The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 14, 1897, Page 4

ii } ) i mae 3 ———— ee “= — BUTLER WEEKLY TIh J. D. ALLEN Ep:tor. ]. D. Atien & Co., Ptoprietors- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weexry Times, pub! Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00, ———$— Legislators will remember, its quality avd not quantity of bills the people want. The New York World is throwing | hot shot into the Dingley tariff revi- sion committee The dispatches say Senator Sher- man is being urged to recept the office of Secretary of State in Me- Kinley’s cabinet The republicans will not call out the state militia this year in Kansas to preyent the populists from or- gavizing the legislature sei Reckless investments of officers is a poor definition the republicans are giving for the many bank fail- ures that have taken place of late. At all the mines in the Massillion district, Obio, notices bave been posted of a reduction in the price of pick mining from 61 to 51 cents per ton. A new bank has been opened at Warrensburg. H. Y. Hughes is president and W L Embree cashier. The capital stock of the bank is 330,000. Tanner, the new governor of Illi nois, will make an effort to go to the United States Senate. Some men don’t appear to know when they have enough. The Blue Cut train robbers have all been gathered in. This gives the state a good chance to test the con- stitutionality of the law making train robbery a capital offense. The Syndicate building, fifteen stories high, at the southwest corner of Nassau and Liberty streets, New York, sold at auction the other day and brought the enormous price of $2,058,291 58 Senator Mille, of Texas, bas intro- duced a resolution in the senate favoring the recognition of Cuban independence. Texas will accept the contract to settle the Cuban dis- pute in 90 days if Uncle Sam will give her permission. The Spanish are being paid back in their own coin. Gen. Gomez has raised the black flag. Recently Gen. Gomez captured 114 Spaniards and the last one was put to death. Hereafter, no quarter will be shown or asked. Col. John T. Crisp, was the only democratic member of the house who interposed the slightest objection to the re election of Senator Vest to the United States senate. Col. Crisp even when it came to a show down fell into line and voted for Vest. Governor Stone in his message to the legislature bas this to say of train robbers. ‘In my opinion the men who perpetrate this crime (train robbing) should be hung, and I be- lieve the law should be so amended as to provide that every person con victed of it should suffer death.” Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, the great Kansas orator, has lost her little home. In an unguarded hour she mortgaged it for $1,400, and the property was sold a few days ago to satisfy the debt and brought $600 Somebody is out $800 and it is safe to bet a pumpkin that it is not Mrs. Lease. If the election of McKinley had nothing to do with the recent bank and business failures, then the smash ups should not be charged to the agitation of the silver question. They should just be charged to over production’ or speculation and bad management. The Dingley tanff committee are|teacbers of the county almost as al The Jefferson City Courier says | charge of party affairs outside of ized to sign for the British govern-| | unit are in favor of bis renomination | not calling in farmers for consulta- tion and advice in regard to raising the tariff schedules. Only manufac- turers so far have been consulted The manufacturer and the trusts you In the dispate between Col. Jones land Mr Pulitzer in regard to the editorship and management of the|day night and for the fourth time | | Post-Dispatch taken to the courts for adjudication, the supreme court bas rendered a decision in favor of 'Col Jones. The democratic party | and especially the free silver element ished every | @e greatly pleased with the out come of the conteution Vest Elected. The legislature met in caucus Fri- selected Senator George G. Vest to represent Missouri in the United States senate. There were eighteen senators present aud all voted for Vest. Of the eighty-five house members present, eighty four yoted for Vest R-presentative Sweeney, the populist member from Jackson | Curious Position of John Sherman. New York Journal | The Hon. John Shermar, Senator of the United States and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign | Relations, is quoted in the Evening Post of yesterday as saying that if |the independence of Cuba ever came jup for cons the Senate {be would oppose them. If the Even | {the Cameron resolutions recognizing eration in | é line Post tol » truth—which . | In his message to the legislature! oounty, who introduced a resvlation | 23 Post told ae truth—whieb that | + i = E a | Governor Stone makes the statement! (which was not read) that Vest. eminent apostle of the old journal : : i | st ~ oe that even under existing business |Stoue and Stephens all appear be |ism does not—the Hon John Sher |conditions the state debt at the rate the end of Governor Stephens’ term. This is a pleasant piece of news which the people will be delighted to hear and realize Bates county’s representative went to Jefferson City on the train. He took a chair car and rode like the gentleman that he is A_ legis ator that would walk unnecessarily 110 miles is made ot mighty poor material, and the county he is sup- posed to represent has made a bad mistake in itseelection Legislators should be men of intelligence, and gentlemen When Mr. Vest serves out the term for which he has just been elected he will have represented Missouri continuously in the United States senate twenty four years That isa good long term to hold office without cessation, but Mr. Vest has discharged his obligations to the people and his state honestly and witb ability, and if he holds out faithful to the end, will leave his post with an honored career. Thomas G. Conkliv, superintend ent of the local office of the Pinker ton National Detective agency, at Kansas City, sent a bullet through his brain while seated at his desk in hie private office on 7th and Main streets, Sunday afternoon. He was discovered a few minutes after the shot was fired by his private secre tary, who gave the alarm, but he died before a physician arrived. The cause of this act 1s said to be de- spondency, failing health and wild dissipation. He left a wife and three smal! children The manufacturers of woolen goods want protection on their products, but are opposed to raising the tariff in favor of the wool grower. They claim to raise the price of wool would not be beneficial to their business. They want low price wool and a tariff on manufactured goods that will prohibit The wool grower claims this kind of discrimination would be of no benefit to him. The tariff committee want to please both and the disaffection puts them up a tree. In the make up of the committees for the house by Speaker Farris, we see that Bates county's representa tive fared exceedingly well. He is selected to serve on four of the most important committees in the house: Appropriations, Education, Mines and Mining and Township Organi zation. This recognition of a new member, inexperienced in legislation to be placed upon four important committees is a high compliment to Mr Ellis, and certainly his constit uency in this county, regurdless of | party affiliation, will be proud to know he stands so well at the state capitol. SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. Prof. J. P. Thurman will probably have no opposition in the democratic party should he decide to make the race. His labors in this capacity have been entirely satisfactory to the county. He has raised the stand ard of scholarship among the teach ers, and has introduced system into our schools. He has organized local institutes for pupils and teachers has been done. Through his efforts much has been done toward grading the coun. there were fifty graduates from |them. The number doubtless will be greater the coming year. The jand his reelection. Mr. Thurman is jan able, industrious and conscien- | tious worker for the interests of the through which much good work both | try schools, and as a result last year, ifore the caucus that he might make jdone he would not abide by the ‘action of the caucus, left the hall. Stone. explained his vote by saying that he ‘county, voted for Gov. | | but that his people expected him to | vote for him and he was obeying their wishes, and would simply yote for him on the roll call and let it go jthat way. After the ballot had been | taken and the result announced The | chairman appointed a committe and | Mr. Vest was invited to the hall, and imade a brilliant addresz of twenty miputes. Before he closed he allud ed to himself that it was the last time he weuld office “The time is soon to come,” said he,“when some of us must step aside to give way to younger and more vigorous men I stand here to-night in this historic hall,where I stood at the beginuing of my career in oflice.” He swept his hand around directing the eyes to pictures of the great men of Missouri, past, aud continued: “Standing here,as I am, surounded by the faces of my dead friends, I could not make a state ment I do not believe, I could not say what is not true. If I liye until the close of the term for which I will be elected, I will have discharg ed all the public duties which will ever imposed upon me. I recognize the fact that the ailurements of pub lic office are such that such state ments often goto nought. It will not be so with me. I think that the best way Ican show my gratitude for the honors which have been be- stowd upon me is by the faithful performance of the duties which are imposed upon me.” ; The Senator said that the best promise as to his action in the fu- ture was to point to his record of the past that he would ever fight to bring this government back to the principle of the fathers. The legislative democratic caucus at Jeffereon City held Thursday nominated the following officers: HOUSE. Speaker, John W. Farris of La- clede county. Speaker pro tem, George T. Lee of Carter county. Chief Clerk, Charles W. Green of Brookfield. Ass’t Chief Clerk, R. P. Thompson of Barry county. Enrolling Clerk, Gus Leftwitch of Ray county. Engrossing Clerk, R. H. Warren of Cedar county. son of Johnson county. Doorkeeper, William Malone of Dade county. Sergeant-at Arms, A. J. Summers of Douglass county. Chaplain, Rev. William Protteman of Jefferson City. Folder, W. H. H. Brown of Jack son county. SENATE OFFICERS President pro tem, Senator Chas. E. Peers of Warren county. Secretary, Col. Roach of Carthage Assistant Secretary, W. L. Mabry of Montgomery county. Chaplain, Rev. J C. Givens of Jetferson City. Doorkeeper, S. R. Majors of Pike county Sergeant at-Arms, Buck Tilden of | Jefferson county. county. Official reporter, Edward Hooker of Laclede county. ter, Edward Towne, Wallace Barron and Frank Lowry. i { that the representative of Hickory He probably felt that he would as schools in the county and is so rec- lief be walked to death going to the | Mr Wasbkourn, populist from Polk} Hej kuew Stone was not a_ candidate, | Be said he realized) ever come before the people for an! Official reporter, Charles J, Jobn-| | Folder, Elijah Kitch of Butler; Pages, Percy Allen, Grover Fos- | |}man has put himself in the position lof reduction going on for the past jup his mind which he wanted to of et judged either a foolora four years will be entirely effaced by | vote for and that unless this was eee | The resolutions which Sherman | now Bays he will oppose were care fully considered in the committee of which be is chairman power to prevent their ever coming up for discussion in the Senate. In stead of employing bis power to this end he reported them, m self as much their sponsor as Sena | tor Cameron, who offered them.’ | That was barely three weeks ago | Senator Sherman’s career has been | ing bim too successful to justify tue charge that he isa fool. Foolish men have been elected to office, and have even | clung to it for a long time, but to| hold office continually for a period | | of forty years, as the senior Senator | from Ohio has done, presupposes al certain ability. And when we recall that, though during all that time! Sherman’s salary only once exeeeded $5.000 a year, the fact that his! wealth is now reekoned by the mil lions justifies usin holding him anj unusally brilliant man. Emphatical | ly he is not a fool It will be remembered that the unanimously favorable report of the Senate Committee on the Cameron resolutions was a complete surprise to the nation. Its effect was most interesting in Wall street, where stocks tumbled and fortunes were made and lost in a day. When the turmoil! was over it became notorious that certain United States Senators were on the inside, that they had advance information of the purpose of the Committe on Foreign Rela tions and had thereby profited large ly Now, if one of the members of that committee,widely known for his ekill in amassing wealth, comes for ward three weeks after reporting the bill which turned Wall street topsy- turvy, and says he didn’t mean it all, and will fight the bill henceforth, people are likely fo infer things not particularly creditable to his reputa tion. Gentlemen addicted to such sudden changes of front, after stir ring up the stock market, can- of course become millionaires even though they never earn more than $5,000 a year all their lives. The Journal merely suggests these thoughts for Senator Sher- man’s consideration. For ourselves we prefer to think the Evening Post lied. Senator Howard Gray of the) Twenty eighth district proposes to introduce several startling measures at the coming session of the State! legislature. One is providing for a radical change of the school bcok law; another provides for an inherit ance tax He is very much interested in what he calls an inheritance tax, | which shall largely discourage build- jing up large fortunes. He proposes to tax all estates of $15,000 one per cent, with a gradual increase to fifty per cent on estates of $5,000,000 and upward. He also proposes to intro | duce a measure providing for an equalization in the assessment of }bank stocks. Anothe: bill now in | preparation by Senator Gray pro vides for the abolition of the grand | jury system.—Jefferson City Tribune Missouri Democrats. i It was ic his} Ry | Hood's Pills tasc.cass opera Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 7.—The} lealled meeting cf the Democratic! fierit arilla its great ly increasing accomplish its Med cures. The Peculiar Itself rases because i purifier. It acts ly upon the blood, nook and Thus all t musc! and tissues come under the beneficent influence of oods Sarsaparilla The Or $1 per It cures a wide of ver Ils: easy to WAR SHALL BE NO MORE. British Arbitration Treaty is an Accomplished Fact. TRANSMITTED TO THE SENATE, Documents Has Been Signed by Olny and Pauncefete, KING OSCAR MADE ARBITRATOR. Provision Made for the Settlement of All Disputes.—Cleveland Approves of It. Washington, D C, Jan 11.—See retary Olney, on behalf of the United States, and Sir Julian Pauncefote, on the part of Great Britian, to-day affixed their signatures to a new treaty, by which, fora term of five years, two English speaking nations agree to abidein peace and without aresort to arms, all possible ques- tions ot controversy being referred te a court of arbitration, with the sing!e exception that ueither nation surrenders its honor or dignity to the judgment of the arbitration. Later in the day President Cleye- land sent the treaty, and a message earnestly approving it, tothe senate. The treaty consists of twelve arti cles, and in print would fill about one newspaper column. One of the last points to be decided was that King Oscar II of Sweden and Nor- way istoact as the arbitrator in case the others fail to agree as the final member of the court. The ac- ceptance of the king and the final agreement on that detail was not cabled to Washington until late Sun day night, and even then one small detail remained to receive the ap- proval of the British foreign office At 11:20 this morning a cablegram from Lord Salisbury removed the last question and left the way clear for the formal execution of the in- strument. : Immediately on receiving the cable from Lord Salisbury, Sir Julian Pauncefote, accompanied by Lord Gough, first cecretary of the embas- ey, proceeded to the state depart ment They were met in the secre- tary’s private office by Mr. Olney and his priyate secretary, Mr. Biandford, tand Mr. Cridler, who, as chief of the bureau of dipiomatic correspond- ence, has charge of the draftiug of treaties. There were few formalities, as the signatures were but the cul- mination of a negotiation covering many weeks, during which a com plete understanding had been reach ei on every phase of the subject It was felt, however, that the mo ment was an eventful one. The | diplomatic bureau bad prepared two | copies of the document. They were not in any sense orrate. The arti- cles of agreemect were engrossed in a fair hand on the simple red-mar- State Central Committee. for the | purpose of discussing plans for per fecting and preserving party organi zation, was held here today, adjourn- ing about 1 o'clock. | A-committee consisting of Chair- man Cook, Secretary Love, George | T. Lee of Carter County, and Baird /of St Louis, was appointed to have | Campaign times. St. Louis Investigation Committee. ity to sign the proposed convention. | known are the only people that live|ognized both by our citizens and| legislature as talked to death after! The proceeding were had in execu-| and do business on this earth. school men of the state. getting there.—Joplin Herald. tive session. | |gined parchment paper ordinarily jused for treaties by thestate depart jment. These copies were laid upon | the secretary's desk, and then occur- ired a very necessary formality. The |British Ambassador produced a | formidable looking document, sign- ;ed by Lord Salisbury, certifying | that he (the ambassador) was author- ment atreaty bearing on the sub county walked every step of the dis-! Chairman Cook, Secretary Love, ject specified Secretary Oley replied tance to Jefferson City, 110 miles. | Harvey Salmon of Claton, Will by showing a letter from President eee of Kansas City and Ward of Cleveland delegating to him author. | Having thus satisfied themselves! that everything was being conducts —_—— a eC ed in regular order, they proceed tothe signature of the duplicas ‘ treaties. Sir Jutian Pauncefote hag the honor of signing first. Secretar: Olney handed him the pen, ani he signed one copy in tt Sreretary Olney his signature after that of the am. bassador. Tins will be kuown as the Batish copy, and it will never leave the pc ssion of that govern. mest. Tal up the other copy, Secretary Oluey red it first, and Sa Juhu sigued atter him, This J is ths United States’ copy, and hke ff wise will re 4 possession ot our government, After the senate bag j passed upou iba copy will be made jot our original, aud this will be used — in ihe Huai exchange of ratiticauong — i er on. Tuen both of the copies were led with red wax. Secretary Oluey jimpressed bis private seal, a simple — |m vogram, “RO,” and Sir Juhay jusei lis family crest, a lion, aud the ~ j ceremonies were complete. Toe pen jus.d was a simple, broad pointed — jstab, ia ared aud black hard wood holder, but it wiil be treasured by the bolder, Mr Biantord | Foilowimg this tuere was an ex. | change vt courtesies between Mr, Oluey and Sir Juhu, each expressing jhis deep sense of gratitude thata laber which had apparentiy insur mountable obstacles bad been con cluded iu a way to give promise of far reacbing results The meeting Juliau and Lord Gougn, Mr. Olney at once took the signed treaty to the Winite House for the prepara: tion of President Cleveland’s mea: sage tiansmittiug it to the senate, It was understood dunng the mom. ing that this trangmission would be made at ones, in order that every executive function connected with the treaty should be completed at the earhest possible moment Under these circumstances the treaty aod the president's message went to the senate to day General, and one of the most ex. tensive business men in Philadel phia, takes a rather gloomy view of the business future He says ‘af the next four years don’t give good times to the United States, the new century will usher in changes that will be severely felt in the most re. mote corners of the world.” The simple explavation of this is, accord: ing to Mr. Wanawaker, that the Re. publican party has promised the people of the United States a large mea-ure of prosperity under the gold standard, and, baving made this promise, Mr McKivley, Mr. Hanna and the Republican party — must see that the goods are prompt. ly delivered. It is plain to be seen — tbat Mr. Wanamaker has grave doubts about there being prosperity — under the gold standard. He real- izes that the people have been trick- ed and humbugged on the money question, aud that the responsibility will be unloaded upon the Republi- ean party and its ullies—where it properly belongs —Clinton Demo- crat Executor’s Notice. that letters testa- mentary cn the estate of Amanzar Hensley, deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 9th day of January, 1897, by the probate court of Bates county, Missouri. All persons having claims against said es- tate. are requested to exhibit them for silow- ance to the executor within one year after the date of said letters, orthey may be precluded from any benefitof said estat-; and if such claims be not exhibited within two conn, from the date of this dpa eae they shall be for- ever barred. This 12th day of January, 18%. GEORE W. HENSLEY, Executor. 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