People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1896 — Did You Ever [ARTICLE]

Did You Ever

A bill to make contracts payable in gold was defeated in the Alabama legislature. S. W. Woodward, Gold Democrat, has been chosen chairman of the McKinley Inaugural Committee. The name of Hon. O. D. Jones Populist, is proposed for Congress in the First Missouri district, to succeed R. P. Giles, (Dem.) deceased. Another Trust was born December sth, when the manufacturers of woodworking machinery, representing a capital of $20,000,000, consolidated. An effort is being made in Louisville, Kentucky, to establish a Free Silver and Reform organ, by selling SIOO,OOO worth of stock in shares of $25 each. Also by means of an annual subscription of $6, payable in advance.

Greater New York is considering owning its Own gas and electric plants, and Ed. M. Grout has also advised municipal ownership of street railways and telephone lines and suggests that the matter be submitted to popular vote. Mr. Bryan is working eighteen hours a day on his book and at his correspondence which has reached as high as 2,500 letters a day. The book is to be called “The First Battle” and the preface, which has been given to the press, is marked by that simplicity of style and modesty of manner that characterizes Mr. Bryan at all times.

Senator Carlysle’s estimates of appropriations required includes $56,000,000 for military and naval extensions; $140,000,* 000 for army and navy pensions, while $31,000,000 covers internal improvements. Total estimates amount to nearly $500,000,000.

Governor-elect Leedy, of Kan sas, has declared for the permanent union of the fusionists in his State and announces that loyalty to the silver cause will be his test in exercising his appointive power. He has appointed a Silver Republican as his private secretary.

The Eastern newspapers are making vicious attacks on Gov-ernor-elect Rogers, of Washington. He has given the railroads in his state to understand that the freight laws were made to be obeyed, hence the howl emitted by the organs of the owners of said roads. Rogers is a Populist and is all right.

The Kansas press dwell at length on the need of the incoming administration in that State being free from all weakness and mistakes. Much interest Is felt in the approaching senatorial contest which is understood to be between Peffer and Breidenthal. Only one delegate Is instructed for Peffer, and the many papers are calling for an expression from the people.

Thos. Reed, the one time “Czar,” has begun to show signs of his old spirit. Hanna and his man McKinley have announced adversely to the passage of the Dingley Bill, and in favor of an extra session of congress. Now comes the man from Maine, who is conceded to be the next speaker, and declares himself in favor of the Dingley Bill and opposed to an extra session.

John D. Rockfeller, backed by the Standard Oil Company, is to erect mammoth rolling mills to compete with Carnegie. A plant costing $10,000,000 is to be located in South Chicago, on land already purchased, having a lake front of 32,000 feet. A fleet of vessels is in course of construction. Carnegie at present controls the manufacture and sale of steel rails, and this new concern claims to be able to put them on the market fifty per cent cheaper than they are furnished at present. Until we can handle them by law, we are glad to see the trusts fight one another.

The condition of the working classes in Canada is so serious that the unemployed have been bolding a meeting at Toronto, where resolutions were passed embodying the following demands; removal of taxes on buildings and personal property; the spending of the $4,000,000 of government surplus in developing mineral resources; the settling of the poor on free lands; the passage of a law establishing a minimum rate of wages at fifteen cents per hour: and a small sum to be provided for superanuated working men.

President Cleveland has been sending a mutual friend to Justice Field to see if that old gentleman, who it is claimed has been incompetent to fulfill any duty attached to his office for ten years or more, would not resign; but the Justice “talked back real mean” and said he would not resign, that Cleveland should never appoint his successor, etc. —and now we are wondering what the President will do with Carlisle for whom it is understood he must provide before retiring.

It seems as if we were not only on a one metal basis but that our government, for the next four years, is to be a one man affair. Hanna has announced to a chosen few in Washington City, that an extra session of Congress will convene the 15th of March, ’97. Claims are made that he has also given assurance of the passage of the Huntington Refunding Bill, during the next six weeks. Time will show if this be true.

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