OISE IN CONFUSION.
-BEAT UPROAR in the lower
0 BRANCN.
demonloro Over the O'tielll-Joy Con
Beed and Crltp Look
Republicans and Tea Deno
riif FllUbnvter Against the Seating of
O'Neill—The Sergeant-at-Arms Or
d„e<l to Brio* In All Abaenteee—Per
lenal Encounters.
Bedlam In the Houae.
iusiiinotox, March 31. — In the
m,y, yesterday the regular order,the
VS-eill contested election case,
. UlliCn up and the filibuster against
' .outing °f O'Neill was resumed.
f]„' vote on the motion was taken
i ,v.lilted 154 to 11, fourteen short
, a , norum. Of the eleven who
against the motion, in effect
wiving Mr. O’Neill the seat,
|j!r were ten Democrats as follows:
lleArmond, Everett, (Iriftin,
Missouri, Morgan, Outhwaite,
raI1 Sibley, Harter and Warner.
r Mi Keighan, Populist, of Nebras
, oust the other negative vote.
'fi.in: came more filibustering, and
r i attevson offered a resolution to
the leaves of absence and in*
ril n the sergeant-at-arms to take
,o absentees into custody. The or
,r a, cr rding to the resolution, was
udir.t.nue in force from day to day
iti! vacated.
Mr. need attempted to make the
oint ti.nt a quorum was necessary
, a,l,,|i. a resolution continuing an
..Mr ii force beyond adjournment,
tt the speaker overruled him.
Tiie previous question was then
plcrcd. 152 to 2.
jlr. Keed look the floor and in a
riff speech scored the Democratic
ker Crisp took the floor anil re
;;fu sharply to Mr. Reed. He said
be v.i. -ie purpose of the ex-speaker
B. to ( (impel him (Crisp) to count a
,(}iT.!r. which he would never do.
Party feciing had been aroused by
le i-marks of Mr. Reed and Speaker
r.nd the Republicans began fili
i.vrlr.g with redoubled vigor. An
up. a: was taken from the decision of
to .hair by Mr. Payne.
The speaker refused to entertain it.
In ii.c midst of the chorus of voices
ha: >’lowed, Messrs. Payne, Boutelle .
d<! Iltod were on their feet clamor
if h r recognition. The speaker re
isol to recognize them. “Tellers,”
touted Mr. Payne. Pending that
in! i n he moved to adjourn.
The speaker declined to entertain
to motion. Mr. Reed loudly insisted
it ills right to know why, but the
peaker replied by ordering him to his
eat.
Mr. i r.Ue.rson called for the ayes
nd r.i.vs and Mr. Payne demanded
tilers on the motion. The speaker
ppented Mr. Patterson and Mr.
tynr. The latter was still clamor
t; to be recognized on his point of
trier. Democrats had crowded down
ntn the area in front of the chair.
The speaker ordered Mr. Payne to
tain his place as teller. Mr. Payne
Mired to serve.
Tite chair then appoints the gen
lietittta from Maine,” said the speaker,
lit P.eed was wild with rage. ‘T
Mine to serve,” said he.
"The gentleman from Tennessee
Bit Patterson) will act alone.” The
Dra rrats raised a cheer as the
pta'n r said this, and moved rapidly
«i.ini single file to be counted.
Ihf • xcitement was intense.
M in i; a sufficient number had been
tonrnt.it by Mr. Patterson to order the
eas ami nays, the announcement was
aali'. in a chorus, the Republicans
rerp protesting against this irregu
iMy. and Mr. Reed in a loud voice
iti tHt’d the chair knew the rules re
|nt'i i! two tellers.
Tin’ resolution was adopted—1C4 to 3.
Hr. Hayner, Republican, of Iowa
•ovci! to reconsider and pending that
“>tl;ourn. During the process of the
j™ 'ail the excitement subsided and
,a-r',ement the motion to recon
™i was withdrawn and at 6:60 the
r adjourned.
HAINMAKING not a success.
tore!ary Morton Declares That the Bom
bardments Did Little Good.
"amuxgtox, March 31.—Secretary
“duri, replying to a large number of
®1'nr!cs from all parts of the coun
• as to the results of the depart
ment s rainfall experiments and the j
isibtlity of controlling precipitation
ti T.anS °* exP'os>ons. has sent out
®;™‘Iowing circular;
replying to your letter as to rain
^ exDeriments, I have to inform
J a that in no case did they pass the
-Pr'M.V experimental stage and that
P'upict of ultimate success is not
tit * as. to ju.stify farmers or other
lit® lTSi n rainma'5>nl? experimenta
J' Ia this determination, judg
, ’ and opinion, I am supported by
1 scientists and other experts in
- froiojry connected with the United
«fntS lVeat*1<‘r bureau. The bombard
«. t. e skys for water, as carried
-v *"’s department, did not pro
koti' calculated to inspire the
On i "at an^ method of concussion
(ili e mac!e commercially success
t(je I Palpitating the moisture from
KUI Themneiren with Poison.
"'isn
hester, Ohio, March 31.—Miss
•fed 35
Hillings and her sister Linda,
and 40 years respectively.
In . °und dead in bed yesterday
!* rn'nS- A note explained that death
'**ose P°*son> self-administered, be
kj.0”® was intending to get mar
'ove for each other forbade
i/j'J, *°n. Therefore, they chose
lk„„, The two were well-to-do.
°{t-no relatives
Nine People Burned to Death.
&sr*-w;v-. March 31
hi liinton vivm an annount
hlTed
hers
Hinton gives an account
terrible accident that oc
at McKendree, in Sum
t „,c”Unty. yesterday. When W.
tome , ot that place returned
%lu h1' being out on watch all
N i„ v. *°und his house in ashes,
j H18 UUUBC 111 OSI1CO,
lift, , "ls horror learned that his
kttc 11 ren an<l the hired girl had
,0nsumed in the flames.
to McUarrahau BUI Paaeee.
j^JhiWQTojr, March 31.—The Mc
|k>., ‘an hill passed the senate yes
without division.
BRECKINRIDGE’S VERSION.
BU Bid* of the C«rrl»*« Incident With
MIm Pollard la ClaclaaatL
Washinstos, March 31. - iB the
Breckinridge-Pollard case late yester
day afternoon Mr. Breckinridge testi
on ,“1regard to his flrst Tislt to Miss
Pollard at the Wesleyan seminary in
Cincinnati. It had been made while on a
business trip to Covington, on Friday.
August 1. There being no hotel ac
commodations in Covington, he had
gone to Cincinnati to stay over night.
‘“n,er’ rem«®bering the letter
of Miss Pollard, he strolled up to the
college. “I sent my name up,” he
said, ‘was invited into a room and
in a few moments the plaintiff
came down. We shook hands. She
said she supposed Bhe had astonished
me by the substance of her letter; that
it was worse than a divorce case. We
took seats, she oif a divan, 1 on a
chair, in the rear of the room. She
narrated the circumstances under
which shehad made the agreement
with Mr. Rhodes.
Rhodes had fallen in love with her
but she had respected him,as an older
man, but had not loved him. She
wanted to know whether he could
compel her to marry him.
“1 treated the matter with some
levity; said 1 knew of no law in this
da.v by which she could be compelled
to the specific performance of a mar
riage contract.”
Here Colonel Breckinridge spoke
very slowly and reproduced the
mournful tones which a young woman
might use in making such a confes
sion. “She said: ‘I gave him a higher
proof than that contract.’ Then I
said she ought to marry him any way.
She said: *1 can’t; I have grown away
from him.. I know what other men
are and his very presence is offensive
to me.’ I replied: ‘You can't afford
not to marry him; a young girl as you
are.’ Then the conversation drifted
away. There was nothing more I
could say. She seemed to have said
all she cared to.” There was an ex
quisite minor key of retrospective
pathos as the colonel sunk his voice
through these passages.
After some further talk Colonel
Brcckenridge left for dinner at the
Burnett house. After dinner he hired
a carriage and took her out for a ride.
In'answer to a- question.by Colonel
Butterworth, he said:
“She seemed to be a young woman
of 20 or 22. She might have been 19.
She was a fully grown young woman
of perfectly proper manner.” danc
ing for the first time at the plaintiff,
“very deferential, very.”
“Anything td indicate that she was
not a proper young woman?”
Colonel Breckinridge wanted none
of his hearers to cherish a suspicion
that he would have ventured forth
with an improper person. His dis
claimers were repeated, and in his
softest tones. “Not the slightest,” he
replied, “not the slightest. Her con
duct was entirely correct. Nothing
was said about her peculiar relations
te Mr. Rhodes.”
■■were tno windows 01 tlie carriage
open or shut?”
“They were open,” replied the col
onel, and then, without prompting,
he came to the heart of his narrative.
“After we had driven some dis
tance,” he said, “and she was talking
at some length about her desire to go
into journalism, to be an authoress,
and we had spoken of George Eliot,
she took off her hat and put it on the
front seat. I put my arm around her.
There were no protestations on her
part. No offer of love. What oc
curred, occurred in the natural way.
I put my arm around her and drew
her to me. I was a man with passion.
She was a woman with passion. That
was all. There was no outcry by her,
no resistance. I, man as I was, 1' took
liberties with her.”
“Just a case of illicit love?” broke
in Mr. Kutterworth.
“That was it, Kutterworth. I am a
man, she a woman, human both of
us.”
Continuing: “That was going out.
Going back there was hardly a word
spoken until we got close to the city.
Under the gas lamps I took out of my
pocket a stamped envelope. She was
on my left hand side. 1 put my hand
in my pocket and put something into
the envelope. She refused to accept
it. I said, "There are a great many
little things you need.”
“What was in that envelope?” Mr.
Kutterworth inquired, but the con
gressman ignored the interruption,
continuing. “As we got out I put it
into her hand, closed her hand on it
and bid her good night.”
“What was it?” repeated Attorney
Kutterworth.
“It was a bill. I think a ten dollar
bill.”
“Adjourn the court,” shouted Judge
Eradley, who had sat through the nar
rative with his head averted and eyes
closed, and the court adjourned.
BLAND ON THE VETO.
Th« Silver Champion Will Xow Intro
duce a Free Coinage Bill.
Washington. March 31.—Represent
ative Bland, author of the Bland sil
ver seigniorage bill, authorizes the
following1 statement concerning the
veto and its effect upon the future of
silver:
“A president at all in sympathy
with the purposes of the bill would
have signed it. College professors
may criticise its language, but a man
who sprang from the people, like
Abraham Lincoln, and representing
not the money power,but the interests
of the masses, would have signed the
bill although college professors might
have stigmatized him as a railsplitter."
Concerning the future of the silver
movement, Mr. Bland said:
“It is evident that under the single
gold standard nothing can be done on
the currency question without con
sulting the few people who own the
gold of the world._
Cor. Northern Appoint, the Speaker to
Succeed Late Senator Colquitt.
Atlanta, Ua., March 31.—Governor
Northern has appointed Speaker
Charles F. Crisp to succeed the late
Senator Alfred H. Colquitt. Not a
word has passed between the governor
and the speaker, and the latter’s name
had not been even presented formally
to the governor.
O'Nelll-Joy Deadlock He.umed.
Washington, March 31.—When the
house met again to-day the deadlock
was resumed, the Republicans objcct
Imr to the approval of the journal of
yesterday.
PRESIDENTIAL VETO.
■ |
THE BLAND SEIGNIORAGE BILL
PUT TO SLEEP.
President Clcrtlkad DIupproTM of tha
Measure, Believing It Dnngeroas and
III Advised—It Would Forra Oat Gold
■apply and Brla| on Aaother Fnnlo—
luaa of Low Bata Boada to Preserve
the Gold Supply of the Treaaury Advo
cated.
Seigniorage Bill Vetoed.
Wasihrotox, March 30.—The presi
dent to-day sent to the house of repre
sentatives the following' message veto
ing the Bland silver seigniorage bill:
To the House of Representatives: I return
without my approval house hill numbered «B#
entitled "An act directing tha coinage of the
silver bullion held In the treaaury and for
other purposes."
My strong desire to avoid disagreement with
those In both housos of co rig re-a who have
supported this bill would lead me to approve
It If I could believe that the publio good would
not be thereby endangered and that such
action on my part would be a proper discharge
of official duty. Inasmuch, however, as I am
unable to satisfy myself that the proposed
le.lalatlon Is either wise or opportune, my
conception of the obligations and responsibili
ties attached to the great office I hold forbids
the Indulgence of my personal desire, and
Inexorably con flues me to that course whtoh
Is dictated by my reason and judgment and
pointed out by a sincere purpose to protect
and promote the general interests of our
people
CONCEDED CAUSE Or THE PANIC.
The financial disturbance which swept over
the country during the last year was unparal
leled in its severity and disastrous conse
quences There seemed to be almost an en
tire displacement of faith in our financial
ability and a lorn of confidence in our fiscal
policy. Among those who attempted to as
sign causes for our distress it was very gen
erally conceded that the operation of a pro
vision of law then in force which required the
fgovernment to purchase monthlv a
arge amount of silver bullion and l«ue
its notes in payment there.or, was cither en
tirely. or to a large extent, responsible for our
condition. This led to the repeal, on the first
day of November. 1893, of this statutory pro
vision. We had, however, fallen so low in the
depths of depression and timid ty and appre
hension bad so completely gamed control in
financial circles that our rapid recuperation
could not reasonably be expected.
Our recovery bus. nevertheless, steadily pro
gressed. and though less than five months
have elapsed since tho repeal of the mischiev
ous silver purchase requirement, a wbola one
Improvement is unmistakably apparent- Con
fidence in our absolute solvency is to such an
extent reinstated and faith in our disposition
to adhere to sound financial methods is so far
restored as to promote the most encouraged
result*, both at homo and abroad. The wheels
of domes lie industry have • been slowly
sot in motion and the tide of foreign invest
ment has again started in our direction. Our
recovery being so well under way, nothing
should be done to check our convalescence,
nor should we forget that a relapse at this
time would almost surely reduce us to a lower
sture of financial distress than that from
which we are Just cmer -in *.
I believe that if the bill under consideration
should become u law It would be regarded as a
retrogression from the financial intentions in
dulged by our recent repeal of the provision
forcing silver bullion purchases: that it would
weaken If it did not destroy returning faith
and confidence in our sound financial tenden
cies and that as a consequence our progress to
renewed business health would be un ortu*
nately checked and a return to our recent dis
tressing plight seriously threatened.
The president then reviews the cur
rency conditions growing- out of the
Sherman silver law, and continues:
The conditions I have endeavored to pre
sent may be thus summarized:
First—The government has purchased and
now has on hand sufficient silver bullion to
permit the coinaie of all the silver dollars
necessary to redeem, in such dollars, the
treasury notes issued for the purchase of sil
ver bullion and enough Besides to coin, as gain
or setgnioraze. 55,153,6*1 additional standard
silver dollars.
Second—There are outstanding and now in
circulation treasury notes issued in payment
of the bullion purchased amounting to $152,
951,283. These notes are legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private, except
when otherwise expressly stipulated, they are
receiveable for customs, taxes, and all publio
dues, when held by banking associations they
may be counted as part of their lawful
reserves and they are redeemed by the govern
ment in gold at the opltion of the holders.
These advantageous attributes wore de
liberately attached to these notes at the time
of their issue, thev are fully understood by
our people to whom such notes have been dis
tributed os currency and have undoubtedly
thus induced their continued and contented
use as money, instead of anxiety for their re
demption.
THE BILL REVIEWED.
Havln? referred to some incidents which I
deem relevant to the subject It remains for me
to submit a specific statement of my objec
tions to the bill now under consideration.
This bill consists of two sections, excludin'
one which merely appropriates a sum suffi
cient to carry the act into effect. The first
section provides for the immediate coinage of
the silver bullion in the treasury, which rep
resents the so-called gain or seigniorage,which
would arise from the coining of all the bullion
on hand, which gain or seigniorage this section
doclares to be 155,136,681. It directs that the
money so coined or tho certificates Issued
thereon shall be used in the payment of publio
expenditures, and provides that if the needs
of the treasury demands it the secretary of
the treasury may in his discretion is*uo silver
certificates in excess of such coinage not ex
ceeding the amount of seigniorage in said sec
tion authorized to be coined
The second section declares that as soon as
possible after the coinage of this seignolrage,
the remainder of the bullion held by the gov
ernment shall be coined into legal tender
standard silver dollars, and that they shall be
held in the treasury for the redemption of
treasury notes issued in ihe purchase or said
bullion. It provides that as fast as bullion
shall be coined for the redemption of said
notes they shall be re-issued but that they
shall be cancelled und destroyed in amounts
equal to the coin held at any time In the treas
ury derived from the coinage provided for,
and that silver certificates shall be issued on
such coin in the manner now provided by law.
It is, however, especially declared in said
section that the act shall not be constructed
to change existing laws relating to the legal
tender character or mode of redemption of the
treasury notes issued for the purchase of the
silver bullion to be coined
MOST UNFORTUNATELY CONSTRUCTED.
The entire bill is most unfortunately con
structed. Nearly every sentence presents un
certainty and inviteB controversy as to Its
meaning and intent. The first section is
especially faulty in this respect and it is ex
tremely doubtful whether its language Will
.permit the consummation of its supposed pur
poses. I am led to believe that the promot rs
of the bill intonded in thii section to
provide for the coinage of the bullion consti
tuting the gain or seignorage, as it is called,
into standard silver dollars and yet there is
positively nothing In the section to prevent its
coinage into any description of silver coins
now authorized under any existing law. I sup
pose this section was also intended, in case
the needs of the treasury called for money
faster than the seigniorage bullion
could actually be coined, to present the Issue
of certificates In advance of such coinage: but
its language would seem to permit the issu
ance of such certificates to double the amount
of seigniorage as stated, one half of which
would not represent an ounce of silver in the
treasury The debate upon thi* section In
congress developed an earnest and positive
difference of opinion as to Us object and
meaning In anv event, I am clear that the
present perplexities and embarrassments of
the secretary of the treasury ought not to be
augmented by devolving upon him the execu
tion of a law so uncertain and confused
I am not willing, however, to rest my objec
tion to this section solely on these grounds;
in my judgment, sound finance does not com
mend a further infusion of silver into our cur
rency at this time unaccompanied by further
adequate provision for the maintenance in our
treasury of a safe gold reserve.
THE SECOND SECTION DEFECTIVE.
Doubts also arise as to the meaning and con
struction of the second second of the bill If
the silver dollars therein directed, to be
coined are, m the section protllM, to
to told In (to tmnirr lor tto I*
demplion of treasury note*, It la suggested
ttol, strictly speaking, certificate* onunot bo
issued on such coin "In tto manner now pro
vided by law,'' beoauao theae dollar* are
money bold In the troanury lor the express
purpose ol redeeming troanury note* on de
mand, which would ordinarily mean that they
were set apart lor tto purpose ot substitutes
them lor these treasury notes They are
not, tberelore, held In suoh a way as to fur
nish a basis lor certificates according to any
provision ol sxlstlnt law. It. however, silver
certificates can bn properly Issued upon these
dollars, there Is nothing in the section to Indi
cate the characteristics and tunutlons ol tnesc
certificates. It they were to bo of tho same
character as sliver certificates in olrcul.llon
under existing laws, they would at best be re
uelvubioonly for customs, taxes and all public
dues; and under the iauguuge of tho section II
Is. to say the least, extremely doubtful
wnntner me certificates It contemplated would
be lawfully received even for such purposes.
Whatever else may be said of the uncertain
ties of expression in this bill thoy certainly
ought not to be found in legislation affoullnx
subjects so Important and far reaching as our
iinanoen and currency
In stating other and more Important rea
sons for my disapproval of this sootton, I
shall, however, assume that under its pro
visions the treasury notes issued in payment
for sliver bullion will uont'nue to be redeemed,
as heretofore, in silver or gold at the option
of the holders and that if, when they are pre
sented for redemption, or reach tho treasury
in any other manner, there are in the treasury
coined stiver dollars equal in nominal value to
such treasury notes, then and in that oase tho
notes will be destroyed and silver certificates
to an equal amount substituted I am con
vinced that this scheme is ill advised and dan
gerous. As an ultimate result of its ope
ration treasury notes, legal tender for all
debts, publlo and private, and which are re
deemable in old or silver, at the option of the
holder, are to be replaced with silvor certifi
cates, which, whatever m.tv be laotr oharacter
and Inscription, will have none of theso quali
ties In anticipation, of this result, and os an
Immediate effeot. the treasury notes will nat
urally depreclato in value and desirability.
Tho fact that itold can be realised upon them
and the further fact thut their destruction has
been decreed when they reach tho treasury
must tent, to their withdrawal from guoeral
circulation to to immediately presented for
void redemption or to be hoarded for presen
tation nt n morn convenient aenson.
FORCING OUT TUB GOLD.
The sequel of both operations will be * larg*.
addition to the silver currency in our circula
tion and a corresponding reduction of cold In
the treasury. The argument has teen made
that these things will not oo :ur at on^e be
cause a long time must elapse before the coin
age of anything but the seigniora/o oan be en
tered upon. If the physical effects of the exe
cution of the second section or this bill arc not
to be realized until far In the future this may
furnish a strong reason why it should
not be passed so much in advance
but the postponement of its actual operation
cannot prevent the fear and loss of continence
and nervous prostration which would immedi
ately follow Us pas»ano and brln* about its
worst consequences. I regard this section of
the bill as cmbodyin; a plan by whtoh the
government will ho obliged to pay out Its
scanty store of gold for no other purpose than
to force an unnatural addition of silver money
into the hands of our people This is an uxact
reversal of the policy which safe flnanco dic
tates, if we are to preserve parity between
gold and silver and maintain sensiblo blind*
al ism.
We have now outstanding more than CS38,
000,00 in silver certificates issued under exist
ing laws. They are serving the purpose of
money usefully and without question Our
gold reserve, amounting to little more than
9100, 0J0,(Xj0, is directly charged with the re
demption of 9t49,()ju.Ouuof United States notes.
When it is proposed to inflate our silver cur
rency it is a time for strengthening our gold
reserve Instead of depleting it I oannot con
ceive of a longer step toward sliver .monomet
allism than wo take when we spend our gold
to buy silver certificates for circulation es*
pecially In view of the practical difficulties
surrounding the replenishment or our gold.
BONDS FOR GOLD NECESSARY.
Ttahr leads ms to earnestly present ttao da*
sirabillty of granting to the secretary of the
treasury a better power than now exists to is
sue bonds to protect our gold reserve, when for
any reason it should be necessary. Our cur
rency is In such a confused condition and our
financial affairs are apt to assume at any time
so critical a position that it seems to me such
a course is dictated by ordinary prudence
l am not insensible to the arguments in favor
of coining the bullion seignlora :o now in the
treasury, and I believo It could be done safely
and with advantage if tho secretary ot the
treasury had the power to Issue bonds at
a „low rate of interest under authority in
substitution of thut now existing and better
suited to tho protection of the treasury.
I hope a way will present itself in the near
future for the adjustment of our monetary af
fairs in such a comprehensive and conserva
tive manner as will afford to silver its proper
place in our currency, but in the meantime I
am extremely solicitous that whatever action
we take on this subject may be such as to
prevent loss and discouragement to our peo
£le at home and the destruction of confidence
i our financial management abroad.
_ Grover Cleveland
Executive Mansion, March 29, im
booming McKinley.
The Protection Champion In the North
west.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 30.—
Governor William McKinley and party
reached Minneapolis yesterday morn
ing. In St. Paul they were joined by
Lieutenant Governor Clough, John
Goodnow. president of the Bepublican
State League, and others. Upon ar
rival in Minneapolis they were met by
the students of the state university to
tlie number of 600, and the University
Republican Club. The party was es
corted to the West hotel, where 4,000
people had assembled in the spacious
lobby.
Along the route to the hotel tho
bands had been playing “Marching
Through Georgia,” the refrain of
which was “While wo are booming
McKinley,” and the famous ski-uh
mah yell of the university students
rent the air. The governor’s recep
tion at the West hotel was only such
as 4,000 strong Northwestern throats
covld give.
Later the governor was driven to
the Exposition building, where the
.State League of Republican clubs was
in session. There he made another
address, in which he said that nobody
could tell what was going to happen
and nobody knew what the Demo
cratic congress would do. He then
went on to talk about the principles
of protection.
In the evening he was es
corted to the exposition build
ing, which was packed to over
flowing from all parts of the
Northwest to hear the leading address
of the day. As he rose to speak he
was enthusiastically greeted by 8,000
people, representing every Republi
can organization of the state.
He spoke from manuscript for over
an hour and a half and the closest at
tention was paid to his utterances.
THE LINWOOD WRECK.
The Ditmar Caae as Against the Union
Pacific Dismissed.
Cuay Center, Kan., March 30.—The
case of Ditmar vs. the Rock Island
and Union Pacific railways jointly
took a new turn yesterday when the
plaintiff’s counsel asked leave to dis
miss the ease as against the Union Pa
cific, with leave to proceed against
the Rock Island. This was resisted
on behalf of the Rock Island, but the
objections of the Rock Island were
over-ruled, the court holding that he
had no discretion jh the matter of
allowing a dismissal as asked, and
that the statute permitted it as a
matter of right. This action of the
plaintiff, Ditmar, naturally created a
great deal of comment among the peo
ple here.
REPUBLICAN MATTERS.
ROBBING THE VETERANS.
Method* by Which the Democrat* Re*
dace the P*n*lon Appropriation*!
Onoo more the annuel pension bill
ha* passed the house of representa
tives. It carries the neat little sum
of $161,000,00(1 The ostlraates of
the pension office, as embodied in
the "Book of Estimates" sent to
congress, amounted to $106,831,960.
That is a big sum of money. It
calls for more than one-third of the
entire revenue of the United States.
But the administration has con
cluded that It can "save" about $16,■>
000,00.) and so the appropriation is
reduced to that extent. This "sav
ing" is to bo effected in three ways,
says the Detroit Tribune.' First, by
"slowing down" the maohlnory of
the pension office. This slowing
down process was well illustrated by
Generally. W. Grout of Vermont
in his speech in the house the
other day. He showod that dur
ing Commissioner I.ochren’s ilrst
year he had adjudicated loss
than half as muny pension cases
as General Raum did during his last
year. While during tho years 1891-•>
there wero Issued 311,000 cortillcatos.
or more than 1,000 a day, under
Lochrcn, not only wore tho adjudica
tions loss than half, but two-thirds
of the cases adjudicated wero re
jected.
This Is the second method of re
ducing the pension appropriation.
that is, by a very large increase in
the number of rejections. This is
brought about by new and stricter
rulings in regard to pensionable
disabilities.
The third method of "saving" is
by suspensions and reductions of
pensions. A very large proportion
of the oxamlners of the ponsion
office havo boon taken from the work
upon new claims, never adjudicated,
and set to work upon going through
tho old tiles to apply the now rulings
to the old cases, to offoct suspensions
and reductions, while moro than half
a million unudjudicatnd oases wait.
Tons of thousands of cases havo
been thus suspended and tho pen
sioners notified that unloss they
showed cause withiu thirty days why
it should not lie dono thoy would be
dropped from tho ponsion roll.
This is a new kind of Anglo
Saxon justice—or of American jus
tice, for that matter—which tries
and convicts a man first and gives
him a chance to show that he is not
guilty afterward.
The government, by act of con
gress, has established its own pen
sion tribunal. Its examiners, its
medical examiners and referees, its
board of review and its commis
sioner of pensions, are all of its own
selection and appointment. It has
made its own laws and established
its own rules for adjudicating pen
sion claims. Before this tribunal
of its own creating tho pension
claimant is brought. His claim must
pass tho examiner, tho medical ex
aminer, tho board of reviow, the
medical reforce and the commis
sioner of pensions before his cortlti
cate is signed. The congress of the
United States in the act of Decem
ber 1898. has declared that this gives
him a "vested right” in Ills pension.
The law writers say that a “vested
right” is "a right not subject to a
condition precedent or unperformed,”
"where there is an immediate right
of present enjoyment,” "a title, legal
or equitable, to the present enforce
ment of a demand.” I
One would suppose that the gov- i
ernment having tried the case beforo |
its own tribunal, according to its |
own law., and rules, and having is- j
sued its patent or certificate Tor tho
pension and then solemnly declared I
it a “vested right,” the matter had 1
become re adjudicata, a settled j
thing, and that the burden of proof |
was finally shifted from the holder j
of the patent or certificate to the |
party questioning it. fcvery presump- j
tion is in its favor. Commissioner |
Lochren is said to havo been a j
"judge.” General Black also alleges I
that he was a brave soldier. We be
lieve that for a few months he did
serve as a lieutenant in tho J
gallant First Minnesota. All the |
more it is a sight to make i
angels weep and to make patriots
blush to see the commissioner sus
pending disabled and helpless old 1
veterans, some of them seventy or !
even eighty years old. with the I
threat that unless within thirty days !
thoy lirove that the government did j
not falsely and fraudulently issue to
them a certificate that they were en
titled to a pension they shall be
dropped from the rolls, without trial,
judge, jury rr benefit of clergy.
It is by such means that tho pen
sion appropriation is reduced $16,
000.000 below the estimate.
Truly, this is a great and bene
ficent government! But it is almost
thirty years since Appomattox, and
Hoke Smith presides over the pen
sion office.
Morion and tho Thistles.
Secretary Morton made a mistake
when he not only denied his assist
ance to tho people of the Northwest
who were asking for federal aid in
destroying the Russian thistle, but
went actively to work to defeat their
purposes. When he tried to prove
his position that the Russian thistle
was a boon rather than a calamity,
that it was good provender for sheep,
and that the farmers of the North
west ought to go into the sheep rais
ing business in ordor to consume the
Russian thistle, he excited a hostility
that found expression in burning
him in effigy. The fact that the
present congress proposes to remove
all protection from the American
sheep makes ihe Morton folly still
more conspicuous and largely justi
fies Congressman Sibley when he
stigmatized the secretary of agri
culture ai “an ass.” Thie more the
secretary tries to exculpate himself
the more hostile the people of the
Northwest beoome toward him,—St
Paul Pioneer Press.
“MKINLEY DEMOCRATS."
They Are Numerous la Congress amt ’
Think la tha Ksski of the Party.
It strikes the St. Louis Globe*
Democrat as vastly significant that
there have rooontly sprung up a
group in congress called “Tom Need
Democrats" and also a faction of
“John Sherman Democrats.”
In speaking of “'Torn Need Demo*
orats’’ and “John Sherman Demo*
; orats" our St Louts contemporary
refers merely to the boltln" ele
ments in the two branches of con*,
gross, says the Cincinnati Times- j;
Star. Those Democratic camps are
clearly defined, and tho aid they give
the Republicans is likely to havo a
marked effect upon tho courso of
legislation. There Is a greater and
more comprehensive element to-day
in tho Democratic partynot only!
in congress but throughout the
country, than that described by,
either of the terms used by the
Globo-Deinocrat. Wo mean thoi
“MoKinloy Democrats.” This deslg- %
nation applios to somo of tho Demo
cratic bolters in the house and sen- ■
uto and to a numerous contingent In
the rank and II lo of tho party. The
most notable phase of tho defection
in tho Democratic party is the dis
sent from the froe-trade doctrine.)
mo mssiuoni* may properly oe
called "McKinley Democrats." They
wero numbered by the thousands In
Ohio last November and also In Iowa.
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania ami
othor states. The rocent election In
Pennsylvania showed cloar'y that
their number has not been diminish
ing lately, but rapidly Increasing.This
is true not only in Pennsylvania, but
all over the North and many of the
Southern states.
The serious break in tho Demo
cratic ranks doos not result from m
revolt against the ridiculous house
rules, nor doos it grow out of the op
position to thu llnanclul policy of the, ^
majority ol tho Democrats In con-1
gross. It springs from thu issue of
protection vs. freo trade. A multi
tude of Democrats have learned
something since November, 1892. lc
regard to tho practical otToct of
tariff reform on free-trade lines.
They rofuse longer to follow tho ex
tremists. When It comes to a choice
between Wilson froe trado and Mc
Kinley protection they repudiate the
program of their party under Its
present leadership. They arc “Mc
Kinley Democrats.” By 1890, if not
before, they will doubtless become
full-rtodgod Republicans.
Mr*. I.innip. tlif* Paubourc.
It is noticoablo that tho whole
tendency ol Populist oratory is more
decidedly in the direction of anarch
istic. communistic and generally
revolutionary epithets. Mrs. Lease
and other Populists keep warning
the country against the ■‘aristocrats’’
and no doubt Mrs. Lease would
readily lend herself to the leader
ship of a frenzied mob crying: "The
aristocrats to tho lamp post.’’ By
•■aristocrats’’ Mrs. l.euso and the
Populists mean people who have
moro money than they have. Like
the French tans cullottos tho Popu
lists profess to regard the posBCssirn
of money as a crime, although in
their fashiuu they are trying to get
hold of as much of it as they can.
And at tho rate at which Mrs. Lease
charges for her services she may find
herself among the “aristocrats1’ be-'
fore she knows it. These people are
never consistent.—Minneapolis Jour
nal. __ <
How Do You Llkfi It? r-c
One year mare of Grover,
The people now have tried.
But where Is sill tho clover,
For which the poop'n niched?
Tho clover all la blasted.
And Grover ••blasted.” too.
IIv the people who have tasted,
This dreary wlntor through.
Hill Will Stand Front L'nrier.
Senator Hill says he will not rur
for governor this (all, that he will '
lot Governor Flower have ^ho honor.
The unexampled self-sacrifice of this
noble statesman will become appar
ent when it is known that the Re
publicans have a prospect of carry
ing tho state about as Galushs
Grow carried Pennsylvania.
It's Not ( levlamleaqtie.
Walter Wellman, the Washington
correspondent who is going to ex
plore the polar regions, was given a
flag by the Capital press club with
instructions to nail it on the north
pole. It will be useless, for if Cleve
land finds it out ho will order it
down. It is against our foreign pol
icy. _
We Can't liras.
Italy may be behind other nations
in some of the evidences of civiliza
tion, but her deficit is the most im
posing now before the public. It is
not certain, however, that three
years more of Democrat administra
tion may not maku this country a
close second.
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The Awful stain of It.
The list of Hepublican victories is
a long, gratifying and honorable one.
There is not the shadow of a stain
upon it, much loss such a bloody
stain as that which makes the elec
tion in Troy a blistering disgrace to
the Democracy of the empire state.
Straining at flnats, Ktr
Congressman Tracy of New York
says that the next man who coils
him a cuckoo will get his face slap
ped. The congressman is a bird
that can swallow Cleveland but can
not swallow a joke.
A Draft May He Neornwry.
It may he necessary to resort to a
draft to make up a Democrat presi
dential ticket for 1890. Nobody
1 seems to be aspiring to be slaugh
tered.
