U. S. SENATE SETTLES DOWN

Henry Cabot Lodge.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, December 4, 1895.

SENATE SETTLES DOWN.

Huge Grist of Bills Already Introduced.

MONROE DOCTRINE AND CUBA.

Resolutions on These Important Subjects Submitted and Will Be Immediately Considered

—Lodge Wants Our Position Enunciated.

   WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The senate has plunged into real business. Naturally the president's message attracted the main attention of the day, but aside from this there were stirring resolutions on the Monroe doctrine and Cuban rebellion, and after that the usual deluge of bills and resolutions, running far up into the hundreds.

   The message was given the closest attention from all quarters of the chamber. At its conclusion, Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts offered a resolution, vigorous in terms, reaffirming the principles of the Monroe doctrine and presenting them in such form as to permit their enactment as a permanent law, rather than an expression of the policy advocated by President Monroe.

   In the same line was a resolution by Mr. Cullom of Illinois and another by Mr. Allen, Populist, Nebraska.

   The Cuban situation received attention from both the Florida senators, Mr. Call affirming a resolution for the recognition of the insurgents as belligerents and Mr. Pasco presenting resolutions from the city councils of Tampa and St. Augustine, Fla., expressive of the feeling for recognition of the insurgents. The Call resolution will be called up today so that Cuba and the Monroe doctrine will receive early attention, although the purpose is to afford opportunity for an expression of views rather than for an immediate vote.

   At the brief executive session the nomination of Mr. Olney as secretary of state and Mr. Harmon as attorney general were confirmed, and that of Rufus H. Peckham to the supreme bench referred to the judiciary committee.

   Mr. Lodge's resolution in relation to the Monroe doctrine is as follows:

   Resolved, That the congress of the United States deem it proper to assert, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are not henceforth to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

   Resolved, That we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere, but with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.

   Resolved, That in accordance with the doctrine laid down by President Monroe, as stated in the preceding resolutions, the United States declares that it proposes to maintain the principles embodied in that doctrine and will regard any infringement of it or any attempt on the part of any European power to take or acquire new territory on the American continent, whether under pretense of boundary disputes or otherwise, as an act of hostility to the United States.

   Resolved, That the president be requested to communicate these resolutions to the governments of all nations with whom we have relations of amity and commerce.

   Senator Cullom also introduced a resolution enunciating the Monroe doctrine. It is as follows:

   Resolved, That the policy proclaimed by President Monroe and since known as the Monroe doctrine, is by precedent and tradition the recognized, rightful policy of the United States and that this government will regard the establishment by any European power of any new colonial dependency or of any protectorate over any existing or future government, or the extension of any territorial possessions, or the control or ownership of any inter-oceanic canal on the continent of America as a dangerous menace to the welfare and prosperity of the United States.

   Senator Call's resolution on the Cuban situation is as follows:

   Resolved, That the government of the United States recognizes a condition of public war between the government of Spain and the government proclaimed and for some time maintained by force of arms by the people of Cuba, and the United States of America, strict neutrality between the contending powers and accede to each all the rights of belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States.

   The congress of the United States protest and remonstrate against the barbarous manner in which the war in Cuba has been conducted, and the president is hereby authorized to take such steps as may be expedient, in his judgment, to secure an observance of the laws of war as recognized by civilized nations.

ANOTHER DEATH RESULTS

From the Wreck at Preble—He Was an Actor.

   NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Edward Clifford, who played a leading character part in "A Bowery Girl," at the Grand Opera house Monday night died at his home in [Streitberg], N. J., early yesterday morning from a shock received in the railway accident at Preble, N. Y. When the accident occurred Mr. Clifford was asleep. He was thrown heavily and it is believed he sustained internal injuries.

   On Monday he complained of severe pains in his body. On Monday night he played his part and after the performance went to his home. About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning he became ill and died soon afterward.

"Sam Sloan" Engine No. 6.

EXPLODED THEORIES.

NO CLUE FOUND TO THE TRAIN WRECKERS.

Still a Mystery—Several Ideas Run to the Ground—Detectives Hard at Work.

   This is the third day since the terrible wreck of the night express at Preble, and the matter is still as much shrouded in mystery as on Sunday night. Detectives are constantly at work and it is sincerely hoped that some results may come out of their efforts.

   An attempt has been made to connect four Cortland young men with the affair, Messrs. Everett Hardy, William Campion, George Chamberlain and John Byrnes, but there is little question but that they can prove a complete and absolute alibi, and those who know them would certainly be very slow to give any credit to the idea that they could be concerned in such a dastardly deed.

   A STANDARD reporter interviewed Mr. Campion on the subject to-day. He was greatly concerned and very indignant at the suggestion, and said that he could easily prove the impossibility of his being at Preble before the wreck. Mr. Campion said that on Sunday afternoon he and George Chamberlain started at about 3 o'clock for Tully to see some young lady friends. They had a single horse and carriage. At about the same time Hardy and Byrnes started in a similar rig. Hardy was dropped out at Tully to see a young lady and Byrnes went on to Apulia to see another one. The three remained at Tully until 11 o'clock. Byrnes then came back, and all four started for home, Hardy and Byrnes about ten minutes ahead. The express train left Tully just as the first team started. When they came over the brow of the schoolhouse hill two miles south of Tully they saw the glare of the fire produced by the burning cars. They drove as fast as the horse could go. Campion and Chamberlain pushed forward on the crossroad from Baltimore toward the railroad station and left their horse at the last barn before reaching the railroad track. They were about hitching to a post when a lady came to the door and asked if they would not prefer to drive their horses into the barn and offered them the barn key which they accepted.

   Just before reaching the house they met Byrnes, accompanied by a strange man, going the other way in his buggy. It appears that when Byrnes and Hardy drove up to the wreck the latter got out and this man asked Byrnes to take him back quickly to the Italian camp near Baltimore to summon them to assist at the wreck. (Baltimore is a little hamlet at the junction of the main north and south road and the crossroad leading past the depot to Preble.)

   The four boys stayed there until 12:20, which exact time is remembered because one asked the other what time it was, and then Campion and Chamberlain started for home. Hardy did not wish to go then, but remained and came down on the wrecking train. Byrnes brought with him Harry Greenman, who had been on the wrecked train and who was anxious to get home.

   The Syracuse authorities were confident last night that they had found a man who knew more than be ought to about the wreck. At about 9 o'clock last night a tramp went into police headquarters there and asked for a night's lodging. His aversion to answering questions aroused suspicions. He gave the name of George Sowerby and said that he had come from Binghamton and had spent Sunday night in the station house in Cortland. A telegram of inquiry sent here to Chief Linderman brought a reply that no tramps had been locked up here for five days and none had applied for lodging late Sunday night. This deepened the suspicion that the man was not telling the truth and when he was brought face to face with Detective Sevenoaks of the D., L. & W. R. R. and the latter addressed him as "Smart" and said that he had seen him in Tully Tuesday morning they were sure he was a person they were looking for. It appeared that the fellow had applied for lodgings at the Tully lockup Monday night and had been sent to the hotel by the authorities saying that the town could pay for his lodging there. The hotel thought he looked like a suspicious character and refused to entertain him He then went back and broke into the lockup and spent the night there on a cot. There was no fire, and in the morning his boots were frozen to his feet. Detective Sevenoaks saw him in Tully that morning and he said his name was Jim Smart and that he had been held in Cortland five days on the charge of vagrancy, having been released Monday morning. The fact that his stories in Tully and in Syracuse did not agree was certainly a suspicious fact, but it proved that the Tully story was correct, for Sheriff Hilsinger informs us that on Monday morning he discharged a man from the county jail who had been there five days and who gave his name as Smart and the description of him tallies with the description given by the Syracuse authorities. He had been committed from Homer by Justice A. W. Kingsbury. This shows that it is best for a person always to tell the truth and then it will always be one and the same story. As it is, this explodes the theory of this tramp.

   The inquest begins to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Coroner Moore has subpoenaed about a dozen witnesses. District Attorney Burlingame will be present at the inquest. The search for the wreckers goes on, but nothing has turned up yet.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Telling the Truth.

   The Society For the Promotion of Truthfulness has its hands full. It first endeavors to ascertain what causes people to lie, and second, how to correct the habit. It has reached a very positive conclusion as to one cause of prevarication. It is the failure of people to mind their own business. Many persons—and we regret to say more women than men—will fairly turn their acquaintances inside out with their merciless, vulgar curiosity. No sorrow is too sacred, no disappointment too private, no secret, trembling hope too fine and far away for them to rip open and probe into with their vulgar beaks.

   The only refuge of a person who is strong in courtesy and weak in combativeness is to evade the prober with a lie, shading from white to gray or black, according to circumstances. Yes, decidedly the habit of probing into other people's business fosters the practice of lying. The first task of the Society For the Promotion of Truthfulness is to teach the malicious impertinents to respect the sacred privacy of another person's mind and not ask that person questions they themselves would not like to be forced to answer.

   Children become liars through fear, the society has ascertained. Ordinary parental discipline asks a child if it did a certain bad thing and adds usually, "If you did, I'll whip you within an inch of your life." What child, or grown person either, would not falsify under such circumstances?

   Finally there is the picturesque liar, who stretches things merely for the purpose of hearing himself tell a big yarn. He is the most hopeless and harmless of all. The only revenge his acquaintances can take on him is never to believe a word he says even when he does speak true.

   Mrs. Frances Albert Doughty, who seems to be something of an expert on the subject, has discovered that when an individual who is generally inclined to be truthful is uttering a falsehood "the tone of the voice is thinner, less sonorous than in ordinary conversation," but the picturesque liar never has this trouble. He can repeat the wildest falsehood without winking or turning a hair.

Stop the Snowballing.

   The Ithaca Journal makes the following recommendations to the authorities of that city which will be equally applicable to Cortland: It would be best to start the winter right by putting a stop to the snowballing nuisance right at the start. The first boy or young man that the police catch throwing snowballs in the streets ought to be taken to the recorder's court and there be given the punishment provided by the ordinance to prevent its practice.

   Snowballing in the streets is one of the most reprehensible of practices and the earlier prompt measures are taken the better for the city. The target for the snowballer is anything and everything, from the globe of a street lamp to men, women and children. He is particularly happy if he can get a shot at some toddling little child or an elderly person—some one unable to care for himself.

   Men and women who drive into town with produce have to run the gauntlet and frequently receive painful if not dangerous injuries. A general and determined crusade against the practice would break it up, and the way to start the crusade is to catch and fine the offenders.

Postcard showing trolley cars at the Cortland House, Cortland, N. Y.

A NEW CONVENIENCE.

Through Passengers on the Electric Cars Pay but Once.

   A new arrangement went into operation Tuesday morning on the electric cars by which through passengers to Homer or McGrawville pay but once instead of being obliged to produce the individual nickels two or three separate times as the case and route may be.

   A passenger between Cortland and Homer tells the conductor when he first calls for fares that he is going clear through. The conductor receives his dime, rings two fares upon the register and hands the passenger a blue ticket suitably punched which bears the inscription: "Continuous passage ticket. Good only for time and date and route canceled. Ten cents. Two rings. Watch the register. Keep this in sight."

   Before the passenger leaves the car the conductor will take up the ticket, but in the meantime it can he held in the hand, stuck in the hat or kept in any place which is easier than to fish in a pocket beneath an overcoat or cloak which is buttoned up. A blue ten-cent ticket is good for any ten-cent distance if properly canceled, whether it be between Cortland and Homer or McGrawville and the park or Cortland and the Polkville road.

   Between Cortland and McGrawville or any fifteen-cent distance a red ticket is used similarly inscribed except that it says "Fifteen cents. Three rings."

   Transfers will be given just the same wherever the passenger is entitled to one.

   This new arrangement will be a great convenience to the public and is but another manifestation of the constant effort of the Traction company to please their patrons and to make all things as easy as possible.

POMONA GRANGE

Held Its Quarterly Session in Cortland Tuesday.

   The quarterly session of Pomona grange of Cortland county convened in Good Templars' hall Tuesday morning with about 100 grangers in attendance. Every grange in the county was represented and a profitable meeting was held. The morning section was devoted to the reports of officers and to transaction of business.

   In the afternoon the fifth degree was conferred on seven candidates. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows:

   Worthy Master—N. F. Webb.

   Worthy Overseer—B. R. Knapp.

   Lecturer—Ward Woodward.

   Chaplain—Mrs. E. F. Greenwood.

   Steward—Lloyd F. Rice.

   Secretary—J. D. F. Woolston.

   Treasurer—Mrs. S. M. Byram.

   Assistant Steward—W. E. Russell.

   Gate Keeper—C. L. Day.

   Pomona—Mrs. W. E. Russell.

   Cerce—Mrs M. E. Rindge.

   Flora--Mrs. N. F. Webb.

   Lady Assistant Steward—Miss Nellie Byram.

   Member of Executive committee for three years—Frank Sears.

   Delegates to State Grange—N. F. Webb, Mrs. S. M. Byram, W. E. Russell.

   The following committee was appointed to make arrangements for the farmers' institute to be held in Cortland January 10 and 11: B. R. Knapp, W. L. Bean, Mrs. M. E. Rindge, Miss Kittie Day, J. D. F. Woolston.

BREVITIES.

   —A special meeting of the C. A, A. is called for to-night.

   —The full text of the president's message will be found to-day on the third page.

   —New advertisements to-day are—A. H. Watkins, page 4; A. S. Burgess, page 8.

   —Congressman Poole introduced a bill in the house yesterday to make Syracuse a port of entry.

   —The St. Vitus Dancing club give another of their popular parties in Vesta lodge rooms Friday evening of this week.

   —A regular meeting of the board of directors of the Tioughnioga club will be held in the club parlors this evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   —A special train of twenty carloads of collars, cuffs and shirts from Troy to Chicago passed over the D. & H. and Erie roads last night.

   —The East Side mothers' meeting will be held in the readingrooms on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 3 o'clock. Subject, "Work as an Element in the Character Building."

   —In its report of the teachers' institute at Whitney Point yesterday the Binghamton Republican says: "Dr. Cheney's address 'Do' commanded the attention of all."

   —The supervisors resumed their sessions at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and will doubtless conclude their business very soon. To-night they hold a banquet at the Cortland House.

   —The papers report a crowded house at Norwich Monday night for Mr. Edward P. Elliott, the impersonator, who appears at Normal hall, and that his selections were excellent and the audience well pleased.

Another Old Paper.

   Mr. Henry Yeaw of Blodgett Mills has shown us a copy of the Ulster County Gazette, which was published in Kingston, Jan. 4, 1800.  It is a four page paper with four columns to the page and is well preserved. It contains an account of the death of Washington and is printed in mourning dress.

Cortland Opera House, adjacent to Cortland House, facing Groton Avenue.

A "Thoroughbred."

   There is quiet a treat in store for the theatre goers of Cortland on Thursday evening, for there will be seen for the first time in this place the new London comedy success entitled "A Thoroughbred." The play is an adaption from the old English comedy "Still Waters Run Deep" and was first produced by the Kendalls at the Gaiety theatre in London where it ran for over one year. Last season it played in New York at the Academy for 100 nights to crowded houses. The play will be produced here with the same cast as seen in the New York production.