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TIL Yat,ttett I 1898.

The New York National Bank Presi-
dents Conspiracy AGAINST Industri
and Property. A History OF the
Panic of 1898, its Organization
and Methods.
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the roll of the house, while the clerk
OF the senate called the roll of the
senate. Calling the roll then began.
The clerk in calling the names of the
members of the senate omitted to call
those of James and Walton. The
clerk of the house ommitted the name
of Kaufman, democrat. Roll call
showed ITO members present, with two
pairs. The ballot for senator then be-
gun. The republicans refused to vote.
The ballot resulted: Blackburn 81,
Carlisle 10, Buckner l. The chair de-
cided that as only 65 votes had been
cast there vas no quorum. The as
sembly adjourned at once. Therepub-
licans of the senate made a mistake
when they refused to vote on the ques-
tlon of declaring Walton and James
Ineligible to seats. Had the republi-
cans all voted mo- it is claimed by
many that the senators would not have
been legally unseated, as it requires a
two-third vote to expel members. The
opinion prevails that there will be no
election because the republicans will
refuse to vote from day to day and
thereby break a quorum.
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ASSISTANCE : ASSURED.

The efforts put forth by The Dalles
Commercial Club to secure additional
appropriations for the completion and
protection of the government works at
the Cascades, are beginning to have
good effect. Senator Mitchell has
already introduced a resolution in COM
pliance with tie requests of the club,
mention of which was made. in these
columns several days since. and Repre-
sentatiyes Ellis and Hermann have
written to the officers of the club stat
ing that each will cooperate with the
other members of the Oregon delega-
ton at Washington to secure the de-
sired legislation They assure the
officers of the club that the matter
shall receive immediate attention.
With the delegation thus aroused to
the needs of the occasion, it is very
probable that the appropriation asked
for by the government engineers will
be granted by the present session. IT
this is done there is nothing to hinder
the canal and locks being made ready
for traffic this year.
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EXPERIMENTS IN GERMANY.
What Later Developments of the Y Rays
Have Shown.

What Later Developments of the Y Rays
Have Shown.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-United
States Consul-General- Dekay, of Ber-
lin, has submitted to the state depart
ment an interesting report on later
developments of the x rays, accom-
panied by pamphlet in which Profess
sor Roentgen, the discoverer, explains
his researches. The consul-general's
report gives many facts that have been
discovered by the European expert
menters in regard to the rays which
are unknown in the country.
One of the most important applica-
tions of the rays has been made surgi-
cally. By placing subject to be ex-
amined before screen faced with
mixture of barium, platinum and cyan
ium, and allowing the rays from tube
enclosed in dark cloth to traverse
the body, the impression can be seen
by the eye on the screen, which is rem
dered fuorescent where the rays fall
uninterruptedly upon it, and the sur
geon is consequently enabled to view
the subject freely before the screen
and examine the interior of the body
for foreign substances or hurtful
growths and distorted bones.
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LIGHT BREAKING IN THE EAST

The first CLEANS of returning dem
ocratic daylight are beginning to
break in the seast, says the Examiner.
AS usual it is the local elections that
Indicate the approaching change. In
Pennsylvania, in twenty-one cities
outside of Philadelphia, that have
held elections within the past two
weeks the republicans have carried
eleven and the democrats ten. For a
state that gave republican plurality
or ia ,264 less than four months ago
that is not bad. Pittsburg, which had
a republican majority of $4,000, has
just come within 1000 votes of going
over to the democrats. In New York,
while the democratic revival has not
yet reached startling proportions,
many of the democratic towns lost in
the disasters of the past three years
have been recovered and some re-
publican strongholds have been cap
tured. The election of Josiah Quincy
as mayor of Boston proves that the
lapse of the metropolis of New England
from democracy was only temporary.
The republican bosses in New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecti-
cut and other states are doing every
thing in their power to make the
people forget their resentment at demo-
cratic misgovernment, and in many
cases they are succeeding to perfection.
The republican congress is giving
them efficient aid. On a rough calcu-
lation it may be-, estimated that every
week of republican imbecility at
Washington is worth about hundred
thousand votes for the democratic
presidential ticket.
The first conspicuous political test
of the year will come on the 1st of
April, when Rhode Island will hold
state election. The result of the spring
election in Rhode Island is always
a trustworthy indication of the drift of
feeling in the country at the time.
If the democrats succeed in cut
ting down the republican majority
there to normal proportions it
will be reasonably certain that the
stress of hard times is over for the
democracy, and that the presidential
election will be held at the polls and
not in.the convention hall at st. Louis.
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up in congress. The scramble for ad-

up in congress. The scramble for adj
vantage one way or the other, either
by the manufacturer of producer, is
just as great as it was the day the first
tariff bill was introduced. Hence it is
that many believe it an utter impos-
sibility to pass tariff law that will af-
ford equitable protection to all, or
even majority of the people. What
is beneficial to one industry is detri-
mental to another, SO about the only
protective law that would deal justly
with all, would be one fixing duties so
high as to prohibit foreign commerce
entirely, and cause the people to live
and trade exclusively among them
selves.
But there is a simpler system OF pro-
lection, which if adopted by the Ameri-
can people, would require no law to
enforce, that would result in a most
effective system of protection being
thrown around every industry, and in
a remarkably short space of time would
cause Americas commerce to be con-
fined almost exclusively to home mar
kets. Had the people of America to-
day that patriotism possessed by the
1"Boston Tea Party" when they de-
clared they woald have nothing to do
with foreign products and hove cargo
of tea into the sea, there would be no
need of protection laws. Of course it
would not be practicable to adopt this
principle literally, for there are some
articles which we require that we can
not produce, but ii the principle were
more prevalent among the American
people, that. home products are good
enough for home consumption, Ameri-
can manufacturing would be materially
stimulated. . -..---l
There is too much of tendency to
want something imported. The idea
seems TO prevail among too many peo-
pie that dresses made in Paris, cloth
ing made in Manchester, and in fact
anything made abroad, is superior in
quality and finish to The same class of
articles produce at home. The result
is that we send millions of dollars to
foreign countries for articles that are
really inferior to the same class pro-
duced at home, and by SO doing we
are keeping our manufacturing enter
prises down and depriving our labor
ers of employment. A true sense OF
patriotism would dictate that we con-
fine as nearly as possible our consump-
tions to home products; that we give
preference to the home products when
brought in competition with for
eign. If this spirit of patriotism
prevailed among the American people,
the cry of"protection to American in
dustries" would soon cease, for we
would have system of protection that
would be perfectly effectual, and would
possess the virtue of not being burden
some. 1o a-iz-T-- -5--- -'---- 's--1'-'i -''--
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W. T. HOFFMAN killed.

CORVALLIS, March==11 "A
heavy printing press was being moved
upstairs in the postofice building at II
Am. today, when the chain by which
itoowas being Lhoisted broke. The
press fell down the entire flight of
stairs, struck Nv. T. Hoffman and
pinned him to the floor. He was re-
leased and carried to the Hemphill
house and medical aid summoned. Z He
was badly mutilated, and suffered in
tense agony until his death, which oc-
Cured at P. M. "
Three other men, who were on the
stairs blocking the press from below,
narrowly escaped. The press, which
weighed over ton, was intended for
new populist paper to be emitted by
Mr.. Hoffman 1t was badly damaged.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
SAN FRANcIsco,s sTRANGLER.
Another Women of the Town Murdered
II H Monday Night


Another Women of the Town Murdered
A Monday Night. 81
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10.-An.
other women of the town was straD gled
early this morning under circum-
stances almost Identical with two
other murders that have taken place
recently in the same locality.
Early this morning woman named
Bertha Paradis, of 27 St. Mary's street,
was found dead in her bed. When
found she was half reclining on the
bed, her feet on the floor. She had
been strangled, handkerchief having
been thrust down her throat. The
room was in perfect order. Nothing
had been disturbed apparently. The
girl lay fully dressed on her bed. No
marks of violence were on the neck.
She had apparently been seized, and a
napkin, as we'll as handkerchief, had
been crowded down her throat. The
money on her was not touched, nor had
there been any apparent effort to go
through the bureau drawers or other
places where money might be kept.
To the hasty investigation of the police
it seemed like crime not actuated by
the motive of robbery.
The police believe they have gained
slight clew to the criminal. J. P.
Myler, who is waiter in the saloon on
the corner, was summoned about 2
o'clock to take drinks TO Bertha Para
dis room. When he delivered the
drinks he found two men in the
woman's room. About 20 minutes
later one of the men came into the sa-
loon. He was blonde of medium
height, and Myler is sure that he is
employed on gasoline launch on the
water front. -..
Two men have been arrested on sus-
picion of strangling the woman. The
police refuse to say who the men are or
to give their names, but it is stated
they were seen in the woman's house
shortly before the murder was COM
mitted. An autopsy showed the
woman had been strangled to death.
Another woman of the same class
was strangled in the same manner
about month ago, and the inhabi-
tants of Morton street and St. Mary's
place are in state of terror as the re-
suit. -----..-.
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DESERVING ENTERPRISE

The move inaugurated by the Colum-
bia Portage and Transportation COM
pany to remove the distractions to
navigation of the Upper Columbia
river, by building portage road be-
tween The Dalles and Cello, is one
that is deserving of encouragement
and substantial aid. Such an enter
prise, if put in operation, would solve
the problem of navigating the Colum-
bia river and would give the farmers
of the upper country all the ad-
vantages of an open river in a COM
paratively short space of time.
True, portage road can be only
temporary, as more permanent i'm
provements, either boat railway or
canal and locks, will sometime be con-
structed, but the date when such i'm
provements will be commenced is un-
certain. Even if the bill Senator
Mitchell has introduced, making an
appropriation for boat-railway,
should become a law at this session
Vi = COuSEoSSs ~ 80 Will 10 oONOTd1
years before it can be completed. A
portage road, however, can be con-
structed within six months, and placed
in operationli in time for the handling
of this years. wheat crop. If portage
road is to beconstructed it is certainly
preferable that it be. under the man
agement of local company, composed
of parties who are directly interested
in maintaining it, thar itshould be in
the hands of a foreign company, hence
the stock of the company that has just
been Incorporated ought to be readily
subscribed by the business men and
farmers of this. Sherman and Gillian
counties. The saving on freight rates
for handling this years crop of wheat
in Sherman and Gillian counties would
go far toward constructing the road,
and it is only business proposition
for the farmers in those counties to in
terest themselves in the new corpora
tion. Each and every one of them
should take at least as much stock in
the company as the difference in the
ost of transportation of his crop will |
to
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UNDER CoNsTABULARY RULE.
Twenty Extra Policemen on Dnty at the
Capitol.


Capitol.
LOUISVILLE, March ia special
to the Post from Frankfort says: 1.-The
capitol is under constabulary rule this
morning. Mayor Julien ordered
about 20 extra policemen to remain on
duty in the rotunda with instructions
to keep the rotunda absolutely clear.
This course was decided on by the
mayor after a consultation with the
governor who said that if Frankfort
was unable to afford police protection
to the members he intended to do so if
it took every state guard in Kentucky.
Senators James and Walton were in
the house chambers ready to be on
hand when the joint session began.
When the joint-assembly met,
Bronston asked that every one be ex-
cluded from the floor of the house save
the members of the joint-assembly,
and officers of the press, The republi-
cans refused to vote. EdringtOp and
Poor voted with the democrats. The
chair announced no quorum. He was
still of the opinion that seventy mem
bers constituted quorum and would
so rule, and in all ballots for senator
10 members must be voting 60 insure
an election. The roll call showed 130
mem bers present. The ballot resulted:
Blackburn 50. Carlisle II, Buckner i.
The republicans and popllist Poor
refused to vote and theschair decided
no election. The democrats says that
if 10 votes are required for "a quorum
there VIII be no election this session.
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EFFECTITE PROTECTION,


More speeches have been delivered
and more editorials written in the
past thirty years on the subject of pro-
lection to home industries and Ameri-
can labor than upon any other one
subject, and it is certain that all this
display of oratorical and editorial
ability has effected little, at least so
far as final determination of what
manner of protection would be best
for the masses, is considered, After
all that has been said and written on
this subject, and the trial that the
system of protection had from
tariffs has been subjected to, itwould
seem that the American people should
by this time be able TO understand Just
what sort Of protection their varied din-
dustries require, but such is not the
case. The divergence OF opinion is
just as wide today as it was when the
question Of protection was first brought
=" Il
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i, RHERE. DO THEY STAND9s

Although the presidential campaign
this fall must, to great extent, hinge
upon the financial question, this being
a year when aspirants for the presi-
dency must "stand up and be counted
on the choice between gold standard
and the free coinage of silver, republi-
can candidates for the presidency are
loath to express their views, or tell
where they stand. The Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette recently asked all
the republican candidates by telegraph
the following question:; .,;-a9.
s'We respectfully request from you,
in common with other republican can-
didates for the presidency, a clear
definition by telegraph OF. your posi-
tion on the money question. So
|'Do you favor decided expression
by the republican party of the national
convention?" .. g.,..,,.,.. 5..-.s.
Quay replies that the "unity of the
party" must be preserved, and favors a
plank something iike''s the straddle
of 1892. Elkins also favors that equivo-
cation. Mckinley, Davis, Henderson,
Allison, Reed, Cullom and Morton
make no response Whatever. The Com
mercial Gazette tells these gentlemen
that their silence will not satisfy voters
on either side, that voters 'swil not be
content with evasions," and that no
man is q leader who cannot lead on
this question" It adds with entire
truth and pertinence: 49, s-sfq
sMr. Whitney, declaring himself not
to be candidate for the democratic
nomination, says: The free silver
policy is in my opinion fundamentally
wrong and vicious This plain,
straight-forward declaration may make
him candidate in spite of himself.
What is wanted on the republican side
from those who are candidates is 2
declaration equally plain, equally
frank "a ss.,,,f,,.tf.5ildi a.. So;
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ton of their duties in reference to the
government improvements atsthe Cas-
cades, and the activity they are begin
ming to display gives grounds for
hope that some relief, in the way of an
additional appropriation for the COM
pletion and protection of the works at
that place, may be had at the present
session. Mr.. S. L. Brooks is in re-
ceipt of a letter from Congressman
Ellis stating that the delegation will
use every endeavor to secure an ap-
preparation, and that speedy action
will be recommended, and the follow
ing item appeared in Saturdays dis
patches from Washington:
Mitchell has been consulting with
the war department concerning an
emergency appropriation for the Cas-,
cade locks, to make the locks secure
so they can be early opened for navi'
CATION. He will introduce ajoint reso.
luton for such amount as the war de-
partment recommends, so that 1T may
be Immediately adopted"
With Senator Mitchell and Rep
resentative Ellis exerting proper en-
,ergy to secure an immediate appropria-
alton, backed up by the petitions from
thedifferent commercial organizations
of the cities along the Columbia, there
should be little delay in securing the
money with, which to prosecute the
work. Then if some of the customary
s.red tape" of the war department can
be disposed of, and a contract awarded
on business principles, with strict pro-
visions for the work being forced along
with all possible expediency, there is
at least a spark of hope that the locks
may be opened for traffic by harvest
time. ...-.... ....... .-5 -..-s:...s,. -5
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ANT1-AMEx1oAN SENTIMENT.
Local Newspapers flaming the Flame at
Barcelona. -s

Local Newspapers flaming the Flame at
Barcelona. -.-.>
NEW YORK, March 10.-A dispatch
to the Herald from Barcelona says:
The anti-American sentiment here
is increasing instead of abating. Lo-
cal newspapers are tanning the flame.
They state that the United States can
only put 10000 men into the field, and
that the American navy is but trifle
superior to the Spanish. 4e
- Careful investigation shows conclu-
sively that Spanish politics have had
a big hand in the Barcelona disturbance.
Nearly all the inhabitants here are
Galatians, and the Galatians, almost to a
man are republicans. They are heartily
opposed to the present government
and are making demonstrate ms here
against the United States with the di-
rect purpose of putting the govern
ment in hole and possibly causing
its overthrow. There is absolutely no
enthusiasm here over the Cuban war.
Whenever the troops start for Cuba
they are not even given a cheer. 2Al.A
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AGAINST. THE sPohs SYSTEM.
In all parts of the country the revolt
of the people against professional Off

In all parts of the country the revolt
of the people against professional Off
cialism and the spoils system, that has
prevailed SO many years, is general.
Regardless of party, the people are
awakening to the fact that public
servants have become their masters;
that the result of their energies is
being consumed to maintain a lot of
dreams with whom self aggrandizetnent
is at all times paramount; that the
people are being taxed to build up and
support class who have but one
object, to draw salaries regardless of
the service they render. And the
means they adopt to accomplish this
end are most questionable. This sys-
tenn has become so palpable that even
the strictest partisan papers are enter
ing protest against its continuance
in the parties with which they affiliate
The Chicago Times-H Herald, an emil
nent republican paper, in speaking of
the methods of republican politicians
in Chicago. Illinois, says PROFESSIONAL
spoilsmen run the conventions, man
age the primaries and frame tickets in
fagrant defiance of decent public
opinion. They parcel the Offices among
themselves. Tanner claims the gov
ernorship as if it were his personal
property. Herzt grabs at the state
treasury, Lorimer, Madden and jamie
son divide the spoils of Cook county
among them. The whole gang COM
bine to turn out member of congress
in whose character and record they do
not even attempt to pick flaw, and to
give his place oaman who is arraigned
in the public prints for conducting al
business demanding the attention of
the Society for the Suppression of |
Vice."
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TRADE WORTH INVITING. !

Notwithstanding the business men
of The Dalles have been wide awake in
the past in offering inducements for
outside trade, in the way of subscribing
literally to funds for building roads
into the interior, and last fall donated
$500 to the Rattlesnske road, leading
into Sherman county, still they can in
vest more money 10 this line to advan-
tage. Especially can this be done in
constructing and maintaining a good
road leading into the central part of
Sherman. The money that has been
subscribed to the Rattlesnake road is
sufficient to make fairly good
thoroughfare of it, but not such q
road as will insure all the wheat raised
south of Wasco coming to The Dalles.
Grass Valley this year will produce
an immense wheat crop and q large
wool clip. all of which wound. find its
way TO The Dalles if the road tothis
place were as good as that leading to
Rufus, which is the nearest shipping
point to Grass Valley, beingonly thirty
miles distant, while to The Dalles it is
thirty-seven miles. But to counter
balance this difference in distance, the
higher prices to be obtained here are
sufficient to induce the farmers to
trayel seven miles father, if the roads
were equal. On account of competing
transportation lines The Dalles will be
able this year to offer from three to
four cents more bushel for wheat and
from one, to two cents a pound more for!
wool than Rufus. Besides this, Dalles
merchants can and do offer greater in
dHcements, in the way of low prices,
forsthe farmers trade than any. other.
merchants in Eastern Oregon. All
these items are Inducements for the
farmers Of central and southern .Sher-
man county to bring their products to
this market. And this is cernainly
worth exerting an effort to secure.
The business men of The Dalles cannot
afford to allow donation of few
hundred dollars to be expended-on
roads to stand between them and the
prospect of securing the trade of one
of the richest agricultural districts of
the state. They should not wait to be
asked to contribute to such a fund, but
take it upon themselves to see that the
road leading into central Sherman
county is put in the best possible con
dition. By so doing they will secure
trade that will amount to thousands of
dollars annually, and will be perna-
nent.