Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1889.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C. Rlggs nous and Ebbitt Mou. Telephone Calls. Easiness Office 23S Editorial Booms 242 Indiana is ruled at present by a Democratic caucus. The Democrats favor home rule in Ireland but not in Indianapolis. The Democratic majority in thcHouso enforced gag law, yesterday, with a high hand. Tins Legislature is likely to make all previous Democratic Legislatures respectable by comparison. We rather like the way old man Edgerton talks. He is the most creditable feature of the administration.' Congresssian Btxum's views in regard to the Curtis and Bigliam bills seem to be pretty sound, lie favors home rule. . General Harrison is a believer in civil-service reform, but his principles will hardly lead him to regard the new secretary ot ivgricuuuro as a uoiuovcr." A falling out between Oberly and Vilas would be dreadful. Things might be told that would damage the. reputa tion of the Cleveland administration as a great reform movement. Mr. Norman J. Colman will prob ably make a very satisfactory Secretary ,of Agriculture for a couple of weeks, but President Harrison will need another man to look after the spring planting. The attention of the State Legislature & respectf ully called to the case of Lawson Abbott, deceased, patient of the In sane Hospital. A little whitewash seems to be badly needed by that institution. ' With eight places to fill, the labors of the newspaper Cabinet-makers are be coming arduous. Fortunately the time is rapidly approaching when they will be relieved from responsibility in the matter. " We have no reason to suppose that Sir. Thompson, of South Carolina, possesses any fitness or claims for the office of Civil-service Commissioner,, but the fact that Senators Voorhees and Turpio will oppose his .confirmation is strongly in his favor. If it will be any satisfaction to Mr. Colman, the Senate will doubtless conAii AAA UIO UUllliiailklUii LU IUC VaaaVVa. V. retary of Agriculture until the 4th of March. Ho can give Mr. Cleveland a good deal of advice in that time about the care of Democratic lambs. It is a good time for the trustees to invite the members of the Legislature to "investigate" the Insane Hospital. A good dinner not of the Sullivan brand with the usual liquid accompani ments, some music, floral offerings, etc., would insure the favorable report that usually follows such junkets by the gentlemen composing the majority. No intelligent man doubts that General Goff was elected Governor of West Virginia, but the Legislature of that State is devotins: all its time and energy to stealing the office from him. A Democratic Legislature not engaged in thwarting the will of the people, or in stealing from the public treasury, would be a phenomenon to attract the atten tion of Barnum. The county attorney instructs the commissioners that they have no author ity to offer a reward for tho arrest of Sullivan, although they have done so heretofore for the arrest of horse-thieves. The county attorney and commissioners are Democrats, and have never been suspected of any unfriendliness to Sulli van. His opinion probably coincides with the commissioners' views and wishes. Secretary of Agriculture is the title of the new member of the Cabinet. Tho President having approved tho bill it is now a law, and the appointment of Com missioner Colman as Secretary continues him at the head of the department. If the nomination of Colman is confirmed, as we presume it will be, ho will hold till the end of tho administration,, and then step down and out. Tho new. deal will give General, Harrison an additional in' mber of the Cabinet to appoint, and perhaps contribute to a happy solution of the problem. If tho pending election bill is to bo passed it should bo made to apply to municipal elections in this city and in all the larger cities of the State. In fact municipal elections are one of the weak points of our present system. If the Aus tralian system possesses the elements of real reform it is needed in city elec tions as much as in any other, if not more. In Wisconsin and Kentucky it ha been applied to municipal elections alone. One of the principal merits claimed for tho system is that it tends to break up ring politics, tho manipulation

of primaries and nominations and

diminish the chances for corruption in politics. If this is true we repeat it is needed more in municipal elections than any other. The city of Indianapolis has no Republican Representative in the Legislature, but we say to tho Demo cratic members from Marion county, re form should begin at home, and if elec toral reform is needed anywhere it is needed in Indianapolis. The failure to make the Andrew bill apply to municipal elections looks suspicious. Wc trust the Republicans in both branches of tho Legislature will see that it is amended in this respect. SULUVANISM. The recent defalcation and flight of John E. Sullivan seems to have caused a profound sensation throughout the State. Honest men of all parties are glad the State is rid of the corrupting presence of so monumental a scoundrel. Now that the exact extent of his rascality and the depth of his rottenness are partially revealed, people wonder how he could so long maintain even the sem blance of political power and success. He could not have done it alone, nor without the aid of a well-organized machine. Sullivan had an army of political helpers and the advantage of an ex tensive system of political fraud. Nothing succeeds like success, and his appar ent success in politics brought a host of henchmen and supporters around him. 'For several years his word was law in Democratic politics in this county. At the very beginning of his political career ho had power enough to revolutionize the management of the Insane Hospital and se cure the appointment of a board of trustees basely and corruptly subservient to hii. From that time on the hospital became an important factor in the Sullivan-Coy machine, and they worked it for all it was worth. His apparent political influence increased his following, and this, in turn, increascdhis influ ence until ho aspired to the best office in the county. Nobody ever dreamed that he had any fitness for the position, but, with the aid of Coy and by tho unscrupulous use of methods of which ho was already a master, ho was able to control tho nomination and secure the election. The rest is recent history. Of course, Sullivan did not build up and carry on his polit ical dynasty without a large expenditure of money. It took a great deal to keep his henchmen and workers loyal and to work out his various schemes. The ex tent of his stealings gives some idea of tho expensiveness of his methods. He said his election as clerk cost him $10,000, but it is probable that first and last at cost him twice that. His expenses did not cease with the elec tion. He still had an army of retainers to support, tho expenses of the tallysheet trials, lawyers and jury fixers to pay, hush money and deferred bribes, which must have swelled tho aggregate to an enormous sum. His corrupting in fluence was wide-spread, and .will be felt for a long time to come. Tho State is well rid of him, but tile evil that he did lives after him. The action of tho Legislature in refusing to permit an investigation of the Insane Hospital accounts to see if he robbed that institu tion shows that the spirit of Sullivanism still survives. ENCOURAGEMENT TO THEFT. The existing state of things between this country and Great Britain and its colonies, relative to the extradition of fugitives from justice, is discreditable to both countries. Without going into a discussion of international law, or attempting to fix tho responsibility for tho present state of things, it is enough to say that it is repulsive to common sense and common honesty that notorious criminals and rascals of high and low de gree should bo enabled to escape justice by crossing the imaginary lino between two countries, both claiming to bo civ ilized. The prevention and punishment of crime is one of the highest marks of civilization; yet tho United States and Great Britain are both measurably responsible for a state of things which en courages the commission of crime and prevents its punishment by interposing artificial barriers to tho course of justice. There are thousands of American fugitives from justice now in Canada, who ought to be doing time in this country, and a considerable number of Canadian criminals on this side who should be serving out sentences on tho other. Every one of these is a living witness of the failure of justice through tho folly or stubbornness of those who make and ad minister laws. Every one of them is an object lesson for the encouragement of crime. Their immunity from punishment is a premium on dishonesty. There can be no doubt that the ease of escape from this country to Canada and tho cer tainty of security on that side of tho line has contributed largely to the in crease of that class of commercial crimes which do not come under the extradition tre aty. As long as this condition of affairs exists, modern statesmanship may rightly bo considered either a failure or a fraud. There is one thing bigger than a ma jority in the Legislature, and that is tho sovereign people. The people are al ways entitled to the floor. They are not subject to the gag-law nor the previous question. Tho Democratic majority in the House have treated with contempt a resolution calling for an investigation of the Insane Hospital accounts to see if John E. Sullivan was permitted to bor row and steal any of its funds. They even refused to allow tho resolution to bo read. They can trample on the minority but they cannot snub the people. The people have a right to know the condi tion of the hospital funds. The hospital belongs to them, and its funds as well. They should demand an investigation of this business. Letthem doit by petition. The Democratic majority -will not daro to treat a petition of the peo ple contemptuously. At all events let us test tho matter. Let petitions be started all over tho State asking and demanding an investigation of tho hos pital. As fast as a few signatures are obtained forward the petition, and then circulate another. Thousands and tens of .thousands of pcoplo will gladly sign

such a petition. No person will refuse who has tho honor of tho State at heart

or who believes in honest politics. Start the petitions, and as fast as a few signa tures are obtained mail them to your member or Senator, or if you cannot trust lnni. mail them to some other. Let us see if the Democratic majority will stand between the people and an opening of their books. Send on the petitions. The San Francisco Chronicle bases an editorial on the race ouestion on a re cently reported difficulty between white and black employes in a tobacco factory at Marion, III. The Chronicle locates the trouble at Marion, Ind., and makes its comments accordingly, but though its premises are erroneous tho conclu sions are not without fitness. It defines a race war as a wanton attack by white men upon negroes who do not come into direct industrial competition with them, and adds: "There may be localities in Indiana where a race war is possible. The leaven of copperheadism worked so long and so fiercely there that some parts or the btate are more intensely Southern than Mississippi itself; but this trouble at Marion is not of that sort, and should not be called a race war." There will bo no race wars in Indiana. Tho leaven of copperheadism is working itself out through oppression and outrageous partisan measures passed by a Democratic Legislature and the persecution of honest and reputable citizens by an asso ciate of thieves and tally-sheet forgers, who is now acting as deputy United States district attorney. Com3ientixg on the proposed legisla tion against tho White Caps in Indiana, the New York Post thinks the root of the evil lies deeper than any surface embarrassment about proceedings in the courts. It says: The mvsterv nf thn Tvhnle matter ia fhnf. in a long-settled community such outrages couiu do committeu by people wnose stanu- : i- u. i a. i tv ii a. t :aa mfc ia buiu iuui puuiic senumeiiL uesuaies tn dpfli r it sol f n tri in ef tlim frhn nnrlfnlying causes of this outbreak of barbarism in a presumably civilized commonwealth merit a more earful study and a more lucid exposition than they have thu9 far received. Perhaps a solutiom might be reached if tho esteemed Post would study a parallel case nearer at home. When it can explain how a mugwump newspaper. which devotes itself to tho business of slandering and reviling honest and rep utable citizens, is permitted to be issued without protest, in so highly civilized a community as New York, it will be able to understand the Indiana White Cap mystery. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. -a mm Mrs. Oliphant lives at Windsor and is treated wjth much consideration by the Queen, who is fond of her writings. Sir Edwin Arnold, author of "The Light of Asia," has undergone a successful operation for tho removal of a large tumor on his forehead. The only female Alderman in tho world is said to be Miss Cons, a member of the London board. She is said to be a remark able woman, very philanthropic and intel-,. agent. There is a young woman living in New ark, N. J., who bears the brief name of Hen rietta Louisa Caroline Amelia Adelaiih Theresa Whitehead Thorpe Wilkinson KinBey t'ost. iter other name is not given. Miss Amelia B. Edwards, the Euglish novelist, is expected soon to visit this country, which is the only one on the globe that she has not explored. She is well Known as an antiquarian and Egyptologist. Mrs. Mary Tilungiiast is the one woman in the field of architectural decoration in New York. She designed and pain tea one of the windows of Grace Church, and decorated tho ball-room in Mrs. Stuy vesant Fish's house. Sir Julian Pauncefote, who is6boken of as the probable successor of Lord Sackville at. Washington, is not likely to make such a mistake as his predecessor did. Sir Julian is a lawyer, and he would require a liberal fee before civinc advice to a nne tioner of the Murchison type. Fairly well settled in life, Valerie, Arch duchess of Austria, and Franz Salvator, Archduko and half brother of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, will be when they get married. The bride's fortune is a round 1,000,000; Parliament adds $250,000, and papa Francis Joseph gives $50,000 a year as loug as xuey Jive. Dr. Mary AValker is now the telegraph editor of the Washington Post, and tho cold-blooded editor of tho Kansas City Times comments: "There will be little to distinguish Mary from the rest of tho boys after she has learned to repress the shriek of dismay which will arise when the telegraph cockroach runs over her trousers." The belle of the New York season is conceded to be Miss Sallie Hargous. She is an American of French extraction. Her personality is distinct, despite her petite figure. A brunette, with a plenitude of almost black, silky hair, worn in Spanish style, mauve, gold, white, aud silver toilets, charming manners, and a piquant accent wero her attributes to success. Francis Murphy says he wants a helper. At different times he has been assisted in platform or clerical work by four sons, but they have all finally gone into business pursuits. Jack, tho one who married somewhat hastily but satisfactorily, is going to issue in Louisville, where Jie lives, a paper in tho particular interests of the cause so indefatigably pushed by his influential father. Calvin Brice has recently confessed that it was Mrs. Cleveland who induced him to take the management of the Democratic campaign. He did not want it, and his friends and business associates all protested against his taking charge. Ho went to Washington and talked the matter over with the President, who urged him to accept, but ho declined to do so until Mrs. Cleveland added her. power of persuasion. A young man, of Hawkins rille, Ga., and his "best girl" quarreled some days ago, and remained 'at outs" with each other until the young man relented and began to devise some plan to "make up." He finally decided to try the effect 3 of a flag of truce, and cutting a delicate piece f white ribbon into the 6hapo of a miniature flag, he sealed it in a sweetly perfumed envelope and forwarded it to his fair enemy. It had the desired effect, and she at once gave him permission to cross the line and be happy again. Mrs. Fred Grant has recently received a splendid gift from tho Chinese minister. A brar.ch of rare wood, gilded, rises from a base of plush to a height of twenty-eight inches, and on the twigs bright-plumaged birds rest in natural attitudes, while below two hanging-baskets, one of gold and ono of silver, contain clusters of Chinese flowers with gold and silver petals and cold stems. All tho mountings of the baskets are also of gold. It is a magnificent specimen of the skill of Chinese artisans, and is valued at 2,000. The following anecdote of tho Empress Frederick is touching and authentic. Some days ago she is said to have visited the Stuart exhibition, where she was fascinated by tho relics of Queen Mary. Looking long and sadly at the picture of Mary's execution at Fotheringay, she at last said: "Poor Mary! Poor Queen! If I had lived two hundred years ago, I, too, would have been beheaded at least three times in the

last eighteen months Tho story gives one a touchjng insight into the contemporary view of the position of the Empress Frederick. Paris is at last to honor itself with a monument to the memory of Balzac. As in the case of Victor lingo and of Thomas Carlyle, it is proposed to place the statue near the house where the great author died. Already the Parisians have renamed the adjoining street Rue Bakac, and though the house is falling into ruin it has still verv close associations with the author's life. A tree that crows in the courtyard, and is seen over the -wall, -was planted by Balzac on the day of his marriage. The Countess de la Karaee (Ouida) has given up writing novels and taken to her prayers, and the London Truth says; "Miss Braddon will bo happy now that her bete noir is out of tho field. If ever two women hated each other, these rival roinancists do cordially. Ouida calls Braddon 'that person,' and Braddon calls Ouida 'that woman,' with the accent on the woo. When Maxwell (Miss Braddon's Irish -husband) wants to 4take a rise out of the missis,' as he puts it, he calls Mme. de la Ramee a fino woman, bedad, with it rowlin' eye in her head.' Then there is trouble."

COMMENT AND OPINION. Strike tho boodler from tho list of possible candidates for all office, and the first step will be taken to elevate American politics. Boston Journal. The Republican party made no mistake when it took its stand for protection of homo industry. We will flourish as anaton as long as we have labor for hands and brains, we will fail with the decline of tho spirit of industry. Milwaukee Wisconsin. Cool judgment is going to settle all this Samoan difficulty, but it cannot defend Germany in declaring war upon a semibarbarous people, for an act of resistance that wouldbe justifiable if proceeding from a civilized body under like circumstances. Sacramento Record-Union. If tho Nicaragua canal shall bebniltbv Americans, and be controlled and operated under American auspices, the United States will have the commanding position of power on this continent The commercial as well as political advantages of such an arrangement cannot bo lightly estimated. Iowa State Register. The mission of the United States government is to enforce the doctrine of noninterference on the part", of European nations, peaceably if it can, but forcibly if it must. No European power should be permitted by tho United States to gain another foot of soil on this continent. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. Plenty of honest work at good wages is the best cure for general intemperance. The temperance problem is but one phase of tho great labor problem, and the sincere, wellmeaning Prohibitionists ought to turn their attention to that. The saloon does not produce misery so much as misery produces the 6aloon. Boston Globe. Strikes should be avoided as long as they can with manliness on either side. But capital and labor should make equal efforts to avoid them; and we do not believe that the former is taking tho right course to secure a permanent solution of tho la bor question when it denies tho right of the latter to organization. Pittsburg Dispatch. Let any question of foreign policy come up and tho great plebiscite of the American people can be taken in two weeks from the public press. It will be as accurate as if registered by the ballot-box, and it will be practically unanimous. Let us have done with tho official mys teriousness of tho Stato Department and aU other departments. Washington Post The worst enemies of the workingmen are to be found among their own number. The men who resorted to violence during the recent strike and the miscreant who tried to destroy David Stevenson's brewery with a dvnamito bomb have done more harm to tho workingman's cause than a hundred employers could have done in a year. New ork Star. The American people demand that the entire postal system receive early attention, with a view to restoring its efficiency. - It is demoralized in every part, and has Trapidlygone from bad to wore under tho present administration. With the Republican party onco more in power, there is no doubt that tho popular demand will bo 5romptly complied with. Troy (N. Y.) 'iraes. VlIYTT ihfk '1n-r 1 ino othI oil fI-.o 4V. term impliesis sfill unpleasantly visi Die - - X . ft if 11 ' 1 i in some puns ox me oouui, me social proolems involved are in a fair way of being iye method than by breaking down the barraised between t black and white, and by longer tho prerogatives of tho more privileged race. New York Press. Other Companies Are Affected. Boston Transcript. Colonel Green's error is tho assumption that only tne Connecticut'Mutual is interested in the Indianapolis defalcation. It is perfectly true, as no keeps saying, that tho amount of the embezzloment is but a dron in tho bucket compared with tho company's assets. The company's loss of money is small, but there are other losses which are as serious as loss of money to a great corporation, with vast financial interests, on tho wise management of which depends tho continuance 01 tne connuence of thousands. Tho best interests of tho company and of ine wuoie iiie insurance ousmess oi tne country wero plainly with tho public duty its management failed to perform. Other companies must share in tho decrease of public confidence in life insurance comi i ii panies xnai are wen managed. Already there is a questioning disposition abroad, inspired by Moore's theft and the un obstructed flight. Such doubts are not Justified by the condition of tho vast life lnsurancobusiness of tho country. That business is well managed. Fair-minded men will admit that; and had Mooro been treated as any thief ought to be treated, the chronic doubters would have been si lenced and tho growth of doubt prevented. When Viewed from a Distance. "Gath'a" New York Letter. When Indianapolis can look from its dis tance in the center of tho West upon one of its citizens residinc at the WhitA TTnnsA and will lind that the rest of the country is very much absorbed in the study of him, they will begin to say: "Well, after all, wo did not appreciate what we had anionsus. We thought that the great man was come to look like the stone face uo in the mountain and so we kept watching all tho strangers who came to town in the 6tage coaches. Meantime there was growing up among us a very nonesi man, wnose lace, now that we come to think of it. was al ways a good deal like that stono face up on tno mountain." Didn't Know Vanderbilt. Baltimore American. The steward of Mr. Vanderbilt's yacht Alva entered a large fruit and confec tionery store on Baltimore street vesterdav and purchased nearly 75 worth of coufectionery ana iruus ior a yacnt. neioro leaving he asked for some hot-house wanes. and was told by the proprietor that the price would be S6 per pound. The steward gave an order for ten pounds, and asked that they be sent to 3ir. vanrterbilt's yacht. The storekeeper declined to till tho order, because he did not know Mr. Vanderbilt. Confiding Bayard. Cleveland Ieader. If a trusting, tender, swcet-sixtecn-eirl-graduate confidence in human nature wero an essential quality of a diplomate, Secre tary Uavard might be a success. He seems to conduct affairs of state on the assumption that Bismarck won't lie, misrepresent. or take an unfair advantage. What a touching spectacle Bayard is, anyway! Its Rule a Bush ting One. Atlanta Constitution. The New Orleans Times-Democrat is mak ing some timely comment on the mob spirit that prevails in certain parts of the South. Judge Lynch is not only an evidence of law lessness, our is a symptom oi uecay. ins rule is a blighting one. Ho should bo caged, subdued, exneu. A fiood-Bye to Clereland. Chicago Tribune. Mr. Cleveland has given his last stato dinner as President of the United States. This remark holds good for ail time to come. When He Is a Protectionist Detroit Tribune. The stiffest free-trader is a protectionist wnen no wants 10 eeu anyuung.

THE ELECTORAL VOTE..

The Law Under Which Tomorrow's Interest ing Ceremony Will Be Conducted. On Wednesday there will be a very inter esting ceremony at the Capitol. At that time the houses of Congress will meet in joint convention and forinally count and declare tho result of the electoral votofor President and Vice-president facts which have been known to tho country since last November. The law under which this pro ceeding is authorized is hardly two years old, and was passed at the last session of the Forty-ninth Congress, only receiving President Cleveland's approval on March 3, 1SS7. The proceedings aro concisely and clearly set forth in the following provisions of tho law itself; That Contrres-s shall be In 6ession on the second Wednesday in February succeeding every meetinsrof the electors. The Senate and Housed Kepresentatlves bhall meet in the hall o the. House or Heprosentatives at tne hour ot i o'clock in tho afternoon of that day. and the President of the fcfenale shall be their presiding otticer. Two tellers hall be previously nlointed on the part of tho Senate and two on the part of the House of Bepresentatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are ojened by the President of the Senate, all tuo certiiicates and papers purporting to bo certiiicates of tho electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall lo opened, presented and acted upon in the alphabetical order of tho States, be ginning with the letter A, and said tellers, havinir then read the same In the presence and hearing of tho two houses, shall inane a ust ot tne votes as they suau arpar from the said certificates, and tho votes haying be'-u ascertained and counted in the manner and ae-jordinj? to the rules in this act provided, tho result of the same shall lo delivered to the Presi dent of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce tho state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a surticient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Iceprcsident of tho United States, and, together with a list of tho votes, be entered on tlie Jour nals of the two houses. Upon Ruch reading of any such certificate or paper, tho President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall le made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without arcuinent, the ground thereof, and shall be 6igntdby at least ono fcenator and one member or tne House of Representatives before the same shall be receiyed. When all objections so made to anv vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision: and the Sneaker of tho House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral vote or vjitcs from any State which shall have been regularly ciyen by electors whoso amxdntment has been lawfully certified to according to Section 3 of this act from which but one return has been received shall bo rejected, but the two houses concurrents may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been regularly given by tho electors whoso appointment has been so certified. If more than one return on naner purporting to be a return from a State shall have been re ceived by the President of the Senate, those votes, and those only, shall bo counted which have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in Section 2 of this act to have been appointed, if the determination in said section provided for Bnau nave been wade, or by such successors or substitutes, in case of a vacancy in tho board of electors so ascertained, as have been appointed to nil such vacancy in the mode provided by the laws oi tne state; but, in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such Stato authorities determining what electors have been appointed, as mentioned in Section '2 of this act, is tho lawful tribunal of such State, tho votes regularly given of these electors, and those only, of such State shall be counted whose title as electors the two houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its laws: and in such case of more than one return or paper purponing to do a return irom a state, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State aforesaid, then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with tho laws of the State, unless the two houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not tr bo tho lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State. But if the two houses shall aisagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whoso appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted. When tho two houses have voted, they shall immediately again meet, and the presiding otticer 6hall then announce tho decision of the questions submitted. No votes or paper from any other State shaU bo acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of. That while the two houses snail be in meeting, as provided in this act, the President of the Senate shall have the power to preserve order; and no debato shall be allowed and no question shall be put by tho presiding officer except to cither house on a motion to withdraw. That when the two houses separate to decide upon an objection that may have been made to the counung or any electoral vote or votes from any State or other question arising in the matter, each senator and Representative may speak to such objection or question five minutes, and not mpre than once; but after, such debate shall have lasted two hours, it shau be the duty of tho presiding otticer of each house to put the main question without further neuate. mat at 6ucn joint meeting or the two houses seats shall bo provided as follows: For the President of tho Senate, the Speak er's chair; for the speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the hall, upon the right or tne presiding omcer; for the Representatives, in tho body of the hall not provided for tho Senators; for the tellers, secretary or tno senate, anu t;ier or tne iiouso of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for tho other ollicers of the two houses, in front of tho Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Such joint meeting shall not bo dissolved until tho count of the electoral votes shall bo completed, and tho result declared; and no re-. cess snau do iacn umess a question enau nave arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this act, in which caso it shall be competent for either house, acting separately, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess of such house, not beyond tho next cal endar day, Sunday excepted, at the hour oi 10 o'clock in the forenoon. But if the counting of the electoral votes and tho declaration of the re sult shall not have been completed before tho fifth calendar day next after such first meeting of the two houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either house. NEW YORK TOLICEMKN IN ACTION. Contrast Between Their Methods and Those of Their Lrondon Brethren. Blakely nail, in New York Star. I was in London durintr the Trafalcrarsquaro riots at the close of 1SS7. Tho mob was made up of a miscellaneous gathering of strikers aud rioters, and they held Lon don absolutely at their mercy until the Horso Guards wero called out. The police of the British metropolis were powerless in the face of tho mob, and yet the London force numbers nearly 12,000 men. The New York police, with only 2,500 men, did the ordinary police work of the city last week and held in subjection a far larger and more determined set of rioters than those of London. On Sunday afternoon Trafalgar square was filled with a crowd that certainly did not number more than six or seven thousand people. A good many of them wero women and young ooys. Ihey hooted, pelted and finally defied over eight hun dred policemen, and almost 6tamieded tho authorities. Until re-enforcements came tho Socialists delivered their speeches in perfect security, and howled to their heart?s content. I contrasted this scene at the time with a socialistic meeting which was held in Xew York on tho occasion of either the impris onment or the release of Johann Most. I have forgotten which. There were at least ten thousand Socialists in Union square shrieking blood at the top of their lungs, waving red Hags, crying, "Arm. arm and overthrow tho covernment." and so on. It was enough to make the stoutest heart quake to hear tho vicious onslaught of these disgruntled izens. Drawn up at the northwest con of Union square were eighty policeme They were not the fat and corpulent "hoc bios' of London, who are all strapped up like bundles, and who" carry their huge weight along at a slow waddle when they move at all; but they were tho big-chested, narrow-waisted athletes. They were men who hadbeenthroughtho athletic training, practice and contests of tho police department, who had been drilled regularly, who had become accustomed to tho dangers of the tenement districts of the East and West sides, and who wero agile, quick and alert. Their faces wero not always pretty. Most of them had tho square jaw, close-clipped mustache, beetling brow and weather-beaten face of the typical New York policeman. Their shoulders were broad, ami they lounged about lazily, tapping their toes or drumming quietly on the curbstones with their long locust clubs. After tho Socialists hadyelled blood for a certain length of time, and it had reached a position where they felt as though tho entire disruption of the United States was a matter of but a short time, there wns a little scutHe on tho northeastern side of the square which had the etticct of rather annoying the placid captain of the police. He had a discontented and bit

ter expression. The uproar had bepunta annov him. He indulged in a moment of

judicious contemplation, and then apparently came to the conclusion that tho whole thing had gone far enough, l hereupon lie ordered the huge crowd to disperse. There was a little bickering, but it was very short, for a moment later the captain ordered his men to charco tho crowd. The manner in which tho long-haired, terrible and majestic orators who had been shrieking ior blood climbed over the curbstones would havo startled an antelope, I never saw people light so in my life, but they fought to pet away. There was a sudden and awful dearth of remarks about blood, arms and revolution, and wholesale and earnest endeavors to reach rcmoto corners of the earth which commanded the strictest sort of admiration. It is hard to believe that tho people havo cot throudi running yet. Ten thousand sheep would not have been half so 'much frightened at tho rush of these eighty policemen. What impressed me then was the savage manner in which tho people wero ciubbeu. It was not a dxawing-roon entertainment by any means. The brawny athletes of the force jumped in where the men wero thickest, and the clubs fell with a dull thwack on their shoulders and heads with awful force. In six minutes the entire square was deserted, and nothing could be seen but groups of people rushing frantically down the side streets, followed by tho Sohce. There was a great outcry tho next ay about the brutality of it all, but it had no efl'ect. If these ciirhtv New York police men had been turned on tho rioters in Tra falgar square, in London, they would havo cleared the mob in even less time than they did the Socialists in New York. 3IAX O'ltKLt, CRITICISED. Indications that the American Girls of Ills Acquaintance Arc Not in Good Society. Critic Lounper. There ate a few points on which I would take issue with that animated and amiable social observer. Max O'Kt 11. Ono is his exalted opinion of "Bob'' Iiigersoll. Mr. Ingersoll is not only America's greatest living orator, he is a great writer and a trreat thinker; an infusion, as it were, of Johnson. Voltaire and Milton." But de gustibus non est disputandum; and if M. Blouet wants to give up a whole chapter of his "impressions" to this great thinker," it . is his a Hair, not mine. But it is another matter when ho sa3's that a gin. mt-eting a young man lor the first time at a ball, may give him her address and ask him to call; and that the young man may Fend her tickets to the "theater the next day, bo her escort in tho evening, "offer her refreshments after the play, and take her home in a carriage." Ho does not say that a young lady may encourage and accept these attentions from a stranger, but only that a "girl" may; but when one speaks of a girl, without qualification, it is understood that he means a girl of ordinary breeding. There is not a girl in decent society in New York who could do what Max O'Rell describes without losing whatever social standing she niay have had the day before. Another question of "form" this time, rather than of 'minor morals" is raised when M. Blouet writes: "Low-necked dresses are much worn by American women, not only at balls and dinners, but at their afternoon receptions. 1 1 seems very odd tons Europeans to see a lady in a very low-uccked ball-dress at four in the afternoon, receiving her friends who are habited in ordinary visiting toilettes or tailor-made gowns." I am not an authority on such important questions, but I wrote at once to a lady who is, and received this reply by return of post: "It is most unusual to see a decollete gown at an afternoon reception, although I have 6een very young ladies who are introduced into society at a largo ali'air of this kind, receive in low-cut gowns; but their mothers and the other ladies of the party always wear high or half -high dresses. It is quite common to wear white and light colors, but always made demi-toilletto fashion, that is with sleeves, and more or less open at the throat. Full evening dress would be thought in the worst possible form. I don't know anything about tho people who receive in such attire, but I suppose they have all their gas turned on, and fried oysters on tho tea-table!" . ; How a Seventieth Indlanian Was Wounded. Washington Poet. ' "Did you ever hear tell of a man being wounded without being struck by a bullet!" asked Representative Conger, of Iowa, who was major of tho One-hundred-and-second-Illinois. "It does not sound possible, but it is, and I had a case come under my own observation. It was that of tho major of tho Seventieth Indiana, Harrisons regiment, and Hagan was his name. At the battle of New Hope Church our regiment 6tood side by side, and a battery over on a hill, a mil or two beyoud, was making us very uncomfortable. Occasionally a big shot would go thundering past, just over our heads, and again ono would strike the ground just ahead of us and ricochet with terrible effect. All at ouco I noticed Major Hagan double up as if ho had tho cramps, and roll over on his side, 5roaning dreadfully. I ran up to him, and larrison did the same. He was insensible and held his hands clasped over his stomach. We finally got them away, and, removing the clothing, discovered that the windage of a cannon ball had actually sucked the blood through the pores of his skin and left his stomach black and blue. Ho had to go to tho hospital and was ill for week8., The Latest Fish Story. Chicago American. On a recent trin Governor Routt gave roe permission to tell a fish 6tory, which he says General Grant enjoj ed exceedingly. In the early days of Leadville's boom a gTOtip of miners and good fellows wero gathered around tho tavern stovo f.ninning yarns. Ono had caught a ten-pound trout, another had harpooned a 'whale in the Arctic seas, and so on, when up spoke the little Governor; "Well,bo3's all that's nothing to my luck; I once caught a pickerel that weighed 180 pounds." "Qh, Governor! a pickerel weighing 10 pounds!" responded from all sides. No one could believe the tale, but Koutt persisted, and, after vainly trying to shake their incredulity, explained, "Pickerell isno'wife's name." lie says he never spent a cent for cigars or other luxeries during tho rest of his visit. Ono of his hearers gave him a share in tho mine that started him on tho high road to great wealth. Wants the Monroe Doctrine Defined. San Francisco Chronicle. Our new President can win some distinction if ho seizes tho first convenient opportunity to inform tho effete rulers of the old world regarding the 'Monroo doctrine." It is high time that it should be defined so clearly that no mistakes may bo made about it. It should bo made plain enough to suit the comprehension of tho most greedy land-grabber in Europe. Not Qualified for Admission. Boston Journal. The Legislature of New Mexico has just enacted a law requiring that any citizen must know how to read and writ and keep his own reports before he can be qualified for office. That such legislation should bo necessary shows the low average grade of intelligence in the Territory which tho Democrats are so anxious to elevate into statehood. Is This a Threat? Atlanta Constitution. "It is of no concern to the people that the tobacco tax be repealed." says the Elberton Star. Is it not? What would the Democratic partv do without the vole of thj States of North Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia It strikes us that the people are verv much concerned in the success of tho Uemocracv! now now, esieemca contemporary? ilowpowf The Meanest Husbands on Earth. Scranton Republican. There is onby one meaner class of men living than those who deliberately desert their wives and children and leave them dependent upon public or private charity. The class we except ate the worthless, dissipated, lazy scoundrels who remain at home and compel their wives to support them, . Penalty for Asserting Political Rights. Detroit Tribune. When a Southern Republican boldly asserts his rights and demands fair pla', it is interpreted as an order for a coffin, and tta order is generally tilled. Aud &o is the coffin. m - - - The Unmolefctetl llobtalL. Pittsburg lKfjatch. Various cities are trying to abolish the bobtail street-cars; but the bobtail llushes continue to lure their victims to ruin without interferencu.