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VOLUME LXXIX —NO 111. AMID- THE RUINS OF CAYAJABOS, An Encounter Between the Forces of Maceo and Frances. MEET SEVERE LOSSES. The Spanish Troops Fight With Desperation, but They Are Defeated. VICTORS ARE BEING PURSUED. An Animated Argument in the Sen- ate on the Question of Recog- nizing the Patriots. HAVANA, Cusa, March 19.—News has been received here of an encounter yester- day amid the ruins of Cayajabos, province of Pinar del Rio, between the forces of Ma- ceo and a column of troops under Colonel Frances. The enemy were entrenched be- hind walls. The troops fought valiantly. The official report of the fight says that the troops sustained lamentable losses. The details have not been made public. Colonel Hernandez also had an engage- ment on the Mercedes estate. The columns of Linares, Echevarri and Inclan are in pursuit of Maceo’s forces. CGomez, who was in the province of Ma- tanzas during the past two weeks, is now said to have moved west and entered the province of Havana. J. FRANK CLARK. I T HALE AS AN OBJECTOR. Opposes the Concurrent Resolution for Cuban Recognition. WASHINGION, D. C., March 19.—The Cuban debate in the Senate to-day was of a character to maintain the intense public interest in that question. It-was to have been opened by Mills of Texas, but that Senator was too ill to be present, and the debate was opened by Stewart of Nevada. He declared himself anxious for action, said that the facts were too notorious to need further statement, favored the adop- tion of the conference report and said that if a concurrent resolution did not produce the desired result Congress ought to pass a joint resolution and place the responsi- bitity “on the President of the United States. Gray of Delaware, 2 member of the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, rose in or- der, as he explained it, to give the reasons which compelled him to withhold his as- sent from the conference report; but he was subjected to so many interruptions that his brief statement occupied ovér an hour. It closed with an expression of the hope ‘that “Spain, without rupture of friendly relations, shall sit down with us at the council board of nations and con- sider whether there may not be some other issue of this sorry controversy than the extermination of a whole people fight- ing for their fiberties.” Gray was interrupted all through his speech by Hale of Maine, in the course of which Hale flatly contradicted a state- ment repeatedly made by Sherman of Ohio, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, as to Spain having violated all the promises and reforms stipulated in the capitulation of 1878, when the insurgents of thatday laid down their arms. Sher- man had said, among other things, that although representation in the Spanish Cortes was then promised the Cubans had only one delegate there, but Hale affirmed that he had a list of forty-five members in the House of Deputies and fourteen or fif- teen members in the Senate from the two islands of Cuba and Porto Rico. Hale de- clared with warmth that he was laboring under a eense of indignation at the sup- pression of the facts of the case by the Committee on Foreign Relations. Gray made a mock apology to Hale for interrupting his speech so much, but spoke of him by an intentional slip of the tongue as “the Senator from Spain.” The junior Senator from Texas, Chilton, advocated the passage of a joint resolution rather than of a concurrent one and de- clared his belief that intervention by the TUnited States meant the ultimate annexa- tion of Cuba, to which he was opposed. The last sy eech of the day was made by Caftery of Louisiana and was against the entire proposition, as having no better basis than stories in the ‘Arabian Nights.” The United States, he declared, was bound by international law not to meddle in the affairs of Cuba. If the TUnited States did not cling to that law it would be outlawed from the circle of civil- ized nations. Caffery had not finished his speech when the Senate at 4 P. M. adjourned until to- morrow. 2 The Senate bill to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and to be admitted into the Union as a State was reported from the Committee on Territories and placed on the calendar. The Senate bill authorizing the expendi: ture of the unexpended appropriation for the construction of canals and locks at the cascades of the Colunbia River in the con- struction of proj>cting walls was passed. The conference report on the Cuban bel- ligerency resolutions was then taken up. Stewart (Pop.) of Nevada addressed the Senate in support of the resolutions. It was a reproach to the American people that they had stood by so long, he said, and witnessed the vain attempt of Spain to govern Cuba. He compared the case of Spain in Cuba with’ that of E_ngllnd'm Egypt, and said that the Englnh. policy in Egypt was being extended to this hem- isphere. I Spain held Cuba she would hold her as she had done for the last hun- dred years with an army and would in- crease the Cuban debt and enslave the people. The heart of every patriotin the TUnited States went out to Cuba. Should the Senate, Stewart asked,an- swer the demand of the American people end extend that sympatby in the most effective way, or should it spend its time quibbling about the fact whether there was war in Cuoa? He hoped to have ac- tion and speedy action, and if it did not bring results, let the Senate pass a joint resolution and throw the responsibility on the executive. Then Stewart took his seat, and, as no other Senator sought the floor, the Vice- President asked whether the Senate was ready for the question, and he stated the question to be on agreeing to the confer- ence report. Then Gray (D.) of Delaware, one of the members of the Committee on Foreign Relations, rose and said that be wished to state briefly the reasons which compelled him to withhold his assent from the con- ference report. It was easy to say, Gray remarked, that the resolutions of the two houses were substantially the same, but in a matter of this kind words were things. It would be vain to attempt to disguise the feeling of sympathy that occupied the breast of every true American in regard to that struggte. And yet the Government of the United States, as in duty bound, has been strictly observing its duties toward the friendly Government. of Spain. It had strictly enforced the neu- trality laws. It had suppressed all aid in the shape of military expenditions and had gone to the very verge of its interna- tional obligations in protecting Spain from the effects of that widespread sympa- thy. That feeling had found proper, re- spectful and courteous expression in the resolutions passed by the Senate. How- evermuch Spain might be irritated by that action she had no right in any interna- tional point of view to find fault with or to call to account the Government of the United States for that expression of the opinion of its people. Gray argued that there was no reason why the Senate should accept the House resolutions after its own - resolutions being contemptuously swept aside. He thought that there was grave ovjection to the lan- guage of the House resolution. It did not put the attitude of Congress where it ought to be put as correctly as the Senate resolu- tion did. A spirted colloquy occurred between Platt, Gray, Hale and Sherman over the failure of the Committee on Foreign Re- lations to furnish the Senate with informa- tion. Hale asserted that Spain had not vio- lated the promises made after the war of 1878, as stated by Sherman. Hale inquired whether anybody denied that Cuba had representation in the Span- ish Cortes. Sherman—She has one delegate. Hale—I have a list here showing that Cuba and Porto Rico have in the Spanish Cortes forty-five members in the Housc of Deputies and fourteen or fifteen members in the Senate. Gray—How many of them are appointed by the Governor-General of Cuba? Hale—Not one. Every essential thing in that pacification has been given by Spain. - After some further remarks on that point Hale exclaimed: *I spesk with some feeling because I am laboring under a sense of indignation on account of the suppression of the real facts in this case. The committee has kept the factsfrom the Senate.” Gray sarcastically apologized for break- ing so ofteh into Hale's speech and re- ferred to him, as if by a slip of the tongue, as “the Senatorfrom Spain.” [Laughter.] In conclusion Gray said: ‘‘All reason- able men will agree that Congress can do no less than it hasdone in giving utter- ance to the sympathies of the American peovle for the people of Cuba in this crisis of their existence and in expressing the desire that Spain, without rupture of friendly relations, shall sit down with us at the council board of nations and con- sider whether there may not be some other issne to this controversy than the extermination of a wnole people fighting for tueir liberties.” Chilton (D.) of Texas spoke against the Cuban resolutions in their present form. Caffery (D.) of Louisiana opposed the be- stowal of belligerent rights upon the Cu- bans. The resolutins, he said, were passed on the statements of irresponsible news- paper correspondents, whose accounts of affairs in Cuba rivaled the stories.of the *“‘Arabian Nights.” There was not a scin- tilla of evidence in support of the state- ments made by the Committee on Foreign Relations in support of their resolutions except accounts of atrocities perpetrated twenty-five years ago and extracts from a history of Cuba whose statements had been flatly contradicted. He contended that the right to accord belligerent rights re- sided exclusively with the executivejoranch of the Govern ment. Witheout finishing his speech Caffery yielded to a motion to adjourn and the Senate at 4 p. M. ad journed until to-morrow. i g ey CHASED BY A CRUISER. The British Steamer Ethelred Outsailed the Spanish Fessel. BOSTON, Mass.,, March 19.—An officer of the British steamer Ethelred, Captain Hopkins, which arrived this morning from Jamaican ports, reports that on March 11, on the outward passage from this port to Jamaica the steamer was chased for an hour and a half by a Span. | ish craiser. The Ethelred was steaming about eight miles off Cape Maysi, the eastern end of the island of Cuba, on the way to her des- tination. She was going about twelve knots an hour when a Spanish cruiser was sighted, evidently on the lockout for the supposed filibustering steamer. The cruiser hoisted a flag and the fruiter did likewise. The latter continued on her way, but the warship started in pursuit and kept it up for a considerable time. The Spaniard could not make over nine knots an hour, and was no martch for the fruit vessel. When first seen by the Ethel- red another cruiser was in company with the aggressive one, but apparently took no interest in the proceedings. No shots were fired from the warship, as the dis- tance was too great for any display of gun practice. Itis claimed that as the Ethelred was outside the three-miie limit the cruiser had no right to attempt to stop her. The Ethelred obtained considerable notoriety last summer by being fired upon off the Cuban coast by a Spanish gunboat. - e FOR TAKING GARCIA AWAY. Owners of the Steamboat Atlantic City to Be Prosecuted, PHILADELPHIA, Pi., March 19.— It is said that the Spanish representatives here will proceed against the owners of the steamboat Atlantic City for the alleged part that craft took in putting Garcia aboard the Bermuda off Somers Point, N. J., yesterday. A well-known lawyer has been retained in the case, and he said ‘arrives within your jurisdiction. “We Are the People! Razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle I”” to-day that the Atlantic City had violated the maritime laws by going to Tuckahoe, as the vessel has only a commission to ply i the waters in the immediate vicinity of Atlantic City. IBUSTERS. Instructions Issued to the Farious Col- lectors of Customs. WASHINGTON, D. C,, March 10.—Sec- retary Carlisle bad a long conference with the President this morning on the subject of enforcing the neutrality laws as against filibustering expeditions leaving the United States to aid Cuban insurgents. On his return to the Treasury the follow- lowing telegram was dictated and sent broadcast: Collecior of Customs, Somers.Point, N. J., re- ports that a filibustering expedition for Cuba was trausferred from the steamer Atlantic City to another steamer, probably the Ber- muda, off Great Egg Harbor inlet, yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, said 10 be eomposed of General Garcia and geveral followers. If the vessel is carrying an expedition consisting of arms and men, in violation to titie 67, Revised Statutes of the United States, seize her if she The fact that a vessel carries a cargo ot arms is not suf- ficient of ifself to authorize a seizure. If nec- essary communicate with any revenue cutter and with the United States Attorney. Scot1 WIKE, Acting Secretary. Copies of this telegram were sent to the Navy Department, to Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service of the Treasury Department, to the Spanish Min- ister here, to the Attorney-General, the Secretary of State, and to all Collectors of Customs along the Atlantic coast from New York to New Orleans. St HANGED BY INSURGENTS. Fate of Two Cubans Employed to Betray Maceo. KEY WEST, Fra., March 19.—Passen- gers by the steamship Olivette last night report that Murios and Sastras, two Cubans employed by the Spanish Government to Maceo, left Havana a few daysago, going to the sugar plantation Santa Amelia, where they caused an uprising among the Cuban sympathizers. They were met by General Anguire, who dis- covered their mission and promptly hanged them. B Victoriano Rerneri, formerly an editor of a Spanish paper in this city, but lately editor of El Pueblo, one of the most rabid Spanish papers on the island, was recently sent to the Cabanas for criticizing the Spanish Government. Being drunk when he entered the Cabanas Weyler ordered as 2oon as he was sober that he be shot. PR WEYLER WILL NOT RESIGN. The Captain-General Wires a Denial of the Report. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—Min- ister Dupuy de Lome last night asked General Weyler by telegraph what foun- dation there was for the report that he contemplated resigning. To-day he re- ceived the following reply: HAVANA, March 19.—The news about my resignation is totally inexact. I au- thorize your Kxcellency to deny it ahso- lutely. ‘WEYLER. UNDER POLICE PROTECTION. Tailor-Shops Yet Running in Chicago, but the Strikers Are Confident of Victory. CHICAGO, Iin, March 19.—A delega- tion from the striking tailors visited the shop of Klein & Marks, 128 Fifth avenue, this morning and called upon the 100 men and girls employed there to quit work and join the big strike. They were also asked to join the union and so much excitement followed among strikers, sympathizers and employes that the proprietors closed the place and called the police to clear the rooms and passageways. Some of the employes went to the strike headquarters, but the firm expects most of them to re- turn to work to-morrow, saying they were scared out. A form of agreement was drawn up by the United Garment-workers’ Union to- day for the contractors to sign as a basis of settlement for their part of the strike. The proposition was considered by the em- ployers and rejected, the most obnoxious part being a requirement of a bond of $200 by each contractor to keep the agree- ment. The contractors claim that only five shops are closed and the strike-leaders say all are closed except one. All of the shops that are running are under police protec- tion. FOR BIMETALLISM Conference of the Silver Senators With Business Representatives. TARIFF AND COINAGE. _“‘—“ Warning by Westetners Against Putting a Gold Plank in the National Platform. MANUFACTURERS IN EARNEST. They Declare That High Duties Are Not Sufficient to Assist Trade Under a Single Standard. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—At the Hotel Page, an important conference was held to-night between the silver Re- publicar Senators who voted against the consideration of the tariff bill in the Senate and a large number of representative men from Philadelphia who favor the linking together of protection and bimetallism. The authoritative statement issued Ry the | conference after its secret session is looked upon by politicians as the first note of warning on the partof the Republican Senators from Western States against the adoption of a single gold standard plank in the St. Louis platform. The conference was the result of the following correspond- ence between William Wilhelm, a promi- nent attorney of Pottsville, Pa., and 'the sextet of Silver Senators named in the letter: Z POTTSVILLE, Pa., March 15, 1896. ' Senators Jones, Teller, Dubois, Carter, Mantte and Cannon—GENTLEMEN: It has been my good fortune to meet Messrs. James Dobson, Charles Heber Clarke and B. E. Defendorf of the city of Philadelphia. They and their in- dustrial friends are anxious to confer with you relative to the present depression and' the remedy for existing financial and industrial troubles. - If you are willing to meet the East- ern men of enterprise, then please advise the aforementtoned gentlemen so that a confer- ence can be arranged between you and, them and their friends. Inclosed find a list of Philadelphia manufacturers who, I am as- sured, will take pleasure in meeting you. Yours sincerely, WILLIAM WILHELM. ' UNITED STATES SENATE, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18, 1896. James Dobson Esq., Philadeiphia—DEAR SiRr: Accepting the suggestion made tous by letter by William Wilhelm of Pennsylvania, that it would be well to have a conference between representatives of industrial interests of the country and ourselves, we shall be pleased to confer with yourself and such men of enter- prise as you may choose to invite to meet with usatan euly.dne at Washington. Yours very truly, H. M. Teller, E. T. Dubois, Lee Mantle, T, H. Carter, F. J. Cannon, J. P. Jones. All of the foregoing Senators were pres- ent at the conference held to-night, as were also Congressmen Hartman of Mon- tana, Allen of Utah and Wilson of Idaho, and also the following-named representa- tives of manufacturing interests: James Dobson, manufacturer of carpets; George Campbell, woolens; :James Pollock, car- pets; S. B. Vreeman, lumber; Frank Cra- ven, silk; C. H. Hardy, yarns; George W. Elkins, street railways; Alexander Crow, carpets; Henry A. Fryem, groceries; Henry Holmes, carpets: R. W. Scott, knit goode; James Brown; woolens; Howland Croft, worsteds; Charles M. McLeod, yarns; James Defendorf, yards; Jokn Fis- ler, wire; Robert Dawman, carpets; Rob- ert W. Scott, knit goods; Charles H. Clarke, surgical appliances; Theodore R. Miller, upholstery; ‘Richard ‘Campion, varns; Joseph Bromley, rugs; Joseph R. James, woolens; Joseph Foster, dyes; James Phillips, worsteds ; C. D. Fierstone, buggies, and R. E. Defenderfer, electrical appliances.. & . 3 The conference was organized by choos- WD PROTECTIN, Wilhelm of Pennsylvania secretarv. For three hours and a half behind closed doors the conference proceeded, involving the uniting of bimetallism and protection as a National issue. Remarks were made by Senators Teller, Jones of Nevada, Carter, Mantle and Cannon. President Dornan of the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia expressed the opinion that tariff duties could not be made high enough to protect our manufacturers if our country remained on a gold basis. James Dobson, the great carpet manu--| facturer, came out, unqualifiedly for free coinage, by international agreement if pos- sible, otherwise by independent action. He believed that independent action would induce international action. Free coinage might create temporary disturbances, but it was the quickest way to perform relief to mills all over the country, which were suf- fering. t::n‘rg. A. Frye of Phila hia said . the @ooner we took endent action for bimetallism Tthpbgttir.irwould be. He declared for protection and bi- metallism. = Charles H. Clarke, editor of the Manufacturer of Philadelphia, said he had labored in season and out of season to convince the manufacturers that protec- tion would only prove efficacious in con- junction with the restoration of silver; that he was now aappy to have so many repres:ntatives of the industrial interests of the country present to meet the Sena- tors who had voted against the Dingley bill and to personally verify his declara- tion. : Richard Campion declared himself in favor of the restoration of silver, but thought that the cause of bimetallism was not advanced by the defeat of the revenue measures. Several opinions were expressed of re- gret at the loss of the Dingley measure, but no opinion antagonistic to the restora- tion of silver was uttered. The Senators present defined their posi- tion in’' such manner as to make it plain to the manufacturers that there could be no protective-tariff legislation either at this session of Congress or the next without the rehabilitation of silver or bimetallism, and protection constituted an indivisible issue before the country. Some of the manufacturers ‘themselves indorsed the position as being the Jogic of the country’s necessities and political conditions. The issue was clearly defined, but no attempt at organization was made. The intensity of the interest shown demonstrated a determination to rescue the country, if possible, from its impend- ing industrial and financial ills. Charles Heber Clarke invited the Senaters to a meeting to be held at the Manufacturers’ Club, Philadelphia, at an early date. Many strong letters in harmony with the purpose of the meeting were received from manufacturers throughout the coun- try who were unable to be present at this particular meeting. : The incidental mention of the name of J. Donald Cameron for nomination for the Presidency met with cordial approval. AR BITE REPUBLICANS OF MISSOURIL The State Committee to Decide the Num- ber of Conventions. ST. LOU1S, Mo., March 19,—The Repub- lican State Committee will meet here to- morrow to decide whether one or two con- ventions will be held in Missouri this year. The Filley and Kerens factions are divided on this question and a lively contest is ex- pected. The former favors holding two conventionk—the first tu elect four dele- gates-at-large to the convention and the new State Committee, and the second to nominate officers. Should the plan be carried out, Filley will undoubtedly be one of the delegates to the St. Louis con- vention. The Kerens-Walbridge faction desires but one convention, and hopes by this to gain time in which to so arrange the contest for delegates that Mayor Wal- bridge will secure the gubernatorial nom- ination and Kerens be chosen one of the delegates-at-large. In any event it is con- ceded that the delegation from this State will favor McKinley for President. et FACTIONS HAVE AGREED. Nebraska Republicans Accept a General Compromise. OMAHA, Nmse., March 19.—The fight between. the McKinley and Manderson factionsof the Republican party is at an end, terms of & compromise having been Y upon - this evening at a conference of tieleaders. Senator Thurston, the re- cognized head of tbe McKinley boom ,in Nebraska, accepted the general terms of ing Senator Dubois’ as* chairman” and Mr. lfln comproiise” yesterday, but General Mandersop, who is in Washington, held out until to-day for a delegation to the St. Louis convention instructed for him. To- night he wired that be would be guided by what his friends in Nebraska thought was best. The provisions of the compromise briefly stated are these: The State dele- gation will be for McKinley, but Mander- son’s name will be formally presented to the convention unless it is apparent that the Ohio man’s nomination is assured. All district conventions are instructed to abide by the agreement, and the Mander- son people have Senator Thurston’s word for it that the terms will be carried out. i ' THE STKENGITH OF ALLISON. There Is a Bright Prospect of His Getting the Nomination. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.— ‘While the McKinley men are claiming the earth, so to speak, the Allison contingent in the House disdains to juggle with fig- ures, but is “‘laying low” like Br'er Fox in the fable. They hug the idea tenaciously that unless McKinley has an inalienable right to the nomination, and that his lien cannot be dissolved in the supreme mo- ment of work of the St. Louis convention, Allison is destined to capture the plum and in that conviction they find comfort and contentment. “The strength of Allison,” said Repre- sentative Perkins of Iowa, editor of one of the leading Allison papers in the United States, ‘‘is to be found in the pe- culiar position he occupies between the so- called leaders in the race. His connection with the race has begn happily free from irritation and friction. To partisans of McKinley and other candidates he appears in the character of a peculiarly amiable compromise candidate. The solution of the whole vexed question in favor of Alli- son, in my opinion, is the steadily grow- ing bitterness between partisans of these men. It must sooner or later occur to them that Allison is a man whose candi- dacy will provoke less hostility than that of either McKinley or Reed. *The level-headed men who will repre- sent the Republican party at St. Louis will consider what will happen after the elec- tion. Republicans ought to consider that if they should come back into power the party will be on trialagain. Itismoreim- portant that this trial shall meet reasona- ble expectations, and give a hold upon suc- ceeding elections that whether it shall be McKinley or Reed who will lead the Re- publican phalanx to victory in November, for I conclude that a Republican victory is inevitable. That election should insure for us a new lease of political life and we should be careful that in nominating our candidate we strike nc aeep wounds which will open and bleed after the victory 1s won. In this respect Allison is strong. *‘He is'in the happy relation of second choice to almost every other candidate where preference is not for him first. He is making no enemies and is under obli- gations to no man. The partisans of other candidates can gravitate to him with clear. conscience and Allison can ac- cept that nomination and run his race without having hedged himself about with promises and compromising entangle- ments waiting to be redeemed after he takes his seat. If the nomination of Me- Kinley 18 not conceded Allison wiil be ‘the -man.” (¥ o BN SOME FAVOR MORTON. Election of Delegates in Several New York Districts. BROOKLYN, N. Y., March 19.—Con- ventions were held by the Republicans in the tive Congressional districts of Kings County to-night to elect delegates to the National Convention at St. Louis. The following were chosen: Becond District—Theodore 8. Willis and George H. Roberts Jr. Third District—Timothy L. Woodruff and Walter B. Atterbury. Fourth District—Granville W. Harmon and Joseph R. Clark. Fiith District—Frederick W. Wurster and Ernest J. Keltonbach. Bixth District—Henry C. George W. Palmer. The contest in this city over the election of delegates to: the St. Louis Republican Convention was more of alocal affair than a National one. The Willis-Wurster fac- tion carried the Second, Third ana Fifth districts, .and the Worth faction the Fourth and Sixth districts. The former faction favor the candidacy of Governor Morton for the Presidency, and it is thought that the Worth faction also favors Governor Morton, as Mr. Worth is an adherent of Mr. Platt’s. OGDENSBURG, N.Y., March 19.—At the Twenty-second District Republicun convention, held at Potsdam to-day, Hon. William L. Proctor of Ogdensburg and Hon. William W. Worden of Saratoga Springs were elected delegates to the Na- tional convention at St. Louis. Resolu- tions indorsing Morton for the Presidency were unanimously adopted. o e Saffen and AN INDORSEME. OF McKINLEX. Indiana Republicans Hold Congressional District Conventiona. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., March 19.—The Republicans of Indiana to-day keld their Congressional district conventions for the election of delegates and alternates to the National Convention and for ihe nomina- tion of candidates for Congress. William McKinley’s nanie was well received at all conventions in the thirteen districts and most of them indorsed him for President or adopted the stronger course of instruct- ing their delegates to vote for him until his nan.e was withdrawn or his nomina- tion had been accomplished. The Second District convention was di- vided between Allison and McKinley and the delegation was uninstructed. =~ The Beventh District practically sent McKinley delegates. Harry S. New of Indianapolis, who is a Harrison man from intimate friendship of himself and father, stated when elected one of the delegates that he would vote for McKinley if the conditions remained as they were at present. The other delegate 1s a McKinleyite. Resolutions indorsing McKirley were aaopted in the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eightb, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth districts and the delegates so instructed. The Thirteenth District de- clared for him, but did not so instruct the delegates. Most of the indorsements were carried through without opposition. The Becond District. renominated Hon. A. M. Hardy of Daviess County for Congress. Marcus R. Sulzer of Madison was nomi- nated in the Fourth; Congressman J. N. Leighty was renominated in the Twelfth R:f Congressman J. A. Hemeaway in the t. Treasury Gold Keserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 19.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-day stood at $127,658,759. ‘Lhe withdrawals for thie day were $115,700, INEITHER ALLIANCE | NOR AGREEMENT, But Circumstances Cause England to Assist Italy. FOR COMMON INTERESTS Secretary Curzon Points Out the Necessity of the British Expedition. THAT ADVANCE UP THE NILE France Continues to Interpose Objec» tions to British Operations in the Soudan, LONDON, Exc,, March 19. — In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Labou- chere, referring to the British expedition to Dongola, asked the Government if any alliance existed between Great Britain and Italy. Mr. Curzon, Under Foreign Secretary, said there existed no alliance or agreement of any kind between the two countries bat the circumstances in which they were placed. He pointed to the expediency of a friendly co-operation between the two Governments in defense of their common interests. Mr. Curzon also announced that M. Berthelot, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, had informed Lorda Dufferin, the British Embassador to France, that he repudiated all responsibility for the state- ment made in reporting the purport of the interview between the Minister and the Embassador on Tuesday, in which the former is represented as having demanded to know the reasons for the British expedi- tion up the Nile and as having pointed out the gravity of the consequence of the movement. Such statements, M. Berthelot had said, must have been published by misinformed persons. France, Mr. Curzon said, had been in- formed of the intended plans of Great Britain in the Nile Valley, but the French Government had not as yet made any reply. - The Ttalian Government, Mr. Curzon continued, had - informed England that Italy would not evacuate Kassala, unless the military authorities there should find it impossible to hold the place. Mr. Baliour, First Lord of the Treasury ‘and Government leader in’ the House, said that the British Embassadors to Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and St. Petersburg, had been instructed to communicate to the respective governments to which they ‘were accredited the grounds upon which the English advance up the Nile Valley had been made and also to point out the fact that in order to meet the expendi- tures required it might be necessary to use a larger sum than was at the disposal of the Egyptian treasury and that the Government hoped that the commission of the Egyptian public debt would assent to the expenditure of £500,000 from the reserve fund, which was now £2,500,000. The Governments of Germany, ltaly and Austria had given replies assenting to this, but Russia and France had not an- swered.. As the operations were in the interest of Egypt, Mr. Balfour said the costs should naturally be defrayed from the reserve fund. It was not possible, he said, to form an exact estimate of the ex- pense at present. 3 In the House of Lords Lord Salisbury, in reply to a question from Lord Rosebery, said the Italian Government had not learned of the fall of Kassala, which is regarded as extremely improbable. ———— VERY SERIOUS OBJECTIONS. Minister Berthelot Speaks of the English Expedition. PARIS, Frasce, Msrch 19.—In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. Berthelot, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that there were serious objections, both finan- cial and political, to the British expedition against Dongola, and that representations had been made by France to the Govern- ment of England and to that at Cairo, ne- gotiations resultinz from which were now pending. M. Berthelot added that France had de- clined to accede to Great Britain’s request to take £500,000 from the Egyptian reserve to meet the expenses of the expedition. The expedition was not a defensive one but an offensive act. LONDON, Exc., March 19.—The Morn- ing Post will publish a dispatch from Paris saying that the Chamber of Deputies is satisfied with M. Berthelot's statement, which is regarded as having been patriotic, although pacific. DEMANDS AN INDEMNITY. 1 King Menelik Threatens to Further Press the Italians. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 20.—A spe- pial to the Herald from Rome sa; King Menelik demands an indemnity of 40,000,000 lire from Italy. This condition is, of course, unacceptable, and further complicates the situation. The Negus forces now threaten to sur- round Asmara while continuing to ad- vance upon Massowah. The Marquis di Rudini is evidently los- U et i N e s Bt Cleanse Your blood now by taking Hood's Sarsaparills, the best Spring Medicine. It thoroughly ex- pels all taints of Scrofula, Salt Rheum and Humors and vitalizes and enriches the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. §1 Hood’s Pills cure Liver Ills; easy to take, easy to operate. 23cC.