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| Joseph Roswell Hawley. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Friday, May 21, 1897.
BELLIGERENT SENATE.
War Declared to Exist In the Island of Cuba
BY DECISIVE VOTE OF 41 TO 14.
Announcement
of the Vote Received With Tumultuous Applause—United States Will Maintain
Strict Neutrality—Vote Preceded by Exciting Debate.
WASHINGTON, May 21.—The long and exciting
debate on the joint resolution recognizing the existence of a state of war in Cuba
and declaring that strict neutrality shall be maintained by the United States passed
the senate by the decisive vote of 41 to 14.
The announcement of the vote was received
with tumultuous applause which drew from Senator Hawley an emphatic protest
against "mob demonstration."
The resolution as passed is as follows:
Resolved, That 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 of America shall maintain a strict
neutrality between the contending parties, according to each all the rights of belligerents
in the ports and territory of the United States.
An analysis of the vote shows that the affirmative
was cast by 18 Republicans, 19 Democrats and 4 Populists, and the negative by
12 Republicans and 2 Democrats.
Prior to the final vote the motion of Senator
Hale to refer the resolution to the committee on foreign relations was tabled yeas,
43; nays, 19.
Mr. Fairbanks of Indiana then proposed a
substitute, providing that the president extend the good offices of the United States
to Spain toward securing an end to the conflict and the ultimate independence
of the island. This, too, was tabled, yeas, 35; nays, 15. Then followed the
adoption of the original resolution.
The voting occurred after an exciting debate
participated in by Senators Thurston, Elkins, White, Fairbanks, Hale Spooner
and Gorman.
Mr. Thurston, who presided over the Republican
National convention at St. Louis, recalled the stirring scene when that
convention enthusiastically included a [Cuban]
resolution in the platform and declared that this resolution was in partial
fulfillment of the pledge.
Messrs. Elkins and White urged a
conservative course and an inquiry by a committee. Then came the first vote—that
on the Hale resolution to refer. It was a test of strength and the defeat of
the motion assured the passage of the resolution.
Mr. Fairbanks tried to stem the tide by offering
a compromise proposition, somewhat on the lines of the Cuban plank adopted at
St. Louis, but it met the same fate as the Hale motion.
This brought Mr. Hale forward for a final
protest. He spoke with intense earnestness and feeling. He declared that the
elements opposed to the administration—Democrats and Populists—had furnished the
bulk of the vote in favor of the resolution, and that the foreign policy of the
administration was thus to be dictated by its opponents. He expressed the fear
also that the resolution would lead to war with Spain.
Mr. Spooner added his protest against tying
the hands of the administration.
Mr. Gorman closed the debate, resenting the
suggestion that party lines were drawn on the resolution, and asserting that
the administration should have dispatched a war vessel to Cuba to protect our
officials on the island.
The final vote was then taken and the senate
adjourned until next Monday.
In the
House.
Cuban affairs furnished the house with a day
of bitter partisan debate.
The resolution appropriating $50,000 for the
relief of American citizens was adopted without a dissenting vote, but the
Democrats endeavored to force consideration also of the Morgan resolution for
recognition of belligerency of the insurgents.
They accused the Republicans of endeavoring
to evade this issue, but the dominant party, through its spokesman Mr. Hitt, made
the important statement that the Republicans desired not to embarrass negotiations
which were being projected by President McKinley to secure the independence of
Cuba.
While Mr. Hitt disclaimed presidential authority,
it was well known that he had been in consultation with Mr. McKinley on the
question and knew whereof he spoke.
The committee on rules presented a report,
giving two hours' debate on the relief resolution. Mr. Bailey endeavored to present
the views of the minority of the committee and to move a recommittal but was
declared out of order by Speaker Reed. He made a strong speech and was given
the unanimous support of Democrats, Populists and Silverites, while but three
Republicans, Messrs. Cooper, Colson and Robbins, voted to consider the senate resolution.
The galleries were packed, and they manifested
their usual sympathy for Cuba
Mr. Robbins gave a graphic description of
the situation in Cuba, based on a personal visit.
The house rejected the third conference
report on the opening of the Gibsonite lands and instructed its conferees to
support a plan proposed by Mr. Lacey, by which the secretary of the interior
would lease the lands, the government receiving a royalty and provisions against
a monopoly being made.
NEW SUSPENSION
BRIDGE.
One of
the Greatest Engineering Feats in This Country.
NIAGARA FALLS, May 21.—The first railway train
passed over the new suspension bridge spanning Niagara gorge Thursday, and the
work of removing the old structure, over which the new bridge was built, was
begun.
The feat of building a new bridge over an
old one and then removing the old one without in any way interfering with the
immense railway traffic passing over the structure is looked upon by engineers
as one of the greatest ever attempted in this country.
With the demolition of the old bridge this
part of the state will lose one of its oldest landmarks, it having been built
in 1855. It was supported by immense wire cables. The new bridge is built on
the cantilever principle. It will take six weeks to remove the old structure.
THE E.
& C. N. Y. R. R.
ONLY
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS NOW LACKING.
If This
is Raised Work Will Begin at Once and the Road Will Be Completed Inside of Four
Months—Everything Else Ready.
Never in the history of the Erie & Central New York
railroad has its completion been as near at hand as at the present
time. For years the project has dragged along. Its name has become almost
a by-word in the county. Like a comet it has periodically burst into view
with a tail of light, and again it has as suddenly disappeared, some
unexpected obstacle having arisen to block the plans. But it
seems now that almost every obstacle has been removed and that
the road will surely be built.
For some time there has been one hindrance in
the way, which was not of a financial nature, and for a time it was feared that
this could not be surmounted, but Mr. Bundy informs us that he has the promise
that the official document which will forever dispose of this matter will be delivered
into his hands by tomorrow afternoon. When this is removed, only the financial
side of the question remains.
When Mr. Bundy came to Cortland a few weeks
ago to push matters he had two things to take care of. He must remove the
obstacle above referred to and he must sell bonds in the road to a certain amount
as an expression of faith in the project on the part of those who best knew the
conditions and circumstances to those, on the other hand, who stood ready to
put up the money.
The first difficulty is practically covered
and will be entirely so by Saturday night. The sale of bonds has come within $1,500
of the necessary amount, and part of that sum is already verbally pledged, though
the signatures are not yet on paper. The moment that $1,500 is accounted for, the
work of building will begin. Every plan is made. The ties, the rails, the
spikes and fish plates are all ready to ship, the rolling stock is engaged. Nothing
remains but to raise that $1,500.
Will the people of Cortland county do this?
Do the merchants and business men of Cortland care enough for the trade of the
rich and fertile Otselic valley which now goes elsewhere to help on this $1,500,
the lack of which stands in the way of the road? Do the people who live between
Cortland and Cincinnatus and who would be affected by the opening up of such a
road care enough about having a railroad at their doors to lift on the $1,500?
Is it a sufficient object to the farmers of the east part of the county to buy
a few bonds if by so doing they can market their potatoes, their hay, their
maple sugar, their butter, and their other crops at Solon and Cincinnatus where
they can make a half dozen trips from their farms to the shipping point each
day rather than to haul through the mud to Cortland at a rate of one trip a
day, and a hard day's work at that? Is it an object to those same people to
have a milk car start from their station each morning to pick up the products of
their dairy rather than to make it up into butter and cheese at home?
Willet, German, Pharsalia, Pitcher and
Taylor are among the places that would be benefited by the road. It seems like
a trivial matter to halt over $1,500 in an affair of so much moment as the
building of a railroad, but that, we are informed, is just the situation. If
the $1,500 which is lacking is pledged at once to complete the sum specified by
the construction company, the road will be built in time to ship the fall crops
from Solon and Cincinnatus, Willet, German, Pharsalia, Pitcher, Taylor and
other places beyond McGrawville.
Attention has been called recently to a proposition
made a year or so ago by the Traction company to the directors of the E. &
C. N. Y. R. R. for the turning over to the former of the right of way of the
latter road from McGrawville to Cincinnatus with the idea of the building of the
road to Cincinnatus by the Traction company. Mr. Bundy informs us that this
proposition was indeed made and that in the form in which it was made it would,
if accepted, have released the Otselic Construction company and himself from
all their obligations and would have been a good thing for them financially,
but he felt perfectly confident that such an arrangement would have been far
from satisfactory to the residents along the line.
The proposition as presented to him, Mr.
Bundy informs us, was to make McGrawville a general transfer point for
everything—both freight and passengers; to let the electric road stand as it
now exists between Cortland and McGrawville, but to build a steam road from
McGrawville to Cincinnatus and to compel everybody to transfer at McGrawville.
He set out, he says, to build a steam road from Cortland to Cincinnatus with
the idea of continuing it to Hancock and Deposit
and making a New York connection, and he has never given up that plan. It now
seems nearer of accomplishment than ever before, and in fact, as stated above,
it is within $1,500 of success. It rests with the people of Cortland county. It
is hardly to be believed that when it has approached so near it will fail of
accomplishment and that at once.
NICELY FURNISHED.
The
Hotel of A. J. Goddard on Railroad-st. With Entirely New Appointments.
The hotel of A. J. Goddard on Railroad-st.
has just been undergoing extensive and thorough improvements and now compares
in every respect with the best hotels in the country, in fact it is one of the
number. The woodwork has all been beautifully refinished, and the eleven
sleeping rooms have been refurnished throughout. The carpets, which were
purchased of Warren, Tanner & Co., are of the best Axminster Brussels and
moquette. The hall carpets are red and the bedroom carpets are of brown shades
with beautiful borders. The furniture was procured from Beard & Peck. The
diningroom is located on the second floor and is well furnished. The entire
hotel is most modern in every appointment, and cannot fail to please the
traveling public.
Cornell
University State Scholarship.
(Notice Pursuant
to Title XII, Chapter 556, Laws of 1894.)
A competitive examination of candidates for
the state scholarships in Cornell university, falling to the county of Cortland
will be held at the courthouse in the village of Cortland on Saturday, the 5th
day of June, 1897, commencing at 9 A. M.
Candidates must be at least 10 years of age
and of six months' standing in the common schools or academies of the state
during the present school year, and actual residents of this state.
No person should enter an examination unless
prepared to accept a scholarship, should one be awarded.
The examination will be upon the following subjects,
viz.: English, arithmetic, plane geometry, algebra through quadratic equations,
and either Latin, French or German, at the option of the candidate.
There will be as many candidates appointed from
this county as there are assembly districts in the county. Candidates will
become entitled to the scholarships in the order of merit.
Dated at Cortland, this 14th day of May, 1897.
NATHAN L. MILLER, School Commissioner First
District.
ISAAC W. VAN BUSKIRK, School Commissioner
Second District.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day
are—Bacon, Chappell & Co., Spring Underwear, page 4; D. McCarthy & Co.,
House Furnishing Hints, page 7; W. J. Perkins
& Co., The Wise Woman, page 5; The National Bank, Report, page 5.
—The Ithaca Democrat says: "The apple
bloom was so heavy on an Ithaca farm that an Ithacan has been feeding the falling
petals to his cattle. They eat them greedily. That farmer should have a
veterinarian at hand to relieve the suffering from green apple colic."
—The defendant in the case of Hattie P.
Bickford vs. Frank A. Bickford has appealed from the judgment of the supreme
court and from the order appointing E. C. Alger receiver of the defendant's personal
property. The appeal is taken to the appellate division of the supreme court,
third department.
—The jury in the case of Driscoll against
Goddard and Carr, after being out two hours last night in Justice Kelley's
court, rendered a decision awarding the horse in question to the defendants,
whereupon the justice rendered a judgment in their favor. Attorney James
Dougherty of the defense says the case will be appealed.
—The annual spring meet of the Elmira
Athletic club will be held Memorial day, May 31. The events include one-mile
bicycle scratch, half-mile, one-mile and two-miles bicycle handicap, 100-yards
dash, 220-yards dash, half-mile run, pole vault and running broad jump. The prizes
are elaborate and costly and to the limit allowed by the L. A. W. and A. A. U.
—C. K. Skinner, superintendent of public
instruction, makes the statement that when poor children are not clothed properly
to attend school, the poormaster should be applied to, who must provide them with
suitable clothing. Also that the truant officers must compel every child to
attend school, although the schoolhouse may be located in an adjoining district.
The law is very strict.
Cambridge
University In an Uproar.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 21.—The university is
in a ferment on the question of conferring degrees upon women, upon which
matter a vote will be taken. The undergraduates who oppose the proposition are
terrorizing the seniors, threatening to migrate to Oxford and to refuse to take
their degrees in June. They are spending large sums on fireworks and rotten
eggs, in readiness either to celebrate the defeat of the proposition or avenge
its victory. In consequence of the threats of the undergraduates there have been
many defections from the ranks of those who supported the proposal to confer
degrees upon women.
McGRAWVILLE.
Crisp
Local Happenings at the Corset City.
The Ponies are in Truxton to-day playing the
nine of that place.
W. H. Ensign has erected a new barn on his
lot on Elm-st.
Daniel B. Grant attended church in Freetown
Sunday evening and has decided to carry along a bear trap next time to protect
his horse and buggy.
A. H. D. Mudge and Charles D. McGraw and
friends are eating the trout caught by them Friday morning.
Arlie J. Ensign returned Friday from a visit
to relatives in Binghamton.
There are thirty-seven applicants to date
for appointment as principal of the McGrawville Union school. The board held a
meeting Friday evening, but were unable to examine all the applications, etc.
At the state encampment of the G. A. R. held
in Rochester Tuesday, Dr. H. C. Hendrick
was elected delegate to the national encampment which will be held in Buffalo
in August.
Highway Commissioner Z. H. Tanner is in town to-day repairing bridges.
Rev. E. D. Hardin of Auburn Theological
seminary will preach at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning and evening.
The service at the men's league at 4:30
o'clock Sunday afternoon will be led by C. C.
Wilcox. Subject, "Sins of the Tongue."
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