The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 10, 1882, Page 6

bie! THE CAUCUS BILL- The Congressional apportion- ment bill introduced simultancous- lyin both branches of the Legisla- ture Monday, was the bill decided upon by the joint Democratic cau- cus As was expected the bil duced, through the work of a Dem ocratic caucus, does not give sat: faction to all even of that party. The principle, and in fact the only tenable objection, raised against it, | provide Demo- | * is that it does not cratic majorities sufficient to make | absolutely reliable more than ten dis- tricts out of the fourteen. St. Louis especially is untortunate in having very small majorities in the two dis- tricts into which that city has been divided. But St. Louis politics so fluctuating that a reliable estimate of tuture states can never be made with any degree of certainty. The political complexion of the districts as mapped out in the new bill stand, according to the Presidential thirteen Demo- cratic and one, Republican: three out of the thirteen, however, the 4th, Sth and gth, have such smal] major- is te vote, ities that they are doubtful. Therefore, made, believing that at least twelve, objection if not’ the thirteen, could be made reliably Democratic over all opositicn. The single Republican District is the thirteenth and is composed of the following counties: Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Lawrence, Barry, Polk, Greene, Christian, *Stone, Taney, Webster and Dallas. A combination of Republicans and Greenbackers in this district would give a majority over the Democrats of 6,704. a _ Inall probability the bill as_re- ported will pass and become a law. Notwithstanding the objection raised. The supporters ot the hill allege that it is the best that can be and there is fair Chance for the Dem- ocrats to elect thirteen out of four- teen congressmen at the next. elec- tion. Democrats will generally ocme to the support of the .bill and the redistricting ot Missouri will be settled. The place fixed for Bates county is in the Twelfth District which composed of the tollowing counties: done, is '. Cass, Bates, Vernon, Barton, Hen- ry, St. Clair, Cedar and Dade. Democratic majority over a Re- publican and Greenback combined opposition, 1,400. So far as the geographical and political status of this district is concerned, it could not have been constructed any bet- ter; but beth Senator Bradley and Representative Ballard, with every Democratic member from the pres- ent Sixth District except Dale trom Cass county. opposed the proposi- tion in the caucus, not because of any direct objection to the composition of the Twelfth District, but because they feit that so many splendid coun- ties in the southwest should not be given over to a hopeless Republican tule. In this opinion they were oor- rect, and if the Democrats otthe Thirteenth should complain of their lot the result can not be at- tributable to the Democrats of the more tortunate Twelfth. ee If the primary is not a fair way of testing a man’s. strength then we would like to know how to get at it. There can be no possible way of playing tricks, trading or anything of that sort. A man goes before the people purely on his merits, and has no opportunity to put up jobs. Of course the primary is a disadvan- tage to all those who wish jobbery and take a delight in trying to pack conventions. The prmary is held especially tor the purpose of prevent- tricksters oppose to the system. Of course we don’t mean to say by this that all men who are in fa- vor of the convention system are tricksters or would do anything dis- honorable. The primary settles the question of nomination and leaves no room tor discontents to bolt the —_———— For the first time in fifteen years the Democrats haye carried the mv- | uicipal election at Vandalia [linois. | Various propositions was altogether | intro- considered very | is ing this, and that is what makes the | PATE CAPITAL. THE 8S The Caucus Bill Introduced in Both Houses.—General News. Proceedings of the two Houses.— Long and Interesting Ses- sions. An Exciting Partisan Debate—Bills | Passed—An Zarly Adjournment. respondent Butler Times. Jerrerson City, May rst, 1882. SENATE. The Senate met this morning at 10 o’clock. After prayer by the Chaplin and reading of the journal, a j recess was taken subject to the call | of the chair. During the recess the | Senate committee - apportionment retired to their room to | chair to n Congressional the rear of the President’s prepare for the introduction of their When the Senate again o order the chairman ‘of the committee reported the bill deter- the joint Democratic caucus last Saturday, which plained more tully elsewhere in the Tim Quite #n earnest debate arose oyer a motion to have the bill printed, which finally prevailed, and the Sen- ate adjourned. i bill. was mined on in is ex- HOUSE. The House was called to order at go’clock, and after the usuai for- malities were gone through Daniels, of Audrain county, reported from the House committee on apportions ment, the same billasthatintroduced mn the Senate, which bill Mr. Dan- iels is given the credit vi preparing, originally. A substitute for the appropriation bill introduced a few days ago, was reported, which provoked some little discussion, and the House, after | «dopting a resolution that the Legis- | lature adjourn size die on Friday, adjourned till to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. NOTES. There is not much room for doubt that the bill mtroduced this morning While some little dissatistaction may exist, yet | the bill meets with very general ap- proval. wili become a_ law. |! I feel safe im saying that the mem- | bers and officers of the Legislature are exceedingly tired of the extra session and want to go home, and to that end an adjournment will proda- bly be reached no later than Monday next, which wil! just be the twentieth day of the session. Young W. W. White, son ot Dr. John R. White, ot Bates county, near Johnstown, who was sent to the penitentiary forS years, from Henry county, 4 yeais ago, on three indictments for larceny and burglary, was pardoned this morning by the Governor. The circumstances of his conviction coupled with numerous petitions from Henry and Bates counties secured the executive clem- ency, which was just and proper. JEFFERSON City, May 2, ’82. HOUSE. The House was called to order at g o’clock, and after prayer by the chaphh and reading of the journal the bill introduced yesterday by Representative Daniels was read a second time. The House then took a recess until 2 p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. Ass soon as the House was called to order at 2 o’clock, Upton, of Polk county, offered a resolution calling on the Governor for information concerning railroads, which was vo- ted down after some debate. The House appropriation bill was then called up and read a third time, passed and was immediately sent to the Senate. The redistricting bill was then called up for engrossment and print- ing, upon which the minority sub- mitted a report in the shape of a substitute, which Was the occasion for the beginning of the most ex- ticket or claim that they were not | citing and humerous debate of the extra session. Amendment after | amendment was introduced by the Republicans and as fast were they voted down. The debate on the 7 = | of a partisan character and develop- led a large number of campaign | speeches trom Congressional as- | pirants on both sides. Finally the | previous question was moved and debate was cut off. The House i then adjourned till to-morrow moyn- | ing when it will likely pass the re- | districting bill and send it te the | Senate for action in the afternoon. | SENATE. Senate called to order at 100’clock. journal was read and approved. on reapportionment read a second time. down. which were voted amendments came The Senate convened and immediately took s await action on bill and it was at once reading. one in the House. Partisan ing ran high and full reign was_ giv- en the Radicals to filibuster to cheir And the opportuni- hearts content. | Atter prayer by the chaplin the The billreportedby the committee yesterday was Tree amend- from St. Louis and Yontiguous ter- | ritory, who wergnor satisfied with i Cl it 2 o’clock | recess to the appropriation sent to the Senate where it passed to the first Jerrerson City, May 3d, 1881. To-day has been another exciting feel- DS. | VEST’S REPLY TO EDMU} ‘The Old Vermonter Wayes the Bloody Shirt and Vest Del- uges it With the Clean Water of Common Sense. I ask for the read- pro- Mr. Edmunds. ing of that section which it posed to repeal. | The Acting Secretary read as fol- lows {| Sec. 1218. is No person who had | naval or civil service of the so-called | Confederate States, or | Mr. Vest. Mr. President— The President pro tempore. Mr. Vest. the Senate. Isimply want to say, | to be repealed, for I served in the | military and civil service of the late { contederacy, that I do not believe, j and I am glad to say that I do not believe that the Senator trom Ver- }mont (Mr. Edmunds) voices the | sentiment ot the American people upon this question. Iam glad to | believe, sir, that the people of the United States, the great body ot them, are anxious to obliterate every mark and monument of the late war ty was not lost, for every Republi- | between the States or between the can member who could talk at all, got the floor in his turn and deliv- ered himself of the old stereotyped “God harrangue about the grand and morality’? party and its dis- fanchisemnt in Missouri. blocdly shirt was raised . aloft and kept there until the sun dissappear- ed in the Western horizon, and the bill had made a final passage. TheRepublicans, although ginning the cantest, were not alone in keeping it up. The Democrats, having nothing else particularly to do, and desiring to give their Rad- ical triends ample latitude to display themscives,. took an earnest part in the debate in which all the old sores were torn open and lett gaping af- ter the battle had closed. The House was in session all day, haying nothing of importance be- tore itexcept the redistricting bill which was in its final passage. The bill passed the House about 6 o’clock in the evening and was at once sent across to the Senate where it was put upon its first reading. The bill apportioning the Rep- resentative districts of the state was also put upon its final passage in! the House and was sent to the Sen- | ate for its action, and was there read the first time. The House appropriation bill, which provided for the appropria- tion of $34,000 to pay the expenses | of the General assembly and $1,000 | to defray expenses, other than at- torneys fees, incurred by the State in its litigation with the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, was called up and referred to the committeeon ways and means. A recess was then taken till 2 o’clock. On re-assembling the ways and means committee reported back the House appropriation bill with an amendment, djviding the bill by striking out that part appropriating $1,000 for the Hannibal & St. Joseph litigation. The amendment was agreed to and the committée on en- grossed bills then reported Senate i bill appropriating the $1,000 in a separate bill. Senate and was sent to the House | where it was taken up and read the | first time. As the matter now stands, the re- | districting bill and the two appropri- ation bills will pass the two branches of the Legislature and receive the signature of the Governor by Friday. This being the case, in all probabili- ty the ses$ion will adjourn sine die on Friday at 12 o’clock. A letter from Butler has been re- ceived at this effice, giving the de- tails of the acts of a Sedalian in that town. It goes,on to say that while | have sworn allegiance or not? If! drunk he flourished a self-cocking re- volver and threatened to-kill an of- ficer. An arrest was effected and he spent the night in the city jail, after which he was fined $54.60. | He should have been kept in jail a month. —Sedalia Bazoo. The be- This bill passed the | Government and certain States. 1 do not believe that the people of the United States in this age and with our civilization desire to erect any monument of that occurrence. Re- cent events have shown, if they show | anything, that the great body of the ! people of this country, north, south, {east and west, desire, above all | thiags, material advancement and material prosperity without going | back to the obsolete ideas of sectional | hate and sectional strife. |__Mr. Presidentgthe Senator from | Vermont says the Government must | keep before the people the evidences | of its triumphs, that the Government | must preserve the fruits ot the war. | Woes the Senator mean to say that this statute is necessary to preserve | the truits of the war, to keep before | the people the successes of the United | States in the war? Your flag. our flag, waves in triumph in every town- ship in this broad Union. From one end of the Umion to the other not one man, woman or child dis- putes the national supremacy. Your taxes are collected; your national name is respected. Sir, do the peo- ple need anything else to recollect that war except the grayes of our common dead and common gallantry jof the soldiers of both sections? Will any Senator ont the other side | of this chamber tell me that this | statute, conceived in the bitterness of the strife that came just after the war when men’s passions were aflame | as sword and bayonet had been | aflame throughought the land, 1s necessary for any purpose except to |voice and express the hate that | ought to have died with the success of the national Government? Now, I say to the Senator— The President pro tempore. Two o’clock has arrived. Mr. Edmunds. Ihope the Sena- tor will be allowed to proceed. The President pro tempore. If there be unanimous consent, the Senator from Missouri may proceed. Mr. Edmunds. There is no ob- jection. Mr. Hawley. The regular order will be resumed at the close of Sen- ator’s remarks. The President pro tempere. tainly, unless the Senate order other- wise * ; Mr. Vest. Now I will say to the Senator from Vermont, for one, {speaking for myself, why TU object to this Statute. When we were received back into the Union—although I believe the | dogma of the Republican pa is | that we were neyer out of the Union |—we came back on the express terms of equality betore the law, or , else a fraud was practiced upon the | country and upon its history. You |Mmeet us to-day as co-equals here, 'represeating sovereign States. I ; ask the Senator from Vermont, if a | war should be waged now with a | foreign nation, would you accept our _ blood and our arms in detense of this country or not? I ask now the Sen- _ ate of the United States to say would ; You accept or would you desire or would you even permit the Confed- | erate that fought you in the late war _ to fight for the country to which they } You would, then you should not ex- ' clude from the army and navy of the | United States those whose blood and | Whose arms are ready for the defense , of our common country. Sir, Ido not propose to mince , Words in regard to this subject now, | served in any capacity in the military, | : the States in insurrection during the | ments were offered to the bill, all ot | jate rebellion, shall be appointed to | These | any position inthe army of the Umted ~om members | States The; hair would state to the Senator | 2nd generot as one of the class that comes within | the ban ot the law that is proposed | Cer- | Ver- to but I say to the Senator from mont, that it is useless for him ions of loyalty to thiscountry when s upon my brow the ban ot n 1 of hate. It 1s uso- Senator to say that he nal feeling of unkind- . side of same has no } i is i = ness to any Senator on this ithe Cnamber, when in the | breath he says, ‘**You are not tellme that he believes my profess- | the | equals of the other citizens of the! although you say to the Govern- willing to trust United States: that you are loyal ment, we are not you.”’ As I said once before on the av- ; erages of pensions ‘age ge pend- ask | ing in the Senate, 1 | the simple concession that we were earnest in our devotion to the Con- | federate cause, and honest when we | swear that we accept all the legiti- | mate results of deteat; and to those | who risked all and lost all every just 1s mind should concede ! country advanced. They want the past put behind them, except inso far as it may bind the Union closer between the sessions by demonstrat- | ing in that great war tke gallantry ot question? Sir, we simply ask for the legitimate consequences of what the Senator and his colleagues say when they profess to belieye we are worthy to represent sovereign states upon this floor as Senators of the United States. What inconsistency is it when we are admitfed here and our brain, such as _ it is. is given to the public service, and yet we are told that our hearts, our blood, our arms, are unfit forthe military or naval seryice of our common coun- try. Enis is the reason why we object to this statute. I object to it because, while the profession is that we are believed to be sincere in our pro- professions ot loyalty to the Union, this statue says In so many words, “You areunfit to be rusted in the common defense of this whole Union of which you profess to be loyal citizens.’”’ If you will gather up the rubbish around your premises and place it in piles. the street commissioner will have them moved. If you don’t, look out! It will be seen that the burglars are sull working our town. Again we give utterance to the warning: Keep your doors and windows fastened. About one dozen couples of the young folks assembled in the dining hall of the Palace hotel Thursday eve. and engaged in a pleasant and select little dance. A nice time was had and all seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves Thursday a fine colt belonging to Sanders Day died. It was a three- year old and had trotted a mile in three minutes without training. . He raised it, and valued it very highly, as it gave promise of making a_ re- markable animal. 1 | Judge Brown is having his | room in the court house renovated and cleaned up generally. It is to be hoped the rest will follow his exam- ple, as it would possibly be a source of interesting discovery to explore | some of the piles of rubbish which j have accumulated in different parts | of ouourtr c building. The weil which is being dug just back of the new livery stable on Dakota street is the source of a good deal of danger to people living in that vicinity and passing pedestri- ans. The blasts throw pieces of rock in perféct showers quite a dis- tance, some of the fragments hav- ing been picked up as far away as the Baptist church. Can not some- | thing be done to remedy this? i Beauty Regained. The beauty and color of the hair may be safely regained by using Parker's Hair Balsam, which is much admired for its pertume, cleanliness and dandrutt eradicating propertiés. 22-1m PIANOS ORCANS Pianos $160 ur (Stool, Cover and Book, Elegant Square Grand, 3 springs, tull’ Agraffes, every improvement, only $245. Cabinet Grand Uprights $210 and Other Grand Holiday Bargains. Tubiioe Organs $55 up (Stool and #sook). Ex- celsior, style 42, Five sets of Reeds, 15 | stops, only $87. “Oriental,” style 03, | Ten sets ot Reeds, 20 stops, only $1.st | No “Bogus” sets of reeds or «edurmnys sotps- All sent on 15 days trial, freight | Seal if a ‘air and honest dealing ranteed. Music i | Piano, 3 eee or Music Catiag ee ! ENDELSSON PIANO Co. i MD eae ee” and those | of either of | Who torm this government, expect | novels and ste | Lanier, G. P. Lathrop, Celia Thaxter, | Northrog | the finest that art can produce and equal the bill as reported py the caucus | from Missouri that it is within a min- | that much. ; 1 tthe committee. The Senate then ad te or two of two o'clock. If he | eee ms ne t ns Pee © oe ss - P > fo focal epithe bi ad | United States want peace, journed till 2 0’clock. | wants to speak Jonger the bill had} cc hae pence as Fick They Eee ee ee better go over till to-morrow. j terms, . pe “coseg! | AFTERNOON SESSION. 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Come one and a and see my mammoth stock betore buying at other places. W. E. Leonarp, 1s-tf Archie, Mo, Order of Publication. State of Missouri, }s ° County et Bates, In the Probate Court for the county of Bates, February teim, 1882. a Eliza C. Lusk and Wm. Kenney Admini trators of J. B, Lusk deceased, f Eliza C. Lusk and Wm. Kenney Adé | ministrators of 1. B. Lusk deceased, pre — sents to the court his petition, praying for © an order for the sale of so much of the real estate of said deceased as will pay and satisfy the remaining debts due by” said estate, and yet unpaid tor want of — sufficient assets, accompanied by the ae counts, list and inventories required law in such cases; on examination where of itis ordered, that all persons inter — ested in the estate of said deceased be no tified that application as aforesaid been made, and unless the contrary be shown on or betore the first day of the next term of this court, to be held on th 2nd Monday ot May next, an order be made tor the sale ot the whole, or much of the real estate of said decei as willbe sufficient for the payment 0 said debts; and it is further ordered, tf this notice be published in some n paper in this State, for four weeks before the next term of this court. , State of Missouri, ss County of Bates, 1,B.V. Brown Judge and ex-officio Clerk of the Probate Court, held in and for said county, hereby certify that the toregoing is a true copy of the oi i? order of publication therein refe to, fa the same appears of record in my ob ice. 4 : Witness my hand and seal of - 1 satd court. Done at office : Butler, this 11th day of April, D. 1882. D. V. Brown : Judge ot Probate, A. Notice of Fimal settlement, — Notice is hereby given that I have fled my final settlement between myseit ward Wm. M, White, a minor and that Calob Richardson guardian of said 44 intend to make final settlement c at the next term of the Bates ( Probate court, in Bates County, State Missouri, to.be hefd at Butler on the 8th, day of May, 1882. (1g-4t-) Caton RICHARDSON, Guardian. eked See