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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-06
MCKINLEY a Candidate.

WAsHINGToN. Feb. Prospects as
to WINDOWS successor occupies a good
deal of attention. 1t is generally be-
lieved that Congressman Mckinney
will be selected. His thorough famiI-
iarity with financial matters and prom
inent association with legislation of
this character point to him as espa-
cially fitted for the position. while MS
personal popularity, national and in
ternational reputation, and thorough
accord with the administration in every
detail, add to his strength as n proba-
BILE choice. His prospective retire
ment from public position on March J.,
coupled with the probability that he
will forge 20 the front through the
guDernatorial fight in Ohio in time 70
be a presidential factor in 1892, unless
bottled UP in the cabinet, adds 70 me
probability that he will be offered the
place.
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tional help as they may deem neces-
sary. The speaker.is daily Apeseiged
by a swarm OF applicants. and no one
can tell how far the list Of employees
may be extended before the session
closes.
State Treasurer Hill sent in the fol-
lowing estimate OF the financial conul-
ton OF the states: Amount on hahu-
$392, 500; due from county treasurersr
$1O6. 900; total available funds. $l9o,-
500. He figures the expenses OIL the
current year and legislative expenses
at a total OF $797, 900, without the
ira appropriation of 800. 900 for the
drouth sufferers. This would indicate
that the state is about 5000, 600 beninu
in her fiscal account.
Senator Coulter's bill for reappor.
tioning The state into congressional
districts names the following divisions:
First district-Cass. Lancaster. OtoeS
Nemaha johnson, Pawnee and Rich-
son counties. Second Gistrict-Doug-
las. Sarpy, Saunders. Third-Hall,
Howard. Merrick. Nance. Platte Col
fax. Dodge, Washington, Burt Cum
ing, Stanton. Madison, Pierce, Wayne,
Ihurston, Dakota, Dixon, Cedar
Fourth-Gage, Jefferson, Saline. Sew
ard, Butler, Polk, York, Fillmore,
Thaycr, Nuckolls. Clay. Hamilton.
Fifth-Webster. Adams, Kearney-
Franklin, Harlan, Phelps, Buffalo.
Dawson. Gosper, Furnas. Red Willow
Frontier, Hitchcock, Hayes. Lincoln.
Perkins, Keith, Chase. Dundy. Sixth
The remainder of the state.
Senator Randall's bill to amend the
interest law provides: If any greater
rate of interest than is hereinbefore al
lowed 1.-THE legal rate shall be con-
tracted for or received or reserved by
the lender. shall On conviction there
of by Indictment, be fined Il sum equal
to the principal and interest on such
note or contract, which shall be paid
into the general school fund OF the
county where the conviction is had.
Provided. the acts and dealings of an
agent in loaning money shall bind the
principal, and in all cases where there
is illegal interest by the transaction OF
an agent the principal will be held
thereby as if he had done the same in
person. Where the same person acts
us agent for the borrower who obtains
the money from the lender, he shall be
deemed to be the agent of the Lender
alSO.n
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-06
HELP FOR SETTLERS.
BILLS IN TNELEGISLATURE Nv THEIR
BEHALF.

A Movement 20 RecOunt the Ballots
For and Against the Amendment
Funds-A Request in Regard TO Pro.
hibition Of Lotteries-The Matter OF
Constitutional Amendments-A Re-
cord OF Other Proceedings I'm the
Nebraska Legislature.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17

sides of adobe walls eighteen feet high,
and one side with logs out of the canyon,
We then returned home and some two
thousand men followed us. President
Cannon here was one of the company that
came in after we did.
Now what | wish to say is this: You
gentlemen came here today; you see the
city, you go through the country. Here
are thousand miles, l might say, through
these mountains filed with cities, towns,
villages,
GARDENS AND ORCHARDS,
and the products Of the earth that sustain
the people. Without this water, this irriga-
ton for which you have met here to day,
this country would be as barren as it was
in 1S47 as we found it. This irrigation is
what you have met to engage in and give
your views upon. How 1 am satisfied it
matters not. Whatever you decide upon
in this matter and you unite upon, am
satisfied it will prove great blessing,
not only to Utah but to every state and
territory where these arid lands abode.
and whoever occupies these lands of course
has got to have the water to perform the
work. We have had to do the same We
have had to learn by experience and all
that we have obtained in these mountains
has been by irrigation. There are portions
yet which have not been irrigated and as
one gentleman said here, if you can make
two drops Of water where there was one, or
two spears of grass where there was one
you are benefaetors to mankind. say
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plant orchards. and let us grow willows,
from which may be out switches to whip
the children when they go to school and
keep them in the way they should 90; and
when all this has been done it will be time
enough to consider the question of asking
Congress to increase the limits of this trust
association and the question of the division
of what may be left to the increase of
the public school endowment
Now, gentlemen, have explained with
great frankness what l believe would be
the effect of the adoption of the expression
which have read as the expression of this
convention. | say it with some degree of
experience. of which l do not boast by any
means-with some degree of experience of
the difficulty of obtaining legislation.
know that If you present an act to Con-
gress, that that act become the victim of
legislative technicalities, of the refinement
of fancy of every member on the floor; but
you present to Congress a PROPOSE ton con-
creted and crystalized, and Congress, if
1t can be moved upon to consider the propo-
sition, will itself provide the detail which
Is necessary for its transmutation into law.
This is my purpose then, to as simply as
possible and as forcibly as possible declare
the purpose which / believe is held by the
members of this convention. Then, gen
tlemen, it is my purpose further now, TO
move that this committee rise and
report these resolutions to the con
gress as expressive of it's wish,
and when these resolutions, if the
committee shall agree with me are reported
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pearance of this necessity than in the
/ state OF Illinois, now one of the great 1st
commemorative in this ssternood of re-
! publlcs, but there was a time in the history
of Illinois when she was as poor and as ab-
| Ject and In as desperate straits as the state
OF Nevada which is believed all over the
United States 10 be in the death struggle.
Great as shels now the state Of Illinois
saw the hour when she had to appeal to
! scncone outside of her own borders To
some power to lift her OUT of her condition
of desperation. With small debt burden
/ ing her people they found il impossible to
discharge the interest, and not at all TO be
considered as possible that the principle
should be discharged, and there met in her
/ capital a nelegated convention of Illinois
ans to consider the ways and means by
which the petty debt of the state of Illinois
might be repudiated and the flag of that
state
GO DOWN IN DISHoNoR.
When that convention met surrounded py
/ a complaining people. Drought to a crucial
condition under This burden of debt, tnere
lay upon sick bed in hotel in that city,
/ Stephen A. Douglass, the statesman of the
west lappiause, and he lying upon his
sick bed wrote this resolution: RESOLVED,
that while the state of Illinois may never
/ be able to pay dollar of her debt. so help
! me God she viii never repudiate penny
| OF IT, applause and that came from a
strong man TO the salvation of common
wealth. Entering the Congress of the
! United States, Stephen A. Douglass did
what: He asked OF the republic TO create
between itself and The state eff Illinois the
condition of trustor and trustee, and that
condition was created and the state of Hi
nois at the hands of Congress became the
] trustee of the grant which resulted in the
construction of the Illinois Central rail
road, and by providing a ready means for
the ingress OF population to that state and
for the egress of the surplus products of it's
| people, laid the foundation for the great
ness of that commonwealth which now
stands fourth among the American states.
! fApplauseI..
And call yoa further to witness, we are
gathered here the sons of many comm on
wealths. / do not listen with any degree
OF pleasure, and sometimes not with pat
fence when hear any man here in this
rugged west denounce the older sections of
the country, because we have to trace our
selves back but few generations in order
TO find the dust Of our sires and our grand
sires sleeping in the soil of those states
which were
GREATENED By THEIR MANHOOD.
] need not say to an Illinoian here by birth
or descent that the state of Illinois has al
ways fulfilled the trust reposed in her.
protected the rights of her people in all
things, and observed the injunctions laid
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bring the interest aud the genius aud the
sense OF equity of both state and nation to
the protection of the individual American
CITIZEN In his right to own the soil and n
his wight to own that gift of God, the water
that springs from the sky.
Now let us follow this policy for mo-
ment. L introduced these resolutions as
the crystalization as the concrete of the
topics presented here for discussion. [ in
troduced them because in my judgment
tney emoody the easiest way. The gentle
men may say 'Well, but you ask for the
devotion of all the public domain Eyes,
putthe greater includes the less" The
greater includes the less. If Congress as
an introduction shall choose to give US only
the arid lands, we will take them If the
ard and forest lands, we will take them. If
Tue grazing lands, as such we will take
tnem. II sac will give Us all embodied in
TINS address we will take all. If she will
give US part we will take part. Now let
us suppose. my friends that Congress gives
US all OF the public domain within our state
and territorial lines. What then may be
The policy under which we will
ADMINISTER THAT TRUST!
In the first place, if we be men of con
science and patriotism, we will administer
II strictly under 1t conditions, whether
those conditions shall prove to be bar 10
tue realization of all our expectations or
.Haot rake now the case of the grazing
lands which has been raised by men who |
know are earnest in their desire that these
grazing lands, which by reason of altitude,
OF arldtty or other physical cause, Gun
never by irrigation or other means be re-
duced to agricultural purposes, be given to
the state with all the Others then the state
in It's administration OF its trust under this
resolution VIII so administer those grazing
lands as to produce revenue to its treas
ury, which shall be invested in irrigation
securities or in the construction of irriga-
bon works. and the state will deal
with the grazing land problem. The
state will meet the grazers face to face.
The state will! either by lease or sale, under
the con dltloDs of this trust, dispose of the
grazing lands proper, the pastoral lands
that can never serve any other purpose, SO
that they may yield their highest value, so
that they may be protected against that
consequence which has now flown from
their lack of privote ownership, in which
the herdsman and the fockmaster rival
with each other, and rival herders and rival
ftockmasters contend even to the death for
the possession of the range, regarding only
their ability to get there first and let their
animals destroy all the heritage and then go
away ana leave wastes behind them We
can redeem by the policy indicated by this
resolution, the
GRAZING LANDS OF TIE WEST
From the misfortune that has now fallen
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to the congress, then in that congress they
become the subject of further discussion
and then will ask you to indulge me while
invite you to a genuine pleasure by listen
ing to the advocacy or further presentation
OF these resolutions to the congress by my
friend William H. Mills, of California. and
after that discussion in the congress can
take whatever course the Judgment of the
members present may dictate. Applause I
President MILFORD Woodruff ana George
q. Cannon being in attendance upon the
session of the congress, on motion, the
chairman was requested to invite them to
address the body. They were introduced
and President W oodruff said:
PRESIDENT wooDRUFF's ADDRESS.
Gentlemen OF the Irrigation Congress:
[ feel myself very thankful that ! have
lived In the flesh long enough in this ter
rltory to behold the faces of such O con-
gregatlon of gentlemen as | see here to-
day. 1t is not my purpose to occupy your
time or attention in arguing or talking or
conversing particularly upon the subjects
or at least those principles for which you
have gathered together; but what | will
say will be few words concerning our ar
rival here, and upon the principle of irri.
cation. F1fty-oue years ago the 24th of
last July entered this valley with 143 emit
grants, OF in other words pioneers We
were led by President Young. This coun-
try that we arrived upon was called the
Great American desert, and certainly as
far as we could see it did not deviate from
that in the least. We found a barren
desert here. There was no mark of the
Angio-Saxon race, no mark of the white
man, everything was
BARREN, DRY AND DESERT
We pitched our camp a little distance In
the southeast from here about II O'Clock in
the day. We had desire to try the soil to
know what it could produce or course
all this company nearly the whole of us
were born and raised in the New England
states, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts.
Connectlcut-had no experience in irriga-
ton. We pitched our camp, put some teams
onto our ploughs 1--WE brought our ploughs
with u.s. and undertook to plough toe
earth, but we found neither wood nor iron
were strong enough to make burrows here
In this hard soil. 1t was like adamaut. OF
course we had to turn water on it. We
would have done anything. We went End
turned out the City creek. We turned i,
over our ground. When we come to put our
teams upon 1t, of course they sunk down
to their bellies in mud. We ha6
to wait until this land dried enough to hold
our teams up. We put in our crops aud we
stayed mere one month. During that time
President Young laid out this city as yor
see 1t today in the midst of sage brush with
not house within hundreds of miles of us
We quilt fort around ten acres, three
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17

by whatever the federal government can
contribute to those ends. Now you see,
gentlemen, that we cover then in
tnis resolution, the entire question. 1t
Is not drawn like an act of Congress. It is
not drawn like an act entitled an act, but It
is drawn as all conclusions of deliberate
body must be drawn 1t is the crystili-
latlon OF argument, and not the argument
ltsel1. 100 often bodies of this kind are
defeated In their purpose by sending to
Congress memorial which has a stump
speech IN It's belt, and any expression of
that kind which goes to Congress is always
thrown aside under the table and forgotten
Resolutions, the beginning of which has
been forgotten by the listener before the
end Is reached are never of any force
They are not delivered with any impact.
Therefore this resolution as say is the
concrete-the equalization of what be-
| heve to be the judgment and the sentiment
OF this convention.
Now one word further in explanation.
The questisn of the public schools and the
dlVlslon OF these public lands as an addition
10 Tue endowment OF the thirty-sixth and
sixteenth sections. A policy which we
owe to jefferson, the author of the Declare
| uon OF lndependence) that we shall. in
ADDITION TO that endowment ask of this
public domain to add to
THE SCHOOL ENDOWMENT.
| do not believe that we should mix the
question of irrigation and education to-
gether and will tell you why. There is
! time enough after the trusteeship shall
have been conditioned and created. after
the states shall have had some experience
in the handling of this trust-there ia time
enough to consider whether we will have
enough land left or enough money
as the proceeds of it's sale or lease
left to devote to the increase OF
the endowment of our public schools
In the meantime we do not want schools in
this country until we have people and chill
dren to receive the benefits of an Ameri-
can education. We must bring the people
here first. And remember, that when we
have brought the people here, when we
have enabled them, as is their right under
the laws of God and their country, to have
homes protected from extorton, when we
have brought the people here. then in the
assessabe value of the property, which
creation welded to their labor will make
there will be a fund upon which to draw
by local taxation for the support of the
school house which l hope to see upou
every Hill throughout this region this side
OF the Rocky mountains. Let us leave
that then, to come up in its day. Let us
rot consider the
BUILDING OF SCHOOL HOUSES
now nor the endowment of schools out Of
TINS trust Let US irrigate first. Let us
moisten the soil. Let us SOW fields anG
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17
THE RESOLUTIONS.

The Committee Favor Granting ALI Public.
Lands to the states
The committee OH resolutions held lonr
session last evening in parlor A of the
knutsford hotel, and it was fifteen minutes
to o'clock when the third resolution was
agreed to.
The fight in the committee was centereA
Continued on page ?.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-05-16

Most new inventions, pecially jour
nalistic inventions, come from America;
but it is to the versatile Parisians that
the credit of the very latest thing ii.
journalism is due. The Compagnie
Generate des Voitures is on the point Of
starting Il paper entitled Paris Voitures,
which is original in more ways than one.
Noisy news vendors are to give way to
automatic machines Every cab is to
be furnished with one of these: you put
q ten centime piece in the slot and you
draw out Paris Voitures The paper
is to contain the bills of the theaters, il
lustrated notes and "tips" for the races.
As If this were not sufficient inducement
to the ordinary boulevardier to make
the double investment in the cab and
the paper for the company's benefit, the
happy purchaser of the paper is insured
against any accident that may happen
in the course of the drive.
This device is not now heard Of for
the first time, but it may prove reassur-
ing to the cautious foreigner who Is
alarmed at the reckless driving of the
Paris jehu. BY purely original con-
trivance the holder of Paris Voitures
is to be entitled to discount of 10 per
cent. at the principal shops mentioned
in the paper Lastly, in the spirit Of
true utilitarian philosophy, business is
to be combined with philanthropy, the
automatic machine company which un-
dertakes the distribution promising to
devote 10 per cent. of its profits to found
ing Il cabmen's refuge.-Pall Mall Ga
Zette
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-05-16
Bruin Had Fun.

A pet bear belonging to Dewitt Nc
Dowell, OF Arkansas City, which had
been taught to open doors, shake hands,
dance, ETC., escaped from his cage one
night recently, and for a time created
CONSERVATION among large number of
people.
A fashionable ball was in progress at
the time, and bruin was attracted by
the music. There was Il funny scene in
the ballroom when he entered, and, rails
ing himself on his hind legs, volunteered
to shake hands and then began to dance.
There was u grand rush for the doors,
and several ladies attempted to jump
out of the windows
After he had finished his waltz the bear
was coaxed from the room, and then be-
gan to paint the town and succeeded in
frightening half the inhabitants almost
out OF their senses. Entering the st.
Charles Hotel he climbed the stairs and
wabbled into one room after another,
routing out the guests in their night
clothes and incidentally damaging the
furniture. Having had all the fun he
wanted with the guests, he returned to
the street and proceeded to amuse him
self by trying to enter the residences Of
the solid citizens. Being closed to unin-
vited guests, he was unable to effect an
entrance into any of them, but he con-
vinced the inhabitants that burglars
were at work. and one alarm after an
other was sent in to the police station,
until every officer on the force was on
the trail of the marauder
Meeting one Henry Foster on the street
he struck him playful blow on the side
of the head. knocking him down and
making some ugly wounds Finally he
entered the National bank building
through side hallway, climbed the
stairs to the third door, and walked into
the room of Julius Behrend That gen.
tleman jumped from bed. prepared to
shoot a burglar. but when he saw what
it was he rushed into the hall and shut
the bear in. where he was soon after
ward captured.-Kansas Cor. Philadel-
phia Press.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-05-16
The Father of Pedestrianism.

Edward Payson Weston is still al Wig
orous as when he made his famous $50
mile record in London. But it has been
years since he walked for money. He
was the father of walking contests, and
during his professional career walked
in all $4,000 miles. asked him what he
thought Of the recent six day contests
Il haven't attended any of them," he
said. II tried to elevate the sport.
There is no exercise like walking, and
attribute my present health and vigor to
the walking have done. Tia pity that
the contests cannot be conducted on IL
elevated plane they once were.
''As to the recent records which have
been made, you may say this: When
was in the business q mile was under
stood to be $3.50 feet. Now, apparently,
it may be anything less than that. Ny
experience Of many years taught me that
no man can make anywhere near as
many miles the second day as he docs the
first. don't care what the records may
be in the recent contests. | know that
on the second day the muscles of the leg
are so contracted -,at ones stride is four
inches shorter. The second is the worst
day Of any honest race. One can make
more the sixth day than ir he second !"
-Philstlelphia Ledger
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-05-16
VIII Fit Any LEGALITY.

perhaps You wouldn't think so, bat
very large proportion Of diseases in
New York come from carelessness about
catching cold" said Dr.. Cyrus Edison.
"A cold is very simple thing to most
people and they pay little or no atten-
ton to it. If it were some serious dis
ease they would probably break their
necks. SO to speak, to get a doctor and
to follow his advice. But it is such q
simple thing and so common that very
few people, unless it is case of pneu-
monia, pay any attention to cold. New
York is one of the healthiest places on
the Atlantic coast, and yet there are q
great many cases of catarrh and con-
sumption which have their origin in
this neglect of the simplest r, ->~utions
of everyday life.
"What is commonly known as pns..
monia weather is simply that state Of
the atmosphere conducive to colds and
more liable to result in something seri-
Gus. The climate of New York is not
nearly as bad for those predisposed to
consumption, catarrh and other diseases
of the respiratory organs as that of
other coast cities Of the north. As to .
sold, the simplest ana most sensible ad-
vice is, when You have one 1et rid Of it
as soon as possible. By all means do not
neglect t."-New York Herald.