Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., July 20, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebpitor
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY,
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN S. RILLING,
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
For Secretary of Internal Affairs, ,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
For Congressman-at-Large,
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN
J. C. BUCHER.
Democratic County Ticket.
; JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legislators, | ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
Saved by the Correction of Fraud.
Nothing was more needed than pen-
gion reform, and the administration
can show enough in that line to satis
fy the honest people of the country.
During the fiscal year ending June
30, there was a decrease of pension ex-
penditure amounting to $25,000,000.
This saving does not represent injus-
tice to worthy and honorable pension-
ers, but it means that the management
of the Pension bureau has been put
on the basis of honest business. It
has, to a large extent, been brought
about by purging the rolls of pension-
ers who had no valid claims, and by
stopping the wholesale frauds prac-
ticed by such false claimants, their at-
torneys and agents, and allowed by
Raum and his Republican predeces-
80T8.
Many such claims were found pend-
ing by the present Commissioner of
Pensions, and he of course dropped
them, and also removed from the rolls
several thousand so-called ‘‘depeandent
pensioners” whom Raum placed there-
on by a gross perversion of the law of
1890, and in defiance of decisions
against them made by the law officer
of the bureau. Under Raum it did
not require law to make claims go.
Everything went.
It could not have been otherwise
than that when the Pension bureau
was converted into a political machine,
run for the benefit of demagogues and
sharks, and was used for the purpose
of roping in votes for the Republican
party by the bribery ot unrestricted
pensions, there was no limit to the
drain it made on the Treasury; but
since the change of administration
this plundering has been stopped, and
the saving of $25,000,000 is an appre-
ciable item at a time when the public
funds have been exhausted by the ex-
travagance and pillage of Republican
management.
——The majority of the people in
these Uniled States are Democrats.
They want the WiLson bill passed, for
they voted to do it, so what’s the use of
paying any more attention to the sore
heads who croak about McKINLEY's
business wrecker.
Something for Hastings to Explain.
The Democratic State platform de-
clares in favor of constitutional money,
gold and silver at a parity, and opposes
any debasement of the currency, or the
depreciation of any dollar issued by
the government to the people.
This declaration is easily under
stood. There is no equivocation in its
meaning. It is a reaffirmation of the
old Democratic attachment to a sound
currency, as furnished by the honest
money of the corstitution, which that
organic document prescribes in the
form of gold and silver, both of the
metals being constitutionally intended
for monetary use.
There is no mistaking the Democrat-
1c State platform on this subject, but
what is it that the Republicans want
wheu they demand a $40 per capita
circulation ? Do they purpose furnish-
ing it in the form of a substantial cur-
rency, or is it to be reckless inflation ?
By what process, or through what
agency is this enormous circulation
equal to $40 for every inhabitant, or
twenty-four hundred millions in the ag-
gregate, to be supplied ? Of what ma-
terial is it to be made, and how put in
circulation ? What do they mean by
it, or do they mean anything at all?
There is a large class of Republi-
cans who do not favor wildcat schemes
in the management of the currency,
and candidate Hastings may find
much of his time employed during the
campaign in explaining to them what
is meant by a $40 per capita circula-
tion called for by the platform on
which he 18 running.
——Nature adopted a green garb so
that eo many of her children would
not appear off color.
A Perverted Term.
At least one English newspaper, the
London Globe, does not admire the in-
come tax embodied «in the WiLsoN
tariff bill. Itsays: “It carries to the
extreme the principle of plundering the
few for the benefit of the many.”
In this expression there is a remark-
able perversion of terms. ‘“Plunder-
ing” is a singular term to be ap-
plied to the effect of legislation
that will make wealth pay its just
share to the support of the govern-
ment.
Reversing the idea of the London
paper, does not the exemption of su-
perfluous wealth from taxation amount
to plundering the many for the benefit
of the few, and the few, too, thatare
best able to stand being taxed. When
taxes are equitably proportioned to the
means of paying them, it is difficult to
see where the plundering comes in.
Under Republican tariffs the tax bur-
dec is thrown upon the generality of
people who have but limited means.
Should not a thought be given to the
wrong involved in thus plundering the
impecunious many ?
The principal source of English rev-
enue is from an income tax. The
English paper in question, which by
the way, is a Tory sheet, evidently
sympathizes with Senator Dave HiLy,
who opposes our income tax because,
as he says, “it is class legislation.” If
any class is to be preferred in tax reg:
ulations, both the English Tory paper
and the recreant New York Sena.
tor would have it to be the small
select and well heeled clase.
The owners of railroads in the
United States realized $100,929,835 de-
clared as dividends last year. Under
a tax on incomes such as that pro-
posed in the WiLsox bill the govern-
ment would receive about $2,000,000 |
from this amount. And what could
be more fitting. The recent strikes
and the consequent expense to the gov-
ernment in protecting the property of
the railroads throughout the country
show exactly from what source a large
share of the burdensof taxation should
come.
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Will Investigate.
President Cleveland Will Appoint a Committee
to Look Into the Labor Troubles.
WasHINGTON, July 12.—President
Cleveland informed a committee, repre-
senting organized labor, this afternoon
that he would in the near future appoint
a commission composed of three mem-
bers of which the United States com-
missioner of labor shall be chairman
under chapter 1,063 of the laws of 1888
to inquire into and investigate thorough-
ly the causes leading up to the present
labor disturbances of the country. This
announcement was made at the execu-
tive mansion at 5 o'clock to J. W.
Hayes, general secretary of the Knights
of Labor, T. B. McGuire and C. A.
French.
These gentlemen called by an ap-
pointment arranged earlier in the day.
They were shown into the president's
working room where they presented their
credentials and make formal application
to the president to appoint a board of
arbitration under the law of 1888.
The president listened to the labor
men present their views, and then told
them to make such an appointment that
all strikes must be called off by organized
labor and all wioleace and mob rule
ceased. He infor'ined them that law and
order must be restored before he took
any steps looking in the direction of
ascertaining the causes that produced
the present condition of affairs. United
States troops would be still retained in
the disturbed sections to see that the
orders of the United States courts were
enforced, inter-state traffic must be re-
sumed and peace restored throughout
the couniry. The labor committee was
given to understand that this commis-
sion would be appointed apart from any
demands made by the strikers for arbi-
tration. In fact the commission would
have, under the law, no power to arbi-
trate, butsimply to investigate and re-
port its conclusions to the president and
to congress. :
Private Secretary Thurber late to-
night authorized the following state-
ment in regard to the president’s in-
tended appointment of a commission :
Senator Kyle introduced to the presi-
dent, by appointment, this afternoon, a
committee representing various labor
organizations who applied to him for
the appointment of a committee to in-
vestigate the causes of the latest strike
and the occasion of the controversy be-
tween certain railroads which were
effected thereby and their employes.
The law passed on October 1, 1888, es-
pecially authorizes the appointment of
such a commission and pi Le its duties.
It provides that the commissioner of
labor shall be chairman and that two
other commissioners shall be appointed
by the president. It appearing to the
president that the parties were entitled
to such a commission under the law, he
determined to organize it for the pur-
pose of investigation. The commission-
ers {0 be appointed by him have not
been selected and will probably be a
number of days befor¢ the appoint-
ments are announced,
The First Train for Eighteen: Days.
St. Pav, Mino, July 17.—The
first Northern Pacific train from the
coast for eighteen days arrived to-day.
It left Portland on June 25. Besides
300 passengers it brought back the
two companies of regulars from Fort
Snelling who went out with the first
west bound train ten days ago. The
Nortbern Pacific line was declared in
operation to-day throughout the entire
length for all passenger traffic. The
freight business of the road has to a
greater extent been resumed.
Pullman's Men to Work.
Over 2400 of the 3000 Strikers Anxious to Be
Reinstated.—Orders to Re-Employ Them.—
Debs Still Insists He Can Stop the Life Blood
in the Arteries of Commerce.
Cricago, Ill, July 16.—Despite a
circumstantial and undeniable state-
ment that the 1200 Hollanders and aa
equal number of Poles, who together
comprise the majority of the striking
employes at Pullman, are anxious to re-
turn to work at the reduced wages, Presi-
dent Debs, of the American Railway
Union, still has the assurance to predict
victory for his sympathetic strikers. In
the face of statements to this effect, and
after a denial that they were authorized
by the strike leaders, Debs to-day said :
“Qur policy at present is to keep our
eight organizers with the men, so the
strikers will not weaken. We have every-
thing solid West of the Mississippi.
That is our strong point. I claim that
as long as we have traffic stopped at any
one point we have not yet lost the fight.
It is asif you stop the flow of blood in
an artery--you stop the circulation in
the whole system.”
“But everything seems to be running
smoothly on the different roads, does it
not 2’ Debs was asked.
«Qh, well,” admitted the labor leader,
“the passenger business in and out is
being transacted fairly well ; but there
are no freights moving at all—and that’s
where we have the best of them. That’s
where we expect to cripple the enemy.”
PLACES OPEN AT PULLMAN.
At the office of the Pullman Com-
pany, Manager Middleton said that
orders to open the shops were expected
at any time ; but no such word had’been
received from Mr. Wickes to-day.
Vice President Wickes, of the Pull-
man Company, stated that the company
is willing to take back its striking em-
ployes.
“Our manager at the works.” Mr.
Wickes said, ‘has been instructed for
several weeks to put men back to work
just as soon as enough of them agree to
work to make the running of all de-
partments possible. We could proba-
bly get along with 1000 men.”
All the packing houses are running
at the stock yards, although with re-
duced forces. The managers of the
house say they have more men on call
than they can use at the present low
state of business. They are confident
there will be more tie-ups.
Chief of Police Brennan said that all
of the special officers added to the force
during the past two weeks were still on
duty, and likely to remain so for a
while.
“I regard the trouble as practically
over,” be said ; ‘but at the same time
there may be isolated disturbances here
and there, and I would not regard it as
safe by any means to withdraw the men
from service. Our regular force is none
too large, and every man we have may
be needed yet.” .
At Whiting, Ind., to-day, a detach-
ment of United States Deputy Marshals
arrested R. H. Glenn, John Williams
and John Holton on a charge of con-
tempt of Court in violating the strike
injunction of the Unitea States Courts.
These are American Railway Union offi-
cials, who have urged engineers and fire-
men to again tie up the roads.
FREIGHT STAGNATION FOR A WEEK.
The effect of the railroad strike on
freight shipments is well brought out by
the statement of Eastern traffic for last
week. There were five roads that hand-
led no Eastern freight at all during the
week. These were the Wabash, Balti-
more & Ohio, Chicago & Grand Trunk,
Nickel Plate and the Erie. The total
shipment of all eastbound tonnage
amounted to only 4142 tons, against 50,-
257, for the corresponding week of last
ear. The total last week, compared
with 11,667 tons for the previous week
this month.
Eastbound movement of flour, grain
and provisions, as reported by the Cen-
tral Traffic Association, was 6540 tons,
against 5021 tons the week before.
The Michigan Central appeared to be
in much the best shape to handle freight
business, carrying 46 per cent. of the
total shipments East. Next to that was
the Pennsylvania, carrying 21 per cent ,
and the Lake Shore, with 14 per cent.
The total tonnage of flour was 417
tons, against 2000 for the corresponding
week of 1893. The total grain was 1798
tons, as compared with 9608. The total
of provisions, 4325 tons, as compared
with 9448 last year.
BRANCH PULLMAN SHOPS RESUME.
Cincinnati, O., July 16.--The Pull-
man shops at Ludlow, Ky., reopened
this morning with 85 men. They com-
prise the employes who refused to go
out when the strike was inaugurated,
but who afterward quit work. The shops
usually employ about 140 men.
PENNSY’S CONNECTIONS RESUMING.
Terre Haute, Ind., July 16.—The
time for the striking swi¥€hmen on the
Vandalia (the Pennsylvania Railroad's
south western connection) to return to
work expired at 7 o'clock this morning.
Not a single striker appeared to take his
place and all are stili out. The switch-
men are out on all the roads. Under
Vice President Williams’ order the Van-
dalia switchmen now stand discharged.
Non-union men are being puton the
other roads. The situation on the Van-
dalia at and east of St. Louis, Mo., how-
ever, is very different. Switchmen on
that line were first to break the strikers’
ranks in East St. Louis yesterday, and
all the old yard employes showed up for
work this morning. They have not all
been assured for reinstatement, and a
number of them expect to be refused.
Fort Wayne, Ind., July 16.—To-day
all old freight train crews on the Fort
Wayne Division of the Grand Rapids !
and Indiana and the Fort Wayne (the
Pennsylvania’s northwestern connec-
tion), Richmond and Cincinnati roads,
were discharged for participating in
the strike. The Wabash discharged all
trainmen, switchmen and freight hand
lers who went out in Fort Wayne, and
the Pennsylvania and Nickel Plate are
pursuing the same course. No less than
200 trainmen have been dropped.
COMPLETELY BROKEN AT TOLEDO.
Toledo, O., July 16.—When the
switchmen went out on the Wheeling
and Lake Erie Road, General Manager
A. G. Blair discharged the 1000 men on
the line in every capacity. and shut
down the road. To-day the company
issued orders resuming operations in all
branches, and complimented its men for
their loyalty. All but two of the strik-
ing men have gone back on the Ann
Arbor Road, and all the roads have
plenty of me::, old and new, to operate
in full. Everything is running, and
the freight blockade is completely
raised.
Getting Back Into old Lines.
All the Railroad Companies Will Run as Usual
This Week.
CHICAGO, July 15.—Railroad officials
devoted their attention almost exclusive-
ly yesterday in gelting their traffic de-
partments back into the old lines of do-
ing business. The Rock Island, which
had dispensed with the entire forces in
its general office during the strike, noti-
fied its men yesterday to report for duty
on Monday morning. The Milwaukee
and St. Paul, which led the way in the
general suspension of office business,
will putall 1ts men back to work on
Tuesday. All the other reads will re-
sume their usual routine to-day.
Saturday was pay day on the Rock
Island, and the office ot the paymaster,
on the third floor of the Van Buren
street building, was besieged by an
eager crowd. The Chicago and North-
western also paid off its men. Its pay
car stood in the yard west of the Wells
street depot. A company of regulars
was posted close by.
The strikers at Pullman will remain
firm, notwithstanding the position of
the American Railway union and the
General Managers’ assoziation, and an-
nounce that they expect, to win, despite
the apparent defeat of the present, be-
lieving that the public is still with them
in their fight against the Pullman Pal-
ace Car company.
Samuel Meyers, secretary of the Pull-
man grievance committee, said yester-
day: “We are not disconcerted in the
least, although we had expected to win
our fight with the assistance of the rail-
road men of the country in tying up the
railroads. The situation will now prob-
ably stand as it did before the railroad
men came to our assistance.’
The transit department of the stock
yards resumed business Saturday morn-
ing with practically a full force of men.
Thirty seven non-union switchmen
marched into the yards at 7 o'clock, and
the work of clearing the congested
tracks was begun in earnest. The work
is being done under the protection of
100 policemen ard a military guard.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
brought in 211 car loads of live stock,
and the Rock Island fifteen cars, the
other roads almost their full quota.
Two hundred cars of live stock were al-
so sent east. Not much killing is done
in Packingtown on Saturdays, and the
packers claim to have all the men they
need to handle the business.
The first break in the military on
guard in the stock yards’ district was
made on Saturday afternoon, when the
Chicago Hussars, under Captain Brand
and Lieutenant Thomas Quincy, were
relieved of duty and went home. Sev-
eral butchers, who have taken the place
of strikers, were assaulted yesterday
morning while on their way to work,
but none of them seriously hurt.
The great boycott which begun on
June 26 last has cost up to date seven-
teen lives in this city and vicinity and
not less than $38,500,000 worth of rail-
road property, while dozens of men
have been arrested.
Apart from the indictment and arrest
of President Debs, Vice President How-
ard, Secretary Kehher, Director Rod-
gers and others of the American Rail-
way union, numerous arrests have been
made by troops and deputy United
States marshals during the strike. Some
of the prisoners have obtained bail while
others are locked up.
War on Corrupt Police.
McClave Resigns as Commissioner, and Officers
Under Erie.
New York, July 16-—Matters were
rather lively in police circles to-day.
Commiseioner John McClave, who
was shown to receive bribes, and who
used his position for corrupt purposes,
resigued, and General Michael Kerwin
was appointed in his stead by Mayor
Gilroy. McClave gave his excuse as
ill health.
Superintendent Byrnes preferred
charges against the following officers,
who were accused be‘ore the Senate
Investigating Committee :
. Captain Michael Dougherty, of the
Leonard street equad ; Patrolman
John Hock, of the Mulberry street
station ; Patrolman Bernard Mechan,
of the East Eighty-eighth street station
and Patrolman Jeremiah Levy, of the
Kingsbridge squad.
The charges are for neglect of duty,
conduct unbecoming an officer, con-
duct injurious to the public peace and
welfare and for committing illegal of-
fenses.
Wool Crop for this Year.
WasniNgTON, July 17—With the
July returns on acreage and condition
of crops, the correspondents of the sta-
tistical division of the departmeat of
agricultare were instructed to send an
estimate of the average weight per
fleece of wool ss shown during the
present year. These returns have
been carefully consolidated and the
average weight per fleece of this year’s
clip is shown to be 5.33 pounde,
against 5.3 pounds last year and 5.15
pounds for the census year. A(The
variation by states is considerable, the
range being from 2.5 pounds per fleece
in Alabama to 7.5 pounds 1n South
Dakota. The chief causes of this dit
ference are varying climatic conditions
and differing degrees of care bestowed
upon the stock, as well ag the keeping
of widely varying grades of animals,
from the highest grade of blooded
stock down to the common native
breed.
To Escort the Governor.
Harrisurag, July 17.— Governor
Pattison and staff will ride to the Na-
tional Guard encampment at Gettys-
burg vext month with the three caval-
ry companies of the division. The
City Troop, of Tyrone, will rendezvous
in this city the day before the camp
opens, and with the governor's troop
and the governor and his staff, ride to
Gettysburg.
Cleveland Endorsed.
The House Approves His Course in the Strike.
WasniNgroN, D. C. July 16.—The
House made up for its delay in cow:
mending the President’s action respect-
ing the strike, by making the resolu-
tion which it adopted to-day more
comprehensive and emphatic than the
Daniel resolution, adopted last week
by the Senate. The resolution adopted
by the House, which was offered by
Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, read :
Resolved. That the - House of Rep-
resentatives indoree the prompt and
vigorous efforts of the President and
his Administration to suppress lawless-
ues, restore order and prevent imyprop-
er interference with the enforcement
of the laws of the United States,
and with the transportation - of.
the mails of the United States acd
with interstate commerce ; and pledges
the President hearty support, and
deems the success which has already
attended his efforts as cause for public
and general congratulation.
As soon as it had been read there
was a general demand for a vote upon
it so that Mr. McCreary did not
make the speech he had intended to
make, but simply said that'it was un-
necessary. since the resolution spoke
for itself. But Populist Pence, of Col-
orado, braved the desire of the House
tor action, to make a speech against
the resolution, on the ground that it
was too sweeping in its terms, and he
was supporied to someextent by Bland,
of Missouri, who resented the sending
of Federal troops into his State. Pence
and some of the Western Republicans
wanted to protract the debate, in order
to get in other adverse speeches, but
objection was made on the Democra-
tic eide.
MR. CATCHINGS' €PEECH.
The discussion closed with an ad-
mirable speech from General Catchings
of Miesippi, praising not only the Pres-
ident, but Aitorney General Olney.
No man, he said, believed in the
limitations placed by the Coostitution
npon the rights of the State and Fed:
eral Government more thoroughly
than he ; but the shadow of the nation-
al flag spreads over all, and obliterated
State lines. There was no place
where the power of the Federal Gov-
ernment could not go when occasion
arose.
As a lawyer, he maintained that the
Attorney General had done nothing he
should not have done. He paid a
high compliment to Mr. Olney, whose
course inspired admiration and coofi-
dence, and to the President, whose
lofty, courageous and determined atti-
tude in this dreadful controversy had
administered a lasting lesson to men
like Debs, and those who claimed the
right to lay their heavy hand on the
business of the country with impun-
ity.
The opposition tried to get the roll
call on the passage of the resolution,
but could not muster strength enough,
and on a division, 125 Democrats and
Republicans voted for it, and 27 Popu-
liste, Democrats and Republicans voted
against it.
To the Atlantic Coast and Return at
£8.65 the Round Trip.
On July 26th next the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will run another of
its popular seashore excursions. These
trips are planned for the express pur-
pose of furnishing an economical oppor-
tunity for pecple living in Western
Pennsylvania to visit some of the prin-
cipal summer resorts of the Atlantic
coast. The tickets permit of a stay of
nearly two weeks, and a choice of desti-
nation is allowed—Atlantic City, the
most popular resort in America, Cape
May, appropriately called the queen of
the coast, Sea Isle City, the gem of the
coast, and Ocean City, last but by no
means the least attractive of the places.
Special train will leave Pittsburg on
above mentioned date 8.50 a. m., arriv-
ing at Altoona 12.25 p. m., where stop
for dinner will be made, and reaching
Philadelphia 7.20 p. m. Passengers
can spend the night in Philadelphia,
and take any regular train of the follow-
ing day for the shore.
RATE. TRAIN LEAVES
Altoona...... $8.00 1255 P.M.
Hollidaysb .8.00 11.10 A.M.
Bellwood .00 1.05 P.M.
Clearfield... .8.90 9.58 A.M.
Philipsburg... 835 1041: ¢
Osceola...... ..8.25 1050;
Bellefonte. oe. 8.65 04
Tyrone. ....... 7.65 113 PM.
Cumberland.. 8.30
Bedford..... s 9.50. %
Huntingdo 10 148 P.M.
Philadelph - 790 «te
Sent to Prison
WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 12. —Ex-
Banker F. V. Rockafellow, who was
second time this afternoon. At the
January ses-ion of the criminal court he
was sentenced by Judge Lynch to two
years and two months in the eastern
penitentiary. His counsel took an ‘ap-
peal to the supreme court later on. To-
day the court handed down a decision
sustaining the lower court. The coun-
ty detective went to the ex-banker’s
home and notified him to prepare to be
recommitted. The parting between the
aged banker and his family was a very
affecting one. He will be taken to the
penitentiary some time next week.
Traveled in a Day Coach.
Crayton, N. Y., July 17.—George
M. Pullman accompanied by his son-
in-law and daughter, arrived bere this
noon. The party traveled from Utica
in the day coach with the passengers.
They boarded the regular steamer for
Alexandria Bay from which place they
were transferred to ‘Castle Rest,”” Mr.
Pullman’s summer home.
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Strike Situation Unchanged.
SAN Francisco, July 17.—-Reports
to the United Press today from Sacra-
ing situation in those two cities is un-
changed. Trains running in and out of
both places are running under heavy
guard of soldiers. At Oakland the
strikers are still in an ugly mood and
-more trouble is expected.
Debs Goes to Prison.
He and Other Officers af the A. R. U. Refuse to
Give Bonds.—And are Committed by Court.--
They are Held for Alleged Violation of the In-
junction Issued by Judges Wood and Grosscup
and Will Have a Hearing on Monday Next.
Cuicaco, July 18-—Eugene V. Debs,
George W. Howard, L. W. Rogers and
Sylvester Keliher, the officers of the
A. R.U., were committed to jail yes-
terday by Judge Seaman inthe United
States circuit court for alleged viola-
tion of the injunction issued by Judges
Wood and Grosscup. The four lead-
ers of the strike in reality went to jail
in default of bail, for the court offered
them their liberty until next Monday,
when they will have a hearing on the
charge of contempt. Their bail was
fixed at $3,000 each, but the men re-
fused to give it, and the court commit-
ted them.
Debs and his companions were tak-
en to jail by Marshal Arnold, and be-
fore they left the court room Juadge
Seaman instructed the marshal to take
them out of the jail at any reasonable
time or times in order that they may
have abundant opportunity to consult
their attorneys between this and next
Monday.
District Attorney Milerist filed an
information in court charging the offi-
cers of the union with violating the in-
junction, and asked for a writ of attach-
ment for contempt. It was not neces-
sary to issue a writ for Debs, for he
was in court when the information
was filed.
When Mr. Milchrist had finished
the reading of the information Attor-
ney George R. Peck, representing the
receivers of the Santa Fe system, took
the floor and read a petition for writs
of attachment against the defendants
on behalf of that railroad. The peti-
tion asked that the defendants be pun-
ished for contempt for violating the or-
der appointing to the receivers as well
as for violating the general injunction
as it applies to the Santa Fe. A num-
ber of acts of violence were alleged and
interference with trains.
A telegram was produced in court,
sent by Debs on July 2 to North Butte,
Mont. It read: “General managers
are weakening. If the strike is not
settled in forty-eight hours complete
paralysie will follow. Potatoes and
ice are out of sight. Save your money
and buy a gun.”
While seated in the jail, awaiting
the preparation of his cell, Debs said :
“Well this means a few days of rest
and quiet at least. . I have not had
much rest for over a month, and I am
badly in need of it. Our bonds are
$3,000 each, but we would not give
bonds if they were five cents each.
We are not posing as martyrs, neither
do we ask for sympathy.
“All I have to say about our arrest
to-day is that matters have come to
that point in this free country when it
is held to be a crime to advise a man
what to do when he seeks your advice.
We are guilty of no crime unless the
simple expression of an opinion is a
crime. We are not responsible for
this strike. Pullman is responsible for
it.)
The men were placed in the debtor's
department of the jail, Debs and How-
ard being given a cell and Keliher and
Rogers one adjoining.
Signed by the President.
The Bill for the Admission of the Territory of
Utah Into the Union.
‘WASHINGTON, July 17.—The signing
of the Utah bill for statehood by Presi-
dent Cleveland to-day closes one of the
most remarkable contests in the history
of American politics. The territory has
been an applicant for statehood, and
really eligible in population and wealth,
for many years. It has formed the on-
ly break in the string of states that
stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific
oceans. The struggle over polygamy
and the Mormon church has deferred its
admission until the present time.
President Harrison in 1892 issued a
proclamation giving amnesty to all
Mormons convicted of polygamy, and
President Cleveland to day completed
the final step in the preliminary pro-
gress toward statehood. According to
the operations of the enabling act it will
devolve upon the president, in Novem-
ber or December of,1895, to,issue a proc-
Jamation formally admitting Utah in-
to the union. One remarkable feature
convicted some time ago for embezzle- |
ment, was committed to prison for the |
mento and Oakland state that the strik- |
in the latter stages of the contest has
been the unanimity with which the two
great political parties have acted in fav-
or of admission. Neither party now
knows which will gain it when a state.
Withdrawal of Federal Troops.
They Will Break Camp In Chicago This Morn-
ing.
CHICAGO, July 18,—Orders were re-
ceived this evening by Adjutant Gener-
al Maus, at the headquarters of Gener-
al Miles, commanding the department
of the Missouri, for the withdrawal of
the federal troops now on duty in
! and about this city. According
! to the order all of the regulars except
the Ninth regiment, of Sackett’s Har-
vor, N. Y., which will be seat bome,
will be statioved at Fort Sheridan indef-
initely, as a reserve force, within easy
call should they be needed again. The
troops affected by the order number
about 200 men.
. Detachments of regulars are now on
' guard atthe government building and
in several of the railroad yards, and on
their withdrawal these places will be
; guarded by the militia and police. The
| order was issued to-night for the regu-
lars to break camp in the morning.
EHS BIIRIIE,
Growing Crops Need Rain.
WASHINGTON, July 17,—The weath-
er bureau furnishes the following syn-
| opsis of crop conditions for the week
ended yesterday; Pennsylvania—
| Wheat good and bay fair ; oats ripen-
ing rapidly and some harvested ;
drought injuring growing crop.
Cholera Killing Russians,
St. PETERSBURG, July 17.-~Oae bun-
dred and ninety-six fresh cases of chol-
era are reported and seventy-nine more
deaths have been recorded.