Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-13
CUBAN RECIPROCITY SURE
ATTEMPT At OPPOSITION TO
BILL IN CONGRESS FAILS.

sogota, Colombia, Under Martial Law
Panama Republic Reooanized-
Diphtheria Epidemic in New York
State Reformatory.
The 5Sth congress convened in ex-
traordinary session at Washington al
noon Monday, in accordance with the
proclamation of the president, for the
purpose of enacting legislation neees-
sary TO make effective the Cuban rec
iprocity treaty. Congressman Cannon
or Illinois, republican, was chosen
speaker of the house over Williams of
Mississippi, democrat, 1913 to 166. The
senate adjourned at - m. A great
throng of people crowded the public
galleries, there were many handsome
horal tributes and the house assem-
oled the largest membership in its his
tory.
I The presidents message was read
Tuesday and referred to the committee
on ways and means. 1t was short, and
referred only to the matter of Cuban
reciprocity which was strongly urged.
He held that legislation necessary to
put into operation the commercial
treaty with Cuba, ratified by the sem
ate at its last session and subsequent
ly by the Cuban government was de-
manded not only by our interest, but
by our honor; and that in doing JUS
tice to Cuba no American privilege
would be sacrificed. Speaker Cannon
was assured Wednesday by one of the
most prominent leaders of the opposi-
ton to Cuban reciprocity in the last
congress that there would be little or
no opposition among republicans to
the bill carrying into effect the Cuban
reciprocity treaty. He told the speak
er that an attempt to form an oppose
ton had failed and that the republi-
cans would not join the democrats in
voting for the Morris differential
amendment on the b,l
Several hundred petitions from
nearly every state in the union pro-
testing against Reed Smoot retaining
his seat as Junior senator from Utah
We're filed in the senate Wednesday.
Religious organizations of all kinds
and educational institutions are among
the organizations which have filed pro-
tests. Some of these petitions charge
that Senator Smoot has practiced po-
lygamy, while others rest their objec-
lions on the charge that he is MEM
Der of an organization which counte
nances plural marriages.
The eastern portions of Maine ex
perienced blizzard Saturday and snow
fell ~ to Is inches deep.
Sam Parks, the labor delegate. who
was found guilty of extortion of $500
from the Tiffany studio, was sentenced
at New York Friday to two years and
three months in Sing Sing.
The volcano of Malaspina. in Negroes,
is in a state Of violent eruption. NAL
aspina is the loftiest summit of the
central mountain chain of the island
of Negroes, being 1892 feet high. 1t
has never been entirely quiescent.
A sensation has been created at st.
Johns N. F., by the information by
former Premier Sir William White
way and former Attorney General
Donald Morrison of political party
which will appeal to the country next
year on a policy having in view union |
with Canada.
A party of ladrones last week cap |
tured the teniente municipal officer) |
of Buena Vista, near Malabon. Cavite. |
They cut the tendons of his legs and |
left him on the roadway. This out
rage was an act of vengeance because
the teniente had given information to
the authorities regarding the move
ments of the ladrones.
S. D. Winner reputed to be the oldest
locomotive engineer in active service
In the United States, recently died In
Newark, N. J. His career began in
1852, when he was given the first en-
CINE put out of the Baldwin Locomo-
tive works. 1t ended three weeks ago,
while he was in charge of drill en-
CINE in the yards at New York.
Gen A. W. Greedy, chief signal Off
GER, u s. A. in his annual report says
I,740 miles of military telegraph and (
cable lines have been laid during the ,
year in Alaska. He says efforts are
being made with prospects of success
n 1904 to establish communication by I
wireless telegraphy between St Mich |
lei and Nome, across Norton Sound, a |
distance of 1OS miles. ,
A fire in the Kearsarge mine, six !
niles from Virginia City. Mont, Fri I
lay, killed nine men. The damage to 1
urface buildings is slight. The dead q
include Supt. B. r. Turner of Butte. r
me Of the best known mining men In {
he northwest. Stationary Engineer I
George Allen and seven miners also v
we're killed The Kearsarge Is one OF t
he principal gold mines Of the state ?
nd is considered very valuable. r
DR.. r. w Mitchell is dead at Men,
his, Tenn, aged ~ years. The greatest t
ublic service rendered by DR.. Mitchell d
,as during the dreadful yellow fever p
courge of 1878. He was at the head OF L
corps of III physicians, As OF whom
yere stricken down while attending the p
lore than 5000 victims Of the plague. IL
Iitchell also passed through four other n
elbow fever epidemics, in 1857. 1878 o
nd 1879 In Memphis, and in 1855 In Is
icksburg. II
The meeting called at Dover, Del, a
st week by Senator Alice, with the u
lew of harmonizing the factions of the
,publican party in Delaware for the o.
residential campaign of 1904. was at
,nded only by union (Addicks) repub-
cans. Senator Alice read letter from