Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1893 — Page 6

©he democrat DECATUK, IND. H. BLACKBURN, - - ■ POTitUHF.n. 1893 JANUARY. 1393 Su|Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa_ “T 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 • • ® • • • • ® ® ® ®__ CAUGHT FROM THE WIRE A STREET-CAR CASUAL IV AT CHICAGO. Fire Destroys » Fashionable Boarrtlng-Sobool-A Brutal Assault— ElectrocutedCause of Blaine’s Illness Kept a Secret— A Business Block Collapsed. DREAD FUI- —— Another Street Car Casualty at Chicago. Chicago special: Another street railway collision at Forty-seventh Street seriously Injured seven persons, one of whom will die. A through train on the Rock Island road, tore through a street ear and each of the seven passengers and the driver were buried beneath the wreck of iron, wood, and glass. The conductor of the car. John Taylor, and the injured driver. Charles Saunders, were both placed under arrest, notwithstanding the serious wounds of Saunders. The car containing the. six passengers was on its way to State street In charge of John Taylor, conductor. As he approached the wellknown crossing he says that he looked ahead and although the gates wore up he saw the train coining. He claims that he notified the driver to stop; but that as he did so some one called to Saunders, the driver, to proceed, as the war was clear. Whatever the cause, the car was started and was fairly on the track when the swiftly moving train tore down upon it. The car had nearly»succeeded in crossing the tracks when the engine struck the roar of it and it was overturned. The force was terrific. The car was a total wreck and tho six passengers were buried beneath tho slivered glass and broken timbers. While the passengers were yet buried beneath the ruins of the ear help arrived from the immediate vicinity, and efforts were made to rescue them. The six passengers and Driver Saunders were taken from the wreckage, and carried into a neighboring saloon, whore they at once received medical attendance. Driver Saunders was taken to a police station in an unconscious condition. ROUTED FROM BED. Fire Destroys a Fashionable Boarding School. Fifty young women attending the fashionable Kenwood Institute on Madi»on avenuo. Chicago, were routed from their beds at 6 o’clock the other morning and forced to hasten into the zero atmosphere, clad for the mo;t part only .Id thf sedntv garments they could snatch in their hasty flight from their dgnnitqries when an alarm] of tire wks given. An over heated flue set fire to the woodwork tn the basement and, in spite of the strenuous efforts of the fire department, the Institute. a three-story and basement brick building, was almost totally destroyed. There was no panic among the pupils, but they were competed to cast aside all thoughts of appearances and forsake treasured trinkets and costly wardrobes alike. Sympathizing neighbors threw epen hospitable doors and took the suffering and shivoriing girls in. A Business Block Collapsed. The tour story brick building at 517 Commerce street, Philadelphia, occupied as a salesroom and Y rar(J house by the Nixon Bros.’ Paper Company, collapsed. .Bcvpn men wore in the building at the time. Th red were buried in the ruins and killed; one was badly hurt and three escaped uninjured. The eatise of the collapse of the building was probably t]i9 weight z>f pipe? Stored in the upper fIOSFs, although Mr. Nixon claiihs that stock piled up there was not nearly so great as it has been on many other occasions. The building is a total ruin, and will have to bo entirely rebuilt Cause of Blaine's Illness Kept a Secret Mr. Blaine's disease remains a mystery to all but the family aud the attending physicians. The latter decline without the express authority of the "family to divulge the nature of the complaint which has now kept their patient continuously in bed for seven or eight weeks, with constantly diminishing strength and frequent ’’sinKing spells” threatening Immediate dissolution. One of bis physicians says: "The real nature of Mr. Blaine’s illness will probably only be made known when tho certificate of tho health office is made public, and I fear that will occur before long.” A Brutal Assault. Fisher Ferry, the city editor of the Wabash, Ind., Times, is in bed covered with bruises and cuts, the result of an outrageous assault committed upon him by Jchn Donavan, a I lacksmith, twice Ferry’s weigth. Donavan lias recently figured in several not particularly creditable cases in court, and the Times lias published two or three articles denouncing him. Hence the assault Fatal Powder Explosion. An explosion of powder at Santa Fe, N. M., resulted fatally and did considerable damage to property. Pedro Carillo was killed. James Cavanach and Patrick Donavon will lose their fight ffagan Wins the’Skating Championship. Harold Hagen, tho Norwegian skater, agkln defeated Fred Breen, tho Canadian. In the mile skating race at Minneapolis, Minn. Br.een’s endurance waned, and Hagen, gained rapidly winning tho race by forty yards in 2:49 4,5. Breen's time was 2:54 ts. — Electrocute*.!. Kernel Loth, the murderer Os Mrs Delnaczk, mot death by electricity. a Clinton prison, New York. j The War Cloud Vanished. San Antonia (Texas) special: Th< revolutionary war cloud which has beer hanging over the Mexican border ha: ceased to bo visible. Though th ■ United States troops. United State Marshal, and tho Texas rangers hav .- ' been scouting continuously since th trouble began no revolpyonlsts hav been located for two weeks. Several It dividuals have betyi arrested, but, to a , appearances, the revolution has vai tshed. It is wow reported with some aspect) credibility that the movement was morel a grand snfuggliug ruse to attract tli Mexican trpops to the Ibwer bordei

while thousand* of dollars of merchandise was smuggled over'tho river a little below Eaglo Pass, Texas. WRECK IN CHICAGO. Over One Hundred Paseengora Injured. Chicago special: Tho Croto accommodation was telescoped at Fifty-fifth Street, by a Chicago & Erie through train to Now York. The accommodation train consisted of throe coaches filled with suburban residents on their way to their homes. Fifteen people were severely injured In the wreck, and scarcely any one of tho 150 or more passengers escaped some bruises or minor injury. Tho accomodation train which had been delayed was standing on the maintrack at Fifty-fifth street when the express crashed into tho rear end at full speed. The cars of tho accomodation were telescoped and tho destruction was so complete that it seemed little less than a miracle that scores of people were not killed outright. Scarcely, had tho maimed and bleeding passengers began to emarge from tho wrecked cars when tho debris took fire from an overturned stove. Fortunately a supply of water was near at hand and those less seriously hurt succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but not until a number of the imprisoned passengers had been badly scorched. The weather was intensely cold and some of the helpless victims suffered frost bites In addition to their in furies. B. B. Watlns of 7,409 Honors street, was found to be most seriously injured. He was unconscious when taken from the wreck and the physicians say it is impossible to tell what the result of his Injuries may be. Besides Redmond and Watkins, there is little likelihood that any. fatalities will ensue. ENEMIES OF CARNOT Will Not Rest Until He Is Forced to Resign. Paris special: The gravest rumors are afloat in regard to President Carnot. Several of the deputies, who have been most earnest in pushing the Panama investigation, make no secret of declaring that they will not rest until Carnot is forced to resign. The strength of the case against the President depends upon the truthfulness of Baihut, the ex-Minister of Public Works, and Carnot's friends claim that no faith whatever should bo attached to Baihut's disclosures, that ho is malignant against Carnot tor not having protected him from prosecution and that he wishes to drag the President down with him. On the other hand it is pointed out by the enemies of M. Carnot that Baihut’s charges agree with the facts as known, and that Charles DeLesseps would probably corroborate Baihut if he were permitted to reveal all that ho could tell. These enemies of Carnot arg"o that the trial of the two DeLesseps has been hastened in order to bring them within the grasp of M. Carnot and to keep them silent as to any connection of the head of the State with Panama affairs. They argue, also, that M. Bourgois has not been as earnest as he might have been in bringing the truth to light and that the opposition of Bourgois to the arrest of Baihut was really based upon his fear that Baihut might accuse his former fellow minister, Carnot Meantime President Carnot preserves a serene temper, and seems indifferent to the assaults upon him. Explosion in coal mine. Rot One of Twenty-eight Workmen E«capes, the Rest Being Killed Outright. Como (Col. > special: One of the most serious mining accidents that ever occurred in this State is reported at King, four miles from-here. The Union Pacific own and operate mines there, where 200 miners are employed. In one of the chambers, where twenty-eight men were at work, 'a premature explosion occurred, and twenty-seven of the nuffiher were instantly killed. The -remaining one, being near the entrance, escaped. The bodies have been recovered, but on account of their blackened condition only eleven of the twenty-seven have been recognized. Evidently the victims were killed outright by tbc explosion or knocked senseless and were afterward aspbixyated by the deadly gas. The bodies were found ip all sorts of agonizing positions, many lying crossed or clasped together. The scene was heartrending as the bodies were brought to the surface, many of the women fainting as they recognized the blackened remains of husbands or father#, . JOY IN THE FAMILY Over the Recovery of a Young Lpdy’s Voice Lost Several Years Ago. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, doctors are puzzled over a strange case, in which a girl recovered her voice after losing it five years ago. Miss Elia Hale, daughter of a prominent citizen, was seized, just five years ago, with a paroxysm of coughing. On recovery she found that she had lost her voice. It was considered a momentary loss, but it was soon to be seen that it promised permanency. Doctors said it was from paralysis, and the girl resigned herself to a life that promised anything but happiness. Now she is able to talk as well as ever, having just regained her lost power. She was experiencing a coughing spell similar to the one in which she Jost her voice, and, on gaining relief, found her v'-Ice as perfect as before the affliction. The oy in Mr. Hale's family can be imagined. Kansas Democrat* an<l Republicans Indignant. Dispatches from Lawrence. Hiawatha, and McPherson, Kansas, state that the Republicans and Democrats of those place* held ma«s meetings and protested against tbc action of the Populists in the Lower House, at the same time urging the Republican majorty to maintain their position and assuring them of. the endprsernent of public sentiment A dis patch from Wichita. Governor Le welling'*’home. state that the Democrats of that place, who supported him loyally during the campaign, are considering the advisability of holding a mass meeting to protest against h f s action lu the ,legislative muddle. Colorado’s Now Governor Against Hanging. Denver (Col.) special: Peter Augusto; , under sentence of d<-ath for the killing of Harry SiHllvan, has been granted a respite of ninety days. Thu wa- the i first official act of the Populist Governor. • Davis 11. Waite, who is opposed to capital punishment, and its his inaugural ad---dress ri-eotiijjiiended the abolhhment of it and the substitution of ljf<- imprisonment. The Governor is determined that, there shall b<; nd hamginz, .and the ret- spite L -granted to. gjye the Mature an opportunity to abolish tielaw. 8 ’lllyy Want a New Ship <’:«linl. - [ Pursuant to a call ksp.-d t.-,- ♦), ' 1 Duluth chamber of Commerce ae , .< 8 tion will l.e .bold in. Wasblm-iou g, • e further tins projcctYif a eauaTTr/n-R t:,- j ” lakes to tlie Hudson River.' Tth? i * volition will'.be composed ot r< 'ji-.t.. * ® lives of the -I, ppli.g laltes and tb<- various cothrm-r': al. , !’. of the West and Nori]iw<-. T/;< mediate woyk before the convent -j; be to urge tli«. favorable a> t ,n .<■ „. )f gross on the bills Introduced in it* fa.or. The Volume Wrecked. The steamer Cost* ilka. wbhffi j»». ' rived a£Sau FfAiicUco, report* that on

January 13 the eehooner Volante. which sailed in ballast December 18 from San Pedro for Eureka, was seen floating bottom up off Gorderock. Nothing has been heard of the Volante'* crew of nine mon. The Volante WM commanded by CapL Paterson, who owned one eight interest in tho vessel. Tho Volante was valued at $20,000. Lost Her Lira In Trying to Rescue Her Children. Mrs. William J. DoCourcoy mot a horrible death In her home, N<x 1719 EHing street, Baltimore. A kerosene night lamp exploded, setting fire to tho house. Mr. and Mrs. DoCourcey escaped safely, but left two children behind. They rushed, backed to save the little ones, and the father succeeded in carrying both to tho street In safety, but the mother was overcome by smoko, and her charred body was found by tho flroman an hour later. The father and children were badly burned, Wabash Telegraphers Still Have a Grievance. Kansas City special: The trouble between the Wabash railway and its operators Is by no means settled. The general manager has replied to tho demands of tho committee appointed by tho operators for an increase of wages and a revision of regulations. Tho reply was sent to the operators and agents individually. Mr. Hays refuses to accede to their demands. It is probable that a strike will follow. Fireman Killed. Fire at Kensington, a southern suburb of Chicago, destroyed three small business buildings and caused a loss of $lO.000. Two mon, Stephen Morgan aud James Cunningham, of Engine Comnany No. 62. were caught under a falling wall in the first building which burned. • The former was instantly killed, and the ; latter was so severely Injured that ho canuot recover. John Randolph Tucker. John Randolph Tucker of Virginia, is in New York, and will have a conference with President-elect Cleveland before he returns to his home. It is now regarded as a certainty that Mr. Tucker has been asked to become the Attorney General in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet, and it is probable that the President-elect will have his answer before be leaves the city. Ground to I’lece*. Luther Hudlow, a Monon freight brakeman, was climbing from a flat to ( the tender at Crawfordsville, Ind., when he lost his footing and fell between the rails. The entire train passed over the ' unfortunate man, literally grinding him to pieces. His brother who was firing the engine, witnessedJ.be terrible accilent. His residence was at Lafayette.. Burned to the Ground. Cushing Academy- at Ashburnham, Mass., a noted educational institution Mid preparatory school, was burned to ; the ground. Loss on building, $110,000; ' Insurance, $50,000; on contents, $50,000: ' insurance, $40,00U Tho institution has ■ i fund of SIOO,OOO. and a new building will be at once erected. The 225 stuients escaped without injury. Thawed Dynamite, Uniontown (Pa.) special: Joseph Cradiock and another workman, whose name ! •ouid not be obtained, were thawing wenty sticksof dynamite at an open fire n the new tunnel on the State Line exension of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail'<Vid. Tho dynamite exploded, killing .he two men And injuring several others. Old People Frozen. At Evansville, Ind., neighbors found ?red Helper dead in his home and his yjfe helpless in bed. Helper was old md infirm, and having been attacked vith asthma be fell out of bed and froze luring the night Tho wife was injured >y a fall recently and could not help lim or call for her neighbors to aid him. Pays No Premium for Gold. New Y'ork special: Private cable dis>atches have been received in Wall itreet stating that the Bank of France las removed the premium It had been laying for gold. The news is considered >f great importance, as the heavy and mtimely gold exports have been due in >art to this cause. Must Have Paid X*oll-Tax. Little Rock (Ark.) special: Upon can'assirtg the returns of the election m November 8 in this State it vas shown that the amendment to the Constitution requiring an elector to exlibit a poll-tax receipt before he can 'ote at an election was adopted. Paper Mill Sold. C. E. Robertson's paper mill at Lafayette, Ind., has be?n purchased by the Columbia Paper Company, a corporation irganized under the laws of New Jersey, vith headquarters at Chicago. It is said hat. the company has an option on all he straw board mills hi tho United States. Ina Snow-Drift. John Toothman and his step-son, rVflliam Stagdale of Buckeye City, Ohio, vere frozen to death the other night vhile returning from ML Vernon. Their HHiieu were found in a snow-drift. Tnrpie for Senator. The Demonrats of the Indiana Legisature have nominated David Turpie or United States Senator to succeed limself, the vote standing Turpie, 97; shanklin; 1. THE MARKET. 4. CHICAGO. 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NEW DUTY ON TOBACCO .—MiUa—» . ,i, . .. IT ROBS THE WORKMAN. FARMER AND CONSUMER. The •» Duty* Though but Two Year* Old, Haa Deoreuead Wage*, Clotted Faetorlei and Inoreaeed Price* or Deteriorated the Goode. The McKinley Tariff Tree. If the 53d Congress docs not reduce or remove the $2 per pound duty which McKinley placed on Sumatra tobacco, it, will not be because it has not done great Injury to legitimate business and has not worked havoc to all except a few monopolists. A McKinley tree, though only two years old, is easily known by its fruit —reduced wages, closed factories, increased power to monopolists, benefits to speculators, Increased prices or deteriorated goods, deception and perjury. The $2 duty has already borne all those varieties of fruit. “Thereare more cigarmakers tramping tho streets to-day," said a manufacturer of Havana cigars in New York the other day, “than I have ever known before.” When asked the cause he explained it by stating his own case. “We have not,” said he, “done as most manufacturers did — increase the price of our goods because wrappers cost more. Here is one of our ‘Conchas Especial’ cigars, which wo have sold for ssl per thousand for five years. We tried to get square with McKinley in the first place by reducing wages. We now pay but $9 for making that ssl cigar, instead of $lO as formerly. Many other houses stopped paying union wages for the same reason. They were compelled to do it In the next place we required our workmen to cut closer. They used to use two and three-quarters pounds to wrap 1,000 cigars, now two and one-quarter is a liberal allowance. This, of course, makes it harder for men to earn high wages. we pay less for seed leaf tobacco than ever before. The tobacco growers thought they were getting protection. Tne fact is that the extraordinarily high duty com--1 pels us to pay more for wrappers—which our farmers can't raise—and ; forces us to pay less for tillers —which they can raise. “In spite of all these facts, we have been unable to keep uur workmen busy, and have had to let some go. If it were not for the McKinley duty, we could now be employing twice as many men and paying them union wages, too.” This same man who, by the way, did not wish his name mentioned in print, in connection with reduced wages, said that the $2 duty had not hurt him as much as it did small manufactures, nor benefited him like it had benefited large onss who had sufficient capital, in 1890, with which, to purchase a two years’ supply of Sumatra before the McKinley tax doubled the price. Many small manufacturers have gone to the wall because of this duty, and many workmen are prevented from going into business because it requires so much more capital than formerly, to purchase wrapper totacco. “The duty,” he said, “protects only the monopolists and suecdlators at the expense of small manufacturers, workmen, farmers and consumers.” He mentioned three New York speculators who had made at, least $1,000,000 by buying Sumatra tobacco before the duty took effect, and selling it a year or two later. That this high duty has, as usual, led to undervaluation and perjury and favored the dishonest importer, is evident from the statement of this manufacturer, accompanied by a wink, that a neighbor manufacturer had actually imported 600 bales of Havana fillers; and that although these bales contained, in their centers, enough wrapping tobacco to wrap the Silers outside, yet wrapper duty was paid only on one bale. This, said my informant, has become the usual method of procedure. Politicians, Take Warning. Those who hope and those who fear that the demand of the people for a radical reform of the tariff will somehow be juggled with and evaded by the politicians overlook the most impressive and most decisive element m that demand. It is that a great public wrong be righted. The economic argument against protection is conclusive, but it was no mere argument of any kind which led to the peaceful revolution of this year’s Presidential election. Protection went down not simply or mainly, because it was perceiyed to be economically unsound, but because it was perceived to be politically unjust. Politicians will do well to give early and serious heed to the just demand of the people for relief from oppressive tariff taxation. Delay is not even expedient. If there is any force in- the plea that the law-made profits of certain men should not be touched this winter or next spring, there will be still greater force in it a year from now. and greater yet from then on. Those mysterious “adjustments” which we are adjured not to touch will become more sacred and inviolable .with every month. If they arc to be broken up at all, as the country declared its wish they should be, the work cannot be begun too soon. Furthermore, it will be extremely dangerous for any politician to trifle with a public demand which has so strong a moral clement in it as that now found in the tariff-reform movement. When an avalanche of that sort is loosened it never moves backward. In 1861 Senator Sherman was writing his brother that the Republican party would pass no laws disturbing slavery either in the States or the District of bia. The clearer-sighted General told him that a war was qpming which would “ruin all politicians. It did ruin all who did not make haste to ally themselves with the moral sentiment back of the war. A similar sentiment is n<sw stirring in the breasts of the people, calling for the speedy removal of the abuses and injustices which selfish men have enacted into law under the name of protection, and it will be the ruin of all politicians who dq not give heed to it. New Yc?rk Evening Post, Dec. 5. True and False. “Protection is a sai< * “J® Democratic platform, ‘ n>) e y of the poor by tho rich, Democratic stump-spea er. .

k whleh the people said "amen" in a voice so loud that it nearly scared Republicans out of their boots. ■ “Well, what are you going to do about it,” now says the protected manufacturer. “Surely you aren’t go- ; Ing to stop all the .fraud and robbery ■ at once! You will ruin us and the » country will go to the dogs if you do." “Lord, save us from our friends," says tho half-fledged, weak-kneed Democratic Representative, as he be- ’ gins to think about voting to put the r duty back on sugar and to leave a llt--1 tie, just a little, "incidental protoc- ’ tion” on manufactured goods. ’ “If protection is robbery, as the 1 people have declared, then incidental ’ protection Is incidental robbery,” says 1 the stout-backed Democratic Repre- ' sentative, as he prepares to vote to ' abolish the whole rotten system of 1 favoritism and corruption and to lift the heavy load of taxation from tho backs of the workingmen. Tho Stool Rail Triut. The policy of the powerful combination of the manufacturers of steel, rails has at last caused a considerable 1 quantity of rails to be imported, in spite of the heavy tariff duty. Tho Iron Age of the 22d ult. reports the sale of 10,000 tons of foreign rails to be delivered at Seattle for use on the Pacific coast. The price of such rails at Liverpool, free on board, is now $19.44 per ton. The duty is $13.44, and the ocean freight charges must make the total cost at Seattle about S4O. The conditions which permit these rails,to be imported profitably are exceptional. There are no rail factories west of the Ro<ky Mountains, and there is only one small one west of Chicago. Consequently, the cost of domestic rails to consumers on the Pacific Slope is largely increased hy the overland freight charges. It would not pay to import rails for Use on lines this side of the Rocky Mountains, for foreign rails cannot be laid down at this port, duty paid, for less than $36 per ton; but the high cost of transportation, added to the high price exacted by the combination, makes it possible now for railroad companies whose lines are near the Pacific coast to save something by bringing rails from Europe by water. If prices were determined competition, even the high cost of overland transportation would not prevent the purchase of domestic rails for use on the Pacific coast. But for for more than two years the domestic manufacturers, under the shelter of a duty which is 69 per cent of the selling price of foreign rails in Liverpool, 4*wve suppressed competition and have exacted a uniform price of S3O per ton at the Eastern mills and $32.50 at the Illinois mills. In the meantime the cost of their raw material has been reducedMjy $3 to $4 per ton, but the effect of the combination agreement has been to deprive consumers of any benefit on this account. This is one of the most familiar examples of the manner in which a trust or a similar combination uses a high-tariff duty as an “instrument of extortion,” in the words applied to this process by the New York Tribune in an unguarded utterance. The duty is three and one-half times the difference between the labor cost here and the labor cost abroad, as shown clearly by Mr. Harrison’s Commissioner of Labor, and tho manufacturers seized upon it as an instrument that would enable them to exact huge profits from the people, for it is upon the people that the cost of railroad equipment finally falls. The price was so fixed by the combination that importations for any part of the country except the Pacific coast would be unprofitable, and not until now has it been profitable to import for roads there, for the quantity of rails imported is shown by the Treasury reports to have been only 433 tons in the last two years for the whole country.- A reduction of the combination price is now predicted. The South Looking Up. One of the pleasant reflections of this Christmas is the fact that we are on the verge of better times. Everything indicates that the coming year will bring prosperity to all parts of the country. The Manufacturers’ Record, of Baltimore, has been making inquirid in all sections, and it reports the outlook as very encouraging, especially inXhe South. All business interests in the South, the Record finds, have suffered in common with those of other sections from the financial disturbances of 1891. Cotton growers, and along with them a large proportion of the mercantile and banking interests, suffered from the low price of cqtton. To the financial difficulties created by the Baring failure was added the economic drag of the McKinley tariff, Increasing the price of articles used by Southern agriculturists. The November election has had very material results from a business point of view. There is a vivifying hope of lower prices and cheapened production when the protective tariff is reduced. The fear of Inimical Congressional legislation has vanished. “Confidence,” says the Record, “has been established, and the South will become within tho next year the scene of unprecedented industrial and commercial activity, not a boom, but natural, unrestrained growth and progress ” The gratifying statement is made by a well-in-formed business man in Alabama that the farmers of his region are out of debt and—a rare thing—“have ' enough to run them through another crop." It is the general testimony that the elections have made the people “feel good.” They are “cheerful and confident,” which means renewed effort, increased enterprise, business activity and progress.—Atlanta Jouri nal. I Not Going to Wellington. 1 Congressman Walker, of Massa- ’ chusetts, in his speech the other day, referring to coming tariff changes, ’ said’ “Now, let no Manufacturer show r his face in Washington under any cir- ) cumstances.” Mr. Walker’s diagnosis ’ of the times is that the manufactur- ■ er’s employes will go td Washington ‘ and do the work usuallv done by the ’ employes if the latter will leave it severely alone. We trust that all

, vflll resolutely stay away and leavi the whole thing to their workmen. Thon we shall perhaps see the un- > wonted spectacle of a lot of mill operatives going to Washington to beg Congress not to do the things that they voted in favor of when they wont to the polls in November.’ For did not President Harrison say in a recent letter that the election was , b lost because the operative would not Walk under tho same umbrella with his employer?—New York Evening Post. _____ ______ Tariff on Raw Material. The claim that the tariff encourages industry is nowhere more conclusively exploded than in tho numerous and flagrant Instances in which we impose tariffs upon the raw materials of our manufactures. The tariff on raw materials—coal, iron, copper, tin, lead, lumber, wool—is not merely (1) a tax on the laboring man, making his fuel and clothing, as wall as his tools and every article of furniture, cost him more than it otherwise would, but (2) directly reduces tho profitable opportuiyty and demand for labor, and therefore helps ' to paralyze industry. As to (1) It is so well understood that it needs but a word. The tariff enables the owners of raw materials to charge more .than they otherwise could. If it did not, there would be no use for a tariff. The manufacturer having to pay more for his materials, his manufactured goods cost him more than they otherwise would, and he has to sell them for more to make a profit. Every suit of clothes costs the buyer more, because of the duty on wool. Every tin pan costs the economical housekeeper more, every tin roof ’ increases the rent of the victims that are under it, every can of tomatoes or oysters costs more because of the tax on tin plates. Every yard of calloo costs the woman that wears it more because of the tax on dye-stuffs; every pound of paint costs more because of the tax on lead; every house costs more because of the tax that is levied on the materials of which it is composed. The result of this is, that the wages of the workman are deminished—that is, he gets less goods for a day’s work. But the second effect of thb tariff On raw materials is a still more serious one. Even if our people alone were to be considered, it is plain that the higher the price of any article the fewer will be sold—fewer people can afford to buy it And since the demand for labor depends upon how many goods are to be made (aud not on how much profit the manufacturer makes on each piece), it is easy to see that taxed raw materials reduce the demand for labor and the number of men employed. But this is not the worst The high price of raw materials caused by the tariff (25 per cent, on coal, 40 per cent on iron ore, 75 per cent on tin plates, 40 per cent on copper, 20 per cent on lumber, 50 to 100 per cent on wool) makes them cost more to our manufacturers, who, therefore, cannot make goods as cheaply as they otherwise could; and hence, cannot afford to sell them as cheaply as do the English and Germans, who get their raw materials free. It therefore is the English and Germans, and not ourselves, who supply the rest of the world at large with manufactured goods.—Hon. John DeWitt Warner. Some Sugar Statistics. Willett & Gray’s Statistical Sugar Trade Journal of Dec. 29 contains weekly quotations of raw and refined sugar since 1882. Those who still think that the tariff is not a tax should glance over these tables. The price of granulated sugar varies from 6 to 9 cents per pound, for eight years, and then it suddenly drops from 6.13, on March 24, 1891, to 4.50 cents on March 31. A foot note says: “About 2 cents per pound duty taken off April 1, 1891.” Since then the price has varied from 4 to 4.92 cents. The price of raw sugar (96 degrees centrifugal) dropped in the same dates from 5.68 to 3.53 cents per pound. If the trust had not been in control at the time, the price of refined sugar would have dropped about exactly 2 cents. But McKinley graciously left a duty of J cent per pound on refined sugar to enable the trust to retain control of the market. The tables also show the benefits of the “economies at production” from trusts. Before the trust was formed, in November, 1887, the difference in the prices of raw and refined sugars had for two years averaged less than 7-10 cents per pound. In 1888 and 1889 it averaged 1| cents. It then decreased, while the trust was waging war upon outside refiners until, on Jan. 14, 1892, it was only 9-20 of a cent. The trust having completed arrangements to purchase all of the competing refineries, the difference began to increase in February, 1892. On March 25 It crossed 1 cent; on May 19, It was 1 1-6 cents; on September 8, 1| cents; on December 29, it was again 1 1-6 cents. It costs about J cent to refine sugar. Every difference, then, of 1-16 cent above this means about $2,500,000 clear profit to the sugar trust The duty of i cent -produces no revenue to the United States, but is worth about $20,000,000 a year to the trust Price of Lead Advanced. The Iron Age comments as follows upon a significant change of prices: “While the deal between the National Lead Company and the linseed oil producers has been shrouded in mystery, as usual of late where concentration of Interests is Involved, a most suggestive move has been made in the shape of an advance of 2 cents per gallon in the price of oil. Not a particle of evidence comes from any quarter that would point to a change in the relation of supply to demand as dictating this advance, nor is the condition of the market for crude material such as to necessitate higher figures for oil.” I The advance is probably due to the great “economies of production” which are attained, the professors of trmtism say, only by means of a combination that suppresses competition.—New York Times. Whisky Tax. ' f The proposal to Increase the whisky tax is the one, however, which seems to meet with greatest favor. . I would please the temperance people . i and ft would not hurt the liquor : ° th ’

'THE SENATE AND HOUSE; I WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. | Froooadinr* *h« Sonata and Hou«o a6 Rapra*ant*Uv*« - Important Monaurot Dloenoaod and Anted Upon—Gl»t of Uw Bualuoaa. The National Solona. * i Tho Senate wee in eeaalon Monday for five hour* Half of the time was spent on 'Mr. McPhenon'a (N. J.) joint reaolutlon lautborlxlnc and directing the Secrutury of the Treaeury to auapen l all purchenea of Oliver under tho Shvrmau act, and tho other half on the bill granting additional quarantine power* and impoalngadditional dutlea upon tbo Marine Hospital tor vice. Nr. NoPheraon addreseed tbo Senate at length in aupport of hit joint reaolutlon., Mr. McPherson bud not finished bis apueob at 3 o’clock, when the quarantine bill was laid before tho Senate ns the special order,’ but It was laid aside temporarily to allow Mr. McPherson tn oincluda The House Committee on Banking and Currency by a decisive vote pushed the Andrew banking and bullion purchase repeal bill, together with the Cate amendment for tho coinage of allvor bullion now in the treasury, through the commlttee and ordered Its report to the House. A motion of Cox (Tenn.) to carry out tho State bank plank tn the Chicago platform was defeated by 11 to L Mr. Townsend (Oal.) offered the Steward free-colnaie PUL This *aa voted down. The Cate amendment was then adopted, and then M-. Cato was authorised to report the bill as agreed to by a vote of 8 to 3. The bill as agreed npon provides that national banks upon a deposit of interest bearing United States bonds shall be entitled to receive circulating notes to the full pur valuo of the bonds dejioslted. At present 00 per cent, is tho limit. Section J reduces the tax on national 1 bank circulation from % to M of 1 per cent, each half year. i Section 8 repeals the Sherman silver bullion purchase act Section 4 is the Cate amendment and amends the coinage section of the Sherman, act so as to read as follows: That the Secretary of the Treasury shall coin into standard silver dollars so much of the silver bullion purchased under the provisions of this act as may be necessary to provide for the redemption of the treasury notea herein provided for. and shall cotn from time to time Into standard silver dollars the remainder of suoh bullion for the uses of tho treasury as speedily as the demands upon the treasury may render practicable the payment out of the treasury of such standard silver dollars, and such standard silver dollar* coined under this provision of this act for the uses of the treasury shall be covered into the treasury as miscellaneous receipts, and any gain or seniorage arising from any such coinage shall be accounted for and paid Into the treasury. The bill granting additional quarantine powers and Imposing additional duties upon the Secretary of the Treasury and the marine hospital service was passed by the Senate Tuesday. Aitor tho quarantine bljl *as passed the special order, t'de bill prohibiting immigration for one year, whs per-, mitted to lapse. The anti-option bill wasi taken up, and Mr. Vilas (Dem.. Wls.) eom-j pleted his argument against It. There w»e no action on the bill, tbo Senate adjourning for lack of a quorum. The House met Tuesday morning In continuation of Mon-; day’a session and resumed consideration, of the bill for tbo admission of tho Norfolk & Western Railroad Into the District of Columbia. and aftor a sharp dis cusslon it wo* passed. The Rouse proceeded to the consideration ofi the Drain joint resolution, proposing! amendments to tho (institution, snbstttut-' ing the 81st day of December for the 4thj dav of March as the conimAcement and: termination of tho official terms of men*-! tiers of the Reuse of Representatives and; of the United States Senators and providing that Congress shall hold Its annual meeting on the second Monday in January, and substituting the 33th of April for the 4th of March as the date for the commence-, ment, and limiting of the terms of the President and Vice President The vote ordering the joint resolution to a third reading resulted: Yeaa. 40; nays, 121: thus defeating the measure. The House then adjourned. Immediately after the reading of the journal of Wednesday Mr. Bhckburn (Ky.) rose, and. announcing tho death of Senator Kean*, offered resolutions expressive of. the sorrow with which the new* of the death waa received. A oommittee was up-, pointed to take charge of the funeral, and; aa a further mark of respect the Senate adjourned. No business but the reception psi the Banking Committee’s majority and. minority reports on the repeal of the Sher-; man act was done in the House. Senator Renna’s death waa announced, and the House adjourned. Both houses of Congress left work Thnr*-. day to take part In tho funeral of Senator Kenna. Funeral service* wore held in the.' Senate chamber./The body of the dead Senator wu* carried idto tho Senate wing of the Capttol and laid In state In th. mar-ble-room under a guard of Capitol police., The casket waa not opened. When the Senate was called to order Senator Faulkner,' colleague of tho deceased, secured for the West Virginia legislative delegation the privileges of the floor, and the Senate took a races«. A bier had been placed at the head of the main aisle. Soon the members of the lower bouse entered the chamber led by Speaker Crisp, who took a place beside tho Vice President. The President, his Cabinet, the Suprenfe Court Judges and the mourning widow came next They were followed by a procession of robed prleste preceded by acolytes bearing censor and caudles. Capitol police boro lb the casket and Bishop Keane, of the Roman Catholic university. In purple robe<, with the prlesta ranged about the coffin The bishop preached tho funeral sermon. In the Senate Friday Mr. Sherman (O.) reported back to the Senate the bill to ex-; tend to the North Pacific Ocenn the pro-' vltlona of the statute for the protection of fur seals and other fur-bearfng animal* The bill was passed. At 3 pm. the antl-| option bill waa taken up tho pending question being the amendment offered by Mr. White (La.) to strike out tho last provision of Section 3. Tho proviso Is “that Buch contract or agreement shall not bo made, settled for by delivery or settlement of difference, or by any other mode of performance or settlement in or upon any board of trade,” eta Tho amendment wa* rejected—yeas, 15; navs, 32. Bo tho proviso is retained in the bllL In the House filibustering was indulged in all day against the consideration of private war, claims bills, with the result that nothing) was accomplished. Most of Saturday’s session of the Senate, was occupied by Mr. Morgan of Alabama on the Nicaragua Canal bill. In the course of his speech he spoke sadly of the Monroe doctrine as “worn, torn and fragmentary,» and as having been kicked by the Senate into “doll rags.” Mr. Morgan, speaking of the provision of the bill for ten Governmen directors (out of fifteen) said that If tho French government had its own dlree- : tors In the Panama Canal Company the robberies which had taken place and which had disgraced and nearly destroyed the French republic would not have been per-, petrated, and that the fraud and! corruption and villainy which waa now shocking the sensibilities of that great and noble people would have been' avoided. At the conclusion of Mr. Morgan’s speech the antl-optlon bill came ttn ns especial order, but (In antagonism to it) Mr. Walcott (Rep) of Colorado moved to proceed to the consideration of tho first billon the calendar. On that motion Mr. Washbnrn (Rep) of Minnesota demanded the yeas and nays, and the result was—yeas 0, nays 31—not a quorum votings After a brief execution session the Senate adjourned. The time of tho House was principally consumed in consideration Os tho bill ratifying the agreement with the Cherokee Nation of Indians for the cession to the United States of tho tract of land known os the “Cherokee Outlet." The bill was passed and the Bouse adjourned. Notes from the Capital. The Senate confirmed tho nomination of Henry Clay Evans, of Tennessee, to bo First Assistant Postmaster General. , Seobetabt Tbaoy has awarded the contracts for constructing the cruiser Brooklyn and tho battle .ship lowa to Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia. Mb. Robinson, of Pennsylvania introduced in the House a bill inereaaing i from $1 to $2 per barrel the Internal . revenue tax on fermented liquors. The naval review at New York next sming, n en t 0K k >ÜB l Oonmaa* makes I viol m for Ito nronar calobratlon