Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-18
COURTS TO DECIDE.
The Treaty of Peace Signed at
Kansas Capital.
RIVAL HOUSES TO ASSEMBLE APART


sentative Hall and the PopuIists Find
Another Chsmber-Ouestions at Issue
Now in Progress of Solution by the
Courts-Troops and Deputy Sheriffs Dis
banded-Hilarious Scene in the Repub-
lican House When the Settlement Was
Reached-A Little BIood-Spilling.
TOPEKA, Feb. 1s.-Peace reigns supreme
in the capital city of the "Grasshopper"
state. The specter of civil war no longer
stalks abroad. Hostilities have been avert
ed without the shedding of blood. Like
the ruler of France in ancient.history Gov
ernor Lewelling has marched his men up
the hill and marched them down again.
That and nothing more
The members of the illegal house" as the
Republicans call themselves, regard the
outcome of the difficulty in the light of a
signal victory. They have secured all that
they were contending for-the right to
meet and transact their business in the
hall of the house of representatives and
the reference of the question at issue to
the courts.
Populists Take Another View.
Meanwhile the Populist house is on the
| outside, but its members do not by any
means concede that they are worsted. On
the contrary they claim that the situation
has returned to the original status, and
| this solely on account of their disinclina-
| tion to mar the good name of the state by
| insisting on a course that would inevitably
have involved the shedding of blood. Gov
| ernor Lewelling himself asserts that to the
magnanimity of the Populists in failing
to insist upon their legal rights is due alone
| the peaceable turn of affairs.
I The Compromise Agreement.
| The agreement as signed by the parties
to the squabble, which has brought peace
| out of disorder, is to the effect that the Re
| publicans are to have undisputed possession
of representative hall; that the Populsts
shall meet in another hall; that no more
arrests Of Populists shall be made by Re.
publican officials; that the governor shall
remove the military force and the sheriff
disband his deputies, and that the ques
tions at issue shall be decided by the courts
| The sheriff was permitted to retain
| eighteen deputies. twelve of whom were
to keep curiosity mongers out of the capi.
tol building and the Others to guard the
state house grounds.
| Carried Into Effect at Once.
Measures were at once taken to carry
| this agreement into effect. The deputies
were disbanded by the sheriff and the mill.
tia given home-marching orders. There
| were z, 09O of the deputies, and the sheriff
says that none of them has asked or will
ask for a warrant for pay, each considering
that he was performing a patriotic duty in
serving. He said the governor was per
| feet gentleman in every respect and if let
alone would do what was right. II took
time to attend to the business of disband-
| ing and it was afternoon before the whole
matter was satisfactorily arranged. But
the work was finally done and Topeka has
ceased, for the time anyhow, to be an
armed camp of partisans.
| First and Only BIcodshed
There was rush through the militia
guard at the state house made yesterday
morning by force of deputy sheriffs with
| food for the besieged Douglass house Dur
| ing the scuffie boy of twelve years at
] tempted to get through. Lieutenant Patty,
in charge of the guard, pounced upon the
| little fellow. The boy resisted and was
| kicking and scratching when the heuten.
| ant choked him into submission. He had
| the boy down in the snow when some one
struck the lieutenant hard blow on the
head with a club, telling him PROSTATE
upon the ground and bringing the blood
from the severe cut inflicted Lieutenant
Patty rose and threw bs OK his coat as il
to draw his revolver. Mr. Stein got the
drop on him and threatened to shoot il
Patty drew his revolver Patty walked
away and a serious conflict was averted.