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SILVER DEBATE.
Silver Giants Lock Horns in the
House.
Bland Opens the DUcuMlon In Fa Tor
f lite BIU For Free Coinage Xeaars.
WUItamf, Ilarter and Other
Speak in Opposition.
In tho national house of representa
tives on tho 22d Mr. Bland's freo coin
age bill being the special order, Mr.
Bland, chairman of the committee on
coinage, took the floor in favor of the
measure.
"This bill," said Mr. Bland, in open
ing' tbe discussion, "proposes to go
back a hundred years in the matter of
coinage. It was just a hundred years
ago that the wise founders of this gov
ernment adopted what we call 'the
double standard.' They provided for
the coinage of gold and silver without
limit at the mints of tho United States;
that silver should be coined the same
as gold and should have the same ad
vantages and the same recognition.
Tho silver dollar should consist of
71 4-100 grains of silver, precisely tho
dollar of silver that is called for in this
ijilL This bill provides that gold and
silver shall be coined at the ratio fixed
Ty tho act of 4837, which was called
rthe 'ratio of 16 to 1' or, more exactly,
'it is 15.9S to L This bill provides that
gold and silver shall be equal at the
mints. Applause.
"In order that this equality should
be preserved, it is necessary that silver
should be put on the same plane, in re
gard to the issue of certificates of the
mint, as gold. To-day the law provides
-that gold bullion may be taken to the
mint of the United States and certifi
cates issued to the owner, or that ho
may be paid for it in money. It is not
required for its coinage."
Mr. Bland said that he had agreed
to. and would propose later, an amend
ment to that portion of tho bill pro
viding that coin notes shall be issued
as rapidly as bullion is deposited. He
would move, at tho proper time, to
amend by providing that the coin notes
shall be issued as rapidly as the mints
found it practicable to coin the bullion.
In arguing for a greater volume of
-money, Mr. Bland said that he would
admit that the refined system of credits
which has grown up in the country
does to a certain extent economize the
use of money, but in the end the day
of paymentof these obligations always
comes and we must have money. In
1SS1, when we had passed a bill for re
funding the national debt, the national
banks of the United States sur
rendered StS.OJO.000 into the nation
.nl treasury, for the purpose of
inducing a veto from the president a
-threat which effected its purpose and
"the result of this withdrawal of S1S,
00,000 from circulation put interest up
in New York at the rate of one cent a
day. Notes and bonds are not money
they arc conveniences. The whole
Cght over this issue is between the
capitalists, who demand interest, and
the people, who demand money instead
vof interest. Great applause.
The gentleman denounced the peri
odic attempts for international confer
ences and international agreements
every time the free coinage of silver is
proposed. Are we to be shackled here
by the apathy of the governments of
other nations? Is our financial sj'stera
to be regulated, not by our own ideas
of justice and our own conveniences,
but by the conveniences of other na
tions? The moment this great govern
ment declares for the free coinage of
silver the other commercial nations,
too, will solve that question. Self
Interest will compell them to do so.
The restoration of silver means the
restoration of it the world over. Gold
and silver have been the servants of
civilization since " civilization began.
They arc twin brothers and when you
sever tbe ligature both arc dead. Be
fore gold can leave this country there
must be some other- form o money
to take its place. The moment yoa
restore silver, if gold is taken
from circulation prices will go
down in proportion and that
necessitates money from abroad to pur
chase commodities here that go down
because of the contraction of money.
Everything will be cheap. The man
who holds his gold is simply holding it
for silver; for silver will take the
channels of circulation. Gold is a ty
rant. Gold won't tolerate any compe
tition, lie must dominate or he will
-have nothing to do with your finances.
Xct silver be coined onco and sec what
the result will be then. You bring
him to the level of the common people
of this country. Applause. To the
ievel of silver where ho ought to be.
"Yon may have to pay a little more if
you have the two metals at par, but
let us remember that as a rule when
money is plentiful prices are good.
You may have to pay a little more,
but labsr, after all, is the only money.
Wall street Ls to-day demonetizing
labor and wheat and cotton. This bill
remonetizes them alL"
Mr. Bland then explained the last
section of the bill providing that when
ever France opened her mints to free
coinage of silver at a ratio of 15X to 1,
the United' States should adopt that
ratio. He called attention to the fact
that for seventy years France had by
bcr open mints fixed the price on both
metals and kept them on an unvarying
parity of 15X to I. To allay any ap
prehension that might arise because of
the French ratio being 15 to 1, while
ours was 10 to 1, it was proposed that
the United States should adopt the
ratio of 153 to 1 whenaver France did
so. Continuing, Mr. Bland declared
that the action of the government
tne United States on the free silver
question had been an invitation to Eu
rope to go on the gold standard. We
bcnin silver's demonetization in 187:5
and in all our efforts to restore silver
Tve had been defeated by limitations.
When a free coinage bill was passed in
the house In 1S78 bv a two-thirds ma
jority and sent to the senate ttic same
idea of an international agreement was
Jn-Vcted into the question, and mean
while we provided for the purchase, of
.from 52,000,000 to St.000,003 a month,
a'he last congress pasbctl an act to pur
chase S4,W)0.000 of silver monthly and
its friends proclaimed that it was done
in the interest of silver. Sarcastical
ly. He opposed that bill and said the
gentlemen were deceiving themselves
and the ountry and that silver could
not be brought to par in any such man
ner. The law of 1S7S compelled the coin
age and use of the silver dollar. The
law of the last congress used the bul
lion for what? As mere dead capital
in the treasury which might as well be
at the bottom of the Potomac. Was
the United States to be frightened by
the actions of other nations? Because
they were demonetizing silver and go
ing to a gold standard must tho United
States follow suit? This silver ques
tion was one that would not down be
cause it was one that the American
people well understood.
At the conclusion of Mr. Bland's
speech Mr. Taylor, of Illinois, of the
republican side, objected to Mr. Wil
liams, the democratic opponent of free
coinage, opening the discussion in op
opsition to the bilL "The majority of
the minority of the coinago commit
tee," said he, "desire mo to open tho
discussion for the only party that is op
posed to this measure.
SIR. WILLIAMS OPPOSES TOE BILL.
In his opening remarks Mr. Williams
said he trusted that he would be found
to represent not only the minority of
the committee, but the "the majority
cf the minority of the committee" as
welL
Continuing, Mr. Williams said that
members of the house would feel
obliged to voto for free coinage al
though they did not believe in it, be
cause their constituents have so in
structed them. Considerations which
now weigh with members would not
weigh in local conventions and local
committees. He believed that an ap
preciating standard is better than a
fluctuating standard, better than a con
stantly falling standard. It had been
adjudged that as we had the free coin
age of silver before 1S73 without disas
trous results, why should disaster now
follow this bill? He desired to remind
the American people that the mone
tary conditions of the world have en
tirely changed since 1873 and those
conditions are now beyond our control.
Gold Ls the standard of nearly all the
nations of Europe, and when we de
clare for the free coinage of silver,
where will gold go? It will go to a
premium and a premium upon gold is
discount upon silver. The rest of the
world will fix the depreciation upon
silver according to the markets of the
"
world and our
standard will then be
70 cents to SI. That means repudia
tion; it means tho throwing of this
country into a dishonest settlement of
every debt contracted upon our Dresent
gold basis. Applause. In conclud
ing Mr. Williams presented the substi
tute bill of the minority providing for
an international monetarv conference.
mil iiaktek's opposition.
Representatativc Ilarter, of Ohio,
also a democrat, now spoke in opposi
tion to the bill, and insisted that the
Bland bill instead of increasing the
volume of money m circulation would,
in its results actually decrease it. Tho
day after the president signed a freo
coinage bill, instead ox having l,b00.
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uuu.uuu ui cucuduuu iur l..o uSU ul uio The jatter fae associatcd with the win-
people we will have 51,200.000, for , ter it comes to the meridian in Jan
money will be depreciated to this ex-1 uary- Tho Pleiaues or sevea starSj
tent. Democrats are opposed to pro- connccted with all sweetness and joy;
tection yet many of them desired by 0rion the herald of the tcmpest. The
this bill to give the silver producer tho j ancients were the more apt to study
benefit of a protective system. the pbysiognomy and juxtaposition of
Continuing Mr. Ilarter sa:d that the hcavcnly bodics, because thoy
since 1S73 we have in eighteen years thought they had a special influence
minted S729.000.000 m gold alone, or an ihn pnrtll. ml nnriirin, tin,- w..n.
average o' over
S40.000.000 per year.
Now, under the Bland bill, this would
cease and free coinage would drive out
our gold and leave what remained mer
chandise, as wheat, corn and cotton
are. Unlimited coinage of gold and
silver on the basis of 10 per cent, of
silver to 1 of. gold would drive out tho
gold because it would undervalue it
Gold sells in all parts of the world
for 22. SO times its weight in silver, and
if under free coinage we only give it a
value of 10, all human experience
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shows we would have no gold in circu
lation after the president signed a freo
and unlimited coinage bilL This bill
is called a free coinage bill. It is not
such in any proper sense whatever,
and it is,purc and simple, a bill to com
pel the people of the United States to
buy the entire product of a most pros
perous and nourishing interest, small
in the number of its members but
very rich in dollars and cents, at a
price which gives them on the cost of
production (if stated in the language
of ordinary protection) a protective
tariff or bounty of over 143 per cent
Not content with this enormous bur
den which the bill places on the over
03,000,000 of our people in no way in
terested as owners of silver mines, it
proposes to make us the virtual pur
chasers of ail the silver produced in
the world and at S1.29 per ounce, while
much of it costs not over 37 cents per
ounce and a great deal of it after de
ducting the profits on the lead prod
ucts, not over 5 to 20 cents an ounce.
"I submit that an equally mad propo
sition never secured the assent of any
legislative body in the world and if it
passes this house, now that it provis
ions are laid bare, it will be a record
which will come back to plague and
shame its members down to the hour
when they go into their coffins. If we
are to have coinage and free coinage
we must follow law and precedent
We must aim to do as this country has
always Jonc before and as every other
nation has done and that is to make
the coinage ratio ia close accord with
the market ratios.
"Wo would, but for this Bland dis
cussion, bo getting in from Europe
Slo.OOD.GOO to S23, 003.000 gold a month.
Instead of this, alarmed and excited,
Europe is sending back our stocks and
securities by the ream. Her purchases
of a quarter of a centur7 past are com
ing back by every steamer, and instead
of gold reaching our shores it poors
out and away through every channel.
Continue this wild craze for free silver
and fair crops in Europe next year will
bankrupt the United States. Neglect
our present great opportunity and who
can tell when it will come again."
WARNING IN THE STAKS.
Dr. Talmage Draws Lessons From
the Heavenly Bodies.
"Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Star
and Orion" Trasi All to God The
Need of Storm as Well aa
Sunahino.
In a late sermon at Brooklyn Rov.
T. Do Witt Talmage took his text from
Amos v. S: "Seek Him that Maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion." Follow
ing is the sermon:
A country farmer wrote this text
Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth
and threshed the grain by a new
threshing machine just invented, as
formerly the cattle trod out tbe grain.
He gathered tho fruit of the sycamore
tree, and scarified it with an iron comb
just before it was getting ripe, as it
was necessary and customary in that
way to take from it the bitterness. He
was the son of a poor shepherd,
and stuttered; but before the stammer
ing rustic the Philistines, and Syrians,
and Phoenicians, an 1 Moabites, and
Ammonites, and Edomites, and Israel
ites trembled.
Moses was a law giver, Daniel was
a prince, Isaiah a courtier, and David
a king; but Amos, the author of my
text, was a peasant, and, as might be
Bupposed, nearly all of his parallelisms
are pastoral, his prophecy full of the
odor of new mown hay, and the rattle
of locusts, aod the rumble of carts
with sheaves and the roar of wild
beasts devouring the flock while the
shepherd camu out in ther defense. He
watched the herds by day, and by
night inhabited a booth made out of
bushes, so that through these branches
he could see the stars all night long,
and was more familiar with them than
we who have tight roofs to our houses,
and hardly ever see the stars except
among tall brick chimneys of the great
towns. But at seasons of the year
when the herds wero in special danger,
he would stay out in the op;n field all
through the darkness, his only shelter
the curtain of the night heaven, with
the stellar embroideries and silvered
tassels of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone
with his herds! Poor Amos! And at
twelvo o'clock at night, hark to the
wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and
the bear's growl, and the owl's te-whit-to-who,
and the serpent's hiss, as he
unwittingly steps too near while mov-
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omer licrasmcn, got me iiauiL oi study
ing the map of tho heavens because it
was so much of tho time spread out be
fore him. He noticedsome stars advanc
ing and others receding. He associated
heir dawn and setting with certain
Beasons of the year. He had a poetic
nature and he read night by night, and
month by month, and year by year,
the poem of the constellations, divine
ly rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars
especially attracted his attention while
seated on the ground, or lying on his
back under the open scroll of the mid
night heavens the Pleiades, or seven
stars, and Orion. Tho former group
this rustic prophet associated with the
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lifts and lets down the tides of the At-
lantic ocean, and the electric storms of
the sun, by all scientific admission, af
fect the earth, why not the stars have
proportionate effect?
And there are somo things which
make me think that it may not have
been all superstition which connected
the movements and appearance of the
heavenly bodies with great moral events
on earth. Did not a meteor run on
evangelistic errand on the first Christ
mas night and designate the rough
cradle of our Lord? Did not the stars
in their courses fight against Sisera?
Was it merely coincidental that before
tho destruction of Jerusalem the moon
was eclipsed for twelve consecutive
nights? Did it merely happen so that
a new star appeared in constellation
Cassiopeia and then disappeared just
before King Charles IX., of France,
who was responsible for St Bartholo
mew massacre, died? Was it without
significance that in the days of the
Roman Emperor Justinian war and
famine were preceded by the dimness
of the sun. which for nearly a year
gave no more light than the moon, al
though there were no clouds to obscuro
it?
Astrology, after all, may have been
something more than a brilliant heath
enism. No wonder the Amos of the
text, having heard these two anthems
of the stars, put down the stout, rough
Rtaff of the herdsman and took into his
brown and cut and knotted fingers the
pen of a prophet, and advised the re
creant people of his time to return to
I God, saying: "Seek Him that maketh
the seven stars and Orion." This com
mand, which Amos gave 785 years B.
C, is just as appropriate for us, 1S'J2
A. D.
In the first place. Amos saw, as we
must see, that the God who made the
Pleiades and Orion must be the God of
order. It was not so much a star here
and a star there that impressed the in
spired herdsmen, but seven in one
group and seven in the other group.
He saw that night after night and
season after season and deoade after
decade they had kept step of light each
one in its own place, a sisterhood never
clashing and never contesting prece
dence. From the time Ilesiod called
the Pleiades the "seven daughters of
Atlas," and Virgil wrote in his 3neid
of "Stormy Orion," until now they
have observed the order established for
their coming and going; order written
not in manuscript that may be pigeon
holed, but- with the. hand of the Al
mighty on the dornft of the sb.y, so that
all nations may read it Order. Per-
sistent order. Sublime order. Om
nipotent order.
What a sedative to yon and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pell mell, and world
ruled by some fiend at haphazard, and
in all directions maladministration!
The God who keeps seven worlds in
right circnit for six thousand years can
certainly keep all the affairs of individ
uals and continents in adjustment. We
had not better fret much, for the
peasant's argument of tho tax was
right. If God can take care of the
seven worlds of the Pleiades and the
four chief worlds of Orion, he can
probably take care of the one warld
we inhabit
In your occupation, your mission.
your sphere, do the best you can, and
then trust to God; and if things are all
mixed and disquieting, and your brain
is hot and vour heart sick, tret some
one to go out with you into the star
light and point out to you the Pleiades,
or, better than that, get into some ob
servatory, and through the telescopo
see further than Amos with the naked
eye could namely, 200 stars in the
Pleiades, and that in what is called the
sword of Orion there is a nebula com
puted to be 2,203,000,000,000 times larg
er than the sun. O, bo at peace with
tho God who made all that and con
trols all that the wheel of the con
stellations turning in the wheel of the
galaxies for thousands of years with
out the breaking of a cog or the slip
ping of a band or the snap of an axle.
For your placidity and comfort through
tho Lord Jesus Christ I charge you,
"Seek Him that maketh the seven stars
and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two
groups of the text was tho God of
light. Amos saw that God was not
satisfied with making one star, or two,
or three stars, but he makes seven; and
having finished that group of worlds,
makes another group group after
group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion.
It seems that God likes light so well
that he keeps making it Only one
being in the universe knows the statis
tics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric
creations and that is the Creator him
self. And they have all been lovingly
christened, each one a name as dis
tinct as the names of your children.
"He telleth the number of the stars; he
calleth them all by their names."
But think of the billions and trillions
of daughters of starry light that God
calls by namo as they sweep by Him
with beaming brow and lustrous robe!
So fond is God of light natural light
moral light spiritual light Again and
again is light harnessed for symboliza
tion Christ, the bright and morning
star; evangelization, the daybreak; the
redemption of nations. Sun of Right
eousness rising with healing in His
wings. O, men and women, with so
many sorrows and sins and perplexi
ties, if you want light of comfort light
of pardon, lightof goodness, in earnest
praver through Christ "Seek Him that
maketh the seven stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must sec,
that the God who made theso two
archipeligos of stars mast be an un
changing God. Thero had been no
change in the stellar appearance in
this herdsman's life time, and his
father, a shepherd, reported to him
that there had been no change in his
life time. And these two clusters hang
over the celestial arbor now just as
they were the first night that they
shone on the Edcnic bowers. Surely,
a changeless God must have fashioned
the Pleiades and Orion! O, what an
anodyne amid the ups and downs of
life, and the flux and reflux of the
tides of prosperity, to know that wo
have a changeless God. the same yes
terday, to-day and forever.
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. The world sits in its chariot
and drives tandem and the horse ahead
is Huzza and the hon.e behind is Anathe
ma. "But the mercy of tho Lard is
from everlasting to everlasting to them
that fear Him, and His righteousness
unto the children's children of such as
keep His covenant and to those who
remember His commandments to do
them." This moment "seek Him that
maketh the seven stars and Orion."
Again Amos saw, as we must see,
that God who made the two beacons of
the oriental night sky must be a God
of love aid kindly warning. The
Pleiades rising in raid sky said to all
the herdsmen and shepherds and hus
bandmen: "Come out and enjoy the
mild weather and cultivate your
gardens and fields." Orion, coining in
winter, warned them to prepare tar
tempest All navigation was regulated
by these two constellations. The one
said to shimnastar and crew: "Hoist
sail for the sea and gather merchandise
from other lands." But Orion was the
storm signal and said: "Reef sail,
make things snug or put into harbor,
for the hurricanes are getting wings
out" As the Pleiades were the sweet
evangels of the spring, Orion was the
warning prophet of the winter.
O, now I get the best view of God I
ever had! There are two kinds of ser
mons I never want to preach the one
that presents God so kind, s indulgent,
so lenient so i"nbcci'?that men may do
what they will against him, and fract
ure his every law, and put the pry of
their impertinence and rebellion under
his throne, and, while they are spitting
in his face and stabbing at his heart
he takes them up in hi arms and kisses
their infuriated brow and cheek, saying:
"Of such is the tftngdora of Heaven."
The other kind of sermon I never want
to preach is the one that represents God
as all fire and torture and thunder
clouds, and with red hot pitchfork toss
ing the human ruce into paroxysms of
infinite agony. The sermon that I am
now preaching believes in a God of
loving, kindlr warning, the God of
spring and winter, the God of Pleiades
and Orion.
You must remember that tho winter
is just as important as the spring. Let
one winter pass without frost to kill
vegetation and ice to bind the rivers
and snow to enrich our fields, and then
you will have to enlarge vour hospitals
and your "emeteries. "A green Christ
mas, makes a fat grave, yard," was tie
old proverb. Storms to pnrif j tbe air.
Thermometers at 10 degrees above
zero to tone up the system. December
and January just as important as May
and June. I tell you we need the
storms of life as much as we do the
sunshine. There are more men ruined
by prosperity than by adversity.
One of the swiftest transatlantic voy
ages made last summer by our swiftest
steamer was made because she had a
stormy wind abaft, chasing her from
New York to Liverpool. But to those
going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting and a hindrance,
it is a bad thing to have a storm ahead,
pushing us back; but if wo be God's
children and aiming toward Hcavon,
the storms of lifo will only chase us
the sooner into the harbor. I am so
glad to believe that the monsoons, and
typhoonsand mistrals and siroccos of
the land and sea are not unchained
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but
are under divine supervision!
I am so glad that the God of seven
stars is also the God of Orionl It was
out of Dante's suffering came the
sublime Divina Commedia, and out of
John Milton's blindness came Paradise
Lost and out of a miserable infidel at
tack came the Bridgewater Treatise in
favor of Christianity and out of David's
exile came the songs of consolation,
and out of the sufferings of Christ came
the possibility of the world's redemp
tion, and out of your bereaven out your
persecution, your poverties, your mis
fortunes, may yet come an external
heaven.
We have a nice little world here that
we stick to, as though losing that we
lose alL We are afraid of falling off
this little raft of a world. We are
afra:d that some meteoric iconoclast
will some night smash around it and
are disappointed when we find that it
revolves around the sun instead of the
sun revolving around it What a fuss
we make about this little bit of a
world, its existence only a short time
between two spasms, the paroxysm by
which it was hurled from chaos into
order, and the paroxysm of its demo
lition. And 1 am so glad that so many texts
call us to look off to other worlds,
many of them larger and grander and
more resplendent "Look there," says
Job, "at Mazaroth and Arcturus and
his sons!" "Look there," says St
John, "at the moon under Christ's
feet!" "Look there." says Joshua, "at
the sun standing still above Gibeon!"
"Look there." says Amos, the herds
man, "at the seven stars and Orion!"
Don't let us be so sad about those who
shove off from this world under Christly
pilotage. Don't let us be so agitated
about our own going off this little
barge or sloop or canal boat of a world
to get on so-ne "Great Eastern" of the
heavens. Don't let us persist in want
ing to stay in this barn, this she I, this
outhouse of a world, when all the
king's palaces already occupied by
many of our best friends are swinging
wide open their gates to let us in.
When I read, "In my Father's house
are many mansions," I do not know
but that each world is a room, and aa
many rooms as there are worlds, Cel
lar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hall
ways, stellar windows, stellar domes.
How our departed friends must pity us
shut up in these crampct apartments,
tirod if we walk fifteen miles, when
they some morning, by one stroke of
wing, can make circuit of tho whole
stellar system and be back in timo for
matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling
constellation is the residence of the
martyrs; that group of twelvo lumi
naries is the celestial home of the
apostles. Perhaps that steep of light
is the dwelling place of angels cher
ubic, seraphic, arehangelic A man
sion with as many rooms as worlds,
and all their windows illuminated Ir.2
festivity.
O, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectatio-i! How litr
tie it makes the present and how stu
pendous it makes the future! How it
consoles us about our pious dead, who
instead of being boxed up under the
ground have the range of as manv
rooms as there arc worlds, and
wol- j
come everywhere, for it Ls the Father's
house, in which thero aro many man
sions! Oh, Lord God of the seven staru
and Orion, how can I endure the trans
port, the ecstasy, of such a vision! I
must obey my text and seek Him. I
will seek Him. I seek Him now, for I
call to mind that it is not the material
universe that is most valuable, but the
spiritual, and that each of us has a soul
worth more than all the worlds which
the inspired herdsman saw from his
booth on the hills of Tekoa.
I had studied it before, but tho
cathedral of Cologne, Germany, never
impressed me as it did the last time I
saw it It is admittedly the grandest
Gothic structure in the world, its
foundation laid in 124S, only eight or
nine years ago completed. Moro than
COO years in building. All Europe
taxed for its construction. Its chapel
of tho Magi with precious stones
enough to purchase a kingdom. As I
stood outside, looking at the double
range of fiymg buttresses and the
forest of pinnacles, higher and higher
and higher, until I almost reeled from
dizziness, I exclaimed: "Great dox
o'.osy in stone! Frozen prayer of many
nations!"
But while standing there I saw a
poor man enter and put down his pack
and kneel beside his burden ozi the
hard floor of that cathedral. And
tears of deep emotion came into my
eyes as I said: "There is a soul worth
more than all the material surround
ings. That man wnl live after the hist
pinnacle has fallen, and not one Btone
of all that cathedra glory shall remain
uncrumbled. ne Is now a Lazarus
in rags and poverty and weariness, but
immortal, and a son of the Lord God
Almighty; and the prayer he now
0 ff ers, though amid many supertitions,
1 believe God will hear; and among
the apostles wheso sculptured forms
stand in the surrounding niches he will
at last be lifted, and into the presence
of that Christ whose sufferings are rep
resented by tho crucifix before which
he bows, and be raised in due time out
of all his poverties into the glorious
home built lor him aod built for us by
"Him who maketh the scTcn stars, and
Orioctt
IT IS SENATOR MILLS.
The Texa LoirUlatare Choote Roger Q.
Mill For United States Semitor j itn
Overwhelmlnir 3IaJorlty.
Austin. Tex., March 2a Tho house
galleries were thronged yesterday with
men and women gathered from all
parts of Texas to see
the state's favorito
son elected United
States seuator.
Walter Gresham.
of Galveston, nomi
nated Mr. Mills, and
j in nis speecu aaii
that the effect of
national legislation
fortwenty-fiveyearj
had been to build
up favored classes
at IJ1U f.llJCuac wi
uooKit Q. MiL.i.3. the great agricul
tural sections. By means of taxes
imposed -by the federal government
for protection and by the mani
pulation by the republican party
of tho finances of the country,
tho working classes wero compelled
to par exorbitant prices for many
necessities and forced to sell their
products at prices scarcely above tho
cost of production. The south was now
paying one-third of the taxes collected
by the general government while less
than one-tenth of the revenue was ex
ponded for its benefit These, unjust,
oppressive measures must be reformed,
but great reforms were never accom
plished except under the leadership of
wise, patriotic, aggressive leaders like
Roger Q. Mills.
On the roll call all voted for Mills ex
cept Cain, Curry. II. Korslj, Jain and
Phillips (for Chilton), King and Shaw
(for Barnett), Gibbs, Nelson, Peebles,
Swan and Templeton (for Culberson),
and Shafer, absent The majority in
the house was ninety-one.
The same scenes were repeated ia
the senate. A great crowd of specta
tors assembled in the senate to wit
ness Mills' nomination. Nominating
speeches were made by Tyler, Crane
and others. On the first ballot Mills
received all the votes but two. Clark
for Jnscph D. Sayers and O'Neil for
Culberson.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
The Kcport In Kezitrd t Senator Hilt Re
ceived l-riint 9Ilrhicr:in.
Detuoit, Mich., March 25. The
Tribune, republican, yesterday de
clared that David Bennett Hill has sent
word secretly to his Michigan friends
that ho is not a candidate for the
presilency. The paper declares that
the democratic state convention to bo
held at Muskegon, Mav 4 will send to
Chicago an uninstructed delegation
with secret direction to follow the vote
of New York, assurance being given
that Hill is not a candidate.
The information priute I in the Tri
bune this morning in regard to an al
leged statement made to curtain Michi
gan democrats by David B. Hill, that
he does not aspire to the presidency,
was furnished by Chairman Grogan, of
the democratic county central commit
tee. Chairman Grogan says that he called
on Mr. Hill about the same time that a
committee of two democrats from a
certain faction of that party in this
state conferred with the senator. Their
conference was for the purpose of ascer
taining whether Hill would a'low an
aggressive campaign to be entered into
in this state in his behalf for the presi
dency as against Cleveland.
Mr. Grogan refuses to divulge tho
names of the two prominent democrats
and declares, so the Tribune says, that
the inf jrmation given out was similar
to what Hill told the committee.
Whether or not Hill mado the asser
tion in good faith is not known.
STRUCK BY A TRAIN.
Warren Watnon, Cleric of the United Sinter
Court. Fatally Injured liy a Train :it Kau
nas City.
Kansas City, Mo., March 23. War
ren Watson, clerk of the United States
circuit court w-as last night run over
by a Santa Fe freight train. Bis right
foot and right hand were cut off, his
nose was fractured anil there was a
probable fracture of the base of the
brain. He will die.
Where the Belt line tracks cross tho
Fifteenth street boulevard at Askew
avenue there is a station on the north
si'Ie of Fifteenth street at which stop
the dummy line trains to and
from Independence. Tnis station
is dark after night Across the
way at the southeast cor
ner of the tracks is a German beer
saloon. Mr. Watson entered this saloon
about S o'clock last night and drank a
glass of beer. He said he was sleepy
and would like to bf waked in time to
catch the next dummy line train for
Independence. Then he sat down at a
table and putting his head upon his
arms fell into a dose. When the bar
keeper presently looked for him he had
gone.
It seems that Mr. Watson had gone
out to catch the dummy line for Inde
pendence about 9 o'clock and wan
struck by a freight train while walk
ing on the track. Nine freight cars
passed over his body.
The Oueen In Franco.
nYF.nr.3, March 23L Queen Victoria
and partv arrived here yesterday.
They were received quietly by the
mayor and prefect on behalf of the
town and government The queen, in
reply to the welcome extended to her,
graciously expressed her thanks. Tho
route to the hotel was decorated with
arches of flowers and was filled with a
cheering multitude.
Cruelty to Hoys.
PniLADELPUiA, Pa., March 23.
When the state board of charities
meets at Huntington to-day a mass of
startling information will be laid be
fore it by State Senator Osborne, of
this city, bearing upon the cruelties in
flicted upon the inmates of the in
du atrial reformatory.
The name and numbers ot the eighty
three boys will be presented, all of
whom havo been in confinement in sol
itary cells, and in most instances havo
also been whipped with water-soaked
leather straps, tied to iron bars or to
the floors, and in some cases compelled
to carry a ball and an am.
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