Arizona silver belt., 1899-11-30

| made the run from Cherbourg break water in five days, seventeen hours and twenty.se ven minutes This is eleven minutes less than the best pre- vious record from Cherbourg, which was held by tn s same steamer.
 The Georgia house of representa- tives last week passed resolutions fayoring the election of United States senators by direct vote; free | coinage of sil, CT at the ratio of l6 to 1, and the early construction of the Mica ragua canal. The resolutions also de- clare that the 10 per cent on the issue Of state banks and the war tax are op- pressive and unjust. The hope is eN- pressed that the war tax may be re- placed soon ly idst and equitable income tax,
 Secretary long will recommend to congress a programme for new naval construction, which will be in accord ance with the policy that has been pursued for the past three years. He | will ask for three armored cruisers of about l3,000 tons displacement; three protected cruisers of about 5000 tons. and dozen gunboats of 800 tons, making eighteen ships in all. he armored cruisers will be enlarged Brooklyns, improved in many de- | tails. and will be the biggest ships in the United States navy having great speed. The protected cruisers will be ' of the Olympia type The gunboats will be about the size of the little Marietta. oi light draught
 President Mckinley has decided to make recommendation to congress at the approaching session touching the repeal of the legislation which has prevented the granting of any fran chises in Cuba. The administration has become convinced that much se- rious harm has been worked to the best interests of the island by this leg islation. and the attempts of this gov ernment to forward the developments of the industries of Cuba and advance the condition of the people have been greatly hampered by the inhibition which prevents the building of rail roads or wharves, the construction of bridges, of trolley roads, of water and sewer convenienees, and of all that class of semi.puDiic works which give employment to many persons both in construction and operation,
 General Collazo, of Havana, says editorially in the Cubano: We are only waiting for the decision of the United States congress. upon which depends the decision that Cuba her self will reach if the language of the American is not clear. The horizon of Cuba will darken with tremendous protests which will rise from all parts of the island The Cubans are re- solved that they will not abandon a solitary right They will not tolerate the calm, diplomatic cheating of Wash ington. A worthy people cannot tol- crate foreign interference in heir private affairs even when that inter ference is in the name of altruism. The Cubans do not owe the Ameri- cans as much now as they formerly did. Perhaps tomorrow they will have reason to deny that they owe them anything at all"
 The Epoca, published at Havana. Cuba, says that annexation means for Cuba the entrance into an established community of new convert. dis gusted and disappointed with the empty vanities of separate existence, and only asking that its present peace be assured and its future happiness guaranteed. 1t means" says the Epoca, ''the association of the strong with the weak on the basis of absolute equality of rights and the merging of different elements in new spirit upon the basis that all that is good and useful must prevail over all that is bad and prejudicial in compliance with the law of destiny. In all coun- tries bordering on powerful states, especially when these latter tend to display the exuberant and expansive life which is today called imperial ism, it is the only honest and rational solution remaining to those who, dis corning the end from afar and able to avert it, did not do so, ard to those who, surprised at American interven tion, and incapable of appreciating it' transcendental importance. added il placing our fatherland in a virtua : crucibie."
 A special to the Missouri Republi' from Washington gives the followin, as the list of the probable committe' chairmen in the next house: Way and means, Serene F.. Payne, Ney York; appropriations, Joseph C. Can : non, Illinois; banking and currency James T. McCleary, Minnesota; ju dietary, George W. Ray, New York f. foreign affairs, Robert J. Hit, Illinois naval affairs, John A. Hull, Iowa
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