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FORTIFICATIONS AT KEY WEST. At Jacksonville, James D. McCartyj committed suicide by shooting. At Harvard, John 3B. Mulligan attempt-* ed suicide by cutting his throat. June 2, 3, 4 and 5 the Seotch-Ifish So­ ciety of America will hold its ninth con­ gress. •• | While attending services at the First Congregational Church of Oak Park Miss Ruth Davis fell dead in her seat. Prof. Sibley S. Buchanan became vio­ lently insane while teaching school ia Lone Elm district, near Hillsboro. Rev. T. DeWitt TaImage was takea sick at Danville and compelled to cancel an engagement at Muscatine, Iowa. Sixty years ago the Sunday school of the First Methodist Church of Chicago was organized, and the anniversary was recently celebrated with appropriate exer­ cises. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH FULLY RECORDED. Senate and House Unite on Hostile Resolutions. Great Electrical Discovery of a Gilles­ pie Man--Trouble, at Harvey--Condi­ tion of State Banks'--Six Counter­ feiters Arrested in Chicago. Decreed that the Foreign Yoke on the Island Shall Be Shattered. President McKinley Directed to Use Our Whole Military Force. House Joins with tlie Upper Body in Recognizing; the Independence of the People, but Not of the Present Government of Cuba -- le'nal Vote Shows 310 in Favor of--"t^TSaoin and t G Against It--Resiift Achieved After All Day and Nearly All- Night Ses­ sions of Both Bodies and Conferences Between Committees. two houses. They further resolved that when the Senate conferees were finally appointed at least two of them should represent the majority sentiment of the body. The radical advocates of inde­ pendence slowly but none the less surely lost ground, however, being swept back by the powerful and compact minority op­ posed to them. They yielded only after one of the bitterest contests in the history of the Senate. It was 1:15 Tuesday morning when the conference reported to the Senate that an agreement had been reached, and within fifteen minutes thereafter without a word of debate the Senate agreed to the com­ promise by a vote of 42 to 35. It was nearly 2 o'clock before the House had an opportunity to vote on the question, and in the lower house of Congress there was practical unanimity. The vote was 310 to G. and amid wild applause the first great step in the liberation of Cuba was accomplished. FOOD FOR THE SOLDIERS. great--the notable--utterances of the clos­ ing hours of debate were'made at night. Mr. Hale of Maine, Mr. Gorman of Mary- l:idn. Mr. Allison of Iowa, Mr. Aldrich of Rhode Island, Mr: Jones of Arkansas, and Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts, all deep­ ly impressed by the magnitude and possi­ ble awful consequences of the step about to be taken, addressed the Senate with an eloquence and solemnity born only of the most profound feeling for their country's welfare. As the words fell from their lips the chamber thrilled with an inten­ sity of interest which bordered upon awe. The test vote quite naturally was on the amendment offered by Mr. Turpie recog­ nizing the independence of the Cuban re­ public. It prevailed By a majority of 14. the vote being 51 to 37. By political par­ ties the vote was cast as follows: Yeas-- Republican. 11; Democrats, 2S; Popu­ lists, 7; Silver Republicans, 5. Nays-- Republicans, 32; Democrats, 5. Upon the final vote the alignment of parties was quite different from that on the Turpie amendment. An analysis of it that the pressure from their own side-of the house in favor of the resolution was too strong to be overcome,- the Republi­ can leaders agrec-d to accept* all of the Senate resolutions except those, portions recognizing independence in any way. This was adopted by a vote of 179 t'o a Vflte of 15G, and from that time on the sole struggle was over the question of independence. The firm stand taken by the House made it evident to the Senate that independence of the republic could not be possibly recognized, and if that had been the only thing at stake the Senate would have yielded early in the evening. The House had gone farther, however, to prevent any declaration of indepen­ dence, even for the republic of Cuba, and had taken the words "are and" out of the first resolution of the Senate which declared "that the people of the Island of Cuba are and of right ought to be free and independent," making it read "that the people of the Island of Cuba of right ought to be free and independent." Washington correspondence: Armed intervention to drive Spain from- •Cuba, whose people are declared free/was ordered by the people of the United States, through Congress, at an early hour Tuesday morning, after a long dis­ cussion in both branches of the national legislature. By a vote of 310 to G the House of Rep­ resentatives Tuesday morning, amid scenes of great excitement, declared for the independence of the people but not of the present republic of Cuba. The Senate an hour earlier took similar action. It was a long and stubbornly fought battle between the upper and lower branches of Congress, but it ended in an agreement, reached in conference, which was ratified by both houses. The Senate was forced to recede. It yielded the recoguition of the republic of Cuba, and voted to adopt the resolution in the same form as it came from the foreign rela­ tions committee, with the exception of the Teller amendment, which disclaims any intention on the part of the United States to exercise sovereignty in Cuba. This was retained. The resolutions as finally adopted rec­ ognize the people of Cuba as free and in­ dependent. They demand that Spain im­ mediately withdraw her troops and navy from Cuba and Cuban waters, and direct the President to use the army and navy of the United States and the militia of the several States to carry the decree of Con­ gress into effect. Action by the Senate. The United States Senate at 9 o'clock Saturday night, after thirty-five hours consumed in talk, adopted the Cuban res­ olution reported from the foreign rela­ tions committee, with the minority amendment reported by Senator Turpie. It was a composite resolution, containing as it did the Senate preamble, the House enactment clause, the Senate majority resolutions with the incorporation, of the Turpie amendment for recognition, and having added to it the Davis declaration of intentions. "Free Cuba and the independence of the island republic" was the shibboleth of the Senate throughout the four days of debate which ended Saturday night. The contest was between those who favored recognition and those who opposed recog­ nition and wanted only intervention. Recognition won by a majority of four­ teen. All day long the battle waged with ear­ nestness. energy, ability, and eloquence seldom equaled even in the Senate1 of the United States. From 10 o'clock in the morning until the moment of the final vote the intensity cf the interest did not abate for an instant. Under the agree­ ment limiting the duration of the speech- TO ARM THE CUBANS. War Department Figures on Rifles and Ammunition for Insurgents. The War Department has obtained complete official information in regard to the strength and utility of the Cuban army, to be employed in conjunction with the United States troops in the expected occupation of Cuba. It is said that if the United States would supply 50,000 rifles, with ammunition, the Cubans would pro­ vide a man for every rifle. With an army of this size, the insurgent leaders believe that they would be able to march on Ha­ vana and capture it, even without aid. This statement is made by Gen. Gomez, the Cuban commander-in-chief. The War Department has been inform­ ed from reliable sources that about 5,000 Cubans in the United States would join Two Hundred Thousand Men Can Be Kasily Rationed. The American soldiers in the field live in fine style and the experts declare that an army of 200;000 men can be supplied from domestic sources without incon­ veniencing anybody or causing the price of food products to rise. Orders have been sent out by Commissary Genera' Cushing for the purchase of supplies am the shipment of the material to Chicka niauga, Mobile, Tampa and New Orleans Gen. Cushing says the domestic sources of supply are so abundant and reliable that unless there should be occasion t'> put something like 1,000,000 men in the field there need be no occasion for an in­ crease in cost of subsistence or any like effect upon the food supplies of the coun­ try. The cost of transportation will be less where the army is concentrated than where it is distributed all over the conn- Six Counterfeiters Caught. Six men, composing a dangerous gang of counterfeiters, have bc9n arrested in Chicago, charged with making and pass­ ing counterfeit silver dollars. The men, the police say, have operated all 'over the city, finding the most of their victims among the small retail dealers. Twenty- five counterfeit dollars were taken by Detectives Egan anil Russell; who made the arrests. Inspector Shea pronounced them the best he had seen in many years. The weight is good and the only thing suspicious about them is that they appear more brilliant than the genuine. The prisoners are well known to the police and some of them have already served time for counterfeiting. WAR RESOLUTION the army of occupation if this Govern­ ment would supply them with arms, am­ munition and provisions. The positive assurance is given that-the number would not be less than that and it probably would not be much greater. It is said on authority which is satis­ factory to the army administration that if the Cuban army could be supplied with rifles and ammunition they would not lose a moment, even in r» midsummer eani- paign. in striking a telling blow to the Spanish forces in Cuba. )NfAriIkV^ ATLANTIC O C E A h f Mob 11 cr.'O,! G E N . M A X I M O G O M E Z . G U L F es, exccpt in specified instances, to fif­ teen minutes, every Senator who so de­ sired had an opportunity to express his views. No less than twenty-five Senators addressed themselves to the momentous question under consideration during the day, and while, under the rule, elaborate arguments were impossible the speeches were characterized by an impassioned foVce and eloquence rarely heard in or out of the halls of the American Congress. It was not until the first vote--that on the amendment of Mr. Turpie of Indiana providing for recognition of the island re­ public--had been taken that the Senate was brought face to face with the tre­ mendous importance of its action. The scene in the chamber of many his­ toric debates was one of incomparable solemnity and impressiveness. The gal­ leries, which had been filled apparently to their utmost capacity throughout the day, were massed with brilliantly attired women and men distinguished in all walks of public and private life. On the lloor was every member elect­ ed to the Senate save one, Mr. Walthall of Mississippi, who was detained from his scat by serious illness. So deep was' his patriotic interest in the pending ques­ tion. however, that ho notified Mr. Spoon- er of Wisconsin, with whom he was pair­ ed. that he could not deem it fair to hold him to the pair and would, therefore, re­ lease him in order that he might vote. In the semicircular area back of the Senators' desks were seated and stand­ ing men many of whose names are house­ hold words throughout the length and breadth of the land. Over all were floods of electric light, softened by the multi­ colored glass, in which are lined the coats of arms of the forty-five sovereign States of the Union. It is no detraction from the brilliance •f the debate of the day to note that the >REtlfOENTi1 ,op INFAN^R^. M E X / C O 0 ° K E Y W E S T forms men waved their arms in frantic token of approval, and in most instances seconded their gestures by ,yells. In the larger towns where the train stopped for a few moments the crowd piled so closely in upon the cars that it was impossible for the soldiers to leave the train at all. "I was among those who answered the first call in 1SB1," said Colonel Burt at Nash­ ville, "and these scenes along the way are very similar to those that greeted us as we went to the front thirty-seven years ago." - COAL A CONTRABAND. Great Hritnin's Action in Line with , American Wishes. Great Britain's action in instructing her colonies to regard coal as contraband of war in the event of hostilities between the United Stated and Spain, administra­ tion officials say, is in line with the wishes of the President and the naval authori­ ties. Pressure will be exerted upon France, Hayti and San Domingo to ac­ complish .the same result, and some at­ tention is being given by the State De­ partment to the South American coun­ tries, with a view to securing from them a declaration of the contraband character of coal as well as an announced determi­ nation on their part not to sell either to Spanish or American vessels" of war a supply of fuel greater than is necessary to enable them to Bteam to the next home port. ' i RESOLUTIONS DECLARING CUBA FREE AND INDEPENDENT PAS II1E HOUSE