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m T t rf A Y 1 - - RV s x 7 V VV STOCK BRANDS Metzger Bros W s I 7 E I Vm L m A 7 H I lM I Jack Le Point Mcrriman Neb Cattle branded on left side Soine on hipalso Earmark round hole In center of loft ear Also use KK on And HKOside Tp Wl Pullman Neb Cherry Co Brand on left side and thigh Earmark square crop riRht ear suuinern nranoen cattle have but one ornd on left side Native cattle have - iuiui name jutime on i onion ana snaKe Creeks Horses have same brandon lea thigh A iteicard of SlOO will be paid to any person far Information leading to the arrest ami final conviction of any person or persons steal Ins cattle with above brand Joseph W JBownct P O address Merrimau Nebr Right car cropped Hole In center of lelt ear Range Lake creek 8 D William M Dunbar Lessee from Heine Krocger Cody Neb DUq Either side Aisr H William F Schmidt Rosebud S D On left side Horses branded same on left hip or boulder Range on Horse Creek t low Oil right Left ear ut cattle Split Range head of Hay Creek Henry Pratt Rosebud S I Leftside Horses same on left shoulder Deerhorn clip on some cattle W pfi I William Shangrcn Cody Neb Dulap uuderside oi neck W HSU I PAV fn vltllt pMa lw f Bear creeks Charles fl Faulhaber 4Bt I J Af1rHfWSgHSIftillfflHlrv Urownlee Nebr Either right or left side on cattle Horses same on left shoulder Left ear cut off of cattle Kuuge loup river Marshall Wolfenden Kennedy Neb Some s on the left hii Horses s on left shoulder ft run d is shiall Earmark Quarter clip behind half cir cle forward on left ear Range Lone Tree Lake Louis F Richards TW1 VrSl Meiriman Neb Charles Benard Rosebud S D Range Big White and Bad Rivers y W R Kissel Brownlee Neb Also some below left bin Also Wheeler Bros Cody Neb Range on the Snake River and Chamber lain fiat El ap Range Kissels Ranch Lcri Charles C Tackett Ikn Rosebud S D Range bead of An telope near St Marys mission Horses branded on left tiiigb B rM iv TALK IN THE SENATE CUBAS FREEDOM THE SUBJECT OF A HOT DEBATE Some Plead for Peace While Others Urjje Vengeance on Spain and De clare It Is Time to Knd the Conflict on the Island Proceedings in Upper House -The action of the House of Representa tives Wednesday in adopting its declara tion upon the Hispano American situa tion made the Senate Thursday the storm eenter of the war elements The galleries were packed and thousands were turned away By unanimous consent at the request of Senator Davis chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee the res olution as reported by the Foreign Rela tions Committee was laid before the Sen ate and debate began The debate was not particularly inter esting although there were some spicy dialogues and two or three dramatic scenes An attack was made upon the President by Mr Turner of Washington which was very bitter in tone He de scribed the policy of Mr McKinley on the Cuban question as effervescent and iri descent promises accompanied by a mys terious reserve that was awe Inspiring During the progress of the debate there was a large attendance and a number of chairs were brought in to accommodate a number of Representatives who came to hear the speeches Senator Hoar replied to Mr Turner He spoke in a low tone of voice with great earnestness and solemnity and ev ery word he uttered was distinctly heard by every person in the chamber Mr Hoar recited many incidents in our earlier history that bear directly upon the pres ent situation and urged the Senate to practice that self restraint which is more sublime than to yield to a tempest of ex citement and indignation No one felt more deeply the awful horrors of the Maine no one was more jealous of the national honor than he no one feared war less but he pleaded with his colleagues not to plunge the country into hostilities without being certain they were on the right side He defended the President with eloquent zeal Senator Gray a Democrat made an earnest speech in defense of a Republican President Senator Fairbanks of Indiana also spoke The Cuban resolutions how ever were not a party question in the Senate Both the Republicans and the Democrats were very sharply divided Among the most earnest supporters of the President were Messrs Caffery Faulk ner Gorman Gray and other Democrats while the most radical sympathizers of the insurgents were found on the Republi can side Messrs Chandler Thurston Proctor Foraker and Mason During Senator Fairbanks speech Mr Davis the chairman of that committee made repeated efforts to reach an agree ment for an adjournment and after Sen ator Fairbanks had concluded Senator Davis moved that the Senate adjourn un til 10 oclock Friday and upon that mo tion the test of the strength of forces came The roll call showed it to be de feated by two majority the vote being 32 in the negative and 30 in the affirmative Senator Cullom took the floor but yield ed to yiv Davis to renew his efforts to reach an understanding limiting debate This precipitated a scene The Senators forgot their dignity and proceeded in an informal way to discuss the proposition They crowded in the main aisle in front of the Vice President in heated discussion and for a while it was feared the disgrace ful scenes in the House Wednesday would be repeated Mr Cockrell pleaded with Mr Davis for a motion to adjourn leav ing the Senate to set an hour for the final vote at Fridays session Senator Carter opposed deliberation and demanded ac tion He said twenty three Senators had announced their intention to make speeches and yet every one knew not a vote on the floor would be changed should the debate continue for a week He was liberally applauded and when the gal leries were censured by the Vice-President Senator Pettus of Alabama took up their defense and claimed they voiced the sentiment of the American people The applause he said commenced on the floor and Mr Masun with apparent satisfac tion announced that he had started it One of the great speeches of the day was delivered late in the afternoon by David Turpie Democratic Senator from Indiana who is generally regarded as one of the ablest lawyers in the United States Mr Turpie in a speech of less than thirty minutes attempted to demonstrate that if this Government intervened in the Cu ban situation without first recognizing the independence of the insurgent repub lic it would thereby become liable for the Spanish Cuban war debt amounting to about 400000000 After a six hour session the Senate ad journed with the Cuban question unset tled and no arrangement made for tak ing a vote - War Speech by Cnlloni The Senate met at 10 oclock Friday and it was announced that an adjourn ment would not be taken until a vote had been reached on the Cuban question De spite the lowering clouds which threat- ened to pour out their suspended torrents at any moment and despite too the un usually early hour of convention the gal leries were thronged when the Vice-Presidents gavel fell At the suggestion of Mr Davis the ordinary morning business was set aside and the Foreign Relations Committee Cuban resolutions were laid before the Senate Senator Cullom of Illinois was the first speaker In referring to Spains appeal to the European powers he said Spain in her appeal to the European powers appealed to the divine right of kings but America appeals to the divine right of the people We propose to do our duty to God and humanity to liberty and ourselves by saying to Spain Hold your hand you shall not outrage liberty and humanity in Cuba any longer The speaker also said the hour for action was about to strike and that it was the duty of the Senate to face the crisis boldly and loyally And if Spain shall see proper to resent bur action when we tell her to withdraw we shall not hesitate to take up the gauntlet and appeal to the god of battles and to the judgment of mankind to justify our cause concluded Mr Cul lom Mr Berry of Arkansas was the next speaker He said a great responsibility rested upon the President and while he should be supported in this crisis the Sen ator himself believed the Senate should go further and pass a resolution recog aieiug the independence of Cuba The language should be so plain he said that no one could fail to understand its mean ing The whole world a xreek ago believ ed this Government would take such a step The belief had since heen spread that we intend to put upon the Cubans ob ligations they conld not and would not as sume Mr Berry said that after he heard Senator Proctors speech on Cuba he Berry remarked to Mr Vest of Mis souri That speech means war Mr Berry added that the Proctor speech touched the hearts of the American peo ple from one end of the land to the other If- we fail to respond he continued we will be regarded as sneaks and cowards The speech of Senator Berry was ap plauded whiqh moved Senator Cockrell to demand silence from the galleries and an enforcement of rules Accordingly the presiding officer impressively informed the immense concourse of people present that they would have to observe the dignity of the Senate or the galleries would be clear ed Senator Daniel of Virginia followed Mr Berry Mr Daniel said that he had been an advocate of peace hut the time for war seemed now at hand We stand up on the edge of war This nation is one with the sword in its hand and if the word that now hesitates upon the lips be spoken and the command Forward be given upon some proud day the Stars and Stripes will be waving over Morro Castle and Cabanas prison Mr Daniel said he was content neither with the House resolution nor with the Senate committees resolution and served what he termed a warning to the country that if the resolutions reported by the Foreign Relations Committee were adopted it would mean that American guns would be turned in the faces of Max imo Gomez and his liberty loving follow ers Senator Daniels speech was a bitter arraignment of the President He openly charged that the President meant to use the forces of the army and navy to sup press the insurgents The sharp criticism of the Presidents action and message induced a heated col loquy between Senators Daniel and Gray Senator Gray said the insinuation was false and that the Senator from Virginia Daniel was the only one in the United States who would dare to make such a charge against the President A sensa tion followed this charge Senator Daniel proceeded in a sensational manner He said I speak plainly We do not speak Spanish in this chamber and then stab our brother under the fifth rib I am glad to get into the open air of the discussion per mitted in a free country There was great indignation among rad ical Senators who were convinced that war was inevitable at the lack of vigor in the resolutions passed by the House and particularly in the omission of thtj clause compelling Spain to at once with draw from Cuba UPHOLDS THE MINE THEORY JLee Believes fpaniah Officials Blew Up the Battleship Maine i The testimony taken before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in con nection with the investigation into the re lations between the United States and Cuba was made public Thursday It constitutes a book of about G50 pages and includes not only the testimony taken since the disas ter to the Maine but also much that was taken before and running back for a year or more The statement which contains the greatest current interest is that made by Consul General Lee on the 12th instant In this statement Gen Lee said that he was informed on good authority that the Spaniards had placed two rows of torpe does just at the mouth of the Havana harbor by Morro Castle within the last two months or subsequent to the Maine disaster and that the switchboard is in a room in the castle He said however that he had no information of the placing of any torpedoes before the Maine was destroyed and none in regard to the pur chase abroad by the Spanish authorities Have you any reason to suppose that the harbor was mined before the blowing up of the Maine asked Senator Frye No sir I had no reason to suspect anything of that sort up to that time He then went on to say that Gen Wey lers letter to Santos Guzman had led him to believe that mines might have been placed there previous to the Maine incident and he said that this supposition was strengthened by a telegram from Gen Weyler of which he had cognizance Upon the whole he thought the Weyler letter the Laine letter was a correct copy of the genuine letter The telegram to which he referred was addressed to Eva Canel a noted Spanish woman and an admirer of Weylers and to Senor Guzman and it read as follows Grave circumstances cause me to ask you to destroy the last letter of Feb 12 Gen Lee said that this telegram had never before been published and he found in it strong confirmatory evidence of the genuineness of the Weyler letter With -reference to the responsibility for the destruction of the Maine Gen Lee said I am satisfied the explosion was from the outside I cabled the state de partment a few days after the board as sembled that it was almost certain that the explosion was from the exterior I have always had an idea about the Maine that of course it was not blown up by any private individual or by any private citizen but it was blown up by some of the officers who had charge of the mines and electrical wires and torpedoes in the arsenal there who thoroughly understood their business for it was done remarka bly well WEYLERS LETTER Butcher Intimates What He Would Do to an American Ship The letter referred to by Consul General Lee in his testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as show ing that Gen Weyler was probably cog nizant of the fact that submarine mines had been laid in the harbor of Havana and that probably it was the explosion of one of these by Spanish officials that caus ed the Maine disaster bears the data of Jan 8 1898 and was written to His Excellency Don JFrancisco de los Santos Guzman at Havana The part pointed to as referring to the -existence of sub marine mines in the Havana harbor is as follows By the way I have read these days that the Americans are pondering about sending one of their war ships to that city During my command in Cuba they did not even dare to dream about it They knew the terrible punishment that awaited them I had Havana harbor well prepared for such an emergency I rapidly fin ished the work that Martinez Campos carelessly abandoned If the insult is made I hope that there will he a Spanish hand to punish it at terribly as It deserves HOUSE IS FOR WAR INTERVENTION RESOLUTIONS PASSED WITH A RUSK They Demand Immediate Interven tionPresident Directed to Use the Army Navy and Volunteers to Carry Decision of Congress Into Effect Liberty for the Island The American House of Representa tives on Wednesday declared for inter vention in Cuba After one of the most exciting and memorable days in its his tory the House by a vote of 322 to 19 adopted a resolution which nine tenths of its members believed made war with Spain inevitable By nearly unanimous vote the President of the United States was authorized to intervene for the pur pose of securing a free Ciiba Thunder ous applause on both sides of the hall and in the galleries greeted the announcement of the result of this momentous roll call All the afternoon the House had been in a state of intense excitement and the day was marked by a uumber of sensa tional scenes On account of internal ex plosions in the House the sergeant-at-arms was twice compelled to intervene with his mace to stop what bade fair to be a devastating war among the members The Senate Committee on Foreign Rela tions late Tuesday afternoon agreed by unanimous vote on resolutions recognizing the right of the Cubans to independence and empowering the President to compel Spain to withdraw from the island These resolutions are preceded by a stirring preamble which declares that the horrible condition of affairs which has prevailed for two years in the island of Cuba so near to our borders has shocked mankind and is a disgrace to Christian civilization It is further set forth that this condition of anarchy culminated in the destruction of a United States bat tleship and 2GG of its officers and crew who were on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana This state of affairs it is said can no longer be endured and there fore according to the facts set forth in the Presidents message in which Con gress was requested to act the Senate committee adopts the resolutions which are as follows Resolved first That the people of the Island of Cuba are and o right ought to be free and Independent Second That the war Spain Is waging against Cuba Is so destructive of the com mercial and property Interests of the Uni ted States and so cruel barbarous and inhuman In its character as to make it the duty of the United States to demand and the government of the United States hereby does demand that she at once withdraw her laud and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters Third That the President of the Uni ted States be and he hereby is author ized empowered and directed to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States and to call into the service of the United States the militia of the several States to such an extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect The scene in the Senate chamber Wednesday when Senator Davis chair man of the foreigu relations committee presented the resolution declaring Cuba free and independent was dramatic The report came in much sooner than expected immediately after the morning hour The resolutions went to the Kmt Atk pro Cuban sentiment The report ac companying the resolutions which was also presented by Senator Davis was a very thorough review of the entire situa tion The reading of the report occupied forty-seven minutes Senator Hoar de manded that the resolution lie over under the rules until Thursday The Vice Presi dent reserved his decision upon the point of order and recognized Senator Foraker who yielded the floor to Senator Turpie The latter presented the report of the mi nority of the committee on foreign rela tions as follows The undersigned members of the Com mittee on Foreign Relations cordially concur in the report made upon the Cu ban resolutions but we favor the imme diate recognition of the republic of Cuba as organized in that island as a free Independent and sovereign power among the nations of the world The minority report was signed by Sen ators Turpie Mills Daniel and Foraker Conservative Senators showed a disposi tion to delay action on the resolutions by debate Senator Davis said there was no disposition to unduly press the question though it would be pressed as rapidly as possible The chair decided Senator Hoars point of order well taken Two Reports in House Late Tuesday night the Republican members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs agreed to report the fol lowing The President is authorized directed and empowered to intervene at once to restore pence on the island Of 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