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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
REFORM EXTRAORDINARY.

The bogus economy, retrenchment
and reform inaugurated last winter by
the Democratic House of Representa-
tives for political bluster and purpose
will be judged in the proper light by
the "dear taxpayers" when they see
how this year the appropriations must
be doubled up in order to meet last
years deficit and pay current expenses
of running the government.
Detailed estimates OF appropriations
required for all branches of the public
service for the next fiscal year have
been furnished by the Secretary of the
Treasury to Congress.
The Pacific Coast estimates all far ex-
coed the amounts granted last session,
but are all recommended as absolutely
necessary to bring up arrears in work.
The people will readily admit that the
kind of economy that degenerates into
absolute parsimony, scrimping and
cramping the civil service of a great Re-
public for one year, only to be doubled
in order to bring up arrears the next
year, is, to say the least, doubtful econ
omy. And when, in addition to this, we
take into consideration the millions of
dollars demanded on rebel claims by the
same economical House that with Vir-
tuous show of retrenchment went even
into the kitchens and laundri es of the
nation to curtail the wages and stop the
supplies of government employees, we
are enabled more fully to understand
the motives that led to such pretentions
and loud cries of reform. While count
ing with eager and ostentatious parsi-
mony the nations dimes, and doling
them out with grumbling protest to pay
necessary expenses of carrying on the
government with even a show of re-
spectability, these champions of reform
were devising means or hearkening to
projects that would scatter like chaff
before the wind the nations double-ea-
gels and keep her Golfers empty for de-
| cades to come. In view of these things
it is no wonder that the more practical
and intelligent citizens of the Republic
are ready with loud acclaim to cry:
"From such reformers with their re-
trenchment schemes may the good Lord
and a loyal Congress speedily deliver
ne y
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The following squibs on the political
farce last week enacted at Salem are
from the New York Tribune:
"Grover has already been called Ben
dict Arnold 1877 times, and Judas Is
CARROT l, 1,653 times. 1t seems to be a case
of a unanimous verdict without consul
tation. Even Democrats fail to defend
uim, which is the most startling con-
demnatiOn pOssible.n
"The spectacle of a party trying to
steal one President and to impeach an
other at the same time, has been re-
served for the Centennial year. The
success of the experiment will undoubt-
edly be so lamentable that a second trial
will not be made for another century,"
GAS between Cronin, who takes GER
tificates that do not belong to him and
fills vacancies which do not exist with
men whom he has no right to appoint,
and a postmaster, wicked and depraved
though he must be, we have no choice.
Let CrOnin be content there is a post
mastership vacant, and before long he
will want to hide away inside of some
thing.n
1T is a common enough thing for
two persons to claim to be one, but Gro
nin of Oregon stands alone in history as
the first and last man who claimed to
be plurality of a board of three mem
bersU
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
OHILD'S PLAY WITH THE STAT
UTRS,

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST:
Did you ever play at the childish
game of cob-house 1 remember back
in the old Buckeye State that while the
larger members of my fathers family
were passing the long winter evenings
shelIing corn by the wide kitchen fire.
place that we little romps frequently
amused ourselves by constructing min
lature houses, pressing the long corn
cobs together log-cabin style. This was
Improbable employment, but it cost
nothing and, to US, it was rare sport.
But when father or big brother, in utter
disregard of our feelings, would ruth
lessly kick these tiny monuments Of
ouringenuity into the blazing fire-well,
we would build others. Now I. have
been reminded of this childish pastime
by the abortive attemps of our law-mak-
ers to frame law preventing the vice
of gambling. Our statute touching this
subject previous to the meeting of our
last Legislature had been mercilessly
kicked into Oblivion by the Supreme
Court, and the Legislature of the cur
rent year proceeded to enact another
law from which lovers of good order ex-
pected much. But see that it, like its
oblivious predecessors, proved but
child's Clubhouse, and Judge Shattuck
hurled it into smithereens with his lit
tie boot.
Pray, how is this? Other States have
succeeded in framing laws effectually
preventing this ruinOus vice; laws, too,
that have stood judicial tests. Are our
courts more acute, or are our law-mak-
ers more obtuse than those of other
States? Or may it be that saloons have
been rearing these cob-houses merely
for the sport Of witnessing their destruc-
ton at the hands of our courts? (Al-
most everyone prefers being considered
knave rather than a-simpleton,
therefore, shall charitably adopt the
last as the probable key to the mystery. J
Still none but men are capable of acting
as lawmakers. Why not admit the
other sex to the rights of citizenship,
allow them to assist in making laws,
and I'll guarantee that they will at least
have sense enough to copy the statute
of another State on this subject, and
then the courts will kick at it in vain.
! ALEC.
Albany, Oregon, December 9, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
THE PUTTY MAN OF THE SENATE.


If there is one man more execrated
than alt others in this State at present,
that man is James K. Kelly. Instead
of being in his seat in the United States
Senate when that body convened, where
he is paid to sit, although the seat, for
that matter, is better vacant, he, at the
behest of party tricksters, doubled upon
his traces and returned to Salem to
fnrther outrage the people of the State
he has for six years disgraced by his i'm
becility in the Senate, in attempting to
defraud the majority of theirrightful vic
tory. His career as a politician is about
ended, and it is supposed that a knowl-
edge of this fact induced him to listen
eagerly to a proposition that promised
pay in any quarter. His new Centen-
nial catalogue, IA woman, a dead man,
and criminal" is a fitting close for his
brilliant (?) public labors. The Corval-
lis Gazette thus sums him up and dis
poses of him:
Acting for six years as the "fgure head~ of
Oregon in the U. S. Senate, without accom-
plishing anything of Importance for the State,
beyond voting, like putty man, he has now
rendered himself notorious" and Odious, and
in a few weeks will vacate the position he has
disgraced and sink into oblivion.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
WOMAN SUFFRAGIsTs, ATTENTION!

We have been appealed to by our
valiant co-laborers in the East to canvass
the State of Oregon for signatures to a
petition to Congress which reads thus
PETITION FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives
in Congress assembled The und ersigned citi-
zens of the United States, residents of the State
Of Oregon, earnestly pray your honorable Bod
les to adopt measures for so amending the
Constitution as to prohibit the several States
from disfranchising United States citizens on
account of sex.
1t is necessary to do at once what we
do in this matter, as the petitions must
reach Washington by the middle of JAN
uary. Printed petitions will be sent to
all active workers as soon as possible,
but do not wait for these. Clip the
above from your paper, paste it at the
head of sheet of foolscap and begin
the canvass at once.
/ would further most earnestly and
respectfully urge of the friends of uni,
versal suffrage and equal rights through
out the State to set apart and devote tC
this special object Monday, the 18th day
of December, between the hours of
O'Clock A. NJ. and P. NJ. If this sug,
gestion were faithfully carried out, ]
doubt not that many thousand name:
could be enrolled upon these petition:
in this State. Come, friends, the exper
iment is well worthy of conscientious
trial. As soon as the canvass of you
town or neighborhood is completed
mail the petitions filled to the under
signed. 1t is necessary that they all bt
in by Christmas.
H. A. LOUGHARY,
Pres't o. S. w. S. A.
Amity, Oregon, December {, 1876.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

"Indignation meetings" have been in
order since the executive judicial farce
was enacted at Salem last week. Reso-
lutions condemning in strongest terms
the action of the Governor and Secre-
tary of State in attempting to override
the popular vote have been unanimously
passed in many places. His Excelleney
has been repeatedly burned in effigy, in
token of the peoples contempt and in
dignation. While we deprecate this
manner of proceeding in any case, as
being impotent and undignified we feel
that the people have just cause to express
themselves as doubly outraged by the
recent action of the Governor and his
sneak-thief hackers.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
WE WILL OBEY ORDERS,

A plucky little woman in one of the
interior counties, whose husband had
ordered her paper discontinued several
weeks since, writes as follows "PIease
send the NEW NORTHWEST to my ad-
dress again. You must not think that
my husband stopped the paper, because
be found fault with its sentiment.
The truth is, his wheat crop was a fail
ure this year, and he thought he had to
economize, and man like, his wife's pa
per was just as convenient as anything
else he could retrench on. 1 had spent
all my butter money at that time and
was not financially independent. Last
week, however, 1 collected some more
butter proceeds, and as money brings
independence, I informed the head OF
the family that 1 had been out of the
world long enough and proposed to send
for the NEW NORTHWEST again. He
acquiesced very gracefully, saying: 'All
right; I suppose you will not rest con-
tented unless you know what mischief
the female women of the period are up
to- OF course L won't. What woman
of the period would? So please send the
paper in my name aud until L order ii
stopped.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
H. A. LOUGHARY,
Pres't o. S. w. S. A.
gon, December Z, 1876.
WOMEN AT POLLING PLACES

During the recent campaign in Mas
sachusetts, when the Woman Suffra-
gists worked with the prohibitionists,
many women went to the polls in vari-
Gus places to distribute ballots. We
have the testimony of many of these,
and all goes to disprove the idea once so
popular that women would be insulted
by their protectors if they ventured in
and about precincts heretofore known
only to the feet of men. Instead of be-
ing met with gibe and insult, as many
man 'maligners of their own sex have
asserted would be the case, they re-
ceived everywhere respectful attention
and heard nothing offensive to decency
or morality.
One woman says: "Pipes and cigars
generally slipped out of sight in the
presence Of women; no indignity of any
kind was offered them, and I heard no
one object to their presence save one
imported citizen, ar ancient Irishman,
who, when he came in sight of the wom-
en-, turned back declaring, "if the wom-
en- is comm here, be gad 'on't come; l
'on't vote at all.'"
Remembering the fearful pictures OF
outrage and violence that had been held
up before them, the women went to the
polls with some trepidation; they went
away elated. Thus actual experiment
dispels another of the popular objections
to Woman Suffrage, and in due time
all will vanish by the same convincing
power.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

One hundred copies Of David and
Anna MatsOn" are on the way to this
State, and will arrive in lew days.
Specimen copies will be Immediately
forwarded to various localities. We
will mail the books postpaid on receipt
of price, for which see advertisement.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The report of the Superintendent of
the State Penitentiary for the quarter
ending November 80, 1876, shows the
income of the prison from all sources to
be SS,Ol5 Sc; amount paid for main
tenance over and above this, So 48.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The Tribune gives carefully-pre-
pared list of the names of all persons alb
solutely known to have been lost in the
Brooklyn fire. This list gives total of
271. Of these the remains Of 2l7 have
been identified.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Major Shredder has called meeting
of the different relief committees to take
action in regard to persons who have
been deprived of their support by the
Brooklyn theater fire, and suggests that
ladies should visit the houses of suffer-
ers, and asks that collection be taken
up in the churches next Sunday.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The exports of Oregon average $31S to
every man in the State. Her wheat,
wool, salmon and fruits command from
five to ten per cent. higher price than
those from any other country. Her ex-
port of wheat equals one7seventh of the
total export of the United States. Such
a State is not poor State to live in.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Mitchell introduced a bill in the Sen
ate making further appropriation of
S250,000 for continuing the construction
of the canal and locks at the Cascades of
Columbia River, Oregon; referred to
committee on transportation routes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Five cases of smallpox are reported
on Spencer Creek, eight miles west of
Eugene. A mystery attaches itself to
these cases, as to the manner in which
they became exposed to the disease, this
being the only place where it was prev
alent, and all cases there were discharged
fully six weeks before theirs broke out.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

There is nothing later from Mrs. Dun
iway than the Editorial Correspond
ence" published in this issue. 1t will
be seen that she talks "home" and we
still expect her by Christmas.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The Corvallis Gazette has taken a new
departure, having been merged into
corporation. The articles of incorpora-
giOn are signed by DR.. J. B. Lee, James
A. Yantis, and w. B. Carter, and have
been duly filed according to law. The
capital stock of the company is fixed at
$1,000, in shares of $50 each. The new
company will take full control on the
lst of January, 1877.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

The Senate has confirmed the follow
ing: Henry W. Wright, Register of the
Land Office at LaGrande, Oregon, and
NJ. NJ. Kaign, Receiver,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums. and they will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Mrs. Jane Shelton, of Olympia, was
the first white child born on American
soil north of the Columbia River. She
is now in her 30th year.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

A law has passed the Spanish cortes
making education obligatory.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Jacobs official majority in Washing
ton Territory is 223.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15
New York, November %, 1876.

New York, November %, 1876.
P.S.-We don't often add a postscript,
but it is necessary to state that the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association has
changed our name, or, rather, resumed
a part of our maiden one, and with the
first of January the New NORTHWEST
will do likewise.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1876-12-15

Washington, D. G., November IA, '76
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-21
WHITE PINE INTELLIGENCE.
Condensed from the News,

ARRESTED. - George Mayfeld, the
man who was reported to have been
shot, killed and buried, was arrested
last Sunday at Black burns ranch. 81
The Hamilton AMI Phoebe road. by Eu,
gene Blair. Wells, Fargo q Co.'S mes
senger, and brought by him to this
place and lodged in Jail. Mayfeld is
suspected of being the party who or
dered the stage.driver to "throw off
that box" four miles south OF Sheep
Ranch, on the night of the 18th in
slant. The reason of his being sus-
pacted is, that he had been beating
about that vicinity for several days.
He will have an examination before
Justice Bush next Monday.
QUICKER TiME.-The new arrange
ments OF Gilner 81 Salisbury's stage
lines were commenced last Monday.
Hereafter the stages arriving here from
Eureka will remain only long enough
to unload the passengers, mails and
freight for Hamilton and then proceed
Immediately to Phoebe. The same ar.
rangement IL made with the passengers
aud mails going from Phoebe to Eu-
reka. This change should make a gain
of one day to passengers travelling to
and from Phoebe to the railroad. Pas
sengers having business in Hamilton
will now be compelled to lay over one
day.
GONE INTO BUsINELs.-Our stirring
fellow citizens, Marcus Schultz, has
gone into the pork business. He has
formed q c0partnership with the infiu-
entail and industrious Chinaman
named Charley Pntup. Marcus Is to
furnish all the brains for the concern,
and Charley il to do all the work and
furnish the capital. The firm left here
on Monday last, on foot, for Currant
Creek, where they expect TO purchase
make their first drive to Eureka for a
market.
PERsoNAL.-R. Sadler and wife am
over from Eureka the first part Of the
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-21
PREslDENrIAL TICK EFT IN THE
FIELD.

The compaign has opened and an
army with captains and with banners
displayed has taken up its position for
the contest. The ball has opened and
the first couple has waltxed into the
ring. The army is the party of "Na-
tional Prohibitionists," and the chosen
leaders and aspirants for terpsichorean
honors are Green Clay Smith. of Ken
lucky, and one G.. T. Ste wart, Of Ionic.
Who Mr.. Stewart may be we do not
know. though not'knowing him be to
confess ourselves unknown But Green
Clay Smith was at the commencement
of the war . Brigadier General Of vol
unteers. and for some years q Repub-
lican member Of Congress from Ken
lucky, and was land we presume is) =
gentleman of considerable social dis
tinction. His ways of life, however,
must have somewhat changed II lie is
to-day a fit exponent of the following
declaration of principles put forth by
his party:
They ask for prohibition in the Dis
trict of Columbia and in States and
Territories, and in every other place
subject to the laws OF Congress-; they
regard the trade in alcoholic beverages
as q high crime against society and
ask the adoption of treaty stipulations
with foreign powers to prevent trade
In such beverages. They ask for the
abolition of class legislation; equal
suffrage and universal equality; the
reduction of internal foreign postage;
suppression OF lotteries, gold stock
and produce gambling; the abolition
of those foul enormities, polyganly and
the social evil, and the protection of
the purity, peace and happiness of
homes by ample and efficient legisla-
ton; the national observance of the
Christian Sabbath; demand free pub
lie schools and the free use of the Bible
in the public schools; an unsectarian
school fund; International arbitrxtion;
prison reform; abolition Of executive
and legislative patronage; . direct vote
for President; a liberal policy toward
emigrants; that the National Govern.
mint only should exercise the high
prerogatives of issuing paper money,
and that il should be subject to prompt
redemption on demand in gold and
silver; the reduction of salaries of pub.
lic officers; the abolition Of unneces-
sary officials and official fees and per-
Quisites; the ~strictest governmental
economy, and free and full investiga-
tiop
Now that is a platform AZ a platform
should be. II they had only inserted
n plank in favor Of the immediate in
auguration of tie millennium and nom-
mated Miss Anthony for the second
place on the ticket, we would have AZ
forded the Prohibitionists our earnest
support.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-21
THE KANSAS DEMOCRACY.

We are to-day in receipt OF a portion
Of the proceedings Of the Kansas DEM
ocratic State Convention. The plat
form, we are informed, was built solely
upon the financial issue; but the key
note to the temper Of the convention
on that important question Is not
given us. The dispatch states that the
resolutions demand ian immediate act
for the resumption Of srecie pay
ments." Now, an act Is already in
force providing for resumption Jan.
uary /, 1879. It can not be that the
convention demanded resumption be.
fore that day, when all authorities de-
clare that it will be practically impo.-
sible eve then! They probably de-
handkerchief the telegraph failed to
give us-either IAN immediate repeal
of the act" etc., or ''an immediate
amendment Of the act" etc.; such
amendment to 70 extend the time Of
the operation of the law ~ to render it
feasible and induce bona fide resump-
ton. In the light of the recent abom.
ination promulgated at Cincinnati by
the Democrats Of Ohio, we fear the
former; but in view OF the fact that
Governor Hendricks, whose views in
favor of hard money are we'll known.
we incline to the opinion that the Kan
sas Democracy look to specie rs q cur
rency and only to such amendments
of the present law as will forward the
good ause. @f4