THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA.
WASHINGTON.
i our ltegular Correspondent.
Washington, April 24th, 1S96.
The people are sometimes quicker
o see tlie undesirability of proposed
igislation than the Congressmen are,
mil in election years, if at no other
ime, the expressed disapprobation of
he people is quickly deferred to by
lie men who control Congress. A
tase in point is the Pacific Railroads
iill which has been reported to both
House and Senate. Now, although
his bill involves an enormous amount
of money, and that it is much more
favorable to C. P. Huntington and
"lis ring of capitalists than to the gov
ernment, as was so ably shown by
rhe protest written by Senator Morgan,
from a sick bed and presented to the
Senate as a minority report, it was
proposed to railroad it through Con
gress during the last days of the ses
sion. This programme had the sup
port of Speaker Reed and of leading
men in the Senate, and was being
whooped up by Huntington and his
lobby. The bill has been so generally
condemned by the people that a halt
has been called in the programme, and
it is now said that the bill will not be
acted upon at this session of Congress,
if it ever is in its present shape.
Senator Cockrell succeeded in his
humane effort to have the Senate
amend the Indian appropriation bill
so that it provides that two years
shall be allowed the sectarian (Catho
lic) Indian Schools to prepare to turn
their scholars over to government
schools, if they do not wish to teach
them at their own expense ; but there
is no certainty that the A. P. A ,
which has shown its control of the
House several times during the ses
sion, will agree to it.
President Cleveland assured the
delegates to the National Arbitration
Conference which met in Washington
this week, who called on him, that he
was thoroughly in sympathy with their
aim to bring about a system of inter
national arbitration of all disputes
not affecting the soverignity of nations.
The unseating of Representative
Cobb, of Ala. in favor of Goodwynn,
the populist who contested the seat,
by the republican majority of the
House, was a part of the deal through
which it is expected to carry Alabama
this year by a republican-populist
combine. This was so palpable that
a few republican members refused to
vote for it, but not enough to defeat
it. ' The danger of putting young
men with more egotism than parlia
mentary knowledge in the Speaker's
chair was exemplified during the
debate in this case. Speaker Reed
desiring to consult with some of his
boomers called Representative Bar
rett, of Mass., to the chair and retired
to his private room to figure on his
chances for the Presidential nomina
tion. Mr. Barrett got tangled up,
and was about to get the House in
the biggest sort of a row by attempt
ing to shut off Mr. Cobb, who had
been allowed one hour to speak in
his own behalf. Fortunately some
body sent for Mr. Reed and he re
turned to the chair and straigthened
out matters. He also tried to let
Mr. Barrett down easy by saying that
he had misunderstood the agreement
under which the House was acting,
but Representative Bailey, of Texas,
promptly called him down by shout
ing : "Ignorance, not misunderstand
ing." This man hopes to be Speaker
of the next House, if Reed becomes
President and the House remains
republican-a formidable "if."
Senator Smith, of N. J., has proba
bly been scratched off Andy Car
negie's list of friends, if he was ever
on it. The reason is an amendment
which Mr. Smith wishes to have at
tached to the Naval appropriation
bill. This amendment instructs the
Secretary of the Navy to make no
contracts for armor plate for the
battle ships provided for in that bill
unless the price be at least as low as
$300 a ton of 2,000 pounds. Car
negie is now making Uncle Sam pay
$500 a ton for armor plate, but has
promised to reduce the price, to
prevent the government undertaking
to make its own armor. Senator
Smith wants to make sure that the
. reduction is what it should be, and
yet there is no injustice in the figures
he names as that is the price at which
Carnegie and his associates have
taken a Russian contract. It remains
to be seen whether Carnegie's friends
in Congress can head off that Smith
amendment.
There has been some excitement
in Congress this week on account of
a statement made by Representative
Suker, of N. Y. to the effect that
Walter Dygert, a young American
recently imprisoned by the Spanish
authorities, had been secretly exe
cuted. Mr. Sul.er's information came
from Cubans in New York who got
it direct frcm their friends on the
island. Secretary Olney thinks there
is a mistake about it, as he has the
promise of the Spanish authorities
that young Dygert would be given
his liberty and allowed to leave Cuba.
If investigation proves that execution
story to be true Spain would better
look out for serious trouble.
. The Increasu of Hurder.
There has been nothing more
startling in criminal statistics than
those presented in a recent address
of Andrew 1). White, formerly presi
dent of the Cornell University, before
the Patria Club, of New York. His
theme was, that in this country mur
derers were less frequently punished
than elsewhere, and he backed up
this position by an array of figures
which were paralyzing.
Comparing the murders of 1889
with those of 1895, he finds that while
there were 3,567 cases, or 58 to every
million persons in the former year,
there were 10,5000 murders, or 115
to every million of population, in the
year last past ; an increase for the six
years of 6,933 murders and of 57 per
million inhabitants. In 1889, one
murderer out of 42 paid the penalty
of his crime on the scaffold j in 1896
only one murderer in 74 was executed.
Lynching had, however, become rapid
ly frequent, and while the population
had only increased 25 per cent., the
murderers' butchers' bill had increased
50 per cent. Mr. White said further
that if all murderers at that time were
locked up there would be 43,000 of
them filling condemned cells, while,
in fact, there were but 7,351 homi
cides in prison.
Among the many causes which have
led to life being held so cheap and
punishment so difficult, it is easy to
trace the most pernicious. Mr. White
declared that there has been a weak
ening of righteous indignation against
such crimes ; that long deferred con
victions have had a large shire ; that
there is too much maudiin sorrow and
sickly pity for criminals; that legal
proceedings have become a chance
game ; that chicanery and technicali
ties have been too freely permitted ;
that the facilities for appeal and re
trials have been abused ; that too
many escapes have been permitted,
and that the Gubernatori. l power of
pardon h;is been outrageously abused.
Mr. White's remedies for these
abuses of the criminal law are sensi
ble and cogent, and commence with
the moral education of the people,
continues with practical examination
of criminal and charitable institutions,
leads up to the remodeling of prisons
and their punishment; the strict pun
ishment of subsidiary crimes, and a
general development of the theory
that murder trials are not mere ex
hibitions of defensive tactics; that
verdicts shall mean what they say ;
that long delays between arrest and
trial shall be avoided, and that no
man shall have the individual right to
step between the convicted man and
the executioner. With these emenda
tions the law would soon win back
the respect it has lost and fulfill its
true mission of being a terror to evil
doers. Phila. limes.
EeBt Family Medicine.
PunxsuUwney, Pa., April 8, 1896.
We have a large family and we all
take Hood's Sarsaparilla as we regard
it as the best family medicine that
we have ever had. We recommend
it to our friends as the best that can
be obtained. Burt Pennan.
Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy
to operate.
Every Tree is Earning its Living-
It is a question worthy of grave
consideration, says the Lancaster A'eio
Era, whether the counties of the
State cannot foster forestry more by
remitting or at least lowering the taxes
on timbered lands. That would, no
doubt, save many a stately woods that
is doomed to fall under the ax before
its time. In a recent address before
the Bucks County Science Association,
Dr. Rothrock stated the question in a
most convincing way. He said that
" every hour a tree stands it is a citi
zen, earning its living ; holding water
for the commonwealth and protecting
the land. Whether on the hillside, in
a forest or alone in the woodlot, it is
earning its living. Any tax that com
pels the cutting off of timber is work-
ins a harm to the commonwealth. If
taxed at all it should be in a class by
itself. In this state are fully four
thousand square miles of land so steep
that it is being rapidly washed away.
All of that land is paying nothing now
and should be put into trees. Every
farm has some swampy land that can
be put to no use, or some, barn or
outbuilding that needs a shelter ; not
a farm is there but that will be better
for more trees."
The famous cat of ex-mayor Eb7,
which goes out into the neighboring
fields and captures snakes, which he
dra"s into the house for the inspec
tion of the family, has a rival in the
same block, tells the Harnsburg tefe-
irrafli. W. L. Powell, who went
trout fishing the other day at New
ville, and got stuck in the mud, has a
cat which also developed snake
charming propensities. Mrs. Powell
was horrified to see a snake two feet
lotjg on the kitchen floor the other
day which the family cat had captur
ed' in the cellar of their residence.
There will be few snakes left at
Cottage Ridge if the two cats are
permitted to get in their work unmolested.
Tacts About Thermometers.
Seniitivs Instrument Which Registers Heat
From the Moon.
To tell whether a thermometer ac
curately does its work invert the
instrument, says the New York World.
If the mercury does not fall to the
end or if it breaks into several small
columns, the thermometer contains
air and is inaccurate. If perfectly
marie the slender thread should fill
the tube or break off at the bulb and
fall to the end of the tube.
There is another interesting fact
about thermometers. Nine persons
out often think the mercurial column
round, but that is not the case. The
thread of mercury in thermometers is
Hat. If it were round the column
could hardly be seen, for the opening
of the tube is as fine as the finest
thread. Some eight or ten years ago
a Boston manufacturer introduced a
scheme of coating the back of the
tube with white sizing. That makes
the column of mercury stand out
clear and distinct.
Thermometers are cheaper and
better than ever before. You can now
buy a heat marker for twenty five
cents, but a first class instrument will
cost you two dollars. A chcan
instrument is like a cheap watch it
is unreliable. The reason for this is
that a perfect thermometer has a scale
of its own. The cheap thermometer
is made on guess work. Hence you
see a difference of two, three or five
degrees between thermometers in the
same locality on the same day.
1 he most sensitive heat marker is
the Crookes. It consists of four arms
suspended on a steel pivot, rotating
like a miniature wind gauge, and the
whole affair is inclosed in a glass tube
from which the air has been exhaust
ed. The light of a candle one or two
feet away causes the arms to rotate.
Quite as sensitive is the thermopile,
which is used to detect the faint rays
of heat transmitted from the moon
anil stars to this cold world.
Trying to Save Holmes-
An Effort to Have the Multi-M"rdorcr Im
prisoned for LKo.
Coroner Castor of Indianapolis,
received a telegram last week L rw
S. P. Rotan. 602 Girard buildinsr.
Philadelphia, attorney of H. H.
Holmes, asking him to come at once
to Philadelphia and bring with him
the records of the Pitezel inquest.
The attorney also wired $75 to the
coroner for his time and expenses.
The coroner says that he will probable
go to Philadelphia on Saturday.
The coroner thinks that the tele
gram means that Holmes intends in
some way to make one more fight for
his life. He thinks that Holmes,
instead of making his high priced con
fession for the benefit of his wife and
children, made it in order to procure
funds with which to make one more
effort to rave himself.
Henry W. Bullock, the Indianapolis
attorney for H. II. Holmes, says that
there is a movement on fodt to get
the sentence of Holmes changed to
imprisonment for life. The movement
is being made by Attorney Rotan and
by Mr. McCaffrey, who represents
Bullock in Philadelphia. He says he
understands that in Pennsylvania they
have a board of pardons, of which the
lieutenant governor is president. It is
said that the lieutenant governor is
opposed to capital punishment, and
thus the advisers of Holmes have
hopes of saving their client's life.
In Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia
and America, the five great continents,
Shaker medicines are being used by
suffering humanity for the cure of
sickness and disease.
Never was there such a universal
demand never such wonderful results.
Shaker Digestive Cordial, a cure
for indigestion, is prepared from herbs
and roots, and is a natural remedy,
which cures by aiding nature and not
by fighting her.
Shaker Digestive Cordial makes
those fat, who have become thin by
not digesting their food.
It restores the spirits and the appe
tite of those who are dejected and
fagged out from the wearing effects of
indigestion.
It relieves the symptoms of dys
pepsia, and, after using for a reason
able time, finally cures the complaint.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottle 10
cents.
Voted to Build a S50.000 School.
A special election was held at Sun
bury last week to decide the question
of building a $50,000 central high
school, and those in favor of the school
won by 237 majority.
Beading's Belief Association-
Tlie statement of the Philadelphia
& Reading Railroad Relef Association
for the month of March, 1896, shows
payments of benifits aggregating $17,
618.80. On account ofleaths, $7,
147 ; on account of accidents, disable
ments, $4,534.40. Thirteen death
claims were paid, four occurring from
accidents and nine from natural causes.
The total number of new cases re
ported during the month was 1,014.
WON'T ADMIT THE WOMEN.
Scheme for Tholr Admission to tho
Methodist Conference Defeated.
The proposition to admit women
as lay dclagatcs to the General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Cfiuch at Cleveland, ' 0-, has been
defeated. The vote of the North
Dakota Conference, which has just
been received, was the last to be
taken on the question. With that
vote included in the table the vote is
shown to be 7515 for the admission
of women and 2529 against. Accord
ing to a provision of the discipline it
is necessary for a proposition to
change any of the restrictive rules of
the Church to receive the support of
three-fourths of the members of the
annual conferences voting on the
proposition and two-thirds of the
members of the General Conference.
As the total vote was 10,044 it
would have been necessary fcr the
supporters of the amendment to have
cast 7533 ballots to win. They lost
by eighteen votes.
WOMEN DELEGATES ELECTED.
A complication of the question will
be caused by the presence of three
women at the next Methodist Episco
pal General Conference, who have
been elected as lay delegates and
who will apply for admission to the
Conference. One of these is the wife
of President Bashford, of the Ohio
Wcsleyan University, at Delaware,
Ohio. The women may be admitted
on a simple majority vote, it is said,
and if this is done it will settle the
whole question in their favor. There
will be a large majority in the Confer
ence in favor of the admission of
women.
The Tenn Steel Casting and Ma
chine Company of Chester h as received
an order for Soo tons of steel castings
for the Baldwin locomotive works,
which arc for sixty locomotives being
built for the Russian government.
This is the largest order that has ever
come to Chester.
KIDNEY DISEASE
Cured, Says A. J. Spencer, of
JACKSON, PA.
A. J. Spencer of Jackson, Tiopa county,
Ta., writes: " I was troubled with kidney
nnd uiinary complaint for a long lime. My
family physician gave me various medicines
but they failed to help me Dr. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy was suggested to me nnd
I bought two bottles. After tlie first two or
three itases 1 tculd see it was helping me.
Hefoie I had used the contents of the second
bottle I felt like a new man nnd 1 have en
joyed good health ever since."
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FIFTEEN YEARS COMPLETED
Ths hipl and Strongest Natural Premium Lib tacs
pmiGS m Its wcrli.
(ii),oio,ooo of PJew nnnlnrpm tn 1893.
9,)o8.0(io,oi f II11NI11CNM In Korce.
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- uviat 103,800 i;hbi:hs iN-ri:ui;n.i.
The Annual Meeting of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association was held in the Association's Building, cornet
lirondwav Sl DunilO St... Now VnrL- CUv nn Wodnncil-iTr Inn-
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gathering of policy holders who
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wiiuiy puncy nouiers eviuenuy regarded tins as a lavoraole
opportunity to meet face to face the new chief executive officer
of the Association, President Frederick A. IJurnham, the man
whose grasp of life insurauce, whose keen executive ability and
strong individuality have enabled him to take up the work laid
dewu in deaih by the founder of th-3 institution, the late Ed
ward B, Harper, and make of the administration of his office of
President, not an echo or copy of that of his predecessor, but a
piece of finished work, characteristic of a man of independent
views, and worthy to follow the work which had carried the
Association to a position never attained in the same length of
time by any life insurance organization in the world. It is
rare, indeed, that a great institution like this passes, without
check to its prosperity, through a change in the executive chief,
for it is rare indeed that a chief like tlie late Mr. Harper finds
so able a successor as President Burnham.
The record of the year 18'J5 speaks for itself, and shows the
following gratifying results.
The GHOSS ASSETS have increased during the year
from $i3J53(i,ll'i.09 to $r,GGl,707,82.
The NET SURPLUS over liabilities shows a NET GAIN
for the year of $y(K5,:iL.4:, and now amounts to ,582,50a32.
r The INCOME from all sources shows a gain for the vear
of $:l,jl 1.1)7, and amounts to $o,')75,281.o0.'
t DEATH CLAIMS to the amount of $1,08-1,074.92 were
rtJ!!'116 year an increase over the previous year of
$1,013,5601)1. ,
ri'-o?,PS?INfeSSIN F0RCE shows a gain for the year
oi &li,J.lo,LGo, and now amounts to $:XKS,fi5U,:371.
Counting three hundred working days in the year the
daily average income for 1895 is $18,58 1.27; the daily average
payments ior deatn claims, $13,052.25, and the daily avug
gain in business in force within a fraction of $51,000.
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