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ROBERT GOOD Editor and Prop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
No particular ammunition Is furmsn
ed the Spaniards by the forts being
ground into powder
A curious thing about that tax on
Bleeping cars is that no mention is
made of the porter
Admiral Deweys ancestors have lived
In Vermont over 100 years which is
enough to make any man fight
As tending to an increase of foreign
trade in time we may trade some of
these conauered islands for Ireland
Cuba must be a queer country so far
as climate is concerned the fall of San
tiago occurs right in the middle of sum
mer
When sweethearts separate he going
to the war there are some so prosaic
as to call the final parting a kind of sou
venir spoon
After all style counts for a good
Heal A young woman who always has
prided herself on being a good Dresser
has landed a Yanderbilt
In Danbury Conn the other day a
boy aged 71 eloped with a giddy miss of
OS This shows what the unreasonable
opposition of parents will do
Likely enough therell be a time a
decade of so from date when a 10-year-old
Dewey begins fighting with a co
temporary Hobson across the street
Plunger Hooley of London who has
failed for millions resembled Barney
Barnato in many respects One of them
now has nothing left and the other has
left everything
After the Dewey juvenile anecdotes
schoolmasters are taking a good deal of
comfort in the fact that Lieut Hobson
is said to have been a very good boy
and at the head of his class
To get back to Lieutenant Hobsons
bravery again it seems to us thai the
fact thit 40QO other men in the navy
were anxious to go along with him
proves that the navy is made up almost
entirety of Hobsons
The Turkish government has declared
its intention to remain neutral during
the present war We may as well be
much obliged Yet if there is any
power on earth with which the people
of the United States would be willing
to see Spain form an active alliance lv
would doubtless be that ssme Turkey
What answer in the name of our
jaunted civilization and equality of cit
izenshin cantSie citv of Boston give to
ISSSfe rpthe appeal of the women taanhers in its
public scnocus tnat uiey suuii recede
wTequaipay with thVmen teachers for
qual service What answer any-
vhere Bring the womens pay up to
the mens and demand the best service
All the mob murders in this country
are committed by men who are prompt
ed by some form of fanaticism But
we see how little safe it is to trust any
mob under any circumstances because
all mobs are insane The mere fact that
a mob has formed is a demonstration
that the sane spirit of order and re
sponsibility has been replaced by emvr
tional irresponsibility under which the
mobs most virtuous sentiments against
wrong will only increase its X apacity
for dangerous wrongdoing
Commodore Schleys engagement
with the forts covering the entrance to
Santiago harbor began under perfectly
clear skies and was followed by a
downpour of rain The first heavy fir
ing in the Cuban war on the Atlantic
repeated the experience of the civil
war whose veterans practically agree
in saying tnat battles were followed by
rain the bigger the battle the heavier
the rain as at Gettysburg Commodore
Schleys bombardment gave renewed
hope to the rainmakers
The Stars and Stripes are doing hon
orable service in the public school of
Chicago Little celluloid flags are of
fered to the pupils at five cents each
The proceeds are already sufficient to
maintain three vacation schools which
for six weeks of the summer bring un
mixed happiness and no little profit to
the children of the very poor Long
may our flag wave over not merely the
land of the free and the home of the
Tsrave out over a people whose rich
come into kindly contact with the poor
and where the learned and fortunate
share their acquirements with the ig
norant and the forlorn
It escaped general notice that when
the Emperor Williams brother was re
ceived by the emperor of China at the
palace in Pekin the etiquette of 2000
years was for the first time disregard
ed and the German barbarian was
greeted as an equal It was reported
that the Chinese emperor trembled
when he shook Prince Henrys hand
The final and conclusive act of oriental
humiliation came when the emperor re
turned the young princes visit No
other European indeed no other human
being so far as known ever broke
through the barrier that has surround
ed the imperial throne of China The
incident was full of meaning
The man who is clever with tools
who could repair any of the ordinary
machinery about the farm seems to be
the exception nowadays This is part
ly because of the old plan of making
things at home has given way to the
modern idea of buying manufactured
jutieles This has deprived Ihe young
of the wonderful experience that for
merly taught them how to use their
hands Most of our young people now
adays have no conception of the power
of hand eye and mind much less the
ability to put such power into action
This must be the object of manual
training In our common schools and of
technical training in the agricultural
colleges Teach our youth how to use
their hands One has only to go deeply
into this phase of the new education
to realize the wonderful possibilities
before the young man or woman who is
so trained as to be able to make the
hand obey the eye in carrying out the
original dictates of the mind The
world needs such more than it needs ab
sorbers of mere book learning
The recently published letters of Mrs
Browning show the falsity of the state
ment that she was never known to
make an insignificant remark We
have always discredited that account
of her for it was inconceivable that
she should have been such a tedious
companion as that report of her im
plied The statement was probably
first made by some solemn bore who
thought it was high praise to affirm
that a person was always weighty and
wise That opinion is too commonly
entertained But the slightest reflec
tion shows us that the capacity to di
vert as well as to instruct is essential
in the make up of a well furnished man
or woman Indeed a command of the
small currency of conversation is quite
as essential as a supply of small coin
You do not want to ask a bootblack or
a newsboy to change a gold eagle and
to proffer an acquaintance a ponderous
remark when all that is needed is a
word of good will or a joke is equally
ridiculous Such words are not idle
in the sense the scripture condemns
They are nothing more than the wire
which conducts good will or cheer from
one heart to another For our part we
can hardly imagine any one as saying
anything particularly impressive if he
had no facility in lighter speech There
would be no contrast in his conversa
tion The effect would be like that of -a
speaker who emphasizes every word
with the result of making nothing em
phatic One reason why -the home life
of many persons is so insufferably dull
is that they have never cultivated the
faculty of small talk They either
have to discourse like philosophers or
they are as dumb as oysters
The indications are that when the
present war with Spain is over we shall
control Porto Rico the Philippines and
Sandwich Islands to say nothing of
Cuba We must maintain a larger
standing army and a large efficient
navy We must build a canal across
the Isthmus of Panama All this
means that thousands and hundreds of
thousands of able bodied men will be
withdrawn from ordinary pursuits that
new fields will be opened for the enter
prising that the unemployed may have
employment if they will that a period
of prosperity for the farmer and for the
artisan anL 2on sequent y for the whole
country is hear How long the boom
will last or what will be the ultimate
result are other questions but it be
hooves the wise to have their wits
about them and be up and doing That
some sort of a reaction will come in
time there can be no doubt says a writ
er in a Louisville paper The farm
ers of Kentucky and of the South now
have their greatest opportunity They
were left prostrate in 1SG5 and were
unable to gather together the wreck of
war and take advantage in its fullness
of the flush times in the latter half of
the GOs When they did begin to stand
alone immigration sometimes half a
million a year from the crowded popu
lation of Europe flowed into the un
broken prairies of the West The vir
gin soil was broken American inge
nuity invented improved machinery of
every kind and a flood of wheat and
corn and cattle and horses poured out
from the West undreamed of unexam
pled in the history of the world In
dia Argentina and Russia added to the
store of golden grain The cheap horsas
from the West killed the mule industry
in Kentucky the cheap wheat and corn
and the faM ange cattle from the bunch
grass drove the price of Southern cattle
and farm products down to such a fig
ure that no longer were they profitable
Cotton went down in price and tobac
co except the better class of burley
dropped But at lrst the West was full
at least so far as free lauds and farms
open for the taking The South had
turned in a measure to other things
Finding farming profits cut dawn she
dug into the bowels of the earth tor
coal and ore furnaces and factories
sprung up and the hum of industry
was heard And even before the dec
laration of war the South was begin
ning to have her inning She was as it
were beginning to catch even with the
shooting jumping popping growing
West with the North boom sick Ar
gentina despot cursed Russia and
plague ridden but rich and productive
India Wheat was going up corn was
going up hogs cattle and horses were
bringing good and increasing prices All
this and better things are now at hand
Having learned the bitter lesson of ad
versity the South should be prepared
America should be prepared to grasp
her opportunities We have no famines
iu America we have no pestilence as
known to other countries Those who
do not move forward may blame them
selves We have the most productive
country on this globe and avoiding
wild schemes and foolish speculation
we should produce and lay up a store
against the rainy day remembering
that he is farthest from market who
has nothing to sell
Detective SystPin in Pn is
The secret police force of Paris are
distinct from the regular force The
members as a rule are unknown to
each other and often a second ditc
tive is sent to watch the first employed
upon an important case
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HAWAII IS VOTED IN
SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE RESO
LUTIONS FOR ANNEXATION
Vote s Reached ooner than Expected-Galleries
Greet Result with
Anplause Amsndraeiits Defeated by
the Annexationists Six Democrats
Aid the Republicans
Final Vote Stands 42 to 21
The annexation of Hawaii was accom
plished Wednesday so far as the legisla
tive branch of the Government was con
cerned Quite unexpectedly the resolu
tions providing for the annexation of the
islands were brought to a vote in the Sen
ate late in the afternoon and they were
passed by the decisive vote of 42 to 21
Early in Wednesdays session of the
Senate conferences of the leaders on both
sides of the chamber were held and a tacit
agreement was reached that a vote should
be taken Thursday The opponents of an
nexation had concluded their arguments
and as they had no desire to keep the
Senate in session by purely dilatory tac
tics they announced their willingness
that a vote should be taken as soon as Mr
White Mr Pettigrew and Mr Allen had
finished their speeches Neither Mr
White nor Mr Pettigrew spoke at great
length but Mr Allen did not conclude
until -115
It was evident instantly that a vote was
at hand The word was passed swiftly
through the corridors and committee
rooms and m a few minutes every
COXGKESSMAX NEWLANDS
Father of the Hawaiian Annexation Kesolutions
tor at the capitol was in his seat The
galleries filled rapidly and members of
the House of Representatives learning
that a vote was to be taken came hur
riedly to the Senate side of the great mar
ble pile to witness proceedings that will
be historic
The test vote came on an amendment
offered by Mr White of California It
was offered with no expectation that it
would be adopted but merely to place the
ideas aiid opinions of the opponents of an
nexation on record It was rejected by a
vote of 40 to 20 indicating that the an
nexationists were strongly in the major
ity Amendment after amendment was
offered but the advocates of the resolu
tions stood soiidiy together gaining rath
er than losing strength on the successive
votes
Finally at 530 p mj the resolutions
themselves in precisely the form in which
they were received from the House of
Representatives were reported to the
Senate and the roll call began Intense
interest was manifested by every specta
tor Not a sound was to be heard in the
chamber except the call of the clerk and
the responses of Senators When the
Vice President announced the vote by
which the resolutions were passed a tre
mendous wave of applause swept through
the galleries which the Vice President
made no effort to check- Those who had
advocated the resolutions expressed their
pleasure by shaking hands with one an
other and on all sides evident relief was
shown that the end had come For a few
minutes so much good natured confusion
existed that the dignity of the Senate was
threatened but Vice President Hobart
quietly reminded Senators that the ses
sion was not yet at an end
Mr Morrill of Vermont was the only
Republican who voted against the resolu
tions although Mr Thurston of Nebraska
and Mr Spooner of Wisconsin were pair
ed against them Six Democrats Mr
Gorman of Maryland McLaurin of South
Carolina Money of Mississippi Morgan
of Aial ama Pettus of Alabama and Sul
livan of Mississippi voted in favor of an
nexation
Told in a Few Linen
Napoleon Valcnm of Hudson Mass
eloped with his stenmother
Tames Pittenger aged 40 who recently
had charge of the county farm near La
mar Mo committed suicide
The Government survey of the Indian
Territory hax boon completed and the last
stake driven in the Cherokee Nation
Charles Guilkey was drowned in Elk
river near Independence Kan He was
swimming when he was taken with the
cramps
There is great excitement at Orlando
Oka over the disappearance of the pret
ty 2-year-old daughter of George Kimer
formerly of Iowa
John Auld of Atchison Kan fell from
a window at the residence of
his brother-in-law C D Walker while
walking in his sleep
J P Bailinger fell from a ladder while
painting the oil tanks in the Springfield
Mo Wagon Companys yards and was
instantly killed
E S Fry one of the largest land own
ers at riattsburg Mo made an assign
ment for the benefit of creditors His lia
bilities are estimated at 05000
Edward Silk who killed John Heller
Smith a 17-year-old boy at Moberly Mo
in June 1S90 has been taken to the peni
tentiary to serve a 20 year sentence
The phosphate camp at Ponpon S C
is wildly excited over the finding of 30
000 in gold by two negro diggers who dug
up a nrge chest and divided the contents
Gov Barnes of Oklahoma has pardon
ed Torn the penitentiary Cole -Martin a
ycang Guthrie attorney serving a two
year sentence for embezzling money from
client
The board of managers of the Omaha
exposition have notified the members of
the Kansas commission that Sept 1 has
been designated as Kansas day at the ex
position
The Attorney General of Kansas takes
the position that whatever live stock quar
antine regulation the State sanitary
boards make can be enforced and it was
proper to keep out Texas cattle
TO HOIST THE FLAG
Admiral Miller Goe3 to Hawaii in the
Philadelphia
The Hawaiian Islands were made a
part of the United States when President
McKinley signed the annexation resolu
tions Admiral Miller started at once for
Honolulu on the cruiser Philadelphia to
hoist the American flag and take forma
possession of the islands It is said that
the transition from the Hawaiian republic
to a part of the United States can be
without the slightest delay or
friction A complete internal organiza
tion an cany exists civil and military and
it is pointed out that this does away with
the delay of organizing a government
such as cec rrred vhen California -as ad
mitted For the present the existing civil
organization will continue with President
Dole as chief executive and this will run
along until the five commissioners appoint
ed by the President prepare a system of
organization and put it into effect
The Hawaiian Islands are made up of
the islands of Hawaii Oahu Maui
Kauai Lanai Kahulanc Molokai Nihau
Kaula and a number of small islets The
area of the islands is JG40 miles or about
three times that of Delaware According
to figures of two years ago something over
105000 souls are added to the population
of the United States and its territories by
the annexation of the isiands Of the
white and native population about one
third speak English The Japanese num
ber 25000 and the Chinese 15000 There
are 15000 Portuguese in the islands and
0000 Americans while the British and
German residents number 2000 each
Late figures on the native population give
it as 30000 but the natives are rapidly
decreasing in number Eight of the isl
ands are fertile and susceptible to culti
vation The four largest Hawaii Maui
Oahu and Kauai are particularly rich
abounding in land fitted for sugar cof
fee rice and fruit raising On Kauai
there are coffee plantations of 200000
acres and next to sugar which has al
ways been the chief product of the isl
ands the cultivation of coffee is looked
upon as having rich possibilities Rice is
also destined to hold important position
among the products Practically all of
the trade is with the United States The
exports are S000000 annually and the
imports half that
The history of the islands begins with
their discovery in 177S by Captain Cook
who named them after his patron the
Earl of Sandwich Juan Gaetano a Span
ish navigator is credited with having seen
the island of Hawaii as early as 1555
Annexation of the islands to the United
States was agitated in Hawaii as early
as 1853 and the question has come up at
various times ever since The recent rev
olution and the overthrow of the mon
archy are matters of to days historv
TO INVESTIGATE SEA TRAGEDY
Murderous Course of Crew of La
Bourjrojrne to Be Brought Out
A searching investigation will be made
by the officers of the French line of the
murderous course pursued by the crew at
the sinking of the steamer La Bourgogne
The harrowing tales first told by the sur
viving passengers are being corroborated
by scores of persons and in point of cow
ardice brutality and crime this disaster
has no counterpart in modern history
Arme1 with weapons and maddened
with terror the sailors waiters and oth
ers of the crew took example from the
panic stricken steerage passengers and
fought like savages to save their lives by
casting the helpless into the sea So
swiftly did the great steamer sink that the
officers had no time to gain control of the
men and scores of lives were lost that
might have been saved The drowned
number 549 men women and children
Stories of the disaster are unparalleled
Women and children were left tq their
fate Men became raving maniacs through
fear and the number of cruel deliberate
murders cannot be estimated Many life
boats and rafts were loaded with human
freight only to go down because no one
had the presence of mind to release them
The crew took the best boats and rafts
and started from the ship Passengers
eliinsT in the sirlnc nf tlm lirn oi iFn
lines attached to them until knocked in
the head by the sailors Italian steerage
passengers maddened by their peri
fought for places on the boats stabbing
men women or children Only one of
the crew of La Bourgogne the second
officer endeavored to save the passen
gers This man ran about the fated ves
sel cutting ropes which held fast the rafts
and life preservers and worked until the
steamer foundered going down to his
death the only brave man out of hun
dreds
Charles Liebra a Frenchman tells a
story of the accident which is corroborat
ed by a dozen others The Frenchman
saw his tAvo motherless boys sink before
his twos A boat Heated past him and
he tried to climb in He was repeatedly
struck with oars and boathooks and his
arms and head are a mass of cuts and
bruises Pie was rescued after being in
the water for eight hours
PEDAGOGUES AT WASHINGTON
National Educational Association
Opens Its Meeting
The thirty seventh annual meeting of
the National Educational Association op
ened Thursday night at Convention Hall
Washington D C President J M
Greenwood of Kansas City was in the
chair The list of speakers included the
most distinguished educators in the coun
try President Greenwood reviewed the
work of the association for the past year
He said the organization now numbers
10000 members and has a surplus capital
of 60000 with an annual income of 30
000 or more John W Ross district com
missioner welcomed the delegates to
Washington Dr William T Harris
United States Commissioner of Educa
tion President B L Whitman of the Co
lumbian University and Webster Davis
assistant secretary of the Department of
the Interior followed with brief ad
dresses
Delegations from all over the country
were in the city Every train brought car
loads of pedagogues and those who came
did Washington from Capitol Hill to the
White House
On the picnic grounds at Cold Springs
near Brookhaven Mis Ralph Butter
field attempted to shoot John Perkins but
missed and the pistol ball entered the
foot of Miss Josie Tibbs inflicting a se
rious wound
At Jones Prairie Texas Whitfield Mc
Kinney shot his wife and then clubbed
her to death with the gun after which he
cut his throat with a razor
California grain and fruits have been
severely damaged by wind Wheat was
the heaviest sufferer
WOfiK OF C0NGJ1ESS
NATIONAL LEGISLATURE HAS
BEEN BUSY WITH WAR
Kot for Twenty five Tears Have F
Important Matters Been Considered
Appropriations that Aprtrrejrate
Nearly Oa0OJ00O Were Mac
-
An Important Feasion
The passing of the second session of the
LVth Congress marks the close of the
first war Congress in a quarter of a cen
tury Associated with the first hostile
conflict since 1812 with a nation of an
other continent the annexation of Ha
waii and contemporaneous with a further
movement for territorial expansion the
present Congress outranks almost any
other that has ever assembled
Hawaiian annexation Spain and Cuba
war appropriations and war revenue legis
lation organization of the vast volunteer
army and expansion of the navy and a
new bankruptcy law were features of the
session Urgent deficiency bills carrying
millions of dollars were rushed through
with far less delay than marked the
course of an ordinary measure of little
importance The total appropriations
footed almost 900000000 and about
350000000 of this was for war purposes
It was the largest aggregate by any ses
sion since the civil war and the general
deficiency was the largest separate meas
ure since the 750000000 single appro
priation in 1SG3 The naval appropriation
bill provided for three new battleship
four monitors sixteen torpedo boat tk
stroyers twelve torpedo boats and one
gunboat The urgent deficiency bills all
carried provisions for aggressive work in
the prosecution of the war The general
deficiency measure enacted in the last
days carried a provision for refunding the
indebtedness of the Pacific railroads to
the Government
Cuba and Hawaii were the important
matters of debate and provoked the most
widespread interest There were a num
ber of messages from President McKin
ley bearing on the Cuban situation rang
ing from the submission of a report upon
the Maine disaster and the consular re
ports to the call for a declaration of war
The first real war legislation was when
Congress placed without limitations
50000000 in the Presidents hands as
an emergency fund for national defense
On April 11 the President in a message
left the Cuban issue in the hands of Con
gress Resolutions were soon enacted and
became law April 19 declaring that the
people of Cuba ought to be and are free
and independent and demanding that
Spain relinquish its authority and with
draw its land and naval forces from Cuba
and Cuban waters and directing the use
of our land and naval forces to enforce the
resolutions
The declaration of war was passed by
Congress and approved on April 25 Three
days before the declaration of war Pres
ident McKinley approved the volunteer
act Under it all the soldiers in the vol
unteer army have been raised embracing
125000 men under the first and 75000
under the second call
One feature of the session was the en
actment of the war revenue law Its
framers expected it to produce 150000
000 Minor war legislation included the
following Organizing a volunteer army
signal corps organizing a volunteer brig
ade of engineers creating two additional
artillery regiments adding 31010 men
creating a United States auxiliary naval
force not exceeding 2000 enlisted men
and appropriating 3000000 therefor
keeping life saving stations on the Atlan
tic and gulf coasts open during June and
luly for patrol purposes authorizing as
sistance to Cubans and providing them
with arms and supplies allowing
homestead settlers who volunteer to count
their service in homestead requirements
resolutions of thanks to Dewey and his
men and the presentation of a sword to
him and medals to his officers
Other important legislation aside from
war included prohibiting the killing of
fur seals in the north Pacific and importa
tion of sealskins into this country pro
liibiting foreign vessels from carrying
merchandise directly or indirectly between
United States ports an Alaskan home
stead and right of way act encouragiag
railway construction appropriating 200
000 for the relief of the Yukon miners
creating a non partisan industrial commis
sion to investigate immigration labor
manufacture and business Late in the
session a general bankruptcy law was en
acted providing for voluntary and invol
untary bankruptcy
CATTLE ARE SCARCE
Stock Owners Holding Their Animals
for a Kise in Prices
From all parts of the West come reports
that cattle are scarce This fact is lead
ing a number of cattlemen to go long
distances to make purchases as it is gen
erally conceded that there is money in
feeding From Mexico there comes a de
ficiency of nearly 50 per cent in the num
ber shipped through Colorado to Nebras
ka n and Kansas feeders and the total
receipts of New Mexico also fall far short
of the customary This falling off of cat
tle passing through Colorado is in accord
with the gross figures for the United
States which are as follows In April
197 734S9 cattle passed across the Mex
ican border into the United States and
the same month this year showed 35158
For the first four months of last year
there were 100649 received and for the
corresponding months this year there
were 72639 a less number than came in
during April 1S97 The reason assigned
for this years shortageis that last year
drained the Mexican frontier
From Las Vegas N M P J Towner
inspector for Colorado Kansas and South
Dakota makes the following significant
report which speaks for itself During
the month of May he inspected 73533 cat
tle 8935 sheep and 469 horses making a
total of S29CM head against 105191 for
the same period last year These figures
may be taken to mean that stock owners
are holding to their animals in anticipa
tion of a rise in prices which it is pre
icted is certain in view of the war
Frank Moore a Santa Fe Railway en
gineer was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded at Winslow Ariz by Jesse
Treat another engineer on the same line
Treat also received a bullet in his body
from a weapon in the hands of Moore It
was rumored that Moores divorced wife
had been frequently in the company of
Treat and Moore brooded over it
The Hotel Latham of Hopkinsville
Ky which cost over 100000 when erect
ed was sold by a decree of the Circuit
Court and purchased by John C Latham
of New York for 16000
KafagffBFpg
- In the Senate on Saturday bills were 1
passed as follows Amendatory to the law
regarding fraudulent affidavits in pension
and bounty land cases to pay the owners
of the ship Achilles for expenses incurred
in rendering service to the wrecked
American ship Arabia Mr Pettigrew
S D then resumed his speech upon the
Hawaiian annexation resolutions The
Senate passed with amendment the House
bill to increase the force of the ordnance
department Mr Cockrell Mo from
Committee on Military Affairs reported
and the Senate passed the House bill
fixing pay of volunteer soldiers from the
date of enrollment for service The bill
was amended so as to include all officers
The Senate passed the House bill direct
ing the enlistment of cooks in the regu
lar and volunteer armies Also a-
bill to change the
ing courts in the
of North Carolina
bill to amend the
h
times for hold
eastern district
Also the House
statutes
to the bonds of vice consuls and the quar
terly returns of business by consular offi
cers and the Senate bill amending the
laws relating to American seamen for
their protection and to promote commerce
The chief features of the latter are the
elimination of all imprisonment provisions
in the coastwise trade including Mexican
and West Indian the reduction of penal
ties in the foreign trade the improve
ment of the provision scales and the re
duction of allotments to one month
In the Senate on Monday Ailen of Ne
braska began his speech in opposition td
Hawaiian annexation At noon Turpie
read the declaration of independence Dur
ing the session a large number of pension
bills were passed
The debate upon the Hawaiian resolu
tions continued in the Senate on Tuesday
Three speeches were made Mr Hoar oT
Massachusetts in advocating annexation
made a notable appeal against any policy
of general territorial expansion as a se
quence to the war Mr Lindsay of Ken
tucky opposed the resolutions directing
his attack principally against their consti
tutionality Mr White of California re
sumed his speech in opposition
The annexation of Hawaii is now ac
complished so far as the legislative branch
of the Government is concerned Quite
unexpectedly the resolutions providing for
the annexation of the islands were brought
to a vote in the Senate late Wednesday
afternoon and they were passed by the
decisive vote of 42 to 21 Many amend
ments were offered by opponents of the
resolutions but all were defeated The
House after a debate of four hours con
curred in the Senate amendment to the
general deficiency bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Interior the Attorney
General and the Secretary of the Treasury
to settle with the approval of the Presi
dent the indebtedness of the Central and
Western Pacific roads to the Government
The amendment was concurred in by a
vote of 96 to SO An amendment was
offered and adopted to the Pacific Rail
road amendment providing that unless
settlement was reached within one year
the President should begin foreclosure
proceedings to collect all money due the
Government
Both houses of Congress on Thursday
passed a resolution fixing the time of sine
die adjournment at 2 oclock Friday after
noon The routine proceedings in each
branch follow Senate A bill conferring
upon Adjutant General Corbin the rank
pay and allowance of a major general was
passed Mr Pettus sharply criticised the
measure and charged that Gen Corbin
had been rapidly promc d by reason of
political favoritiMn This charge brought
several Senators to their feet among
whom were Messrs Bate Pasco and Ba
con all of whom testified to Gen Corbins
distinguished ability and special fitness
for the position he occupies Mr Sowall
Mr Hale and Mr Foraker paid high trib
utes to Gen Corbin warmly eulogizing
him for the splendid record he has made
both on the field of battle and in the po
sition he now holds There was no di
vision on the vote by which th bill was
passed During the greater part of the
session the Senate considered bills unob
jected to on the general calendar passing
a large number of them A bill to restore
Major J W Wham formerly pay master
in the United States army to his full rank
and ry in th army was nnumoisIy
passed House The day was given to
consideration of local measures by unani
mous consent Few of importance were
passed After the resolutions providing
for final adjournment were agreed tor
there vas a clamor characteristic of the
closing days of a session members in
larre numbers being almost constantly
upo their feet appealing for recognition
and consideration of their local measures-
This and That
Lord Charles Bereferd has been a
sailor since he was 13 years old
Five thousand horses have been
shipped from Seattle to Alaska this
year
All the towns of Sweden are connect
ed by telephone owned by the govern
ment
Paris and Marseilles are connected
by telegraph lines entirely under
ground
The most recent estimate of the
wealth of Great Britain and Ireland is
11500000000
A Turkish turban of the largest size
contains twenty yards of the finest and
softest muslin
There are over 300000 series of arc
lamps in service in the United States
nt tm i resent time
Rr Rev 1 Mortimer Levering senior
bishop of the Moravian church in
America has been released from the
active administration of the church in
order that he may complete the history
or the Moravian church and of Bethle
hem
A sailor wandering about a large city
lately curled himself up to sleep for the
night upon the eight inch beam of a
bridge fifty feet above the ground
where be slept safely until a policeman
called him down and gave him a lodg
ing in the station-house-
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