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EXPECT PROMPT
RATIFICATION
'SENATE WILL QUICKLY DISPOSE
OF THE TREATY.
'The Administration Looks for Little
Opposition to the Treaty of Peace
in the Senate—Diversity of Opin­
ion Regarding Fntare Govern­
ment of the Philippines—Even
Those Who Oppose the Holding, of
'the Philippines Permanently Be­
lieve That the Treaty Should Be
Ratifled and the Islands Disposed
..of as the United States Sees Fit.
Washington, Dec. 1. Prompt rati
fication of the American-Spanish
treaty of peace is expected by the ad
ministration. From conversations the
presiden thas had with senators who
have called upon him during the last
few days he expects that there will be
little opposition to the treaty, though
he has found a diversity of opinion as
to the future government and disposi
tion of the Philippines. It is expected
that, the treaty will be laid before tlio
senate just before or immediately af
ter the holidays. As three of the Amer
ican commissioners who will sign the
treaty are members of the committee
on foreign relations, little time will be
consumed by the committee in con
sidering and reporting the treaty back
to the senate for ratification.
An interviewer oays I have talked
with most of the senators, and, with
few exceptions, I find the terms of the
treaty will be generally approved.
Even those who are opposed to holding
the Philippines permanently believe
that the treaty should be ratified aud
that the islands should then be dis
posed of as the United States sses fit.
They are disposed to regard the treaty
as an instrument for the re-establish
ment of peace between the two coun
tries rather than as a cast-iron agree
ment binding the United. States to a
definite line of policy for the future
control of the Philippines.
THE TREATY IS READY.
Will Be Considered 7ir«t In the Sep
arate Sessions and Afterward In
Joint Session.
Paris, Dec. 1.—As the result of the
work of Mr. Moore and Senor Ojeda
the draft of the articles embodying the
protocol agreements were completed
last evening. It will be presented to
the two commissions to-Gay at their
separate sessions and later at the joint
session, when it will receive final con
sideration. There will be little delay
on these articles. Mr. Moore will pre
sent to the United States commission
ers the subjects to be presented to the
Spaniards for negotiations. These, for
convenience and greater dispatch, are
being drafted into the form of articles.
The release of the insurgent prisoners
held by Spain will go into the protocol
agreements, it having been already
agreed that Spain is to release them
upon the United States undertaking to
secure the release of the Spanish pris
oners in the hands of Aguinaldo. This
question is so intimately related to the
peace treaty that it has been remove"!
from the subjects that are matters of
negotiation and has been embodied iu
the articles containing the protocol
agreements.
UALAN ISLAND.
Judge Day Instructed to Endeavor
to Purchase It From Spain.
Washington, Dec. 1. It has been
determined to send formal instructions
to Judge Day to endeavor to purchase
Ualan island from the Spaniards. No
demand will be made, nor, In fact,
will any intimation be given that the
United States requires the cession of
this island, but the Spanish commis
sioners will be told that this govern
ment wants the island for a cable and
naval station and is willing to pay for
it. The amount will be a subject of
negotiation. If Spain should decline
to part with the island she is at perfect
liberty to take such action and to sell
to another power if she sees fit, though
necessarily such action would be dis
tasteful to this government.
CAUSE—"MEAN WHISKY."
Lindsay P. Holt Killed His Best
Friend by Mistake.
Huntsville, Ala., Dec. 1. Private
Lindsay P. Holt, Troop F, Tenth Unit
ed States cavalry, now encamped here,
is resting under a death sentence, the
result of a recent court martial at
which it was proven that he was
guilty of murder. The origin of the
man's trouble is easiest told in these
words "Mean whisky and a pistol."
His best friend was the victim, and the
unfortunate's remorse is awful. This
is the first death sentence passed upon
an enlisted man for many years.
OSHICOSH STRIKE.
Cost the Sheriff 95,300 So He
Claims.
Oslikosh, Wis., Dec. 1. The bills of
Sheriff Lampert of $5,300 for services
and provisions for himself and depu
ties during the woodworkers' strike
•was re-referred to committee. A. E.
Thompson,, representing the National
bank E. R. Hicks, chairman of the
board and District Attorney Quater
mass addressed the board to the ef
fect that while the claims might not be
technically legal, services to some ex
tent had actually been rendered and
that something should be paid.
CONCERNING THE
GREAT LAKES
SUBJECT DISCUSSED BY ANGLO-
AMERICAN COMMISSION.
Questions Include Controversies
Over the Number of Warships
Which Are to Be Maintained or
Built on the Great Lakes, Fishing
Regulations, Navigation, Wreck­
ing Privileges and Various Ques­
tions Arising Out of the Treaty
of 1S1T—Final Agreement on the
Bering Sea Question Is Not
Yet Assured—Full Co-operation
Among British Commissioners.
Washington, Dec. 1. The Anglo
American commission liad expected to
resume the consideration of the reci
procity discussion yesterday, but as
the Bering sea question had not been
disposed of the consideration of that
branch of work was continued. While
considerable progress lias been made
a final agreement on the sealing ques
tion is not yet assured. Besides the
present valuation of the Canadian seal
ing fleet, it is said that the relinquish
ment of the right of sealing is another
factor which the Canadians consider
quite as important as the value of the
present fleet. Questions relating to the
great lakes were taken up by a special
committee. These include controver
sies over the number of warships to
be maintained or built on the great
lakes fishing regulations, navigations,
wrecking privileges and various ques
tions arising out of the treaty of 1817.
This branch of work was partially con
sidered at Quebec and was taken up
yesterday for the first time since the
commission met here. Sir James Win
ter, premier of Newfoundland, who is
here as a member of the commission,
said that all reports to the effect that
Newfoundland was acting directly
with the United States and independ
ent of Canada in the fisheries question
are unwarranted. This statement was
brought out by published reports from
St. John's, N. F., stating that New
foundland was about to make her own
treaty with the United States, and this
met with such protest from the Can
adian members of the commission that
the entire success of the work was en
dangered. Both the Canadian and
Newfoundland members deny that
such a condition has arisen and that
there is the fullest co-operation in the
work now going on. In regard to the
report current in London that the Ber
ing sea question irad already been set
tled, it was stated in an authoritative
quarter that such a settlement liad not
been reached. The status is about the
same as it was a week ago. except that
a large amount of expert testimony
has been taken and the two sides are
waiting to shape the utmost conces
sions which each will grant. Lord
Herscliell, Sir Wilfrid Laurier aud
Senators Fairbanks and Faulkner,
constituting the committee on ques
tions relating to the lakes, were in ses
sion two hours, but the subjects were
too numerous aud important to permit
more than general consideration at this
first sitting of the committee since the
commission came here.
WISCONSIN IN THE MUD.
Big Battleship Is Stuck Fast and
Must Be Due Out.
San Francisco, Dec. 1.—The battle
ship Wisconsin is stuck fast in the
mud of the bay off the Union Iron
works. The channel in which the
Wisconsin took her first dip had been
well dredged. Across this the vessel
shot and went into the r.iud flats be
yond. It was impossible for the tugs
to rescue her, so the iron works men
attached a new ten-inch hawser to the
hull, and by means of machinery at
the yard sought to pull it from its
sticky bed. Tremendous power was
applied and the rope snapped. The
company has now decided to use
dredges aud construct a channel
around the Wisconsin and out to deep
water.
MACON TERRORIZED.
Fears of an Attack by Kegro Sol
diers of the Third North Carolina.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 1. Rumor lias
been rife in the city thate negro sol
diers of the Third North Carolina regi
ment, stationed here, Intended to break
cut of camp and destroy the city, and
much uneasiness has been felt both by
citizens and soldiers. The excitement
among the negro soldiers was caused
by the shooting of Private Will Kemp
In, of Company F, by W. S. Simmons,
proprietor of a saloon. Iveinpin is
thought to be fatally wounded.
Killed Himself With Rifle.
Watertown, N. Y., Dec. 1. Fred W.
Gauter, the champion bicycle rider of
Northern New York, killed himself at
his home at Pamelia. His wife died
yesterday morning while giving birth
to a child. The husband took a Win
chester rifle and went to the room
where his wife's remains had been laid
out and shot himself.
Will Marry Attain.
Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 1. It is
stated that the widow of P. T. Barnum
is about to marry a French nobleman
In Paris. The great showman's widow
took for her second husband Deme
trius Bey, a Greek, who died in Sep
tember, 1896, in Constantinople after
a wedded life of a year. She has been
in Paris for more than two years.
JAPAN WILL
RESIST RUSSIA
PREPARING TO DRIVE THE CZAR'S
TROOPS FROM KOREA.
Large Detachments of Japanese
Troops Arc Being Landed In the
Hermit's Kingdom—Seven Japan­
ese Spies Were Caught at Port
Arthur and Summarily Executed
by the Russians—The Rebels in
Chung-King Are Increasing in
Power Daily—Compelling Well-
to-Do People to Supply Them
With Money and Provisions.
Victoria, B. C., Nov. 30-The steam
er Glenogle lias arrived here after a
tempestuous passage, bringing an in
teresting budget of news from the rest
less East.
From Tien-tsin comes news which
shows that Japan has dec-W(*l to re
sist Russian aggression. She is
thought to be preparing to drive the
czar's troops from Korea, and to this
end large detachments of troops are
being,landed jn the Hermit's kingdom.
News is also ot hand from Tien-tsin
that a large number of Japanese spies
have been captured by the Russians at
Port Arthur and shot. Seven Japan
ese, all officers of the imperial Japan
ese army, were taken, and on their
persons were found drawings of the
principal fortifications. But a day
elapsed after their capture before they
were marched out before a firing party
of Russians and1 summarily shot. The
rebels in Chung-king, according to ad
vices by the Glenogle, are increasing
in power daily. The Tung-Liang and
How-chow railway is completely un
der their control. They have compelled
well-to-do people to provide them with
money and provisions and are making
weapons day and night. Merchants
in Chung-king have wired to Shang
hai and other coast ports, stopping the
shipment of goods. The rebels are
daiy committing atrocities of every
sort and kind. One of their leaders,
Yii, went to the governor of Lung
shui-chin and demanded a lirge sum
of money, was refused, and the rabels,
2,000 Strong, plundered the town, kill
ing hundreds. Two days afterward
they went to Tung-iiang and demol
ished all the houses of the Christians,
inassacreing those who triul to escape,
with shocking brutality. They then
declared that they had gone to that
city especially to oppose foreigners and
Christians. Others, they said, were
not to be molested unless they offered
resistance. Two French priests and a
missionary of the C. M. S. had gone
to the magistrates' yemuu for shelter,
and late in the afternoon the rebels
went to the magistrates and asked
that they be given up. The magistrates
refused, but afterward relented1 and
allowed the rebels to enter the yemun
and take the missionaries. The Meth
odist drew a revolver and resisted and
he was at once killed. The priests
were bound and carried away. The
rebels are, it is said, seizing and mur
dering Christians almost daily. Ac
cording to the reports from Chemulpo
matters have readied a grave crisis in
Korea. The emperor is being worried
to death by petitions by the Indepen
dence club, who are forcing his hand
to dismiss some of the higher minis
ters, when the whole phalanx of the
Independence club will invade the pal
ace and take charge of the govern
ment's affairs. The execution of the
unfortunates accused of the attempt
to poison, the emperor was a ghastly
affair. The doomed were taken from
the scaffold by a mob. Then began
one of the most grewsome exhibitions
of savagery and bloodthirstincs* ever
seen in any land. The condemned men
were actually torn to pieces by the
mob, and even when life wras extinct
the most devilish indignities imagin
able were heaped upon the mangled
and bleeding remains.
Declared Dividend.
Boston, Nov. 30. The directors of
the Calumet and Ilecla Mining com
pany, at their meeting declared a divi
dend of $10 per share, payable Lie -.
29 to stockholders of record Nov. 30.
This dividend makes the one hun
dredth that the company has paid, and
swells the aggregate disbursements to
$35,430,000. It is the third for the cur
rent fiscal year and makes $30 thus
far declared.
Rev. 'Mr. Riggs llurnetl Onl.
Pierre, S. D., Nov. CO.—Tiie residence
of Rev. T. L. Riggs at Oane mission,
twelve miles north of this city, with
all the contents, was destroyed by fire
last night no insurance. The loss
amounts to about $2,000. It was only
by hard work that the other buildings
of the mission were saved.
Rebel* Defeated.
Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. So.—The
movement of rebels from Brazil has
been defeated by the troops sent to the
frontier, and there seems to be no
further danger to the peace of the
country. The people and the army
are giving full support to the govern
ment.
Favors an Exposition.
St, Louis, Nov. 30.—At a meeting of
the general committee of fifteen au
pointed recently to take preliminary
steps looking to the proper celebration
in 1903 of the one hundredth anni
versary of the purchase of Louisiana
from France, the committee on design
made its report favoring an exposition.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires in it Con
densed Form.
Lewis A. Bailey, one of the leading
dry goods merchants of Cleveland,
Ohio, died of malarial fever.
George Jenkins, who, prior to March
last was a builder in New York, has
filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy.
The Cheney block at Manchester,
Conn., was burned. The loss is esti
mated at between $50,000 and $60,000,
nearly covered by insurance.
Gen. J. G. Dupuy, a. Confederate
general, died in Memphis. He was in
all the battles of the Army of the Ten
nessee and was wounded four times.
No report lias been received from the
agent detailed to investigate the
charges of Indian Commissioner Jones
against Marshal O'Connor of Minne
sota.
The director of experiment stations
reports them more efficient than ever.
The $720,000 appropriated by congress
was supplemented by over $100,000 in
state funds.
The United States collier Aberenda,
which recently coaled the Oregon and
Iowa at Bahia, Brazil, has arrived at
St. Thomas, D. W .1., and is awaiting
orders from the navy department.
Sergeant-at-Arms Russell, disbursing
officer of the house, says Gen. Joe
Wheeler is the only congressman with
an army commission who refused to
accept his salary as congressman.
As a precaution against the introduc
tion of the San Jose scale France has
prohibited the importation of trees,
etc., from the United States, and all
fruit will be inspected before landed.
The general manager of the Grand
Trunk railway system says there is no
truth in the story that they have made
arrangements with Dr. Seward Webb
for a lease of that part of their sys
tem between Messina and Howick.
Forest Salee, a bell boy formerly
employed at the Planters' hotel at St.
Louis, is heir to $25,000, left him by J.
T. Spaulding of Chicago. Salee is a
nephew of Mr. Spaulding, who was a
wealthy merchant. The boy is now
without a position but is supposed to
be somewhere in St. Louis.
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock: Centern.
St. Paul, Dec, 1. Wheat No. 1
Northern, 64@64 l-2c No. 2 North
ern, 011-2@62 l-4c. Corn—No. 3 yel
low, 31@311-2c No. 3, 301-2@31c.
Oats—No. 3 white. 2G@261-2c No. 3,
25 l-2@25 3-4c. Barley and Rye-Sample
barley, 35@42c No. 2 rye, 4S@4S l-2c
No. 3 rye, 47@47 l-2c.
Duluth, Dec. 1.—'Wheat Cash and
November, No. 1 hard, 703-4e No. 1
Northern, G6 3-4c No. 2 Northern,
63 o-4c to arrive. No. 1 hard, 65 3-4c
No. 1 Northern, 63 3-4c December, No.
1 hard, 05 l-4c No. 1 Northern, 03 l-4c
May, No. 1 hard, 60c No. 1 Northern,
65c. Oats, 25 3-4@20 3-4c rye, to ar
rive. 95c May, $1.
Minneapolis, Dec. 1. Wheat No
vember closed at 63c December
opened at 62 l-4c and closed at 62 7-Sc
May opened at 64c and closed at 64c.
On track—No. 1 hard. 64 3-4c No. 1
Northern, 63 3-4e No. 2 Northern.
613-4c.
Milwaukee, Wis.. Dee. 1. Flour is
steady. Wheat lower No. 1 Northern,
671-2(567 3-4c No. 2 Northern, 66@
66 l-4c. Oats steady at 28l-2@28 3-4c.
Rye steady No. 1, 521-2@53c. Barley
firm: No. 2, 48®481-2c sample, 43@
48 l-2c.
Chicago, Dec. 1.—Wheat No. 2 red,
68 l-2c No. 3, 00(5
G7e No. 2 hard,
64c No. 3, 63@64e No. 1 Northern
.spring, 66 l-2@07 l-2e No. 2, 64 l-2@
66c No. 3, 62 l-2@65 l-2c. Corn—No.
2, 34 l-2e No. 3, new, 31c old. 33c.
Oats—No. 2. 28 l-2e No. 3. 27 l-2c.
Chicago, Dec. 1. Hogs Light,
$3.10@3.35 mixed, $3.10(^3.40 lieavv,
$3.10(^3.45 rough, $3.10@3.20, Cattle
—Beeves, $4.10@5.70 cows and heifers,
$2@4.65 Texas steers. $3.10@4.25
Westerns. $3.60(§:4.40 stoekers and
feeders, $3(54.50. Sheep—Natives. $2.60
@4.65 Westerns, $2.90(?4.35 lambs,
$4(5:4.60.
South St. Faui. Dec. 1. Hogs
$2.75(5/3.15. Cattle Cows, $2(53.75
steers, $3.50(?£3.7O stoekers, $3.50@
4.10 heifers, $2.00(5::. 25 feeders, $3.40
calves. $4.25(§5.25.
S4oux City, Iowa. Doc. 1. Hogs
$3.10@3.25. Cattle—Canners, $2 cows,
$2.60(53.75 beeves. $4.5(K54.!K) heifers,
$3.35(53.50 bulls. $2.60(5/.'.25 stoekers,
$:.75@3.90 yearlings, $.'i.r:5(54 valves,
$4.40g4.50. Sheep, $3.5l(5 4.50.
A $35,000 COVl'IlACT.
A Minneapolis Firm Got* It at Fort
Bcrtliold. X. 1).
Washington, Dec. 1. Bids were
opened at the Indian office for the
erection of a school building and water
system at Fort Berthold, N. I). Owen
& Hill of Minneapolis offered to com
plete the contract for $34,780, and
Lucius I). Campbell of Bismarck for
$35,800. The Minneapolis firm will
probably get the contract.
No Long DeluyN Hero.
Roanoke, Ya., Dec. 1. A special to
the Times from Bedford City, Va.r
says: Monday an indictment was
found by the grand jury against James
Webster, a. negro, for rape. Yester
day the case was called at 10 o'clock,
at: 3:30 it was given to the jury and
at 4:50 a verdict was rendered of
guilty ivith the deatli penally. The
prisoner will be sentenced this morn
ing.
Stone on Blninc'
N
Gruve.
Washington, Dec. 1.—After all these
years a headstone has been placed on
Blaine's grave. There has been some
talk of removing the body to Augusta,
Me., where many of the children are
buried.
SPAIN ACCEPTS
OUR PROPOSALS
WILL TAKE 920,000,000 FOR THE
PHILIPPINES.
Consents Without Condition to Re­
linquish Cuba and to Cede Porto
Rico, Guam and the Philippine
Islands—Spain's Reply Is a'Very
Brief Document, It Says That
America's Propositions Arc In-
admissnble on Legal Principles,
but Inspired by Humanity and a
Desire to Avoid the Horrors of
War She Resins Herself to the
Power of the Victor.
Paris, Nov. 30.—Snain lias accepted
the United States' offer of $20,000,000
and at a joint session of tlie peace
commissions consented without con
dition to relinquish Cuba and to cede
Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippine
islands.
The document presenting this ac
ceptance contained only 300 words. It
opened with a reference to the final
terms of the United States and said
that the Spanish commissioners, after
having taken cognizance of the terms
proposed by the Americans, replied
that their government liad tried to
give as equitable an answer as possi
ble, but that they were tfbt prepared
to commit their government to the ac
ceptance of the principles^employed in
the American argument. Spain rejects
these principles, the note continues,
"as she always has rejected them."
Basing her attitude upon the Justice
of her cause, the note then says she
still adheres to these principles, "which
she has heretofore invariably formu
lated." However, the note adds, in
her desire for peace, she has gone so
far as to propose certain compromises,
which the Americans have always re
jected. She has also attempted, it is
further asserted, to have submitted to
arbitration some of the material par
ticulars upon which the
Two Governments Differed.
These proposals for arbitration, it is
added, the Americans had equally in
jected. These allegations, in Spain's
reply as to attempted arbitration, re
fer to her proposal to arbitrate the
construction of the third article of the
protocol and also submit the Spanish
colonial debt of Cuba and the Philip
pines to arbitration. The last propo
sition has been made in written com
munication. Since its presentation
and in return for such arbitration
Spain offered to cede the territory in
dispute. The Americans refused both
propositions for arbitration. Spain's
reply, in substance, continued by de
claring that the United States has of
fered, as a kind of compensation to
Spain, something very inadequate to
the sacrifices the latter country makes
at this moment, and she feels, there
fore, that the United States' proposals
cannot be considered just and equita
ble. Spain has. however, exhausted
all the resources of diplomacy in an
attempt to justify her attitude. Seeing
that acceptance of the proposal made
to Spain is a necessary condition to a
continuance of negotiations, and seeing
that the resources of Spain are not
such as to enable her
To Re-enter Upon War,
she is prepared, in her desire to avoid
bloodshed and for considerations of
humanity and patriotism to submit to
the conditions of the conquering na
tion, however harsh they may be. She
is, therefore, ready to accept the pro
posals of the American commission as
presented at the last sitting.
The reading and translation of the
document occupied less than five min
utes. At the conclusion of the trans
lation the commissioners empowered
Senor Ojeda, secretary of the Spanish
commission, and Secretary Moore, of
the American commission, to draw up
articles which are to embody the re
linquishment of Cuba by Spain and
the cession of Porto Itico and the Phil
ippines. These articles, which may bo
considered as constituting the condi
tions of peace, may be ready for sub
mission on Wednesday. The commis
sioners left the foreign office immedi
ately after the secretaries had been
directed to prepare the articles of the
peace treaty. There was scarcely any
conversation between the American
and Spanisli commissioners after the
adjournment. Among the Americans
only the most grave consideration for
their Spanish colleagues was apparent.
The Spaniards seemed to be relieved!
at having arrived at the conclusion of
a long controversy.
Adopted tlie Best Policy.
Madrid, Nov. 30.—The city is calm.
There have been
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disturbances re­
sulting from the announcement of
Spain's acceptance of the terms of the
Americans. The papers, however,
publish gloomy articles sadly remind
ing the country that the day is one
long to be remembered as marking
"the closing scene of a glorious col
onial history." All agree that the gov
ernment has adopted the only possible
policy, though much bitterness is dis
played toward the United States. It
is said that Don Jaime, son of Don
Carlos, the pretender, is now at St.
Juan du Luze, in Basses-Pyvues,
France.