The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 20, 1884, Page 1

uh i five my sy, the ties id- ns- nd ari cc to T, n. ; River Conven- fiomand its Eifeet on Con- gress. qyilService Reform Must go— Banks and the Trade Detlar. Special tothe Butiex Tmes, WasaineTon Feb. 1Sth The Mississippi river tnbutary improvements promise to become a nucleus for Western po- iitical campaigns judging from the action of the Mississippi and Ohio nver Convention which was in session in this city last week. The Conven- | tion was composed of several hun— prominent business men repre- senting the territory and sentiment of over 30,000,000 people interrested inthe development of Western Commerce. They want Congress to appropriate about $40,000,000 for Western rivers and harbors and they saidto Congress, **Give us what we ask and need, or our people will rel- egate you to private life’’. 1584. and its! WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO ABOUT IT. Previous to the assembly of this gonvention the House committee on Rivers and Hasbors had imformally | discussed the appropriation for the coming year, and the majority of the seemed to favor a $10,- committe oo'ooo limit, and expressed them- selves as desirous, if possible to con- | fre it within $9,000,000, The esti- | matesof the Engineers having in| charge the improvements of rivers amd Harbors amount to $35,000,000 and convention endorsed and urged | the expenditure of even a greater sam than ths. But the famous erand harbor steal of Cong tiv- still ssmen, that be appropri- fresh in the minds of and the probabilities < not | over $12,000,000 will ated this year. tHE EFFECT MORRISON'S TARIFF | BILL. Democratic Senators and Repre- sentatives are cautious in what they say on the Morrison tariff bill, butit isclear that the proposed hornzontal reductions awakens no enthusiasm and isnot satisfactory to a large wing of the party. It is now to be considered in committee and we are assured it can not come back to the House inside ot « month at the ear- liest. This will throw over the cussion well into the spring when the politcal caldron will be boiling and the appropriation bills are under fullheadway. Hence the billhas a stormy career ahead the House while its prospects in the Sen- dis- | even in ~ are so small as practically to dis- | miss the whole scheme to the domain of speculation rather than legislation. As a battle cry the bill can serve its Purpose as well whether adopted, 9f not, and it 1s in this direction that! its chef importance lies. WOW MUCH IT REDUCES THE TARIFF. The horrizontal reduction of the bill decreases the taxes about $28, | {00,000, and when you add to this the abolished duties on the increased ttee list the sum total swells to $30, %0,000. It remains to be Whether the bill ss the House, but eight democratic Senators have | Publicly declared that they will vote } i seen 1 Rainst the it @nnot pass the Senate. measure, theretore CHAT LITTLE WoOL BILL. | tended to pay the U.S. | bui when a inttle war Ch speculating interests. igo, Bur-j also states t will Pporntee residents nd the Union | come from nong tie of | Pacific roads, it was here published | the Territory that Jay Gould was begining, with | FRED DOU AGAIN. _ this w t0 carry on his plan tor Mr. Douglass’ family troubles are wrecking the Union Pacific, causing it | mereaete Close upon the refu to be sold on the first mortgage. buv- | oo asc ee te aenre ing it in huoself, and thereby wiping | Sprague, = eee “Topnelee out oscr $100,000.000 indebtedness | hous ber previous to his late mar- tothe United States, which 1s only | 74¢ and sues him Am $3,000 roe secured by second mortagaye. Mr. Panels mercer ee Cag asi Anderson, of Kansas, introduced a bill in the House the other day upon the marriage of Mr. Douglass which wiil save the Government trom to Miss Pettis, Mr. and Mrs. sucn loss. it provides that when Sprague induced Miss Sprague t either of the railroad companies in- debeted to the United States on sec- that Mr. Douglass’ son Robert say: the suit is brought to ma ond mortages shall fail to keep up the interest on their first bonds, the Attorney General shall apply for a receiver, who shall there- after the under the direction.of the Secretary of the In- the United States is all paid. There are a great manv people who think that the Pacific railroad compames never in— tame it possible. ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION. The Hlinoise Press will certainly bristle for a few weeks with glowing editorials on Washington hospitality and the grandeur of the city. The “Club”? spent nearly four days here and were toasted, dined and wined as though each of the editors was one of a lot of kings or emperors | traveling luxuriously for their health. The United States navy (The Dis- mortgage manage road tenor, until the debt to when they | borrowed this money, but if Mr. ) was called into requisition to | Aaderson’s bill becomes a jaw, the te the party to Washington’s | ee old house. (Mt. Ver a ive easy, and at present the only visible | |, ie e. (Mt. Vernon) and Red t 1 3 “f ‘ — U 1 the editois an opportunity ot seeing met 10d o re —_ out nce | what agreat thing our navy might Sam as a creditor will be ettectually | be it they would cease their editorial shut off. lobbying against naval appropria- Gee Services ae Ones | tions. W henever the Timois Press Mnertbouse Coneicece en Civil Asssociation leave their native state : i z eae ,..., to havea good time, hereafter, | Service Reform met the other day oy a ees een dete : < . Z will hear of them making a ‘bee tor the first time and the various brils |; 5 Washi Edi : mer for Washi Sditors are betore a were disuributed to sub — ke ; u s : always weleome and we nate committees for consideration. Two | 7 YaYS Welcome and ee ualess they take im one of our -*Po- of these bills are fora repeal of the The » on both TES ea EDS ker Shops,’” in which cuase fee present law. fe sneraliy goes home and < sides of the House 1s one of opposi- eae co hor eae ukes a ‘ “ape | tresh dun on delinquent: subscriber. tion to the present system. The | i e ie 2 Foruses a ‘tpatent igs the bai- mentor: of civil service retorm al- ners = x . ance of the y y **to cover shorts. ways provokes 2 smile and the Com (rearede 3 é = 2 One of the editers will probably mission is looked upon as a standing | Se ar bl hig y ,Onut to € re public his joke. Lcould name over a hundred | | aise 3 ie nae : neler pe no this wile he i members, both Democrats and Re- 5 a aae ast 5 ; 1 | week publi who declare that the whole xis a farce, and that they | BRIEF NOTES. take ne rest whatever it, while | he Nentacky delegation in Con- fitty others are in) direct: opposition | yress are jubiliant over Gen. Black- to it and pronounce it unpopular i}burn’s election to the Senate. Itj unconstitutional. Though Mr. Ran | was ar fact that not one ot the ; j dall has said that the Appre i egation favored Senator Wal- | ’s re-clection | *n. Sherman has officially j placed on the retired listof the army. re would bill Service Com thought that Comr : the Ci generally report a vission, it is will mot been pass, and that the law will be re-| Phere are now on the retired list 51 pealed or amended manner that | Colonels, 32) Majors and 63 Cap- will amount to practically the same | tains thing. | A billhas been introduced in the | BANKING AND SILVER LEGISLATION. ore! wee eros the election ot A member of the Banking and Auage ee eG another so- | ne) eae : lution of the succession pronlems. Currency Committee ot the House Gee WA eeseniG: dhe ae says that ae is burt little Sees) cenit hia Coles OE NES VRE He 8 ee el Ea: See Pro" | has volunteered to command tbe | viding that national banks. may Me G@reclev arelice (enue ane crease their circulation to the tull} 2 Nae : PS gee oe a Sey Re a Pe will probably be accepted. Secretary | p : eas = . Chandler is trying to purchase either bonds as they have deposited in the | British dibs iNew “Paalore” 62 oa 2 ry. os ais > awe a a U.S. Treasury to secure their note “Alert”? eae See ea He also states that there is little pros 7 = =p : pect of any silver leer nots yore “Is our Civilization Perishable?” pethaps sven cee epee ace The question is asked in the Vorth dollars, and that these will be retired : d for recoinage upon strictly justterms | Amcrzcan Review for March, by to the holders. Judge J. A. Jameson, who consid- SECRETARY CHANDLER CURTAILED. j ers the several agencies by whichthe There is + strong flavor of econo- | overthrow of the existing civilization my in ie aa naval appro- | might be effected. In the same! r - e 'S ale: w H - . eee tay ae a *T€ | number ct the Review there is an over $22,500,000 and the amount | article of extraordinary interest on allowed will be less than $14,500,- ooo. The sum asked for the four | ‘*Agriculturai Politics in England’’, steel cruisers is granted, but the} by Wilham E. Bear, cditor of the! poor old monitors are lett out and) 443,¢ Lane Express. “A De- Chandler is cross about it. The? co. } = : 5 e BE fenceless Sea-board’’. by Gen. H. committee seems to think that the z é é cate ag of a new navy is 2 matter ot | A. Smalley, is a description of the ‘unprotected condition of the harbors and coast cities of the United States. time as well as money, and that the Government's wiser and safer policy is to go a little slow on both. : nius nor Martvr’?, is ERS See the judgment pronounced upon the ie ke sousee Co eanor : ve s € vy Alice Hyneman kota, Ordw has beenin VW asning- “Phe Story ofa Nome ef Mr. Converse’s, though lamb-hke S nevertheless thin Mr. Conv a dangerous «has been accused o abandoning the measure which re- Mores the duty on wool, his alleges Motives eing not te spring upon the | House a principal im distinct contra- { fiction to Morrison's tariff reduc- ton. Converse says Ohio lost over ‘million dollars when the Republi- Sas reduced the duty on wool and hio mow demands a prompt restor- i ation and he promises to secure it or j throw the responsibility on the heads ! ton ier some t lobbying aga the division as States, and it se recounts that he, backed by his old fricu: to unpubli history of iW er and the Northern i.e pecans by which nomination & : : nas succeeaued in a t ae E . ; is aa ze ot Aprsha ora second the House Coamnittee 1 was brought about. president on Territories to make an adverse , eport against Dake Art least a! Other articles are **Literary Resur- member of the commit said to me | ycetronists’’, bv Charles T. Congdon: yesterday that they would Rot FE- | How to Improve the Mississippi’’, commend a bill for the admission of | Pcie: Se eS Robert S. Taylor: , Constitutions of Repudiation’’, ORDWAY iby D. H. Chamberlain and John S. I have it from very high authority = 785 oe i that Gov. Ordway, whose comms-* Place, New Yerk. any new States to session. tv WILL BE RETIRED. lass’ daughter above referred to and | leave him and sue for her wages. | tiously | annoy his father and break up his | and **The | SDAY FEBRUARY 20. Iss4. il) have Have just received a car lod of SEDSTEADS which we bought FOR CASIL at prices WAY DWN, and for the Next Thirty Days we make the following reductions, viz: Bedsteads, tormer price, $ } ts si 3 00 down to $2 75. Bedsteads, former price $3 50 down to $3 00 i as i = ; # 50 36 3 50. - = 5 50 “s 4 50 { Le a = 7 25 sa > 50. ad * 7 50 oe 6 50 ‘i a = = g 00 = ype . . 9 75 se 8S 50 i - - 10 75 oS 9 50. i : And everything in stock guaranteed to be sold at a big bargain. Call early and be convinced. IS COMPLETE. HEARSE FURNISHED FREE. WM. E. WALTON, Opera House Buiiding, Butier Mo. 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