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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
VAR MAY RESULT.

The action of congress in reference
to the Cuban matter is little short of a
declaration of war, for Spain, though
weak as she is, cannot but resent the
friendly offers of this government to
restore peace between Cuba and the
mother country, by granting Cuba the
government of her choice. SPAN can
not afford to give up Cuba, though
her effort to retain control of the island
may involve her in war with this
nation. 1t is a life and death struggle,
for without the revenues : extorted
from Cuba, Spain is hopelessly bank
rupt. But even if the action of con-
gress should involve US in war with
Spain, it is certain that the move re-
ceives the approval of very large
majority of American citizens. The
sympathy of the American people is
all with the patriotic Cubans who are
struggling for Independence. They
are ready to pledge their support, both
financially and personally, to the is
landers who are endeavoring to throw
off the yoke of Spanish tyrany, and if
war shall result, the administration
will receive the heartiest support in
its prosecution to a final termination.
The sentiment prevails throughout
this country that no foreign power
shall oppress its subjects on this side
OF the Atlantic, even though force of
arms must be resorted to. With this
feeling predominating Spain has but
one. course left, to acknowledge Cuban |
independence or hazard a war with the
United States.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
BURLEIGH rRIUAIPHs.

Is stm Receiver for the Northern Pacific
| Railroad
| SEATTLE, Wash, March Am the
federal court this morning. Circuit
Judge Gilbert handed down decision,
District Judge Hanford concurring, in
which the application of the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company for the re-
moval of Andrew F. Burleigh, and the
confirmation of Bigelow and McHenry,
Judge Jenkins appointees. was de-
MED. The court stated that Mr.. Bur-
leigh would continue to act as receiver
for the Northern Pacific in this state,
and in Oregon, Montana and Idaho.
He will continue to receive $4,000 a
year.
Judge Glib ert wrote the decision
He takes the position that Justice
Fields order, while making Judge
Jenkins court the court of pri-
mary jurisdiction, gave this court the
right to do what was necessary to pro-
tect creditors and other affairs in the
circuit. To do that it is necessary
that this court should have a receiver
who was under it and who would be
responsible to it for his s.acts.
Justice Fields order never provided
that the Jenkins; men should be con-
frmed as receivers.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07

The IIMES- ES-MoUNTAINEER a few
days ago predicted that another in
junction suit in the branch asylum
case would be begun so soon as
some one could be found to file
the complaint, and this one has
been found, James Mccain, district at
torney for the third judicial district,
having yesterday fled injunction pro-
ceedings restraining the state treas
urer from paying the warrant drawn
for the purchase of lands for the asylum.
These repeated injunction suits are
becoming an old chestnut. People
are beginning to realize that there is
something behind them more than a
desire on the part of the instigators
to enforce the provisions of the state
constitution. There are even some 80
wicked as to believe that it is scheme
to keep the amount of the appropria-
tion in the hands of the state treasurer
to be speculated on by him and his
friends. Be this as it may, it looks
like folly to continue the fight against
the branch asylum longer, since the
supreme court has already passed up
On the objections that have been raised
against it.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07

more of his life to the nation than have
thousands of other men. 1t required
no martyrdom on his part to serve the
nation in official positions nearly all
his life at salaries ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 a year. The positions he
filled in the civil service were offices
of his choice, not forced upon him
against bis own election, and were not
absolutely necessary for the welfare
or safety of his country. The greater
portion of Gresham's life was spent in
public Office it is true, but there are
lnousrnds of others who have rendered
fully as good service, and if it is right
tc pension his widow it is
right to pension their families, and
carry the pensioning policy to an ex-
tent that will create and maintain a
class of dependents, similar to the royal
families of monarchal governments
leeches who labor not yet live off the
government.
The action of the senate in voting
Mrs. Gresham pension was anything
but commendable. 1t was an action
that should meet the severest condem-
nation everywhere, since it establishes
precedent that, if carried out, will
impoverish the nation; a precedent
that can but eliminate in oppression
to the masses by taking of their hard
earned store to support class of un-
deserving dreams.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
WILL THEY EXPLAIN?

Although Sunday was the first day
of March, the. opening of the canal and
locks at the Cascades was not cele-
brated by the patriotic people of The
Dalles, although they have looked for
ward to this time as the date on which
they would celebrate the important
event of the opening of the great
Columbia river to free navigation.
They have been promised time and
again by the contractors that the work
would be completed on March 1, 1896,
but their promise has not been kept.
Whose fault it is, whether it is the con-
tractors or the engineers, we are
not prepared to say; but it is
the fault of somebody; and now,
since the time for completing the locks
has expired and they are not opened
for traffic, and will net be for some
time to come, the people who are in
terested want to know the cause. Will
Messrs. Day and the government en-
gineer in charge of the work explain?
Will they inform the people why the
work has not been prosecuted more
expeditiously? Longer silence on their
part is inexcusable. Let them explain
why this delay, why this failure to full
fill their agreements.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
IT MIST BE MET.

Hon. Thomas Fitch, prominent
Arizona republican, believes thai upon
the question of finance, currency and
coinage the divergence of opinion
among republicans is so great that it
would be both unjust and inexpedient
for the majority in the republican
| national convention to formulate it's
| views upon them in its platform. He
wants that body to frame q plank to
remit the whole subject to the people
of the congress districts for determine
| tion, pledging the nominee of this
convention not to interpose the execu-
tive veto, or the power or patronage of
the executive office, to defeat any
| legislation with respect to coinage
that may be supported by majority of
the republican representatives and
| senators in congress.
This he advocates as a measure for
harmony, but it would be dear price
for that party to pay for the sake of
harmony, and it is not likely that his
plan will meet with the approval of the
majority. Such milk-and-water
plank lin the platform of either the
republican or democratic party
would mean certain defeat. The
financial question is one that must be
met and settled in the coming national
campaign. 1t must be defined in clear
and unmistakable terms, whether the
different political parties favor the free
coinage of silver and the retention of
the credit currency, or whether they
favor gold standard and the retire
ment of the greenbacks. The voters
of America demand that the currency
question be for once settled, and no
political party can refuse to heed this
demand. Such policy as Mr.. Fitch
advocates would, under these circum-
stances. be suicidal to the party promul-
eating it. The currency question has
been lodged in the past, but must be
fairly met in the campaign of 1896.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC.
This Disease Adding Its Terrors to the
Cuban War

New YORK. March 5.-A Washing
ton dispatch says:
Smallpox has been added to the hor
rors existing in Cuba, according to a
communication to Surgeon-Gen. Wy
man, of the marine hospital service,
from DR.. Caminero. In his report DIR.
Caminero says:
ga general order has been issued by
the authorities to all the practicing
physicians of the town to report any
case of smallpox presenting itself, for
the purpose of sending any such case
to smallpox hospital, provided by the
municipality outside of the city limits,
but this measure will not prevent, in
my judgment, the development of the
terrible disease if it should further
appear among US.
mo quarantine is enforced upon the
coasting steamers coming from the
port of Manzanillo, where smallpox is
epidemic, and most likely some passen-
gers will arrive with the disease in its
period of incubation, which, later on,
will develop into more or less malig-
nant form of smallpox. Yellow fever
seems stationary, and as the troops are
now in active operation in the field
those taken with it are carried to the
provisional hospitals established in the
SurrOupdiOn oouptrv
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
DECISION RESERVED.
Northern Pacific Receivership Case a
Seattle.

Northern Pacific Receivership Case at
Seattle.
SEATTLE, WASH, March 3.-The
formal application of the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company for the re-
moval of Andrew F. Burleigh and the
appointment of Messrs. McHenry and
Bigelow, in accordance with the deci-
sion of the four justices of the United
States supreme court, was presented
to Judge Gilbert and Judge Hanford
in the federal court this morning by
United States Senator Allen, of coun-
sci for the company.
The court will give its decision in
the matter tomorrow morning.
W. A. Underwood and General
James Ashton, of counsel for Mr..
Burleigh, made an argument opposing
the part of the motion asking for
Burleigh's removal. They took the
position that the court is not bound by
the decision of the four justices made
outside of their respective circuits, but
said that even admitting that Jenkins
court is the court of primary jurisdic-
tion, this court has the right to exer-
else its own discretion in the appoint-
ment of receivers in this state.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
A MoCKERY OF JUSTICE.

The proceedings in the District Of
Columbia court in the case of Miss
Flagler, indicted for manslaughter in
killing colored boy last summer, was
a gross mockery of justice. -
The case was privatly arranged with
the judge and district-attorney to be
called half an hour before the regular
time of opening the court. This was
done to "avoid publicity and to save
the feelings of the aristocratic young
woman who had only "killed little
nigger," caught stealing her fathers
fruit. A plea of "guilty of involuntary
manslaughter" made to avoid the or
deal of a trial-was accepted. and the
young woman was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for three hours in jail and
to pay fine of $500!
And still some people pretend to
wonder that our courts are falling in
to contempt, and that there is preva-
lent bitter feeling that there is one
law for the poor and another for the
rich,-N, Y, World.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
WHEAT IN 1899.

On Jan. !, 1892, the market price OF
wheat was $1.054 per bnshel. Granu-
lated sugar was then worth cents a
pound. A bushel of wheat bought
nearly 264 pounds of sugar. On
January /, 1896, wheat was worth SO
cents and sugar S cents, a bushel of
wheat buying less than IA pounds of
sugar. Under Mckinley protection
the farmers bushel of wheat bought
over IL pounds more sugar than it did
this year under our democratic free
trade tariff. Portland Chronicle.
The Chronicle certainly does not ex-
pect farmers to believe such rot. Men
who had wheat to market in 1892 know
full well that they did not receive
S1.051 on any any thing like that price.
In Chicago, which is the greatest
wheat market in America, the highest
price during the year 1892 was 919
cents in February. while the market
was the lowest in October, the QUOTA
tions for that month being 69t cents.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
AT HAvANA,s GATES.
Maceo Within Sight of the Cuban Capital
Gomez In the Heart of Matanzas

Maceo Within Sight of the Cuban Capital
Gomez In the Heart of Matanzas.
New YORK, March ga special
from Havana says:
Nobody has paid much attention to
reports from the field lately. Wash
ington and Madrid have been the sole
centers of interest. Yet, within a
few days, Gomez and Maceo have
| achieved other successes in the face of
strong opposing columns, which have
| made the world wonder how it can be
DONE
General Weyler, apparently believ-
ing he had driven them to their
stronghold in the everglades of
Cienaga de Seapata, has been hurry
ing thousands of troops into Santa
Clara by land ard sea with one pur-
pose of hemming the enemy in at that
point. General Pando, in command
in Santa Clara, only awaited the ar
rival of these troops to strike hard
blows. But Gomez and Maceo hav-
ing left in the everglades hospital all
their wounded and ill, taken east from
their raids in the western provinces,
strengthened their forces with new
troops fresh from Puerto Principe and
San Diego. and then, while the Span
ish battalions were en- route to catch |
them, they unexpectedly turned west /
again, slipping past all distractions
with only few skirmishes.
Now Gomez is in the heart of |
Matanzas and Maceo is once more al
most in the gates Of the capital.
Trains have been fred on just beyond
the city on the Matanzas road and
Monday night there was sharp skir-
mish only three miles beyond the
suburb of Jesus del Monte, settle
nent to which Havana horse-cars and
omnibuses make regular trips. There
was no official report CT the affair
given out.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
WE IMPORT TOO MUCH.

There are two drains upon the wealth
of the Pacific coast that will keep the
people Impoverished until, they are
checked. They are the annual interest
paid on foreign capital invested in
property onvthe coast and the money
that is paid for articles of consumption
that ought to be produced here. These
two sources act upon the wealth of the
country like leeches upon the human
system, sapping its life blood from it.
Nand giving nothing in return. The
first is the outgrowth of too rapid ad-
vancement in the large cities, which it
was attempted to build up in mammoth
brick blocks, on borrowed capital, far in
advance of the resources of the country
surrounding them, instead of build
ing them up as manufacturing centers,
where wealth would be produced in
stead of consumed. The second cause
is also primarily due to this mistaken
idea. Had one-hslf the foreign capital
that is today tied up in the large build
ing OF our cities, which are in many
instances not paying interest, been in
vested in manufacturing enterprises,
this coast would be manufacturing
largely the articles which it is import
ing from the east, and which causes
such q heavy drain upon its wealth.
Instead of-sending its money abroad
for clothing, carpets, blankets, furni-
ture, wagons, agricultural implements,
canned goods, hams and other articles
of food, it would be kept at home, and
possibly some surplus would be left to
export.
The Pacific coast will never become !
really prosperous until it ceases send
ing its raw material to the Atlantic
coast to be manufactured, paying
freight on the raw material east and on
the manufactured articles when they
return. The drain upon our wealth for
freight rates alone, to say nothing of
the wages we are paying eastern opera
tives, is more than the resources of the
country can stand. When this is stop
ped, when the products of the Pacific
coast tareconverted into finished article
1T home, then it will become the most
section of the country, but
until then sort of hand-to-moath con-
dition will prevail; the profits on every
will be consumed by eastern
manufacturers and eastern money
lenders. Il
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
MORE PROMISES.

Col. Day thinks The Dalles papers
are a little 100 impatient about the
opening of the locks at the Cascades.
This may be, but the colonel should
remember that Eastern Oregon has
been patiently, yes, very patiently,
waiting nearly twenty years for this
important event, and the papers of this
city must be excused if they display a
little feeling at the failure of the con-
tractors to fulfill their promise to put a
boat through the locks on March 1st.
However, he makes another promise;
that we will have to wait only a little
longer; that the contract will be SEN
tirely completed in the course of sew
eral weeks" This is good promise,
but the course of several weeks is a
little indefinite. It may mean month
or it may mean a year. Had The
Dalles papers any assurance that these
"several weeks" meant month or
even two months, they might cease
complaining, pat the contractors on
the back, and heartily commend them
for having prosecuted such ''stupen-
dous'' work. But in the light of past
experience, they cannot feel much en-
couraged at these last promises, espec-
tally when the colonel has discovered
that the plans are to be again changed
and that retaining wells'' for the mid
die lock, which will require month to
construct, are liable to be added. If
this new appliance is determined upon,
will it be the last addition, or will the
discover something else
that is lacking, and recommend other
time-consuming improvements?
We can heartily agree with Col. Day.
that the contract is all but finished,
and has been for number Of months
past. But the locks were not opened
on March 1st, the date fixed by him
self for the opening, and the people
whose interests are directly affected by
this failure are entitled to an explana-
ton of the cause. The papers who
represent these people are justified in
impatience. We heartily
trust that his new invoice of promises
will mean something more than idle
words, and that the several weeks"
Nill be reduced to a minimum. What
&e want is the locks opened, and that
- . duso curly euUugn JuaI rnIs seas
- = L
passed through them. If this can be
done on Col. Days renewed promises,
veil and good; if not, we shall re-
main impatient and clamorous in our
demands that the contractors exert a
little more activity.
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Tinles- s-Mollntaineer.
MARCH I, 1896
a FALSE IDEA.

Many papers and many people
throughout the country appear honest
in their belief that all the financial ills
which the country has undergone the
past few years would be cured by the
re-enactment of the Mckinley tariff
law, and that with an increased revenue
law in operation, the gold reserve for
the redemption of credit currency
could be maintained without difficulty.
Such certainly are only casual observ-
ers, and have forgotten that at the
close of President Harrison's admins
tration, after the law of 1890 had been
in force for almost two years, the gold
reserve was seriously threatened, and
that the then secretary of the treasury,
Mr.. Foster, was seriously consid-
ering the issuing of a call for bonds.
Thev are not close observers of
past occurrences or present events, or
ters not how much money is gathered
into the treasury, if it is other than
gold, it is valueless for maintaining
the nations credit so far as the re-
demption of credit currency is con-
cerned. There are now over 1926, ,0O0,-
600 available cash, paper money and
silver, in the treasury, over and above
the gold reserve, yet is OF no use in
certificates. And 80 long as revenue
taxes and customs duties are payable
in any money of the nation, increased
revenues could be no benefit as a
source of redemption. Those who be-
ieve that increased revenues would
protect the gold reserve, and thus rem
der bond issues unnecessary, should
carefully read the following letter from
the pen of Prof. .Laughlin, of the
Chicago university, which appeared in
the February Forum:
SIT has been urged in some quarters |
that the dwindling gold reserve is due
to the deficits of our budgets; that if |
the revenue were increased sufficiently, |
the gold reserve could be maintained |
intact. There are only two ways by |
which the treasury can obtain gold: (1) |
through the payment of revenue; or
(2,l just as blankets or shoes can be got,
by purchase through the offer Of
bonds or their equivalent, The first
and normal source of supply has been
entirely cut off; and hence the reserve
can be replenished in only one other
way, SO long as the existing tdistrust
continues and that is by the sale of
bonds. No matter how much more
revenue be raised, no matter how
much larger the mere surplus of in
come over expenditure may be, the
gold reserve cannot be maintained If
that greater revenue and that larger
surplus consists of greenbacks or silver
money the very objects to be re
deemed. To Increase taxes, to sN@ll
out the surp}ps, viii not eser1
monetary dapger unless ther8k . I
epange g made In the Kind Of -
1oid Into tho treasury. tseeem@ I
: joke to say that increasing taxes VII
increase confidence in the standard,
when no gold can come in from an insl
creased revenue, as things now stard. Il
The treasury has money, but nqt the
nroner kind of monav {f
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judgement Was Confirmed.

PHILADELPHIA, March 4.-The su
preme court today, in a decision by
Justice Williams overruled all assign
ment of error in the case of 81. II
Holmes, sentenced to death for mur'
dering of Benjamin F. Peitzel, and
confirmed the judgement of the court
below. The opinion says no substan.
tial error has been pointed out, and
the evidence fully sustained the ver-
dict. Governor Hastings, it is be-
lieved, will fix an early day for the
execution. Holmes is said to have
recently sent for Catholic priest,
who visited him several times.
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HITS THE RAILWAYS HARD.
A Decision That Puts Life Into the Inte
state Commerce Act.

A Decision That Puts Life Into the Inter
state Commerce Act.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-One of the
most important decisions ever made
by the supreme court has been handed
down. 1t will put new life into the
interstate commerce act and create a
great sensation in railway circles.
The power of the government to COM
pei witnesses to testify or to send them
to Jail is established by this decision.
The decision is in favor of the gov
ernment in the famous Brown case
from Pittsburg. This Is an interstate
commerce case. Upon the decision
rests the rower of the government to
regulate commerce. Heretofore the
government has been unable to COM
pei witnesses to testify. Thus its at
torneys were unable to secure evidence
to enforce the laws regulating COM
merce. Hereafter any man, no matter
who he is, can be compelled to testify,
even if it incriminates himself. If he
refuses he can be sent to Jail for con-
tempt of court, to remain until he
changes his mind.
A witness, however, giving testi-
monY against himself is by his own
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/ DANGEROUS PRECEDENT

The Chicago Inter Ocean says: "The
United States did well in voting
unanimously pension of 800 per
month to Mrs. Gresham. General
Gresham's political course may have
been erratic during the last years of
his life, but all the same he.was a warm
hearted, patriotic, man, who gave all
the best years Of his life to his
country's service. The public care
for the comfort of the wife he so
tenderly loved is O. memorial
that General Gresham, If alive, would
more keenly appreciate than any other
that could possibly be given"
Ye gods! would great and infuen-
tial paper like the Inter Ocean estab-
lish the precedent that the widow of
every great, warm-hearted, patriotic
man who has served his country dur
ing the best years of his life be pen.
eiened? General Gresham gave no