The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-31


shals. At present the amount does not
exceed $500, 900. Probably the Demo
Gratis will not offer serious opposition to
its passage. because they are studiously
trying to avoid an extra session, and re-
aliZe that their failure to make provis-
ions for paying the compensation law
fully due the federal election marshals
will bring about what they do not desire.
The Christmas just closed has been
the happiest known in the national cap
ital for years. The satisfaction over the
of Garfield and the consequent
certainty that large proportion of the
present force of clerks will be retained
has led to general and most thorough
enjoyment of the day.
The Camerons have at last discovered
themselves in the Pennsylvania sena-
torial contest and are found to be work
ing in favor of II. w. Oliver, of Pitts
burg. He starts with the strength here
tofore divided between Gov. Morehead
and Representative Boyne. The fact that
the Camerons are in this movement will
weaken him greatly in some other por-
tions of the state. The contest is now
narrowing itself to Grow and Oliver,
but at present the chances seem to be
in favor of the former. The best ele-
All information from Indiana indi-
Gates a choice of Gen. Ben Harrison for
the senate. His superior fitness over
most of the candidates on the list is said
to be fully recognized among the menu
bers elect to the legislature, and his
friends write here that a majority of
each branch are already pledged to vote
for him.
4 New York sensational paper pub
fishes what purports TO give the points
of the answer which Gov Sprague will
make to the bill for divorce filed by his
wife. The statement is 10 the effect that
she has been the victim of Senator Conk.
ling, and the charges against the latter
will be of such specific character as to
fill the country again with great scan.
dial.
1t is understood that the president has
determined to appoint Daniel A. Pardee
of New Orleans, to the United States
district iudgeship. made vacant by the
promotion of Judge Woods to the United
States supreme court bench. MIR. Par
dee is a native of Ohio.
Gen. Walker says that, contrary to his
expectation, he was unable to get the
census returns in readiness for presenta
ton to congress before the holiday ad
tournament, as the returns from several
states required correction. He expects
to have them ready for presentation i'm
mediately after the reassembling OF con
gress.
A Nice Question.
Topeka, Dec 2S.-The constitution o.
the state of Kansas limits the house o.
representatives to 1875 members, bu4 the
growth of the state has been such, anC
the number of counties has SO increased
that members in excess of 1875 have beer
| admitted to seats for several years pas
| where satisfactory proof was giveI
that the extra members from new dis
| tricts received as high $50 votes. II
| 1877 the case of Hon. L. Tomlinson
| claiming to represent the one hundred
and twenty seventh district in Rush coun
| ty, was carried To the supreme court to ties
the legality of this increase above max
imum allowed by the constitution. TIT
court decided the house has jurisdiction
to determine the question of Its owl
| membership, and not the courts, but in
timated that an act passed by vote o
! its members in excess of the cOnStitu
tional limit would present a question
which might be properly Investigated
| brought before the court in proper
form. This year there were 1877 mem
bers elected, being twelve in excess of tn,
limit, and the question has again beer
raised as TO the rights of the twelve t.
hold seats. Upon examining the records
of the last house the attorney general ha;
discovered that bill making an appro
priation to Hon. ID. B. Long, state FISH
commissioner, passed by the aid of tn
| votes of four members holding seat
as representatives from districts in ex
cess of 125, and that without these vote
the bill would have failed. The fisl
commissioner has drawn all of the ap
preparation but $340.15, and the attorne,
| general has enjoined the state treasure
| from paying the balance on the GROUND
above stated. The proceedings wer
brought before Judge Merton, of thu
city, and will be carried to the suprem
court and fully decided prior to tn
meeting of the legislature, being regard
cd as a case of great importance. If tn
supreme court sustaIns the injunction
it will not prevent the Legislature fron
admitting the excess of members, bu
they will not be entitled to vote on til
final passage Of bills. Tue governor ha
employed Peck and johnson, of Topek;
to defend the suit, and the merits of tn
ease will be fully determined.
DedIn OF Dr. CHRp1n.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2T.-The Even
!, ing Post says Rev. DIR. Chaplin died ye
terday.
Friends of Rev. Edwin H. Chaplin hav
known for some time that there was n
hope of his recovering, but the INTEL
gcnce of his death will nevertheless b
received with regret. DR.. Chaplin wa
born IN Union Village. Washingto
, county, n. Y, December 90, 1914. Ri
parents were natives of New Englant
and while he was in his boyhood the
removed to Bennington, VT. He receive
: his academic education in Benningto
| Seminary and then returned to this stat
: beginning to study far the law IN
5 lawyers office in Troy Without com
!. pleting his legal studies he soon returne
i to Utica, where he became assistant ed
!. tor of the Magazine and Advocate, the
4 the leading journal OF the UNIVERSAL
q denomination
D In 1887, when twenty-thFee years
!. age, he was ordained in Utica to Il
s Universalist ministry. He immediate
s began preaching and accepted call
h become pastor of the Independent Chr
h tian church of Richmond, Va, socie
l composed of both Universalists al
y UnItarians. In 1910 he accepted Il
OL OulNcEbdliSt
It Charleston, Massachusetts,. Six yea
e later he accepted call from the Soho
If Street Universalist church, Boston, |
C coming the colleague of Hosea Ballo
t In 1913 DIR. Chaplin came to this city
n assume the passoratc of the Fourth u
b yersalist society, which he has CIV
: since retained. Among his friends al
h parishIoners was Horace Greeley, who
If funeral services took place in l
g church. DIR. Chaplin leaves wife, II
IT sons and daughter.
n & Mighty HenopoIIst-
Is ST. LOUIS, Dec. 25.-The Post d
.e patch published an elaborate article !
lie garding the operations of Jay Gou
" and his associates in the west and SOU
st west, the railroads they have acqnir
y and the extent of the various couibii
a tons, the aggregate of them, and /
ii present and the future effect OF The
operations upon the growth and CO.
meFce of St Louis. The miles uf 70
b EN- braced in what Is called GoulCa's CO
"a soiid@tions are as follows:
u The Wabash system. going east Al
K of the Mississippi aud branches. pa
S miles; Missouri Pacific and branch
Y 712; Central Branch Of the Union F
cific, 263; Missouri. Kansas & Tex
st and branches, S2,5; Kansas Pacific Al
O. branches, 1,0Il; Union Pacific al
II branches, 2.115s Denver & South PaI
< col; Iron Mountain and branches, 6s
4 International s. Great Northern. &C
% Texas & Pacific 81 far built. 5S7--tot
II 9.649 miles. In addition 20 these. the
is $50 miles Of road ia the course of c
y structissa in Indiana, Illinois and Low
= which will ,.nseF into the Wabash s,
|. tenn when completed. and nesariy /. .
e quite two thousand miles are under ca
o tract AMI protected in Texas and Mexis