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partment, and as member of the Ex-
amining and Retiring Board. Another
term at the Naval Academy. in COM
rnand of the practice ship Constellation
and the training ship Portsmouth, was
followed by service as photographer in
the Navy Department: so it will read
lily be seen that Captain Sigshee has
seen wide and varied service. He took
command of the Maine in April, 1897
New York Herald
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ALPHONsO XIII.
SPANS King Not Yet Twelve Years
of Age

In the turbulent times which have
been experienced by Spain, the boy
King, Alphonso Kill, has not cut
much of a figure, and if the Spanish
depended much upon the youthful mon
arch it is likely there would not be
much for the Spaniards to look to for
guidance. The Queen Regent Marie
Christina, however, is wise and able
woman and has about her some able
statesmen and diplomats. and their
counsel is rewarded by the approval of
the people.
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A Shattered Idol.

Barnes-That settles it. DR.. Howsit
can never prescribe for me again.
used to think he knew something. but
my confidence in him has been com
pletely destroyed
Apsley-What's happened to change
your opinion of him?
Barnes-He' has been giving expert
testimony in a murder trial.-Cleveiand
Plaindealer
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1t is perfectly clear that President
Mckinley does not propose TO play into
the hands of the mere jingoes. He
Will not lead the country into a war
that can be avoided with honor. In
that resolution he viii have the in
dorsement of the sound thought of the
country The recent manifestation Of
patriotic feeling must not be con-
strued as indicative of public desire
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IN the entire list of our exchanges for
TINS coast at hand since the reported
demand for the recall of General Lee
ana the action of the Congressional
committee preceding the passage of
soO,00oUVo bill, have we found a single
diseordant note. The voice of the
press has all been american through
and through, and a call for unlimited
ana perfect repose of confidence and
power in the President to put the ma
ton into state of preparedness. we
do not expect as our exchanges come
to encounter single line of dissent
from the splendid action of Congress
last week
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Monday: con-
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heavy frost Monday morning.
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A Prerequisite.

Willie (studying his Virgil)-Pa. I'm
stuck. The Trojan gladiator is saw
ing something to his rival, and I can't
make it out
father--Maybe he's telling him to go
get reputation.-Philadelp Record
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Ex-President Harrison, in his recent
address that has commanded so much
attention, dwelt long and vigorously
upon evasion Of taxation on the part
OF those who in one way or another
conceal their property for that pur-
pose In one passage he hinted-it was.
coming from so sound a constitutional
lawyer, really something more than n
hlnt-that remedy, or a partial one.
might be found if the State would de-
clare and maintain an estoppel against
the claim OF any man or his heirs to
property the ownership of which he
mas disclaimed in the tax returns.
1here IS meat in that suggested possi-
pity that legislators may well pom
der on.
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she-l wonder why a little apple
caused Adams downfall?
lie srecailing recent experienced
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discovered then.-Chicago Tribune.
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1t was the wit of circumstance and
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PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento. In
the matter of the estate of ROBERT
FORBES. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY.
the 18th day of March, 1898, at 10 o'clock
a. m. of said day, and the court room of
said court. at the Courthouse, in the City
of Sacramento, County of Sacramento.
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ceased, and for hearing the application of
Elizabeth A. Forbes for the issuance to
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Witness my. hand and the seal of said
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Endorsed: Filed March I. 1888.
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AN INVENTOR, TOO.

Captain Sigsbee has also won high
honors as an inventor His deep-sea
sounding machine is conceded to be per-
feet in every particular. A decoration.
the double red eagle of Prussia and
medal from Great Britain emphasize
appreciation of his successful devices.
The invention was exhibited at the
Centennial Exposition in 1876, and
there attracted the attention of Lord
Kelvin, at that time Lord William
Thompson, one of the most eminent
scientists of Europe. He declared that
it absolutely fulfilled all conditions and
that he had tried without success to
accomplish the same results himself.
A parallel ruler. which has overcome
many of the difficulties of mechanical
drawing, working ingeniously in ball
socket, is also the result of Captain
Sigshee's creative talent
Despite the fact that he is a naval
officer Captain Sigsbee is essentially
man of domestic tastes His home in
Washington is typical American
home, without pretense and restfully at
tractive. Mrs Sigsbee. a handsome
matron; three young daughters and one
son years old: married daughter,
who with her husband, Ensign Kittelle,
y. S. N, and their tiny new daughter,
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SAVED THE VESSEL.

service VINO does not envy MIN TINS
trait He has nerves of iron"
a BRILLIANT RECORD.
Captain Sigsbee also has a war rec
ord, having participated in some of the
fiercest engagements of the rebellion
After having been graduated from the
Naval Academy in 1868 he was given
the rank of Ensign on the steam sloop
Monongaheia of the West Gulf squad
ron. The next year he was transferred
to the Brooklyn, which was engaged in
the battle of Mobile, on August >. 1864.
The year following found him with the
North Atlantic blockading squadron,
and he took part in both attacks on
Fort Fisher and the final assault on
that fertilization.
At the close of the war he was trans
ferred to the Asiatic squadron, and
on May 10. 1866 was promoted to
Master He was commissioned as
Lieutenant on February 21st. of the
following year, and on March II. 1868.
he was commissioned as lieutenant
Commander For three years he was
on duty at the Naval Academy, and
was later in the photographic Office,
and with the coast survey, in which
latter branch of the service he COM
manded the Blake.
In 1882 he was promoted to the
rank of Commander, and during he
succeeding three years he was again
stationed at the Naval Academy. He
commanded the practice ship Dale dur
ing the summers of 1883 and 1914. and
the Kearsarge at the European station
the next two years. Then followed
terms Of special duty in the Navy De-
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progress will either have reached a con clusion or there will have been a break which will hasten war When the Presi- dent has acted as he thinks best he will submit the whole matter to Congress and leave that body to take whatever course 1t sees ft
 If 1t does not care to approve what he has done he will not regret that the responsibility has left his shoulders. It may not be over ten days before the President will be able to give to Con- gross the correspondence that has passed and Is now passing"
 Members are deliberate and out spoken in their expressions and say that necessary condition to any consent to delay will be that the de- lay shall be brief and coupled with unequivocal assurance of action.
 They are willing for the President to take the lead-want him to. do so-and
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for few days, at least, hoping that in the meantime the situation might be changed, but tonight he was given to understand by his supporters in Con- gress that whether or not the Cuban re- lief resolution was considered an effort would be made to bring before the House a resolution recognizing the bel ligerent rights of the Cubans or for the independence of the island. They told him this might take the form of a rider to the Naval Appropriation bill
 For these reasons it is believed hat the President and his Cabinet lave decided to accept the situation and let the full responsibility for any consequences that may result rest upon Congress.
 / At the same time they hope to tenn porize for few days longer. One of the Presidents supporters said tonight: Within a week the negotiations in
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it was proven to be an external explo- sion. The question was very generally asked how it was that the court failed to make that specific finding.
 The President is represented as being astonished at the storm that has been raised about his ears. Some of the Presidents advisers are said to have as sured him that with little delay the storm would blow over and Congress could be held in check. Appearances do not warrant this opinion. Delay is irritating and the temper of Congress does not seem to be the result of sud den excitement on account of the Maine rerort The expressions heard from Re publicans in Congress who have been stanch supporters of the President here tofore are of loss of confidence. This is not based on the Maine report, though the feeling is intensified on account of that, but results from the stories as to the character of negotiations that have ben conducted by Minister Woodford in Madrid.
 The situation becomes more serious from the fact that the Representatives are organizing. The most threatening movement of the day was an impromptu meeting of Republicans to outline plan to destroy Speaker Reeds policy of peace in the House It was to have been conference of only a dozen men. A whisper got abroad and fifty-two men attended All pledged themselves to armed intervention or nothing. No war, no appropriation.
 There is probability, too. that the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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 Washington, March 2o.


 A general belief prevails in Washing ton tonight that the President is ifl- clined to accept the inevitable and real izes that sooner or later he must yield to the demands of Congress for some aggressive action, but he does not in tend to shoulder the responsibility for any consequences that may result there from. The leaders in Congress, among whom are many of his intimate friends, have given him to understand that rad ical action can no longer be delayed. It is believed that President Mckinley fully realizes the situation, from talk he had late yesterday afternoon with Messrs. Dingley, Grosvenor, Cannon, Payne and Dalzell, and at night with Senators Lodge, Proctor, Allison, Cor man, Ell1irs ; and Hansbrough, all of whom represented to him that the Sen ate and House were in no mood for policy of delay. There is no doubt all these gentlemen, and particularly the House leaders, gave him to understand that open rebellion would result unless theTe was change of policy.
 representative Grosvenor, especially. was able to give the President the exact situation, and he explained that storm was brewing. The President finally de- tternined to withhold his message ask ns TOT the Cuban relief appropriation
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will report favorably one of the war resolutions introduced to-day. Tho members of that committee have waited on the President and told him that un- less he outlines definite plan and in forms Congress of the character of the representations he has made to Spain. action will be taken without delay. The jingoes claim that he has no plan.
 Members of the House are meeting by State delegations all over Wash ington to pledge themselves to vote for armed intervention.
 It is a trying time for the Presi- dent. He has been receiving letters indorsing his course and telegrams calling his message on the Maine dis aster ''compromise with he'll"
 He is apparently not discouraged and feels that he will be sustained iii the end. His intimate friends are aiding him handsomely Powerful influences are at work to hold Congress in check and State and local bosses are hurrying here to work on their Congressman.
 In it's effort to stem the time the ad- ministration has done some wise things and some foolish things. Its friends have made use of the story that the fire in Congress has been started by men wlo hold bonds of the Cuban republic which they bought at ten and hope to sell at Ioo This had no effect except to start counter story that the men who were back of the Presidents plan 10 have the Cubans buy their independ- ence for $2oo, ,ooo, 900 are also holders of Cuban bonds purchased at ten.
 Noticeably indiscreet has been tha
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they will follow, but they must know that he is going to do what they want and do it with reasonable promptness. The advice of the most responsible men is that three or four days be given the President to indicate his policy. and for the committees to report, and that if definite steps are not taken before the close of the week to restore order and civilization in Cuba, Congress shall act
 Nothing short of the evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish will be listened to. There is considerable sentiment in fa- vor of making the destruction of the Maine the ground for dif~ft declara- tion of war This sentiment IS excited by the reading of the testimony taken by the Court of Inquiry, which is wide ly held to convict the Spanish officials of the crime. The, theory that the char acter of the explosions is proved to have been such as to preclude the possibil- ity of its having been without the con- nivance of officials is very generally held.
 lc IlcHlDCIS oi lilC i1ouoC "io diS in favor of immediate and aggressive action on the Cuban question are dis cussing all sorts of methods by which the House can be brought to an expres- sion of opinion. This morning there was talk of everything the chair during the consideration of the naval appropri- ation bill and attaching a resolution rec ognizing the independence of Cuba as rider.
 The feeling to-day was quite as 1t was
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SENATOR ALIENS
 RESOLUTION.

A Whereas, The war now and for some time past being waged between the ' Kingdom Of Spain and the Cuban in- surgents has fully demonstrated the ' total inability of the former to subdue ' the insurgents; and
 A Whereas, Said war has become one 4 of extermination by starvation, and ' the dictates of Christian civilization and common humanity alike demand ' the speedy cessation of hostilities and | the immediate termination of the de- ! liberately planned starvation now go- | ing on in the island of Cuba: and . Whereas, Under existing circum- stances, it Is the bounden duty of the United States to intervene: and
 Whereas, The assertion of the Mon roe doctrine forbidding the interfer- ence of foreign powers in the affairs of ; any State or nation on the Western ; Hemisphere creates an obligation on > the part of the United States to guar
 antee the people thereof against unus-
 ual cruelties and barbarities and ex- termination by any such foreign pow ; CT: and
 Whereas, The Cubans have. in the ; opinion of the American people and of
 Congress, by their valor and sacrifices
 during the four years of war, won
 their independence from Spain and are entitled to political recognition by the United States: and
 Whereas, It is apparent that Spain ; can no longer govern or control the
 people of Cuba; therefore,
 Resulved, by the Senate and the House of Representatives, That the , republic of Cuba, now and for some , time maintained by force of arms, is . hereby recognized by the United
 States of America as separate and
 independent nation. That the United States shall immediately intervene and put an end to the war now being waged on the island of Cuba and shall . succor and release from imprisonment the people there concentrated for the
 purpose of starvation and externina-
 tion- And be 1t further
 Resolved, That for the purpose of
 enabling the President of the United
 States to provide the concentrated
 non-combatant Cubans with the neces-
 sary food. raiment and medicine for
 their immediate relief from starva-
 tion, the sum of $5OO,0 or so much
 thereof as may be necessary, Is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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RAWLINS' DECLARA-
 TON OF WAR

' Whereas. The war waged by the < Kingdom of Spain against the people ( of Cuba has destroyed the cornnSree 4 between them and the people or the v United States, and its revival will be v impossible so long as such war may
 ' continue; and
 Whereas, By the authority of that
 < Kingdom, in the course Of such war,
 < much American property has been de-
 4 stroyed and many American citizens A without just cause have been i'm ' prisoned and some assassinated Tn Y their prison cells; and
 < Whereas, While our ship Maine was
 4 at anchor in the harbor of Havana,
 4 within the dominion and under the < control of the kingdom of Spain, at 4 place designated by her authority, that
 , ship and most of the men on board
 , in the service of their country, by the ' explosion of a submarine mine. were ' willfully. wickedly and treacherously mangled and destroyed; and < Whereas, The kingdom of Spain has < proved herself incompetent to tran 4 quilize the island of Cuba, either by
 , the method of peace or by means of ' civilized warfare. and, accordingly, has ' proceeded to make desolate the homes of its peaceful inhabitants, driving % men, women and children into guard 4 ed camps, detaining them there with , out making provision to shelter, ' ciothe or feed them. thus willfully ' causing their extermination to the | number of hundreds of thousands by ! the slow and torturous process of A starvation; and
 k Whereas, While regretting the neces- . sity-now imperious-for such action. but mindful of our duty to a neigh boring people, and to humanity, and With clear consciousness as to the ! business of our cause and that our ac- k ton will meet with the approving \ Judgment of all civilized peoples; now, 7 therefore be it
 Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States b of America. in Congress assembled, > That the independence of the repub- A lie of Cuba be, and the same is hereby recognized. and that war against the kingdom of Spain be and the same is hereby declared, and the ! President is hereby authorized and > directed to employ the land and naval - forces of the United States of America ; to wage such war to success