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' f>A*-?.-. 'LJIS»..N» * , jssv,.. . .,.. .1 ~.,-«s! He Jiaier Kswvi Senator Coses iB Contact witk He Senior ••, > llamas Seutor. ;# • Tte Resilt AiytUig but Sitisfrctwy to J|t b-CosfKlirati iid tts N': <f*? The Southern Brigadieara in Particular ̂pndtheDemociatic Party i|fe| «nl Soundly Boasted.- Foil Text of Senator Ingalls' Great Speech n the Dependent Pen* ; sian Bill* . , ^ - -"'.{ttosa the Congressional Biwil.f Mr. President, considerations of decorum and propriety, excessive, perhaps, and some- • times overstrained, have deterred me from • participation in debate thus far this session of , ibt Senate* my impression being that perhaps ;•: order could be more impartially maintained and the rales of the Senate better enforced by j abstinence on the part of the presiding offleer from the controversies of the floor. I was surprised, therefore, one day last week, upon returning to the chamber after a brief ab­ sence, to lt ui n that the Senator from Missouri i Mr. Vest | had taken occasion when I was not present to allude to me in tonus the reverse, , to say the least, of complimentary in a discus­ sion in which I liad taken no part, and includ­ ing in hid combined and concentrated and coagulated cynicism not mo only, but the in- habitants of the District of Columbia also, and ' all the comrades of the Grand Army of the Re­ public ; intimating that those were incapable of disinterested patriotism, and that the sur- : Tiring veterans of the Union armies were a mob of sordid mercenaries organized for plun­ der, and for sale to the highest political bidder. Personal allusions to myself I will pass by with but one single observation, and that ie, that s the nomination and election of Grover Cleve­ land have, made the pretensions of any Ameri­ can citizen to the Presidency respectable. There is no man In this country whose Ignorance is so profound, whose obscurity is so impenetrable, and whose antecedents are so degraded that he may not justifiably aspire to a Presidential nomination--by the Democratic pazty. [Ap­ plause and laughter in the galleries.] I regret, Mr. President, that the Senator from Missouri is not present to-day. He is a courte­ ous and a courageous antagonist. I have waited for his return. The day following this debate the discussion turned rather upon the infirmi­ ties of the tariff than upon the infirmities of age. Thereafter the Senate adjourns over, and this is the first convenient opportunity that I have had to address myself to the bill under consideration. To whatever degree the Senator from Missouri saw1 fit to criticise with indignity and to asperse with personal allusion a colleague, upon the floor who was not present, I shall not imitate that bad example, hut confine myself, aa far as he is concerned, to what has been disclosed in his autobiography. The Senator from Missouri was born in a State that dia not secede from tne Union--the State of Kentucky. His autobiography shows that he represented in the Confederate House of Representatives for two years, and in the Senate of the Confederate States for one year, the State of Missouri. The State of Missouri did not secede, Mr. President, and while I have uo doubt that the l onfederate House of Repre­ sentatives and the Confederate Senate were the judges of the election, the qualifications, and the returns of their own members, it would be a special gratification to the historian to know upon what conditions and by what methods a member of the Confederate House of Repre­ sentatives or of the Confederate Senate could have been admitted from the State of Missouri that never seceded from the Union. I do not propose, however, to push my investigation into the subject of his right to represent that State in the Confederate Senate so far ax to move to refer his credentials to the Committee on Priv­ ileges and Elections. It is a matter of ancient history. Nor, sir; do I allude to this matter in any dis­ paragement to the Senator from Missouri any more than 1 do to the same fact in the history . of the Senator from Kentucky |Mr. Blackburn J who sits now before me, and who with a great deal of profusion of speech rose and denounced the "superloyalty" of the Grand Army of the Republic, criticising them as a horde of beg- fars thrusting their demands into the Senate, do not epoak in derogation either of the honor or the courage or the integrity of that Senator. ' I allude to it as a matter of history only, and for the purpose of showing, so far as I may, that in thoir devotion to the South and to the ,f Southern Confederacy the Senator from Ken­ tucky and the Senator from Missouri can not . be suspected of insincerity. No flag of State allegiance summoned them to cast their for- , tunes with the fcouth. No phantom of btate sovereignty allured them, as it did so many : others, into that terrible catastrophe. No, sir; they went because they wanted to go. They went beoause they believed that slavery was better thun liberty ; because they believea that accession was better than union ; because they believea the stars and bare were more worthy ; of a patriot's allegiance than the stats and " stripes : because they believed that Jefferson : Davis was more entitled to respect and confi­ dence than Abraham Lincoln. They went South, thoy allied their fortunes with the Con­ federacy because they preferred to do so, and their sincerity can not be suspected. It is a little singular, however, that for some subtle and incomprehensible reascn the Con­ federates from Uni >n States are a little more pronounced, a little more aggressive, and a little moro violent in their denunciations of the North, of the Union armies, of the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, than those who had the excuse to which I have referred. Of following their States into the vortex of se­ cession. So it is that upon every occasion when debate affords the opportunity the Senator from Missouri, born in a Union State, a citizen of a Union State by adoption, rises here and eulo­ gises the exploits of the Confederate armies, extols their achievements, and by irresistible inferenoe degrades, belittles, and sneers at the Union armies and their friends and allies. So, in the debate on Wednesday last the Sen­ ator from Missouri rises acd says: "When General Lee surrendered at Appomat- tax there were but eight thousand muskets " If the Senator had been there there would have been eight thousand and one, iLaughter. ] "When General Lee surrendered ai Appomat­ tox there were but eight thousand muskets left of that sj lendid army which had fought the world in arms and had been battered and beaten baok by overwhelming numbers for four long years. (Jut of companies that went into < that terrible strife of on< hundred and twenty- five and one hundred, and eighty men but ten or twelve returned back to their kindred and homes. The South to-dav is filled with maimed and crippled soldiers, who, amid shot and shell and saber-stroke, fought for their honest convic­ tions as men have seldom fought before. They • ask no pensions," Hneeringly auid tha Senator from Missouri. : The Federal soldiers are asking for peusions, but the gallant survivors of the Confederate ar- • inies have asked for no pensions! "God be thanked"-- Said tho Senator from Missouri, growing de­ vout-- "God be thanked, they would not take tbem. • They are not in almshouses, and no man has ever teen one of them begging for bread." The computation of the Senator from Missouri must certainly have been made with his fancy. : It dizzies the arithmetic of the imagination to understand upon what volume of statistics he founded his amazing and incredible statement that there were but rt.OOO survivors of the Con­ federate armies at the surrender at Appomat- • tox. If that Senator would pluck a few of tne plumes from tho daszling tail of his imaglna- tion and stiok them into the wings of bis judg­ ment, be would flv a bolder, a more direct, and - accurate flight. The official reports show that from the 29th day of March, 1803, to April 9 of that year there were captured of General Lee's army 4 >.433 men in arms, and that on that fatal dav for the 1 Confederacy, when God failed to bless thoir cause, as the Senator from Missouri said he : ; hoped He would have done, there were taken, ' in addition to those who had been previously captured and paroled, 27,418 men in arms, mak- - tngatotaf. Instead of 8,000 menwl'h muskets who were in the final crash and collision be­ tween tlw avengtng and triumphant forces of i the North and the broken and shattered rem- - nants of the Confederacy, of 73,911 men in •| arms. Yet the Senator from Missouri, in his ; eagerness, his avidity to belittle, undignify, - and humiliate the Nocth, and to extol and S praise and exaggerate; the achievements and the numbers of the South, diminishes that number of 73,911 to loss than 8,030. His mathe- ' matica are certainly giddy. There is but one parallel to the extraordinary •: inaccuracy of. this statement, and that is the ' other allegation in his speech that out of the 2,3.0,000 Union soldiers more than one-half had applied for pensions--a statement that would have been refuted by the simplest in- • at ection of the latest return of the Commie- . aioner of Pensions. As I said, Mr. President, I do not attempt nor do I intend to east the slightest per­ sonal aspersion, the slightest imputation by the remotest inference upon the honor and patriotism of either the Senator from Kentucky or the Senator from Missouri who does not : honor us with his presence. I mention these things for the purpose of saying tn&t I have no doubt they fully and thor­ oughly represent the convictions, the feel­ ings, the purposes, and the intentions of their constituencies. They know what sentiments will awaken an answering response in the • South. They know what it is popular to say at home. When the Senator from Missouri alludes to ; , the efforts which are being made by the » epub- licans in this bodv to afford pensions to the de­ pendent. indigent, and suffering survivors of the Union armies now enrolled in the Grand Army, Of the Kepubllc as an attempt by oandi- dates for the Presidency to bid for the soldier vote, the Senator from Kentucky will pardon me when I say that I have no doubt speeches UkeIlKMwhiefcbe mads, andwhiohthe 8sn- v ~ ' V b-. •? t;'Vpr &'< " 1 ©• ^VnV <• ^ nsw flne. It is a thltrtriae the buli's-eve sad rinitbe ball. IXMshftsr and applause In tte «OWh.j I have nevw heard, Mr PreSdsei dar­ ing the fifteen years that I have bens in this body, any repudiation of- tintimfhtd like those f.vowed by the Senator from Mis­ souri and the Senator from Kentucky from any quarter in the Democratic party. Time and time again have I heard those sane senti­ ments reiterated and repeated hare. If they ware obnoxious to any sentiment of the south­ ern States, why should we not have beard some disavowal of them 7 Why ars they re­ peated here Uerumitmmmmu.ad nanssom, un­ til the heart of the patriotic North rises in in­ dignation. and never a word of protest spoken by any Democratic Senator, North or South., Ko, Mr. President, they know the sentiments, they know the oonvlcttons, they know the emo­ tions of the people behind them, and that is the reason for their utterances Why was it that when the last appointed As­ sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who by one of the strange ca- prioes of history now sits in Judgment upon those great constitutional amendments that were adopted and agreed to against bis protest and his ef­ forts. rote in this chamber and said that he would resent as a personal affront any imputa­ tion upon the honor, the integrity, or the patri­ otism of Jefferson Davis as a personal insult to himself--why was it that whan be had said he had no doubt that Jefferson Davis would occu­ py a niche in history by the side John Hamp­ den and George Washington, no Democratic Senator, North or South, rose to repudiate and disavow it? Yet the moment that any Republic­ an Senator, or any editor of any Northern news­ paper, or any organ of the Grand Army of the Republic talks about the Union army, the grandeur of its achievements, the obligations and duties of the nation toward its members, we are charged with waving the ensanguined under­ garment, raking np the ashes of sectional strife and appealing to partisan hatred and wrong and malice. It is time that the twenty-four Con­ federates who constitute tbe twenty-four thir­ ty-sevenths of the Democratic members of the Senate should understand how the people of the North feel about these matters. The South do not like Union soldiers. The Democratic party do not like thom; they never did. So it is now, after the animosities of the war should have died away, and on every con­ ceivable occasion when we attempt to enlarge the pension system or liberalize its provisions Senators rise here one after the other and peev­ ishly complain that it is going to cost too mucn. Mr. Morgan--If the Senator will allow ms just a moment 1 will say that the Democratic party liked General Hancock very well, and voted for him. Mr. Ingalls--They did, as they are going to vote for again, Grover Cleveland, under compulsion. They thought they could fool the Northern people by voting for a Union soldier, but they did not. We understood \ et-y well what the votine for General Hancock meant. It was just the same as voting for Horace Gree­ ley. You have been engaged in illicit inter­ course with all the degraded elements of the North for the last twontj-five years. Horace Greeley! The Democratic party at­ tempting to delude the North by nominating and voting fer Horace Greeley to show that they were reconstructed, that they would fain fill their bellies with the husks that tbe swine did not eat, and they could not; and then the Sena­ tor from Alabama rises and assures us with a suffusion of patriotic loyalty that they voted for Hancock, Why, Mr. President, we understand why they voted for Hancock. We know why Hr.ncock was nominated. We know why that other al­ ly of the Confederacy, George B. McClellan, was nominated, who had just declared that the war was a failure, after he had been trying for years to make it so. No, Mr. President, these pretensions are altogether too diaphanous. They require to have the drapery removed for an instant. Bat I am not quite through with this aspect of the question yet In 1886, on the first day of May of that year, less than two yesrs ago, there was in the city of Atlanta, iu Georgia, a great historic occasion. A statue to one of our former associates in this body was to be unveiled, a man whom I honored, and whom we all respected. Upon that occasion the ven­ erable ex-President of the Confederacy was in­ vited to be present. It was a dav that never will be forgotten in the annals of the South. They flocked to that city as men go to i ban­ quet, or as doves flock to their windows. They-- "Came as the winds come, when Forests are rended; Came as the waves come, when Navies are stranded.'* The city was decorated with the Confederate emblem brought out to make a Confederate holiday, and an orator was selected to give voice to the sentiments of the inhabitant j of the lost Confederacy, not in 18 >6, but in 1886. twenty years after the surrender at Appomat­ tox, and twenty years after we had been told that the South had in good faith accepted the results of the war and desired to come in under the old flag and obtain the neoessary ap­ propriation s. | Laughter. I I have the oration delivered by tbe speaker upon that occasion, not a garbled and mutilated extract printed in a Northern paper, but the corrected copy printed in the paper that the orator himself edits, I believe. Therefore it is entitled to credence; it is authentlo and author­ itative. It may be, perhiips, instructive aud entertaining, in view of what we hear about the reconstruction of the South, their repentance, their desire to co-operate with the North in ac­ complishing tbe great results of our destiny under the Constitution of the Union, to hear what be says; and at the risk of trespassing upon your patience, I will, with as little abbre­ viation as I can, repeat tbe oration as delivered on that occasion. As I said, it was to unveil a monument to Benjamin Harvey Hill. The ora­ tor said • "Had the great man whose memory is per­ petuated in this marble chosen of all men oue witness to his constancy and hts courage, he would have chosen the honorable statesman whose presence honors this platform to-day. Had the people of Georgia chosen of all men one man to-dav to aid in this sacred duty, and, by tbe memories that invest him about, to givo deeper sanctitv to their work, tbey would have chosen Jefferson DaviB first and last President ol the Confederate States." I do not blame him for tbat. Mr. President, I can understand it; in a certain sense I honor it, because he spoke what I believe were the honest, truthful, and courageous sentiments of his heart, as I believe the Senator from Ken­ tucky and tbe Senator from Missouri have done in this -debate. "It is good, sir," he contfnued -turning to Mr. Davis, for vi-n to be here. Other leaders have had their triumphs. Conquerors have won crowns, and honors have been piled on tho victors of earth's great battles; but never yet, sir, came man to more loving people. Never conqueror wore prouder diadem than the deathless love that crowns your gray hairs to­ day. Never king inhabited more splendid pal­ ace than the millions of brave hearts in which your dear name and fame are forever en­ shrined. Speaking to you, s^r. as the son of a Confederate soldier who sealed hie devotion with his life--holding kinship through tne priceless heritage of his blood to you and yours --standing midway between tbe thinning ranks of his old comrades, whose faltering footsteps are turned toward the grave, and the new gen­ eration thronging eagerly to take the work that falls unfinished from their bands--here in the auspicious present, across which tbe historic past salutes a glorious future, let me pledge you that tho love we bear you shall be trans­ mitted to our children and our children s chil­ dren, and that generations yet unborn shall in this fair land hold your memory sncred and point with pride to your lofty and utainless lire. "My countrymen," he continued, turning to the crowd, "let us teach tbo lesson in this old man's life, that defeat hath its glories no less than victory. Let us declare that this outcast from the privileges of this great Government is the uncrowned king of our people, and that no Southern man, high or humble, asks greater glory than to bear with him, heart to heart, the blame and tbe burden of the cause for which ho stands unpardoned. In dignity aud honor he met the responsibilities of our common cause. With dauntless courage he faced its charges. In obscurity and poverty he has lor twenty years borne the reproach of our enemies and the obloquy of defeat.* And as if this were not enough, as if eulogy had not been exhausted, be rises to tbe height of tbe occasion; and coming nearer, I think, the frontier of sacrilege, the boundary line of blasphemy, than ever man came before, he said : "This moment--in this blessed Easter week --that, witnessing the resurrection of these memories, that for twenty years have been buried in our hearts, has given us tho best Easter we have seen since Christ was risen from the dead. This moment find* its richest reward in tbe fact that we can light with sun­ shine the shortening end of a path that has long been dark and dreary. Georgians, coun­ trymen, soldiers, and sons of soldiers, and brave women, the light and soul and crown of our civilization, rise and give your hearts voice as we tell Jefferson Davis that he is at home among his people." I do not propose to rehearse what that dis­ tinguished representative who bad just been eulogized said in hts reply, except in one siugle sentence. I will quote one paragraph in which be refers to tbe services rendered him by that illustrious man whose statue was that day being unveiled in a somewhat memorable de­ bate that occurred in Congress. He said: "He had nothing to ask, but he bad much to give. an<i when I was the last from tbe touth who could excite any expectation of benefit, it was Hill whose voice rose triumphant in the Senate and mashed the injurious Yankee down." Referring, I suppose to our friend who is now in Florence. Yet, Mr. President, before the lUtes of that Easter were faded "The funeral bated meats Did coldly furnish forth tbe marriage cables" Ie New York or Brooklyn, and in this same year of onr Lord 1886 this same orator, who declared that Jefferson Davis was tbe uncrowned king of tbe Southern people, and th it no more glori­ ous Easter had arisen since Christ died on Cal- vsry than that which gave them the opportunity of renewing their devotion to him and the Ideas th»t be represented, made a pilgrimage to the North, and at the New England dinner in tbe citv of New York poured out his traaoie, cold . and maple sirup al~ North, declaring that the South had been wan- cream, honey, all over the derlng in a far country, tbat they ware anxious to return to tbe home of their fathers, and the wboJe Democratu party rose and fell on hi neck, And put shoes on his feet, asd a ring on his finger, and said, "Lo, this my SOB that was lost Is found." But some protested, in the language at the the fatted nevergavostmoakldthatl with my firiands." „Wh«n was that orator siaears, Mr. Presidsnt? When did Iw speak the sentiments, the feelings, and convictions of the Southern people, when he delivered that oration mi the 1st day of May. 1880, in Atlanta, in the presence of ap- piauding thousands, or when be went np to tbe flaw England dinner. In December at the same yaar, ana spilltfd oil and wins all over the American people? If our friends who are opposing this depend­ ent pension bill imagine that I entertain any feelings of ill-will or malevolence toward them for the course they pursue, they are mistaken, I do not very well understand how they can act in any other way. I have sometimes thought with curious resection what my amotion would have been had the result of the conflict bean reversed; if the armies of the Confederacy ted dictated terms of peace in this capital, if the Georgia statesman had fulfilled his Insolent menace to call tbe roll of his slaves in the shadow of Bunker Hill, and if the flag that now floats above us had been a dishonored and a degraded rag; if this ohambor had been spoliated and sacked as you tried to spoliate and sock it, if this country bad been destroyed and overthrown as you tried to over- thsow it, if the Constitution of tho United States bad become an antiquated relio and American oittsenship a forgotten attribute, if slavery had been declared to be right and lib­ erty wrong, and if the theories of Calhoun and of Jefferson Davis had been declared to be the true measure of interpretation of the Constitu­ tion. Mr, President, such calamities were immi­ nent often during the war. From tbe place where we now sit the challenge of tho sentinel upon the hills of Virginia could almost have b<;en heard, and the reverberation of your guns thundered hoarsely along the valley of the Potomao. I have often reflected how I should have felt if these results had bjen accom­ plished ; bad my political sins been forgiven; had I couie back and said, "Remove my politi­ cal disabilities ; allow me to enter your legisla­ tive body aud draw my salary punctually and with dispatch." Had I seen tb« Confederate heroes in bronze mountiug their granite pedes­ tals in this capital, Lee instead of Grant, Davis instead of Garfield, Stonewall Jackson instead of Mcl'bersou.l do not believe that Ishould have had any consolation in voting pensions to Con­ federate soldiers myself. I doubt whether I shoulti ever have ceased to be a conspirator; I doubt whether in some hidden and secluded receptacle, at least in the sanctuary of my soul, I bad not kept the stars and stripes en­ shrined, and hoped that the day might again dawn when it should be the symbol of the glory and the emblem of the power of a united oouutry 1 doubt whether I ever should have believed that slavery was better than liberty. But, Mr. President,'! should have regarded it as the climax of effrontery, aa tbe very apex, and summit of hardihood and audacity, I will not say pusillanimity and dishonor, 'when I had accepted a pardon, bad my disabilities re­ moved, and taken the oath of allegiance to the successful Southern Confederacy, if I had ap­ peared day after day upon every occasion when opportunity offered to denounce the efforts made by my conquerors to reward their own soldiers, and to haggle about the prioe that tbe victors sbould see fit to testow upon the men by whom I was vanquished. Therefore, Mr. President, I say again, with­ out personal imputation or inference, to those who are, under one pretext and another, at­ tempting to convince th* North that they can safely and patriotically vote the Democratic ticket and elect Democratic Presidents, al­ though 153 votes in the electoral college are in those States saturated with tbese sentiments, I do not think that the North is at all deluded by sucn pretensions. It is a little singular, Mr. President, that in sll the years which have elapsed since the war there never has come from one of the States that were in rebellion a single Unionist, so far as I know, elected by Democratic votes, to either House of Congress, not even by an accident. They never have blundered into sending here a man who was not in the Confed­ erate service in some capacity or other; nor, so far as I know, has any Governor of any one of the Confederate States since tbe war ever been a Unionist. The supreme test that is applied is the test of service to the Confed­ eracy. When I look over the roll of this body and over the roll of the other bouse of Con­ gress and reflect how few of those who served in tbe Union armies are found in the councils ot the nation, 1 am not surprised tbat we have witnessed tbe demonstrations that we have heard and seen upon this bill and every similar bill that is presented for action either in the Senate or House of Representatives. Tho Senator from Missouri, in the course of the debate last Wednesday, as an illustration of the magnanimity of the "South, assured us that of tho S'-Hit.ooo.ooo of pensions that had been paid $2JO,tKH),000 had been contributed by the South ; aud the Senator irom South Caro­ lina I Mr. Hamptonl, who evidently is a moro accurate arithmetician, arose aiid said, not i240,0JO,000 but ,000,i 00. I wish tbat Sena­ tor, as he is now present, would toll us by what method of computation he has reached the con­ clusion tbat out of S88«,000,U)0 paid for pen­ sions the South has paid $2JO,OCJO,OJO. Mr. President, that is a glittering generality. I doubt if they have paid 9i90,0J0, instead of $&*0,00j,01 >. I should like if some eminent arithmetician would get out bis table of loga­ rithms, which is the usual practioe on these occasions, and tell us how it appears that the South has paid $290,000,00 J since the war closed out of tbe 9883,000,00J tbat havo been paid as the sum total evidencing the nation's gratitude to its surviving soldiers. Even if they have paid $2*J0,0A0,000, I have one single remark to make about tbat. They are very fortunate that they did not have to pay the whole of it, and, instead of grumbling and complaining that they have paid S'iJJ.OOO,- 000, thev ought to be thankful they did not have to foot the entire bill, as Germany made Franco foot the expenses of the Franco-Pruasian war, and as every other vanquished and rebellious province has been compelled to submit to ex­ action aud ransom. Yet after the war has long sinco closed we have the jailers and murderers of Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Libby Prison Bitting here beneath the flag that they endeav­ ored to dishonor, legislating for the country that they attempted to destroy, and trying to pinch, belittle, aud minimize tbe amount that we shall pay to tbe mut.lated and disabled sur­ vivors of the hell of that incarceration. The Sena'or from Missouri rises in a burst of indignaut impatience, and wants to know when all this is going to end. Ho says be has gone thus far, but he shall go no further; tbat he was coerced by the necessities of his posi­ tion because he was a Confederate, of wbich I do not see tbe logic. He says that be was co­ erced by the logic ot his position to vote, as we are bound to assume, for dishonest and unjust­ ifiable pensions because he was a Confederate, but that. God helping him, be is going no fur­ ther. He is coing to resist the claims of these organized robbers and plunderers, who hwe banded together for tho purpose of depleting th<rTreasury, and tbey shall have no single farthing more. I will tell that Senator aud ev­ ery other Democratic Senator, whether they liko it or not, what we intend to do. I will tell the Senator from Missouri and tho rest of his associates just where it is to stop. It is going to stop when tbe arrears of pensions are paid, when the limitation is removed, and every sol­ dier upon the rolls, or who hereafter gets upon the rolls, is paid front the day of his disability, or his survivors from the day of his death, and when every surviving soldier from the Union armies is put upon the rolls for service only. That is when it is going 'to stop lapplause in the galleries]; and if you do not like it, make the most of it. When is it go;ng to end? And on every occa­ sion lsstweek as this week tbe old, stale calum­ nies about tbe arrears-o:-pension act are re­ peated. Mr. President, I was Chairman of the Committee on Pensions when that bill was re­ ported and passed. It was an act of great na­ tional justice I consented to the insertion of the compromise date of July I, 18.-40, because I could not get tbe principle established in any other way, and I gave notice then and made a pledge, which I have redeemed at every session of Congress since, that I would never desist from my efforts to remote that liuiitatiou and to pay every soldier placed upon that roll from tbe date of disability or discbarge, so that this stigma Bnould be wiped out and the honor af the nation redeemed. And yet tbe Senator from Kentucky farthest from me |Mr. Beck , in bis speech upon the infirmities of the tariff on a pension bill, said that we were t dd when that bill passed in 1H79 that it would take about eighteen or twenty millions, not over thirty at the outside, to make it operative, and that hun­ dreds of millions had sincu been spent. Mr. President, tbat statement has been refuted so often tbat it does not deserve another word In reply. No such statement was made; no such gtatemeut could hate been made. The only statement was that to apply that prlncip e to those who were already upon the roll would not require at the outside over $30,- 0 0,000 and mu'nt not co.<t more than H8.0J0.0X). How could any one say what would be tbe ex­ pense that would be due under the act there­ after? It would depend entirely upon the number of applications under it. And yet. with a disingenuousnes* that has no parallel, upon every occasion that offers the Senator* who oppose this bill affirm that the nation was duped into the adoption ot that measure by falsa statements as to tho amount it would cost. Are we at last, says the Senator from Mis­ souri, to have a service-pension bill? Nothing, he said, will content tbe soldiers and their allies but a service-pension bill, and are we to have that? Yes, Mr. President, you are to have that! There is not to-day a surviving soldier or tbe widow or dependent relative of any surviving soldier in any of the antecedent wars of the republic who is not on the roll for a service pension--not one. I voted for the Mexican servioe pension bill, not because I be­ lieved it was wholly justifiable, but for the purpose of removing the last obstacle in the patnwav of giving a service pension to every surviving soldier of the Union armies. Tbe Mexican war was waged in the interest of the Democratic party, for tbe extension of the area of humaa slavery. A very large pro­ portion of those who fought were from the Southern States, and a very large part of those who have been be etited by it, I believed then and I know now, had served in tbe Confederate army Who do you suppose was tbe first man • who received a pension uud, r the Mexicun pension bill? Who was the first beneficiary of this service-pension bill'/ Was It soms disabled, mutilated, Indigent veteran, who, as the Sena­ tor from Alabama has assured me, fought un­ der the American fla« in that great war, and acquired that enormous area of which the btate of nans as was once a part? It seems to me that I can imagine that ven-1 arable, decrepit, and aged survivor of the Mex­ ican war marching up to General John C. Blaak, tbe physical wrseK who is getting MOO a month V to ask htm ---„----- -- a month might be doted out to him for the servioe he rendered in the Mexican war. Who stands prfmws inUrpttret on that roll of honor. sMnlng and illustrious, as an Illustration of av nation s gratitude f John l> Williams, ex-Sena­ tor from Kentucky, a man who ^rould resent as a personal imputation say atferment of any descriptk n whatever that he was not an abso­ lutely sound,!hal», strong, and competent man. We recollect the brown iresses that waved over the brow of that veteran, the appearance of youth and vigor, at almost boyish juvenility that was *ont to accompany him; a man who was ac aspirant for an appointment on the Interstate Commission, who wanted to be re­ elected to this body; a man who is generally suspected of being in the enjovment of an ample fortune; an applicant for the position of Minister to Mexico; a man who rendered, as I am told, distinguished service as n Kentucky Confederate In the armies that were marshaled against the American Union! And yet. Mr. President, because we ask that to the ten or twelve thousand disabled soldiers and indigent veterans of tbe Union army who are now the objects of charitv some relief shall be granted, we are told that it is an in­ jurious extension of the nation s liberality, when as a matter of faot every one knows that the benefactions and donations of the Mexican service bill were indefinitely wider and more expansive than anything that has been pro­ posed by tbe bill that is now pending before us as proposed even to be amended by the Senator from Iowa. Mr. President, as the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic have been stigmatized in this debate as a band of sordid mercenaries, organised for tbe purpose of plundering the public Treasury, and, like the legions o; Rome, ready either to be bid for or to be bid.ten against for the control of tbe empire, 1 will read a par­ agraph or two bffore I close from the iournal of the twenty-first annual session of the National Encampment held at St. Louis ou the 28th, &>th and 30th of September last, that organization which tbe Sonator from Missouri says throueh its officers Had insolently aspersed tbo Chief Magistrate of the Uepublic and threatened him with personal indignity if he attempted to visit tho city of St Louis at the time when that en­ campment was being held. In tbe name of that organization, so for as I can speak for it, I re­ pudiate and deny that assertion No threats of discourtesy, no menaces of violence, no hos­ tile criticism was indulged against the Chief Magistrate by the Grand Army of the Republic. He could have gone to St. Louis with entire safety. He knew that he did not deserve well of that organization, and he felt the stings of that conscience which "makes cowards of us all." The Commander ot the Grand Army of tbe Republic says: "I heartily congratulate all who have the pleasure to attend this grand reunion of old comrades whose friendship was welded in tbe hot flame of battle, In the oamp on tbe march, and cemented by the love wbich all bore and still maintain for the Union. In fraternity, charity, and loyalty we stand, proud of the fact that there is not now nor has there ever been any bitter teellng of hate for those of our fellow- citizens who, once in arms against us, but now being loyal, have long ago taken their old-time places in our hearts, never, we devoutly hope, to be removed therefrom. We have not now, nor have we at a ny time since tbe war closed, had any disposition to open again the bloody chasm which once unhappily divided tbis peo Sle. We not only will not ourselves reopen aat dreadful abyss, but we will, with the loval people North and South, protest against all at­ tempts whioh others may make to do so, by holding up for especial honor and dtstuictioa anything that pertains to or in any manner glorifies the cause of disunion. * "With the people of the South we only ask to continue tho friendly rivalry long ago entered upon in the effort to make oar beloved land great and prosperous, and its people intelli­ gent, happy, and virtuous. "We will rival them in exalting all that per* tains to and honors this great Union and in condemning everything that tends to foster a hostile sentiment thereto. We will rival them in earnest endeavor to inculcate in the minds of all the citizens of this country, and especially of our children, a heartfelt love for the United States of America, to. the end that present and coming generations shall. In e very part of tne land, bolieve in and ' maintain true allegiance thereto, based upon a paramount respect for and fldell y to its constitution and lawn,' which will lead them to 'discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty, incites to insurrection, treason, or rebellion or in any manner Impairs tbe effi­ ciency and permanency of our tree institu­ tions,'and will Impel them to encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights, and justice to all men,'and to defend these senti­ ments, which are quoted from the fundamental law of our order, with their lives if need be. and to tbe further end that they shall so revere the emblems of the Uniou that under no cir­ cumstances can be coupled with them iu the same honorable terms the symbols of a senti­ ment which is antagonistic to its perpetuity. "The c ontemplatiun of the grand picture of a long ago preserved Union, a mighty people prospering as no people on earth ever before prospered, with a future far beyond that which opens to any other nation, a land, comrades, which to ail its oitizsns is worth living for, and a country and government worth dying for, constitutes' the greatest reward of those who have suffered and bled and striven that such a spectacle might be possible." An organization that entertains those senti­ ments and tbat is animated by such purposes is stigmatized here as a gang of sordid merce­ naries, organized for plunder 1 Mr. President, they were organized for charity. The total amount rep rt-d expended in charity from March 31, 1«S6, to March 31, 1H81, was y25i.93J.43; the number of persons relieved was *24,ti0G; 17,697 of these were members of the order or tbe families of such, and H.SKJy were either ex- soldiers. not members, or those dependent upon them. It is to supplement this charitv that tbe Grand Army has asked the Congress of the L'nited States that this bill may pass. We pro­ pose in tbis body to pass it. Imitating the language that has been used by its adversaries, I hope tbat it will pass the other house of Con­ gress, and if It does, let the President of tbe United Stat *s veto It at his peril. [Manifesta­ tions of applause, i IT WAS A HUMMER. Th® Wild Antics of a Visitor from . Dakota In and Around New York. A Hctnmqne Dasoription of That fie- Booieoal Btissard on the Alk ^ lwitio Ooast. I - i tikwip About the Players Who WQ2 Soon Be Chasing the Ball ' ^ m the Field. Sure Siffii* of Luck, Dream ot eggs, sign of money. ' Dream of snakes, sign of enemies. If you sing before breakfast youH cry before supper. Dreaming of muddy orrushing water brings trouble. Finding a horse-shoe or a four-leared clover brings good lnck. If you cut your nails or sneeze on Saturday you do it "for evil." She who takes the last stitch at a quilting will be the first to marry. If yon cannot make up a handsome bed your husband will nave a homely nose. If you spill the salt some one will be "mad" with you unless you put some in the fire. Stub your right toe, you are going where you are wanted; your left, where you are not wanted. If the rooster crows on the fenoe, the weather will be fair; if on the door­ step, he will bring company. If the first Sunday in the month ia unpleasant, there will be but one pleas­ ant Sunday during the month. If by any chance a mourning hat or bonnet is placed upon your head you will need one of vour own soon. If your right ear burns, some one is praising you; if your left, your friends are ra'dng you over the coals. Returning to the house for a moment after having once started out will bring bad luck unless you sit down. When, in dropping a fork, it strikes the floor and stands upright, it will bring a gentleman visitor; if a knife, a lady. While at the washboard, if the suds splash and wet your clothes you are wearing, you will have a drunken hus­ band. If you drop your dishcloth, you will have company; also if you sweep a black mark; or if two chairs stand acci­ dentally back to back. . If a baby sees his face in the glass it will be the death of him. If his nails are cut he will be a thief. If he tumbles out of bed it will save his being a fool, Break a mirror, is a sign of death. Death is also foretold by a dog howling under the window; hearing a mourning dove, a strange dove hovering about, or dreaming of a white horse. If you see the new moon through the glass you will have sorrow as long- as it lasts. If you see it fair in the face you'll have a fall. Over the left shoul­ der bad luck-over the right good luck. tsncu& nw ibnx oosusMnaRa.] Ttw Storm results in New York, Pennsylvania and Mew Jersey sinoe last Monday morning »re something unprecedented. During that time the New-Yorkers have been as completely Isolated from mankind, and. Indeed, from each other, as though their big city had been buried under an Alpine avalanobe. People living from one to five miles from their places ot business or employment have had a compulsory vaca­ tion of nearly four days. Their horse oars censed to run, their elevated roads were blocked and their sidewalks and streets were clogged with huge drifts of snow that rendered pedes- trianism and the passage of vehicles out of the question. Funersl processions were stalled, and the dead could not be buried. BaUroaa transportation into or out of tbe city did not exist, and telegraphic communication was de­ stroyed on all sides. A thousand cities and towns within a day's ride, and containing twenty millions of peo­ ple, were as badly off as New York. Nothing so stupendous in the way of storm damage has ever been known in America. Human ingenu­ ity and Inventiveness have been powerless in the presence of this wonderful demonstration of tiie elements. No appliances known in those parts have been equal to cleaning the streets and railway traoks, and restoring the efficiency of tbe vast system of telegraph wires. The damage in all directions is roughly estimated at twenty million*. It is probable that twice that sum will not fnlly cover the loss to all the interests that have Buffered In eonseijuence of the big storm, and weeks must elapse bofore its ravages ean be wholly re- pane a and its disturbances wholly removed. The city is just beginning to make some ef­ forts to recovor from the etfects ot the phenom­ enal blizzard. Coal is scarce. There is no milk at all, and all but a few of tbe telegraph ami telephone wires are vet in a desperate tan- Rle. Mountains of snow block all the principal streets and avenues. The elevated trains though again running are in diminished num­ bers and at a low rate of speed. As for the borse cars the tracks are buried under two feeft of snow and cannot be cloared out for several days. All business is at a standstill. Coming as it did without warning, the storm was a ter­ rible blow. It began with rain on Sunday, and about midntght turned to snow. On Mon­ day morning the wind was blowing at the rate ot fifty miles an hour, and screeching and howl­ ing around earners in a way which was terrify­ ing. Snow had fallen to a oepth of three feet Huge drifts from six to ten feet high rapidly formed. The many employes of factories and stores started early, but horse-cars and omni­ buses wore soon abandoned. Tbe surface roads made herculean eftorts to keep the tracks clear, and harnessed six and eight horses to each car to keep a-going. By a o'clock tbe surface roads were forced to abandon their cars. Then the rush for the elevated road began, but the trains were stalled by the icy tracks at Fourteenth street. After hours of delay the weary passengers were taken from trains by means ot long ladders from the street. Thousands walked through the biting blasts only to And their plaees of business closed. After it) o'clock in the morning all efforts to run the elevated trains were abandoned Fabulous prices were vainly offered for cabs, but livery men would not expose their animals. The telegraph, telephone, and electric wires fell in all directions, and by noon only two cir­ cuits of tbe Western Union were in oper­ ation. The cable on the ltrooklyn bridge re­ fused to work, and for hours no trains passed over Finally, late at night, dummy engines started aud ran two trains over the' swaying structure. No pedestrians were allowed on the bridge. Ferry-boats on the North and East rivers managed to run, but with much difficulty and danger The exchanges were closed ait noon, as only a few broke.s ventured down­ town iu the teeth of the gale. The banks were open, but with small clerical forces, and could do nothing, and, for the first time iu such a caso, extended time on commercial paper. Brooklyn was no better off, and .lersey Citv was in a worse condition. Out in the bay saif- ing craft of all kinds fled before the storm. The steamship Alaska, ot tbe Ouion line, arrived Sunday night but could not get up to her pier until Tuesday. Viewed in the afternoon, tbe city seemed a prey to the elements. The Bowery looked like a battle-field with its abandoned cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds. Broadway was a wreck. Vast mounds of snow iu every con­ ceivable shape zigzajMed in tbe btreet. In front of the Grand CentrelHotel a truck-load of lager beer had been abandoned. Tbe snow blew against it until it was buried from sight As tbe day wore on, the blizzard shrieked harder and border. When the few business men down town tried to get home, not a convevance of any kind could be found. Millionaires were worse off than laborers. Even so dignified a person as ex-Senator Boscoe Conkling had to walk. He started from his office on Wall street and, with his usual grit struggled up through desolate Broadway. To use his own Words: "It was dark and it was useless to try to pick out a path, so I went magnificently along, shouldering through drifts and headed for the north. I was pretty well exhausted when I got to Union Square, but I plunged right through on as straight a line as I could determine upon. I have run across passages in novels of great adventures in snow­ storms, where there would be a vivid descrip­ tion of a man's struggle on a snow-swept and windy plain, but I have always considered the presentation an exaggeration. I had got to the middle of the park and was up to my arms iu a drift It was so dark and the snow so blinding that for nearly twenty minutes I stuck l|tbere, and came as near giving right up and |sinkiug down there to die as a man can aud pwt du it. Somehow I got out and made my Iway along. When I reached the New York Club at Twenty-fifth street I was covered all over with ice and packed snow, snd they would scarcely believe me that I had walked from Wall Street It took three hours to make the journey." Down-town hotels were packed before night­ fall viUh business men detained in the city by tho storm. The night's terrors were even worse than the day's trouble. Men on the street staggered along as though drunk, and the police found a number of people just in time to save them from freezing. AU the cattle and milk trains are stalled on the road, and a famine in meat and milk has set in. People all over the eity are using con- danced milk. August Belmont wanted to get a bottle of milk for his baby and after a long search »ot it, but had to pay fl for a pint Coal is a luxury, too. Wben.coal carts appear on the Kast Side a crowd of poverty-stricken people Cock around them and clamor for the precious black diamonds. The carts have to be well guarded bv poice, All tbe small dealers are out Days mast pass before the wants of the poor oau be provided f^r. Tbe suffering and distress are something unknown in local history. Tbe few grocers who have coal are charging 60 cents a pail, or at the ratu of MO a too. Broad has run out, and Hour is scarce. Funerals have been delayed, and not a burial bus been made tlnoe Sunday. The only intelligence received from Boston since Sunday oame by way of Ixmdon cable Wednesday evening. It was a dispatch from the Boston Herald, which said thai the city of culture and baked beans was as K&ch isolated as New York. Perished in tbe Hlissard. (Elisabeth (N. J. i special.) Alexander Bennett John Lee, and employe of tbe Singer Sewing Machine Com­ pany left Elizabethport Monday in a small row-boat for btateu Island. The empty boat was fouud in tbo ice fur out of its course. It is thought the men reached the Staten Island shore, but perished while crossing the meadow. IWatertown (N. Y.I special.) James A. Fitzgerald, a farmer, residing three miles from tho village of i.orraine, went there Monday to buy groceries, and left for home at 8,o'olock in the evening. Tuesday morning his borse was fouud in a field, half frozen. Fits- gerald has undoubtedly been buried in the snow. |Newark (N. J.) special. 1 Three persona in this vicinity are now known to have frozen to death in Mondav's blizzard. A milk, meat, and coal famine is threMteed. (Beading (Pa.) special.) The dead bodies of three men, neatly dressed were found between this city and Pottstown. Cattle have perished from the cold in different parts of the country, and teams had to be abandoned on the roads. Farmers are still unable to reach this city, and milk and country produce command a premium. HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS. Dakota Offers Generous ReMef to the Storm's Viet lms. (Fargo (Dak.) special. 1 Major Edwards, of the Fargo Argu*. on read­ ing the am ount of Kosooe Conkling's narrow escape from freezing to death in tbe New York blizzard, at once sent the following : The Hon. Boscoe Conkling. New York: Dakota robins, sitting on oranee blossoming trees, join in thanks for your safe delivery from New York snow-drifts. All join with me in congratulations to yon and say: "Come to tbe banana belt, Where eve well-wisher." A ICanton (Dak.) special. , A lund tor the relief of the sufferers from tho , .. ., . - . late blizzard in New York and other New Kn- Do Tor know the gentleman ? asked gland States has been started. Clothing and a San Francisco lady of her little girl, money will be taken. Dakota win respond • , . nobly to the relief of Eastern sufferers. in reference to the minister, who was i [Mandan (Dak.) special, i making a pastoral call. "Of course I I A car-load of the best grade of flour made by dn 0 aai/f tlia lifctlA ,)onr- «ho thn the Mandan Boiler Mill Company was shipped do, said the little aeac, ne a°OT we ^ &fternoon for tho benefit of the sufferers in hollering ot our churcli. --San Fran- ciuco Atta. »re every man is your A w. EDWIBDS. Bk captions. Never ask* plumber: "Is this eold .enough for you?" He the East from tho blizzard. One More Step. Overheard at a recent wedding: "i say, what thumping eheoka seme of the brides ILLINOIS JfTATE '-Calvin Knowltaa, ex-President of Aa Will County Bank, Joliet, died at Santa Barbara. ̂ --The miners of the West End Coat Company's mines, Springfield, struck, b*> cause the company increased the rise of the screen above the regulation, --There are over 400 sasss of the measles iu Oakland at the present tiase, and the epidemic is spreading. Schoo ̂bea been closed by order of tbe Board ijf Health. --William Gibbe. a chargas $5 for answering such a queer i *r15e*ti55»t'J2 „ Hon.--Fall tUvmr Advance. ' -- ItateL lh*" cw*4*i- ? % Is Team Havinf m^ ' Practice at the Hot Springs--What | , 0tk Glubs Are Doing. "-f": I fCElCAGO COBRESFOKDXNCK.} At this writing many of the professional ball teams of the country are in training for their championship series of games which are to begin the last week in April;" Elgin* who was to have been and by the 1st proximo there will not be a team of any consequence in any circuitthat has not gotten down to pretty fair condi­ tion for the work ahead. The Chicago players are lucky chaps. They are down at Hot Springs' at present, under the fatherly care of Secretary John Brown and Captain Anson, snd while they are doily indulging in exercise that is pall­ ing down their flesh and hardening theii muscles, they are having a barrel of fan on the outside. J ast at present Hot Springs is crowded with some forty or fifty ball players, who have gone there either at their own expense or the expense of their clubs to partake of the baths and indulge in prac­ tice upon the field. With so many healthy, well-conditioned young fellows assembled it is bat natural that pranks and frolics sbould prove of every-day oecurrence, and it is not astonishing that the special cor­ respondents who are Btoppiug at the Springs should find any amount of inter­ esting gossip to telegraph to their papers. During the past week the boys have de­ veloped a fondness tor horseback riding, and the other afternoon a dozen set out for a jog. The players who mounted horses in lront of the Plateau Hotel were Pete Gallagher, Ryan, Daly, Fairell, Spragne, Kroek, Pettit, Brynan, Hoover, O'iS'eil, Robinson, Reddy, Mack, and Mike Dorgan. Five minntes later Hot Springs saw a circus that beat anything ever seen there before. Krock was astride a lemon-colored Mexican mustang. The animal cavorted in front of the hotel for a moment or two, and then dashed up the street with the Oshkosh pitcher bounding into the air at every leap. Williamson didn't stand to laugh; be sat down on his haunches and roared until the tears rolled down his cheeks. The mustang kept on his wild race until the first side street was reaohed. Then the brute dashed for the mountain side with a rider whose eyes were ready to fall out of his head. The animal was finally persuaded to return to the main street, when he again wheeled round and, patting his head well between his legs, plunged across the sidewalk and against a feed store. About this time Biynan's mustang began making hostile demon­ strations. The little pitcher tried hard to master the beast, but his efforts were fu­ tile. With a snort and a rapid elevation of his rudder the animal started tip the street like a yellow rocket. Finally the beast backed, and his rider flew out of the saddle, whirled an instant in the air. and then struck solidly on his feet. William­ son was now beside himself with joy. He whooped and laughed until he was ex­ hausted, and then he leaned against a na­ tive and groaned. Pete Gallagher rode like a centaur until somebody hit his animal with a stone. Then he, too, plunged into the air and Btarted toward Little Rock at a furious clip. A policeman ran sfter him and .shouted that he would arrest him if he did not check the speed of his horse. Pete wanted to know by what system the brakes could be put on a Mexican mustang, bnt the policeman was dumb to bis questions. Three hours later the boys returned to the hotel, lame and sore, but all the batter for the exercise. HOT SPRINGS GOSSIP. It was Burns' time to tell a story ou "Old HOBS" Flint the other night. The third baseman said: "We were playing in Cin­ cinnati one day when Flint, who used to wear a big chest-protector under his uni­ form, made a brilliant catch. The catcher, proud of his achievement, yanked off his mask and strutted past the grand stand with hiB chest thrown out like that of a crowing chanticleer. A pretty little woman in one of the front rows of spectators watched the big-breasted catcher with eyes bursting with admiration. Finally she ex­ claimed with delicious frankness: *Why! But isn't Mr. Flint graceful? He has a breast just like John jL. Snllivan, whom I saw on the street the other day.' " Pete Gallagher, the clown of the pro­ fession, created a groat sensation in the negro quarter one night by trying to sell base-balls for horse pills. Grass stains made the balls look green, and the negroes stood with open months while the psendo fakir cried his wares. When Pete was in Iowa one day last year he created consid­ erable oouunotion in the depot with a paek of cards. With great gusto the Chicago wag let the passengers take a card from the deck. While this wss in progress the Town Marshal came up to Pete snd ex­ claimed; "Say, young fellow, what ate you work­ ing'" "A trick with cards," replied Pete. "I am introducing a new salve for chilblains, bunions, cancers, and Keokuk*." "Well," continued tbe Marshal, "I have seen just such fly fellers as you are before. I'll take a card." He did so. Pete looked at the passen­ gers, and whistled softly to himself. Then he said: "Well, I suppose all you people know what cards you've got?" Ail nodded assent. "Well, then," continued Pete, picking up his grip, "if you all know whit cards you hold there is no nse of my telling you what they are." The magician then walk­ ed away while the crowd howled. Williamson says Van Haltren will be a cracker this season. He thinks Anson should play the Californian every day-- either in the box or in right field. When Kelly signed with Boston last year the Beanville papers printed oolnmns about it. Last week he pot his signature to a Hub contract, and the fact was dis­ missed with a paragraph. The following table will show the present weight of tbe Chicago players as well as the (weight tbey will have to come down to beepvs the season commences: Present Playing weight, weight. aoa IBS ktfr! "*-71 •&' -'5 Anson Pfeffer Williamson Flint Burns Sullivan ..V Darling, Daly..... Baldwin.... Byan--........:.. Pettit-- Hoover...,. Tebeau..... FarrelL. Duffy. Clarke Krock Brynan 8prague 80S 175 »1 .......ISO 163 180 It* ..,.,,.,168 185 .......168 iea .167 .165 ... w... 17i .......... 188 ...150 MS 1R5 18» •V 1SS 173 165 180 160 ISO 165 ISO ISO 178 163 160 NOTES FROM HERB AND THEBE. The Giants will begin the season with a much stronger club than they had at any time last season. In pitchers and out­ fielders they will be particularly- strong. Welsh, New York's great fpitcher, is seriously ill. "Buck" Ewing. in speaking of him recently, said that he was the most effective pitcher they had against tne Bos­ tons, as he filled the points in nine of the twelve games they won from that club last season. 1 President A. G. Spalding, af the Chi- ongo Club, returned from Ahe League meeting in New York the latter part of the T*11-- - - ---• linr.tn m . tfeek. He saw Clarkson in; Gotham, but ® agree to eo-operaie m thw rwpecta ried in a few days, and who had made prep­ arations for the event, has mysteriously disappeared. --A remarkable couple waa lataly in the streets of LaSalle, chases among the stores. The eight feet four inches in height weighed only 160 pounds. His wife's height was four feet two inches, while her weight was exactly that of her husband. They were baying clothes, etc., for eight boys and eleven girls. --While Calvin Fisher, his wife and chAJ. and Frank Armstrong, his wife and 1 rother-in-law, and Grant ShyrOck wen sitting in tbe house o* the latter near West Liberty, they heard a roaring noise wbieb caused oue of them to shot the door quickly. Almost immediately the build­ ing was lifted from its foundation and borne forward a distance of twelve feet by a strong wind or cyclone. The house was a large story and a half frame. No one wan injured beyond being badly scared and shaken up. Tbe dishes iu the eupboard were broken. .--"Glory to God!" exclaimed Williass E. Wbitbrook in the County Jail at De­ catur, when be Leard from Ottawa that the Supreme Court had granted a super­ sedeas in his case, giving a stay of execu­ tion of the sentence to hang 'March 30 until the Jane term, when the 8upreme Court will review the report, consider the argument of counsel, and determine whether the condemned man shall have » new trial. Whitbreok was convicted of (he murder of William Gross, mainly on the alleged dying statement of the deceased and the conversation deceased had had with Dr. Harvey, the attending physician. --Egvpt, a community south of Oakland, is greatly excited over an elopement. A hired man named William Masters eloped with J. B. Zimmerman's young and hand­ some daughter. The parents of the girl discountenanced his wooing, and once old man Zimmerman got out Lis shotgun and :v threatened to bore him fall of holes unless he made himself scarce, which he did. ' ^ The 14-year-old girt left home with noth- • * * ^ ing on but a calico wrapper, and walked through the mad to Ash mote, where she ,was joined by Masters, and then boarded ' ~ the train for Charleston. They failed to get a license there, as the old man had ^ r 1 posted the County Clerk. From Charles- ./"'fLi ton the young couple went on west. Zim- v merman discovered the absence of his daughter, and, arming himself with a shotgutf, he struck out after the runaway ' couple. Zimmerman is worth over $300,- 000, and has only two children. --The Horse Thief Detecttf^AssdcIa- tions of Illinois, twenty-five In number, -<* ^ represented by two delegates eaoh, met at "[m Champaign last week and organized a . grand lodge of the fraternity, to be known as tbe Illinois State Detective Association. / The object of the organisation is to detect " '_ • ^ and apprehend hone thieves snd other , felons. The leading grand officers elected were: James Parker of Crecent City, Grand President; C. M. Allen of Oconee. Grand Secretary. The local companies of the organization ass formed under the State law adopted last winter, aud have power to appoint Bpecial constables, who carry authority as constables wherever they may go on this business, to pursue and ar­ rest thieves. The captains snd special helpers of these organizations an ready a! all times to pursue thieves whan members* horses are stolen, and tbey an paid from the treasury. These companies have al­ ready arrested many thieves, and have greatly reduced the number of thefts. Under the new law in Illinois ten men ean organize a local company. This State or­ ganization will co-operate with sipiilar or­ ganizations in Indiana, Iowa, and other States. --After three yean of hard work the ofi- cers of the law have succeeded in eaptmr- ing Michael Fox, of Turand, who was in* dieted at Bockford for forgery. Fox lived in Durand, Winnebago County, with his parents and brothers and sisters. To him was intrusted the management of the busi­ ness of his father. Reverses came, snd he is accused of having forged the names ot various persons to checks asd notes. He left and no one knew anything of him. Ha left a wife and family, and they have never known anything of his whenabonts until his arrest. A few months ago Fox wrote to his old friends nnder the assumed name of James Foss. The handwriting was recog­ nized at once and the letter turned over to bis wife's relatives, who having learned that he had wedded a second wife, decided that he should be brought to justice. The Sheriff was conferred with, and in cosa- pany with a person who is well acquainted with Fox he started for San Franeiaoo. After considerable trouble the forger was captured. He will be prosecotod for the forgeries, and also for bigamy. --Gov. Oglesby has issued Ik ink "Arbor Day" proclamation ever promul­ gated iu this State. He first acts out in fall the aet of the last Legislature direct­ ing him to designate aaaaaBy tn the spring a day to be observed throughout the State as a day for planting trees, shrubs, and vines about the homes, along the highways, and about public grounds within this State, and then says: To give effect to and carry into execution the foregoing act Friday, April 13, UftMj, ie hereby designated as Arbor-Day, and 1 earnestly commend to the people of the State the observance of said day. It is be­ lieved great good wit) reemt irum an earnest effort by the public to inaugurate and per­ petuate a day for the special purpose of planting trees, slrubs, and vines, ft would greatly add to the beauty of onr State could every home, seboolbouse, church, highway, and public grounds be ornamented by trees, arbors, shrubs aud vi nes, and sreat benefit would result from planting forest treea, which in time would immensely increase the value of our land*. Sbould local oemniuni- < " If v r|, : * -if the great pitcher seemed to ^lold firm in bis expressed determination not to play M in Chicago next season ̂ Several clubs desire his Fervces; but president Spalding has not as yet received the «Sk IHLfants for Joto'« wlijm.,' great'deal would' be aMemptt-*hs£ bnt whether commtiuitiee shall so eo-eroerate or individuals alone undertake to sstsn and beautify the Wate, there can I tbat if the day shall be property aud hahui»uy o£esr»ed gnat • ̂ '» "l/i