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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1899
Page
3
Manila reporters describe a night of terror as rebels set fires across the city. Insurgents burned brick blocks in Calle ta and Santa Cruz, while natives fled and soldiers used force to restore order. A second blaze struck Tondo as fire crews fought back.
Four Negros Island commissioners meet with Otis and report the American flag is raised on Negros. Inhabitants are ready to accept guidance and reject payments to rebels. Otis promises an acceptable government and urges no payment for now. Separate items note Lt Col Fife acquitted at Manila court martial and other dispatches from Colorado, Mexico, and Tacoma.
The House, at 1:45 PM, resumed naval appropriations debate and sustained a $4,000,000 armor plant amendment dispute. An amendment set armor plate at 445 per ton. Separate votes on naval academy and armor plate amendments passed 89 to 70 and 180 to 58 respectively.
In a senate session a bill allowing volunteer regiments to keep their colors and deposit them in state capitals passed. A separate bill for erecting fences and buildings at Tongue River Indian Agency also passed. The river and harbor bill was then taken up and laid aside after 88 pages. executive session followed and the Alaska bill resumed with no further business to be transacted.
The Oregon arrived February 6 after Callao, anchored off Honolulu for two to three weeks. Honolulu iron works will perform repairs taking about ten days, while the Iris and Scindia proceed to join and supply the Oregon en route to Manila.
The late President Faure was laid to rest at Pere la Chaise with military honors. Officials from France and foreign missions attended the Notre Dame ceremony. Procession through streets was orderly amid thousands of spectators and shouts of Vive la France.
The administration and minority in Congress reach a compromise on the army reorganization bill. A 100000 strong force with 85000 in the provisional army is pledged to serve until 1901. The president meets with Senators Allison Hawley Platt Hanna Spooner and Carter on the accord.
The senate approved Senate Bill 96 funding state judgment payments and county costs and Senate Bill 5S on leasing state lands. New measures include a revenue commission act, a constitutional amendment on alien settlers, and renaming the agricultural college to Washington State College of Agriculture and Science becoming Washington school of technology, plus pharmacy and water protection proposals. A fish hatchery purchase discussion could add 5000 to 6000 dollars to the hatchery fund.
In the Washington house the barbers bill was indefinitely postponed by 385 to 27. Senate concurrent resolution No. 9 to appoint two citizens from Washington and Oregon to form a boundary commission for the Lower Columbia River was concurred in. Several measures were indefinitely postponed including interest rate, county boundary transfers, biennial reports, and insurance regulation. The house moved to second reading. a factory and mill safety bill sparked lengthy discussion and was killed.
In the Washington senate Friday an hour was spent listening to committee reports on house and senate bills. The freight rate bill was discussed at some length. Bills introduced include liens on boats for Seattle International, capitol building site naming Robert Bridges and others, guardianship loan authority, patent medicine labeling, state land board, Omaha exhibit expenses, and an $83,000 relief for F H Goss of Tacoma. Senate bill funds deficiencies in salaries of Alling, Bashford and Price and Millers water pollution bill aims to protect water supplies from grazing near sources.
In session Friday the house limited debate speeches to five minutes and barred explanations of votes during roll calls. New measures cover service of process, homesteads, mining claim possession, criminal slander, aiding poor plaintiffs, state fiscal affairs, and tide lands. A finance board would monthly estimate deficits and issue warrants up to 6 percent interest, with $83,000 awarded to F H Goss for a capitol contract failure.
Washington lawmakers returned from a trip to Walla Walla and moved a bill to appropriate 166000 for dormitories at the state university a kitchen at the penitentiary and a dormitory and biological laboratory at the agricultural college. The senate passed the measure and Governor Rogers signed concurrent resolution seven on electing U S senators by popular vote. New bills were introduced including homestead act amendments foreign corporations banks and an emergency financial act. Senate bill one hundred eight on reforming state prisoners passed but its emergency clause failed prompting reconsideration. The bill would permit parole of convicts after one year if never imprisoned before and not serving a life sentence with parolee free to move with gubernatorial approval.
In the house on Monday a Seattle chamber of commerce petition asked for remission of penalties and interest on delinquent taxes if paid in 1899. Citizens of Cowlitz county urged an appropriation to protect property along the Lewis and Cowlitz rivers. New house bills cover judgments duration, a 1 187 410 appropriation, log and timber booms, mining claim protest protection, mining taxation, probate practice, Baker Lake fish hatchery transfer to the U S, venue changes, animal killings, abandoned and abused animals, and care liens on expenses.
In the Senate cap itol bills face final passage as the capitol building measure passes 31 to 2 and is sent to the House and governor. The appropriations committee omits state printing funds, citing open questions on printing reform, while multiple Senate bills address militia, rivers, banks, town boundaries, and road funds.
A roundup reports purchases of revenue stamps by Continental Tobacco in Louisville, colonial moves in Oman and France, a Manila skirmish with 15 insurgent deaths, oaths taken by Ethan Allen Hitchcock as interior secretary, a proposed cable to Hawaii and the Philippines, and various accidents and political notes from the Americas Europe and Alaska.
The Washington House approved measures repealing tenancy termination acts regulating bicycle and tricycle use in cities and declaring emergencies. The package also changes city name procedures, pardons, food fish protection, civil actions rules, negotiable paper, mortgage assignments, bail and sureties, garnishments, removal of improvements from mortgaged property, personal property disposition, and bonds of prosecuting attorneys.
Mrs Zachariah Chandler widow of the Michigan statesman is dead at her Detroit home. During Senator Chandler's Washington career she was noted as a social entertainer. Omaha Bee correspondence reports winter wheat crop damage from recent cold snaps across Northern Nebraska impacting yields.
Rudyard Kipling is reported near death at a New York hotel. Fort Worth reports a meningitis surge with thirty deaths in a week. European troops reportedly land at Mas aila while Washington disputes the claim. Pierpont Morgan funds St Paul's cathedral lighting around $25,000.
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