Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 31 January 1895 — Page 2

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VOL. 16, No. 4—Entered at the Poatofficeaa £Coood-clftM mall matter. W. 8. MONTGOMERY,

Publisher and Proprietor.

Circulation This Week, 2,525.

A CURK for the cigarette habit has been discovered, and it ought to be introduced Greenfield at once.

TKE

Missouri Legislature is trying to

pass a bill punishing train robbers with death. That would be a good law.

A RILL has been introduced in the Missouri Legislature to retire ©n pension meu. who have taught thirty years in the public schools and women who have /fcaogfet twenty-five years.

IF Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. 'Gram were President now it would be iHH&erstood that the present government of- Hawaii would receive the benefit of the full protection of the United States. —Indianapolis Journal.

US' TO the present time, Indiana citiaens have donated $1,S73.71 to the battleship "Indiana." Many city and town •schools have given money, but we have not heard of any school in this county which has donated anything. Won't some one interested start the movement?

THE revenue of the Western Union telegraph Co., for furnishing the time of day to this country amounted last year t,o $1,500,000. The Company has a telegraph desk in the Naval Observatory at Washington. Four minutes before noon the wires of the system all over the United States are cleared of business, •and at the instant the sun passes the seventy-fifth meridian, electricity carries the news to every city.

THE

judiciary committee of the Indiana

Legislature made a mistake when they reported adversely on the bill making the penalty for carrying concealed weapons JpOO, and from ten to thirty days in jail. Three fourths of the murders committed oorur because a man is carrying a revolver, and then when suddenly provoked or i£i the heat of a quarrel kills a man aa A then regrets it afterward. Our present law is not enforced vigorously •euough.

TJ?.S trolley railroad strike in Brooklyn £s practically ended, and, as all sensible gjeople must have foreseen from the beginning, it has ended in the defeat of the .strikers, as must always be the case \*A hen violence is resorted to. The rights •of property and the authority of law are &GQ well established in this country and I the power for their enforcement is too

.great to admit the possibility of any 1 at her ending than failure to an attempt to overthrow them. In this case the original demands of the strikers were •founded on justice, and the sympathy of the public was with them, but as soon as 6hey began to disregard public and private rights, blocs the transportation of a great city and destroy property their jause was lost.

JuiXiE GAYXOK's decision in regard to street railway's duties in the Brookya. strike has the proper ring to it and -we publish extracts from the same, in to •day's paper, which we trust all will read. Every one concedes that striking railway •employes have no right to assail other caen for working, nor to destroy property. These facts have heretofore given railway corporations an advantage with the pur lie as they always try to have appearances with them. "When the general public, however, realize the fact that railway companies are by law compelled run their cars, and not to do so is as much a violation of law as for strikers to assail men for working, or to throw a car off the track, then there will be a chance for a better condition of affairs. As it stands now, a company by offering less than living wages to a man •with a family or by making the hours so long, fourteen (14) as the Brooklyn Co. ifirred to do, practically reduces snen to slavery and compels them to do something in order to secure justice. We .are glad to see Judge Gaynor's decision, .as it now looks like the law will compel the companies as well as the employes to respect both public and private rights, And all men secure their just rights.

THE Republicans of Hancock county so tL&T-as they are concerned are decidedly da favor of the Republican Legislature ^carrying out the principles of the State jjlsbtform. They want a fair apporcionui&ut a just fee and salary law for State .ao/3- county officials a cutting down of ti*s wasteful and luxurious expenditures jaSjoat some of the State institutions a *293,number of employes about the LegisUatoFe &t such enormous wages for the •Sricid of service required a regulation of '"building and loan associations so that poor men can secure the benefits of them ai^ building a home and rich men not go /Sato them and escape their just share of gfiax&tion and at the same time get enorfj*sus interest a regulation of insurance /companies so that they cannot go into r-po&ls and by their combination fleece the •gpeqifl- toe Koby race track, gambling prize lighting institution and all sin jruwrtsaiic'-ms wiped out and many other "'things done which the legislators are very '"jf'eSisaojinainted with. It is not so much /a«?ttb3tkn of the members knowing just •"wfefct the people want as of their doing

Legislatui must not be allowed

ato cfwte under the batleful influence of a

(iaawrt]j|it

and ^monopolistic lobby^but

'THE EAGLE CLUB."

GHE£NF1ELD'S NEW REPUBLICAN

CLUB—LKT ITS MOTTO BE "VIM, VIGOR AND VICTORY." Feeling the need of a permanent Hepublican organization in Greenfield and Hancock county, the following persons: Warren R. King, John Corcoran, Elmer J. Binford, Charles K. Bruner, Elmer E. Stoner, W. P. Bidgood, Edwin P. Thayer jr., Newton R. Spencer and Walter S. Montgomery, met and adopted a constitution and by-laws for a Republican club. A charter has been issued in the name of "The Eagle Club," of Greenfield, Indiana. Rooms will be secured at once and furnished. It is the desire to make the headquarters of the club interesting and attractive to its members, papers books and magazines will be supplied. Discussion of political policies and principles will be invited and encouraged. It is the purpose of the Club to instruct its members upon the correctness of Republican ideas and fortify them i'j the support of Republican principles. While the club will not aid any candidate to secure a nomination it will contribute its united strength to secure the election of the entire Republican ticket in municipal, county, State and National elections. It is the hope of the founders of the club that a large membership can be secured and that by its influence the Republican party can be greatly strengthened in Hancock county. So far the encouragement has been all that could be desired. The indications now are that it is only a matter of a short time until Greenfield will have a political club that surpasses anything in her history, and which will be second to none in the State outside of the large cities. The present officers of the club are:

Ed P. Thayer, Jr., President. Elmer E. Stoner, Vice President. Dr. C. K. Bruner, Treasurer. Newton R. Spencer, Secretary.

A PROPER DECISION.

JUDGE GAYXOK HITS STREET 11AIL-IV-A 1 OML'AMES A WHACK.

Tliey Violate Law Wlien They Cense Running Tlieiv Cars As They Have Duties For the Public.

BUOOKLYN, Jan. 25.—The ruling of Judge Gaynor, of the supreme court, on the application for a mandamus to compel the Brooklyn Heights railroad to operate its curs, mention of which wys made, Thursday, is causing wide comment. The court disposes of several important questions, and, in support of its position granting the mandamus, cites the rulings of the higher tribunals. In touching ou the relation of street railway corporations to the public Judge Gaynor says. "The directors of a private business company may, as stated, by private greed or motives of private gain, stop business and refuse to employ labor at all unless labor come down to their conditions, however distressing, for such are the existing legal, industrial and social conditions. But the directors of a railroad corporation may not do the like they are not merely accountable to stockholders they are accountable to the public first: and to the stockholders second. They have duties to the public to perform, and they must perform them. If they cannot get labor to perform such duties, and at the price they offer to pay, theu they must pay more, and as much as is necessary to get it. Likewise, if the conditions in respect of hours or otherwise which they impose repel labor they must adopt more lenient or just conditions. They may not stop their cars for one hour, much less one week, or for one year, thereby to bettor coerce the price or condi ions of labor down to the price or conditions they offer. For them to do so would be a defiance of law and of government, which, becoming general, would inevitably by the force of example lead to general disquiet, to the disintegration of the social order, and even the downfall of government itself."

The court also handles without gloves the question of employers' rights in their dealings with employes. The decision says: "In respect to the question of hours and wages between the company and its employes its dutv was to have gone on and now is to go on with its full complement of employes having the right gradually from day to day to supersede its employes, if it can, by new employes who wdl work on its own terms, or to supersede them all at once wheu it has obtained a sufficient number of new employes for that purpose, but in such a controversy it has not the right to stop its cars while it is thus gradually getting other men. If the people of the State were running these roads they would not thus ihcommode and dumage themselves and it mast not be forgotten that the corporation is intrusted with the running of these roads as the servant of the people of the rotate. It therefore only remains for me to determine the form of the writ, wncther it shall be peremptory or alternative."

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THE FARMERS INSTITUTE.

SOME SPLENDID AND PROFITABLE

SPEECHES—A SYNOPSIS OF T. B. TERRY'S SPEECH ON CLOVER. The Farmers' Institute is well attended this year, and Wednesday morning J. F. Coffin, the President, called the meeting to order and a cordial address of welcome was delivered by Mayor Geo. W. Duncan, which was responded to by ex-Senator J. A. Mount, of Shannondale, in his usual excellent and happy style.

The Institute then adjourned until after dinner. The first address was by T. B. Terry, of Hunson, Ohio, a practical and successful farmer. He gave a speech on "Treatment of Clover," which was highly appreciated by those present, and said to be one of the best and most beneficial speeches ever made in this county. For the benefit of our farmer friends we give a synonsis of Mr. Terry's speech, bringing out some of the main points, which, we feel will be of great benefit to our farmers if followed out.

The Treatment of Clover.

I sow clover seed early and whenever conditions are favorable, that is when the ground freezes during the night and thaws the next day. I commence sowing as eoon as it is light enough to see, sometimes sowing twelye acres before breakfast, always doing my own sowing, never trusting any one else to do it. .While the ground is in that condition the seed will settle so deep that it does not sprout so quickly, and after it does come up it is not so easily killed by the frost. I sow six quarts per acre and use a machine that sows a space twelve feet wide. I sow the little red clover when I want the best returns then I get three returns: Hay, seed crop, and also the fertilizing properties. The English clover I sow for seed and fertilizing alone. Never use it for hay, as there is too much woody fiber in the stalk that is indigestable. I tried an expeiiment on a team of horses that had been fed on grain and timothy hay. It took about one month's time to change them to clover hay alone, and they have not been fed any grain for several years, and have kept in good flesh, (weighing 1,300 lbs each.) We always watered them well and gave them plenty of time to ea —about one and a half hours in the mornig, one hour at noon and give all the hay they would eat up at night. One pound of good clover hay contains as much nourishment as one of oats, and the benefit to a horse is the same, but it takes more time to digest the hay.

My neighbors used to steal into my barn to see if I had fed my team some grain. They doubted my word, so I put up a purse of $500.00 for any proof that I had fed grain, and I never had it to pay.

Clover hay too ripe does not give good results in feeding, as ripe clover is not as good as [timothy cut at. the right time. Dusty hay will give a horse the heaves. Springling is a great help.

I began raising clover twenty-five years ago on a farm (Buck and White Oakland) so poor that a young man would not take it fts a gift from his fattier, and am now raising from 45 to 50 bushels of wheat per acre, and $120.00 worth of potatoes.to the the acre. Have cut the crops of clover off of my land in one year and by feeding it have realized $100.00 off of one acre.

My plan of rotation is this: I turn under a clover sod for a crop of potators, plant an early variety—Early Rose or Beauty of Hebron—harvest soon as ripe, then cultivaee the soil into the best possible condition, then sow in wheat, the Old Fulse variety, then sow in clover again. I raised 50 bushels per acre without any ma iure when my neighbor raised only 45 bushels per acre on the same kind of soil, plowing under a timothy sod with 25 loads of manure to the acre.

A good crop of clover fertilizes the toil as much as one and ^iie-balf tons of high grade fertilizer to the acre. Timothy eds a together off the soil. It takes $5.20 worth of fertilizer to replace the plant food that timothy takes off one acre. Clover feeds off of the air and the mineral in the sub-soil. I do not believe it pays to sub-soil in plowing. Never knew any one to keep it up very long. I believe in plowing a littie deeper each year until you get to a depth of ten inches. I have been in Delaware, where they raise crimson clover. It is a winter crop. Can cut off a crop in the spring and then raise acorn crop. I will tell you how I harvest my hay. Cut it before it gets ripe with a mower that cuts a wide swath commencing about 2 o'clock iu the afternoon, letting it lay until the next afternoon, then raking it up one swath at a time, going the same way the mower went, lor it leaves it lving in better shape to dry out, leaving it in winrow over night and turning it over as soon as it is dry on top. My way of testing it to see if it is dry enough to put in the mow, is by taking up a few straws, say seven or eight, and twisting them as hard as I can. If no sap oozes out it is ready for the mow. I haul in as long as the hay is dry and warm and then quit for the dav. After it becomes cool or a little damp it does not dry out right. I close my barn up tight every night while filling the mow to keep the cool air out, the heat rising off the hay coming in contact with the cool air causes a moisture to settle on the hay, sometimes going clear through it, causing it to .mould. I never tramp it clown while filling the mow. Have men to,throw it back tightly.

The above is only a synopsis of the many good things said by Mr. Terry, and best of jull it was but a history of what a farmer can do that works with his head as well at* with his bands. He says that the only good out look tor the farmer is ,to

HESSAGETOCONGRESS

President Cleveland's Views of the Financial Question.

A CALL FOR AN ISSUE 07 BONDS,

Cirrtnejr Snt«* te the inout S500,•OO,OM BhnM Be CMT«U4 Into Bonds and CaSMU4—A Len| Bond at Three

Per Cent Is the Preside*?* 8«ffge»tlon, Available to Xatleaal Baak* as Seearlty. WASHDFATON, Jan. 29.—The president jMterday lent to congress the following special massage ou the financial question: To the Senate and House of Represents tlvoe:

In my l»rt annual message I commended to the serious conaideration of the congress the condition of our national finances, and in connection with the subjects indorsed the plan of currency legislation which at that time seemed to furnish protection against impending danger. This plan has not been approved by the congress. In the meantime the situation has so changed and the emergency now appears so threatening that I deem it my duty to ask at the hands of the legislative branch of the government such prompt and effective action as will restoro confidence in our financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal distress among our people.

Whatever may be the merits of the plan outlined in my annual message as a remedy for ills then existing and as a safeguard against the depiction of the gold reserve then in the treasury, I am now convinced thatite rejection by tho congress and our present advanced stage of financial perploxity necessitated additional or different legislation.

With natural resources unlimited in variety and productive strength, and with a people whose activity and enterprise seek enly a fair opportunity to aohieve national success and greatness, our progress should not be checked by a false financial policy and a heedless disregard of sound monetary laws, nor should the timidity and fear which they engender stand in the way of our prosperity.

It is hardly disputed that this predicament confronts us today. Therefore, no one in any degree responsible for tho making and execution of our laws should shirk patriotic duty in honestly and sincerely attempting to relieve^the situation. Manifestly this .effort will not succeed unless it is made untrammeled by tho prejudice of partisanship and with a steadfast determination to resist the temptation to accomplish party advantages.

We may well renn-mlKT that if we aro threatened with iin i.chil difiiculties all our people in every station of life are concerned and surely those who suffer will not receivo the promotion of party interests as an excuse for permitting our present troubles to advance to a disastrous conclusion. It is also of tho utmost importance that we approach tno study of the problems presented as free as possible from the tyranny of preconceived opinions, to the end that in a common danger we may bo able to seek with unclosed vision as a safe and reasonable protection

The real trouble which confronts us consists in a lack of confidence, widespread and constantly increasing, in the continuing ability or disposition of the government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of tho palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts of the government under existing laws to procure gold, and to a greater extent out of the impossibility of either keeping it in the treasury or canceling obligations, by its expenditure after it is obtained.

The only way left open to the government for procuring gold is by the issue and sale of bonds. The.only bonds that can be issued were authorized nearly 25 yem-s ago and are not well calculated to meet our present needs. Among other disadvantages they are made payable in coin instead of specifically in gold which in existing conditions detracts largely and in an increasing ratio from their desirability as investments. It is by no means certain that bonds of this description can much longer be disposed of at a price creditable to tho financial character of our government.

The most dangerous and irritating feature of the situation however remains to be mentioned. It is found in the means by which the treasury is ticsijoiled of the gold thus obtained without cancelling a single government obligation and solely for the benefit of those who find profit in shipping it abroad or whose fears induce tham to hoard it at homo. We have outstanding about §500,000,000 of currency notes of the government for which gold

may

be demanded, and curious­

ly enough the law requires that when presented and in fact redeemed and paid in gold, they shall bo reissued. These same notes may do duty many timos in drawing gold from the treasury, nor can the process bo arrested as long as private parties who profit or otherwise see an advance in repeating the operation. Moro than $300,000,000 in these notes have already been redeemed in gold, and notwithstanding such redemption they are still outstanding.

Sinco the 17th day of January, 1894, our bonded interest bearing debt has increased $100,000,000 for the purpose of obtaining gold to replenish our coin reserve. Two issues were made, amounting to $50,000,000 each—one in January and the other in November. As a result of the first issue there was realized something more than $58,000,000 in gold. Between that issue and the succeeding one in November, comprising a period of about 10 months, nearly $103,000,000 in gold was drawn from the treasury. This made the second issue necessary and upon that more than $58,000,000 in gold was again realized. Between the date of this second issue and tho present time, covering a period of only about two months, more than $69,000,000 in gold have been drawn from the treasury. These large sums of gold were expended without any cancelation of government obligations or in any permanent way benefiting our people or improving our pecuniary situation.

The financial events of the past year suggests facts and conditions which should certainly arrest attention: Moro than $172,000,000 in gold have been drawn out of the treasury during the year for the purpose of shipments abroad or hoarding at home, while nearly $103,000,000 of this amount was drawn out during the first 10 months of the year, a sum aggregating more than two-thirds of that amount, being about $69,00),000, was drawn out during the following two months, thus indicating a marked acceleration of the depleting process with tbe lapse of time.

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repeating the exhaustive operation with shorter interval* our perplaxitiss ao•umulafee.

Condition* are certainlf supervening tending to make tke bonds which xaay bo Issued to replenish our gold loss useful for tfaat purpose. An adequate gold reserve Is in all drcTimstances absolutely essential to the upholding of our public credit and to the maintenance of our high national character.

The gold reserve has again peached sneh stage of dimunition as to require its speed/ reinforcement. The aggravations that must inevitably follow present conditions and methods will certainly lead to misfortune and loss, not only to our national credit at prosperity and financial enterprise, but to those of our people who seek employment as a means of livelihood and to those whose only capital is their daily labor. It will hardly do to say that a simple increase of revenue will cure our troubles with the apprehension now existing and constantly increasing as to our financial ability does not rest upon a calculation of our revenue.

The time has passed when the eyes of investors abroad and our people at home were fixed upon the revenues of the government. Changed conditions have attracted their attention to the gold of tho government. There need be no fear that we win not pay our current expenses with such money as we have. There is now in the treasury a comfortable surplus of more than $63,000,000, but it is not in gold, and therefore does not meet our difficulty. I can not see that differences of opinion concerning the extent to which silver ought to be coined or used in our currency should interfere with the counsels of those whose duty it is to rectify evils now apparent in our financial situation. They have to consider the question of national credit and the consequences that will follow from its collapse.

Whatever ideas may be insisted upon as to silver or bimetalism, a proper solution of tho question now pressing upon us only requires a recognition of gold as well as silver and a concession of its importance, rightfully or wrongfully acquired, as a basis of national Gredlt, a necessity in the honorable discharge of our obligations payable in gold and a badgo of solvency. I do not understand that the real friends of silver desire a condition that might follow inaction or neglect to appreciate the meaning of the present exigency if it should result in the entire banishment'of gold from our financial and currency arrangements.

Besides the treasury notes, which certainly should be paid in gold, amounting to nearly $500,000,000, there will fall due in 1904 $100,000,000 of bonds issued during the last year for which we have received gold, and in 1907 nearly 1600,000,000 of 4 per cent bonds issued in 1877. Shall the payment of these obligations in gold be repudiated If they are to be paid in such a manner as the preservation of our national honor and national solvency demands we should not destroy or even imperil our ability to supply ourselves with gold for this purpose.

While I am not unfriendly to silver, and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with the financial safety and the preservation of national honor and credit, I am uot willing to see gold entirely banished from our currency and finances. To avert such a consequence I believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly passed. I therefore bog the congress to give the subject immediate attention.

In my opinion the secretary of the treasury should be authorized to issue bonds of the government for the purpose of procuring and maintaining a sufficient gold reserve and tiie redemption and cancellation of tho United States legal tender notes and the treasury notes issued for the purpose of silver under the law of June 14, 184)0. We should be relieved from the humiliating process of issuing bonds to procure gold to be immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obligations for purposes not related to the benefit of our government or our people. The principal and interests of these bonds should be payable on their face in gold because they should be sold only for gold or its representative and because there would now be difficulty in favorably disposing of bonds not containing this stipulation.

I suggest that the bonds be issued in denominations of $20 and $50 and their multiples, and that they bear interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent per annum. I do not see why they should not bo payable 50 years from their date. Wo of the present generation have large amounts to pay if we moet our obligations, and long bonds are most saleable. The secretary of the treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to receive on the sale of bonds the legal tender and treasury notes to be retired, and, of course, when they are thus retired or redeemed in gold they should be canceled.

Those bonds under existing laws could be deposited by national banks as security for circulation, and such banks should bo allowed to issue circulation up to tho face value of those or any other bonds so deposited except bonds outstanding bearing only 2 per cent interest and which sell in the market at less than par. National banks should not be allowed to take out circulating notes of a less denomination than $10, and when such as are now outstanding reach the treasury, except for redemption and retirement, they should bo canceled and notes of the denomination of $10 and upward issued in their stead. Silver certificates of the denomination of $10 and upward should be replaced by certificates of denominations under $10.

As a constant means for the maintenance of a reasonable supply of gold in the treasury our duties ou imports shoidd be paid In gold, allowing all other dues to tho government to bo paid in any otner foLin of money.

I believe all the provisions I have suggested should be embodied in our laws if wo aro to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme provided for t-lic increase of the ciiculating medium through the agency of national or state banks since tliey can easily be adjusted to such a scheme.

Objection lias boon made to the issuance of interest-bearing obligations for the purpose of reli'-ing the noninterest-bearing legal tender notes. In point of fact, however, these notes have burdened us with a largo load of interest and it is still accumulating. The* aggregate interest on tho original issue of bonds, the proceeds of which in gold constituted tho reserve foi tho payment of those notes amounted to $70,326,250 on Jan. 1, 1895, and the annual charge for interest on these bonds and those issued for the same purpose during tho hist year will bo $9,145,000, dating from Jan. 1, 1895.

While the cancellation of these notes would not relieve us from tho obligations already incurred Ou their account, these figures are given by way of suggesting that their existence has not been free from Interest ch&r^ew and that tjio longer they

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aaee of the laet year, tho moro ospenalTO they will become. In conclusion I desire to frankly eonfosfl lay reluctances to issuing more bonds in present elroumstances and with no better resulta than haT* lately followed that course. I eaa not, however, refrain from adding to aa assurance of my anxiety to co-operate with the present congress in any reasonable measure of relief, an expression of my determination to leave nothing undone whiGh furnishes a hope for Improving the situation or checking a suspicion of eur disinclination or disability to meet with the strietest honor every obligation. GnovBR CLEVELAND.

Executive Mansion, Jan. £8,1896. SENATE AND HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.

Tke President's Message the One Important Feature la Both Branches. WASHINGTON, Jan. 89.—The reading of President Cleveland's message on the financial situation formed the most interesting feature of yesterday's session of the senate. It was presented shortly after noon, and there was very promptly a filling up of empty chairs by senators, who were not on hand when the senate met. The president's views and recommendations were listened to with close attention, both by senators and by the occupants of tho galleries, and when tho reading of the message was concluded it was sent to the finance committee.

Most of the day was taken up by the house bill (with senate amendments) disapproving an agreement with tho southern Ute Indians providing for their removal from Colorado to Utah, allowing lands in severalty to those desiring them and removing others from a portion of the present reservation and confining them to the western part of it and to several townships in New Mexico. The bill was passed.

The matter of locating these Indians has long been a vexatious one, difficult of settlement by the Indian committees of both houses. Yesterday's action bids fair to result in the final settlement of the question at an early date.

A bill was passed appropriating $100,000 to purchase sites for public buildings in Spokane, Cheyenne, Boise City and Helena.

The bankruptcy bill was then taken up and made the unfinished business. The senate at 4:40 p. m., took up the consideration of executive business and later adjourned.

Proceedings in the Botue.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—The interest in the house centered in the president's message which was read after the body convened. There was a slight skirmish over its reference and that of the administration bill which Mr. Springer introduced, but both were referred to the committee on banking and currency, Mr. Wilson having -waived, jurisdiction of tho bond feature of the message which could have gone to the ways and means conmiittee. Members were busy discussing the message and bill throughout the session and gave little attention to the debate on the bill to repeal the discriminative duty of the sugar importeel from bounty-paying countries.

At the conclusion of the debate Mr. Wilson attempted to effect an arrangement for a vote, after two hours of debate, but Mr. Grosvenor (Rep., O.) objected.

On motion of Mr. Thomas (Rep., Mich.) a bill was passed authorizing the secretary of war to make a survey of Kalamazoo harbor, Michigan.

The house, at 5 o'clock, adjourned.

COASTERS INJURED.

Cable Car Strikes a "IJob Sled" and Physicians Get a Job. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.—A "Bob sled" laden with young people collided with a northbound Broadway cable car at Bissell street. The sled had gained such terrific velocity as it sped down the hill from the new water tower that when its "bumper" struck the cable train it knocked the trailer from the track The force of the contact threw the sled under the car and dumped its terrified accupants. Fortunately the gripman succeeded in stopping the car after it had gone but a few feet further. It waa simply miraculous that none of the coasters were killed. As it was the following were injured:

Miss Mamie Kiiiffen, right hip and knee dislocated. Miss Maud Bennett, permanently maimed, back badly hurt.

Miss Alice Ton trap, right side injured. Miss Ella Tontrup, back severely strained.

Miss Inez Bethune, right side hurt. Saiu Heffren, right side and knee bruised.

George Tontrup, right leg sprained. Leonard Kiiiffen, right arm and leg hurt.

Wann Teasdale, head badly bruised. RAISING PHEASANTS.

A Novel Experiment Being Tried by the State of Ohio. ST. MARY'S, O., Jan. 29.—The Ohio state and fish commission has gone into the pheasant raising business near here, and for that purpose has leased three acres of ground iilong the St. Mary's «reservoir for a period of five years. Hundreds of dollars have already been expended in erecting coops and sheds suitable for hatching and breeding purposes.

Forty-three pheasants were placed in the coops last week, brought from New Jersey at a cost of $4 a head. Tho English necked pheasant of brilliant plumage is the species brought. So fiir this is the only state station in the United States. As soon as the pheasants get to be plentiful they will be turned loose in the fields and forests of the state. Looked For a Dime With a Lighted Match.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29—Fire yesterday, caused by the dropping of a match by Edwitrd Brady among some cotton batting iu a search for a lost dime, destroyed Tyler's hotel, corner of Grand and Eastern avenues, and Hogan Brothers' dry goods store underneath. No one was injured, though the hotel occupants had to hurry out of their rooms. Total loss, $30,000 insurance about the saine.

It May lto an Ocean Disaster. ATHENS, Jan. 29.—A bottle was found at Zanti yesterday containing a piece of paper dated Jan. 20 and inscribed: "We are sinking rapidly. Inform the German admiralty. German warship Stein."

Two Children llHrncd to Death. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 29.—The residence of Thomas Williams, near Gomer, Allen county, WSA burned and two children who had been laft.-iu_ the_howo werw