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Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-02-08
ON CLERKS
The House Resolves That After Sew
eral Days 1t Will Reduce
Expenses.
SMALL POX FOR THE CODES
Amendments Are Being Introduced
That Will Destroy Their
Identity.
Special to Tho Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
HELENA, Feb. LIN the senate a petit
ton was presented from the North Mon
tana Farmers institute liz regard to the
irrigation OF land and calling attention
to the present inadequacy for the protec-
ton Of the people. Smead introduced a
bill to amend the school laws which, on
motion of Brosnan, was read only by
title. 1t ia probably the longest bill,
after the military bill, introduced in the
senate.
Sigh introduced a bill to amend the
fish and game laws, 1t provides that
fish may be caught only with a hook
and line. save at certain POINTS in the
Missouri aud Yellowstone, thatal al bitches
shall have fish guards ut their source
from March | to September | in every
year aid that small game shall not be
killed between January | and Sep,
tember |.
Eggleston introduced a bill to C
age desirable immigration. 1t provides
that the commissioner Of agriculture
shall compile a pamphlet showing the re-
sources of tho state. The county com
missloners of each county are to notify
the commissioner of the number of PEG
pie they can absorb and give him all in
formation in regard to the opportunities
they offer settlers. The bill %appropriates
$1,000 for 1885 and the same amount for
1896.
Sigh introduced a bill defining the
right of eminent domain. lie also gave
notice of a bill to create a state board of
health.
The question of more clerks came up
in the shape Of d resolution offered by
Brown that a committee clerk be en-
plOyed for two committees nov without
one
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LowEsToFT. Eng, Jan. 3l.-The fol.
lowing statement OF the disaster was
officially given this afternoon TO the
Associated Press correspondent by the
German vice consul, Herr Bradber. after
sitting all interviews with survivors and
cross-queetioning the officers and crew
and may be clsssed as a concensus Of the
officers opinions: The collision occurred
forty. five miles from Merschilling light
ship. Though both the Elbe and the
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colliding steamer we're going at full
speed ahead the conclusion was very
slight. Immediately after the collision
the Elbe began to settle down, stern first,
her bow mounting high into the air, and
rendering it impossible to reach some OF
the boats, as everybody crowded upon
the deck Immediately after the shock,
and in a state of great alarm. 1t was
impossible for the orders of the captain,
who was standing on the bridge, that
women and children should be saved
first, could be obeyed. A rush was made
for the boats that were accessible. The
first boat to touch water first was
IMMEDIATELY swAMPED,
and the passengers who had crowded
into il we're drowned. The second boat
launched was lost sight of in the high
sea which vas running, but it is feared
she capsized. Into the third boat at the
last moment, when the water was up to
the promenade deck, and two minutes
before she disappeared, there were
crowded nineteen. Men, women and
children having rushed to the other side,
owing, it ia said, to the command that
they should get into the boat there. This
third boat pulled away from the ship
and in so doing shortly afterwards passed
a lady passenger, Miss Anna B%urcher,
who chung to the gunwale or inside of
the lifcboat. Some time elapsed before
she could be pulled into the boat.
TWENTY SURVIVORS, DEIFrEp AEouT
until lilo Il. M. heavy seas repeatedly
washing over the small craft, which Was
in constant danger Of being eWamped,
and drenching its occupants, who had
not II morsel of food. Miss Burcher lay
the bottom Of the boat half drowned
and semi-conscious. Lights Of many Yes
sells were seen all around but not one ap.
preached, though after daylight two
fishing vessels and a steamer passed.
Their crews. however, did not notice the
of the boat. Finally, the waving
IF a shirt from the boat attracted the at
of the crew of the fishing smack
Wild Flower, who recued the survivors
With extreme difficulty. After the col
ision an unknown steamer passed under
he stern of the lIlbe and proceeded on
Ter course without paying any attention
o the cries OF tho people on board the
steamer.
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SPEAKS A PIECE
The "GOv" Assures the Assembly
that Code Enrolment Is
Not Necessary.
he IS ANXIOUS TO APPROVE
Without Amy Of the Written Formal
tiles Of the Legislature Being
Observed.
to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
HELENA, Jan. 3L-In tho senate a bill
looking to the taking of the million
acres of land donated to the state by
congress WAS introduced. The main pro-
visi "a contemplates the division of the
state into water districts to be under o n
troll of a water commissioner.
Two bills we're introduced by Metzel,
one to prevent discrimination in rates of
corporations and the other to compel
companies to make statements twice II
year to stockholders.
The bill was passed to enable counties
to pay rent for buildings used for county
purposen. The memorial for opening
Flathead reservation was passed, AS was
one for opening Fort Shaw military
reservation.
Sigh gave notice of ii bill to amend
certain sections of the code of civil pro
cedure.
Metzel, from the committee on agri-
culture, reported favorably the bill al
lowing liens on logs in certain cases.
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The Reliable Incubator

Leads them all having been a.
highest honors ut tho World'sf far
inv 81 per cent under Official tes
have the incubator for sale ut les'
half what they can DO bought To-
where; We also have other m kes
We will soil or exchange for 81
produce. Address Box l8a, 0fei
Mont.
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A Fool and II Gun.

DAvIsToN, Ala, Feb. AT a musical
entertainment last night Will Adams
discharged a revolver which he supposed
was loaded with blank cartridges at his
brother Ed. Tho weapon contained q
ball, and Ed Adams died in a few min
utes from the wound be received.
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TEN ESCAPE.

Case In which the Law Protected In
stead nj Punished.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3l.-The case OF
the state against l.. .. Desfurges, who
Vas being tried for offering to receive a
bribe az a member Of the city council
from Charles Marshall OF the l.. and N.
railroad has been abandoned by the dis.
trict attorney and a mistrial entered.
Leefurges as a member OF the city coun.
cial was indicted by the grand jury for
Offering TO receive a bride Of 1880 for
engineering through the council an or
dinance giving the railroad certain track
privileges which were sought.
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NEVER COMB SINGLY.

Another Of the North German Lloyd
Steamers III Trouble.
BREMEN, Feb. 1.-The North German
Lloyd steamer Fulda, Capt. Thalenhorst,
is aground in the river Weser. Tugs are
alongside OF her and she probably will
float at the next high tide. The Fulda
sailed from New York Jan. % for South
ampton and Bremen.
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definite conclusion has been reached.
The administration is fully determined
to make whatever bond issues circum-
stances render necessary to preserve cor
fidence in the integrity of the national
finances. The cabinet met today as
usual and some announcement may fol-
low or may be given out tomorrow.
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l~ELOODLESS BATTLE.
Between Strikers and NOn-I'nion Men n
EeIIaire, ohio.

BElLAIRE. o., Feb. l.-When the
Cleveland AZ Pittsburg railroad train ar
rived at Martins Ferry last night men
were noticed by the strikers getting off
tho train and were followed to the Buck
eye Glass Works. nor union NOR with
Winchceiers, who thought the strikers
were going to use violence on the new
Corners opened fire upon the strikers.
The strikers returned the fire. but no
one was injured seriously. Several had
bullet holes in their clothes and had
narrow escapes from death. The non
union men patrol the inside of the fac
tory, expecting al any moment to be
burned out.
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Special to the Tribune.
HELENA, Feb. Anderson presented
in the house the report Of the special
committee IN the charges of extrava-
gance in engaging clerks. 1t says: "Our
Investigations, we believe, have been
thorough and based wholly and entirely
on a business basis, and our recommend
atoms as submitted herewith we think
will save the state a large daily outlay,
and not in the least impair the efficiency
of the working force in obtaining the
most satisfactory results. Purely on
business grounds and economy for the
state, without impairing the efficiency,
we trust that the house will promptly
adopt and execute the recommendations
of your committee The report recon-
mends sixteen committee clerks to be re-
tanned and the others discharged. Tai
liant offered the resolution ordered by
the caucu last night. 1t relieves the
investigating committee from further
duties and lays the report on the table.
The motion to adopt the report was lost,
yeas II, nays 30. Tallant's motion was
adopted by yeas 3G, nays II.
The republicans mostly voted against
the report and for Tallant'e motion. The
democrats and populists mostly the
other way.
Booth moved that all clerks, except d
few for other committees, be put under
the enrolling committee. Cooper moved
as II substitute that the codes be not
enrolled. The speaker ruled the motion
out of order and Booths motion was
adopted. Tallant then offered a resolu-
tion naming clerks to be retained, seven
teen in all, but allowing the enrolling
committee to have many as needed,
Adopted. Many bills were introduced
mostly changing the new codes to
to conform to the present laws. The
governor sent in a list of banks advancing
a total of Sl2,l42 toward starting the
reform school at Miles City and sug
gested they be paid.
House bill to prevent corrupt practices
at elections and provide for the publica
ton Of election expenses, and the senate
ONT memorial asking the restoration O
silver as money, were both passed man
imously. The special committee having
in charge the bill for the relief of insol
vent debtors, protecting creditors Ane
Furnishing fraudulent debtors, reported
it back with the recommendation that i
pass. The house in committee of tn
whole, recommended the indefinite post
ponement of the bill requiring clul
houses to pay liquor licenses. The bill
adding a free employment Office to tn
bureau of agriculture and labor wa
ordered reported back to the committee
on labor to be perfected. 1t was foun'
to amend the present law without re
enacting it. During the discussion tn
populists charged the republicans will
being unfriendly to labor, a charge tina
WAS denied.
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An Engaged Couple Meet with IA Sad
Death.

Death.
PIrTsEuRG, Feb. John Snyder and
Bridget Murphy, said to have been en-
gagged to be married, were struck and
killed by the New York and Chicago
Limited express on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, near CouIterviile
station, this evening. They were return
ing from church along the Baltimore and
Ohio tracks. They saw the West New
ton accommodation coming down the
track they were on and stepped over to
the other side.
At that point there is a sharp curve.
They did not hear the express coming
behind them, AS it's rumble was drowned
the other tram. The express knocked
both in the air. The dead bodies were
picked up about thirty feet from the
track.
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APPALLING FIGURES.
The Great Army of Unemployed in the
City of Brooklyn.

City of Brooklyn.
BROOKLYN, Feb. There were over
10000 idle workmen in Brooklyn Jan. IA,
the day the strike began, and that
added G,OO0 to the number. A majority
of those unemployed had suffered from
advereity during the last two years,
which we're the worst the country has
known since 1873.
The police census Of 1893 showed that
$1,000 men we're then out Of work. The
credit they had has long gone. All in
dustries are represented in the army Of
those who at present have no way of
making a living for themselves or their
families.
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Ek CREDITOR

.B0bs Up and Demands Big Pay of Aaron
H~srshlieId.
HELENA, Fob. Aaron Hershiield's
interest In tho Merchants National bank
and other property In Helena WAS again
attached In tho suit Of Fred Is. Morrill,
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The President Obstinate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. I.-Negotiations
preliminary to q bond issue have been
entered into, but az far % known no
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OF Fargo, N. d Morrill, :claims $3.50
promised for helping conduct the Hersh.
field case at Fargo when suit for annul|
ment OF marriage was tried. Only S5lI
of the amount was paid.
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Stating a Celebrated Case,

From the Philadelphia Times.
TO admit the legal right of the plaintiff
or prosecutor in a libel action to institute
criminal or civil proceedings in any state
or territory of the union and compel the
place every newspaper of the country at
the mercy of any adventurer. II Mr..
Noyes has the right Ito require Mr.. Dana's
attendance in Washington to answer the
criminal charge of libel without war
rant served upon him within the juris-
diction of its courts, he could at the same
time institute hundred, or even thous-
and, criminal and civil suits against Mr..
Dana in any state, territory or county Of
the Union where proof of the circulation
of the Sun containing the libel could be
established. His right to require Mr..
Dana to attend a trial In Alaska would be
lust as absolute as his right to require
him to attend the trial in Washington,
and he could select any jurisdiction from
New Mexico to Maine that would be most
yeXatious and costly for the defendant to
comply with. Such a law could not remain
the law of this free government with its
free press and, free schools and universal
progress on the lines of the best civlliza-
tion of the world. The law will always
give any citizen who has been injured by
the public press the fullest rights to trial
and vindication, but our laws cannot per-
init ap ublic journalist to be at the mercy
of any adventurer who might choose to
institute libel suits against him in any or
every part of the country.
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derby. All bars must be closed between
midnight and in the morning. 1t Is
unlawful to furnish music or free lunch
in any licensed place.
1t is provided in the second bill that
wholesalers, rectiflers, etc, shall pay for
each separate store and agency an an
nual license as follows: $1,000 in first
and second-class cities; $500 in third
class cities; $500 in all other cities; $500
in boroughs; 500 in townships. No
bottlers' license shall hereafter be
issued, but any wholesale dealer or
brewer may sell the liquors in bottles
by wholesale. Distlllers and brewers
are permitted to deliver their product
In wagons in the county where the
license is granted. Money loaned by
wholesalers to establish retailers can
not be recovered, and any such judg-
ment served will be stricken from the
record.
Unquestionably these bills, taken to-
gether, materially strengthen the
Brooks law, If the fundamental license
principle of both measures be conceded
as tenable The amending bilrs re-
duction of the license charge In third
class cities from $500 to $i0O would not
necessarily mean. in Scranton at least.
,loo,ooea la Iicapca rayanuac bIt II
would require, as an alternative,
greater vigilance in the suppressal of
speak easies. BY declaring the latter
places disorderly, the state would put
into the hands of the municipal au-
thorlties power. now absent, to hinder
their Illicit operations. Thus the spec
taclc, in our own city, of n member of
one branch of councils deliberately ig-
noring the Brooks law could be prompt
ly ended by his arrest and punishment;
and what is true in this notorious case
would be true, with less prominence, in
many other instances.
1t remains to be seen what action the
present legislature will take on the
Mitchell amendments. If 1t is really
sincere in its purpose of strengthening
the high license system, it will have to
so several steps farther, even, than is
required of it in the foregoing bills. 1t
will have for one thing, to provide
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tiller on wholesaler who recognizes or
encourages the multiplication of speak
easies; and it will also have to provide
for system of county police adequate
to the task of ferreting out the license
evaders. a good many people believe
that while it is doing all this, it could
just as easily enforce outright prohibi-
ton.
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SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

The city of Toronto, Canada, Is in the
throes of IL Sunday observance move
lneltt involving principles which were
much discussed in Scranton short time
ago. The Globe utters the following opin-
ion upon the subject, which, 1t appears TO
us, Is close to the common sense OF the
question at issue: 1--WE believe that 1t Is
sound public policy to encourage the OBJ
sorvance of one day in the week as
day of rest, and to prevent employers
from doing violence to the conscience Of
their employees by using any means, direct
or indirect, to compel them to work on
the Sabbath day. The state cannot compel
them to go to church or to perform any
other religious duties, except such as are
essential to good citizenship, nor would 1t
be wise or Just to make the attempt. But
it can do much to protect those who are
desirous of observing the day as one of
rest and religious worship, and to save
them from being compelled to choose be-
tween violating their consciences and los
ing the means of earning their bread.
And in that direction it would be difficult
for the state to go too far. We have
heard, for instance, that the employees of
railway companies are often employed on
Sundays in work which is by no means
necessary, and serves the purpose only of
convenience and here, we think, there is
good ground for interference. We do not
agree, however. that If the state stops at
that point it Is undertaking, as it is
sometimes contended, to repeal the fourth
commandment That is not putting the
case accurately. The truth Is that 1t is
impossible for the state to enforce the
fourth commandment. The most strin
gent Sunday observance laws may be en-
acted and obeyed to the letter by people
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An Important Local Issue.

The car fender in use by the Central
Railway company, of Baltimore, which
gives such excellent results in the pre-
vention of serious accidents, is known
as the Blakiston fender. If the cars of
the Scranton Traction company had
been equipped with this or an equally
efficient type of fender as promised by
that company's officials, little Merritt
Lawrence would in all probability be
alive today. The coroners jury which
acquitted the motorman and conductor
of blame for his killing did right. Those
two men We're simply fulfilling the in
structions of their employers. A ques-
ton not so easily settled, however, is
whether the Traction company, after
it had solemnly and publicly promised
to put tenders on its cars, and then
failed to live up to that promise, is
not legally as well as morally respon-
sible for accidents which tenders would
prevent.
The point for present consideration
by the people of Scranton is whether,
after securing at small expense vir-
tually a monopoly of franchises author
izing it to use the streets of this city
upon condition of rendering to the
public a safe and efficient transit SER
vice, the Scranton Traction company
is to be permitted, by the excessive
speed of its fenderless cars, to kill or
MAIN people with impunity and then
ignore the mischief thus wilfully ere
ated. If this company may crawl out
of its obligations in the matter of
safety tenders; if 1t may practically
repudiate the deliberate pledge of a
former general manager that tenders
would be adopted within less than a
year, what is to restrain it from vio-
lating other agreements of equal i'm
portance to the public? If the one
lapse be overlooked how many more
will follow in it's wake?
If there is any virtue in printers ink,
we propose to make the Scranton Trac-
ton company redeem its promise of
safety Tenders made by its then gem
eral manager at a session of councils
held one year ago. And If there is
sufficient spunk in the present councils
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traction lobbyists, they will come to
the public's rescue in this matter by
passing an ordinance compelling the
Traction company to live up to that
agreement.
This is the issue; and we intend to
fight 1t through to the end
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Tinkering the Brooks Law.

The commission appointed by the last
legislature to investigate the workings
of the Brooks high license law, and to
report suggested improvements upon
that law, has embodied the results of
it's inquiry in two bills yesterday laid
before the state senate by Senator
Mitchell, of jefferson. One OF these
bills governs the retail trade in intoxi-
cants and the other affects only the
wholesale trade. The retail bill fixes
the license fee at $500 for first and Sec
ond-class cities; S40O for third-cass
cities; $500 i'm all other cities; $3.50 for
boroughs, and s75 for townships. Places
where grog Is sold in violation of the
law shall be declared a nuisance and
treated as disorderly houses and shall
be abated by suit at law or equity in
stituted by the commonwealth or q citi-
zen. All persons found drinking in
such places will be considered disor-
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Common Sense at Last.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
No sane or patriotic American need any
longer conceal his sympathy with the
cause of the Cuban revolutlonists. The
expressions OF King George were no more
igrievous than those practced for many
years by the cruel and greedy government
of Spain upon its most important colony.
Indeed, what example does civilized his
tory afford of equal barbarity? II Amer
lean citizens may properly express their
sympathy with this revolt, what ls the
proper attitude of the American govern
ment to the revolutionists? May we not
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What Scranton needs most just now,
is an ordinance limiting the speed of
trolley cars and compelling them to use
safety tenders. VIII councils ignore
this need?
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1t is a bad week for certain news
papers nowadays when they cannot
turn out at least seven different stories
of factional dlssension among Penn
sylvania Republicans, or one complete
tale for every publication day. OF
est authority" and are undoubtedly
genuine"
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cart for arts sake" ought to be
decent enough not to shame art. Moth
ing permanently good is ever achieved
in any branch of human endeavor with
out the sustaining animus of moral
purpose. Society is not yet ready to