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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20
FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS-.
In the Senate.

45TH DAY.-The House AaPortionment
bill was taken up After long debate
participated in by Senators Washburn,
Davis, German. Carlisle and others, the bill
was laid aside. RI. A conference report on the
bill for public building at Rockford, ILL.,,
was agreed to, and the House bill, increasing
to SIS, 900 the limit of cost for a
public building at Portsmouth, Ohio,
was placed on the calendar
The House bill to confirm agreements with
the Sac and Fox nation of Indians aud the
Iowa tribe of Indians, of Oklahoma Terri
on the bill for public building at Pueblo.
Col. was agreed to- The appropriation is
reduced from S40O, 600 to S250,0O
10TH DAY.-The Senate passed the lii
creating the Office OF Fourth Assistant Post
master-G General with a salary of $4,000 a
year The Apportionmant bill was passed
without amendment. on a strict party
vote. -. The Army Appropriation bill was
taken up.
47TH DAY.-Tne Senate adjourned i'm
mediately after the reading o. the Journal,
as a mark of respect to the late Secretary
Window, who was formerly a member OF
that body.
46TH DAY.-The Vice-President laid be
fore the Senate the credentials OF Mr.. Cam
eron for his new term. Mr. Cullom pre-
sented two resolutions Of the House Of Rep
resentativeS in the Illinois legislature. He
said that they instructed the Senator'S from
that State TO vote for the Free Coinage
bill and against the Force bill".
The Army Appropriation bill was
then taken up and laid aside. .
The Fertilization Appropriation bill was
then taken up; but it was laid aside infor-
maliy and pension bills on the calendar were
proceeded with. There We're 10 bills passed,
among them bills giving pensions of $50 q
month to the widows of General Buell.,
General Starkweather. Major Gordon. of the
Fifth Cavalry; General Pelouse, Lieutenant,
Colonel Lee gadier-General Abraham
DurYee and General Edward T. Noyes. Also
the House bill granting a pension of 500 a
month to General Franz Sige The bill to
pension Mary Anne Dougherty was objected
20 and went over
49TH DAY.-The Senate met after the
funeral of Mr.. Window. Mr.. Turpie in
troduced joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution for the cleo
ton OF United States Senators by the direct
vote of the people Of the several States.
The Notifications bill was considered, tue
defencelessness of the country coming up
tor debate. -. The Hawaiian Treaty and it:
relations to the Tariff bill were discussed.
5OTH DAY.-The House bill extending the
time to thirty days for which the President
may designate a temporary succession in the
Cabinet was passed -. The Fertilization bill
was discussed and some amendments were
adopted. The Senate concurred in the
House amendment to the Senate bill for Il
public building at st. Paul, Mimi, reducing
the amount from 81, 800, 900 to $500, 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20

n1aced q TEE g 7sorsTs. 3 Ever pIats on
the burial casket contained the simple In
scription:
%, 1891"
When the cortage. about half mile IN
length, reached the cemetery at 2:30 O'Clock,
several hundred old soldiers, inmates OF the
Soldiers Home, stool with uncovered heads
on either side of the entrance.
There was no evidence that grave haa
been dug for it was heavily covered over
with cut cedar. Tae casket was placed on a
spread canvas, while DR.. Hamlin read the
brief services It Was then deposited III Its
last resting place, and before the grave at
tendants began their work, the distinguished
mourners had left the cemetery and re-
turned to the city.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20
Mr. WINDOWS Career.

Mr.. Window was a short, stockY man.
nearly sixty-four years old. His parents
had lived in Virginia, but migrated from
there early in the century TO Belmont
County, Ohio, and there the future Repub-
lican politician and financier was born.
He was brought up on farm,
went to the common schools and then the
academy at Mt. Vernon, Ohio; studied law
and was admitted to practice III 1850. Two
years later he was chosen Prosecuting At
torney for Knox County. Three years after
this he moved to WinOna, Mimi, and from
that time until few years ago Minnesota
was the State in which he made his home
and found the political support that put him
in high office and made MIN, according To
Roscoe Conkling, an available candidate tor
1he Presidential nomination OF the RepuDl1-
can party.
Soon after settling in Minnesota young
Window Joined the Republican party and
made himself we'll known as stump speaker.
In 1858 he was sent to the House of Repre-
sentatives at Washington. His services
there extended over period OF ten years,
much of his work being done ill
the Committees on Public Lands and
Expenditures, as Chairman of the Com
mittee ON Indian Affairs, and on the
Special Committee on the Rebellious States.
In 1870 he was appointed United States
Senator to fill an unexpired term, and twice
afterward he was elected for a full term. He
held the Office until 1881, when President
Garfield made him Secretary o. the Treas
ury.
Upon the accession of Arthur to the Pres
idency, Mr.. Window resigned his Secretary
ship and soon after was elected by the Min
nesota Legislature to fill his unexpired term
in the Senate A strong opposition was
created against him, however. in his owr
party, and lis leadership in Minnesota and
general influence as factor i'll Northwest
politics were bitterly attacked. His enemies
+,,I,, >l,olo no Tod NJ
inatiOn.
From comparative obscurity, he emerged
when President Harrison invite him to take
the portfolio Of the Treasury Office.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20
In the House

43D DAY.-The Journal of Yesterdays pro-
ceedings was approved without question
The Senate resolution for the printing OF
IS 900 extra copies OF the report of the Irri-
CATION Commission on the irrigation OF the
arid lands was agreed to. :. The Speaker
laid before the House the signatiOn OF John
Il. Mccarthy as Representative from the
Seventh District of New York. Laid on To.
table. . The House considered the Military
Academy Appropriation bill, but no action
was taken.
A4TH DAY.-The Military Academy Ap
preparation bill was debated After rathey
stormy scene between the chairman Mr..
McComas, of Maryland,l and Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, of Arkansas, pertaining to a question
OF recognition, the committee rose and re
ported the bill to the House No quorum
appearing in the House. that body, without
dlsposing of the BILL adjourned
18TH DAY.-At 1910 o'clock the House as
q mark ofrespect to the late Secretary Win.
dom. adjourned. The Speaker appointe
the following committee to attend the
funeral: Messrs. Mckinley, Mills, DunnelI,
Holman, O'Neill. of Pennsylvania; Forrey.
Vandeveer, Blount and Snyder
10TH DAY.-The Military Academy AD-
preparation bill passed without opposition
80. The House then went into Committee Of
the Whole on the Diplomatic and Consular
Appropriation bill. Public business bein:c
suspended, the House proceeded to pay
tribute to the memory of the late Lew.s
Watson, of Pennsylvania.
nth DAY.---The House met after tnc
funeral of Mr.. Window. Mr. Ownbev was
before the House and explained why lie
neglected it's summons to testify before the
Silver Pool Committee. The House passe /
u bill amending the Revised Statutes SO as to
1--WE the President thirty days, instead OF
ten, in which to nominate successor to any
Cabinet place made vacant by death or
resignation.
18TH DAY.--In the debate On the Corsu,a..
bill the Miner and Reiter affairs came up
for discussion. The Sundry Civil Appro-
priation bill was reported.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20
THE SIOUX CAMPAIGN,
The War in South Dakota Cost Us
About 100000

An estimate just sent to Congress by the
Secretary of War to supply deficiency in
the Quartermaster's Department tells the
story of the cost of the Indian campaign
just closed. The round sum Of 81, 300. 600
is asked for. the principal items of
which are 1885, DIG for transportation of
troops and supplies and s187, 7O2 for extra
clothing, camp and garrison equipage neces-
sary to fit out for the winter campaign:
$40, 900 to replace horses broken down in the
campaign and for the purchase OF ponies,
and SS7, coo TO cover the difference in cost of
supplies purchased for troops in the field
and the contract prices at the post from
which the troops were drawn. There were
other expenses under the supply department
that will probably bring the total cost of the
campaign up TO 3, 900, 900, a sum sufficient to
have given the Sioux the 500, 900 annual ap-
preparation promised them Tor period Of
twenty years
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-02-20

A BESEDIcTINE priest in E RE, Penn, has
caught smallpox through letter from a
brother priest IN an infected district in
Texas.
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
THE WORM TURNS.

The proposed meeting at Fort Worth
of representatives OF the moderate
members Of the Alliance will be fruit
full of important results. These men
who have STAYED at home and held cot
ton while the radical members have
got together and denounced everything
except themselves, have had nothing
to say in the conduct of the affairs OF
the order. So far as the public knows,
they are nothing. Except on rare oc-
casions, they have not made their
presence felt in the proceedings OF the
lodges. If one seeks for knowledge of
the Alliances attitude upon important
public questions, he must turn to their
official utterances and proceedings. and
these show that the views Of the ALI
ance are the views of C. W. Macune,
Evan Jones and R. J. Sledge.
But the party in the Alliance that
rejects the infallibility of this triumvi-
rate now comes forward and insists,
upon being heard. The men who coG-
pose this party assert that they hav a
controlling interest in the organiz
ton, and object to being frozen out by
the more active minority. TO make
themselves heard, they will call
meeting at Fort Worth soon, and We
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
DEMOCRACY NOT RESPONSIBLE.

THE true reason why this stunted
and starved volume of circulation has
been maintained is that the money
power of New York and New England
has dominated and controlled the finan-
cial policy OF the government since the
beginning of the war between the
states. The Democratic party has
never had the power in congress to
break and overthrow this financial
despotism. The financial policy under
which the vast and varied business of
the country is conducted contemplates
gold as the only standard Of value, and
national bank notes as the only proper
paper currency. The exceptions as to
the silver in circulation at this time
and gold and silver certificates, and the
three hundred and forty-six millions of
legal tenders have been enforced by
the Democratic party since 1875.
You must remember that the Republic
can party controlled the law-making
departments of the government abso-
lutely from the beginning of the war
until 1875, when the people revolted
against the financial policy Of that
party and returned a majority of DEM
ocrats to the house of Representatives of
the Forth-fourth congress. When the
congress assembled, silver had been
demonetized, one-half the metal money
of the country had been destroyed.
Gold had been enthroned as the true
standard OF value, and that, too, when
silver was at premium OF per cent
over gold, provisions had been made by
law to cancel and burn up all the green
backs except s3O0,OOO,OOO. I have not
the time to refresh your recollections
of the effect which the legislation pro-
duced upon the agricultural interests
and all other interests not the benef-
Charles OF this policy. Bad as the con-
dition of those interests are to-day, it
is better than in 1875. Remember now.
if you please, that since 1S75-when for
the first time the Democratic party had
majority in the house-that party
has never had the power to enact
law. 1t never has had Except at
one time for few days onlyl all the
departments OF government which are
required to concur in the passage of
laws, and whatever changes have been
engrafted upon the financial policy of
the Republican party since 1915, what
ever laws have been passed since that
time to promote the interest OF agri-
culture and labor generally were origi-
mated by Democrats, and their passage
secured by the influence and power of
the Democratic party in the house of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

On the LIST of March, 1878, there were
1913, $50. 40 of national bank notes in
circulation. As the national debt was
paid off, and as bonds became scarce
and higher priced, this circulation de-
creased until on March /. 1888, it
amounted to only s199, 1901. This
process is still going on, and if we have
no war to create another debt and the
country continues as prosperous as it
has been, the national debt will be
wiped out in eight or nine years. With
the debt will go the bonds, and with
the bonds will go the banks and the
bank circulation, which will contract
the circulating medium to the extent Of
about S200,00O,000 With these certain
ties ahead there are men, and they aspire
to be leaders, who say the national
banking system is good enough and
there is no use agitating the question
of changing it by substituting anything
but bonds as basis OF circulation.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
THE POLITICAL STORM CENTER.

There were about 400 delegates in
the National Alliance-labor convention
at Cincinnati, two-thirds OF whom came
from Ohio. Indiana and Kansas. The
latter named state furnished one-third
of the convention. This is significant
fact that proves the unsettled and
chaotic condition OF politics in that re-
cent fortress of radical Republicanism.
1t is quite clear that the movement that
last Fall retired Ingalls, from the politi-
cal arena and made kindling wood of
the party machine, has lost but little,
if any, of its original force, and may
still have sufficient momentum year
hence to surprise the country once
more. 1t is plainly the storm center Of
revolutionary politics in the West, if
not in the country. Neither Providence
nor the government has been gracious
TO Kansas.
4 combination of Ingalls,, the tariff
and drouth is responsible for the
political turmoil there. 1t was a CON-
ibination that destroyed the crop of
tereals year after year, and produced
ihsr.6 crop OF reformers, many of
whom are honest and many are not.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

i "a triumph of the people over priv
Sileged classes, protected industries and
NJ money power upon the tariff only,
would leave those engaged in agricult-
ural pursuits, and all others who are
not the beneficiaries of the existing
financial policy OF the government, at
the halfway house on the road to genu-
inc general prosperity.
The financial policy of the govern
ment should be reformed. No people,
however frugal. economic and indus.
trious they may be, however just and
equitable may be the burdens of tax
alton imposed upon them. can prosper,
who are denied by the government
volume of circulation. medium of eX-
change. sufficient to meet the wants and
demands of business. commerce and
trade. The logical and inevitable re-
suit of such q condition is to increase
the purchasing power of the money in
circulation. reduce the wages OF labor
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

The Kansas subordinate Alliances
are to vote on the proposition to ratify
or reject the action OF their delegates
to the Cincinnati convention, and will
decide whether the third party move
ment shall be adhered to or not. This
looks like backward action. The dele
gates We're sent to that convention,
presumably empowered to represent
the Alliance. They took their stand
with the third party, and now the
lower lodges are TO say whether they
will uphold their agents or not. If
they refuse to ratify, it will put the
delegates in a painfully embarrassing
position.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
ASUSEXPECIED ALARM,

While the Charleston is securing the
seas (if seas may be securely, in search
of prize that has eluded her and got
off to Australia, seven or eight thousand
miles out of the pursuer's way, and while
the country is holding its hands up to
its ear, metaphorically speaking, for
the reyerberations of the booming artil-
lery, faint note of war breaks upon
the listening nation from an unex-
pected quarter.
Capt. A. c. Markley, company Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, is stationed at San
Carlos, Arizona. Company is distin-
guished by virtue of its color. 1t is a ne
gro company. Capt. Marley is
Caucasian, and when drilling on hot
day, and circumstances forced him to
windward of his perspiring soldiers, his
offended nostrils revolted at the duty.
He stood his men up in line and swore at
them, specifically calling them id
black monkeys" This proving to be
casus bell, war broke out at once, and the
status quo is still in that condition.
The captain put thirty of the troopers
under arrest, and the secretary of war
ordered their release and has sent out
a court of inquiry to make an investi-
cation and ascertain if the cause of the
captains complaint is really strong
enough to justify him in calling his
men black monkeys, and damn them at
that
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

IT is a remarkable circumstance that
the federation convention that framed
the new constitution binding the
several states of Australia in one ''com-
monwealth" was in session only one
month. A constitutional convention in
Texas or any other state, would con-
sumo that much time in wrangling
over a proposition that should be left
to the legislature TO deal with. Aus
tralia is a long way distant from Wash
ington, and has probably never heard
Of Tom Reed and his rapid business"
methods of managing deliberative
bodies, but it appears to have very
commendable way of dispatching bus
mess with great celebrity, and saying
nothing about it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
MORE MONEY.


visionary schemes preached to-day for
the issuance of more money that has
not been tried with the most DISASTROUS
results at one time or another in the
past. Anyone who will take the trou-
bic to look over the records can very
soon satisfy himself on that point. The
instances are many and striking, and
leave no doubt of the wild and extrava-
giant pitch to which popular clamor
may and sometimes does rise when the
money question leads all others.
That it is becoming more or less
prominent political issue in this coun-
try can not be doubted. With the ALI
ances it is leading issue; one that is
made to outrank every other in what
appears to be more or less eXagger-
ated importance. And the Alliance is
itself becoming an important institu-
ton.
There can be no doubt, and leading
financiers and statesmen now admit it,
that there is not money enough to do
the business of the world. More money
is absolutely needed, and the need is
imperative. Only think of it. OF the
business done in the world to-day only
5 per cent is cash and 90 credit, and
that because there is no more cash. Is
it wonderful that stringencies and
panics occur, Or that people should be
in constant dread of them? Only few
days ago Mr.. Goschen, chancellor OF
the English exchequer, admitted the
need for more money when he declared
his intention to issue 81 notes. AT present
and for many years the English have
had nothing less than the Is note.
That Europe needs more money than
she has is made evident by the fact
that She was compelled to import from
this country since the first of the year
about $50, 900, 900 in gold coin. This very
circumstance more than any thing that
has happened in recent years, has en-
phasized the pressing demand for
money, for gold and silver. Europe
ostracised silver in 1872 and 10, and is
now being made aware of the injurious
effects thereof. The United States fol-
lowed suit, but retraced her steps five
years later, a fortunate circumstance
to which she is now largely indebted
for her ability to go 70 the rescue OF her
European cousins. Ii that circumstance
does not powerfully impress European
governments with the benefcence OF
bi-metalism of silver coinage, nothing
will. What if this country was with
out the 1850, 100000 of silver coined in
recent years? And if there were more
still, the country would be so much the
better off, and Europe even, would pro-
fit by it as she has already profted by
that coined. As recent events prove,
the money question is one whose press
ing Importance is not by any means
confined to the United States. But
nowhere else is the sub-treasury or the
land mortgage plan OF creating money
advocated.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

The Fort Worth GAZETTE is crying
aloud in the wilderness for a financial sys-
TEN that will not ''enrich the few at
the expense of the many" The GAZETTE
wants the millennium, and does not care how
soon it comes.-tSau Antonio Express.
No, not the impossible. 1t was i'm
possible as long as the Northern peo-
pie allowed Republicanism to blind
them by sectional appeals: but the
people are having their eyes opened.
The class legislation of Republicanism
will go. The American people move
slowly at times, but they do move, and
they are now in motion.