The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1898 Page: 5 of 16
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THE SOUTHERN MERCURY.
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I beg pardon," and some wag audibly
added: "Of Oregon." * .
The same member, upon one occas-
sion after the motion to adjourn had
been made arose to a question of per-
sona] privilege. He was recognized by
the speaker and proceeded very earn-
estly to denounce as false some state-
ment made in a newspaper up in
Maine, that he had been guilty of
something unworthy of a middle-of-
the-road Populist." In a droll way
General Grc^venor made the point of
order that "The house had nothing to
do with a scrap between gentlemen in
the middle of the road and those on
the si;-e of it," and the house adjourn-
ed with a laugh instead of a vote.
The president's demand for the pass-
age oí a financial measure, as para-
mount to all other legislation, caused
many interesting scenes which he, him-
self, never saw. There were frequent
open tete a tetes between the speaker
and leaders of the majority, notably:
Mes si,:. Grosvenor, Dingley and Grow
ai! in similar attitude and attire ex-
cept that Mr. Gyow had a carbuncle on
the back of his neck against which he
doui Hess would have liked seme "pro-
tection."
The majority's leader to represent
their side at the climax was General
After the bill had been passed by the
house and was sent to the senate the
responsibility for any delay in its final
passage was then put upon the latter
body, and the house simply sat down
and awaited the senate's pleasure, dur-
ing several weeks. When the confer-
ence committees were finally appoint-
ed by the two houses to consider the
Senate amendments to the bill the
speaker then showed himself to be the
ruler of both bodies and he saw to it
that the amendments were defeated on
the part of the house, and the senate
was compelled to recede from its
amndments. When the bill wa3 re-
ported back to the house the fight
came on in earnest again. The major-
ity had remained "a solid phalanx" as
Grosvenor called them, from the begin-
ning ct the session and had remained
silent, under constant shelling of the
woods and the most venomous assaults
by the minority upon the party in pow-
er and some of its leaders, but now
the majority felt that the bill was safe
and they held their fire no longer. In
the final struggle nearly every member
of the minority seemed eager to take
a pop and Mr. Bailey,the minority lead-
er, whose own speech was certainly a
masterpiece, very generously gave
among others, a flaxen-haired Virgin-
ian one minute of his time. Na gatling
gun could have fired faster.
Grosvenor. His delivery was indeed
impressive and his defense of his own
parly was as strong as his arraign-
ment of its opponent was terrible.
While originality is one of Tom Reed's
most marked characteristics he does
fellow fashion in the trifle of dress, and
looks as complacent in his pink check-
ed negligee shirt and tie as the fop
could feel who must have first worn
one. tie appreciates also the eternal
fitness of things, and wears a sack coat
of ordinary length. What would Tom
Reed look like in a "Joe Bailey frock
coat?" \. J. 11.
Dallas, Tex.
PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS COM-
PARED.
The Farm, Stock and Home of Chica-
go presents the following interesting
facts about the prices of farm pro-
ducts for the past two years:
"With the exception of wheat, prices
of staple farm products improved but
very little during the year 1897. At
the close of '9G corn was quoted in
Chicago from 21% to 32%: at the close
of '97 the price was from 24V2 to 27%.
But the yield in 189G was 2,283,875,000
bushels, while in 1897 it was only
1,890,000,000 bushels. Hence the crop
of 1897 at the increased price brought
about the same as the crop of 1896, but
with less profit in it, because the yield
was not so good. Evidently corn did
not increase farm prosperity very
much. Oats made an increase in price
of from 3l/í to 4 cents a bushel, with
about the same gross yield, but 1,500,-
000 more acres were used to get it, so
oats do not show any greatly increased
net return, and the same may be said
of barley. The average price of hogs
was practically the same at the close
a3 at the beginning of 1897, and the
same is true of all hog products. Cat-
tle closed for the year at about the
same prices that ruled at the opening,
though there was a considerable ad-
vance during the fall, especially for
unfinished cattle or "feeders." The
receipts at Chicago were 40,000 head
less than for 189G, but the real short-
age was greater, for the reason that
the percentage of first-class and
heavy-weight animals was not so
large. It is safe to say that beef glow-
ers and feeders realized no more from
their beef cattle in '97 than in '90.
Sheep prices averaged considerably
higher, especially the latter part of the
year, in '97 than in '90, but the number
of them marketed is not great enough
to contribute very largely to general
agricultural prosperity. Dairy products
did better the latter part of the year,
and are now considerably higher than
a year ago. On the whole there do not
seem to be very many sources through
which have come the splendid 'prosper-
ity' the farmer is now enjoying."—
Farm and Stockman.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1898, newspaper, January 27, 1898; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185741/m1/5/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .