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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.


Governor Pingree, whom the re-
publicans of Michigan elevated to the
highest gift In the state, sees things
as they exist, and expresses his convic-
tions without the veil of hipocracy.
He is credited with having made the
following statements which will hardly
be denied, even by the most ardent
members of his own party.
"Prosperity? Fiddlesticks. There
can be no prosperity so long as the
country is at the mercy of the money
lenders. The social system is out of
joint. We need law against great
fortunes. Men .orm combinations and
put their hands into the pockets of the
poor. They never take from those
who have, but steal from those who
have not. We need men willing to
stand for equal rights, and we want
men to bawl for equal rights to take
hand at practicing equal rights. The
public is being MIXED for the sake of
the few, and the thing has got to stop
before there can be any relief.
ssGold standard talk has had its day.
There will never be another republican
convention which will write that word
in its platform. There will next time
be strong bimetallic platform, and
that is what the people want. They
will have learned by that time that
does not necessarily come
by the election of any one man to the
presidency. and that prosperity cannot
come until the :, laws. are radically
changed. Michigan would. have gone
for free silver, but the gold-men
scared the people sto,death- with their
bowling and the promises of
prosperity, whose sunshine is that of
Paradise Alley"
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
WHY DON'T THEY?

The people of Oregon are getting
their fill of populism at this session of
the legislature. They will rot want to
try larger dose of it for quite while
in the future. All the republican
members OF the legislature have to do
to insure the future success of their
party in this state is to elect United
States senator and perform the other
work before them faithfully.-Salem
Statesman.
Ye Gods, what rot. The people of
Oregon are getting their fill of popu-
lism at this session of the legislature,
are they? The Is populists in the
house and the two in the senate are
giving them their fill. we presume.
What are the 30 republican representa-
tives and % senators doing? If the
people of Oregon are getting a fill of
anything at this session it is of repub-
licans, when 35 good, solid partisaus
are unable to organize the lower house.
OF course all Metropolitan leg eislators
haye to do to insure future success is
to elect senator aud perform their
work faithfully, but why don't they do
it? They have big majority in both
houses.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
Oregon Legislators Refuse to
Get to Work.
WORK OF THE SENATE
A Humber of Bills introduced among
Which is One For a Portage
Road at Cello.
rwenty-Do:lar Counterfeit Bills Said to
be In observation-disclosures May be
Secretary OF State IL he
Wants 1t.

SALEM, Jan. 13.-The house was
called TO order at 10 o'clock by Speaker
Davis, and skirmishing Immediately
began. The speaker directed the
clerk to call the roll, but Somers de-
manded call of the house, which is
practically the same thing.
U'Ren wanted the floor to make an
explanation about the committee on
credentials, and Bilyeu insisted on a
point of order that the proceedings
were out of order. The speaker finally
directed the clerk to proceed to call
the roll. The roll-call showed 20
present. Bridges wanted yesterdays
journal read, but the motion was de-
clared out of order, there being no
quorum.
At l1:20, after an hour CT idleness,
U'Ren filed report of the majority of
the committee on credentials. Thomas
called for its reading, and Bilyeu asked
for Ii call of the house. Thirty-two
were present, which was declared no
quorum. Some confusion and hot talk
followed. Somers served a notice on
the opposition that the people of the
state would not much longer stand the
delay.
I'VE won't have it," he shouted.
"What do you mean?" cried U'Ren.
''Do you propose to capture this house
by force? Are you revolutionists?"
misses and cheers.)
"I'll tell you what we mean," replied
Somers. "We were sent here to do
business, and we propose to do it."
Smith, Riddle, U'Ren and others
then engaged in wordy controversy.
Quiet was soon restored.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16

Mrs. Hart, who has covered the globe
with her notebook, declares the Eng
lsh people to be the most garrulous
and quarrelsome of any she has en-
countered. She says there is more
bickeripg and distemper in the English
man's.farnily and more homes are made
unhappy by domestic squabbles than
in any of the other nations she has Wis
tied. Thist condition she attributes
chiefly to the :Anglo-Saxon's fondness
for a meat diet. She says the great
fesh-eating people are notably ILL.,
tempered. We are. only animals, and
the sequence of meat and fits, as demon
strated in the animal kingdom, has
significance in relation to the human
animal. Mrs. Hart has gone further
than this, and has studied>the gentle
Japanese, the mild MongoIian and
other light-iving races, which research
confirms her ideas touching fiesh-eating
and family jars.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
Down a shaft to certain death.

PoTTSvILLE, Pa, Jan. ia terri.
BILE accident by which four persons
were killed and one fatally injured oc-
CURED at the New Wadesville shaft of
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Company, today. Four men and
a. hoy belonging to the day shift this
morning ste ,ped on the RIM CT a
large iron bucket to be lowered into
t -haft. A biz cross head weighing
several hundred pounds had become
frozen to the gr ides, and did not move
when the bucket started. When the
men got hal; way down the cross head
fell, striking the bucket. The men
were hurled to the bottom, distance
of .nDU feet
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
THE STATE PRINTING OFFICE

One Of the most expensive depart
ment of the state government is the
state printing Office, and SO long as it
is conducted on the present system it
will continue to draw heavily on the
taxpayers. The deficiency for the last
year in the printing department. OF the
state was over $4,000, and the state
board in making estimates for the
present year set aside $50, 900 for print
ing and binding, and the purchase of
paper for printing. This is QUO of all
proportion to the value, of the work
done by the state printer, but there is
no probability of the expense being
lessened SO long as the fee system pre-
walls in that department.. >
The state should own its own print
leg Office and the state printer should
be put on stated salary, the came as
other state. officials. He should be em-
powered to employ foreman and as
sistant foreman, pressman, etc., at
stated salaries, then all composition
should be done by the thousand. The
cost of a complete printing Office,
such as is required by the state, would
not exceed $4,000; and with proper
reforms adopted to regulate the office,
that amount could easily be saved in
two years. If the legislature desires
to cut down state expenses in the
future, abundant opportunity is offered
for such reform in the state printing
office. At least it is one of the many
where pruning down can
be accomplished without endangering
public service.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16

was s:verely questioned as to the
thorough manner in which he disin-
fected shoddy before putting it upon
the market. He was given to under
stand practically that his industry was
hardly of character to Commend it.
self to the consideration of the COM
mittee, as it was not really woOlen
product, but he somewhat startled and
set back the staid members of the
committee by telling them that shoddy
was used for q number of purposes not
generally understood, and that the
finest broadcloths were made of shoddy,
and in fact, the best broadcloths could
not easily be made without an admix-
ture of shoddy.
However, Mr.. Muhlhauser caused
greater CONSERVATION than did Mr..
Brown, when he made this damaging
admission concerning his sales of
sheddy to the best-known wooden
manufacturers of the country. This
remarkable admission was made just
before the committee took the usual
recess that morning, and Mr.. McMillin
seizing this opportunity, asked of the
shoddy manufacturer:
"Can you give the names of any
wooden manufacturers to whom you
furnish shoddy?'
"All of them," answered Mr.. Muhl-
hauser cheerfully. '1 have letters
from nearly all of them which 1 will
lay before you. 1 will also give all
their names"
This was more than the manufacture
ers or even Chairman Dingley could
endure, and despite the protests of MIR.
McMillin, the committee was a6-
journed forthwith, and Muhlhauser was
besieged by manufacturers who plead
with him to not make the damaging
disclosures he promised.
From these little circumstances the
wool grower may learn that his great
est competition is not the "pauper"
wool raisers Of Australia aud New
Zealand, but the pauper rags of Europe.
What the American wool grower needs
to stimulate his business is hot so
much duty on wool as prohibitive
duty on rags, and healthy business
prosperity among the consumers SO
that they can consume the articles
made from his product.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
To YORK PRISONERS.

The report of the superintendent of
the penitentiary for the quarter end
ing December 81, shows that the gross
earnings 'of the institution for the
three months:was 81, ,306.0s, including
s449 Is for the board of United States
convicts and rent of cottage, leaving
the net earnings for the average of 351
convicts for the three months So, ,856.37.
Allowing % working days to the
month, this is little over 13 cents day
that the convicts earned during the
quarter. The expenses of the peniten-
tiary for the quarter were sl7, 7,1S6.s4.
Thus the expense of guarding, feeding
and clothing the convicts has been
sl3, $685. greater than the actual earn
ings.-
From this it appears that our penal
institution is far shcrt of self-sustain-
ing concern, and the question naturally
arises, cannct convicts be made to
more nearly support themselves? Pos
sibly the erection of more factories in
the penitentiary would serve to in
crease the earning power of those con-
fined therein; but this is not desirable
during the present stringent times, for
1t would incur large outlay of money
by the state. However, if couvicts
could be employed on government
works, such as the proposed boat rail-
way between The Dalles and Cello,
they could be made to earn more wages.
If the general government would place
this work under the control of the state,
ipstead of awarding the contract to
private individuals, allowing the state
to expend the appropriation as it sees
best, it could thus employ its convicts
to good advantage, and thus relieve
the taxpayers OF q considerable portion
of thier burdens. The scheme might
not meet. the approval of: contractors
or government engineers, still it would
be advantageous to the state, and is
worthy the consideration of our delega-
ton in congress.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
d TARIFF FOR ALL.

What this country wants, and what
in response to its demands the repub-
lican party stands prepared to offer it,
is tariff law that will provide abund-
ant revenue and do the greatest good
to the greatest number. The manufac-
turer of New England, considering
himself alone, must not show hostility
t, the Middle West, the West, nor the
South, nor must any one of these latter
sections seek advantage for, itself
against any of the others. One indus
try must not endeaver to exclude bepe-
fits from another. The manufacturer
must consider the needs of the farmer,
the merchant, the interests of the man
who produces raw material. Ali rep
resentatives of all industries must be
reasonable in their demands and fair
in their consideration OF others.
There must be lack Of excessive ex-
pectations. compromise for the
general welfare.
We want tariff neither for the
North nor the South, the East nor the
West, neither for the wool grower nor
the woolen manufacturer, the mine
owner nor the middlemau. We want
tariff law for all the people of the
United States-a law that will give the
government all the income it needs
and the people the benefits they have
right to expect. Such law must
receive the approval of the country;
none other can be accepted. This
must be the principle that governs the
tariff legislation of the next congress.
New York Press.
Yes. indeed, that is just the kind of
tariff we want, the kind of tariff
the people demand; but who ever
heard of such tarff? And when was
such tariff ever enacted? Certainly
not in the memory of man. 1t is as
utterly impossible to enact a tariff law
that will protect all alike as it is to
overcome the laws of gravitation. No
law can be enacted that protects one
industry without it Injuries some other.
Levying a duty upon an article raises
the price of such article, else there is
no merit in the protection which it re.
ceives, and the purchaser thereof srf-
fers just to the extent that the price is
raised. If it were possible to enact
such tariff law as the Press suggests,
there would be no opposition to the
theory of protection. But it is i'm
possible. The wheat raiser cannot be
protected by tariff duties, for the price
of his product is fixed in foreign mar
kets, aud whenever the articles he
must buy are enhanced in price by the
levying of duties, he is damaged to the
extent of the increase. The wages of
the day laborer cannot be increased
by the levying of duties on the food he
consumes or the clothes he wears,
therefore no tariff law can affect him
unless he is employed in some pursuit
that is fostered by protection. Hence
a tariff for all the people is an impos-
sibility, and the Press makes itself alb
surd in trying to palm off such propo-
sitiOn as the above. Why not be hon.
est and acknowledge that tariff for
the fortunate few who can be benefited |
thereby Is what is wanted, and the un-
fortunate many who cannot derive |
benefit from protection may paddle
their own canoes, survive or perish, as
luck happens to strike them.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
IN THE SENATE.
Another Large Batch-.of Bills Was Pre-

Another Large Batch-.of Bills Was Pre-
sented.
SALEM, Jan. l3.-The senate opened
with prayer by Rev. Grannis, after
| which President Simon announced the
introduction of bills as the order OF
business.
Bills were then introduced as follows:
BY Patterson, of Marion, providing
that all insane persons be conveyed to
the asylum by a person to be designat-
ed by the superintendent Of the asylum,
the expense to come from the asylum
fund, the bill to take effect upon APP
proval; Mackay, TO establish a fiscal
agency for the state in New York city;
Harmon, providing forthe conveyance
of persons committed to state lnstitu-
tions; Haseltine, Incorporating the
city of Portland; McClung, auth oriz-
ing the mayors of cities to bid in prop
erty sold for taxes; Dufur, fixing the
terms of circuit court in the seventh
district; Bates, Incorporating the city
of Portland; Michel, for the construc-
ton of portage railway between The
Dalles and Cello; Driver, by request
providing for the election of district
attorneys; Bruwnell, relating to free
transportation of baggage of passer-
gers by transportation companies:
Dawson. providing for the election of
road supervisors and the levying and
collection of road taxes; smith, author
izing cities, counties and school dis
tricts to dispose of real estate acquired
at tax sales; Haseltine, to secure
more convenient mode of making as
easements and levying taxes; Hasel-
tine, providing for the payment of
taxes; Brownoll, by request, requiring
that road taxes be collected in money;
Mulkey, creating the Office of recorder
in Polk county,
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
MITCHELL'S CHANCES.

1t is claimed by the friends of Sena-
tor Mitchell that he is certain of thirty
eight republican votes in the legislature
leaying him short only eight votes
that must be had from the democrats
aud populists to insure his election.
That he can secure these votes is ex-
tremely doubtful. for neither the demo-
Gratis nor populists are satisfied with
the part he took in the presidential
campaign, and it is extremely doubt
full if he can count on more that one
vote from either of these parties.
Every democrat and popullst member
of the legislature is an advocate of the
tree coinage of silver, and il is quite
certain that before Senator Mitchell
can secure their support, he will be re-
quired- to make certain pledges with
reference to his future action on the
money question that would be impos-
sible for him to make at this time.
Further. he cannot offer them induce
ments in the way of federal patronage
that would influence their votes, there
fore his only chance of success appears
to lie with his own party, and can he
secure the eight necessary votes from
among the anti-Mitchell element in
the republican party?
This il possible, but not altogether
probable. The anti-Mitchell element
in the republican party has no use for
and its hope is to defeat his
reelection. Those members OPP
pose Mitchell both on principle and
for personal reasons. This opposition
will be difficult to overcome, but
through his abilityto reward his sup
oorters with federal appointments he
nay bend their will and cause enough of
us opponents to come to his support |
% secure his election, but from present
his chances rest solely on !
he outcome of barter and trade.
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''Th re has been some talk of fire.
arms 100; and want to say tlat
A nericans OF all parties have been
known to be handy with weapons.
And" continued U'Ren, laughiug'y,
If it comes to the question of drumming,
we are not very slow over here either"
U'Ren's words were SO quietly and
'milingly delivered that they did not
make the impression they perhaps
nerited. He then went on to sum up
The situation, and said the populists
we're willing to go b, fore the people
on the record they were making.
"lf you republicans want to settle
the question, let u OF you resign and
1reak the quorum" he said.
mo, you don't" interrupted Conn.
URN continued for few minues
in the same vein.
Vaughn OF Lane then moved that
the house ad!ourn for two weeks, so
that the members could 20 home and
''xplaln to their constituents what they
nave been doing. His motion was de-
clared out Of order.
AT noon the house adjourned till
Pm. Indicut tious are that there viii
be no orgar ization today.
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RAILWAYS QUESTION.
Resolution Presented providing for an Iu-

Resolution Presented Providing for an In-
vestigation by Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Cbandler
of New Hampshire, secured the adop-
tion of resolution directing the COM
mittee on Interstate commerce to di-
rect its inquiry as to the alleged COM
binations heretofore ordered TO be
reported of the recent agreement of
managers of the vessels of the Great
Lakes to maintain the rates established
by the Joint Traffic Association.
The senate bill for bridges across
the Columbia riverin Washington was
passed on request of Wilson, of Wash
ington. 8,
Morgan of Alabama, introduced the
followinglresolution:
whereas, It is alleged that certain
bonds issued by the United States in
aid of the Central Pacific railroad and
also the Union Pacific railroad. have
fallen due and remain unpaid, AMI
that by reason of default the property
held and owned by said companies at
that time became the property Of the
United States; and,
"Whereas, Said property of every
description so held and owned by said
companies at the time OF its default
now rightfully belongs to the United
States, =
'Resolved, That the committee on
judiciary is directed to examine into
and report whether such allegation is
true in fact and in law, and that they
report the nature and character OF the
right aud title of the United States In
aud 10 said property and descriptions
Of the class of property that has been
so Injured to the United States under
the law, and whether either of said
companies has any lawful
light or equity of redemption OF said
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-01-16
A SPURIOUS CERTIFICATE.
New Counterfeit OF n $40 Bill in Circu-
latiOn

New COlnterftit OF N $40 Bill la Circu-
NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-The banks
have been notified of q new counterf"it
of the $50 United States certificate, is
sued under the act of February IS,
1878, series 1891, check letter B. The
counterfeit bears the u-ual small seal
loped carmine seal, purports to be
sigued by j. +. Tiilman, register of
the treasury, and D. N. Morgan, treas
urer of the United States, and bears
the treasury A670540l.
The most noticeable defect in the
bill is the portrait of Daniel Manning,
which does not stand out in bold relief
as in the genuine, but appears suuken
in the background. In the counter
feitthe nose appears sharp and pointed,
while in the genuine it is round and
broad at the end. There are other de-
fects. The counterfeit is printed on a
good quality of paper. but lacks the
distributed fiber found in the genuine
nnfa
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Canal Riu GETS Rirht of IYax.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE senate
steering committee yesterday decided
to gile the Nicaragua canal bill the
right of way III the upper house. This
puts the measurein line Immediately
after the free homestead ill,wh!ch is
to be voted on tomorrow, excepting
ofcourse' when appropriation measures
intervend. The latter contingency
will probably prevent action On the
canal measur before next week.
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win Boom Their Fellow Citizens

DALLAS, Tex. Jan. l4-This morning
a party Texas republicans departed for
Canton to pay their respects to Presi-
dent elect Mckinley and to formally
present the name of national commit
teeman John Grant as suitable man
for the cabinet, as well as to submit q
memorial asking that he be thus hon
ored. In addition an Endorsement
signed by 1900 Texans will be pre-
sented. There are eight volumes
bound of the signatures, and the MEM
orial is printed on parchment with vel
vet binding and is handsome speci-
men of printers art.