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r. f kiwdcaU* i " ' 11 ---------------------- -- J. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Fuiujsh*b. MciHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE JPAST WEEK NXWS+ A German named Kemmler, at Hol- yoke, Mim, killed his three children, by shoot- ng, in order to Bare them, m lie Mid, front the misfortunes of life. By the explosion of a boiler at an Iron mine near Emans, Pa., five men were killed and four wounded. The mystery which has surrounded flit killing of Mrs. DeForeat Hall, in New York, 1m been cleared up bj the arrest of the mur­ derer in Boston. The capture was brought about by a negro man selling to a pawnbroker in the Utter city » cameo set, and at the same time exhibiting a gold watoh. Two days later a description of the jewelry stolen from the Hull residence was reoeived, and the set was later identified by two friends of the murdered woman, who came from New York for the pur­ pose. Meantime the man had disappeared, but the description of Chaattne Cox, a negro who formerly lived opposite Hull's residence, was sent on, which described* him pretty wall as nearly as the pawnbroker re­ membered him. The city had been watched night and day by Boston detectives, but the game was finally nabbed by a newspaper man, who suspected a negro whom he saw on the street, followed him to a church, and then informed the police, who arrested him. Oox nas found to have Mrs. Hull's watoh, and made a free confession, in which he stated that, hav­ ing lived opposite the Hull mansion and been eeoasionally employed there, he knew the place and the habits of the inmates. He entered the house to rob, but, Mrs. Hull awaking, he put his hand over her mouth until she was quiet, and then tied her in the way eh© was found. 8» revived again, when he gagged her with the sheet, and discovered that he had overdone the work, and that she was not breathing. Them he left the house, and had been skulking The Supreme Graft of Pennsylvania has eusftined the decision of the lower court in the case of Pete Manners and John O'Neill, Molly Magaires, convicted in Northumberland county and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Coroner HeBser in 1874 A collision occurred the other even­ ing on the Metropolitan elevated railway at Franklin Street station, in West Broadway, New York. The up-town train was delayed there for a short time, and another train ran into it The hind carriage of the first train and the engine of the second train were badly wrecked. The New Jersey Court of Appeals has dismissed the writ of error in the case of Mrs. 8mith and Covert Bennett, oonvicted of the murder of Polioeman Smith, and it seem* --'lain that the guilty pair will die on1 the scaf­ fold. A very serious railroad accident oc­ curred a few days ago on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad, near Buffalo, N. Y. A funeral car attached to the regular express train jumped the track, and, after dragging along a short distanoe, turned on its side and was wrenched from the train. The other cars held to the track. The coupling broke. The special coach left the . track at the side toward the lake, and the body of the car, wrenching away from the trucks* tended almost bottom up. The car was badly wrecked. Of the eleven passengers, not one escaped uninjured, and two or three of them ware so badly wounded as to sender it doubtful if they will reoover. Albert Weber, the piano manufact­ urer, died in New York last week, leaving an e^ate valued at over f500,000. The annual boatraee between the Harvard and Yale crews, for the college cham­ pionship, resulted in an easy victory for Har­ vard. An immense tabular boiler in a Phil­ adelphia sash and planing mill exploded a few days ago, killing the engineer and three other Official reports from the 'lliyoft fend Presidents of the Boards of Hfcalth of the fol- lowing cities and towns: Memphis, Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss, Shreveport, La., Coliierville, TsntL, Hickman, K.y,, Grenada, Miss., Helena, Ark, Holly Springe, Miss., Decatur, Ala., Tus- eombia, Ala., bring the gratifying intelligence that in none of the places mentioned has the health outlook been more favorable. In no in­ stance has there been any indications of a re­ turn of fever. Better health than usual at this season of the year prevails, and every precau­ tion that eauitary regulations can suggest has been accomplished toward preventing the re­ currence of lMt year's epidemic. Quarantine regulations have been established, ready to be enforced should an exigency arise. A Frankfort (Ky.) dispatch says: "On Saturday night at Sand Rifle, twelve miles distant, a party of unknown men attacked tne boose of Samuel Faulkner, severely wounding Faulkner as he ran from the house, and then setting fire to the dwelling, which was con­ sumed with its inmates--Harry Busaell, aged 17 (who was also shot), and two children of Faulkner, aged 11 and 3 years. No cause is fiven for this brutal affair.* The Orescent City Oil Works, at Me­ chanics vilify near New Orleans, La., burned other flay. Loss, #125,000; insuranoa, •115,00a The West. i Yhe Illinois Legislature lately Wlftil aimed at the Socialists, taking away the right of military companies not organized un­ der the State law to parade with arms. This law was to take effect July 1. On Sunday, June 22, -uch a company, called the Bohemian Sharpshooters, attended a picnic at Chicago, and, in a disturbance which arose, made a bay­ onet charge upon Some outsiders who were an­ noying the picnickers, and discharged their pieces into the crowd, firing three volleys, in­ juring a number of persons seriously, and some fatally. A squad of police arrived on the scene, ard arrested the Bohemians, who were threat- m*1 with severe punishment by a large crowd Which had gathered. --Tony Denier, the favorite down, has or­ ganised & pantonine company, with * which all . the large townB are being favored. Tony him­ self is unapproach I le in his line, and his troupe is we i s ected and large. They open a* Haverly's Chicago house on June 80, after ! s * a-tiat. The children will all be on the lookout tor " Humpty-Dumpty." Investigation of the reports oonoern tog cattle disease m Colorado have proved that there was needless alarm, no new oases having been developed for some time previous to the examination. The Indiana Supreme Court has de­ cided thatQuetig, the Indianapolis servant-girl murderer, must hang Sept 19, which will be She first mmirmmnt-j of mifwiaae. The plea of the prisoner's drunkenness at the thne of com­ mitting the murder was of no avail, the oourt holding that this was an aggravation, rather than a palliation, of the offense. Nine hundred feet of snow sheds on the Central Pacific were burned recently. Ex-Congressman Robert M. Knapp, of Jerseyville, III, died at his home in that place, a few days ago, aged 49 years. Last week's great rain-storm in Cen­ tral and Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska did very serious damage by flood and light­ ning. The drowning of the wife and two daughters of a farmer at Stuart, Iowa, is re­ ported, their house being washed away by fhe sudden rising of a small stream. The earnings of the Centra! Pacific (CaL) Railroad Oompany for May were #1.541,- 000, and for first five months of the year •6,200,100, against $6,410,303 in 187a R. S. Taylor and Robert Taylor, brothers, and B. C. Wren, all farmers, between whom au eld feud existed, met in Wellsvillo, Mo., a few days ago, and renewed their quar­ rel. The Taylors fired four balls into Wren's body, mortally wounding him, and Wren killed R & Taylor instantly and fatally wound­ ed Bob. A Fort Wayne (Ind.) paper reports that there is great excitement at Coesse, fifteen miles west of there, over the attempts of a saloon-keeper named Jerry Owen to murder bis four motherless children, the oldest of whom is aged 9. He fint assaulted a son, aged 7, whose ear he tore nearly off, seized a large butcher-knife and stabbed a daughter of years three times, each wound penetrating to the sknlL She can hardly survive. He took a large, thick club, four feet long, and beat all four children, the youngest a babe of 2 years, until their bodies were literally a mass of wounds. The fiend was arrested. ' The boiler of a Government steam­ boat exploded at Nebraska City, Neb., last week, blowing the boat to atoms, killing two persons, mortally wounding two others, and badly scald­ ing several more. By the explosion of an upright boiler in an iron-mill at Youngs town, Ohio, a number of persons were, badly injured, some of them, it is feared, beyond the hope of reoovery. Washington. The legal difficulty discovered by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the way of con­ firming the appointment of Secretary McCrary to an office which will not be vacant for nine or ten weeks induced the President to send a brief message withdrawing the nomination. Political. The State Central Committee of the Wisconsin National Greenback party have de­ cided to hold their convention for the nomina­ tion of a State ticket in Watertown, Tuesday, July IS. The convention of Nationals, who withdrew from the Columbus Convention, was held at Toledo, June 24. The convention was called to order by M. N. Odell, of Lucas, and J. T. Throckmorton, of Boss county, was elect­ ed temporary Chairman. Charles Coughlin, editor of the True Nationalist, of Toledo, was made Secretary, with two assistants. The fol­ lowing is the substance of the financial planks of the platform adopted: That the United States should exercise its most vital function, the coinage of money, independent of the ac­ tion of any foreign power; that it is the duty of the General Government to supply the entire currency medium; that all bank issues of currency should be suppressed; that "the so-called specie resumption is a fraud and a swindle; that the locking up in the treasury of the United States of the larger part of the scanty volume of the people's money we denounce m aa atrocious crime, without excuse or palliation; and that we demand the unlimited coinage of the alter dollar of 412J£ grains." Letters were read from Peter Cooper and oth­ ers. The convention refused to nominate a State ticket, and after several speeches the meeting adjourned. Representative men of the Bntler wing of the Democratic party state Chat the General willreoeive and aooept this fall a Labor Reform and Dbmoer&tlo nomination for Gov­ ernor of Massachusetts. At a meeting of the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee, at Columbus, June 26, J. Frank McKenney was made Chairman ol the Executive Committee, in plaoe of John G. Thompson. The Maine Republicans, at Bangor, June 26, nominated the Hon. D. F. Davis, of Corinth, for Governor, on the third ballot. The platform adopted asserts that this Country is a nation, and not a confederation of States; that it is the right and duty of the Government to protect the citizens and insure an honeet and pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic majority in Congress is a revolutionary at­ tempt to coerce the Executive, and that Presi­ dent Hayes should be supported in his resist­ ance to such attempts; and that it is a mater of rejoicing that the Government promises to pay are kept, and the dollar of the laborer is as good as the dollar of the capitalist The Ohio Democratic State Commit­ tee have decided to formally open-' the cam­ paign early in August, with speeches by Pen­ dleton, Thurman, Ewing, Htedman, and others. •IffKCffflWCOWI. Recent deaths: Rev. Samuel Newall, for eighteen years pasty>r of the Presbyterian Church at Paris, III.; Hon. Bichard Metheany, for many years Mayor of Lima ̂Ohio; Luther H. Fiske, fotmer owner and late manager of Fiske's Opera House, Valparaiso, Ind. --Information has reached the secret-service division of the Treasury Department that a new counterfeit 95 legal-tender note has made its appearance in Western New York. It is of the series of 1875, and bears the names of Allison, Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. It is exe­ cuted on printed imitation fiber paper, which is lighter than the genuine. Bankers pronounce a dangerous counterfeit. D. L. Moody will conduct revival services in Cleveland, Ohio, in October. The six distillers known as the Chi­ cago 'first batch" have at last received a full and unconditional pardon of all assessments, penalties, damages or claims of the United States against them, President Hayes having signed the document which sets them free. Joseph Boelle, Anton Junker, Burton M. Lord, C. Meiwereau are the fortunates, and their as­ sistance as wifitssies for the Government in the whisky prosecutions is cited as having earned for them an equitable right to pardon. The Rev. Henry C. Reilly has been oonseorated Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Kexioo. The ceremony took plaoe at Pitts­ burgh, Pa. The schooner Cummings, arriving in New York from Para, reports the lom of fibs Oaptsln sad two seaman from yeUog fewsv FOREIGN IN TELLIGENCE. The London'walking match was won by Weston, the American pedestrian, who foot­ ed 550 miles in five minutes less than six days, beating all former records, and winning the long-distance championship. Jive thousand persons witnessed the finish. The French Government has sub­ mitted to the Chambers a bill regulating the details of the return of the Chambers to Paris. It fixes the first meeting of the Legislature in Paris the 3d of November. The German Parliament has passed the bill granting a constitution for Alsaoe- Lorraine. A correspondent at Berlin reports that there were 1,780 conflagrations in Russia during the month of May, occasioning a loss of 7,000,000 rubles. . > . . The Canadian Government has re­ scinded the permission given for American militia to visit the Dominion. The Bonaparfcist Deputies in the French Assembly have decided thai the cause of ;the empire must be maintained, notwith­ standing the death of the late Emperor's son. The British court has gone into mourning for the young Prince Imperial. Queen Victoria has visited ex-Em­ press Eugenie at Chiselhurst. The private sculling trial between Frederick A. Plaistod, of New York, and Will­ iam Nicholson, of Stockton, took plaoe on the Tyno, and Pl&ieted was badly defeated. A Paris dispatch says Ferdinand de Lesseps, in a lecture at Amiens, stated that the first sod of the Panama oanal would be turned Jan. 1,1880, and that with 40,000 navvies, in­ cluding some Chinese and 15,000 Brazilian ne­ groes, the work would be oompleted in sight years. Prince Jerome Bonaparte declares th»t he will not lay claim to the imperial throne of France, but will remain faithful to the re­ public. The Turkish Cabinet crisis was ter­ minated by the placing on the retired list of Offuad Pasha and Musret Pasha, who had ac­ cused Ogman Pasha, Secretary of War, of mal­ versation in offioef G. W. M. Reynolds, the widely-known writer of sensational fiction, is dead. Bismarck has forbidden the circula­ tion in the empire of the Storm-Bell, a Russian revolutionary organ, published in Geneva. The anti-landlord agitation in the West of Ireland is causing some apprehension in England. The committee to whioh the Divorce bill was referred has pronounced in favor of re-establishing divorce in France. The insurrection in Algeria is ended, and 4,000 insurgents are in the hands of the French. The Sultan last week signed a firman deposing the Khedive of Egypt in favor of his son, Prince Mohammed Tewfik, and the Khe­ dive signified his compliance with the demand for his abdication. This arrangement was af­ terward carried out, and Tewfik was saluted as Viceroy of Egypt The ex-Khedive, his Finance Minister and Prince Hassan leave for Constantinople. He is to receive a pension of £5,000 a year. The Indian Government has received information that Abdul Bapman, pretender to the Afghan throne, who has hitherto lived un­ der Russian protection, has invaded Badak- shan, and the Afghan troops in Balkh have re­ volted. Arson is rife in St. Petersburg, and in every part of Russia. The town of Szyran, on the Volga, has been nearly destroyed by fire. A number of persons have been arrrested at Kieff, St Petersburg, and Moscow for clan­ destinely trading in explosives. Advices from Buenos Ayres report that Chili had concluded a treaty with the Ar­ gentine States containing a clause which gives the whole of Patagonia to the Argentine Re­ public. Lord Laurence, formerly Viceroy of India, is dead. The French Prince Imperial, in his will, appoints Prince Victor Napoleon as his snocosaor. CONGRESS. On the 21st the Senate adopted the conference report on the Judicial Expenses bill--81 to 17. Af­ ter a long discussion upon the proposition to strike out the item in ths Postal Deficiency bill in­ creasing the pay of letter carrieis. it was voted that the item be retained in the bill. The House joint resolution authorizing: the completion of the foundation of the Washington monument was paBfted. In the House a memiue was received from the President announcing his approval of the Legifilative bill. During the day's session there was utter apathy manifested, so that it was almost impossible to obtain a quorum on any vote, and no business of any importance was done. The Senate confirmed a number of appoint­ ments on the «3d. That of D. T. Corbin, of South Carolina, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah Territory, was reported from the Judiciary Committee adversely and placed upon the calendar for c onsideration by the Senate hereafter. In the House, the President's Secretary deliver* d a message in writing, vetoing the Supple­ mentary Judicial bill; also, announcing that he had signed the Army bill. At the conclusion of the reading of the veto message, the House pro­ ceeded to vote on the question whether the bill should be passed, notwithstanding the objections of the Pre* dent, and it was decided in the nega'ive --yeas. 104; navs. 78: not the necessary two-thirds voting in the affirmative. In the Senate, on the 24th, the proceedings were tame and of no general interest. In the Home, a resolution providing for adjournment June 26 was voted down--103 to 88. The Political Assessment bill was taken up, and the Republicans availed themselves of the parliamentary privilege to rrevent action upon it. Mr. Burnaide introduced In the Senate, on the 95th ult., a joint resolution to the effect the people of this country having lor fifty yews •adhered 11 the Monroe doctrine, they " would not view without serious inquietude any attempt of the powers of Europe to establish, under tht ir protection and domination, a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Darien, and such action could not be regarded in any other light than as a mani- frxiaiiou of an unfriendly disposition toward these United Mates." Ihe resolution was referred to the Committee on FoNgu dela­ tions. Mr. Vest introduced the following joint resolution, which was ordered printed: •' That the complete remonetization of silver, its full restora­ tion as a money metal, and its free coinage by the Government of the United by the dic­ tates of justice and wise statesmanship." Mr. Windom read what he st< led a political *p< eeh, reviewing the record of <he Republican and Demo­ cratic parties for the past twenty years. A long political debate ensued, which was participated in by Messrs. Wi <dom,_8aulsbury, Davis <W. Vs.). Ir.galia sad Beek.»--The Home occn pied the day fa debating the Senate bill exempting from license and other fees vessels not propelled wholly by sail Of by internal motive-power of their own. In the Senate, June S», Mr. Vest called up the silver free-coinage resolution, but, objection being made, it went over. After a short, executive Session, the Judicial expenses Appropriation bill was read twice and referred. The resular order »as resumed, being Mm joint resolution relating to the extra pay for Congressional employee. Messrs. Davis (W. Va.) and Allison engacsi in a short discussion upon the financial questions* In the House, theprapoeltion for revoking the lesve of absence granted to members was made by Mr. Arm field, and objected to. The bill making appropriations lor certain judicial expenses aud tbe bill msU^g appropriations to pay tbe fees of Marshals and their gen­ eral deputies, were reported tram tbe Com­ mittee on Appropriations and ordered printed and referred. Tne bill prohibiting political assess­ ments came up aa business of the morning hour. Mr. Garfield sought an opportunity of speaMng againat ihe bill, but was cut oft by the previous question, whereupor dilatory tactics were resorted to by the Bepnblicans. The Senate, on the 27th ult, passed, by a strict party vote, the Judicial Expenses Appropria­ tion bill as it passed the House. Mr. Vest's silver resolution was debated without action.--- The Bouse, after a sharp debate, passed the bill ap­ propriating (600,000 tc pay the fees of U. 0. Mar­ shals and their deputies. A resolution wss passed, by a party vote, providing for an adjournment on Monday, June SO. BOVJS&-MA8H. AKD 8WBRT-MA.BM. The difference between sweet-mash whisky and sonr-mash: Sweet-mash is a popular kind of Bourbon that is quick­ ly made, and in large quantities. The materials are corn, rye or barley, or both, in shape of malt and yeast. The ground corn-meal with the other ingre­ dients is placed in large vats and thoroughly mixed with the assistance of hot water, and, after cooling, the mash (as it is called), is allowed to fer­ ment for forty-eight hours. It is then scalded with hot water, and the escap­ ing steam, artificially condensed, is run off into the still, and boiled again, or "doubled," wad, having been reoon- densed and cooled, is run into barrels, and denominated sweet-mash Bourbon whisky. Sour-mash is made in the same way, except that the mash is scalded with the plop evolved from the fin?t process, and is fermented seventy- two hours, without the assistance of yeast, and allowed to cool naturally, in­ stead of running through pipes sub­ merged in cold water, as is the custom in making sweet-mash. Hand-made sour or sweet-mash is a product similar to above, made in small tubs, and agi­ tated during the process of fermenta­ tion by hand, and is longer and more tedious than the other way, but virtual­ ly the same. XHB CZAR DRAWS A TOOTH. Peter the Oreat attended surgical classes in Holland. Indeed, he dabbled in all the sciences and mechanical arts, but was specially proud of his attain­ ments as a surgeon. He gloried in drawing a tooth, bleeding a patient, tapping for dropsy, or lopping off a limb; and, on his return to Bussia, started a limited praotiqe. Hia own valet once availed himself of Peter's weakness as a vehicle of revenge on his wife for her unfaithfulness, a misde­ meanor toward which Peler was very tolerant. Noticing the flunky with a sad countenance, the Czar asked him the matter. "Nothing, Sire, but my wife has a toothache, and won't let the tooth be drawn." "Let me see her," said Peter, "and I warrant you I'll cure her." The poor woman insisted she had no toothache. "Sire," said the valets "she always says that when I bring the doctor." "Hold her arm, then," said his Majesty, " and we'll relieve her suffering." Peter seized the tooth which the woman's husband pointed to as a bad one, and smartly whirled it out. The Czar afterward discovered that he had been tricked and the poor woman made to suffer unnecessarily, and he gave the valet fi knouting with his own royal hands.--Belgravia. RUSSIAN PEASANTS. Not only are the houses filthy and un comfortable, but the peasant dwells with his horses and cattle under the same roof, he above and they below, so that the odor of the stable and every other imaginable vile smell permeates thel whole interior. One not accus­ tomed to that way of living cannot stay within doors, much less eat their food. Their household furniture is of the most primitive kind, so also their farming implements. Indeed, everything makes you think that yeu are carried back to the dark ages. The people live in vil­ lages altogether, each" family having land apportioned to them according to their numbers, by the village commune or assembly, which also decides aa to the rotation of crops and the times of gath­ ering them. Some of the country through which we passed seemed quite fertile, but the greater part has a barren appearance. Often whole stations would be a continued wilderness, with a sandy or corduroy road, forests of pine, spruce and birch stretching away on either hand. Altogether, the prospect was thoroughly uninviting, and w» were glad to turn our backs upon ii A drunken orthodox Russian soldier : assaulted a Jew without provocation. When taken before the Judge, and asked why he had perpetrated the out­ rage, he exolaimed: "Why, your Honor, did not the Jews murder our Christy andia not that provocation I -* , YETO MESSAGE,, frdaiftfltt of the PrgaidejU-e omwtiMIS ts tk§ Judicial Kxpeeises Bill, W-'. To the Bouse of Kepreeeote|vee ^ After a careful examination of the bill enti­ tled " Aa act making appropriations for certain judicial expenses," I return it herewith to the House of Bepreeentstivee, in whioh it origi­ nated, with the following objections to its ap­ proval : The general purpose of the bill is to provide for certain judicial expenses of the Govern­ ment for the §bc»1 year ending June 80, 1880, for whioh the sum of 12,090,000 is appropria­ ted. These appropriations are required to keep In operation ths general functions of the Judi­ cial Department of the Government, and if this part of the bill stood alone there would be no objection to its approval. It contains, how­ ever, other provisions to whioh I desire re­ spectfully to uk your attention. At the present session of Congress a majority of both houses, favoring a repeal of the Con­ gressional Election laws, embraced in title 23 of the Revised Statutes, passed a measure for that purpose as part of a bill entitled "An act making appropriations for the legislative^ exeousrve and judicial expenses of the Govern­ ment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and for other purposes." Unable to concu? with Congress in that measure, on the 29th of May last, I returned the bill to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, without my approval, lor that further consideration for which the constitution provides. On reconsideration the bill was approved by less than two-thirds of the House, and failed to become a law. The election laws, therefore, remain valid enactments, and the supreme lav of tii© land, binding not only upon all private citizens, but also alike and equally binding upon all who are charged with duties and responsi­ bilities of the legislative, executive and judicial department? of the Government It is not sought by the bill before me to re­ peal election laws. Its object is.to defeat their enforcement The last clause of the first seo- Mon l,s as follows; "And no part of the money hereby appropri­ ated is appropriated to pay any sa aries, com­ pensation, fees, or expenses, under or in virtue of title 26 of the Raised Statutes or any pro­ vision of said title." Title 26 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in the foregoing clause, relates to the elective franchise, and contains the laws now in force regulating Congressional elections. The second section of the bill reaches much further. It is as follows: Section 2. That the sums appropriated in this set for the persons and public service embraced in its provisions are in full for such persons and public service for the fiscal year ending June 30,1S-80. and no department or officer of the Government shall, during said fiscal year, make any contract, or incur any liability for the future payment of. money un­ der any of the provisions of title 20 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing the ap­ pointment or payment'of general or special Deputy Marshals for service in connection with an elec­ tion or on election day until an appropriation suffi­ cient to meet such contract or pay such liability shall have first been made by law. This section of the bill is intended to make an extensive and essential change in the exist­ ing laws. The following are the provisions of the statutes on the same subject which are now in force; * Section 2,679. Mo department of the Government shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in ex­ cess of the appropriations made by congress for that fiscal year, or involve tho Government in any contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriation. Section 9,,7'ii. No contract or purchase on bobalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized-by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments for clothing, subsistence, for­ age, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, how­ ever. shall not exceed the necessaries of the current year. The object of these sections of the Revised Statutes is plain. It is, first, to prevent any money from being expended unless an appro­ priation has been made therefor; and, second, to prevent the Government from being bound by a contract not previously authorized by law except for certain necessary purposes in the War and Navy Departments. Under the existing laws, the failure of Con­ gress to make the appropriations required for the executfbn of the provisions of the election lawB would not prevent their enforcement. The right and duty to appoint general and special Denuty Marshals, which they provide for, would still remain, and the Executive Department of the Government would also be empowered to incur the requisite liability for their compensa­ tion. But the second section of this bill con­ tains a prohibition not found in any previous legislation. Ite design is to render the election laws in- operative and a dead letter during the next I fiscal year. It iB sought to accomplish this by omitting to appropriate the money for their enforcement, and by expressly prohibiting any department or officer of the Government from incurring snv liability under any of the pro­ vision « of title 26 of the Revised Statutes, au­ thorizing the appointment or payment of gen­ eral or special Deputy Marshals for service on election days, until an appropriation sufficient to pay such liability shall have first been made. The President is called upon to give his affirmative approval to a positive en­ actment which, in effect, would deprive him of the ordinary and necessary means of executing the laws, still left on the statute book and em­ braced within his constitutional duty to see that laws are executed. If he approves this bill, &i*l thus gives to such positive enactments the authority of law, he participates in a cur­ tailment of ins means of teeing that the law is faithfully executed, while the obligation of law and of his constitutional duty remains unim- pairel Tbe appointment of special Deputy Mar­ shals is not made by the statute a spontaneous act of authority on the part of any executive or judicial officer of the Government, but is ac­ corded as the popular right of citizens to call into operation this agency for securing the freedom of elections in any city or town having 20,000 inhabitants or unward. Section 2,021 of tbe Revised Statutes puts it in the power of any two citizens of suoh city or town to require of the Marshal of the district the appointment of these special Deputy Mar­ shals. Thereupon the duty of the Marshal be­ comes imperative and its non-performance will expose him to a judicial mandate or punishment, or to removal from office by tbe President, as the circumstances of his conduct might re­ quire. The bill now before me neither revokes this popular right of citizens nor relieves the Mar­ shals of the duty imposed by law. nor the President of Ids duty to see that this law is faithfully executed. I forbear to enter again upon any general discussion of the wisdom and necessity of the e action laws, or the dangerous and unconsti­ tutional principle of this bill; that the power vested in Congress to originate appropriations involves the right to compel the Executive to aporove any legislation winch Congress may see tit to attach to suoh bills under the penalty of refusing the means needed to carry out es­ sential functions of the Government My views on these subjects have been suffi­ ciently presented in special messages sent by me to the Honse of Representatives during its present session. What was said in those messages I regard as conclusive to my duty iu respect to the bill be­ fore ma The argument urged in these com­ munications against a repeal of the election laws and against the right of Congress to de­ prive the Executive of that separate and inde­ pendent discretion and judgment which the constitution confers and requires are equally compensation these officers is provided for under the perma­ nent law, and no liability for which an appro­ priation is now required would, therefore, be incurred by their appointment; but tne power of the National Government to protect them in the discharge of their duty at the polls would be taken away. States may employ both the civil and military power at ths elections; but by th» hill even the civil authority to protect Congressional elections is denied ua Tne object is to prevent any adequate control by the United States over national elections by forbidding the pay­ ment of Deputy Marshals, the oftioer* who are clothed with authority to enforce the e!«wfion laws. The fact that those laws are deemed objectionable by a majority of both houHos of Congress is urged as a sufficient warrant for this legislation. There are two ways always to overturn legislative enact- msnts. Uae ls their repeaf; tho other ia the decision of a competent tribunal against their validity. The effect of tble MB is to deprive the Executive DepartaMntaf ths Government of the means to neeute l» laws which are sot ecutivs and of every othsr deportment of the GoverntMnt to obey and to enforce. I have hi my former massages on this sub- leot expressed a willingness to concur in suita­ ble amendments for the improvement of ths election laws, but I eannot oonsent to their ab­ solute and entire repeal, end I eswnot approve legislation which seeks to prevent their enforce­ ment RuTHxnfOKD B. Hates. Executive Maksiok, Jons XT, ICT'J, •v m THOUGHTS4 Do TO-DAY tliy nearest duty. Bi rigid to yourself and jgentle to oth«n. ~ * To mow how to wait is the great secret of success. / Those who hope lor no other life are dead even in thik You* sacrifices, if aot salted with salt of grace, will not keep. Who despises the world judges incor­ rectly, bnt thinks correctly. As TEE body is purified by waiter, so is the soul purified by truth. THE greatest misfortune ol all is not to be able to bear misfortune. " , THE higher up the mountain you climb, the higher you <*•**» see. AGE, that lessens the enjoyment ol life, increases our desire of living. To the blessed eternity itself thera if no other handle than this instant. I* evil be said ol thee, and it is true* oorrect it; i! it be a lie, laugh at it. Our grief may be guessed from th« solace and self-deception we resort to. I» one speak evil of you, let your life be such that none will believe him,. No one will dare maintain that it ia better to do injustice than to bear it. Ir you propose to serve God at aU| have th6 manliness to begin his servio4 now. It is more profitable to look upon our defects than to boast ol our attain­ ments. If the way to heaven is narrow,, it ia not long; if the gate be straight, ii opens into endless life. 1 I When a man speaks the truth you may count pretty surely that he pos­ sesses most other virtues. A man is obliged to die before hia will amounts to anything, but that of a woman is always in force. Abuse is the penalty levied on the bond of praise, and can be rendered ef­ fective only when noticed. ,• Ir one strives to treat others m he would be treated by them, he will not fail to come near the perfect life. raw QUININE SWINDLS. '• The Medical and Surgical Reporter, published at Philadelphia, the head­ quarters of the quinine monopolists, says: MThe fortune ol the late Thomas H» Powers is estimated between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000. Very much of thia was made on quinine, and the m6ve- ment to repeal the duty on that drug ia one which should meet the approval ol all unbiased physicians. At present the sick are obliged to pay more than twice as much lor this medicine as they would were the duty removed. The excess goes into the pockets of the already enormously-rich manufacturers. In fact, it is encouraging a monopoly of the most unfair description." In the middle ages, on the death of a monk, his plate was placed on the ta­ ble at every meal for a month. 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