boat.

Steamers go down from Detroit at short intervals, many of the business men
in that city having their summer homes in this Western Venice.

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Spain is going to try to raise more money to carry on the war in Cuba and
the Philippine Islands. The Queen Regent has authorized the raising of
about $40,000,000 for this purpose, and the Bank of Spain is to undertake
the task. The loan is to be secured by the customs duties of Spain.

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After more than three months of consideration, the General Treaty of
Arbitration with Great Britain was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday,
May 5th.

From the moment the Treaty was first proposed it met with great opposition
in the Legislature, and many people predicted that the Senate would never
ratify it.

The feeling of the public was, however, so strongly in favor of the
Treaty, that it was thought it would surely be ratified after certain
objectionable clauses were changed.

The Committee on Foreign Relations took the Treaty in hand to make these
alterations; and when it was reported back to the Senate, people hoped
that it was in a form that would be found acceptable.

This has not proved to be the case.

The Constitution of the United States requires a two-thirds vote for the
ratification of a treaty, which of course you understand means that
two-thirds of the Senators present must vote for it, or it is lost.

On Wednesday, the 5th, there were sixty-nine present when the vote was
called. Forty-three voted for ratification, twenty-six against it.

You will see by this that the Treaty was defeated by only three votes.

When this Treaty was signed at Washington in January, everybody rejoiced.
The United States was praised by all Europe for being the first nation to
take such an important step in the advancement of peace.

The leading papers declare that, in spite of the rejection of the Treaty
by the Senate, the American people are still in favor of it; and that, had
the matter been given to the people to decide, the result would have been
different.

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The war in the East is practically over.

Report says the Greeks have appealed to Europe for help, and are now
willing to withdraw from Crete.

It was felt from the first that the struggle between Greece and Turkey
would be an unequal one, but the well-known courage of the Greeks, and
the righte