Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. -GsuHt K. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

"Give instructions to a wise man tnd he will be vet wiser; teach a t«st man, and he will increase in ■earning. ” An antiquarian is endeavoring to prove that the Jews were never in Egypt. Consequently Joseph never was prime minister of that country tnd Mrs. Potiphar never talked nice to the young man and scared him Mit of his coat. ‘ - Persons who use or buy cigar and ligarette holders, apparently of am her or ivory, should Be warned “ot the danger that is probably lurking <n them. The government cigarette works at Paris, France, are now turning out large quantities of these poods made of celluloid, a most iangerous material when exposed to lire. ________ Railway cars are to be cleaned by compressed air, The air is applied from a small nozzle attached to a hose at a pressure of fifty pounds to-the square inch. It is •aid the device is ne plus ultra for the upholstery of cars and the floors •re cleaned with remarkable speed •nd facilitv.

A French savant has perfected a process for photographing at the bottom of the sea. Mermaids can now get their “pictures took” without the purchase of a Worth gown, and enterprising reporters are hopfag to soon secure a photo of a bona fide sea serpent for their papers. The possibilities in this direction are great, and it does seem that there is no depth to which man will not go in search of amusement or possible profit. The Lagrange Democrat is responsible for the statement that a maiden lady of that locality, somewhat advanced in years, while promBnading, found a horse-shoe, which she superstitiously carried home and at night placed under her pillow “for luck.” Upon retiring she, as was her custom, placed her false teeth in the same secure depository. Next morning on arising in the dark she grasped the horseshoe and placed it in her mouth in lieu of her teeth, and proceeded to get breakfast without the slightest inconvenience.

The improved Gatling gun is now capable of discharging more than 3,000 shots a minute when worked by an electric motor. This capacity for dealing out death and destruction is equal to that of two regiments with a full quota of men. It wiU be a great day for the human race when war will be a simple contest between machinery, as it is already fast becoming. A battle between an army of Gattling guns worked by electricity and manipulated by operatives in a place of safety seems to be the ultimate result of military evolution. It seems to be an established fact that the political caldron has begun to boil. Numerous exchanges have assured us that this is the case. There is nothing especially remarkable about this. Biennial boilings of the afore said kettle have taken place with great regularity for many years, and as conditions are likely to continue the same indehnitly, it would seem a possibility that the pot would in time be badly burned. We still hope, however, that this will not prove to be the case. As matters stand a new political caldron would probably prove an expensive necessity and all citizens should unite in a loyal effort and sincere desire to preserve the one that has served the people so lons and well.

A post-moutkm investigation of a 4 ‘pennny-in-the-slot” machine at Elwooc revealed a horrid condition of its internal anatomy and the mystery is how the poor thing survived so long—until at last it was compelled to give up the ghost and quit forever dealing out chocolates and chewing-gum to the waiting world. The contents of its works were of Infinite variety—keys, rings, bits of wood, gravel,buttons,lead “nickles," and— a few pennies. sjk> ended a bright career that promised years of usefulness and profit. Alas, but for too much confiding confidence in the inherent integrity of the human race this catastrophe might have been averted and the budding automaton might in time have grown to be a full fledged race or gambling device with a music box attachment. Tn* sensational abuse in which attorneys frequently indulge while pleading a cash was carried to an extreme in the Annie Wagner murder case, at Indianapolis. The attorney •r the defense called the prosecutor

a “pui)” in the course of his remarks, and when the State's attorney got the floor he returned in kind by branding the eloquent barrister as : “a product of the slums and a Possibly both of the eminent counsel were correct in their estimate of each other’s characteristics, yet it is safe to predict that should either die the survivor would make a touching address on the conspicuous ability of; his departed brother, and shed crocodile tears above bis bier. These in-, cidents doubtless give variety to court proceedings, and serve to entertain the assembled audience, but they certainly detract from the dignity of our tribunals, and have a tendency to rob the courts of the respect that is their due.

Science continues to progress in many ways and new avenues of employment are ever open in g for the thrifty scions of the human race. Old things are passing away, and a good many new things are appearing upon the surface of the “general swim.” Even old horses are likely to present a mouthful of brand new store teeth that will puzzle the oldest inhabitant and render the financial outcome of the o“hoss trade” of the future a matter of still greater uncertainty than it is in our own day. Cheating in a horse trade has ever been regarded as an offense against the moral law' at which angels smile, and St. Peter has never been known to refuse admission to an applicant against whom no greater offense could be allegedthan that he habitually got away with the other fellow in an exchange of equine flesh. To complicate matters still further in this direction, recent progress in dental surgery for veterinary purposes has made it possible to deceive the most expert trader as to an animal’s age, and a veterinary dental school has actually been established in New York. The field is a new one, and promises lucrative employment in a legitimate field, to say nothing of its possibilities a§ a means of fraud in the direction above spoken of.

AN ANECDOTE.

The Martyred President Had no ‘•Great Policy”—His Story. United States Senator Palmer of Illinois, tells an interesting story of Mr. Lincoln. “I went to see him," said Mr. Palmer* “by appointment at D oclock in the morning. I sat in the anteroom along time, while Buckingham of Conneticut walk in and out of Lincoln’s room several times. At last Buekinginghain left and I went in. I found Lincoln with a towel round his neck getting ready to shave. “ ‘Got to get shaved sometime, Palmer,’ he said. ‘1 couldn’t shave while Buckingham was here, but you are home folks, and it doesn’t matter with home folks.’ “We chatted till the barber reached his mouth, when he could’t talk without running the the risk of getting cut. There was a pause. During it I thought of the great war that was going on and of the man near me conducting it. “ ‘Mr. Lincoln,’ I said, ‘if I had known there was going to be so great a rebellion, I should never have thought of going to a one-horse town for a one-horse lawyer for President. ’ Lincoln stretched forth his arms, pushed the barber aside and abruptly wheeled round to me. I thought he was angry because of what I had said, but he replied: “ ‘Nor I either. It’s lucky for this country no man was chosen who had a great policy and would have stuck to it. If such a man had been chosen this rebellion would never have reached a successful conclusion. I have had no great policy,but I have have tried to do my duty every day, hoping that the morrow would find that I had done right.’ “And that,” said the senator,“was the last time I saw Lincoln alive.”

An Historic Marvel

Abraham Lincoln is assuredly one of the marvels of history. No land but America has produced his like. This destined chief of a nation in its most perilous hour was the son of a thrift e is and wandering settler, bred in the most sordid poverty. He had received only the rudiments of education, and though he afterward read eagerly such works as were within his reach it is wonderful that he should have attained as aspeuker and writer a mastery of language and a pure as well as effective style. He could look back smiling on the day when his long shanks appeared bare below the shrunken leather breeches which were his only nether garment. His frame was gauut and grotesque, but mighty. He had a strong and eminently fair understanding, with great powers of patient thought, which he cultivated by the study of Euclid. In all his views thero was a simplicity which had its source in the simplicity of his character. His local popularity was due largely to his humor. At the same timehe was melancholy, touched with the pathos o' human life, fond of mournful poetrv. religious, though not orthodox, wit’: a strong sense of an overruling provi dence, which when he was out o spirits some times took the shape o fatalism. His melancholy was prob ably deepened by his gloomy sur roundings and by misadventures in love.

A DIVINE BANQUET.

“Come, For All Things Are Now Ready.” An Elcqaent Appeal to the Weak and Erring—Dr. Talmaga’a Scriunu. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last -Sunday. Subject: “Festivity." Text: Luke xiv. 17—“ Come, for all things are s now ready.” He said: There have been grand entertain ments where was a taking off—the wine gave out. or the servants were rebellious, or the light failed, but I have gone all around about this subject and looked at the redemption which Christ has provided, and I come here to tell vou it is complete, and I swing open the door of the feast, telling you that “all things are now ready.’’ In the first place I have to announce that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is ready. Christ comes in at the very beginning of the feast—aye, he has been waiting I.BIH years for his guests. He has been standing on his mangled feet. He has had His sore hand on His punctured side, or He has been pressing His lacerated temples—waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that He has not been impatient, and that He has not. said, “shut the door and let the laggard stay out," but He has been waiting. No banqueter ever waited for his guests so patiently as Christ has waited for us. To prove how willing He is to receive us, I gather all the drops of blood that channeled His brow, and His back, and His hands and feet, in trying to purchase vour redemption. I gather all the groans that He uttered in midnight chill, and in mountain hunger, and in desert lonliness, and twist them into one cry—bitter, agonizing overwhelming. I gather all the pains that shot from spear and spike and cross jolting into one pang —remorseless, grinding, excruciating. I take that one drop of sweat on his brow, and under the gospel glass that drop enlarges until I see in it lakes of sorrow and an ocean of agony. That being standing before you now, emaciated and gashed and gorv, coaxes for your love with a pathos in which every word is a heartbreak and every sentence a martyrdom. How can you think he trifles? Ahasueru3 prepared a feast for 180 days, but this feast is for all eternity. Lords and princes were invited to that. You and I and all our world are invited to this. Christ is ready. You know that the banqueters of ; olden time used to wrap themselves in robes prepared for the occasion. So my Lord Jesus hath wrapped himself in all that is beautiful. See how fair he is. His eyes, his brow, his cheek, so radiant that the stars have no gleam and the morning no i brilliancy compared with it. His 1 face reflecting all the joys of the re- ■ deemed. His hand having the omnipotent surgery with which he opened i blind eyes and straightened crooked J limbs and hoisted the pillars of ; heaven and swung the twelve gates ; which arc twelve pearls.

There are not enough cups in heaven to dip up this ocean of beauty. There are not ladders enough to scale this height of love. There are not enough cymbals to clap, or harps to thrum, or trumpets to peal forth the praises of this one altogether fair. Oh, thou flower of eternity, thy breath is the perfume of heaven! Oh, blissful daybreak, let all people clap their hands in thy radiance! Chirus: Come, men and saints and cherubim and seraphim and archangel—ail hights, all depths, all immensities. Chorus: Roll Him through the heavens in a cbartoTo? universal acclaim, over bridges of hosannas, under arches of coronation, along by the great towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorus: “Unto Him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory, world without end!” Again, the Holy Spirit is ready. Why is ,it that so many sermons drop deacl; that Christian songs do not get their wings under the people; that so often a prayer goes no higher than a hunter’s “halloa”? It is because there is a link wanting—the work of the Holy Spirit. Unless that Spirit give grappling hooks to a sermon and lift the prayer and waft the song everything is a dead failure. That spirit is willing to come at our call and lead you to eternal life, or ready to come with the same power with which he unhorsed Saul on the Damascus turnuike and broke down Lydia in her flue store and lifted the 3,000 from midnight into midnoon at the Pentecost. With that power the spirit of God now beats at the gate of your soul. Have you not noticed what homely and insignificant instrumentality the Spirit of God employs for man’s conversion? One year ago on Thanksgiving day I read for my text, “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good; for his mercy enduretb forever.” And there is* a young man in the house to whose heart the Holy Spirit took that text for his eternal redemption. I might speak of my own case. I will tell you I was brought to the peace of the gospel through the Syro-Phoenicean woman’s cry to Christ, “Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the Master's table." The great French orator, when the dead king lay before him, looked up and cried, “God only is great.” And the triumph of bis eloquence has been told by the historians. But I have not beard that one soul was

saved by the oratorical flourish. Worldly critics may think that the early preaching of Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece. But Thomas Chalmers says he never began tc preach until ne came oilt of the sickroom. white and emaciated, and told men the. simple story of Jesus. Oh, my friend, I wish we could feel it more and more that if any good is done it is by the power ol God’s omnipotent spirit I do not know what words of the scripture lessons T read may save your soul. Perhaps the spirit of God may hurl the very text into your heart, “Come, for all things are now ready.” Again, the church is ready. O man, if I could take the curtain off these Christian hearts, I could show you a great many anxieties for your redemption. You think that old man is asleep, because his head is down and his-eyes are shut. No; no he is praying for your redemption and hoping that the words spoken may strike vour heart. Do you know the air is full of prayer? Do you know that prayer is going up from FultQn-st. prayer meeting and going up every hour of the day for the redemption of the people? And if you should just start toward the door of the Christian church how quickly it would flv open! Hundreds of people would say: “Give that man room at the sacrament. Bring the silver bowl for his baptism. Give him the right hand of Christian fellowship, Bring him into all Christian associations.” Oh, you wanderer on the cold mountains, come into the warm | sheepfold. I let down the bars and bid you come in. With the shepherd's crook I point you the way. Hundreds of Christian hands beckon you into the church of God. Many people do not like the church and say it is a mass of hypocrites, but it is a glorious church with all its imperfections. Christ bought it, and hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates, and lifted its arches, and curta'ned it wit.h upholstery crimson with crucifixion carnage. Come into it. Again, the angels of God are ready. A great many Christians think that the talk about angels is~ fanciful. You say it is a very good subject for theological students who have just begun to sermonize, but for older men it is improper. There is no more proof in that Bible that there is a God than that there are angels. Why, do not they swarm about Jacob’s ladder? Are we not told that they conducted Lazarus upward: that they stand before the throne, their faces covered up with their wings, while they cry. “Holy, holv, is the Lord God Aimighty”? Did not David see thousands and thousands? DM not one angel slay 185,000 men in tsennacherib’s army? And shall they not be the chief harvesters at the judgment? Again, vour kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. I pronounce modern spiritualism a fraud and a sham. If John Milton and George Whitefield have no better business than to crawl under a table and rattle the leaves, they had better stay at home in glory. While I believe that modern spiritualism is bad, common sense, enlightened bv the word of God, teaches us that our friends in giory sympathize with our redemption.

If I had shown you that “all things are ready;” that Christ is ready; that the Holy spirit is ready; that tiie angels in glory are ready; that your glorified kindred are ready, then with all the concentrated emphasis of my soul I ask you if you are ready? You see my subject throws the whole responsibility upon yourself. If you do not go into the King’s banquet, it is because you do not accept the invitation. Youhave the most importunate invitation. Two arms stretched down from the cross, soaked in blood from elbow to finger tips, two lips quivering in mortal anquish, two eyes beaming with infinite love, saying, “Come, come, for all thinsrs are now ready." I would like to take every one of you by the hand and say, “Come!” Old man, who hast been wandering sixty or seventy years, thy sun almost gone down, through the dust of the evening stretjh outyour withered hand to Christ. He will not cast these off.old man. Oh, that one tear of repentance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek! After Christ has fed thee all thy life long, do you not think you can afford to speak one word in his praise? Do you think you can get into the feast with those rags? Why, the King's servant would tear them off and leave you naked at the gate. You must be born again. The day is far spent. The cliffs begin to slide their long shadows across the plain. Do you know the feast has already begun—the feast to which you are invited—and the King sits with His guests, and the servant stands with his hands on the doo>’ of the banqueting room and he begins to swing it shut. It is half way shut. It is three-fourths shut. It is only just ajar. Soon it will be shut. “Come, for all things are now ready." Have I missed one man? Who has not felt himself called this hour? Then I call him now. This is the hour of thy redemption. While Ood Invitee how blest the day. How sweet the gospel's charming sound; Como sinner haste oh. haste away. feWhlle yet a pardoning god Is found.

Not In His Case.

Indianapolis Journal. Miss Millet —Is it true that you bicycle riders soon get attached to your machines? Mr. Wheeler —It hasn't worked that way with me yet. I can fall of! my machine without the least trouble.

THE IRON PRINCE.

Bismarck and Emperor ’William Reconciledr Dramatic Meeting Between the Aged Statesman and Youthful Baler. Stories of the reconciliation said to have been effected between Prince Bismarck and Emperor William, in which the youthful ruler is said to have taken the lead by sending a bottle of wine to Bismarck accompanied by a most polite and complimentary note, have been rife for several weeks. Friday Prince Bismarck accompanied by his son. Coant Herbert Bismarck, left Friedrichruhe for Berlin,to meet the Emperor by invitation, in a special train. A great demonstration was made by Bismarck’s home people on his departure. The Prince was attired in a cnriassler uniform. He wa3 accompanied by Princess Bismarck and several friends. The Prince was visibly affected and shook hands with many. When the train arrived at the Lehrte station at Berlin, Prince Henry, the Emperor’s brother and governor of Berlin, and a large suite of aides in brilliant uniforms, met the ex-chancellor. Prince Henry shook hands with him and the members of the party. He then escorted the Prince through a throng of cheering thousands to the royal state coach. The drive to the royal palace was a triumphal one. The streets were packed with cheering crowds and the Prince bowed repeatedly in response. The buildings were decorated finely with flags and bunting and many of the civic societies of the cities were drawn up in line to greet the Prince at the palace gate. The Emperor, out of compliment to Bismarck, wore the uniform of the Bismarck cuirassiers. He received th ; Prince at the foot of the stairs. His majesty embraced the Prince with great heartiness and pressed a kiss upon the old man’s cheek. The Prince’s demeanor was very grave during the reception. Later Bismarck was dined by the Emperor and Empress. No one else was p-esent. The Emperor W“nt driving at 11 o’clock and meanwhile tie Prince received a number of court dignitaries and army officers in the palace.

DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

Authoritative Statement From President John. Many sensational reports in regard to the financial straits in which D.i Pauw University has been placed by tiie embarrassment of Charles W. Do Pauw and Newland T. DePauw, of Now Albany, have been circulated recently. One is that the university will never be ablo to realize much, if anything, from the endowment of Washington C. De Pauw; that the sons of Mr. Do Pauw have met with reverses that will wipeout the estate which it was IntendoJ the university should have. Another story is that there is to be a reconstruction of the force of teachers; that several important departments are to be abolished and some of the buildings vacated. That the people of Greencastle, feeling that they have done more than their share toward building up the university, have decided not to lend more aid to the school unless convinced that the university will realize a goodly Sum from tho estate. President John, of the university, in an interview at Indianapolis, Thursday, says tho reports are largely exaggerated, tie has been assured by the executors of the De Pauw estate that the university will at tho expiration of ten years from the death of Mr. Depanw—which will bo in May, 1897—realizo$tiJ0,000from theestate. The university has been in financial straits and it has been compelled to call on its frien is for help, but no serious res ills are feared. Tiie law department has icon abolished and departments have be n consolidated where it could be done without injuring the character of the work done.

A GERMAN HOLIDAY.

Enthusiastic Celebration of the Emperor’s Birthday, The birthday of Emperor William was celebrated at Berlin. Saturday, in a notable way. In addition to the birthday celebration itself the German people also celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entry of Emperor William Into the Prussian array. The reconciliation between the Emperor and Ex-Chancellor Bismarck, formally and publicly concluded on Friday, also added to the enthusiasm of the people. Berlin was crowded with people as never before. Among those present were the Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg, the Grand Duke of Baden Hesse, Tuscany, Aldenbnrg and the Princes of Saxony, Saxe-Weimar, SaxeMeininger, Reuss, Waldeck, Saxo-Alden- 1 burg and Mecklinburg-Schwerin. Emperor William was born in Berlin, on Jan. 37,18.">9, and succeeded to the throne on the death of his father, the late Emperor Frederick, on June 15,1888.

FIRST OIL WELL IN CASS COUNTY.

The first oil well In Cass county has Seen opened at Royal Center. Oil was found in paying quantities and of a superior quality, and experts report that tho outlook is very flattering to stockholders. I‘he majority of the stock is held by Loginsport parties, headed by Miller Uhl. Several of them are also interested in the Montipelier fields. Some five years ago residents of Royal Center borod for natural gas. Four wells were sunk, from each of which two or throe barrels of oil daily flowed. The company, nowever, was dlston raged over the failure to find gas. The well opened last Thursday lain a ditfer>nt locality and was sunk to terft the extent of the vein. Over 20 030 acr.s, extending across to White county and reaching to Franclsville, In P I i*kl county, have been leasod, and It Is propo <ed to test the entire territory. Twei t/-five wells will be sunk during the coming leason. 1 Pino lore Slange, of Anderson, >|< i jue-dollar greenback of the 1863 Issue, with something of a history. Whllo tending bar at Millersburg. in 1800. a young nan who had seen better days culled for t drink, and taking out the bill wroto upmlt ’’Here goes the last dollar I possess »f a fortune of 175.000 left to me one year »go.” Still further examination of the rll. hi-' 'airon had left, disclosed ihe following additional insrrmt Ion; “The i... osv u. my lifo. Only oie dollar >llll had left with which to pay ray manflag* fee, June 4. 1863. Na-hville, 1863. Phomas Fitzgerald.” Mr. Slange prizes Sts so v -nir very highly. He has no clew io the identity of ths individual who left t with him.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr. Cnlloa spoke in support of Senator Frye’s resolutions against interference in Hawaiian affairs. He characterized the Cleveland-Gresham-Blount combination as a conspiracy. and called them tin-cJad actor* in a comedy of errors. He likened Biount to Andre, and said it would have been grim justice if the paramount commissioner had met a similar fate while on his mission at Honolulu. Mr. Tnrpie, from the committee on foreign relations, reported favorably the following resolution: Resolved, 'I hat from the- facts and papers laid before the Senate, it is unwise and inexpedient, under the existing conditions. to consider at this time any project >f annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to he United Slates: that the provisional government there having been dnly recognized. the highest international interest requires that it shall pursue its own lino of policy. Foreign intervention in the political affairs of these islands would be regarded as an act unfriendly to the government of the United States.

Senator Turpie asked for immediate consideration of the resolution. Senator Teller objected vigorously, and the resolution went over under the rules. Senator Pcffer’s resolution denying theauthority of the Secretary of the Treasury to is--8110 the boqds now contemplated was taken tip and Senator Stewart took the floor in favor of the resolution. The federal elections bill was taken up, and Senator Chandler spoke in reply to tho recent speech of Senetor Vest, but was interrupted at 4:45 I y an executive session, and at 5 p. m. the Senate adjourned. In the House, Tuesday, the tariff debate was continued and-die- parliamentary tangle of the previous day straightened out. After the House had resolved itself into a committee of the whole Mr. Oats called attention to the particular complication that had arisen owing to tho failure of the committee to complete consideration of the sugar scedule. It came over as unfinished business, while, by special arrrangements made last Saturday, Tuesday was set aside for the consideration (A the coal and iron ore schedules. Some discussion followed as to the parliamentary status, and it was finally decided to go ahead with the vote on the sugar schedule, and after that was disposed of to take up coal and iron. The i ending question was the Robertson amendment imposing a duty on raw sugar and increasing tiie duty on refined sugar as amended by Mr. Warner, placing both raw and refined sugar on the free list. After a long debate it was decided to treat the Warner amendment as a substitute. The committee was then called upon to yote upon it as a substitute, its effect, If adopted, being to place ail sugars, raw and refined, on the free list. The great mass of Democrats, and practically all the Republicans, voted for tho proposition, only a handful of Democrats, including Mr. Wilson and severai other Democrats of the ways and means committee, Mr. Evarts. Coombs and the members of the Louisiana delegation voting against it. It was carried, MIL to 39. The coal schedule was then taken up and a number of amendments placing a duty on coal were offered and considered and voted down. The iron schedule was then taken up and •pecchesfor and against taking iron ore from tho free list were made until time for the recess arrived. Tho night session was devoted to set speeches. * The Hawaiian question occupied the time of the Senate, Wednesday, for an hour and was then laid over until Thursday. The fi derai elections biil came up as unfinished business. Senator Lodgo spoke against tho bill. A ten minutes executive session was had after which Senator Coke, of Texas, called up the bill anthorizing the Gulf, Brumont & Kansas City railroad to bridge tho Ncches and Sal ine rivers in Louisiana and Texas. The measure was discussed by Senator Vest and then passed after several minor amendments. In the House, Wednesday, the Mon schedule was discussed. All amendments were defeated and iron ore remains on tho free list according to the orignal draft of the Wilson bill. The afternoon was spent in the discussion of amendments looking to the free admission of machinery used in the manufacture of cotton goods. Just before the House adjourned the advocates and opponents of the ii c >rae tax upon the Democratic side _ aero arrayed against each other, the latter attempting to prevent Mr. McMillin from reading the internal revenue bill to tho House. The Republicans, however, joined hands with the income taxers and defeated the small hand of Democrats who have pledged themselves to use every effort to prevent the internal revenue bill containing tho income tax from being placed upon the Wilson biil as a rider.

In tho House, Thursday. Mr. Hopkins asked that an hour bo set aside for consideration of the lead schedule. Mr. Cockran objected and the House went into committee of the whole. Mr. Wilson tried to make agreement to close debate on the pending amendments relating to free en» try of cotton machinery. Mr. Cockran objected and Mr. Wilson moved that tha debate bo closed. Mr. Cockran continnod filibustering, hut could only rally to hit support ten Now York members—not sufficient to secure tellers—and tho motiorf was carried. Mr. Terry’s amendment to the amendment placing agricultural implements of all kinds on the free list wag lost—24 to ISO. Tho main proposition—to placo cotton machinery and equipment on the free list—was also defeated—<i3 to 130, A long list of amendments and amend* menu to amend menu was considered. Mr. Wilson offered an amendment to distinctly repeal Section 3 of the McKinley law. This Is the reciprocity section. Messrs. Hendricks, Turner. Warner. MeKae. Flynn. Krookshire and Marsh spoka on the question. The dehate was concluded by Mr. Wilson, and the amend•menu wero then agreed to— 13k to 89. A 'located debate ensued over the proposition do strike out tho reciprocity prevision relating to petroleum. The committee rose In order that the Democratic caucus on ,tlu> Internal revenue bill might be held. lAtthii night sossionthe debate was continued. _ i At the Democratic caucus on the Internal revenue bill, Thursday. It was decided that the measure, which Includes a provision for an Income tax, shall ba added as an amendment to the Wilson 'bill. Mr. Cockran proteslod without avail. Mr. Cockran gave notice that lie would .not he bound by the action of the caucus. Edward Thornton and daughter, colored, of Indianapolis, were asphyxiated 'ey natural gas, Wednesday night.