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| Grover. Cleveland. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Tuesday,
April 7, 1896.
AWAITS THE PRESIDENT.
The Cuban
Resolution Now In His Hands.
GREAT
EXCITEMENT IN SPAIN.
Dispatches From Madrid Indicate
That Action by the President Favoring
Cuba Would Result in a Serious Rupture
With That Country.
WASHINGTON,
April 7.—Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister here, was too busy to
receive reporters wishing to ascertain what he proposed to do as a result of
the action of the house in adopting the conference report upon the Cuban
resolutions. Probably his course will depend entirely upon the attitude to be
assumed by the president toward the subject.
The course
of the latter is purely a matter of speculation. Since the transmission to congress
last February of the correspondence relative to Cuba, much matter has
accumulated at the state department bearing on the later phases of the
struggles.
For
prudential reasons these reports have been withheld even from congress, and so
it is not possible to learn whether or not the state of facts as set out
therein is such as to warrant any change in the attitude toward the revolution
the president assumed and defined in his annual message to congress.
The tests
he laid down in the beginning, which the revolutionists must fulfill, remain
unchanged so far as can be gathered. Relative to the extension of his good
offices toward bringing about independence, it is entirely possible that the
president may find it within his inclination and disposition to move in that
direction as far as he can safely.
CUBAN QUESTION SETTLED.
House Adopts the Conference
Report on the Resolutions.
WASHINGTON,
April 7.—The house adopted the conference report on the Cuban resolutions by a
vote of 244 to 27 and passed the river and harbor bill under the suspension of
the rules after a lively debate of 40 minutes by a vote of 216 to 40.
The report
on the Cuban resolutions had been debated Friday and Saturday and the vote was
taken immediately after the reading of the journal. Eighteen Republicans and
nine Democrats voted against the report.
After the
most determined opposition of those opposed to the recognition of the
insurgents in the senate and house there were but 10 more votes against the
report than against the original resolutions. The former vote was 262 to 17. By
this action the house agreed to the senate resolutions and disposes of the
Cuban question for the present.
Those
resolutions were as follows:
Resolved,
That in the opinion of congress a condition of public war exists between the
government of Spain and the government proclaimed
and for some time maintained by force of arms by the
people of Cuba, and that the United States should maintain a strict neutrality
between the contending powers, according to each all the rights of belligerents
in the ports and territory of the United States.
Resolved,
further, that the friendly offices of the United States should be offered by
the president to the Spanish government for the recognition of the independence
of Cuba.
The river
and harbor bill passed, carrying, in actual appropriations, $10,330,560, and
authorizes contracts for 32 new projects, with a limit of cost of $51,731,810.
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| Gen. Valeriano Weyler. |
Spaniards Greatly Wrought Up.
LONDON,
April 7.—A dispatch from Madrid says: "The hope that General Weyler would
obtain some decisive advantage over the rebels before the final vote of the
American congress must now be abandoned. It is quite certain, however, that the
Spanish nation will unhesitatingly refuse to accept the United States'
dictation, and no matter how far public opinion favors such reforms in Cuba as
would put on end to the rebellion, while the United States maintains its
present attitude no Spaniard will be found to venture to utter such an opinion.
Even the Republicans would only ask for Cuban autonomy in altered
circumstances.
"It is
an open secret that the Liberal leaders would consent to such radical reforms as
would amount to autonomy if the United States abandoned its present policy.
Senor Castellar would consent to the fullest concessions provided Spain's sovereign
rights were secured.
"Experienced statesmen and politicians cannot fail to recognize
that, with the exception of the Catalans, to whom the Cuban protective tariff
secures enormous trade and profits, the Spaniards as a nation obtain little or
nothing from the island. Had a tariff reduction been granted the rebellion,
probably losing American support, would have suffered a mortal blow."
England Says Make Concessions.
LONDON,
April 7.—The Globe commenting on the passage of the Cuban resolutions by the
United States house of representatives says: We foresee the gravest mischief if
President Cleveland attempts to bully Spain. Nevertheless, the situation in
Cuba is desperate. If the war continues much longer the island will be ruined
beyond redemption. The Madrid government should immediately give serious
consideration to the question of making concession to the Cubans, despite the
loss of national prestige involved.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
International Olympic Games.
For one
attracted to physical sport and development nothing in years has been so
interesting as the resurrected Olympic games, so called. It is true that the
first revival of these will not be played on the field of Olympia. The Olympic
stadion is now buried 10 to 13 feet underground. Besides, the site is too far
from Athens for passengers and food to be transported thither. The Olympic
games of 1896 will take place in the restored stadion at Athens.
The
International Athletic association resolved in 1895 to hold a series of
competitive games or physical contests once every four years, each time in a
different country. They naturally chose Greece as the country for the inauguration
of the great quadrennial contests. In 1900 the games will be played in Paris,
in 1904 in America.
While the
name "Olympic games" is chosen for these contests there is really much
difference between them and the athletic exercises of the time when Greece was in her glory. Boxing was one of the favorite
old Olympic amusements. It is ruled out of the modern athletic public contests
because professional prize fighters and gamblers have dragged it in the dirt.
Then there is the bicycle race. If such a thing were possible, it would make an
ancient Greek athlete rise from his ashes to witness the flying speed of that
thing moderns call the bicycle. And it is enough to make a modern pity the
ancient Greek athlete, even with all his splendid beauty and strength, to remember
that he never had a ride on a bicycle.
The
international games at Athens will begin April 5 and continue till
April 15. The stadion, or circus track, where the
contests will be held, is in shape like a long, slim horseshoe and in
arrangement of its seats something like the "grand stand" of an
American country fairground. The spectators sit in the tiers of seats and look
down upon the games. But the seats and surroundings are much more splendid than
those of any American fairground ever were. A mountain of marble was said to be
used up in the construction of the ancient stadion. The very seats were of
marble. The restored stadion will not be so splendid. Greece is not now rich
enough to make it so.
We may hope
that the eight American boys, four from Princeton college and four from the Boston
Athletic association, who have sailed over seas to Greece to contest in the
running and jumping games will not be buried entirely out of sight.
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| American E. J. Pennington and his motor cycle. |
A curious
invention, which has in it possibilities of great usefulness, has been brought
to this country from Bavaria. It is a bicycle propelled by gasoline. As
manufactured originally, and at present in use, it is susceptible of great
improvement. For instance, it is too heavy and too expensive for this country.
It weighs 120 pounds and costs $400. Some ingenious American should take up the
idea of propelling a bicycle by successive and instantaneous gasoline
explosions and construct a light and easy running machine. There is no patent
on the use of gasoline as a fuel.
In the
Bavarian bicycle the gasoline explosions work back and forth two piston rods
connected with the rear wheel. The gasoline is supplied by vapor lamps. This
machine, it is claimed, will travel 60 miles an hour at its highest speed.
Ordinary travel will be from 25 up to 40 miles an hour. The rider has only to
sit still and be propelled.
The point
of interest especially attractive in connection with this gasoline bicycle is
its adaptability to business purposes. It may be utilized as a delivery wagon
for all light parcels. Relieved of the pedaling, the rider can without fatigue
take with him light merchandise or a traveling outfit. The true cycler will of
course always prefer the muscles of his own good lower limbs as a motive power—that
is, when he rides for pleasure and exercise. But for business, let us have the
gasoline cycle.
Statue of Robert Morris.
WASHINGTON,
April 7.—The house library committee has agreed to report favorably a bill
appropriating $20,000 for the erection of a statue of Robert Morris at Batavia,
N. Y.
He Surely Will Be Missed.
Mr. R. G.
Lewis, who for over twelve years has been in the flour and feed business in the
Squires building, has closed out his stock and has discontinued the retail
trade. He will occasionally sell a carload of feed and will this summer make a
specialty of the sale of farming implements, a line of trade which he has
heretofore carried on as an aside. His place of business will be at his home, 9
Prospect-st.
It will
seem strange enough to The STANDARD not to have "Dick" for a neighbor.
Throughout all these years his still small voice has regularly been heard
whispering to us from across the street if there was anything a little
irregular about the weather. He was always the one to call the village board of
trustees to task when a heavy rain or gutters clogged up [and] made a lake of this corner.
Frequently with rubber boots on he has been the leader of the street cleaning
gang in times of high water. He was always jolly and he surely will be missed.
VILLAGE
TRUSTEES.
S. S. STEARNS IS AGAIN STREET COMMISSIONER.
Fred Hatch Reappointed Clerk—The
Police Justice's Office—New Hats For Policemen.
The board
of village trustees held a long session last night and transacted considerable
business. A representative of the Gutta-percha Rubber Co. was present and
endeavored to interest the board in the purchase of new hose. The board did not
think it quite time to purchase hose and appointed Trustees Webb and Glann a
committee to confer with the chief of the fire department, inspect the hose of
the department and report at the next meeting the quantity of new hose needed.
Bills were
audited as follows:
Street
commissioner's pay roll, $190.05
Police
force, $152.25
W. J.
Moore, health officer, $9.00
Martin
& Call, coal, $14.25
F. A.
Bickford, salary, $25.00
H. M.
Kellogg, supplies, $2.43
Dr. F. D.
Reese, examination, $10.00
E. A.
McGraw, services, $2.00
Mrs. Jane
Pope, rent of barn, $10.00
Telephone,
police office, $9.00
Interest on
Normal school bonds, $380.00
Fred Hatch,
salary as clerk to April 1, $100.00
Homer &
Cortland Gas Co., $14.76
The
resignation of George C. Hubbard from the board of health was received and
accepted. Edwin Duffey was elected to fill vacancy.
John
Courtney, Jr., appeared before the board and asked the board to refund taxes to
A. W. Maritt. No action was taken.
Police
Justice E. E. Mellon came before the board and requested the board to designate
his present law office as the police justice's office and to put in a telephone.
He said that in case this was done the village would not be asked to pay the office
rent, he would go to Fireman's hall each morning to look after business and
would go there for the trial of cases. His objection to Fireman's hall was that
it had come to be a congregating place for several persons who sit there and
smoke and that it was an offensive place for ladies to enter to consult the
police justice or to lay information before him for the arrest of parties. He
wanted a place where ladies might come and not be compelled to face a cloud of
tobacco smoke or the scrutiny of a lot of "sitters." The board took
no action in the matter, but it will probably come up at the next meeting.
The board
then proceeded to ballot for street commissioner by informal ballet with the
following result:
Whole
number, 4
S. S.
Stearns, 3
Patrick
Dowd, 1
A formal
ballot was taken with the same result and Mr. Stearns was declared duly
elected.
The
question of procuring new hats for the police for summer wear was brought up
and Mr. Glann was appointed a committee to procure them.
An
application from B. H. Bosworth for a license to conduct a night lunch wagon
for one year from October 1 next was received and placed on file.
Applications of W. B. Landreth and Col. Frank Place to do engineering
for the village were placed on file.
Mr. Hatch
was re-elected clerk for the ensuing year at a salary of $350 and the board
adjourned to April 20.
A FREE BED
Endowed at the Cortland Hospital
by Mrs. Julia E. Hyatt.
Mrs. Julia
E. Hyatt has offered to endow a free bed at the Cortland hospital as a memorial
of her husband who was deeply interested in the welfare of that institution,
and the offer has been gladly accepted by the board of managers. Her offer to the association is as follows:
To the
Board of Managers of the Cortland Hospital:
It has been
said "It is better to evolve a living monument from the daily blessings of
sufferers relieved than to pile lofty mounds of stone 'where proud monuments
shine,' the very names on which will soon be forgotten echoes.'"
It is my
desire to construct such a "living monument" by the endowment of a
free bed in our hospital as a loving memorial to one whose tender sympathy with
all suffering led him to take a deep and especial interest in hospital work.
Should this
proposition meet with your approval I will arrange with the treasurer for the
payment of the sum prescribed by our constitution for the endowing of such a
bed.
Yours very
sincerely
JULIA E.
HYATT.
Cortland,
N. Y., April 6, 1896.
BREVITIES.
—C. W.
Stoker's grocery store connected with the telephone exchange to-day.
—The
regular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. membership committee will be held to-night
at 8 o'clock.
—A tramp
giving his name as James Coleman of Madrid, N. Y., stopped at the police
station over night.
—John H.
Day is making a change in the location of partitions in his restaurant so as to
make the kitchen larger.
—The
Epworth league of the Homer-ave. M. E. church will serve maple sugar in the
church to-morrow evening from 6 to 9 o'clock.
—Mr. John
C. Seaman is giving his barber shop a thorough renovation. It will be repapered
and repainted and gas fixtures will be put in.
—The
Woman's Christian Temperance union appeal to all lovers of the Lord's day to
unite with them in a union meeting to be held at W. C. T. U. rooms on Wednesday
evening at 7:30.
—The Ladles
Thimble Bee club of Cortland yesterday presented to the hospital a large
handsome library table. They also presented the Old Ladies Home at Homer with a
polished oak rocker.
—About
fifty Cortland people were in Homer last night at the surprise given Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Williams. They went on the 5:30 car and returned early in the
evening, all having had a pleasant time.
ON THE ALERT.
Stock in Freetown Receives the
Attention of the S. P. C. A.
The Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is giving its attention to stock in
all parts of the county. Yesterday Officer Edwards of the society was in
Freetown and in conversation with a STANDARD reporter this morning regarding
the trip said that he was in a country where one could slide from the snowbanks
to the roofs of barns or houses. This revelation was a stunner to the reporter,
but he rallied and listened to what the officer had to say more seriously
concerning the trip.
"Why,"
said he "I was at one place where there were twenty-one cows so poor that
you could almost read print through them. There were seven horses in a terrible
condition. Three pigs were confined in a small ramshackle pen and had no more
of a bed to lie on than can be found in the street." He said he took the owner
of this property to the pig pen and then and there made him own up that it was
cruelty to animals. Officer Edwards gave him some good advice about the care of
his stock or the society might cause him some trouble.
Three other farms in that locality were
visited and the owners cautioned about taking better care of their stock.
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