North Carolina Newspapers

it Claudius F. Wilson, Editor, VOLUME 21 BILL MP'S LETTER HE PASSES AN EVENING IN THE JUDGES ROOM. STORIES WHICH RECALL THE OLD DAYS . WHEN" THE LAWYERS WENT ON THE CIRCUIT, AND TOLD v JOKES, . . It was the judge's room. Tbe other d-y I was called to Cal houn town on business and had to stay v.-r night. Court was in sessou and Judge Milner honore l iue with an invitation, to siiarv his rooui and his bed. In the . olden time, when the lawyers rode the circuit, it was a big thing for them to gather in the judge's room; at night and discuss the affairs of the nation and t specially its poli tics, ?nd tell anecdotes and ex chanse vrit and wisdom. "As iron . ! trj)eneth iron so a man's face ?! . ; neth the face of a frieno' and so by the time these lawyers had taken the grand rnunds they had diffused know!; cue pretty generally. and o e carried his fresh accus uiulati us home acd scattered them nuiang his friends and coin pp. i i j 1 1 Book agents wer9 unknown; newspapers were neis ther num erous nor newiy, and hence it was a great comfort to the peo'ple to catch the tremen dous pporks of genius a? they scintillated from the lawyers and the politicians on the stump i j'id in - the forum Stump poutics were a big thing with t he people. - The two great paraen of whigs and dem ocrats, were pretty equally, di vided. Sometimes one was in power and sometimes the other and the contest jwent on from year to year and never ceased to creato excitement. It is not so now for &t the south there is practically but one par ty and it ta.kes two to get np a fight. Ae were recalling and dk'cusrrjsf these old times in the ji diie'rj r-om,.for there are some -v: as who are not spring chick n 3 and who hare memo Tie?. Tli e 'fa ithf ul sentinels of time nuiory the? only faculty that do 5 ivt decay with age and tLct iif.vsr goes back - upon the d-3ys of our youth. Calhoun town i ;:! ij rich in memories and we reralled Its ancient hia hirtcr a "i y on the banks of the O 3 t - rula and was called New Ec! o'a, and the Indians lived lisre and were happy on their hunting grounds. Big John Underwood Used to tell me wi:U unfeigned emotion obout Lis arresting John How ard Pay.-.e at Rosa's Landing (v. hic'j. is Chattanooga now) and h i ; : '.v him to New Ec fa cta & s. a prisoner suspected of 'tryio i ioduce the Indians to revel'. Payne was not guilty, He wa.T a wanderer, a inisans thrope, but Big! John said he was 'much of a gentleman." He was s . rched and had in his poc;: t letters that proved he was i ... o a ithor of Home, Sweet Houh?, . d he wore next to his boso ; 1 1 ucket that contained the i Mature of a lady. He waa u t .;::ed at New Echpta for seve .cj. months, and until orders came i'iom Governor Troup for him to be mounted and escort ed to : im at Milledgjville. He was tii6"e treated as an honor ed gr. -t, and after awhile .sent to Y. ss'i j;gtoc. ; Then we talked about the great whig barbecue of 1852 that v:? 3 given at Calhoun in honor cl Alexander Stephen?, who v, then in th zenith of his firue as a stump speaker, and 'i 'w we democrats of Rome tried to get some great man to come end meet him aud stem the title, and we wrote to Cobb and Hrseliell. Johnston Chap pel iid otiiere, but they all bad soma o'.Ler engagement, and at last; o cur aospair, we settled down on ilu-lt, the gifted, eK oquer.lut unreiiaDia and ua regenerate Russell, a man of spienaia appearance wnen so ber, and whose clarion voice and eagle eye marked him as a nat ural born orator. He was as gifted in lies as he was in hyi- guag, pud so we groomed him in s : it for' a few days and brou-Yt Liia-up land hid . him inthe multitude.. The wool lefl l.at boys came in crowds from th.3 mountains aud valleys to- Lear little Aleck, aud he uiad3 a great speech,' a wonder ful speech, and I baa captured the erowd, and came down from the r jstram and was receiving the congratulations of the peo pie and kissing the women, and some of the babies, when sud denly Russell mounted the plat term and screamed eut an hour 'ess than had been told on him iu a' his life. In yain did Mr. 5t-p?;eas interupt him and den ili a charges aud call for the p? ?. . In vain did General Blaax t. to drown his voice and make mm come down. Let him go on ! Let him go on ! the wool hats cried out, and when Little Aleck again de nounced the charges and called for the proof, Russell stood proudly erect, and folding his arm across his breast,looked up to heaven and said : I thank my viod, sir, that I do not have to prove to this people the truth of what I have said. They know me, they raised me. I am on my native health, but if I was 200 miles away from Uhome as you are I wonld carry my proof with me and we ail eheered and shouted amazingly, Mr. Stephens was whipped, completely whipped, and left the field in disgust. The finale was made intensely ludicrous when Russell came down and went among the tumultous and enthusiastic crowd and kissed half a dozen women and chil dren. I . Fifteen years after that I met Mr. Stephens at Milledgeville and he alluded, to the Calhoun barbecue and he suddenly ask ed me if Russell was dead. No he is not dead, said I, I was in hopes that he was dead, he said he was a monster of infamy. Then we recalled the famous Calhoun convention when Judge Wright and Geneal Young and General-; Wofford and Lewis Tumlin und some others were candidates for the nomination to congress, . and no man had enough votes to elect, and . all were stubborn, and the ballot ing went on all day and part of the nigflt, and the delegates were getting mad and furious and were about to break up in a row ana Judge Underwood, who was not a candidate, vol unteered to make a conciliato ry, harmonizing speech and he did it in such a delightful and affectionate manner and prais ed up all the candidates in such eloquent tributes that when he closed one man got up and waved his hat and. moved for three cheers to Judge Under wood and they were given with wild enthusiasm, and right on top of it another delegate mov ed that he be nominated for congress by acclamation and he was. Never was there such a Bttrprise to everybody except to the judge though he always denied that it was a'preconcer ted scheme. .Oh rare Judge Underwood Colonel McCamy remarked that the judge did not have a very high regard for that picture of justice which makes her blind folded the scales equally bal anced in her hand. So far as crime was concerned be claim ed the right to see and he did see the criminal with open, un friendly eyes and he sought to convict him and gave the solic itor general so much aid and co operation that the lawyers used to say the judge and the solicitor were, in partnership. His charge to the jury in a criminal case was always fair and strictly legal for he was a great lawyer, but woe be unto the lawyer who asked for more than he was entitled to. On one occasion a big rough, mali cious young man was indicted for striking a smaller youth with a brickbat and inflicting a terrible wound. The small boy had been imposed upon by him and seizing a stick he struck him and ran. Bill Glenn was defending the young man who used the brick and after the judge Lad given a very fair charge to the jury he said, now gentlemen if I have omitted anything that you think should be given in the charge, I will be glad to be reminded of it. Bill Gleen rose forward and said: I believe your honor omit lea io cnarge - ine jury mat a man may strike another in self defense. Yes, gentlemen of the jury, said the judge with great sarcasm, yes laere is sucn a provision in the law and if you believe from the evidence that ihis great big, double jointed, long armea, Dig nsted young gentleman was running after that puny palefaced boy with that brickbat and because he couldn't catch him threw it at him with all his might and struck mm on the back of the head and' knocked him sense less and that he did all this in self-defense, then ou can find the uefense then you can find the defendant not guilty. Is there anything else ..Brother Glenn? Nothing I believe sir. Your honor has covered the ground, said Glenn, biting his lips. 1 was always afraid said Mc Camy, to ask the jude to charge anthing more than he chose to, specially in a crimi nal case. But it was at Pauldin g court that the judge suffered a most aggravating defeat in his was a sorrow to the good people of the town of Dallas. It had been ventilated in the newspa pers as a great outrage, and the judge went there with his eyes open and not closed or blind folded. The Marietta lawyers "LET ALL TIIE WILSON, WILSON were there in force, and had been employed by the rioters, and they, combined and confed erated with the Pallas lawyers, and stocked the cardsjwd stock ed the jury too, and in spite of the judge and solicitor, one af ter another of the rioters was acquitted. They had several on trial, and most of the week was occupied in the tedious proceedings. The judge char ged the jury in each successive case stronger and stronger, fin ally the last case was reached. The ring-leader was on trial and Colonel Wright, the solici tor general felt sure of convict ing him; It was late Friday; evening when the case was con cluded, and the judge gave his charge to the'jury. He told them in a pleading tone how it reflected upon the good name of the community, etc., etc., and closed by adjourning the court and instructing the fore man to bring the verdict to his room if they found one before 9 o'clock. The lawyers winked aud smiled and waited. The judge was notwell and so he retired early, and about v o'clock the foreman knocked at the judge's door, and the judge said : Who is that. The fore man of the Grand Jury. What is your verdict, sir ? Well, judge, under the law and the evidence we were obliged to find the defendant not guilty. The judge groaned in disgust and turned over in bed as he re marked: Well sir, you can go. You can't bring that verdict in here, you can go and sleep with it yourself. Oh my Lord, what will become of this people? The lawyers were jubilant and they plotted a little scheme of revenge against the judge for the hard fight he had made against them. . Next morning. the judge was the first at the breakfast table, for he was an early riser. He was not amia ble and his eggs were not cook to suit him, George Lester came in alone, swinging nis empty sleeve, and said : Good morning jadge. Good morning Mr Lester. How did you rest last night judge ? Not at all well, sir not at all well. Well judge I understand you lost another case last night. Mr Lester, said the judge, I was not aware sir, that I had any cases to lose or to gain. I don't appreciate such an effort at wit, sir. Well, judge, you must excuse me. 1 meant it only as a joice, for you have been pretty hard on us in these cases. Just then Colonel Gartrell came sliding in with a beam ing countenance and said, good moaning judge. Good morning Mr. Gartrell. WelL judge we heard you lost another case last night. Yes sir, said the judge. Mr. Lester made the same ims pertinent remark just before you came in. Your perceptions of professional propriety and courtesy seem to be . equally dull. If you are ever elevated to the bench (which the Lord forbid) you will perhaps under stand these courtesies a little better than you do. Colonel Gartrell apologized humbly and feelingly, and the judge was beginning to get gracious when big Bill Wright came stalking in like a giant, and in a great big, heavy tone of voice exclaimed good morn ing to the Judge. How did your honor rest last night? I did not rest well at all, sir. My spleen has been out of order all the week. I thought so judge I thought so and I under stand you lost another case last night. The judge laid . down his knife and fork and looked at him inquiringly, and seeing the merry twinkle in his eye, took in the situation and surrender ed. I perceive, gentlemen, said he, this is another conspiracy. mere comes Colonel Winn who 1 piesume has the same little speech to make. I give it up genuemen. xne rioters were guilty, but when the entire bar had become accessories after the fact there is but little hope for the country. Your victory over law and order and justice is not one to be proud of. - It was not long before harmony was restored, and the judge soon bad the crowd convusled with laughter over one of his Habesham stories that just fit the rioters and their legal de fenders. Oh, rare Judge Un derwood. Whoever knew him intimately feels like a friend and a companion has gone. Bill Akp. When great prep .rations were being made in London for the cel ebration of the Great Queen' Jab, ilee, loyal citizens anxious to par ticipate, were rapidly caring all their aches and pains beforehand, by a ge-erous use of Salvation Oil. Give it-to the children. ; Physin clans prescribe it. Thousands use it, Sold, by all dealers. Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup. Price 25 cents. ENDS THOU AIM ST AT, BE COTjNTY, NORTH FEW CHANGES IN THE APPORTIONMENT - REPRESENTATIVES. OF THE POPULATION OF THE STATE BY . COUNTIES. Mr. Thomas H. Sutton, repre sentative from Cumberland Co., has' furnished the Raleigh Chronicle with the following figures relative to the census of 1890 :;; . Alamance 18271, Alexander 9430 Ueghay. ;6523, 1 Auson J20027t Ashe 15628; Beaufort 21072, Bertie 19176,frJ3aaden ? 16763, Bruhwick 10900,, Jiaofombe 3526G, Bai ke 14939 Cabarrus "18142. Caldwell 120&;CadeuJ 5667, Car ere. 10 825, Caswell 16028. Catawba 186s9, Chatham Z2U13, Cherokee 9976, Chowan 9 168Clay 4197, Cleveland 20394, Columbus 17856 Craven 20. 533,; Cumberland 27321, Carrituck 6747, Dare 3768, Davidson 21072. Davie 11621, Duplin J.8690, Dur ham 18041, Edgecombe 24113, For syth 28434; Franklin 21090, Gaston 17764, GaWs 10252,' Graham 3313, Granvllle24484, Greene 10039, Gurftord 28052 Halifax 28008, Har nett 13700; Aay wood 13346, Hen derson 12689, Hertford 13851, Hyde 89Q3, Ir.sdell 25462, Jackson 95101011 27239, Jones 7403, Lenoir T4879,t; Lincoln 12586, Mc Dowell 10939, Macon 10102, Mad i son 17895,; Martin; 15221. Mecklen burg 46673,,Mitchelr 12097, Mont gomery fI23S;Moor6 '20479, : Nash 20707, New Hanover 24026, North ampton 21242, Onslow 10303, Or ange 14948, Pamlico 7146, Pasquo tank 10748, PcDier 12514, Per quimans, 9293, Person 15151, Pitt 25519, Polk 5902, Randolph 25195, Kicnmond 23938, Kobeson 31483, Rockingham 25363, Rowan 24123, Ratherlord 18770, Sampson L'4096, Stanly 12136, Stokes 17199, Surry 19281. Swain 6577, Transylvania 5957, Tyrrell 4225, Union 27259, Vance 17581, Wake 40307, Warren 19360, Washington 10200, Wataus ga 10611, Wayne 26100, Wilkes 22 675, Wilson 18644, Yadkin 13790, Yancey 9490.- Total, 1,617,947. Following up his facts Mr. Sutton on the same day intro duced the followihg bill in ref erence to the apportionment of members of the General As sembly : . The General Assembly of North Carolina do Enact : Section 1. Until the General Assembly shall make other ap portionment, as provided by the Constitution and laws of North Carolina, the House of Representatives shall be com posed of members elected from the counties in the following manner, to-wit: The counties of W ake and Mecklenburg shall elect three members each ; the counMes of Forsyth, Buncombe, Halifax, Guilford, Cumberland, Johnston, Wayne, Pitt, Iredell, Chatham, Rockingham, Ran dolph, Sampson, Granville, Rowan, Edgecombe, JJew Han over, Kicnmond ana wiikes shall elect two members each : the counties of Alamance, Alex ander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Bruns wick, Burke, Cabarrus, Cald well, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Currituck, Dare, David son, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Franklin Gaston, Gates, Gra ham, Greene, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, iHyde, Jackson. Tones, Lenoir, Lincoln. McDowell, "' Macon, Madison, Martin,! Mitchell, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, Northampton, Onslow. Orange, Pamlico, Pas quotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Polk, Rutheriord, Stan ly, Stokes, Surry, Swain, Tran-' sylvania Tyrrell, Union, Vance, Warren Washington, Watauga, Wilson, "Yadkin and Yancey shall elect one member each. Sec. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its ratifi cation. Accompanying the bill, Mr. Sutton gives in concise form the following valuable facts relative to the apportionment, showing the basis upon which it is made and valuable statis tics bearing therecn : The Constitution, Article 1, Section 5, requires that the House of Representatives be composed of ohe hundred and twenty represent! ves, biennially ohOsen by ballot, to be elected by; the counties respectively, according to their population, and each county shall have at least one representative in the House of ' Representative, al though it may not contain the requisite ratio of representa tion ; this apportionment shall be made by the General Assem bly at the respective time and period when the District for the Senate are hereinbefore direct ed to be laid off. Art. .2, section 4, of the Con stitution requires the alteration of the Senatorial districts "at the first session after the return of every enumeration by order of Congress." It Is : provided in Art. 2, Sec tion 6,'6fJhe Constitution, that in making the apportionment THY COUNTRY'S, THY COD'S, CAROLINA, V MARCH 12, 1891. in the House of Representa tives shall be ascertained by dividing the amount of the population of the State, exclu sively of tha comprehended within those counties which do not severally contain the one hundred and twentieth part of the population of the Siate, by the number of representatives, less the number assigned to such counties. To each county containing the said ratio, and not twice the said ratio, there shall be assigned- one represen tative, to each county contain ing tvice but not three times ihe sai iatio there shall be as. signed two representative, iud so ou progressively, and then the remaining repiesentatives shall be assigned severally to the counties having the largest fractions." - There are forty-one counties in the State ha ing a les popu lation than the one hundred and twentieth part of the popu lation, wih a population of 405.586, which, beiug deducted from the population of the State, 1,617,947, leaves a bal ance of population in the other counties of 1,212,261, which, Teing divided by the number of Representatives, 120, less the number assigned to such counties, 41, viz., 79, gives us 15,346 as the ratio of represen tation. The following counties con tain the said ratio, but not twice the said ratio, and are' thereby entitled to one Repre sentative each : Alamance, An son, Ashe, Beaufort. Bertie, i Bladen, Caswell, Catwba, Chat ham, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham, Edgeccmbe, Forsyth, Irankhn, Gaston Guilford, Halifax, Iredell, Johnston, Madison, Moore, Nash New Hanover, Northampton, Pitt, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Ruther ford, Sampson, otokes, Surry, Union, Vance, Wayne, Wilkes, Wilson. ; The following counties . have twice the ratio and not three times the ratio and are thereby entitle to two Representatives: Buncombe, Mecklenburg,Rob eson. The following county has more than three times the ratio' but less than four times and is thereby entitled to three ;jaembers: Wake. To the foiloving counties laving the largest fractions must be assigned the remain ing representatives: - Halifax, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg Cumberland, Johnston, Wayne, Pitt, Iredell, Chatham, Rock ingham, Randolph, Sampson, Granville, Rowan, Edgecombe, New Hanover, Richmond, Wilkes. The following counties have less than one ratio and more than a hundred and twentieth part of the population of the State, and are entitled to one representative: Burke, Duplin, Harnett. Lenoir, Martin, Or ange., Person, Yadkin. The following counties have the next largest fraction but are not entitled to any addi tional members: Davidson, Union, Northampton, Franklin, Beaufort, Nash, Craven. Moore, Cleveland, Buncombe. Counties with less than one hundred and twentieth pari' of the population and given one member each by the Constitu tion: Alexander, Alleghany, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Currituck, Dare, LDavi6, Gates, Graham, Greene, Hay wodd. Henderson, Lertf ord, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Lincoln, McDowell, Macon, Mitchell, Montgomery, Onslow. Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquim ans, Polk, Stanly, Swain, Trans sylvania, Tyrell, Warren, Wash ington, Watauga, Yancey. Average representation of these last 9,892. How He "Spieads" Himself. Mr. Lineberry has taken the edi torial chair of the Sanford Express vacated oy Mr. St. Clair. It takes a man to fill that seat. O brother with the new harness on, so, like Auditor Sanderlin's turkey ben, you'll have to "spread yoursell" and we are glad to see that the new Express leads off in bright and entertaining style. Fayetteville Observer. The next week the Express con tained the following, upon, which comment is entirely unnecessary; "The depots hero have for some time been infested with rats, so Mr. Jno. Monroe, the very efficient agent of tbe C. F. & Y. V. depot planned a stratagem for them. He balanced a board with bait on it over a barrel of water so that when tbe rat went out on it, it would tilt over and dron him. In the night be peeped in to see Low it was get ting on. Onerat was Bitting on the outer end of tbe noard while another went after the bait. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction." Listed, as the brokers t,ay at 100 Doses One Dollar, Hood's Sarsa- .ar ilia is always a fair equivalent for the price, " - - - AND TRUTHS'. SENATOE HANSOM.. A Short Sketch of the Life of Nor'h '.Carolina's Senior Senator.. Senator Ransom was bom in Warren County North Carolina in 1826. He received au academic education, graduating in 1847, from the University of North Carolina. one of the foremoat institutions at its kind in the country. In this in stitution young Ranspm also stud led law and laid the foundition of that broad legal knowledge which has made him of so much- service to the state. Upon the completion ol his law studies he settled in his native state as a planter. In 1853 he entered the political arena, be. ing then elected Attorney General of North Carolina, resiernlnsr in 1855. In 185859-60 he was a member of the North Carolina Leg islature, and was a Peace Commis sioner from this state to the Con- 1 gress of the Southern States held at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861. Upon (he outbreak of the late war he followed Lis state iajto secess ion and entered tbt Confederate army, serving as Lieutenant Colo nel, Brigadier General and Major General, aud was in Lee's army at me time oi its snrremir at Appos mattox. In Jan ;!- 1872 he was elected to t hi;, United States Senate as a Democrat and took his seat April 24, 1872, being succesaN ively re-elected in 1876, 1883 aud in 1889. His term of service will expire March 3, 1805. North Car olina is indeed Iuckv in bavins two such experienced men to rep resent ber in the national Senate. During the recent fignt On the Force Bill Senator Ranspm was one of the leading spirits in bringing about the combination with the Western Republican Senators who voted with tue Democrats tp side track that pernicious and danger ous measure The Winston Sentinel says : "It is gradually leaking out that Sena tor Ransom was realty the man who enginreed the defeat of the cloture rnle and the force bill. We thought 'we knew whose line work it was all tne time; in fact we did know, had the means of knowing, and we knew it was Ransom who geeuredthe postponement of the measure last summer, arid his di plomacy that defeated it at this session. When a Warren county man goes down to Halifax and Northampton, and is ab'e to bold his hand there for any length ot time, yon can bet on his wrnning anywhere else iu the world.7 - - Would you care to have a word of advice worth a great dealt Nev er tamper with your baby's health by using opiates to quieS its tron bles. but use Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup instead. Almost every . season has its drawback.' At present our citizens seem to be troubled with an attack of catarrh, which however can be easily overcome by .Old Saul's Ca tarrh Cure, ' A subscriber quit- the Franklin Times because the editor declined to taxe a drink with him, It is re ported that the fellow who quit Che Times has received proposition from ninetynseven newspaper men offering to be social and to furnish Lim the news at Alliances prices. Morgan ton Hetald. L GRIPPE AGAIN. During the epidemics of La- Grippe last season Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Congh's and Colds, proved to be the best remedy. Reports from the many who used it confirm this statement. They were nbt only quickly relievs ed, but tbe disease left' no bad af ter results. We ask you to give this remedy a trial and we guaran tee that you will be satisfied with results, or the purchase price will be refunded. It has no equal in La Grippe, or any Throat, Chest or Lung trouble. Trial bottles free at A. W, Rowland's drugstore. 'Large bottles 50c and $100. HAPPY HOOSIERS. Wm. Timmons, Post Master of Idaville, Ind., writes : 'Electric Bitters has done more for me than all other medicines combined, for that bad feeling arising from Kid ney and Liver trouble John Les lie, farmer and s.ockman, of same place, says : Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kidney and Liver medicine, made me feel like a new man. J W Gardner, hardware merchant, same town says Electric Bitters is just the thing for . a man who is all run dpwn and don't care whether he lives or dies; he found new strength, good appetite and felt just like be bad' a new lease on life. Only r50c a bottle, at A. W. Rowland's drugstore. THE CAPITAL A. WHAT THE PRESIDENT AND POLITICIANS ARE DOING. THE SWIRL OF POLITICS AT THE NA TIONS' CAPITAL, ' Special Cor, The Advance.) Washikgton. D. C, Feb. 27, '91. Czar Reed is in the saddle, back ed by a quorum of Republicans in the House, and anything" is liable to happeu during "the remaining foar days of the session; bat there is consolation in the fact that the regular appropriation bills will leave little time in either Iloase or Senate for political legislation. The ship subsidy job is to be railroaded through the House this evening, thanks to Reeds outrageous code of Kules. When the resolution for the consi leration and calling of the previous question on this Republi can job was reported to the House by Reed's lieutenant, McKinley, Representative McMillan, a Dem ocratic member of the committee on Rules stated that the prophecy he bad made in the begiaaiag ef this Congress bad been verified. I stated, continued he, that these Rules bad been adopted for four reasons: To pass the election bill, which subjected the ballot box to the bay one! that has been done; to pass the tariff bill that would rob the people that has been done; to pass the direct tax bill that has been ('.one; to pass a bill placing further taxes upon a de pressed and hardened interior 'for the benefit of the shibping inter ests that is about to be done. Mr. Mills suggested sarcastical ly that the Republicans pass acts of Congress by proclamation in stead of by legislation, but he wanted them to understand that the Democrats would avail them selves of every moment of discus sion to expose to the American people, the wrongs which were be ing perpetrated upon them. Mr. Dockery mentioned the fact that up to the present time the net in crease of appropriations made by the present Congress as compared with those made by the last Cons gresswas $102,000,000. Tbe Re publicans could not reply, so they yelled cbestnnts. Secretary Foster, has always been known as a thrifty man. Having been confirmed by the Senate he came here at once and yesterday took the oath of office in order that bis salary might begin, although be will not take actual charge of the Treasury department until be straightens np his busis ness affairs in Ohio. Although the Senators concerned have de nied it, 1 have reason to believe that certain Republicans tried 'to get the Democratic Senators to vote with them to reject Foster's nomination, and that the Demo crats refused, on the ground that the President should be allowed to sele ct bU own cabinet oTfioers and tna; no Senator was justifiable in vot ng against tbe confirmation ot such a nomination, unless charges were made and proven against tbe nominee. Time is a good friend of the peos pie, and his friendship was particu larly timely when be compelled the Senate to abandon the bill for the guaranteeing of $100,000,000 ol of the bonds cf tLe. Nicaragua ca nal com nan v. That settles the scheme for good and all, and if the news received here be correct it probably settles Lthe canal too for sometime to come, for it it is certain that the next nouse will not pas that or any other sub sidy scheme. It is a noticeable fact that every one of the Farmers' Alliance Rep reBentative8eieet that has been to WashingtoD, and a number of thm sre here now, favors free trade out and out, with no ifs -ands or buts. Washington, D. C, March 6, '91. The United Stites Treasury is bankrupt, as far as the reckless and extravagant appropriations voted bytheRepnblican Congress can make it so, and it would be act ually so to-day it all ol the appro priations had to be paid at once. In the dying hours of the Fifty-first Congress the Republicans threw prejudice, conscience, fear of a here after and every other restraining influence overboard, and boldly vo ted for every possible thing that promised to assist in tbe looting of the Treasurv. which their leaders had agreed npon for the purpose of vui fronting the Democratic Con gress with a deficiency. Ct4 mouldy claims that bad been re fused a hundred times were tacked on the appropriation bills, and railroaded through, extra salaries were Toted to employe i who are al ready paid beyond their deserts, and monev was scattered around in every direction as though the Treasury waa overflowing with a surolu. as it was two years ago when turned over to the Republi licaos. Where the monev is to come from to pav all of these wild apnro- Lpriations is more than any one can .see at this time; it isn't in tbe Treasury nor can it possibly get there under the present methods of taxation. Two years of Democrat ic economy in the Horise and a purging of the pension rolls of the frauds thereon may pull the conn try through without making it nec estary to put new taxes upon the already tariff ridden people. The Republican ex-Representatives are loath to leave Washing ton until Mr, Harrison has distrib 81.30 a Year, cash in Advaucc NUMBER 8 uted the pluni8 cow at his dispos al, which includes nine new U. S. circuit Court Judges aS provided by the new law, which purports to be for the relief of- the Supreme Court, but Mr. Harrison proposes to try their patience, as he is going to Mary 1 nd to morrow for a lew days of wild duck shooting, and says he will do nothing in tbe mat- ter until his return. ExoSpoaker Reed has a pretty thick skin, but he couldn't .hide the chagrin he felt when every Democrat in, the House voted against the usual resolution of thank b that Mr. McKinley. afUr . vainly trying to persuade a Demox crat to do it, bad offered.. Served htm rig Ut is the verdnt 'among . Democrats.- - While giving thanks I must not forget the Democrats in the House,, who with tbe aid of a few Republi cans jumped upon tbe Pacific ca bis subsidy job after it ha: been agreed to by a conference commit te, aud strangled the life irom It. The Democratic Senators also d. serve well for f.he smartness tbey displayed, in preventing the mail subsidy bill from being sent to a conference committee, which would surely havo incorporated the tea nage subsidy bill iu it. It is aata better to accept the least of two evils than to have to take them both. Senator Inga'.ls made a very small use of his last official hour. ' He dismissed tbe clerk of the cob mittee of which he was chairman and appointed his son, Paul Id galls, clerk to the committee. The object lies in the fact that tbe clerk draws his salary during tbe recess, but does no work. Senator Wolcott at once employed the dis missed clerk as his priv.ite secre tary. There were soma disgraceful scenes at the last night session of Congress, caused by that eld time j offender, John Ii irleycorn. Tbe tipsy statesmen were kopt eft the floor of House and Sen-Ate with soma diflicalty by - their Meads, but their antics iu tue committee . room's and corridors were witne6 ed by many. CLOSINU SCENES. Washington, March 4. Th House ef Representatives of the Fiftyfirst Congress went out in a buret of song. It8 ending was re markable and unprecedented, and a scene similar to that which fol lowed the declaration of the Speak er that Congress was adjourned without uay, it is safe to say. never occurred before in a Congress of the United States. The vocalists of the Honse on the RepHblicae side of the chamber gathered in a body near the front row of .denks, headed by Messrs. Coleman of Louisiana. Yardlev of PennsyN vania, Stivers or New York, and Wade pi Missouri, andas soon as the House was declared adjonined they started up 'Marching Through Georgia,'' which Was taken up by the great mass of Re publican ' Representatives who made the ball ring to great delight and edification of the 'galleries packed full of people. The.Democratio chorus, beaded by Representative-elect Joan J." O'Neil of Missouri, started with tbe "Doxology Praiso God from Whom ail Blsasings Fw bat their voices were soon d- ied im the superior volume ol sen ad from the Press gallery, the reporters having takea up the hymn. The Republicans and Democrats alike ceased their .singing to listen to'- that of their sometime critics. whose full resonant chorus was very effective. Messrs. 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