Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 December 1893 — Page 2

’. ® m Lo ... The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER, : : INDIANA eR e A e LTS RS A B oS THE oldest congressman is the latest one. He is Hezekiah S. Bundy, of Ohio, and he has been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Enochs. He is in his seventy-sixth year. l : ~ GIFTS continue to pour into the, Chi--cago Columbian museum, now in progress of installation in° what we used to' call in. World’'s fair days the Art palace. The estimated value of the exhibits already assured by gift or purchase is considerably in exccss of $2,000, 000. Co . MuskeGoN, Micm., has secured the biggest puncher in the world. This gigantic ‘mass of iron, weighing 48,000 pounds, has been set in itsplace at the Muskegon boiler works. It is a relicof the World’s fair, and is ecapable of punching two-inch holes through twoinch plates of steel. . - '

IT is arinounced that Ex-King Milan, of Servia, has again come to the end of his financial tether. Since his abdication he is alleged tc have spent nearly §5.000,000, and it is regarded as probable that he will attempt some ?resh coup d’etat with'a view to the acquis‘tion of a substantial subsidy from the Servian government. . - o

+ Tue Krupp steel 130-ton gun has a Zange of fifteen mil_(;s, and can fire two shots 4 minute. The shot weighs 2,600 pounds, and 700 pounds of powder are required for a charge. The cost of a ‘single round from this gun is €1,500 and it is said that the gun can not be fired more than fifty or sixty. times. The cost of the piece is £475,000: v ‘

* A MAQHINE, designed to separate the soot from the smodce which the fires of manufactories yield, -has been invented by a Mr. Elliott, of Birmingham, England, and tried for several months past in the mint there. = A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette has examined the device; and declares it to be perfectly simple and manageable. | .

ProOF. GARNER is by no means a pioneer in the investigation of the Simian language. Lady Burton records in her husband’'s biography that the late Sir Richard had forty monkeys which sat down daily with him at dinner, and that he had quite mastered the elements of their speech. ‘He had made a list of about sixty of their most familiar words, but the paper was lost in a fire.

~ THE burgomaster of Brudsels has ordered the formation of a cyclist corps in connection with the local fire brigade; for the purpose of carrying the first aid to the persons in danger through an outbreak.: The men are already being drilled every day, the machines selected being tricycles, upon which they carry a coil of rope, a hatchet and other articles useful 1 cases of emergency. oo .

MAINE used to boast its hard names of rivers, lakes and towns, but Alaska’s simplest names are longer and harder than most of those for which Maine is famous. A few of the longest and hardest Alaskan names of villages are these: - Ahgomekhelanaghamute, .Ahgulakpaghamute,Chokfoktoleghamute, Kahlukhtughamute, Kennachanaghamute, Kyktoltowtin, Quiechogamute, Teeuahotozna and Akgulurigiglak. |

Pear diggers at (avendish, Stradmore, Ireland, have made a remarkable discovery. At a depth of nearly twenty-five feet they have unearthed a stratum of what appears to be pure butter. The ‘‘vein” varies in thickness from one to seven inches, and is said to be of the consistency of common bar soap. Geologists who have visited the locality of the wonderful find say that it is simply adayer of mineral wax.

A PAris beggar has been living very comfortably by hanging himself. He would choose a tree near where young children were playing, string himself up and groan to attract their attention, 80 tha‘p they would run for help. He would be cut down and -restored, and a letter in his pocket would explain his attempted suicide by a statement of his destitution.. He knew how to attach the noose so ass to avoid strangula‘tion. )

SNOWSLIDES have begun in the Montana mountains. One came down upon the town of Hecla a few days ago, burying a portion of it under twenty feet of solidly paitked snow and killihg and entombing three men. Two days later another, slide occurred above Lyon city, not far from Hecla. 1t came down upon the town without warning, killing four persons, badly injured several others and covered a large area under from forty to sixty fect of snow.

MRgs. LITTLEDALE, accompanied by her husband, has just completed the most adventurous journey ever undertaken by a woman. Starting from Constantinople in January last, she has crossed the entire continent of Asia, including Russiang Tartary, Kashgar, the Pamirs, Thibit and Western China, to Shanghai. , The journey was undertaken from a love of exploration and sport, and, unlike other trips of this character, will not be followed by the publication of a book of travels.w -

UNDER the threat of ihe insurance ‘companies to raise the rates,-the merchants of South Dakota are planning to organize a merchants’ indemnity association and so carry their own insursance, which, they claim, they can do lat a cost twenty-five per cent. below +tHe rates as they now exist. There must be some mistake in these figures else ‘the insurance companies are the victims of a bad business policy, for the number of insurance ¢ompany ‘wrecks made in the last few years has ‘been appalling. If present rates were ‘paying rates there would be new companies forming. : * y I R NSRS SRSt THE ¢zar of Russiarécently took possession of the thre¢ trunk lines of railway in the empire, to the end that they may be run by the government in future. The czar has not entirely confiscated the roads, but he has done the next thing, which is to fix the compensation of the shareholders at a figure ‘much below their real value. Asitis not prudent for the owners to protest, and there are no tribunals to which an appéal can be taken, they are silent. ~ The czar’s officials explain that this step has been taken because of the gross mismanagement of the roads, impairing their efficiency. .

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INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Regular Session.

Moxpay, Dec. 18. —ln the senate the president’s message on ‘the Ha‘walian matter was read and a motion referring the document to the foreign affairs committee went over for the day. A bill was introduced to provide funds for immediate use in relieving the want and distress of the country. In the house the Hawaiian messagé was read ‘and provoked an exciting diseussion. In the debate on pensions Mr. Dol&iv’er (la.) denounced the policy of the administration and Gen. Sickles (N..Y.) said he did not believe wholesale fraud existed in the pension rolls. TUESDAY, Dec. 19.— In the senate a Dbill was introduced to impose a .discriminating duty on tea imported from this side of the Cape of Good Hope. The bill to repeal the federal election laws was discussed. The nomination of Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, to be ambassador of the Unitec‘l States to Italy was received from the president. In the kouse a resolution was offered and referred to the committee on rules for the appointment of a committee of seven to investigate the Hawaiian question and.the privileges of the house in such matters. The Wilson tariff measure was reported, and the urgent deficiency bill was passed. - WepxEsDAY, Dec. 20.—1 n the senote the Hawaiian question was discussed and Senator Hoar in his remarks said that the president had no power to appoint a paramount commissioner without the advice and consent of the senate.. A 'resolution was adopted directing the committee on foreign relations to inquire into and report on the whole mattter. The urgent deficiency bill was passed. In the house the New York and New Jersey bridge bill was passed. The committee on territories reported in favor of admitting Oklahoma as a state in the union. o THURSDAY, Dec. 21.—1 n the senate a bill was introduced to annex-the territory of Utah to the state of Nevada.. Adjourned to January 3. In the house it was decided that debate on the tariff bill would commence January 3. The foreign affairs committee presented a resolution condemning the action of ex-Minister Stevens in Honolulu and the minority report denounces the course taken by President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham. Adjourned to January 3. ~

FROM WASHINGTON.

THE policy of the president concerning Hawaii, with all the accompanying correspondence since March 4, 1889, with a special message, was spread before congress. The president gives his. reasons for the belief that &e overthrow of the fueen Was the result of the active efforts of ex-Minister Stevens. Having asserted that the United States was responsible for the revolt, the message deals with the moral obligation of this government "to right the wrong. The president says Mr. Willis was instructed to advise the queen that this country desired to repair the wrong done her by restoring her to the throne, providing those engaged in the revolution were not punished, and that the queen declined to #accede to the condition of amnesty. ‘ )

In the United States the visible supply of grain on the iSth was: Wheat, 80,129,000 bushels; corn, 6,652,000 bushels; oats, 5,984,000 bushels; rye, 598,000 bushels; barley, 2,732,000 bushels. '

" DuriNe NoYember exports exceeded imports by $40,881,028, according to the bureat of statistics. o - THE secretary of the treasury in his annual report says that the probable deficiency for the year ending June 80 will be $28,000,000. This, he rays, it will be impossible to raise by any practicable plan of taxation as soon as it will be required, and he recommends that he be authorized to issue and sell bonds at not less than par and not exceeding $200,000,000 in amount bearing 3 per cent. interest to meet the necessary expenses of the government. ' THE EAST. Mgs. ANN Coox died at Burlington, N. J., of starvation after fasting for sixty-two days and breaking the best record by forty-eight hours. An abscess of the liver prevented her eating. Toe death of Daniel Sinclair, who published the New. York Tribune from 1858 to 1872, occurred at his residence in New York:of pneumonia, aged 71 years. ‘ IN the New York enstom house irregularities aggregating millions of dollars are said to have been discovered by experts. - ' CHARLES STECKE’S house at Bradford, Pa., was burned, and Mrs. Stecke and a 5-year-old boy perished in-the flames. : : THE city of Pittsburgh gave 1,700 men work at one dollar a day. WESTON, the old-time pedestrian,’completed his walk to Albany from New York city. He claims to be as good as twenty-five years ago. ‘AT a. crossing near Hollis, N. H., ‘Marcus Lund, Miss Alma Lund, his sister, and Mrs. Charles H. Lund, his sister-in-law, were killed by the cars. THE firm of Schwartz & Graff, wholesale.carpet dealers in Philadelphia, made an assignment with liabilities of $275,000 and assets of $330,000. 3 THE death of ex-Gov. Alfred Littlefield occurred at ' his home in Lincoln, R, I - : R’I‘HE doors of the St. Nicholas bank in New York were closed. : WEST AND SOUTH. DeATON, Wallace, Shelton and Bronson, who robbed the International express at Duval, Tex.. confessed .in court and were sentenced each to thir-ty-five years’ imprisonment.,: Tue works of the Wheelin?g Iron and Steel company were closed at Bellaire, 0., because the men struck against a reduction of wages and 3,000 workmen were idle. 5 b NEAR Indianapolis David Stout, a farmer, was robbed of $lO,OOO in gold which he had buried in his cellar. . - BirNlE PATRICK, of Fort Smith, Ark., actuated by jealousy, killed Ida Dodson ‘and fatally shot another woman and himself. : 2 . HENRY ScorT and James Mathis, two mnegroes, were shot and killed at Live (ak, Fla., by City Marshal Peary while resisting arrest. : THE liberal party in Utah, the last vestige of the anti-Mormon organization, has disbanded. @ " GEN. Erpa HunTON was elected United States senator for. the short term and Thomas 8. Martin for the long term by the Virginia legislature. ' JosepH ETEINER & Soxs, bankers at Greenville, Ala., failed for $lOO,OOO.

. TeHE Union Pacific Coal company sustained a loss of §750,000 in the destruection of a mine by fire at Almy, Wyo. . In Cincinnati Herman Kleving, a carpenter out of work, fatally cut his wife’s throat and his own. : ROBB}:;RS killed Hunter Wilson and fatally ‘wounded his wife in DBaxter county, Ark. T THE attendants in a gambling house in Chicago’ were held up by burglars who got away with $4,000. _ At Burbank, S. D., while sleigh-rid-ing Miss Dolly Hemphill and Miss Kate Stefani were fatally shot by their escort, a man called ‘‘Shorty” "Babceock, who then killed himself. No cause was known. p

OLMsTED & STORMS, private bankers at Galesburg, Mich., suspended. AT their home near Winchester, 0., L. P. Ryan and wife, aged S 1 and 78 respectively. were found murdered. KLEINE, TiMBERMAN & Co., dealers in woolen cloths in Cincinnati, failed for $125,000. !

ONE-HALF the police forece in Ironwood, -Mich., was under arrest for stealing. goods sent. to the starving Gogebic miners. . ' IFor informing ‘on Adel (Ga.) gamblers Will Ferguson was dragged to-a swamp and killed to prevent his testifying. T IN Chicago John P. Hopkins (dem.) defeated George B. Swift (rep.) for mayor by a plurality of 1,46;. RoBBEEs held wup the . Richmond Southern Pacific express train near Houston, Tex., Killed the €xpress messenger and fireman and robbed the expresssafe. o NORTH of Burlington, la, a rich vein of gold was discovered and a company was formed to work it. IN Ohio not a single passerger was killed by the cars during the year ended November 15, 3 o ‘ A MisER named Anton Baltz, who died in Baltimore of starvation, was found to have £4,685 in bank. Tue death of James W. Love, consul

to San Salvador under President Harrison, occurred at his home in Fremont, Neb., aged 43. :

~Fire destroyed the Louisiana rice mill at New Orleans, causing a loss of $lOO,OOO. One fireman was killed by a falling wall. o IFnaMESs wiped out the business portion of Waxahachie, Tex., the loss being $120,000. _ IN Richmond, Va., 1,300 families were said to be without employment- or support. - ; "~ CrAlms of world’s fair concessionaires for §638,707 were settled by the adjustment bureau for $215,216. !

SHOPLIFTERS carried a tray of diamonds valued at $2,500 from the store of C. D. Peacock in‘Chicago. ADDITIONAL supplies for the destitute Indigns in Oklahoma have been ordered. o

For the murder of his wife in May last, Allen Cousans was hanged at Knoxville, Tenn. - , Ture Mason flats in Duluth, Minn., were ‘burned, the loss being $lOO,OOO. OxE of Mississippi’s famous lawyers and public men, Thomas A. Marshall, died at Vicksburg in his 83d year. . LertEßs outlining a plan for kidnaping Ruth Cleveland, daughter of the president, and holding her for a ransom, were found at Abilene, Kan. THE dry dock company’s plant at Wyandotte, Mich., was destroyed by fire and pattérns accumulated for twenty years were burned. : '

Ix the river at McCary’s Ferry, Ala., two women named Williamson and Alexander were drowneéd while attempting to rescue the child of the latter. The child caught to a bush and was saved. .

FOREIGN INTELLIGENGCE.

WiiLe skating Mary Doyle, aged 20, her brother James, aged 13, and John, aged 12, and Charles Neal, aged 16, were drowned near Halifax, N. S.

FLAMES that started in the building occupied by Hovey & Sons, drapers, in Sheffield, Eng., caused a loss of $1,000,000. ) -

OrrIcIALS at Honolulu have framed an ultimatum in‘which they decline-to negotiate for the restoration of the crown and declare that they will resist with military force any and every attempt to overthrow the provisional government. . S

LATER NEWS.

TyLEGRAMS from 119 important cities throughout the country indicated that the total number of employes in inlustrial and other lines out of. work at this time, together with the total number of people directly dependent for support upon those so rendered idle, is nearly 3,000,000.

RoscorE PARKER, a negro, confessed to killing L. P. Ryan and wife, aged §1 and’7B respectively, at their home near Winchester, 0. Two woemeX named Thibodeaux and their three daughters and a Mr. Miller were drowned i Grand lake near Mermentean, La., by the upsetting of their boat. | . !

- IN a cave-in at Carnegie’s new mill at Homestead, Pa., fourteen workmen were killed and four badly hurt. JouN Dawsoy, aged 104 years and 1 month, died at Terre Haute, Ind. He attended the funeral of Washington and served in the war of 1812. : THE barn of J. L. Shallcross, a stockman at Anchorage, Ky., was burned, together with thirty horses and 100 head of cattle. IN a conflict at Kauar, Africa, between the Arabs and their old-time enemies, the Tuariks, the latter lost ninety men and 700 cameéls. TRrREASURY officials at Washington were worried by the decrease in the cash balance, which was but $90,589,%37

A ross of $200,000 was caused by a blaze in a six-story building in Beston occupied by\manufacturing ‘concerns.

; Gov. MrrcuELL refused.a -eharter to the Duval Athletic 2lub of .Jacksonville, Fla., before which Corbett and Mitchell were to fight, JupGeE TAYLOR, of Terre Haute, Ind., decided a pupil could not be excluded from “school because of failureé to be vacecinated. s

DispaTcuzs from Pernambuco say that Rio de Janeiro had fallen into the rebels’ hands and that Peixoto was a prisoner. : Fouf - masked 'men, supposed to be wlnf(o caps, murdered Pleasant Hendricks, living near iLynchburg, Va., and set fire to the house. . MANCHESTER ‘CENTER, Vt., suffered the loss of its :principal business section by fire. Loss, $lOO,OOO. i IN a race war at Laguna del Gallo, N. M., five Americans and nineteen Mexicanswere killed. ; : THERE were 344 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 22d, against 839 the week previous and 283 in the corresponding time in 1892, S '

A BELATED REPORT.

Secretary Carlisle Tells of the Treasury’s Needs. - lie Recommends alsl New Issue of Bonds, a Tax on Legaciés and Incomes, and : an Incréased Tax onm Spirits. -

P OTHER REGOMMENDATIONS.

[ W ASHINGTON, bec. 22.—The annua. | report of Hon. John G. Carlisle, secretary of the treasury, was transmitted to congress Wednesday. " ; The 'sécretaryfitimates the revenues of the - government for the fiscal year which will end on the 30thof next June at $430,121,000, and that . the expenditureiz,for the same period will amount to $458,121,000, leaving a deficit of #28,i 000,000 on the year. He mentions that ' there are Pacific railroad bonds, known ' as ‘“‘currency sixes,”’ issued in aid of the ' Pacific railroads, falling due within the year 1894, to the amount of 2,352,000, which must be paid, at maturity, and recommends ‘that congress -take action at this session to provide for them. He suggests as a means, of - enabling the government to prothptly meect the émergencyiand provide a larger reserve fund several courses of action. ©One is the issue of 3 per cent. five year bonds, in-small amounts, to be disposed of through the sub-treasuries and post otfices tq our own people. Another; theissue of fifty million dollars in cone-year, 8 per cent. bonds at par. . Until.the effect of the relpea'l of the Sherman }nlver purchasge law is more fully developed he does not consider it advisable to recommend further specific legislation on that subject. He favors legislation to authorize a more extended use -of silver certificates. ;He' refers to the - opinion of his predecessor and of the late attorney general that the gain or seigniorage resulting from the coinage of the silver bullion as it progresses constitutes a part of the general asBets of the treasury, and states that he hag ordered the mints at New Orleans and Saua Franc¢isco to be kept in readiness to commenge the coinage of standard silver dollary at any time when required. o He champions the eystem of sybstituting ad valorem duties for specific duties in the collection of customs, and recommends an increase of ten cents ‘a gallon in the internal revenue tax on distilled spirits: the imposition of additional internal revenue taxes on cigars and cigarettes; the imposition of new taxes on playing cards, cosmetics, perfumeries, légacies and successions, and incomes derived. from investment in stocks and bonds of corporations and joint stock companieg. i Inspeaking of the possible Issue of bonds the secretgry says: ‘‘ln’ the present condition of the public credit nothing less than the existence of a great -and pressing tinancial emergency would, in my owninion, justify the issue and sale of any of these ciasses of bonds. . “If the authority now existing snouid be eo modified as to empower the secretary of the _treasury to issue the bonds in denominations or pumsof §25 and its multiples they could be readily dispqsed of through'the sub-treasuries and post offices without the agency or intervention of banks or other financial institutions and without the payment of commissions. Such bonds would - afford .to the people ‘at large on opportunity to' convert their surplus earnings intd - a form of security, whieh, while it would be perfectly safe, would ot only increase in value by reason of accumulgting interest, but be at all times availlable as thie means of procuring money when needed, and the experience of this and other countries justifies the confident belief that such a plan would’ be popular and successful. Congressialone Bas the power to adopt such measures as will relieye the present situation and enable. the? treasury te continue the punctual gayme‘nt, of all legitimate demands upon it, and réspettrully bul earnestly urge that immediate attention pe given to the subject.” “TSecretary «larlisle says that at the date of the resumptizn of specie payments, January 1, 1879. there were $346.681.046 of the old’legal tender notes to e redeemed, and the secretary of the trefi),lsury considered that $100,000,000 would constitute a sufficient basis for the maintenance of that amount of curregey at par. But since July 14, 1890, adaditional treasury - notes have been issued to . the amount of §155,930,940, +of which there are now outstanaing $158,318,224, ‘making the government obligations in currency $499,999, - 240. In addition, he says that there have been coined under -authority of the law $419,332,550 in legal ténder silver, upon which certificates have been issued, to the amount of $334 138,504, With reference to this matter the secretary says! Y “Under these circumstances it is, in my opinion, mecessary not only that the secretary should be clothed with full authority to procure and maintain an ample reserve in coin, but that the puarposes for which such reserve is to' be held- and .used should be made as comprehensive as the duty imposed upon him by the law. 7The exXistenée of such authority in a constantly available form would of itself inspire such c¢onfidence in tha security and stability of our currency that its actual exercise might never become pecessary, _%:mt, the futility of declaring a specific policy. and withholding the mneans which may become necessary for its execution, is too apparent tg reqguire cgmthent,”” - | gftcr detailing the recent efforts of the treasury department to mainiain the hundred million dollars reserve, he centinuesi “‘So long as the government continues the unwise policy of keeping its own notes outstanding to circulate as currency, and unde¥takes to provide for their redemption in ¢ein on presentation, it will be, in my opinion, essential for the secretary of the treasury to possess the means, or to have the clear and undoubted authority to secure the means which may from time to time hecome necessary to enable him to meet such emergencies as the one which has recently occurred in our financial affairs.” e

The secretary says that the amount of money in the country outside of the treasuryon Decemsber 1, 1893, was $112,404.947 greater than the amount outstanding on November 1, 1892, and insists that 'it is greater than, is required for the transaction of the business bf the people at this time., This is conclusively shown, he says, by the tfact .that the money has accumulated. and is still accumulating, in the financial centers: to such an extent as 1o constitute a serious. embarrassment to the banks in which it is deposited. The secretary gays that the money does not create business ‘but business creates a demand for money, and until tkhere is such a revival of industry and trade as to require the use of the circulating medium'now outstanding, it would be hazardous 10 arbitrariiy increase its volume by law, or to make material changes in its character by disturbing in any manner the relations which its different forms now bear to each other.

secretary Carlisle says that one of the principal difficulties encountered by the treasury department results from the indisposition of the publie to retain standard silver dollars and silver certificates in circulasion.: The secretary does not know why this should be, and adds: “With the policy of maintaining equality in the exchangeable value of all our currency tirmly established and the further accumulation of silver bullion arrested, there is no substantial reason why the silver certificate should not be favorably received and as liverally treated by the- public as any other form of note lin circulation,’ and - for the purpose of creating a greater demand for their permanent use in the daily transactions of the people, I have directed that, as far as the law permits, and as rapidly as the opportunity is afforded, the amount of such certificates of denominations less than slo| shatl “be increased by submittiag them for larger onés to be retired and that the small denominations of ether kinds of currency shall be retired as they are retired into the treasury and larger ones substituted in their places. - I am of the opinion that if this policy can be carried oyt to the extent of supplying the country with small silver certificates. to an amount sufficient® to conduct ordinary cash transactions of the people, and if, during the same timre, certificates of the largest denominations werz2 {gsued in the places of others retired, $0 as toenvourage the national banks to hold them as parts of their lawful reserves, the existing difiiculties would be removed, and ultimately a larger amount of such currency than is now in circulation could be conveniently and safely used. : “Inorder that the department might bein a condition to comply promptly with any increased demand there may be Inade upon it by the {mblic #or 'standard silver dollars or silver certificates, or that it might take advantage of any favorawvle opportunity that may occeur to put an additional amount of such currency in circulation without unduly disturbing the monetary situation, I have caused a large amount of bullion to be prepared for coinage at New Orleans an¢d San Francisco, and have ordered the mints &t those places to be in readiness to commence voperations at any time when re: quired.” ; 5 -t : The secrevary then submits some suggestions upon: the general principles involved in the proposed revision of the tariff laws and says that the only proper purpose for which taxes can be levied and collected is to raise revenue for the support of +the public service and the payment of public obligations. This shou:d be collected with the least possible irjury to any part of the people but withouy regard to the groundless apprehensions or unreasonable oppesition of timid or selfish interests. He declared that nothing but the plainest necessity can ngs-tif-y the imposition of specitic or compou rates of duty in any case. ke says that taxation according to value is distinctly Americar and does injustice 10 no one. . : Mr. Carlisle is in favor of Cheapening the necessaries of life for the masses of the people and taxing lrxusies and articles of taste and fashion to the highest point. Iralluding to the raw materials, hie says: If the worid’s stors of raw materials were as accessil:e to the American workingman as it is to his gompetitor in other manufacturing countries his superior skill, :sobriety 'and industrial hubits would enable him, without finanoial aid, ' to supply many parts of the world wheve his prodl:wts are’now never seen with m,ia.chineri{.c implements and various kinds of text fabrics of such qualities and at such ‘?rioes as would exciude all competition and create a demand for a large increase of our productive forces. With free raw material as a permanent fixture of our - revenue legislation the demand for labor would | steadfl;hgrow with the extension of trade, while _enlarged opportunites for the protituble invest~ment of capital would :stimulate the spirit of enterprise amonf our people and-greatly diminsk “ne danger of periodical suspensions, lock:

outs and strikes, which have in recent years so seriously interrupted our industrial progress. The gecretary then comes down to the reves nue and the means of raising it and says: /. “1t is estimated that the revenue for the fis~cal year 1895 will amount, upon the basis of existing laws, to $454,427,748, and that the expenditures, excluding the sinking fund, will amount to $448,303,789. The estimated revenue from' customs 1s §190,000,000, and the total estimated receipts from all sources will exceed the estimate of expenditures 86,120,958. Assuming these amounts to be approximately correct, it will be necessary in any changes that may be made in our revenue laws to provide for raising about $184,000,000 from customs alone, or partly from customs and partly from such other subjects of taxation as congress may see proper to linclude in our internal revenue system. lam of the opinion that an increase of $30,000,000 to the revenue for the fiscal year 1895 by the imposition of additional taxes under the internal revenue system will supply sufficient means for the support of the government. b + “Ihave reached the conclusion that it can be mostconveniently and justly raised by increasing the tax on distilled spirits 10 cents per gallon, and by additional taxes on cigars and cigarettes, and the imposition of new taxes on playing cards, cosmetics and perfumeries, legacies and successions, and incomes derived from investments in stocks and bonds of corporations and joint stock companies.” The secretary,‘atter stating why distilled spirits, cigars, etc.,, should be taxed, says: *‘Taxes upon lezacies: and successions and incomes acquired from jnvestment {n stocks and bonds of corporations and joint siock companies arelessobjectionablein their nature and in the methods of collection than any other excises which it s competent for the United States to imposé upon incomes according to their actual value or amount. They are 'not inquisitorial nor liable 'to evasion by _the fraudulent suppression of facts,because theassessments or returns need not be based upon information extorted by the law from the persons charged with thelr payment, but upon the public records and the regular anda authentic accounts of the corporations and companiés in which the investments have been énade‘;, and they have the additional merit of being imposéd entirely upon that part of the ecitizen's income which_ Is not earned by his labor skill, but which in the cases of legacies and successions js acquired bymere operation of law or by gratuitous bequest, and in the case of incomes from investments in corporations and joint stock companies by the simple earning capacity of his capital as such without personal effort on his part. A tax of 1 per cent, upon an income of $3,000, derived from the investment of §O,OOO in a 6 per cent. stock would amount to $3O, a sum so insignificant that the investor could not reasonably claim that the franchises and priv--Ileges granted to his debtor had not added tully that much to his receipts.’’ Ll The secretary concludes his report by urging congress to practice the strictest economy in public expenditures consistent with an efilcient administration of the law. He reminds the representatives that reductions of taxation cannot logically be insisted upon or made practically beneficial without a corresponding reduction of expenditures. R ; ! On the subject of the sugar bounty the secretary simply says: “I respectfully call attention to the various recomrxlndations contained in the report of the commissioner of internal revenue and ask their favgrable consideration by congress.” g .In regard to the condition of affairs in the sea islands of South Carolina, Secretary Carlisle only refers to the work done by the marine hospital service and adds: ‘‘This work, purely of a sanitary nature, is to be supplanted by the et. forts of the Red Cross society in relieving the physical necessities of the people.’’

A WILD SCENE. : A Turbulent Session of the National House of Representatives — Mr. Cockran’s and Mr. Boutelle’s Résoluti'ons. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The following is a brief accountof the exciting scenes in the house on the 19th: : Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Cockran (dem., N. Y.) offered his resolution to appoint a special committee of seven to investigate the alleged attempt of the last administration to annex territory to the United States without consulting the house of representatives and to inquire into the rights of the house in the premises. The resolution had no sooner been read than a dozen men on each side of the house rushed toward the bar of the house crying for recognition. * welin In the meantime Mr. Boutelle (rep. Me.) attempted tc offer his resolution declaring that the prerogatives of congress had been invaded by the policy of the administration and declaring that policy inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution and the traditions of the republic E ; : Amid great confusion the speaker . finally ruled that under the rules Mr. Cockran's reso lution would go to the conimittee on rules without & motion, and the resolution was so referred. : )

Mr. Boutelle finally got the floor to discuss | the question as to whether his resolution was | privileged. “The message of the president,” he said. “indicates that this country may bel involved in war with a friendly power. For all we know the arms of the United States may be even now pinioning with their bayonets a friendly nation with whom the mass +f the people of this - country sympathize.” He said it was. the imperative duty of cowgress, x‘eluctantlys’ recognized by the president, to disavow, dis-f‘l credit and reprobate a policy designed to bring the country into discredit in the eyes of the. civilized world. * “I care not whence this policy emanates,”’ continued Mr. Boutelle, “whether | from a renegade republican or a democratic’ usurper.’”’ - - The confusion that followed the word ‘“‘usurper’’ drowned the rest of the sentence. l He continued to talk amid loud cries for order, and the speaker at last, with the aid of his. gavel, brought the house to a standstill. Betore the gentleman from Maine had fairly launched his next philippic Speaker Crisp suddenly swept the ground from under him by deciding that there Solution should be referred directly to the committee on foreign affairs. Gl Mr. Boutelle and Mr. Dingley (rep., Me.) then attempted to argue the question relating to the decision of the chair, but the speaker was obdurate. Amid great excitement he ordered ‘ all gentlemen to take their seats, declaring he would . hear no gentleman until | he had formally discharged his duty i by a decision upon the point of issue., The speaker then delivered his decision in'a calm, | quiet tone, though he was evidently laboring under the general excitement prevalentin the house, and referred the resolution to the committee on foreign affairs, Mr. Boutelle immediately appealed from the decision of the chair and Mr. McCreary moved to lay the appeal on the table. This motion'prevailed—lBo to 89. -

WILL PROTECT AMERICANS.

Warship Kearsarge Ordered to San Domingo—Rumor of a Disturbance.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The Kearsarge has been ordered from New York to San Domingo to protecs American interests. A disturbance of some sort has ..occurred = there, - but its exact nature cannot be learued. Word was received at the state department several days ago of an effort to assassinate President Henreaux, of San Domingo. The news came #om Hayti and is not very definite. 1t was thought well, however, to send the Kearsarge to that point to. insure protection to American citizens. How far &merican citizens may be involved im the disturbance is not known. : ,

{RON HALL DIVIDEND.

Receiver Failey to Distribute Yen Per - Cent. Among the Certificate Kolders.

INpraNAPoLIs, Ind., Dec. 92.—The certificate holders of the Iron Hall will get a few dollars out of that concern in time for Christmas usis.. Receiver Failey, . under the recent order of Judge Winter, will &t once commence .to pay a 10 per ceat. dividend to all certificate holders af the order who have filed and proved their claims. This, however, does not include the warrant holders or the holders of matured certificates at the time the receiver was appointeld. The amount to be distributed will be in the neighborhood of a half million dollars.

Wreck Victims Settle for $BO,OOO.

Fort PrAIN, N. Y., Dec. 22.--J. Harvey Smith and family, who were terribly injured recently in a railroad wreck at Battle Creek, Mich., have received from the railroad eompany $BO,000 in settlement of their claims. Frank Smith, the son, died of his injuries. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their daughter are still at Battle Creek. . . :

“Pike” Lucas Dead.

BAvrriMore, Md.,, Dec. %2.—H. P. Lucag, known all over the trotting world as *Pike,” died Tuesday. He was 47 years old. ‘*‘Pike” contributed many sarticles to the sporting journals of the country. - -

STEVENS TALKS BACK. The Ex-Minister Criticises the President's . : Havgafign Message. 5 Aveusta, Me., Dec. 22.—Ex-Minister Stevens makes the following reply to President Cleveland’s message and his criticisms of Mr. Stevens’ official conduct: . ' o *‘Only once in our political history has a majority of the congress of the United states solemnly resolved in favor of impeaching the occupant of the executive chair. Probably it was ] well that the effort to remove Andrew Johnson from his office was arrested just on the brink of 1 success. The great reluctance of the conservative men of the country to remove the chief executive for abuse of power seems ‘@ havsen: couraged Presiosnt Cleveland to resory to the extraordinary measure of overturning the provisional government of .Hawaii, while as muth as possible concealing " his arbitrary d’esign{ from the American congress and the American people. Cenaaa : “L.ook at the historical facts dispassionately and ne one will deny that the lines of usurpas tion and injustice on which President Cleveland and the secretary of state have acted since the 7th of March last, coupled with the ex parte star chamber course of Commissioner Blount relative to the accepted testimony of Liliuo- { kalani’s fallen and corrupt ministers, are more - sweeping and more hos;}lq to Anglo-Saxon lib- } erty than the acts_ of George 111. and-the" Lord North ministry, which drove the Ameris can colonies % successful revolt. i ol “There is nothing in American history more - shameful in its scope of injustice and tyranny than the attempt of President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham to crush out liberty and American interests in Hawaii by the threat to restore'the extinet Hawaiian monaychy by forceof arms or by diplomatic chicanery and pressute, more infamous, if' possible, than the use of ball ‘and bavonet. President Cleveland’s recent special message in which he so severely- criticises the course of the recent American minister at Honolulu is but a feeble repetition of the statement of Secretary Gresham previously published. In my afswer 1o Blount's report, extensively published in the United States, I showed conclrsively, as Minister Thurston and other thoroughly respon-. sible witnesses -have® shown, that the allegations in that report against the -official conduct of Capt. Wiltse and myself are'grossly untrue, are in manifest antagonism to all the reasonable probabilities and logic of the situation in Honolulu in January last. President Cleveland's grossly untrue and shamefully unjust allegation against myself and the naval commander rests entirely on the statements of the four notorously corrupt ministers of the fallen queen, of Wilson, queen’s favorite and other thoroughly discredited testimony. “I repeat here what has been amply verified again and again that neither by force nou by threat of force,nor by any action of mine was the fall of the monarchy precipitated. | From- the hour on which I entered upon my duties at the head of . the United States legation to the termination of my .official responsibilit, I main. tained tke determination to call ‘on the naval commander for aid oniylin the event that American life and property was in danger. It President Cleveland sees fit to make a point. ‘against my official conduct, that months before the eventis of last January ‘I -had advocated annexation, he deliberately and purposely conceals that what I said in my dispatch in November, 1892, was a confidential statement to the department of gtate of the true condition of affairs in Hawaii, a report of facts which, by the established rules and -practice of Aliplomacy, I was in duty bound .to make known to my government. g e ' “Ag to the landing of the Boston marines, January 16, I only did what had been done on a previous Hawaiian crisis by Commander Woodward, on the request of Minister Merrill, acting under the Cleveland-Bayard- order Au. gust 1, 1889, The.following is the language of Minister Menill’s report to the department of state: ? . :

‘“*As many wild alarms were comif to the legation I at once requested' Commander Woodward to send to the legation a body of marines, which request he promptly complied with. The appearance of the marines on the street and at the legation had a favorable effect on the populace.’ : : e “At that time the United States legation was near the royal palace at a less distance than the Arion hall of which Cleveland and Blount speak of as soo commanding. Of the hall I had never heard until a lodging place was needed for the marines after they had landed. By an accurate map just received from : Honolulu it is obvipus that this hall' does not command the palace. The president’s statement that the three points at which our small naval force was placed was not favorably chosen for the protection of American life and property is radically an error, as all know ‘vho are familiar with-the map andbuildings of Honolulu. !

.“That the Hawaiian monarchy was over thrown by [United "States force was -and is. put - forth for the sole purpose of bringing discredit on the preceding® administration at Washington and on the action of the foreign relations committee of the United States senate in favor of annexation. It remains to be seen if the American congress. and American people will approve the conspiracy to make war on the provisional govern= ment at Hawaii and use the military force of the United States or the diplomatic pressure of the United Statcs for the restoration of a semi-barbarous queen in wanton defiance of the best American opinions and ‘antecedents and by an excessive use of .executive power against an American colony more positive and less excusable than that which Gedrge lIL. and his ministers sought to impose on the American colonies -that formed the government ‘of the United States. JOHN L. STEVENS.” °

- WORK FOR THOUSANDS.. Fall River Mills to Start Up—Employ= | ment for 25,000 Hands. e NeEw Yorkg, Dec. 22.—The details of a transaction which will give prosperity to nearly 25,000 mill hands at Fall | River have been made public. . By the | recent purchase of about 80,000 pieces of print cloth, at a cost of more than §l,- 1 000,000, the overstocked market for i print cloth has been relieved, the trade | has been given a new lease of life, and the demand for the goods has increased to such an extent that the Fall River mills have received orvders which will - keep them running through the winter, thus providing for 25,000 mill hand,sé and in all about 40,000 persons depen= dent upon the mills for their support. - | LIFE LOST IN A FIRE. = A Fireman Perishes in the Ruins of a New Orleans Rice Mill. : : NEw ORLEANS, Dec. 22.-—~The Louisiana rice mill, occupying a three-story ‘ brick structure, was destroyed by fire Wednesday. It was operated by the American Rice Milling company. The { fire spread rapidly and in the confusion of the disaster Euzumes Hauch, a fireman who had ascended one of the walls 1 of the building, became separated from his comrades and perished. James ‘ Craig sustained serious injuries. Loss, $lOO,OOO. - . . ' Death of a Dubuque Pioneer. - DUBUQUE, la., Dec. 22.—One of the' original founders of Dubuque has" passed away in the person of Mrs Elizabeth Lullis Emmerson, widow of the late James M. Emmerson. - She settled here in 1832, and with her brother, the late Judge King, printed the first newspaper published in lowa, the Dubuque Visitor. She was 83 years old. g ; : Death of Ex-Consul J. W, Love. OMAHA, Dec. 22.—James W. Love, ' consul to San Salvador under Presidént Harrison, died at his home at Fremont, Neb., aged 43. : : 5 A Long Fast Ends in Death. - = ' BurrineroN, R. J., Dec. 29.—Afterfasting for sixty-two days and breaking the best record by forty-eight hours, Mrs: Ann Cook is dead. literally . starved to death. . The case has been the marvel uf physicians. It was found that she had been suffering from biliary calculus, which caused an abscess of the liver. P G i ~ Ohio Railronds Make a Record. . CoLumßus, 0., Dec. 22.—Reports to the railroad commissioner of Ohio show ‘that not one passenger was killed within the state during the year ended No:

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