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!r < A; *"*-% -- ^ i,, mass *r*. \ ib»** ^ ...'1$-* ." *. W:f Sfw'fw*!Wv^W'Wfm \ '" " * 'S.i.'i .V~ uv-*!,;.:;':5"*:' vS;' v*? ? %\. n.- - , -v* . „ • :' /, (w »;•" •*. "* •'* 1PUT BACK TEN YEARS. MCUSINE8S RETROGRESSED A DE- J " -XKJB*!* LAST VEAK ,̂,;.;, ')' jkttaraa of the Bank Clearing* «M»W \ Mow .Business Has 3>eciine«I Under | theThmtandlnangantiw of altol- ley of Free-Trade. jA>m» of fl6,500,000,000. . The returns of the bank clearings L throughout the United States during 1894 show that they were the smallest since 1SS5, proving that the business of the country retrogressed a decade last year under the threat and inauguration of a policy of free trade. The total iclearlngs during this period are as fol- .Jows: / T®N XBA&S OF BAXK CLBARING8. • "-r. • ' • Amount of [Tea*. - ' clearings. 2«M«*,««.Hfi«. §44,995,611,293 5«W»...- ,*I. .IIL„„ ^3,516,883,135 1892., . , , , , •1,535,493,426 1891 66,312,344,509 189©..,., (0,585,036,458 1889., , , , . , , 65,700,192,284 1888. ' . *9,192,055.21)1 1887.. , , 61,144,077.11- 1888 *8,800,868,750 1885. 41,255,623.614 ' During 1894 only 13 out of 09 cities showed increased clearings as com­ pared with 1898. The decrease at New York was 22 per cent, at Philadelphia 10 per cent., at Boston 9 per cent, Chi­ cago only 8 per cent, New Orleans 13.4 ^ per cent, Nashville 21.8 per cent, and i;at Atlanta 6.8 per cent Of course the largest volume of bank clearings In the United States was dur­ ing 1892, at the time of our greatest prosperity under protection. In the fol­ lowing year, however, as soon as wo /were threatened with free trade, the toank clearings decreased by eight bil­ lions of 'dollars, and in the following year 1894, there was a further decrease of eight and a half billions of dollars, making the total loss in the volume of v trade transacted throughout the coun- try amount to $16,500,000,000 less dur­ ing 1894 than during 1892. According to sections of the country the bank clearings during each of the past three years have been as follows: % ;* ' \ o a o -s B o CO Pi SI:i It CSSIO-^owOL CJfpp 10 K CO W Q l i . ..'MC. . . 5 Ol C2 ©j t* ̂ ;'VH*Q0 W * t-* 5* ^ iWsm. DOOC 3wS y-SSs tc wC SP *-» -J M ~JCOCKW*fcOOO HHMOSMM® ••q00r-*H ._ ^ MOO§ U> O ̂ O >-*• H* f ffiHCCOOpipO' MwbHHWW &SSS83S hlss\ Income Tax at Work. While the American farmer is busily •engaged in making a statement of the valuation of his property and his stock, so as to be ready for the income tax collector, who is as necessary an evil In this country under the policy of free trade as he is in England, it may con­ sole the American farmer to learn that his brother farmer in England has been receiving a little Christmas gift in the shape of a revised circular concerning the Income tax In that country. There the tax is payable on January 'l,Sl sort of New Year's gift which the farmer is compelled to disgorge as his ute toward free trade. There the farmer has the option of being taxed at " a rate of 6 cents in the pound upon the •actual value--that is, the rental value-- •of his land, although he may decide to * ibe taxed as an ordinary trader upon his average profits during three preceding jyears. In the latter case an examina- tion of his accounts during that period 'is necessary, so as to show the farmer's exact position. During his leisure moments the farmer here, as well as In England, should take a course in bookkeeping, if he is not already an expert in that <» necessary branch of business. We are not aware of the exact form In which . the farmers must make their returns in this country, but in England a blank balance sheet is prepared and distrib­ uted for the farmees to fill out, requir­ ing many items and particulars which the average farmer could only furnish -as an estimate, and many others which •it would be impossible for hiin to fur­ nish unless he were an expert book­ keeper. I K: • Should the farmer desire-!to appeal * against the amount of his taxation, the ,time wherein he can appeal or lodge a claim for the repayment of a portion of •his tax is very limited. The tax col­ lector, however, is allowed at least six months wherein to consider such claims *• "and make .repayments, so that if the farmer bp compelled to pay unjustly any amotrat in excess of what the law properly1 Remands, he may make up his mind -that fully a year will elapse be­ fore he secures any refund. These are a few of the Incidents of an Income itax, which is and must be always a -necessity and part of a policy of free trade. iV. Elastic Wasrea Wanted, yfhlle the free trade party in Con- gress Is endeavoring to make the peo­ ple believe that a demand exists for n change in our currency system, It is well to remember that the present sys­ tem has been in force for a long term of years, and that it was in force in 3882, the period of greatest prosperity In American history. It is true that the ^ people--the wage-earners in particular •--are in need of a currency that will be elastic enough to make the dollar which they only earn now have the same pur­ chasing power as the two dollars that they were earning a few years aga under protection. The trouble with the Treasury Department is not so much with the currency as with its rev­ enue syst&m, which would again be adequate to meet its expenditures if protection were restored. The present administration and the free trade con­ gress, while not caring in the least (i whether the wage-earners of the coun- jtry were busy or idle, have forgotten tali along to take into consideration the [fact that the idleness of the peopia # means the absence of prosperity for the country, which in its turn must affect the condition of the national treasury.' Restore protection, and thereby restore circulation of currency among the wage-earners and a sufficiency of fnnds forirar nationkl requirements. 1 War Ship* Built Abroad. 9 is reported from Washington that Congress will probably pass an appro- rnrtotion nnrli'.'rOTng the ?osr.?r«:'tlon * ~ ^ ^- *--- liov/ 01 xo* American navy. This will be interest­ ing news to the owners of foreign ship­ yards because, should the Fithlan bill become law, there will be nothing to prevent the construction of vessels for the American navy in any other coun­ try. The United States Treasury may thus be enabled to save a little money, which it sorely needs just now, by placing these contracts abroad where labor is so much cheaper than in the United States. Any question of protec­ tion to American labor, or to the Amer­ ican shipbuilding industry, will not be considered by the present administra­ tion, which is devoid even of American pride. I<abor Baajr Here and There. ' APPEAL TO CONGRESS MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT ON 1 THE FINANCIAL EMERGENCY. IK ENGLAND •»•«• TUtASU IN AMERICA. Restoration, Salvation. The tariff ideas of the Democratic party will feed Europe, but will starve America. They will give employment to Europeans, but will produce idleness in America. We are now in the throes of general business and financial dis­ tress as the direct result of the ap­ proaching establishment of the Demo­ cratic tariff for foreigners only. Low wages, low prices, want of employ­ ment, stagnation, riot outrage and want stalk through this land of plenty because jfehe people were deluded in 1892 and voted for a change and got it Restore America to the rule of its friends and all would be well.--The Ma­ rion Independent Free Trade Paralyaia. The most evident effect of free trade is the increase in our imports. When the present tariff law was under dis­ cussion the advocates of the bill freely admitted that, in order to supply suffi­ cient revenue, an increase in imports would be necessary. They claimed that we would pay for our increased im­ ports with increased exports. Facts have not justified their assumption. The Gorman bill closed our manufac­ tories, paralyzed our industries and tremendously reduced the volume of our production. Instead of paying for our imports with our export products we are paying for them in gold. The Best Workers. It is a well-known fact that among mill men that young American rollers and others have quite recently pro­ duced better work and larger quanti­ ties in a given time than foreigners working their eight hours' shift with the same furnaces and machinery, and it is useless for any prospective man­ ufacturers to imagine that a crew of foreigners is a necessity in a tin mill.-- The Iron and Trade Kevlew. Lower Wages Stake Trouble. Men do not mind working side by side with each other, no matter what their nationality, when established conditions of wages and labor are not placed In jeopardy thereby. The re­ fusal of the men at Homestead to work with a contingent of Hungarians was because the latter were introduced for the purpose of demoralizing the wage scale, not because they were Hunga­ rians. The Reason Why. Disturbances of labor and much des­ titution at Homestead, Braddock, Dn Bois, Reynoldsville, Haverhill and many other places In the Eastern and Middle States indicate how seriously the lower wage scale Is pressing upon the labor of the country. The Gorman free-trade tariff is now in full opera­ tion. . ^ Stand by Yonr Arms. The battle of Nov. 6 was but the be­ ginning. It Is no time to lay down arms now. Great victories are proverbially dangerous. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. The evil effects of free trade should be laid at its own door, not accepted as due in any degree to any other fact or condition. Orange Trees in England, Orange trees were known to have ex- if ted in England in 1595. The Grip Is Here. t: ; t Kcv v :r" & •aya Another Bond Issue la the Only Way to Prevent a Constant Drain of Qold Be-- Very Good Cawae fcar Alarm. - National Integrity at Stake. The President on Monday sent to both houses of Congress a messafce on the financial situation, substantially With­ drawing his support from the plan out­ lined in the Carlisle bill and outlining the only policy which seems to him now pos­ sible to maintain the gold reserve. The message is as follows: t "To the Senate and House of Repre­ sentatives: In my last annual message I commended to the serious consideration of the Congress the condition of our na­ tional finances, and, in connection with the subject, indorsed the plan of currency legislation which at that time seemed to furnish protection against impending dan­ ger. This plan has not been approved by the Congress. In the meantime the situa­ tion has so changed and the emergency now appears so threatening that I deem it my duty to ask at the hands of the leg­ islative branch of the government such prompt and effective action as will restore confidence in our financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal dis­ tress among our people. "Whatever may be the merits of the plan outlined in my annual message as a remedy fpz^Jlla then existing, and as a safeguard/against the depletion of the gold reserve then in the treasury, I am now convinced that its reception rby the Congress and our present advan ; of financial perplexity necessitates Wddi- tienal or different legislation. '( Party to Be Laid Aside, i! "With natural resources unlimited in variety and productive strength and with a people whose activity and enterprise seek only a fair opportunity to achieve national success and greatness, our prog- jess should not be checked by a false financial policy and a heedless disregard 'of sound monetary laws, nor should the timidity and fear which they engender ; stand in the way of our prosperity. "It is hardly disputed that this predica­ ment confronts us to-day. Therefore no one in any degree responsible for the mak­ ing and execution of our laws should fail to see patriotic duty in honestly and sin­ cerely attempting to relieve the situation. Manifestly, this effort will not succeed un­ less it is made untrammeled by the preju­ dice of partisanship and with a steadfast determination to resist the temptation to accomplish party advantages. We may well remember that if we are threatened with financial difficulties all our people in every station of life are concerned, and surely those who suffer will not receive the promotion of party interests as an ex­ cuse for permitting our present troubles to advance to a disastrous conclusion. It is also of the utmost importance that we 'approach the study of the problems pre­ sented as free as possible from the tyran­ ny of preconceived opinions, to the end that in a common danger we may be able to seek with unclosed vision a safe and reasonable protection. Dietruat a Great Trouble. "The real trouble which confronts us consists in a lack of confidence, wide­ spread and constantly increasing, in the continuing ability or disposition of the Government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and ap­ parent embarrassment attending the ef­ forts of the Government under existing laws to procure gold, and to a greater ex­ tent out of the impossibility of either keeping it in the treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained. » • ' "The only way left open to the Govern­ ment for procuring gold is by the issue and sale of its bonds. The only bonds that can be so issued were authorized nearly twenty-five years ago and are not well calculated to meet our present needs. Among other disadvantages they are made payable in coin instead of specifi­ cally in gold, which, in existing condi­ tions, detracts largely and in an increas­ ing ratio from their desirability as invest­ ments. It is by no means certain that bonds of this description can much longer be disposed of at a price creditable to the financial character of our Government "The most dangerous and irritating feature of the situation, however, re­ mains to be mentioned. It is found in the means by which the treasury is de­ spoiled of the gold thus obtained without canceling a single Government obliga­ tion, and solely for the benefit of those who find profit in shipping it abroad, or whose fears induce them to hoard it at home* The Stubborn Facta. ̂ "We have outstanding about $500,Owf- 000 of currency notes of the Government, for which gold may be demanded; and curiously enough the law requires that when presented and in fact redeemed and paid in gold tncy «hall be reissued. Thus the same notes may do duty many times in drawing gold from the treasury; nor can the process be arrested as long as private parties for profit or otherwise see an advantage in repeating the opera- 6en. More than $300,000,000 in these notes have already been redeemed in geld, and notwithstanding such redemp­ tion they are all still outstanding. "Since the 17th day of January, 1894, our ^bonded interest-bearing debt has been increased $100,000,000 for the pur­ pose of obtaining gold to replenish our coin reserve. Two issues were made, amounting* to $50,000,000 each--one in January and the other in November. As a result of the first issue there was real­ ized something more than $58,000,000 in gold. Between that issue and the suc- ceding one in November, comprising a period of about ten months, nearly $103,- 000,000 in gold were drawn from the treasury. This made the second issue necessary, and upon that more than $58,- 000,000 in gold waa again realized. Be­ tween the date of this second issue and the present time, covering a period of only about two months, more than $69,- 000,000 in geld lias been withdrawn from the treasury. These large sums of gold were expended without any Cancellation of Government obligations or any per­ manent way benefiting our people or im­ proving our pecuniary situation. "The financial events of the last year suggests facts and conditions which should certainly arrest attention. More than one hundred and seventy-two mil- liens of dollars in gold have been drawn out of the treasury during the year for the purpose of shipping abroad or hoard­ ing at home. While nearly one hundred and three millions of the same were drawn out during the first ten months of the year, a sum aggregating more than two-thirds of that amount being about sixty-nine millions, was drawn out dur­ ing the following two months, thus Indi­ cating a marked acceleration of the de- pletiag process with the lapse of time. Obligations Still Outstanding. "The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the treasury are still outstanding and are available for use in repeating the exhausting operation wt& Aerter intervals as our perplexities aeqpmslate. 1 "dMrtfttens are certainly supervening ki , , >S* ' tending to make the bonds which may It* issued to replenish our geld less useful for that purpose. An adequate gsli rsssrri is in all circumstances absefatelĵ esseaij*] to the upholding of our public crtSlt aiinA to the maintenance of our high national character. "Our gold reserve has again reached such a state of diminution as to iv? "i** * »*^ -• • »-4- tioas that mihii id*miafcly Mw iweseat conditions and methods wlH etnainly lead to misfortune and loss, Mft osfy fa our national credit and impwIyAMi tt financial enterprise, b^pto those of our people who seek employment as a mfeans of livelihood and to those whom only capital is their daily labor. "It will hardly do to say that a simple increase of revenue will cure our troubles. The apprehension now existing and con­ stantly increasing as to our financial abili­ ty does not rest upon a calculation of our revenue. The time has passed when the eyes of investors abroad and our people at home were fixed upon the revenues of the government. Changed conditions have attracted their attention to the gold of the government There need be no fear that we cannot pay our current ex­ penses with such money as we hare. There is now in the treasury a comfort­ able surplus of more than $63,000,000, but it is not in gold and therefore does not meet our difficulty. Silver Question Not the Issue. "I cannot see that differences of opin­ ion concerning the extent to which silver ought to be coined or used in our cur­ rency should interfere with the counsels of those whose duty it is to rectify evils now apparent in our financial situation. They have to consider the question of na­ tional credit and the consequences that will follow from its collapse. Whatever ideas msy be insisted on as to silver or bimetallism, a proper solution of the ques­ tion now pressing upon us only requires a recognition of gold as well as silver and ncessiow of its importance, rightfully or Tfcrongfuliy acquired, as a basis of na- tionahcFedit, a necessity in the honorable discharge of our obligations payable in gold and a badge of solvency. I do not understand that the real friends of silver desire a condition that might follow in­ action or neglect to appreciate the mean­ ing of the present exigency if it should result in the entire banishment of gold from our financial and currency arrange­ ments. "Besides the treasury notes which cer­ tainly should be paid in gold, amounting to nearly $500,000,000, there will fall due in 1904 $100,000,000 of bonds issued dur­ ing the last year for which we have re­ ceived gold, and in 1907 nearly $000,000,- 000 of 4 per cent, bonds issued in 1877. Shall the payment of these obligations in gold be repudiated? If they are to be paid in such a manner as the preserva­ tion of our national honor and national solvency demands, we should not destroy or even imperil our ability to supply our­ selves with gold for that purpose. "While I am not unfriendly to silver, and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with finan­ cial safety and the preservation of na­ tional honor and credit, I am not will­ ing to seo gold entirely banished from our currency and finances. To avert such a consequence, I believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly passed. I therefore beg the Congress to give the subject immediate attention. Secretary Should Have Authority. "Tn my opinion, the Secretary of the Treasury should be authorized to issue bonds of the Government for the purpose of procuring and maintaining a sufficient gold reserve and the redemption and can­ cellation of the United States legal-ten­ der notes and the treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver under the law of July 14, 1890. We should be relieved from the humiliating process of issuing bonds to procure gold to be immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obli­ gations for purposes not related to the benefit of our Government or our people. The principal and interest of these||fK)nds should be payable on their face in' gold, because they should be sold only for gold or its representative, and because there would now probably be difficulty in-favor­ ably disposing of bonds not containing this stipulation. "I suggest that the bonds be issued in denominations of $20 and $50 and their multiples, and that they bear interest at BP rate not exceeding 3 per cent, per an­ num. I do not see why they should not be payable fifty years from their dates. We of the present generation have large amounts'to pay if we meet our obliga­ tions and long bonds are most salable. The Secretary of the Treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to receive on the sale of bonds the legal tender and treasury sotco to w fetiieu uuu, ui course, when they are thus retired or re­ deemed in gold they should be canceled. "I believe all the provisions I have sug­ gested should be embodied in our laws if we are to enjoy a complete reinstate­ ment of a Bound financial condition. They need not interfere with any cur­ rency scheme providing for the increase of the circulating medium through the agency of national or State banks, «ince they can easily be adjusted to such a scheme. "In conclusion I desire to frankly con­ fess mv reluctance to issuing more bonds in present circumstances and with no bet­ ter results than have lately followed that course. I cannot, however, refrain from adding to an assurance of my anxiety to co-operate with the present Congress in any reasonable measure of relief an ex­ pression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope for improving the situation or checking a suspicion of our disinclination or disa­ bility to meet with the strictest honor every national obligation. "GROVER CLEVELAND." COMMITTEES NAMED. MEN WAO HAVE OHARQE OF THK •f\i RATE'S BUSINESS. AXeiahera of the Bouse InvtM t«. spect Chicago's Big Drainage Ditch --Kefreshmente of an Uncertain Character Secured Full Attendance* - KANSAS FARMS INVOLVED. Uncle Sam Claims Thousands of Acres Sold Under a Forfeited Grant. Subpoenas have been issued at Topeka, Kan., for over 1,000 settlers on lands purchased by them from the I?nion Pa­ cific Railroad in Dickinson, Ellsworth and Saline Counties. They are asked «to answer a suit brought by the government to oust them from the lands which were granted to the Union Pacific Railroad by an act of Congress and afterward sold to settlers. The government claims that through a technical error the grant of the lands to the railroad company was in­ valid, so the linds should revert to the government and be opened to settlement under the homestead law. The lands in­ clude some of the richest farming.-region in the State, being in the bottoms of the Kansas, Solomon and Smoky Hill Riv­ ers. The lands were nearly all pur­ chased from the railroad company many years ago, and the country is thickly populated and the farmers are among the most prosperous in the State. If,the gov­ ernment should win the suit, the farmers will have to turn their property over to the government and their only recourse will be against the Union Pacific Rail­ road, and as the company is in the hands of receivers, they will probably not be able to recover from the company. Benvenuto Cellini tells In his me­ moirs of his hallucinations. On one oc­ casion he visited the Coliseum, which he found lighted with a great globe of fire and filled with demons, who con­ versed with him as long as, they oould induce him to stay. Mat of House Committees. In the lower legislative house Tuesday Speaker Meyer announced that an In­ vitation from the trustees of the Chicago sanitary district had been extended through him to the members of the house to be entertained by them, and that a special train would be placed at their dis­ posal to carry them along the line of the drainage canal to enable the members to make an inspection of the work so far done. "As an encouragement for all to go," added the speaker, "the chair is authorized to Btate that refreshments will be served, the character of which I am not posted on." (Laughter.) Speaker Meyer then announced the list of standing committees of the house, as follows: Judtctaw -- Berry (Chairman), "Callahan, -Berry (Chairman),' White or Whiteside, .Graham, Cochran, Lowenthal. Revell, McKenzle, Plotke, Plek- rell, Bakins of Cook, Boyd, Bailey, Butler, Miller of Cook, Mulr, Crafts, Morris, Ferns, •fay. Dearborn, Snyder, Stoskopf, Jones of Cook, Barrlcklaw, Barnes, Jones of Greene. Judicial Department and Practice--S£>li>y (Chairman), Mulr, Enklns of Cook, Revell, Cochran, Ssliarrock, Aiken of Franklin, Klein, Snedecker, Bailey, Graham, Weston, Mounts, Green, Perry, McConnell, Schwab, Cella, Novak, Fleming, O'Donnell. State and Municipal Civil-Service Reform ---Cochran (Chairman), Curtis, Bryan. Boyd, Gibson, Shanahan, Miller of Cook, Selby, Watson, Plckrell, Wilson, Smith, Lowen­ thal, Stoskopf, May, Novak. Fltssimmons, Cody, Mahoney, Shaffer, Perry. Corporations--Murdoch (Chairman), Haw- ley, Thiemann, Johnson of Pulaski, Lowen­ thal, GlMdn*, Cayanangb, Selby, Kent, Stlck- ney. Glade, Lyman. Jones of Green, Barnes, Novak, Mahoney, Curley, Ellsworth, Challa- combe, Walleck, Jones of Cook. Railroads--White of Whiteside (Chair­ man), Taylor, Nollng, Bnsse, M unlock, Kll- cotirse. Beck, Gibson. Grahanit.Olson, Mait- ritssoa, Condo, Cavanaugh, Crafts, Dear­ born, Perns, Black, Mulligan, Burke, Cella, Morris. Warehouses--Gibson (Chairman), Johnson of Cook, Olson, Maurtteson, McFee, Guffln, Murdook, Jones of Iroquois, Johnson of Pu­ laski, Shanahan, Farrell, Fleming, De- Forest, Schwab, Brtgnadello, Shaffer, De- lany Canal, River, Improvement, and Com­ merce -- Murray (Chairman), Dauyherty, Douglas, Steen, Johnson of Fulton, Wallace, Ely, Merrill, Payne, Beck, Wylle, Fletcher, McFee, McLaughlin, Cahlll, Schwab, Pll- frtm, -ttislmmons, De Forest, Fleming, pencer Finance--Eakins of Cook (Chairman), Thiemann, Nollng. Hubbard, Bailey, Shan- Jiahan, Guffln. Smith, Plckrell, Barnes, Mounts, Dearborn. Burke, Bines, Wendell. Mines and Mining--Steen (Chairman), Maurluson, Bailey, Kelly, Sharrock, John­ son of Fulton, Kaiser, 8elby, Wylle, Doug­ las, Stlckney, Plotke, McLaughlin, Snyder, Merrltt, Mulligan, O'Donnell, Burroughs, Bines. Fees and Salaries--Gower (Chairman), Needles, Hawley, Berry, CaMahan, McTag- gart. Reed, Ingersoll, Ferns, Green, Mer­ rltt, Lyman, Walleck. Appropriations--Needles (Chairman), Mer- rlaiu. Murray, Glade, Stlckney, Dudley, Aiken of Franklin, Curtis, Butler, Condo, Fletcher, Buekner, Merrltt, Jones of Cook, Black. Bines. Green. Barrlcklaw. DeForest, Sterehip, Seiner. Penal and Reformatory Institutions -- Fletcher (Chairman), Dudley, White of McLean, Perrottet, Jones of Iroquois, Hal- lock, O'Harnett, Bryan, Kaiser, Payne, Watson, Eakins of Cook, Farrell. Merrltt, Fltzslninions, Lecrone, Woolsey, Thompson, Breeden. Tipplt, McDonald of Moultrie. Municipal Corporations -- Shannahaii (Chairman), Curtis, Kent, Hogan, McCarty, Busse, Kilcourse, Guffln, Mulac, Schubert, Johnson of Cook, Buekner, Lowenthal, Morris, Farreii, Lyman, Jonea Of Cook, Burke, Mounts, May, Merritt. Education -- Hawley (Chairman), Curtis, White of McLean, Mulr, Ellsworth, Rich- eloe, Kllzmiller, Kent, Kaiser, Johnson of Cook, Challacombe, Johnson of Pulaski, Schubert, Ferns, tarrell, Cody, Mulligan, Merrltt, Crafts, O'Donnell, Spencer. State Institutions -- Beck (Chairman), Klein, Wiley, Snedecker, Guthrie, White of McLean, Watson, Wallace, Gower, Payne, Steen, Shaffer, Barrlcklaw, Rondeau, Pil­ grim, Dun, Lecrone. Public Charities -- Dudley (Chairman), Stubhletield, ingersoll, Merrill, Beck, Miller of Fayette, Smith, Olson, Hubbart, White of McLean. Delany, Walleck, Wendell, Poln- dexter. Tipplt, Pilgrim, Dean. Public Buildings and Grounds -- Mulr (Chairman), Snedecker, White of White­ side, Miller of Cook, McDonald of William­ son, Cavanaugh, Bailey, Butler, Dunham, Moll, Curley, Mahoney, Sterchle, McLaugh­ lin, McGulre. Revenue--Jones of Iroquois (Chairman), Aiken of Franklin, Merrlam, Bovey, Nee­ dles, Watsou, Armstrong, O'Harnett, Guf­ fln, Smith, Plotke, Beck, McCarthy, Stos­ kopf, Walleck, Itontleau, Branen, Thomp­ son. Ferns, Crafts, Novak. Banks and Banking--Curtis (Chairman), Maurlt'/.son, Needles, Guthrie, Watson, Re­ vell, Mulr, Stlckney, Kent, Merrlam, Fitz- slininons. Mounts, Crafts, McConnell, Mc­ Donald of Moultrie, Jones of Cook, Schwab. County and Township Organization -- Stubbleileld (Chairman), Reed, Sharrock, Perrottet, Taylor, O'Harnett, Plckrell, Kltz- mlller, Wilson, Ely, Condo, I'erry, McCon­ nell, Cody, Greene, Breeden, Burroughs, Dean, Teel. Agriculture--Guthrie (Chairman), Bovey, Ellsworth, McTaggart, Stubblefleld, Gower, McDonald of Williamson, Fletcher, Smith, Perrottet, Reed, Wilson, Hubbart, Challa­ combe, McCarthy, Thompson, Teel, Branen, Mulligan, Bines, Cahlll, Farrell, Dean, Wen­ dell, Burroughs. Live Stock and Dairy--Thiemann (Chair­ man), Olsen, Hawley, Reed, Guthrie, Wal­ lace, Murdock, Stubblefleld, McTaggart, Murray, Bovey, Douglas, Hammers, DeFor­ est, Cella, Delany, Morris, Davis, Jones of Green, Curley, Burke. Labor and Industrial Affairs--Cavanaugh iChairman), Kelly, Steen, Nollng, Weston, Juckner Busse, Hogan, Boyd, Daugherty, May, Stelner, McLaughlin, Huffman, Ma­ honey, Lecrone, Snyder. Manufactures--Taylor (Chairman), Nollng, Smith, Kelly, Kilcourse, Cavanaugh, Guffln, McCarthy, Thiemann, Fleming, Shaffer, Mahoney, Mulligan, Morris, Merritt. Building, Loan and Homestead Associa­ tions--Nollng (Chairman), Mulac, Daugher­ ty, White of McLean, Murdock, Clialla- cotnbe, Weston, Bailey, McKenzle^ Revell, ScllU'uei t, Steeu, Qlu&uii, Vv'alleck, Ireiaiic^, Stelner, Woolsey, Brignadello, Branen, Mell, McConnell. " Statutory Revision--Callahan (Chairman), Berry, Miller of Cook, Crafts, Morris. Elections--Boyd (Chairman), Eakins of Cook, Glade, Fletcher, White of Whiteside, Klncheloe, Aiken of Franklin, Hammers, Kaiser, Gower, Thiemann, Miller of Fay- ette, Stoskopf, Mounts, Dearborn, May, No­ vak, Snyder, Dean. Ba'nltary Affairs-- Maurltzson (Chairman), Merrill, Shannahan, Bryan, Hallock, Miller of Fayette, Mulac, Wilson, Snedecker, Ster- ehle. Morris, Fltzsimmons, Hill, Curley, Jones of Greene. Stats and Municipal Indebtedness--Chal­ lacombe (Chairman), Johnson of Pulaski, Kelly, White of Whiteside, Kilcourse, Ber­ ry, Busse, Dunham, Murray, Briscoe, Brig­ nadello, Huffman, Thompson, Tlppit, Wool- % lor, Guthrie, RTTOIICB, XVIIC, UI iivnjuuio, uwur, Cody, Morris, Mulligan, Woolsey, Cella, Curley. Federal Relations -- Guffln (Chairman), Wilson, Mulac, Watson, O'Harnett, Selby, Sharrock, Taylor, Barrlcklaw, Stoskopf, McGulre, Green, McConnell, Teel, Stelner. Claims--Graham (Chairman), Selby, Mer­ rill, Condo, Callahan, Douglas, McKenzle, Busse, Klncheloe, Farrell, Jones of Green, Lyman, Snyder, Sterchie, O'Donnell. Military Affairs -- Ingersoll (Chairman), Buekner, Merrlam, Ellsworth, Bryan, Kitc- mlller, McDonald of Williamson, Plckrell, Wallace, Cochran, Farrell, Morrla, Branen, McDonald of Moultrie, Lyman, Burroughs, Barrlcklaw. Retrenchment -- Stlckney (Chairman), Beck, Bailey, Aiken of Franklin, Ely, Dud­ ley, Daugherty, Guffln, Hogan, Bines, Poln- destcr, Shaffer, Brenuan. Davis, Wendell. History, Geology, and Science--Kaiser Lecrone, Owensby. Printing--Weston .(Chairman), Schubert, Lowenthal, Kelly, Klein, Bryan, Shanna­ han, McFee, Sharrock, Barnes, Perry, Burke. Breeden, Brignadello, Sterchie. Roads and Bridges--McKenzle (Chairman), Ely, Miller of Fayette, Hubbard, Johnson of Fulton, Bovey, Murray, McTaggart, Gower, Armstrong, Johnson of Pulaski, Payne, Perrottet. Bines, Delany, McGulre, Owensby, Spencer; Mell, Cahlll. McLaugh- lln. Executive Department--Snedeker (Chair­ man), O'Harnett. Merrill, Armstrong, Buek­ ner. Glade, Lowenthal, Plckrell, Bovey, McGulre, Briscoe, Wendell, McDonald of Monltrle, Wo!spyv Huffman Drainage and ' Water Works--Ellsworth (Chairman). Hallock, Dudley, Aiken of Franklin, Daugherty, Revell, Klein, WyHe, Mulr, Shannahan. McCarthy, Weston, Ho­ gan, Jonea of Cook, Cahill, Stelner, Spencer, Owensby, Davla, Mell, Brignadello. Miscellaneous Subjects--Ely (Chairman). •on. 1 Libraries -- Bovey (Chairman), Gibson.. Smith, Olson, McKenzle, Hallock, Butler, Alkens of Cook, Miller of Fayette, May. Barnes, Green, Stoskopf. Engrossed Bills--Hogan (Chairman). Mc­ Carthy, Hammers, Plckrell, O'Harnett, Fleming, Dearborn. Fish nnrt fS«nv.» Lfttr® «*>«!»- Murray, EnsTrorth, otuuoieueio, uower, Merrill, Plotke, Klein, Wylle, McFee, Olson, Johnson of Fulton, Mounts, Perry, Cahlll, Pilgrim, Breeden, Poindexter, Burroughs, Rondcna License -- Kilcourse (Chairman), Glade, Klncheloe, Hogan, McCarthy, Busse, Plotke, Schubert, McFee, Needles, Steen, Mulac, Ely, Schwab, Cody, Fltzsimmons, Brennan, Shaffer, Mahoney, Dearborn, Fleming. To Visit Penal and Reformatory Institu­ tions--Perrottet (Chairman). Thiemann, Mc­ Donald of Williamson. McConnclU Brisco". To Visit Educational Institutions--Kits- miller (Chairman), Merrlam, Klncheloe, Le­ crone, Bines. To Visit State Charitable Instlturlons- Whlte of McLean (Chairman), Kelly, Dun­ ham, Stoskopf. Black. Soldiers' Hottie and Soldiers' Orphan Hqffie--Merrlam (Chairman), Miller of Fay- ette, Hubbard, McTaggart, Stubblefleld, Dunham, Ingersoll, Armstrong, Perry, Bur­ roughs, "O'Doniieil, Miller, McGulre. Farm Drainage -- Douglafe (Chairman), Fletcher. MoFec, Hubbart,1 Payne, Ely, Wallace, Johnson of Fnlton.f Jones of Iro­ quois, Condo, Dunham, Briscoe, DcPofest, Pilgrim, Wendell, Owensby, Teel. Parks and Boulevards--Scnubgjt (Chair­ man), Daugherty, MauritRson, Cochran, Mulac, Hamer, Conlln, Buekner, Bryan, Jones of Cook, Crafts, Cody. Farrell. State and County Fairs--Butler (Chair­ man), Payne, Klein. Johnson of Cook, In­ gersoll, Miller of Cook, Hamer. Ileed. < "ulla nan, Tlppit. Wendell, McDonald of Moul­ trie, Teel, Thompson, Davis. J- Rights of the Minority--grafts (Chair­ man), Morris, Jones of Cook, Stoskopf, Mer­ rltt, May, Ferns. Farrell, Snyder, Lytuan, Black, Jones of Greene, Mounts Dearborn, Novak. Mulligan ) Horticulture -- McDonald of t Williamson (Chairman), Miller of Cook, Johnson, Fulton, Ingersoll, Butler, Hallock, Graham, Lowen­ thal, Hawley. Noting, Armstrong, Reed, Dunham, Davla, Briscoe, Poindexter. Teel, Rondeau, Tipplt, Owensby, Huffman. Electrical Switzerland. The snug little republic of Central Europe is a busy producer and con­ sumer of electrical apparatus. Her splendid water powers are now fre­ quently used for lighting and for power transmission, but her electrical prog­ ress is by no means due merely to that cause. The latest statistics show that there are in Switzerland no fewer than 677 lighting plants, 77 power transmis slons, 161 storage battery plants, 1,407 dyqamos and motors, 2,126 arc lamps and 145,919 Incandescent lamps. The general rate of Increase last year over 1892 was more than 36 per cent, and It may be doubted whether we could equal that rate in this country. In some respects we are decidedly behind, for of the 116 new lighting plants, no fewer than forty were equipped with storage batteries. That entire depend­ ence is not placed on water privileges Is shown by the fact that of the private installations 36 per cent use steam en­ gines, 1% per cent coal engines. Al­ most all of the rest are driven hydraull- cally. It Is a notable fact that in many parts of America, owing to the reckless forest denudation, the water privileges are giving out, and have to be supplant­ ed by engines, but the Swiss are said to be wiser In their day and generation, and to conserve their streams and for­ ests jealously.--St Louis Globe-Dem-, ocrat How to Keep an Alligator.. " To those who may think of keeping an alligator, a brief description of the best way to house him may be useful. Procure a good-steed box, say two or three feet Bquare, and a baking pan about half the size of the box, to hold the water (which should be changed every day or two), then cover the floor of the box with sand. Put glass or wire netting on two of the sides, and on top of the box. Glass is better, be­ cause it retains the heat In the box; but you must be sure to freely admit the air. For food, raw meat given on a strain to seem altve; files and worms, and small live fish form an alligator's fa­ vorite diet But as he is not demon­ strative, his air of content is apt to lead one to neglect him unless special care is taken. Remember that the alli­ gator Is accustomed to the heat of Florida, and keep him in a warm room during the winter. I am sure that alligators are more intelligent than they are generally thought to be. Indeed, I have heard of one in a South American country which, having been caiight when very * young and patiently trained, would follow Its master like a dog, and was perfectly docile.--St Nicholas. Women and Decorative Art. You know that delicate as a woman's hand is there are many extremely deli­ cate forms of work In which men will surpass her. As I am a painter, talk­ ing in the studio, let me take the case of the making of the finest brushes for painting; the best of these are made by the workmen, not by the workwomen. This, apart from the recognized func­ tion of woman in our social state, whlcn may make her less anxious to succeed, belongs also, probably, to a lesser faculty of concentration, not in individuals, but in women, as we us­ ually find them. But in all the minor divisions of art I can see no reason why women should not, even more than id the pa&t do work of great merit, and often of a peculiar charm. Therefore, In art decoration, the wom­ en ought to find a fair field, usually, however, a field better occupied when they do not direct If, in decoration, they could take as much Interest and show as much artistic skill as they show in trimming their bonnets, we should have the whole of decorative work raised to a high plane.--The Art Interchange. Who Was Gain's Wlfbff The question as to whether Adam was really the "first man of all the earth," and, if so, where Cain obtained his wife, Is still open for discussion. There are certain sects and creeds that believe in a pre-Adamlte creation of man. The advocates of this theory be­ lieve that it is altogether probable that the pre-existing race of the human spe­ cies covered more than half of the hab­ itable area of the earth at the time when God "breathed Into Adam's nos­ trils the breath of life, and man bccame a living soul." If this theory Is not the true one, who were the "sons of God" (Genesis vl., 2), of whom it is written that "they saw the daughters of men that they were fair?" According to the* pre-Adamlc theory, these "sons of God" were none other than the representa­ tives of a race that had been created prior to Adam's formation from the dust of the earth. Chevalier, the great French anthropologist, declares both the negro and the Chinaman to be of the pre-Adamlc races.--St Louis Re­ public. If we had curly hair, we should hata mightily to lose it THE PATE CAPITA!. •TS?,' is DOING,) ' • , »-V • 1 *1,~ w. An Tmjvnr'M®! Accomplished by Tboae Wiw •Ma**- Omr Laws-How the Time Has Bow Occupied Daring the Past Week. •iW'irci fa 4 ' % ! V* •• 1 'it. t.% > ^ i£~: '--m Doinga of State Dad a. The Legislature reassembled Tuesday* and Speaker Meyer announced the ctai* mittees in the House. Cook County as- cured fifteen chairmanships. The com­ mittee jju appropriations of the Senate ordered favorable reports on the military and Anna insane asylum bills. A memo­ rial to Congress in regard to Government ownership of railways was presented in the Senate. A resolution providing for amendment of the se^ion of the coi tution regarding taxation was tefei in the Senate. Mr. Jones, of Cook County, Introduced a bill in the House Wednesday to abolish high hats at theaters. A large number of other bills was introduced, and the Seoh ate's park law was passed. The Senate^ after the introduction of several bills, struggj^d all day with Bartling's resolu­ tion favoring Government control aad ownership of railways. Representative "Woolsey introduced a bill in the House Thursday which prac­ tically defines the American Protective Association as a conspiracy, and providea that any person who belongs to such as­ sociation shall be fined $500 to $2,009. A bill was offered increasing the salary; of election judges to $5 per day. Mr. Merritt offered a resolution looking to in­ creased use by the State of Illinois coaL The military deficiency bill and the bill appropriating $190,000 to rebuild the hos­ pital for the insane at Anna, I1L, wers unanimously passed in the Senate* sub­ ject to the emergency clause. Immediately after the reading of til* journal in the Senate Friday a message was received from the House stating that it had concurred in the Mclvinlay joint resolution providing for the purchase of Illinois Reports for Cumberland County, the reports of that county having been destroyed. Mr. Wells was allowed 191 withdraw his bill appropriating money for the expenses and improvements of ths Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Quincy, from the Committee on Appropriations * 4 and refer it to the Committee on Stats Charitable Institutions. Mr. Paisley lit* troduced a bill providing for a reduction u of interest from sales of latfti under execu- ti.ins, judgments and decrees from 8 to < .»j 7 per cent. Another anti-pool selling bMl , .x fi * was introduced in the House by Buckndsv I of Cook. Mr. Dudley offered a resolution. - \ calling for the appointment of a commit*. ? tee of seven to inspect the insane ho»- ,, ^ t', pital at Anna. It was adopted. Mr. Mer* J l", ritt introduced a bill to amend the insnr- , a nee act so as to permit religious societies * to do a fraternal insurance business. / . t | Both houses adjourned till Monday even* " . ing at 5 o'clock. - U' x< ^ >' >3 Romance of Pnnkin Hollow. %f. The old folks had gone to bed, and Sime and 'Mandy were in the dim littia parlor, where burned a slow fire of sizzling hickory logs in the old-fashion- • ed fireplace. The wintry blasts shook the old farm-house and the windows rattled, and a puff of smoke now aad then came down the chimney on a re* turn trip and circled familiarly about the room, but Slme and 'Mandy didn't mind It They were sitting very close together. Sime, with throbbing heart and faltering tongue, had declared him­ self, and 'Mandy had listened shyly and with downcaBt eyes. . Slme's arm stole in a casual and ap­ parently accidental way along tihar back of her chair. "And you'll have me, 'Mandy?" "STes, Sime." It was spoken softly, but Simon Beard It and there was a sound like that of a quart of cold mush colliding violent­ ly with the side of a brick house. ^ Then the stalwart young man recov­ ered himself and rose to his feet " 'Mandy," he said, with the assured bearing of a man accustomed to acting with business-like promptness in all the great emergencies of life, ^I've got to go to Chicago next Wednesday with four car loads of nogs, and we'll get married in the mornln' and make the trip together." ^ Keeping Trees Awake "Electric lights arc playing sad havoc with shade trees in towns and villages,** says a philosopher. "The effect is to make the leaves appear as though they had been subject to a blighting breath. Arborculturists say that the light i».eepa tl^e trees awake, and, consequently, they are tired to death. Trees need sleep and rest as well as any other thing in nature, and the lack of this rest causes the leaves to droop. This solu­ tion is probably correct as It has been noted that similar trees in the neighbor­ hood of those affected, but removed from the exposure of the Illumination, retain their strength and color." This should be looked into. If a remedy is not provided for before another spring, the trees near electric lights will proba­ bly leave. ^ k tri' • > Interesting Electrical Eipei ImcM. The most astonishing effects may t>e produced by the simplest means. Take a sheet of coarse brown paper and, after holding it before the fire until it is perfectly dry, fold It Into a long strip of about two inches wide. Tbe magnet is now complete. To exhibit its attractive power, cut some strlpa of writing paper about three inches long and about as wide as one of these lines, then place them on the table, three or four together. Now take the magnet and draw it briskly under the arm two or three times; its electee* magnetism is instantly developed, and becomes apparent when held over the small strips of writing paper, for thef fly up frona the table toward the paper magnet veritably "by the wings of* lightning.** • -'VI * * •*> ' v •« «• sr.: Vs* 4, &M4 ', - J: •yf/3 .-J Startled the Company. An English literary man who was on the verge of bringing out a book at the Pitt Press ordered his proofs to be sent to him at a house where be was en­ gaged to dine out Intending to look them over in the half-hour after din­ ner- The printer's boy, however, w«i| late in bringing them, and the gentl# men had already rejoined the ladies in the drawing-room, when the company was electrified by hearing the sonoroa® voice of the butler announcing: devil from the Pitt has come for alii Jones!" ^ • Two Old Servants. ] A woman died recently in AllettfcewSt, Pa., who had lived us a servant in one' family for a period of 67 years. AlA other servant died in the service of A Boston family, atlhê saine tim* afta* serving 62 years. \ a + M -v! ' xid " * | f i ' " ,, , .'i • "'V'