HJD1890B_19.jpg HJD1890B_20.jpg HJD1890B_21.jpg Jefferson Democrat - transcribed by Linda in MO Thursday, May 29, 1890 part 2 Washington Letter. The Republican leaders have rushed through the conglomeration they nicknamed a tariff bill amid the imprecations of their political friends and the jeers of their political enemies. McKinley, the father of the measure, might well say with one of all: “Another such victory and we are undone.” such a bright partisan as Ben BUTTERWORTH openly declared that enough Republican votes would have been forth coming to defeat the bill had they not full confidence in the Senate and their political brethren to endeavor to make it a little more respectable as economic legislation. The Democrats are perfectly satisfied they say with the bill as a specimen of Republican handiwork, and want nothing better with which to appeal to the people in the approaching campaign. They say that it will take more fat than was ever fried out of the monpolists to gain a political victory with this tariff bill for a platform. It is queer into what troubles the christian politicians of the Republican persuasions got through their brothers-in-law. Almost every administration for the “grand old party” brings forth a scandal in which the aforesaid ?????tion figures as a scapegoat and the injured individual suffering for his wife’s relations, is generally a presbyterian deacon. Unlike Artemus Ward, who was willing to sacrifice all his wife’s family to put down the wicked rebellion, these good deacons, perhaps under home influence, endeavor to protect their kindred by marriage. The last instance of civil services Commissioner Lyman and the theft of examination papers by brother in law, is fresh in the minds of the public, so nothing need be said about. But it has, perhaps, been forgotten that under a former Republican administration another brother-in-law raised a stew through the larceny of papers from the post office department. His name was [next column] Channel, and being a brother-in-law to Chief Clerk French, like Lyman a deacon, it gave him the opportunity to enter the department after office hours and steal copies of the bids on numberless mail contracts, which information he sold to their contractors for a small consideration. Undoubtedly it would be advisable for the good Republicans in leading positions to keep their wife’s family in other than public office. There will occur during the coming fall a first class opportunity to test the popularity of Ex-president CLEVELAND, not with the politicians with the people. This ch??? will be afforded by the tour of the country, which of course, will be unavoidable, as much as Mr. CLEVELAND dislikes display, made necessary by his a???p?ance of the invitation tendered by Governor ROSS, of Texas, to visit the Dallas Fair as the guest of the citizens of that banner Democratic State. It is desired, Mr. CLEVELAND willing, to have him go by one route and return by the other, so that he would travel over every southern state and nearly over the West this side of the Mississippi River. There is no question here of the popularity of the late President with the people, both north and south although the politicians don’t hanker after him over much, and it is predicted that his excursions will be triumphal tour rarely equaled in this country. It must be said, though, that Democratic Congressmen, as a rule, do not class CLEVELAND ad their favorite, but they readily acknowledge his great strength with the people, and at the proper time they will fall into line and join the procession which will put him back in the White House. Senators on the Democratic side in the Senate say that Mr. CARLISLE will be a valuable addition to their number. In the House the Kentuckian was out of place, as he is eminently fair and courteous in debate, and not at all aggressive. But he is a mental giant, and, in the Senate where decorum and order are the chief features, he will prove and invaluable aid to the party. Mr. CARLISLE will make the first set speech of his in the Senate when the tariff bill comes under consideration. It may not be generally known that the older Senators consider it presumptuous for a new man to take part in the proceedings of that body within the first year after entrance,. Let a newly elected Senator jump into a discussion and a horror stricken look will cover the faces of all his seniors. Indeed, it is precarious for the reputation of a new man to do so, as the older men will mark him down as upstartish, and it will be a long while before they will have forgotten the initial incident in his senatorial career. Mr. CARLISLE has been buried because he will not assume that conspicuous position in his new sphere that he held in the lower branch of Congress. The battle over the river and harbor bill has opened with the odds at present a little against the bill. Not that its passage will not be easy enough in the House, but it will be subject to the same delays in the Senate which it has experienced in the House, and this, of course, will prevent its reaching the President much, if any, before the close of the session. There the snag will be encountered, the friends of the measure fear, as HARRISON is not much in love with river and harbor improvements and would rather spend millions subsidizing foreign steamship lines than in works of improvement in our own seaports and inland water ways. Bon. -------------------------------------------------- Farmers and the Census. The census year began June 1, 1889, and ends May 31, 1890. Each state has from one to eleven supervisors’ districts, There are 173 supervisors in all. There are 42,000 enumerators, who in all parts of the country will begin their work Monday morning, June 2, 1890. Every farm will be visited before June 30, and the following questions will be asked, keeping in mind that the figures you are to give nearly all pertain to the crops of 1889, and not to the growing crops of 1890. (1) Your name as occupant of the farm. (2) Are you owner, renter for money, or for share of the crops of the farm? (3) Are you white or black? (4) Number of acres of land, improved and unimproved. (5) Acres irrigated (6)Number of artesian wells flowing (7) Value of farm, buildings, implements, machinery, and live stock. (8) Fences; Cost of building and repairing. (9) Cost of fertilizers. (10) Labor: Amounts paid for labor, including board; weeks of hires labor, white or black. (11) Products: Estimated value of all farm productions sold, consumed, or on hand for 1889. (12) Forestry: Amount of wood cut, and value of all forest products sold. (13) Grasslands: Acres of each kind of grassland cut for hay or pastured; tons of hay and straw sold; silos and their capacity. (14) Sugar: Cane, sorghum, maple, and beet; sugar and molasses; acres, product and value of each (15) Castor Beans: Acres (16) Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, rye, wheat, acres, crop, amount of each sold and sonsumed, and value. (17) Rice: Acres, crop and value (18) Tobacco: Acres, crop and value (19) Peas and Beans: Bushels and value of corp sold. (20) Peanuts: Acres, bushels and value (21) Hops: Acres, pounds and value (22) Fibers: Cotten, flax and hemp; Acres, crop and value (23) Broom Corn: Acres, pounds and value (24) Live Stock: Horses, mules, and asses; number on hand June 1, 1890; number foaled in 1889; number sold in 1889; number died in 1889 (25) Sheep Number on hand June 1, 1890, of “fine wool”, “long wool,’ and all other; “ number of lambs dropped in 1889; “spring lambs” sold in 1889; sold in 1889 other than “spring lambs”; slaughtered for use on farm 1889 Killed by [new column, very blurry] dogs in 1889; died from other causes in 1889. (26) Wool: Shorn spring of 1890 and fall of 1889. (27) Goats: Number of Angots? and common (28) Dogs: on farm June 1, 1890 (29) Neat Cattle, Working oxen, milk cos, and other cattle on hand June 1, 1890; number of pure bred, grade and common; calves dropped in 1889; cattle sold in 1889, slaughtered for use on the farm and died in 1889. (30) Dairy. Milk total gallons produced on farm; sold for use in families, not to creamery or factory?; used on farm ?????ing for butter or cheese, used on farm in ????? ???? for sale, ?????? for creamery or factory. Butter - pounds mad on farm and sold in 1889 Cream quarts sold to creamery or factory; sold others that to creamery for factory. Cheese - pounds made on farm and sold in 1889 (31) Swine: Number on hand June 1, 1890, sold in 1889, consumed on farm and died in 1889 (32) Poultry: Number each of chickens, turkeys, geese and ducks on hand June 1, 1889; value of all poultry ????? sold; eggs produced, sold and value in 1889, (32) Bees: Number of stands, pounds of honey and wax produced, and value. (34) Onions: Field crop - number of acres, bushels produced and sold and value (35) Potatoes: Sweet and Irish, bushels produced and sold. (36) Market Gardens and small fruits: Number of acres vegetables, blackberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries and other small fruits, and total value of products in 1889 (37) Vegetables and Fruits for Canning; Number of acres, and products in bushels of peas and beans, green bean, tomatoes, other vegetables and fruits (38) Orchards: apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, pear, plums, prunes and other orchard fruits; in each the number of acres, crop in 1889, number of bearing trees, number of young and not bearing trees, and value of all orchard products sold (39) Vineyards: Number of acres in vines bearing and in young vines not bearing; products and grapes and raisins, and value in 1889. Besides those questions on the regular Agricultural schedule No. 2, Superintendent. robert P. PORTER has ordered several special investigations in the interests of agriculture, among which are Viticulture, Nurseries, Florists, Seed and Truck Farms, Semi-tropic Fruits, Oranges, etc. Live Stock on the great ranges, and in cities and villages; also the names and number of all the various farmers’ organizations, such as Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, Poultry and Bee Associations, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, Alliances, Wheels?, Unions, Leagues, etc. In no part of the census work have the times? been extended more than in the direction of agriculture, and if the farms will now cheerfully co-operate with the enumerators and other officials to promptly furnish the correct figures more comprehensive returns regarding our greatest industry will be obtained than ever before. Census