The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-12-22
Current Events.

sion of the bill section by section,-every
time running them up whenever there Is
anyone 10 he plucked M home, lowering
them when IL can be done without inJur'
Ing any trust or corporation at nome, On
Wednesday Voorhees, made III" speech OF
the week on the bill rs whole, when he
said the Senate was endeavOring 10 crowd
through In hurry In order 10 avoid any
exposure "A fair discussion would make. As
70 salt, he said the bill doubling the price
of that necessity was solely In the interests
of the salt trust and did not In the slight
est degree consider those OF consumers
packers and fishermen. The metal sChed'
ule has been increased every wool item
had been increased; and the panacea OF all
these ills is, free whisky and tobacco! The
bill will be voted on about January 10th
and go to the house by February LIST, at the
latest.
The Federal Grand Jury has been hard
At work this week at Indianapolis investi-
eating the famous election worker, Mr..
Dudley, and his little letter that came"
telling the poll workers Of that State how
70 handle the "tlOaters." About hundred
witnesses-Chairmen and secretaries of
county republican committees, and leading
lights of the party from all parts Of the
country captured while in the city on their
way 10 aud from Mr. HarrisOn's mansion
Just what these men have testified To does
not of course appear; but, RS a recent trav-
eler In Indiana says the people there gen.
orally made no secret of the buying Of
voters on election day, there ought 10 be
some way Of getting al the bottom of the
shameful iniquities Of the case, and have
the proper punishment meted out to the
guilty parties.
The Great French Panama Canal Com
pany mas, as all the world expected, save
confiding Frenchmen who looked upon De
Lesseps rs infallible, gone into bankruptcy |
practically hopeless, since the French
Chamber of Deputies has refused to sane.
ton a postponement of payment for three
months, rs asked by NJ De Lesseps, where's
upon that gentleman resigned as president
Of the company, the officers Of which have
ordered the return of the money paid In on
the last loan.
On Saturday the bill to incorporate the
Nicaragua Canal Go. was taken up by the
house. and some amendments offered by |
Payson that all securities of every nature
should be issued at New York and only |
for cash, which WAS defeated and by Spi- |
nola, limiting the capital to one hundred |
millions, not passed upon. The bill will
be called up every Friday hereafter, and Is
expected 10 pass at this session. During
the week senator Edmunds by resolution
In the Senate gave notice that all European
nations m ust keep "hands off, the isthmus.
There is still some hope expressed In
the New York offices of the French Com
pany that the work may be continued,
though where the funds are 10 come from
Is not explained, yet the agents of the
French Company appear not to be dis
heartened and claim the great work will
be finished, and by that Company.
The Wisconsin State Grange, which clos
ed It's sestlons on last Friday, Dec. II,
adopted resolutions peiitionng Congress To
provide for the election of Presiden, term
six years. by direct vote of the people,
and for the election OF pos'masters by the
people; also that trusts be abolished and
lumber placed on the free list
The American Federation of Labor at
81 Louis. Friday decided to hold four mass
meetings in 1889 In the interest of the
eight hour movement which they propose
10 put mo erect, May |, 1871
Charles Francis Adams, Of the u. p
road said recently at a banquet at Boston,
that-"Ihe railroads of this country are
moving rapidly toward some great system
of consolidation. Capitalization has gone
on during these years SO that, while once "A
railroad Of 200 or 300 miles was considered
large one of 5000 or 5000 miles is now far
from being the largest. The next move
VIII lie In the direction Of railroad systems
of 10000 miles each under one common
management. The interstate commerce I
act, acting on the tendency Of natural forces /
Is AT this moment rapidly driving us for
ward toward some grand railroad trust .
scheme. | Hm not very sure that great l
corporation or even trust can 8
IN held 10 far stricter responsibility 70 ~
the law than numerous smaller and con,
iiicting operations" OF course, all trusts l.
can he defended on the same ground They +
know how to squeeze the public, just the =
same, however
An Ohio citizen has addressed petition
fu the house of representatives. proposing y
10 pay farmers IA bounty, beginning nj 2Oc, +
hen l5C, and then Zoe bushel ON all grain 4
hey raise, the reductions 10 he made year -
", ms an offset for the burdens the tariff
ariH now leVias on the In mer Well this D
snt so unfair rs 1t might look to the pro II
ectiOnist theOrist who can't see or won't (,
admit that the farmer has 10 pay the tariff :,
tax; and ii Is "A good deal more sensible
lhan some expenditures proposed under II
Baine's educational and "employment f
Bgency' bills, for instance, But our Ohio u
lpnocent won't get there" just the same.
The farmer in republican political economy o.
Is the COW TO be milked bat not fed
On "Wednesday last Doctor Auguse ar G
lived in New York and proceeded to -
Washington 10 secure recognition of the
government of Gen Hypolite in Hayti. II
The opposite party is represented by Gen. ,
Legtime. As neither party appear actu
lilly Ia have formed u government, neither Va
party will probably be recognized. Gen.
Legitime is called provisional PRESIDENT I'll
shrewd, practical negro, while IIypolite oI
Is not much If any his inferior. As there Ia
seems TO be nc disposition on the part of -,
Legitime, who holds Port au Prince, 10 >,
hold the steamer Haytian Republic sliced I'll
some time ago, anu rs the island can hardly b,
be classed among the summer resorts, In IL
view OF the perpetual yellow fever one .,
IAN hardly see what special interest the "
hau In, RI