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HUNTINGTON is RIGHT.

When Coils P. Huntington, presi
don't of the Southern Pacific, was in
Portland the other day, he was inter
viewed by an Oregonian reporter and
made some suggestions that are worthy
of consideration, and it needed by the
people generally. would result in more
prosperity through the state. Speak.
ing of the needs of the state Mr..
Huntington said:
"Wbat you should work for in Ore.
gon is to get more people into the
state. You have too much good land
lying idle that should be occupied and
worked by settlers. Your cities should
start more manufacturing interests,
small interests that will develop by
steady work into large concerns.
There are too many people who imag-
inc they must commence manufactur-
ing interests with large concerns and
large capital. These generally fail for
lack of experience. 1t is the small
concerns that grow from year to year
that build up a commercial city.
Newark is the workshop of New York
today, but it was started by individual
small concerns that grew to promi-
nerce by experience and hard work"
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the Western men, who said that if such
a method was proposed, they would be
compelled to vote for placing certain
articles on the free list, or for reduc-
ing the duty on them. They did not
expect the democrats would vote with
them to increase duties. The Western
ers announced that to settle with the
Eastern men who voted to reduce the
duty on their products, they would
vote to reduce the duty on articles
which their people purchased and did
not produce.
And SO it goes. The Western sena-
tors want an almost prohibitive duty
on wool, hides and fruits, because their
constituents produce these commodl-
ties. and they are willing, in fact an
xious, that the duty on manufactured
articles remain as it is or be lowered.
On the other hand, the Eastern sena-
tors want free raw material, or COM
pensatory duty on all manufactured ar
ticles. If the Westerners do not get
what they demand, they will refuse to
extend protection to the Eastern man
ufacturers. and the Fasteners are
equally ready to retaliate. Thus 1t Is
the senators have discovered what a
big job it is to revise the tariff. 1t Is
"dog-eat-dog" process, and when the
new law is finally enacted it will be
formed not with an idea of creating
revenue and extending equal protec-
tion to all, but law sectional in its
nature and in the interest of few fac
tions that are able to WELD the great
est vote
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Justice would demand that where a
party refuses to accept the verdict rem
dered by a court, he should not be al
lowed to plead that verdict to shield
himself from another verdict more Sc
we're in case of second trial. When
he appeals to the supreme court he re-
fuses to accept the verdict of the lower
court, whether it be just or not, and
justice would demand that he be not
allowed to tax, advantage of that YER
dict in any respect. 1t should not be
permitted to be plead as a bar against
more severe verdict at some future
trial, for by mis- appeal he denies the
validity of the findings of the trial jury,
which IT in error at all are as likely to
have been as much in error in fixing
the penalty too low as to have been in
error in finding the accused guilty.
If verdict is sufficiently wrong to JUS
tify the supreme court setting aside
the findings of the lower court, it is
evidently zoo vitally wrong to have any
effect upon any future trial. A ver-
dict once set aside should be set aside
for all purposes. Having been de-
clared invalid, it is not just that the
accused should be allowed to take ref
uge behind it after, by his own act, he
has questioned its validity,
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USELESS EXPERIMENTS.

Secretary Wilson of the Agricul.
tural department has distributed
among the farmers of the country TO-
600 pounds of supar.beet seed and ex-
poets great advantages from the exper-
iments which will be made lin the
growth of beets this year. 1t is likely
that some points of interest may be
observed, says the Oakland Enquirer,
but we do not see where any extraor-
dinarilly valuable results will be ob-
tanned. In the first place, the farmers
in most places will not be able to sell
the beets they raise, and knowing this
they will not pay much attention to
them; in consequence, they will be
poor beets, not constituting an ade-
quate test of the capacity OF
the land TO produce beets OF
large saccharine strength. In the
next place, there is really not much to
learn regarding the fitness of different
sections for sugar-beet culture which
would not be better ascertained by
having an expert sugar-beet man go
and look at the soil. The soil question
and the climate question are well un-
derstood, and the whole business re-
solves itself into matter Of dollars
and cents, viz: Will it pay capitalists
in any given locality to put up factor
les and make contracts with the farm
ers to grow beets? And that question
the capitalist will decide on the basis
of his own experiments, not on the
basis of what the farmers do with the
seed sent out by Secretary Wilson.
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DEBATE Is LAUNCHED.
Tariff Bill Taken up in the Senate With
out Opposition.

Tariff Bill Taken up in the Senate With
out Opposition.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The tariff
bill was ia zen up in the senate at 2
o'clock. Vest gave notice that when
the paragraphs were read be would
move to strike out the provisions re-
liting to beer. manufactured tobacco,
snuff and cigarettes. Aldrich then
opened the debate for the republicans.
In his opening remarks Senator Aid
rich said in part:
1.-THE business of the entire country
is in state OF suspension awaiting the
action of the senate upon the bill un-
der consideration. | believe anxiety
to secure, action upon this important
measure at the earliest possible day is
shared by every member of the senate.
1t is my purpose to keep the bill con-
tinuously before the senate, to the
exclusion of all other legislative busi-
ness, until it is finally disposed of, and
in this shall expect the hearty CO.
operation of senators on both sides of
the chamber. In the discussion OF the
bill members of the majority commit
tee will content themselves with such
brief explanations as may be found
necessary to the various paragraphs as
they are reached.
Aldrich then proceeded to present
in detail estimates of the effect the
bill would have upon revenue and ex-
plain in general way the character of
the amendments suggested.
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JUSTICE PREVAILED.

The administration received its first
setback Thursday when the Morgan
resolution. recognizing the existence
of state OF war in Cuba, passed the
senate by a vote of Al to IA. The resO-
luton adopted is as follows:
"Resolved, etc., That condition of
public war exists between the govern
ment of Spain and the government
proclaimed and for some time main
tanned by force of arms by the people
Of Cuba, and that the United States of
America shall maintain strict neu-
trality between the contending parties
according to each and all the rights OF
belligerency in the ports and the terri
tory of the United States"
Eighteen republicans, nineteen
democrats and four populists voted for
the resolution, and twelve republicans
and two democrats against it, eviden-
cling that the administration has not
the full support of the dominant party
in the senate.
President Mckinley has thus far
sought to pursue the milk-and-water
policy of his predecessor in dealing
with the Cuban question, but he has
been unable to muster the support of a
majority OF his party in the upper
house of congress for this policy. Right
and jnstice have prevailed over party
fealty, and if the action of the senate
is endorsed by the house, the question
of Cuban Independence will soon be
settled; for being recognized as bellig-
erents and accorded the rights of civil
lied warfare, the Cuban patriots will
speedily take their place as independ-
ent people. and will successfully cope
with the armies of Spain.
The probability of hazarding war
with Spain may prevent the house tax
ing favorable action upon the resolu.
tion, but this bugbear has been
Haunted so. often that it will hardly be
sufficient to bias the minds of the MEM
bers, and Speaker Reed will hardly be
able to twist his little manakins around
his finger so as to make them ignore
the will of their constituents in refus-
ing to grant this boon to the struggl-
ing Cubans. A majority of the people
of the United States have little fear of
war with Spain, for they know that
country is in no condition to prosecute
q war, and if it were there can be no
doubt as to the final result. And even
though it should bring war, the peo-
pie will consider that it is q good
cause, and they will endorse the ac-
tions of their representatives in con-
gress should they take the bits in their
teeth and refuse to submit to the die
tates of party leaders by passing the
resolution.
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THE SPANIARD'S WAY
Murders Two Countrymen
Then Claims a Victory.
DEBATE HAS BEGAN
The Tariff Bill Formally Presented
to the Senate and the Debate
Opened By Aldrich.
MiIlionoire Hrvemeyer on Trial at SFas!
ington for Refusing to Answer 0ues-
lions in the Senate Inyestiga
tion of the Sugar Trust.

HAVANA, May 25.-It is reported
from Santiago de Cuba that Spanish
military train FROM Ell Cristo To Songo
was attacked by 900 insurgents. The
train was carrying troops to reinforce
the garrison at Songo. At the first
shot of the insurgents the train
stopped, and Lieutenant Lafuente, who
was in command of the Spanish troops,
ordered his men to fire on their assail-
ants, but at that moment several dyna-
mite bombs which had been previously
placed on the track by the Cubans ex-
ploded, killing Lieutenant Lafuente
aud u Spanish privates and wounding
90 others. The locomotive and one car
were destroyed by the explosion.
The Spaniards surrendered, and the
Cubans, after plundering the train and
securing d large supply of provisions
and munitions Of war, burned the re-
naming cars.
Sixty Spanish soldiers and 20 other
persons, employees of the railroad and
officers of the Spanish government,
were made prisoners. Two hours
later they were set free by order of
General Calixto Garcia.
The Spanish military commander of
Songo was afraid to go to the aid of the
troops, but waited until they were re-
leased and the insurgents were far
away. Then he sailed forth, and near
the town killed two coantrymen, one
of them a noncombatant and the other
a Cuban of his own forces. He then
returned to town, reporting victory
over the insurgents.
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THE CONSUMER BE DAMNED.

All of a sudden lot of Iowa and H.
inois wholesale grocers haye discovered
| that the duty of 10 cents pound on
tea, suggested by the senate finance
committee, is going to cause them a
loss of several hundred thousand dol
lars, because they had accepted orders
for large quantities of tea before there
was an intimation that a duty would be
placed upon it. They dealt slightly in
futures, and have been caught short,
therefore they have sent delegation
to Washington to ask that the tariff
bill be so amended as to provide for a
rebate of the tax on all tea imported
to fill orders taken before the senate
bill was reported. OF course this re.
quest will be granted, for those who
make it are among the wealthy who
contributed to the election of the party
in power, and whose interests must be
protected.
But what about the consumer of tea?
Who is going to look out for his inter-
ests? Who is going to compensate
him for being caught short of tea in
his lal der? Even if these wholesalers
are made whole on their loss, by "a re-
bate of the tax on orders already taken,
the consumer will pay the same for the
tea as though it paid duty. But the
policy of our government at present is
the CONSUMER be damned: the inter.
ests of the rich must be guarded" and
so it is likely the Iowa and Illinois
wholesalers will be recouped, but the
poor man who drinks tea will pay the
additional 10 cents pound for it.
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SENATOR'S AND THE TARIFF

During the last national campaign
therepublican leaders scarcely realized
what a big job they were undertaking
when they promised to revise the tariff
on protective lines, SO that every Sec
ton should be protected, every indus
try fostered, and every community
made prosperous through the workings
of that cure.all for business ills, the
great and beautiful theory of protec-
ton. But now those leaders who are
in the senate fully realize the-e:or-
nifty of the undertaking.
On Monday the republican senators
held caucus, and the fact was empha-
sized that there was wide divergence
of opinion among them as to the rates
of duty fixed in the various schedules
in the Dingley bill as it passed the
house and as it was reported by the
senate finance committee. Each sem
ator wants the industries of his partic-
uiar locality protected, and if he be
from manufacturing state he wants
the raw materials which his factories
consume admitted free of duty. For
instance Senator Lodge. OF Massa-
chusetts, was opposed to duty on
hides, and declared that he did not sec
how he could avoid voting for an
amendment placing hides on the free
list.
This statement raised storm among
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-05-29
WRONG ROAD TO PROSPERITY.

Judge Robert T. Hogue, solicitor of
internal revenue by appointment from
Cleveland, has resigned, and gives
these reasons for not continuing in
the service under an administration
that offers nothing to the people except
increased taxation:
81 find myself at variance with what
seems to be the policy of the admins
tration. 1 believe in the free and un-
limited coinage of both gold and silver
at the ratio of 16 to / without the con-
sent of any other nation on earth, and
I cannot believe that heavier taxes
upon our people can or will bring any
permanent prosperity to our people.
1t seems to me that the conditions of
life grow harder every day. and, while
the masses of our toiling humanity
beg for relief, nothing is being done
to help them; and sometimes / fear
that a much longer continuation of the
single gold standard will endanger if
not destroy our civilization.
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LOOKS WELL ON PAPER.
WeyIer's MouthpIece Tells How Spain
May Annihilate America.

weyier's Mouthpiece Tells How Spain
May Annihilate America.
HAVANA, May PEI Diaro de 10
Marina in a leading editorial says:
s.We see in the American news
papers evidence that there are several
social classes in the United States not
sufficiently alive TO the Importance of
the advice. Don't monkey with the
lions tall These classes are remark
able for the eaeerness with which they
evade jurisdiction in affairs, which.
like the Cuban war. are exclusively
the affairs of Spain. The persistence
with which they recognize the bellig-
erency of the insurgents is crazy and
ridiculous. The important conserva-
tive interests of the United States
should not forget that the patience OF
Spain may soon become exhausted.
The Spanish government has given
sufficient proofs of its good will by ig
no-ing the many inconveniences that
have been caused by resolutions in
congress. Those interests ought to be
thankful to US for our abnegation.
but in case the sword should be un-
sheathed, Spain would certainly not be
the heaviest loser in the fight. Spain
has sent 100000 troops to Cuba to set
tie domestic difficulty. What would
she not do in the event of a foreign
war, with the nation which for CEN
tury has abused our patience by ignor-
ing Spanish honor and chivalry? Pres
ident, Mckinley should consider this
carefully, and if he is to deal with US
as enemies let him take the advice of
an enemy and no longer trlHe with u.s."
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a BAD DECISION.


The supreme court of this state re-
Gently rendered decision, that while
il may be in strict conformity with
law and the constitution, will not
meet the demands of justice in all
cases. The case was one in which q
imam indicted for murder and found
guilty of manslaughter, was granted a
new trial, and the rule was laid down
that although indicted for murder, hav-
ing been convicted of manslaughter,
he could not on the second trial be
tried for greater crime than man
slaughter. Or, in general terms, man
indicted for serious offense and con-
victed of lesser offense than that on
which he was indicted cannot, upon a
new trial, be tried again for the greater
offense, but must be tried for the lesser
crime of which he was convicted.
This rule, if applied to all criminal
cases, will pave the way to innumer-
able appeals and will burden the SUI
|preme court with cases that should be
finally terminated in the lower courts,
and will often thwart justice, for the
i c,nyicted takes no chances OF being
convicted of the more serious offense,
and stands chance 70 secure more
verdict on the second trial.
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sundry Civil Bill.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-Only the
front rows of the galleries were oc
cupied when the session opened today
The final conference report on the sun.
dry civil bill was taken up, an agree.
ment having teen made to vote at
Pm.
The questions involved in the con-
ference report related to the suspension
until March ! next of President Cleve-
lands proclamation embracing large
areas as forest reserves, making i'm
mediately available 1896, 1893 for the
contract of work on the Mississippi
river and $4,000 for the Improvement
of Pearl harbor, Hawaii.
The question of forest reserves was
discussed at length. Senators from
the states affected by the forestry order
urged the rejection of the entire con-
ference report and the absolute sus-
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WHAT KIND OF A SURPLUS.

Several of the Bryan papers already
scent in the near future surplus OF
dangerous proportions. Republicans
appreciate the compliment, and will
see that the surplus is not too small
Globe Democrat.
Surplus of what? pray. A surplus
of closed factories, suspended banks
and unemployed people? That is about
all the kind of surplus that is being
built up just now, ane we trust the re-
publicans will not exert apy effort in
seeing that this surplus sis not too
small" The Globe-Democrat cer-
tainly cannot allude to sur
plus of prosperity or sur
plus of revenue in the treasury, for
the former is not in excess in any
locality yet heard from, and as 10 the
latter. it is being accumulated under
the workings of the Wilson tariff and
through an abnormal business in i'm
r,0rta
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NO USE TO KICK.

The vigorous kick on the depart
ment stores in Portland has brought
the landlords and the business men of
that town to realization of the i'm
portance of dividing business and
keeping money at home. They say it
is all going East to pay the money
loaners, and on account of the sharp
competition the small dealers will
have to go to the wall. There is a
good deal of truth in this, but ip the
language of Boss Tweed, "What are
you going to do about it?"
The times are hard, there are many
people out Of work. and those who
have dollar are going to make it go
as far as they possibly can.
This is the secret of the success of
the department store. No person will
pay one dollar for an article when he
can get it for 75c: or zoe for one
marked down to 35c; or any amount
greater than that fixed by the depart
ment store. To do it would be acting
contrary to proper economy and horse
sence.
The great wage earning masses
spend money more freely when they
have prospect of earning more, but
when they are deprived of employment
and their income stops, they buy as
little as they have to, and that at the
lowest price. They have streak of
economy on now, and consequently
the department stores will flourish.
The business men of Portland are
only getting the proper fruits of the
gold standard, which means small
volume of money with enormous pur-
chasing power, low wages and scant
employment for the laboring and pro-
ducinng classes. To get larger vol
ume of money, higher prices and en-
ployment for the wage earners, the
men who are now making such vic
ious howl against the department
stores will have to join the free silver
uarchists.-Astoria Budget.
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SUMMER MANEUvERs.
Battle-ships Likely to be the Sole Par
ticIpants.

Battle-ships Likely to be the Sole Par
ticIpants.
New YORK, May 26.-From present
appearances, there will be summer
maneuvers of the ships attached to the
Atlantic squadron this season. Since
Admiral Sicard took command of the
station, the ships of the fleet have been
assigned to other duties, and there are
but two vessels Immediately under his
command.
An officer says that the fleet that
will be assembled for summer
work will consist of battle.ships,
and it will be strengthened by the ad-
ditioa of the battle-ship Iowa, which
will soon be put into commission, at
the League-island navy yard The
vessel will be commanded by Captain
William Sampson, who has been de-
tached from duty as chief of the ord
nance bureau, and ordered to duty on
the battle ship.
This will be the first time since the
government began to build modern
warships that a feet composed entirely
of battle-ships has been organized for
the purpose of maneuvers.
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IN OUR POCKETS.
We May Soon He Able to Carry Gallons
of Coffee.

In the forward march of science, no.
ture's methods are being closely inflated
in the laboratories of the synthotical
chemist who has already been able TO
make an artificial quinine which con-
tains most of the thcrapeutical proper
ties of the real article. Two German
chemists working in Berlin have just
produced an artificially prepared caf-
feine, the alkaloid to which both tea
and coffee owe their refreshing stimu-
lating and analgcsic properties.
AS may be readily imagined, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer, the process by
which this has been done is exceedingly
elaborate and costly, but the discover
ers are not without hope that they will
be able to simplify and cheaper it so ms
to bring it within the region of practical
economies, as has been done with many
of the coal-tar preparations which,
though now exceedingly cheap, were
very expensive when first produced.
Should the anticipations of these two
gentlemen be realized n cup of tea or
coffee will resolve itself into a question
of minute pellets; one of the alkaloid,
one Of sacchGrine, and one of n highly
concentrated milk, which will only
need TO be put into cup of boiling
water to be an efficient substitute for
the real article.