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VOL. A ce a ry | i every Gne of the senate amenda had been seen by Secretary Ci ! and seanned by him before they were CAPITAL, eo os He drew from his| willing to do anything to OF BUTLER, MO. desk and Lal read an interview! bill through Congress with S-eretary Culiste on April 30, ‘If §we go into this fight, the Ge = a $110,000. jin which the secretary of the treas-| President must be behind us,’ Mr.: ‘Transacts a general banking business luers, merchants and the publie generally, promising a safe depository for geet is F p= \es lines. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JULY 26, 1894. ment. Presid tht of his ix ents | turow ti Mr. Jones rep Presid agreed upon. ury gave the same bill bis sweeping | Vest bad said We solicit the accounts of far-)endorsem i‘. Cash Capital. Mr. Jones replied that he was. After the trading of the Carlisle | “Thereupx said Mr. Vest, “I gave NO 86 FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY, $50,000.00 COUNTY DEPOSTORY all funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac-| interview, Mi. Gorman led up to | up wy personal opinions and re solv- SASS On commodation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand | Ove of the most dramatic episodes|ed to support it. The President's OSCAR RREDER <2... .:....-:.<0- : .-..- President 7 : 3 ; iG Ae : R. J, HURLEY : Ist Vice-President To loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all jof the day ie suintmoning — of | letter was the first intimation to me E. A BENNETT zd Vice-President at any time and stop interest. Mesers. Vest, Jones and Harris as|that be was against us E. D. RIP Cashier DIRECTORS. 1 A , > - 2 ee . 3 sig = Ke Witnesses tu bis statement that the/ When Mr. Vest sat down, Mr ts subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and Ba Dutchess Hit Piggott. HO Wyatt | President approved the Senate com-| Jones, who was in charge of the bill ing business. Your patronage respectfully Johu Deerwe: C R Radford RG West . . is ~ s 5 0: iy oer Pail Ts Wright Wm E Walton | promise,) by making the following|iu the Senate, took the floor. He, Solicited. seo LS . ; : | DIRECTO} Sco ura |remarke: Mr. Gorman said: “Such| was as pale es death. He realized, | D. NThompson, M.S. Kiersey, R. J. Hurley OTHER S‘TOCKHOLDERS, | Was the declaration of the Secretary | be said, when the bill came to the ree ye _ Hes ae = es Gaines © Bartlett Frank Deerwester McCracken DrW E Tucker jof the Treasury that a statement| Senate that it could not be passed ay Alte aa 8) Margaret Bryner D 4 DeArmond racken Wb Tyler | John Evans Luu Brown Hurley Lumber Co GA Caruthers B Chelf riney pbert Clark > P&S LColeman JR Davis DB Heath Semuel Levy © H Morrison Dr W D Hannah ATTACK ONCLEVELAND. — | | pees | Mr. Gorman Delivers His Speech Against the President. He Says the President Sanctioned the | Senate Bill.—Mr. Carlisle Con- | ' sulted. \ Washington, D. C., July 23.—Per | haps no more remarkable scene was ever witnessed in the United States Senate that which occurred there to day when, for two and one Senator Gorman, the Democratic political leader on the floor, delivered bis speech against the President, and in defense of the Senate tariff bill. The galleries were packed to the doors and so great was the interest in Mr. Gorman’s speech that the members of the House tlocked to the Senate end of the Cupitel aud, the House being unable to hold a quorem, adjourned. Mr. Gorman, with a that amazed those present, discuss- than half hours, frankness ed party secrets, opened the door to party flashed search light into the dark corners of party history. assailed with keenness and vigor by cuucuses and his | i The President was the leader of his party on the floor f the Senate. He defended the} nate tariff bill and its preparation | P | und charged in strong terms that both Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland were vot only aware of the conces sions made in the bill to procure its passage through the Senate, but that Mr. Cleveland had sanctioned all ths was done. BREAKING OF When the Senate convered ind gentlemen prominent in society | and } the reserved galleries, and several THE STORM ladies lie life were conspicuous io members of the diplomatic corps oe cupied the terra cotta tier of plush benches opposite the Vice Presi- dents conir, After the expiration of the pre- a) timinary routine business at 1:22, Senator Voorhees called up the con- ference report on the tariff bill, aud then the storm broke. Mr. Gorman He hoped he appreciated the gravity Ordina vily the situation would be easy of solution. ‘There would ordinarily be no difference of opinion about send- ing the bill to conference, where the difference between two houses could be adjusted. He drew a graphic picture of the anxiety with which the country awaited the fate of the vill—the idle factories, the closed and the unemployed. ; Further veither to the best interests of the country nor of the Democratic party. He boped that the Senators would meet the situation as became patriotic men immediately arose. of the situation, he began. workshops suspense Was wud duty-bound Democrats. It was dle for him to add anything to wh had been said last Friday by the Senator from New Mr. Smith). “In the House there was an over- whelming Democratic majority. Here | Jersey MY John Pharis Charles Pharie JK Rosier J Clem Slay back John H Sullene. ‘in the eye and tell the trath. rwen ME Varner Wm W Trigg Wm Wallis GP Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner jfrom him has probably a wonderfal|in its theu form, and he kad leffect. It softened the hard places | to work with infinite labor and pains with which he met when we came to confer and to act. It was accepted. It did much to enable us to bring} gone bill had commenced in this body. I had two i with the President on the subject of and had carefully noted them, He | the bill and its general management, together forty three Seuators in this | bad talked with Mr. Carlisle about|/ane while I will not attempt to re- body. I repeat that but for it I do|his plav, aud the President in lorsed | produce the language of the Presi- not believe we should have ever suc-/|it as wise to interview every Democratic Sena-| as tor. as many He ascertained every objection in the Senate the Democrats were at the outset confronted with the fact that there were but forty four Demo- erats. A bill must be framed which would secure the support of all these Then he (Jones) prepar-|dent in avy of these interviews, I | ceded in getting together. Jed the amendwents in consultation | will state that my distinct under- “But it did not stop there. It}with Mr. Carlisle. The Secretary ach of these was not alone with the Secretary of | was thoroughly informed as to the | interviews, was that the President the Treasury,who necesgarily speaks | situation, aud he (Jones) had said to| was deeply and earnestly interested for the president in matters concern- | him, ‘I will not go one step farther|in passing the bill with the conces- ing his department. The President not behind | sions which the committe had agreed was not ignorant of what we propes | me.” |t> make as a compromise measure, edtodo. Nothing was pot that it was satisfactory to him jetan ding, asa result of Senators, all of whose votes save one were necessary to pass it. That one vote was lost. “The Senator from New York (Mr. Hill) had from the beginning oppos ed the bill openly and manfully. The if the admiuistration is concealed} “I requested him to explain every- : ©} from him. The pape s announced on | thing to the President,” said Mr.) @ oy more than it was satisfactory to Democrats faced with such a condi-| the day following the interview with | Jones. “I saw the President. He|me. but because it was a great im- tion had gone manfully to work to harmonize the differences, and bad accomplished it by many sacrifices —almost at the sacrifice of principle. No legislative body in this country had ever been confronted with such a condition. The reports of the States of New York, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland | at the outset announced that the House bill was so radical, so destruc. | tive of the interests of the people that they would not support it.” He paid high tribute to Senators Vest, Jones, Voorhees and Harris—! whose laborious work had at last accomplished the feat of adjusting these differences and had made the passage of the bill Mr. Curlisle that the President him self concurred with his great secre tary. So we understood, aud if it is not true,then forty three Senators on this side of tae chamber have misled, told me Mr. Carlisle had explained all and he (Cleveland) said he thought we were doing the wise provement on the existing law on the subject, and a compromise which he and I deemed important should be made rather than perpetuate the McKinley bill and proper thing Among the amend ments thus prepared were those} placing coal and iron on the dutiable “After the passage of the bill and Until Tread Mr. Clevelauds’s | after the of letter to Mr. Wilson,” said Mr Jones | both were consulting, the While neither the president nor | “I believe he cordially approved of (Mr. Jones) his secretary was in love with all the jour action. I had expressed to bim jand I together had a diract interview provisions of the amendments, uye|the opision that it must Le either) With the president, in which he was sir, I may say in fairness that there |this modified vill or none at all and were many to which they were op- | he replied that in the alternative he | to the existing condition and as to posed, as the senator from Missouri) favored the moditied measure.” | the improbability of our being able and the Senator down Mr. | to induce the House t« been Every prominent amend ment to the bill was as well known | Jist. democratic conferrees to him as to me. houses senator from Arkansas | dierctly informeed by both of us as from Arkausas| As Senator Jones sat sree to some those brave men jand the distinguished chairman of |Gormean arose to resume, but Mr.j0f the concessions which we have {the committee on finance were ep | Vilas int rposed with a posed to many of them, and as it] series of | beeu forced to make in the senate My distinct understanding of that ent de- | questions to Mr. Jones. was 4X compromise measure it was | “In your interviews with the Pre- | interview was that the presi possible. Then in dramatic tones not satisfactory toa single solitary | sident,” asked Mr. Vilas, “were the | Sited that we pass the billasit pass he delivered his defiance. “Thein /human being of this side of the| subjects of coal and iron ever men |ed the senate if we could make no famous calumnies heaped O08 | cbassher. tn all Hs dota bat i aa | tioned?” better terms the heads of the Senate forced from sert that as a whole, the structureas! *Yes,” replied Mr. Jones, with ex Mr. Gorman then said: I want to his lips,” he said, “a plain, unvarn presented and scanued by these gen | plosive vehemence, “at every conver-| ask the senator from Tennessee ished statement of the facts.” He! would make his address with malice | toward none, but be would lock his} 4, pass through this body, and that colleagues and the American people | eres : tlemen,wus satisfactory aud was rec-|sation between the esident and| Whether, in any of these interviews, ognized as the best it was possivle! myself coal aud iron were specifically |the suggestion was made to him mentioned.” from that quarter that the taxes or “Qne more q Vilas. “Did not the President ex-| cratic principles and pertidy to the press the hope at all times that iron | democretic party?” neithe estion.” said Mr, | Coal and iron were a violation of dem cab of the body, was’ no quarter, the president, or through hi inet | In patriotism the democratic sen-! nor by any mem ver ate had gone to work to save the | it ever suggestel or intimated that /and coal should be on the free list?” | o such suggestion has eve: been country and keep their party in pow: | there was anv violation Jemocratic “At all times, yes. But it was the, made to me by the president or any the midst of the president's | er, when suddenly, in principles in anything we did Now Mr. President this is a broad statement. I two ot hoy e that the elr- member of the very | cumstances would permit its realiza-| human being, eall the sentlemen who had the immedi | coutt f the bill, the senator Missouri, (Mr. Vest from Arkansas (Mr. Jones), ask them if they have a cabinet, nor by any replied Mr Harris. ssively expression the struggle came lettec. “It was the for, the most most uncalled slowly and imy upon tion.” extraordinary, most then referred to the eee ie ack An adjourned meeting of the dem Mr. Gorman unwise commuucation,” said he in from! statement in today’s Washington bitter tones, “that ever came from a president of the United States. It placed this body in a position ocrati> state will be held at Pertle Springs, Warrens- burg. Friday and Saturda 24 and 25. U. A. McBrid press association and the senator and I tor Harris and asked the statement: st Post, purporting to come from Sena- Tennessee where y. August esman to give his version of his its members must see to it that the ; i which varies a hairs breadth from understanding with the President pi ie nccoGiation eave the pricing dignity and honor of this chamber the truth it is due to the senate, it is Mr. Harris, who had come down tat j vy 2 ies ae eo shag ae must be preserved lue to themselves, it is due to me, it from the presiding officer's chair for| matter and will make these dates “It places me,” said Mr. Gorman, is due to the country that the the purpose, then took the floor and the opening of the state campaign, “In a position where I must tell the| truth be known. Let the people “I have had very little to do/and that Vice president Stevenson, mr + eee Se = Silve k” Bland. Gov. Ston. i story as it occurred. The limit of have the truth. I pause for a reply! with the Senate amendments tot Silver Dick” Bland, Gov. Stone, ex i rain ee : governor Francis, and Champ Clark, endurance has been reached.” Mr. from my friend from Missouri. tariff bill as a member of the fi en be present ; Gorman then proceeded to detail GORMAN committee, but have been c inu- the history of the tariff bill after it reached the senate, and the: anner in which, to meet the objections and secure the support of certain disaf- fected democrats, the change had been agreed upou. He stated em- phaticaliy that during the progress of the work Messrs. Vest and Jones had frequent conferences with Sec The seven new warships of th of this committee! United States earned a premium of han A ee Soe | $1,271,224 for extra speed, but es when these ene iments were being they are the fastest vessels in the 1and considered. The amend-| world the money is well invested. s, in the form of concessions to The record of the Minneapolis is Senators who were not willing to! over twenty six land miles an hour. by it She is 8 little faster than the Colum- ce in order to this in- arose. He began by say- | ously conference with the demo- ing that he had not himself seen the repeal of the| Sherman law last summer, but the Secretary of the Treasury h cratic members President since the with | sb ad Mr. Carlisle stated frequent conversations. had repeate to him that nd distinctly accept the bill as originally bro before nate by the f bia, and secure crease the coutractors had to enlarge the the greatest possible : calemity that could bappen would be committee, were considered by cach | her steam makin capacity retary Carlisle and often times with failure of auy bill. Hehad dis and every democratic member of the) The most valuable result was cb Mr. Cleveland himself. No material tinetly stated to him that no differ-| finance committee and my distinct atthe price paid —Globe Democra sact recollection that bowever distasteful many of them and all of them were. each and every one of us tices of principal were made. The result was as he declared on a ion, a democratic ence in rates should be allowed to Hig stand in the way of the ec 3 mma st 0 previous ¢ tion of some change of tariff reform. Mr. Jones. had agreed to se of measure which in his opinion leaned toward the radical tariff reform sen- timent and which he thought would seen them as a both Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Cleveland they had both declared that the bill His colleague accept compro fter | Democratic members | receive the support ofa democratic was acceptable to them. The bill of the committee had agreed to them house, senate and president. He jdid not suit him (Vest.) He knew!and the Democratic members of the ses believed then, as he believes now, |it must have the support of the ad-| Senate m caucus,bad agreed tothem, that he had authority for that state-/ ministration to pass it, and he asked!and after the consideration of the } | | conferences THREE ON THE TRAP. Tripie Execution ot Negro Murderers at Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery, Ala, July 20.—Day | Washington, Porter Davis and Char- jlie Ezell, three negro murderers, ; expiated their crimes on the gallows jin the jail yard here today. Their crimes were atrocious, but they died in the ecstasy of religious enthusi- asm. On the gallows platform each made a briet statewent, but none of them confessed. Washington said: “Brethren, in fifteen mirutes Dil be in paradise with a long white robe }on and golden slippers, a walking de golden streets. When you all comes I'll meet you at de gate and carry you to de juigment seat ” Porter Davis said: “I dou’t want to take up my time speaking. I'm anxious to goto leaven. Ina few minutes my soul will be there. You all mind the gospel and meet me there.” Charles Ezell, the wife-murderer, said: “I know I am saved. going to sit down by Jesus. I am a true-born of Jesus and [Tm going home. All of you, white and black, I don't care how big you is, Tam better than you, cause in a lit I am son tle while I will take the sacrament in the city called paradise. the pearly me.” The black ca colored I see giutes standing open for 8 were drawn, the offered a short prayer and the murderers called on tho preacher Jesus when trap was spruug. The bodies were cut dowa in twenty msinutes and turned over to friends for burial. About a hundred wit execution, but several thousand negroes stood round the ! with the hope of getting a jal glimpse. uessed the These wake five legai hangings in the city limits within a week, with three to follow next Fri- day & Rich Hill Man Lost. Mr. Herman Di ason by man, a stone trate, who has been in years, engaged left Houston for his - and all trace His wife al telegrams and let but oy information cal various contra ia that state, on June home in Rich Hill, of him bas Mo been lost. bas ters of has not been able to culated to afford her encouragement A letter srates that he bad over $790 in money in his possession when he left Houston —Ricb Hill Review Astrike is a curious thing, auy- - Itcauses a mau to drop em ployment, which is neceseary to his happiness: to quarrel with bis bread and batter, which is necessary to his existence; and even to fall out with his favorite newspaper, which is nec essary to his imental advancement and spiritual growth.—Globe-Dem- ocrat. Baki Powder . Gov't Report ABSOLUTELY PURE

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