Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 15, Number 29, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 4 October 1893 — Page 2

THE SILVER DEBATE. fynopiU of the Discussion in the United States Senate. On the 26th. after Mr. Perkins (rep., Cal.) had make his maiden speech, taking sides with the repeahhili, and declaring himself a sincere believer in the use and coinage of both gold and eilver, Mr. Stewart resumed the floor. He read from a paper an article on the president s allegod rebuke to the senate. Mr. Palmer (dem., 111.) wanted to know if It were consistent with the proper relations between the senate and the president to read in the senate grave charges against the executive for which ho (Senator Stewart) would not be responsible Mr. Stewart replied that it was consistent for him as a senator to defend the •enatc when the press said the president was rebuking the senate and calling senators criminals. In a running debate that followed Mr. stewart said let the president’s friends deny that lie (the president) had used patronage to control legislation. Mr. Palmer retaliated by sayj tng that if the senator (Stewart) would indicate any senator or representative and charge tiim with being thus influenced by executive patronage he (Palmer) would deny It and then ▼ole for an investigation. Mr. Stewart closed his speech for the day with a passionate indictment of England as a monster that stalked through the country, breaking down the interests of seven states •nd territories; that claimed to direct the legislation of congress, and whose voice had been toeard last week on the east front of the capital rebuking the senators. Mr. Morgan (dem., Ala.) rose to a personal explanation, and, touching the president’s words at the capitol. said he did not construe the remarks as a rebuke to either house of congress. He denied that he entertained personal and political enmity towards Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Voorhecs (dem.. Ind.) said he desired to ftecount for the attitude of silence observed on the democratic side of the chamber in the face of the assault It was that it had not been thought necessary to say a single word in defense of Mr. Cleveland from the time he-was born in New Jersey up to the present hour. On bis side of the chamber, and (ho had reason to believe) *on the other side of the chamber, and all over the country Mr. Cleveland's defense had been fully made by the American pcoplo themselves. lie ventured to •ay that in American history the career of Grover Cleveland, his character, his achievements, his honor, his patriotism and his abilities would stand in the foremost line in spite of all the asaaults which had been .made. Whether senators differed from Mr. Cleveland, or agreed with him, nobody failed to. recognize his stalwart and powerful character and his high in togrity. Hi hoped that this little tribute would betaken as sufficient to account for the fact that the democratic side of the chamber would not feel called upon to enter upon any defense of the president unless something far more important was charged him thjin had been charged up to this tiffie. On the 27th.the resolution offered by Mr. Dubois (rep.. Idaho) to postpone action on'financial, tariff and federal election measures until next January was taken up, and Mr. Dubois made an argument in its support. Messrs. Mitchell (rep., Ore.) and Chandler (rep., N. If.) opposed the measure. Mr. Wolcott (rep., Col.), in the course of his remarks in favor of postponement, referred to Mr. Gorman (dem., Md.) as the leader of the ■tecring committee; in teFms which the latter evidently considered offensive. , Mr. Gorman declared it was plain to every* -body that the resolution under discussion was merely for the purpose of illling up the time of ■the morning hour; that could not be denied. He then took up the scenes of the last few days and said that the history of the senate could show no parallel. Ho said •‘the chief actors in them are doing much to belittle this great body and bring it down to the level of a county convention or a meeting of some city council. 1 believe that the time will come, and speedily, when the hies actors will regret the part they have played and make atonement.” He wanted to Ituowif Mr. Wolcott referred to him as of the •tecring committee. Mr. Wolcott said he had / heard there was a •tcering committee, and that Senator Gorman was the democratic head and Senator Aldrich its republican. Mr. Gorman then said he had “been a member of this body for over twelve years. Since a boy twelve years of age (pointing to the pages) t have been connected with this great body. I imve seen scenes enacted in which all the .greatest senators that have lived took part. The vital interests of the country have been involved. But this is the first time I have ever -•eon a senator who has listened at the keyholes of committee-room doors'or received his information from eavesdroppers tell the senate of what took place' and what was said at private conferences.'’ Continuing he said: “lain not the mouthpiece of the president, but I cannot allow the assertion that ho used his patronage to influence congressional action go by without declaring that there has been r.o occupant, of the executive mansion who has, in the administration of his office and the distribution of patronage, been so careful to avoid any action that might be construed as an attempt to •werve congress from its legitimate course. Hu has been so careful that ho has scarcely done his party justice.” Mr. Aldrich (rep., R. I.) denied that he at .any time had undertaken in any conference to •represent anybody but himself. He intended hereafter, speaking upon his responsibility as a senator and .as the representative of a state, to cooperate with .the senator from Maryland, or any senator who woulcLsuvc the senate from furtherTfurr.iliation, if possible, in the eyes of the American people Air. vVolcolt replied lo Mr. Gorman's remarks. He said he had not cast the slightest, reflection upon that senator by intent or otherwise. What rankled in his mind was that lie had beeu characterized as one of a steering committee, but he (Wolcott) had not named him. Jf the senator was a “slucrer” he ought not to have objected to a reference to that fact. He would not have risen to reply to the senator had it not been for Che fact that he had seen fit to suggest that he (Wolcott) had listened at committee-room doors, and he had been followed by his-faithful Ally and pupil, the senator from Rhode Inland, with the same intimation. Mr. Gorman stated that he had said that the senator (Wolcott) obtained his information from eavesdroppers who listened at the door. “I understood,” Mr. Wolcott persisted, “the •cnator to intimate that I had listened at com-mittee-room doors. Nobody knows better than tie that I would scorn a dishonorable method or dishonorable means. I am gjpd he now says that he did not say so.” Mr. Wolcott closed with a passionate appeal on behalf of the silver-producing states, and the Dubols-.resolution wont on the calendar Mr. Pasco (dem , Fla ) Hpoke on the repeal itolll. lie argued against unconditional repeal, but also opposed an obstruettvo policy. Mr. Teller (rep., Col.) said the criticism that had been made on the president had not been a personal assault. It was an official criticism of official acts; and if thS doctrine were to prevail here that a senator was not to criticise official conduct there would be an end to this country of free government. If Mr. Cleveland wore an unpopular president his encroachments wotld do no harm. Harm came in this case 4rom the foci that the people were willing to trust him. On the 28th Mr. Peffer (pop . Kan.) sent to the desk and bad read the letter of the president to Gov. Northen v of Georgia. The letter did not dissipate, said Mr. Peffer, the confusion In the public mind as to the president’s real opinion on the monetary question. He might he a mono me alllst ; he might be a bimetallist; •hut tN're was nothing in the president’s letter to show khut kind of a metallist .he whs Mr. Peffer said there was but •one thing The president insisted upon And that was the repeal of the Sherman law While pretending to be a bimetallist. as a number of senators pretended to (be; while protending that he favored the uso of igold ami silver, the president made it plain if •anythin.' in the letter was plain that he would measure by a gold standard, whereas the history of the country has beeu just ihe reverse. Gold bad beer measured by the silver standard, *nd Mr. Peffer Insisted that the system had not been changed no fur as cmicerned the law. He said his amendment, which ts the pending one. would give the country bimetallism. Mr. Peffer declared that “whenever the adJDlnlbti.i it presented by 1U friends upon

this floor, arc ready to acoept the pending amendment or some other amendment which will bring about the restoration of the law of 1837, they can pass the repeal bill In twenty* five minutes. Ido not believe there is a senator here who woold care to say one word more if only the chairman of the committee on finance would indicate to us that he was ready to accept that compromise. Then ije could shake hands across the bloody chasm, pass the bill and take a Test for a week or two. Speaking for myself and the people I represent, that is the only compromise we offer or will accept. Anything less than that would boa surrender. ’’ Before he reached the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Peffer said, while he was willing to continue with his speech in the evening and to address the senate till sunrise, he did not desire to exhaust the patience of the senate by asking the senators to remain longer than they wished to. An executive session was then held. On the 29th ult. Mr. Harris (dem., Tenn.) spoke against repeal. He favored the coinage of the entire American product of silver, at any ratio to be agreed upon, saying that that of sixteen to one would be satisfactory. He said he had always understood that Senator Sherman believed and had stated that the limited coinage provided for by the Bland-Allison act would bring the United States to a silver standard and drive gold out of the country. Mr. Sherman replied that he believed, as he always had, that the continued purchase of silver, either under the Bland-Allison act or the act of 1890, without limitation, unquestionably would bring the country to a time when gold would disappear from circulation and silver would be the only standard. The free coinage of silver, in his opinion, would result in a silver standard. The act of 1891) would tend in the same direction, and in time would undoubtedly bring the country to a single silver standard Therefore ho favored the abandonment of the system. He (Sherman) thought the coinage of from two to four millions per mouth would have that effect also. At the close of his speech Mr. Harris expressed himself ready to accept any fair and honorable compromise, but said that he w ould vote against unconditional repeal. Mr. Morgan (dem., Ala.) declared himself opposed to repeal and ridiculed the proposition of an international agreement governing the coinage .of silver, and made an argument in favor of the constitutional rights of the people. Ho said we arc told even by the president of thfe United States, that functions of congress for the regulation of money cannot be properly exercised, and ought not to be exercised in these chambers, except in concert with some foreign powers That is the proposition. Wc are told that wc cannot exercise it wisely or justly until wo have obtained the consent of some foreign power. If that proposition is truo then we might just us well declare wo arc not a government and that we have not got the power, under the constitution of tin United States, for taking care of the important and sdrrious interests of the people. Wo might just as well declare, so far as this particular debate is concerned, and so far as the influences anil considerations that operate'in this chamber as a pressure upon us are concerned, that wc have never accomplished our ' independence- of Great Britain. If it be true that we still consult Gteat Britain, that we must still act in harmony with her, lhat wo cannot legislate for our people till wo get her consent for a certain measure. '.then we have not achieved our independence: and perhaps it was a mistake that we ever made the effort. “That idle dream of internationUl unity in regard to this matter," said Mr. Morgan, “can be realized only in the fervid imagination of every enthusiastic statesman.” On the 80th ult. notices were given of two amendments to the silver repeal bill—one by Mr. Wolcott (rep.. Col.), providing for the return to the states interested of the amount of the cotton tax collected from them during the war; the other, by Mr. Perkins (rep., Col.), providing for the coinage of silver of American -production at the existing ratio, the treasury to retain a seigniorage of 2) per cent.; also providing that hereafter thero should be no gold coins minted of less than 810, and no bank notes or treasury notes issued of less than 15, and for a monetary commission #f five experts. Mr. Camden (dem., W. Va.) argued in favor of the silver repeal bill, and Mr. Peffer (pop, Kan.) resumed his speech against repeal. RIDDLED WTH BULLETS. Calvin Ntewarf, a South Carolina Negro, Killed by Masked Men. Columbia. S. C., Sept. ‘2B.—Calvin Stewart, the negro who murdered a white man near Langley a short time since, was captured Wednesday in a swamp above Langley by Constable Augustine. Tuesday nitflit the constable and a few friends started to brinjf the prisoner to Aiken. When they had left Langley about a mile in the rear they were surprised by a mob of fifteen masked men. Before any resistancce could be made the prisoner was taken from them and riddled with bullets. Before being' shot Stewart confessed to having murdered old man Carter at Langley and implicated Stephen Dunbar, who he claimed had aided him in the murder. Dunbar was arrested and placed in the Aiken jail. The sheriff, fearing an attempt to lynch Dunbar would be made, telegraphed Gov. Tillman, who ordered the Palmetto rifles to the jail to protect the prisoner. Dispatches from Aiken say that a mob of 150 men are reported going that way from Langley, A DREADFUL SCENE. Last Act In a Domestic Drama of Discord and Despondency. Pittsburgh, Sept. 27. Samuel G. Stodhart, a car accountant at the Carnegie Steel company, shot his wife in the heart -while she was sleeping, and then placing the muzzle of the revolver into his mouth sent a bullet crashing into his own brain. The tragedy occurred at 5:35 o’clock a. m. at the home of Stodhart on Point View avenue, East End. Insanity over religious differences and despondency over business troubles are the causes which led to the awful deed. Stodhart was 45 years old and his wife two years his junior. The\iouple have been married sixteen years, and nave had seven children, the eldest being a girl 15 years ojd. Mrs. Stodhart was a Catholic, and the two frequently fjuarrelcd over the education of their chiU dren. Recently S tod hart’s salary was reduced 15 per cent, and this also preyed on his mind. FIRE ON A FAIR GROUND. Thirty Prize Cattle Burned to Death at Canton, O.—Loss, 870,000. Canton, 0., Sept. 29.— During the progress of the Stark county fair Wednesday, fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, broke out in the extensive stable of the Stark County Agricultural association. The buildings, stored as they were with straw and other inflammable material, fell an easy prey to the flames, and with them were consumed thirty prize cattle, valued at 125,000. At one time there were over 100 in danger of being burned. Many of the animals escaped and were at large for some time. Private exhibitors lost many of their personal effects that were housed in the burned buildings. The total loss is estimated at $75,000, with very little insurance.

THE ELECTIONS REPEAL BILL. Synopsis of th Debate la the National House of Representatives. Debate on the bill for the repeal of the federal elections law was begun in the house on the 26th by Mr. Tucker (dem.. Va.), the aufhor of the bill. The first proposition to which he invited attention was that the power and rightof aettizen to vote is not given by the United States, but is reserved to the several states. If the powers and privileges of the supervisors and deputy marshals permit them to ‘perform acts not prescribed and granted iu the constitution, then the law that creates them is unconstitutional. Slates alone can make conditions of suffrage. The United States. Mr. Tucker went on to say, had not conferred the right of suffrage on anybody. That being the case, If tho United States could step in, challenge votes and lay down conditions of suffrage, it involves a right in the federal government to destroy suffrage in the states. , “The repeal of these laws,” said Mr. Tucker, in conclusion, “will wipe away statutes that have caused clashing between the federal government and the states for thirty years. I belong to a party that is not sectional. You,” he added, addressing the republicans, “have lived on sectionalism. You have violated the pledges of your fathers, have overridden the constitution, have denied the right of habeas corpus and in a thousand ways shown yourselves unworthy of public csnfldence. Therefore, on November 6 last, you were overthrown, and we are now here to undo those things which you did in the arrogance of your power.” Mr. JJrosius (rep., Pa.) believed that underneath the fretting stream of. our politics there was patriotism, and to that patriotism he appealed to-day. He then spoke against the proposed repeal. He laid down the propositions that the federal constitution was not the creature of the states, but was created by the people; that the power and authority upon the government were operative in all states and over all the people:* Uiat the nation was clothed with ample power to enforce the constitution. Mr. Urosius contended that the repeal of the federal election laws would leave tho citizens of the coin try unprotected and exposed unless the power of the states mercifully intervened. Never before bad there been proposed a surrender so base, so humiliating, never since when the heresy of states' rights was tried in battle. U in reply to a query by Mr. Compton (deip., Md.) Mr. Urosius said the power conferred in the constitution had not been called into requisition in the history of the country before the war because villainy and wrong were progressive, and the fathers and their grand si res had never conceived of the means which had since been contrived to deprive certain citizens of their rights. On the.27th Mr. Lawson (dem., Ga.) spoke in favor of the pending bill. He said the uneon stitutionality of the law sought to be Repealed had always been strongly contended. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Urosius) quoted an apt expression frortt Garfield, that the ballotbox registers .the. decrees of the people. Upon this subject the decree of the people has been registered against the constitutionality of these election laws. Mr. Lawson said that miller the operation of a system of laws, such as the one under discussion, it was easy to see iiow in close districts enough people might be deterred by the mere presence of the federal, forces, civil or military, at the polls from voting lo change the otherwise ninnial result of the election. Mr. Mallory (dem., Fla.( interrupted by stating that in his own state two members of the legislature had been arrested by federal officials. taken 200 miles away from the capital, ami held there Until the senate was organized by the republicans and the state government thereby given into the hands of that party. When that, had been accomplished the men were released, no charge being made against them. In concluding his remarks Mr. Lawson read from the report of the investigation of the conduct of Lot Wright, United States marshal at Cincinnati, made by a committee ot the house. -fco.°staow what might be done under the laws sought to be repealed, which repeal was.demanded by the democratic party and the country. Mr. Bynum (dem., Ind.) stated that at a recent election in his own state a man was arrested at tho command of a United States inspector for making an affidavit whereby another man was enabled to vote. By the arrest of this voter, said Mr. Bynum, fifty men were deprived of the right to cast their ballots. Mr. Daniels (rep., N. Y.) spoke against repeal. He said these laws had been signed by President Grant and had met the approval of the people from that time until the assembling of the convention in 1893 which nominated Mr. Cleveland for the presidency. Then for the first time was the demand mad# that these laws ! should be wiped off the statute books. As to the constitutionality of tho laws Mr. Daniels said they affected nothing but the election of members of congress, and to that end the provision in the constitution by which their validity has been uphold met the approval of the people who framed that document and adopted it Mr. Daniels argued that the operations of the laws had worked injustice to no one. in support of which ho assorted no deputy marshal or Inspector had been indieted and punished for abuse of bis powers under tho law. On the 28th a wordy altercation occurred te tween Mr. Fitbian (dem., 111.) and Mr. Morie (rep.. Mass.) growing out of Mr. Morse's filibustering course on the 27 th. Mr. Mot so charged Mr. Fitbian with being responsible for the refusal to permit him to print in ihe Congressional Record some newspaper extracts attacking Commissioner Lochren. Mr. Flthian desired to call the attention of the house to a rather dubious proposition made by Mr. Morse to him, who, ho said, had come to him with honeyed words and informed him that ho 'vas a member of tho committee on public buildings and grounds, and intimated that if he (Fitbian) had a public building 511 L he (Morse) might bo able to help him if the Illinois congressman could see his way clear to withdraw his objection. Mr. Morse pronounced this statement false, whereupon Mr. FlQiian said his colleague, Mr. Goldzler, heard the conversation and would substantiate the statement Mr. Morse said the construction Mr. Fithian put upon his proposition was entirely false. Mr. Fithian then said if tho gentleman (Mr. M.) denied the statement he was himself willfully lying. Great confusion in the house followed these remarks, the speaker quellirg the pending riot by declaring both gentlemen out of order. Mr. Black (dem.; 111.) spoke. In favor of the repeal of the federal elections law. Ho said the law was not enacted for the elevation of the ballot box, but to intensify the race issue existing in a large section of thin country and to support tho weaker and moro ignorant class of our people us against the stronger and more American of our citizens They appealed to force rather than reason. Tho law placed too much power In tho hands of improper men. He (Mr. Bluok) would vote for an s y amount of money and force. If necessary, to uphold the dignity of the government and tho rights of its citizens, but the existing laws did neither. Mr. Black read a lotter fcpm Comptroller Botalor showing that from rK77 supervisors of elections had cost t2.8>1,0(K) and deputy marshuls 11.127,0 X). The cost of the troops it was Impossible to detail. Their cost represented all the hidden drains to be accounted for. The records showed that at first those officials had been massed in democratic states in tho south and In Now York. Gradually the amount spent in democratic states decreased and the amount in republican doubtful states increased. in Illinois in 1876, when that state first showed signs of breaking her allegiance to the republican party, but tI,IOU was spent In 187S, when the state was doubtful, 1,886 supervisors and 2.4J0 deputy marshals were employed at a cost of 1100,000. In reply to a question by Mr. Cannon (rep., 111.) Mr. Black said every man who wore tho tin star of intimidation was an oppressor. Mr. Johnson (rep., Ind.) spoke in opponition to repeal. He said he wanted to “stigmatize this bill us the climax of all that Is audacious and vicious. It unblushingty assails all that is near and deur to the American heart. It is the unfortunate child of a wretched conspiracy; it is conceived In u spirit contrary to the principles of our government. It Is a proposition to blot out all the laws to protect the purity of the ballot ind a cold-blooded proposition to repeal •11 tho laws making vlolotion* of election laws crimes. To be consistent the democrats should repeal all other laws for the punishment of crime, counterfeiting, robbery and murder."

Mr. Johnson charged the democratic party with boing responsible for violation of the sanctity of the ballot box: with corrupting the conscience of the nation and defying the public will; with forging the Morey lei;r in 1884, with forging the returns in Chicago in the same year that sent Joe Mackin to the penitentiary, with forging returns in Ohio and Indiana, with frauds innumerable in Now York, with deeds of violence In the south. “The party that has perpetrated all these .wrongs now contemplates this climax of their crimes, but let them enjoy their victory without mental or moral reservation. They havo set no limit to their excesses. Tho hour of retribution will coma It will take the party that haq prostituted the power given it for great pnblic purposes and hurl it into oblivion.’’ Mr. Breckinridge (dem., Ky.) followed, and hurled defiance at Mr. Johnson. “If the gentleman is a fair type,” he said, “of the people of bis district, then they cannot be criticised for sending here a man who denounces as infamous a majority of the people of this country. I haws a profound pity for a man who could mako such a speech, who does not believe his countrymen are to be trusted. With this I dismiss him trom my mind and from my speech.” Mr. Johnson interrupted by saying thero were other things which the gentleman from Kentucky would like to dismiss, alluding to the Pollard-Breckinridge breach-of-proir.iso suit Mr. Breckinridge replied that such a remark only 3howed that the gentleman (Mr. Johnson) had no sense of the propriety and decency of public life. Mr. Breckinridge’s speech was devoted largely to the constitutional phase of tho question. These laws, he argued, marked an era; their repeal would mark the beginning of another and a better era. “I io not care to reply to the attacks of the republicans against the democratic party,” said he. “You can't indict a whole people. You no longer indict the south when you attack the democracy, for the time has come when a majority of the representatives from the north are democrats.” On the 29th ult. Mr. Lacy (rep., la.) spoke !• opposition to the repeal of the election laws. He characterized tho measure us an unseemly bill brought in at an unseetply time. This extraordinary session had been called on account of the financial condition of the country. Some thought this had been brought about by the election of 1812, some thought it had been brought about by the tariff. Instead of meeting the financial question as it should be inet, instead of bringing forward a bill to revise the uriff—which the people wore told was an atrocity—this bill was thrust upon the country unexpectedly and wholly uncalled for. There was a difference in the democratic party over the silver question. It was necessary to do something to get the democrats together, and the federal election law repeal bill had been brought forward as the war cry around which th<r party could rally. The pending measure should be entitled a bill “for the protection of corruption and iniquity at elections.” This woultl bo its effect. Mr. Lacy then proceeded to criticise the election methods pursued in certain districts of South Carolina. Mr. McLutirin (dem., S C.) denied the allegations made by the member from lowa relative to the elections in South Carolina. 11c denied that the negroes in that state were deprived of any rights. Some years ago there might have been trouble. But it was not the negro that had made the trouble; it was the carpet-bagger, who had gone, down south. When South Carolina- had got rid of the carpet-baggers, when they had packed their Imps and returned to Massachusetts and other northern states, South Carolina had passed beneficial election laws. The people of South Carolina did not Care whether the federaf election laws were rej ealed.or not. The only reason he was in favor of the repeal was that he believed ihe true way to build up Hits federal government and make it a grand government was to give the people at homo a local self-government. Mr. De Arrnond (dem., Mo.) in advocating the repeal of the election laws said they bad been enacted in order to repress intelligence in the south. They had been passed to put ignorance in power and to relieve intelligence. He said the democrats, proposing the repeal of these laws, were not moving backward: they were moving forward. They were saying that the people should govern, and if it was in tlicir power the people should govern. Mr. Gillette (rep., Mass.) spoke against the bill and referred to the beneficial effects which hud resulted from tho election laws in the city of New York. The member from New York (Mr. Fellows) had said a few days ago, in defending Tammany hall, that if these laws were repealed the democratic majority In New York would be increased by 20,000 votes. Nobody a cused Tammany of anything but the love of spoils. The member had said that I by the repeal of those laws tho democratic majority could be increased. In the opinion of the people the existence of Tammany hall and its overshadowing influence was undesirable and dangerous. The large majority of the people believe It was an unprincipled organization. Mr. Wheeler (dem., Ala) spoke in advocacy of the bill, and argued against the constitutionality of the laws which It was proposed to repeal. Mr. Blair (rep., N. II.) opposed tho measure. He paid a tribute to Mr. Davenport, whom'ha eulogized as being one of tho ablest, most conscientious men who had ever administered the elections lav/s or any other laws. On the 89th ult. Mr. Henderson (rep. la.) read a letter from a friend of his (whose name in advance he declined to give) mentioning ikve counties in western Tennessee where whole sale fraud and violence had been committed by the democrats in 1888. Mr. Patterson (dem., Tenn.) entered a general denial of tills charge, and said the republican party assumed that every negro was a republican. and that if his vote is not counted for the republican party there must be fraud and violence. That was an efttlre mistake. Even the republicans of the south on economic questions voted the democratic ticket ThA republican party, by its legislation, had succeeded in drawing the color line, fund so far as the white people of the south were concerned it was a sectional line. He thought the remedy would be found In* the Australian ballot-box system. If that were adopted thousands of negroes in tho south would vote tha democratic ticket, and thousands of white men would be found voting with the republicans. Let there be kept away from the polls the army, tho supervisors and marshals: and let every citizen, whether he be black or white, go into a booth and determine by himself for whom he would vote. Mr. McCall (rep., Mass.) opposed the bill. The federal election laws should stand because there should be no reactionary legislation; they should stand as an evidence tbut the national government had some regard for its citizens. Mr. McNugny (dem., Ind) advocated the bill, holding that tne judgment of the American people was that tho federal election lawz should be repealed. •Mr. Warner (dem., N. Y.) defended the city of New York, which he said had given a model te tho United States in its registration and its election laws. .The reform of tho election methods had come about by state laws under the construction of the state courts. He asked In behalf of New York state that the federal laws should bo repealed. Mr. Richards, (dem., O.) also advocated the repeal of the election laws. REWARDS TO TRAIN DEFENDERS American Express Company Shows Ifearty Appreciation Os Employes. New York, Sept 27.—President Fargo of the American Express company has authorized tho manager of the company at Chicago to pay SSOO reward to the brake in an who shot one of the robbers who attempted to pillage the express oar oh the Illinois Central train atCentralia September 20, and to divide 91,000 among the conductor, engineer and fireman of the train as a reward for their courage in resisting the bandits, and to pay SIOO for each man at rested proven tp be connected with the attempt te rob. President Fargo hus further instructed that it be considered a standing rule of the company that hereafter similar Amounts will be paid, for similar service.

PAINED AT DELAY. „ The President Astonished st the Non* Action of the Senate on the Repeal Bill —He Writes a Letter Explicitly Stating His Position Regarding Financial Questions. Washington, Sept 28.—A special received from Atlanta, Ga., says that the Constitution publishes a letter from President Cleveland to Gov. Northen, of Georgia, in which tho president states his position on the financial question at some length. The letter is in reply to one written by Gov. Northeu on the 15th inst., presenting a graphic condition of the political situation in Georgia and the south, and urging upon the president the expediency of a public utterance from him more comprehensive than his recent message as to tho proper policy to be pursued by congress upon questions affecting the stringency of the times and the needs of the people. The president’s reply to that letter was received Wednesday evening and ia as follows: “Executive Mansion, Washington, Sept. 85.--Hon. W. J. Northen—My Dear Sir: I hardly know how te reply to your letter of the 15th inst It seems to me that I am quite plainly on record concerning the financial question. My letter accepting the nomination to tho presidency when read in connection with the message lately sent to the congress In extraordinary session appears to me to be very explicit “I want a currency that ia stable and safe Ip the hands of our people. I will not knowingly be implicated in a condition that will justly make me In the least degree answerable to any laborer or farmer in tho United States for a shrinkage in the purchasing power of the dollar he has received for a full dollar's worth of work or for a dollar's worth of the product of his toil. “I not only want our currency to be of such a character that all kinds of dollars will be of equal.purchasing power at home, but 2 want it to be of such a character as will demonstrate abroad our wisdom and good faith, thus placing us upon a firm foundation and credit among the nations of the earth. “I war t our financial conditions aid the laws relating to our currency safe and reassuring, so that those who have money will spend and invest it in business and new enterprises instead ol hoarding it. You cannot cure fright by calling it foolish and unreasonable, and you cannot prevent the frightened man from hoarding his money. “I want good, sound and stable money and a condition of confidence that will keep it in use. “Within the limits of what I havo written I am a friend of silver, but I believe its proper place in our currency can only bo fixed by a readjustment of our currency legislation and tho inauguration o( a consistent ami comprehensive financial scheme. I think such a thing can only be entered upon profitably and hopefully after the repeal of the law which is charged with all our financial wo*s. In tho present state of the public rnfnd this law cannot be built upon nor patched in such a way as to relieve tho situation. “J am therefore opposed to tho free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone and independently, and I am in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the so-called Sherman law. “I confess I am astonished by the opposition in tho senate to such prompt action us would relieve the present unfortunate situation. “My daily prayer is that the delay occasioned by such opposition may nt/l be the cause of plunging tho country into deeper depression than it has yet known, and that tho democratic party may not bo justly held responsible for such a catastrophe. Yours very truly, “Grover Cleveland." TWO WRECK VICTIMS. Keur-End Collision at Bellevue, Mich* with Fatal Results—Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Newtand, of Detroit, Instantly Killed and Five Others Injured. Bk.i.i.kvuk, Mich., .Sept. 28.—A bud accident occurred on the Chicago * Grand Trunk railroad at the- station here on Wednesday by which two lives were lost and five persons injured, one of them probably fatally. The dead are: Henry A. Newland, the wealthy furrier, of Detroit; Mrs. Newland. The injured: William Costles, colored porter, fatally hurt; Howard G. Meredith, of Detroit, cashier of the Chicago & Grand Trunk road, badly injured; Mrs. Meredith, seriously hurt; William' Abernathy, colored cook, slightly; Fireman Jannison, badly scalded. Tho accident happened during a dense fog. Express train No. 5, west bound, which was two hours late, was standing at the station, when it was run into by No. 9, also west bound, •demolishing the pay car, attached to train No. 5. The special ear contained Cashier Meredith and his wife, Henry A. Newland and wife, father and mother of Mrs. Meredith; William Costles, porter, and William Abernathy, cook. Mr. and Mrs. Newland were killed outright in their berths. Tho Newland party left Detroit Tuesday night for a ten days’ visit to the world’s fair. Mr. Newland is the senior member of the firm of Henry A. Newland & Cos., wholesale fur dealers ot Detroit. Mrs. Newland is a daughter of James F. Joy. Train No. 5 was in charge of Conductor J. W. Reid and No. 9 was in charge of Conductor J. W. McCarty. There is no telegraph operator at Olivet and there was no way to signal No. 9 of No. r>’s stop at that station. There was a dense fog at the time of the aeldent and the engineer of No. 9 could not see the lights ahead of him. The cause of the accident is that the two trains were running too close together. Dkthoit, Mich., Sept, 28. —Henry A. Newland had been for forty years engaged in the fur business at Detroit, his honse being at this time the leader in the fur trude here. His wife, who also lost her life, was a daughter of James F. Joy, ex-president of the Wabash railroad. Howard Meredith was cashier of the Graud Trunk railroad hereT All were prominent society people and moved in Detroit's most exclusive circles. Mr. Newland was esteemed to be very wealthy. To Be Called Americana, Dbs Mounts, la., Sept 28.—The national council of the Order of Amer lean Mechanics held three sessions Tuesday. National Councilor Cassidy in his annual address spoke at length on the work of the order. The report of the national secretary showed a decrease In receipts and a falling off in membership. It was decided to celebrate the semi-centennial of the founding of the order In Philadelphia In 1895. A resolution was introduced to change the name from the Order of American Mechanics to the Order of United Americans, tho name mechanics being no longer applicable.

A Matter of Health. Housekeepers faintly realize the danger of an Indiscrim lhate use of the numerous baking powders nowadays found upon every hand, and which are urged upon consumers with such persistency by peddlers and many grocers en aceount of the big profits made in their sale. Most of these powders are made from sharp and caustic acids and alkalies which burn and inflame the alimentary organs and cause indigestion, heartburn, diarrhoea! diseases, etc. Sulphuric acid, caustic potash, burnt alum, all are used as gas-produc-ing agents in such baking powders. Most housekeepers are aware of the painful effects produced when these chemicals are applied ter the external flesh. How much more acute must be their action upon the delicate Internal membranes! Yet unscrupulous manufacturers do not hesitate to use them, because they make a very low-cost powder, nor to urge the use of their powders so made, by all kinds of alluring advertisements and false representations. All the low-priced or sbcalled cheap baking powders, and all powders sold with a gift or prize, belong to this class. liaking powders made from chemically pure cream of tartar and bi-carbon-ate of soda are among the most useful of modern culinary d'evices. They not only make the preparation of finer and moro delicious cookery possible, but they have added to the digestibility and wholesomeness of our food. Hut baking powders must be composed of such pure and wholesome ingredients or they must be tabooed entirely. Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health of New York, in an article in the “Doctor of Hygiene,” indioates that the advantages of n good baking powder and the exemption from the dangers of bad ones in which the harsh and caustic chemicals are used, are to be secured by the use of Royal Baking Powder exclusively, and ho recommends. this to. all consumers. “The Royal,” he says, “contains nothing but cream of tartar and soda refined to a chemical purity, which when combined under the influence of heat and moisture produce pure carbonic, or leavening, gas. The two materials used, cream of tartar anti soda, are perfectly harmless even when eaten, but in this preparation they are combined in exact compensating weights, so that when chemical action begins between them in the dough they practically disappear. the substance of both having been taken to form carbonic acid gas.” Hence it is, he says, that the Itoyal liaking Powder is the most perfect of all conceivable agents for leavening purposes. It seems almost incredible that any manufacturer or dealer should urge the sale of baiting powders containing injurious chemicals in plaeo of those of a well-known, pure, and wholesome character simply for the sake of a few cents a pound greater profit; but sine# they do, a few words of warning seem to be necessary. A One Volume Men. A curious example of generous obstinacy was a stout countryman who inquired for a nice book to read—“one with a stor.y in.” On several being placed before him he examined them attentively, and picked out the middle volume of a “three decker" with the remark: “This 'ere’s my sort. What’s the price?” “Oh,” was the reply, “this is only the second volume; the story goes through three—the set is half a crown.” “llauve a crown! Well, I'll glo ye that for that one book. It's a pretty un enough.” “Hut won’t you have the other two as well? You’d bettor!” “Nnw! I (Isn’t like th’ beginnin' of a story; I can’t get furrud wi’ it An’ 1 don't like th’ endin’; 1 don’t know as 'ow it's corned about liut in th’ middle un I'm into t’ thick of it right off. No. I’ll only tak' th’ middle un; it’ll set me up lor a month." And, cramming the book into his pocket, he put down his half crown and disappeared with a “Good nightl” before thfl other volumes could be given him.— Chambers' Journal. lie Whs Rsvpnfeil. “Up!" shouted a man, as the elevator car dashed past the second floor. "Curse him!” ejaculated the attendant, as he clutched the chock rope and reversed the ear. “It is always the same. That man never calls until I’m past the floor.” The man entered the car complacently. The elevator man slammed the door after him, gave a vigorous pull at the twisted wire Btrund and away shot the elevator toward the tenth story. "Seventh!” shouted the man again, as the car approached the landing,’but the elevator man stirred not a hand. “You didn’t call in time,” said he, “and my orders are against going back for anyone. I’m coming right down again,” and with these few words he rushed the occunant up to the tenth story and back again. He had sought ■nd found revenge.—N. Y. Herald. Saved by a. Marrow Mart In. “Been to lodge, have you, Absalom?” ■aid Mrs. Ratnbo, in a metallic tone of voice. "Yes, m’ dear,” replied Absalom. “What time does the lodge usually let out?" “About—um—about eleven o’clock." “And whut time do you think it is now?” "Er —It's about twelve, isn't it?” “It Is half-past two. Does It take three hours and a half to come home?” “Yes, m' dear. Lodge bodies move ■lowly.” And Mrs Rarabo went gaspingly upstairs to bed.—Chicago Record. Took Him by Hurprlw. “Oh, well,” said a Hartford (Conn.) photographer to a pickpocket who pulled his hat down over his eyes and averted his face, “It doesn't make aoy difference to me whethA you are pho tographed or not. I get paid just the same.” “Is thut so?” exclaimed the fellow, as he looked up in surprise. The photographer nuver got a better picture of u crook than the one he naught that moment —N. Y. Times, To tub farmer, Nature's story-book it t Bsvsr-eudlng cereal.