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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
ANEWE LECTORALPLAN
Complaint That the Smaller
States Have an Advantage.
PROSPECT OLA CHANGE DISCUSSED
Effect of the Plan Proposed-Under Such
a System Nine Northern and Eastern
States Could Control the Presidency.
Effect Upon the Solid South.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 19.-ISpeoial.l Since
the presidential election of last November
there has been great deal of talk in Wash
ington of making some changes in the
system of choosing president. 1t Is all
talk. There is not one chance in a million
that the electoral system as we now have
it will be superseded by any other-at
least not for many years to come. But the
discussion has served to call attention to
some peculiar conditions which prevail In
the system by which presidents and vice
presidents are now chosen. Complaint is
made that in the present system the small
or states enjoy greater propoftionate
strength in the electoral college than the
larger states. This is true, because there Is
one eleotor for each SENATOR and each state
has two senators no matter what its size
Each state Is given a representative in con-
eress too whether it have or have not as
many inhabitants within its borders as
are required TO form congressional dis
trict in larger states. For instance the
present congressional apportionment Is
173, COL Inhabitants to the representative
Three states-Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming
have a smaller number of Inhabitants
than the congressional ratio-Nevada co.
OO0 Idaho 1876, 900 and Wyoming 1OO,-
600. To illustrate the disproportionste-
ness of the present system let US contrast
the three least populous states with the
three most OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Idaho and
Wyoming against New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois.
Repre-
Popula- Sena senta-
ton. tors. tiyes.
Three smallest states 29o 600
Il,rpn la~cy fnta
Comparison of Political Strength.
In other words, each of the nine cleo
toral votes of the three smallest states rep
resents 80, 750 people, while each of the 90
electoral votes of the three greatest states
represents 1S4, 600 people. If all those
states had the same actual basis of repre-
senUation in the electoral college, the three
smallest would have electoral votes and
the three largest 519, OF more than there
are in the entire electoral college
In state political conventions the num-
Der of delegates is usually apportioned ac-
cording to the vote cast at the most recent
election. 1t would be impracticable to ap-
ply this method to the electoral college,
but it is exceedingly interesting to note
what the effect would be if such plan
were put in operation.
At the recent presidential election about
IS, $40, 900 votes were cast. These voters
chose AT presidential electors, or about
81 900 voters to an elector. If the electoral
college were apportioncd among the states
on the basis of enc elector to each 81 900
votes cast this would be the result:
Effect of the Proposed Plan.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

To brace up the system after LA
Grippe . pneumonia, fevers. and other
postrating acute diseases; to build up
needed flesh and strength, and to
restore health and vigor when you feel
rundown" and "used-up," the best
thing in the world is DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery 1t promotes all
the bodily functions, rouses every organ
into healthful action. purifies and en-
riches the blood, and through it clean
ses, repairs, and invigorates the entire
system. For the most stubborn scroful-
Gus, skin or scalp disease, dyspepsia,
biliousness, and kindred ailments, the
Discovery" is unequaled as a remedy.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

IT will surprise many people to learn
that during the last fiscal year the in
ternal revenue receipts were nearly as
much as the receipts from customs
That is to say, exactly speaking, the
internal taxes yielded Sl46, $50, 6l5. &c,
and the tariff duties S160, 121, 751. 81;
and over s9O,OOO,OO more come from
miscellaneous sources. 1t will be seen
therefore, that the government does
not desire even one-half OF its support
from the tariff system.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

IT is an old theory which age has
almost crystalized into formula, ex-
cept among the more learned and
studious geologists, that gold ore dis
appears after a certain depth is attain
ed. But this old time belief of
superficial prospectors has been top
pied over by recent developments on
the 2,100 foot level of the Kennedy
mine at Grass Valley, Cal, where a
body of rich ore, fully thirty feet in
width, has been encountered, and the
vein is still expanding as it descends.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

MADRID Comico, the leading humor-
Gus journal of Spain, laughs at the
weylerian manner of campaigning,
which, it says, principally fills the
Havana hospitals with sick soldiers,
1000 being reported as invaded.
Our Madrid contemporary says that
this means sending 10000 conscripted
boys out to take the places of the sick
men. Even a comic paper may be
serious while testing, says the Mexican
Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

Hell CHATELAIN, for years United
States commercial agent in West
Africa, having stated in recent lee
ture in New York that African slaves
are used as currency. the New Orleans
Picayufie rises to remark that this
offers "a chance for the populists of
Kansas and Nebraska to go to Africa
and make an issue of the free coinage
of colored people"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE president has signed the act OF
congress providing for the government
purchase of lands for storage reservoirs
for irrigating purposes. This is the
first step toward the work OF providing
water for the fertile valleys tributary
to FL PasO.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THERE is large lobby present in
Santa Fe demanding that the saloon
licenses be raised to 81, 600 a year and
that gambling be placed on the second
floor or abolished entirely. There is a
sentiment among the legislators favor
able to these measures.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE Manufacturer Record OF re
cent date contains letter from Con-
troller Eckels stating that the banking
situation of the south is very strong.
showing a marked increase in reserve
for October and December.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

WRECKED in fortune, broken in
health, under a ban because of the
treachery charged upon his father at
the surrender of Metz, Corporal An
tonic Bazaine, of the Spanish army,
only son of the French Field Marshal
Bazalne, who sustained Macmillan in
Mexico, recently died in a military
hospital in Havana. He was 30 years
of age, and was the last of the name.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE New Orleans Picayune holds
that "the vacant fields of the south
solves the problem OF what to do with
the surplus population of the large
cities of the east and north. "
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE Illinois legislature is having an
animated contest over the election OF
United States senator to succeed
Palmer, there being eight candidates
before the republican caucus.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

KANSAS will celebrate the Both ami
versary of her birth on the 10Th of this
month. Kansas was born in trouble,
and, owing to populism, it has had
good deal of trouble in lates years.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
THE WEEKLY HERALD.

A large eight page paper giving the
local events of the week, published
every Saturday. just the paper to
send friends for information regard
ing El Faso. Price So. 90 per year
six months ST. 90.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE enterprising little city Of Phoe-
nix, Arizona, is going to have another
carnival this year, to open on the 23rd
of March, so that the thirty thousand
attendants on the big 'fstic carnival
near IN Paso will have ample time to
get there.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

THE Albuquerque Democrat sagely
remarks that, "Publishing the news is
not what Injuries the reputation OF the
transgressors. The act is done by the
individual beforehand. "
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
nnuERrIsIhn RArES.

Rates of advertising in the Daily or weekly
edition made known on application at the
publication office. Or ring up telephone num-
Der 115, and a representative of the business
department will call and quote prices ana
Contract for space. .
Locals 10 cents per line In every instance
for first insertion, and cents per line for each
additional insertion.
Legal notices Of every description 81 per
nch eACh Insertion.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

Merit In medicine means the power to
cure. Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses actual
and unequalled curative power and there
fore it has true merit. When you buy
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and take it according
to directions, to purify your blood, or
cure any of the many blood diseases, you
are morally certain to receive benefit.
The power to cure is there. You are not
trying an experiment. 1t will make your
blood pure, rich and nourishing, and thus
drive out the germs OF disease, strengthen
the nerves and build up the whole system.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

For some time past Spain has been
engaged in 'blowing" up her navy
and now the Cubans are assisting her.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
Condensed Testimony.

Chas. B. Hood, broker and manufac-
turer's agent, Columbus, Ohio, certilies
that DR.. Kings New Discovery has no
equal as cong h remedy. j. D. Brown,
proprietor St. James hotel, FIT Wayne,
Ind. testifies that he was cured of "a
cough of two years standing, caused by
la grippe, by DR.. Kings New Discovery.
b. f. Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass.
says that he has used and recommended
it and never knew it to fail and would
rather have it than any doctor, because
it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222
E. 10Th St, Chicago, always keeps it
at hand and has no fear OF Group, be-
cause it Instantly relieves. Free trial
bottle at w. Irwin & Cos. wholesale
and retail drug store, Ell Pas0.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
EIre pspsrtn1ent.

Board of Fire Directors meets every secon
"Wednesday. General department meeting
second Wednesday IN March, June, Septem-
Der and December. J. !. JULIAN, President.
J Il Payne j ConnorS, Chief,
secretary p NJ Ntllspau&h. Asst Chief.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
aook AND JOB PRINTING.

THE HERALD is fully prepared to do al
inds of plain and fancy job printing In al
the latest styles. "ork perfectly an'
promptlY done.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
Eoresters of America.
COURT ROBIN HOOD NO. l

Meets first and third Wednesday night OF
each month in ODD Fellows hall.
VIM. Rheinheimer, G. X.
II. Colliander, Secretary.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
G. a. r.
Emmett Crawford Poet. TO. ie. @. a. R.

EHii'ohh S'oW'OfS 0OStI w. TO- ~ ~ ~
Meets 1st Sunday OF each month at 2:30 D. m
Hall on San Antonio street. All comrades IN
good standing invited to visit the post.
GEO. NJ, CONAUGHEY, Commander
T. E, TUSTEN, Adjutant.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
has received a reduction in coal rates
from Gallup, N. M, of 81 per ton, and
good coal can now be laid down in
Phoenix at So per ton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
a q Ii ~

Meets in G. A. r. hall on the first anc
third Tuesdays in each month. Visiting
brothers cordially invited.
FRED WIDMAN. NJ. W.
O. O. KEIFER Recorder.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

Fine linen typewriter paper for sale
at the HERALD office.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

Bliss Lodge No. 22I. K. OFF.
Regular meeting every Monday evening at
0. Z. c. hall. Visiting knights welcome.
j, J. o. ARMSTRONG, b. +. COFFIN,
K of K. & S. c, o
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
K. OFF.
EI Paao Lodge, No. 81,

Ell Paao Lodge. No. 81.
Regular meeting every Friday night at
CASTLE hall, over BeD ekes hardware store
SoJourniug Knights will receive cordia
welcome. GEO. K. HARVEY O, O,
d. COLLIANDER, K. r. s.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
oolorsd Knights of Pythiss.

Myrtle Lodge No. 10
Regular meeting every Wednesday evening
in Union Labor Hall over Badgers grocery
store. So1ourning Knights respectfully in
vited to attend
A. o. MURPHY. K. of R. and s.
WI. SCOTT, 90.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

United Brotherhood OF Carpenters and Join
era of FL PNso.
Meets every Sunday ct 10 a. NJ at Labor
hail. Visiting members welcome.
FRED WElDENBECK, Rec. and Sec
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
SOCIETY DIRECTORY
Masonic.

Ell Pa.o odge, No. 100, A. F. & a. M.
Meets every first and third Wednesday at
Masonic hall, Sau Antonio street. Visiting
broth ers cordially invited.
A. KAPLAN, Secretary
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20
THE PRESIDENT TO HIS PEOPLE.
A Review of the Services of Diaz to
His Country.
Special Correspondence.

CONTINUED from yesterday
CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. II, 1897.
THE CUTTING CASE.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-20

ell Paso Chapter, Nc. I57, r. A. M.
Meets the second Wednesday OF each month
at Masonic hall. Visiting companions cor
daily invited. GEO. f. TILTON d. 2.
A. KAPLAN, Secretary.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-01-30
CAN'T BE DEPRIVED OF PROPERTY
DerIslon FaNorinE n German Lodge
Seeding From n. OF r.

indianapolis, Jan. &-The supreme
court today reversed the Judgment OBJ
taincd by the grand lodge OF the knights
Of Pythias against Koerner lodge No. 6.
Of this city. deprlving II Of Its property,
because II had adopted a resolution %
secede from the knights Of Pythias and
form a lodge OF the Indiana zeltung
Buud
The Koerner lodge was composed Of
Germans. who transacted all their bust
ness In German.
In lS2 the supreme lodge OF Knights OF
Pythlas OF the world passed a law re-
ouiring that all rituals printed In the
German language should be surrendered
by the lodges that had been using them,
and that the rituals thereafter used
should be printed only In the English
language. The members OF the Koerner
lodge took this as a personal affront, and
threatened to withdraw from the order.
BEFORE the lodge met again the janitor of
tho hall took the charter from the hall
and delivered II to the grand keeper Of
records and seals, but at the next meet
ing OF the lodge, after Il had been open
ed. the minutes of the last meeting were
corrected so as to not show the violent
action taken before. The grand lodge
claimed that the adoption Of the resolu.
ton to secede worked dissolution Of
the lodge
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-01-30
FAMINE IN THE INDIA DISTRICT.
Scarcity Of Food Severely Felt In
the Vicinity of SOlarpore.

copyrighted. 1897, by Associated Press.l
Solapore. Jan. 2S.-The special cores
pondent of the Associated Press who is
visiting this district finds it badly AFFECT
ed. The scarcity of food is most severely
felt at Taluks. Sangola, Mazda and kar-
kalama- Solarpore city is the center of
the weaving industry, and its Inhabitants
are suffering from the stoppage of work.
1t is estimated that three-Quarters OF the
whole number of weavers are already
out Of work and 1900 persons through
the district are being relieved. No cases
of cholera have been recorded in the
camp at Ekruts, five miles from here. es-
pecially laid out for the weavers who
are employed In the light work OF i'm
proving the reservoir which was built
during the last famine. Only 500 men
are employed. as the Mohammedan weav-
ers remain idle in their city, living on
their savings. They will not accept man
ual labor until compelled to do so.
The correspondent traversed several ir-
rigated jowani fields. which promise
splendid crops, and met a number of
travelling bands OF people in search of
work. Returning to the city. the cor
respondent arrived at the poor house in
time to see doles given out to over sci
people. the halt. MANNED or blind. Each
person relieved received a measure OF
meal and modicum OF OIL salt and
chile. There were many children suffer
ing from opthala, and groups Of lepers
were noticed apart from all the wreck:
Of humanity.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-01-30
IN THE MONTANA LEGISLATURE.
IaittatiSe and Referendnm PROPOSE
tion Failed of Passage.

Helena. Mont. Jan. sG-The senate was in
a mood for work today. -Four biIIs were pass
es. all by unanimous votes. and ave more were
considered In committee q the whole and re-
TuTEcd fsporahly
The hills passed provide for the appraisement
Il state LANDS upon the petition OF 10 house
ho4defS residing In any school district within
which the lands arc located. 10 extend the time
for hiinE the cath Of Office from 10 to 90 days
after sieviion 60 provide for the payment Of
the salaries - the county Officers monthiy out
q cuntingent fund. and 90 pay the mile
sre ard Ter diem % the senators who at the
beFinntnE Of the session appeared a. contest
Ahts aud Wwrp defeated.
The biiis faVorAblg considered n committee
Of the whole provide for the collection by
school disir4c, CLERKS Of vital EtatIstios also
for the payment of taxes under protest when
theY are REGARDED Unlawful: submitting an
amendment 20 the constitution making the
ohairunsn q oounty boards OF commissioners
nacfnherp Of the state board Of equalization: re-
d0cibg the fees for niing notices OF location Of
uaininK claims or AsidAVitS OF annual labor per-
formed. and making tAxoa payable sesni-An-
naAity,
The reaAis killed the blI tina, would have
Permitted any owner Of or IN q mlntnK claim
10 WORK the pToFeTSy. without the consent Of
other owperS n they refused 20 operate Il.
The house disposed OF the hill for the initia-
tive and rvfercndum which has been the sub
scot q % many trades and dickerS OF all kinds
that the business Of the session was practically
a. . StandEtill
The author OF the biii Martin Elliott, who
NAs q the vice prcsidents OF the AmeTi-
can Railway Cnion 70 serve ak mnnths in sail
with Deha, closed the debate today and the
vote wac taken. TherN a good majority
but not the necessary two-thirds The vote
stood:
Ayss-Demoorats II. popuiists 10. Republicans
!. total a. Soes-DsmocrAts n. republicans
g. total q.
TAe remainder os the session the house con-
sunied In committee Of the whole In discussion
OF the hli TO create BrOadwater county cut
Of the NeasheF and jefferson counties.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-01-30
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The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-01-30
STEAM YACHT AReo WAS SUNK.
All On Board Escaped Except Two
Newspaper Reporters.


New Orleans. Jan. 2s.-At 1910 O'Clock
this morning a collision occurred in the
river about L miles above the quaran-
tine station between the steam yacht
Argo and the fruit steamship Albert Du-
mois. in which the yacht had her bow
stove in and sank in a few minutes. car
Tying down two OF her passengers. The
others. with the crew, narrowly escaped
drowning.
How the accident occurred or who is
TO blame for It, the courts will most
probably be called upon to decide. The
Dumois was inward bound from Port
Limon, and the Argo was bound down the
river on her way TO quarantine station 10
meet the steamship Whitney with the
congressional committee. On board the
Argo were three reporters OF the Picay-
une. Messrs- H. p. Hestor and F. Bias
sini Of the stan and an extra man, A c.
Linduaer: H. L. Franbe OF New orleans
was a guest. A crew Of four men. com
manded by Captain James Brown, was
in charge Of the craft. All those in the
cabin had retired and at 1880 O'Clock this
morning the Dumois was encountered
coming up the river. The Argo made for
the whistles. a signal that that vessel
would take the left side. The Argo
crashed into the starboard bow of the
huge iron steamship. which had one Of
her plates bent, but the Argo had her
bow stove in and In a few minutes sank.
The captain and crew OF the Argo low
cred a small dingey. into which they
sprang, while OF the passengers. only
two, Franbe and Linduaer, succeeded in
reaching the little boat. The boat had
barely reached the side of the vessel be-
fore the Argo plunged head foremost in
to the river, the stern standing up high
in the air. The Dumois failed to lower
boat to go 10 the rescue of the little
yawi. which. overcrowded as she was,
came very near swamping. After reach
ing the deck OF the Dumois it was learn
ed that Messrs. Hestor and Blassini were
missing. and although the Dumois lay TO
for nearly an hour in an effort TO learn
1 something OF the missing men. they fin
ally abandoned the search and headed NJ
the river.
The young men who are missing and
| whose fate is doubtless sealed, were well
known and popular reporters on the
| Picayune.