Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — TWO NOTED OFFICIALS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO NOTED OFFICIALS.

MARKED DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO SPEAKERS? ~ The Right Honor nble Arthur Wrllenioy P«1 »n«i Sptaktr Crisp—Wherein They Are Alike eixt 'Wherein They DifferAn Interesting Contrast in Public hull ' Private Lift. The English Speaker.''

> HEN thfi story of iW the n i n«tec nth llljßl century in the popular branch of \J. \l,v the British ParliaVCit men.t shall have been’ written the name of Peel will Xmtfg be found in bold V type Lesiclo those i ' Gladstone, DisTM fi/vJ rae li, O’Connor, ‘ijlW&bXst Parnell and other great parliamengrft 4a© /tarians who have 2? JL a £ therein figured. In first half of this century one

of the commanding figures in' the House of Commons was that of Sir Robert Peel, and in the second half a central and equally commanding figure is that of his youngest son, the Right Hoh. Arthur Wellesley Peel, 'the present Speaker, whose portrait, from a recent photograph, is here given. , For many years before his election to the Speakership in 1884, during Mr. Gladstone’s second administration, Mr. Peel was one of the best known men in the House of Commons. For twenty-seven years ho has uninterruptedly represented Warwick at Westminister. Three years after his admission to the “Assembly of Great Thinkers,” as-the Anglo-Saxons called the Parliament of their day, Mr. became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board*' of Trade. In 1873 he was appointed Patronage Secretary to the Treqafiry,

and for nine months In 1880 he' waq Under Secretary to the Home Department. To the reader unfamiliar with English Institutions it may be necessary to state 4 that a seat . .in the House of Commons, instead Of being inconsistent with the holding of tbege positions, is necessary to them, a.s ! 'ih the, cage of cabinet officers. Attached to the Speakership Is a salary of $25,000 a year and,an.,Official residence. Detached from fjty but shining in the distance, is the luster of a patent of nobility and a seat in the house of lords, besides a retiring pension of $20,000 a year. During his term of office the Speaker is thfe first commoner of the land,, taking precedence of others by custom and legislative enactment. The political Influence of the English Speaker is infinitesimal -coin* pared to that wielded by the Speaker of the United States Congress, Here the presiding officer never, or hardly ever, seeks, to divert the course of legislation, nor does he name the committees of the Htiuse. His'duty is mainly to insist on a strict observance of the rules, and to keep a close eye on all those things which involve the “dignity of the House,” to which Englishmen attach such immense importance. For his peculiar duties Mr. Peel is well equipped. He possesses a fine business aptitude, a full knowledge of parliamentary usages, and a disposition that can be serene or severe, urbane or austere, as occasion demauds the exercise of those essential qualities. He has also the physical qualifications of a sonorous voice and a commanding presence. His desk is not gavel-battered like our Speaker’s, for, as a rule, he easily controls the House. He sits with Jove-like serenity in his rich robes,

and when, be rises it would be considered a gross breach of' parliamentary good manners if any other mymbar remained standing. As Speaker Mr. Peel is the principal trustee of the British Museum. He is also Chairman of the Caledonian Canal Trust. In the early part of the century the government advanced a sum of money toward the expense of the canal, and in order that it might be represented on the trust a statute was passed making the Speaker of the day chairman cxofflcio of the undertaking. He is also trustee for the Duke of Wellington Of the famous Strathtleldsaye estate in Hampshire., Tbe American Speaker. Speaker Crisp does not get haX as much pay for presiding over the noisy branch of Congress as is given the Speaker of the House of Commons in England; But he does not have to wear the curly wig. His head is not upholstered. That is one compensiition for the difference in salary. Though the Speaker of the American House wears less hair and draws, less pay than the corresponding official of the British Government, he occupies immensely greater influence in legislative affairs, and his - relative rank In. the government Is higher. The Speaker of the Abuse is properly next in rank to thd^eaj-

dent. The Vice President is great chiefly in the fact of his nearness in succession to the President and the possibility that h®may become President hut as ' long as ho remains merely Vice President he is an alternate tty pa nk and a comparatively unimportant personage In the government The Speaker of the House, however, has the appointment of committees who shall take Charge of tlifr business of the House, and ho practically dictates the policy of the House. There have, perhaps, been some Speakers of small Influence, but they have been exceptions. .Speakers Reed, Blaine, Randall, and Carlisle each in his tiiue exercised'a powerful influence upon legislation. • In appealanoc there is a striking contrast between Speaker Crisp and .Speaker Peel, even leaving,, offt< of consideration the difference iq, their dress while exercising their official functions. >

The only other office the Speaker holds by reason of his'position in the House is that of Chairman of the Committee on Rules, to which Committee is referred all questions of the order of business. The Speaker usually dominates that committee, though, of course, he may be voted down by a majority of his four associates. He has no perquisites of power beyond his salary of SIO,OOO a year, can hold no other office under the government during his Incumbency as Speaker, and has neither title nor pension after retirement from the office. It is an omco won through popularity and ability and hold only by those qualities which give a man a commanding position In his party. It ,1s In the power of the Speaker to reward his friends and punish his enemies in many ways, but though the contest which resulted in Mr. Crisp's election was a hot one; thero have been no punishments for those who preferred another to him, and the rewards have been measured out tc ability and trustworthiness almost without regard to faction.

Story of a MUitlng Dlainom). One uight a pewly engaged couple wore going to g bull. In the carrlltge he asked hey to ipt, him see her ring for. a some peculiarity Us stride having caught ills eye, although why she Should have had; hei glove off no one can teH. She gave him the ring and he oxamiued It for shpie timc'ln the light of the carriage window When the carriage stopped shp asked him for the ring. /‘But I gave it back to you and you tooktlt. *; ‘ v*rj»v mc . -1 ’ “No, yon did not. I have not had It since 1 gave It to ydu/’ Lights werq brought, search was made, clothes, 1 were shaken—every place whore a. diamond ring could possibly die* cbtiOeftlod was unoovered. The ring could jiot’ be found. Each persisted, ho that bo gave the ring back, she that she did not,roepivo it. Assertion- became argument? argument changed from heat to ice; communication was interrupted and finally ceased; the engagement was They wept thoir ways and each . marjried another. One day several years later tho woman, ripping up an old ball dress, found in the heading of one of the raffles a diamond ring. It was the lost engagement ring. She wrote to her former lover a letter of apology and explanation, but the incident had turned the current of both their lives. This Is a true story.—New York Sun. ,

Popular, but Erroiißoun. “'/"he dramatic manner in which newspaper reports of railroad wrecks frequently refer to the heroic engineer who died with his hand on.the throttle is amusing,” said the General Superintendent of a Chicago Mne. “Of course nothing too good efth be said about a man who loses hie( life at his post of duty, but the plain fjtc't is that an engineer who ‘dies hand on the throttle’ does so because he has nothing else to take hold of. I have made a few runs my time and 1 speak by the card. It Is generally admitted by experienced locomotive engineers that the safest thing to do when a collision is about to occur is to drop down behind the boiler head and grasp the throttle regulator with both hands. This may prevent the engineer from being hurled out of the cab, and the boiler head protects him to a certain extent from being crushed when the cab is telescoped from the front. Of course if the tender is thrown upon the cab he will be caught from the rear, but lie takes his chances at the best. If he jumps he is very liable to strike a stone pile or to have the engine fall over on him before he can get away, and 1 think the records will show that fully as many engineers are killed by jumping as by sticking to their cabs and holding to. the throttle regulator, which is the most convenient and substantial means of support.”

How KapWlly We Think. Helmholtz showed that a wave of thought would require about a minute to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch found that a touch on tile face was recognized by the brain and responded to by a manual sigital In the seventh of a second. He also found that the speed of sense differed for different organs, the sense of hearing being responded to in the sixth of a second, while that of sight required only one-tlfth of a second to be felt aud signaled. In all these cases the distance traversed was about the same, so the Inference is that images travel more slowly than sounds or touch. It still remained, however, to show the portion, of this interval^ taken up by the jetton* of the brain. ’ Professor Dodders, by very delicate apparatus, has demonstrated th/s to, be about seventyfive thousandths of, a second.. Of the whole internal forty 1 thousandths' a£a occupied in the simple act of.recognition,, and thlrty-tfve thousandths'for the act of willing response.—-House and Home. N . v. A most scurrilous cartoon was issued by the tories in Ehgland, picturing Gladstone bethg carried off by Satan, and yet England sometimes presumes to 'criticise American politics! A piece of wood one inch long and one-half inch thick was removed from the cheek of a Reading, Pa., young man.. The splinter entered his cheek six years ago in a coasting accident. % Jfjf. • ’■**.

THOMAS H. CARTER. Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The choice ot a chairman for the Republican National Committee has fallen upon Thomas 11. Carter, of Montana. Thomas Henry Carter is of Irish ancestry, and will be 38 yearn old on October 30 next. Ho was born in Junior Branch, Scioto County, Ohio, and in 1865 went with his parents to Puna, 111. His people were farmers, and young Carter hoed corn and made himself handy at the chores. In 1875 he went into business in Burlington, lowa, and studied law. From there, in 1882, he went to Helena, Mon., and he is still a resident of that, city and a practicing lawyer. He was a Territorial Delegate to Congress in 1888, and when Montana, in

Novomber, 1889, was admitted as a State he was elected Congressman. Ho was defeated In his second fight. In Congress he voted for Reed for Speaker. As Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining ho was instrumental In having a protective duty put on the silver-lead ores of Mexico. He supported the silver bill of 1890, and was a stout advocate of the free coinage of silver. At the close of tho long session in 1890 Mr. Carter accepted tfle secretaryship of tho Rephhlldari Cpngrftssjkrnal'?- Committee, Congressman Jafhes .1. Bolden was Chairman of the committee. On March 30, 1890, Mr. Carter was appointed Commissioner of the Qeperal Land Office. Mr. Carter married in Helena, and his sister married Thoa Cruse, the wealthy mine owner.

UUniaruk a* h Sohoulhny.

Prlnee Bismarck, the great Gorman statesman, though new in retirement, is regarded by his fellow-coun-trymen as their greatest man. Not long since ho passed his seventyseventh birthday; and on this occasion 12,000 people visited Friedrich* ruhe to congratulate him, and 3,000 telegraphic messages were brought In by hard-working messengers. Prince Bismarck Is an cxamplo of tho effect of scholarship and high education in shaping character and helping a career. "Not a few great qien havt; triumphed in spite of lack of education; many others have realized their greatness by its aid. Prince Bismarck was an excellent scholar In his boyhood. He was not yet seventeen when he completed his studies preparatory for the university; and that these studies were not of a trilling sort, Judgod by any standard, Is proved by the certificate which he locelvedon passing his examination. This paper which boars date Easter, 1832, runs as follows; “The written examination comprised Ancient History: 1 ‘Bella Romanorum udversus Macedohuiu lieges, Yu Latin essay. Secondly,,Modern History: ‘On tho political conditions of the leading States of Europe at tho boginning of the Eighteenth century.* Thirdly, Mathematics: To find the area of a figure limited at will by a parabolic curve and several straight lines. Fourthly, a German eesay: ‘How Europe accqulred and maintained superiority over the other continents of the world.’ Fifthly, Greek: Translation and crucial comments on the passage In tho ‘Ajax’ of Sophocles from line 910 to line 970, and a Greek exercise. “Otto von Bismarck received the following certificates In the viva voce examination: —Latin, good and fluent; Greek, good; Ancient History, very good; Modern History, good; Mathematics, generally good, Philosophy, good.” The general ccrtl flcate Is as follows: “Ills knowledge of Latin is good, both In his comprehension of-*tlteWmltiors and In facility of composition. His knowledge of Greek is pretty good. He has a very satisfactory skill in tho use of German; and a fair knowledge of mathematics, history, and geography. Of the modern languages, ho has studied French and‘Jßnglish with special success.” The touchers close their certificate of the boy who was to become of the most powerful man la Europe, with these words, “We dismiss thre able and well-equipped youth with our peat wishes, and the hope that he ( will pursue his further education with renewed energy.” Bismarck’s university course did not fall short of the promise of his preparatory studies; and in his subsequent career as a statesman continual evidences are fjund of bh scholastic training. , She Walt* for Her Daughter. * “How late do you stay out?” asked a New York Commercial Advertiser reporter of au old and crippled wopian who grinds a small and wheezy handorgan nightly on Third avenue, sometimes on one corner and sometimes on another, above Fifty-ninth street "About an hour longer,” she replied in a voice even more wheezy thar* the organ. It was after midnight then; the moon shone brightly and the air was close after the heat of the‘day. "Go home now and I’ll give you a quarter,” urged the reporter. “I can’t; I’m lame,” she replied, “and roust wait for my daughter.” It was evident that the poor creature was only too willing to start homeward, so the reporter and a companion picked’ the organ upand supported the old wopian home. On the doorstep lay the figure of a woman. She was. tin: daughter, and intoxicated. *O4, sometimes, she forgets me,” explained tfle old. woman, “and I’m out all night, but it does not happen very often.”"’'

SPEAKER OF-THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

SPEAKER CRISP.

THOMAS H. CARTER.