Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1889 — Page 7

REMARKABLE DECISION.

WORRELL,, COLLETT AND YANCY ENTITLED TO OFFICE In a. Decision Which Fairly Keyolutionixeg Stae Government Qf Institutions—- . Dissenting. Opinions. The Supreme Court at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon seat down a decision that will create a sensation all over Indiana. The cases decided are thosob'roughton the relation of the State for the purpose of having the provisions of the constitution relating to the filling of minor State offices interpreted. Two cases are decided —the one in which John Worrell (Republican), as Governor Hovey’s appointee, sought possession of tha office of Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, now held by William A. Peelle (Democrat), who was appointed by the Legislature; and the one in which S. T. Yancy (Republican), sought possession of the office of State Oil Inspector, now held by Nelson A. Hyde (Democrat). The decision also determined the suits of Professor John Collett (Republican), Governor Hovey’s appointee as Chief of the Bureau of Geology and Natural Science, against S. S. Gorby (Democrat);who now holds the office by virtue of appointment by the Legislature. The effect of the decision will be to practically revolutionize the present method of filling the minor State offices. The decis ion will no doubt be widely commented upon by reason of its special import, and from the fact that Chief Justice Elliott, Republican, and Judge Mitchell, the Democratic member of the Court, dissents from the decision of Justices Olds, Berkshire and Coffey (Republicans.) In the case of tho State vs. Hyde the majority of the Court, Judges Berkshire, Cos fey an r d Olds, holds that the Legislature has no power to appoint a Goal Oil Inspector, or to authorize the State Geologist to appoint, but it is held that the judgment of the Circuit Court in favor of Hyde must be affirmed for the reason that it is not properly alleged in the complaint of Yancey that the office was vacant and that he was entitled to it. The effect of this decision of the majority is to place the appointing power in the Governor, and on new suit by Yancey ho can supply the lacking statement in his complaint and obtain a judgment giving him the office under the Government’s appointment. The opinion of the majority of the court was written by judge Berksblre;-and Is quite lerrgthy. He says, in the course of his opinion, “But the appointment to an office like the one involved here, which is in no manner connected with the discharge of legislative duties,we think involve§"the exercise of executive functions and falls within the prohibition of section 1, of article 3, of the constitution.” He quotes at length from his opinion in the case of the City of Evansville, State, and holds that the Legislature can not appoint or elect to any such offices as that of State Geologist or Coal Oil Inspector. He also says substantially, that all such offi eers are to be elected by tho people, and that the Legislature can not in any event, fill them by oppointment. Chief Justice Elliott dissents from tho conclusion that the Legislature has no power to appoint officers of a bureau or department which it has authority to establish, and denies that the Governor has any other appointing power except such as the constitution specifically confers.- —Hequotes from many authorities, and says, among other things: “Perhaps the printhan by that great constitutional lawyer whose statements as Emerson says ‘lay in daylight.’ That lawyer said the inferences which, I think, follow from those views of tho subject are two: (1) That the denomination of tno department does not fix the limits of the power conferred on It, nor even their exaot nature; and (2) (which indeed follows from the first) that in our American governments the chief executive magistrate does not necessarily and by force of his general character of supreme executive possess the appointing power. He may have it or he may not, according to the particular provisions applicable to each case, in the respective constitutions Speech on the Presidential Protest.] The Chief Justice holds, however, the act is void because it is in conflict with Section 19 of Article 4 of the Constitution, which provides that every act shall embrace but one subject.” He says: “Tho act plainly betrays its own weakness, for it declares that it covers four divisions of these; three, at least, are complete and distinct subjects, each requiringand receiving different treatment. Names go for but lit-' tie,and naming the subject’s divisions does not make them parts of one more general subject. Whether they are each subjects, or ail parts of one subject is to be determined from their essential elements, for the Legislature can not by any form of words change the nature of a thing and bj4 that course evade the constituition.” Judge Mitchell concurs in the opinion of Chief Justice Elliott, saying: “lean only record an earnest and emphatic dissent from tho judgment on the principal questions and unqualified concurrence in tho opinion of the Chief Justice.” In the case of the State vs. Pecle the majority hold that the Governor has tha power to appoint tho Chief of the Burentfc of Statistics, Chief Justice Elliott and" Judge Mitchell dissent. The majority opinion was written by Judge Olds, and , he arrives at the same conclusion in ref ' erence to the appointing -power as that reached by Judge Berkshire, but by a somewhat different line of reasoning. His reasoning is that the peoplo have the right to elect the Statistician and that upon tbs happening of a vacancy in that position the Governor has the right to fill it by appointment. Among other things, ho says: i “It seems manifest that by the change made in the constitution taking away the powel granted by the old Constitution to the General Assembly to elect State officers, and the people retaining the power to elect all of the State officers created by the new constitution, and providing and granting to no department of government the light ; to elect officers to fill the State offices which might thereafter be created by law,

that one of the principle objects in revising the constitution was to take from the legislative and executive departments of the government the election of such officers.” Judge Coffey files a separate opinion, taking substantially the same ground as that taken in the opinion of Judge Olds, j It follows from the holding of the majority that all offices must be filled by elections by the people, except in cases of a ■ vacancy, and this will certainly make a very long ticket. The practice which the majority of the court indicates to be the legal one will be a novel one in Indiana, for such officers as those in controversy, like those of trustees of benevolemtinstitutions, and the directors of the penal institutions, have not heretofore been considered as elective. Mr. A.J. Beveridge, whp argued the case for the Republican claimants, is in a joyous mood. “We won all along the line,” he said. “Worrell, the Republican claimant, who derives his title from the Governor, will immediately take possession of the Statistician’s office; Yancey (Oil Inspector) must be appointed by the Governor and not by Collett—in short, that the Governor has the right to appoint and not the Legislature. These offices are State offices, and at the next election must he chosen by the people. This case practically settles the Collett and Gorby cases.” Worrell will succeed William-A. Peelle as Chief of the Bureau of Statistics; Professor Collett takes S. S. Gorby?s place as State Geologist ; S. T. Yancey will become State Oil Inspector in place of Nelson A. Hyde, and other vacancies under the State Geologist will be filled by Professor Collett. These offices will hold only until the next general election, when their successors will be elected by the people. At the election will also have to be chosen sue cessors to all the present trustees of the State’s benevolent institutions, directors of the State prisons, etc. In regard to the cases for which the suit yas instituted the decisions at present appear to have complicated rather than simplified matters. Acting State Statistician Wininifn A HfWlln was asked by an Indian , apolis Nows reporter if he will now give over the office to Mr. WSrfell, the Governor’s appointee. “Not a bit of it,” he answered. “My position is just this: I hold a commission signed by the Governor of tho State (Gray), which authorizes me to fill this office until my successor is legally elected and qualified. The Supreme Court now decides that the election of a Chief of the Bureau of Statistics by the Legislature was illegal. The result is, I am entitled to hold the office until any successor is elected legally, which, it is now decided, must be by tho people. Governor Hovey has no more right to appoint my successor than any other man has.” “What will likely be the course pursued in the case?” “I suppose it will go back to the Circuit Court, and the Judge will be directed to reverse his former decision, which was in my favor. Then I will be required to answer why I should not surrender my office to Mr. Worrell. In that answer I will set out what I have just given as my grounds for retaining my place. Then the Judge will pass upon it again, and from liim it will be carried once more to the Supreme. Court.” Substantially the same questions will arise in the case of the State Geolegist and two members of tho Board of Health. The act creating a Bureau of Geology and National Science and naming S. S. Gorby as its Chief is declared invalid by the Supreme Court. But that does not dispose of Mr. Gorby’s hold upen his office. The act being invalid, the old office of State Geologist is still in existence, and Mr, Gorby holds u commission for that place for four years from April, 1888, signed by Governor Gray. The Legislature elected two members of the State Board of Health, and similar complications will arise in their case. All in all, the contesting aspirants for offices in dispute do not seem to be entirely successful.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ora Emmons, horse-back riding near Montpelier, was thrown Wednesday and injnred. William Lock, a farmer near Onward,in Cass county, was instantly killed, Thursday, by a tree falling upon him. President Harrison has appointed exSpeaker Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash, a member of the Cherokee Indian Commission. There are eight cement mills in Clark county, employing nearly 1,600 men, while the yearly output is estimated at 2,500,000 barrels of cement. A disease is prevailing among the horses in Porter county,known as “wood tongue,” because the tongue becomes as hard as Pwood before the animal dies. | Malignant diphtheria has made its apI pearance in South Wabash, and the public schools have closed, Several cases are reported. but there has been but one death. Hiram Armstrong, of Hoover’s Crossing, applied for a pension several years ago, and last week the certificate reached him, only to find the old soldier dead in bed. His widow will receive $1,156. Thirty-eight employes of tho Jeffersonville and Louisville Company were fined, Wednesday, in the Clark Circuit Court for carrying passengers to Sunday picnics last summer. The Supreme Court handed down a decision, Wednesday, to the effect that the new law prohibiting the piping of gas from the State to points outside the State as unconstitutional. I William Neal, in Crawford county, stole a chicken valued at twenty cents, and was sentenced to prison for one year. Taylor Bayles was found guilty of attempted murder, and received the same sentence. Muncie people have been notified that a company has heen organized in Buffalo, N. Y., with s2o,ooocapital, to build a piano factory. Other interests at Buffalo have also signified an intention to move to Muncie. Miss Kate Pittman, of Evansville, while dusting a mantle in front of a grate in which there was a lively fire, caught her clothing in the blaze, and she was burned from head to foot before the flame was ex- I tinguished. ’ James Gallion, of Seymour, engaged in a persimmon eating contest with other boys on Sunday Cast, and he won, but on Moq-

cay he was seized with congestion of the stomach, the result of - over-eating, and soon died, —— > . ‘ . .5 The Green school-house in Wayne township, Montgomery county, was raided by vandals, Tuesday night, for the second time within a month, and over S3OO damage done to desks, hooks and windows. No cause is known. About 9 o’clock every night peculiar rappings are heard in the farm house occupied by Lindley Allen, fourteen miles distant from Muncie, and these continue until daybreak, leading the family to believe that ghosts are flitting about. The Cass County Commissioners have ordered a special election to vote on the propsition made by the Wabash railway management, that In consideration of $lO,000 headquarters of the company will be changed from Peru to Logan sport. Charles Clorfc, of Rising Sun,has brought suit against Captain Benj. Calkins, claiming $25,000 for alienating the affections of his wife. The defendant is aged seventy and Mrs. Clore is a lady of forty years of age and the mother of several children. William Kenton, Westport, filled his pipe from tobacco loosely carried in his pocket, Wd a percussion cap was included in the filling. Soon after lighting his pipe there was an explosion of the cap, part of which was driven into his eye, destroying the sight. John Parish, a Panhandle freight conductor, of Logansport, met with a frightful accident at an early hour, Tues ay morning, near Hagerstown. His left arm was cut completely off and his right arm broken in two placos, making amputatioi necessary. - J. W. Marson, of Cambridge City, find lug himself overstocked With watermelons, concluded to crush the melons and m k« vinegar of the juicq. He now finds thal jthe experiment succeeded. The product |is a clear fine vinegar, equal in strength ! to the best apple vinegar. Terre Haute, with less population than Fort Wayne, has 13,600 school children, while but 10,282 19 credited to Fort Wayne. It is claimed that this greax disparity is due to a wrongful system of enumeration by the Superintendent of Allen county, and that it has lessened Fort Wayne’s rightful proportion of the school fund until she is compelled to reduce the number of teachers or else suffer their payment to go by default. The other day Mr 3. Clarquist, in charge of the P. E. Studebaker residence at South Bend, was assaulted by a colored man, who tried to disable her with a sandbag, but she escaped after a desperate resistance. Afterward the police made two arrests, and David Rivers, colored, admitted the assault, and confessed" that, thei’e was a conspiracy between himself and Tommy Strode, also colored, to put Mrs* Clarquist out of the. Way and plunder the residence. Indiana Patents—Peter Anderson, Wayne, wagonreach; John L. Barnes, Peru, dishwasher; Chester W. Clark, Mishawaka, cultivator; John Conn, Valparaiso, door-check: John R. Cook and C. S. Hinchman, Rushville, rotary engine; Melville B. Mahurin, Indianapolis, wheel; William O. Pierce, Winchester, game Frank Schofield and G. F. Penn, assign ors to N. T. DePauw, New Albany spindle of glass-polishers: Henry T Simmoas* Bloomington, packing counter for stores, etc A large chicken hawk on the farm of Mr. Ilougham, in Shelby county, swooped down and seized a little pig which it attempted to carry off. Before it could rise, however, the bird was furiously attacked by tho eld sow, but, instead of fly tog away, the bird dropped its prey and turned on the larger animal, striking it about me head with its wings and endeavoring to sink its talons in its eyes. The brute was bewildered by the bird, and the hawk was getting the best of the fight, until Mr, McCain, a spectator, slipped up and caught the latter by the feet. At the meeting of the Terre Haute Liquor Dealers’ Association a resolution prevailed by which Hon. Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States, was elected an honory member, this bid for cheap notoriety growing out of the published dispatches to the effect that Mr. Morton was permitting the sale of liquor in some of his Washington property. A committee was authorized to telegraph the fact of his election to Mr. Morton, among whom was Mr. Mewes, who afterward withdrew his countenance of the proposition.—lndianapolis News. The finest barn in Knox county was burned Saturday night. It was owned by Lee Buck, a wealthy farmer and stock dealer, near Bruceville. The loss will amount to over $25,000. It cost $7,000 to build the structure, and it contained 3,500 bushels of wheat, 2,000 bushels of oats, 100 tons or hay, a stallion valued at SSOO, a large quantity of corn, farming implements, machinery, including a threshing machine, and many other articles of value. Mr. Buck is one of the wealthiest men of Knox county, and was well equipped for agricultural pursuits. He held insurance os follows: On building $3,500, in Connecticut; on grain $2,500, in tho Fire Association of Philadelphia, and $2,500 in the Phoenix of Brooklyn. The cause of the fire is a mystery, but it is believed to be the work of an incendiary.

THE MONTANA ELECTION CASES

The Silver Bow (Montana) mandamus case was finished Friday, Judge DeWolfs denying the right of the minority of the board of canvassers to appeal from the order of the court directing the canvassers to count the vote of the Tunnel precinct. The court issued a mandatory order, and Hall and Irwin counted the vote of the disputed precinct for McHatton (Dem.) This decision also covers the Legislative contest, and by it the Democrats secure ten of tho eleven members of the Silver Bow delegation. The contest is now as to tha certificates of members of the Legislature. After the State canvassing board adjourned the Secretary of State issued certificates of election to the members of the Legislature, including tbe six Republicans ortho Silver Bow delegation. The clerks of the different counties had already issued certificates, and the Democrats-elaot refused the Secretary's certificates.

THE VARIOUS ELECTIONS

NEW YORK. OHIO AND lOWA IN THE DEMOCRATIC COLUMN. ,—: —s= , Foraker Defeat'd by About 10,000 Majorty and tbe Ohio Legislature Democratic —Mahone Defeat d by 115,000 MajorityNew 1 ork State Democrat.c Ticket Successful, But a Republican Legislature Chosen. OHIO, The election in Ohio November 5, was for State offioers and Legislature—the latter to elect aU. S. Senator to succeed Henry B. Payne, Democrat. Seven hundred and twelve voting places outside of Cincinnati gave Foraker 112,024. Campbell 106,955; Helwig 5,351. The same in 1887 gave Foraker 109,741; Powell 9S, 186, sharp 5,540. Thc election was quiet and orderly at Cincinnati. Campbell secured a majority of 6,052 in the city as against about the same majority for Foraker two years ago. There was a heavy defection from Foraker in the German vote, largely on account of dissatisfaction with the enforcement or no-nenforcement of the liquor and Sunday laws. Chairman Neal of the Democratic Committee claims Campbell, election by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. The Republicans almost but concede the defeat of Foraker but have strong hopes of the remainder of the ticket being successful. The Republican executivtecom m ittea claim the election of the Legislature and the State ticket, except Governor Foraker, who is in doubt. If the Republican counties on the westen reserve and in other parts of the State hold up to expectations, Foraker will pull through by a small plurality. The Legislature is claimed by the Republicans as a certainty. In the western reserve the Prohibitionists made gains and the Labor party losses, both favorable to the Democratic ticket. All indications at this writing, with but eno fifth of the State heard from, are favorable to the Democrats. , Campbell’s majority, unofficial, is 11,454 All the State officers elected, except Gov ernor and possibly Lieutenant, Governor! are Republican. The Legislature is Democratic, and a hustle is already begun for the Senatorship. Tho candidates so far known are John 11. Thomas, the million aire manufacturer of Springfield, Calvin S. Brice, John 11. McLean,L. T. Neal, George L. Converse, and others. Thomas, it is believed, has the inside track. VlßqvjrU, Interest in the election in Virginia was largely due to the fact that Gen. Mahone, (or old Bill Mahone himself) was the Republican candidate for governor. The majority against Mahone will probably exceed 25,000, and the Legislature is largely Democratic. The Democrats made gains in all parts of the State. In some of the counties in the “black belt” the negroes voted with the Democrats. In Norfolk tae Republicans claim the negro vote fell off one half, they taking little in terest in the election. In one precinct in Jackson a negro judge left the room for half an hour. When he returned he preferred charges against Messrs. Preston, Belvin, and R. M. Smith, Jr., for obstructing voters. The other two judges tried the case and discharged Belvin ahd Smith and required the negro judge to pay the costs. This angered the negro, and he refused to serve as judge any longer. This put a stop to voting, but it was resumed about 5 o’clock. Governor Lee sent the following tidings to Ex-President Cleveland: “Virginia has buried Mahone by probably 30,000.” Gen. Mahone charges thatothe dilatoriness of election judges deprived him of many thousand votes. The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal telegraphs: “In Richmond alone at least 4,000 negroes who wanted to vote for Mahone, did not have an opportunity to cast their ballots. Two thousand or more of those were in line when the polls closed. White men were allowed to vote as soon as they appeared, but the colored men, thousands of whom went into line and stood there till five minutes after 5 o’clock Tuesday evening did not reach the ballot-boxes. He charges that the same processes prevailed throughout the State and attributes defeat of Manhone theretoIn a shooting affray at Portsworth a negro was accidently killed.” Gen. Mahone was arrested Tuesday evening charged with shooting H. P. Harrison, who with a number of companions was sending off fire works in front of Ma hone’s residence. Mahone was taken to tLe station house. He denies the charge. The wound receiv ed by Harrison is not dangerous. Another dispatch says: A crowd of Democrats marched to Gen. Mahone’s house at 10:50 o’clock Tuesday evening, and, entering the yard, began to fire rockets and Roman candles, some of them being aimed at the General’s house shouldered a shotgun, and and some of his friends went with him to the yard, whereupon the crowd dispersed. McKinney’s majority over Mahone will probably reach 35,000. The Democrats have three fourths majority.!n the House, and two thirds majority in the Senate. 0 Unofficial returns from every county in Virginia except seven show a Democratic majority of 42,715. lOWA. Nearly every part of the State heard from snows Democratic gains, which in some precincts amount to a landslide. The city of Burlington gives I*soo Democratic majority, and Des Moines county will raise it to 2,000, a clear gain of 800 over the vote of two years ago. Carroll county reports a Democratic majority of 700, a gain of 500. The Democratic gain in the town of Cherokee is 150. Scotland and Dubuque counties also show large gains. Returns are not sufficient to base a conclusion, but they indicate the election of Horace Boies (Dem.) for Governor. Pottawattamie county gives Boies 1,500 majority. In 1887 the Democratic majority was but 125. At midnight the aggregate returns covering one-sixth of the State show very heavy Democratic gains. The Democrats have made heavy gains in the river counties, and the Republicans have failed to hold up in tho Northwest so far as heard from. The Democratic State headquarters claim that if the present ratio of gains is continued they will oarry the State by

7,000. The Republican headquarters insist that the strong Republican counties have notyet reported and will cut down the Democratic gains so that Hutchinson will be elected by a small plurality. Beies, Democrat, is elected Governor of lowa by a majority exceeding 10,000. The entire Democratic State ticket is elected. Boise’s majority in lowa will be about 4,790. The remainder of the State ticket and the Legislature is Republican. SEW YORK. In this State a Secretary of State and other minor State officers were elected. There was not great interest manifested. The Democratic majority in New York city is 63,369. to which Brooklyn adds 10,835. The Democratic State ticket is elected by about 10,0(0 majority. The Legislature stands: Senate2l Republicans, UDemOcrats; Assembly 67 Republicans and 61 Democrats. Amos J. Cummings, Democrat, was elected to Congress in the Sunset Cox district without opposition, unless 24 Prohibition votes may be characterized as such. 1 New York’s Democratic majority may reach 20,000 to 25,000. The Democrats gain ten members of the Legislature. New York gives a Democratic plurality on the State ticket 0f23,651:KAXSAS. Elections for county officers only were held, and in many instances the result is without political significance. In some cases a resubmission of the prohibitory amendment was forced as an issue. No deductions can be made for several days. The Democrats seem to have held their own. if not made gains, in the local offices voted for. “Their own” is not large in Kansas. MASSACHUSETTS. The election in Massachusetts was under he new Australian system, and no crititcism of it has so far been made. The “re suit resulted” in the election of Brackett, Republican, for Governor, by a majority of 20,000—10,000 less than is usually given the ticket. This estimate is reduced by later returns. The total vote of the State is: Bracket, R., 126,792; Russell, D., 120,814; Blackmer, P., 13,854. Brackett’s plurality is therefore but 5,978. The Legislature is Republican by a reduced majority. Nebraska gave a Republican majority of from 18,000 to 20,000. Maryland, you maj'.be surprised, along with Mississippi, went Democratic—tne former by probably 10,000, and the latter by whatever may be desired, as the opposition withdrew from the field some weeks -ago. A serious riot occurred at Frederick, Md. Pennsylvania Republicans gave their candidate for State Treasurer a majority of 62,225. The Maryland Legislature is Democratic, but by a greatly reduced majority. The Prohibition vote in New Jersey was 50 per cent, less than a year ago. Leon Abbett, Democrat, was e’ected Governor of New Jersey by 7;000 majority, Abbett’s plurality in New Jersey is 11,000. The Republicans have a majority of one in the New Jersey Senate, Ex-President Cleveland was interviewed Thursday night on the election returns. “It is evident,” said Mr. Cleveland, “that the leaven of tariff reform has at last leavened the whole lump. The West, which has suffered the most from the unjust burden of tariff taxation, has awakened. The State platforms of both lowa and Ohio were abreast of the St. Louis platform on the subject of tariff reform. The people have considered and p-ssed judgment. It was for the people to decide. They are now deciding. It is enough to say that I am satisfied at the indications and results of Tuesday’s elections. The verdict in Virginia indicates that the South is still faithful to the Democracy of Jefferson and Jackson.” Gon. Knapp of the New York Repulican state committee announced Friday morning that “the most astounding frauds upon the franchise had been discovered in Troy and other places” on the part of the Democratic party in the resent election. He would not state what he expected to do about it or whether the results in the election would be effected by the disclosures.

SNAKES BY THOUSANDS.

Albert Tenent, an employe of John Miller, a farmer living about a mile and a half north of Glens Falls, N. Y., drove Into town Monday with a wagon load of snakes, which he offered to sell as curiosities. Tenent and two other men were building a blind ditch through a piece of swampy ground. Tenent went to a sandy knoll to remove sods. To his horror the loose soi beneath the sods seemed to be a mass of squirming snakes. He called the others to bis assistance and they dug down about four feet, throwing out snakes by the shovelful. The reptiles were from three or four inches to two feet long and were none of them probably oyer a year old. Three men killed snakes until th»y grew tired. One man slaughtered five hundred and then st">pped counting. The news spread quickly and the knoll was besieged by men and and boys, who killed the snakes by the hundreds as they crawled out of the sandy excavation. One estimate places the number at ten thousand, while others declare it must have exceeded that. Most of the snakes were harmless, but there were some copperheads and rattlers among them. The only way to account for the appearance of tbe snakes in the sand is that the spot must be a breeding place for all the snakes in the contiguoua swamps.

A PANIC PREDICTED.

General F. E.’ Spinner, Ex-treasurer of the United States predects a panic. He says: A panic,of the worst kind the country has ever known, will certainly come unless a back track is taken on the silver policy now in favor. “The first time there is a short crop,” he said to a reporter Wednesday, “and the balance of trade in against ns, a tremendous panic will occur; I may not live to see it, but you will. Two conventions are about to be held, one with the view of having the silver coinage increased to the maximum limit, tbe ether in favor of unlimited coinage. For them to succeed in

their efforts would but bring disaster upon the country. Silver is no longer a precious metal. My idea is,” be continued, “to have all the gold in the Treasury and hare the Government issue tbe currency upon it—currency of all denominations. Not only issue currency on toe gold, but bonds that could be at any time converted into currency ; that is, to have bonds and currency. based on gold and inter-convertible. Twenty-five oy 80 per cent, of gold reserve would be enough to secure this currency -”

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, ex-Secretary of State, and Miss Mary Wailing Clymex were married at 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon, at the bride's residence at Washington,is the presence of a most distinguished company. Among the latter were ex, President and Mrs. Cleveland, ex-Secro-tary and Mrs. Fairchild and Mrs. Dickinson, ex-Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Rives, who came to Washington for the express purpose of attending the wedding. A reception and breakfast followed the marriage, and soon after the newly married couple left the city for a tour to New York and other Northern cities. Ex-President and Mrs. Cleveland, after leaving the Bayard-Clymer wedding Thursday afternoon, drove to the Whitehouse to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Harrison. An usher opened th« carriage-door and in reply to a question from Mrs. Cleveland said that Mrs. HarriBgageas in New York. Mrs. Cleveland thereupon handed the usher her card with the request that it be given to Mrs. Harrison on her return. Mr. Cleveland inquir ed for the President, and on being informed that he was in, alighted and was shown into tho green parlor,where he was immediately joined by the President. Mrs. Cleveland had driven away in the mean-time,-and the carriage returned for Mr. Cleveland without her. The President and Mr. Cleveland had a pleasant chat together, during which it is understood that the former made a good-natured reference "to the l-ecent elections, which Mr. Cleve land answered in the same spirit. Vice President Morton, through his private secretary, has issued a card denying the charge that liquor is being sold in one of his properties in-Washington. Tho card says: “The building is conducted as a family apartment house, apartments being leased by the year, and Mr. Morton has never entertained, the idea of permitting any part of it to bo used as a bar.” The President Thursday appointed William W. Bates, of New York, to bo Commissioner of Navigation.

EUROPEAN JEALOUSY.

It Becomes More Apparent as the Objects of the Ail-American Congress Are Discussed. The effort which is being made by the Washington government to establish more intimate commercial relations between the United States and the states of South America has awakened on this side of the Atlantic a new interest in toe latter countries, says a London dispatch of Tuesday, This interest is hors partly of a half defined fear that the efforts of toe United States will be successful,'and that some of the trade which Europe has built up with these states will be diverted to North America, and partly of an anxiety to watch for any new developments which may point to an augmentation of trade. While most of the English newspapers affect to ridicule the possibility of any combination between North and South America, they agree that it is necessary for Europe to bestir herself and look sharply after what she considers uer own. The total yearly foreign trade of South America is estimated at $700,000,000, barely one-fifth of which isdonewitir too United States. It is urged that this condition of affairs is maintained, not so much on account of the tariff and navigation laws of the United States, which, no doubt, have their effect, as from the absence of United States ccapital in South America. The enormous amount of European capital is pointed to, and also toe fact that Europe has furnished in the last thirty years near ly 2,000,000 settlers in various parts of the country. Despite that most of these set tiers come from other countries than the British Isles, English capital, English trade and English shipping are supreme in South America, and it is shown that financially and commercially England has an immense stake there. Thus, while it is insisted upon that the United States has no possible chance of forming an exclusive customs union with South America, toe English are somewhat jealous and extremely watchful of the outcome of too Pan-American Congress. Every movement of the congress thus far has been reported here, and when it resumes its session the English papers will contain full accounts from special correspondents of its deliberations.

THE MARKETS.

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