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’lowed, Messrs. Payne, Boutelle . dtl;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 During the process of the j™ 'ail the excitement subsided and ,a-r',ement the motion to recon ™i was withdrawn and at 6:60 the r adjourned.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., ‘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. ■g ■-M -i ft 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.