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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17
TIE LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.

Mr.. Turnbull introduced bill to
amend the code so as to prevent any
compensation TO witnesses for atten-
dance before justices of the peace In
criminal cases. The object is to prevent
officers from going out of their respec-
tive counties to arrest criminals except
upon the order of the court.
Among the bills introduced were to
amend the code so as to change the
number of persons to be summoned un-
der venire facias in felony cases from
twenty to sixteen.
The Senate bill was passed to amend
an act to provide for the settlement OF
the public debt of Virginia.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Bryant offered a resolution that
it is improper to hire convicts in the
peDitentiary to persons or corporations
so as that they and articles manufac-
tured BY them shall come into compe-
tition with honest labor, &c.
Mr.. Williams offered joint resolu-
ton looking to an amendment to article
three of the constitution, so as to make
county and city treasurers ineligible for
re election for two consecutive terms.
A bill was introduced to amend sec
ton so of San act to provide for the as
sessment of taxes on persons, property
and incomes and on licenses to transact
business" The only change is that an
auctioneer shall be required to pay IN
addition to his license tax an additional
sum of one.eighth of l per centum up
on the amount of sales.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17
The GRANGERs.-Tho State Grange, which

The GRANeERs-The State Grange, which
met in Richmond, on Wednesday, elected the
following officers for the next two years:
Master, Alex. ]. Wedderburn, of Fairfax
overseer, A. J. Newton, Norfolk; Lecturer.
Thomas F. River, Dinwiddie; chaplain, 4.
T. Hutchinson, Accomac steward, R. NJ Coop.
er, Frederick assistant steward, E. Fl. Jones
Fairfax; treasurer, DR.. E. C. Powell Dinwiddia
secretary, Thomas E. Stoddea, Frederj;ck !,
ga.ekeeper, &c. Carme-. Frederick cerss
Mrs. A. ]. Wedderburn, Fairfax: flora Miss
A. Caldwell, Craig; pomona, Mis-, r q
Cainmer; lady assistant, Mrs. Z. y. Cooner.
one member of the executive COMMITTEES n
81. Garrett, OF ioudoun, -
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17

Mr.. Thomas l.. Ball, well-kuown
citizen of Loudoun county, died sud-
denly Wednesday night at the rs-
dence of his brother, Samuel Ball, at
Balls Bluff, near Leesburg.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17

a bill has been introduced in the
Maryland Legislature to prohibit fish,
ing with stake nets in the Chesapeake
bay.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17

Twenty-Five brewers and several engineers
and drivers will be discharged as result of
the strike In Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17


DIPLOMATIC REcEPTIoN.-The Pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland entertained
the diplomatic corps at dinner last
evening at the Executive Mansion.
The East room was magnificent, its
spacious length and breadth being
adorned with myriads of tropical plants
and exquisite flowers and the assem-
bage of men in uniforms and costumes
characteristic of foreign countries,
women glistening with jewels and
gowned with costly fabrics of dainty
hues made q sight rarely seen in the
new world. The Marine Band, sta
TONED in the outer hall, played nation
al airs as only the Marine Band can, as
the President and his wife greeted
their guests, who were presented by
Col. Wilson.
Mrs. Cleveland looked extremely
handsome in pompadour silk of pearly
blue, with blossoms OF cherry color
strewn over it as design. The bodice
was draped with lace and caught with
diamond ornaments and bows of cherry
velvet. Her couture was simply ar
ranged, diamond combs, caught in her
hair at either side.
The long table was set in the hall
way, as is customary on these occa-
sions. Long trays OF gold fligree work
held masses OF pink bridesmaid roses
and ferns, as center decoration, circular
trays holding pink bridesmaid roses in
terspersed with long grasses were
placed at intervals, and gold stands
holding fruit were at either end. Pink
shades capped the silver candelabra,
and ct each plate eight wine glasses
were placed, some pink and green of
Venetian ware.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-17
FIFTY FOURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. II.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to- day.
EOIJSE

Applause following the delivery OF
PRAYER in the House is an unusual,
probably unprecedented, incident IL j S
proceedings, but when Chaplain Couuen
to-day offered the following invocation !:
Our Heavenly Father, we thank Inee
for the degree of special liberty which
we as people enjoy and our hearts 90
out for those in our lands who are
struggling for wider liberty. Es-
pscially do we pray for the Cuoans,
and ask that if they be right tnelr
efforts may be crowned with success.
And we pray that our country may
do for them all that it can without COM
promising its dignity or in disregard OF
It's sacred o: legations and duties 10
other nalions'-tbere wss lively out
break of thanksgiving all over the
fo)r.
Mr.. Howe offered for present con-
siderstion concurrent resolution
directing the joint committee ON the
library to investigate the cause OF de-
law ia finishing the painting in the Capt.
tol rotunda and the removal of the
scaffolding resting against its face dis
figuring its appearance, having remain
ed there unused seven years.
Mr.. Bartlett objected, whereupon
Mr.. Howe remarked that it seemed to
him they might come together upon
such simple proposition, but MIR. Bart,
lett continued his walk up the aisle and
away from Mr. Howe, and the resolu-
ton was referred.
A Joint resolution proposed by Mr..
Moody providing for the distribution
of undistributed sets of the naval rec
ords of the rebellion by members of the
54th Congress, instead of disposing oil
Thorn at public sale as at present re-
quired by law, was agreed to.
The House went into committee OF
the whole to consider the general pen
sion appropriation bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
COLONEL COLT ACQUITTED.

1t is cause for sincere congratulation
that Colonel A. 3. Colt of Ohio has
been acquitted of the charge of man
slaughter, 1t has been more of a per-
secution than prosecution.
A year ago last October Colonel Colt
at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, was
in charge of certain persons accused
Of crime. A mob gathered and was de-
termined to take the prisoners from
him and lynch them. He, like a con-
scientious officer and law-abiding citi-
zen, determined to uphold the law and
protect his prisoners. To repel the
assault of the mob that was trying to
take the prisoners he found it neces-
sary to order the militia to fire upon it,
The result was several were killed.
For this he was indicted and ever since
has been subjected to much annoy
ance and great expense. Why was
this? Simply because the authorities
of the county where the affair occurred
were political towards who thought
that by catering to the cries of denun-
citation Of a bowling mob to gain votes
That is all.
There is more or less of a sentiment
abroad in the land that because the
people are the source of power that
they have right to disregard laws
and defy officers. 1t is a false and per-
nicious sentiment and has no founda-
ton or justification in law A mob
that undertakes to rescue a prisoner
from the officers of the law is law
less body and should be dealt with &C
cordingly, no matter how many votes
there may be in it.
Colonel Colt has set an example that
should be followed by every sheriff and
marshal throughout the land. a jury
of his peers has indicated him, and
the better sentiment of the entire coun-
try will praise them for it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
DuNRAvEN ONCE MORE.

The committee appointed by the New
York Yacht club to investigate the
charges of Lord Dunraven against the
Defender and her owners. has made
its report. Just what the report is we
are unable to say, it not having been
published in full, but the charges were
not sustained. Some of the English
papers treat the report as fair while
some do not. Of this latter class is
the London Globe. Its insinuations are
as contemplate as the charges of Dun
raven which it defends. The personnel
of the committee against which these
charges are made was of as high a
character as it was possible to choose
in all the United States.
The St. James Gazette speaks of the
report in very proper spirit, saying
that Lord Dunraven owes it to himself
as a gentleman to apologize to those
he accused without justification. It is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
THE GERMAN NAVY.

News comes from Berlin that En-
peror William is determined to carry
out the project of doubling the size Of
the German navy. If such is his deter
mination. and he adheres to 1t, it is
very likely that in time the German
navy will be doubled. At present it
consists of POI vessels of all kinds. OF
this number Is are battleships, 5 of the
first class, 3 of the second and 5 of the
third. 1t has come to be recognized
that the main strength of any navy Is
its battleships
That which has so suddenly deter
mined the emperor to insist upon
doubling the German navy is undoubt-
eddy the fitting out of the flying
squadron by England. and the marvel
ously short time in which it was done.
When the German navy shall have been
doubled it will be far below the size
and strength of the English navy to-
day. The English navy consists of 4S9
vessels of all kinds OF which A are
battleships, 20 of the first class, s of
the second and 7 of the third. Then it
is the policy Of England to make the
strength of her navy equal to the COM
bined strength of any two navieis Of the
world This being her policy, if any
other nation or nations enter upon a
policy of rapid enlargement of their
navies she will do the same; and her
facilities are such that she can easily
keep pace with them.
William can very easily inaugurate a
naval policy that will require all the
financial resources of the empire to
carry out, even if it does not demand
more than they can stand. 1t begins
to look as though Europe, having
reached the limit of land armament,
were about to enter upon a career of
great naval armament.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

and say if it is not justified by the
facts-though the method of express
sion may have been somewhat intern
perate
AS to the second passage: Mr.. Till
man says. without expressing his own
belief or unbelief in the matter. that
the last bond sale was managed in
such a manner that there had been
created the suspicion in the minds of
millions of his countrymen that a
president of the United States can use
his high Office for private gain" Is
that not true? Nor is it true that
President Cleveland did so use his
high Office. but that the suspicion has
been created in the minds of millions
of his countrymen that he did so use
it.
If it will be any comfort to Fair
Play" we can say frankly that we do
not believe that Grover Cleveland has
been bought outright by bribery; or
that he made personally one penny
from the last bond sale. His conduct,
which bears evidence of his estrange
ment from the plain people and their
interests, may be accounted for upon
other and more reasonable grounds
1t results from the subtle but powerful
influence of association with those who
represent the moneyed interests alone
Of this country; and through isolation
from the plain people. and lack of an
intimate acquaintance with their inter-
ests and aspirations. 1t is a case of evil
associations corrupting-not good man
ners, perhaps, but good principles and
turning awry good intentions. Presi-
dent Cleveland eats, drinks, talks and
thinks with the aristocratic element of
American society. He looks at things
from their standpoint. Nay, he sees
things through their eyes and concludes
that their interests are the peoples in
terests. He had persuaded himself to
the rig'htfulness of that belief, and
it has estranged him from the common
people and their interests
We rejoice in such rude shocks as the
rough speech of Tillman has given, not
because we admire the bluntness of
them, the brutality of them, if
you will, but because we hope
that they will tend to break the hyp-
motto spell which seems like a pail to
enshroud the lives Of our public men
Al Washington.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

the general opinion in this country that
his lordship is not gentleman, so the
conduct of a gentleman is no longer
expected of him. OF the whole affair
we are inclined to say with the Pan
Mall Gazette:
1--WE hope the incident will close in
ternational contests between England
and America. Lately there has been
so much ill-feeling that it would almost
be a matter of regret that they should
continue. We are told that Yale in
tends to row at Henley. Let everyone
concerned do his best to prevent any
unfriendly feeling resulting from the
visit, and possibly then, in time, an
other challenge may be issued for the
America S cup
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Senator humans TRADE.

In every particular belonging to it and
attending 1T the speech of Senator Till
man was an extraordinary performance.
1t was especially extraordinary in the
fact that the man making it could have
held this concentrated venom SO long
without an explosion, and it was even
more extraordinary in the fact that the
senate allowed it to be made. The gross
ly indecent abuse of the president and
the secretary of the treasury which it
contained would quickly subject the Of
fender to discipline if attempted to be
made against any such exalted officials
in legislative assembly in any other
country in the world. In sustained sour
rility this Eruption breaks all records in
the annals of congress.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

Senator-elect from Maryland, was born
OF German parentage at Cumberland,
Allegany county, Maryland. january
%, 1852; attended a German school,
otherwise self-educated. AT the age of
u began work at a canal store. In 1870
was appointed as a clerk in the Second
National bank in his town; was ap-
pointed treasurer of Allegany county in
1882 and served until 1898; was again
appointed in 1890.
EIe was defeated for comptroller of
Maryland in 1889; was appointed by
President Harrison assistant treasurer
of the United States at Baltimore in
July, 1890.
He was defeated for congress in 1892
and was re-nominated in 1894 and
elected to the Fifty-fourth congress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
THE LAuREATE's FIRST RIDE.

Song, is it song? well-bIow it,
But I'll sing it, boys, all the same,
Because I'm the Laureate Poet
That's the worst of having name.
I must be inspired to order
go, tell 'em to save their BREATH"
I can rhyme to "order" with BORDER
And jingle to breath with death"
"Let lawyers and statesmen addle
Their pates over points of law"
OF Pegasus I'm in the saddle,
But why does he cough "Hee-haw?''
Eight stanzasl Inspired Mad ones!
Sound well If sung TO a band
Therel dash it! some good, some bad
ones
To finish with Crossings" and Rand "
Punch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Personal BlackEuardism.

The friends of silver cannot be too Bit
ter in their denunciation of Cleveland s
desertion from the Democratic camp on
the great issue, but they must draw the
line between political issues and personal
blackguardism and it Is pleasing to know
that with the exception of Tillman, who
is South Cardinals chief eccentric, every
champion of bimetallism in the senate
and house has proved worthy of the steel
Of the ablest and most artful of the
enemy's spokesmen.-Butte Miner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

Both Of the senators from the
youthful state of Utah re advocates
Of free coinage. which is not strange
which they have acquired their inan-
cial opinions. Now. however, they are
in surroundings in which they will
speedily learn that the silver-producing
regions Of the country really constitute
only minor portion Of the United
States" says the Mail and Express.
A careful study of the vote in the SEN
ate Saturday on the free silver bill is
recommended TO the Mail and Express.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Ur. Prices Cream Batting Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.

]. W. Pierce, Republic, Ia, says: IT
my family and for myself, with results
so entirely satisfactory that 1 can
hardly find words to express myself
as to its merit. I will never fail to
recommend it to others, on every oc-
casion that presents itself" For sale
by all druggists. Nelden-Judson,
wholesale dealers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
A senatorial BIacIsguard.

The speech of senator-God save the
nlark-Tillnan of South Carolina in the
senate yesterday. was the most out
rageous abuse Of the American idea of
free speech which is guaranteed in our
constitution, as well as the most shame
full prostitution of the dignity and self
respect of the United States senate, that
has so far been witnessed in the history
Of this country. kansas City Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
A Torrent of Abuse.

It Is not worth while to analyze the
speech. 1t was a torrent of abuse
aimed at President Cleveland in particu-
lar and the business interests of the
country in general. Mr.. Tillnan evident
ly thinks that the farmers Of his state
are at outs with all the American people
who do not live by the cultivation of the
soil-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Reformers Arc Needed.

Reformers such as Tillman are needed
Call them radicals If it be a better word,
but they are needed, and the words Of
the senator from South Carolina will be
echoed in every corner of the land where
there are men who still regard right
devotion to their country is not for what
they can make out Of it in the way Of
gain, but because they love it and revere
its institutions. More than half the SEN
ators. who listened to Senator Tillman,s
speech agreed with him in what he said,
but hardly one of them would have dared
to take so bold a stand.-Denver Republic
can.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Exposed the COLD Connnirncv.

Probably no speech was ever delivered
in the senate so full of invective, so direct
in its charges and so plain in its use
Tillman on Wednesday on the silver is
sue. 1t mercilessly exposed the gold con-
spiracy and its control of the two old
parties, and tmpaled President Cleveland
as the subservient tool of the conspira-
tors.-DenVer News
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

It was a pitiful exhibition that he made,
one which will make every South Caro-
linian blush for shame that a state once
represented by Calhoun and Hayne should
have as its exponent a man so coarse and
vulgar. Truly the pitchfork will here
after be regarded as the most appropriate
emblem of Tillrn anisrn, and as that in
strument is used almost exclusively in
the barn yard it is pity that the SEN
ator does not confine his talents to the
same sphere.-Baltimore Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
SENATOR T1LLMAN,s SPEECH.

The Worst Expectations Justified.
Senator Tillman has justified the worst
expectations regarding his career in the
senate. He has displayed his peculiar
ability and his tremendous vigor at the
full. He has strained senatorial courtesy
and thrown away respect for the admins
tration. All this he has done in defense
OF the discredited and tiresome free silver
fallacy.-PittSburg Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
The Trouble with T,,Jmon.

They do say that Mr.. Tillmans swan
like neck is wrinkled like a crimping pin
of the White House has put his foot on
it. Yet TiIlman kept still We must re-
member this to his credit Whenever
Tillman is keeping still he is deserving
well Of his country Yesterday, when he
called the president all the names he
could think of. The effort was fairly Or
ig'nal and not uninteresting.-Ch Chicago
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

Tillman's speech was mastery, if I'M
conscious, satire on the whole free silver
crowd. If he had set out to make them
the laughing stock of the country he
could not have done better to thus re-
produce the baldest of their absurdities in
a single serious performance.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
A Terrific Arrangement.

Senator Tillman is the latest to prove
that ''silver is dead" His terrific ar
ralgnment of the single gold standard and
its upholoers may not make many con-
verts, but it will impress upon the world
the fact that the friends of silver are
very much alive. and that they have not
abandoned one jot or title of the princi-
pies of observation-disclosures Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

"A Missouri firm has contracted to
supply 500 mules to the British war de-
partment But isn't 1t reasonable to
supply the enemy with instruments of
destruction?" saws the Chicago Dis
patch. It is not many papers that
would be able to register q kick before
the mule Itself could. yet the Dispatch
has.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
thoughtful Mr.. TiIIn,nn.

However, it was quite Thoughtful in
Mr. Tillman to notify Mr.. Cleveland in
order that the latter might slip out Of
town while the castigation was in prog
Washington Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

The fact is, Tillman laid bare the true
inwardness of populism, or, more properly
speaking, American communism and
when he talked about revolution and
hosts marching upon Washington bearing
rifles he Simply unfolded the purpose and
desire of the Herr Mosts of the country,
of which the senator from South Carolina
wants to be general in chief.-Sioux City
Tribune
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
Which Aroided the other,

Did the president go duck hunting to-
day because he knew that Ben Tillman
was after him, or did Ben Tillman as
sault the president with many hard
names today because he knew that the
as5ailed was absent Washington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

THE senate was never so large a
body as now and it never stood lower
IN the public esteem" So says the
New York Evening Post. The idea
seems to be that the larger it gets
the smaller 1t becomes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

The Chicago Times-Herald says
Utah has simply contributed a couple
Of hard knots to the financial problem
which confronts the senate" Is it in
timated that the Utah senators are
hut . couple of sticks?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03

Walter wellman says Tillman ges-
tdculates like man playing King
Lear. He even executed something
like a skirt dance to illustrate one of
his lancies." Looked at from .afar 1t
resembled a sword dance more.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
UnjustifabIe Abusive Epithets.

But there is no political contingency
or national crisis that could justify the
TRADE of coarse and abusive epithe"
which Mr.. Tillman applied to the presi-
dent and to Mr.. Carlisle in his speech in
the Senate,-Chicago Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-03
why Ti1Iman Was bitter.

When Senator Tillman remembers the
four hours he spent in sleet and snow in
order to honor the president on Inaugural
ton day, and contemplates what has hap
pened since then, it is not unnatural that
he should have brought his pitchforl to
Washington this winter.-St. Louis Post
DISPATCH.