VOL. LXVI. CAPITOL GOSSIP NEWS OF A WEEK AT THE NA- TION'S CAPITOL. Democrats Displeased With the Financial Outlook. Mr, Harrison to Rush the Aanexation of Hawaii. WASHINGTON, FEB. 13.— Democrats in Congress are far .from being pleased with the financial outlook. The house Ways and Means committee made a favorable report of Representative By- num’s resolution authorizing an inves- tigation of the charge publicly made that Secretary Foster had made a deal $50,000,000 of U. 8. bonds. The fact that New York bankers are seldom philanthropists, and that they are known to be furnishing the treasury with gold caused many people to be- lieve this charge; hence the necessity for an investigation. The public wants no secret juggling with the finances of the country. It isonly fair to Secre- tary Faster and the present adminis tration to say that they deny the charge of issuing or of having promis- ed to issue bonds for gold. Still it is believed by some that Secretary Foster who is now in New York, is there to posed investigation. “Silver week’ in the house and sen- ver legislation would take place at the present session. It has been repeated- that President-elect Cleveland had said sion of the next congress if the present failed to take some action that would stop the purchase of silver by the gov- ernment, but now that congress has by votes in both house and senate given notice of its failure to take such action no one seems to be certain that an ear- ly session will be called, and there ap- pears to be a doubt in the minds of quite a number of demoerats as to whether Mr. Cleveland ever authoriz- ed those statements, If Mr. Harrison's influence be strong enough to accomplish it the legislation necessary to the annexation of Hawaii is to be rushed through Congress. Mr, Harrison decided to send a message to Congress recommending annexation and suggesting the terms to be con- tained in the legislation. To many this appears to be as hasty as was the ing a protectorate, and it is certainly going to be done with much less to ex- cuse it. It is assumed to be necessary for this government to endorse the action of Stevens, and that being done what oceasion is there for hurrying annexation ? Itis well known that so long as Hawaii is under the protec- tion of the American flag no Eu ropear government will dare to interfere. There is a great big nigger concealed somewhere in this Hawaiian wood pile, and his feet will be exposed if there be no undue haste in the matter. The talk of the republicans on the floors of congress and in private, on the pension question, is very different. Privately they admit that if something is not done to reduce them the pay- ments will soon bankrupt the country, but on the floors of Congress they bit- terly resist every attempt to reduce the amount paid. The house committee ou appropriations after careful consid- eration has recommended some smend- ments to the general pension appro- priation bills, now being considered by the house, which would if they became laws save $30,000,000 a Year, but the republicans are doing everything in their power to prevént the adoption of these amendments, One of the amend- ments provides for transferring the pension bureau to the War department and the detail of army officers to man- age it, which would remove it from politics; others provide for a suspen sion of pensions paid to widows who were not married within five years af- ter the close of the war; to those hav. Ing a yearly income of $600 or more, and, except in cases of total disability, to alien non-residents, Unless the republican senate shall refuse to agree to amendments to the legislative and executiveappropriation bills which have been passed by the house there will be some radi- cal changes made here on the first of July. The clerks in the departments will work eight hours instead of seven each day, and will have their annual leave of absence with pay cut down to 15 days. The departments will cense to close on account of the death of ex- officials, and congress will no longer pay the big prices it has paid in the past for funeral expenses of members Wha died. “Whatever may be ssid of amendments they are in the line picion to be general that influences are at work to prevent the truth found out. The committee has now gone to New York to see if anything bursed the money. Later they will go to Indiana to get ex-secretary Thomp- son’s statement of what he did to earn his salary of $24,000 a year: also what he knows about other money spent. —— cs fn som —— AARONSBURG. ing Party, Mrs. Jacob Reed isill with pneumo- nia. Mr. and Mrs. Stambach are here on a visit from Red Lion, York county. Rev. Addams is suffering with a very bad cold and was unable on last Sunday to fill all his appointments, A coasting party on Wert’s hill were unable to control their sled a few evenings ago, and it ran down over { the bank against the fence hurling the party in different directions. Miss Mollie Musser was thrown against the fence, injuring her head and knee so that she became unconscious. Dr. Musser bought a colt from Jacob { May, that is cream in color with silver | mane and tail. He also bought some {time ago a part Hambletonian mare {from Nogh Weaver of Woodward. | which under the care of Mr. Ira Gram- | ley is developing into a most excellent | roadster, Besides his poultry, 'Squire Rote has | gotten black fantail and white fantail | His silver duck wing game bantams are no larger than the pig- His light Brahmas are monsters | pigeons, | eons, | in size. | Foster Bower has bought his brother | Michael's interest in the stock and | farming implements belonging to their father's estate and will begin farming in the spring. Michael goes to Brush Valley to Samuel Brungart. ——————r——— A Telegraph Company's Rights, Porter Skinner, of Huntingdon co., petitioned for the appointment of view- ih their line on public roads through his farm. The viewers reported in his fa- or, fixing the damages at $87 and costs. The telegraph company excepted to | the viewer's report, alleging irregulari- {ties in the proceedin gs and appealed cessive. The whole proceedings were ing to $40, it being clearly shown that if any injury was done to the lands of Skinner it was of so trifling a nature warrant action at law, Since the above was in type we learn that Judge Furst rendered no queer decision. — print Electricity For Cooking. The use of electricity in the kitchen for cooksng purposes will be a godsend to housekeepers and their help if the ton and elsewhere, and Edison is not the only person who can tell of its sup- boiler and baker, Cheap, of course; why not? The use of electricity in the kitchen may be disadvantageous to the coal cart drivers, the coal miners, coal deal- ers, coal trusts, coal lords, and gas com panies; but we can’t help that. These people must be willing to suffer their share of the disadvantages of progress invention, science. The electricians are bound to prosper. We cannot surely run short of electricity, A ———— A f — ———— The February number of the New York Musical Monthly has been pub- lished. It is one of the best Journals published, and is also the cheapest for the money that can be had any- where, There are 82 pages of Inrge sized music in it. The February num- ber contains the following vocal andin- strumental music: ‘Sing Me to Sleep Again Mother,” Parker; “Speak again That Last Bweet Word,” Skelly; “Thou Art Like Untoa Flower, " Rub- instein; “A Sea Love,” Hatch; all good voeal pieces; “Album Leaf,” Girieg; “Solid Comfort Behottische,” Phelps; “Simple Aven,” Thome; “Ye Lady Nance Dance,” all instrumental. The price is 15 ects a copy or $1.50 per year. Address Richard A. Saalfield, 794, 796 and 798 Tenth Ave, New York. The Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City Is the most Plarface ar inlspun in ery in the world. It beats th il of St. Paul's and the Washing- ton Capitol. The dropping of a pin in- to a plug hat at one end of the huge structure is distinetly heard by persons i i REVISING THE GAME LAW =. fA Bill Endorsed by the State Sportsmen's i Association A bill drafted men’s association the = revising the game by tate sports- {laws of the state has been introduced It | provides that no person shall kill elk jor wild deer except from October 15 to Decanber 14, inclusive, And {son shall have in his or her i any wild deer, antelope or fresh {in both branches of the legislature, no per. MOMEOSSION veni- son except from October 15 to January {1. The penalty for violation of this section is fifty dollars for cach | killed. It is provided { deer, elk or fawns shall be pursued killed by dogs. No in one year more than three deer der penalty of fifty dollars, animal also that ne or kill un- person shall 1 he apen season for gray, black or fox squirrels | is from October 15 to December 15, a | penalty of five dollar is provided, It is made unlawful to kill or « X pose i for sale rabbits. December 15; penalty t except October 15 to i Is wenty-five do {lars. The bill also prevents hunting | with ferrets. Shooting with a swivel or punt gun, or wild ducks any oth- er than guns that are habitually raised fired the punishable by at arm's length and from shoulder, is ten dollars, footed fowl i May 1. In the section referring to wild t a fine of The open season for eptember is from I ur- kevs the OH I season is from October 15 to December 15 inclusive. of ten dollars is imposed for For Woodcock, tween October 15 and De wimber 15. hunting iS egal Hunters are allowed to juail from November 1 to Dee- ive. Penalty shoot at or partridge inclus No person for sale ember 15 lars, Zrouse or from October imade unlawful grouse during the nigl alty of ten dollars LS, birds 31 i The legal season for rail or reed | is from Decemibx ri 1 to December The five dollars for each bird kilied Section eleven of if | elusive, next following. fine is 3 | ill i the bill 0s pros ¥ that no person shall kill or take an wild turkey, zr partridge, wood cock, Wise, pheasant, quail, bird blind or ten dol is provided rail or reed with any net, trap, sn torch light under penalty of bird. This | that nothing in this sect ire, lars for each Youll HI shall be so construed as to prevent individuals or | associations from gathe ring live game for propagation or protection from De- fol & On Sun- cember 20 until February 1 next lowing. day is prohibited under a pensity of | twenty-five dollars, Hunting or shootin Mongolian and prairie | chickens are protected for two vears under a fine of twenty-five dollars. Any transportation pheasants that { hips and receives game contrary to | the act is liable to a fine of twenty-five | dollars for each shipment. Nothing in the act will prevent any person from killing any wild animal found | destroping game, fruit or vegetables on his or her premises, Company i co Bankrupt The startling fact has leaked out in Washington that Secretary of the | Treasury Foster has completed are rangements to make a new issue of {ish the depleted stock of gold in the | It is said that the bonds are in readi- | ness and that a big New York finan. {cial institution has agreed to take | them, turning into the treasury in ex- tion stands in such need. The details of the plan have not yet developed. At how many millions of bonds will be sold, but it is said the total issue will cent interest, The announcement will create a des cided sensation in the financial world, fs all the arrangements have regarding this leaking out until lately. This tallies with what the Democrats predicted last campaign, Fiaures given out by the Census Bureau show the combined State and local bonded indebtedness of Pennsyl- vania to be $108,238 004. Ten years ago It was $128,880, 578, The State of New York has an indebtedess of $225 540,164. and Massachusetts has $128,726 811. Both New York and Massachusetts have increased their indebtedness in the past decade, while Pennsylvania has decreased hers, After a burgler in a San Fransisoo clothing stare had packed up two va. lises of goods he came face to face with his reflection in a large mirror, fired five bullets into the image, thinking it was the watchman. And barely PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE SE CRET BALLOT LAW, Senator Baker Offers a» BIL Making Many and Important Amendments to the Act, Senator Baker, of Delaware county, the framer of the present secret ballot law, introduced a bill into the senate making many and important amend- ments to the ballot law. The changes proposed are of the type which will meet with public approval and the amendments will Under these changes any party polling one of the largest vote foi ate officer, is recognized as a po- be made, per cent cast, any st litical party, and may certify its nom- The present cent. Parties inations, law requires three per polling less cent must present nomi- | For state officers, than one per nation papers, Con gress and legislature, not more than 500 signatures are required, while fi other must Ww officers there be at least ten signe I's. Certificates of nomination and nom- the three highest s8e8 of officers must be filed thirty- ination papers for cla five and twenty-eight days respective- before instead of fifty-six and forty-nine; county and municipal oh sil ly election twenty-eight and twenty-one instead For i his and townships the limit is un- y-two and thirty-five. Wore rd. The time for filing objec he three i io classes is extended ty to thirty-nine, five The secretary of the twenty wir and three to respect. COMmon- ia and commissioners. twelve must certify nominations riffs : “ i ‘ WI Ore ¢ ection, instead of ten, ns method of marking ballots la inged to require a cross mark oppo- ite the name of en hh candidate voled Tr except presidential electors. where opposite the The shed ifficient party name of official but ne mark number is unchanged, number of specimen nr required, and the county commissioners may require the elec tion judges to come to their office on day before election and receive and "all ballots for thelr dist ols, to In * Yoling ¥ ae compartment for every seventyv-fi fifty, furnis i ve voters, instead of every and a certain door must be placed across the upper part tO screen the Yoler from observa ballot. The the person unregistered voter ust be endorsed on the ballots’ check. on while making his and residence of for an list Rea- sonable compensation for party watch- be included the of candidates and y Opposite the voters’ name. i ors shall in proper | election expenses political committees, The most important change is that relative to the “disability” It reads as follows: before receiving his ballot, declares to the judge of election that he cannot read it, or that for any physical cause | of volers, If any voter, | require him (except in case of manifest physical disability) to make oath or aflirmation to the fact, stating it spe cifically, and shall then permit him to select one qualified elector of the dis trict as a helper, who shall be permit- The sald helper shall first declare, on oath or affirmation, that he will not attempt to influence the him the help he may desire, and that The inspector in charge of the voting _NO.7. An Improvement Lend Ald Beneficial Enterprises, Your to All Centre Hall within a year is to manufacture as ood flour it once w until structive fire destroved the mill as famous for. If proper encouragement is gives the partially look forward to a complete in the near future. The to the va itself, at home and abroad, rebuilt enter ilar ed was a credit beneficial to the It was most fur ers of the valley, causing a bette r price for their grain, on account of its man- ufacture into flour at home his benefit farmers pect to reap, as we confi in the near future. Farmers mitted that the plant destroy worth as much as a hundred dollar them annually, in increased above what they we without such an enterp: With more sincere c the part of citizens of thi locality, instead of opi prises, the whole benefitted. Throw jes offer your shoulder for anything presents itself to 1 neighborhood effect down to the common er and up to the farmer, merchan mechanic, This thing of throw ing a every enterpris Od Spirit in some to Ix Works to the injury of all. Hall, ation, health Centre with love ly Jone er good points, is a the location P Weide of too much Te Ceivie should h agement. that has be Let the good citizens of vicinity, weigh these th a . - To Abolish Spring Flections. Ri i tt} wiih 4 ¢ 3 issue of ti in we a recent 1 PORTER urged the doing awny Spring Mections, and have | : : . oil offices elected once in two or three vears “aving great ex pense, A bill | ire. Fug 4 y WY 1 ren} Rs DON Introduosy abolishing « pring holding of viding for the and state elections at £1 Lai Ea and so changing the term of St other officials as to hold make it n« to an election but Cars, this. Weare ol 0 devole entirely too ie «i much time to elections, and their constant rec Urrenes twice a year tends more tl il anv. thing else to Keep the political ma- and pernicious ac- tivity. If two entire Years elapsed be tween the elections, it would cut off just three fourths of the present num. ber, and there wouldn't be. as there is at present, a lot of candidates constant. ly in the field and a new distribution of spoils always in sight. wn —-— Good Yet on Sunday The coasting and skating about the town which has been finer than ever before known, was still in excellent shape on Sunday. Some of the boys evidently thought the week not enough and on Sunday forenoon large bob, loaded with boys came thundering down the mountain into town, much to the surprise and aston. ishment of some of our Sabbath lov ing people. During the day when yon long a with a suspicious looking bulk under his overcoat, you would probably be led to believe that he had purioined some goods and was making his way to a “fence” to dispose of it. But you pressions. skates and was on the way to a retired A publio count Is also specifically provided for. These amendments have been prepared by the Pennsylva- nia ballot reform association, which ney, of Philadelphia, its secretary, stated that the association thought these amendments wou ld make Penn. sylvania’s ballot law the best in the country. The amendments requiring A cross mark opposite each name is made, not only to avoid confusion arising from the use of two ways of marking, but in view of a recent deci- sion of the supreme court of Califor. nia that to allow the voting of a whole ballot by one mark placed those who desired to split their ticket under more burdensome conditions than oth- ers, and was contrary to that provision of the California constitution requir. ing uniform election laws. As Penn- sylvania's constitution has a similar requirement, it was considered best to nook where he could glide over’ the glassy surface free from observation Tue AtsBaxy bill to regulate the prices of coal in New York State is in- tended to do more in increasing the profits of legislators than in decreasing the price of coal. Ifan unreasonable price is being charged for coal in New York State through a combination, any aggrieved person can go into court and get a reasonable price fixed, and if the price is not unreasonable, any at. tempt to change it will fail because it Is taking property without due process of law. If a combination is really charging an unreasonable price for coal in New York State, it isa gues. tion not for the Legislature at Albany but for the Grand Jury and Distriet Attorney in each county, exactly as has been done in Rochester by the Grand Jury and Distriet Attorney of Monroe county, have a mark opposite each name, ex. : president electors, which a LUMBER OPER ATIONS, | Forests Stripped of Their Ine Timber, New Ones Khonld Be Started, lumber Penns surrousn- operation in inountialns nigh F manufactured cleaned out all lumber, Thirty iflcent well as and maple § the yall 5 and the tivit ad mounts sen fin also loads in commaord- arce, and onvenient © Jnost its oaks its maples bit now varieties of trees are growin: these giants of the forests re ign The poet did ot Wy too early, OIA Spe ~O1IY ire trees will i { ide of 25 pianted now 1 1 be wed, wil i 1'Y Wid :s fax avs brought now, and in vill prove a rt new for- has been cannot be cul- ft ke gacy re many follow » timber {to the needs hie Wty NEW LEGISLATION, A number of schem before the { some ¥ ey re tvs fa mrraccd isiatur interest have merit, t tionment and to ans. here schemes, ar law some of whieh certainly will not meet pt ic favor, being based Any a0 « upon crankiness, law that will compel the ox if better roads will IRIN he law as it now stands, he bill, A new under { fill t game law the main features of which have already been given in the Revrornrer will demand the atten. ” 1st RIBLOMS tion of our legi The tax question will come up again the past six There are some visionary and impracticable tax ideas, but tax reform is wanted and the wise heads that will reach it. will the thanks of the masses. Our taxing system is not what it should be and it is a subject difficult to adjust | satisfactorily to all the varied interests affected. The fence law may receive some at- tention, but we do not look for a repeal of the repeal which abolished line i fences, and we are inclined to think ‘the law now will remain. The legislative Record job may get (an overhauling and the nuisance be abated, or the work ordered to be done decently and on time. The above are about the main sub- {Jects that the wise men at Harrisburg | will be called upon to deliberate this winter. May they show wisdom in all, as in years, get WHILE the people of the United | Btates are seriously debating the best | coarse to take in regard to the Sand. t wich islands, their minister at Hono- | lulu seems to have set out to solve the problem on his own account, On the 1st of February he had a force paraded from the war vessels in the harbor, hoisted the American flag on the gov- ernment building, and issued a procla- mation to the people of Hawaii that be had assumed protection in the hame of the American government. This looks like a movement to force the hand of our government on a mat- ter of the gravest importance. Minis ter Stevens hardly had instructions Justifying him in this course, probably acted on his own ity. Ifthereis a big speculation’ this Bandwich island scheme he is like Iy to have a hand init. The presump- tion of a third-rate minister commit. ting this government on such an im- portant question just as a change of administration at \
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers