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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
The House i'm Favor Of Their Election
by Popular Vote.

The House in Favor Of Their Election
by Popular Vote.
After the roll call in the house Speaker
Lee announced that G. A. Quist, of Min
neapolis, was not fit person to be al
lowed on the floor of the house. He
had been granted a pass for one day
and had changed it so as to admit him
the next day, and was also charged
with being a lobbyist.
A large number of petitions recon-
mending the passage of different meas
ures were introduced and also the fol-
lowing new bills:
By Booren-Making salaries of public officials
subject TO garnishment.
By Smith-To create an additional judge for
the Fourteenth judicial district.
By Knuteson-Appropriating $500 for bridge
in Polk county.
By Gutterson-Joint memorial recommend
ing the election of United States senators by
popular vote.
On motion of Mr.. Gutterson this bill
was placed upon it's final passage, and
carried unanimously.
By Gunn-To appropriate $500 for bridge in
Wilkin county.
Endless Discussion.
The house then went into committee
of the whole with Mr.. E. F. Comstock
in the chair.
H. F. 401, the substitute for Mr..
Jacobson's bill for condemnation pro-
ceedings in securing elevator sites, was
first taken up. Mr.. Cole and Mr.. Bjorge
wanted the bill delayed, and the former
moved that progress be reported, claim
ing he had not had an opportunity to
consider it. He was seconded in his
efforts to delay by Mr.. Bjorge, who OBJ
jected to the ruling of the chair that
the bill was properly before the house.
A motion to consider the bill section by
section prevailed, and after long dis
cussion the first section was adopted.
The committee then rose and reported
progress on the bill. A recess was then
taken to 2:30 p. m.
Anti-Pool Room Law Goes.
At the afternoon session of the house
Representative Horizons poll room bill
was taken up. The bill was intro
duced simply to close the pool rooms of
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and con-
tanned this clause: provided that this
act shall not apply to the actual enclos-
ure of any fair or race track associa-
ton, incorporated under the laws of this
state, during the actual time of the
meetings of said associations" In COM
mittee of the whole the house struck
out this saving clause and unanimously
recommended the bill to pass as
amended.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17
IN THE SENATE.
Large Number of New Measures In
trOduced.

Large Number of New Measures In
troduced.
There was an unusually large accumu-
lation of bills introduced in the senate.
Twenty-eight new senate files were
added to the list. There was also an
increased quantity of 'anti-scalpers" Pc
titions, and the fact that the senate
met in the afternoon, the earlier por-
ton of the day being spent in commit
tee work, gave rise to multitude of
COMMITTEE reports. All these causes
combined to make the routine very
heavy. There were only two bills on
the calendar. The first was Senator
Davis bill relating to limitations of ac-
TONS 1t created long debate and was
finally defeated. The other measure,
Senator Craig's bill to compel the Sc
lection of swamp lands byrailroads, was
passed without a dissenting vote.
There was some little discussion be-
fore adjournment as to the policy of af-
ternoon sessions, but it was finally de-
cided on motion of Senator Sanborn to
adjourn to 10 a. M, sit for an hour or
so to clear up the routine, then take a
recess until afternoon, to give the COM
mittees a chance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17

1.-THE use of 'Castoria is SO universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTYN, D. D.,
New York City.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17
Farm MachinerV!
The best all Machinery, Money Refunded

sell the lowest wholesale Mont
Seeders and Drills Steel Lever Harows Budong Disk Harrow Weir
Cuators other TOOLS Hay Rakes Ted
Leaders, Yankee 2ooh Hay Rake Weir end Economy
Sub S and Gang Pows Osborn Mowers and New Osborn Binders
improved lbs. 1-horse foot Binder.
Engine and also Auman Co Threshers Reeves
Sewing Machines Road and
Wagons Buggies and everything you need Besides will buy
thing have sell highest market price Call and before
buy will strictly honest deal and honest goods
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17
IN THE HOUSE.
An Anti-Cigarette Bill Introduced
and Passed.

An Anti-Cigarette Bill Introduced
and Passed.
AS usual, the proceedings in the house
opened with the reading of long list
of petitions for the passage of the anti
scalpers' bill and for the erection of a
state elevator instead of a new capitol
building.
After the reports of committees were
received and acted on a number of new
measures were introduced. P. Fl.
Kelly, of ST. Paul, sent up bill to pro-
hibit the use of cigarettes in the State
of Minnesota, and fixing a fine Of not
less than $25 as a penalty for violation.
On motion of Mr.. Fuller the bill was
given second and third reading and
placed on its final passage. In explain
ing his vote Mr.. Kelly said that it was
aimed at the disciplining of his young
friend, Mr.. Horton, whose only vice
was cigarette smoking. The bill passed
unanimously.
General Orders.
The house then took up general orders
and went into committee of the whole.
Fl. F. 2O4. Mr.. Staples bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for teachers training
schools, was referred to the committee
on appropriations.
III. F. No. sc, Mr.. Walsh's bill, pro-
hibiting corporations from requiring
employees to give up any of the rights of
citizenship, was recommended to pass.
III. F. No. 95, Mr.. Wyman's factory
inspection bill, was next taken up and
was recommended to pass after brief
discussion.
H. F. No. 157, Mr.. Wallblom's bill, to
indemnify persons for damages done by
mobs during a riot, was taken up and
Mr.. Blocker offered an amendment
making the act inapplicable to persons
injured while present or participating
in a riot and it carried. The bill was
then recommended to pass by vote OF
80 to 26. The house then took recess
to 2:30 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
At the afternoon session the house
got into squabble over Ell. F. 1856, MI
Blecker's bill to regulate the salaries OF
officers of building, loan and savings
associations. The debate lasted an hour
and half and was without result. f.
M. Wilson's bill to increase the.salary OF
court reporter to $500 was recon-.
mended to pass after bitter fight.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17

CENrAUR COMPANY II MURRAY STREET. New YORK Cry
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-17

"Castoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III &c. Oxford St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19

We are yet demanding under the
Burlingame treaty special rights Of
protec ion for American citizens re-
siding in China. The two countries
then agreed not to insult or Cypress
each other for any trifling cause and
guaranteed that the citizens OF either
country should he exempt from all
disability or persecution on account
of religious faith or worship. We
have directly and expressly violated
this treaty again and again and all
the time we exact protection and
privileges for our prosperous mer-
chants in China. Is this right? The
excitement raised on the west coast
against the Chinese some years ago,
communicated its prejudice to the
country, out there is a reaction. Our
people are 0iscov ring that we are
using our power to maltreat an inof-
fe sive people and the disposition to
do right, to see tair play, is manifest
ing itself in this country.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
THE NINE HORROR.

Great calamities have their uses.
The wives and children at the mouth
of the burning mine, Pont y Pryd,
Wales, in which their husbands and
fathers are smothering to death, are
experiencing the widest grief and
most intense woe. Humble as they
are, they have aroused everywhere
the deepest and most heartfelt SYM
pathy. Three hundred miners,
blocked in raging hell of fire and
smoke, with no chance of escape,
with their loved ones at the mouth of
the pit unable to do them any good, a
few yards apart but separated as eff
fectually as if in Heaven and hell. 1t
is calamities OF this kind that touch
every heart with the noblest emotions
of sympathy and break down the
barriers of cast as completely as the
spiders web is swept away. 1t is
such things as this that teach us Il
common humanity and cultivate q
common regard for our kind. We
are told by the Good Book that it is
better to visit the hCuse of mourning
than the house of joy and dancing,
for the house of mourning leaves in
effacable lessons that broaden and
lengthen the ties Of. human brother
hood, that win us from ourselves and
makes us forget In common woe the
selfish troubles that cloud our lives.
How insignificant are the ordinary
harassments of life when compared to
the mighty surges of grief that sweep
through the hearts of the wives and
children OF these miners entombed in
the seethiug cauldron of flame and
fighting with desperate earnestness
for life, for one breath Of air, How
can these women and children help
copjuring up the most terrible scenes
in that subterranean hell in which
their loved ones are gasping and
dying as their clothes are burning
and their flesh scorching and pealing
from their benes, when yet they have
life enough to suffer the torture
God pity them and send this sympa-
thetic lesson throughout humanity,
cultivating within us kindlier feelings
for the sufferer everywhere and under
all circumstances and arousing within
us an affection for our kind that will
prompt us to minister with our means
and kind words to all the afflicted
children of men.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
.JTJDGg TERRELpS MISSION.

The STATESMAN announced yester
day that Judge 4. w. Terrell of this
city had been appointed minister from
the United states to Turkey. As the
South has not been represented in for
eign countries for many years this ap
pointment is particularly appropriate
Jud re Terrell is not only a remarkably
handsome man but his manners age
refined and accomplished. He is az
well learned in polite Literature rs in
craftsmanship, all of which is set ot
or adorned by the most agreeable and
felic.t)us conversational powers. He
is thoroughly a man Of the world and
keen observer of men and things,
and however distinguished the
coterie, Judge Terrell will set the
pace and lead with all ease.
On this account and the necessity
for the South to have such represen-
tatives abroad who will induce CAPT.
tai aud emigration, it is to be regret
ted that Judge Terrell was not COM
mi stoned to some country whose
population were more desirable
as emigrants, especially to Ger
many. AS it is his influence
in the respect alluded to will
only be incidental and accidental.
He will meet of course with repre-
sentatives of all countries, and in that
way have an indirect beneficial influ-
ence in behalf of the South. The mis-
sion, however, on account of the weak
ness OF the government to which he is
and the peculiarities OF
the people is an important and deli
cate one which Judge TerrelPs very
com plete intellectual equipment Will
enable him to handle in maintaining
our peaceful relations aud impressing
our character for magnanimity and
Justice upon simple but In some
things a singularly acute people. 1t
Is happy thing for the South that
Judge Terrell has been selected from
her people as representative man
abroad. He will sustain her character
for intelligence and culture, and main
tain her sense of honor and high chiv-
airy, and in honoripg the South he
will do honor to the whole nation as
gentleman and diplonlatist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
FROM OLD BASTROP.

Congressman Sayers frustrating Among His
shorthorns-Amateu Theatricals, Etc.
Special to The Statesman.
BAsTRoP. Tex, April 12.-Major j.
D. Sayers is spending his vacation at
home. The major is in splendid ICON
dition" as the trainers say, notwith-
standing the great mental strain at
tending the closing hours of congress.
Among all of his friends who well
come him home, or rejoice in his prob.
able promotion to the craftsmanship
of the appropriation committee, none
welcome him more warmly or rejoice
with more gladness than those who
have known him since he was bare.
foot boy in old Bastrop.
The young people of the town pre-
sented "Hazel Kirk" for the second
time to fine audience. They GER
tainly eXcelled themselves in this and
have won quite local reputation, and
few of the actors almost rival the
amateur standard.
The new school bu lding is now oc-
cupied by over 800 pupils and teach
els are proud of their new quarters.
The Mai-test will be held on the
second and third of May at Firemen's
park and the committees have pro-
vided many attractive features.
II is getting very dry and farmers
are needing rain.
Capt. J. w. FitZwilliams is again
very sick and some doubt entertained
as to his recovery.
There is considerable building going
on at the new town of Red Rock on
the railroad.
The direct tax is being refunded in
this county. McPhaul & Hood sent,
up vouchers for $500 or $500 for claim.
ants from this county.
District Attorney Maynard is home
from the court at Brenham and re-
ports very favorably of his treatment
by the people of that place.
Judge Burnet of Palestine was in
attendance on county court last week
and made many frienGs among tae,
bar.
The Central Texas Teachers associ-
alton met here the 9th inst. There,
was good attendance and much in
terest manifested.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
THE DAMS OLD GAP
Will Be Entirely Rooted Over This Morning,
and Then for the Finishing Touches.

Will Be Entirely Rooted Over This Morning,
and Then for the Finishing Touches.
Owing to the lack of proper granite
blocks the work ofclosing the old gap
at the center of the dam ha to be
suspended Tuesday at noon. 1t was,
however, resumed yesterday, and by
10 o'clock this morning the last stone
in the coping at that point will be put
in position, and the old bugbear will
be out of the way forever.
The steam derrick will then
be brought eastward and resume
work bringing the coping over the
small distance left uncapped. There
is not more than eight days work to
completely finish the dam from one
end to the other, but because of the
difficulty of getting sufficient guam
tity OF coping stones from the quarry,
it Is thought the derrick can not be
run more than three days in week,
so it will take two more weeks to fin.
ism the top of the dam.
Mr.. Watte1son is getting on
masonry. He has the granite and
limestone wall up even with the rail-
road track for half the distance to the
end of the dam. There are yet to be
put on this end two more layers of
granite and the coping, and this is to
run back on the bank to q point just
back of where the cable engine stands.
By Saturday week the head gate
masonry should be entirely finished.
A great deal of trouble and slow
work are being encountered in cutting
through the solid limestone to the
bottom of the waste water pipes in
the power house. These narrow
channels have to go down about TWEEN
ty-five feet and they have four of them
down only twelve feet so far. These
have to be finished and the pipes put
in before work on the walls of the
power house can commence. 1t is
annoyingly slow work and is delay
ing things badly.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
THE DAM AND THE STATESMAN

THE DAM AND THE STATESMAN
Modesty is one of our browning vir
tues, and yet we feel that during al
these years our light has not been MD
under a bushel, but that every citizen
Of Austin knows that THE STATES,
MAN from the very origin of the dam
idea 10 the present day has been one,
il not the very staunchest friend, OF
that movement, and now that the
dam is completed and is to be dedi-
Gated in June with regatta and other
services, The STATESMAN feels called
upon to give one more evidence
of it's appreciation and appro-
val of that stupendous work.
To that end we nave
made arrangements to issue on June
9th, the day of the dedication,an extra
edition of at least sixteen pages to
contain complete history and write
up of Austin, also of the dam from
the time the idea was first conceived
to the present time. We will have
made new cuts of the dam and OF
scenery all along the lake, with
description of that beautiful body OF
water. In addition to this the edi-
ton will be complete business direc-
tory of Austin as commercial and
educational centre 1t will be in every
respect such an edition as
can be carried hcme by the
thousands Of visitors to the regatta as
a fine souvenir Of the occasion and to
be sent out all over the Union as the
most thorough and complete adver-
tisement OF Austin ever issued. The
STATESMAN has taken hold OF this
public spirited movement with earn
eqtness aud means to make it as COM
plete success as was it Christmas
Day fund and tree for the poor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
RUNAWAY TRAIN.
A Train of Chicago Cable Cars Takes Plunge
Into Tunnel.

Into Tunnel
CHICAGO, April A. A runaway
cable train laden with passengers
whirled unchecked ten squares
through the most crowded portion of
the city this afternoon. Its wild Ca
reer ended by a plunge down the
grade into the La Sale street tunnel
where the train was derailed and
the wrecked Gals were strung across
the track near the bottom of the sharp
incline. There was an exciting scene
along Dearborn and Randolph ave.
nues as the runaway rushed
along. Men, women and children
made frantic attempts to get off the
train. Many fell to the ground.
Grow Dis attracted by the screams of
the imperiled passengers and the
changing of the Car bells chased after
the trains and endeavor d TO get the
helpless ones off the cars. The police
officers pulled several women through
broken windows of the cars and
landed them in safety.
Among the passengers on the cars
were women with babes in their arms.
They begged piteously that the
children be saved from harm, but
most of the men thought only of
themselves. In the confusion several
persons were trampled on by teams
taking fright, but escaped injury.
Down the tunnel the cars were in
such inextricable confusion and the
grips and cable in such chaotic shape
with 80 many cars from the north side
blocking the north that it took hours
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
The State Encampment.

In the consideration by the house
in committee of the " hole of the APP.
preparation of $4,000 for each of the
two years for the state militia and en-
campment, Representative Wheless
endeavored 10 get the amount retain
ed, but as several amendments were
proposed to reduce the allowance, one
to 900 end another to $4,000, and
it was evident the house was deter
mined to make considerable reduc-
ton of the figures. Mr.. Wheless ac-
cepted the proposition to make the
amount $2O,0 as the most that the
house would allow, and what the en-
campment committee itself had con-
cluded was as much as the house
would grant. Mr.. Wheless accord
ingly got Mr.. Mills to change the
amendment SIS, 900 to $4,000.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
A PROPOSITION TO DIVIDE TEXAS

A PROPOSITION TO DIVIDE TEXAS.
Did ye not hear it? No; it was but
the car rafting Ger the stony pave,
but nearer came the sound. Hank, it
is the lannon's opening roar, What
was it that aroused that roar of APP.
plause at Vernon in Wilbarger county
the other day? Was it but the echo
to impassioned oratory in the ap-
plause of an audience? Oh, no. 1t
was a significant approval of the reso-
lutions offered to divide the State of
Texas.
The preamble recites that the state
schools, public buildings and all the
higher courts are located in the south
ern and eastern part of the state
That the legislature has persistently
ignored Northwest Texas, including
the great panhandle country,an that
the present legislature continues in
the line of its predecessors, and that
as all the school lands are located in
the western and northwestern part of
the state, which pays into the state
treasury 100000 more than it draws
out, and that as the interest of that
section is different from Southern
and Eastern Texas, they de.
clare chat unless these matters
are remedied our association favors
the calling of convention at some fu-
ture date for the purpose of creating
new state out of the great northwest
section of Texas" Let that resolution
be amended so that the convention
will be called one day after Gabriel
blows his resurrection trumpet.
There could be no greater misfor
tune to Texas than the cultivation of
spirit of Jealousy by which party
would be formed to advocate the
division of the state. The alarm has
heretofore been sounded and the
warning given. These men are not
tritling or making unavailing threats,
they mean what they say and they
will carry out their determination
unless their reasonable and just de-
mands are allowed. Let us pause aud
consider well the peril we are in, by
giving cause for such feeling in any
part of the great state of Texas. Our
honor and glory and progress are in
unity, Texas is the great empire state
of the Union. Let it not be torn
into contemplate fragments, but let
us by justice to all, Partially to none,
move on solidly in its grand
march in the front rank o. states. Let
its autonomy be perpetual. Irthese
men in the panhandle have just
grievances, right them. If legis-
lation has been untavorable and I'M
fair to them, make it fair to them.
Show them that they are mistaken,
and that we have a common interest
and a common glory, better and more
fully attained by the same power and
area over and by which the Lone Star
triumphantly waves. We have q
common heritage, incapable of divis.
ion or subdivision.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-04-19
GALE AT GALVESTON.
Wind Blew at Velocity Of Fifty Miles an
Hour-Rain Followed.


Special to The Statesman.
GALVESTON, April IA lively gale
set in this morning at 1910 o'clock
and for an hour maintained velocity
OF over fifty miles, reaching it's maxi
mum, Sc miles per hour at 1880, when
it gradually subsidized and from II m.
to p. m. maintained a velocity of
from twenty-five to thirty miles per
hour. At the beginning of the
gale the wind was due south
but suddenly vered to the northwest,
and was accompanied by driving
rain, the precipitation being thirty
seven hundredths of an inch The
wind caused general ENHANCEMENT
of telegraph and other wires, Olew
down an addition in course of con.
struction to c0lOred school in the
western part of the city, slightly in
jnring workman and destroyed the
knights Templar decorations though
out the city.