Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-02-18
DOMESTIC.


Wednesday. The report begins by calling
attention to the importance of having an
early and definite settlement of the subsidy
debt of the company on basis OF greater
security to the government, and which
should be within the ability of the company
to meet. In referring, to the fraudulent acts
of former officers and employees of the COM
pany they submit that whatever may have
been the wrongs done by individuals in
their dealings with the Union Pacific, such
wrongs should be atoned for by those
individuals themselves, and by them only.
To punish and destroy the corporation be-
cause some time in the past it may have
been despoiled by those who were bound in
law to protect 1t does not appear to be q
logical method of enforcing justice, nor
such a conception of justice as would in
crease the rsspect of the people for the law
of the land. In reference to the PRESENT
management of the Union Pacific road the
report says. "We are satisfied that this
admin ,traSon has devoted itself honestly
and intelligently to the herculean task Of
rescuing the Union Pacific from insolvency,
which seriously threatened at the inception
of its work; that it has devoted itself by
rigid economy, by intelligent management,
and by an application of every dollar of the
earning capacity of the system to its inn
provement and betterment, and to place
that company on a sound and enduring
financial fOundau0n.
Senator Sherman was banauetted by the
home market club In Boston, Thursday
evening. Over 400 prominent men were
present at the banquet. After the banquet,
the Senator delivered an address. He at
tackled Mr.. Lowell for his speech aG the Tar
iii Reform league banquet. Referring to
the surplus, Mr.. Sherman remarked: "fhe
surplus is great deal better than a deficit.
III hac CIV ao1nc Of ho
war. 1t has enabled us to perform the
magnificent feat of rapidly reducing the
public debt-a policy which has excited the
admiration of the greatest statesmen of Eu-
rope. This growing surplus was bequeathed
to Mr.. Cleveland by his predecessors, and
was applied by them to the payment of the
debt, and to the repeal or the reduction of
taxes. 1t is rational and steady result of
our increase in wealth and population, grow
ing out of the policy of protection to home
industries. Our friends may be surprised
that the surplus revenue did not stop with
the election of democratic president, and
perhaps it will be if his advice is followed"
After Senator Sherman's address, William
j. Mckinley, of Ohio. was introduced. His
address was principally on the tariff question.
He said that Massachusetts needs protection
to-day as much as it ever did, and as much
as any state in the union"
There were no new DEVELOPMENTS In the
Metropolitan bank matter, Thursday. The
examination of the banks records was being
continued.
The Newspaper Publishers association
continued its session at Indianapolis, Thurs
day. The first paper read was by j. M.
McManes, of the Philadelphia Record, whose
topic was ''Puffs, and the Dividing Line be-
tween News and Advertising"
"A memorial tablet to General Logan was
decided Thursday evening at the Metropoli-
Methodist church in Washington. Eulogies
on the life of Senator Logan were delivered
W number of prominent senator's, among
hem, Senator Ingalls of Kansas.
By appointment, @. P. Huntington. vice
president of the Central Pacific Railroad |
company, appeared Friday before the |
house committee on Pacific railroads to |
give his views upon the pending legislation |
in regard to those roads and to explain tie |
of the contract of the Pacific |
that he had been with the road since its |
in 1860. He had put In II
hours day on the company's account from
that cay to this. lie made a propositi n
for the settlement of the debt of the Central
Pacific on basis of $50 semi-annual pay
nents and an extension of fifty-two Yeas,
le said, with interest at two per cent.
Postmaster General Dickinson has entered
INTO a new contract with the Chicago, Bur-
ington d Quincy railroad company for fast
nail service between Chicago and Council
Bluffs, to take effect March ID. The present
contract Calls for fast mail service on a
chedule of sixteen hours west, daily six
lines week. Tie new cont ct is for daily
ervice both east and west upon schedule
# fourteen and half hours, the leaving
ime at either end to be controlled by the
'ostofice department..
A Chinese merchant at Portland, Oegon,
vas infomed by the treasury department.,
friday, that under the Chinese restriction
ct he could not b ing his nephew to this
ountry to go into business with him
Representative Brumm, whose district is
q the Reading regions, testified before the
pecial committee appointed to investigate
he existing labor troubles in Pennsylvania,
riday, that the railroad and mining compa-
les were one, and controlled the mining
nd prices of coal in the entire region. He
lought this whole lockout was fostered by
ne Reading company. In his judgment, if ]
le coal mining business we're not connected :
18th the carrying business, the effect would Z
Q to put higher price on coal at the mines !
nd lower price on freight, and the min I
Is could be paid higher wages.
A democratic member of the house COM
llttee OF ways and means stated Satr r lay i
lat it was improbable that the tariff bill | q
ould assume definite shape befo the 25th, n
nd that it would hardly be presented to the Y
uuse before March LIST.
Charles Francis Adams favors the Outh- ~
ate bill for settling the Pacific railroads
complications. He wants them z
titled in some way as soon as possible.
A London dispatch says Jay Gould will bs
home in month. "
An opium smuggler was arrested at Il
atertown. Pa, near Philadelphia, Satur- q
~. Ephraim Gardper is his name. He is h
onght to be one of band of smugglers. !.
ore than 750 pounds of prepared opium q
as found in his barn. =,
The great walking match which had been r
'ing on in New York city for week closed
,turday night at 10 o'clock. Albert was in re
q lead, beating the best record ever made tt
14o hour walk by ten miles. The official N
port shows trat he covered 621 miles and m
oO yards In the time, and that he rested N
h0urS and minutes Irr,~, 4 m