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BEVIEW OF THE YEAE
CHRONOLOGICAL RZCORD OF
IMPORTANT EVENTS
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3lIonth of May Most Conspicuous by
Its List of Appalling Disasters and
Natural Catastrophes by Land and
Sea Hccord of Fires and Crimes
A Backward Glance
Following is a chronological record of
the most important events of the past
twelve months May 1S9G will be re
membered as a month of disaster On
the 3d twelve persons were killed by an
-explosion in Cincinnati on the loth 120
Ty a cyclone in Texas on the 17th 33 by
-cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas ou
he lSth 44 by a cyclone in Nebraska
on the 21st 10 by a cyclone in Oklahoma
on the 22d 5 by a cyclone in Missouri
on the 24th 40 by a cyclone in Iowa on
the 23th SG by cyclones in Michigan and
Oklahoma and 40 by a cloudburst at Mc
Gregor Iowa and on the 26th 12 by a
torm at Cairo and between 75 and 100
hy the fall of a bridge at Victoria B C
Otherwise the record is not out of the or
dinary
January
I President names Venezuelan commis
sion British ship Jeannette Cowan wreck
ed on Vancouver Island 12 men perish
2 Six members of Hlbbard fumily die by
lire at Columbus Ohio Four killed 32
-hurt by exploding lireworks at St Louis Mo
IJritish force under Dr Jameson at
tempts seizure of territory In Transvaal
fyuth Africa aud Is cut to pieces and cap
tured by Boers British Government
his Invasion Earthquake in Per
sia destroys village of Jaujabad and kills
Sou people
4 Cubans invest the city of Ilavana
United Stares Insists on indemnity from
Turkey for plundeied missions Six killed
In a wreck near Chillicothe Ohio Utah a
State
5 Carlisle offers 100000000 popular loan
Second Persian earthquake destroys city
of Gol and kills S00 people
0 Report that Havana is fallen not con
firmed Four miners killed in a Shamokin
Pa shaft Tremendous prairie llres in
Western Kansas
9 War fever high In England Trans
vaal demands independence and Indemnity
tor Jamesons raid Report of alliance of
Germany France and Russia against Eng
land to sustain the Boers
12 Peter Hougaard of Chicago kills his
-wife Ave children and himself by asphyxia
tion
13 Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en
ter his domains
14 Furaker chosen Senator from Ohio
I 15 Government victorious m Mannoua
elections Severe iichtint about Ilavana
VlIIsou chosen Senator from Iowa
15ond syndicate dissolves popular loan as
sured
15 Chicago gets Chicago National Demo
cratic Convention
17 Announcement of narrisou DImmick
engagement Campos relieved of Spanish
command in Cuba Death of Frank
Jer of Chicago
21 Five lircmen killed by falling walls
at St Louis three people killed by gas ex
plosion at New Ilaven Conn two at Red
kev Ind Death of Gen Tom Ewing at
New York Red Cross delegation starts
fur Turkey
2 American Liner St Paul ashore at
Long Branch
20 Cuban filibustering steamer Hawkins
sinks o lost
27 Fifty four Welsh miners killed by ex
plosion Feud at Palon owa ends in two
deaths
30 Five killed 20 hurt by exploding
boiler at Ilollldaybburg Pa us
31 Salisbury concedes justice of Monroe
doftriue and declares Englands inability to
p suppress Armenian outrages Murder of
Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas Ky
3 February
bin l Senate passes silver bond bill
tp 2 2000000 lire loss In Ilnlnuelpma
Viremeiiuous siiumbiuhu in ununrau
T Ttiehard Klatke kills his father mother
-wife three children and himself at Chicago
despondent Bond bids aggregate
WHO00 at a figure exceeding 110
Three killed in Polish Hungarian riot
at Whiting Ind Terrific storm sweep
Atlantic coast Morristown N J inundated
by bursting dam Bound Brook wiped out by
tlbod and file many lives lost immense
property destroyed Bridge near Bristol
Conn swept away drowning eleven work
juen
7 Death of W II English at Indianapolis
S Publisher Duulop of Chicago Dispatch
sentenced to two years and to pay 2000
for circulating obscene matter
U Ten sailors drown off Newburyport
Mass
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Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan
Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy
SIxtf miners killed at
Rain of mud in Chicago
Newcastle
Bill Nve stricken by paralysis Mer
cury below zero all day at Chicago tnree
of exposure Clothing cutters at Chi
cago strike Dynamite at Johannesburg
South Africa kills scores fire at a masked
ball in Lisbou Portugal kills fifty attend
ants
21 Fitzsimmons whips Mahcr in 1 minute
3C seconds Commander and Mrs
ton Booth removed from command of Salva
tion Army in America
22 Death of Bill Nye
23 Ballington Bootli revolts against his
retirement in Salvation Army Seven peo
ple die in a Baltimore fire
27 New York Yacht Club expels Lord
Dunraven
2S Senate passes resolution to recognize
Cuba
29 1000000 fire in Halifax Riots in
Barcelona Spain upon receipt of news of
action of Congress American consulate at
tacked -
March
1 Great floods In New England
3 Rome in a rage because of slaughter of
3000 Italian soldiers In battle in Abyssinia
4 Renewed anti American demonstration
In Madrid All Italy In an uproar over
Abyssinian defeat 200000 fire at Johns
town Pa
14 Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin 111
10 Frankfort Ky under martial law
v IS Five killed by powaer explosion at
Ripton N Y
23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois Pa
by explosion Death of Thomas Hughes
author at London Riot at Holland
Mich over horsewhipping of a sensational
newspaper correspondent
2S 400000 fire at Louisville Ky Illi
nois Supreme Court confirms imprisonment
sentence of Bankers Meadowcroft
29 Unknown man kills Alvin M Stone
and wife aud wounds three daughters near
Akron Ohio cause unknown Four die by
fire in New Vork
3L Storms in the Northwest Report of
execution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha
vana Opening of lake navigation
V April
1 Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenement
Trains on B O and Frisco roads held
lip Cubans capture Santa Clara
G Wedding of Gen Harrison and Mrs
Dimmick
7 Chicago elections retire 21 boodle alder
iiien
10 S B Minchell kills W B O Sands
ais own wife and three children and him
self at Pentwater Mich
13 Six killed by falling trestle at Bed
ford Ind President Cleveland appoints
Fitzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba
Greater New York bill vetoea Democrats
vbserve Jefferson Day
14 J W Lehman of Chicaco kills him
self and three children 1000000 fire at
New York 2r0000 fire at Fairburv 111
lo First fatal sunstroke of the year at
Philadelphia Phenomenal hot wave pre
vails
1G Base ball season opens Tempera
ture reaches SS degrees at Chicago breaking
all records for April
19 Nine saiiors drown off Long sland
- 35 At Rockville Ind Albert Egbert kills
five people without cause and commits sui
cide his sick sister dies from shock
1000000 Incendiary fire loss at Cripple
Creek Colo Ten killed and twenty hurt
In Kansas and three killed in Virginia by
cyclones
27 Fatal storms in South Dakota Boers
pass sentence of death upon leaders of the
Transvaal insurrection President Krueger
commutes sentence
29 Second lire at Cripple Crepk Colo
does 51500000 damage aud wipes out the
town
May
3 Fearful loss of life by explosion of a
gas generator at Cincinnati nearly fifty
hurt
5 Street car strike in Milwaukee
G Clevelands sweeping civil service order
protects 30000 office holders
8 Many poiuts record temperature of 90
degrees
9 LAnse Mich has 750000 fire Ash
land Wis loses half a million by fire
Continued excessive heat
11 Eleven killed by explosion of boiler of
rafting steamer Harry Brown at VIcksburg
Miss
14 Bold bank robbery at Buffalo N Y
Big windstorm at Chicago Methodists re
tire Bishops Foster and Bowman
15 Eighty killed by cyclone at Sherman
Texas
17 Great loss of life and property by cy
clones In Kansas Five sailors drown off
Grosse Point III Blue Island III fire
swept 300000 fire at Atlanta Ga
18 Nebraska cyclone kills 44
2L Oklahoma cyclone kills ten
22 Missouri cyclone kills five
24 Four of Otto Malms family die by
gasoline fire at Chicago Cyclone in Polk
and Jasper Counties Iowa kills a score of
people and does tremendous damage Chi
cago and suburbs also suffer
25 Over 100 killed by cyclone In Michigan
Forty die at McGregor Iowa in a cloud
burst
20 One hundred killed in street car disas
ter at Victoria B C James Dunham mur
ders six people at San Jose Cal Czar of
Russia crowned Cairo 111 storm kills
twelve
27 St Louis East St Louis and several
Missouri towns swept by one of the most de
structive cyclones in the worlds history
1000 reported dead
30 Two thousand Russians killed in a
panic at Moscow Eighteen people die in
a cyclone at Seneca Mo
June
G Anarchist bomb in Barcelona kills 7
and wounds 4
13 Death of ex Gov Felch of Michigan
1G Earthquake In Japan kills thousands
Republican convention in St Louis
Steamer Drummond and 240 lives lost off
France i
18 Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake
and tidal wave In Japan McKiuley nom
inated at St Louis Silver men bolt the
convention Ten killed by exploding yacht
boiler at Little Falls N Y j
22 Five killed bv collapsing building at
San Francisco Death of B H Bristow
ex Secretary of the Treasury at New York
2S One hundred miners burled at Pitts
ton Pa Six drown in Shawano Lake
Wis
July
1 Death of Harriet Beeeher Stowe
7 Democratic convention at Chicago
Yale beaten at Henley
10 Chicago convention nominates Bryan
11 Twenty eight killed in -wreck at Lo
gan Iowa 1750 hold up at noon in Chi
cago 300000 fire at Nashville Tcnn
12 Five killed in week at Chicago Foui
drowned at Lawrence Kan
13 Half million fire loss at St Louis
Intense heat at Chicago
14 Hot wave sweeps the country 91 de
grees at Chicago
15 Temperature drops 3G degrees at Chi
cago Twenty eight drowned at Cleveland
Ohio
IS Three lives and half a million in prop
erty lost by fire at Chicago car barns
Malvern Ark razed by incendiary fire
24 Twenty six drowned by cloudburst in
Colorado Serious Hoods in Ohio and
Pennsylvania fc
25 Populists at St Louis nominate Bryan
and Watson
27 Eleven die in a Pennsylvania cloud
burst near Pittsburg
2S Indiana gas belt swept by floods three
killed at Anderson
30 Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer
sey City N J
August
4 Failure of Moore Bros Chicago Dia
mond Match brokers for 4000000 Phe
nomenal heat in Western Central and Mid
dle Northern States
5 0 7 Continuance of killing heat
Conference of National Democratic party at
Indianapolis
9 Furious heat increases 72 deaths from
sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn 19 at
Chicago similar reports from all quarters
Seven killed by trolley accident at Colum
bia Pa
10 One hundred and eighty people die of
heat in New York and Brooklyn 00 at Chi
cago 12 at St Louis
12 Cool wave Thirty die in a Pennsyl
vania cloudburst Seven killed by boiler
explosion near Alliance Ohio
10 Undertakers and cemeteries in New
York overwhelmed with business hundreds
of funerals postponed heat the cause
17 Death of Abigail Dodge Gull Hamil
ton at Hamilton Mass
25 Whitney Vanderbllt wedding On
tonagon Mich destroyed by fire Nation
al Democratic State Convention of Illinois
nominates John C Black for Governor
September
1 Twelve killed by powaer house explosion
at San Francisco
3 Gold Democrats at Indianapolis nomin
ate Palmer aud Buckuer Slight frost in
Northwest
G Eleven firemen killed at Benton Har
bor Mich Two men lynched at Glencoe
Minn
8 Six of a coaching party killed near
Warsaw Ind Family of four killed at
crossing at Oshkosh Wis
19 Tremendous storm in the East
British troops capture Dongola and rout
dervishes in Egypt Riot in Leadville
four killed
27 Mount Holyoke College burns at South
Hadley Mass
29 Many Southern cities wrecked by
storm great life and property loss in Flor
ida Georgia and Pennsylvania
October
1 S Iowa semi centennial jubilee
8 Death of Du Maurler the novelist
9 Chicago Day celebration
10 Two bank robbers killed at Sher
bourne Minn
14 Meeker Col citizens kill three bank
robbers and hold a celebration over It
13 Flight of W T Rambusch from Ju
neau Wis after embezzling over 200000
during long term of years
10 First snow in Northern Wisconsin
17 First snow in Chicago 150000 fire
at Holland Mich
15 Death of Henry E Abbey theatrical
manager at New York
25 Eight killed 20 hurt in wreck at St
Louis Six drown while boating at Den
ver
26 1200000 elevator fire at Chicago
25 29 Mercury at Chicago reaches 78 de
grees Cyclones in the South and Okla
homa
November
3 McKInley elected President
5 Storm of sleet and snow In Northwest
and Middle States
7 Schooner Waukesha and six men lost
off Muskegon Mich
10 Mercury registered 70 degrees at Chi
cago
19 Death of Mrs Siddons at Paris
23 Death of Campanlui the tenor at
Parma Italy Mabley Co Detroit fail
26 Worst November blizzard ever known
in Northwest roads blocked and much stock
killed Apparently authentic report of
eyler s rout in uuoa with loss of 3000
men
27 2S 29 30 Continued severe cold in
West and North
December
2 3 4 Alarming ice gorge in Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin
0 Strong indications that Cuban insur
gents will be successful Weyler fails in his
campaign in Piuar del Rio Five killed in
collision at Waelder Texas
7 Congress in session Reported death
of Maceo the Cuban insurgent general
9 Loss of North German Lloyd steamer
Salier with 275 people off Spain
11 Collapsed building at Teres Spain
kills 100 Mine disaster at Hedges Cal
kills eight
10 Tremendous snowstorm at New York
City accompanied by extreme cold three
people perish Chicago has mild tempera
ture no snow and skies Wide
spread agitation looking toward aid of Cu
ban insurgents
17 Eugland shaken by an earthquake
500000 fire at Pittsburg Death of Herr
mann the magician
21 National Bank of Illinois at Chicago
closes
22 Three banks dragged down by Illinois
National Two St Paul banks fail Cash
wheat at Chicago reaches S9 after three
months of almost uninterrupted advance
and market continues strong
SENATE AND HOUSE
WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW
MAKERS
A Weeks Proceedings in the Halls of
Congress Important Measures Dis
cussed and Acted Upon An Impar
tial Resume of the Business
The National Solons
The Senate Thursday passed the immi
gration bill known as the Lodge bill with
a new section providing that the exclusion
shall not apply to persons arriving from
Cuba during the continuance of the pres
ent disorders there As passed the bill
amends the immigration laws so as to ex
clude from admission to the United
States all persons over 1G years of age
who cannot read and write the language
of their native country or some other
language but an admissable immigrant
over the age of 10 may bring in with him
or send for his wife or parent or grand
parent or minor child or granchild not
withstanding the inability to read and
write The House passed the third of
the regular appropriation bills that for
the support of the army and entered up
on the consideration of the legislative
executive and judicial bill The army
bill as passed makes no provision for the
army and navy hospital at Hot Springs
Ark The House also passed several bills
relating to the District of Columbia and
three resolutions for the use of flags of
the war department government reser
vations etc on the occasion of Mr Mc
Kinleys inauguration
Friday was private bill day in the
House but most of the session was de
voted to the passage of the thirty seven
pension and relief bills favorably acted
upon by the committee of the whole Fri
day The bill to pay Flora A Darling
the wife of a Confederate general S5
GS3 for Tennessee and Louisiana bank
notes taken from lrer in 1S04 while under
a flag of truce which was attacked by
Mr Dalzell Friday was laid on the table
Only five bills were favorably acted upon
One of them a bill to refer a claim of
Thomas B Reed a Pennsylvania sol
dier during the war to an unpaid bal
ance of salary to the Court of Claims
created some merriment owing to the
fact that his name was identical with
that of the Speaker of the House The
other bills were to pay the oflicers and
crews of the United States gunboat
Kineo and Chocura 12474 prize money
to pay William B Isaacs Co lGyS7
the finding of the Court of Claims to pay
George McAlpin the sutler of the Elev
enth Pennsylvania Cavalry 0000 illeg
ally collected from him and to repay
Mathias Pederson of Spring Valley Wis
300 paid by him for a substitute during
the war Pederson not at that time being
a citizen of the United States The Sen
ate did nothing of importance
A report presenting additional views on
the Cuban question was presented to the
Senate Monday by Senator Morgan of
Alabama in behalf of himself and Sen
ator Mills It indorses Senator Camer
ons views and discusses the action of the
Committee on Foreign Relations in 1S59
on the bill to facilitate the acquisition of
the island of Cuba The report reviews
the alleged misgovernment of Cuba and
messages by former Presidents on the
subject and then refers to President
Clevelands attitude whose messageJt
affirms is in corroboration of all former
testimony on the subject Debate was
sharp and rancorous Mr Vest offered a
resolution to the effect that Congress
and not the President is vested with
jo aoaopuodapui oziuSoooa 0 toavocI
belligerency of any insurgent people De
bate was stopped by Mr Hale upon a
point of order Mr Hill introduced a
resolution looking toward recognition of
the Cubans as belligerents and pledging
neutrality of this government No final
action was taken Nothing of importance
was done by the House
The attention of the Senate was unex
pectedly diverted Tuesday from Cuba
to the Pacific railroads Soon after the
session opened Mr Pettigrew of South
Dakota called up his resolution appro
priating 10000000 to take up the trust
notes of the Pacific railroad This opened
the entire question and Mr Morgan of
Alabama followed with a bitter arraign
ment of the Pacific roads charging them
with fraud and crime on a gigantic scale
The speech lasted until shortly before 2
oclock when the morning hour expired
thus sending over the Cuban question un
til after the holidays Further than this
the session was uneventful The House
passed the legislative executive and ju
dicial appropriation bill and then adjourn
ed for the holiday recess This is the
first time in the history of Congress that
the legislative bill has passed before the
holidays The day was devoted to the
annual debate of the civil service law
and as usual the attempt to strike out
the provision for the commission was
overwhelmingly defeated
Reflections of a Bachelor
Lots of men think they ought to get
their wives affection on credit
Men who are at heart most romanti
always pretend to the last not to be
Pretty teeth are very often at th
foundation of a girls reputation for
jollity
Theres such a thing as baring too
much regard for the feelings of the
neighbors
The velvet on the peach may be pret
ty to look at but it sets your teeth on
edge to touch it
There are some women who nevei
find occasion to bewail the passing of
the days of cbalry
When a man says that nobody cares
whether he lives or dies he isnt adver
tising himself very well
When a woman tells jou some gossip
about another woman she always be
gins by saying Isnt it awful how she
has got herself talked about
When a woman gets an idea she cjusI
be economical she hunts around and
finds an old skirt to rip up
A man isnt likely to enjoy hearing nis
wife talk with a woman who remem
bers him when he was a boy
There never was a woman who
wasnt awfully conceited about tb6
way she could love if she tried
A man hurts himself more in hifi
wifes estimation by being brutal to
other people than he does by being bra
tal to her
CHEESE ARE THRIFTY FELLOWS
6trr L in jJusiness on Borrowed Capital
and Always licpay the Loans
In some respects the much abused
Chinamen said Hong Sing Long one
of the Interpreters and general agents
of the Chinese Six Companies to a Star
reporter are way In advance of the
ordinary workingman and particularly
so In regard to their Ready Money As
sociation
Hong Sing Long spends most of his
time in New York though he visits
Washington several times each year
He is an educated Chinaman and has
had the advantage of several years at
Harvard and besides has been gradu
ated as a lawyer
With the exception of one all of the
Chinese laundry places in this city are
the result of the Ready Money associa
tions that is the money necessary to
start them came from the Ready
Money The plan is not unlike the
building associations which I am told
have quite a clientele here and which
were originally started in Philadelphia
The Chinese plan is to start Ready
Moneys as often as a party of Chinese
find they have any surplus money on
hand the idea being to keep the money
moving along It is the custom of the
laundry boys for Chinamen always
speak of each other as boys to gather
about on Monday that being their off
day and gossip All who have spare
money put It in a pool and authorize
some one to keep it personally as a
deposit in a bank As soon as the pool
gets any size the word goes out and it
is sold to the largest bidder if there is
more than one applicant for it
As a general thing there is but one
applicant and he gets it at a rate of
interest agreed upon It starts him in
business and in a few weeks he begins
paying back Now and then there is
no demand for the money It then goes
to the cities where it is needed Just
now the Chinamen are starting laun
dries in a number of small towns of rhe
South and my errand here now is to
get some of the Ready Money funds to
be advanced for that purpose
Safe Perfectly safe The civiliza
tion of the Chinese is no new thing It
is 5000 years old They have found
out that honest is the best policy not
on account of the moral or religious
question involved as you understand it
but on account of the business proposi
tion involved Honesty is best because
it pays as for many other reasons In
business dealings Chinese are very
strict much more strict than any other
people
The Chinaman knows that if he bor
rows he must pay back and that the
consequences of not doing so are very
serious much more serious than it is
with Americans or Europeans no
knows this before he gets the money
and does not take it unless he means to
pay back The man who acts as secre
tary of the Ready Money is also the
treasurer He takes pretty good care to
give a good account of his stewardship
for his happiness
Ohiuese Ready Moneys fre
quently close up in a week though or
dinarily they last longer Each trans
action is a separate one A man may
be a member of a dozen or have all of
his money in one
The great advantage of the Ready
Money is that it gives everyone who
wants it money to open up business for
himself whenever he sees the oppor
tunity There is no waiting no secur
ity is needed except a promise to pay
The payment never fails except for
good reasons such as accident or sick
ness In fact it does not pay to fail to
pay for it will cost more in the long
run When your civilization is 5000
years old you will know more than you
do now and will understand things that
now seem to be wonderful in us
Washington Star
Big Cotton Tresses
Of the many cotton presses which
were in operation in New Orleans sixty
years ago the two principal ones were
the Levee cotton press and the Orleans
cotton press They were large and
massive buildings each occupying like
most of the others a square of ground
The Levee cotton press was built in
1S82 by a company bearing the same
name at a cost of 000000 and was two
stories high It compressed some 200
000 bales of cotton a year The Orleans
press also fronting on the river oc
cupied an area of G32 feet by SOS the
building nearly covering the whole
space This press which was begun in
1S33 and completed in 1S35 cost over
753000 compressed about 150000
bales per annum and could store 25000
bales of cotton Its immense length
gave it a very imposing appearance
from the river
Alligators Twenty Feet Long
Alligators were formerly one of the
chief animal life tenants of Red River
and the bayous of Louisiana where be
fore steamboat navigation came to in
terrupt them they could be seen by
hundreds huddled together on the banks
or massed on the floating or stationary
logs especially of Red River waking
the solitudes of the forest with their
bull like bellowing Their length was
generally between eight and twelve
feet although they sometimes grew
to be twenty feet long Their hides
were once used extensively for the
making of shoes but the leather not
proving of sufficiently close texture to
keep water out shoemaking from this
material was abandoned
Likes and Dislikes of Birds
It is said that birds are nearly as sen
sitive in their likes and dislikes as dogs
Some people can never gain the friend
ship of a caged bird A bird has to
learn by experience that it is safe with
a human being before it will respond to
kind treatment
No man ever disappeared that some
one did not invent a woman story on
thim
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PAYABLE IN COIN
The statement of James S Cowdon
candidate for Congress in Virginia in
the last election that the 1S7S law now
declares for the free coinage of silver
upon a careful investigation of the
laws bearing on this subject is found
to be correct as the reader may judge
for himself on the following evidence
The law of Feb 2S 1S78 reads
That there shall be coined at the
several mints of the United States
silver dollars of the weight of four
hundred and twelve and a half grains
troy of standard silver as provided in
the act of Jan IS 1S37 on which shall
be th devices and superscriptions pro
vided by said act which coins to
gether with all silver dollars hereto
fore coined by the United States of
like weight and fineness shall be a
legal tender at their nominal value
for all debts and dues public and pri
vate except where otherwise express
ly stipulated in the contract
The next sentence of the same act
commences with the words And the
Secretary of the Treasury is author
ized then follows t description of
the purchase of from two to four
millions a month for the described
coinage Now be it carefully noted
that in the repeal contained in the 1S90
law of a part of this 1S7S law not a
word in such repeal relates in any way
to the above quoted sentence compos
ing the second paragraph of this ar
ticle but relates solely and entirely to
that part of the act contained in the
purchase of the two to four millions
per month as may be seen in the fol
lowing language quoted from the law
of July 14 1S90
Section G That so much of the
act of Feb 2S 1S7S entitled An act
to authorize the coinage of the stand
ard silver dollar and to restore its le
gal tender character as requires the
monthly purchase and coinage of the
same into silver dollars of not less than
two million dollars nor more than four
million dollars worth of silver bullion
is hereby repealed
This just quoted Section G is the only
repeal by Congress of any part of the
1S7S laAv and on its face and in good
law no other conclusion is possible
than that the first sentence above quot
ed of the 1S7S law yet remains in full
force and operation As may be noted
the unrepealed part of the 1S7S law
above quoted is mandatory The words
say There shall be coined leaving
our executive officers no choice in the
matter which fact compels them to
coin such dollars when people hand
in silver bullion for the purpose and
- -fl-Our
Bimetallic League should consG
at once force the executive
oflicers of this country to carry ottt
the unrepealed provisions of this 1S7S
law which do in effect and unequiv
ocally restore the standard silver dol
lar that was repealed in 1S73 and
which are as good law in all respects
as this 1S73 repeal act If the 1S73
law was operative until 1S7S then the
1S78 law in its unrepealed parts is
good law to day and our executive of
ficers can be compelled in our courts
to cany out this unrepealed 1S7S law
to its fullest extent and provisions
Among these provisions is another un
repealed part referring to the issuance
of silver certificates to the holders of
standard silver dollars at their option
in exchange for said silver dollars
This is the only law that permits the
issuance of such silver certificates
And the fact that the executive officers
of our Government have always acted
under and upon this part of the law
and have ever since 1S7S and 1S90 is
sued silver certificates proves at once
that it is considered good law to now
put into force and operation all the un
repealed parts of the 1S7S law
Now as all our bonded and currency
National indebtedness is payable in
coin not gold exclusively there can
hereafter be no legitimate excuse on
the part of any executive or adminis
trative officer to issue bonds to get
coin to pay any of these National debts
so long as siiver bullion can be had
from our mines and elsewhere to be
coined at 1G to 1 for the purpose the
usurers of Wall and Lombard streets
to the contrary notwithstanding Phil
adelphia Item
Onr Foreijjn delations
The foreign relations of the United
States will undoubtedly occupy much
attention at Washington during the
winter session Cuba Venezuela and
Hawaii are the points of interest
Add to these the Armenian and Tur
kish troubles the high handed conduct
of British Colonial officials on our
Northwestern frontier the unsettled
seal fishery claims and the new Ger
man port charges complication and it
can easily be seen that there are inter
national questions enough to interest
the diplomatic world Most of them
will probably settle themselves or go
over for the consideration of the incom
ing administration but some must and
several may press for earlier action and
come upon the carpet with the new
year
The impression is very general that
Major McKinley is f avprable to the rec
ognition perhaps the annexation of
Cuba and is also committed to the ac
quisition of Hawaii as a Territory of
the United States Both these propso
als involve questions of race and it is
probably for that reason that the pres
ent administration has shrunk from
handling them
The uniting to the United States of
either Cuba or Hawaii would bring to
us large non Caucasian contingents of
population upon whom under our Fed
eral Constitution the right of suffrage
must be conferred equally with Its en
joyment by whites The negroes and
mulattoes of Cuba and the Kaukas
Japanese and Chinese of Hawaii would
all become full fledged citizens of the
United States Whether President
McKinley will favor measures to bring
about this parti colored complexion for
the American people remains to be
seen It is possible that the sympathy
we all feel for the Cubans and the
Hawailans may not after all be
rcr invoked than to earn- out a scheme
of protectorate or colonial connection
Flings at Farmers
One of the persistent policies of the
goldite pres3 is to make fun of the
farmers The leading -so-called humor
ous publications are published in New
York and of course furnish their pat
rons with cartoons and jests which ap
peal to the Eastern ideas aud to East
ern prejudices
A broker who could not tell whether
a field is better adapted to wheat or
corn can bet on the price of grain next
a speculator who could not im
prove the breed of cattle is an authority
on the latest style in neckties a clerk
in a bucket shop who does not know
whether pumpkins grow on bushes or
in bunches like bananas is far too
smart to bet on a shell game
These men and all the class of whieu
they are types think It Is very funny
to depict farmers as wearing long
wisps on their chins and imagine it the
height of humor to call them jays
and clodhoppers c
One and Jill the idlers in the city
firmly believe that the manufacturer
of shoes is a nobler man than the one
who breeds the steer and are firnily
convinced that the dealer in margins
is a higher order of being than the one
who furnishes food to a nation
If one of the idlers in Gotham will
sail out to Hell Gate some day and
stick his finger in the water and then
if he will go back next week and look
for the hole he will have given an apt
illustration of the importance of his
class in the affairs of our national lifo
and in a nations prosperity
Meanwhile it would be wasting
known historical truths to tell the kid
glove coterie that the farms have bred
nearly all of the great soldiers states
men jurists and men famous in Ameri
can history There is a little red school
house on every hill The dudes who
think the farmer is a fool would have
made fun of a certain rail splitter
When the nation is in sore need of men
find them on the farms They are not
the product of bucket shops nor made
by dealing in margins Chicago Dis
patch
Tariff Taxation
It is perfectly appropriate and ac
cording to the eternal fitness of things
that the return of the Republicans to
the control of the Government of the
United States should at once involve
questions as to the form shape and
amount of increased taxation naving
obtained at the polls what they con
strue as a popular approval of the rob
bery of the people of their silver cur
rency they now lose no time in pre
paring for the next step the increase
of taxation upon imports and the plac
iiig of additional duties on trade
That we are to have a higher tariff
if the incoming administration can ef
fect it appears to be beyond doubt
The only thing left to conjecture Is
whether it shall be fashioned on the
model of the Dingley bill passed by
the present House of Representatives
at its last session and modified in some
way this winter so as to make it accept
able to certain Western Republican
Senators or whether an extra session
will be called as soon as President
McKinley gets his Cabinet around him
and during next spring and summer
an elaborate comprehensive and
sweeping McKinley bill as near as pos
sible upon the lines of McKinleys last
previous effort be put through and
the American people be called upon to
face once more the experiment so often
tried since 1842 of a purely protective
sjstem
The present outlook seems to favor
the leaving of the tariff alone till after
McKinley takes office If so there will
be grand times in Washington all sum
mer New York News
Sonnd Advice to Republicans
We regret that the Republican party
could do nothing which would so milch
commend it to the people as to make
an earnest effort to live within the pres
ent income We are fresh from a cam
paign in which the fundamental prin
ciples not only of our government but
of the social order were subjected to a
searching investigation and in which
the charge was openly made that the
American government had become sim
ply the agent for the distribution of
favors to the rich and powerful Mr
McKinle3 could have no better guide
than that good old democratic maxim
Equal rights to all exclusive privi
leges to none Indianapolis News
Foresijrht of Speaker Keed
By sitting down on the clamorers for
an extra session Speaker Reed is again
demonstrating that he has the bulk of
the brains in the Republican party
The Speaker has sense enough to see
that the business interests are tired of
political and legislative turmoil and
want a good rest
