Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1889.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1880. - WASHINGTON OFFICE 813 Fourteenth St. P. 8. niATH, Correspondent.

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Union Depot and Southern HoteL ' WASHINGTON, D. C.--mgg liouaa and ZbWtt House. Johnstown Relief Fund. The following is a complete statement, showing receipts and disbursements to date: Receipts. ReceivedJone 3 $470.25 , Received June 4 459.80 frivil Jmift 5 279.00 Received June 6 47.50 Received June 7 100.00 Received June 8 20(3.75 Received June 10 239.1 - Received June 11... 256.75 Received June 12 104.50 Received June 14 5.00 Received June 15 50.25 Received June 16 73.35 Received June 17 ; 4 0.59 Received June 18 5.85 Received June 19 51.45 Yetterdaji Receipts. The Vincent Chautauqua Literary and Bclentino Circle, Liberty, Ind $54.00 The Society of Christian Endeavor and The King's Daughters, Pendleton, Ind.. 59.30 113.30 Total $2,504.15 Disbursements. ' June 4 Remitted to Wm. MoCreery, chairman relief fund, Pittsburg, Pa $800.00 Juno 5 Remitted aa above.... 300.00 Junes Remitted as above.... 300.00 June 11 Remitted as above... 575.00 June 14 Remitted aa above... 194.36 June 17 Remitted as above... 104.19 June 20 Remitted as above... HO.dO TctaL. $2,504.15 Miami University has conferred the decree of LL. D. on tho President. . He has been doctoring law a good while, but the title of "Dr." Harrison has been badly contaminated in this State. Wellington R. Burt, who shouted himself hoarse as the Democratic candi date for Governor, in Michigan, last year, denouncing trusts as purely Republican villainies, has become the chief of a salt trust, with British capital. Well ington has got his eyes open since No veniber, and believes that trusts ought not be purely Republican institutions. Republicans who allow themselves to be disturbed in body or mind over the purpose of President Harrison to enforce the civil-service law, as well as all other laws, are not wise. That Cleveland and his followers did not is no reason why President Harrison should not, although the condition of affairs in the Indianapolis postoffice was such as to almost render at least a technical violation a necessity. Now that a proper correction has been made, every good Republican will see that the law is ob served. The St. Louis Republic has been taking a horoscopic view of tho colored popula tion, and concludes that until the negro becomes more intelligent ho will continue to cast an African-race vote solidly for the Republican party; hence, the country must trust to time and the growing in telligence of tho netrro to enable him to become in fact, as he is inlaw, an Amer ican citizen. We would suggest to tho Republic that more school-books might hasten this desirable consummation. Suppose you urge tho Democratic party to pass the' Blair bill. It is a grossly unreasonable construc tion of the alien contract-labor law that would prohibit bringing to the United States foreign professors of theology or teachers of any kind. The law has no -such intendment, and should not be so construed. It was enacted in the inter est of American laborers and to prevent the importation of European paupers under contract to work at pauper rates. . The Catholic University at Washington, which desires to employ some European professors, should not be deterred by this forced construction of tho law. A singular fact has come out in con nection with one of Governor Hill's recent vetoes that of tho rapitol appro-: priation bill. A closo inspection of tho bill shows that he attached his name to tho measure at first and then had tho signature obliterated with acid. The acid, however, did not do a clean job, for the faint lines of "Approved June 15, 18&-David 15. Hill," can yet bo dis cerned. The vetoed bill affected tho in terests of a large number of workingmen, and they are very indignant at this evidence of gubernatorial trilling. Hill is finding his level very fast. Messrs. Hiram W. Miller and Smith Williams have probably acted wisely in pleading guilty to the charge of ille gally voting iii5.ano persons and idiots at the last election. Their ofi'euse was no torious, and the penalty following conviction would have been much more se vere than that now imposed. The plea of guilt justifies the indictment. If, as has been asserted, there, was precedent for the action of Miller and Williams, this .prosecution did not come any too toon. It will bo notice to party workers throughout the State that idiots and ineane persons must not be votetl. It waa A scandalous basiucss. The movement to organize a pro tective tariff league in the South is meet ing with much favor. Gtn.John D Jmboden, of Abingdon, Va in favoring It, says: "If President Harrison goes

on as he has begun, in tho path of a broad national statesmanship, a marked change in tho congressional representation of many Southern districts is in the near future. Fossil doctrinaires of f reetrado proclivities will give placo to men of a different stamp." T. G. McLaury, of St. Mary's parish, Louisiana, says that he is not afraid of negro supremacy, and that a protective tariff is essential to a proper - development of Southern resources. C. E. Sears, of Louisville, is in favor of protection, and believes that thirty-threo districts in the South are misrepresented by having free-traders in Congress; but he wishes to fight free trade within tho Democratic party, and he is a little afraid that this is a movement in the interest of the Republican party. ' AHAHIAS IH JOURS ALIS1L The New York Times is making itself conspicuous among Dcmocratio papers by its scurrilous abuse of the President and its persistent lying concerning him and his acts. Almost every issue of the paper furnishes instances. The latest at hand is a story of its Washington correspondent charging the President with corrupt motives in the appoictment of Mr. Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions. The correspondent ays the controlling motive in Tanner's

appointment "was to be of use to the pension agents of the country, and prin cipally those of Washington. It might not be putting it too positively to 6ay that his appointment wa3 made for the Washington pension agents, and principally for the benefit of one agent." As Tanner was appointed by the President, this amounts to a direct charge against the latter of having acted from corrupt or improper motives in making the appointment. The Times comments edi torially on this monstrous charge and even tries to give it definiteness by in sinuating that General Harrison was a party to a compact, made in this city, during the campaign, by which, for the same corrupt motive, he bound himself to appoint Mr. Tanner. It is about time to ask what American politics and American journalism are coming to when a metropolitan paper of large pretensions in the way of respect ability, deliberately lends itself to the circulation and indorsement of so infamous a charge. If the Times has any Eastern readers who enjoy that sort of moral garbage, they are welcome to it, and perhaps it knows their tastes. Here in Indiana, where the President is known, it simply excites disgust. The Times is fast achieving the distinction of being the meanest Democratic paper in the country. THE INDUSTRIAL PARADE. It has been a good while since Indi anapolis has had an old-fashioned Fourth of July observance or an industrial parade. This year it is proposed to combine tho two. . There must be con siderable surplus patriotism, the accu mulation of several years, and certainly our manufacturing and industrial re sources have made great progress since their last display. These were never in a more satisfactory condition, and if they avail themselves of the coming dis play to the extent they should many persons will be surprised at their mag nitude and variety. There is no better, cheaper or more legitimate way to ad vertise the city, and those who partici pate in such a display can enjoy the double satisfaction of advertising the town and their own business. The in dustrial parade having been determined upon it should be a matter of pride to make it as successful as possible, and to this end all should try and contribute. The projectors are fortunate in having secured the co-operation of the workingmen and labor organizations, who will turn out in force. These consti tute a largo factor in the industrial progress and productive wealth of the city, and an industrial display without them would be like "Hamlet" with the part of the prince left out. The condi tions for a successful parade are peculiarly favorable in the friendly rela tions which exist between local capital and labor, and in the growing good feeling between employers and employes which prevails in all our manufacturing industries. Therefore, let us join hands all round and unite in making it a success. Let it be understood in advance that it is to be an epitome and reflex of the city's industrial resources, and large numbers of peoplo will como here from the surrounding country and towns to see it. They always like to come to tho capital when there is anything to attract or worth coming to see. The industrial parade should be made such an attraction. AN OPEN QUESTION. It is said ' that Mr. Tousey, who has just been discharged from the postoffice by order of tho Civil-service Commis sion, thinks their construction of the law .illegal, and will appeal to Washington. There is fair ground for such an appeal, and an authoritative exposition of.thelaw is desirable not only in this case, but in many others that may arise. The ques tion is whether, under the civil-servico law, a postmastermay employ a substitute in tho placo of a regular clerk who is ab sent, sick or temporarily disabled. It is plain that tho good of the service and the convenience of the public may some times require such temporary employments. An epiuemic mignt occur, in which half a dozen or a dozen clerks would be sick and unable to attend to their duties. Tho work of tho office cannot go on without clerks. Tho postmas ter knows where he can put his hand on competent men. The disabled clerks are not only willing, but glad to have their places filled by substitutes until such time as they can return to duty. Clearly, tho postmaster should have aua . a thorny in sucn. a caso to em ploy substitutes. Such employment is not an appointment, and, therefore, not a violation of tho civil-service law. It is for the interest of the public and the public service that it should be done. Tho Journal does not believe that tho civil-service law prohibits it, but if it does, the law should be amended in that regard. Before the law was passed it was the common established custom in the departments at Washington, and in postoffices, to employ substitutes. The

present law is silent on the subject, and therefore cannot be said to prohibit it. The decision of tho commissioners is open to grave doubts, and while it is binding until overruled, it is not finally authoritative. There ought to be a decision on this point by the President or an authoritative construction of the law by the Attorney-general.

WHERE IB THE GOLD? A recent statement that there are about $227,000,000 of gold coin unaccounted for in this country has caused some surprise, and, perhaps, concern, in financial circles. By way of explanation, it has been suggested that the United States Treasury estimate of the amount of gold in circulation maybe much too high. On this point a Treasury official is quoted as saying: The total amount of gold in the country is about 8705,000,000; 300.000,000 are in possession of the government, and $78,000,000 are held by national banks. Some people think that the remainder is lost, or that we re mistaken in onr figures. Now, we base c ur estimates on historical statistics of pro--1 A? 1 a - uuciion ana consumption oi goia, anu Know that it must be about 87O5.U0O.0O0. We do not know exactly where the 8227,000,000 are. bat we do know that there are 3,000 private banks of the country, which must have some of it. and it wouldn't be surprising if the people had the remainder. ' East of the ynio river goia is in circulation, ana even in Washington there is not a day when we do not receive it in considerable amounts over ourcasb-counters. Financiers needn't worrv over that missinz cold. It is where it is doing most good. The official speaks with considerable confidence, but $227,000,000 of gold is a pretty large amount to have lost track of. It may possibly be hoarded, as the Treasury official intimates, and that would be a healthy sign a sign of pros perity and thrift among the people. But is it not barely possible that there is an undercurrent of gold flowing out of the country, caused by the excessive coinage of silver? Such a result would be in accordance with an established law of finance. An investigation of this matter might result in a surprise for some of our national financiers. Tho whereabouts of that $227,000,000 is an interest ing mystery. THE APPOINTING POWER. The Supreme Court yesterday over ruled the Governor's motion for a rehearing in the Riley and Carson cases. The former decision of the court, there fore, stands, affirming tho right of the Legislature to elect trustees of the be nevolent institutions. This ends the matter and settles the question, at least, for tho present. The Governor will immediately issue commissions to! the trustees elected by the Legislature. Readers of the Journal already know that it believed the Governor's position right in principle, and in strict ac cordance with the Constitution. It is still of that opinion. To say that the Legislature may elect . the incumbent, of any statutory office is to establish a vicious and dangerous precedent. But long practice in this re-. gard had created a color of right which the Supreme Court feels justified in giv ing judicial sanction. If the correct doctrine and practice had been estab lished a generation ago we should not have the Legislature now claiming .'the right to elect municipal boards ot coniroi anu tuar, sort ot xning. However, the present decision of the court is final, and should be promptly accepted as such by all concerned. That was carrying the joke too far. When the bill which has recently become a law in Missouri went from the House to the Senate it provided for driv ing away from the saloons all musical instruments, sparring, boxing, wrest ling, cock-fighting and the like, and as such would have affected only the lower class of dives. It was, of course, offen sive to the saloon interest, but Senator McGinnis, who had special charge of that interest, did not wish to oppose tho bill directly; hence, just for a joke, and to kill it, ho proposed an amendment that no billiard-table, pool or other gam ing table, bowling or ten-pin alley, cards, dice, or other devices for gaming, should be allowed in any saloon, under severe penalties, and the Senate adopted the amendment. When tho bill was re turned to the House tho amendment was concurred in, and tho Governor has af firmed it, and it goes into effect the first of September. That was carrying the joke too far for the comfort of the jok ers. Democratic demagogues have broken out afresh on our want of a suitable merchant marine. They were compara tively quiet during tho late administra tion,which never made a single movement to remedy tho difficulty; but now that there is again a Republican administra tion, they weep over the want of Ameri can sailors. In their party madness and un-American schemes, they say let us buy our ships where, under cheap labor, they can be built 15 per cent, cheaper than wo can make them. Then tho American seaman demands and receives 38 per cent, better wages than the average European sailor, and uses 27 per cent. better fare. Besides, every European nation subsidises its merchant marine. But this cry against our shipping force is consistent with their free-trade theory starve home laborers by buying tho products of cheap labor, just because they are cheap. Tho answer to this was very emphatio last November, and will be as often as the question is mooted. Five dollars a week Is love wages, but It is not pauper labor by a good deaL It is an insult to call any man a pauper laborer who can earn even a weex. Indianapolis Journal. A e wish thoso who tbink that $5 a week is not pauper labor would try to live on it for a while. Think of a man sunportini? himself and children on $5 a week! If this isn't pauper labor we don t know what to . 1 i T 1! 1 "V can it. inuianapous rtews. It is little enough, by far too little, in fact, but there has been no time in tweu ty years when there were not scores of families in this city living on less, and neither asking nor receiving charity. THE Atlanta Constitution sharnlv re bukes a contemporary for insisting that tho Democratic party should "nrotrress." instead of going back to the platform of 1S84. The Constitution thinks that a platform on which the party won a victory is better than one on which it was aeieatea, ana insists mat the perfection of progression will be to progress back . 1 a m IH a . to tne uocinnes oi i nomas Jcflergon, which are as new and important to-day

as they were a century ago. The Constitution says "there are Democrats who would do well to call a halt to their progress, and study Democracy as it was set forth by the father of the party." The platform of 1884 is good enough for any Democrat who understands and believes in tho principles of the party.

The Supreme Court of Ohio this week decided unanimously that the township local-option law of that State is constitutional. It decided, also, that "clubrooms" cannot be a protection against law-violating, in this following tho Indiana Supreme Court. Tins secession of thirty-six members of the Masonic lodges of Zanesville, O., from the Grand Lodge of Ohio, has created quite a sensation in Masonic circles in Ohio and elsewhere. The immediate if not the sole cause of this secession was a demand made by the Grand Lodge of the York Rite upon ; those members who affiliate with the Scot tish Rite, that they renounce their alle giance to the Scottish Rite. They chose to renounce their York allegiance rather than their Scottish. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Walt Whitman saya that the greatest pleasure of his old age has been in rereadYouxg Ulysses S. Grant, formerly head of the firm of Grant & Ward, has returned to the ways and practices of Wall street on a smaller scale. , Bridegroom Dahlgren, who is to wed one of the New York Drexels, is still a col lege boy. In a few days, however, he will take both degree and dulcina. Tue Maharajah Holkar is said to have fallen in love with a red-cheeked Brooklyn girl, who unkindly described her royal admirer as such a nice man that it was a pity he was colored. It is stated that a Boston milliner ac quired a large fortune through the instrumentality of a parrot which was taught to say. to every lady entering the establishment, "Oh my! how sweet sne looks!" Israel Putnam, a great-grandson of the revolutionary patriot, died Sunday in Atlanta, aged fifty-seven. Mr. Putnam was born in Georgia, and was a man of high character and splendid business Qualifications. The Duchess of Edinburgh is the most devoted wife-at least that is what they call it in London for she never lets the poor Duke out of her sight. But when he goes to the Empire Theater the Duchess stays at home. She draws a black line at i;ieopatra"as a ballet. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell has built a "house boat," in which he will cruise in Nova Scotiau w'aters this summer. This novel craft was put together in the catam aran style, and contains laree parlors, bill iard rooms, etc. On board this boat Mr. and Mrs. Bell will entertain many friends. Rev. William Hosmer, who died at Au burn on Monday, in his seventy-ninth year, was one of the first temperance advocates in the country. He wat ordained a Method ist clergyman in 1833, and was editor of the Northern Christian Advocate until 1656, when tho General Conference removed him because of his Abolition sentiments. The Rev. Dr. Cunningham, who succeed ed Dr. Talmage as principal at St. Andrew's University, Scotland, is a man of marked individuality. A few years ago, when he was the pastor of a country church, he horrified old-fashioned Presbyterians by ad vising Ins congregation to take advantage of a dry Sunday to get in their crops in stead of going to church. Col. Cyrus Bussey, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, is an old friend of Secretary Xobie, and -was colonel of the regiment in which Mr. Noble gained his shoulder-straps. uoionei jsussev assisted nis subaltern of ficer in many ways, and when the time came the Secretary of the Interior was onlv too happy to .oiler his former benefactor the best post at ills command. No daughter of tho late Emperor Frederick has the gift of beauty. The hereditary Princess of Saxe-Mciningen has hand some shoulders when seen from behind, and so gets her head painted in profile. with her back toward tho painter. Princess Sophie is said to have the face of a "child staring at vacancy while it holds a spoonmi oi puiiamg in usiuoain. - Of President Carnot's face a clever wordpainter writes: "It is long, very sallow. and the beard and mustache are still al most perfectly black. It is one of those faces that seem to co all backward and slantwise. The foreliead retreats; the chiu goes forward; tho 'cheek-bones are high. Carnot's eyes are kind and tender, but very anxious, auu nis lace is uneu wnu care." The wife of Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, is, like the wives of many literary men, the business member of the family firm. She has solo charge of the sale and distribution of her husband's books, and is his amanuensis, roviser and translator. Besides all tuis, she snpenntendsthe bnng ing ud and education of their thirteen children, looking after domestio matters meanwhile. One of the most enterprising business men of Carmel, O., is a woman, Miss Annie Lancey, of that town, having leased a mill property there is doing a big business, operating the same day and night. She employs fourteen .men, and can make every one of them hustle, too. During the day she runs a rotary on long lumber, and at night her gang stand by tho shingle and latno macmnes. The resignation of Dr. Edward II. Magill as president of Swarthmore College has been accepted to take effect in June, 1S90. In the meantime ho will seek by a trip to the continent to regain his strength and vigor, with a view of continuing in his labors at nwartnmore. ur. Juaffiii waa professor of Latin at Swarthmore from 18G0 to 1871, and since the latter year has been president of the college.' He has been a teacher for nearly half a century a notable and honorable record.. Humoristic Marshal P. Wilder made quite a hit in one of the clubs the other evening with a new trick which he calls "The Electric Touch." He got the two freshest young men at the table to grasp a stick, one at either end. Then, after making two or three magic passes in the air. he treats the company." This may seem uninteueciuai xo luieiieciuat persons; dui in .aa . . a a. teilectuauty, be it observed, wilts HRe a collar when tho weathers warm. The beautiful Duchess of Leinster, whose photograph is sold in soveral stores in Philadelphia, was the belle at a recent royal ball. She wore a gown of white satin brocaded with broken stripes of silver raised from tho surface of the material. The front was of the spotted white net now so much in favor, glittering with many constellations of small silver stars, held in a network of silver wrought with slender metal threads. The drapery was most gracefully drawn down iu long folds by the weight of a shimmering fringe made of many tine strands of silver. The bodice of brocade was folded crosswise m front and perfectly plain at the back, finished with the greatest good taste by folds of mousseline dc chiffon. The Duchess wore diamond ornaments. COMMENT AND UTLN10N. It is enough to say of the President's three months in office that ho has thoroughly disappointed his enemies. Philadelphia Inquirer. The people do not approve drunkenness; they disapprove intemperate legislation. They think that the perpetuity of free inatitations is best insured by individual responsibility and by keeping the hand of the State out of private affairs with which it has no business to meddle. Philadelphia Record. If it were not for the tariff there would be no block coal mined in Indiana. Everybody would like to see the miners make more wages, but if the market will not

justify better pay in that particular bnsi-

ness, there seems to be no help for them ex cept to go into something else, Philadel phia Press. Time and abundant experiment have proven that the pretended specific offered by the Prohibitionists is a worthless and mischievous nostrum, which adds to the curse of dram drinking and other evils of duplicity and contempt for law. These are the reasons why the people prefer high license to State prohibition. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. WnAT will be the effect of th vote in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania! The movement for prohibition is manifestly checked. Will Prohibitionists persist? Many of them are sincere and earnest and will insist on going forward. But they will have little to hope for in anv State with a reasonably rigid liquor law. Chicago Times. The "gradual but inexorable impoverish ment of the entire agricultural population of the United States." of which Professor Perry speaks, is a myth. No such state of things exists. The prosperity of American farmers and the value of their products increases steadily, from year to j'ear, and any loss from local causes to one crop, or one section, is more than made up by increased yield somewhere else. Boston Journal. Reduced to its simplest terms, the com plicated wrangle now in progress is an at tempt to evade that consequence or an act the. interstate-commerce lawj which. the Western people themselves have fastened upon the country. In that straggle the railToad routes must suffer severely. In the end their ill fortune will inevitably react upon the entire Western region, which depends 60 largely for its growth and development upon the increase of facilities for transportation. New York Tribune. There is no surer road to the destruction of the evils resulting from the use of intoxicating liquors than to make a prohibitionist of the individual. This may not be done through legal enactment. Tnere are legal ways of helping, but the great way af r all is to appeal to the judgment. This has been measurably lost sight of for many years, inere are indications mat we are coming back to it. The sooner the country gets to it the better. At any rate, political prohibitionists have had their day Cincin nati Commercial Gazette. CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM. The Law Will Improve the Service, Make It Non-Partisan, and It Will Be Enforced. Before leaving Washington on his Western trip with the Civil-service Commission Theodore Roosevelt said to a correspondent of the New York Herald: "We have, I find, to do two things. One is, to make the officials themselves understand that the law is obligatory and not optional, and the other i to get the same idea into the heads of the people. First, as to the officials. We find that the ?ast experience of the commission has been hat somo of the local postmasters and collectors have permitted the law to become practically void. They have apparently failed to realize that it is just as binding on them u any other statute. Thev have done their work very laxly. have failed to keep proper records, have even in some cases gone to the extreme of refusing to so much as answer letters from, the Civil-service Commission. Hereafter any insubordination of this character will not only result in the prompt reporting of the offender to tho President, if need be with a recommendation for his dismissal, but we will also take the matter into our own hands and decline to allow any examinations to be held in a delinquent office until wo find everything arranged entirely to onr satisfaction. "In other words, if a postmaster declines to obey the law and to respect ouxdirec- . tions absolutely he will not ue allowed to have any now employes, for he has got to get them solely through our examinations. The commission 6aw the President tho other day, and he reiterated .to us his assurances that the law should be observed in its letter and spirit, and we could rest assured that he would Vtolerate no evasion. We feel confident, therefore, that we have a perfectly free hand in reporting the misdeeds of any oQicial, Republican or Democrat. "Now as to the peoplo themselves. It is curious to 6ee how this vicious patronage system that has so long obtained in the country has managed to mako the people themselves believe that only the adherents of the victorious party should apply for office. One of the serious difficulties with which we have to contend is to get Democrats to come forward and be examined. Take the case of the postoffice at Albany. It has been excellently managed, and we are convinced that the postmaster, Mr. O'Leary, an appointee of the late administration, has paid full heed to the civilservice law. We were very favorably impressed with him when we investigated the office last week. On asking him if he had appointed any ' Republicans in the classified service in consequence of the examinations, he said that during tho last three years, although the examinations had been held with perfect fairness, yet the enormous majority, fully nineteen out of twenty, of thoso taking them had been Democrats. They were often men who had not mixed in politics, but still they were pronounced Democrats, and of course the appointments had been Democratic in about the same proportion. But, he said, that at tho last examination, held this spring, after the change of administration, although he was still in the office and the examining board was still the same, twothirds of those applying under the civilservice rules wore Kepublicau. It is only fair to mention that during tho entire three years the majority of the oxamining board in Albany have been Republicans. We think that this is a clear caso of the people and not the examing board being at fault. "Tho reason we telegraphed tho other day to Nashville illustrates tho same point. At Nashville the Democratic postmaster is still holding office, and the board of examiners is still Democratic, yet from information we received we were inclined to beliove that the great bulk of the applicants were Republicans, and so we telegraphed an appeal to ha published in the papers, asking all citizens who chose to apply for the public service to como forward regardless of party, guaranteeing them impartial treatment. We are going to try our best, both in the course of this trip we are about to take, and at all other times, to impress both public officials and the public itself with the fact that these examinations are going to bo conducted absolutely on the square, that the law is to be administered without the least flinching, and without tho least favor, that every man who comes forward will be examined, marked and certified purely on his merits, and absolutely without regard to his politics, and that the slightest attempt at evadingthe law on the af t of anv postmaster or other public oficial will "be punished instantly to the extent of our powers. "Not only is the law designed to work a betterment in the public service, but it is dcsimied to ni.ilce that Rerviro non.nnrtimin. It is designed not only to get in good men, but to got those men in without the IcastM reference to whether they are Democrats or Republicans. If enough men. come forward at an examination, and the eligible lists are kept full, it is entirely impossible for an appointing ouicer to discriminate in favor of party friends. - Take our registers of the railway mail service. Although I do not think Mr. Bell, the superiutendent. regarded us with very friendly feelings at first, and though he wished the application of the law deferred, it is only just to him to say that since the law has been in operation he has taken new clerks from tho eligible list simplv in tho order of their markings, going straight down the line, so that we can say for certain as regards the railway mail service that appointments are now made purely without reference to party. "But if very few people come forward to an examination it is then possible for an appointing officer to exercise a good deal of discrimination. It is a curious thing, for instance, to compare tho multitude who apply for the railway mail service with tho few who apply to be made special pension examiners. If a service gets a bad name for partisanship it is very difficult to get its namo up again. Until within a year or two the special pension examiners were apFointcd by passing a 50 per cent, examinaion, the whole list being certified. This was practically simply a low pass examination. It was practically non-competitive, and the evil results are still to bo seen. "1 will say right here that in most cases I do not believe in non-competitive examinations. The essence of the thing is to have it competitive. I would rather accept places Irom examination than have them non-competitive, for the latter does not take away the partisan character of tho service in the least, lam very anxious to examine the methods employed, in Huston nnder the State civil-service law' of examing laborers, or registering them. 1 do not

understand much about it, but I hear it has worked well. Of course we have now nothing to do with examining laborers, but in the course of time when we have gotten the classified service, as it now exists, iu thorough working order, I fiope to see it greatly extended. Just at present, however, we are in no condition to examine any laborers. For instance, we found three or four cabinet-makers and elev&tor boys who were included in the departmental classified service. We promptly made them excepted cases. They were jbiect to Doncompetitive examination, but tnis did not prevent appointments from being partisan, and we lelt doubtful as to whether wo could prepare a good practical examination, so we simply excepted them from the operation of the rules. "By the way, one of the things that some of the foes of the merit system delight to bring np is the alleged impracticable character of the examinations. Ninety-nino per cent, of tho talk on this eubject is simple bosh. There have been in tho past some impracticable features in the examination py6tem. but we are. still striving to free it from ail mere scholasticism and pedagogy, and we have generally succeeded. There are certain changes yet to Ge made, but on tho whole the examinations aro simple and practicable. Wo welcome any suggest ion from any expert or from any de partnient in preparing examination papers. We wish in every way to make them entirely practical. We alwavs find that those who howl the loudest about their impracticability know tho least a,bout tho subject, and are utterly nnablo to make s suggestion of improvement. "Now, one word in conclusion, about the fact that the commission . should have its appropriation great ly increased. The foes of the reform, tho adherents of the old spoils system, seem to take satisfaction in keeping down our appropriation. They might see that this does not hurt u in the least; but it does hurt the poor applicants and tho rest of the service to which these applicants have bought admissionSome of them who wero examined . ninety days ago have not yet had their examination papers marked, because of the utter insufficiency of our clerical force. 'This is not only an injustice to these men, but in certain cases it may be an injustice to the branch of the public service for which they have applied, and an increased 6um ot money should be given to u not in the least for our cake, but as . a simple measure of justice to themen whoappiy lor admission to the classified service, and for the sake of the welfare of the . whole public service itself. The moment we can get a little relief for our clerical force we intend to recommend the extension of the classified service to postoffices and customhouses with only twenty-live employes, but we cannot make any such recommendation at present, from the simple fact that we already have. more work than we caa attend to with our present force."

THE CLAY COUNTY STRIIUJ. A Brazil Newspaper Furnishes Few Facta of General Interest. Clay County Enterprise The fact is that when the Enquirer and Sentinel published their raw-head and blood y-bone articles, prompted and dictated by unscrupulous political demagogues of this city, who would be willing to damn its prosperity for a century to come in order to secure a few votes; we say the fact is, at that time there were not 9.000, nor 1O0. nor were there nine cases of absolute destitution in Clay county growing out of the strike. Nor is there a case to-day in the county where starvation is to be feared or expected. The situation is bad enough in all conscience, and does not need to be aggravated by such : lying publications in the interest of two or three demagogues who expect to sail into . office by branding the people of 4 Clay county as a population of brutes. It is such pestiferous scoundrels that -always take advantage of such troubles for personal gain, and weretlfe situation exactly tho reverse as now exists, they would be found performing on exactly -the opposite side of the question. We miss, our guess if thinking, conservative people ot ..Clay county do not remember these men wheii they attempt to step into the offices to which they aspire. Yielding to the advice of politicians and ngainst their own convictions, we believe, the commissioners have officially recognized tho strike now existing, and have requested Governor Hovey to issue a proclamation asking aid for tne men who refuse to work at the prices offered. We hop this is for the best, but must be excised when we say that, in our opinion, it is tho worst thrust at the business interests of Brazil that the city has ever experienced. The Cincinnati Enquirer has a good deal to say about the sbauties provided for tho miners in Clay county. There are many such shanties, that's a fact, but not a miner who takes care of his wages and has sufficient respect for his family to provide them decent homes is forced to live in them. A very large number of the best miners, and thev are good citizens, have their own neat and clean littlo homes, keep their own cow, pigs and chickens, raise good gardens, have their own vine and cherry trees, are out of debt, and many of them are known at tue banks as tnritty depositors, it is unfortunate that tho most improvident among the miners are chosen asrepreseuta- ' tives of the class as a body, which is an insult to all of tboso who endeavor to be, and are, self-sustaining, and such articles as appear in theEnquirerand IndianapolisNewa aro insults to tho people of Clay county at large. It is a great mistako to advertise the miners a body of Irresponsible and improvident men and beggars, and the rest of our people as unsympathizing. As good men reside here as in Cincinnati or Indianapolis, and they earnestly object to being traduced, slandered and lied about by theso papers. The situation is bad enough without tne wholesale misrepresentation such 6bects indulge in. During the last six days that the Jackson Coal Company worked 13fJ miners mado 2.835.09, or an averago of $22.50 to the man. The only objection to this result was, that it took two weeks' time to get in the six dajV work. There is not a farm hand nor a day laborer in any other branch that receives that amount of wages for their labor in tho county; in fact, we doubt there being a farm hand in tho county who receives that sum for a-dry month. Lew Wallace Jn New York. Nevr York San. When Gen. Lew Wallace strides up Broadway he does not look like a man who fought in the Mexican war over forty years ago, though ho looks old enough to b a veteran of our civil war. His eye is piercing, his movement is light, and nis spinal column is unbent. He has held the olhces of Governor of New Mexico and minister to Turkey; he has written novels and religions books; Jio has studied law and practiced it Bu; those who talk with him can easily find out that he has not forgotten his adventures in Mexico before he had reached the age of manhood. Ho is now in the sixtythird yenr of his busy life. Camps and 'Scamps Synonymous. PittAburg ChronicIe-TelegTajU. The finances of tho Clan-na-Gael appear to have been unusually well managed, at least in the way of getting away with tho money paid in by the members. A conservative estimate places the total receipts for twenty-two years, after deductiug hsll rent and running expend s of tho camps. aS $1,&4,000. This not inconsiderable amount of money, paid willingly by tho dupes to be applied to tho liberatiun" of Ireland, seems to have disappeared about as fast as it came in. In this instance "camps" and scjiiiips" appear to have been intimately allied. Sunday Iteforms in Indiana. Cincinnati Ccuinirrcial Gaz tie. The Indiana Supremo Court decides that Sunday shaving and hair-cutting are nor, works of necessity. Boot-blacking and bathing will probably come nvxt into the list of luxuries that can bo dispensed with. How, then, about smoking, aud reading newspapers, and eating restaurant meals, and riding on the cars to chnrchf It is possible the reform will advance Mi far as to strike a stone wall and rebound. Not Applicable In This Case. Pittstrarff ChronicJ ami Telegraph The collector of customs at Salera was a one-legged soldier, and was tnniHl out by President Cleveland. President Ilarri'Jll having just restored him. we were about to say that be has got there with both leet, but, ou second thought, that was impossible. A Predodic AgaJnit Water. LonltTUle Coomr-Joornsl. The piohibition fight iu Pennsylvania came on at tho wrong timo for the temperance people. No State has suffered so much iivm water tbia J'cw aa reu&iylvar?