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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
MR. LAMAR'S WANING CHANCES
MR. EyAETS NOT 10 VOTE FOR Ills CONFIRMATION
THE QUESTION OF AGE.

The QIfsfioN w Abt
WAsuINGToN Jan. (SpecidD.-Mr. Lamars
nomination is still pending before the Senate
Committee Oh the Judiciary and there are no nd-
cations that il will be reported to the Senate
very soon. The committee is evidently intent
upon sitting to the bottom the merit of the remon-
strances which still continue TO pour in from
every conceivable quarter The protest OF the
New York Republicans seems TO have borne fruit
for il is now known that the mind Of Mr.. Evarts
has undergone complete change, and that he has
reached the conclusion not TO vote for Mr. Lamars
continuation. Aside from the question OF general
unnGncsS, Mr.. lamars friends have endeay ored
10 meet the reasonable objections raised 10 his
confirmation on account OF his advanced age. The
general impression IS that Lamar Was sixty-eight
years Of age, ana the impression Is based upon the
bogIapily Of lie Secretary Contained IA LAnman's
COngr,ssi onal Directory DIR. Lamar has lately
asserted that he never furnished the material for
that sketch, but that, on the contrary, II was
furnished by some one totally unacqualnted with
the fncts A letter from Professor George w.
Strong OF Oxford, Georgia, Is being shown about
town now 10 support MI Lamar's assertions re-
gGrding his age. In IL Professor Strong says:
remember Lucius Lamar wen when he was an
school. near Emory college, in 1887. lie under
my supervisor OF number OF small boys known
as drop shot sT being sy P Ssor i5em as an
sonai recollection. have reference TO the rnaricula
ton book Of aey p has To- SsT In s TssS
foc ored OF his father, time Of BIRTH residence,
etc. II Is now before me- aud copy tho following
from a long list of names.
Date-lS4J, August.
Nane-L Q. C. Lamar.
Fnher-L O C. Lamar
When born-Ycsr. 1898: month September; date,
18th. etc.
societies. tho Phi Gamma The records Of that socl-
ETY. report dentcay the samo - to tho time Of his
birth, September IL, 1895. with Other particulars,
place Of birtt, ETC.
But even at tho age Of sixty-three Mr. Lamar
would be disqualified according to the standard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06

set up by the Judiciary Committee two years
ago when il adopted resolution not to confirm
any one for United States Judscship above
sixty years Of age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
The Plain Truth

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tsm, TO give Hoods Sarsslsrilla trial
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can ALREADY testify beneficial results highly
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Hoods Sarsaparillo
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06

PEyYsYLvAYIA REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION
PHILADELPHIA. Jan b.-The Republican state Gen.
trail Committee this afternoon collected Harrisburg ~
the place for holding The sext State Conception snA
April 20 - the TINA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
THE COMMITTEE IN Full.
The committees in full are given below

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Eiyss ard Ha5Sor- blanchard Gp Lou ~" chair
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satls Springer oh fIlisns Hatch tD) iss"rr brctk
en- ide. fD1 Kentucky: CUMMINGS (Dl Nru.fort. Mae
DO aid ID Minne-oia Dinghy (Rl Name Hokins lk
nnn..s fsil.a t. caior"'. farq"hAr th New orS
Clarke (Rl Wisconsin. ,,-.x...
AgrIruftnre- Hatch Id Missouri chairman Davifsob
IN. A,aoanls sahIneeker tb. New-YorS Morgan tDL
hiss.sippi GLASS tDb Tennessee Burnett 10 Massschu'
sets. Mcciammv iD) orfh Cardinal BtgEs ~ csor'
whiting tnL Michigsn. Funss"a tR) Kansas Hfes
ntL Nrw;ie srv Luri r. Ne,r SIX Conser th ."TA
Idaho
Foreign Ar,trs-Perry Belmont {D.,, New York chair
man. Nc rrary ID. Kentucky: Norwoed OBJ 9eorr,a
Hooker ID HIssSs ppi Russell Id Massicbuseus
Rsyner (Dl Asrviaady Ottoman tDl Michigan Co'hran
(Il South Carolina; kechsm (k New.l0rk Phep- l.
sertA, Msrrew fR,. California $3.50,
ff,i sosih Carolina; Hooter ID. Misdsspg Maish
Michigan; Robsrtscn (Dl Louisiana Yodsr oh Ohio
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
THE PROTECrIVE POLICY.

At no time since the foundation of our
government has SO much emphasis been
given to the above measure as now. 1t
is not new. however. but from Washing
tons first address to congress il has had
a place in nearly every presidential
message considered either favorably or
with implied diSfayor. Up to the as
sem5iing of congress the present year
such has been the situation, Departing
from the accustomed order Mr.. Cleve-
land placed himself in an attitude of
positive opposition to the protective
policy, and nfavor of free trade. The
discussion which this position has
awakened in political circles renders it
pertinent to review the history of the pro-
te;tve policy. as showing its place and
value III the practical operations OF our
government under certain conditions
similar TO those which now exist. The
Hartford Courant compiled this statis-
teal data:
In 1901 Jefferson recommended the re-
peal of the internal revenue taxes and
the collection of all revenues from I'M
port duties. When the government debt
had been paid in 1906 and 1907. he adyo-
Gated TO earnestnesS that the surplus
be devoted with educational purposes
and necessary public Improvements.
Both Madison aud Monroe favored the
policy as Il means of promoting manu-
featuring industries. the latter in 1921
recommended an increase in custom du-
ties rs protective measure.
As showing a result of this policy a
few figures may be quoted From 1875
10 1861 the revenues from custom duties
were Sl.5.4. 00o.00o. During the period
from 1.g0 to 1893 the duties on imports
averaged SLIGO per capita. while for the
same time internal revenue and direct
taxes Were only twelve cents per capita,
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
THE EQUALIZATION OF THROUGH
RATES.
Globe-DemoCrat.

Globe-Democrat.
In view of the numerous inquiries
which have been received, the joint rate
committee of eastern and western roads
which is to enforce the new agreement
providing an equitable division of
through rates between the various roads.
and prevent inequalities of rates by the
various routes. and via the different
junction points. has issued the following
circular:
Il. The business covered by the Joint
agreement, the committee understands
to be. all traffic interchanged between
the eastern and western lines at juno
tons, Chicago, East St. Louis and inter-
mediate. when such traffic is destin-
ed to or comes from the western
termUl of the eastern trunk lines. or
east thereof, but not to and from points
west OF such western termini of the
eastern trunk lines. neither does it in
ciude any Pacific coast traffic.
-. The committee understands it to
be its duty to cause to be kept and issued
record of the arrangements entered into
Jointly by the lines IN interest under the
terms OF the agreement, regarding the
basis for through rates and divisions
thereof on the traffic involved. the obi
cations resting upon all the lines in in
terest, to he governed by the record thus
promulgated and the JOINT agreement.
. The committee is empowered to
establish from time to time such through
rates upon the traffic involved as NAV be
necessary, in the Judgment of the COM
mittee. to provide for a similarity of
through rates via all routes: also divis-
ions east and west of the junction points
of the through rates thus established.
when to and from points west of the
Mississippi river not covered by the
agreed scale for through rates.
II. The committee has decided that
the method of procedure should be, in
the event of equalization of through
rates being thought necessary by any
line, that application be made in writing
setting forth the conditions claimed to be
existing. such application, when for
equalization based upon existing tariffs.
TO be accompanied by the tariffs on
which the application is based.
.. The committee understand that
the agreement does not change or affect
any existing arrangements for through
rates, or equalization of through rates
on business passing between points west
OF the western termini of the eastern
trunk lines and points west of Chicago.
Mississippi river, etc: nor the arrange
ments for through rates between the
Middle states and the Missouri river and
beyond. none of such traffic being in
cluded in the agreement, excepting that
which is TO or from the western termini
of the trunk lines spoken of.
THE committee invite communica-
lions from the various lines in interest
regarding the necessities existing as to
of rates. and would suggest
that the lines in interest at the various
common points agree as TO the extent
such equalizations should prevail, and
also earnestly request that any Informal
ton which the lines may possess as To
alleged irregularities may be given to the
promptly. in order that they
may be aided as much rs possible in the
work assigned TO them.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

Between 1913 and 1918 when these were
heaviest the average was sixty cents per
capita. For the past twenty-five years
the average has been for internal rev.
enue So and from customs $500.
The protective policy, as viii thus be
seen even in this brief review, has well
sustained precedent, and It's results are
well known to be highly beneficial in all
particulars. The best illustration of
this fact being in the iron industry, as
shown by well authenticated statistics.
Last year the United States produced
5,6S3, 900 tons of pig iron and Great
Britain $4,000 tons. In 1870 the
United States produced 100000 tons
and Great Britain 1907 200 tons. A pro-
tective tariff alone made it possible for
the iron industry to exist here, and under
it the price of steel rails has fallen from
$l5S per ton in 1886 to S35 per ton, or
even less. now.
Whatever may be the best plan for re-
ducinS our present surplus, it would
seem that the highest good and most sat
isfactory results can be obtained by still
maintaining the duties on imports and
the reduction or adjustment Of internal
revenue
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
KELLY ON PROTECTION.

William ID. Kelly, of Pennsylvania
the best posted tariff man in congress.
in the February Forum, speaking of pro-
lection, says among other things:
The scale of protective duties should
be so adapted as to secure the right of
every owner of the land to provide for
his present wants and the future of his
family. and to add TO the wealth and
power of his country by developing and
bringing into profitable use all the re-
sources of his estate. whether they be
the products of the farm or those OF the
forest, the mine or the quarry The
land owners of nation, however.
are not that portion of Its
citizens who are most de-
pendent upon the maintenance of "A
system of duties which should, under all
vicissitudes of trade and changes in the
course of international commerce. de-
fend their rights: for though commercial
depression may prevent them from max
ing profits to be boarded or expended In
the improvement of their estates. they
NAV procure sustenance from them.
But it is nos so with the landless millions.
Their estates consist of their thews and
SiiC"S- VI tilt VI kttSu tfE5 anu
hands to quick cooperative action: of
their taste for an aptness in the produc-
ton of the attractive In form, texture
and color: of inventive genius. which
enables them. by new combinations Of
mechanical principles. or the application
of science 10 the arts. to increase the
productive power of nations These and
the like aptitudes constitute the estate
of millions of people who are known
as artists, artisans. laborers, or
by other terms or designation, and who
have the right to demand that their es-
tates also shall be defended By the ma
ton. though their defense shall require
other agencies than the power OK navy
and army. The daily wages Of these
toiling millions are units of measure
ment by which their estates are told and
their means of comfort and health ascer-
tanned: hence, | repeat, it Is the duty of
the government so to adjust the regula-
ton of Its trade and commerce as To Sc
cure to its own people whatever benefits
are 10 be derived from tie DEVELOPMENT
Of the material resources Of the country
and the conversion Of the native raw
material into useful commodies.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

Messrs. Sam Jones and Sam Small.
the evangelists, have been succeeded in
the revival work carried on by them in
Kansas City for several weeks, by George
w. Rasure, the cowboy evangelist of
Wellington, Kan. In its report of the
beginning of his labors in Kansas City
the Times says: As sort of introduc-
tory 10 the work which will be carried
on at that church this week the evange-
list related his own experience. and then
stated that he intended to work for the
salvation of the lowest classes. among
whom he had spent so much of his reck-
less career. The story of his experience
and conversion was one of the most
startling and remarkable ever uttered
from pulpit. He acknowledged that
he had even been hunted at times bv the
officers of the law, and that his sudden
conversion four years ago so startled his
relatives that it caused his incarceration
i'm an insane asylum. The sermon was
full of startling utterances. and the
audience listened with deep interest"
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

The latest result of the recent blizzard
is the announcement of citizen of Wis
consln that he intends to move. Mr. j.
B. Lockney, of Waukesha. Wis, ad-
dresses himself to the Times-Democrat.
of New Orleans. and asks. for informa-
ton. He says he has for forty-six years
withstood the ravages of Bethesda water
and the Wisconsin climate. and that Wis
ions of the sunny south rise before him
when he surveys the land of zero and
billiards., where he now suffers life
This last storm settled it for him. The
gulf states claim his immediate atten-
ton. He wants a locality picked out for
a colony of northern farmers and me-
chanics where work can be done with
out discomfort every week in the year"
The mistake Mr.. Lockney is about to
make is rot an unnatural one. His ter
rible experience during the present win
ter III the blizzard-blight region of the
north naturally prompts him to seek the
other extreme of climate. The wiser
thing for him and all others who find
their powers of endurance about ex-
hausted by their experience in the lati-
tude from whence they propose to
migrate, would be to locate at point
where the temperature is more equable
less vigorous in winter and less intense
i'll summer. Such locality he will find
about eauidistant between his former and
prospective homes. i. e. in southern
Kansas
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

The tea trade in Tacoma. Washington
territory. is assuming enormous proper
tions. A vessel laden with four thous-
and tons of tea, worth $1,000, 900. re-
Gently entered Puget sound and depos-
tied its load, the largest ever known, on
the wharves at that point. Tacoma as
pires to the position of rival seaport to
san Francisco, and with the backing of
the Northern and Canadian Pacific rail
roads and other important auXiIiaries it
will no doubt develop into port of con-
siderable Importance despite its climate
disadvantages during the winter months.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

1t seems incredible. but the report
comes from seemingly reliable authority
that the Democratic national convention
will be held in Chicago two weeks earlier
than the Republican convention. The
national committee will meet in Wash
ngton on February - to decide the
matter definitely. There is considerable
interest, in view Of the presidents come
out as a free trader. To know what will
be done with MeSsrs Barnum and Cor
man, especially now that Ballard Smith.
who is intimate at the White House. has
announced that no protectionist need APP
ply for the position as chairman of the
national Democratic committee.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

Claus Spreckles is looking to the cult
walton of sugar beets on the proposed ex-
perimental agricultural station near
Chico. Fifty acres of land have been
donated for experimental purposes, and
he proposes that beets should be in
Guided, Proceed with your experiment
tation, Mr.. Spreckles; we only want to
say to you that Kansas has passed that
point in the production of sugar from
sorghum and will beat the golden state
in sugar making even with the beet en-
terpriSe a success.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

The publisher of the Arkansas City Re
publican Traveller stood the racket of
the press of the country in keeping up a
ceaseless plea for the shortening of the
name of that paper, with commendable
fortitude but he has ut last yielded to the
Inevitable and Topped off the first half of
ithe hyphenated portion of the name. and
it now appears as the Daily Traveller.
The EAGLE congratulates the Traveller
upon its survival of the trying ordeal it
has emerged from, and we feel sure il
will return the compliment to its ex-
changes.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
THE CONDITION OF TIE SOUTHWEST

Garden City Sentinel.
G. ". McMilen, of the Wichita EAGLE
has just returned from trip over the
southwestern part of Kansas. In the
last two weeks he has travelled with
team distance of $50 miles in the coun-
ties of Haskell. Seward. Stevens, Morton.
Stanton and Grant In response 10 a
question by the Sentinel in regard to the
reported destitution in this territory. he
said:
Il have inquired in almost every
neighborhood in regard to the truth OF
these reports. and in every instance they
were most emphatically denied The
proportion needing as sistance in this ter
ritory is actually less than in the more
eastern states. \ majority of the few
families who do need assistance arrived
in the west without means 80 that most
OF the pauperism that does exist should
be credited to the communities from
which they came and not 10 western
Kansas. But Kansas will take care of
them, give them homes and IN few
wears will send them back In palace cars
10 visit their friends.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
REPUBL1CANlsM IN THE SOUTH.

The EAGLE editorially on Wednesday
of this week offered some honestly en-
tertained views touching a new oppor-
tunity for a Republican party in the
understanding that our views would
meet with criticism from the great body
of our party SO far as it might come into
notice. Since then we pick up letter
from Ex-Governor Rufus B. Bullock of
Georgia, whose Republicanism has no
faint of carpetbagism. Governor Bull
lock who was at the head of the South
eln Express company during the war.
has been for years actively engaged in
promoting southern development and is
now president of the Atlanta Cotton
Mill company. His letter in some re-
spects is strongly confirmatory of the
position taken by the EAGLE. 1t is too
long to reproduce in full, being written
to the editor of the New York Press,
but we make the following extract from
its concluding paragraph:
Understand me, Mr. Editor, am not now
complaining of "cowardice, (which was in
effect complete abandonment by the Re
publican party of its reconstruction
scheme. This abandonment disarmed the
preiudices which inflamed the minds and
clOuded the Judgment Of our white people
and worked no harm to our colored people
But to begin once again now and stir up
all this race prejudice would result in plac-
ing the negro at serious disadvantage. and
would not give you the partisan majority
in congress which you seek Let me urge
upon you to offer and press issues OF prac-
taxation, protection to American labor and
liberal appropriations for our commerce,
rivers, harbors and public buildings,
and we VII! send you congressman
who will stand,with YOU upon all economic
questions prOmotive of the weifare-not of
the north or of the south, but of the United
States of America These are questions
upon which we can divide among our.
selves, and upon which the colored man will
vote according to what he considers to be
his own best interests as Il man earning his
own living That vote will surely be cast
without duress and will be counted a..
cast The unfortunate result of Republi-
can 'cowardice" has been an increased OBJ
position representation in congress from
the south. Do not let this alarm you, for
when the question at issue is the protec-
ton of American labor in the mines in
the factory. and on the farm our bother
in black" will hold the balance of power in
every southern congressional district
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
& Strategic Move.

NNl9-l--I Fs1s"-l-,
The Republican party could emphasize
in no better way It's belief in the obIiier-
alton of all sectional feeling between the
north and south than by the nomination
OF some representative southern Rernbli-
can for vice president Some Of the
northern newspapers are agi,aiing thi-
matter. and il seems To meet with
general favor. Among the names which
have been mentioned are those Of Gen
erai Nathan Gof. Of West Virgins. and
JOHN ). Wise Of Virgins.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04
THE LEADER. 4"

Wichita has newspaper, which APP
peared for the first time on Thursday
morning, named The Leader" 1t con-
sists of six pages printed on white paper.
is a clean, bright sheet and the organ of
the prohibition party of Sedgwick
county. AS such it has been endorsed
by the central committee of that party
lis motto is National Prohibition. Anti
Monopoly, Labor and Civil Reform. =
Lee H. Downing, editor. The first num-
Der contains history of the Wichita w.
c. I. L. and many other readable arti-
Giles. The new venture is welcomed to a
great field
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

The growing pcrchant of young children
in Kansas for concentrated lye is begin
ming to attract the attention of medical
scientists.-kansas City Star.
Medical scientists have long since
ceased to give the same predisposition
manifested in Missouri youngsters any
attention. They early discovered that
in them it was a matter of heredity and
consequently beyond their reach, and
they dismissed the subject.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

The Kansas City, No, papers are still
discussing the new charter proposition
that was defeated Monday, first ose and
then another pointing out this objection
able feature and that. If those features
had been discussed and eliminated from
made acceptable to the citizens before
hand the result of the election would not
now be the subject of such discussion.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-04

According to the official returns the
majority in Dakota in favor of division
was 1857. The total vote cast was 90,
673. Considering the fact that no officers
We're chosen, the vote is a fairly large
one and the ma iority sufficient to answer
the charge that the people Of Dakota do
not know what they want.