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Our SsnatorS Could Not Vote.
Tillmaa and McLaurin Denied
That Right on Account of Their
Pugillstis Encounter.

Washington, Feb. 24.-Aftsr
eight hours OF tumultuous debate
TODAY the senate, shortly before 7
O'Clock this evening, passed the
Philippine tariff bill bv vote of
4o to 26, strickIy party vote.
Mr. Tiilman and AsLsurin, tho
two senators fram South Carolina
who oa saturday last were declur-
ed by the senate to be IN contempt
because of their fight in the cham
bsr, were not permitted by voice
or by vote to participate in the
proceedings.
The question ~ to their right to
vote preelpita'ed sharp debate
lasting nearly two hours.
The president pro tempors, Mr..
Frye, held that the tive senators
sould not vote and he was sus ain
Cd by . majority of the senate
THERE BUT NO GOOD,
Both of the South Carolina
senator's were on the floor when
the senate was called to order.
Mr.. 4cLsurin came in first and
Mr.. Tillsan just As the chaplain
offered prayer. A small bunch
Of red roses aud white carnations
lay On Mr.. Tillman' 8 desk.
An echo Of the sensational fight
OF Saturday was heard At the CON-
slusion of routine business.
Mr.. Piitchsrd, Republican of
North Carolina, submitted the fell
lowing letter which vas read at the
clerks desk.
Warrington, Feb. "a. 1902.
To Hon. .. g. Pritchard, Unised
States Senator, NasbinstonH.
Ny Dear Sir: l was prevented,
~ you knew, from offering the
resolution which 1 wrote at my
desk on Saturday demanding an
invsstiga1isa of the C ages mado
by my colleague by being adjudg-
cd in contempt Of the senate. l
am new dsbarred the privilege
and request you to introduce tho
rssolutisn for the reason that if
tho charges are true l an unfit to
remain . member of the senate,
and if they are untrus the man who
made them is unfit to be = member
of this honorable body. In any
event, l feel that am entitled to
. vindlcation by. the same bsdy
that makes Investigations in tho
proceedings for contempt. L
herewith inclsss tho resolution.
Yours worry trnly,
John Lowndss AeLaurin.
Mr.. Pritchard then offered tho
following resolution:
"Whsrsas, the senior senator
from the State of South Cal olina
chaaged in a speech on tho foer
Of tho senate that the junior sen
.ter from the same State had bees
improperly Influenced in casting
his vote for tho ratification Of the
treaty Of peace between the Unit,
cd States and Spain; and
: "Whsrsss, the said charge wal
enphsticalIy denied by the juaio'
: senator
"Reselvsd, That the connitt,'
, on privileges and elections be di
. rocted to investigate and repor
t 40 to the trath of tho said charge
: with full power to send for pei
sOss and papers.
On motion Of Mr.. Hale til
It resolution was referred to til
: COMMITTEES or privileges and e!s
. tious.
a
% keep' Your Bowels Strong.
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dent Roosevelt with the purpose
to "lnsalt" him and to declare
him guilty of conduct un nbscsm-
ing a gentleman" He asserts
that it WAS Mr.. Roossvslt's mo-
tive to put him ia "a condition of
uawsrthisess to meet the prssl
dent sad his guest" before the
senate had taken final action.
But 10 this trusi Senator Till
man was offered the opportunity
Of declining the invitation a. of
his own volition; and csrtainl, the
Pr"ffer of this opportunity did not
imp y the desire publicly to insult
him or to prejudice his case in the
senate. Therefore We are brought
down 30 one question Of fact: Did
President Roosevelt tell the truth
whom hs declared that to entertain
vt State banquet most for,
msl function, bs it rsmsn bsred,
and subject to the strictsst dipls-
matte intsrprstation-a senator
under suspension by his associates
would "sffrant" the senate and bs
an act Of "dissourtesy" to . roy
al visitsri
This is . novel point in Amer
ican official etiquette aud We Do
nst pretend to be Al authority on
ceremonial obssrvancss in Wash
lngton or else where: bat it seems
to US that by the ordinary rules of
csurtssy the president vas justi-
fed. Toward the senate Mr..
Tillman held for the time the re-
lation of IN offender. He had
been declared by = unanimous vsts
to be in Ger tempt Of that body,
and in consequences Of that vote
had hssa denied the privilege of
representing ia any effective way
his State in the senate cha mber.
He WAS in the position of q pris-
snsr condemned but awaiting fnal
sentence. The senate, is = ceor-
dinats department of the govern
nent entitled to respsct and con.
sidsration from the executive. A
number Of other son ators were to
he guests at the State dinusr.-
Even if We waive consideration of
the fact that Mr.. Tillnan waa for
the time not senator in the full
sense but = codsnned and silsucsd
member, it YET would seem that
bis selection for = special honor
At the hands of the executive
could bs 'intsrprstsd as an indica-
tion of favor to him and therefore
q prsjudgmsat of the ssnate's ul-
innate action in his case.
But more is to be said. When
We give adinnsr to special guest,
oven = private dinner, ws are
bound TO consider bis social rsla.
tions and to refrain from inviting
to msot him men who are person
ally or officially obnoxious, or
even untengsnial from his stand.
point. The host must put himssl
10 the place Of his guest. Now,
the personality Of Benjamin Ryan
TilIman means nothing whatsvs,
te Prince Henry OF Prussia, s=t
Prince Henry of Prussia NIGH
we'll resent N executive invitatlor
to any senator or member or eff
Ger Of the United States army OF
navy who happened to bs uads
suspension and therefore tenta
lively in disgracs. European ct
iquetts, and especially German i'm
psrisl etiquette, 10 very strict
and President Roosevelt VA
bound to view the case ~ it m igh
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president stated he regretted he
was obliged to withdraw tho in
vitation. simultaneously Sena-
ter Martin of Virginia was invit-
ed to take Mr.. Tillman's place ut
the dinner as the next ranking
Democratic mem bsr of the senate
naval affairs committee.
The following is the letter from
the White House Withdrawing MIR
Tillman's invitation to dine there
tonight:
White House, Feb. "a.
The President regrets that hs is
compelled to withdraw tho invita-
tion to you t. dine tonight a. the
White Hsuss. Yours truly,
George 3. Csrtslyou,
Secy. to the President.
BEN BLIsTARs TEDDY.
Commenting upsn the letter
Mr.. Tillman says:
"Ths president Of course has
the right to invite any ono he
chooses TO dine with him officially
or otherwise and Also has the right
10 withdraw Auch invitation. As
l a. net conscious Of having done
anything personal or official which
gives the president tho right to
insult me, am surprised at his
action. The Invitation to this din
nsr came to ne unssnght and un-
sxpsctsdlv and 90 far ~ the with
drawal 10 concerned it 10 . matter
Of absolute indifference to me-
1t 10 the motive bshisd it which
.sssks to put me in the condition
of unworthInsss to meet the pres
iasat asd his guest before the f.
nal action of tine senate. Prince
Henry, the prssi|snt's guest,
comes from country whore Gus
tenn n axes it obligatory upon any
nan vhs regards himself . gen
tlsmaa to promptly resent an in
suit and the method is by ehal-
lsngs to = duel. That was once
the custom but it is now obsolete
in the United States aud va have
been fsreod as = people here to
cling to the Apglo-Ssxon rule of
considering the lie direct IS tho
frst blow, and no man could hold
up his head in decent society
should hs, being near enough to
answer the lie with . blow, net
give it.
Gas for my being IN contempt
Of the senate, which l presume ls
the excuse for this insult at the
naads Of the prssident-that 1 de-
ny. l have been guilty of breach
of the rules and the privileges Of
the senate. The senate was not
sitting as court but ~ . lsgisla-
tive assembly. 1t has the right
to oxpsl me if 1t SEES st and 1 am
ready to abide its judgment and
action. 1t has the righ. to arrest
me and held me in custody until
1t makes disposition Of my case;
but it has 20 right to gsk .s, and
the president has no right to judge
me guilty Of conduct unbscsnine
. gentleman unlss. hs bellies all
his antecsdeAts which lead enc ts
believe that he would have done
t1ust ~ did under the eircum.
stances. A. to which of US 10 tha
gentleman in this matter in view
Of the uasought invitation to din
nsr at the White House and it,
indecent withdrawal, l am willing
to abide BY the judgment Of al
brave and sslf-respscting nss."
A CALM AND DDIspAssIOaAru RRyIRv
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
TOO MANY LAWS.

A good many state legislatures are
just now in session. In most of them
are lot Of third rate attorneys who
need watching pretty close to prevent
them from putting lot of useless leg
islation on the statute books We have
too many laws and not a few which
are so contrary to public sentiment
that they remain dead letter. We
cite as an instance a law which was
passed in our own state of Iowa some
years ago, which required the town
ship authorities to erect signboards at
all four corners of the public high
ways. The absurdity Of the law was
so apparent when it was undertaken
to put it into practice that everybody
laughed and dropped it. Still, this law
has never been repealed. Then there
are laws on hundred and one petty
matters, SO many that not even the
lawyers themselves can interpret them,
let alone the common people.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
WANT GENERAL REPRImANDED.
Senator Is Angry Because of Suppos,
ed Criticisms.

Washington, Jan. Pin the senate
today Blackburn presented the ere
dentials of James B. McCreary, re
Gently elected Senator from Kentucky.
Hanna presented the credentials of
his colleague, Foraker. They were
read and filed.
Dubois, of Idaho, rising to a question
on personal privilege, directed atten-
ton to the Associated Press dispatch
from Manila quoting Gen. Wheaton as
criticising some remarks of DR.. Schur-
man in a speech at Boston and that
the opinion was prevalent in the Phil
ippines that men were sent to prison
in Manila for saying less.
81 think" said Dubois, lin view of
the statements in this dispatch. the
President ought to reprimand General
Wheaton and those officers in the Phil
ippines who are criticising the senate
for its action or statements regarding
the Philippines" This led to a some
what extended discussion as to wheth
er Wheaton had criticised the senate
or not.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
BOYS AND PUPPIES.

You can raise in most cases Just the
sort Of boy you want. The boy is
very like puppy or colt. He may be
allowed to run wild when young and
in the most natural way in the world
will gravitate into "yaller'' dog
around town or sheep killing pest or
else bucking, kicking, worthless bron-
cho, or he may be trained (commenc-
ing very young, mind you and develop
ed into a fifty dollar dog or a two
hundred dollar horse. In these lat
ter days there is altogether too much
importance charged up to heredity,
the crediting Of the meanness and
general cussedness of men to their
poor old grandfathers, when the
real truth is that if the father and
mother of the boy would take him in
hand as soon as he is weaned and train
him on moral and intellectual lines as
they would carefully and sensibly train
q puppy or colt they would have a
boy to be proud of instead of scad to
be everlastingly ashamed of. A boy
has to be made of more than average
good stuff if he ever aspires to be a
better man than his dad.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
GO TO KIRK.

A decent and respectful observance
Of the Sabbath day is always helpful
and beneficial. Purely physical rea-
sons demand periodical cessation
from daily toll both for man, animals
and machines. This rest day should be
made good day. The church in all its
varied branches crystallizes the reli-
gious instinct and in fitting manner
gives 1t expression. Man may live and
seemingly prosper making all days
workdays, but still in broad sense
he has made bad mistake and placed
an unpleasant burden upon the parson
or priest when it comes to burying
him. Sunday should be in the fullest
sense rest day, and If with this eau
be coupled a mental and moral devel-
opment of the man one day in seven
is thus well spent. While you may
think the mass or the prayers or the
sermon or song has no mission for you,
still oil the same you will be better
man morally and physically if you go
to church.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
OUR SMALL FARM.

The writer's farm is only small one
forty acres-ten acres sugar bush
and 5000 apple trees, mostly Wealthy.
The crop for the coming year will be
clover, five acres; corn, ten acres; on
ions, two acres; melons, one acre; pop
corn, two acres; potatoes. two acres;
raspberries and strawberries, two
acres. and piece for experimental
purposes on some new crops. These
crops named will be mostly grown
among the orchard trees, allowing the
trees strip sixteen feet wide upon
which no crop will be grown, but
which will be kept continuously and
thoroughly cultivated up to the LIST of
August, when it will be sown with
buckwheat as a winter cover crop.
Two Jersey cows. 100 hens and six
hogs will constitute the stock equip
ment of the little farm. We figure
that, barring bad luck. we will make
our own maple strip. have a family
supply of eggs. chickens, pork, butter,
fruits and fuel and little 70 sell for
pocket money besides. more or less as
the fruit may materialize. There Is a
lot of pleasure in managing q little
farm on these lines. even though u
man never becomes rich enough to en-
dow a public library. Mistakes made
are circumscribed in the extent of
financial injury inflicted, while the
successes are big enough to fairly dem
onstrate the value of any new methods
or things for the benefit of CIR. read
ers.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
SHORT CORN CRop TRounLEs.

The short crop of corn for 1901 and
the consequent high price which this
cereal commands are affecting some
agricultural interests very unfayora-
bly,, notably the dairy interests and
the feeders of cattle and hogs for the
market. Conditions this winter are
such that it is almost impossible for a
man to handle dairy of cows with
profit, the price of dairy products hav-
ing failed to maintain profitable rela-
ton to the foodstuffs out of which
they are made. The corn at 65 cents
and average beef and pork at So cents
a pound is another improbable condi-
ton of things for the man who feeds
the corn. 1t is one Of those rare years
when the man who has stock is at
d disadvantage and when the man
who raises grains and forage to sell
has his innings.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
PERMANENT PASTURES.

We have one or two inquiries as to
permanent pastures-how to get them
and what kind of grasses to SOW. An
answer to this to be worth anything
must preSuppose q knowledge of soil
and latitude, yes, and longitude also.
In the western range country west of
longitude 100 there is probably no bet
ter permanent pasture to be had than
that consisting Of the native grasses
and these must not be too closely fed
off or the weeds will soon take the
place of the grasses. In the corn belt
as far south as central Missouri, the
permanent pasture becomes in fact a
pure blue grass pasture in a very few
| years, no matter what kind Of grasses
may be sown. We know Of one case
where eight different kinds of grass
seed was sown, to make theoretically,
at least, a model permanent pasture,
nothing to be found there but blue
grass and little white clover in spots.
| The land usually devoted to permanent
pasture Is generally unfit for cultiva-
ton, either being too rough, broken or
wet. For the rough and broken tracts
nothing is better than blue grass, while
the wetter lands may be improved by
the addition of timothy and elsike
clover. A good job is always done in
the early spring when q man takes
some grass seed-medium clover, white
clover, blue grass and timothy--and,
scGrifying the bare spots with disk
harrow, sows some seed with liberal
hand. 1t is overstocking which spoils
the permanent pasture, and if one is so
| situated that such pasture can be di-
vided and one half fed of at time,
| giving the other half chance to grow,
the pasture would be more productive
and enduring. The good permanent
pasture should always be in such con-
dition that the owner would feel sure
that he could carry more head of stock
| in it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
A GRATING CONVENIENCE.

A very successful nurseryman gives
us the following method of preparing
wax used in grating which seems to
have so much to commend it over the
old way that we give it to our readers:
Take old cotton CLOTH pretty rotten;
prepare the wax .according to the usual
formula and spread 1t when warm upon
the cloth, thoroughly saturating it. Cut
the cloth after the wax cools into
strips about an inch wide and from
ten to fifteen inches in length. After
the scion is properly inserted wrap the
point of union with these strips, which
accomplishes all that can be done
when the wax is melted and wasteful-
ly applied with stick. This plan
makes easy work of grating.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
WOMAN DENIES A MURDER.
Mrs. Linhoff to Plead Not Gritty at
Trial Today.

Mason City, Jan. 2S.-Mrs. August
Linhoff, accused of having murdered
Edwin c. Bromley last August plead
not guilty before Judge Smith today.
She has always borne good reputa-
ton here and moved in good society
The Bromleys were neighbors and the
women had trout'e over their children
This was taken up by the fathers ard
it is alleged that Mrs. Linhoff shot Mr..
Bromley in general quarrel. At the
preliminary hearing in September one
witness testified that A. G. Linhoff
did the shooting, but Mrs. Linhoff con.
fessed that she did it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
THINNING THE FRUIT.

The timely and proper thinning Of
the fruit on the orchard trees is mat
ter which should receive far more at
.ention than it does. The peach men in
Michigan, Delaware and Georgia and
the orange and prune men Of the west
ern coast are well up on the impor-
lance Of this matter, but the majority
of fruit raisers other than these named
pay little or no attention to it. In any
season when the apple or plum, tree
sets very full of fruit and the same is
not thinned out by frost or insect OF
by natural means then the tree should
be attended to. Such crops of fruit al
lowed to mature are always of infe-
rior quality and understood and often
unstable, while the bearing of such
crop is a most fearful drain upon
the vitality of the tree. Man, never, in.
terferes with the operation Of natural
law with more benefit to himself and
his orchard trees than when he thins
out two-thirds Of any such crop Of
f"uit. 1t must not be understood, how
ever, that this principle can properly
Je applied to large families Of chill
dren.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
WHICH SHOULD BUILD THE FIRE,

WHICH SHOULD BUILD THE FIRE.
We are asked whether it is the duty
Of the man or his wife to get up in the
morning and build the fire. On gener-
al principles any man in good health
who will let his wife do this work
needs the discipline of the church
Where women are made to do this,
they will almost always speak Of their
husbands as their man." the tribute
which slave pays to the master. The
wife is usually the last to retire. She
has the kids to look after, the cat to
put out, the clock to wind and, like
enough, some stockings to darn and a
patch to put on Johnny's breaches long
after cher man" is abed and sound
asleep. Then, if man has to build
the fire the kindling is always ready,
which is not always the case when
his wife builds it. However, there are
some exceptions to this rule. Where
the woman dominates and practically
runs the farm and the home and the
little man up in bed is only pawn for
her to move here and there, In such
cases let her build the fire every time
Few men become so thoroughly hard
ened that they can listen with pleasure
to their good wives rafting the lids of
the kitchen stove on cold morning
while they lie comfortably in bed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

The present high price Of all dairy
food rations is greatly charging the
number Of cows which do not pay for
their board.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

If it was not that the English farm
hand expects and receives about three
pints Of good, strong beer a day, he
would rebel and refuse to work for the
wages paid him. s,.4.,.,.-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

The willow tree, planted ten feet
apart each way on moist, rich bottom
land, will cut about seventy cords Of
wood to the acre inside Of fifteen years.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

The whippoorwill pea is being high
1y commended as valuable legume
for use in nearly all the northern
states. But little is known of its mer-
its In the west.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

Whooping cough has caused several
fatalities among children in the vi
cinty of Olin.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

A stockman who Ave years ago Sc
iected three very promising and well
bred steer calves with the purpose in
view of seeing how big he could make
them succeeded in making them aver
age over 1900 pounds each at the end
of five years. but he was greatly disap-
pointed when he sold them in Chicago
in December last, for, big and fat as
they were, they sold at only Sc per
hundredweight, when baby beef-well
finished steers fifteen months old
weighing 1900 pounds-brought $3.50.
This man overdid the beef business
and produced type of beef which is
not salable or profitable.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

Albert Roscoff, near Clearfield, had
his arm torn off near the elbow While
operating a corn shredder.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

In most Of the states woman's prop
erty rights are not fairly and properly
protected. There is nothing fair or
right when a mans brothers and ia
Their can step in and take property
which the man and his wife alone
have accumulated by Joint work, and
where no will is left this can be done
In several states.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30
Fine navel oranges are S2.10 box
at points in the central west, consider.
ably cheaper than good apples.

h So long as interest rates keep way
down just 50 long will there be good
demand for farm land.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-30

There is one thing about turkey, Or
anges and Tot Of other delicacies, one
soon gets very tired Of them, while,
luckily for health and pocketbook,
good homemade bread. oatmeal, pota-
toes and buckwheat cakes we never
weary Of. The best things, after all,
are the cheapest.