The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1899, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL NDAY, MARCH 5, 1899 SILVELA HEADS NEW MINISTRY Statesmen Who Have Been Chosen to Guide the Destinies of Spain. T e R o e S s e e e aaaa as ] 5 N 3¢ @ + * 4 S + e | * + $ ¢ * 5 $ s + @ B e 11 4 | 4 4! + ol ¢ . . X 3 + 1 | ® { | | 36 | ® 7t . | P il * @ <© . . i L d o4t + L4 @ + + © & + . 9| ¢ 3 | X ¢+ )¢ ®| 1 & | . o o< 4l ps | PS d IS ®| & e O R e e e e e e e e e ] SENOR FRANCISCO SILVELA. —The new Cabinet took the oath of office to-day. The enor Silvela, Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mi er of the Interior. Minister of Fin: f Justice. inister of War. ublic Affairs and of the Colonies. of Marine. 1 Martinez de Campos will be President of the Senor Dato, Marquis Vil enor Duran, General Polievz Marquis Pidal, M Ad ara, It is expected that Gen Senate. o The brother of Marquis Pidal, it is thought, will be chosen as President of the Chamber of Deputie: | ast night when the formation it announced. Marseillaise” was sung and | there were cheers rty. | There was an immediate surrounding of Senor Silvela, who says his sole | jdea is to regenerate the country. He holds that the Queen Regent can rat- ify the treaty of peace with the United States without the vote of the Chambers and that, therefore, their dissolution need not defer the ratifica- tion. | ANAMIA ) HUDYAN CURES! 1s a disease met with among young women principally. It is very common and is a forerunner of consumption. It is a dise case of the blood. There is only a| small quantity of blood in the system and it is of a poor quality. The symptoms | o7 the Hisbate ave quite mumerous. They are readily Siscerned. Yt the progress of | the disea s not_checked death from consumption cr some other disease is in- | evitable. HUDYAN will check its progress. HUDYA 11l enrich the blood and : HUDYAN s | well as men. HUDYAN fs | able remedy and it is harmless in | It contains no iron to cause the ay. 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You may | tall \ipon ‘the doctors, or write, as you desire. Address HUDYAN REMEDY COMPANY, Corner Ellis and Market Streets, BAN FRANCISCO, CAla | by a snowstorm. | heav | dramati | privil | and that the President had made WAR CONGRESS DIES WITH CHEERS FOR ADMIRAL DEWEY Thrilling Close of the House’s Session. | ALL BILLS ARE DISPOSED OF JOE WHEELER TRIES IN VAIN TO MAKE A SPEECH. Then Follow the Resolution Thanks to Speaker Reed and Patriotic Songs, in Which All Join. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 4.—Wearily the Housé sat through the silent watches of the night, taking recess from time to time while awaiting con- ference reports upon the appropriation bills. The floor of the House was lit- tered with waste papers, which drifted ankle deep about the desks and made the hall look as if it had been swept Still the weary and eyed legislators kept to their posts through the night. The leaders, upon whom the strain and burden of the closing hours fell most heavily, and | the Speaker, who had the greatest re- sponsibility of all, remained constantly ! in their places watching vigilantly the progress of the contests between the two houses. The final agreement on the river and harbor bill, containing the compromise on the Nicaragua canal, was secured about 3:30 a. m., the sundry civil bill, in which the House forced the Senate to surrender the provision for the Pa- cific cable, about 6 o’clock; the District of Columbia bill, with the provision for | sectarian institutions eliminated, about 7 o’clock; the deficiency bill at 8:30, and the final conference report upon the | naval bill at about 9:30 a. m. Ahout 7 o'clock Henderson aroused the House by an glectric speech. It was one of the most eloquent of this Congress. The surroundings added impressivenes: to his utterances. The disheveled mem- bers and the wreckage of the night were about him. 1t was on the question of the District of sectars institutions_in | Columbia, provision for which had been stricksn out of the district appropriation | bill the were willing, ganization friendle. With foice and pathos he denounced bigotry of the conferees, who, he sal at the behest of a seer o turn the homele: to the streets. The s in the ex me when Henderson recalled the dark days of the war, when the white-capped sisters of me: were administering on the battlefield to the sick | and dying soldlers. With the advent of the day the House again took on the appearance of Members went below for hs and break: fast and returned refres to their sta he en the House took a recess completed w for an hour at 9:30. 0, when the House reconvened, the ere again packed to the doors, hall buzzed with the confused voices. o'clock the galleries and the assistant keeper, with a long pole, set back the hands ten minutes. This raised a loud laugh. Immediately afterward came a | most dramatic episode. General Wheeler of Alabama, who has carefully refrained from exercising his ge as a member of the House, pending the determination of the ques- tion as to his right to his seat in the House, arose from his old seat down near the front on the Democratic side loudly asked for recognition. * “Mr. Speaker!” he called. | . The Speaker's face was flushed slightly, | but he looked straight ahead as if he did not_hear. “I ask unanimous consent to speak for five minutes,” shouted the Speaker disregarded him. Bvery eye was now rfveted upon the diminutive fig- ure of the grizzled old veteran of v The situation was intensely dra- but Payne, the floor leader of the majority, hurried to the rescue. He moved a recess for ten minutes. “Pending_that I ask unanimous consent | to speak_for three minutes,” demanded General Wheeler. The Speaker then turned toward him for the first time, ard, looking straight into the gray eyes of the general, ig- nored completely, putting his request the motion of Payne and declaring it car- | ried. As the hands of the clock pointed to | i seven minutes to 12, although it was really three minutes past that hour, the com- mittee appointed to walit upon the Presi- dent marched down the aisle. The Speaker had retired to his room and Payne, the Speaker pro tem., was in the chair. Dalzell, in the center, announced that the committee had fulfilled its duty that he had no further communication to make. “The President requested us to state,” he continued, “that the Fifty-fifth Con- gress had performed its extraordinary du- tles manfully, and he requested me to ex- tend to each and every member his Hest wishes for his safe return to his home.” Great_applause greeted this announce- ment. But five minutes remained. In it was enacted one of the most dramatic scenes ever witnessed in the Hall of Rep- resentatives. Payne summoned Dockery of Missouri to the chair, and he in turn recognized Bailey, the minority leader in this Congress, to present the resolutions thanking the Speaker for the {mpartial manner in which he had presided over the | deliberations of the House. A great hush fell upon_the vast concourse in the gal- leries as Bailey began to speak. In his speech Balley said: “It is an ad- mirable trait of the American character and it is one which will tend to the per- | manence of our institutions, that no mat- ter how we may contend with each other over our differences of opinion each is always ready to accord to the other what- ever praise may be deserved. This com- mendable spirit has led some shallow men to criticize us because they could not comprehend how we could so Strenuously combat the principles of our adversaries and still respect those adversaries them- selves, These men do not know that a large majority of the men in every party of this colintry sincerely believe that a large majority of the men in every other party are earnestly anxious to promote our country’s welfare. (Applause) ~And it is out of this broader spirit that a cus- tom has grown which {s as old as the House itself, that in the closing hours of | every session there shall be offered a reso- lution like that which I now send to the clerk’s desk. The resolution was read as follows: “Resolved, That the thanks of the House are tendered to the Hon. Thomas B. Reed for the able, impartial and digni- fled manner in which he has presided over its deliberations and J)erform?d the ardu- ous and important duties of the chair- man.” The reading of the resolution was greet- ed with tumultuous applause. “Mr. Speaker,” continued Bailey, “‘we have not always agreed with the distin- guished occupant of the chair, and we have taken more than one occasion to emphasize our dissent, but, remembering the momentous questions which have con- fronted us in this Congress, and remem- bering, too, the Intense excitement which they aroused throughout the country as well as in this hall, the wonder is that those occasions were so few, and in this hour of impartial retrospect I do not hesi- tate to say that he has been as fair to us and our side as any one of us, were our positions reversed, would have been to of | life. | the people began | All that remained was | the enroliment of bills and the final cere- | door- | | ~ [When the review of the legislation of the [ | the general. But | two | reply | him and to his side.” (Loud applause.) The chair called for a rising vote. Every member was on his feet, and the resolu- | tion was unanimously agreed to, amid prolonged applause. Speaker Reed was escorted back to the chair. Slowly and with great deliberation he returned his thanks for the compli- ment the House had conferred upon him. Half a dozen times during the progress of his remarks the Speaker was obliged | to pause owing to the spontaneous ap- { plause which arose from all sides, and when he concluded with the announce- ment that the House stood adjourned sine die the applause and cheers wete deafen- ing, The galleries joined the outburst. Suddenly some members down near the | rostrum began singing, and above the din | arose the strains ot “My Country, "Tis of ee.” It was a scene to live a lifetime to wit- ness and a fitting and patriotic climax for the great war Congress. Down in front the gallant General Henderson, with his cane aloft, was beating time for the air, while all around on the floor and in | the galleries the inspiring words poured The emotional | out in immense volume. tarted “Auld sung with a will. Suddenly John Murray Mitchell waved aloft a small American flag and members nd galleries went wild, joining in singing The Red, White and Blue.” While the singing was in progress Hull of Hull bill fame jumped on a desk with a large red, white and blue streamer, waving it to the rhythm of the air and redoubling the tumuit. A voice from the gallery shouted, hree cheers for Dewey!” and they were given with vio- lence and explosive vigor. Then_ there were three cheers for the army and navy and finally for “Joe'” Wheeler. This won- derful demonstration concluded with the singing of the “Doxolog: MANY NOMINATIONS ARE NOT CONFIRMED | Among Them the Hawaiian Commis- sioners and Officers of the Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, March 4—The Senate spent an hour in executive session to-day and disposed of a large number of nom- inations. Senator Pritchard made an at- tempt to get a vote on the nomination of Hamilton G. Ewart to be District Judge for the Bastern District of North Caro- | lina, but Senator Butler talked out the time until the doors were again. opened. Confirmations: Harry L. Rees of Ore- gon, paymaster in the army with the rank of major. 2 Oregon—C. D. Harmon Pass; R. R. Riddeil, The Dalles. ia—Asa Crocker, Suisun. Edwin Jones of Ottumwa, lowa, {0 be a commissioner to examine and classify land within the land grant limits of the | Northern Pacific Rallroad Company in | the Helena (Mont.) district. Among the most important nominations ‘thnt failed of confirmation are the fol- ‘IOWH]F{: | Senators Morgan and Cullom, Repr | sentative Hitt, Sanford B. Dole and Wal- | ter F. Frear: to be Hawalian Ci sioners; Martin J. Carter of Pe to be Consul at St. John, N. ¥ advancement for conscientiou battle sent in with the Sch son n inations; H. G. E { Carolina, to be United Stal | Judge, Eastern District of North ina. Indian nsylvania, the naval conduct in and Samp- f N ‘W. Hayslette of s Navajo agency, in N 3.0 es of Wichita & Fort Apache agency, Ariz.; C. S. ichols of Momence, Ill., Colorado xico; er agency, Ariz.; F. B. Spriggs of | Y., Nevada agency, Nev.; A. A. Armstrong of Arizona, Fort Apache agency. Samuel J. Barrows of Massachusetts, to i | be Librarian of Congress; M. A. Daugh- erty, to be Receiver of Public Money at ydney, Nebr.; George W. Garrett of Ar , to be Commissioner to examine land within_the land grant Northern Pacific Railroad soula land district in Mon- | _Postmasters: Utah—C. M. Ogden. All of the army brevet nominations sent to the Senate were not confirmed. These include men nominated for gallant action in the Spanish An and classify | limits of the Company, M | tana. Meigham, - | IMPORTANT BILLS | ARE FINALLY PASSED Legislation Accomplished by Con- gress During the Closing Hours of the Session. WASHINGTON, March 4.—Several im- portant bills of general legislation pending past Congress was made by the Asso- ciajed Press a week ago have become laws since the summary was published The most important of these are the army reorganization bill, the navy personnel | bill, the bill providing a code of laws for | Alaska, the omnibus claims bill and nu- merous important public building bills. | The project for the construction of a | canal across the isthmus of Nicaragua made progress to the extent that a pro- vision was attached to the river and har- bor appropriation, providing for a very complete inquiry into the matter. The addition of a_provision to the army ap- propriation bill forbidding the grant of property franchises in Cuba was also an | important legislative act. i ‘Among the important projects which falled to receive favorable attention in the osing days were those providing a Pa- cific cable, for a Government armor plant, for an anti-scalping law, for an eight-hour law and for a Government for Hawaii. The navy personnel bill completely re- organizes the navy, and is the consumma- tion of years of earnest effort by the Navy Tepartment. The original army bill was intended to meet the same want for the army supplied to the navy by the per- sonnel biil, but it failed, and the present { bill is considered defective in that it is | only a temporary measure. It, however, | increases the army to 100,000 men and pro- vides for the retention of this number until 1901, The omnibus claims bill pro- Vides for the settlement of several hun- dred claims, some of which are almost a hundred years old. The Alaskan code also meets a long-felt want in supplying a system of laws to this Northwest Ter- ritory. [LEQ’S CONDITION CONTINUES TO IMPROVE The Pope Has a Good Appetite and Danger Is Regarded as Past. ROME, March 4—The Pope sat in an armchair from noon until 3 o'clock. | He continues to improve, and has a good appetite, and danger is regarded as past. The Pope’s condition at 9 o'clock this evening is satisfactory. To-day he told Mgr. Angeli that he had read a collection of newspaper articles on his | fllness and was pleased to find that all spoke respectfully of him. = CELERY CROP CORNERED. | California Combine Controls the En- tire American Product. SANTA ANA, March 4.—It developed here to-day that D. E. Smeltzer, the cel- ery king in the Eeaflsnds near here, to- gether with the Earl Fruit Company and others associated with them, has nered” practically all the celery in the United States. This combine has quietly bought_all the available celery in Mich- igan, Nebraska and at Rochester, N. Y., and already has control of the California product. The last shipment of California celery, twenty-five cars, left here to-day for the East. The Mlchifinn crop is al- | ready in and only small shipments remain in Nebraska and Rochester. e pb Sacramento’s Protest. SACRAMENTO, March 4—The Cham- ber of Commerce to-night took strong ac- | tion agminst that portion of the county government bill which grovldes extra dep- uties for several of the county officers. A stiff protest was addressed to the local members of the Legislature. —_————————— Advances made on furniture and pianos, with | or without removal, J. Noonas, 1017-1023 Mission. FORMAL CLOSE OF THE SENATE Disposes of Deficiemcyj and Naval Bill. f CONCESSIONS TO THE HOUSE POINTS YIELDED IN ORDER TO SECURE LEGISLATION. { Most Important Measure Left in the | Air Is That Relating to Immi- | gration Laws for | Hawaii. | | Special Dispatch to The Call, WASHINGTON, March 4. — Vice i President Hobart declared the Senate | of the Fifty-fifth Congress adjourned | without day eight minutes after 12 o'clock to-day. It was after a contin- | uous session, beginning at 11 o’clock on | Friday, with the exception of one hour recess during the forenoon. The day of final adjournment broke with the Senate in executive session, disposing of a large number of nomi- nations. When the doors were opened | there was seen but a handful of tired | and haggard looking Senators who were | waiting for the final reports from the conferees on the two bills yet in dis- | pute. Finally Hale appeared with both. | The deficiency bill was quickly passed, and then came the final and closing fight on the naval bill and the price of armor plate and for an armor plate factory. This was finally over and the weary Senators took a short rest. Upon reassembling the Senate took on a new appearance. The chamber had been cleaned up and the Senators came back to the closing m.eeting with a more spruce appearance. Some few | attempts at legislation were made, but all were unsuccess: Then the gal leries filled with g: ssed visitor who were there to see the final cere- | monies. They were not long permitted to enjoy themselves as an executive | session drove them into the corridors, ! where they patient waited for the doors to be opened. When this was done only five minutes remained of the Con- gress, but the hands of the clock were turned back ten minutes to give time for the usual complimentary resolutions and the add of the Vice President. President McKinley and his entire Cabinet had come to the Capitol and were in the President’s room back of the Senate chamber, where the various | bills were hurried fo gnature. Finally the last big appropriation bill had re- ceived the President's approval and everything was ready for the close. The | resolution thanking Vice President Ho- bart and President pro tem. Frye was adopted and the Vice President re- sponded in an appropriate address and | the Senate, which had been in a tur- moil for several days, quietly came to an end. | At 8 o'clock the Senate resumed busi- in legislative s, Soon after- i Hale of Maine pr report on the general , and it was agreed to w At 8:30 a. m. Hale pr. ference report on the naval bill, a W submitted to the Senate. Ha that perhaps there was never an appro- | priation bill concerning which the action | of the conferees was beset with more | difficuities than this bill. He am\num:ed; deficienc: that the House had refused absolutely to authorize the construction of a Govern- ment armor plate factory. Hale explained that the report of the conference commit- | tee fixed the price of armor for the ships authorized by this bill at $300 a ton, no | contract for the hulls to be made until contracts_had been made for the armor. | The number of battle-ships, armored and | rotected cruisers, remain as fixed in the House bill. The Secretary of the Navy | is authorized to contract for armor for the ships provided for in the naval appropria- | | tion bill of 1898 at $400 a ton. | Butler asked: “Will we conclude any | contracts for new war vessels under the pending bill if it becomes a law?” | Hale replied: “No, I think not. I be- lieve we shall do no more than get out the plans and specifications for the au- | thorized ships and decide about turrets and the like. Of course, the Senate con- ferees had to yield something.” “But we seem to have vielded every- thing and the House nothing,” said Tiil- man. confere cannot settle e Senate this controversy alone,” said Hale. “But the Senate can,’ responded Till- | man. “We can place on the House the | responsibility of an extra session. I was | never strongly tempted to say, ‘This bill | shall not pass and become a law,’ but I | have assurances from gentlemen ‘on_this iide of the chamber’'—waving his hand | toward the Republican side—'‘that they will help us out at the next session, and | I am willing to accept those assurances.” | The conference report was finally agreed | to without division. This was the last of | the conference agreements on the appro- | priation bills to be acted on by the Senate, | and its acceptance caused a general sigh | of relief. | A recess untll 10:30 o'clock was then or- dered. At 10 o’clock President McKinley and his entire Cabinet came to the President’s | room In the Senate wing of the Capitol, where the many bills which had been | passed were presented to the President for signature. He had little time to give consideration to the different measures. The President signed all the appropria- tion bills, with the exception of the Dis- | trict of Columbia. He signed the omnibus claims bill. When the Senate reconvened at 10:30 o'clock the Senate chamber had been “spruced up,’ and appeared quite tidy. The galleries were crowded. On motion of Mason, the printing of the | testimony taken in the investigation of | the Bureau of Engraving and Printing | was ordered. | Fairbanks moved the consideration of | the bill extending the Immigration laws | to the Hawalian Islands. Pettus objected | on behalf of his colleague, Morgan. The | bill, however, was taken up, and Petti- | grew spoke upon it. He asserted that since the annexation of the islands 10,000 Astatic slave laborers had been imported. | Perkins also urged action at the present | session, declaring that the contract labor- | ers in Hawail were secured at one-third the cost of labor to the sugar makers of California_or Louisiana. Without action & motlon by Morgan to go into executive sesslon was_carried—ayes 32, noes 22—and | the crowded gallerfes were soon vacated to permit the last executive work of the Congress. At 11:45 o'clock the doors of the Senate | were opened and the Senate began the | final legislative session of the present | Congress. Hoar reported that the committee had | waited on the President of the United | States and had been instructed by him that he had disposed of the public busi- | ness which had been laid before him by the two houses, and that he had no fur- ther communications to make: that the two houses had reached the end of a very laborious_and important session and that he wished thelr members a safe return to | g " President Honart th vice Presiden! obar en addresse the Senate, at the close of which he d(E clared the.Senate adjourned without da: There was general handshaking among | the Senators, and NUMErous expressions of regret were heard that many whose terms expired to-day were not to be here | when the Senate met again. Preparations | were everywhere observed for departure. many Senators intending to leave for their | homes at once. | | T am confident no member of the House | would have objected. 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Special value at : C = a pair Children's imported fast black cotton ribbed Hose, high spliced heels and oes; extra quality; size 4 to §%; regular value 30c; for this week only. C ,py Latestand prettiest pat- Embroidery 13555 1 P Embroiders Sal Edgings, in great vari- ale. ety of designs; will be sold in their original lengths of 4l%-yard strips only at §0c, 50c, 3¢, 25c, 20c..a strip c W DISPLAY. COUNTRY ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. I38-125 PoST S2g WHKT WHEELER | WISHED T0 A Speech Which Speaker Reed Prevented. “FIGHTING JOE’S” TWO JOBS| GENERAL WANTED TO EXPLAIN | HIS POSITION. Believed the Constitution Accorded Him the Right to Sit in Con- gress and Be an Army ufficer Also. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 4—With ref- erence to his attempt to-day to secure recognition for the purpose of address- | ing the House, General Wheeler said to-night: | “Seeing there was nothing to be done i in the House, I asked unanimous con- sent to speak for five minutes. I was not recognized, but Mr. Payne was no- tified to move for a recess for five min- utes. I then asked that before that motion was put I be permitted to ad- dress the House for three minutes. If the Speaker had submitted my request | to say was as follows: “‘No one reveres the constitution more than myself and I could not be induced to advocate a construction con- trary to the intent of its framers. “‘When I received the appointment as major general of volunteers last | May I was requested by persons whose desires I could not disregard not to | resign my seat in Congress. I found | that during the present Congress | thirty-three of its members had been | appointed to offices and that ncne of | them had resigned their seats in Con- | gress. 1 examined.the decisions and | precedents on the subject and found | that during the 110 years of the exist- | ence of our Government hundreds and | possibly thousands of members of Con- gress had accepted offices during their terms and-that none of them holding temporary offices like mine had ever been unseated. I found that the decis- | ions of courts, even including four de- | cislons quoted by General Henderson in | his report, took the ground that inhibi. tlons found in constitutions with regaré | to officers referred to offices of a perma. nent character and not of a temporacy character. I alsc found that the At’-’ the Uni: S had rendered an elaborate é;?nl::lat:: the subject, in which he took precisely the same ground and held that an offic in the volunteers was not such an oie by the constitu- tion. “ ‘T was anxious for the matte brought up in the House and iu]riyk:il‘;? With the spirit of the constitution.’ * LE BRETON DIVORGED, Wife of Lillian Langtry’s Brother Proved Unfaithful, LONDON, March 4—P. M. Le Breton brother of Mrs, Li] s. Lily Langtry, the obtained a decree of nisi in the T:i'v?r?; $1.00 court to-day, owing to his wife's miscon- duct with Lord Grantley, who was mulct- ed In cos The two were married in 1877. Lord Grantley had been an intimate friend of the family for vears past. Lord Grantley's wife was Miss Katherine Mc- Vickar, daughter of William H. McVickar of Chicago. She died In 18%7. The tate of Lord Grantley in Yorkshire cov- ers about 4500 acres. Mr. Le Breton and Grantley werealmost like two brothers, visiting each other and going about constantly together. Mr. Le Breton testified that he did not suspect anything untll last autumn, when hs found the couple had been at various London hotels as Mr. and Mrs. Gray. The suit was not defended. Cutting Transatlantic Fares. NEW YORK, March 4—The Allan Lins | of steamers has met the cut of the other trans-Atlantic lines by cutting its rate to $45 for first cabin and $30_for second cabin. At the office of the French line the announcement was made that the first cabin rate was reduced from $65 to $55 and the summer schedule from $390 to $65 for first cabin. ADVERTISEMENTS. Special Prices on Opera Gloves. $2.50 12-button gloves for $3.00 16-button length gloves for. i 51.25 $3.50 20-button I h gloves for o 5“5 $4.00 and $5.00 24 and 30 sl 15 button gloves. These greatly reduced prices are on gloves of fine quality Suede, in all colors. 800 MARKET ST., Corner Grant Avenue. 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