Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-02-15
IN'IIN[EY'S WISH NIN!S.'
Seventy Army Nominations Con
firmed BY Senate.
SAMPSON AHEAD OF sCHLEy.
Attack Made In tho House Upon tho Al
legged Recklsssn%ss OF Appropriations
In This Cons Mckinley Gets s0s
Electoral Votes In the OMcial Count

Elsctoral votes In the Official Count
Washington, D. G., Feb. 15.--Presi-
dent Mckinley has overcome the op-
position in the senate to the confirma-
ton Of Brig. Gems. Wood. Grant ana
Bell In the order in which the nomi-
nations were sent to the senate. After
a prolonged discussion the senats con-
flrmed all the seventy nominations
down to the Observation-Disclosures OF in
fantry in precisely the order in which
they were sent from the White HOUSE.
Lists for Naval Promotion.
President Mckinley has received
from Secretary Long the nomination o.
officers advanced for heroic service
during the battle with Cervera's fleet
off Santiago de Cuba. Rear-Admlrai
Sampson will. If the nominations be
confirmed, be made senior to Admiral
Schley. The fact that he is advanced
over the latter officer will undoubtedly
cause fight in the senate against the
confirmation of the nominations.
Blow to Russis's Sugar Industry
The decision of Secretary Gage, to
impose q countervailing duty OF about
! cent pound upon refined sugar fiom
Russia on the ground that 1t receives
a bounty, while it will ultimately &C
complish his purpose of having the
question decided in the courts, Will
probably have the immediate effect or
dealing a death blow to the beet sugar
industry Of Russia,
Talks OF Reckless Appropriations
In the house Mr. Cochran tMo.)
made aa attack upon the recklessness
Of the appropriations In this congress.
He declared that the total appropria-
tons for the next year, if reckoned in
gold, would exceed the appropriations
in 1864, when the federal government
had 1900 ships on the sea maintaining
a blockade from Galveston to the
Chesapeake, and 100000 men on land
engaged in the most tremendous mill
tary enterprise In the history of the
age Speaking of our policy in the
Philippines and China, Mr.. Cochran
said: "Talk about progress and Chris
tianity, if progress and Christianity
mean marching under many flags Of
plunderers and the swords Of Chris
tian soldiers dripping in the blood OF
plundered people it is time to quit or
fling away the masquerade and say:
Progress has turned freebooter, Chris
tianity slumbers and God is dead :"
Mr.. Cochran argued that from any eco
nomic standpoint the game" in the
Philippines was not worth the cost.
I'VE have already" he said, spent
money. enoughythere to build the Nicar-
aqua canal, to fortify every foot of it's
course, to construct our new warships
and we are today no nearer peace than
when the first gun was fred Mr..
Richardson (Tenn.), the minority
leader, also e;''caJa {2nm ented upon the vast
total of the appropriations ssat'fsfh III ses-
sion of congress. which, he said, wou d
reach sSO0,0OO,000. Four years ago
when President McKinley's administra-
tion began the annual appropriations
were about S47O,000,00O.
Republican Ticket Cots e9s Votes.
William Mckinley of Ohio was
declared elected president of the
United States and Theodore
Roosevelt of New York vice.
president for the term beginning on
March 4 next. It was / O'Clock when
the senate marched into the chambe.
of the house of representatives, and in
just an hours time the separate re.
turns had been read from each Of the
forty-1ive states, the tellers had made
their computation, the result had been
announced, the senate had retired, and
the house had resumed consideration
If an appropriation bill. The only
CLEAN as to the importance of the coca
sion was at the conclusion of the care
mony, when Senator Frye, as president
of the senate. announced that 292 votes
had been cast for Mckinley and Roose-
welt and only 155 for Bryan and Stev-
enson, thus electing the two former to
the positions of president and vice.
president
Ships Go to Venezuelan Waters.
Venezuela Is being subjected to
strong naval pressure, applied by the
United States. The Bancroft is now
on her way to La Guayrl from the
Orinoco river, which she had pene-
trated for the purpose of showing the
American flag for the protection, of the
Americans employed by the New York
and Bermuda Asphalt company. The
Lancaster, which was expected to leave
La Guayra for Santa Lucia, is still at
the former port, and the Dixie is due
at that point. I-
Big Paper Mills Destroyed.
s Appleton, Wis, Feb. 15.--The Kim
berly mills of the Kimberly L. Clark