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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
ANALYSIS of Appropriations.
Washington Post.

@'Ai' AANhNIA9N ii5 VI AoWh3 tA5bC
years member of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, has made
careful analysis of the work of
the Fifty-second Congress.
lie gives the total appropriations,
including permanent appropriations,
at sl,O26, 1922, O4o,72, exceeding the
Fifty.frSt Congress by $38, 404, $780,
38, an increase of $ll5,7o7,42 for
each Congressional district in the
United States.
He notices the charge that the
Senate makes the large appro-
prations and calls attention to the
fact that the House, NJ the session
Just closed, sent their bills To the
Senate for $5l3,68L,242,o2, or at the
rate Of over $l,021OO0,oOo per
annum. The House is q "bilIion
dollar House." for its bills for the
Fifty second Congress aggregated
$l,oO4,l78,6l4,79 before they
reached the Senate.
lie shows that, in addition TO
appropriations actually made by the
Fifty.secoud Congress, IL authorized
contracts mortgaging future reve-
uues in the sum Of S58,526,62l
He says that if the Fifty-second
Congress seeks to excuse itself by
charging its extravaganza to the
legislation of the Fifty first Con-
gress, then the latter Congress can
make similar claims against its
Democratic predecessor and the
Fifty-second Congress, aggregating
over $9I, 900, 900
TO guard against a deficit, Mr..
Henderson warns this admins
uation to give closer attention to
"mooushiuers" and the "whisky
ring" in collecting internal revenue
than it did from 1885 70 1899, when
it collected $5I,o95, 6s2.o4 less than
President Arthur and $ll5,3s5,524.-
Z 8 less than President Harrison.
He shows that the retiring adj
minisratiou paid $296,3l6,93l.2 20 ON
the public debt, saving in interest
$55, 352, 493,5l annually.
He touches on peusi ons, showing
from the bureau report that the
rolls will reach their highest point
ON December 81, 1894, with l,l7l,-
aIS on the rolls, including invalids,
widows, orphans, and dependent
parents, the annual value Of the
rolls AT that date being 1855, $685.,
Oa4, and that in 1895 there will be
dropped from the rolls 1892 pen
siouers, with an increasing ratio
thereafter Referring to the com
plant against widows pensions he
shows that If all widows claims yet
undisposed of are allowed, there
would be 7O9,S34 dead soldiers un-
represented on the rolls by a widow,
an orphan, or dependent parent.
He also points on, the danger 70
the Treasury from war claims, and
says that Congress has now the data
10 show that about S600,o0o,00o
may yet be drawn from ii to satisfy
their demands.
Mr.. Henderson refers to the Dc
feat of the bankrupt bill in the
! House, the burial OF the pure food
| bill, the slaughter Of the anti,
option bill, its inability TO grappie
with the money question, its silent
admiration Of the Mckinley bill,
and predicts that the Fifty,second
/ Congress viii 90 down to history
as "The Know Nothing" and The
/ Do Nothing Congress-"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

friendly reports give it that the
almost divinely appointed Grover,
acting with inspired tips perhaps,
has increased his fortune during his
vacation from Office by discreet
operations in sugar and gas trust
stocks.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

HICKS says, from the 2lst to the
25th of March is period to be
watched, especially on the seas
Sharp colds viii result, CONTINUING
up to returning warmth, and storms
about the 29th and 30th. This i
equinoctial month; don't be sur.
prised at things irregular and ex.
IRENE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

"THE people of this vicinity in,
sist on having Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy and do not want any
other," says John V. Bishop, Of
Portland Mills, Indiana. That is
right. They know it to be superior
to any other for colds, and as a pre-.
ventiye aud cure for Group, and why
should they not insist upon having
it. 80 cent bottles for sale by w.
II. PriGeaux.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
Good Farm For Sale.

The undersigned oil RS for sa,s his farm OIL
l60 acres, located, about az miles east OF
Mineral Point and L mile from Buck Grove
cheese factory, The farm is in good condition.
mostly seeded down, and well fenced. Con-
veuieut six-~oomed house, good cellar, good
barn, and plenty OF water. Interest in cheese
factory goes with IT, win sell on reasonable
terms. 7ml WI. DUNN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

A LADY preacher oficiated as
chaplain in the lower house of the
state legislature during sessions last
week. We believe this was the
first instance ON record in our own
state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

SUPPosTNG, for instance, that
first cousins procure passes through
their representatives to the Ieglsla-
ture and visit some adjoining state
to get married, and then return to
Wisconsin; what would the honor
able Legislators propose to have
done nhnM.IlG
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

IT grows more and more certain
that the Democratic platform was
only useful for electioneering pnr-
poses. This will prove fortunate
for the people. The more they
don't DO what they promised 10 DO
the better.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE,

MHTIH IITII INHI.
Notice Is hereby given, That at the Judicial
Election to be- held In the several towns.
wards, villages and election districts of the
county " IowU and state of Wisconsin, on
the first Tuesday OF April a. d.. 1898 being
the fourth day Of said month, the following
officers 80 be elected tO-wit
A Justice Of the Supreme Court Tor the full
term commencing on the first Monday u
January, A. u. 1894 in place Of Hon. William
=. Lyon, whose term of Office will expire on
the FIRST Monday I'm January A. ID. 1894.
a County Judge i'm place OF Charles W,
McIlhon whose term Of Office will expire ou
the first Monday In January A. u. 1894.
votes canyassed and returns made in ac-
cOrdauCe with law.
Given under my hand and official
Seal AT the Court House in the city OF
LSeal,I Dodgeville, in said county this l4th
day uf March, A. ID. 1893.
HENRY lfALyERsON
County Clerk
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
Huge Locomotives.

The Central Pacific railroad has Som,
monster engines in use on the we.ta-e
emo of its route-those made nj a,
Sacramento shops in 1888. Each !,
these gigantic locomotives weighs 90.
elusive OF tender. l29, O00 pounds "a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
Could Afford to Do II

Customer see that you ar. ,.
ducing prices. The last time 7 =, -
this paregoric mixture it was 40 cs5 ~
but now get it for 60" Drugois,
Yes, our new clerk was discI7rrsI
from the last store for making 4 6i.
take and killing man, aud we gs,
him 50 cheap NOW that we have ~,
down our prices PUCK.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular correspondent.
WAsHtEGToN. D. G., March -, 1898.

/ have taken charge OF lue govern
meut, would cease trying to alarm
the country over the financial out,
look, but such is not the case. Every
Democratic member Of the House
committee on Ways and Means
signed the alarming majority re
port, made public last week, Of the
result Of the investigation made by
that committee into the present and
prospective condition Of the treasury
This report states the belief OF its
| siguers 20 be that a deficit of be
tween $30,OOO,0OO and $40,OO0,OOO
will exist on July /, 1894. There
are reasons for ;he belief that the
principle object Of this exaggerated
report is to prepare the public for
the $5O,O00,0OO issue Of bonds be-
Iieved to be contemplated by the
new administration. The Republi.
cans Of the committee presented a
minority report, very conservative
in It's nature, which entities them TO
the gratitude Of every well-wisher
Of the country. 1t calls attention
TO the figures Of the Secretary Of
the Treasury, which accompany the
report, and says the conclusions Of
the majority seem wholly unwar-
rauted aud misleading, and con-
cludes with these sensible words:
"Iu fact there seems to be an utter
lack Of evidence to justify any OF
the criticisms of the majority upon
the statement of the Secretary,
which shows surplus in the
Treasury on June 30, 1894 On the
basis Of the statement of the Secre-
lury Of the Treasury 1t would seem
that the amount Of eituer surplus or
deficiency in the Treasury ON June
30, 1894, would be very small"
Ex-Secretary Rusk, who is con
sidered a personal fnead By every
employe of the department of Agri-
culture, was last week given a
lasting testimonial of their friend
ship for him in the shape of a
handsome silver tea service. The
employees called in body at "Unole
Jerry ;" residence TO make the pre-
sentatiou, which was a great sur
prise.
The former members of Gen.
Harrison's cabinet are fully entitled
TO the short period of rest auG re-
creation when each of them has
mapped out for himself before
again taking up his private business.
Every one OF them have worked
hard and everyone Of them retlres
from office with the respect aud
good Will of their political OPP
ponenls, as we'll as that OF their
political associates. In fact there
never was q change of admlnlstra-
ton IN which the kindly personal
feelings OF the incoming officials
was more markedly shown to their
refining predecessors, There ap.
pears to be a good natured rivalry
among The new othcialsto see which
of them can say the kiudest things
.ot the old officials.
Every man Is liable at some time
to change his political opinions,
but the man who changes after the
4 battle, from the losing 70 the
victorious party, necessarily places
/ hinsplf un1pr suspipinp 'Ihara ara
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

WE are prepared to do repairing
and making of boots and shoes to
order equal to any work west of
Chicago. 5tf Z. J. DAvEY.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

FRESH oysters in can and bulk, at
J. A. Spratler's. 45tf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

Examinations In LIST and End grade branches
will be held at Dodgeyie, March %, the
second grade in the forenoon and the LIST grade
in the afternoon.
The following program will be observed 10
all places, and teachers will make arrange
ments accordingly.
FIRST DAY.
A. VI. Orthoepy and Constitution Of Wis
cousiu
P. NJ. G geography, History, Constitution Of
L. 5. and Spelling.
SECOND DAY.
A. n. Arithmetic, Reading, Physiology and
Writing
p. NJ. Grammar and Theory.
Work will begin promptly at 9 a. No. Of the
first day. Teachers will come provided With
legal cap paper, pens, blotters, and GOOD
BLACK ISK.
These examinations are for TEACHERS and
THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE TEACHING. oSLY.
II you desire 10 teach school in Iowa county
and 40 not hold a certificate at present. you
must attend one of the above examinations
ia order u become legally qualified No
permits will BE- granted ami no cartidcat eN-
tended. All standings OF 20 per cent Grover
in 5rd grade branches win be transferred once.
TH0s. j. jones' Co. Supt of Schools,
2w8 Dodgeyille. Wisconsin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

IT new laws could make a people
happy, how happy the Badger com
monweaIth would be.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

Ih' FrusslW armr contains 6r.
women who arc rcgimeutal chiefs
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
For Sale.

The Wilson residence north of
park. For terms apply as house or
of VIM, Lanyon, Sr. or at the law
office of A. S. White.
Stf JOSIAH IANYoN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

IT might be- pIcasanter for good
many Democrats now headed for
Washington with thirst for an APP
pointmen. if they could postpone
the Trip for q few weeks. The
walking will be better later on, and
good roads will facilitate the re-.
turn 10 their native cross roads.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
Teachers Examinations

5EE-2-1 ==z-z5, 1885,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

II the Cleveland administration
adhcrts Co the expressed purpose Of
ignoring the Democrats who held
office under The previous Cleveland
administration the prospects are
bright .or sownof the old-fashioned
Democrats of Wisconsin getting
their noses INTO the public trough,
which four Years ago was altogether
monopouzed by Villas Democrats.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18

The public examinations of teachers foy
owa county will be held at the following
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
:Something to Welcome.

The Coal Trade JOURNAL could not
afford to throw out the following in
junction if it were not we'll founded
There is very general recognition of the
value of the trade reports of the Coal Trade
journal by the parties who are most deeply
interested. 1t will not do for the make
believe reporters of coal trade topics to throw
any doubt thereon.
Being so we'll fortified, the JOURNAL
will reproduce the same papers obser-
yations anent the Baltimore Suns
article, elsewhere quoted:
Some persons in Baltimore appear to be
considerably agitated over the possible COM
petition of Provincial coal with the coal from
Maryland in the New England States. They
may possess their souls in peace, for there is
no great possibility of any extended trade in
Provincial coal in the New England States.
Some persons in this region, too,
may rest easy.
if the tariff is reformed, the article
they have to sell will not be disturbed
If the tariff is reformed, the articles
they have to buy will be cheaper.
Hence, there is positively nothing
to fear, but really much to hope for
that their so cents per ton will buy
Enore goods than now.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26

The demand for soft coal begins to show
all unmlstakable decrease and the condition
of the money market is being fairly reflected
in the trade. Overtures are made by the
time, but this will be difficult to obtain in
the case of such an article as coal, which so
largely represents probably 80 per cents a
spot cash outlay.-Engineerin and Mining
JOu,Wdl
That close condition of outlay and in
come-that narrow margin of 10 per cent
is what New England brought coal to
in 1872, 'because coal was too high"
This, after failing in a strenuous
effort to get the rate 33S per cent. still
lower.
And yet the political friends of New
England in tins county are awfully
afraid their enemies, the tariff reform
ers, will yield to the New England de-
mand for free coal.
The cry from Macedonia was
Come over and help us
but from here it is couched in the in
junction of ''Barnacle" in the old
drama, "The Victim :"
Have naught to do with the villain; he
threats to leave my brother take my purse!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
Correction.

To so back to the proposition upon which
we agree, that no water is perfectly pure, we
claim that it is capable of demonstration by
analysis that water does not, as the JOURNAL
states, take up more poison than it lays down
by rapid flow over sandy or pebbly bot.
tom but on the contrary it releases its i'm
purities to very great extent and leaves
them to be absorbed by the system of fill
tration over which it passes.-Cumberland
Necs.
In its previous article the Neaos did
not account for the waters purgation
in that way. 1t said:
1t has deposited its deleterious or fertilizing
be found in the rank vegetable growth that
follows the course of the stream for at least
the distance mentioned.
Whether, therefore, the "sandy or
pebbly BOTTOM or "the banks" get it
is now in doubt.
But the JOURNAL "did not make the
broad assertion" that water "takes up
more poison than it lays down." etc.
1t was careful equality its contention
by saying
much depends upon the nature of the
tributaries and watershed on each side of the
river.
And, in short, if this be .tayora5le,
motion" or rapid flow, will aid in
ratification.
If untaroradle, sit will take up-from
tributaries and water sheds-more
poisons than 1t will lay down."
For instance, the Potomac rises
somewhere up in the mountains of
West Virginia. In all proba bility it
is comparatively pure water at its
source. To say it is equally pure at
Cumberland, after taking in all the
intervening feeders and drainages, is
Incredible,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
A Certainty.

1t is said by some that the reduction
of 5 cents per $500 in the county tax
rate was partly if not wholly ac-
complished by treating the $4,000 in
demnity for the burned courthouse as
income.
If this statement be correct, the ar
rangement is fictitious, and the next
Board must make it good by increas-
ing the rate of taxation correspond
ingly.
Suppose, then, the next Board be
democratic-wout we hear that Board
roundly denounced for Incompetence,
or extravaganza, or both--just as the
party is now harried for the short
comiugs of the last national admins.
tration?
If the next Board be republican,
why, of course, the increase will not
be audibly noticed.
But in any event, the late will be
much higher next year than this.
And it will not be due to popular
apprehensions concerning the tariff
either.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
POSTPONED, at Least.

Had Harrison been reelected it is not at
all likely that a syndicate of New England
capitalists would have made any investments
in Cape Breton coal lands -Cumberland
NemS.
Nevertheless, we haye it fiat footed
in Russell Harrison's paper, Frank
Leslie's Weekly, in September, last
year, as a cure for the high price of
coal, the suggestion that
New England at least may be expected to
peedly demand reciprocity with the Dominion
as to coal.
"Recip: ocity" being the short cut to
free trade, the probability is that if
Gen. Harrison had been reelected,
New England's demand would have
been heard and needed ere this, and
we would nOw haye free coal.
AS it it is, it is only a local spectre
doing foreign service in the plan to
carry the county this fall.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
More Philosophy.

The JOURNAL thinks the tariff scare is an
after-thought. 1t most assuredly is an after
MISUNDERSTANDING Necs.
Yes-after India jumped on your
highest and best protected product,
some hobgoblin had to be cxtemporized
to divert popular notice from the true
cause.
Now, we haye the remarkable specta-
Gle of party soaring the people with
the notion that all other highly-pro-
tected articles are in danger of destruc-
ton unless the same policy is con-
tinued toward them that ruined silver.
A very rare instance this, showing
that the sauce which kills the goose
saves the gander.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
The Atlas of High Protection

An exchange refers to the farm, which it
calls the mud bank, as being all right amid
the crash. Yes, the mud bank is solid
enough, but it limps terribly IN its dividend
paying department.-Salisbury (Pa) star.
1.-THE mudbank' pays nearly all the
dividends it makes-to the wrong men.
Instead of its owner getting its
profits. they go to his pets, the highly
protected industries.
Meanwhile, the mudbank is not only
unprotected, but it has to remain so.
Its owner may damn free trade, as
he frequently does, strange to say,
but he is both the exemplar and victim
of that principle.
He Is, in fact, an economical suicide.
For not Il tax nor a tariff is paid that
does not eventually come out of ''the
mudbank."
1.-The mudbank" is the unprotected
protector Of the highly protected, and
its owner should be the last man to
grumble at the consequences of his
own self destructive folly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26

1t is easy enough to say the hard times are
caused by the lack of confidence, but it is
difficult for any good democrat to explain
why confidence is lacking.-Cumberland
NerS.
AS matter of fact, there is not
much "lack of confidence away out
here in the country, but that little is
retailed in wholesale lots by partisan
newspapers.
The situation illustrates fully the
sad efficiency of cooperative burglar
alarm advertising.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-08-26
ArtesIan Wells the Thing.

The Ne,cs did not make the broad assertion
that all water possessed fertilizng qualities,
and the JOURNAL has wasted time in telling
us what part water generally played in the
termination of vegetable matter.-Cumber-
land NeWs.
The Neaos said:
No water is pure that does not flow a
reasonable distance.
That was pretty "broad' when first
printed, and it still looks so.
However, let us accept the Ne'os'
qualification and still we are in the
dark as to what spring water does not
possess "fertillzing qualities"
For that is exactly the water, in the
JOURNALS humble judgment, that
Cumberland wants, should have and
should get.
But this will not do, for the News
continues:
What the Ne,cs did say was that spring
water possessed certain fertilizing properties
which were lost after flowing any considera-
bic distance. Any work on scientific agrlcul-
ture will afford that information, as most of
them explain clearly how the fact has been
demonstrated beyond doubt. These fertiliz-
ing properties are absorbed at what is under
stood to be the very fountain head of the
spring, and they render the water impure
and unwholesome to certain degree. The
JOURNAL, therefore, cannot be correct in its
third proposition that 1.-The nearer 1t is to It's
source the purer it is"
The "fountain-head of the spring.
is, remotely, the ocean, but no salt
goes into the clouds or, if it does, it is
laid down in the process Of filtration
through the earth.
The next "fountain-he may
appear in any of the strata, but the
''source" the JOURNAL speaks of is
where, having passed through all the
layers and finding eventually the level
of the great reservoir whose bottom is
the last and impermeable crust of the
globe, it rises through assures and
overfows at the outlets we call
"springs." These are the visible
"sources''-the ones to which the JOUR-
NAL referred when it spoke Of
the rivers of life where they first emerge
from long filtration below the mineral strata
and reflect in the crystal depths of spring and
rivulet the glory of the stars.
But if, before reaching the nadir of
filtration, the subterranean rivulet
finds outlet directly from a mineral
stratum, the water is classed according
ly and its 'fertilizing equality, or its
medical value, If any in either case, is
determined by its nature and strength.
As before stated, the JOURNALS
deep well, in the absence of springs,
would go far below all minerals for
the water that has left all possible
taints of vicious contacts behind.