The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 11, 1897, Page 4

‘BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Epitor. J. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekry Times, published every Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. —— SS | Tickete) : |executions must take place in the Democratic Mt. Pleasant Township. For Trastee—R. L. Graves For Collector—J. B Paget. for Clerk and Asseseor—R. B Hurt. For Constable—Ed Dalton. For Justices of the Peace—W, F. Hemstreet, | ‘Laz LaFollett and D. G. Newsom. —[—[—S$_— Congress has been called in extra | sestion March 15th The House at Jefferson City, Fri- day passed the anti pool room bill. The net gold reserve now in the U_ S. treasury amounts to about $151.000,000 The scramble for office has begun at Washington and the president has no peace or rest. It is Senator Mark Hanna now. He was escorted to his desk by For- aker Friday and took the oath. Ex-President Cleveland made a mistake in calling congress in extra session, and we fear President Mc- Kinley has done likewise The south is not represented in the new cabinet. The republicans of Dixie will have to content them selyes with post-effices Kerens and Filley are having a red hot fight as to which shall con trol the appointment of a postmaster for St. Joseph. Place our bet on Kerens. The next big event now is the prize fight between Titzsimmons and Corbett to come off at Canon City, Nevada. A bill to reduce express charges by about one half has passed the House. Express charges are un reasonably exhorbitant aud ought to be trimmed. Judge Burton of Nevada, is in Washington, and aspires to the ap pointment of attorney for the west district. The Judge is a pretty good lawyer and Mc. ought to give him this little job. Vice-President Hobart will use a gavel in the senate which cost $500, It isa beautiful affair and was pre- sented to him by the officers and directors of the First National Bank and the Paterson Savings Institution of Chicago. The seyenty days session for which members of the legislature are al- lowed $5 per day expires March 16. After that date the pay is $1 a day, and as a general rule most of them pack their grips and light out for home. Tho Drum bill to establish a fourth ineane asylum for this etate has pass ed the senate. The bill carries with it an appropriation of $150,000 to put up the necessary buildings. The asylum is to be located in the south east part of the state. When the goverror signs the bill he will select acommission of five to select the city and site. The legislators at Jefferson City have got on a regular economica) bender. Ali committee clerks except those serving on the judiciary, crim inal jurisprudence, ways and means, accounts and appropriations have been dispensed with anda general pruning in appropriations is being had. The tax-payers will not object to seeing the legislature get down to a hard pan basis, these stringent times. The Globe Democrat and other eading republican papers assert that the new administration will send gunboats to Cuba to protect Ameri- can interests and if needs be to back | President McKinley gives |The people of Jefferson City have |made a big fight against the bill. Giles Y. Crenshaw has taken charge of the marehal’s office as suc | cessor to General Shelby. He was| commissioned for four years and| notice | that he will not remove democrats | holding office until their commis sions expire. So by this ruling Mr. Crenshaw will serve through the re- | Dalzell of Pittsburg, the friend and |neighbor of Shiras, delivered the Hong expected defense of the double action of the Justice in the income | tax case. It is known, of course, that publican administration Gov. Stephens has vetoed the Peers bill, which provides that all! state penitentiary at Jefferson City. The veto message is quite a long one and the Governor gives a number of reasons for his action in the matter The bill provided that all prisoners convicted of murder and sentenced to be banged should be taken to the penitentiary 5 days after their con- viction and kept in that institution until the day of execution. Senator Peers is very indignant at the failure of the bill to receive the approval of the Governor. The bill was set for a special order in the senate yester day and may be passed over the veto. The senate refused to confirm the nominations of M. A. Fyke and Frank G. Johnson for police com- missioners of Kansas City The names of these gentlemen were sent tothe senate by Governor Stone a day or so before his retirement. The Kansas City papers made war on the uorainations and charged the gentle meu with all kinds of misdemeacor, the main item in the bill of excep tions being that Messre Iyke and Johnson, who were holding the oftice at the time, would not suppress the gambling dens existing in the city. The legislature took cognizaace of the matter and an investigation by a committee followed. The report of the committee was received by the senate Tuesday adverse to the con firmation of the two commissioners and was adopted The Goyernor atnounced that he would appoint successors to Fyke and Johnson to- day. Senator J N. Ballard was in the city Monday. He came up from Nevada where he had been on of ficial business Iu speaking of leg- islation at Jefferson City he did not hesitate to express his disapproval of the bill granting to the State Uni versity an endowment of two million dollars. He was of the opinion that the friends of the school were ex- orbitant in their demands. The senator said he might consider a proposition of one million dollars. The interest at 5 per cent on one million dollars would give to the school about $50,000 a year, which he considers a sufficient amount to operate the university, and as much as the school would get in case of a direct appropriation from the legis lature. While the people of this district feel very friendly toward the echools of this atate, from the district to the university, yet ifa vote were taken to give the university an endowment of two million dollars Senator Ballard would be overwhelm. ingly sustained in his opposition to the proposed bill MAY SERVE OUT THEIR TERM. For Cause. Washington, D. C., March 8 —The Democratic office holders in Kansas and Missouri will be permitted to serve until their commissions expire, except in cases where charges fully sustained are filed. This interesting Piece of information to Western Re- publicans came direct from the presidential caller today by the President himself. It will doubtless have all the effect of a shower bath States, but it goes. no attempt on the part of the Presi dent to hasten the outgoing of capa | Shiras of the Supreme Court of the jing, and a month or eix weeks later, sentation in full. in the course of arunning debate, the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. the House, and, later on, I made some remarks about the income tax j cision. ‘at the second he White House today. It was told al ble and competent officials. Charges | Judge DeArmond Replied to’ Dalzell, Shiras’ Apologist. The Republic Bureau. Penn. ave. and lith St. Washington, March 2—Justice United Staths, was discussed in the House of Representatives to day. one Justice voted for the constitu tionality of the law at the first hear- without explanation, voted to make the law unconstitutional I has been pretty generally known that Shiras was the Justice that changed. The Republic correspondent was about tho first that named Shiras as tke changeable man, and he did it on the authority of a Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Dalzell delivered a eulogy on Justice Shiras. He denied that there was any record as to which Justice changed. He insinuated that it was guess work to name Shiras. He did not deny that it was Shiras. The speech was good as a eulogy on the man; poor as a defense of the Justice. MeMillin of Tennessee made a few vigorous remarks, reasserting former declarations, and then DeArmond of Missouri got the floor. DeArmond is regarded by men of all parties as one of the ablest men in the House. When Judge Turner of Georgia re- tires from Congress in a few days it will be proper perhaps to refer to DeArmond as the ablest man in the House. Few men in the recent his- tory of Congrees have grown 80 in public estimation as a speaker, a logician, a clear reasoner, a profound student, a quick and agile debater, within as few years as Judge DeAr- mond. His speech to-day was a masterpiece, and is well worth pre- Here it is: “Mr. Speaker—A short time ago, MeMillin), who has just addressed decision and indulged in some stric- tures upon the course of Judge Shiras in that decisiov. Soon it was rumored, and a little later it was announced that at the first fitting opportunity the distinguished gen- tleman from Pennsylvania (Dalzell) would reply and defend Judge Shiras. The long expected and anxiously- waited-for reply has finally come, and, with all deference to the gentle- man from Pennsylvania, it does seem to me that a few more such replies would leave Judge Shiras in a de- plorable condition. “There was a criticism of the deci- sion of the Supreme Court upon the income tax case, but the gentleman from Pennsylvania wisely chooses not to go into that matter; not to discuss the right or the wrong, the strength or the weakness of that de There was also comment upon the fact, or the alleged fact—I} think the rea! fact—that Judge |Shiras oecupied one position at the} first hearing and an opposite position og, and thut his change of opinion in the interval had {the momentous effect of making Office-Holders Will Not be Removed Except | unconstitutional, according to the decision of the court, a jaw, the like of which had been deemed constitu tional for a hundred years in our Government. “Now mark the marvelous features of the defense or reply of the gentle- man from Pennsylvania. He does not tell us why Judge Shiras changed front. He does not even know, so he tells us, whether Judge Shiras did change his opinion or not. The gentleman comes to this House with jail his magnificent abilities fully on the placeseekers in the two| There is to be! equipped for the defense and admits that he knows nothing about the jfacts involved. Judge Shiras did or did not change his opinion in that ease. The gentleman has known hungry Republicans will have to be up Gen. Lee in his demands upon | amply substantiated. the Spanish government. It is claim. ed General Lee has not had the bil support he should have had from the | for state purposes. IL to Under the old administration in power. Congress jlaw the dram shops are required to will meet in extra session in a few, PSY not less than $50 nor more than day and then perhaps president Mc- Kinley in his message will enlighten the country as to the policy to ve persued. | $200 each six months | poses to make the minimum $100 jeach six montis or $200 each year. | Practically it doubles the state tax. —Stockton Journal. The bill pro- against Democrats filed by over | Judge Shiras intimately, he tells us, | for years, and is upon the wost |friendly footing with him. He bas) | The house yesterday passed the contemplated this reply for some} increase the dram shop license | time, yet by bis confession he is un-| o7 jable to tell the House what the atti- jtude of Judge Shiras was at one {time and what at the other time: H DALZELL'S EVASION. “What is there of sacredness about that? Why should the opinion records, Mr. Speaker. of Judge Shiras, the one time or the other, be hedged about so carefully | that even the gentleman from Penn-| sylvapia, to say nothing of less fav- | lored individuals, may not know what it was oris? Why ought there to, be any secrecy about it! Why ought | he not, if he speaks here as the self- appointed champion of Judge Shiras, to be able to tell us whether he did or dil not cbange bis position with respect to that great and momentous question pending in that court? “I pause for reply. Why ought) he not be able to do it? Why does; he rise to talk here in the way of) \ defense, explanation or apology if} unable to do that? What information | does he bring here?” i Mr. Dalzei!: The geotleman is | simply playing a very common law | yers dodge in trying to put the) burden of proof on the other side} when it belongs to himself.” Mr. DeArmond: “The gentleman cannot by his adroitness escape the | force of what Iam saying. Heap pointed himself, he says, without consultation with Judge Shiras or invitation from him, his defender or} apologist, whichever term he choose | to employ; and he comes here now unable, as he confesses, to tell the House anything about whether Judge Shiras did or did not change his opinion; and he talks as though it were so sacred a thing that there is some virtue lying somewhere iu the ignorance which he parade.” Mr. Dalzell: “I want to say to the} gentleman that I treat this question here to day precisely as Judge Shirase would treat himself upon the record; and the gentleman has not, nor has the gentleman from Tennes it see, disclosed to this House upon | what they base the statement they make, which is contradicted by the} record ~ Mr. DeArmond: ‘l'here are two There is the small, record over which Judge Shiras may have control; and there is the vast, mighty record over which the people of this country have control. If the gentleman chooses to confine himself to the narrow record of Judge Shiras in two decisions upon the most momen- tous questiov, the most far reaching and important question that has arisen aud been decided in years by that court, if he desires to confine himself to the clam-like-policy of not declaring where Judge Shiras stood or how he stood or why he stood, let him not impose upon me or upon avy other Representative the like restrictions. narrow “The gentleman says there is no authority for the assertion, or the assumption, as he would cal! it, that Judge Shiras changed front except communications and editorials in *Popocrat’ newspapers. He could at once putat rest the question whether Judge Shiras did or did not change front. I defy him to deny it. In all the months when this man’s conduct hns been criticised, when this deci- sion has been condeniued from ocean to ocean, aud from the Lakes to the Gulf, it is strange, if he has been soff-ring unjustiv, that no one has Time is inevitable — inflexible — ever. Wasteé never come ‘wasted oppor. 'S_are lost for. ever. Women hardly seem to realize this With the seeds of 3 death planted and a thriving within them, they go on wasting day after day, pay. ing no heed to flight of time or growth of disease till it is too late. Carelessness causes much of woman's pe- ¢euliar sickness. Neglect of minor troubles causes serious complications. The slight poco tte burning, dragging ache— the debilitating drains that mark the pro. gress of feminine diseases are passed lightly over or are borne in ignorance of theit cause. Their continuance means death o1 insanity. Most of insanity among women comes from this one cause. It is all unnec. essary. So called ‘‘ female weakness”’ can be cured. Cured positively, permanently, quickly, easily, right in the privacy of your own home, without any of the humilating local treatment so uniformly insisted upon by physicians. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre. Scription will do it. as wide as the world successfully in every the globe. There i: place. There is There is nott It has a record of cures it is known and used | } zed country on ing “just as good.” Sitwith. Drug: of all other simi. Hl i Coy Advi ji will sez ps to pay cost of m: ing onl Hood’s Brown stood. that If the talk about where Judge Shiras ences othing that takes its | jand monopoly in this country be |came so great that the voice of con- stitutional law, the glorious story of | : 3 French cloth bindin: With embossed covers cents extra (zr cents in all). Address, Wy . i | Association, Buffalo, N.Y. n¢ n, Tired, Weak, Nervo ed Pilis, arisen to give the facts to the peo- ple. “The gentleman discoyered by his I will not go into aod to draw infer why he stood as to what will the gentleman say of his own curious conduct here in imputing to Judge Brown vacillation of judgment, at least, if nothing more, and holding him up as one man who ought to be singled out for condemnation if there is to be any condemnation? “The gentleman is right in saying that this question has been discussed in the newspapers and that it has been talked xbout during the cam paign by speakers opposed to the policy which has been carried out for his party in the decision now upon the statute asserting that, and I will say to him that the assertion again; the charge will be made alcng the whole line. him, and warn others who propose to defend that indefensible dacision, tnat they cannot hedge themselves behind imaginery walls of propriety The people have a right to know where Judge Shiras stood. The peo ple have a right to kaow why he changed his opinion when the effect of that change of opinion was to cast the burden of heavy taxation upon poverty and privation and toil and lift it from wealth. books. He is right in will be made And let me warn HAD STOOD ONE HUNDRED YEARS “Talk about the sxcredness of the decisions of the Supreme Court! What of the sanctity of the decisions that had come down unimpaired un til the day of that decision from the earliest days of the Republic? question first arose in 1796. At that time it came before tbat august trib unal. The It was decided then by a unanimous bench that a tax upon ve hicles was not to be regarded under the constitution as a direct tax to be laid according to population, but an indirect tax to be laid according to the rule of uniformity, Madison took | a contrary yiew at the time the die cussion was up. view that that proposition was cor rectly decided. Madison approved laws enacted enforcing that princi ple. And for a hundred year, in times of peace and in tir for a hundred years,with all changes and fluctuations that have taken place, with men coming and men go ing in this great world and upon that bench—that decision, that ex position of the law, the correctness of that interpretation of the Consti- tution remained unquestioned until the day when 5 out of 9 Justices of the Supreme Court temporarily over- threw it. I say temporarily, I be- lieve, advisedly, because the Ameri can people will never submit to that kind of law, maintained in that kind of way. They are for the regularity and constitutionality of the old Con stitution. They are for the decisions of the fathers, affirmed by the sons and overthrown only when wealth abundred years of republican life, stood as naught io the way. “In the opinion of the Court there! was fear expressed that taxes might | | be laid under this prizciple by those >| whose constituents would not pay them. Did the man who made that 5 | tained that fear, realiza that ung oman Ss —— methods aud by that iniqaj. |tous decision there may be such |burdens cast upon the Masseag of | \the people by the representatives of “special interests and special Classes ~ |as this country has never known? \the opinions—that of a man old in years without being venerable fe there isa difference between being old and being venerable—it wag Sug. | z | gested in the concurring Opivion of J ;|@manon that bench, old in Years, | ; that in this policy of maintaing ay lincome tax perhaps the time 800n | | would come when the walking dele. igates would determine how much ¥ ithe thrifty people of the land shoulg | pay. That may be dignified in af Supreme Court decision and the” ;gentloman from Pennsylvania jg_ nothing if not dignitied in these dig! | cussions. | that time might come, there was no jcomment on the fact that the time g is here, when it is thought to be more advisable and more in conform. | ity with the Constitution as remodel. | process of reasoning where Judge led to tax men thar to tax money—to lay the burden upon manhood rather than upon wealth F stood there} and the resulis of his standing de serves condemnation, walking delegate. at the laboring man be delegates who walk without body and whose walking is not attended with the overturning of fundament. al principles, the ousting of the con- stitutional authorities of states and the smoothing over and paseing | A over of what in common parlanee ig called murder. in politics. Maine (Boutelle) eaid when the, ; naval bill was up, it naturally pro: 1 voked political discussion The ] lines are drawn. We defy you to the onset. ready to mect on these lines. are not for overturning the consti tution We are not for disregarding | the decision of the highest courts, but we are for standing by the de cisions of Marshall and Taney, Chas and Waite the decislous of a great court in th days of its prime. We are for stand. ing by the interpretation of the con stitution in the days of the fathers, accepted by the soue, and woe repu diate, and we will use all honorable” all constituti to reverse a decision which has re- versed the decisions of a hundred $y years. broader and mightier forum than even the supreme court of the Unit: ¥ ed States, in the great forum of the American people, it will not be enough to say, ‘We do not know.’ I have not found out’ that man stood. You do not know, I do not know and nobody knows, says the gentieman. people have settled to the conclusion that is correct, and I defy the gene tleman to deny it; I defy bim to refer to the man for whow he apol-. ogizes or whom he defends for the authority to deny it” Hamilton took the| es of war—| Gladness Come Wit a better understanding of the - ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts—gentle efforts—pleasante: rightly directed. the knowledge, that so many forms 0 sickness are not due to any act ease, but simply to a constipated tion of the system, which t family laxative, Syrup of Figs. ly removes. Th: remedy with mil every where estee who value good health. ne! : effects are due to the fact, that itis the” one remedy which promotes im z cleanliness chase, that cle, whi fornia Fig well-informed “It was suggested, too, in one of | ; or There was no thinking I have nothing to say about the That is a sneer There may | Mr. Speaker, this ig As the gentlemen from 7 The battle is on We are” We We are for standing by oP sal, all lawful means Leay again, in that contest, ins 4 how this or The American transient nature of the many There is comfort ip { j | the pleasant is why it is the only ons of families, and dso highly b; Its be ‘without debilitating t is therefore getits beme-— on par | icians, but if in n best, and 1 ywhere, Syrup ev Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most veneral satisfaction