nSyrr illi : vm-i Y-TySv f -ffy' t 3JBP . u V " "" ' ALL WANTS SUPPLIED. TLff DISPATCH it the Beit Mt- ik' dfum or lflNTC:t'rtn'W''J. Suot0JU.WMll I Oxoonu,Board- fft tng.eieete. TYytlandbeconvincid. THE DISPATCH goct everywhere. FORTY-FIFTH TEAR, HAPPY THE F. His Pleasure and Profits Are Greater Than Those Enjoyed By THE AVERAGE CITY MAN. A Delightful Ticture of Bncolic Life by His Excellency the Governor. GBAKGEBS' MONEYED RETURNS Appear, However, Not Altogether Satis factory to Many Who Follow the now for a Living. COMPLAINTS FE01I EVEEI COUNT! Or General Depression in the Ajricnltural Industry Hide to the Bureau or Statistics or rennsjlTinla. OTBR-FEODUCIIOJr rAETIAILT EESFOXSIBLE Governor Beaver is a firm believer in the doctrine that the farmer's lot is a happy one. He gives, in the following article, a number of reasons for thinking that Pennsylvania ngricnlture is profitable. Professor Bolles, on the other hand, who has taken much pains to investigate the subject, finds that the farming industry of the State is genearlly depressed. IPEOM A STA T CORRESPOfDEXT. Wellsboeo, June 15. GovernorBeaver is an optimist His views on the vexed agricultural problem remind me of that old Grecian myth abont Pandora's box. This nil-endowed woman, Pandora, possessed a vessel or box filled with winged blessings, which mankind would have continued to enjoy if curiosity had sot prompted her to open it, when all the blessings flew out, ex cept hope. In one of the prettiest discussions I ever listened to I heard the Governor state bis roseate opinions of the life of a Pennsylva nia farmer. He believes that farming in these days pays. As a soothsayer, ho pro fesses to see the silver lining to the cloud about the grange. Many of the farmers themselves, who are unable to catch a glimpse of that airy fringe, now regard His Excellency as as oracle. jl iut.A Change Advised. It was at one of the meetings of the Stato Board of Agriculture in this town last week. The Governor was in the chair. A paper -was being read by Mr. Eastburn Seeder, a Bucks connty farmer, on the subject, "What Shall We Do "With Our Land?" As it is so much easier in this ace to keep the lands of the new West in a higher state of cultiva tion than the lands of the older East, the title of the essay seemed significant. By use of importation statistics, Mr. Beeder showed in what lines of farm produce there is an overproduction, and in what articles there is not. He concluded that the Amer ican farmers are not raising enough pota toes, or horses, or dairy products, or vegeta bles. "Wheat, corn and oats we can no longer raise in Pennsylvania for sale at present prices," be said. "These should all be fed ou the larms and converted into more perish able products for which the competition cannot be so great, and where the profits will be surer. The Frofltablc Products. "We should devote our land here in this State to the raising of more produce, some of the vegetables, dairy products, eggs and milk, horses and cattle. Hay, on account of its bnlky nature, can still be raised at profit. The average productive value of land in Pennsylvania is less than 10 an acre; or, in other words, a 100-acre farm here will not usually raise more than 1,000 worth of products, and with that a farmer cannot live like other people. If the output should be doubled it would be not more than suffi cient to support the farmer and his family comfortably. I have found that a mixed system of fanning, such as I advise in the foregoing, will produce $20 an acre often. Tret how have I fared at this maximum of cultivation? I have just prepared a lit tle statement of my receipts and expendi tures for a year, in order to be ready for the census enumerator when he comes aronnd. Here it is: A Farmer's Actonl Receipts. "In the line of dairy products, I raised in the past year cream, new milk, skim milk, cheese, butter, and butter milk to the value of $1,459 26. Of this amount I sold 51,322 worth. "I raised garden products, hay, poultry, eggs, potatoes, live stock and orchard fruits to the value of $1,437 90, and sold $876 70 worth. 'liaising 320 bushels of grain, worth $246, I sold $228 80 worth; 750 bushels of corn, worth $300, sold none; 680 bushels of oats, worth $204, sold none; cut $115 46 worth of timber and sold it at that fiirure. "This made a total of $3,772 62 woith of products raised, and $2,542 36 received in money for that which I sold. Aslonly had a balance of $154 leit at the end of the year, I looked aronnd to find what had become of all the money. Here was what my expenses had been: His Heavy Expenses. Paid for labor. : S 600 Board of hands 300 Fertilizer IN) New Implements S00 Flour and bran . 300 Taxes 100 Mechanics' bills 150 .Lumber and hardware 250 Drygoodsand groceries 100 Batcher's bill " 50 Clothing 100 Total $2,400 "Suppose another farmer in my position would have had to pay $300 or $400 interest on a mortgage and notes, where would he have been at the end of the year? "My farm is 130 acres. Its assessed value is $60 per acre, or $7,800. This state ment of ay actual receipts and expenses B shows these things, vis: First, that at the present price of farm products labor is too high. Second, that too much is invested in farm machinery. Third, too much is ex pended in building and repairs. Fourth, if the farmer is in debt and has interest to pay, it will be all that he can do to make ends meet" Tbe Governor's Arithmetic. Several gentlemen made remarks upon Mr. Seeder's statements, all seeming to think that he had sized the average farmer's financial condition about right. Governor Beaver, however, said: "I think a wrong impression has been taken from Mr. Beeder's paper. It seems to me the figures he gives make a decidedly favorable showing, for where he appears to have only had a balance oi $154 on hand, he actually had more of a profit. Tbe difference be tween the worth of tbe products he raised and tbe amount of cash received for what be sold represents what went into the living expenses of the honsehold of the gentleman, or over $1,200. That much therefore should be put down as tbe amount of his income, and not the mere cash balance of $154. Mr. Iteeder has been able to keep a family of ten persons in very comfortable circum stances. They h ave wanted lor nothing. Popular Mistakes Pointed Out. "The trouble with the most of farmers is," continued the Governor, "that they do not count as profit anything that goes to keep them and their children. It is only after that they begin to calculate profits. Be cause they do not have to bny this and that thing for their table, they fail to estimate it by dollars and cents of that much good for tune. They seem to forget that they have a house free of rent, surrounded by ample grounds, flowers and shrubbery. In the city all of that has to be paid for at a very high rate, and then a man counts himself lucky who has a 10x12 yard attached to his six roomed house. For such a house he pays as much as would probably pay the current expenses of Mr. .Seeder's whole family for a year. In the city everything must be bought milk, potatoes, strawberries and all. In' his estimate, Mr. Beeder did not put these things down on a cash basis as so much of his annual income. -j " ' His Actual Income. -"The very fact that he was able 'to sup port a family of ten in a house free of rent, and at the bountifully supplied table which his financial exhibit indicates, shows that he has actually had more substantial profits than his mere cash balance shows. A me chanic, clerk or capitalist's income is usually put down at tbe entire amount of money he received not what was? left over after he pays house-rents and current ex penses. And when a farmer Wishes to com pare his income with that of these classes he should do it on the came hasisv In real ity, Mr. Beeder's exhibit does show exactly what he received in both products and monev, but the impression appears to be that all that he has made clear in the year is $154, whereas it was about $1,800. Think of this, gentlemen, and you must conclude that at the end of a year 70a do not come out so bad after all." J. K. Herr (a Clinton county farmer) But, Governor, you.can't begin to compare Mr. Beeder with the average farmer. ' He is' one farmer out of 90. I have visited at his1 house, and ' " , Farmers Can -Entertain. k Tbe Governor And he did not have to , charge jou,for., jxinr.entertainmsdLJjThBre. is another item that s not la the gross profits of Mr. Beeder's statement. He has plenty with which to entertain his friends royally. You count it so advantage for him to have the time, the means and money to drive tbe members of this board all over Bucks coun ty when we met there, and not be under the painful necessity of charging you for it? Where is the city family able to entertain like that? It would cost them twice as much to do it. Mr. Herr Yet, not every farmer is able to do it as Mr. Beeder. I have been at his place, and I know that he has a practice with his farm of producing well, and turn ing into money its products, which few farmers can equal. He is a scientific farmer, and his thorough method of bookkeeping shows him to be such. But with all his talent, thoroughness and watchfulness he lias been unable to show more than $150 balance. I claim that that $150 is all the real profit he had as tbe earnings of his in vestment of $7,000 in a farm; for he has put down nothing as wages for himself or family. An Item Tbnt Won Overlooked. What was their labor worth? Evervthing that went into living expenses should be counted merely as wages of labor, and not the earnings of that $7,000 investment. Thcrclore. it a man of Mr. Beeder's caliber came out with so little to spare, where will you find the vast majority of poorer farmers in Pennsylvania at the end of tbe year? I'll venture the assertion that every fourth farmer in the State has no profits to show. The Governor That depends on the way you look at the word profits. It. E. Searles (a Susquehanna farmer) I suppose Mr. Beeder and his family are like a good many more of us farmers these days. He wantB to live well aud does live well The Governor That's right, too. ot a Correct Showing. Mr. Searles Yes, that is right We have a right to live as well as any other man. But he snould have kept his books like the books of a foundry or shop are kept. They would then have shown what tins farm of an assessed valuation of $7,000, which is probably only assessed at three-fourths of its real value, had realized in interest how much each dollar invested in that land had earned in interest And it would have shown how much the labor of Mr. Beeder and the members of his lamily was worth. Then, we would have seen how little he got for both interest and labor. I notice he said nothing in his statement about what the amount of wear and tear of old machinery amounted to. The Governor Yes, but he put down at $300 new machinery, which you must not forget will last him 15 years. That will off set the item you speak of. He has put down $300 for the board of farm hands. That all went back into the family, it the hands boarded with him. So, there again, is the earning capacity of farm products as food demonstrated, where it is all pnt down as expenses. Boardlns Farm Hands, As $300 for the board of laborers averaged just 25 cents per dav, William B. Powell asked, as an offset to General Beaver's ob servation, whether Mr. Beeder could afford to board men at 25 cents per day? Mr. Beeder replied that he could where he made the men do it themselves, that is to say, he paid them $1 25 per dav, they to board them selves, or else he paid them $1 per day and board. Secretary Edge said that returns re ceived by the board from different sections of the State showed that the board of farm hands averaged from 20 to 40 cents per day all over the State. J. A. Gundy, Ca Union conntv farmer We should compare Mr. Beeder as a farmer with Mr. Beeder as a professional man. As a farmer be has shown himself to be first class far beyond the average. He is scien tific and methodical in working out the best results from his farm. Now, go to Wash ington, and see the professional man in the Government departments, or to a mercantile city, and see The Professional Sinn behind the counter. Where are any of them who display tbe rame science, ability and method as Mr. Beeder does in his busi ness, but can command tbe highest salaries paid. So that you must conclude Mr. Beeder's talented labor is worth something. His labor sad that oi .his family is worth in wages $500 a year If it is worth anything, and that figure is miserably out of propor tion to the wages paid provisional men or artlianu lfow, if I wanted to buy Mr. Beeder's farm right here, I couldn't get it for a cent less than $100 per acre, In spite of the Assessor's valuation. Compute the interest upon the $13,000 whioh I hold Mr. Beeder's investment to be wortb, compute it at the same rate paying on investments in other industries, and, sir, I declare that if Mr. Beeder lay on tbe flat of his back all the year be is entitled to $1,-200 in money in stead of $150. This is the true way to find out whether a man In Mr. Beeder's position is earning profits. Able to Kdncato Children. It having been stated that Mr. Beeder had 0 family of ten in his house, Mr. Pow ell started to estimate the value of the labor of the oldest members. He first asked what Mr, Beeder valued the services of his wife at That gentleman replied $300. The questions being continued, Mr. Beeder ex plained: "When the census enumerator comes around to my farm he will find a pe culiar family. Living with us are both my patents and their oldest daughter. One ot my parents is 89 years old and the other is 80. My sister is aged also. So of course those three members of my family do no work. I have one daughter at school in New York learn ing the profession of a nnrse. Another daughter at home has already graduated from that school of nurses. A son living with us is a doctor. The working force at home consists of myself and wife and the balance of our family." The Governor Ha I ha I ha 1 You see it is all coming out 1 Here is a farmer whose income has been well able to send his children to city schools, as many other farm ers aTe properly doing to'-day. Try Mor Arnlcn. Mr. Sisson (a farmer from .Lackawanna county) This question of "What are we going to do with our land?" reminds me of the bad boy who strnck 0 woman on the street one day with a stone. The missile cut a gash over the lady's eye. She hunted up the mother ot the lad and, showing her the cut, said ( "See what your boy has done." The poor mother looked at tbe wound a little while and then said : "Poor woman, I pity vou, for he struck me the other day, too. See here, the black eye I have." "But wbat are you going to do about this ?" in quired the incensed visitor. "I don't know.V quoth the mother,, "but they say arnica is good for cuts. Suppose you put on more arnica." "And bo about land. I say put on more arnica, and go ahead just about the way you have been doing. There is, no doubt, truth in the assertion that a farmer has many things which city people have not What would we farmers think of having to buy and pav cash for the straw to sleep on? They do it in cities. Straw is as free as the air among us. Money Not Everything. "And then the other pleasures we have in the 'free aud open country. You can't be gin to estimate a farmer s profits only in dollars and cents." Governor Beaver No, gentlemen, it is the truth, as Mr. Sis-son states it: Xife is not ail made up of dollars and cents. I thought while listening to Mr. Beeder bf that in junction, "Honor "thy father and thy moth er, that thy days may be long in the land which he Lord, thy God, tfiveth thee." What must be the full satisfaction that Mr. Beeder feels at being' able' to support his ageoj .parents, and have them with him in his own house. No amount of cash balance could bny from him that satisfaction. v L. E. Stofiel. ' ' i DEPEESSIOU IS GENERAL "- - - -- - -- GLOOMY1 REPORTS OF PENNSYLVANIA AGRICULTURE. Grangcis Convinced Tbnt Farmlna Is Iiess FroCmble Than Formerly Tbo Retail of Prof. Italics Invrsttaatlon Overprodnc tlon Ono of tbe Canses. rFrECIJLL TELEORAst TO TUB DISPATCH.! Habeisbtjbo, June 15. Prof. Bolles, Chief of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics, addressed 31 questions to granges and farm ers in Pennsylvania to ascertain the condi tion of the farming interests and to obtain practical suggestions on agricultural sub jects, and has received replies from a fair proportion of those to whom they were sub mitted. In his annual report he says the information returned generally admits de pression in the farming indastry, every conntv making report to that eflect All counties do not suffer in the same degree, but none have escaped it. The investiga tion prosecuted by him began before the meeting of the State Grange, and received the indorsement of that association. Six hundred local granges were furnished the interrogatories to wtoich reference has been made, and they made it their business to give as wide a circuiatfon to them as seemed justified by the information desired. Professor Bolles stites under the head of "Farming and Farm Values" that the most potent cause of the depression is over-pro-dnction and adds: It i true tbat millions are living on insuffi cient food, and t'.iereforo ono may ask, does a surplus really exlstr The reply is quite conclu sive. The producers of food can hardly afford to give any considerable portion away had tbey the disposition, and those in need of food have no means to bny more. Leaving them out of view the facts clearly provo that a surplus of food products exists for those who have the means to pay for them. It may be that it soci ety was readjusted, so that all who are without employment could find It and be paid for their " . -.1- a nnlna nf tnnA vrlA 11 of a wnnlil ln lauor, mib "!" " - -. .... kd consumed and the depression from which farmers are now suffering would pass awav. Most of the depression! In Industry have been inconsequence of a misapplication of human effort and this which has npw overtaken tho farmers is not different from any other. With the "eneral introduction and use of labor-savins implements, and the tilling of vast quanti ties of fertile land, which has been rendered accessible by" the railroads, more wheat and corn and cattle have been raised than wero needed for oar own use. while farmers in other countries of late years have been putting forth new efforts to supply tbeir own markets, and so it happens that the market for the country's surplus product is diminishing and is likely to diminish even more as other countries improve tbeir methods of agriculture and thus are bet ter able to supply their own inhabitants. Greatly Increased Production. Statistics are here introduced showing that the products of corn in bushels have been increased lrom 592,000,000 in 1849 to 2 000 000,000 in 1889, wheat from 100,000,000 bushels to 500,000,000, and oats from 140, 000 000 to 700,000,000 bushels, while hay and potatoes have increased in similar propor tions. Chief Bolles says: The Increase in population, though wonder ful has fallen far short of tbe same proportion, clearly, therefore, unless an enlarged marset could bo found for tho surplus, depression, re sulting from excessive competition, was sura to follow. Wbat has stimulated this enormous increase? Cbeapland. improvedtransportation facilities and the introdnctlon of labor-saving machinery. Nothlnp need be said concerning tho enormous quantities or land In tbe United States that have been used for farming pur poses during the last 100 years. With such wonderful instrumentalities in producing and transporting wheat and preparing it for consumption tho labor of supplying the world with wheat has greatly dimin ished, notwithstanding the quality of labor engaged in producing it has been rapidly increasing. The inevitable consequence is a large surplus. It this be true, the remedy is evident produce less. In truth, less will be produced. Many will voluntarily abandon wheat raising or will be forced to do so. Those who can produce at the least cost will continue in the field, and who they are is the great ques tion of tbe immediate future. What we have said with respect to wheat raising applies to that of raising corn and other products and cattle. A Eurplus has been raised and the pro ducers are competing with each other for a market But this is not a complete explana tion. The power of ihe middle man and of capital is also an Important fact It! Is well known that the price of live stock In the West has declined, in a few years, so greatly, indeed, that the business has become a iniuous one. Once cattle raising was highly profitable, and great fortunes were made in the business In a Continued on Sixth Jtyre, PttIwrfi PITTSBURG. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1890. A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE 1 One Reason Why tho Federal Elec tion Bill Hay Not be Passed. THE REPUBLICANS IN THE NORTH Find the Present Condition Useful as Cam paign Thunder. POSBIBIjT A Y0TE ON SIIiTEE TO-DAI. The lorrey Binxrnptcy Meunre (0 Cone Up la the. Hense This Week, There Is a strange delay in passing the Federal election bill through Congress. It is possible that it may not be passed, after all. Many Senators believe tbat the meas ure would prolong tbe session indefinitely. Others think it would destroy good cam paign metal without an adequate return: 4 'PROM A STATP CORRESPONDENT.! Washington, June 15. One feature ot the work of Congress that has attracted fl good deal of attention among the moral tnougntiai memoers 01 iuc uuuy (ivinj who may be called students and analysts of affairs, is the treatment of the question of a Federal election law, whose operationrnay possibly give to 1,000,000 voters who have been continually disfranchised for a quar ter of a century the privilege of exercising their constitutional rights at the polls. To say the least, it is the opinion of these calm observers that this question has been consid ered in a deliberate, not to say dilatory, manner. Afterthe lapse of more than six. months of ihe session the House of Bepresentatlves appears tf). be just pelting Interested in thev question, and yetit involves a principle of tar more vital .interest to me jtepuaucaus than the tariff; or rivers and harbors, or public buildings, or any other measure be fore Congress. The Senate has done noth ing but wait upon the House. AN AMBITIOUS INDIVIDUAIm Henry Cabot Lodge was appointed chair of the Committee on Election of President and Vice President at his own request that he might Immortalise himself by drafting a Federal election bill to tickle, not only the old anti-Blavcry sentiment of New England, but lovers of freedom and fair ploy the world over. The new Congress had hardly got its harness on when he produced his bill in his committee, and after a brief consider ation it was introdnqed to the House. Of course it did not meet the approval of Democrats. That was to be expected. But unfortunately it met with objections from Republicans. Some thought it was too far reaching, and placed too much power in the hands of Federal officials, others didn't want Mr. Lodge to have all the glory, and so in troduced bills of their own. Others quibbled for other reasons. Between the conflicting ambitions a composition has just been effected, but no one can tell certainly when the bill willi get right of way, or when it will be passed, if passed at all. And the Senate Bepublicans at their last caucus, in a somewhat protracted discission of the feasibility of passing such alaw, con cluded that while. the law was just, right eous and imperatively needed, it might pro. Ion? the 'session too much to await the tedious Uiscujsjon that would be inevitable;. oeiore me uuy oi ius uuh;luibui cuuiu m 'reached. THE REASON FOB IT. The blunt explanation of this delay and indifference and quibbling is that there aro many influential Bcpublican members who are not in favor of such a law. They do not want the negro of the South enfranchised. Southern Bepublicans do not want him en franchised until they can organize a white man's Bcpublican party of the South, and by that time the votes of the negro will not be wanted for that party any more than they arc now for the Democratic party. But the larger part of the indifferenqe arises from the fact that the disfranchise ment of the blacks is too good a campaign card in tho North to lose. Even with Fed eral supervision it is feared that the ex slave drivers would devise some way of bulldozing tbe negro into staying away from the polls or voting the Democratic ticket, and, therefore, that while the politi cal situation would not be affected to any appreciable extent, the argument ot tho suppression of the vote would be swept away. The evidence given in the many contested election cases from the South lias developed a most astounding condition of aflairr, with which tbe professional Bepublican cam paigners are highly delighted. It is only necessary to examine the election returns to find how the vote of the South is suppressed, and what a comparatively small voting constituency the Southern members in Con gress represent A LITTLE COUPABISON. Ko less than 25 of the Congressional dis tricts of Pennsylvania give a larger vote for each of the Congressmen representing them than the entire vote cast by the State of Georgia for the ten Congressmen from that State, and several or the Pennsylvania dis tricts cast nearly twice the vote, respec tively, which was cast by Georgia for all of her Congressmen. This comparison, carried through all ot the Southern States, would show a representation from that section astoundtngly out of proportion to the vote. Many of the Bcpublican members of Con gress wonld prefer that the abuse suggested by these figures and the developments in contested clectidns cases should continue to exist, and so furnish tremendous arguments on the stump for the election of Bepubli cans from the North rather than that justico should be done to the negro, who is en franchised only in name. This is the real explanation ot the apathy that has attended Federal election law legislation, and it is an apathy that will probably delay and defeat the bill decided upon, notwithstanding the frequent eloquent denunciations by Be publican members of both Houses of the abuses that the law is intended to correct. LlQHTNEB. A DETEBMINKD EFF0ET To Secure tbo Passneo ef a Bankruptcy Bill This Session. irEOMASTiJPCOnBESPOJrDINT.I Washington, June 15. The Torrey bankruptcy bill will probably be called up for action by the House on Tuesday. Judge Taylor, Chairman of the Judiciary Commit tee, has sent a personal letter to every Be publican member inquiring whether they intended to he present when the bill came up for consideration, as in case of absence he desired to arrange a pair. This precau tion shows that an extra effort is to be made at this Bession to pass a bankruptcy bill. The Torrey hill is the outcome of many years of study and really contains the best features of every bankruptcy bill that has been introduced in Congress for the past ten years. No open opposition has been made against the present measure, although an abortive attempt was made to delay its con sideration in committee. The bill in brief was framed in the inter ests of debtors and creditors alike, and is in tended to simplify and render uniform bankruptcy proceedings which, under ex isting laws, work injustice to creditors, en abling dishonest debtors to escape payment of their just debts, but oppressive upon honest men, who, paying all just claims against themselves, are forced to compete in business with others resorting to dishonesty, It is said that an attempt will fee made when . (he bill comes up to offer a substitute pro viding that any person may file a petition against himself, but his creditors, no mat ter what may bo tbo nature of their claims, cannot do so. It is not to be assumed, how ever, that Congress will pats any law that does not confer corresponding rights on both debtor and creditor. CLOSE OP THE DEBATE. A VOTE MAY BE REACHED ON THE 8IL , VER BILL TO-DAY. Exactly Wbat Kind of a Measure Will bo fussed Is 61III Uoknovrn-A Variety of Blatters Will Then 'Claim tbe Senate's Attention. Washington, June 15. Tho general debate on the silver question is to close by the present order of the Senate at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, and it is the prevalent expectation that a vote will he reached be foro adjournment on one or more of the amendments to the bill, if not upon tbe measure itself. In the past week efforts were made to secure pledges of a majority of the Senators to snpportone or another propo sition on tbis subject, but it is understood that they were failures, and tbat nothing but a roll call of the Senate will definitely determine just what character of silver bill will pass that body. "When this matter is out of the way a struggle for precedence isprobable. Senator Allison' says he will ask-to nave the legisla tive, executive and judicial' appropriation bill considered, Senator Piatt wants the bill to admit Wyoming to the Union taken up, and Senator Trye will press his shipping bills to the attention of the 'Senate. It the Wyoming bill should be taken up, it is understood that the Democrats will offer a substitute to admit Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico and Arizona to the Union in a body. Bepublicans, so it is announced, will not spend much time in argument on the bill. They will rest the ease upon the report of the committee in favor of the passage of the bill. The remaining'appropriation bills are to be vigorously pushed in the House this week, In pursuance of the plan agreed upon last week, in order to have the way clear' for action upon other matters of public import ance. This programme will probably in volve the practical loss of suspension Mon day, as the sundry civil appropriation bill comes over as 'unfinished business. The Elections Committee wish to call up the Mississippi contested election case of Chal mers versus Morgan. This is one of the cases where the committee has reported in favor of the sitting Democratic member, and it may act as a softening prelude-to the angry and excited strains of the debate on the national election bill, which is expected to follow and close the week. PENHSYLVAKIA PB0TESTS Aealcst the Proposed Changes In the McKlnley Tariff Bill. rrnott x Btxrr cobbbsfoxdext.i Washington, June 15. Publication of the mutilation of the McKinley bill by the Senate Finance Committee appears to have arousedleading manufacturers to new efforts to influence the committee and pre vent the bad moral effect of even reporting a bill with such changes as are reported. Mr. Swank and many other Pennsylvania iron and steel men aro greatly alarmed about the fate of the bill, and are pouring hot shot telegrams into the committee. Tho time is so short before the bill is to be reported that no opportunitr is. left for personal interviews pw-ven-Btlsfactory Utters of explanation. Mr. Oliver, Mr. Chalfant, Mr. Painter and others from Pittsburg are aiding Mr. Swank in his endeavors to have the metal schedule changed to suit the House bill, and if this cannot be done in committee, or in the Senate, a direct attack will be made ou tbe Conference Committee on the principle that six men are easier to convince than an entire Congress. EAXO0N k unwrap, wr; EXCITED. They Havo Been Voted licenses Which Thev Aro TJnnblo to Obtain, rsr t an. teleqbak to tub dispatch. 1 Philadelphia, Juno 15. The little city of Beverly, a few miles from here, on the banks of the Delaware, is, as far as the law is concerned, in a state closely border ing on socialism. The Councils, a few weeks ago, decided by a close vote to license six saloons. Tho Chief Executive, Mayor Fish, is a Prohibitionist, although he was elected on the Democratic ticket. Mayor Fish has been notified that the saloons are in full blast, but he says he will not inter fere with them 00 matter how much they sell. The liquor men are almost worked up to a frenzy of excitement They threaten to have tbe Mayor impeached, and it is said that a resolution to that effect has been drawn up, and Councilman John Morrell has been credited with expressing a willing ness to offer such a resolution. The temper ance pcopld of the town, however, pooh-pooh this, and say that if it is offered it will not go through. The liquor men have a major ity in Council, but it is claimed will not be able to muster the two-thirds vote that will be needed to impeach tbe Mayor. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT AT CHICAGO. Ttvo Liltle Boys Instantly Killed by tin In Coming Train. CnioAGO, June 15. Two victims of their own terror met a fearful death this afternoon in full view of the hundreds of promenaders in the Bake Front Park, Otto and Herman Bert, aged 12 and 15, were the two unfortu nates. They had left the parks and were crossing the network of railway tracks skirting the edge of Lake Michigan, when an in-bound passenger train coming at head long speed attracted the attention of each of tbe lads. Both boys hesitated as to whether they should turn back or continue on their way. The train struck and killed them instantly. Herman's body was smashed to a pulp and ascended high in the air, while Otto's was ground under the wheels, the head rolling aside as though off from a gnillotine. It was some moments before the train of pleasure-seekers, equally spell-bound with the victims, recovered sufficiently to aid in gathering the remains. CHOLERA IB SPREADING. Sixteen Denths From the Dread Disease In Two Spanish Towns. Madbid, June 15. There were nine deaths from cholera in Puebla de Bugat on Satnrday. Seven fresh cases are reported. Two-thirds of the inhabitants have fled from the towns. The first cases appeared a month ago, the victims all being residents of a street which had been opened up for paving. Seven deaths have occurred at Monti chelso, a village near Puebla de Bugat, and seven fresh cases are reported there. AH IMPORTANT DECISION. A Telegraph ComDany Llnblo for Not Be llverlan; Hessages. Louisville, June 15. The Kentucky Court of Appeals yesterday decided that a telegraph company is liable for damages both to feelings and financial interests by failure to use all due diligence to deliver a telegram. The case was Chapman vs. the Western Union Company, in which the telegraph company failed, to deliver a message to Chapman notifying him of 4he approaching death, of his fathers DEATH, N0L OFFICE. Democratic Nominee for Governor of Maine, Named Ten Days Ago, EXPIRES AFTER JA BRIEF ILLNESS. Party Leaders Are Greatly Perploxed by the Peculiar Situation. MAJOR M0NT00TH WINS AKD LOSES fxttlion Gets Westmoreland's Delegates sad Gaff Ahead for Congress. Francis Hill, just nominated for Governor of Maine by the Democrats, died suddenly yesterday. Tbe party leaders do not know whether to call a new convention or not. Montooth has carried Fayette county, but his delegates are beaten in Somerset. West moreland will instruct for Pattison. rSPECUL TELEOEAit TO TUB DISPATCH.) JIanoob, Me., June 15. The Hon. fcancis W. Hill, of Exeter, Me., the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor ot the State, . died this morning after a Short illness. It was less than two weeks ago that he attended the Democratic convention and accepted the nomination which was tendered him unan imously. About a week ago Mr. Hill went to Bar Harbor as the guest of General Man ager Payson Tucker, of the Maine Central Eailroad. While there he was caught out in a severe storm and contracted a cold which developed into.acute bronchitis. He was dangerously ill for three or four days, but on Saturday he seemed much im proved. This morning, however, there was a sudden change for the worse, and he died at 10 o'clook. Mr. Hill was trorn in .cxeter in 1819. and lived there throughout his life. His grandfather was a second cousin ot George Washington. A rAESIEB'S BOY. Mr. Hill worked on bis father's farm until he was 25 years old, and then ije, forsook farming for mercantile pursuits. For 30 years past he has dealt in real es tate and railroad stocks, and has acquired a -very large fortune. He was educated in the common schools. He was a very shrewd business man andpossessed remark able executive ability. He was for 30 years a director in the Maine Central Eailroad, and at the time of his death was. the largest individual stockholder in that corporation. For years he was a director and stockholder in three other Maine railroads. He was Sheriff of Penobscot county in 1855, and has filled various town offices for many years. He was a member of the State Senate in I860. He originally was a Whig in politics, but when that party expired he joined the Democratic, party, and had acted with it ever since. For several vears he was a member of tbe Democratic State Committee. He carried on tbe biggest farm in Penobscot county and kept the largest stock of horses and cattle owned by any individual farmer in Maine. Last year 450 tons of hay were cut on his farm. 'His nomination for Gov ernor struck a popular chord, and he would have received stronger support than many candidates of his party. " A SERIOUS BLOW TO THE PAETT. His death has been a serious blow to the nartv. The leaders don't know what to do. A. suggestion has been made that the State Committee put 'another candidate in' the field, but that meets with little favor. It might be done in an emergency, but as there aro yet three months before the election there is plenty ot time to select a new candidate in a regularly called con vention. Neither does the idea that tbe old convention be called together again prove acceptable to the few Democratic leaders who could be found to-night "That convention is as dead as its candi date," said one. "Give us a new conven tion." Two Governors of this State Lincoln and Bodwell have died in office, but no one re calls precedent for a case like this. One objection to a new convention would be tbat the question of license or prohibi tion could be raised again, and a fairer expression of the opinion of the party obtained. This will probably lead the friends of license to insist upon a new convention, but even if the old one was re convened it would be hard tojso control its action as to prevent its expressing an opin ion on any question of public interest it chose to discuss. If it was so prevented the threats of an independent anti-Prohibition convention might now stand a chance of be ing carried into execution. THE FIGHT IN FAYETTE. JUontootb's Friends Claim tho Eloctlon of Two-Thirds of tho Delegates. EFECIAL TELIQBAM TO TUB DUlPATCn.l Uniontown, June 15. The returns from the Fayette county Bepublican primaries are still incomplete. The Montooth men still claim that they have two-thirds of the delegates in Monday's convention, and will elect Montooth-Hastings delegates to the State Convention. In the districts heard from the Montooth people have snrely elected 23 delegates, while the Delamater men have only 17J4, with divided results in four districts. In Uniontown -the Delamater men elect 0 delegates to Montooth 1J delegate. Angell's nomination for Begister and Be corder is snre. and for Commissioners Kirk and Powell are tho men. WARWICE7S FRIENDS HOPEFUL. They Think He Will be DIcKlnloi's Succes sor In Congress. rSPICCIAI. TSLSGBAKTO TUB DISPATCH.! Massillon, June 15. As far as returns have been received here from the Demo cratic Congressional elections held yester day, the indications are that ex-Senator Warwick has secured a majority of the Stark county delegates. His friends al ready confidently claim 35 delegates, and believe he will havo enough to secure ths solid delegation of 91 votes if the unit rule is adopted. With Stark county solid he would only require eight more votes to secure the nomi nation, and his friends are exultant to-day over the rosy prospect of his success. REFUSED TO INDORSE TTTW, Tennessee Republicans Not In Harmony With Ilnrrlson. Nashville, June 15. At the Bepub lican county convention held here yesterday to select delegates to the Gubernatorial con vention in July, resolutions indorsing Pres ident Harrison's administration wero voted down. Haifa dozen counties in the State have refused to indorse the administration, notably Butherford, the home of President Harrison's brother, Carter B. Harrison, United States Marshal. The opposition to the President comes from the rank and file ot the party, because of his appointments in this State. , BOOSTER FARMERS ORGANIZE. Political Bocognltlon Demanded by Grang ers and Working-men. Evansvtlle, Ind., Jane 15. The farm ers and labor organizations in this portion of Indiana are connected for the Legislature and Congress in order to influence legisla tion in their interest. There is considerable ou jan Z4& uneasiness amonf the leaders of the parties. It is said that there will be a great political sensation when nominations are made. In a few localities tbe Prohibitionists will make separate nominations. Altogether tbe political situation is badly complicated. PATTISON GETS THEM. LATE8T RETURNS FROM THE MORELAND PRIMARIES. WEST. Tbe State Delegates Probably for tbe Ex Governor Goffr Apparently Wins for Congress Samo of the Places Aro Still In Donbt. SrECIAL TXLEOKAMTOTnSDISPATCn.l GnEENSnuBO, June 15. The most ex citing political contest in the history of Westmoreland county closed yesterday with the result in doubt. Nothing Is fully de cided so far as Congress is concerned, bnt the chances' are in favor of Gnffy, although the returns are unusually full of surprises and the estimates of the candidates are knocked silly by the result Guffy lost Greensbnrg by a small vote, and carried Mt Pleasant, Byers old home, by a decided majority. Cowan, El wood, Byeas and Lafferty are in the lead for the Assem bly, and will more than likely be the nomi nees. For Treasurer, Graham leads, but Fisher may come in on the homestretch. Conway is nominated for Begister and Be corder by a good majority. Maxwell leads for Commissioner,with Martin and McKean struggling for second place. Morrow and Hays are nominated for County Auditors, and Wakefield will likely be the nominee for Coronor. Whatever may have been done to set up county committeemen in the interest of can didates for Governor, it is clear, in the face of recent returns, tbat the sentiment is over whelmingly for Pattison, and no amount of wire pulling can defeat the wishofthe masses, who are exceedingly suspicious, and fearful that some advantage may be taken. Pattison will get the eight dele gates from Westmoreland, not because the people do not have a high appreciation of the services rendered by Wallace, but they feel that Pattison will be the stronger can-didate.-In"the event of a bitter contest in tbe Scranton convention the Westmoreland delegates could go to a new man, probably George A. Jenks. A dispatch from Scottdale says: The latest returns from the Democratic primaries of yesterday materially change the result as announced last night Fisher seems to be away ahead in the race for Treasurer. Con way has scored a decided victory over Laird, his only formidable opponent for Begister and Recorder, and Guffy is out of the woods for Congress, as returns so far indicate the defeat of Byers 2 to 1. The race for Legis lature is a close one, and Elwood, Howell, Lafferty and Byers are likely successful. The return judges will meet to-morrow, and the County Committee will assemble next Friday to elect delegates to the Scranton convention. The delegates will likely be instructed for Pattison. The contest here was spirited, and the Democratic turn out was the largest ever known in tbe town at any election. All reports indicate a big vote everywhere in the county. WALKOVER IN CLARION. Pattison Seems to Havo No Opposition Among the Democrats There. rsrECiAX. TSLIOBAU TO TICS DISPATCH.! New Bethlehem, June 14. Democrat ic politics in Clarion county are getting warm. The primary elections will be held Saturday, Juno 21, and, as a nomination on tbe Democratic ticket is equivalent to an election, there is a great scramble for the various offices to be filled. The fight for Prothonotary seems to attract the most at tention. The race is between ex-Sheriff Shannon, of Clarion borough, and W. A. Sipler, of St. Petersburg. To a disinterested party it would look as if Shan non had the call. For Assembly there are six candidates. A. W. Smiley, or Fox burg, who won the reputation of being one of the brightest and best members of tbe Democratic Bide io the last House, seems be far in the lead, with the other five following in a hunch. The woods are full of candi dates for Connty Commissioner, Treasurer, Begister and Becorder. On tho gubernational question Pattison seems to have a walk over and will no doubt get tho delegates. A VICTORY FOR SCULL. Ho Wins for Congress nnd Has a Mort gage on the Stato Delegates. ISPECIAI. TELEQEAM TO XlIE DISPATCH. Someeset, June 15. The Bepublican primaries last Satnrday brought out the largest vote cast since 1878. There was in tense excitement between,the stalwart and independent factions. Hon. Edward Scull, for Congress, has 1,000 majority over D. J. Horner, and Scull and the stalwarts carry everything. The delegates elected to tho State Convention are J. D. Swank and Ed Kyle. They are Scull's personal adherents, and he will have an influence as to the way they will vote. The Independents under General EToontz, Captain Harrison and Horner ran as Mon tooth delegates, but they were beaten two to one. The State delegates may cast a complimentary vote for Osborne, but will vote as Scull desires when needed. N. B. Critchfield beats Hon. J. L. Fugb. for State Senate. SOMETHING OF A SWIMMER. A Man Goes Across East River Loaded With Iron nnd Arms Tied. rSPZClAX TXIXOBAJK TO TZXS Z)XSFATClI.t New Yobk, June 15. "Gene" Merca- dier, the yonng Missourian trick swimmer, who has come North to give us an ex hibition of his prowress dentally to gather shekels watering-place hotelkeepers, complished the first of and inci- from the to-day ac- his set tasks, namely, 10 swim the East river with bound arms, having an iron dumbbell in each hand to show.that he hadn't made nse of those members to keep himself afloat He was accompanied on his journey bv Steve Brodie and his rubber suit, together with a fleet of small rowboats. It was about 11 o'clock when a boat containing the two star per formers and a Dispatch reporter pulled out from a Brooklyn boathouse, and at a tioint about 100 yards out from the navr yard Mercadier was lifted up and dumped in the river. The tying of his arms, instead of being done on shore, was attended to in the rough water, to tbe imminent danger of swamping the boat Brodie went out after him, but the rubber suit would not work, and after a number of gyrations, during the greater part of which time Brodie's head was under water, he climbed back into the boat to get some more air bags. Mercadier worked his legs in such a vigorous manner that the Dover street pier was shortly reached, pot quite half an hour being consumed in the trip. FIGHT AT A SUNDAY PICNIC. A Baby Killed. Two Men Dying nnd Many Others, Including Women, Woanded. rSPECIAl TSLXOBAK TO TUB DISPATCH. 1 Eljiwood, O., June 15. A beer picnio was given three miles north of here to-day by a gang from Cincinnati. The affair wound up in a free-for-all fight, which re sulted in a baby being killed in its mother's arms, two men dying, three dangerously hurt and 16, four of whom are women, more or less founded. Knives and pistols held the day, SELLERS, NOTE. THIS. have anything to tell offer it ZVS'FUB SALESY??: Slumns Of THE D IS PATCH. &, er readt THK DISPATCH. THREE CENT& M'EECOM) BROKEN. A Let nnty Woman Bas Eaten Nlilng for Eight Months. YICTIJI OF A MYSTERIOUS MALADY, Which the Doctors Save Hot let Been Able: to Alleviate in Any Way. SHE IS NOW LITTLE MOKE THAU ALIYE, And Looks Like a Person Wflo Has Seen TO Tears Instead of Half That Mrs. Adam Wuchter, of South Whitehall, Lehigh county, can neither eat nor drink; She has been in this condition for eight months. She is now barely alive, but the doctors say she may exist while there is a pound of flesh upon her bones. ISrXCIAI. TXXEORAM TO TITS DISPATCH.! Allentown, June 15. Lehigh county has within its borders a remarkable fasting woman in the person of Mrs. Adam Wnchter, of South Whitehall, five miles prom here, who for eight months has taken fractically no nourishment, and has not tasted a drop of water since Good Friday, April 4, 71 days ago. Her case is puzzling the local physicians here beyond measure and is attracting wide curiosity among the medical fraternity. BAEELT ALIVE. She is barely alive and no more. Sixteen months ago she was taken ill of a mysterious disorder. Dr. G. W. Sieger was called in, but he was unable to make an accurate diagnosis of her disease. Drs. W. H. Seip, G. T. Fox and others were successively con sulted, bnt they, too, were at loss wbat to make of tbe strange malady. Eightmonths ago they ceased administering medicines, though they have continued their visits regularlarly on account of tbe extraordinary features of the,case. Since then the poor woman has only occasionally been able to take a teacup full of liquid nourishment, and no solid food whatever. Mrs. Wnchter suffers pain in her head almost constantly and is subject to violent spasms. She is 33 years of age, but owing to her extreme ema ciation she looks like a woman of 60 or 70. The flesh of her neck is a mass of wrinkles and the lines are drawn distressingly about her mouth and chin. Her hands are merely skin and bones and a3 white as snow, and the veins in them stand out with unusual prominence. TErBSTY, BUT CANNOT DRINK. She complains almost constantly of thirst, but every time an attempt is made to give her water she is seized with choking spasms and her teeth grate together in convulsions. Nevertheless, she bears her sufferings with true Christian fortitude, and finds great comfort in repeating to herself texts of Scripture and singing hymns and in receiv ing the visits of her pastor, the Eev. Will iam S. A. Ziegenfuss. Dr. Seip says sho may live as longas there remains a pound of flesh on her bones. Her husband nurses the faster night and day, V and patiently welcomes the hosts of callers who, through curiosity besiege the hous? to look at the patient. NO PTNKERT0NS ALLOWED. New JorseT Will Not Allow Allen Detectives Wllhln Her Borden, tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TOE DISPATCH.! New Yoek, June 15. Governor Abbett has signed the bill known as the anti-Pink-erton bill, which was passed by the New Jersey Legislature tbe last week of its ses sion. The main object of the bill is to prevent the employment of Pinkerton de tectives to quell strikers. It is a sweeping act, and forbids the Sheriff of a county, the Mayor of a city, or any other person author ized by law to appoint special deputy sher iffs, special constables, marshals, policemen, or other police officers from appointing as such any person who shall not be a citizen of tbe State, and no person shall act as a peace officer without having an appoint ment in writing from a person authorized by law to appoint him. Tbe secoad.section of the law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable with a year's im prisonment in State prison and $500 fine for any person to exercise, in any way, the functions of a peace officer without the au thority provided for in the first sec tion. This, it is said, will ruin the New Jersey business of the private detective agencies of this city and Phila delphia, unless their employes are citizens of New Jersev. Several years ago a boy was shot and killed by a Pinkerton detec tive, who. with many others, was employed by a railroad company during a strike in Jersey City, and the law is partly the effect of the excitement caused by that affair among workingmen and others. DISEASED MEAT MARKETED. A Discovery Tbat Lamp-Jawed Cattle are Slanahtored and Sold. Chicago, June 15. With inspectors known to bo watching in the slaughter house of Jacob Ncs3 to prevent the sur reptitious preservation of the meat of lump-jawed cattle, tho forbidden prac tice was discovered last night in full blast so, at least, the representatives of the city Health Department declare. The inference drawn is that at cheap prices but all profit, the tainted meat wa3 to be mar keted through peddlers In the artisan dis tricts in Chicago. Apparently each elevator load of meat, before being hoisted to the upper floors of the slaughter house for destruction in rendering vats, was for a moment low ered to the basement and tbe hind quarters, the most valuable meat, secretly unloaded, after which the elevator was again started upward to the rendering vats. Just 2,700 pounds of the alleged diseased meat was found hidden away in the basement The discovery was made by city officials and is being used by them to support their oft-made charge that the State inspectors are remiss if not corrupt, and that the inspec tion should be done by the city. CAUGHT BY A SMART CABMAN. A Providence, R. I., Chinese Laundrymon Abducts a Yonng Girl. New Yoek, June 15. Asharpcabdilver this morning was the means of arresting a Chinaman, Sam Kee, who arrived here to day from Providence, on the Stonington line steamer with 15-year-old Annie Lawrence of the same place. The heathen hired the cab and was driven with the girl to the police station by the astute cabbie, in place of the Mott street address given by the Chinaman. The girl broke down and told her story to the police. Her father and mother are dead and she worked in a wire factory. Sam en ticed her into his laundry at Page and Bich raond streets, Providence, and afterwards in duced her to come to this city on the prom ise of diamonds. At police court the China man was held on the charge of abduction. The girl was given over to the Children's" Society., Scvsn Unknown Bodies Found. New Yoek, June 15. Between snnrisa and sunset to-day seven bodies of unknown dead were taken out of ths rivers alonsr the city iront . V