olumlriatt. ESTABLISHED 1S8. Tlte Columbia gfroocrat, STAllUNIIEM 1MS7. CONSOLIDATED 18M. -rrn.iHiiKn nv GEO. E. ELWELL EVEKY FUIHAY MOHXINU at DloomfOwrtt, tuo rounly sent ot Columbia County, rennsylvaiilii. TlRJf: Inside t lie county, ft.on n yr-nrln n1 viinco; fl.so If not paid In ndvnnee tmtslilc tue county, $i.un a year, strictly In advance. All communications should be addressed to T11K I'Ol.fMIUAN, HloomslmrB, Ta. FRIDAY, OCTOItKK 13, 1893. DEMOCKATIO TICKET. HlHie. For .Indue of the Supreme Court, SKMl'EL G1STIXK THOMPSON, of rhllndclphla. For State Treasurer, FKANK C. OSlll'KN, ot Allegheny County. Comity, For Frothonatory una clerk of the Courts, (i. M. (il'ICK. For Keglster and Heconlcr, C. H. ENT. For county Treasurer, J. It. FOWI.EK. For County commissioners, U. M. IKELKIt. .1. O. SWANK. For District Attorney, THUS. B. UASLY. For County Auditors, W. A. DKEISBACH. J. F. 1IAKKIN8. For County Surveyor. C. 11. MOOHE. The Young Democracy of Philadel phia celebrated the re opening of their handsome room on Broad and Chestnut streets last Saturday evening. Samuel Gustin Thompson, candidate for Supreme Court and Frank C. Os borne candidate for State Treasurer were among the prominent democrats present. The attorney general's department is sending out notices to aDout 250 delinquent corporations in the state which have failed to pay their second installment of bonus on their charters. If not paid within a limited time Attorney-General Hensel threatens to in stitute proceedings against all such corporations in the Dauphin county court to wind up their affairs. The Board of Commissioners of Public Buildings and Grounds author ized e-Senator Y. S. Newell, of Phil adelphia, tc insure the Capitol build ings and contents in a number of companies which it designated. The total amount of insurance is $594,000, of which $123,000 is perpetual and $471,000 for five years. The Legisla ture appropriated $14,000 to pay for the insurance to be placed. Benjamin F. Tennis, who made con fession to the murder of little Agnes Wright, at Hummelstown, Dauphin County, and whose case was tried be fore Judge McPherson, at Harrisburg, on Friday, September 29, was senten ced Thursday of last week, as follows : "That, at such time as the governor whose power it is to fix the date for the execution of the death warrant, you be taken from the jail from whence you have just come, to the place of execution and there hanged oy the neck until you are dead." The death warrant was then sent to the Governoi for his signature, and for the appoint rnent of the day for the execution. This will be the first execution in Dauphin County for over eleven years the last being Friday, March 24, 1882; which was that of Frank and Henry Romberger, for the murder of Daniel Troutman, an aged farmer. Should 60 at Onoe. Some hysterical organs of the op position have become terribly excited over the movement of the Democrats in Congress to repeal the Federal Election law. It is, they exclaim, a dreadful and malign "conspiracy." It is, indeed, a conspiracy in the broad est sense. As Burke Bethel said, with some etymological confusion : "It comes from two Latin words con, to breathe, and spiro, together." There has been a mighty breathing together from all ends of the land, and this is the conspiration that has influenced Congress to repeal the Federal Elec tions law. It is a conspiracy that needs for its execution neither the brand of vengeance nor the dagger of the assassin. Public opinion, the only omnipotent conspirator in a free coun try, has demanded that the Federal Elections law shall be repealed. Con gress is simply recording the decree of the people in regard to this law. Record. When catarrh attacks a pei son cf ' scrofulous diathesis, the disease is al most sure to become chronic. The . only efficacious cure, therefore, is ' Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which expels scro- lula from the system and the catarrh oon follows suit. Local treatment is only a waste of time. WASHINGTON LETTER. Continuous Session of the Senate Issuo of more Bonds Trial for Orirainal Hegligence Relief for the Cy clone Sufferers. (From our nebular correspondent ) Washington, Oct. 0, 1893 Senator Voorhees on Saturday gave notice that next Wednesday's session of the Senate would be made continu ous, for the purpose of trying to get a vote upon his bill for the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman sil ver law, and since then every Senator who is absent, and not paired upon this bill has been notified to be on hand Wednesday. Numerous attempts have been made in the past in the Senate to force a vote upon measures by holding continuous sessions, but there have been more failures than successes, and the peculiar circum stances surrounding the present at tempt make it almost certain to be a failure. No party machinery can be used in this contest, because there are no party lines observed by the friends and opponents of the repeal bill. The question which is exciting the most interest here is, what will follow the failure to reacli a vote on the Voor hees bill? One of two things must be done. If the bill cannot be passed it must cither be indefinitely aban doned, leaving the present law in force, or a compromise amendment that can be passed be adopted. Which will it be ? No man can at this time answer that question with absolute certainty, but being ueneral.y admitted that the present law is a bad one the probabilities seem to favor a com promise, although a number of promi nent democrats, among them Presi dent Cleveland, believe that it would be better to abandon the bill for a time than to adopt u make-shift com promise. Whatever is the result, so far as the Voorhees bill is concerned, the opinion seems to be increasing daily among conservative men, regardless of party affiliation, that Congress must pass a bill authorizing the administration to issue bonds to increase the gold re serve fund whenever it may become necessary in order to avoid panics, similar to the one the country passed through, which may at any time be brought on by large and continuous exportations of gold. Men who six months ago opposed an issue of bonds under any circumstances are now ad vocating that the authority for issuing bonds be given to the administration. It would not necessarily follow that bonds would be tissued. ' The knowl edge that they could be issued if nec essary to replenish the government supply of gold would, in the opinion of shrewd financiers, of itself act large ly as a preventative of the exportation of gold. When the house adopted the order closing debate on the bill for the re peal of the Federal election laws, to day (October oth.l and directing that the voting on the bill and the amend ments proposed thereto should begin to-morrow and continue until the bill was disposeil of, it was thought that the Senate would have before this dis posed of the Voorhees repeal bill and have been ready to receive the elec tion repeal bill. The democrats of the House will hold a caucus on the subject to-night, and inasmuch as it might add additional complications to the already sufficiently complicated situation in the Senate to send this bill over at this time the caucus may de cide tha it is advisable to defer final action on the election bill for a time. The Ford's Theatre disaster has been recalled to public notice during the past week by the opening of the trial of the four men indicted for crim inal negligence in connection there with ; by a Senate resolution for the appointment of a joint Congressional committee to ascertain the responsi bility of the government for damages to the families of the victims, and by beginning of repairs upon the wrecked building. A rumor that the men who occupied the building at the time of the disaster are to be again put in there to work as soon as the repairs are completed has raised a general protest, not only from the five hun dred clerks and their friends, but from the public at large. It would certainly seem to be an unnecessary cruelty to compel those clerks to work in that building again. It is extremely doubtful whether the joint resolution offered by Represen tative Davey, of La., for the appropri ation of $25,000 for the relief of the cyclone sufferers on the southern coast gets through Congress. Not be cause individual Senators and Repre sentatives are opposed to helping the sufferers, but because all such appro priations by the general government have been opposed on principle for' many years, on the theory that the several states should furnish needed relief to their own citizens. However, this being an exceptional case the House committee on Appropriations, to which the resolution was referred, may ignore precedent and favorably report it. Should it be favorably re ported it would probably pass. President Cleveland and his family moved out to his country residence Saturday afternoon, and they will re main there until cold weather, the President coming in to his office every morning and returning in the after noon. Mrs, Cleveland is rapidly re gaining her strength and baby Esther is enjoying good health. Miss Ruth celebrated het second birthday last week. Majority Responsibility. It is understood at Washington that the Republican members of the House will not vote on the repeal of the Federal election laws, but will compel the Democrats to muster a quorum of their own to pass the bill. This is entirely right. No legislation of the first importance should be enacted without the expressed assent of a majority of each house. This principal is embodied in the Consti tution of Pennsylvania and it was al ways recognized in Congressional practice, though not invariably cn forced, until Speaker Reed invented the device of counting a quorum and had it incorporated in the ru es of the House. This was the main contention be tween the Republicans and Demo crats under the Reed regime. Even alter seating a number of members who were not elected, the former had so small a majority in the House that they could not command an actual quorum of their own, and the Speaker therefore assumed the power, which the majority afterwards confirmed to him, to count non voting members as I though they voted. A mere majority of such a constructive quorum was sufficient to pass a bill, and in this way even so important a measure as the McKinley tariff was declared pass ed without the assent of an actual majority of the House. The present House has wisely and properly gone back to the sound law that requires an actual quorum present and voting. This is not to facilitate obstruction, but merely to enforce re sponsibility. The majority a large majority of the members of the House are in favor of the repeal of the elec non laws, out it is tneir amy to at-1 tend tr.e sessions and vote for the re peal, and it is the right, if not also the duty, of the minority to compel them to do so, and thus to assume their proper responsibility for the act ion of the House. A simi'ar rule holds in the Senate. The minority have an absolute right j to require the affirmative votes of a full majority and to abstain from vo ting if necessary to enforce this right. This does not imply factious obstruc tion. The right is abused when it is resorted to unnecessarily for mere purposes of delay ; but in the final vote upon a leading isue the majority must be prepared to maintain a quorum of its own and thus to give its action the full authority of the Senate. This I is the duty f -r which Mr. Voorhees has warned the Senators to be pre pared and the country will hold every one of them to a strict account. Tiiitis. 03co3 r.d Campaign Fund. In connection with the question of Van Alen and the chargj that he should not be appointed because he gave $;d,oco to the campaign f'jnd, some one has asked whether Wiiitelaw Reid, who was appointed Minister to France by President Harrison, did not also contribute to the campaign fund rreviously to his appointment. Mr. Reid replies that he did, but that he did not contribute one-third of the amount alleged to have been given by Van Allen. It is difficult to see why the amountdiould make any difference. Perhaps Mr. Reid was not so liberal in his ideas as Mr. Van Allen.and per haps he cou'd not afford to contribute so much. We don't see any harm in Mr. Reid's contributing according to his ability, and do not think that the fact of his having contributed debarred him from taking office. We see no reason why a different rule should be applied to Mr. Van Allen. It is true some people say that Mr. Van Allen has no talents or diplomacy, but he is an educated man, the same as Mr. Reid, who previous to his appoint ment, while he undoubtedly showed himself to be a man of talent yet had had no practice in the art of diplom acy, as very few of our Ministers ever have had. Heading Herald. The amendment to the Pennsylva nia marriage laws went into effect on the 2nd inst. It is said that under the new arrangement parties obtaining a marriage license in any county in the State can legally make use of it in any other community, providing, of course, that the other obligations are promptly and legally fulfilled. There has al ways been delicately constructed ob jections from matrimonially-inclined persons to this slight barrier which prevented the free and unconditional use of licenses. Persons of nervous temperament and lacking a certain amount of intrepidity have always lought shy of making application for a license in the county in which it was desired to have the marriage ceremony performed. They wanted a degree of privacy not furnished by the License Court where the application was to be made. Ex. De Witt's Witch Hael Salve cures piles. De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cures burns. DeWitt'g Witch Hazel Salve cures sores. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cures ulcers. W. S. Rishton, Druggist. ly GENERAL NEWS. Six Sophomores of Princeton Col lege weie suspended on account of one of their hazing episodes. General Henry R. Guss of Chester, is pushing his claim for the position of Pension A jcnt at Philadelphia. Cases of Cholera still oontinuc on the increase at Madrid and Constanti nople A lar;;e part of York Agricultural Society's stables at the fair grounds took fire and burned to the ground last Friday evening. Two of Miss Myrtic Peakc's fine horses, Boston and Hits, were burned into a crisp. Boston, the fine black dancer, she val ued at $5,000. Bits was one of the racers and was almost invaluable to her. Senator Peffer has introduced a "by request" bill to provide for the employ ment of labor and the prosperity of the people. It orders the coinage of all gold and silver bu lion now in the Treasury, the free coinage of any oth er that may b offered and the "coin age" of full legal tender paper until the nggregate of all money shall reach siz billion dollars. The "prosperity" is to be reached by appropriating $600,000,000 to be distributed pro rata, according to ".em ulation, among the States and Terri tories, for the improvement of public highways, school houses, etc., wages of $4 a day of eight hours each to be paid to those employed upon this work. Under the terms of a general omnibus section, all citizens ot the United States offering their services must be employed. A receiver has been appointed for the E. N. Welch Clock Manufactuiing Company at Hartford, Connecticut. It was one of the largest clock manu factories in the Country, with branch salesrooms at New Y'rk, Chicago, London, Glasgow, Shanghai, and Yo kahama. The liabilities are over $400,000 and estimated assets of $600,000. An inquisitive negro employed at the Gladstone apartment home, Elev enth and Pine streets, Philadelphia, had his scalp nearly torn off by look ing up the shaft to see if the elevator was coming. He found it was coming. By presence of mind he quickly clasped the scalp in place, and was taken to the Pennsylvania Hospital. The New Yo:k State Convention was held r.t Saratoga, Friday of last week, and was trti'y a "Hill" conven tion. In a test vote for contested seats, there were 349 delegates friends of Hill, to 34 against. Congressman Bonrke Cockran and Surrogate, Frank T. Filzergald wcrp defeated for members of the State committee. The following State ticket was nominated : Secretary of Str.te, Cord Meyer; Coniptro'ler, Frank Campbell ; State Treasurer, Hugh Duffy; Attorney General, Sim on W. Rosendale , State Engineer, Martin F. Schenck : Judge of the Court of Appeals, Isaac H. Maynard. The platform endorses the principles of the National platform, and demands the repeal of the Sherman Silver law. The total number of persons in at tendance at the World's Fair up to Saturday nigh: was 15,703,270. Mon day was Chicago day when there weie present over 700,000 people. It was a general holiday, all the places of business being closed, in order to in crease the attendance at the Fair. The first race to a finish between the American vessel Vigilant and the English Valkyvie, of the series for the America's cup, was made Saturday last at Sandy Hook, when the Ameri can vessel won by five minutes and 48 seconds. Senator Peffer, it is said, scratches the side of his head with his thumb when he talks. Probably if he would use a fine tooth comb when he is not talking he could give his thumb a test. Mrs. Tlicrcaa llartnon " For fourteen years I have .uttered with MJ. ney t'oubles ; my back so lame that sometimes I Could Not Ralso Myself hp out ot my chair, nor turn myself In bed. I tauld not sleen. nnd suffered dl.n Willi toy iootl. I have tulteu Tour bottles ot Hood's Cures Hood's Bars&parllla. I feel like a new person, and roy terrible sufferings have all gone. Lite If comfort compared to the misery it used to be." Mrs. Tbzbbsa Haktson. Albion, ra.' . Hood's Ps cure ConaUiatio:! by reator tag the ptrUUlue aoUua ot the aUtucutufy eaoal. UP BY BUYING SHOES OF AM 'j UNCERTAIN QUALITY. jZT y It's a risk you ain't afford to run can't 4 afford n nv way when we can Mipply you witf, an article that is beyond question We handle the best makes of Shoes for Children- HOYS need nn Iniifpr wear jrirls' phot's a we have a lino made especially for the small Boys. Ladies who wear Spring Heeled Shoes will find a irooil assortment at the store of W, C. McKlMY. H. J. Clark's Building, Main street. The Lowest Rate of the Year to Chicago via Pennsylvania Railroad Comranj's Coach Excursions. At a recent meeting the rate to Chi cago via the Pennsylvania Railroad was definitely decided upon, and will hold good during the remaining sx cursions of the people's popular coach series: $iS.oo from New York, $17. 00 from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, and proportionately low rates from other points on the compa ny's division and branches. These rates are the lowest that have yet been authorized, and their ultimate legality has been brought about mainly through the efforts of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company. The remaining dates on which this remarkable rate will apply are Octob er nth, 17th, and 21st, from New York and Philadelphia, and 7th, 14th, and 2 1st, from Baltimore and Wash ington, when trains will leave the sev eral Eastern terminals fully and com fortably equipped with Pennsylvania standard coaches, and all taking ad vantage of these exceptional opportu nities are assured of being amply cored for in transit. The arriving time in Chicago, early the next afternoon, is on equality with the fast express trains' schedule, and affords sufficient time for a selection of accommodations for the stay in Chicago. The immense volume of travel now directing itself towards the World's Pair, and the rapidly approaching termination of the Exposition influence the Compa'y to place every inducement possible be fore the public. There could be no better way devised to encourage visits to the most marvelously gorgeous exhibition the people of this generation has ever seen. GRAND OPENING 0 n the above date we will make our bow to the public. We don't intend to do much talking. The goods we have bought will do that for us. All we want you to do now is to come and see us. We have searched the markets of New York and Philadelphia for whatever was NEWEST AND BEST. No Jobs were bought, nor any old Patterns taken. Our Motto was est I We show the finest Products of American and Foreign looms and work shops. AVe will supply you with everything you need for your home or for yourself. If we have not got what you want, we will get it for you. GIVE US A CHANCE To show you how accommodating we can be to you. Ybu are at liberty to use our WAITING KOOMS any time and have all your bundles checked free of charge. Snyder it Slagcc Company, Limited, UNIVERSAL PROVIDERS FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS. Don't Get Yourself in a Box 1 WHILE AT THE FAIR. Take a survey of our goods this wick. If it's bargains that you seek, Such offers never met the ejesofmen ; Call, and then if you please, And you eagerly will seize, Such a chance as you'll never have again. Having been in the City this week look out for a fine line of goods suitable for wedding and all kinds of presents. A large line of Ne Watches at way down prices. Come nn:t examine our stock if you wish to buy or not. We make a sjici-ialty of re pau ing at HESS BROS, JEWEI.EHS AND HTATIONKKS. Sign of big watch, Main St. Bloomsw'RG, Pa. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING DONE AT THE COLUMBIAN OFFICE. ee Co. Limited. Warn to ?4 f,-r Jbr
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