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THE HOSS. I .lalm no boss will harm n man, Xor kick, nor run away, cavort, Sturap suck, er balk, er "catamaran El yon'U jest treat 'am tike yon act. Bat Then I see too beast abused.
And clubbed around as I've seed
I want to see bU owner nosed, And jest yanked up like Abaotamt Of cams they's difference In stock A hoss tha has a utile year. And slender build and shaller hock. Kin beat his shadder nudity n jar. Whilst one that's thick in neck and rhirt, And big in leg, and full in Sank, That tries to race, I still insist. Ball haw to take the second ranlu. And I have Jist laid back and laughed And rolled and wallered in the grass At fairs, to see some heaTy draft Lead out si first and come in last. Each boss baa hla appointed place, 10 heavy hoes should plough the soil Ibe bkwdad racer, he mast nee. And win big if ages far his tnfl. Inererbet nerne'ermought Upon my 1 enow-men to bet And yit at times Pre often thought plmj cxmviction -with regee. Ibless the hoes frera hoof to head From head to hoof, and tail to manet I Mess the boas, as I have said, Stem head to-boof and bash again! I lore rcy God the first of all, Then him that perished on the cross And next, my wifehood then I fall Down on my kiieos and love the hoaa, r. W. JtOeg. JOHN BEDELL A. United Empire LoyiUist
with him, but filial love was strong in Ruth their young might; and tho gentle eyes of to give hope that her father would yield io Buth had pleaded with him beneath his the yet stronger affection freshened in her dead wife's brow. How poor seemed hate heart. Believini? their union misrht be per- how mean and poor seemed all but Love
mitted she had pledged herself to escape and Loyally! les, for he had looked with her loverif it were forbidden. Now through the veil into the eternal, too, and fee waited by the hickory wood for a signal stood a trivial creature, before the Almighty, to eoaceal himself or come forward. When knowing his meaning. Wherefore resolu-
"Rnthmw bar father far down the river, she tion and deop peace had come upon the
stepped to the flagstaff he hadraised before I innii. Thoy wondered at his look. No
rmfldimr-Ehe cabin bis first duty heme to wrath was mere, xao via eves were um
raise the Union Jack! It was the largest and loving. A gentle smile nickered about
he could procure; he could see it flying de- his lips. Only that ho was very pale, Euth
fiantlv all day Iodr at night he could hear would hare Deen wnoiiy giaa ior ow nappy
its rlm-inno folds whinnine in the wind: the I chance.
old Loyalist loved to fancy his ioemen orgive me, tamer, snesaui, a eu
cmsinsr at it from the other side, nearly his hand on their boat.
milM Tenth honied the flat? "I do. mv chiKl." ne anBwerea. "uome
down ii Utile, then ran it ud to the mfwthead now without ax. instant's delay to me."
sain. At that a tall vouns fellow came "Oh, father if you would let us be
nimno 4iua nionrinar. imnnme extra- I hnnnv." cnea Jttucu, uenra-iuru uv u
antlv over brash heans and tree trunks, nis lovers,
onene waraline, his eyss bright-glad under "Dear, you shall be happy. I was wrong,
BX E. W. THOMSON.
pnui TTntti Knmtiv T.nvnlist3 were American
Tories who forsook their homes and property after the Revolution to live under the British,
flag. Beprehensiido though Americana may consider the volitical opinions of these men to
ham iMM) it ta imnoaaible to hold back adoura-
tim rmn, tlwnr Anrottan to their ruling idea.
Thiastorvisintenled. not only to picture heroic deed' but to indicate in some degree the
quality of the TJ. E. Loyalist type. John Biaeu was a loyalist, bat none the less bravo Araartcan. "A renecade! A rebel against his king!
A brack-hearted traitor! You dare to tell ne that George Winthrop loves yon! Sob
of casting, lying Ezra Winthrop! By the
eternal, 111 shoot him on sight if he comes
this side."
'While old John Bedell spoke he tore and flung away a letter, reached his long rifle
from its pins above the chimney, dashed its bntt angrily on the floor, and poured pow
der into the palm of his hand.
"For heaven's mercy, father, you would not! Ton could noil" The war is over. It
wonld be murder," cried Bath Bedell, sob-
bis three-cornered hat. Joying that her father had yielded, he ran forward till he
saw Ruth's tears.
"What, sweetheart! crvins? It was the
iinial to come on," cried he.
Vr. to aee von sooner. Geome. lie is
out yonder. But. no, fee will never con
sent."
"Then yon will come with me, love," he
said, taking her hands.
'No. no, I dare not," sobbed Buth.
"Father would overtake us. He swears to
shoot you on sight. Go, George. Escape
while you can! Oh, if fee should find you
beret'
"But, drl'"g love, we need not fear.
We con escape -easily. I -know the forest
path. But" Then he thoughl.how weak her pace. "We might cross here before he could come up," cried Winthrop, looking to where the So aire's boat was now a dis
tant blotch.
No, no," wsiled Buth, yielding to his
embrace. "This is the last tune I- shall see
you forever. Go, love forever, and for
ever good bye, my love, my love,
But he clasped her in his strong arms
child. I did not understand how you loved him. But come! You hesitate 1 Winthrop, my son, you are in some danger. Into this boat instantly. Both of you! Take the oars, George. Kiss me, dear, my
Ruth, once more. Good-bye, my htue
girl. Winthrop,begoodtoher. And may
God bless you both forever and ever.
As the old soldier spoke he stepped into
the larger boat, instantly releasing the skiff.
His imperative gentleness had secured his
object without lost time, and the boats were apart, with Winthrop's readiness to
pull.
"Now row! How lor her me 10 yonaer
shore! Bow well up! Away, or the falls
will have her."
"But you!" cried Winthrop, bending for
his stroke. Yet he did not comprehend
Bedell's meanine. Till the last the old
had spoken without exoitement.
Dread of the river was not on George his bliss was supreme in his thought, and he
took the Squire's order for one of exaggerated alarm.
"Bow, I say, with all your strength," cried
Bedell, with a flash of anger that sent the
kiHsmg, .imploring, cheering her-nd how young f eUow away taWJr.
W-tM tnia 1mm idionae honeiess renuncia- J
tion?
Bow! Oon-
I am going home.
How for vour life, Winthrop! God will
rw u J hie lr.o I IKHIVOI iuu Jo. uuuu-j., v
grSr ainTw member always my blessing is freely given to tire out and subdue his heart pangs, Be- Jarl-
4n .ihi with denth more closelv than "tiod Mess you ana- Keep you ioreer,
ever. Often he could see the wide, smooth father," cried Buth, from the distance, as
w tn oroAn volnme first lanses her lover pulled away. They landed, con
vastly on a lazy slope, to shoulder up be- scions of having passed a swift current in-
low a huge calm billow, before pitching deed, but quite unthinking of the price
into the madness of waves whose conf u- paid ror tneir Baiety.
of tossing and tortured crests hurries darkling river tuey saw notning or me out
"how kind
"Wonld I not?" He poured the powder
in. "Yes, by gracious, qoicker'n I'd kill a
rattlesnake!" He placed (be round bullet
on the little square of greased rag at the
muzzle. "A rank traitor bone and blood of those who drove out loyal men!" fee
crowded the tight lead home, dashed the
ramrbd into place, looked to the flint.
"Best there, old Sure-death wake np, for
George Winthrop!" and the fierce old i
replaced rifle and powder horn on their
pes.
" BedUl'a hatred Cor the foes whofeadj
beaten down King George's cause and lm
posed th? alternative of confiscation or oath
of allegiance to the vanquished, was con sidered ferocious, e.en by his brother Ley
lists of the Niagara frontier.
"The 'Squire kind o' sees his boys' blood
when the sky's red, "said they, in explana
tkm. Bat their inference erred. Bedell was so much an enthusiast that he could
almost rejoice thst his three stark sonsfead
eainedthe prize of death in battle. He was
too brave to hate the fighting men he had so often confronted. Bat he abhorred the
politicians, especially the intimate civic j enemies on whom he had .poured scorn before Uwsrraed straggle began. More than j iny fee hated Ezra Winthrop, the lawyer, vreh-revointiomst of their native town, who had never nsed a weapon but his tongue. And now his Buth, the beloved and only child left to his exiled age, had told her love for Ezra WintKrop's son. They had been, $ss and girl, pretty maiden and bright strippling, together, without the Squire suspecting he could not now conceive clearly so wild a thing as tfceir affectum. The confession burned in his heart like veritable fire a raging anguish of mingled loathing and love. He stood now gazing at Both, dumbly his hands clenched, head sometimes mechanically quivering, ringer, hate, love, grief, tumultuous in his soul. Both glanced up her father seemed about to speak she bowed again, shuddering as though the coming wolds -Buffet kill. Still there was silence long silence. Bedell stood motionless, poised, breathing hard. The silence oppressed the girl, each moment her terror
increased. Expectant attention became suffering mat demanded his voice and still was silence save for the dull roar of Niagara that more and more pervaded the air.' The torture of waiting for the words a curse against her, she feared overwore Buth's endurance. She looked up again suddenly and John Bedell
avMBk hers the beloved eyes of bis dead -wtfe, shrinking with intolerable fear. He
groaned heavily, flung np his hands despairingly, and strode out toward the river. How crafty smooth the green Niagara sweeps toward the plunge beneath that perpetual white eloud above the fall. From Bedell's clearing below Navy Island, he could see the swaying and rolling of the mist, ever rushing up to expand and overhang. The terrible stream had a profound fascination for him; with its racing eddies earing at the shore; its long weeds, visible through the clear water, trailing close down to the bottom; its inexorable, eternal onward pouring. Because it was so mighty and so threatening his stem son! rejoiced grimly in the awful river. To float, watching cr.igs and ledges of its flat bottom-rock drift quickly upward; to bend to his oars only when wbito crests of the rapids yelled for b life, to win escape by sheer strength from points so low dowutbat he sometimes
doubted but the Rreedy forces had beei
tempted toi long to stake his life, wotchiu
the tops for a sign that he could yetsave it, was the dreadful pastime by which Bedell sometimes qnelled passionate promptings to revenge his exile. "The falls is bound to get the Squire some day," said the banished settlers. Bat fee Squire's skiff was clean-built as a picture, and his old arms Iron strong. Now when he hid gone forth from th beloved child, who seemed to turn so traitorous to his love and ell loyalty, he went instinctively to spend hi passion on th$ river. Both Bedell, gazing at the loaded rifle, shuddered. Her filial love a;em'.d (o have died with those threats.
Her fears were deep, but she had not told
all. George Winthrop himself, having made I is way secretly through the forest from L:ikj Ontario, had given her his own letter, asking lfciive from the Squire to visit feisnv'.v.j'-icftda cabin. From the moment tit arrival her lover had isofkued hep to fly
in thn atvrwi- The afternoon crew toward man
.nini rfni he trailed Bteadilv home. I "Poor father," sighed Buth,
rawliru ateadSv awav from the roarers fee was. I'm sore-hearted for thinking of
munsilWemel irreen. watchine the omin- I him at home, so lonely."
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ous cloud with some such grim humor as Jjen aione, ceueu if rinder observation bv an overpowering, long, heavy oars for his own shore, making
t,, k,aui umr Annrnanhirio' his land- appearance of strong exertion, iiut vnen
vih mnM z't a ' I - ....
ins. a shout drew Bedell's clance ashore to he no longer learea inns mey Sm i-urn
n. oronn of men excitedly cesticuIatinK. back with sudden understanding,
They seemed motioning him to watch the American shore. Turning, he saw a boat in midstream, where no craft then on the river, expect his own skiff, could be safe,
unless manned by several good rowers.
Only two oars were flashing. Bedell could
make out two figures indistinctly. It was clear they were doomed though still a frill mile above the point whence he had come, they were much further out than he when near the rapids. Yet one life might be saved! Instantly Bedell's bow turned outward, and cheers flung to him from ashore. At that moment fee looked to his
own landing place and saw his larger boat
THE NEWS.
and
vainlv. to his aid he dragged the boat
slowly, watching her swift drift down
down toward the towerine mist. .Then as
he gazed at the cloud, rising in two distinct volumes, came a thought spurring the I loyalist spirit in an instant. Thereafter he ! pulled steadily, powerfully, noting landmarks, anxiously studying currents, considering always their trend to or from his shore. Half an hour had gone when again he dropped into slower motion. Then he could see Goat Island's upper end between him and the mist of the American fall. Now the old man gave himself up to intense curiosity, looking over down into the
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was gone. Turning again, ne angmy re- water 1Uiwiuku " "" cognized it, but kept right on he must never been so far down river. Darting rescue even a thief. He wondered Bum beside their shadows, deop in the clear had not prevented theft, bat had no bus- flood, were now larger fishes than he had
pknen of the trasn. Always he nadrafused ever taken, ana an movcu opwu urrm8 to let her go oat upon the river, mortally to escape. How fast the long, trailing,
fearing it for her. Thrusting his staff swamng, single weeos ana me crevices in
mightily forward often it planced, hall nat rock, wnence tney so srxangeiy grew,
whirled by up-whelming and spreading went upstream ana away as u ru uuu.-
s paces of water the old Loyalist's heart ward. The sameness or me oouom to tnai , , ii. j:j
was quit of his pangs, and sore only wwn nigner up lnteresiea nun wnore mu uiu certainty fee must abandon one human soul the current begin to sweep clean? He to death. Bat when he could roach the should certainly know soon, he thought, Hnrer boat his wonld be too near the rap- without a touch of fear, having utterly ac
ids for the escape of three! Icepteddeatn wnenne aeiermineu n were When George saw Bedell in pursuit fee base to carry his weary old life a little
bent to his ash more strongly, and Buth, longer and let Ruth s young love die. How
trembline to remember her father's threats, the fall's heavy monotone was overborne
urged her lover to speed. They feared the by terrible sounds a mingled clashing, Tiorsaer only, quite unconscious of being shrieking, groaning, and rumbling, as of
in the remorseless grasp of the river. Bum 1 great boulders churned in their beds,
had so often seen her father lower down Bedell was nearing the first long swoop than she had got drifted that she did not downward at the rapids' head when those realize the tenth, and Goorge, coming from watching him despairingly from the high j. different district, was unaware of the long bank below the Chippewa River's mouth, cataracts above the falls. He was also de- saw him put his boat stern with the current
teived by the stream's treacherous smooth- and cease rowing entirely, facing fairly the neas, and, instead of half upward, pulled up-rushing mist to which he was being
(traiRht across as if certainly able to land hurried. Then they observed mm stoop
aavwberehe might touch the American
chore. Bedell looked over his shoulder often. When fee distinguished a woman he pat on more force, bat slackened soon the poll home would tax his endurance, he reflected. In some Bort it was a relief to know one was a woman; he had been anticipating trouble with two men equally lient on being saved. That the man would abandon himself bravely fee. being brave, scarcely doubted. For awhile he thought
of pulling with the womau to the American shore, more easily to be gained from the point where the rescue mast occur. But fee rejected the plan, confident be could row back, for fee had sworn never to set foot on that soil. Had it been possible to save both fee would have been forced, despite his vow, but the Squire knew that was impossible three would overload his boat beyond escape. Having carefully studied land-marks for his position, Bedell turned to look again at the doomed boat. At that glance a well-known ribbon caught his attention! The old man dropped his oars, confused with horror. "My God, my God, it's Bath!" he cried, and the whole truth came with another look, for fee had not forgotten George Winthrop. "Your father stops, Buth I fear he suffers pain," said George to the quaking girl. She looked back. "What can it be?" she cried, filial love returning overmasteringly. "Mayhap he is buttired." George affected carelessness feis first thought being to se
cure his bride - and pulled hard away to get
all advantage from Bedell's step. "Tired! He is in danger of the falls, then!" screamed Buth. "Stop! Turn! Back to him!" Winthrop instantly prepared to obey.
"Yes, darling," he said, "we must not think of ourselves. We must go back to save him!" Yet feis was a sore groan at turning;
what dntv ordered was so hard be must
give np his love for the sake of his enemy!
Bat while Winthrop wasstiupuiungrouna,
the old Loyalist resumed rowing with a
more rapid stroke that soon brought him
alongside. In those moments of waiting,
all Bedell's Jife-day, bis peisonal hatreds,
ing, as if writing, for a time. And then he knelt with his head bowed down. Kneel
ing, they prayed, too.
Now he was almost on the brink of the
cascades. Then he arose, and, glancing backward to his home, caught sight of his friends on the high shore. Calmly he waved a farewell. What then? Thrice
'round he flung his hat with a gesture they knew full well. Some had seen that ex
alting waving ia front of ranks of battle,
As clearly ns though the roar of waters had not drowned his ringing voice, they knew that old John Bedell, nt the poise of death, cheered thrice: "Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah for the King!"
Floating with the heaving water in the gorge below the falls they found his body a
week afterwards, Though beaten almost
out of recognition, portions of clothing ad
hered to the corpse. And in a waistcoat pocket they found the old loyalist's metal
snuff box, with this inscnplion'scratehedby
knife point on the cover, "f?od he praised,
I die in British waters. John Bedell."
A SAD AiTKHXATXrei.
A German officer wlio was over head
and ears in debt, said to a friend :
"I owe so much money that I have got
to do one of two things." "Pay your debts or nqt pay them? I expect you will choose the latter alternative." "No, that's not what I meant. What I mean is that my condition is so desperate that I must marry a woman with money- or commit suicide. " "Well, marry for all money, by all means. You will have plenty of time and provocation to shoot yourself afterwards." Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this be offers j'ou inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything, wants a measure ft the great or small. L mater.
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THE WORK OF CONGRESS. The Hoar Presidential bill passed the House
of Kepivscntativc - on tho 15th inst., by a vote
of ltd to 77, precisely as itcame from tlio senate. Following are the provisions of the bill: lr. casd of removal, death resignation, or inabilits of wtll the President nml Vice President of tho United States, the Secretary of State, or, if
there bo none, or in case of uts reinovni. j
rosiimntion, or i:inlllity, then the secretary oi ,
tho Treasury ; or if there bo none ; or in cosn of his removal, death, ii-bis-
noton, or ineliility. men tne rtc-
rotiry o War; or if there bo none, or
in enso of his removal, dentil, resignation,
nalrility, then the Attorney uenenu ; or i
thi -I-tie none, or in case of Mh removal, death, resignation, or inahUitv, then the PostmaMor Gel oral : or. if there he" none, or in case of his
cen oval, death, resignation, or inability, then
tho Secretary of "ho Naw ; or n more nu m .
or in enso of his -emoval. death, resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of tlK Inter ,or
shall act as I'r. sidtnt until tho disabil.ty of the President or Vice President is to-
mo rod. ! a President ehau do elect
ed: i'ror :hvl, tint whenover the powers nnit
duties cf tho ollico of presuions oi me United States shall devolve upon any of tho
persons named terein. if l.'onsresa ne not icon in iiession, or if it wonld not meet in aocordanoo
with law within twenty davs thereafter, it suau
ho the duty of the pe rson upon vihoni s-ud powers and duties shall devolve to iss io a proclamation convening Congress In extraordinary
session, giving twenty days notice or vne tine of meeting. Soc. 2. That tho procecing section shall only ho held to ascrioo and apply to such officers as shall ha .0 been appointed by the advice and with the cuiiscnt of tho Senate to tho offices theroin named, and such as are eligible to the office of President under tho Constitution, and not under impeachment by the House of lieprosentativea at the time the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon them respectively. Soutiun 8. That Soctious 140. 1. 110, and ISO of the Revised Statutes are ho -oby repealed." There was no session of the Senate on the 15th. At a caucus of Kopublie in Senators it vrns decided to call upon the President for papers throwing light nion causes of removals or appointments. The position was asiiunttd that the St iinte has a right tothese papers, and from tbem should judge what course to take in the matter of confirmations. The judicial salary hill, giving United Stitel Judges SS.OO0 a year, and prohibiting them from aipointtng their relatives to otBoe in their courts, passed tho Senate Jan. 18 Mr. Cu.lom submitted a bill regulating interstate commerce, which provides for tho appointment of five commissioners. Mr. Frye offered a resolution to provide for a commission to sottle tho fisheries question. This led to a sharp debate, iu tho course of which Messrs. Frve. Ea
rn ands. Hoar, and Dawes attacked Presi
dent Cleveland for extending tho Canadian fisheries treaty. Mr. Morgan defended tho President. Mr. IngalU presented a resolution asking the Secretory of the Trasurv to state what propcrtion of tlie bonds iutely called in is held by notional hanks as a basis for circulation. Mr. Eustis addressed the Senate on the silver f.uestinn. Tha President ho said, had told Con
gress that thnro was not enough silver new lu circulation to cause any unoasins; that tho whole amount now ccined mlaht. after a time, ho absorbed bv the
lKOnle without apprehension, but tht it
was thn "eease.ess srrtim that threatened to
overJlov.," etc. From -nis it was to be understood that tho dlvor dollar is an honest dollar waon absorbed by the people, but dishonest w ion offered to -.be bondholders. Tho results of
tho Conure.isional nolle v of coinage had never
been ftdlv tostsd according to its true intent and Bp lrit bees use the executive depart ment fruJ, in its practice, manifested an unfriendliness to that policy, and, by parttilitv and incrimination, had retarded
it If that department had not dis-
mlminated in favor of tho bondholders as
against the p.'plo, its representations as to finance wo'ild have been entitled to mote reincet. In coiit'l isicn Mr. Eustis sail: "D this
di do.ui prKC:ke of ia.-irimii by tin executive department iu dccloi in ; war against silver coin,
wntcn is a coin ii me uoveruuieuti, i Its usefulness, ia deprecixting its existence, one ir: invitlne others to believe that it is a deform
ed offspring of legislative imbecility, is to continue, than soi le of tho evils that have been
preaict xi ra iv come to pass ; out tnoio evils wiu
n3". bo attributable to any Mao in our liuunciax system, but to th practice and assertions of
t.ie executive tieparwnent m uisuoiioriuv:
and discrediting the coin which It is tneud.itvtn snstain hv all the influence and 'oower
ef ihnir nffieifll "rtuthoritv." Ill the HotlflO Of
Iieurescntativeii. bills were introduced lor tho
rssurvev of the Bay of San Francisco, to p rovide for th: inspection f live stock and hog prod
ucts, to abol sb tlis Fort Wallace military
reservation in Kansas, t pension the only sur
viving granaua igiitor o: rnotnas .leuerson. ki
confer on Lieut Green the rank of colonel, for
the admission of Montana as a State, and lor the
erection of an Indian school building at Carson,
Nevada. Mr. Wadswoith offered a resolution r'eclArine that President Cleveland has faith
fully endeavor d to maintain tho equality of
f old, silver, and paper dollars.
The Senate, liter considerable debate, adopt(Id a resolution on ths 19th Inst, extending the Jtivileges of the floor to Mr. Moody, of Pokota. k tolrit resolution was nassed to appoint Gen,
John F. Hartrnnft a manager of the National
Soldi: rs' Home in nlace of Gen. McClellMi.
.esolutinn waf agreed to directing the Secre-
-.ary of the Treasury to state tne actons i eaon purchase of silver bullion for coinage since last Tnlv. Mr. Teller araned n"iiinst a sold stand-
ird', and Mr. Morrill gavo notice of his
intention to sneak on the snbiect of silver.
Speaker Carlisle laid before the House of Represnntatives a letter from the Chief of Engin
eers, asking fr on appropriation of $5 ''.000 for
Htrvo.vs on tte Mississippi River. Bills were renorttHl back for tho nurcliose of tho old
Pivwliiee F.sehanee Buildinc iu New York, to
place Fitz John Porter on the retired list as
Colonel, and to increase tne pensions oi widows from S8 to $-12 per month. A resolution was
ndnnted aecevtlne: the statue of JameB A. Gar
field presented by tho State of Ohio. A bill was passed apiiropilating ?12.u: for the relief of the Northern Chevonnes in Montana. A BEsnjuonc-N directing tho Secretary of tha Treasury to fo:-ward all papers relating to tha contract to put an additional story on the Postoffloa at Peorlu. 111., including a protest against tho work being performed by convict labor, was ng.-ood to by the Senate on the 'JOth. Tho discusson of Mr. Beck's silver resolution was then resumed. Mr. Morrill declared that t he only hostility to silver arose from what soeaicd to be a fixed and passionate purpose of some of its advocates to promote such an excess of silver coinago as will drive gold out of the country and leave our vast trade and coinmorcs based upon silver only. He stated that no man proposed to demonetize tho white metal ; hut the public seemed to forget that out of a coinage of -2U,03J,00J silver dol lors wo had only pushed 5tf,OW,O00 into circulation, Mr. Morrill dimiod that there had boen any failure on the port of the Tro lsury officials to comply with t te laws regarding the application of tho nvuiey rocelved from customs duties. He contended that the public faith was pledgod to the payment of the bonds, botn principal and interest, iu gold, and chat our credit would bo dishonored by paying them off in silver worth 79 cents on the dollar; that a continuance of the roinago oi silver meant the banishment of gold, a monetary orisis, and an indefinite Issue cf green, backs or the revival of wild-at banks. Mr. Beck said that t: stop coining silver money iu order to mak silver money luoro valuable was like stopping the grinding oi ivhoat into Hour In order to maki wheat more valuable. The purpose was t suspend It now and uover to resume coinage. He pave notice that in due timo he wonld reply to Mr. Morrill's mo 'ch. Mr. McPliersou iN. J.l expressed himself in fa'or of as much silver coin as would keep it on a ptx with gold. Mr. Bock said the people of the West had shown their confidence in silver. Thev ho-l sent East MS,ufl).tt0 of gold dollars and teok silver certificates for it, snstoined by silver alone.until the Treasury stopped it. Mr. Teller, in who e time mo it of the debati had taken place, declined to yield any longer, and continued his remarks. He repudiated tho Idoi implied by the g rid nlvoi-ates that the poaplj whom h represented nvaut to scale the deot. Mr. Mnxey sui-l the hauliers had been doing-all they could to bring about their own predioliciis, a-id a little ring of lliem had been formed for the purpo jc of shipping a little gold. President Cleveland sent to tho Senate tho name of Charles J. Candn txi ho Assistant Treasurer nt New York. The House of Representatives passed the Seuato ! ill for tho nu-chaso of the old produce exchange building n Now York. Pills were reported to retire Lieutenant W. H. Randall as a Lieutenant Commander, and to authorize the voluntary retirement of naval ofitoera who have i-orved for
tlitn.-years oi who nve neon eomsp.cuous lor ticr. :m. A I voly debate took place on the biU to iucr aso the pensions of widows from S6 to $ U per month.
of Bulgaria and Eastern Bonmelia. and
charges the Government with getting up pretended net Hons for resuming tho war with
Bulgaria.
Tho tunnel between Liverpool and Birken
head under tho Mersey was formally opened bv the Prince of Wales and his two sons last
week. PERSONAL.
A dispatch from Newport, It L, announces the death of Mrs. Greene, whoso hueband was
the son of Nathaniel Greene, tho Revolutionary
General. Bhe had passed tho ago of los years,
and untd recently retained her fine literary
tastes.
The remains of Miss KstherinoLee Bayard
ere" interred in tho Old Swedes' Cemetery at
Wilmington, Del., a great multitude, notwith-
tandin the inolement weather, being present
at tho solemn services.
D. .1. Swoiiio. Chief of the Chicago Fire De
partment, called on President Cleveland at the
White House last week, and was introduced by
Congressman Lawler. The President showed
lively interest in Mr. Swonio's doe-enption of
the Chicago Fire Department and related sev
eral amusing incidents of his connection with
the Buffalo volunteer lire forca When Mr,
Swenie arose to leave tho President shook
his hand warmly and said: "I am glad to have seen vou. Your conversation carries me back
in memory to a period of my life when I knew
little and cared ie.s for politics. I can't begin
to tell you how gratifying it is to talk with some one who doen't want an office or has no polit
ical ax to grind."
vada, Mo., for the murder of Jacob Sowoll and eon, was witnessed by 10,000 persons, and the
corpse was forwarded to Indiana for interment; Charles Wilson was hanged at St Louis for killiug tho mate of a river steamer; Noah Merrimau was swung off at BeUoviUo, III, for
murdering his wife; tho Bev. William Jones
(colored) was strangled at Lake Providence,
La., for the murder of his mistress, Peggy
Johnson; and William Madison (also colored)
was executed at Beaumont, Tex., for the murder of a follow negro named Albert Smith.
About twenty masked men went to the jail
at Vincennes, Ind., early Saturday morning
and demanded the colored murderer, Holly Epps. They broke into the hallway and vered the Sheriff with revolvers, but after fruitlees attempts to obtain the keys and butter down the iron door, the mob dispersed. The
following morning the mob wore more successful They battered down the doors, dragged the murderer from his cell, hurried him to tho
outskirts of the town, and banged him to tho
limb oi' a tree.
Three murderers were condemned to be
hanged next May at Washington.
-William Porter and Mike Kurtz, noted
cracksmen, who in 1884 robbed a jewelry utore
at Troy, N. Y., of S60.000 worth of valuables, havo been arrested, the former in New York
and the latter at Jacksonville, Fla,
INTERSTATE COMMERCE,
Cullom's BiU and the Committoa's Report Laid Before the Senate.
The Power of Congress to Regulate Comment Between the States Clearly Bet Forth,
HEBE ABD THESE.
FINANCIAL AMD INDUSTRIAL.
There is a report that agents of Eastern
money-loaning firms have been dipti to make Western loans hereafter only rold
absis.
The pioneer bank at Devil's Lake, Dakota,
of which A M. Ferris is President, has sus
pended, with liabilities of about 125,000.
. It. Mills & Co., printers and stationers,
at Cincinnati, made an assignment, with lia
bilities of about 930,000.
An automatic nail machine has been in
vented at Boston, which, if it can perform the
work claimed for it, wfll solve the wage ques
tion forever.
The iron market at Philadelphia is brisk,
with quotations firm, It is expected that all
kinds of rolled iron will advance within thirty
days.
Advices from Pittsburgh, Pa., say that the
strike in the coke region is assuming serious
proportions. Four thousand ovens and 6,000 men are idle. The Hnnuarians, who constitute
the majority of tho strikers, are well armed,
ferocious from drink, and threatening trouble.,
Throe hundred of them visited the works at Btonervillo and compelled the men working
there to knock off and join their ranks. Adju
tant General Guthrio lias been requested to
send a regiment of the State Guard to the dis
turbed district, but he hesitates to comply.
POLITICAL.
According to a Washington special to tho
Chicago Iiiter-Ocfan, Congressman Morrison
does not believe there will bo any reformation
of the tariff at this session of Congress:
He hna heen looklna the f round over, and
says If tne lomnnues on ways auu aieiui could agree upon soino plan of revision and report a bill, the House would kneck It all to
pieces ana aisagure ii, so uw- tne jwui. uuiv. a wnrse than no revision at all. No two mem
bers can ajuaa upon anything, and every man insists iinnsluvvins his own Ideas adopted. If tho
committee should ropoit a bill to place some
special article o:i tne free list, line woras or
avt. Tor wmnn liimth me u luuu, uevitiviuv.
Colonel Morrison says it would be buried under en avalanche of amendments and would ultimately be killed of it-, own weight. He does roi think "there is anv sen o iu attempting arevislon unit as it is done'iu ct ovmittoe, where each item em, i. enrefnllv studied, and that would be a
waste of time, because the House would tear to
tatters any Mil tne committee migm, iramt. Tho outlooS seems hopeless to him, but Mr. niic of Tatar is mrr Runeiiine. and will try
to get through his bill t j piece on the free list tho "necessaries of life."
In the United States Court at Keokuk Judge Lovo said he had received a decision from
Judge Brewer to the effect that the Iowa pro
hibltorv law was unconstitutional as applied to
breweries erected before the law was passed
W. B. Vangban, Mayor of Council Bluffs, as Chairman of the Executive Committee of
Mayors of Iowa, has oalled a convention to as.
eemble atDes Moiue3, Jau. 97, of porsons who
believe tho prohibitory lave is "obnoxious,
tyrannical, and unenforceable," to take action io
the premises which may have the desired el
feet upon the Legislature.
--Henry Lloyd has been chosen Governor of
Maryland by the Legislature, . GENERAL,
life irons, his sorrows, had .been reviewed
before his soul. He had seen again his j to tho County Asssisui-ru, ions, the slain in battle, in the jride of being ap ina'ease of 28,800
Thf population of Oregon, according
ia 2M,W)0,
P0REIQK. Mr. Stead, editor of the Pail Mull tiazetle, who, in November, was seutcneeii to three months' imprisonment for his connection with the Eliza Amistroug auduntiou case, has been released from prison. Lords Granville and Hartingtoti are said to havo Induced Mr. Gladstone to al andon the plan of u separate Parliament for Ireland. Hevnral Radiol English uewspspeis are also denouncing hi -me rule. London htd a great spread wedding, the Earl of Airlie I eing the groom and, f.ady Mabel Gore (lu hi i-lt Spain ii iigitated over (he ae-ivity of tho Cai'lislK and IU jitiblic ini. on the H unt or.
The St I'tt ii: i!ii'j? police hav discovered
onotLor Nihili i losort and seized a lot of exjllusiveu and l. catkin;) Uli doj-.iirioutM. The press) of tiorym dauouoceii the union.
The Illinois Contra! Railroad has declared a eeuii-aiuuwl dividend of 4 per cent, payable
March 1.
The minority report of the llouso Com
mittee on Military Affairs on the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was laid before the
House last week. Tho minority says: The
onlv tenablo ground on which the report
can be sustained and tho finding of the court-
mart'al reversed is that the court wickedly,
corruptly, and maliciously conspired to sacrifice Porter to save Pope from the odium of defeat and be would be a bold man
who affirms that proposition. Tho minority
armies that the bill is unonwtituaoaal inas
much as it is a usurpation by Congress of the
functions of the co-oitlinato branches of the Government. They say that if the bill does
not nominate Porter to office it is an absolute nnllitv. If it does nominate him, it is an in
vasion of the executive prerogative. It is advice or law. If advice it is useless, and if tew
it is usurpation. If the court-martial emd,
there was no appeal. The minority respected
Porter for his persistence, still it could not
but believe that his tbeouedieuce and inaction cast a Bhrond of woe over thousands at home
and brought disaster to the national cause.
It is stated that building operations on the
North American Telegraph Lroo will bo begun
immediately.
0ASTJALTIES.
Adolph Goldsmith, a New York watoh-
dealer, failed, with liabilities aggregating
$177,81)0, and assets amounting to $78,670.
A snow-slide at Ouray, Col, carried away a cabin contftinin six men. Two of them were
found doud and the others i-eceived sovoro in
juries.
In Columbia County, Ark., the dwelling of
Emanuel Johnson was destroyed by fire, and six children sleeping in one room were burned
te a crisp.
The steamer Modoe exploded her boilers in the Allegheny River, at Pittsburgh, instantly
hilliu:; Pilot Joe Davis and seriously and ior-
haps fatally injuring Fireman Matthew Higgins and Capt jeff Evans. Tho balance of the orow
escaped unhurt
The explosion m a tank in tho rendering house of Short & Coolny, at Creston, Iow, resulted in the death of two employes and the
scalding of several others.
Coal gas caused thu death of Mrs. Thomas Campsie, of Adrian, Michigan, and lior hus
band cau hardly survive his mittnes.
The cabinet shop of the Joseph Peters Furniture Company, Kt. Lonis, valued a,t S45,-
000, was destroyed by lire.
Iu attempting to rescue his grandchildren from a burning dwelling at Greeubusfc, Me.,
Benjamin Cookson, aged IS, perished in the
flames. CRIMES AMD0BIMIHAL8.
Dr. Thad Shew was sho-i ded by m un
known assassin at Now Boston, Texas,
r-Tie exooutjon of Henry M Sti' at e-
Ak explosion occurred at the month of
the coal mine, near Wheeling, which filled
up the mouth of the mine with debris,
shutting off the means of escape or the miners, who were at work in the mine. It is supposed that thirty-seven men are im
prisoned auu it caiuruitue uaueiimu nuruim they are alive or not. A big fores of men are at work trying to effect their rescue.
George Brown has a suit on trial, at
Decatur, Illinois, against the Chicago, bt.
Louis & Pittsburg railway and Pullman
Car Company for $50,000 damages for keeping his wife's body twelve haul's in Indiananolis last Mav. while on the way
to Zanesville, Ohio, for burial, although he
and friends on the same train were car
ried through on time.
About four miles west of Albany, Mo.,
a passenger train bound for St. Joseph encountered a broken rail, when the whole train, except the engine, was thrown from
the track and down anemDansmeni oi mty feet, demolishing the cars. Fifteen of the
passengers escaped injury. An old mun
named Miller, of Palmyra, Mo., wae in
stantly killed. Those seriously in jured
are: Oscar Lehman, .Burlington, ta., sup
posed to be fatal; Frank Chambers, Burlington, la., wound on the head; Clara M. Rchaefer. Edcar. Neb., and two children;
the mother had an arm broken and. the
children were badly crushed. AH other
passengers and train hands received pain
ful but not serious injuries.
At the Coal Miner's Convention is. ses
sion at Columbus, a resolution was adopted authorizing; a strike on the Baltimore &
Ohio road, between Cambridge and Bt'dinc
A resolution was also adopted favoring
arbitration as a means of settling disputes
arising between employes ana empioyurs. COs the Youghioghony, (O.), river ice,
young lady, named Riser, fell into an air hole. Her escort, James Marshall, ttied to
rescue her but both were arownea. lne
bodies have not yet been recovered.
A special from Booneville, Missouri,
says: Anna need, colored, ana ner iwo children, unable to escape from their burni j-.ln: V. .l in .l.irt.l.
uwemill,, ffiuo UUU1DU w "nui
A terrific boiler explosion occurred at
the distillery of Fairbanks 4 Dunning, at Terre Haute. Frank McNeills and George
Oilman were killed. Their bodies have
been recovered from under the heap of debris, frightfully mangled. Charles W ilkes,
Michael Kyan, Kiley jsvmgton, r ranic Bryant, and Joe Parsons are among the injured. The entire engine house ws torn down. The damage is not estimated, and the cause of the explosion is unknown.
Buckingham and Walker have since died,
making four deaths in all.
The ship Frank N. Thayer, from Man
illa to New York, with a cargo of hemp, has been burned at seat. The vessel was valued at $00,000, the cargo at 250,00(1.
The Coroner's inquest on the remains of
Frank Enoch, his wife, and their two children, whose charred bodies were found in the ruins of their home, December 18, has ended, the verdict being that the parents came to their death by revolvers in the hands of unknown persons and the children came to their death by unknown means.
At the Ellen Gowan colliery near Ma-
hony, Pennsylvania, Jacob Branshire and
Nicholas Caunote were instantly killed and
two others injured by the falling of large quantities of rook and coal.
Joseph W. BAiLEY.dry goods merchant,
of St. Joseph, Missouri, failed. Liabilties,
$68,0011; assets, Sgoo.UUU.
The child of Edward Applegste, of
Posttswood, New Jersey, which was bitten by a mad dog twenty-one days ago, died of
hydropnoDia.
The report of Senator Culpm s Select Committee upon Intcrs'ate Railroad Transportation, which was submitted to the Sena e on the 18th of January, is a voluminous document, which discusses tho tr.vnspor.alion problem In all Its bearings, ane. especially tho question of the power cf Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Witt, tho report Mr. Cnllnn sub-mitt-jd a bill regulating interstate commerce, which ho asked might bo r;lorred baok to the oomraitteot and that the coi vmlttee be continacd. The request was grout jd. Tho following: ii a brief synopsis of tho bill : After specifying the classes of oarrlers, or rather Vtto kirde of traffic to which the regulations pr s .ribed are to apply, and declaring that all charges made by such carriers shall be reasonable, the preliminary sections aim to prohibit every v&rlety of unjust discrim'nation ; to prescribe ad.:quut pe-n-ilties therefor, and to prescribe for thoir enforcement In the courts of the United States. These sections include the requirement' that all carriers shall afford rev
sonoblo facilities for tho interchange of trafik with connecting lines, and the nrohlbition of a greater chargo for a shorter than for a lorgM fltst-inre. exeunt when it can bo affirmatively es
tablished bv tho cnirier that such charge floes not constilril ) an unjust discrimination. Such conimci: can ier ms.y, however, in special cases
be authorized ny tne commission io caorue iesu for lancer than fir sLorter distances for the
trsnsnmti.tinn nf roftsomiora and nroncrtv.
Anotaer seottoi! requires ail carriers buujucu to tho provls ons of the proposed act to file their
TELLER'S TALK,
Spirited Speech by the Senator from- Colorado on the Silver Question.
Ebtborate Ti We Presented tte SeuW
Showing the Coin Clrealsdim f the Wortt.
The day in the Senate, on the 21st inst, was
taken up in a discusion of the bill to provide for
the counting of the electoral votes. The House
resumed the consideration of the mil to increase
the pensions of soldiers' widows, soverai amendments were offered. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, raised the mint that an amendiK ent was
not in order, as it contained the substance of the bill pending before the house. A long dincussion of the point followed and in order to enable the
matter to ue iu..Ke in u, bum iuimmi ... -j nuum
adjourned.
THE MARKETS. NEW YORK.
Bexves w.90
Hoas -w Wheat No. 1 White 93
no. 2 neu co
Cons-No. 4 so Oats-White 89 Pojik Mesa 10.30
Beeves Choioe to Prime Steers. 8.25 m 5
Good snipping -i.tw c Common 3.50 i
Hoos .o- ta i FMiiTlt Extra Spring 4-7S T 5
Choice winter. s.i etc
Wheat-No. !i Spring 17 ty. Cons No. 2 3 (iats-No. 2 2 Bye No i 57 M BABUST-Nr.a M Butter Choice Creamery 28 m
rnie uuiry io s
Cseksk Full ('room, new 10 (S
summed mats uo sj
E-Kis Fresh l of
Potatuks cnoioe, per on uu iw
PoiiK-Mess. 10.75 tail!
Mil. VVAUri lift. Wheat No. 9 77 Conn No. 2 36 J Oats-No. 2 $ lira -No. 1 . Pons. New Mcsb 10.75 1! TOLEDO.
Wheat No. a 88 g
Cokn No. 2 Oatb-No. 3 ' ... -30 ST. LOUIS. Whsat No. 2 Bed .87 CoitN-MUed 33 S OATS-Mixed 31 i PointNew Moss 10.75 tl CINCINNATI. Whkat-No. 3 Bed 89 & Conn-No. 3 37 0 Oats--No. 2 31 ' PonK-Mess.. 10.73 .U Live Hoos KwiWAm"" 3,81 ' DETROIT. BSEF Cattle 1-50 Hoos 3.SC' siiEEr 3.0C' r Wheat No. 1 White .86 3j Corn No. I M 9 Oats-No. 2 M & INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Bed .91 g Cobs New Oats No. a . EAST LIBERTY. Oa'TOE- Best 5.8! & Fair 4.23 & Common 3.50 (3 Hoos 9.7J & 6BBEP. 2.56 & BUFFALO. Wheat No. 1 Hard .96 f Cons Yellow..,. .41 3 Cattle 9
6.S0 4.50 & .95
& .89Vf
m .ot (its .43 ($11.00
tariffs n-ril classifications with tho Interstate
fVmimlsii'Oii. and m-ovides that thev shall ho
posted or otherwise published, but loaves to bo dat rmiotd by the commission the manner
nf imhiir-ntifin and the nlaces at and between
which istei shall be pnbllshed. Provision is
made for enforcing tho requirements of tho commission In ihose resnects through tho courts,
and for tho maintenance of tho rates that may
thus bo pneusbad. Provision is also made for the appointment by thn Pi-iisidei t of five Commissioners, to be con
firmed by the Bor ate, the Commissioners first appointed to continue in office for the term of
two. three, f 3ur. flee, and six years respectively
beginning the 1st 'ay of July next, not mors
than throe oi whom snail re appouwea irora the sa ne political pnrty ; and Several sections are devoted to prescribing the duties of the
Commissioners and the mann r l i which comnlainti iireta ho investigated aud penalties in-
stituteil under Its direction when found necessary. The Hilary of each Commissioner is to
he S7, u pel annum. ,b Tho i-ijnoi aexmnanving the Dill is a volu-
uiinous document. It sava tho ontlcok is not goed for the United States'to ship broadetuffs in n,iifmi"ed n.inntit-es throuahout the civilized
world, mi l tho principal markets, both for bread and meats, nust Leuo forth be sought at home. Initsditcuislonol tho power oi Congress to ra-mlaii eommere?. the ommittee reviews ex
haustively the declarations of the United States Supreme Court on the subject It says : From the judicial construction of the word commerce by tb court of last resort, it is apparent that it has a very wide meaning as employed in the Ccnslitution, and that it includes not only intercourse and traffic, bnt as well tho subiect-
motter of intercourse and traffic, and also the channels through which and the agencies by which Ruch intornonme and traffic mav be car
ried on, Bellrcals are everywhere lecognused as cemtuou carriers, and as such are held amenable to tho' courts for the performance of such duties as devolve upon common carriers under the law. No common carrier has the right under the common law to discriminate between persons or nl(u?ea. or to aire nreferenoes in any manner.
Tie theory of the common law Is that all who are sit uated alike must be treated alike. Unjust discrimination is tho chief cause of complaint against the management of railroads in tho conduct of business, and gives rise to much of tho pretsnre upon Congress for regrjative
limitation, ine ranroaa companies uu li
ogni.:e at tiev should, ttic ract inairaey sustain
a ainereut relation to rue pnuiic irom jwiwhu engaged in ordinary business enterprises Bailroad ccnipunies are not so disposed to regard thomsalves as holding a public office and bound to the public ns expressed iu the ancient law. Thev do not, deal with eaoh eitizen alike. They discVimiuato between persons ana between places, aid tho States and Coni-reaa are conse
quently cauca on io m miiuo wj ojjioivo , plain 'srinc plos of the common law for the protection of the people e gainst the unlawful conduct of common carriers in carrying on the commerce of the country The railroad ooiporations necossariiy rest nnder the same Dbllgiftlons to deal fairly and equitably with ull Its citizens without favoritism or discrimination as tho state itself . There is no ooenct in to consider the necessity of a constitu
tional amendment lor tne regulation oi ironportatior. nntil it has been demenstrated by actual
trial that the powers now possessed by Congress can not t.i axoreised offecsivolv.
The su t.t of competition neiwecn wawr-wavv niirl 1-niir in.s is discussed brietlv. and the con
clusion is, reached that waterways are the most effective regulators of railroad charges, and tha emancipation of the watcm 18 a national necessity. The improvement of tho Mississippi and its tributaries is briefly alluded to and warmly
Indorsed.
Of tho Hennepin canal tne cornrniiKO sy
that nho eommerce of tho nation would derive fresh and continued advantages from the construction oi this canal. Tho committee formulates its conclusions ac companyin j each with arguments and citations
to snow tut ground upon, wmuu uivy iwhhued) as follo vs : 1. The nablic interest demands regulations of the business of transportation because in tho absence of such regulation tho carrier is actually the solo nd final arbiter upon all disputed questions fiat ariso between shipper and carrier as to wh ti er rates are reasonable or unjust discrimination has been practiced.
a. it is tne aiitv or congress to tomuh regulation if the' business of transportation, because f admitted abuses in its management and of acknowledged discriminations between
persons t-ud places in its practical operations evil-, whlel: it is possible to reach and remedy onlv thnuu'h tho exercise of tho powers granted by 'the O nstltntlon to Congress, and against which tho citizen is entitled' to the protection nrd relief tho national authority tai alone afford.
3. National legislation 18 necessary io remeaj the evils complained ot, became tho operations
of the trnninjortation syitim are, for the most
part, bivoirt the jurisdiction or me disks, sua until Co'ieiws nets, not subject to any covorn-
meutal control in th) public interest.
4. fii.tonai iof.-8'auou is KIM) mJWBNUJ uonfin(.e the ImflvntB of transnortatloh is es
sentially o! a nctare which requires that uniform svst;-:n and method of regulation whloh tho national authority can alone prescribe. 5. The inilnrn of Congress to act ia an excuse for the attK nipt made hv the railroads to regulate the commerce of the country In their own wav and In their own interests by whatever eombinatlci s and meth ids thoy are able to put into operation. That a problem of such magnitude, impirtance, and intricacy can bo summarily top ed by any mastor-stroko of log slative wisdom In beyond the bounds of reasonable belief. TlM.t the railroads, unaided or unrestrained, can or will eventually work out its solution seems highly improbable, judging from past experience, and can not reasonably bo oxpt etod. That a satisfactory scl alien of tho problem eon be secured without t!v aid of wise legislation the committee docs not beli-ave. The committee declares that publicity is the bost remedy for unjust disorimlnatlon, and recommends tho posting of rates under the directiou of a commission. Tho concluding chapter embodies a recommendation for the establishment of a national commission to enforce the legislation which the committee recommends.
Mr. Ingalls, o ' Kansas, offered a reaolatton
the United Stat is Senate, Jan. 18, whieli, with
out debate, wai agreed to, directing the
tary of tho Trei sury to inform the Senate
amount of a lver hollton bad bwa purchased for col logo In each year since July 1, 1.878, In what market the same had bn pur
chased in each case, and frora whom, nod She price paid; all 3, whether in any uurtiMMS all bids had been rejwiied. and if so. for what ftav son. and in whiit money or currency the VSf" meutfor such ill vei bullion had been injwle.MrV
Teller then addressed IM Hpaws on ibhuw
uestion. nis imuu were huinb .'j mmmj . igures. The following is a fair abstract : . Mmiev scan itv means dull times Mid law
wages, the money-lenders suffering least ,ftnj th-i scarcity. Gold and sliver cumbilied had been found Insufficient: to carry on the bnsuws of the world, aid all nations had resorted to pa
per currency t ised on those metals, rttmaam it was plain U at gold alone would not sionOK He showed tho t the bondholders and capitalist were opposed to the peoplo in this struggle- Tb creditor class wanted silver demoastued because of the c nseqnnt enormous increase las th) purohaaini power of gold. He pieseataa ' figures sbowlm : that when the silver coiuagaaet passed there a un,000,OS in fold in be Uatod States, anc now there is 8aS,06O,00i an ad-
di iion of gold 1 1 the rata of JU,U0U,800 m jwrn tho face of the cry that we would ltweajlaor gold, wonld lot e our national credit, and womjdt be unable to sell our bonds. The Bank ef SSOglnd was' fast losing its odln and boliioa, hi tho . last six month) it had lost J38,000,OOQ of it, and in the soma time had lost - W8,000,')80 of its deposits. Was it not extnurrUaary, U our finaiicial policy was so nnwtaev and that of England so wise, that WW had accumulated so large an atnounf of gold while Kngland was losing her gold? Tho wuolecondititn of oiur country, Mr. Tellar oonttiued, was an eloquent denial of th- truth of tie prediction and complaints ot the eufwlfj . of sliver. Thi stoppage ot silver eobit4 wOOta be equivalent to th addition of S ,000,000 tt tte national debt. It would add from auto 89 per cent, to ev ery dollar of debt hi the land an amount almo rt too great for ouuiuutatton. The cieditor class demanded suspension of theootaage, which w s practically a stoppage M. i, aud, a so that w pay is gold the S lwe.oilO at n ttional-bank notes and withdraw them frcjW circulation, the next move would ha to taps ftoin the silve r dollars already ordnsd llieir legal tender value, thus effecting a lednetion amounting oltogethi r to toe.2,000,000 In the circulating medium ove i one-third of our whole emulation. Then, - rtth 4(0,000,000 of balance loekait np in tha T reaaury, as now, the btaineas 'of the country v. onld be left to be done-wlth aboat one-third of our present stock of money. The laboringmen were well aware that the St est . Treasury Dt artment of our Goveninwnt had passed intoff econtrol of the banks, baiihwfs, and moneyed po ere. Every scheme that could diagrace silver h id had tho sanction of ttat depaatnient, if it dM not dire. Uy originate in the dapartment. The Treasurer of the Uai ied Oattea had even goie into a convention o.! Sfty-ftmr banks con yention whose object wa the depreciation of silver and his presence amotas t'le bankers was carefally tetegraphed to all earners of th earth. Another attack on ally vas found in the system of book-kwei'Ing newly adopted by the Treasury Department . in tnatfcig as a liabt lty and not as an asset the- HOB,. 0X1,000 of revmneheldin order to redeem the greenbacks. Acconllngto this idea the nura riouey the OovenuxKratnad in its vaults ifjn Srhich to redeem its paper money, or pay Tip ehta. the an ater Its liabUittaa. Thas. e&MS
cf book-kee ling came of long experienoa tn Wall stre.it. a was for tbe purpoas Jf -ceiving tha peoids aa to the amount of available fends in the Treasury, a ft
would always show fl 00,000,000 IMS,, AtnRltr In the Treaanrv. No c
the Traasnrr offieials believed, fltat tta-l
tinned accus rotation and retention of money is the Treasury was beneficial to the- country, and that the s.isi ension. of the sDver coinas would . t.lso be bemncial to the Treasury; but the trouble with the TrcaaMy officials waa thatthoy " had consult) d the nstionml banks and money ' loanere, and not the real business-men of to country. He d our Government offteers executed the laws of t le land as they found than there would have I een no trouble with the silver nmS- . tion. Mr. T Her did not demand a toned circulation of s lver ; he merely demanded for It an equal ahanct with gold. When that was donst lie would at ide the decision of the iioaniMVaial: world. Let t e gold advocates give to silver fresi -coinage, ast icy gi.ve it to gold,andletthe judg- . ment of mankind be taken on Ms valp :noney. Do lot allow Government officials to discredit it Do not allow (lovernTOenr. iMents (th naticnal banks) . to ssfusys to receive it on deposit .Let all men understand that jyment . tn -asast- a just and fiir payment of a dob srttUn the letter a id the spirit of tha law, and when that was dot o silver would resume tts place as - the favorite momy metal of ooinioero. If it . were said that the special interests of Colorado warped Mr. Teller's judgment, ha wouUreplv that.altboug a Colorado produced fae-qt)rter 0 -all the annual silver yiold of the wcld, y t tta question of silver coinage was one of but littw more import nue to Colorado than to the otaer States of the Union. The real question. wa whether the world's commerce sbotild be ondncted wit'i all tho world's stock of cola cx wt only onr-hal I of it. That question averted men in every ten la tha United Stats. Bespoke, there: ore. for all who toiled in mill aot
field that great boat, as mignsy in m""J modest In aspiration, who cotaetituted 'SB . streugth and power of tha nation; 'trho, though -forbearing and long-enduring. yet.WheaosiSBin defense oi their righta, knew how tooosapal their agents to respect their wiu.
'tta
matter 1 1 wiuoth w - . rrT ntion of Congrew. or bow or with whesja-tha t steps si all bo initiatwl. PrecleBta toM led in mi ny instanoM. OoBgrew hahJHW
COfflMEBCIAl. TRAVELBBS. sr" An Impoiitant Meelslon by the United State Supreme Court. Washington special. Committcos from the several travelers' nssocintions have been making argumeuts before tie Commerce Committee of the Senate aitd House iu support of bills thai have been introduced by Senator Logan and Representative Beach to prohibit the ussfssmo it of taxes in the shape of license fees upon them by the States and cities is. which th?y sel l by sample. There was s. decision iu th Hupreme Couftl to-day which caused llivnt i ll to pack up and take th first train for homo. The State of Michigan imposes a tax of $300 a year upon drummer-. A traveler f.om a whisky house in Chieaeo brought a suit in the courts of that Stati to secuie a return of the foe he paid. T! -e cat wits decided against him in each of tie State courts in which it was tried, ntti he brought it to tha United States Supreme Comt njion a writ of error. This court to-day rt veisod the decision and decided th.it all siwh laws were unconstitutional, a Confeiosi alone liad power to regultitn inbiii-tate comiueiee. The decision applies to every State aud Territory, and tho drummers Will no-lonf-ci be compelled to my licms i in other suitua thm Own in wbich thoy reside.
PLEiBISG FOB DAKOTAi Senator-El- ct Edavrtoa ruaall Alfra-
lnents for the Admission
Half of tt e lyrntory. (Washington SpeoiaL) Tho Dakcta delegattoa, headed by tore Edsertm and Moody, culled
President Cleveland by aoUitnisas, and were heart upon the question cf dtxlUufi tho '.'emtory of Dakota, iidmttttng to Statehood tl southern half, and oiganlaUM the northern notion tat Worth Dakcta Territory, The PresfvU at listened atUnM vt f to.tn delecation for ail hour. Senator Edgerton dlamost of thetalkimt. After recittoB the steps tekwiby the Toiritor which resulted in the ntfseaaf f
the ronstitut ional convention, ne lana -It hu bM n said that there WO. OO
A.iiiin0 Si. MnntJtntioaal eonvsntian:
th.-. tho Uwsnaeted bv th LedS-
lature is without authority, and conseewantly void. I will net examine the que Hon a to . whether the orgaalo act passed by Ccwgiesa lu- s vesting the I l stature with the powwto tegtaj - -late upon ai' rightful subject of legislation. joj f prohibited liy that act gave the Territorial Legislature oowor to provide by law for a oon-- . stitutlonal o mventlonor not. That la jio necessary for out indent parpoae. when statntea are silent, preoe louts make law. While h Ooav stitution ol the United States prev(dsttiat Coi .cress sis ill have power to admit new States, it nowhere i rovfdss, iu direct tonus er OTjnv. ullcatlon. what atom shaB he talnm. to bftoT'X .
tho matter 1 1 ndmlssMS of a now SMS -
attention (
firsts
varied in mi nv i
......1 hmmm laB hv mmvidina for a '
t. nmm. ..nil Mc.t a. f mw rcsivar.ttooiB ha.f
assembled t y authority of the peoplo of tha Vs. , p ritorv '.a -Ithaisbeon said by some that tha peopMtf Dakota do lot. desire division antes 46th p4-, allot. Tho legislature ta lSTt aed anwsjjrial to Com rest by a unanimous vote to otv(aa!'-i.;c the Territoiyon thststh parallel- .Two yeare later a simi' ar memorial was piuuMd, Witt tat -four dissent n votes In bcth.houaetfitoto 1871 another memorial pal sad. y dth ont c osaw lentiug vote hi both faouaso. Agato taJanwrK 1877, auothe r like meitaorial paaasd both. bottM mi.nlnwmi-i. A ealn ai, tita nlt SMSiQU ih 1879
a i rotost ai.aiJist tho admtslon t the Territory as one State w, ia passed. At tho next seasicm a memorial i'a viass askir f tU vision I-A three Torrltori as. IB 1881 aVbUl for oesjsslto ? tioual conv. ntion for South Dakota wa pasSM by the Leg! dature, but failed t3T)coin a 1W for want of the Governor's appn val. At thlat session if he Legislature ft 1-aaasd. and tbf some Legls latum passed a meinwialto Qsnmsas asking for i division on the h parallel. Jth every Lsgi dature for the last llfteen ysars lb representatives cf tho peopto have been mao. nouncedanl nearly unanlmoot upeaitoia eliteson nt rfivi .inn What better anode haM anv oak
of determti Jug the will or choice of tha people?
Too party oorivemaon ew own incvy, v of delegate from the whole TelTttory, i in fvoi- nf . li vision in 1864.
"Another evidenoe ot the dealreof ouri unon this a lestlcn ia tha fast that tor ami
of years wl onover a public institution ha ba provided to In South Dakota a like instisutiost has been pi Gl ided tor by law in North Dakota. " ' It a people who have iuu&llud aft
tne conutt ons oi amnw nmnrn have toe w atth, the numbara, and the ! conoe enti linn them to eioanotpation. i
willinelv a: ic. in icomnlainiiuilv remain in I
inferior co. itlitlon, it would be an ovldasm at
their moon' iicteuay ior
uovermnen. and be a cause f
tension wi r. natriotio statesmaa i
Mr, Clove land asked many (UMoBSt ing the p learanoo of th face of tha
enrouguouv tne lerriwry,.
S3
provemeut ana character or, tne reoi, aenl
uoneuro vo aenniu vy mic MMWaa ;
narriKon u j . inn owfasai west vt ai'lv imnre u d with its reoenthiK. Tnal
have enlii..d a number of tmmbmtiSfbitStS -ffrs
crats in bi'h branohos of OisBB.W' Wa3
cause, ana have been assured by rhwi tbaa.':' V
utnoycau ncir ijmjpwway. HHHjn'
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