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QP 4 1 = ?j’ NG \ A B 8 P '—‘ . Q if f; il \’\'s3;%\-\’ s Q/\)")«/ ‘;f!‘ -,v % \'( ) ._o(é} Bronaid o@yafiw == CoPvRIGHT 1396 =¥ & ! CHAPTER VIIL—CONTINUED. Half petrified with terror, Elsie had drunk in every syllable uttered during this terrible interview:. With quick perception, aided by her knowledge of local habits, she pieced the fragments of the conversation and read the story like a book. These villains, by a wellconcocted tale, had induced Jack Wilders. to descend/the disused mine and there prepared his death. ! Never for p moment did the brave girl hesitate Her one burning hope was to reach \the third gallery before Wilders had ddcended to the lowest floor. | To appreciate the daring of her undertaking one must be familiar with the character of her surroundings. The mine descends in several stories, each called by the hardy workmen agallery, aund each descent is from fifty to seven-ty-five feet in depth, reached by long ladders, placed nearly perpendicularly, and in some instances with the top bare1y reaching to the surface. . A . With flying stepsshe ran to the dark, yawning chasm, which was the shaft of the old mine. Brave as she was her heart beat as she gazgd down the igulf of blackness. But she was- resolved. Flinging herself for one moment on her knees she {burcd forth her soul in prayer; then, ‘binding her shawl around her waist, she set about her perilous task. ; Feeling her way, step by step, for being without a lantern added tenfold to her peril, she reached in safety the first flocr, where a greater danger awaited her., The second ladder must be approached in a light so dim, just the few faint flashes that reached her from the mouth of the shaft, that she could only grope her way in despair to the jblack abyss before her. ‘ But she found the ladder at last, with its top fortunately projecting above the floor of the gallery. | Very slowly and painfully, and in utter darkness, she made her way down, her delicate hands torn with splinters from the half-decayed rungs of the old ladders, and her feet, protected only by her frail shoes, aching with a burning pain. Once more she reached the ground. “Wilders! Wilders!” she screamed. The echoes of her voice rolled through those subterranean caverns with awful distinctness — repeated in the hollow chambers, till it seemed to her heated brain as though fiends were mocking her. - Then a - terrible, soul-sickening siience. - , She could hear her heart beat as she :trained her ears to catch some faint eply, but all im vain. The terrible step must be taken, the last ladder must be descended. ' Flinging herself on ha=nds and knees she groped her way to the edge of the precipice, Ah, what is this? A wall. She knew that she had taken a wrong direction and was wandering into one of the interminable passages of the deserted mine where a sure and lingering death awaited her. Many were the stories that flashed across her burning brain of miners, who, once having lost themselves in these subterraneous labyrinths, could never win their way back to safety. What could she then, a weak girl, hope for? All sense of locality seemed to have deserted her. Gathering herself for one supréme effort, she shrieked: _ ‘“Wilders! Wilders! Wilders!”

The echoes once more died away in the distance. Then—could she believe her ears?—a long, low, agonizing groan. The direction of the spot where something human was in agony was now known to her. Once more on hands and knees she groped till she felt with trembling hand the slimy wall of the last g;llery. : WitH eager eycs she pierced the dark <hasm. : - : :

\_Seventy feet below, like a star, glittered a storm-lantern, and close by it she thought she recognized a human body lying prone on the ground. . “Wilders! Wilders!” she cried again. Ah! This time an answer., -

From the deptlis below came a faint cry for help, then all again was silent. Then Elsie knew that the last perilous step must be taken. Better had‘'she retraced her way up those feehle ladders and sought for help, but her géncrous impatience brooked no delay. She did not hesitate, though she knew that some of the rungs had been tampered with and that one false step iwould hurl her to destruction. Calmly fbut quickly she reasoned that each stave must be tried before she trusted her weight upon it, and to effect this most readily she tied. the long shawl she had been wearing over every rung above her head as she descended, not. Jloosening her hold of it until security of foothold was positive. Suddenly as she rested for a moment the rung which had just borne her with apparent 'safety snapped like a broken reed, and but for the shawl to which she desperately clung she would have shared the fate of the prospector.. With one desperate effort she let go the shawl and clung to the sides of the ladder, which for four yards was nothing but two bare poles, and, letting her body swing, hand over hand, inch by inch, she lowered herself to earth. It was the :feat of a gymnast, done by a frail girl, thoughtless of the peril, which was mercifully hidden from her eyes by the friendly darkness. . The light guided her to the prostrate figure of him for whom she had dared so much. How lucky! The storm lantern, with its heavy wire-pro-tected sides, had fallen on a heap of ore dust, where it lay uninjured. Seizing it, she ran to the side of the injured man.. ; . :

He still was conscious, though almost speechless. *Pocket — side — coat—whisky,” he falntly gasped. : 4 The quick-witted girl knew what he meant. Men of his business always carry a leathern-cased bottle of spirits to meet just such an emergency as this. She reached it, and to her surprise and joy found it unbroken. The effect of a draught of this strong drink was magical, bl _ : “It’s my arm an’ leg I think’s broke,” he said. “I'm kind o’ numbed; don’t suffer much paii now; but how in thunder did you get here, Elsie?” ~ *“Never mind { ,".mm%fie‘wildm,. Think of Milli¢' and Willie, and let us

. Jack sald afterwards that when Whitford’s girl knelt down by his side, and, In the somber stillness of that deserted mine, prayed for their rescue, he felt as if he was ‘‘chumming with a blessed angel; who might spread her wings an’ fly at any moment.” : “Does anyone know that you were coming down here, Mr. Wilders?” the girl asked, presently. “Nary a blamed soul,” was the doleful response, ‘‘but a tramp, who was starting off for Ishpeming just before I come here.”

Elsie’s courage failed at this. There was just the bare hope that a book she had been reading and had flung on the ground at the mouth of the mine before her hurried descent might be found by her friends, who, alarmed at her absence, would be sure to search a spot she was so well known to frequent, and might suggest to them the idea that she had fallen down the shaft, which would induce them to make an exploration which might lead to their rescue. Beyond this frail chance she had not a hope. :

Hark! e Surely there was a noise—a low whine, as though from some animal. ~ Wilders half-raised his head, listened acutely, and said: “The dog! By the Lord, that's Nelson.” : ; ;

The idea to -Elsie seemed preposterous, as how could any four-footed animal reach that dreadful depth? “The Indians,” Jack whispered, for his strength was fast failing, “worked this inine years ago—always thought —long natural passage out to the Zoot of the hill.”

Seizing the lantetn the girl started for the spot whence the sound «ame; but her progress was barred by a stream of water whose depth or width she knew not. Saturating her handkerchief in the precious fluid, she made her way back to Wilders, whose brow she laved with infinite tenderness. Then again that whine and the sound of something _scratching the earth away. How eagerly she listened.

“Nelson! Nelson!” Her tremulous cry reechoed through the caverns. . A splash in the water, and the dog—for dog it was—came swimming towards her, and in a minute was standing beside her, shaking the drops from his long coat. - i The intelligent creature seemed to understard it all'a glance. Licking his master’s hand and whimpering, he first paid his tribute to the sufferer, then came and gazed with sympathetic brown eyes into Elsie’s, saying as plain as looks eould speak: “I am ready to help you<-what shall I do?” - She tock the dog’s head tenderly on her lap and kissed the honést face, then drawing from her pocket.an old envelope she hastily seribbled in pencil: - “For God's sake help! Rescue us quickly. Jack Wilders lies badly hurt in the third gal= lery of the old New York mine. *ELSIE WHITFORD."' Wrapping this in her handkerchief she tied it around the dog’s neck. “Now, you dear, noble fellow, home! home! home! I say,” while she pointed toward the way he had come. - But Nelson had other views; for a time her voice and gestures only served to malte him wag his tail and cringe around her, but at last, when she had despaired of making: him understand, a flash af intelligence leaped to his eyes and hz dashed off across the pool into the darkness. .

" An hour of dull expectancy, and then the girl’s heart leaped with joy, for right over her head voices were heard,

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CEAPTERIX, .- . ° A CHICAGO INTERIOR. - “Idon't know what to say abount buying so much on credit, George. It is vary nice to have so many pretty thiugs about the house, but this easyseeming installment plan may lead inty deep waters. There’s the quarterly payment on the house and lot, the assessments for insurance -in the Matual company, and sixty cents a week on the sewing machine—still the books are very elegant, and—" ~ The speaker paused, standing with her babe in her arms looking wistfully at her husband, a perfect type of an American mechanic’s wife, young, strong, healthy, handsome, and, what would be considered in other countries, educated utterly beyond her sphere. The interior of the room was worthy of the pen of a Wilkic. Humbly, though cozily furnished, the floor covered with a substantial rag carpet, the walls adorned with pretty chromos, a huge Connecticut clock ticking merrily in the corner, a cheerful woodstove radiating warmth and light from its glowing micas. and beyond, through a half-opened door, n peep at an apartméfi:f a more ..amhlt]i)':fis ‘nature—the parlor, only to be used on state ocSO IIN e, powplng fgg of his: m;% ike scene was the voung

mschanic, George Harland, as he nat at & table with his three-year-old boy om his knee. He looked at his wife as sne spoke, and a merry gleam lit his honest brown eyes. ; : “Why, Nell, what freak of prudence has bitten you now? If- a master shipwright, earning four dollars a day and doesn’t spend a cent in drink, has cause to be scared at getting into a book agent’s debt a few weekly installments, why—" : “But, George, you might take sick, and—"

“Pigs might fly. Pshaw, girl, there’s not much of the interesting invalid about me; now, is there? Then, there’s that prize-packet lodger upstairs, whom you seduced into paying a dollar and a half a week for his room.”

‘Oh, yes, he’s very nice, isn’t he? But Ifear he’s out of work, and, though he’s such a perfect gentleman, I don’t think we can rely on his stopping with us for long.” : . George laughed with enjoyment at his wife’s forebodings; it was rather too good a joke to think that a Chicago shipwright in full pay couldn’t afford to indulge in the purchase of a picture book. =

‘“You are incorrigible, George,” the wife said with laughing lips. Then a little seriously: *ls it likely to be a busy season at the dry-dock?” “You bet. Why, Moore & Marston have more orders on hand than they can ever fill. The Red Star company has the lines laid for a hundred thousand dollar passenger boat. Burroughs & Watts have given orders for two first-class tugs, and there are six barges I know will be turned out of our yard this summer.” {. “Times should be good, George.” “Never better.” At that moment the front deor opened and a young woman entereil—a tall, shapely girl, with ‘good features, and \ L - s ‘ e o / R ///7/7" '{7' 1 WL k7Y \ Y /-",: R (/[ el t ‘ Vit 7 M IS\ \\ il (! A 1= ] //\fi \‘\’// \ % % \\n\\ '; I . 7 = N ‘‘YOU OUGHT TO BE VERY GRATEFUL TO, MR. BIDDULPH.” Sici fair hair lying on her forehead like a eloud of feathery glory; yvet, there was a shadow of unhealth in the flawless transparency of her complexion, and her step lacked the litheness and activity of buoyant youth.

Alice Palmer’s lines had not been cast in pleasant places, except so far as she was enabled to board with her sister, Mrs. Harland. She ‘‘clerked” in a great dollar bazar kept by a Hebrew mere chant, who cared nothing for the helpless girls who sold his glittering wares, knowing well that when one broke down—as, poor things, they were often in the habit of doing—there wereascore to take her place. ! . “You look tired to-night, Ally,” the mechanic said arnxiously, as the girl took her place at the table. : “Tired!” she replied, “I am clean worn out. A biz country excursion came to the city to-day, and the store was over-run. Jou'd be tired too, George, if you'd had to stand twelve hours without fest, and with the thought ever uppermost in your mind that in this land @f boasted prosperity there were thousands like you, selling their young lives &nd hopes for a beggarly payment that just keeps them in food and clothes.”

‘“Seems to me,” said her brother-in-law gravely, ‘“‘there’s something wrong in a state of society which permits such things; there ought to be a law to put a stop to it. There ought to be a law passed to compel employers of female labor to pay fair wages and decent treatment. But, Ally, throw the thing up, and rest till you can better yourself. You know how welcome you are to live with us.”

“It may come to that, George, for something that has happened to-day leads me to expect my discharge on Saturday nfight.” “Oh, Ally, dear, how is that? They seemed to think so much of you?” Mrs. Harland asked.

“Jt was through no fault of mine. You know Charlie Grant, don’t you?” . “The reporter on the Herald who is going to marry Carrie Chambers? Yes, sure.” ;

‘“Well, he came into the store to give me a message for her, and while ~hewas talking to me Mrs. Buddulph, the millionaire pork-packer’s wife—oh, Nellie, how I do hate those new rich people—drove up in her carriage and walked straight to my counter. Charlie stood respectfully aside till she should give her orders, but as soon as she had seated herself she began a tirade against servant girls, and fvound up by indignantly demanding why I was stuck there behind a counter, instead of earning an honest living as a domestic, when hired help was hardly to be had for love or money.” *““What did you say?” “I felt ready to sink with vexations but I dared not reply, for she- is a good customer; but what do you think Charlie Grant did? He raised his hat in the politest manner, and said in a voice that could be heard all over the store: ‘You ought to be very grateful to Mrs, Biddulph for her kind advice. She speaks from experience, you know, for she was her husband’s cook before he married her!” George burst into a hearty roar of laughter. ‘‘Good for the newspaper boy!” he s’%{, “that was well done.” *‘Ah, but’Mrs. Biddulph did not think so. While all the clerks and customers were convulsed with laughter, she flounced out of the store, and a few minutes afterwards Cohen came to me and said that he couldn’t allow his clerks to receive admirers during business hours.” , .

“He did, did he, the insolent pup?” George vociferated, his face flushing with passion. “Back to the bazar you shall never go, Ally. Tomorrow 1 will call on him and settle it.” *You will do no such thing, George Harland,” his wife interposed, decisively. ‘““You will only be getting yoursel{ into trouble, and no good will come of it. Perhaps Aliy had better resign hes position and wait for something mora suitable " L. o | ot Yo %0 BE CONTIIVEDY 3

MORE REVENUE.

Dingley’s Bill Passes the House with Votes to Spare. v

Report of the Ways and Means Commit~ tee—A Short Debate — Voted on ' Party Lines, 205 to 81—The Bond Measure,

Washington, Dec. 27.—The house Thursday responded to the appeal of the president by passing a tariff bill, the operation of which is limited to two and a half years, and which is designed to raise $40,000,000 for the relief 'of the treasury.. The bond bill will be passed Friday. The vote was on party lines, with two exceptions. The republicans all voted for the bill except Hartman (Mont.), who did rot vote, and the democrats and populists against it, save Newlands (pop., Nev.), who voted in favor of the measure.

The especial order under which the bill was brought to a vote at five o'¢lock in the evening. after three and a half hours of debate, was iron-clad in its character, and compelled the members to adopt or reject it without opporiunity o offering amendments of any kind. o

Immediately after the reading of the journal Mr. Dingley, chairman of Lhe ways and means committee, reported fromn that committee the revenue bill which the speaker forthwith referred to the committee of the whole house. . The Committee’s Report.

In presenting the bill to the house Mr. Dingley made the foliowing report of the ways and m¢ans committee:

“The committee on ‘'ways and means to whom was referred so much of thée president’s annual message and so much of the annual report of the secretary of the treasury as relates to revenue and tne condition of the treasury. and also the president’s special message presenting the urgency of immediate action of congress n a direction caiculated to bring relief, report, that the committee appreciatethe seriousness of the situation and the importance of prompt remedies so far as congress can give them.” : The -report then goes on to review the growing ‘‘deficiency of the past two years and a Lalf” and says that [‘if the consequences of suck achronicdeficiency were only the necessity of borrowing money to meet current expenses in time of peace, even this woud atford abundant reascn for incieasing ‘the revenue. But the consequences are more wide reaching than that unsufficicncy of revenue has made it necessary to use the redeemed United States legal tender notes to pay current expenditures, and thus to supply additional means to draw gold from the greenback redemption fund—in short, to create the ‘endless chain’ of which the secretary of the treasury complains and which has made it necessary to sell issue after issue of bonds to replenish the reserve. Want to Increase Revenues $40,000,000. “Your committee believes that it is the duty of the house of representatives-to which body the constitution commits the inauguration of revenue bills, to frame and pass a measure that will yield not far from s4o,ooo,ooo—suflicient to put an end to the deficiency—and to do this without delay, too, leaving to others whose cooperation is required to finally place such legislation on the statute books to meet the responsibility in their own way. And the president’s specal message, setting forth s 0 pointedly the seriousness of the situation and the necessity for the promptest action only emphasizes the duty of the uouse, .

“Your commniittee have not undertaken a general revision of the tariff on protection lines, as a majority hope can be done in 1897-99, not only because they know that suca taritf legislation would stand no chance of becoming a law, but also because general tariff revision would require many months and the need is more reverue at once. We believe, however, that this need of more revenue is so great that a simple ,measure increasing all duties of the dutia‘ble list, and taking from the free list of the present tariff a few articlesthat werealways on the dutiable list until August 27, 1894, and which havealways been important revenue producers, and limiting the operation of such legisiation to about two years and a hali—until the present deficiency of revenue is overcome—ought to receive the approval even of those who do not favor protective duties, on patriotic grounds; and that the fact that it may incidentally encourage the production of many articles that we require at home instead. of abroad will not be regarded as a ground of opposition under present circumstances. - A Horizontal Increase 0f Duties.

“But whilg- we have presented in the brief measuge reported a horizontal increase of 15 per cent. of existing duties on all the schedules but two, which is an addition of less than eight per cent. to the average advalorem rate — giving about $15,000,000 revenue from that source; yet more “han $25,000,000 of the $40,000,000- which is ‘estiriated this bill will add to our annual revenue, will come mainly from wool, which is taken from the free |list and given a moderate duty, @and from manufactures of wooul, which are given a compensatory duty equivalent to the duty of wool (which is always necessary wien a duty is placed on wool) in order to give the wool giower the benefit, and make it possible to manufacture woolens at home. & ““The Dbill reported by our committee proposes to make the duty on imported clothing wool 69 per cent. of the duty imposed by the act of 1890, which would give un equivalent of 6 6-10 of a cent per pound on unwashed wool, or about 40 per cent. ad valorem. This reduction from the duty of the act of 1890 has been made because thé restoration of the full duty in that ‘act might seem to be too great a change from the presént law to those whose cooperation it is neccessary to secure in order to have any legislation and not a measure of what might be done when all branches of the government, are in harmony with the majority of the house on protection lines. The duty on manufactures of wool is increased by a specific duty equivalent to the duty on wool. “The duty on carpet wools is left at the 82 per céntumiad valorem where it was placed in 1800. This is a purely revenue duty, as we raise very few carpet wools, Such lumber as was placed on the free list by the act of 1890, without the slightest justlification, is restored to the dutiable list. but with a duty of only 60 per cent, of the duties provided by the act of 18%0— giving an equivalent of only about 15 per cent. Such a reduction from the low rates of 1890 is justified only on the ground that the object of your committee has been to frame a bill mainly on revenue grounds, in the hope that itiwould secure the approval of those in official place whose cooperation is essential to legislation and who may be supposed to feel that in such an exigency as now exists the public necessity must control. L ; “Believing that such an Increase of revenue as is proposed is essemtial as a first step in the restoration of confidence and the restoralion of the treasury to a sound condition, and that other legislation to be proposed to this end cannot be effective without. adequate revenue to meet the expenditures of the government, your committee recommends the passage of. accompanying bill H. R.—‘To temporarily increase revenue to meet theexpenses of government and provide against a deficiency.’ : :

Mr. Crisp (dem., Ga.) anncunced that the house niinority had had no opportunity to prepare and file the views of the minority. Mr. ilenderson (rep., la.) from the committe on rules then presented the special order under which the house was to operate. It provided that immeédiately after the adoption of the order it would be in order to call up the revenue bill just presented by Mr. Dingley and that the debate should run until five o’clock, when, without intervening motion, the vote should be taken on the passage of the bill. Mr. Henderson demanded the previous duestion on the adoption of the order, v-hich was ordered without division. DMr. lienderson then took the floor and exriained briefly the urgency which necessitated such summary action of the house or such limportant measure. The' two\ megsages of the president, he said, had prioduced the highest dzgree of restléssnegs in'the country, Congress was confrotited with a erisis. 'The business cen-

ters of the country were staggering under th=s feverish declarations from the white house, and it was of the highest importance that the house should act promptly. : { Mr. Crisp called the attention of the house to the effect of the rule under which it was proposed to operate and asked every member to weigh his responsibility when he voted for it. Ilere was a bill, he said, that affected every interest and all sections of the country, which it was proposed to put through under a rule that deprivel thé- members of any right to offer ammendments; It must be taken or rejected as a whole. What authority, he asked, was it on the other side which proposed io pass a measure of such importance under the cracks of thc party whip without the dotting of on ‘i’ or the crossing of & *‘t''? This rule, he said, would chain the house to the wheel of the chariot. He insisted that there was no necessity for such a course. This bill was not demanded by any department of the government. There was no necessity for increased revenue. He protested. He protested against the use of the whip and spur for its passage before the opinion of the experis of the treasury department could be obtained as to its effect. ;

Mr. Dalzell (rep., Pa.), a member of the committee on rules, said there -was no one who did not know that we faced a peculiar exigency. The president and the secretary of the treasury had both become alarmed, and the president had asked the house, notwithstanding it was opposed to him gpolitically, to come to his aid. The treasury was being rapidly depleted, and since the democracy had come into control of the executive branch of the government there had been frequent bond issues. The measure at present under consideration was not a general tariff measure, but an emergency bill. Referring to Mr. Crisp’s criticism of the cracking of the party whip, he said the Wilson bill with 600 amendments had been passed through the house with but two hours’ debate under a rule reported by Mr. Crisp himself. He appealed to the house to rise to the patriotic level necessary to meet the emergency and come to the president’s aid. -

Mrag Turner (dem., Ga.) called attention to the fact that both the president and the secretary of the treasury (whom he extolled as the greatest secretary of the treasury since the day of Alexander Hamilton) had given congress the highest assuranc: that there was ample revenue in the treasury. Both the president and secretary of the ireasury had pointed out the evil in the financial situation and its remedy. KEveryb2dy understood the stress existing. And what.was to be the response of congress? Before all remedial legislation was te be put a proposition to still further bleed and tax the American people. . )

Mr. Henderson closed the debate in a speech which aroused the republican side to great enthusiasm. This was, he said, a business matter for a.business people and should be met in a business way. The republicans were not afraid to assume responsibility. Hls side had been taunted with working on a holiday. If the situation demanded it they would work on Sunday. [Republicanr applause.] Democratic policies had emptied the treasury. They would fill it. They would right the ship of stale that had' been plunging halfseas under since the democratic party assumed the bridge. A democratic president had sent to congress a declaration of-war, and three days aftq'{ward hlad filed- a petition of bankruptcey. =5 : ‘“We are not for war,”’ continued Mr. Henderson. ‘“‘The president demands money We will give-it' to him. But we have not declaréd war, although war will find us ready. IL.et not the business interests of the country shiver before this tempestina teapot. The country has assets. The republican party has returned to power in the legislative branch of the government. It will soon have the executive and then never again will our integrity be put in question.” The democrats, he said, had no right to complain of whip and spur and gag after their proceeding on the Wilson bill. ‘ At this point Mr. Liinney (rep., N. C.) after first stating that as a republican he favorel the measure which it was proposed to pass, asked .if this rule would not extend to democrats the privilage of offering amendments before the vote was taken.

“It will not,” replied Mr. Henderson. The democrats applauded this reply and Mr. Crisp aflirmed that the truth regarding the purpose .of the rule had only been half elicited by this question and response. Its object, he said, was not only to gag the democrats, but to prevent republicans from cffering amendments which they might deem wise. It was an attempt-to make the republicans appear unanimous. Mr. Henderson replied that there were no differences on his side. This was an emergency revenue bill,and they wereall agreed. It was useless to allow the democrats to propose modifications. The important consideration was time and any amendments offered’ ' from the other side would cnly delay the passage of the bill. None would be adopted. * - , The rule committee’s order was then adopted—2l3 to 89—a strict party vote, save that Linney (N. C.) and Connolly (Ill.), republicans, voted with the democrats. The bill was then read by th{e, direction of the speaker, who said that; Mr. Dingley would be recognized to contrdl the time on one side and Mr. Crisp on the other. Mr. Dinglcy took the floor in advocacy of the bill, and said the republicans had assumed the responsibility placed on them by the president in’a patriotic manner and had gone fto work to prepare measures to meet the treasury situation. He then launched into an explanation of the cause of the existing weakness of the treasury, following closely the lines of his report of the bill. In the last congress it was stated, as it'was stated now, that there was ample revenuc. The democrats had predicted that the revenues would soon meet the expenditures—next day, next week, next month the surplus would begin. But what had happened? Every day and every month since had shown a deficiency. Since July, 1894, the deficiency had reached the enormous sumn of $133,000,000. Ly The bill proposed by the committee in the next two and one-half years during whick it was to operate would raise about $40,000,000 to stop the deficiency that was causing the disaster. He closed with an explanaton that this was not a general revénue bill, and said that the general change needed would be postponed until the other branches of the government were in harmony with the house.

Mr. Crisp, who followed Mr. Dingley, said the latter had asserted that this extraordinary bill had been precipitated upcn the country and this extraordinary spectacle created by the president’s message. In making this assertion Mr. Dingley had not observed his usual care. t

If, said Mr. Crisp, the president’s message had been the cause of this effort atlegislation, the legislation attempted should be in the line of the president’s suggestions. It had been claimed on the other side that there was a deficiency in the revenues, but the statement was wholly without official authority. The secretary of the treasury had positively stated that there was sufficient money in the treasury to meet all obligations and that there was no necessity for imposing\additional burdens in the way of taxation. \ It was true;, Mr. Crisp confessed, that the daily Teceipts were smaller than the daily expenses, but there was a surplus in the vaults of the treasury sufficient to meet any probable deficiency three times over. It was not a question of borrowing money, but a question of using an asset which we have already—a question of gettirg money to pile upin the treasury.

Mr. Crisp then proceeded to argue that the McKinley law had been responsible for whatever deficiency there was. He instanced the fact that the receipts under this law had fallen off until during the four months preceding the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland there was a deficiency of over $4,000,000. This shortage had, he said, occurred under a law which was the peculiar pet of the republican party; a law which no rgpublican had seen fit to criticise, possibly because of the name it bore; a law typical of the republican party, so framed as to decrease the receipts of the treasury and increase those of private individuals favored by its provisions. It was under Lhis bill that the revenuc had fallen. Ifurthermore, he had upderstpod Mri Dingley to say that there had been no exportation of gold previous to the inauguration of the democratic administration, whereas as a matter of fact ‘more than $58,000,000 of gold had been sent abroad during the nine months immediately preceding March, 1803. " Mr. Hopkins (rep., 111.) asked why, if the other side did not belleve the pendirg bill would relieve the situation, had they not suggested some remedy? Why did not Mr. Crisp or Mr. McMillin offer some sug* |

gestion incommittee? Why had they not, if they desired to uphold the arms of their president, forniulated some plan which, in their opinion, would bring rclief? They had done mothing. They ' offered nothing. They were in their right place again. They were simply in opposition to everything republican. [Applause.] : ; Mr. Grosvenor said he yielded:his support to the present bill because it proposed an increase of $40,000,000 in revenue and to that extent would increase the protection of American industries. After some brief remarks by Mr:. Arnold (rep., Pa.) and Mr. Knox (rep., Mass.) Mr. Dolliver (rep., la.) closed the debate for the majority. His speech was a most eloquent effort. As he spoke the republicans crowded about him, and there was much applause and enthusiasm. ) Mr. Dolliver took his seuat and the bill was put upon its passage, 'the vote being taken by yeas and nays. It was passed —205 to 81,

Report on the Bond Bill.

; The report on the bond bill says that -the secretary of the treasury now has the authority, under the resumption act of 1875, to issue and sell ten-year five per cent. bonds and 30-year four per cent. bonds to maintain the funds ior the redemption of United States notes, and that he has sold $100,000,000 of the former description of bonds, but a small amount of the latter description in the last two years, and as he announces his'intention to avail himself of the authority given by the.resumption act and sell more high-rate and long-term bonds if necessary, the only uestion is whether it is not clearly for the public interests that* he should have authority to sell a lower rate and shorter-term bond.

The committee thinks it is clearly in the public interest that he should have this authority and adds:

“In granting this authority, however, we have included in the bill a provision that the proceeds of bonds sold be used exclusively for redemption purposes, our object being tosecure such a separation of the redemption fund from the ordirdary cash in the treasury as will maintain and protect the revenue. o c .

‘“We also provide that such bonds shall be offered for sale in such a manner as to invite investment among the masses of the people.”’ .

Of the certificates of indebtedness the report says: ‘ ;

“In our judgment the secretary of the treasury should always have such au thority as this to meet temporary deficiencies that are liable to arise. Unless this authority is given the secrccary will indirectly use the proceeds of bonds sold un‘ger the resumpton act for redemption pjurposes to meet the deficiency in the revegl‘m, as he has been doing thelast two years and a half.” .

THE STRIKE ENDED.

John Wannamaker Restores Peace to ’ ' Philadelphia. '

Philadelphia, Dec. 24.—The great trolley strike is ended. This is flnal. Jobn Wanamaker is the man who brought about the settlement, succeeding where all others failed.. He was aided in tha work by members. of the Christian league. The basis of settlement is ag follows:

“‘First, while the Union Tractioncompany will only treat with the workmen in its empluy it will allow them membership in any lawful orginization; second, it will take up all grievances and give them full and fair consideration; third, it will so fur as it has vacant places, immedixtely put on the old men, and as fast as vacancies arise will give preference to any of the old men yet ureemployed and endeavor to arrange the trips of the cars to favor the old men as far as possible without violating its contricts with the new men.” . Mr. Wanamaker submitted the ideas embraced in the settlement to the strikers. They accepted them, and in turn submitted them to the company. Consicerable correspondence and many .)C s 1 conferences followed, and late in the afternoon announcement was made that both sides had agreed to the terms. To proper]ly round out the matters a mass-meeting of the strikers was held for the purpose of ratification. Hers the strike was officially declared off; all the leaders were called upon for speeches, and there was a veritable lovz feast. .

The questions of compensation and hours are left for future determination. Concessions were made by both sides. The battle has mainly been fought on the question of the employes’ membership in the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Ilmployes, which the company has persistently retused to recognize. The new men engages since the strike began numker nearly 1,000. There were akeut 5,000 strikers. They will report for work this imorning.

The disturbances in the streets, the danger of riding in the cars, the inconvenience of walking long distances and the. enormous financial loss to the city has made the strike the most disastrous ever Known " in Philadelphia. = The Christmas shopping trade was killed and directly and indirectly it is a fair estimate that the seven days’ strike cost the company, ifs employes and the merchants of Philadelphia $2,000,000. Aside from 'the satisfaction caused by the settlement of the strike from a business standpoint, -it is most fortunate that it has ¢ome to an end, as lawlessness and ‘outbursts were on the increase and were each day that the strike was continued becoming moreseriogs.

UTAH REJOICES.

Great Preparations to Celebrate Her Ad-

mission as a State.

Salt Lake, Utah, Dec. 25.—The announcement that President Cleveland would issue the proclamation admitting Utah to the union of states un January 4, and that the state officerselect would assume their offices on the Monday following, January 6, was received here with great and general satisfaction and quickly the m'fange-' ments for properly celebrating the event were perfected. As soon as the news of the signing of the pro:lamation is received on Saturday, Salt Lake City will résound with the booming of eannon and the ringing of bells. Monday, inauguration day, wilt be a general holiday and time of rejoicing. It will be ushered in by a cannonade followerl by street parades and military displays. Exercises wiil be held in the great Mormon tabernacle, where Chief Justiee: Merritt will adininister the oath of office to the incoming state otficers. In the evening a grand inauwguration ball will be held.

SEVERE BATTLE. _ Turkish Troops Kill 12,200 Druses, with a:-Loss 0f Only Seventys Constantinople, Dec. 25. via Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 26.—Advices received here Wednesday from Beyroot repoct that a severe l'urkish fight has taken place between the Turkish troops and the Druses mear Zudich. The fight took place December 21 and, according to the official repart, the Druses lost 12,200 killed, while only 70 Turks were kiwa and 50 wounded. ' : Rome, Dec. 26.—Arvices received here from Aleppo say that the town of Zeitoun, 15 miles from Marash, which has been held by the insnrgent Armenians for some time past, ias been captured by the Turkish troops. Itisadded that the inhabitants of Zeitoun fled to the

"~ FASHION LETTER. Original Designs in Winter Costumes—Ar- ' _ tistic and Beautiful Creations. ‘Special New York Correspondence. The rashions for the winter season are now fairly launched, and the varied productiong of the designer’s artistic brain are appearing,in rapid succession. Originality is -comprehended ' in arrahgement,, adaption -and combination. The present strife between ;.the picturesque ideals of the Louis pericds and- the move conventional styles of the present:century results in the most artistic and beautiful creations for both day and evening wear, embracing the beaufies and despoiled of the undesirable features of both-périods. The rampant sleeves and the over-full gkirts, for example, are replaced by models: greatly modified and far more graceful in'. outline. The princesse dress is a revival of fashion, which this winter sappears in various forms of both simplicity and elegance. For matronly women, it requires very handsome materials and a. skillful modiste to give it style and aplomb—flowered satins, black and dark French moires and brocades, being used for portly women, while velvets, both plain and figured, as well as fancy satins, shot-silk and beautiful : French cash- )51 meres are made PR into princesse - e ' dresses for &d young ladies— i B the mostyouth- 8 (01l _ ful models //] " 4 ? fust‘((ni‘ng up b I\ L 7 the back. The P & -._\ ; Louis Seize =\ Lif ™ ¢§s coats, another (”m ‘\& | revival, is made fpeZ T g ‘ very attractive gf 7 \ 1 in mod egn /f | LR | dress.. It is ; ; & ! shaped with - agl | - % |i plaited: basque, Vg 4,&’ <3 and broad re- “.,p;‘)" ‘vers turmned @:: ‘fi” ) AR back . from a i . wvest of Persian brecade, with a dainty jabot of Venetian lace at the throat, the vest fastening with Persian buttons, set with Rhine stoues or finely-cut -mock jewels that are quite as brilliant as real gems, The clegant materials that are so prodigally used this winter are made still more so by the beaded and spangled garnitures resplendent with semiprecious stones, and shaded silk, the exquisite laces and Persian passementries, the beautiful insertions outlined with sequins and opal beads, cream gimpure embroidery with jet and edged with fur and appliques of white lace on black net, which make lovely collars, and Marie Antoinette fchus, with frills ‘of cream Venetian lace around the edge. Passementrie decorations are now more than ever in vogue. Those which emanate from Paris are exceptionalily beautiful, and many of the bands ard appliques are marvelous in thei;/lévices and color-blending. , Eastern ideas now appear among the less -expensive dress trimmings, many of which are used upon corduroys, bouretees, and a new and pretty cloth fabric which exactly resemples a bas-

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