People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-05-16

| lng IL Tue law Is ueCldTeu uuCOusuItu-
tiOnal, the revenues of the govern
ment will not be large enough from
the ordinary sources for the actual
running expenses.
Well, We got our regular Sunday
morning +. communication Sunday
from that "SOund Currency" commit
tee. They have added another bait
to their hook, by offering five Of
their publications free as a premium
to each new subScriber.-Mail.
Judges SimontOn and Golf Of the
United States circuit court have de-
clared the provisions of the South
Carolina dispensary law prohibiting
the importation Of liquors for private
use unconstitutional and contrary to
the interstate commerce law. An in
junction issues prohibiting the seiz-
ure by the officers Of such liquors.
Another cold snap followed by ca
lamitiOus frOsts prevailed over
great part Of the eastern and north
ern parts of the United States Mon
day night and Tuesday morning.
Snow storms are reported all over the
country from the great lakes to Ken
lucky. The thermometer, from
New Jersey to Illinois and north
wards, was down to 20. A long list Of
lake vessels are reported as wrecked
or lost.
As the news comes in from over the
country there seems to have been
cause for our cold weather Saturday.
In northern Minnesota four inches Of
snow fell, while in the southern part
heavy frosts killed all vegetation.
South Dakota suffered severely; North
Dakota not so much. Michigan also
had a snow storm with a bowling
blizzard. Wisconsin met a similar
fate. Northern New York Ohio and
Indiana also suffered from very
heavy white frOSts.
John Martin, eX-United States Sena-
tor, in a San Francisco interview,
says: "If the Democratic party does
not adopt platform in favor OF free
coinage of silver, it will not carry a
single state in the union. Senator
Morgan of Alabama told me lately
that on any sort of platform the
Democrats would be swamped by the
POpuliSts even in that state. Sena-
tor Harris told me the same thing Of
Tennessee, and Cooper of Georgia and
Daniel Of Virginia"
OF course brains count. The post
master general Of the United States
receives salary Of $4,000 year: Tar
al, a Kansas jockey boy receives a
salary of s25,0OOa year. The chief
| justice of United States receives a
salary Of S1O,5OO year; Griffin, light
weight jockey, receives a salary of
$4,000 a year. Senator Sherman is
paid $1,000 year, Sims, jockey, s25,-
900 a year. No wonder that it is
claimed that politics do not pay.
These jockeys must be gold bugs.
A Pittsburg, Kansas, dispatch says:
The smelter strike is settled in Pitts
burg, as Robert LanyOn put his men
at work this morning at the increase
asked for. Other furnaces in the dis
trict will follow, with the exception
of the Cherokee, which is dead. the
fires having been pulled and the
works shut down permanently. The
results of the strike are that the price
of Spelter has been advanced, the
men have received increased wages,
and the wOrkmen Of the Cherokee
company in this city who started the
strike, are out Of a job.
The Utah constitutional convention
has completed its IabOrs. The consti-
tuition will he submitted to popular
vote next November. Its distinctive
features are the provisions inhibiting
polygamy and the clause granting the
right Of suffrage to women. The
grand jury is done away with except
10 cases where a district Judge be-
lieves public necessity requires one.
The number then is reduced to seven,
OF whom five must concur to find an
indictment. Offenses now prosecuted
by indictment will hereafter be by in
formation. The petit jury is cut to
eight, of which three-fOurths may
render a verdict, except in criminal
actions, where the verdict must be
unanimous. The legislature will con-
sist Of sixty-three members. There
will be no lieutenant governor. An
excellent school system is provided
for.
One Of the most peculiar accidents
chrOnicled in the history of railroad
ing occurred on the Ark" division
Of the Memphis road near Willeford
early Sunday morning, and the fact
that number Of lives were not LOST