Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1897 — Page 2

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RUMOR OF A ROUTE BY STEAMSHIP TO VENEZUELA. Consol Meinhard Says the Illinois Central Is Contemplating a Steamship Route to That Country-Officers Make Denial. Steamship Line Talked Of. Venezuelan Consul Herman Meinhard Is authority for the statement that the Illinois Central Railroad, through its general freight and passenger agent, George K. Lary, is considering the establishment of a steamship line between New Orleans and Venezuelan ports. The proposed line would form a part of the regular Illinois Central system. Consul Meinhard and Mr. Lary have accumulated a mass of figures in reference to the project. Big Four interests and other large concerns in the Mississippi valley are said to be interested in the project. President Fish of the Illinois Central says that he has heard nothing of such a plan being even talked of. “One cannot tell how those rumors start,” said the railroad president. “But rumors like the present one are likely to crop out owing to our location. It appears to the fertile fancy that we could compete in good shape with Mexican roads by the use of a vessel line.” INDIANS ARE QUIET. Nevada Militiamen, However, Notified to Re Ready to Move. Because a white man killed a red man in a quarrel there is talk of an Indian raid upon unprotected white settlers in the vicinity of the place where the murder was done, a village a dozen miles from Yerington. New The militiamen were ordered to be in readiness to assemble at the armories when summoned. A special train, with the locomotives fired up, was kept in waiting all .night. It is said that the Indian police at the reservation proved impotent to restrain their dusky brethren from going on the warpath. Should the situation be found serious by Adjt. Galusha the families of the settlers in the valley will be sent to the towns of Yorington and Wabuska for protection. There is no wire between Yerington and Wabuska, which is thirteen miles from the latter point, and it is fourteen miles from there to the Indian camp in the mountains bordering Mason valley, making a round trip of fifty-four miles to be covered on horseback by couriers. The number of Indians in the State, according to a correspondent. is estimated at between 5,000 and (i,OO0 —1,000 Piutes and 1,000 or more Waslioes. The number on Pyramid lake and Walker river reservation is placed at 2,500. Normally there are about 150 Piutes in Mason valley, and with those at the reservation the tribe could muster a formidable, well-armed force in case of hostilities. The white population of Mason valley, outside of the towns of Yerington and Wabuska, is estimated at 500, and dispatches received stated their lives and property are in jeopardy. The Nevada guard comprises five companies of infantry and one battery of artillery. The Reno guard is equipped with a gatling gun, but the artillery company has only two antiquated smooth-bore guns of eighteen pound caliber. In an emergency 500 volunteers of the right material to take the field could be raised on the Comstock in a few hours. Many of them are old Indian fighters and still hold a grudge against the Piutes for atrocities committed in 1800 during the war in Humboldt County. A message from Gov. Sadler asserts that the Indians are now quiet.

CLAIMS HE WAS SWINDLED. Denver Bicycle Man Causes Arrest ol Seven Sports. Jack Davis, J. W. Flynn, Charles Reynolds, Charles Stewart, J. C. Ilames and Frank Pierson have been arrested in Denver nnd at Colorado Springs, on charges of conspiracy and grand larceny. complainant is George E. Hannan, a wellknown bicycle dealer. He bet SIO,OOO with Pierson that Bertie Banks could defeat Paul Richie in a five-mile bicycle race. Hames was stakeholder and Davis, Flynn and Reynolds assisted in arranging the match. Just before the hour for the race Banks was arrested on a trumped-up charge. Richie rode over the course alone and Hames turned over $20,000 stakes to Pierson. Indian Woman Wants a Divorce. * At Guthrie, O. T., Mattie A. Stewart, a half-breed Osage Indian, has filed a suit for divorce iu the United States Court against James Stewart, an actor. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant is now on the stajfe in Chicago and has three living wives. She further alleges that he married her while with a wildcat theatrical company and cheated her out of $4,000. The plaintiff wants a divorce and S2OO alimony. Millions for New Buildings. New York architects and builders have planned an outlay of over $125,000,000 for the construction of buildings in that city during 1807. Never before in the history of the city has the proposed expenditure for new buildings aggregated so large an amount, hence the outlook for skilled workmen was never brighter there.

Ran Into a Washout. The Chesapeake and Ohio west-bound passenger train encountered a washout opposite Portsmouth, Ohio, and the engine, baggage and express car, mail car and one coach were derailed. A.G. Stout, supervisor of the Chesapeake and Ohio, was killed. The engineer, fireman, mail clerks and express messenger were all injured, but not seriously. No Alien Marriages There. The Missouri Legislature has passed a law which prohibits any person from solemnizing marriage who is not a citizen of the United States. No foreign bishop or priest can legally perform the marriage ceremony in Missouri until he becomes a citizen of the United States. Colored Knights Templar. The colored Knights Templar cominanderies of the United States have organized a grand commandery in St. Louis. Delegates from seven districts were present, and over thirty States were represented. Kckels to Underwriters. Comptroller Eckels was the chief speaker at the underwriters’ dinner in New York. He discussed the current questions along well-known lines and was frequently applauded. In passing he advocated the adoption of a system for insuring the poor, as in vogue in Gerpany and Belgium. Lehman’s Ee jevolent Offer. Emanuel Lehman, of New York, celebrated hia seventieth birthday by offering the board of trustees of the Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society, of which he is president, SIOO,OOO for the endowment of an industrial and provident fund for the benefit of graduates

CAPTAIN IN A PREDICAMENT. Schooner Una Beaches San Francisco with No Papers. Captain Harkins of the schooner Una, arrived in San Francisco from Panama, may find himself in a somewhat serious predicament. His vessel has no papers of any description to present to the custom house. Register, crew list and other documents are all missing, and the Una, in a sense, is outlawed by maritime usages. It appears that the Una loaded ee,dar logs at Panama. Part cash was paid for the cargo, and the balance, although cabled for, had not arrived when the Una was loaded and ready to sail. The captain of the port at Panama told Captain Harkins that if the money due was not paid immediately the vessel would be seized and bo placed in jail. United States Consul General Vifquain was seen by the captain, and, according to Harkins, Consul General Vifquain advised him to “clear out.” This counsel he obeyed. Consul General Vifquain has forwarded the Una’s register and other documents to Washington, together with his report of the case, so that any decision in the matter will rest with the Federal authorities.

MUST NOW PAY FOR THE FUN. Probable Cost of Jameson's Raid In South Africa. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons at London that nil official telegram hud been received from tbe British agent at Pretoria, cupital of the Transvaal, conveying a hill of indemnity presented by the Transvaal as a result of the Jameson raid. The bill, he added, is divided into two heads. The first asks for the payment of £677,038 3s 3d as a material charge, and under the second hend the Transvaal asks for £1,000,000 for “moral and intellectual damage.” Mr. Chamberlain further adds that the demands do not include the legitimate private claims which may be advanced. The telegram from the British agent also says that the indemnity is to be paid by the British Government, or caused to be paid by it, apparently suggesting that the Government compel the British Chartered South Africa Company to pay it, or, in default, that the Government must foot the bill. ASKS FAVORS OF CONGRESS. Alaska Man Wants Territory to Be Granted One Representative. L. G. Kauffman, a director of the Business Men’s Association of Junedu, Alaska, is in San Francisco as the representative of that organization to urge .the chamber of commerce to memorialize Congress to grant Alaska one representative iu the legislative body. Mr. Kauffmnn says the commercial and mining interests of the great northern territory are suffering from the lack of representation in Congress. He has visited Seattle, Tneomn and Portland and the commercial bodies of those cities have adopted resolutions urging Congress to pass the bill now before it giving Alaska a representative, which bill has been favorably reported by the Committee on Territories. The officers of the Snu Francisco chamber of commerce have given Mr. KnulTmnn a memorial, which will be forwarded to Washington at ouee. The chamber will supplement this action at its next regular meeting.

GKO, XV. ADAMS DIES. Sad Ending; of a Life Filled with Strange Contrasts. George W. Adams, of Chicago, is dead by his own hand. He was many years ago an operator on the Board of Trade, and until recently a bookkeeper in the enrploy of the National Linseed Oil Company. He was un ex-alderman, a descendant of John Quincy Adams, and a man who at one time held a commanding position in society, but misfortune overtook him, domestic troubles murred his life, and, nt length, when he lost his position, there seemed little else for him to live for. He took his life in the office where, until recently, he was employed. The shot which he fired into his right ear found lodgment in his brain, and he never regained conconsciousness. Mr. Adams was about 00 years old and bad been with the oil company for about three years. It was only recently, when the works shut down, that he was discharged. CAPTURED A FORT. Weyler Loses n Point in His Game with Gomez. Gen. Gomez advanced on the Moron trocha in the eastern end of the island with 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry nt midnight, ami when he saw he was discovered by the Spanish, who fired on him, he ordered the cavalry to charge. They swooped down on the fort and captured it, and the whole army went through the trocha. All of the arms and ammunition of the fort were captured. He Had Been Long 111. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton, one of the most distinguished cavalry commanders of the late war, died at his apartments in the Greacon House in Washington Wednesday. Alfred Pleasonton was born in Washington, D. C„ in 1824, graduated at the United States Military Academy iu 1844, served in the Mexican war, did frontier duty against the Indians until the civil war began, and in 1861 began the most brilliant portion of his military career in that great struggle. He received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel at Antietam in 1862, was promoted major-gen-eral of volunteers in June, 1863, was com-mander-in-chief of Federal cavalry at Gettysburg, and was breveted colonel in July, 1863. Transferred to Missouri in 1864, he cleared that State of rebel troops, and in March, 1865, was brevetted briga-dier-general of the United States army for services in that campaign and major-gen-eral for services throughout the war. Gen. Pleasonton resigned from the army in 1868 and was United States collector of internal revenue for several years. Subsequently he was president of the Terre Haute and Cincinnati Railway Company. In May, 1888, he was placed on the retired list with the rnnk of colonel, United States army. Gen. Pleasonton for the past seven years had lived an almost hermit’s life in Washington, not moving out of his apartments and denying himself to all persons save a few of his most intimate friends. He felt that he had not been well treated by the Government after his distinguished services in the war, and this, together with ill-health, preyed upon his mind and made him rather eccentric. His only attendants were his private secretary, Mr. Murphy, and Henrietta Roane, a faithful colored nurse, who were with him when he passed away. Dropsy, the effects of wounds and age and the grip, caused the end.

None for Hanna, It is definitely settled that M. A. Hanna will not go into Major McKinley’s cabinet. Mr. Hanna announced that he had determined to remain in Ohio. He will contest in the Legislature next winter for the full term in the United States Senate. In fact, Hanna's supporters have already organized his campaign. Pportemen Indignant. An indignation meeting of Illinois sportsmen was held in Chicago to protest against the passage of the bill before the Wisconsin Legislature, which proposes to tax non-resident sportsmen $25 per head for carrying a gun into the Badger State. May Become a Nnn. It is said that Miss Hulda Duestrow, of St. Lonia, aiater of Dr. Arthur Duestrow, who waa hanged at Union, Mo.,

for the murder of his wife and child, and sole heir to the Duestrow millions, will bury herself in a Roman Catholic convent. It has been currently believed that she would marry Louis Trost, a young school teacher at Trenton. 111., who is the nephew of Miss Sauter, her dnenna. but she and Miss Sauter both emphatically deny this. By the terms of the will Hulda's annuity will be $30,000, but should she die without issue the fortune is to be devoted to certain charities named by the elder Duestrow. She is not a Roman Catholic by education or heritage. When she becomes a nun her annuity will go to the church. AID FOR THE TURK. Foreign Warships Coerce the Insurgents on the Ulan 1 of Crete. Cmiea dispatch: A fusillade having continued since morning, despite the warnings of the foreign admirals, the united squadrons bombarded the insurgent camp outside of Cnuen. At 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon 11. M. S. Dryad, 11. M. S. Harrier and 11. M. S. Revenge, together with one Italian, one German and one Russian ship, opened fire on the Cretan position where tlie Greek flag was hoisted some days ago, and ruined the house held by the Cretans. The flag was soon lowered and the order “cease fire” sounded after ten minutes. Thereupon the flag was rehoisted. The rocks around were crowded with Cretans. The Turks, encouraged by the fleet, opened a lively fusillade while the Cretans were removing the wounded. The Cretans had not replied during the whole performance. It was a somewhat melancholy and degrading spectacle. The foreign admirals have warned Col. Vassos, the commander of the Greek forces oil the Island of Crete, of their intention to attack his troops with four men of war anchored off his camp, Aghioi Theodoroi, should he attempt to advance to the interior of the island.

STEEL MILLS TO BOOM, Over One Million Tons of Rails Have Been Ordered. The Iron Trade Review says: “The steel rail war was brief and fierce, and the execution was quite all that could be desired. It is safe to say that nearly $20,000,000 worth of rail business is on the books of the members of the late pool, nearly all of it taken iu five days. If we count 375,000 tons of Pittsburg sales, in addition to 100,000 tons of foreign orders and 100,000 tons of rails optioned to home trade, and to this add 250,000 tons taken by Illinois and 200,000 to 250,000 tons sold by Eastern mills, we shall have a total of 1,075,000 tons.” Drunken Redskins’ Deed. The badly mutilated bodies of Mr. und Mrs. Spicer, their daughter, Mrs. William Rouse, with her 1-year-old twin boys, and the aged Mrs. Waldron, the mother of the postmaster of Winona, N. D., were discovered scattered about the ranch. The appearances about the ranch and condition of the bodies have led to the suspicion that the murder was committed by Indians. Then the bodies were terribly mutilated with axes and clubs, which fact is taken to at least partially corroborate the suspicion of the Indian murderers. The Standing Rock Indian reservation is not far away, and when the Indians from there get away from sight and manr.gc to get hold of some whisky there is sure to be trouble.

Better Trade Prospects. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “A large increase iu the iron nnd steel business on account of sales covering eight to twelve months’ production of the largest works, a better demand for woolen goods and slightly better for cottons, a gain which may prove lasting in boots and shoes, slightly better prices for wheat, cotton, wool and iron, and a money market well adapted to encourage purchases against future improvement in business, have rendered the last week more hopeful than any other since eurly iu November.” McKinley’s Advisers. A Washington dispatch says that President McKinley’s cabinet will be organized as follows: Secretary of State, John Sherman of Ohio; Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman ,T. Gage of Illinois; Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger of Michigan; Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long of Massachusetts; Attorney General, Joseph .McKenna of California; Secretary of the Interior, J. J. McCook of New York; Postmaster General, James A. Gary of Maryland; Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson of lowa. Wife->lurderer Hanged. Daniel McCarthy, who, in a drunken rage, on May 12, 18110, killed his wife Adelina, was hanged at the county jail in Chicago Friday morning. Death resulted from strangulation. Over $300,000 Short. Ex-State Treasurer of Nebraska J. S. Bartley is short over $500,000 in his accounts to the State. State Auditor Eugene V. Moore is also short $27,000. Hanna Gets a Toga. Mark A. Hanna is to succeed John Sherman as United States Senator from Ohio. Gov. Bushnell Sunday gave out a statement to the press to that effect. Nevada Snubs Women. The woman suffrage amendment was lost in the Nevada Assembly by a vote of 15 to 5.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago— Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 7-lc to 70c; corn, No. 2, 22 cto 24c; oats, No. 2, 15 c to 16c; rye, No. 2,33 cto 34c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common short to choice dwnrf, $35 to SBO per ton. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, good to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,83 cto Ssc; corn. No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to_ $3.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 19c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rye, No. 2,30 cto 32c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,89 cto 91c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 87c to 88c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 21c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, 35c to 36c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 87c to 88c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,34 cto 36c; clover seed, $4.65 to $4.70. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 3,18 cto 19c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; barley, No. 2,28 cto 31e; rye, No. 1,34 eto 35c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, common to prime shipping, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, medium to best, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime natives, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, fair to extra, $4.50 to $5.50. New York—'Cattle, $5.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; corn, No. 2, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western, 16c to 20c.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

M’KINLEY’S TRIBULATIONS, Considering that the change of Just 20,250 votes in lmlf a dozen States last November would have made William J. Bryan, instead of McKinley, President of the United States, the friends of the latter are acting in a decidedly reckless fashion even before their man, who came so dangerously near defeat, is inaugurated. The cabinet, as far as it has been selected, suits nobody—not even the great Hanna, who finds himself in the most remarkably unexpected quandary of not knowing "where lie is at” in the curious deal that has been going on. John Sherman, who is to be the Secretary of Stale, resigned his seat in the Senate at the suggestion of McKinley and Hanna, beyond a doubt, the expectation being that Governor Buslinell would appoint the latter to the vacancy without asking any questions, and now that it is definitely announced that lie will not do so unless certain .stipulations as to the future management of the Republican party in Ohio are entered into, the President-elect and the man who elected him do not know what to do, and while they are hesitating as to what course to adopt, the political cauldron, stirred by Foraker, threatens to boil over and make the success of the Democrats in the State once again certain. Then the giving of the second place of importance in the Cabinet to Gage, the Chicago mugwump national hanker, has angered the Republican workers, not only in the great State of Illinois, but in the entire West and Northwest. He has. since his selection, too, committed the serious error of talking foo much, and the discovery that he was not always a conservative financier has made some of the leaders blurt right out that McKinley was buncoed into giving him the Secretaryship of the Treasury. Then the picking out of that chronic millionaire office-seeker, Russell A. Alger, for the head of the War Department, has not satisfied either the formidable Republican opposition to him in his own State of Michigan, or the MeKinleyites in the neighboring States of Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota, where Cabinet timber abounds.

Coming further East the Cabinet selections that are understood to have been made, and to he beyond the likelihood of recall, are scarcely more satisfactory than the Western ones to the party leaders and workers. Ex-Gover-nor Long of Massachusetts, who is supposed to be slated for the naval .portfolio, or possibly for the Postmaster Generalship, has been out of politics forquitea long time, and he is not credited with that whole-souled sympathy for those who run party primaries and caucuses “for their health,” which the situation is supposed to require. As for New York, it is putting itself in shape, under Thomas C. Platt’s persuasive manipulation, to he the sharpest thorn, next to Ohio, in the flesh of the. Republican President-elect. McKinley would like to take somebody from this State into his cabinet, hut those whom the Easy Boss is willing to indorse are distasteful to the Stroug-Brookfleld-Warner - Miller - Milholland crowd, which actually lias some influence at Canton, and whoever is satisfactory to the latter is, of course, objectionable to the gentleman who will do business In Senator David B. Hill’s seat after the fourth of next month in the Capitol at Washington. A Southern man and a Pacific coast man are also wanted for the cabinet, hut the task of finding them is a hard one. The hunt is still going on and it is evident that no really first-class man will he obtained from either section and the McKinley administration will begin its existence with little strength at its head and with all the conditions favorable for an early internecine party row.—New York News.

The Presidential Result. By the official count McKinley is conceded and declared to have received 271 electoral votes and Bryan 176. Acquiescence In the popular will is the corner stone of our Government, and, much as Democrats may deplore the temporary delusion or panic of last November, they submit as good citi> zens, though they will try conclusions again in the year 1900. The beginning of the nineteenth century brought good fortune to the Democracy, when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, outparty leaders, overcame in 1800 the Federal party led by Adams and Hamilton, and it may be that the twentieth century will be ushered in by a similar triumph, won by the intelligence and progressive spirit of our people. The election of McKinley, in spite of all the agencies that worked for him—the banking power, the newspaper syndicates, the coercion of the poor by the rich, the defection of many of our chiefs, the hostility of the administration—is by a very narrow majority. It is true, it would have required a change of forty-eight electoral votes to have elected Bryan. But most of these fortyeight were given to McKinley by narrow pluralities. Kentucky would have given Bryan thirteen electoral votes had 150 more Democrats there voted for him. One thousand more ballots would have given Bryan nine electors In California. Another thousand would have given him Oregon’s four electoral votes. Two thousand more Bryan Democrats would have carried Delaware’s three electors. And other States were nearly as close. In fact, a change of 20,000 votes would have defeated McKinley and elected William J. Bryan, of Nebraska. About I.yman P. Gave. The attitude announced by the president of the First National Bank of Chicago, Mr. Lyman J. Gage, as to the redemption of the greenbacks, by putting out a great national loan of from two hundred to six hundred millions of dollars, payable, with interest, in gold, has startled some of those people who voted for “McKinley and Prosperity” in November. It Is fixed and settled that thi? national bank president Gage is to bb the Secretary of the Treasury,. and

much curiosity is felt to know exactly how far he will insist as a member of McKinley's Cabinet on this particular policy. Some of the McKinley organs, such as the New York Sun. think it very unwise, but others applaud the idea, or are discreetly silent. There lias, however, been sufficient attention directed to this particular bank president by the discussion to bring forward an objection to his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury, which is giving some discomfort to the coterie who have been busied at Canton in putting together McKinley’s •Cabinet. It is in this same vexatious Federal statute of 1780, which declares that “no person appointed to the office of Secretary of the Treasury shall directly or indirectly be concerned in the purchase of any public securities of the United States.” Now, Gage, being a bank president, of course is and has been concerned in the purchase of Government bonds, on which the paper money issued by his bank is based. Has he a right to act in the office of Secretary of the Treasury, or has McKinley a right to appoint him? Cost of a Campaign, That it costs money to run a red-hot political campaign everyone knows, but it is possible that not one in 10,000 ever stops to think of the great expense attending an exciting election. Michigan lias a law which forbids candidates to spend money for the refreshment or entertainment of the people, to hire carriages to bring voters to the polls, or to offer voters money, either to vote or to stay away from the polls. The law also requires all candidates to file sworn statements of the amount of money actually expended in a campaign. The law has a penalty attached of SI,OOO line or two years’ imprisonment, or both, but it is so crudely framed in many respects that the law does not worry the average Candidate or political committee, as its provisions can easily be evaded, and the danger of prosecution in the event of not observing it is not great. The law does not seek to limit the amount of money to be expended, it does not require an itemized statement of money expended, nor does it ask for a statement of the amount expended to secure the nomination. The law, however, has been very generally observed, and it may be that its influence is salutary. Soiye one who has made a careful review of the figures, estimates that the November election cost Michigan in the neighborhood of a half million dollars. The tabulated expenditures of the State committees are placed at $84,481, those of the candidates in the seven Congressional districts were $19,022.44, while the Legislature and county tickets are placed at over $50,000. The cost to the State for printing ballots and manning the 250 voting precincts is figured at $150,000. These figures do not include the expense of conventions, nor the big sums paid out by the National Committee for speakers, or for the floods of literature which swept through the State, so that the estimate of a half million dollars does not seem exorbitant for the political fun of last year. But if Michigan reached a half million, what must have been expended in States that have no restriction laws?

Now Let Confidence Come. James Wilson, of lowa, professor of agriculture in a college of that State, lias accepted the portfolio of the Agricultural Bureau. With this anuouncement should come a return of prosperity. lowa is a fertile State, and the new Premier of the Crops ought to be fertile in resources. Under liis able administration, we can expect larger ears of corn, bigger grains of wheat, fatter pigs, sweeter apples, oleomargarine which even science cannot detect from genuine butter, and persimmons that will pucker up bad times and make this a great and glorious country. With a prospect that the barns and granaries shall groan beneath the weight of bounteous harvests, how the treasury will he run will be of small importance. We may raise big crops that will delight the fanner—but, unless the people have more money to buy, he is apt to find abundant harvests do not mean bounteous returns—Philadelphia Item.

Bedouin and Egyptians.

R. Talbot Kelly, the English artist, writes a paper for the Century entitled “In the Desert with the Bedouin,” for which he furnishes many striking illustrations. Concerning the Arabs, Mr. Kelly says: Lacking education themselves, their respect for superior knowledge is great, and they eagerly listen to and absorb such information as may be gleaned in their casual intercourse with the peoples met during their wanderings. However, great as is their respect for knowledge, they hold horsemanship in still greater esteem, and I attribute much of my success in dealing with the Arabs to the fact that I could ride the half-wild desert stallions, in which my previous experience of rough riding in Morocco stood me in good stead. Indeed, their contempt for their neighbors the Egyptians is completely expressed In their common reference to them as “those dirty Egyptians who cannot ride a horse.” I may here remark that in their habits and persons the Bedouin are a very clean people—a claim the most ardent admirer of the Egyptians can hardly maintain in their case; and 1 have known of Arabs, who, obliged to cross the delta, have carried out with them sufficient desert sand with which to cover the ground before they would deign to pitch their tents of sit upon the “dirty soil of Masr.” Differing from the Egyptians in many essential points, their love for dumb animals is in marked contrast to the cruelty practised upon them by nearly all classes in Egypt; but perhaps In no way is the contrast more clearly shown than by the respect in which the Bedouin hold their womankind. Moslems of the strictest type, they seem to practice all that is good in Mohammedanism, and avail themselves but little of its license.

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House— Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch —Questions of Moment to the Country at Large, The Legislative Grind. The immigration bill is now in the hands of the President, the last legislative step having been taken in the Senate Wednesday by an agreement to the conference report on the bill. Strong opposition was made to the report, but on the final vote the friends of the measure rallied a small majority, the vote being: Yeas, 34; nays, 31. The bill as passed extends the immigration restrictions against “All persons physically capable and over 16 years of age who cannot read aDd write the English language or some other language; bnt a person not so able to read and write who is over 50 years of age and is the parent or grandparent of a qualified immigrant over 21 years of age and capable of supporting such-parent or grandparent may accompany such immigrant or such a parent or grandparent may be sent for and come to join the family of a child or grandchild over 21 years of age, similarly qualified and capable, and a wife or minor child not so able to read and write may accompany or be sent for and come to join the husband or parent similarly qualified and capable.”

The Senate adjourned at 6:30 Thursday night, after spending six hours in executive session devoted to the consideration of the nomination of C. F. Amidon to be district judge of North Dakota, and of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. Mr. Vilas has secured the passage by the Senate of the Senate bill “to extend the use of the mail service.” It provides for using a patent postal card and envelope, with coupons attached. The Postmaster General is authorized to suspend the system if it proves unsatisfactory on a test. The House, by a vote of 197 to 91, reversed the finding of a majority of the elections committee and decided the contested election case of N. T. Hopkins vs. ,T. Kendall from the tenth Kentucky district favor of the Republican contestant. Eleven Republicans and three Populists voted with the Democrats against unseating Kendall.

The Senate adjourned at 8:15 o’clock Friday night, after having spent nlmost eight hours in continuous executive session on the arbitration treaty. No result was accomplished beyond voting down the motion made by Senator Nelson to postpone further consideration of the treaty. A very spirited debate on the general subject of the payment of claims found to be due against tbe United States was indulged in by the House during the consideration of the general deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) had called attention to the apparent inconsistency of an item to pay the costs of defending suits, and the fact that the bill contained no item to pay the judgments. Mr. Mahon (Pa.), chairman of the War Claims Committee, made the statement that the House had been frightened by a bogie man,” and the just claims against the Government, instead of aggregating hundreds of millions, as was frequently stated, could be discharged with $10,000,000. The consideration of the bill was not completed. The bill carries $8 441 - 027.

Both houses worked hard Saturday, getting measures in shape for final action. Appropriation bills and conference reports were before the House for action. There is evident an intention to pare appropriations down to the last notch, and consternation reigns among members who have pet measures, affecting their particular districts, which they hoped to put through. Senator Sherman announced his purpose not to again bring up the arbitration treaty for debate so long as the appropriation bills are pressing for consideration, but if there should be a lull in this work he may renew his efforts to secure ratification. The Senate joint resolution for an international monetary conference looking to the adoption of international bimetallism was unanimously reported to the House. The Senate spent its first hours Monday in listening to Washington’s farewell address, read by Air. Daniel (Ya.), and then resumed consideration of the Indian appropriation bill for a time. The Loud 1-eeut postal bill came in for some sharp criticism from Mr. Butler, Air. Stewart, and others. The House passed the general deficiency appropriation bill and began the consideration of the last of the money bills, that providing for the naval establishment. A long debate occurred over the propriety of the appropriation of $1,310,000 for the Southern Pacific Railroad under the judgment of the Court of Claims, but the House by a vote of 102 to 138, refused to strike it out. The members who favored the appropriation for the repayment to members of the last Congress of salary withheld from them ou account of absence carried the fight into the House, but were beaten, 92 to 122. Sixteen of the forty-eight pages of the naval bill were completed. The House sent the naval bill, the last of the appropriation bills, to the Senate Tuesday. It was passed practically without amendment. The feature of the day was a political debate which occurred late in the afternoon on the subject of civil service reform. It developed during the consideration of a bill, which was finally passed, to permit the Governors of the territories to appoint certain officers of the territories in case of vacancies without the consent of the legislative councils, which is now required by law. The Senate ■made slow progress on the appropriation bills, disposing of only one item of the Indian bill, it being that directing the opening of the Uncompahgre Indian reservation in Utah. It involved a conflict with the executive branch, which has steadily resisted opening these lands, on the ground that they contained valuable mineral deposits. Air. Vilas endeavored to have a royalty reserved to the .Government, but was defeated in this and the clause was agreed to after an all-day debate. During the day a resolution by, Air. Alills, of Texas, was adopted, asking the President for information as to the death of Dr. Ruiz at Guanabacoa, Cuba.

Notes of Current Events.

Mrs. Booth-Tucker, wife of Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, became so ill in Brooklyn that she had to give up her work there, and was taken to her home in New York. It is rumored that Dr. John B. Hamilton, who was for many years prominently identified with the United States Marine Corps, is to be made the superintendent of the insane asylum at Elgin. Ca'pt. J. M. Brinker, who has been in New York for some time booming the proposed Pan-American exposition too be held in 1900, has announced that the exposition would be held in the neighborhood of Niagara Falls, and that its success was assured. The railway carriage murder of , Miss Camp in a London suburban train continues to be the chief topic of interest there. Tbe young woman, whose body was found crowded under a seat in a second-class compartment, was buried, and there was a great public demonstration.

THE INDIANA SOLONS

The street railroad question came up In both houses Wednesday. The New bill was called up on third reading in the Senate, but a motion by Senator Sweeney to postpone was carried. Senator Sweeney explained that he had no intention whatever of injuring the prospects of the bill, and later moved a reconsideration. Sen-.. ator Wood tried to kill this motion by a motion to adjourn, and this was defeated. The action was reconsidered and the question of the final passage of the bill in the Senate was made a special order for 10 o’clock Friday morning. In the House the duplicate bill came up. The bill in the Senate form was recommended to pass. Air. Shidefer introduced a minority report along the lines of that drawn by “Jerry” Collins, and introduced in the Senate by Senator Wood. No vote was taken. The Legislature sent to Gov. Mount the two bills in which the State Board of Charities is especially interested, one providing for the better care of dependent orphan children, and the other converting the State prison south into an Intermediate or reformatory prison. In the Senate Thursday the street railroad bill was passed with an amendment that may possibly invalidate It. The House passed' the Jernegan factory inspection bill. It prevents the employment of children under 14 years in factories and prevents, the employment of boys under 16 and girls under 18 more than ten hours a day. Four caucus measures were passed. One restores the appointment of the State House engineer to the Governor; another puts in his hands the appointment tjf the boards of prison directors; another *'* the bill passed by the Senate amending ehe election law. The changes make it impossible for the name of a fusion candidate to go upon the official ballot more than once. The fourth, reorganizing tho eleven boards of metropolitan police commissioners, was a Senate bill. The House passed the general pharmacy bill. The Governor signed the first of the series of bills introduced for the purpose of collecting the Vandalia claim and the second bill was introduced and passed the House under suspension of the rules. A question of religion bobbed up suddenly in the House Friday when the Education Committee sent in two reports upon a resolution by Air. Wiener. The resolution declared that “The Story of Liberty,” one of the books put out for use in the schools, was an improper book for school children. Hot arguments were made against this volume, which was denounced by Air. Wiener as a collection of lies and calumnies. The resolution was finally adopted by a heavy majority. The House passed the anti-trust bill. It is a copy of the Georgia law with a clause inserted that confines its operations to “those who control the output.” This lets out the wholesalers who operate under price agreements known by various terms as the “equality” or “contract” or “rebate” plan. The House also passed the bill to change the Newton County seat and a couple of minor bills regarding the funds of the State University. The nmended street railroad bill as passed by the Semite was referred to committee. The Senate pnssed a bill, permitting the organization of trust companies with not less than $50,000 capital stock in counties of less than 60,000 inhabitants; to permit the ownership of real estate by aliens; qmending the law regarding garnishments; the second Vandalia bill; the bill legalizing the issue of bonds by Jeffersonville, over which there has been much litigation. All uneasiness which Judges, State and county officials and legislators had felt about having their railroad passes taken from them was dispelled Saturday when the Railroad Committee in the Senate killed Senator Gill’s bill defining official corruption and regulating the control am] issuance of railroad passes. At the sime time the committee reported favorably on the 3-cent street car fare bill, and it will be called up for passage under suspension of the rules. The committee also reported favorably on the bill compelling street car companies to heat their cars from November to Alarch, inclusive, and ihe bill was passed. The bill to prevent lobbying only got to the point of engrossment. The three-cent street car fare bill was put on passage under a suspension of the rules Monday. There was only one vote against the bill. The legislative apportionment bill passed the Senate. The Pennte also passed Senator New’s bill repealing the apportionment act of 1885, the unconstitutional gerrymander under which the last election was held. The object in repealing this act is to force a special session of the Legislature to pass a new apportionment act should the Democratic Supreme Court throw out the new apportionment. In the House the Temperance Committee reported on Nicholson’s anti-quart shop bill and offered a substitute in the shape of a bill that destroys much of the original Nicholson law itijd modifies a great portion of the remainder. It provides for a 12 o’clock closing law for the larger cities in the State to replace the 11 o’clock law.

Samuel Lover and His Mother.

Samuel Lover was born in Dublin, February 24, 1797. His father was a man of business, and, as the eldest son, Samuel was able, at 16 years of age, to fulfill the duties of head clerk (for he was as clever at correspondence and figures as he was at everything else), and so save much expense to the firm. It was natural to wish that he should remain in it. My father, however, possessed such strong artistic talents that business was distasteful to him, and he longed to follow another path in life. He had had the misfortune to lose his mother when he was a boy of 12. She would probably have understood and forwarded his aspirations; for the tendbrest affection had existed between them, and throughout life he revered the memory of his mother as the sweetest and best of women. His talents he probably inherited in part from her, as well as his amiable and lovable character.— Century.

Steers a Ship Automatically.

It is stated that Lieut. Bersier, of the French navy, has invented a compass which steers the vessel automatically in a course set by the navigator. A peep at the new ballroom in the Waldorf hotel, New York, discloses a beautiful apartment. It is finished in white 'and gold a la Louis XVI., with stained glass let into some of the panels of the ceiling. Two sides of the roam are covered with mirrors, a third contains six great windows to be huag with mauve satin, and a fourth side is occupied by a deep gallery, behind which are the dressing rooms. Four hundred gilt chairs will surround tfio room, which Is nearly twice as large Is Delmonico’s—too large, in fact, for a dance of not more than 250 persons. In Connecticut the rent of farming land is the most serious item of expense in the production of wheat, being no less than $6.31 per acre. Over five hundred tornadoes occurred during the twelve years from 1871 to 1883 in the United States.