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A Brief llistoryoi National Ur-
enne Legislation and It Ad
. Iissttnents Past and Pres
ent Blllt-Ureat Power "
- of Conference Com
j : J - mitteet.
Washington, July 12 The Ding-ley-Aldrich-Allison
tariff bill-aa
it will doubtless be hereafter des
ignated having reached the stage
of conference on Thursday last, it
is entirely proper to say" that the
real contest over the differences
between: i the two houses of Con-
srnaa with TAarwwt ti the tariff act
" " j.' -
adjourn,! is now "on," and is being
"fought to a finish" in the Sanate
Finance. C omuiittee room between
the conferrces of the two hoases. .
The general public has but slight
conception ! of the power and im
portance of conference committees
of Congress. The Third Congress
i ov. is. ny-Ji -aaoptea a joint i
I rule establishing amoue tf eecur-ldent
ing a conference between the two
I . ) ia.j 1L. !: : J ' 1 : 1 S
nouses , pui uie jurisaicuou ana
powers px a conierence committee
I were not then, and have not since I
been defined, while since the Forty I
f ourtn UOngress, growing out ot a
contest as to counting the electoral I
vote, tnere nave bean no joint I
I ruler, though Speaker Randall held I
they remained in force, in spite of I
the declaration of the Senate to 1
tne contrary.
The ! general theory as to the I
I jurisdiction and powers of a con-J
I terence committee is tnat it is lim-l
ited strictly to the consideration
of matters of difference or dispute
between; the two houses of Con-
gress iu respect to a particular sub
ject, paragraph or item involved
in amendment by the "other
house ." but, as a matter of actual
practice or fact more particularly
with ' general appropriation and
revenue: bills a conference com
mittee is a flaw unto itself," sub-
je;t, always to review, by eitner
house of Congress. There are in
stances 'where conference reports
have been ruled out of order by
the Speaker and where the House
has refused to receive them, for
the reason that they contained
new matter not considered or pass
ed npoii by either house, or be
cause the text of the bill, not
touched" by the amending house,
had been changed by the
ees. Notable rulings in this re
spect hive been made by Speakers
Colfax, : Blaine, Randall. Carlisle,
Keed and Crisp, and yet, in spite I
of the iiwell-established principle!.
stated, conference committees have!
considered 4he text of a bill not
amended by the other house and I
increased . or reduced rates and I
amounts and changed phraseology, I
as they might agree upon.
In the earlier history of the I
Government, disputes between the I
two houses with respect to tariff I
legislation were substantially set-
tied, not by conference committees, I
as at tne present time, but ny eacn
house acting independently,
ing directly on disputed or con-
traverted amendments and leaving
at last to a conference committee,
only , a' few important questions
about which the two houses could
not readily or conveniently agree.
It may be interesting, and perhaps
profitable, to glance br.ietty at the
record o Congress in this regard.
TEfE first tariff act.
The first tariff act which was
practically framed by Mr. Madison
was tnat of July 4, 17S'J, passed
by the ISrst Congress. That act
passed the House of Representa-1
tives on May 16, 1789, after nearly
aix weeks Of exhaustive debate.
i i 1 ! L :.u -
I wuicn was wuurnju wiui b mmuu-
It ..' ,f Tf A
the Senate on June 11, with forty
amendments, no debate whatever
being published. On June 16 the
House agreed to nineteen of the
Senate amendments. The Senate
receded from twelve of its amend
ments and .. insisted upon its re
maining eight) amendments. Oj
June 24 the House receded from
its disagreement to the second
amendment of the Senate, and
agreed to it with a further amend
ment: insisted on its d agreement
to the fourth and fifth amendments
nf Via flAnatA ru? asVarl a r-nnfflr.
I ' . .."
1 enca on ha anbiect matter of the
. - j-:i-r -;. rr
sixtn, seventh, eleventh, twelfth
and sevstoteenth amendments and
I aDDOintud Mr. Boudinot. of New
jerWw rMrJ Fitziimmons. of Penn-
sylvaniaj and Mr. Madison, of v ir -
ginia, as managers at the confer -
ence on; the part of the House.
The Senate agreed to the request
for a conference, and appointed
Senators, Robert . Morris, of Penn -
sylvania; Richard Henry Lee. of
I Virginia! and Oliver Ellsworth, of
I Connecticut, as its managers.
The draerences between the two
nouses related mainly to duties on
teas, distilled spirits, beer and coal,
and also to drawbacks and dis -
criminations between foreign na -
tions in alliance and those not in
alliance "with the United States, as
wen as tne time for continuance of
the tariff. .The final comnromise
was an ii acceptance of most of the
reductions made by the Senate.
more particularly with respect to
distilled spirits and the like, the
duty on coal being reduced from
three tcitwo cents per bushel.
Ar examination of the iournals.
annals, 1 debates and "Globe" dis- Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Con
closes the fact tfiat this method of grosses are too unimportant to jus
consideting and disposing of Sen- tify recapitulation. One was killed
ate amendments to tariff bills was by strangling and the other by
pursued:; until the passage of the summary decapitation. The "Mills
tariff act of May 19, 1828, when
the present method of adopting or
I rejecting a conference report as an
I entirety -was adopted and has since
I been followed. Since the founda -
I tionl of ' the Government but one
l :n.t.. i ;jx , .1.
i luiwuiwm Minii act naa Daan seK
tied by i direct vote of the House
S V !.L .11 l .
present f.law, known as "Wilson
t.orman act of the Fifty-third
Congress. The practice which has
i prevailed wua regard to general
JL. aa . '. .asV - ' .mSW
11 1 I II II II
WINSTON, NORTH
appropriation bills, of fubmitting
partial reports with respect to
certain amendments and leaving
certain other amendments for fur
ther conference, has never been
pursued with respect to tariff bills.
The Senate amendments have been
invariably settled as a whole or an
entirety. '
GREAT LABOR INVOLVED.
The general public has but slight
knowledge or conception of the
great labor involved in the prepa
ration of a tariff bill, which is es
sentially one of immense detail.
The members of the Committee on
Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives and of Finance in
the Senate though of late years
this applies more particularly to
the members of the majority party
in each body, who practically
frame the bill are subjected to
confinement land labor almost, if
not quite, equal to the pains and
penalties of ; imprisonment in a
Ipenitentiarf,
day after day, week
after week, month after month, in
endeavoring to reconcile. with dm.
provisions, at the same time
rfor the pubho good all the differ
leni Claims' presentea by persons
a 1 j a
looming from all parts of thecoun
try and representing the different
interests and pursuits of the Amer
ican people.
Oat of the material collected,
wnether statistical or by oral bear
ings, committees have presented
their conclusions, which have been
largely reached by way of conces-
Ision or compromise to different
sections and interests of the coua-
try, with the Object and purpose of
neither losing sight of the Govern
ment, which requires revenue for
its support, or of the people, who
consume what is imported, or of
the industry
and capital, which
are entitled to be encouraged when
ever that can properly be done. It
has always been found necessary
to make concessions to the inter
ests of different sections of the
country to secure the passage of
any tariff bill through each house
of Congress. Primarily, these con
cessions have been made notably
in the pending bill in order to
expedite matters and reach the
stage of conference where, at least,
the tariff laws have been practi
cally formed and framed by two
or three members of the Confer
ence Committee representing each
bouse ot uongress. me sole ex
ception to this rule is the present
law, in which' as stated all the
amendments of the Senate made
to the Wilson bill were concurred
in by direct vote of the House of
Representatives.
Coming down to the post-bellum
period, it may be said that the act
of, July 14, 1870 (Forty-first Con-
gress) was passed for the purpose
of reducing the revenue both from
customs duties and internal taxes
The war. tariffs which were enacted
in order to secure an increase of
the revenue to meet the immense
expenditure incurred by the war
and the curtailment of the war
debt had served ' their purpose.
rrne debt had been steadily re
vot-lduced. and the people clamored
for a reduction of taxation. From
and including the act 6f July 13,
1866, down to that ot July 20,
1868, internal revenue taxes had
alone been reduced $175,000,000.
I The act of July 14, 1870, made
I further reduction of $55,000,000,
I while the subsequent acts of June
6, 1872.: March 1,1879, and March
13, 1883, made further reductions of
$65,000,000.
I reducing the revenue
The House of Representatives of
j the first session of the Forty-sev-
enth Congress (1882) passed a bill
I to farther reduce internal reveme
I taxation. It was debated at irreat
1 1 l i ; . i cs . .
i leuKia iu oeiiaie, auu, vu BC-
L r.t ua k.-
growing out of the demand for
further revision of the tariff, the
senate passed a bill for the crea
tion of the "Tariff Commission."
This commission made its report
to Congress on December 4 follow
ing, and submitted the draft of a
bill making a complete revision of
tne tantt and internal revenue
laws. The commission bill was
reported by Judge Kelley on Jan
uary 8, 188.5, from the Ways and
Means Committee with amend
ments, considered some five weeks
lr1 fViAn Vi. nrlnnoH liffla nr n n
I " "- MW
nrop-reas havino- been made with
lit. In the meantime, a bill to re-
frT":r-:" .tt., ":
I duce internal revenue taxation
I which had naased the House dnr
in the first session, had been re-
1 ported by the Finance Comittee
1 with amendments and recommit-
I ted, was again recommitted to the
I committee, and on January 4, 1888,
I was again reported by Mr. Morrill
1 of Vermont, with amendments
embracing, he stated, "an entire
revision of the tariff, including
I the machinery and internal rev
lenue provisions previously adopted
I by the Senate." This bill passed
I the Senate February 20, and, witn
lout being considered by the Uom
1 mittee on Ways and Means, was
I thrown into conference by special
I order, reported by Mr. Reed from
I the uommittee on times, ana nnai-
I lv became the act of March 3, 1883
I Following the passage of this act
I the Democrats gained the next
(Forty-eighth) House of Represen-
tative and held also the two fol-
lowing (Forty-ninth and Fiftieth)
The details of the Morrison "hor
I irontal redaction", bills in th
I bill" of the Fiftieth Congress
I which passed tha House, was throt-
tied in the Sanate and never reached
the stage of conference, and the
1 Republicans gained the next House
I (Fifty-first Congress) by a slender
I'
- imsioritv. ,. ;
I ths m'kiitlby bill.
B . T1 S AAA ar a
- J (McKenna, of California, naw At-
I torney ueneral, who did not airree
to the sugar schedule ) reported
irom tne ways and Means Com
A.
1 r i
.1
Greensboro North State
CAROLINA,! THURSDAY, JULY
mittee what is known as the "Mc
Kinley Tariff Bill." : The bill was
reported from the ' committee of
the ' whole and passed the House
on May 21 y following. The bill
was referred to the Senate Com
mittee on . Finance on the follow
ing day, and was reported back on
June 28 with 464 amendments.
Its consideration continued until
September 10, 1890, when the bill
was passed by -yeas 40, nays 29, a
majority of 11, or one ' more than
the msjority by which the pending
bill passed the Ben ate on Wednes
day last On motion of Senator
Aldricb, the Senate .at once insist
ed upon its amendments to the
bill and asked for a conference
with the House upon said bill and
amendments, and confer rees were
ppointed. The conference report
after ten days' consideration
by the committee was debated
through an entire day in the House,
and the vote . taken : on the adop
tion of the report resulted, yeas
151, nays 81, one Democrat ex-
Speaker Randall-MrotiDg aye, and
one Republican- Coleman, of Lou
isiana voting no. The report was
submitted in the Senate on the
following day by Mr. Aldrich and
debated for ; three days and was
adopted on September 30 by yeas
33, nays 27, three Republican Sen
ators, Paddock, of Nebraska : Petti-
grew, of North Dakota, and Plumb,
of Kansas, voting in the negative.
he bill became a law on October
by the approval of President
Harrison.
THE WILSON GORMAN BILL
The next House (Fifty-second
Con gross) was Democratic "by a
large majority" and passed several
piecemeal otherwise known as
popgun tariff bills, which were
not. reported in the Senate. Then
came the Fifty-third ' Congress,
which was convened in extra ses
sion on August , lays on Lec-
mber 19 (second session) Mr.
Wilson, of West Virginia, reported
what is known as the "Wilson
bill." It passed the House on Feb
ruary 1, 1894, by yeas 204, nays
140, ex-Speaker Randall being the
only Democrat votiog no.
It was reported from tne Senate
Finance Committee by Mr. Voor-
hees on March 20 and passed the
Senate on July 3 with 634 amend
ments by yeas 39, nays 34, Messrs
Allen and Kyle, Populists, voting
aye and Messrs. Peffer and Stew
art no, Senator Hill, of New York,
being the only Democratic Sena
tor votiog in the negative.
A conference was immediately
asked and ordered. . On July 19 a
disagreement was reported, and the
same conferrees, after debate, were
reappointed in each house. The
bitter attack on the senate amend
ments generally and Democratic
Senators specially by President
Cleveland, in which the Senate
bill was denounced as a departure
from Democratic principles and
Democratic Senators were accused
of party perfidy and dishonor,
made an agreement by the confer
ence committee impossible, espe
cially after the bitter speech of
Senator Gorman, in which the ulti
matum of Democratic Senators
was announced. It was, in brief,
the Senate amendments or no tariff
bill. The bill remained in confer
ence, though tne committee did
not meet, and slowly but surely it
oecame eviaeni mat as a political
necessity the House Democrats
must change their defiant attitude
toward the Senate amendments
and accept them all. Then came,
on August 13, the crest 9st pari is
mentary outrage ever committed
in Congress. A rule was reported
from the Committee on Rnles va
cating the order for a second oon
ference and permitting a vote on a
single motion to concur after brief
debate in the entire list (634) of
Senate amendments. The Demo
cratic conferrees of the Senate im
properly surrendered the custody
of the bill to Mr. Wilson. Who
made the motion to concur, and
by a vote of yeas 182 to nays 106
the "deed was done. President
Cleveland, who had so bitterly
denounced the. bill, allowed it to
become a law, thereby showing the
"treachery, perfidy and dishonor
he had charged upon Democratic
Senators, and all was over.
The rebuke which the people,
administered: at. the polls in Jso
vember following, the wretched
and shameful record of the re
mainder of the Cleveland adminis
tration, which wonld require many
newspaper columns to even out
line, are too fresh in the mindi of
the people tor recapitulate. So
also are the j proceedings of both
houses of Congress in respect
the pending bill. For the present
one can only speculate as to the
outcome. The conference coin
mittee is composed of experienced
tariff makers, determined to agree
on a bill. The Senate holds the
key of the situation, but neither
the Demosrata. silver Republicans
nor Populists, who combined can
easily defeat or prevent an agree'
ment, are willing as a party ; to
take the responsibility of defeating
the passage, of a tariff bill. There
fore, it is reasonably sife .to say
that a tariff law will be enacted
that will endure for at least four
years; and. if its framert. have
btiilded wisely and the "prosper
ity" which has baen promised as
the result of it comes to stay that
it will not be disturbed for another
four years and probably a sti
longer period. Time alone can
determine. : i Hkhsy IL Smith.
Hon. C. R. Bnsh, president of the
uiimer county Vf. Va.) Court, aays
that he has had three eases of flux in
his family.' dnrins? the past summer.
which ha cured in leas than a week
with Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and
Diarrhoea -Remedy. Mr. Bosh alao
states, that in some instances there
were twentv hemorrhages a day.-Glen
ville. W. Va. Pathfinder. Thia remedy
has been used in nine epidemics of flax
and one of eholera, with perfect sue
cess. It eaa always be depended upon
for bowel complaint, even iu ita most
severe fjrms. i Every fomily should
keep it at hand. The 25 and 60 cent
bottles for sale by Asheraft A Owens.
Druggist
December 26th
: 1892. Was
OUR THROUGH LINE.
Senilism Is Fixtsur tw be lode
peadeaaf In 19. C--The Baltl
. more and Ohio Had sa Op.
portuaity to C'eme Oewn
to Atlantis Bait Let It
BP'. j j.
Within the next ninety dajg the
Southern railway Will be in a posi
tion to get along without the North
Carolina railroad if the courts de
cide to break the lfase.-j
The work of par ailing the State
road 6f North Carolina is now un
der way, and it is a matter of only
at a aV I i t '. ! n . . i I
lew weeks oetoret ine oouinern
ill be able to run from, Washing
ton to Atlanta witibont touching
the North Carolina railroad at all.
For years there lave bean two
points which only heeded to be
joined together by ; about 25 miles
of new road to complete tne paral-
eL Tin" .North Carolina railroad
extends from Charlotte to Greens
boro and thence in at. easterly di
rection tD Gcldsbofo. 1 Altogether
the line is about 20Q miles long. It
is all leased to the ijSonthern, and
the latter nees the! part between
Greensboro and Charlotte as a main
line between Washington and At-
anta. Tfthe Ieasi were broken
and some other road were to get
oontrol of it, the Southern would
be embarrassed linlees it had
another way of getting around from
Greensboro to Charlotte, a distance
of about one hundred miles; This
the Southern will soon have.
Several years ago the bid irgin-
ia Midland had a scheme to build
from Greensboro toi Charlotte and
to either lease the! Atlanta and
Charlotte or build en to Atlanta.
road was started $nder a charter
obtained for the purpose and was
built from Greensboro in a wester-
y direction to Winton. Anotr er
Hue was built from Charlotte in a
northerly direction and the plan
was to connect then. Back of the
whole movement was the Baltimore
and Ohio, which then controlled
the stock in the Virginia Midland.
Mr. Samuel Spencer who had leoi
with the Virginia Midlasd at an
early date, was thn a vice-presi
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio. He
and Judge Cowen; then general
counsel of Baltimore and Ohio and
now one of its receivers, went over
the whole country oh horseback be
tween Greensboro and Charlotte.
They examined the jproposed route
and were strongly in! favor of paral
leling tne North Carolina road and
reaching on down tb Atlanta. Mr.
Spencer realized that it would be a
magnificent territory for the Balti
more and Ohio to occupy.
uongrecsman uarnour.ot Virgin
ia, was president of the V lrginia
Midland, and Major Peyton Ran
dolph was general manager, They
were anxious fcr 'their companv
and the Baltimore & Ohio to co-op
erate and extend to Atlanta. An
understanding was even reached
with the Atlanta and Charlotte by
which the Virginia Midland was to
ease it or at least nave every f acil-
ty for operating ovfer it,
The old Richmond & Danville
had the North Carolina road leased,
hence it was necessary to parallel
that line to reach: Charlotte. Eve
ry thing was progressing swimming-
y unui ine time came to close up
and perfect the deal. Mr. J no. w
Garrett, the president of the Balti'
more & Ohio, was hi Europe and
his son "Bob" was ia charge. That
youngman had the peculiar faculty
of making egregious blunders at
critical times. He had just a little
wnile before permitted the Penn
sylvania railroad to beat him out
of the Philadelphia, SWilmington
ana Dammore, a most aesiraDie
property. He no set himself
against the proposftian of extend
ing his great eystem into the South
More than that, he attempted to
put a personal firiend into the
Virginia Midland oyer Maior Ran-
doipn. i
President Barbour - declined to
permit this to be done. So the mat
ter was left until Jno. W. Garrett
returned from Europe. He returned in
midsummer and tne natter of the ap
poiniment oi a new i general manager
on tne Virginia Midland was taken up
He said that his son was wrong in the
position he had taken, but he felt that
he ongbt to sustain Robert. President
Barbour asked him what he wonld take
for the Baltimore & Ohio's stock and
his own stock in the Virginia Midland.
Mr. Garrett said lOOf cents on the dol
lar. The stook was then selling on the
maraet ior iu eents on the dollar. Mr,
Daroour ootainea tu i uays option on
the stock and at oneef ! opened negotia
tions with the Rich mbnd and Danville
people at Richmond for the lease of the
Virginia Midland. They jumped at the
opportunity and on tiie day the option
expired the Baltimore A Ohio stock
and the Garret atockf-as bought. That
let the Baltimore A ! Ohio - out of it
chance to come Soutpi and made the
Richmond A ' Danville a formidable
system. Possessing as it did, the lease
of the North Carolina railroad the
Richmond A DanvillBi did not want in
go on with the intended to parallel its
own property and work was disoontined.
Ltast year when the agitation was
sprung in North Carolina over the lease
of ths State road to Southern, the
latter let it be known that if the lease
1
link would be built jabd the Southern
ould be independent of the state road
Oov. Rnssell declared that he would
have the Legislature' pass an act pro
hibiting any road from paralleling the
States road.. The act, however, was
never passed, and now the Southern ia
pushing the work, lit Uct. 1st the rails
Will vv iaiu uuui iixwjjvo ina w luuvrts
ville and the Southern will be in a no
sition to do without Use North Carolina
road. Without the Southern the North
Carolina line would be cut out of an in
crease amount of valuable business and
tb value of the property would be s
riouslv impaired. True, the road is
rood local line but ithrould cease to be
come a part of the thjAogh route Jf the
Southern were to giro it up.
The line around by Winston and
afnoTsvilla would bS 20 miles lonffn:
than the direct line from Charlotte to
Greensboro, but that wonld amount to
only about hall an hour s diuarence in
time between Atlanta and Washington.
It is uot at all ! probable that the
Southern will havst4 give up the lease
of the State road which it now holds,
but if it should have-to do so, it will be
prepared for the emergency.-Atlanta
Constitution of July jlPth.
Some would rather face a cannon
than their own evils.!
rrtiti
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Incorporated October ii,
22,
18:97.
A' FLOOD SWEPT TOWN.
A Reservoir Burst -Irjulldincs
Swept A waT-Nlne! Persons
' I . J Killed, j j
Newburg, N. Y July 14 The
reservoir in the Fishkillimoantains
burst at three o'clock Ithif morn
ing owing to;the heavy bains. The
water ran into the ravine two miles
below, near Duchesse Junction and
wsaucu away uuuaings, and a
brjck-yard including a bparding
house occupied by 'laborers. Tt ia
reported thst. nine of them were
drowned andj others! are missing.
The flood washed away oyer two
hundred yards of the Hudson Riv
er railway track. There; were two
reservoirs, one above the other.
he top one mis first, iettihtr the
volume of water into the lower and
bursting it without warnintr. The
flood carried everything before it
Relative of Ooorce WoslUnaton
: Killed.! 1
Frederick W. Washington! whose
great-great-grand father was a
brother of John Washington, the
latter the father o! the firsts Presi
dent of the United States, was
killed at Ledalia, Mo July 58. He
was driving Ua a cart! behind a
spirited colt, when the yeihcle was
overturned Mr. Washington was
caught and dragged three blocks,
and was kicked several times by
the horse, and died three: hours
at'er. The deceased vitas born in
England in the same village as the
father of George Washington, and
had resided fn America 12 ears.
Ie was only 32 years old. bdonged
to the A. O. U. W., and leaves a
widow and one child. !He was of
modest, retiring disposition, nd
never spoke of his ancestry.! as he.
like his English relatives, looked
upon George Washington: as a
traitor to England, lie was an
expert book keeper andaccoqutant,
but recently conducted an exten
sive sign-writing business. His
brother, Samuel, who died a year
ago, was one of the most promin
ent socialists of Europe, and the
deceased had a strong; leaning in
that direction. if
.N. V. It. R. Stockholders
ii
The stockholders of the! North
Carolina railroad met! at Greens
boro July 8th. John M. Morehead
was chairman, Hngh MiRae sec
retary: 6,152 shares were repre
sented, owned by 246 stockholders.
James H. Cbadboura, jr., present
ed his credentials aa state proxy.
Retiring President S. B Alexander
in his report recommended that
its present condition be unchanged.
T-i : : r i,
mo uuuiuiiBBiuui ior ine new ai-
rectors, R. M. Norment, I Virgil
Lusk, William Gilchrist, ! A. C.
Avery, J. S. Armstrong, J. A. Smith,
H. U. Butters, John Graham, were
hied. The folowing ; were elected
directors on the part of the stock
holders: Benehan Cdmeron, R.
Hoke, H. W. FrksjHugh -Mc-
Rae, A. W. Graham,' Lawrence
Holt and J. P. Allisont The new
directors made Ayeryf chairman.
with McRae secretary, and (he fol
lowing officers were elected J R. M,
Norment, president ; El S. Walton,
secretary ; Chas. A. Coofk, attorney,
S. Hogg, expert. The National
Bank of Wilmington was designa
ted as the compauy's depository.
Coxet's
Agent at
House-
tne White
Col. A. E. Ridstou, of Wash
ington and California, 'who gained
notoriety a few years ago by acting
as advance agent for "fjen."Coxey
and his commonwealers, has again
made a bid for prominence. He
was at the White House the past
week to see the President tadn
liver him "an open letter,The
Colonel has not prosperer5tely,
judging from his attire. 'He wore
pair of thick winter trousers,
bagging at the knees, an old straw
hat faded into rich yellow, a pair
of bob-nailed shoes land a seer
sucker coat that had seen better
days. In his letter he advocates
the issue of lega tender paper dol
lars and the employment of all the
idle men in the countryiuponjworks
of public improvement
Indians Demand Plural Wive.
Guthrik, Okla , July 16 Over
L'.uuu uneyenne ana Arapanoe in
dians are holding a grand council
and dance at Arlington, and are
demanding that the anti-bigamy
law be not enforced against them
Their sessions are in 'secret, they
refuse to cbey the orders of the
agent, and there is fear of serious
trouble. 1 bis afternoon Governor
Barnes received a communication
from the chief demanding that he
come or send messengers to hold a
council with them in; order that
they might be given the privilege
of keeping their plural wives and
their numerous children.' Ibey
say that they can not choose which
wife they like best, as they like
them all, and do not want jk part
with any or with the annuities
that each wife and child draws.
An IntereslingdCasel
An interesting legal case comes
up from Chatham county. S A. P
Terry, of Pittaboro, made applica-
uuu to tue county ooramisnqners
for license to sell liquor and 275
out of the 41Q voters in the! town
ship signed the petition. The com
missioners refused to grant license
Proceedings were to-day begun to
force them to grant l it, on the
ground; that the law does not give
tnem absolute, discretion or power
to refuse generally;; The, wording
or a previous act was fshall with
out discretion grant license'; while
that of the present act is "may
cm mere is a proviso, which was
in the former ! act and which was
evidently by an oversight, left in
the new one, and it is on thia pro
viso that Terry's counsel base their
contention, j i !
1895.
NO.
29.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
- ICSoirrespondeftc wtlcom. for vievt
xprttttdtk ditor it not responsible.
ComHuKtcationt mutt bt accompanied by
author's sums, if not for pvbliailiv at a
quarmte nectttaru to insur iiuartion.
jStokes County Letter,
M. Editor: Please allow me
space to reply to an article I saw
in the Danbufy Reporter and Post,
of the 8th inst. Mr. Pepper writes
in this wise : Wonder what the Re
publicans will fool the people on
next'time? Heretofore their whole
stock in trade has been fair prom
ises if they were put in power, and
now they have not kept a single
promise, their confidence "sound
money" .prosperity racket wont
work any more. The biggest fool
in the world can't be fooled again
on that sort of stuff, Danbnry Re
porter and Post.
It does seem that our friend and
beloved citizen's political equili
brium baa been very much disturb
ed, see his point exactly, he is
awarie of the fact that now is an
opportune time for him to wreak
out his vengeance, as the Republi
can arty is carrying out every
promise made to the people in the
St. Ljonia platform. Before anoth
er year pa skis into history every
vestage of that platform will have
been carried out to the letter. Al
ready mach has been accomplished
the Dingley bill has baen passed,
in less time than any previous
TarrijlT Bill since this 'has been an
independent country. A monetary
commission has been appointed
and much has been done toward
bimejtalism. Also the government
has since March 4th made the ara-
gant Spanish and their Weyler re
cognize American rights, etc. That
much, of the St. Louis platform
has been accomplished.
i asked Mr. Pepper through the
columns ot Tre Republican where
did fever the Republican party
make a promise but what they
fulfilled or made a desperate effort
to do so, only thwarted by Demo
crat filibustering A-j. I want
Bro. ;Pepper to also tell his readers
wherb the Democratic party ever
redeemed a pledge.
Suppose wa analyze Bro. P.-p-per's;article.
Wonder what the Re
publicans will fool tin people on
nextitime? Not on 16 to 1, Bro.
Not hn fre? trade, not on any of
youritree l:qaor you dreamed so
much of in 18S4 when you elected
thatjmost revered Democrat Gro-
ver Cleveland. Bro. Pepper we
don t have to brand our nostrum
free to get the people to take it, it
goes without a single flavor.
Brother how many times have
you changed your front in the last
d0 of 40 years, and how many
times have you changed ibsu ) to
deceive the people and only to get
deceived with the rest of the Dem
ocrats 7- If you voted and worked
for Grover Cleveland three times
how could you consistently voto
for W. J.Bryan, (that ia claiming
the currency as the. main iseuo.)
you voted for Grover Cleveland
three times when you knew he stood
sh raider to shoulder with Mai
m ar w 1 -a
aiciviniey upon the money ques
tion.! So far as the money plank is
concerned the plank.' in the St.
Louis platform was the same that
Bro.j Pepper voted for in 1892
Now! Bro. Pepper if you wanted
to show your loyalty to the lc
cause of 16 to 1 without the aid cr
consent of any other nation, why
say in tne name ot common
sense didn't you vote for General
Weaver, he was the only candidate
that! represented your present
views, I suppose you wanted to say
step up higher Grover as that seem
ed to be the Democratic slogan at
that time. Bro. Pepper says that
tti' ftepabiican d sound money
prosperity"con fidence" racket wont
work any more, that is a fact it has
coma to stay and there will be no
more racket made about it. Already
the leaders of the silver crueade
have thrown up the sponge. Horace
Boise the .3rd man in the Chicago
Convention said recently that 16
to l was a dead issue, Air. jjoise
was a moving force in the recent
contest. About all. that is left of
free jsilver at the ratio of 16 to 1
has decided to build up a ut opia
in the State of Washington, headed
by Eugene v. Debs, in all human
probability Bro. Pepper cculd get
a lob turning .so fat in political
issues that he would leave the seat
of his pants in front, that of course
is a icharactemtic of Democratic
manoeuvring
Bro. Popper says in conclusion
that the biggest fool on earth can't
be fooled by that sort ot stun
beg to disagree with him again, he
himself was fooled by the so-called
Democratic party three times and
is working with all his little miel
to gpt fooled again, and it does
seem to me that any old fool might
see the Democratic inconsistencies,
but consistency ceases to be a vir
tue with the Democratic party.
Bfo. Pepper I would be glad if
you would answer my questions at
yout earliest convenience.
Osome.y.
Ciller, NJ C July 12, '97.
If Prof. Andree's plans hive not
miscarried he is drifting in bis bal
loon: around the North Pole. It is
a fascinating occupation just now,
provided the professor is sure about
his return ticket.
1
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Liucas County, .
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that be
is the senior partner of the firm of F.
J. Cheney A Co., doing buainoss in the
City of Toledo, County aud State afore
said and that said firm will p 17 the
sum jof One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that can not
be cared by the use of Hall s Catarrh
Cure. Fb.nk 3. Crsxbt.
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Onr Lady Correspondent Con
tributes lier.Cuitomary Ijei
ter Of Affairs in the Capitol
Cify as She Sers Them
Eegular Corranpondon if tax Hfitslicah.
Washington, D: C, July 17, '97.
In spite of the warm weather, the
National law-makers are still in
their accustomed place in the "big
hoc s on the hill." Senator Pritch
ard, as Chairman of the Civil Ser
vice committee is busily engaged
in ferreting out iu formation about
the methods in vogue in making
dismissals of department employ-
e s Most oi the nromiiiunt fnmi-
ies of the administration are sum
mering cut of town aud many gov
ernment clerks ar taking their an
nual leave so that bat for the ex
tra session of Congrt 8b: the citv
would ecem d g?rtd.
The post office authorities have
accepted the proposition to renew
tha lease of the premises new occu
pied by the city pst office, fcr a
term of one year from (-tober 1.
1397, the new buildii.e not beinp
sufficiently near completion to
warrant its occupatioa bysthe de
partment at the brginiiiug'df tin
fiscal year.
W hen completed this t.ew build
ing promises to In a very imocsine
edifice. It was designed hv Ed-
rooke of Chicago and is 300x200
fett square and contains T.oOOjOOO
bricks and 260,000 cubic feet of
granite cut and Bhipped in Maine.
So carefallv was th amonnt nf
material eutimated beforehand that
wbu tin fun! wa hoisU d t y its
resting place not a hri -k nor a
p;;ice of grauite was lft upon the
ground. The thiirjenth itorv has
been fashioned mt a:i o'ltervetion
rnn and will be tLe limit of as-
ctMit for visitors .S:raigrs from
out of town will d) well tn bacV a
view of th.? eurroutidiig country
frjm thia'toar; htch is higher
than either the Catholic Universi
ty, the Naval Orvatory or the
Soldiers H To) arid is eclihsed in
height only hy the Washington
monument and the Cauitol. R-
sideB thes'j advautss i the Post Of
fice ton-fir is mure easily accessible
thaueithtr of th ) n!i:,!s mention
ed, and Will dou! tli nt'rar-t. viai.
tors on that -account, the Tiw be
ing equilly satisfrtcty a-:d far
reaching. ; . .
Colored men" and women have a
better opportunity t d-monstrate
their abiliti s iu the pension office
than iu any other branch of the
government service. Tlire are at
present 1, 827 persons employed in
the pension oflie-, and of this num
ber sixty-seven aro colored men
and women doing clerical work and
twenty-one colored men acting as
messengers. The colored clerks
are Scattered throughout every di
vision or tne olhae aud do everv
variety of work, from the adjudi
cation of claims, which is consid
ered one of the lighest grades of
laoor, down to tha simplest clerical
duties. The colored man who oc
cupies the highest grade of any
man of his race in the office is J.
W.Cole who draws a salary of
$1,800. per annum. The officials
whose doty it has been to watch
the work of clerks in the pension
office as frt that the colored men
perform their duties as effi iently
as a similar number of their white
brethren. A number of them en
tered the strvice by passing Civil
Service examinations.
Chief Hazen, of the Secret Ser
vice, reports anoth' i counterfeit of
the new igBue of silver certificates.
It is of the $2 00dVi o ni nation and
is printed on two pieces of paper
similar to the government distinc
tive paper, one of which Jias blue
and red silk tilxr diitiibuled
through it. The numbering is
done by an automatic numbering
machine. Thia counterfeit is con
sidered dangerous from the tact
that it is an exact photographic
reproduction of th general fea
tures of th; genuine, and has the
grayish black - appearance of the
gouuino worn note. However, the
difference from the genuine can be
easily distinguished by any one
accustomed to examining bank
notes, through the absence of the
fine e jgraving lino. E. V. T.
I'. i) in Taxes.
It is all too common a saying
that the people pay their taxes
less freely than they pay for any
thing else. For c ur life we cannot
see why this is. 1 it not really
wonderful that w have a free coun
try, an efficient government, pro
tect ton in cur horrej aud in the
honest pursuit of our desires, all
for so little? When a man comes
to pay his taxes let him think on
theie1 things; and consider also
how easily they can be displaced
by anarchy and highway robbery.
We should pay our taxes more
cheerfully fiau we pay out any
other sums of money. We should
alse list our property honestly.
When a man takes an oath he does
a grave thing. If h? breaks it he
deceives himielf, sins against his
State, and a thousand times worse
than these, he sins against God. If
citizens will list their taxes honest
ly, taxes will be lower. Biblical
Recorder,
Wall