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t,jM'f-w!,m-atnjT- ,;,iri,taT TUB CO( ONIXO SUN. condition. The season mo fur has been a prosperous one for the stock raisers of thlx section. General Schofief.D, late commander-in-chief of tlio U. S. army, has ta ken a desk at tho war dep irtment and is acting in an advisory capacity to Sec retary Alger. Although retired, Gen. Schofield is Ht 111 under the president's orders, as are all retired army and navy officers, and a he In lieutenant-general lie would rank Major-General Nel son A. Miles, tho present commander-in-chief, i. e. should he ordered to ac tive duty. It is known that President MeKinley has a high opinion of the military ability of Gin. Schofield, and there lias much be mi discussion of the probtbility of his placing himinVom raand of the army In case of war with Spain. ij The shosp raisers have about cap- 'y tured all the grazing grounds in north ern Arizona. A Gila county cattle raiser complains tint tho ranges of th it county are being ruined for cattle by large bands of sheep from tho north ern ranges and if this state of all lirs is permitted the cattlemen will in a short time lh) HturraJ out. The cattleman fails to suggest any remedy for the in roidsof the sheep upin the cattle in terest. The probability is that within the next live jears cattle raising in the northern ranges w ill be a tiling of the past, as it, has often been said that Arizona is the native homo of the sheep and many cattlemen hao sold their cattle and placed sheep upon their ranges. Some of the house republicans are organizing u movement looking to the aeeeptaneo of he Senate resolutions, when they pass that liody. They1 fear that If the resolutions go to conference concessions may be made and delay may follow. The Majority Report. The presidents message on Cuban af fairs did not disappoint tho people. It was to the point, and in sympathy with tho mass of the people of the United States. The Senate resolution is now being debated in that body and is as follows: 'Whereas, The abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three .ears in the island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of thepeopleof the United States: have bvena disgrace to ChrLstain civil ization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States bat tleship with 25tl of its officers and crew while on a friendly visit to the harbor of Ilavana, and can not longer Imj en dured, as has been set forth by the president of the United States in his message to Congress on April 11, 1898, upon which the action of Congress was invited; therefore be it "Resolved, First That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent. "Second- That it is the dutj of the president of the United States to de mand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand that the government of Spa'n at once relln (juish Its authority and government in the island of Cuba and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters. "Third That the president of tho United States lie. and lie is herebx di rected and empowered to use the land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into actual service of tho United States the militia of the several states to such an extent as may lie necessary to carry these resolutions into effect." The minority report is very brief and it recognizes, in so many words, the in dependence of the republic of Cuba. It is signed by Senators Foraker, re publican, and by Morgan, Turpie, Mills and Daniels, democrat. m