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t nppnnM rnnPTFilp60 vifti our sister states UULVJUll UWUlVllilV.WU UIIUVO IIUI UUI uuig ill un A, Wi CHKNET, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. Am Interesting ColUotlon of Items Front 4hm Two Btmlapharai rnitnWd In Condensed Form A Large Amount f Information la Small Space. Tteoent census figures show that in ton years Massachusetts baa lost in population. A mere shock of earthquake was recently felt in Mew Westminster and moat portions of the Fraaer valley. The American bark Aroturus parted her cable and went to pieoea on the rooks at Santa Rosalia, Cal. One man ' was drowned. Fire in the Chicago Force & Bolt Company plant did 176,000 damage. "The nlant is owned by the Amerioan Bridge Company. The secretary of the interior has ap proved the selection of 1,800,000 acres of land in the Bismarck, N. D., district, ad 686,000 acres in Montana made by the Northern Paoiflo. The members of the Venezuela com mission met in Washington and re cehred their commissions from fleoetary Gluey, and were administered the oath of office, and elected their offloers. The Cheyenne north-bound passenger train was wrecked . at Uhugwater, Wya, by running into ,a bunoh of oat ' tie in a out' Fireman Parker was ' killed and Engineer O'Neill hurt Four ooaches were derailed. ' The National Association of Manu facturers of the United States will shortly hold their annual meeting in Chicago. Particular attention will be given to the Nicaragua canal, the con vention favoring the government own erahip of the great waterway. ' Mrs. Nichols, station agent at Farminston. Utah, and who lives alone in an upper room of the station house, discovered burglars in the aot of robbing the money drawer. She plookily pursued them and compelled them to return every cent they had taken. A desperate battle has been fought near Colon. The Spanish troops were routed, and suffered heavy loss. The insurgents captured the Spanish artil lery and have gained a position com manding the overland entranoe to Havana. General Oliver was killed, and General Campos' son seriously wounded. The United States bureau of eth nology expedition to Tiburon island has returned to New York. The Zeri In dians abandoned their ranohes on the approach of the party and hid in the mountains. The expedition embraoea -the first white people who have visited the island in fifteen years and returned alive. The invasion of the Transvaal by Sr. Jamieson and the foroes of the British South Africa Company has brought up all the latent feeling of hostility to England. Ihe Britons are wrathy because of the oharaoter of the kaiser's message to Kruger and de nouoe the telegram as a decidedly un friendly act. , Warships flying the stars and stripes, and manned by Amerioun bluejackets, may foroe the passage of the Dardan elles and Bosphorus, anchor at Con stantinople and show the saltan that Unole Sam is not to be trifled with. It transpireB that the Bosphorus is likely to be the destination of the North Atlantic Bquadron of American battleships, instead of the Carribean injured will die. Monsignore Satolli, apostolio dele- sate to the United States, has been raised to the rank of cardinal of the ohurch. The ceremony, which took place at the venerable cathedral in Bal timore, consisted in conferring the red berretta, significant of the high station. Two children, aged 7 and 8 years, were captured by the polioe in San Franoisoo, in the aot of robbing a store. They had been assisted by larger boys in scouring an entrance, DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE NORTHWEST. Manufacturing Industrie Make a Good Showing Prosperous Outlook for the Farmar New Manufacturing Plants About to Be Erected Oregon A telegraph line is projected by Bandon parties from that town to Gold Beaoh. The people are asked to put up and confessed to having bad previously the poles and wire, entered another store in the same man- About 200 men will be employed ner. next season on the Gold Basin project At Albany., N. Y., the olimax of one in constructing a ditch twenty miles nf thA moat dramatic and sensational long ana tap tne neaa waters oi tne oriminal inoidentsof the state's history was made publio when, just forty- eight hours prior to the execution of the death sentence of Bartholomew Shea, another man confessed to the Cheoto. The farmers of Wallowa have plaoed on the market this fall about 4,000 head of hogs, which at the prevailing low prices have realized the owners murder, and Shea stepped from beneath about $16,000. the shadow of death thrown by the The negotiations for the establish electrlo ohair. Preparations lor tne ment 0f the cotton factorv in Astoria are reported to be progressing favor' ably. The chances of suocess seem almost assurred. execution had been made, the state eleo trioian was already upon the ground The whole Cuban island outside of the city of Eavana is now in the hands of the insurgents. They have not an nihilated the Spanish foroes, nor have they routed the whole army in any single pitched battle; yet the situation is practically in their bands, and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Mar tinez Campos' army might as well be in Spain for any check it - has upon the movements of Gomez's army. A special from Washington says: A An Oregon lumbering company is to send an agent to the lumber import ing ports of Mexico, Central America and South America, to look into the prospects for business in those places. Long Creek school, in Grant county, has just sold to a New York firm bonds to the amount of (3,000, to pay off olaims against the district incurred by the construction of the new school building. A mining deal of considerable im- more important issue than that over the portance has just been consumated at Venezuela boundary may be raised be- Ashland. The entire Golden . Fleece tween the United States ana Great property has been bonded lor a large Britain if recent reports from Nica ragua shall be confirmed by later de velopments. The substance of these reports, 'sustained by important evi dence, is that British interests' are reaching out for the control of the Nicaragua canal, and that the govern ment is being urged to annul the char ter to the existing corporation. FORTY-FIFTH STATE. President Cleveland'! Proclamation Ad mitting Utah to Statehood. Washington, Jan. 6. The president, at 10 o'olock this morning, signed a proclamation admitting Utah to state hood. The proclamation is as follows: "Whereas, the congress of the United States passed an aot, which was approved on the 16th day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, en titled 'An aot to enable the people of Utah to form a constitution and state sum, and a milling plant is to be erected at once. The postofflce department has deter mined to ascertain the cost of estab lishing a mail service between Ashland and Klamath Falls. Bids for carry ing the mail duily over the route are invited by the department. An electric plant for Canyon City and John Day is talked of. The places are only two miles apart, and in ad dition to the regular patronage the Humboldt placer mine would be a customer during the mining season. The right of the Tillamook Boom Company to charge for holding and booming logs has long been denied by loggers along the Tillamook river, but a compromise has been agreed upon whereby the loggers will pay 10 cents a thousand for all logs brought down the river. A nowly invented fishing apparatus is nearing completion at Portland. The two barges which constitute the cata of funding this indebtedness and out standing warrants in short-standing bonds. The Northern Paoiflo ' Railroad is erecting a number of new ioe bouses and is putting np twice as much ioe as ever before. This additional supply is in expeotanoy of large fruit shipments, and the ice will be, usod for refriger ator cars. An effort is being made in North Yakima to have the saloon lioense re duced to (760, the dealers olaiming that it was more difficult to pay that amount now than it would have been (1,600 a few years ago, when the (1,000 rate was established. The board of trade of New Whatcom have appointed a committee to investi gate the establishment of a creamery there. They have also under consider ation a (360 bonus for a flax mill, whioh would treat all the flax raised in the oounty, if every farmer raised five acres. Glassworks is a new enterprise soon to be in operation at Seattle. The president of the company has just re turned from Europe, where he has pur chased maohinery, and has brought baok an expert engineer from Belgium. It will be the only establishment in the United States to use wood gas. There is a movement to secure a gov ernment station in this state for testing the timbers of the Paoiflo coast. The Washington Chapter of Architects sug gests having the maohinery plaoed in the state university building at Seat tle. The tests would be made under government supervision and all reports would bear the impress of United States officials. Idaho. There are 323 postoffioes in Idaho. The Alder Creek Gold Mining Com pany has been incorporated, with a capital stock of (1,000,000. A mining department has been established at the state university of Idaho. There is no charge of tuition, except for materials used. Idaho Falls will vote on the proposi tion to issue bonds for (30,000 for the DOINGS OF CONGRESS ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY- FOURTH SESSION. Substance of the Bill and Resolution! Introduced In the Senate and House Make-up of the Various Commit tees The Senate. Washington, Jan. 3. The senate held a two hours' session today, in the oourse of which a speech by Mitchell on the restoration of the McKinley duties on wool was listened to and i resolution was passed for the invest! gation by the committee on naval affairs of the prices paid by the gov eminent for ship armor. The roeolu tion contained a broad intimation that officers of the government were interested in armor-plate prices. The most important feature of the session was a resolution offered by Sherman for the restoration of the gold reserve, which hereafter should be held sacred for the redemption of the greenbacks and treasury notes, the former to be re issued only in exchange for gold coin and bullion. Elkins asked for the im mediate consideration of a resolution apropos of the anticipated bond issue, declaring it to be tho sense of the sen ate that no bonds of the United States should be sold at private sale or by private contract, but should be dis posed of by advertisement to the high' est bidder. Hill objected. When the senate met, Perkins of California asked unanimous consent for the consideration of a resolution directing the committee on finance to report ftu amendment to the house-tariff 'bill, laying an ad ditioual duty on raw sugar equal to the other increases 6f the bill. Berry of Arkansas objected. House. Washington, Jan.' 3. A plan for the establishment of a bureau . to be known as the commission of foreign commerce has been framed by Doolittle of Wash ington, and is embraoed in a bill in troduced in the house today. The ob jects of the commission contemplated purpose of erecting an electric light are to acquire and diffuse for the bene and waterworks system. I fit of manufacturing and oommorcial A disoovery of opals has been made ""erests Information on all subjects on a tributary of the Big Camas creek. The field is reported to be very exten sive, and the opals have been examined by prominent New York jewelers, who say they are first-olass. Ex-Governor Edward J. government, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the maran have a space between of twenty original states,' whioh aot provided five feet, which is to be occupied by a for the election of . delegates to a oon- fishing-wheel built of gas pipe. There stitutional convention, to meet at the is considerable speculation as ' to its seat of government of tne territory of saccess. Utah, on the first Monday of March, The recent massaore at Ormah is Btatod to have been terrible. Official dispatohes admit 900 Christians were killed, but aooordiug to private so counts about 2,000 Christians were killed. A massacre is said to have oc curred at Birejik, an important town on the Euphrates. This outrage is be lieved to have been com in i ted by Kurds and Hamedics in the colony. The am bassadors have reoeived word that the bloodshed there was xeceptionally seri ous. A large meeting of the Allegheny County Bar Association was recently held in Philadelphia to decide the ques tion whether women should be ad mitted to practice. The women were victorious by a vote of more than 10 to 1, consequently they will be accorded -the same privileges as their male col leagues. The question was decided after a lively discussion of a resolution, whioh called on the judges to prohibit women from becoming members of the bar in Allegheny oounty. ' Another uprisingg h has occurred in ' Foromsa. 'At a hotel fire in Altoona, Pa., three people were killed by a falling wall. Meetings are being held in Chicago to devise means to aid the Buffering Armenians. In a railroad wreck in South Africa twenty-eight persons were killed and twenty-three seriously injured. Nearly 1,000 chests of tea of the cargo of the big tramp steamer Afrida were damaged on the voyage from Yokohama to San Francisco, and tome of the stuff will be a total loss. An open switch, caused by the care lessness of a conductor resulted in a collision of a freight and passenger train near Chiloothe, O. Six people were killed and many more were in jured. A Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul train orashed into a funeral procession at Plina street, Chicago, injuring five eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the purpose of declaring the adoption of the constitution of the United States by the people of the proposed state, and of forming a constitution and state government for suoh state; and, "Whereas,' Delegates were accord ingly elected, who met, organized and declared on behalf of the people of said proposed state the adoption of the oon' stitution of the United States, all as provided in said act; and, "Whereas, Said convention, so or ganized, did by ordinance irrevocably, with the oonsent of the United States, and the people of said state, as required by said act, provide that perfect tolera tion of rsligious sentiment shall be se cured, and that no inhabitants of said state shall ever be molested in person or property, on account of his or her mode of religions worship, but that polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited, and did also by said ordinance make various other stipula tious reoited in section three of said aot; and, "Whereas, Said convention there upon formed a constitution and state government for said proposed state, whioh constitution, including said or' dinanoe, was duly submitted to the people thereof at an election, held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as directed by said act; and, "Whereas, The return of said elec tion has been made and canvassed, and the result thoreof certified to by me, to aether with a statement of the votes cast and a ocpy of the said constitution and ordinance, all as provided in said aot, showing that a majority of the votes lawfully cast at such election was for the ratification and adoption of said constitution and ordinance; and, "Whereas, The constitution and gov ernment of said proposed state are Re publican in form, said constitution is not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, and all provisions of said act have been complied with in the formation of said constitution and government; Now, Therefore, I, Grover Cleve land, president of the United States of America, in accordance with the aot of congress aforesaid, ana by authority thereof, do announce the result of said election to be as so certified, and do hereby declare and proclaim that the terms and conditions prescribed by the congress of the United States to entitle the state of Utah to admission into the Union have been duly complied with, and that the creation of said state and its admission into the Union on an equal footiugwith the original states is now accomplished. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed," etc. The president has also signed the act transferring to the state of Utah the offices and properties of the territorial offices and of the Utah commission. i Oregon will elect congressmen and their legislature, which will elect a United States senator in June next ihe vote of tne last election was as follows; First district, Hermann, Republican, 22,264; ' Weatherford, Democratic, 10,790; Miller, Populist, 11,260; Hurst, Prohibitionist, 1,000; second district, Ellis, Republican, 18, 875; Raley, Democratic, 9,013; Wal- drop, Populist, 10,749; Miller, Prohi bitionist, 775. The assessment tables as equalized by the state board have been oompletep. The gross valuation of all property, as returned by the several counties, is (158,819,730. The gross amount, as equalized, is (1 53,067,177, total ex emptions, (8,621,761; net taxable, upon whioh the state tax levy will be made, (144,445,420. Census returns so far made by Oregon counties show an increase in the production of hay of 266,907 tons, or over 65 per cent in ten years. In 1885 there were 1,962,722 sheep in Oregon. According to the last census returns there are now 1,962- 722 sheep in tho state, which shows an increase of 325,793 in ten years. When the returns are in from all the counties it is estimated the total increase will be about 750,000. The production of oats in 1885 amounted to 6,116,730 bushels. The completed returns will show an increase this year of 15 per jut. Washington, The dry kilns which were burned, together with 60,000 shingles, at Ma chias, are being rebuilt. Spokake is now advertising for bids for (350,000 of bonds for the new waterworks system there. The bids will be opened on March 2. The Colman coal mine has been re opened at Cedar mountain, after being idle four years. Thirty men will be employed, and the output will be handled at Seattle. The show of the Poultry Club, at Seattle, January 23 to 28, will be one of the best ever given. There will be on exhibition over 1,000 birds from all parts of the countrv. It is stated that a scheme is on foot to start a new town east of the present town of Mohler, to be known as East Mohlor. A large building is being erected on the proposed site. The rate war among Sound steamers has ended. The Edith was taken off for repairs, and the Sehome being in the course of dismantling, the company was unable to compete with the Rosalie. The colony of Hollanders on Whidby island is being increased from time to time, and they are preiiared to settle and develop the rich lands there. Some of them visited Snohomish, but pre ferred to locate on the island. The school board of Taeoma have de cided to submit to the vote of the peo ple the question of validating the in debtedness, amounting to (33,000; also relating to foreign commerce, and es' peoially concerning the demand in for eign ooun tries for produce that may be supplied by American labor. A com missioner of commerce, salaried at 15.000 a vear. will be at the head of Curtis, of : the bureau, with the necessary assist- uoise, is aeaa. ne was u years oi antg and olerioal force. The plan is age, having come to the Coast in 1848. largely the result of Mr. Doolittle's tin .....a .v U 9 tU- '..U i . . " ittiud n uiwuuw ui win juik - oDservation on an extenaea trip through lornia legislature, ana later removea Japan, China and other parts of the to Oregon where he served one term as Eag Aat gnmmer. He says the use of state representative, ne was tern- the bureau would be principally to cul tonal secretary of Idaho in lsutf, and tivate commercial relations between served till the advent of the state of- the United States and other American fioers in 1890. nations and the Orient. THE FINANCIAL MESSAGE. Editorial Views on tho President's Ail viae and the Country's Needs. IN. Y. I'ommerclul aud financial Chronicle.) If Mr. Cleveland had made it his study to bring out in strongest relief the financial weakness of the United States be oonld not have hit upon a better devioe for doing it than his earlier message to oongresi on the Venezuela question. We have the men needed and a few ships; but as to money, we have not even credit That is a hnniiliating admission but is it not the exact truth? Whatever Keed Wants. (Philadelphia Times.J The Republican majority in tea house have promptly realized the ne cessity of doing something in response to the president's appeal for flnanoial action. Tbia will probably be a com posite measure upon the lines suggested by Mr. Reed, providing for low rate bonds for the purohase of gold, for certificates of indebtedness to meet de ficiencies and for additional revenue through customs duties, upon wool and some othor articles. Whatever tho committee may report and that will doubtless be whatever the speaker thinks it ought to report will be promptly passed in the house and th party record thus made clear. uThere was patented to the state of Idaho during the year 9,893 aores of land in 'aid of the state agricultural college, 8,703 for insane asylum, 19,954 aores for penitentiary, 1,320 for publio buildings, 22,383 for the scientific school, 69,492 for charitable institu tions and 5,607 for the normal school. Of the public lands in Idaho there were surveyed during the year 1,430,- 895 acres. HoutHna. The Great Falls National bank has reduced its capital stock from (250,000 to (125,000. Helena parties are taking steps to se cure a franchise for an electric rail road in the national park. A postofflce has been established at Gold Butte, another name given to the camp in the Sweet Grass Hills district. Mrs. W. R. Hearst has forwarded another shipment of books from Wash ington to the Hearst library at Ana- oonda. Senator Carter has introduced a bill providing for the disposal of the aban doned portions of the Fort Assiuuiboine military reservation. The most powerful hoisting engine ever built for any mine in the West is now in operation at tho Green Moun tain mine, hoisting from the 1,200 foot level. j There are 321 prisoners in the peni tentiary thirty-two miners, sixteen cowboys, and other callings are pro portionately represented. There are thirty-threo for murder in first degree, eight for assault with intent to kill, and thirty eight for robbery. Lewis and Clarke has eighty-one, the largest number, and Dawson one, the smallest. British Columbia. A church will be built at Ashcroft in the early spring. Kamloops has organized aVirte corps. It is probable it will lie mustered into the militia. The shingle mill and part of the jute works at Vancouver have been de stroyed by fire. The loss is (40,000. The Rossland Water Company have court, and in an effort to, pass from one the pipes from the reservoir laid to ' window to another, he lost his balance within 1,500 feet of the town. This is and fell headlong through a skylight, about two-thirds of the distance. The J a distance of sixty-five feet, landiag in an unconscious state upon the main floor of Lipman, Wolfe & Co. 's store. Washington, Jan. 4. The senate heard a stirring debate today, the bond' question being the theme. Sherman's speech, whioh hnd been anticipated with mnch interest for some time, in itiated the financial discussion. Elkins Sought to secure an immediate vote on his resolution directing that all bond issues be advertised and the bonds offered to the publio. Hill attempted to have the resolution referred to com mittee, but on a roll-call the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of proceeding with the question. Only six negative votes were cast: Chilton, Caffery, Hill, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Murphy and Brice. Hill spoke vigorously against the resolution. He asserted that Sherman, when secretary of the treasury, had made bond contracts with New York syndicates similar to the one assailed now. This brought on a sharp per sonal debate, in which Hill, Sherman, Hoar, Teller and others participated. At 5:30 o'clock the senate agreed to ad journ, although the motion carried by a bare majority of one. William Tell Was a linci Shot. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 3. "Ari zona Charley," who enjoys the distinc tion of having successfully conducted a week of bullfighting at Cripple Creek, despite the opposition of the local authorities, and the governor, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded hers last evening. The bullfighter is an excellent shot himself, but had too much confidence in the markmanship of a friend, whom he requested to shoot a snowball from the top of his head. The friend's nerve was bad, and Charley received a painful wound in the forehead. Long Fall to Death. Portland, Or., Jan. 2. Frederick Baker, an unmarried man, 23 years of age, employed as an assistant janitor in the Dekum building, having charge of the fifth and sixth floors, met with a horrible death yesterday morning, while in the performance of his duties. While engaged in cleaning the win dows opening out upon the inner Cleveland Hysterical. (New York Evening Poet. Mr. Cleveland's hysterical message on the flnanoial situation is a fitting sequel to the third-term pranks he has been playing. By his own act, deliber ately planned months ago, he has pre cipitated the worst panio this genera tion has seen, and now he calls on con gress to pull him out F . minks Anything Goes. . .t. (New York; Recorder..' ' It looks as though the president was fairly carried away himself by the demonstration -of patriotism whioh his Venezuela message inspired, and sud denly jumped to the conclusion that anything he might say at the present time would be received with acquies cence and support, if not with equal enthusiasm. A Iteaasurlng Message. New York Timet.) Mr. Cleveland has issued a message that is distinctly reassuring, inasmuch as it aims to take advantage of a united national sentiment to make one for ward move in the effort to put the country's finances on a sounder basis. It is a demonstration of the radical unsoundness of our flnanoial system that the declaration, by the executive, of a foreign policy whioh the congress, representing in this case truly the sentiment of the nation, promptly rati fies should cause bo sudden and con siderable of a disturbance.' In a Nutshell. Boston Herald. Here is the flnanoial situation in a nutshell. The government can reduce the supply of currency whioh is now forcing our gold abroad by absorbing the excess through a bond scale. This would unlock the inner reservoir of the treasury balance and turn the gold, or the greenbacks that might be presented in exohange for gold, into the treasury vaults, where they would remain permanently locked up, unless and until they found release through tho deficiency of the revenue. It Might Have Been." Pittsbur Dispatch. If Secretary Carlisle had early in the history of the presentation of the legal tenders for redemption ordered every legal tender so redeemed to be kept in the reserve, for re-issue in its operation that is, whn gold was of fered in exchange for it (100,000,000' of the subsequent inaease of debt would have been unnecessary, and there would not have been the slightest question of the maintenance of the re serve under such an administration. pipe is all on the ground, aud the work of laying the mains will be pushed until completed. The engineers of the Red Mountain railroad, ssys the News, of South Fork, are now through with their work, and the present possible final starting place for the road is uearjy opposite the old mill site on the old placer diggings. A Protest Prom Montana. Helena, Mont., Jan. 2. Governor Rickards left tonight for Washington, where he goes to make a protest against the invasion and depredations of the Cree Indians from Canada. Last week the Canadian authorities refused to act in the matter and the governor decided I to appeal to Washington. He carried i l nion Pacific Finances. New York, Jan. 3. The Union Pacific reorganization committee says that it has received a majority of all Union division, main line and Kansas division first mortgage bonds in circu lation, as well as large deposits of junior bonds, aud nearly one-half of the capital stock. The committee also announces its intention to proceed promptly and energetically with gen- eral foreclosures. It extends the time j for deposit of bonds and stocks without J penalty until January 15. Stock assessments will not be called nntil the plan has been declared operative. documents to show that the Indians are ; The hotel recently destroyed by fire filthy and diseased, spreading the same at Victoria, is to be rebuilt as soon as wherever they go. the weather permits. The Duty of Congress. Kanmis City Star. There is just one thing which oou- gress oan do speedily in response to the president's urgent request for measures of relief of the treasury in its present emergency. That is to authorize the secretary of the treasury to obtain gold from American citizens upon terms which will leave no doubt as to the . purpose of the United States govern ment to return gold in the future to those who furnish it to the govern ment now. The TVIrkcd Greenback. (Chicago Inter Ocean. From the presidential standpoint the greenback is a mean, wicked old thing, that has done a'l the mischief and made him give (11,000,000 in good money to the goldbugs of London to watch the treasury while he went a-fishing and Carlisle was skylarking around Kentucky. Cause of Gold Exports. Philadelphia Press. Gold exports can be looked for this week because they generally take place when there is a crash of credits in Eu rope. The destruction of credits on a large scale creates a demand for gold after all panics, and the past week has wiped out credit values on a tremendous scale in Europe. The result is that a large amount of gold will go to Europe. Democrats Helpless. IS-L Louis Globe-Democrat The Denlocrats in congress are heln- less so far as legislation is concerned. but there is still left to them the blessed privilege of confessing the sins of their party in speeches suitable for circulation as Republican campaign documents next year. (.reenbacka Are Innocent. (Atlanta Constitution. The greenbacks have no more to do with the exports of gold than they have to do with the changes of the moon. To retire them will simply place the responsibility of furnishing gold on in dividuals who are not strong enough to stand the strain. 1