Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — Page 7

VICTORY AHEAD.

Words of Cheer and Comfort Uttered by Republican Orators at the Detroit Banquet ETarts Points Out the Road to Sue* cess, and Foraker Excites to Patriotic Endeavor. V t Logan States the Democrats Shed Innocent Blood to Obtain Power— Blaine's Sanguine Letter. The Michigan Club—a Republican organization having its membership throughout Michi-gan-held its first anniversary at Detroit on Washington's birthday. Senator Thomas W. Palmer presided. He sat at the center of the raised table. On his right were Senators Evarts, Conger, Manderson, ex-Congressman R. G. Horr, and other Michigan men. On his left were Senator Logan, Gov. Alger, Gov. Foraker, ex-Gov. David H. Jerome, Congressman Guenther, and others. ' < The exercises were opened by Senator Palmer. He said the Michigan Club did not consist of a coterie of politicians. He paid a tribute to the party and animadverted upon the causes of its successes and failures. His first applause was received when he referred to the labor question. It was, he said, the habit of those whose council fires were once held whore this banquet was being held to place their ears to the ground to hear the approach of friend or enemy. “It is onr duty to-night to place our ears to the ground and listen to the sound of tho great wage-work-ing element of the country. Against the Republicans is pitted a pirty that, like the Chinese, is always looking over its shoulder.” Tho Senator scored the Democratic party in its rank, its file, and its leadership.

SENATOR EVARTS’ EFFORT; Gov. Alger delivered a short address of welcome, and then Senator Palmer introduced Senator Evarts, who spoke to the toast, “Washirgton, tho Nationalist." The Senator was greeted with tumuliubus applause as he stood up, which continued for several moments. He was listened to with the closest attention, and often and loudly interrupted by applause. He said that when he heard the club was founded after the great defeat he knew that it was not founded fdprbventllereatTTmt Insure future victory. The campaign of the Republican party bet an the night of the day the Republican party was defeated. This statement was justified in the fact that since then success Imd erowned the efforts of the party in the great States of Ohio, Illinois, and New York. Nothinghad beeu lost,unless in the speaker’s own great State, where ibcould scarcely be called a defeat that only 10,000 mar jority should follow on the tread of a great national Democratic victory. When the issue is present* d on groat Federal question- tho Senator declared that New York is not doubtful. In paying an eloquent tribute to the memory of Washington the speaker said it did n< t become any one party to claim the honor of his work. The luster which his honor all the people of the world belongs to all. The fidelity of the Republican party to all the true interests of the country, its suppression of the rebellion, its fidelity %o principle, its high sense of duty and adherence thereto, received a glowing tribute from tho Senator. Washington was a patriot and a lover of his country, but a lover of it because of its union and its strength. The country which he loved and for which he labored he never thought could be preserved by cleaving it apart or handing it down to’posterity in fragments. But in less than three-quarters-of a century afteirthe death of Washington this country was tattered aueftom by the greatest civil war the world has ever known. But great as the throat, great as the peril, great as the. pangs, there was something greater than all—the glory, the fame df Washington. It was not to be that his memory and that of all his great compatriots be.disgraced. Mr. Evarts said that his acquaintance with Detroit was through a knowledge of its history, which he briefly reviewed from tho time it was a frontier fort. Hisi former visit was when he hud passed, through it to and from the Chicago Convention when Abraham Lincoln was nominated. It was the only convention, State or national, itv which ho had participated. To his mind the Lincoln convention came nearest in importance to that which framed the Declaration of Independence. The latter supplemented the former. The sober, thoughtful people of tho North were confronteed with the fact that the Union was threatened. The convention saw that every other issue must stand aside until it was determined whether this wns a country of freedom and equality. Never since, thank God, had the Republican party been out of power until now, and what is tho Republican party going to do about it? Tho party, he said, war imbued with the same principles and weighted with the Bame responsibilities. Tho same duties must be performed and the samo responsibilities met. The sooner this is determined upon and all minor issues cast aside the sooner will the party regain control of the affa rs ol the nation on the same necessities that compelled the Republican party bo assume them in 1860. He administered n scathing rebuke to the Democratic party. It was without principles. Where are its principles, he asked, save to gain the offices of the country? Where are its representative men? Where are its leaders? Where are its delegates in Congress ? They show the same position, the same issues, and the same antagonisms they did twenty-five years ago. For the Republican party, tho speaker said that its animatiugprincipies, its motives, its patriotism, were the same as in 1860. Standing upon its principles and record, there was no use of being mealymouthed about the situation which the Republican party is confronting. Though there are not the grave and perilous surroundi- gs of 18t;0, yet the nation caiinot stand still. It must go forward or decline. If the Republican party is weary of well-doing, the past is not secure and the future will bring disaster. The three great underlying principles that make a great people now are education, industry, and suffrage. They must act in unity to accom--plish that harmony which is sought for. The Republican party, the speaker declared, must declare in favdr <jf the proteotion.of American labor. Education must bo universal. Suffrage must be not a name, but absolute in every part of the country. Minor questions must not seduce the voters from the Republican party election day. That party would be responsible, if the country is not maintained, that saved and seeks to perpetuate it. If iu the next campaign the control of the Government in the Legislative and Executive branches is not secured by the Republicans,' it will be from their weakness, not from the strength of the Democratic party. [Great applause.] GOV. FORAKER’B REM ARES.

Gov. J. B. Foraker, of Ohio, responded to "Our State Governments: Their Gelation to the National Government nnd to Each Other." The Governor made a review of the limited duties and power of Governors. As the direct agents in the government of G 0.000.000, the State Governments constitute one of the most important parts of the complicated system. The character of the Union as .establishing the duties of the States toward each other was eloquently and forcibly set forth. In thorough Satriotism to the country the Governor saw the est guaranty of a mutual observance of the duties which the States comprising it owe to one another. The history of the events by which the supremacy of the National Government was established and the doctrine of State rights was ’done away with was reviewed to the,civil war, which finally obliterated it. The record of the Democratic party as the advocate of that doctrine was arraigned and rebuked, while the annals of the Republican partv as the champion of the cause of the Union wqre summed up in a telling review that was frequently interrupted 'by outburst? of applause. Appomattox furnished the whole answer as to' the relationship of the States to the General Government. The Governor a allusion to the old stalwarts of the party, and particularly to Zachnrlah Chandler, evoked the most prolonged applause and cheers. “The American Citizon, Native and Adopted,” was the toast to which Congressman Richard Guenther of "Wisconsin responded. To him the toast was fnll of sentiment nnd moaning. As S Congressman warmed to his Bnbject and d the tribute of i n udoptod citizen to the intry of his adoption It was noted that he Was the first speakor of the evening to whom Senator Rvarts had lent a listening ear. He made a strong piea for the adopted citizen and receivod the close attention of all.. QEN. DOOM'S WARM RECEPTION. “Marching Through Georgia" was then sung by the Ariou Quartet and the entire audience. Then Senate T Logim was introduced. A perfect storm of applause greeted him os he arose to respond. The people stood up-and wave] their handkerchiefs and clieo r ed tilts the Senator gracefully inrticated-his deidre to be heard. 'Silence was instantly restored, but there was more cheering betwe fee began to speak: It waa now after 11 o'clock, and the audience had begun to •how signs of weariness, but interest was re-, stored in all its vigor whey the Senator arose, He replied to the toast, "Washington the . Republican—he believed in the voice of the. people,, which ,can only be heard through a fair ballot and an honest ooont," -There seemed to be an inspiration in the yeOs of greeting, and the General opened In bis happiest vein. He returned thanks for the

hearty greetings always given him by the people of Detroit He had' come not toiteqph but to be taught. With such an anditn-'e as was before him it required no oracle to tell the future of Michigan. It was true that a party conld not live upon its record, but with the glorious record that had marked the pathway of the Republican party in its patriotism and faithfulness to the true interests of the people it oonld not die. j ! The Senator forgot his toast, and it was read to him again, when ha created a laugh by Baying texts and tohsta were but pretexts to fire a man off. There were certain things which the General proposed discussing regardless of the wording of the toast. Tie declared that there does not exist in the Democrut c party the power or the intelligence to defeat the Republican party, but the Republican party has within itself the power to defeat itself. The Democratic'. party has grown aggressive, while the Republican party, which once held the aggressive, has gradually receded, yielding vant-age-ground until defeat was finally encountered. The trainmg of the South has been to seek power in the State and the Government. This is because the Southerners have given more aid and comfort to Northern Democrats than to Northern Republicans. Northern Democrats are increasing in number. are looking after onr private interests, the Democracy is looking for the power which it covets. As to the question of living issue's, the principal one was that between honesty and dishonesty. The Government as it now exists is a sham. Its great corner-stone, ns laid by the fathers, was a Government by and for the people. It was not to be ruled by a few, but by all the people of the entire Government. A decision by a majority of the people of the Government is the will of the people, and should be respected. At wio time within several years has the voice of the entire people been heard in the affairs’ of Government. If a Republican was prevented from voting,to that extent the will sf the people was thwarted and the ends of the Government defeated.

The memory of Washington, as a republican, the Senator spoke of in his most eloquent language. In st ujding for a fair ballot and an honest count, he said he had been accused of shaking some kind of sanguinary garment. Well, he had prepared some figures. They were to show that he had spoken truly In saying that this is a sham Government; that it is not a Government of the people, because the Democracy has closed the ballot-box to the honest voters of the land. Where there has bepu fraud, bulldozing, bloodshed and riot to defeat the will of the people it had come from Democratic sources. There were men in the Illinois Penitentiary for this offense. It is so in Ohio. The Democrats of the North say. we too will resort to tissue ballots, stuffed-ballot-boxes, and other frauds. The Democrats of the North, as they always have been, are but the tail of the Democratic party of the South. After stating the principle of representation as based upon population, the speaker proceeded to show that the population in many States . was misrepresented through the power of „he dominant party exercised outside the ballot-box and outside their rights as law-abiding citizens. The figures which demonstrated the charges made against the Democratic party were produced in a comparison of the population and votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi of the South, and Michigan, Illinois, lowa, and Minnesota of the North. Numerous other comparative figures were produced, all tending to show that in the South the popular will was defeated through Democratic disregard of law, and that the Southern Democratic States by their course procured a much larger relative representation than Northern Republican States. Over 780,000. votes in nine Southern States were not repro-" sented, and they comprised the Republicans who were defrauded of their rights of citizenship. Tliis meant that the negro vote was rejected. It meant that the Constitution was defied. It meant that tho men who, by rebellion, forfeited their rights to vote were depriving the negroes of that right, but as sure as fate there will come a time when this thing must stop. Some time there will be a candidate for President who would not permit his men to be thus driven from the polls. He hoped the curso of war would never again he brought upon the people, but the same causes that precipitated the rebellion are again at work. The South is unified by the Democracy. The Senator said he had grave fears for the future. Every Republican that loves his country, that believes in this Union, every man who believes that the glory of this country belongs to her sons, should come forward and say, “I am for law and order. lam for the Republican party.” The Democratic party never had principles. It is bound to England in the mutter of free trade. Manacles for the limbs of men was another of their ideas. The acquisition of power, regardless of the means adopted to that end, has animated it. It got into power through the hypocritical claim of' civil-service' reform. A pretty reform it is. Said the Senator:

“Ii Mr. Cleveland wants reform—and I speak with all respect to him—let him reform the Democratic party. Let him give a free ballot to the South. Let him workp>form in his own household. Thev even attempt reform from tho time of Washington down.* Tho cry against tho centralization of power in Congress has been a bugbear long held by the Democracy. ’Now they shut themselves up and say that we cannot see the papers affecting fho interests of the people. The people want to know what was charged against these men who have been turned out by a reform administration. They say we cannot. We, as representatives of the people, sav that we will see them, and we will. This is as far as this administration has got in reform. ” By way of conclusion the Senator admitted that he and Senator Evarts had an ulterior motive in visiting Michigan. Mr. Evarts wanted to correct his sentences and tho gentleman from Illinois to correct his grammar. [Great laughter and applause.] He wished the Republican party of Michigan would prosper to that degree which it deserved. Senator C. F. Manderson, of Nebraska, responded to the toast, “Our New Empire, the Rowdy West.” MR. BLAINE’S REGRETS. The Hon. James G. Blaine wrote, expressing regrets at his inability to attend, in whicli he said: “It will give pleasure to Republicans* throughout the country to observe organized determination on the part of their Michigan brethren to 10-establish their old strength and prestige in tho State. I nm sure you will find complete victory within your grasp, and if Ido not mistake tho signs of the times yon will receive in your good work some valuable aid from our political opponents. ” Senators Sherman, Harrison, Mahone, Hale, Frye, Sabin, Edmunds, Allison, and Congressmen Phelps, Kelley, and others sent letters of regret. Gen. J. C. Fremont was especially sorry, b cause he wished to discuss “the question of labor, which is seriously threatening tho peace of ti e country." Among others were ex-Pres-ident Arthur, the Hon. Roscoe Conkiing, the Governors of lowa, Illinois, and Massachusetts, Chauncey M. Depew, Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gen. Sheridan.

“That Reminds Us.”

The Democracy started out with the warcry, “Turn the rascals out!” That was.rich. Mr. Cleveland declared, “a public office is a public trust.” In thg light of after events this was luscious. Then he declared no official would be removed without cause, and refuses to furnish to the body that must act on the cases the causes tor the removals and suspensions. This is immense. He has secured the hatred of the mugwumps, the dislike of the Jacksonian Democrats, and brought dbwn on his head the wrath of the most powerful and influential journals of his own party. This is good. He has split np and. hopelessly divided his own party on the silver and tariff questions. As Abraham Lincoln would have said, this reminds us of an old story. A sleight-of-hand performer reached a certain town autL advertised his entertainment. When came the show opened to an audience composed of two sailors who carried a poll-parrot. The ambidexterous artist was a man of nerve, however, and decided to go ahead. „ He opened out with a startling optical illusion. „One sailor nudged the other and whispered, “That’s good. Jack! Wonder what will come next?" Then other performances followed, and the sailor each time showed his appreciation by exclaiming, “Infernal good, Jack! Wonder what’s next?” Finally there was a grand transformation scene, with red, white, and bine lights, in which a spark dropped down in a keg of powder under the stage, nnd stage, performers, and audience were blown up a hundred feet in the air—the duly thing possessing life that i was not killed being the parrot. It was landed a hundred yards from the scene, and, with its feathers all turned the wrong way, its eyes filled with powder, and generally demoralized, it lifted its drooping head, and feebly and hoarsely croaked, “That’B d—d good! Wonder what comes next?”—Chicago Ttibune. ■ ■■ ■ The President will find the Senate a very difficult body to bulldoze. He will be glad to sublet the contract before the bloom is oh the Tje.—Philadtlphia Press.

CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. 1 i A bill appropriating 9250,000 for the relief of settlers in Nebraska and Kansas who have been deprivod of their lands by a prior grant to the Northern Kansas Railroad, and a biU allowing one or more officers of the army to accept temporary service under the Corean Gove mm nt, with compensation therefor, passed the Senate Feb. 24. The Senate also passed the bill permitting national banks to change by a vote of two-thirds of thoir shareholders, . and with the consent of the Comptroller of the Currenoy, their names, capital stock, and lo&ation, provided the location shall not be changed to another State nor to a place more than thirty miles distant from the original looation. The bill gave rise to considerable debate, during which Senator Beck (Ky.) insisted that the control of the matter should be given to the Secretary of the Treasury, instead of the Comptroller of the Currency. He charged past Comptrollers with having 8 mght to drive out of business every bank that was not a national bank. They had always done the work of the nationul banks, and when they, resign d they went into those banks. One of them had no sooner left the Government service than he became President of a national bank, and an—other became Vice President of a national bank, a The House passed the half-gallon tax bill without a division. Mr. Butt3rworth (Ohio) offered a substitute in the shape of a bill amending the Carlisle bill by requiring the minimum capacity of the packages into which spirits may be drawn to be thirty gallons instead of ten, but the substitute was rejected. The House passed also the bill to quiet the title of settlors cn the Des Moines River lands in lowa, and the bill annexing a portion of Idaho to tho Territory of Washington. The Committee on Public Lands reported favor ibly the bill forfeiting certain grants to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Murphy, of lowa, called up tho Hennepin Canal bill and mado a speech in its support. By means of the propos' d canal, he said, the wheat of six West urn .States co.iid be transported to the seaboard at a saving of six cents a bushel. If the canal were built the people of the Northwest would save enough in one year to build the canal two or three times over. The United States had formidable competitors in the Liverpool market, and if the rates of transportation were not reduced it would soon find itself without that market.

The bill granting lands in severalty to certain Indians passed the Senate Feb. 25. Mr. Edmunds introduced the bill reported last year from the Foreign Affairs Committee providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food and drink, and authorizing the President jto prohibit by proclamation in his discretion products of countries unjustly discriminating against American products, Mr. Frye, from the Committee on Commerce, reported favorably the bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Staten Island Sound, known as Arthur Kill, and to establish the same as a post-rood. This is the measure in which the Baltimore * Ohio is interested in obtaining entrance into New York City, _ The Bland educational bill was debated. The House indulged in p, warm partisan debate over the pension Appropriation hill. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, said that the hill appropriated 375,754,200, or about 315,000,000- more than was appropriated last year—a fact due to the accelerated work being done in the Pension Office. Mr. Henderson of lowa took issue with Mr. Townshend, declaring that the average appropriation for pensions in the last six years was 377,449,000. He then began a long partisan speech, in which he criticised the ’ letter of Commissioner Black on the subject of arrearages of pensions, which, ho said, had been telegraphed all over the country twentyfour hours before it was sent to the Appropriations Committee, “with a 393,000,001 lie in its Stomach.” Mr. Henderson defended ex-Com-missioner Dudley’s administration of the penslon office, and in speaking of the charges of partisanship Messrs. Warner, of Ohio, and. Randall, of Pennsylvania, replied briefly to Mr. Henderson. The former renewed the charges of partisanship and neglect of, duty to conduct political campaigns made against ex-Commissioner Dudley. Mr. Randall thought that the -Southern m embers had shown a wonderful, full-hearted disposition to pension veterans and widows of vet: runs. Mr. Browne, of Indiana, defended Mr. Dudley. The postoffice and military- academy approirriation bills were reported to the House. The latter appropriates $297,805, or 3114,270 loss than the estimates. The Hennepin Canal bill was up in the House again. Messrs. Murphy, of lowa, and Rowell, of Illinois, mode speeches in its support. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, spoke in the Senate, on the 2Gth inst., in support of his antiChinese bill. The Blair educational bill was debated, after which tho Senate adjourned. The House had a lively session. Mr. Morrison, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution that a select committee of nine mombors be tippointed to inquire into the Pan-Electric telephone matter and report whether any‘officer of the Government has been improperly influenced. Mr. Gibson, of West Virginia, bitterly criticised Mr. Pulitzer, whom he accused of shrinking behind the columns of his newspaper to attack men instead of attacking them on tho floor of the House. Mr. Morrison said: “As a friend of the officer supposed to be most affected (if anybody is to lie affected by this investigation), having unlimited confidence in his honor and in his personal and official integrity', I want this resolution to pass and I want t.hiß investigation to go on.” Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, welcomed tho resolution and hoped the investigation would be mado thorough and searching. Mr. Breekenridge. of Arkansas, said he was proud to call tho Attorney General his personal friend. He defended his course, declaring that his skirts were perfectly clear of any wrong-doing, and hoped the whole case would be investigated. The resolution was adopted without division. Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, from the Committoo on Appropriations, reported the immediate deficiency bill, and it waß referred to the committee of the whole. The House, at its evening session, passed twenty-eight pension bills.

Woi.fop.d, of Kentucky, who was a Colopcl in the Union army, made a speech in the House on the 27th ult, giving credit to the Southern members for voting for all the pensions asked. He then gave notice that he wbuld introduce a bill to give to every Confederate soldier in need of it an artificial leg or arm. Mr. Weaver, of Nebraska, discussed the silver question, and predicted that the effort of the money oligarchy, assisted by the Executive officers of the nation, to double the people's burdens and cripple the business of the country by the suspension of the silver coinage, would prove unsuccessful, now the attention of the people was attracted to the subject. He favored unlimited coinage, and assert*! that if the whole yield of the min' s was coined annually it would be twenty years before the per Capita circulation of the United States would be equal to that of France, and this ca'culatiou, he said, bud been made without taking into account any increase in the population of tho country. Mr. OandJer, of Georgia, submitted an Argument against the suspension of silver coinage, and contended that there was no sound basis for the prediction made by the “goldbugs" that the continued coinage of silver would have tho effect of driving gold out of the country, Mr. Clements, of Georgia, thought that the true test of the value of silver was not *tßo gold standard as established in countries where the value of gold had been enhanced by the demonetization of silver, bnt tho purchasing capacity < 1 silver. Tested by its purchasing capacity, silver was now worth, as much as it ever had been, and there was no ground for tho assertion that tho standard dollar; was a dishonest dollar. Mr. Jones, of Texas, advocated the free coinage of silver, and earnestly opposed the proposition to suspend the operation of tbo Bland act. Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, opposed the suspension of silver coinage, and denounced the demonetization of silver in 1873 as the dishonoring of American silver, and as bringing in its train business disasters, which had contlnnod nntil tho passage of the Bland act, in 1878. There was no session of the Senate.

Forced Reformation.

“Speaking of reformations, yon remember old Jim Small, don’t you?" “That whisky bloat? I should say I did remember him.” “Well, sir, he hasn’t taken a drink for a year,” *T can hardly credit that unless he died over a year ago.” X « “Nixy. He ain’t dead." > 1 “Ana do yon really mean to say that he has reformed ?” , “Yes. He’s in the penitentiary for stealing s hone.—Maverick.

AWAKENING CHINA’S ZEAL

Minister Benby Tells How the Adoption of Railroads Ii Being Urged in the Far East. Factories of Glass, Woolen Goods, and Paper Springing l T p Rapidly in That Country. [Washington telegram.] >. Mr. Charles Denby, United States Minister to China, has sent some interesting dispatches to Mr. Bayard which deal with two questions of vital import to the development and safety of the empire. The first is the construction of railroads, which Li Hung Chang is urging with all the vigor of his intellect. The other is the building of a navy to replace the useless junks which at present fly the imperial flag, and to organize n system of coast defenses adequate to protect the harbors and shores of the country: Mn, Denby says: I have the honor to state, as a matter of interest to a great many persons in the United States and as a part of the current history of China, the position of that empire as to the construction of railroads: The most prominent man in China tOjdav is Li Hung Chang, who is Grand Sucretnrymf the empire, Viceroy of the province, a*vl one of the heads of the Admiralty Boa d. H s residence is at Tien-Tsin, but he lately spent 8 .me weeks at Pekin. He has for Borne years been in favor of building railroads. He has had a hard fight in China to haw his views approved. The opposition comes chiefly from t ie censors and the Board of Revenue. The censors Kpl res nt that numbers of men would be thrown out of employment, graves would he desecrated, and internal troubles would ensue. The Board of Revenue-claims that if railroads are Duilt the whole revenue service of China would have to be changed. It seems likely in effect that theLekin tax, which is one of the chief sourc s of revenue to China, would havet) bo abandoned or materially modified. This is a consummation that the foreigners most ardently desiro. id Hung Chang, through ail the changes of men and measures, lias maintained h’s power, and there seems every roason to believe that he will succeed in has plan of construct n; railroads. I send to the department the dving mem >rjal of Tso Tsung Tang, which don tains na able presentation of the argument in favor of construoting railroads in China.- By way- of parentbeStsI nicy soy that a dying official always leaves a posthumous memorial to the Government. It a’so happens often that after he is dead some distinguished honorary office is conferred on him by imperial decree. This memorial to Tso Tsung Tang preceded by a very few days the visit of Li Hung Chang to the capital, and furnished him aTine"opportunity to press hts railroad views. It was considered, certainly with reason, that the best mode of inviting the attention of the members of tho Government to the merits of railroads would be to oxhibit a working-model of an American roadway and rolling stock. Last t-eptrmber a working model of an American railroad train, consisting cf locomotive and tender, mail and baggage cars, passenger cars, Tnllman parlor and sleeping cars, different kinds of freight cm, together with 100 feet of main track and sidings, switches, turn-table, otc.—in fact, a ccmpl te representat’on of an American railroad in m mature—wax exhibited to Li Hung Chang. It was, by ord< rof Li Hung Chang, taken to Pekin and exhibited by him to Prince Chum, the Emperor’s father, and two days later it was taken to the imperial' palace i’nd.exhibit’d to tho Emp ror and the Empress dowager. Their majesties were much interand spent some tins in a minute examination of tbs model. It was the first complete representation they had-ever seen of a railroad. After examination they agreed to allow Li Hung Chang to prepare for the introduction of steam-cars.

FORMED A COMPACT.

The Coal Operators and Miners of Five States Arrange a Price Scale. pColumbas (Ohio) special.] The National Convention of Coal Miners and Operators, which concluded its business in this city this evening, is no doubt one of the most important in results obtained of any convention which has been held in the labor interest since the spirit of arbitration has taken the place of oiher methods for the settlement of difficulties. Both miners and operatives express the opinion th%t they have formed the groundwork for the amicable settlement of all future troubles which may arise, and they also hope, inasmuch as they Imve enlisted the more intelligent and liberal element of hofh classes, that the compact will get stronger with each year. In order that the results might not be temporary, the convention provided for another meeting at Columbus on the second Tuesday of February, 1887, when the present scale of priors will he subject to rfsusion; The scale was amended so as to cut out Staunton, Mount "Olive, and Springfield, 111., on the ground that these sections were not represented and were not ai the Pittsburgh convention, and adopted as follows: Pittsburgh, 70 cents per ton; Hocking Valley, GO cents; Indiana block, 80 cents; Indiana bituminous. No. 1. Go cents; Indiana bituminous, No. 2, 75 cents; Wilmington, 111., 95 cents; Streator, 80 cents; Grape Creek, 75 cents; Mount Olive, 56!] cents; Stauriton, 56A cents; Springfield, 62J cents; Des Moines, lowa, 90 cents; in West Virginia, the Kanawha distiict, reduced prices to be restored to 75 cents; Reynoldsville, Fairmount screen coal, 71 cents. A board of arbitration was elected, consisting of two miners and two operators from each of the five States represented in the scale, to which shall be referred all questions of a national character.

A WIZARD WEDDED.

Marriage of Thomas A. Edison to Miss Mina Miller, of Akron, Ohio. [Akron (Ohio) dispatch.] Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, and Mina, daughter of Lewis Miller, the millionaire manufacturer, were married at “Oak Place,” the elegant home of the Millers iu the western part of the city. The nuptials were conducted aocording to tho form of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. F. W. Tappan, U. S. N., of New York, acted as best man. The bride was given away by her father, and there were no biidemaids. The bride was attired in white silk, with duchess and point lace, square neck, laced corsage, and wore diamond and pearl ornaments. including a costly pearl neclace, the gift of the groom. The groom was attired in black, wearing a Prince Albert coat and bl ick tie, and with hands undressed. His present to the bride was a diamond and pearl necklace valued at $3,000, while authenticated rumor has iFthat he also transferred tb her $1,000,000 worth of real estate. Among the other presents were many sets of the richest and most elegant silver table and ornamental ware, besides a Westminister clock with chimes, diamond bracelets, diamond, ruby, and sapphire pins, a solid column of onyx, with gold capital, and many other rare and costly jewels. Congratulations were received under an immense floral wishbone, composed principally of roses, after which dinner was served by a ehef from Chicago.

Drank Carbolic Acid.

(Cleveland (O.) telegram.] t Dr. J. H. Gleeson, an Old and highly respectaed physician, entered Gerling k >er’s dmg store on St. Claii street, where he was well known, arid, going .behind the prescriptiop case, took up a graduate and drank two ounces or catholic acid, thinking, it whisky. He died in ten minutes, and Huber, the druggist, became so frantic with grief that he became delirous. It would be safe to wager that “Lucky" Baldwin will never flirt $75,000 worth with another wide-awake California girl. 4

GEO. WILLIAM CURTIS.

The Relations of President and Senate Defined by the Mugwump 1 Bead Osnter. [Ne.w York telegram.) The Ntew York Herald prints a long interview with George William Curtis, in regard to the dispute between the President and the Senate. Mr. Curtis said that perhaps the President was justified in refusing to make confidential communications public, but his refusal should only apply to such as had already been made to him. He should give the people to understand that in the future all papers would be open for inspection. Then any one who had any information to lay before the President would know what to expect. No one conK suffer by such an arrangement. It wonl serve to make people more carefn of what they said and for whom the. sighed. And that certainly was desirable. The signing of petitions for offle® had grown to absnrd proportions. Many prominent men will sign anything, and a Go - ernor of thifi State, Mr. Cnrlis said, ha< told him that he signed every petition that was presented to him. But whenever ha signed such papers he wrote to the appointing power to say that the signature meant, nothing at all, and that if he really wanted to help an applicant he would write in a private way. This was not fair to those who had secured the appointment. President ykn Buren’s practice was similar. If Martin said or wrote such and such a thing, it would not do to rely upon it; but if Mnrtin’s son said or wrote it, why then it was perfectly reliable. These were tricks of politicians, to be sure, but they showed bow great this abuse was capable of becoming. Mr. Curtis said that he ngreed with Senator Sherman on the right of the Senate to see the recommendations for appointment. The Senate was a part of the executive power. The Constitution said that the President should nominate, and by and with the consent of the Senate appoint certain officers. A 6 part of the executive power the Senate had the right to know what influences, considerations, and information had decided the President in making a nomination. Its action could not be thoroughly intelligent unless it bad such information. The Object of the Senate in demanding these papers was two-fold. First, it wanted to defend the character of the men who had been removed; In the second place, it wished, if possible, to throw discredit on the Presit dent, and to show that he had violated his pledges. This latter was its prime object. The Senate belonged to the opposition party, aild it had the right to attack the President’s position if its warfare was honorable. The President could block the Senate’s game by furnishing it with the information asked. The Senate has said that the information was wanted as secret information. It was pretty certain, however, that if anything likely toinjure the President was obtained in this way it would speedily become public. Let the President try the Senate’s secretsession plan. If the information thus given should leak out he could thereafter reply to the Senate’s demands by saying: “I shall give you the information you ask, but I shall also give it to the public at the same time.” The President, Mr. Curtis thought, had nothing to fear. Suppose that his reason for removing, a Postmaster was that he was drunk, would the publication of that fact hurt the president? Would not such action deter other Postmasters from like offenses? In conclusion, Mr. Curtis said that he was compelled 6) differ with the President ns to his prerogative,. Mr. Cleveland was, perhaps, right in declining to make his action retroactive and in refusing to turn over communications intended as confidential and in many cases so marked. But his course in the future was clear. He should place all communications oh record, and the writers should know that letters to the President are letters to the -country. Mayor Low’s idea was praiseworthy. He let the people know that he felt at liberty to make anything public, as he deemed best. Mr. Curtis said that a demand of this sort had never been complied with by any other President from Washington’s time to the present, but Mr. Cleveland was elected under peculiar circumstances, under a movement intended to reform politics. A gTeat step for reform would be his putting an end to a secrecy that was not supported by reason of the Constitution.

Senator Edmunds’ Resolutions. [Washington special to Chicago Times (Dem.),] The indications now are that the Compromise between the extreme and the moderate Republican Senators relative to the attitude to be maintained toward the administration has been successful, and that while Mr. Edmunds’ resolutions do not go so far as he would be glad to go, the Senators who have been disposed to hang back will go as far as those resolutions. These represent the concessions that had to be made by the extremists to Senators who were opposed to a policy of wholesale rejection. The resolutions have been misapprehended in many quarters. The only nominations to be rejected are those of persons nominated to succeed persons suspended, information regarding whose suspensions the administration refuses to send to the Senate. Core will be taken not to call for information where the Republicans do not have what they call a “good case,” and information will be asked for as to some classes of removals, and in some States more than in others. The papers will be called for in a great many postoffice cases. It is probable that the Postmaster General will be asked to furnish the papers in the case of every Presidential postmaster in the State of Virginia; for instance. This is due to the" fact, as alleged by the Virginia Republicans, that the Virginia Republican postrihsters were all removed upon; "charges which either reflected upon then! personally or upon those who secured their appointment. The Virginia Senators take this as a personal affront, and the Postoffioe Committee will undoubtedly support them in their request for the production of the papers. As it is possible that all of the papers will be refused, it may fce expected that all of the Presidential postmastore in Virginia whose names are now pendin { before the Senate will be rejected. f X The theory of the Republicans, as has been suggested by one of them, is that suspension without the assignment of reasons is a stigma; that rejection by the Senate is also a stigma, and that it is bnt just that one stigma shall offset another. If the Republican is to remain in k locality with the cause of his removal unexplained, the Democrat may ljye there witbont being able to assign the Cause of his rejection. Moreover, it is chaiged .that the-accusations that have been made against the suspended officers have been iu most instances preferred by those persons whose nominations; to be their successors are now pendingThomas Cbuse, the millionaire miner of Helena; M. T„ who is over sixty years (old, is soon to be married to a dressmaker in that city. The bride will receive a check far $500,000 as a present from her husband. 4

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Ground has been broken for the waterworks at Vincennes. —Martinsville has about determined to illnminate with the electric light. —“Uncle Lneian” Rous, of Thorn town, the first male child bom in Vevay, died recently, aged 82.” —Abram Kahn, a prominent Jew and stock buyer at Sonth Bend, shot himself through the head. —Harry Bannister, proprietor of the hotel at La Fontaine, sonth of Wabash, fell dead with heart disease. —Fire broke out the other morning in a saloon in a business part of Poseyville, destroying the entire block. —At an auction sale of walnnt in Delphi, with bidders present from four States, 120 growing trees brought $0,600. —lt is estimated that 1,000 hogs have died of cholera during the past six months nt Pox's Station, near Wabash. —George D. Wingate, of Thornton, committed suicide by hanging himself with a halter to the rafters of his bam. —A mail irniu struck John Brack, who was walking on the track just east of Fort Wayne, and he died in a few minutes. —The warehouse belonging to the Elkhart Iron-Works Company, containing about COO sulky plows, was destroyed by fir®, —A “Law and Order” League has been organized at Marion, which is backed by all the churches in the town and the temperance element. > —H. C. Holloway, digging a well on a farm east of. La Porte, Came across a large vein of soft coal, samples of which proved to be first-class. A —M. Spangle, a conductor on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, was run over at Elkhart by a switch-engine and instantly killed. L -• —Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks has been chosen a member of the Board of Directors of the Hecla Mining Company, to fill the place of her husband. —Oscar Baldwin recovered $9,90G in the Gibson County Court against the Evansville and Terre Haute, for the loss of a foot while employed as brakeman.

—During the trial of a State case at Upland, one of the jurors crawled out of a window and went home before a verdict was reached. A consfable found him in be^. —Fort Wayne Lodge, No. 14,1.0. O; F., has purchased, for $21,000, corner property within one block of the Court House. A tine editnb will probably be erected next summer. —Fire the other night destroyed the en-gine-house at Mount Vernon, but the apparatus was saved. Citizens had barely got to bed when another alarm was sonnded, calling the department to the cast side of flie public square. Half a block was in flames and destroyed, among which was the Democrat office. i. —David J. Mackey, President of the Evansville and Terre Haute and Evansville and Indianapolis Railways, was arrested to answer the charge of contempt of court. S6me time ago the Daviess County Court rendered judgment of lsl,Soo against Mackey’s road for trespass, bnt Mackey ignored the order, and as the court could not stop the railroad it took possession of the President. —Hon. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of the United States Treasury, has deeded to the city of Fort Wayne his title to the old Broadway Cemetery of ten acres, from which most of the dead bodies have been removed, and which has become of great value. The condition of the deed, which the City Council has by "ordinance accepted, is that the property shall be kept improved , and be known as McCulloch Park. —Mr. Thornton F. Tyson, one of the oldest residents of Cass County, has completely lost his reason, and application will be made for his admission . into the insane asylum. After years of toil Mr. Tyson amassed a fortune of between §20,000 and $25,000. He recently began to speculate in Chicago margins, and the result was he lost his entire fortune, $17,000 going at one time. The result was mental wreck and rain.

—A decided sensation has been caused by Charley Maurice, a cowboy tough, at Logansport, Ohio. He saddled his horse, filled his hide with whisky, and started out to take in the town. He rode into three saloons, and ordered drinks at the muzzle of a revolver. He attempted to ride up to the general-delivery window in the postoffice, but was headed off by the police, who jerked bim from his horse and threw him in jail. —At the Grand Lodge of the Indiana Knights of Honor the election of officers resulted as follows: Grand Dictator, J. B. Hill, Of Richmond; Vice Dictator, J. B. Wartmann, of Evansville; Assistant Dictator, Adolph S, Lane, of Vincennes; Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Neff; Guide, Richard Bryson, of Clay City; Reporter, James W. Jacobs, of Jeffersonville; Treasurer, Walter B. Godfrey, of New Albany; Sentinel, Jesse Coßk, of Westfield; Supreme Representative, T. H. Clapp, of Indianapolis; Trustees, Herman Kreuger, of Kendallville; Isaac E. Crews, of Greencastle; Allen W. Conduitt, of IndiAnapolis; State Medical Examiner, Dr. T. N. Bryan, of Indianapolis. —Rev. E. W. Osborn, pastor of the Cicero M. E. Church, has brought suit against the proprietors of the Kokoma Dispatch, for $5,000, for the publication of an art cli from a correspondent who stated that Rev. Osbnrn was in jail at Noblesvide upon a charge of bigamy. < —Dick Thompson, a duck hunter, of Marco, killed a beaver near that place, weighing forty-five pounds. This, is the first and only beaver ever seen in that part of the State.