f2 THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1897. -The Weekly GhFoniele. COUNTY OFFICIALS. Count j Jndge... Sheriff. Clerk...... Treasurer!.. ... Kobt. Mays .......T. J. Driver ....... ....... .A M. Kelmy ,..-..C. 1 l-hillips Commisaionera....... ! Ktmroy Assessor. ....l...........-. W. II. Whipple Surveyor J. B. toit Superintendent of Public Schools. . .C. L. (ii Ibert C .rooer -- W. H. BBlta i - - STATS OFFICIAXB. . ' .- 8overnot.. ....'..'.,,.' ... P. Lord Secretary of State HE Kineaid Treasurer .. ....... ...Phillip Metscnan Bapt-ol Pnblio Inatrnctioo. O. M. Irwin iMimMj3Mviil - C. M. Idlcman . . : '. ' (G. W. MrBride raiMun......... JJ. H. Mitchell ' . . tB Hermann Congressmen.. ........ ............ jw. R. Ellis Bute Printer. . ... .... . ... . . . . W, H.AUeda PASSING THE TARIFF. s Democratic senators in caucus bav.e decided to offer no opposition to immediate consideration bj the . senate ot the tariff bill, and Lave is . sued a statement in which they "rec ognize that the business interests of the, country require as speedy a disposition of the question"as is con sistent with an intelligent considera tion of the measure." It is a wise conclusion. Uncer tainty as to pending tariff legislation obstructs business and interferes with industry. The pending tariff ques tion is responsible in part for the present gold drain to Europe. Anx ious to evade the provisions of the new tariff, importers are lushing for- . eign merchandise into the country. A recent treasury statement shows . that imports of merchandise for Apwl reached the unparallcd total of $101,305,131.. Although exports were $6,000,000 .larger than duiing ' the same month last year, the net re suit is an excess ot imports over ex ports of $23,570,431, as against' an excess of exports in April last year of $12,500,000. . . The conviction that tariff agitation hurts business and industry is shared by all parties. The Republican na tional platform of 189C recognized this truth when it declared that the country wanted a speedy, business like, American solution of the tariff, And then it wanted rest. The De mocracy admits that it dare not ac . cept the responsibility for filibuster ing or " tedious opposition to the Dingley bill. It is apparent that the Republican party will be permitted to write its policies Into Iesislation with slight obstruction and little delay. It seems willing to face the responsibil ity, and the opposition in congress is just as willing to give it free rein. . This is what the country wants. The Republican party has promised a line of legislation which, it guaran tees, will restore prosperity. In four years the soundness or the unsound- . ness of these policies can be made plain to the country. The Republi can party has declared that the trouble lies with the tariff, and that when it has revised the tariff, the country will be prosperous on the single gold standard. The country wants prosperity, and it wants the test proposed by the Republicans, and, as conceded by the Democratic senatorial caucus, the sooner the test can be applied, consistent with de cent regard for the rights of open discussion on the floor of congress, . the better , will it be. - SOME FEET: The Ladies Home Journal is usual ly artistic, but its June number com bines poetry with art on its cover. The female figure ornamenting the cover page is poetical only in that it has such metrical feet. The falling drapery fortunately conceals the larger portion of those pedestals, but still there is enough exposed to show that the model was born in Chicago. The 'posing of the figure is phenome nally . ungraceful, the, position, re minding one of . the wouldTbe -senator, Corbett, for . the left leg is a dactyl and the. right a pterodactyl, being several inches the longer, while the. waist line runs diagonally around the' slouchy figure from the articulation of the left hip to that of the right shoulder. Bad as the bal ance of the figure is, the feet are so excruciatingly and( infernally ugly that ilia only by an effort that the gaze may be diverted from them to the balance of the figure." . , Bulwer Lytton, in VA Strange Story," describes the incantations of Margrave and Xhe circle of lamps that had to be kept burning, and he puts the climax to the realistic and horrid scene by making an immense foot ad vance ever between . ' the lamps. That ' f wot wasn't an inch by Ibe side of the Chicago .tootsies the artist has placed under that female figure on the front page of the Home Journal. , They look . as ; though they belonged to the Goddess of Liberty on Bledsoe island. : ..' . .': '; TWO CONTEMPT.. CASES. The trial of Sugar King H.-ivc-meyer, in Washington, "D. C, is a fine illustration .of the working or our judiciary system ; Ilavemeyer was arrested for contempt in refus ing to answer questions put to him by the senate committee concerning the sugar trust. , This alleged con tempt was committed in 189-4 three j'ears ago, and is n,ow only brought to trial.- Why has this delay oc curred? There is but one answer- j "through "the wealth and consequent 'pull' of the defendant." Tet after three j'ears the proceedings are only a farce, and it can be read between the lines that Ilavemeyer is to be discharged. Tlic judge has refused to admit the senate journals in evi dence, and the original stenographic reports have been "lost." - So that between the "unfortunate losing" of the court notes and the ruling of the judge there is absolutely no evidence that can be produced , against his majesty of the sugar ring. We have a very distinct recollec tion of another contempt case.that occurred in Chicago about the same time that Ilavemeyer was snapping his fingers at the senate . committee It , was that of Eugene V. Debs. Now we have no particular liking for Debs, but we do, have the-utmost veneration for justice, and the prin ciple that all men are equal before the law. Debs was the leader of a lot of working men! He was guilty of contempt, and he was promptly tried without any legal quibbling, and as promptly sent to jail. Why? Because be did not have great wealth, and consequently did not have the pull. - It is one of those cases in which it is plainly shown that there is at least two interpretations of the law in his country; one in favor pt the rich, another invariable against the poor. Since civilization began this has been, in -a measure, true, but never to such an extent as at pres ent, and it is one of the rocks upon which the good ship of state is sooner or later to wreck. With power to cause legislation in favor of their class and pull to influence the courts in the interpretation of the laws, the aggresssiveness of a certain class be comes daily more bold, and its con tempt for the masses greater. This will continue until the peo ple get tired unto sickness of it, when there will be an uprising that will make certain judges wish they had never been, born, and that will strip the Havemeyers and the Rocke fellers, the Collis P. . Huntingtons and the Spreckels of lives and mill ions. History shows that wealthy class es become" arrogant, and unmindful of the rights of the toilers. The classes are numerically as 1 to 1000, and the result of , a conflict between, them can be easily foreseen. . - - And yet in the face of history the classes will not take warning of , the danger that lies around them. Their ships float easily upon the placid waters of the sea, upborne by the tide of humanity; but there is going to be a vast wreckage when that sea is swept by a storm. Corrupt le'gis lators and dishonest judges, both the creation of the Ilavemeyer class, will stir up the storm. ' - ; , ,: WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. The past week has added mate rially to the previously strong posi tion of wheat values, viewed from the position of supplies and demand. The crop prospect as a whole retro graded, but more particularly in Cali fornia, where drought and hot winds have caused a reduction , in expected yield of at least 25 per cent, as com pared with last year. . Foreign cro"p prospects are much poorer, especially in France, where the estimated yield is 75,000,000 bushels smaller than last year, and conservative grain dealers , predict large importations during the coming crop year. Values have been firmly held,' and, while no j material advance has occurred,' the market has- gained ' In - strength, and receives better suppoat than during the previous week. '' . ' IT WAS NOT. CONTEMPT. ' We suggested yesterday that Mr. Ilavemeyer, who was being tried in Washington for contempt of court, would be . cleared, and that because he had " money, and therefore influ ence. The dispatches this morning announce ihat this was done. They announce, also, that Mr. Havenieyer said, "The decision is perfectly satis-factorj- . to me, and to "every other decent man in the -district." He may be right, and it may be possible that eyerydeccnt man in the District ot Columbia feels as- he docs, abont it. V The population of Washingtcn City is composed of pap-suckers, time-servers and "puU'.'-worsbippei'S. Wealth and Pull are the idols before which these invertebrates grovel, and the decent men of the country at large cannot be. measure'd by . the de cent things composing the peon pop ulation of our national capital. Ilavemeyer snapped his fingers at the court, and the courts say that owing to his wealth,, his social and financial position and his great po litical influence, he had a right to snap said fingers at. said court as aforesaid. ' "'.'- -'.- "Well, after all,, ib is only a ques tion ot time until we shall all be on the same level with Ilavemeyer, for our courts are rapidly approaching that stage where the people have no confidence in them, and when they will pay no attention to their com mands. Between a system of judi cial anarch and just plain, simple, every-day anarchj the latter . is preferable, because general judicial anarchy simply says there is no law to punish or control the rich; simple auarehy says there is no law for any body. We do not like either, but if choice has to be made, the masses; will soon decide in favor of the lat ter. ; - - : : . .-' If there is no law to punish Ilave meyer for contempt, there should be no law to punish Debs for contempt! The invidious distinction 1m caused almost a universal "contemr t of court," and we hazard the opinion that if Debs were to be tried tomor row, now that Ilavemejcr has been set free, the American people would not permit him to go to jail. They would mob the , court first. . The load has made the public ba:-k sore, and when once that public starts in to buck-it off.it will be time for some judges to hunt tall timber. . A succcsful French writer under takes to show bis couutrymen the barm that has come to them through international exhibitions. lie gives the foremcst place amoug these ills to American progress. He alleges, and doubtless believes, that AmeVi cans Lave attended previous exhibi tions merely to learn, and that they did learn. Then they went Lome and applied their information. ' Even the comprehensive branch of industry- and trade, embracing what are known as articles do Paris, has been trenched upon. Americans, he says, are producing in the some field, and their imports from France have greatly fallen off. In addition to these considerations he has artistic objections to the arrangements for the exhibition of 1900, and be combines his griefs in deprecation of that project. ' ' :. ' ';; The tariff debate ' has begun, but no one can tell when it will end. The silver men have seemingly united upon a plan of action,, which is cal culated to hinder the passage of the bill, it being neither more nor less than an indorsement of the Lubin idea, of giving a bounty on exported agricultural products. The amend ment proposed by Senator Cannon of Utah is to pay-a .bounty of 10 cents per bushel on wheat, 50. cents per barrel on .wheat flour, 5 cents a bushel on corn, 1 cent per pound on cotton, 2 cents on hops, and 2 cents on tobacco. . They' do hot expect this amendment to pass, but will use it to delay and defeat the Dingley bill, and for that purpose only.- The managers of the Utah Pioneer Jubilee claim that President McKin- ley will visit Salt Lake during the jubilee, and that he is already plan-. ningtne tup. . He aouot tbis very much. Like his ' predecessor, the president ."has a ' congress , on his hand9." There; is going to be little jubilee in Washington between this and August, and the program has not yet been" printed. Besides, the action of Senator Cannon of Utah m tacking that Lubin amendment onto the tariff bill, is not going to make the president feel hilariously friendly towards Utah. - ,. . A rew days ago the town was overrun with, wool buyers? and drum mers, but now there is hardly one in the city. They all seemed to get the Heppner fever at once, and de parted for- that town.'. In a sbor time the wool buyers will be back and then ' a price will be made for wool. It looks as though , each of them was waiting for the others to make the move, and all are ' waitin, the action of the senate on ihe tariff bill. Turkey's indemnity demands shrink with a steadiness which 8hovs that she never expected to gel her ori ginal figure. There is a strong prob ability that she will never get any thing in the shape of money out of Greece, and very little in the way of territory." She has won some pres lige, however, at a very small ex penditure in either money-or blood. and even if she should 'get no other compensation she would have.no right to complain. ; - Each day teaches the American people a fresh lesson on the import ance of Arbor Day and timber cul ture. .Down in Texas week before last six men were hung from a single . . . . i - . bough. , ouch incidents are alarming indications of the depletion of tim ber. ; Texas furnishes a profitable field for tree culture, and the demand is constantly increasing. Astoriau Congressman Cochran of Missouri has introduced in the house a resolu tion for an amendment to the con- 8iitution" permitting an income tax to be levied, the supreme court of tbc, United States having decided the' last income tax law passed by congress unconstitutional. A FIGHT TO THE END. Southern raolfle Again Cnta Ita Special ,."' : . - Train Kates. The black flago' uncompromising bos tilities lias evidently been hoisted by the Southern Pacific in its rate war on the O. R. summer steamship travel between Portland and San Francisco, and a third cut was announced late last Lvenirjg and ordered to be pat in effect June 11. It is: First clues, sleeper included. ... . .$10 00 Second class, sleeper included . . . '. . 7 50 In order, however, to secure these fighting rates, passengers wishing to go south or come to Portland wi'.l have to pay lull rate of $20 first class and $15 second class, as evidence of good faith that they are going tbrongh to destina tion. Each ticket will be provided with a rebate conpon, and at the end of bis or her journey, the traveler will get a re bate of $10 on a first-class ticket, and $7.50 on a second-class ticket. This' the Southern' Pacific is compelled to do in order to protect its intermediate passen ger business, the local rates of which' will not be affected by the rate war at the terminal pointe. It appears that the interstate commerce commission has no voice in this matter, from the fact that San Francisco and Portland are railroad points affected by water compe tition, and where a railroad company is supposed to be at liberty to meet the rates of a water rival. In this instance, however, the cutting of rates was inaug urated by the Southern Pacific, and not by the O. R. & N. . -. N6 information could be obtained last evening showing that the (). R. fc N. had met this third cat rate of the Southern Pacific, and, the information coming so late, it .is fair to presume that no changes were made ; but it is safe to gamble on the proposition that the O. R. & N. people will meet the cat today, and. go their friends, the enemy, one better. Oregon ian . ' . A Had Wrack. , At about 4 o'clock Thursday morning at American Falls, on the Oregon Short Line, tnere was t bad accident, result ing In the death of one passenger and eight or nine boboes. . . ' - The weet-boupd passenger that passed bere this morning was on the main track waiting for. freight train No. 22 to pull in. Xne ireignt was joaaea wun lum ber, and coming down, the grade into the station the. brakes , would not hold, and there was a rnnaway. The engineer of the freight gave a danger signal, and the passenger train started to. back oat of the way. . It bad attained a speed of six or seven miles an . hour, when the freight dashed inta' it, running sfxty miles an hour. The passenger train was not damaged, nor any one on it hart. One passenger who was on the platform and saw there was going to be a colli sion, jumped off at the depot, and when the crash came the freight cars left the track, demolished the depot, and killed the passenger who had just got off the train. ;;' . ;. '':; The . engineer ' and fireman of the freight each received broken limbs In the crash, but stayed at' their posts., A gang of hoboes, eight or nine in nam her, vetfi on the freight and all were killed. Graduating Kxerctso. Following is the program of the gradu ating exercises of . The Dalles High School : tomorrow night at the' Vogt Grand: - . . School Anniversary Anthem . . ' . : ... High ochool Chorus Clasi History ...... . . Frances H. Pouts. 'Whom Does the World Owe a LtviDe?" Victor K. U. Schmidt Solo "I Have a Little Doll, Dears". ....... .. Trudie Kow.and "Lookinsr Forward"..: . . Beulah Beatrice Sterling "Music and Ita Influence". .... Ethel B, Deming Song "Elver of Time"-". . .High School Quartet "if Washington Should Betnrn".. . . Arthur C. titubling "The Love of Our Native Laud". . : ...... . . Male Eleanor Klton Piano Duet "Tancred" . ' ....... .Clara Mckelsen and Florence Hilton "Wasco County in 1997'-'... ... Georgia L. Bonney "Days of Youth are Days of Pleasure" . : . -. MLxea yuurret "Problems America Has Solved". .... . .-, ... ..Carletjn Earl Sitnders Class Prophecy. . . .. .-. .. . .Harriet A. Marden "Mornine Chorus" "... '. trouoie Quartet and; Duet Obllgnto Presentation of Dlnloma. .-. .Dr. O. D. Doane. Chairman Board of Directors ."Hark! .They Come". . .... . .High Bchool Chorus Sneaking has been left or tional with each member of the clags, and the following have h imurawn in order 10 give more time to tnose wno mate pari: . . Money". .Emma E. Bonney "The Growth of Education in Oreeou" . tiva May ureiguton Religion, a Criterion of a Nation's Progress" . Orson Daton Taylor "Great Men in Life and in Death , Ketta Olive Taylor tetter Vrom Mr. Farrla. We received this morning the follow ing letter from Mr. James Ferris, who recently went from this place to Yakima. Mr. Ferris is 84 years old, and his letter siiows that he is still a keen observer, and that his mind is still vigorous. The letter is dated ' at Yakima City, May 26th, and is as follows: , - Deab Friends: I write a few lines to let you know I am in Yakima City at John FarrisV I am well as when I left The Dalles. Wasi eight, days coming from The Dalles, camped - out' seven nights, and got to John's the eighth day. stood the trip well and am enjoying my self well with John's children. He is away shearing sheep, leaving the second day after I goc bere. He has qui tea crew ana nave all the shearing they can do. Times are dull here and money scarce. There is - nothing of importance here. Last November the river was very high. It took two bridges away and one man drowned hard to save several others. I am trying to set the paper that has the matter in. If I can find it, I will send it to yon. I got several papers from yon, for which I thank yon very kiudly, bat they came to the wrong office. The v came to North Yakima and mv address is Yakima City, Wash. The offices are about four miles apart. Yakima City is where I am. I send von where John is and yon can see what a crowd he has. w e have good - weather now. Straw berries are getting good. I know noth ing to- Interest yoir. Hoping to hear from you soon, direct Yakima City, VVaeb. .. -Yours trnly, James Fabkis. Advertlaed Letters. Following is the list of letters remain ing in the postoffice at The Dalles un called for May 29, 1897.'. Persons call ing for the same will give date on which they were advertised : Fisher, JD James, Jessie Kilpatrick, Frank Manley, A B Pressen, Mrs A ; Ralppson, R Rothery, B M ' Smith, DC. Sims, J A Sheavancy, J W Jones, Chas (5) Leist, RC -Pratt, B F . Press, A Redden, Lulie . Ridall, Mrs Anja Smith, Wm R" Smiley, Thou (21 Staples, C . Sopping, Geo P-' Satter white, Mrs E Wilson, Jas D Whitehead, Fred G v ood, uarrv r Wilde, John W Waller, Alwir F Wallis, WAV J. A. Crosses, P. M. There - was a .lively . rnnaway about 12:30 this afternoon, the! team being that of . J. Collins & Co. What fright ened the horses, we did not learn, bnt they came np second street like a Kansas cyclone, and sticking to the middle of the road like a gold . Democrat. There was some bread and several axes in the wagon when the race began, bnt these were thrown ont promiscuously aa the wagon hit the street crossings. In front of Fred Fisher's the runaways ran into tour-horee team, knocking two of the horses down, and falling themselves. The tongue was broken from the four- horse wagon, but that was all. the dam age done. ' :-' . Flowers for Decorating. Al1 persons desiring to assist in fur nishing flowers for decorating our heroes graves on' Memorial Day, are invited to send their offerings to Fraternity ball on next . Monday . morning between ' the hours of 10 and 12. , Per order -: ;. ' ; , ,' - Maby Leabnbd, Mabt S. Mybbs, . : President. i' Secretary. ' , Casta in Tour Checka. All county warrants registered prior to Dec.; 1, 1892, will be paid at my office. : Interest ceases after May . 7, 1897. C.1L Phillips, .; . County Treasurer." Yellow washing powder will make your clothes "the same color. , Avoid this by nsiDg Soap Foam. It's pure white. ,'..'.'-' a2-3m BICYCLES AND BOOKS. 2ffect of the Whoel on the Demand '' for Literature. eiew York BookaeUers Say Their feoslneaa Has . Been Seriously Affected ' ; . by the Bicycle Epl . demte. v " Among the many trades that com-, plain of' the havoc .' that , has been wrought among them by the craze foi bicycling ' is that of , the bookseller, who says that, at present at least, people-would rather wheel than read. The Publishers' "Weekly treats of the matter editorally in rather a despairing vein,, though, it sees some light Xar ; ahead, and meanwhile advises the weep ing bookseller to udd biC3-cles to hia stock. . It-anys: . ' '. ' ' "'Do bicycles hurt books?' tves the momentous question recently put by the New York Times to a. number of booksellers in Sew York city, and the weight of opinion :iecnicd to, be in the affirmative. ' Not only thr book trade, but all other trades That have been in-tervie-.ved ou the Eubjc-ct chum to.suffei; from the bicycling epidemic. Tliougb much cf this y.-ailiug -is, verhaps, ex aggerated, it is net altogether based on imagination. It docs not, for instance, seem - unreasonable to as.su.ne, ; when confronted with the report that nearly $2,000,000 are invested in the manufac ture of bicycles in and near New York, city nlone, and that, nearly S00.000 per sons in the same locality are already addicted to 'wheeling, that the 'wheel' . does affect retail trades in general, and noticeably" the ..book trade.vVhich depends tipca- sedrntory rather than perambnlatory habits.-- : - 'However, there . seercs to be some hope left. One of the booksellers . in terviewed, ' himself an enthusiastic wheelman, is .of the. opinion that the present effect of bicycling on the book trade must be only, temporary. - His theory is that the increase of wheeling mean at the aamq time an increase of vigor and good health among the peo ple. ' Once the, first and present phase of wheeling is over, this renewed vigor will exhibit itself in a practical manner. as the people cnco r.ore return to their libraries end books in better health and better prepared to, enjoy them. lake all fads, bicycling- will reach a climax and then the reaction will set in.. How nearly that climax has been reached it would be rash to say; but the indica tions are that it is not yet in sight.' The manufacturers of bicycles have not yet touched bottom, so far as prices are concerned, and ivntjil they do, there will still be millions 'to pass through the craze which for the time being is de moralizing the equilibrium of trade. We note in this connection the pro posal of a bookseller that the book trade add bicycles and their concomitants to ita stock? Dry goods stores, the depart ment stores generally, says our friend,' besides a number of miscellaneous stores -among the latter are mentioned even several drug stores in New York city already do a thriving business in bicycles. If the bookseller is for the moment denied the privilege of furnish- . ing his fellows with lamps to their feet, why, he claims, should '.he not keep lamps for their wheels, and so bind them to the habit of buying at a ' bookstore? The Prophet J ahum, thou- . sands of years ago, lamented 'that the city is full of the noise of the wheels.' And the world still moves! Why, then. should booksellers mope and be unhap py? Let them take Launee's advice, and '. help to 'set the world on .wheels.- At ' this fin de iecle .'everything does! 'Caps and bells' will be 'called in by the inexorable decrees of fashion," but of the making of many books there will be no end nor of the selling of them,; either. Literary Digest. Regulator Line Tie Dalles. Fortoi ail Astoria .-'. ' ' ' ' V ."' " Navigation Co.' ars. Regulator & Dalles CSty FREIGHT AND PASSENGER LINE .V"'.- '. -' ' BETWEEN The Dalles, Hood River, Cascade Locks and Port land daily, except Sunday. GOOD SERVICE. LOWEST RATES. DOWN THE VALLEY . OR TO ' EASTERN OREGON ? Are you going ' If so, save money and enjoy a beautiful trip on the Columbia. The wet-bound train arrives at The Dalles in ample time for paBsenirers to take the steamer, arfivlnff in Portland in time for the outgoing Southern and Northern trninn; East bound passengers arriving In The tlales la time to take the East-bound train. - For further information apply to N. HARNEY, Agent, v ' . :-, Oak Street Dock. Portland, Oregon, .. " - Or W. C. AXLAWAY, Gen. Agt, . The Dalles, Oregon SURE CURE for PILES Itchin nd Blind. Bleedin's mr Protmdtnr PI 1m vUM . DR. BO-8AM-KO'S PILK REMEDY. Stop. ilc in, absortw tuntars. A pOaStire eyre. Circoiara Pot free, Pria Otis. Iruifi.ugrU.. Jt. ALOSAX&O, Phil. PT