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| Sereno E. Payne. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, March 31, 1900.
WAR CLAIMS DEBATED.
Day in Congress Devoted to These Proceedings.
THREE BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE.
British Cable Company Matter Consigned to Oblivion—Adoption of Conference Report on Diplomatic and Consular Bill—Fun in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 31. —The house devoted the day to war claims. The bill to remunerate the British Cable company for expenses incurred in repairing the Manila cable cut by Admiral Dewey, which was under consideration several weeks ago, was consigned to oblivion, as was the bill to refer to the court of claims, the claims of citizens of certain border counties through the various incursions of rebel forces into that state during the civil war.
This bill has been before congress for many years and involves about $3,450,000. Three bills were passed: To refer the claims of George W. Lawrence (involving $17,000) in connection with the construction of the monitor Wussuc to the court of claims; to refer the claim of Hiram Johnson and others for cotton burned in East Tennessee by the confederate forces to the court of claims and to pay Mathias Pederson of Spring Valley, Wis., $300.
Mr. Payne concluded the debate upon the bill with a speech against it.
By a vote of 26 to 53 the committee refused to lay the bill aside with a favorable recommendation and voted that it lie on the table instead. The conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was adopted. Adjourned.
Fun in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Merriment swept away the traditional dignity of the senate yesterday. Staid sticklers for senatorial decorum literally held their sides and shouted with laughter, while the crowded galleries joined in the laughing tumult which not the faintest effort was made to restrain. Senator Pettus of Alabama, the oldest member of the body—his age being only a few months short of four score years—delivered the funniest speech heard within the senate chamber in many years. It sparkled with wit and bubbled over with humor. Its sarcasm was keen, but not bitter, and even those who were the victims of it could not but enjoy its perfect good humor.
Mr. Pettus turned his attention to the speech of Senator Beveridge and said in part:
"We had a wonderful declamation yesterday from our great orator—wonderful. It was marvelous in all its parts. It was so marvelous that I dare say that such a thing has never before been heard in the senate. When you get a genuine orator he is absolutely absolved from all rules of logic or common sense. When it is necessary in the fervor of oratorical flourishes to prove proposition true or false, rules of common sense and the decent observance of what is due to others must not stand in the way of maintaining 'my reputation' as an orator. It will not do. When an orator speaks he has a right in the fervor of his oratory here in the United States senate to speak of the members as enemies to the government…
"All these orators will do the same thing. We saw an instance of it yesterday afternoon."
The senate then held a brief executive session and adjourned.
Postoffice Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-The postoffice appropriation bill has been finally agreed upon by the house committee on postoffice and postroads. It carries a total of about $115,000,000. The largest item is, as usual, that for carrying the mails on railways, viz., $33,870,000, which is only a slight increase on the allowance of last year. The rural free delivery item is $1,750,000 and that for pneumatic tube service, $725,000.
Books of Stamps.
On and after May 1 postmasters will be supplied with small books containing two cent stamps interleaved with paraffined paper. The stamps will be in blocks of six to a page, making a book of convenient size to carry in a pocket or purse. Three sizes will be issued, holding twelve, twenty-four and forty-eight stamps each, for which an increase of one cent over the value of the stamps will be charged, the books selling at 25, 49 and 97 cents respectively.
AN AWFUL DEATH.
D. L. BAUDER KILLED BY TRAIN IN CHICAGO.
Ground to Pieces by a Wabash Train—Some Think it was a Deliberate Suicide—Said He had been Acting Strangely for Some Days.
CHICAGO, March 81.—D. L. Bauder, who for a number of weeks bad been boarding at a house on Indiana-ave., was literally ground to pieces last night by a Wabash passenger train at Fourteenth-st. and the Chicago & Western tracks. It is believed by some that Bauder met his death accidentally, while others declare that it is their opinion he deliberately threw himself in front of the engine. During the past few days his landlady had noticed that he was acting strangely. She said that Bauder told her that he had a sister and brother in Cortland, N. Y., who were wealthy and that he was left $100,000 a short time ago by his father. He gave up his position, he said, on account of poor health.
This morning Mr. Delos Bauder received a telegram from Chicago stating that his brother, Delevan Bauder, was killed there last night by the cars. The telegram gave no explanation whatever of the accident. Mr. Bauder started this afternoon for Chicago and will bring the body back with him.
Mr. Delevan Bauder was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Bauder and the next to the youngest of nine children, Miss Ann Elizabeth Bauder, Norman Bauder, deceased, Mrs. Kate Ingham, Delos Bauder, Mrs. W. D. Ingraham, Mrs. Mary Overbaugh, Mrs. O. L. Ingraham, Delevan Bauder, deceased, and Mrs. Glidden.
Mr. Bauder left Cortland about eight years ago. For two years prior to that time he was a partner with his brother-in-law, Mr. Ingraham, in the Messenger House. Mr. Bauder was a man who made friends and kept them, and a host of those in Cortland will be shocked to hear of his sudden death. Deceased was fifty-five years old the 10th of this month.
BASEBALL NOTES.
League Teams Will be Strong—Good Games are Expected.
[Cortland] Manager M. T. Roche returned from Utica this morning where he was in attendance at a meeting of the New York State Baseball league held in that city last night. Mr. Roche reports that the league is in tip-top shape and is stronger for business this year than ever before. Good teams are being hired by all the associations and good games will be the order of things this year.
The Oswego franchise difficulty was settled and as a result, the starch makers will be in the game. The schedule is being prepared and will be ready for publication soon. Manager Roche is also preparing a list of exhibition games to be played before the league season opens. This also will be ready for publication soon. In all it looks very much as though the admirers of the National game in Cortland would have an opportunity to see some of the best games of baseball this season that the place has ever known. The local management has spared no effort to get together a good team, which is now complete with the exception of two out fielders, and it is thought that these will be signed very soon.
SAVINGS BANK REMOVAL.
Old Landmark to be Preserved in "Grips" Historical Souvenir.
To the Editor of the Standard:
SIR—The first great improvement to take root under the revivifying influence of a city charter is the removal of the Savings bank from that old building at the corner of Main and Court-sts., to the big square imposing four-story brick block at Main and Port Watson-sts. This merely means an elasticity of business enterprise that will lengthen the business portion of Cortland by at least two blocks.
Of course the old Savings bank building will have to go to make room for a modern structure—What, that old landmark? Certainly. Was it not necessary to remove other landmarks to secure the charter? It seems to me that President Calvin P. Walrad, Cashier Benjamin L. Webb and their associates in the executive management of this institution are to be congratulated. Certainly they have set an example worthy of emulation, since it has been their pleasure to resume the harvest of landmarks which was begun so auspiciously in the opera house on Saturday evening, Feb. 24, and was temporarily suspended to obtain a breathing spell on March 16. It should be borne in mind that it was on the latter date that Gov. Roosevelt "felt of the pulse of the people," and then, two hours after he had bowed his Cortland friends out of the executive chamber, affixed his signature to the bill.
Now all of these things are historically, if not picturesquely, described in "The City of Cortland, N. Y.,'' better known as Grip's Historical Souvenir of Cortland. The portraits of President Webb and Cashier Walrad appear among at least a thousand other portraits of the principal and most progressive men and women of Cortland. But what will please many of their friends is that when the old bank has disappeared in fact, a clear picture will be preserved on the pages of this souvenir, not excepting the little popcorn man's emporium on the curb. Besides there are a dozen other landmarks long since disappeared, shown in this souvenir.
Mr. Editor! In closing permit me to say that it is my opinion that the souvenir can be completed and ready for delivery week after next. But my opinion in such matters does not seem to have counted for much in the past, so I will leave the question to McKinney & Doubleday who have possession of all the sheets and who I am sure will give the people of Cortland elegant bindings and do it promptly at any cost.
Yours fraternally, "GRIP."
THE OFFICERS OF THE CITY.
How Elected or Appointed and for What Terms of Service.
All matters of government of the city of Cortland are directed by the new charter which became a law on March 16. Some of the city officers are elected by the citizens, others are appointed by the mayor or by some other appointing body.
The elective officers are a mayor, city judge, chamberlain, assessor, two constables elected by the city at large, and one alderman and one supervisor from each ward, all of whose terms of office are two years.
The appointive officers are a city clerk appointed by the mayor for one year; a city attorney appointed by the mayor for one year; a city physician appointed by the mayor for two years; a commissioner of charities appointed by the mayor for one year; six members of the board of health appointed by the mayor for two years; four fire and police commissioners appointed by the mayor for two years; five commissioners of public works appointed by the mayor for two years; two appointive assessors appointed by the mayor for one year; one chief of police and four patrolmen appointed by the mayor to serve during good behavior or until removed by age limit or by board of police commissioners; as many commissioners of deeds as the common council may think necessary appointed by the mayor for two years. All of these appointments are subject to confirmation by the common council. The mayor also appoints nine members of the board of education upon the following plan: On or before Jan. 15, 1901 the mayor elected next November is to appoint three members of the board of education for three years, three members for two years and three members for one year. In each year thereafter the mayor will appoint three members of the board of education for three years to succeed those whose terms of office then expire.
Other appointive officers are a city engineer and superintendent of public works, both appointed by the board of public works for terms of two years each beginning March 1; and a superintendent of schools appointed by the board of education for a term of three years from Aug. 1. These cover all the officers of the city.
WILLIAM BAYS TALKS.
THINKS HIS NEIGHBORS HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM.
Claims He had Served Notice on Them All to Keep Away and that when He Fired He was only Defending His Property—Claims Neighbors had Tried to Poison Him and Steal from Him—The Wandering Talk of a Crazy Man.
A STANDARD man called at the courthouse to-day to interview William Bays, who was arrested yesterday by the officers on Virgil hill after a hard fight. He found Sheriff Brainard in bed under the orders of Dr. Higgins, his physician. His leg was pretty sore where he had been shot and the doctor didn't care to have him move his knee joint any more than necessary for the present till all danger of inflammation is gone. The ball plowed a course six inches long under the skin, entering above the right knee and being found and extracted below the knee. It was located about an inch below the surface of the skin.
Under Sheriff F. M. Hazard of Scott is in charge during the time the sheriff is disabled, and he very kindly admitted the newspaper man to the jail.
Bays is confined in the lower corridor and cells on the east side of the jail. He is a short and rather thick set man wearing a gray mustache. He looks muscular and as though he would be a hard man to handle. When asked about the occurrence on the hill he was inclined to talk freely, but it was perfectly evident that his utterances were the diseased ramblings of a disordered brain, though he talked earnestly and as though he believed every word he said.
He said that he was only defending his property as any man would do. The neighbors had all conspired against him and had formed a league to trouble him. They were determined to drive him away. They had stolen him poor. They had stolen stock and other things from his barn, and it was not even safe to leave the house to go out to do his haying in the summer time. He had personally warned them all to keep away. He also came before Justice of the Peace Bouton six or seven years ago and had him notify them all to keep away. All he wanted was to be let alone. But in spite of all that he knew they had broken into his house. He caught one of them coming out once. He and his sister had gone up the road a mile and a half. He passed the house of a neighbor and as soon as he passed that neighbor's house he saw the neighbor start right down toward his house. He left his sister at the house where she wanted to go and he hurried back as quick as possible. He met the neighbor coming out of his yard and away from the front door. He knew he had been inside and stolen things and he would have fixed him right then and there only he was unarmed. All the neighbors let their cows get out and wander down to get in with his and then they made the excuse to go after them and always unless he was right there to watch them they got into his barn and stole things. They had poisoned his cows and were trying to do it again.
The STANDARD man inquired if he had said anything to Christman the other day before he fired at him, anything to indicate to him that he didn't want him around or to warn him that he would shoot if he didn't leave. He replied that he did not, it was not necessary for they had all been warned years before.
He said the neighbors has spoiled his produce so he couldn't sell any of it. He had $700 to $900 worth of butter in his cellar, but he couldn't sell a pound of it because it had all been fixed in his absence and was poisoned. They were trying to make way with him.
The STANDARD man inquired what they put into it to spoil it, and he said he didn't know, but it was "some of their devilish things."
When those men came up there yesterday they were trying to rob him too. They were trying to drive off his cows and he hadn't but thirteen left. He felt it to be not only his privilege but his duty to go out and protect his property just as any man would. Probably they would all be stolen now while he was away from home. But some one had got to pay for this damage and loss to him. As soon as he went home he would see that it was collected.
And so the poor man rambled on. His talk was all along this line, and this is but a small portion of it. He absolutely refused to have his photograph taken, and said he would have nothing to do with photographers or newspaper men. He didn't know that the one to whom he was talking was a newspaper man. A reporter from the Utica Saturday Globe appeared on the scene to-day and set up his camera in the corridor, but Bays retreated to the darkest corner of the darkest cell and turned his back and wouldn't say a word of any kind, not even to answer a single question.
Miss Mary Ann Bays, his sister, occupies a room on the second floor. She absolutely refused to say a word, not even looking toward her caller and not taking any notice of him, but ignoring him completely. To the officers she expressed a desire to see her brother, and he too wants to see her, but that is not permitted as yet.
In explanation of the fancy of Bays that his neighbors have poisoned his cows it may be said that some five or six years ago he got out of hay, but had an abundance of corn meal. He concluded to carry his cows through the rest of the winter on corn meal and fed them nothing but meal. The consequence was that the meal simply baked down in the stomachs of his cows and thirteen of them died. The neighbors came in to see them, and he thought that they poisoned them.
As to the neighbors' stealing his property, this explanation is made that for a number of years he has refused to pay his taxes, and it became necessary to levy upon his property and sell it to collect the taxes. Lewis Christman, his neighbor, has been the collector for several years, and this unpleasant task has devolved upon him. This year the time for paying taxes had passed and the taxes were not paid. Christman went to Bays' house and by way of introducing the subject said that it was again about tax time. Bays jumped right up without saying a word, went out to the barn and locked the barn door and has kept it locked ever since. Not only was the house and barn kept locked, but the doors were also nailed up. A hammer was always carried back and forth with the same regularity as a key. Officer John Miller found the barnyard bars nailed up yesterday when they went there to make the arrest. When Miss Bays left the house yesterday she drove four by ten-penny nails into the door after locking it. It is said that they have thirty tubs and nineteen firkins of butter in the cellar, and that they have not sold any produce in sometime.
Miss Bays rode to Cortland yesterday with Fred Hilligus. She felt he was a friend of hers because he had sometimes gone there to buy stock, and she knew he wasn't an officer. She would have nothing to do with them, but said she was willing to go with him. They told her to get ready and she went to her room, changed her dress and put on a nice silk dress and otherwise fixed herself up, and then she came freely and willingly. But it is believed that on the subject of stealing and poisoning she is just as crazy as her brother. The interior of the house though, looked as neat as wax, and she is evidently a good housekeeper.
Killed by a Falling Tree.
John Booth, who lives near Peruville, was killed Thursday while working in the woods. He was engaged in cutting timber and was caught by a falling tree. His friends hastened to his rescue but he lived only an hour. Mr. Booth was about 35 years of age and leaves a wife.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Smith & Beaudry, Wallpaper, page 8.
—March came in like a lion and seems to be going out like the traditional lamb.
—Mr. F. P. Saunders' residence has been connected with the telephone exchange.
—Rev. Theron Cooper, presiding elder of Cazenovia district, will preach at the First M. E. church to-morrow evening.
—A regular meeting of the hospital board will be held at the hospital on Monday next, April 2, at 3 o'clock P. M.
—Mr. A. R. Ehman, a student at Auburn Theological seminary, will preach at the Congregational church to-morrow both morning and evening.
—A special meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the association rooms on Monday, April 2, at 8 o'clock, P. M. The election of officers of the new board will occur.
—To-morrow being the first Sunday in April the hour for holding the evening service changes from 7 o'clock to 7:30, and will continue at that time till Oct. 1. Other meetings held just before the evening service are also a half hour later.
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