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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20
URGENT DEFICIENCY BHL REPORTED.

AZ AUTHORIZATIONS or s7oo."o FOR REPAIRS TO
NAVAL. VESSELS ~ THE MEASURE
Washington. Doc N.-Thc Appropriations com
mi,ec to-day roportc! an Urgent Deficiency hill TO
the HOUSE. The measure Is divided MS follows:
Contingent expenses OF the Treasury S02.pJi. pub
ic building It columbus. Ga. N.Vr. Navy Depart
incnt 10000 Department OF Justice. SLID. cleo
foral messengers sou. House OF Representatives,
y2.sls. total S,s1 50
IT." Navy Department. I'm requesting the appro-
pr.Ition. .Ays that its available appropriation for
repairs etc.. is almost exhausted. and that unless
provision is made work of this character
win have 90 stop. This appropriation Will be eX-
pended on repairs To the following vessels Adams.
Alliance. Amphi'riic. Atlanta. Baltimore. castine.
Charleston. Columbia. Concord. Dolphin. Ericsson.
Essex. Fortune. Franklin. Indiana. KAtIhdlu
Marble head NidniOnOmOh. Michigan. Mohctn,
MononeAhca. Montgomery. Newark. Ncw-York.
Pensacola. HciTrl Ranger. Richmond Terror.
Texas and Ncsuyus. and for boats and steam cut
tors tor the Naval Academy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20
FORTY MINERS KILLED.
TWENTY SEVEN MEN ALSO ENTOMHED ALIVE By
THE EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP ~
REsICZA. HUNGARY.

udapest Dec E-An explosion Of firc-damp oc-
CURED to-day IN a coal mine In Ecscza. In the val
ley Of the Tcincs. large number Of men were
at work IN the mine. and forty OF thcm We're killed
outright RescuinY parties entered the mine ~
soon ~ possible after the explosion and succeeded
In taking out eighteen mon who were seriously In
jurcd. Ii Is known that twenty seven miners are
still cntombcd bat whether they are alive or NOT
is uncertain Efforts reach the part Of the min"
I'm which th"y working are being made but IN"
work Of the rcscurrs f. greatly hampcr"d 10y the
bad character OF tho wrcckacc and ;hc great vol
url. of aftcr-damp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

llss making much ado over the support which
Senator pTitchaTd gave to Major Mckinley T1ey
declare that Pri'chard IL a gold bug" now. having
changed his opinions since the last session OF Com
gross The Popusis declare that they want 10
ecc, silver Republican. but their .dea seems 20 be
10 pick out regular Republican who VIII take
tho pledge" or some VINO deserted his party ana
supported Bryan Il is altogether queer situation
hui tho Senator has perhaps the best Of II N he can
hold the Populis members who were chosen by the
all OF Republican votes and favor his reelection
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

Washington. Dec. l9.-The following officers will
report In person to Colonel William r. Shafter. ls
Infantry. president OF the Examining Board at the
Preside OF San Francisco Cal, for examination as
to their fitness for promotion: Second Lieutenants
Milton L. Davis. ith Cavalry James A. Ryan. 10th
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

a LARGE MAJORITY OF TIE DOCK LABoRERs
VOTE AGAINST RETURNING TO WORK.
Hamburg. Dec. ia ballot taken by the
striking dock Iaborcrs to-day with a view OF ascer-
tanning the Of the strikers the question Of
continuing the strike or rcsuming work. The result
OF the baotng was that I. 365 voted in favor Of a
continuance OF the strike and 36 In favor Of aban-
doning the struggle and going back to work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

A big factory was brought
to "A standstill the other day
for want of a common shin
gle nail. The trouble was
a mystery at first. Even the
boss mechanic couldn't tell
what was the matter. They
sent for a high-priced expert
WHO charged ten dollars an
hour. All he said was
Gimme a nail" He drove
it i'll the right place and in
two minutes the whole fac
tory was going again.
That's the way with the
machinery of the hum a II
body. When the stomach
ami bowels are wrong what
seems n mere tritlc, blocks
tho whole system. Every
part OF the body feels the
effects Of a little constipa-
ton, the head aches, the
mouth tastes bad ; the stom-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

Cavalry: Lawrence J. Fleming. 10th Cavalry; James
J. Hornbrook. Cd Cavalry: William r. Clark. I'm
Cavalry: Charles J. Symonds Eth Cavalry: Charles
W. Fenton. eth Cavalry; Edward ID. Anderson 9TH
Cavalry
The following officers will report to the Examin'
ing Board Mt Fort Leavenworth Kan. for examine
ton for promotion: Second Lieutenants Melvin W.
Rowell. 10Th Cavalry: Samuel c. Jones. jr. 5th
Cavalry: Oren B. Meyer. I'd Cavalry; Frank NJ.
Caldwell sd Cavalry.
board OF officers. to consist OF Captains George
McCreery. assistant surgeon: Paul Cendenin. as.
sistant surgeon. and Robert r. Ball. assistant sur
geon Is constituted to meet the 22d inst. TO
examine into and report upon the physical disability
OF Cadet Charles Ranlett. United States Military
Academy. now at West Newton Mass
Assistant Pay master G. w. Siebes has been de-.
tachcd from the receiving ship Independence, at
Mare Island and assigned to the gunboat Petrol.
destined for duty on the China Station.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

BISHOP KEANE TO SEE THE POPE.
Rome. Dec. 1s.-Bishop Keane. formerly rector OF
the Catholic University at Washington. who is now
In this city. will be received by the Pope on Monday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

The action for breach OF promise OF marriage
brought by Miss Ella Grant. Scotch clcrgyman's
daughter against James Martin White NJ F. for
Forfarshire and member Of the firm Of j. T.
White Co, of New-York. viii be heard AT the
Edinburgh Court Of Sessions about January 10.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

Hotel CuatletOn. st. George. s. l., Is equipped with
all appliances for comfort including double windows.
steam heat, and parors Dinner parties. dancing
classes and various entertainments form Of the home
life In winter. The table 10 unsurpassed,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

The report that the Queen will 60 TO Dublin and
Belfast in May. prior TO the London celebrations is
at least premature. The programme OF the Great
Reign Jubilee" il not he settled till early In the
spring II a. said in court circles that the Queen
desires to repeat her first tour in Ireland going
thence to tho Clyde and Glasgow. The question Is
would the emotions aroused by revival of old
memories apart from possible physical fatigue not
he much for her?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-20

Never has such intense interest attached to the
coming appointment of American Ambassador TO
the Court OF St James Senator Lodge Joseph
Choate Colonel John Hay and Chauncey NJ Dcpcu'
are AL mentioned. and 1; ought be said aux one
of them would he welcomed by the American col
ony. If Senator Lodge be rather an AnClorhOLis.
ne would be esteemed as balancing the lsay.rd
period of ELUSIVE acntmcntality over Internal iona
rela tons Regarding the other possible nominees
American and British opinion have no shade Of
difference.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

Col. Ingersoll declares that he has al
last found church that suits him, ana
he intimates that he may join 1t. The
same is the Peoples church in kalama-
zoo, Mich, of which Rev. Caroline j.
Bartlett is pastor. 1t is conducted on
the institutional plan, with parlors for
social events, rooms for students, IL
braries, kitchens and so On, and was
erected largely through the generosity
of Silas Hubbard, wealthy citizen,
who died recently. This all pleased the
Colonel, as did the fact that the church
is undenominational requiring no creed
whatever. So great was the Coloners
pleasure that in his lecture he declared
that the church was the grandest thing
in the United States. Col. Ingersoll
may yet be saved.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

We found Caracas to be Spanish
American city of the first class, with
suggestion of the boulevards, and
Venezuela a country that possessed a
history of her own and an academy OF
wise men and artists and a Pantheon
for her heroes. l suppose we should
have known that this was so before we
visited Venezuela, but as we did not we
felt as though we were discovering
new country for ourselves. 1t was in
teresting to find statues of men, OF
whom none of us had ever heard, and
who were distinguished for something
else than military successes, men who
had made discoveries in science and
medicine and who had written learned
books; to find the latest devices for
comfort of a civilized community and
with them the records of fierce strug-
gle for independence, a long period OF
Reorganization, where the church had
the master hand, and then rapid adj
vance in the habits and customs of en-
lightened nations. There are the most
curious combinations and contrasts.
showing on one side pride of country
and an eagerness to emulate the GUS
toms of stable governments, and on the
other hand evidences of the southern
ot-blooded temperament and dislike OF
restraint. -Harper's Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07
$17O,322,43S 90
s 29,O5S,333.O0
s141.264,105.00

Sal ,264. 105. 90
Over one hundred and forty million
dollars owing by these roads to the
United States.
The first installment Of interest on
those bonds was paid by the govern
ment twenty-nine years ago. This
should have been repaid by the rail-
roads at that time, but they did not re-
pay it, and in the governments account
with the roads no interest upon inter-
est is charged to the roads.
Were they charged with interest up
on interest, that is, If the interest were
compounded, the amount due the gov
eminent would figure up $40 million
dollars. Governor Pattison, of Penn
sylvania, who was on the Pacific rail-
roads investigation committee, reported
that the fact the law did not specify
defaulted interest should bear interest
was worth to the roads one hundred
and ninety-nine million dollars.
The schemers who engineered the
Pacific railroad project got from the
government in bonds and lands more
than enough to construct the roads.
The actual cost is fixed by Gov. Pat
tison at $95,OOOOOO The value of the
land granted as estimated by Gov. Pat
tison was $65,000,000. This added to
the bonds made $129,O00,OOO, or 1884,
900 COO more than the roads actually
cost.
The actual net earnings of the roads
that is, receipts from freight and pas
senger fares, over and above expenses
amounted to the stupendous sum of
SITS, 900 900 at the time Gov Pattison
made his report, some eight years ago.
These roads hare robbed the people
without mercy by excessive freight
charges, Notwithstanding the peoples
money built and paid for every particle
of the roads. Wayfarers with little or
no money have become worth tens of
millions after living in kingly splen-
dor for thirty years, all out of these
reads. g..
| The bonds are now falling due and
the roads are not paying them. The
roads go to the government under the
law, and the secretary of the treasury
has the right without suit or delay to
take possession.
Let it be done, and let it be shown
and make it great public blessing
as we'll as he can postal system.-Mis-
souri, World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07
Jingoisn.


/ Ex-Gov. st. John, of Kansas, utters
the following view of the Venezuelan
trouble:
1T is shallow jingoism, pure and
simple. Mr.. Cleveland's Venezuela
message was merely to touch Ameri-
can patriotism to draw their attention
from financial plundering going on.
And the gold-bug republicans and Wall
street democrats are cheek-by-jo wl
with him. The idea of all this furOre
over a boundary dispute between Ven
ozuela and England is the veriest bosh.
"The idea of sounding tom-toms
over British boundary dispute between
Venezuela and English comes with bad
grace from those who encouraged ac-
questions right in our own country, by
English syndicates, realities aggregat"
ing more in acreage than six of the
New England states.
"Why, even within the past few
weeks" said the governor, British
lords have acquired whole counties in
area in Indiana and Illinois and the
west. They own our bonds, they own
our railroads, our principal industries,
and dictate our financial policies. And
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

The supervisors Of st. Lawrence
county, N. Y, have unanimously voted
to request the legislators from that
county to help make the legal rate OF
interes. five instead of six per cent In
New York state. Advocates Of the bill
argue that many Of the loans on real
estate are made at five per cent now,
and there is no reason why all good
loans should not be at that rate. 1t is
not likely that reducing the rate to flve
per cent would drive any appreciate
amount of capital from New York state.
1T is the better security which eastern
loans give that gives them the prefer
ence over the seven, eight and even ten
per cent offered by the western loan
companies. With the rate of interest
reduced to five per cent there would be
a large demand from farmers for va
rious improvements which they cannot
afford to borrow money for at the six
ner cent rate. The lower rate will also
give better security. 1t will probably
net the lender as much as six per cent
when offset by the losses that the larger
rate usually involves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

of the Nation, monthly maya
zine, published at Omaha, Neb., by the
Union Publishing company, which will
publish for the information of the Le-
gion all orders and circulars Its sill
yer article" alone for January will be
worth the cost of the magazine. 1t will
have articles on all phases of reform
and will teach true patriotism and love
of country. 1t will be the organ of no
organization, but will have something
good for all. 1t will be sent for one
($100) dollar per annum. Liberal COM
mission to agents. 1t will be invalu-
able for all mem bers of the Legion, as I
have already arranged for articles from
all our leading writer's. Address me at
Omaha, Neb.
PAUL VAN DERVOORT.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07
Dead Ants, Heads Put to Use.

One curious fact about an ant is that
the grip of it's jaws or mandibles is
retained for hours or even days after
death. Knowing this fact has enabled
the Indians of Brazil to put the heads
of dead ants to use in their simple sur
gerry. The sides Of wound are drawn
together and the necessary number Of
large ants are held with their heads
to the ridge directly over the cash;
when their jaws come together on the
place where the skin has been separat-
ed the insects head is pinched off and
left clinging to the severed skin, which
they hold together until the wound is
perfectly healed.-St. Louis Republic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

Efforts to procure the appointment OF
a joint commission to investigate and
report upon the Boring sea fisheries
are again under way. A bill similar
TO that reported by the last congress,
authorizing negotiations with Great
Britain, Russia and japan to that end,
has been introduced by the leader OF
the house of representatives, Mr.. Ding
ley. The bill provides that, pending
the report Of the commission, the pres
1dent is to conclude modus vivendi
with any or all Of the governments
named, providing for new regulations
or suspending or altering the regula-
lions established by the Paris tribunal,
the modus vivendi to expire January 3,
1897. The provisions Of the act OF
April 6, 1894, providing punishment for
violations Of the articles Of award OF
the tribunal of arbitration, are made
applicable to all violations.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

It is an interesting question when
tender Of silver coin can be refused
Inv reason Of abrasion. The question
was brought before the Supreme Court
of the United States in a case involving
The refusal of ten-cent piece offered
IN nayment of car fare on a street rail-
road in Jersey City. The conductor
refused the coin when rendered because
he thought it was not worth par, hav-
ing been worn by abrasion while in
circulation. The passenger was eject
cd from the car and brought suit for
damages. He recovered Judgment,
which was affirmed by the Supreme
Court of New Jersey, and this judgment
has been affirmed by the Supreme Court
of the United States. in an opinion rem
idered by the chief justice. In affirming
the Judgment Chief Justice Fuller re-
ferred to the law regulating the pas
sage of defaced and abraded coins. and
declared that there was no provision
against the passage of silver coins
Ehich were abraded only by circulation,
ard that they were legal tender as long
as they bore semblance OF the coin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
NOW BELONG TO THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
Possession Should He Taken at Once
Over s14O,OOO.OOO Owing by These
Railroads to the United States-Why
Not Proceed to FOreclose:

The bonds issued by the United
States to the Pacific railroads are fall
ing due.
| July l, 1862, congress voted bonds in
aid of the Union Pacific, Central Pacific,
Kansas Pacific, Western Pacific, and
Sioux City & Pacific railroads to the ex-
| tent of sixteen thousand dollars per
mile in the level districts, and forty
eight thousand dollars per mile in the
most mountainous districts, the govern
ment to have first lien on the roads
| and rolling stock and other appurte-
| bonds and interest The bonds were
made payable thirty years after date
and were issued as the roads were con-
structed.
Two years later congress passed an
act authorizing the companies to give a
first mortgage to private parties for an
amount equal to the government aid
and making the governments claim a
second lien.
The act provided that in case of de-
Aouit III VI Tic WhSh
due the secretary of the treasury might
take possession of the roads for the use
and benefit of the United States.
By peculiar wording of the act de-
fault in the payment Of interest did
not work forfeiture.
Bonds to the amount of $64,623,512
were issued by the government and de-
livered to the companies.
The government has paid interest on
these bonds to the amount of $105,69
926. The companies have paid none Of
the principal; they have paid only about
one-hundredth of the interest in cash.
They have received a credit on account
of transportation service for the gov
eminent of $27,954,714.
h So the account stands as follows:
PACIFIC RAILROADS.&C..
To bonds ...............$ 64,6Z3,olZ.UU
To interest paid by U. S.. .105, 69S, 926.OO
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07

The dose is growing larger. Two
wears ago the legal thieves were al
most afraid to issue even small b9ich
of bonds. They feared the people would
not stand it, They knew it was an i'm
position, an uncalled for, unnecessary,
fraudulent proceeding and expected a
great roar, but they ventured $50,0OO,-
900 issue. The people roared. When
that wore off little they tried another
so million batch and the roar was weak
err. Then we had to swallow the 62
million steal, and now they venture
a $1OO,O0O,0OO purse. The people are
getting used to it, and in short time
will be expected to submit to $780,
OO0,O 900 yoke and then $5OO,OO0,O00 and
so on, until the $1,000 100000 program
is completed. Well, who blames the
money power? The people are oysters
and go on voting for it.-Iowa Tribune.
II the war was as sure as the bonds
and taxes somebody would get whipped.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-07
DARK DAYS FOR BURNS.
his Hatred for Farming-An Unfortu'
nate Choice.

His Hatred for Farming-An Unfortu~
nate Choice.
| AS 1t is always darkest before the
dawn, the year which was the most
critical in Burns life, and which was
destined to give birth to his better for
tune, opened with peculiar and unmit-
igated dreariness, says the Fortnightly
Review. The Kilmarnock edition OF
1876 appeared while the poet was
"skulking from covert to covert" to-
avoid the Jail, with which Jean Ar
mour's father threatened him; its
raison d'etre was the earning OF sum-
cient money to pay his passage 10 ia
maica. Having 'pocketed, all expenses
deducted, nearly 20 pounds" Burns
took final farewell of his friends. In
deed
my chest was on my way to Green
ock when a letter from Mr.. Blackjack
(of Edinburgh to a friend Of mine
overthrow all my schemes by opening
up new prospects to my poetic ambi--
ton"
His fame was, in fact, spreading rap
idly. Farm laborers and servant girls
expended their hardly earned wages
on the purchase of his poems, and the
name of "The Ayrshire Plowman" be-
gan to be noised among members of
Weather and more cultivated circles.
The first person to extend him the right
hand of fellowship was Dugald Stew
art; the second was Mrs. Dunlop. Their
friendship came with all the charms OF
novelty, which is yet not strange, but
supplies long-felt though indefinable'
need, while, in the latter case, Burns
proud and Independent soul was graft
fled by the knowledge that the obliga-
tion was not all on his side, but that
Mrs. Dunlop and her friends had reason
to be indebted to the poets spells.
After two winters spent in Edin-
burgh, which seem to have given the
poet more disappointment and disgust
than qualification, Burns married his
JEAN" and settled at Ellisland, an up
land farm on the Dalswinton estate, six
miles from Dumfries. To this Ellisland
period, /. e., from 1888 to 1871, most OF
the unpublished letters to Mrs. Dunlop
belong. They are chiefly interesting as
indicating Burns real views on his ex-
else post and his distaste to farming.
There were bad times in the eighteenth
as in the nineteenth century; and in a
letter of March %, 1889, we hear Burns
raising the farmers customary COM
plant:
Madam, had two plans of life be-
fore me-the excise and farming. I
thought by the glimmering of my own
prudence the excise was the most eligi-
BILE scheme, but all my great friends.
and particularly you, were decidedly,
and therefore decided me, for farming.
My master, Mr.. Miller, out of real,
though mistaken benevolence, sought
me industriously out to set me in this
farm, as he said, to give me a lease
which would make me comfortable and
easy. l was stranger to the
country, the farm, the soil, and so ven
tured on bargain that, instead OF be-
ing comfortable, is and will be very
hard bargain, If at all practicable.
am sorry to tell you this, madam, but
It Is a damning truth"