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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII
Urges the Senate to Accomplish the

BY special message dated the 10th day
of June last, I laid before the, senate of
the United States treaty, signed that day
by the plenipotentiaries of the United
States and of the republic of Hawaii, hav-
ing for its purpose the Incorporation OF
the Hawaiian islands as an integral part
Of the United States and under its SOW
ereignty. The senate having removed
the injunction of secrecy, although the
treaty is still pending before that body,
the subject may be properly referred to
in this message, as the necessary action
of congress is required determine by
legislation many details of the eventual
union, should the fact of annexation be
accomplished, as I believe it should be-
While consistently disavowing from a
very early period any aggressive policy
of absorption in regard to the Hawaiian
group, long series of discussion through
three-quarters of century has pro-
claimed the vital interest of the United
States in the independent life of the
islands and their intimate commercial de-
pendency upon this country. At the same
time it has been repeatedly asserted that
in no event could the entity of Hawaiian
statehood cease by the passage of the is
lands under the domination or influence OF
another power than the United States.
Under these circumstances the logic of
events required that annexation, before
offered but declined, should, in the ripe
result of strengthening the ties that bind
rs to those islands and be released by the
free will of the Hawaiian state.
That treaty was unanimously ratified
without amendment by the senate and
pr, sident of the republic of Hawaii on the
10th of September last, and only awaits
the favorab BILE action of the American SEN
ate to effect the complete absorption of the
Islands into the domains of the United
States What the conditions of such a
union shall be. the political relation thereof
to the United States, the character of the
local administration, the quality and de-
gree of the elective franchise of the in
habitants, the extension of the federal
laws to the territory or the enactment of
special laws to fit the peculiar condition
thereof, the regulation and needs of labor
therein, the treaty has wisely relegated to
congress
If the treaty is confirmed, as every con-
sideration of dignity and honor requires,
-cougrEss VIII see to It that,
avoiding abrupt assimilation of clements
perhaps hardly yet fitted to share in the
highest franchises of citizenship, and hav-
ing due regard to the geogra aphicaI con-
ditions, the just provisions for self-rule
in local matters with the largest political
liberties as an integral part of our nation
will be accorded to the Hawaiians.
No less is due to people who after
nearly five years of demonstrated capacity
to fulfill the obligations of self-govern-
ing statehood, come of their free will to
merge their destinies in our-body polite.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Corner in wheat.

Minneapolis, Dec. Tt is reported
at the chamber of commerce that the
Peavey Elevator Companies have made
combine with the Pillsbury COM
panies and secured control of not only
the wheat in Minneapolis, but all the
wheat in elevators throughout the
Northwest. If this story in true
Peavey and Pillsbury can sit back and
let the price of wheat 60 where it will.
They would be Independent of any
price speculators might make. No fig
ures as to the extent of the corner are
given, but grain man who is known
to be on the inside says the story of
the corner ia correct
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10

to provide gold for the redemption of
United States notes-a Notwithstanding
debt. Surely it should not pay them out
again except on demand and for gold. If
they are put out in any other way they
may return again to be followed by an
other bond issue to redeem them-another
interest-bearing debt to redeem a non-
interest-bearing debt.
In my view, it is of the utmost import
ance that the government should be re-
lieved from the business of providing for
all the gold required for exchange or ex-
port. This responsibility is alone borne
by the government without any of the
usual and necessary banking powers to
help itself. The banks do not feel the
strain of the gold redemption. The
whole strain rests upon the government,
and the size of the gold reserve in the
treasury has come to be, with or with
out reason, the signal of danger or of Sc
curity.- This ought to be stopped.
If we are to have an era of prosperity
in the country with sufficient receipts for
the expenses of the government, we may
feel no immediate embarrassment from
our present currency; but the danger still
exists, and will be ever present, menacing
us as long as the existing system con-
tinues. And, besides, it is in times of
adequate revenues and business tram
quillity that the government should pre-
pare for the worst. We cannot avoid,
consideration and prompt solution of this
question.
Plan of Secretary Gage.
The secretary of the treasury has out
lined a plan in great ietail for the pur-
pose of removing threatened recurrence
of a depleted gold reserve and saving US
from future embarrassment on that ac
count. To this plan I invite your care
full consideration. / concur with the Sec
retary of the treasury in his recommends
ton that national banks be allowed to
issue notes to the face value of the
bonds which they deposited for circula-
ton, and that the tax on circulating
notes. secured by the deposit of such
bonds, be reduced to one-half of one per
cent per annum. I also join him in
recommending that authority be given for
the establishment of national banks with
a minimum capital of SIS, 900. This will
enable the smaller villages and agricul-
tural regions of the country to be sup
piled with currency to meet their de-
mands. l recommend that the issue of
national bank notes be restricted to the
denomination of $40 and upwards. If the
suggestions I have herein made shall
have the approval of congress, then 1
would recommend that national banks be
required to redeem their notes in gold.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
APPROXIMATIONS Recommended,

Secretary Gage Monday transmitted
to congress estimates of the appropria-
tions required for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1899, as furnished by several
executive departments. The total
amount called for in the estimates is
$462, ,647, 1856, which is about $32, ,O00,-
600 in excess of the appropriations for
1898, including deficiencies and miscel-
laneous expenses, and about $41 ,0O0,-
900 more than was estimated for 1898.
Under the head of public works the
treasury department, among other items,
asks for 800, 900 for the erection of a
courthouse, penitentiary, etc., at Sitka,
Alaska, and $50, 900 for continuation
of the work on the public building at
Portland. Or.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10

as further negotiations between the rep
resentativeS of this government and the
governments of other countries are pend
ing and in contemplat ton. They believe
that the doubts which have been raised
In certain quarters respecting the possi-
bitty of maintaining the stability of the
parity between the metals and kindred
questions may yet be solved by further
negotiations.
Meanwhile, it gives me satisfaction to
state that the special ENJOYS have al
ready demonstrated their ability and fit
ness to deal with the subject, and it is to
be earnestly hoped that their labors may
result in an international agreement
which will bring about recognition of
both gold and silver as money upon such
terms and with such safeguards as will
secure the use of both metals upon a
basis which shall work no injuries to
any class of citizens.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
/ THE LOCKS At TRE DALLES
The Government Proposes to
Push the Work.
CANAL WILL BE SPEEDILY DUG
terested in the Project-The Boat
Railway Experiment..

terested in the Project-The Boat
Railway Experiment.
Washington, Dec. Further in.
formation respecting the proposed canal
and locks for the channel at the dalles
is to the effect that it is proposed to
push the work with deal of rapidity.
The contract system and modern
methods of excavation and building
have made it clear that years need not
be spent upon work of this character.
If the contract for improving the Co.
lumbia by small channel at the dalles
is adopted it will no doubt be stipulat-
Ell that the work must be done with
rapidity. Heretofore Oregon has as
sumed control over the proposed inn
provement at this place. Eastern
Washington and Idaho, it is now said,
will take hand in the matter, and
will not consider the Columbia river
wholly an Oregon stream. Upper Co
lumbia river interests begin to press
upon the Washington and Idaho con-
gressmen, and make them feel the need
of doing something to secure the water
outlet to the Pacific ocean without in
terruption.
A theory which has been supplement-
ed on to some extent here in Washing
ton is the fact that certain engineers
who approved the boat railway scheme
wanted an experiment of this kind
tried for the purpose of influencing
other works in the United States, both
of public and a private nature. 1t is
also said that engineers are somewhat
accommodating, and are not very anxi-
Gus to go contrary to the wishes of con-
gressmen who push particular schemes.
Engineers who have gone contrary to
what senators and representatives have
wanted, have been subject to severe
criticism, and this theedo not fancy
any more than other people.
It must be acknowledged also that
while the boat railway scheme has re-
ceived the Endorsement of many emil
nent engineers, it has also been some
thing of laughing stock, and way
down deep the leading engineers of the
army never believed that congress
would authorize it, or that boat rail-
way would be built. 1t is one of the
subjects that they always smiled about
and would raise their eyebrows with
look of amusement when asked for
serious opinion upon the project. The
greatest drawback to the boat railway,
as always stated frankly by some of the
engineers, was that it would cost $780,
900 year to maintain it, and that no
one could tell how much would eventu-
ally be spent for repairs and break
downs. The canal project has always
been most favorably considered, and it
looks as if that was to be the improve
ment for that portion of the Colum bia
river.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved patents to the Oregon & Cali
fornia Railroad Company, of lands
amounting to 8, 851 acres in the Rose
burg land district.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
New Regulations for Five Civilized
Tribes Are Imperative.

New Regulations for Five Civilized
Tribes Are Imperative.
For a number of years it has been ap-
parent that the condition of the five civil
ized tribes in the Indian territory under
treaty provisions with the United States,
with the right of self-goyernment and
the exclusion of all white persons from
within their borders, have undergone so
complete a change as to render the contin-
uance of the system thus inaugurated
practically impossible. The total number
of the five civilized tribes, as shown by
the last census, is IS, 1884, and this number
has not materially increased, while the
white population is estimated at from
100000 to 1000, which, by permission of
the Indian government, has settled in the
territory. The present area of the Indian
territory is 25.564, 546 acres. much of which
is very fertile land. The United States
citizens residing in the territory, most of
whom have gone there by invitation or
with the consent of the tribal authori les,
have made permanent homes for them
selves. Numerous towns have been built,
in which from 1000 to 5000 white people
now reside,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Fatal Hotel Fire.

Fire broke out in the Lake house in
Milwaukee, Wis. Sixty people were
asleep in the hostlery at the time.
Charles Patterson, dock laborer,
lost his life, being overcome by smoke,
and five others were injured. The Pc
cuniary loss is small.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
No Pardon for the .sManeater. %

Denver. Dec. THE state board of
pardons has refused to recommend
pardon for Alfred Packer, the imam
eater.'' The application of Mike Ryan,
who is serving sentence for assault
and robbery, was also denied. The
only pardon recommended was for
Nicholas Tully, sentenced from Ell
Paso county for completely in blowing
up the shafthouse of the Armstrong
mine at Cripple Greek in 1894.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10

One rainy afternoon Sullivan Har-
Dor, Me-. woman sought entertainment
in pulling to pieces pincushion that
was wedding present 25 years ago.
She found therein 507 needles of assort
ed sizes.
At the election in the Chickasaw ma
tion, the ratification of the Dawes
Choctaw treaty was Overwhelmingly
defeated.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Hayti Ready to Paw.

A dispatch to the Frankfurter lei
tung of Berlin from Washington says
Hayti is ready to pay Germany the in
demnity demanded for the alleged ille-
gal arrest and imprisonment of Herr
Emil Lueders, German subject.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Anti-Hebrew Riot ouel1ed.

An anti-Hebrew riot which started
in Budapesth has finally been queileo
by the police who made 100 arrests.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10

Nickerson, Kan, Dec. 7.-While
temporarily insane, Mrs M. E. Ross
today saturated her clothing with kero-
sene and set herself afire. She was
burned to crisp. Her husband and
daughter, in trying to extinguish the
flames, were perhaps fatally burned.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
AGAIN IN SESSION.
First Regular Meeting of the Fifty-Fifth
Congress.

At noon Monday the first regular ses-
sion of the 55th congress was launched
upon the unknown seas of legislation.
simultaneously at both ends of the cap
itol, Speaker Reed In the house and
Vice-President Hobart in the senate,
dropped their gavels and called to or
der the bodies over which they preside.
The sun shone brightly from cloudless
sky, making glorious bright Decem-
Der day, with tine of frost in the air,
and a breeze just strong enough to keep
the stars and stripes swapping from
the fagstaffs.
At the capitol crowds swarmed into
the corridors at an early hour and
choked the marine steps as they ascend
ed to the galleries from which they
were to view the show. AS is usual on
such occasions, the reserved galleries
were carefully guarded, admission be-
ing only by card, and the public had
great difficulty wedging itself into the
limited space set aside for it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Disabled in Collision.

The steamship Corean, New York
for Glasgow, has put in to Halifax, N
S., having been in collision with ar
unknown steamer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
The Nicaragua Canal.
THE B1METALL1C COMMISSION.
Failure of the Mission of the Special
Silver ENJOYS.


Silver ENJOYS.
Under the provisions of the act of con-
gress approved March 8, 1897, for the pro-
motion of an International agreement re-
specting bimetalism, I appointed, on
April Ia. 1897, Hon. Edward o. Wolcott,
of Colorado; Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, of
Illinois, and Hon. Charles J. Payne,
of Massachusetts, as special envoys to
represent the United States. They have
been diligent in their effort to secure the
concurrence and cooperation of Euro
tlement of the question, but up to this
time have not been able to secure an
agreement contemplated by their mission.
The gratifying action of our great sis
ter republic of France in joining this
country in the attempt to bring about the
agreement between the principal com
mercial nations of Europe, whereby
fixed and relative value between gold and
silver shall be secured, furnishes assur-
ance that we are not alone among the
larger nations OF the world in realizing
the international character of the prob
lem and in the desire of reaching some
wise and practical solution of 1T.
The British government has published a
resume of the steps taken jointly by the
French ambassador in London and the
special ENJOYS of the United States, with
whom our ambassador in London actively
co-operated in the presentation of this
subject to her majesty's government. This
will be laid before congress. Our special
envoys have not made their dua1 report
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
In the Upper House,.

session was a veritable conservatory.
The floral display was beautiful. Pre-
cisely at IL o'clock the gavel of Vice
President Hobart fell, and the senate
was called to order. An invocation
was delivered by Rev. Milburn, the
blind chaplain. Seventy-seven senators
responded on roll-call.
The venerable Mr.. Morrill,, of Ver-
mont, was first recognized by the vice
president. He offered resolution,
which was passed, in the usual form,
that the secretary inform the house
that the senate was in session and
ready to proceed to. business.
Allison of Iowa presented a resolu-
ton that committee of two senators
be appointed to join like committee
from the house to inform the president
that congress was in session, and pre-
pared to receive any communication he
might desire to make. The resolution
was passed, and the vice-presioent
named Allison and German as senate
committee.
By resolution of Cullom of Illinois,
the time of the daily meetings of the
senate was fixed at noon. On motion
of Hale of Maine, a recess was then
taken until O'Clock.
At 1870 the senate reassembled and
the committee, headed by German, re-
ported. The presidents message was
presented by Mr.. Pruden at 1880
o'clock, and was laid before the senate
and read.
In the Lower House.
The house of representatives present
ed an animated appearance long before
noon. The surrounding corridors were
filled with jostling, moving crowds be-
fore IL O'Clock. The galleries which
overlook the floor were black with peo-
pie. Floral tributes for members were
numerous, and in some instances i'm
posing.
!, AS the hands of the clock pointed to
10 Speaker Reed, attired in black
cutaway coat, and wearing red tie,
ascended the rostrum. The crack of
the gavel subdued the din on the floor
and conversation in the galleries. In
the deep silence which followed the
calling of the assent blage to order,
prayer was offered by the eminent
divine, Rev. Chalres A. Boney, of
England. who delivered an invocation
solemn and impressive.
The speaker then directed the clerk
to call the roll. The roll call showed
the presence of 301 members. There
were 55 vacancies from death or rnsig-
nation during the recess, and the Gre
dentials of the mem bers-e elect were read
by direction of the speaker, who then
administered the oath of Office to them.
On motion of Dingley resolution was
adopted for-the appointment of COM
mittee of three to join the senate COM
mittee to wait upon the president and
inform him that congress was ready to
receive any communication he desired
to make. The speaker named Dingley,
Grosvenor and Bailey for this honor.
On motion of Henderson of Iowa daily
sessions to begin at noon each day were
ordered. The house then took short
recess.
When the house reassembled the
committee appointed to wait upon the
president reported, having perfected its
mission. Mr.. Pruden, who had fol-
lowed the committee into the hall, i'm
presented the message, which,
by direction of the speaker, was read at
the clerks desk.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-10
Representation of Our Government
in the Greater Republic.


AS to the representative of this govern
ment to Nicaragua, Salvador and Costa
Rica, / have concluded that Mr.. William
L. Merry, confirmed as minister of the
United States to the states of Nicaragua,
Salvador and Costa Rica, shall proceed
to San Jose, Costa Rica, and there tempo
rarily establish the headquarters of the
United States to those three states. 1
took this action for what regarded as the
paramount interests of this country. 1t
was developed, upon an investigation by
the secretary of state, that the government
of Nicaragua, while not unwilling to re-
ceive Mr.. Merry in his diplomatic capac-
ity, was unable to do so on account of the
compact concluded June 20, 1895, whereby
that republic and those of Salvador and
Honduras, forming what is known as the
Greater Republic of Central America, had
surrendered to the representative diet
thereof their right to receive and send
diplomatic agents. The diet was not will
ing to accept him because he was not ac-
credited to that body. l could not ac-
credit him to that body because the appro-
priation law of congress did not permit.
Mr.. Baker, the present minister at Mani
aqua, has been directed to present his
letters of recall.
Mr.. Godfrey Hunter has likewise been
accredited to the governments of Gaute-
mala and Honduras the same as his pred
ecessor. Guatemala Is not member of
the Greater Republic of Central America,
but Honduras is. Should this latter gov
ernn.ent decline to receive him, he has
been instructed to report this fact to his
government and await it's further instruc-
tions.
The Nicaragua Canal.
A subject of large Importance to our
country and increasing appreciation on the
part of the people is the completion of the
great highway of trade between the At
Iantic and Pacific known as the Nicara-
qua canal. Its value to American COM
merce is universally admitted. The COM
mission appointed under date of July "a
last "to continue the surveys and exam
nations authorized by the act approved
March g. 1885, in regard to the proper
route, feasibility and cost of construc
ton of the Nicaragua canal, with view
of making complete plans for the entire
work of construction of such canal" is
now employed in the undertaking, In the
future 1 shall take occasion to transmit
to congress the report of this commission,
making at the same time such further
suggestions as may then seem advisable.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-03-09

In every section of this country there is
more or less land lying idle and bringing the
owner but little in the way OF revenue As
the country gradually becomes more thick
Iy settled, taxes on real estate grow high
er and the burden from carrying unproduc-
ing or waste land more irksome. 1t is good
business to make every foot OF land Yield
something to help bear its share of the ex-
penses OF the farm. This may be done in
several ways. That land which is too wet
for the pillow may be ditched or tile Drained
and thus be brought under cultivation and
production. 4 more difficult task will be
encountered, however, in clearing up tim
bertrand, IN removing trees, stumps, grubs
etc, etc. For this purpose several machines
have been put upon the market, but none
are better than that made by the Milne
Manufacturing Co., 743 Eighth St.. Mon
mouth, ILL.,, thoroughly responsible firm
whose advertisement appears in this paper
They manufacture the Hawkeve Grub and
Stump machine in several sizes, and guar
antee it to pull stumps or grubs, and to pull
up trees Of ordinary size. This machine. un-
like others, does not need to be moved for
every stump, but will clear out a circle OF
two acres at one sitting Write this firm;
for catalogue, circulars. prices, etc.