The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 5, 1890, Page 6

a REED A TYRANT. | Parlimentary Rules of the Last Centa- ry Cast Away- Democrats Who Declined Counted as Present. Washington, D. C., Jan. 29.- When the house met to-day Mr. Pay- son of Illinois from the committee on public lands reported a bill for the additional land districts in Colo- rado and it was passed—yeas 182, nays 98. Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania then called up the election case of Smith vs. Jackson from the Fourth West Virginia district, whereupon Mr. Crisp of Georgia raised the question of consideration and on a rising vote 141 democrats opposed it and 134 republicans favored it. They were counted by ten or more corres- pondents, all agreeing. Speaker Reed, seeing defeat an- nouneed the vote to be 114 in the affirmative and 124 in the negative, The democrats were dumbfound- ed, many of them having kept tally. Tellers were demanded, which was met by a refusal from the chair. Then the ayes and nays were or- dered. In this vote the democrats with three exceptions, Messrs Buck. alew, Covert and Cowies, refrained from voting. While the clerk was calling the roll the speaker was care- fully noting the names of those dem-! ocrats who were present and not vot- ing. Before the announcement of the vote Mr. Rogers of Arkansas, who had inadvertently voted in the affirmative, decided to withdraw his vote, but was met with a storm of objections from the republican side. He endeavored to secure a ruling from the speaker on the question in order that he might enter an ap- peal, but the speaker declined to rule. Mr. Covert of New York changed his vote from the negative to the affirmative and Mr. Rogers was giv- en permission to withdraw his vote, as was also Mr. Cowles of North Carolina. BOLD ACT OF THE SPRAKER. The vote was announced as rtanc- ing: Yeas 161, nays 2. Mr. Crisp raised the point of no quorum, when the speaker said: . “The chair directs the clerk to re- cord the following names of mem- bers present and refusing to vote.” This statement was 2 signal for a burst of applause from the repub- licans and jeers from the democrats. The clerk proceeded to read the names the speaker had jotted down as present but not voting. When the rame of Mr. Brecken- ridge of Kentucky was called he stepped into the aisle and ina re- sounding voice said: “I deny the power of the speaker to do this and I denounce it as revolutionary.” Cheer after cheer (characterized as the “rebel yell” by republicans) went up from the democratic side of and it was several minutes before sufficient order was restored to ena ble the clerk to continue the read ing the list. Even then order was only comparative, for while the clerk was proceeding with the read ing half a dozen democrats were on zation. That will insure amore di Ballard Items. rect arrival at the truch and will i As I havenot seeu anything in your, greatly enhance the force and signifi- |columus from this part of the coun-} THE ’FRISCO’S DEBT TO MIs-| =" "MCFARLAND BROS to Vote! cance of the movement. | | Itis claimed by its advocates} | that protection does affect the price | jnot restrict their free exportation | from this country. Conceding that it exerts no influence in this direc tion, it does lessen the purchasing! power of every bushel of wheat and | corn, and that is tantamount to re-| ducing the price. The farmer who! sells a wagon load of corn takes in {exchange for it commodities of nec- ‘essary consumption upon which he pays an average tax of 45 per cent. The price of his corn is therefore reduced just that much. The value of anything must be determined up- on the basis of what it brings in ex- change. By lowering the price of what the farmer has to buy we sure- ly advance the price of what he has to sell. There are facts which a careful and impartial study of the situation will bring home to the minds of the farmers, and once hav ing located the decadence of their calling it will be eomparatively easy matter to remove it. When the light which is now dawning upon this problem becomes more general, and the campaign of education ac- complishes its complete work of emancipation, the country will no longer witness the strange spectacle of the farmer walking up to the bal lot box and casting his vote for the jmaintenance of a policy which er torts from him a tribute to sustain his neighbor's business, taking all all the profits arising from his toil. The more this matter is investi- gated, and closer it is studied from a rational and intelligent standpoint, the more apparent becomes the ur- gency for tariff reform and the re- lief which it proposes for the peo- ple. If the Farmer’s alliance is, indeed earnestly engaged in removing the obstacles which stand in the way of the agricultural prosperity of the country, it will not be long in find ing the stumbling block of protec tion and casting it out from the highway of commercial progress.— try for some time I thought I would send a few items. News is scarce at this writing. of farm products and that it does, The people generally are having | Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. serious time with la grippe. Mr. Walter McCowan and Miss Cora Fowler are sick but the doctor don’t think it is la grippe. The snow has melted away and we have plenty of mud in its stead. Mr. Susk and Miss McAnich were united in the holy bonds of matrimo- ny Sunday, January 19, by Rev. T. S. Mosier, at his residence near Bal- lard. Quite a number of young men of this vicinity have the California fe- ver. We wish them a pleasant jour- ney and the best of suecess. Mr. David Warford’s school clos- ed Friday, and David thinks of spending the rest of the year at Warrensburg. The concert at the Fairview Bap- tist church January 25, was a suc- cuss. The exercises, both musical and literary, were conducted in a manner that showed talent and did credit not only to the actors, but to their splendid instructor, Dr. War- ford, who has just closed his second term of singing sehvol at that place. The program was as follows: Song—Come brothers, sisters tune the lay. Authem—The Heavens de- clare the glory. Recitation—Foot- steps; Miss Julia Douglass. Solo and chorus—Dearest May. Anthem —When God shall build up Zion. Recitation—It is I; Bessie Douglass. Son.-—Sailor’s return. Recitation— Leasing the homestead; Frank Doug- lass. Quartet—God help us at once tosayno Recitation—The true glo- ry of anation; Miss Julia Douglass. Songy—Freedoms banner. Recita- tion—The polished boy; Miss Mary Mill-r. © Anthem—Christ weeping over Jerusalem. Recatation—A boys promise; Charley Warford. Song and chorus—The little empty cradle. Sole and chorus—-The song that touched my heart; Miss Mary Doug- lass. Recitation—_Home; Sammie Hayes. Song—Temperance anthem. Quartet—Stand by the home. Ree Kansas City Star. Ruined His Family- Kansas City. Mo., Jan. 29.—C. W. F. Heaton, who secured $875 from the Midland National bauk about a year ago by means of forged checks, to-day pleaded guilty to the two charges against him, and was sen- tenced to teu years in the penitenti- ary, Heaton wrote a letter to Mr. Wallace Pratt, saying he was a nepk- ew of Charles Francis Adams, and that he had a letter of introduction frem Mr. Adams which he would present at any time he could find Mr. Pratt at leisure. His purpose in writing the letter was to get Mr. Pratt’s signature. Mr. Pratt repli- ed to the letter and Heaton lost no time in forging his name to two checks. Heaton is about 30 years old and well educated. His parents were incomfortable circumstances when he was a boy and sent him to Harvard colloge. He studied little, but became a college sport and de- fore he was 18 years of age was no- torious as a forger. About that their feet denouncing the action of the speaker. Mr. Bland of Missouri roared out that he was responsible for his ac- tion in the house to his constituents and not to the speaker, and Mr. Oversall of Virginia protested in the name of his state against this action, while Mr. McCreary of Kentucky denied the right of the speaker to count him as present. The Farmer's Alliance. The Farmer's alliance, which is multiplying in Membership in all the leading agricultural states, can searcely fail to strengthen and pro- mote the cause of tariff reform. The object of the organization, so far as it is understood by the public, is to ascertain the causes which have brought about the depression of which farmers in all parts of the country complain, and to find a rem- edy for them and an antidote which wil restore the old time prosperity which was once enjoyed by persons } engaged in agricultural pursuits. | The alliance is professedly tisan and the investigation upon which it has entered cues eee the interest of any political organi- | time he was prosecuted and sent to {the New York State Reform school. His parents spent their money in trying to reform him. Three years ago his mother ended her life by suicide on his account, and his fath- er is now workingas a day laborer in Vermont. An Odd Attempt at Suicide Fails Franklin, O., Jan. 30—M. A. Teas- dale, a well known hardware mer- chant, while suffering from tempo- ry aberration of the mind, fastened himself in an outhouse to-day and applied a match to acan of gunpow- der. The explosion blew open the door and aroused tke neighborhood but, aside from stunning Mr. Teas- dale and singeing his hair, it pro- duced no serious injury. General Shietd’s Swords. Washington, Jan. 27.—The secre- tary of war has passed upon the mat jter relative to the purchase of the atation—Bodetts papers; Miss Mary Miller. Song—Forresters sound the cheerful horn. Song and chorus— Pity the boy. Recitation—Four scenes; Miss Bessie Douglass. Song —The moonlinght sleeps. Dialouge —Misses Douglass, Miller and Mr Douglass. Song and ehorus— Homeless to-night. Anthem—They that trust in the Lord. Wonpsr. His Dog Died With Him. New York, Jan. 28.—About 3 o’clock on Saturday afternoon Wil- liam W. MacFarland, jr., the young- est son of William W. MacFarland, of the law firm of Barlow, Larocque & MacFarland, of this city went out to skate on Brady's pond, in the vi- cinity of his father’s residence at Arochear, Staten island. Accom- panying the boy was a large St. Ber- dard dog for which the sum of $500 was paid recently. He did not re turn home during the evening, and search was begun this morning. About midday his body was found. Close by the remains at the bottom of the pond was the faithful dog It is conjectured that when the boy broke through the dog went to his rescue. The boy’s hat and one of his gloves were found floating in the water where the ice had been broken. One glove was still on hie hand, but it was torn. It is supposed that the dog stood on the edge of the ice, tugging to pull his young master out by whatever he could get hold of with his teeth, and that when the boy got partly on the ice it broke and thus let the dog in also. General Kelley introduced in the house the bill to-day providing all widows and dependent orphans of people who were murdered for polit- ical reasons since 1865 be placed on the pension rolls at the rate granted widows and orphans of private sol- diers. The bill recites a preamble alledging that thousands of citizens have been assassinated since the war for having remained true ic the! union should protect their depend- ent families. Kelly also introdueed errr er ei te as er alg Sh rom one { ently as Good as Gold. ' 27.—It jis rumored here to-night that Gov-; ernor Francis has received intelli- gence this week that the St. Louis \& San Francisco railway is indebted jto the state of Missouri ao the amount of $300,000 and interest, and that unless suit is began before Friday of this week, the claim will be outlawed by the statue of limit ations. The goyernor, the attorney general, ex-attorney general Hock- aday, and the attorneys of the "Fris- co road have been in consultation nearly all day on the matter and when gestioned about it to-night | said that nothing had been done as yet and the state officers were still examining the claim. The story is that in 1866 General Fremont sold the Southwestern rail- road to the state of Missouri, and that in 1868, by an act of the legis- lature, the road was sold to the Southern Pacific railway for $600, 000. The money was to be paid annually to the state. In 1870 the Southern Pacific was merged into the Atlantic & Pacific, which assum- ed all the obligations of the old company. The Atlantic and Pacific failed during the years 1874, 1875 and 1876 to pay the yearly sum of $100,000, and never did pay the $300,000, the balance due on the purchase of the southwestern Louis and San Francisco company took in the Atlantic & Pacific raii- way and assumed its obligations. The statute of limitation was re- Frisco never paid a cent of the debt. The claim is still good and will be until the 31st inst. Why the state has never acted in matter is the subject of the present consultation. Anotier Denial Chicago, Jan. 29.—A special to the Herald from Huron, S. D., says: “Nu- murous telegrams from the east me being received here, inquiring about destitution among the settlers of this country. These messages are the result of the publication by a Chica- co paper of stories that hundreds of people in this viemity are without food or fuel and are on the verge of insanity in their homes on the prai- ries. Carriers and messengers were sent to all parts of Beadle county yester- day to ascertain the actual condition of affairs, and nearly every township was heard from jast night. Nota case of suffering is reported. All have coal and food. The county has au immense quantity of coal ready for delivery when called fcr and the Dorcas Society Relief corps, and similar organizations have clothing ou hand and more coming. Ever- thing possible is being done to keep the settlers who lost crops by drought, from want and as soon as their needs are made known they are supplied. Reed as a Cromwell. If Mr. Ingolls can overthrow local government in the South, and once more establish the carpet-bag re- gime, Mr. Reed of Maine, may yet be President of the United States. The imagination fails to conceive of the Kansas senator as President of this country. Reed has the stuff in him for a President inaugurated by force and fraud. His rulings have the despotic ring and show him to be the implacable foe of representa- tive government. One can readily believe him willing to play the role of Cromwell and disperse the house of representatives. The negroes of Greenville couuty S. C., held a convention a few days ago, and among the resolution adopted was the following: “We are doing weli enough here and do not propose to leave. We are not wards of the nation, but citizens.” That is an answer in very few words to Mr. Ingalls, whose prophetic soul is disturbed with visions of the | An Old State Claim Revived, Appar- | branch in January, 1870. The St.; newed by this transaction and the, —AT BUTLER KEEP THE LARGEST STOCK. AT THE BEST PRICES IN HARNESS and SADDLREYf' H | | | | | i i | 1. Cc. SPOONER PATENT COLLAR any --——PREVENTS CHAFING—— CANNOT CHOKE A HORSE, Adjusts itself to any Horse’s neck, has two rows of stitching, will hold hames in place better than any other collar. FRANZ BERNHARDT’S Soleagent fortne Rockford and Aurora watches. fn Gold, Silver and Filled Cases, very cheap! JEWELRY STORE, Is headquarters tor Fue Jewelry Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, é Spectacles of all kinds and for all ages; also fine Opera Glasses. You 4 are cordially invited te visit his establishment and examine pe! his splendid display of beautitul goods and the low prices, ALL KINDS OF ENGRAVING NEATLY EXECUTED | 7 T. L:: PETVTYS: A. O WEL’ PETTYS & WELTON DEALERS IN Staple:Fancy Groceri Feed and Provisions of all Kinds. QUEENSWARE AND GLASSWAR ICICARS AND TOBACCO, Always pay the highest market price for Coun uit Produces East Side Square. Butler, M0! C. B. LEWIS, Prop'r. 0. ThE BRICK LIVERY STABLE. AMPLE SUPPLY OF Buggies, Carriages, Phaetons, Drummer Wagons, &c. This is one of the best equipped Stables in this section of the state. FIRST-CLASS RIGS FURNISHED At any hour, day or night on the most reasonable terms. non-par-| a bill pensioning army nurses at $12 celebrated swords belonging to the a month. late General Shields ef Missouri by the government. He has decided upon $20,000 as the price to be paid No money will be paid, however. un- til certain details are arranged. Newcastle, the great cval center of the Black Hills, Dak., is having a boom that exceeds anything in the line ever experienced in the Hills. torch and dagger in the hands of} the colored voters, and to Senator | Morgan, who has evolved a scheme! for deporting the negroes to Africa. | The race problem will solve itself if i the politicians will keep their hands | off. Farmers desiring to put up their horses when in the city will find this barn the most convenient in town. 8@NOTE.—The Constables office can also be found at the office of the barn. Call and see me. Cc. B. LEWIS.