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ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTl '•% •• 1 FUU-Y RECORD I FAITH- Sxpease of Examlnatjon of Building* Loan end Homestead Associations in a Thieving Game, . ^ o ! • . - • * Cost of State Supervision. ' The report of the State Auditor on the condition of building, loan and ^homestead associations doing business in Illinois for the year ended Dec. 1,1896, has been laid before the Governor. It. is sho^n that the receipts of the building and loan de­ partment of the Auditor's office for the year, including a balance on hand at the beginning of the y^ar.were $21,29149, of ^hich $19,336.48 was from examinations. The receipts were all disbursed for sal- sries and expenses of inspectors and (clerks. The average cost per association for examination' was $27.32, or one-fiftieth of 1 :per cent of the total assets, or 9% Brills per share. The general condition of associations is better than otle year ago. la 1895 the receipts of associations were $46,306,969.96, while in 1896 they were $46,135,382.93. The disbursements, in­ cluding cash in hands of treasurers, were the same. The assets in 1895 were $82,- 639,258.24, while in 1896 they were $80,- 105,574.44. The surplus of profit in 1895 <was $17,780,821.24. In 1896 it was $17,- 234,589.26. The stock account for 1896 shows 512,077 shares issued, 62,374 shapes matured, 464.188 shares with­ drawn, 2,138,219 shares in force and 178,- 424 shares loaned on. Fight Lower Railway Fares* P. P. Sargent, grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, has returned to Peoria from the conference* at Little Rock, Ark., and makes the fol­ lowing official statement: "On Jan. 25, at a union meeting held in the city of Little Rock, Ark., under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors, Brother­ hood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locpmotive Firemen and Order of Rail­ road Telegraphers, business of a national interest was considered. The proposed bills before the Legislatures of the several States, tending toward a reduction of pas­ senger and freight rates, were considered a movement that Would impair the reve­ nue of the railway companies,. and would Inevitably result in a reduction of wages of railwdy employes, and it was unani­ mously agreed that the above-named or­ ganizations, through their membership in the several States where these bills are pending, should use their united efforts to prevent the passage of any measure that would tend to curtail the earnings of the railway companies, thereby endangering the present scale of wages paid to em­ ployes, and to appeal to the friends of )abor, members of the State Legislature, to vote against such measures." President Stowell Retained. At a recent session of the Illinois So­ ciety of Engineers and Surveyors at Springfield several interesting papers on appropriate subjects were read and re­ ports of committees heard. Peoria was selected as the next place of meeting, and officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: President, Charles C. Stow- ell, Rockford (re-elected);v vice-presid«|t, E. J. Chamberlain, Pittsfield; recordmg secretary, P. C. Knight, Pontine; execu­ tive secretary, and treasurer, J. A. Har­ mon of Peoria; executive board, A. Lag- :&on, Freeport; C. M. Rickard, Springfield, -iftnd W. D. Pence, Champaign. Au open session was held in representatives hall, the delegates and many members of the Legislature and citizens being present to listen to an address by Prof. Eben J. Ward of Marseilles upon "The Streams of Illinois and Their Future Develop­ ment." The subject was illustrated with stereopticon views of various rivers and places throughout the State. Frauds in Theater Tickets. Almost every theater in Chicago has suffered from lithograph ticket counter­ feiters for some time. . The other day James S. Huttou, manager of the Lincoln Theater, as a result of his detective work in locating the offenders was pleaded with by men prominent in society and business not to prosecute their scapegrace sons. These parents offered to make good the value of all counterfeit tickets taken in, and Mr. Hutton finally consented to spare the culprits. One of the young men is a son of the owner of a printing house. He duplicated the regular lithograph ticket forifS, and it was only through the inac­ curacy of a rubber stamp that the fraud was finally discovered. The young men sold tickets by the wholesale to scalpers and wherever they could find a market. Two of the culprits left the city to avoid arrest. The others made a clean breast of their operations." State News in Brief. Rev. Benjamin Thrasher, a retired min­ ister living at Bondville, fatally shot him­ self in the head with a target rifle. Fi­ nancial difficulties are given as the cause of the suicide. W. H. Owens of Baltimore. Md., a sophomore; George Morrison of Urbana, a "prep," and Charles P. Baxter of Tay- lorville, sophomore, were expelled from the State University for participating in the sophomore-freshman riot at Urbana. The Board of Administration will con­ tinue the investigation and it is probable many-other students will be forced to leave. If Thomas Jackson, a colored burglar, lives to be 136 years old he will get out of the Joliet penitentiary. Judge Ewing of Chicago gave Jackson what is known as a cumulative sentence. His honor di­ rected that as soon as Jackson had reach­ ed the limit of one sentence he shall be­ gin the service of another. This will amount practically to life imprisonment, as the limit in each case is twenty years, and the court announced he would recom­ mend the full penalty to the prison au­ thorities. At Quincy, the Mississippi has been frozen over by the cold snap and teams cross the river on the ice. It seems probable now that no attempt will be made to pass a revenue law. at this session of the Legislature. It is under­ stood that Gov. Tanner prefers to re­ serve this subject for an extra session, to be called for next winter, exclusively for revenue legislation. There is a feel­ ing among members that the subject can­ not be handled in the proper way at a regular session. . Gov. Tanner's plan, therefore, is likely to meet with cordial approval. An adjourned meeting of the relief com­ mittee of Peoria was held at the city hall, at which reports were submitted showing * that $2,000 in cash and $1,000 in groceries and provisions had been subscribed. That day some 1,500 persons were assisted, and at the closing of the relief office there .was no falling off in the deniand. Dr. William H. Butt, one of Chicago's oldest practitioners, died at his home, 714 West Monroe street, from apoplexy. He was stricken at the Rock Island Railroad depot on Wednesday evening. Dr. Burt located in Chicago just before the big fire, taking up his residence on the' West Side, where he had since resided. He was 61 years old. ' < tiers of Piatt County, died, aged, 84 ye*rs,t, ^ J' Ex-Mayor E. H. Baker, of Rockford, WSTORY SHOWS THAT PROTEC- i ¥ ** • " ^ tTIOI^^N^FITSHiri^M^ one of the oldest residents of that city, f is dead. John Williams dropped dead.«3B»:h^Bf>| I? A VQTfcS THE FA ttMl R «ei^es and Jbat deprc-asiou amoog failure in -Monticello. \ , I v/XWD xXL-Ei I* ilAixLljA* tbe manufacturers of the Uni- -X. B. JWeaver, one-oSHe-IWSlfl!#11!^-. f ted States means a reduced de­ mand for farin. products and a reduc­ tion In prices. The Idea of a home mar fcet has thoroughly taken possession of the minds of the farmers. They recognize that it is far l&tter to sell their products to the people of the Uni­ ted States than to be compelled to send them abroad In competition, with the cheap labor of other countries;'- They recognize, that the people of the United- States will consume more of farin pro­ ducts, buy more freely, and p^y.better prices if there is plentiful Employment and good wages.,It is with-thisthought in mind that they h(ive askedvgeftgrous protection for other industries aswell as their own. ' ~ • One important fact relative to the tariff question now beforfe the public should constantly be kept in mind by the farmers iu this country and by ev­ ery citizen. The fact is that a tariff cannot be made in a minute, and that when made it.cannot in the next min­ ute produce prosperity. The people on November 6, 1892, elected a, free trade Congress and President, yet it was not until August 28, 1894," that the free trade tariff had been formed, enacted and" put into operation. It is not prob­ able that such a length of time will elapse between the electlo^, of 1896 and the enactment of a protective tar­ iff. yet it must be remen^t'red that the Republican party is ,Complete, control of tlie Senate, i^a^Say not be so even after March 4. - V „ It is liable, therefore, to be hampered in its efforts; for prompt action by this fact, and it must not be'supposed that the prosperity the country has had rea­ son to expect from the election of 1896 will come until the protective tariff can be placed upon the statute books find given time to produce its effect up­ on the manufacturing industries, which, in turn, will produce their ben­ eficial effect upon the farming indus­ tries and thus give prosperity to all. The resignation of Col; nan, as aid oa th|B Goyejjiior'l? accepted by the Adjutant General, While hunting, Harry Lewis, of E^- wardsville, rested his arm on the gun's muzzle. The load entered the lefjt arm? pit and side, lie'may live. Lieut. Gov. W. A. Northcott, who is" head counsel of the Modern Woodmen, is confined "to his room at hiis Eotfie. in Greenville with a severe attack oi grip. Carl Albert Helmle, one of, t£e leading business men of Springfield, '1$ deed, aged 69 years. He came froi& Germany in 1849. He was a director of the Marine Bank. Kendall County has the distinction of having no poor farm. Supervisor Lathrop reports but three families found in actual need in Little Rock township. They have been provided for. R. H. Downing, a prominent citizen of Adams County, died at his home near Golden; aged 68 years. He was an active Democrat and served several years in the •State Legislature. • The first State dinner by Gov. and Mrs. Tanner was given Thursday evening." All of the State officers, with their wives, Were present except Lieut.-Gov. and Mrs. Northcott. The menu and the decorations were very fine.. The Rev- R. A. Moriey, ex-president of Northern Illinois College, was. tried be­ fore Presiding Elder Sweet of the Rock River conference and found guil,ty of con­ duct unbecoming a . minister toward a former teacher of the college. At Joliet, ^proceedings have been filed by Mrs. Laura-Stewart against her hus­ band, Dr. Ezra H. Stewart, asking for an absolute divorce, alimony and a lien on his property. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were married thirty-seven years ago and have three children. Mrs. Anson Gregory, of Galeaburg, who was so brutally assaulted by her drunken husband Jan. 13, died. The facts devel­ oped at the inquest showed that Gregory seized his wife by the throat and, press­ ing her back over a box, struck and kick­ ed her. Internal injuries were produced. The jury found Gregory guilty and he' was committed without bail. Mrs. Greg-; ory a few days ago began a $10,000 dam­ age suit against the saloonkeepers who sold her husband liquor, and this will now be prosecuted in behalf of her four young children. Gregory at one time was a prosperous farmer. Over $50,000 for relief of Chicago's poor has been sent to Mayor Swift. The police force was pressed into service to locate and report cases of destitution, and in a few hours work was done which by ordinary methods would have required weeks. The work of the police was light­ ened to some extent by that of the mail carriers. Acting under Postmaster Hes- ing's orders, the carriers^took the names of the suffering on their respective routes and turned them into the sub-stations, the superintendents of which in turn handed the lists to the nearest police stations. Thousands of people were fed and clothed. An insane man, who said his name was Halpin Havil, attempted to cut his throat with a razor in a rear coach of a west­ bound passenger train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad shortly after it had left the Chicago depot Wednesday night, and caused a delay of the train at Oakley avenue until the police arrived. Had it not been for the prompt action of the trainmen Havil would have succeed­ ed in ending his life in the presence of the passengers. As it was he drew the blade of the razor across his throat', in­ flicting, however, a slight wound which will not prove fatal. The man fought fiercely with the trainmen, and it was only after several passengers had offered assistance that he was overpowered and held until the arrival of the police. Captain L. O. Lawson, of the Evanston life-saving crew, received notice that ex­ aminations for admission to membership in the crew would be conducted under civil service rules. The conditions will probably prevent students from taking the examinations. The rules stipulate that hereafter the only men eligible to the ex­ amination must be those who have^had three years' experience on the water, or whose homes have been within five miles of the lake shore. Inasmuch as students of Northwestern University who come to Evanston from inland points have formed the crew since its organization, this rule will likely make them ineligible in the fu­ ture, and will probably dissolve the fam­ ous volunteer student crew which has saved more lives than any other crew on the lake. Since its organization it has saved nearly 350 lives, and has twice been awarded gold medals by Congress for heroic service. A peculiar case of white capping was reported from Cascade, in Sangamon County. Some time ago John Van Cleave rented the Eaton farm, near that village, from the executor of the estate, Mrs. Laura Van Cleave, and last summer he raised a heavy crop of corn and wheat, which was stored on the farm. On the night of Jan. 11 seven masked men came to the house and notified Van Cleave that he n^ust give up the farm. He supposed some of his neighbors were playing a prac­ tical joke on him and paid no attention to the warning. A week later another warn­ ing came to him, being brought by a sin­ gle masked messenger, who gave the farmer to understand that his visitors were in earnest and that if he did not leave the farm he would be burned out. Van Cleave had no enemies that he knew of and he continued to treat the matter as a joke. Late Sunday night Van Cleave was aroused by a fire in his barnyard and, rushing out, found all of his buildings ex­ cept the house iH flames. His barn and all of his grain were destroyed and it was with difficulty that the house was saved. So far as can be learned there was no ill feeling existing agaiust Van Cleave in the neighborhood and no explanation of the outrage is given. Gov. Tanner has issued a requisition upon the Governor of Indiana for the ex­ tradition of Hy H. Hoover, under arrest at Muncie, Ind., and wanted at the south­ ern Illinois penitentiary for violating the parole law. This is the first case of the kind under the new law. At Jacksonville, the restaurant of Woalfe Brothers caught fire ajrd sleepers in the upper story had barely time to es­ cape in their night clothes. The whole-, sale confectionery establishment of W. H. Ehnie went next, and the department barely saved others after much damage. The loss will exceed $10,000. Henry Rounning, a well-known Carlyle farmer, was out with a party of hunters and returned home about midnight. In entering the house he stumbled and fell, awakening his brother-in-law, who, mis­ taking him for a burglar, shot him. He was almost instantly killed. A stranger, giving his name as William McDonald of Louisville, Ky., complained to the authorities at Carlyle that he had been held up. He alleges that last Mon­ day afternoon, two miles west of town, two men robbed him of $40in cash and a gold watch and then dragged him. He was next placed iff a haystack. His fin­ gers are badly frozen, and he is in a seri­ ous condition. w • tbe American Agricultural In» terests Have Been Favored by Pro­ tective Duties -- Republican I?art:r Favors International Bimetallism. - V Some Tariff History. "Washington correspondence; That the farming interest litis always been benefited by a protective tariff and injured by a low tariff is apparent to those who have examined the tariff history of the United States. It may be of interest, in view of tUe fact that the tariff of ibis country is about to be readjusted, to run hastily over our tariff history fi*o»n the begin­ ning down, and especially with refer­ ence to the various tariffs on the agri­ cultural interests. ^ The first Cougjess was composed largely of farmers, arid they at onc» saw the importance of encouraging aucl ^protecting manufacturing industries so that they might be free from depend­ ence upon foreign nations for farming implements, clothing, arms for protec­ tion, and machinery, and at the same time make a home market for their products. In the opening lines of their first tariff, they recognized this princi­ ple by saying: "Whereas, It is uocos- sary • for1 the support of the Govern-, meut, for the d'scbairge of the debt of the United Stamps and for the, encour­ agement and protection of manufactur­ ers that dullest be laid on imported goods, etc," < The tariff which was adopted by the first Congress, based upon the protect­ ive tbelry, resulted in prosperity to ag­ riculture and a retharkable increase in the manufacturing industries and con­ sequent demand for the produce of the farmer. This tariff for 1789 was prac­ tically doubled in 1812 by reason of the necessity for increased revenue to car­ ry on the war with Great Britain, and increased prosperity followed. In 1816 the free trade theory obtained control and rf'low tariff was adopted, resulting in great destruction of indus­ tries, idle labor, sheriffs' sales, low prices for farm produce, high prices for manufactured goods and a deficit In the treasury. \ , In 1824, the country having realized the disadvantages of a low tariff, both to the agriculturists arid other indus­ tries upon which, they were depeudent for their prosperity, a new tariff was adopted, levying duties averaging 36 per cent, of the value of the articles upon which placed, and the result was immediately, felt iu the improvement ol all kinds el' business, which was en­ joyed by the farmers as well as others. in 1833 the "reveuoe tariff" idea again obtained control, the duties were cut down to less than 18 per cent., and as a result, factories closed, wages were reduced or laborers turned out of employment, the purchasing capacity of consumers was greatly crippled, farm products fell to an extremely low price, a panic followed, agriculture and commerce were paralyzed and the con­ ditions w ere similar to those which tjie country nari experienced under the low tariff of tiie past few yonrs. Iu 1812 the protectionists returned ro power, the Whig party beiug in control, and a protective measure was adopted, under which came a marked develop­ ment in iudustries, revival of agricul­ ture, increase in immigration, activity in manufactures, an-1 a consequently good lioir.e market, money plentiful aud good and sufllcieut revenue for the Gov­ ernment. Commenting upon this pe­ riod Carey says: "Labor was every­ where in demand; planters had large crops and the domestic market grew with a rapidity tli.it promised be:;er prices; the produce of the farm was in demand and prices rose." Iu 1840 the Whigs lost control of the government and the Democrats resum­ ed power, enacting what is known as the "Walker Revenue Tariff," a Demo-' era tic measure In low rates of duty, levied purely for revenue? and so ad­ justed as to prevent protection. While the depressing effect of this was not felt immediately, owing to external circumstances, the Inevitable result came later and the manufacturing in­ dustries were depressed, prices of farm products and the agricultural interests suffered greatly, as they always have done under a low tariff. In 18(51 the Republican party came into power, and immediately adopted a protective tariff, which remained iu operation with various unimportant changes, up,to 1894. That agriculture prospered under this long periodof pro­ tection is so well known to every man and woman of mature years that tlie details need not be- discussed. No country was so prosperous during the thirty years which the United States had a constantly protective tariff, as our own. and no class of citizens were more prosperous than our farmers. Millions of new homes were estab­ lished, the busy manufactories and their busy millions of employes fur­ nished a market for home products,"" and prosperity continued until the election of 1892 cast the shadow of an impending low tariff over the country. -The resiilt'of the success of Democ­ racy and low tariff principles in 1892 Is so fresh in the minds of every citi­ zen of: the United States as to need uo eominent. Low prices for farm pro­ duce, lack of consuming power among the people, financial depression because of lack of revenue to the government, all bore upon the agricultural interests and it is not surprising that iu 1896 they voted for a return to protective tariff and prosperity. . No claSs of citizens in the United States have a greater interest in the protective tariff than the farmers. That they recognize this is shown by the fact that the farming industry, representing wool, grain, meats, fruits and nuts, sugar, cotton, flax and hemp, tobacto. and all the great staples, have been prominent and active and vigilant in their attendance upon the meetings of the Ways and Means Committee, and their presentation of arguments in favor,of a^tliorough protection, and these arguments have favored not only a thorough protection for their own in­ dustries but a like protection for the manufacturing industries generally. The farmers arid those interested in agri­ culture have come thoroughly to recog­ nize the fact that the prosperity of the manufacturing industries- of •" the country means prosperity to thern- Frlendly to Bimetallism. There no longer rem aids & doubt In the mind of any observer of the thor­ ough good faith of the leaders of the Republican part}' in- regard to inter­ national bimetallism. There were some people here during the campaign and a. few since the campaign who were inclined to smile when the pledges of the Republican platform in favor of international bimetallism were spoken of, but they no longer dp so. Every­ one is now convinced that President­ elect McKinley and the leaders of the party geuerally are prepared to make an earnest and vigorous effort iu be­ half of international action. It goes without say|ng that all in­ terests here have been watching the movements of the Republicans upon the subject since the campaign, with great interest. JBven the people of the East recognized when the campaign was over, if they did not so recognize before it ended, that a large major­ ity of the people of the United States desire to increase the use of silver If it can be accomplished with safety. They also recognized on the morning of the 4th of November that the peo­ ple had mingled intelligence and thoughtjfulness with their desire' for au increased use of silver in our cur­ rency by voting for the. candidate of the party which had pledged itself to genuine bimetallism through interna­ tional action, rather than the party whose plans would have produced sil­ ver monometallism through au effort to resume the free and unlimited coin­ age of silver without tbe co-operation of any other nation. $ Canadian Reciprocity. No J;rade agreement or reciprocity treaty beJween the Unifed States and Canada will be satisfactory, to the American people which does not ac­ cord as complete protection to the Airierican farm as to the American workshop. This should be firmly un­ derstood at the outset. Any arrange­ ment which should admit Canadian products like hay, wool, sheep, pota­ toes, barley and eggs into the Ameri­ can market free of duty would not only be distinctly violative of every prin­ ciple of protection, but would mean disaster for a multitude of farmers iu the bofder. States. Such an arrange­ ment would amount to free trade in these products between the Republic and the Dominion. Nor will any agreement or treaty be acceptable which brings American manufacturers into actual competition on the siime terms with British manu­ facturers in the Canadian market. As is well known. Canada cannot enter iuto an arrangement of this kjnd with­ out the consent of the British Foreign Office, and the inflexible policy of that office always insists that the same con­ cessions shall be granted to the ..prod­ ucts of the United Kingdom^as ;aie granted to those of a foreign country. So loug as these products did not really come into com petition with Amerl can products tiie United States could have no cause for objection.--!S*e,w York Commercial Advertiser,. Colossal In pndence. It required colossal impudence for William J. Bryan to raH^at t&e"single- gold standard at a banquet held in Chi­ cago in memory of Andrew Jackson, but the Nebraska mountebank!, was fully equal to the occasion. Just us lie claimed during the late campaign to represent the principles of Washington, Jefferson. Lincoln and other^ American immortals, be oudcavored to pose at the Chicago gathering as the sole and legit­ imate successor of the old hero of New Grlerfris. His attempt, was a gross in­ sult to the dead. It was under the sec­ ond administration oc President J.ick- sori P'at the gold sraudard was practi­ cally first adctpiod in this country, aud it has remained the standard of the re public ?rom that day to this. MEN OF COMMITTEES. REFERENCE TRIBUNALS OF ILLI­ NOIS LEGISLATURE. ttJSSsJl List from tbe Senate Is Finally An­ nounced, and No*- tbe Business of the Lawmakers May Go On Witbouf Interruption. ^ Tbe Senate Committees* Following are the Senate committees of the Illinois Assembly as appointed at Springfield Wednesday afternoon: Judiciary--Anthony, Chairman; Putnam, Humphrey, Edwards, Crawford, AsplnwalL Netterstrom, Hamilton, Baxter, Dunlsp, Campbell, Fiaher, Lundlu, Chapman, Littler. Kingsbury, Dwyer, Bollinger, Fltzpatrlck, Warder, Wells, Connell, MeKlnley, Monnts. Leeper, Mahoney, Hull. Judicial Department and Practice--Hamil­ ton^ Chairman; Crawford, Putnam, Littler, Anthony,. Bollinger, Fltzpatrlck, Baxter, Sawyer, Campbell, Edwards, Humphrey, Willoughby. Granger. Evans, Mounts, Mani­ fold, Hull, Leeper, Wells,. McConuell. Railroads--Morrison. Chalrmnn; Monroe, Kanan, Evans, Lundln, Stubblefleld, Fltz- , Ian or en :e W a » Factor. Attention is called to the fact that the Chicago clearing-house, representing all the leading .banks in that city, by its timely interposition and in assuming 75 per cent, of all the claims against the National Bank of Illinois, prevented a serious panic and saved the credit of hundreds of depositors who would have goue to the wall but for'this action. Attention is called to this act chiefly because it was changed during the late campaign that-# cle'arlng-liouses were bankers' trusts, used to corner the mon­ ey market. No charge could have be­ trayed greater ignorance on the part of those making It, but ignorance was a large factor In the Bryan campaign. J Hull. Curler. " L*nilif§ Warehouses--Lundln, Chairman; Sparks, Case, Fisher, Harding, Netterstrom, Baxter, MeCloud, Pemberton, Sullivan, O'Brien, McKlnlay, Curley* Finance--Case, Chairman; Littler, Craw­ ford, Begardus, MeCloud, Baxter, Templetor, 'Lundln,.Granger, Harding, Kanan, Monroe, Evans. Putnam, Kingsbury, Hunt, Pember­ ton, Hamilton, Edwards, Dresser, McConnell, Manifold. ( ,i. ApproprlattopB -- Templeton, Chairman; G&raSng, Asplhwnll. MeCloud, Fltzpatrlck, Humphrey, Bogardus* Granger, Kanan, Saw­ yer, Kingsbury, Sparks. Willoughby, Hull, Landrlgan, Mahoney, O'Brien. Municipalities--Dwyer, Chairman; Pember­ ton, Warder, Fisher, Anthony, Evans, Me­ Cloud, Kanftnt Humphrey, Netterstrom, Mor­ rison, Hamilton, Lundln, Case, Leeper, Ma­ honey, Mounts, O'Brien. , Insurance--Fltzpatrlck, Chairman; Sparks, Granger, Lundln, Morrison, Asplnwall, Dwy­ er, Hunt, Monroe, Fisher, Pemberton, Hull. McKlnlay, Wells, O'Brien. Corporations--Harding, Chairman; Me­ Cloud, Baxter, Willoughby, Dwyer, Hunt, Putnam, Evans, Anthony, Crawford, Fisher. O'Brien, Hull, Mahoney, Wells. Banks and Banking--Kanan. Chairman; Fltzpatrlck, Chapman, Harding, Fisher, Case, Bogardus, Dwyer, Hamilton, Morrison, Sullivan, Hull, Leeper, Wells. ' Charitable Institutions--Putnam, Chair­ man; Kingsbury, Sullivan, Granger, Temple- ton, Asplnwall, Stubblefleld,ICawpbell, Fish­ er, Harding, SparkS, Payne, Mounts, Dress­ er, McConnell. Penal and Reformatory Institutions--Stub­ blefleld, Chairman; Duhlap, Fltzpatrlck, Morrison, Chapman, Fort. MeCloud, Aspln­ wall. Kanan,-Netterstrom, Monroe, Kings­ bury, Sparks, Pemberton, McKlnlay, Hull, Mahoney, O'Brien, Payne. Public Buildings and Grounds--Littler, Chairman; Evans, Netterstrom, Templeton, Chapman, Fort, Sayer, Hunt, Stubblefleld, O'Connell, Landigran, Payne, Dresser. Education and Educational Institutions-- Bogardus, Chairman; Lundln. Fltzpatrlck. Granger, Sullivan, Duttlap, Morrison, Sparks, Dwyer, Pemberton, Kingsbury, Bollinger, Hull, Mahoney, O'Brien, Wells. Lincoln Monument -- Evans, Chairman; Klhgsbury, Crawford, Sparks, Littler, Mc­ Connell, Landigran. Canals and Klvers--Fort, Chairman; Lun­ dln, Asplnwall, Monroe, Templeton, Case, Warder, Edwards, Campbell, Sawyer, Sparks, McConnell, Dresser, Payne, Curley. Agriculture and Horticulture -- Sawyer, Chairman; Bogardus, Humphrey, Sullivan, Hamilton, Monroe, Asplnwall, Punlap, Pem­ berton, Kingsbury, Bollinger, Netterstrom, Landigran, Curley, Wells, Manifold, Mounts. Live Stock and palry--Willoughby, Chair­ man; Dwyer, Evans, Anthony, Fltzpatrlck, Hunt, Lundlny Granger, Stubblefleld, Morri­ son, Edwards, Bollinger, Hull, Mahoney, O'Brien, Curley, Leeper. Commerce--Chapman, Chairman; Sullivan, Stubblefleld, Littler, Morrison, Willoughby, Warder, Templeton, Hamilton, Pemberton, Wells, Mounts, O'Brien. Leeper. Fttsm. and Drainage--Hunt, Chairman; Dun- lap, Bollinger, Chapman, Fort, Hamilton, Templeton, Sawyer, Edwards, Asplnwall, Littler, Curley, Landrlgan, Payne, Dresser. License and Miscellany -- Netterstrom, Chairman: Evans, Dwyer, Stubblefleld, Mor­ rison, Bolpnger, Lundln, Willoughby, Sulli­ van, Campbell, Mahoney. Wells, O'Brien. Mines and Mining--Edwards, Chairman; Bollinger, Littler, Wiloughby, Sawyer, Harding, Teq&plieton, Putnam, Fort, Baxter, Bogardus, Payne, Mounts, McConnell, Mc­ Klnlay." Labor and Manufactures--MeCloud, Chair­ man; Monroe, Campbell, Pemberton, Stub­ blefleld, Chapman, Crawford, Hunt, Fltzpat­ rlck, Littler, Wells, Curley, Manifold, Payne. County and County •rganlziition--Warder, Chairman; Hamilton, MeCloud, Baxter, An­ thony, Hunt, Monroe, Humphrey, Stubble­ fleld, Crawford, Case, Mounts, McKlnlay, Manifold, Curley, Sawyer. Feps and Salaries--Kingsbury. Chairman; Campbell, Granger, Crawford, Warder, Sul­ livan, Baxter, Dtesser, Payne. Printing--Bollinger, Chairman; Kanan, Case, Willoughby, Campbell, Warder, Tem­ pleton, Hull, Mounts. Military--Sparks. Chairman; Fltzpatrlck, Case, Fort, Warder, Bogardus, Templeton, Granger, Kingsbury, Evans, Curley, McKln­ lay, Mounts. Roads, Highways and Bridges--Humph­ rey, Chairman; Putnam, Asplnwall, Kings­ bury, Duulap, Baxter, Bollinger, Templeton, Chapman, Hunt, Hamilton, Dresser, Hull, Payne, Landrlgan.. Fish and Game--Campbell, Chairman; Ed­ wards, Sullivan, Putnam, F;ltzpatrlek, Gran­ ger. Harding, Fort, Anthony, Fisher, Will­ oughby, Leeper, Mahoney, O'Brien, Wells. Federal Relations -- Dresser, Chairman; Hamilton, Pemberton, Fisher, Netterstrom, Chapman- Elections--Crawford, Chalrmnn; Anthony, Warder, Putnam, Baxter, MeCloud, Dunlap, Fisher, McKlnlay, Leeper, Mahoney, Mounts, Dresser, McConnell. State Library, Arts and Science--Mahoney, Chairman; Monroe, Fort, Case, Stubblefleld, Kanan, Crawford, Dunlap, Warder, Ed­ wards, Mahoney, Leeper. McConnell. Engrossing and Enrolling Bills--Sullivan, Chairman; Netterstrom, Mounts, Payne. Rules--Fisher, Chairman; Putnam, Craw­ ford, Harding, Bogardus, Bollinger, Fort, Humphrey, Edwards, Sparks, Sawyer, An­ thony, Mahoney, Leeper. Building ai*l Loan--Baxter, Chairman; Kanan. Case, Bogardus, Sawyer, Dunlap, Hunt, Morrison, Humphrey, Netterstrom, Asplnwall, Fort, Littler. Evans,. Hull, Leep­ er. Wells, Mahoney, McKlnlay.- Expenses of General Asembly--Granger, Chairman; Campbell, Warder, Sparks, Ka- uan. Hunt, Dresser, McKlnlay, Manifold. Senatorial Apportionment -- Pemberton, Chairman: Dwyer, Spa'rks, Kaiian, Lundln, Stubblefleld. Morrison, Bogardus, Anthony, Dunlap, Asplnwall, Campbell, Hamilton, Crawford,.Templeton, Chapman, Humphrey, Harding, Hull. Landrlgan. McConnell. .Cur­ ley, Payne, Manifold, Congressional Apportionment--Asplnwall, Chairman; Harding, Sullivan. Willoughby, Fort, Anthony, Littler, Pemberton, Lundln, Bogardus. Dunlap, Dwyer, Fisher, Humph­ rey, Chapman, Putnam, Hamilton, Landrl­ gan, Hull. Payne, McKlnlay, Wells. To Visit Charitable Institutions--MeCloud, Chairman; Bollinger, .McConnell. To Visit Penal and' Reformatory Institu­ tions -- Willoughby, Chairman; Anthony, Dresser. To Visit Educational Institutions-Fort, Chairman: Monroe, Payne. 'Revenue^'-- Dunittp, Chairman; Littler, Crawford, Bogardus, MeCloud, Baxter, Tem­ pleton. Lundln, Granger, Harding, Kanan, Monroe, Evans, Putnam, Kingsbury, Hunt, ;Pemberton, Hamilton, Edwards. Waterways and Drainage--Monroe, Chair­ man; Dwyer, Bogardus, Bollinger, Fort, Humphrey. Putnam, Crawford, Edwards, Sparks, Sawyer. > • <-' t> Sore. The following paragraphs, from the New York Sun, are a little belated, but perhaps some readers will still find them of interest: • "As a general thing," said a fond father, " a young man likes to be patted on-, the,back; but not always. I was pleased the other day with something my eldest boy had done, and rather im­ pulsively, I will admit, I patted him on the back. " 'Oo--oo!" he said, and he shrank away as thpugh I had hurt him,; and no wonder, for he's black and blue and sore all over. He plays football; and football players don't like to be patted on the back, except In a'figurative sense." Always Takes the Wife's Part. An Abilene, Kan., jury found a wom­ an guilty on a' charge of having driven her stepson and h°er.husband from their home, and she was fined $10 and costal which the husband paid. ILLINOIS LAW-MAKERS. In the House Friday Speaker Curtis an­ nounced the -appointrnfent of the Commit­ tee on Judiciary, as follows: Allen of Ver­ milion, chairman; Cochran, Selby, Shar-' rock, Boyd, Miller, Revell, Baily, Kinche- loe, Booth, Sherman, Sayler, Parrish, Tis- del, Torrence, Brown, E. C. Busse, Mur­ ray of Sangamon. Eldredge, Fl&nnigan, Averyv Craig, Morris, Barnes, Schwab, Stoskopf, Johnson of Whiteside, Barrick- low, Novak, Perry, .Organ. McGoorty, Hall of Cook, Sullivan, Salmans, McEn- ery, McGee. Mr. Russell presented an equal suffrage petition. Among the bills presented were the following: To author­ ize cities of a certain class to make con­ tracts for a period of one year relating to the collection and disposition of garbage. The bill applies only to Chicago. Fixing the pay of the judges and clerks Of city elections at $5 per day; to compel street car companies to vestibule their cars for the protection of employes and for the health and comfort of the general public. The session of the Senate was brief. Two bills were introduced. Senator Hill of­ fered a joint resolution asking that all citizens of the State above the age of 21 be entitled to vote. Both houses adjourn­ ed until 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. The "House met at 3 o'clock Monday, with less thaii a quorum present. An in­ vitation from Governor and Mrs. Tanner to the reception at the executive mansion Was read. The House then > adjourned until^10 o'clock Tuesday morning. Scarce­ ly1 a baker's dozen of members was pres­ ent when the. Senate was called to order. No business was transacted, and as soon as the journal had been read an adjournr liient was taken until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.. Speaker Curtis Tuesday announced 'the appointment of the following Committee on Judicial Department and Practice: JVlliler, chairman; Selby, Cochran, Boyd, Sharroek, Kincheloe, Baily, Booth, II. C. Busse, Parrish. Sayler, Tisdel, Avery, Flannigan, Eldredge, Alschutes, Perry, Blood, flora. Murray of Clinton, English, Webb, (Jolnes, Compton and Bryant. Mr. Uevell's bill repealing the libel law was postponed one week. Among the bills in­ troduced were the following: To pro­ tect bank depositors; to regulate stock yards charges and commissions; to re­ quire trust companies to secure all sums intrusted to them; to prohibit coloring of cheese and butter substitutes; requiring railroads to procure an annual license; to employ convicts ill manufacturing State, county, township and school dis­ trict supplies; to establish and. maintain manual training departments of high schools, upon consent of majority of voters in school districts; to provide for the taxation of express companies and providing for their government and con­ trol ai^d empowering the railroad and warehouse commissioners to regulate and fix maximum rates to be charged.by such companies. In tlie Senate a message was .received from tlie Governor removing from the Board of the West Chicago Park Commissioners the following mem­ bers for incompetency: Harvey T. Weeks. Charles J. Vopieka, J. M. Oliver. Edward G. Uihlein and Carl Moll, and in their places were appointed Charles J. Pavlik, Emil A. Grotefund, William J. Wilson, Joseph W. Suddard and Fred M. Blount, and also William C. Eggert to succeed Walter S. Bogle, resigned. Lieutenant Governor Northcott presid­ ed in the Senate Wednesday morning. A message was received from the Governor appointing to the board of railroad and warehouse commissioners Cicero J. Lind- lej-, Greenville; Charles Itaunnells, Jack­ sonville, and Joseph E. Bidwill, of Chi­ cago. to succeed William S. Cantrell, Ben­ ton; Thomas Gahau, Chicago, and George W. Fithian, Newton, whose terms have expired. Also as chief grain inspector at Chicago, Edwin J. Noble, to succeed Dwight W. Andrews, whose term has ex­ pired; also as commissioner of the South­ ern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester. Thos. W. Scott, Fairfield, to succeed Edward G. Cramer, Plainfield, resigned; Joseph B. Messick, East St. Louis, to succeed Campbell S. Hearn, Quincy, whose term has expired, and James E. Jobe, Harris- burg, to succeed William V. Choysaer, Harrisburg, resigned. The appointments, and those to the board of West Chicago Park Commissioners, were confirmed. The bill providing for an appropriation of $47,- 000 for the ordinary and contingent ex­ penses of the State government now un­ provided for, and the bill for the appro­ priation of $20,000 for participation in the Tennessee centennial and internation­ al exposition, were read the third time and passed. The House passed by a vote of 114 yeas to 8 nays Mr. Craig's Will au­ thorizing the Governor to appoint a resi­ dent trustee of the Eastern Illinois State; normal school at Charleston. The use of the Representatives' hall was granted to the Equal Suffrage Club for Monday even­ ing. A half dozen members presented petitions demanding equal suffrage. Mr. Kincheloe introduced a resolution which was adopted by a rising vote in respect tq the memory of the late R. H. Downing of Adams County, a member of the Twen­ ty-ninth General Assembly. A resolu­ tion was adopted authorizing the Speaker to transmit iu behalf of the House a mes­ sage to the Governor and General As­ sembly of Pennsylvania, sympathizing with them in the loss by fire of their State capitol. V. - In the Senate Thursday the bill intro­ duced by Senator Fitzpatrick Jan. 7, ap­ propriating $31,000 for the purpose of furnishing and caring for memorial hall in the public library building in Chicago was referred to the Committee on Mili­ tary Affairs. Senator Bolinger will in­ troduce bill in the Senate providing against the adulteration of food and drugs and the manufacture and sale of either f*)od or drugs from imperfectly developed or damaged articles. Another bill to be introduced by Senator Putnam provides that the salaries of State's Attorney out­ side of Cook County shall not exceed $3,- 000. ' The salary is to be paid out of the fines imposed and collected. The bill fur­ ther provides that when an assistant is necessary that the County Board of Su­ pervisors shall select an assistant at a salary not to exceed $1,500 per annum. In the House a large number of bills were introduced. Golden Hair. Many fond mammas are anxious to keep their children's hair from turning dark. The hair grows darker at the roots because the supply of coloring pigments is greater at the roots and1 the cells are more numerous. FOr this reason the hair of children rapidly darkens if kept closely cut; frequent washing and shampooing will retard the darkening process. No external applications should be used, because all such are of the nature of a bleaeb. m Reflections of a Bachelor. It's never her real secrets that a woman puts down in her diary. We should , all be surer of heaven if we could be born old men and women, and then grow backward. A man who is truthful about every­ thing else will tell a woman that his mustrche curls naturally. The girls that work hardest getting up a chyrch social aren't always the ones wUo wash the dishes at home. The.man who says the meanest things about woman often* has the most chiv­ alrous c-svotlon for her. Wealth oiid Porerty. _ In the matter of feeding the poor ths- time has come for action. Quit playing the hypocrite! Do sometbisg^Chicsgo Dispatch. Russell Sage says thafcthe poor are not growing poorer, and of course he has ex­ ceptional facilities for knowing.--Wash­ ington Times. It is the rich misers and skinflints, rath­ er than the Bradley-Martins and their ilk, who awaken popular criticism an<f eon- tempt.--Boston Herald. 1 The weather is pinching, the need's of the poor are felt severely, the efforts of charity ought to be manifested quickly and intelligently.--Chicago Inter Ocean. The wretches who have cornered graia • in starving India deserve the execration of .the .civilized world. Thfere is no op- portmity that greed will not seize upon,-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch. By giving a lavish ball the Bradley- Martins will put a great deal of money in circulation, but so they would do if they devoted the same amount of money to a better use.--New York Journal. If some of the very wealthy Chicagoese would devote to charity a part of tiie mpney they have been enabled to keep by tax dodging, it would make a great fund for Chicago's 8,000 starving fami­ lies.--St. Louis Post-Dispatch, v • •• Mr. Russell Sage's opinion that a social •.* entertainment that costs $240,000 is a wicked waste of money is one whose sin­ cerity cannot be questioned, although its expression can hardly be set down as one of the surprises of the season.--Washing­ ton Star. • • V ;vv: A cry for help comes from Chicago. - It is said that 8,000 families in that city are actually starving to death. The dispatches say that the city has 10,000 wives, hus­ bands and children begging for bread-- begging for a pittance of food to keep body and soul together--huddled into sin­ gle rooms, and freezing in the blizzard that visited the city Thursday. It has a mightier cry for pity than it had at the close of the World's Fair.--Fall River News. '* .' - . Bantering the Britishers. Henry Irving has a sprained ankle. It is said to decidedly improve his walk.-- Cleveland Plain Dealer. Doubtless the Prince of Wales thinks the Queen is old enough to abdicate if she wants to.--New York Press. Great Britain does not seem to be keep­ ing up the standard .of its work as nurse to the Indian Empire.--Chicago Record. It is now rumored that the Prince of Wales will be the leading candidate for the head of the waiters' union.--Chicago Journal. It costs Great Britain $15,000 a year to maintain the Queen's pack of deerhounds. We thus see that a good deal of British gold is going to the dogs.--Commercial Ad­ vertiser. , The chances are that Lord Kimberley, who succeeds Lord Rosebery as the Lib­ eral leader, will resemble his predecessor by not setting the Thames on fire.--Bos­ ton Herald. England's surplus this year might be expressed in pounds sterling, but the prac­ tical way to put it is that it amounts to four more new battleships.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. $ ' ' ' » -V The Queen's speech had a good deal more to say about arbitration than about unjust taxation in Ireland, but Lord Cas­ tletown and sundry others will see to it that the latter subject is enforced upon Parliament's attention.--Boston Globe. Lord Salisbury announced to the mem­ bers of the House of Lords that if the massacres in Turkey continued pressure would have to be applied. And yet, some critics insist that the official British mind is impervious to humor.--Baltimore Amer­ ican. Tackling the Treaty. The Senators who let loose the dogs of war before adjournment will find most of them in the Olney pound.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. ^ We are ready and anxious to arbitrate any subject of dispute with the English, except the cut of the amorphous horrors they, call trousers.--Kansas City Times. When England rejoices over the accept­ ance of a treaty to which she is. a party, it is always safe to infer that the other party has tbe short end of it.--Detroit ~; Tribune. < * t While there is some disposition among American statesmen to criticise the arbi­ tration treaty a unanimity of sentiment is reported from the other side.--Buffalo Express. It is not surprising that the Senate should hang up the arbitration treaty. Anything the Senate might do would not be surprising, unless it should happen to do something sensible.--Galveston Trib- une. ' _'r _ '•* The latest attack upon the treaty just made with England will not be able to rob- that instrument of the title it has earned, as the crowning diplomatic triumph of the century.--Cincinnati Commercial. . No treaty can Cover a question of na­ tional honor. War is the only arbiter of that. And Great Britain is likely to be quite as quick on the trigger and quite- as careful not to offend as we-ean be.--- New York Press. Senate and Senators. Senator Mills, of Texas, is still going about with an "all-hell-shaJl-stir-for-this-" look exposed on his face.--Memphis Ap­ peal. Senator .Tillman says he would like to have "Author of the Dispensary Law" carved on his tombstone, but he doesn't say when.--New York Press. About all that yill be remembered of the Hon, J. Don Cameron when he closes his twenty-year term in the Senate will be his illustrious father.--Chicago Tribun^. Senator Sherman seems to be trimming his Cuban corns to the exact limits of the . Olney shoes.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Senator Thurston says: "There aye - • things that are worse than war." H* J talks like a man who has been inveigled into attending the afternoon session of.» "sewing circle."--Chicago Times-Emerald. ' If any of those commiserating Wash­ ington correspondents who express sorrwr over Jo"hn Sherman's decadent mentality desire to change their opinion let them engage the old man in a horse trade or a' real estate transaction.--Kansas City Times. The Nicaragua Canal. Turpie, of Indiana, calls the. Nicaiaga* Canal Company "an incorporated myth." That's first class.--Cincinnati Tribune. The Nicaragua Canal Company firstly believes Uncle Sam likes to be humbug­ ged, and it is willing to gratify him.-- Kansas City Times. ^ It begins to look as if it wouid be a long time yet before Uncle Sam's people go sailing up the San Juan on a ship canaL --Chicago Inter Ocean. The practical collapse of the Nicaragua CanjM scheme adds another hag». cbuh* to Warner" Miller's outside-the-b -- works glooM.--Washington Poat