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The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
POLITICAL NEWS.

1t is stated that the Georgia Republic
cans and Populists will fuse.
New Hampshire Republicans favor
Reed first and Mckinley second.
The Utah Republican convention in.
structs for nobody but free silver.
Cullom's W congressional district
instructed delegates for Mckinley.
The American Republican College
league held a convention in Chicago.
The gang" aldermen are defeated in
the Chicago election, the Republicans
winning.
Committeeman E. G. Wall says that
the Democratic national committee is
for ''sound money"
Ex-Speaker Crisp and Secretary Hoke
Smith held a series of debates on r
rency at Augusta, Ga.
The New York World is inclined to
believe that Cleveland should be nom.
mated for q third term.
Forty.6ye thousand registered voters
have been stricken from the Chicago
lists on the ground of fraud.
Congressman Cobb, Of Alabama, Of
''where.am.I-at" fame, will be I'M.
seated in favor Of a Populist.
The Republican congressional con-
vention at GAINESVILLE renominated Con.
gresham II. G. Van Voorhis.
The Murray. Elliott election contest
from South Carolina has been decided
in favor Of Elliott, the Democrat.
Walter L. Weaver, on the 122d bal.
lot, was nominated for congress in the
Seventh Ohio district, now represented
by MI. Wilson.
Charles r. Lands, editor of the
Delphi Journal, was nominated for con.
gress by the Republicans of the Ninth
Indiana district.
Portland Populists nominated OK.
Governor Pennoyer for mayor. The
taxpayers league is expected to endorse
the nomination.
1t is stated that this is Speaker Reeds
last term in congress. If he is not nom.
mated for president he will practice
law in New York.
The subcommittee of the national
Democratic committee, having charge
OF convention arrangements, will meet
1t the Palmer House April 10.
The Republicans carried Milwaukee
and q majority of the Wisconsin towns
where elections were held. Judge
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
THE DEATH RECORD.

Peter F. Conkling died neal Middle.
town, N. Y, Thursday, aged 100.
William Hills Yale, aged 85, is dead
at Meriden, Conn. He was the pioneer
manufacturer of timed ware in New
England.
Benjamin Franklin Tweed, educator
and author, died at the home of his
son.in-law, Judge John w. Hammond,
in Cambridge, Mass, aged So years.
Augustus Hoppin Of Providence, RI,
who was formerly n Of the leading
caricaturists of America, is dead. Among
the publications he illustrated were
1.-The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,
and "Potiphar Papers"
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
A Chicago Seed Firm Accuses
Secretary Morton of Manip-
ulating Bids.
Theirs, Which Was Lower Than
the Others, Was Not Con.
sidered.
Morton Says the Seeds of the
Firm Were Not Up to the
Standard.

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The recent
closing of a contract for furnishing
seeds for general distribution by the
government has resulted in the filing
Of charges at the department of agri.
culture by Breslan Goodwin & Co., q
Chicago seed firm, against Secretary
Morton. The allegation that their bid,
though lowest, wa refused because the
firm had urged the passage of the reso.
luton providing for the revival of the
distribution Of seeds, notwithstanding
Secretary Morton's protests; that the
reports furnished by officers of
the department to Secretary Morton,
to Senator Proctor of Vermont, chair.
man OF the senate committee on agri.
culture, and Mr.. Wadsworth, chairman
OF the house committee, had been ma
n1pulated in order to show that the
firms seeds were below the standard;
that Assistant Secretary Dabney had
insisted on the company, in case it re-
ceived the award, using the machines
OF the Brown Bag Filling Machine
company. and that Mr.. Dabney had de-
clded against the company because of
the refusal to do this. It was alleged
furthermore that the secretary and his
assistant had falsely stated that the
company had refused to use it's name
on the seed packets.
Secretary Morton and the other Of
tcials of the agricultural department
made an absolute denial of the truth Of
the charges, and say the award of the
seed contract was based on a percent.
age of purity and germinative power of
the seeds. tested by the department
last year at a time when there was no
prospect of further distribution.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The sundry civil bill has passed the
house.
The postofice appropriation bill has
passed the senate.
Tawney's filed cheese bill will be
%favorably reported to the house.
President Cleveland is expected to
send a message to congress on Cuba.
The senate committee on judiciary
have agreed on a voluntary bankruptcy
bill.
The senate killed the proposition to
consolidate branch p~ostofices with the
main Offices.
Minister Terrell has arrived home on
a leave of absence from his post at
Constantinople.
Mantle of Montana explained the vote
Of the silver men on the tariff and free
silver in the senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
house for the establishment of a con.
sular inspection commission.
It is proposed to tax beer made of
foreign materials 81 a barrel, and that
made of domestic products 81.
The house adopted the conference
report on the Cuban resolutions. A
great demonstration followed.
Secretary Lamont says he never
heard of a letter of declination of a re.
nomination written by the president.
The treasury lost $50, 400 in gold coin
and $40, 700 in bars Tuesday leaving the
true amount of gold reserve 1927, 87S,.
$50.
Senator Butler has introduced a reso.
luton proposing all amendment to the
con stitution to limit the presidential
power of veto.
The collector of customs at Charles
ton seized the steamship Commodore,
said to have recently transported arms
to the Cubans.
The geological survey will resume the
investigation of the extensive phosphate
deposits occurring in Florida and North
Carolina and adjacent coast states.
The president has signed the act re.
pealing the statute prohibiting the ap-
polntment to the army or navy of per-
ons who held Confederate commits.
sions.
The house committee on military
affairs has decided to report ~favorably
the resolution to bestow the rank of
lieutenant general on General Nelson
A. Miles.
Orders have been issued at the post
office department providing for the es.
Enlistment of AZ new domestic money
order offices and 38 new limited money
order offices throughout the country.
The secretary of the treasury has &C.
cepted the offer of Frank John OF Chi
cago of $$47, $50 for the old material in
the custom house building at Chicago,
the same to be removed at Johns ex.
pense.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
Need No RoinlorcomentaL

LONDON, April l8.-In reply to .
question in tho house Of commons MI.
Chamberlain announced that the GOV.
ernment was prepared to reinforce the
9arrisons in Cape Colony and Natal if
Governor Sir Hercules Robinson con.
sidered it necessary. Up to the present
time, however, Mr.. Chamberlain add.
ed, Governor Robinson DISCOURAGED
such a step on the ground that the local
forces will suffice to suppress the up.
rising in M~atabeleland.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
RELEASED THE RUSTLERS.
Mon Who Had Plead Guilty Get Out
On Habeas Corpus.

Men Who Had Plead Guilty Get Out
On Habeas Corpus.
LINCOLN, Neb., April 13.-In the
supreme court in re the application of
Louis Vogeland, Salem T. Clark and
Charles H. Jackson for a writ of
habeas corpus, the writ was granted
and the prisoners ordered DISCHARGED.
This case excited considerable interest
at the time application for the writ
was made. and the facts brought to
light. The men have been in the
p%enitentiary for several months,
having pleaded guilty of cattle
stealing in Keya Paha county, in
January, 1895. They claimed that
that they had been arrested in South
Dakota without a warrant by a Ne.
braska officer, and brought down to the
county. judge of Keya Paha county and
by him committed to await a hearing
at the succeeding term of the district
court OF that county to be held at
Springview, Neb. Subsequently they
were brought before Judge Kincaid.
sitting in chambers and advised bv
some one to plead guilty to cattle steal.
ing. This. they claimed in their an.
plication, was under duress, since q
mob of vigilantes were standing ont.
side the court to hang them if they did
not. They. however, did 80, and Judge
Kincaid sentenced them to five and ak
years in the penitentiary. r'
The supreme court, in the svllabus.
holds that under the provisions Of
chapter CVI11 Of the Laws Of Nebraska.
passed 1886. the requirements that ali
informations shall be fled during the
term of the court having jurisdiction Of
the o6enses specified therein, is man.
datory, and an information upon which
the accused is to be tried, for felony il
void II fled In vacation"
The prisoners were released, but i'm.
mediately taken into custody again.
They are likely to be taken back for =
new trial. an rt.s.r ,s
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
Smallpox scourRe At Glouc..t.

LONDON, April 1Y.-The situation
in Gloucester, where ~virulent SMALLPOX
is raging. il so serious that the govern.
ment is likely to take charge. Up to
March 70 there were 700 cases and
since then there has been an increase
OF 80 weekly. The percentage of deaths
is 20, and the town is in q state of panic.
The dean Of Gloucester has issued an
appeal for assistance. All race meetings.
ETC.. have been cancelled.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18

There is every reason to believe from
the Havana advices that Walter Dy-
CERT, the young American who has
been held under arrest at Guines,
Cuba, under suspicion of completely in
the revolutions, will be free in a short
time.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
Pro Orators.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 13.-The Uni.
versity of Minnesota captured the hon.
ors in the state oratcrical contest
which was held at the First Congrega-
tional church. A. o. Eliason took first
honors and w. w. Pendergast second.
A. H. Tasker of Hamlin was given
third place.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
Think He Robbed Himself.

NEW YORK, April 13.-Walter H.
Price, who carried a satchel containing
$2,O15, claims he was attacked by a
highwayman on Broadway and robbed
Of his valuable package. The money
belonged to the Gleason Lamp Manu-
featuring company. The thief made
his escape but Price was arrested.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS.

NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS.
Senator Morgan is seriously i'll.
George Gould was injured while fox
hunting.
Ex.President Harrison and Mrs. Marv
Lord Dimmick were married at New
York Monday.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont will be sc
years old on April IA, and cards are u
for his birthday celebration.
Brick" Pomeroy, the noted editor.
who became famous at La Crosse dur.
ing the war. is dying Of dropsy at
Blythbourne, L. I.
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Transcontinental Passenger as
sociation has been r~eorganized.
An air line railway from Cumber.
land, Wis, to Superior is proposed.
At q meeting of the Berlin bondhold.
yrs of the Northern Pacific railroad, it
was unanimously resolved to accept the
reorganization plan.
Previous to adjournment of the
Transcontinental association commit
tee at Milwaukee. H. N. Countiss was
elected permanent chairman.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-04-18

Bunny IS ue:eated for reelection in the
+ ahth 3uoic al circuit by Helms, Re-
paL..can.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
The Two-Thirds Rule.

There are predictions that the two thirds
rule which has prevailed in national demo-
cratic conventions for more than half
century viii cause great trouble in the ma
tional convention this year. Similar pre-
dict,ons were made in other years in res
pect to national democratic conventions
but they were not fulfilled. and we do not
see that there is any special reason for
alarm this year.
It is pretty certain that neither the sound
money men nor the silver monometallists
will have two-thirds of the convention,
but one faction or the other will have a
clear majority. We feel quite certain that
the sound money faction win have the ma
jority, but whether it does or not, the fac
ton that has the majority,
viii make the platform. After the
platform is adopted there will be very 1T
tie trouble in making nominations. To
make the platform bare majority is suf-
ficient. The two-thirds rule applies only
10 the ticket
If a sound money platform is adopted
the silver monometa will hardly in
stst upon nominating a silver monometal-
list. 1t would be folly to insist upon any
thing of that kind, because, in the first
place, no silver monometallist would care
to stand upon a sound money platform
in fact, he could not do so consistently;
and if an unlimited silver coinage plat
form-that is a platform calling for de-
graded currency-were adopted no sound
money man would care to have the nomi-
nation, and the sound money delegates
would not insist upon nominating a sound
money man; A ticket standing for one
thing and platform for another would
mean sure defeat.
The fight win be over the platform. When
that is decided upon the contest between
the factions will be ended. The faction that
makes the platform will name the ticket
that IS, the ticket will be in harmony
with the platform The talk about the
| convention going to pieces over the two
thirds rule is nonsense. If 1t goes to pieces
at all. it will be because one of the fac
tions Will not accept the platform which
the majority makes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
BRIGHT BITS.

First College Boy: 1 hear your gov
ernor is i'll, old man. what's the trouble?
Second College Boy: Remittent fever.
First College Boy: HUH l wish mine
would catch it.-New York Tribune.
AS a general rule, we have noted,
The way that most people get shot,
Is either by men who are loaded
Or else by the guns that are not.
New York Herald.
-Proof.-Bridegroom friend NIeekes
says he is afraid you didn't like his we'd
ding present.
intellectually I did Why, I kept it a
whole month before 1 exchanged it.-Puck
First Egg-"Think of going to the the
atre?"
Second g-"Probably, if I feel strong
enough. I'm willing to go broke on a good,
loud tragedian any time. '-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
Sometimes" said Uncle Eben, ode
white gemman dat tells his wife it's foolish
ter so ter a matinee an cry, spen's de hull
afternoon at bah game, takin de resk o.
sunsroke an yellin de linin' outn is
throat. w ashingtOn Star.
Sad accident this morning." said the
shoe clerk boarder. MAN got his foot run
over by a trolley car"
And l suppose" said the Cheerful Idiot,
that he Immediately came out flat-footed
for getting damages" - indianapolis
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
personal.

There are but two European potentates
who manage TO get along without change
OF residence or outings of any description.
These are the Pope OF Rome and the Sui
tan of Turkey.
The report that Ii Hung Chang is car
rying his coffin with him on his trip to
Moscow is entirely credible. as the Chin
csc are extremely particular as TO che mode
and place of their burial.
Brethren" said Bishop Boyd Car
penter, of Ripon, England, the other day
in the course Of a sermon. Il beg Of you
take hold of your own heart and look it
straight in the face" The bishop is an
Irishman.
On hearing Of the verdict aginst DR..
Playfair, Mr.. Gladstone at once sent to
continued confidence in him. and saying:
You do not seem to have done more or
less than your duty"
France has not forgotten Parmentier,
for Mr.. Kirchauff saw in 1882 potatoes
growing on his grave j.. the grand GENE
terry of Pere la Chaise and was assured
so that his services might never be for
gotten by Frenchmen.
Mr.. E. " Smaney is getting some
what blase. He remarks that "A public
banquet IS one of the most wearsome of
the minor miseries of life. To be COM
PEELED TO sit in a STRAIGHTFORWARD chair
for three hours, eating badly cooked vic
tuals, drinking cheap wines and listen
ing to the windy eloquence and ancient
jokes of the speakers is a tiresome or
DEAL
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02

A young man in San Francisco and a
young lady in San Jose. says the PittsDurg
Dispatch, We're for time very much in
rove win each other, and during that pc
rlod each wrote the other a two-pOund let
Ter every day weighted down to the limit
with kisses and expressions of love. But
they quarreled a couple of weeks ago.
Send me back my letters" she wrote.
Return mine FIRST" he'replied.
II you had been a gentleman You would
NOT nave waited for me to demand their
return wrote she.
Ethics for the use of women only don't
go he responded.
Then there came pause in their cor
IespOndence. The young man wanted his
letters very badly. for he knew he had
made a fool of himself i'm every line of ev-
cry letter. The young lady wanted hers,
because any one would think she was era
~ IN love with such brute.
Send my letters on April 5, and I'll send
yours the same date, so we will both get
them at the same time" wrote he.
All right she ans ered.
Each waited 10 see if the other would
really act in good faith and send the let
terS, so neither received them
"A man who has so little regard for his
word etc, wrote she.
"A woman who would deliberately at
tempt such a confidence game" etc, re-
spOnded he.
There was another pause in the cores
pondence, during which both tried to de-
wise some way of effecting an exchange.
The idea of a third party occurred to both,
but was abandoned. The Intermediary
might read the letters Finally the young
man decided TO so after them. He effect
ed the exchange and now the cOrrespOn-
dence has resumed.
You know, dear little sweetheart, that
l was just teasing YOU" wrote he.
You horrid boy, to treat me so. l have
notion never to love you again" ans
wered she, and there will soon be another
stack of tWO-pOund letters to exchange.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
A Political Bill

There is very little reason % oubt that
the general pension Din that was passed
by the House a day or two ago is intended
to help the republic MS ia The presidentiai
campaign. The rei -blieSa party is not
averse TO using ts- treasury TO make
friends for itseit much Of the enormous
pension bgEden The country is now carry
Ing y due 10 the efforts Of that party TO
c2Strol the soldier vote
The general pension bill was framed
by the committee on invalid pensions. Ct
which Mr.. Picker Of South Dakota IS
chairman. Mr. Picker has contended.
even since he found himself a member OF
congress. that the pension laws are not
liberal enough. We do not know whether
or not he is a pension attorney. but u
is quite clear that he has a kindly feel
ing for attorneys of that class. This pen
sion bill of his viii help the pension at
torneys immensely. 1t opens the way
for getting allowed many applications for
pensions that have been held up for lack
Of proof that the applicants are entitled
to pensions. There are hundreds of thou
sands of these applications. and if half
Of them should be granted the pension
burden would be increased 10 the extent
Of millions of dollars annually. The pen
sion attorneys. who have had very little
to do lately. would reap a rich harvest.
If there were necessity for more lib
eral pension laws the pending bill woulc
not attract much notice. but there doesn't
appear to be any such necessity. Com
missioner Of Pensions Lochren, a man
who is devoted to the cause Of the old
soldiers. having served I'm the war of Sc
cession. sent to the committee on invalid
pensions notices on each Of The provisions
of the bin, showing that the existing laws
afford every opportunity for those who
are entitled to pensions to get them, that
no new laws are needed and that the
proposed law would open the door to
fraud.
No attention was paid to Commissioner
Lochrans views The bill was rushed
through the House, and it looks as if it
would be dealt with in the same hurried
way in the Senate. If it should be the
pension attorneys will have a picnic after
congress adjourns. and they viii have
Mr. Picker to thank for it. 1t is a source
of satisfaction that in the House pretty
nearly all the democrats voted against the
bill.
Harper's Weekly calls attention to the
fact that the record of the war department
shows that on June 30, 1895, there were
1,15fSlO survivors of the union armies, and
that of these survivors 735,SSs were on the
pension rolls, 1877 were waiting action
on their applications for pensions and the
applications of 15O,2O9 were on the rejected
files. These figures show that the pension
attorneys have secured pensions for about
every one entitled 10 a pension. These
attorneys now desire more liberal laws
so they can get pensions for those whose
applications have been rejected. and be
sure of getting pensions for all of those
whose applications have not yet been
acted upon. How much fraud there has
been in this pension business the world
will never know.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02

Il is becoming clearer daily that the
silverites in the republican party viii
not bolt ST they don't get from the St.
Louis convention what they demand. Sen
ator Walcott Of Colorado. who is one Of the
ablest OF the silver senator's. in let
ter 20 the chairman Of the republican
central committee Of his state. says In
effect that he shall stand by his party,
even II il adopts a gold standard plat
form. because it appearing that both the
democratic and republican parties az Tor
sound money and the only party. Tor sill
yer being the popuust party ne thinks
it better to have the gold standard than
popuiism. Nearly all lhe other republic
can senators who are recognized as sill
verites can be depended upon TO stand
by the parry whatever its declaration
on The silver question may be. In fact
Perkins Of California. Mitchell and Nc
Bride of Oregon, Squire and Wilson OF
Washington, Warren and Clark Of Wy
oming and Hanbrough and Pettigrew OF
North and South Dakota have practi-
cally said they would not advise or take
part in any bolt.
Senator Teller Of Colorado still suffers
from the silver craze. and in the Senate
on Wednesday declared he would cease to
be a member of the republican party if il
adopted a sound money platform at ST.
Louis. He might as well have announced
at once that he had severed his connec-
ton with his party. because the St. Louis
convention is going to declare against un-
limited silver coinage as strongly as 1t
can.
Senator Walcott is shrewd enough to sec
that the country is against a degraded
currency, and he has put himself in touch
with the prevailing honest money senu-
ment. Senator Teller and the three or
four other republican senators who have
the silver craze may leave the party, but
they will not be greatly missed. They
may go to the populist party or start a
party of their own. The republican lead
ers will hardly regard what they do as Of
much consequence.
II is worthy of notice that Senator Teller.
in his speech announcing his plans for
the future, made some disclosures that
are of special interest 10 democrats. He
said the tariff bill, which the repubn-
cans passed through the House last vim
ter, was not intended to become a law. 1t
was merely an effort to mislead the peo-
Pile He also said the Mckinley tariff
law, about which the republicans
talk so much, was no better from
any standpoint, than the present
tariff law. and that if it had been
retained 1t would have been necessary
to issue bonds for gold just as has been
done by Secretary Carlisle A statement
like the foregoing. coming from lead
ing republican puts the republican party
in bad light. However. the republi-
can partys reputation for honesty is so
unsavory that nothing any of its leaders
can say against it. is likely to do it much
damage.