Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-18
MINERAL WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, MARCH Is, 1898
A Contrast of Records.
Madison Journal.


just turn over the leaf of history
and look at the record of the house
of representatives of the Fifty.frst
Con gress. Remember that it was a
Republican business house, working
under business rules Remember
that it passed the Mckinley tariff
and the administration customs act;
the Worlds fair act; the postal
subsidy act; the territorial act; re
duced pension fees from $40 to 50;
granted pensions TO dependent
soldiers and soldiers widows; the
act refundi ng of the direct tax; an
act revising the general land laws;
the land forfeiture act, restoring to
the prbhc domain unearned lands
granted to railroads; an act to in
crease the endowment TO and equip
ment Of agricultural colleges; the
meat and other inspection acts; the
original package act; the inter,
national copyright act.
Then turn forward a page and
examine the record of the Demo,
cratic house of representatives
which adjourned on March 4. The
Democrats had control of that body
by two.thirds majority They
could pass any bill by a quorum of
their own, without the aid of a
Republican.
Please see if you can find an act Of
importance to the country passed by
that body, aside from the general
appropriation bills and one or two
feeble stabs at items in the McKin-
ley tariff act.
This is one of the striking illus,
trations of the patriotic business
methods Of the Republican party, a
party of constructive statesm3uship
and progress, compared with the
method of the non-progressive,
NEGATIVE obstructive and non.crea.
tive Democratic party.
DR. SoUTHwELL, of Milwaukee,
has re atty succeeded in the phe-
nomenai task of writing l2,Iol
words on postal card. To the
naked eye the words, written in
lead pencil, look more like fly
specks than sentences Of the En-
glish language, but with the aid of
a microscope they can be read ac-
curately. DR.. Southwell, however,
wonderful as it may seem, wrote
the card without artificial aid of
any sort. 1t is his intention to
frame tn e card and display it in the
Wisconsin building at the Worlds
Fair. 1t will certainly attract much
attention, as being the most delicate
and marvellous work of its kind
ever done.
The cigar factory of c. A.
Blanchard, at JanesyiIle, and in
which about twenty hands we're
employed, was taken possession of
by the sheriff one day this week
1t is understood that there was a
disposition of hastiness displayed, g,
Mr.. Blanchard being away on bust
ness at the time. Two of the en-
ployes of this city, Thos. Hartley
and Peter Kessler, have returned
home and report that they were in
formed that the factory will be
running again in about twenty
days.
Plaueville Witness: Some time
ago a "medical professor" sailing
under the style aud title Of CDR
Crewdson" of an alleaged Eye and
Ear Iniirmary said to be located at
Janesyille, made this city call for
4 day, advertising his coming in
the city papers. lie paid his bills
after considerable "suasion" was
used, and decided to give the city
another call. He came again, but
departed without settling his little
accounts. II seems impossible to
reach the fellow through the mails,
and tue Witness is laboring more
and more under the impression that
the fellow il fraud Of the raukest
kind. We certainly would not adj