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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
KEPT THEM IN LINE.
Inside History of the Passage of the
Mckinley Bill
Deputy serEennt-ht-Arms of the
House Tells How He Managed to
Keep "a Quorum Constant
Iy on Hand.
[snecial washIngton Letter.l

"The voters of this country like to
hear the politicians talk to them about
.the sovereign people, because il
tickles their pride and makes them feel
that they are really running their gov
ernment when they are not says |
Tom Cavanaugh, the longtime deputy |
sergeant-at-arms of the national house |
of representatives.
For example," he continued, 1.-THE
people imagine that they cause legisla-
tion, and compel public servants to do
thus and so; when as matter OF fact
they seldom produce the results whlch
they aim at in casting their ballots.
Tens of thousands, and probably mil
lions, of people to-day believe that VIII
liam Mckinley formulated and passed
the Mckinley bill, the measure upon
which he builded his presidential hopes
and aspirations so successfully.
'As a matter of fact, in the passage
of that bill / did as much solid effective
work as Mckinley did. Moreover, the
bill, as it came from the committee on
ways and means, was the work OF the
whole committee, and not merely Nc
Kinley's work. Then again, the bill as
it came back from the senate was an
entirely different bill, and might bet
ter have been called the Allison bill, be-
cause it was formulated under the di-
rection of the Iowa statesman.
But as to the final passage of the
bill in the house of representatives, s
reported from the committee on ways
and means, let me tell you that did the
bulk of the real hard work; did lots of
it while Mckinley was sound asleep.
This witl seem strange to your read
ers, although of course the watchful
newspaper men knew what was going
on at the time, although they did not
know all of the details of the work.
"One morning a messenger came to
me and informed me that the speaker
wanted me to come to his room. That
was in the Fifty-frst congress and Tom
Reed was speaker. L responded of
course at once, and when | entered the
speakers room l found there Mckin-
ley, of Ohio; Cannon. of Illinois; Hen
derson, of Iowa, and other leading COM
mittee chairmen and floor leaders OF
the republican majority. The speaker
informed me that the tariff bin was tc
be taken up for consideration, and that
1 must make it my duty to keep a
quorum of the majority members pres
ent all the time. 1 stated that this
could only be done by order of the ser
geant-at-arms of the house, and thai
gentleman was sent for. The speaker
told him what was going on, and he is
sued the order which enabled me to de
vote all of my time to keeping quorum
present.
''You see, the republicans only hac
about dozen majority in the house
and the democrats were refraining from
voting, some of them remaining absen
from the house entirely. The member
of the majority party were somewha
indifferent. That is to say, quite mum
Der of them would absent themselve
from the house in order to look afte
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24

times they were found at their homes,
they were found at the
aters, sometimes they were found play
ing billiards, sometimes they were
found in barrooms, but few of them
were found in the latter places. But
wherever they were / always knew
where to round 'em up. The system
of leaving their addresses each day
proved to be quite successful. But
even with that precaution some of
them would leave the capitol without
complying with the simple require
ment. In such cases we would have to
scurry about the city 10 their best
known rendezvous. We had to get
them and bring them to the capitol as
soon as possible in order to have their
votes recorded in time.
81 said that l was at work while Nc
Kinley was sleeping; and that is true,
for often at night 1 was out looking
for men and locating them so that
they could be found on the next day.
Some of them went to hospitals for
necessary recuperation, under certain
conditions. They also had to be
brought to the capitol in carriages and
sent back to the hospital afterwards.
Oftentimes 1 was busy at night with
the sergeant-at-arms, pages and mes
sengers, and with the speaker, in order
that the next days work might be well
done. Some of the pages and messen-
gers needed looking after in order to
keep them sober and on duty. 1t was
a hard campaign that L went through
but it was a successful one.
so you see that, although Mckinley
had plenty of work to do in debating
and defending his bill, he didn't do il
all, by a long shot. There were others
The bill would never have been passed
had it not been for the executive worl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
SIX KILLED.
Terrible Result of n Railway Disea-
ter on the Omaha Road mt
Humboldt, s. ID.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Nov. 20.-A spe'
cial to the Times from Sioux Falls, S. D.,
says: Word reached here late Sunday
evening of a terrible accident on the
Omaha railroad, near Humboldt, 20
miles from Sioux Falls. According to
the meager details thus far received
party of men were on handcar, about
quarter of a mile out of Humboldt,
when they discerned a work train, in
charge of Conductor Higgins, backing
down upon them, en- route to Montrose.
In the work train were a number Of Hat
cars, upon which were a hundred or
more workmen, principally Italians.
The men on the handcar jumped off,
leaving the car on the track. When the
rapidly backing work train struck the
obstruction the force of the collision
threw four of the fiat cars from the
track, killing five of the workmen,
among them Edward Howard, an Amer
lean, and injuring many more. Five
more of the injured are expected to die.
/ The uninjured Italians Immediately be-
came wildly excited, and, drawing their
knives, made threatening demonstra-
tions toward the crew of the work train,
who, being greatly outnumbered and
fearing their lives would be taken by
the excited mob, pulled away from the
scene of the accident with all possible
speed. Five doctors, three from Sioux
Falls and two from Montrose, arc at the
scene of the accident. The relief train
sent from here has returned, bringing
the five injured, one of whom, 15-year-
old boy, died en- route.
Richton, ILL.,, Nov. 20.-The Illinois
Central fast freight train from St. Louis
crashed into the Springfield special
stock train near here at six o'clock Sun.
day morning, killing one man, injurine
another and wrecking four ours and ar
engine. j. w. Clark, stockman living
at Thomasville, ILL.,, who was in charge
of some live stock on the Springfield
train, was asleep in the caboose and wa!
instantly killed. The collision wa!
caused by the heavy fog which con
cealed all lights and made il impossible
to see more than few feet .head of th'
pilot.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
MRS. DEWEY GETS THE HOME.
The Washington Home Presented to
the Admiral is Decided over
to His Wife.

Washington, Nov. 21.-A formal deed
of conveyance was placed on file, trans
ferring from Admiral George Dewey to
Mrs. Mildred Dewey, his wife, the prop
erty, No. 1747 Rhode Island avenue, in
this city, which was presented to the
admiral by popular subscription. A
nominal consideration is named in the
instrument.
The transfer was made through John
w. Crawford, the admiral's secretary,
to whom the property was first decided,
and then by Crawford to Mrs. Dewey.
Mrs. Dewey thus becomes the undis-
puted owner of the house for which the
people subscribed $4,000. She can sell
or convey it to anyone in her own right.
The house was purchased by commit
tee of officials with the money sub
scribed by about $4,000 citizens of the
United States for the express purpose
of honoring the admiral, and before it
was known he even contemplated a mar
| riage.
The local papers in announcing the
transfer print communications from
contributors to the Dewey fund in
which the transfer is severely con-
| demned. Members of the committee
that had charge of the contributions
express surprise and disappointment
that the admiral has rot retained the
title to the home.
Admiral Dewey has studiously denied
himself to newspaper correspondents
since the papers consummating the
transfer were filed. He has, however,
admitted to his home a number of
friends from the various departments
who are supposed to have called to pro-
test against his action in transferring
his home that was the gift of the people
of the United States. just what expla-
nations he made to these friends they
have refused to disclose, but it is known
that he said in part to at least two of
them: when the public understands
the motives underlying this bit of busi-
ness it will not judge me harshly.
hope that the public will withhold
dgment until my friends are in u po-
sition to make an explanation"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24

business in the executive departments,
or to look after their correspondence.
Some of them, only few, paid more at
tention to pleasure seeking than to
business. 1t was thus made my duty to
keep a quorum present; and it was
difficult task.
II personally saw every republican
member of the house, and informed each
of them that no absence would be eX-
cused at any time under any circum-
stance, except sickness in their fam
lilies; and that before leaving the capitol
at any time, even for a few minutes,
each member should go TO the office of
the sergeant-at-arms and leave the ad-
dress at which he could be found most
quickly.
'This was done Systematically every
day. You would be surprised to know
how many representatives had to be
watched like school children in order
to keep them in line of duty. For three
weeks l kept watch of all of them. l
had the page boys divided off into
watches, like sentries on guard. One
page, for example, would be expected
to particularly watch certain ten
Iaen, and be ready to go after them
Instantly. l had horses for mounted
pages, and carriages for myself and
other deputies in the work, When
there was roll call demanded on any
paragraph of the Mckinley bill, or on
any proposed amendment l went after
sertain members myself, and sent my
assistants after certain others. Thus
whenever there was a roll call | man
aged to have quorum present. Con
scquently, every paragraph of the Me
Kinley bill was passed excepting one
and that was of minor importance.
Sometimes the representatives. wer'
found in their committee rooms, some
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24

ESh
with Mr.. Tuttle. He became the clerk
of the grand jury in 1865 and was APP
pointed city counsel of Paterson in
1871. He was elected counsel for the
board of chosen freeholders in 1872
and was elected to the Legislature in
1873. tie was reelected to the as
sembly in 1874 and was made speaker
in 1876. He entered the senate of
New Jersey in 1879 and in 1881 was
elected speaker of that body. In 1876
New Jersey sent him as delegate-at-
large to the national republican con-
vention and again in 1880 the same
honor was bestowed upon him. He
was elected a member of the national
republican committee in 1884 and
served continuously upon that body
until 1896, when he was nominated
for the vice presidency of the United
States.
Washington, Nov. 22.-Vice Presi-
dent Hobart's funeral on Saturday will
be attended by the president and his
cabinet, the supreme court, the senate
in u body and a large committee from
the house of representatives, besides
many other high dignitaries of the
government, who will journey to Pat
erson to pay their last tribute of re-
spect to the memory of the vice presi-
dent. Every senator has been iI.viE-
ed and the senate will meet ut tho
Fifth avenue hotel in New York Sat
urday at IL o'clock and thence travel
in body to Paterson.
Sergeant-at-Arms Bright has en-
| gagged a special train to convey the
president and his cabinet and the su-
| preme court to Paterson. The train
will leave Washington over the Penn
sylvania railroad at o'clock Satur-
| day morning and will arrive on the re-
| turn at IL p. m.
BY the death of Mr.. Hobart Senator
William P. Frye, of Maine, becomes
president pro tenn of the senate ana
will discharge all the duties of the vice
president as presiding officer of tha5
body. The senate rules provide that
no election is necessary at the Begin
ming of the session. Senator Frye ac-
cordingly will continue as presiding
officer till the end of President McKin-
ley's administration, unless he chooses
to resign, or the senate wishes to eiecL
another senator to the office.
curious coincidence of the death
of Vice President Hobart is found in
the fact that of the six vice presidents
who have died in Office four died
within a few days of the same day of
the month, the death of Mr.. Hobarl
being the 21st of November, 1899; that
of Mr.. Wilson the 22d of November,
1875; that of Elbridge Gerry, Novem-
Der %, 1914, and that of Mr.. Hendricks
November 25, 1885. The other two
vice presidents who died in Office were
Clinton and King. The former died
April 20, 1912, and the latter April II,
1858.
BY law the succession to the presi-
dency of the United States in the event
of vacancy falls upon the vice presi-
dent, and in the event of the latter's
death, to the secretary of state, the
next in line being the secretary of the
treasury, then the secretary of war
: and down through the list of cabinet
officers in order of precedent fixed by
act of congress when the death of Vie.
President Hendricks disclosed the
necessity of such ii provision.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24

Washington, Nov. 22.-George @.
Dewey, Admiral Deweys only son, Is
now the owner of the residence pre-
sented to the admiral by the American
people. Papers were signed yester-
day by which Mrs. Dewey transfers
all title to the property known ms l,747
Rhode Island avenue, this city, to
George G.. Dewey.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
Tragedy In Indian Territory.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 2l.-A Star
special from Antlers, L. T., says: Near
Doakesville, so miles east of Antlers,
Deputy United States Marshals James
S. Ennis and Doog ESeridge and John
Kelly, Goodland merchant, were
killed by two men named Bishop and
Frey, whom the officers were trying to
arrest ror removing mortgaged prop
erty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
neheaded ali. Father.

Owensboro. KY, Nov. 22.-Cicero
Barnett, colored, cut off his fathers
head with a hatchet yesterday, The
murdered man was T6 years old. Bar
nett, who is insane, was arrested.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
Evidently.

"Wigsby strokes his nose as though
he loved it,"
"Yes; he's strongly attached to ~
you know."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
sunreme Conrt AdIourn..

Washington, Nov. 21.-The United
States supreme court was adjourned
for the usual Thanksgiving recess of
two weeks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
BIG DEALS IN WHEAT.
German Grain Buyer Makes Heavy
Purchases for Shipment to
Europe.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 2O.-The
journal says: Alfred Duttenhofer,
who is at the head of grain firm with
houses at Mannheim and Duisburg, Ger
many, has just closed deals with sew
eral local grain firms, involving puT-
chase of several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of southwestern wheat, and
left Saturday night for Galveston,
where he will make arrangements for
the shipment of the grain to Europe.
1.-The failure, or the partial failure, OF
the Russian wheat crop" said Mr.. Dut-
senhofer in an interview, "is respon-
sible for my visit to Kansas City. The
quality of the Russian wheat is so poor
this year that we do not care to use it,
Negotiating Tariff Concessions.
Washington, Nov. 20.-Actiye negoti-
htions are proceeding to secure from
Brazil such tariff coLce ssions as will ex'
tend the market for American wheat
and American flour in hat country. 1t
Is understood that proposition to this
effect was submitted TO the authorities
at Rio de Janeiro, and they have sought
to accede to the desires of the authori-
ties here. But as definite results have
been lacking the Brazilian minister Il,
Washington, Mr.. Assis-l3rasil, and Mr.
Kasson, the United States reciprocity
commissioner, have taksA up the
negotiations.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-11-24
The Insurgent Capital.

Manila, Nov. 2l.-Thirty insurgents,
under major, departed from Bayam-
bang Sunday about ten minutes before
the Americans entered. Others, it is
said, threw their guns into the river
and now play the role of amigos. Many
Spanish prisoners, escaped from the
Filipinos, are AT Bayambang, among
them the former governors of the prov
inces of Tarlac and Zambales. The
Spanards say that the new insurgent
capital is Bengaet, and that the Amer
can prisoners are at Camitin, They rt
port having seen Lieut.. Gilmore and hi
party in the north.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-06
THE REVOLUTION BUSINESS.

By direction of the government the United
States district attorney at New Orleans is
prosecuting an investigation to discover If
that city is a breeding ground for Central
American revolutions. The matter is now
before the United States grand jury, and
it is expected that several indictments will
be returned against persons who have been
furnishing revolutions TO order. The inVes-
tigaton seems TO be timely, for the United
States has recently been put to consider
able expense in ordering vessels to different
Central American states and sending cable
messages on account of revolutions. During
the month of March trouble Of this kind
occurred with no less than three Central
American epublics-Nicaragua Honduras
and Guatemala-giving rise TO diplomatic
differences that might have resulted Sc
riously. In each case Americans were more
or less involved in the attempted revolu-
ton. IN the case of Nicaragua Americans
residing in the country took part, and some
volunteers were recruited in the United
States and shipped from New Orleans to
assist the revolutionists. While this at
tempted revolution was in progress dis
patches from the United States government
to our consul at Bluefields were stopped and
two war ships were sent TO Bluefelds TO de-
mand an apology. In the Honduras affair.
in which also Americans participated and
which is said 10 have been engineered from
New Orleans, an American citizen, a Mr..
Pears of Pittsburg. was killed by soldier.
He was not a combatant and was really
murdered because he was an American. For
this outrage the United States government
has demanded an explanation and $4,000
damages from Honduras, and has sent a
war ship 10 enforce the demand. This is a
large sum for Honduras 10 pay. and IL may
not be easily collected, but as the case in
wolves protection TO American citizens the
| demand will doubtless be enforced. In Guat-
| emala a number OF Americans who claimed
10 have gone there as railroad men were
charged with being flibusters and some
were shipped out OF the country. while
| others were arrested and put in Jail. where
| they still are. These men may not have been
| filibusters, but the fact that they were
Americans brought them under suspicion
| Their cases are now under consideration by
the United States government and may lead
TO another demand for apology and repara-
| ton.
The fact that three such cases have oc
Cured within a few weeks shows the neces
sity OF putting stop TO them The govern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-06

ment has reason to believe that these con-
fomented in and engineered from New Or
leans by exiled Central Americans and dis
reputable Americans who undertake the job
for pay. A letter from New Orleans says:
The Central American revolution business
in New Orleans is well organized and
as systematic as any other industry. Reyes,
Soto. Vasquez or any of the exiled presi-
dents who wishes to return to office gives
notice that he is willing TO plank up 500, go
or S3B.V1 or whatever amount he may think
the presidency is worth. He comes down
here. meets one of the organizers, generally
a daredevil American, who agrees TO steer
the thing through for him. Generally two
or three ex-presidents pool their issues as
Reyes in Nicaragua and VasqueZ In Hon
duras. as that prevents one of the govern
ments from going to the assistance OF the
other. There is always large stock of arms
in New Orleans reserved for Central Amer
lean revolutions-and a very sorry stock it
Is. too. OF much the same class as the arms
sold 10 China by phianthropic English or
German merchants. These arms have played
part in "A dozen revolutions, for as soon
as president gets into office through them
ne has no longer any use for them and sells
them as junk TO New Orleans dealers. who
reserve them for the next affair Thus the
arms which placed Policarpo Bonilla in the
presidential chair Of Honduras were sold TO
New Orleans dealers. The latter disposed of
them to Soto, who used them against
arms being stopped by the United States
customhOuse authorities at New Orleans.
as they left this port concealed in bales of
hay. They were finally bought by President
Sceria some weeks ago when he found that
VasqueZ would invade the country from
Honduras. Now that the danger is over they
viii probably come back 10 the junk shops
until the next revolution is organized.
All this is done in open violation of our
neutrality laws and at the imminent risk of
causing serious trouble and perhaps war In
addition to the mercenary schemers in New
Orleans who work up revolutions to order
and supply filibusters with arms it is said
that so-called labor agencies in some West
ern cities send men to Central America os-
tensibly to work on railroads or plantations.
but really to help along a revolution. When
the men get there they find they are ex-
pected TO shoulder a gun instead of a spade.
The investigation now going at New Or
leans by order of the government should
be thorough one. and the business of out
fitting revolutions for the Central American
States should be broken up