Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — Page 2

®ljc Utmocratic Sentinel RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. w. McEWEN, - Poblishp.

A DAY’S DOINGS.

Eventful Happening's in Every Hemisphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph. Political. Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. X. S. KALLOCH IS NO MORE. Death in Washington Territory of a Noted Character. In tlie death at Whatcom, W. T., of the Rev. Isaac S. Kallocli, one who had led a career full of startling sensations has passed away. The bloody drama in which he was one of tho i principals in the stormy days of sand-lot domi- | nation in San Francisco brought him into j special prominence; but from boyhood he has j furnished sensation after sensation, and it | was only within the last half-dozen years that he was in n measure lost to public view. He ts best remembered in connection with the terrible scandal when lie was pastor of the Tremont Temple, Cotton, over a quarte of a century ago. Kallocli was elected Mayor of San Francisco on tbo workingmen's ticket iu | 1879. During the campeigu be was shot by 1 Charles De Young, at that time editor of the Chrouir.lt, the dispute growing out of a number of personal attacks made by both parties. The Chronicle printed the details of Kalloch's life in Cotton and Kansas, and Kallocli was equally bitter in his attacks on the Do Youngs, nssailiug their mother in the vilest language, in April, 1890, Kalloch'a son went to the Chronicle office and shot Do Young dead, and was afterward acquitted of the charge of murder. At the close of his term as Mayor Kalloch removed to Washington Territory ' where he had sinco resided. Hunters Kill One Another. An extraordinary caße of accidental shooting by which two men lost their lives is reported from Ozark County, Missouri William Requa, a member of a party that was on a hunting expedition in a remote part of the county, started out by himself, and when at some distance from his companions fired at an object which he took for a deer, but which proved to be W. H. Guinter, also a hunter, frqm Wyandotte, Kan. After the discharge of his gun Requa rushed forward, and Guinter, who was still a'.iva, though fatally wounded, fired upon him, killing him instantly. The Fisheries. The belief prevails at Washington that the Fisheries Commission will not attempt to formulate a general treaty, and that they will try only to reach an agreement on a protocol defining anew the meaning of certain clanses of the treaty of 1818. Sir Charles Tupper, Canada’s representative on tho Commission, passed through Chicago on Monday on his way to YY.nuipag. Ho would say nothing as to what had been done at the conference, but he seems to think that the Commissioners are in a fair way to arnvo at a satisfactory result. A Big Chicago Fire. A Chicago dispatch says: “The building at the northwest corner of Adams street and Fifth avenue, which was owned by Edwin EL Sheldon and occupied by Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, wholesale boot and shoe dealers, was completely ruined by fire Monday night The loss on the building is placed at $115,000; insurance, $85,000. Phelps, Dodge & Palmer estimate their loss at SOOO,OOO, and say that it is abont covered by tho insurance. Adjacent property was damaged to the extent of #5,000.” Ohio Tally-Sheet Forgers. A dispatch front Columbus, Ohio, says the Grand Jury has indicted seven men for complicity in the tally-sheet forgeries committed in that city two years ago. Among those indicted are Robert B. Montgomery, ex-Prose-cuting Attorney; Dr. C. R. Montgomery, Fred Bteube, Otto Horn, Algernon Granville, and Charles T. Blackburn, of Cincinnati. Granville was formerly in the employ of Prosecuting Attorney Montgomery, and is an expert short-hand man and penman.

Many bills were introduced in the Senate on the 12th inst. and referred, among them the following : By Mr. Beck, for the retirement of United States legal tender and national bank notes of Bmall denomination, and the issue of coin certificates in lieu of gold and silver certificates. By Mr. Dolph, to provide for fortifications and other seacoast defenses. By Mr. Edmunds, to provide for the establishment of a postal telegraph. By Mr. Bowen, for the free coinage of silver. By Mr. . Manderson, granting a pension to every soldier and sailor who is incapacitated for the performance of manual labor and for pensions to dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors. jHe said he introduced this bill at the unanimous request of the Grand Army of the Republic. J Also for the admission of the State of Dakota and the organization of the Territory of Lincoln. By Mr. Cullom—For a pension to the widow of Gen. John A. Logan; also for a constitutional amendment in relation to bigamy and polygamy. By Mr. Blair— For a constitutional amendment extending the right of suffrage; also for the relief of women enrolled as army nurses. By Mr. Turpi e—For the admission of the States of Washingtofa and Dakota. By Mr. Hoar—For the erection of a monument to the negro soldiers killed in the war. By Senator Plumb— To make it an offeuse punishable by fine and imprisonment for any railroad, sleep-ing-car, telegraph, or express company to offer any Congressman or other Government employe any free pass or reduction from the ordinary rates charged, or for anv government employe to accent or use such a pass. Mr. Hale offered a preamble and resolution providing for the appointment of a select committee of seven to examine fully into the present condition of the civil service in all its branches; to ascertain whether appointments have been based on merit and qualifications or distributed as partisan favors, and as to the participation of government officials in political conventions and elections. In the House of Representatives, Speaker Carlisle, Having called Mr. Crisp (Ga.) to the chair, stepS>d down upon the floor and addressed the ouse as follows: “It is well known that there is a contest pending which makes it improper for me, as presiding officer of the House, to appoint the Committee on Elections. I have left the chair, therefore, for the purpose of asking the House to excuse me. from the performance of that duty and take auch proceedings in this matter as its judgment may dictate. I have no suggestion to make except to say that the formation of the committees of the House will be facilitated by having this matterdisposed of at the earliest day that will suit the convenience of members." On motion of Mr. Holman, a resolution wras adopted providing for the election of the fifteen members ol the committee.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. In sentencing Herr Most to one year in the penitentiary, at New York, says a telegram from that city, Jndge Cowing said: Your tongue and pen have constantly brought you into difficulty. They have got you into difficulties in older countries, and they have brought you over here and brought you into direct conflict with the great mass oc the people. It seems to me that most of this difficulty comes from foreigners. I saw the i«pectacle in this court not long ago of fiiteen in n trought in before me who had been boycotting a poor woman who was trying to make a living in this country, and there was not one of them who could speak a word of the English language. There was not one of them who was an American citizen, or ■who had been in this country for five years. Here they were, leaving a country of oppression, and coming to a land of freedom, and the very first thing they do is to become oppressors. 'Where is the justice of such a thing as that? Now. in this case. If you are going to live In this community you should study our institutions. understand the rights of American citizenship, ana do as much g»od as you can to your fellow-men, instead of undertaking to create discord among them. Application was made to Judge Lawrenoe of the New York Supremo Court, for the' admission to bail of Johann Most, in whose case an appeal had been taken from the judgment of the Court of General Sessions. The application was granted and Most was released on $5,090 bail, Mrs. Ida Hoffman becoming his surety.

THE WESTERN STATES.

Theee entertainments for tho benefit of the families of the executed anarchists, which had been extensively advertised, were held at Chicago on Sunday. The people who attended them were principally Gjrmans. Tho largest entertainment was at Twelfth Street Turner Hall, where speeches were made by Captain Black and John Gloy. Tho latter spoke in German, and he took pains to advise his hearers to give up the idea of helping their cause along by the use of dynamite, and to caution them that tho time had come for them to retrace their steps. A Joliet (I1L) dispatch says that the rollingmills at that place will be indefinitely closed on the 26th of December, and the men permanently discharged and paid off. The pay-roll of this company amounts to SIOO,OOO per month, and it employs 2,000 men. It will consequently be a severe blow to the business and labor interests of Joliet The plant is one of the most improved and successful in he world, and can compete with any works known In its report upon the Chatsworth disaster, the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission censures the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad for not patrolling its tracks.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The neighborhood of Rives, a small town in Tennessee, has been the scene of a triple lynching, says a Memphis telegram. Adam Charles, Audy Miller, and William Smith were the victims. The crime was an assault on a 10-year-old child, the daughter of M. Meyers, while on her way to school alono. The child reached home more dead than alive. In less than an hour men were on the trail of the miscreants. Miller was soon captured, and revealed the hiding-place of his companions, who were found in the woods near by. No accusations were made by the pursuing party, who proceeded in ominous silence to a wood near by, where the three were hanged. The negroes in the community were thoroughly in sympathy with tho actions of the avenging party, and condemned the assault in unmeasured terma From the Southwest comes an account of another bold train robbery. A Little Rock dispatch says: A train bound north over the St, Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad was stopped by robbois near Texarkana, Ark., and the express car, mail and passengers were all relieved of cash Postal Clerk Jqjmson says that the train was suddenly Btoppedjisrhen moving out of Geneva Station. He saw three rough-looking men board the engine, and he knew something was wrong, so he blew out the lights in his compartment and locked the doors. The express messenger did the same thing. The robbers ordered the doors opened and fired several shots through tho windows. They then used a pick-ax, and Johnson fired one shot through the window, which was answered by a volley. Finding resistance useless, and the lives of the engineer and fireman at stake, the express messenger opened his doors. Johnson doesn’t know accurately, but thinks the robbers must have gotten SIO,OOO. After gutting the express car they entered the mail car. Johnson expostulated that that was Uncle Sam’s dominion, and that they had already had a good deal of booty, and if they disturbed the mails it would go hard with them. One of them replied: “That’s so,” and they would not touch the mails. Great excitement prevails in the region of the robbery, and mounted men are scouring the woods everywhere. Gov. Hughes has offered S2OO for the arrest and conviction of each robber. Tlie railroad company also offers several thousand dollars’ reward.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

•From the annual report of Secretary of War Endicott, which is a very • lengthy document, wo glean the following points: The expenditures of the department for the last fiscal year amounted to $41,386,155, while the estimates for the next fiscal year will aggregate $53,338,710. An increase is demanded on account of public works, including river and harbor improvements, and for the military establishment and the army and military academy. The Secretary strongly approves of the recommendation contained in General Sheridan’s report touching the extension of all possible aid by the General Government to the national guard of the different States, and suggesting a system of national encampment for State militia at the entire expense of the National Government, Attention is called to the fact that the Pacific coast is destitute of fortifications, guns and armament of every description, while ban Francisco is without a single gun which can he fired with safety with the present charges of powuer and modem projectiles. Favorable indorsement is also given to the Lieutenant General's recommendation that the present strength of the navy be increased by 6,000 men; and particular attention is called to the importance of an increase of the artillery. In concluding his report the Secretary says: “The result of the examinations for promotion under the civil-service regulations which were applied to the war department in Mav were satisfactory. The total number of clerks examined was 1,014, of whom 963, or 95 per cent., passed, and of this number 353, or 33 per cent, obtained an average above 93 per cent ; fiftyone, or 5 per cent., failed to pass, their average being loss than 75 per cent. The annual report of Attorney General Garland gives a full account of the business of the Department of Justice during the last fiscal year, together with statistics of crime against the United States: The number of ordinary suits now pending in the Court of Claims is 1,110, involving the sum of $13,250,000. The number of cases filed under the Bowman act is 1,819, involving about $60,000,000. The petitions filed in French spoliation cases number 5,560, representing 2,486 vessels and about $30,000,000. The amount

reported In favor of claimants in eightyone of these cases passed upon is about $425,000, varying from $66 to $45,318. During the last fiscal year, 1,777 civil suite were terminated. In 923 of these judgments were for the United States, in 1(E for the defendants, -26 were appealed from the District to the Circuit Court, and 14 from the Circuit Court to the Supreme Court. There were pending July 1, 4,054 civil suits, in which the United States was a party. During the year there were 12,907 criminal prosecutions, mostly for violations of customs and internal revenue laws. The Attoney General calls attention to the suggestions and recommendations made bv him in his last annual report in regard to matters calling for remedial legislation, and again urges the necessity of immediate action thereon. These subjects are as follows : Fees of Marshals in the Territories, pay of Deputy Marshals, revision of the fee Dili, substitution of fiscal -for calender year, protection to civil officers and witnesses, fees of witnessea and jurors, criminal procedure, perjury. and laws and juries in the District of Columbia. Contrary to usual custom, the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury was not sent to Congress this year until the day after the President’s message nad been read. It is a very lengthy paper, and we have space for only a brief synopsis. The report shows that the receipts of the Government for the last fiscal year were $371,405,277, and the expenditures $315,835,423. There was an increase in the receipts of $34,963,550 over those of the preceding year, and tho expenditures were increased by $25,449,041. Tho revenues for the present year are estimated at $383,000,000, and the expenditures at $316,817,785. The Secretary advises a reduction of the customs duties on the lines suggested in the President’s message. The Secretary give i three ways in which the receipts and expenditures of the Government may be mads about equal: 1. The purchase of the interest-bearing debt of tho Government. 2. Larger expenditures by Government for other purposes than the purchase of bonds, bo that they shall each year equal the taxation of that year. 3. Reduction of the revenue from taxation to the amount actually required to meet necessary expenses. I cannot believe that Congress will adopt the second expedient, viz.: The enlargement of Government expenses simply to expend money ruised by taxation when the public weal does not otherwise call for the expenditure. As to the third plan, Mr. Fairchild says: Reduction of the revenue from taxation is the only fit remedy for the evils which threaten the country. This may be accomplished in various ways. One is to reduce or abolish internalrevenue taxation. In favor of this is the fact that iu a small part of the Soutnem States the internal tax on liquors and tobacco is thought to be oppressive and is odious to the people of those regions, and the further fact that by the reduction the expenses of its collection might be somewhat reduced. The chief cause for the prejudice against this tax seems to be that as there was no such tax before the war for the Union it is looked upon as a reminder of the measures adopted to raise money to carry on tho war, and which ought not to be continued in time of peace. Taxation there must be. The choice is between kinds of taxation; each man can decide for himselt. if he will examine the subject free from prejudice, which is the leant buraens.ime for him. for his family, and for his neigh hors, and which is in the end better for his whole country. That internal taxation of spirits and tobacco began during the. war is not a rea on why it soould be done away with now, if it be in itself wise. So the fact that the rates of customs taxation were raised during the same war far higher than ever before in our history, and have been continued until now, ought not to determine the manner of their treatment; this should rather depend upon what is just and expedient at the present time. Neither passion, prejudice, nor sentimentality should have place in the consideration of questions of taxation. As to the expense of collecting the internal revenue, i suggest that an amalgamation of the enstoms and internal revenue systems is entirely feasible, and that thereby a large number of offices might bo abolished, and that the expense of the whole system might he made not to exceed that of an efficient enforcement of the customs laws. * * * put it is not well either to abolish or reduce internal-revenue taxation; it is a tax upon whisky, beer, and tobacco, things which are in very'small measure necessary to the health or happiness of mankind. If they are necessary to any unfortunate man, they are far less necessary even to him than are a thousand other articles which the Government taxes. This tax is the least burdensome, the least unjust of all the taxes which the Government lays or can lay upon the people ; it should not be abolished, nor should it be reduced if, with due regard to the existing conditions of labor and capita), sufficient reduction can be made in the taxation of necessary articles which are in the dally use of all the people. The report shows that the circulation of the standard silver dollar is growing in popularity, having increased $10,434,995 during the past year. Fbom Secretary Whitney’s annual report we glean that— . Appropriations for the Navy Department for tho last fiscal year amounted to 515,189,000, and the balance available at the end of that period was $934,800, which had been reduced by Dec. 1 to 8164,500. The appropriations for the current fiscal year amount to &20,182 ; u0j, and the estimates for tho year ending June 30, 18S9, to $23,42/,900. All the unarmored vessels authorized by Congress are completed or in course of construction. They and the contract cost of their hulls and machinery are: The dispatch vessel Dolphin, $315,000; the protected crusier Boston, $619,000; the protected cruiser Atlanta, $617,000; the protected cruiser Chicago, $889,000 ; the protected cruiser Charleston, $1,017,000; the protected cruiser Baltimore, $1,325,000; gunboat No. 1 (cruiser), $155,000; gunboat No. 2 (cruiser), $247,00j; the protected cruiser Newark, $1,248,000; protected cruiser No. 4, $1,350,000; protected cruiser No. 5, $1,428,000; gunboat No. 3 (cruiser), $490,000; gunboat No. 4 (cruiser), $490,000; dynamite cruiser (including dvnamite guns, etc.), $350,000; hrst-class torpedo boat, $82,750. Of tho two armored vessels authorized by Congress cne is now being built by William John in Fingland. The completion of the double-turreted monitors will be delayed until the Bethlehem plant can furnish the armor. Of coast and harbor defense, for which Congress appropriated $2,000,000, the Secretary says little has been done. The Secretary does not believe in repairing the single-turreted monitors and using them for coast defense. “An examination of their characteristics," he Bavs. “shows that outside of the ships in our own navy no antagonist could probably be found against which they could stand for a moment. They were good vessels for their time, but are entirely obsolete,” and he adds: “It would be little less than murder to send men in these at the present time to encounter any recently built ironclad. 1 appreciate (fully that it is only as a temporary expedient that it is suggested, and with the thought that in the absence of anything elße, these might be better than nothing. This has been the theory upon which over $50,000,000, and probably $75,060,000, has been spent since tho close of the war. It is time to stop it and be content only with the best. If every dollar is made to count upon something of real value, waste will atop, aud not before.’’

THE POLITICAL HELD.

Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court, has issued a decree declaring the Walruff Brewery, at Lawrence, Kan., a common nuisance and directing the United States Marshal to shut it up and abate the same. The decree also perpetually enjoins the brewery from manufacturing or selling any intoxicating liquors. This is the first brewery that has been declared a nuisance under the prohibitory law of Kansas, and the decree is in accordance with the late decision of the United States Supreme Court on the prohibition question. John Walruff has been the most persistent and powerful of all the opponents of the prohibitory law for a number of years. Two breweries at Des Moines, lowa, valued at $300,000, have been closed by the authori-

tiea The owners, who have no desire to con* test the matter in th 9 courts, have asked for a reasonable time in which to close out their business, and it is believed that the prohib - tionists will favor the granting of their request Chicago is to have the next Republican Convention, the National Committee having so dec:ded at its meeting in Washington to determine the question. Three ballots were necessary. The first vote was viva voce, and Chicago led, \. .th Omaha a very close second. The first formal ballot placed Chicago well to the front, the principal strength of the opposition going to Cincinnati and Minneapolis. The final vote stood: Chicago 25, Cincinnati 13, Minneapolis 8, Omaha 1. Says a Washington special: The rival smaller Western cities were very persistent, very demonstrative, very anxious and little disposed to compromise ; and tney had for advocates some of the most experienced workers and most influential men in tne party. They were earnest and determined; and tney could ma .e a most excellent showing tor their respective cities. Minneapolis was here like an army with Danners. The long while silk badges of the delegation were seen everywhere, and the delegates would listen to no suggestions of possible defeat. They had in their favor a great many things, and to those who were insisting upon the choice of Cincinnati or Ss. Louts, the suggestion that the climate of Minnesota is delicious at that season of the year came to the many who have not forgoiten the discomforts which have attended political conventions in Cincinnati and St. Louis. The suggestion of Minneapolis to them was like a cool breeze from the north to those who have suffered from the siroccos. Besides, Minneapolis offered an attraction in the form of specially reduced rates to the Yellowstone Park to all who vould attend the convention. Omaha made a strong bid, and wa3 rewarded, to the surprise, probably, of the delegates from that city, with the largest vote next to Chicago on the first ballot

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A telege im from Baracoa states that during a recen; heavy gale there the sea invaded a portion of the city, destroying about one hundred he uses. The telegram also reports the loss of the steamer Gunury and an American schooner. A Dublin dispatch, says the police are actively endeavoring to arro3t Mr. Gilhooly, member of Parliament for Cork, who has taken refuge with Mr. Pyne in Lisfinny Castle, which is prepared to defy the police. Mr. Gilhooly, it is believed, intends to escape from the castle at night Lobd Mayor Sullivan, who was convicted of publishing in his paper, tho Dublin Nation, accounts of proclaimed branches of the National League and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, has been removed to the Tullamojre jail, in order to prevent his holding daily levees, as ho was doing in the Dublin jail. It is definitely known that M. Fallieres will attempt to form a cabinet, says a Paris dispatch of Saturday. The report is also confirmed that his ministry will include several members of the late Government, including M. Rouvier, M. Flourens, and General Ferron. The radical groups will meet soon to discuss the attitude to be taken by the party toward M. Falhere’a cabinet. It is said that the first act of the new ministry will be the adoption of repressive measures agamst the Paris Municipal Council. With this object in view a bill will be introduced to modify tho mode in which members of the Council are elected, aud also to grant the Government power to dissolve the Council: Intense excitement was produced in the French capital by an attempt to assassinate M. Jules Ferry, the distinguished statesman. A man named Berckein appeared in the hall of the Chamber of Deputies and asked to see both M. Ferry and M. Goblet Tho latter did not respond to Berckein’s request for an interview, but M. Ferry did, and on his appearance the assassin drew a revolver and tired three times at him. One of the balls struck M. Ferry in the chest The second bullet struck him on the right side near the lowest ribs, causing a rontuiion. The thigh was not penetrated. Berckein is 23 years of age. He states that he is one of a band of twenty revolutionists. The band drew lots and it fell to him to commit the first crime. Berckein declares that he swore to kll M. Ferry. After his injuries ha 1 been attended to at the hospital, M. Ferry returned to his homo on foot. The bystanders trial to lynch Berckein after he had fired the shots, but were prevented with difficulty from carrying out their intention.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle . $4.75 & 5.50 Hogs 5.00 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 92 qz .93 No. 2 Red 90% <S .92 Corn—No. 2 62 @ .64 Oats—White 39 @ .44 Pork—New Mess 15.50 @16.00 ■» CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.50 & 6.25 Good. 4.00 @ 4.75 Common to Fair.. 3.50 @4.00 HoGOjeShippiog Grade-s 4.75 @ 5.50 Flour--Winter Wheat 3.75 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red Wintor 80 an .81 Corn—No. 2 49 @ .50 Oats—No. 2 30>£ <* .315$ Butter—Choice Creamery 29 @ .30 Fins Dairy 20 & .24 Cheese—Full Cream, new 1114,-, .1254 Eggs—Fresh 20J£@ .21% Potatoes—Choice, per bu 80 *@ .81? Pork—Mess 14.25 @l4 75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .75 @ .76 Corn—No. 3 AB%<& ,49% Oats—No. 2 White 33 34 Rye—No. 1 . .61 @ .62 Pork—Mesa 14.50 @15,00 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 81%@ .82% Corn—Mixed 49 @ .49% Oats—Cash 30 @ .31 Pork—Mess 11.50 m 15.00 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 83% ft* .81 Corn—Cash ' .53 .53% Oats—Cash 31% @ .32% DETROIT. Beef Cattle y. 75 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.(4-, $ 4.75 Sheep 4.1:0 & 4.75 Wheat—No. 1 White S3%@ 84 Corn—No. 2.... 53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 White '.34 @ .'34% CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .85J$@ .86}£ Corn—No. 2...' 54>5 c .55% Oats—No. 2 34 @ .35 Pork—Mess 15*. :>0 isl 16.00 Live Hogs 5.50 & 5.75 BUFFALO. Cattle 4.25 @5.03 Hogs 5.00 ■" 5.7 5 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 89 .90 % Corn—No. 2 Yellow 59%@ .00% INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 3,50 @4.75 Hogs 5.00 @5.50 Sheep 3.00 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 82 @ 82% Corn 53 @ .53% Oats—Mixed 33 .33% EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Prime 1 4.75 @5.25 Fair 4.00 &> 4.50 Common '... 3.00 @ 3.50 Hogs 5.25 @5.7 5 Sheep 4.03 & 4.75

THE CABINET.

The Promotion of Secretary Lamar Necessitates Several Changes. Portraits and Biographical Sketches of the Sew Members of the Ministry. [WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE j L. Q. C. Lamar, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; William F. Vilas, to be Secretary of the Interior; Don M. Dickinson, to be Postmaster General; Charles S. Fairchild, to be Secretary of the Treasury; George L. Rives, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Isaac H. Maynard, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Sigourney Butler, of Massachusetts, to be Second Controller of the Treasury; James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer of the United States. The sending of these appointments to the Senate for confirmation was almost the first thing which President Cleveland did after the organization of the Fiftieth Congress. Inasmuch as it was

LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR.

WILLIAM F. VILAS.

ISAAC MAYNARD.

JAMES W. HYATT.

pretty well understood in well-informed political circles that the Cabinet changes herein proposed had been determined upon by th* President some weeks in advance, the announcement of the appointments created no surprise. It has been said that Mr. Lamar will either be promptly confirmed or else a long and stubborn fight will be made against him. What reasons the President has to think he can control enough Republican Senators to insure an early confirmation can only be guessed at. With Faulkner of West Virginia out, the Democrats have not their full strength by one vote, but they do not seem uneasy. LUCIUS Q.' C. LAMAR. Mr. Lamar was born at Oxford, Putnam County, Ga., Sept. 17, 1825, and received his early schooling in his native town. He graduated at Emory College, Georgia, in 1815. He studied law at Macon, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in lr-47. He moved to Oxford, Miss., in 1849, and was elected Adjunct Professor of Mathematics in the Mississippi State University. He resigned in 18 jO, and went to Covington, Ga., where he devoted himself to the practice of law. In 1853 he was elected to the Georgia Legislature, and in the following year returned to Mississippi, where he settled on a plantation in Lafayette County. He was elected to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses, and resigned in 1860. He entered the Confederate army in 1861, as Lieutenant Colonel of the Nineteenth Mississippi Volunteers, and was soon promoted to the Colonelcy. In 1863 he was sent to Russia by the Confederate Government on an important dijdomatic mission, lie returned to Mississippi at the close of the war, and in 1866, was elected Professor of Political Economy and Social Science in the university of the State. A year later he was transferred to the Professorship of Law. He was elected to the Fortythird Congress and re-elected to the Fortvfourtb. In the winter of 1876-’77 he was elected to the Senate, where he served until his appointment as Secretary of the Interior. He was a widower until a few months ago, when he married a Georgia widow who had been bis sweetheart in their youth, and has. no fortune outside his official salary. He lives quietly, and often passes intimate friends unrecognized when he is in a brown study. CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD, Charles S. Fairchild was bom at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1842, was graduated at Harvard, and began the practice of law at Albany, N. Y., where he was very successful. In 1876 he was elected Attorney General of New York on the Democratic ticket. He was a candidate for renomination in 1877, but was defeated in the convention by Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. Mr. Fairchild held no public office since that year, until, in 188 >, he was appointed by President Cleveland to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In the meantime he was President of the New York State Charities Aid Association. WILLIAM FREEMAN VILAS. Mr, Vilas was bom at Chelsea, Orange County, Vt., July 9, 1840. When he was 11 years old he went to Wisconsin, where, a few months after, he was entered as a pupil of the preparatory department of the university of that State. In 1853 he matriculated in the freshman class of that institution, and was graduated therein 1858. After taking his academical degree ho studied law in Albany, N. Y., and was graduated from the law school of that city in 1860. After his admission to the Supreme Court of New York he removed to Wisconsin, where, on his birthday, July 9, 1860, ho made his first argument before the Supreme Court of that State. Upon the breaking out of the war Mr. Vilas entered the army as Captain in the Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteers, and rose to be Major and Lieutenant Colonel. He resigned his commission and resumed the practice of the law January 1, 1864. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin appointed Colonel Vilas one of the revisers of the statutes of the State in 1875, and the revision of 1878, adopted by the State, was partly made by him. He has held various position sos trust in Wisconsin, and in 1884-’BS was a member of the lower house of the Legislature. He is a fine orator, his famous eulogy of Grant at the Chicago banquet giving him a national reputation. He presided over the National Democratic Convention which nominated Cleveland. DON M. DICKINSON. Don M. Dickinson was bom in Port Ontario, Oswego County, New York, Jan. 17, 1846. In 1848, when Don M. was but 2 years old, the Dickinsons moved to Michigan. After passing through the public schools in Detroit he entered the law department of the State University. He was a good student, and the degree of LL.B. made the young Detroiter a fullfledged scholar. Ho achieved almost instant success as a lawyer, and it was not long before his practice became the most lucrative in the State. Much of his attention was turned to bankruptcy cases, and he aided largely in framing the Michigan insolvency laws. His most recent success was as counsel in the telephone case before the United States Supreme Court.

DON M. DICKINSON.

CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD.