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ROCK ISLAND ARGUi VOL. XLIV. gQ 86. BOCK I8LAHD, ILL., THURSDAY, JAHUAttY 30, 1686 FCIC3 TTX OT3 -a. . . T" I tt.. ... - - - - - - - -saaaaaaaaaaaa, . By the Senate Committee's Re solution on Cuba. BOMETHIKQ SEW UEDEE THE SUIT Laid Oat ! lb Propoaltloa Mad to Ask "pain ta Grant liar Rebels BelUcarent Rl(bta Oar Own Po.lt loa la tha Sixties TUImaa Makes a Illttrr Attack sa tba President and Wants 111m Impeached rmidtit't Dack-Haatlag Trip. Wasiiixotox, Jan. 30 With a long ro fort on the subject, which was an argu ment In favor of recognition, Morgan in the senate presented the result of the for tlgn relations coramittoo's consideration of the Cuban question in a resolution to the effect "That the president is here by requested to interpose his friondly "jtlirra with the Spanish government for the recognition of the belligerency of the Cubans." There was a minority, how ever, that was not satisfied with such a piritlrss poller, and this minority report, siilnnlttud by Dun Cameron, resolves that bolllt-urnncy should be at ance accorded, and that Independence should follow as soon as possible. This report recites the "strik ing contrast between the action of Spain In recognizing the. Confederate states dur ing tha American civil war and tho fail ure to recognize the Cnban Insurgonts as beiilgc ronts.w Haw tha Diplomats flaw It. The Southern Confederacy, tho report nys, bail Imcn recognized by Great I'rltnin, Franco and Spain before a battle had been fought. Dclliirercnry is a ques tion of fixt and should be recognized whenever It In fact exists. Warfare Im plies belligerency. But quite different from the foregoing In tho view c-f per son verted In diplomacy. Thro gentle men agree with neither tho majority n it minority of the committee, and say that tho action proposed by the former Is abso lutely without prcoedont. Xcver before has a nation been requested to accord bel-llir-rrnt rights to rebels against Its gov ernment and never have such rights been acrurdud. A recognition of belligerency amounts ti nothing unless manifested In a proclamation of neutrality, so that the senate committee's prupositlon is real lr equivalent to a reriiunt upon f pain to I'rmii inn t niteti Mates to issuo a proo clmuutlun declaring ounclves noutral as reppets tho present contlict in Cuba. Oar Own Utile rwpleaantnrsm If It was the Intention of the senate committee to serum humann treatment of tho Cuban; to mourn them against capi tal pnnUhninnt under the charge of trea son; this. It Is said, might havo been In dicated by a request that Spain recognize the municipal belligerency of the Insur gent, which would In no sense bo equiv alent to an admission of International belllgrrenry. liorsiino tho I'nltml States giivrrnment In our late war treat oil cap tive Confederates ns prisoners of war, mnrirt rxchanges of prisoners and recog n I ziil flags of truce, the nntlons of Kuropo held that we had recognized their Ix'lllg rreney nnd Immediately by tho Usuo of neutrality proclamations prucredl prac tically to recognize the belligerency of tho south themselves. Reward Int t's oa Record. Seward entered a most vigorous protest, and In tha course of the correspondence ho made a very nieo distinction, showlngthat tho In I ted States had been Induced to treat tho Con fed. -rates In this fashion solely from Impulses nf humanity, and not from any consideration of Interna tional law. Ills protests were unavailing to alTuct the action of Kuropean nations, but bo did place tho United States on record in a Tuition that will make it ex tremely difficult for our administration to reconcile Seward's utterances with a coin pllanco with the request of tho sen a to committee's resolution. I'OMlble riaah at" Departments. It Is proluiblo that tho president may at this time glvo some consideration himself to tho question that has already been broached, but nut lUK-d of in the de bate In tho house, and that Is Just how far he is hound to lie governed by such sug gestions nnd reqiKMts as are contained in theso concurrent resolutions of congress. It Is becoming apparent that whilo the president is ready and even anxious to hear tho wihcs of tho legislative branch upon such feature of our foreign rela tions as he may bring to It attention, ho is disposed to Insist uMin retaining in his own hnnds the con t ml of our foreign cor respondence as a whole. T1LLMAX or l Til CAROLINA. ray His Kesprrts to the President la a Mpcef-h t all of lllttrrneav VAslHSttToX. Jan. SJ. I'rolmbly there never was a bitterer speech delivered In congress than that delivered by Tillman of South Carolina in tho senate. The president of the United State was the principal object of his wrath, but he tackled anybody who had opposed the sil ver and economic Idea the new senator holds dear. Ho said at the outset that ho would use plain Anglo-Saxon, the lan guage of the common ieople, for he was on of them. Ho referred to the state ment of Sherman that the sliver question had been threshed out "Yes, It has been threshed out by tho speculators but not by the farmer." During Tlllmnn'e bitter criticisms of the president ho put down his notes and put senator and gallerfe In roars of laughter by telling how, as governor of South Carolina, he had come hero to Inau gurate the president, bad stood four hour out in the snow and sleet until be was nearly fmsru to death, to do honor to this president, "And." concluded tho senator, "I ask trad to fnraivo bio for doing It." At on point, after bitterly arraigning n president, tho senator addressed him elf to tho Republican tide of tho senate and exclaimed: "Why havo you not Im peached hlnif Ton havo tho majority to dolt," Ilawley interrupted with tho query! "Why did Dot tha last MI.M1 ifn thief" "Ho to not impeached," continued tho senates; "becaus ho carried out your Ke DamsaspwKj. l no last eougroM w Bo better than this.' Buck a tprrsnt of Invective has seldom "en aoara in in ornate. Veteran mm UW.ot UM body ctajartoTUcd Up sjwe a nna off th mnct TnmBH.hu fn .. ..... ,M tuo uiir tory of the upper branch of congress. It abounded In itatrmitnti rr , character arraigning Cleveland, Carlisle and other men In high places. At times the senator's voice sank to a whisper, as, for instance, when he gave Warning of the approach of a popular rev olution and communism, and the march ing on Washington of a host with rifle la their hands. Again his voice resounded through the chamber and tha outer corri dors a he called senators and members "cowards" for not resorting to Impeach ment. The only other Incident worth mention ing was the objection of Hill to a vote on tho bond bill today. When asked by Jones to name a day for a vote Hill re plied: "Tho 6th of February.' This is the day after the one the bids on bonds will be opened. Jones declined to consider this delay, and said he would make the test today. PHESIDEXT WAS RHOOTIKQ DCCKS. Birds Plenty and Lots or Gain Bagged by tha nonting Party. Washisgtox, Jan. 30. The lighthouse tender Maplo bearing tho president and party, comprising Dr. O'lteilly, his physi cian, and Captain Laniberton, naval in spector of lighthouses, anchored about two and a half miles south of Quantico, Va. Tho party were the guests of Colonel Webster Waller, whose duck feeding grounds and numerous blinds are reputed to bo among the best along tho Potomao river. The members of the party were astir early. Shortly after their arrival their decoys were sot and they began the onslaught. The sport continued for almost two hours, wiien low tide iiwx-si tat ed a post ponement until in the afternoon, when the sport was resumed. Dining tho morn ing hours tho party is reported to have killed fifty ducks. The weather was de lightful and tho water very calm. The president went ashore during the forenoon and spent some time In conversation with his host, Colonel Waller. The latter later accompanied the president aboard the Ma plo and joined With the others in shoot ing tho game. President Cleveland returned to the city last night. SKNATi: AXO MOUSE IN BBIEF. Debs Arrest Resolutions Sent to Committee No Quorum In the House. Wasiiixgton, Jou. 30. Tho senate re ferred the resolution for an investigation of tho arrest of K. V. Dobs in tho A. K. U. strike to tho judiciary committee. The foreign relation committee- reported a resolution on Cuba to tho effect that tho president be requested to ask the Spanish government to recognize the belligerency of the rebels. Tillman of Smith ramliniL mado an extended speech in denuncia non oi i no prcsiuent ana administration ffenerallv for their fltinnnlitl TwilifV f?mll talked for the free coinage bill. Jones again announced that ho would ask for a vote on that bill today. Tho session of tho housn win hrief Tim opposition to a bill reported from the in- vaiiu pensions committee to amend the net of lfiUO so that in tho consideration of willows claims unexplained absence for seven years should bo considered sufficient proof of death ted to tho making of tho point of no quorum early in tho session and the house was forced to adjourn. An attempt to donate condemned cannon to a couple of Grand Army posts brought out so many requests of that kind that tho wholo matter was referred to tho naval committee. Ualva A. Lockwood Disbarred. WA91US6TON-, Jan. 30. llelva A. Lock wood, once a presidential candidate on the Woman's Rights ticket and now a prac ticing attorney In this city, has been dis barred from practicing as an attorney or agent before tho pension bureau. This action grew out of a charge made against Mrs. Lockwood by the pension department accusing her of having improperly accept ed a fee of fcJS In a pension claim. She submitted lengthy statements to the sec retary of the Interior in support of her po sition. This was unavailing, however, and action was promptly taken disbarring her from practice. Mrs. Lockwood proba bly will make a strong contest for rein statement. The Treasury Has Hopes. Washington, Jan. 30. Owing to tho favorable conditions now existing in the foreign exchange market the treasury de partment is hoping that quite large ship ments of gold will bo mode from abroad to bo used in making payments for the bonds to be Issued under the call now pending, and if this should prove to be the case it is understood that it will be the policy of the department to offer every facility in it power to those who propose to use the imported gold in pay ment of the several installments. Stanford Cas with the Court. Washisgtox, Jan. 30. The argument in the Stanford case involving the lia bility of the Stanford estate for the Cen tral Pacific bonds has been concluded in the United State supreme court and the case taken under advisement. There is no probability of a decision in the case before the beginning of tho March term of court. Culberson Keep His Scat. Washington, Jan. 30. The house elec tions committee No. 3 ha decided the contested case of Davis vs. Culberson from the Fourth Texas district unani mously In favor of Culberson. The con testant made no appearance befoie the committee. Senator Quays Daughter Married. WAsnisoTux, Jan. 30, Miss Mary A. Quay, the eldest daughter of Senator and Mrs. Matthew Stanley Quay, was married at her father' home in this city last night to Louis R. Davidson, of Beaver, "- It was a simple home wedding. HI Kjuor. Husband (shaving) Confound the razor! Wife What's the matter now? You're dreadfully cross tempered. "Tho razor is so dull." "Dnll I Why, I ripped up an old skirt with it only yeeterdav, and it cut beau tifully." Chicago Record. Marshall pas, on the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, is the highest point yot attained by a railroad in the United States, EtoratioQj 10, 635 feet. iK W (LA A I M A OK GRAHSt Uncle Sam Said to Have Done Some Land Crabbing. THREE MILLION ACRES AT STAKE. Startling Statement Regarding That Alas kan "Line Fence" Records .Discovered In England Alleged to Show Soma Im portant Facts Old Map of Venezuela Unearthed at Cincinnati Boers Mob "Re form Union" Prisoners. Montreal, Jan. 30. A special to The Star from London says: "Lord Salisbury and Rt. Hon. Mr. Chamberlain have been considering the result of the inquiries into the records here made on behalf of Brit ish Columbia, which show that the United States has no right, under the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825, to 3,000,000 acres of land opposite Prince of Wales island, on the Pacific coast, which is of high strate gic and commercial value, and which tha United States has usurped since buying Alaska. Tha records of the dispatches of Bagot to Lord Canning show that the Clarence straits and not Portland inlet is the correct boundary. It is suggested that tho Canadian members of the Alaskan boundary commission have been misled into assuming the correctness of the United Statesassumption." Another Map of Venezuela. Ciscisxati, Jan. a3. Mr. 6. Rossitcr, of this city, nn old personal friend of Justice Brewer, chairman of the Venezue lan commission, has recently discovered among tho family archives nn old map that may throw light on tho Venezuela boundary question. It had been handed down from father to son in the family, but is still well preserved. It is a map show ing the coast of "Xew Andalusia, or province of Guyana," according to tho di vision of tho Spaniards. Tho map was en graved and published by William Fadcn, geographer to tho king of England, and is dated Oct. 9, 17si The lines of the map tend to contradict tho British assumption ns to tho boundary. The map will bo for warded to tho commission. Monro Doctrine Docs Not Apply. Lokdos, Jan. ."10. A dispatch from Ber lin to The Times says; "A semi-official statement has been published warning Prsid'nt Crespo, of Venezuela, that ho cannot count upon the help of the United States to enable him to shirk his obliga tions, supposing Germany takes meas ures to enforce the payment of the rail way claim. The Monroe doctrine may, perhaps, be applied to territorial dis putes, tho statement says, but it cannot bo invoked to protect defaulting debtors against tho claims of the European states." EOIGU OX IIU.VSVAAL PRISONERS. Angry Boers Mob Them in the StreeU of A-retoria. Xew Yokk, Jan. 3J. A dispatch to The World from Capetown, South Africa, says: The World' correspondent at Pre toria writes that tho "iioform Union" prisoners were set upon in the streets of the Trausvall capital while on their way to the prison there. They were roughly treated and obliged to run to the jaU to escape being torn to pieces. Ono of tho American prisoners apparently John Hays Hammond was flung down, tram pled upon and bruised amid the yell of tho armed Boers. The aggressors wero not arrested. Tho prisoners wcro allowed nothing more In jail than ordinary criminals are. The heat of tho burning sun to men accus tomed to luxury and tho risk of typhoid fever from lack of sanitation are awful. They hod to cat their food off tho ground at ilrst. A dispatch to Tho World from London says: Tho Pretoria jail in which John Hays Hammond and four other leading men of Johannesburg aro confined is de scribed as a wretched structure of red brick, with a standing gallows always in plain view from the cell widows. Mr. Werner, the head of a great dia mond house, tells me there is no danger ot the death penalty being inflicted upon any of tho accused, but that under the Transvaal laws almost any other penalty is possible. Under a special law applying to "proclaimed mining lauds," which ap plies to Johannesburg aud .therefore to the aCCUSod. all their linmertv Tnnv lu.rn.n , . ( J J fiscated in addition to any physical pun- isnmcnt. Friends of the accused Americans warm ly approve the suggestion that a United Status warship be sent to Cape Town or Dclagoa bay, and that her captain be in structed to go to Pretoria and represent the American government there. Americans Anslons to Fight. Washington, Jan. 30. Tenders of serv ice in the event of war are coming to the navy department from all parts of the earth, not to speak of all corners of the United States. They come from Cunada, and an offer has been received from an American in far-away Johannesburg. Cowaraiy Muriler of a Negro. Little Rock, Jan. SJ. In I-to county T. P. Williams, a white man, attempted to force some information from Tom Ed wards, an old and harmless ucgo. Ed wards professed ignorance. Williams drew a pistol and killed the old negro in the presence of his family, as he prayed for mercy. Liberty Bell Leaves Atlanta. Atlanta, Jan. 30. The historic Lib erty bill, which stood on tha veranda of the Pennsylvania building during tho Cotton States and International exposi tion, and which was one of the chief sight of the fair, started on his home ward journey today under escort. Th ftnr rn rni i-nr ItVas in a Caribou cbcrch that tba choir did not pnt in an appearance at the opening hour. Tho pastor arose, glanced at the empty choir feats and said: "I see the singers are absent this morning. Let all arise and sing, 'Praise God, frcm 'whom all blessings flow. " Lewiston Journal. "I am cored since taking Mood's Sarsaparilla," is what many thous ands are saying. It gives renewed vitsiitj and rigor. Obituary: At Marion, O., Judge G. IT. Crawford, 55; James S. Bead, 77. At Atlan ta, Ga., Colonel A. L. Harris. At Kejsosha, Wis., Herman Veeder.of Philadelphia. At Philadelphia, George Cochran Lamb Di nan, the artist, 6& ' At Reading.' Pa., Isaac W. Levan, 78. At Charlestonitlls., John M. Doty, bo. At Milwaukee, IPeter Kettenhoffen, of Appleton, 60. ' General Alfred Baker Smith dropped dead while conducting a prayer meeting at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Heart disease was the cause. Barton Peek, ot Peoria, Ills., was robbed near Lamar, Ma, by highwaymen, who loft him gagged and bound to a tree, where he remained for three days and nights be fore he was rescued. A report from Muskogee says that ex Congressman Springer has grown tiled of his duties of judge of the Indian Territory court and that he is an applicant for the po sition ot general solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. James M. Harris, of Chicago, was- hyp notized at Milwaukee by Professor J. A. Gregorovitch for a seven-day sleep. William Trout, a boss barber at Mays ille, Ky., has been fasting for fifty -ono days, except that he drinks only butter milk and refuses all other food. He has no appetite for anything else. Judge Arthur, at Colvillo, Wash., sen tenced Adolph Nlesc and his wifo to twenty years in the penitentiary for beating their 10-year-old son to death. Shortly after the prisoners wero taken from the court room and placed in their cells both cut their throats with a razor. Niese is dead and his wife is in a critical condition. It believed at Hermosillo, Mex., that a party of five gold prospectors which left there several weeks ago has been killed and eaten hy the Seris Indians. Victor Donald, a janitor in the Security building, Chicago, plunged headforemost down tho elevator shaft from the ninth floor, but caught the wire screen at the sixth story, and with tho nails and flesh stripped from his iingors clung to his hold until fellow employes rescued him. Tho Xew York Herald's correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, telegraphs that a physician of that city declares that he has found a cure which is almost certain in its effects in yellow fever. Jabcz Luther and Theodore Lynch while chopping in the woods near Van dalia, Ills., got into an altercation over an ax. Luther seized his ax and threw it at Lynch, striking him on the head, cutting a fearful gash and probably fatal ly injuring him. . In 1880 there worn 174 ;.-.! ployed in the cotton mills in the United states, mibaotue number had risen to 231,585. A Miracle in Vermont. THE WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE OF k WELL-KNOWN CHELSEA MAN. Stricken vrltb an Incurable Disease and yet Cured. (From the Argut and IWriot, Montpelier, TL Eight years ago Geo. Hutchinson moved from Bradford to Chelsea, Vt., and houglil the sawmill at the latter place. lie was known as one the strongest men in thai section. On De SO, '93 while at work it tiie mill, he was struck in the back by a living board, which seriously injured him and iacapaeitated him for work of anv kind. As a result of this, Locomotor Ataxia 'set in (this is a form of paralysis which deprives the patient of all use of his lower limb-i.) The Arjiu & Patriot interviewed Mr. Hutch insnn u day, uud his story is here given in hi? owa words. " My back ached continually and mv legs beian to grow numb and to be less and less mble. liy the 15th of April I could do ihwlutely nothing and was scarcely able to taad. My physicians advised me to go to :ha M iry Fletcher Hospital at Rurlinirton, o he trealej, anl I tuok their ad viec. When I left home my friends bade me good-b,-e, ;ever expecting to see me alive aga'in. f he physicians at the hospital told me that ay case was a serious one and I was com-jjU-teiy discr.uragcd. I remained at the hospital seven week and took the medicines whish tin doctors gave me. I f;-lt better ct the hospit il and thought that I was recover ing, an i w.-nt hnm to continue their treat ment, w'.r.eh I did for two months, and also had an electric battery under their advice. The improvement, however, did not continue tni I began to give up hope. Augnt 1st, 13, I could not get out of mv chair without usistaace, and if I gut down upon the floor, I :nnM not gut up alone. About this time I ;haacja to read an a-eonnt of the wonder ful curative powers of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in caws simil-.r to my jwn. I did not have anv faith in the Pills tint thoiuht a trial could do no harm, so I nought some without telling anvone what I ras going to do. After I had been taking them soma time I f mnd that, for the fir-t time in months I wis able to walk down to the post offii-e, an l my neighbors began to dis cs? tiie -.narked improvement in mv health. As I continued the medicine I continued to ira;r-re, and soon recommenced work in the mill, at Orst verv lightlv. and increasing s I was able and an I gained in health nnd spirit', and now for the past three months I have been working ten hours per day almost as Ftcadily as I ever did. I fe;l well, eat well and sleep well as I ever did end I have no pain anywhere." The reporter talM with severs! other gen tlemen in regard to the case of Mr. Hutchin son, who stated that p.ny statement he might stake wonld be entitled to entire credence. 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