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THE FI LI FI NO INSURGENTS MUST
BE SUBJUGATED.
DEWEY AND OTIS ARE READY.
Important Developments Are Fxpected to
Materialize Within the Next
Fort night.
A "Washington special says: There
is some reason to expect important
news from Manila within the next
fortnight, ft has developed that Gen.
Otis has practically completed his
plans for a grand onslaught on the in¬
surgents, which is expected to deprive
them of offensive power at least.
It is probable that he will form a
large part of his force into columns,
as soon as his reinforcements are all
at hand, and will push these in paral¬
lel lines straight through the jungles,
cleaning out the insurgents in every
direction as the troops go forward.
Forty-one thousand officers and
men of tin? combined army and navy
force:- comprise the approximate total
American strength now at or en route
to and uiider-^u’der for service in the
Philippine islands. No further rein¬
forcements are now in contemplation.
The forces of the two services already
stationed in and about the archipelago
consists of twenty regiments of infan¬
try, one engineer battalion, seven
troops of cavalry and eleven batteries
of artillery, an aggregate of about 24,-
500 men. Nineteen vessels, with an
aggregate of 297 officers, 2,990 men
and 253 marines, make up the naval
contingent. This is exclusive of the
transport Solace, with 162 officers and
men all told, which is constantly pass¬
ing back and forth from Manila.
There are about 4,800 reinforcements
on the way to Manila, making as rapid
progii s as possible, and there under are
nearly 7,500 men in the force
orders to proceed to the Philippines.
The following ships are now at Ma¬
nila or Hong Kong under the com¬
mand of Admiral Dewey:
Baltimore, Bennington, Boston,
Buffalo, Callao, Charleston, Concord,
Cnlgon. Don Juan do Austria, Helena,
Isla <le Luzon, Isla de Cuba, Manila,
Manadnoek, Monocaey, Monterey,
Olympia, Petrel and Yorktown.
Tin so vessels carry 297 officers,
29,900 sailors and 253 marines. The
transport (Solace does not remain at
Manila. The Castine and Princeton
arc now on their way through the Red
Sen te join Admiral Dewey, and the
Oregon and her attendant vessel, the
Iris, are traveling through the Pacific
to tho same destination. These ves¬
sels will add to the naval forces at
Manila 59 officers, 739 men and 84
marines. The captured ships Don
Juan de Austria, Isla do Luzon and
Isla de Cuba, are not available for im¬
mediate service as they are in need of
repairs; The Solace has taken out a
number of recruits aud with these the
Isla de Luzon will be manned. The
Wheeling will join the Manila fleet,
but is not to be counted as being
available in the immediate future.
JU i nforrements; Kn Houlo.
Reinforcements for the Philippines
now on the wav aggregate in the neigh¬
borhood of 4,800 men, all told. These
are made up of three general expedi¬
tions as follows:
The transport Grant, w ith General
Law ton and staff, with a total of 42 of¬
ficers and 716 men, including one bat¬
talion of the Seventeenth infantry reg¬
iment and four companies of the
Fourth infantry. This expedition
sailed from New York January 19th.
The transport Sherman, Colonel J.
H. Page, commanding, carrying a to¬
tal of 34 officers and 1,702 men, in¬
cluding the entire Third regiment and
a battalion of the Seventeenth infantry.
The Sherman sailed from New York
February 3. The transport Sheridan,
under command of Lieutenant Colonel
J. H. Smith, of the Twelfth infantry,
carries all of the Twelfth and a battal¬
ion of the Seventeenth infantry, mak¬
ing a total of 57 officers and 1,796
men. Besides these three, Roanoke
with a fair sized detachment of re¬
cruits for the various regiments already
in the archipelago, has gotten a good
start on the way to Manila and the
transport Valencia sailed from San
Francisco last Sunday for Manila, via
Honolulu, with 150 recruits for the in¬
fantry, artillery aud hospital corps.
WARSHIP I* PROFFERED
To Convey the Remains of i.onl IlerscheU
To Knsrlaml.
To show the depth of the sympathy
felt by the United Htates government
with the British government and the
family in the loss of the late Lord
Herscbell, our government has proffer¬
ed the use of a United Htates warship
to convey the remains of Lord Her
sckell to England.
The particular vessel has not yet
been selected, but it will be one of
the ships now at Havana attached to
the north Atlantic squadron, if the
British embassy cares to accept the
offer.
I: NOR MO US EX V F. NI) ITU RES.
Appropriations of Fifty-Fifth Congress
Breaks the Itecord.
The official statement of Represen¬
tative Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois,
the chairman of the bouse appropria¬
tions committee, summing up the ap¬
propriations of the fifty-fifth congress,
shows an aggre ate appropriation by
the entire congress of §1,566,890,010,
and for the session . just closed of
§673,658,400, with authority for coil
tracts subject to future appropriations
amounting to $70,700,000.
The appropriations made at the ses¬
sion just closed show an apparent re¬
duction of $219,573,000 under the ap¬
propriations made at the preceding
session. This is attributable to the
large expenses occasioned by the war
with Spain that were provided for dur¬
ing the preceding session. made
Of the entire appropriations $482,562,
by the fifty-fifth congress,
083.47 is directly chargeable to our late
war with Spain or incident thereto.
Deducting this charge from the whole
amount of appropriations, the
der, $1,084,327,632.81, represents the
ordinary or normal appropriations
made by the fifty-fifth congress.
NEWS FROM MANILA.
Itebels Fire On Our Gunboat—Dewey
Raise* Admiral’s Flag.
Advices from Manila state that the
rebels in the village of San Jose fired
on the United Htates gunboat Ben¬
nington Saturday and the warship
shelled that place aud other suburbs
of Malabon.
The United States transports Sena¬
tor and Ohio have arrived with re-en¬
forcements of troops.
Admiral Dewey raised his flag as an
admiral on board the Olympia Satur¬
day morning and was sainted by the
guns of the foreign warships, the
British cruiser Narcissus aud the Ger
mou cruiser Ivaiserin Augusta, and by
the American ships in port.
Tho United States cruiser Baltimore
arrived at 4 p. m. with two of the civil
members of tho Philippine commis¬
sion, Professor J. G. Sckurmann,
president of Cornell university, and
Professor Dean G. Worcester, of the
University of Michigan.
Gen. Otis at once called on the
newly arrived commissioners and held
a short conference.
ML VELA NAMES CABINET.
Premier Sagasta Rufuses Queen’s Request
to Perform That Duty.
A Madrid dispatch says; The queen
regent, as tho result of her consulta¬
tions with the statesmen, generals and
political leaders, informed Honor Sa
gasta that she desired to retain the
present chamber, and she then invited
him to reconstruct the cabinet.
Honor Hagasta replied that it would
be impossible for him to remain pre¬
mier without n dissolution. There¬
upon, the queen regent referred the
fame request to Honor Montero Rios,
president of tire senate, who declined
for the same reason. Finally Senor
Silvela, the conservative leader, ac¬
cepted the task and named the mem¬
bers.
Admiral Camara was selected as
minister of marine, but declined.
Honor Silvela then tendered it to Ad¬
miral Gomez Inins, who has accepted
The other members are: Senor
Dato, minister of the interior; Marquis
Villaverde, minister of finance; Senor
Duran, minister of justice; General
Polvavieja, minister of war; Marquis
Pidal, minister of public affairs and of
the colonies.
SCHLEY AHEAD OF SAMPSON.
Tho Navy Department Gives Up Its Fight
Against. the Popular Admiral.
The navy department gave up its
fight against Admiral Schley and when
the list of nominations for Rear Ad¬
mirals under the new navy personnel
bill went to the senate, Admiral
Schley’s .name appeared on the list
above that of Admiral Sampson in
his old rank aud place held before the
war.
The name of George Dewey ns admi¬
ral headed the list. Then followed
the names of the eighteen new rear
admirals (which include those of the
late commodores as this rank has been
abolished!. As there are six rear ad¬
mirals under the old law and nine
commodores, this left three vacancies
in the eighteen rear admirals, and the
three ranking captains were therefore
promoted. The list places Admiral
Schley as the third raukiug admiral
and Sampson as the fourth. *
HEINA MERCEDES FLOATED.
One of the Spanish Battleships Sunk at
Santiago Has Been liaised.
A Santiago dispatch says: After
considerable delay the former Spanish
cruiser Reinn Mercedes, which was
sunk in the channel of Santiago liar
bor during the bombardment by Ad
miral Sampson’s flee’t on June 6th,has
been raised and pumped out, the gov
eminent tugs assisting the wreckers.
She was brought up to the city
Thursday afternoon. Such repairs as
can be readily effected will Vie made,
after which she will probably be towed
to Havana, though final orders as to
her movements have not yet been re
ceived.
llll# KEEPS 1 SI.
HOUSE REFUSES TO CONSIDER THE
“VACATI NO” RESOLUTION.
VOTE WAS TRIBUTE TO GENERAL.
A Great Scramble In the House For
the Consideration of Unanimous
Consent Bills.
A Washington special says: At
Thursday’s session the house refused,
by a large majority, to consider the
report of the judiciary committee, un¬
seating General Wheeler and his three
colleagues. It was a striking tribute
to the great little general, for it was
his popularity that caused his associ
ates in the house to refuse to take up
the case.
Of course they had the best kind of
excuse for declining, because of the
shortness of time remaining; but in
reality the reason they did it was lie
cause of their friendly feeling for
Wheeler. The report of the commit¬
tee, however, established as well as a
report could the law in the case and it
will be a precedent for the future.
The political division upon the vote
was significant. The vote stood 77
ayes cast by 21 republicans, 43 demo¬
crats and 13 populists and 146 nays,
cast by 101 republicans, 44 democrats
and 1 populist.
A half a million dollars each was
appropriated under suspension of the
rules for the pan-American exposition
at Buffalo and Ohio Centennial at
Toledo.
The senate bill carrying $1,000,COO
for a new building for the department
of justice was passed.
A number of conference reports on
minor bills were adopted.
There was a great scramble for un¬
animous consent legislation when the
house met at 11 o’clock. With the end
of the congress only forty-eight hours
off' almost every member had some lo¬
cal measure he was trying to sescure
from death on the calendar and they
stood in the area in front of the speak¬
er’s rostrum ten deep clamoring for
recognition.
A number of bills were passed,
among them a series authorizing vari¬
ous officers of the government to ac¬
cept decorations from foreign govern¬
ments.
WOMEN NOT ALLOWED TO LAND.
Transport, Morgan City Beaches Manila.
Rebels Again Heard From.
The United Htates transport Morgan
City arrived at Manila Thursday. The
wives of the officers and other women
passengers were not allowed to land,
the authorities considering the condi¬
tion ashore to be too unsettled.
Thursday was the hottest day of the
season, but fortunately all was quiet
inside and outside our lines investing
tho city, and the majority of the men
w-ere kept in the shade.
The ou’posts beyond San Pedro
Macati were fired upon by the rebels
from the walls of the Guadeloupe
church. A gunboat advanced 300
yards beyond the lines aud cleared
away the enemy w’itk gatlings. No
casualties are reported.
Goneral Miller has been ordered to
quarter his troops in Iloilo in the cus¬
tom house or other public buildings
and authorized to make the necessary
changes at a cost not to exceed $40,000,
iko same to be met from the public
revenues collected in Iloilo.
LICENSE TOO HEAVY.
Trading: Stamp People In Chattanooga
Silently Steal Away.
The two trading stamp companies
doing business in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
folded their tents and silently stole
away Thursday, going nobody knows
where, and about $1,000 worth of
their stamps now in the hands
of the people aud as many more
in the hands of merchants are unre¬
deemed.
This action of the companies grows
out of the law passed a few- days ago
by the state legislature in which these
companies are heavily taxed for doing
business in this state. It is stated
that their books now out will not be
redeemed and there seems to be no
way to force their redemption.
DISSATISFACTION IN SANTIAGO.
Many Men ara Thrown Out of Employ
ployment and Effect Is Paralyzing.
A dispath from Santiago says: Be¬
tween 2,000 and 3,900 men have been
suddenly thrown out of work in the
province of Santiago and over 709 in
the immediate neighborhood of the
city. Although Governor Geueral
Brooke has wired $30,000, required
for the February payrolls, there is still
a deficit of nearly $20,000, and the
orders from Havana still hold good
limiting the expenditure during the
month of March for the entire province
to $10,000. The effect of this order
is simpiy paralyzing.
WHEELER’S SUPPRESSED SPEECH.
Ooughty General Gives to the Press What
He Intended to Say In the House.
A Washington special says: With
reference to his attempt Saturday to
secure recognition for the purpose of
addressing tho house, General Wheel'
er says:
‘‘Seeing there was nothing to be
done in the house, I asked unanimous
consent te speak for five minutes. I
was not recognized, but Mr. Payne
was notified to move a recess of five
minutes. I then asked that before that
motion was put that I be permitted to
address the house for three minutes,
I am confident no member of the house
would have objected, What I intend
ed to say was as follows:
< < No one revers the constitution more
than myself and I could not be induced
to advocate a construction contrary to
the intent of its framers.
“When I received the appointment
as major general of volunteers last
May I was requested by persons whose
desires I could not disregard not to
resign my seat in congress. I found
that during the prese"' congress thir
ty-three of its members had been ap
pointed to offices and that nene of
them had resigned their seats in con¬
gress. I examined the decisions and
precedents on the subject and found
that during the 110 years of the exist
ence of our government hundreds,aud
possibly thousands, of the members of
congress had accepted offices during
their terms and that none of them
holding temporary offices like mine
had ever been unseated. I found
that the decisions of the courts,
even including four of the decisions
quoted by General Henderson in his
report, to make the ground that the
inhibitions found in the constitution
with regard to officers referred to
offices of a permanent character and
not of a temporary character. I also
f tounct nnrif l u,.( that me attorney oHnrnnv geneiai crenovnl nf oi the me
United States had rendered an elabor
ate opinion on the subject. He look
precisely the same ground snd held
that an office in the volunteers was
not such an office as was inhibited by
the constitution. I was anxious for
the matter to be brought up in the
house and fully discussed, SO that de
Cision would be m the kaimony with
the spirit of the constitution.”
BILLS PASSED IN CONGRESS
During the Closing Week of the Session.
Others That Failed.
The most important law-s enacted by
congress during the last week of the
Session were the firmy reorganization
bill, the uavy personnel bill, the bill
providing a code of laws for Alaska, the
omnibus claims bill and numerous im
portant public building bills.
The project for the construction of
a canal across the isthmus at Nicara¬
gua made progress to the extent that a
provision was attached to the river aud
harbor appropriation bill providing
for a very important inquiry into the
matter.
The addition of a provision to the
army appropriation bill forbidding the
granting of property franchises in
Cuba was also an important legislative
act.
Among the important projects which
failed to receive favorable attention in
the closing days were those providing
a Pacific cable, for a government armor
plant, for an anti-scalping law, for an
eight-hour law and for a government
for Hawaii.
The navy personnel bill completely
reorganizes the navy aud is the con¬
summation of years of earnest effort
by the navy department. The origi¬
nal army bill was intended to meet the
same want for the army, supplied to
the navy by the personnel bill, but it
failed, and the present bill is considered
defective in that it is only a temporary
measure. It, however, increases the
army to 100,000 and provides for the
retention of this number until 1^)01.
The omnibus claims bill provides for
the settlement of several hundred
claims, some of which are almost a
hundred years old. The Alaskan code
met a long-felt want in supplying a
system of laws to the northwest ter¬
ritory.
QUAY MAY WITHDRAW.
Such n Report Is Current But Is Denied
By Senator’s Supporters.
There are rumors current in Har¬
risburg, Pa., that Senator Quay will
withdraw from the senatorial contest
and that Colonel George F. Huff, of
Greensburg, will be chosen his sue
cessor.
Senator Quay’s managers ridicule
these reports and insist that under no
conditions will he withdraw.
REFINED SUGARS ADVANCE.
The Price Is Increased One-Eighth of a
Cent Per Pound.
A New York dispa’ch says: An all¬
round advance ia the price of refined
sugars was made Monday by the the
American Sugar Refining Company,
Arbuckle Brothers and Howell, Son &
Co., the la.it named firmed represent¬
ing the idependent refiners.
The advance is Jc per .pound, bring¬
ing barrels of sugar up to 5^ aud
package sugar cents.
The Molenhaeurr refinery, one of
the independent concerns, resumed
operations in all departments Mon¬
day.
The Cape Bustards.
Two of the most beautiful of the leg.
ser Cape bustards of South Africa
the Vaal and the Blue koorh are "
birds of splendid form and eol i
g00(i epually for sport or for t h
ib le. Another very beautiful ta '
hut **
is the Bush koorhaan, a denize
bush and forest country & of
with it A D °'
table pinkish crest, its intense
underplumage, and its kandso '
speckler black and rufour back. tv
bird gets up most silently before
gnuuer, wavers through the trees*^ woode^ ' 11 ^
a flight not uu lik e that of a
anc i a ff or ds not only pretty shoor
but excellent eating. nn &
The paauw itself” may well be t
ed tains the a king length of of all the bustards. than i t ^ A
more four fep;
a wing spread of eight feet four C
ches> alld a W eight of as much as fie
pounds. The weight depends fee'diiA ,
course, greatly upon the bird’s
Average from twenty-five well-fed specimens will S( .„j ! * '
to thirtv tills" pounds n
at certain seasons magnifies 1
bird feeds greedily upon the guiu
uding £rom tlie thorny acacia, quite’ and r 1S ,„,
on flesh and fat in a amazing
manner, In big locust years, too, the
paauw gains flesh with great rapidity
At such seasons well-fed male sped
mens will attain enormous bulk and
fatness. and are to be found ran^m, ?
between thirty and forty pound- T
lnany colonists say even as much rZ
flfty or s ; xty pounds—in weight J
flesb of tllis splendid game bird is
;n c j ous eating, and a paauw is hunter’! one A
the greatest luxuries of the
camp fire or the colonist’s table-Sat
urday Review,
Om- Naval Station at San .Tuan.
The new United States naval station to be
located at San Juan, Porto Rico, will he ol
the utmost importance to this country as the
hey to the situation when the xicaragu&a
iHfoVtette?’ 8 BSto^h^mtter^ ‘n a ,f 9
digestive organs trom attacks of indigestion
biliousness and constipation, just the same
th „ new llttVal nation at San Juan win ward
off attacks upon this country by foreign foes.
Religion not only saves the soul, itsweetens
the body.—Ram’s Horn,
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The Potash
Question.
A thorough study of the sub¬
ject has proven that crop fail¬
ures can be prevented by using
fertilizers containing a large
percentage of Potash; nol
plant can grow without Potasli.
We have a little book os the subject oi
Potash, written by authorities, that
would like to send to every farmer, free
cost, if he will only write and ask for :t.
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