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TUESDAY
MARCH 5, 1895
UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL.
We have never believed in paternal
ism on the part of the government, bnt
have subscribed to the doctrine that
that government governs beet that gov
erns least. In other words, that the
citizen should be allowed the fullest lib
erty in all things consistent with the
best interests of all. We have smiled
at Bellamy's Utopian ideas, and have
dismissed, as ' unworthy of serious con
eideration the proposition that the gov
ernment should take charge of the tele
graph and railroad lines. We confess
that onr opinions have undergone a de
cided change on this latter subject, and
hence have taken a long step towards
Bell amy ism ; for if it once conceded
that the government may manage the
telegraph and railroad lines, the accept
ance of the propriety of its assuming
the management of the rolling mills to
make it own rails and the mines to
make its own iron, is a natural se
quence.
The railroad corporations have changed
the opinions of many on these subjects
within the past year, and are still rap
idly making converts. If the govern
ment can appoint receivers to take
charge of and run the railroads in the
interest of their stockholders, we .see no
reason why it cannot do the same thing
in the interest of the people. The ques
tion of transportation would then be
settled ; there would be no strikes, be
cause the employes would be enlisted
for a certain number of years, at fixed
wages, and the roads . would only be
compelled to earn enough to pay oper
ating expenses and the cost of main
tainance. This action upon the part of
the government would be contrary to
the ideas of the great majority of people,
but if the railroads are to hide behind
the robes of justice to shield themselves
from her decrees, this'' result will finally
be reached, as surely as that the law
cannot be forever violated. The gov
ernment now nas this very question to
decide in the cases of the Union and
Central Pacific roads.
The Reilly funding bill provided that
the roads should pay the principal of
their debts, on the passage of the bill,
and should be given fifty years to pay
the balance, with 2 per cent interest a
year until paid. Against this bill the
people of California, Nevada, and the
states through which the roads run are
op in arms. They claim, and justly,
that if the bill is passed, it simply turns
the people over to the roads for fifty
years steady and systematic plundering;
and that they, and not the railroad
companies, will have these millions to
pay. This is largely true.
What action will be taken in the mat
ter it is bard to foresee, yet if the bill,
or some similar one, is not passed, the
government must either lose the $120,
000,000 the roads owe it, or take posses
sion of them. We believe the latter
course, under the circumstances, would
be best, for it would furnish an oppor
tunity to test the question as to whether
the government can operate a railroad
more cheaply than a private company.
The experiment is worth trying.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Fiom our regular correspondent.
.' Washington, March 1, 1895.
Senator Gorman was compelled to
withdraw his amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill, authorizing the
secretary ot the treasury to iseue certifi
cates of indebtedness to meet the deficit
in the revenues, because of an agreement
among opposing senators to talk away
the rest of the session, if he didn't; but
before doing so he made a speech in
which were some remarkable charges
against a democratic secretary of the
treasury, to be made by a democratic
senator. He said that the responses of
the secretary of the treasury to inquiries
of the eenate, as to whether this legisla
tion was needed, were on their face mis
leading; that there would be a deficit
for. the fiscal year of $60,000,000 and for
the calendar year of $30,000,000 ; that
treasury officials had acknowledged to
him (Gorman) personally that there was
a mistake of $30,000,000 in Secretary Car
lisle's figures of the amount of money
now availablejjto meet government in
debtedness ; that the expenditures had
been underestimated by Secretary Car
lisle to the extent of $40,000,000, and. he
added : "The truth is, that they (treas
ury officials) . made a mistake about a
year ago in making up their' balances of
$80,000,000, and they have been trying
to adhere to it ever since." Mr. Gor
man did not speak with any excitement,
but with the calm deliberation of a man
who bad personally gone over the figures
of which he spoke, as he said he had ;
also, that he was somewhat of a book
keeper himself. It Is not strange that
there should have been excitement on
the floor of the senate to such an extent
that the eervices of the sergeant-at-arms
had to be called for by Vice President
Stevenson to restore order, something
that the oldest habitue of the senate does
not remember to have ever before been
done. Nor is it strange that men sav
Secretary Carlisle should be impeached,
either for incapacity or for violation of
the oath of office.
It seems that whenever some govern
ment wants something said to another
government that it does not care to say
itself it calls on the United States to say
it, and if Secretary Gresbam has de
clined a single request of that sort the
fact has been successfully kept from the
public and buried in the archives of the
department of state. So far nothing ser
ious has come of Secretary Gresham's
latest attempt to do the parrot act, but
the incident is not yet closed. It was
the insignificant government of San
Domingo that made use of the ever-pliant
Gresbam this time. It seems that in
order to force a settlement of a long score
against San Domingo, France sent three
warships to the harbors of the little
black republic. Now this was none of
our business, yet Gresbam, when re
quested by the government of San Do
mingo, told France that no hostile dem
onstration must be made. The French
government took this interference much
more good-naturedly than Japan did a
similar one, and even went so far as to
explain just what; it was trying to ac
complish. But those warships were
not withdrawn. Gresham then sent
another communication to the French
government intimating that those war
ships wonld better be withdrawn. There
the matter stands at present.
One of Gresham's little schemes was
too much even for the democratic house,
He promised to pay the British govern
ment $425,000 for damages sustained by
Canadian sealers in Behring sea, but
when an attempt was made to appropri
ate the money the bouse, very properly,
refused by a vote of 143 to 112 to do it,
fifty democrats voting with 93 republi
cans against the appropriation. Repre
sentative Hitt, of Illinois, led the fight
against the appropriation, and it was
his showing from the official records,
th&t all the claims for damages which
have been filed by Canadian sealers
aggregated only a little more than one
third of the amount asked for by Gresh
am, that -won the fight. '
C. A. S.
Sommarj,
Following is a summary of the weather
at The Dalles for the month of February :
Elevation above sea level, 116 feet.
Mean temperature, 41 8'
Departure from normal, above5.9
Maximum temperature, 61, date 27th.
Minimum temperature, 21, date 10th.
Mean of maximum temperature, 50, 2'
Mean of minimum temperature, 33, 2'
No. times minimum temperature 32
or below, 12.
Total precipitation, .47
Departure from normal, below 1.68
inches.
Total depth of unmelted snow, 1
inches.
Prevailing direction of wind, west.
No. cloudless days, 12.
No. of partly cloudy days, 4.
No. of cloudy days, 12.
No. of days on which .01 of rain or
snow fell, 4.
Sam'l Li. Brooks, Observer.
Notice of Special School Meeting.
Notice is hereby given to the legal
voters of school district No. 12 of Wasco
county, Oregon, that the annual school
meeting for the said school district for
the election of director and clerk, will
be held at the office of William Mivhell,
on Third Street, The Dalles, Oregon, to
begin at the hour of 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, and continue until 6 o'clock
in the afternoon of the 11th day of
March, 1895.
This meeting is called for the purpose
of electing one director for said district,
for the term of three years, and one clerk
for the term of one year, said election
to be by ballot and the polls will remain
open from 2 o'clock p. m. until 6 o'clock
p. m. of said 11th day of March, 1895. Q
. H. S. Wilson, -
Chairman Board Directors.
Attest : E. Jacobsen, Clerk.
MRS. FOWLER,
Fashionable Dressmaker
Newest styles and work neatly done.
Use the Norman Taylor System, which
took the gold medal at the Columbian
Exposition. Dressmaking Parlors over
Pease & Mays' dry goods store, room
No. 1. - feb21-lmo.
all druggists aell Dr. Idles' Pain Pilla.
Mexican
Mustang
Liniment
for
Burns,
Caked & Inflamed Udders.
Piles,
Rheumatic Pains,
Bruises and Strains,
Running Sores,
Inflammations,
Stiff joints,
Harness & Saddle Sores,
Sciatica,
Lumbago,
-Scalds,
Blisters,
Insect Bites,
All Cattle Ailments,
All Horse Ailments,
All Sheep Ailments,
Penetrates Muscle,
Membrane and Tissue
Quickly to the Very
Seat of Pain and
Ousts it in a Jiffy.
Rub in Vigorously.
Mustang Liniment conquers
Fain,
Makes flan or Beast well
again.
PERSONAL. MENTION.
W. Boss Winans of Hood River is in
the city.
Wm. Staats, Andrew Douglas and
James Nolin were in from Dufur yes
terday.
George Nolin of Dufur passed through
yesterday on his way to Uanby, Clack
a mas county.
Both gates of the lower lock in the
canal at the Cascades are in place, bnt
not riveted. About 11,000 rivets will be
required to complete the work, and this
will take two weeks.
The total number of school children in
The Dalles public school diitrict, as
given by Clerk Jacobsen are 1212 for the
year of 1895, as to 1058 in 1894, this will
give our district a good ''share of the
county and state apportionment when
made.
Don't neglect that cough, it leads to
consumption. One Minute Cough Cure
possesses a double virtue. It cures and
cures quickly. Snipes-Kinersly Drug
Co.
J. M. Huntington & Co. have moved
their abstract and insurance office into
the rooms formerly occupied by Hunt
ington & Wilson, next to Dr. Logan's
office. lwd&w
Wood! Wood!
We have yet on hand a complete stock
of Dry Fir, Oak and Maple Cordwood,
which will be sold at minimum prices.
feb27. Maibr & Benton.
Promptness is a commendable virtue,
That's why we offer you One Minute
Cough Core. It is prompt in relief and
prompt in curing. That's what it is
maae lor. ' snipes-.Kanersly Drug Uo.
Rooms to rent, with or without board
Apply Cor. Third and Morrison. tf
23 H !0 S
Garden and
Grass Seeds
in Bulk, at
J. H. Cross'
Feed & Gro
cery Store.
.SK 12 I S
MRS. RUSSELL,
Fashionable Dressmaker
"poff. Third and Lincoln Sts.
All work promptly and neatly done.
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JbIm
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SEE I SEE WH'AT 9
C. F STEPHENS,
If you want anything in the shape of
CLOTH IN O ,
For Man or Woman,
When the Train steps at THE DALLES, get off on the South Side
A T TH
fiEW COIiUjVlBlfl HOTELt.
This targe and popular House aoes the principal hotel buslnesa,
and is prepared to furnish the Best Accommodations of any
House in the city, and at the low rate of
$1.00 per Day. - pirst Qlass Teals, 25 Cerpts.
Office for all Stage X.lnea leaving: The Dalles for all
tolnts In Kastern Oregon and Eastern 'Washington,
n this Hotel.
Corner of Front and Union Bts.
Successor to
-DEALER IN-
PAINTS OILS
And the Most Complete and
WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER.
PEACTICAL PAINTER and PAPER HANGER. None but the best brands
of J. W. MASURY'S PAINT8 nsed in all our work, and none but the
most skilled workmen employed. Agents for Masury Liquid Paints. No chem-
lcei comoination or soap mixture. A
promptly attended to.
Store and Faint Shou corner Third and
lt There is a tide in the affairs
leads on to fortune"
The poet unquestionably had reference to the
Kirtt Si 1
Frtorii & Garnets
at CRANDALL
Who are selling those goods
MICHELBACH BRICK,
Parley
(Successors to L.
lactuiers -
pianu
A General Line of
Horse Furnishing Goods.
Wholesale anil Retail Dealers in Harness, Bridles, WMns, Horse BMets, Etc.
Full Assortment of Mexican Saddlery Plain or Stamped.
SECOND STREET, - .
New - Umatilla- House,
THE DALLES. OREGON.
SINIMOTT&
Ticket and Baggage Office of the 17. P.
Union Telegraph Office are in the Hotel. ' -
Fire-Proof Safe for the Safety of all Valuables.
LARGEST : AND : FINEST
Boy, Girl or Baby.
T. T. NICHOLAS, Propr.
Paul Krelt & Co
AND GLASS.
Latest Patterns and Designs in
nrst - ciass article in all colors. All orders
Washington Sts.. The Dalles, Oreot
of men which, taken at its flooa
& BURGETS,
out at greatly-reduced rates.
- UNION ST.
c? Fran f.,
D. Frank, deceased.)
OIF AI1I1
0"F
-Harnesses!
. - THE DALLES. OR
FISH, PROP'S.
R. R. Company, and office of the Westers
: HOTEL : IN : OREGON
A Long
String- of Fish
Is not Carried
up a Side Street.
It's just about as important
to let folks know that we've
got extra fine Hams and Ba
con,Eastern Buckwheat Flour,
genuine Maple Syrup. The
Finest Coffee in town. A fine
lot of New Breakfast Foods.
THAT ELEGANT
DAIRY BUTTER (Dufur)
For all those who call on
us we have bargains in Fine
Goods; for those who don't,
sympathy.
J. B. CROSSEN,
Grocer.
Ask Central for 62.
Ladies' and
Gentlemen's
Gold and Silver
Watches.
Large Assortment
to select from.
L C. Nickelsen's.
BUY YOUR
GROCERIES
We carry everything that is good
to eat, and at such prices that
we should have the trade of all
hungry people.
Try our
Teas and Coffees.
Can give you an excellent blend
ed Coffee at 25 per pound.
Ask for Halrvor Butter.
Telephone No. 60.
StuDiing Greennouse
We wish to announce that
we have made a specialty of
Winter Blooming Bulbs.
HYACINTHS and LILIIES,
POTTED PLANTS of All Kinds.
We are prepared to furnish
on short notice cut flowers
- for all occasions; also pot
plants and wires.
Hyacinths in . bloom A
beautiful holiday gift.
Get your Chrysanthemums
at once to send East.
tbx:
Snipes-Kinersly Drug Co.
-
urugs,
Paints,
Wall Paper, .
Window Glass.
129 Second St.,
THE DALLES, - - OR.