The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

ana ~ mlAu6SS, Dub ne usually uGtSrS
only about $50 words a minute, and it
really seems to me as if the first two
hours of his speech merely rests him.
or rather wakes him up and makes his
voice musical
LATE Fences Duties.
Hon. LATE Pence was not in the talk
ing humor when I laid the Brooklyn
business before him. "You would not
think had time to give to such trif1es,''
said he, ''if you could know the de-
mands made on me from home to recon-
struct all creation and rectify things in
general Just look at these letters and
see what they ask me to do Just see
what confidence my constituents and the
western public generally have in my
power to fix things.
I looked, and among many gems of
radicalism found this one from San Di-
ego Cal:
MOST HoNoRED RRPREsENTATIvE-Wil you
introduce Bill for the Suppression of Crime
Breeding in Our Saloons and Public places.
And for the teaching children howe to live to
be taught in Our public Schools or Practical
Life Yors for God and Home.
''They are talking about Hawaii at
the other end of this building and max
ing highfalutin predictions that the
American people will be thoroughly
aroused over it, said Champ Clark,
sand that shows how little they know
about the beloved people. Not one
American in so will bother his head
about Hawaii this year, for they will
have plenty of their own trouble to think
about. The farmer, if he lies awake
nights over anything, will do it think
ing how he is to get something for his
stuff to pay taxes and interest on mort
cages, and as for city laborers my guess
is that where they think once about
Hawaii they will think a thousand
times about how they are going to get
the wherewithal to line their individual
insides No, the senators need not worry
themselves over what the people will
think about Hawaii. AS to strikes and
labor troubles-why, the main thought
that occurs to me is that despair some
times prevents strikes as effectually as
would contentment. "
And with this view quite number
of members coincide. About the time
this talk was rife the pooling bill which
had passed the house was up in the SEN
ate, and expressions were frequent that
the interstate commerce law had opened
the way beautifully for the United
States to take charge of all the railroads
running through different states. I have
several limos heard the old allegory so
effectually used by Abraham Lincoln
about Stephen, Franklin, Roger and
James framing the separate timbers of
a house quoted to prove that there was
an understanding from the first about
this bill. ''One-third of the railroad
MILEAGE said one member, sis in the
hands Of receivers, and, according to the
latest rulings. the federal judges are to
assume Jurisdiction from hell to Beer
sheba, with federal project like Cen
eral Miles in each city to enforce their
DEGREES. -
Treasury Off1cials Encouraged.
It is pleasure to add that the first
really encouraging remarks come from
the treasury department. and they are
all the more charming because we had
got in the habit of expecting something
else from that quarter. They assure Us
that receipts are rapidly gaining on ex-
penditures, and that, to their certain
knowledge, February will equalize
them. They add that January would
have done so had not the expenditures
been heaviest, as usual, in that month,
and more than So, 600, 900 in Central
Pacific railroad bonds paid besides. The
big interest payments are made in jan
uary. The officials add that, with the
certainty of increasing receipts, the gold
reserve may be allowed to go as low as
$50, 900, 900 without danger. The direct
or of the mint continues to assure US
that the gold supply of the world is in
creasing rapidly, and to each successive
estimate he adds little. He is now
positive the worlds yield will be at
least $500, 900, 900 this year, and as the
amount used in the arts will not in
crease in proportion the coinage will ex-
coed 800, 900, 900. Let's all hope it is
true. for it would only take six or seven
years Of that sort of thing to abate the
gold famine.
Certain Matters.
There was good deal of cackling
over the new tariff of the Argentine Re-
public when it reached here, and our
minister there, Hon. William !. Buchan-
an, rejoiced greatly that the tariff COM
mission had listened favorably to all he
said and favored the United States. The
committee on agriculture, however, Call
not find much in it for the farmer. The
Argentines have reduced the tariff on
pine lumber by a percentage which
would make $3.50, 900 less duty on the
amount exported from the United States
last year, and crude petroleum and a
few other articles are put on the free
list. The duty on farm wagons and some
other implements of husbandry is re-
duced from so per cent to 10 per cent,
and on canned fruits and vegetables the
reduction is one-half. 1t is to be hoped
that our farmers will find some comfort
in these items, as they certainly stand
in need of it.
It is foreign to the immediate subject,
but worth noting in conclusion, that
members elect to the next house are ar
irving in daily increasing numbers. and