THE STBIKE WANING.
THE RAILROADS SLOWLY RE
SUMING TRAFFIC.
So New Walkout! Recorded—Consider
able Improvement Generally Reported
■ on all the Grant System.—A General
Tie-Up of the Gonld S.TStem Threat
ened— Judge Phillip. Is.ae. a Sweep
Ins Order—The Situation at Various
> Places.
Progress of the Strike.
Chicago, June 30.—The American
■Kailway union's Boycott on Pullman
• cars in behalf of the striking shopmen
of that company at Pullman, 111., and
St Louis, Mo., has not fulfilled the
expectations of President Debs who
ordered it Instead of extensions of
the strikes involving new interests,
as was prophesied by the leaders of
the union yesterday, the tie-ups are
being slowly but surely broken in
Chicago, Kansas City and California
and along the Northern Pacific. In
deed, railroad managers predict that
the boycott movemout will disappear
even more quickly than it appeared.
In Kansas City to-day Santa Fe
passenger trains with Pullman cars
attached were sent out on schedule
time, but freight business was totally
tied up. The strikers remained away
from the yards and there was no
trouble of any character. United
States officers were present in force,
but were not needed. No other roads
are affected in any way.
In Chicago suburban service has
been resumed on several lines, and
the Illinois Central has succeeded in
getting its perishable freight de
livered. The threatened trouble at
the stock yards did not materialize
and in other respects the situation was
brighter.
In California one train was sent
East last night with Pullmans and
others will follow. The firmness of
President Huntington of the Southern
Pacific and the fact that the United
States authorities have been ordered
to see that mails are carried on regu
lar trains, are having their effect.
The Santa Fe system in Colorado
and the far West is still tied up, and
at Raton, N- M., there has been some
trouble, but the courts will enforce
their orders and service will soon be
resumed.
Several causes are responsible for
the lightening of the strike tension.
The American Railway union is not
so strong as had been supposed and is
not receiving the support of other
orders. The railroads especially at
tacked are in control of United States
courts and Judge Caldwell and other
jurists have issued such positive
orders that service, both freight and
passenger, must bo resumed beforo
long with new men if not with the
old on the Santa B'e and Northern Pa
cific. These orders are posted in all
yards and are being discussed coolly
by the men, who ore inclined to be
lieve that they should obey the courts.
A SWEEPING ORDER.
Judge Phillips Admonishes the Santa Fe
Men Not to Strike.
Kansas City, Mo., June 30.—Judge
Phillips, in the United Stases circuit
•court this morning', issued an order
restraining the Santa Fe employes
from interfering with the running of
Pullman cars. The order was made
on the application of the receivers by
Gardiner Lathrop and Samuel W.
Moore of Kansas City. The applica
tion states that the strikers have
threatened to stop the company’s
trains, and have done so, in their
•efforts to prevent the running of
sleeping cars. It asks that they he
enjoined from congregating on the
company’s property, and from crippl
ing the service in any way.
It also asks that they be restrained
from quitting the company’s employ
by preconcerted action.
The order differs from those issued
by other courts in that it admonishes
the employes not to quit the service
of the company. A direct order not
to quit a company’s service is some
thing that no court has ever attempt
ed to enforce and the order by Judge
Philips is as sweeping as any that has
been made.
In his order Judge Philips says:
It Is ordered by the court, that the United
States marshal for the western district of
Missouri, be and he is hereby directed to pro
tect the trains aud property of the said re
oeivora from the interference of all persons
either in the employ or not in the employ of
the said receivers in this district, and that the
employes of the said receivers be and the
same are hereby directed and ordered while
remaining in such employment, to do and per
form and obey the orders and directions of
the said receivers, and that they be and are
hereby enjoined from refusing such obedience
while continuing in such employment, and
that the said employes and all other per oils
whether in the employ of the said receivers
«r not, be and are hereby enjoined from con
MUST DO THkIR WORK.
.Engineer* end Firemen So Instructed—
Ample Frotectlon to Be Furnished.
Topeka, Kan., June 30.—The fol
lowing bulletins were posted here
last evening:
To all Members of the Brotherhood of Loco
- motive Engineers, Divisions on the Atch
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System.
Topkka, Kan, June 28 —In thepresent dlffl
<3ally on the Santa Fe system relative to the
-order to boycott Pullman ears, Issued by the
officers of the American Railway union, will
aay that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eo
glneeis, as an organization. Is not taking any
part whatever In this boycott on Pullman
-oars, and our members are expected to do
their work as members of the order as far as
possible, the receivers of this road to furnish
them with ample protection in doing thoir
work, wherever it is required Notify all In
terested J. C Roddy.
Chairman Oeneral Committee Adjustment
Ibvinq Williams, Secretary.
A similar bulletin was issued by the
firemen.
Senator Sherman Introduces a Bill Pre
scribing Charges for Their Use.
Washington, June 30.—Senator Sher
man yesterday introduced a resolu
tion, which went over under the rules,
Instructing the committee on inter
state commerce commission to inquire
into the expediency of regulating by
daw the employment and use of sleep
ing and parlor cars not owned by
railroad companies engaged in inter
s&te commerce, the cost of operating
them, the charges made for their use
and what ought to be reasonable
-charges for the seats, berths and sec
tions in such cars.
THE PULLMAN STATEMENT.
A Plain History of tho Srlk* and the
Condltloue Leading to It.
Chicago, June 30.—The Pullman
company has issued a statement to the
public. It gives, among other facts, a
history of the trouble at Pullman
which has led up to tho trouble all
over the West. Inasmuch as it is not
so stated in the Pullman statement,
be it known that the immediate cause
of the strike was a reduction of S3X
per cent in wages at Pullman for cer
tain “piece” work. In part the Pull
man statement follows:
“In the first week of May last.there
were employed in the car manufactur
ing department at Pullman, 111.,
about 3,100 persons. On May 7, a com
mittee of tho workmen had an inter
view by arrangement with Mr. Wicks,
vice president, at which tho principal
subject of discussion related to
wages, but minor grievances as to
shop administration were also pre
sented, and it was agreed that anoth
er meeting should be held on the 9th
of Mar, at which all tho grievances
Bhould be presented in writing. Tho
second meeting was held. As to tho
complaints on all matters except
wages it was arranged that a formal
and thorough investigation should bo
made by Mr. Wickes, to be begun the
next day,and full redress was assured
to the committee as to all complaints
proved to be well founded.
“The absolute necessity of the last
reduction in wages, under the exist
ing condition of the business of car
manufacturing, had been explained to
the committee and they were insist
ing upon a restoration of tho wage
scale of the first half of 1893.”
During this second meeting George
M. Pullman made an address to his
men in which in substance he said at
the beginning of the business de
pression last year the company em
ployed 5,816 men at Pullman who
were paid $305,000 a month. Unfilled
orders for cars from various railway
companies were canceled. Work de
creased, men were laid off and Novem
ber 1, 1893, only about 2,000 men were
employed at Pullman. Mr. Pullman
said he realized that work must be
provided, not only to provide the
means of living to Ins men but
to permit the 700 or 800 em
ployes who had purchased homes
to complete their payments. He then
canvassed the situation, he said, and
found that competition for what work
there was would be sharpened by the
hard times, but that he had deter
mined to keep all of his men at work
if possible, though he must do tho
work for loss money. Therefore he
was compelled to ask tho men to do
their work for less money’, and the re
sult was tho reduction of “piece”
work prices. He said there was no
objection from the men and he sup
posed they would accept the reduc
tion sensibly and as one means of
self-preservation.
While those conditions existed he
personally took up the work of bid
ding* for car building contracts, and
by low bids was able to get work so
as to increase the number of his men
from 2,000 to 4,200, the number em
ployed in April, 1894, in all depart
ments at Pullman. This increase in
work, Mr. Pullman said, was not ac
complished by reducing pay, and
therefore reducing prices, but by a
reduction of the company’s profits as
well. The interest on the use of cap
ital and machinery was eliminated
from the estimate of investment.
The company even took work at a
loss, and here are Mr. Pullman’s own
words on that point:
‘ The order for fifty-five LonT Isalnd cars
which was the first large order of pa'fsen^or
cars let since the great depression, was sought
for by practically all the leading car builders
in the country. My anxiety to secure that or
der. so as to put as many meu to work as pos
sible, was such that I put in a bid for more
than $800 less than the actual cost to the com
pany. The 800 stock car* built for the North
western road and the 250 refrigerator cars now
under construction for the samo com
pany will result in a los* of at least
§12 per car. and the twenty-five just
built for the Lake Street Elevated road
show a loss of $79 per car. I mention
the*e particulars so that you mav understand
what the company has dono for the mutual in
terest and to secure for tho people at Pullman
and vicinity the benefit of the disbursement of
the large sums of money involved in theso and
similar contracts, which can b3 kept only by
the procurement of n^w orders for cars, for.
as you know, about three-fourths of the men
must depend upon contract work for employ
ment I can only assure you that if this
company now restores the wages of
the first half of 1893, as you have
asked, it would be a most unfortunate
thing for the men, because there is loss
than sixty days of contract work in sight in
the shops under all orders, and thera is abso
lutely no possibility, in the present condition
of affairs throughout the country, of getting
any more orders for work at prices measured
by the wages of May, 1893. Under such a scale
the works would necessarily clo«e down ana
the great majority of the employes be put in
idleness, a contin0ency I am using my best
efforts to avoid.
THE TAYLORS IN ST. JOSEPH.
Taken From Macon to Prevent a Pos
sible Lynching Raid.
St. Joseph, Mo., June 30.—William
and George Taylor, the alleged mur
derers of the Meeks family, arrived
in this city this morning in charge of
Sheriff Barton of Linn county. The
prisoners were brought here direct
from Macon, on the Santa Fe road, and
their arrival was wholly unexpected.
When they left the cars at the union
depot, very few people in the crowd
knew who they were as they appeared
to be ordinary travelers, no attempt
at confining the freedom of their
movements being made. They were
taken direct to tho county jail and
locked up.
William Taylor expressed great
satisfaction at their safe arrival here
as he said he certainly expected to
face a mob at Macon. “We are all
right now,” he said. “I do not think
any mob will attempt to get at us
here and when our trial comes off we
will prove in very short order that we
had no hand in the killing.”
Fire at Jfatea Center.
Yates Center, Kan., June 30.—
Eight of the best business buildings
in this city were destroyed by fire
yesterday morning, causing a loss of
nearly 830,000.
B. G. Hard Nominated for Congreai.
Phiij.ifsburo, Kan., June 30.—The
Democratic congressional convention
of the Sixth district met in this city
yesterday. The resolutions condemn
Democratic senators who are delaying
the passage of the Wilson bill, declare
against woman suffrage and commend
Hoke Smith for his “just and liberal
construction of the pension laws.”
The convention then proceeded to
the nomination of a candidate for
congress which resulted in the selec
tion of Hon. R. G. Hurd of Mitchell
county, on the Becond ballot.
STRIKE UPON STRIKE,
THE PULLMAN BOYCOTT GOES
VIGOROUSLY ON.
Foarteea Road* Loading Into Chicago
Tied Up—The Sants F* System Badly
Crippled All Along tho Line—It Place*
Itself In the Hand* of the Federal
Conrt*—No Train* on the 1C astern Di
vision of the Northern PaelUo.
The Pullman Boycott.
Kansas Citt, Mo., Juno 29.—The
American railway union, the organi
zation of railroad employes to which
a majority of the shopmen who
worked for tho Pullman Palace car
company belong, decided at its na
tional meeting last Saturday to in
augurate a general boycott against
Pullman cars this week unless tho
company should consent to arbitrate
the strike of Its men at Pullman,
which has been on for over a month.
The company refusod and the boy
cott was put into partial force Tues
day on the Illinois Central railroad
and on the Santa Fe in Colorado and
New Mexico, was extended yesterday
and is growing to collossal propor
tions to-day, extending all over- the
West and affecting many of the great
est systems in the country.
The boycott order forbade members
of the American Railway union to
handle Pullman cars or to allow them
to be run in connection with passen
ger trains. Switchmen, firemen, en
gineers and other railroad men are
obeying the order, and in consequence
each hour brings fresh reports of
trouble in various portions of the
country. The situation is being
further complicated by the discharges
of members of the various brother
hoods for active sympathy with the
Railway union men, and no one can
tell what will be the ultimate extent
of the trouble.
The tie-up is already unquestion
ably the greatest ever known in this
country, and it is growing so rapidly
that even with the best telegraph
facilities it is almost impossible to
keep paco with it. Whole systems
are being tied up, and the business of
many cities will soon be seriously
affected.
in nansas uny me santa i e system
alone lias been affected so far, but
there is no telling1 how soon other
roads will be. The Santa Fe was
compelled to abandon part of its trains
yesterday because of General Manager
Frey’s determination not to run them
without Pullman cars. The first
direct effect in Kansas City was the
refusal of Santa Fe switchmen to
handle a Pullman car in the Argentine
yards this morning, thus delaying
through trains. No through trains
had arrived on the Santa Fe from the
West at noon.
The entire Santa Fe system is vir
tually tied up west of Kansas City,
but the United States courts have
been appealed to and trains will be
run under federal protection if it be
possible. United States judges in
each state have issued positive orders
to that effect and marshals are pre
paring to enforce these orders.
All but the Pacific division of the
Northern Pacific i3 tied up com
pletely and that division will be be
fore night.
Fourteen great roads in Chicago are
more or less affected—the Illinois
Central, the St. Paul, the Northwest
ern and the Panhandle completely
and others less so. The strike is
spreading every moment and the
gravest trouble is expected.
Not a through train is running in
California and not a person can come
East.
The tie up is expected to reach St.
.Louis and other Western points to
night and may extend to the East to
morrow. _
FOURTEEN HOADS TIED UP.
6trlke Follows Strike In Rapid Succession
in Chicago—Ttao Outlook Dark.
Chicago, June 29.—Railroad after
railroad is being tied up in this city as
the result of the Pullman boycott and
it is almost impossible to keep the
run of the strikes.
Up to noon to-day tlio Illinois Cen
tral, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
Northwestern, Panhandle, Great
Western, Northern Pacific, Western
Indiana, Grand Trunk, Baltimore and
Ohio, Wisconsin Central, Monon, Wa
bash and Eastern Illinois had been
more or less tied up, and each hour
was bringing new sensational devel
opments.
The entire day crews on the Mil
waukee & St. Paul and Panhandle
roads quit work this morning and
there is not a wheel turning under
any passenger car on either road that
is not manned by officials. The men
are in an ugly mood and violence is
predicted.
No trains, through or suburban,
were running on the Illinois Central
into or out of Chicago to-day.
By 10 o'clock the Galena and Wis
consin divisions of the Chicago and
Northwestern were at a standstill.
Eight hundred men employed in the
Northwestern shops near West For
tieth street struck this morning.
Four engineers of the Northwestern
roadi*Vho called on tho officials of
the American Railway union last
night, were discharged to-day. This
is considered by the union an im
portant factor in the trouble.
After a prolonged conference with
the officials of the American Railway
union. General Master Workman
Sovereign of the Knights of Labor
sent a committee to tho Union stock
yards with the instructions to call out
all employes at the yards. These in
clude all the employes of the great
packing houses and every other in
dustry at that place. The order is
peremptory and will go into effect at
once. It is declared that it will not
be obeyed.
Restraining Ortlcr a gaum ' trlkrr*.
Denver, Col., June 29.—Judge Iltl
lett of the United States circuit court
has issued an order restraining the
Pullman strikers or other persons
from interfering with the operations
of the Santa Fe railway company, or
with employes within the confines of
Colorado.
Electric Railway Project.
Washington, June 29.—A project for
an electric railroad between Wash
ington and New York city has been
brought before congress in a bill for
the incorporation of the National
Eapid Transit Kailway company.
SANTO ACCOMPLICES.
Omm of Thom nisombowoU mm*
••If. ,
Paris, June 29.—Anarchist Cesarlo
Santo, who assassinated President
Carnot of Franos in Lyons Sunday
night, has porsistently claimed that
ho had no accomplices, but the police
formed a different opinion and bogan
work Monday at Cetto and Montpelier
where tho wretch had been stopping
before he mado his journey of murder.
Yesterday the officers at Montpelier
received notice that an anarchist
named Grimier had said last Sunday
afternoon: “lly this time Carnot must
have received his quiotus." Last
night the officers surroundod Granior's
house, burst iu the door and sum
moned him to surrender. Gran ter,
who was seated at a table eating his
suppor, sprang to his feet and for a
moment stood motionless with sur
prise.
Then before the detectives could
secure him tho man pickod up a long
and sharp knife and plunged it into
his abdomen, and with a few short
turns of the wrist disembowolod him
self and fell to the floor, where he
expired almost immediately.
The police then commenced a thor
ough search of Granier’s lodgings.
A quantity of anarchistic literature
was discovered, together with docu
ments which established beyond a
doubt that Santo and Qr&nier and a
man named Lahore, who was arrested
on Monday,* and others not yet in
custody, plotted tho death of Presi
dent Carnot in order to avenge the
deaths of Rnvachol, Valiant and
Uenri, all of whom, before dying, an
nounced that their deaths would be
avenged.
Santo will be tried July 33 at Ly
ons, but the charge against him will
bo parricide, instead of murder, arti
cle XIII of the -penal codo decreeing
that an attempt against the head
of the state is to be so described
and punished. When Santo shall
have been condemned td death
and the hour, for the carrying
out of tho sentence shall have arrived
he will bo conducted to the place in
his shirt alone, barofooted and with
his head covered by a bla.ck veil. The
condemned man will stand on tho
scaffold while an offleor of the law
addresses tho people and refers to
tho enormity of tho crime committed.
He will then be guillotined.
THE SANTA FE’S STAND.
Protection of the Federal Courts Se
cured—The Tie-Up In Colorado.
Topeka, Kan., Juno 29. — At 11
o’clock this forenoon, upon tho appli
cation of the receivers of the Santa Fe
railroad, United States District Judge
Foster granted the following order:
In tbe circuit court of tho United States for
tho district of Kansas, In the Eighth circuit.
Union Trust company of New York aw trustee,
as complainant, vs. Atchison. Topeka and ;
Santa Fo ratlroad company, * efendant. I
Order: On reading the veritied petition of i
the rocoivor* of tho Atchison, Topeka & San* |
ta Fo railroad in the above ontttled action, !
this dav filed, wherein it is sat forth that dl- i
vorl persons formerly in the ompioy of said j
receivers, and divor* persons now in the em- 1
ploy of said receivers and divers other per- j
sons styling themselves the "American Kail- !
way Union,” and other* their associates and j
sympathizers aro interfering with the opera
tion or said railroad by said receiver*, and the
operation of train* of tho same by said receiv
ers at the towns of Argentine, Emporia, Flor
ence and Dodge City, in said state and district
and on said lino of railroad, and throaten to so
intorfero with the operation of said railroad
and tho trains thereof by said receivers ai
other points th in as above stated within said
state and district abovo stated, by forcibly re
moving from tho passenger train* of s ltd re
ceiver* sleeping ear.* thereto attichod, and by
force, threat* and intimidation preventing the
samo from proceeding to their destination,
with such sleeping oars being attached there
to. to the great unnoyance and inconvenience
of the traveling public and In direct violation
of trie orders of this court appointing said re
ceiver.* and the receivers having by their said
fieution prayed an order of this court direct
nz the United State* m ir*hal for the district
of Kansas to protect the trains and property
of said receivers from the interference of all
persons either in the employ or not in the em
ploy of said receivers,and tho court being fully
advised and well informed in the premises, it
is hereby ordered that the United States mar
shal for the district of Kansas bo. and hereby
is. directed to protect the trains and other
property in charge of said receivers in said
state and district from any and all attempts
or the person* abovo mentioned or other per
sons to in any manner inturfera with the
operation of any of the trains or any part* of
any train* operated by said receivers over
said line of railroad, and to prevent all per
sons from con re nting upon the right of wav,
property, yards or depotrounds of said com
pany in the hands of said receivers
lor tho purpose of in any manner, by
intimidation persuasion. threats or
otherwise preventing the employe* of
said receivers from discharging their
duties without molestation or hindrance in
the operation of trains over said line of rail
road. and that he appoint such force of deputy
marshals as may be necessnry or proper to
curry thi* order into effect. Such marshal is
further directed to arrest and hold in custody,
subject to further order of this court any and
all persons who may interfere with the move
ment of trains tern* operated by said re
reivers or with the operation of said railroad
by sa'd receivers, either directly or indirectly
in manner as afore*aid.
C. O. Foster, Judge.
Dated this'.'8th day of Juno. 1891
General Superintendent II.U. Mudge j
looks for the Santa Fo to be tied up
from end to end as a result of the
American Kail way union’s strike.
How long it will lust he cannot ven
ture even a guess, but he hopes the I
trouble will be at an end in a day or
two._
THE NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.
Important Amendments Made by the
House Committee on Commerce.
Washington, June 29.—The house j
committee on commerce approved tho !
Nicaragua canal bill drawn by the !
sub-committee and ordered to be re- |
ported to the house. One important !
amendment to the bill reported by tho j
sub-committee was made by the full j
committee, giving the government a
first lien upon the canal so there can
be no chance for loss through its guar- i
an tee. of bonds.
To exactly define the relations be
tween the government and the com
pany another amendment was in
serted, stating the $70,000,000 of stock j
to the government shall be issued in
consideration of the guaranty of bonds
by the United States and shall be re- j
garded as fully paid for and non-as
sessable.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TIED UP
Mo Trains Except Local Ones Rn nnlns
In California.
San Francisco, Cal., June 2 9.—The
American railway union men in the
employ of the Southern Pacific have
asserted their power. As a result of
their attempt to enforce the Pullman
boycott, passenger trains are tied up
at every railroad center of the state.
At I.os Angelos the boycott has re
sulted in the tying up at that point of
all overland passenger trains on both
the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
roads.
REPUBLICAN DOCTRINE.
A WARNING TO TUR FARMERS.
Senator R. r«ttl|rnv of Sooth Dakota In
the Senate, June IS, 1804.
These are words of wholesome In
struction and if the farmers of tho great
northwest read intelligently what tho
senator has here explained, they will
be wiser concerning their interests as
agriculturalists than by tho following
of the vagaries of those who beliove in
fiat money.
The senate has disposed of about all
vho items in this bill which are pro
duced by the farmer, and what is the
result? Tho duty on live animals is re
duced to 20 per cent ad valorem; buck
wheat, wheat, rye, corn, oats, oatmeal,
corn meal, eggs, broom corn and many
other farm products are practically on
the free list, and tho duty on barley is
so much reduced that at least 10,000,
000 bushels will bo imported as ugainst
less than 2,000,000 last year.
D'ree eggs will bring in from sixteen
to twenty million dozens as against a
little over 1,000,000 last year. It fact,
tho market for SIS,000,000 worth of
farm products is thus turned over to
Canada and taken away from tho Amer
ican farmer. Sixteen million dozen of
eggs thrown upon the market of tho
United (States will break the prico and
eggs will decline several cents a dozen.
hast week threo car loads of South
Dakota butter and eggs were shipped
to this city, a thing that cannot be re
peated if this bill passes, for the nearer
Canadian farmer will have this market.
With free corn tho starch makers of
Now York will import their corn from
tho Argentine Kepublie, and within
one yenr after this bill passes corn
from South America by tho cargo will
be sold in New York, for tho freight
per bushel from tlio Argentine Repub
lic is less than half the rate per bushel
from Dakota or Nebraska, and the
farmers of Dakota and Nebraska will
be buying protected starch luadu of
South American corn. It will not do
to say wo oxport corn und it can not
come here from other countries. Wo
export vast qualities of cotton, and I
presume few people know that 43,000,
000 pounds, valued at84,(lSO,O0O was im
ported last year; yet such is tho case.
Of this cotton 28,000,000 pounds came
from Kgypt and is long, fine, staple;
yet every pound of it could bo raised in
North and South Carolina if a duty was
placed upon it suflicicnt to compensate
for the difference in wages. Why do
you not put a dutyxon cotton and save
this market to our own people? The
sugar bounty is repealed, giving the
death blow to the budding industry in
Nebraska and Dakota, which would
have soon given employment to thous
ands of people in those states.
A duty has been placed upon raw su
gar of 1 hi cents a pound, which equals
a tax on the people of Mouth Dakota of
87 cents per capita, as each person
consumes seventy pounds of sugar per
annum, making a total tax of 8350,000
per annum on the 400,000 people who
reside within her borders; und an ad
ditional tax of i2}4 cents on each 100
pounds of refined sugar, which is a di
rect donation to the trust and amounts
to a taxof 32Jn' cents per capita, or a
tax of 8140,000 on the 400,000 people
who reside in South Dakota as a direct
contribution, per year, to the sugar
trust.
The population of Nebraska is 1,050,
000, and their contribution will be a tax
of 87li cents per capita, or 8875,000 on
the 1,000,000 people who reside in that
Btute, which goes into the treasury of
the (Government, at 32.‘£ cents per capi
ta on refined sugar, levied for the ben
efit of the sugar trust, or 8325,000 per
annum from her 1,000,000 people.
1 take these two states as examples,
as the two populist senators in this
body assisted in doing all this, and 1
want to give them a chance to explain
to the people why they did it.
A populist farmer with a family of
five would pay 81.60 per year to the
trust, just four bushels of wheat at 40
cents a bushel. 1 imagine I see a Ne
braska or Dakota populist farmer, filled
with joy, lvitching up his team and
starting to market with four bushels of
wheat, selling it for 40 cents a bushel,
and sending the money to the sugar
trust as his contribution to help main
tain the gang of vampires that have
hung around this cgpitol for the past
five months, disgracing the nation.
With what elastic step and swelling
heart filled with joy, will this farmer
return home with an empty wagon and
an empty pocket to bless God in his
prayers that ho has had the privilege
of sending a populist to the United
States senate who has assisted by his
vote in conferring upon him and the
people of his state the blessed chance
to make this contribution. 1 hope the
populists of my state will not take this
too much to heart, for this bill places
lumber on the free list, and it is said
millions will be saved to the people by
having their lumber free.
Coinage of Silver.
The following1 is a copy of the bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator
Squires of Washington, to regulate the
coinage of silver, etc. We print it
without comment, in order that the
people may read for themselves some
prominent ideas entertained by leading
senators:
53d CONGRESS, 2d SESSION.. S. 2115.
In the senate of the United States,
June 12, 1804. Mr. Squire introduced
the following kill; which was read
twice and referred to the committee on
finance.
A BILL.
To provide for the regulated free coin
age of silver bullion into standard
dollars of the United States, and for
the preservation of the parity of
value of the various kinds of coined
money of the United States.
Re it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem
bled, that any owner of silver bullion
the product of mines or refineries lo
cated in the United States may deposit
the samo at any mint of the United
Stales, to be formed into standard dol
lars of the present weight and fineness,
for his benefit, as hereinafter stated;
but it shall be lawful to refuse any de
posit of less value than one hundred
dollars or any bullion so base as to be
unsuitable for the operation of the
mint: provided, however, that there
shall be delivered or paid to the person
depositing such bullion only such num
ber of silver dollars as shall equal the
commercial value of said silver bullion
on the day of deposit, as ascertained
and determined by the secretary of the
treasury; the dltTerencevif any, between1
the mint or coin value of said standard,
silver dollars and the commercial vain*
of tho silver bullion thus deposited
shall bo retained by tho government a*
seigniorage, und the gain or seignior*
age arising from such coinage shall b*
accounted for and paid into the tress*
ury. The amount of such seigniorage
or gain shall bo retained in the tress*
ury as a reserve fund in silver dollars,
or such other form of equivalent lawful
money as tho socrotury of the treasury
may from time to time direct, for the
purpose of maintaining the parity of
value of every silver dollar issued under
tho provisions of this not with tho gold
dollar issued by tho United States:
provided, that tho deposits of silver
bullion for coinage into silver dollar*
under tho provisions of this act shall
not exceed the sum of four million dol*
lnrs per mouth: provided further, that
tho coinage of silver dollars provided*
lor in this uot shall not be further con*
tinued when tho aggregate amount of
lawful money of all kinds in the United
States shall equal tho sum of forty dol
lars per capita of the population of th*
United States; but such coinage may be
resumed whenever the aggregate
amount of lawful money in the United
States shall fall below forty dollars
per capita, to the end that the aggre
gate amount of lawful monev in the
United States may approximately equal
and be kept equal to the sum of forty
dollars per capita, and no more: pro
vided further, thut the secretary of the
treasury may, in his discretion,
cause to be coined two silver
half dollars of the present weight
and fineness in lieu of each of the stan
dard sd ver dol lnrs to bo coined under the
provisions of this act; and all the provis
ions of this act shall be equally applica
ble in maintaining every two such dol
lars at a parity with tho gold dollar .
issued by the United Stales.
Hoc. That the said silver dollar*
and silver half dollars shall be a legal
tendur in all payments at their nominal
or coin value.
Dnna and Cleveland,
What must tho people of other gov
ernments think when they read the ut- „
ernnees of Charles A. Dana, editor of
tho Notv York Sun, the most pro
nouneed demoeratie paper in the United
States, the following being a part of an
artiele which appeured in the columns
of that paper Juno 13, 181)4:.
June 11.— Urldge blown up with giant pow
der at Knst (ireunvllle, Ohio. Another
bridge Imrnuil near Navarro, Ohio. Tracks
directly In front of I'oxey's residence at
Massillon wrecked with dynamite. At
Toluca, III., shot fired by Holers through
imssoiiiror car. At Wheeling, W. Vu, bridge
burned. Attempt to deal toy trucks uad
wreck trains at Zanesville, Ohio At lllrm
Ingham, Ala., a great Iron, railway bridge
blown up with dynamite.
“This completes the record up to year
terday. It Is a practical commentary
of a dreadful sort upon the sentiments
and precepts with which Cleveland’s
speeches and writings have been thickly
strewn during the few years since he
first appeared in public life. We ad
vise every good citizen and friend of
law and order to read again bis utter
ances in connection with the story of
the last month's disturbances. That
Mr. Cleveland lias deliberately intended
to provoke rioting, arson and murder,
no man believes; but it is not the less
true that the tendency of his pessimis
tic and most dangerous teachings has
been in that direction, and that he is
to a certain extent responsible. He
has Implanted socialistic and ana^otfs —
i&tic ideas solely with a view to a mo
mentarily favorable effect upon his
own political fortunes; and the fruit is
seen in the torch, the bomb, the blood
shed, and the countless acts of vio
lence of the last four weeks of wide
spread rioting.” Comment is unneces
sary.”
Tariff Inquiries.
The following extract is taken from
bulletin No. 5 of tho replies to the tariff
inquiries sent out by the finance com
mitteeo of the United States senate.
It is instructive and practical and may
be read with profit (See p. 31, bulle
tin 5.)
Reply of James Tully of Philadelphia,
Pa., Manufacturer of Soap. Estab
lished in 1854. Capital invested,
850,000;
I have in my employ about ten men
whose wages range from 810 to 830 per
week, which has been steady for the
last four years and up to the time the
tariff bill has been agitated. Since
that time I may say 1 have not had any
thing for my men to do and their wives
and children have been compelled to
find food and clothing from some of the
many charitable institutions which
have been formd in our city. With re
gard to imports, I do not use much ex
cept alkalies, such as caustic soda, and
on this, I believe, the bill has made a
reduction of one-lialf cent per pound,
but as this is so low in price it will not
make much difference. What will and
lias affected me most is the woolen in
dustries being so dull, and if the bill
pusses in the shape it is, as regarda
woolens, it will be a great deal worse.
I am now 73 years old and have been
in the soap business for forty years
and in all this time ! have never seen *
as much misery about me as at the pres
ent time. 1 voted and electioneered ,
for the democratic ticket for jifty
years. I am sorry to see that my party*
brought such troubie on the country in
my old days. If you want to complete
the ruin of the country and party pass
the tariff bilk
Only One Democrat, Only One.
Air: Only On** Dexnoctat elected In
Springfield, Illinois.
Only o o -man elected here,
Only one—democrat to cheer.
Only one—knows where he is at.
Only one— prlngfield democrat.
Only one—whose soul Is lifted up.
Only one—who’s spared the hitter cup.
Only one—whodlun’t lose the game.
Only one -who got there just the same*
Only one—to jump the tariff bill.
Only one—whom silver didn’t kill.
Only one—who wasn’t snagged on Lil.
Only one—that mugwumps didn’t get.
Only ono—who paid his party debt.
Only one-saved from out the wreck,
Only one—not slugged in the uock.
Only one—who seemed to know the ropes*
Only « ne—on whom to hang our hopes.
Only one-man elected! H
v nly ono—and he a c ustablo!
Consumption of Sugar Per Capita of Fa
Germany.
illation In the World.
1 ounds.
...22.9
Pounds.
Austr a.16 1
France.Ss.5
Russia. 9.
Holland.2 .0
Belgium.21.:
Denmark........... 39.0
Swediu and Nor
way.21.1
Italy.
Uoumania.5.1
Spain. 9.2
ortugal and M&
deria .12.5
Euglaiid...T7.8
Bulgaria. 4.1
Greeeo.10.3
Servia ..8.7
Turkey.... .
Mvltierland.3 •
All Kuropo.31.1
A Orth America....531
Kitty—She saya they’re engaged,
and he says they are not. Now, what
do you think of that? Tom—I think
it will take a jury ta doaida.
