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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-06
BLAZE IN A CAPITOL
Pennsylvania State Building
is Badly Damaged.
THE TREATY SIGNED
Those Who Will Arbitrate the Ven
ezuelan Boundary Question
Clothed With Authority,
Villas submits a Substitute For the Mic
aragua canal Bill-Shooting Scrape
at Medfoad-Yerkes to be Ap-
pointed Senator

HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 2.-Fire
broke out in the senate wing of the
state capitol this afternoon, and at 1:30
the building seems to be doomed, as
the fire department is unable to con-
troll the flames. The fire originated d in
the rooms of Lieutenant-G G overnor
Lyon, over the senate chamber. 1t
burned several minutes before it was
discovered. 1t had soon made such
headway that little could be saved in
the costly apartments of the lieutenant
governor.
Across the hall are the rooms OF
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Schaffer, who was alone in his Office
when the fire was discovered. He did
all he could to check the fire, but it
was not in his power. All he saved
was the appropriation books. Thou
sands of dollars worth of records were
lost.
AS Representative G. w. Rhodes
and j. W. Doggy were leaving the
chamber portion of the roof fell in.
They were slightly injured.
2:30 P. M.-The fire will be confined
to the capitol building. The entire
structure is now in flames in the in
terror. Both roofs fell in and soon the
great pillar at the main entrance will
fall. The walls are now cracking and
crumbling.
The loss is placed at 1000, 900; in
surance. 100000. The loss of valuable
records is great: They can never be
replaced.
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PROBABLY A DEADLOCK.

Events ut Salem seem to indicate
that there will be no permanent or
ganization of the house, and in conse-
quence, there will be no session of the
legislature. The members of the Ben
son house appear to have desire to
retaliate, and punish those who have
held out against organization by re-
fusing to meet with them or enter into
a compromise. Should twenty-one of
those who went into the Benson house
refuse to cooperate with the 'shold
OUTS" there could be no organization,
and since the object which apparently
they assembled for-the reelection Of
Senator Mitchell-has been frustrated.
it is not impossible that they will re-
tire from the state capitol and
let the legislative session go by
default. In some respects this would
be q serious procedure, since there is
some legislation demanding attention;
the appropriation bill should be passed,
the commissions and state boards
abolished, and the assessment and
taxation laws should be amended; but
it is not altogether safe for the tax
payers to give the legislature chance
to squander money as it is liable to
squander it in case an organization is
affected after such q bitter fight as has
been waged during the past mouth, so
it is probably as well that no session
he hold
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the Dominion government. While the
fact that such men as Laurier and
Charlton are anxious for more inti-
mate and friendly business and social
relations between the two countries
should operate to secure a more
friendly attitude toward Canadian it,
terests by this government, congress
should not allow itself to be persuaded
into making concessions that will en-
tail serious sacrifice of American in
terests.
At the same time it will be admitted,
after a careful analysis of the condi-
tions of trade, that wider freedom of
mutual interchange would be advan-
tageous to both countries. The United
States cannot object to freer inter-
course with Canada on the ground that
it will make Canada richer, provided
such intercourse increases the wealth
of this country in an equal or greater
proportion.
1t is believed by those who have
studied the trade relations of the two
countries that reciprocal arrange
ment would open up new and expand
ing markets for our Indian corn, which
would be used in Canada for stock
feeding and for other purposes. 1t is
claimed it would lead to an enormous
consumption of American pork among
Canadian lumbermen and the repeal of
the Canadian duty on -four and meal
would enable the United States to sup
ply Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and
Prince Edwards Island with bread
stuffs. 1t is also believed by many
who have investigated the subject that
the repeal of the duty of go cents on
bituminous coal would crowd out the
use of Nova Scotia coal in Canada
west of and including Montreal.
For the fiscal year ended June 80,
1895. the total exports of agricultural
products of the United States for that
year was SO, 10000. The total export
of Canadian animal products to the
United States sold to Canada during
the same period grain, flour meal and
garden seeds amounting to $4,000, 900,
while the Canadian exports of lumber
to the United States reached the enor-
nous sum of $12, $4,000. 1t is very
evident that the United States did not
receive just return for this serious
menace to our lumber interests under
the Wilson law.
Canada should be met in a friendly
and neighborly spirit, but with due re-
gard for the interests of American con-
sumers and producers. Congress
should be actuated by desire to es-
tablish the relation between Canada
and the United States on mutual, ad-
and friendly basis, and
should bring such craftsmanship to
bear on this question as will promote
the peace and prosperity of the great |
Anglo Saxon nations.
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sICKLEs WOULD AID CUBA.
He Offers to Ship Arms to Cuban Insur-
gents

He Offers to Ship Arms to Cuban InsuI-
gents
New YORK, Feb. 3-In an address on
the Cuban question last night before
the Brooklyn democr attic club in His
torical Hall, General Daniel L. Sickles
made the announcement that he was
ready to personally take charge of a
consignment of arms for the Cuban
insurgents. 81 will personally dis
patch them," he said, "and l will con-
sign them to General Gomez. l will
defy all interference. 1 would be
ready to accept all the consequences of
my action. l make this statement
not in defiance of law and of the
authorities, but becauseI know that
such an act would be perfectly lawful
and in line with the uniform decisions
of our courts"
During the course of his address
General Sickles declared that because
of our traditional position of not allow
ing any foreign power to interfere
with Spanish rule in Cuba this country
has assumed the responsibility for
whatever relief shall be given to Cuba
from the oppression under which it is
now suffering. He insisted that tho
United States owes it to civilization to
interfere. He was in favor of rec
ognizing the belligerency of the In
surg ents and ridiculed the idea that
war with Spain might result there
from.
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MAKING GOLD ODIOUS.

When it comes to reforming the
currency of the country it is found to
be as difficult and perplexing job as
revising the tariff. The last campaign
and the verdict of the people was that
the present gold standard should be
maintained until an agreement could
be reached with other nations, for in
ternational bimetalism. But the mean
ing of the verdict for gold, on proba-
tion as it were, has been mistaken by
the class who profit by the sale of gov
ernment bonds, and they ar making
their pet theory odious to some of their
most ardent supporters, by insisting
that it can be maintained only by the
issuance of more bonds, and turning
over the control of credit currency to
the national banks. By their methods
they have estranged such gold stand
ard advocates as the New York Sun,
which in recent issue passed this
comment upon their greed for bonds:
In the last rational campaign the
party pledged to honest money found
the strongest weapons in repudiations
hands to be the statement that the
preservation of the gold standard
during a period of less than three
years had caused the sale of bonds to
the amount of S262, 100000. This false
hood was first put forward by the ad-
ministration to conceal its failure in
tariff making; next it was taken by
the Bryanites as their leading argu-
ment for wiping the gold standard out
of existence; and now it is the stalk
horse of the would-be abolutionists of
the greenbacks.
These latter experts make the gold
standard more than twice as odious
and difficult to defend as it was made
either by Mr.. Cleveland, in the first
moments of chargin over his tariff
failure, or by the late party of disorder
and anarchy. To the S262, 600, 900 which
the gold standard has cost the country
during Mr.. Cleveland's present term,
say the bank-curreney party, we must |
add 1886, 100000 more, the sum of
United States notes which must be re-
1eemable and abolished before the gold |
standard will be secure and business |
stable. Seyen hundred apd thirty |
eight million dollars, therefore is the |
cash price to this country of honest !
aud national honor, according |
to their estimate.
These fanatical libellers of the gold !
and most effective promoters
of Organism, never mention the i'm |
portant facts that before the revenue
became deficient as much gold went
into the treasury as came out of it, the
green nbacks troubled nobody, and the
gold standard was not seriously as
sailed.
The green back abolition crusade is
Is crooked in it's methods and almost
Is inimical to commercial prosperity
Is the late crusade for disorder and re-
on6iatiOn
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Sherman, and that at the next session
of the legislature, which convenes in
January, 1898, Governor Bushnell
would himself be candidate for full
term.
1t is further stated on the same
authority that the lieutenant-governor
has agreed not to be a candidate for n
full term in opposition 10 Bushnell,
and the fight is between Bushnell and
Hanna. The gentleman who gave this
Information and whose knowledge of
the subject can not be doubted, said
the fight between Hanna aud Senator
Foraker would now be carried on to
the bitter end, and would, he said, not
be by any means confined to state
politics.
The report that Hanna is being
strongly urged to accept the postmas-
ter-generalship in McKipley's cabinet
is also verified, but thus far, it is
stated, he has steadily declined to enter
| the cabinet In any oaDacitv.
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Villas SUBSTITUTE.
Provides for Commission to Inspect the

Provides for Commission to Inspect the
Proposed Canal Routes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Senator Villas
today presented substitute for the
Nicaragua canal bill, which he gave
notice he would offer at the proper
time. 1t provides for commission.
composed of one member of the engi-
neer corps of the army, a naval engi-
neer and three other citizens of the
United States, to be nominated by the
president and confirmed by the senate,
which shall Investigate the entire
question. The commission is to be
known as the inter-oceanic canal COM
mission, and the members are to be
paid at the rate of $500 a month. The
board is required to visit and person
ally inspect the several lines or routes
projected, or which may seem to the
board to be sufficiently practicable to
demand an inquiry for an interoceanic
canal to connect the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans. They are required to
make surveys, ETC., to determine the
most feasible, practicable and econom-
ical route Tor the canal, and to submit
plans, specifications, etc., for the same
The commission is instructed to make
complete estimates on the probable
cost of such work on the route selected
as we'll as such routes as are considered
competitive. For the purpose of the
bill, 81 ,000.0 900 is made available by ap-
preparation.
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IN TIE SENATE.
Routine business Was Transacted at the
Morning Session,

Routine business Was Transacted at tn,
Morning Session,
SALEM, Or, Feb. 3-When the sen
ate reconvened today Senators Dufur
Daily and Johnson filed protests against
the ruling of President Simon yester
day in the case of the Brownell resolu'
tion on voting for senator.
Hazeltine's joint memorial to con.
gress to pension the Indian war vet
erans, { was passed. Mulkey's concur.
rent resolution for the modification oi
the Cascade reserve was recommitted
to o special committee of three, con.
sisting of Mulkey, McClung and Dufur.
King introduced two concurrent reso-
lutions amending the state constitu-
tion. Hughes offered a petition for
the adjustment of all commissions.
Driver presented a petition amending
the Dawson game law.
The following new bills were intro
duced: Michel, incorporating the
city of More: Gowan, amending the
act Incorporating the town of Long
Creek; Mulkey, providing for the pas
sage of a registry law: Wade, to pro-
hibit the use of railroad passes; Driver,
providing that if any member elected
to the legislature fails to qualify with
in two days after the time for the meet
ing of the session his seat shall be de
clared vacant.
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history pretty fast. Just read this
New York dispatch:

New York dispatch:
AFTER years OF quiet but persistent
effort the clothing manufacturers of
the country have finally organized q
combine, to be known as the National
Clothiers' Association. The firms
pledged to the scheme have an annual
output of S350,00O,OOo. The avowed
purposes of the corbine are 10 do away
with long credits, excessive rating and
the cancellation of orders, and to pro.
mote harmony where competition has
heretofore prevailed"
lent this refreshing to those of us
who are going around in winter wear:
ing our last years summer suits? Isn't
it pleasing to know that q trust has
been formed to ''promote harmony
where competition has heretofore. pre-
~riled?" That is there will be nc
more competition among dealers that
will give us clothing, at prices that dc
not insure immense profits to the mem
bers of the trust. But just read the
next paragraph of the dispatch:
s.The officers elected are as follows;
President. Samuel Rosenthal of Balti-
more; first vice president. Alfred Hook.
slater of New York; second vice presi-
dent. Adolph Nathan of Chicago, treas.
urer, Jacob Schur of Cincinnati"
Rosenthal, Hockstater, Nathan,
Schur! and they call themselves a
"National Association. Seems to us
those names might have been familiar
in Israel, but are a little uncommon
among native Americans. And these
are the gentlemen who have formed a
trust to prevent competition, and put
the price up on the clothes we wear.
All they need to make their trust a
success is q little more tariff so that
we cannot buy abroad, but will have
to patronize this "National Associa-
tiOn1 -
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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-02-06
MAKES SLOW PROGRESS.
French OHicials Received woIcott's Ad'
vancee Iudiferpntly

French OnhcIals Received woIcott's Ad-
vRnces Indiferently.
PARIS, Feb. 4.-Seuator Wolcott, OF
Colorado, who is visiting Europe In
the interest of hilnetalism, had an
interview yesterday with Premier
Meline. A epondent OF the AS
sociated Press learns. on authority,
that his efforts so far have been with
out the result hoped for by the senator.
The Interview with President Faure
on Sunday was short and formal, and
afforded no encouragement to look for
tangible results.
M. Loubet, president of the senate,
in his interview with Wolcott, is UNDER
stood to have expressed himself en-
Enthusiastically on the subject of biEet-
alism, but on the other hand, Premier
Meline was very guarded. He is re-
ported to have said that however favor
able France might be to the object
sought, nothing could be done unless
the consent of England and Germany
were previously obtained.
In official quarters little confidence
is felt in the ultimate success OF VOL
cott, although he seems to be sanguine
that England will take part in bime-
tallic movement.
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SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
Proposed Cuban Reforms Receive Royal
Sanction.

Sanction.
MADRID, Feb. 4.-The queen regen
today signed plan for reforms il
Cuba. The text of the document viii
be published on Saturday. The scheme
includes numerous and elaborate de
crees and will occupy several pages o
the official gazette.
1t is understood the reforms consist
chiefly in the creation of an assembly
to be called the council Of administra
tion, composed of 80 members, of whom
81 are to be elected by the people and
six by different corporations. The re.
mainder will be one magistrate. one
university professor, one archbishop
and five former senators or deputies.
The council of administration is en-
powered. firstly, to prepare budget;
secondly, to examine into the fitness
of officials appointed; third, they may
make tariff, subject to the condition
that Spanish imports will have the ad-
vantage over the general tariff.
The governor-general will represent
the home government, and have the
right to nominate officials who shall
be Cubans, or Spanish who have re-
sided two years in Cuba. Neyerthe-
less he may freely nominate high func-
tionaries, such as magistrates, projects,
etc.
Other DEGREES concern the organiza-
tion of provisional municipalities
which are to be literally representa-
tive. The municipal councils general
will be empowered to elect their presi-
dent and have exclusive control of the
public education.
According to another decree the
reserves to itself extra
ordinary powers in the event of any
of the public order, and
Cuba will continue to elect senators
and deputies to the cortes as at present.
Altogether the reforms are much
broader in the direction OF ofdecentraliza-
tion than those granted to Porto Rico.
The powers of the governor-general |
ire much extended, while the council |
If administration is fairly representa-
i've of all parties and interests. The |
Spanish government will continue to
'ote the budgets and treaties for the
Spanish products, according
o the reform scheme, will he allowed
rebate of 40 per cent of the Cuban
ariff compared with other imports.
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EDMUNDS AND THE TREATY

Ex Senator George F. Edmunds, who
has given scme attention to the arbi-
tration treaty between England and the
United States, and who is an authority
on such questions, thinks the objec-
tions which have been brought against
it are of very little weight, The Mon
roe doctrine is not affected by the
treaty, he believes, nor are our rela-
tions to the Nicaragua Canal endanger-
ed by it. In regard to the imagined
peril to US in this power of a European
to name an umpire in settlement of
disputes in certain contingencies, he
remarks very truly that so far as our
considerable experience goes we have
never had occasion to complain OF any
sovereign in naming an umpire or in
deciding a controversy"
The three chief points of criticism
against the treaty are thus dealt with.
When submitted to intelligent un-
biased examination, that is to say, the
objections to it are found to be not
formidable. Of course, some of the OBJ
jectors are against the treaty because
Cleveland favOrs it, and upon these
the ex-senator's arguments will have no
effect. Happily this obstructive ele-
ment is small.
1t is entirely safe to say that by the
vast majority of the senators the treaty
will be considered solely on it's merits,
without any regard for it's paternity,
or for the particular individuals or
element to whom its ratification would
bring glory. In matter of affecting
our relations with the rest of the world
there should be no partisanship or
petty factional prejudice. This is es-
pecially imperative in dealing with
question affecting the peace of the
country with the nation with which we
are brought in the closest contact, and
involving an agreement which would
be memorable triumph of civilization.
The senate will give the treaty the
careful consideration which its impor-
tance demands, and will be guided in
its action by the duty which it owes to
the country and to humanity.-Globe-
Democrat.
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THIS is THE FINAL ACT.
Arbitrators Chosen Arc Satisfactory t
Both Countries.

Arbitrators Chosen Arc Satisfactory to
Both Countries.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The treaty
of arbitration between Great Britain
and Venezuela will be signed at 5
o'clock this afternoon. The delay was
caused by difficulty in making up she
personnel of the arbitration commits
sion, not so much from objections to
persons nominated by either side as
from the trouble experienced in ar
ranging tribunal so as to interfere as
little as possible with the. important
routine work of the superior courts of
the United States and Great Britain,
from which bodies the four arbitrators
are drawn. Notice, however, was re-
ceived by cable this morning from
London that the privy council had
finally confirmed the selections made.
The four arbitrators, it is understood,
will be Chief Justice Fulier and Justice
Brewer, of the United States supreme
court, and Lord Herschell and Sir
Richard HEM Collins, knight justices
of her majesty's supreme court judic-
iary. The fifth arbitor in case of need
will be named by King Oscar.
By the terms Of the treaty the agents
of Great Britain and Venezuela must
deliver complete cases at Paris, where
the arbitration tribunal will meet with
in eight months of the ratification of
the treaty, with the months additional
allowed for submission of counter
claims, so that the entire arbitration
will probably occupy year and half.
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Senate Proceedings,

SALEM, Ore. Feb. 4.-Immediately
after opening of the senate today King
offered a resolution for an amendment
to the constitution allowing the legis-
lature to fix the salaries of various
state officers.
The committee on judiciary reported
back with favorable recommendation
several bills. All were of small i'm
portance and were designed mostly to
amend the code.
In the senate this afternoon the dis
cussion over the printing of bills was
renewed. Gesner moved that 240
copies of bills on second reading be
ordered printed. There was .immed-
late objection. Dufur made an earnest
speech, saying it was needless to go to
the expense of printing bills unless
there was a prospect of the house or
ganizing. He was supported by Smith
and other senator's. and the motion
was lost.
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.