Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-28

money have gle I'm Of hope in slght In the
proposition TO loan the government sur
plus upon real est 10 ut low rate OF In
terest-about TWO per cent. Tn PROPOSE
ton is the result OF petition by the farm
ers' organ cations throughout the country,
and at frs w s tho sub Get OF die ile, Us
tlose who LAUGHED at 1t cecil Al ed that there
was no w rr mt 10 prtpe security such
action. The iuea OF loaning Uncle sam 8
millions 10 the people who had contributed
IL NJ on real estate security was secuted,
on the ,ound that real estate was too
fuctu, ting in value to be 81 lple security.
Invest cation caused the opponents TO stop
and think The government, they argued,
once owned all these lands. II was held by
the government before it came into the
hands If the people, security for the
amount which IL was originally sold
81. - TO $3.50 per acre. WI y cannot the
government now when q e |, nd has been
so much improved aud is worth many times
more than ats original value, loan TO the
present owners the amount for which II was
originally sod' There is nothing in the
constitution 10 prevent such loan, ana TO
grant it would be great relief TO many
hard working people. To be sure, the
Sl.25 or 50 80 per acre-$20O or $500 on
quarter section-would not in all cases re-
lieve the farmers from their Indebtedness,
but on the whole IL would more than relieve
all. All who have given the scheme any
consideration say that il is entirely FEAST
BILE, md one that in its benehcent results
would be etrO-active-the surplus would
be OF use 10 the government and a saving
Of money and n timely help TO the farmers
who are now at the mercy OF the mortgage
sharks.
The demand for a law strong enough to
suppress the vice of lotteries is general
almost imperative-and several bills have
been introduced in both branches or con-
gress, each intended TO correct this evil.
One introduced by Representative Bing-
ham OF Pennsylvania provides that no letter
or circular concerning lotteries or similar
enterprises shall be transmitted in the
mails. and any one who deposits snch mat
ter in the mails shall be fined not less than
$500 nor less than 500, and be imprisoned
not less than six months. The act shall be
continuous offense from the place Of mail
ing 10 and including the place OF delivery,
and every United States court in the dis
tricts through which the mail passes shall
have jurisdiction in the trial of the offense.
Another provision authorizes the postmas-
ter general upon satisfactory evidence
that person or company is engaged in a
lottery or "a similar business, to instruct
postmasters to return all registered letters
TO such concerns or their agents to the
senders; a provision Is also Incorporated
that IL IL be publicly advertised that any
bank or other firm shall receive money for
II lOtleTy III snail DC uSeu as eNlueuCc JudJ
the firm is an agent Tor some lottery. No
halfway work will avail, but this hydra
headed monster will be vigorously handled
and eXterminated. The people and the
public press demand prompt and effective
legislation.
The house committee on territories has
unanimously decided 10 report favorably
the bill for the admission of Wyoming.
This action removes the question OF state
hood from political lines, and renders GER
tain the passage of the bill in the house. A
similar bill for Idaho will be reported as
soon as the Mormon opposition shall have
presented every argument against the test
OATH clause in the constitution. 1t is
probable that both bills will become laws
at this session, placing two more stars in
the Unions field OF blue.
Our mail service to South America will
probably be extended during the present
session, as the passage OF IA bill authoriz-
ing the Postmaster General TO make con-
tracts for term of ten years or so for the
regular and rapid transportation of mails
from the most convenient ports TO the
principal distribu ting points in Central ana
South America is assured. The service
to Brazil is now only monthly, but by the
terms OF this bill il will be three times a
month, and extended to the Argentine Re
public, with which we now have no mail
communication, although, next TO Brazil,
IL is the most important country on the
southern continent. A fast mail service
from ports of Florida and Louisiana to
Aspinwall and Central American ports
will also be esta blished, so that letter
from Aspinwall TO Chicago, which now re-
quires two weeks in transit, will be carried
in five days. New Orleans, La and Tam
pa, on the Florida coast, are by ships OF
any speed only three days voyage from
the isthmus, and the lines to be established
will be much more convenient 10 western
merchants than TO send mail by the slow
freight steamers that sail once in ten days
from New York and require ten days to
make the voyage. The mails to and from
Central and South America have greatly
increased in the past two years, from 30
per cent in the outgoing mails, TO $40 per
cent in the mails TO this country. relia-
BILE company is ready TO equip line of
steamers whenever the government is will
ing TO contract for such term Of years as
will justify the expenditure Of the neces-
sary capital.
Secretary Window appeared before the
committee few days ago, and tried to
make clear to that honorable body why he
insists in having in his silver bullion certifi-
cate bill provision giving the secretary Of
the treasury power to suspend the purchase
of bullion at any time This provision has
been sorely attacked in the past few days,
one prominent nnancier saying Jnat should
the bill, with this provision, become a law,
silver would become "a simple commercial
commodity, and mining practically ruined,
as 1t is in the power Of the secretary Of the
tire isury TO stop the purchase OF bullion at
any time. On the other hand, Secretary Win
dom says that this provision Is absolutely
necessary, because the "bullsn and "bears"
in the great money -centers may combine to
push up the market or crowd IL down to
get a "cooner" on silver, and so compel the
government to pay for it, but with such
power as the bill confers any "bear' or
"bull" movement may be speedily checked.
The people Of Arizona have no faith in
the professed conversion or the old Apache
chief, Geronimo, and the beneficial effects
of their sojourn In the east upon his fellow
prisoners, and protest loudly against their
return to the west, and Gov. Valley of
Arizona was before the committee on
Indian affairs to voice the sentiment OF dis
approval of his constituents Gen. Miles
agrees with this view OF the case, and says
the people of Arizona and New Mexico
have cause for apprehension IL the Indians
are removed to Fort Sill.
A favorable report has been made TO the
house on the bill known as the "Interna-
tional copyright law" The bill allows