/ ce F. VOL 7. The Centre Democrat, . Terms 81.50 per Annum in Advano® B1L.60 per Anvun in Advances A (EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE TO ALL MEN, OF WHATEVER STATE OR PERSUASION, RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL. —Joferson I. & G. P. BIBLE, Proprietors. TERMS : BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1885, NO. 50 The Message every effort he may make { that result, | that are to control the bituminous out. | | region, Ber- | have always Brave Words Lo | { In an address to the stock holders obtain | THE MESSAGE. President ——— lengthy, is | I feel much | SYNOPSIS OY THE PRECIDENT'S MESPAGH i v . more confident of a rearonahle degree | put of the Clearfield wind, White & C of the Philadelphia and Reading rail- | “stood in" with the Wan E. BIBLE, “ Editor, | road, Franklin B. Gowen, Ex-P.esi- | Railroad Company and ———— | dent of that corporation, gave expres- | and The p | , | Cleveland, while Mnsyivania | . ) 8 | remarkable for the manner in the freight i of quite first message ve In view of this fact " CONGRESS, of success in this trying position than | 70 the Congress of the United States | would otherwise | Ques { tions of order must be decided prompt which rebates “ y " EN .: 4 . = draw-backs 0 | bis administration hasto grapple with. Avec MoCrLure was “not guilty” | i to a sentiment in which every | that company in one year, ac- but having the longest purse, and be- | of J ® | guage, nor is there any hesitancy in dg a stranger, the jury thought he levery inhabitant of the great west | member of that firm, bave been up in He should pay the costa of the libel suit. | whose products find market in the | the hundreds of thousands. The |j, unequivically opposed to the com- -. east or in Europe, has a common in- | poaot (reek Railroad deal as an out | terest with the citizen of Pennsylva~ | gud out sale to the Pennsylvania Rail. | nia. “We must save the Jersey Cen- | tral, save the Beech Creek, save the | Baltimore and Ohio.” Does any one | | he handles the grave questions which on yr just fiable. Your sesembling is elouded by A Fen Ae of publie beresvement, cunsed by the "1 ‘re i i i 4 y “ - I'he re is no ambiguity in bi lan recent and sudden death of Thom LK | | *ennsylvavian is interested, in which | cording to the testimony ly as they are raised generally with- Hendricks, vice-president of the Tpited out much opportunity for deliberation : 3 States, His dis by wh wer may occupy the chair, and however care meeting the different questions, tingu shed pub) |] RUS “ Witiic Fic | and consequent ly i sh complete integrity and devotion to pulsory coinage of the silver dollar | every duty, and his personal virtue will Tug death of another great man ju the person of General Robert Toombs occurred at his home in Washington, Sa, on Monday, the 15th inst. sn mI AI— ful he may be mistakes must frequent because it is a lie and a fraud on its ut : yisy 01 . . : {ly be committed, road Company is confessedly a fail- | face. It is driving gold out of circu- | y } } I ’ 4 hi oy ‘ir | this house has at all times in its ure, but there remains one other re« | lation and cheating the laborer out of ines in 18 on [| | k and th e Owe y correct the ( sort to those engaged in the deal to thirteen cents on every hundred. He | p's THe power) rrect them. and | find honorable record in his country’s fortunately, history Ample and repeated proofs of the es-~ teem and confidence in which be Was Tue Philalelphia Evening Call of December 9th, was a twenty page pa- per, with a colored cover. The Call is one of the papers of Philadelphia which have reached popularity and | success at one bound. > Kelley's Case. The correspondence in the Keiley | gation case has been laid before the Senate | Reading's great rival, by the President, and the action of | words are “brave words” and they | the President and Secretary Bayard | touch a responsive chord that vibrates | will no doubt be fully sustained. The [sweet music through the length and history of this case is so peculiar as | breadth of the State, Mr, | $10, 000.000 Keiley, whose eminent fitness for a | county to be put into the to excite general interest, diplomatic position was unquestioned [tion of a competing line to was first appointed Minister to Italy. | with the R adding,” said the speaker The New York Herald raked up a|Considering Pittsburgh's vast interes speech of Mr. Keiley's, deliver.d [and that her only outlet to th ¢ fourteen years ago, in which that gen. | ports of the east is through the | tleman, with the fervor of a good [sylvania railroad, there can | Catholic and the proverbial locse tongue of an American citizen, de- nounced the deposition of Pius IX. as a temporal sovereign. For this reas on the Italian government refused to ive Mr. Keils;, He then resigned his commission, and was appointed by the President to Austria. The Austrian government refused to re ceive him ostensibly because his wife was a Jewess, but in reality because Italy, a “friendly power,” asked that Mr. Keily be not received. This is a brief history of the case. The ques tion is now before the Senate of the United States. In our country a re ligious test cannot be applied to any citizen within its borders, nor can it be tolerated ‘when it comes from a foreign power. We give the position , Of the administration on the case in the language of Secretary Bayard, which will meet the hearty approba- tion of all : @“In harmony with this essential law,’ says the Secretary, ‘is the almost equally potential unwritten law of Amerizan society that awards respect and delicate | of chaos. He cannot but be a vast im: | Tyiq is the consideration to the women of the United | provement on the fellows who are now coal re States and exacts deference in the treat. ment st home and abroad of the mothers, | wives and daughters of the republic. On August 31st Mr. Bayard, in long communication to Mr. Lee, re | viewing the case in detail, writes : By no sect of mine,nor with my consent, can the Government of the United States i i | | | | good of the people by pecuniary obli, | st be saved? | |. : ask why these roads mus Bye dispose of that corporation, snd that ) arryi of the wes : : Can the carrying trade of the west or is by a fore-closure of & certain mort the manufacturing Pennsylvania be trusted to the ten- of | tudustrie lnduairies | gage, which will shortly come due i ore-elc ec is ort der mercies of a single corporation? | With She Jor slavre of this. mon . . { gage which is owned by a trust com- ‘We must save the Reading,” is the sentiment of every man in the State | who is not blinded to the common | wiping out of all shipping the Beech Creek Company; these contracts : . ¥s , | that have been made with to, or partisan feeling for | Mr. Gowen's ! a present protect the small shipper and ti {him as | ng as they are in force, but | as “There in are . : shipper on the lice of that road 1s at new The the Creek { will not be the Peonsylvania Railroad waiting Allegheny the party purchasing merey of its owners. Culistrt 1c: Beech connect will The markets Company, but that corporation { be the power behind the throne. 1 BeP= Lire ight rates to the eastern enn” | little | doubt ofthe truth of Mr. Gowen's gtatermnent. 1 i I then be put up to sn exorbitant figure no wil e : there will be discrimina- | tion against the small shipper, bat | the rates will be so high that he cac- “When I have saved the Reading 7 | will compel the construction of the | South not possibly mine his coal aud ship. he great coal companies will mine ‘enn. or build another line with and ship their coal as usual because the aid of the Baltimore and Ohio, and | they “stand in" with the railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad and all | the rebates on their freights of 35 or the powers of darkness cannot pre- | 50 cents per ton, and the “draw- vent it." Mr. Gowen is of course san- | backs” and all the other tricks of the guine of success in the event of his Lira je kvpown the election to the Presidency of Reading ring represent prof- and with such purposes in view we | its. When the small operator is can but say, God speed his election, wg, zen out” so that he is compelled Over six thousand people listened to sell out to his oppovents, and the for two hours to the eloquent state- ments of the brilliant Gowen, the ma- | jority perhaps holders of Reading's | to realize that the bead of the state is to those will their should sit still and see Reading push- | tunes of certain gentleman connected ed to the wall is uncountable, but | with the Beech Creek Road are at the such is the case. The rival factions | mercy of the millionaire stock-holders of the Reading company are each con: | concerned in the deal, and they have stantly reorganizing the road by a either to put up thousands of dollars diminution of its earnings. Mr. Gowen | more to save that alr eady in,or make | Is anxious to be president of the com- | the best terms possible with the high. | pany and promises to bring order out way men who call % situation to-day in the ‘gions of the central part of the state. Every manufacturer, every consumer of bituminous coal in our section will pay tribute to these rob. ber corporations. | ranning the road and ought to be elect. | He gives expression to a whole {some truth at the bottom of which pei haps lies Reading's fature prosperi. | ty and safety, viz. “Reading can pev- | er be saved as a local road.” But | hangs over us? | Reading with an outlet to the west fed. Do we realize that something more terrible than rebellion Yet the creatures are large stock holders, will come the | contracts | at | rere can be no discrimination against | oon as the slate is sponged off, the | cowl out-put entirely in the hands of | these giant corporations we will begin | stock or bonds. Why Philadelphia | in the lions mouth. The private for- | stand and deliver.” | lof oppressive monopolies represent | be placed in an attitude of supplication | either by the B. & 0, or the South for favor or become a petitioner for re- | Penn. ceases to be a local road, and cognition on terms prescribed by any divides foreign power, and this expression meets | efull approval of the Executive. There | ol ia and can be no suggestion of | th expostulation or protest by us against the unprecedented action of the government of Austris-Hungary. All that bas been said and written by us bas been designed to make it clear that as between the re. vocation of Mr. Keiloy's appointment Ly this government and his rejoction as an Envoy by that of bis Imperial and Royal Majesty the responsibility of the final decision must rest with the latter, which, having now signified its determination and aceomplished its object, must abide the result. Two facts appear—first, that the alleged race and religious faith of the wedded wife of an envoy of tne United States is held a cause of his rejection, and further that objections by a third party, “a friendly power,” are necessary (0 be removed in order to allow a proper re. coiption to be extended. These conditions are simply intolerable and are in the case of ghe United States not only inhibited by tid plain letter and usdying spirit of our | cod tation of government, but are in- consistent with that decent self respect which forbids a nation of sixty millions of | freemen to accept the position of a diplo. i matic dependency of the “friendly power’ | ( whige bohests appear to have been a quine- the traffic whith the othe, | trunk lines. The railroad question | like the question of slavery will be | | settled gradually, but it is nearing its | solution now. The power of absorption |i limited even in great corporations |and when the Pennsylvania sponge, takes up all the water it ean hold there will be an end of its absorption and the squeezing out process will be. gin, —A— A Game of “Freeze Out.” Just now two great coal companies are engaged in the pleasant pastime of buying up all the bituminous coal lands of Centre, Clearfield, and Cambria counties that can be pur. chased, and then “freeze out” the small operators who refuse to sell at the dictation of the great corporations, These two corporations are the Clear, field Bituminous Coal Company, and the Berwind-White Coal Co, The sale of the coal lands of Harned Jacobs & Co, to Berwind White & Jo., and the formation of the new {company called the Berwind White | Ie : | Star published in New York. us in Congress, sit in our legislature administer justice and grind us finer and finer, — WY —— WE are in receipt of the Weekly The Star is “a newspaper supporting the principles of a democratic adminis tration.” This is pot remarkable considering that the Star is a demo- cratic paper, but as the New York World is now engaged in fighting the administration, the Star intends to shine for the admistration and reform, This new weekly candidate for public favor, is bright, newsy and pure. It is more—it is thoroughly reliable as newspaper. William Dorsheimer, ex: Lieut. Gov. of New York, is its editor and proprietor. Address. The Week: ly Star, 26 and 28 North William St., New York. Per year, $1.25. Wry should a polygamous Mormon kick when punished under the Ed. munds law when bigamous gentiles have been punished lo, these hundred years, for violating the common and statute law? Judge Furst sent a fellow to Pittsburg for a year and - ——— ced in snd carried out by Austria-Hungary | Coal Company is one of the first steps some months for bigamy, and the the present instance, in the creation of the twin monopolies | public sald, amen ! handles the mormon question without KE | ment of all laws looking to the re | pression of polygamy. He plants i » | himself squarely on the platform of : ; ; . | gloves, and will require strict enforce | pany in which the Vanderbilt family | the party on the revision of the tariff, § i navy, that has not to be dry-docked ten months ia twelve, On the whole proval of the American people, i . v . On the question of Naturalization he recommends that a bureau of Na: | turlization should be formed where a | perfect record of all Naturalizations should be kept. And says that no per i son should be naturalized who does not bona fide intend to forsake hie al- legiance to his mother country aud | take on the duties and privileges o American citizenship. There are no wild projects of anvexation aud no bombast. The message is dignified calm, clear and earnest, and marks an ere of progress even in presiden- | tial messages, | -> | Mr. Carlisles Speech i | Gesrtoemes or THE House or Re | PRESENTATIVES :—In assuming the ravties and responsibilities of this place | | for a second time, 1 beg to returns my | most profound thanks for the manifes- | tation of your continued confidence. { It is & compliment which I shall al. | ways remember with pride and grati. | tude. Nowhere else in the world can there | be found a legislative assembly re- | presenting so great a constituency as that represented by this House, and | certainly no similar body consisting | | of an equal number of members is its | superior in poiot of ability and devo- | tion to the interests intrusted to it. | The privilege of presiding over the | deliberations of such a body is a very | high and honorable distinction—the | highest and most honorable it can confer on any of its members, and | appreciate it as such. But, gentlemen, my full apprecia- tion of your action to-day can best be shown by a conscientious and im- partial discharge of my official duty, and although it may not be wise to make pledges in advance, I venture to promise that. to the full extent of my | ability, the law governing the pro- ceedings of the House shall be evenly administered with a view to the preservation of order and decorum, the protection of the personal and representative rights of members, and the prompt transaction of public busi. ness. None of these results, however, can be obtained without your active co-operation and support. In a body #0 large as this, representing such vast and sometimes conflicting interests, a constant observance of established rules aad precedents is imperatively required, not only by the considera- tions vitally affecting the public wel. fare, butin order to maintain the honor and dignity of the House itself. In the sharp contests of priority which unavoidably occur in such a body, the restrains imposed by fixed rules are sometimes severely lested, especially if there has been a large accumula- tion of business. But experience has shown that the necessity for order and regularity in the consideration of legislative measures is so fully ap. preciated by gentlemen on the floor that they can aiways be relied vpon to sustain the presiding officer in : aud advocates the construction of a | a3 a state paper it will meet the ap- | fi LI | | | preserve the integrity and consistency of its practice ; aud I am sure, gentle men, you will not hesitate to exercise that power whenever the occasion may | { demand. Gentlemen, we are about to enter i upon the work «fan important session | more important, than { that has preceded it for many ha? . Pe FOR ps any years, The political relations heretofore ex- isting between the two sides the department of { House and the executive of the Government have been reversed and this of itself in 88 New iutie new auty p { and obligations on both, Under a popular | ment like 0 the execu a greater or | extor hods of admin 5 RuUguisies new tered me 1 ta ale { legislative and consequently presents new questions Hey, i | for the consideration of the people and their representatives el vi It is prob. prod, | al many subjects oot heretofore prominent in our | { deliberations will engage a large share | | of your atlention during the present { Congress. IL may reasonably be an, | ticipated also that wide differences of | opinion will exist on many of those | | questions, resulting in long, earnest, | (and perhaps exciting contests on the | floor, and, it may be, these differences will uot always be defined by re cognized party liver. Under these | circomstances a broader appreciation of the integrity and patriotism of each | other, a sincere respect for the honest opinions of opponents in debate and the cultivation of a spirit of mutoal for bearance will be necessary to euable the House to conduct its pro. ceedings with order and deliberation and avoid unpleasant incidents, which are always, in my experience at least most seriously regretted by those who participate in them. The house is only custodian of its own peace and dignity and without its cordial support no presiding officer can preserve either. And now, gentlemen, before taking the oath of office allow me to renew the expressions of my sincere so knowledgement of the great honor you have conferred and the great trust you have confided to my hands, [ accept both with a proper sense of the obligations they impose, aod | certainly with the earnest desire to discharge those obligations without prejudice to any public interest. { Loud and long continued applause). | A A——s J. R. Lowrik Esq., of Warriors | | : manifested by his election of | and honors, he has annually meet in tho digel solemn trust, also re juires the presi lo give to CONEY Ons prom | court, the Gove held by his fellow-countrymen were off ii lcers of the most important trust and highest dignity ; and at length, full of Years been laid at rest amid universal sorrow and benediction. The constitu ion which re juires those chosen Lo for legislate the people to iarge of their lent inf rmation of the state of the union and recomended to their consideration shall deem necessa At md these constitutional direct ons, Buch measures as he ry and expedient. the thresh of a compliance with 3 it is welt ior Lo bear 1} WO ne ted b 4p ‘ us io mind that our use- fulness t interests will be peoples y & constant apprecation of and charscter While ti may emmended such measures as be shall deem expedient, the responsibility for legislative action must and should upon those selected by the people the » ope four legisla- Lion. the executive rec rest to | * he make their 1a WE, RELATIONS WITH ¥ It is gratifying to announce that the REICX rowers, { relstions of the United States with all | foreign powers oQtlib ue to be friendly. THE « Question has arisen w#ith the govern- ment of Austria-Hungary, touching the AXE OF NR. KEILEY. | representation of the United States at Vienna. Having, under my constitu. tional prerogative, appointed an esti- mable citizen of unimpeached probity snd competence as minister at that nment of Austsia Hun. gary invited this gyvernment to take coguizanoce of certain exceptions, based upon allegations against the personal acceplability of Mr. Keiley the sppoint- ed envoy, asking that, in view thereof, the appointment should be with drawn, The reasons advanced were such as {oould pot be scquiesced in, without violation of my oath of office and the precepts of the constitution, since they neoessarily involved a limitation in fa- vor of a foreign government upon the right of selection by the executive, and required such an application of a religi- ous test as a qualification for office an- der the United States as would have re sulted in the practical disfranchisement of a large class of citizens and the abandonment of a vital principle in our government The Austro-Hungarian gov- ernment finally decided not to receive Mr. Keiley as the envoy of the United States, and that gentleman has since resigned his commission, leaving the post vacant, I have made no pew pom- ination, and the interests of this gov- ernment al Vienna are oow in the care of the Secretary of Legation, acting as charge d'affaires ad interim. OUR FRIENDLY ACTION ON THE ISTHMUS, Early in March last war broke out in Central America, caused by the attempt of Guatemala to conselidate the several states into a single government. In there contests between our neighbor- | ing states the United States forbore to | interfere actively, but lent the aid of Mark Huntingdon county and trus. | their friendly offioss in deprecation of tee of the estate of Lyon, Shorb & Co, died at his residence on Thursday of | Inst week. an at-| torney but has not practiced for years, | He has devoted his time to the mange- | ment of the large estate under his con- | trol and to literary and scientific pur- | suits. Mr. Lowrie was a very charit. | able man, and & prominent member | of the Presbyterian church. He was married twice, his first wife being a Miss Lyon, Mr. Lowrie was -— — —— Outraged Her and Cut Her Throat. Ciwcixxari, O.,, Dec. 14.—Last night officers found Katie F. Delany, aged 16 years, a pretty working girl, lying on the pavement near her home, No. 384 East Third street, uncons' cious and bleeding from a severe wound in the neck. When restored consciousness she said that Geo Jones, aged 22 years, living next door, had enticed he into his house under the pretense of showing her some pictutes, and theo outraged her. Op er threatening to tell her mother he Weagpe] a towel around her head and cut her in the neck with some sharp instrument. She then lost conscious’ ness. Jones was arrested later, He denies the charge. The girl is in a | war and to promote pesce and concord among the beligerents, and by such counsel contributed importantly to the restoration of tranquility in that local: ty. THR PROPOSED NICARAGUAN CANAL. The interests of the United States in a practicable transit for ships across the strip of land separating the Atlantic from the Pacific has been repeatedly manifested during the last half cen- tury. Maintaining, as [ do, the tenets of a line of precedents from Washington's day, which proscribe entangling alli ances with foreign states, | do not favor a policy of acquisition of new and dis tant territory or the incorporation of remote interests with our own, Whatever highway may be construct: ed across the ier dividing the two greatest maritime aress of the world must be for the worlds benefit, a trust for mankind, to be removed form the chance of domination by any sagle pone: nor become a point of invi 4 honsitiiey or a prize for warlike am- ition, THE CAINRSN QUESTION, The harmony of our relations with China is fully sustained. The condition of the Chinese ques- tion (in the western states and terri- tories is, despite restrictive legislation of 1880, far from being satisfactory, The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hos- tile to its internal pease and security may not be questioned, even’ when there is no treaty stipulation on the dangerous condition. subject. That the ex a of Chinese Oontinwed on oy a of
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