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The advocate., 1897-09-01

mileage at the rate Of "elght dollars
for every twenty miles Of estimated
distance, by the most usual road from
bis place Of residence to the seat Of
Congress at the commencement and
end Of every such session and meet
ing"
BY act of August 16, 1885, the salaries
of Senator'S and members were fixed at
$4,000 per Congress two years. "and
mileage as now provided by law" that
is, mileage as provided by the act Of
January %, 1918.
BY the act of March 3, 1873 (the sal
ary grab acO, salaries of Senators and
members were fixed at $500 a year
and actual travelling expenses in going
to and returning from each session Of
Congress.
March 8, 1873, was the last day of the
42d Congress, and this salary law was
made to apply to Senator'S and mem
bers of that Congress, and their terms
began March 4, 1871.
General Garfield did not take pay
under the new law, receiving only what
was allowed by the law which was in
force when he was elected, namely, the
law of August 16, 1856.
The salary grab law was repealed by
the act Of January 20, 1874, which has
been in force ever since that time, al
lowing salaries of $4,000 a year and
mileage at 20 cents each way at every
regular session.
The advocate., 1897-09-01

With the restoration of the standard
silver dollar In 1873 came a rapid ex-
pansion of national bank circulation,
giving the country an aggregate an
nual increase of circulating medium
during the next four years of about
$3S, 100000, when our population was
about 5O,OOO,OOO, and business revived.
In 1883. bonds had gone to a high pre-
MUM and banks withdrew their notes
to the extent of about 5000, 900, 900 dur
ing the years between 1882 and 1891,
and times grew hard. In 1890, the
Sherman law gave us about $25, 1000, 900
year increase Of currency, the banks
increased their circulation again and
times began to brighten In 1893, the
Sherman law was repealed, putting the
country absolutely on the gold basis,
and the treasury was turned over to
the bankers.
The advocate., 1897-09-01
RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS.

The Advocate is asked whether our
government of the United States could
be held for damages in cases of loss
of property of aliens occasiOned by
"mObs or other civil disturbances"
Yes. That is provided for in treaties
among nations. And 1t is the law (the
common law" as we say in Great
Britain and the United States). 1t is
founded on the principle which holds
cities and counties responsible for in
juries and losses from the acts OF mobs
and rioters.
The advocate., 1897-09-01

Senator William e. Chandler, of New
Hampshire, who, though a partisan
Republican, clearly foresees breakers
in the way his party Is steering, He
says: "The simple truth of recent
events seems to be that wheat has gone
above the prices lately prevailing only
because of short crops in certain cOun-
tries, as 1T always will under such
conditions, while silver continues to
go down because 1t is yet in process of
characterization, as every human being
knew it would. But the great question
still remains for solution, whether
through the years to come, with silver
characterization still progressing, there
will not be as a consequence thereof
steady fall in the average prices Of the
commodities and the lands buildings
and ships which make the wealth Of
the world"
The advocate., 1897-09-01
ABOUT TIE SALARY GRAB.

A correspondent inquiries about the
increase of Congressional salaries
commonly known as the salary grab"
and General Garfield's connection
with 1t.
BY act Of January %, 1918, each Sem
ator and member of the House Of Rep
representatives was allowed s8 day
during every ReSgiOn OF Congress, and
The advocate., 1897-09-01

p. d. Armour says "the new tariff
bill Is the best thing that ever hap
pened to business interests Of the
United States. Germany and France
are being made to take the same kind
Of medicine that they have been CIV
ing us for the last few years and they
have had enough Of AZ already"
The advocate., 1897-09-01
Editorial Gossip.

4 Hp AANnlubuL OL Jll0 UudlBu OpbuES
headed the march OF the Grand Army
at Buffalo last week.
1t has been proposed that soldiers
Sanitarlum be established at Castle
Pinckney, In Charleston harbOr.
1t is estimated that the revenues of
Greater New York will be equal to one
fourth those of the United States gov
ernment
A rich citizen of Peoria, ILL.,, named
Washington Corrington, bequeathed
million dollars to found a university at
that place
The business of railroad ticket scalp
ing was held by Judge Clark OF the
Nashville Federal court, last week to
be unlawful.
A $10,0OO,OOO mortgage ON the prop
erty Of the Oregon Improvement Com
pany was fOreclOsed last week and the
property ordered sold.
New York City Democrats very much
desire to keep national issues out Of
the city elections this fall, and don't
know how the thing is to be- done.
Up to the 25th day of last month
more than 100000 bushels OF wheat,
rye and corn had been shipped from
Baltimore to England since the last
day of July.
The Texas State Farmers Alliance,
after long discussion during three
sessions behind closed doors, severed
Its connection with the National Farm
ers' Alliance.
Pennsylvania Judges have begun the
practice OF refusing naturalization
papers to persons who, on examination,
are obviously unfit to exercise full
rights of citizenship.
So much interested are Germany and
France in foreign grain this year that
their governments are considering the
matter OF reducing tariff duties on
wheat, rye and corn,
American bankers are agitating the
establishment OF system Of banks for
the purpose of extending credit to
farmers, somewhat along the lines OF
the German peoples banks.
The Executive committee of the In
dianapOlis Business Mems Conference
have begun the work of preparing q
currency bill to be presented to Com
gress when that body meets next De-
Cember.
II has been proposed TO merge Dec
Grafton Day into Memorial Sunday.
The change will hardly be made as long
as there are enough of the old soldiers
left to keep the memories of the great
war alive.
Hon. James II. Eckels, Comptroller
of the Currency, has been offered the
presidency Of a Chicago bank at a high
salary. His immediate predecessor,
II. s. Lacey, upon the expiration of his
term, became president Of the Bank
ers' National bank at Chicago.
At the close of theChristian Alliance
convention, at Cleveland, Ohio, last
week, $11,0 900 was contributed In a
few minutes. Several ladies threw
diamond rings into the collection
boxes, and many men did the same
with their gold watches and jewelry.
English engineers are out on strike
in London. This Is Its eighth week.
1t Is said that the Cooperative Whole
salers' Society, regarding the issue OF
the strike as vital to the interests of
trades uniOnism, Is prepared to ad-
vance TO the Amalgamated Society OF
Engineers G1,0OO00O IL it should be
needed
Greece is unable to pay $4,000, 900,
which is the war indemnity demanded
by Turkey, and the powers" are now
negotiating with the Sultan to induce
him to accept a smaller sum. The
only phase of the subject which inter-
The advocate., 1897-09-01
A PREIunInED FOLLOWING,

iCiSm or a passage or TWO IN the Sp6Cn
delivered by the editor of the Advocate
at Des MOines, Iowa, on the 10Th ult.
The point of attack is Peffer's advice
to POpuIists to stand by their party
until its membership, with that Of all
other political reform parties, can be
organized in one great party of the peO-
pie. If PETERS counsel is unwlse lead
ership, the Independents course is a
prejudiced following. We quote;
1--WE know Of no political problem the
study of which has led so many in
yestigators to advance from it to
higher ground. Last years political
campaign doubled the number of those
who agree with the larger part Of the
Populists ON the money questiOn-and
as many more have nearly reached that
point"
Then why abandon the party which
is so rapidly converting the people?
And again:
ut is doubtful If the Senator knows
a single POpulist who has become less
earnest advocate of reform because Of
that joint campaign, but it is matter
of common observation that multi
tude of Democrats now differ from the
Populists in name Only-and the longer
the two parties act together the more
rapidly will the new leaven cause the
older party to shed it's moss"
Mr. PETER is not Objecting to the
Democrats cooperating with POpulists.
On the contrary, he thinks that would
be the proper thing, If they agree with
us. What he does object to is the
merging of the Populist party in any
other existing political body. He is
ready to join the working hosts Of the
people in a permanent body, and to-
gether as one, and not as three or more,
make war on the common enemy. II
Democrats do not think we'll enough Of
us and our principles and our votes to
meet us ON middle ground where we
shall all and each have equal voice in
framing platforms and nominating
candidates, be it so. Does anybody
think that had Democrats and POpu-
lists conferred in common as members
of one body, any such man as Sewall
would have been on the national
ticket?
The Independent quotes from the
speech these words: ''It may be urged
that the Democratic party has changed
its policy in respect to the coinage
ratio. deny it. The platform utter
ance is merely declamatory inserted
to catch the POpulist vote. The re-
spOnsible men of the Democratic party
have not been and are not now tena-
ciOus about the ratio Its candidate
for the Presidency and his associate
on the ticket would, as l verify believe,
consent to any compromise that would
secure the unlimited coinage of silver"
And then adds: Every Democrat has
a right to feel insulted at such Ian
guage."
Oh, no. Democrats are not so thin
skinned as that 1t is not three years
since the silver Democrats in the
United States Senate proposed, by bill
duly introduced by Senator Jones, of
Arkansas, and by him reported from
the Finance committee and by him
urged for passage, to wholly ignore
the ratio by asking that the silver
bullion offered for mintage should be
coined at the gold price of bullion in
London on the day the deposit was
made. And if the Independent does
not know that the 16 to ratio was in
serted in the Chicago platform to
please the Populists he can easily pro-
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The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09
Morehouse Takes the Lead
IN Denouncing Hearst's
Scavenger Sheet.
DEBAUCHES ALL TRUE MANHOOD
Legislators Besrnirehed by the Circulators Of
Filth Temporarily Postpone the Pun
ishrnent Of the Recalcitrant
Witnesses.

SACRAMENTO, CAL March Sit not by any clever bit of
fneSSe but by simply ordinary trick of the legal practitioners the
police that Andrew M Lawrence managing fake editor
Hears fake journal San Francisco and his unfortunate ubodn
ates tried before the bar of the Senate to-day.
At the last telegram presented from George A.
kept him San Francisco this put
forward after every consideration
accorded by the Senate bribery investigation committee last Friday
This play the Examiner for time well understood among
MEMBERS their determination nothing might
Of persecution the plea for postponemen granted
One the striking features the proceedings
with the fake article the Examiner and its complete exposure
the bue administered publicly and spontaneously the fake
journalism exemped the San Francisco Examiner
morning Session of the Senate.
When the reading the report Of the committee rectng the
Of the witnesses concluded
ping When the resolution citing Long Green
ply and l. L. Levng his unfortunate ubonates appear
the bar of the Senate for their recrancy
applause When Senator Morehouse spoke
The magt rake journal the applause hearty pro-
ongd and when the resolution adopted all thought
lost and the applause vocierous.
All three of the witnesses present.
tofney, Garre MEnerney and Andrew j. Cune
all their personal professional and political influence failed prevent
the adoption of the resolution mentioned and the Sam
Raney enlisted the campaign. all was
induce the Democratic members present. with exception
against the resolution and few Republicans.
During the evening session. when expected the
be tried and found guilty. sentenced the Senate
appearance first night the opera. Ladies present large
numbers and the Assembly, had the roll been called there would
had to suspend business for lack of quorum.
understood that the punishment imposed
imprisonment Had the pronounced tonight prisoners
ready be signed whenever the being
requStion.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

pointed Senator'S John II. Dickinson, Eugene
Aram and J. H. Seawell as a committee to in
yestigate the charges so made as aforesaid in
said article so published as aforesaid in said
newspaper, with full power to issue subpenas.
swear and examine witnesses and to make
complete, perfect and full investigation of the
alleged bril- berry set forth in said newspaper;
and whereas said. committee, appointed by
this Senate, undertook to discharge its said
duty of investigating the said charge OF
bribery; and whereas, subpenas were duly and
regularly served upon A. N. Lawrence, manag
ing and supervising editor of the San Fran
cisco Daily Examiner, and upon L. L. Levings,
the correspondent OF the San Francisco Daily
Examiner and reputcd author of said article,
aud upon Al Murphy, also a correspondent OF
the said San Francisco Daily Examiner; and
whereas in pursuance of said subpenas SO is
sued and served. the said witnesses appeared
before the said committee of inves tigation OF
this Senate, and each OF the said witnesses
being duly sworn and during the course of
the examination refused to answer questions
pertinent to the said issue to their knowl-
edge touching the matter set forth in said
article and to papers which were admitted to
have been in their possession or kilograms
which they had seen and had knowledge of;
and whereas, the truth of the said article is
supposed to rest and be in the knowledge of
said three witnesses; and whereas, they are
supposed to have caused the said article to be
pu blished; and whereas, the said witnesses
have refused 10 answer questions relating TO
and pertinent and material to the investiga-
ton before the said committee and whereas,
the said committee has reported to this Senat te
the refusal of caid witnesses TO testify or to
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09
Fu1l ext Of the Reply to the
JJ1timatum of the
Powers.
AUTONOMY IS NOT THE REMEDY
To the Combined Friends Of Turkey the
People Of the He1enes Declare That
Christians on the Island Must
Be Protected.

BILE. It's echo would not have reached the
Creta:l people.
ut being the case, therefore, that new
regime of autonomy could not fulfill the
noble aims of the powers, it is obvious
what would be the situation OF the un-
happy island until the establishment of
this regime.
IF the powers deem it their duty to
persevere in their resolutions with the
above views and in the name of humanity
as well as in the interest OF the island,
the pacifcation of which is the unique
object of the solicitude of the powers, we
do not hesitate to appeal to them on the
subjects of the other measures-namely,
the recall of our military forces. Indeed,
if because of the presence of the united
squadrons in Cretan waters and in the
conviction that the squadrons will not
permit Turkish troops to EN- bark on the
island, the presence also of all the ships
of the Greek fleet off Crete is judged to be
necessary, the presence of the Greek army
ON the island, nevertheless is shown to
be desirable alike from sentiments of
humanity and in the interests of the
definite re-esta ablshment of order. Our
duty specially forbids US to abandon the
Cretan people to the mercy of Mussulman
fanaticism and the Turkish army, which
at all times has deliberately and intend
edfy participated in the Aggressive acts
OF the populace.
above all, il our troops on the island,
who are worthy Of the confidence OF tha
powers have received a mandate to pacify
the country, their desires and intentions
would have received promptly the most
perfect satisfaction. 1t would be, then,
after the re-esta blishn ent of order that it
would be possible to learn the desires
free.y expressed of the CretaD people for
a decision as to tn cir fate.
''The sorrows which have recurred reg-
ularly IN Crete for many decades past not
only do not occur without profoundly
agitating the Hellenic people, but they
interrupt social activity and gravely dis.
turb the economy and finances of the
state. Even if we admit that it would be
possible to forget for an instant that we
share the common religion of Crete. that
we are of the same race and bound ov ties
of blood, we could not in silence allow the
powers to assume that the Greek state IS
able any longer TO resist such shocks.
For this reason we appeal 10 the generous
sentiments anima;ing the powers and beg
them to permit the Cretan people them
selves 10 declare how they desire to be
governed. SKoUzEs"
The Chronicle adds, on high authority,
that the Greek Envoys abroad have been
instructed on receipt of the reply to IN
form the Government to which they are
accredited that Greece is prepared to rec
ognlze the temporary sovereignty of the
Sultan. to withdraw its fleet completely
and to place the Greek army in command
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

iner's retraction OF its calumnious false
hoods regarding wholesale bribery OF
members Of the Legislature:
Bert, Braunhart, Doty, Feeney,
Hall, La Rue, Prisk, SeawelI,
Smith, Stratton, Wilmington.
OF the four Republicans-Bert, Smith,
Stratton and Withingt gton-who voted
against the resolution, Bert was the only
man, who could apparently find no e1-
planation to make foz the manner in
which he voted. The others excused their
vote in speeches, the substance of which
will be found in another column.
The members who felt that they pos
sessed honor, dignity, honesty and man.
hood and That tue occasion demanded
that they should assert and make mani
fest the same, are the following:
AndrOus, Aram, Beard, BuIIa,
Chapman Dickinson, Flint, Franck,
Gillette, Gleaves, Jones, Under,
Luchsinger, Mahoney, Morehouse,
Pedlar, Shine, Shippee, Simpson,
Trout, VOORHEES,, Wolfe.
sisHiboaub iaCt oeFelopeu IN conneC-
tion with the debate over the resolution.
Not a single Der who spoke hesitated
10 declare on the floor of the Senate that
the article published in the Examiner OF
February q was a pure fake, without a
shred of foundation.
This is the resolution introduced by the
committee through Senator Morehouse:
WHEREAS, There appeared in the San Fran.
cisco Daily Examiner OF February 81, 1897
an article head ed Bribery in Aid of THEY.
cry" wherein it was charged that certain
Senator'S who voted in favor of Assem- bly, bill
273 had received bribes ranging in amounts
from $3.50 to $500 10 cast their votes for said
ASS embly bill 273; and whereas, there afte,
on the first day OF March, 1897, this honorable
Senate upon resolution duly adopted ap
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

LONDON, Eng, March 8.-The Chroni-
from Athens giving the full text of the
reply OF Greece to the powers. After a
brief preamble the reply continues:
"In view of the extraordinary gravity of
the results which will follow, his Majesty's
Government considers it to be its duty to
submit to the powers it's opinion OF the
measures decided upon, an opinion which
is the result of long experience and ac-
quaintance with the situation in Crete.
Impressed by the sentiments which
animate the powers and their solicitude
for general peace. the Greek Government
will not fail in this duty, since Greece also
ardently desires to contribute to the main
tenance of peace and to save from utter
ruin the population of an island put to
severe trial and so often deci1nated.
I'VE believe that the new regime OF au-
tonomy adopted by the powers unhappily
cannot correspond to the noble intentions
that inspire it. and that it will suffer the
fate of the different administrative svs-
TENS which at various times and without
success have been tried in Crete.
.sThis is not the first time that Crete
finds herself in state Of insurrection. In
recent times on more than six occasions
the horrors OF anarchy have shaken and
:snperiied her existence Il sthe neY
regime with which it is proposed to endow
her is not calculated to re- establish ORDER
liz definitiva manner the Greek Govesn-
mont cannot double the imposs ibility of
putting an end by means of it to the pres
ent state of revolution. Anarchy will
continue TO ravage the country with fire
and sword in its hands and blind ia natl
cism will continue it's destructive work OF
exterminating a people which assuredly
does not deserve such fate.
Before such 3 prospect our responsi-
biIity would be enormous if we did not
most earnestly urge the powers not to IN
sist upon the scheme of autonomy pro-
posed, but rather to restore to Crete what
she already had at the time of the en-.
franchisemsnt OF other provinces which
form the kingdom of Greece and to lead
her back to Greece, to which she belonged
since Capriodistis was President.
"In the presence of the recent massacre
pillage and confagration IN Canea, in the
presence of the frightful anguish 10 which
the inhabitant of Crete have been ex-
posed ana menaced by the boundless fury
of the Mussulman population, who pre-
vented the departure of Christian families
for Greece, which has always been a provi-
Dental refuge for all these miserable
beings. our whole country was torn with
remorse for the responsibility it assumed
last year in inducing the Cretans to lay
resulted forbid us TO undertake once more
such task, and il we had attem pied it
our voice would certainly have been fee
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

ted the report of the committee, as pub
lished in this mornings CALL. 1t was
ordered on file and Senator Morehouse, as
attorney for the committee, introduced
the resolution mentioned, which was
adopted by vote OF 22 to II, seven mem
bers being absent or out of their seats, as
follows: Boyce, Denison, Dwyer, Hen
derson, Holloway, LanGford and Toner.
Those who were present in the Capitol
building, but who lodged the vote, were:
Henderson, Langford and Toner.
Here is the list of those who either sig
nitied their willingness to suffer suplnely
under the malicious imputations of the
fake scavenger journal, or who assumed
to be assuaged for their wounded honor
by what they considered to be the Exam
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

answer questions material to the investig q
tion; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the sergesntat-arms of the
Senate be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to bring all of said witnesses upon
spbpenas to be issued by the said committee
through its chairman before the bar of this
Senate forthwith, and then and there to an
swer the questions propounded to them and
which they declined and refused to answer,
and that upon the service OF the said subpoena
upon said witnesses, if they refuse or fail to
attend at the time aforesaid at the bar of the
Senate, that the sergeant-at-ar arms be and he is
hereby authorized and empowered upon war
rant issued by the said committee of investi-
cation through its chairman to arrest said
witnesses and bring them before the bar of the
Senate. that they may purge themselves of
contempt in refusing to answer the said ques-
tlons; and be it further
RESOLVED, That upon the appearance of said
witnesses, If they SO desire it, they and each of
them may have counsel to represent them, but
that said counsel shall not be permitted to
occupy more than one-half hour of time; and
be it further
Resoiued. That upon the said witnesses being
brought before the bar of the Senate the presi-
dent of the Senate shall ask them if tn ey have
cause to show why they sh hould not be pun
ished for contempt in refusing to answer the
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09
FAKERS MUST ANSWER.

Sewers of the "NeWJournal ScaV-
enger Cannot Be EN- ptied Upon
Legisl lators With ImpunIty.
SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 8-For
the first time during this session the Sem
ate chamber was made to resound with
applause this morning whe1 Senator
Morehouse made his eloquent and impress
sive speech in favor of the adoption OF the
resolution asking that the Examiner en-
pIoyes be cited before the bar of the Sem
ate to purge themselves or show cause
why they should not be punished for con-
tempt.
Chairman Dickinson of the Senate
4 Bribery Investigation Committee submit