Henry A. Parsons, Jr.,
Editor
THURSDAY, JANUARY 00, 1879.
Gov. Hoyt's Inaugural Address.
tlKNTt.KMKJf OK THE SENATE AND
JIOUSK OK REPRESENTATIVES, AND
FklmW Citizens : We are associated
to-day in the observance trf a time
honored custom. To you the occasion
Which convenes us is nininly cere
monial in character. And yet not
only to you who nre gathered Imme
diately within the sound of my voice,
but to all the citizens of the State it Is
an occasion of serious import. You
and they are to witness a change in
the Chief Magistracy of your com
monwealth. To myself it is more sig
nificant. While I gratefully accent
my share of the pleasure ineiilent to a
pageant like this, it is suggestive of
delicate duties and grave responsibili
ties. Elected to be Chief Magistrate
of the State, iny official life begins
here and now.
You have witnessed in my assump
tion of the oath of office, a sacred ap
peal to Almighty God. and a solemn
pledge of lldclity in the discharge of
my omciai obligations. "The Su
preme Executive power shall be vested
in the Governor, who shall take care
that the laws be faithfully executed."
This is the language of our State Con
stitution, It brielly, simply and ade
quately oi'ii nes my principal duty. 1
fully understand these words I "fully
comprehend the oath I have just
taken. The people of Pennsylvania
expect me to keep that oath. By the
help of their prayers, and by the favor
of Divine Providence, I expect to keep
it.
It will be a common pleasure to us to
be exempted from giving special at
tention at this time to matters of pub
lic business. The conspicuous ability,
and the long mid varied experience of
my distinguished predecessor, has per
mitted nothing to escape his attention
winch concerned the puMie good, or
was of sullleienl importance to be
commended to the special action of
the General Asseiublv, or which might
challenge the consideration of Un
people. His last Annual Message is a
document at once so judicious, timely
and comprehensive in its review of
puplioalliiirsand its recommendations,
as to relieve me, for the present, from
all care in respect to that branch of the
executive duty. I may therefore re
gard myself as at liberty to glance at
some topics not inappropriate to this
occasion, in which all good citizens
feel a deep concern.
The question uppermost in the mind
of the country relates to the revival of
business. The last five years will be
memorable in our national history as a
period of industrial depression" mid
consequent social distress. These five
years have disclosed t he causes of our
troubles and their experience should
lead us to the true methods of recov
ery. They will be found to lie in the
moral forces of society, and not in leg
islative enactment-' or executive inter
ference. 1 shall offer you no discourse
upon the financial theories which have
vexed us during these years. We
have come with great unanimity to
recognize the actual facts which l'ie at
the bottom of this whole subject. A
generation of younger business men
had come upon the stage at a period of
excitement following the war, and of
speculation fairly reaching the degree
of gambling. The vastly expanded
credit which men gave, one to another,
in all forms of business, the result of
an inllatcd currency, led to unnatural
values, as measured in such currency.
The temptations for contracting debts
were great and not easily resisted. We
spent more than we earned ; we forgot
that "the extravagance of the rich
was not the gain of the poor " " that
profusion and waste were not for t lie
good of trade'' and that everything
consumed and destroyed was so much
lost in tile labor which had produced
it. Circulating capital was locked up
in fixe I property. The wages fund
was impaired. Wo abandoned the
maxims of experience and the simplest
truths in political economy. We
measured values by a standard not
common to the civilized world with
which we were in daily and necessary
commercial intercourse. We failed to
remember that the issue of paper
money, whether greenbacks, national
bank notes, bills of exchange or
checks, did not add a dollar to the
wealth of the nation, and that while
indispensable as a circulatingnicdiimi,
it could only have a representative
value. We did not advert sufficiently
to the present physical and financial
fact that by the tacit agreement of the
nations the precious metals are the
only standard of value, the only "cur
rent money with the merchant.." We
did not seem to know that the instincts
of a practical, shrewd and enterprising
nation of business men must filially
and forever reject the use of an irre
deemable currency. At the lust, puy
day came, as it always must, anil
bankruptcy came with it, as it always
will under like causes. Our capacity
to consume was destroyed. The pro
ducer was without buyers for his mer
chandise. Debtor ami creditor alike
had to pause for the day of settlement.
A system of economy and saving was
forced upon us, and it was the one
process to restore us. It cost us a hard
struggle, self-denial and suffering, but
the result was health moral ami finan
cial. The virtues of sobriety and in
dustry, renewed in practice, give us
discipline andstrength. They widened
mid deepened our manhood and womanhood-
Discarding the cheap de
vices or mere theorists, me uisiionest
proposals of mere agitators, and the
charlatanry of a political economy
which undertook to teach us how to
create wealth without labor, we are
now ready to go forward. Henceforth
we arc to produce and exchange act ual
things, and not gamble In merely ficti
tious values. Resumption has taken
place, confidence is restored, and busi
ness will flow in healthy channels so
long as values are stable and their
measure honest. Pennsylvania is an
empire iu its resources, and her people
in the past have developed and used
them only by the virtues of labor and
economy. 1 or the future we must ac
cent the same conditions.
It is possible that within our bor
ders there may require some readjust
ment of our population to the centres
of industry some redistribution of
labor and capital. Your Bureau of
Labor and Statistics, when adequately
organized and administered, will fur
nish abundant data upon which the
intelligence of the people will act.
I desire here to bespeak the freest
and fullest co-operation of the people
with their Chief Magistrate. It is
equally their privilege and their duty
to make their interests and their
wishes known through their leirisla
tive representatives, by committee, by
writing, or ny uireci jiersonai inter
view with the Executive, bitch care
ful, special, intelligent, unreserved ex
pression upon the part of the people
would enable both the legislative aud
executive branches of their govern
nu-nt to act with a clearer appreciation
of their necessities. I speak now for
myself alone, but I hih at the same
time confident that I express the sen
timents of every gentleman who is
officially related to the State adminis
tration. We nre renewing in part the prrmn
neloi the State government, at a period
of momentous interest in our national
affairs. The one great question yet to
be solved Is, shall government by the
ballot be maintained in this country,
with equal political rights for nil legal
voters. Pennsylvania'snttitudo 011 the
question is known wherever her name
Is known That she shall insist on
the enforcement of the authority of
t he National Constitution in every
State of the National Union is as cer
tain as that her mountain peaks point
toward heaven ond her rivers roll to--ward
the sen. Under no circumstan
ces can she ever recede from this posi
tion. Strong in herself, stronger in
virtue of the relationship to her sister
States, she will be magnanimous, con
ciliating and patient. Rut justice in
the end must with her be paramount
Upon this high ground she will de
mand that the provisions of a consti
tution made for all shall be conformed
to by all. This question goes not only
to her political convictions, to her
estimate of the worth of our civiliza
tion, but to the consciences of her
population. Pennsylvania bows in
unalterable devotion to the ideas of the
supremacy, perpetuity aud glory of
the nation.
1 have detained you. fellow-citizens.
beyond my intention, and will there
fore claim your indulgence but a mo
ment longer, for a personal allusion.
I should be guilty of Insincerity if I
affected indifference to t lie honor of
the trust your mlfrages have confided
to me. I am incapable of expressing
my heartfelt sense of its value, or the
strength of my purpose to prove that
it has not been misplaced. So much
in brief to those to whom I directly
owe my election. One word to my
fellow citizens who preferred and sup
ported my honorable competitors. It
is worthy of a free people that they
bear themselves with propriety and
self-control through the contentions
and excitements of a general election.
It is gratifying to myself, ami doubt
less equally so to all who were actively
engaged in the late canvass, that there
is so little manifestation of bitterness.
The great debate was conducted with
calmness, as it was also with earnest
ness, l-'or the kindness and courtesy
extended to me by my political adver
saries, I have to say that if they had
voted forme from the same sense of
duty which gave their ballots to my
opponents, I could not be more firmly
resolved than I am to be impartial anil
faithful in discharging the- obligations
I owe to them as Chief Executive of
the Commonwealth. My political
views and convictions will" and ought
unquestionably to influence and shape
some of my official recommendations,
but in protecting the constitutional
and legal rights of the citizen, no party
distinction can ever for one moment
be recognized.
In conclusion, fellow citizens, per
mit me to remind you of theindividual
responsibility of each citizen for the
aggregate well being of the communi
ty. Each of us owes the highest
measure of fidelity to the justice, the
power and the right embodied in the
State. Under the peace and protection
it secures, all our trallic is prosecuted
ami all our prosperity is shielded.
Under it the social principle is allowed
scope to found asylums, lodges, sorni-
naries and churches, and to perfect the
Commonwealth itself. There can be
no right citizenship without an intelli
gent understanding of the principles
which the government organizes and
of the ideas which it represents.
Each citizen should be able, on his
own information, and not depending
on any interested jobber or meddler.
to tell when there is a departure from
centime. Where a wrong tendency
sets in, and where a peril confronts us,
it is a cardinal principal un erlvimr
the political creeds ofall self-governing
people, which affirms each citizen to
be as fully responsible for the welfare
of the State as lie is for Ids own per
sonal safety and happiness. Private
citizen ami magistrate arc equally un
der this fundamental law of the Re
pub! ie.
As you have heard me hound by 1111
oath to obey the laws of the Common
wealth, so have I, in turn, the correla
tive right to hear the voice of the
thousands of freemen in Pennsylvania
pledging themselves to obey the laws
which they themselves have made.
No strength of solderv no wealth of
farms and factories, of railroads and
canals, no perfection of governmental
mechanism eun sm ; a faithless people
from perishing.
A Burning Mine.
THK FIRE SPREADING AT A DEPTH OF
THREE HUNDRED FEET.
The Locust Gap mines, situated be
tween Mt. Carinel and Shaniokin,
opened by Messrs. Graber & Sliepp,
were discovered 011 lire Saturday night
at a deptli of three hundred feet. There
were several barrels of tar stored, and
from these it is thought the lire got a
start, but how the tar took fire is not
yet known. On Sunday morning the
miners reported the tire gaining
ground aud difficult to get at, a dense
volume of smoUe coming up the slope
An engine, with a gang of experienced
workmen, was sent down from Mia-
niokiii. They took with them a large
quantity ot hose to use, should it be
found necessary to drown the fire out
There are other collieries in the imme
diate vicinity, and it J thought, unless
other prompt measures are taken to
drown the tire, it will spread to those
mines, two hundred ami nity men
and boys were employed there. There
are 110 miners below now, as they
came out during the night. If the
mine should be tilled with water it will
require six months to pump it out, and
it would be fully seven months before
the regular worn could be resumed
It is impossible at present, to estimate
the loss, though it will be heavy if not
controlled immediately.
Later advices state that the men
sent to the burning mine at Locust
Gap have succeeded in extinguishing
the names, 'the loss has not yet been
uscenuiueu.
Returns from the election in the
First congressional district, Virginia,
held on Thursday, to till the vacancy
caused by the death of R. R. Douglas,
indicates the election 01 it. iu t.
Reale (conservative), member elect to
the Forty-sixth congress from that dis
trict. The returns show a very small
vote and but insignificant opposition.
to .Mr. rseaie.
Judge Cadwallader. of the United
States district court, eastern district of
Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia.
January 2uth, of typhoid puuemonia,
aged seventy-tour.
According to the official reports
sent into the adjutant general's otllce,
there were ,4sz soldiers in ine proces
sion on inauguration day.
Only fl.50 in advance for the Ar
vocate ana a chance tor a prize.
Fifty State Senators. "
PERSONAL C'HARACTEHISTICH TUB
MKK WHO MARK OUR LAWS, AND
HOW THEY AHK DISTINGUISHED
BK ETCHES OF THE 80LOX.3.
(From the Wllllnmsport QnzcttoA nulletln.)
Of the fifty senators constituting
the higher branch of the Pennsyl
vania legislature, twenty are new
men. Twenty-four members of the
last senate held over, one resigned
and six were re-elected. Some of the
ablest and most experienced legisla
tors, like Dill, Newmyer, Yerkcr,
Allen, Penlc and Corbett, dropped out.
The Democrats suffered most in the
loss of able men and strong debaters,
but their loss is partially compensated
by the election of such men as Wol
v'erton, Craig, Hull and others, who
are good lawyers and have had legis
lative experience. Senator Herr con
tinues to bo the leader on the Repub
lican side, and Ernientrout will as
sume the place left vacant on the
other side ly the resignation of Dill.
The oldest senator in the present body
is Charles H. Paulson, ot Allegheny,
who Is sixty-three years of age, and
the youngest is Jolin C. Grady, of
Philadelphia, who is in his thirty
second year. Thirty-nine are natives
of Pennsylvania, three were born in
the state of New York, two in Ohio,
one in New Jersey, one in Maryland,
one in Delaware, two in Ireland and
one in Wales. The lawyers predomi
nate and constitute almost one-half of
the membership, there being twenty
two of them out of a total of fifty.
The other senators may thus be classi
fied according to their occupations:
Eight arc merchants, six farmers, five
manufacturers, three practicing physi
cians, two artisans, two editors, two
bankers ond one detective.
The "grave and reverend Seignior"
who represents the First district is
George Handy Smith, of Philadelphia,
whose suavity of manners and strict
attention to his senatorial duties have
made him many friends and given him
great influence with his fellow sena
tors. He doesn't always carry his sen
atorial gravity about him, but relishes
"a little nonsense now and then." He
served a two years' apprenticeship iu
the house before lie came to the sen
ate. John Cochran, the new senator fiom
the Second, who succeeded the late
David A. Naglc, is a native of New
Jersey and a lawyer by profession.
He has been 11 member of Philadel
phia councils, and comes to finish his
education iu the Pennsylvania legis
lature. One of the most prominent party
leaders on the Republican side of the
chamber is John 1, anion, the capable
and dignified senator from the Third,
lie was formerly chief of detectives iu
Philadelphia, and was iu the house
for three years beginning iu lt71.
A fluent talker mid a painstaking
legislator is Horatio Gates Jones of
the Fourth. For the past two or three
winters he has mainly devoted his
energies to the endeavor to obtain for
the Seventh Day Baptists relief from
the operations of' the Sunday law, but
he leads a forlorn hope, as the support
of the measure in the senate is not en
couraging to its advocates.
The Fiftli is represented by John E.
Reyburn, a man of marked influence
ami popularity. He is a lawyer bv
profession, and served in the house
lour terms, lie eutered the senate iu
lh"t.
Ex-Sheriff Wm. Elliott succeeds
Colonel Dunkel in the Sixth. He be
gan life as a marble cutter; was a
memher of the house for several years
and speaker in 182. He has had a
great deal of experience in politics and
puoiic affairs, and wields considerable
influence at home. He will no doubt
make himself felt at Ilarrishurg this
winter. He docs not pretend to be a
reformer.
Elliott Is sandwiched in between
two lawyers. Revburn in the Fifth
and John C. Grady in the Seventh
The latter never held any public otllce
until he entered the senate in 1876. He
talks but indifferently and seldom
claims the floor.
William I. Newell, of the Eighth.
has been a sea taring man and is a
ship chandler, lie Han active sena
tor but does not possess the graces of
oratory iu an eminent degree and
therefore usually remains ouiet.
The eight senators already named
represent the city oi Philadelphia,
The next is Thomas V. Cooper, of
Delaware, who was president last scs-
1011 and who is one ot the ablest de
baters 011 the Republican side of the
chamber. Senator Cooper is an Ohio
man bv nativity. He is the editor ol
the Delaware county Ainerican and
has had several years of experience in
botli brunches of the general assembly
Josenli Thomas, ol Uucks, who rep
resents the Tenth, was a physician,
and served in the army as a surgeon,
but is now a banker, lie is a new
man. not ver&eu in me wues 01 iiur-
risbursr.
Daniel Ernientrout, who represents
the rock-ribbed Democracy of old
Berks, is a good lawyer, an eloquent
orator, a logical dcimtor and a tine
scholar. He will be the leader on the
Democratic side, and was compli
mentcd at the opening ot this term
with the nomination of his party can
cus for president of the senate.
Dr. Lewis Itoyer, ot the Twelfth
(Montgomery), is a new man, having
iust made his first appearance in puli
lie Hie, at the age ot nity-seven. ne
was formerly a physician, but is now
engaged in the iron business.
A. 11. Mvlin, the holding over sen
ator lrom Lancaster, is a lawyer ana
farmer, a faitlitul worker, but quiet
and unobtrusive. He has served lour
years in the house and two in the sen
ate. C. S. Kauffnian. the new senator
from Lancaster county, who succeeded
Dr. Roebuck, is an ironmaster of
Columbia, and was in the house iu
isi7. ile may oe.put uowu as an auu-
Cameron Kcpuuiicaii.
The president 01 me senate, a. j.
Herr. who represents Dauphin county
on the tloor, was nine years uiswici
attorney, two years in me house, auu
live vears in the senate. He is a clas
sical scholar, rhetorical writer, anil a
graceful speaker, but Is rather more
iiausiiiie ana persuasive inaucouvinc-
nsr and logical in argument. He was
elected president of the senate at the
close ot last session auu ine opening 01
this one. He is a sly lox.
Evan Holben, of Lehigh, is a talka
tive lawyer who entered the senate
two years ago, and lias long since tired
iot, Hie iiatleliceoi msieuow iiiemuers.
He talks upon every subject that
conies up, and annually fills about one
hunureu
pages ot the
Lt'iixluiive
Jiecord,
Sometimes his
views are
sound.
Georire F. Meilv. of Lebanon. I a
merchant, who occupies a seat allotted
to the Eighteenth ilistrict, anu re
sponds to his name when the roll is
calieu. inline else is nearu iiom uuu
ilm-insr the session.
William lieiueiman, or isoniiamp-
ton county, has been a soldier, an
editor and a lawyer, and was district
attorney of his county in 1871. He is
a budding statesman, but to what ex
tent he will blossom is ior iuiure uu
veliinnient.
James is-li veruari, oi tumier, m
lawyer who has retired from practice
. . i i . .ii i .. u f,. ..
and devotes his time to literary pur
suits. He is the finest orator in the
senate, and a man of independent
thought and action. He was the can
didate of his county for United States
senator.
Dr. Georee H. Reanians, . of Pleasant
Valley, represents the Twentieth dis
trict, comprising the new county of
ijacKawanun and pari oi jjuzcrne. lie
is a practicing physician. His man
ners are quiet ami easy ! he is not a
talker, but has influence in the senate,
as was shown by the passage of the
new county bill last winter.
E. C. adbams, of Wilkesbarre, is
a merchant.. JJclorc coming to the
senate, two years ago. lie had been a
justice of the peace for twenty years.
Ills manners arcaffable but somewhat
Kimpous. He Is not an orator as
rutus is.
The legal profession again crops out
In Allen Craiir. who represents the
district composed of Monroe, Pike and
Carbon. He filled the office of district
attorney of Carbon county for three
years, and was in the house from. 1800
to 1808. He in said to e a man of
ability and acquirements.
vy in. 1 . uavies is a lawyer irom
Bradford county, who carried his enr
peioag an the way irom waies. lie,
tnn WDa a .1 ! ... ... t (n.tim. .1 . 1 1 1 1 n
man of considerable legal ability and
lorco in debate. He is prouaoiy the
most unyielding partizan in tl .e senate.
George D. Jackson, of the Twenty
fourth district, hails from Sullivan
county, and while he Is one of the
newly elected senators, is an old timer
in the legislature, having served in
both houses prior to his present term.
He was in the house in 185U and 1803.
and in the senate In 18(i7-i. He Is said
to know the ropes thoroughly.
Charles H. St-vmour. of Tibirn. repre
senting Tioga, potter and McKcan, is
a lawyer, who is said to have great
legal attainments, but he has not yet
aired his legal knowledge to any ap
preciable extent on the senate floor,
although he has been here two years.
Win. M. Nelson, who divides his
time when at home between selling
this world's goods at market rates, in
his capacity of a merchant, and depre
ciating their value in his capacity of a
local Methodist preacher, has seen
eight years service Tn the house, and
ts a sensible, conscientious aud carctul
legislator. v
S. P. w olverton. of Sunbury. who
was elected to fill the unexpired term
left iu the Twenty-seventh district by
the resignation of Dill, was a captain
in the last war and has the reputation
of being a sound lawyer. His friends
expect him to couieto the front during
the session.
James H. Ross, of York, is a farmer
and was a member of the house from
Mifflin county in 1802. The quality of
his statesmanship will appear by aud
by.
Luther it. Keefer, the old senator
from Schuylkill, is an iron founder of
Cressona, who held several positions at
home iietore coming to the senate in
1870. He believes in the aphorism
that "silence is golden" and seldom
talks in the senate
John Parker, the new Schuylkill
senator, was born in Ireland, and is a
blacksmith bv trade, lie is now editor
of a Greenback paper at Mahanoy, and
is a National GreeubacKer with am-
eron variations. .
Dr. David M. Crawford, whose dis
trict comprises the counties ot Perry,
Milnni auu Juniata, is a physician by
profession. He served a term in the
senate, beginning with led, and was
elected to his present one in 1870. He
is a man of intelligence and good judg
ment, but rarely tresspasses on the
time of the senate in speaking.
Isaac Hereter, or Gettysburg, is the
new senator iroin uumueriauu anu
Adams. He is a sturdy farmer with
legislative experience gained iu the
house.
H. G. Fisher, of Huntingdon, Is one
of the hardest workers in the senate,
and talks well when occasion requires,
but not too much. Through ins un
tiring energy the middle penitentiary
bill was passed at the last session, and
on that issue lie was elected to congress
over Hon. W. S. Stcnger. Although
a congressman elect, lie still holds on
to his senatorship.
C. T. Alexander, ot i tenotome, wno
succeeds 1'eale in the Clinton, Clear
field and Centre district, is a lawyer,
and was in the house in 1801-5.
John A. Lemon, ot Holhdaysburg,
who has represented the lilair and
Cambria district since I8i2, is a well
known and extensiue railroad contrac
tor. He is a warm hearted man and
very popular. He lias good sense and
practical business habits, and leaves
the talkimr to the lawyers.
Frederick Grof. who succeeds the
gallant and genial Yutzy, of tho So n- I
erset, Red ford and Fulton district,
comes lrom "Maryland, my alary-
land." and has been a soldier, a teach
er and a merchant, but never an otllce
holder, lie is a Democrat lrom a Ke
publican district.
W. 1 nomas St. L lair is a practicing
physician in the towns of inuiaua ami
JefVerson. He was a member of the
senate in 18(U, but was not here again
until the beginning of his present
term, two years ago. He is an able
man, a good speaker, anil has lnmi-
ence, but Is tired oi puunc ine, anu
wiilxetiro when his tour years are up.
John G. Hall, of the Thirty-eighth
district, lives in Ridgway, where he
practices law. He served two terms
f.. .. . i i s i iw.itt .......
in ine uouse. ocuiiiiu'ik n wm
a delegate to the constitutional con
vention. As a lawyer he stands high
In his section of the state.
James C. Clarke, of Greensburg.
eDiesents Westmoreland county, and
is serving his second term in the sen
ate. He is a lawyer of good repute,
and as a senator is known tor ids solid
rather than shining qualities. He
seldom makes a sneech.
1 homas . sclinatleny, oi rayeue
and Greene, is a lawyer, who lives In
Unlontown. Like several otuer law
yers in the senate, he uegan ins puunc
life as a district attorney, lie was in
the house in 1870-1, and during the
oast two winters. Ho was a great
tulker In the house, but was considered
rather voluble than logical, his mod
esty will keep him from assuming too
much prominence in ine senate.
John M. Greer, oi uuiier, is a young
lawyer who craduated from the district
attorney's office and came to the senate
two years ago to represent me uoriy
first district He is a man of fuir
ability, and was one of the champions
of the oil interest last winter,
Hugh McNeill was liorn in the
north of Ireland, and carries on the
lumber business in Allegheny city,
He was twelve years in Allegheny
councils, and has la-en in the senate
since 1875. He is not a polished orator,
or a man of culture, but has influence
in nroeurinsr legislation.
Joseph M. Gaz.am, of Pittsburg, Is
a lawyer and a man or scholarly Tat
tainments. He was three vears in
Pittsburg councils, and is serving his
first term in the senate, to which he
was elected Iu 1876. He wields con
siderable influence in the senate,
Charles H. Paulson, the new Pitts
burg senator, who succeeds Newmver.
is a hatter by occupation. While
dected by a coalition between Green
backers and Democrats, he is disposed
io act wun ine uemoerais. ne prom
ises iu maKe a reputauie senator,
John Gilflllan, who represents a por
tion of Allegheny county, is a farmer,
but well skilled in politics, Mid with
experience In legislation, having been
in the house in 1803 and. 1872. He
makes no pretentions to oratory, but
is a hard worker, aud Inks influence on
committees.
Georire V. Lawrence, the Nestor of
the Benate, comes from the Forty-sixth
district (Washington and Reaver). He
lias seen more ot public lite than any
man in the senate. He entered the
house in 1844, thirty-five years ago,
and since then has distributed his
time between the house and senate,
congress and the constitutional con
vention. What ho doesn't know about
politics and legislation is hardly worth
knowing.
George W. Wright, of Mercer, is a
teacher, farmer and manager of sol
diers' orphan school. He held some
local offices in Mercer county before
coming into the senate in 1876. He
is unobstrusive In his manner.
James W. Lee, who succeeds Lieu
tenant Governor Stone as senator from
the Venango and Warren districts, is
a lawyer, and was mayor of Franklin
in 1875. He promises to be a useful
senator.
Henry Butterfield is an Erie lawyer,
who was in the house in 1803, and
entered the senate in 1876. He is not
distinguished as a statesman beyond
the confines of Erie county.
Dr. W. R. Roberts, of Tltusville,
who represents Crawford county, was
born in Saratoga, New York, was a
dentist and a banker, a member of
common councils of New York, mayor
of Tltusville and a member of the last
house. He is associated in business
and litigation with E. A. L. Roberts,
tho torpedo man. and is reputed to
have great wealth. He is a pleasant
gentleman, and has many warm
friends at the state capital. Wheu the
house last winter voted down his bill
for a new county seat, he entertained
tho friends of the measure with a
champagne supper.
m
Washington Letter
From our rcgulnr correspondent.
Washington, D. C, January S3, 1879.
The Indian question has attracted its
full share of attention here at the Cap
ital lately, for in addition to the agita
tion of the subject in Congress, and
the interesting correspondence
tween General Sheridan and Secretary
Schurz, we have had and still have
delegations of real live Indians here
to speak for themselves. So many
representatives of the red men have
visited Washington within tho past
few years, that they would scarcely
seem to be a rarity now, yet somehow
the populace still manifests interested
curiosity, and puts itself out of the way
to see a live Indian about as the boys
run after the elephant in a circus pro
cession. The Ute chief who were
lately here came on business pertaining
to a land trade with the Government,
and after being feasted and feateti and
toted about from pillar to post for two
weeks gave out and departed. Strange
as it may seem they went rather the
worse for wear. Civilized methods of
dissipation do not agree with the den
izen of the forrcst, who at home goes
to roost with the chickens. Late
hours and gas light are out of his line,
But "the boys," as agent Kelly calls
them, took it pleasantly, made little
speeches whenever called upon, and
before starting for home gave a grand
banquet at the Tremont House.
Among the guests were Chief Joseph
and Yellow Bull, of the Nez Perces,
now here. The former Is a magnifi
cent specimen ot the noble red man,
He is tall, handsome and intellectual.
and when the history of his splendid
military achievements is remembered.
nobody will object to the term noble
red man as applied to him. His mas,
terly retreat when sorely pressed by
Howard, and twice surrounded, iu
which he carried off his women and
children, aud conducted his fight upon
the most humane principles, would
have done credit to the best general
alive. If we may accept his story of
the wrongs of his people at tho hands
of the whites, it is civilization's turn
to blush for shame.
There is little possibility that any
action will be taken this session on the
proposition to transfer the Indian
Bureau to the War Department. It is
one of the most important questions
Congress lias to deal with, and iu set
tling it the point should not be wheth
er the military or civilization snuii
utve "the picking." uur the welfare oi
the picked should have some weight
for the sake of justice and humanity.
Lo has "moved up" and "gone west"
at the command of ids white brethren,
nd given up reservation after reserva
tion, until now he has scarcely any
where to go. The money government
ppropriates lor his beneht,, as a
recompense, Is more than half stolen, or
absorbed by the civilized and enter
prising christians through whom It is
disbursed, and then we display our
rtuous Indignation when the out
raged savaire takes a scalp or two. The
ioint commission which has been in-
. . . . . . t i
vestlgating ine suojeci, nave prepureu
an elaborate report, and it is just issued
from the government printing omce in
book form. Except the reports of
territorial surveys, it is one of the most
interesting volumes that nas recently
mssed through the government press.
There are one hundred and eighty-
iirht tribes in tins country, with a
total population of 251,4'55, of whom
about )2,0OU are children at school. In
the Indian territory alone there are
about 75,000, of which number 60,000
compose the original five nations,
Choetaws. Chickasaws, Cherokees,
Creeks and Seniinoles. it is a iact not
generally known that in the populous
tute oi iNew loin mere are some
5.000 Indians, while in the new but
rapidly crowing State of Nebraska
there are but 6,000, where only a few
vears since t lie pale face had not yet
pitched his tent. The Sioux number
about 25,000, and are really to-day the
only tribe that could give any great
trnnii le to our mucu huuscu uiniy.
The proposed cipher mspaicn inves
tigation. Senator ConKling's ngut wnn
the administration, and the various
eenHloi'ial elections have furnished
exciting subjects enough to talK auotit
the past week, though aside from the
niK i to near ueiierai iiuner bucuk.,
there has been no activity here. The
TlfiiuierntM nronose to bring out the
true inwardness of the ciphers and to
vindicate Uncle Sammy. And while
this is going on, Senator Conkling pro
poses to vindicate his friends Arthur
un.l Cornell, of the New York Custom
House, and defeat the confirmation of
their successors, tie is outer uguwiHi
the occupant of the White House, and
e,.iri tlm other dav in executive session,
he wished it understood that when he
spoke of "Mr. Hayes" he did not refer
tho Prudent of the United States
No Democrat could be more sarcastic
than that. . ,., ...
a m.nitrv show is one of the things
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Thursday morning, about 10 o clock.
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