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cloture was manifested. 1t struck that
great apostle of silver, Richard p Bland
Next to Judge Holman he is credited with
the longest service in the House. A defic-
iency bill was under consideration. 1t in
cluded mileage for members at the first
regular session beginning on December A.
They had received mileage for the special
session. called by the President Bland
fought the proposition ferociously Driven
to bay he began to filibuster
The session lasted until the sun went
down and stars appeared in the sky Mr.
Bland was implacable. He acted as IL he
would die in his seat before he would give
way. The hands of the clock were moving
toward g. the members had gone without
their dinners, and still the great Missouri
ian stood at his desk. pounding il in indig-
nation and roaring defiance to those around
him.
Tom Reed sat upon the republican side
chuckling with joy. But a broader smile
of satisfaction came over his face when
came up the aisle to him and said. "Mr.
Reed, father wants to see you in the
Speakers room for few minutes"
The man from Maine numbered down the
aisle in the mellow gas-light, and made his
exit through the door of the Speakers
lobby. Three minutes afterwards he re-
appeared, accompanied by Speaker Crisp
and Gen. Catchings.
The House OWNED the stuat ton in an in
slant. The three were a quorum of the
committee on rules. This committee had
taken the filibusterers in hand and were
about to apply cloture. There was an
ebullition of joy. The House broke into
cheers and the clapping of hands was
deafening. Tom Reeds Shakespea rean face
revealed his inward emotion, as he lumber
ed back to his seat. 1t was the first time
that he had ever experienced such a recen-
ton from a democratic House. Under a
resolution from the committee on rules
cloture was promptly applied.
Mr.. Bland died hard He awaited himself
of all the latitude allowed by the rules and
gave up the ghost as the clock in the
Church of st. Aloysius was striking g.
AMOS j. CUMMINGS
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heighten this. between the parts. it is the
common privilege of all to walk out in the
stables. These stables. which are made a
special feature of the NOuveau Cirque have
all the adjuncts of a theater foyer You
drink. smoke. walk about, talk with your
friends If you have any. and inspect the
docile animals al close range. Clowns and
aTtistss come and go. assistants. jockeys
and scene shutters hurry about their affairs
with Pardon mer' or IF you please
The lonely visitor in Paris feels for a short
instant that he is part of something
again and yet not in the way, and SO he is
grateful 1t is an old trick of the Paris
circuses, this little liberality, but it is a
Morality, although inspired by intelli-
gent self-interest and the desire to show
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A BAD HALF-HOUR.
He Got Away, hut the Beauty Of That
Chair Was Ruined.

From the Louisville Courier Journal.
At the home of popular girl in this city
a most uncomfortable half hour was re-
Gently spent by a modest youth who had
called to see her. The youth is noted both
for bashfulness and Nervousness.
The night in question he went with q
friend to the girls house. He took a COM
Portable seat in a large armchair. and. as
was his habit, soon began to nervously
poke his fingers into cracks and holes Of
the ornamental part of the chair. He show
ed one finger into a hole in this manner,
but found to his dismay that his knuckle
positively refused TO come back through
the hole.
The more the young man worked TO re-
lease his finger the harder IL was as the
finger became swollen. The youth was too
bashful TO mention the ridiculous predica-
ment into which he had gotten himself but
bore the pain i'm silence. He suffered un-
told agony for fear his friend would 20 be-
fore he released his finger.
Finally the hostess noticed his apparent
uneasiness. The youth with many bushes
then told the cause. Ii was not until half
an hour later that the bashful youth and
the chair parted company. The butler fin
ally succeeded in releasing the finger with
the aid of a Ratchet and chisel. but the
handsome chair is a thing of the past.
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resolution from the committee on rules
The federal election bill passed under a.
cloture resolution. The Wilson bill repeal
Ing the purchasing clause of the Sherman
act went through under cloture 1t is now
the engine which the committee on rules
use under the authority of the House when
ever the majority wants to do business.
For some years after the close of the
war there was no necessity for cloture
The republicans had a two-thirds majority
in each branch of Congress, and could pass
whatever measure they pleased on suspen-
sion days. On such days. under the rules
there can be no filibustering, but 1t re-
quires a twO-thirds vote to pass measure
The admission of the reconstructed states,
however, deprived the republicans of their
two-thirds majority, and led to filibuster-
ing at critical moments.
The first and most successful filibusterer
since the war was Samuel ]. Randall He
developed while James G. Blaine was
Speaker. He led a parliamentary fight
against a force bill, very odious to demo-
Gratis. The Speaker, by arbitrary action,
might have deprived him of his parlia-
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plete with incident. 1t deals largely in poll
tics, and is what 1t pretends to be-a review
of the leading events of the year in every
branch of public life A young woman in
pink tights will personify the salon of the
Champs Elysees, demoiselle with a pair
OF scissors painted on her skirt will repre-
sent the government censorship of the the
alter. while a third will stalk up to the foot
lights with the words: Il am the influenza"
There Is small use of scenery in a review.
In theaters it is often only one set scene
representing a prominent street corner.
Here the characters walk on and off; but
there are two VINO remain ever and always
present The first is a man called the
compere. the othe- is a lady, called the
commere.' They are the gossips or cronies
or the piece, a cross between the middleman
or negro minstrel show and a Greek cho-
rus. They explain the allegories by thei-
burlesque conversation, one always asking
questions of the other.
Characters in the Revue
In the short burles iue review of the NCr-
veau Cirque there is no scenery at all. It's
nrst event is the serpentine dance, which
has given a host of imita tors. One of the
most desperate of these efforts has been the
exhibition of Mile Bob Walter who does
the serpentine in a cage of lions Here,
where 1t is burlesque, the lions are brought
out into the ring, played on by colored
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hshts TO grave, protentous music. They are
imitation lions, each led by an imitation
Nubian, with Chocolat in a brass helmet
tho proLsed ioIn at the. mead. Tie
serpentine dancer is Brunin. a preternatu-
rally tall and slim young man. whose chief
claim to consideration is that he can Irvine
as arms aroun1 his ooIy in Il mary eious
way TO scratch himself while he is singing
Inc Napoleon furore has its share. with
tne clown Plerantoni as the man of des-
uny: Hortense and Caroline squabble with
good resounding blows and wrestlinCs like
two female devils. Then Napoleon is seen
In his campaigns.
is it?" The Italian armyr' "Send ont n
regiment to clean them upr'
Boom, boom! THE Austriansp' "Swine
them 1T is done"
Boom, boom! What Is it now?" The
Belglans, they are coming by the belt rail-
way! Then we are fambesv' (The
French pretend to laugh at the Belgians,
fvette Guilbert, who is at the Scala. and
the CTaggs Br9e.icrs, WIS have had a great
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1t was impossible to pass the bill over the
veto, and Oates came out of the fight az
last triumphant as Randall in his force
bill fight
Oates example, however. was contagious.
Gen. James Il. Weaver, Clifton r. Breck-
inridge, the Rev. John Anderson of Kan
sas and others became permeated with the
filibusterng microbe, and it became almost
impossible to do any business in the House.
Mr.. Carlisle was so absolutely impartial as
a presiding officer under the rules that
two or three individual filibusterers could
shut off business at any time. The House
was paralyzed at times for days and even
weeks. The attention of the whole country
was concentra ted upon it, and the disgust
became national The feeling of the coun-
try found expression in the fall elections
by five majority. This majority increased
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ring Is like lake. 1t is the selfsame ring
IN which the negro clown Chocolat will
nave been seen to bite the dust a dozen
u1nes IN the evenings short frst-part, be-
cause ne will not learn TO refuse his con-
ndence to his unworthy confreres, who are
white clowns
hey' Chocoiat! Venney jou-ay avec
moa! tCorne play with mel The white
clowns initiate the Imperfect French ac-
cent OF English and Americans, to the
great delight OF Paris audiences)
Then Chocolat approaches, beaming with
good-fellowship. only to be once more de-
ceived. tricked. done for and held up to
scorn- The little children clap their hands
with joy.
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THE DISCH ARGED GREW.

horses. pigs and goats and other lucky
beasts. perform in turn-beasts that have
graduated through their own merits and
cocility from the low world of unskilled
labor up to the life of artistes. Night after
night the luckless black Though he is
brown) plays his pathetic-humorous part Of
faith betrayed.
The sawdust of the Nouveau CIRQUE
although il has no sawdusp is very small.
therefore the audience finds itself quite
near, brought into a contact with the per
formers which is almost intimate. To
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mentary rights. Mr.. Blaine, however, prid-
ed himself upon his rigid impartiality while
in the Speakers chair. Randall knew his
man. He felt confident that while he con-
fined himself to a strict parliamentary line
of action, he would receive recognition and
fair play. He led the fight with signal
ability and won a lasting reputation. Nor
did he stand higher in the affections of the
people than the Speaker who, notwithstand-
ing party exigencies, accorded him every
privilege.
Randalfs success emboldened flibusterers
In after years. When the direct-tax re-
funding bill came before the Fiftieth Con-
gress, Gen. William c. Oates of Alabama
followed Randalrs example. 1t was dur
ing the first session of that Congress- The
most Of the taxes to be refunded would go
to the northern and western states The
bill carried about $l7,OOOOOO and the south
would receive only an infinitesimal portion
of this amount
Representative Oates Victory.
Gen. Oates first effort was to attach an
amendment refunding the cotton ak, levied
during the war. When the amendment fail
ed he resorted to every parliamentary
means to defeat the bill. Mr.. Carlisle was
Speaker. Blaine himself could not have
oNeCu WIN iioiC iHpdTlidhly. Inc house
was in session repeatedly forty hours on
stretch,yet the bill made no progress. Oates
had a little army barely strong enough to
secure the yeas and nays but it was vigil
liant and sleepless. 1t stood by him to the
last. 1t included a very few northern
democrats, who believed that as the taxes
could not be refunded to the parties who
paid them, they ought not to be returned
to the states that collected them.
After a week of filibustering Gen. Oates
secured Il compromise. The House agreed
to let the matter go over until the second
session, when, at a given time, it was TO
be finally settled. 1t was a shrewd COM
promise That fall President Cleveland was
defeated by Gen. Harrison. The direct-tax
refunding bill came up after the election.
1t passed the House by a large majority
and went through the Senate without a
hitch. But President Cleveland vetoed it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-20
SUCCEEDS A TITLED RAKE.
The New Duke of Marlborough owe,
Much to the American Duchess.

The New Duke of marlborough Owes
Much to the American Duchess.
The present young Duke of Marlborough
is rather commonplace-looking person
He came of age the other day and gave
brilliant coming-out ball at Blenheim to
celebrate the event. His mother the Mar
chioness of Blandford acted as hostess. 1t
will be remembered that this lady has never
worn the title of Duchess of Marlborough
as she was divorced from the late duke
before he succeeded to the title The
young dukes ball was all the more effec-
tive for being given in palace recently
renovated and restored to its early dignity
and freshness of appointment. For this
renewed beauty of his home, says the New
York Tribune he is indebted to the money OF
the present Duchess of Marlborough who
was before her marriage to the duke
Mrs Hammersley, of New York.
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just Lovely.


From Truth.
Mrs. Any husband smokes cigarettes
in the house ali day, and / do detest the
odor of Them
Mrs. B.-"What do you do about it?"
Mrs. Al eat onions and garlic Just for
spite
Mrs. BIT must be real sociable at your
house"
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br1skfy. The present program has three
parts. the circus proper. a revue and then
the tank show. which is called THE Yacht
of NJ. Durand."
The circus part has eight acts only. After
Pipe and Crisidi, two small ponies have
gone through their exercises, the clowns
perform a trick with hats, in which the
luckless Chocolat is powdered white.
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each instant of the short three-quarters of
an hour. And, when the audience, walking
out, looks back upon the circus ring now a
cold pond with only the masts and smoke
stack of the Leopard visible upon its sur
face, they wonder If it can be the selfsane
ring round which the horses galloped fur
iously two hours before.
STERLING HELLO.
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Senator Aldrich Has Joined the MI
nority in the Upper House.
Is a PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY.
Some Senators Who Have Expert
enced Fluctuations of Fortune.
TEREST TING GOSSIP
Written for The Evening Star.

3-<-N ~ Il oo ANLA<k-O&>
w. Aldrich has gone
over to the minority
so long the MAORI
ty-of the Senate. He
is one of it's million
aires. In the years
of his senatorial serv-
ice, Mr. Aldrich has
always been reckon
ed a poor man. He
was not considered
poverty-stricken. He
did not borrow money
ond ha Ail na+ li-a
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TO ADVERTISERS.

Advertisers are urgently re-
quested to hand in advertisements
the day prior to publication. in
order that insertion may be as.
sured. Want advertisements win
be received up to noon Of the day
OF publication. precedence being
given to those first received.
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Little Important Business Can Be
Done Without It.
IT SURPRISES TIE FILIBUSTERERS.
Mr.. Randall Has Had Many Worthy
Successors.
GEN. OATES FAMOUS EFFORT.
Written for The Evening Star.

7 IS A CLOTURE
H o u S e. Necessity
compels it. Without
cloture very little i'm
por t a mt business
could be done, unless
two-thirds of t b e
members favored 1t.
Then :he II o u S e
might do its work on
suspension day, but
at no other time. The
tariff bill cannot SO
through the House
without a c1nr ra
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| HERE is A TANK
circus in Paris. and
1t is a joy to infants
and to grown people.
When other shows
pail and all the
world seems hollow,
as IL often does in
Paris, il is well to
pass an evening in
the Nouveau Cirque,
to see the floor de-
scend at 10 o'clock,
to see the water bub-
bling up until the
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Harsh.
Erom Truth.

The Professor-"And now. my dear, what
is the lowest form of animal life?''
The Coed. Girl (scornfully)-"Man"
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THE N0UVEAU CIRQUE
A Tank Circus That Delights the
Parisians.
TIE BLACK And WHITE CLOWNS
The Promenade in the Stables
Among the Horses.
THE REVUE AND ITS SCENES
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

PARIS. January Q, 1894.
H1 ~ ED Z 10 IT NTy
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19

1t isn't everybody who realizes that
every line IN newspaper costs some
thing If II is for the benefit Of an in
dividual 1t should be paid for. IL the
grocer we're asked 10 contribute grocer
ies e to one abundantly able to pay for
them he would refuse. The proprietor
OF a newspaper must pay for the free
advertising If the beneficiary does not,
and yet 1t is one Of the hardest things
70 be learned by many that newspaper
has space IN ITS columns 10 rent and
must rent to live. To give away any
thing for less than living rates would be
rs certainly fatal as for q landlord to
furnish rent free.-Natchez Democrat.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19
u Defense Of oarnsaIa.

A Pittsburg dispatch states that Mr.
Andrew Carnegie is being denounced
by iron and steel manufacturers aud
labor leaders because of tho interview
In the Woild In which be expressed
the hope that the tariff taxes would be
fixed so low in tho Wilson bin that
there would be no agitation for furth.
or changes for some time to come
His remarks are Interpreted as mean.
ing that through improved machinery
aud cheapened processes he is now
prepared to compete OIL even terms
with the iron and steel manufacturers
OF the entire world.
The charge against Mr.. Carnegie
for IL amounts to a charge-is that he
has improved his plant, perfected bis
machinery aud simplified his processes,
and thus cheapened production until
he Is ready-to meet competition any
whero on his merits. What he ought
10 have done, according to his critics,
was TO keep his antiquaied machinery,
adhere to old-time crude methods, and
depend on the government TO make his
business profitable even under such
conditions by taking money out of the
pockets Of his fcllow-citizons and put
ting IL into his own.
II is not often that The World finds
itself in accord with Mr.. Carnegie, but
IL Is heartily with him OH this issue.
Ills way of meeting competition is tho
truly American wav, the manly way,
and consequently tho right way. II is
the way in which all our industries
will get squarely upon their feet when
relieved of the governmental swad-
ding clothes of so-callcd "infant in
dustries."-N. Y. World.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19

SELECTION OF GRAND JURORS. s.-The
present mode of drawing grand jurors
by loi from the general venire is found
TO work badly and is tho source of
great dissatisfaction. IL might hap
pen, for example, that one or more
districts In q county would be en-
tircly unrcpresented on tho grand ju-
ry-in tact this has happened Ia Clai-
borne county. The Reveillo suggests
the following plan:
During a regular session of the
board supervisors one or two months
before the meeting of court, let each
member of the board select two names
from every supervisors district IN The
county. This, in counties having
five districts, would give so names.
Let tho clerk and the sheriff each select
two names from every district, max
ing twenty more, or seventy in all.
Then, putting the IA names from each
district into five separate hats, let the
clerk draw four names from each. All
the districts would then DO equally
represented aud tho grand iuries so
chosen would probably be of higher
average quality than under either the
old or new way of selecting them. II
for any reason the sheriff or clerk, or
any OF the supervisors desired to
"pack" the grand jury, this method
would render It practically impossible
without -collusion among them ALA
so unlikely that IL need
not be taken into account.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19
Children Cry for Pitchers CastOria.

About a year ago / took a violent
attack Of la grippe. / coughed day
and night for about six weeks my
wife then suggested that / try Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. At first ]
could see no difference, but still kept
taking it, and soon found that it was
what 1 needed. III 1 got no relief
from one dose / took another, and it
was only @ few days until / was free
from the cough. / think people in
general ought to know the value Of
this remedy, and / take pleasure in
ackno oWledging the benefit I have re-
ceived from it.-Nadison Mustard f,
Otway, Ohio. 25 and so cert bottles
for sale by DIR. w. ID. Redus.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19
SNEAKER CrIsp.

The flibusters have added several
feathers to the cap of speaker Crisp.
He is one Democrat in the lower house
who is a leader, says q Washington tel
egram. He is not so intellectual as
Turner or Wilson, but he has all the
force, tenacity, audacity, frmness and
courage of Sam Randall. 1t was worth
all the disgust and profanity of which
Democrats have delivered themselves
the past four days, to see the admirable
style in which he rebuked that turb-
ulent bully Boutelle. No idea Of it, or
rather very slight idea Of It,can be gain
ed by reading the proceedings in the Re
cord. The frigid arrogance, the con-
tempt, the summary execution ne visit
ed on the man from Name, were enough
to have excited the envy Of Daniel ".
ConneIl. And how the house enjoyed 1t !
Even majority Of the Republicans we're
delighted. Just before the holiday re-
cess Boutelle boasted that ne had seen
the speakers back more than once. Sinco
last Wednesday he has seen the speak
er's face more than once; but he will not
boast about it.-Ex.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19

A wclI-known artist has come out
strongly against starch, which he calls
ono of tho curses of tho nineteenth
century. Says he: ANot only docs II
make our clothes unpleasant 10 wear,
but Il makes them hideous to look at"
Pointing to a charming piece Of statu-
airy, he continued: "Now, look al The
beauty aud simple dignity Of that toga
and contrast Il with the dress OF n
modern man. That was soft and yield
ing; the modern shirt, collar, cuffs,
hats, shoes, corsets and even tho wo-
mems gowns, are hard aud unbonding.
The effect of antique dress was grace
the effect of our dress Is that OF stiff
ness and discomfort. II is more than
an effect IL Is fact. Nobody could
be easy and look thoroughly well In
our clothes. We want to organize
reform movement against starch
Ex
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19

FLOWERS IN THR CEMETERY
Wednesday afternoon five bows and
girls, whom our informant did NOT rec.
ognlxe by namc, were observed pluck.
ing flowers In the cemetery. Though
thoY may not have known II. thesc
children were committing an offence
that Is punishable by fine; but they
should at least have known that il was
wrong TO take away flowers that sor-
rowing friends had planted around
the graves Of their loved ones.
The town council should have few
placards put up In the cemeteries warn.
ing thoughtlcss persons against acts OF
this kind and rcclting the penalty 10
which they thus render themselves
liable.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1894-01-19

WALL PAPER.-Mrs. ]. II. Cor
don is agent for one of the largest
wallpaper dealers in Chicago, and
solicits the public patronage. The
proceeds OF this agency are to go to
the Methodist parsonage fund here.
The prices are as low as can be
found any where, and people who
wish anything in this line should
patronize this benevolent cause.
A large lot Of new samples just in.