Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCabt. While fishing in Lake Spofford, near Chesterfield, N. H., George L. Conly and Herman Reitzel, the basso and pianist of the Kellogg Concert Company, were drowned. In the Supreme Court of Washington county, R. 1., a decree was entered divoicing Katherine Chase Sprague from XV illiam Sprague, giving Mrs. Sprague the custody of her three daughters, permitting her to resume her maiden name, with leave hereafter to apply for alimony if she chooses. Fire inflicted a damage of $l(X),000 on the Wyoming Valley Hotel at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Wheeling, W. V&., and Putnam, Ct., had each a $60,000 fire, and Lancaster, Pa., one of $30,000. Went. Advices from the wheat region of Michigan are to the effect that the prospect was never more promising, but the acreage has only increased in the newer counties. In an affray at Phil Hubbard, a horse-jockey, was mortally wounded, John Denny was shot in the leg, and a man named Mackey was injured, by 0. H. Wood, a realestate agent A big impetus to Western immigration will result forthwith from the decision of the Secretary of the Interior which opens up to entry and settlement 9,000,000 acres of valuable land in Dakota heretofore claimed by the Chippewa Indians. The land is in what is known as the Turtle Mountain district, and is every way adapted to agriculture. There will be a tremendous rush to secure farms in the fertile region, which is large enough and rich enough in natural resources to support an enormous addition to the population of Dakota. The annual meet of the bicyclists of the United States took place in Chicago, and passed off without serious accident About 400 wheelmen were in attendance.

Dr. G. 0. Hoffman, a German journalist of Quincy, DL, was shot three times by the brothers Hellhake for publishing the attempted suicide of their sister. The decision of ' the Ohio Supreme Court on the question of the constitutionality of the Pond law taxing saloons S3OO a year was announced the other day, and was in effect that the law is unconstitutional, since it imposes a license tax, the constitution containing no provision which authorizes the licensing of saloons. At the annual meeting of stockhold era of the Illinois Central road, held in Chicago, 192,079 shares were represented. The lease of the New Orleans line, which takes effect July 1, was ratified by a unanimous vote. Near the Court House of Sans Bois, in the Cherokee Nation, Reuben Lucas wag shot by the authorities for the murder of Thomas McKinney in December last. He confessed his guilt, but exhibited no remorse. Buffalo Bill was robbed at Denver of money and jewelry valued at $2,000. Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, denies having offered to pardon Frank James or having received an application from him for clemency. Littleton Younger, an uncle of the bandits now in the Minnesota penitentiary, has held a consultation with the wife of Frank James at Independence, Mo. At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Chicago and Northwestern road, held at Chicago, the Directors and officers were reelected, and dividends of 2 per cent, on the preferred stock nnd 3X on the common were declared. The grots earmugs for the year were $23,500,000, 51 per cent, of which paid the operating expenses. South. Eight prisoners, two of whom are murdeiers and one a highway-robber, broke jail at Tuscaloosa, Ala., by sawing off au non door with a razor. A bill lias passed the Louisiana Legislature making it a misdemeanor to st 11 or offer to sell, to ship or place upon the market for sale, any sugar or molasses adulterated with glucose or .any foreign suoatanco w.thout branding or stamping the same.

POLITIC In a circular sent to each department clerk in Washington, calling for voluntary contributions for use in the campaign, the liepublican Congressional Committee announces, by authority, that no will be raised in any official quarter. The New York World prints a lengthy interview with Horatio Seymour, in the course of which that gentleman says : “Ido not believe Mr. Tilden will be a candidate for Governor or that he has any serious thought of accepting a Presidential nomination. Like myself, he is an old man and passed up out of the heat and passion of battle. The place in the forefront belongs to younger men than ourselves. ’ The Pennsylvania Democrats are talking of nominating Gen. Hancock for Governor. The lowa Democrats will hold their State Convention at Marshalltown, Au g. 15.

WASHINGTON NOTES.' The Secretary of the Treasury has had a somewhat startling experience in the Engraving and Printing Bureau at Washington. The other evening, after working hours, two of the Government dies, representing the tens on the national-bank notes, were found lying outside the safe and within the reach of the watchman. The dies were sent at once to Secretary Folger, who took time to satisfy himself that the event was caused wholly by carelessness. Mr. Bell, the custodian of the plates, was dismissed, and Gapt Burrows, of New York, was temporarily placed in charge of the safes. There were wild rumors that counterfeiters had had access to the Government plates, and that millions of spurious money had been struck off. * A Washington correspondent says the assassin Guiteau is beginning to show signs of breaking down, fulfilling the predictions that have been made about him by those in charge of him at the jail. His left eye is very much inflamed, and' the opinion of the physician is that this inflammation has been brought on by great mental and nervous excitement He spends most of the time now lying npon the cot in his cell, and talks very little with the guards. The Secretary of State has received a complete vindication of Mr. John J. Flinn, recently appointed Consul at Chemnitz, Germany. In the star-route cases, Judge Wylie overruled the motion to quash the indictments, and the accused will have to face the music and stand a trial. Sixty-one United States Senators have addressed a letter to Senator Ben H. Hill at the Eureka Springs, Ark., expressive of sympathy and condolence in his illness and of the great satisfaction felt in consequence of the tidings that he is better, and that his physicians are now hopeful of his entire recovery.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS. W, McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

Ministers Taft and Hunt sailed last week for their respective posts at Vienna and St Petersburg. Senator Windom’s investigation of the Bonded 'Spirits bill drew from H. B. Miller, of Illinois, a statement that the Export Association raised $721,000 by assessment and distributed it among the losers by over-production, but nothing had ever been paid to influence legislation. In the investigation at Washington in regard to the Bonded Spirits bill, J. M. Atherton, of Louirnlle, testified that H. H. Shufeldt, of Chicago, had $200,000 placed in his hands to defeat the Prohibitionists in various Western States. Following is a statement of the public debt at the close of business May 31: Extended 6’as 74,100,990 Extended s’s 401,50 ',900 Four and one-iiai? per cent, bonds 250,000.000 Four per osnta 738,071.450 Refunding certificates. 475.550 Navy pension fund Total interest-bearing debt. 41,478,952,800 Matured debts 13,440,1'5 Legaltendere 345,740,826 Certificates of deposit... 12,330,006 Cold and silver certificate* 71,791,540 Fractional currency 7,049,503 Total without interest. 437,911,969 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest 5,726 Total debt 51,931,304,9.5 Total interest 12,213,991 Caeli in treasury 242,103,768 Debt leu cash In trea5ury51,701,475,157 Decrease during May 10,375.141 Decrease since June 30, 1881 139,'23,654 Current liabilities— Iqtereat due and unpaids 1,475,531 Debt on which interest has ceased 14,440,165 Interest thereon 624,555 Gold and silver eertlficste* 71,791,640 United States note* held for redemption of certificates of deposit. 12,330,000 Cash balance available June 1, 141,441.876 Total.s 242,103,768 Available assets— Caah In treasurys 242,103,768 Bond* issued to Pacificrailway companies, interest pavable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 1,615,587 Interest paid by United States. 53,405,977 Interest repaid by companies— Bv transportation service 15,112,847 Jly cun payments of 5 per cent, ot net earning* 665,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 37,637,939

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. In the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield, 111., on the 27ch nit., a telegram was read from the Moderator of the Southern Assembly stating that if tho concurrent resolutions were not modified the Atlanta gathering was prepared to send delegates forthwith. A reply was sent that the Northern body was nearly ready to adjourn, and suggesting that each appoint delegates for next year. A dispatch from Atlanta expressed unanimous approval of the plan proposed, and announced that delegates and alternates had already been appointed to bear Christian salutations to the next General Assembly, whereupon Rev. Samuel Niccols, D. D., Hon. Thomas D, Hastings and Judge S. M. Moore were selected to attend the assembly fit Lexington, Ky., next year. Senator Windom’s investigating committee on the Bonded-Spirits bill began its work by hearing Maj. Thomas, of Louisville. Ho stated that the stock of whisky on hand is sufficient for the next four years; that the relief sought by the House bill will save distillers from bankruptcy ; that ho has 10,000 barrels in bond which he will be happy to sell at cost, and ♦hat more than half the liquor in warehouse has been hypothecated. Charles H. Reed went to Boston last week and applied to Judge Gray, of the Supreme Court, for a writ of habeas corpus for Guiteau. The Judge answered thxt he must wait to present the case to his associates. A strike compared to which the labor demonstrations which have occurred within the last two mouths are but child’s play is threatened in the iron and steel manufacturing trades, and there is only too much reason to believe that the conflict cannot be avoided. For several weeks there has been an uneasy feeling in the iron and steel trade, and fears of difficulty have been entertained. The Pittsburgh workmen have been agitating the wages question, but, after frequent conferences with their employers, have not yet succeeded in settling it. Conferences at Chicago and St Louis between representatives of the iron trade and of the amalgamated w'orkers in iron and steel resulted in a failure to agree upon the advance of wages asked by tho workmen, and it looks, at this writing, as if a stupendous strike were inevitable.

Advices from Sonora represent that the hostile Apaches, pursued by Mexican troops, are now fleeing in the direction of Arizona. An immense number of icebergs, some of them sixty feet in height, arc outside the harbor of Halifax, and drifting shoreward. The steamship Parisian landed at Montreal 1,000 young English farmers, who brought drafts amounting to $750,000. As adduced from the exhibit of Clearing House exchanges for the past week, the mercantile condition of the country is not very flattering. The depression, which was heretofore local in some sections, has made itself felt in almost all parts of the country, and the outlook is deemed very unfavorable. A more general observance than usual of Memorial day exercises was noticeable throughout the country this year. The weather was propitious, and large gatherings paid due homage to the worth of the dead veterans. The general strike of operatives in Western iron-mills which was to have been inaugurated on the Ist of June, and which would have thrown 50,000 men out of employment, has been postponed by agreement until June 15. The workmen adhere to their demand of 10 per cent addition to their wages, but have consented to Jan armistice of flfteenjdays, during which time negotiations will be resumed, with a prospect that some understanding will be arrived at whereby the disastrous strikes may be averted. The iron-mills of Pittsburgh closed on the Ist inst., 10,000 workmen going out on a strike, and in the Mahoning valley, in Ohio, 10,000 iron-workers and coal-miners quit work. Five thousand iron-workers at Wheeling, W. Va., struck work because of the refusal of the employers to grant an increase of wages. Ninety thousand immigrants arrived at New York during the month of May. Estimates place the number to arrive this year at 750,000.

FOREIGN NEWS. There was great excitement at Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, the 28th ult. The Chamber of Notables 'and a body of native merchants went to the palace and appealed to The Khedive to reinstate Arabi Bey as Minister of War, stating their own danger from the army. The request was acceded to, after the offender hid given certain assurances to the agents of Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia. A telegram from Constantinople announces the departure of a Turkish commission for Cairo; that a council of Ministers was held at the palace, and that the' Turkish ironclads are preparing for sea. With the exception of France, all the

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powers agree that if intervention becomes necessary it should be made by the Sultan. One hundred moonlighters surprised the tenants on the Hewson estate in the County Kerry, Ireland, and compelled them to swear that they would not pay rents unless a reduction of 50 per cent was made. Cairo advices ot the 31st ult. were to the effect that Arabi Bey had informed the Khedive of Egypt privately that he bad been deposed, and that Prince Halim would be his successor. AU the banks at Alexandria were exporting their money and valuables. Arabi Bey declared he would refuse to obey a summons of the Sublime Porte to repair to Constantinople. British residents at Alexandria had applied to their Consul for greater security against the riotous soldiery. It was reported that torpedoes have been placed by the Egyptians around the anchorage of the fqjpign quadrons. , By a railway collision near Heidelberg, Germany, eight persons were killed and twenty seriously wounded. Additional men-of-war have been ordered by the French government to proceed from Toulon and Tunis to Egypt The Ambassadors at Constantinople have counseled the Sultan to declare in favor of the Khedive of Egypt, and summon the leaders in the revolt to Turkey. London is excited over a report that at a recent meeting of Irishmen in that city the hope was expressed that Gladstone would be assassinated next, and that the sentiment was loudly applauded. Sexton, M. P., while addressing his constituents at Sligo, Ireland, said the Irish party felt it their duty to meet Ihe Repression bill with stern opposition. He predicted the triumph of the land movement in a year or two, said there were no splits in the Irish party, and this was the proper time to rally around Parnell. It is reported that Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy have agreed to support the policy of England and France in Egypt. Twenty lives were lost by the burning of the poor-house at Oosthammer, Sweden. The American horse Wallenstein won the Manchester cup at the English races. There were fifteen contestants for the prize.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The leading Republicans of Texas have received circulars from Washington, instructing them to consolidate all elements in favor of Wash Jones for Governor, and to forward lists of all counties which can be carried by the Republicans, and state the amount of money necessary for the campaign. Charles H. Reed presented to the District Supreme Court at Washington, on the 2d inst, a petition for a rehearing in the case of Guiteau. Judge Cartter stated that a decision would be rendered as soon as the Judges could consult upon it Sandy Mathews, colored, was hanged at Memphis, Tenn., on the 2d inst., in the presence of a large concourse of people. He murdered the man who enticed his wife away fiom him. James A. Harvey was hanged at Carrollton, Ga., for the murder of Arthur McMullan. William L. Moore was to have been executed at the same-time, but he nearly destroyed himself with poison, causing a postponement for one day of tho hangman’s work. Gen. Fuero, with a force of 400 Mexican cavalry, followed Ju and his force of renegade Apaches for throe weeks, and surprised them near Bosquade Santiago, at daybreak. Thirty-seven bucks were killed and ten captured and shot. The Mexicans had one officer and eight soldiers killed, and two officers and twelve men wounded. Fuero secured fifty head of stock and the entire camp outfit of the savages. Mercantile business at New York is much restricted, but, with the exception of the labor troubles, no adverse elements to retard improvement are apparent. George Ellis, one of the trio who murdered the Gibbons children at .Ashland, Ky., was convicted ot manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Commander Terry, of the United States navy, a brother of Gen. Terry, died of consumption in Colorado. Fully 50,000 emigrants, mostly Scandinavians, arrived in Chicago during May, one-fifth of them to stop there. The Postmaster General has promised to consider the proposition by Representative Robinson, of New York, for Sunday delivery in letter-carrier cities, and a reduction of postage to 1 cent.

Brennan, Secretary of the Irish Land League, has been released from Kilkenny Jail. Thirty-two men are employed to protect Clifford Lloyd, the special magistrate for Clare, Ireland, who has received additional letters from the United States threatening his life it he does not cease to exercise the duties of his office. Gen. Garibaldi died on the island of Caprera on the 2d of June. He for a long time suffered with bronchitis, but his illness took a sudden and fatal turn, and many friends Who otherwise would have been present were thus prevented from soothing bis dying moments. The event of the week in Chicago dramatic circles has been the production, on the boards of McVicker’s Theater, of the new play, entitled, “ The House of Mauprat.” This is a romantic work from the pen ot Mr. William Young, author of “Pendragon,” and Mr. John G. Wilson. It is a drama with a strong story, which is vigorously treated. It has great human interest, and is effectively provided with situations. It deals with the division of the Mauprat family, one part of which is courtly and refined, the other feudal and half-barbarous.— Several important enterprises will distinguish the summer months at McVicker’s Theater. Beside tt> production of “The House of Mauprat,* “ Taken from Life ” and the “ Square Man,” will be brought out, and Miss Margaret Mather will make her debut, coming forward as a tragic actress.

“The Saving of Talent.”

A man recently advocated a “commission for the saving of talent.” He suggested that a number of men of scholarly attainments be appointed by the state or city to visit the public schools at regular intervals and watch for the manifestations of unusual talent. A fund, he thought, should be provided, so that when those watchers found a pupil of marked intelligence they might furnish the money for his instruction in higher branches of study and thus make sure that his talent would be developed. * ‘This talent-saving service,” said the man, “is as important as the present life-saving service.” Judicious aid extended to struggling talent is commendable; but to a “talentsaving service” there is this objection: It would oreate a kind of intellectual pauperism. Talent that cannot save itself is not worth the saving. Moreover, the very struggle for self-assertion is the ground wherein talent grows most healthy and vigorous.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

WHITED SEPULCHER.

Revolutionary Action of the Republicans in the National House. Scathing Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York. I do not arrogate to myself any special patriotism. To arrogate is to derogate. I shall not d« rogate from the patriotism of my friend from New Jersey (Mr. Robeson) who has just labored so hard to pass this measure. It was labor, physical, mental and moral. It reminded me of the classic phrase, “Up the high hill he heaves the huge round stone.” But the mythical stone came tumbling down, smoking along the ground. It required renewed and never-ending exertion. The gentleman, at last after every endeavor, must come to the American constitution as the reservoir of all our powers, and this forever commands renewed labor. As to the rules of this House, the constitution says (article 1, section 5) that “ Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings.” There is nothing said in that clause that is exceptional. It has no limitation upon either House of Congress. We may make rules, not for certain purposes, but for all purposes. It is not said that each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, except as to the admission of a member or the methods regulating our approaching judgment upon the qualifications of a member. There is no restriction or limitation upon that grant of power. It is unqualified; as much so as the other clauses of the fifth section of the first article, which allow each House to judge of the elections, return 1 and qualifications of its own members. Eveiy rule made by us, consistent with the tenor of the constitution, is, if not a part of the constitution, a subordination as sacred as the constitution itself. We have made rules. Among them are rules which regulate these proceedings. They provide the mode of amending the rules themselves. All these rules remain. They remain, since there is no exception, for every proceeding in this House, and a fortiori for the most important proceeding. Can there be any proceeding more important than the admission of a member? Is it not most necessary, Mr. Speaker, that we should have steadfast rules for such a purpose ? Is it not most important that we have a law unto ourselves, a' law of this House, fixed and irrevocable except by the prescribed rules or modes ? It is more necessary, sir, for rules to be observed in such a case than in any other except perhaps one. And what is that other one ? That is in relation to the apportionment of members every decade according to population. This apportionment is the foundation of our system of representative government. But we know, alas! too well, Mr. Speaker, that when this House was engaged in the last Congress in endeavoring to apportion members according to the census returns, and when there was an emergency to conclude the constitutional prescript that the State Legislatures might then redistrict, and to save the people some $11,000,000 expense, it was not this side of the House, bnt the other, which intervened to prevent by dilatory motions. That other side was led by the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Reed) and by the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Robeson), who protests his virtuous indgnation on this occasion. It,..jras their frivolous delays wh ch prevented the enactment of a law for apportionment They are responsible for the consequences of such delays—the most serious that can happen to a republican constitutional system. They prevented such a law, sir. Mr. Hooker—Defeated. Mr. Cox, of New York—Hour after hour, day after day, all night thn t bill was delayed on dilatory motions for adjournment and what not. until the session was nearly run out, and we had no chanco except on the last day of the session, when on my own motion, consenting to all they asked, we got at last a vote on the proposition for 319 members. The cost and trouble, the unfairness of representation, the election of Congressmen-at-Large, and other misadventures, are due to the Republicans, who set up this example which we have followed on a less consequential object But you gentlemen on the other side are not peculiar in your relation to filibustering on the Apportionment bill. I might in the last Congress have made the point that that bill xvas constitutional and was of the highest sanction, above all rules; or wc might have changed by a majority vote, as you now attempt, the rules and stopped your expensive and unrepublican filibustering. We did not do it. We pursued our rules, and you pursued your disorderly conduct. You left us without this indispensable legislation; you remitted it to tho present session; you had your own will; you, the minority, defeated us; you pursued this very course with which you now reproach us, not merely on the Apportionment bill, bnt in the Forty-sixth Congress on the Tariff bill again and again on motions to refer it to a friendly committee; you did it on the Funding bill and on the Political Assessment bill, as you had in previous Congresses on other measures. More than that, sir. When there was an investigation demanded by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Springer) as to the infamies connected with our Chinese Embassy, and a committee of investigation was asked, the record before me shows that you resorted to dilatoriness and all its methods, not merely for party purposes, but to cover up corruption and to stop investigation. And now you complain of us because ire resort to these tactics for the purpose of promoting investigation, and, if poss:b!e, of finding out whether fraud and forgery are connected with this Carolina case.

Therefore, if gentlemen are sensitive now they must remember that they have pursued this identical path on very remarkable occasions. Onr memories are not too short to recall their number and enormity. I do not believe very much in this business of filibustering. When the Apportionment bill, to which I had given much study, was treated to this inhospitable reception, regardless of the wish of the majority, I resolved that I would never follow your example. I have been, however, the past week drawn into its vortex almost against my will. But I have been in good company and for a good purpose. You pursued it ’in very bad company for a very bad purpose. Gentlemen say that they will make this proposed new rule or change existing rules under the superior vigor of the constitution. ‘Supremo. lex," cries out onr Ajax from New Jersey. The constitution, he says, is the supreme law, and a rule unto us for legislative purposes of this nature. Why, sir, if the constitution be such a rule of duty and a law unto the House, what need for any other rule? Why undertake to make rules of proceeding ? Why “ determine ” any rule ? Oh, says the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey, we propose this new rule to be rid of obstructions to legislation, such as dilatory motions, and we propose to change the rule so as to have a mode of procedure and not of obstruction. If that be the purpose, then ail rules for delay, such as adjournment or debate or recommittal or any thing except arbitrariness, should be abrogated. What does the gentleman mean by obstruction in this case? Or is this proposed rule for this case of contest only a cover for something else to come ? What does the gentleman mean? Is he only making this fight here for the admission of a member on that side, when they have already a working majority? Or does he mean that he will give the power to the majority, on a whim, on a caprice, at any time, or on any emergent occasion when the majority is ndn-phissed, obstructed, defied, or impeded, so that it may change the rules for every rising purpose ? Is there some other purpose beyond? What does he mean ? We have not yet had all the appropriation bills brought in here. We are ready to proceed with the consideration of the Legislative and the Do ficiency Appropriation bills. We are ready to go on with and proceed with other public business matured by committees. Much important business remains to be done or 'undone. Impediments are likely to be thrown in its way by critical and honest’deliberation. There is one appropriation bill which has not yet been reported. It the Naval Appropriation bill The custom has been heretofore to have that bill reported early in the session. Six months of this session have gone and we have not. yet seen any Naval Appropriation bill. Now, arc we to roll this dilatory stone out of the way for this case only? Or is it in order that if there be filibustering on that naval bill or other bills as to a new navy, the majority at any time may by this convenient change of the rales brush the “ obstruction” out ot the way ? Ten millions of dollars perhaps may bo

involved in that bill, or twenty millions, or there may bo other bills involving hundreds of millions yet to be brought in. If you can do it unto the least of these, you can do it unto every bill hereafter. Now, I am in favor, and always have been in favor of the House persuing legal methods. I would have the rules, the law of the House obaerved. If gentleman will look back far. enough, if they care enough for the debates in the war Congresses, they will find something that is applicable or analogous to our duty to the rules. When I was looking this moruing through the records of the library-, I happened upon the Bible. Really, when one enters upon these debates, it is sometimes a relief to peruse that good book. I found this in Haggai, second chapter, third verse : “ Who is left among yon (hat saw this house in her first glory ? And how do yoxF see it now ? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing ? ’ It is worse than nothing. Who in the last days of the war, not to go further back, at the time the amendments to the constitution were on the tapis, ever had the supreme audacity to say that the amendment abolishing slavery should be passed in this House by a majority vote? Who dared to saf tha\ the majority should rule in any other than by the-mode prescribed in the constitution in its fifth article? By the mode prescribed, I say—by two-thirds of both houses proposing, or on the application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of tlie States, etc. Not by overriding it; not by suprenia Zez, some higher law, some whim of the exigent moment for party ga’n, but by the mode prescribed; thatimode and no other.

So, now, Mr. Speaker, wo contend that in making rales here we must follow “the mode prescribed.” This mode is the existing rules. For making or unmaking rules, whicl are a law ox a constitution of our House, the rules existing must be observed. Any other models a flagrant breach of the law of th s House, and as law-abiding members wo denounce it. All the amendments bf the constitution from the beginning, including those guarantees and immunities of civil liberty—liberty of conscience’ free speech, fair trial, bail, delegated powers, judicial rights, electoral college, citizenship, disabilities, apportionment—all the amendments until yon come down to the great and boasted amendments in regard to human liberty, suffrage, and civil rights were passed in pursuance of the “the mode prescribed.” They were submitted through the two-thirds vote of Congress to the States for ratification. ’ He is » revolutionist who would seek to change our-constitution except in the prescribed me do. He is no less a revolutionist, who, to seat a member, would override existing rales here, not repealed or changed ; and he is worse than a revolutionist who, to seat a member, jvould overturn our rules to seat a member in a* case involving fraud and corrupted by forgery. Now, Mr. Speaker, when you rale, if you dare rule, as perhaps you may rule in this partisan excitemer t if yoa rule that you can, irrespective of the “ mode prescribed,” and regardless of the rules which are now the law of thia House, force this summary proceeding through by arbitrary ruling, yon will defeat, you will abrogate every canon of interpretation belonging to the amending and making of law, organic or other law.

Mr. Kasson—Will it interrupt the gentleman if I ask him a question right here ? Mr. Cox, of New York—Certainly not. Mr. Kasson—l wish to ask the gentleman a question on a single point which he seems to aei-ire to make; that the rules should be amended “in the mode prescribed.” I want to call his attention to the fact, and get his answer, that all our proceedings proposed here are “in the manner and mode prescribed” by the rules. Nothing justifies his criticism except that, in order to accomplish it in that mode, it is claimed that the Speaker must refuse to recognize what will obstruct an amendment “ in the mode prescribed.” Mr. Cox, of New York—ln other words, the Speaker must overrule a certain rule in order to change those rales. Mr. Kasran—“ In the mode and manner prescribed.” We are following the mode literally, giving one day’s notice of the change, then entering upon the debate and submitting the proposition to a regular vote of the House. It is not in any respect a failure to follow the mode prescribed. Mr. Cox, of New York—My friend will see that the Speaker must first wipe out paragraph 5 as well as paragraph 8 of RuleXVI., before he can proceed one inch in this business. Why, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kansas would blot out the very prescribed mode fixed in the rules by which all our proceedings are to be regulated, inch ding those for the amendments of the rales themselve.i. I ask that the Clerk read the fourth and fifth paragraphs of Rille XVI. Tbe Clerk read as follows : “4. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn, to adjourn, to take a recess, to lay on the table, for the previous question (which motions shall be decided without debate), to postpone to a day certain, to refer or amend, or to postpone indefinitely, which seveial motions shall have precedence in the foregoing order ; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to refer, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be again allowed on the same day at the same stage of the question.

“5. A motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn, a motion to adjourn, and to take a recess shall always be in order, and the hour at which the House adjourns shall be entered on the Journal.” Mr. Cox, of Now York—Now, Mr. Speaker, every clause of those rules which give the minority or any member here a right to make these propositions in the interest, as 1 believe, of legislation, may, nay must, be abrogated by the arbitrary ruling of the Speaker, sustained by a majority of this House, to reach what? Why, to reach—not now perhaps, but hereafter —an opportunity to pass appropriation bills with undue haste, on what plea ? On the ground that money must be voted to sustain he Government, and that the constitution must be upheld with money. You can always make a pretext when you are disposed to follow out your own peculiar policy in your emergency. Why has not the majority of this House resorted to this particular method before to-day? We have been running on for eight days ; we have had no intimation of proceedings of this kind until gentlemen on the other side saw failure staring them in the face. Now, driven to it, they seek by revolutionary methods to do that which cannot bo done by the ordinary, regular and legal procedure. As I said before, I am not one who favors filibustering. It may be a good remedy m great emergencies. The Republicans have so deemed it, judging by their action heretofore. But when the honorable memlrer from Virginia (Mr. Tucker) offered an amendment t» the new rules providing that filibustering should cease, torn up by the roots, who met to confute him in debate? The first member who attacked that proposition was Gen. Hawley, a shining light in the Republican party. He was followed by Gen. Garfield, a man of confessed parliamentary ability; the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Reed) who has shown us here to-day his ability in straddling this question. And Mr. Conger, of Michigan, then your best parliamentarian, who led your filibustering scouting parties. The gentleman from Virginia was so thoroughly overwhelmed by the argumentation and denunciation coming from these able debaters of your party, urging minority rights, that on the subsequent Tuesday he withdrew his proposition.

It seems to me that gentlemen on the other side, when they undertake to say that we are revolutionary—that we are guilty of “parliameutary revolution,” to use the language of the gentleman from Kansas—ought first to look at their own record. That record convicts them. The gentleman from Kansas, when he talked about “ parliamentary revolutios,” ought to have thought of his own conduct on the Apportionment bill. Mr Haskell—Will the gentleman allow me to ask him a question ? Mr. Cox, of New York—Certainly. You cannot embarrass me. Mr. Haskell—l ask the gentleman, when did tiiw.side of the House ever filibuster npon the consideration of the right of a member to his seat ? Mi. Cox, of New York—l say there never was so flagrant a case presented as this one. I ask the gentleman from Kansas whether he did not filibuster, not merely against the right of a single member to a seat, but against the Apportionment bill, which concerned the rights of 300 members, and the right of States to be represented for ten years—the very foundation of our Government. He sits quietly now, and answers not. Yet the past week he" has fought this filibustering business, on this special case and on every possible case in general, and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Robeson) contends in the same special ana general way. The gentleman from New Jersey said that only three things would justify filibustering—first, to obtain debate; next, to obtain proper consideration—that is what we ask now—a little more consideration perhaps than you intend to give us; consideration here and elsewhere.

consideration of fraud and forgery and how they affect the rights of the party in this contest Without consideration, it ia said, all contracts are void, and until yon do consider the charges here your proceedings are morally void. His third case, I think he said, was to insist upon a quorum. No matter for that The quorum is inconsequential. All I have to say to gentlemen is that when they charge this side of the House with “ parliamentary revolution,” they are, in view of their own recent action snd sentiment nothing more nor lees than a whited sepulcher,inside full of dead men’s bones, outside fair and seeming before the people. I prove, therefore, what I &r. Reed made a remark inaudible at the Mr. Cox, of New York—l care not what the gentleman from Maine may mutter in his seat The gentleman had better go home to the State of Maine this fall and make his speeches there, and with tbe aid of our friends iu Maine, Greenback and Democratic, his little majority of 100 will be 100 minus the next time iu consequence of this revolutionary business. Although, Mr. Speaker, the argument ad Zuwitnem is not a very cogent one, although it is not very much to say “We are doing unto yon what you did unto us last year,” one thing this sort of argument does on this occasion ; it puts a “poor man’s plaster ” over every one of your mouths. It is the ad Jiojmncai; and I pay respect to human nature when I me the word homines toward gentlemen on tbe other side of the House. [Laughter and applause.] Now, Mr. Speaker, I know what is cou«ng. I know that this revolutionary change of the rules to seat a member whoso evidence » tainted is preordained. I know that an invasion upon our modes of procedure here ia coming That I am shocked as an old member identified with the honor of this House I need not say; but, sir, to one who “saw this House in its best glory,” who has seen it through all its vicissitudes of war and peace in a long public life, I am bumiliatZffi that this venerable code of rules to protect the minority and forward the general welfare should be eradicated ruthlessly for mere party purposes. The gentleman from lows (Mr. Kasson) referred to the fact that wo are a great representative body. 8o we are. He declaimed eloquently that the majority here should rule. He asserted that no other body like ours in tbe history of the world would ever allow a minority to dictate terms. Ab, did he forget that in the English Parliament of six hundred and fifty-odd members forty only, by motions to adjourn and other “ obstructions," had kept that great Government of the British empire almost in the very throes of agony for weeks and months as the only way to remedy great and century-old wrongs borne by a portion of the United Kingdom without redress? These wrong?, now and by recent events confessed to be great, unredressed grievances, are in process of relief by the courage and persistence of a small minority. Does he not know that the great Premier of England threatened to throttle that minority by a cloture? Bnt even he, sir, had not the courage or strength to bring that cloture to a division, and minority right remains to-day, as it has been in the British. Parliamentary constitution for hundreds of years, as a fundamental part of those rales which were made in the interest of the minority for the protection of Parliamentary privilege and civil libcrtv'throiiKb all tbe ages.

Gov. Seymour’s Views.

There is no man in the whole country held in higher respect than the statesman and patriot whose name heads this article. Broad and comprehensive in his views, scholarly in tastes, strong in intellect and culture, and withal thoroughly democratic in his instincts, he is, by reason of his age and experience as well as from the fact that he has only a patriot’s interest in politics, in a position to give unbaised judgment on the present situation. Consequently, when he speaks—which is but seldom—he is listened to with the greatest respect by the general public. The New York World correspondent has had an interview with Gov. Seymour, at his home in Utica, the chief points of which are thus summarized by a New York dispatch : In course of the long interview the old statesman said : “ I feel assured that the Democratic party has it in its power to regain its supremacy in the State and country. It may be said that its organization is bad, and so it is; but the Republican party is in a much worse state, and that party is without the power to rehabilitate itself. It is impelled forward by its own weight to dissolution. The tendency of the Republicans has been to centralize Cower at the general capital and to sink the ulk of legislation transacted there until it has not only got beyond their control, but beyond the comprehension of anybody but the life-members of the lobby. The consequence can only be disastrous, as it has already proven ; and it now threatens the party with dirsolution. That organization has no remedy within its reach. It has found it impossible to return to constitutional methods. It has sought to centralize everything, and it is overwhelmed by the gigantic superstructure of eorruption it has reached. Under these circumstances the Democratic party has the opportunity to win a great victory by standing up for the constitutional methods of government. It is committed to this popular line of policy, which the Republicans could not adopt if they would. I have no doubt of the success of the Democratic party.” Speaking of the present condition of the country he said : “In some respects we have gone forward too rapidly, and I fear we are qn the eve of a break in the prosperous advance of the last three years. We are importing much more than we are exporting. It is possible that the prices of all kinds of property have been carried to a point at which they cannot be sustained, and that a reaction is imminent There seems to have been too much investment in railway enterprises, but the laws that govern the growth of the country in population and the increase of its business and agricultural activities will in the end work out enduring prosperity.” Of State politics he said: “In this State I do not believe that the different factions of the Republican party can come together again so as to work harmoniously. It is not so much the question of personal leadership with them as causes that lie deep and cannot be settled by conventions and conferences. Ido not believe that Mr. Tilden will be a candidate for Governor, or that, he has any thought of accepting a Presidential nomination. He is an old man, and has passed up out of the heat and passion of battle. I am surprised to hear that Mr. Hewitt would be willing to accept a nomination as Governor. He is a good man and has made a good record in Congress, but it might be a mistake if he were to run."

Democratic Protest.

The protest read by Mr. Cox, in the House of Representatives, against the arbitrary and extraordinary ruling of Speaker Keifer, is as follows : Whereas, The minority in this House have heretofore, under the rules of the House, successfully resisted the efforts of the majority to consider the case of Mackey vs. O’Connor, because a proper hearing has not been granted to the conteetee by the Committee on Elections as to allegations of forgery and fraud in the evidence submitted by the contestant; and WHEBEAS.the majority in order to pievcntand avoid such investigation have proceeded to change the rules in a manner not provided for in the rules in which alone they can or ought to be changed ; and Whereas, The Speaker has made a ruling which justifies a proceeding unknown to the principles of constitutional and parliamentary law and subversive of the rights of the minority ; therefore, the undersigpid, representatives of the people, hereby protest against the proceeding of the majority and the rulings of the Speaker as unjustifiable, arbitrary ana revolutionary, and expressly designed to deprive the minority of that protection which has been established as one of the great monuments of a representative system by the patriotic labors of the advocates of parliamentary privileges and civil liberty. Sam’l J. Baudall, 8. 8. Cox, Abram 8. Hewitt, * Jno. F. House, Dan’l Ermentrout, Jo C. 8. Blackburn, J Fred C; Talbot, Jordan E. Cravens, Morgan-B. Wise, H. G. Tumef, L. C. Latham, Gibson Atherton, Miles Boss, J. 8. Hobhtzell, Henry S. Harris, J. White, H. A.’ Herbert, Wm. 8. Holman, G. W. Hewitt, G. A. Oury, Oscar Turner (Ky.), Martin L. Clardy, Phil B. Thompson, Jr., M. E. Post, Jno. B. Clark, Jr., B. F. Armfield, Oliver Wellborn, Clement Dowd, and others,

$1.50 oer Annum.

NUMBER 19.

LABOR STRIKES.

Pittsburgh, Pa., June 1. The great strike of the iron-workers was inaugurated to-day. Twenty thousand men and boys who yesterday added to the wealth of the community by good, honest work are to-day idle consumers. Yesterday, this vast army of producers earned fully $80,000; to-day they squandered part of it. A strange stillness prevails throughout the city. Clouds of impenetrable smoke no longer hang over the town. The strike brushed them away as if by magic, leaving a clear sky and bright sunlight seldom witnessed in Pittsburgh. All the thirty-odd iron mills in the two cities are idle, with one single exception—the Union Mills of Carnegie Bros. A Co. Thousands of men, arrayed in best apparel, all day long paraded the streets, talking, laughing and squandering their money. The strikers are quiet abd orderly. They have the sympathy of the public, and will commit no breach of the peace unless goaded by desperation to turn the tide of public sentiment against them. Speculation as to the final result of the strike continues. Both sides are sanguine of success, and both expreaa a determination to fight till it gains the victory. Very few persons think the strike will last long. Our manufacturers cannot very well afford a long period of idleness. It would bring disaster to their business and result in driving trade to other localities. Milwaukee, Wis., June 1. The great strike of the iron-workers began here to-day. The press statement that the order to go out had been postponed for a fortnight seems to have been unfounded. The word came from Pittsburgh at a late hour last evening, and at midnight the works of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, at Bay View, were closed, with the exception of the rail mill, which will run until Saturday. The principal furnaces are now being blown out The strike throws 2,000 men out of employmeyt at Bay View alone, and a number have been ordered out of the city foundries by the union.

Cleveland, Ohio, June 1. No less than 15,000 men will be affected by the lockout or strike which began at Youngstown to-day. As a matter of course the mines will close when there is no longer a demand for coal, and with the furnaces closed the demand for coal must cease. The manufacturers claim that to grant the demands of the workmen would be to operate the mills at a loss to the company. Both sides are equally firm, and, from appearances, the strike may last a year. It is worthy of remark that no bitterness whatever exists between the men and their employers. Wheeling, W. Va., June 1. All the nail mills of this city shut down today, and expect to remain closed for an indefinite period. There appears to be no disposition whatever on the part of the manufacturers to start them until the situation has radically changed. They express themselves as resolutely determined not to pay the advance in wages asked. Chicago, June 2. A squad of white and colored employes of the Joliet Iron and Steel Company, who took the place of strikers along the Chicago docks, left the city about 5 o'clock last evening on an Alton accommodation train. When Brighton Park was reached, a party of armed stranger*, numbering nearly fifty, made a raid on the coaches, placed the engineer in peril of his life, and knocked the conductor down with a stone. Those of the Joliet laborers who could be identified were dragged out and mercilessly beaten. In the confusion Judge Pillsbury, of Pontiac, 111., was shot through the groin. He was brought to the city, and at the latest advices his left leg was paralyzed. The train was detained half an hour, and when it was allowed to proceed the strangers emptied their revolvers into the air and disappeared in small squads down Arclier road. One of the raiders was shot, but was taken away by his comrades.

GREENBACK STATE CONVENTIONS.

New Jersey. The New Jersey State Greenback Convention met at Trenton on the 30th ult. Every county except one was represented. The platform adopted indorses that made at Chicago ; denounces the national-banking system, corporations and land monopoly ; demands a revision of the tariff and the protection of the rights of labor. Among the speakers was ex-Congress-man Gillette, of lowa. . Solon C’liawe Nominated for Governor in Maine. The Straight Greenback Convention, of Maine, convened al Bangor, May 30, and adopted resolutions in opposition to the nation-al-banking system ; recommending that no more bonds be issued ; that all public lands be held as homesteads for the people; that all money should be issued by the Federal Government in sufficient quantities to meet the wants of trade, and be a full legal tender for all debts ; that imprisonment for debt should be abolished ; that all corporations and monopolies should be controlled by law ; that indiscriminate sale of intoxicating liquors should be prohibited ; declaring an unalterable determination to oppose fusion with either of the old parties; and finally indorsing the action of the National Committee at Bt. Louis. A resolution indorsing the course of Gov. Plaisted was indefinitely postponed. The following nominations were made : For Governor, Solon Chase; Congressmen, William T. Eaton, Eben O’Gary, B. K. Kellock, and D. B. Averill. MisNouri. The Greenback State Convention of Missouri met at Moberly, on the 31st of May. The following permanent officers were elected : Thos. L. Auderson, President; William C. Aldrich, Vice President; Isaac N. Hauck, Secretary. A platform with sixteen planks was adopted. It reaffirms the Chicago platform of 1880; indorses Uie action of the National Executive Committee at St. Louie; epitomizes the address adopted by that committee, and reiterates the principles of the party as usually formulated by the Greenback conventions ; condemns option contracts, and calle for the criminal prosecution of all persons dealing in them ; denounces the action of the Legislature in redistrictiug the State solely in the interest of the Democratic party as an attempt to disfranchise 190,000 voters, and as a crime against suffrage which should be rebuked at the polls at the next election. The following ticket was then nominated : Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge Bice, now representing the old Seventh district in Congress; Superintendent of Public Instruction, E. B. Booth, of St Louis; Bailroad Commissioner, H. M. Bitchey. Fusion Greeiibuckcrs in Maine. The Fusion Greenback State Convention of Maine met at Bangor on the let inst. Delegates present, 961. J. H. Thing chosen permanent Chairman. H irrU M. Plaisted was nominated for Governor. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a circulating medium, consisting of gold and silver and paper, all full legal tender, controlled by the Government and the unrestricted coinage of gold an 1 silver, and denounces the national bank system as one of deadly hostility to. the best interests of the country; declares for reform in the civil service, reform in the tariff system, elections by the people, no imprisonment for debt, independence of the three co-ordinate branches of the Government, a non-partisan judiciary, and the right of the Executive to make suitable nominations.

The Guardian Owl.

A number of gentlemen and ladies were sitting in the parlor of one of the hotels in Jacksonville, when a huge object crashed through the window and thumped down into one corner of the. room. It was dark in the room, and speculation as to what the object was had not developed into certainty before a huge owl arose from the corner and commenced to flap around the room. He was captured and stuffed, and now occupies a perch over the cashier’s desk with his head screwed around so that he can keep one eye on the cashier’s till and the other on the repoiters who come around for items.— Jacksonville {Fla.) Times. .

Taken at His Word.

A Maine grocer who had just “ experienced religion” acknowledged in the meeting that he had been a hard sinner, cheating customers by adulterating his goods, etc., but, being converted, would repay any one he had wronged, Late

ffemorrafif JOB PRIITIRB OFFICE lisa better facfllUM than say <*Am te Xorthwestw Indiana for the sweanttf «C an kswnshii of mozb i>iiiKrTX»ra. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. .InytMac, from a Dodger to a htartArt, er fun • fstnphlet to a Footer, blacker ootorod, plain or fan* SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

that night he was awakened by a ring at his door-bell. Looking out he saw a man. “ Who are you and what do you want?” he asked. “I’m Bill Jones. You said to-night you would repay those you had cheated. Give me that SIOO you’ve owed me so long.” “Can’t you wait till morning?” “No ; I ain’t going to wait till then and stand in line all day.” He was paid.— Boston Post.

INDIANA ITEMS.

J. H. Snyder lost his left arm by a railroad accident at Chestertown. Harrison county returns 8,335 children of school age in 1882, a decrease of 183 from 1881. Jephtha Turner, the first white male child bprn in Wayne county, is still alive and abtive. Manufacturers of brick at Frankfort, have suffered great loss on account of the heavy rains.' One yard lost 16,000 in one day. William Caldwell, of Waterloo township, Fayette county, aged 22, died from the direct effects of a rat bite received several months ago. The report of the Richmond City Treasurer shows a cash balance of $70,204.52, a sum almost sufficient to pay off the bonded indebtedness of tho city. Mr. Hinkle, 91 years old, residing with his daughter at Groveland, Putnam county, cut his throat with a pocketknife, inflicting fatal wounds. He was tired of life. Electricity is now employed in firing the charges in blasting stone in the quarries at Huntington, and it is estimated that a saving of 50 per cent, is effected over the old plan. John Bryant, aged 12 years, at New Albany, fell from the stair banisters nt the Spring street public school build - ing, and received what will prove fatal injuries in the temple and head. Edward Conley, of Huntington, him entered suit against Charles T. Brandt, asking damages of $2,000 for the loss of a thumb, sustained while being placed in jail by Brandt, who was then Marshal.

While glorifying over the completion of the Indianapolis and Chicago Air-Lino railroad to that point, Dr. Davenport, of Sheridan, had a part of his hand blown away by a premature discharge of a cannon. Through the efforts of Congressman Peelle the State Department at Washington has consented to forward through the Government mail 150 copies of the Indiana statistical report to Ministers and Consuls abroad. The chief of the Indiana State Bureau of Statistics has received from the United States Signal Service 3,000 1cent postage stamps with which to carry on the large correspondence between the two departments. The Evansville Council has ordered suit to be entered William E. Heilman to recover $24,000, the amount which it is charged Heilman and others have swindled the city out of in local trade railway stock. A double-headed male infant was born to Mrs. Jacob Wood, living near Fort Wayne. Both necks of the mon - strosity were distinct, and each was capped with a perfectly-formed head. It died a short time after its birth. Two boys, sons of a widow named Scott, aged respectively 12 and 15 years, are in jail at Greencastle for robbing Frank Hay’s store, where the mother is employed, of quantity of jewelry, which was found in their possession. A move is being made by the City Council looking to the erection of water works in Wabash. It is proposed to obtain the supply of water from a well one mile north of the city, and which is 100 feet above the business portion of town. The work of digging the well has been begun.

The 2-year-old daughter of Abo Haas, living in South Wabash, fell into a tub of hot water, which had been left standing on the floor, and was so badly scalded that it died a short time afterward. Nearly the whole body of the infant was cooked before it could be taken from the tub. The apportionment of the commonschool revenue for tuition, made out by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, shows that Marion county pays in $74,461.19, and receives back $56,564.28, being the largest payment to any county in the State. The smallest amount will be paid to Stark, which pays in $1,762.87, and receives $2,767.58.

A cyclone visited Monroe, Jackson and Maumee townships, in Allen countv, and demolished the Widow High’s house, carrying away the furniture, cook-stove and sewing-machine, so that they have not since been found. No one was in the house at the time. Two miles further away the storm again struck the earth ana tore down two houses and one barn, injuring three or four persons, none fatally. Much injury was done to treses and fences. Fort Wayne Gazette: It is very amusing to notice the manner in which some of the clergy fill in the returns of a marriage license. One well-known minister of this city never fails to put opposite the “occupation of the bride,” “ stays at home,” while another one it day or two ago certified that the groom was a member of the “human race.” A third one, a short distance in the country, puts the bride’s occupation as a “country girt.” Huntingburg Argus: “A lady from the backwoods went into Baxter’s store, the other day, and sold ginseng for $1.20 per pound. She purchased twelve yards of calico, two pounds of sugar, two pounds of coffee, two pounds of soda, and 10 cents’ worth of pepper with one pound of ginseng. She saßOd the clerk for a stone pipe, which he politely handed to her. She was heard to remark to her better half as they left the store : ‘ Now, Henry, what did J say ? Times are Lot near as hard as you said they were. Look what I got for one pound of ginseng. Let’s be going. Gosh ! look at them cars. Oh I look at ♦hat nigger.’ ” During the delivery of a sermon, last Sunday week, Rev. 11. A. Buchtol, of the Sixth Street Methodist Church, Lafavette, suddenly ceased sjieaking and fell to the floor. It was at first presumed that he had a stroke of apoplexy, and quite an excitement followed. Those near the altar went at once to his help, and in a few moments he was placed in a chair. In explanation it was stated that years ago he had dislocated a kneejoint, and had had more or less trouble since. During his remarks he chanced to throw too much weight upon the weak leg, and the result was it slipped cut .again, letting him down. The joint was properly adjusted while he was being cared for. and alter a short delay he finished his discourse.