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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. The bill drafted by the Senate foreign relations committee to carry eat President Wilsons policy of armed neutrality, contains the following clause in reference to arming and defending vessels of United States registry: That the commanders and crews of all merchant vessels of the Cnited States and bearing the registry of the United States are hero by authorized to arm and defend such vessels against unlawful attacks, ami that the president of the Cnited States is hereby authorized and empowered to supply such vessels with defensive arms fore and aft, and also with the necessary ammunition and means of making use of them; and that he be and is hereby authorized and empowered to employ such other instrumentalities and methods as may in his jud-ment and discretion seem necessary ami adequate to protect such vessels and the citizens of the Cnited States in their lawlul and peaceful pursuits on the hitch seas. An appeal has been made to the rebel commander Fernandez at Santiago to rescind his order stopping the harvesting of the sugar crop. This was in response to a statement signed by twenty-five Cuban sugar producing companies in the province of Oriente. who told Dr. Ferrara that more than 90,000 laborers have been thrown out of work by the order, and some 48,008 head of cattle, used in harvesting the crop, are without food. A dispatch from Havana says that 250 United States murines were lauded at Oiiniitananio to protect the large foreign owned sugar mills and plantations. This is the first use of force by the ftsawllSB government in the present insurrection. The landing of the marines from the Caiman. ;a Baval base was in answer to the appeals of American and British property owners. A London Times dispatch from Dublin says the Irish deportations were necessary and were made only in Cue nick of time. During the last few weeks activities of the extreme Sinn Ftiners have been as | nbli - as they were sinister. All law-abiding Irishmen breathed more freely after the deportations. .lames V. Gerard, former American ambassador to iermany and his party, have sailed from Co-runna. Spain, lor the Cnited States. The party sailed on the neutral vessel, the Spanish liner Infante Isabel, which, in addition t-i tile American-, carried 1.700 Spanish emigrants to Cuba. An American farm has been awarded the contract for the dome and mounting for a new tele-cope to be placed in the Cordoba Observatory. Cordoba. Argentina. The mirror, which is being ground at the observatory, will be, when finished, the most powerful in the southern hemisphere. The United States Bureau of Fisheries is seeking a r. mi dy for tbe polychaete wane, which attacks oysters in the beds near Long Island. Oysters in these beds are rendered unmarketable by a shell of sand which forms on these. President Wilson has notified Congress that qui. k a.tiou should be takt 11 in passing the bill authorizing his use of power to safeguard American rights, .i.l.ling that h "did not know what twenty-four hours might bring forward."
