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Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-11

The Vice President took the little gavel
and tapped lightly on the cloth-covercd
desk. Conversation ceased and many of
the Senators arose while the chaplain de-
livered a brief invocation. At it's con
cluson the chairs filled rapidly. There
was no journal of the last days session
TO read, and the first business TO transact
was the swearing Elm of newly elected
Senators. Many had been sworn in at
the last session in preparation for their
inauguration. So this business was ac-
complished quickly.
Announcement was shortly made that
the President would send his message
the following day, and adjournment was
taken; but not until food of bills had
poured in. for the Senators were well
loaded with business.
In the House.
The House was far more entertaining
place than the Senate. The new Con
gresham is all Settlement as he sits in n
group of admiring friends who have
come to see him installed. His wife and
children are in the gal cry perhaps, and
he tries 10 look less conscious than he
feels for their sakes.
old friends on the floor-reminiscences
to exchange and regrets TO express for
the departed. But the beginning of the
session is an old story to him. Perhaps
he feels monientary uneasiness about
that committee Craftsmanship which was
half promised to him. but lac keeps his
own COUNSEL about it. He docs not get
Hurried because he knows that it will
do no good. He has put in all his hard
work in advance of the meeting Of the
caucus, and he knows nothing will help
him now.
Here, as in the Senate. the message
receives but scant attention in the read
ing Most of the members take their
printed copies into the committee rooms
and read the document ut leisure there.
The House, too. adjourns as soon as the
reading is concluded, and the first SEES
sion is usually hardly more than an hour
or an hour and n half in length. No bills
are introduced because. unlike the Sen
ate, the House has no rules To govern il.
1t is acting under general parliamentary
law until such time ms it shall adopt the
rules Of the preceding House or formulate
code for itself
1t is more than likely that the rules
adopted by the House in the Fifty fourth
Congress will be those prepared under
the sd5e7-.sion Of Mr.. Reed when he was
| SpeaTAr beS31a.
The Business of Congress.
Tsere will be no lack of bills and reso
lutisns For example, the new Congress
will have to consider the question of pro
viding revenue adequate to the Govern
/ merits expenditures. Then there is the
finuhcial problem. Two important foreign
matters are to be considered again during
thu Congress-the Behring Sea aware
ami the Nicaragua Canal. Mr.. Greaham
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agreed with England on a payment Al

agreed with England on a payment Of
$4,000 to the sealers in Behring Sea,
but the last House refused to accept this
adjustment of the question.
Cuba will also come in for early at.
tention, for there is no doubt proposition
TO recognize the rebellious natives as
belligerents will be made in both House
and Senate. and the discussion of il will
give the Republicans more campaign
material.
In home affairs there is the bankruptcy
bill, which has come so near adoption In
two Congresses. but which still hangs
fire. II passed both House and Senate
three years ago, but never got through
conference. In the last Congress il
passed the House. Its legislative expe-
rience has polished il and made il a more
perfect measure of its kind than when Mr.
Torrey first brought it to Washington.
The bill 10 reorganiZe the navy and 40
dispose of the hump" in the naval list
rs 10 give younger officers n fair chance
of promotion will he taken up again at
the urgent recommendation of the Sec
rotary of the Navy
The proposed reorganization Of the
army will come in for a share of atten-
tion. This measure differs from the
other in that il is not supported unani.
mously by the officers affected. The cav
airy officers think the reorganization pro-
posed 10y Secretary Lamont will do them
great Injustice
The Pacific Railroads Committee will
have again the seemingly hopeless task
OF effecting an agreement for the reor-
ganization Of the sacifc roads.
Another problem which concerns the
fate OF legislation is the choice of COM
Dli..ee chairmen in the House. Much
power 10 suppress or forward legislation
lies with the chairmen of committees. Ii
is thought Hit. of Illinois. will have for
eign affairs and Routelle the naval COM
mittee. Appropriations may go 10 Can
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Thomas s. Martin. of Virginia, displaces
Eppa Hunton.
Not many changes. But the Senators
sure of reelection. Mr.. Morrill, has been
in the Senate twenty eight years. Mr.
Sherman thirty years Mr.. Allison TWEEN
ty-two years. Mr. Ransom had served
for twenty-three years continuously
when he retired.
Because there are so few newcomers
among them the gathering of the Sena-
tors was like the reunion Of big fam
lily. No party distinctions were drawn
as they grouped themselves on the floor
Of the Senate chamber. Personal friend
ships obliterate fer time that imag-
mary line which separates Democrat
from Republican, and the representatives
of the parties and of all sections of the
country mingle freely, shaking hands.
exchanging congratulations On improved
health. swapping a little gossip Of the
late election perhaps.
A long time before the noon hour the
floor of the chamber had been cleared of
strangers. The pages hurried to and fro
with an air of busting Importance. They
are prime factors In legislation, they
think. But at least from this day they
are the recipients Of daily stipend of
81, and that is q matter Of much serious
ness to them.
CAPT JaaAc Raasett. the chief amoag
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me nited States il the ONLY natior
on earth that has bound itself 10 gold
IL Is the only country thar suffers com.
mercial depression or enjoys prosperity
with the ebb and flow OF gold II when
gold leaves this country and goes to
England Uncle Sam suffers, John Rull
must enjoy corresponding benefit. On
the other hand, when the yellow coin
| flows this way the British lion must
| howl with grief and The American on yle
| scream with delight.
Every student of finance knows those
TO be the facts. Now, as proposition
of international policy surely nothing
could we'll be more absurd Humanity
and justice require that national pros
perity on this side Of the Atlantic sbould
not he maintained at the expense of ma
tlonai depression and calamity on the
other side. The same rule is equally
good when reversed. II is evident thar
there Is not enough gold to supply tho
wants of Europe and America at tbe
same time. and that what there is is
Kept swinging To and fro across the Al
lantic, doing double duty.
Cleveland has had enough of this and
has long since come to the conclusion
that our national gold reserve. or rho
necessity for it. must be abolished hv
retiring the greenbacks. Congress will
no doubt he confronted with this nron-
Osition. And what then? That move |
ment. If carried ont. will wipe ont mos, /
of the nations credit money and firth
or contract the volume of currency in
this country. Silver VIII remain as
credit money. but as long as it occupies
thar position nobody VIII want it. and
besides. it will continue TO depreciate
and have no force as =
value-givinS metal money.
All this will open the way for the as
ISOLATED banks 10 take charge of the
currency legislation of the country. and
{ Will he found that they already have
l scheme to supplement the retirement
If the greenbacks which will nut the
banks in control The danger point is
lose at hand
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made 1t certain that the output of the
gold mines in the next few years will
SurpasS anything that the world has
ever known. They are sure that Cali
fornia and Colorado will each produce
S2OoO0,OOO worth of the yellow metal
next year, and Alaska will produce sew
eral millions more, while South Amer
lea. South Africa and Australia will
come III with fabulous returns.
And as though this We're not enough.
they talk about the gold that is within
reach though not actually in sight and
say. there is no doubt whatever that
there Will soon he enough gold to do
the business of the world without the
pulling and hauling that is now neces-
sary to get it.
But If all this is so why is it that
these gold wOrShiperS are crafty
sweeping the air in their efforts TO
make people believe the world will 90
to the dogs if silver is admitted 10 coin
age on the same terms as gold? If il
is quantity that determines the price.
ana If the purchasing power of the met
ais Is in the price of the bullion and
not IN the coinage why not restore the
money function of silver before the de-
cline in the price of gold sends The val
he of silver 10 the skies above il?
The purchasing power of gold has
doubled in the last twenty years sim
ply because THE increase in supply has
not Kept pace with the increase in pop
ulation and business. And the gold
dealers have made thousands of mill
IONS while the upward movement of the
metal has been going on. Now if the
TIDE Is 10 turn, how are they to con
tihue piling up millions in their bust
ness of money shaving if they are not
on the long side of the MARYLAND how
are they 10 be on the long side of the
market unless there is some kind Of
money To Increase in value while gold
is going down?
But There Is screw loose somewhere.
The mOnOmetalliStS take no more stock
IN these mining camp yarns than other
people do. That there has been a grea1
stimulus To the gold mining industry
everybody knows, but nobody needs TO
he deceived by the volumes of stuff now
being printed about ii in the organs
OF the gold monOpOliStS. 1t is part Of
the program To head off the silver
And it is a mighty cheap
kind Of business.
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All Over the State.

John y. Hart. fried AT Marion for ON
bezzlng S4N'0 of Armour X Co. of Chi
rag". Tor whom he acted as agent. haS
been acquitted
Edward i. Lytle. who WIS arresf..,i ..t
l-"EanSporl. in September. on a charge
ot grand larceny has been DISCHARGED
The Grand Jury failing to return an in
dctment against him. He has retained
counsel. and Will enter suit for false i'm,
| prlSonment. The property he was alleged
I" nave stolen IL Seveu-hundred-dollar
| diamond cluster. owned 10y John X. Ken
hedY, Il real estate man. I.vtlr is promin-
emily connected. and previous Ia his ar
| rest. was The local agent Of the Prudential
Insurance Company
The physicians in charge of James w.
| l'ttenger. who attempted Ia commit sui
| clde al Munce 10y shooting. are complete
| ly puzzled. Iittengcr is ~ years old and
was respondent because his wife. 10
whom their farm was given as Il wedding
present forty years ago. does the bank
ing. markets the products and paws off
the help. He put bullet through his
heart and another through his brain.
The physicians believe that either shot
should have caused instant death. vet th.,
man still lives
Lorenzo Turner left his home i'm Soutb
erh LIMOS ar the close of the civil war
To seek his fortune in the great West
few months later word was received
that he was killed IL AN Indian massacre
somewhere in the Southwest Since thar
time his parents have mourned him as
dead. although no further news was re
ceIved as 10 the disposition Of his body.
tuesday an old man stepped from the
train al Brazil and inquired for Mrs G.
W. Lecture. He proved Ia be Turner.
He is a brother Ia Mrs. Mcclure. liz. i
now one of the wealthicst cattlemcn of
South Dakota. He was almost killed
in the Indian massacre and allowed his
family 10 believe him dead until his for
tune was made.
desperate fight among brace of
convicts nj the .Ieffersonville prison
south Wednesday morning may result i'm
the death of one of the comhatantS. Viii
lam Able and James Sherman. long form
men. employed in the foundry Of the in
engaged in controversy over
a remark alleged 10 have been mad. nv
Sherman rejecting on the character IF
Able's sister. Words led 10 blows and
Able. procuring ramming iron used nv
holders. attempted Ia strike sherman
who warded off the blow. Another at
empt To strike Sherman WAS mad.
when the latter drew a knife and thrust
he blade into Ables breast ness The
eart. inhicting 4 dangerous wound.
AT Washington the strike among CaheI
I Go. 5 miners is still on with no nros-
ects OF settlement The difficulty is
bout screen used AT one of the mines.
nd both sides have taken n determined
Iand.
MISS Lizzie A. Myers. a schoolteacber
Golden Corners, in Ripley County.
lille IN the act of entering her carr
as attacked 10y mad dog. and She
'oided the brute by running around tho
'hicle. the dog chasing her. and finally
opping To bite the pony and To attack
lother dog. All the animals bitten died
Eydrophoha.
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SENATOR ELKISs.


ri; father of the cart wheel dollar; Hol-
man. of Indiana, watchdog of the treas
ury for thirty years; Bourke Cochran,
New York's famous campaign orator;
Bryan, of Nebraska, the boy orator of
the Platte" Springer. of Illinois. and
kilgore, of Texas. Conn. of Indiana. is
not in the Congressional parade: like
that other congressman. Beriah Viii
kins, of Ohio, he has prospered in the
field of journalism at the capital
But the list is too long. 1t would fill
a column to record all that have gone
and all that still remain. To the stranger
eye perhaps the gathering is much las it
was two years ago. Here and there n
face made familiar by the cartoonists
appears, but for the most part the crowd
on the famous avenue on the morning of
the first Monday in December was made
of curious visitors and the customary
shopping mob of Washington men and
women. There was more of life in the
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Congress off and on since he was youth
and whose thousands of miles of travel
have been increased during the Congress
sional recess by n trip to Europe.
The gavel of the Vice President is an
ivory device, small and shaped some
thing like an hour glass. II has been in
the care of Capt. Bassett through the
summer. concealed no one knows whore.
but hidden as completely is is the iden-
tity of Daniel Webster's desk, which
Bassett has stored in his mind
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throng than there has been for many
day, for all roads do not lead to the cap
itol, and Pennsylvania avenue is the
chief thoroughfare to that Mecca of the
politician.
The Meeting of the Senate.
The number of new faces in the Sen
ate .Aamber when the Vice President
called that body TO order was compare
lively few.
Mr. Ransom's was missing. Mr.. But
Ter, of South Carolina, another relic of
the age of chivalry in the South, is also
gone into retirement Georgia sends
Augustus o. Bacon to take the seat held
for brief space by Patrick Walsh, the
editor of the Augusta Chronicle. Mr..
Gear. an old-time member OF the House,
best known as Gov. Gear" fills rhe
seat of Wilson, of Iowa.
Ex-Gov. Knute Nelson, known not so
long ago as a member Of the House.
takes the place of Washburn, of Mime
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now the mouse Democrats Stand.
The Louisville Courier Journal pre-
SentS statement Of the stand of tn,
Democratic members of the House oil
the money question. 1t sets down The
names Of forty-one for sound none,
"Hu III 'N-siA IN 90 .,il-- al
iarS ana seven doubtful" The fol
lowing is the result of the canvass:
Alabama Sound money. Clarke. Free
silver, StallingS. Harrison, Robbins
Cobb, Bankhead, Underwood and
Wheeler.
ArkanSaS-Solid for silver. McCul-
ioch' Little, McRea, Terry, Dinsmore
and Neill.
tailfornia-Free silver. Mcguire.
lorlda-Sound money, Sparkman
and Cooper.
Georgia Sound money, Lawson and
Turner. Free silver, Crisp. Moses. Les
ter Livingston. Russell. Maddox. Black
and Tate
lllinois-The only Democrat in the
delegation, Downing, is for sound
money.
henmcky-For sound money. Hen
drick, Berry, Owens and McCreary.
Free silver, Clardy and Kendall
Louisiana Sound money. Never
Price, Boatner. Doubtful, Buck. Og-
den and Robertson.
Maryland Sound money. Miles. Rusk
and Cowen.
Massachusetts Fitzgerald is for
sound money.
Mississippi Sound money. Catchings
Free silver, Allen, Money, Williams.
Denny and Spencer: Kyle doubtful.
Missouri-Sound money. Hall. Tars-
ney and Cobb. Free silver, Dockery
and De Almond.
New York Bartlett. Walsh. Miner
cummings. SulZer and Mcclellan are
for sound money. None for free silver.
North Carolina GODDARD, Shaw and |
Lockhart, free silver
Ohio-SOrg and Layton are for sound |
money. None for free silver.
Pennsylvania-Hart and Erdman.
sound money. None for free silver.
South observation-disclosures. Latimer
Strait and McLaurin, Republicans. vot-
against the repeal of the Sherman act
ma are counted for silver. The newly
Elected members. SlliOtt Wilson and
stokes are classed as doubtful.
Tennessee-Sound money. Washing
on and Patterson. Free silver. Ne
lillian, Richardson, Cox and McDear-
non
Texas Sound money. Grain and
'rowley. Free silver. Pendleton.
Cooper, Yoakum. Culber-
Oh. Bailey, Abbott, Bell. Savers and
Ockrell. I
Virginia Sound money. Tyler. Swan
IN. Turner, Meredith and Tucker
rec silver. Jones, Elicit. McKenney
nd Otey. ),
The above table shows fify-six Demo
ats for free silver, forty-one for G
'und money and seven doubtful. To n
], 1O4 y
OF the seven doubtful. judging from a
cir localities, five may be safely 81
for free silver. This would give
e free silver champions in the HOuse ol
Sty-one and the sound money adyo- W
ties forty three. and this estimate ia "
Obably as reliable as can he mado =,
iii vote on the financial proposition st
reached al
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Death Of a Heavy Woman.

Mrs. David Lamb. the largest womau
IN the State of Indiana. was buried at her
old home in New Middleton. Mrs Lamb
weighed 800 poundS No coffin could ht.
found To hi the corpse. nor hearxc 10
c"rry IT. Mrs. Lamb was very poor. hut
refused numerous tempting offers to ac-
company shows
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and the Vice Presi-
dent and the chap
lain appeared. Mr..
Stevenson. who has
been spending his
summer in Alaska
and at his home in
Bloomington, a n d
whose ruddy com
plexion tells of i'm
proved health. and
DR.. Milburn. the ia
nous blind chap
lain" who has been
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Fell from "a Trance.

NJ variety performance at Mozart
Hall in JcffcrSonvil,e John Morris and
Melvin Bennett We're engaged IL Il" a
double irapcZe turn No >ooncr had they
elevated themselves into the traps than
Bennett lost his hold and before Morris
could grasp him he fell Il disi;tlce of 1hir-
" feet To the stage. Bennett was picked
MP unconscious and badly injured about
the head and shoulders.
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Assembling of the SoIons.

Washington correspondence:
The Fifty-fourth Congress began its
first session at noon Monday, and the
most striking feature to the old observer
of the lower house was the absence of
familiar faces. The appearance of the
Senate was not greatly changed. OF the
famous men in the House these are
about all that are left:
Reed, Boutelle, Dingley, and Milliken,
of Maine; Dockery. Cobb, Tarsney. Hall
and De Almond, of Missouri: Private
John" Allen. Catchings and Money. of
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non. of Illinois, or Henderson. Of Iowa,
and Cannon is the favorite. For ways
and means there are Payne. Of New York;
Dalzell, Of Pennsylvania, and Dingley,
Of Maine, with chances favoring the first
named. If Mr.. Dingley fails on WAYS
and means he will get coinage, weights
and measures without doubt.
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Senate wears out a carpet in every Con
gress.
The Senators dropped in one al n time.
There are not many in their places usual
ly when the gavel falls. but on the opening
day there was a larger number than is
customary at other times.
The galleries were fairly well filed
when AT one minute before II o'clock the
eastern door leading 10 the lobby opened
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Feeds Dead Horses TO His Hogs.

Complaint of a SeriouS nature has becis
filed with the Elkhart Board of Hoarh
against Casper I-ip~hilz. He is charg Il
with feeding the carcasScs Of horses 70
his hogs and then dispensing of them upon
the market. Eighteen dead horses we're
found Strcwn promiScuouSly upon us
premises. which the hogs devcur,.d. Sun.e
of the dead animals had lain there Tor
months. lipShilz claimed he did moi sell
his hogs in Elkhart, but shipped them 20
Chicago.
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The Flood of Gold.

IT there Is going to be such food of
gold as the monometallists talk about
why is ii that they are scared into fits
over the growth of the silver senti
ment?
Xhey say that recent discoveries have
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sofa. Mr.. Dixon, Of
Rhode Island. gives
way to George Pea
body Wetmore. w.
J. Sewell, once a
member of the Sem
ate. takes the seat
OF ~ Mcpherson.
Ex- Secretary Ell
kins succeeds John
s on G. n IN d g n, Of
West Virginia. Ex-
Senator Warren, of
Wyoming, returns
10 take the place Of
Mr.. T. arey, an d
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Mississippi; Crisp,
of Georgia; Can
non, Of Illinois;
Cobb, of Ala ALBANIA:
Hiforn. of Cali
fornia: and Nc
Creary and Berry,
of Kentucky.
TIL q ce o {
Breckenridge is
missing, as is also
many another IA
N j lar on e
Bland. of Nilsson
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A ri Trail.

~ don't see" SIR. Mcguire. ms he
sat in the stern &c vessel. "how tho
captain can find way across the
ocean. If he wenng the other way,
now. all he'd havtlo would be to fol.
low that white st behind there; but
in front there'shing to point the
way"
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them. now past the semi-centenary o.
service and conscious of his Importance
as one time protege Of the great Web
ster. was in charge of the floor. Every
thing is fresh and clean and bright-look-
ing The furniture has been reupholster-
ed. a new carpet has been laid. The
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shoots AR innocent Man.

Henry Warren. wealthy Fin >hur@
farmer. shot and killed Il man supposed 10
be robhcr. who was attempting 10 "a
through his barn. hut ON investigation
II WAS found that he had made Il serious
mistake and taken the life "f :, harmless
and inoifenSive character Warren X
greatly affected over the killing. hut ~
Yet no action has been taken 10y he an
thnrifies
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RECORDOF THE WEEK
INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSEIY
TOLD.

Mistake Made by Henry
Warren Sad Fate Of Lover--Indi-
ana's Largest Woman Dead -Hor-
rible Practices Ofan Elk hart Farmer.
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THE LIVTH CONGRESS
AUGUST BODIES ARE AGAIN IN
SESSION.

Chiefly Notable at Present for the
Lack of Familiar Faces-F1ood of
Bills and Resolutions 10 Ready for
the House.