People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Page 2

Originate Proposed Law Through e Initiative.

PULLMAN CAR PASSES.

More of Them Distributed in Congress Than Ever Before. NO FKMiCUL LEGISLATION THIS SESSION 'The Ineome T»x it at Last Passed by the denote Without Division. NICARAGUA CANAL BILL DEAD. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington. Jan. 18.--The silver men in Congress are mastors of the financial situation to the extent of being able to prevent legislation they do not want, but there is little probability of their power extending and further; hence, the certainty that there will be no financial legislation at this session. There is a scheme on foot to let the whole question rest until a few days before the close of the session and then to attempt to rush a bill through the house and the senate authorizing the issue of bonds at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury. This scheme is the result of a combination of those democrats and republicans who think nearly alike upon financial questions, and will, as a matter of course, be opposed by the silver men. The Frankiny Priv lege Derived Somebody has either been very schrewd or very careless. It has just become known that a < lause in the bill regulating the publication and distribution of public documents, known while before congress as the “printing bill,” which this week received the President’s signature and went into effect as a law, partially revives the franking privilege. The vice president and members and members-elect of congress being allowed to frank letters not exceeding one ounce in weight. Not a word was said about this clause when the bill was before either the house or the senate, and every senator and representative whose attention has been called to it professes ignorance of its having been in the bill, but it is not likely that any of them will on that account fail to take advantage of it.

T» Hhipthr Kffrttt to .4 fri* i. Senator Morgan made a speech at the seventy-eight annual meetin? of the American Colonization Society that has attracted considerable attention, in view of his position in Alabama, where many have insisted that 1 he negro laborers were a necessity. Senator Morgan advanced the opinion in his speech that Ibe most beneficial solution of negro problem, so far as the negro himself is concerned, is to be found in their emigration to Africa, which he declared to be the richest country, in resources, on earth. The senator urged the formation by negroes of a line of steamships to run between Charleston or New Orleans and Africa, and pledged himself if that were done to secure commercial treaties with Siberia and the Free Congo State allowing trade between them and the United States. liberal With Hufi. It is said that more Pullman car passes have been distributed in congre.s during the present session than ever before. It is not surprising that people should connect this liberality with the proposal to put legislative restriction on the charges ma le by sleeping and parlor car companies; also with the failure to push those proposed legislative restrictions. Bill* Ttlkt-B t» Drath

If JSsuator Gorman was coriu saying that only once in Ihe history of the senate has a hill bavin? a majority in its favor—in 1850, when Robert Tombs of Georgia, defeated an appropriation bill holding the floor during tne last two hours of the session —been defeated by failure to reach a vote on it, some m'stakes have been made by th >se w io have assumed to say in advance how all the senators w >aid vote. Measures have certainly failed to reach a vote w hich were supposed by the public to b«> favored by a majority: bm. ot coarse. Senator Gn-n n tn know more about h. than the public. To Impeach J i4ge Biekt Tue aou>ejudiciary comm'ttee has decided by a vote of 7 to 6 to rep »rt a resolution of impeachmost against Judge Ricks, of Ohio. Tle seven votes for impeachment were ail'cast.by demujrats. except one. Representative U pdegraff. of lowa, who is a' republican; and the six votes against impeachment were all

cast by democrats, except one, representative Updegraff of lowa who is a republican, and the six votes against impeachment were all cast by republicans except that of Representative Goodnight of Kentuckey. who is a democrat. Representative Bailey, of Texas, will draw up the resolution of impeachment. .¥• .4 twopriation for the Niearajua Canal It begins to look as though the Nicaragua canal bill is dead so far as this session of congress is concerned. The bill has been steadily losing ground, even in the senate, ever since it was pointed out that no official government investigation had ever been made, either of the feasibility of the proposed canal, the money already spent by the canal Company, or, of what has actually been done towards building the canal company. There is much more probability that congress will merely authorize an official investigation to be made than that it will pass the canal bill. If such an investigation was thoroughly made some very interesting things would oe found out. The income tax appropriation went through the senate without a division. You who worship at the political shrine of the Inter Ocean, please note, that it advises you to read Coin’s Hand Book, a standard populist treatise upon finance. Note also that the Inter Ocean's editorials are as offensively cranky on the subject of free silver and greenbacks as the populist platform itself, and if you have time, just read the leading editorial of Sunday. Jan. 13, 1895, which is reprinted in this paper—it actually shocks the nervous system of the faithful. so have your smelling bottle handy.

The Union Pacific railroad is to be sold to satisfy its first mortgage of $32,000,000. That is what is threatened providing the government does not extend its second mortgage of over $100,000,000 for fifty years. It is fair to presume that congress will maintain the sweet harmony of its record by granting that robber octopus everything it asks for. It is safe to say that Uncle will never receive a dollar back of she millions it loaned the company.

The Inter-Ocean believes in restoring silver to its old coinage rights: it calls the demonetization of silver by John Sherman in 1873 a fraud; it repudiates the financial policy of both the old parties; it takes back what it said in 1893 when it urged repeal; it has a good word for greenbacks. And are these not fundamental demands of the populists? The Pullman company has ♦40.000,000 worth of property upon which it pays no taxes, yet it put the state of Illinois to great expense last summer in its labor difficulty. It is to such tax dodging corporations that the graduated income tax would so beaiitifully apply. Revolution to restore a monarchy in Hawaii is but the natural result of the government’s friendliness to the royalists.

WIND PLAYS HIGH JINKS.

Fierce Storm Feeiiee Over Leaver Nuareme Traces ia Its Wake. Chicago, Jan. 22. —At V:4O ocloqjc yesterday the high wind tore loose sections of weather boarding from the fourteenth story of the Fort Dearborn building, in course of erection at the southwest corner of Clark and Monroe streets. Several people were knocked down and hurt, one man beingl probably fatally hurt. Following’ are the names of those more serioobly hurt: H. 11. Erwin. 64 Adams street, head cut and Internal injuries, thought to be fatal; John R. burke, ticket broker. 165 Clark street, arm broken and scalp w ounds', Frank Woodward. teamster, knocked from wagon and slightly injured; A. J. Donaldson, Lukes.de building, head cut; William Lucius, primer, Grand hotel, scalp wounds; H. S. Letcher, employe of Kinsley's restaurant, slightly injured; George Ray. IV years old. Several others were struck by flying boards, but were not injured sq badly as to require attention.

Requisition for Sidney Cooper.

Spring riKi.n. 111., Jan. 22.-—Gov. Altgeld to-day issued a requisition upon the governor of Missouri for the extradition of Sidney Cooper, wanted at Chicago for murder and under arrest at Kansas City.

Italy to Shaken Again.

Romb, Jan. 22.—Several shocks of earthquake were felt at Reggio di Calabria, Messina, and other places in that vicinity last evening* The extent < Mt om.

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Vader the Papal Ban.

The edict regarding certain fraternal secret societies was recently read in St. Augustine’s Catholic church here by the Rev. Father Stanislaus. As the public knows it requires Catholics to choose between the church and these societies, among which are the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. A prominent Catholic when asked to say something in regard to this much discussed matter, said: “I regret very much that the differences between the Church and the fraternal societies could not have been adjusted; The matter could have been arranged if the societies had not refused to submit their constitution and teachings to the pope that the Church might judge whether there was anything detrimental to the Catholic faith. This the committee agreed to do, when two years ago, the fraternities sent it to Baltimore to meet the congress of bishops. Catholics of America generally, and the bishops especially, are anxious to have the ban removed, as there is a feeling that affiliation through the societies tend to break down religious prejudice, which mars, to a great extent, the social intercourse of communities. The decree will probably not be altered until the constitution is submitted.”

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue. Charles Ye >nian. Rensselaer... ..I 1 00 Win. T. Walters. “ 50 A. T. Kopp, “ 1 00 H. W. Illff, “ 2 00 Warner Miller. " 100 John Groom. •• 1 00 Harry Jacobs. •• 50 Win. P. Baker, " 1 00 Mrs. Mary Travis, •• 50 L. Strong. “ 1 00 George R. Dickinson, Remington 1 00 T. Z, McMurray. ” 2 00 I>. W. Michaels. Brook 100 W. Hudson, Virgie 100 D. E. Hudson, “ 1 00 S. A. Brusnahan. Parr 1 00 Mrs. S. M. Petit. Wheatfleld 1 00 Ed Welsh. Reding. Cal 1 00 Miss Clara Baker. Morocco 25 Mrs H. I). Clark, Fowler 1 35 Joseph Smith, Knltnan 1 00 Win. Lcwark, •• 50 George, Andrews. Surrey.... 1 00 C. Hchatxley. Sloatsburg 1 00 Austin Moore, pleasant Ridge 1 00 George Smith. <?. 1.25 Mrs. E. R. Talbott. Syracuse. Neb....... 1 00 NEW KI’HSCIUUEIIS. J. M. McFarland,Catlin 25 Geo. Pannell, Glendora, Mich 25 James Hoach. Zard 25 Purls Daugherty, Rensselaer 25 Frank Sunderland, “ L 5 Jesse. Deweese, " Marion Albin. Tefft 25 Chas. Garriott. Danville 50 Lou Worland. Rensselaer 1 04 Joseph Sparling, “ 1 00

THE ROUND-UP.

A man was sent to the work-house for thirty days for taking off his shirt on Fifth avenue, Pittsburg. The breechloading rifle is over 300 years old, but the principle only became general aft sr gun barrels were rifled. During his pres ent term of office as justice of the peace*Squire Jacob Kiser of Gaston, N. C., has married 172 couples. Utah has 3,000,000 acres of arable lands watered by 1,000 miles of canals. One canal, that of Bear river, cost <2,000,000. The best crop of grass found on most farms in Iceland is ou the roofs of huts, which are roofed with brick bark covered with earth. The longest diStßnice a letter can be carried within /the limit* of the United States is from Key West, Fla., to Ounalaska, 4,3*1 miles; and all for two cents. To prevent thll Evaporation of water in tire pails it has been discovered that fifteen to twenty drops of oil •will form a coating sufficient to ob viate the difficulty. Out of a family of nine at Newcastle, England, eight are still living. The eldest is ninety-one and the youngest aeventy-aix. The average age of the family is eighty-two. Pioquinto Miranda of Colombia. Central America, is living, blind and helpless, at the age of 122. One of his neighbors is 105 years oid and still able to work at knitting with coarse thread. In a murder trial at Dusseldorf lately the jury, after being locked up, mt-.de its way out through a window and went to a beer saloon, where it agreed on a verdict The result is an appeal for a new trial. Out of Yale’s 2,413 students in all departments, 738 come from Connecticut F 2« from Massachusetts, 147 from Pennsylvania, 531 from New York, 120 from Illinois, I£3 from Ohio, and ninety from New Jersey. The rest come from nearly every state in the union, and from sixteen foreign countries. A blow has been struck at the cigarstub industry in France. A manufacturer of tobacco made from castaway butts was charged in the courts with defrauding the revenue by not I (Saying the duty. He claimed that I the tobacco had already paid duty once, but the coart decided against him, and he had to pav the fine.

Real Estate Transfers.

Israel B. Washburn to Wm. -EMoore, May 8, pt w| nw 30-29-A 8| acres, Rensselaer, $463. Letitia F. Robinson to W. B. Austin, July 9, nw 22-31-5, Gillam, sl. Alfred C. Robinson to Frank B. Vennum, Dec. 19, 560 acres in 25-31-5, Gillam, $1,500. E. W. Gifffford to W. F. Swayze, Nov. 20, pt ne nw 30-29-6, Rensselaer, $2,500. Jacob D. Rich to Wm. D. Bringle, Jan. 9, pt nw se, pt sw ne 21-28-7, 30 acres, Jordan, S9OO. A. Leopold to Arthur Anderson, Dec. 24, It 14, bl 5, C. &M. add, Remington, $l5O. Frederick R. Burr to Moses A. and Frank E. Ray, Dec. 21 , w 4 sw, e£ sw, w| se 20-28-7, Jordan, $9,000. Alfred Thompson to Geo. A. Rushton, Jan. 10, se ne 23-28-6, 40 acres, S2OO. Mary M. Queery to Preston M. Queery, Dec. 26, e side el se, e side se ne 35-31-5, 57 acres, Gillam, SI,OOO. Abraham Leopold to Henry Mackey, Jan. 1, Its 5,8, bl 11, Leopold’s add, Rensselaer, S3OO. Phillip McElfresh to James T. Morris, Feb. 9, 1856, w| pw 14-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, slls. Jos. Radamacher, Bishop of Ft. Wayne, to Henry Leurs, Jan. 4, nw ne 6-28-6, 54j acres, Marion, $550. Mary Tinker to Alfred C. Robinson, Jan. 3, sf wl nw 14-31-6, nf 23-31-6, 880 acres, Walker, $7,040. Ethan A. Bartoo to William Corah, Jan. 10, nw nw 36-27-7, 40 acres, Carpenter, $3,000. Priscilla Anderson, et al, by Frank Foltz, com’r, to James H. Anderson, Jan. 9. w 4 nw ne, ne nw 24-40-7, Union, commissioners deed, $1,125. James H. Anderson, et al by Frank Foltz, com’r, to Priscilla Anderson, Tan. 9, e$ nw ne 2430 7, Union, comr’s deed, $375. Stephen L. Winget by Adm’r, to Francis Marion Bingham, Nov 30, nj sw 12-28-6, 80 acres, Milroy, $l,lOO. Wallace Robinson to Wm. C. Babcock, Nov. 21, It 15, bl 25, Weston’s add, Rensselaer* $125. Wm. B. Austin to Wm. C. Babcock, Dec. 13, Its 13, 14, bl 25. Weston’s add, Rensselaer, $250. ' ■‘‘ r '

Lawrence Bixenman, Jan. 10. Its 8,6, 10, bl 7, Fair Oaks, $260. August Deprez and Anna Magill and husband to Mary Deprez, Dec. 11, und |, und | s| se 29- and of ne ne 32-30-5, 14,000. John L. Turner to Dora E. Nicholson, Nov. 1, n side nw sw 28-28-7, 35 acres, Barkley, 1837. Samuel E. Sparling to Willard Stockwell, June 23, 1893, n| sw 10-28-6, 80 acres, Milroy, 51,400. Levi S. Renicker to Sherman Renicker, Jan. 16, n side se 830- 45 acres, Barkley, $1,300. Willie V. Hudson to David E. Hudson, Jan. 9, ’93, und f se 3431- 160 acres, Union, 51,200. Irene R. Nelson to Anna B. Vogel, Jan. 8, und | It 3. bl 2, Remington, S4O. John W. Paxton, guard., to to Anna B. Vogel, und flt 3, bl 2, Remington, S4O. Matilda Farmer to Joseph Schertz, Dec. 8, nw 22-28-5, 160 acres, 54.100. Nelson Randle to Wm. P. Baker, Jan. 16, pt ne nw, 20-29-6, Rensselaer. Its on Weston street, SI.OOO. Wm. P. Baker to Nelson Randle, Jan. 16, Its 5,6, 7,8, bl 36, Weston’s, add, Rensselaer, $2,900. Wm. T. Walters to Jas. E. Walters, Jan. 18, s| sw nw 1428- 20 acres, Milroy, S3OO. Arthur N. Bailey to Howard A. Williams, Jan. 5, el se, 2829- ne ne 33-29-5, 110 acres, Hanging Grove, 54.800. Alfred W. Hopkins to Henry Walker, Jan. 11, sf, sw 19-32-6. 80 acres, Wheatfield. $1,200. A. C. Robinson to Francis L. Fiske and Isaac N. Beem, Jan. 12. wf nw, s 4 14-31-6, nf 23-31-6, 880 acres, Walker, $25,000. Julia A. Day to Hiram Day, Jan. 19. pt Its 2,3, bl 44, Weston’s add, Rensselaer, S9OO. John F. Garriott to Chas. W. Garriott, Feb. 19. 1892, nw sw 19-30-6, 40 acres, Union, S4OO.

Marriage License.

Marriage licenses issued since last reported: ( William Denton. i Mary E. Delaney. J Levi N. Miller. I Wonnie L. Goldsberry. j Jesse H. Sayler. ( Keturah Adams.

Shot and Sholl. This is o jfi of the finest campaign documents for distribution at this, beason of the yea'-. By all means include it in your orden- -for literature. Price single copy,. 10c., per dozen, 75c., am she Pilot office. The Searchlight — Henry'Vi ncent’s powerful reiorm weekly, the up-to-date populist ca mpaagner— than which there is no better published—always full of forceful argument, doubly clinched points and the latest news from the front—never camped but marching in the procession—price >l.oo—clubbed with the Pilot both foi! $1.50. For sale at ibis office; paper cover 26c; cloth 50c. Shylock’s Daughter. ByAL-a-gret Holmes Bates. Illustrated with elev» n draw': igs by Capt. Rowley. This book is, to begin with, thorou. »hlo well written love story, with an interesting pl >t and Jlife like characters. Whoever begins it will read it through. When he has road it, if he is already a Populist, he will overflow with enthusiasm, while if he was a Republican or a Democrat he will have many things to think over. The Referendum Movement. Parties who are interested in the subject o ' the Initiative and Referendum, as now in operation in a 1 the cantons of Switzerland should read “Direct Legislati n,” a 25 cent pamphlet which can be had at this office. It : a subject of vital import 1o every one and should be care ally considered before it is condemned. It is exceedingl;. simple in its application Io American states and should i treated with the same nonpartisan spirit that was given 1 he Australian ballot. Through it every man would be a law n uker direct, with as little expense to the state as any elect ton of officers now is. s 5 VOX POpull is a 16-page publication, and more than half of each issue is given to p ctures and striking cartoons. The statistical matter of each single number is worth more than the subscription price so an entire year ($1.00). The circulationdt Vox Populi is general throughout the United States. Every leading populist takes it. In the campaign of 1895-6 it will appeal to the eye and the intellect of more people than any other journal ? u the nation. Whether poor or well off, you cannot afford > do without Vox Popuki. Single copies are sold at 10 cei ts, but any subscriber to the People’s Pilot who wishes a s unple copy, can get the same by stating that they are subsc hbers and sending 4 cents in stamps to cover postage, etc., io Vox Populi, St Louis. Mo. Voy Populi will be clubbed with the People’s Pilot, both papers for $1.65. All Pilot subscribers who are already paid up will be supplied with Vox Populi for 65c. at the Pilot office. The Baltimore Plan, now practically endorsed by President Cleveland, is a trading universal attention because it is based on the evic nt fact that the currency and banking systems of the counti must be reformed. But is the Baltimore plan a reform? It give the associated banks the power to expand the cun t ncy and relieve the country. It also gives them the power to jontract it at will and create widespread distress for their <n -n private gain. It puts the credit of the gc eminent behind every bank note. It donates all but hal of one per cent of the profit on the note issue of the banks. ; nd it leaves plenty of opportunities for a Napoleon of Fi t ance to wreck a bank and leave the government to pay toe notes. It leaves the banks free to demand the highest interest that the several states will allc w, and afford no relief to farmers and business men of moderate capital. Contrast with this THE HILL BANKING SYSTEM. In “Money Found,” an exceedingly valuable and instructive book. Hon. Thomas E. Hill proposes that the govern* ment open its own bank in every large town or county seat in the United States, pay 3 per cent on long time deposits, receive deposits subject to check without interest, and loau money at the uniform rate as 4 per cent to every one offering security worth double the amount of the loan. This plan is not an expense to the government, but a source of large revenue. It secures the government amply, which the Baltimore plan does not. It relieves the distress of the common people, which the Baltimore plan does not. It protects not only note-holders but depositors, who are unsecured now under the Baltimore plan would be still worse off. In a word, the Baltimore plan is in the interest of the ' bankers, the Hill Banking System is iu the interest of the people. Consider them both, and ask your congressman to vote : for the ©ne you believe in.

Enact Law Through the Referendum.