Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1898-04-23
suggestion of Senator Teller. The yeas

and nays We're ordered.
At $40 the vote was taken ON Davis
motion to concur in the house amend
ment' lhe motion was defeated. and tn,
senate refused to concur-yeas 81. navs 46
Zen republicans voted without division tt
insist on its amendments.
senator Hale urged the Importance OF
having conference. He said there could
be only one aim in the PROCEEDINGS
against a conference and that was to dra-
coon everybody into supporting recogni.
ton OF Cuban independence. The motion
Tor conference committee was defeated
~ to 43. The resolution was sent back In
the house
Admiral Sicnrd on DUTY.
Washington April ls-Probablv with
the view OF availing himself of the large
experience of Rear Admiral Sicard. Sec
retary Long has revoked the sick leave of
that officer and ordered him to duty at
his own office in the navy department
within "a hours. Being familiar with ev-
cry detail OF construction and the strength
and weakness of every vessel in the fleet
under Captain Sampson as we'll as those
now lying at Hampton Roads under
Schley. the admiral is expected to be of
great assistance to the department in the
arrangement OF any campaign.
Offered Cuban Bonds.
Washington, April IS The personal
statement of prominent newspaper pub
Usher owning two papers, that he had
been offered S200OO0O in Cuban bonds if
he would support recognition of Cuban n-
dependencei is having great effect among
the members 1t is coupled with the state
mcnt that the offer was made by man
showing the authority of the Cuban Jun
Ia. He told the members the offer was
with the guarantee that a
bank would pay 40 cents on the dollar
when independence is recognized /
Spain Borrows Money.
London, April lS.-It is reported Spain
IS attempting to raise S2O.OOO,OO loan in /
Lond"n.
Here and There.
Washington, April ls.-The ten repub-
lean senators who have stood for the Tur-
ne amendment have practically agreed to
that amendment providing the
anguase of the first proposition declar-
ne that the people of Cuba "are free and
is restored
In Consultations.
Washington, April ls.-Attornev Gen
raj Griggggs, Secretaries Long and Sherman
nd Assistant Secretary Day had an
ours conference with the president to-
ay. The purpose of the meeting, it is be
eved, had special reference to the Cuban
esolutlons in congress. From reliable
ources it is learned the president will
robably return the resolutions without
Is approval i'll order to maintain the pre-
ogatlve which he holds is clearly his un-
er the constitution. No one in official
lrcles doubts that hostile resolution will b,
G passed by congress within the next
ay OF two, and war will almost certainly
jlow :
Spanish Torpedo Bouts.
Provlncetown. Mass. April lS-Captain
>ebb OF the barkentine Morales. who
cached this port today from Pone. Porto l
0 = lNA - .ii''t vi = pm Y clSll spanish r
orpedo boats arrived at that port from !
1e Canaries Two Spanish men of-war
ere there already \ Spanish cruiser also =,
as sighted as the vessel sailed.
At Cape Verde Islands.
New York, April ls.-Dispatches from !
:. Nineent, Cape Verde islands, April II. r.
ate that two tlotillas of Spanish torpedo +,
'ats and torpedo boat destroyers and the
ulsers Cristobal Colon and Marie 1e :,
st were at that port >,
Coal Reaches st. Vincent. "
st. Vincent, April ls-A Spanish trans
mt arrived this afternoon, having ON q,
'ard a cargo of coal intended for the 4(
anish squadron. -. az
American Boat DAMAGED
Falmouth, Eng. April ls.-The United q
ates torpedo boat Somers was furthe; 81
mayed today, entailing further delay to pl
+ departure. Nc