WORK 01 CONGRESS?
Immigration Matters Will Probably
Be Considered First.
AFTER MORE RESTRICTION.
{resent Status of the Bill Providing For
an Educational Test—Reasoning Bas-
ed Upon the Election Results
In Several States.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. —The special cor-
respondent of the New York Evening Post
sends the following to his paper:
If the order of business now agreed upon
in the senate remains unchanged, the first
question to which the attention of the
country will be invited on the assembling
of congress will be the further restriction
of immigration. This will come up before
tariff or finance. Senator Lodge (Rep,
,Mass.), who had charge of the Lodge-Mc-
Call bill establishinga modified education-
al test for the further restriction of immi-
gration, was obliged to leave Washington
for St. Louis a few days before the close of
the last session. In the closing hours the
educational test bill, which had passed the
house, was seeking consideration by the
senate, but its consideration was put over
from day to day, chiefly through the efforts
of Mr. Hill (Dem., N. Y.) and Mr. Gibson
(Dem., Md.), till it became obvious that it
could not then be passed. Thereupon Sen<
ator Platt (Rep. , Conn. )as‘ked unanimous
consent that the bill should be taken up on:
the first day of the coming session. To this
proposal Hill and Gibson were obliged to
give reluctant consent, especially since they
had contended that they were not opposed
to consideration in itself, but had merely
doubted the wisdom of taking up valuable
time so late in the session for that purpose.
Accordingly, if no new order of business is
adopted by unanimous consent, the 7th of
December will witness the opening of the
immigration question.
There is a prevalent opinion that the re-
sults of the election have dampened the
ardor of the advocates of further restric-
tion, on the ground 'that districts where
the foreign vote was heaviest have proved
more loyal to the gold standard tl‘ “an the
native American neighborhoods. Whether
it is t1ue that the foreign vote has actually
stood for this is something which can never
be known accurately, and the reasoning by
which this conclusion is reached is attacked
by the advocates of restriction as illogical.
The southern states, for example, show the
smallest percentage of admixture of foreign
blood, yet no one supposes that this fact is
closely related to their preference for
Bryan.
Puzzling Facts.
The south voted for Bryan largely be
cause his name was on the Democratic tic—
ket, and it is not easy to believe that had
the percentage of German, Irish and French
voters been 30 per cent, instead of less than
3 per cent, the result would have been
different. Massachusetts, with its 29 per
cent of foreign vote, 1‘ vc the third largest
majority for McKinley in the whole coun-
try, but since there are no statistics on the .
subject each person must decide for hi‘m- '
self whether the 29 per cent of foreign vote
increased or decreased the ratio of McKin-
lby’s lead throughout the state. The'dis-
tinctively German newspapers of the coun-
try supported McKinley very generally,
while the Irish weeklies were quite as uni-
form in their support of Bryan. It is
. therefore difficult to make generalizations
concerning the foreign vote as such and
particularly unsafe to infer from majori-
ties rolled up in any given states that those
majorities were directly related to the per-
centage of foreign vote which the census
had ascribed to those states. These ques-
tions will doubtless all come up when the
general subject Of immigration is once
called into senatorial discussion. ,
For the purposes of the present 'Lodge-
McCall bill the discussion of its effect upon
future elections on the basis of the foreign
vote cast at the recent election has little
hearing. The educational test is designed
to exclude illiterates coming from the coun-
tries of eastern Europe, and statistics show
that very few German and Irish immi-
grants would be affected by the passage of
the bill. In other words, what is desig- ,
rated as the foreign vote in current news-
paper tabulations is not the prospective
vote Which the friends of the educational
test are particularly afraid of. The per-
sons whom it is desired to exclude have as
yet made little impression upon the voting
lists, and they probably represent in any
state of the Union a very trifling percent-
age of the present electorate. The course
of Russians and Laplanders who are to
come in the future cannot be judged from
the example of the Germans and British
islanders already here.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK. Nov. 23.—_Money on call easy
at W per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
4}é@5'7é per cent,, Sterling exchange firm.
with actual business in bankers‘ bills at 84.6634
«214.35% for demand and 84.82%@4.83 for 60
days. Posted rates, [email protected]}{3 and 34.86%
4.87. Commercial bills, $4.81. Silver certifi-
cates, sales,.$2,000 at 65%0. Bar silver, 653$.
Mexican dollars. 50960. Government bonds
strong. State bonds quiet. Railroad bonds
firm. '
Closing prices: ‘
Atchison .......... 14%, New England..... —
Bur. & Quincy.. .. 78% N. J. Central ...... 100%
0.. 0., C. & St. L.. 30 North A erican. 5
Chesapeake &O.. 16% Northern aciflc. 15
Chicago Gas ...... 76 Do. pref ......... .. 25%
Cordage..." ...... 6 N. Y. Central” 94%
Gullon Oil ........ 15 Omaha ...........
Del. & Hudson. ”my Ontario & West. 15%
Distillers' Trust. . — Pacific Mail ...... . 3
Eric ............... 16% Reading........... 31%
General Electric.. 33%, Rock Island ...... .89%
hocking Valley.. 17% Silver Bullion. ... . 65%
Lacl-;awanna......l58 St. Paul ........... 7%
Lake Shore. .. ..151 Sugar Refinery. .ll7%
Le.ul .............. 25% Texas Pacific ...... 10
Louisville & Nash 50 Union Pacific ..... 10
Missouri Pacific” 22% Wabash pref ...... 16%
Northwestern. . . .1091 Western Union. . . 86%
General Markets.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—FLOUR—State and
western quiet and steady; city mills patents.
$5. 10@5. 35: winter patents. $4. 75@4. 90; city mills
clears. 84. W. 90; winter‘straights. 34. W. 65.
WHEAT—No. 2 red opened easy on lower
cables, but promptly turned strong on cover-
ing and prospects of a liberal visible supply re-
duction; December, 84%@8516c.; January, 84A
CORN—No. 2 quiet. but stronger on cover-
ing: December, 29%@29}fic.: January, 30%0.
OATS—No. 2 dull, but steady; December, 22%
28%“ May. meme.
PORK—Dull; mess, $8. 25@8- 75: family. $10. 50
ll.
LARD-Firm: prime western steam, $4.,20
nominal.
BUT BER—Steady; state dairy, 11@19c.: state
cream ry, lawn.
CHEESE—Steady; state, large, 7m1014c. ..
small, 7m10MO.
EGGS-Steady; state and. Pennsylvania. 22@
360: western, 15W.
TALLOW—Easy; city, 3160.; country. 3550.,
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for $|.OOa Year-
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SAW A GHQST AND DIED.
That is. Montgomery Thought ~~He Saw
‘ One, and He is Surely Dead.
Robert Montgomery of Wanamie.
near Wilkesba‘rre, died under very pe‘
,. culiar circumstances, and evidently
from fright or a belief that he had
been walned 01‘ his app1oaching death
by a wraith, and that he had a pre-
monition that he could not live.
For years Montgomery was employed
as pump runner in No. 18 colliery of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com-
pany at Wanamie. He was a brave
soldier in the late war, and was not
easily frightened. Two weeks before
his death he said that while he was
attending to his work he heard a pecu-
liar noise in the mine. He paid no at-
tention to it at the time.
A few minutes later a peculiar feel-
ing came over him as though there was
an awful draught circulating through
the mine and he became chilly. He
looked up from his work, as he had
just started to oiljthe,machinery, at
the repetition of the strange noise. He
claimed he felt as though there was
some one elSe about besides himself.
He could not see any one, and strained
his eyes far into the dark recesses,
Then he beheld a white object about
the size of :1 1111111. It moved about as
though floating in the air and kept a
certain distance from him. He spoke
to the strange apparition several
times, but not a sound came from it,
and it Soon disappeared from view,
keeping its face toward him all the
time.
Montgomery at once made a search,
but failed to find any one lurking or
hiding about, and he was in a quan-
dary to explain the matter. He was
very much affected, and told his
friends he regarded the wraith as an
omen of death. He at once gave up
his position and a. couple of days later
took to his bed. although he had no
specific sickness which the doctors
could discover. He continued to talk
of the wraith, and said it was of no
avail to take medicine or care for him-
self, that he was doomed, and might
as well reconcile himself to death.
Some of his friends tried to dispel
his thoughts about death, by saying
it was a man sent in by the company
to see if he performed his duty. But
the deceased would never believe any
thing else but that it was the omen of
death, and grew gradually weaker un-
til the death he had looked for came
early . one morning—Philadelphia
Press.
Her Fortune in : tamps.
There is a woman in New York to-
day who actually posseses the round
sum of $100,000, and is nevertheless
as poor as the poorest wretch who has
.just been deposited in the street by a
not tender» sheriff.
Her husband had been very rich, and
Was supposed to be a shrewd mail. He
met the Waterloo of his career when
‘ he converted all his savings—some
5125,000—in the‘purchase of Columbian
stamps when they were first issued,
with a view of selling them afterward
at a premium. He had great expecta-
tions, but they failed to materialize.
The panic came on and money grew
Scarce. He died shortly afterward. a
much disappointed man, leaving his
whole estate, appraised at $190,000 to
his wife. This estate consists of
stamps, from a penny upward.
Now comes what you may call a
paradox of life. 'His widow, who has
all her life been accustomed to all the
luxuries, a loving husband and all that
wealth can procure, suddenly found
herself as poor as any washerwoman
with nothing in this world to support
her but a pair of strong, willing
hands. There were pressing debts,
terms overdue, and bills galore. The
poor woman was in despair. She tried
to sell the stamps in big batches,, but
failed to realize more than $2,000
which hardly covered the expenses of
burial and probating the will.
“As a last resort we applied to the
Postmaster General, offering to sell
the stamps oriexehange them for oth-
ers used at present. On October 16.
we received a short reply. It stated
briefly that ‘neither this department
nor its postmasters will redeem or ex-
change postage stamps.’ ”—New York
Herald.
A PARIS SUGGESTION.
Didn’t Get Her Present.
lilamrna~“ch11, Edith, 110w did you
like the kindergarten?” "I didn’t like
it a bit. The teacher put me on a
chair and told me to sit there for the
presvnt..~1nd I sat and sat, and she
t]!
The Beadle (to New. Minister)—1‘
didna-like the sermon for three rizzins
—first ye read it; secondly, ye didna
rowel i: wait: thirdly, it wasna worth
l'LLaiuH-‘F'bAUlCh. .-..._
,nAZETTE
The RInderpeat In Africa. .
LONDON, Nov. 23.—It is announced that
the colonial bacteriologist, Codington, has
discovered the microbe of the rinderpest,
which has been scourging South Africa.
No details have yet been given, but the
advices regarding the rinderpest are de-
cidedly pessimistic, some of the pioneers
going- so fares to express the belief that
this terrible cattle disease may eventually
'overrun the entire colony.
Chile's New Cabinet.
SANTIAGO, Nov. 23.—The' new cabinet -
which has just been formed, is made
up of the following‘members: Minister
of the interior, Senor Carlos Antunez; for-
eign affairs, Senor Moria Vicuna; finance,
Senor Justiniano Sottomayor; justice,
Senor Frederico Pugaborne; war, Senor
Fernandez Albano; industry, Senor Bor-
javaldes.
Another Calf (Jase.~
Two farmers of Beech Springs, V3,,
went to law a short time ago over a
calf, valued at 82 which one accused
the other of stealing. The litigation
caused the farmers $50 each, and the
case was dismissed. The next day the
calf was found dead in a cave' on prop—
erty that did not belong to either of the
litigants.
...;
A late bishop of a somewhat inquis-
itorial character once wrote the follow-
ing query to the church wardens Of a
parish in his diocese: “Are the con-
versation and carriage pf your clergy-
man consistent with his holy office?”
The reply was: “We can’t say noth-
ing about his convarsion, but he don’t
keep no kerridge.”——Household Words.
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ofa furnace has much to do with its success-
ful d1stribution of heat. -- The Bay State has
a large steel plate radiator so constructed that
every point is subjected to a powerful heat.
The result 15 that the Bay State invariably
grees temperature in a cold day than any
other furnace of equal size or cost. We
demonstrate the points here advertised about
the Bay State Furnace in the literature which
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For the last 20 years we have kept Piso’ s Cure for Con-
sumption in stock, and would sooner think a groceryman could
at along without sugar in his store than we could without
giso’ ’s Cure. It is a sure seller.——RAVEN & CO., Druggists,
Ceresco, Michigan, September 2,1896.
Brooklyn Vault Light Company,
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