OREGON COURIER
A, W. VHKNKY, Publisher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAY
EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
.Am Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented In a
Condensed Form A Large Amount
f Information In a Small Space
Disastrous prairie Area in Western
Kansas hare caused great loss of life
and property.
An explosion of natural gas in a
Chios cro tenement noose wrecked a
building and injured three people.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Paoiflo for sis months ended December
81, were $11,588,148 an inoreaae of
91,025,633.
A board of naval offloers has been ap
pointed by the navy department for in
vestigating the oondition of the nine
monitors lying at the League island
yard, Philadelphia.
Disorders have ooonrred in the East
End of London growing out of the fact
that the Gorman and Dutch sailors
about the docks were hissed. The
windows of the shops kept by German
Jewa were broken, and several German
labs were closed.
Stephen V. Emmons, a prominent
gold miner of New York, has addressed
an open letter to President Cleveland,
- setting forth a unique plan for main
taining the treasury reserve. His
suggestion is that if the secretary of
the treasury will put himself in com
munication with the owners of gold
mines throughout the country, he can
cause the entire product of the United
States to be at the disposal of the gov--ernment
in exshange for silver coin.
He promises the co-operation of all his
interests.
At the request of Senators Mitohell
and MoBride the secretary of the in
terior has directed a speoial agent of
-the department to prooeed to Oregon
. immediately, to make suon investiga
tions as can be made at this season of
the year in relation to the alleged ap
propriation and occupation of lands
within the Bull Run reservation (from
whioh Portland reoeivea its water sup
ply), the pasturing of rattlo and sheep
thereon, and the destruction of timber
by forest fires and trespassers. This
agent is directed by the secretary to
confer with the chairman and other
offloers of the Portland Water Company
and their attornoys, to oo-operate with
them in every way.
The rebel chieftan, Qungunbana,
who has been making war on the For
tuguese in Moaambique, South Africa,
has been captured, and the rebellion
will be terminated.
Judge Morrow, of San Franoisoo,
gave judgment in the sum of $300 to a
passenger who was refused accommo
dation on the steamer Willamette
Valley for the reason that he had a
aoalper'a ticket
A dispatch from Berlin says that
serious rumors are in circulation there
regarding the situation of Italians in
Erythrea. Their position is said to be
almost desperate. It ia learned that
the tension between England and Italy
regarding the refusal of the former
power to allow the latter to disembark
troops at Zeilay has boooine very seri
ous. Judge Shiraa, of Iowa, in the fodoral
court at Omaha, rendered a deoisiou de
claring that in cases whore Indians
have become oitizens with all the ao--oompanying
privileges, the govern
ment is still bound by the treaty stipu
lations existing while the tribal rela
tions were sustained. lie holds that
it applios on all reservations, and is
wide in scope.
The notorious outlaw, Bill Dooley, is
again oreating trouble for the offloors,
this time in Texas.
A spooial from Rome Bays 10,000
Abyssinians were killed or wounded in
an attack upon Makile.
The heirs of the late Jay Gould are
being made to pay their inheritauoe
tax by the Now York courts.
Both Cincinnati and SL Louis are
working hard to secure the national
Demooartio convention.
The available cash balanoe of the
treasury is something over $180, 000,
000 and the gold reserve below $00,
000,000. The govemmont is taking active
steps to put a stop to poaching in Yel
lowstone Park, in order to protect the
few remaining buffaloes.
Mrs. Alva E. Vandorbilt, the di
vorced wife of William K. Vanderbilt,
has been married to Oliver B. P. Bel
mont, Mayor Strong, of New York
eity, performing the oereinony.
The term of F. B. Rockefeller, the
ex-banker of Wilksbarre, Pa., who
closed the doors of his private bank in
February, 1893, defrauding 600 de
positors out of nearly $500,000, has ex
pired. Edwin Fields, who at one time
owned a large pait of the city of Tomb
stone, Aria., and a mine worth more
than half a million, has been taken to
the poor house at Dunning, I1L, to
spend his few remaining years.
Attorney -General Maloney, of Il
linois, has begun quo warranto pro
ceedings against the National Linseed
Oil Company on the ground that it is
a trust. The ease is similar to the pro
ceedings pushed against the late
whisky trust
Sir Mackeniie Bowell, of Ottawa,
Out, authorixea a statement relative
to Canada's position in regard to arbi
tration of the Behring aea seizure
olaima, that Canada baa agreed to the
terms of the treaty and promptly for
warded ber assent to the British
authorities.
Those in a position to have early in
formation on the subject, olaim to have
good reason for believing that large
German banks intend to subscribe for
$40,000,000 of tbe new government
loan. The Deutsobe bank, it is said,
intends to subscribe for $25,000,000 of
the bonds, and the Bleiohroeders for
$15,000,000. It is also said that the
imperial oounoil has been largely infln
enoed in consenting to these subsorip
tions by the strained relations now ex
istiug between Gormany and England,
Three brothers were fatally injured
by an explosion of dynamite in Phila
delphia. The boys expeirmented with
a toy safe, whioh they were trying to
open with dynamite, an explosion oo
ourring, breaking open the door. The
three were so badly burned that their
death is daily expected. Tbe mother
also sustained serious injuries trying
to put out the flames.
A dispatch from Johannesburg says
it is reported from Pretoria that Dr.
Jamieson and other offloers interested
with him in tbe recent disturbance
with the Boers, in South Africa, have
been started for Natal, where they will
be handed over to the British authori
ties to be tried under the laws making
it a punishable offense to prepare a
warlike demonstration against a friend
ly state
Alexander J. Boroday, an electrician
of the Westingbouse Company, of
Pittsburg, Pa., is believed to be held a
prisoner by the Russian government,
probably in Siberia. He was a natur
alized Amerioan oitizen, but had been
aotive in political agitation in Russia
before ooming here. Albert Schmidt,
general superintendent of the West
inghouse works, has communicated the
facts to Secretary Olney.
A representative gathering of men
and women of Detroit, took action ex
pressive of keenest sympathy with the
Armenians, and also by a gift of over
$500 made a substantial beginning in
rendering financial aid to that op
pressed people. The meeting also
adopted memorials to the United
States government, and to tbe queen
of Great Britain, urging action which
shall forever end the atrooities perpe-
tratod by the Turks against Christians.
The London correspondent of the As
sociated Press says that Great Britain
is seriously and steadily preparing for
war on a very large scale at sea and on
land, against Germany, or against Ger
many, France and Russia, should they
combine against her. Emperor Will
iam threw down the gauntlet; it was
promptly pioked up and energetio steps
were immediately taken by the British
government to baok up this action by
a most imposing display of sea power,
Ten days of suffering from cold and
privation on a rocky bluff, during
whioh time aeven of the crew, inolud
ins the captain and mate, met their
death, and the other mate and a sea'
man terrible accidents, tells the tale of
the wrecking of the big four-masted
English shin Jeannette Cowan, on
Vanoouver island, Puget sound, other
wise known as the "Boneyard of the
Paoiflo Ocean. ' ' Seven people are dead
and two injured. The offloers of the
tug tell a harrowing story of the
wreok and of the crew and its but
roundings as found by them.
The interest of Amerioan millers is
oentered in the nex meeting of the
executive ooinmittee of the National
Millers' Trade Association, to be held
January 27. in Chicago, Milles have
recently praotioally decided upon a per
sistent agitation for reciprocity with
South Amerioan oountries, and will
make a determined effort for the re
peal of that portion of the tariff law
which they think conflicts with the
flour intercuts of the United States.
B. A. Hart, a member of the assooia
tion, says the prospect of the Cubans
saining their independence will have
a teudenoy to promote oommeroial rela
tioua between the new republic and
this country.
A HUMAN LADDER.
By Thli Means W a Yonng Girl Ite-
eued From a Burning Building
Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Jan. 14. Fire
in the residence of Banker James
Keogh early this morniing oaine near
resulting in a terrible holocaust As it
was, four members of the family and
the domestio were badly burned, and
one severely out with glass. Mrs.
Keogh waa ill, and the shock and
burns she received, it is feared, will
oause her death.
Mr. Keogh saved four children by
heroio dashes through the flames.
Upstairs were two daughters. When
awakened, the downstairs part of the
house was ablaze, but one of them
rushed down and out of doors, reoeiv
lug only slight injuries. The other
feared to follow and broke the window
to call for help.
By this time the young men outside
formed a human ladder several feet
high, and by standing on each other's
shoulders were able to rescue the dis
traotod girl, who was badly cut about
the body in getting out, being clad only
in her night dress.
SI Hundred l'eople Killed.
Teheran, Persia, Jan. 11. Two
earthquakes occurred in the district of
Knalkaly. The first occurred the
night of January i. The large village
of Janjabad was destroyed and several
other partially destroyed. Ihree
hundred persons were killed. The sec
ond shock occurred January 5, snd
was very severe. It was felt over an
area of ten miles. The town of Goi
was destroyed and thousands of houses
demolished. In addition great damage
was done many village. Tbe loss of
life was very great There were 600
person killed in Goi alone, and a large
number of oattle and sheep perished.
OREGON'SPOPULATION
RAPID INCREASE NOTED SINCE
THE YEAR I80O.
Interesting and Spicy Newt Note From
Our slater State .Notable Inoreaie
In Agricultural Product Mining and
Dairying Oregon.
There are five stamp mills now In
Jackson oounty.
The Columbia river ia now lower
than it has been for many years.
Of forty-three vessels examined by
the health offloers at Astoria,
during
the last quarter, no oontagious
were found.
Diseases
The total sales of land through the
office of the board of school latid com
inissioners during 1895 was? 71,923
aores at the value of $92,056. i
A cargo of lumber is strews along
Elk Beach for miles, whioh is supposed
to have been floated off the decks of
lumber schooners during the late storm,
Sturgeon fishing has become quite an
industry around The Dalles. Several
large catches are reported in that dis
trict, a recent one weighing 425
pounds,
The Southern Miners' Association
has formed a permanent organization
at Grant's Pass. About 200 miners
were present and genuine enthusiasm
prevailed.
Wheat is now moving out of Peudle
ton about as rapidly as the railrfad can
handlo it The movement wasfetarted
by a recent bulge when 400,00 bush'
els were sold at 40 cents net
The Polk oounty oensus returns show
2,440 legal voters. The entire popula
tion is 9,193. Over 2,000,000 pounds
of hops were raised; 795,951 bushels
of wheat, and 530,507 bushels of oats.
The Coos Bay Creamery Assooia'
tion paid in aotual cash to its milk re
ducers during 1895, $13,500. Notwith
standing the low price of butter this
season, the year was fully as good as
in 1894.
Work on the construction of the
freezing and paoking houses, at Goble,
ia progressing as rapidly as possible,
The machinery will arrive this month
and the establishment will be ready for
operation by May.
Mrs. Warren, the first white ohild
born in Oregon, and one of the sur
vivors of the Whitman massacre, was
recently married to William Cochran.
The couple have moved to San Jose,
Cal. The bride was 60 years old at the
time of her marriage.
The estimated amount of revenue to
be raised this year, $783,000, is based
upon the assumption ttaat, if the ordin
ary expenses of government are tbe
same as last year, $94,524, the excesses
will amount to $88,459, which will
bring last year' figures up to, in wand
numbers, $783,000. This would give
a rate of 5.4 mills.
The promoters of the Oregon sum
mer school have formed a corporation
with a capital stock of $20,000, divided
into 20,000 shares. The objects of the
Association are to advance the standard
and efficiency of the teachers of the
various educational institutions of the
state of Oregon. It ia intended to
maintain and oonduot one or more
schools and to provide lectures and in
struction on pedagogics and the asso
ciated soienceB.
Most of the shipments from Portland
to the Sandwich islands up to this
time, have been bran, feed, shorts,
middlings, eta, and some lumber,
while fruit, bananas and oranges have
been brought back. The Oregon Rail
way & Navigation Company have ar
ranged that their outgoing steamers
will cull at the islands, and if sufficient
trade they will call on their way baok
hero. Feed, fertilizer, lumber and
flour are the products whioh Oregon
intends to ship to that point
The total population of Oregon is
about 878,000, a gain of more than
100 per cent over 1885, and of 18 per
cent over 1890. Between 1880 and
1890 the state increased at the rate of
79.53 per cent Increase has been
more rapid, therefore, between 1885
and 1895, than between 1880 and 1890.
On the other hand, the rate of increase
was greater between 1885 and 1890
than between 1890 and 1895. It will
never be as large again, because a
greater immigration will bear a
smaller proportion to the whole. Ore
gon gained 94.65 per cent between
1850 aud 1860 because tbe original
population was so small that the im
migration of that era exceeded it The
gain of 18 per cent between 1890 and
1895 is just about suoh as shown by
states whioh are growing, but not re
ceiving considerable immigration.
New York gained 18 per oent between
1880 and 1890.
Washington.
A new logging camp has been estab
lished at Sunnyside, on Lake What
com.
The large log jam in the Coweeinan in
Cowlitz oounty, was broken with dyna
mite.
Adams oounty claims not to have had
a sheriff's sale advertised for two
months.
Waitsburg is discussing the matter
of putting in a pumping system during
the dry season.
E. P. Brinnon, a pioneer of Jefferson
county, is dead. The town of Brinnon
waa named after him.
Snohomish expects to add an import
ant industry this year to her resources,
namely: a beet sugar factory.
The teachers of Walla Walla county
have decided to hive a permanent or
ganization, to hold a monthly meeting
at Walla Walla. Waitsburg. Presoott
and Dixie.
Tbe new fish cannery at Richardson
will be oompleted during the ooming
Maroh. Its oapaoity will be 50,000
cases and will employ not leaa than
twenty people.
The Watoom board of trade has ap
pointed a committee to look up a site
for the Lynden creamery on Belling
ham bay, where good shipping faoili
ties can be bad.
The merchants and ship owners of
San Franoisoo and Puget sound oou
template a telegraph line from Tatoosh
island to Gray's Harbor. This stretch
of country is totally uncovered.
Tbe executive oommittee of the
Northwest Mining Association have
deoided to call a convention on Febru
ary 22, at Spokane. Invitations will
be extended to tbe state officials of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Won
tana.
The Everett school board has deter
mined to bond the outstanding indebt
edness of the district, and then to put
expenses on a cash basis. Tbe board
is not inclined to issue any more war
rants. The problem it has to solve 1b
to run tbe school without giong in
debt
The leading educators of this state
are to hold an important meeting in
Spokane, next summer to organize a
society and take action for a unifies'
tion of the publio school system of
Washington, inoluding tbe state uni
versity, agricultural college and state
normal schools.
As a result of the prospecting done
by a diamond drill on the coal proper
ties of the Everett and Monte C'risto
Company, about three and one-hulf
miles southeast of Granite Falls, a
tributary to the town of Everett, it has
been decided to develope the property
by sinking a shaft
The salmon paok statistics ' for the
Columbia river for 1895 show: Spring
pack Chinook salmon, 437,810 cases;
bluebaoks, and steelheads, 52,666
oases. Total value, $2,711,853.75;
amount paid for flsh, $1,776,647.
Allowing one-half the catch to the
Washington fishermen makes the
amount received by the fishermen of
Washington for spring salmon deliver
ed tocanneries$888,273.50. Fall pack
92,86 oases of silvorsides, 81,600
oases of Chinook, 3,600 cases of steel-
head; total, 137,086 cases, valued at
$456,50960.
Idaho.
A new lumbering enterprise has just
been started at South Boise. The mill
oost $40,000 and will out about 4,000,
000 feet this year. The maximum ca
pacity is 40,000 feet per day.
A ooal mine has been located about
twenty-five miles from Idaho Falls.
It is a superior quality of ooal, and oan
be delivered at that place for $3,50
per ton, one-half of the price of soft
ooal at the present time. It is a very
light ooal, free from iron and with
great heat A road is to be constructed
to the mine.
A oompany has been organized which
has teoured deeds to gravel bars and
water rights about the Horseshoe Bend
to Salmon river. It is the object of
the oompany to oonstruot a large out
through the neck of tbe bend which
will be 18,000 feet long, and by this
means drain 9,000 feet of the present
river channel.
A Chioago capitalist ia about to
launch on the Snake river a veritable
floating mining camp. On the boat
there is a good sized boarding and
lodging house to a commodate. 150
miners an immense stationary engine
and boilers together with dredgers and
pumps of all sizes. This mechanioal
boat battery will move up and down
Snake river working the banks for
gold.
The report of Wells, Fargo & Com
pany gives the total mineral production
of Idaho, in 1895, at $7,853,320, an
increase of $511,900 over last year.
Of this production the gold was $2,521,
000; silver $2,807,450; lead, $2,026,
680. The difference between Wells
Fargo's total and the assay office esti
mate is largely accounted for by the
different value per ounce of silver, the
mint using the coinage valne and
Wells-Fargo the commercial price.
The difference, 62 cents, amounts to
$2,500,000.
Montana.
A new hotel is to be built early in
the spring at the Old Hunter's Hot
Springs resort
The Odd Fellows at Belt have let a
oontraot for a new building. The
lower floor is to be used as a publio
hall.
A stucco company has been incor
porated with a capital stock of $15,000.
It is to work the gypsum fields at
Kibbey.
The long bridge over the Yellow
stone, five miles south of Livingston,
was blown into the river by a high
wind. It is a total wreck and cost
Park oounty $8,000.
Montana produced in metals about
$40,115,000 during the year 1895, just
ended, taking tbe value of the silver at
the coinage rate aud estimating the
last two months of the year on a pro
rata basis. The official report of the
assayer for this office will not be ready
until some time in March, but it is
believed that tbe figures given will not
vary more than a few thousand from
the real amount The production of
gold was $4,100,000; of silver, 4,500,
000 ounces; of oopper, 212,000 pounds,
and of lead, 24,500,000 pounds. The
output of copper is estimated as being
65 per cent of the production of the
United States. The receipts of bullion
at tbe Helena assay office during 1895
were 10 per oent greater than last year
and 47 ig' per oent greater than during
1893.
British Colombia,
Plenty of surface indications of crude
petroleum are reported in East Koo
tenai. The indications ooTer a very
Urge area and two different qualities
of oil have been obtained.
NOT MUCH WAR TALK
JOHN BULL IS FULL OF CONFI
DtNCE, HOWEVER.
No further uuouueeinent of Move
iueut Luoklua to an Ulaueo of
l'owrs Agalust Kngland-Transvaal
Agalu to tbe for.
London. Jan. 14. Interest in the
Transvaal question in its immediate
bearing has revived to an appreciable
extent, while the incidental strain of
relations between Great Britain and
Germany, which so completely placed
the Boers in the background of tbe pic
ture for a time, has in its turn reced
ed, but by no means disappeared
There is littlo apprebpension of war
with Germany, over the present coin
plication at least, and tbe British pub
lio has an enduring sense that, if there
is to be a war, England is ready for it
The prominent aud efficient measures
of the naval authorities, and tbe for
midable show of strength which is the
result, give John Bull a feeling of con
fidenoe. There are no further explicit
announcements of movements looking
to an alliance of the powers against
England today.
Nevertheless, it is keenly perceptible
by the publio that tbe sentiment dis
played by tbe German government has
a far wider bearing than the present
dispute in the Transvaal, and there are
visions of future complications on ques
tions of conflicting interests.
It is not believed that President
Kruger has demanded the abrogation
of the Loudon convention, whioh pro
vides for the suzerainty of Great
Britain over the Transvaal as the prioe
of sparing Dr. Jainieson's life.
A dispatch from sources sympathetic
with the Transvaal government in
Johannesburg tonight assert the plot
for Jumieson's raid and the coincident
uprising of the Uitlanders was tbe
most shameful in history. Tbe
blackest part of the plot, the dispatch
asserts, was the intention of tbe agents
of the Chartered South Africa Com
pany to set loose the savages to invade
the Transvaal from all points and kill
every white man. It bad been en'
gaged that all over South Africa pro
visional stations should be erected on
the lines of route, and the points bad
been fixed. The object was to destroy
Pretoria and to present England with
a fait accompli before any interference
could reach them. Sketches of Pre'
torai and of the "Rand" made by
military men have, it is said, been
seized.
In Germany.
Berlin, Jan. 14. There is distinctly
less stress of feeling here today m re'
gard to the international oomplioation
growing ont of the Transvaal crisis,
and the German press, as a rule, de
votes less space to it than for some
time. The tone of the oomment of the
newspapers, which means so much in
this land of press censorship and in
spired expressons in newspapers, is
rather more peaoeable, and there is less
talk of active hostilities and more hope
expressed of an unarmed settlement of
the questions at issue. Expressions of
irritation at the British government,
and of rancor against the English peo
ple, are still more or less bitter, how
ever.
VENEZUELANS AROUSED.
England Send Troop to Guard
the
Disputed Territory.
New York, Jan. 11. A speoial
the Herald from Caracas says:
to
The government has received news
from tbe Venezuela boundary stations,
near the frontier of British Guiana, to
the effect that 100 men of the British
colonial police have been sent to guard
the English station, in the disputed
territory.
The government regards this aotion
as a direct menace on the part of Eng
land, following, as it does, so closely
the message of President Cleveland
relating to the boundary question,
England's manner of answering the
United States in regard to the occur
rences on the Guiana frontier has
caused great excitement here. The
newspapers devote leading artioles to
the movement, and regard it as hostile.
They urge the government to dispatch
immediately a large body of troops, in'
eluding heavy artillery, to watch the
invaders and resist their advances.
Many armed Venezuelans have gone
to the frontier with knowledge of the
government, to act as territorial guard.
Crespo's expected proclamation re
garding the situation and the official
action whioh will be taken thereon has
not been made publio.
The revolutionary movement is ao
tive in the East, and many political
arrests are being made. Mr. Castillo,
the minister of tbe interior, goes to
Puerto Cabello to investigate the
movement.
At target practice held today, crowds
of spectators were present, and they
shouted to the troopers, "On to the
frontier."
The newspapers are urging the gov
ernment to send troops to the frontier
to head off the English. The liberal
papers say enough militia can be spared
for that purpose, and if the British can
obtain a foothold in tbe disputed terri
tory it will be hard to dislodge them.
El Tiempo says the quicker troops are
sent the better it will be.
More) Trouble In Peru.
Lima, Peru, Jan. 14. Tbe enemies
of the government and a number of
gendarme created a disturbance at
Moquega. The outbreak was sup
pressed promptly. Troops have gone
to the support of the officials of the
place.
A man named Simmons works in
Warsaw, Ma, for a man named Green,
and signs letter "Green, per Sim
mons."
THE NEW TARIFF.
What the Great Dallies Are BwjtMg
About lb Mew Kinergsaey BtU.
N Ter Tim.)
This is a "general tariff bill."
Those who said in the majority report
of tbe ways and mean oommittee and
on tbe floor of tbe house that it ii aot
suoh a bill knew that they were guilty
of deliberate misrepresentation. The
bill change every duty in tbe present
tariff, except those relating to sugar,
and it also take wool and lumber from
the free list Why should any on
deny that luoh a measure is "a general
tariff bill?" And so the programme i
laid out to take wool from tbe fre
list now, imposing the McKinley duties,
on tbe carpet makers' raw material
and 60 per oent of tbe MoKinley du
ties on clothing wool, with a corre
sponding inoreaae for woolens, and te
enlarge all the other rate by II per
oent; "in 1897-08" to enact the entire
MoKinley tariff, or something worse;
to subject all business interest te
tariff agitation during this sesaioa of
congress, during the political campaign
of next year, and (if tbe Republicans
Bhall win at the polls in 1896) during
the two years thereafter. How do
business men like this prospect?
Our l'rogre I Threatened.
Philadelphia Time.
The many and various argument
against an increase of the tariff are
reinforoed by tbe latest treasury state
ment, which show the revenue for
the past six months to have been.
$8,000,000 greater than in the corre
sponding period of 1894 and the ex
penditures $4,000,000 less. While re
fined mineral oils and their prodaota
represent nearly a fonrth of this valne,
the increase in the exports of iron and
steel, machinery, leather and manufac
tures, china and glass, chemicals, silk
fabrics, and several other items, is
even more remarkable, snowing conclu
sively the influence of lower duties,
especially on raw materials, in enabl
ing Amerioan manufacturers to enter
the markets of the world. This most
valuable progress the tariff proposed
by tbe house of representatives weald
abruptly destroy.
Only Temporary Expedient.
(Philadelphia North American.)
The president cannot, shape the
policy of the Republican party. He
asks for help, and he muBt expect help
as Republicans may see fit to prescribe
it He will probably accept such help
as is foreshadowed by the house. Hav
ing led the country into embarrass
ments, the Democrats cannot expect t
be permitted to devise the mean ef
getting baok to firm ground. They
had that privilege last year, and utterly
failed to raise to the level of the oc
casion. None of tbe measures offered
are the embodiment of thepolioy of the
Republican party. They are provided
for the emergency, are merely tem
porary expedients to tide over a diffi
culty that only a powerful remedy ea
remove.
Not a Party Measure.
Pittsburg Dispatch.)
The tariff bill, while passed by a
party vote, is not a party measure. Ne
protectionist would aooept, as a tariff
settlement, the preservation of the in
congruities of the Wilson aot with a
1 5 per cent raise. It ought to be recog
nized by the Democrats that the ac
ceptance of the Wilson sohedules, as a
basis for an increase of revenue, is just
what it claims to be, a temporary
measure to provide revenue enough to-
stop the swelling of the publio debt.
A Very Big Job.
Utlca Observer.
The ways and means oommittee of
the house of representatives have under
taken a very large job in trying to
palm off a measure for protection as a
measure that complies with President
Cleveland's request There has been
no greater fraud attempted on the
Amerioan people. It is peculiarly
reprehensible because it is taking ad
vantage of a publio crisis to impose an
unjust, iniquitous and repudiated
policy of taxation upon the Amerioan
people.
Why Democrat Oppose.
Philadelphia Inquirer.)
The Democrats attack this bill be
cause it is a step away from the Wilson
Cleveland abomination. These Demo
crats declare that we do not need
money. That is funny. Great publie
enterprises are still held up. The
Philadelphia mint, for instance, lan
guishes. An Unfair Assumption.
New York World.)
It is currently said that the senate
will not pass this bill of relief. Tbe
assumption is unfair. There 1b no
warrant for saying that the senate will
refuse to pass an act so obviously
necessary for the relief of the treasury
under conditons such as those that now
exist
The Syndicate Condemned.
Cincinnati Enquirer )
If the managers of the maioritv in
the house were in real earnest about
this business of finance, why did they
not prooeed to investigate the much
condemned transaction under which a
syndicate made an enormous and un
natural profit out of the taxpayers of
the United States?
A Tariff for.BeTenue.
New York Mail and Express
No patriotio Democrat can consist
ently object to the emergency measure
just passed by the house of representa
tives. While it does not essentially
sacrifice or surrender the orinciDla of
protection it is nevertheless practically
a tariff for revenue.
One Serious Defect.
Baltimore Son.)
Chairman Dingley' bond bill has
ne serious defect of not authorizing
the rt-t.reraent of the greenback. Tbe
green! tok is to be hoarded, not retired.