Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1894, Page 8

ae eee -is the root of all evil, as far as diseases of the stomach, liver and bowels and all skin affections are concerned. It is a dangerous condi- tion, and should mot be allowed to run on without attention. RIPANS TABULES taken after each meal will cureconstipation. Am oc= casional tabule will pre- vent it--better than cure. 50c. Box At All Druggists. Wholesale Agents, F. A. Tschiffely, Washington, D. C., E. S. Leadbeater & Sons, Alexandria, Va. DAVISON, Jewel Paker, 1223% F St. See Those Diamonds? A brilliant, sparkling, connoisseur-delighting dis- lay. Superb stones with Inferior grade prices at- tached. Don't fail to see that magnificent pair of Diamonds we're showing, and priced only at $1,000. Good judges declare finer-matched, more perfect stones are not to be found in the south. Then look at the jewelry and silverware we’re show= ing, and all popularly priced. Davison, 1223% F St. d8-40e0 Violet Florentine ORRIS, asc. 1=4 Ib. moa Verona Orris—but sweetly per- W. B. Moses & Sons request the honor of yr presence at yeXmas Show % ARTISTIC FURNITURE; RICH SILKS; TAPESTRIES AND CARPETS FROM THE ORIENT, AND DIVERS FaBnics oF GREAT BEAUTY AND RARITY, Held on Tuesday, December 11, at the Corner F & 11th Streets from7:30 p.m. to10:30p.m. Ritned eke, Fo Flore at 9 i211 Ogram S, Pa. mates Ave. ‘ Why Not Choose Now WHILE YOU HAVE TIME? From our excellent assortment of all descriptions of Bronzes, Vases, Lamps, Onyx Tables and other useful and ornaméntal goods you can surely find an appropriate Christmas Present for busband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister or best girl. —filtered artesian well water isn’t any too good to use in washing ciothes sent to us to be laundered—same way with washing material —imachinery and help —the very best is none too good. Yet we make money, because—while (a Physical Corset Co.’s For a mans itt useful _and a pair of we've an ele- ul satin ones. Every we may not make as shade, ndsomely =m: ade with bow aa eae do aad $1 much on our work as Firs. Whelan, Mgr other laundries—we 10-204 have so much work to do. Drop a postal and our wagons will call. ¥. H. WALKER & CO., YALE Steam Laundry, MAIN BRANCH, 614 10TH ST. N.W. Boys and Girls bare a gay Christ- Bas Tree. CLD'S, 421 tm ‘Tree Or- Bamente, Scrap Book Pictures, Toys,Fancy Pa- per, Dolls, Fa- Yors, etc. ete. "Phone 1092. Plant, 43 G at. aw. Gives Balls, Tinsel, Snow, Dolls, Gilt, Tors, Crepe Paper, Fancy Paper, ‘Favors, Cotton Ant- | @11-2t mals, Masks, Flags, Goll Paint, Met ie, Christ- Prouccpias, K p Mottoes, ‘Frost dies, as Cards, Candy Boxes, Fite Green Moss, rap Pictures in everything, ‘angels, ‘Dolt a im! Buchanan Bros., SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS, 1115 F st. RUPTURE PERMANENTLY CURED. NO Hon ‘from business. We tee to cu we undertake. H A TTUTE, flooins “Si and 86, Metaerott butiding, 1110 F Bw. tm frce after Xmas. nlT-Im Gold glasses bought for presents will be fitted THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. PRICE Guarantee. * So sure are we that our prices are * the lowest that wo guarantee them in this manner: Should you find any- thing you buy of us being sold at a * lower price elsewhere you can bring ours back and claim the difference, ‘and then deduct an additional ten per cent. For Gift Solfd Gold Link Bracelet, pedlock and key.. Solitaire Diamond Rings’ (no ehlps) Solitaire Diamond Earrings Solid Silver Stem-winding Horseshoe Diamond Scarfpins, 12 stones Soild Gold, Link Buttons, ‘diaivond ceuter 4karat 2l-year Guaranteed Geuts’ Gold Waltham Stem-winding Wateh. Sterling Silver Hair Brush, repousse iborder, monogram center S-plece ‘Tea Set, best quadruple plate Ousx Table, Onyx Lamp aud Silk Shade, cow- re. Silver Match Boxes! Silver Suspenders. Silver Hat Beoshes. Sliver Penholders Silver Link Buttons. Silver Hatpins. Peari Pendant with diamond’ center Je, set with 8 diamonds. litaire Ring. Karat Solitaire Ring 2k. pair Perfect Solitaire’ Earrings. 4X. pair Perfect Solitaire Rare OPEN EVENINGS. GOODS CAN BE RESERVED ‘TILL WANTED. R.Harris &’Co., IMPORTERS OF DIAMONDS, 7th & D N.W. Time is flying —only 1 shopping days before Christmas. A Price-Crash aca s PERRY’S. eee eeeee wee ences eee eens AN you stop in the holiday rusa long enough to consider some es- pecially good offers that we have to make to you personally? Our WRAP DEPARTMENT wants to move some small lots of Ladies’ Cloth Jackets. Children’s Cloth Wraps. Plush and Fur Capes. Toeir very scarcity pronounces an elo- quent testimonial to their worth. But we know you are busy about other matters and are willing to offer a premium for your expenditure of time right now—by quoting some prices that would be ridiculous were it not for the the motive which prompts them. If you follow along with us we are sure you will say “yes."" Ladies’ Cloth Jackets. LADIES’ BLACK DIAGONAL and CHEV- IOT JACKETS, cut 28 inches long, with “box" front. Regular value price, $8— “Inducement”—$5. LADIES’ ALL-WOOL WIDE WALB CHEVIOT JACKETS— 38 inches long— with wide turn-over Mar and close-fitting front and back. Re; value price, $15— ” “Inducement’’—$10.50. LADIES’ ALL-\WOOL CHEVIOT COATS, with full back, extra large sleeves, wide re} and velvet collar. Also a few CHINCHILLA BOX COATS. Regular value price, $18— ’ “Inducement’’—$12.50. LADIES’ ALL-Woor, GLACE CHEVIOT COATS, with wide turn-over collar, fasten- fg to the side and lined all through with ilk. Regular value price, $: 7 $18. ““Inducement CHEVIOT COATS— LADIES’ BASKET C1 cut 40 inches long, elose-fitting—lined, all through with silk; extra ‘urge sleeves, Regular value price $25 “Inducement’’—$20. ne Coats. Regular value pes $9- “Induceme MISSES’ PLAIN CHEVIOT and NOVELTY CLOTH JACKETS, with box fre back ard large sleeves. Regular value price $10— “Inducement”—$7. Plush and Fu Capes. 80-inch SILK, PLUSH CAPES, trim- med with Jupanese fox aroid collar and top cape; and lined all through with heavy silk. Regular value price $18— “Inducement”’—$12. Qt-inch ASTRACHAN FUR CAPES, with high storm collar and Mned all through with silk, Regular value price $2 “Inducement’’—$18. Perhaps you can see the opportunity in these inducements to solve the gift ques- tion for some! But here they are—to do what dy. Surely @ handsome re- membrance. you will with them. PERRY’S, “Ninth and the Avenue.” Established 1840, ay Order Your Candies For Christmas — from us. Ours are the most delicious you'll find. our out of - town friends will appreciate & box of those brated mixtures. Order now. Special reductions lay schools, ete, , 25, 40 and uth &FSts, Telephone 995. - PERIOR CANDIES, Giil’s ai1-20d NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE, CARPENTER BHOP, JOHN T. WALKER, Bullder, N st. Jobbing by experienced and reliable men. o3-3m* “GEMS” GIFTS. Se eur MMlustrated ad, se) eventnage Star on Mth. pase? —— Greatest azgrggation of high-grade fts for litth® money ever offered in Washington, Here are the items ‘gotitatre Diamond Ring. Diamond: Serew Earrings. Cluster Diamond Ring. ‘Opal Scarf Pin, Diamond Snake Ring. Large Marquise Iting. Selections laid away. Goods sent C0. D. anywhere in America Jacobs Bros., “DIAM |OUSE,”” D 1229 Pa. ‘Ave. & mig F. ait LULU Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral t=" For Colds and Coughs Received Medaland Diploma AYER’S CHERRY At The ra World’s WORLD'S FAR. Fai r. AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL PRIZE MEDAL Will be presented to SOME OXE two days before Christma: The gift will be TEN DOLLARS IN GOLD. | The recipient will be, the = having the greatest num- fer of Cereal Flour COUPONS. In every bag of “Cereal” there | is a coupon, which also entitles | the holder to & SDSOME ART P * is made of SELECTED Winter * and Spring Wheat—ground in one of the best constructed, til known to the modern | milling — and BLENDED TO- | GETHER as only our, knowledze | and facilities CAN. fis ae promoune th FLOCK INTHE, WORLD. It's not only best, but GOES) FARTHEST, therefore THE CHEAPEST’ flour on the market. your grocer doesn't handle + drop us a. postal. ** sce that you are supplied. Wash. Flour & Feed Co. Whoiesale Flour and Feed Dealers Manufacturers of White and Yellow Granulated Meal, Pearl Grits and — Hominy, COR. VA. AVE. AND 4¥g STREET S.W. at Prereereeee c ys] Si Dit 2 oe & : Bd The JENNESS MILLER SHOE for Women is made in two styles now. _ A dress shoe and the every day style. Healthful, comfortable, ele- gant shocs, male of the best mate- rials, Worth $6.00, We alone make and sell them for $5.00, Electric Shoe |é Is well worth your seeing. One of the most attractive displays you'll find, A shoe made cutirely of Incandescent lights —very pretty and effective, Men’s Slippers For holiday present: A most complete stock, Everything that’ anything is here, And at unequaled prices. $1.50 $2 Slippers - = $3 Slippers - = $2.50, Genuine Russia, calf and Morocco— opera cut. ‘“Romeos” = = $2.5 In tan and black —very popular for house wear. (Pat. Leather Pumps, $1.25, For dancing. at Shoes = = = 25 All scat Te TT OE F. Crocker, Treasurer, 939 Pa. Ave. CHAS, A. MUDDIMAN, G14 12th st. $3.75 is a very low figure for a first- class BANQUET LAMP, Handsome Silk Shade in $1.75 will decorate any Lamp with our Silk Shades, We have them all styles and prices. Linen Shades, with silk only 20c., 40c. and 60e. Cc. A. Muddiman, 614 12th. se28-3m sWhat'il Vou ( 7 jaded. fringe, are For Xmas? eee If you wish to give a present * ¢ © eee thatll be appreciated send a © ¢ o*? a, EGLASSES or SPEC- ee ee? TACLES. We have them in btbpstivad eee Gold ~ mat Polished — Stee > Frames and Frameless at very * lowest prices. TF We select and adjust the eyes after giving. : McAllister & Co., the VOVWBSVSAEHOSSTOGSES 0) pticians, @ 1311 F STREET N.W. (next to “San” bldg.). d11-28a Sst ecececcocoesoccocoosd DESSTOSTISSSSSS SOT HS FOTTCOS sFinest Natural a CURLY oe! ° PSSSOSOSOOSHSD: HAIR BANGS hose. figurest Unmatehable, bargains. oe, We Dress Hair In the most artistic and stylish manner. 3 Shempootng. Tale Outting and Curling by rkilifol artists. 2S. Heller, 720 .7th std d11-28a Pattee ss gseetonsosesoacees No Better Gift For a Lady —tkan one of these $12.50 Solid Gold Watcher You cannot make that much money go further, Beautifully engraved and a stemwinder. GEO. W. SUTER, 510 9th st. 10-154 . vH eo Creamery Butter If you wish the best. There's none other freshness, richness of ‘flavor—churned from eqtials it for purity, and delicior Buy Matchless | i i ; pure, Jerse am—always the same. erved rhenever desired. Write Wb. 8 ibs, $1. 5b. ino cevren Manicer; 73 WESTERN SRT, = dli i 5 ome eM Ty THE BARY I8 CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that and well-tried remedy, Winslow's Soin Syrup for, children sere It soothes the child, softens the i pain, cures wind colic ad is the Warthoea. 25 cents a bottle. 1S ALMOST, ee ae lieved by weariug ‘one of Carter's Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Piasters. Try one and be free from pata. Price, 26 cents, THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisputably performed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills should receive the closest investiga tion by sick people and thelr friends.ja23-tu&thly SESSIOSEA MOS SSS ES PS OSS SOT OD S«Little Jack Horner 3 3Sat in a corner, > oEating hisChristmas pie’’ se ]* you want OUI JACK to have a “Christmas ie" with @ Light, erisp crust—that won't give him indigestion for a week after- Ward 9rd make aim wish he hada’t —make your Christmas Mies and arm Biscuits, Molls and Bread iCream Blend ay ioe BACKACHE CSESTSS OC STS: 7¢ is) = - it NEVEK FAILS under proper con- ditions to make ideal Bread, Cake aud Pastry. Good cooks everywhere praise n, Housewives who once try it wiil "se no other. If it’s not ALL we ‘laim for it, your money cheer- fully refunded, Bewsre of alleged “blended” fours. ‘There no biends except “Cream Blend. Git your grocer doesn't sell “Cream Blend,’” write or telephone us. We'll supply you through him, Earnshaw & Bro., Wholesale Flour and Feed Dealers, 1106-1107-1109 LITH STREET S.E. 1t AND 1000-1002 M STREET §.E. esesceeee POCPSLOOD PPOLESESO ‘ POOSOSSOOSSOO OSES OOH OOOOHOOO SOOO SIS SO SOOOHS QrPSoooVeOSIODSSSTESSOSS ra soups, salads, croqucttes, denserts and ano _*pectal ‘iiuhos prepared. adito2s? —=No Christmas and New Year table should be without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bit- ters, the world whed appetizer of exquisite favor. B DISTRICT REPORTS Sewers, Waterand Plumbing Treated by Superintendents. SOME IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS The Good Results From Careful Inspection of Sanitation. THE DISTRICT’S NEEDS ‘Three annuat reports of considerable local interest have been submitted to the Com- missioners. They are the reports of the superintendent of sewers, superintendent of the water department and the inspector of plumbing. The Water Departmen The report of Superintendent Hayden opens with the statement that complaints of the scarcity of water on the higher elevations in the gravity service have been more frequent than during the previous year, due to the rapid extension of distri- bution mains in the high and low service system, excessive waste and Increase in the daily consumption of water. The average dally pumpage of water both high service stations was 2,124, gallons. Since the commencement of the present fiscal year the daily pumpage has increased to 3,236,873 gallons, due to the extension of the high service area south of Florida avenue from 7th to 18th street northwest, and north of Florida avenue from 7th street to Connecticut avenue, and in the northeast secticn to Eckington and Brookland. ‘There are 1,498 fire hydrants in service; 111 of these were erected in new locations. ‘There are 311 street hydrants in use in the city, and sixteen new ones were erected during the year. ‘There are sixty-two drinking fountains for animals, six of which were erected during the year. The District has at present 216 public pumps and wells. During the year thirty-nine pumps were removed and the wells filled and abandoned, and twelve new pumps erected. Sewer Department. Superintendent McComb, in his report of the operations of the sewer department under him, states that during the year there were constructed under contract 17,- 209 linear feet of pipe sewers, varying from twelve to twenty-four inches in diameter; 1,204 linear feet of six-inch lateral con- nections, and %,7# linear feet of pipe sew- varying from eight to twenty-four ers, inches in diameter, were constructed by day labor. The work performed under the permit system included the construc- tion of 12,615 linear feet of pipe sewers, varying between eight and twenty-four inches in diameter. Under the compulsory permit system there were constructed 18,- 628 linear feet of pipe sewers, varying be- tween eighteen and twenty-four inches in diameter. Sewers were constructed at whole cost to applicants aggregating 05 linear feet, varying in size between six and twelve inches. ‘The following is a lst of the sewers recommended to be constructed by Superin- tondent McComb: Suburban sewers—Coin- pletion of Rock creek intercepting sewer, Linden street northwest between Wilson and Pomeroy streets, Morris road, Ana- costia; Brookland system, Quincy’ street northeast between 3d and 4th streets, 5th street northeast between U and Albany strects, Lyons tract between Park drive ani Rock cr2ek, Lincoln avenue from R street northward, Massachusetts avenue between Kalorama avenue end Rock creek, Meridian avenue between Huron and Erie streets, Anacostia sewer at south end of bridge, Brightwood Park system, 16th street between Grant and Kenesaw streets, West Petworth system, Eckington valley between Florida avenue and T street, Pet- worth system, Flagler place sewer, upper Piney branch system, Grassland ‘avenue sewer, Kenesaw avenue sewer. Superintendent McComb says all of these sewers are absolutely necessary to provide sewerage facilities for growing communi- ties. Plambing Department. This report was made by the late Samuel A. Robinson, but has just been given out for publication, The report says: “The discussion of sanitation as applied to house plumbing took shape in this city about fourteen years ago, when, through the efforts of a few friends of the im- portant cause, Congress was induced to give the District Commissioners authority over plumbing introduced into new houses. The action cf Congress in the beginning ei! only lrnited authcrity, and additional islation has been secured from time to time, to which end the intelligent public, the daily newspapers and a few earnest members of Congress have always aided the efforts of this office. “This city may claim, in some measure at least, to have pioneered the course of legislative control over house plumbing, as we had no American precedents to gulde us, and the English standard was wholly inapplicable and notably defective. That our regulations have stimulated sanitary efforts elsewhere there can be no doubt. “The regulations now enforced in this District meet the requirements of domestic sanitation most satisfactorily. The abso- lute and immediate removal of all waste matter, the perfection of local conditions, such as ample light, ventilation and avoid- ance of local odors, and the proper flushing of ail drains and plumbing fixtures is now strictly observed, and greater interest and care by all parties concerned is being tek- en to improve these conditions, and new methods are being introduced every day in the interest of cleanliness and comfort. “The great demands upon this office, as is evidenced by the increased mimber of inspections, especially of old houses, vest illustrate the popularity of the new regu- lations, Inspection of old houses now in- volves application of the peppermint test and 2 close examination of all the lines cf drains. Safer and Netter. “There is a common and sensible impres- sion among persons running houses that modern plumbing is better and safer than old-fashioned plumbing; that the deep seal of a modern siphoned closet is better than the polluted dry walls of an old-fashioned one; that the instant discharge of a mod- ern flushing tank through the closet is bet- ter than a trickling of water in its course through an old pan closet; that tile sur- faces surrounding the plumbing fixtures in a bath room are better than wood panel: usually concealing putrefactive fer- mentation. In fact, the antiquarian will find no desirable examples in plumbing «p- pliances. “It has come to the notice of this office that several of our leading real estate agents decline to take charge of houses except owners obtain certificates of ap- provai of the plumbing, and that persons renting show increased care on this subject. “In former reports I have called atten- tion to notoriously unsanitary conditions in the public buildings of this city, and ex- pressed regret that Congress had given 10 authority over them, and that of necessity, where improvements are not made, bad conditions are continually aggravated. Waste of Water. “I must call attention to the great waste of water in this city, threatening, as it does, the health of the community. This, however, has greatly improved since the adoption of a tank supply for all water closets located in yards as weil as in the houses, and the use of lead supply pipe in place of galvanized iron. Undoubtedly mil- lions of gallons of water have been wasted through the old spring valves of yard water closets and the defective iron supply pipes to our houses. Another improvement can yet be made by requiring that the cold water pipes to all plumbing fixtures above the kitchen be separated, as far as possible, from the heat of flue and hot water pipes. As the pipes are sometimes run it is usual- ly necessary to draw off several gallons of water to get a cup of cold water to drink. This I am now endeavoring to avoid in the present construction of water supply houses, “The act of Congress authorizing the Commissioners to make and enforce regu- lations seems very explicit as to who shall engage in the business of plumbing, and as to the penalty for any violation of the regulations, but since there has been some difticulty in prosecuting persons not li- censed who have doue plumbing work in houses, the regulations should be so amended as to include any person doing plumbing work without a license, either inside of a house or in connection with the street, sewer and water main, and if in the opinion of the attorney for the Dis- trict it is necessary, additional legislation should be asked of Congress to legalize ‘the regulations. “Since this office has refused to inspect or give an cfficial certificate for plumbing work done by persons not licensed by the Commissioners to engage in the business of plumbing, the owners and builders of houses are beginning to recognize the im- portance of avoiding the unlicensed plumb- er, for if a certificate is required by a pur- chaser of tenant, the plumbing work must be exposed and tested before officially certified to. We do not anticipate much more trouble from such cases, as public opinion, as well as the law, will certainly decide in favor of good and safe plumbing work. Proved Beneficial. "That the gas fitting regulations have proved beneficial to the property owners and tenants is evidenced by the fact that gas consumed in houses piped according to these regulations has given greater sat- isfaction than in houses where the work was done previous to the passage of the law governing such work. Heretofore it was customary for gas fitters to use near- ly all three-eighths-inch pipe in ptping medium-sized houses, and in cutting this pipe the orifice was considerably reduced and in some cases as many as twenty burners were attached to this pipe. Thus if six or eight lights were burning at a time the light was reduced to a minimum,causing great inconvenience and trouble to the householder. There was no way to pre- vent this criminality then, but now the conditions are such that all gas fitting work has intelligent supervision and the size of the pipes used throughout the house is especially provided for in the regula- tions. It is not only beneficial to the house- holders, but to the plumber, who now has some rule to govern him in making his es- timate and —_ for gas fitting in houses.” NOTHING BUT APPROPRIATIONS. Sepator Teller’s Prediction Regard- ing Legislatio ‘The New York Press today publishes the following interview with Senator Henry M. Teller, the silver republican from Col- orado, on the political and congressional cutlook: “It doesn’t lock to me as if we shall do anything but pass the appropriation bills. We need financial legislation badly enough, but neither Secretary Carlisle's plan nor what is known as the Baltimore plan i#*| feasible. In f: Mr. Carlisle's is ab- surd. I have talked with several leading bankers in New York since I have been here and have not rua across ene yet who favors it.” “What do you expect will be the out- come?" “Well, we shall have another issue of bonds one of these days. ‘This thing will be kept up until all the gold goes out of the country, and until people can see for them- selves that gold cannot be kept in the country by issuing bonds and running into debt.” hall we have an extra session?” ‘0, I don’t look for one, and I don’t believe Cleveland waits one. He knows well enough he can do nothing either in the present Congress or in the coming one, and he’s perfectly content to dwell upon the ‘condition that confronts us.’ What good would an extra session do an way? The House would be republican, th Senate democratic-populist, and Mr, Cieve- land would continue to hold his own views. So that you would have three branches of the government with varied views, and no prospect of harmonious action “Who is the favorite presidential candi- date in the northwest, and will the west- ern states drop into the republican column in 388 “It will be necessary for the republicans to nominate a man for President who is in favor of bimetallism if they want to carry the states of the northwest. Sherman says he is in favor of a restricted use of silver, accerding to newspaper accounts, and Reed and McKinley are understood to both favor bimetallism. Harrison is squarely with the silver men. If the republicans should nominate a single standard man they would lose many of the western states. Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Mon- tana and Nevada are certain to vote for the presidential candidate who favors sil- yer, and the chances are that California, Oregon and Washington will do the same. Kansas and Nebraska would in all proba- bility follow the example of their sister states of the west. Their states are naturally republican, but if the gold stand- ard man is nominated they are sure to h found in the democratic column, and es pecially if Adlat Stevenson is je th democratic presidential candidate in 1806, as is most likely to be the case from the way things look now. While the west may not dictate who the next President will be, she will dictate the financial policy, for in the Senate Colorado's vote wili be as in- fluential and of as much importance as New York's, and the west and the south will all be in favor of a silver policy. So that, you see, the silver men will control QUACK PANACEAS Mr. Morrill’s Severe Comment on Nine Senate Bills. ALL INTRODUCED BY SENATOR PEFFER The Ephemeral Party Now Called the Populist. SENATORS NOT MILLIONAIRES Mr. Morrill in his speech in the Senate today said: “Having indicated the purpose of briefly addressing the Senate today upon ‘Some Marvelous Senatorial Bills and Quack Panaceas for Real and Imaginary Grievances,’ I hold in my hand nine Senate bills, which I have been directed by the committee on finance to report adversely, and ask for their indefinite postponement, In order that the Senate may have some conception of these bills I shall ask the clerk to read the list.” All the bills were introduced by Senator Peffer of Kansas, and provide for the issue of great sums of greenbacks for various purposes. The Senator continued: “It is hardly necessary to say that these hungry bills, big, bigger and biggest, nine of them, asking for nine or ten times more money than there is now in use by the whole world, were unanimously reported adverse- ly by the committee on finance. Nothing more, as the committee conceived, could have been expected, save brief post mortem obituaries. ‘The bills, many of them, may have been reluctantly introduced by re- quest, and therefore not very tenderly nursed even by their able and eminent godfather. Responsibility for such ecde! tricities ought not to be asked of Senators, and should any member be charged with their real authorship I hope he would be able to plead in defense an alibi. No Reason for Their Introduction. “With no reasons offered for the intro- duction of these multitudinous billion-dollar bills, a sufficient reason for the adverse report would appear to have been that they were all death-stricken from an over- dose of the legal-tender nostrum at their birth, administered by the accoucheur, One of these bilis proposed an issue of legal tender money forty times greater per capita than any we have ever had, Another to purchase all the silver bullion that may be offered at one dollar and twenty - nine-one-hundredths cent per ounce, though it fetches now in any market only sixty-two cents per ounce, Figuratively speaking, the bills were all of one brood and of the same father, birds of infiation, none game, none worth a charge of powder, but legislative dodoes, unlikely ever to be seen on the earth again. “I do not suppose there are more vagaries or political tomfooleries put afloat here than in other countries. Occasionally they come forth here without fatherhood, frisk about through the dog days, and then dis- appear, leaving no bubble in sight to show where they sank. We also have some pushing fanatical theories wearing the mask of political reform, and as sure to give the world the millennium, and not more so, than was the philosopher's stone to turn everything it touched into gold. Minor Political Parties. “Some minor political parties come and go like those diseases which aillict nobody but once. Such parties, usually destitute of constitutional stamina, are ephemeral, and are soon compelled to hoist any flag and set sail for ‘Cowes and a market.’ A recent example of such ephemera, adver- tised with as much technical veracity as any patent medicine, is the ‘populist,’ and leading astray many gocd men, appears to have pclitically pockmarked and discredit- ed two or three of our sister states, but the grotesqueness on its face is likely to prove a deterrent against its further dom- the Senate, no matter who the President i and will have something to say as to th future financial policy of the government.” ination. “Shcrt-lived partisans, fertile in the In- vention and swift in the repetition of de- rogatory slang, aim by its use to defame and defeat those vho happen to be in pos- seesion of the public confidence. By this class of growlers the splenetic charge is made that great wealth has been wrongly distributed—especially to Senators—and has created abounding plutocrats, or kings of wealth, although no entailed wealth under our Constitution is allowed, and we have no ladders here to the upper regions of riches not free to all. Here the children of the wealthy, trained neither to economy nor to labor, often exchange places in suc- ceeding generations with the children of the pcor, schooled to industry and frugel- ity. Thus the tidal ebb and flow of ac- cumulation and dissipation goes on forever. Thore who may be at the bottom of the wheel of fortune today often rise to the top tomorrow. Such wealthy celebrities as were Capt. Clapp of Portland, Billy Gray. of Boston, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, Garrett of Baltimore and Corcoran of Washington, all reckoned among the ‘worthies’ of their day, received few or no political decorations. and the Astors, Van- derbilts and Goulds of our great commer- cial metropolis appear to be equally ne- glected, or possibly equally destitute of po- al ambition. ‘The financial fortunes of nearly all of our Presidents were limited, and the for- tunes of those foren.ost in popular favor, like Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Lincola and Grant, were especially limited. Not a Body of Millionaires, “Persons of moderate wealth, living gen- erously, often have their estates largely overestimated. From the loud braying of long-eared political donkeys many have supposed that the Senate of the United States was a selected body of millionaires, when, perhaps, not more than two or three cf its eighty-odd members have any valid title to that much-envied epithet of op- probrium, Though few were ‘born with a silver spoon in the mouth’ the most part of the members achieved in early voca- tions some substantial success, and yet it is probable that a large majority of the body would be unable to maintain their families in Washington during the ses- sions of Congress but for their salaries. They have the blessing cf Agur, neither poverty nor riches. “It is also to be feared that we are overstocked with amateur cobblers, eager in every emergency to bring out from the profound recesses of their vest pockets ready-made constitutional amenaments, adapted, when slightly lubricated, to their own peculiar circumstances. “Madison, a statesman for all time, never dreamed how flippantly the Constitution, made by him, and signed by Washington, might be blasphemed or botched and per- verted. Rich in her country’s historic fame as the old dominion may be she can ill- to afford for cheap pinchbeck bijoutry, impeach and discard her ancient and pr‘ less jewels, ‘that on the outstretched fore- finger of all ume’ were placed to sparkle forever. “The tariff was claimed by those in power to have been excessive on foreign trade and productive of too much revenue, but the protracted agony and ian delivery of the tariff reform bantling and the progressive treasury deficiency | thus provoked far transcends the sentimental agony of a surplus which long ago ceased to vex any financiers, It is always some- thing too inuch, whether a surplus or a Je- ficienc ‘Two years ago some thought we had too much McKinleyism. More now think we had too much Wilsonism. The tariff pendulum swings to and fro between protection and free trade, tiring out even the President in dreaming dreams, alas, of ‘iron and coal.’ Mr. Morrill then discussed the financial situation and the question of silver, crops and prices. He concluded by saying: Party Duty. “J do not imagine that any political party long exists without some defects, and one cf the highest duties of their members should be some effort to cure such defects and make the party to which they have, on the whole, the greatest affinity, an ideal political association. True, we do not see selves 48 others see us, and our vision the motes in any brother's eye 1s mite! sharpened by the light of the party torch held in the hand. The chief potency of third parties is destructive of the rule of the majority, and hewever eccentric tne measures of a third party may be, they are apt to be tolerated by some greater party, though in the minority, in order to conquer the majority. Thus the smallest of three partier may sometimes impose do- crees upon the country which no other rty holds itself responsible for.”