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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-04
The Committee ON Resolutions.


The committee on resolutions held ses-
sion last evening in the ordinary Of the
Ryan, during which there was a vast
amount of wind wasted and about as many
schemes proposed as there were members
present. The first hour or more was taken
up in hearing the several petitions and
minor resolutions. There were fully twen-
ty-five of these Of all varieties, from the
most general statement of the needs of the
Northwest to specific requests for given
amounts to be expended in localities named.
The resolution presented ON behalf of st.
Paul was very comprehensive in its charac-
ter and was read by Col. Crooks. 1t urged
the necessity of carrying ON to completion
the work of improvement of the Mississippi
north Of the mouth of the Ohio.
and recommended the earliest possible ac-
ton for the improvement of the harbors on
Lake Superior. The Missouri and Red
rivers were also recommended.
Congressman Deuster of Milwaukee made
very hearty speech, in which he declared
that to go into the presentation of statistics
and to urge specific measures would be
given no weight whatever in congress. The
only thing that the convention was called
upon to do was to express itself so plainly
on the general subject of appropria-
tions that the congressman from
the states represented would know
| they had support at home.
This had been his experience. When con-
gress passed a river and harbor bill amount
ing to $50, 900, 900 three years ago, all the
country had called them thieves, until the
representatives had become so much afraid
that they did not dare vote as large sums
as their own convictions told them was
needed. He believed the whole value Of
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-04
The Welcoming Speeches In the Ap-
nroved Vein By the Governor
pd Mayor.
The Permanent 0rganization--Trials and
Tribulations of the Minnesota
Delegation.
Knotty Question of Representation
Occupies the Afternoon -Each
Delegate to Vote.
fov. Bross' Sad Diiemma--Ihe lien
nepin anaI--Conventton Bf1eis
The Delegates.
The ConveutiOn's work.

The river convention made good start
ON its work yesterday, although in the morn
hg there was more or less confusion that
seemed as though it would prove trouble
some; although there was not point in the
proceedings where Il level head and firm
adherence to the rules of order would
not immediately have produced the
best of order. The opening eXer-
cises were conducted with pro-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-04
why was Bross Dovvnedp

General surprise was felt yesterday after
noon at the defeat of Gov. Bross for per-
manent chairman, and at the further fact
that no one knows just how it was done.
AS he explained in the convention, the
honor was rendered to him week or more
ago by Col. Walker, and as late as yester-
day morning he was the sub
ject of congratulation on all
sides 1t is evident that he did not ex-
pect defeat during the forer BON or he would
have embraced some oppoI, nifty to fire off
his speech. In the committee on perma-
nent organization it was learned that he
only received four out of the fourteen votes.
When asked how it happened the members
Of the committee were non-cOmmittal.
''Oh," they said, ''we just thought Mr..
Warner would make the best chairman"
There are not wanting those, however,
who have their theories about it. One is
that it was done for political reason
that Gov. Bross is one of the pro-
prietors of the Chicago Tribune,
that lashed Blaine so furiously before the
last Republican convention. The most
mysterious and occult theory, and there
fore the most readily believed, is that there
is an undercuTrent of suspicion in the con-
vention that the railroads are trying to
make it defeat its own ends by breeding
discord in it in quiet way, and that this sus-
picion aroused the friends Of river improve
ment to smash everything that looked cut
and dried about the convention, so as to in
sure its spontaniety and sincerity.
Speaking of the substitution, Mr.. G.
W. Chouteau of st. Louis said it was one
of those things that sometimes happened
in conventions. III. l.. Gordon of Minneap-
oils said it was done because Maj. War
ner came from about the middle section of
the country interested, whereas Gov Bross
came from one corner. Platt Walker said
he had no idea why it was done. There was
rumor that the action was all due
to Congressman Frank Lawler whom the
Chicago Tribune whacks continually when
at home. Lawler said to GLOBE reporter
that he was innocent He had suspected
that it would be laid to himself and so he
had skipped to the lakes. He did not know
that the opposition had been so strong. and
he was much surprised on his return to
hear that the deacon was downed.
Aid. Shorey said the whole business had
been done in the committee-room, and he
had no idea why.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-04

priety and deco
rum. After
Dr.. Dana had
besough / t h e
Maker of W est
ern waterways
to look with IA
vor on the eff
forts Of His
children to take
adyan tage of
His gifts, Coy.
Hubbar d an d
Mayor Rice
took occaSi on
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was a very embarrassing situation when all
the circumstances were considered and, so
the governor thought it, as he waved his
proof-slips in the air and explained his dis
comfture to the brethren. Finally, after
the organization, somebody moved that the
governor read his speech, which he did,
and received applause for it, too.
Tine consideration of the report of the
committee on rules consumed the remainder
of the day.
OF course Minnesota has the largest num-
Der in the convention, almost a majority, in
fact, while Illinois comes next in numbers.
Missouri, Wisconsin and Iowa are fairly
represented, but the more remote states,
like Kansas and Nebraska, had but very
few members. ANY state, such as Illinois,
by combining with Minnesota, could carry
any point in the convention it desired.
This was
A MANIFEST INEQUALITY,
and the committee on rules endeavored to cor
rect it, at the suggestion of q Minnesota
delegate, by reporting rule giving but ten
votes to each state. But this woke up the
animals directly, and for while it really
seemed like a convention in the Chicago
sense of that term. The weaker states, led
by Nebraska, insisted on that rule, but of
course the stronger ones opposed it on the
ground that this was not a convention of
states but of cities and commercial bodies,
and it would be unwise to pervert the orig
inal intention of the convention. This
view of it was set forth so cogently by Aid.
Shorey of Chicago that it prevailed. Ne
braska and her neighbors needn't fear, how
ever, that their claims will not be considered
for the con gressmen from the lower Mis-
souri, valley can vote as well as their North
ern colleagues, and if they have an idea
that their constituents have not been fairly
dealt with they can do much to defeat the
purposes of the convention.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-04
The Afternoon session.

Of course the convention was late in re-
convening in the afternoon, but when it
was called to order motion was made that
the commission consisting of Walker,
Crooks and Durant be made eX-officio men,
bers of the convention on resolutions. This
was modified to an invitation to the COM
mission and all gentlemen who had any
figures or suggestions of value to appear
and give their information to the committee
on resolutions.
CONGRESSMAN MURPHY'S SPEECH.
AS there was no committee ready to re-
port, and no other business on hand speeches
were in order, and in response to a call of
his name, Judge Jerry Murphy of Daven-
port, Ia, said he had gone to the trouble of
looking up the questions at issue, and had
reduced his conclusions to writing. He
read somewhat elaborate paper substan-
TALLY as follows: 1t is an undOubted fact
that no other country has so many water
ways as our own. There are great
channels with few distractions. Who
says they shall not be opened?
Transportation by water is admitted the
world over to be the cheapest. The
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

falling Off In production in Massachusetts,
since 1879 has been 100000 pounds, or 70 per
quantity of production IN 1879. has advanced
TO the fourth rank, Kentucky, Virginia and
North Carolina only SURPRISING it.-Ncsh-
Uiflc dTsesScdH, November 9TH.
There are some peculiar customs in con-
uection with the administration of the
courts of the District of Columbia, relics of
the old Maryland laws but one which
strikes the ordinary observer as the most
peculiar Is that which requires winning
party To q civil suit to pay for the tobacco
that the jury which tried the case is sup
posed to nave used during the hearing of
the case. Now, !. happeEs sometimes that
not one of the jurors uses tobacco in any
form, and yet the pound of tobacco, or its
equivalent, has to .be paid the foreman of
/ the jury the instant verdict has been rem
dered. As lffigants or their attorneys are
not in the habit of carrying so much tobacco
in their clothing, for custom requires a
pound to be given the jury, the lawyer on
the winning side, as soon as the verdict is
recorded, hands the foreman of the Jury ST.
which Isl just as good as the pound OF tobac-
co. Sometimes jury will try several cases
in a day. IL they do they will get 81 for
each case from the winner. The juries put
all their tobacco money together, and at the
end OF the term divide 1t among themselves,
reservlng sufficient sum to buy for the
foreman OF the jury cane, some kind of a
present for the baiiiffs who attend the Jury
and bouquet for the judge who holds the
court. The jury has legal claim for the
pound of tobacco in every case but there is
no case recorded where the tobacco has
been refused and a test case made. On the
criminal side of the courts the Judges can. IL
| they desire. impose fines of pounds of to-
| bacco instead of dollars. The penalty for
WITHDRAWING Is from 10 to 100 pounds of to-
bacco u der the old laws. The old laws,
however, are seldom, If ever, entered, for
| most OF them are supplanted by modern
ones Under the former the courts can
| pierce hole with a red-hot iron through
| the tongue of every ore who blesphenes
| the Creator, but they do not do it. There is,
| however, just as good law for it as there is
/ to hang persons In this District Some over
jealous Christians asked the enforcement of
| the law the first time Robert e. Ingersoll
| lectnt ed in this city, but no attention was
paid to the request 1t was understood at
| the time that Col. Ingersoll would be delight
/ ed with prosecution of this kind. For do
| ing the slightest labor on Sunday, under the
old Maryland law, from to so pounds of
/ tobacco was the penalty.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
HOPKINsvILLE's JEALOUSY.

The tell-tale jealousy displayed by
our envious neighbor, Hopkinsvllle,
towards this city, is conclusive evil
dence that GAINESVILLE is rapidly in
creasing her trade in the rich country
to the north of us. There is scarcely
an issue of the New Era that does not
contain some petty fling at GAINESVILLE.
1t descends to ways that are dark and
INDUCES in some very vain tricks
in order to injure this place as a to-
baccO market. In a recent number it
endeavored to persuade Kentucky
planters that when they bring tobacco
to GAINESVILLE they stand in danger OF
being hung, drawn and quartered,
flayed alive or, at least, immured in
dungeon walls, If they fail in a strict
compliance with the Tennessee inspec-
ton laws. That kind of racket won't
work, and calls broad smile to the
face of the planter it is intended to
gull. He knows the source from
whence it eliminates and understands
its animus. He also knows that Ken
lucky planters have been shipping
their tobacco to GAINESVILLE for a hall
century, and that nothing of this kind
has ever happened. 1t don't hurt us
for Hopkinsville to show its chagrin,
but only serves to advertise Clarks-
villc's prosperity.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

Esq. Gibbs, of lakewood, is visiting
friends here.
After short stay in Stewart, / re-
turned to Lafayette and once more
enjoyed its balmy air amid its unceas-
ing prosperity. The T., A. 4 Z. rail-
road has given an impetus to real es-
tate in Christian county. Land is in
demand more now than ever before
and at higher prices.
The following is the Roll of Honor
OF Lafayette High School for Novem-
Der, the numbers representing the
general average of all the studies
Charlie Fox. 81; Fannie Edwards, 81 ;
Lizzie Edwards, 90; Katie Collins, 81 /;
Katie Fuqua, 90; Walter Purcell, 81;
Emma Tuck, 90; Carrie Fuqua, 90;
Mollie Crawford, 81; Alice Clardy, 80;
Cornelia Hester, 80; Annie Griffin, 90;
Laura Scott, "a; Robbie Corothers, 81 ;
Lonnie Traughber, Sc; Jno. Collins, So;
Nick Edwards, "a; George ID. Free, 81
Mamie Rogers, 80; Mary Collins, "a;
Max Joiner, 81; Lewis N. Taylor, Sc;
Willie Edwards, SO; Rufus Carter, Sc
This is good roll. | am glad to see
so many striving to become useful
men and women.
If Congress will appropriate money
for public schools, ere long the South
can successfully compete with the
North. Let us instruct our congress
men to do all they can to effect its pas
sage and enactment, for we mus have
such help. DEMosTHEEEs.
December z, 1885.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
WIN. H. VANDERBILT.

The death of Mr.. VIM. III. Wander
bilt which occurred suddenly at his
mansion on Fifth Avenue in New
York at $50 p m, Tuesday, has failed
to cast a gloom over any large number
Of entire communities. 1t is very
generally remembered that Mr.. Van
derbilt some time ago gave utterance
to somewhat nonchalant sentiment
regarding the public, and just now the
public seems in measure disposed to
return the compliment.
Mr.. Vanderbilt was an immensely
rich man. He was born rich, and not
only knew how to take care of the
large estate he inherited, but was
smart enough to increase il ooGsidera-
bly,. But his life was far from beng
a flowery bed OF ease. No man in
America was harder worked, his ex-
tensive business interest requiring the
most harrassing care.
Mr.. Vanderbilt did two things dur
ing his life that relieves his character
from the hard aspect of the sordid
money-getter, in which he was gener-
ally regarded. The first was generous
contribution to the University at Nash
vile, founded by his father, and the
other was his magnanimous treatment
of General Grant
He was probably the richest man in
the world-the CreSus of his day and
generation. His troubled life and the
small amount Of respect that is being
shown his memory, is better sermon
than the story of Dives, and affords
food for moralizing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
YE ABLE EDITOR.

VI
There are some so-calIed editors in
Tennessee who have missed their call
ing, and would suit better to work in
the field or to peck rock on a turn
pike. 1t don't take a genius, or even
a fine writer to run country newspa-
per, or there would be no country
newspapers, but the individual who
mounts the rural tripod ought to have
a modicum OF general information and
little more sprightliness than is COM
monty attributed to an oyster.
All of the brethren OF the State press
don't fill this bill and the chief object
some OF them seem to have IN publish
ing newspapers is to tell what they
don't know. We submit the following
as a specimen illustration of this fact.
IL was taken from a Tennessee paper
that comes to us in exchange, and oc-
cupied preferred place in the editori-
al columns:
1t has been suggested that the defunct
electoral college be empowered to fill vacan-
cies. We should think all decent men were
utterly disguised with the electoral college
in its one great act OF defrauding the Ameri-
can people out of their choice for President
in 1876.
Now, this moulder of public opinion
would be willing to bet his paper that
he voted directly for Cleveland and
Hendricks in the last election. He
don't know what an elector is, and has
a confused memory of the to z con-
Germ that elevated Mr.. Hayes to the
Presidency. His next paper will con-
tain lengthy editorial arguing the
unconstitutionality of the Blair Edu-
cational Bill.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
kONICL.E.
PUkPRRsIDENT on THE TARIFF.


President Cleveland, in his admira-
bic message to Congress, says in regard
10 the tariff:
The question Of free trade is not involved,
sion OF the wisdom or expediency OF a pro-
tecfive system. Justice and faiFness dictate
that In any modification Of our present laws
relating TO revenue the industries and inter-
ests which have been encouraged by such
laws. and in which our citizens have large
Investments, should not be ruthlessly in
jured or destroyed.
This is the true Democratic doctrine
on the subject and the position that
the CHRONICLE has always occupied.
1t has been the policy of rival publ
cations to induce the people to believe
that this paper favored an exhorbitant
taxation FOR TIE purpose of giving
bounty to monopolies and fattening
class of manufacturing cOrmorants at
the expense of agricultural interests.
Those who have taken the pains to
learn the CHRONICLES position from
the paper itself, know how gross were
these Misrepresentation.
The CHRONICLE has always occupied
the position indicated by the Presi-
dent, and still stands on that platform.
1t has taken no stock in the wild rant
ing of a certain class of newspapers
and politicians that could best be des-
ignated as custom house burners, and
who in their radical TRADES have sought
to portray the manufacturer as the
natural enemy OF the farmer. This
paper recognizes the fact that a blow
at theextensive manufacturing interest
of the country would be severely felt
by all other interests, and it strongly
adheres to the idea that diversified
industries are essential to the Nations
prosperity.
There are great abuses in the pres
ent tariff and we believe that the
Democratic House of Representatives
will enact the needed reforms if not
estopped in that good work by the
Republican Senate. The reformation
will not be a senseless horizontal re-
duction that would leave all inequali-
ties in stat,E quo. 1t will not create a
business crisis by threatening the cap
ital and labor employed in manufact-
uring, and at the same time it will
tend to reduction of custom duties
to substantially revenue basis.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
FROM LAFAYETTE, KY.

To the Chronicle:
Cold weather has come at last. We
have had a beautiful fall in which to
plant our grain, fallOw our land and
make arrangements for winter.
This writer visited Stewart county
this week and found everything lively
and prosperous. He called on w. r.
J. Free, the merchant and miller, and
found him as busy as usual He is
doing an immense business in dry
goods and lumber. The distillerv at
Legate has closed. 1t did successful
work this year. Prof. McGregors
school is booming. Miss Inis c. Free,
who has been attending Broadhurst
Institute, is quite sick. The Young
people are matrimonialIy inclined:
diurnalIy they are being led to the al
tar. Elder Z. Watkins has moved
into the neighborhood to engage in
ministerial labor. He is good preach
er and will do ample justice in the
heather ranks. The household and
kitchen furniture of Mr.. |. l. Keats
was entirely destroyed by fire lew
DAYS ago. 1t was the work of an in
cendiary. Miss Mamie Thweatt Is
visiting relatives in Christian county
Miss Callie Lee is visiting relatives in
Murray, Ky. She is "the belle OF
Lee Hon. Alexander Bagwell Is
travelling in the interest OF the Grange
Warehouse, of GAINESVILLE. William
Hareroes. OF Selma, Wisconsin,is cir
culating among friends and relatives
He wants to move back to Tennessee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

SENATOR HARRIS failure to get a
complete mastery of the railroad regu-
lation question, comes from his not
having consulted some of the rural
editors in Tennessee, and the one-gal-
lowsed statesmen that howl around in
the backwoods. There is distinguish
ed journalist who runs a paper down
in Moore county, called the Lynch
burg Falcon, who could give the Sem
ator all the points on the subject he
might desire. Moore county is a thous-
and miles or so from a railroad or
anything else real live and wide awake,
but the dear people down there are
powerful sufferers from railroad OPP
preston, all the same, and know how
these giant monopolies" ought to be
regulated. Senator Harris should have
gone to Moore county before he pro-
nounced this matter perplexing.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

THE street formerly called Green
ville," in Hopkinsville, has had its
name changed to Wine" The New
Era thinks this IAN appropriate name
for street passing east of the old
Horticultural Gardens, which, fifty
years ago, bloomed with vines of every
description, where purple grapes and
scarlet strawberries clustered thickly
in beds and arbors" The "appropri-
ateness" is further suggested by the
probable return of that region to the
condition of the forest primeval fifty
years hence. About that time the de-
licious coon grape and succulent black
berry will flourish in wild luxuriance
in that neck of the woods.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12

THE grounds on which the injunc-
ton is prayed for in the United States
Court against the Atlanta prohibition
lists, are that local prohibition is I'M
constitutional because it interferes
with interstate commerce, in that it
will prevent the sales within the State
of wines made outside the State; that
Il discriminates in favor OF homemade
wines as against foreign wines, because
Il prohibits the sale OF the imported
goods, while it allows the sale Of Geor-
nia-made wines. This is what the
ihwyers call a nice point, and the ira
diti6nal remark of the Governor of
.SVorth Carolina to his Excellcncy of
sSi,kh Carolina can be made several
Times before the Supreme Court at
washington has decided it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-12
Tribute of Resneet.

At meeting OF the teachers of the
colored public school of GAINESVILLE,
held at the school building Dec. 8, 1885,
the following preamble and resolu-
tions were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The hand of Divine Providence
has removed from the scene of his temporal
labor our beloved associate and co-worker,
Fl. 5. Merry in testimony of our respect for
his wisdom, piOuS example and Sagacious
counsel as Principal, therefore be it
Resolved, That in the loss of our late as
sociate in life, we deplore the death of one
of the ableSt and most efficient instructors
OF our city, whose public service, beginning
eight years ago, in educational life was given
with energy. intelligence, saga city and
courage, to what seemed to him the Interest
OF the community in which he lived. We
recognize untiring and undaunted devotion
to duty, even to the end of his illustrious
career, and his loyalty 10 the trust and con-
fidence of his people.
Resolved, That we sincerely condole with
the family of the deceased on the dispense
ton with which 1t has pleased Divine Prov
idence to affict them and commend them
for consolation TO Him who orders all things
for the best, and whose chastisements are
meant in mercy.
Resolved, That copy of these resoIu-
tions be forwarded to the family of the de-
ceased, and that as token of our respect
and veneration for the deceased we wear
Grape for thirty days.
Resolved, That Il copy of these resolu-
lions be handed to the press of our city
for publication.
G. NJ. WATSON.
w. s. GRANT.
ELIZABETH RAMEY.
MINNIE b. KENNEDY.
Committee