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OftOVER'S COMPLAINT SCOLD AT THE REPUBLI­ CANS IS IN BAD TASTE. -- • , • v Ifmpty Talk of the ̂ 'Great American Failure"--Review of His Own Course in Neclectinc Party Fledces--Eight­ een Months of Inaction^ Cleveland's Taie of Woe. Special. Washington correspondence: No event of the past few days lias created more comment in the political world than the attack of ex-President Cleveland upon the Republican party for the promptness with which it has taken up the chief pledges of its plat­ form, the tariff and international bi­ metallism, and proceeded with legis­ lation upon them. This attack, in which he describes the party as "re­ turning in hot haste" to its principles of protection to American industries, has suggested a review of Mr. Cleveland's own history and that of his party in this same line. The recollection of the events which transpired between his inauguration as President, March 4, 1893, and the enactment, eighteen months later, of the low tariff act to which his party was equally pledged, would seem to have. suggested silence rathe?" than criticism regarding party activity in carrying out pledges. It was more than seven months from his inauguration as President in 185)3 before his Congress met to consider any of the propositions to which his party was pledged and within a few days of eighteen months before the leading promise of its platform was ful­ filled in the enactment of a new tariff law. The business uncertainties, the long months of suspense in which man­ ufacturers and dealers of all classes were unable to proceed intelligently with business enterprises, and the stop­ page of business and loss of employ­ ment consequent thereon, make the eighteen months of masterly inactiv­ ity in which President Cleveland and his party neglected to fulfill with "hot haste" their promises of legislation, the mo^ disastrous in the history of the business of the country. A brief review of these eighteen months of de­ lay in legislation by his party may in­ dicate whether the Republicans of to­ day ought to be deterred by his com­ plaint of their "hot haste" in carrying out their promises. The latest number of the statistical abstract shows the number of failures of commercial and business concerns in the United States in the first year of President Cleveland's administration (1S93) to be 15,242, with total liabili­ ties amounting to $346,749,SS9. This covers only about one-half of the pe­ riod between the inauguration of Pres­ ident Cleveland and the enactment of the legislation which his party prom­ ised. The record of 1893, however, is the most disastrous the country has ever experienced, the number of fail­ ures being 50 per cent, greater than in the panic of 1878 and the looses also 50 per cent, greater. In addition <to these failures no less than 613 banks failed during that year. This great number of failures threw out of em­ ployment such large numbers of per­ sons and reduced wages in so many cases as to cause an unusual number of strikes and lockouts, resulting in great losses of wages of workingmen and losses to employers. Over 250.000 employes were involved in the strikes occurring between March 4. 1S93, and August 28, iS94, the date of the enact­ ment of the Wilson law. The loss in wages to the persons thrown out of employment by the strikes and lock­ outs in those eighteen months, as shown by the report of the United States Commissioner of Labor, is over $45,000,000, while the business loss to employers aggregated about half that sum. Reports of the Interstate Com­ merce covering this period also afford interesting comment upon the effect of the business troubles which existed during the pendency of the promised legislation during the year 1893. Many of the most important railroads of the country were placed in the hands of receivers. The mileage of thirty rail­ roads so treated in the .first half of the period between President Clevlaud's inauguration and the completion of the legislation promised in his platform was 25,375 miles, or nearly one-sev­ enth of vail the railroad lines of the United States. Their indebtedness was $1,212,217,033. The following record of prominent events during the eighteen months in which President Cleveland and his par­ ty held the country in .suspense prior to the enactment of the legislation promised by them will indicate to some extent whether lie was justified in com­ plaining of the "hot haste" with which the Republican party is carrying out its own pledges on this occasion. March. 1893. General strike began among the clothing cutters in New Yrffk; strike of employes on Toledo and Ann Ar­ bor road. April, 1893. Strike of 4,000 workers on fair grounds at Chicago. May, 1893. Strike of 20,000 coal min­ ers in Ohio; failure of a large number of Western banks following the failure of the Columbia National -Bank at Chicago. June, 1893. Runs on savings banks in Chicago and failures of numerous banks in various parts of the country. July, 1893. Announcement of suspen­ sion of work in 300 silver mines in the United States; numerous bank failures; four bank'failures in Denver; runs on oth­ er financial institutions; numerous busi­ ness failures; many bank failures in the West and all other sections of the coun­ try; August, 1893. Failure of numerous commission houses in Chicago; failure of Madison Square Bank in New York; riots in New York and encounters^ between anarchists and socialists only prevented by police; close of long and unsuccessful coal miners' strike in Kansas. September, 1893. Strike of "Big Four" employes. October, 1893. Troops called out in Alabama to suppress riots of railroad strikers. November,1893. Riots in Pennsylvania mining region. . January, 1894. Strike of many thou­ sand potters in New Jersey against re­ duction of Wages; Secretary Carlisle of­ fers a $50,000,000 loan for public subscrip­ tion; striking miners in Pennsylvania de­ stroy property at Brantville and else­ where. February, 1S94. Sale of $50,000,000 of bonds by Secretary Carlisle; many large silk factories in New York close on ac­ count of strike; all the mines of the Mas- sillon district dosed by strikes: riotous assemblages of unemployed workmen in Boston dispersed by police. March, 1894. General strike among tjie silk weavers at Paterson, N. J.; West Vir­ ginia striking miners burn jrailroad bridges; -riots at Paterson, N. J.. among the striking silk weavers; United States trdops called upon to quell a riot at Den-" ver; State troops ordered to Cripple Creek for the suppression of mining troubles; Coxey's organization marches towards' Washington. * April, 1S94. Mob of strikers in East Liverpool become riotous; 5,000 plumbers and 5,000 coke workers in Pennsylvania go oil a strike; Government of South Car­ olina declares martial law in all cities of the State; six men killed and one fatally wounded in the„riots of the coke region of Pennsylvania;, eight thousand united mine workers order a strike; general strike of employes of Great Northern Rail­ road; 150,000 miners cease work in Penn­ sylvania. V\ May, 1894. Further bloodshed in the coke region of Pennsylvania. June, 1894. Maryland militia ordered out to suppress striking miners; also State troops ordered out to the scene of strikes in Ohio; similar action in Montana; coke strikes, with killed and wounded in Penn­ sylvania; destruction of railroad property in Ohio and in Alabama by rioters; strik­ ers arrested for stealing a-train in Illi­ nois; industrial atmy captures a train in Wisconsin; strikes,of miners iii Michigan coal iitfhes; Pennsylvania troops ordered out to suppress riots; strika of Pullman employes affecting .50,000 workingmen. July, .1894. Trains burned by strikers in Chicago and numbers of lives lost in the consequent following events; strike of 15,0,00 members of allied" trades in' Chi­ cago; freight trains, wrecked by strikers at Indianapolis. , ^ August; 1894. Woolen mill employes strike in Utica, N. Y.; employes of forty mills strike at Fall Riven " : August 28, iS94. The tariff bill be­ comes a law without the President's sig­ nature. A. B. CARSON. A Condition that Confronts. I (> Wilson bill deficit FOR'31 MONTHS. No Free Wood Pulp. The Canadian manufacturers of wood pulp, represented by a "Com­ mittee on Free Pulp," headed by John Morris, the business manager of a New York free trade newspaper, have been active in trying to secure free trade for this product of Canadian mills. This committee has just sent out a circular to publishers throughout the country urging them to write to members of Congress, and especially to members of the United States Senate, advocat­ ing free trade in wood pulp, which is used in the manufacture of paper. Af­ ter admitting "that the entire revenue received from Jhe Government last year was $105,282; and, therefore, that "no serious question of national econ­ omy or threatening deficits can be urged in opposition to free pulp," the committee then attempts to show the great importance of this proposition in favor of popular education through newspapers. It is admitted in this cir­ cular that the proposed duty of $1.66 per ton is practically equal to the pres­ ent duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem, but the ad valorem duty gives the im­ porter a chance for undervaluation; and the free-trader is always in search of an opportunity for fraud of some kind either by importations or by fraud upon American industry. The appeal of the "Committee on Free Pulp" will not prevail, and. the protection granted by the Diugley bill as referred to above, will be imposed in the tariff of 1897. Mr. Cleveland Is Heard From. Ex-President Cleveland is a good one to talk about "protecting the fair fame of our nation against shame and scandal." This ,is the expression of the opening sentence of his New York speech, at which he and a handful of his followers made au attack upon the Republican party for carrying out the principles laid down in its platform. If Mr. Cleveland had recounted the scandals of his own administration, the sugar-trust scandal, the bond scan­ dal, the Chicago Lake Front scandal, the foreign policy scandal, and num­ bers of others which might be mention­ ed, his speecli would have been a good deal longer and much more interest­ ing. As it was, he devoted it to abus­ ing the Republican party because it is giving its first attention to carrying out the pledges of its platform, a pro­ tective tariff, an effort for interna­ tional bimetallism, and the full main­ tenance of the present safe standard of our currency. Wilson on the Wool Schedule. For a man who is not the author of the tariff law of 1894 Mr. Wilson is un­ necessarily disturbed over the radical departure from its policy as embodied in the wool schedule of the- Diugley" bill, 'it is true that Mr. Wilson gener­ ally enjoys the distinction of having constructed the worst tariff bill in the history of our Government, but this is not entirely fair to Mr. Wilson, for no one can predict with absolute and un­ erring certainty just what would have been the result if Mr. Wilson's tariff bill had been adopted as he framed it. No one can accurately calculate just how many years it would have taken to recover from the panic if Mr. Wil­ son s bill had become a law without the 403 amendments which the Senate, under the advice of Jones and Gorman, tacked onto it.--Chicago Times-Herald. Cleveland's Combinations. As the doctrine of free trade rests on phrases, so the messages and speeches of ex-President " Cleveland contained glittering combinations of words calculated to catch the public ear. and a lot oi hypocritical cant about the "selfishness" and "grfeed" of every one but the writer, and a mass oj? skillfully woven sophistries in place of facts or sound arguments. The b^sis on which the policy of protection r*sts is fact.<, and so President McKin- ley's message set forth racts and fig­ ures, instead of meandering around Robin Hood's barn in a tangle of soph­ istries. It was sensible, direct, busi- ness-like and to the point." The.people may well be thankfur that the days of Cleveland, free trade and platitudes are gone, and that there have come the days Of McEinley, protection and plen­ itude. ' Cleveland's "Unfortunate Condition." In his message concerning the veto­ ing of the immigrati6n bill, ex-Presi­ dent Cleveland said: / "An unfortunate condition is certainly presented when any who are willing to labor are un­ employed." We are glad that Mr. Cleveland has a realizing sense of the misfortune of unemployed labor. It is a new thing for him to think any­ thing about labor or its needs. While the feeling lasts, we hope lie will medi­ tate on what has caused - this ••unfor­ tunate condition." Ail who were "Will- ig to labor" in 1891 and 1892 were em­ ployed. It was only when Mr./Cleve­ land was elected to the Presidency, and the country looked forward to the adoption of his labor-destroying policy of free-trade, that any who were will­ ing to work could not find employ­ ment. This may. not be pleasant think­ ing for Mr. Cleveland.- but it is the truth. If Mr., Cleveland is sincerely troubled by this "hnfortuiiate condi­ tion"' for which he is responsible, he may take comfort. The end of that condition is near. It was to end it that the voters elected Major Mclvin- ley. the great exponent of a protective tariff, to be their President. A Boon to Labor. The requirements of American for­ eign commerce compel the annual con- structiou of about half a million tons of ships. Practically speaking, none of this is now constructed in the United States. Roughly speaking, about'fifty millions of dollars would be spent in the shipyards of the United States, if the needed half million tons of vessels were annually constructed here. This would create a demand for about a couple of in ill ion tons of iron ore, and a corresponding amount of coal and coke and lime. It would give our rolling mills, our forges and our foundries a vast amount of new work; our lumber mills would find a large demand for materials for ship construction and equipment; the manufacturing estab­ lishments would be busied in making the multitude of articles needed to equip and maintain ships. The farm­ ers would be called upon to supply food for hundreds of thousands of fam­ ilies whose fathers, husbands and sons would find new employment in all the variety of industries that are called upon to supply ...the materials and ar­ ticles which eiiter into ship construc­ tion.--"Seaboard." Political Treachery. It appears that the Reform Club of New York, a noted repository of Clevo landism, has undertaken a tariff cru­ sade in the Republican press, designed to prevent the adoption of the Dingley bill, or of any bill based on the protec­ tive principle. The Reform Club will circulate arguments against protection and in favor of free trade, and request or advise that the matter it sends out shall appear in the various newspapers of the country. If the newspapers that as Republi­ cans have always preached protection and as protectionists in 1896 elected their President, can be seduced from their party's tariff principle into adopt ing the policy which Prof. Wilson and his mugwump allies deceitfully be­ trayed when they passed the Wilson bill, then the Reform Club's bosom will swell witli pride. Has the Reform Club become so hab­ ituated to political treachery of this sort that it must have it every time? New York Sun. o Our Need for Ships. During the first year under the Mc- Kinley bill our foreign trade, both in exports and in imports, was greater than it has ever been in our history be­ fore or since. The fact alone is evi­ dence of the impetus which is given to the shipping interest, as well as to all others, by a protective tariff; and it is much more emphatic evidence of our need of a great merchant marine. During the free trade times ther&swas, of course, uo demand for American shipping. But with a return to the protective system under President Mc- Kinley, and the consequent reopening of our factories and revival of our in­ dustries, the need for an increased merchant marine will be again felt, and with that returning need measures must be taken to so encourage our ship­ ping interests that the need will be sat is fled. ABOUND A BIG STATE BRIEF COMPILATION OF NOIS NEWS. (LLI- <*rand Gathering at Peoria--Good W ork Done by the Humane Socicty --Famous Old Revival Song; Calls a Sinner to Repentatice. Peoria District Christian Kndeavorera The seventh annual convention of the Peoria District Christian Endeavor LTn- ion, comprising the counties of Peoria, Marshall, Mason, Tazew?ll and Wood­ ford, to be held at El Paso, 111., on Fri­ day, Saturday and Sunday J May 14. 15 and 16, 1897:. This promises to be the largest district' convention ever held in point of attendance and of unusual in­ terest.to all Christian Endeavorers. Mr. P. P. Bilhorn of Chicago will be director of music, using his new song -book, "Soul Winning Songs." The program prepared is away ahead Of ail former gatherings. Rev. A. R. Rendthaler, D. D., of Chicago, and Rev.-Thomas Marshall, D. p., or Chicago, who is field secretary -of the' Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mission?, will deliver addresses. Other speakers Who deserve - mention are Mr. O. W. Stewart, of Mackinaw. 111., .president Illi­ nois Christian Endeavor Union; Mr. W. R. Newell, of Chicago, assist;mt superin­ tendent Moody Bible Institute; Rev.- Cas­ par Wistar Hiatt. of Peoria, Hi., and Miss Frances Le Baron, of Chicago.'superin­ tendent junior Work Illinois Christian En­ deavor Union. If you intend' going. from 'your society send your name in early to Rev. E. A. Gilliland, El Pa so. 111., to get entertainment. Reduced rates on certifi­ cate plan; One and one-third fare on all railroads. / . Humane Foc'ety's Annual Meetinsr. The Illinois Humane Society held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at Chicago. President Shortall's report was mainly a resume of the work of the year. The society, he said, would be willing to take the work of dog-eatching off the city's hands, to secure humane treatment for the dogs. He thought the society, by breaking up the Diamond farm fox hunt last December had put an end to that pastime in this section. It had almost broken up the cruel handling of children on the stage. It had introduced in the Legislature a bill providing for a registra­ tion of births and deaths, a bill on the subject of pauperism, and a bill to amend the act in regard to cruelty to children. The report of Secretary B. F'. Culver made the following showing: Complaints received and investi­ gated 4.030 Childr(#a rescued and conditions rem­ edied Children surrendered to institutions by court on petitions Children placed temporarily in insti­ tutions Persons prosecuted for cruelty to children . . ... Persons prosecuted for cruelty to animals Horses laid up from work, as unfit for service Disabled animals removed by ambu­ lance . Abandoned and incurable animals killed Teamsters and others reprimanded . Amount of fines imposed ...... .$1,637 The report of Treasurer George Schnei­ der made the following showing: Balance on hand May 1, 1896 . . $229.S9 Receipts year ending April 30, 1897 8.415.91 636 119 138 50 94 376 146 182 959 Total $8,645.80 Paid out on vouchers ,.8,267.32 Balance on hand, May 1, 1897 . 378.48 Flood9 of Free Wool. Fourteen vessels laden, with free .wool sailed into the Boston harbor in one day last week. It is evident that a year's supply of foreign wool has been brought into the country before the new tariff act can possibly be put upon the "statute books, even with a con­ tinuance of the rapid work which Con­ gress has made thus far in its Consid­ eration. Yet there are people who are wondering why prosperity has not come already. With hundreds of mill­ ions of dollars going abroad for for­ eign production instead of into the hands of our people, it is unreasonable to expect any result of the late election until the legislation required of the new Congress <^an be enacted. Canuclc Hen Is Sick. At the prospect of a return to the policy of protection for American eggs, the Canadian hen, which has been scratching up our markets for nearly three years, feels somewhat sick. The idea of being penned up in its own Canadian yard is hot pleasing after the foreign hen's Free-Trade indulg­ ence in our yard. Mrs. Adlai Stevenson Their .Guest. Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Saturday night gave an informal recep­ tion to the wife of the ex-Vice President at Bloomington, who is the president gen­ eral of the association. The reception was attended by a large company, com­ posed of the Daughters of the Revolution and their friends. Mrs. Stevenson was assisted in receiving by the officers of the Chapter: Vice Regent, Mrs. Isaac Funk; Treasurer, Mrs. Kimball; Secretary pro tem.. Mrs. Dr. Welch; Directors. Mrs. J. H. Cheney, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. James B. Taylor and Mrs. J. N. Ward. The hall was beautifully decorated with the na­ tional colors, emblems of the order and flowers. There were music and refresh­ ments, but no literary program. Crime Laid Bare by Sone. A song by the choir in the church at Chicago avenue and Ada streets, Chicago, was responsible for the capture of four members of the desperate Weir gang by the police. As the church was filled with the soug, "Where Is My Wandering Boy To-night ?" Fred Drenkson, one of the members of the gang, bowed his head in 0sorrow. That song marked a turning point in the young man's life, and to-day he is a paroled prisoner and, it is said, will be given his freedom for assisting in breaking up one of the most dangerous gangs of criminals that ever operated in Chicago. Property worth thousands of dollars has been stolen, and the police have twenty-eight charges against the members of the Weir family. i State News in Brief. CarterVjBle was visited by a fire Friday that crime near wiping out the little town. The loss is between $55,000 and $60,000; one-fourth insured. The poSjtal -department ruled, in the case of.?BJ. M^Middletou, of Greenfield, that a blind mamjeflnnot receive appoint­ ment as postmaster. C. W. Spalding. A. D. Avrill. C. E. Churchill, W. B. Ervin and A. W. Har­ lan were indicted for wrecking the Globe National Bank of Chicago. .£ ! ; i Mrs. Ellen McElroy, of Chicago, was held up and robbed by two men. She claims the robbers secured $1,200 which she carried in her stocking. Mrs. Mc­ Elroy keeps a millinery store at 111 Blue Island avenue. A wave of reform has struck Ramsey, and the authorities are making numerous arrests for violations of the license laws. Charles Ulrieh, receiver of the Han­ over Distilling Company, of Peoria, in­ dependent, which failed some months ago, sold the property at public auction, it be­ ing bid in by Henry Ulrieh, brother of the receiver, for $38,500. It is understood it was purchased for Michael Chapman, one of the builders. Henry Kanne, who was interested in the firm, bid $250 less than Mr. Ulrieh. It is also understood |that the, house will resume operations as an independent distillery in a few days. Bruno Ball, a photographer and artist, living at Chicago, had been despondent for some time, and went to a drug store and bought carbolic acid. Returning to his home he entered the sitting-room, and without a word drained the contents of the bottle. He died. James Young, a fanner living west of Carlyle, has bx-ought'suit against John H. Peterson for $5,000 damages. Ow­ ing to the social prominence of both fami­ lies the affair has caused considerable of sensation. Young and his wife sep­ arated recently and he now charges Pe­ terson, hia brother-in-law, with alienating her affections." Peterson is wealthy and will contest the suit Thomas Redmond, alias "Texas Tdm," was convicted before Judge Payne of Chi­ cago of the murder of John Stuart, the jury fixing the punishment at imprison­ ment in the penitentiary for life. - The Streator mine operators posted the price for mining for the ensuing year. In Streator it will be 60 cents per ton, the same rate to1 apply all the year. A cor­ responding reduction will be jnade in the wagtts of laborers inside and outside the mines. The present rate is 62*£ cents in summer and 70 cents in winter. While Ringling' Bros.' circus was pa­ rading at Streator, a team of runaway horses dashed down the main street, and a large number of small "boys were knock­ ed down and injured. Two of them, Charles Howell and Joseph McNamara, it is thought are fatally liiirt, (the former suffering concussion of the brain and the latter having several ribs broken and be­ ing hurt internally. , An ovation was tendered Rev. R. G Hobbs and wife at Jacksonville before they started for East India to attend in person to the distribution of the thou­ sands of bushel's of corn the minister has done so much to secure. Speeches Were niade and a banner, a" red cross on a blue ground, was presented him and is to float over the ship-that bears him.and his wife. vSix ship loads of corn in. all are in sight for the purpose. . i" ' , \ Pursued by Officet Cornelius Cronin, a , colored man at Chicdgo made his escape by bursting through the rear door of an unoccupied building, ran the length of the big storeroom and jumped through an im­ mense plate glass, window. The crashing of the glass startled 'the neighborhood and a dozen men started in pursuit of the fugitive, who, all. this time, maintained a tenacious hold upon a valise. The chass lasted only a block when the man dodged into an alley and disappeared. Lillian Iversten, 14 years old, shot her­ self Tuesday at her home at Chicago. Her condition is not serious. The giri is a daughter of G. F. Kersten of the Board of Trade. According to Mrs. Kersten the shooting was purely accidental, the girl being engaged in curiously and carelessly examining her father's revolver at the tjme. Another story rumored by gossip loving neighbors was that the mother had ordered a boy friend of Lillian out of the house and that the act had caused her to attempt* self-destruction. Charles G. Gordon, a retired furniture dealer of Chicago, left his home the other day to visit a downtown bank. Wednes­ day his sister, Mrs. Mary Silver, notified the East Chicago avenue police that he had not returned and that she was alarm­ ed for his safety. Detectives were detail­ ed on the case, but have failed to securt; any information tending to locate Mr. Gordon. Mrs. Silver fears that her broth­ er has been murdered or decoyed away, as he had a large sum of money in his pos­ session when he left home. • A vigorous effort is being made to fer^ ret out the origin of some of. the recent tires in Metropolis. Tuesday George Me- Elya was arrested in Paducah, charged with setting fire to the grocery store of Dave Peters on the morning of Dee. 1, 1896, and after a preliminary hearing was lie d to await the action of a special grand jury. Peters was also arrested on the charge of procuring McElya to fire the building and Was placed under $1,000 bonds. Peters has a civil^niit at this term of the Circuit Court agaiitst the Ameri­ can Central Insurance Company for dam­ ages sustained in the fire. The Iowa elevator, a short distance be­ low the city of Peoria, was destroyed by fire Monday night. With the elevator at least thirty freight cars, some of them loaded, were destroyed. The elevator was the property of the Iowa Elevator Com­ pany. William H. Bartlett of Chicago was president of the company and B. Warren, Jr., of Peoria secretary and gen­ eral manager. The building was erected in the winter of 1883 at a cost of $110,000 and was insured for $75,000. The ele­ vator had a capacity of 400,000 bushels, and-at the time of the fire contained about 100.000 bushels of grain, valued at $50,- 000, and which was fully insured. "If you are a Greek you now have a chance to go and fight for your country," said Judge Gibbons of Chicago as he en­ tered an order discharging Silverio Bor- relli. "I am an Italian and I have trou­ bles of my own," answered Borelli as he walked, away. Borrelli was convicted April IS, 1S95, of the murder of Dominick Parento, and he was sentenced to be hanged Oct. 11 of the same year with "Butch" Lyons.* The Supreme Court granted him a supersedeas and a new trial. The State's Attorney has aban­ doned the case against Borrelli because one of the two witnesses to the murder has disappeared and the other is in Italy. Borrelli gave $10,000 bonds. He has grown very fleshy since being in jail. William G. Ivniffen, who went to the Quincy Soldiers' Home from^Chicago two weeks ago, Saturday night received no­ tice that he had been granted a back pension of $11,444 and a monthly pension of $12. . Ivniffen immediately returned to Chicago. Part of Ivniffen's throat was shot away in the war and he wears a sil­ ver tube in it. When Gen. Grant made his tour around the world Ivniffen-was a member of his staff. Reverses came in later years and the veteran was com­ pelled to seek admission to the Soldiers' Home. Dr. Richmond Marsh of Joliet was or­ dained a minister of the gospel. The ceremonies were conducted by Rev. C. S. Hoyt, moderator of |he Chicago Presby­ tery, assisted by Rev. Dr. Howard A. Johnston and Rev. C. A. Lippincott of Chicago and Revs. Messrs. Reynolds and Lewis of Joliet. The ordination is of more than ordinary interest, from the fact that the young clergyman and his bride leave at once for Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost inhabited point on the .continent, an Eskimo village and trading station,' with possibly one or two white men and no white women among its popu­ lation. Dr. Marsh has been appointed Government agent at this place, and will have charge of the Government schools for the natives, among whom he will do missionary work. Co). Geo'frle W. McKeaig, aged 73, is dead at Cairo. He was a veteran of both the Mexican and civil wars. He was ap­ pointed postmaster by President Grant in 1870 and held the office twelve years. For some reason unexplained Miss Mil­ dred Silversparre, residing at Chicago, committed suicide by shooting herself with a revolver. The young woman was engaged to marry Arthur Jarvis, assist­ ant superintendent of the Illinois Steel Company, and so far as the statement of her relatives is concerned she appears to have been of a„happy and cheerful dispo­ sition. •- , The ^Senate committee on judicial pro­ cedure and practice ordered an unfavora­ ble report on Senator Munroe's bill grant­ ing to women the right'to vote for Super­ visor, Town Clerk, Assessor, Collector and Highway Commissioner, and also at all annual and special town meetings. Judge Dibell of Joliet, in a lengthy opin­ ion, held the indeterminate sentence law valid and constitutional. Dwight. Bur- dick, a convict from Rockford, held in the penitentiary on an indefinite sentence, applied to the judge for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming-the indefinite sentence, measure conflicted with the constitution. The judge" covers the ground elaborately and sustains the law at every point. CHANGES IN TARIFF DINGLEY MEASURE HAS REMODELED 2 • ' 4 BEEN The Senate Committee Brines In a Report Showing; Many Modifications in the Hons; Bill-Will Not Be Retroactive. - Measure as Amended- The tariff bill, as reported by the Senate Committee on Finance Tuesday, is a very different me'asure from that which passfrd the House, and the members of the com­ mittee intend to make still further amend­ ments as soon as they have time to pre­ pare them. Among these will be a broad reciprocity clause as a substitute for that which appears i« .the House bill. The duty on tea and the additional tax on beer are intended to be temporary, and for the purpose of raising revenue.' \ Senator Aldrich presented the bill to the Senate. The time for,the bill to take ef­ fect is made July 1, 1897, instead of May 1, as provided/in the House. The sugar schedule is wholly rewritten in the inter­ est of the trust. The word bituminous is stricken out and all coal made dutiable at .75 cents per ton, with a proviso added that the duty on coal and shale shall be 60 Cents per ton, and on coal slack, of culma, 15 cents per ten, when imported from, any country, colony or dependency that does not impose upon cbai or coal slack or cul­ ma,higher rates of duty than those named in this proviso:. The Senate has increased the internal revenuevduty on beer by changing section 3339 of the revised statutes to read as fol­ lows: Until .Tan. 1, 1900. there shall be paid on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liquors, brewed or manu­ factured and sold or removed for consump­ tion ,or sale within the United States, by whatever name such liquors may be called, a tax of $1.44, for every barrel containing ndt more than 31 gallons; and after Jan. 1, 1000, there shall be paid a tax of $1 per bar­ rel on every barrel of such beer, lager beer, ale, porter, and other similar fermented liq­ uors. The present rate is $1 / The retroactive clause of the Dingley tariff bill is stricken from the Senate bill. The entire House provision relating to re­ ciprocity has been stricken out and the following section substituted: That whenever any country, dependency or colony shall pay or bestow, directly or In­ directly, any bounty or grant upon the ex­ portation of any article or merchandise from such country, 'dependency, or colony, and such article or merchandise Is dutiable under the provisions of this act, then, upon the importation of any such article or mer chaudiSe into the United States, whether the same shall be imported directly from the country of production or otherwise, and whether such article or merchandise Is Im­ ported In the same condition as when ex- Eorted from the country of production, oi as been changed In condition by0manufac' ture or otherwise, there shall be levied and paid In all such cases, in addition to the duties otherwise imposed by this act, an ad­ ditional duty equal to the net amount of such bounty or grant, however the same be paid or bestowed. The net amount of all such bounties grants shall be from time to time ascertain­ ed, determined, and declared by the Secre­ tary of the Treasury, who shall make all needful regulations for the Identification of such articles and merchandise, and for the assessment and collection of such addi tlonal duties. The House provision in the tariff bill "keeping in force the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty is stricken out, the effect being in­ directly to abrogate the treaty and i&ipose the same duty on Hawaiian sugars as is imposed on sugars" from other countries. The provision in the House bill on dis­ tilled wines is stricken out and the follow­ ing substituted: Still wines. Including ginger wine or gin­ ger cordial and vermuth, in casks or pack- 'ages, other than bottles or jugs, If contain­ ing 14 per cent, or less, of absolute alcohol, 30 cents per gallon; if containing more than 14 per cent, of absolute alcohol, 50 cents per gallon. In bottles or jugs, per case of one dozen bottles, or jugs, containing each not more than one quart, and more than one pint, or 24 bottles or Jugs containing each not more than one pint, $1 per case; and any excess beyond these quantities found in such bottles or Jiigs shall be subject to a duty of 5 cents per pint or fractional part thereof, but no separate or additional duty shall be assessed on the bottles or Jugs; pro­ vided, that any wines, ginger cordial, or vermuth imported containing mor£ than 24 per cent, of alcohol shall be classed as spir­ its, and pay duty accordingly. And pro* vided further, that there shall be no con­ structive or other allowance for breakage, leakage, or damage on wines, liquors, cor­ dials, or distilled spirits. Wines, cordials, brandy and other spirituous liquors, includ­ ing bitters of all kinds, and bay rum, or bay water. Imported in bottles or jugs, shall be packed In packages containing not less than one dozen bottles or jugs in each package, or duty shall be paid as if such packago contained at least one dozen bottles or jugs; and all such bottles or jugs shall, unless otherwise specially provided for In this act, oay an additional duty of 3 Cents for each :>ottle or jug. The percentage of alcohol In wines and fruit juices shall be determined in such manner as the Sagretary of the Treasury shall by regulatiorPprescrlbe. Lumber and Wool Changes. The lumber schedule is changed by add­ ing after • the word timber the words "Hewn, sided, or squared and round tim­ ber," and the duty fixed at the rate of 1 cent per cubic foot as in the House bill. The rate of $2 per ton on all sawed boards, etc., is retained, but fvhen planed on one side, the additional rate is made 35 instead of 50 cents per 1,000 feet board measure; when planed, tongued, and grooved the additional rate is made 70 cents per 1,000 feet board measure instead of $1; if planed on two sides and tongued and grooved $1.05 per 1,000 instead of $1.50. The House proviso for an additional duty of 25 per cent ad valorem upon lum­ ber imported from any foreign country which imposes an export duty is changed so as 'o add the amount of the export duty instead of any fixed sum. Placed on the free list are poplar and oj.hcr pulp woodfj^,..heading bolts, stave bolts aiid railroad ties. Many and important changes were made in the wool and woolen schedule. Fir9t-class wools were reduced from 11 cents per pound, as provided in theJEtouse bill, to 8 cents per pound, and second-class wools from 12 to 9 cents, whereas the duties on wools of the third class were raised. The dividing line in this latter class waa placed at 10 cents value, wools under that value being made dutiable at the rate of 4 cents per pound instead of 32 pe;* cent ad valorem, as in the House bill. Wools valued at more than 10 cents per pound were placed at 7 cents per pound instead of 50 per cent ad valorem. The wool growers failed to secure all the changes they desired in classification, but it is understood that the rates fixed on the wools themselves are satisfactory to them. --r" ILLINOIS LAWMAKERS The anf^cigarette bill, an act to pro­ hibit the manufacture and sale of cigar­ ettes, was passed by the House Friday} without a dissenting vo^e. Among the» other bills passed were the following? Committee bill appropriating $100,000 per annum for the southern Illinois peniten­ tiary at Chester to keep th<Tconvicts em­ ployed and $48,100 for two. years to thd same institution fo^contingent expenses, improvements, repairs, etc.; Montgom­ ery's bill appropriating $182,000 per an­ num for the ordinary expenses of th$ soldiers and sailors' home at Quincy antS $39,500 for two years for improvements and repairs for the same institution. The Senate met with no quorum, and both houses adjourned to 5 p. jn.'Mdhday. After the transaction of considerable •outine business in the House Monday the anti-department store bill was made a special order on second reading for Thurs­ day. Mr. Mitchell introduced a bill ap­ propriating $1,000 for the painting of a portrait of ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld to be placed in the legislative otfi-ce. It was re­ ferred to committee. Mr. Galligar intro­ duced a bill appropriating $500 for the removal of thfe remain^ of ex-Lieut; Gov, Pierre Menard of .Kaskakia. The grave, is within a few feet of the river bank and in danger of being washed'away. The Senate had no quorum. 0 v The House Tuesday passed the drain­ age board's tax levy extension bill by a vote of 82 yeas to 39 nays. In the Senate the anti-trust bill was defeated. 16 to 24. The Chicago real estate board revenue bill was passed, as was also the bill amending the parole law so as to exempt prisoners guilty of manslaughter or crim­ inal assault aiid habitual criminals from the benefits of parole- and vesting the State Board of Pardons with the right to grant paroles instead of the Board of Pen­ itentiary Commissioners. In the Senate ^ ednesday, after a num­ ber'of sharp speeches, the libel bill was passed by a vote of 27 yeas to 16 nays. Fhe bill to establish a separate banking department was advanced, and made 'a special order. Among the bills passed were the following: Senator Fitzpat- rick's, creating the office of fire escape commissioner, at a salary of $2,000 per annum, and an assistant at a salary of §1,000, to be paid out of the fee$ received! for the inspection of fire escapes. Sena­ tor Netterstrom's, increasing the num­ ber of Lincoln Park commissioners from five to seven members. The House adopt­ ed a resolution calling for investigation of the labor troubles in the coal fields. The bill setting apart Adams and Sangamon Counties as separate judicial circuits failed to pass. Among the bills passed were the following: Morris', in relation- to landlord and tenant; the Senate bill, amending the law relating to eminent do­ main; the Senate bill concerning aliens*. The Humphrey bills were before the House Thursday upon first reading ami were made a special order for Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. An attempt wasi made to kill the anti-department store measure by amending it so that the bill' shall only apply to cities of more than' 50,000 inhabitants. After a long debate the amendment was lost by a vote of 75: to 48. Mr. Farrell's bill taxing domestic insurance companies 2% per cent, and foreign insurance companes 10 per cent, on their gross earnings came up and ai motion to strike out the enacting clause wa% carried without a dissenting vote. In the Senate Senator Leeper's bill to permit the owners of Chicago warehouses to buy and sell grain and to store it inr their warehouses was read a second time and advanced to third reading and made a special order for Tuesday. The follow­ ing bills, among others, were passed: To permit bank directors. to collect money loaned in excess of 10 per cent, of their capital stock, the amount allowed to be loaned under the law; providing for the incorporation and management or pawn­ ers' society and limiting the rate of com­ pensation to be paid for advances. Sena­ tor Dwyer's special assessment bill was advanced to third reading. A Telegraphic Brevities. Myron T. McCord will probably be nom­ inated as Governor of Arizona. A 4-ceat street car fare ordinance is to be presented in the Chicago Council and a brfe fight is expected. President McKinley has promised to address the National Educational con­ vention to be held at Milwaukee, in Juiy. Children are reported dying of starva­ tion in the streets of Matanzas and ev­ erywhere there is terrible destitution and suffering. While playing prize fight, Daniel Thom­ as, aged 14, was struck by Frank Shoe­ maker, from the effects of which blow he died. Shoemaker fled. The steamfitters' strike in New York has been adjusted by the concession of a 25 per' cent increase in the daily wage scale by the master steamfitters. Pests or Australia and New Zealand.; Rabbits are not the only things im­ ported into Australia which have prov­ ed nuisances. The London Field says that the house, or English sparrow,- which has proved .so troublesome in, America, is just as bad in New Zealand. Tasmania and Australia, into which it was imported at about the same time when it was brought to the United' States. In Australia the sparrows have proved most troublesome to farmers who grow wheat and oats. The Eng­ lish skylarks, which many have wished' to bring into the United States, have pulled up live acres of field floss as soon as sprouted on a New Zealand farm. Plants have grown with disastrous lux­ uriance when token to the region of Australia. « Gorse, sweet briar, bram­ bles, watercress, thistles, etc., have spread through New Zealand; gorse and sweet briar and California thistle through Tasmania, and prickly pear through Australia. The result has been to crowd out more useful native plants and to spread ruiu in fields of wheat and oats. Smoke lor Cut Fingers. The smoke of woolen rags is a cure for the most dangerous wounds. A* lady ran a machine needle through her finger. She could not be released un­ til the machine has been taken to- pieces, and it was found the needle had' been broken into three pieces in the flesh. The process of extraction was most difficult, the pain reaching the shoulder, and danger gt lockjaw was feared. Woolen rags were put ou burn­ ing coals and, by holding the finger in the smoke, all pain was driven away and never returned, though the finger took long to heal. The smoke and smell of the burning- rags may be unpleasant, but that is a* slight drawback compared with the danger of lockjaw, or great pain and consequent fever. Another instance was the cure of h wound inflicted byj an enraged cat, which tore the flesh, from the wrist to the elbow and bit; through the fleshy part of the hand. One ministration of the smoke extract-f ed all pain, which had been frightfulj Royal Eyes. $ Cleopatra had large, deep blue eyes. Frederick the Great had large, blue eyes, with the luster of polished steel. The Emperor Nero was excessively near-sighted and used a small gem In. the shape of a lens to see at a distance.- Mary Stuart was not exactly cross­ eyed, but one eye moved more than the other and gave the Queen that appear­ ance. Elizabeth of England had clear, liq­ uid blue eyes, aud always glanced side­ ways at the person with whom she waa conversing. - • Let the Puppy's Mother Choose." A man "who claims to know- some­ thing'about dogs advises anyone wish­ ing to pick out a good puppy from a lit­ ter to let the mother choosy for him. He says that in moving her pups the mother dog always picks up the one last.