Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1894 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Several hundred patents expired by limitation, Tuesday. . . Herr Most, the high priest of New York anarchists, has fled from Gotham, a financial wreck. The official plurality for Brown, Republican candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, is 6,033. All the coopers in St. Louis, about two hundred in number, struck, Thursday, for increased wages. A man suffering from black smallpox (lied in the Harrison street police station, Chicago, Monday. Kansas Populists have decided to make the freight rate question the issue in the Approaching campaign. Tests of the bullet-proof coat invented Jay Herr Dowe, a Manheim tailor, havo been highly satisfactory.' Elections in a number of New Jersey cities, Tuesday* resulted in an almost universal Republican triumph. A movement to boom Judge Caldwell for the Republican presidential nomination in 1896 has been started at Topeka, Kan. The President, Tuesday, issued a proclamation warning all persons against violating tho recent seal fisheries act of Congress. The ‘‘Rev.” Clement W. Lewis, the colored pension swindler, was sentenced at Chattanoga, Tenn., to twenty-eight years’ imprisonment. Three opium smugglers have been arrest at Buffalo, N. Y., and 403 pounds of tho drug seized. It was secreted in a Chinese laundry. ‘ Assassin Prendergast is again in the dungeon in tho Chicago jail. Ho' struck a guard, and tho latter returned the blow with much vigor. Arsenic was placed in the coffee at a Danville (Ill.) boarding house by some one unknown, and James Gaskell is dead and five other persons seriously ill. Little Christopher Columbus, the Esquimau baby that was born at the World’s Fair, last summer, died at tho Midwinter Exposition grounds at San Francisco on Wednesday. In an attempt to rob Rock Island train No. 1, at Pond Creek, near Wichita, Monday, one robber was killed by Jacob Harmon, the express messenger. The rest of the gang escaped, but a second man is known to have been wounded. The highest court of Mexico has confirmed thadeath sciitencc recently passed upon Chas. Adams, the American who killed a waiter in a restaurant in tho city of Mexico three years ago. Adams will be shot within the next few days. The National Convention of United Mine'Workers of America in session at Columbus, 0., Wednesday, ordered a general strike April 21. Tho Indiana miners will join in tho movement although their contracts do not expiro until May 1. Henry Fossmeyer, of Vincennos, attempted to cure a balky horse by fastening a chain to its lower jaw, one end of which was attached to a wagon drawn by

two horses. Tho horse stood still until its jaw was wrenched off, after which it was shot. At Albany, N. Y., Tuesday, municipal elections resulted in a defeat for tho regular Democratic ticket. A combination of Republicans and Hill Democrats, styling Themselves the Pure Elections party. sticceeded in capturing tho city government. The city of Albany has been in the hands of Democratic officials for fifteen years. A terrific storm prevailed along the Atlantic coast, Wednesday. At New Fork the water rose rose within two feet of tho barge office on the Battery. The fog in New York harbor was the heaviest in years. One vessel is known to havo been lost near Squau life station with twelve men washed overboard. It is soared that many fatalities havo occurred. Tho fifteen-year-old daughter of J. Luckisha, near Cusco. la., died suddenly, as was supposed. Tho following day the body was burled. Throe days later tho grave was opened, from a suspicion that the girl had been buried alive. Tho glass in the coffin was found broken, and the body was in a condition of fearful contortion, faco downward. It is given out from Washington that Col. Breckinridge will seek a renomination and re-election to Congress in spite of the great scandal, and it is further stated that in all probability he will be returned by tho usual majority. His colleagues, except in a very few instances, treat him cordially, and it seems that his public career will not be very greatly Interfered with by tho famous brcach-of-promise trial, no matter what tho verdict may be. Wednesday morning 400 strikers iwooped down upon tho Youngstown works of Frick & Co., completely surprised and captured almost every ono of the seventy workmen and deputies and took them with them without firing a shot. Tho housos wero next broken open and tho men not working were also compelled to go with the strikers. At Youngstown and many other plants in this vicinity work was resumed, Wednesday morning, with almost a full quota of men. Tho strikers arrested tho deputy sheriffs and took them along. A swarm of armed deputies are guarding the iJlo works. Not an English speaking man was soon in tho mob.

FOREIGN.

Cholera Is spreading at Constantinople. The Reichstag adopted the commercial treaty with Uraguay. It is said that sovoral anarchists have joined the Spanish pilgrims who aro on their way to Rome. Prince Ruspoli, son of the mayor of Rome, has been killed by an elephant while exploring in Africa. BTho wholesale cigar trade of England is, in a panicky condition, duo to tho report that the duty is to bo raised. Dr. Ernest Lieber, tho leader of tho lonter or clerical party, has resigned his teats in tho Rolchstag and the Diet. Kabba Rega, King of Unyor, has been lefeated by the British, and his territory trill probably soon be annexed to Uganda. The five weeks’ drought in England Germany, Franco, Austria and Poland is musing much uneasiness in those countries. A British force is to be sent In pursuit >f the Mopiah mohammedans who have teen guilty of a murderous attack upon Hindus of tho Malabar district. Admiral do Gama, according to the atest reports, refused to join the Brazilana in escaping to the Argentine territory and Is still on board the Portuguese war vessel.

THE COMMONWEAL.

Eastward th© Star of Coxey Takes Its Way. Scenes and Incidents Along The Unas of " M»ri , h- V nt«w . . : 9 The army rested in camp at Unlontown all day Tuesday. There have been many desertions, and a number of discharges. A tremendous storm prevailed at Uniontown, Monday night, and the frail structure in which the army was housed was threatened with destruction. Many houses were unroofed. Tho men were not in a fit condition, as a result of this, to proceed, and the beginning of the mountain trip was postponed until Wednesday. The army left Unlontown at noon, Wednesday, The weather was bad and camp was pitched at Chalk Hill, eight miles distant. The match of Thursday from Chalk Hill to Addison, Pa., was one of great hardship. The snow and slush made walking extremely hard. Numbers of tho men became intoxicated, and, there being many mountaineers attractod to the town to see the procession, many clashes resulted. The only licensed saloon in the place is opposite the camp, and liquor was freely dispensed. Marshal Browne vehemently commanded that the army abstain from liquor and avoid all possible conflict with anyone. Two lines of pickets were placed around the camp. 6 The army crossed tho State line Imo Maryianu. rriuay, on tho march from Addison and camped at Grantsvillo, Md., in an abandoned distillery. The reception at Grantsv ille was chilly. No contributions were given by the citizens and but few people turned out to see the procession.

NOTES. The authorities at Ogden, U. T,. Mon day, obtained a permapent injunction preventing the Central Pacific from unloading the California contingent of the industrial army within the city limits. It is estimated that tho army at that point now corrated in the railroad yards numbers 1,220 men. The Union Pacific positively refuses to recede from its position and will demand full fare from every man wno goes East from Ogden. Tho great “Unknown,” about whose identity so much speculation has been indulged in, i 3 now positively stated to be one Jensen, a Pinkerton detective, who has been employed to watch tho Coxey movement from its inception. The branch of the industrial army at Ogden. IT. T.. was marched east at 4:30 p, m. under cavalry escort, Wednesday, the courts having sustained tho position taken by Gov. West that ho could use force in removing the alleged army from the Territory. Tho men will bo taken out of tho Governor’s jurisdiction and abandoned.

“Gen.” Coxev returned to Pittsburg, Thursday, on private business. He was interviewed and said that he felt encouraged and believed that at least 500,003 people will have joined the ranks by the time the army reaches Washington. The California Commonwealere who were escorted beyond tho limits of Utah by tho authorities and military forces of the Territory, Thursday, captured a freight train on the Union Pacific. “Gen.” Kelly at once assumed command, and the men boarded tho cars, and a detail was placed on the engine cab to compel the engineer and fireman to do their work. ThtsTook place eight miles east of Ogden. This branch of the Commonweal was expected to reach Cheyenne by Friday night, unless tho railroad company succeeded in side-tracking the train. Christophor Columbus Jones and threo ragged recruits, claiming to be a division of Coxoy’s Commonweal, left Philadelphia, Thursday, with flying colors, and expect to join the main army at Rockville, Md. Tho Kelly branch of the “industrials” arrived at Cheyenne, Friday, at 3 p. m., with banners flying and men cheering. The train was not permitted to stop in the city limits but ran through to East Cheyenne, where a brief stop was made to take on provisions. Tho railroad officials finally decided to push the army right through to Omaha on a fast freight schedulo. “Gen.” Frey’s contingent were tn camp at a point ono hundred miles west ol Terre Haute, Friday night. Trainmen on the Yand ilia give ago )d report of these men, and say tho majority are respectable and far abovo the professional tramp. It is claimed that there are thirty Masons in the ranks. Frey’s branch now numbers tour hundred men.

OUR MARKET REPORT.

April 14, 1834. Indiana poll*. GRAIN ANI) HAY. Wheat—so)4c; corn. 33>4c; oats, 35c; rye, 45c for car lots, 40c for wagon rye; hay, choice timothy, $11.50. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Shippers, 13.75i34.00: heifers. $3.6033.25; cows, $133.25; bulls. *1.75$ 3.00; milkers, $15.00340.00. Hogs— Packers, [email protected]; roughs, *4.003 5.75. Sheep—s3.so@4; spring lambs, $638. POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) Poultry- perlb; young chickens, 6>£c per tb; turkeys, old toms, 4c per lb; hens, 7c per lb; fancy, fat young tom turkeys. 4c; ducks, 7c per lb; geese, *4.2034.80 per dos for choice. Egos—Shippers aro paying Bc. Butter—Extra, lie; mixed, Bsloc. Honey—l63lßc Feathers—Prime geese, 40c per lb; mixed duck, 20c per lb. Beeswax— 2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Unwashed medium wool, 15c; unwashed ebarso or braid, 13315 c; unwashed line merino. 10313 c; tub-washed, 18320 c; burry and coiled wool, 5 to 10c loss than above prices. Hides— No. 1 green hides, 234 c; No. 1 G. S. hides. 834 c; No. 3 G. S. hides, 2>%'c; No. 1 calf hides, sd; No. 2 calf hides, 334 - Chicago. Wheat—o2'4c: corn: 38'4e; oats, 3324 c; pork. 112.42 1 4; lard. *7.42>4r ribs, *6.42>4. C’attlo—Native steers. *4.5034.85. Hogs— Heavy roughs. 14.4034.75. Sheep—Top quality, *535.40. New York. Wheat— 66,l4c; corn. 4334 c; oats, 3734 c; butter. Western creamery. 17325 c., Philadelphia., Wheat-63c; corn, 4314 c; oats, 3934 c. Minneapolis. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 6534 c. Bt. Loul*. Wheat—sßc; corn, 3534 c; oats, 3254 c. Baltimore. Wheat—6334c; corn, 45>4c; oats, 38c. Toledo. Wheat— corn, 3854 c; onto. 32c. Detroit, Wheat—6oc; corn 40c; oats, 36c. Buffalo. Cattle—Export ateer*,t4.2534.00; hogs Yorkers, *5.2535.40.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hartford City has voted to incorporate. A case of leprosy is reported at Trafalgar. The Wlnamac Republican is howling for a grist mill at that place. Elkhart hoodlums ruin bicycles by puncturing pneumatie tires with a knife. A German carp weighing pounds was caught in Wildcat river, near Kokomo. The police authorities of Terre Haute have ordered that the slot machines must go. The Great Western pottery works, employing 3CO hands, started up at Kokomo, Saturday. Albany, with no indebtedness, will issue 18,500 in bonds with which to furnish the new school-house. The spring term of the Central Normal College at Danville has opened, with over one thousand students in attendance. The annual exhibit by the Hamilton County Agricultural Association will be held at Sheridan, beginning August 13. Warren county commissioners rejected the petition asking the county to pay onehalf the shortage of Defaulter Cronkhite. Anderson will erect a new school-house costing $20,003. This will make the sixth structure by the present Board of School Commissioners. The City Council of Valparaiso has granted a fifteen-year franchise to a Chicago syndicate for an electric-light plant and telephone exchange. The Sixth District Republican Congressional Convention was held at Muncle; Thursday. Congressman Johnson was renominated without opposition. The corner stone of the new high school building at Wabash was laid, Wednesday, with impressive ceremonies. Fifteen hundred school children participated. While using dynamite to kill fish near Mishawaka, last week, one man had his arm blown off, another’s chin was shattered and the third was knocked senseless. Zimri Dwiggins, awaiting trial in Benton county, growing out of the failure of one or more of his banks in that county, has taken a change of venue to Warren county. At a country grocery, four miles west of Mt. Vernon, Tuesday, two fifty-pound cans of powder blew up. Throe men were fatally injured and the building reduced to splinters. Dr. Mattox, of Terre 11 a u te, coronor of Vigo county, cards the public in an article, “How I Became an A. P. A.” He is badly worried about it and says ho will never do it again. The meanest man in the State lives near Noblesvillc. He courted a schoelmarm for two years, and when she had taught him all she knew he gave her the shake and went to practicing law. 2 The board of school commissioners of Winchester havo established a free kindergarten in order to dispose of surplus revenue accruing from tho local tax for tuition and special school revenue. The remains of W. D. McCoy, ex-United States Minister to Liberia, arrived at Indianapolis. Monday. They were shipped from Monrovia, Fob. 24, in a metallic casket enclosed in a zinc lined box. Moses Bradford, of Marion, has brought suit for SIO,OCO against tho Big Four Railway Company, now owning the C., W. & M. railway, because a station is not maintained at North Marion, as per old agreement. Hober Fuller, while fishing at Jeffersonville, Monday, found on his trot lino tho head and shoulders of a man. Supposed that the body is that of one of the men drowned in tho Phoenix bridge disaster, last December. At Hartford City, Tuesday night, a west bound freight ran into an open switch. A terrible wreck resulted. Brakeman Benthim and Engineer Phillips were killed. A number of tramps were burled beneath the wreckage but were rescued. The argument in tho Legislative apportionment case at Indianapolis, brought by tho Republican State Committee to set aside the apportionment law enacted by the last Legislature, was concluded, Tuesday. Tho decision has not been rendered. The trial of Francis A. Coffin, Percival B. Coffin and Albert S. Reed for aiding and abetting Theodore P. Ilaughey in wrecking the Indianapolis National Bank began in tho United States District Court at Indianapolis, Tuesday, before Judge Baker. The Kokomo opalescent (cathedral) glass works, after a shut down of six months, has resumed operations at a reduced wage scalo. All of the thirty-one big industries in that city are now running except ono, anu that will start up May 1. While Michael Keogh was riding homeward in a vehicle from Brookville, he dropped his cigar, which set fire to the robe wrapped around his lower limbs. The old gentleman was unablo to help himself, and ho was terribly burned before being rescued. Every tramp arriving at Elkhart is first vaccinated, after which he is given a lunch, neatly wrapped in paper by a hotel in that city, which charges the city 15 cents for every lunch prepared. A policeman then escorts the tramp to tho corporation lino and ho is bidden to move on.

The holler In Christian Weber’s saw mill at Lancaster exploded, Saturday, and four of the six men working in the mill were killed ontright and the other two seriousjy injured. The killed are: Christian Webtjr, Lester Rinehart, Clifford Rinehart and Louis Weber. Charles Schaefer and John Shepper were injured. The mill was completely demolished and large pieces of the boiler were found 1,003 feet away. The two men who were Injured will probably die. The northern Indiana toachers. In session at Frankfort, elected H. G. Woody, of Kokomo, President; Frank Cooper, of Lake county, Vice President; Ora Cox, of Logans port, Recording Secretary; J. H. Bair, of South Bend, Railroad Secretary; E. W. Bohannon, of Jasper county, Treasurer, and W. R. Snyder, of Muncle, Chairman of the Executive Committee. Tho 1895 session will bo held at South Bena. Abraham Peters, near Sedalia, was Importmtod by lightning-rod men to rod his bare,and he consented. Some material was left over, which they asked him to store for them, and they coaxed him Into signing a receipt showing so many feet of rodding still in his possession. Soon after he found a promissory note In bank, calling for *233. Mr. Peters does not know how hla signature was obtained to tho note on-

leas a thin strip of carbon was placed underneath the paper which he signed, by which it was afterward traced on a note in bank. At Fowler, Tuesday, Judge Wiley decided the fee and salary law of 1891 unconstitutional and void in that it omits to include the treasurer, auditor and recorder of Shelby county within its provisions. The recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court in the case of Sheriff Henderson, of Vigo county, involving the fees of sheriffs, in which the law was held constitutional, was largely Commented on. In this case tho treasurer of Benton county declined to turn into the treasurer’s fund the surplus receipts of his office, over and above his salary as provided in the 1891 statute, and the court holds that treasurers, auditors and recorders are entitled to the respective incomes of their offices under the statute of 1879. The decision is of far-reaching importance and effect in Indiana, and is a victory for tho association of county Tifficera “recently organized to fight the law of 1891. Burlington, almost en masse, opposed the opening of a saloon in that village, and the County Commissioners hearkened to their remonstrance. The petitioner appealed to the Carroll Circuit Court, and Judge Reynolds overruled the Commissioners and tho license was granted. The anti-liquor people will now bring suit against the saloonkeeper and his bondsmen, together with the owner of the building in which the saloon is located, for damages under the recent decision of tho Supreme Court. The following patents were granted to, citizens of Indiana, Tuesday: C. Bahret, assignor to West Gas Construction Company, Ft. Wayne, center valve; A. P. Boyer, Goshen, hay carrier; G. J. Kline, Goshen, wire stretcher; H. T. Conde, Indianapolis, typewriter cabinet; H. Delaney, Now Albany, smoko consumer; W, A. Ford, Indianapolis, sole; J. R. & J. E. Lambert, Indianapolis, window fixture; M. O. March, Goshen, folding stool; H. B. Morris, assignor to Ford, Johnson & Co., Michigan City, machine for scarfing ends of cano strips for splicing; G. N. Pabres, Sheridan, brick and tile kiln; W. E. Rose, assignor of one-half to S. C. Hicks, New Carlisle, sign printer; W. Shellenbaek, Richmond, engine turning lathe; N. Stedman, assignor to S ted man’s foundry and machine works, Aurora, disintegrator; F. Thalmuelier, Jr., Huntingburg, fluid pressure brake.

A FAMOUS LAWYER.

Death of David Dudley Field at an Advanced Age. David Dudley Field, the celebrated lawyer, died at New York, Friday. Mr. Field was born February 13,1805, and was the oldest of the famous Field Brotders of whom Justice Stephen J. and tho Rev. Henry M. are living. Cyrus W. Field, another of the brothers, died some months ago. David Dudley began the practice of law In Now York in 1828, and continued

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.

in actual practice until 1885, during which time he probably achieved more for law reform, and did more toward the preparation of codes of civil and criminal procedure than any man. He labored assiduously before the International Social Science Congress for the reform and codification of the laws of nations and for the substitution of arbitration for war. He filled an unexpired term In Congress for eight weeks, in 1876, when he was one of the advocates for the Democratic party in the Ilayes-Tilden controversy. Prior to that time he had been a supporter of the Republican party. He was the author of codes on civil and criminal procedure, which havo been adopted by a majority of the States and Territories. His career has been remarkable and bis reputation as a lawyer was international. Mr. Field returned to New York April 5 from an extended European trip. He was taken with pneumonia April 12, and died April 13.

THE CROP BULLETIN.

Haw the Winter Deft the Crop oatlook— The Weather. The first crop bulletin of the season issued by tbe weather service, Wednesday, says: The very mild temperature during the' greater part of the winter caused wheat and pasturage to remain in most excellent "condition, and when, about the 25th of January, a few exceedingly cold days occurred, snow had fallen in sufficient quantities necessary for protection, bat peaches which had advanced much were killed. The very favorable weather permitting plowing and Sliding, much clover and oats had been sown, and wheat was in a most vigorous, advanced and promising condition at the end of the winter. Bxcessivo temperature prevailing until March 23. with sufficient precipitation, crops and vegetation advanced in a most remarkable manner, and when then from March 24, cold freezing temperature occurred, tho young clover, sprouting oats, garden truck and fruit buds, except late apples and berries, were frozen; wheat was less injured, most so in localities in the southern portion, where tho plant had begun to joint. The weather condition during the past week were not 0 favorable to the advancement or recovery of the crops, or to farm work. Cool temperature, near freezing nearly every night, retarded vegetation, also snow and irain in the northern portion; in the central portton the precipitation was very deficient. 4 Some months agb a young man of Warren wrote his name and address on an egg he was shipping, and this week he received a letter from a resident of Sydney, Australia. The letter said that probably the sender might be Interested in knowing how far this egg traveled in finding a customer, and added that eggs were worth eighty-five cents a dozen in that city.

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In tho Senate, Tuesday* the bill Introduced by Senator Peffer on suggestion of Mr. Coxey was reported back from the committee adversely. The Wolcott resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars at United States mints for “export was considered. The resolution was amended and then agreed to as follows: Resolved, That the President of the United States, with a view to encourage and extend our commercial relations with China and other Asiatic countries, be requested, and if not incompatible with the public interes te, to enter into negotiations with the republic of Mexico looking to the coinage by the United States at the mints of standard Mexican dollars under some agreement with the said republic of Mexico as to seigniorage, method and amount of said coinage; ana that he be further requested to report the result Of his negotiations to the Senate. At 2 o’clock the tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Lodge spoke in opposition. He said that by invention and protection the United States had been able to maintain a high rate of wages; that the proposed bill would surely reduce wages; protection does not make high wages but helps to prevent tneir reduction. In conclusion Senator Lodge said: To maintain high rates of wages and to give, if possible, the fullest scope for their increase, I believe to be essential, because I believe good wages absolutely vital to the stability of our institutions and of our society. Protection in its widest aspect is something far more than a mere question of schedules or of national bookkeeping. It is an effort to defend by legislation our standards of living, just as tho exclusion of the Chinese and of contract labor was. The reduction of wages thus far made are trifling to wjiat will come It this bill becomes a law and men seek to adjust themselves to the new conditions. Such a lowering of wages Is not to be contemplated without tho deepest alarm. Tho country is agitated and frightened as at no previous time. There is darkness before and danger’s voice behind. While we debate rates of duties the threat of this bill is, really breaking down an important part of a broad general policy on which we must rely unless we are prepared to meet the shock of changes which it would be difficult to portray. I have no fear of tho ultimate result. 1 believe that the mighty forces which havo brought the great races to their present position will not cease to operate. I feel sure that in the end wo shall not cast asido tho policies which are to protect us from the lowering and deadly competition of races with lower standards of living than our own.

Senator Hoar created a sensation by reading a dispaten stating that the New York Legislature had passed a resolution thanking Senator HuLfor his speech In opposition to the tariff bill. After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, Tuesday, Senate amendments to a bridge bill were considered. Mr. Reed urged that a motion must bo had on a motion to arrest absentees that came over from Saturday, but by agreement the matter went over. Hills were passed for the protection of game in Yellowstone Park and for the punishment of crime in the park. House then went into committee of the wholo on postoflice appropriation bill. Mr. Bryan took the floor and assailed ex-Speaker Reed In strong language and characterized his position on the tariff as full of duplicity. Ho said that Mr. Reed had told the West in a speech at Denver that all the States were equally interested in protection and In another speech at Boston had said that Massachusetts was most interested, and had appealed to the selfishness of all New England. Mr. Reed replied with a lengthy defense of his position and declared that Mr Bryan had misunderstood his speeches. He stated that the Republican doctrine of protection recognized no class. Without action on the pending amendment to tho postoflice appropriation bill the House adjourned. In the Senate, Wednesday, Senator Harris stated that the consideration of tho tariff bill would be pressed with all the means at the command of its friends under the rules of the Senate. All night sessions will be held soon and the legitimate dobate got through with as soon as possible. Senator Morgan took the floor and referred to the manifesto of the Minnesota Democratic Association, which charged him as being in league with Hill, Gorman and Pugh against the tariff bill. He denied that such was the case and avowed his determination to vote for it. Mr. Peffer finished his speech began last Thursday. Mr. Quay Interrupted Senator Poffer witffthe point of no quorum and $ lengthy dobate was injected into tho proceedings over the point of order. Finally onough Senators came in to make a quorum and Mr. Peffer was allowed to proceed. At 5 o’clock the urgency deficiency bill was taken up and discussed till 3p. m. A brief executive session was then hold and at 0:20 the Seoate adjourned. Tho dispatches summarize the House proceedings, Wednesday, briefly as follows: “Held up by Tom R :cd.” At 1:40 p. m, the House adjourned without transacting any business. Tho urgency deficiency bill was taken up, Thursday, in the Senate, and discussed by paragraphs. A motion for its final passage was about to be made but tho hour of ono o’clock having arrived the tariff bill came up on the regular order. Mr. Peffer again secured recognition and discussed the measure and incidentally defended Coxey and the commonweal army. Referring to the band of forty men who were arrested last Saturday night immediately after entering Washington, he said: - i “They had as much right to come hero as the president of the New York Central or any other citizen.” As Congress was not bound down to such restrictions, he continued, “he would insist upon Congress passing a bill obliging the President to find employment for all men and women of the country. It would not be' in tho way of building good roads, for he thought that a special province of the States, but be would set them at work building a straight double track railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and another from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. Then the dark clouds would roll away and be dissipated as the morning mist. “I am now pleading with you manufacturers,” he said, earnestly, turning toward tho Republican Senators, “to be fair with us. If you demand protection igaipst goods which come into competition with yours, give us those protective iu ties which we ask for.” Senator Galllngcr Inquired whether he (Mr. Peffer), believed that manufacturers could continue on a free trade basis. “I am not looking after tho manufacturing interMts," declared Mir Peffer. “I am looking iftor the men of the West and Sonth. Kansas can stand freo tr&do better than the people you represent.” Mr. Peffer continuod to speak until 5 o’clock, when the urgency deficiency bill was again taken up on the regular order and conoid-

ered until 6 o’clock when the Senate adjourned. As soon as the journal was read In the House, Thursday, the Speaker recognized Mr. Catchings, who presented the report of thecommittee on rules. The point of no quorum was raised. Mr. Reed attempted to dispute points of order with the Speaker but Mr. Crisp declined tote entangled in a debate with him. The report of the committee was then read and provides for every member being present and voting on all questions unless excused or necessarily prevented, every infraction of the rule to be punished by a fine of 910, The Speaker pot the question and a vote resulted—--99 to 0, Republicans refusing to vote. Mt Burrows made the point of no quorum and demanded the yoas and nays. Eleve* Democrats refused to give the rule tbeii approval. The yeas and nays resulted 141 to 11—thirty-seven short of a quorum. A cal! of the House was ordered. Mr. Reed taunted tho Democrats, stating that with 100 majority they were powerless te transact business. Mr. Hutchinson was recognized and said he was tired of befog lectured by Mr. Reed. He explained that he believed in counting a quorum when it was present. Finally, after an almost interminable parliamentary wrangle, f» which Mr. Reed was the principal figure, tlie rule was adopted and at 6:30 the House adjourned. The urgency deficiency hill was taken up in the Senate, Friday, and an amendment appropriating 146,000 for the Philadelphia mint was agreed to. At 1 o’clock the tariff bill became tho regular order, and Mr, Peffer resumed his speech. At its conclusion Mr. Mitchell was recognized and described the event and policies which reduced tho Republican party and o* which the party still stood. He then gave a startling list of calamities and disaster* which had afflicted the country sine* Cleveland’s inauguration, describing in glowing terms tho prosperity of the country under the protective system, and wound up as follows: Tho bill as it stands today is based ow no definite, well-recognized principle or policy of customs taxation. It is neither free trade nor protection, and yet it is both. But one consideration seems to have been uppermost in the minds of it» makers, and that is, how shall we frame this bllj, wherein shal 1 we make it free trade and wherein protection, so as to assure us of enough votes to secure Us passage? This, Mr. President, is statesmanship of the highest order. The bill is sectional in the extreme in its general makeup. giving protection to the products and industries of ono section and denying that protection to another. In a word, th* pending bill is a legislative monstrosity, with the head of a man, the arms of & dragon, the tail of a fish and the claws •? a bear. It is un-American, un-Democrat-ic, un-Republican. It is a dangerous menace to the prosperity and general welfare of tho people of tho United States, and hence it is that the voice of patriotism, of Americanism, of Republicanism, and of real Democracy demands that it b* strangled in the legislative womb and never bo permitted to be born. The Vice-President then laid before the Senate a message from the President transmitting some Hawaiin correspondence. An extended parliamentary discussion followed on a motion to adjourn, pending the decision of which th#Senat* went into executive session at the conclusion of which the body adjourned withoaW formality. The Democrats could not muster a quorum in the House, Friday, and were forced to adjourn.

NORTHWESTERN DEMOCRATS.

A political address has been issued by the Democratic leaders of Minnesota* which says: It Is useless to disguise the fact that onr party is confronted with serious trouble. In less than two years after winning the most complete victory any party ever won. while yet in full possession of the powers then given us, we present tho appearance of a defeated party, while our opponent*, routed in that battle, wear all the airs of victory. The address further says that the result has not come about through the work of open opponents of tho party, but was eausedhy Democrats who, while professing to favor free trade, had worked for protection of special interests, and continuing, asks: Who are these men who have mades failure not due to oar fault and neglect? Their names are fit to stand alongside of Benedict Arnold. They are Senators Brice, Hill, Murphy, Smith. McPherson, Gorman, Gibson, Camden, Caffrey. White. Morgan and Pugh, These are the men who wear the masks of Democrats that Ihey may the better betray onr cause.

SENATOR HILL INDORSED.

Remarkable Action of the K«W York Legislatore In the New York Assembly at Albany, Tuesday, Assemblyman Ainsworth, Republican, introduced a resolution thanking henator Hill for “his masterly arraignment of the foreign policy of th* present administration, hia exposition of the Iniquitous income tax features of th* Wilson bill and his denunciation of th* un-American features of the present tariff legislation.” Tho resolution was adopted I<£ to A The Assembly stands 76 Republicans, te Democrats.

“HELD UP.”

The Commonweal Army Sarrondera to a Lone Woman Toll-Gala Kwper. It develops that the Coxey army met Ignominious defeat at the hands of Mrs. Clabaugh, a toll-gate keeper on the pik* two miles east of Brownsville, while en route to Unlontown, Monday. As tba army approached the gate Mrs. Clabaugh appeared and demanded that toll be paid. Marshal Brown proceeded to deliver one of his theosophical harangues. Mr*. Clabaugh said she did not know anything about re-incarnation, but wanted the toll for the entire aggregation at once. Coxey and Brown argued the matter, claiming first that the Commonweal was a funeral procession going to the obsequies of all the old parties, then claimed to be a church, but the obdurate woman demand'd “one dollar and eighty-seven cents and be quick about it.” Coxey paid the amount in nickels and pennies under protest, and his army proceeded on lM way. G. W. Teagarden, near Orleans, aided by his hired man. uncovered a nest of snakes hibernating under an eld stusspv and they killed fifty-six. ranging in length from eighteen Inches to three feet two. The same day they uncovered another bunch, killing eighteen, making a total at seventy-ini.r in the day.