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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-22
Married.

MI. Samuel c. Rapson Of this city
and Miss Henrietta Jane Bubar of
Duluth, were married in Duluth Mon
day afternoon. The newly welded
pair arrived in Ely last evening and
will take up their residence in this
city. The well wishes Of a host of
friends are with the couple.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-22

Mr.. Matt Boldin and Miss Anna
Winsh were married at the Catholic
church last Sunday by the Rev.
Father Bilban. After the ceremony
a large party Of friends assembled at
the residence and made merry with
repast and dancing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-22

The Northwestern Mineral Mine
Workers Union in conventiod at Ish-
peming, decided to make demand
for hours day but not at the
present time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
THE WEATHER BUREAU.
One Prediction Saved the People Sew
eral Million Dollars.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Chief Moore OF
the Weather Bureau. has made a special
report TO the Secretary of Agriculture with
reference to the actual money value OF cold
wave warnings to the people of this coun-
try with special reference to the cold wave
OF Jan. TO OF the present year. That
was one Of unusual severity. spreading over
the entire country east OF the Rocky noun
tains, with the exception Of the southern
portion of Florida At every Weather
Bureau station throughout this region. the
cold wave flag was displayed and the warn
ings We're distributed at least twentyfour
hours before the cold wave occurred. Re
ports received from 10l stations indicate that
these warnings were directly instrumental
I'm saving from destruction property exceed
ing three and a half millions in value This
saved the result of these warnings dis
tributed from the Weather Bureau stations
to the thousands OF small towns and cities,
from which IL has been impossible to OBJ
tain reports. The largest saving reported
was by owners and shippers of perishabie
produce Water pipes were protected in
factories, residences and public buildings.
the size of trains regulated by railroad
officials while florists and agriculturists
protected their hot houses Reports OF direct
benefits were received from fuel dealers.
owners OF ice harvesters. farmers and stock
raisers, river men and business men gen.
orally. One OF these last reported the
Weather Bureau an active partner in every
mans business Another benefit widely re-
ported. but necessarily not expressed In
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Nansen is described as a type Of the ideal
Norseman-a fine. stalwart fellow with rud-
dy face, fair hair and the limbs of a giant
THE Rise of Silas Lapham' is being
dramat ized by Paul Hester. with the COL
liberation OF the author. Mr.. William Dean
HOWells, and William III. Crane is to pro-
duce the play.
A New York milk dealer who denied that
he put water in his milk, and said that the
water founl in il came from the ice that
melted in the can, could not see why every
body laughed or why the judge fined him $50.
Senator Wolcott, whose alleged service in
the army during the late rebellion has been
questioned was a member of the One-hun-
dred-and-fiftieth Ohio Volunteers. At the
age of sixteen years he volunteered for one
hundred days in response 10 the Presidents
call in 1864.
The Prince of Wales has been much de-
pressed since Henry OF Battenbergs death.
1t seems that Albert Edward and Henry had
their fortunes told by gypsy some years
ago. The Prince of Wales was informed
that he would never be King or England
and Henry that he would die seeking glory
under tropic sky. Naturally Albert Ed
ward feels worried
Albert Seeman, of Wi,kesbarre. Pa, has a
ring which he believes to be the wedding
ring cf Martin Luther 1t purports TO b. one
OF the two which the Kurfurst OF Brancen-
burg had made symbolical of the life and
the cruciiSiCn of Christ and wnicl w. le
presented to Martin Luther and his wife
on taeir wedding day. Ii came into .Css es-
sion of the Seemans in 1861. while thy were
al Stockholm, Sweden.
Gilbert Parker. the English novelist, who
is now visiting Boston, was in Samoa at
the time the hurricane wrecked the German
and American men-of-war. Mr.. Parker. in
telling of his experience, said. the other day:
Il had been aboard the Vandalia several
days. and the time had come when should
have 10 leave. / was undetermined. how
ever, whether to go or stay. and TO settle
the question I tossed up a coin, heads 10
go. tails TO stay. Ii came down heads, and
] left the ship. The next day the storm
struck her and she went down."
Coils p. Huntington. the Pacific railway
millionaire, is seventy-five years old, but
very rugged and vigorous. He is a man
OF ponderous physique. His back and shoul-
ders are broad enough for two ordinary
men and his head is large In proportion.
The fringe of hair about his head Is white.
and a silk cap hides the badness at the
top. Mr.. Huntington il a native OF Con-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26


Some Of the Journals Republican ex-
changes are claiming that Governor Nc
Kinley should be nominated for Presi-
dent this year because he is 1.-The logical
candidate That phrase originated in
1888. with the supporters Of General
Harrison, who claimed that. as it was of
the first Importance to the Republicans
10 carry Indiana. and as General Harri-
son was the only Republican who could
undoubtedly carry the State, the logic
OF the situation required his nomination.
That this was a correct view Of the case
was shown by the steady growth of his
strength, by the strong undercurrent
the convention.
Governor Mckinley is not the logical
candidate of the Republican party this
year In that sense. Ohio is not a doubt
full State, and the nomination of Gov.
Mckinley is not necessary to enable the
Republicans to secure its electoral vote
They will carry the State by large ma
jority, no matter who may be nominated.
The sense in which it is meant that
Governor Mckinley is the logical candi-
date is that. as the main issue in the
next campaign will be the restoration Of
prosperity by the re-establishment of
protection, and as he is a recognized
champion Of protection, he ought to be
nominated as the representative of that
idea. This argument would be good If
the issue were to be the re-enactment
of the so-called Mckinley law, or if Gov
Mckinley were the only consistent and
uncompromising advocate of protection
among the possible presidential candi-
dates, but neither of these conditions
exists. The Mckinley bill, by that name
Is not an issue. Nobody proposes it's
re-enactment. Governor Mckinley HIM
self does not. In recent speech he said:
1--WE are not contending for any particu-
lar tariff law or laws, or for any special
schedules or rates. but for the great
principle-the American protective pol
ICY" That is cardinal doctrine of the
Republican party and one for which all
ats leaders are prepared to do battle, as.
indeed. they have been doing for years.
To say that Governor Mckinley is the
logical Republican candidate for Presi-
dent. because he gave his name to bill
which is not an issue and the re-enact-
ment of which is not proposed, seems
to imply that other able Republican
leaders are not as steadfast and un-
swerving in their devotion to the prin-
ciple of protection as he. Governor Nc
Kinley has unquestioned elements of
popular strength. but as it cannot be
claimed that he would carry any State
that any other Republican candidate
would not carry. or that he is more ar
dent or consistent advocate Of protec-
ton to American industries than are
other prominent Republicans. it is
neither true nor fair to claim that he is
the logical candidate. The Journal Is
for the nominee Of the st. Louis con-
vention. and hopes the best man may
win, but 1t wants to see fair start and
no handicapping by illogical logic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
MR.. TARSNEY TO BE OUSTED
IF HOUSE ACCEPTS MAJORITY RE-
PORT OF JOHNsON's COMMITTEE.
No Doubt About Fraud mt the Kansas
Needed for Michigan City Harbor.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The perennial
rumor of an extra session is again brought
forward at the present time. The rumor' 5
appearance seems a trifle ahead of time. Or
dinarily 1t comes with the May flowers and
the glad days of early summer But its pre-
mature date is more than compensated for by
the excellence of it's alleged occasion. Presi-
dent Cleveland 1t is asserted, will play a
Macchavellian game Of politics by calling an
extra session. addressing to that extra ses-
sion a ringing message on the financial ext
gencies of the treasury, and then throw
upon Republican Congress the responsible
ity for nonaction." This will make great
campaign material. it is argued.
Extra sessions occasioned by exigencies OF
the treasury are rather WORKOUT theme.
There is superstition among veteran poll
ticians that any President calling extra
session invites crushing defeat for his party
at the first succeeding national election.
Watchdog Holman was denounced as dis
NAL croaker when, two years ago, he repeat
ed this old belief. But the extra session OF
1894, occasioned by the most critical condition
ever known in the history of the treasury.
was followed by the most crushing defeat
ever known in the history of the party whose
President called that session. If Mr.. Cleve-
land intends to call an extra session simply
to show this country that no financial legis-
lation affording the treasury relief can be ex-
pected of this Congress, he will put this
country to a needless expense. Every one
knows that the relief which Mr.. Cleveland
and his friends demand cannot be obtained
at present. Nothing is to be hoped for until
1897, when the Senate shall have been so far
cieansed Of present Objectionable members,
like Blackburn and Voorhees,, that free silver
can no longer levy insolent blackmail on
every attempt made to save the government
from distress.
Senator Carter will tomorrow furnish the
Democratic party with the campaign ma
terial which an extra session could not bet
ter provide. He, standing in his seat as 4
Senator from Montana. but regarded every
where in his official capacity as chairman of
the Republican executive committee, will an
nounce the price of his further loyalty to his
party. Under the fiimsy pretext that the
wool industries of his State do not receive
adequate recognition in a bill which gives 60
per cent. protection where there is at pres
ent none, Mr.. Carter will read the ultimatum
of the free-silver men-namely, no more pro-
lection to American industries without the
American silver mine owner is paid his price
What need Is there of an extra session when
the chairman of the Republican executive
committee himself oblgingly furnishes all
the object lesson which Mr.. Cleveland can
hope to derive from the failure of action at
even an extra session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

aligned for the presidential fight. The
Democrats are standing squarely for
sound money. They have put the organi-
cation in the hands of the followers OF
President Cleveland. Governor Mat
thews has been muzzled." 1t is further
stated that "Gil. Shanklin, the original
free-silver man OF the State. has with
drawn from the race for the nomination
for Governor" whereas. he was never
more receptive, and that ''it is almost
foregone conclusion that ex-Congress-
man William d. Bynum will be the
nominee for Governor" on a sound
money platform. "Bynum," says this
picturesque correspondent. was defeat
ed for Congress by bimetallist, chiefly
because he stood steadfastly for sound
money when the free-coinage fever was
at its height" Then Bynum went to
work and evangelical the State on the
money question, and now "the party has
tacitly consented that he shall be its
standard bearer on his own platform"
And this sort of stuff is disseminated as
political information.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

necticut. but for half century he has
been interested in California and the far
West He laid the first foundations. OF his
great fortune in the hardware business In
Sacramento.
An interesting experiment Of a practical
character is being tried on the Great West
ern railway in England. in order to smooth
the path of the producer 1t is twofo!d in
its character. In tee first place. the COM
pany has offered to grant lower freight
rates If they can be assured loads Of at
least three tons for a wagon having a car
rying capacity Of ten tons. In other words.
IL the producers will aggregate their con-
signments, so as to send them in bulk. the
company will charge a lower tariff. In the
second place, the con pary proposes not only
to carry farmers produce at lower rates. in
the circumstances named, but TO collect and
distribute IL as well.
ArabeEa's little boomers
On the wall are hanging fiat,
For. alas. she cannot wear them,
She has grown so big and fat.
But some day, perhaps, her mother
When she's nothing else to do
Will contrive to fix them over
For her little sister Sue.
New York World.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
THE LEGALITY OF ELECTIONS.

The argument in the memorial of the
Republican subcommittee that an cleo
ton held under the apportionment act
of 1885 would be illegal is not well found
ed. The memorial says: IF an agree
ment could be entered into by all the
voters of all the parties of the whole
State. which could be binding, and
which would be respected by all of them.
it would still only result in an election
under a void law-that is, without law"
The inference is that a Legislature so
elected would have no legal existence
and that it's acts would be invalid. The
argument fails for two reasons. First.
the act is valid until pronounced invalid
by the Supreme Court. Although 1T is
clearly unconstitutional, for the same
reasons that other acts have been held
so, that is not a matter to be decided
by public opinion or common consent.
The court alone can determine that
question. Moreover, the recent decisions
in this and other States have proceeded
on the theory that the essence of an
election is a choice of the people, and
that apportionment acts are an inciden-
tai and not a material feature. The peo>
pie are the source of all power, and if
they should hold an election under the
act of 1886 or any other apportionmenu
act which has not been held unconstitu
tional it would be legal and the result
binding. Even If the Supreme Court
should hold the act of 1885 unconsritu-
tional after an election had been held
under it. that would not invalidate the
election nor the acts of the Legislature
so chosen If that were so. all the acts
OF the legislatures of 1879, 81, '93 and '95
would be invalid under recent decisions.
and the hold-over Republican Senators,
who constitute an important factor in
the Republican contention, would have
no title Finally, the implication that
an election under the act of 1885 would
be illegal and void is in direct contra
diction of the recent decision of the
Supreme Court. which says distinctly
that Senators and Representatives may
be chosen under that act in the general
election OF 1896. and plainly implies that
in the judgment of the court, that would
be the better course 10 pursue in case
the Governor should decline to call a
special session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

Tomorrow Commodore Selfridge. now
the senior commodore Of the United
States navy. becomes the junior rear adj
miral. The Selfridges illustrate the apti-
tude of some families for public service.
The father of the one just named was
appointed a midshipman in the navy in
1918. and is now tn. senior admiral on
the retired list. and younger brother of
the Commodore was appointed in 1864
and is now a lieutenant commander.
When naval cadetshiDs are considered
so great a prize it is not quite apparent
why one man. himself a high officer i'm
the navy. should have two sons appoint
ed 1t shows the potency OF social infiu-
ence and an inside pull.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

Until both sides of the Salvation Army
controversy are more fully set forth out.
side observers are not qualified to ex-
press a final opinion upon the question
involved. With the light now thrown
upon it, IL seems an unfortunate affair,
yet, owing to the peculiar conditions
existing, one almost certain to occur
sooner or later. The army, under the
management OF General Booth. has be-
come a vast organization, extending to
the ends of the earth. Although Its
work and central purpose are the same
everywhere, that of lifting up the fallen,
varying conditions necessitate different
methods of attaining the object. The
workers find it necessary to adapt them
selves to the characteristics of the peo-
pie, to study the special developments
of crime and vice as seen in the several
countries, and to make their assaults
upon sin with the same intelligence that
should direct the movements of the
other sort of army. The methods in
this country have necessarily differed
in many respects from those practiced in
London. Sin and depravity. poverty and
degradation exist in our great cities. but
there is less of the hopeless, helpless,
sodden element here than in the older
center of population--the element need
ing not only to be lifted up. but to be
permanently sustained by outside aid.
1t is easier to put men and women on
their feet and make them self-support-
ing and self-respecting here than there.
1t was natural that General Booth, on
his hasty journey through the United
States. should have been led by the al
most total absence of this hopeless class
to the belief that the comparative cheer
and comfort, together with the approval
and active aid given the work by infiu-
entail citizens. showed a tendency to
make the army too respectable'--that
Is, TO put the workers out of sympathy
with the people they were expected to
reach. He might also have gained the
impression easily enough that the fund
collected for army uses here was not
needed and could be better applied else
where General Booth is a wonderful
man. He has a genius for organization
and a zeal for the regeneration OF man.
kind which has almost worked miracles.
but he is human and not above error or
the influence of very human weaknesses.
His heart must inevitably be conferred
upon the work in London, which he
knows the best. He desires to promote
the army institutions there with what
seems to him the superfiuous money in
possession of the American branch. His
son. Commander Darlington Booth,
knowing the needs OF the work here and
the purposes for which the money was
given. has persistently refused his
fathers demands: hence the first break
In the harmonious relations. He may
be right or wrong-that is a matter
time and investigation will decide-but II
Is fair 10 assume that both men consider
themselves in the right and are pro-
ceeding according TO what they think
the best interests OF all concerned.
1t seems not unreasonable to hold that
an independent organization OF the army
in this country may be equally as effec-
tive as q continuation under foreign au-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

1t is now quite certain that the New
York Legislature will pass bill to con-
solidate the cities of New York and
Brooklyn, which will give the metropolis
a population of three millions. The fig
ures, strange to say, are decidedly in
favor of New York. so far as taxation
and debt are concerned. New York
with a valuation for the purpose of tax
alton of $2,Ol6. 947 662, has tax rate Of
$1.91 per 500 and a debt of $113.277. CSC.
while Brooklyn, with valuation Of
1855, 1916, 667, has a tax rate of $2.74 and
debt of So, O45.O0O. 1t will cost New York
something to annex Brooklyn, but it will
then rank next to London in population
and will be so far in advance of Chicago
that the papers of the Western metropo-
lis will not devote columns to show that
it is the larger city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26

case of the Indian schools the Roman
Catholic denomination was the sole ben
eficiary Of the appropriations does not
affect the main question and should cut
no figure. 1t would have been equally
wrong to appropriate public money for
any other UNCONVENTIONAL schools. Such
appropriations are wrong in principle
and an entering wedge to the overthrow
Of a policy which ought not TO be de-
parted from under any circumstances or
on any pretext
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
Unvyasted Days.

The longer on this earth we live
And weigh the various qualities OF men,
Seeing how most are fugitive,
Or fitful gifts at best, of now and then
WiEd-wavered corpse-lights, daughters Of
the fen
The more we feel the high, stern-featured
beauty
or plain devotedness to duty,
Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal
praise,
But finding amplest recompense
For life's ungarlanded expense
In work done SQuarely and unwasted
days.
james Russell Lowell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-26
MIR. TARSNEY MUST GO
II the Majority Report of Johnson's


WASHINGTON, Feb. 25-The House to-
day passed the Indian appropriation bill,
the sixth of the thirteen general appropria-
ton bills, and sent it to the Senate.
The House also passed. without debate.
the Dinglcy bill, authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to take and kill the Alaskan
seal herd IL a modus vivendi could not be
concluded before the opening Of the present
season for the protection OF the seals pend
ing negotiations for permanent protection
to the herds with the countries interested.
After several bills of local Importance
had been passed Mr.. Johnson, chairman of
the elections committee, No. 2, called I'D
the contested election case Of Van Horn vs.
Tarsney from the Fifth Missouri district.
There were three reports in the case The
majority, signed by all the Republicans on
the committee save one, Mr.. Taylor, of
Ohio, was in favor of the contestant On
the face of the returns Tarsney had a ma
jority of 7i5, but allegations OF fraud, ballot
box stuffing, ETC., were made against the re-
turns in several precincts in the Ninth and
Second wards OF Kansas City which the
majority regarded as so completely proven
that they favored throwing out these pre-
cincts. which gave Tarsney a plurality Of
LILO votes, thereby giving Van Horn, the
Republican. plurality in the district of
375 votes. The majority, considering the cir
cumstances, opposed the reopening of the
testimony. The three Democrats on the
committed admitted the existence of fraud,
but claimed that the vital question involved
was whether the returns from the fraudulent
precincts should be purged or thrown out.
Under the election laws of Missouri each
ballot is marked with the voting number
of the voter, so that the investigation of the
ballots and the voters would determine
absolutely the fictitious names on the poll
books. The minority, therefore, reported
resolution to recommit the case, with in
structions to the committee to segregate
the Illegal from the legal ballots and re-
count the latter.
Mr. Taylor. in the third report, concurred
in the conclusions of the majority IL the
fraudulent precincts were thrown out, but he
favored the reopening of the case because
of the ease with which, under the Missouri
election laws. the legal could be separated
from the Illegal votes. If that was done, he
argued, the title to the seat would not rest
on conjecture and inference"
Mr.. Strobe opened the debate In favor OF
the adoption of the majority report. He
spoke for over two hours. He was followed
by Mr.. Taylor the dissenting Republican on
the committee, who, in a somewhat sensa-
tional speech urged that nothing could jus
tify the House in throwing out entire pre-
cincts at a congressional election and dis
franchising honest voters. The Republicans
of the House owed il to themselves from
their own craftsmanship. The returns could
be and should be purged Of fraud and the
honest ballots counted. At o'clock the
House adjourned.