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- look better than others.
Silver Plated Ware
- For Holiday Pres-
ents.
These are all triple plated and in
the newest designs. The stock was
made for the finest jewelry trade,
but we are selling it at
Dry Goods Prices
Large dinner casters, 5 bottles at
980.
Child’s silver cup, handsome de-
sign, 25c.
Child’s silver cup in satin line’d
box, 740. .
Napkin rings, large assortment,
250, 39c, 49c, 75c, 98c.
Tooth pick holders, fancy shapes,
89c, 98c, 1.39.
Toilet bottles with silver basket
work, 250 and 390.
Ben bon dishes, various styles,
82,98.
Handsome fruit baskets, at 2.98 to
5.98. '
Individual salts with spoon. in
_ satin lined box, 12gc.
Silver card baskets at 1 49, 2 49
and .2 98.
' Sugar bowls, silver
glass bowl, 98c.
Crumb tray and
shape, 3 25
Pickle casters, at l 98, 2 49, 2 69
and 2 98
Rogers’ knives and forks, guaran-
teed 3 45 set i
4 piece silver tea set, only 9 98
Cake baskets from [98 to 6 49
Holmes 8: Edwards' table spoons,
guaranteed for twenty years, 2 39
set
Holmes & Edwards’ tea spoons,
guaranteed for twenty years, 98c set
Individual salt and pepper shaker,
in satin lined box, 1 49 set
Child’s set, knife, fork and spoon
to match, 98c set
Silver butter dishes, all new de—
signs, 1 98 to 6 98 set.
stand and
scraper, new
EN. 8 All our Silverware is
guaranteed by 17ch manufac—
tuners.
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Handkerchiefs
There’s much room for choice in
Handkerchiefs—choice in styles and
qualities and prices. VVe’re absolute-
ly certain that another display like
ours cannot be found in the twin
cities, and we think our prices will
In other
words a dollar will go farther here
than in most stores. Here are a few
items to measure the stock by:
Ladies’ colored border handker-
chiefs only 50 each ,
Men’s plain white or coloied bor-
der handkerchiefs 5c each
Ladies’ fancy embroidered hand-
kerchiefs at 10c each
Men's fine hemstitched linen hand-
kerchiefs at 25c each
'Ladies’ embroidered chiffon hand-
kerchiefsT5c each ‘
Men’s initial silk handkerchiefs
only 39c each. ‘
White silk mufiiers, new designs,
at 790 each
Fine silk mufflers extra large,black,
white or colored,98c
BOSTON STORE.
» * Telephone Call
5744.
FINE CHINA.
In Dinner Sets,
of the latest patterns.
DECORATED
'Cups, Saucers and
Plates.
Salads, .
Fruits,
Cracker Jars,
Toilet Sets
of the latest styles,
Banquet
Lamps,
Hanging and
Stand
Lamps,
Cutlery and
Skates,
at
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List of Patents.
List of Patents issued from the U. S. Patent
Office, December 19th, 1893, for the State of
Connecticut.furnished us from the ofiice of
EARL]: 8'. SEYMOUR, Solicitors of Patents, 868
Chapel street. New Haven. Conn.
J. Anspach and C. Bebstock. Bridgeport.
knob attachment. _
A. T. Bishop, Southmgton, floor or ceiling
plate for pipes. .
F. Gilbert. Seymour, fountain pen.
J. G. Hallas, Waterbury. hose sleeves. .
G. W. Kamerer, Norwmh, tool for dressmg
emery wheels. . _
E. A. Parker, Meriden, w1ne cooler. .
(l. M. Spencer. Windsor, dental hand piecc.
J. 0. Stevens. assignor by mesne assignment
to C. L. Tuttle and A. E. Mather, Hartford.
blind slat fastener. .
B. H. Toquet. Westport, drafting compasses-
SIEDE’S;
0 F005.
ESTABLISHED l 85 l .
{ SACRIFICE SALE.
ON account of the backward-
ness of the season we have
concluded to sell our entire stock
of high - class, fur garments at
about one-halt their cost.
$400 Seal Newmarkets...... ...$.’-295
$375 Seal Sacques, ruffle collar $249
$325 Seal Sacques. without “ $224
$250 Seal and Persmn Sacques $99
$350 Seal Dolmans .............. $99
The following Military Capes
have wide rufile collars. and 1 ange
from 25 to 35 inches in length:
$225 Seal Military. Capes ...... $129
$175 China Seal Military Capes $75
$175 PerSian Military Capes. . . .875
$100 Astrakhan Military Capes $39
$100 Wool Seal Military Capes $39
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880 Alaska Sable Capes .......... $40
75 Mink Cape-c .................. $35
$60 Beaver Capes ................ $25
$50 Persiian Lamb Capes ........ $15
$40 Astrakhan Capes ......... $12.50
$30 Astrakhan Capes ......... $10.00
$25 Brown Martin Capes ...... $8.99
$20 Kremmer Capes ........... $6.99
Mulls, Hats. Caps.Bobcs._Trim—
ming at about same reduction.
M anufactu ri rig
S Furrier.
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Norwalk Opera House,
CHRIfiTMAS,
Matinee and Night.
CO MING! COMING 2
Christmas will be here on
Monday, December 25th
PAT. inniiii‘i YGU.
Including America’s, brightest souberette.
Katie Rooney. supported *5} the following
well-known artists: Mattie Rooney,
_l_.
Josie
-Rooney. Annie Whitney. Madge St. Clair. Lou
Bell, John D. Griflin, Tom Peasley, Frank La-
tona, Harry S. Bartlett, John Harding. The
inimitable master PAT ROONEY,in the latest
successful muSical comedy
LORD RODNEY
A cyclone of fun! _Music. Mirth and Merri-
ment! . Popular Prices! Don’t forget the day
and date.
Seats on sale at Gregory‘s drug store. Nor-
walk, and (looks drug store, South Norwalk.
Tax Collector’s Sale.
EIQTICE is hereby given that the under-
_ Signed, Collector of Taxes.of the Borough
of Norwalk, under and by Virtue‘ of a certain
tax warrant, duly executed and signed by
proper authority. and. directed to the under-
SIgned, commandmghmi to levy. and collect of
WILLIAM MULCAHY,
and other persons named in the rate book. on
the list to said warrant annexed their several
proportmnsct the sum total as therein stated.
said sum being a tax or assessment laid upon
the assessment list made in 1893 by the inhabi-
tants of the Borough of_Norwalk,regularly and
legally assembled, to Wit, on the 16th day of
J anuar _ AD. 1893. met for the purpose of_pro-
viding or the Indebtedness of said Borough
1ev1es_upon the tollowmg described real estate
of said William Mulcahy. Situated in the Bor-
ough of Norwalk,and bounded as follows, to
Wlt ‘ =
. All that certain piece of land with the'build:
ings thereon Situatedun said Borough of N or-
walk, bounded northerly by highway known
as Cross street, easterly by land of estate of
Susan V. St. John. deceased. southerly by
land now or formerly of the heirs of Gould
Hoytand westerly by land of James and Jo-
hanna McCarty.
And 1 shall sell at Public Auction. on the
. ‘premises hereinbefore described.on’the 2lst
r
ay of February. A. D... 189i. at 9 o’clock a. In.
so much thereof as Will raise the sum of
Twelve Dollars. that being the proportion
of the said William Mulcaby of the sum total
in said list,together With the interest and pen-
alty charges of levy, sale. etc.
~ B ' HEIBTERCP fill EEMIP.
oroug i ax 0 so or. ist 1893.
Dated at Norwalk, Dec. 15th, A.D.. 1893.
REllllllflllL'
Please call and examine
our stock of
'Tl‘lllllllflll Hats all Bflllllllll,
which we are offering at a great re-
duction. Our imported Pattern Hats
we have reduced to one half the orig-
inal price. Polite attention whether
you wish to purchase'or not.
MISSES ST. JOHN,
49 Wall Street.
scum NOR‘WALK. "
O. U. A. M. meets to-night.
The Bowayton M. E. Sunday school
will hold its Christmas festival to-mor-
row evening. '
Think of how the poor will suffer
throughout the hard winter months to
come, and give.
T. Harold March, agent for the Claf-
lin piano, yesterday sold two more of
those fine instruments.
FarlOn O’Gra and Fran-ka’HE‘i'a
were this morning fined $1 and costs
for drunkenness, by Justice Barrett.
The representation of the last city
meeting in Trowbridge & Co.’s Wash-
ington street window attracts consider-
able attention.
W. A. Benedict has completed the
Turkish booths in his new store on
Washington street and the public are
cordially invited to call and see them.
mMary Kery and Stephen Lesko went
to Port Chester this morning and were
married. The case against Stephen
will be dismissed to-morrow.
No. 8 Has a Son.
VANCOUVER, B. 0., Dec. 22.-—~'l‘he
Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of
India arrived from Japan and brings
word that the imperial parliament opened
Nov. 25, and on the 30th of Nov. it had
the pleasure of congratulating the em-
perdr on the birth of a son. The mother
of this latest imperial prince is Madame
Seno Sachiko, the emperor’s eighth wife.
liliners Convention at Pittsburg.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 22.-—-—To-day the coal
operators in the fourth pool of the Monon-
gahela river advanced the mining rate to
two cents per bushel. The convention of
miners in Pittsburg to-day is the largest
eder held in this district. It is confidently
expected that the convention will termi-
nate the wage disputes in the Pittsburg
district.
Spanish Navy.
MADRID, Dec. 22.-—Admiral Cervera,
minister of marine, has submitted to the
cabinet a scheme prepared by a technical
committee to build a squadron of twelve
first- class gunboats, each of 300 tons bur-
den, and eight second-class gunboats of
100 tons for service in Cuban waters. The
cost of the squadron is placed at $2, 000, 000.
Largest Telescope iii the World.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.——The directors of the
university of Chicago decided to locate
Yerkes’ observatory at Geneva Lake, VVis.,
as an annex to the university of Chicago.
The construction of the observatory will
soon begin. It was at first intended to
build the greatest observatory in the world.
within the limits of the city of Chicago.
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Prohibition of DIeetings.
BERLIN, Dec. 22.—-The government is
preparing a bill amending the law in such
a. manner as will enable the authorities to
prohibit meetings that will tend to incite a
breach of the peace. The amendment is
intended to operate against anti-Semites,
anarchists and socialists. .
Glass Business Dull.
MILLVILLE, N. J., Dec. 22. -On the first
of January the two largest window glass
manufactories in Bridgeton will close,
throwing several hundred men out of em-
ployment. There is no sale for the glass
and all that is being made is packed
away in warehouses.
DIcycr Jury Discharged.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.--Judge Barrett
formally dismissed the jury in the Meyer
murder case on account of the insanity of
juror Low. The judge stated that be dis-
charged the jury with the greatest regret
but that it was the only course open to him.
Gone to New York.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 22,—Father
A. *V. Higgins, for eight years pastor of
St. Mary’s church, this city, has gone to
New York to assume the duties of pro-
vincial of the Dominican order. He was
chosen to this position a year ago.
Sentence for a Paris Socialist.
PARIS, Dec. 22.—The socialist, Moore,
who wounded M, Lockroy, with a revol-
ver on Aug. 12, was sentenced yesterday
at the Seine assizes to six years’ penal
servitude, to be followed‘with six years’
banishment from the country.
_ Big Gas Well.
PORTLAND, Ind, Dec. 22,— The largest
gas well by far over struck in this section
of the country has been drilled three miles
northwest of Camden, this county. ‘ It is
on the Confers farm. and is owned by the
E. \V. Baker company. ‘
New \Vestcrn Railroad.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 22—15 is stated
that several New York capitalists, to-
gether with United States . Marshal
Walker, are soon to join in the construc-
tion of a railroad from Salt Lake to Los
Angeles.
Cable Repaired.
PANAMA, Dec. 22.—The recent inter-
ruption of cable communication between
Colon and the West Indies was promptly
attended to and the cable was secured
and communication is now restored.
~ \Vhécl Trust.
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—-—Representatives of
20 leading wheel manufacturers in the
west met at the Auditorium and laid
plans for forming a wheel trus‘
Norwalk Hand Laundry !
COR. WALL .L- KNIGHT STREETS. :
All Work on By Hand.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Goods called for and delivered free of charge
8 3m MRS J. W. WA LSH,
TOWN BOARD or unit and.
HE Board of Relief of "the Town of Norwalk
on the Assessment List of 1893, wlll meet
’in the oflice of the Selectmen, Monday], Jan.
lst, 1894, at 2 o’clock P. BL, Wednesday,
at 7.30 o’clock, P. M., Saturday, Jan. 6th. at 2
o’clock,P.}.i.Wednesaay,J an. 10, at 7.30 o’clock,
p. m. Saturday, Jan. 13th, at 2 o’clock, P. LL,
an. 39
Saturday, Jan. 20th, at 2 o’clock P.M.. Wednes-’
day,Jan.24th at 7.30 o’clock p. m. and Saturday
January 27th. at 2 o’clock . in. for the purpose
of hearing and determln ii any and all ap-
peals made to them from t e doings of the
Aslessors. i '
The Board of Belief will meet with the As-
sessors as a Joint Board,Saturday, Jan. 13th,
at 2 o’clock P. M. for the purpose of abatlng
the polls Ofsick and disabled persons. ‘
. . ITH. ,- :
HENRY SEYMOUR. B ~d ' .
HENRY 1). FOX, '- '0” °~f Rem
Norwalk, Conn.. December 20th. 1893.. i760 tf
l‘hey all read the GAZETTE
lliEMlllllflll REPlllll
Arguments Adduced By Re-
publicans Against the
Wilson Tariff Bill.
Prepared By ex-Spcaker Reed—The
Democratic Measure Not a ‘Mauly,
Straightforward Efl’ort to Carry
Out. the Declarations of the Party——
Only a Tariff-Tinkcring, Bill‘ That
is Disturbing the Condition of Busi-
ness—An Effort to Substitute for a.
System Iof Protection Reasonably
Satisfactory One of \Vhich Nothing
is Known—A Deficit of $72,000,000
With No Suggestion as to How it
is to Be Overcome.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22,—The views of
the republican minority committee on
ways and means, as expressed by ex-
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, starts out in
characteristic fashion as fOIIOWS:
The most surprising thing about this
bill is the fact that this proposition to
raise revenue will lower, the revenue of
this country $74,000,000 below the reve-
nue of 1893, which was only $2,000,000
above our expenses.
Not Straightforward and Manly.
This fact and the other fact that by this
bill the largee part of the burden of taxa-
tion is transiferred from foreigners and
borne by our own citizens should be al-
ways kept in mind during the discus-
sion. Had the committee, in making
what the chairman on the floor of the
house has called a “political bill,” fol-
IOWed the plain uncompromising declara-
tion of the party which they represent,
and abolished protection, giving us a tariff
for revenue only, our task of commenting
upon the result of the committee’s efforts
would have been much more simple.
The bill would then have been a straight-
forward, manly att’empt to carry out
pledges, and would have placed in issue
tWI 'grcat principles, and have led to a
clear and comprehensible discussion. So
far, however, have the'committee departed
from the demands of their national con-
vention that we should have been much
tempted to borrow a phrase from their
own platform and designate the bill as a.
“cowardly makeshift,” were it not that
the results have been already too serious
for mere epithets. Such a phrase, even
thus sanctioned, would be out of place in
adiscussion which involves so much of
importance to all classes of citizens. It
still, however, remains a fact that the bill
presented can in no way be justified by
people who claim to have obtained posses-
sion of all'branches of the government
upon a distinct promise, which they now
as distinctly repudiate. .
If it should be said that these pledges,
solemnly made on a yea and nay Vote after
full discussion were not intended for ac-
tion, then the breaking of the pledges has
the additional disadvantages of premedi-
tation. If subsequent events—and they
have been numerous enough and weighty
enough to startle the country——have con-
vinced the committee that the democratic
platform is as utterly wrong and indefen-
sible as history will know it to be, then it
is a great misfortune to this country that
the committee did not have the courage
to openly abandon the false doctrine and
leave the country undisturbed, so that it
might convalesce from the shock of its
great mistake.
Tarifi-Tinkering Bill.
But thecommittee, instead of proceed-
ing in its great work of abolishing protec-
tion and preserving the people from
the load of taxation which they have
always averi-ed was the result of protec-
tion, has presented a. bill which is only
another tarifi-tinkering bill, the like of
which has disturbed the condition of busi-
ness so many times the last thirty years.
It is a great misfortune that such is the
case, for had the bill been for revenue
only, in the only sense possible for that
term, the people of this country might
have seen at one glance whether they de-
sired the one policy or the other, and the
question might have been settled once,
for all, and the country might have at-
tained to that repose, stability, and cer-
tainty which our business prosperity so
much needs.
To Blaintain Classes.
That, however, has not been made the
issue, but instead of that a newer and
fresher plan has been devised which those
who stand by principle and the Chicago
platform may still designate, and do still
designate, as a plan to foster and coddle
American industries, to maintain classes,
and to perpetuate taxation for other pur-
poses than revenue only.
‘ As to this new plan, the very first ques-
tion one is disposed to ask. why disturb
existing business relations if there is to be
no change in principle? If we are still to
have protection, why take this time to
cause a readjustment when the business
conditions are of such a character that
the greatest amount of disaster will be
the result.
A New System of Protection.
Were it proposed to make a radical
change and cause the business of the
country to be conducted on a new basis
there might possibly be arguments ad-
duced and plans presented which would
bejustifiable and satisfactory, but if pro-
tection be the object, why choose this
time of all others to substitute for a. sys-
tem of protection, which has proved
reasonably satisfactory, one of which we
know nothing and with the principle of
which the revisers are not in accord. , "
Creates Privileged Classes.
This other and fresher plan has all the
faults which the framers of this bill
charged upon the old, and very few of its
virtues. It is open to all the derisive and
harsh epithets with which the present
system used to be overwhelmed. It taxes
the people with tarifii taxes. It creates,
or rather proposes to maintain, what they
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used to call privileged closes, and is de-
fended by its authors by arguments and
expressions strangely like those which
they used so hotly todenounce. A manu—
facturer is told that the duty will protect
him, and his claims are listened to on that
basis, and are argued with him on that
basis, just as in the brave days of old;
How the Bill Was Formed.
The new democratic district-attorney
for the northern district of New York
comes down, as he had a right to, and
declares that from a protection standpoint
barley and malt cannot go together under
the same ad valorem, and promptly the
committee raise the tariff taxes from 23
per cent. to 30 to protect the manufac-
turer, though it must lessen the revs-
nue. So also someone has presented per-
suasively the cause of boards—planed,
tongued and grooved—to the committee,
and, although the lumber passes in the
same plant from the saws to the planers,
the work of the men who manage the
saws is unprorected, while the work of
the men who runs the planes is shielded
by protective tariff taxes. These are but
instances of corrections made where the
ear of the committee could be had, and
are keys to the notions on which the bill
was formed.
Free Raw blaterial Elastic.
The new plan also involves a new method
of encouraging manufacturers by giving
them what are called “Free raw materi~
als” so that what goes into the mill pays
no taxes and what goes into consumption
pays all the taxes. The manufactur—
ers pay no taxes on what they buy and
the people the equivalent of taxes on all
they purchase. It unfortunately happens
also that that “free raw material” is an
elastic term, and what is one man’s free
raw material is another man’s finished
product. The manufacturer in Massa-
chusetts is told that he is to be encour-
aged by having frcc lumber to build his
f"':.’.01‘y and to pack his goods, but inas-
much as that very lumber thus made
(free is the Maine manufacturers finished
product, no wonder the democrats of Ban-
gor, the mills'on the Penobscot being
unable to move a saw, denounce “class
legislation” with a new appreciation of
what class legislation really means.
Delusivc Advantages.
These so-called “free raw materials,”
free wool, free coal, and free iron, are not
put on the free list with any reference
direct or indirect to raising revenue. They
are placed there to encourage manufac-
turers who are to be compensated for any
loss in this market by the markets of the
world where they will have the chance to
struggle with the cheaper labor of. the old
world with whatever energy they may
have left after the struggle at home with
that same cheaper labor let into our mar-
kets by .'l lower tariff which does not give
us the Compensation even of a larger reve-
nue. These dolusive advantages are to be
given the manufacturers at the expense of
the miners who dig out the ores and mine
the coal, at the expense of the farmers who
raise the the wool, and the railroads which
transport all these products. \Vith these
advantages, thus obtained at the expense
of other citizens, the manufacturers,
forced by the Iowaring tariff to fight for
their markets at home, are to enjoy un-
limited foreign trade. How they can ob-
tain a foothold in foreign lands when this
very bill is drafted upon the supposition
that they cannot keep their own markets
without protection, seems beyond the do-
main of logic.
Does Not Raise Revenue.
The doctrine of the democratic platform
that protection is robbery and should be
abolished is comprehensible and sturdy.
The new movement on behalf of initi-
gated and sporadic robery is contrary alike
to morals and public faith. All false
pretenses are unwise, contrary to sound
policy and sound statesmanship. Hence,
many of us who are sure that the demo-
cratic plathrm is utterly untrue admit-
ted its strightforwardness and directness.
The bill, framed by those who represent
the platform, cannot receive that kind of
praise. It pretends to be a revenue tarifi,
and does not raise _ revenue. It pretends
to give protection, but destroys it in every
indirect way.
The Effect. on Wages.
Some men soothe themselves with the
thought that perhaps some return will
come from the cheapness of things made
abroad, without thinking that all that is
made abroad by this plan is but labor un«
employed and unpaid here at home. But
while this easy solution of the problem is
simple enough on paper, it will prove very
uncomfortable in practice. Men who have
worked at one rate of wages cannot be
easily taught in real life that it is. just as
Well to work at a lower rate. There is
also another view of the question of wages
which is not to be overlooked. Lessened-
wages means lessened consumption. It
wages were diminished one-half, one-half
our market for products would be gone.
Danger of Ad Valorem Duties.
An ad valorem duty as the name implies
is one which varies according to the price.
If prices could be exactly determined noth-
ing would seem to be fairer than an ad
valorem duty. But, unfortunately, prices
are very much matters of opinion, on
which honest men may differ much ‘ and
rogues much more. Inasmuch as the duty
depends on the price, a cheat on the price
is a cheat on the duty, and not only is tlfe
government cheated, but the manufac—'
turer is cheated oi the protection his gov-
ernment has prOllllst d him. So great have :
been the objections in . actual American
practice to the ad valorem duties that
among the names which can be cited
against item so he of the most illustrious
in American history, Hamilton, Gallatin,
Crawford, Webster and Van Buren, with
Buchanan and Daniel Manning. Such,
too, has been the experience of all other
nations, and their tariff bills show such
an exclusion of ad valorem duty as
makes even the act of‘ 1890 seem objec-
tionable on that very account.
As 3. Revenue Raiser.
How the bill will act as a. revenue
raiser and how it can act as an injury to '
the government and the producer both to-
gether, is well exemplified in the changes
made in the pottery schedule. 0n amount
equal to two-fifths of the imports are
made here, valued at $6,800,000. Nine
millions and a half are imported. Under
existing law the revenue obtained ‘is five
millions and a half. Under the proposed
bill, if the manufacturers hold their own,
and the most sanguine friend would not
dream of that, the loss in revenue would
be $2,000,000. If the manufacturers were
entirely driven out, all our ware should be
imported, the loss, even then, would be
$882,000. The crockery schedule seems
hardly to be managed with a view to
revenue.
Too Much Haste.
It is proper to add that this bill has been
hastened with as much celerity as could
be used, and hence there has been but
little time givenfor the country to exactly
formulate its objections. We trust that
that system is not to be continued, but
that full and free examination may ‘be
given to all the items so that the exact
measure of its damage may be calculated.
Speed in action must be repentance at
leisure.
An Appalling-
Another serious general objection to the
bill is that it decreases the revenue ac-
cording to the calculations usually made
by the treasury department as compared
with 1893 about $74,000,000. This large
deficit, coming as it does upon a. depleted
treasury, is rather appalling in a bill for
revenue only. How this great hole in
our resources, as a nation, is to be filled,
no one knows. At this date not even the
committee knows itself. ‘
Protest of the Minority.
Against the consideration of such a.
bill creating such a. deficit and leaving it
unaccounted for, the minority vainly pro-
tested when the bill was laid before the
committee. Who would date, of sound
and statesmanlike mind, to create 3 def—
icit of $74,000,000 and blindly vote it
with no plan in sight whereby the govern.
ment could meet its expenditures? That
same protest we make to the house and
to the country.
The bill ought not to be reported with-
out the internal revenue bill, which is to
make up the deficiency. Are we to pass
this bill and be then coerced into the
other? Who knows if they were presented
together that we might not prefer to stay
where we are? The progess of this at-
tempt at what has been called re-
form has_ already created such a feeling
that the country is stirred all over.
While, as party men, we might rejoice
at its passage, as citizens of the United
States we think the exigencies of the
present time are superior to even the most
desired "political advantage, and advise
that the bill do not pass.
Feature.
Receiver for Hotel Property.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. -—-Edward S. Stokes,
president of the Holfman house, has been
appointed receiVer of all the property of
the corporation, including. the Hoffman“
house, the Hoffman cafe on Beaver ' street
and the Hotel Claremont on Riverside
drive, in an action brought by the Farm-
ers’ Loan and Trust company,as trustee of
a mortgage for $150,000 for the foreclosure
of the same.
Boys Engage in a Prize Fight.
AKRON, 0., Dec. 22.—Two high school
boys, aged 17 each, fought six rounds,
bare knuckles, Marquis of Queensberi'y, in
an attic of a residence hu": Wednesday
night, in the presence of fifty --I.-it-‘l‘ school
boys. They were bated to tue waist and
fought like old time pugilists, but the
spectators becoming frightened at the loss
of blood called the match 01f.
Live Bird Shooting Match.
NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 22.—The live bird
match between J. A. R. Elliot, of Kansas
City, and Frank Class, of Morristown, Was
shot off at Erb’s Park yesterday. The
,match was won by Elliot, who killed 193
while Class was knocking over 182. This
puts Elliot two games ahead of Class.
The Charges Against Huge.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.44. Hampton
Hogs, consul to Amoy, has been furnished
with a copy of the charges against him.
There are but two, and each alleges the
improper retention of money collected by
him. . He says he can easily disapprove
them. >
A Most Brilliant Event.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2°L—The reception
given last night by the Union League club
to ex-President Harrison was a most bril-
liant affair. Many shining lights in re—
publican affairs and men prominent in
private callings Were present.
Damrosch’s Troubles.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Walter Damrosch.
it is said, has made such concessions to
the members of his orchestra that asettle-
«ment of the trouble is eXpected to be
reached to- day.
Not an Employment Bureau. ,
\VASHINGTON, Dec. 22. —Several requests
have been made recently for money from
the immigrant fund to send aliens homo _
who had lost their jobs here. They were.
all refused. .
Norwalk Chronicler