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FORTY-FIFTH TEAR.
PATTISOI'S KEYNOTE
He Opens His Own Campaign
at Reading in a Very
Vigorous Speech.
REAL ISSUES OF THE HOUR.
A Tremendous Gathering of Enthu
siastic Auditors Applauds
Him to the Echo.
HENSEL HOT AFTER DELAMATER.
A. Direct Accusation That- the Crawford
Senator Deliberately Violated
the Constitution.
TEEI FATOEABLE EEPOETS EECEIYED.
Tie Co&Testua of Caisncry Bluff State Deaooaus
Societies Proves to be Qaite a
lively Affair.
PITTSBUEB SELECTED TOR TEE NEXT KEETIN8
Heading was one gigantic mass meeting
last night, many overflow gatherings being
necessary. Ex-Governor Pattison defined
the issues on which he was before the people.
11 is address was received with great enthu
siasm. W. XT. Hensel then charged Dela
piater with making a profit on State funds
while a member of the Legislature, in viola
tion of the Constitution. Black was re
elected President of the Democratic Societies.
mtOH A STAFF C0BBESP0JTDEXT.1
Heading, September 16. To-night the
keynote of the Democratic campaign was
sounded by ex-Governor Eobert E. Pattisou
to an audience only measured by the capac
ity of the Opera House to hold them. Sev
eral passages of the speech were brought out
prominently, and were received with enthu
siastic applause. The opening reference to
"home rule, honest government and clean
politics" was met by thunderous applaud
ing. If there was any coldness anywhere it was
during that part of the address referring to
the shams and hypocrisy that so often hide
beneath the mask of party, and the reference
to the crimes committed in the name of
Democracy. But it must be remembered
these words fell upon the ears only of en
thusiastic Democrats, mostly of life-long
service. The audience contained very lew
of the independent, active or passive.
A 'Wonderfully Enthusiastic Reception.
On the whole the recerition of the address
by the Democratic societies was wonderfully
enthusiastic, the responses being spon
taneous and hearty enough to meet the most
fastidious desires. Mr. Pattison began his
address thus:
The occasion 13 an auspicious one for In
augurating the active campaign on behalf of
the people of Pennsylvania for homo rule, hon
est government and clean politics. These
Issues present every consideration to attract
the anient and enthusiastic advocacy of too
young men of the btate, and It Is fitting that
they should bo the vanguard of the popular
torces. I esteem It as a fortunate event that
enables me to address such an assemblage of
societies organized for the specific purpose of
interesting the youth of the land in those pub
lic questions that are at the foundation of all
government, and which are of the first import
ance to tho happiness and prosperity of the
people.
You Will do well if at the threshold of your
existence vou elevate your purpose above that
narrowness which mistakes names for princi
ples and scmblanco lor substance. There is
nothing on earth more real than the science of
politics, and nothing demanding more absolute
devotion to truth for its own sake.
Flirty hams nnd IIjDocrlsy.
The shams and hvooensy that so often hide
beneath the mask of party would havo little
chance of successful deception if societies such
as yours, devoted to the propagation and de
tense of principles rather than blind subserv
ience to party should become the general edu
cators of the young in political knowledge. In
designating j ourselves "Democratic" societies
iou adopt a title at onco distinguished ana In
spiring, and that amid the mutations of parties
buould be as a lamp to your feet and a guide to
our pathway. It should ever remind 3 ou that
the good of the whole people is the touchstone
b which all parties and all principles are to be
tried, and it should enable' you to detect and
cipose those false priests of Democracy who,
in her name, seek to advance the few ana the
lavored at the expense and to the detriment of
the masses of the community.
Thero has never been a time when the people
of our State have been confronted more di
rectly with the daty of rebuking an attempt to
subvert the very basis of representative demo
cratic government. I would not emphasize un
duly a purely personal issue Hut men often
become by reason of circumstances the ex
ponents of a system or Idea. In such instances
it i impossible to disassociate the fortunes of
the individual from those of the cause. Hence,
at the present juncture of our politics every
consideration of self-respect as well as self
government calls upon the voters to take no
tier of the audacious personal domination by
wairh our public Interests and political affairs
arc menaced.
The Strength of Bosslsm.
Bossisin looks for its strength not In widely
diffused and popular support, but through
ageuncs of concentrated and, therefore, easily
controlled power. Hence it panders to the
rich and powerful few rather than devotes
itself to the toiling and dependent many: to
the syndicate and trust rather than to the con
sumer, to the corporate monopoly rather than
to the individual; to the large employer rather
man to the laborer; to the special interest
r.therthanto tho general good. This is the
urnersal character of despotism, whether It
ears a crown or dupes a multitude: whether
Ju the Koman or the American Senate. The
history of our own State, however, presents
Illustrations of this truth more eloquent be
cause more recent and of Immediate applica
tion Probably no class ot citizens has suffered
more from tho evils of boss government than
the larmer. The farming interests of our State,
tin c.drst ar.d most widespread industry en
gaging the labor of man, bao been burdened
and depressed to the lowest degree of vitality
by a course of legislation systematically devised
to build up various forms of monopoly at the
expense invariably of agriculture.
Taxed to support the Bute vastly in excess
of its just proportion, land has become in
many localities no longer a source of profitable
industry, but its ownership is a positive bur
den. The proceedincs of the various Granges
throughout the Staje; the repeated declara
tions of the Farmers' Alliances; the complaints
that, as a lengthening wail of woe, go up from
tho journals devoted to agriculture, ail voice
the emphatic grievance of the farming In
terests. Whrro the Responsibility T.Iei.
At whoso door lies the blame for this condi
tion, and what Is the remedy? With absolute
control of the Legislature for almost a quarter
of a century, the bosses have steadily defeated
all laws proposed to relieve land of its unequal
burden of taxation; to exact of corporations
full compliance with their chartered duties; to
prevent unlawful and unjust discrimination,
and to prune off all needless offices and stipen
diaries as so many leeches upon the substance
of the people. No anti-discrimination law was
passed until 1SS3, the first year of Democratic
executive control, and then it was emasculated
in its passage by boss dictation.
In 1SS3 and 1SS3 mora useless and extravagant
offices were abolished than in the entire gener
ation jirecedmc. For the first time during the
same years the Executive invoked the power
of the courts to enforce the fundamental law
and prevent its defiant violation by corpora
tions; and for thejfirst time, also, specific and
urgent recommendation was made by the
Executive of a measure to equalize taxation
in the interest of farming. How much was
achieved during those four years the record
attests. How much that was attempted was
thwarted by the bosses still in command of one
branch of the Assembly is also well known. In
my annual messages to the Legislature in 1SS3,
ISSoand 1SS7 this subject was given particular
attention.
A Record Upon ibe Subject-
Here Mr. Pattison read extracts from
these messages showing that his position
upon these matters was plain years ago.
Then he continued:
During the 20 years preceding 1SS3 'the
special interests favored by the bosses thrived
and expanded beyond tho most lavish expecta
tions. Monopolies of all kinds feasted and fat
tened at the public expense, and tho fair tame
ot our State was sullied iu the eyes of the
nation.
.No difficulty was met with, however, when
the creatures and dependents of boss power
sought legislative favor. The facility with
nhich a measure could then bo drafted over
night, rushed through both Houses undebatcd
and without jar, and received Executive ap
proval within a few houis, astonished the un
Initiated farmer, the municipal reformer, the
bankrupted oil-producer. and the friend
of el ectorial reform. Let a free pipe bill bo
presented, r-owever, intended to enable Individ!
ual enterprise In the oil country to lilt its neck
from under the heel of monopoly, and it met
with doubt, friction and delay at every step.
To such a remedial measure, demanded by the
oppressed people of a large section of theState,
constitutional objections were immediately dis
covered by bosses and jobbers who were never
known to mention the Constitution before but
in scorn. The measure would then be referred
to a committee composed of legislators who
tor the 1 first time would evince a solicitude for
careful deliberation in suspicious contrast with
the precipitate rush with which they facilitated
the passage of jobs in the past.
A Sndilcn Cbnnce ofFoIicy.
Suddenly these vigilant guardians ot the
bosses' power would discover a righteous de
site to give the people "of both sides," as they
would say, a "full iearina" on the proposed
legislation. Tho "hearing" would then begin
by listening to fine spun arguments from the
attorneys of the favored corporations, raising
flimsy technical legal objections, or, under the
cloak of representing some subsidized farmer's
interest, exnlainin? how the fish would be de
stroyed and the wells and streams polluted If a
free pipe line was allowed to be laid through
the soil. Indignation would flash from the
eyes of the jobbing committeemen as they
heard this statement of the wrong threatened
to the Important fishing Interests of the Penn
sylvania farmer. .More meetings would nave
to be held to consider these profound objec
tions: time would sieaaily be consumed, the
session would close with the measure unen
acted. and monopoly would have, another two
years' lcaso of undisputed power in the oil
regions. -"-
A similar fate befell all the important reform
measures the bills to equalize taxation for tho
relief of land from its unfair burdens; to abol
ish useless and costly offices made expressly
to support iu idleness and fast living tho bosses
and their tools; tn abolish a recorder's office, a
delinquent tax office; to restore the streets of
onr cities from the ownership of the railways
to the control of the citizens, and to enact a
secret and official ballot to purify and elevate
our elections. These and all Bimilar measures
of reform were persistently defeated by the
boss-ridden Legislatures of the period of ring
control. Such of them as were enacted were
only put upon tho statute book by the union of
independent Republicans and Democrats, and
after desperate conflict with the allied power
of the bosses and ringsters in the 3 ears 1SS3 and
lbfii
Result of Four Years Experience.
One other matter: After four years' experi
ence in the Executive office, I can deliberately
say that the most important and laborious duty
the Governor has to perform is the careful
scrutiny of tho legislation sent to him; to be
ever on the alert to strike down with bis veto
every act that has the stamp of the boss and
the trail of the snake upon it. He who in this
respect performs his full duty to the people
will probably make many political foes, but he
will save millions to the treasury and prevent
innumerable burdens being inflicted upon the
cities, the counties and the State. The pood
the highest good he can accomplish for the
people will be the evil enactments be prevents.
He w ill thus best fulfill the constitutional com
mand to "take care that the law ha faithfully
exeouted."
Again the people are summoned to a decisive
struggle for their right to representative gov
ernment against the most dangerous
and audacious combinatioa of boss power
yet exhibited in this country. Let no
man mistake, and permit no man to misrepre
sent, the issue or the momentous consequences
depending upon its decision. The fate of no
single party will be determined by the result,
but the honest, popular and faithful manage
ment of all parties hangs upon the decision.
Should the candidates of the people tnumnh,
it will be the victory of the party of the people.
Should they be defeated, it will mean the es
tablishment in power of a boss oligarchy more
selfish, rapacious and corrupt than any that
has yet been known to our history. Hut failure
I cannot regard as possible, if, faithful to our
antics, we Keep tuo people advised of the real
dangers by which their interests are threat
ened, and
"Spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm."
No 3lnquerading Behind Fnl.e Isaac.
We want no false pretenses, no fighting from
ambush, no ambiguous and shitty evasions.
Let us have the real leaders to the front, and
no masquerading behind false issues. Let the
knight, and not his 'squire, enter tho lists. I
ask a trial by the record. Will our boss adver
saries have the courage to face the jury of
their fellow citizens and allow their deeds to be
passed upon, their official acts to be investi
gated and their political methods to be exposed
"By tbeir fruit jo shall know them." Nay"
By their fruit they are already known.
Mr. Pattison's manner was earnest. There
was never an approach to a pleasantry or a
catching bit of humor. Yet the vast audi
ence packed to discomfort listened intently
and shotted no sign of restlessness until the
principal address of the evening was fin
ished. The other speakers "at the Opera
House were also well received. Mr. Pat
tison made short addresses at the overflow
meetings at the riuk and in the Penn
square. Ckum.
ENCOTJBAGIHG EEPOETS
Received by the Fntttaon Managers From
Every fcrtion of the State.
rrnoM a staff conEEsrouDENT.i
Beadixg, September 1C Chauncey F.
Black opened the meeting at the rink, and
Hensel was also heard there. Oscar Beis
ley, ot Philadelphia, Congressman Sowden,
and others entertained the crowd in Penn
square. The town is lull of enthusiasm,
red fire and Democratic patriotism, though
the short session of the convention allowed
a number of delegates to go away on late
trains, the picnic of to-morrow having no
charms for them. One of the chief results
ot the meeting was the comparing of notes
by the delegates. There were 1,400 of these,
from all pjrts of the State, aud the reports
they brought in to the managers Mere highly
favorable to their cause.
It is not to be understood these reDorts
were public . They were the .confidential J
estimates of the party workers from nearly
every precinct in the State. Later on a
careful, systematic canvass is to be made to
verify or destroy these preliminary reports.
It must be admitted, however, that these
men, who are practical politicians and not
visionary reformers, ought to have pretty
clear ideas of the actual condition of affairs.
HENSEL A HITTER.
SOME NEW CHARGES AGAINST CANDI
DATE DELAMATER.
A 'Direct Accusation of a Violation of tho
Slate Constitution Stnte Fondatln the
Frirato Bank of the Crawford Senator
A Eed-Mot Speech.
IFItOM A STAFF COBBESPONDEKT.l
Beading, September 16. William TJ.
Hensel was perhaps the greatest attraction
outside of Pattison to-night. He made a
characteristic speech at the Opera House
meeting, which was presided over by Mr.
George P. Baer, President of the Beading
Iron Works and the reorganized South Penn
Bailroad Company. Mr. Hensel said:
At the opening meeting of the Republican
State campaicn in Pittsburg last Saturday
evening, an orator Imported from Kansas is
reported to have said, in substance, that tho
meanest Republican tbiet who ever cursed a
commonwealth is better, politically, than the
most exalted Democrat, whose character and
conduct blessed the State.
General Hastings, a speaker at tho same
meeting, is reported as having said that even
if alRepublican leader stole from the State
treasury, be was better than a Democrat who
sought to guard it from spoliation. Mr. Dela
mater, who was present and sat on tho plat
form, neither resented, rebuked nor repudi
ated these utterances. Upon any other theory
than his sympathy with and bis fattnlntbem.
it is difficult to see how, with any degree of
confidence, the Republican candidate can as
pire to an office for which he has plainly dis
qualified himself. In view of the unmistaka
ble provisions of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania Senator Dclamater's pathway to the gu
bernatorial chair is barred by an offense, to the
accusation of which he dare not plead "not
guilty," and conccrning'which the public rec
ords supply the ample evidence. The charge
of misdemeanor in his high offico is not born of
partisan rancor; it depends upon no doubtful
testimony, and the results of it are to bo meas
ured by a standard which cannot be stretched
or shrunken. He has, as a nieniberot the Gen
eral Assembly, persistently violated the four
teenth section of the ninth article of the State
Constitution; and he is disqualified to hold
the offico for which he is a candidate, or any
other office in tho State, for a period that runs
beyond the expiration of the next gubernator
ial term.
A Little Political History,
It will bo remembered that llr. Quay, at
present a United States Senator from Pennsyl
vania, was a candidate for State Treasurer in
1SS5. In the campaign of that year he had
large material assistance from Mr. Delamater,
whose name at that time nas scarcely known
beyond the borders of his own county; and
there his reputation was rather that of a thrifty
banker than of tho advanced statesman and
unselfish political reformer, which his follow
ers now set him up to be.
Scarcely had Mr. Quay taken hold of the
management of the State Treasury than be
began to repay his benefactor, who had mean
time become his official bondsman. The records
of the State Treasury show that on the 1st of
June, 1SS6, the private banking house of Dela
mater Co., at Meadnlle, Pa., of which toe
Republican candidate for Governor 13 new
and was then tho head, had on deposit 25,100
uf the State funds, the public moneys, to "use"
and "make profit" out of tbem This amount
continued there until on or about September L
wnen 11 was increased to wu,iw. at wcicn ng
urcs it remained until after December 1, 1&88.
Mr. Delamater had, in the meantime, become
a candidate for and had been elected Stato
Senator. He qualified shortly after January
1, liS7, and the amount ot public moneys which
his bank had tn nse and make profit out of
ran up to 47,914 23 before a month of his term
had elapsed.
When Mr. Delamater took his seat ho swore
to faithfully observe and support tho constitu
tion of the State? Section XIV., of articles,
of that instrument, says: "The making of
profit out of the public moneys,or using the same
for any purpose not authorized by law, by any
officer of the State or member of the General
Assembly, shall be a misdemeanor, and shall
be punished as may be provided by law, but
part of such punishment shall be disqualifica
tion to hold office for a period of not less than
five years."
Scnntor IJc'nmnlcr Not Ignornrt.
It cannot be presumed that Senator Delama
ter was ignorant of the provisions of this law,
or in doubt as to its meaning. A sketch of his
life, printed at his expense, published by his
authority, and distributed by his friends, which
I now hold In my hand, sets forth that he is a
lawyer of "thorough and ample training," edu
cated in the best schools of his profession and
possessed of "a law library rare of excellence."
Moreover, his admiring biographer declares, he
entered public Hie to "subserve the good of the
public;" he is one who had been "drawn into
political life by a belief that his principles and
methods of political management were" better
and more just to all than the methods prevail
ing." In the full litrnt of bis knowledge of the
law, and in the promotion of the loftv pur
poses which had "drawn" him into politics, the
record shows him steadily holding on to the
public moneys. These figures show tho ex
tent to which Senator Dclamater's private
bank had tke uso and profit of the State funds
while be was was "a member of the General
Assembly."
February 1. 18S7 $17,114 28
March 1, 18S7 47,914 i
April 1, 1SS7., 411,000 00
May 2, 1SS7 40,000 00
Juue 1, 1S87 30,1X10 00
Juir l, iss7 3o,ood ou
AuRU.lt 1, 1S37 40,000 00
bepteniber 1, 1SS7 40,000 00
Mr. Quay resumed the trcasurershlp to take
a higher place. September 6, lb87, and Delama
tcr's use and profit out of the public moneys
for the time being were terminated. But
Quay's man knew Quay's friends; his suc
cessor evidently knew where to place the pub
lic moneys so as to do tho most private good.
Intermitted for a time, the favors of the
State Treasurer to Delaiuater's bans werere
newed. Almost simultaneously with the be
ginning of what has been lauded as Senator
Delamater's eminent servicei to the Quay
National Committee, in New York, during the
summer and fall of lbSS, began the restoration
of the public moneys to his private use and
profit. Fur 14 successive months this table
shows bis balances while he was "a member of
tho General Assembly."
Another Batch of Figures.
June 1, 1883
July 1, 18S3
August I. 18S3
bcptemberl, 18S8..
Ortnber 1. 18S3. ...
.JM.0O0
. 50,000
. 50,000
. 75.000
. 75,000
. 73,000
ovembcr 1, 1SSS.,
Tlprember 1. 1833 7A mn
January J, 1SS9. 75,000
J ebruary 1, 1883 75,000
March 1. M 75.000
April 1, US9. 75.OCO
May 1. 1889 75,000
June I, 1889 75,000
July J. 1889 50,000
During all this time, while using and making
profit out of an average of 850,000 of the public
moneys, Mr. Delamater was a member of the
General Assembly; his official salary was only
about one-third as much as the yearly earnings
and profit which any well conducted private
bank would make out of the funds that his in
stitution enjoyed from the State Treasury. It
is preposterous to maintain that this condition
of things did not fall within the prohibition
and penalties of tho Constitution. If that sa
cred instrument has any authority, upon whom
shall it rest with more binding force than upon
the members of he General Assembly? If it
can regulate and govern any functionaries of
the Commonwealth, ln.any relation, who shall
be held to closer accountability than the mem
bers of the Senate, which is made the constitu
tional jury to pass upon State officials accused
of misconduct in office? If the voice of any one
Senator can be stifled and his hands tied in an
Innulrv into the manacement of the State
Treasury by the perennial deposit of $50,000.
how easy to place the funds of theState so as
to head off all investigation and to prejudge
everv possibility of impeachment?
It is Idle to say that the ronstitutional pro
vision against which Senator Delamater has so
grievously offended, cannot be enforced, ex
cept by "appropriate legislation," and that Its
penalties cannot be invoked until provision for
punishment Is made by statutory laws. High
authority has declared that "the Constitution
is the legislative act of the people themselves
in their sovereign capacity, and is therefore
the paramount law."
Proper Sufalcct of Criminal Procednrc.
Again and again it has been judicially estab
lished that the falluro of a public offirer to do
a public duty is indictable, although tho statute
prescribing the duty has affixed no penalty for
its neclect. itv how much more shall the mis
conduct of a public officer, defiped in the su-
Continued on Sixth Page,
PITTSBURG, "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17.
THE ACTUAL EFFOET
For tho Completion of the Tariff
Bill Das Eeally Jnst Begun.
COL. BAYNE ON THE COMMITTEE
To Look Closely After the Tast Interests
of feonsylTania.
KESKEDI'S SPEECH TO BE EXPDEGATED.
Another BepUicaa Attempt to Kni Out th Bnekeya
Gtrryminder.
McKinley, Bayne, Burrows and Dingley
are the Bepublican Bepresentatives on the
conference committee to remodel the tariff
bill. The Pennsylvania member will fight
against the Senate rates on Iron and steel.
Kennedy's speech occupied the attention of
the Honse yesterday, and it has been referred
to a committee for expurgation.
IFROX A STAFF CO "UESPOKDEHT.
"Washington, September 16. The high
tariff and the conservative tariff men are
both well satisfied with the appointment of
McKinley, Bayne, Burrows and Dingley as
the Bepublican members of the House Con
ference Committee, and of course the Demo
crats could not fail to be pleased with the
selection of Mills, McMillen and Flower.
A hard fight was made by the very conserv
ative Bepablicans of the "West and .North
west to induce Speaker Beed to appoint
Governor Gear, of Iowa, instead of Colonel
Bayne, but the Speaker was not to be caught
in any such trap.
It is conceded that it would have been
difficult lor him to be more diplomatic than
he was in these appointments. Burrows,
tthile for the most part true to the protective
principle, will satisfactorily represent the
tone of the Northwest, though it is possible
he may not have entirely lost the pride of
his nativity in the great Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
SENTIMENT AND PBINCIPLE.
Dingley will represent that circumscribed
New England idea that is for free trade in
all that in which New England wonld be
benefited by free trade. McKinley and
Bayne represent in a conspicuous way, not
a sentiment, a theory or a section, bnt the
broad principle of protection to all Ameri
can industries, their convictions being based
on arithmetical demonstrations of the pro
tection that is necessary for the encourage
ment and prosperity of American interests.
Had Governor Gear been appointed in
stead of Colonel Bayne, Chairman McKin
ley would have been alone on the conference
committee as the representative of the prac
tical aud businesslike views of the question,
and the Bepublican members of the com
mittee would have had at the beginning a
majority in favor of the Senate's ruinously
moderate figures bearing upon the metal
and many other industries. Gear would
have insisted on the Senate rates in the steel
schedule, and would doubtless have been
backed by Burrows and Dingley.
PENNSYLVANIA'S INTERESTS.
As the committee is constituted at least
two members will stand unalterably and
aggressively in support of rates virtually
fixed by themselves, and it is thought the
obstacles are not insurmountable in the way
of their convincing both Dingley end Bur
rows to range themselves.with them j a sup
port ol the House bill rates in regard to
metal, glass, pottery, etc. Of course the
Democratic members of the committee do
not count.
An agreement will be reached upon all
matters by the Bepublican members of the
respective conference committees, and no
rates will be established by the assistance of
Democratic votes. The Bepublican mem
bers will be held responsible lor the final
bill, and no member will be excused by an
explanation that a majority of the Bepub
lican members of the committee were de
feated by a coalition of a minority with the
Democratic members of the committee.
Of the Bepublicans of the Senate Confer
ence Committee, Sherman aud Hiscock are
supposed to be in sympathy with McKinley
and Bayne of the House Committee, while
Aldrich and Allison are more nearly allied
in their views to Burrows and Dingley.
ALLISON'S POSITION.
Senator Allison will be uncompromis
ingly opposed to-any change in the rates of
the steel schedule adopted in Senate amend
ments, but it is thought that Aldrich will
be of a more yielding disposition, and that
at the worst a compromise vwill be brought
about which will be vastly more satisfactory
than the disastrous rates fixed by the Senate
amendment which, in the matter of steel
rails, approaches within a few cents per ton
of the rates fixed by the free trade Mills
bill, and is almost as bad as the Mills bill in
the matter of billets, plates and structural
steel and iron.
It Is unnecessary to say that the ultra
protectionists of the two committees realize
the grave consequences involved in the
final adjudication of the rates in these
schedules, which affect the most important
industrial Interests of the country, and that
they will insist on fair rates and struggle
ably to secure them to the very last moment
devoted to conferences upon the bill.
It is a general opinion that an agreement
will be quite easily reached upon all mat
ters in dispute with the exception of the
sugar schedule, and upon this a disagree
ment will doubtless be reported by the com
mittee to the House and Senate that the dif
ference may be settled by these bodies at
large by giving explicit instructions to their
respective committees of conlcrence. It is
expected that a report of an adjustment of
ail differences except in the sugar schedule
will be reported before the end of the week.
IiIGBTNEB.
AGAINST THE GEEBYHAHDEB.
An Ohio Republican Introduce a Now Bill
In tho House.
"Washington, September 16. Eepre
sentative Bootbman, ot Ohio, to-day intro
duced in the House a joint resolution which
by title provides for Congressional districts
in Ohio, and is also to secure to the electors
therein the right to choose members of the
Fifty-second Congress by Congressional
districts. The long preamble recites the
failure of the State Legislature to provide
in theredistricticg act of March last for the
inclusion of a large portion of Storrs town
ship, in Hamilton county, within any Con
gressional district; that the Legislature has
adjourned, making legislative corrective
action unattainable, and that any appor
tionment scheme which omits a part ot the
State is nnll and void.
The measure, therefore, proceeds to de
scribe what shall constitute the election
districts of Ohio, following iu terms the
provisions of the gerrymander in force be
fore the last one, except in the case of the
Second district (including Storr's township)
which it is provided shall be composed of
the remainder of Hamilton countv, not
embraced within the First district. The last
section requires the approaching Congress
ional elections to be held within the dis
tricts thus prescribed.
EZETA IS PEESIDEHT.
A Tdesrnm From Minister Mlzner Concern
lnc lbs Situation in Salvador.
"Washington, September 16. The De
partment of State has received a telegram
from Minister Mirner at Guatemala, saying
thai the Old National Assembly of Salva
dor, had unanimously elected Carlos Ezeta,
Provisional President of the Bepublic until
the 1st of next March.
The telegram reached the department
through Minister Byan at the City of
Mexico.
ONLY AN EXPURGATION
OF THE KENNEDY SPEECH PBODUCED BY
THE HOUSE.
The Document Referred to the Judiciary
Committee Dalzcll Hays It U Not a
Question of the Truth of tho Ctiarcci,
bnt of tho Honor of Congreit.
I FROM A STATr COnRESrOXDBXT.
"Washington, September 16. The
whole day was wasted by the House in con
sideration of the resolution in regard to the
censnre of '"Bob" Kennedy for his speech
abusing the Senate and Colonel Bayne's
amendment looking to the expurgation of
the Record. Kennedy did not open his
mouth find probably will not now, as the
resolution is referred to the Committee on
Judiciary, which will promptly report a
resolution designating the objectionable
parts of the speech, with a proposition that
they be expunged from the Itecord, which
will quite certainly be passed without
debate. To have expunged the entire speech
from the Record would have involved ap
pointing a Committee of the House to ex
plain the matter to the Senate, which would
have been a somewhat ludicrous proceed
ing. It was doubtless the purpose of the person
who wrote the resolution introduced by
Bnloe to make this course necessary, and
under cover of purging the Record to keep
the matter alive and before the public as
long as possible. As a pretty free expres
sion of opinion has already been indulged,
when the resolution is reported from the
Committee on Judiciary the previous ques
tion will doubtless be called and ordered at
once, and the episode ended then and there.
The Senate will take no notice of the matter,
as according to the code of Legislative honor,
a3 Mr. Dalzell well said to-day, it was a
question solely of the honor and dignity of
the House, and not of the honorof the Senate,
or any individual member of it. Mr. Dal
zell was in his seat to-day, looking well
after his brief rest, and supplemented the
vigorous remarks made by Colonel Bayne
yesterday. He said that the speech of the
gentleman from Ohio had been delivered
while an election case had been under con
sideration. The floor had been accorded
him on consideration that he spoke after the
usual time for adjournment. This account
ed for the fact that there were no Pennsyl
vania members present. Upon reading the
report of the speech in the press dispatches,
the Pennsylvania delegation had drawn up
a resolution substantially similar to that
offered by the gentleman irom Tennessee,
but it had arrived at the conclusion that
such a resolution would not be in order
without a citation of the language com
plained of. The delegation thereupon de
cided that the resolution could not be of
fered until the speech was printed in the
Record. This was the reason why no
notice was taken of the speech until yester
day. He did not believe that there was
any difference of opinion as to the proper
disposition ot this matter. The question at
issue was not as to whether the assertions
made in the speech were true or false; it
was a question of the honor of the
Honse itself.
PITTSBURG MEN KICKED.
WINDOW GLASS DELEGATES STIRRED UP
AT THE CHICGO MEETING.
C'Inlrjsof Unfalrnois New Hon en Accorded
Privilege Tlmt Belong to Old Esiab
lisboil Firm The Attempt to Combine
Mar Fnll Through.
rSrSCTAt. T&X.ZQRAH TO THS DtSFATarf.l
Chicago, September 16. If surface in
dications go for anything ten window glass
men of Pittsburg and the AVest are stirred
up as they never have been before over the
proposition to form a combine to keep up
prices. The meeting of the convention wa3
of course held with closed doors. After ad
journment to-night a well-known Pittsburg
manufacturer said that the day had been a
stubborn and prolonged fight between the
old and well-established firms of Pittsburg
and the new firms which have started to
build up trade in the last three years In the
gas belt of Ohio and Indiana. They all
agreed that a combine of some kind was
necessary, for they saw that unlimited com-
Eetition amoug themselves would result in
ringing prices down to the chaotic condi
tion of last December, but the Pittsburg
men kicked powerfully against admitting
new men into their association on equal
terms.
The proposition which was before the
convention was stated in detail in a tele
gram published in The Dispatch of last
Sunday. It provided for the organization
of a coporation in which each manufacturer
should hold stock to the amount of $500 for
each pot in his furnaces, which would make
the participation of profits of the corpora
tion dependent on the number of pots ope
rated by each firm and place the new firms,
whose glass has no reputation, or a bad one,
on an equality with the old ones which
have established a reputation by years of
work and great expense.
It was this feature of the plan that was
most strongly objected to by the Pittsburg
ers to-day, and which may yet cause the
convention to break up without accomplish
ing any results. The other difficulties in
the way seemed to be easily surmountable
compared to this. The fact that the pro
posed corporation might not be able to en
force its contracts with its individual mem
bers to receive their entire product did not
seem to create any uneasiness. To-morrow
evening they will meet again and try to
complete their organization.
The general sentiment of the meeting
seems to be that the scheme will go through
substantially as outlined in Sunday's Dis
patch. The general understanding seems
to be that the "Western men will win in their
fight to get into the Pittsburg organization,
and that our Pittsburg men will not be able
to induce them to go off and form a trust of
their own. The attendance is unusually
large. Only two firms are unrepresented,
and these comparatively small odes, having
not more than five per cent, of the total
number of pots in District 800.
BACKED BY MILLI0KS.
Farther Progress la tho Formation of the
Big Tobacco Trust.
Cincinnati, September 16. Further
progress was made to-day toward the con
solidation ot the Cincinnati and Louisville
tobacco warehouses. A meeting was held
attended by representatives from both cities
aud their attorneys, and, while there was
some discussion over the form of the con
tract and the charter, there was a substan
tial agreement, and the Louisville parties
have gone home to secure the signatures of
their houses. The papers will then come
back for signature by the Cincinnati men.
The title agreed upon is the Western
Tobacco "Warehouse Company. There are
to be issued $1,000,000 in bonds secured by
personal and real mortgages at 6 per cent,
?2,000,000of preferred stock at 8 per cent,
and 82,000,000 common stock. Mr. H.
Glover, of Louisville, is to be President,
and the vice presidency will be offered to
Mr. L. H. Brooks, of Cincinnati. The ware
house men are reported as being willing to
take about $2,000,000 of the stock. It will
require $3,000,000 to buy in the property,
and thig will leave $2,000,000 for working
capital. ,
1890.
COMING TO AMERICA.
An Englishman on the Way to Select
a Site for a Navy Yard.
THE IRON INSTITUTE MEMBERS,
Headed Ij Their Titled Officers, Will Sail
on Saturday.
THE DOCK STRIKE OFFICIALLY EKDED.
Preparation for the Ueetmg of ths Anitriu sad (to
nun Mfttiflrrfrai
The managing director of the. Naval
Construction Company of Barrow-in-Furness
has left for America to choose'a
location for a big sbip yard. The mem
bers of the Iron and Steel Icstitnte start by
the Servia Saturday. A settlement of the
Southampton dock strike has been reached
at last
rBT DtmtAP'S CAULS COMFAXT.
London, September 16. The Cunard
steamer Servia, which will leave Liverpool
on Saturday lor New York, will have among
her passengers the members of the Iron and
Steel Institute, who are going to attend the
American meeting in October. Among
them are the President, Sir James Kitson,
Bart: the Past President, Sir Lothian Bell;
Vice Presidents Sir John Alleyne, Mr. Ed
ward Martin, Mr. "Windsor Richards, G. J.
Snelns and "Wm. "Whitehall. There will be
in addition 166 ordinary members of the
Institute on the steamer.
Mr. A. D. "Bryce Douglas, the managing
director of the Kaval Construction Com
pany, established at Barrow-in-Furness,
sailed on Saturday for New York in order to
select a site for the formation of extensive
chip yards which it is proposed to establish
in America.
A GBEAT IMPBOVEMENT.
An Anglo-American Company nt Work on
lie Clinnnrl of the Dnnnbr.
iBr DUNLAF'S CABLE COMPANY.!
Vienna, September 16. An important
work in clearing the lower Danube was in
augurated to-day. After being joined by
the Save, the Dannbe forms the boundary
between Servia and Hungary. At Semlin,
near Belgrade, it is 1,706 yards wide, but
soon becomes contracted by spurs of the
Transylvanian and Servian Mountains.
"Within the space of 75 miles there are eight
distinct rapids, the shortest (IK miles) and
the most difficult being that known as the
Iron Gate. It has hitherto presented a
serious and impassable obstacle to naviga
tion. Many attempts have been made to
enlarge the channel, Austria having bound
herself to do so under the treaty of Berlin,
bnt the first serious effort has only now been
made.
On Monday the Hungarian Minister of
Commerce fired the first ot a series of blasts
by means of electricity, intended effectually
to remove a portion of the obstruction.
Hitherto two engineering systems have been
advocated, the first being urged by French
capitalists and involving the use of locks.
The second was presented by an Anglo
American Company, which proposes to util
ize the plan adopted- by the Boman Em
peror Trajan, begun by him, but never com
nleted. This proposes to construct a navi
gable canal round the gate, blasting minor
rocks, cutting channels, building dams and
other improvements. It is this plan that
has been adopted. The effect of the present
undertaking on the commerce of Europe
and the East, when it shall have been com
pleted, will be most beneficial, and can only
be described as a most desirable inter
national enterprise.
A NABROW ESCAPE.
Robert T.onl Stevenson's Unpublished man
uscript. Come Very Nenr Detraction.
tnr DDNLAP'S CABLE COMPACT. 1
London, September 16. A private letter
recently received from Bobert Louis Steven
son gives an interesting description of an
accident happening to his effects during a
trip between Samoa and Auckland, and
which nearly resulted in serious loss. "While
sailing over the route named, with the idea
of gaining strength, after a long and ener
vating illness, the vessel on which Mr.
Stevenson was a passenger caught fire in the
cabin, and soon the blaze had kindled into a
fierce flame. The sailors seized upon the
movable articles that had become ignited
and hastened to pitch them overboard Mrs.
Stevenson, who was standing on deck watch
ing the progress of the fire and preparing to
leave the vessel when necessary, saw two
of the crew dragging from below a large
burning box and raise it to heave it into the
sea.
Becognizing in an instant the box as that
belonging to her husband she sprang for
ward with a scream of dismay, seized the
nearest man by tbe arm and begged him to
drop it He did so and after being deluged
with water the box was saved. It con
tained all of Stevenson's unpublished man
uscripts, the result of many months hard
work, among them being the story he has
written by order for a prominent magazine
and for which he is to receive 4,000 ster
ling, as well as a great portion ofhis history
of Samoa. v
ELOPED 'WITH A SHOPMAN,
Bat the Angry Father Fats an End to Lore's
ITonnir Dream.
fBT DDNLAP'S CABLE COMPASr.
Dublin, September 16. A singular at
tempt at elopement has just been frustrated.
On Sunday the daughter of an officer of
high rank in tbe Curragh camp, vanished.
Inquiries showed that she had left by an
afternoon train with a young man for a
southern city. The angry father followed
by the next train, and reaching the city,
hurried round to the different hotels but
found no trace of the runaways till next
day. He kept a strict watch at the railway
station and the pair turned up during tbe
morning.
As they were about to enter the train they
were confronted by the irate father. A pain
ful scene for all the three followed, and
eventually the girl was forced into the train
on her way back to tbe paternal roof. She
is 18 years old and is pretty and accom
plished, and her lover, who is 23, is a shop
man. THE DOOK STRIKE OVER
An Official Announcement That a Eetlle-
mort Has Beea Benchrd.
TBT DUNLAr'S CABLE COMPANY.
Southampton, September 16. The
dock strike is officially declared to be over,
and the Union Steamship Company's men
will resume work to-morrow. The Mayor
of the city-is seriously ill with nervous
prostration and congestion of the brain,
superinduced by his anxiety of the past
week.
Fifteen rioters were to-day committed to
await trial.
A
BRITISH PROTEST
Acnlns t Some of the 3Iore Recent Features
of American Legislation.
fBT DUSLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.!
London, September 16. The Standard
attacks the clause in the American meat
inspection law that gives the President the
power to impose penalties on foreign Gov
ernments. It says:,
A more outrageous encroachment was never
framed In any civilized country. It is rendered
tho more irritating by tbe fact that it is to be
carrlerl through Congress with tbe tariff hill,
which aims at a practical exclusion of Euro
pean and Canadian products from American
markets. No foreign State can snbmlt to such
thrusts without abject humiliation. So far as
our foreign neighbors are concerned
they are tbe more likely to re
taliate, as they can do so effect
ively. If the French wines are shut out of the
United States the grain grown there mx'slly
be excluded from France. We de "V ve
that American statesmen would risV , s
a retort. As for ourselves, retaliation? X
the Question. We are a nation of frea-i v
the question. We are a nation of free,
and onr manufacturers wonld snbmit
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o.
inconvenience rather than embark on V V
tionary course. Whenever our agricul?,
authorities deem It safe to allow American S Vities to inquire into the charges of brit
tle free access to tbe interior of this countA o tr n the nomination of Major Alexander
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the Washington Government.
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MEETING OP MONABCH&
Tbe Emperor' of Anatria and Germany tn
Fall oa Ench Other' Necks.
BY DUJtLAP'S CABLE COMPANY.l
Vienna, September 16. The all-absorbing
topic of interest in the city is the ap
proaching meeting of the German and Aus
trian Emperors. The Emperor Prancis
Joseph will start at 6 o'clock in the evening
in order to visit the Emperor "William in
Prussian Silesia. He will travel direct
from Szekelyhid, the scene of the Hungarian
maneuvers, to Oldcubarg without touching
at Vienna. At Oldenburg, the last
station of the Austrian terri
tory, His Majesty will be joined
by Count Kaluoky, the Austrian Min
ister of Foreign Affairs, and will be saluted
by Prince Henry, of Prussia, the brother
of the Kaiser, who will travel thence with
him in the German court train to Bresanau,
where they will arrive during the afternoon
of "Wednesday, and will be received by the
Empress Augusta Victoria.
After that they will resume their journey
to Schloss Bobnstack, where they will be
welcomed and entertained till the end of the
wecK by the German Emperor.
6BAPHIC CABLE DISPATCHES.
Occurrences In Forelcn Land Recorded In
Condensed Form.
Vienna will be in irorgeous holiday attire
on the occasion of the German Emperor's visit.
If Sidney employers fail to confer with the
labor leaders tbe latter threaten to resort to
extreme measures.
AN explosion occurred in the Maybach pit
at Sanet Wendel. Rhenish Prussia, by which 25
miners were killed;325 were rescued.
The German ship Orient, from Swansea.
June 15, for ban Francisco, has arrived at
Ancnd, Chill, with her cargoon fire.
A battalion of troops has been dispatched
from Berne to Tesserete to aid in dispersing
several bands of armed men which havo as
sembled there.
POINTED OUT BY BLAINE.
BENEFITS OF RECIPROCITY PROCLAIMED
IN A BRILLIANT LETTER.
lie Speak of the Oleasare a a Safeguard
to Protection Frro Trade Senator
Strongly Opposed to It Advantage All
Around.
Boston, September 16. Colonel "W. "W.
Clapp, editor of the Journal, has received a
letter from Secretary Blaine, in reply to an
invitation to attend the annual banquet of
the Boot and Shoe Club iu October. He
regrets that his engagements will not permit
him to attend. The letter continues:
lam glad to hear that members of the club
are interested in a system of reciprocal trade
with Latin America. They can do great good
by counteracting a certain phase of New En
gland opinion, entertained at home as well as
In Washington an opinion which I most re
gard as in the highest degree unwise and hurt
ful to New England interests.
1 have lately received a letter from Mr. J. F.
Imbs. of St. Louis, a leading representative of
the flour interests and president of the late
convention of millers at Minneapolis. Speak
ing for the gram and flooring Interests of that
great section Mr. Imbs savs that "Advices of
recent date from Cuba state that tho duties
now collected on American flour are at a higher
rate man was nrsc supposeu to oe tne cese."
And be adds: "I repectf ally snbmit that the
American miller will be unable to retain any
part of tbe Cuba floor trade unless immediate
relief is secured."
In view ot these facts it is possible that a
protectionist Congress can even think of open,
ing our market to Cuba's products free while
allowing a great Western Interest to be abso
lutely excluded from her market by a prohib
itory tarju. wuu reciprocity tne west can
annually sell many hundred thousand barrels
of flour in the markets of Cuba and Porto
Rico, together with a large mass of other agri
cultural products. Without reciprocity she
will be driven more and more from those
markets.
Giving the fullest protection to all Eastern
interests, as the proposed tariff bill does, surely
no man of good judgment, certainly no pro
tectionist of wise forecast, wishes to expose a
Western interest to serious Injury, especially
when it is manifestly easy to protect and pro
mote It. I select Cuba and Porto Rico for ex
amples, because In certain quarters ichas been
said that while we might seenro reciprocity
with some little countries in South America,
we could do nothing with tbe Spanish islands.
Let us at least give tbe Spanish islands an op
portunity to speak for themselves.
To make sugar free unconditionally Mr.
Blaine thinks is the worst policy of all. He
says he does not intend to imply that recip
rocity will benefit the West alone; it will be
beneficial to farm and shop everywhere. It
is but natural and just, tor instance, that m
giving a free market in tbe United States to
hides from the Argentine Bepublic, we
should ask the Argentine Bepublic to give
a better market than we now have for the
product of the leather. He closes:
Very few in the Senate voted against the
reciprocity provision. '1 he tree trade papers
throughout the country are showing deter
mined hostility to it. Ihe protectionist who
opposes reciprocity in tbe form in which it is
now presented knocks away one of the strong
est supports of bis system. The enactment ot
reciprocity is the safeguard of protection.
Tbe defeat of reciprocity is the opportunity of
tree trade.
LYHN STBDXEBS BALKED.
Hundred of Swede are Engaged br tho
nianafnctarer.
Lykn, September 16. In the morocco
strike situation there is a new phase that is
causing the strikers great uneasiness. Pive
hundred Swedes came here last week and
several manufacturers have engaged a num
ber of them. Applicants for work are com
ing from Canada and Germany.
The manufacturers are increasing the
number of seasoning machines and it now
looks as if the workmen had little chance ot
winning.
Wbcle Crew Lost.
Ashlajtd, AVis., September 16. The
steamer Charles Hebard reports the loss of
the sehooner Ben Brink, with a crew of five
men, on the rocks off Eaglo harbor, Lake
Superior. The crew are supposed to have
been drowned,
tions, but they will not act a day sooner on ac p '
count of the nnfrlnndlv nttitndn assumed hvXV1 ernoon.
THREE CENTS.
NO BRIBEEY PHOYEff. !
Mercer and Lawrence Investigating
Committees Declare Their
FIRM FAITH THAT ALL WAS FAIR
In the Convention Which A'ominaled lie
Howell for Consress.
EVIDESCE
PE0X0BSCED
WORTHLESS.
The Twentitta Coagrsssuail Cosf&tsM BiHota Wttlost
Besdts.
The Lawrence and Mercer county com-,
mittees, appointed to inquire into the
bribery charges, met yesterday and declared
their belief that 'Major McDowell was hon
estly nominated, and their disbelief that
any delegates were illegally influenced to
vote for him in convention.
ISFXCIAL TXLEOBAK TO TUX DISPATCH.!
New Castle, September 16. The Law-
V . ,. ' '
ence ana Mercer county committees ap-
'nted by the county committees of these
whM. metat th St i: nnrt Hntel ham
r . .-- - - v-. ...... w
Court Stenographer A. D.
P. A .! -- . .!.- 1.
' ' ,iive icsiiuiouy as to uie results ot
t. court's investigation of Monday, and
a committee was appointed to draw up
a report, which was unanimously
adopted, after which the committee ad
journed sine die, and so far as Lawrence and
Mercer counties are concerned the bribery
investigation is at an end.
The report, which is somewhat volumi
nous, recites the history of the bribery inves
tigations and of the cases before the grand
jury, and concludes that the alleged confes
sions are valueless. Summing up, the com
mittee declare:
First That no proof was produced or offered
to bo produced before the committee to show
that any delegate to tbe New Castle convention
had been bribed to vote for Major McDowell as
a candidate for Congress.
Second That the evidence adduced fully
satisfies your committee that neither Major
McDowell nor his friend, nor any one con
nected with said convention, bad any knowl
edge of or participation In any unlawful means,
or unfair or illceal practices, to secure said
nomination or Influence the vote of any deter
gate in said convention in any way whatever;
that there is no evidence whatever of anyone
having been guilty ot such conduct.
Third That Major Alexander McDowel
was regularly and fairly nominated In said
convention, and as tho nominee of tbe Repub
lican party in this district, is entitled to the
support of the Bepublican voters in the sev
eral counties comprising the district.
Fourth That the secretary of this committee
be Instructed to transmit to the chairmen of
the several Republican county committees of
the district a copy of the report.
The report is signed by S. L. McCracken,
G. "W. McCracken and J. M. "Wonders,
Lawrence Committee, and by S. H. Miller,
Thomas Perry and Henry Robinson, Mer
cer Committee.
B. A. "Winterwitz, an attorney for the de
fendants in the bribery cases, this morning
took exception to Judge McMichael's
ruling that the cots which had already
accumulated in the cases of Tate, "Wallace,
Shaffer and Downing, should follow those
cases to a new grand jury. The Court noted
tbe exception, but made noreply. A process
was awarded the Sheriff for Dr. David Mc
Kinney to compel that gentleman to come
into court and pay over $200 cost3 in the
conspiracy suits ruled out yesterday.
BA1L0TJHG "WITHOUT BESTfLT.
No Nomlnntlon nt the Conjrrr slona 1 Confer
ence In Ibo Twentieth Dlntrlct.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Edensbubg, September 16. The Con
gressional conference of the Twentieth dis
trict met here to-day at 2 o'clock. Two bal.
lots were taken, resulting as follows: Bed
ford county for Cessna; Blair county for
Hicks.of Altoona, and Cambria and Somer
set for Scull. The conference took a recess
at 4 o'clock, and again convened at 5
o'clock. Another ballot was taken with
the same result as the three preceding. The
conference then adjourned until 9 o'clock
to-morrow morning.
Hicks and Cessna arc here, while Scull il
represented by his son.
POUnCIAHS BACK A PBEACHEB.
Somerset Del-sate Instructed to Vote for
Iter. N. D. CrltclifleU.
tEFZClAl. TSLZOBAU TO TBS DISPATCH.!
Sojiebset, September 16. The Senatorial
conference for the Thirty-sixth district, com
posed of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton
counties, convened at Bedford to-day. The
conferees from Somerset county are Hon.
Noah S. .Miller, of Jenner; Dr. H. D.
Moore, of New Lexington, and J. J. Shaver,
of Somerset, who are instructed for Ber. N.
B. Critchfield.
Bev. Mr. Critchfield 13 considered one of
the most astute politicians in this neck of
tbe woods, and bids fair to carry off thia
nomination. The conference will likely be
in session several days.
No Break In the Deadlock.
SPECIAL TELXPBAM TO THE DISPATCH.
PBANBXnr, September 16. The Bepub
lican Senatorial conference of the Forty
seventh district met here this evening, and
a number of ballots were taken without
breaking the deadlock, Warren county con
ferees voting for O. C. Allen, and those of
Venango county for "William E. Crawford
on each ballot. "
McKoan I for Smith.
Bbadfobd, September 16. TheMcKeau
County Bepublican convention was held at
Smethport this afternoon. S. "W. Smith, of
Port Allegheny, was nnanimonsly nomi
nated as the candidate from this county for
Congress. Appropriate resolutions were
passed ou the death of the late Colonel L.
E. "Watson.
The OM Delegation Chosen.
rsriCIAL TXLZOKAM TO THE DISPATCO.I
Butlee, September 16 The Bepublican
of this county held primaries to-day for the
election of 15 delegates to the Congressional
Convention to be held at Harmony next
Tuesday. The old delegation will probably
be returned without exception, there being
bnt one contest.
Butler Not Represented.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
New Castle, September 16. Owing to
some misunderstanding regarding the date,
Butler county was not represented at the
Democratic Congressional conference here
to-day. The conferees adjonrned to meet in
this city September 23.
Nomination far Congrcsi.
Ninth Kentucky Thomas H. Paynter (Dam.)
Eighteenth Illinois W. a Foreman (Rep.)
First Kansas Thomas Moonlight (Dem.)
Twelfth Indiana Orlando Klmmel (Rep.)
Fifth Missouri Colonel D. S. Twitchell
(Kep.)
ThirdMIssonri-H.J.HUll3 (Union Labor.)
PRISON TJ00BS AJAB.
Clnclnnntl Bar Smokers Caaght Smoking
Will be Arrested.
Cincinitati, September 16. In view of
the violation of the law which prohibits
selling cigarettes to young boys, the Chief
of Police has issued orders to the police to
arrest all children found smoking, and saya
he will hold them until they tell who told
the contraband goods to them.
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