Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1897 — Page 2

Bl;e?tmocrottcSentinel J. W. MaEWEX, p-übllatior. RENSSELAER, - ■ - INDIANA

ROW IN THE SENATE.

TILLMAN RAISES A DISTURBANCE OVER ARMOR PLATE. Personal Conflict Almoat Caused by the Raab South Carolinian’s Accusations—London Brokers Bay Wool Cannot Be Cornered. Hawley Greatly Offended. Senator Tillman of South Carolina almost provoked a personal conflict with Senator Hawley of Connecticut, who resented his (Tillman’s) charges that the armor-plate manufacturers have paid agents in the Senate to rob the Government. Senator Hawley had spoken against an amendment to reduce the price of armor plate to S3OO a ton. Mr. Tillman then made his charges, and also claimed that armor plate could be made for S2OO a- ton. Some high words were bandied, and Senator Hawley was induced by his friends to go to the cloak room. The amendment to reduce the price to S3OO a ton was finally passed. PROTECTING SEABIRDS’ EGGS. Lighthonac Board Stops Robbery of Guillemots on the Farrullonce. At the solicitation of the Committee on Bird Protection of the American Ornithologists’ Union, of which Prof. Leverett M. Loomis of the California Academy of Sciences is a member, the Government officials have set the seal of their displeasure on the importing of seabirds’ eggs from the Farrallones. The lighthouse board at Washington, which has the affairs of the Farrallones in charge as a sort of United States Government preserve, has issued a decree that the traffic in the eggs of the seabirds must cease. The mandate of the lighthouse board will bring to a close a unique industry of San Francisco. The eggs of the murre, or foolish guillemot, have been shipped to the markets of San Francisco in great quantities ever since 1849, at which date they were almost the only fresh eggs to be had, bringing over $1 a dozen. As high as twenty thousand dozen of the eggs were annually brought to market by the Greeks and Italian fishermen. They are twice the size of an ordinary hen’s egg, for which they are said to be an excellent substitute, and they sold at retail from 15 to 25 cents per dozen. During the last four or five seasons the Greeks have been driven off, and the egg industry has been carried on by the lighthouse keepers on the Farrallones. CANNOT CORNER WOOL. London Brokers Pay It Would Require Fully $500,000,000. In regard to the reported Boston wool corner, leading London wool brokers ridicule the idea that there is any possibility of cornering wool. They say it would require the purchase of two clips to do so, meaning the cornering of at least 8,000,000 bales and the expenditure of $500.000,000. As the situation is understood in London, the Bostonians bought at the last sale 45,000 bales of the higher grease wools, and they will probably purchase as much more at the next sale with the view of making $1,000,000 out of their deal under the new tariff, in which, however, the London brokers believe they will be disappointed. For the next wool sale there are already 300,000 bales offered, and the number will probably reach 330,000 bales.

ACCIDENT 13 AVERTED. Train Carrying Governor Tanner and Party Comra Near Being Wrecked. The inaugural train carrying Gov. Tanner of Illinois and party narrowly missed being wrecked by running into a landslide in the West Virginia mountains near Moundsville. Hundreds of tons of earth and rock had fallen on the track, the track walker being knocked down and his lantern broken by the avalanche. The train carrying the Governor’s party was almost due to arrive at that point, and the track walker hurriedly scrambled over the debris and flagged the train with a burning newspaper. The train was stopped within a car length of the obstruction. FOREST ORDER OVERRULED. Senate's Sunday Session Connteracts the President's Order. The Senate, by unanimous vote, has added an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, counteracting the President's recent order withdrawing 21,000,000 acres of land from the public domain and establishing it as forest reserves. The usual Sunday quiet of the capitol building was disturbed by a session of the Senate, made necessary to pass the appropriation bills. Large crowds filled the galleries and overflowed to the corridors. The sundry civil bill was passed. These Banks Will P a y. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Forty per cent, the First National Bank of Garnett, Ark.; 25 per cent, the First National Bank of Fort Payne, Ala.; 5 per cent, the Oregon National Bank of Portland, Ore.; 5 per cent, the Second National Bank of Columbia, Tenn.

Minister Peake Has Resigned. A letter has been received by the Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Ball & Peake from John L. Peake, United States minister to Switzerland, in which he says his resignation has been forwarded to Washington, to take effect immediately, in order, he says, to not hamper the new administration. Ex-Governor Long Accepts. Ex-Gov. John D. Long of Massachusetts has accepted the navy portfolio in President McKinley’s cabinet. Sou Shoots His Father. John Zimmerman, a farmer who lived near Seneca, Kan., was shot and instantly killed by his son Robert, 19 years of age. The youth took the part of his mother in a family quarrel and fired the fatal shot when his father attempted to strike him with a chair. Over 2,000 Rebels Killed. Cable dispatches received from Manila say that over 2,000 insurgents were killed in the recent battles fought with the Gov» ernment troops at Silang and Las Marimaa. ’ Two Deaths from Peculiar Causes. ’ William Murray died at Norristown, Pa., of blood poisoning, due to scratching a pimple on his nbse with his finger nails. Only the day before his neighbor farmer, George Miller, of Green Lane, died of Wood poisoning, due to a cold taken in a boil uniier his eye. Serious Fire at St. Louis. At 2:30 Wednesday morning flames were discovered, breaking forth from the >of of the Merchants ’ Exchange building in St Louis. The fire started in the elevator shaft, presumably from defective light wires, and spread to the offices on

TO END LEADVILLE STRIKE. Legislative Committee Recommend* Arbitration Board. The legislative committee appointed to Investigate the Leadville strike submitted a report which was, to say the least, a great surprise to the mine owners. E, J. Dewar, secretary of the Leadville Miners’ Union, says the committee’s conclusions are eminently satisfactory to the miners. The committee recommends that a board of arbitration be appointed, two to be chosen by the mine owners and two by the miners, the fifth to be chosen by the four. Whatever decision this board of arbitration shall arrive at must be binding on both sides, and an agreement to that effect must be signed beforehand. To facilitate this much-desired end the committee submits an agreement in full, which will be the bone of contention between the opposing factions. It provides in the first place that the scale of wages in force immediately before the strike shall be conceded by the mine owners and shall remain in force until the board of arbitration shall have arrived at a decision. The proposed agreement also provides that the mine owners shall recognize labor unions, and that members of unions and non-union men shall work side by side. Further, it is provided that no strike or lockout shall be declared by a labor organization or by an organization of employers unless by secret ballot. The proposed agreement makes a further proviso that no strike or lockout shall be declared on foreign labor imported without both sides submitting their grievances to the arbitration committee, and that mine owners shall not discriminate against a man because he is a member of a labor union. All differences regarding the future scale of wages must be submitted to the arbitration board.

THEY SEEK WIVES AND PLENTY. Ninety-seven Bachelors Ftart for the South Sea Islands. The brig Percy Edwards has cleared at #Gn Francisco for the Tahiti Islands, and with her goes the United Brotherhood of the South Sea Islands. The brig goes to *Tahiti and from that port will sail wherever the fancy of those on board dictates. /Die Expedition was brought about by the ■publication of a story to the effect that on St. John’s Island, in the South Sea, were a number of dusky women who were pining for husbands. All the men had been killed in war and the women were lonely. A company w#s organized in San Francisco to go to the relief of the dusky damsels and on board the Edwards are nine-ty-seven men, who sigh for the tropical clime and the easy life in the South Seas. It has since developed that the Adaihless Eyen story was a myth, but the company organized determined to go some place. Each man contributed SIOO to a common fund. The old whaling brig Edwards was bought and provisioned and the expedition started. The men are provided with agricultural implements and several trades are represented. They will look for some uninhabited island and when they have found it they propose to settle down to a life of ease. WANT WORK, NOT CHARITY. Unemployed of St. Paul Denounce the Relief Fund Distribution. There was almost a riot at a mass meeting of the unemployed at St. Paul, Minn. The City Council recently appropriated SIO,OOO to be used in relief work and the meeting was in protest of the way the sum was being expended. Rev. R. G. Smith, who has been prominent in the relief work, was hooted and yelled at in his attempts at explaining the system of distributing the relief. After much excitement and many violent speeches, resolutions were adopted which, after declaring the unemployed wanted work and not charity, further resolved: “That we will do our utmost in the next municipal election to retire to private life the Mayor and members of the Council who have delegated to a charitable organization a duty which they nre paid by the city to perform.” Another resolution, calling for a committee of five to call on the Legislature next Friday afternoon with all the unemployed who can be induced to accompany it and ask the Legislature to do something for those out of work, was also passed.

Line le to Be Defined. The full text of the Alaskais boundary treaty signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote has been made public. It provides for the appointment of one commissioner by the United States and one by Great Britain, with whom shall be associated such surveyors and other assistants as each government shall elect. The commissioners shall, as early as possible, proceed to trace and mark so much of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude as is necessary to be defined for the purpose of determining the exact limits of the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty between the United States and Russia of M-arch 30, 1867. Inasmuch as the summit of Mount St. Elias, although not ascertained io lie in fact upon said one hundred and forty-first meridian, is so nearly coincident therewith that it may conveniently be taken as a visible landmark whereby the initial part of said meridian shall be established, it is agreed that the commissioners, should they conclude that it is advisable, may deflect the most southerly portion of said line so as to make the same range with the summit of Mount St. Elias, such deflection not to extend more than twenty geographical miles northwardly from the initial point. The location of the one hundred and forty-first meridian as determined hereunder shall be marked by intervisible objects, natural or artificial, at such distances apart as the commissioners shall agree, and the line thus marked, in whole or in part, shall be deemed to permanently define for all international purposes the one hundred and forty-first meridian. Each government shall bear the expenses incident to the employment of its own appointees and of the operations conducted by them, but the cost of material used in permanently marking the meridian and of its transportation shall be borne jointly and equally by the two governments.

Preparing for War. The massing of Turkish troops and munitions of war on the frontier is proceeding with feverish haste. All the soldiers on furlough have been recalled, and eleven batteries of artillery, a regiment of cavalry and two battalions of infantry have gone from Salonica, Monastir and elsewhere to Elassona. Two additional battalions of infantry have reached Katerina. The reliefs from Smyrna, Brusa, Trebizonde and elsewhere in Anatolia are on their way to the frontier, where a total of six divisions will be formed with headquarters at Elassona. Herbert Will Practice Law. Secretary Herbert has announced that he would open a law office in Washington at an early day and resume the profession which he abandoned many years ago to serve his State and later his country. The Secretary has been in public life twenty years. Murdered by Natives. Further details from New Guinea of the massacre by the natives of Manbare, in which the governor resident was killed, say that in addition six miners and 40 natives were murdered. Steady Gain in Commerce. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Genuine improvement in business does not come with a rush, like the breaking of a great dam. The growth

for some weeks past has been more encouraging, because in nearly all lines it has been gradual and moderate. The rupture of the steel rail and other combinations in the iron business has brought out a vast quantity of trade which has been held back and has set many thousand men at work, while the slow but steady gain in other great industries has given employment to many thousands more, but the full effects will not appear until increased purchases by all these swell the distribution of goods. Meanwhile, it is substantial ground for confidence that months which were regarded by many in the money market with serious apprehensions have passed without disturbance and with steady gains in the position of the country and of the treasury.” BIG HOUSE FAIL’. Willoughby, Hill & Co. Closed by the Sher.ff on Judgment Notes. Willoughby, Hill & Co., the Chicago clothiers, were closed .Saturday by the Sheriff on two judgment notes held by the Fort Dearborn National Bank and aggregating $81,611. The minority stockholders, represented by Attorney Newman, charge that the filing of the notes was in contempt of a suppressed restraining order entered by Judge Showalter of the Federal Court, bint at fraud in the notes themselves, and say they will have them examined by microscopic experts to determine their authenticity. Soon after the Sheriff’s levy Alfred Benjamin & Co., creditors of the concern for $3,405, filed a bill in the Circuit Court tor a receiver, and Judge Hanecy appointed E. B. McKee, who qualified with bonds of S7S,(XX). The litigation in which the clothing house is involved is primarily the outcome of troubles among the stockholders, the Hill interests in Chicago being arrayed on one side and members of the Stein-Bloch company, clothing manufacturers of Rochester, N. Y„ who are the minority stockholders in the Chicago concern, on the other.

OLNEY STANDS BY LEE. Serves Notice that Spain Must Respect Aniericin Rights. While the State Department has not backed up Consul General Lee unreservedly, the administration has taken a firm stand on one question, and that is tiie length of time an American citizen can-be held incomunicado in a Spanish- prison. Upon this question Secretary Olney has authorized Gen. Lee to demand the release of each and every American who may be arrested an,) kept incomunicadt for more than seventy-two hours. Only a few weeks ago Gen. Weyler informed Gen. Lee, both verbally and in writing, that the Spanish Government had, and proposed to exercise, the right of keeping Americans in prison and incomunicado seventy-two days if it should be so decided. Must Stop Spanish Atrocities. Shall Americans abroad be protected? Is the strong arm of our Uncle Samuel to be stretched to their defense, wherever they may be? In short, are Americans Americans everywhere, or only when they are within the confines of the United States? Such were the themes for discussion in the Senate Wednesday. The debate was, parliameutarily, on the resolutions introduced growing out of the Lee incident. There was an attempt on the part of certain Senators to sidetrack these resolutions to make way for appropriation bills. Senators Daniel, Morgan and others, however, said that the sanctity of American citizenship wherever it may be found is paramount to appropriations and should be settled first. The influence of the administration was exerted to secure a postponement of the debate on the theory that the reports of the discussion going abroad will “hurt Spain’s feelings and hinder the administration’s plans for peace in Cuba.” Regarding his resolution calling on Olney for the facts in the Ruiz case, Senator Mills said: “It was inspired by the diepatch in the New York Sun from Havana. If it is true that Dr. Ruiz was tortured to death, as described in the Sun, and I believe it is, we should have official information before us. Everything concerning the death of Dr. Ruiz ought to be in the hands of the State Department. As I have repeatedly said on the floor and in newspaper interviews, I believe the time has come when we should put a stop to those Spanish atrocities. It is cowardly for us to stand by and see American citizens butchered in cold blood. Something ought to be done and immediately.” Senator Mills expressed the opinion that the passage of the resolution recognizing Cuban independence would be one of the first acts of the new Congress.

Cheaper than English Steel. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has placed an order with the Carnegie company for 65,000 tons of steel rails. At the lowest rate since the break in prices this involves an expenditure of considerably over $1,000,000. At the rate now quoted in the open market—-S2O per ton—the purchase would amount to sl,300,000. Freight War on in the West. A freight rate \var affecting the Rocky mountain region has been inaugurated. The rate, first-class, heretofore prevailing through the gulf ports, was $2.20 per 100 pounds. The revised rate through the gulf ports will be $1.86. No Fights in Utah, Representative Kenner's bill, introduced in the Utah Legislature several days ago, to legalize prize fighting, was defeated in the House.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.50 te $5.50; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2,22 cto 23c; oats, No. 2,15 c to 16c; rye, No. 2,32 cto 33c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 16c; potatoes, per bushel, 20c to 30c; broom corn, common short to choice dwarf, $35 to SBO per ton. Jndianapolis—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. 2,82 cto 84c; corn. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 20e 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 89c; corn, No. 2 yel low, 20c to 21c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c t< 18c; rye, No. 2,31 cto 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2,88 cto 90c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 18. to 19c; 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, 85c to 86c; corn, No. 1 yellow, 22c to 23c; oats, No. 2 white. 19, to 21c; rye, 34c to 36c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 86c to 88c corn, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; oats, No 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,35 cto 37c clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 73 to 74c; corn, No. 3,18 cto 20c; oats’ Ni 2 white, 17c to 19c; barley, No. 2,2 Sc 1. 33c; rye, No. 1,34 cto 35c; pork mw $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, common to prime shi; ping, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, medium i< best, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, cominmi t prime natives, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs fa to extra. $4.50 to $5.25. Y o»?-Cattle. $:'1.00 to $5.25; Im, s3.i>o to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $| wheat, No. 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn. N< 28c to 30c; oats. No. 2 white. 21. to 2'_ butter, creamery, 15c to 20c‘ r-'s Wes era, 16c to 18c.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

A LOGICAL SITUATION. Expecting the Republican party to take any decisive action against the monopolies and trusis is like expecting a cat to drown her own kittens, and those who still have a lingering belief that the Lexow investigation will amount to anything, or who hope that the McKinley administration will do something of consequence for the relief of the people, are sure to be disappointed and undeceived. Monopolies, trusts and combinations of all sorts, formed to enable the few to enrich themselves at the expense of the many, are the offspring of the Republican system of alleged protection, of which we are sure to have another example In the Tariff bill, for the passing of which Congress will be called in extra session after McKinley has been Inaugurated. They are the result of government partnership wj,th individuals and classes wherein the former are put in the possession of millions that make it possible for them to contribute liberally to campaign funds and to buy up Presidencies and Legislatures that may help and “protect” them in their raids on the pockets of the masses. The Republican party to-day is the champion of those who have already made vast fortunes with the aid of the Government, and who want to add to them, as well as to put their friends and relatives into “good things.” It could not do otherwise than favor the trusts, the monopolistic manufacturers, the favored national bankers or any of the other big fry who fatten on the masses. To think for a moment that its most conspicuous representative, McKinley, will try to cut loose from them and select anybody for his cabinet who Is not entirely satisfactory to them is merely to blind oneself to the logic of the situation. The money-making combinations will be intrenched in all governmental places of power so long as the Republican party remains triumphant. That much is certain, and the people now realize it. —New York News.

Alger. A thick and thin Republican organ declares: “The selection of Gen. Alger is objected to, but Che objections are based on stories and rumors which were exploded long ago. The critics know that, yet so unconquerable is their propensity for fault-finding that they cannot refrain from condemning a selection with which people are generally satisfied.” Does not this beg the question? What Information has the organ that there is satisfaction with the appointment of Alger? As for the objections, is it true that they were based on stories and rumors which were exploded long ago? Let us see. 1. Geu. Crater and Gen. Sheridan recommended the dismissal from the army of Gen. Alger because he absented himself without leave, which was equivalent in an active campaign, as all old soldiers know, to desertion in the face of the enemy. Is the story exploded? The story is part of the military records of the United States. 2. Criticism of Alger as a business man is based upon a decision of the Supreme Court of Michigan. The report is published. It is part of the records of that tribunal. It cannot be exploded or effaced. It stands confronting Gen. Alger and condemns him. 3. John Sherman’s condemnation of Alger as a man who improperly used money to further his ambition to be nominated President of the United States stands in his printed memoirs. It is not exploded. The selection of Gen. Alger for the position of Secretary of War is not merely mistaken, unfortunate, undesirable. It is a moral calamity.—Chicago Chronicle.

Congressional Extravagance. When Speaker Reed, a few years ago, warned his fellow-Republicans that it would prove a dangerous thing from a party standpoint for them to furnish the country with the spectacle of a “billion-dollar Congress” they paid but little attention to him, and what he foresaw did happen. There was a political overturning which completely staggered them and lost them control of the Government for four years. The country has now had another Republican Congress for two straight years, and it is a billion-dollar one beyond question. When Mr. Reed gave his former warning there was only a possibility of a billion-dollar Congress. The most conservative estimate of the cost of the present one to the people is forty-five millions more than the billion, which the then Czar of the House himself considered the height of extravagance! Despite the desperate condition of the treasury, as well as of the country at large, every appropriation bill reported to the House during the present session has been larger than the similar bill of the preceding session. Thus the pace Is set in extravagance for the next Congress, which will have a Republican President, who is sure not to set his face in favor of that economy which is contrary to the traditions of his party. Reed Getting; Democratic Support. lu his opposition to extravagance and favoritism Speaker Reed now finds his strongest supporters in the democrats of the country and In the house. He is opposed by his own party because he will not permit it to pursue the traditional republican policy of spending more money than there is in sight or will be in sight for several years to come. He may believe in the virtues of the new tariff now being framed, but he does not propose to place any mortgages on such collateral.—Sioux City, lowa, Tribune. The Four Burden-Bearers. Food, fuel, clothing and shelter are the four essentials of existence in our climate. The Dingley bill as drafted puts nearly the whole burden of taxation upon these prime necessaries. The so-called farmers’ schedule taxes every article of food for man or beast that may seek access to our market to supply local or temporary deficiencies.

Bounties for campaign contributors, protection for trusts and the whole burden of federal taxation put upon consumption—the food, fuel, clothing and shelter of the people—this Is the program. The “advance agent of prosperity” proves to be the arrived agent of injustice.—New York World. Effect of Free Wool. Some months ago the wool growers of this country were at great pains to show the enormous increase of the imports of raw wool since it had been put on the free list under the Wilson bill. Perhaps it did not occur to everybody that if the imports of wool had increased there must be a corresponding decrease in the amount of imports of woolen goods. The Wool Manufacturers’ Association has recently furnished the following figures on this point. The imports were: Eleven Eleven months. 1895. months, 1896. Cloth $23,511.581 $13,677,65" Dress goods.. 20,634,855 12,302,279 This shows that the manufacturers of this country have been able with free wool to sell in this country some $18,000,000 worth of woolen goods in one year, which, under the McKinley tariff bill, would have been imported.— Edwin Brainard, in Chicago Chronicle. Highly Paid Labor the Best. Americans can manufacture iron more cheaply than Englishmen, while paying much higher wages to labor, but it has been conclusively demonstrated that the best paid labor is the cheapest. England pays better wages than are paid on the continent of Europe, but in spite of that she has been able to maintain her supremacy, because she gets more service for a given amount of money. The same is true of labor in the United States. It is better paid than that of England, but in return it renders better service and Is more efficient. —Pittsburg Times. No Love Lost Between Tliem. From the day when Joseph B. Foraker became a prominent figure in Ohio politics M. A. Hartna did not love him, nor has Mr. Foraker for a single moment loved Mr. Hanna. Party exigencies at times produced mutual action, but not mutual confidence. There is no reason for believing that Mr. Foraker is more kindly disposed toward Mr. Hanna now than when the friends of each were fighting each other tooth and nail at the direction, or with the approval of the two leaders.*—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Protection Another Name for Robbery The present tariff law has been the best protector of American industries ever devised in this country, for it has enabled Americans to sell more goods and product abroad than ever before, but this is not what the millionaire manufacturers want. What they actually mean by protection is a measure that will so choke off foreign competition that they can sell their goods to their own people at two or three times their value.—Memphis Commercial-Ap-peal. Asking for Too Much. If Chairman Dingley can devise a bill that will collect $50,000,000 a year from the taxpayers without their knowledge or consent he will meet a long-felt want. Another way which is received with jeers by politicians and cheers by the people would be to reduce expenses $50,000,000 a year, but of course this is asking too much, and we hope the politicians will pardon us for ever hinting at such a revolutionary idea.—Louisville Post.

Fresh Burdens for the Farmer. The Republicans are doing their best, as far as can be judged, to evade the responsibility they sued for. Instead of trying to remedy the constant and growing losses of the farmers the Republicans are actually engaged in preparing to legislate higher prices on the goods which the farmer has to buy and which, for lack of money, he cannot buy even at present prices.—Atlanta Constitution. Boeses of New York State. Republican rule in New York stands to-day for Platt and Payne, two men whose theories of political purpose and political methods are utterly corrupt, two men who represent what is worst and lowest in modern political life; two men neither of whom would dare submit his cause to the people, knowing that it would be buried under an overwhelming adverse vote. — St. Paul Globe. Insist on Robbins the People. To-day, when you could count on the fingers of one hand all the industries of the United States that could not compete on equal terms with the products of like industries in any other country in the world, we find that, so far from gradually diminished duties, a special session of Congress is to be called to restore them to the highest point ever known.—St. Paul Globe. Political Pointers. In the meantime nobody has recently mentioned Benjamin Harrison, formerly well known in the American republic, for a place in the cabinet. In Mexico, if an advance agent misrepresent his show he is sent to jail. If Hanna lived in Mexico he would have to secure a pardon before running for Senator. You are our kind of people, Madden, and we are sorry you lost, but we’ll do a whole lot of the kind of work you were expected to do.—T. Cute Platt and M. Slippery Quay. The Ohio wolves want the government to prohibit the entrance of foreign wool into this country. Perhaps one of the vultures will explain how this will increase our revenues. The old McKinley tariff has been put back upon lumber, so far as the recommendation of the ways and means committee is concerned. The consumer of lumber, the house-builder, will sooß find out how much more expensive it is to rear a dwelling under high protection than it has been under a moderate tariff.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week's Proceedings in the Halls of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. Most of Wednesday was devoted to District of Columbia business. The conference report on the bill to define the rights of the purchasers of the Atlantic and Pacific Hailroad under the foreclosure sale was adopted. Attention was recalled to the Cuban question in the Senate by the presentation of three resolutions on that subject. One of these came by unanimous vote from the Committee on Foreign Relations and called for the immediate and unconditional release of Julio Sanguily, held at Havana. Another resolution by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, calls on the President to effectively protect American citizens in Cuba, and for that purpose to send battleships to Cuban waters. A third resolution, by Mr. Hill, of New York, was agreed to, requesting the Secretary of State for the correspondence with Consul General Lee relative to Americans imprisoned in Cuba. A sensational episode occurred late in the day during the consideration of the Indian bill. Several of the New England Senators had criticised various items. This aroused Mr. Pettigrew, in charge of the bill, to some caustic recitals of barbarities practiced against Indians in Massachusetts in the early days. Mr. Hoar defended his State, and amid impressive silence arraigned Mr. Pettigrew, a New Englander by birth, for “befouling the nest in which he was born.” Little progress was made on the Indian bill, and Mr. Allison warned the Senate that the status of appropriation bills was most dangerous. Representative Sulzer, of New York, Thursday introduced a bill in the House declaring war between Spain and her colonies and the United States. A resolution calling on the President for all information concerning the treatment of American prisoners in Cuba was adopted. The Senate was storm-swept by such passionate debate, such extraordinary demonstrations in the crowded galleries and such frantic personal exchanges between the conspicuous figures of the Senate as to make the day one of the most memorable in the annals of the upper branch of Congress. Cuba was the theme and it seemed to call forth all the pent-up emotions of months. It brought about the complete displacement of appropriation bills, threatening their failure, and the advancement of the Cuban question to the very front of Senate business.

Cuba was again a topic in the Senate Friday, from 1 to 4:30 o’clock; but the debate upon the Sanguily and Agguirre resolutions was comparatively spiritless, and resulted in no definite action. The first half hour of the evening session was given to private pension bills, the pension calendar being cleared. Among the bills passed was that pensioning Gen. Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky at SSO a month. At 8 o’clock the consideration of the Indian bill was resumed, the amendment relating to the five civilized tribes being discussed at great length. The amendment as finally agreed to gives the United States exclusive jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases, abolishing the native courts. Two additional judges are provided for the territory. The bill was then passed. The House passed the Senate international monetary conference bill by a vote of 279 to 3. It was supported alike by Republicans, silver Republicans, gold Democrats and silver Democrats. Bills were also passed to provide for the arbitration of differences between the carriers of interstate commerce and their employes (known as the Erdman bill), and the Senate bill to prevent the importation of impure tea. There was a majority of three to one against ticket scalping when a vote was taken in the House Saturday on the bill reported from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, moved that the House nonconcur in the Senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill and agree to a conference. The motion was carried and the bill was sent to conference. In the Senate Mr. Daniel presented certified copies of the naturalization papers of Julio Sanguilly, and had them printed, with extracts from the law showing their regularity. Mr. Chandler made a statement as to the Loud bill, saying the committee had concluded that it was impossible to have any legislation on the subject at the present session, and that a commission should be created to investigate secondclass mail matter. The usual Sunday quiet of the capitol building was disturbed by a session of the Senate, made necessary to pass the appropriation bills. The attendance of Senators was even greater than that through the week. By a parliamentary fiction the session was a part of the legislative day beginning Saturday, a recess having been taken at 2:30 o’clock in the morning until 3p. m. The sundry civil appropriation bill received its finishing touches, and was passed. The Senate, by unanimous vote, has added an amendment to the bill, counteracting the President’s recent order withdrawing 21,000,000 acres of land from the public domain and establishing it as forest reserves.

When the naval appropriation bill first came up in the Senate Monday afternoon Mr. Chandler stated that he would move later to increase the appropriation for torpedo boats or decrease the number provided. All the other items were agreed to without comment except that relating •to cost of armor, establishment of Government armor plant, etc., which occasioned extended debate. The Chandler amendment reducing the price of armor plate to S3OO a ton was adopted without a division. Another, to reduce the total of contracts authorized to $2,407,500, to correspond witii the reduction per ton, was adopted. The amendment authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish a Government armor plate factory at a cost of $1,000,000 if he failed to make contracts was lost. The naval bill was passed at midnight, and although Mr. Chandler tried to call up the international monetary conference bill the Senate adjourned. In the House the bill to prohibit the transmission of detailed accounts of prize fights by mail or telegraph led to a very lively skirmish, iu which prize fighting was denounced on all sides. But the bill met with most strenuous opposition on the ground that it would tend to establish a censorship of the press, and was finally sidetracked. A bill was passed to provide for the transmission to Washington of presidential election returns by mail. The bill abolishes the system of messengers now employed.

In the Senate Tuesday the fortification bill was passed, as was also the deficiency appropriation bill, after amendment to keep the $1,310,427 claim of the Southern Pacific Company in the treasury until final adjustment of the Government lefci upon that corporation. The House amendments to the international monetary conference bill were agreed to, and the bill sent to the President. The President sent to the House a veto message upon the immigration bill, his principal objection being to the educational clause; the President holds that the worse class of immigrants is not found among the illiterate. The day in the House was one of routine work.

THE INDIANA SOLONS

The House spent the most of Tuesday considering a mass of insurance bills in committee of the whole. A blanket bill governing foreign companies and not differing very materially from the present law was slightly amended. The House killed two others—a blanket bill for the organization of home mutual companies and a bill for the organization of home stock companies—and one governing life and accident assessment companies only escaped death by being recommitted. The bill fixing a standard form of policy escaped with amendments. A bill exempting farms within the limits of towns or cities from corporation taxes, and’ the Remington dog bill, which permits any person to kill a dog that is known to have ever chased or worried sheep or any live stock or fowl, was passed. The Senate, after passing a couple of minor bills, took up the McCord building and loan bill, practically the Peckenpaugh bill, as it passed the House, and spent the whole day discussing it The House Wednesday killed the local option bill, and by a narrow margin passed a bill providing for a revision of the statutes. The first of the insurance measures to reach final enactment got there when the House passed a Senate bill repealing the law and fixing a 10 per cent penalty upon home companies for failure to adjust and pay losses within sixty days. Mr. Thomas’ bill for a revision of the statutes passed. Senator Shively’s bill appropriating $5,000 for a statue to Morton in the Capitol at Washington came up on third reading, and finally passed by almost a party vote. The Senate, after adding a few more amendments, recommitted the building and loan bill, in order that the numerous changes might be incorporated. Two caucus measures, the bill providing for non-partisan boards for the benevolent institutions and the Fort Wayne charter bill, were passed. A bill permitting the commissioners of Starke County to issue bonds for a new court house and one to provide for janitors for country schools at 10 cents per day, were passed. Gov. Mount Thursday returned the Ad-ams-Jay court bill to the Senate with his veto. He permitted a bill requiring that the standard half-bushel measure be used in testing wheat, and another permitting the commissioners of Jasper County to issue bonds for building a court house to become laws without his approval by the expiration of the ten days’ limit. The Senate passed the Barlow tax bill and the Morris House bill giving City Councils greater police power. The Senate defeated Senator Duncan’s bill for a system of auditing the warrants of township trustees, and Senator Schenck’s bill requiring wide tires on gravel roads. Senator Self’s bill for the punishment of voters who offer to sell their votes was passed. It also defeated the Terre Haute charter and passed the following: The House bill providing for giving discharged prisoners money, a railroad ticket and suit of; clothes; regulating ferry charges, and providing that service upon the Auditor shall hold foreign insurance companies. The House spent much time in amending the intermediate prison bill. The Nicholson bill to wipe out quart shops was amended so as to exempt wholesalers and make a level license of SIOO and then engrossed. The House passed the following bills: Gilbert’s Senate bill providing heavy penalties for slaughtering fish and permitting the fish commissioner to appoint deputies; requiring that evidences of debt must have been listed for taxation before collections can be enforced; amending the ditch laws. The bill authorizing the Attorney General to bring suit at once against the Vandalia Railroad Company for the large indebtedness of the company claimed by the State passed the House Friday under a suspension of the rules and without a dissenting vote. The Vandalia investigation, to discover what amount, presumably $2,090,000, the company, it is said, has been defrauding the State out of for years under its old charter, was threatened with being smothered by the influence of the railroad lobby. The Senate killed the Sunday baseball bill by laying an amended bill on the table which provided for submitting the question to a popular vote. The House caught the friends of the Citizens’ Street Railway asleep, and the bill providing for 3 cent fare was rushed through to engrossment. It will now require a square vote to kill the measure.

Arizona’s Big Claims.

The population of Arizona in 1890 was 59,620, including Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds. The total is now “claimed” to be 80,000. This is about half the population fixed as the ratio for a representative in Congress. And yet it is proposed to give this fraction of the congressional ratio two Senators and a representative in Congress and three votes in the electoral college. Its population is less than that of Portland, as returned by the last census. And yet If it was admitted to the Union with its sparse population it would be the equal in the Senate of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illinois of the larger States, or of Oregon or Washington. —Portland Oregonian.

Our Coinage.

The diameter of the silver dollar Is exactly an inch and one-half, and its thickness eighty-thousandths of an inch. The common nickel (5c piece) was authorized by act of Congress May 18, 1866, and its coinage was begun the same year. The old-fashioned copper cent was authorized by act of Congress, April 22, 1792, and its coinage was begun the following year. Jefferson is said to have been the first American statesman to suggest the dollar as the financial unit of our currency. The standard dollar was authorized by act of Congress, Feb. 28, 1878, and coinage was begun in the same year. The dollar gold piece was authorized by act of Congress March 3, 1849, and its coinage was begun in the same year. “In God we trust” first appeared on the copper 2c issue of 1864, and is the first use of the word “God” in any Government act. The “dollar of our daddies” was authorized by act of Congress April 2, 1792, and its coinage was begun in 1794. Moses Brown, of Boston, has the credit of making the first deposit of gold bullion to be coined. In 1795 fi o deposited $2,276.72. The 3c nickel piece received the authorization of Congress by a law passed April 3, 1865, and its coinage was begun the same year. The general fineness of our silver coins is from 89 to 90 per cent., except the 3-cent piece, which contained 25 per cent, of alloy. The eagle being the national bird, appears on many of our coins, and its name has been appropriated to the golden $lO piece from that fact. There is so much sympathy in this country that very often the under dog beoomes a dangerous, impudent cur.