Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — Page 2

§l)c3cmocraticSc»tiitcl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W McEWEN, ... Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Congress reassembled after the holiday adjournment, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, nn"d at once opened business in a lively fashion. Numerous bills were introduced in both houses. In tho Senate the credentials of John W. Daniel, of Virginia, were presented. A bill was passed to legalize the Ninth Territorial Assembly of Xvyoming. Bills were Introduced to substitute silver dollars for gold coin and currency in reserve funds of the Treasury to increase pensionsfortotal helplessness ; to facilitate promotions in the army ; to adjust accounts of laborers under the eight-hour law, to provide for the erection of monuments in Washington to Abraham Lincoln and U. 8. Grant, at a cost of $1,000,000 each ; to establish a national university in the District of Columbia by a grant of 85,000,000, bearing 5 per cent interest; to provide for the allotment of lands to Indians in severalty. A resolution was adopted accepting from the State of Ohio a marble statue of ex-l’reHident Garfield. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting tho President to take measures for including cases of embezzlement in extradition treaties. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, called up the resolution heretofore offered by him calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a copy of each report made by the Government Directors of tho Union Pacific Railroad from the first appointment of such directors to the present time. In support of his resolution Mr. Wilson reviewed at considerable length the action of the Government Directors, of whom he hod himself been one. with a view to showing that,bod the Government paid attention to tho information convoyed and tho recommendations made by the directors, the relations of the Government to tho roads would to-day be better. The bills introduced in tho House of Representatives numbered 790. Tho more notable wore: To remove restrictions on the coinage of the standard silver dollar; to abolish internal revenue taxation; to appropriate $200,000 for a monument to General Grant in Now York; to provent the adulteration of food and drugs; to provide for the construction of tho Delaware and Maryland ship canal; to reform the civil service ; to repeal the duty on sugar; to prevent fraudulent entries on the public domain ; to repeal the tobacco tax ; to create an interstate commerce commission; to tax the manufacture and sale of olemargarine; to givo honorably discharged soldiers and sailorß preference in public appointments; to authorize the President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico nnd Arizona for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and to deprive polygamists of the right of suffrage.—The President sent the following nominations to the Senate; John J. Higgins, to bo Collector of Customs in the District of Natchez, Miss.; James Curran, of Maryland, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels in the Third District; Wiley J. Tinn; to be Surveyor of Customs for San Francisco; William H. MoArgle, of Mississippi, to be Consul of the United States at San Juan del Norte; Willis 11. Patch, of Maine, to bo Consul of the United States at St. Stephen, Now Brunswick; H. M. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to bo Consul at Sivas ; Orlando V. Powers, of Michigan, to bo Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of Utah. Mu. Hoar introduced in the Senate, cn tho Gth inst., a bill for longor sossious of Congress, making i rooeedings commence alternately in October and November. Tho silver question was raised jn the S nitj on a dironssion of the Reck resi lotion. Mr. Gray cent iuric<l that persist n ;o in compulsory coinage would bring tho country to a s Ivor standard. Mr. McPherson (loci ar. ft that in tho op'nion of the best authorities in tho world, a point had been Touched beyond which it would be dangerous to go, uml produced advirt'semeiits by Jay Cooko tbnt the bonds would be paid in gold. Tho Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the call of a recent Senate resolution in respect to tho appointment of Postmasters in Mains, alleged t > have been procured through the influence of S. S. Brown. Chairman of the Democratic committee cf that State. Mr. Hale, of Maine, said the Postmaster General had turned these matters of appointment over to his assistant, who relied upon Mr. Brown, hut tho Postmastor General lmd not mado a complete answer to tho resolution of the Seriate. In reply Senators • Voorlieos and Vest def >nded the civil-service policy of Tros dont Clev dand. Bills wi re intn dticed in tho H mso of Peproseut it,i vea for the fieo c oinage i f the silv. r dollar, to limit it, ard suspend it; to for o national banks to k ep a larger reserve of sib or; to retire the trade dollar, and t > direct tbo calling in of 859,000,10) in 3 percent, binds, payment to be made in coin o f standard value. The President sent the foil nving n minatii nr to the Semite: James Shields of M n;ai a, to lie Collector of Internal Revet.us for the District of Montana. Postmasters—Thomas Ryan, at fault Bt<\ Mario, M'ch.; Charles Holiday, at St. Louis, Midi.; J. C. Morgan, at Ream >y. Neb. A resolution originally introduced by Mr. Harrison calling for an Investigation of tho Pension Commissioner’s ofllco was adoptsd by the Senate on tho 7tli inst., aftor the incorporation of amendments offered by Messrs. Voorhoes anil Logau. As it now stands the resolution provides ft r an inquiry as to the truth of Mr. Block's statement that undir his prodocesrors party tests were applied to pension claimants and as to tho prosent incumbent's management of lv's trust. There ivas a long debate on the Utah bill, and Mormons came in for a share of bitter denunciation at tho hands of Senators Morgan an 1 Cullom. Mr. TeMer opposed severe repressive measures, and act id as the apologist of the Hointi. The House of R3plelolltui.es listens i iinfaMontly to the intro luct ; m of bills for the a'm ssion of Dakota ar.d W ishington Territories, to ere ite a postal telegraph, to rape vi the tobacco tax, for a commission eu the 11 ,uor traffic, for volunteer regiments in the Bon ,hwest, f >r thirteen public builddigs, for the Hennepin Canal project, an unlimitel silver dollar, and for a hundred or two other tilings. Speaker C irlisle announ od his comm Mies, with Morrison as Chairman of Wavs and Meins, lira 1 all of Appropriations, Bland of Coiling-', and Belmont of Foreign Affairs.

Senator Edmunds’ Utah’bill Dassed the Senate on the Bth inst. It is substantially the same as first reported, with the addition of a section providing that marriage betweon persons of tho fourth degree of consanguinity, but not including that, shall be contrary to law. Mr. E-ostia offered a concurrent resolution with a preamble as follows: “Whereas. The act of Congress of 1878 declavcd the silver dollar a legal tender for all debts, public aud private ; that by the act of 1869 the faitli of tho United States was solemnly pledged to tho payment in coin or its equivalent of all public obligations' not bearing interest, etc.; that by the refunding act of July, 1870, tho principal and interest of the debt were made redeemable in coin es the then standard value; that s nee the enactment of those laws it has been tho practice of the Secretary of tho Treasury to pay the bonds and interest in gold .coin, and that tho Secretary of the Treasury haß issued a call for $10,000,000 of bonds v payable on tbe Isi of February, 1880; therefore, he it resolved, etc., that in the opinion of Congress said b mils of $10,000,000, payable on Feb. 1, 1800, should bo paid in silver dollars, such payment being in compliance with existing law aud in aid of the fc-nancial policy established bv the legislation ()f Congress.” Mr. Eustis desired the resolution referred to the Committee c-n Finance, and expressed the hope that the committee would report on it at an, early .(Jay, in order that, it-may be, determined whether or not the practice of paying the United States bondß and the interest on them exclusively in gold coin was approved by Congress. Bills were introduced to appropriate $1,330,000 ■for improvements at the month of the Columbia River, to create a public park near Santa Fe, to pay the Delaware Indians $30,800 for certain lands In Kansas, to increase to $25 per month the tensions of soldiers or sailors who lost one eye, and to prohibit the letting of Government con-1

tracts to persons employing ccmviot abor. The House was not in session.

EASTERN.

John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, offers to fight Charley Mitchell every day for a week, and in case of defeat will forfeit many thousand dollars to benevolent and other institutions. Valises containing about $65,000 in bank hills and securities stolen from the Lancaster, Mass., National Bank have been found at Timnoutli, Yt. Veo, the Treasurer of the Rutland, Vt, Marble Company, confessed that lie helped MfjNeal, the absconding cashier of the Lancaster bank, to carry off the funds. Dr. E. M. Nelson, President of tho marble company, has been arrested on suspicion of complicity in the matter Pittsburgh has completed a crematory on Sixth avenue, to bo operated by natural gas. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts lias decided that tho authorities of Boston havo tho right to prohibit preaching on the Common. Nahum Capen, LL. D., died in Boston. He was Postmaster of that city under President Buchanan, and began tho freo delivery of letters. A railway collision at Wilmington, Del., wrecked a passenger train and caused the death of an engineer, fireman and brakeman. The penitentiaries of New York, two of which are being worked on State account, show a profit for tho year of $3,441. All but 10 per cent, of tho shoes made at Auburn are sold in tho Western States.

WESTERN.

Mr. Louis Schaefer, of Canton, Ohio, has again callod tho attention of Congress to the case of tho venerable Mrs. Merkleham, the only living grandchild of Thomas Jefferson. He attempted to raise a fund for her in ISB4 by appealing to some hundreds of prominent people and secured S7O. Grading on the Burlington and Northwestern Road has been completed through Prairie du Chien and for several miles north, and La Crosse will be reached within a month. Simpliner, Adler & Co., wholesale jewelers, and William U. Doren & Co., shoo manufacturers, both Cleveland firms, have made assignments. The liabilities of the former concern are about $50,000. At Battle Creek, Mich., the dead bodies of Dr. Martin White, his wife, and two children were discovered by neighbors who forced the doors. It is suspected that White killed the others and committed suicide. Ex-Senator Thurman, who was selected by the coal-miners and operators of Ohio to settle their difficulties, decided that wages should bo advanced to 00 cents per ton, at which price lie thinks the operators oan successfully compete with other districts. D. F. Wadsworth, a former banker at Islipeming, Mich., was convicted of embezzlement in the sum of SOO,OOO. The State Live Stock Commission of Nebraska has raised tho quarantine which has been maintained for several months against Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio. * Several hundred men have for months been at work on tlio snow-sheds of the Central Pacific Koad, which extend in an almost unbroken line for forty-five miles, and are constructed of framed timbers With braces of iron. A fire in the bag factory of Jewell ifc Adams, at Cincinnati, caused a los3 of nearly SIOO,OOO.

SOUTHERN,

A panther which lor six weeks had alarmed the citizens of Clayton, Ga., attacked and overcame George Groenleaf, who was walking up a hill with his wife. Tho latter cut tho beast’s throat. Painter, Tongue & Co., wholesale dry goods and notions at Baltimore, failed with heavy liabilities. The property of the Richmond Whig, which last month suspended publication, has been sold for $5,000 to some Democratic journalists. The firm of Painter, Tongue & Co., wholesale dry-goods and notion dealers of Baltimore, Md., suspended as the result of extensive embezzlements by a bookkeeper. Sixteen convicts employed in the mines at Coal Hill, Arkansas, escaped by tunneling tliirty-fivo feet, on which work they spent three weeks. Bloodhounds are pursuing them to Indian Territory. A warehouse in Louisville, Ky., filled with cotton, tobacco, molasses, and dry goods, collapsed, and a fire breaking out, tho greater portion of the contents were destroyed. A colored porter, H. M. Wright, manager, and J. B. Balmsforth, ono of the proprietors, were caught in the debris and cannot bo found. The financial loss is heavy. Charles Williams (colored) was hanged for outrage at Cambridge, Md. When urged by the ministers to prepare for eternity, he said, “It is too late. ” Five railroad laborers were drowned while crossing from the Arkansas shoro of the Mississippi to Memphis in a rowboat

WASHINGTON.

Washington telegram: “An offico seeker who had been here for many weeks returned homo not long sinco without presenting his case to the President. ' Ho had a very novel reason for this strange procedure. Ho had a very valuable ring, so ho said, which he intended to wear when ho called on tho President Soon aftor his arrival he lost the ring, and feeling that his case would bo hopeless unless tho President saw tho ring ou his finger he gave up in despair and left for home.” Senator Yan Wyck is to introduce a bill promoting General Sheridan to the rank of General—the same that Grant and Sherman had. I**" ' "Washington telegram: “Western Senators are receiving letters in great' numbers urging them to oppose the • confirmation ofLand Commissioner Sparks because es his re-

cent rulings. Mr. Sparks was confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the General Land Office on the 25th of last March.” It is understood that Secretary Whitney is satisfied with the seaworthiness of the Dolphin, as shown in her recent trial trip, and will formally accept the vessel as soon as certain preliminaries can be arranged. It is not thought necessary to have another sea trial. Bear Admiral Earl English, who has just been relieved of the command of the South American squadron, will bo placed on the retired list next month. A check for $12,000 will be paid by the Treasury Department to Stephen Merritt, the New York undertaker who had charge of Gen. Grant’s funeral. About $2,100 will be covered by a special appropriation.

POLITICAL.

James G. Blaine, at a legislative banquet in Augusta, made an argument against the biennial system of elections and sessions recently adopted in Maine. Washington special: “The Democratic members of the Committee on Ways and Means evidently don’t mean to let the grass grow under their feet Mr. Morrison callod a conference of the Democratic committeomen to day, for tho purpose of developing their views as to tho best method of presenting the tariff question to the House. The consultation lasted about two hours, and disclosed some diversity of opinion as to the best way to handle the question. Mr. Morrison indicated a preference for a horizontal cut, while Mr. Hewitt advocated tho adoption of his bill, the leading feature of which is freo raw materials. There was a good deal of discussion growing out of tho various suggestions of the committeemon, by which there was shown to bo a general disposition to harmonize upon some bill reduc ng tariff duties, and to put it before the House with as little delay as possible. All were agreed that it would be most politic to report a b;ll that would be sure not ouly to pass the House, but that would also probably pass the Kenato. The reformers arc in earnest, and ii they should fail to pass a general bill they will attack the high-tariff rates by piecemeal, through separate bills.

MISCELLANEOUS. Mitchell, the pugilist, says he will accept Sullivan’s challenge to fight every daj for a week, provided half the proceeds shall gc to charitable institutions. The blizzard which recently spread itself over the country was particularly severe in tho Eastern States. The tide along Cape Cod was the highest known for many years. The snow in Maine and Vermont is in many places five feet deep. Tho mails at New York suffered marked delay. Convicts at Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, saved the lives of three men found clinging to the rigging of a wrecked schooner, and the life-saving crew at Scituato rescued fourteen men from two vessels. It is estimated that more damage was done during forty-eight hours on that part of the coast than for the past ton yeare. Eight vessels were reported ashore at Truro and Provincetown, Mass., hut no lives were lost. In New York City from four to six horses were required to each street car. A woman was blown from a sidewalk into a cellar. A party of about sixty ladies and gentlemen living on Staten Island left in tho evening, to attend tho theaters or the opera in Now York. They- could not land, owing to the severity of the storm, and were compelled to remain on board tho boat aH night. The schooner Mary G. Farr, of Philadelphia, caught fire at sea, off the New Jersey coast during the storm. The boat was wrecked, and every soul on board was lost. At. Pittsburg tho snow blockade was unprecedented, railway trains being entirely abandoned for a time. In tho Northwest the storm did flrea damage. It is believed, in Southern Illinois, the poach crop is killed. The mercury ranged from 50 degrees below in Manitoba to 11 above art Mobile. Irwin Underhill was frozen to death near Elgin, 111., John Lang at Burlington, lowa, and a letter-carrier froze his feet and hands at Evansville, Indiana. The cold wave extended south to tho Gulf of Mexico, and at Galveston Tex., a man w-as frozen to death. In Florida the oranges remaining on the trees are frozon, and their loss will probably be complete. In Arkansas the thermometer reached 4 deg. below. In Louisiana, throughout the sugar belt, it fell to an average of from 1 to 12 deg. above, and in one locality in Texas the cowboys were astonished to find it 4 deg. below. The area of low thermometer seems to havo extended through the entir j range of Southern States, round the coast from Texas to Maryland, accompanied by more snow than the people have seen there for vears.

FOREIGN.

The widow of Ratazzi, tlis Italian Minister, has been 'sentenced by a Pans court to three months’ imprisonment for bribing an official to cause the demolition and rebuilding of several houses which she owned on the Boulevard Hausamaim. Prince Charles, of Monaco, has driven tho Jesuits front his quarter-section because they printed a list of suicides at the gaming tables. Reports from Eagle Island show that dreadful distress prevails among the Irish residouts. The people have almost nothing to eat, and no money whatever with which to buy food. Petitions for aid to the Dublin Can tic authorities havo been met with the reply; “The poor-house is open.” There, has been a domestic war in the Italian royal household that assumed proportions demanding the attention' 'll the newsgatherers. King Humbert became?' alarmed at the family expenses, and was particularly shocked at the discovery that IrtV* censor!, s Queen Margherita, insisted on hay-ing.-a hea'ping plate of strawberries every day .n*ttie year. The royal pair finally arrived at an ■-agree that tho Queen would content herself yratU her-' ries twice a week if the King woujdMi his old giving them awaf, and peace was restored. - ’

LATER NEWS IETMS.

Advices received ’by the way of London state that Germany has seized the islands of Samoa in the Pacific Ocean. The King and his clue; s were insulted anil- finally fled. A force of marines was landed from the German war ship Albatross. The German Consul then hauled down the Samoan flag and ran np the German colors in its stead. Tho Samoans threaten to make war on the Germans. Th : American and British Consuls protest jd against the action of the Germans. Following is the text of the bill introduced in the lower ho us 3 of-Congress by Mr. Hewitt to secure a uniform standard of value: lie it enacted, etc., That the gold anil silver coins of the United States which are a lull legal tender shall hereafttr be interchangeable a: their lawful value, either for the other, upon the demand of any holder thereof, in the offic ' of the Assistant Treasurer in the City of New York, when presentad in sums of SIOO of any multiple thereof; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for such Interchange, and to cause to be coifted such amount of standard silver dollars as maybe found necessary from time to time in order to meet the demand for such dollars; and that aU provisions of iaw fixing or limiting the amount to be coined of such standard silver dollars be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Chicago elevators contain 14,609,756 bushels of wheat, 2,578,619 bushels of corn, 272,028 bushels of oats, 320,701 bushels of rye, and 213,212 bushels of barley; total, 17,985,916 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,267,305 bushels a year ago. The manufacturing firm of Crane Bros., one’ of the largest pipe and general iron manufacturing houses in the West, is about to remove from Chicago to Pittsburgh. A location at Pittsburgh, the Cranes claim, will reduce freights and bsf a benefit to all concerned. Time has solved the mystery connected with the disappearance from Chicago last September of J. T. O'Rourke and Miss Mary Larncd, who were by many believed to have been lost on Lake Michigan from a rowboat. It appears that they went directly to Detroit, whore O’Rourke secured work as a porter in a dry goods house, although he had a good law practice in St. Louis, and had abandoned a wife and children at Kirkwood. It is said that the amour was broken up by an anonymous letter sent by O’Rourke to his wife. The parties involved have returned to their homes. The Hon. Allen G. Thurman received the Democratic caucus nomination for the United States Senatorship at Columbus, Ohio. The Great Powers of Europe, it is said, demand that Greece, Servia, Bulgaria, and Turkey shall demobilize their armies. A spirits-monopoly bill has been signed by Emperor William of Germany. If passed by the Bundesrath it will go into effect in August, 1888. The bill to admit Dakota and organize the Territory of Lincoln was favorably reported to the Senate, by Mr. Harrison, on the 11th inst. In discussing the Beck silver question, Mr. Pugh stated his belief that three-fourths of the Southern people were opposed to the suspension of silver coinage. Mr. Blair urged the passage of his bill fer the erection of monuments to Lincoln and Grant at the National Capital. Bills were introduced to permit the Dakota Central Railway to bridge the Missouri River at Pierre ; to pay from the Geneva award the sum of $20,000 to William H. Whiting for physical in juries sustained by imprisonmefiton the Confederate cruiser Alabama, and to appropriate $420,000 for river improvements in Oregon. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced for the issue of small silver certificates for circulating medium, for large certificates on deposited silver bullion, for fractional paper currency, and to pay out all except $50,090,001) of the Treasury surplus in redemption of bonds. Also a bill to divide Dakota anrl create the Territory of Lincoln, to prohibit aliens from acquiring title to lauds, to appropriates3,ood,ooo for a steam cruiser, to donate the Creve Coeur lakes to the city of St. Louis, and to enable the people to name their Postmasters. Mr. Weaver, of lowa, flung in a measure to appropriate $300,000,000 to pay veteran soldiers and sailors the difference between gold coin and the depreciated paper they took from the paymasters. The call of States brought forward CSO new measures, making the total nearly 4,0J0. Nearly 500 nominations were reported from committees to the Senate sitting in executive session. When the case of Dorman B. Eaton came up Mr. Logon objected tc his confirmation as Civil Service Commissioner on the ground that he was a “mugwump" and that the law required the appointment of a Republican. Mr. Eaton was, however, confirmed.

THE MARKETS.

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BROWN OF MAINE.

The Report on This Gentleman Pro* vokes a Lively Discussion in the Senate. Messrs. Voorhees, Vest} and Hale Hava a Three-Handed Forensic Bout [Associated Press report. 1 The Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the call of a recent Senate resolution in respect to the appointment of postmasters in Maine, alleged to have been procured through the influence of S. S. Brown, Chairman-of the Democratio Committee of that State. The communication, having been read, Mr. Hale said that before It. went to the country he desired to say a few words with regard to it. It was every day becoming the bdlief of the people, he said, that the civil service of the Government should notbe the reward of party service. Above all, the country desired that we should have a pure civil service. There should be no taint of bargain and sale about it. All parties had recognized this, and the party rallying-cries had been based on this thought. Tne rallying cry of the Democrats was “Turn the rascals out,” which could only mean that if rascals were in office they should be turned out. A singular state of affairs, Mr. Hale continued, has arisen. in Maine within the last six months. Thera ■ were few large offices in that State. There were but twenty-seven presidential postoffices, but. several hundred fourth-class ones. No department of the government came bo neax : the people as the postoffice. The Republicans had expected to go out. The clamor of tho Democrats for offices had been so great thatthey expected to go. The administration hod taken a conservative course, and the President, though pressed to make a general sweep of the postmasters in Maine, had declined. But the people of many places had waked up one morning in Maine and found that persona had been appointed whom nobody wanted and nobody recommended. In one case itwas found that the Chairman of the Democratic committee, Mr. 8. S. Brown, had given np his law practice, closed his office, and had come to \Vauhington to attend to the distribution of patronage under the civil-service system. When it was found that this one-man power was the source of removals he (Halo) received letters from Democrats and Republicans alike complaining of the new state of allairs. Mr. Hale then read several letters—one saying that tne people had sent the Postmaster General a petition, signed by eighty-four persons, praying for the appointment of a person, who, however, was not appointed. When Mr. fl lo came to Washington one of Mr. Brown s letters was handed tohim (Mr. Hale). This letter become the basis of the present inquiry. He had made the inquiry for the purpose of putting before tbe benate full information on the subject. Out of one hundred of the larger postoffices in Maine it now seemed that Mr. Brown had recommended eighty-seven of the new appointments. Mr. Hale acquitted the Postmaster General of any indorsement of Mr. Brown. Brown had come to Washington indorsed by the Democratic party or its committees. The Postmaster General had turned these matters of appointment over to his assistant, who relied upon Mr. Brown, but the Postmaster General, had not made a complete nnsw er to the resolution of the benate. He hi(d not stated whether tho wished of the people had been respected in. the new appointments. No explanation had been made of the infamous system on which, the proceedings complained of bad been based. Mr. Hale read what he termed the most extraordinary exculpatory letter ever heard of—a letter of Mr. Brown to the Portland Argus, Btating, among other things, that the Democratic Committee of Maine and Mr. Brown had arranged that persons whoreceived appointments should pay something for the expenses incurred in their behalf, and also stating that he (Mr. Brown) had secured a large numuer of appointments to postoffices. Mr. Hale referred to the severe denunciation which, on a former occasion, had been expressed by Mr. Beck in the Senate at a circular issued by a Republican committee chairman, calling merely for voluntary contributions. What was the issuance of such a circular compared to tliiacondition of affairs shown by the facts in thecase ? The one may ha\e muddied the water, the other poisoned the fountain. The Republican party had not always been perfect, but in twenty-four years Mr. Hals had never heard that public offices had become matters of pubMo sale. Mr. Hale had heard from an employe of the House of Representatives that there had never been in the summer season more Democrats in Washington than during the past summer, and that the Indiana Democrats had notgone home at all. Mr. \ oarhei s remarked that when Mr. Hale was so told, he (Mr. Hale) was keeping company with a man who did not tell tne truth. Mr. Voorhees warmly denied the truth of the statement, saying that of hiß personal knowledge it was untrue. Mr. Hale did not care whether it vra* true or not, though if the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Vcorlie.'S) had remained here at the Buggebt on of his constituents, to look after their interests it would not have bi en a cuss at all like that under consideration. Mr. Hale believed he spoke for the honest, conservative Democrats of Maine in denouncing the course pursued by the Democratic Committee of Maine and by Mr., Brown. Mr. Vest said it was impossible that the administration should know every man whosolicited office. If Mr. Vest had his way hewould make it a misdemeanor for any man to solicit office. But what was the Postmaster General to do? It had become a part of the common law in both parties for men to recommend people for office. Was the Postmaster General to go to Republicans for recommendations? Mr. Vest characterized Mr. Hale s position as mere cant. He (Mr. Vest) hod beforenow seen in the departments at Washington such indorsements as this: “This man is indorsed by Vest and Cockrell,” and therefore, the appointments had been refused. Yet theSenator from Maine had discovered what he pretended to be a new evil. But for the Democratio success of 1882, there never would have been a. civil-service law passed by the Republican party. Tho civil-service bill had been in the Benate for years without attention until the prospects of Democratio ascendency became clear to the Republicans. Mr. Hale said that hod nothing to do with the question under debate. ' Mr. Vest said his colleague, Mr. Cockrell, and himself, in the course of their investigations heretofore under Republican administrations, bad found unmistakable evidences of the use of' money in the attainment of public offices, and though they could not put their fingers on aletter shewing any use of money they could con-' vince the moral sense of any man that m«ney had been used. Mr. Voorhees said the facts seemed to be that three Presidential Postmasters and some otherminor Postmasters had been changed by the present administration. It seemed to Mr. Voorhees that that simply showed that not as many changes had Been made in the postoffices of Maine as the people had, by their votes last fall, intended should be made bv the administration. Mr. Voorhees sympatl i :ed with the Republican Postmasters who had been turned out. They would get used to it after a while, at tho Democrats had got ure lto it. Mr. Voorhees was not here to defend Brown. He thought Mr. Halo had done a service to tho Democratic party by exposing such a man ; but did Mr. Hale suppose he could make an impression on the country that the Democracy of the United States favored the course pursued by Mr. Brown? Mr. .Voorhees differed from Mr. Vest in one thing. EW'(Mr. Voorhees) was willing to put in power 1 and office the men who had helped elect tho Democrats. He believed it to have been the intention of the framers of the Constitution that the Government'should be adnMiistored by tire friends of the administration which the people should place in.power. Mr. Vest said he had meroly meant to say that if he were to consult his own personal ease be would do what he had stated. He did not mc*n that Be was not willing to help his party friends. ' Mr. Voerheee w'illinglv conceded that fact. Mr. Logan, referring to the allusion made tothe cir ii-service law and the Republican administration, said thgt Congress—meaning the House both-fbad not been for several administrations in the hands of the RepuWioatti ptuiy. ' ''Mr. Vest Bald the Senate had been, and for a part o's the time- every committee was in the bauds of the Republicans.