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P O address
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Kennedy Neb
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m TALK IN SENATE
Resolutions Introduced by Frye
Foraker and Rawlins
STORM GATHERS AT CAPITOL
Two Senators Call for Belligerent Action
Against Spain
WANT CUBANS WOES ENDED
Upper House of Congress a Scene of
intense Excitement
Rawlins of Utah Offers Resolution
Recognizing the Independence of
Cuba and Declaring War Against
Spain Allen and Foraker Offer Res
olutions Recognizing Cuban Inde
pendenceSenator Mason Makes a
Red Hot Speech in Favor of War
Galleries Applaud Bellicose Senti
ments
Washington correspondence
The Senate plunged into the Cuban
question Tuesday with a merciless disre
gard for the Presidents peace plan Two
Republican members of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee Senators Foraker and
Frye took the lead Four resolutions on
Cuba were introduced in rapid succession
Senator Frye of Maine a conservative
member of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee who by precedent of long service was
entitled to the chairmanship of foreign
relations but yielded to Senator Davis
offered a resolution calling upon the Pres
ident to intervene at once by force to stop
the war in Cuba Senator Forakers
members rcliose ideas are in accordance
with a positive course About fifty repre
sentatives attended representing all sec
tions Representative Hopkins of Illinois
a member of the Ways and Means Com
mittee presided and Representative Joy
of Missouri was secretary The meeting
was called to take steps to secure imme
diate intervention in some form and the
recognition of Cuban independence
It was pointed out that while it was fit
that the executive should be given as he
had been a reasonable time within which
SPANISH LEGATION WASHINGTON
to advise it was exclusively the func
tion of Congress to declare war commence
hostilities or take action of that character
The remarks made carried the view that
a mere recognition of belligerency was
not to be considered for it would not of
itself bring a cessation of hostilities and
that intervention armed and immediate
and recognition of independence only
would be considered
SPAIN SAYS ACCIDENT
Madrid Experts Dispute Every Claim
of American Board
The conclusions reached by the Spanish
naval commission which investigated the
destruction of the battleship Maine are
directly opposite to those in the report of
the court of inquiry submitted to Con
gress The synopsis is as follows
The evidence of witnesses comparatively
close to the Maine at the moment Is to the
effect that only one explosion occurred that
no column of water was thrown Into the air
that no shock to the side of the nearest ves
sel was felt nor on land was any vibration
noticed and that no dead fish were found
The evidence of the senior pilot of the har
bor states that there is abundance of fish in
the harbor and this Is corroborated by other
witnesses The assistant engineer of works
states that after explosions made during the
execution of works in the harbor he has al
ways found dead fish
The divers were unable to examine the
THE CONGRESSIONAL BATTERY IN ACTION
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olution recognized the independence of the
Cuban republic Rawlins Utah offered
one declaring a state of war between
Spain and the United States Allen Neb
offered one recognizing independence and
Senator Foraker said he would insist up
on early consideration of his resolution
Mason 111 followed the introduction
of the resolutions in the Senate with a
vigorous war speech He described viv
idly the disaster to the Maine He said
that if ninety of the victims had been Sen
ators or sons of Senators we would not
lave been forty days declaring war Yet
the lives of all Americans were sacred
alike under our law and equally entitled
to consideration Mr Mason said the ca
tastrophe should be replied to vigorously
He could not speak for others but for
himself he was for war This declaration
brought out a vigorous outburst of ap
plause from the galleries
The Illinois Senator declared there
could be no peace so long as a European
nation owns and butchers its slaves on
this hemisphere He said it was not nec
essary for the Maine court to fix the re
sponsibilitay The law did that If it
was a torpedo or a mine it was a Spanish
torpedo or a Spanish mine Hence Spain
niust answer He would oppose any pro-
A SPANISH TORPEDO BOAT
position looking to indemnity as he would
oppose making a diplomatic incident of
the catastrophe He would oppose any
kind of autonomy or any plan to assist
Spain but his demand was that the Span
ish flag should be driven from the western
hemisphere Neither did he believe Cuba
should be required to pay an indemnity
to Spain We are told he said we
must wait on the Spanish elections but if
Spanish elections ave as rotten as Span
ish diplomacy we had better not wait
Let us awake said Mr Mason in conclu
sion to glorious war as did our fathers
a war that shall insure the honor and re
spect of our flag all over the world
A storm has been- gathering in Con
gress Monday afternoon and Tuesday
morning before the cabinet met the Presi
dent was given to understand by leaders
in Congress that unless he intervened soon
he would have the matter taken out of his
hands by Congress which body has the
right to declare war The President has
considered every conceivable plan looking
toward peace but Congress will hear noth
ing but intervention for Cuban indepen
dence A Senator who is conservative
made the statement that the President
would be compelled to intervene for inde
pendence whether he wished to- or not
The revolt in the House against further
postponement of action on the Cuban issue
culminated in conference of Bepublican
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bottom of the ilaine which was burled In
the mud but a careful examination of tho
sides of the vessel the rents and breaks In
which all point outward shows without a
doubt thdt the explosion was from the In
side A minute examination of the bottom
of the harbor around the vessel shows abso
lutely no sign of the action of a torpedo and
the fiscal judge advocate of the commission
can find no precedent for the explosion of
the storage magazines of a vessel by a tor
pedo
From the Front
Capt C D Sigsbee has been assigned to
duty as aid to Secretary Long
Merchants of Barcelona have offered the
Spanish Government 40000000 to be used
in case of a war
Spanish military engineers are starting for
the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands
are being fortified
Italy has decided to sell the armored cruiser
Giusoppe Garibaldi of 0840 tons and well
armored to Spain
The remains of Lieut F W Jenkins of
tho Maine were interred at Pittsburg with
military and civic honors
Secretary Long has detailed officers to com
mand all the auxiliary torpedo boats recently
added to the naval service
All the shipyards on thelakes may be start
ed in full blast in case the war with Spain
lasts more than four months
The United States naval attaches at tho
various European centers are endeavoring t
purchase more torpedo boats
The Navy Department has issued Instruc
tions to transfer twenty cadets from Ann
apolis to the battleship Indiana
There are over 2000 men at work In tbf
Brooklyn navy yard and operations continue
without intermission day and night
Orders have been given to remove from all
the war vessels In the Key West harbor all
surplus baggage and unnecessary parapher
nalia
Foreign bankers are evidently becoming
alarmed for the safety of their funds in
Havana branches and are withdrawing them
to New York
Gov Black of New York sent to the Leg
islature an emergency message advising an
immediate appropriation of 1000000 as a
contingent war fund
The Madrid Pals says that orders have
been issued to mobilize all the Spanish war
ships and that a second torpedo squadron
is being prepared for sea at Cadiz
The Dupont powder mills have received
urgent orders from Washington to use every
possible means to furnish the Government
with smokeless powder without delay
The life saving crews of all Government
stations on the Atlantic coast have been
notified to hold themselves In readiness to
enter the naval service at a moments notice
The work on the cannons now In process of
completion at the Washington navy yard is
being pushed with all the haste possible
More than 500 men have been added to the
force
Many applications are being received at the
War Department from small towns along the
coast for the erection of some means of de
fense to withstand the assaults of foreign
ships in the event of war
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Scene in Fulton street Cincinnati
where people are obliged to get about in
boats
THE WAR IS OVER
For the Time Being the Bier Hat Has
Been Overthrown
Tie -war against the high theater hat
has ended at least for the time in the
overthrow of the hat In some West
ern cities -notably In San Francisco the
City Council has passed an ordinance
empowering the managers of theaters
to expel ladles whose headgear im
pedes ithe view of spectators Fortified
by this law ushers politely invite wear
ers of offending hats to remove them
or call at the box office to get their
money back To stern necessity the
ladies have succumbed and orchestra
and dress circle instead of presenting
the appearance of a parterre of flowers
glowdng with the gay colors of myriads
of showy birds are now mere backs of
heads frowzy with disheveled hair and
gloaming the eye with dull neutral
tints For uhe preparation of the fe
male hair for exhibition at the opera in
volves a hair dresser and a carriage
and foruids the use of a hat or toque
until the show 13 over whereas no lady
cares to walk bareheaded through the
streets on the way to the play
Throughout history the female head
dress has been a worry and a vexation
Five hundred years ago when Europe
was taking breath after the crusades
ladies wore a head dress which was
built up in a couple of pointed spares an
ell long and had long loose pieces of
crape fastened to the top of them
and hanging down the back Such
head gear enraged a pious monk named
Thomas Conecte and he preached
against it with such fervor that hun
dreds of women threw down their head
dresses before the pulpit and the street
boys took delight In pelting with stones
those Who clung to their high hats But
when Fra Conecte died the high hats
came to life again and In the quaint
language of Monsieur Paradin the wo
men Who had crawled dnto their holes
like snails now put forth their horns
nce more
It was left for Louis the Eleventh to
deal a death folow to the fashion In
our day we put the high hat out of the
theaterj iflhe king excluded it from court
and church But even his power was
inadequate to set a limit to the Norman
cap which to this day soars two feet
above the wearers head and ds the joy
and piiide of the countrywomen of
Charlotte Corday
It was rather by its breadth than by
its height that the modern theater hat
made itself offensive If the hat wear
ers could have kept their heads still
the nuisance would not have been so
unbearable But the tall halt seemed to
set the muscles of the neck quaking so
that the wearer waggled her head in
cessantly like the old effigies of Chi
nese mandarins and the spectator be
hind her had no sooner discovered a
practicable vista under one of the hat
wings than it was closed by a change
of pose For its disappearance may we
all be duly thankful and now if some
body will devise a cure for the chatter
of the sweet gdii graduate at the most
interesting part of the play we may
really cease to take our pleasures sadly
Harpers Weekly
Causes of Corns and Bunions
The feet are surely pliant members
when they can endure the variformed
shoes that fioni time to time compel
them in new habits with each pair put
on yet they rarely rebel or give real
trouble unless barbarously neglected
Corns and bunions are more often the
result of wearing old shoes than in a
wrong selection of new ones -A con
stant change of foot gear inures the
foot to variety and even those who
confine themselves wholly to the ready
made article need suffer no ill effects if
they will keep their shoe supply as
careful replenished as is the rest of
the wardrobe
It is one of the most fallacious of
practices to attempt to economize by
wearing old shoes about the house un
less they possess all their buttons have
straight heels and soles and are daily
brushed and aired as are their newer
fellows Only in this way may the
ankles be continually braced into
straightness and the toes allowed to
move gently in an almost straight di
rection When the foot is thrown out
of balance by worn down heels the
toes attempting to retain a level posi
tion perform prehensile feats which
resemble the action of the forebears
some scientists have ascribed to us
Moreover the combined heat and mois
ture of the normal foot hardens the
leather of the continuoutsly worn shoe
into permanent creases which in turn
render the foot extremely sensitive
and a struggling against its hard envi
ronment enlarges the joints and causes
local distress Harpers Bazar
Slow
The Rev John Watson Ian Mac
laren tells this story about his trip to
the Holy Land to which he had been
looking forward for a number of years
with pleasurable anticipation says Tit
Bits
As he was nearlng the center of his
toric Palestine he met an American
who was making all haste to get away
After a few greetings such as two English-speaking
men meeting in a for
eign country might exchange the
American asked Dr Watson where he
was going
To Jerusalem was the reply
Jerusalem exclaimed the Ameri
can in tones of unfeigned disgust you
dont want to go there Ive just come
away Its a slow town Why there
isnt a daily newspaper in the whole
place
Wheels in France
As France taxes bicycles and tricy
cles the number of machines used In
that country is known exactly On
January 1 1897 there were 329814
taxed an increase of nearly 74000 over
1895 which had shown an increase of
53000 over the preceding year The
revenue obtained in 1869 was 3272339
francs
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