I' ill WASHINGTON. fromoar HeKularCorrespondent. Washington, March 19, 1900. Mr. McKmley's alleged tender to Eni?land of the good offices ol this government towards bringing about peace between England and the to South African republics which Eng land is slowly but surely crushing out ol existence was nothing more than the attempt of a frightened politician to bamboozle the voters of this country who have been openly expressing sym pathy for the fight for life that the citizens of those republics are making. In fact, there has been no tender of the good offices of this government. All that was done was to forward a cablegram from the presidents of the South African republics to the Eng lish government, through the U. S. Embassy in London. There was no word of comment from this govern ment, although Mr. McKinley knows thai the right sort of a message from htm would result in saving the exist ence of those republics. The message from the bouth Atr.can governments was not even dignified by being pre sented by the U. S. Ambassador to England, that official being off on a pleasure jaunt ; it was presented by one oi his secretaries. It was because of the bad showing that would have been made that Mr. McKinley took advantage of his right and refused to furnish the Senate with copies of all correspondence with Great Britain and the South African republics, which were asked lor by the resolution offer ed by Senator Allen and adopted. Alter wrangling and fighting for nearly a week and holding two cau cuses the republican Senators have patched up a sort ot agreement on toe l'orto Rico bill. A bill appropria ting $2,000,000 for the immediate re lief of the Porto Kicans is to be pass ed at once, and the debate upon the old bill is to be continued indefinitely. Senator Davis stated in caucus that if the republicans did not give Porto Rico free trade Mr. McKinley would lose the electoral voe ot Minnesota, and Senator Beveridge made a similar statement as to Indiana. Representative Sulzer, of New York, believes that the various stories of complaints of American citizens resident in the Transvaal Republic of the treatment of themselves and other foreigners are fakes circulated to stop the increase of Boer sympathy in this country, and to prove his belief to be correct he has offered a resolution in the House calling on the State De partment for copies of all letters re ceived from citizens of (he U. S. xesi dent in the South African Republic from January 1, 1892 to the present time. Having got their gold standard kill beyond the reach of those republic? n Senators who still claim to be binie tallists, the republicans were very frank in acknowledging the effect the new Jaw will have. For instance, Representative Overstreet, who was in charge ot the bill when it tonally passed the House, said, in reply to a question of Representative Williams, of 11L, as to whether the clause of the law making bonds payable in gold would prevent their being paid in sil ver, if international bimetallism should in the future be secured: "The bonds could only be paid in gold. This bill holds out not the slightest hope of in ternational bimetallism under present conditions. I say frankly that this bill will make it practically and abso lutely impossible ever to have inter national bimetallism at the rates of 16 to 1." That fully exposes the hy pocrisy of those republican Senators who stated when it was before the Senate that the bill contained nothing that would stand in the way of inter national bimetallism. Senator Butler, of N. C, found it necessary while making a personal statement refuting the allegations that he was not in favor of the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to t, to call Senator Aldrich, of R. I., a liar his exact words being, "The Senator from K. I. makes a statement that is not true." At the same time Senator Allen, of Nebr., made a statement oTAig ok Ohio, City ok To-1 ledo, Lucas County. 1 ss Frank T. Chenev makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay we sura of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and evciy case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use ot Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank T. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed n my presence, this 6th day of De cember 1886. A. W. Gleason, seal Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern ally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Send for testimonials, free. ' F. J. Chkwy & Co , Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills are the best. concerning the numerous stories about his having lost laith in free coinage, in which he said: 'I now want to re peat and I want the Public Printer to put it in black type ro that it may stand as a permanent record ofmv position, that 1 am a firm believer, as l nave itlways been, in the free and unlimited coinage ot silver at the ratio ol 16 to I by this country alone and of not waitibg for its adoption by any other country." The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has opened headquarters and started the work of the campaign. Secretary Kerr, who is in charge, says the prospect for electing a democratic House is be coming brighter every day and the same thing has been publicly said by prominent republicans. It was perfectly fitting that Mr. McKinley should give the gold pen which Representative Overstreet bought for him to use in signing the gold standard bill to Mr. II. II. Hanna, of Indianapolis, who was the head of the bankers' lobby which pushed the gold standard bill Irom start to finish. Senator Turner, of Washington, made an able speech this week, brist ling with legal argument showing that the Constitution necessarily followed the dig into all the possessions of the U. a. He challenged any Senator to produce a single decision of the Supreme Court holding it to be neces sary that the Constitution should be extended by act of Congress over acquired territory. WASHINGTON. Four-Day Personally-Conducted Tour Via Pennsylvania Railroad. The almost unparalleled success ot the tour last year has induced the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to offer the r csidents of Williamsport, Wilkes Barre, Sunbury, Hirrisburg, and neighboring cities in Central Pennsylvania another opportunity to avail themst-lves of the peculiar ad vantages of a personally-conducted tour to Washington, and has therefore arranged for a four day tour to the National Capital on Monday, April 2. Train will leave Renovo at 6.40 a. m , Williamsport 8.3 a. m., Scranton 7.48 a. m., Wilkes Barre 8 45 a. m., Sunbury, 10.50 a. m., Mt Carmel 7.30 a. m., Altoona, 7.15 a. m., Lancaster 10.48 a. m, Harrisburg 12.35 P ,n stopping at th principal Intermediate stations, and at York. Returning, special train will leave Washington at 1 30 p. m., inursday, April 5. Pas sengers from points west of William sport, and from Dewart, Selinsgrove, Lykens, Dillsburg, Lebanon, Lancas ter, Columbia, Wrightsville, and points on the bhamokin imision win use regular trains from Washington return ing. All tickets will be good to re turn also on regular trains until Sat urday, April 7, inclusive. Round trip rate, covering transpor tation, hotel accommodations lrom supper on date of tour until after luncheon, April 5, $12.90 from Will iamsport, $13.60 from Wilkes Barre, $11.70 from Sunbury, $14.00 from Altoona,$(o.io lrom l.ancaster,$io 10 from Harrisburg, and proportionate rates from other stations, including stations on the Cumberland Valley Railroad north of Chambersburg. Guides to Washington will be distrib uted free on the train. For itineraries, rates, tickets, and full informatiou apply to ticket agents; F. S. Harrar, Division Ticket Agent, Williamsport, Pa.; Tourist Agent, Wilkes Barre, Pa.; or address Geo. W. Boyd. Assistant General Passen ger Agent, Broad St. Station, Phila. Started With Prayer, Sheldon's Christian newspaper, the Topeka Capital, began with a prayer, the first column ol the hrst page De ing given up to this prayer from Bishop Tohn H. Vincent, of the Methodist j Episcopal Church : " A morning prayer and resolution I will try this day to live a simple, sin cere, serene life, repelling every thought of discontent, self-seeking and anxiety, cultivating magnanimity, self controi and the habit of silence, Dracticine economy, cheerfulness and helpfulness." " And as I cannot in my own strength do this, or, even with a hope of success, attempt it, I look to Thee, O Lord, mv Father in Jesus Christ, my Saviour, and ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit." The Pennsylvania railroad company will, within the next two years, build a bridge across the Susquehanna river at Rockville, to replace me present bridge running from Rockville to Marysville, a short distance above Harrisburg. The new bridge will be built a short distance east of the pres ent structure. It will be over 3,600 feet long and will take lorty-eight arches to cross the river. This will be one of the longest stone bridges on the Pennsylvania system. The present structure has been in service about 1873. Work on the new bridge will begun this year, ana me company expects to have a third of it completed by Dec. 31st. . THE COLUMBIAN, THE BIO CENSUS JOB. Great Count to Begin June 1. Each Enumerator Will Visit an Avcrogo ol 1,600 Persons Tho Preliminary Woik It Well Advanced and the Authorities Are of the Opinion TM T 1 4 re Will bo no Trouble In Doing the Work In the Qivon Time. Seventeen census supervisors Irom Pennsylvania, and two from New York went to school for supervisors in Harrisburg and were told by Frederick Wines, assistant director of the census from Washington, just what they have to do to get an accurate census. Mr. Wines was asked all manner of ques tions and when the meeting adjourn ed the supervisors were pretty well informed as to their duties. fhe enumeration of the population will begin June 1st, and be completed in thirty days. The collection ol manu facturing schedules will follow soon after, and will be substantially com pleted by July 31st. It is the aim Dr. Wines told the supervisors, to give to each enumera tor, on an average, 1,500 persons to be courted, but at the same time to follow as closely as possible the politi cal lines of division ol the state into voting precincts. 1 he rates ol com pensation will be so adjusted that any competent person can earn from $3 to $5 a day during the time employed Mr. Wines stated t'lat Pennsylvania has a belter force of supervisors than during any previous taking cf the census, and that the department ex pected big results Irom the state. Mr. Wines advised the supervisors to send in tne 11st 01 uie enumerators as soon as possible, and under no circum stances to be later than April 28th. He said it was the aim of the depart men! to get the instructions in the hands of the enumerators by May 1st. During the first census many of the enumerators did not receive their in struction papers until June 1st, the day for the commencement ot the census. "As a result many of them," said Mr. Wines, "stuck their instruc tions into their hip pockets; this year we are going to try to get them into their heads.'" Special attention is to be paid this year to political divisions. The names ol every voter in every election pre cinct, ward, township, county and state will be taken, so that hereafter tor a time at least, election frauds by the methods of bogus voters would be stopped. 1 nis census would give a complete list of voters and repeating could hereafter be easily detected. The supervisors are to be absolute masters of the situation. They will be expected to make all appointments for enumerators and the commissions are to be signed by them. Several ot the supervisors said they had received no applications for enumerators in certain districts. Mr. Wines said this was a frequent com plaint, and that the supervisors would have to go out and find some person to do the work. If a district is miss ed it means lust that much less in population and political representa tion. The question ol employing minors was raised, ana Mr. wines siaiea there was no rule against their ap Dointment. in extreme cases, it a man or woman of mature age cannot be secured as enumerators, then a minor could be appointed, but he must be competent and endowed with com men sense. Mr. Wines also suggested that after the supervisors had been notified that their lists of enumerators had been approved by the department that the supervisors ho'.d a conference with the enumerators at the county seats, to give full instructions for the manner of taking the census. The Ashley Claims. The Jersey Central Railroad Com pany is settling with those whose property was damaged by the explo sion of dynamite at Ashley in Janu ary. Many of the claims have al ready been paid and some will proba bly never be paid because of their excessiveness. The damages run all the way from $1.50 to $400, and some ate trying to take advantage of the company by extortionate claims. One man, whose bill was over $150, said he would call it square for $50. Another turned in a large bill for dam age to his furniture, itemizing each scratch at $6. Another man turned in a bill for $8 for a barrel of sour kraut that he claimed was spoiled by the shock from the explosion, and some other bills are equally ludicrous. Would Guard Guest's Dash- James Swan, a Williamsport jury man, was the victim of a unique bun co game. After he had retired to his room at Hotel Crawford, Swan was aroused by a colored man, who repre sented himself as an attache of the hotel, and volunteered the information that it would be risky for Swan to keep any money in his room, and that he should turn it over to him and have it deposited in the hotel safe. Swan obligingly handed over $ar, all he had, and he is now looking for the colored man. BLOOMSBURO, PA. An Important lJecisiju. In the Thai li of Interest to Every Borough State. Judge Biddle, of Dauphin county, has just given a decision that 's ol interest to every borough in the State. It is in the case ol the Borough of Mechanicsburg vs. John Koons, agent for The Grand Union Tea Company, of Harrisburg, and the decision is against the borough. It appears that in January last the defendant, as the agent of The Grand Union Tea Company, canvassed from house to house in the borough of Mechanicsburg for the purpose' of soliciting orders for tea, of which he exhibited samples. An ordinance of the borough, approved November 30, t8oo, enacts that every person before doing, or offering to do, any business as aforesaid, shall take out a license from the burgess and pay a specified fee: "Provided, that the provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to per sons selling by samnlt to manu facturers, or to license I merchants, or to dealers residing or doing business in said borough, nor to persons sell ing their own farm produce." The defendant refused to take out a license or pay the fee for the privilege of can vassing, and action was instituted to collect the sum of five dollars, the amount of a find imposed upon him under the terms of the ordinance for his failure to comply with its mandate. The defendant contended that the above mentioned municipal legisla tion is an unlawful attempt to regulate trade by creating a favored local class and therefore could not be enforced. In deciding the point at issue Judge Biddle said that the exact question involved had been decided in the recent case of the Commonwealth vs, Snyder, 182 Pa 630, where it is ruled that a statue which imposes a license fee on peddlers in Perrv county, but which also contains a proviso exempt ing from its operation all persons who sell exclusively to merchants ol the county, is in conflict with article 4 section 2, clause t. of the constitution of the United States, and is conse quenily null and void. A discrimination of this kind, eitner by statute or by ordinance is a trade ;ulation and its manifest effect is not to prohibit an injurious business, but to suppress hurtful competition: Sayre borouh vs. Phillips, 148; Sha- mokin borough vs. flannigan, 150 Pa. 43 lude Middle discharged the case and ordered that judgement be enter ed in favor of the defendant. Side Putt) Commissioners. The Bicycle Side Path Commis sion of Lycoming county have decided to call a convention of side path com missioners, to be held in Williamsport May to. The object of the conven tion is to formulate an amendment to the act creating the commissioners and to arrange plans for a series of trunk lines throughout the State. The Lvcoming commission was the first one to form and it was for this reason that they took the initiative in calling for a state convention. He's Still lligging "latere." A neighboring newspaper man was almost overwhelmed the other day by the following epistle which one of his subscribers wrote when he discontinu ed his paper. It ran as follows: "I think folks ortent to spend their money for paypur, my dad dien t and every one said he was the intelligentist man in the country and had the smartest 1- li.. f 1. .' . U A ,-w .nfAMC 11 li&lllllV Ul lliai CTC1 UUU lauia. Baclzachea of are wearying beyond des crlptlon and they Indicate real trouble somewhere Efforts to bear the dull naln are heroic, but they da not overcome It and the backaches continue until the cause Is re moved Lydla E. Plnkham'i Vegttble Compound does this more certainly than any other medicine It has been doing It for thirty years It Is a wo man's medlolne for wo man's Ills It has done much for the health of American women Read the grateful letters from women constantly ap pearing m this paper Mrs Plnkham oounsels women free of oharge Her address Is Lynn, Mass RAILROADS BUILT IN 1899. Ahoat 4. BOO Mllea of Trnrk t.alrf In the Vnr-llMl Krrnril Ulncr IKl.t. The Knilwry Ape lum nncle n onn vnsx of ilie (ouriwj in r'ivuni to the building of i.i w railroad during- the past ycur, and find t tin t about 4,500 miles have been added In thnt flme. Thin Is the prentest amount of new rail road l lint linn been built in any one year nince 1H00, when 5,070 miles were com pleted, Scnreity of labor and tbe great inerenBc In jirlcrs for mils, find other supplies In believed to have find a mate rial effect In keeping down the new lnlleotre, and the coming year will with out doubt ee continuation of building. Iowa stands at the-head of the list of ntates in it figures for new mileage with 5R5 mile to Its credit, although the previous ten yearn bad seen little or no additions mude to its ruilroadi. A notable fact about the railroad build ing of the year Is that the-re litis been comparatively little building by new companies, while n number of the oltler roads have made Important extensions. As examples, the Chicago & North western lias built n.'T'i miles; the Chi cugo. Milwaukee & St. Paul, 08 miles; the Northern Pacific, 05 mile In the United States and 29 miles in Canada: the Chicago, Koclc Island & Pacific, 82 miles; the AtcMlnon, Topekn & Snnta Ye. If 0 miles: the Illinois Central, 100 miles; the lliirlington system, R0 miles; the Louisville fc Nashville, 74 miles; the Srnbourd Air Line, over 100 miles; the (Sreat Northern, 74 miles, and the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf, 102 miles. During 1 SO!) Massachusetts had the lowest record of new trncknge, the number of miles being only 4.20. Iki.I.-O. the new dessert, pleases nl! the fnmilv. Kour flavois : Lemon, orange, rasilu rrv nml straw berry. 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