Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — Page 6

LYING TO THE SOLDIERS.

-ALL PLEDGES MADE BY THE REPUBLICANS IGNORED. f The Surploe Giyen Away to Subsidy Lobbyists—No Effort Made to Pass the Service Pension Bill—Mr. Bynum Calls Attention to tho Republican Bad Faith. (Washington special to Indianapolis Sentinel.] In an interview had by me with BepreAeutative Bynum, regarding pension legislation during the present session, Mr. Bynum said: “I have been satisfied ever since the President delivered his first message that the Republicans did not intend to redeem their x promises to the soldiers. They were very profuse in promises, but ■when it comes to performance they are faithful only to the moneyed interests, from whence comes campaign boodle. Mr. Peters, of Kansas, in oppos ng the world’s fair bill, said the estimated revenue the coming year was, in round numbers, $450,000,000, and the regular expenditures would be $406,000,000, to ■which must be added $25,000,000 for deficiencies and $10,000,000 for miscellaneous, making a total necessary expenditure of $441,000,000, leaving a surplus for next year of only $9,000,000. Now, if they repeal the tobacco tax, a deficiency of $20,000,000 will exist; but, in addition, they propose to refund to the States $17,000,000 of direct tax collected from people who could afford to pay the same during the war; grant from five to ten millions to steamship lines, as subsidies, and appropriate from twenty to forty millions for public buildings, and pay ten millions French spoil ition claims. Now, where is the money to come from to pay additional pensions? The tariff is already above ihe revenue standard, and every increase on most articles will reduce instead of increase the revenue. I observe that Gen Alger stated to the soldiers at Columbus that ‘a service pension bill will not lie passed by this Congress; that the East and South are opposed to it.’ No effort has been made to pass such a bill. The -committee hr.d never considered, much less reported a service bill. Under the new rules it can report at anytime, and tie measures reported can be t ken up at once, aud yet, w.th these advantages, no efforts are being made to carry out the ] r >mises made to the soldiers. “The above bills of which I have spoken—such as the direct’tax bill, public building bills and French spoliation claims -have either been reportel or favorably considered by the committees having them in charge, and will be pressed before the House at an early date, but no pension bills of any consequence are even heard of. The Republicans have complete control. They have devised rules and forced their adoption, by which •they can turn out a Democrat or piss a subsidy bill in thirty minutes; and yet they are silent upon pension bills. The dependent bill, which they denounced as a pauper bill and an insult to the old Soldiers, when passed by a Democratic House, is all the Presidtnt recommended in his message, and, with a few minor bills of no consequence to tho great body -of the soldiers, is all th it the Republicans will permit to come before this Congress. They are never enthusiastic in beJhalf of the veterans, except when in the minority in Congress, or seeking votes. “v onscious that there would be no money to pay the soldiers, when the Refublic 'ps get their pet schemes through, proposed the amendjnent I offered to the rules, allowing amendments or provisions bnjgeijei'al pension bills granting new pensions, for raising the money to p.y the same. Gen. Alger exposed the opposition to my amendment when he said that the East was opposed to further pension legislation. It is clearly •evident that without additional revenues ®d lit ioml pensiori legislation cannot be had. The East is opposed to additional pensions, because it fears that a graduated income tax will have to be levied to Tay the same. The amendment I offered •did not require that bills for new pensions should contain provisions for raising the revenue. It only provided that such a provision could be ordered. If there was plenty of money to pay such proposed increase, no such provis on would be necessary, and would not be offered. -Without some appropriation the bill would not likely be reported to the House. The Committee on Invalid Pensions would say we must not pass b Ils until the Committee on Ways and Means provided the revenue, and the Committee on Ways end Means, when asked to increase the revenues, would say that we already have a sufficient income to meet all our demands, and that tb increase ■taxes in anticipation of new expenditures not yet created would be unwise. The -amendment was broad enough to allow •the means necessary to be raised in any manner. If an income tax could not be provided, a provision for the issuance of bonds, or greenbacks could be incorporated, and if it had been adopted, the Committee on Invalid Pensions could have reported any of the bills promised to the soldiers with an estimate •of the amount required to pay the same, and we could have provided the means in the bill, and passed it in a single day. Not a single Republican, however, supported my amendment, and it was defeated. The East was opposed to it. The .Eastern Republicans don’t propose that any more money shall go to the West, even in the way of pensions. "The invitations given to the soldiers last campaign inviting them to the feast .that was to be prepared by the Republican party have been recalle 1. and they ■will not be seated at the banquet tables which are being spread by this Congress. "They will be given a few crumbs, after the corporations and rings have been pampered to their satisfaction. They can come to Washington later, on and look into the empty vaults of the treasury after the surplus has been carted away by the lobbyists, who are now rejoicing that a Congress has been organized for action upon the millions of dollars of State claims and fraudulent schemes that could not stand the scrutiny of Democratic Congresses.” (Jerrymandering and Republican Pharisaism. It is touching to witness the holy horror •of • the Republican leaders over the threatened action of the Democracy in Ohio respecting the redistricting of that f Btate. A correspondent of the New York World thus exposes their Pharisaism: In the Congressional election of 1868, the following Northern States cast votes

: for candidates for Representatives of the I two great political parties as follows: State. Rep. vote. Dem. \ote. Connecticut 74, 74,990 California 124,816 117,729 I lowa 211.598 179,887 I Illinois 379,473 348,278 ' Michigan 233,370 213,449 Minnesota. 142,492 104,381 Massachusetts 183,892 151,855 Nebraskaloß,42s 89,552 New Y0rk648,759 635,757 Now Jersey 144,344 151,493 0hi0416,‘>51 396,455 l eansylvania 526, Z>l 446,633 linode Island 21,958 17,530 Wisconsinl76,s3l 155,232 T0ta153,386,399 3,074,165 The 3,386,399 Republican votes elected 126 Republican Congressmen. This whs an average of not quite 26,900 votes per Congressman. The 3,074,165 Democratic votes elected only forty-seven Congressmen. This was an uverage of 65,408 votes per Congressman. The net Republican plurality in these fourteen Northern States of 312,234 is represented in the present Congress by a net Republican majority of seventy-nine members. Of these seventy-nine extra members the election of seventy-four is due to the remarkable gerrymandering skill of those most holy, Puritanical politicians, who stand aghast when they contemplate the suppression of the vo.es of their brethren at the South. If the Democrats of these fourteen Northern States are adequately and fairly represented in the lower house of Congress by forty-seven members a proportionate representation of the Republicans of the same States would allow them only fifty-one instead of their 126 members. If the Republicans are only fairly and adequately represented by their 126 members, a proportionate representation of the Democrats of these States would give them 114 members instead of the paltry number of forty-seven. If a constituency of 26,900 Republican voters is entitled to one Representative, what good and sufficient reason can these monopolists of morality give for limiting the representation of their Democratic neighbors to one member for every 65,408 voters?

If the will of the people of these fourteen Northern States were not stifled by the most infamous gerrymandering, if this will were permitted to find expression fairly and honestly in the lower house of Congress, the Republicans would have only ninety instead of 126 of the 173 members from the above States, while the L‘mc;rats would have eightythree instead of forty-seven. While enjoying the products of this c’ean-cut steal our Republican brethren, almost of one accord, stand on the public highways and on the street corners with outstretched arms thanking God that they are not as other men are. Their representatives in Congress propose to perpetuate this steal by the passage of the Wickham or Hoar bill to keep in full form for another Congress the present Republican gerrymanders. They propose to retain the present districts of Ohio, by which 26,000 Republican voters can elect a member, while it will require 79,291 Democratic voters to do the same thing.

ONLY USED THE NEGRO.

SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN’S FRANK ADMISSION. The Ohio Senator Practically Owns Up that Black Men Were Enfranchised Not us a Matter of Hight but for Political Reasons. Icy old John Sherman thawed out in the Senate the other day, during a hot political debate, and he and Senator Butler had a set-to which provoked cheers and shouts in the galleries. Mr. Eustis started the rumpus by referring to statements made by Mr. Hoar in reference to the Southern States, one being that in Louisiana and in some other States there were laws which made it a penal offense for a white man to associate on terms of equdity with a black, and that there Was another law in Louisiana which provided for the sale of colored men for a certain time out of work, and that the former master should have the preference in the Ciurchase. He said there were no such aws, and any pretense that there was only illustrated with what recklessness and destitution of the sense of responsibility Republican Senators spoke of Southern affairs. Mr. Hoar admitted that he had erred about Louisiana, but said a law of this chararter existed in Mississippi. Mr. Eustis asserted that all reconstruction measures and amendments were adopted by the Republican party with the object of Africanizing the South and maint lining political supremacy, and this he characterized as the “greatest crime ever committed against civilized communities.” Mr. Sherman then made a long speech in defense of reconstruction measures, saying the laws passed by some of the Southern States had been so unjust to the colored people and white Republicans that the people North became convinced that the object was to overthrow the results of the war and deprive the freedmen of the rights of citizenship, and Congress had therefore reluctantly armed the negro with suffrage as the only remedy fitted for the case. Negro suffrage had not turned out as had been expected on account of the measures adopted to deprive the negro of his rights. Congress could not exercise any control in the local affairs of the South, but there should be a law that would protect the right of suffrage, and that it be executed with such power that no man would dare expose himself to its penalties. Mr. Butler said the debate had shown that suffrage had been conferred upon the negro of the South not because he was entitled to it or qualified to exercise it, but because of certain laws passed by some of the Southern States. The admission would throw light on future discussions as to the rights of the negro to vote in the South. Mr. Butler spoke of the exclusion of the colored men in the Northern States from all political office. He believed the great body of the people North were kindly disposed toward the South, and warned the Senator from Ohio that whenever he attempted to carry out his threat of another crusade upon the South through supervisors and United States marshals, for the purpose of dominating elections there, he would have a fire in his rear from the men who had carried their money and their industry into the South. In conclusion, he insisted that the people of the South were far mere interested in an orderly, humane, honest settlement of the question than the people of the N orth.

THE NATION’S CAPITAL.

POLITICAL AMD SOCIAL GOSSIP AT WASHINGTON. The Disposition of the Blair Bill Affords Great Relief to Senators—Wyoming and Idaho to Come Into the Union—Cranks Who Visit the Patent Ofllce- The Rus- • aty. [SPECIAL COBBESPONDENCE.J Washington, March 24, 1890. “Speaking about lunatics,” said an official in the Patent Office who has been placed on the force since the advent of the present administration, “you chaps in the newspaper business, with all .tour spring poets and phunnygram editors, don’t know what the word ‘lunatic’ stands for. Now, if you’ll come around and spend a day with me, I’ll show you some of the real old article. " “Is it because you have something peculiarly attractive about you, or because you look as if you might easily be buldozed, that you have a daily gathering of *cr,inks’ about you?” asked the writer. “Well, you see, I’m a new man here, and all the old clerks in the office, when some one comes into the office with a suspicious manner about him, turn him over to me. Of course we’re bound to treat everybody courteously or we’d get into heaps of trouble. For instance, do you see that individual just coming in the door? Teq chances to one you would think he came in here to get a patent on a hay-twister/ and, of course, you couldn’t be blamed for any lack of extreme politeness. Well, now, that’s John F. Lacey, of lowa, who is making quite a reputation in the House as an off-hand talker. So you’ll readily understand that we have to be polite to everybody, as you can’t tell just who a man js by his appearance. It is wonderful the variety of people who come in here and the character of their Lusiness. The other day a man came in, and at the first glance I thought it was Chauncey M. Depew, of New York. My first impression was to get up und make one of the graceful bows I have been practicing ever since I saw the antic performed at one of Wanemaker’s receptions last month. The man had every appeamnee of health, intellect, and wealth, so far as could be judged from the outside. The man had a box under his arm, and I soon found it contained, a model for an invention he had perfected. I saw at a glance that it was utterly valueless ridiculous—and yet for half an hour he talked and explained to me all about it, in the most wandering, foolish manner, and became so excited that I got nervous.

“Hundreds of just such as these come thousands of miles to get a patent on some insignificant trifle like a pie-cutter, an apple-parer, button-hole puncher, etc. Sometimes I have listened for an hour while one of these poor tools would narrate to me in the most scientific but unintelligible terms how he invented a ticket punch or a corn-sheller e and how much he expected to make as soon as he could get his patent right. Ahd all the time he is telling me of it he is looking continuously about to see if any one is listening. The next one that comes! in may be a man who has a scheme for making a million of money if he can only get some one to go in with him and put up SSOO to perfect his invention. He comes to me because he knows that I am acquainted with everything in the shape of an invention, and, being as I was right in the office where I can see that the papers are all straight, he’d give me first chance. And then the chances are ten to one he would unroll a bundle of paper and regale my ears with a minute description of some apparatus for cleaning gum boots. “These cranks are not confined to the male sex by any means. You would be astonished at the number of women who apply for patents during the course of a month—generally for some worthless contrivance. In fact, only about one in twenty of all the inventions for which Government patent rights are obtained ever amount to anything in point of use*fulness, and only about one in every five hundred are a success financially.”

* Me The protest against the ratification of the Russian treaty, which the Senate, over President pro tern. Ingalls’ adverse ruling, permitted Senator Cockrell to present in open session last week, is an interesting document, and contains tome strong statements. The instrument is from the Wood-working Machine Hands’ Union of St. Louis. The reasons given for the protest are that the signers consider tnat the ratification of the pending treaty would be a mistake, because a state without anyregular system of justice—a staJe in which there is punishment of the severest nature without the least judicial process as a governmental institution—can offer no guarantee for an honest use of an extrad tion treaty. The memorial accompanying the protest presents a supposititious case, in which Russia is represented as being anxious to get back a political fugitive from this country. He is accused of a common felony, and according to the terms of the treaty the United States is bound to give him up. The victim is then prosecuted, not forapolitie-il crime, but for felony, and no Ameiic m Minister can save him. To back up this reasoning the memorialists refer to the well known books on Siberian exiles by George Kennan and Prince Krapotkin. In conclusion the memorial says that it should be sufficient to Americans that the Russian people are subject to the arbitrary rule of the Czar, end that therefore a government which has to represent law cannot enter into an extradition treaty with lawless despotism. - * * Since the recent defalcation of Silcott the office of cashier of the Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives has gone a begging. At least the position is not what it once was. The place was refused the other day by a Nebraska politician, after a brief investigation, who claims that it has been queered by the absconding cashier. There was formerly a big rake-off. There are two classes of Congressmen, financially speaking. One class depend on their salary alone, and frequently draw large sums in advance; the other class have outside resources and were wont to leave their pay in the hands of the Sergeant-at-arms. In thia way the cashitr was able to do a sort of a brokerage business which netted him something handsome. Since Silcott’s disappearance the first class borrow funds elsewhere and the second class draw their salary os soon as it becomes due. This

I leaves but the salary for the pay clerk, I and a very ordinary one at that. , Senators feel mightily Relieved since the Blair educational bill has been gotten rid of. Almost every one of the statesmen has a pet measure of his own which he wants to get before the Senate, but they have been bound hand and foot ever since the New Hampshire Senator got the floor. It may be stated as a certainty that two more States will be added to the Union in a few weeks. Bills admitting Wyoming and Idaho have been favorably reported in both houses of Congress. By resolution ihe House has agreed to take up these bills on Tuesday, March 25, and continue action until they are disposed of. Congressman Springer is also pushing the claims of Arizona and New Mexico, but with little prospect of success, as there is a feeling among the Republican members that the latter two are unprepared for the duties of statehood. * Senator George Hearst will go down in history as “the man who listened to the Blair educational bill in its entirety.” It is a mighty interesting theme ordinarily that will keep the millionaire Senator of California in his chair for anv great length of time, and many of George’s friends are wondering what has come over him. Senator Blair has noticed the interest taken bv his brother from the Pacific slope, and in order to secure his vote thought to tickle him by asking him to make a t-peech, knowing the o’d veteran had never made a speech, and never pretended to be able to join in a discussion, especially on a subject of this nature. He expected, of course, a refusal. To his utter surprise and consternation, Senator Hearst, with the utmost sang froid, accepted the invitation, and stated that he would commence immediately after morning business on Thursday, and thought he would be able to say all he had to say in about three hours. This almost petrified the New Hampshire Senator, as the bill comes to a final vote on this day, and he had expected to occupy the afternoon himself in refuting statements made by the opposition. He is now almost frantic for some way to suppress the irrepressible California man. Notwithstanding *the newspaper talk about the change in the office of Serge mt-at-arms as soon as Senator Quay returns from the South, there is little likelihood that any change will take place this session. Considerable skirmishing is being done, however, among the various candidates.

The Interstate Commerce Cotnmission has recently added a new feature to its working force in the shape of a secret service. Thus far one man constitutes the entire force, and his name is Frank G. Kretchmer, one of the brightest young newspaper men of South Dakota. Mr. Kretchmer has had considerable experience in the railro d business, which peculiarly fits him for the duties of the new position. His principal work consists in personally visiting points from which complaints of discrimination in freight rates are heard, and making report to the commission of the result of his invest gation After sufficient trial, if it is found the new departure is beneficial to the service, the force will be gradually increased. A certain Senator from one of the Western States is preparing to spring on the Senate a resolution calling for an investigation as io what becomes of a large proportion of public documents and tho manner in which they come into the hands of brokers The Senator referred to has recently received a letter from a well-known second-hand book dealer, offering for sale 3,500 volumes of the agricultural reports of 1888 at 7. cents per copy, and several thousand volumes of other Government reports at similar rates. He proposes to tint out just how these came into the possession of the bookdealer, and will then suggest the enactment of a law prohibiting the sale of such articles in the future.

* * There is a pecuh r rivalry between two distinguished personages from Massachusetts, Senator Hoar and Representative Henry Cabot Lodge. E«ch has a Federal election bill, and eaeh bill is so manifestly directed at the Southern States as to be particularly pleasing to the New England heart. The Lodge bill is sure topass the House; the Hoar bill the- Senate. Only one, of course, can survive and in the melee perhaps neither will live. It has now become the question whether, in the final outcome, the surviving measure will be known to history as the Boor bill or the Lodge bill. Both statesmen are jealous of the title. * * * The hatred of Senators Call, of Florida, and George, of Mississippi, for Senator Chandler is a matter of vopmon talk in public circles, brought about to- a great degree by the discussion of the race question and the resolution calling for an investigation regarding the alleged outrages committed in some of the Southern States. On Monday last both of the Southern statesmen, who are members of the Committee on Immigration, of which Chandler is Chairman, resigned from that body, and announced tbeir refusal to further serve on the aforesaid committee. * * * Senator Ingalls has introduced a bill providing that a sold-er who has lost both eyes or one arm and one leg may Let married at any time he may so desire to* some one to take care of him, and nt his death the soldier’s widow shall receive sl2 per month as long as she remains single. If the soldier’s wife refuses to live with and care for him, he may after her absence of six months procure a divorce from any County Court upon payment of $5. ★ * Senator Plumb has nothing if not a wholesome respect for the Fish Commission. In commenting upon the appropriation asked for by the commission in the urgent deficiency bill, last Tuesday, he became very sarcastic regarding the growing power of the commission. He stated that it might be as well to turn the Government over to the commission at once and be done with it. It had already got control of the navy, and was now reaching out after tho railroads, and it was a serious question in hiq mind whether the Government was a part of the commission or the commission a part of the Government. Jos. C. Moody. A kiss on the forehead denotes reverence, but it doesn’t tickle for shucks.

UNDER FALLING WALLS.

TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE AT AN INDIANAPOLIS FIRE. The Book and Stationery Store of Bowen A Merrill in Ashes A Falling Wall During the Progress of the Blaze Hurls Many Firemen Into the Blazing Rains. Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatch: Tho shocking catastrophe during the fire at Bowen & Merrill’s book store has thrown a pall of gloom over the entire city. One more dead body has been taken from the debris and this increases the number of killed to eleven. Others are' thought to be buried under the pile of masonry that fell into the alley. Many people were standing in the opening behind the Brunswick billiard hall when the crash came and it is said that some of them were buried under the falling mass. Search is now being made for them. Shortly after midnight the searching party discovered a man in the ruins, and as a large beam had fallen across his body he was somewhat protected from the piles of brick and stone that came down with the wall. He was pinioned to the ground, but the weight upon him was not sufficient to crush out his life. He could not be reached, however, on account of the pile of stuff that was above him, and life would surely be extinct before he could be rescued if he did not receive some bodily strength. A peculiar device was resorted to. A rubber tube was lowered to the unfortunate man’s mouth, and in this manner he was fed with whiskv. For over fourteen hours he lay in his dangerous position. Every minute it was expected that the huge piece of timber would sink and crush out what life remained In the man, and the rescuers worked heroically to release him. At intervals of a half hour the man was given a little whisky through the tube, and he was able to bear up until he was released. .

It was 9:45 o'clock Tuesday morning when he was taken from the ruins, and a cheer went up from the crowd when they that he was alive and would probably, live. The excitement was intense during the many hours the rescuing party was working hard to get at the man. All this time he was conscious, and he looked up pleadingly at the men who finally succeeded in saving him. The building occupied by the book company was a four-story and basement marble front, facing Washington street just west of Meridian. The fire started shortly before 8* o’clock, near the furnace of the sub-basement, and the department, when it arrived, seemed at a loss to locate the flames and began pouring water into the front of the building. For two hours the fight had continued in this way until a majority of the spectators had left, under the impresssion that the fire was out. About 5:30 o'clock, however, there was a terrific crash and the entire building, with the exception of the front wall, fell Inward. At the time a number of firemen were on the roof and were buried in the debris, which was piled forty feet high within the walls of the burned building. The work of rescuing, the living and extricating the dead was immediately begun by at least five hundred volunteers. At a late hour the following ten men had been taken out dead; GECRGE FAULKNER. ULYSSES GLAZIER. AL HOFFMAN. THOMAS S. BURKHARDT. EI’SEY STORMER. RICHARD LOWRIL. CHARLES JENKINS. THOMAS A. BLACK. ANDREW CHERRY, superintendent ol fire alarm system. An unknown man. The injured are: Anthony Voltz,. pipeman. Lew Rafert. fireman. Thomas Barrett, fireman. A. C. Mercer, captain fire department. Samuel W. Neal, pipeman. Tjlomas A. Black, pipeman. Webb Robinson, pipeman. William Partee, pipeman; internally hurt; may die. Henry Woodruff, pipeman; badly hurt. Ebenezer Leech, pipeman; cut and bruised. Tom Talentyre, foreman engine No. 2; fatally crashed. William Leong, pipeman; slightly hurt. Charles Jenkins, pipeman: badly bruised. William Heinsley, pipeman; badly hurt. John Burkhart, pipeman; badly hurt about the head. The Bowen Merrill Company carried a stock valued at $125,000, on which there was an insurance of $70,000. The building was owned by Silas T. Bowen, and the loss on the structure will be $30,000. H. P. Wasson, dealer in dry goods, suffered a loss of SIO,OOO by smoke' and water, and Byram & Sullivan lost half that amount. Several smaller stocks are badly damaged.

OCCUPIED ELEVEN CARS

Immense Armor-Plate Header Sent t* the Mare Island Navy-Yard-Hamilton (Ohio) dispatch: The immense armor-plate bending-machine made here for the navy-yard at Marine Island, California, was shipped over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Southern Pacific railroads- The machine was loaded on eleven flat-cars especially built and extra heavy. The two castings weigh respectively 66,420 and 66,200 pounds and the gross weight of- the train was 675,350 pounds. This train will be run through the entire distance, 3,400 miles, without change, the distance being greater than the entire system of the Canadian Pacific. The railroad company will not attempt to make fast time, owing to the great weight of the casting, but it will turn it over to the government April 1. The whole train,which will be run on a special boat atSanFrancisc.oand taken up the Sacramento river, was photographed before, it left Hamilton, and Agent George Smith of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Commercial Agent W. H. Connor, of the Southern Pacific, and others accompanied it as far as Ciuciunatt.