Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1893, Page 5

-~ L . WESTERN PITH AND PROGRESS Facts About the Okanogan Gold Fields in Southern Oragon, AN ARCADIA OF PROGRESSIVE RED MEN Tmme: Soda Depostts Near Rawline— Fialiey Miners Paid in Balllon—An lerigas tlon Congress—New Wagon Ronds for Kaslo--Geuernl Miscellany. Tho cricket pest now cansing devastation on somn of the grazing ficlds of Wyoming, ‘whiie causing damage locally are not worth consideriug as a menace to the western crop. Moving nlong a narrow strip at the rate of three miles a day, it will be long past har- vest timo before they reach such agricul- tural territory in which they could inflict serious harm, and long before this time, no doubt, methods will be applied to annihilate them, or at least break their march. The only real cloud in the west is the silver ques- tion. and now that additional force has been injocted into the ssuo by the fact of a great American indus- try being placed in jeopardy, there 18 a botter prospect of a favorable compro- mise being reached than befere, and the west is likely to bo placed upon a bewter footing than over. Some Prosperons Indians. A complete census of the Indians in the Coeur d'Alene reservation, the western boundary of which lies one and one-half miles cast of Tekoa, has just been made by Subagent J. J. Walsh. The returns show that there are 457 Coeur d’Alenes and forty- four Spokanes living on the reservation. There are 135 families who own 155 houses, many families owning a house at De Smet mission 1n addition to their farm residence. These houses are called “Sunday houses,” because thoy are occupied by the Indians when they attend church at the mission on Saturday nights and Sundays. There are eighty-eiht school children, of ages ranging from 9 to 15 years. Owing to the large amount of money, nearly $500.000, received by these Indians for their lands last summer a large amount of permanent improvements were made and are being made. At least a dozen nice resi- dences and “Sunday houses” are now being built upon the reservation and at the mis- sion. The new saw mill at the mission will be completed in a few weeks and then build- ing will be pushed, as many Indians contem- plate erccting latgo barns, grana and other buildings. The moncy to build this mill fs furnished by the government, thero being still $150,000 due the Indians for their lands, of which 0,000 is to be used for the erection and maintenance of the mill, and the remain- ing £120,000 is to be paid in fifteen annual payments of $8,000 each, which, with the interest allowed, will make about 00 for every family living on the reservation. The Coeur d’Alenes aro the wealthiest tribe of Indians in the northwest. Many of them have from £1,000 to £,000 on depnsit_in the local banks, with the merchants or in Spo- kane. Last year these Indians had 4,800 acres under cultivation and sold #45,00 worth of farm produce and stock. This year they have 13,000 acres in crop, or nearly 100 for e y family on the reservation. have about 102,000 acres under fence. Last year they built sixty houses at a cost of $30,- 000, and built %00 miles of barb wire fence Agent Walsh says the Cour d’Alenes are good farmers and take good care of their crops, stock and machinery. They have comfortable houses, good barns and sheds whercin to store their machinery when not 10 use, thus sctting a good examplo for their white brothers, many of whom leave their farm implements out in the felds or fence corners when they are not in use. They cul- tivate the ground well, and their crons give promise of an abundant yield. They are thrifty, industrious and generally sober. Drunkenness is punished by & fine, imprisonment in the ‘‘skookum house’ or jail, or by lashes on the back. Chief Saltese 1s judge and jury in all cases and impos the fine or other punish- ment. He lives at the mission, where he has & court room, and his word is law 1n all cases. A police force patrols the reservation on horseback, all the policemen being In- dians, Adultery is punished by lashes, from fifth to 170 lashes with a quirt being admin- stered upon the bare back of the offender by an Indian policeman, or the guilty person is confined in the “skookum house” for from ten to six Only the males are pun- ished for the squaws being ro- leased from all blime. There are two stores qperated by full- blooded Indians at the mission, but most all the Indians and the proprictors of thesoe stores buy their goods in Tekoa, paying cash for nearly overything pus ed, although a few are able to obtain credit at the stores. An Indian always pays for every article as it is purchased instead of waiting until his whole order-iafilled and then paying the en- tire bill. This is done because few of them can compute figure: ¢ correspondent saw an Indian purchasc worth of goods at one of the stores in I a few days ago and Lo puid for each article separately as it was bought and laid aside for him, ho Indians prefer to raise stock instead of farming, but they are taking very kindly to the latter occupatien, and are very success- ful farmers. They now have about 9,000 horses and 1,500 cattle op the reservation. Many of their horses are able, and their are all good. They drive to town in pvered carriages and carts, n coming in wigons &eept when they bring grain or other produce. A large amount of new soil is being broken this year, and the acreage of grain next season witl be nearly double that of this y The Sonthern Oregon Gold Fields. After carefully examining the various mining properties in Southern Oregon a mining man reports he has come to the con- clusion that mining is only in its infancy in that section. In formation and climate it is an ideal mining country and the cheapness of labor and provisions and the railropd facilities make it possible to operate mines with a comparatively smalloutluy of capital. But it has been held back, and still is, to o great extent by reason of & hostile feeling on the part of the old timers—properly called “mossbacks”—aguinst quartz mining. There was 10 quartz mining carried on in early days and they do not beliove in it, Then, too, there has been a good deal of mineral land fraudulently taken up under the timber and stone act, and they do not want it exposed. The country from Rose- burg to Ashland was not oviginally settled by mining wmen, but by “camp followers,” who, delighted 'with the ciimate, soil and the possibility of making a good living with Little lavor, squatted in the and raised cattlo and fruit sufiicient for their own use and were satisfied. Then the Ore- on & California railroad was built, bring bg in new blood and new conditions, but th country was still agricultural. Since 1850 placer” mining has been carried on on small scalo except in one or two mstauces untit about three years ago, when a fow prospectors from California_aroused somo nterest in quartz mining. But it has not boen until within the past year that this new movement has received any real en- couragement, The development of the Ash- land mine pi at there were good | s in that section, and gave encourage a large number of pros- pecto ajority of the ledges found, howaever, and especially the larger ones, are either barren on top or so low grade as to be unprotitable to work. The owners of the titled 10 a greatv d the pronit they are making, for the deter mined maner in which they continued the development of their property under what seewed the most discouraging outlook. The country between Jacksonville and Gold Hill is very rich in pockets. It is frow that sec- tion that so many reports of rich strikes originate. There is no doubt that many miners have found pockets from which they have taken out from $00 Lo #,000 in a single day, but that does not mean that they have discovered u mine, for that single” day's work, in all probability, has sufliced o en- tively clean out the pocket. These pockots are curious formations, and are caused by slides of decomposed quartz, in stringers, coming from no one knows where. A few months ago & prospector discovered Bearly §,000 in stage road near Cen- | from him tral Polnt. Tho excitement was intense in that section far & time, but perhaps the most oxcited individual was Postmoster Howard of Medford. He thought, from tho descrip- tion of the place, that it was on_some prop- eriy he owned. So he engaged the sorvices of & surveyor and hustied out there with blood in his aye, intending to_prosecute the ucky prospector and _take the gold away But poor Howard was Iaughed at for his troulle, for whon the survey was completed h& found that his line came within ten feot of the coveted s t. Soda L wiin, The other day says the Rawlins Jour- nal, MW Dillon and C. E Dodge made one of the most im- portant discoverios of recent years in the vicinity of Rawlins-no less than an im- mense deposit of soda, known as far as pros- pected to extend ovor thirty acres, and of an unknown depth. Tho find is almost due north from town, and is pronounced by local oxperts to be far superior 1o tho Johnstown vroduct and cqually as good as the soda from the Gill soda lakes, A holo was sunk three fect on through pure sulphate of soda, and darkness DUt an end to operations until the next morn- ing. However, the lucky prospectors have no hesitancy in asserting that they have more soda in sight than there is in the whole Johnstown district he bed, Movemonts ut Halley. After maturo dehiberation the mine own- ors at Hailey, Idako, have come to an agree- ment with their men, rather than shut down. ‘Iho arrangement is as follows: Men work- ing for §3.50 per day are to receive 123 ounces of silver, and #4 a day men 141 ounces of silver as pay for one monih's work. men can seli their ore for market price or bold as long as they choose. The Red Ele- phant and the Red Cloud forces have re- sumed work on this basis. Forty have been put to work. The Elephant is looking well, working fifty-five men. Most of the smaller mines have been closed down and will remain so at presont orices. The only mines that will continue are those that are compelled to keop their pumps active, Co-Operative Mining. At the suggestion of Judge Eastland the men who have been thrown out of employ- ment at Breckenridge, Colo., during the past few weoks held a mass meeting and formed themselves into a co-operative union to work the placer ground there. They elected a superintendent and foreman and began put- ting a dam across the Blue river, so as to be able to shovel the bed of the river where it is known to be rich in gold. Forty-six have taken stock in the union and are now busy at work. ‘The knowing ones anticipate great results from this practical effort of the sturdy win A great impetus is given to the placer miner and overy gulch is full of men with pick and shovel and at worl. Rolling Sto 1d to Laborers. Otis Sprague, receiver of the Tacoma & Puyallup Railroad company, reported to the court that he had sold the rolling stock of the road to laborers who intervened in the e of R.I". Radebaugh against the road. he claims amounted to $2.403.33, and the stock was sold for $2,500, 833 of which goes to pay taxes. The sale was made under an order of court issued June 24. The legality of the salo will bo tested by Allen C. Mason, who bought the road under a mortgage. Nobraska and Nebraskans. A new lodge of Masons has been instituted at Palisade. A hundred teachers are in attendance on the Harlan county institute at Alma. The Boyd couuty teachers institute is in session at Butte with a large attendance. Fifty aozen brooms were turned out by the Gothenburg factory during the first week of its operation. Lightning struck the Elkhorn depot at Inman, and the structure was totally de- stroyed by fire. The new school census of Holdrege indi- cates a total population in the city of 3,500, & gain of 500 since 150, The Beet Sugar Enterprise has been re- vived by Editor M. A. Lunn and is more interesting than ever before. Because of the Lyons races, the dates of the Burt county soldiers’ reunion-have been changed to August 9, 10 and 11, Henry Homewood, aged 56, and Mrs. Ma- linda Yorty, aged 6, both residents of Ne- ma ounty, have just joined their fortunes in marriage at Auburn. The Wakefield Republican has begun the twelfth year of its existence. It's one of those kind of papers that deserves success and seems to be securing its deserts. The O-year-old son of Oscar Bennett,a ranchman near North Platte, was thrown from his pony while herding cattle, his foot caught in the stirrup and he was dragged to death. Hon. E. K. Valentine, sergeant-at-arms of the United States senate, has started for ‘Washiogton to transfer his oftice to his suc- cessor. He will return to West Peint and mak his home as formerly. After being married only ten days, Mrs. James Peterson of Aurora tried to end her life by taking a dose of chioroform. Doctors frustrated her scheme. Before her marriage she was Nellie Herst of McCook. For twenty years the Grand Island Times has been visiting the homes of its sub- scribers. It has had its ups and downs, but the “‘downs” always occurred when some- body else besides its founder, C. P. R. Wil- liams, was in control. It Is now ‘‘up” all the time. Willinm Messman, living one mile east of Strang, while harvesting, had one of his lit- tle boys riding n lead horse. A heavy clap of thunder frightened tbe horse, ich jumped, throwing the boy off under the sickle, cutting his head and arms and right leg very badly. John Linn, a Swede who lived in the ede settlement southeast of Long Pine, was found drowned in a tub of water. He was subject to apoplectic fits, and it is sup- posed he fell forward into the tub from which he was carrying water to water some trees. He was unmarried. W. P. Wilcoxen of Fairbury fell from a building he was erecting, striking on his head and shoulders, and was dead before his fellow workmen could get to him. He had just completed the shiugling of the building and started to gev down, The foot rest gave away, which was the cause of the terrible accident. He was 63 years old and a promi- nent Odd Fellow. 8. D. McClain of Red Willow county thinks he is living in just the finest farming country on earth, and he doesn't like it be- use some people have referred to that sec- arid unless irrigation is adopted. o ‘I have been here nine years and have made money as a farm I came here without a doliar, sud now I have a fine home, 100acres, large frame house and barn and other improvements to correspond. I am out of debt, dow't owe a dollar, have small bank account and no diten.” " Cotorado. irie fire started by lightning of range botween Big and ks was last week deploted Through & pra a large portio Lawtle Beaver ¢ of grass, A cloudburst at Sundown carried out all ms, and it is probable that many of the bridges on the government roaa to Meeker were wash Crapple Creek, the district in th rge delegation w Denver to join the silver men in their cry for an equal show to the white metal George B. Weok of Yuma is exhibiting o calf born athis place. It has two heads, both of which are perfectly formed. It eats with both heads and sees with all four cyes. It is in excellent heaith. Autheutic reports show that the Fulford excitement was not justitied. Prof. Chauve- net of the School of Mines found no trace of gold in a collection of specimens publicly se- lected and supposed to represent the claims of the camp. Patrick Rvan, one of the members of the Calumet Mining company of Cripple Creek, has brought suit aguinst the Pharmacist company to recover $34,000 damages for alleged trospass on the Burus lode, while Mr. Burns was a large owner in the lode. The Pharmacist company has already settiod the difticulty with the Calumet company, and this is another phase of the matter. Parties at Fort Morgan, just in from the rauge, report that tweaty-tive miles south- cast, near tud Big Beaver, the prairio grass was set a fire in two pls burniag rapidly over a mile or more of prairie. The stock- wen turned out and fought it, finally putting it out aud saving the range. The last trail Lproducing THE OMAHA herd of cattle coming through from Texas had to drive seventy-five miles without feed or water, The Pueblo Land, Power & Wator Co. has been granted a franchise by the city council 10 erect poles and wires for furnishing power t customors. The plant will be at Rook canon, six miles above Pueblo. A water system is also proposed kY Dakol Six cows have died at Waterloo from hydrophobia and others are afflicted. They are supposed to have contracted it from a bird dog killed in June. Several parties are now nogotiating for the erection of a woolen mill at Pierre. As cheap power could bo secured by sinking an artesian well, there is no doubt but such a mll would pay big interest on tho investment. The Northern Pacific offers to oxtend its rond to Aberdeen if that city will atonce advance $0,000. In roturn for this the com- pany will rebate 50 per cent of the freight on goods shipped to and from Aberdeen until it is repaid. Tt is estimated that the wool clipped in the vicinity of Pierre this year will be nearly 400,000 pounds. While the price of wool is very low, yot stockmen say wool can be raised here at 10 cents a pound, and yet there will be money in the business. The Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians are becoming very angry at the way Uncle Sam is fulfilling his contracts to pay them their money, due July 1, 18%2. and July 1, 1803, Thero is now due them $15,000 from July 1, 1802, and $18,400 from July 1, 1803, which, under the treaty of 1851, is to run fifty yoars, Renorts received at Fort Pierre from three roundup outfits agree that the crop of calves this season is the largest ever raised on the ceded Sioux land ranges. Some of thecowboys declare that in some bunches they find more calves than cows. Tue rovndup this year is managed by the stock association, and so far has given tho best satisfaction, Colonel ). B.Geddin, representing the South Dakota Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers association, departed for Chicago with sam- ples of wool from shoep raised in South Da- kota. These samples are said to be eqral in quality and texture toany wool grown in the United States, and far superior to much that is imported from foreign countries under the head of high-grade wool. Gertrude Petan of Bull Creek, Dakota, isa genuine female cowboy. She is only 18 years old, but she takes care of all the cattle on her father's ranch. This sometimes takes her thirty or forty miles from home. When the cattle become mired in the mud she must rescue them from their perilous position. This she does in true cowboy fashion by fastening a lariat to the horns of the ani- mal, whilo she keeps the other end tied to her saddle. She and the pony together then pull the poor beast out. She wears a wide- brimmed felt hat, long gauntlet gloves, is provided with branding irons, and rides the wildest broncho. regon. Mr. Nivens, manager of tho famous White Swan mine, deposited 600 in bullion at the Baker City National bank, the result of a ten-day run, or &00 per day. A double-headed lizard has been found near The Dalles. The heads are said to be at opposite ends of the body, and the feet 80 arranged that the reptile could propel itself in either direction. Hop-growing is one of the most important of the coming industries of Josephine county. There are about 200 acres in hops at present, and the area is increasing each The average net profit on one acre is $250. Coos county papers report active work on that end of the Roseburg & Coos Bay rail- road, 400 men being employed. The peopie of Coquille City turned out enmasse one day recently to complete the road into that place in order to head off an injunction by onc of the property owners. Is Stein's Pillow 250 feet high or is it 700 feet high? This is the problem for the ad- venturous scientist to solve. Stemn’s Pillow is a rectangular rook from twenty to forty feet across it, which lifts its head way up above the trees in pine timber on the south hank of Mill creek, about eighteen miles east of Prineville, Cook county. Many persons have guessed its height, butno one knows it. A maternal skunk and six little kitten skunkses stobped travel for a short time in the road near W. C. Myer’s place last Satur- day afternoon, say: Ashland Tidings. They were marching about up and down the road with great deliberation and sang froid, or something of that sort, and travelers who happened along about that time didn't scem to want to crowd the pretty littlo creatures atall. Mrs. William Mansel of Coquille City had a very narrow escape from death by strych- nine poisoning. A neighbor had put out some poisoned grain to protect his garden against trespassing chickens, He gave notice of the fact, still the neighbors’ chickens injured his garden, but also picked up the poisoned grain, Mrs. Mansel prepared a couple of the plump pullets for a square meal. The children re- jected the food on_account of some peculiar taste and ate only a small portion of the gravy. This affected them somewhat. The mother partook heartily of the fowl and suf- forod in convulsions for twenty-four hours before the doctors could declare her out of danger. ‘Washington. There are 326,868 acres of land still unsur- veyed in Chehalis county. Tacoma has expended $30,000 on the im- provement of Point Defiance park, John W. Denny of Reardan, Lincoln county, was paid & _bounty on 85,000 squirrel scalps last year. How many more he poisoned that died where their scalps cannot be recovered there is 1o way of knowiag, The cable tramway at the Blewett Gold Mining company’s properties in the Peshas- tan district is now in operation, and the mill is working about 1ifty tons of ore daily, being in steady operation. The strike of lead carbonates on Fish lake, twelve miles south of Loomiston, is attract- ing o good deal of attention where the char- acter of this kind of rock is known, De opment work is being commenced and actiyo work will soon be going on. The Charles Bigney placer mine in the Swauk district, Kittitas county, was sold to John Black, the original owrer of the fa- mous Black placer claim on the Swauk, for $10,000. Mr. Bigney has eleared up in six weeks of this season, with two men, §,000. ‘The July term of the United States circuit court at Tacoma will be an important one, the largest f2ature being the damags suits against the Northern Pacific Coal company on account of the deaths by the Roslyn mine explosions. It is said that the suits will - volve claums amounting to $1,500,000. The recent strike in the Fourth of July mine ut Ruby shows some of the finest speci- mens ever seon in the camp. They are of native wire silver, in some instances so rich as to hold the rock together after it is crackea open. This is the mine where the great 4,000-foot tunnel is to be run. “Tacoma shingle dealers and manufacturers estimate that over half of the mills of the state are now closed and that moro will shortly close. Itis estimated that the com- bined mills of the state have a daily outpuy of approximately 16,000,000 shingles per day. At present the majority of the daalers and manufacturers here do not aamit t there is over an average of 5,000,000 shingles man- actured daily in the state. In clearing o new street at Silverton a pe- culiar growth was found that wellillustrates the lasting qualities of the wonderful cedar thut grows in this state. A largo cedar log six feet i diameter lay on the ground, while a bemlock had grown over and around it, completely enveloping the log. The hem: lock had wn up since the vedar fell, and it is about 150 years old. The cedar was in a wonderful state of preservation and stakes split from it were as good as if the tree had just been felled. It is estimated that the cedar is at least 400 y collancous, Two men wero convicted at the Lander term of court for stealing 850 head of shecp. Coe & ter, the tie contractors, are floating 200,000 ties down the North £latte river. The Rock Springs company, engaged in gold miuiug at Four Mile, is clodning up $400 a day. Buffalo, Wyo., reports the ranges suffering for want 0f Water everywhes axcept in the Big Horn ba William Dalton, a plaster of Hulett, Wyo. has discovered the art of converting native stucco into & material as strong and lasting as marble. Ex-Governor Campbell and other eastorn capitalists interested in oil, coal and soda deposits in Wyoming, are expecting to build aratload from Rawling 10 Groat Falls, ont, MONDAY CONGRESS IN EXTRA SESSION — Eleventh Extraordinaty Meeting in the His- tory of thy Government, — RARE EVENT IN LEGISLATIVE ANNALS Causes Assigned for Pust Sessions amd by Whom Called—National Defenoe aund Finanecisl Questions Immedi. ately Responsibig. — Tho oxtraordinary sossion of congross called to meot on Monday, August 7, will be the eleventh in the history of the republic. Hitherto only eight of the twenty elected presidents were confronted with conditions warranting the exercise of the power con- forrod by the federal constitution, and only on one occasion in the past were financial troubles the prime cause of an extra session. Extra sessions were called by John Adams, by Thomas Jefferson twice, by Madison, Van Buren, William H. Harrison, Pierce, Lincoln, by R. B, Haves twice and the coming ses- sion by Cleveland, making in all oleven extra sessions out of the 118 sossions of congress held since the formatiou of tho government. First Extra Session. The revolution of 1776 had euded, and the independence of the American colonies had been acknowledged by Great Britain, when our government became involvod in a per- plexing controversy with France, John Ad- ams was then president. France had be- come a republic, and becauso of the dispute between America and France, James Mon- roo, our minister to that country, was re- catled and C. C. Pinckney of South Carolina. was sent in his place. After Monroo had suilod for this country the French govern- ment announced its intention to receive no more American ministers until grievances alleged to have been suffered under the col- ebratod Jay treaty had been redressed. When Minister Pinckney reached Paris he was ordered to loave the country at once. President Adams, on hearing of this, called an extra session of congress for May 15,1707 Ttmet in Philadelphia, Among the New Yorkers who were in that con- gress were Edward Livingston, Philip Van Cortlandt, John Willinms, Hezekiah L. Hos- mer, James Cochran, 1. Elmendorf, Henry Glen and David Brooks. In his mes: sage President Adams notitie Bt his intention to send to France a con sion, with authe te treat for peace, Congre acquiesced. The commission had hardly landed when it was ordered to quit I'rench territory or it would bo ejected by force. All relations with France were broken off and preparations for war begun. Two regular sessions of congress intervened, at which no formal declaration of war was made. Soon after Napoleon Bonaparte be- came consul and war was averted. Thomas Jeflersoh found it imperative to summon congress for an extraordinary session on July 11,1803, to consider the purchase of Louisiana. James Monroe, who had mean- time taken advantage of I'rance’s noed of h in order to rencw her war with Great Britain, secured a pledge from France to sell TLouisiana for §15,000,00). Congress ratified the bargain and made appropriations for the purchase. Warning to Britain, President Jofferson, on July 80, 1807, pro- voked by English depredations upon Ameri- can merchantmen, ~issued a proclamation warning all British armed vessels to keep out of American ports. He also calied con- gress iu extraordinary session on October & of the same year and pecommended the pas- sage of a bill providing'that American ves- sels should be prohibited from leaving for- eign ports, foreign vessels from taking car- goes from the United States, and that all coasting vessels be compelled to give bond that they land their cargoes in the United States. “This was the famous embargo bill, which fora_time destroyed American com: mierce, aroused the bitterest kind of party feeling and for a time scemed to threaten the life of the union. 1t was argued in be- half of the bill that its passage furnished the only means of forcing England to come to terms. Congress pusscd the bill, with the proviso that the president could suspend it whenever he deemed it best. Nearly 1,000 American v tured either by the Inglish or the French between 1803 and 1805, President Madison determined to put a stop Lo this, even if it sels were cap- wus necessary to declaro war, Congress was convened in extra scssion November 4, 1511, William H. Crawford of Georgin was chosen president of the senate, and Henry Clay speaker of the house. Bills were nassed to enlist men,organize militia and strengthen the navy. On June I8, 1812, war was de- clared against England.' To the war procl mation Madison owed his re-election, I bridge Gerry being made vice president, Madison was again compelled to convene congress in oxtra session 1o consider means for carrying on the war, Called to Consider Financlal Distress. From 1814 until twenty-three years after there seemed to be no occaston for an extra session. The administration of Andrew Jackson passed_without ono being callod. When Martin Van Buren was mado pros| dent, however, the excossive issue of paper money produced grest financial distress, Property values were enormously inflated, Banks which held no goverument deposits woro ruined. When busiuess men di covered that go nment deposits and the own had been employed by the banks us cap- ital they withdrew them. The r the .panic of 1837. When Pres Buren called an oxtra session for September 4 he recommended thi s should not directly interforo with the monetary situa- tion, expressing the belief that it would speedily adjust itself. Acts were passed, however, which caused the distribution of the revenue among the state banks to coase, authorized tho issue of $10,000,000 in treasury notes, and gave merchauts furiher time on_ their revenuo bonds. Van Buren advocated the ostablishment of an independent treasury. A bill providing for this was passed by the senate, but was smothered in the house by a_combination of whigs and conservatives. Three years later the scheme went through.: The financial policy of the whigsat this extra session proved so popular that in 1840 William H. Tarvison was triumphantly clected presi- dent. Democratic electors wi sen by only two northern ana five southern state Soonafter his inauguration President Har- rison summoned congress together for the purpose of further improving the financial laws of the government. The senate and the house had hardly convened when tho president was stricken dead. John Tyler, although he had pledged ‘himself to carry out his predecessor's policy. got into’n row with the whigs which did not end until his administzation expired. Both houscs of congress passed a bill to abolish the subtreasury, established by the previous administration, and itgavas approved by th vresident. Then Tyler-vetoed a bilt to i corporate the fiscals bank of the United States. The whig leagers insisted then t the president should, furnish them an out- line of such & measure as e would sign. He suggested one, but afterwards d the measure which was pussed. Then the net, otary of State Dauiel W The. ; whig congressmen wunging that all poli them and John Tyl ween g wus al an end. Afwr enacting a law Lo distribute the proceada of sules of public lands among the stules eongress adjourned, Summoned by Plerce and Lincoln, No special sessions $$0ro held until fifteen years lator, Then congress, with a demo- orati¢ majority in the senate, had met in regular session. In the house' opponents of the organization of the territory of Nebraska had a majority. It took 130 bullots to eleet a speaker, but flually Ceneral N. P, Banks, jr., of Massachusetts was chosen. It was o tiwe in which anarchy j Kansas, and a house committee, rough in vestigation, reported that no froe or fair elections had occurved there. The house voted un appropriation for the army containing u proviso which forbade the use of the military in enforcing the acts of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas. Tho pro- V130 was rejected by the senate and congress adjourned, leaving the army bill huug up. Prosident Franklin Pierce lost o time in calling an extra_session and the bil, with the proviso stricken out, was passed. Porhaps the most important spocial ses sion ever called was that of ~July 4 1:61, Presideat Lincola had been in office only a few days when southern state after south- JULY 17, 1893, orn state seceded, a portion of the army hal gone over to the confederacy, ships of war wore, in many cases, abaent in distant seas, munitions of war were in the hands of the confederates, the government treasury was bankrupt, and Fort sSumter shad surren- dored. On April 17 the president called for 75,000 voluntoors to overcome secession and congress was called together. Hannibal Hamlin by virtue of his oftico ns vice prosi dent was then president of the senato, and Galusha A. Grow was made speaker of the house of representatives. Bills were passod to blockade the southern ports, to authorize & loan of many millions, o appropriate money for army and navy, for a call of 000 volunteers, defining conspiracy against the United States and providing punishment therefor and confiscatiug all private prop- erty, including negroes in slavery, employed against the government. Though proposi tions for peace wero offored by democrats they were voted down by the republican majority, the Iatter insisting that neg. - tions with armed oppositicn to the govern ment were unconstitutional. President Lincoln did not find it necessary to call another extra session during the war, and the administration passed without any. Hayes Called the Latest. In May. 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes, who had just been inducted into th psidency through the famous eight-to-seven comumi: sion, called congress together for October 1 his reason being the fuilure of the procediog congress to pass an appropriation for the army. The republicans had a majority in the senate and the democrats in the house. After an acrimonious fight Samuel J. Ran- dall of Pennsylvania_defeated Jawes A. Garfleld for speaker. The most memorable act of this session was tho passago of the of President Grant Bland silver bill. Under the law enacted July 14, 1 which bad to do with the re- funding of the national debt, all bonds issuea under it were made payable in ¥ By the act of February 12, 1873, the silver dollar had been demone- tized. Since that year silver, as com- pared with gold, had been gradually losing its value. A strong movement was on foot to remonetize silver, so that it might be em- ployed in the redemption of bonds. The Bland bill as passed by congress providoed for the coinage of silver dollars, each con- taining 41215 grains, to the amount of mot less than $2,000,000 nor more than dounle that amount per month, and made them legul tender for public and private debts. The silver dollar was then worth about 92 cents, and opponents of the bill argued that the trade dollar alone possessed honest value. President Hayes votoed the bill, but the senate and the house passed it over his veto, The Sherman law took tho place of the Bland act in 150, At the extra of 1877 a bill was passed forbidding th further retirement of Unitod States note and a provis: ed in the army ap- propriation bill declaring it to be unluwful to use the military as a posse commitatus dental connection with the sub- session of congress, it may be well 0 stata with the view of correcting a popular misapprehension as to the cost of an extra session—which has been estimated all the way from £200,000 to £00,000 per month—that a careful estimate of the mis- cellaneous expenses added to the known actual expenses of an extra session brings it within the sum of £30,000 a wmonth, ex- cluding the item of printing. Senators aud representatives, the officers of the two houses and quite a number of employes, in- cluding several committee clerks, recoive an annual compensution fixed by luw, which is not increased by an extra session. The ad- ditional expense, therefore, of such a sess consists in the employment of additional doorkeepers, messengers, pages, folders, laborers, ete., and includes the items of coal, gas, ice, ctc,, over that required during what may be termed the regular sessions of congress. Effect on Long Sessions. It still remains, however. an open question whether or not an “extra session” convened prior to the regular meeting of a congress does not result in shortening to some extent the following “long" session, and an exami- nation of the record of late would seem to indicate that such was the efte For instance, the first session of the I'or! fourth congress terminated while the corresponding ses: Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth cong both'of which ex: sions were called) terminated June 19, 1875, and June 16, 1850, respectively; that of the K eventh con gress August 8, 1882, the Forty-eighth July 7, 1884, that of the Forty-ninth con S August 5, 1856, that of the Fifticth congres: October 20, 1885, that of the Fifty-first con- iress October 1, 15%0, and _that of the Fifty- second congress July 25, 159 Tt is quite general of thirty day That is an ercor, as thes uired. ‘onsti- is neither tutional nor legal provisions in this regard. 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