMA, Peru, Oct. 25-The house of
deputies has approved several clauses of
the monetary bill now under considera-
ton, and the export duty on silver bars
has been abolished. Twenty five per
cent. of the import duties will be payable
In gold coin after April next, and only
Peruvian silver coin will thereafter he
legal tender throughout the entire re-
public. The senate has authorized the
administration to issue a loan of 1,000,-
900 silver soils, guaranteed by the excise
duties, the tax on opium and 10000 tons
OF guano from the Chinchi islands.
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meeting of the CABINET.

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a One or two
diplomatic appointments were decided
upon at today's cabinet meeting, and
number of routine matters connected
with the various departments were con-
sidereo, but the greatest amount of time
and attention was bestowed upon the ALL
absorbing topic of silver and the situa-
tion in the senate.
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In the House.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 6-The house
opened with prayer this morning by Rev
Mr.. Smithin, of this city. He referred
feeliDgly to the death of Chsplain Sam
uel W. Haddway this morning. Reso-
lutions OF regret at the death and appoin.
ting a committee TO attend the funeral
were adopted. Senate amendment to the
JOINT resolution extending the acknowl-
of the United States to the
foreign governments for participation in
the Columbian exposition was adopted.
Joint resolution to abandon the present
method of having bills and resolutions
engrossed and enrolled by hand and to
have them printed instead; passed.
Discussion of the bankruptcy bill re-
sumed, Boatner OF LOUISIANA taking the
fiOOr