Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1894 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAN. Gxorb E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER

The coupon scheme is still claiming all things for its own. You can now get a pug dog on this plan if you buy enough of Scrougem’s Serene Scouring Soap. “And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah were mine bund red and fifty years; and he died.” Quaker City, otherwise Richmond, Wavnecoun tv, is indulwing in metropolitan frills. It has a commercial club in full blast that will shortly build a first-class modern hotel with all therlatesll ux uries,cl ub rooms, etc. The venture is already an assured success and the new hotel will doubtless prove a great card for one of the most beautiful little

cities nr~the West. — Queen Victoria may embrace the Catholic religion. There is much uneasiness on the subject in England. Iler Majesty is reported to have been unusually gracious toward Roman prelates who have from time to time called upon her, and her attitude toward Catholic dignitaries during her recent visit to —Florence is -said to have been friendly to a marked degree. The rate of duty on wheat importedinto France hasrecentliLbe.cn raised from five to seven francs a hectolitre, which makes the duty about 35 cents per bushel. The raise was made as a protection to French farmers who could not compete with the immense quantitities of Indian wheat thrown on the market on account of crops raised in that country last year. The Columbian Museum at Chicago has secured a great collection of historical tapestries illustrating scenes in the liffe of Christ. They were made for Pope Urban VIII about 1620, and until twelve years ago hung in the Barberim palace at Rome. The series is valued at $400,000. These tapestries are the finest in the United States, and are equalled by only a very few royal collections in Europe. New York city is to have a ■£ ... “speedway” running close along the shore of Harlem river from Washington bridge to High bridge, some two miles in length, I for the exclusive use of those fortunate individuals who own fast i horses and desire a place to drive them. A portion of the route will be blasted from the solid rock of the bluff along the east shore of Manhattan Island.

A city exchange informs us that it is “good form’’ to cross the asphalt streets at any point a person may desire, and that it is quite unneccessary to hunt for “crossings,” “Country Jakes” who have been accustomed to “cross the road” whenever they felt like it will be greatly relieved to learn that they can do the same in the qity without incurring the jeers of fastidious, dudes who are sticklers for “form” ia all the details of every day life. Oppressed humanity will be greatly relieved to learn that Prof. Larkin has discovered that the remarkably hot weather that has prevailed this spring is caused by a solar cyclone 86,000 miles in length and 46,000 miles in width, the whole luminous atmosphere gyrating in a manner that would make a Kansas zephyr green with envy. Now that we know the cause oi our discomfort we may as well fill up,-with ice cream and buttermilk and wipe our weeping brows “till the clouds pass by.” It is a great satisfaction to have some things settled as we go along. The positive Dr. Talmage is never in doubt about anything, and in his Little Rock sermon related with great minuteness the incidents of the departure of the Jewish warriors on the expedition against the Amalekites. They were given a great send-off. Kisses were thrown and “handkerchiefs waved” just like people do nowadays. Now that it is settled that handkerchiefs were in vogue, we would like to know’ if catarrh was epidemic and whether the proprietor of Dr. Pennyroyal’s Sureenough Specific was offering a reward of SI,OOO for a case that could not be cured. lowa is still experimenting with sumptuary laws. The Mulct tax law >s the last that has passed the Legislature.' It provides for a tax of S6OO per annum for liquor ’dealers, to be equally dividedjbetween the county and raunfclpalitv In which the busiless is carried on. In cities of 6,000

and up ward the consent of the city council and of property holders residing within fifty feet must be secured. In places of le/s than 5,000 inhabitants, the consent of 65 per cenL.nf .the._vo_ters.is necessary. Prof. Dewar is something of a scientist. He has from time to time performed feats in London with the common elements that border on the miraculous. His last exhibition be-' fore the Royal Institution on the 10th of May was to float a soap bub-, ble on the surface of a glass vessel filled with liquid air. Intense cold caused by evaporation froze the bubble and it broke in two and the half spheres floated for an hour until submerged in an artificial snow drift precipitated in the vessel by the freezing air. •—-==G. ■ Not long since a New York damsel became dissatisfied with the pattern of nose that Nature Lad provided for her use and adornment, and proceeded to have it dissected while yet alive, The surgeons were I so successful that a Philadelphia girl beeame ambitious to have her ears “done over" according to her own notions of what suited her peculiar style of beauty. The operation was performed to the entire satisfaction of all concerned, and the offending ears were tucked back neatly after a ; v-shaped piece had been carved from i their too expansive dimensions.

Baron Saurma. the German ambassador at -Washington,, .motwith--standing his high position, appears to be somewhat of a nuisance to his neighbors at the National capital. Evidently he has been accustomed to live on an estate and finds it difficult to dispense with the usual accessories of a barnyard. His roosters crow at the usual time and arouse the aristocratic neighborhood. His dogs bark and howl in spite of revolvers and bootjacks. His cats eat the poison thrown to them by exasperated neighbors and die on the premises with the usual unpleasant results to Olfactory nerves in that vicinity. His servants hang out the weekly washing in the front yard in full view of the most aristocratic surroun lings. His “hired gal” throws dishwater in the door-yard and upon the head of an old lady in an adjoining lot. The Ambassador and his neighbors have been occupying the time and attention of the Police Department and the Board of Health to the exclusion of more important matters. Charges and counter charges have been made. The Police Department have exonorated the Baron's neighbors. and say the Ambassador don’t know how to live in a city—at any rate in an American city.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. It has been estimated that at least one-half of the power expended in the operation of the average manufacturing establishment is wasted in overcoming the friction of lubricated surfaces of shafting and other machinery. ’ ; - There are eleven evangelical societies engaged in mission work in Mexico. The total number of foreign missionary laborers is 177 and of native assistants 512. There are 469 congregations, 385 of which are churches, and 118 church buildings. There are 16,250 communicants and about 50,000 adherents. In 1810, when Great Britain seized Mauritius, there was a huge turtle in the court of artillery barracks, at Port Louis, and it is there to this day, although nearly blind. It is ovei* eight feet long, two feet high, when walking, and weighs 330 pounds. It can carry two men on its back. At an election in Wilkesbarre, Pa., twin brothers, who look very much alike, desired to vote; but as one was too ill to leave his bed, the other voted in his own name, and then, one hour later, visited the polls once more, and voted again, this time giving his brother’s name. A local boom in the mlEtrimonial market is likely to be caused by a quarrel between two justices in Rooks County, Kansas. One of them announces his readiness to marry couples free of charge; the other advertises tliat he will not only do this, but also give each couple a turkey. The policemen at Dieppe are required to be ready to rescue persons from drowning, and are supplied with printed rules for efficient service. One of the rules directs them to “seize a drowning lady by the dr,ess, and not by the hair, which often remains in their grasp, while the lady sinks,” That odd little town of Ounalaska, which is cut off from civilization for nearly eight months of the year,will be very gay this summer, and the man who shall undertake to carry excursionists a-summering to Bering sea and the seal islands must let his patrons enjoy the gayetiar of Ounalaska. There are plenty of flowers on the island in midsummer, days half as long again aS most New Yorkers ever knew, and a mixed population that can muster at a ball a score of girls that can dance from sunset to dawn. With fifteen or twenty war-ships touching at Ounalaska, the dancing ladies of the settlement will have enough to do.

THE CAMPAIGN.

Gresham’s Cowardly -Foreign Policy—TheSugarTrust— Knuckling Down to Germany. - ; ‘ —l —jfcBJSSB _ ■ ■■ ~ . • A Berlin cablegram in the Sunday Tournal said: “Secretary Gresham’s paper upon Samoa has given great satisf ac tion her e. 11 is con eluded that the United States Government will support the German protectorate.” There is every reason why the new attitude taken by the United States in regard to Samoa should give great satisfaction in Berlin, for ft is an en tire a ban do nme n t of the position firmly maintained by this Government for many years, and will lead inevitably to the establishment of a German protectorate. That is what Germany has been trying ToLccomplishrTorsevernTyears, and the United States to prevent. The interests of the United States in Samoa are more prospective than present. Our present trade with the islands is considerable enough to be worth protecting, and Americans nwn some large plantations there, but the chief interest grows out of the geographical position of the islands and their prospective value as a coaling station and point for protecting American commerce. In this respect they resemble the Hawaiian islands, and while it may not be desirable for the United States to own or control them, there are strong reasons why Germany should not do so. The harbor of Pago Pago, a land-locked harbor sufficient for the acommodation .of large fleets, was secured by the United States as

a eoalin g station after years of exertion and expense. Not to speak of other results that might follow.theestablishment of a German protectorate, the United States would lose this harbor, and with it alt chance of extending commerce in that direction. True statesmanship looks beyond the interests of to-day to those of the distant future. It deals, with remote possibilities as well as present conditions. The tripartite agreement between G rea t Britain, the Un i ted States and Germany, which Secretary Gresham thinks should be abrogated, was the result on the part of the other two parties to prevent the islands from passing under the control of Germany, and to maintain an indpendent native government. The. agreement was concluded by representatives of the different governments at Berlin in June, 188.9, and its terms were formally accepted by the Samoan king in April, 1890. Secretary Gresham seems to think because the agreement was consummated during the Harrison administration that It was. exclusively the work of that administration, and therefore should be attacked by him and abrogated if possible. But the events which led to the agreement date back many years before the Harrison administration. Daring Mr. Cleveland’s first administration Secretary Bayard firmly and successful ly resisted the effor ts of Germany to establish control ovqr the islands. These efforts were not renewed during, the Harrison administration, Mr. Blaine’s views in regard to the American interests, prospective as well as present, being too well known to encourage anything of the kind. It was reserved for a Secretary of State who ordered the hauling down of the American flag at Honolulu and organized a scheme for the restoration of a rotten monarchy in Hawaii to suggest a step which is rightly construed in Berlin as an invitation to Germany to renew its aggressive policy in Samoa.

The Administration and the Sugar Trust.

Indianapolis Journal, On Monday morning several papers in the East, including the New York Press and the Philadelphia Press, devoted a page to the publieation of the inside facts concerning the surrender of the Democratic administration and the Democratic Senate to the Sugar Trust. If any part of the details is true it is the 1 most amazing and gigantic scandal that ever disgraced an American ad-! ministration. During the campaign jf 1892 it is alleged that the Sugar Trust, whose managers are Democrats, came to Cleveland’s rescue with contributions which aggregated $500,000, receiving in return the | issurance of the party leaders that whatever might be the Democratic

“Good Gracious! What a Fine Ass They’re Making of Me!" -N.Y.Herald.

I tariff bill in other respects tne interest of. the sugar monopolists should not be put in peril. A majority of the Democratic leaders in the House seemed not to be mindful of this pledge, and as the result the Wilson bill was passed with sugar on the free list. Then the sugar magnates came to Washington— Havemeyer,a domineering Democrat and other men of wealth and influenee, and brought a tremendous influence upon President Cleveland, who has al way's been in favor of a a duty on sugar. Among those interested in the trust were several of his closest-friends, and some of the trust magnates visited the President. Secretary Carlisle and Secretary Lamont, and got from them the assurance that the administration, recognizing its obligation to the trust, would remedy what the House had done. The President, what ever else may be said of him, proposes to fulfill his -obligations to the Sugar Trust for its contribution of $500,000, as he did—to Van Alen. One evening in February Secretary Carlisle met two members of the Senate finance committee, and, after setting forth the service of the Sugar Trust to the Democratic party, de dared that “it would now be infamous to turn around and strike "down the meh who helped us then.” As he left he gave one of these, members of the finance committee an amendment which he desired. to be submitted for the provision of the Wilson bill. The writer of the expose declares that the amendment is in Mr. Carlisle’s handwriting and is in possession of Senator Voorhees, and is said to be incontestible proof that the first persuasive influence brought to bear upon the Senate for kindly favor to the Sugar Trust came from the administration. This does not mean that the President had any connection with the stock jobbing which caused the common stock >12,000,000, but it does mean that Mr. Cleveland has used his influence to save the trust, which contributed half a million dollars to his campaign fund, from the ruin which his free trade policy will bring to other industries. In this connection it will be remembered that one_ of thcfirst authoritative declarations that the present sugar schedules would be presented appeared in an interview with Secretary Carlisle. It is said that, in expectation of the passage of a tariff bill with the administration sugar schedule therein, the trust is importing now large quantities of raw sugars, controlling! as it does, the crop of Cuba, Porte Rico and the British West Indies, and putting it ip bond against the imposition of the 40 percent, duty on raw sugars, which are now admitted free, and that the profit by the rise consequent, upon the Cleveland duty will be over $50,000,000. On this the government would receive no tax, and the people would contribute more than $50,000,000 to the Democratic Sugar Trust.

She Gave Him a Delicate Hint.

Washington Star. “Did you see my beautiful present from papa?” she asked of Charley Nairgo, who had come to call. “No. What is it?” “A new clock. It's so ingenious. It has a music-box attachment.” “Very clever.” “Yes. It plays ‘Home, Sweet .Home,’ every night at 10 o’clock.” And Charley went that evening at just fifty-nine minutes past nine.

Musical Item.

Texas Siftings. “I want the music of “O’Reilly and the 400,” said a little boy, enter? ing a New York music store. “For singing, or for the piano?” “I don’t want it for either; I want it for my sister.’

Never Arrested Before.

Texas Siftings. A Texas justice asked a darkey, officially: “Were you never arrested before?” “No, boss, qbery time I’se been arrested de policeman grabbed me from behind, and dev had a heap er trouble doing hit, becase I kin run like a turkey.”

He Was Cruel.

Texas Siftings “Your quiet, easy indifference,” said Mrs. Walkingbeam to her spouse, “aggravates me to such a degree that I am half dead with anger.” “Ah, my dear,” said Mr. W., “let me give you a pointer about that?” “What is it?” snapped Mrs. W. “No one ever should do things by halves.”

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

The Senate, Monday, spent eight hours discussing the question of free lumber. Not a vote was taken, The House, Monday, discussed District of Columbia affairs exclusively. In the Senate. Tuesday, after the reading of the report of the bribery investigxting committee, Mr? Hill said thatrthe question of speculation of Senators in sugar stock was only one of propriety and not an offense against law. Senator Lodge differed. Vice-President Stevenson ruled that the report was privileged. Mr. Hill appealed from the decision of the chair. Mr. Allen Interrupted Mr. Hill to say that it was not the truthfulness of the correspondents that the committee was charged to investigate; it, was whether attempts haehbeen made to bribe Senators; whether the trust had made large political contributions for the purpose of influencing legislation, and whether Senators had been speculating in sugar stocks. He asked Mr. Hill if he contended that the Senate had no right to investigate the charge that Senators had speculated in sugar stocks. “Not exactly,” replied Mr Hill, “but I have a grave doubt if a Senator should come before a committee and refuse to answer questions relating to his private business whether the committee could compel him to do so. The decisions of the courts are against it.” Mr. Gray, chairman of the committee, here interrupted to compare the investigation to a coroner's inquest and wanted to know of Mr. Hill if a witness having made a statement that ho had heard that one man had been killed by another could refuse to give his authority. After some wrangling between Mr. Harris and Mr. HUI, during which the interchange of courtesies was quite acrimonious, and after an ineffectual effort on Mr. Hill’s part to introduce a resolution declaring that the question asked the newspaper men for which they were to be held in contempt was not pertinent and that the facts should not be certified to the district attorney, Mr. Harris moved to table the appeal and it was carried without division. The Senate then resumed the consideration of the lumber schedule of the tariff bill but soon adjourned without action until Thursday. In the Senate, Thursday, Senator Turpie presented resolutions from the Ohio Legislature protesting against Russian extradition treaty. Mr. Hill presented a resolution directing that the bribery investigation be conducted in public. -It went over. Mr. Turpie presented the following resolution, which passed unanimously: “Resolved, By the Senate of tho United States, that of right it belongs wholly to the people of Hawaii to establish and maintain their own form of government and domestic policy; that the United States ought not in any way to interfere therewith, and that interference In the political affairs of these islands by any other government will be regarded as an act unfriendly to tho United States.” The tariff bill was then taken up. Senator Allen moved to strike out paragraph 17. as follows: “Lumber of any sort, planed or finished, on each side so planed or finished, 50 cents per thousand feet, board measure, and if plated on one side ai.d tongued and grooved, SI per thousand, and if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved, 81.50 per thousand, and in estimating board measure under the schedule no deduction shall be made on account —of planing, grooving or tongueing.” Agreed to, 35 to 24. This will place all lumber on the free list. Mr. Sherman then delivered a carefully prepared speech on the general subject of the tariff and was listened to with marked attention. He alluded to the differences in the Democratic rahks on the tariff questions and contrasted Mr. Cleveland’s letter of acceptance with the Democratic platform of 1892. Mr. Sherman charged that the sugar schedule ha 1 been drawn by the refiners. He contradicted the statement made by Senator Gorman that the protection offered tho sugar trust had been reduced and asserted that the statement was a palpable misrepresentation. He denounced the protection given the sugar trust and declared it was fiveeighths of 1 cent, or equal to the entire cost of refining sugar, including wear and tear of machinery. He characterized free wool as the “culminating atrocity of the bill.” Before closing Mr. Sherman devoted some time to the discussion of tho income tax. An income tax, he said, was indefensible, unless it was levied against all incomes alike. To single out a class was communism. If legislation in this spirit was to obtain the foundation of the republic would disappear. Mr. Sherman finished at 2:45, after having spoken three hours. Gen. Sickles introduced and the House, Thursday, passed a resolution Instructing the Secretary of War to do what is necessary under tho act of March 3, 1893, for the preservation of the Gettysburg battlefield. No business of importance was transacted.

In tne Senate, Friday, the “compromise” amendment of the sugar schedule came up. Mr. Manderson took the floor. The sugar schedule, he said, was the interesting schedule of the bill. It contained both sweetness and light. It seemed to pervade the whole bill. The bill could not be touched without laying hands on sugar. The Senate had even departed from the consideration of the bill to make explorations in sugar, not in the cane Holds of Nebraska, but in the committee room. The saccharine principle as it impregnated all nature invaded every feature of this bill. Mr. Manderson then pro ceeded to argue in favor of protection for the sugar growing industry of the country. Almost 5,1X0,(00,000 pounds of Yaw sugar had been consumed last year, representing, if grown and refined abroad, a total of 1182,000,00) to be paid to foreignFree sugar would mean the immediate destruction of the beet sugar industry and the gradual extinction of cane sugar production in the Southern States. Mr. Manderson gave notice that at tho proper tljgae he would offer as a a substitute for tho sugar schedule the bounty provision of the McKinley bill, continuing it in force until July 1,1005. Ho argued at length in support of the constitutionality of bounties. “If Congress were to give a bounty,” Mr. Caffery, “to a farmer or manufacturer, do you contend that the courts have no right to inquire whether bounty Is given for a public or private use?” “I do,” replied Mr. Manderson. “Tho decision of Mr. Miller Is conclusive on that poln|2’ Mr. .Peffer also spoke at length in favor of a bounty Instead of a duty on sugar. Mr. Harris

moved that the Senate proceed to executive businets. Before he mafle the motioa he declared, with his wonted emphasis, that the country was impatient, and had a right to be .impatient over the slow progress made with this bill, and that business interests everywhere were suffering from the inexensable delay. He gave notice th a"i after Monday he would if he were able, compel the Senate to endure longer hours tin til the bil 1 was disposed of. The Senate, at 5:47, went into executive session and at 5:35 p. m. adjourned. The House, Vriday. went into committee of the whole on the State Bank bilk Numerous speeches for and against the measure were made. No action waa taken. . ,

REED’S REMARKS.

The Ex-Speaker Sounds a Key Note. A London cable May 31, says: The Fortnightly Review publishes an interview with ex-Spcakcr Reed on silver, which will make a sensation on both sides of the ocean. The great Republican leader sounds a keynote for future campaigns by declaring that silver and the tariff must be regarded, “not as two issues but as one,” and that the depreciation of silver is vastly increasing the exporting business of silver nations, representing seven hundred millions of people. In the interview Mr. Reed says: -You in England want us.to lower duties. What will you give us in exchange? Will you open your mints to silver by agreement? One thing, at least, you may rely on; you will notiind the Republican party, offering the other cheek, as these Democrat) cg en tiemendo. For years past they have been posturing as the friends of free silver, and because you in England closo the. Indian mints anil put a duty on silver bullion these friends of free silver are now preparing to reward your generosity by lowering duties all around. Ono thing, at least, 1 have learned since the cessation of silver purchases last, year—that cheap silver is an effective stimulus to Asiatic ex ports, and. this. being the case, we have got to consider silver and the tariff not as two issues, but as one. It evidently is no time to lower tariffs when the currency ot seven hundred millions of Orientals is depreciating and their exporting pow=ers to gold using nations 4s-thereby-increasing. The fall in silver, its value to pay wages and to buy products in India and China being as great as ever, this, it is, that makes of the silver question an issue that we are forced to face. You recognize, of course, that the position has entirely chanced in the past six months. The previous enormous compulsory, monthly purchase-of silver, a most vicious proceeding, went far to confuse men’s minds and to disguise the fact that there really ’is, in the back ground, a serious currency problem to be solved. It is evidently Important for debtor nations, on which list we stand, to raise the price of silver, and thereby reduce that bounty on exports which Asia now enjoys. This can be done best by agreement with other nations favorable to silver, and by such a scale of high tariffs against those nations which reject monetary agreement as will insure us a favorable balance of trade. In short, a higher price for silver by reducing Asiatic exports to Europe will increase ours. Add to this a high tariff and we can keep our gold at home, or. at least, if sold, it will quicklv come back again.”

GOV. MATTHEWS’ PROCLAMATION.

Striking Mlner» Wa nod Against Further Unlawful Proceedings. Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Matthews, after a lengthy consultation with Judge Baker of the United States District Court, at Indianapolis, issued the following proclamation: The State ot Indiana, Executive Department. Whereas, It has been made to appear to me that large bodies of mon, engaged in the occupation of miningcoal,have banded themselves together in the counties of Clay, Parke, Vigo, Sullivan and Vermillion and at other points of the State, for the purpose of obstructing the passage of trains, and seriously interfering with the management and operation of the railway propvr.y in these sections and their duties under the law as public carriers, and thereby putting in danger not only the property, but the lives of our citizens, and Whereas. All citizens of the State are entitled to protection in respect to their property; and railroad companies in common with our citizens have the right te expect protection in the conduct of their lawful business, and in the shipment and transportation of the products of the country to market, and Whereas, The acts hereinbefore referred to are in violation of the laws of the State, and it is imperative that those laws be enforced to the end that violent and unlawful acts be stopped, peace and order restored, and the law vindicated, Now, Therefore, I, Claude Matthews, Governor of Indiana, call upon all who have been and are connected with such unlawful proceedings to disband and cease interference with the management and conduct, of the business of the railways of the State. As citizens you cannot afford to stand in the attitude of lawbreakers. I also call upon the sheriffs of counties and public officers and direct that they exert all the powers with which they are invested to break up these combinations and bring the violators of law to punishment. In maintaining the law and preserving the public peace, I invoke the sentiment and the judgment of the people a alnst all combinations for unlawful purposes. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at indiatapolis, this the 30th dav of M ay, 1804. [Seal] Claude Matthews. Bv the Governor: W. R. Myers, Secretary of State. A copy of the proclamation was mailed to the sheriffs of Clay, Parke, Vigo, Sullivan and Vermillion counties and to several other counties of the State where coal is mined and where the minors have gathered in numbers.

THE NEW FRENCH CABINET.

M. Dupuy Finally Completes It—The Various Portfolios. A Paris dispatch May 30 says: M. Dupuy has succeeded in finding the last of tho ministers necessary to complete the new Cabinet, M. llonotaux having accepted tho portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and General Mercier tho portfolio of Minister of War. The Cabinet is constructed as follows: Premier and Minister of the Interior— M. Dupuy. Minister of Foreign Affairs—M. Honotanx. Minister of Public Works—M. Barthous. Minister of Education and Arts—M. Leydcs. Minister of Commerce—M. Lonrties. Minister of Husbandry—M. Viger. Minister of the Colonies—M. Delcasse. Minister of Justice—M. Queorin. Mlnlrter of Marine—M. Felix aura. Minister of War— M. Mercier. Minister of Financo-r-M. Poincare. b M. Isweisky has been appointed Russian minister to the Vatican.