Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 18, 1893, Page 4

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Oct: o 08, | ok, soctotary of Tie BEE Pub- awear that the TEE for the week ollows: 25,800 Tiesday, ¢ Wednend (888 004 178 1468 onar B TZSCHUCK. ~te §worn to before me and subscribed in my { s | R E T bt i -— NP Notary Publfe. Average Cireulntic 1803, 24,075 —— e PuNIsH the asylum robbers? Not if jurors can be bribed and judges terror- ized! SENATOR ALL denies that his speech was an effort to consumeo time. The intention may have been good, but the gencral opinion secms to be that the pxecution did not keep up with the Intention.s T 18 safe to say that were women per- mitted to vote at the coming election the ballot of Mrs. Johnson would not be cast for Mr. Tra C. Bachelor, the would- be councilman, who defrauded her of her husband’s estate. THE vote on the motion to include women in the voting population of Okla- homa shows how the question of woman suffrage stands in the senate. Those nine nays will now be paraded as idols §n the Kansas woman suffrage campaign. _ THE Guarantee Investment company, whose officors bave just been indicted by the federal grand jury in Chicago, managed to secure no less than 50,000 dupes. In the language of the late P. T. Barnum, “the people want to be humbugged.” PERHAPS County Judge Eller can en- lighten the public as to why he ap- pointed Mr. Ira C. Bachelor adminis- trator of an estate under only $400 bonds when the estate was valued at 88,000, and condescendingly neglected to see that the bonds were filed. SENATOR VEST is satisfied that un- conditional repeal cannot be had in the senate. His action and that of his fellow silverites has satisfied a great many other people of the same thing, and they are fast satisfying the remain- der of the country of the truth of the as- sortion. JusTIC of the peace are the arbiters of poor men’s contentions. [t is of the utmost importance that men be elected to such places who are both competent and honest. Otherwise our justice courts will degenerate into mere cost- mills and bring reproach upon our en- tive judicial system. KANSAS is being afforded an excellent example of the work of dissenslon and jealousy among the womian suffragist ngitators. But this is only a sample of what would be given in case the pend- lag constitutional amendment should be adopted. Woman suffrage and the mil- lennium ave evidently not identical. “T AM a democrut,” says Mr. Bryen. If our memory does not fail us the very same expression was once used by Sen- ator David B. Hillon a similarly mo- mentous cccasion, It is really too bad that we have no tribunal to which we can appeal for an authoritative interpre- tation of the word ‘‘democrat,” as thus smployed. SENATOR STEWART showed signs of returning reason when he excluded his efforts from those silver speeches for which he claimed the distinction of be- ing the most important and instructive that has ever been delivered in any par- liamentary body. But he need not have stopped with his own vaporings. There are plenty other free silver senators who deserve to be included in the ex- cluded class, Tue New York World now confesses that had it thought Mr. Claveland capa- ble of muking such an appointment as that of Van Alen it would not have shown 80 much interest in his nomina- tion aund election as it did. The World s not alone in regretting the democratic vietory of 1802, It can sccure company in the misery in every workshop, mill or factory that is running on reduced time or with reducod wages. It can find sym- pathy wherever an operative has been.| thrown out of employment, DAN LAUER, lato steward of the Lin- coln Hospital for the Insane, is on trial before the district court of Lancaster county charged with forgery and utter- ing forged transfers of property. One of his attorneys 1s the law partner of the attorney general. Buck of the ucoused is the powerful influence of the state house ring, which will, no doubt, bull- doze the court and jury into a complete vindication. Thousands of dollars were stolen from the state at the asylum dur- ing Lauer's reign. Tbe grand jury has indicted him for the crime. If he es- capes punishment it will only be another of the fact that Lancaster county isa mockery and thievery has \ts rich reward. The question of quorum is with usa recurring question that inevitubly ro- appears 80 often as eithar honse of con- gress finds iteolf shipwrecked oh the parliamentary rules which have been established for its guidance. But the question of guorum s not pnrely a ques- tion of pavilamentary law. 1t lies at the foundation of our system of popular government, which decrses that the majority mast bs taken to represent the will of the people. Tt ia a question of constitutional law and we must look to the constitution %o learn what is the constitutional quorum in the house and in thoe senate. The wholedifficulty has arisen from the ssomingly ambiguous langnage em ployed by the framers of the constitution in the article relating to the organiza. tion of congress. They said that “a majority of each house shall constitute Aquorum to do business,"without specify- ing of what the majority shall consist. But they go on tosay that ‘“‘a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members in such manner afd under such penaltios as each house may provide.” Reading theso two cluuses together it must be plain to cvery dispassionate student of the constitution that the quorum con- templated by that instrument consists merely in the physical presence of a majority of the members entitled to seats in the body. Why authorize each house to compel the presence of absent members if those members, when brought before the bar of the house or senate, may, by refusing to answer to their names, prevent the attainment of a quorum, for which such power was con- ferred? How absurd that the senate should aliow, as it recently has, a sena- tor to make the point of no quorum and then to have himself recorded as not being prosent. Another clause of the constitution which beavs upon this point, and which has been too often ignored, is that which reads that ‘‘the yeas and nays of the members of eitier house on any ques- tion shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.” How is the number that constitutes *‘one- fifth of those present” to be ascertained oxcept by the ocular counting of the presiding officer. This 18 done day after day and is the regular practice of both houses of congress, but the opponents of the constitutional quorum refuse to see the inconsistency in these rules of those bodies. If the presiding officer is capable of counting to decide whether one-ifth of those present are demanding the roll call for the yeas and nays he is equally capable of counting to decide whether a majority of either house is present to constitute a quorum. Nay, in counting a fitth of the demand of the yeas and nays he actually counts the quorum; for how can the rules allow the presiding officer to declare that one-fifth of those present demand a roll call if by refusing to respond the one-fifth ‘‘present” be- come absent in counting a quorum. It is idleto discuss just what the supreme court decided when it passed upon the rules of the house duving the Reed speakership. The exact point of what constituted a quorum, whether physical presence or the willingness to respond to the roll call, was not brought in issue. Itise meve question of con- stitutional interpretation of a provision 80 plain that there can scarcely be a dissenting voice should the point really come before that court for determina- tion. The constitutional quorum is the presence of a majority of each house. The present rules and practice are an open violation of the constitution, which assumes itself to establish the quorum and not to leave it to the rules of each house. Congress has been violating the constitution in this respect for a sufficiently long period. ABOUJ GOLURED NOSES. The intrusion of an imnported minister into the city campaign with his ill-timed and unwarranted attack upon the sup- porters of Mayor Bemis may lend a little color to the contest, but it is scarcely likely to redound to the benefit of the reverend gentleman’s backers. 1o assert that a man need not know who it was that nominated Mayor Bemis, as it was written on their noses, is to cast as- persions on the characters of some of our best known citizens, who cannot but resent the uncalled-for imputation. It makes no difference who among the delegates to the late republican city con- vention were from fivst to last in favor of the nomination of Mayor Bemis—and the great majority of the forty-eight votes cast for him on the first ballot were com- prisedin the cream of the convention the vote was made unanimous on the mo- tion of Hon, J. C. Wharton, and every member of the assembly thereby took it upon himself to be one of those who nom- inated Mayor Bomis. How do these men like to be told that their noses are colored from a too intimate association with liguor? How do they like to be held up in public as red-nosed repre- sentatives of saloons, bawdy houses and gamblers? Just run through the list of delegates to the republican eity conven- tion and make a few random selections of the red-nosed element. From the First ward there were Charles Abney, Henry C. Cole, J. Cornish, D¢, W. H. Hanchett, John Rosicky. Are these men known by the lor of their noses? IFrom the Second ward there were Gus ‘Andreen, Frank Kaspar, Anton Kmeut, Do these noses serve as headlights in the dark? From ihe Third ward a number of the dele- gates unfortunately had bluck noses— they were colored from bicth, but through no particular fault of theirs. From the Fourth ward were T. W. Blackburn, W, J. Connell, Frank B. Keunnard, A. C. Troup. Ave they to be found more often in the saloon than in the church? From the Fifth ward were E. Benediet, C. B. Coon, C. A. Edling; from the Sixth, John C. Wharton and John T. Yates; from the Seventh, George 8. Ambler and H, E. Palmer; fron the Eighth, George C. Bonner and A. G. Dahlstrom; from the Ninth, G. 8. Benewa and M, E. ree. Ave these men all famous for the brillancy of their noses? But the delegates to the republicun city convention were mere representa- tives of the republican voters of the city who sent them there. If we ask who nominated George P. Bemis for mayor, we will have to go back of the city con- vention to the polls of the primaries. Thanks to republican legislators we now have the secrecy of the ballot protected at all elections by the Australian ballot system. We are not permitted to call out the names, but the respectable ele- ments of the republican party know what corporate interests worked against George P. Bemis, and they know who nominated him. Do the men who voted at the republican primaries to continue the present fearless defender of the tax- payers in the office of mayor class them- selves as upholders of the gaming table and the saloon? Do they recognize one anothor by the color of their noses? If so, it is time for the ministers to rule out of church a large majority of the respecta ble people of this community. THE HOLT C /UNTY THIEVES, Tre OMAna Bee is actively at work en- couraging populist sentiment in Hoit county. A long article was printed the other day containing all sorts of indefinite charges against all sorts of people, and even going 8o far as to insinuate that tne Scott defalea- tion would be found to ‘‘reach as far as the capital of the state.” Last week 2,000 copies of the paper containing this slush were sent by express to O'Neill, to be distributed over the county as campaign literature. Repub- licans up that way arc vigorous in their ex- pressions of opinion that when national com- mitteemen go into the business of furnish- ing campaign matter for the enemy at so much a falsehood and so much an insinua- tion 1t is time for a letter containing a nice livtle resignation.—Linco n Jowrnal . When THE BEE published exclusively a full and unbiased statement of the Holt county affair it was with the expec- tation thatapologists for the thieves who looted the treasury of that county would turn their mud battcries upon this paper. No other paper has yet pub- lished all the facts concerning this cele- brated case. It remained for THE BEE alone to fathom its' depths of infamy and to turn the seavchlight of truth upon the principal actors in a crime which has had few parallels in the political annals ot Nebraska. While the Lincoln Jowrnal has been willing to pub- lish anything bearing on the Holt county embezzlements that would plead extenuation for Barrett Scott and his pals, THE BEE hay sought diligently for the whole truth and published it to the world. This was done against the pro- tests of the men comprising the Holt county ving, which.has vobbed that county of nearly $100,000 in cold cash. Whether or not a thorough ventila- tion of this high crime against the peo- ple of Holt county will injure any polit- ical party or inure to the benefit of another does not concern THE BEE. If the populists of Holt county have dis- tributed 2,000 copies of THE BEE throughout that county it is because this paper was the fivst to print an accurate and complete history of all the interest- ing featuves of the case. The political bearings of this paper have nothing to do with the matter. The crime itself will condemn any party or man who seeks to defend it. If the republican party of Holt county is wrecked or de- stroyed Barrett Scott, who is now in jail, where he belongs, is responsible for the disaster. If the populistsare thereby enabled to take advantage of the situa- tion it is their own affair. MACMAHON'S SELVICE 10 FRANCE. The death of Marshal MacMahon re- moves a man to whom France owes much of her present system of popular govern- ment. Notin the role of a statesman did MacMahon perform his greatest sarvice to the French people, nor yet in the role of a soldier, important as his military services may have been. Great as have been his achievements upon the field of battle and timely as was his aid in guiding the fortunes of the nowly established republic, his name will go down to history rather in connection with his stubborn and unwise opposition to the establishment of responsible pavliamentary government in France. A resume of this most significant period of Marshal MacMahon's life may not be out of place just at this moment. He was elected president by the members of the constituent assem- bly, who had monarchical leanings, to hold office seven years from May, 1873. So confident were they in his loyalty to their cause that they provided that the new congtitution should not be amended during his term except by his initiation, As soon as the republicans secured con- trol of the assembly, in 1876, they ordered the immediate enforcement of s the con- stitution, until then held in abeyance, The result was a republican Chamber of Deputies and a monarchic Senate. Mae- Mahon, very much against his owao incli- nation, felt himself obliged to dismiss his logitimist premier and to form a ro- publican ministry in political agr ment with the majority of the Daputie: ‘This aroused at once a controversy be- tween the two houses as to which should hold the control over the presidential administration. MacMahon took ad- vantage of the situation in May, 1877, to again indulge his monurchic tendencies and restore his former premier. On a vote of distrust by the Deputies he adjourned and then dissolved that house and appealed to the peo- ple, but the new elections found the monarchists still in the minority, The president and his premier tried to gov- ern with the help of the Senate alone, but failed, and the minority was again forced to resign. MacMahon called to- gether a mixed ministry, which, how- ever, the Daputies refused to recognize, and finally, in December, 1877, he was compelled to yield and again install a vepublican premier. When the Senate, 100, became republican, in J879, Mac- Mahon gave up all hope of producing a reaction and handed in his resignation as presidentof the French republie. This episode in the eventful career of MacMahon established for France the constitutionzl principle that the presi- dent can rule only with the aid of a min- istry in barmony with the majority in the Chamber ot Daputies, It lald the veal groundwork of popular government in France. For bis involuntary-part in sccuring this result MucMahon deserves the everlasting geatitude of the French paople THE charter provision creating a park commission for this city places the power of appointment of such officiuls with the district court. This was done on the assumption that the court, being practically ndnpartisan in its composi- tion, would inturn appoint park com- missioners witlout regard to politics. But by some hoeus pocus, design or acci- dent, it transhifbs that the commission is composed cntirely of democrats. Can it be vossible that in this great metrop- olis there is aeot one republican fit to take part in thd management of our pub- lic parks? Péish the thought. -GOVERNOR Bovp, in a recent in- terview, is_qliofed thus: “The men who have forced themselves into the control and management of the democratic party in this city and county lack the ability to properly manage a campaign. Their management of both state and county campaigns heretofore has been such a notorious failure that the rank and file of the democratic party have lost confidence in them and have be- come disgusted. The democratic party here can hardly hope for success as long as the control remains in the hands of such men.” The fores of these remarks leaves little coom for comment. UPON the heels of his statement that he did not need to ask who nominated Mayor Bemis in the city convention, as it was written on their noses, Rev. Pat- terson proceeded to give the foreigners coming to America a scoring suoh as they never before received. In place of claiming that pauper and criminal immigrants merely were undesirable, ho poldly asserted that “‘the vast majority of foreigners are a source of danger.” It was impossible for him to disguise his contempt for the poor and oppressed of foreign lands. ADMIT that all treaties between the Union Pacific railway and its train men are abrogated by the court’s order plac- ing the road in the hands of receivers. It does not follow, however, that there must be a sweeping reduction of wages. Employes of the road are entitled to consideration. The road must be oper- ated as heretofore. Retrenchment must arily veach a limit somewhere if the property is to bo maintained and the immense trafiic of the system properly handled. THE necessities of the Union Pacific railway have forced an increase of hours for all shopmen. The force has not been increased, but will work a greater number of hours, and thereby earn higher wages. This windfall comes at a most propitious time. It will not, only be of substantial benefit to the men, but to the retail merdhants of this city. As THE eastern money market eases up Omaha munieipal bonds grow in active demand. . Omaha securities are known as gilt-edge paper the world over, because this city has always mot all obligations with promptness. THE Women’s ¢lub is about to granple with the grim spectre of domestic econ- omy. If it discovers how to reduce household expenses by 50 per cent the men will respond with a framed vote of thanks. % ———— AFTER the fair is over city officials may be relied upon to hunt up a new ex- cuse for demanding vacations. A Party Divided Agaimst Itself. Chicago Inter Ocean. This spectacle of a party afraid of itsolf and divided on an issue vital to the business welfare of the country ought to boa warn- ing against double dealing in politics and intrusting the reins of government to a party known to_be paralyzed by an irreconcilable conflict of views. Kansas City Star. Senator Dubois declares that the anti- repealers are fighting on the principle that “such radical legislation should firsy have the approval of the people.” The house, made up of the representatives of the people, passed the repeal bill by a vote of 240 to 109, and since then there have been demands in countless numbers from the people for action on the repeal bill. What more evidence of the people's will do Dubois and his fellows want? e Crippled Telegraph Sorvice, Detriot Free Press, This last destructive storm has again called attention to the unstable and unre- linble telegraph system now doing service in this country. In this criticism reference is had only to the work of construction. For the sake of cheapness the wires are swrung across the couutry: upon unsightly poles, with no protection from the ravages of storm, and the inevitable consequence is that every heavy wind cripples she efticiency of the service to a greater or less extent. Better and more substantial devices are avuilable, and should be adopted. The damages otherwise resulting to the business interests of the country, tosuay unothing of the impairment of news-gathering failcities, call for this improvement, ——— ‘The Van Alen Cate Again, Harper's Weekly The question whether the coatribution of money 1o 4 campaign fund should be abso- lutely n bar to subsequent appointment to oftice has received various answers. While it muy be argued with a good show of reason that a contributor 10 a campaign fund who has rendered eminent public service, or whose abilities present uncommou promise of public usefulness, should not be excluded from ofticial employment by the mero fact of his contribution, it i1s absolutely certain that the appointment to oftice of persons whose only or whose principal claim to po- litical consideration consists in their having given money for olectioncering purposes is utt indefendible and cannot fail to be dangerously demoralizing in its effects. In this respect it is of the highest importance that administrations, like judges, should not only avoid the of- feuse against good political morals itseif, but also the appearanco” of an offense, Kven if we take ever so fayorable o view of Mr. Cleveland's. motives, we are compelled to say that his action ia this instance has dealt a blow 10 his moral, prestige, recovery from which is exceedin, questionable. This would be very aeplorable in the case of any president. It is espepially deplorable in his case, since he had earned the roputation vhat in such matters he would instinetively find the right course” and be unbeuding to the most seductive apveals of friends. His character as 4 public man of acute moral perveptions and inflexible firmness was an important property of the American people, and the value of Lthis proverty has by this 0Ne Conspicuous ac) a lameutavle manner been put, in jeopardy. THE GRA Philadelphia Record: The first duty of the sennte 1s to untie ftself. Then it would be enabled to pass the silver repeal bill and adjourn. It might as well never hold another sitting as to remam any longer in its pres- ent incapable condition. Springflold (Mass.) Republican: 1f the senate majority is not able or willing now to ignore the provisions of rule, framed on as- sumptions that now appear to have no foundation in fact, ana to force through a vote against the cries and protests of the minority, then it had better adjourn and bring the country face to face with the fact that its legislative machine has broken down in a vital part and that government of the majority is no longer in force. Washington Star: Let congress heed the voice of the people and act promptly. If 1t cannot now kill the silver dragon which is pictured as draining vhe life blood feom the wreasury let it at least put the monster to sieep and out of mischief for a term of yoars. In the interval its final fate can be decided But public confidence needs the bracing of legislation of the kind sugeosted, and needs it at once. If another crash comes soon the publio will inevitably ascribe it to the with lolding of this action for which it pleaded, and woe to tho statesmoen and to the party that must shoulder this responsibility. Washington News: The time must come when the majority of the senate will fassert its power, or the admission must be made that not' one measure to which a single senator is opposed can become a law. The tariff bill and the elections bill and all other bills except routine measures, are likely to be pulled down to defeat if the silver bill cannot be passed.. The ovents of the past fow days have had their uses in u! valuable object lesson for the coun the present attitude of the senate. couutry is likely to respond i a which will make its wishes more distinetly known than ever before and which the sen- ate cannot afford to disregar St. Louis Globe-Democrat: From thoe be ginning it was supposed that this was a go ernment of majorities. This was the theor of the framers of the constitution. It was the beliof of statesmen and ponulace down 10 a very recent time, A people, or their leaders, now arise to tell us that this notion is false and mischievous, and that it is the minority and not the ma- jority which should govern. How can we compromise this question of the right of the majority to bear sway without giving up the whole theory of republican government? 1f this be really a government of th , by the people and for the people, - strue the word people to mean something different from what law and the common consent of the country along to this time have provided and sauctioned? Must the wishes and interests of half a dozen persons prevail over those of 100. e el S B AEBRASK.L AND NEBRASKANS, The Racket store of W. E. Ayres at De- ‘Witt has been closed by creditors. The store of Thomas L. Cornell of Violet was burned to the ground, causing a loss of 1,200, The first annual meeting of the Indianola Trotting association opens this morning and will continue three days. G. H. Mallory of Pierce behended a half acre of beets in three hours and fifty minutes and claims thechamplonship. The Norfolk Beet Sugar company is ready o contract with farmers for the acreage for next year at £ a ton for beets showing 125 ver,cent saceharine matter. While Sam Cole of Fairmont was attend- ing church, leaving his horse hitched out- side, somebody took the harness from the animal and substituted for it anold, wornout affair. Mrs. B. F. Lamb of Genon jumped from her buggy wien the horse ran away and struck her head on the ground. It was a marvel that she was not killed for she weighs 200 pounds. “Tho secona annual field day of the Stroms- burg Athletic club will be held October 27. There will bo twenty differont events and over fifty contestants. Gold medals will be awarded for first prizes and badges for sec- ond. — LIGHT AND SHADE. Trath: He—What If Istenl n kiss? She—I hope tlml’fl)u will never be gullty of keeping stolen goods. - Washington Star: The agitative orator 1s seen to fretand frown; “The mills are open ing up,” he signs, “and T mustsoon shut down." Detroit Tribune: his wife shamefally. “The deuce he ! Why, he doesn't ap- penr to be a brutal fellow af all. What does B3 do, beat her 0, no. He wait tho theater and isn't on straight. hey say Wilkins abuses until they got seated in tells her that uer hat Somerville Journal: She—What do you think is the prettiest name for girl? He (thoughttully)—Well—1 don't' know—let me see—what's your: Magistrate Kane (to T. Bottles, the bum,)—You're a disgrace to mmunity. T Tlid my wiy [d sond you below for life. M. T. Bottlés—Oh, Mr. Kane, I don’t think you would if you were Abel. Philadelphia Record: M. Dotroit Free Press: Joncs—How d'{ol.lo. doctor? You're looking cheerful. There must bo a great deal of sickness. Do:tor—No, but the foot ball season has bo- gun. Puck: Parke—I'm af) wite will smell my breat Houston—You ¢un easily fix that. Parke (anxiously)—How? Houston—Go and e n tooth pulled and tell her you took cocaine and whisky. id to go home. My Washington Sta new play very much,’ the actress. “Yes, indeed.” No doubt the lines are quito bright." Woll, to bo frank with you, I haven't read them yét. But the costumes arosimply gor- fgeous.” 1 supposo you liko your suld tho Interviewer to Indianapolls Journal: Hungry Tliggins— Mudam, I uscter have as good o liome as any- body tiil misfortune overtook me. Mrs. Potts—Indeed? And whit Was the na- turo of the trouble? Hungry Higgius—Mo father-in-aw lost his Job. AUTUMN THOUGNTS, St. Louts Rtepublic. *14s sweet to seo the blushing leaf, And hoar the wind’s refraii, "Tis swect Lo note the bounteous sheaf, 'And groet the garnered grain. « "Pls swoet to see, through waving troes, ‘The mellow, purpling skies, But swoeter 'tis thun all of these To think there aro no flies. s H1s PATHELIC PLAINT, Somerville Journal, 1£ 1 could but forget! Ah me! how sweet would be The simplo joy of lifo! How clear and bright the sky How sweet the song of birds! How s0ft tho autul How joyous every thing! b mo! It I could but forget! Rt uh! that memory 10 hnunts my waking life! It huunts wio while asleep! It fills my Jife with drend! 1t bunlshes all joy! 1t fills my 1ife With gloom! Al me! It 1 could but forget!— 1 realiy think I could 11 hud my own way. Bul ah! my credivors Thoy keop my lewory groon! They koep mio in a sww! Thoy will not kel me rest! Ty chuse mo ali e while With bills, and bills, aud bills, Aund bills, And bills, Aud s0 1 can't forgot. Ab me! Al me! Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report, fzezeno) Baking Powder Peacefully the Messenger Jame to the Man of Many Battleficlds, FRANCE'S FAMOUS SOLDIER STATESMAN After Falthfal Serviee to Empire, Mon« Arohy and Republio He is Ele o Presi- dont and Dics in semi-Retivement At a Ripe Old Age. Paurs, Oct. 17 —Marshal MacMahon, who has been lying at the point of death for some time past, died tina morning at 10 oclock. The marshal's death bed was in the Chateau 1a Foret on the Loire. He was ablo to partake of food until yesterday During the night the sufferer's strength gradually declinod and he grew wonker and weaker until the end came peacefully at the Hour meutioned. The family of the deceased soldier was prescnt at his death, To the nowspapoer re do Ma of today Marshal e, Sinco D ancy, January tonal bulletin orning his nd som and’ un- 1g his un- publishe o barely sufliced to e 1n the publi scendud from th Boru, who ¢ hts [ong 1 A cquently occur | military wnuals, sharing in e well as the glories which attend us. At Wat oo of th at gallant lie battiy OSSArY 10 ko i desp cover the t of the shattor “COharge, koo wrging, boys, Mahon to the Third Cairassiors. ) safd the colonel, “wo are so cut up it is o tain’ doath for' us to ch 1 you know it “Embrace mo, my friond,” was. MacMahon's only reply: und thion the tive gallant soldiers led forward the rogiment which made those threo terriblo ch that are rocorded among the great docds of the Irench arinys Only 109 men of (ts numbor remuined, and of theso all hut elght were wounded. Born at Sutly, July 13, 1808, Mario monde Patrice Maurico do MacMahon, aftor- ward duc de Magenta, a marshal of France, 1\."(] for nearly six yi s president of the French republic, had himselt scen some stir- ring Wmes In the history of tho country ho served 80 long and so well, Ho recoived his military vducation at St. Oyr, and at the ago of 19 was sub-licutenant of the Fourth Hus- surs. Ho s0on saw active service. Prococd- 1ng with the Twentieth regiment to Africa ho engaged In tho Algorian war, and in 1880 had won the cross of the legion of honor, which he recelved from General Clauzel on the field of battlo. Ho was slightly wounded at the at- on Constantinople” in 1836, and afier a jon_of military advancements ho was de, in 1849, comninnder of the legion of honor, and promoted to the governorship of the provinces of Uran and Constant| When the Crimean war came ¢ \ military loyalt 1 the varfous gove now promptly obeyed the enporor's summons to duty in Russia.” He was commander of u division of Bosquet’s corps, and in attack upon Sebastopol on Septembe led tho nssault upon the Mala was one of the most desperate strug- slos of the wholo war. ‘The Malukoff the key to the wiolo Kussian position, nnd as defended with all the power that could bo brought to bear upon it. MacMahon cut his way [nto the fort, however, and stubbornly held his ground ngainst overwhelming odds. Marshal Pellissior, thinking he and hls men would be annihilated, orderod him to retire from what he deemed wn untenable position But with superh courage MacdMahon disobe: sending ‘back his immortal reply, “Iam here, and here I shall st Ho did stay, and the Russlans presently retreated before him, and topol was taken. That deed gave' him the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. Service In Algerla followed, and ho wis mado commander-in-chief of all the French forces in that land. But Napoleon soon recalled him for more Important work in tho war with Aus- trin, in northern Italy. Hisgreatachievement there was on the Ticino, near the bridge of wnta, Atter o woek of victorious progress ench were unexpectedly attacked by u superior force of Austrians. Thoy held tholr ground for soveral hours, und then began to yield. But at the critical moment MacMahon, who had been detailed for other duty, throw his plans and instractions to the wind and rushed into the battle with his troops with im- 5 fore in a few moments took 7,000 us prisoners, and put the whole army to rout. In recognition of this splendid achievement the emperos, on the very field of battle, made him duke of Magenta and mar- shalof I At tho co in 1561, N disnstors ns od tho French behaved with s lost, but it ate offort ahon, d served with nents of I'rance, who, wi equal ze led b yin a great war, this nd disastor. He was commander of the army of the south and with chinr energy pressed for ward o the Germ tier. But the miser- able wilitury adwinistration of the ewpire hopelessly hindicapped him and aftor u crush- ing defent av Woerth Nupoloon ordercd him to R0 to the reliof of Baziine at Metz, which er- rand he promptly undertook. He thus en- tered upon cumpiign which ended at Sedun. At the beginning of that battle ho was seri- ously wouned by o shell, und for soume timo wus unable to tuke part in tho war. But he TOCO! ed In season to conduct the operations at Paris against tho commune, and rendered invaluable sorvices in estabiishing the repub- li¢ under the presidency of Thier. The 'soldierthencoforward served the re- public faithfully, as ho_had served _emperor and king before it. In May, 1878, after 4 period of agitation, the monarchical party in the Irench parliament foreed bresident Talers resign, and imme- diately elocted MacMahon to succeed him. MacMahon's administration was an honest, but stormy one. Ho made no secrot of hig sympathy with the monarchical purty und of a n to lead an war of defe to f ! hie dotestation of radiealism. ma tho object of persistent and relentless attacks by the republican groups under the i magnetic feadarship of Gambetta, There was ’ A serlous struggle in May, 1877, when the In turn he was rosident, ngainst the will of the chamber, ismissod the aabinet of M. Jules Simon | nppolnted n now one under e duc de Broglio. | In the confiict MacMahon 1riamphed, but only { for a time, and early in 1879 ho was In tarn driven to resign the pros y and was suc- ceoded by Jules Grovy. . | _Sincethen tho vetoran soldier had lived tn rotirement with s family. Mo finished his monolrs (n May, 1858, but forbad thelr pu lieation antil after his donth and little is | kuown even yet of thelr cont SENATOR GIBSON STRIOK Causes an Attack of Fears Disease—No Danger, WasniNatos, Oct. 17.~Senator Gibson of Maryland was taken snddenly 1l In the cloak room of the senate about 12 today. Ho was at the time of the sttack en: gaged in conversation with several senators, Senator Gorman and Assistant Sergeant-at- Arms Laytwon assisted him out of the cloak room into the room ol thoe committeo of appropriations and messengors were sent for physicians. Dr. Bayne was the first to arrive, and Dr. Walsh, Mr. Gibson's regular physician, was also announced o be on his way to the capl- tol at 1 o'clock. Dr. Bayne said the primary cause of the attack was indigestion, but that it affested the muscles of the hoart'in & way 0 produce the symptoms observable. He said, however. that thero was no ory troubie of the heart, and there ger of fatal termination. All persons wero excluded from the room except the vhysi- clan, Mr. Layton and Mr. Gibson's private secrotn utions were made for tak- ing tho patient to his home at the Shoreham hotel. This the secoud attack of the same nature which Mr, Gibson has had within the past few days. Senator Gibson is much better tonight and the indications are he will be able to resume his duties in the senate within a few days. lis desive to bo present in tho senate in case a vote should bo taken on the repeal lod_ him to romaincontinuaily at his post of duty much to the detriment of his hoealth indigestion Commander Adama in w Crittent Condition. Cinoaco, Oct. 17.—Captain J. B. Adams, commander of the Grand Army v a rostiess night at the Hotel Imperial. This moraing his condition seomed slightly im- proved. During the day physicians will re- open the old wound to allow the dischargo of the pus which is causing his present suf- foring. Uaptain Adams and his family have been in Chicago since Saturda, For many s suff | from two bullet wounds d in the civil war. Sunday his suffer- ings became more acute and he decided on taking the advice of Dr. Tollman to have an operation performed Two physicians began aa operation on aptain Adams this afternoon. During the morning the patient was in good spirits and walked around the hotel. 'The operation ne- cossitates an incision in the hip. The phy: the danger is not great. An hour was red for the work. Comopser Gaunod Very Low. Panis, Oct. 17.—M. Gounod is still in a eritical condition. o o ingersollism. Indianapolis Journal: Quite a large num- Dber of people in this city paid oy to hear Colonel Robert (. Ingersoll lecture a fow nights ago, as great numbers of peopls 10 other cities have done before and will prob- ably do again.” Colonel Ingersoll under- stands the public as well as the late Mr, Barnum did and works it quive as succees- fully and ovrofitably. It would not bo strictly true to say that he goes abouv the country obtaining mouey under false pro- tenses, becausa he simply announces that ho will lecturss and people go to hear him, But he gives the people nothing of any value for their money. He is ot a profound student nor & deep or oviginal thinker. All that ho bas to say against the Christi; wion has been far more forcibly said by others than by him and has been answered a thousand times. His dogmatic assertions, hi: dotes, his epigrams and his verbai pyrotech- nics aro as stale as the jokes of a clown in the ring. His arguments begin nowhere and end nowhere, his smooth, velvety sentences mean nothing, his fine words are as sound- ing bra i 1. There are anar men would dest stitute chaos, while others w religion and substitute the blackness of darkness. Colonel Ingersoll is a religious ructionist. He would God and veligion without putting heir place. 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