FREELAND TRIBUNE. liUfcliihei 1181. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BT TUB TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited. OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. LONG DISTANCB TBLBPHONB. SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: One Year sl-90 Six Mouths 76 Four Mouths 90 Two Mouths 2$ The date which the subscription is paid to is on the uddress label of euch paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all money orders, checks, etc., payable to the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. FREELAND, PA., MAY 23, 1599. Twisting the Constitution. From the Philadelphia Record. The constitution of Pennsylvania pro vides that "tho governor shall have power to disapprove any item or items of a bill making distinct appropriations of money, embracing distinct items." Our readers are aware of the history of this amendment. Its wise object is to save the governor the embarrassing alternative of vetoing a general appro priation bill or giving it his official signature in spite of many obnoxious and extravagant features. In tho ab sence of such a provision in the con stitution of the United States the presi dent is frequently obliged to approve or veto appropriations carrying many millions of money, no matter how great ly he may desire to save tho public treasury by withholding his approval of extravagant and wasteful items of ex penditure. Before the adoption of this amendment in Pennsylvania rings in the legislature were in the habit of saddling upon the general appropriation bills all kinds of jobs of plunder, and the only alternative of tho governor was to give them his official approval or suspend many operations of the state government by a veto. Availing himself of the discretion re posed in him by this amendment, Gov ernor Stone has not merely disapproved items in appropriation bills, but has de creed how much money should be paid out of tho treasury upon a single item of expenditure. This is not a legitimate exercise of tho negative power of a veto; it is a llagrant usurpation of a function which belongs only to tho legis lature. It is for the legislature to de clare how much or how little money shall be paid on any particular item of appropriation, and it is for the governor to determine whether the expenditure for this item be a proper or improper use of the public money. Instead of properly exercising the veto, Governor Stone legislates. The power to reduce the amount of money in an item of appropriation Implies the power to raise the amount fixed by the general assembly. If the governor can determine that any item of appropria tion convoys too much he can determine whon an item conveys too little, and can raise the stun at his discretion. Nothing but the dire necessities of the Quay machine could have driven Governor Stone to such wanton and per verse twisting of tho constitution to machine purposes. But for the pre carious position of the machine ho would have summoned the legislature in extra session to provide more revenue. In stead of this, lie has preferred, in a strange perversion of the veto power, to hew and hack not merely the limbs of an appropriation bill but tho body itself. But an extra sessiou would have involv ed tho election of a senatorof tho United States in place of the man who holds Governor Stone's bogus brief of ap pointment. That was a peril to the ma chine to be averted, even at the expense of all the schools and charitable insti tutions of the commonwealth. An extra session would also have dem onstrated more clearly to the people of Pennsylvania with whom lies the re sponsibility for the want of resources for needed public expenditures. The house, which passed bills to increase the reve nues in tho regular session, is ready to re-enact these or other measures of tax ation should au extra session be sum moned for the purpose. But the ob struction now. as then, is in tho ma china senate. An extra session, then, would incure the risk of the election of a United States senator, without af fording any assurance of the passage of needed revonue measures. In this dilemma of the inachino Gov ernor Stone has cut the knot by assum ing full legislative power and determin ing how much money shall be paid on the several items of appropriation. Tiiis method, if further pursued, would obviously save the general assembly of Pennsylvania a great deal of time and trouble by taking this function off its hands. The serious difficulty in the way is that one of these days a general assembly might impeach a governor so wantonly unsurping legislative power and convict him of a high crime and misdemeanor. The members of* the United Mine Workers on the South Side did not carry into effect on Friday their threat to refuse to work with persons not mem bers of the order. It is thought, how ever, that tho issue will bo raised later, unless tho Lehigh and Wilkesbarre officials cease discriminating against those who belong to the union. If ail that the mon claim is true, they have a real grievance. C. R. BUCKALEW DEAD. Former United State* Senator Expire* id Bloom*bur |f. The death of Charles R. Buckalew. ex-United .States senator, occurred at his residence in Bloomsburg on Friday morning, after an illness of less than a week. Mr. Buckalew wasstrickea with a slight attack of heart failure on Mon day night last, and this attack, together with a general breaking up of the entire system, forced him to take to his bed. Since then he grew gradually weaker j until Thursday night, when his condl- I tion was somewhat Improved, and al- I though his friends had no hope of his , recovery, his sudden death next morn- I ing came as a great shock to them. ! The deceased wai aged 77 years, 4 months and 21 days, and is survived by I a wife and one daughter, the latter being the wife of L. A. Waller. The funeral services will be conducted at his late residence this afternoon, and intorment will take place In the family plot in Rosemont cemetery. MR. BUCKALEW'S CABEKR. Charles 11. Buckalew was horn in Fishing Creek township, Columbia county, I'a., December 28, 1821. After receiving au academic educa tion ho studied law and was admitted to tho bar at Berwick in August, 1843. He was appointed prosecuting attor ney of Columbia county in April, 1845, | and resigned in 1847. In 1850 ho was elected to the state senate for the district composed of the counties of Luzerne, Columbia and Mon tour. Ho was re-oloctod in 1853. In 1854 he was appointed special com missioner to exchange tho ratifications for a treaty with Paraguay and made a journey to South America byway of England. In 185 Cbo was chosen a senatorial presidential elector for Penn sylvania. In 1857 he was chairman of the Demo cratic state committee, and In the same year was re-elected to the state senate for the district composed of the counties of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Snyder. In tho following winter he was nomi nated by the governor and confirmed by the senate to be one of the commis sioners to revise the criminal code of the state. This post and the office of senator he resigned in the summer of 1858 and was appointed minister resident of the Unitod States at Quito, in the republic of Ecuador, where he remained three years. On January 14, 1803, ho was elected to the Unitod States senate for six years from tho 4th of March following. IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. During his term in the senate of the United .States Mr. Buckalew, in addition to his ordinary legislative duties, on the Ist of March, 1804, submitted to the senate a "minority report on the re peal of the fugitivo slave acts," Mr. Sumner submitting the report of the majority. On February 21, 1806, he delivered his celebrated speech on "Representation in Congress." On January 15, 1807, he ad dressed the senate "On the Executive Power to Make Removals from Office," on July 11, on "Reconstruction," and on the same day on "Cumulative Voting." On March 3, 1809, he submitted a "Re port on Representative Reform," and on the close of the proceedings an "Opinion on the Impeachment of Andrew John son." i Iu 1879 ho was re-elected a state sena tor for the district composed of the I counties of Northumberland, Montour, Columbia and Sullivan. In 1872 ho was the nominee of the Democratic party for the office of gov i ornor of the state but was not elected. In the fall of 1872, Mr. Buckalew published a word on "Proportional Rep resentation." In March, 1870, Mr. Buckalew was by acclamation nominatod to head the Democratic electoral ticket of the state at the ensuing presidential election. ELECTED TO CONGRESS. In November, 1870, lie was electa 1 rep resentative in congross from the district composed of the counties of Columbia, Montour, Carbon, Monroe and Pike, and parts of the counties of Lackawanna and Luzerne. In 1877 he contributed an article on "Proportional Representation" to John son's Cyclopedia, and in 1881 gave to the public an elaborate work on the con stitution of Pennsylvania, which he helped to write in the convention in 1874. In 1880 he was elected president of the Bloomsburg and SulllvAn Railroad Com pany and in 1888 was again elected to congress, serving two terms. In 1894 ho was once more a candidate for congress, but was defeated. He then retired from public life and resumed the practice of law. Notwithstanding his ago, ho retained all his faculties until the last, and was consulted legally by a large number of clients from all sections of the state. Hw'* This I W# offer One Hundred Dollarv Re ward fur any case of Catarrh that can not be cured DV Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. WEST A TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. WALDING, KIKXAN A MARVIN, Whole sale Druggist*, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken inter nally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggist*. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills arc the best. WASHINGTON LETTER. NOTES AND COMMENTS ON MATTERS ABOUT THE CAPITAL. Not Pealing Honestly With the Volun teer Soldiers In the Philippines—De wey's Hoiue-Cosning—Views of a Silver Republican—Next Year's Platform. Washington, D. C., May 19. The administration has not dealt honestly with the country In regard to the volunteers In the Philippines. It has given out one thing about bringing borne these men, who have been worked and fought so continuously that many of the in are now unfit for duty, when it knew that another thing was to be done. It has told the country that General Otis had been ordered to send the volun teers home as fast as transportation could be secured for them, when Otis had really been instructed to keep the volunteers as long as ho needed them and could mako them appear to stay willingly. This has been suspected for some time, but when two transports left Manila for San Francisco last week, with only sick and wounded mon aboard, and two more with no soldiers aboard, it became a certainty. It is now privatoly acknowledged by members of the ad ministration that it had, from the first, been the intention of Otis to keep the volunteers until the Filipinos surrender ed, and that the bluff about bringing them home as fast as vessels could be made available was thrown out because it was thought that the surrender would occur before there would bo any oppor tunity to send them home. A govern ment of the people can never add to its strength or popularity by deceiving the people. Every such deception is au im pugnment of the patriotism of the people. t { i Thu disappointment felt in adminis tration circles over the failure, of the expected ttirrendcr of Aguinaldo to materallzo Is so acute than It cannot be hidden and officials who have been so glib for sevoral woeks past, In predict ing the speedy Finish of Agnlnaldo, can not now be coaxed to talk about the probabilities over there at all. t t t Mr. McKinley still holds to his policy of rewarding the Gold Democrats for making him president. The first census plum given to Ohio was the appointment of General Araericus V. Rice, by direct order of Mr. McKinley, to be purchas ing agent of the census bureau. ♦ t t Admiral Schley has accepted an in vitation from ex-Senator Manderson, to pay him a visit, at his Nebraska home, and will leave for the West at once. He will probably take advantage of the opportunity, while in that sec tion, to visit a number of other Western points, te which he has been cordially invited. t t t If the idea of a popular subscription to buy a Washington homo for Admiral Dewey is as well received ail over the country as It has been In Washington, enough money is likely to be subscribed to buy him a whole town, Instead of a single house. Dewey has notified the navy department that he will leave Manila in a few days, and will get to the United States In about four months, which indicates his intention to make the homeward voyage In a very leisurely manner, as the trip could easily be made inside of two months. His friends say that the admiral wishes to give him self a chance to get good and strong and the cool weather of fall to arrive before he tackles the ovations which he knows await him in this country. Dewey is a long-headed chap. X X X Ex-Representative Ilartman, of Mon tana, who voluntarily resigned from congress at the close of the last session, is in Washington. He says the wish was father to the story that the Silver Re publicans of his section were not friend ly to the renomlnation of Colonel Hryan, and that Colonel Bryan has taken exactly the right position towards those who bolted the Chicago conven tion; that the Silver Republicans who belted McKinley'* nomination and plat form and supported Hryan would have just as much right to attempt to dictate to the Republicans as the Gold Demo crats have to dictate to tho Democrats. Continuing, he said: "I would as soon think of going to Mark Hanna for infor mation as to Democratic faith and Democratic principles, as to go to Perry Belmont. They are both supporters of the same interests, advocates of the same financial policy, and brother op ponents of the producing and wage earning classes of tho Unitod States." X X X Mr. Ilartman thinks that if the elec tion was this year, Instead of next, there would be no doubt of the tickets being headed by Bryan and McKinley again, and expects that they will be anyway. Speaking of next year's Democratic platform, he said: "The three most prominent features in the platform, in my judgment, will be, first, its declara tion on the money question, which will include a re-affirmation of the Chicago platform, a declaration for independent bimetallism, against the retirement of the greenbacks, against interest-bear ing bonds, and against transferring to the hanks tho right to issue or control tho issue of paper money; second, a strong declaration against trusts, and third, anti-imperialism." Eighty clergymen have applied for the vacant pastorate of the First Hap tlst church at Phoenlivllle, a charge that affords a salary of 11,000 a year and the use of the parsonage. WHEN TWILIGHT BRINGS YOU NEAR When the sunset lights are fading Id the west, And stars begin to gleam across the sky. The tender twilight brings me peace and rest. While, dear, to jou my heart's best longings fly. The miles that He between us seem as naught; Your form come* gliding softly to my chair. And looking into n.lne with eyea love fraught, Your Angers wander Idly o'er my hair; Your loving touch a benediction seems That calls my nobler, truer self to life; I long to realize my manhood's better dreams And be a worthier actor in the strife. With purifying love your dark eyes shine, The last light lingers on your dusky hair, And then you gently draw your hand from mine; I glance to where you knelt —you are not there. And so at twilight-time my thoughts of you Bridge over all the miles that Inter vene, / And bring you to me ever good and true, With none to sever, naught to come between. —GAY YULB. MIRIA>rS_DREAM. "You won't really go at this time of the year, will you?" "Rather! I'd go In December if Dick were at the end of the Journey." "Well, I would not cross the Atlantic in the middle of November for a dozen sweetheartß." Miriam laughed gleefully. She and Dick had been separated for years, and now he has fallen Into a good berth In Toronto, and had writ ten to her to decide whether they should both spend their winter in lone liness or whether she would go to him and settle down at once as his wife. Miriam did not hesitate a moment, she set aside the shortest time possible for winding up her affairs In England and arranged to sail In the "Slvonlan" from Liverpool to Halifax. "But you'll have a dreadful overland journey after that; It mußt be a long way to Toronto," said her friend Nora. "I don't know how you'll get through, all by yourself." "Ah! but I'm not going to! Dick has been sent by his Arm to New York on some business, and he intends to take a berth In the Meldrum, a coasting steamer, which will bring him to Hall fax about the same time that I get there." Miriam was in a fever of joy, and was altogether oblivious of such small matters as Intense cold, a pitching, rolling ship and battened down hatches. The good ship fought gaily through a stormy Ice-threatened sea, and at last a morning broke, when the sun shone fair, and the waves, sank into a comparative calm. Passengers swarmed on deck, congratulating each other on their escape from prison, and the anxious captain sighed with relief to think that the worßt was over. He was upon his bridge, stamping up and down to keep the blood circulating la his feet, when ahead of them he saw a strange speck dancing on the waves. As it drew nearer he found it to be an apparently empty boat; and he sent off one of his boats to tow the stray to the steamer. When it reached the side, however, the limp form of a sail or was lifted from It. Under care and good treatment the blood began to run again through his stiff veins, and he was able to tell what had befallen him. But before that happened his boat had been hauled on deck, and the name up on It, Meldrum, made known. "How funny!" cried Miriam, "a steamer Bailing from New York to Hal ifax Is named Meldrum." "Ay! missie," said a sailor, omnloua ly, "and this is one of her boats." "But how can It be? How could It have got loose out here?" "If that poor chap lives he can tell us that, and no one else perhaps," After some time the sailor's words began to beat into Miriam's stupefied brain; she tried to speak to someone standing near, but her tongue would not move, only her knees shook so much that she nearly fell. Her neigh bor drew her to a seat. "Is the Meldrum wrecked?" Miriam BBked with tragic eyes. "I do not know; but I hope not; that poor fellow will tell us If he lives." That evening it was known that the "Meldrum" had collided with another vessel in the storm, and that though all boats had been lowered they had, one after another, been swamped. The rescued sailor had Just Jumped Into one when Its ropes snapped, and he was therefore, the only person saved. The stewardess took the tidings, with a cup of tea, to Miriam, as she lay In ert and despairing on her sofa, and she let the woman gossip out her news without uttering a sound. At last, the stewardess went away, and Miriam lay still, not thinking, only suffering. Later she crawled Into her bed, where through the night, visions of Dick, as a boy, as a youth, as a man, rushed through her mind. Sometimes she saw b|£ face shining through the darkness, but when she clasped him round the neck he was cold as ice and wet with salt water. When she awoke she was out on the upper deck and not alone. By her side stood someone—a huge man, a giant, who seemed to reach to the sky. His clothes changed their color from light to dark, from bla;k to brown. His great body undulated all the time, and when he put his arm round her he eeemed to be surrounded with a dry suffocating warmth. Then he pointed a long arm to the northeast, and seem ed to slip farther away, though he still stood by her side; the monster length ened Into miles. Miriam followed him with straining eyes, when a flash of lightning lit up the sky and sea. It played for a moment round a distant spot, which the giant was touching, and In that moment she saw a picture which she never forgot. In the little circle of light a boat rocked helplessly upon the waters; un der a sail were crouched some dozen people, trying, by huddling together, to keep the warmth In their bodies. She knew that Dick was there, and called his name shrilly; there was a sudden movement In the human heap, a whtte face peeped out, and then the vision passed. Miriam lay In her berth, the new dawn already lightening the sky. Then feverishly she got up and went on deck, to see nothing but the grey Bky and greyer sea, to hear nothing but the throbbing of the engines and the sough of wind and waves. Breakfast time came, but she heeded It not; for hours she stood immovable, gazing to the northeast over the bulwarks. What did that dream of hers mean? Waß Dick floating somewhere helplessly, with other passengers? It was noon when the wind, veering, sent a cloud of smoke over her head and a shower of black smudges upon her hands; with them came a passing sensation of warmth. This slight in cident awoke some vague memory con nected with her dream. The black column of smoke changing at Its edges to brown, thinning out un til she could see the gray sky through It, etartlng ever from her side, and yet reaching far into the distance, caught her eye. Inspiration followed quickly. The smoke was the giant of the night be fore, and where It pointed lay Dick and his companions! sight danced Into her eyes, hope beat strongly in her heart. She turned a glorified face to the ship. What could she do? How save them? She saw a foot surmounted by blue cloth moving methodically on the deck above, and in a moment flew up the stairs, leading to the captain's bridge. The captain turned round sharply at the sound of strange footsteps and per emptorily ordered her down. Clutch ing his arm she cried: "Captain! They are out there under the line of smoke! A dozen survivors of the Meldrum are drifting helplessly and nearly dead!" The captain glanced in the direction Indicated. How should this frantic young womfn have seen what his prac ticed eye could not discern? Then he guessed that she was the person who, they said, had lost her lover in the wreck. "My dear," he cried, patting her hand, "go to your berth and lie down. You are In great trouble." But the haggard hopeful eyes stared brightly at him. "For the love of humanity, captain, use your glass. You will see them. I know you will." To humor her he took a careful sur vey of the horizon, upon which the sun was shining. At first he shook his head, then he stood for a long time examining the spot under the thin edge of the line of smoke. He rubbed his glasses well and looked again, then said, quietly: "Something Is there! Sit down in that corner and wait!*" The course of the steamer was alter ed slightly, a boat lowered once more to gather In the ocean's drift. To his Intense surprise the captain saw that the distant object was really a boat, without sail or oar. How could tMs girl have known It? Then the group of people became visible, all evidently in the last stage of exhaustion, and he went over to Mlrlnm and told her to look through his glass, and see If her friend were there. She took It from his hand with a wild sob, and gazed long and steadily at the coming boat, then gave the glass back, in the midst of a passion of weeping, nodding her head to signify that she had seen Dick. Then she set herself to regain self-control by the time the boat came In. When It did she was waiting la the hospital for her beloved. For the next twenty-four houre she shared the duties of nurse with one of the stewardesses, and saw Dick's eyes open with the first gleam of conscious ness in them. With a contented look at her he fell asleep, and on the ship's arrival at Halifax he, with all those who had been saved, were well enough to be moved to more comfortable quar ters on shore. The captain made friends with Mi riam during those few hours, and learned how it was that she knew ths boat was afloat. He could hardly be lieve It, and he could not explain it, but was contented to accept the fact as it stood, and to be present at the simple ceremony which made Dick and Miriam man and wife. A Kamarkable Van*. On the roof of a brewery at Maid stone is to be seen one of the most re markable vanes In England. It repre sents an old brown Jug and glass. The Jug, which is made of copper, stands 3 feet 6 Inches in height and 3 feet in diameter, and is capable of holding 108 gallons. The glass, also of copper, has a holding capacity of eight gallons. Dummy Fruit Bunches of bananas made of papier mache have been Introduced as signs on the wharves of New York where the depredations of hoodlums are frequent. It Is proposed to add wooden peanuts for the benefit of policemen and other friendly samplers of the stock in trade. From TOP lo BOTTOM. Hats and Shoes. Good Goods at Low Prices are looked for by people of limited means. We endeavor to supply their wants, so far as our lines will permit. If you have not yet become acquainted with our stock, you should call this week. Every day is bargain day and every article sold is worth the price. ... MCMENAMIN'S ... Celts' Fnisliii Hat id Shoe Store. 86 Centre Street, Freeland. \ The Cure that Cures / P Coughs, (s\ \ Colds, J Grippe, (k V Whooping Cough. Asthma, J Bronchitis and Incipient A jjL Consumption, Is g rotios] STW GERMAN RCMEDV & t\4 VVH\O A'vsfasas. ) 2S^sot^/| Dry Goods, Groceries and Provisions. 0 A celebrated brund of IX flour always in stock. Roll Butter and Eggs a Specialty. AMANDUS OSWALD, If. W. Cor. Centre and Front Bt., Freeland. VIENNA: BAKERY! i. B. LAUBACH, Prop. Centre Street, Freeland. CHOICE BREAD OF ALL KINDS, CAKES, AND PASTRY, DAILY. FANCY AND NOVELTY CAKEI BAKED TO ORDER. Confectionery # Ice Cream supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with all necessary adjuncts, at shortest notice and fairest prices. Delivery and supply wagons to aU parts &J town and surroundings every day. LIBOR WINTER, Eating Honse and Oyster Saloon. No. 13 Front Street, Freeland. Temperance drinks, cigars, etc. Fainilea supplied with oysters dircet from the shore. T. CAMPBELL, dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes. Also PURE WINES M LIQUORS FOR FAMILY AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES. Centre ami Main street., Froeland. i P. F. McNULTY, " FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. Embalming of female corpses performed exclusively by Mrs. P. F. MoNulty. Prepared to Attend Calls Day or Night. South Centre street, Freeland. Condy 0. Boyle, dealer In Liquor, Wine, Beer, Porter, Etc. u;T! ,e „ flnoßt brands or Domestic and Imported Whiskey on sale in one of the handsomest aa- I"o'vf n v, !i v Fre h Rochester and Shenaa doah Beer und \ cuugliag'g Porter on tap. OH Centre street. GEORGE FISHER, dealer in Liquors, Wines, Cigars, Etc. FOR A GLASS OF FRESH BEER. PORTER OR ALE eall at NO. 0 EAST WALNUT STREET. An Advertisement In this position in not very con spicuous, still it attracts the read er's attention and proves that ads in ail parts of this paper are read.