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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-22
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-22
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-22
A REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

The Republican members of the Ways and
Means Committee held a conference this evening
at which various propositions were discussed
but no definite conclusion reached, except that
efforts to frame remedial measure should be
steadily continued This, of course, means that
the resolution for holiday recess Will not be re-
ported back to the House, and that Congress
will remain In session. In view Of the Importance
OF the subject 1t is hardly probable, however
that the Committee on Ways and Means will
be prepared to submit measure to the House
until after Wednesday, although no effort will
be spared TO do 50 at the earliest practicable
date.
1t would not surprise men who are believed to
be well informed TO the Views of members of
the majority of the Ways and Means Commit
tee II a bill to increase the revenue should be
proposed which would provide for horizontal
Increase In existing rates OF duty and the trans
fer OF some articles from the free list to the
dutiable list with certain provisos one Of
which would operate to prevent the raising OF
the rate OF duty on any article above that
specified in the tariff act OF 1890. OF course there
are many details to be considered. and that will
take time There is every reason To hope and ex-
pect that when the bill Is offered 1t will meet
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

ONE Of the most encouraging evil
dences of the right of Col. DUPONT to a
seat in the Senate is the virulent oppo-
sition of the Every Evening which has
the fatality of getting on the wrong
side of every public question. 1t has
arrived at the stage where it accuses
the Republicans of trying to steal the
Senatorship. 1t was the first paper in
the State to inform Governor Watson
that the Office he now holds, and the
patronage which he has to distribute,
was stolen from the Republicans. Re-
ference was of course made to the acts
of the Kent county registers last fall
and was by innuendo as all the Every
Euening's charges against the Demo-
Gratis are made. 81 give up the sena-
torship-Col. DUPONT will be seated"
said well-posted but somewhat super
stitious St. Georges hundred Demo-
Gratis this week. "The Every Euensng
says the Senate will not admit him,
and that settles it. You can count
on that paper being wrong every time"
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
IN KENT COUNTY.

There are only II inmates in the Kent
county Jail.
The inhabitants of Milford are reveline
in trout, drumfsh, shad, rock and stur-
geon, besides the many other good things
in season.
The new industrial school for colored
boys, established on the farm at Clayton,
was opened on Wednesday. Thirty-five
boys from the st. Josephs Orphanage in
Wilmington were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Price, of Smyrna,
celebrated the SD anniversary of their
marriage last Saturday. They were mar
ried May 11th, 1912, by the late Rev. James
L. Houston, assisted by Rev. B. F. Price,
Mrs Mary E. Torbert, widow of General
Alfred I. A. Torbert, who was shipwrecked
off the Florida Coast in August, 1880, died
at her home in Milford, Thursday, May 9th.
She was the daughter of Daniel C. Curry
and was born August 10th. 1889. With
the exception of the five years that Gen.
Torbert was Consul at Hayana, and the
years spent in Paris when the General was
Consul General, Mrs. Torbert has spent her
life in Milford where she was beloved by
all for her unostentatious charity, generous
and consistent religious life.
She left $1,000 in trust of the Episcopal
Diocese of Delaware for Christ Church,
of which she was a member
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
Resolution of Respect.

ODESSA, DEL, May Is, 1895.
Col. John w. Andrews, Post, No. IA
Department of Delaware G. A. R:
WHEREAS, This community and thi!
Post have been startled and shocked by the
sudden death Of our well known fellow
citizen, Capt. w. W. Walker, and
WHEREAS, We, his comrades of Col. J
W. Andrews Post G. A. R., desiring to ex.
press some slight appreciation of his ad.
mirable character and patriotic record as a
soldier, have unanimously adopted the fol-
lowing Resolutions.
First-That while we bow in humble
submission to the supreme will of our Di-
vine Commander, the death of Comrade
Walker causes us to mourn the loss of one
of the most trusted and efficient comrades
of the Post. who was ever ready and eager
tc uphold and advance the principles of
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Second-That by the death of Capt. Wal
ker the State Of Delaware has lost most
valuable and patriotic citizen, whose in
tegrity and loyalty made him of the creates
service to his country during the late Re-
bellion and in whose war record his de-
scendants can take just pride.
Third-That the adjutant be instructed
to spread these resolutions upon the min
utes of this Post and copy be sent to the
familyof the deceased and that they be pub
lished in the The Morning News and
TRANSCRIPT.
W. H. EcoLEs.
d. w. CoRBIT,
H. VANDEGR1Fr,
Committee,
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
FROM OLD SUSSEX,

There are more new houses being built al
Rehoboth than at any one time for years.
The members of the NJ. E. church OF
Georgetown are talking of building a new
church.
A severe hail storm of brief duration
passed over Lewes on Tuesday, damaging
gardens and vegetables considerably.
Assistant Postmaster General Maxwell
has appointed E. P. Sturgis postmaster at
Dagsboro, to succeed Miss NJ. A. Short,
who recently resigned from the position,
Lewis is to have chemical fire engine,
engine house and lookup. The legislature
authorized the town commissioners to bor-
row $4,000 to furnish these improvements.
The sanctified Band of Chincoteague Is
lands number of whom, were arrested last
winter for immoral practices, have nearly
all left that region for North Carolina
where they have colony,
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
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Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

ONE of the most gratifying thoughts
in this matter is that prominent Demo-
Gratis do not hesitate TO express regret
at Governor Watson's action and to
agree with their Republican neighbors
that Col. dupont is fairly elected Sena-
tor. Three of as prominent Democrats
az there are in st. Georges hundred
have thus expressed themselves th is
week, and there are undoubtedly others
of the same opinion. Unless the Every
Evening is called off there is danger
that the entire hundred will be con-
vinced of the business and right of
Col. duPont's claim before the first of
next December,
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

it became his partisan and questiona-
BILE duty to act in his dual capacity of
Speaker and Governor, and to cast a
vote that fifteen votes might not elect
Senator. He did this in the face of
his voluntary promises to friends that
he would never do it because he
though Thought he he had net the Fight, and not
until after he had made compact
with the four renegade Republicans
that they would vote for Addicks
only, and with the evidence of that
conspiracy in his pocket, did he enter
the House of Representatives at the
head of the Senate and vote. The
question of the election of Col. du
Pont turns upon the legality of Mr..
Watson's vote. Had he the right? If
he had, then his conspiracy with the
Addicks men holds good, and Col. du
Pont is not elected. If he had not the
right, Col. du Pont is elected, and it
remains for the United States Senate
to so declare, and he will be Senator
for six years from the 4th of March,
1895. 1t matters not that on more
than one ballot Col. du Pont received
the necessary fifteen votes, nor does it
matter that Mr.. Watson will not give
him certificate of the facts as to his
election; the United States Senate is
the sole judge of the election of its
members and Delaware injustice does
not prevail throughout the length and
breadth of this land.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

IF week passes without some one
of our peninsula exchanges of Demo
cratic persuasion making derogatory
reference to leading Republican, we
begin to question the wherefore of the
silence. On the other hand, how sell
dom is it that Republican paper in
dulges in slurs at the expense of a
political foe. That Governor-Speaker-
Dictator Watson is an exception just
now, and deservedly so, is true. The
Republican editors very properly omit
such politics from their columns and
We only give space to the following
opinion from the Masncie Ne,os, sent by
a western friend, to show how cutting
things could be inserted, and with
much truth, if the inclination existed !:
sit is high time that the Anglo
maniac from the State of Delaware,
who now misrepresents the United
States at st. James as mighty ambas-
sador, be ordered back home; the
sooner the better. His extraordinary
mismanagement of diplomatic affairs,
his utter disregard for American inter-
ests, and his shameful subserviency to
British requests and demands, have
laid him liable to the gravest charges
that can be preferred"
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
CURRENT .EVENTs.

The Salvation army is about to invade
China.
Snow II inches deep on the level fell Al
Grayling, Mich, on Monday.
The Friends had their yearly meeting il
Philadelphia this week. and, as usual
rainy weather prevailed
Ex-Recorder Smyth has been elected
grand Sachem of the Tammany Society, 10
succeed ex-Mayor. Thomas F. Gilroy.
A majority of the mormon members of
the Utah Constitutional Convention, voted
for the provision prohibiting polygamy.
Wind storm at Marinette, Wis, unroofed
houses and barns, and scattered stocks of
several lumber yards, Friday night of last
week.
Over four hundred men at the blast fur
naces of the Bellaire( (Ohio) Nail Works
have accepted an advance of 15 per cent in
wages and will resume work.
Foreign finauciers are being convinced
that this country is not quite ruined, and
are beginning to invest heavily again in
our railroad stocks and other securities.
Sound money Democrats of Texas have
declared against free coinage of silver at
the Waco convention. A division of the
Texas Democracy on the silver question is
inevitable.
The flow of summer tourists to Europe
has already begun. All the first-class
steamers going to Europe have full pass
enger lists, and wealthy, money-spending
Americans will be welcomed by the for
eigners.
The State Prohibition Convention of Ohio,
will have woman preside at their meet
ing on June Sth, Mrs. Henrietta G.. Moore
having already been named as temporary
chairman, the first woman in Ohio to pre-
aide over state political Convention.
A man advertised in Pittsburg paper,
a cure for the liquor habit for one dollar
and was arrested for using the mails to de-
fraud, because victim. who answered the
i'd. found the cure was take the pledge
md keep it," which everyone will agree is
IN infallible cure.
President Cleveland's catch of trout i'm |
Chesapeake waters has been the surprise of |
he fisherman of the country Seventeen
peckled beauties were numbered in his |
,unch or Saturday. Soon after the Pres |
dents return homo, Mrs. Cleveland and |
amily will repair to Grey Gables for the |
ummer.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

corporation legislation, the petty pri-
vate acts, are concerned, they are all
due to the miserable laws under which
we live, laws perpetuated by the legis-
latures Of the Democratic Party for the
past thirty years as the Delaware
Democrat admits, and the opposition
of the Democratic leaders in the
State to constitutional convention.
So long as the laws remain those
matters will come before every General
Assembly.
In the interest of truth, in the in
terest of the people, in the interest of
the commonwealth, will our esteemed
contemporaries not come out of the
woods and let the charges be special
and specific. The TRANSCRIPT fears
not the truth ard stands for the right,
let it be labelled what it may.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
THE AFTERMATH.

Is Col. Henry A. DUPONT legally
elected United States Senator from the
State of Delaware? has been the ques.
tion uppermost in the minds of Della.
wareans for the past week, and Of
others outside the State, and especially
of politicians. The most prominent
journals in the country have taken,
and are taking, keen interest in the
matter. Newspapers will discuss it
and politicians, great and small, will
find it fruitful topic Of conversation,
but it will be settled only in the United
States Senate next December, unless
the President should convene Congress
in extra session, when it will come up
in regular order. Of course there can
be no question about Col. du Points
making formal application for the
seat, Since to neglect to do so would be
to discredit his party, the G. o. P. of
which for years he has been potent
factor in the ranks. Col. du Pont may
have no taste for public life, not even
for the United States Senate which has
been in the years that are past, and
should continue to be, the noblest and
highest legislative body in the world,
but he is too true Republican and has
fought too earnestly for too many
years against the bondage which to-day
fetters the progress and prosperity of
our beloved State, to shrink from duty
at this critical period. Despite the
conspiracy of Democratic officials,
legislators, and leaders, with the rule
or-ruin traitors, elected to the Legis-
lature as Republicans, to deprive Della
ware Of half her representation in the
United States Senate, of which Della
wareans have been so proud, Col. du
Pont has been called to the leadership
of the Republican Party in the State,
and he will have and should have the
support of every man calling himself
Republican. In personal character
and fitness for the high office, he is all
that any man could ask or desire, and
in the halls Of legislation he will do
for the family name, Of which every
true chicken of the blue hen is justly |
proud, what other members of the
family have done on the field of battle |
and in the commercial world. But the |
question is asked, How comes this un-
certainty as to Col. du Points title to |
a seat in the senate9 We will try to |
make it plain.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
1913 and 1859,

There appeared in the TRANSCRIPT last
week 1913 interesting news items not ap-
pearing in any other paper of Middletown
for that week, making 1859 of such items
for the ten weeks under the present man.
agement. 1t is n avera age of 1876 items per
week every line of it being live and inter-
esting news, and it is more than many
papers give their readers. 1t is in addition
to all the other local news that may ap-
pear in any other paper of the town, or of
the news sent to papers out of the town.
If you want the news read the Transcript.
Only Scots. to Jan. 1, 1896. Send postal
card now ordering the paper and send the
money the first opportunity.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

THE Legislature of this State is
composed of Senate and House of
Representatives. The Senate has nine
members, three from each county,
elected for four years, two at one elec-
tion and one at the alternate biennial
election. The House has seven men,
bers from each county, elected for only
one session Of the General Assembly,
or for two years. At the organization
every two years one of the nine Sena.
tors is elected Speaker of the Senate,
and one of the twenty-seven Repre-
sentatives is elected Speaker OF the
House. For legislative purposes the
two bodies act separately and bill has
to pass each body before it becomes a
law. If it passes one body and fails
in the other it fails altogether, but in
the election of United States Senator
the two bodies come together and the
roll of each body is called and each
member must get up and vote by NAM
ing his choice for Senator. The
Speaker of the Senate presides over the
joint session.
The constitution provides that in
case of the death of the Governor the
Speaker of the Senate shall become
Governor until the people can elect a
Governor at the next regular election.
In case the acting Governor, the
Speaker of the Senate, dies then the
Speaker of the House becomes Cover
nor.
On the Sth of April Governor Marvil
died and on the next day Mr.. William
T. Watson, Speaker of the Senate,
took the oath of Office and became
Governor, and if he lives he will act
as Governor until the third Tuesday in |
January, 1897, when the person elected
by the people at the next election,
November 1896. will become Governor.
When Mr.. Watson retired from the
Senate and took the oath of office as |
Governor, the Senate elected Speaker
pro tem., who from that day presided
over the Senate and over the joint
sessions in the balloting for United
States Senator. and drew the pay as
Speaker of the Senate. Governor
Watson was in the Senate frequently
during the month subsequent to his
yacating the Speakers chair and was
in the joint sessions, but always as
spectator and neverwas his name called,
nor did he attempt to participate In
the deliberations. Before Governor
Maryil's death when the thirty MEM
bers of the Legislature were voting for
Senator it took sixteen votes to elect,
a majority of the full vote cast, but
when Mr.. Watson withdrew there were
but twenty-nine members of the
General Assembly voting and ma
jority was fifteen. Not until Thurs
day, the last day of the session, when
it became known that fifteen Of the
Republicans had agreed to vote for
Col. du Pent, did Mr.. Watson think
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
MY MARYLAND,

The cholera is among the hogs of Elk
ton.
Cecil county Public Schools will close
June 1.
The public schools in Wicomico count,
closed last Friday.
The Cecil County Fair will be held al
Elkton, Sept 10th to 18th inclusive.
Joseph P. Brown, of Cecil county. has
been awarded the contract for building the
new Court House at Denton.
The funeral of Mrs. Frank Brown. wife
OF the Governor of Maryland, who died on
Saturday took place on Tuesday in Balti-
more.
Strawberries are quite plentiful in Wi
comico county already. They were sell.
ing in Salisbury this week for 10 cents
per quart.
Mrs. Clinton Mccullough, widow of the
late Clinton Mccullough, of Elkton. has
gone with her family to Chicago where
they will make their home.
Cecil county Commissioners have decided
to offer a reward of $500. for the arrest of
Arizona Bob' charged with killing
kranklin W. Knapp last July.
A hippodrome is being constructed on the
Singerly stock farm near Ekton. II is 70
be two stories, and will cover race track
one eighth of mile in length.
Marshall Price, convicted of the mnrder
OF Saliie Dean, near Harmony, Carolina
county, made full confession of his cri me-
exhonorating any suspected accomplices
July 9th is the time set for his execution
Efforts to secure a new trial have been
abandoned.
The protracted rainy weather has greatly
injured the fruit crop in Somerset county
In some of the peach orchards the trees are |
losing their fruit and leaves, and the indi. |
cations are that the crop will be reduced |
one-half. The strawberry crop has also
been injured, as well as cherries and plums
Thomas Hughlett, representing fish com.
missioner John s. Sudler, was In Elkton on
tuesday and placed 1000. 900 shad fry in the
Elk river at Vinsinger's mill. Mr.. Hupblett
'lso placed 100000 shad in the North East
'assafras and Bohemia rivers this week
The shad were planted at Fox Hole ON the
'assafras, and at Murphy's mill, on the
5ohemia river.-Cecil Whig.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
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Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
To the Business People.

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Your patronage is solicited.
For business locals cents line will be
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For reading locals in the "little locar'
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Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18
Will you walk into my parlor,
Said the spider to the fly;
'Tis the prettiest little parlor,
That eyar Won did snxy otto

That ever you did spy, etc.
This is the tune that the EUery EUen.
ing sang on Tuesday last though the
words were different. Instead OF
parlor the word "court" was used and
'mandamus" was substituted for
"spider." But Mr.. Spider has lead
the Republicans of Delaware into that
parlor too often in the past /; it is death
to every "ny" that enters, and the
Euery Evening will have to change the
tune as well as the words before there
is the least inducement to spy out that
little trap. See
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

The prospectus of the Harrington
Weekly argus. a patent inside and
outside, and "a long felt want" is OH
our exchange table. E. M. Jefferson
is editor and publisher. 1t is to be
"without political views until the edi.
tors name shall appear on the registra-
tion lists" and even then it twill en-
deavor to avoid political discussion. !"
The Argus was a Maryland publication
for five years.
Middletown transcript., 1895-05-18

The Young Mems Republican Club
of Wilmington tread the Addicks men
out of the party" this week, and it did
right. They are not the right kind of
Republicans, and it is better to die in
the minority than to associate politic-
ally with those men. The Sentinel, Of
Dover, defends the Addicks men in the
Legislature the best it can. That our
readers may see how lame are the ex-
cuses made, the article is given on our
first page.