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as unfair, even by papers not favorable to
| Democratic principles He asserted that
| this bill was destined to add TO the bur-
dens OF the laboring men under Sem
| blance OF protecting American industries
| 1t would foster trusts and mcnopolies and
send more laboring men to walk the
| streets.
He assented that short bill could he
| prepared which would raise any revenue
required. He read table showing that
| the Republicans have taken $205 900 600
| of taxes from the rich and put them on
the poor. OF these $72, 100000 was IN
| come tax taken away in one year, and in
another SEA 900 ,oG0 from manufactures
used only by the rich.
When he compared Il land held by million
aires, who lived in palaces in the cities,
while a poveity-burdened peasantry titled
the soil and manned the looms, with the
condition this country is leaving. where
the farms are dotted with comfortable
homes and the majority CT tie people are
Independent, liberty -lovin men. there
was Il hurst of applause on the democratic
side.
He asked how, as an agricultural nation,
producing a great surplus of corn, cotton,
wheat, etc, this country could get along
without the opening of the foreign mar
ktt. This argument had been presented
when the McKinieybil was under discussion,
but there was no answer except 10 say that
the foreign market is myth.
The facts disproyed this. and the falsty
OF the position was admitted by the reci-
procity movement reaching out for this
very foreign market. He read a compara-
tive statement showing how our foreign
markets have grown and that, too, with
out the slightest protection.
he pointed out that the United States
produces 80 per cent of the W orld's coal,
33 per cent of its pig-iron, and 40 per
cent Of its steel. He said Birmingham,
Ala, had shipped to England last year
10000 tons of pg-iron.
They could have shipped more if they had
have had shipped When he wrote to iron
men of his State to ask what duty they
wanted the answer was make pig iron
free''
What are the names of some of those
men?" asked a Republican member.
"a Mr. Mackin, n resident of New York
city, WAS one of then,'' was the reply,
amid Democratic applause. And why is
it? Because we make pig-iron for half
what it costs in Pennsylvania ZAP
piause1
lie then turned to cottonseed oil and told
how, against his protest, a tariff had been
pat on tie oil to protectit. As he prophe-
sled, the result had been injurious To this
young industry.
He then explained how the Wilson bill,
contrary to Republican prophecies, had
failed entirely to cut down our manufact-
urcs and the exports of them. He read
statistics at length in proof of his assar.
tions.
In reply to questions from Mr.. VIII
Jams and other Democrats, when little
The times., 1897-03-23
PROBABLY KILLED HIMSELF.
The Potomac TO Be Dragged for
Tedy Benseman's Body.


The bottom Of the Potomac off the bath
ing beach. near the Monument grounds,
will be ora ggedtomorrow morning in search
OF Tedy Benseman, whois supposedto have
drowned himself in that vicinity some time
yesterday. VINO Tedy Benseman is no
one had been found late last night who
knew. He came to Washington from Co
lumbia, s C., in search of work This
much was learned from the message which
Benseman left behind when ne is supposed
to have drowned himself.
Willie Tucker, a small colOred boy,
found the evidence for the supposition
that a man had committed suicide AS
the boy was walking along The shore he
founG at the waters edge a EecuEaT-loOk-
ing bottle. His curiosity prompted him
to fish 1t out and examine its contents
There was a note inside, that read as
follows:
March 22-win the person that finds
this be kind enough 70 spend cents and
let my folks know that l am no more.
l have tried four months TO get work, but
fail The only thing ! could GO was work
for my hoard. aud l had 10 where to sleep.
1 was q sober, industrious young man.
.TEDY BENSEMAN,"
527 EInwCOd avenue, Columbia, S. c.
The message was well written and per-
fcctly lcgible, in a small. vertical hand
writing muchii6e a woman hand Wheth-
or or not the supposed suicidei is a white or
cOl0red man S not known Tie handwrit-
ing. however. would Indicate that he was
fairly well educated, and lead 70 the belief
among the police that the man may pos
sibly be white.
No clothing or any Of the supposed sui
cidc's effects were found upon the beach,
and therei some speculation as 10 whether
or not tLc whole thiurg is "A hoax As the
man did not rcsidehere. however, no motive
can be shown for any attempt at deception,
and for this reason the suppOsi,-on is that
there may be "a man at the bottom Of the
river.
The address at Columbia givenin the note
was advised cf the finding last night, but
up to a late hour nothing had been heard
in reply. The police boat Will go to the
scene this morning, and make search for
the body OF the supposed sIicide.
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1
of the Wilson bill and Grover I. Gap
| plause.) But he would ask were there NJ
| misery in the country before the secont
| term of Cleveland, or even the first term
| There are causes for all effects, and car
any man deny that the mills are stopped
| simply because they can't sell their pro
| duct? Why not? The Republicans say
| it is due 10 a flood OF foreign goods No
sirs; our people are not surfeited--in the
West and South they are longing to get the
goods now in the mills. Why don I they
buy them? Because they have nothing
with which To buy. tApplause) He would
challenge the Republicans to say how they
would buy the future surplus product when
they can't buy what is now in stock.
iApplause.1
Mr. Greene pitched into the campaign
document of Mr. Mckinley opening the
mills He wanted to know what good
that would do? The Republican cry was:
"Oh, Wen Just open the mills" CAP
plauseD He also severely, but humor-
ously, arraigned the reciprocity of Cleye-
land and the Republican party, and main
tanned that the latter say not to its late
brother .'Raca'' lest it be in danger Of
he'll fire. Great laughter and applause)
And again, he noted how sweet it was
for such recipTocating brethren to now
dwell together in unity and peace
Why did the Republicans put a tariff on
wheat, when they knew all the wheat
brought to this country was seed wheat?
They did it to fool the farmer; and they
put a tariff on corn for the same purpose.
1t was the case of Jonah shifting Amaziah.
Df
fifth rib, too
Yes in the fifth rib
A Republican, You mean the Popu-
lists?
"No, sir; mean you Republicans. ZAP
plause.) And l want to say that you
can no longer fool the people of the West
and South. You have called US anarchists
and repudiationists. / want To say sir,
that there is not an anarchist or repudi-
ationist on the soil of the State from which
/ came" (Great applausel The speaker
continued his eulogy OF the people of the
West amid renewed applause.
A RepubIican-W VIII you tell us what
your relief is?
Yes, sir; it is to go back to the money
of the Constitution that you took away
from US. tApplause) And another
remedy would be that You take your
hands out of the farmers pockets" TAP
plause.)
Whose hands,
1.-The hands, sir. of the monopolists
and trusts" tApplause.)
Mr.. Talbert to the Republicans-Ask
him mother ONE
Republican do they rob the
farmer?''
They do il, sir, ny putting an ex-
orbitant tariff on everything we have to
buy and making us sellin the openmarket.''
Great applause The speaker here read
statistics to show the aggregation of
of the country's wealth into the hands
of few, and ascrihed that fact to the
drift and opportunities of the Republican
party.
A Republican asked him if everything
cheap enough now.
"oh, yes. it is: but that is what YOU are
about daughter and ap-
plausc)
Mr.. Greene proceeded with statistics to
show the increase in the number of strikes
within the past thirty years; in 1891 and
1892, the years of the Mckinley bill. there
being ,262 lockouts and 1852 strikes
iApplause.)
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great civil war had carried the country
by its wise and energetic government into
a period of unex ampled prosperity. BY the
protective tariff based upon principles
adopted in the time of Abraham Lincoln IL
haG built UP American industries, supplied
home market, and given higher wages to
American workmen than were to be found
elsewhere in the world. 1t had added nine
stars to the flag by the building up of new
States, and the representatives of those
CONFERENCE.-The were now OH that floor
and in the Senate.
Under what atparty," asked Gen. Wheeler,
was the territory acquired out of which
these States were made?"
Your party tried it's best to carry
eleven States OUT was the reply. APP
plause greeted this, then a ripple OF
laughter, and as Gen. Wheeler, who had
come over on the Republican side, returned
to the Democratic ranks a second wave
The times., 1897-03-23

all pauper 1aborers and is .'crucified be
tween the foreign pauper and the Ameri.
can thief (Applause.J
He made the point that denying the
capacity of foreign people to buy here
was to deny the capacity or this country
to dispose of it's surplus. There was not
money enough in the world to buy our
products, even If they were desire d,
and so the only way TO sell them was
to admit in exchange the products of the
rest Of the world. 1t was this undis-
posed OF surplus OF ours that produced
lockouts and strikes, and yet we are teld
this bill is in the interest Of the work
ingman. He grew suspicious, however.
when he saw the trusts and mon0poliSts
taking such interest in the welfare of the
poor laborer and farmer Wasn't it
Judas Iscariot who Complained Of the
waste of ointment, and wanted it sold
for the poor? An. my friends, Judas did
not care for the poor; we know he was
thief (Applause.) The American wor6-
ingman did not need the protection offered
him, had he the opportunity TO use his
skill, his Intelligence, his energy, his strong
right arm, his spirit, his ambition Cap
pIause)
Republican-Win you kindly tell
US how we viii! otherwise get the neces-
sary revenues of the Government?
II will say that it does not necessarily
follow that the tariff you propose will pro-
duce the revenues; it was not so under
the Mckinley bill. tApplausej
The Mckinley bill destroyed revenues
and practically bankrupted the Treasury,
and so gave Cleveland an excuse for every
thing he did" (ApplauseJ
Mr.. Brucker, of Michigan, addressed him
self principally TO the argument Of Mr.
Cannon that the bill would favorably affect
the laboring man. He would refer partic-
ularly to the wood schedule, as he came
from the Saginaw Valley, in which was
the great lumber interest. At present the
great pine industry was nearly gone.
Monopolists bought up the forests, got
tariff and went to Canada and employed
thousands OF pauper labOrers. All these
industries euow owned by men whom yo1
can count on your fingers, and men vino
make no discrimination between American
and Canuck labor; and there are as many
Canadian asAmericanlogs as sawed in Ameri-
can mills. Whom will this law benefit?
Only those few who own the pine trees:
and these men want the Canadians to put
an import duty on logs and so stop at least
half OF the mills on the American side. They
claim that, with all their facilities, they
can't put their lumber on the market with
out the 50 per thousand, and none Of this
goes into the pocket of the dear labO-ing
man. 1t was sad commentary to see
these few men come here and ask for the
assistance of Congress He would there
fore, at the proper time, ask that the rate
be reduced from So to 81.
The times., 1897-03-23
BLAND IN POSITION

putthe saltrebate in favor of Phil Armour,
and the lumber rebate in favor of the
Standard Oil Company. Perhaps this re-
bate was due largely, he said, sa sarcast,cally
to the fact that these gentlemen had con
tributcd much 10 the late campaign fund
He challenged the Republicans TO show that
any laboring man had ever asked TO have
this So tax put on lumber,
AT 1880 the committee rose, an adjourn
ment being had until this morning at 10
o'clock.
The times., 1897-03-23

on raw material, on the finished product.
He specified the many things which are
taxed fromthe cradle to a protected tomb
stone. (Applause.)
Mr. Greene of Nebraska began by stat
Ing the proposition, referring TO the Re-
publicans, that the question was not what
mad they done in The remote past, but want
did they promise? He was struck with
the quaintness of the Presidents message.
Out West he would be called calamity
bowler, for he had learned thatit was not
theory now before the people, but n con
dition. The agricultural class were even
now in a worse condition than ever before
We are told thatitisall due to the atrocities
The times., 1897-03-23
THE TARIFF BILLS COMPARED.
Ways and Means Committee ISSUES
an Interesting Statement.

Ways and Means Committee Issues
an Interesting Statement.
The Ways and Means Committee made
public yesterday detailed statements show
ing the estimated revenue under the new
measure for each schedule, with the aver
age ad valorem rates under the Mckinley
law, the present law and the pending
bill:
Dutiable value of merchandise for the
year 1893. S40O, ,069. .65S; for 1 500, $780,
796, ,561; estimated by proposed law, S479, :
$40 ,406. Revenue collected in 1898,
S19S, ,373, 452; in 1895, S156,1O4, 59S;
estimated by proposed lay, S273. sol ,721.
Equivalent ad valorem under law of
1893, 49. So per cent; under law of 1896,
1894 per cent; under proposed law, 81 O3
The times., 1897-03-23
HER TRIAL TRIP POSTPONED.
The Gunboat Wilmington Will Have
an Official Test Wednesday.

New London, Conn, March 22.-The
speed trial for the new gunboat Whining
ton will not take place tomorrow on Long
Island Sound as was anticipated. The
weather indicates that it will continue 10
be thick tomorrow and besides the second
boat, the Helena, which is also to be given
an official trial here, has not yet put in an
appearance.
The builders of the vessels the Newport
News Shipbuilding Company, have the
privilege of setting the date for the trials
according to the terms of the agreement,
and representatives OF the shipbuilding firm
notified Commander Dewey, U s. N, presi.
dent OF the naval board, tonight that the
gunboats would not be ready for the trial
until Wednesday.
The times., 1897-03-23
Thev Tested Their Speed.

Messrs. Robert Allen and Charles Langer
last night settIeda long standing difference
OF opinion as to which of them is the
fastest sprinter. The course chosen was
the stretch on Tenth stree, from ID to Z
streets. a distance OF sixty yards. The
purse was S25, and was won 10y Mr. Allen
in u Garrison finish.
The times., 1897-03-23
ARTHUR D1GGs' CANE FOUND.
II May Work as Evidence Against
Him.

Him.
No further arrests had been made last
night in the murder case of Rose Lowe and
Jesse Jaci5son at Walkers Chapel Saturday
night Arthur Diggs. or Parker. who is
confined in the Jail at Alexandria, stead
fastly maintains his innocence, and denies
any connection with the crime
1t was discovered yesterday that two
canesinstead of one. as heretOfOrereported
were found near the dead bodies, which
would tend to prove that Diggs is guilty
of the murder of jackson The first one
found is supposed to have been the one
carried by jackson and with which he
struck the woman; the other. tits believed,
is the one which Diggs used in beating
Jackson.
Neither of the Carter boys has vet been
arrested, thought is understood that war
rants are out for their arrest.
The times., 1897-03-23
WITHOUT A RIVAL.

Annual Sales nI0re than 6,000,000 Boxes
Csc. at Drug Stores, or viii be sent by U.s.
Agents B. F. Allen CO., 3s5 Canal ST.. New
York, 'ost paid.-apon receipt OF price. Book
free upon application
The times., 1897-03-23
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.

BEECHAT,S PILLS, taken as directed,
Will quickly rests-e Females tocomplete health.
They promptly remove distractions or irregn
IaritIes of the system. Fora
The times., 1897-03-23
Our Perfected Static Electrical
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The times., 1897-03-23
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Skilled Physicians Give Advice and Pre-
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Not one cent S required Tor consultation,
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Every appliance has been added TO our
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The times., 1897-03-23
Our Homeopathic Remedies

Quickly relieve and speedily cure Catarrh,
Dyspepsia, rheumatism All Nervous and
Blood Diseases, Female Kidney and Bladder
JrOuDfaS
The times., 1897-03-23
Catarrh POslliYely cured.

Our office is thoroughly equipped for the
treatment of every fOrnI Of Catarrh- The
treatment consists OF mild, sOOtninG lotions
which give relief from the first application,
and of internal remedies, which act on tho
blood and nerves and thoroughly eradicate
the disease from the system
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-27
COURT cULLINds.

The jsry list for San Miguel county IL
being revised at the assessors office.
In the case of Springer against Stevens,
in Colfax county, a plea has been filed.
The replication Of the plaintiff and bis
answer TO the cross-bill Of the defendant,
have been filed In the case Of Ilfsld vs.
Hunsks.
In the district court at Trinidad, Colo,
the case Of VIM. HoyIe, the man who shot
Senator Casimiro Barsla at Hoehne, some
time ago, came up for hearing. The case
10 an interesting one.
The property Of the Las Vegas street
railway company will be sold by the
sheriff, on Saturday, February 9th, 1897,
to satisfy the sum Of $2.s72.7l damages and
SIT costs, In favor of Charles Ilfeld. I
Brakeman Rankin, who was raid to be
implicated In the assault ON DR.. Dow, was
taken back to La Junta, Colo. from Ration,
by Under sheriff Gsmmill. He waivsd ex-
animation before Justice Burns, up there,
and was bound over to the district court,
under bonds of $500, which he promptly
furnished.
United States Attorney Matt G.. Rey-
nolds and John r.. Knasbsl, the latter at
tornsy of Denver, are In Washington, en-
gagged In the hearing of the Antonio Chavss
land grant case before the United States
suprsme court. Mr.. Reynolds Is for the
United States and Mr.. Knaebel represents
the grant claimants.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-27
HOTEL MATTERS.

The other day. . guest at the Mountain
house, hot springs, met with q misfortune
rather the pony he was riding did. the
animal breaking its leg at q faulty bridge,
up the canon from the watering resort.
The Hotel Mems confidential agency In
New York, N. Y, has issued a special bull
letin, advising hotel men to look out for w.
H. Helm, age twenty-five to twenty seven
years, height, five feet seven or eight In
ches, weight 100 to 140 pounds, smooth face,
fresh complexion.
So soon as that promised new Depot ho-
tel Is erected In this city, and the sooner
the better, it al no longer be said by east
srn newspaper correspondents In their Lett
tiers, quasi descriptive Of the country, that
at Las Vegas passengers stop for meals and
are run up a cattle chute to . frame board
ing house, known by the suphonious name
of tho Harvey house!
Harry Simpson. the genial and hand
some clerk at the Plaza hotel. has provided
himself with q plug hat, which the Same
he wears on state occasions, only. Harry
should 'look . lesdle OUT" else he will be
wearing diamonds the first thing he knows,
just as hotel clerks at seaside resorts In the
ffste east are wont to do, in season and
out Of season.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-27
ErrHR OF INQUIRY.

G. K. wilkinson writes to several parties
in this city, from Phoenix. Arizona, In
curing ths advantages Of these parts A. q
health resort. They are many, Mr.. W.
too numerous to mention.
Cook & Bell, Ariaona jewellers, with
stores in Prescott and Phoenix, and Of
which firm Geo. n. Cook. formerly of Las
Vegas, is a member, desire that a late copy
of THE OPTIC be mailed to their address at
Prescott, in our sister Territory.
As has been his custom for years, Alex.
D. Cambsll, without the "p." postofice
box .2116, New York City, addresses this
office for a marked copy Of tho edition con-
tanning a list of the recently elected bank
directors. No change in Las Vegas, Mr..
.s'p"-less Cambell.
This office has been politely requested to
hunt up papers of July, 1898, containing
accounts Of the sickness, death and burial
of G.. @. Heckls, Of the firm Of stock rails
ers, Heckle g. Mcdowell. The inquiry pos.
sibly has something to do with the settle.
ment Of An estate In the east.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-27
An Ugly Pronunciation.

Apropos of the notes on Hands concert
In last evenings Optic, the writer of the
same would say that he IL not unaware
that the dictionaries print the word ''pro-
grant, with the hrst syllable accented, but
1t remains a fact, worth observing, that
the second syllable-on the ~tongus-should
be almost as much emphasized ~ the first.
The ~innovator's error lies in speaking the
word as progrum, short sound Of H." and
the second syllable much contracted,
whereas the dictionaries give the short
sound Of "a" and not the obscure sound Of
''a", usually written and pronounced AZ
short ~" where admissible. "Progrumn
is not only inaccurate, but 1t 10 ugly, and
its frequent use In Las Vegas Is to be dep
recated.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-27
rna DREAD suMMoSs.


The funeral of Ar ton : tho slx-months4
old infant OF Jose Abel Ssiaksr and Juanita
Montoy a y 5alazar, took place at the sast
side Catholic church, At ii o'clock, this
morning.
Mrs. Mamie Bourne Ayers writes from
Marietta, Georgia, that her husband died
on January End, his remains having been
cremated Ia Baltimore, Maryland. The
urn with his ashes was deposited In
his mothers grave In that city. Deceased
was confined to his bed two months before
his death. II will be remembered that Mr..
Ayers and wife were guests Of the ri Por-
venir resort from October to June, Of last
year.
D. W. Seaver, of Carthage, Mo-, died Of
consumption At the Plaza hotel, In Las We
gas, last night. He had but arrived on the
evening train. from his Missouri home, &C.
c~ompanied by DIR. o.. Wise, Of Carthage,
aud it wal hoped that the grim messenger
would not SO soon claim his victim. But
IL had been decreed otherwise. He came
too late for climatic benefit, wen In New
| Mexico. The body Of the deceased 10 being
prepared for shipment back, by Undertaken
Biehl.
Arthur, eldest son Of sx.Gov. Edmund
@. Ross, Of this Territory, died Of heart
failure at Ventura, California, on January
goth, 1897. Deceased was born at Nil
waukse, Wis.,, June 2sth, 1858, and came to
New Mexico to reside 10 1884. He owned
and lived upon q farm about three miles
south Of town, says the Albuquerque Dem
ocrat, which he acquired from the United
States government, and which he had well
improved. He leaves q wife and three
| children, all of whom are now In California.
Mrs. Ross parents and other relatives live
at Ventura and she and her husband and
children were there visiting at the time Of
his death. having left here last Dscsmber
for the purpose OF remaining ayear, having
the property here meantime In the charge
Of his brothers, Pitt and Kay Ross.
Death has again invaded the Cavanaugh
household, In this city, this time claiming
| the father ~ its own. M. J. Cavanaugh
departed this life at $40 o'clock, this morn
Iiug. He knew that the dread summons
had come and he was prepared to obey
them. Deceased was born in the town OF
Galway, Ireland, September 21st, 1882,
coming to this country at the early age Of
nineteen years. In 1856, he was married
to Miss Margaret L. Farrell, 10 deceased,
by which union twelve children were born,
seven of whom still survive their parents.
all of them being at homo excepting two,
who are detained elsewhere by sickness.
The funeral will take place FROM the wet
side Catholic church, on Friday, the exact
hour to be yet fixed upon by the family.
who have the heartfelt sympathy OF all, IN
the great and almost unbearabls Affections
of the past few months.