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The advocate., 1897-03-31
STRONG BUT INCOMPLETE.

Among the strong measures which
Senator Allen has introduced this session
is one which proposes to make it unlaw
full for any Senator or Representative
during his term Of Office "to own or be
concerned directly or indirectly in own
ing, buying or selling or in any manner
dealing in speculative stocks, the value
of which may in any manner depend
upon vote of Congress; nor shall such
Senator or Representative during the
term of his said Office be member Of, or
in any manner pecuniarily interested in,
any board of trade, stock exchange, Ma
tional bank or other organization in
which speculative stocks are bought or
sold"
The second section provides for the ex-
pulsion of Senator found guilty of vio-
lating the provisions Of the first section,
and the last section requires every Sens-
tor, before taking his seat, to take an
oath that he will not, during bis term, be
guilty of any violation Of the act.
This is strong bill, but it lacks com
pleteness. II the Senate is to be wholly
purified, purged and reformed, the bill
should include the sins Of gambling,
drunkenness, absence without lawful ex-
cuse, appropriations Of public moneys for
purposes Of private gain, employing and
paying useless officers, private uss OF
public property, willful perVersion Of
public moneys, favoritism in contracts,
etc.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
WANTED-A Few Coon AGENTS, to

WANTED--A Few COOP AGENTS, to
make a personal house.to, house canvass
for subscribers to the ADVOCATE. One
to each Congressional district is enough,
Men or women Of intelligence and char
acter can make good wages for one year
at the terms we are prepared to offer TO
suitable persons. None need apply who
are not we'll known at this Office or who
do not produce good recommendations
as to special fitness for this class Of work.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
COxey's Army Not SO Bad.
From the Galveston News.

From the Galveston News.
Many OF the American people were
deeply disgusted over the Invasion Of
Coxeys army. There is now in Wash
ington a more dlsgraceful and a more
dangerous army than that Of Gen. Coxey.
When the philosopher Of the future
comes to treat Of the conditions and
affairs Of this time he will probably find
in the Commonweal movement upon the
Capital merely result Of the habitual
invasions that the spoilsmen Of the nation
have invited their voters and campaign
helpers to make every four years for
more than half a century. He will find
the demands of Coxey's army more rea-
sonabIe and less audacious than the de-
mands Of so-called patriots who have
gathered in Washington to receive pay
for questionable or rankly maIodorous
campaign services and even for their
votes.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

Mr.. BRYAN has divided $4,000 among
the Democrat, Populist and Silver Re-
publican parties and the National Bimet.
allie Union, in the following amounts, to
be distributed by the persons named:
To Senator Jones, for the Democrats,
$4,5OO to Senator Allen, for the POpu-
lists, $500; to Senator Teller, for the
Silver Republicans, $500; and to General
Warner, for the Bimetallic Union, 81 800.
The division was made according 10 the
estimated vote Of each party last year.
What went to the Union was given in
consideration Of its non partisan work.
The money came from sales Of Mr..
Bryan's book.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

GEORGIA has a pension roll. The
widows Of veterans get S240,OO0, disabled
veterans $l5O,0OO, and there is an apprO-
priation of $4,000 for INDECENT veterans.
The pensions now amount to considera-
bly, more than 100000. It would be
nearly 100000 if pensions were granted
to all who have fled applications. And
yet the amount given each indlgent PEN
sioner and each widow Of a veteran 10
very small, only $50 year.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

tion, whether as officer or employe, be
treated as a common carrier, allowed
wages fixed by law, with like liens for Sc
curity Of payment, and do away with
useless offices. This would remove the
friction between the roads and the peo-
pie; it would prevent Interruptions Of
trade by reason Of strikes and lOck-outs,
and it would get the railroad problem on
the way to final and satisfactory solu-
ton. It would eventually reach perfec-
tion through government ownership and
management.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

AN important decision was announced
by the Missouri Supreme court last week
in case involving the rights Of the peo-
pie on an abandoned turnpike road. The
court held that turnpike roads include
plank roads and all others on which toll
is to be paid by persons who travel on
them. A turnpike differs from any other
public highway only in thig respect; One
The advocate., 1897-03-31

The Manhattan Republic publishes
figures showing that the wealthier tax.
payers are contributing much less
toward the support of the city than Che
poorer ones are. One bank, which
swears that It's real estate is worth
$4,000 In its statement Of assets, Ia
assessed at $500; another swears 70
Sl4,5l7 In assets, and Is assessed At
1875. How many communities In
Kansas are In the sRme c9nditi0ng
The advocate., 1897-03-31

The committee appointed by the In
dianapolis conference last January to
propose scheme Of monetary reform
have called on Mr.. Speaker Reed and
asked him to help along the projected
commission that the President recom-
mended in bis inaugural address. Mr,
The advocate., 1897-03-31
Stockholders Meeting.

The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Advocate Publish
ing Company for 1897 will be held at
the cOmpsnys Office in Topeka, Kas.,
on the first Monday of April at 1880
p. m. w. A, PETER, President.
j. II. NOBLE, Secretary.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

is maintained by taxes, and the other by
tolls, and when the franchise Of taking
tolls terminates by it's charter, the road
remains highway disburdened Of tolls,
and free to all as other roads, with no
right to compensation in the corporators.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
HOW TO SOLVE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
PROBLEM.

during Gne lasJ Ten Gays bne country
has had an object lesson OF an alarming
character in the greatest and most de-
struCtive floods along the course Of the
Mississippi river. In some places the
water has overspreRd the country to q
breadth Of forty to eighty miles, and the
value Of the property destroyed will run
up into millions Of dollars. How many
lives have been lost it is impossible tC
state. The whole truth will, probably,
never be known. Steamboats, at numer
GUS places have been busy collecting
men, women and children in the flooded
regions and taking them to high grounds
for safety.
OverAows of this great river are fre.
quent and always more or less destruc-
tive. Congress, some years ago, authorized
the appointment Of permanent com
mission to keep the banks and levees as
safe as practicable, and large amounts Of
money have been appropriated from year
to year for thst purpose. The last Con
gress authorized annual appropriations
Of $2,593,333 for three years beginning
July l, 1897, to be applied in procuring
and maintaining a navigRble channel o.
not less than $50 feet in width and no
less than nine feet in depth at all periods
Of the year, from Cairo down.
The amount expended ia past yearl
for improvements and repairs has beer
many millions, and the experience RnC
observation Of engineers and other com
petent persons do not warrant belle
that we shall ever be able to keep thiI
troublesome river within safe barriers b,
the methods we have been and now ar
employing. Some more efficacious plal
must be adopted, something on a mOrt
gigantic scale; and in order that the peo
pie whose taxes pay these enormous ap
preparations may share generally in thu
benefits resulting from the expenditures
the ADVOCATE is Of opinion that the gov
ernment Of the United States ought tc
undertake the strengthening Of the grea
river and building earthworks whert
needed alJng the banks, high enough t.
keep the water in its bed, and wild,
enough and strong enough for the con
struction and operation Of a tirst-ClasI
double track railroad on each side from
the mouth Of the Ohio river to tht
mouths of the Mississippi, Trains or
the west bank running south, trains OF
the east bank running north-one tracl
for freight, one for passenger traffic
would serve to accommodate the grow
ing trade Of the great valley. We shoult
then have two lines Of government rail
way on the banks OF the river, and thu
waterway would be always open for th'
safe and unobstructed movement OF suct
freight ss the people in their priyat,
capacity should wish to carry for them
selves.
The present worth of the aggregate
money outlays fifty or hundred year
as at present applied would pay 70
all the work herein suggested, and ther
the people would have permanent i'm
provement worth all it had cost. Elk
penses for repair, after that, would all b
paid out Of the earnings Of the road, anC
We would have no further trouble from
overflows along that stream.
The advocate., 1897-03-31
THE COURT, THE COUNTRY AND THE
RAILROAD.

are CreQlGoQ WIN knowing buo ldW' Inc
country is getting light and the railroad
people are learning the truth. Courts
have long held that railroads are but i'm.
proved public highways, the people have
demanded enforcement Of their rights
against gigantic combinations Of carriers,
and the roads have uniformly resisted
every effort, State and National, to COM
pei them to fairly, honestly, justly and
lawfully perform their duties and dis
charge their obligations to the public.
It was in this early, continuous and
persistent opposition Of the railroad man
ayers that prejudices have arisen against
them. Legislatures chosen to correct
abuses of public franchises were de-
nounced as ignorant, impracticable and
revolutionary, and trained lobbyists we're
marshalled to defeat all attempts toward
remedial legislation. The companies are
capitalized away beyond reason; they
charge tolls to correspond to their debts,
they willfully discriminate against local
traffic, and yet when the people COM
planned and demanded relief, the roads
met them contemptuously, as if the peo-
pie we're made for the roads and not the
roads for the people.
And all the time the law was just as
the court has decided it to be-thst rail
road companies have no right to combine
against the people.
1t is greatly to be desired that this
lesson will be needed by railroad mana
gers. 1t is better that the blow be
struck now rather than later, because
every year the tension Of the public mind
grows more intense They have not
dealt fairly with the people. These over
towering combinations are conclusive
proof of this. Their rebating and other
methods of unjust discrimination are no.
torious and are not denied. This deCi-
sion Of the court comes when the country
is trying to adjust itself to new COndi-
tiOns that we all see ahead of us. Like
farmers, merchants and manufacturers,
the railroad companies are deeply i'm
mersed In debt. Twenty-Five per cent.
of the railroads of the country have been
- vnoo;,,o.,,S Ln,Jn oil Abo fiv,n tho loot
six or eight years. The Santa Fe has
been reorganized three times in ten
years. There are probably not half a
dozen roads in the country that would
now bring one-fourth the amount of
their capitalization if put up at forced
sale. Times are resting heavily on all Of
us. We are all more or less cramped
and praying for relief. There is gen.
eral and pressing demand for the enact
ment of a bankrupt law 1t behoovea
us, in the reRdjustment we are trying to
effect, to as far as practicable "bear one
another's burdens" If railroad men
will now meet the people half way and
be reasonable, aiding and not resisting
appropriate legislation, the future will
be more agreeable to them. Railway
companies enjoy public franchises, they
owe the people faithful and efficient SER
vice, and the people owe them fair and
reasonable compensation.
An altogether just and practicable way
Of disposing Of the railroad question for
the present is National consolidation
of sll the railroads OF the country into
ona Oraat svstem nv act of Congress. Civ.
The advocate., 1897-03-31

Reed answers: "If the people want
such commission they can get it by
asking Congress-"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27
THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURES.

The present Legislature Of California
will go down in history as one Of the
most notable ever convened in the State.
Not because it has accomplished any
wonderful reforms or made any laws that
will immortalize it's members. but in the
line Of scandals. investigations and ques-
tionable proceedings it has made = record
that will be hard TO beat by any set OF
men ever assembled in . legislative hall.
II is strange that such should be the
case when considered that California
takes such pride in her native sons. who
were well represented. if not in the ma.
jority. as far as the control of the State
affairs is concerned. 1t is possible that
they have lost interest in upholding the
good name Of their native State, Of which
they always seem so proud. or are they
in league with an element to drag the
treasury and make her subject of ridicule
throughout this broad land. The acts Of
her legislators have been severely criti-
cized and il will take some time to wipe
out the blot on her record Of being Q
leading State in the Union after the de-
velopments of the past two months
Reno Journal.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

San Francisco has in operation one oil
the most thorough systems Of food in
spection in the country. IL consists Of
four inspection stations, covering the en-
tire city. Il is the intention Of the Board
Of Health to wage war on everything
found sdultersted. The chemical labor
atory planned by the Board is completed,
and the various deputy inspectors are
collecting samples Of different kinds oil
food throughout the city. All sdulter-
eted brands will be condemned and con-
6scsted.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

The Chicago Chronicle jeers ct the
hungry and formidable array Of great
mems SONS that confront President Me-
Kinley. II says: "Of course. Frsd
Grant is among them, and 90 are the
sons of Garfield and Hayes. John A.
Logan is backed for . consulate, arrsyed
in the uniform Of Gov. Bushnell's staff
and carrying on his coat the medals given
to his father. he has pitched his tent in
Washington and laid siege to the pie
counter. Russell Harrison has already
called at the White House."
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27
REPLY.

Concerning the ~goOd-nasured chatting
Of the press at his present occupation,
ex-senator John J. Ingalls,, while en-
route for Carson to write up the prize
fight says:
IL suppose IL l had gone into the hos
pital for political incurables after my de-
feat and hung around Washington haunt.
ing the White House and the depart
menss importuning friends for endorse
ments and begging for some place at
home or abroad, where | could have been
supported from the public treasury, 1t
would have been considered digniied,
and in accordance with usage and prece-
dent. Like everybody else in these hard
times, 1 have suffered heavy losses in
~shrinkage Of values, and diminished IN
come and am compelled to earn q living
BY daily toll. / am grateful for the OPP
portunity Of getting my bread BY repu-
table employment upon the lyeeum
platform and in journalism. which affords
reasonable compensation with no sacrifice
of personal Independence. Employment
in the public service is open to me, but |
prefer freedom. even when accompanied
by the fatigue Of long journeys and the
hardships and privations OF travel, to
the bondage and servitude OF any posi-.
tion that does not come directly from
the people.
"Bsnjamin Harrison writes for the
Ladies' Home Journal, and | can con-
ceive of no improperly in my writing for
the New York Journal nor any other
periodical upon any subject Of human
interest that does not require the sale oil
my opinions or the sacrifice Of my indi-
vidual Judgment. The administration OF
President Mckinley will have my active
and cordial support, and when my next
occasion comes / shall omit no effort to
secure Republican ascsndancy in Kansas
and the redemption Of the State from
imbecile misrule and degradation"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

Mrs. Cora Reed. Of lows. wants . con.
sulship, and the mere fact that she 10 .
woman is no reason why she shouldn't
have one. Nevertheless, the appointment
Of women to the consular service would
be an experiment Of doubtful wisdom.
Foreign governments, whose opinions al
have to be consulted in such mat
tiers. might and probably would object to
the appearance Of women - the sccred-
tied consuls Of the United States, and
that would expose such representatives,
to the imminent risk Of grave annoyance
and humiliation. The better course would
be for women to seek further advs., es
in the public service here In our own
country. and then. after their status has
been firmly established 1t home. there
would be less objection to their appoint
msnt as consular or diplomatic represen-
~tatives in foreign lands.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

Gold Creek now has . daily stage to
Elko.
Sheep shearine will commence 1t Win
nemuccs next week.
Scarlet fever has again made its sp-
pearance on the Comstock.
The total receipts at the big tight are
said to have been $685. O0.
Governor Sadler is quoted Is saying
that Of the many people attracted to Car
son by the contest, most Of them have
become familiar with our
The range stock in the valley here
about are commencing TO succumb TO the
hard winter. A number Of cattle are
dying and those who have stock on the
range are getting them up ss fast - pos
sible and feeding. the snow being too
deep for erazing.-Pioche Record.
Articles of incorporation for an ath-
letic and sporting club were drawn up at
Reno to arrange 10 have prize fights in
June and September. The Gazette says
that . prominent man has gone to San
Francisco to interest the sporting men OF
that place 10 the enterprise.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

The following Is the way the Reno peo-
pie who stayed home enjoyed the fight:
At the hour when the reports Of the
prize fghs were coming in the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union met for
prayer in the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation rooms, that the evil might be re-
moved from this State. The Methodist
Church bell was tolied as a protes. against
the law legalized by our Legislature. The
Union stands ready TO cooperate With
those who have already expressed a desire
to see the law repealed from our Statutes
-Gazette.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

The Springfield Republican is respon-
sibie for this : "a French expert, writ
ing of the diminishing virility Of the
French people as revealed in The station
airy population, shows that this calami-
tout fact is due to the rich and educated
and not the poor. The richer . French
man is, the fewer children he has. The
rich, the educated, the cultured are the
culprits. Grenelle heads the list for
births, while the Champs Elysees are at
the foot II France 10 sometimes over
whslmed by her external enemies through
sheer force Of numbers the so.cslled up
per classes will be responsible"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

Envelopes lined with tinfoil will pos
sibly be q "fsd" in the near future. If
experiments with the Roenteen ray con-
tinue. 1t has already been demonstrated
that the contents Of . sealed letter. en-.
closed in the ordinary envelope, may be
photographed. The Gaulois, . French
paper. has photographed such private
matter in fifteen seconds. By using en-
velopes lined with tinfoil letter writers
can defy the X-rsys in the hands Of the
inouisitive.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

The Senate Committee on Public Lands
has decided that the Perrine grant Of 3d..
600 acres in Florida is regular in every
respect. This being the case. the United
States Government has been guilty Of
the grossest injustice for over forty years.
and the present administration is guilty
Of nothing worse than extreme bad taste
in pushing through . patent for which
the chief claimant was the stepfather OF
the wife of the President. But is the
Senate committee infallible! The set
tiers who developed the land probably
think not,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27

A New York paper recently presented
its readers . picture Of Mrs. Bradlsy.Mar-
tin, and the Sacramento Bee, after sizing
up the photo, draws the following pen
picture of that lady This empress OF
New York society has . face on her that
looks as though il had been nodded ont
Of raw beefsteak, her figure 10 that Of an
apple dumping in distress. while her
countensnce has the deep intellectually
OF q butchers block. II is fortunate for
Mrs. Bradley-Martin that she has money.
Otherwise-if there is anything in phys
iognomy-she would never have ascended
higher than a helper in an alley laundry.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27
AK.us.. editor went to Mexico on an

A Kansas editor went TO Mexico on an
editorial excursion recently. leaving his
daughter. IL years old. to get out the
paper during his absence. The FIRST issue
under the new woman" regime. says
Frank S. Pixley in the Chicago Times
Herald, contained this notice at the head
of the editorial column : 7" Pa is in Mex
leo. / received . letter from him this
morning. He has got ma with him and
is having a darn good time. l guess.
wish be was home, Is ID is lonesome 10
be editor-in-chief ell alone. Pa and ma
went TO church and . bull fight last Sun
day. Go well together, pa and ms, church
and ball fight"
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1897-03-27
deserved Compliment.

Senator Summerield Of Wsshoe made o
very elaborate address in the Senate Sat-
urday in which be made complimentary
mention Of the efficiency Of the clerks Of
both sexes, in both the Assembly and Sen.
ate. He stated that in no previous Legis-
lsture had the attaches Of both Houses
done better work or with more precision
than the one OF 1897. These words Of the
speaker were loudly spplauded by all
present.