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SWEPT INTO ETERNITY.
JI MILL DAM GIVES WAY WITH
DISASTROUS RESULTS.
People Drowned and Honaen Carried Aw»j
by the li. aging Waters.
A terrible disaster befell the post village of
East Lee, two miles oast of Lee, Mass., the
other morning. At sunrise a flood burst
upon tho inhabitants which wrecked three*
fourths of the dwellings and mills iu the
place, took the lives of seven or more people,
and did damage roughly estimated at $200,-
<K)O. The town is situated on a brook,
the outlet of Mud Pond, which
supplies several paper mills with
their running power, dams being built all
along the stream for four miles. This pond
has an area of about 150 acres, and was very
deep. The dam which held tho water back
was thirty feet high and twenty-two feet
wide. It was built nine years ago, and of
late* has been conslderei unsafe, but nothing
was done to strengthen It, and the people con
tinued erecting louses upon the banks of tho
at ream.
The other morning, a few minutes after 5
o clock, a tremendous roaring was heal'd by
the'early risers in Lee. They at once sur
misod thecause, and the ringing of the church
hells and the blowing of whistles aroused
the whole town. It was supposed that Goose I
loud, a larger body of water than Mud
had broken away, in which event the
: ‘' vu U P<’° w0,11,t l "‘ v ” I*Hm in danger. 'Dos
in lx* awoke the neople in East 4.-c,
«>y.knowing from which source'....'xins t
and hearing tl o crashing mid roaring
waters and rocks, although three
vs four miles awny. rutiie I from i
thc.r homos—some haff-clad, others al
most naked, all fleeing for their live-,. They
were aoue too soon. The grout mass of water
came pOv ring down tl e narre w brook, sweep- i
nig ecery thing before it, digging trenches In I
the sides, tho roads, the meadows, and strew
ing rocks, trees, houses, everything conceiv
able in the wild rush. The path of the tor-
. rent varied from fifty fret to two hundred, !
iThu where tho head waters became con*
fincxl td w» JUMTQW Unfits the destruction
Was terrible. t
* i .‘‘tun the bursting water pOured 1
into a large swamp of fifteen acres, from the
end of which led the outlet brook. At this
point the descent Is steep and winding. The
brook turns like a snake in the ravine on
its way to the village three miles away,
St, »t> wsw here that the roar-
ing eoninvsiired. On entering the town
the first olwtaia encountered was
a heavy iron aud wooden bridge. Spectators
who saw the wave as it advanced and struck
this bridge say that it was about twenty feet
high and sixty wide. It completely envel
oped the bridge and carried it awav. Just
below was the mill of John Dowd, which was
wreck© 1 completely. Tho dam was washed
away and with tills added weight tho water
rolled on.
A roil Amt her and tho house of Simeon
Dowd was n et. Mr. Dowd, seventy years of
age an i rather iuflrm, had goaeinit a mo
ment before to feed his chickens. He atep;>ed
but ton fret l>ack of his house, but the water
caught him and swept him into eternity.
His wife sbKxl paralysed at the sight.
The aaddest incident of the dav. however,
was tho killing of A. N. White, aged fiftv
niny, his wife, aged forty-five, ami their
daughter Ida. need nine, nhd the baby, four
months old. They occupied a house re
cently purchased wit h bard earned savings,
and were a happy family. When the tearful
avalauche of water struck the bouse White
and his family had not risen. Their
_ home was swept awav without a
moment's warning, nnd not' a tnu e of it,
aven 6f the foundation stem's, remain*. The
naked body of the man was found led-ecl iu
the crotch of a tree two mites from his home.
The lusty of his wife was forced by the swift
current through the window of Garfield’s
paper mill, a mile below her home, an.l there
so ftr.tdv lo Iged in the machinery that four
meu had a half hour's work to extricate it,
l« tn < bil Iren wore drowned.
Mrs. Theodore King, awidow.al'out forty
four yew• of nge, was carried from her room
and drowned. Mrs Charles Kim... <f
H< nsatonte, a relative, who wa* visiting at
‘ the house, was al«ocar>',Kl »w bv tl.e flood,
and Iks 1 body was roovered from a mass of
de’wis. further deWu the stream
Jol.ti MclaughlinM marten® shoj*;
Fab u‘# raper milts were wre k si, nil the
Wwemmt wnebiqerv Wri •; iwu t out hr the
fncd.'an<L thswh uvighing tons, me ear-
if they were re*k and lamted
'feet no'Uia lank. L'otnh A" «rk
tey * ndllwrigkt shore vrhre abo <h stroved.
it- re> | a;»*r mills were »adly denutgud.
He Knew Him
«*Toiha4 the fultest confidence in
yoar clerk, Mr PtaeoMj”
••Oh. yc*. I knew him tlior »uglk|r.’*
-How do you WROOunt for the fact,
l <heu. that ho tew
"ilh. that’s what I a'wxv* th axrht
_a . he'd do. No, eir, I wasn’t footed iu him
*
« not much genuine bunpinee*
F -Ute W’MtK bar tteate who do m*t
|> v sionm ®rci what they have not got. and
L *ls» ten tr-suie h«oh vs tUmar xe* cmr
■L .Wt b-ppinexs a
I ‘
Should M. Pasteur succeed in curing
diphtheria by the same methods that he
can cure hydrophobia, he should have a
monument of marble in every country in
the world. He claims that it will be ac
complished.
The largest land sale ever effected in
Arkansas, or in the Southwest perhaps,
was the recent sale of all the land belong
ing to the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railway company—63o,ooo acres. It
sold at $1.25 per acre.
It was the duty of English coroners in
olden days to hold inquests not only on
deaths, but on fires, burglaries and rob
beries. Inquests on fires are still held in
Northumberland, and it is now proposed
to reintroduce into London the ancient
“crowner’s quest law” in the matter of
fires.
Flour barrels are a source or great ex
pense to the people of this country. Say
there are 50,000,000 of barrels of
flour consumed iu this country each
year, and there are 12,000,000 of people
who buy it by the barrel, there might be
saved to the people of this country $2,-
400,000 when twenty cents per barrel is
saved by purchasing flour iu sacks.
The American Humane association
will distribute 100,000 copies of the num
ber of Scienee which contains the report
of the committee of the American Ornith
ologists’ Union for the protection of
birds. The report shows that unless im
mediate measures are taken to prevent
the present rate of destruction our woods
and fields will shortly be without birds.
An examination of a map of the United
States will show a strip of land several
millionsof acres in extent, marked “pub
lic land,” lying between the States < f
Kansas and Colorado and Texas. This
strip of country was left out by mistake
in the original surveys, and i? not in
cluded in any State or Territorial juris
diction. Neither is it reached by United
States law. It is wholly without a ju
dicial authority, and is, consequently,
the abode of the very worst classes in the
country. Cattle thieves and criminals of
all kinds resort to it as a refuge, and
lately cattlemen have partly taken pos
session of it to evade the action of the
President excluding them from the Indian
Territory. There they have established
their ranches without molestation.
Senator Miller has introduced in the
United States Senate a bill requiring all
manufacturers of and dealers in oleomar
garine, butterino, lardinc and suine to
display signs in a conspicuous place at
their places of business indicating that
they manufacture or sell stlch hrticlel,
imposing a special tax of SSOO on manil
facturcrs, $250 on wholesale dealers arid
SIOO on retail dealers in such produces
and requiring them to take out annual
license to carry on such business under
penalty of fine and imprisonment, and re
quiring all persons engaged in such busi
ness to keep books and enter therein
an accurate and detailed account of all
imitation butter manufactured or sold by
them, such books to be subject at all
times to the inspection of the treasury
oflicials. -a.,
A correspondent writes from Whitley
Court House, Ky.,to the New
as follows; “There are only 1,000 people
—men, women and children—in all cf
this county, yet the murders and assas
sinations during the year outnumber the
births two to one. To anybody who has
ever lived for a time in thh section of the
country, or who has ever tiav< 1 4 through
Harlan, Bell, Knott or Fletcher counties,
the statement is too common to excite
comment. But no one ever travels
through those mountains—for there are
not any ndlways to travel by—and no
aews|xi| er correspondent ever writes
from Harlan county, so the murders, and
fends, and ass issinal ions and brawls are
not made public. There are courts hero,
of course, and ju Iges and juries, as there
are in civilised communities, but where
every juryman is re!a*edto the murderer
on trial, and where the judge has his own
life to take care of in a lawless commu
nity, the idea of convicting a prisoner
never occurs to tho-e in court.”
It is th? belief of the 80-ton Cw’t'mter
that “the most popular measure that
Congress is likely to pass upon this ses
iion is in the question of prohibiting
Uirn land ownership. It has been found
lb it some of our tnort valuable proper
ties in the West tec-e been lodgetl in the
‘ ownership of foreigners, and that a great
many e-totes in our hr. ;• cities are thus
controlled. The sentiment of the people,
voiced in both }K>iilica! platforms in the
> Irt't f r .’sMeniiii casva«s, is against such
, hoi iiu«x«. and there is now considerable
lu .iuway t > an influence to declare p;op
e.-iy mid. r alien ownership belonging to
r.u h American resident* abroad as do not
<wi. e in two year* spend a twelvemonth
' oti their native hn.th. It is said that
there are over 12,< 00 American families
liri: g abronl snpportel wholly by in
eou’scs frmn estates owned in America,
wlo have nd bren iu this country sci
over ten year*. They are sa dto include
sobs - <;s,t>Oo a id nr? at no per
v i.. * * 5 I *
: >.i i'm.- .i i that so k w the edi.-en whe
xl us -.td ro. 1.l det.and*.”
Just before the outbreak of the war
Stonewall Jackson, then a professor in
the Virginia military institute at Lexing
ton, organized a Sunday school for colored
children, which is still sustained by lead
ing citizens there. This Sunday school
has now set on foot a subscription for a
monument to Jackson, which is meeting
with a lively response among the people,
black and white, of the South.
“God help the stranger that is taken
sick there,” writes an officer of the United
States steamship Galena, speaking of As
pinwall. “It is not uncommon for peo
ple to lie down in the street aud die in
broad daylight, and when dying receive
no offer of assistance, even in answer to
an appeal for a drink of water. The
people appear to be heartless, as if their
familiarity with death had made them
callous.”
In the Chinese language there arc sixty
characters and meanings to the syllable
Ling, seventy to Sing and seventy-five to
Ing. The Chinese child has a pretty or
endearing nickname given it soon after
its birth. Then the boy has a school
name when he goes to school, a marital
name when he takes a wife, a business
name when he goes into business, an of
ficial name if he takes an office, and a
death-name to be put on his tombstone
and to go down into history. The Chi
nese prefix “Ah” so common in this
country is an endearing diminutive,
equivalent to Sam-my, John-ny, Tom-my
in the English language.
Some time since reports reached this
country that a new textile had been dis
covered in France, which was likely to
take the place of wool to a large extent.
Os course this reyort created a good deal
of sensation in certain quarters where the
■wool interests are important. Accord
ingly, United States Consul Williams, of
Rouen, France, was requested to make a
complete investigation of the matter and
report at his earliest convenience. This
report has arrived at the state depart
ment. He says that the new textile is
called Berandine, from the name of its
inventor, a Macstricht workman, named
Berand. The French have made very
glowing official reports. Mr. Williams
says that in the opinion of experts whe
have since made careful examinations of
this textile, it is safe to say that it is not
likely to take the place of wool, or even
the poorest quality of wool or cotton.
Its presence in a mixture of textile mate
rial increases the difficulty of spinning
to such an extent that in no instance
could it be spun fine. Its use in fabrics
of mixeel thread diminishes its value by
imparting roughness and to
the touch. Th? consul Ijbinte*
this textile may take a modest place here
after, it is not at present calculated to
diminish the price of wool. Berandine
is claimed by experts to be the direct
product of certain peat grounds, and is
thus cheaper by far than any other known
raw textile material. The consul draws
the conclusion that the inferiority of the
textile surpasses its cheapness, and thus
places it low on the list of textiles. But
of course it is subject to improvement by
inventive skill, and may in the future be
an important element.
The editor of Tm-f, Fild and Ftirm.
in the course of an editorial on the horre,
pays th‘s eloquent tribute to man’s equine
friend: “The horse pliys an important
part in the industrial projects of the
world. Draw a chair close to one of our
sanctum windows an I look out upon the
streets which surround the postoflice
block. The surface cars roll up and
down with scarcely a break, and the
mind grows weary in the attempt to
count them. Each car is drawn by two
horses, and th- ceaseless tread tells upon
feet, sinews and wind. Express wagons,
drays, carts and other vehicles moved by
horses choke the thoroughfares, and even
shallow thinkers are impressed by tho
fact that the one-toed quadruped has
become a necessity to commerce. We
leave the city and take a run across
the country. The liue is immaterial.
We may continue the journey day after
day and night after night, and not get
outside of the domain iu which the horse
is a [lower, is essential to the civilization
of man. He draws the plow and the
reaper, and carries the bag to the mill,
The fuel which keeps bright and warm
the winter hearthstone, the bread with
which fast is broken, and the garments
with which nakedness is covered, are
brought to each village and farm-house
de or by the horse. The doctor, the jiost
tnan, the small tradesman and the tax
gatherer also recognize our four-footed
fro nd as an important agent in keeping
up communication with isolated homes
and scattered communitie-. The wheels
cf agriculture and cou.meree would
move painfully slow were it not for the
horse. Where'er we go we see that there
is a great practical want to lie met. and
we are ccnitKlied to laud the efforts of
those who try to fill this want.”
In the Parlor.
She-—Ant tel pat ion.
He—Exultetion. «
Both —Oseulat ion.
Father —Indignation.
Ke--Gyr.tion.
AU around —S onsation.— Tld-
Nev« r be « ver-exacting with ciuhlrei;
th?v will gr; w wiser with vears.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
I HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST
FROM ALL POINTS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The New York police had a short but sav
age fight with striking employes of the Third
i Avenue Horse-car company who attempted
to prevent a car from running and beat its
driver and conductor. Seven men, all of
whom had received a clubbing, were arrests i.
1 his occurred on the 19th, and on the 20th all
the horse-car lines excepting the Third
; avenue were running again, the strikers hav
mg resumed work.
I Conversation was carried on between
■ New York and Chicago a few days since by
means of an improved telephone. The dis
j tance by wire is 1,020 miles.
John Carpenter, confined in the New
. York Tombs under sentence of death for
i tesi^thr Ul^ er ’ cominitted suicide by cutting
The body of Leopold Schenck, editor of the
; edition o.‘ 1 uck, was incinerated at
ths Mount Olivet crematory qp Long Island
the other morning.
; Thirtern members of the New York
Bakers’Union have been indicted bv the
I Grand Jury for boycotting Mrs. Grav’s
i k ’ ; , Tfae - V we:e a!1 arrested, and gave
; bail. The result of the boycott has been a
j iai-ge increase in Mrs. Gray’s busiuess, per
i sous sending money to her from long dis
tances.
Several fatalities from lightning during
severe thunder sterms occurred on the 20tiu
AKPottsville, Fenn., a young man and sev
.c’/l mules were killed. Four little girls in a
public school at Freeland, Benn., were in
jured, one fatally. James Manly, driver for
, a colliery at Shenandoah, Penn., was struck
dead, and Rev. A. M. Child, a Methodist
minister, was painfully injured at Weiteru
ville, N. Y.
The City National bank, of Williamsport,
Penn., has suspended.
For the second time a New York jury has
disagreed upon the trial of General Alexan
der Shaler, of the State militia, who is
charged with bribery in connection with the
selection of an armory site.
Ths Grand Army of the Republic of the
State of New York, represented by delegates
; from 590 pojrs throughout the State, opened
its twentieth annual encampment in New
York city < n the 22d. A parade was the
feature of the day’s ceremonies.
The New Jersey Senate, sitting as a court
of impeachment, by a vote of fourteen to
.sei’en, found P. H. Laverty, keeper of the
State prison at Trenton, guilty of two serious
charges iu connection with his management
of his office. He was deprived of his place
and forever disqualified from holding office.
I men were crushed to death by the
fall of a derrick at Lancaster, Penn.
The grandfather of Miss Folsom, the fu
ture bride of President Cleveland, is reported
in a Buffalo dispatch to have stated that the
lady is in Europe selecting her wedding
garments, and that the marriage will take
place in June.
A eire on Broadway, New York, de
stroyed business pix>perty valued at $500,0J0.
Mrs. Josephine Landgraf, a Now York
bakeress, who has been boycotted by the
( Union, has been receiving considerable finan
cial aid from sympathizing persons all over
the city.
Three successive collisions between polic-e
--' men and a crowd of strikers occurred on the
22d in front of the Havermeyer Sugar Resin-
Con’rahy’s factory, Greenpomt, Long
island. The 2,000 emploj’es of the concern
had Struck for increased wages the day be
fore. Five policemen and many strikers
were wounded, one of the former having hi
skull fractured.
E, Remington & Sons, of Ilion, N. Y„
tho well-known gunmakers, have sus-
Jijndcd. •
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SOUTH AND WEST.
i Some of the striking Knights of Labor on
the Southwestern railroads have returned tc
work. Vice President Hoxie, of the Mis
souri Pacific road, reported on the 19th that
the places of nearly all the strikers had been
filled.
The Knights of Labor have teen organiz
ing negro assemblies in Arkansas and Texas.
At a meeting of the officers of the different
I railroads entering St. Louis it was deter
mined to continue operating their reads with
out the assistance of the strikers and without
recognizing the Knights of Labor.
Two Mexicans, charged with horse steal
ing, were shot to death by a mob while
I in h constable's custody at Collins, Texas.
The Knights of Labor are calling outtheii
men in factories which furnish supplies tc
. the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
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WASHINGTON.
The House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor
Traffic by a vote, of (> to 5 ordered an adverse
i report on Representative Taulbee's bill to
provide that no person shall be licensed os a
retail dealer in intoxicants by the United
gtates until he has first received a license as
. from the local authorities.
The Seventh regiment, York State
militia, arrived in Washington from tte
metropolis on the 19th, and was received
with large crowds, much enthusiasm, music,
and fireworks. The excursion was taken bv
the regiment in commemoration of its first
iourney to the national capital at tho out
break of the war twenty-five years ago.
Mr. Powderly, General ik-t r Work
man of the Knights of I.abcr. appeared Le
fore the House special committee of investi
gations on the 20th aud gave his version of the
labor difficulties in the Southwest. He de
clared that the railr ad companies there did
not keen their agreements with their em
ployes, and that undoubted cause of discon
tent existed
Jay Govld testinad on the 22d before the
House Committee engaged in an investiga
tion of the labor strikes in the Southwest.
He gave a long account of the troubles from
his standpoint, charged Mr. Powderly with
dis’artiug facte anil placing him in a wrong
light, and asserted that he'believed in arbi
tration, but would not recognize the Knights
of Labor as such.
The court of inquiry into the recent Ore
gon d isa ter, held at Liverpool, has exone
rated the owners and officers of the sunken
steamer from all blame.
Foreign.
Later reports put the number of persons
killed at the fire which destroyed th» town of
Stry in Austria at fortj', most of then chil
dren After the fire many of the shot® were
pilhigjd, and some of tae owncis in taeir de
sjair committed suicide.
Mveti or petition is being dev ©'oped
throughout Great Britain to Premier Glad
stone's plan for Irish horn.- rule.
Di ke de Castries, a well known French
sportsman and owner of race horse.;, is dead.
Late news from Greece was decide : ly
warlike, aud it was feared that hostilities
agaiajt Turkey might I egin at any moment,
mt withstand ing tne interventi.noi the treat
powers.
iNCENDiARjfc have fired .Mandalay, the
capital of Burmah. and one-third of the
walled city is in ruins. Hundreds of houses
were burned.
The wife of a laborer living near Cologne
has presented her husband with six children
in less than a year—three ten months ago,
iiuu & tew iisys sixKtL "ill .* i is
reported to be utte.-.j- prostrated by h's good
forteiDc.
Fori; highwaymen wb.7robbed a resident
of the Indian Territory were pursued bv citl
«ens, and wueu ovcrhaule i were shot dead.
Tbk Senate Las confirmed the nomination
cf Caleb W. V est, of Kentucky, to be Gov
ernor of Utah.
* After the turning of the town of Stry, in
Austria, by which so many people lost their
lives, twenty tiddy persons died in the sure
roundxtg fields.
TROUBLED LABOR.
IHE PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL MES
SAGE TO CONGRESS.
ilecemmending the Creation of a Commis
sion for Settling Disputes.
The President has sent the following mes
sage to Congress on the subject ,gs the iato.
troubles.
To the Sena te and House of Representative ■>:
The Constitution imposes on the President
the duty of recommending to the considera
tion of Congi ess from time time such
measures as he shall judge necessary and ex
pedient.
lam so deeply impressed with the impor
tance of immediately and thoughtfully meet
ing the problem which recent events and a
present condition have thrust upon us,
involving the settlement of disputed
arising between our laboring men an 1
their employer.?, that I' am con
strained to recommend to Congress lex
i&ation upon this t erious and pressing sub
ject. Under our form of government the
value of labi r a s an element of national
prosperity slould be distinctly ie.-og
nized aud the welfare of the laboring man
should be r-egaid.d as especially entitled to
legislative care. In a country which offere
to ail it; citizens the highest attainment
cf social and politicaldisflm-tiou its working
men cannot justly or safely bo considered tvs
irrevocably consigned to the limits of a class
aud entitled to no attention and allowed no
pretest against neglect. '.I he laboring man,
bearing in his hand au indi pjiitable cqntri
buticn to our growth and pi egress, may well
insist, with manly courage ari l as a right,
upon the st me recognition from tuosc
who make our laws as is accorded to any
other cithen having a valuable interest in
charge, and his reasonable demand should be
met- iu such a spirit of appreciation and fair
ness as to induce a content© 1 au I patriotic
co-opt.ration in the achievement of a grand
national destiny.
IV hile the real interests of labor are not
promoted by a resort to threats and violent
manifestations, a .id while those who, under
the pretext of an advocacy of the claims of
labor, w anton y attack the rights of capi
tal, and for relfish purposes or the love
of disorder ;ow seeds of violence and discon
tent, should neither be enequraged nor con
ciliated, all legislation on the subject should
be calmly and deliberately undertaken, with
uo purpose of satisfying umeusonable de
mands or gaining partisan advantage.
The present condition of the relations be
tween labor and capital are far from satis
factory. The discontent of the employed is
due in a large degree to the grasping and
heedless exactions of employers and the
alleged discrimination in favor of capital as
an object of governmental attention.
It must also lie conceded that
the laboring men are uot always
careful to avoid causeless and unjustifiable
disturbance. Though the importance of a
better accord between these interests is ap
parent, it must be borne in mind that any
effort in tl at direction by the Federal gov
ernment must be greatly limited by constitu
tional restrictions. There a: e many griev
ances which legislation ‘by Congress cannot
redress and many conditions which cannot
by such means be reformed.
I am satisfied, however, that something
may be done under Federal authority to pre
vent the disturbances which so often arisa
from disputes between employers and the em
ployed and which at times seriously threaten
the business interests of the country,
and, in my opinion, the proper the
ory upon which to proceed is that of
voluntary arbitration as the means of
settling these difficulties. But I suggcai that,
instead of arbitrators chcsen in the heat of
c-c ufli ting claims and alter each dispute
shall arise, thereby created a Commission of
Lal or, consistingof three members who shall
be regular officers of the Government,
charged among other duties with the consid
eration and settlement, when possible, of all
controveiries t etweao labor and capital. A
eommissicn ih’. s organized would have the
advantage of being an able body aud its
members as they gained o<yerien?e would
constantly improve in their ability to deal
intelligently and usefully with the questions
which might be submitted to them. If arbi
trators at e chosen for temporary service as
each case cf dispute arises experience and
familiarity with mu »h that is involved in
the question will be lacking, ex
treme partisanship and bias "will be
the qualifications sought on either side,
and frequent complaints of unfairness aud
partiality will be" inevitable. The imposi
tion upon a Federal court of a dutv foreign
to the judicial function, as the selection of
an arbitrator in such cases, is at least of
doubtful propriety. Th? establishment by
Federal authority of such a bureau would tie
a just and sensible recognition of the value
of labor and of its right to be represented i.-i
the departments of the Government.
Fo far as its conciliatory offices halre’a
tion to distuibances which interfered with
tiansit and commerce between the States, its
existence would be justified undei 4 the provi
sions of the (jonst-tution, which gives tc
Congress lhe power “to regulate commerce
with foreign nations and among the several
States.”
And in the frequent disputes between the
laboring men and their employers of le s ex
tent. and the consequences of which are con
fined within State limits and threaten do
mestic vtelence, the intetposition of such a
commission might to tendered, upon the ap
plication of the Li gislature or e cecutive of a
State, under tle constitutional provision,
which requires the? general government to
“protect ’ each of the States '‘against d' mes
ti; violence.”
If curli a commission werefairly organi c-.!
the risk of a loss of px>pu’ar support aud sym
pathy, resulting from a refu-al to submit to
so peaceful an instrumentality, would con
strain both parties to such disputes to invoke
its interference and abide by its deci ions.
There would also lie good reason to hope th t
the very existence of such an agency would
lav ile application to it for advice and coun
sel. frequently resulting in the avoidance of
cc nte utiou and misunderstanding.
If the usefulness of such a commission is
doubte l bceau-e it might lack power to en
force its decisions, much eu ouragement is
derived from t he concede I good tnat has teen
a compiishc I by the raiiroad commissions
which have teen organized in many of the
States, which, having little mor© than advi
sory power, have exerted a most satisfactory
influence in the settlements of disputes be
tween conflicting interests.
In July. ISS4, by a law cf Congress, a
Bureau of Labor was established and placed
in charge of a Commissioner of Ixibor. who
is required to “collect information upon the
subject of labor, its relations to capital, the
h nrs of lahor and the earnings cf laboring
men aud women, and the means of promot
ing their mater al, social, intellectual and
moral prosperity.”
The coannisticn which I suggest could
easily he eng afted u;ion the bureau thus
a.ready organised by the add ticn of two
it ore < 034111 and by supplementing
the duties now opposed upon it by such
other powers aud limct'ons as would per
nut the commissioners to act as arbitrators
wren necessary between labor end capital
under »ti« h I rmtatioiri and upon such ccca
s!o:i' a- 4ro .'.d I e deemed pn>;x*r and useful.
l ower shmtid ato> be distim t.v conferred
upon this bureau to investigate the causes of
ad « i .t«putes as theyo.Tcur. whether sabrtiitted
for at i»*tratiou or tiof, an t' at information
may always i»- at hand t.» ai l legi-lat on on
titv subject wli.ii i.ec 'sriry .".mi desirable.
Grover Cleveland.
Executive Mansion. A:»r i ‘.rt.
Being either way up in the attic of
ecstacy, or way down in the cellar of
despair, is bad policy. Any fool can
become comparatively happy in life if
he will take a position on the fence and
stick to it
Wuen on earth the Creator taught
truth in simple and homely phrases, yet
the simpleness of the language rendered
his words eloquent and more convincing.
THE PAN ELECTRIC MUDDLE.
GARLAND BEFORE THE INVESTI
GATION COMMITTEE.
The Attorney-Ge tier a] Explains His Be.
latious to the Telephone Company.
Attorney-General Garland fortified before
I the Pan Electric Telephone .Investigation
committee of Congress at Washington on the
19th. As soon as he was sworn Mr. Garland
put in evidence his statement made to the
President and bis Cabinet last October con
cerning his connection with the Pan Electric
Company. He said that as far back
as February, 1883, Mr. Atkins, the
present Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sug
gested that witness, being a poor man like
himself, to enter into the Pau Electric
enterprise. Mr. Garland replied he had
never male any money except at law and
poker, nnd at poker he frequently lo.rt. and so
ne hesitated about going into the company-
Subsequently he met Senator Hairis, Casev
Young, Mr. Atkins aud Dr. Rogers at the
latter’s house, where they talked about the
general idea of organization of the Pan Elec
tric company, aad he concluded to go into it.
When, later on, parties urged him as Attor
ney-General to bring a suit against the Ball
company by the government he at once
refused to do so. He had looked into the
matter carefully, and concluded that owing
to his interest in the Pan Electric company
he could not and would uot touch it.
Mr. Garlanl declared tho organization of
tho Pan Electric company simply au under
taking by five or six impecunious men who
wanted to better their condition in a legiti
mate business enterprise. He never intended
to use his official position (being then a
United States Senator) in the interest of the
company. The original stockholders had paid
in their assessments and went ahead
in a proper manner to bring * out
Roger 1 invention. They had never tried
to boom the business. He for one took hold
of it as a legitimate business venture, and
regretted that it had not turned out better.
He had never looked into the question of the
legality of issue of the Bell patent. He re
garded tho Rogers patent as an improvement
over tho Beil, and .as no infringement
against the Bell, and therefore patentable;
but he did not want to be drawn into a dis
cussion about the validity of the Bell patent.
Van Benthuj’sen and others, Mr. Garland
said, came to him in July, 1885, representing
some telephone interests, and asked him as
Attorney-General to bring .suit in the name
of the government. He simply told them
that he could not have anything to do with
it, as he was a stockholder in the Fan Elec
tric company, a rival of the Bell company.
That was the last talk he had with any
body about it until after his return*”
from Arkansas, and tho thing had gone out
of his mind until he received a disnatch in
Little Ro k from parties iu New Orleans in
forming him that he was being complimented
for l.aving directed a suit to be brought
against the Bell company. He never told
any one that in his absence an application
coul I be made to the Solicitor General.
He never maut oned the fact to Mr.
Goode that an application for a suit
was on file, in fact, never mentioned tele
phone matters to Mr. Goode until after his
return from his Arkansas trip. Mr. Gar
laud denied positively that he timed his visit
so that he might be away from Washington
while th? Solicitor-General was considering
the application. Ho made arrangements to
go six weeks before leaving. He went
to Arkansas, as had been his practice for a
number of years, in the month of September,
when deer were in season, and as he went
for recreat'on and to get awny from
business, from letters and paprts, he directed
that none be sent to him at Hominy Hill,
v hera ho spent the month. Hominy Hill,
the AtU>rney-General said, was fifteen
from Little Rock and seventeen miles frefrn
anywhere else, and he never heard a
word mentioning his name in connec
tion with ordering the government suit until
the 27th of September, when he returned to
Little Rock. In reply to a question Mr. Gar
land said that at the time his name was first
mentioned, and subsequently., nothing was
said to him by any one about the office of
Attorney-General being advantageous to the
Pau Electric company. “I never dreamed
of such an idea, and I have never tried, and
never thought of trying, to use the office or
its powers to benefit the Pan Electric com
pany.”
Mr. Garland could see no impropriety in
taking the interest he had taken in the com
pany. Other government and Congressional
officers were interested in all kinds of pri
vate enterprises.
During his cross-examination by Mr. Ran •
ney, the Attorney-General statfid that he acted
as attorney for the Pan Electric company to
the extent of examiningend in some instances
making papers and documenta. He often
met gentleman connected with the Pan Elec
tric company in his committee-room of the
Senate; butthero never was a meeting of
the company held in his room. Mr. Garland
reiterated that he had refused to converse
upon matters relating to suits against the
Bell company since he assumed the duties of
bis present office.
The Faintest Possible Hint. -
“Mrs. Dusenberry, I wish I were you
for three or four days. I’d manage to
have this house-cleaning done.”
“Oh, you do, aid you would, Mr. T)u
senbrrry? Well, do you know what J
would do were I you for but half an
hour?”
“Well, what would you do. dear;”
“I’d go out and buy my wife a new
?pring bonnet.”— Philadelphia Call.
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