Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-18

AesS iuthIloOly AOOuo IuOSS VINO
could not read and write ten times
more Industrious, temperate, intelligent,
and honest than those corrupted by the
trumpery education of the schools. I
have had for twenty years an old man
SwhO would be called an old man at
least In England) in my service, and he
can he sent with fifty commissions to
purchase objects detailed to him only
orally, and he will execute these COM
missions without q single error either
OF oblivion or Of payment. Yet such
q man as this you would turn ava
from your shores while you would ad-
init the youth corrupted, emasculated.
and diseased through cheap Journalism,
bad tobacco, and the enforced physical
fdleness Of the schools"
TELLS OF HOUSE PRocEkDINas
Important Bin Relating - the Arid Re-
gions-Hopkfns r. Kendall.
Washington, Feb. 1s.-The house yes
terday after a two hours debate passed
q bill Of considerable Importance to the
arid regions OF the west. 1t opens to
use and occupation under the right-of-
way act OF March 3. 1891, all the re-
servoir sites reserved by the geological
survey. There are 1873 of these sites
scattered throughout the arid country
and this act will enable them to be
put to practical use by individuals or
corporations. The conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was adopted and a
bill was passed to remove the political
disabilities of Colonel William E. Simms,
of Kentucky. who was q member Of the
Thirty-ninth congress.
Daniels opened the argument in the
Hopkins-Kendall contest from the
Tenth Kentucky district. On the face
of the returns Kendall had 253 plurality.
The point at issue in the case was as to
the vote of Clark county. The election
was conducted under an Australian bal
lot law in accordance with which each
party had an emblem at the head of the
ticket. The emblem of the Democratic
party was the rooster" that Of the Re-
publican party an eagle about to fly"
An illegal trick, 1t is said, was prac-
ticed by the clerk of Clark county by
which a ~"raccoon" was placed at the
head of the Republican ticket and the
"eagle about to fly" over q bogus
ticket.
That bogus ticket received 70 votes,
but it was claimed by the minority that
the changes in the emblems induced
many illiterate Republicans to decline
to vote-enough to overcome Kendalrs
plurality. The vote will be taken to-
day.
Farmers Alliance sapreme Council.
Washington, Feb. IA discussion
over the insurance system of the order
occupied most of the first session Of the
supreme council Of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union yes
terday. The committee on changes in
the constitution reported in favor Of al
lowing the National Alliance Aid, now
In session at Dallas, Tex, to vote on the
proposition to continue to operate under
h control Of the executive committee
OF the supreme council, or to become an
indepenent organization under a char
ter Of its own. This report was adopted
and the of the Aid ,whateveritm may
be. will be Endorsed and the organization
allowed to secede In peace in the inter-
ests of harmony.
A resolution was adopted petitioining
congress not to place q tariff on gypsum
rock. which for many years has beer
free of duty. A number of demands in
regard to finance, transportation, land
ownership. election of enators and di-
rect legislation. adopted a year age,
were r~eadopted.