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Loup City Northwestern. VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903. NUMBER 10. THE SENATE WORK STATEHOOD DEBATE HOLDS BUSINESS BACK. MANY BILLS ARE HELD UP Ten Cash Measures Still to Deal With—Only Eight Days are Left in Which to Make Appropriations— Long Sittings Seem Certain From Now to Close. WASHINGTON.—The course of proceedings In the senate during the present week will depend largely upon the statehood bill, if there is no agreement the bill will continue to cut a figure in the proceedings whether it be under consideration or not, just as it has done for the greater part of the session. If the canal treaty is proceeded with the statehood bill it will do much to shape its course; if the treaty is put aside and the appropriation bills taken up, the statehood question will present itself in the shape of riders on those hills. According to the present program, the postoffice appropriation bill will be the first of the supply measures to be considered. It is indeed the only one of those bills not yet passed, which has been reported from committees, it carries the state hood bill as a rider, and unless an un derstanding is arrived at before the bill is taken up the question of its re tention will immediately confront the senate That will be the critical period in the statehood bill's career. Some of the anti-statehood senators contend that it can be beaten as a rider and advocate an invitation to this test of strength. In accordance with the annual cus tom in the senate on Washington’s birthday, the proceedings will begin with the reading of Washing ton’s farewell address. The reading this year will be performed by Sen atoi Dubois (la.). At the conclusion of this ceremony Senator Cullom till.) will move that the senate pro ceed to the consideration of the canal treaty in executive session. If in the meantime a compromise on the statehood bill has been effected it is believed the ratification of the treaty can be secured within a day or two. But whether there is an adjustment on the statehood bill or not, or whether the treaty is ratified or not, it is intended that many more days will be allowed to elapse before taking up the appropriation bills. With only eight working days of the session left, all senators appreciate that it is essen tial that there should be little more delay in voting the necessary supplies for the support of the government for the next nscai year. Of the thirteen appropriation bills, six have so far been considered by the senate proper, but several of the re maining seven have had the attention of senate committees. Three have not, however, been received trom the bouse of representatives. Two of the appropriation bills, namely, the pensions and the diplo matic and consular bills, have passed both houses and received the signature of the jresident. The legislative, ex ecutive and judicial bill is ready to go to the president; the army bill is in second conference; the Indian and the District of Columbia bills are both in conference with many differences to adjust; the postofllce bill has been re ported to the senate; the agricultural bill and the military academy bill have received final consideration at the hands of the committees having them in charge and are ready for report, and the sundry civil bill Is undergoing the scrutiny of the committee on ap propriations and will be reported dur ing the week. The naval bill, the for tification bill, and the general de ficiency bill are still in the house of representatives. Turkey Makes It Clear. SOFIA, Bulgaria—In her recent note to Burgaria. Turkey declines to ac cept the Burgarian government’s dec laration as to the non-existence of rev olutionary bands in Macedonia and warns Bulgaria that explicit instruc tions have been sent to the Turkish authorities to prevent the disturbance. This note is regarded as being intend ed to Justify Turkey's military activ ity. General Wheaton Improving. SAN FRANCISCO—The condition ot General Lloyd Wheaton was so much improved Sunday that his physicians announced that his complete recovery was a question of only a few days. 3IGN A PROTOCOL. American-Venezuelan Agreement is Approved WASHINGTON—Secretary Hay. for the United States, and Mr. Bowen, for Venezuela, on Tuesday signed a pro tocol providing for the adjustment of United States claims against Venezu ela by a commission to meet at Car acas. This commission will consist of two members, a Venezuelan and an Ameri can, to be appointed respectively by Presidents Castro and Roosevelt, and in the event of disagreement an urn pire to be appointed by the queen of the Netherlands. The commissioners are to meet in Caracas on June 1 to make awards which are to lie paid out of 30 per cent of the customs receipts at Puerto Cabello and ha Guayra. The Hague tribunal is to decide what proportion of this 30 per cent comes to America and what proportion goes to other claimant nations. It is expected that the minister for foreign affairs will be appointed as Venezuela's representative and that either Mr. Bowen or Mr. Russell, the United States charge, will be named to represent the United States. Baron Gevers, the minister for the Netherlands, called at the state de partment Tuesday and gave notice of the acceptance by Queen Wilhelmina of the task imposed upon her, her consent having been previously sought by both parties to the arbitration. Some light is thrown upon the un pleasant reference made by Mr. Hag gard, the British minister at Caracas, to United States Charge Russell and published in the British blue book Monday by a naval officer now' sta tioned at Washington, who was in Ven ezuelan waters and frequently at the American legation during the period referred to by Mr. Haggard. Without going into details it appears in this offlcer’3 statement that by trying to assist some British citizens in their distress without first losing the time necessary to hunt up and confer with the minister, the American legation in curred the ill will of Mr. Haggard, and the difficulty got to be rather personal, so that all the exchanges between the two ministers have since been of a most formal character. The navy department Tuesday re ceived the following cablegram from Commander Diehl of the Marietta, dated Willemstad, February 17. “Rained blockade. War vessels with drawn all blockaded ports.’ NEW YORK—The Associated Press has received the following cable from President Castro: “CARACAS, Monday, Feb. 16.—1 charge the Associated Press to trans mit, together with my gratitude, my sentiments of deference to the people of the United States. '•PRESIDENT C1PRIANO CASTRO.-’ Child Saving Institute of Omaha. The month of January was filled with interesting work in connection with this institute. The number of children on hand January 1st was 39; number admitted during the month, 15;; number re-admitted, 2: while number. 56; number placed in homes during the month, C; number returned to parents or relatives. 6; number of small infants who died, 2: making a decrease of 14. This left in the home on February 1st 42 children. Several cases were taken into the courts in order to rescue children from immoral surroundings. A great many appeals have recently come to this institute for admission of children. It will be impossible to respond to all these appeals which are coming week after week, unless additional funds are provided to meet the expenses. Any one desiring further informa tion is requested to write to the su perintendent for the annual report. It is hoped the readers ot this ar ticle will respond to the needs of this work on behalf of the little ones by sending whatever sum of money can be spared. Will Discuss Philippines. MEMPHIS. Tenn.—Vice Governor Luke Wright of the Philippine islands left for Washington Sunday at the re quest of Secretary Hoot. This probaly will be his last visit to Washington before his return to Manila. During the present visit President Roosevelt and Secretary Root will have a final conference with General Wright about Philippine affairs. Want Wireless Service in China. VICTORIA, B. C.—According to ad vices received here Italy has asked the Chinese government for a conces sion to establish a wireless telegraphic service between rekin and Taka. THE NAVAL 8ILL ME'.SURE PASSES LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS. MANY AMENDMENTS OFFERED Naval Vessels May Be State Built— Government to Refuse All Contracts if Builders Enter into Combination. WASHINGTON.—At the end of a protracted session the house on Thurs day passed the naval appropriation bill. Many amendments were- offered to the provisions relating to the in crease of the personnel and the author ization of the new ships to be built. The most important amendment adopted authorized the secretary of the navy, in his discretion, to pur chase or contract for submarine tor pedo boats after invesigatlon of their merits. As passed the bill provides for three new battleships and an armored crui ser, two steel straining ships and one wooden brig for training purposes, in addition to the submarine boats dis cretionally authorized. Without preliminary business the house proceeded with the considera tion of the naval appropriation bill. An amendment was adopted giving members of congress whose districts are not now represented at the naval academy the privilege of Immediately appointing cadets to fill such vacan cies. Mr. Dick (O.) offered an amend ment, which was adopted, to provide for the summary expulsion of any naval cadet found guilty of hazing. When the paragraph providing for the increase of the navy was reached Mr. Mudd (Md.) a member of the naval committee, raised a point of or der against those sections providing that the machinery and material used in the construction of the ships au thorized should be of domestic manu facture and authorizing the secretary of the navy in case of a combination of bidders to have the ships construct ed in government yards. Mr. Glllett (Mass.) sustained the point of order, whereupon Mr. Kitchin (N. C.) appealed. The chair was sus tained—10!) to 88. Mr. Fitzgerald (N. Y.) raised a point of order against the provision requir ing the construction of the ships au thor/.ide by the bill “by contract” and the words were struck out. An amendment was then adopted, reinserting the provision requiring the use of domestic machinery and ma terials in the construction of the ships. Mr. Taylor (O.) on behaif of the naval committee, offered an amend ment authorizing the serretaiy of the navy in his discretion to expend $5, 000,000 for submarine torpedo boats tested and found to be acceptable to the navy. The amendment was agreed to, 84 to 87. By unanimous consent the provision which had gone out on a point of or der authorizing the secretary of the navy to construct the ships in govern ment yards was restored. The committee rose and the naval appropriation bill was passed. SAYS THE MONEY HAS GONE. Chairman of Montana House Com mittee Makes Serious Charges. HELENA, Mont.—Chairman Everltt of the Montana house committee on irrigation and water rights, to which was referred resolutions calling for in vestigation of the state arid lands committee, announced in the house Tuesday that inquiry had developed evidence of a shortage and that $30, 000 received by certain members of the commission had not been applied as the law directs. The charge was made that the money had been mis appropriated. On motion of Mr. Ev eritt the committee was allowed $300 to employ counsel and a stenographer with which to further prosecute an in vestigation. Carnegie the Best Rich Man. NEW YORK.—Addressing a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul society at Carnegie hall Morday night. Bishop John I^ancaster Spalding of Peoria re ceived great applause when he declar ed that great wealth is almost certain to degrade the possessor of it, and, out of all the men who are known to reckon their possessions in the mil lions, he named only one—Andrew Carnegie—as p man able to rise above IN LOWER HOUSE. Representatives Indulge in Personal ities. WASHINGTON. D. C.—The house on Wednesday by a majority of 2 to 1 rejected the conference report on the army appropriation because of its j provisions for the retirement of civil ! war officers at the advanced grade, and permitting officers to deposit mon ey with the government at 3 per cent interest. The house emphatically voted against both propositions and sent the bill back to conference. The proceedings on the conference report were enlivened by a sharp per sonal clash between Mr. Hull of Iowa and Mr. Slay den of Texas. The re mainder of the day was devoted to the naval bill. Slow progress was made, only twenty pages being covered. Mr. Hay of Virginia, one of the con ferees, was one of those who strenu ously opposed the adoption of the army bill, because of the provision for the retirement of army officers who served in the civil war with an additional grade and the provisions permitting officers to deposit their money with the government, such de posits to draw 3 per cent interest. He expressed the opinion that the latter provision would establish a danger ous precedent; that it would lead to the granting of the same privilege to naval officers who might be extended to civil employes of the government. He characterized it “paternalism run mad.” Mr. Slayden (Tex.) charged Mr. Hull with bad faith iu not giving the house a chance for a vote on the de posit amendment. He said Mr. Hull had promised a vote. “I desire to say." interposed Mr. Hull, “that the statement is not true.” "The gentleman's courtesy,” retort ed Mr. Slayden, “is equal to his ver acity. It is a cheap form of debate which permits the gentleman to in dulge in the expression he has used and only the fact that 1 am at the ban Qf the h&use restrains me from re plying to his blackguardism as it de serves.” The democratic applause was prolonged at this point. This sharp colloquy aroused the house and Mr. Mann of Illinois un dertook to rebuke Mr. Slayden. He said be was surprised that Mr. Slay den should use an expression "far worse” than that employed by Mr. tillll. "The gentleman's idea of good man ners does not especially commend It self to me,” replied Mr. Slayden, who proceeded to say that only very strong provocation had induced him to say what he had. He then quoted from the record to show that Mr. Hull had virtually pledge the house an opportu nity to vote on this proposition. Mr. Stevens of Minnesota then mov ed.the adoption of the conference re port. Mr. Cannon protested against the manner in which appropriation bills were loaded by the senate with ail sorts of legislative provisions that were not in order in the house. The practice, he declared, not only demor alized appropriation bills, but would breed scandal and deserved criticisnji "In the house,” said he "we legis late under rules. In another body, the senate, they legislate under unan imous consent. Gentlemen know what that means.” (General applause.) Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, in op posing the conference report, declared that whether he had sought to do so or not, Mr. Hull had misled the house. Mr. Hull concluded the debate. He defended his position, calling attention to what he stated at the time the bill went to conference, to what occurred in the committee on military afTairs, to show that he had carried out in structions. He said personally he would have preferred to have allowed the house to pass upon the antago nized amendments separately. The conference report was voted down. 33 to 09. The house by specific votes insisted upon its disagreement to the retirement and officers deposit nmendement8. The bill was sent back to conference and the house resumed consideration of the naval appropria tion bill. Coal Dealers Must Pay. CHICAGO—The arguments were be gun in Judge Horton’B court Monday to determine whether the nine indict ed officials of the Retail Coal Dealers’ association of Illinois and Wisconsin should be granted a new trial. The proceedings followed the rendering of a pro forma verdict several days ago. and the imposition of a $100 fine upon each of the defendants. Judge Hor ton’s decision in the argument for a new trial is the point sought in the first instance and is awaited with much interest. NINE LIVES LOST FATAL FIRE IN A CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, HOTEL. CUESTS LEAP FROM WINDOWS Some Escape Flames Only to Meet Death on the Pavement Below— Young Men's Christian Association Delegates Among the Victims. CEDAR RAPIDS, la.—Nine lives, according to the best information ob tainable under difficulties, were lost in a fire which Friday morning de stroyed the Clifton hotel in this city. The fire started at 2:30 and at. 10 the smouldering debris furnished so fierce a heat that search for bodies was impossible. The list of the dead may prove longer than the number given, but it is hoped that the informa tion which accounts for all but this number is correct. Two persons were fatally injured and forty-two more hurt more or Ifss severely, mostly by jumping from windows. The work of identification is complicated by the loss of the hotel register, which was burned. The hotel, a three-story veneer structure, is said to have been a ver itable tiro trap. The flames started in a pile of rubbish in the basement, presumably ignited by defective elec tric light wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and in an Instant the hall ways were choked with frightened guests. A rush was made for the stairways, it was then that the crowd already collected in the street heard heart-rending cries of anguish and desperation, for the fire, feeding rav enously on the tinderlike material of the lower floor, had completely cut off escape. There followed a stampede for the windows, the only means of exit left. The street below vas now filled with a crowd scarcely less frantic than the dspairing ones in the fast burning building. "It was like a Dore picture of In ferno sprung to life.” said one spec tator in describing the scene. “The flames, looking blood-red from reflec tion against the snow, lit up the pale, drawn faces of the people In the win dows, with a glow that was unearthly.” The victims were literally driven by the (lames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to the last mo ment. urged by the people below to wait as long as possible in the hope of assitsance. Then a cry would tell that the fire had reached them or the smoke had made it imposible to breathe, and one after another jumped, some to the street, and some, more fortunate, to the roofs of buildings ad joining. in a short space of time the street was filled with men and wo men. bruised and battered, with brok en limbs and half crazed. All* were in their night garments. in an hour St. Luke’s hospital con tained fifteen injured, while many more, chiefly those who had escaped with comparatively slight hurts, were being cared for in buildings near the scene of the tragedy. Some who jumped owe their lives to the fact that their falls were broken by telegraph wires which interposed in their downward flight. A number of the guests who were able to con verse calmly following their escape de clared that they had stumbled over prostrate bodies as they rushed to the windows. The flames literally were chasing them, and the smoke made it almost impossible to breathe. The proprietor of the hotel placed his estimate of the number of people in the building at between seventy and eighty. Many of them were delegates to the state con vention of the Young Men’s Christian association. The President Invited. WASHINGTON.—Senator Kearns of Utah and Dietrich of Nebraska, Will iam Glassman, mayor of Ogden, Utah, and Edward Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, have invited Presi dent Roosevelt to attend the eleventh irrigation congress to be held in Og den on September 9, 10 and 11. The president said he probably would not be able to attend the congress. • General Foote Retires. WASHINGTON.—Brigadier General Morris C. Foote, recently confirmed, was retired on Friday. He was for merly colonel of the Twenty-eighth infantry and has been serving with his regiment in the Philippines. MAN TO FEED WYOMING ELK Jeton-Yellowstone Superintendent Has Hay-Fed Wild Animals. NEW YORK—Steps were taken here Tuesday to save 10,000 starving elk on the Jeton-Yellowstone reserves in Wyoming. Seven feet of snow cov ers their feeding ground and temper atures as low as 40 degrees below zero have added to their sufferings. News of the critical condition of the elk herds reached here from the chief of the United States rangers to A. A. Anderson, a special superin tendent of the Jeton-Yellowstone re serves. who spends his winters in New York. Mr. Ander3on at once ordered tliac a temporary supply of wild hay. at his own expense, be distributed as soon as possible at convenient points by the force of thirty rangers. He then pro posed that $ 1,500 to 92.000 be raised here by subscription to purchase more wild hay ,and it Is believed .oat prom inent persons will support the plan. LOOKING UP IRRIGATION. A Lincoln Attorney Investigating as to Plana Mapped Out. WASHINGTON—Mr. A. E. Harvey, an attorney of Lincoln. Is In the city looking after Irrigation matters in Ne braska. in company with Mr. Shallen berger he called upon Professor New ell, chief hydrographer of the geologi cal survey, to ascertain what plans had been mapped out for experiments In Nebraska. Mr. Newell states that before any irrigation projects can be started in Nebraska, it would be nec essary for the citizens there to per fect some plans concerning the use of the waters stored; that is, if the government begins any projects they must have some assurance that the land irrigated would be taken by the citizens at least at the cost of Irriga tion, so that the government wrould not be out anything. Mr. Newell said that was his understanding of the bill; that, the government should be reim bursed for the money spent by the sale of the lands irrigated. CHILDREN IN A WRECK. Eight Killed and Thirty or More Wounded. NEWARK, N. J.—A fast express on the Lackawanna railway cut througn a trolly car crowded with school chil dren at the Clifton avenue crossing Thursday. Eight of the children were killed and thirty or more injured. The motorman of the car, who stuck to his post, will die. and the engineer of the express was so badly hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Both the express and the trolly were on steep grades, going at right angles. The express was signalled, and cross ing gates were lowered while the street car was yet only half way down the hill. The motorman immediately lurned oft the power and applied the brakes, but the car slipped along the icy rails. It gained tremendous mo mentum. and at the bottom of the hill crashed through the gates directly in the track of the oncoming train. The loeomotlce ploughed its way through the trolly, throwing the children in every direction. CUBA WILL RATIFY TREATY. Would Have Been Done Sooner but for Delay Here. WASHINGTON. D. C—Herbert G. Squiers, minister to Cuba, arrived here Sunday direct from Havana and had an audience with the secretary of the navy. Mr. Squires said his mission here is to “clean up” certain matters connected with the Platt amendment. Awaiting him at his hotel was a ca blegram stating that on Monday next the Cuban congress would take up the consideration of the reciprocity treaty and Mr. Squires expressed the opinion that it would be ratified during the coming week. It was learned that this treaty would have been acted on sooner but the Cuban government was awaiting action by the United States senate. Now, however, that the matter has been de layed. the Cuban government will use every means in its power to expedite action on the treaty in the hope of favorable action by the United States senate. Garfield Gets Good Place. WASHINGTON. D. C.—The presi dent Tuesday sent to the senate the nomination of Jomes Rudolph Gar field of Ohio, to be commissioner of corporations in the department of commerce aud labor.