The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-12
POOL SELLING ENJOlNED.
In Injunction Issued Against The IIsXan-
der Island Race Track.
PAPERS SERVED UPON THE PRESIDENT
Racing and Pool Selling Restrained by
cult Court-Congressiopai Matters.
TINES BUREAU, RApLEY BUILDING. }
WASHINGTON, January ii. 1895. !

| either call special session of the Legis-
| Iature or make military move upon
the Alexandria Island race course, upon
whose icy, snow-covered tracks daily
caricature Of horse racing has been for
weeks maintained.
Upon consultation with Attorney-Gen-
eral Scott and Captain George A. Mush-
bach. he decided to-day 10 have issued
| an Injunction against this racing, on the
| grounds of cruelty TO animals, and tnat
| the Grange Camp Association have pros
| tituted, misused and abused their charter,
| which, according to the bill filed before
/ Judge Wexford by Attorney-General
| Scott, was given them for charitable and
| benevolent purposes. and for the conduct
| ing OF agricultural fairs.
The injunction was served this after
| noon at $50 o'clock upon the Grange
| Camp Association, and the Jones Broth
| ers. who have bought It's charter, by
| Sheriff Veitch, of Alexandra county. THIS
| Injunction was served at the end OF the
third race, and the next two races were
continued. There is now surety OF the
action of track people tomorrow, out inc
chances are that they will move 10 dis-
solve the Injunction or file demurrer TO
| the bill before Judge Wexford
WHAT PRi sTDxNT JONES SAYS.
Mr.. Isaac NJ. Jones, the president of
| the Grange Camp Association, was seen
this evening at the headquarters OF the
| association, in this city. Nhtn aSheu
| what the association proposed TO 90 III
reference to the injunction, he SAID; ne
Grange Csrnp Association has never vlo-
latod anv of the laws of Virginia, and
does not intend 10 do 80. The injunction
will be obeyed. ..
! President.
This decision of the president Is all
that could be expected, and there - no
| doubt that the Injunction will be oheyed
until it is disposed of by the courts
GENERAL HETH's CONDITION.
General Harry Heth is resting qulet'y
tonight. His physicians think there Is
sliaht improvement In his condition, put
consider him critically Ill.
FIsANCIAL LEGISLATION.
Tho Democratic party on tnance iesls
latjon is surely between the deViI anu
the deep sea" The party itself has de-
feated the Carlisle bill in the House ana
the party in the Senate, with lts hlaJoil-
~ of one, stands no more chahce "
pass a financial bill, without bids 10 OUT
side elements, than IL does TO revoke the
tide OF Two flOnlHS dbO NAiNh
Democrats from power in the halls OF
Congress. .
With the incoming administration WIN
Senate. House and Executive all or one
party faith, the Democrats found them-
selves possessed Of horrible heritage
in the depleted Treasury and the accu-
mulated evils attendant upon the con-
tnued abortive attempts OF the Republl-
cans to competenty frame financial meas
ures 10 satisfy the people anu meet tue
needs OF the nation.
For this the Democratic party was as
blameless as the infant born of poor,
but honest, parents" and with the whole
world before il to achieve greatness ana
grandeur The situation was as appa-
rent In March 1893, as it IS to-day. and
IL was with the full knowledge of the
pressing needs of the country that Mr..
Cleveland called the extra session or
August 1898. Then Congress contented
itself with repeating the Sherman law,
adjourned and left the country stun N
need of financial legislation, and deeply
i'm need at that. They recOnVencd in De-
cember, and from then TO August y, 1884,
they tinkered with the tariff. debated the
free and unlimited courage of silver, in
duiged in fruitless talk about coming the
segniorage. and adjourned without do
ing a single thing for the financial re-
lief Of the people and without extending
10 the Secretary Of the Treasury any
alternative but the continued and period
ical issue of the bonds.
PROSPECTS FOR FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
They reconvcne1 in Dece nber. 1884 and.
after careful and laborious efforts, bill
is presented which meets with the APP
proval Of the administration, and, in fact,
is the product of the efforts of Secre-
tary Carlisle and his advisers and asso-
ciatcs i'm the conduct of the finances of
the country. This bill, no doubt, con-
tanned many provisions which were OBJ
iectionable, and which could have been
eliminated by amendment, but by a vote
OF 12g to l24, a total of Z53 votes. and with
l03 absent members. the Committee on
Rules is turned down in its efforts TO get
a vote on the bill and amendments, and
thus, at least Cor the time, all financial
legislation is dead.
The prospects now for the passage of
any financial legislation are exceedingly
gloomy, although In both House and Sen
ate other bills viii be introduced. The
Republicans are determined to resist any
legislation in this direction for they are
confident that Mr.. Cleveland will call
an extra session If no bill is passed at
this session, and they will garner the
credit before the country of alone being
able 10 cope with the great questions that
come up for settlement by Congress.
'"The Republicans" in the words of a
Democratic senator, feel that the Dem
ocrats would not issue a deed whHe they
were in business, and they are deter
mined not 10 allow a will To be written
In these days OF their dying"
A little incident happened in the caucus
the other day which demonstrates the
great opposition to the Carlisle bill Rep
resentatiye Swanson was appealing elo-
quently 10 his fellow Democrats to get
together and pass some financial bill.
"Unless we do he exclaimed, I'VE may
as well tell the country that We are in
competent"
Representative Tarsney arose at this
juncture and asked the member from
Virginia.; "Do you not think. sir that We
may as we'll tell the country of our in
competency 10 demonstrate 1t by the
passage of this bill."
The Carlisle bill might have been wrong,
but so will be all others this session, or
al least the one that suits the diversified
interests and variegated notions OF
finance Of the majority will surely be as
varicolored. dappled, streaked patched
and daubed as the little coat that Jo-
seph's father made him. and this is not
good season for tailoring, either.
TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION.
During the present armistice in the
tnanciai struggle the talk OF an extra
session OF the f1fty-fourth Congress is
freely indulged In. and IL many OF the