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Tjik idea of the U. S. Senate voting to purchase the Blaine lot iu Washington for $1(50,000 to please Senator Dou Cameron is a genuine steal and should never be concurred in by the House. The property is not worth over $75,000 and it •will take $25,000 to cover damages to the lessees which makes the people of this country lose $100,000. The people have set their faces toward reform and do not propose to tolerate corrupt legislation, no matter by which party it is enacted.

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Hon. \V. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, to be Postmaster General in the place of W. S. Bissell of Buffalo, (.'level mds old laiv p.\rtnr who resigned. Thus Wilson gets his reward for assisting to slaughter American industries. Personally Mr. Wilson is a scholarly man and a clever gentleman, but his lack of business experience and methods will no doubt impair his use ui In ess as an etllcient Postmaster General.

TIIKUI-: was a monkey and a parrot of a lime in the U. S. Senate yesterday when Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire told a few truths concerning Senator lloach from North Dakota. This stirred up some of he Democrat Senators, but with his caustic tongue, Air. Chandler gave them as good as they sent. It would be a blessed thing for the country if the Senators would tell what they know of each other and then live up to the best ot' their knowledge in their actions and vote3. Senatorial courtesy covers up not only a multitude of faults but positive crimes.

WHEN the military bill was before the State Senate yesterday, all the Republi can Senators voted for it except two and all the Democrats against it except five. The bill provides for an appropriation of $45,000 makes more liberal provisions for armories, gives the authority iu counties, where rioting and bloodshed is occuring, to the commanding militia officer instead of the sheriff, as at present. This places such a county under martial law and gives the troops some power and authority instead of leaving it with some sheriff who, on account of local political influences will not enforce the law. The law was drawn up by the late Democrat Attorney General Green Smith, under the direction of Gov. Matthews, but some people atllicted with demagogism refused to vote for it. Congressman Bynuni hit such demagogues in Cougress when he .spoke last, week, as follows in regard to the appropriation for paying the U. S. deputy marshals in the strike last summer. "The men tor whom this appropriation is asked were appointed from the laboring classes and were laboring men. They went in obedience to law and discharged their duties faithfully and promptly. Some were seriously injured in the discharge of their duty. The great majority of them were poor men, who wexe unable to do without their pay, and suffered from the fact that there was n& money on hand to promptly dischai'ge their •claims. After their discharge, because of their circumstances and because there was no money to pay for the services they had so faithlutly rendered iu preserving order and aiding iu the enforcement of the laws of the country, mauy were compelled to discount their claims against the government. Now we are' quibbling over the appiopriation to pay those of them who were able to hold their claims until (,'ongie-s had an opportunity to make an appropriation. I know a large number of these men personally. They are entitled to their pay."

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An Old Stage Driver's Account of the Killing of Jules by Slade. "Wo liked to work for Slade. Ho I knew how to use good men well," said I Jack Wells, the stage driver, as he fingered the lines that guided the four horse team. He had been one of the henchmen of the Slade immortalized by

Mark Twain—the man killing Slade, more feared on the plains of the far west than any other man of bis day. Now tho old time driver was minded to I talk of his old chief as the stage rolled over the Santa Fe trail. "When you talk of Slade's doings, you must remembor that those were I tough times that ho lived in and tough I men ho had to deal with. No soft man could have kept things straight as he I did when ho was superintendent on one or another hard division of Ben Holliday's stago linos across tho plains and mountains. Thero wore red Indians and I whito outlaws to deal with right along, and you had to fig'".t 'em with their own weapons. Many's tho night I've been waked out of my sloop to get up on a stago box with my Henry rifle beside mo, not knowing what was waiting along the way in shapo of Indians or road agents. Yes, Jim Slade was a good deal of a desperado and did a good bit of killing. I don't think he'd have killed so many people if it hadn't been for his wife. She was a high strung Texas woman and was proud to have a husband who was famous among men for his deeds. But Jennie was a kind friend to all the boys who worked for her husband and would tend them in sickness like a mother. "About that affair with Jules? I suppose that's what gavo Slado his reputation more than any other thing. Jules kept a store at the station where Slade made his headquarters. He had a boy that worked for him, and one day Slade sent this boy off to do something or other, and it made Jules angry, and he used pretty hard words about Slade, damning him up hill and down for not sending some man of his own on his errands.

Slade hoard of what Jules had been saying and came in to see him about it. 'You ought not to talk like that about me, Jules,' he said. 'I won't stand it to have a man damning me, and you ought to know it.' 'I'll talk about any man I please,' said Jules. 'I'd like to see the color of the man that I'd bo afraid to speak my mind about.' "Well, that luado Slade angry, because he knew it was meant as a slur, he being a very dark complexioned man. Then he slapped Jules' face. When he turned to go out of tho door, Jules picked up a gun from behind the counter and shot him in tho shoulder. Slade fell terribly wounded, and we all thought he was done for. Wo carried him into the house, and then one of the hostlers and I arrested Jules and were going to hang him. We'd already got a wagon tongue up and the ropo round his neck when tho sheriff and some of the other men took him away from us. They got up sonin kind of a court and jury, and Jules was acquitted. He didn't stay thero for Slade to get well, but went off down the road upon another division and went into business there. Slade came round all right at last, but instead of going after Jules, as peoplo might think ho would, ho just kept on his division and looked after his stages and stations. "Jules had some cattle that he had left on tho range round the station when he went away, and word came to him that they were being stolen or killed. At last he heard that Slade was away from tho station, and so up he camo in company with the sheriff to see about them. I guess Slade had something to do with having that report get to him, because ho wasn't away, and he walked in on Jules and the sheriff as they stood in the barroom at the station. 'Now, Jules,' said he, 'I'm here to have our quarrel out. Pull your pistol and get to work.' "Jules refused to draw his gun. Slade asked him once again to do so and then shot him. As Jules lay thero dead on tho floor Slado said to the sheriff: 'What do tho Indians do when they've killed an enemy?' "Tho sheriff said, 'They scalp 'ein and cut their oars off.' "Slado took out his pocketknife and cut Julo's ears off. They say he afterward carried 'em about in his vest pocket. About that I haven't got anything to say. "—New York Sun.

Kum and Rumbullion. 4

In 10:J9 Do Poincy and Sir Thomas Warner, tho governors of the French and English quartors of tho island of St. Christopher, ordered the entire destruction of the tobacco crops on account of the overproduction having caused a glut in the market. The planters then turned their attention to the production of sugar, which they probably learned from the Dutch trading to Brazil.

Richard Lygon, who landed at Barbados in September, 1647, relates in hia history of that island how tho planters had commenced sugar making five or six years before his arrival, and that thero wore then many works set up. He describes the distillation of spirits from the skimmings of the coppers and says that this the favorite drink of the colonists was called kill devil and was sold to the shipping at the rate of 2s. Gd. per gallon. He never ouce makes use of the word rum.

Mr. N. Darnell Davis, in his "Cavaliers and Roundheads In Barbados," quotes as follows from a manuscript description of that island, to which he asBigns the date 1650: "Thechiefefndling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of luggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and jerrible liquor. "—Notes and Queries.

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Professor Longhair—It has been demonstrated beyond question that this island is sinking.

Miss De Style—Oh, well, we've got I yacht!—London Tit-Bits.

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THE END DRAWS NEAK

REGRETFUL SIGHS AT WHAT THE EXPIRING CONGRESS BRINGS.

Only Measures of Immediate Necessity Can Now Get Through—Conspicuous Bills That Are Forever Lost—The World's

Output of Gold In the Dim Future.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The end draws near, and with many a rogretful sigh pet bills aro given up by their authors, for it is plain that only measures of immediate necessity can now yet through. One by one the belated committees have abandoned hope of getting a day in tho house, ami of the 10,000 or more "lulls and joint resolutions introduced over 90 per cent are forever lost. Conspicuous among the unfortunate committees aro those on railroads and canals, patents and Pacific railways,

CONGIiESSM AX GJ3AIIY.

whilo that on banking and currency is not far behind. Tho committee on foreign affairs is happy, having succeeded in everything of consequenco it undertook, and Chairman McCreary says in conclusion, "When those jingoes in the senate stuck on that amendment for constructing a cable to Hawaii, they merely invited us to a conference, and we shall of course be pleased to meet them In that proceeding."

Tho committee on Pacific railways has worked hard enough to deserve better fortune. It is at least entitled to a compli mentary paragraph in this brief history. At the start Representative Geary of California, famous as th# author of the Chinese exclusion law, introduced what might bo called a legislative expression of San Francisco hostility to the big railway combine. His bill met with scant consideration he was defeated for re-election despite his victory over the Chinese, and when Minister Yang Yu gavo a great ball in honor of the Mongolian new year ho rubbed it in by inviting every member of the committeo except Mr. Geary. Every member's wife received a dress pattern of a peculiar Chinese brocade silk and a box of the finest tea produced in the Celestial Empire save Mrs. Geary, so Mr. Geary is out a seat in congress and all thoso ni^e things, but he goes away happy because the railway funding bill is knocked out.

Fight Over Kail road Bills.

Hon. James B. Reilly introduced in rapid succession three bills, at all of whijh tho antirailroad members kiekinl most violently. Then Representatives Powers and Boatner tried their hands, and out of all these bills by a year's hard work the committeo evolved the so called "Reilly bill," which was most furiously debated in tho house and put to sleep by recommitment without instructions. Nothing daunted, Mr. Henderson of Illinois put in a new bill and Mr. Boatner another, and then Populist Harris of Kansas closed tho record with his plan, which, as almost everybody knows, is for the government to take the Pacific railways and run them as a sort of experiment in that line but he has added a great many specifications in this bill in addition to his original plan. I find in tho house a growing sentiment that the roads should be put in charge of tho war department, which plan is defended 011 the ground that that department has had fewer scandals in tho public works line than any other and because the roads wero built by government aid as a war measure. The department is well supplied with experienced engineers who have managed public works economically.

Tho committeo 011 patents has considered 52 bills and has been eager to pass six of them, but cannot get a day. The much disputed playwrights' bill is withdrawn by its sponsors and will bo amended and pushed vigorously in the next house. Tho Covert bill, to reduce tho penalty for copying photographs in newspapers, ought to have passed, for tho existing law furnishes a line oppportunity for tormenting publishers. Tho bills for tho relief of Messrs. Ward and tho Berdans for firearms furnished in tho civil war, though of long standing and perfectly just, liavo shared the fate of all such measures. Tho tompor of the house 011 such subjects may bo judged from the fact that a mass of old war claims which have been unanimously approved by all the boards having jurisdiction was rejected at sight and with expressions of indignation that this house should be called on to pay some $750,000 at a time like this. The commissioner of patents has labored hard for a bill providing for tho classification of cases so that it could bo told at a glanco whether a new patent was an infringement, and for.juany years tho patent office has more than paid expenses, having now near .154,000,000 to its credit, but this bill shares the fate of tho rost.

The latent Proposition.

The committeo on railways and canals would, if ic could havo got a day, have reported favorably tho bills for one canal from Lako Erie to tho Ohio river, one from the lakes to the Hudson and ono by way of the upper Mississippi from St. Paul to Duluth, but it is just as well perhaps that it did not get a day, as the wild spirits of the house would havo ripped it up the back with more than ghoulish glee.

It is the committee on ways and means that has mado history. In watching the progress of tho Wilson bill tho public has had tho history of tho first regular session of this congress, and subsequent measures before it havo beeii scarcely worth attention. The latest proposition, not yet formulated Into a bill, is to lower our tariff 10 per cent to all nations with free silver coinage and rniso it 10 per cent to all gold basis countries, requiring the latter to pay duties in gold. It is scarcely necessary to add that tho "blarsted Britishers" are tho fellows aimed at.

If ways and means has really made history, banking and currency has certainly tried hard to do the same. On tho first day of the called session after organization was completed—to wit, on Aug. 11, 1898 —Professor Wilson introduced the first bill of this congress—to repeal tho Sherman law of 161)0—and out of M3 bills dis-

cussed by this committeo only tho Wilson bill and one other have become laws, aud but one more—that of Representative Cox restricting tho power of bank officers in borrowing and lending—has passed the house.

A

glance at tho record shows that

most of the members of the committee were changing their opinions with every changing month, putting in new bills from time to time with tho same titles. Mr. Bland began with three bills for silver and continued to modify them with various substitutes to tho last. Mr. McLaurin of South Carolina began his bill with the announcement that $125,000,000 of the greenbacks had been lost or destroyed and wanted a reissue to that extent at once. Mr. Harter of Ohio brought in several bills to repeal th^tax 011 state banks and one to allow national banks to issuo to the face value of their bonds, and these measures were relocated with every possible variation by Messrs. Walker, Wise, Meiklejohn, Cox, Meredith, English and others.

Flans For Redeeming Treasury Notes. Mr. Oat.es, now governor of Alabama, worked long and hard fur a bill authorizing the national banks to loan on land mortgage and was seconded by Mr. Black of Georgia, but the committee would have none of it. The bills for increasing tho volumo of greenbacks, for statu banks, for retiring national bank currency and for issue of silver certificates wero too numerous and varied for description. The record shows a strange confusion of parties, such radical hard money men as Mr. Harter and Mr. Walker introducing bills to repeal the tax on state banks and tho most '"greenbackers" wanting to provide for more silver. Mr. Bailey of Texas brought in tho first comprehension bill for a general reconstruction of the currency, but it was soon overshadowed by that of Mr. Walker and lhat in turn by the somewhat famous Springer bill. Mr. Talbert of .South Carolina got in a curiously constructed bill authorizing government loans to the state on the security of state bonds, and there have been all sorts of plans for having treasury notes redeemed half in gold and half in silver. Populist Davis of Kansas brought 111 a bill providing for the reissue of .the paper fractional currency and made a powerful argument on the convenience in transmitting small sums by mail. To Mr. Cooper of Indiana must be credited tho ono success after the first Wilson bill—authorizing tho taxation of greenbacks equally with other money.

Mr. Brookshiro of Indiana wanted to retire all greenbacks and national bank notes of small denomination and roplace them with coin certificates, and Mr. Coombs of Brooklyn wanted tho wliolo matter handed over to a commission of exports In currency to preparo a bill for tho next congress. A dozen more measures were introduced, and then tho wholo mass was summed up in Mr. Springer's first comprehension bill. He was knocked out of course, tried it again and was knocked out in tho house, but comes up sniiliug and says that he will continue the battle to the last day of tho session. There is no objection to his amusing himself in that way.

General Currency IJill Unnecessary. Taking tlu situation as it is today, I think tho opinion of what I may call tho middle class men in the house may be summed up tnus: There is really no necessity for a general currency bill, as Mr Cleveland lias tho power, or thinks he has, and will exercise it, to issuo bonds under the resumption act so far as may bo necessary to maintain go hi payments, and what might he gained in r.ho way of interest by his I.JW scheme would bo much mnro than lost by extending the time for payment of the bonds. Furthermore, the income of tho government will befoio very long equal its expenditures and soon after exceed them, and the issue of bonds to get gold will simply mean funding the greenbacks to that extent. To this many of them add the opinion, which I give in the exact language of Mr. Toivy of Arkansas: '"This sale of $02,000,000 in bonds for gold abroad will simply result in the return and sale in this country of an equal valuo of American securities i.ow held abroad. When tho treasury borrows gold, thero is a boom in the stock market, and foreign holders promptly seize tho opportunity to sell. They aro withdrawing their investments In this country and placing them elsewhere. Tho gold drawn into the treasury will he again drawn out and the process repeated and more securities returned from abroad. In short, wo aro simply transferring a corporate indebtness to foreigners into a national indebtedness and paying a premium for the privilege."

Gold Output.

To Add to tho hilarity of tho situation the director of the mint has once more revised his figures on the world's output of gold and assures us that we may hope for much more than $200,000,000 per year hereafter, tho yield of the United States alone having been $411,000,000 in 1894. Messrs. Smesser and Hammond, engineers who have lately completed their work 011 tho South African goldfields, tell us that in the 11 miles already opened there are $1,500,000,000 in sight, and that by 1920 the wholo field will yield $4,000,000,000 at the Very least. Lest any holder of gold should go to manufacturing door hinges out of it or any mortgage holder get scared, I hasten to add that the international com-

CONGItESSMAN TERKV.

Kierce of the world Is now 12 times as groat as it was in 1800. Then British experts put it |1,510,000,000, and in 1840 It had only grown to $2,865,000,000, but that year there were but 4,515 miles of railroad in tho wjpirkl, only 10,482,000 tons of chipping and 110 ocean cable. There are now 14 ocean cables, about 40,000,000 tons of shipping and some 260,000 miles of railroad. Tho international commorco Is very near $18,000,000,000, and tho exports and imports of tho United States alone aro 10 per cent greater than thoso of tho whole world wore at the lieginning of tho century. So thero is no occasion for any of our creditors to got scared. Gold will still have value after li)20.

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