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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31

Flying Squadron Expects tn Go to
Sen I'm n Day or Two.

FORT MONROE. Va. March So.-A
great deal oE suppressed excitement was
noticeable about the flying squadron this
morning. Orders have been received. stat
iyn must be esorapsated tonight IL is ex-
pecsel that the feet will move IN dag or
two. Commodore Scaiey has almost fully
organized his working fsreA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31
SPANISH WARSHIPS
SAIL FROM CARTAGENA.
Infanta Maria Theresa and q Tor
pedO Boat Destroyer Leave on
Secret Mission.

WASHINGTON, March 3o.-The navy
department. has received a dispatch say
ing several Spanish warships have left
Cartagena, Spain. Their description has
not been learned as yet. The news ex-
cited great interest at the navy depart
ment. il was learned later that the ships
which left Cartagena are the armored
cruiser Infanta Maria Theresa and the
torpedo boat destroyer Dastructer.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31
Unprecedented Activity at Brooklyn.

NEW YORK. March 3o.-A. present
there are over 700 men az work II the
Brooklyn navy yard and work goes on day
and night work On The Dolphin has been
completed and stores and ammunition
have been put aboard. There are nearly
twenty vessels IN the yard. including the
Chicago. Atlanta, Texas and Maydowe-.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31
Considers Three Propositions
Submitted by Mckinley.
DECISION MUST BE REACHED TODAY.

America Demands the Immediate Cessation of Hostites
the Return Of the Reconcenrados and Independence for
Cuba First Indication That the Naughty Spanard
Will Yield Request for Intervention by European
Nations Avails Nothing, Although France and Aus
tria Are Anxious to Prevent an Appeal to Arms.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31
LANDS TO BE RESTORED TO SETTLEMENT.
Cevelands Obnoxious Forestry Reserve Order Suspended in
Sundry Civil Bill

March aAmong the amendments to the sundy cirh
p 1897
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
At san FRANCISCO.
Heavy Shock Extends All
Through the State.
LASTS MANY SECONDS.
Half Clothed People Rush Panic
Stricken Into the Streets.
LASTS MANY SECONDS.

Lntense Excitement I'm San Francisco
-Overturned Lamp Brings Out the
Fire Department, and the Faint
ing Of 4 Woman Causes q Re-
port of Fatality-San Quentin
Guards Fear a General Delivery,
Their CeIls-Tiaal Wave In San
Francisco HarhOr-No Lives Lost.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31

military forces, augmented by local RELIEF
committees to look after their immediate
needs.
Economic kitchens, 1t says, are to be
established to support the reconcentrados
while waiting fer their first crops to ma
ture. and they are TO be furnished farm
ing implements and seeds by the govern
ment. To supply them with ready money,
such of them as are able viii be given eEl-
ployment on pubic works, and II Is as
serted by the authorities that these meas
ures will result In the speedy rehabilita-
ton of the rural communities In the west
ern provinces.
This cablegram was not made public
until more than an hour after midnight,
and no official comment upon its signifi-
cance could be secured.
An Open Credit of 100000 Pesetas.
MADRID. March 3o--At the cabinet
council tonight Senior Capeepon. minister
of the interior explained the results Of the
elections. and Senior Moret read q series
of important documents relative TO the sit
ushtiUl VI TIC AeSS 4A SHA1 $500
the results OF the efforts hitherto made for
their relief In view OF these documents,
Senior Moret proposed and the council ap-
proved an open credit OF 100000 pesetas.
to be placed at the disposal of Gen. Blanco
BY cable to be used in succoring the re-
concentrates and TO facilitate means OF
work for those willing TO return to their
homes with the supply OF needfui impse-
ments 10 enable them 10 till the ground
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NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED,


WASHINGTON. March aa--Tae senate
toaAy eoH.israsd 1As following nominations;
'tao1iss Mosgyoge, recs4ve- OF public
moneys az WaNa Was.a
JSan Best, register os the land office az
Lewiston. Idaho
{. A scoav. Indian agent <eS the Peek
ag@zs=s- ~ AaGsAsAa
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situation ndeDend-
giving and earnest consideration propositions presented by the govern
depends the future of the relations
propositions submitted by country contemplate
The The complete and immediate cessation tic of Of ho.aes ] in Cuba
basis by which the island would pay sum for lis freedom from spanish
These propositions take wide scope there are many tho ,erny.
Can No Longer Ev.de the question.
has been made perfectly clear Spain that nothing less than close Of the
these more advanced and positive positions - - : ~ - = = -
disposition
rather than another 50 long as the conclusion finally reached brings tho
entertained
signs of waveri Madrid
disappearance
Spanish flag 81 from the island either through purchase & by the Cuban. or Otherwise
Spain would more
being carefully a. weighed with with a view to general decision
When received the future '. win
/
with no s WORD W." passed ina. the last stage the
he stated that definite results expected from Madrid by
o
through the influence Of the leaders further radical action by the senate and the
being deferred
him their hope that something might be promised which would
of equipment his
some other po II o a
but
is
n
had addressed
at
said that this note led
present however actual step toward mediation Intervention has been
by
naux has called On Judge Day. said that this government
in
be acceptable TO
Of
srne8as q momen
Is
>
diplomacy w all neF means OK asernng BE-
In
= to that
the French authorities are fully conscious Of this delicate and dt
Aas II states to Act
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Ha)NCEN|RA|N)S
NAY NOV GO HONE.
Another Proof That Spain Is
Yielding.
FOOD SUPPLY MEASURES.
Government Will Establish Eco
nomic Kitchens for Cubans.
FOOD SUPPLY MEASURES.

Of the Inhuman Order Of
Concentration In Based On Re-
ported Paciflcation Of Western
Provinces-ProtectiO Guaranteed
by the Military Forces and Local
Relief COmmittees-The Starving
People to He Made Public Charges
Until the First Crops Mature
Employment On Public Works.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-31

United States Gunbont aWAvss In the
straits From Ats<9a.

Special Dispatch 20 the Post-fnteiilsencer.
PORT ANGELES. March sn.-The
United States gunboas Wheeling arrived
here today from Alaska
The times., 1898-02-07
Mr.. lindsay ON Himself

We do not wish to be hypercriticaI,
but We are compelled to take some mild
exception to one view expressed by
Senator Lindsay the other day while
delivering his defiance to the Kentucky
legislature
In his declaration that the general
assembly of his Commonwealth is
without power over its Senators in
Congress, Mr.. Lindsay is undoubtedly
correct. IT is also true that at the time
of his reelection in 1894, his views on
silver We're we'll understood. We will
grant that in 1895 Kentucky was as Re-
publican Senator Lindsay. since he
appears TO lay stress upon that point.
But, having allowed so much, we must
take direct issue with him in his as
sumption that his McKinley-Palmer
views still represent majority SEN
timent in Kentucky. If they did in
1896, his only proof of the fact is the
vote of that year. On the evidence of
the 1897 election il is at least equally
as certain that they do not now.
Gentlemen who, like Mr.. Lindsay,
take the position that six and half
all wrong, and nobody quite right but
their own bakers dozen selves. are too
well used to regarding themselves as
majority of mankind to feel much em-
barrassment under such circumstances
as these which impelled the Senator
to make his personal explanation. 1t is
hard to see a statesman desert his par
ty and go over 10 its enemy after grow
ing gray in the service. and something
should be allowed to the Kentucky
legislators for natural evaporation.
They have said their say and Mr..
Lindsay has had his. Therefore, it is
probable that the incident may be con-
sidered as closed. In spite of his dere-
liction from party duty. the Senator
is man of intellect and experience.
OF course his political career will come
to an end with the expiration of his
present term. There is no reason why
he should not enjoy himself in the
meantime But, after the present in
terregnum il is a satisfaction to think
that there VIII be two Democrats rep
reseRting a State thoroughly redeemed
from the false gods of gold.and Repub-
licanism
The times., 1898-02-07
Indications of a Crisis.

There is an undercurrent of events in
Cuba which is moving with great
speed toward a final crisis. Optimistic
statements from government sources
both in Washington and Madrid do not
serve 10 cover up the fact that certain
movements of Spain are being watched
with something more than suspicion,
while the volcanic conditions in Cuba
grow daily worse. There is very gen.
eral apprehension of an outbreak on
the 22d of the present month, the last
day before the beginning of Lent.
1t may come sooner, for nobody can
tell what may happen after Blanco's
ridiculous campaign of bribery, and his
return to Havana beaten and crest
fallen. In our State and Navy Depart
ments condition of suppressed excite
ment is visible. although the most SOL
emn assurances are given out TO repre-
sentatives of the press that nothing
could be more connubial than our
Spanish relations.
One explanation of this may be that
the Government has learned of an i'm
portant military movement about to be
undertaken by Gen. Gomez, and of
which hints have come to us from the
field. That might mean an attack upon
Havana, in which case our squadron
would have business in Cuban ports.
The times., 1898-02-07

overt action, such as going to a bull
fight. is something like going to the cir
Gus or dance in the early days of the
country; it is tangible and abusabie.
A man might In those days, be so mean
in his own house that all his children
ran away from him when they could;
he might worry three wives, one after
another, into untimely graves, but so
long as he kept out of the circus tent
he could lead the church all right So
with the officers of the Maine. They
would have excited no feeling had they
stayed at home, no matter what they
did: it was the bull fight that made the
trouble.
1t is time to bring to the notice of
certain people in our country the fact
that in the diplomatic service it is
sometimes impossible to behave in
thoroughly orthodox manner. One of
the most important duties OF a diplo
mat is to win the confidence of the
people to whom he is sent, and ii he
can do this by going to bull fight, or
attending the theater. or drinking beer,
it is little too much to expect him TO
confine himself to such innocent recre
ationS as playing authors" in the even
ing, teaching Sunday school, or study
ing botany. He cannot be successful
diplomat If, in the company of people
brought up from babyhood on wines,
he invariably drinks cambria tea. OF
course, there is a question whether he
needs to become uproariously drunk,
even if that is the custom, and there Is
a doubt in the minds of thoughtful
people, whether it would be necessary
for him to attend bull fight, or can
nibal feast, If either would shock his
sensibilities: but into this Havana Sun
day bull fight performance the ques-
ton of the inherent brutality of the
entertainment does not enter at all.
The people who object to this action on
the part of the officers of the Maine
would object just much if they had
been told that those gentlemen spent
the day in lounging around on board
their ship, reading yellow-backed
novels or Illustrated Sunday papers,
playing cards, or in the evening making
social calls ON ladies of their acquaint-
ance. ana II IS lHuS ncccSSeiS SSh'iS
but firmly to inform these objectors
that since the Administration has
adopted a semi-conciliatory policy to-
ward Spain, the attitude of our officers
should partake of that quality, and that
it was probably in pursuance Oh
the Administration policy that they
broke Sunday by going to the puii
fight They should be regarded, not as
criminals but as martyrs.
The times., 1898-02-07
The Song of the Drum

Do you hear my summons hammer
through the crackle and the cIamor?
Do you feel my throb and thrill?
When l meet the smell of powder. oh.
my merry note grows louder
And my song shall not be still
Follow, each beside his fellow, meath
the vapors gray and yellow,
Wildly cheering, sternly dumb,
And rumble, rumble, rumble, when the
smokewreaths toss and tumble,
You shall hear the rolling drum. Fol-
low the drum,
Men forget their fears and foIlies as
they face the binding volleys,
And the young recruits they come.
With their simple, sunburnt faces,
from the quiet country places,
To the call of me, the drum
Come, plowboy lad and carter, and
your life-b blood freely barter
For the bullets sure for some,
And rattle. rattle, rattle through the
din and roar of battle,
You shall hear the rolling drum. FaI-
low the drum!
When the boys that follow fast there.
drop aside and fall at last there.
From the surging lines of red.
Then no more of pomp and ruffie; my
notes awhile / muffie.
And / mourn and mourn the dead.
But the losing battle needs me, and
the whistling bullet speeds me;
Through the ree1ing ranks come.
And clatter. clatter. clatter where the
broken regiments scatter,
You shall hear the rolling drum. Fol-
low the druml
Pail Mall Gazette.
The times., 1898-02-07

a Minnesota dentist proposes to the
governor OF that state to hypnotic
convict abolt to be hanged, SO as TO
make the ,peration easier. Now, why
might it not he q good scheme to turn
first-class hypnotist loose on our friend
Mr.. Thomas Brackett Reed? 1t might re-
suit in his recognition OF members en-
titled TO the floor and, as an extreme sug
gestion, it mi ght bring him TO some
respect for the rules he has sworn to
obey, but which he does not. Confidence
in hypnotism is rapidly growing. By
and by the power to work 1T VIII be come
the principal qualification for political
preferment. Itmade Hanna great; but that
was different. That was the hypnotism
OF $16, ,00o 900!
The times., 1898-02-07

great bulk of the British people are
of restoring the lost prestige of the
country. But the Government is not
imbued with any such spirit. A story
is current in London that it is out OF
respect for the wishes of aged Queen
Victoria that the premier pursues the
course which is offending pretty much
everybody in the United Kingdom by
its apparent lack of courage; but prob
ably there is not much in the tale.
1t is much more likely that the Brit
ish authorities realize the weakness of
the empire from a military point of
view, and that war would mean certain
disaster and not ifnprobably the loss of
India. Sir Charles Dixie has been
startling England by a series of ar
ticles exposing the completely rotten
condition of the army as fighting
force. According te his description, it
is deficient in artillery, horses, and es-
pecially in men. In short, he declares
that it exists only on paper. OF the
nominal battalions on home service
none would be able to show up with
more than hundred and fifty efficient
men, and the whole force of the re-
serves and militia would have to be
called into requisition to make first
line, thereby exhausting the military
material of the nation at the outset.
Naval superiority is an excellent thing
as measure of home defense; but ir
would be of comparatively small serv-
ice against power that could hurl half
a million first-elass troops through the
passes of northern india
We have an idea that it Is such con-
rather than the sovereign's
aversion to slaughter tEat is eontribut-
ing to the Quaker policy OF the Sails
bury government.
The times., 1898-02-07
sabbath Breaking in Havana.

Some people are having great time
over the fact that the officers of our
battleship Maine went to bull fight
in Havana the Sunday after they ar
rived. Whether ii is the bull fight. the
Sunday opening, or the political aspect
of the thing to which they object, does
not quite appear, but they are aggrieved
and stirred up about it, and on the
whole, the largest volume of their criti-
cism seems to be directed against Sab
bath breaking. 1t is pointed out. that
if people want to go to bull fights at all
they have to go on Sunday, but these
objectors contend that if they have to
go on Sunday they would much bette,
stay at home.
There is no need Of considering the
political significance of this incident.
The question Is simply whether it was
right for the officers of a United States
battleship to go TO a bull fight on Sun
day. 1t is broad and general question,
and affects our diplomatic service. If
Minister Woodford, for instance,
should be invited to 60 to a bull fight
on Sunday, what would he do about it?
And IL he should conclude to go, would
he be a proper person to represent this
nation at the court of foreign power?
That Is the real issue. If the officers
of the Maine had confined their inyesti-
cations TO week days, nothing would
have been said. They might not have
spent the Sabbath in precisely the way
that they would in the house of
church member in good and regular
standing, but the question would not
have been raised, because nobody would
have known what they did. But an
The times., 1898-02-07
The silence of Salisbury.

The more the British public obtains
a chance to see things as they are in
China and elsewhere, the more it be-
comes evident that something is wrong,
and a good part of the nation appears
TO be inclined to blame the Salisbury
government for It. The declaration OF
Mr.. Gerald Balfour that England was
still firm and would not back down on
the Port Arthur Talienwan issue has
fallen fat, and the press continues to
express disgust and indignation at
what it considers ministerial supine-
ness.
The evidence is conclusive that the
The times., 1898-02-07
THEY WANT A CHANGE.
Baton Rouge Men Anxious to Re
1,,<,,iSt, Nuu;cpiaI poxyars

Baton Rouge Men Anxious to Re
linquish Municipal Powers.
New Orleans, Feb. G.-Nearly all busi-
ness men ald leading citizens of Baton
Rouge have joined in petition which will
be presented 10 the Louisiana constitutional
convention 20 meet in New Orleans next
week, asking that the municipality be
abolished and that Baton Rouge be placed
under the absolute control OF the State
government, IN the same way as Washing
ton city Is controlled by the President and
Congress.
GOOD government, they declare, has been
difficult in Baton Rogue, because or the
large number of negroes. The business men
think the ell can be cured by aba andon-
ing self gov ernment. The request is not
likely to be granted.
The times., 1898-02-07
THE LIVE STOCK TRUST CASE.
The Taking ofTTestimony Before the
Master in Chancery Finished

Master in Chancery Finished
Omaha, Neb., FebsG The case grow
ing out of the efforts of the Government
TO have the Omaha Live Stock Exchange
dissolved because it is in conflict with
the sherman anti-trJ law has been
completed before the examining master
in chancery here lu
Ten witnesses in all were examined
and the representatives of the exchange
and the Government each declare that
they are satisfied. Each side asserts
that it has undoubtedly made its con-
tention COOL.
The position OF the Government has been
that the exchange is trust detrimental
to the live stock interests OF the coun-
try, and Is in existence to monopolize
the business of selling live stock on the
local market.
The exchange officials hold that the
exchange is a legitimate institution,
orga niZed 20 facilitate the business OF
selling live stock, and that it brings
the producer and packing house toge ther
in the only practicable way.
The Government placed several COM
mission men and one farmer on the stand
who testified that the change was a bad
thing for the farmer and stock raiser,
that it is a trust, and that in order to
be a member commission man is forced
to contribute more than half his profits
to the trust.
The testimony will be referred TO the
Federal court. When the Judge reviews
it he will r,fer the whole to a referee,
who will be empowered to take testimony
and hear the case on its merits.
Several years will elapse before the
Government can close the exchanges Of
the country if they are decided to be
contrary to the Sherman antitrust law
The times., 1898-02-07

There are some advantages in being
hacked by xealthy corporations. Sheriff
Martin and mis- deputies, although under
Indictment ild on trial for murder, have
been at large and without bail for some
time. The prosecution complained OF this
on Saturday. Bail bonds VIII be made
out today. 1t is rather peculiar state
of affairs. Any one OF the accused could
have walked off and left the State and
country, IL he mad so desired; but none
OF them appears TO entertain the least
fear of conviction.