Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — SENATE AND HOUSE [ARTICLE]

SENATE AND HOUSE

Proceedings of the Federal i gress Boiled Down. Os the bill to grant the Cinnabar R* right of way through Yellowstone Park, 1 gan raised a breeze by detailing the enc ments made on the park, and by comp] that he had been incessantly lobbied in be this road by an official of the Interior D ment. Mr. Cameron reappeared upon tin after prolonged absence in Europe received congratulations. Mr. In gal trodneed a bill for the sal* lands belonging to the prairie ba Pottawatomies. Mr. Lapbam sub the majority report on the Danville riot, - ing that it was preconcerted by the Dem for the purpose of intimidating the n« Mr. Sanlßbury presented the minority rep the Copiah County murder, asserting tin investigation was originated to aid the Re cans in the Presidential canvass and pi furnish an exettsefor rejecting the electorii of Mississippi. During the debate on the bill for the suppression of polygamy Brown, of Georgia, made a sweeping i on the morality of the State of sachusetts and New England gem The House of Representatives passed a resolution appropriating an additional r. for the relief of sufferers by the overflow < ' Mississippi River and its tributaries. The! resumed the consideration of theWallae Kinley contested-election case. Mr. (Dem.) admitted that under the laws of the sitting member was not entitled to hi* and yet he believed Mr. McKinley had elected. He based his opinion upon th« that a number of illegal votes were for the Democratic candidate. Mr. FoHett culed the testimony upon which his coll based such an opinion. Mr. Mills believei cording to the law and facts of the case Mr. McKinley had been fairly elected, an lieved he would be less than a man it he al! party clamor to lead him to vote again convictions. Mr. McKinley, the contesteej a ten-minute speech in his own behalf, d yoked no technicalities, and declared thl did not want a seat which could be ret J only by Invoking them, but he asserted 1 conceding every technicality, he would I have an unquestioned majority of the I cast in the Eighteenth Ohio Disi The House proceeded to vote upon the mini resolution declaring Mr. McKinley entitle the seat. It was lost—yeas, 108; nays, 158.1 following Democrats voted with the Republl in the affirmative: Blackburn, Dorshef Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson, Thompson.® White (Rep.), of Kentucky, voted with® Democrats. The majority resolution sen Wallace was adopted without discussion! that gentleman appeared at the bar and E the oath of office. L The Senate, on the 28tli ult., took upL Mexican war pension bill, and struck on* proposed amendment to restrict its benefit those dependent on their labor or the as others. Mr. Hoar, with the avowed purpof killing the bill, moved to extend its provi* to ail Union soldiers of the late 1. In the House a bill was reported to forfeit! unearned land grant of the Atlantic and Pa’ Road. The Legislative appropriation bill, ym reduces the internal revenue collection dis» from eighty-four to sixty-three, was consict for the remainder of the day and at the eves session. s In the Senate, on the 29th ult., a mem* was presented asking an appropriation of fa for the Southern Exposition at Louisville,o* count of Government exhibits. The rental* of the appropriation tor the Ohio River suffa was voted for the relief of citizens aft the Mississippi. The District of Cow bia appropriation bill was paw The Senate adjourned to Mont In the House bills were reported to ri late the exportation of imitation butter cheese, and to make $1,000,000 the limit for cost of the public building at Louisville, legislative appropriation bill was amende provide that there shall be but forty-three ternal revenue districts and sixty-seven toms districts. In this shape it was report* the House and the previous question orde when an adjournment to Saturday was take Thebe was no session of the Senate on 31st ult. In the House, with half the seat* cant, bills wepqj}a3Se4. granting right of through Indian Territory to the Southern I sas and the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Ro A resolution was adopted authorizing the C mittee on Indian Affairs to investigate leasing and fencing of lands in Indian Ti tory.

Mind Cures. 19 While Chicago is busied with grfl material enterprises, Boston is develß ing a new “ism” that is likely to crefl a good deal of attention. It is calfl the mind cure. Literally the people of that good city believe tB disease may be banished from the oafl by professing a belief in supernatufl agencies, and submitting to the persfl al magnetism of certain highly fl dowed men and women, who, by fl laying on of bands, can rid the afllicfl person of the ills he suffers from. Gfl N. P. Banks, the Rev. W. R. Algfl and a great many clergymen are sfl to be believers in the mind cure, isl eases of all kinds, it is claimed, are fl cause of a lack of faith. Fear, whfl is inverted faith, is one of the incitfl causes of physical ailments. Of coufl this craze is but the repetition of ■ old, old story. From the medicfl man in his wigwam, all through fl history of the race, certain religiofl mystical zealots have claimed that npfl is so far superior to matter as to be afl to control it. The power to heal t 9 sick is regarded in many countries, ■ it has bten in all ages, as a warr<9 from the Most High to prove the trt9 of certain theological dogmas. It 9 however, surprising that so 9 telligent a community as that 9 Boston should give acceptance to so <9 a superstition. It is, nevertliele* true that the imagination has much I do with the fancied ailments of nerve* people. Many hundreds of thousanl of human beings think they are sfl when all they really need is some sti! ulus that will set them to work, I some absorbing pursuit that will tal them out of themselves. When onl energies are directed outward instel of inward there is no time for broodrl over fancied ailments. This is all the! is in faith cures or mind cures.— Dem oresi’s Monthly.

The editor of a scientific month! asks for correct drawings of a “TornaJl at Work.” A man who went home t other night and found his wife readii a letter signed “Your Own Julia which she found in his inside 00 pocket, has made a sketch of the “su sequent proceedings,” which he w send to the scientific editor.— Ex. The following ages have, on the a thority of a skillful arborculturist, be* attained by trees: Yew, 3,200 year sohubertia, 3,000; cedar, 2,000; oa 1,500; spruce, 1,200; lime, 1,100; Oriel tal palm, 1,000; walnut, 900; olive an cypress, 800; orange, 630; maple, 50< elm, 300. “Oh, don’t propose to me now, shrieked a Philadelphia girl as h< lover dropped on his knees and seize her hand. “Don’t pop the questio now, ” she screamed; “don’t, don’t, don’ If I sav yes you’ll want to kies me, an I’ve been eating onions. ” How natural it will be for Ja Gould to sing out on his new yachi “Bear down on the bull works!” The Mississippi civil-service law shul saloon-keepers out of office.