The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1899, Page 4

4 ~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1899. WRANGLE OF THE SPANIARDS OVER NATION’'S DEFEAT A Count d’Almenas Complains That “Five Months Had Elapsed and Not a Single Gen- eral Bee MADRID, Feb. 20,—The Cortes reas- The galleries in both s were thronged with an ex crowd. The Senate was Ve a single general being ab- t ro Rios, president of the ng the proceedings, pro- ogy upon M: Faure, and condolence with France >remier. then pro- refe e bill providing: for cession of the. Philippines to-the ates to a special committee, i = but the Conservatives protested against this, g that the bill ought to be ly discussed, and Senor proposal. 4 then brought up the f the conduct of the generals the war in Cuba, declaring a1 Primo de Rivera, General Blanco, Admiral C al Linares had proven Weyler, General er- aration elicited much ap- om the public galleries, in con- of the spec- n the Chamber. he would deal with capitulation of Santi- ed the House ceed and and was he should red with c Government and it h. The Premier criti- njustified conduct and 1ing might be dis- ar, because the were still sub \erals and complained that had elapsed and not a | 1 been shot.” r other tumult and | called to order. | v the generals who | 1 not been executed It he declared t army | s led by asf Cap- dminigtration in he said, but he for the surrender Cuba was de )t respons tiago. n Shot.” Becriminations continued between Count d’Almenas and Lieutenant Gen- eral Correa, the Minister of War, and | there was renewed disorder. Then General Primo de Rivera arose and denounced Count d’Almenas as a “contemptible calumniator.” General Blanco followed, defending the gener- als and accepting full responsibility for events in Cuba during his eommand in the island. General Barges also de- mounced Count d’Almenas as a calumni- ator. After ‘a promise on the part of Count @'Almenas to produce proofs of his assertions to-morrow the Senate ad- Journed, In the Chamber the resolution of con- dolence of France over the.death of President Faure was unanimously adopted. Senor Silvela moved a vote signed by the Conservative Deputies censuring this Government for its indifference to the country’s troubles. Senor Annix, in seconding the motion, denounced the Ministry for accepting the war through fear of the Carlists, and declared that the country was now | suffering the consequences of the Gov- | ernment’s pusillanimity. He proceeded to detail the lack of preparations and of war materials, and charged the Gov- ernment with responsibility for the sur- render of Santiago, “which they or- dered, although the garrison there num- bered 23,000 and there was sufficient provisions in the place for three months.” This declaration created a sensation. | In proof that the Government was re- | sponsible for the surrender of Cuba Senor Annix read telegrams from Senor Sagasta and Lieutenant General Correa to General Blanco ordering the sur- render of Cuba as a means of saving | Porto Rico and the Philippines and pre- | serving order in the peninsula. He also read General Blanco’'s telegram in re- ply, opposing the surrender, but agree- ing to obey the Government's order. Senor Annix added that President McKinley had telegraphed to General Shafter that the surrender of Santiago | of proceedings, retiring with the gen- had been arranged with the Madrid | Government, and that, therefore, he | must make a sort of sham attack. | Captain Aunon, Minister of Marine, lieved this story to be incorrect; where- | upon Senor Annix repeated the state- | ment that Premier Sagasta had ordered | the surrender of Cuba in order to save the monarchy. [——————4 interposed at this point, saying he be- | ¢ MILES REPEATS THE 'CHARGES UNDER OATH Declares That Bad Beef Was Supplied Troops and Submits Many Reports to Prove the Assertion. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—The Miles Court of Inquiry to-day made a good start in its work. The court was com- fortably quartered in the old meeting room of the War Investigation Com- mittee in the Lemon building, with ac- commodations for representatives of the press associations and the local pa- pers. Calls of ceremony on the Presi- dent and the general commanding the army occupied a large part of the fore- noon, and immediately thereafter Gen- eral Nelson A. Miles appeared as the first witness. He and three other army officers summoned as witnesses were examined and disposed of before the court closed its session at 3 o’clock. General Miles’ testimony, of course, was the feature of the day’s proceedings. Colonel Frank Micheler, his chief of staff, and a gentleman in citizen's clothes, who took a seat by the fire- place and gravely watched the course eral as silently as he had come, ac- companied the general to the court- room. General Miles appeared in fatigue uniform, rather striking in its contrast with the display of scarfs, bullion and buttons on the full dress uniforms of the court. He submitted to the ques- tioning of Colonel Davis, recorder of the court, with equanimity, except for a flash of mingled indignation and| frony when he informed the recorder | that he was fot compelled to “report” | to the commissary general of the army. | This was in reply to a question as to | whether or not he had reported to the Commissary Department the fact that | complaints had been made to him as| to the quality of meat being issued to | the troops. An instant later General | Miles resumed his cool and carefully considered replies to the inquiries of | the court. As indicated by a letter of the ad- | jutant general, read by the recorder | for the informa- | tion of the court, | the scope of the | MORE PONERFL THAN DYNAMITE New Explosive Powder Invented. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Feb. 20.—Dr. H. P. Tuttle of this city is the inventor of a new explosive .powder, which he beliéves will go far toward revolutionizing na- val warfare. It is more powerful than nitrog 1 or dynamite, and yet may andled with perfect safety. Dr. Tutt returned yesterday from a two months’ trip to V ington Cit been in conference wit board regarding his nce new po What results were at- tained the not say, because oA ys, has re- before the rd, Tuttle of , the quadron 2 1t with an exhibition of his powder, and the mat- ter was referred-to the British Admir- alty for discussion and investigation. yme At Esquimalt he first exploded s of his powder in the open, demons: ing its terrible destructive force. he undertook to show that it was afe to handle. The party returned to the machine shops, where Doctor Tuttle made the somewhat startling state- ment that his powder could be pounded on an anvil with a sledge hammer or thrust through with a red-hot iron and vet would not explode. Experiments proved these assertions to be true. Striking a pound of it with a sledge hammer had no more effect than pounding so much sand. A cannon on board the flagship was next loaded with one of Tuttle's shells, which was thrown against the side of a rocky cliff a quarter of a mile away. It mashed to pleces on the rocks and tore up such a quantity of dust and dirt that the captain of the flagship avowed ploded. did not,” maintained Dr. Tut- hat was only the shock of the I will show you the differ- mer of ordinary powder, it was let go against t rock. This time there was no chance for an argument. A roar louder than that of the cannon came back, while for hundreds of feet the air was full of dust and dirt and chynks of rock, some of them a ton in welght, flew in every direction. This fully established Tuttle’s claim that his powder surpassed dynamiteé in explosive force. Tuttle's cannon, which was made out of a car axle, was then fired, using a shell about an inch in djameter, med at a half-inch ds away. A sharp nearly through the plate, se of the English officers. Tuttle b experimenting with ex- plos. ars ago, being requested by friends to produce an explosive that hole was cu to the surp: . could be used successfully in the Klon- dike. He says regs--" his powder: “It end of steel-clads. With it shells can be sent through the as easilv as solid shot ugh, and, explodine in- L »uld tear it to atoms.” VANDALISM AT STANFORD. Students Daub Paint Over Univer- sity Statuary. STANFORD, Feb. 20.—A few days ago some student, or party of students, with huge propensities for joking, daubed the sphinxes guarding the entrance to the university grounds with the ciass nu- merals—'02. To efface the marks the au- thorities had the sphinxes repainted, but the next morning the students got in their work again. Their latest efforts in the line of art have been to bedaub the classic statues on the top of the museum ana to leave their marks, two Greek letters, on the door of President Jordan’s private of- fee. The faculty has an inkling who the perpetrators are, and should their sus- fofon prove true the gentlemen of the rush will be expelled and their names pubiished. sides of warship: !; | could get in winter to buy grub to pros- | COLDFOUND ON MOUNTAIN TOPS | Rich Bench Claims Near | Dawson. BY HAL HOFFMAN, Special Correspondence of The Call. | | “ JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 13 (via Seat- | tle, Feb. 16). ack” Hanley, now here, | | fourteen and a half days from Dawson, | is much chagrined at not having beaten | the record out. He is one of the lucky | young men who have all the gold they | | can dig out of the ground in the next | two or three years. It has been some time since a gold story has come out | | of Dawson. Hanley says some of the | ms, almost literally on top of bench cl the mountains, are proving as rich as | many in the bottoms of the creeks, and this fact almost takes the breath out | of the bodies of old miners, it is so un- | precedented. Onme of these top-moun- | tain claim owners, Martin Walstad, is| now here and sick. Neither of these | young men know how much he is | the _office worth. Both knocked around Juneau | | several years, taking what work they | pect on in summer, not knowing the | | store of gold ahead of them. | | _Hanley says the total output of the | Klondike mines next clean-up in the| spring will exceed that of last year by | several millions. One reason for this | is that a good deal of ground was not | worked last year on account of royalty. Hope of its being reduced | goon has been abandoned and succeed- | | ed by the conclusion that life is too | short and there is too much of a good | time ahead to wait longer on the possi- | bility of saving a few thousand dollars. The situation at Dawson is about the same. The town is comparatively quiet. “They are not coming in bunches as they were last winter,” is the way Han- ley puts it. *‘Still Dawson is all right and will be a good camp for some years, but I do not think it ever again will be the town it was last winter and summer.” This supports the statement made to me by another Klondiker two weeks ago, that Dawson has seen her best days. Klondiker Hanley said experienced miners would never prospect in Cana- dian territory asgain, which accounts for so many going to Eagle City and elsewhere down the Yukon. This is on account of the royalty, the licenses required, the size of claims (250 feet), with ten claims below Discovery re- served by the crown, as well as every alternate ten claims. Many men are still out of work at Dawson, but they have plenty of food. Hundreds are on the trail coming out. The trail is in good shape and travel- ing comparatively easy. Some new towns are springing up on the river. At the present rate of development there will be towns in a year or two not very far apart all the way to Dawson. Quite a settlement is springing up at the mouth of the Ste- | wart River and another at Thistle Creek. Substantial buildings are be- ing erected. Hanley says he talked with several acquaintances on the way out who had claims on Thistle Creek and all expected good pay in the spring. Canadian mail has gone down the river quite regularly during the winter, but the American mail has been al- lowed to stack up and, figuratively, grow moldy, chiefly at Tagish Lake, since the middle of October last. It welcome news to thousands in the States that the American malil is now beginning to move. Hanley met at Le- barge dog teams carrying about a ton of it and these teams will get through to Dawson all right, if they are not al- ready at Dawson by the time this shall have been published. Information is meager as to how regularly the mail will keep moving. There is need for the postal department at Washington to get a “move on” in making conjunction . loading another shell with a pri- | the | press, who were accorded places in the courtroom, had assembled, and on the outside were many other correspondents and a number of artists specially detailed to attend the inquiry. During the morning several army of- ficers, who are in the city as witnesses, reported to Colonel Davis, the recorder. but remained only a few moments at the rooms of the court. | The court returned at 12:05 from fits visits of courtesy and after two pho- toqrayhers made pictures of the body Colonel Davis announced readiness to proceed and read the orders convening the court and its instructions. Following the reading of the order, which has been published already, Col- onel Davis read a letter from Adjutant General Corbin, In response to a letter from General 'Wade, president of the court, explaining more specifically the lines along which the court was expected to_investigate. The court was then sworn am Major General Miles was presented as the first witness. He appeared in fatigue uniform and was sworn. After stating his rank and office he was asked about his state- ment_ before the War Commission. He said he made one, and on Colonel Davis submitting a printed report of that state- ment General Miles examined and ap- proved it. Then he was asked about an alleged interview which appeared in the New Jork Journal of December 23, and whether it represented completely or in rarl what he sald. General Miles read t. Then he said: I do not recall anything in that inter- view that had not been given In my testi- mony or transmitted in my reports. You will observe it contains a number of my declinations to name officers or my au- thorities and refusals to answer. It must, :}qoerx:gore, be incorrect in its representa- n. He then commented upon the general, though slight, inaccuracy of neg'spa er interviews, owing 46—+ to the dependen- T cy of writers up- General Miles on their memo- tles, “Hardly o ay in six months and had passed that an nterviewer the Press. had not applied to him, and because 46—+ of thekindness of the press to the army, and especially to the enlisted men, he had endeavored to give them such in- formation as he thought wise and safe, but never, he said, with a view to preju- dicing any one against any person or de- partment. Finally General Miles said he did not_think the Journal interview rep- The Scope i e resented correctly what he had said, be- P inquiry was lim- | .3\ 66 jis contents should be taken in con- of the ited to the alle- | nection with all that was said—silence gations of Gen- | upon some points, speech upon others. eral Miles before | _Being asked as to an interview in the Inquiry. the War Com- | New York Herald of February 1, he said: Py A elon as %o | .l have a letter from the gentleman +& ¥4 the quality of | who, I understand wrote this, who stated - a ty Of | that he was willing to_sw that I de- the army beef, “and the matter pur-|clined to be interviewed and that, think- porting to have been furnished to the | public press by the same official.” | Only two interviews were called up | by the court, the first an interview with | a New York Journal representative | early in the beef controversy, in which | General Miles was quoted as charging | that certain chemicals were used in the | preservation of the army meat, and an- | other of the New York Herald under | date of February 1, covering about, the | same ground. General Miles careful in his replies to the recorder’s questions on this point. He called at- | tention to the fact that in both in-| stances he was credited in the inters | views with refusing to answer certain questions ond insisted that th fusals should be given due weight in considering the questions to which he did reply. He said, in the case of th= interview of February 1, that he had a | from the man who wrote the S offering to swear that General | Miles had refused to be interviewed and that the whole story was made up in from the writer's general | knowledge of the facts. Notwithstand- | ing this, when his final answer was asked as to the authenticity of the in- terview, General Miles did not spec fically deny it, but merely said that | it did not quite fairly represent his own | opinion in the case. The same quali- fied denial as to the Journal interview of December 23 was made, leaving the witness on record as not assuming any responsibility for the newspaper state- | ments, but tacitly admitting that there | was a good deal in them with which he agreed. The trend of questions put to the other witnesses of the day indicated that so long as they agreed with Gen- eral Miles as to the quality of meat furpigshed the troops in the field, the | oniy criticism of their position the court | had to make was why they had was very slow and | matter remedied at the time. In every instance the reply was that the circum- stances in which the army was placed, in a sickly forcizn country, with a large | amount of fighting and a great scarcity | of transportation on hand, precluded | the possibility of any such action. 1In | each instance the question was pushed | no further on this line. It was said after the court adjourned that Dr. Daly, whose original “em- balmed beef” report was the genesis ot | the meat controversy, pmbiably woula t to-morrow’s session. “"Apv?frcgur: assembled shortly after 10 o'clock, preparatory to its first formal session. Briga- 40— dier _ General | George W. Davis | Paid Respects to the and Colonel George L. Gilles- pie, members of the court! and Colonel George B. Davis, recor- | der and judge advocate, were the first to ar- James F. Wade, came later, and at President. rive. Major General president of the court, 035 @il the members, in full dress uni- form, proceeded to ‘the White House, Where ‘they paid thelr respects to the President. They then went to the War Department, where they called upon Sec- retary Alger and Major General Miles. In the meantime the members of the ing something had to be given out, he had proceeded to write what he knew were the facts.” He then pointed out that the interview was erroneous in that it represented him as having said that he had overwhelming evidence that the refrigerated beef was treated with chemicals. The fact was that his only evidence was what was contained in the reports of officers and the state- ments of men who claimed that the beef had the odor of an embalmed body, that they had seen fluid injected into beef and other indications of chemical treatment. He declared the interview an erroneous presentation of what he could possibly have said. Colonel Davis, recurring to the state- ment of General Miles before the War Commission, asked him what his idea as to the beef supply for the army was when war broke out. Replying, General Miles | said that, while his attention was occu- pied with weighter matters of mobiliza- tion and equipment of troops, he felt con- fident that the usage of 100 years would be followed and cattle herds would be shipped to ~ the army in the tropics and killed there, just as they were during the civil war in the South, and also in Arizona, Texas and in Mexico, where it was so hot that soldiers could not sit upon the rocks. He understood that Cuba and Porto Rico are excellent grass countries, and that cattle could be shipped and kept in prime condition. He re- Viewed his action in cabling the depart- ment to send no more refrigerated beef to Porto Rico while he was there, as he had found it possible to use beef on the hoof. General Miles said that he undertood that our troops in Porto Rico were still being supplied > oF + 5 with a form of refrigerated beef, Refrigerator Beef Is although the country was as good a grass c‘t;un(r_\' ’.:l]slfluy (V; the world, ne Not Needed. cattle there were plentiful and the troops 161 thi all their meat supply from this source. Cv)lon:RpDa\'ls asked if General Miles "Xt | xnew whether Porto Rico exported any | taken some official steps to have tlle cattle, Witness said it did to the num- ber of several thousand, and they were fine cattle. Still, he understood that our troops were not only receivin re- frigerated beef at the coast, but it was being sent into the interior.’ The situa- tion now, he said, was_ different from that during the war. Now there were fce machines on shore. Then there Was not jce enough for the hospitals. Recurring to the expediency of feed- ing the troops hoof beef in Porto Rico, Géneral | Miles said he was much in favor of\it. He sald native beef killed at night could be fed to the men next day. vou think,” confinued Colonel Davie, “that the native beef would keep as well as the refrigerated beef in the absence of cooling apparatus on shore?” “1 am quite sure it would, unless the refrigerated beef was chemically ireated With preservatives. If it was treated so as to keep seventy-two hours after com- o fng out of the coolers, of course it had the advantage of the native beef—so far as | keeping 0es. GpneraFMlles in his testimony also sald his use of the phrase ‘‘pretense of experi- mert,” in SpeakinF of army beef, was un- fortunate. He disclaimed intending any inference of fraud and sald he should have said the refrigerated beef issued was ‘“on the theory of an experiment” and “a very costly one.” General Miller said he did not recollect whether Dr. Daly's report was volun- teered or whether he had been ordered to investigate and report on the meat. 1t was general talk among the officers at Ponce, General Miles continued, that the refreigerator beef must have been subjected to some chemical treatment to make it keep for seventy-two hours. Dr. Daly’s, however, was the first official re- port. General Miles then read a long summary of a hundred letters received by him at army headquar- ters giving the various terms in which the army Pet N S meat was char- acterized. These Given ‘{‘cl]"d?jd d “em- aimed " “decom- Bad Beef posed,” “injects ed,” “poisoned.” 4&——————— &4 ‘“‘spoiled” and the like, In addition he showed a summary of re- ports on rafrigerated beef condemned and thrown overboard from transports. C. C. Yeamans from the Yosemite rel;jorted the condemnation of 8000 pounds; Lleutenant Colonel O'Nell of the steamship Chester, 400) pounds; Colonel James Hamilton Lewis, 10,600 pounds. He said that he should fix September 21 (the date of Dr. Daly’s report) as about the earliest at which the question of chemically treated meat had been brought to his notice so as to command his full attention. Colonel Gillespie took a hand in the in- quiry when General Miles finished, de- seribing the nauseating qualities of the canned and refrigerated beef. “Did you, general, ever eat of this beef?” Colonel Gillesple asked. “I presume I did about the time we were at Ponce,” said General Miles, with some hesitation. “‘Yes, I rresume 1 did.” “Then,” said Colonel Gillespie, “it had not such characteristic qualities as would permit you to detect it offhand?”’ “No, sir.” General Miles then left the witness- stand and Lieutenant Colonel Evenhorne of the Thirteenth 4$————————64 Infantry was sworn. He said Canned Beef he was, at the outbreak of the war, major of the Lacked Tuenty - second : nfantry and was Nutriment. through the en- tire Cuban cam- paign. ‘Witness = said he had used all kinds, canned, corned, refrigerated and canned roast beef. He said the criti- cisms of the canned roast beef began early and were made often. It was ob- Jected to on the score of its lack of nutri- ment, its taste and its appearance. After the men got cooking utensils they stewed their canned beef. Before that they ate | it from the can. Either way of serving | it was bad enough, and, though none of it that witness remembered was actually spoiled, it was unpalatable and the ground of constant complaint. Witness did not recoilect that the large sick list of this regiment in Cuba had | been laid at the time to the canned meat. The men were very debilitated, but he could not say whether the meat ought to be blamed or not. When the refrigerator beef arrived a large part of it was spoil- ed and the men continued to use the | canned meat. The spoiled refrigerator beef was Jaid out on the hill for the buz- zards. Several issues were lost in this way. Witness had eaten some of the re- | frigerator beef which arrived in camp | untainted and found that good. The men ate it without complaint, and he had no | reason to believe it was any different | from the beef he had got at army posts in the States. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Minor of the | Sixth Infantry was the next witness, H: regiment was among the first to leave | Camp Thomas and to camp at Tampa. | They reached Cuba and disembarked on June 22. Canned roast beef was issued as a travel ration when they left Tampa and untl the end of the slege. It was re- placed with refrigerated beef after the surrender. Meantime, he said, absolutely | no other fresh meat could have been fur- | nished during the siege. Complaints against the canned beef be- | came general and marked about July 2. He said he was using it and when opened it was apparently fresh, but stringy and absolutely without nourishment, and when cut it fell to pleces. The men could not and did not eat it. “I believed then and I believe now,” he sald, “that that beef had been used for making beef extract and the nutriment taken out. It appeared to have been boiled to pieces.” Colonel Minor said he knew noth the method Of canned’ Deat. promrsnfion His regiment yas 4&——————————&4 in good condition §: i until about July Sick Soldiers 3, after which it deterlorated sud- " enly an ener- Did Not ally: Wh“i"’eg came weak an Want Meat. sick _the men did @& not want meat. +Oo——————— 4 Asked if dur- ing the siege he had made an effort to get other meat, he gaid he had not; that there was not apiece ¢ paper in the command and they merely wa?led for what was brought up from be- hind, a distance of about eleven miles. They had no discretion or choice in the matter of rations. Examined as to refrigerated beef he de-X clared it was excellent and Nflllsfflcta?r and no complaints about it were heard. | Only one cuarter was spoiled. He was | unable he said to detect any difference | between the refrigerated beef isued n Cuba and that which had been issued at the posts in this country at which he had been stationed. Major Henry Jackson, Third Cavalry, who was with his regiment throughout the Santiago cam]’mff‘r\. was called. He said his experience with the canned roast beef began aboard the transport en route for Cuba and continued until his return to Montauk. Complaints commenced on the way down and continued without in- termission. The men complained of the meat being stringy, tasteless and unpala- table. The officers had remarked the same thing to him and he agreed with them fully. Colonel Davis asked if witness had made apy effort to get different meat for his men. He replied that there was nothing to do but take what was issued. There was no requisition or other formality. All the rations that could be sent to the front with the limited transportation: facilities were sent. The men simply took what was sent them and officers and men fared allke. When the fresh or refrigerated beef began to arrive after the capture of Santiago it was issued to the nien. So far as witness observed it was good. or the American mail to the vast and growing interior will not move until after the ice does this winter or next. The system of letting contracts for de- livery of mail to Alaska ports and towns affords an excellent opportuntiy for fertility of thought and opportunity for improvement. The idea of Skaguay being annexed to and made British territory has sub- sided from a temporary paroxysm to a serene impossibility. The news of the exclusion act, which does not affect British Northwest Ter- ritory, had got down to Lake Lebarge about six days ago and will reach Daw- son in ten or fifteen days. Recording of claims, which stopped at Atlin during the last of January, has not been resumed, and things are still at a .standstill, although there is still considerable travel there and to Porcupine, in American territory. CLAUS SPRECKELS’ * GIFT TO APTOS Donates a Site for a School and Will Erect a Building Upon It. 20.—There is great rejoic- APTOS, Feb. [} © and that the revolution is ended. [ NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION AT AN END NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—A Mobile, Ala., special to the Herald says © From New Orleans comes the report of a cipher dispatch from Cape © Gracias saying Zelaya has granted the reforms demanded by Reyes, 000000000000 00C0000000000000000000 © o [ o [~} attend school. ceived that Claus Spredkels has donated a splendid site for a school and will erect a building upon it in keeplng with the growth of this wmmunllg. Mr. Spreckels learned that the building now in use was old and entirely inade- quate to supply the demands made upon it. In addition to this the site was not a desirable one for a place growing as ragidly as is this one. The trustees of the school learned of Mr. Spreckels’ benefi- cence to-day. He has already instructed Reid Brothers, the architects who - with the Canadian postal authorities|ing here to-day in the households where e- signed the tali Claus Spreckels bullding in’ San Francisco, to prepare plans for there are children of a suitable age to, the Information has been re- | appointments and will be a credit alike hool. It will be modern in all its 10 its donor and to those who will prepare for the great battle of life within ts walls. SR Fire at San Jose. SAN JOSE. Feb. 20.—This evening the buildings and contents at W. E. Jack- son's wood and coal yard on North Fourth street, near the railroad, were burned to the ground, and a cottage be- longing to A. Fatabini, adjoining, was slightly damaged. Total loss, cov- ered by insurance. ¥ TWENTY MILLIONS VOTED FOR SP@IN House Passes a Separate Bill to Carry Out Provisions of Peace Treaty. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—A separate bill appropriating $20,000,000 for payment to Spain under the provisions of the treaty of Paris was passed to-day by the House under suspension of the rules. No amend- ment was in order and an attempt to secure unanimous consent to offer an amendment declaratory of our policy not permanently to an- nex the islands, was objected to. Wheeler of Kentucky, upon whose point of order the appropriation went out of the sundry civil bill, made the only speech in open hostility to the measure, but upon the roll call thirty-four members—thirty-one Democrats, two Populists and one Silver Republican voted against it. The votes of 213 members v or it. \ver;hceasste:“e Dbill to reimburse the Governors of States for expenses paid by the States in organizing volunteers for service in thev war, which was paid before their muster into the service of the United States, was also passed under suspension of the rules. 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