GIRAR A. C. SWARTZ, Editor and Proprietor. GIRARD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1885. VOL.
21. HERALD fNE NATION WARDS. ao to WM. GARDNER, NEWS IN overlook the iinportinrt fact that the Indian race is not a hom*ogeneous race. It consists of numerous widely separated tribes, speaking different languages and varying greatly in ens-tonis.
habits and conditions, from the enlightened commonwealths of the Five Nations to the wild, fierce, roving bands who eke out by plunder the scanty subsistence they derive from the and Government rations. Any general policy adapted to the advancement of one tribe would be disastrous and destructive to another. "In the meantime, until the Indian is ready by educational development to tul-o 1 i w- iilart QniAnff tin iicnnln of the The French Government has ordered the suspension of hostilities in Madagascar In Sacramento, a citizen's anti-Chinese organization has been formed with a large membership, having for its object the furfherance ot legislation for ridding California of Chinese. The Catholic newspapers in England are jubilant over the proposed Home rule, and promise tolerance toward Protestants. On the lSth the United States dispatch boat Dolphin left Brooklyn Navy Yard tot a sixty days' trial cruise in southern waters.
Up to last accounts scarcely any hop remained that any of the twenty-four miners imprisoned in the Nantico*ke mine were living. They were supposed to have been overwhelmed by a mass of culm and water of sufficient magnitude to preclude any possibility of escape. The Russian Liberal press advocates an alliance with England as the sole means of settling the Eastern question and punish, i-ig the perfiny of Germany and Austria. It is estimated that it will require the expenditure of $100,000 by the Canadian overnment to reimburse the salooa-keep ers und grocerymen who obtained licenses under the Dominion liquor act, recently declared unconstitutional. The German States will contribute marks to cover the imperial deficit for the year 1885-81.
The deficit for the year 1880-87 will be 1,000,000 marks greater. For the nine months of the present year ended October 1st the emigration from the German States was $0,000 against 135,000 for the same period in 1884. Fifteen hundred nominations had been sent to the Senate up to the 19th, but there had been no confirmations. 1n the 17th James W. Cooper's cabinet ware factory at Philadelphia, was burned.
Loss, $50,000 to $60,000. The building, with a large quantity of finished cabinet ware and valuable hard wood, was completely destroyed. The insurance is $30,0 )0. W. H.
Combs is reported killed by Indians at Arlee, Mont. Pollard, the Indiana township swindler, has been indicted for forgery. Richard Neale died at Parkersburg, W. on the 18th from a blow from a poker inflicted in self-defense by a sixteen-year-old son of the deceased. Arthur J.
Grover, who has been On trial in the Wood County (d.) Common Pleas Court, at Bowling Green, charged with the murder of Granville G. Loornis, was found guilty on the 18bh of murder in the first degree and was sentenced to be hanged Friday, April Cth, 138(5. The police of Philadelphia have arrested a colored man named Alexander Cuff, alias Samuel Johnson, on suspicion of being the assassin of John S. Sharpless, the Quaker farmer who was murdered near Chester on November 20th. There are strong reasons to believe that the right man has at last been captured.
An unknown Frenchman was accidentally killed at Pittsburgh, on the 18th by James Barton. There was a boiler explosion ten miles east of Owensboro, on the 18th, at Williams Jolly's saw mill, by which Henry Parish, an employe, was killed and Engineer Burton, John A. Peck and James Williams were wounded. The recent typhoon in the Philippine Islands swept away 4,400 buildings, including thirteen churches and the convents. Eighteen lives were lost and 500 head of cattle.
On the 19th William Crampton was killed by the bursting of a grindstone in the Gibbs Ball Plow Works at Canton, Q. Edward Coffee, convicted of the murder of Policeman Evans at Pittsburgh, has been denied a new trial, and has been sentenced to be hanged. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court. Reports are received of a terrible explosion in the Pleijuichin mine in Siberia, accompanied by frightful loss of life, the number being placed as high as 1,000. On the 20th Dudley Francis North, Earl of Guilford, who was thrown from his horse a few days previously, died of his injuries.
His successor to the title is only nine years of age. On the 20th Heden Lewis was found dead in her house at Pittsburgh, Pa. Her husband, David Lewis, is charged with killing her. Lieutenant Thomas J. C.
Maddox, Assistant Surgeon U. S. and three soldiers were killed in New Mexico during recent fighting with Indians. Peslcr in Furniture. Furniture.
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Haldematt President. Vice-President Oscar W. Schaeffer, Cashier. The Bank of Girard Transacts all Banking Business In General Blinking. Special Attention Giyen to Collections.
EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD On all the principal cities in the United Mates aud Europe. J. S. PERRY, Merchant Tailor, All kinds of Goods furnished and Made to Order. ALL WORK WARRANTED Special attention paid to Gutting and Trimming.
Cleaning and Repairing Done Promptly. Charges Reasonable. for Wannamaker, Philadelphia. outh Side of the Square, Girard, Kansas. cft3 TOINTTSI, Machine Works, OEALE GIRARD, KAN.
Proprietors of Girard Foundry and AXD MANUFACTURERS OF KANSAS STATE The vote in Ninnescah Townsbip, Kingman County, upon the proposition to subscribe $20,000 stock in the Kansas Pan Handle Railroad, resulted in a majority of eighty-four in favor of the bonds. The supplies for the use of the various State charitable institutions are purchased on a large scale, the following bills being among the recent bids One hundred and forty barrels of sugar, 27,000 pounds of soap, 85 barrels of salt, 150,000 pounds of flour, 4,000 yards Of prints, 2,800 yards of gingham, hams, 10,350 pounds df coffee. The first aniluai meeting of the Kansas Academy of Languages and Literature will be held in Topeka oh December 30th and 31st, immediately after the adjournment of the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association. The annual address will be delivered by Chancellor Lip-pincott. The committee of arrangements for the quarter centennial celebration of the admission cf Kansas into the Union, through the Secretary, Judge F.
G. AdanlS, is busy sending invitations to be present to many of the former residents of the State, and to those who have taken an interest in Kansas affairs. All of the prominent citizens invited to deliver addresses at the time, so far as heard from, have given notice of their acceptance. Since January 15, 1885, school bonds to the amount of $018,953 have been purchased by the Board of School Fund Commissioners, consisting of Dr. E.
B. Allen, Secretary of State; S. B. Bradford, Attorney-General, and J. H.
Lawhead, Superintendent of Public Instruction. These bonds now lie in the office of the State Treasurer, and are one of the most profitable forms for investment, as they draw six per cent, interest. Ri N. Hershfield, a manufacturing jeweler of Leavenworth, has suspended payment on debts of $100,000. The Attorney-General of the State has undertaken the task of closing 200 saloons in Leavenworth.
The gentle Kansas zephyrs are coming down from the northwest at the rate of forty miles an hour, and we stop the press to say that the fourth story of the Topic office is blown down. Topeka Topic. The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, recently in session at Topeka, recommended the raising of the quarantine for all of Missouri and Hlinois, which now holds against cattle from portions of those States. The proclamation Will doubtless be issued on the return of Governor Martin from Washington. Certain persons are said to be traveling through the rural districts lecturing in school-houses, and offering among other things to teach arithmetic in three lessons for $40.
Anybody who desires to buy experience at that costly rate can do so, but the advice is offered let all such miraculous mathematical teachers severely alone. There are 120 pupils enrolled in the Atchison High School, and only five have left because of the annual tuition of $10. Superintendent Meade says that Kansas cities of the first class can not operate free high schools, as the law specifies that they must be supported "wholly or in part" by tuition. Every pupil is being required to pay the fee this year. There are sixteen firms in Salina whose principal business is to loan money.
Pretty good showing for a town of 5,000. John W. Smith and Ethan I. Thomas, of Fairyiew, Harvey County, recently butchered a hog winch weighed 777 pounds. A good sized porker.
The State Grange declared unanimously in favorof the enfranchisem*nt of women. It also asks that the office of Commissioner of Agriculture be made a cabinet position. The number of cases before the Police Court of Leavenworth city last month was 128. The amount of fines assessed was amount of fines collected, $1,253. The Marion County Agricultural Societj' will hold its next annual fair on September 14, 15, 16 and 17, 1886.
The "Grant Monument" still stands on the grounds. The Masons of Salina talk seriously of building a Masonic temple on their lots south of the Grand Central Hotel, in that city, the structure to be three storie3 high, and to cost somewhere about $13,000. A special election will be held in Pea-body January 5th, to vote on the question of bonding the city to the amount of 15,000, to build waterworks. Peabody has a population of nearly 1,700. While a steam thresher was running near Wm.
Sill's place, in Goddard Township, McPherson County, the other day, the engine blew up, killing the fireman, a young man named Lee. No one else was hurt. Mr. Morgan, who lives two and one-half miles from Walton, Harvey County, while crossing the railroad track with his team a few days since was struck by the Peabody switch engine, both horses being killed and himself seriously injured. Eddie Bulger, a little boy about three years of age, met with a sudden and distressing death, at his home iu LaCygne, recently, by having a large dish pan ol scalding water accidentally poured on him by his mother.
He died in about ten hours. The Anderson County farmers are nearly through gathering corn. What corn there is, is of a poor quality, and but little of that. Yet the people are happy, and are continually joking each other about the "monstrous crop." The special delivery system at Lawrence is working well. Last month eighty-six letters were delivered in the city by the special carrier, and in every instance the time made was quick and the delivery almost immediate.
The Rev. D. C. Milner, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Atchison, preached his third anniversary sermon to a large and interested audience cently. During Mr.
Milner's pastorate the church has enjoyed a growth and prosperity unprecedented in its history. The membership has largely increased, and, that which speaks most for the preacher, the congregation has increased three-fold. Religious revivals are the rage. A. C.
Leonard, who lives near Lecomp-ton, Douglas County, becoming despondent from some unknown cause, attempted to commit suicide a few days since by placing some morphine in his office at breakfast. His wife, however, detected him in the act, and with ready wit suddenly asked him to get her some wood for the stove, and while he was gone for it exchanged cups with him. Leonard drank his coffee, and his imagination was strong enough to cause violent vomiting and fear of approaching death. His wife then told him what she had done and had a good laugh at his expense. A farmer near Lawrence found a live toad in the heart of a maple tree.
It is stated that the branch of the Kansas Pacific division now being built from Salina northwesterly to Lincoln, about thirty-five miles, will be immediately extended westerly to Russell, on the main line, and will then itself form the main line. It is also stated that the shops will be removed from Brookfield to Salina. Among the distinguished who will deliver lectures in the State University course this winter, are Hon. A. P.
Riddle, Rev. Bishop Ninde, Hon. Eugene F. Ware, Hon. J.
D. Miles, Mr. J. F. Wn-liams, Prof.
S. E. Sayre, Prof. A. M.
Wil cox and Prof. Win. McDonald. Secretary Laiuar Shows That the Keel Mil 11 Can Not Charge npou tia tdurttry a 'Century of Dishonor" His Plans'. Secretary Lamar estimates that the Indian service has cost the Government an average df $3,870,629 per year from the year 1832 to the pr'gseat time.
It now costs 80,000,000 per annuni. All the expenditure of money, effort and organization is for the control, protection and management of a population tf 260,000 men, women and children. He says: Whatever may be said about the injustice and cruelty with which the Indians have been treated in the past, characterized by some as a "century of dishonor," the Government is now, as all must admit, pftttting itself to great trouble and expense iof a very small and inutile population. lliC question arises: What is the purpose sought to be accomplished? Is it to protect this country against the Indian as a menace to the security and peace Of our peopled Nothing could be more absorb. The Indian race is no longer a source of danger to the peace or security Of this great Republic.
Most of the reservations are encircled by powerful communities, find those npon the frontier are completely in the hands of our military forces. Nor is the Indian any longer an obstacle to our National progress or to our material development. So far as the interests of our own people are concerned, apart from the needs of the Indian population, the Indian problem Could be easily solved by simply withdrawing all Government supervision over these people and con-f erring upon them the rights of American citizenship. Those who would not pass away would be soon absorbed into American society. After incorporating into our body politic four million's of blacks in a state of slavery and investing them with citizenship and suffrage we need not strain at the gnat c'f Indians.
It would only be an additional morsel, and a very small one. Such a course, however, would be more cruel and destructive to the Indian in the helpless condition to which the extension of settlements will soon reduce him than a war of extermination. "It is not, therefore, to protect the peace of the country, or the security of its frontiers from the danger of Indian war, or on account of their hindrance to our material progress, that all these efforts and expenditures are made in their behalf. It is because this Government is bound by duty, humanity, religion, good faith and National honor to protect, at whatever of expense or sacrifice, these original possessors of the soil from the destruction with which they are threatened by the very agencies that make our prosperity and greatness. The sense of this obligation was profoundly felt by the founders of our Republic.
They not only recognized it as the rule of their own conduct, but they wrote it down in their statutes and ordinances for the guidance of their posterity. The ordinance of 1787 (article 3) contains the following language: 'Ifolitrion, morality and knowledge beinar necessary to aood jrorernineut and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost poo l'ath shall always be observed toward the Indians; their lands and property shall never lie taken from them without consent; and in their property rights and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Coiifrres; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made for preventing- wrongs being- done to them and for preserving: peace and friendship with "The principles embodied in these noble utterances constitute the fundamental principles of a genuine Indian policy. Assuming.then, that the civiliza-, tion, the moral, intellectual, social and industrial elevation of the Indian to fit him to take part in the civilization of the country and the age, is the common object of all, the question arises: What means should be adopted to accomplish this? I have not been long enough in this office to become so thoroughly acquainted with the characteristics, customs, habits and wants of the Indians as to feel myself competent to propose any general plan or policy which in all respects will be adapted to the conditions of the present and adequate to the probable exigencies of the future. There are, however, some measures which I think are necessary to lay a solid foundation for Indian civilization, and to avert the demoralization and destruction of these people, which the environment of the white race now threatens.
I recommend that a portion of every reservation be divided up into separate tracts of suitable size for farms, to be allotted to each individual as his sole and separate estate. Provision should be made against the power (until after a time limited) of selling or mortgaging the same, or even leasing it to any but Indians living within the same reservation. Without legislation of this kind all efforts to make the Indian support himself by his own labor will prove fruitless and unavailing. To overcome his natural aversion to labor there must be the incentive given alone by a sure guarantee that the fruits of his labor shall be enjoyed in security. No man will clear inclose fields and cultivate them, and rear houses and barns when at any moment he may be removed and carried off against his will to some distant and unknown region.
The ownership of land, free-holding, tends to inspire individual independence, pride of character, personal industry and the development of the domestic virtues. Provision should be made that the Indian accepting a patent for his land shall not thereby forfeit any of his rights as a member of his tribe, nor the protection and benefit which the laws of the United States extend to the Indians generally. "I favor the policy recommended by my predecessor in this office, Secretary Kirkwood, of reducing to proper size the existing reservations, when entirely ont of proportion to the number of Indians thereon, with the consent of the Indians, and upon just and fair terms; and second, of placing by patent the titles to these diminished reservations as fully under the protection of the courts as are titles to all othei-s of our people to their lands. The surplus portion cut off should be subject to sale and the proceeds invested for the benefit of the Indians. The execution of it should be cautious and tentative.
My recommendation that only a portion of each reservation be divided into separate tracts, as stated above, is based upon the conviction that we must lead the Indians into holding lands in severalty by ripening their right of occupancy under their communal system into a fee-simple by a gradual process, and not by the sudden abolition of a system which is to them a religion ast well as a law of property. "Those who urge the speedy breaking up of tribal relations, the obliteration 'df the reservation and the localization of individuals upon separate allotments of land as a general policy, Compiled from Various Sources. FKRSOXAX. AND POLITICAL Mayor J. V.
Guillotte of Mew Orleans, indicted for extortion in office, has been completely vindicated. O.v the 16th the delegates to the convention of the National Guard Association at Washington called in a body on President Cleveland. E. C. Henderson, of Indiana, is mentioned in Washington as the probable successor of Mr.
Hazen as Third Assistant Postmaster-General. The notorious Indiana horse-thief, Andrew Wilfred, captured recently at Bloom-ington, 111., will be sent back on requisition. Ix the arrangement of Senate committees, Senator Logan has been restored to tha committees on which he served in the last Congress. Ox the l(5th the President sent to the Senate a communication embodying an additional provision to the treaty with Mexico in relation to the boundary line. Turc President on the lGth nominated John Bigelow, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, and General Franz Sigel, of New York, to be pension agent at the same pity.
Ox the 10th the President sent to the Senate the nominations of several hundred Postmasters and several supervising inspectors of steam vessels, all recess appointments. Ox the 17th Colonel Fred Grant and a delegation from Grant Post, G. A. called on the Mayor of New York and asked permission to decorate General Grant's grave in Riverside Park next Decoration Day. The permission was promptly accorded.
A committee at Boston on the 18th presented Henry Ward Beecher with a gold watch and chain in recognition of his eulogy on General Grant. Hibbs, the Idaho Post-office embezzler, has been tried and acquitted on four out of the eight indictments found against him. The other indictments will be pushed for trial immediately. It is currently reported and generally credited that the Emperor of China will be married in February next, at which time the Empress Regent will retire and the young Emperor will take possession of the Government. A Beelix dispatch of the 18th says Dr.
Weimer, one of the most active Socialist partisans and an instigator of some of the greatest crimes of Nihilism, is dead. He was an intimate friend of the Nihilist assassin of Czar Alexander I. John O'Coxxor Power, Nationalist member of Parliament, approves the reported Gladstone scheme a3 a fair one. The Marquis of Hartington declares that he has not approved the home rule scheme as has been intimated. Michael Davitt has consented to become a member of the corporation of Db-lin as a workingman's candidate, but declined a tendered banquet.
A youxo man and woman have been arrested in London on charge of trying to extort money from the Prince of Wales by threatening letters. It is now stated that over thirty of the French Conservative supporters of Sir ohn in the Dominion Parliament will vote non-cQiifidence in him at the next session of that body. Irving Miller, one of several hundred Southerners who emigrated to Brazil at the fall of the Confederacy, has arrived at Indianapolis, and gives a sad picture of his experience and that of the colony in South America, one hundred of whora are dead. Ox the lilth Charles W. Hemmingway was convicted at Ogden, Utah, on a charge of libeling Chief-Justice Zane.
He will be entenced January 1th. Hemmingway is editor of the Ogden Herald, an ultra Mormon sheet. Ox the lOiih another death from trichinosis occurred in the Hausineyer family at Tarentum, Pa. The victim was Henry, a son, aged twenty-five. The remaining members of the family were in a fair way to recover.
Emperor William is said lo have greatly improved in health of late. Calvin Pratt, the forger, who secured $11,000 from the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, and who is wanted for a similar offense in Denver, was arrested on his arrival by steamer at Yokohama, Japan. Stephen B. Guiox, the well-known ship owner of Liverpool, died in that city of apoplexy 0:1 the 19th. Ha was born in New York in 1820.
Miss Adelaide Moore, the English actress now making a tour of the AVestern States, is not only a poetess and a young lady of line literary attainments, but is said to be very closely allied to some of the noble families of Great Britain. She is warmly devoted to the histrionic art, and has drawn in a lavish manner upon her ample resources to properly equip her company. Her wardrobe is unexcelled by any artiste in this country, her diamonds alone representing a fortune of The veteran manager, Harry J. Sargent, is piloting her tour, and he feels very sanguine of her success. Ox the evening of the 20th Hon.
A. M. Kiely delivered a lecture at Washington on the "Irish Nationality." The Duke of Seville, who publicly vilified Queen Regent Christina of Spain, has been arrested. Dr. David Buyas, a well-known physician of Indianapolis, is mysteriously missing.
Wm. L. Scjrr, of is the wealthiest member of the National House of Reprosontatives. Lord IIartinutox emphatically contradicts all reports his name with the rumored Liberal horns rule policy. Bismarck has a scheme for increasing the, revenue by purchasing all the brandy produced in Germany, and retailing it through high -licensed dealers.
Secretary Whitney denies that he indorsed the object of the recent meeting of silver men in New York. Secretary Manning says he will welcome a Congressional investigation of the New York Custom-house. CKIMK.i AND CASUALTIES. On the 15th Frank Duncan, a miner, was found dead near Lisbon, O. A companion named Jas.
Burk is suspected of murdering him. At Dallas, N. on the 15th, a lady had her house chopped to pieces for refusing to get out of bed at a late hour and furnish two men water. On the Kith Charles Markham, of Berrien Center, a railroad and express agent, was arrested for stealing funds of his employers. Details have been received of the recent slaughter of eleven Europeans in Burnt ah.
Ox the 17th a fire at the West End Abattoir in Hontreal, gutted the engine and r'-iiJoring house. Loss, insurance, .34 T. Adams committed suicide at Indianapolis. On the 17th. On the 17th the British steamer Sussex, from Baltimore to London, went ashore on Maiden Bower, northwest of Sicily, on the English coast, and will be a total loss.
She bad a cargo of cattle, I 1 it I 111.) I HUM I I Country, the reservation system is his only protection, ana wnatever ninj o-' said of the tribal relation, which it is thought to be, so desirable to dissolve, it is in their uncivilized state the normal condition of Indian society. It is not only deeply imprinted in his mind aa the polity of his race, but it is his constitutional status in this country. The Constitution of the United States recognizes the Indian in his tribal relations, and in its delegation of powers to Congress it declares that it shall regulate commerce among foreign nations and the 'Indian POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS. How THey Are Necessary to Keep Alivt Eternal yigllance, the Price of ertf" Some pretentious doctrinaires and professional reformers of our time indulge in a lot of silly and mischievous cant when advertising thsir own exalted perfections and their contempt for political parties and partisans. Jn their estimation a political parly iff something to be bhunned and denounced a confederacy of rogues and spoilsmen, of obnoxious bosses and henchmen.
An earnest, sturdy, consistent partisan they look upon as a person dominated by prejudice and passion rather than by reason and cool rellccrion. These are" the theorists and idealists who contend that a President or Governor should utterly disregard the wishes and suggestions of Iris own party, and who clamor for the appointment of to all the offices. More noisy than numerous, these oracles try to create the impression that permanent parties are evils to be uprooted and that zealous parly service should earn distrust instead of recognition or reward. Chatter of that sort is fatuous and would be pernicious if it gained any large number of converts among the rising generation. Political parlies are the best and safest instrumentality yet devised by human ingenuity or eflort for the maintenance and administration of free institutions.
They arc not the creations of chance or caprice. They embody definite principles, aims acd tendencies. They are the mediunl through which the deliberate judgment of the people is ascertained and executed. If the party entrusted with power betrays its trust or shows itself incapable, the opposing party stands ready to assume its tasks.and functions. In either case the party is the people.
The officials elected or appointed, from President or Governor down to constable or pound-master, are the servants of the people and are pledged to carry out fairly and honorably the policy outlined by their party. These are wholesome truths, and any material departure from them in practice is certain to be productive of bad results. When a party advocates obnoxious principles or nominates unworthy men, those who are dissatisfied with its action have the simple and effective alternative of joining it and reforming it from within or of rebuking and chastening it by cooperating with the opposition. While a President or a Governor should be the impartial administrator of the law for the whole people within his jurisdiction, that obligation does not imply that he shall ignore party lines in selecting his assistants and subordinates. On the contrary, every free, progressive government is a government by party within certain broad lines laid down in the organic law.
The advantage of the system is that it fixes responsibility and challenges constant vigilance. Indifference to his duty as a citizen is too often the trait of which the effusive non-partisan boatts as a conspicuous virtue. Without pai-ties and partisans civil government would become a stagnant pool instead of a fructifying current. N. Y.
Graphic. THE PRESIDENT'S TRIUMPH. A State Paper Which Is Calling: Forth Enthusiastic Comments from All Sources No President has ever given to the country a more polished composition or one more finished rhetorically. It is a model of good English and forcible statement. Those who object that there is a great deal said in the message should remember that there was a great deal to say.
St. Louis Bepublican. The tariff question is well considered, and the document teems with valuable information and recommendations upon it. Its treatment is fair and its conclusions so plainly given that he who runs may read. Buffalo Times.
The President's expression of executive opinion is like himself frank, honest, clear-sighted, statesmanlike and comprehensive. There is no uncertain note upon any key. It unites in ono harmonious symphony the glories, needs and duties of the Republic. The Congressman who studies this able state paper to advantage is thoroughly equipped for the work ne has on hand. 2f.
Y. Morning Journal. The first thing that strikes you in Mr. Cleveland's message is the indefatigable industry with which he has studied, assimilated and assorted the vast multiplicity of facts brought to his attention in the course of his official experienep and in the several reports of the Cabinet officers. He seems to have taken up the subjects one by one, examined them with conscientious and intelligent care, and restated them in his own lucid language, together with sucb conclusions as he has reached during the methodical process.
This habit of thorough systematic review of the' facts presented to him for consideration i characteristic of Mr. Cleveland's conception of executive duty. If his conclusions are, almost without exception, identical with the conclusions of the members of his Cabinet that shows the remarkable harmony of opinion existing in the present Administration, rather than any lack of independent ideas on the part of Mr. Cleveland. It sometimes happens that a President of positive convictions is obliged in hi? message to dissent from the views expressed in the report of some equally positive Secretary, and thus almost to rebuke his subordinate in a publie man ner.
There is nothing of (hat sort thif vctvr. N. Y. Sun. Engines, Boilers, Hoisters, lining Pips, House Fronts, Grate Bars, Car Wheels and Sash Weights.
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CONGRESSIONAL FKOCEEOINGS. In the Senate on the 13tli, after the trans action of some routine business, Mr. Ed-mnnds reported from the Judiciary Committee the bill to remove the political disabilities of General A 11. Law ton, of Georgia, recommending immediate action. It was thereupon read three tirajs and passed.
The Hoar Presidential succession bill va discussed and laid over. Mr. Fryc started discussion on the proposed joint rules. Tne principal debate was on clause thirteen regulating the Senate cafe and forbidding liquor drinking in the Senate. It took a wide range, an was participated in liy Sun ators Vest, co*krell, Kiddleberger, Invalid and others, The rules went over the House a resolution for a holiday recess laid over.
The report of the Committee on Kules was called up and discussed at lenath, Mr. Morrison opening the debate. Mr. Kandall objected to some ot Mr. Morrison's remarks, and spoke on the propose chan.ses in committee work, and the debate grew almost personal.
Mr. Morrison gave notice that he would try and close the debate on the Kith, and the House adjourned. Ix the Senate on the 1 th House bills were introduced: For the coinage of silver dot lars; to determine-inability of the President to administer his office. A resolution on the subject of consular fees was referred, sifter discussion. A report of the Secretary of the Interior on the condition of the Cheyenne Indians was laid before the Senate.
Mr. Hoar's Presidential iceession bill was discussed during the remainder ot the session. In the House the Senate bill for the relief of General A. It. I.awton was passed.
Discussion of the proposed revision of the rules was resumed aud occupied the remainder of the session. Is the Senat3 on the 17th, J.hu Mitchell, ot Oregon, was sworn in. The bill wa? reported favorably to fix the day for the meeting of Presidential electo s. A resolution for investigation ot 'affairs in ha "State" of Dakota causal some debate, after which the matter went over. The Presidential succession bill was taken up, and after considerable diseusion was passed as reported iroin the in the House a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment on the subject o( Presidential succession was objected to, after which the revision of the ruies was taken up.
A lengthy discussion ensued, participated in by Messrs. Long, MeMillen, McAdoo, Keiley, Hatch, Randall, fiurroughs, aud closed by Mr. Morrison. The rules were then read for amendment, pen ling which the House adjourned. In the Senate on the lSth the bill for a pension for Mrs.
Grant passed. The "State of Dakota" was then discussed, Mr. Vest leading the debate the resolution for investigation was laid over. Consideration of the joint rules was then resumed; the rules were agreed to, and the resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information concerning moiety claims. A resolution was offered by Mr.
Beck for an inquiry into the working of the law providing for the payment of coin interest on bonds In the Uou-te consideration of the rules was resumed and the report of tlie committee adopted, viir; the Forty-ninth Congress the rules of the forty-eighth, with the amendments made by tue Committee on Rules. The resolution for a holiday recess was adopted. Mrs. Grant's pension bill was passed. The Senate was not in session on the 19th.
In the House the Committee on Enrolled Bills was appointed. A resolution was adopted for the appointment of several select committees. A proposition for immediate consideration of the Semite Presidential succession bill was defeated after debale. Several bills of minor importance were introduced and the House adjourned. LATE NEWS ITEMS.
In the Senate on the 21st a bill in reference to polygamy in Utah was favorably reported; also to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy; also a National eattle trail; also several bills in relation to the army. Senator Vest introduced a resolution on the Kiely case, and spoke in defense of religious liberty. A resolution for an investigation of the Pension Bureau was introduced. A resolution for investigation of the New York Custom-house was adopted. Mr.
Beck called up the resolution in relation to the special fund for payment of low interest and it was referred to the Finance Committee. Adjourned to January 5th In the House under the call of States for bills, Mr. Burns (of Missouri) introduced a bill for a bridge across the Missouri River at St. Joseph also a number of resolutions of the Missouri Legislature. Mr.
Wheeler (of Alabama) introduced a batch, among them one for the relief of General Fitz-John Porter, and one to amend the civil-service law. Mr. Henley (of California) introduced' a number of land-forfeiture bills. A great number of other bills were introduced relating to a variety of subjects, the total number being 1,004. House adjourned to January 5th.
The standard silver dollars issued during the week ended the 19th amounted to 629,211. Lieutenant Greely lectured at London the evening of the 21st under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society. Several business houses were destroyed by fire at Tarentum, on the 21st. Xoss about $30,000. Several persons belonging to a Socialist society at Warsaw, the old Polish capital, have been sentenced to Siberia for various terms.
Samuel Steinberger, of Indianapolis, lost his life on the 21st through suffocation by coal gas. The remains of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, father of the King of Portugal, were interred at Lisbon on the 21st. The President sent in to the Senate yesterday the last of his recess appointments Active search is being made on Lake Michigan for the missing schooner Orphan Boy. The four children bitten by mad dogs recently at Newark, N. arrived at Paris on the 21st and are under the care of M.
Pasteur. Scott W. Heffnkr, a carpenter, was shot and kffled at Sharonville, by Frank W. Mullen. Casey and Daly, convicted at Dublin of the murder of John Curtin, were sentenced on the 21st to fourteen years penal servitude.
A Milwaukee (Wis.) is said to have been cured of hydrophobia symptom by the use of Turkish baths, DEALER PST Lumber, Lath, Shingles, MISCELLANEOUS. The Royalist party in Spain is all split up, and politics are getting terribly tangled. Severe snow-storms, impeding railway travel, prevailed on the 17th in the south of Italy. Two desperadoes, Walter farron and Jack Roach, were arrested after a hard fight at Blair, on the 17th. On the 17th the commission to fix the line of demarcation between Servia and Bulgaria arrived at Nissa.
In the German Reichstag, a petition containing 23,000 names was presented on 17th favoring optional cremation. An appropriation of $107,000 is recommended by the joint committee on the completion of the Washington Monument for the extension of the terrace about its base. A filibustering conspiracy for the capture of Cuba, was frustrated by the seizure of arms and ammunition on board a steamer at New York on the 17th. During a recent severe cyclone at Colon, Isthmus of Panama, many vessels and a large number of people were lost. The estimates of the Superintendent of the coast and Geodetic Survey for the next fiscal year amount to $508,000.
Included in the estimates is the sum of $30,000 for the resurvey of San Francisco Bay and examination of San Francisco bar and entrance to the harbor and the mouths of the Sacramento and Sonegrian rivers. Secretary Lamar has requested the Attorney-General to institute suits in about forty additional cases against cattlemen for illegally fencing the public lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. In many of these cases criminal actions will be brought. A dispatch from London on the 17th "stated that the decision of the Privy Council on the Canadian license question had been rendered. It sustains the right of the Province to exclusively control the is -sue of licenses.
This decision invalidates the Dominion act. On the 17th two incinerations took place at the United States Crematory, Mt. Olivet, N. Y. The bodies were those of Dr.
Louis Lambert and his wife, of Jersey City, N. which have been in a receiving vault for a year. The deceased were eighty-six and eighty-two years of age respectively, and both before their death expressed a desire to be cremated. The failures in the United States for the year up to the 19th numbered 10,771 for the last seven days to date, 217. The Council of the Northwest Territory has adjourned after indorsing the action of the Dominion Government in the Riel case.
The recent elections in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, resulted in favor of candidates friendly to Gonzales. The missing schooner Orphan Boy was reported as having been sighted at High Island, Lake Michigan. It is reported that the Servians have withdrawn from the Widdin district. The Daily Express of Dublin fears civU war in case Mr. Parnell's demands are granted.
The Post-office Department has established free delivery service at Duluth, and Newport, Ky. Third Assistant Postmaster-General Hazen has received reports from seven of the leading Post-offices, which show that during the months of October and November the sales of postal cards show a large increase over the corresponding months last year. The Farmers' Bank of OrrviUe, has gone into the hands of a receiver. There is no abatement of the excitement throughout Great Britain on the subject of home rule in Ireland. Morocco offers to cede territory to Spain and France if thev will nroteet her the rapacity of Germany.
imports of dry goods at New York during the seven days ended the 18th wnra valued at $1,534,466. It is given out that Servia and Bulgaria will not be represented on the commission which is to define the boundary between the two countries. Four cases of small-pox were rannrtari in Montreal on the IStn. The disease is al -armingly prevalent in St. Cunegonde.
The Mayor has small-pox in his family, while he is eoine about Small-pox has broken out dians at Oka, Quebec, of whom there are ljOUU the village. The recent closing of the Si Machine works at Klizahethnnrfc. throws 3,500 men out of employment whose pay amounted to $10,000 per week. More than 20,000 Poles have recently been expelled from Germany, WIN DOWS, DOORS, I OS. Moldings, Fence Posts, Building Paper, WOODEN EAVE TROUGHS, ETC.
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