Show LG prominent clubs honor abraham lincoln I 1 compliments I 1 to the administration I 1 the balfour land act not to be accepted irish receives a great scoring hunger cold casualties and anarchy CHICAGO feb 12 the marquette etto I 1 club tub c celebrated e leb rated the birthday of abraham lincoln c with a banquet at auditorium hotel tonight to night at which covers cov era were laid for over persons sons the great banquet hall was persons yer ireat resplendent eident with e electric lights light a and nd a appropriately pa decorated with hags flags banners and festoons fes in national colors interspersed with portraits cf ef lincoln washington grant and other national heroes Proad prominent nent republicans from all parts of the country were w ere bidden to the feast and a large number were ere present Il president resident harrison sent a letter of re regret gret in which he lie said that public duties dutie 3 in ill washington would not permit lum him to be present among among others ending sending letters ot regret were senator e sherman gov I 1 mckinley lion hon chauncey M 31 depear lion hun J fa fassett ett lion thomas it 13 heed gen ell al el r lion hon 11 henry cabot lodge and lion th theodore 11 0 0 jore stoos loosevelt Koo sevelt rl alie 1 e 1 principal add address resa of the evening was b by y 1110 benator benator 1 shelby mccullom who recently an announced 1 1 himself as a candidate for the pr presidency 1 idenys of the united states and who res re bonded 4 nd the lie to toast Abraham Lincoln 11 after sketching the life of this illustrious 11 president resident and relating many personal reminiscences senator mccullom proceeded to contrast the records of the ke ite I 1 publican and democratic parties the former lormer he lie characterized as a the party of the tile latter one of negation I 1 Elon continuing tinning the speaker eaid said dont has always been the burden of the democratic song g and is now at this moment its large majority majori roa jonty tr in t the lie house of 1 t tives tees is c iorns ing dont mills is the great grea disappointed is saying to crisp I 1 dont and leveland cleveland end and the are shouting at hill till I 1 dont and standing br by himself solitary and anti alone upon the high aig i i el eminence of objection hollian liall is crying dont at ever every person and every thing gentlemen while lincoln lived the democratic pa party rt lum him continually with it its s bonts dy 0 ts 11 it fusi laded him with bonts don ts at every step in his illustrious career ana im sure if he lie were among them now venerable in in his eighty ambrif fourt fourth year upon every suggestion estion made by him tear he I 1 e would be pelt belted pelted with democratic don donis ts hut but if he were with us now in person as a lie certainly is in spirit he would regard as little as we dot he lie op opposition i of this organized objection to everything progressive and w would urge us to hold fast faa to the doctrine of protection to american industry idu stry as modified by the policy of reciprocity he ile would bid us also alloi I 1 absure am sure hold fast to the doctrine of honest money bior lor honest people applied in statesmanship so as bobring to bring a about out at an early day lay the re establishment of si silver ver in its former dignity as money metal equal of gold in coinage and tender he ile would advise ua us also I 1 believe e that it is the duty of the republican publican Ile party to continue to insist upon and if need be to compel in some way the general recognition of equality of all citizens before the law hon ilon J 11 dollivar Dil livar of iowa responded to our part party 11 several other speeches were deliverer deli delivered verey NEW YORK feb 12 the annual dinner of the union league of brooklyn was given at the club house tonight to night lion iron aven john ohn S wise ise the principal speaker responded s t to 0 the toast abraham lille lincoln 0 11 bonded he said in part 1 I speak as one who while I 1 vet yet a boy embarked enthusiast enthusiastically i cally in the cause rhe the nomination of lincoln I 1 pictured pictured in boyish fancy as the elevation 0 of a bad man by an all insane faction with cruel quixotic purpose I 1 laughed in mv my heart in the the springtime of of 60 at the tile t thought bought that anything could uproot and destroy the social and political u fe fabric koot ric by which I 1 was surrounded with ith in five div e years from that time I 1 stood upon the same spot a paroled prisoner of the army of the dead confederacy mr lincoln had the un unquestioned right to proclaim the tile freedom of slaves aa as a war measure none Is one but a bold 1 stron strong independent nature would have a assumed s mignel all the responsibilities and the dan danger er which that step involved to himself if ills his friends and his cau cause so looking at its consequences friend and foe alike now concur that it was a matchless stroke of a master hand great a applause lause lincoln will be remembered for alime time to come bv friend and foe alike as t the 1 e great eat tad sad almost lonely helmsman of t the areri union in in the hour of ot its peril who steered by the unfailing light of 01 a single ingle constellation who never veering a point was always guided by his belt kelf made chart with malice towards nono none and charity for all BOSTON feb 11 12 l abraham lincoln was the topic upon which nearly all speeches centered at tile banquet of the jeitler club thia this evening the chief point of interest in in general butlers Hut lers speech was his declaration in opposition to the free coinage of silver philadelphia feb 12 the pennsylvania club a semi pol political fitial 0 organization of this city tonight to night ce celebrated lebrat e d alie ic birthday of abraham lincoln by a dinner at winch the principal 1 I chests ue ts were w ere attorney general idiller ler 91 solicitor general taft lafland slid senator ballinger Cal linger of new nev hampshire C stuart dean of the law school university of pennsylvania responded to Abra abraham gant Lin lincoln corn after which attorney general miller responded to the tile toast the present administration 11 of alie chief executive mr IN miller filler said in part he ile need no spokesman cither either in in or out of hia ilia cabinet the tile country has I 1 think learned that benjamin harri ion can s speak and anti act net for himself mr XII miller e r t then ell reviewed review ed the leading achievements of tho the various governmental departments under ham sona administration it had accomplished and has pending treaties of extradition haa had cheapened the tile collection ofin of internal revenue revenues had begun tile reorganization vor AM of immigration bureaus ha biad d blown shown business like conduct in the postal 1 tal service and anti lottery movement mm ement 90 on the lait named BUble ct miller said it is believed the louisiana lottery haa has received a mortal hurt a fact in which ad mi ini takes pride ho lie referred to the doings of the navy department and others in complimentary terms and in conclusion said we make no excuse excuses oner offer no Vol apologies ogles ask no suspension of judgment tv nent e aay investigate scrutinize take our word for but far off or near at hand examine amine w what at has been done in I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 I 1 1 1 1 great things and little things and on such an n examination pass judgment on the claim laim that president II arrison ie is giving the country an honest capable patriotic business administration ministration HOW IRELAND FEELS ON THE BALFOUR LAND ACT massing the great fleets in the on Lox mr feb 12 colyn copyright lit ia 18 b by new york associated press J until bal four introduces the irish iri di 1 loc government bill on oil thursday next proc proceeding ng in parliament ar will be mere party part s skirmishing armish n though the ministers deceli decline to am gati satisfy politicians ho are grave faveto to knot I 1 t the 6 gist I 1 t 0 of irish pro proposal asals the tile dra draft of t the I 1 bill 1 which is is now n in t e is k known to e contain 0 a host of clauses ri vallin in I 1 complexity I 1 1 cx balfourd Ilal Bal fours land act the rhe imperial police is to be maint maintained alne I 1 in lessened force the conference of irilli irish landlords recently sent balfour ahr through on gh the duke of aberhorn Abere orn a demand that clergymen be excluded from county boards tho tile aim being to deprive the priests of ofin in fl fluence uerice balfour declined to comply with will the wishes of landlords the irish leaders in both groups hae have declared their readiness to adopt what theat they can ean of rs proposals but concur that hat the bill wi win be found in main impossible of acceptance an early result of the combined attack on this bill will be the reunion of the irish party there is something portentous lentils len tius tills in the assembling in I 1 n levant 0 of th the e fleets of the fent great powers s since it became known that 1 rench and russian squadrons in the mediterranean are going to alexandria to the american admiral now at smyrna to sail with hia his five war ships for piraeus Pimus where his squadron is shags to be joined by two italian ironclads iron and a division oll odthe the german squadron within a fortnight the united squadron of the dreiband Drei bund will be within coo operating cooperating co o pe rating distance of the english fleet flee t at alexandria if the ia rench french design to impress the khedive by a naval nav al demonstration england and her allies are ready to halwa make a more im impressive esilee demonstration the pr h e king and queen of italy hae have abandoned the idea ot of visiting an 1 angland I 1 I 1 on account of the health of 1 uta e clarence C arence the prince of naples naple sl will soo soon n start on oil a tour to australia he ile is t to 0 be accompanied nie d I 1 by an otil official cial ca charged aged to report on oil austra austraha 7 in as a field for italian tion the united states having fallen into disfavor disca or and the tile argentine republic complaining pla ining of the italian immigration having been een overdone there in I 1 ii commons today tody to day dy the debate was con on a favor of releasing treason felony prisoners fitzgerald complained of the silence of sir win vernon Ilar court whom he regarded the real jailor of agan and daly sir william had shunned debate the prisoners lad been convicted of the mot enious crime that could be conceived of he lie concluded by denouncing as calculating to incite outrages I 1 his its remarks remark about bout a fenian lam were frequently bently and warmly interrupted by all irish i member members wm redmond strongly repudiated the assertion that thelded violence he ile said amid irish cli cheers cers that men in ireland had been driven to desperation by the tyranny of successive governments aft after e r further debate Ked monds amendment was IZ to 97 HUNGER AND COLD peasants cyina by the hundreds and all food gone LONDON feb 12 A dispatch from penza capital of the government of that name says a 8 the thermometer registers 63 53 degrees telo below wand and that there is terrible sull erIng among the peasant peasants A number of men among were brozen ra zen to death on the high roads quantities chave tian of grain for the famine bulfer er ers s have arrived arri vedat at penza ienza but it is impossible imposer to distribute it because nearly all the horses have been killed for food or sold to procure money with which to buy the necessaries es of life itts it Is estimated that nearly a million of draught animals have been killed throughout the empire since autumn typhus fever small pox and diphtheria is decimating the inhabitants around penia penza inhabitants have died from these diseases the dispatch adds that in the governments of samaria ba maria Sar and niji nov gorod arod the condition is far worse than in benzz penza in those three governments thousands of peasants have fallen victims to hunger and disease in the governments of charkov and kazan the typhus is espee especially bally terrible in its ravages ravages the inhabitants are dy dying ingoff olf by the tile hundred adred BERLIN feb 12 A dispatch from fron I 1 landsburg close to the tile frontier states that a conflict has occurred between a body of gendarmes gen darmes and a band of emigrant emigrants emion emlon the file fighting took place on oil una itna sian territory a short distance from landsburg three emigrants were killed and ten w wounded 0 A number of the emigrants were taken prisoners 1 the dispatch adds that the black small mail pox and spotted typhus fever prevail along the Itus sinn frontier and prussian ollI officer cers are closely watching the traille entering germany to prevent the spread of those I 1 dh disease ewes into silesia |