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THE FRONTIER.
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NEBRASKA.
OVER THE STATE.
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The coal men of Hebron want cash
•B deliv<Vy.
Martin McTeak of Sidney had both
arms broUbo by the kick of a mule.
The corner atone of the A. O. U. W.
temple at McCook was laid last week.
Oats from the irrigated regions sell
In daring at thirty-fire cents a bushel.
Miss Grace Russell of Miaden will
spend « year in Chicago in the study of
music.
Valley county’s teachers' institute
opened with about ninety teachers in
attendance.
Fremont authorities will make an ef
fort to rid that place of the gambling
fraternity.
Nuckalls county republicans will
bold their county convention on Sep
tember 5 th.
The yield of small grain on the irri
gated fields of Cheyenne county is very
satisfactory.
Prohibitionists of Adams aounty
have nominated a full ticket, being the
first in the field.
The Woodbury Milling company is
shipping flour to New York state,
Where it is finding ready sale.
Herron has a man who treats his
wife so shabbily that ominous threats
have been made of hanging the cuss.
Matt Armstrong, whose home is at
Hooper, stepped off a moving train at
South Omaha and fractured hia skull.
Auditor Moore has admitted the
Greenwich Insurance company of New
York to transact fire insurance business
In Nebraska.
William Bircknkll, an old resident
of Otoe county, died last week, aged 90.
He was one of the most highly respect
ed residents of Otoe county.
The waterworks project in Cedar
Bapids is at n standstill. Owing to the
•tate of the money market the trustees
•re unable to sell the bonda
Wild land preferred.—I have clear
lots in a good, growing town to trade
•or equities in land. Address H. F.
Dailey, N. Y. Life lild'g., Omaha, Neb.
Twenty business men of Omaha were
swindled out of 8J5 each by two young
men who solicited advertisements for a
hall programme which they claimed
was in the interest of the retail clerks
of the city.
Burglars broke into Marquard'a
Jewelry store at Norfolk and carried off !
fifty or sixty dollars' worth of small ar- j
tides from the show case. They gained
ontrance by breaking a pane of glass j
in a back window. !
mcs >u i\fun courij a Iierman
;'“v v woman named Keikart, who has within
the last two years and a half given
Ul:- Wrth twice to triplets. The last time
•th of this month. All of the children
are alive and well.
Caw. Schultz, who lives a short dis
jfe tance north of liagar, wasdrhring down
• hill the other day with a load of straw
' when the lines broke, the team ran
't\ «way. upset the wagon, and the right
arm of Schultz was broken.
W:/;A twister a few rods wide passed to
‘ f , tkesouth of Table liock truring up corn
5?d tr*f* in it8 way- The residence of
SU Craig was in the path and was de
moralized. Mrs. Craig in badly hurt
'V*t A heavy rain caused the streets to over
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’J 5 " The state of Nebraska gives free ed
ucation to all desiring to become teach
» \t «**• The only State Normal School of
•f/, lars two courses of instruction, each
M«' ending in a state certificate. For cir
enlars address Pres. A. W. Norton,
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’ 9*o nnrr young girls named Mat
| > - tie Klein and Lena Woods were found
f , eonsorting with Tong Sung and Fong
Young, two Chinese laundtymen in
- Omaha. The girls have hitherto been
Iff! Mgarded aa respectable and they are of
respectable families.
, * Th* recorded mortgage indebtedness
* *pr Thayer county, for the month of
** ** follows: Farm mortgages
< tied, 938,314.20; released, 910,G33; city
2"* ' ■mortgages filed, 92,320; released,
V4 9990.40; chattel mortgages filed, 826,
fe,:« , y 907.56; released, 98,305.04.
•i s Mrs. Asdhkw Olsrass, living north
, .■ «* Hartiagton, met with a fatal acci
‘ dent. She had started the fire for dln
ner and was nourimr oil on the flnn»«
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Wnen the fluid exploded, burning* her
Sa a horrible manner. The house and
contents were entirely destroyed. The
attending physician says the woman
cannot recover.
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George Baldwin, a resident of the
western part of David C ity, committed
•uicide by shooting- himself twice
through the head. He was a laboring
man and had for some time been very
despondent over the business outlook,
although no present embarrassment
threatened him. He leaves a wife and
three children.
Frank St. Clair, with a half dozen
•liases, is said to be a bad man from
Colorado with a record of a term or two
la the pen. Ilia last offense was horse
Stealing, for which he was arrested at
Mattsmouth and lodged in jail. He
was furnished tools to make his escape,
which was effected by catting a whole
through the floor.
TeKAMAH is after the meeting of the
State grange this yc»r with good pros
Cicts of success. A petition was eirou
ted last week and generously signed
aad forwarded to the officers o’f the or
der, and a favorable reply has been re
ceived. The grange will number over
BOO delegates, and will be in session
floor or five days. ^ -
Ed§HE jB tafia!, agS<l 7, of Nebraska
City, Hied from the effects of burns Te
eeivcd while playing with a bonfire.
He attempted to throw a cup of gaso
line on the flames and was burned
•early to a crisp. Walter Armstrong, a
playmate about the same age, was
sadly burned while attempting to ex
tinguish the flames
The Western Manufacturing company
wants to put a floor in the cooper shop
at the penitentiary and is willing to do
the job for the state. The repairs
needed will cost about 8700, and if not
made the walls are liable to become de
flective. The company has the indorse
ment of Warden Heemer in the matter
of the necessity of the repairs, but the
hoard of public lands and buildings is
•ot yet prepared to accept the com
pany’s offer to furnish £bnvict labor at
|1 per day and an overteer at |3 per day.
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For several day* a representative of
the Denver Investment Bond company
was in tfattsmoulh in the interest of
his company, anti succeeded in getting
a few to take stock, but after an ex*
posurc :a the daily papers he left for
parts unknown.
Patrick Wnon*. a section hand, was
ran over and dangerously hurt by the
Burlington dyer at Omaha. He was
walking along one of the .tracks near
Sixth street and, not noticing the aj>
ixwuching (rain, stepped upon the track
in front of it just in time to be run
over. His left arm was badly mangled,
Ids face bruised and his head cut.
Hknry McKk.mibv, an employe of
Swift & Co., at South Omaha, has insti
tuted suit against the firm for S5.0U0,
for damages received in falling down
the elevator shaft at the packing house
June McKendry claims that through
•tlio carelessness of the roan who wae
operating the elevator he was given a
fall of thirty-six feet, sustaining a se
vere fracture of the leg.
Some .time ago William Bridwell, an
old soldier of Nelson, was dropped from
the pension roll by the authorities. He
was drawing W per month. Mr. Hrid*
well wus suffering from vertigo and
impaired vision, which injuries he con
tracted while in the army. When bis
pension was dropped it preyed on hia
mind until he was taken before the in
sanity board and declared insane and
taken to tho Lincoln asylum.
Tine residence of Fred Schmidt, of
Beatrice was broken into by sneak
thieves and a quantity of clothing and
a small amount of cash taken. Sneak
thieves are playing their vocation with
unusual vigor in Beatrice and vicinity.
OMcken roosts seem to be a favorite
point of attack and much poultry has
disappeared in cousequence. Charles
I Foiling, a farmer living north of town,
I bad two hogs stolen recently,
i Sri-KRINTKNriK.VT Johnson of the Ilas
: tings Asylum for Incurable Insane was
: at the state house. He states that the
a-ylura farm has raised this year twelve
acres of as line sugar beets as can be
found in any county in the state. The
beets will net the institution at least
SSO per ucre. The superintendent states
thut if he was provided with the land
he could profitably cultivate UK) acres
of sugar beets and make for the state
from $2, .too to S3,000 per annum.
I)it.txc a storm at Lincoln the resi
dence of D. 1*. Smith was struck by
lightning. Mr. bmith was absent at
the time, but his wife and her mother
were both prostrated by tho deadly
fluid. Mrs. Smith was comparatively
uninjured, although she was rendered
unconscious for some time. When she ;
recovered she found her mother appar
ently lifeless, and she remains so at
this writing, with no hope of the re
covery.
Frank At.exaxdeb, a ten-year-old,
boy got into a box car one day last week,
expecting to go to South (Jmaha. In
stead the train went to Denver and
there the little wanderer landed tired
and hungry, llis exploit was men
tioned in the papers and a woman
called at the police station to see him.
She proved to be his mother, who was
divorced from his father years before
and wham he had never known. The
woman has asked for permission to
keep the boy.
The other morning, as the north
bound Bock Island passenger stopped
at the depot in Beatrice, two fellows
who had been passengers on the train
a igkted and took with them Conduc
tor Ca proa's valise, his hat. revolver
and several minor articles which were
in u seat in the car. Tho conductor did
not discover his loss before reaching
Fairbury, from where he wired to Be
atrice. and in an hour after the thieves
were locked up and all the missing ar
ticles recovered.
Mrs. J. \V. Johnson of Buena Vista,
la., notified the police department of
all western cities about six months ago
thut her 15-year-old granddaughter had
run away from home and requested
them to look for her. The girl’s pa
rents are both dead and it was believed
that the girl, tiring of life in a small
town, had run away to go to the stage.
Mrs. Johnson was persistent in her
search and she was last week rewarded
by the finding of the girl in a house of
prostitution in Omaha.
Rev. S. D. Roberts committed sui
cide at Crab Orchard by blowing his
brains out with a shotgun.' For some
time he has been deranged, but was
supposed to be improving. He took
dinner at the home of his nephew, F.
H. Ellis, and seemed to be in unusual
spirits. After dinner he retired to a
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rest. He seated himself in a chair
placed the muzzle of the gun to his
forehead and discharged it with his
toes. Death was instantaneous, the
whole top of his head being blown off.
Hekmax Weibei.uai'?, a farmer who
resided north of Harrington, met with
a peculiar accident. He was missing,
and although his folks made a dilligent
search, he was not found. The next
day his wife saw a dark object lying
out in the stubble field and sent the
children to sec what it was. Thev re
turned and notified their mother "that
it was their father's body. 11 is face
was entirely eaten away by the hogs.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
stating that the deceased came to his
death from the bursting of a blood
vessel.
Geoiuie Soui.e, the Omaha convict at
the state penitentiary who is still ling
ering between life and death, was taken
from his cell the other day to Tabitha
home in Lincoln, where he may die a
freeman, llis is one of the most nota
ble of the cases which frequently come
to the attention of the prison authori
ties. Sent up from Omaha as a most
desperate character to serve a twenty
years’ sentence for murder, he him
proven one of the most tractable con
victs in the state penitentiary. He has
long been afflicted with consumption,
and as he had but a few days to live,
his sentence was commuted by Gov
ernop Crounse.
Five years ago Ed Campbell of
Genoa, while visiting at the house of
his brother in Platte county, lost a
pocketbook containing JU\ After due
search it was concluded that the wealth
was gone for sure. The brother was
building a new house at the time, and
the carpenter in charge met Mr. Camp
bell and asked him if he ever found his
pocketbook. On being answered in the
negative, he told h'm to tear off the
boards and he would find it over a cer
tain window, 'i he book was lost while
C ampbcll was viewing the new house,
and the idiotic carpenter thmight it
sty and
was a trap to test His honesty auu
played even by nailing it np, where it
was recovered after five years.
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Til* Slow Work of Con*rr*f.
Wamhxotox, August 21.—-A hall
month of congress has passed and the
third week opens with both sides con
fident, bat with many changes in the
situation. The developments of the
week just passed have brought surpris
es to both elements and have demon
strated the impossibility of partisan
politics entering into the battle. The
republican senators from the sliver
states have reiterated with greater em
phasis their loyalty to the silver cause,
while Dan Voorbees, the democratic
senator from Indiana, with a free coin
age record of twenty years, has sur
prised his former friends by declaring
for the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman act, and at chairman of the
finance committee has cast the decid
ing vote for the favorable report of such
m measure to the senate, Thus, the
disappointment which the repeal men
experienced when Senator Vest al Miss
ouri so emphatically declared for free
coinage and against unconditional re
pearl has been mo.-e than offset by the
accession to their ranks of the distin
guished chairman of the committee on
finance. IJut the free coinage men of
the senate are still resolute and deter
mined, and no one familiar with the
situation can hope for a final settle
ment of the question in the senate with
out almost endless discussion, extend
ing through many weeks, and votes
upon innumerable propositions to be
submitted by the silver men in case of
the defeat of this leading proposition.
It is not improbable that the coming
week may see the bill to permit nation
al banks to increase their issue of bank
notes to the par value of their United
States bonds on deposit, forced to a vote
in the senate, and the indications are
that it will receive a majority vote.
Some of the silver senators are in favor
of resisting all remedial legislation
whatever, unless there be coupled with
it a law for the free coinage of silver,
while the majority apparently consid
ers this policy ill-advised and does not
think the silver men can afford to op
pose the currency ball, which will im
mediately swell the volume of national
bank notes 819.000,000 or more and not
tend to affect in any degree the essen
tial merits of the free coinage question. ,
Any legislation further than this will
meet with a solid phalanx of opposition
from the silver men, and if they see
any probability, of finding themselves
in a minority they will demand prompt
action on the contested cases of Sen
ators Mantel and Allen, whose admis
sion, it is believed, will give the silver
element at least two more votes in the
United States senate.
The silver men at the capital are just
now criticising Governor Osborne of
successor to Senator Beckwith, who has
recently resigned. As any man ap
pointed from Wyoming would, they be
lieve. be a silver senator, they hold that
Governor Osborne is showing a neglect
of free coinage interests by not prompt
ly appointing a man to represent the
Grazing state in the senate and to pro
tect the silver measure when that prop
osition comes up.
It is announced that the delay of
Governor Osborne in tilling this vacan
cy is due to a desire to see the outcome
of the Mantel case before making any
appointment—the Mantel ease being
identical to the Wyoming case in that
Mantel was appointed to fill a vacancy
after the legislature of the state had
failed to elect.
In the house last week’s discussion
has brought but little to encourage the
free coinage people. Congressman
Bryan, one of their most eloquent lead
ers, has spoken and his speech has
elicited the highest praise, but it is
doubted by many whether even such
efforts could change many votes in the
house now, so little does the situation
seem to depend upon argument or past
predilections.
When seen by the Associated press
representative Congressman Bland de
clined to give any estimate of the vote
on the various relative propositions,
saying that he had made no canvass of
the sentiments of the house. Congress
man Bryan, who by common consent is
accorded the place of chief lieutenant
to Chairman Bland, gave the following
estimate of the situation: “The can
vass is not sufficiently complete to make
an accurate statement us to the vote in
the house. I am satisfied, however,
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house favor free coinage at some ratio.
Most of the advocates of free coinage
are in favor of the present ratio of 10
ta 1, but others favor other ratios, run-'
ning as high as 38 to 1. The proposi
tions submitted to the house do not go
higher than 20 to 1, but if no agree
ment is reached the friends of free coin
age will still oppose unconditional re
peal of the Sherman law, hoping to se
cure some affirmative legislation after
the committees are organized, when
the matter comes before congress
again. ”
Bank Officers Arrested. »■
Kansas Citv, Mo., Aug. 21.—E. C.
Sattley, cashier of the suspended Kan
sas City Safe Deposit and Savings bank,
arrested in Seialia yes erday on a war
rant issued here charging him with re
ceiving a deposit knowing the bank to
be insolvent, arrived here in the cus
tody of an officer at 6:40 this morning.
He was taken to the jail and booked
and taken before a justice where he
gave a $4,0C0 bond for his appearance
tomorrow. <■
President J. C. Darragh of the same
broken bank reached the union depot
at 10 a. m. on his return from a trip to
Michigan. He was met at the train by
an officer and placed under arrest on a
similar charge. He escaped a visit to
the jail and was taken directly before
a justice, whore he also gave a 85,000
bond for appearance.
Clouds of Grasshoppers,
Fort Dodge, Xa., Aug. 21.—Great
clouds of grasshoppers are passing east
of here daily on their way from the
north to the south. They fly very high,
and show no inclination to alight. This
vicinity has already been visited bv
more grasshoppers than for many sea
sons, but not enough to do any 'appre
ciable damage.
SEtTS NOTES.
The assessors estimate that Boston's
population today about is 560,000. The
census of 1S90 gave the city a popula
tion of only 449,500.
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AIRING OF FINANCES.
THB ALL IMPORTANT SUBJECT
IN CONGRESS.
The Hhn Qnevtlnn Under Dnbntn la the
Houe Frees Day te D.J—Many Con*
|wwee. Han Spoken aad Many Oth
er. Contemplating Doing So Before the
Matter Cornea to a Tote—The Senate
Doing bat Little. Apparently Waiting
Upoa Action of the Lower Branch—For
and Against Repeal of the Shcnaaa
■mrebaelag Ctaaea.
IX EXTRA 6ESSIOH.
£exatc.—In the senate on the 14th Mr.
Vest, democrat, of Missouri, introduced a
bill for the coinage of the silver bullion in
the United States treasury, saying it had
been sent to him from New York, and that
It met his partial approval. It provides that
after setting aside In coin and bullion as a
reserve such amount of the silver bullion
purchased under the act of July, 1890, as
shull equal at the coinage value the aggre
f'ate sum of the treasury notes authorized
>y that act. ail the remainder of such bul
lion shall be deemed available for the issue
of silver certificates; such remainder, or
surplus bullion, shall be coined into stand
ard silver dollars and such dollars shall be
used for the redemption of silver certifi
cates as now required by law; provided, that
this shall not be deemed to alter or amend
any provision of the act of July. 1‘W.
The second section provides that national
bunking associations shall be entitled to re
ceive circulating notes to the value at par
of United States bonds on deposit, not, how
ever, to exceed the amount of capital stock
actually paid in.
The bill was read and referred to the
nnance^committee.
Mr. Vest, democrat, of Missouri, called up
the resolution offered by him last Tuesday,
favoring biraetallsm and the free and un
limited coinage of both gold and silver,
without discrimination against either metal
but maintaining their parity.
Before beginning his speech in support of
the* resolution Mr. Vest had read the declar
ations in the republican and democratic
platforms on the subject of silver In order
to show that both parties weTe practically
agreed upon that question. He said that ft
was time for the people of the United states
to know whether politics were a juggle and
a fraud or whether the solemn declaration
of parties was worthy the confidence of a
free people,
At the close of his speech, Mr. Hoar, re
publican, of Massachusetts, obtained the
floor and after a short executive session on
the reference t© committees of the nomina
tions received yesterday, the senate ad
journed.
House.—In the house on the Mth there
was a slim attendance. The speaker an
nounced the following committee appoint
ments:
Enrolled Bills—Messers. Pearson, chair
man.; Russel] of Georgia, Latimer, Hines,
Haugen, Adams and Gillet of'New York.
Accounts—Messrs. Rusk, chairman; Payn
ter, Tate, Mutchler, Iklrt, Wells, Post,
Wright of Massachusetts and Marvin.
Mileage—Messrs. Lynch, chairman; Strait,
Pendleton of Texas and Mahon.
Mr. Holman, democrat, of Indiana, intro
duced a joint resolution making immedi
ately available the appropriation of the
mileage of senators and representatives.
Agreed to.
The silver debate was then resumed.
Mr. tioatner, democrat, of Louisiana, was
Bcwrutu lue uour. ne spoae irom me sil
ver standpoint and charged that the advo
cates of the Wilson bill—the gold men of the
democratic party and of the republican
party—were responsible for the excitement,
which had created the destruction of put die
confidence and which had caused the runs
upon banking institutions.
Mr. Patterson, democrat, of Tennessee, ad
vocated the repeal of the purchasing clause
and criticised the amendments proposed to
the pending measure. If the government
agreed to the free coinage of silver, at the
ratio of 16 to 1 It would at once and abruptly
bring the country to a single silver stand
ard. The silver dollar coined at the ratio of
20 to 1 would be worth exactly fc»l cents.
Mr. Bailey, democrat, of Texas, followed
Mr. Patterson in a speech, advocating the
Bland free coinage suostitute for the Wilson
repeal bill. He was in favor of paying the
government bondholders in the corn of the
country, but the law said they might be paid
in 4HV* grains of silver; and by the eternal
God he was in favor of giving tn^rn no more.
[Applause.] Place gold and silver on the
same basis in regard to coinage, and gold
and silver would have the same intrinsic
value. He would rather retire from public
life than to vote to allow gold and silver to
be coined into dollars of unequal value.
SENATE.
In the senate on the 15th the finance com
mittee defieitely decided to hold daily
sessions, beginning Thursday next, during
which time they will endeavor to reach some
conclusion on the silver question. Senator
Voorhces subsequently notified the senate of
this action and asked for the authority to
sit during the session of the same.
Mr. Lodge's (rep. Mass.) resolution, direct
ing the committee on finance to report a bill
at once to repeal the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, and that a vote be taken
on sueh repeal on Tuesday, the 22d, was
taken up ana Mr. Lodge spoke in its support.
He argued in support of prompt action. If
the country was to have free coinage let the
country know it; if it was to have a limited
coinage let the country know it, and if there
was to be an unconditional repeal of the
sliver act let the country know it.
Mr. Wolcott (rep., Colo.,> who followed Mr.
Lodge agreed with him that this was not a
party question. He made humorous allu
sions to the harmony that existed between
the democratic executive and the Massachu
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now that the president might frame some
election laws which would meet the views of
theMassachusetts senators. In order, he
said, that the repeal of an existing law might
bring relief, it would be necessary that it
J11 hinted Injury, and he had not heard one
intelligent man say that he believed that
the Sherman law wrought the Injury under
which the country suffers.
The Lodge resolution was laid aside with
out action and Mr. Hoar addressed the sen
ate on Mr. Vest’s resolution as to bimetal
lism. He said the representative stood
ready to hold up the hands of the president
and restore that prosperity which the coun
try enjoyed down to March 4,189a. If Mr.
Cleveland in his inaugural had said that he
would use all the power of the executive to
have no Inter erence with the tariff, this
calamity would not have come.
HOITS2
In the house after prayer and the reading
and approval of the journal, before a small
attendance of members, Mr. Burrows,
. Mich.) offered a resolution giving
Charles Belknap the right to contest the
R.?at George F. Richardson of the Fifth
let of Michigan. Mr. Richardson, the
u.i wituinau, uir. meuitrusun, mjc
sitting member, asked that the resolution
be laid over and it was ro ordered.. The sil
u.v, niiuit wus mu uruert'u. a no sil
ver debate was then resumed. Mr. Hutch
inson idem. Tex.) concluded his remarks be
gun yesterday In favor of free coinage of
silver. Mr. Hutchinson was followed by Mr.
Blanchard idem. La.) who spoke in favor of
free coinage.
Mr. Urosvenor, (rep., O.), said that if the
P^Hding debate should develop into a parti
san discussion its instigation would be found
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In the declaration of the president himself.
The president had declared that the repub
licans had been responsible for the present
condition of affairs and this declaration
would be the origin of a political discussion
if political discussion there should be. He
then referred to tlie message, of President
Buchanan to congress in 1857* and he inti
“a,t®d 1 iat. ^resiuent Cleveland had been
guilty of plagarism in his recent message to
congress. Referring to the sixteenth chap
ter of Leviticus, he called attention to tne
selection of a scapegoat and said that the
democratic party could not select the Mc
Kinley act us a scapegoat and so it had de
voted the lamb of tne Lord and sent the sll
bJlLlMt.° tJ10 wilderness. [Laughter.]
The difficulty in which the country now
round itself was attributable to the fact
that the people feared the tinkering with
the tariff by the democratic party.
Mr. Hall (dem. Mo.) spoke in favor of a
greater volume of currency and of the free
coinage of silver.
J; Sn«S<uKras? ,(flern; Tenn.) could not vote
for the Wilson bill. It lacked but one sen
tence in the Gherman act and did not carry
out the intention of the Chicago platform.
He criticised the stand taken by blscel
1©ague (Mr. I atterson) against free coinage
and contrasted his speech of yesterday with
those made by him during the last congress.
SENATE.
In the senate on the 19th Mr. Manderson
introduced two Mils, which; he said, had
n “i
been prepared amrceut to him bjr a gentle
■ v .. - ■' ;.'",
1 man of financial ability, and which were
read by their titles and referred to the com
mittee on finance. The titles are: “ Direct
ion the Purchase of yilrer Bullion and the
Issuance of Treasury Notes Therefor, and
i the Appointment of a Mint Commission,"
I and ■•Providing for the Issue of Treasury
i Notes, Their Redemption and for Other
; Purposes.
Mr. Voorbees, chairman of the finance
committee, said he had been appealed to by
several senators, who required more time.
time.
\ locall up today, as he had intended,
I the bill to enable national banks to Increase
i t heir circulation to the amount of the par
I value of the bonds deposited by them, out
he save notice he would do so tomorrow.
Mr. Coe krdll offered an amendment dlrect
I Ir.g the treasurer to pay to the holders of 2
per cent bonds who present them for re
: demption their face value with interest,
j Mr. Sherman stated the objection which
I occurred to him against the amendment.
The moment the treasury notes were paid
out on these bonds, which were not now,
and the interest on which wa* no burden to
the government, the notes would be pre
sented to tl»e government and payment In
coin demanded. That would be an unbusi
nesslike proposition and would complicate
the situation. The president had called at
j nation in clear and forcible language to the
fact that the treasury notes Issued under
the act of 1800 were presented for redemp
tion in gold and that, caused the first falling
off of the 1100,000,000 gold reserve. The
amendment he regarded ae a dangerous
financial proposition.
The bill went over till tomorrow and Mr.
Berry addressed the senate in favor of the
double standard of gold and silver. It was
generally agreed, the senator said, that the
bhermai) act was thoroughly bad. It was a
law which never should have passed, and he
was particularly gratified that not a single
democrat voted for it whether in the senate
or in the house.
Mr. Allen had an amendment to the na
tional bank circulation bill to the effet that
interest should cease on bonds on which the
additional circulation shall be based.
The Lodge resolution was taken up with
the Gallinger amendment to it, to the effect
that it would be unwise and inexpedient to
ma ke any radical change in the tariff prior
to March, 18P7, and tiallinger addressed the
senate. He declared himself ready to vote
at the earliest possible moment for the re
peal of the Sherman law, though he did not
believe that that much abused law was
largely responsible for the existing financial
evils. He believed that silver anathe Sher
man act had infinitely less to do with the
business depression today than anticipated.
SENATE.
The senate on the 17th made no progress
in the financial matter because the major
ity of the members apparently believe
speeches should, be held until the para
mount issue, the repeal of the Sherman law,
is presented to the senate. Pressure Is be
coming stronger daily on the finance com
mittee to report some definite proposition
on the Gherman purchasing act andthe re
sult will probably be that the committee
will soon report a bill and leave the decisive
battle to the senate.
: The majority of the committee at this time
is in favor of reporting a measure similar to
the Hill bill. Tne bill of the New York sen
ator, while it repeals the Sherman purchas
ing law, pledges the government, positively,
to tlie policy of bimetallism and declares
that the efforts of congress should be di
rected to carrying out this policy.
A resolution was offered, ana laid on the
table, calling fora report from the treasury
department as to what national banks have
diminished and afterwards enlarged their
circulation, and what hanks have no out
standing notes in circulation.
A message was received from the house
announcing the death of Mr. Chipman, rep
resentative from Michigan, whereupon the
usual resolutions were offerea by *ir. Mc
Millan and agreed to, and renators McMil
lan, Proctor, Vilas, Gibson and White of Cal
ifornia were appointed a committee on the
part of the senate to attend the funeral.
As a further mark of respect to the memory
of the deceased the senate adjourned.
The financial discussion in the house on
the 17th was spiritless and uninteresting.
None except the members whose names still
appear on the speaker’s list seem to mani
fest any interest in the daily proceedings,
and it is doubtful if a quorum could have
been found at a roll call at any time during
the day.
The silver debate was resumed and Mr.
Daniels of New York spoke in favor of the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sher
man act. The error, he said, had taken hold
of the public mind that disaster was bound
to follow from the accumulation of silver in
tlie treasury. This fear had been supple
mented anti voiced by the president. Oon
gre s should intervene to give some meas
ure of relief tj» the people by changing the
financial policy. For the past fourteen years
this accumulation of silver has been going
on; instead of it going Into circulation, it
had gone Into the treasury and remained as
a useless article. The people had been con
fident the law of 189.) should be repealed.
Mr. Cooper of Florida said he would vote
for the Wilson bill and against the proposi
tion of the silver men. He admitted he did
not know of all the industries of this coun
try, but as far as he could get information
he was convinced that the mills were not
closed up for lack of money or for lack of
orders. But they were closing because they
could get no cash. He argued the Sherman
law was the cause of the present depression.
The want of public confidence had caused
the failure of the banks, the failure of sub
stantial houses and had brought about the
present financial stringency. He could not
resist saying one thing, and that was that
when the democratic party had governed
the country for four years, at the end of Mr.
Cleveland’s first term, it had turned the
country over to the republicans prosperous
and happy. The republicans turned ft back
to the democrats In a condition of depres
sion, with the country goingover the finan
cial troubles into despair. The democratic
platform had delared for gold and silver at
an equal value and the men who stood now
for the free coinage of silver undertook to
override the democratic platform. They
could not do it.
Mr. Weadock of Michigan announced the
death of his colleague, Mr. Chipman, and
the house thereupon adjourned.
In the senate on the ISth the finance
committee reported the measure agreed
upon last night, which is framed on the Hill
bill and which repeals the Sherman law, but
pledges the government to the policy of bi
metallism. At the same time the minority
of the committee presented a report recom
mending a substitute bill providing for free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 2J to 1. It is
impossible to predict when the senate will
begin the discussion of these measures.
Neither side appears to be in any hurry to
foBce the question, as each side is evidently
uncertain of its numerical strength. The
only significant development was the array
ing of Senator Voorhees on the side of the
unconditional appeal men, but the Indian
ian explains his position by saying that he
thinks unconditional repeal of the Sherman
act will relieve the financial stringency and
that the battle for bimetallism can be fought
out hereafter—in which contest he will be
found on the side of bimetallism.
The day was given to some debate over
the bill to increase the issue of national
bank notes to the par value of the bonds on
deposit. Allen of Nebraska, populist, made
his debut discussing the bill to increase the
national bank circulation He advocated
the adoption of the amendment offered by
him to suspend interest on the bonds on
which the increased circulation is based.
He spoke from a desk iq the front row of the
democratic side and made a very favorable
impression on the senators. In his judg
ment the bill would commit the country to
a policy of a continuance of the national
banking system and he thought the time
had come when safety required the over
throw of that system and its wiping out as
speedily as. possible. Nine-tenths of his
people were opposed to anything looking to
the perpetuating of tho national banking
system.
Mr. Stewart gave a history of the recent
development in the silver question. He de
clared the Sherman act must not be repealed
vatu the 'Whole question was investigated
and discussed ana silver a» a money metal
provided for. He did not believe the fenate
or the house had any intention of plunging
the country into the misery which awaits
the single gold standard.
BOUSE.
The voice of the east was heard in the
house on the 18th in favor of the free coin
age of silver. The speaker was Joseph Sib
ley, a iiow member from Pennsylvania, and
the speech of the uentleman was tho sensa
tion of the day. He is the only member from
the Keeystone state who is opposed to plac
ing the United States upon a single gold
standard and who is a firm advocate of bi
metallism.
Mr, Sibley spoke for more than t wo hours,
and not for a moment did he lack attention,
and in his maiden speech he took front rank
with the orators and humorists of the house.
Mr. Haines of New York and Mr. English
of New Jersey spoke in fav,.* < f repealing
the silver purchase clause and Jerry Himn
against it. Mr. Haines was amazed
at the attacks upon W all street. They were
pure demagogisrn; attacks on the financial
system of the country. Walt street was the
savings bank of the nation; it was to Wall
sMitthel? surpl°M
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was nodemocratKrtt »pJ)l,u«l
lie* eland's party If 11% j
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ssg'i^sis.^g-fte!
There were about *»i «SL* v? the e
* o'clock. Mr. BliniMm„mt?:bcrs Pret
marks. Enounced W' ISf«mlOiM
predicted It wouldproduK?» s(an«i
would shake the §o™?£L*r!v°lM.
coinageof.llW..1110'™^ advoc.^j
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politics and act as omfnffln V* aiaf
ment of the country DV?an *or,™e 1
to give the S /ree lcd *
TO UNITE AQa7nsT~THb (
q°t. .ton. CrK.<I to Crtl a
of Westera and Southsrn s„£
7. Kahsas City, Mo., Aug. 19 _i
tion signed by all the state 0*
and statehonse employes of v!
was sent to Gov. Stone of Milon
day asking him to call a westej
sonthern states convention to ™
measures for the relief of the ,
for the cultivation of comtnerc
lations and for securing f,
from the eut m business affairs
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 19 -Gov.
®V™f £?8 7*ei.ved a letter froa
Fish back of ArKansas announclni
he would send delegates to Chi
bept. 12, with the Kansas delemi
work on a plan to divert west,,,
ports from the east to the Gt
Mexico.
PER DIEM PENSION Bit
Union Teterans In Convention
That It Be Offered At.la
Boston, Mass., Aug. 19.—Thei
encampment of the Union Vet
union is in session here The
gates, who are from all parts 1
country, were welcomed bv I
Gov. Walcott.
Commander-in-Chief Yoder i
annual address warned the cod
against the corrnpting influee
politics in the order. The com;
on resolutions presented a prelin
report recommending that th
diem pension bill, which was <
ally presented to congress b
Union Veterans' union, be
nrged upon congress for its apt
SAYS SENATE WILL KILL
Ex-BUnt Director Leech Discusses Fi
of the Wllaoa Bill,
New York, Aug. 19 -E. 0. U
formerly director of the mint,
vice-president of tfee Union nati
bank of this city, fives his view
the probable outcome of the pre
struggle in congress:
“The Wilson repeal bill will
the house, but the senate wil
amend it that President Cleveland
not be able to sign it The result
be that we will continue silver
chases with some congressional
thority to sell bonds to strengthen
gold reserve and probably some
thority to the national banks to i
currency at par with governs
bonds.” _
All Leman Banks Closed.
Lemars, la., Aug. 21.—Lemars
surprised on Friday by the suspei
of all the banks in the city.
They were the First National mi
Lamars National, with a capit
$100,000 each, and the Lemars 1
and German Savings banks.
Not ices were posted on the doors
the suspension is due to an inabili
realize on assets, but that all de
tors will be paid.
At a meeting of the directors o
the banks the step was decided u
because of a run by which over.
000 was drawn out in sixty days
statements are obtainable. Sat)
Hank Examiner McHugh, who i
Denver, has been notified and ■
Examiner McCarthy is en route to
mara
-VI *1, „ V.nrs!/■ c arc f
AUC OiC>3. lO W
excess of liabilities. The Lemars
tional is the oldest bank in the
All hare a large surplus of mco
and had been ranked among the
institutions in the state. All •
good condition for ordinary times,
withdrawals of cash have been s.
and collaterals could not be rea
The action of the banks was.acomj
surprise and caused a panic '
The officers of the banks say tnej
pay every dollar when the) can
date advantageously.
CHAIR PUSHERS STRIKE.
Jackson Park’s 75-C«nt-»n-n°«’
cles Are Left Motorlcs
Chicago, Aug. 1.’.—‘The large,
wheels of those willow c“&ir, .
are Jackson park's only Fccer ,.m
of transportation by land are
morning. The only wheels «
all that turn are those apperts'W
the chairs propelled by fi"e
pushers, most colored.
V All the other pushers have ”'
There were 40u chair-pushers ‘“i
The company offered the®V u
day and 10 per cent of r® P r c
pushers demanded $1 and P
£his morning they • ™‘
Melobary, chairman of their s
committee, waited on.buperwtt
McGinnis of the chair comp» >
effected no settlement.
Says Senator Martin Wss*«*.,
Topeka, Kan., Au?'A'd!er«
prepared liy Senator chaft„e'LD
mating the republicans ifcommii
States senate elections c
was .eceivedyesterday otthe^ J
District Attorney Ady wr Cl
Martin contest case. t s
ller’s opinion in brief
the Supreme court » „
had decided that the u h
house was not » „_pntion *
,nd since the joint conre^ ^
Ilected John Martin _^“^"uted
>een a legal body as jbert
he constitution, therefore
__ i«„«i .lection of i “*
ne coDSbiiu.»
ieen no legal election er
enator in Kansas las*_
ror collector of **,*”,*I„B jj, I
Washington, Aug. „ filed his »P
ard of Chicago to-day !■«> ent
ation at tiie treasury dP, jBtf
ppointment as collector
evenue.