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TARIFF BILL.
Mr. UoKlnley Introduces tho Long
Expected Measure.
tatalntlMllcport of the Majfirllv of tha
Ways NtMl Means t'nmmlttre-Mr. Car
list Hnhmlts a Hepnrt of tha
I Minority.
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Mia Mrjarilf Report.
t WAmmTosf, April 17 In reporting
Tariff bill to the Ilouso yostnrday,
Mr. MoKrnloy, of Ohio, not forth tho
views of tho majority substantially as
follows:
The nujorMy report begins with a stste.
snent of tun flnnnolal sltmtlloii ami estimates
'that lh! surplus at tlin end tit tho present
fiscal year will be ftu.non.nn), nnd deducting
tlir turn required to make payment oh tlin
sinking fuml tin' nit surplus of receipt over
expenditure will tm Htr,7.su. Tin' estl
tnatcil surplus nt tlin nest flcnl year wilt tin
44,bM,Vl, wlilrli, wild tlin iiiiiiiiint of eiish
now on liana uml nvnllithlit(rcnchliig IO.no,.
mm), will justify a reduction nl tlin revenue
4n tbe sum oontnmplatfil liy tlin lilll repotted
,- ,9 K, nnil prnhiihly morn f nun custom
nml M0,s.?,7i from liitnrutil uivctiuo, or a
total ol $li,.tH,m.
'I ho report any "Iho exact effect upon
the revenue of the (lovcrnmcnt of tho pro
posed hill U dlfflcult (if inecrtnlnmcnt. Tlint
thcru will be it suhstiintlul reduction, n wo
lll show, admits (it no ilonlit. It I not be
lieved thut tho Increase of dutlc upon wool
.and woolen good mid upon irlmswuro will
UlsVe tho effect of lucri'iislujr thu riivi'imn,
Thut woahl, of course, follow If Km Importa
tion of the lint fiscal year worn hereafter to
liv maintained, which however, I iiltngcthur
linprolmhln. Tim rnioilt will tin Unit Impor
tation will tin decreased mid, thi'rnfnrn, tlin
mount of revenue collceled from tlicito
outre will lie dlinliilhcd. In nvcry case of
Increased duty except Hint Impound upon tin
jiUto iwhlcli doe not go Intti effect until
July I, iwil) and upon lini'ii fubrle
the effect will bit to million ruther tluin
enlarge thu revenue, because luiporlittlon
will full urt It wu thn iilm of tlin rouiiiilttnii
to fli the dutlc upon Hint clnssof iiiiinufuel
i rod good Hiid fnriu product which mm Im
supplied nt lioiiin, no a to dUcottrngo thn
tue of like foreign good mid product, and
rrnre to our own people mid our own ro
ttircr the hnmn timrknt. Thn general pol
icy nt the hill I to fnter noil proiuotu Amur
ieun product and dlvcrMcntluti of thn
American Industry. Wn have nut '1 n no
iiiit'h concerned itboiit thiprlce of thn nrtl
vie wn conaiiuin aa wn lutvo been to encour.
in a ylrm of lionin production thnt shiill
glvu fair remuneration to ilomcstlu pro
ducers and full- witgc to American wotk
tni'n, and liy luctcnlug proilurllon and
home consumption Inauio fair price to con.
uini'ra."
the committee admit that free Iritdn or
revenue dull would temporarily iIIiuIiiInIi
iileei, but iirKiiu that II would Im nt thu
expense of the donn-sllo product which
would be displayed, and thru prlcca would
.sgslu advance and thn country tin left at tlin
' rey of foreign syndlcittc und umnufsct
irer. One of thn chief complaint now
gtr vslrnt iiiiioiik our filmier I tlinttlmy
tan net no price for thn i rop cninincttsur
ate to thn labor and capital Invented In tlinlr
production. Tiioan whu dlder (loin u inuit
ItcHi'Ve that even further iikiIi iiltuntl tin
.pri'Mnin I dealrnhle, for no other coiini'
iieuee run reult from their ihoiioiiiIi'
theorle.
In the cani'of wool tho report recite flic
iiire a an evidence of the alarmliiK decline
tin production and auy that an udviiucn of
4utlea ha been rernmmended. The com
milttee tiellevca the United htnti'iliould pin
dueeallthe wool It ciitianuic, and wltluuln
rjut tlefcnlve Ii-kUIiiIIoii It n III do o. Thn
nnual coimuinptlon I iiki.uoi.om puuiid.
and with the protection uffmed liy tlin hill
-the tanner of thn United Mute will, ut nu
early day, be able to Miipplytbl ilcinand by
the addition of to per cent., or hi,mi,ii ii
pound to thn prcm-nt hiiiiiIht. The bill
eek toitop thn fraud which have been o
ahatnelely iiractlced In the punt by Import,
tnn wiMil eady for thn loom under thu new
Maine and forum to avoid IckuI dutlea. Thn
repnrt given the Inercaan of the duty on
wool and thn coiuOruellou kIvcii to tho
vroriiti'd claue of thn i'ltln law at a
rouiou for lucreiialiiK thn ilutlcaou woolen
jood to pititccl uiniiufarluri'iM, It ayi
Tlieiieccmlty of till Inert imo I uppuieiit
111 view tif thn f.inla alicudy Muted thu! dor
liiK the Init flan it year tlicln worn Import of
manufacturer ut wool of thn forcUu vulun
of tiV.Wl.lH'J, u kliown liy thn uiidervirlucd
tnvolec mid the real value In our maiket of
tinirlyU'. U ,'rt-fully iiiii'.fourihof our en
lin liunio coiuiiinptlon-cipilvaleiii to tin
Impoitof at leat livi.'in.oo puutnlNiif wool
In tbe form of manufactured m'hI." Thn
lUtltiKlnwKlvcK.lt I H.ilil, iipioteetlouof
ft to t-'i per cent. ; thu hill Kite u rniiun of
from M, to toper cent,
On iiKr the report y i 'Mmjar up to and
tncludlna; No, III, Itutoh atundard of color,
and inolaMc U to Im plaeixt on the free llt,
with a duty of four tenth of I cent per
pound on re lined unr iiIhivu No. HI mid a
tiounty of J fcnl per pound tic paid fromthii
treaiury for a perlud of fifteen yeiuaoitall
titar pnlarlied ut lcat ah per cent, made In
am country noin cane, licet in- MirKhiiin.
Hnven-elHhthaof our UKiirconnnieil In thn
United State I now linportcd tnmi fumlKn
conntrlea. In 1hi thu dutlc collected on
Imported ur and molai uuiouutcd to
,-Tiia Add to till IImi liicicuatiiif pilce
-of dosieatlo UKnr nrUliiK from lliu duty anil
ilt I clear that the duly ou mikui- und mo.
daMea made' the ,cot of iiar and
tnotaiic coBmed by thn pcoplu tit
4hl OBtuitry at lct lit. u ;n, or about
II for each man, wumaii and child In
tthe United ftatc. mom thin II would
:liTe bMn It no uch dullca had been levied
.and the domestic product bad remained thn
aMe.1 Kven on the umpilon that with
proper ncouruitmneut wn ahull cventually
be able to produce all, or lie uly nll.lliu u
(arretUlrcd for ihutouNumptlouof our pen.
pie an.iMUinpllon which your coiuinliieo
fccllevc to bo auMlalned liy ni.itiy fact, not
-wltbatandliiK thu alow pn.re thu far
4Ude In UKur cull ure lu till eooiitiy-th
ncouraneincnt can U hIm'u much imno
conom rally and effectually byabouuivof
3 fonts per pound, IiixiIvIiik thu miuuule
pcndliureof about i,. u ou the pteeut
pmauMiontH inncoiiuuy, riiiHcuciiur.iKu
tnentab Old be given. When It NeoiiHlder.
fid that till Incieaaed duty In coot fall upuii
theprltuu artlclo of foi-UKir-jii'iiUit u
well aafjotMl policy rc'iilir in it uuueeeoi
ryburdan In the way ot dliect n loiuld
m removed, and that llincnr.mi.ineiiHiii ie
quired to iudiico the prmluetlun it im;ii hi
tho L'aKcd Hlalea ahould Ik ijlven HiioukIi a
traunty rather than by an Impoit dmy
toaalBif to a'lcnltural pmduct tho com
iitttM av It ha kIvcii mouth to the In
ctlgatlon of eiltliiK tooillllou ol .irl
4-Ultural prtwlucta, ele ll nay "llieie I
WldMprtad Uepietoii in una ni'uiuy 10.
pu'Mltillin 1111 iniiuiiy 10.
iiubl Kvery icmcdy within
actlral leRlal.it Itln knou 1,1
ha been recomiuuiule 1 in
day beyond a uouui
the acopa 01 pra
your oowmiitea
tha nrofocd meanure to meet the iitKint
requlMBntaoflheliuatlon '
Jhrportfrtheriyu! "A eillliMluxaiu
Inatloaofthe aubject will allow- thai nrt
cultare laauterlng chiefly fiom a mot dam
aging fiireliiu couipelltlon In our home tout
Vet B lncreae In Importation of nrl
cultural produtt alnco lvi ha been
norn . amounllnit from wa.ftM.wn to more
than lift v oo.ow In iaa. ib wmld' market,
J 1 wbleh hlt iidvocito Of larlll fot rvveniio
only Invite the farmcraof thl countiy. to.
tday crowded wllh IhepriMlucl of ihi'thetp.
rat huwiaa labor the earth afford. All over
Iho world thero I a null of Hiflr aurpln to
jtbat market and It I to audi a c ntfut a
thl! that free trade would allure aKrlculture.
With a foreign grain market under the away
.of auih deprraalon, with the entile mid pork
taiarket dtirccd ,,,,u'r niluoua mea
.urM ef dwtructlou. wllh foreign agHcultura.
l!l!i...tIlnir our Ii 1110 iii.irkel your
nmirilee havd reoowmended tin lucrcuw
ggriraitHrat iimusm
VTItli a view to Increntlna1 tint number of
gainful occupation open to the farmer, the
coniitilttcit recommend a bounty totlmKrow
nr of llk. Iiefercnre I made In the rcpott
of the ucccHful experiment In allk kcow.
In In tho AKilciilturul Impurtineiit which
fully warrant tbu hullef Hint thu Industry I
prnrtlcablu In many of thu Htutn.
Ill ('01111111011, the committed any thn In
creaand dutlc will rcilucn Importation mid
American fanner will hold their own mar
kel.
Tha Minority tteport.
Mr. Carlisle, on fmhalf of tho minor
ity, aiibmtttcd a roporton thoTnrllT hill.
It la -Itf.ioil by all thn Domm.'ratlc mam
bora of thn noinmlttoo. It any:
"Tho minority contend for thn prlnclplii
of Jut mid cipial taxation upon all, accord
ItiK to their ulilllty In bear the hiltden, whlla
the majority bit In till bill tlmrntiuhly com
mitted llrlf to thn policy of iinjuat nnd un
equal taiatlon for thu many for thu bciietlt
of thn few. Wo are a nnxloii a thu major
ity van pnlhly ho to promote uml encour.
axe Amerle.iii Induitrlc mid udvnucn thn
Intnreat of AtMiirlciin laliornr.i, und thou
who Itnputn to ii auy other purpoau or lie.
alKU, either uiNiiiiduratnud or tiiUliiturprnt
our poaltlnn, but wn lielleve that both tlieu
object can he iieeoiuplUhed by reduclnx the
htirdeiiaof tuxiillon, mid not by lnereuln
them, nnd that the lienellt thu necitrcd will
be far mom pi-riiimient nnd far more .tt.
factory to thoo directly concerned than
liny iiipot-d advantage that ca-i rnaiill
fliim a different policy.
"Aecordliiictolatementtnade before thn
committee thu protected lndiitrle of tun
country have never been at any tlino In our
hUtory lu Much u deprcnd mid dlncoiii iikIuk
condition a they urn now. After nemly
thirty year of contlniioii jiroteetloii by
(Jorernnieiit taxation for their aupport, a
Kreut inmiyof them are reported to Im on the
veiy verxu of bankruptcy and rnln, while
Very few of them, accordliiK to tint tell
moiiy, urn yleldln u fair proltt upon thn
capital Inveited. Areat many of tlutpartle
ciikukciI III theu lndlltrle have declared In
thu courait of our lnvctljilloa that the
ll(htnt riuluctlon In dutlc now lmpoed
upon coiupctlnK foreign product would
compel tlimii to cIohii tlinlr work mid ill.
eliiiri' their employe, and other have even
ITonu no far aa to ucrt that they would lie
forced to k out of biilne If the rate nf
taxation mo tint lncrend. At the nuin
time thu Inborer lu thnn liidutrlc
am coiiiplalnlnK of lnumclent wac,
repeated Niiapi'iialnn of work and it neral
condition of uncertainly and Inaeoiirliy In
their relation to thoan whit give tlictu em
ployment. Ihnlnhoier fully reallluu thn
fact that till )tem ha wholly failed to In
ureiiHii their carnlnu or Improve their con
dition In uny way, have been compelled In
niKiinlze trade union und reoit toother
method of coinblnntloii and cooperation
for aelf piolcellou; mid thou varloii or
Kanl.ntloii now offer thu only efllclent
mean at hand for the preaervutluu oven of
the cxUtltitf I ate of waue."
The teport Male thai the remedy pro
poned by thn majority m Die liiipolilou of
inure luxe upon every article or fmelun
oillfln which the people of thU country du
I do buy and for which they are ready mid
anxloii loeteliamre thu ciutoii wh cli they
can not pln, the co 41 and wheat which they
can not ooiiuiiii the nil und coal which they
cannot burn, mid many otlict proiluct of
the farm, the foret mid Illumine. Thcn
Miiri'lu product mnt rtnd 11 maiket Home,
where oiita du of thu United Plain. The Im
poit lat yoiit wiirn 17 , .11,111 , paid for
mainly In viirplu awr't-ultural product. It
would bit lmpohlu for thn peopln of thu
United Mate to aenil out of thu country
that Nino In cah nnd every nun know they
did mil do It, In fact It I npenl there In thn
pri ductlou, preparatlo 1 nnd tranaporlntlon
of thn article ent uhinail lo pay for Impor
tation; and If they went nut niiiiI abroad ihn
money cuiitd not lieapent hiirnbucnuaethoin
would be 11 J market,
'Ihn llk bounty I aevercly crltlclacd In
thn report.
totitluuluK.tlie report ay the hill will
Increaan tliu tuxn ou wool nnd woolen
ItJ.n oeoi pcraiinuin aeconlliiKlo bit year'
liiiportullon, but really to a much Kieatir
autil, whllit taxi- 011 tobacco to the aiiiouiit
of (a, (),',1I are nbollalm I. Tim mlnii liy can
not nrtotd to do thl nt tint price of an In
crcuNU 011 nei e 11 In.
Thu repoit Itien attack aomeof thn de
tall of the bill n follow' "I he loweat
Krade of won't n yarn, worth not over )U
cent per pound, are to he ul) ctcd to n
duty of ll'J per cent., while the iiiikI costly
yarn will tiy "J pit icnt. One urale of
cii'irae, cheap blanket will be r"ii tirtl to
p.iy mi per cent., but ti.tnlucl blaiiku' w III
pay J per i cut. Ti e inar"t mid chcapct
woolen lint will he bject In a duty of III
per icnt mid the tint l lo Ol per cent.
Women' mid elillilri-n' ciicapet dre
Hood wlthfColtoii waip urn to Im taxed 11
per cent and ihu filled 7.1 per cent. Thn
lowet Kl'iilu of ivoolen clot i III pay tit
pr cent , and the lilvhu' Hiudu a,per m ut
The clie ipiwt ipialllle ol knit kooi for on
deiwcar r.inue fioiii Hi to I.I i per cent , but
tint Ducat and tunt expenve w III pay 'spur
cent, oimcu aliawl nt the conncM and
lowct xride, lied by the poore! peopln,
will piy HI per cent, duty and wortcd
Kood of Hut lowet itiadi' wl I pay I.U) per
cent., while the hhiltt t Kradu will piiy w per
cent."'
Contlutiliiu, the icpoil ay "Wn have
flint loin) I line been ctiilcnvorlen to liicrean
our 11 it'll' ttllli the peopln of t'enttal and
fouth Amiii-ic.i mid Mexico, mid at our rw
Uiiet, an I11lc1n.it onal coiifcicncit I titilim
held In tliivNe mean for Hut acciimillh.
Illellt ot thl leollll. 'Hut peopln of nil llicn
eniintile hau thu iIkIiI In iitpoe that thl
tloveruiiieut w.i actluit lu uootl f.illli when
II I iVlled llii'in lo end their delcxale heir,
ami Hut noihlnx would be done b) u lintl.
tilth Hut hirinouy of their dcllheuttloti
or pictent the iuce o( Ihelr nilloii, hut
In Hie m ldt o( their eotiultnlliiii miiiI wlun
It wa earucHtly hoped thai aonin pruellcal
ttlati liiluht he iiMteed upon forlho e'ithlih
llteiit ot eloer eonimereliil leliition. thl
bill I lepotlcd contiilnliiK prolloii which
will not only letitnl tec pun iilariaoKcmc nit
for Hie futuiu hut will tlotroy a larje part of
the li.ide 1 ow cxhtlni,- between thl country
und tin e ut our iicIkIiIm t on Die until,
"r'or ihe luither puipon of ludiielnit Hit
f.ttlliei ot Hut lotilltiy lo believe Hint they
can mid will derive koiiiu lienellt fioui ihn
piiitci'tlvu policy, Hit hill liupov riiciot
duty upon ceiiulu luipoitaut iinilcnlliii.il
lilodilct whu Ii It I Mtlt kunwii could Hot
be liupolled to any initeil.il extent w III) or
wlllioiil duty It I uipo-.lbli' lo piotecl
the lilliuer nKHltit toielmi loliipetlllou In
hi hoiiu' inatUet tor he ha no uch eiuupit.
Ill Ion, and Hut IiihciiIoii or n lent Ion of thea
article lu n till IK hill I- 11 de Ut which
will deceive 110 one who Kite it mo.
incur thoiiKht to the Niilijcct, lurlh
the l.i tlcul year wu c.xpoitcd il'.fcrj.'nw
biKliel ot coin und impoited only ?,,
bnlii'l, not inoin llinii can lie ptodii'ced on
.'Miieic-.oIiiiiinll.mil In Hit cimntiy. Wa
exported .111,1s.', tin it'Noteutn 1 it mid Im
putted S'i hu-licl. iiur cxiniil ot wheat
ainouniedtiil'l,llt,f.Mliulieliindourlinpoil
iiiuimntcd In l.'.U'i luulicl. 'I hi .tutciiieiil
iiiuotinted lit l.'.U'i luulicl. 'I hi .tutciueiil
hliohow tutile 11 . to i.tteinei to unurd
protection to the f 11 met ot the iviiuirv by
iuipuiim dutle upon the liuportutioii o
tliee luiitlucl uml thl lure mid llitellliicnt
1 !.! of citlieu cm hoi hit leconelled III Hit
wi ton policy which lmrcii-.e t.txc upon
llit'il clotliliiv;, t.ihlewaie, t'.tipcl, earthen
nnd .iiiic, iiKilcullitiitl liiipleiucnl mid
oilier uicc.iiy milch',
"W bin the liuMitloii of lhi'e dutlc on
lite iiiiliu.tl unit other iiii Ic11l111r.1l piodiul
can mil inlhl)iluuiir tin inert uny Rood mi
home, the iinie ie tiiadit by thl hill on mn
ul.ictuied ind other utlli-liK which we Im.
poll willceti.iliil) be unreal Injur) to them
lu the 111.11 kt I iiliio id where they arc coin,
pclled 10 cP t ln-1 iitplu,"
The icpuii 1 ihleiM- Hie Miliar tHiuiily and
ptote-l- HK.t.nt ll'i'tttii.n t.t 01 It'iit. and ln
jiutltv ol uch 11 tlley It ;i Hn- boiihly
on l.it e it' proiluitiou wouhl Imve born
;,Mi,ei'. but a.'i I expKiod lu encour ug
the protliicert to.uppi) tini deiuand.theta.
nil even If Hie coiiuuipllon rciuaoied at
1 11 year tli:iiie-'.',7vi,i.i,ui pound
would be mi annual pt) incut t) Kl ilM It
bouutlv.
THE UNION PACIFIC.
Report of tha (lovrmmrnt tllreetor of tha
Union I'aelHe Hallway-He Iteeuminrnd
That tha Hoad II 1'rrmltted to Manage
I la Own Atrlr.
CmrAni, April in. A lentthy report
madn to tho Nocrntary of tho IntorVr
hy Hon. .Icmo Hpaldlnr, Oovornmont
director of this Union I'ftclflt! railway, la
putiUnhed. Tho report I tho remilt nf
ponional olmnrvatlon made durlnj a
trip ovnr tho Union Pacific ayatom. Itn
fnrrlnr to thn allnfrrd hotllo fooling to
ward tho, company In Nebr.inka, Mr.
Spatdlnf naya: "I found pcoplo In No
tiranka whonrn poanM'd with thn Idea
that thn Union 1'nclflc wa constructed
and ahould Ih operated mainly In rofcr
nnco to thn wlalio of that aectlon, and
who actually hoi loved that thnlr Htato
ahould Im connttltcd hy tho manager
lio f urn any Improvement worn made,
Innovation proMtcuti-d, or extensions
ptpihcd forward. Hut those who tako
.an unroasonlntf, nnd, to my mind, n mutt
unjust view of thn conduct of tho Union
Pacific nro exceptions to tho rule."
Npcakltitfnt Union Pacific Investment,
tho report nays:
In addition in tha railroad In which the
Union Pacific Company hi a pruprlrtaiy
Inlrrrit, It tin Investment ln other com
pnnle and properlle wh t-h, In one way nr
ntiuthnr, form neccstaiy pnit or link ef a
ytem that that ha bnrn couipclled liy
ritnaiii of thn nwtie of the countiy In
wnleli It operation are rnrrled on, or be
cnue of thu tiiicqrtalnty of oblalnliia-aup.
pile or aoL'ommodiitlon from the outside, lo
blitxt It own way lu nil illr'ctlun. Ihn
company ha been evcru'y criticised fur
KoIiih Into lliniu "nutldii venture," but Ilia
fart I that In It own lnli-rct It but been
compcllr-d lo do Ibis and n urn it mny other
thlriK which 11 r illrnsd company nprratlliK
In 1111 Kulern Htaln would not find It either
neci-Mary iirevnn advltiibln to do.
In my estimation II I lmpertlvelv de
miinded of thu msnaveinent of thn Union
I'arlflt- that It shall push It NorthwuMnrn
exteiislnn until It tin afforded thn I'llRet
Niinid cltle nil thu follllle which they re
ijulre, HaHttic, Taroma and I'ort Towniitnd
will welcome t ln)"irn lrn I'Hclrle nd extend
privilege nnd tram hlsu which arn now
valuable, but which a few ynr hence will
bo (Imply prloclc. II.ivIiik made them
connection Ie will ho thu Krcatott railway
ytrm In the world, nnd will tumble to offer
IhuHovnriiuieiit uniiii'tlnnahlncrurlty for
all It may own now or In the future
I plco my opposition tothnoittemcvlew
of thosn who nppoar to bo brut upon em
barintsluK thn pr sent uianaKement of the
ystein upon tint broad around Hint thn good
of thu public will not be inbaeivod by the
threat tuvy mitko or Iho course they ara
piirulng. Thu Innblllly nf thu Northern
Pacific In meet It obligation precipitated
III" pMtiloof 1-71 l.-t not UoiiKrns follow
out a line of policy which It will make It Im
possible fur tha Union I'aclfle lo remain
solvent and which may shock Ihe flnnnulal
world In Ihv7
lb I ijiti'stlon oiiaht lo be elll-d by 1,'nn
reit at unco nnd for utl Hum. The compa
ny ahould hn placed In Ihn petition of a
debtor solely, und be permitted lo man ago
Ittowii affali without Irtor hlndrineu from
Iheliovernment National Interference In
Itaiiinnauutuent hn resulted only In nuibar
raliiK Ituatlon heretofore nod I I bound
to result so horeiifter. The Union I'.iclflo
railway yat"m Is nt this 1 1 inn not only
wisely and prudently, but profitably man
od. Tun liruichiiB and cxtenalons which
have burn coiuliuited and the new Im
provement made during Ihn last Are year
hiivn been of direct and Incalculable benefit
to hundred ot thuutandi of people In Hut
Weft audl'm-ino Northwest a writ a to 111
business of Ihn Nation In general. Aa a
lropcry It I certainly far inure valuablo
lo-day than It wa In Ihs It can not pay
the Mi,i( or mi which II uw tha tlov
eminent, however, ut till lime, but la able
to 1 ft -r atcurlly npial to t'l 0 0,(00 moro
than thn liiivurnmnnt hold now tor It
IttdchiednoM. It ask an extenalon of
limn and a lower rale of Inlcrrst, both
of which the llovcrtiuient can afford to
grnnt iiithur than see thu propel ty Im
periled, lor to Imperil It would threaten
the tlnanelnl lilln of thoutiind of peopln
who have Invented Ihulr money In the en
Ii rprln, and more than that Hut prohnlilo
Imimverlihtuitnt of thn hundred of thou
sand who have a. tiled upon It line dur
ing ri-rent year, and whose Interest nro so
clotelv Woven with Hiitproprrlly of the road
Hint ibey ran net to separated.
Th tUi'sllon tusitlvc ll.'f down to this;
What N cl. not an much fur the Union IV
clllc Hallway Company a a rorpuiatlon, but
for thn countiy ut targ"' It -um In nut
th it there can 10 hut tiuti nuswer it thl
b-l I'oiiijri's dttnt as fairly w Hi Ilia Union
Pacific a 11 limine man would with 11
creditor who wa willing and able topiy hit
debt! II hit were only permitted lo idl'-tid til
hi hualiH' without liitutfurniiceor cniuar
rjiiiiieut. A BRAVE BOY.
He Kill Twit llegulatiir Whu Wrre lira!
Ing III ralhrr.
DoMi'HAM, Mm, April 10. Particu
lar havti reaohed horn to-day ot a trag
edy In which two tnen lost their lives
on Saturday nljrht, near Warm Spring,
Unndolph County, Ark., about twenty
mile aouttivti'St of hero. For two or
three yetir a amall hand of Ku-Klux
reuulators ha oxlnted In that nnljrhbor
hoial, nnd their mission appear to have
Ik'cii to latlmliUto and whip cltlton
who worn not In aympathy with thorn,
and who opptmed their lawless uiethiHis
of wreaking- vonireauco. Some six
month atro a man named Holland
was whipped, hut this did not
itllencn him, nnd Saturday nltfh.
four ot tho ri'trulatortt, headed hy
IM tilllani, Jr., and Alex ilatowood',
two rough character went to Holland'
house, look htm from hi Wd and wore.
lx'jttlnjT htm unmercifully, wheu llol
ltind'n fourteen-year-old sn linik a hand
in tho melee, armed with a double
barreled shotgun, 'l'lte tlrst ahot tho
boy tired killed (Slllam. tiatewoinl then
attempted to nlioot the boy, hut his iun
atiappetl and before hn could rccock thn
hoy emptied the other barrel of hi Rim
into Oatowood and killod him. Tho re
mulnlni; man then ran to where a fourth
man wn holding tho horse of thn
crowd mill the two escaped. Up to last
accounts tho hoy had not boon arrested.
tiled Kmui a t'al title.
Mahsiiau, Mo., April Id. I.Utle Hob
ert l)vidon, aged nix year, died last
evening at Slater from hydrophobia,
after several bourn of terrible HUtTcrlng-,
tho rvaull ot a cat blto throo months
alnco.
Asking t'nrecliMure,
St. Iaivis April liVTho Mervantllo
Trust Company, ot New York, through
coumtol ha filed a bill of complaint In
iiiiilty in tho United State Circuit
Court hero asking for tho forecKwurn of
the aocond mortgage Itonda of tho St
l.oulm Arkansas .t Tcxa road, and an
order for tho aaln of tho road. The aoc
ond mortgAgv covers all tho track, land,
rolling atock and property ot all kind,
real and personal In MlMourl, Arkan
sas Louisiana and Texas, and similar
proceeding will hn Cvmmenc4i at onca
in l.lttlo Kivk, Ark., Shr?pait, La,,
aud Tyler and Waco, To.
THE DIVINE HEALER.
Dr. Tslmage on Christ as the Oreat
Physician.
Tha Havtonr'a Cure Alway Ihe Hint Won
iirfiil-A Physic. an Who Treatment
Wa VTIIhnut Money nr I'Mre-rinal
(lathering nl tha Mved.
In a latn sermon at llrookl.vn Her. T.
DnWltt Talma go discoursed on the iro
fesslon of healing. Ill text wa Mat
thew II, ft: 'Tho blind receive thnlr
sight, and tho latnn walk, tho leper
arn cleansed, and thn deaf hear." Ho
said:
"Doctor," I said to a distinguished
surgeon, "do you not get worn out with
constantly seeing ho many wounds and
broken bone and distortion of tho
human body?" "O, no," ho answered,
"all that I ovorcomo hy my joy In cur
ing them." A auhlliner or moro merci
ful urt never catno down from Heaven
than the art of ntirgnry. Catastrophe
and disease entered thn north no early
that ono of thn first want ot tin) world
wan a doctor. Our crippled and ago
nlcd human racn called for mirgcon
nnd family physician for many years bo
forn they came. Thn first. surgeons who
answered thl call worn minister. of re
ligion, namely, thn Egyptian priest.
And what a grand thing if all clergymen
worn also doctors, nil I) D.'s worn M.
D.'s, for thnro tiro so many nnien where
body nnd soul need treatment at thn
same time, consolation and mediclnn,
theology nnd therapeutics. An thn
first surgeons ot tho world were also
ministers of religion, may theso two
professions alwayn bo In full aympathy!
Hut under what disadvantage the
early Hiirgeon worked, from thn fact
that tho dissection of thn human body
was forbidden, tlrst by thn pagan anil
then by thn early Christians! Ai. lin
ing the brutes mostlikn tho human race,
were dissected, but no human btaly
might be unfolded for physiological and
nualomical exploration, and thn surgeon
bad to guess what was inside tho tumpln
by looking at tho ouisldo of It If limy
fulled in any surirical operation they
worn persecuted and d-Jven out of tho
elty, as was Archagathus, bocause of tits
bold but unsiKcimttil attempt to save a
patient
Hut the world from thnwjry beginning
kept calling fur surgeon, and their llrsl
akill is Kpoken of in (irnesls, whore
they employed their art for tho Incision
of a sacred rite, (Jod making surgery
thn predecessor of baptism; und wn see
It again in 1 1. Kings, where A.ahliih. thn
monarch, stopped on some cracked lattice-work
iu tho palace, and It broke
and ho fell from tho uppor to the lower
floor, and ho wa no hurt that hn sent to
the village of Kkron for aid; and Khcii
'xp'us, who wrought auch wondors of
surgery that ho was dollied, and temples
were built for bin worship at Pergamos.
What mighty progress In thn baffling
of disease since thn crippled and nick
of ancient cltle were laid along the
atreota, that pcoplo who had ever boon
hurt or disordered In tho name way
might suggest what had better hn done
for tho patients; and the priests of olden
time, who were constantly Ni:ffering
from colds received in walking barefoot
over thn temple pavements, hail to lim
it rlbe for themselves, and fractures
vitro considered so far beyond all human
r.iro that Instead of calling In tho sur
geons the people only invoked thn pals!
Hut notwithstanding all tho surgical
1. ml medical skill of tho world, with
ultat tenacity tho old diseases hang on
to the human race, and most of them
nro thousands of years old, and In our
lllbles we read of them; tho carbuncles
of .lob and lle.eklah; tho palpitation ut
the heart spoken of in Deuteronomy;
the sunstroke of a child carried from
thn Holds of Shunom, crying: "Mr
head! my head!" King Asa' diseasn of
tho feel, which was nothing but gout;
defection of teeth, which called for
dental aurgery, tho skill of which, tilto
tiu.il to any thing modern, Is still noon
in the tilled molar of tho unrolled
Kgyptlun mummies; tho ophthalmia
caused by thn juice of tho newly ripe
fig, leaving the people blind at the road
aldn; epilepsy, as in the case of the
young man often (ailing lulo tho lire,
and oft Into the water; hypochondria,
of Nchuchadnnxiar, who imagined him
self an ox and going out to tho Holds to
pasture.
Thn world hn never aeon but own
aurgeon who could straighten the crook
til limb, euro the blind oye, or rtw-on-struct
the drum of a siMinil'ess ear, or
reduce a dropsy, without any p.tin at
the time, or any pain after, und that
n-irgeon was .lesus Christ, Ihn mightiest,
grandest, gentlest and most syuiptlbot
'.c surgeon the world ever saw or ovnr
will see, ami lie deserves tho coiilldein
and Into and worship 4 ml hiisann.i ot all
the earth and hallelujahs of .ill llo.muii.
"The blind receive their sight and Hut
lame walk; the lepers arn cIo.uimwI, and
the de.tf hear "
I notice this surgeon had a fondness
for chronic cases. Manv a sitrL'ctni.whoii
I be has had a patient brought to him, has
sMd: "Why was not this attended to
five years ago? You bring him tome
after a.11 power of rocuimratlnn I go no.
You have waited until there is a com
plete contraction of tho mucles and
false ligature are formed and osslllci
tlon ha taken place. It ought to have
licet! attended to long ago." Hut Christ
tho Surgeon seemed to prefer Inveterate
case. Ono was a hemorrhage nf twelve
year and Ho stop-d it. Another w.ts
a curvature of eighteen years and He
straightened It Another w.isa crippleof
thirty-eight jo.tr and he walked out
well. The eighteen-year patient was a
woman bent almost double. If you could
call a convention of all the surgeons of
all the centuries, their combined skill
could not euro that body o drawn out
ot shape, Perhaps they might stop It
from getting any worse, perhaps they
might contrive braces by which she
might tat madn moro romtortable, but
It is, humanly speaking, Incurable. Yrt
thl divine Surgeon put both HI hand
on hers and from that doubled up post
ure she began to me, and tue em
purpled faco began to take on a
healthier hue, and thn muscle began
to relax from their rigidity, and the
aplnal column began to adjust Itself,
aa U cords ot Vhs acck bcgn i be
mora supple, and thn eyes, that could
tie only tho ground bo fore, now looked
Into tho facn of Christ with gratitude,
and tip toward Heaven In transport
Straight! After eighteen woary and
exhaustive years, Htratght! Tho poise,
tho gracefumess, thn beauty of healthy
womanhood reinstated.
Tho thirty-eight years' case wa a
man who lay on a mattress near tho
mineral baths at Jerusalem. There
wero five apartments where lame peo
ple wore brought, so that they could get
tho advantage of these mineral baths.
The stone basin of tho bath Is still vis
ible, although thn waters havn dtsap
fM.'ared, probably through some convul
sion of nature, the bath, 1-0 feet long,
40 feet wide nnd eight feet deep. Ah,
poor man; If you have been lame and
helpless thirty-eight years that mineral
bath can not restore you. Why, thirty
eight years In more than the average of
human life! Nothing hut thu grave
will cure you.
Hut Christ tho Surgeon walks along
these baths, and I have no doubt paste
by some patients who have been only
six mouths disordered, or a year, or five
years, nnd come to the mattress of tho
man who has been nearly four decides
helpless, and to this thirty-eight years'
invalid said: "Will thou lm made
whole'" Tho question asked, not be
cause the Surgeon did not understand
fblt tiriitp-lf-tf.it tn.s flu, ilf.sr-iptfni tf
..... ,.. ... ........ , . ..... ....,,,.....
the case, hut loevoko the man's pathetic.
narrative. "Wilt thou be made whole?"
"Would you like to gut well?" "ft,
yen," says this man, "that is what I
came to these mineral baths for; I havn
tried every thing All the surgeons have 1
failed and all thn proscriptions hate
proved valueless, and I have got worse
and worse, and I can neither move hand
or foot or head. O. if I could only bo
free from this pain of thlriy-olght
years!" Christ thn Surgeon could not
stand that Hooding over tho man on
the mattress, nnd with a voice lender
with all sympathy, hut strong with all
omnipotence. Ho says. "Itlsn!" And thn
Invalid instantly scrambled in his knocn
and then puts out his right foot, and
then hi left foot and then stood up
right as though ho had nnver been pros
trated. While ho stands looking at the
Dia:tor w.th a joy too much to bold thn
Doctor says: "Shoulder this mattress!
for you ate not only well enough lo
walk, but well enough to work, and
start out f mm these mineral baths. Take
up thy b-d and walk'" O w but a Surgeon
for chrnti.c. case then and for chronic
cases now!
Tills Is notnppllcahlnsomuch to those
who arn only a little hurt of sin, and
oaly lorn short time, but lo those pros
trated of sir. twelve yearn, eighteen
years, thirty-eight years. Hero Is a
Surgeon able to give Immortal health
"0,"you say, "I am so completely over
thrown and trampled down of sin that I
can not rise." Are you Hatter down
than this patient at tho mineral baths?
No. Then rise. In the nameof.lesusof
Nazareth, thn Surgeon who offers you
his right hand of help, I bid thee rise.
Not cases of acute sin, hut of chronic
sl those wlm have not prayed for
thirty-eight years, thosn who have mil
been to church for thirty-eight yearn,
those who have been gamblers, or liber
tines, or thieves, or outlaw, or blas
phemers, or Inlldnls, or atheist, or all
theso together, for thirty-eight yearn.
A Christ for exigencies! A Ihrinl for a
dead lift! A Surgeon who timet lose a
case
In speaking of Christ as n surgeon, I
must consider Him nn oculist, or eye
doctor, and an aurlst, or ear iloct.or.
Was there ever such another oculist'.'
That He was particularly sorry for the
blind folks I take (rem tho fuel that
thn most of Ills work was with the dis
eased optle nerves. I have not time to
count up tho uumlatr of blind people
mentioned who got Ills cure. Two blind
men In one house, also one wa born
blind; no that It was not removal of a
visual obstruction, but the creation of
thn cornea, and ciliary muscle, und crys
talline lense, and retina, and optic
nerve, and tear gland; also the blind
man of Itethsatda. cured by the saliva
which the Surgeon took from the tip of
Ills own tongue and put upon the eve-
lids; also two blind men who sal by the
wayside. In nurclvlllzcd land we hsrvo
blindness enough, thn ratio fearfully In
creasing, according to the slutemenl of
Iliation and New York and Philadel
phia oceiilists, because of the read
ing of morning and evening newspa
pers on thn jolting cars by thn multi
tudes who II to out of the city and cOmn
In to business. Hut In the lands whern
this ditine Surgeon operated thecasi'sot
blindness wore multiplied latyond etcry
thing by thn particle of aand II 0.1 ting
In the air and the night dews falling on
the eyelids of those who slept on the
tops of their houses, and In ouiii of
these lands it Is estimated thai twenty
out of a hundred pcoplo aro totally
blind. Amid all that crowd of vision
less people w hat work for an is't'iilist!
Ami I do tiolbt'liete that more tlun 0110
out of a bundled of that surgeon's cure,
wopi reported He went up and down,
among those people who wero feeling
slowly their way by stall or led by Dis
band of man or rowt of dog, and intio
ducltig them to the face of their ottn
household, ami to the sunrise and the
sunset and the evening star. Ho jut
ran tils hand oter the ex prossntnln faro
and tho shutters of laith windows were
swung open and the restored went home
crying "I scr! I see! Thank lSi4, I
sen'" Thai is thn oeciilisi wo nil need
Till He touches our o o wo i,i Id tint
Our la'st eternal interests are put lm
foro its and we can not see thnnv The
glories of a lot Ing and pardoning Christ
are projected and wo do mil behold
them. Or wo have a dotccilio s ght
which makes the ihlhi; of the future,
time bigger than eternity trr we ate
color blind and can not see the differ
ence Uttweon the blackness of tlrknes
forever and the roseate morning of in
et'r!aling dsy. Hut Christ the Sur
geon come in, and though wo shrink
back afraid to have Htm touch us yet
He puts Ills lingers on the clo-wvl tiyt
J lids ot the soul and midnight bevome
mid noon.
We aro told of only two case Ho op
erated on as an ear surgeon. Ills friend
Potcr, naturally high tempered, saw
Christ Intuited by a nuu by the name
of Malcbus and P.ter Ut his saord fit.
aiming at thn man's head, but the sword
slipped and hewed off thn outside ear.
and our Surgeon touched thn laceration
and another ear bloomed In the place of
tho ono that had been slushed away.
Hut It Is not the outside ear that hears.
That Is only a funnel for gathering
sound and pouring it into the hidden
and more elaborate ear. On the beach
of Lake (Jalllce our Surgeon found a
man deaf and dumb. The patient dwelt
In perpetual silence and was speechless.
He could not hear a note of music or a
clap of thunder. He could not call
fatlier or mother or wife or children
by name. What rower can waken
that dull tympanum or reach that chain
of sma 1 bones or rovlvo that audito
ry nervo or oja-n the gate between to
bruin and the outside world? The Sur
geon put Ills fingers In the deaf ears ami
agitated them, nnd kept on agitating
them until the vibration gave vital en
orgy to all the dead paj-t. and they re
sponded, nnd when our Surgeon with
drew His fingers from the ears, the two
tunnels of sound were clear for all sweet
voice of music and friendship. For tho
first time in his life ho heard the dash
of the wave of Oallleo. Through thn
desert of ptlnful silence had been built
a klng'.s highway of resonance and ac
clamation. Hut yet he was dumb. So
word had ever leaped oter hl llt
Speech was chained under his tongue.
Vocalization and accentuation were to
him an impossibility He could express
n'ltherlovn nor Indignation nor wor
ship Our Surgeon, hating unbarred
his ear, will now melt the shackle of his
tongue. The Surgeon will use the samo
liniment or salvo thut Ho ued on two
occasions for the cuto of blind people,
namely, the moisture of Ills own mouth.
The application is made. And lo, tho
rigidity nt the diimb tongue is relaxed,
and between the tongue and teeth wero
born a whole vocabulary, abd words Hew
Into expression. Ho not only heard but
hn talked, 'sun gate of his body swung In
to let sound enter, .md the other gate
swung out to let sound depart Why Is
It that while- other surgeons used knives
and forcepn and prolw-s and se.'i:tro
scopes, this Surgeon moil only the oint
ment of III- own lips? To show that all
the curativn power wn ever feel comes
straight from Christ
Hut what were the Surgeon's fees for
all these cures of eyes and ears and
tongues -ami withered hands and crooked
backs? The skill and the painlessness
of tho operation wero worth hundred
and thousand of dollars. Do not think
thai tho cases Ho took wept all money
less. Did He not treat the nobleman's
nun? Did He not. doctor tho ruler's
daughter? Did lie no affect a euro In
the house of a centurion of great wealth,
who had out of tils own pia-ket built u
synagogue' They would hve paid Hlru
large fees If Ho had demanded them,
and thorn wero humlitsis of wealthy
people in Jerusalem, aunt among tho
merchant cxstles along Lake Tiberias
who would have given this Surgeon
houses ami lands itml nil they had for
such cures as Ho could etTect For
critical case In our time great surgeons
have received id.ooo, .., (KK), and in ono
case I know of e.O,0nn, but tho
Surgeon of whom I s"a!c received not a
nhelkel, not :t penny, not it farthing.
In Ills whole earthly life, we know of
Ills having hid but '('."-; cent. When
III taxes were due, by His omniscience
Hit knew of it llsh In tho ,ea which had
swallowed a plctc of silver money, us
fish are apt lo swallow any thing bright,
and lie sent Peter with a hook which
brought up that llsh, and from Itn mouth
was extracted a Itumuti staler, or '."
cents, the only money lie ever had; nnd
that he paid out for tines This great
est Surgeon of all tin-centuries gate all
Ills services then, und oilers all His ser
vices now. fn f nil charge. "Without
money and without price" you may spirit
ually liiivo your tltnd eyes opened, and
your dintf ears unbarred, and yotinliimb
tongues loo-.i'111'd, and your wounds
healed, and tour si itl satisl, If Christ
ian peopln got hurt of laidy, mind or
soul, let them riMiinmltor th.il surgery la
apt to burl, but It cures, and you can
nlTonl pre-ont pain for future glory.
Ilesldes that, there tiro powerful an-ii'Slhetic-.
lu the dltlne promise that
soothe and itllevl.tto, No ether or
chloroform or us-. tine t-ti-r made one so
nutorlur to dWlicss ,t a few drops of
that in.ignillceui iinolynn. "All things
work Uitfother for good to thus" whi
luvn lied," "Weeping may endure for a
eight, but joy ctxuelli lu the morning "
What a grand thing for our poor
human men when this Surgeon shall
have completed the treatment of all thn
j world's wound. Tho d iy will count
when there will be no moro hospitals,
for there will l no more sick, and no
mttrnnyiinndn.tr Inllrmarlo, for thorn
f will Im no morn blind or deaf, and no
morn desurts. for ihn round o.irlli will
he lironu'ht under til-orlenlture. and nit
more billiard or sunstroke, for the at
mosphere will b expiirgtti'd of scorch
I and chill, and 110 more tv.ir, for Ihn
J sword shall eotitn out nt thn foundry
tatul ititw prnnlug hists's. hllo in lint
heavenly country wo shtM see tlnet
who we-e thn victim of accident or
iiialforiu ithtn, or hereditary ll!s on
e.ttlh, become the athletes In I'.iysUn
lleldv Who Is thil man with such bril
liant eyes close beforn tbe throne?
Why, that Is the man who, near. leriehn,
was blind, and our Surgeon cured bis
ophthalmia' V o I thil nri-i t and grafo
fit! .md qiieetilv wonnn Utforo thu
throne? Thai tn the one whom our
Siirircin found Iwnt almost double, and
could In no wle lift up herself, and lift
?,, t.l. hr slf3lf.h Who I Iht ttmtitn.
J Ing th such rtptunt 10 ihe music .of
Helton, olo melting churn, cymbal
respondini; to trumpet snd then htnwif
joining In tho anthem' Why. that I
Ihn man whom our Surgeon found
tlrst f and dumb on the bf-jveh of lialilco
.ted by two louche orx'tied iho oar-gato
and uimith-ctto. Who i that arounsl
whom thn crowd are githerln - w ah ad
miring mV and thin setting and 1 r t-s
of "O, what Ill-did for me' O. -rut Hn
del for toy lam Iy' O. wht He did for
Ihn world!" That Is Ihn urgton of all
Ihn centuries, tho t-ullU Iho Aurlst,
ihe Kmanclpator, the Saviour. No pay
He tmV en earth Ootnn, now, Jet Host
en pay Htm with worship that bU
never die. Onllihevl lml the crown..!
In Hi hand b ,11 the ocvptcra, aa4 at
Ills lixH be all tb MorUI
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