The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-08-23
NEWS CONVERSATIONS.

u0 uOuS0 VI 1OIuS Has p1SS0u U1e
equalization of London rates bill.
Congressman Dave Myer has been re-
nominated by the Republicans Of the
Second Nebraska district.
Representative Richards of Ohio has
introduced a bill to restrain and regu
late the importation, manufacture and
sale of shoddy.
Eastbound shipments from Chicago
last. week amounted to As, $50 tons
against 1926 tons for the preceding
week and 44,852 for the corresponding
week of last year.
Mr.. Frank E. Chandler, general pas
senger agent of the Wabash system
who has been ill for some weeks of 8
neuralgia gastric trouble, complicated
by two strokes Of paralysis, is dead.
The cholera commission of Germany
has decided that it is necessary to take
additional precautionary measure!
along the Russian frontier to prevent
the entry of persons from the cholers
districts.
Who Wrote 1t?
Hon. J. Proctor Knott of Kentucky
rendered himself famous by a speech de-
livered in congress % years ago. It was
given during the debate on extending
the time of q railway grant for con-
structing a road from the st. Croix river
to Duluth. Mr.. Knott was opposed to
the extension and argued the case in a
speech full of purposely exaggerated die
ton and of broad humor and satire. 1t
made great sensation and is on record
as one of the most humorous speeches
ever delivered in that not over lively
spot, the hall of representatives. It is
rather odd, though, that the phrase in
which Duluth was characterized as 1.-THE
zenith city of the unsalted seas" does not
occur in the printed copies of the speech.
After all, was it not in the speech and is
it separate coinage of that versatile
genius, Colonel Pat Donan?
Of the humorous illusions in Mr..
Knott's address, perhaps the best is that
in which he represents the Piegan In
dams as blowing up wheat ground with
buffalo bulls, then fattening the buffalo
on the wheat and driving them to mar
ket to Duluth. Mr.. Knott had map
near him which pictured the future of
Duluth, itself as center, with concentric
circles widening out from it and stalking
in all the universe" as the speaker said.
From time to time he pointed to this
map during his address. Shouts and
laughter echoed through the hall and
galleries.
1t has been charged that Proctor Knott
did not write the speech himself, but
that it was prepared for him by Colonel
Pat DOMAIN. The Washington Post has
q paragraph to that effect. The Post
writer says:
Representative Goldzicr's offhand speech
on tho removal Of the Indian warehouse from
New York to Chicago has frequently brought
up the subject of Proctor Knott's famous Du-
luth grafton in Congress.
speaking Of Proctor Knots Duluth speech"
said an old habitue Of the house Hobbies yes
tcrday, that was a carefully prepared effort
and the result of study, while Goldzier's speech
was wholly extemporaneous. The strangest
part of the Knott speech. however, was that 1t
was not prepared by Proctor Knott, but by
Colonel Pat Donan, one of the greatest wits
in the country and Duluth promoter. 1t
was committed to memory by Knott and de-
livered In mastery manner, that went far to
make the delivery q notable episode in con-
gress. You have certainly observed that
Knott never made another speech like that
aft0rward."