THE DAILY INTER OCEAN, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1890- -TEN PAGES. house of the Legislature by instructing their delegates in the district convention to vote for him for State Senator. Mr. Crawford is one of the farmer Representatives in the House, and he has been true to the farmers' intereste. He worked in season and out of season through two Legislatures to secure a bill for the regulation of the stock yards of the State and reduce the scale of charges.
The same Democrats who protested their love for the farmers by nominating Judge Wilson for Slate Treasurer are the same Democrats who defeated Representative Crawford's stock yards bill. THE NATIONAL ELECTION BILL. There has been no better news from Washington for manv a month than the intelligence that the House Republican caucus has unanimously agreed upon a National election policy. The reports from time to time have thrown doubt upon the ability of the members to agree upon any satisfactory bill. There was the Rowell bill, which seemed suited to the Northern Intrude, but nearly worthless at the South, and the Lodge bill, well adapted to South but liable to work mischief at the North.
According to the Washington dispatches of as late a date as Monday it was doubtful it there could be real agreement oll either, and fear was expressed that it would be necessary to put one or the other through under the spur and whip of party discipline, if anything at all were done. That perfect harmony prevails is a happy surprise. It seems that the credit for this harmony is due to Speaker Reed, whose genius as a statesinan is developing phenomenally. He is not only Prince of and a presiding officer of wonderful executive force, but he is a master the still higher art of legislation. When the caucus had wrangled over the two bills named, with no apparent prospect of unity of view, he took the door and explained how the features of both, which were urged by their respective friends, could ve harmonized and the objectionable features of both be eliminated.
His explanation was accepted by everybody as the proper solution of the problem and the caucus unanimously instructed Messrs. Rowell and Lodge to carry out the Reed idea and report a bill accordingly. That v.rtually settles it. The statement in regard to the bill which will be reported is provokinglv vague. All that any of the dispatches say on that point is that the features of it will be an enlargement of the supervisory system.
so that the supervisors shall participate in registration, voting, and canvassing, adding: To carry out fully the National, idea, the supervisors' returns are to be prima facie evidence of the right of a member to his seat, and to prevail in making ap the roll of the House. In cases of conflicting returns the certiticates of the State canvassers may be used to allow the House to form its judgment of the qualifications of the contestant There can hardly be any doubt as to the final enactment by this Congress of such a bill 88 is here foreshadowed in outline. Not to do it would be downright recreancy on the part of the Republicans in Congress. The people of the United States had for several previous Congressional terms decided in favor of mixed responsibility, neither party being allowed control of the entire machinery of National law making; but in 1598 a new policy was adopted, and the Republicans were placed in position to put Republicanism in legal form. The corner- -stone of Republican principles is honest elections.
Ever since the lapse of the so-cailed force bill during the administration of General Grant the party has been shamefully derelict in its duty. All efforts on the part of the manlier element of the party were resisted with a sneer at the bloody shirt. Speaker Reed is the tir-t Speaker with the nerve to do his whole dutv. The Senate can not afford to let the bill fail there. An attempt will he made in that body to talk it to death, but if necessary Congress must remain in continuous session until March, 1891.
Let the Democrats distinctly understand that filibustering can accomplish no more in the Senate than in the House, and it will be as dead in the former as it is in the latter. The Republican majority Is much larger in the Senate than in the House in proportion to membership. Meager as is the report of the bill as agreed upon in caucus, it evidently has two features: First, that the supervisor system may be extended to every Congressional district; second, that the supervisors' returns are to be the base of action by the Clerk of the House in making up the roll of members. Without the latter nothing could be accomplished. It is the key to the citadel.
Under the Constitution each branch of Congress is to be judge of the qualifications and election of its own members. If, with the aid of the Northern Democracy, enough Congresgional districts could be captured by the bulldozers and ballot- criminals of the South to make a majority on the original roll of the House there would be no practicable remedy or redress. And under the law as it now stands it takes only a small proportion of the North to make such a majority. In the present Congress there are some half a dozen Southern Republicans and not one of them all would ever have got his certificate from his Governor had they held the balance of power, but finding that even with the South absolutely solid the Democrats would still lack votes enough to control the House those Governors laid down without showing their hands. While the Constitution makes each House judge of the election of its own members it does not specifically provide for the Issuance of cer- titicates of election, available as prima fuele evidence of title to a seat in Congress.
The statutory law leaving that matter to the Governors of the respective States was perfectly satisfactory until the open and systematic violation of the amendment became the custom at the South. Since then it has been quitous. The proposition to subordinate the gubernatorial certificate to the one issued by the supervisor is not only necesary to practical reform but preferable on general principles of constitutional law. It is a purely National and not st all a State tion. The, supervisor of elections is a National officer, appointed by the Federal court, and far less liable to be swayed by partisan considerations than a Governor or any other elective officer.
On the whole, It certainly looks as if the horizon is beginning to blush with the dawn of a new and better day, when the crowning article of the Constitution will be a vital part of the organic law of the Nation. IN THE FOURTH DISTRICT. There have been a good many clear and statements of the reasons why Mr. strong Adams should be retained in Congress, and why any change just now would be a serious misfortune to Chicago, but none sensible and convincing than the more found in the editorial columns of the one News of yesterday. Under the above head it discusses the matter in a calm and partisan spirit.
As An independent the News does not care anything about the strictly political phase of the case. We reproduce the argument entire, recommending it to the especial consideraiion of the Republicans of the Fourth District: Republicans of the Fourth Illinois District who the renomination of Mr. George E. oppose Adams, their present representative in Congress, point out that he has already had the honor of representing the district for eight years. That is quite true.
It is an excellent argument, however, for his retention in Congress. Congressman Adams' constituents certainly are too intelligent to desire to pass around the office among the varioas politicians of the district 10 order that each in turn may wear it as a decoration. It is something more than an ornament. A Congressman, and especially the representative of a Chicago district, has many and varied duties to perform. Mr.
Adans is now recognized as one of the leading members of Congress. On the other hand, a new man placed in the office which be holds must be necessarily without infuence among his fellow members. Just now Chicago needs particularly strong delegation in Congress. Matters relating to the World's Pair, drainage legislation, aud other subjects of prime importance must be attended to by experienced men at the Nation's capital. To cast out the oldest Congressman of the city's four, merely because certaiu politicians of his district want to put anotner man in his place would be sheer folly.
The old members of Congress are the induential ones. Mr. Adams has improved greatly from dirt to last. owes much to his tact and energy duriug the present session. Doubtless if given another term his work would be even better, because his position among his fellows would be more commanding.
This is not to say that the Fourth District contans no other available Congressional timber and, by no means commits this journal to the support of Mr. Adams without reserve. Up to date, however, the Republican party has advanced no suffolent reason for superseding the present incumbent and the Democrats have offered no candidate at all comparable to him. Every Republican in the Fourth District ought to feel not only proud to be represented in Congress by one of the recognized leaders of the House, but of being able to furnish Chicago with a representative of commanding influence at this critical time when "matters relating to the World's Fair, drainaze legislation, and other subjects of prime importance must be attended to by experienced men at the National capital." The primaries of tomorrow will determine the question, and, while none but the Republicans of the Fourth District can participate in the election of delegates, the entire city takes. a lively interest in the result.
PRIMARY JUDGES AND CLERKS -OBLIGATION TO SERVE. It is a matter of regret that just on the eve of the pr.inaries in two Congressional districts and those for the county convention it should be seditiously circulated by some, with whom "the wi-h is lather to the thought," that the primary law was "knocked out," so to speak, by the recent action of the Supreme Court in denying the plea for mandamus proceedings against the County Treasurer to compei him to pay the warrants drawn in favor of primary judges and clerks for services rendered. Io this denial there is no effort nor apparent desire to vitiate the law, and it remains in full force, and will so remain until the case is brought the Supreme Court touching the constitutionality of the act, or until the law itself is repealed by the Legislature. The indecent haste indulged in by intereated parties who really desire the law and others who see in the circulation of the report an opportunity to distract and annoy Republicans, is so "previous" that any one at all observant will find no difficulty in determining why opponents of the law are thus active. The following facts, however, are patent to all.
Nothing said by the Supreme Court, direct or by inference, can be tortured into a ruling that judges and clerks are not legally obliged to serve. Nor has the Judge of the County Court ever uttered a word lifting the obligation to serve, nor has any such conclusion been warranted by act or statement of the Election Comunissioners. On the contrary, ail these hold to the obligation to serve when called on at primary elections. While the primary 1 law may lack a positive clause, arranging for and ordering pay, it is not conclusive that the whole law is defective on that Four years ago the Legislature hastily passed a law placing all school elections under the control of the Election Commissioners in the outlying towns since absorbed by the city. In this act not a word WAS said about paying judges or clerks, nor did they receive any remuneration until after a subsequent meeting of the Legislature when a back- action amendmeat was made to the law, under which they were paid all arrearages.
Similar legislation may be made respecting the pay of primary judges and clerks, and it is entirely safe to trust the next assembly for curative action it needed. It is farfetched to make so much ado over nonpayment in this regard. Time was when jury certifiontes were shaved a heavy per cent, and the judges and clerks for the drainage trustee election are yet unpaid. It would be good evidence of party loyalty for Republican judges and clerks to keep in line, even at some sacrifice and discomfort. By so doing they will evince a desire to maintain a law greatly desired by all in favor of fair nominating methods, and declared "off" only by enemies of fair play in both parties- mmitteemen and managers who have to und the law a bar to methods heretofore so common in getting hoid of and holding on to the machine.
Nothing would please such managers better than to have the regular judges and clerks refuse to serve, when they could up" with their tools, and, under the shadow of law, run things wide open. Some scolding is indulged in because the County Treasurer refused to pay the primary warrants after they had been issued by the County Board. This turn is taken in order to parade the generosity of the board and the stinginess of the Treasurer--played for all it le worth--in spreading disaffection among Republicans. No one of sane mind will question the duty of the Treasarer to withhold payment unless his duty to pay was plain. Nor will any Republican give aid and comfort to the common enemy by joining in the outcry against a faithful officer for doing his duty.
Exciting contests in Senatorial and Congressional districts are now on band, and others are coming. Confidence in these primaries can only be secured by the impartial services of the regular Republican judges and clerks. THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON PENSIONS. Now that the two houses of Congress have struck a plane of agreement on the pension question by the elimination of the "dependent" clause from the Senate bill, there is a hopeful prospect that the old soldier will have honorable justice at the hands of his country. It must be admitted that Congress has tried to deal fairly in the matter.
There was and is the necessitv to consider not ouly what the soldiers had to say for themselves pro and con of proposed measures, but also what the people at large think. Not the utmost unanimity of sentimer.t has prevailed, the r.soldiers themselves holding radically differing opinions as to certain measures, and it was not easy to arrive at an equitable adjustment of dimculties. For a number of vear-, indeed during the time that they were able to work for their own support, the long- service men were rather averse to asking for pensions; they took the ground that if they were entitled to pensions the government should voluntarily and gratefully confer them, and not wait to be solicited. This independence of attitude enabled the designing to make the argument that old soldiers were not in favor of pensions being issued for other reasons than disabilities AR the direct of service. It also had the bad infuence of opening the way for sharp practice to the advantage of men really not entitled to pensions.
But with the passing of years, the waning of strength and the increase of need-, this old- -time soldier pride has had to vield to the relantless force of circ*mstances, for the most stubbora will can not endure the surrender of selfrespect at the poor -house door. Age is pliant, however sell- and imperial youth may have been. Men who came out of the war with head erect and spirits bouvant, who threw down their muskets, put off their straps and returned cheerily to the duties of peace with their shoulders resolutely put to the wheel, are now decrepit, the head drooping, energies wasted, forces gone, and yet must toil as the day comes for the night's secure rest. No longer confident, no longer stimulated by the conciousness that muecles are strong and will determined, they come suddenly to real.ze the cost of the old pride, and perforce take off their hats, bow their heads and drink the bitter water of bumility as petitioners. This has been the shameful spectacle upon which the country has gazed with astonishing composure, amounting to ind: Merence for a half dozen years.
while Congress paltered and politicians schemed. At last justice is to be done. The longdelayed acknowledgment that the old soldier is his country's ward is about to be made, and the veteran mav leave from his heart the -time burden of apprehension and dread, thankful that the ignominy of the poor -house will not render his helplessness an hourly torture of the soul. When he can no longer earn his daily bread the government will reach out its hand to feed him and make his daal years peaceful and respectable. This is as it should be.
There is no dissent from the declaration that the man who fought for his country's preservation should not be allowed to die in miserable neglect, should not stand in the eves of the world as a dishonored pauper. No one with spark of patriotism has ever wished to see the old soldiers of the Union ignored by the triumphant Republic. The sentiment of the people at large has always been with the soldier. A SPECIAL SESSION. A delegation from Chicago in the interest of the fair, and composed of representatives of both parties, waited on Governor Fifer Tuesday to urge him to call a special session of the General Assembly.
He showed some reluctance. This is not to be wondered at. The constitution authorizes such a call only on "extraordinary occasions." The difficulties by the way are not serious, and we have no doubt the Governor will issue the call in due time. It is an absolute necessity. It would be a sheer impossibility to go on successfully with the World's Fair on an international scale commensurate with the legitimate demands of the case without a special session.
What is needed is that the constitution should be 60 amended that the city of Chicago could contribute $5,000,000 to the fair fund. That, in brief, is what is demanded, and it is one of those tials without which nothing could be done. A special session can not enter upon general legislation. Our constitution expressly prohibits it. The Governor is considering the propriety of bringing in the subject of compulsory education and the Australian system.
Neither would provoke party rancor, it is thought. The Democratic State Convention came out flat and plump for the Australian plan of elections, and the resolutions on schools, while they have a loop- hole, are all right when fairly interpreted. But it would be safer to confine the session to the fair. No unnecessary risk should be run of getting the high and wholly non- partisan fair interest mixed up with a contest on a radically different line of thought and action. The Australian system can wait and so cau the amendment to the school law.
There may be reasons, liewever, why one or both of these other matters should be included in the call. The one I point of insistence is that the special session should be called and called without needless delay. THE Medill Raymond -Beale- Willits crowd are becoming more and more demoralized as the time for the primaries approaches. The boastful, of lamentations, making deeperate efforts to dibuilying period or has passed and their organ is full vert the attention of the people from the renomination of Mr. Adams to matters long ago dead and buried.
That looks bad for Willits. The fact is, that while we have a ratber poor opinion of Mr. Willits as a candidate for Congress, perhaps the worst thing against him is the fact that has to carry Medill, Raymond, and Beale on his shoulders. That is a pretty heavy load for one dxed in position, there telling when he will young man to carry. HavinG, once let them get ever get free of them.
Like an man of the sea" with three heads, they will stick to bim. Poor fellow. THERE is evidentiy a determined effort to drive the sea- -serpent out of the summer resort business. A New York exchange says: old whaling bark which has goue ashore at Atlantic City is said to have been stranded for the purpose of collecting toils from curious sight-seers. Now it is reported that the local ordinances forbid exhibitions for money on the water-front.
It tinction they should join that ice ring before it discomfited la investors want to add to their diebreaks." THE Omaha Wor'd- Herald swells with pride and states: "The Omaha Guards took the drat prize at the interstate drill in Kansas City. We knew they would. never goes into anything until she is ready, and then she goes in to win. She is proud of her boys, and she will Dover, Dever call them tin soldiers. One thousand dollars is a tidy little the guards." This is very good, except as to the accuracy of the fret statement.
The first prize was taken by the Chicago Zouaves, and amounted to $1,590 and medal. 100K out for frands at the primaries! Remewber that famous primary in the Eighteenth Ward in 1884. Sam Raymond ran that, and it is understood that be intends to run those of the Tweuty-fourta Ward next Friday. Watch both bun and his assistants. The old Eighteenth Ward primary was carried with Democratic votes, and it Republicans do not want to be beaten by the same class of voters let them have active men on guard.
When the Boss wants votes be is not particular where he gets them. UNION PARK, since the improvements made there by the West Park Board, is the handsomest small park in the city, and when it has an equestriad statue of Sheridan there will be no square or small park 10 the country that will surpass it in beauty and grandeur. The people of the West Side are waking up to the fact that they are the majority on the census rolls, and they should bare as many improvements to distinguish that division as either the North or the South Side. Prince BISMARCE looks upon the African dispute as a very trifling matter which England and Germany can not afford to exaggerate into a serious quarrel. The ex -Chancellor has become remarkably pacific since he dropped the burden of responsibility for the German government, but there is more wisdom in this than in his talk about the misfortune of educating too many men for the higher walks of life.
THE Republicans of the Eighth Ohio Congressional District propose to nominate the Hon. Charles Foster as their candidate for Congress. The Democrats may think their gerrymander has made the Eighth Democratic, but Foster knows bow to st there as well as aDJ mAD in Ohio, and in Mis own district Democrats care less for their party than they do for Charley Foster. THE North Side machine is in a rickety nondition, and Sam is beginning to doubt whether he is a boss not. The idea that such glory should have passed forever makes him mournful, but Calder and Beale will doubtless try to console him.
and with the aids they know how to call in will probably succeed until after the result of the primaries is known. Then a collapse is to be feared. GOVERNOR HILL refused to sign the aqueduct contractors' bill and posed as a reformer for day. Then a reporter discovered that the contractors found they better case without the bill and asked him sign it. Governor Hill as a reformer is an amateur, but he knows how to cover his tracks.
GOVERNOR HILL is trying to outdo Cleveland in the pocket veto business. He pocketed 115 bills left in his hands by the New York Legislature, and he can DOW gO before the Democratic convention as the owner of the greatest veto Docket of the age. THERE is no longer any doubt how the majority of the Republicans on the North Side feel about the renomination of Mr. Adams. They are for him by a large majority, and if they go to the primaries and vote his renomination is certain.
Har. er's Weekly insiste that Grover Cleveland has earned the Democratic nomination for 1892 by making tariff reform a party issue. A good many Democrats consider this not a service but a calamity for the party. THE ultra swell young women who have taken to wearing tailor-made dresses and shirtfront waists are beginning to STOW familiar with the dissipation of chasing the festive collar button under the bureau. THE largest check received by the World's Fair Association came from the West Side with Mr.
Yerkes' name signed to it. The West Side is working in earnest for the fair. THE furniture manufacturers' National ass0ciation is now holding its annual convention in this city. How to make home beautiful is their chief aim, IT looks as though ex-Sheriff Flack, of New York, would have to fit to Sing Sing. Tammany adpears to have a sympathetic chorus in that institution.
THE Post remarks relative to the senile senior organ that it "begs leave to congratulate Mr. Adams on the enemies that he has made." A CHICAGO girl, Carrie Fox Patterson, is this year's prophetess at Vassar. Chicago's far -sighteduess is recognized all over the Union. THE train robber in the wild West does not appear to have the spring fever, judging from his recent activity. LECTURERS who expect to compete with Stanley next season will have to carry the war into Africa.
THIS is the season when winter clothing shrinks out of sight- with a string to it. ST. Louis expects to get the surplus crumbs of comfort out of the cracker trust. THE fair -the female census enumerator. LETTER days for the ladies--bargain days.
SOCIETY demands both dress and address. THE poet's summer fancy--the idyL Is This True? WASHINGTON, June 7. -To the Editor. -Mra. Pattie Lyle Collins, a $1,600 clerk in the Postoffice Department, is a strong candidate for au $1,800 position under the new appropriation made available July 1, aud it is rumored among the department clerks that Senator Allison indorsing her.
Mre. Collins is from Mississippi, and her father Was a surgeon in the rebel army. She is as rampant a rebel now as any female any soldier ran arose in the South during the war, and has frequently boasted that her father's farm in Mississippi is manured with dead Yauke and that her father killed more Lincoln hirelings during the war thau any Confederate officer. She is the one that blurted out, when Sheridan was taken sick: "I'm of it; hope he'll die He ought to have died twenty-fre Jeare ago." There are of soldiers and widows Postoffice Department who degive serve promotion, and if they are ignored to the preference to Mra. Collins it will be one of most disgraceful stabs given the G.
A by the party is helped so largely to place in R. power. STALWART. AMUsem*nTS. GENERAL MENTION.
J. H. Haverly arrived in the city yesterday. Mr. O'Neill's season at Hooley's will continue but another week.
another week of The Grand Opera House, will be closed after Manager W. H. Foster, of the Boston Ideals, is in the city on a still hunt for talent. Charles J. Dungan, late baritone of McCaull's Opera Company has sailed for Europe.
W. H. Sberwood's of piano recitals will be concluded to- course, afternoon at the Auditorium Recital ball. There will be summer season of light opera at Havlio's Theater. will open with The Grand duch*ess" in a fortuight A marked improvement in the performance of "Jack Gordon, Knight Errant" Vicker's is observed, the company having recovered from the apprehension that marred the movement of the play the opeuing night.
The reserved seat sale will open this morning for Mrs John Drew's production of "Married Life" next Monday at Mo Vicker' a. The eugagement is for one week only, with the usual matWednesday and Saturday. Reginald de Koven, the composer of Quixote" and "Hobin Hood." bad the degree of Doctor of Music (Mus. Doc.) conferred on him yesterday by the trustees of Racine College. The compliment was quite a gratifying surprise.
Juliet Cordon, last evening appeared as Maid Marion 10 Robin Hood" at the Chicago Opera House. The piece is much smarter and stronger, while judicious curtailments bare duced the lines of ate presentation fully fortyfive minutes. H. K. Helzbeim, who represents the new opera pavilion iu the park at Little Rock, which has just been completed at cost of $26,000, has engaged an opera company in this city, with the aid of Manager Hutton, of Havlin'4 The company eulisting Wallace McCreery, Miss Gilman and twenty others, left last night for that point They are equipped with a' new wardrobe for ten operas.
Emil Liebling, assisted by F. Hess, gave charming recital yesterday afternoon before the progressive club that bas been named in his bonor, The Liebling Amateurs. The programme was made up of: Sonata, op. 36, (for piano and 'cello) Grieg; Bach air and Popper Mazurka, (for 'cello); and Meudelssohn's Sonata op 58, (for piano and 'cello.) A Stagger at Hamlet. S.our City Journal: General Palmer got the Indorsem*nt of the lilinois Democratic State Convention for United States Senator, but it is tire Illinois Legislature which elects the Senator.
When it comes Palmer play. Dg the role oi Stephen A Douglas, it 15 a good deal like an ambitious nudertaking to play Hamlot instead of Edwin Booth Irreverence for the Past. Philadeipia Press: New York would be stirred to building the Grant monument by the universal comment ou the Confederate subscriptions to the mouument at Richmond, if New York, would be stung to aoything, but one has to read two or three New York De 0:.00 Mugwump aud now Bogomie, to see how little New York likely to be moved by ine nobier feelings of patriotism. A city whose newspapers are perpetually attacking the men of the present 18 certain to lose all revereuce for the men of the past Mrs. Chant's Farewell to Boston.
Could ever heart of kindness give A welcome more endearing. In touch that holds, and words that live Now parting- -time is peariaz? Sweet Boston! loyal is thy love, And royal as thy greeting: keep for me, where'er I move, Dear memory of meeting- That if the voice that reached thy soul Shall falter to its siuging Across the great wares as they roll Less clear a note outringing. Thine owe may sound above the sea, High comfort and communing. The Oueness of bumanity, Fraternally a-tnuing- That if the shadow of the bill Up which talis o'er 1ne In solema sadness, derk and chill, And dims the Dath before me. The sunshine of these golden days, These hours of inspiration, May Fair send a and gleam on after Nation! way's, city, great So now.
farewell! Whate'er betide, Of chance or of election, May Truth and Love thy progress guide, And lead thee to Perfection! -I. Or miston Chant in Boston Transeript. Boston, June 7. The Offering from Dixie. Chattanooga 7 imes: Touching a monument to General Grant, the Times has a suggeation to make in line with that of Private John Allen and other Confederate soldiers, that the south take a band.
Our proposition is this: Raise, $100,000. Locate the monument at Appomattox Court House. loscribe it simply: TO THE MEMORY OF U. S. GRANT.
OUR MAGNANIMOUS CONQUEROR. Let the dedication be the work solely of Southern soldiers. As to the design we bare but few suggestions to make. There should be a pair or a group of figures symbolizing reconciliation; ou oue of the faces should be chiseled Grant's terse remark in discussing with Lee the terms of surrender: men will need their borses to plow with." On another should appear the great soldier's words of joy over the complete unification of the country be served so well in the field, spoken ou his deathbed at Mount Megregor. The main point in the matter 18 that it should be distinctively a southern undertaking 48 to every ponDy of the expense; the ceremonial should be in Southern hands exclusively, and the location on Southern soil.
If the Southern soldiers merely contribute to a monument, to be located at Riverside or Arlingtou, their work will lose all special a A Southern Estimate of Grant. Memphis Avalanche: Grant was successful He was magnauimous. He was never brutal. He possessed all the elements of true greatDesa All the world except our lunesome afterLOOn contemporary coucedes it. His fame does not fade with time.
But when the true history of the war 18 written he will occupy his proper place as one of the greatest generals of this or any other age. If we are to accept the Scimitar's objection, that Grant made widows and orphans in Southern homes, what are we to say in justification of the surviving Southern soldiers who received him so cordially when be visited Memphis many ago? thev looked upon him years personally responsible for the vacancies at their fireside, what manner of men were they to grasp his blood-stained hand, invite him to eat and to drink with them and with these same widowe and orphans he bad made? Whatever bitterness there may have been at the close of the war, bitterness which led to the unwise opposition of Grant for the Presidency. it has now. we believe, passed entirely away and the debt to the memory of the beloved Lee discharged, there can be no doubt that the poopie of the South would gladly pay tribute to Grant. No small souls would contribute to that fund.
The fact of contribution would be an evidence of something loftier than narrow prejudice. It would be another proof that the people of the South are the noblest on the earth to-day. CHANGE IN TIME. The summer schedule for trains between Chicago, Green Lake, Lake Geneva, and the various summer resorts reached by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway will go into effect on Sunday, June 15, upon which date through sleeping car service between Chicago and Green Lake will be resumed. The sleeper for that point will leave Chicago on the 8 m.
train. Parlor cars will be run to Lake Geneva on the 3:15 p.m. train, and a Sunday train leave Lake Geneva at 6:45 p. 1. and azzire Chicago at 0:45 D.
PROUD OF THE OLD FLAG. The Stars and Stripes Cause Quite a Sensation at Kingston. Owners of an American Steamer Staunchly Keep Them Flying. Military Band is Then For bidden to Go On Board. Ten Dellars also.
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HOOLEY'S THEATER -The Dead Heart at 8. THE HAYMARKET-LeNarde's Gaieties at 2 and 8. JACOB5' -Kidnaped at 8. JACOBS' SI. THEATER- Kate Purssell at 8.
LEAGUE PARK--Base Ball at 3:30. LIBBY PRISON--Open day and evening. EDEN MUSEE-Open day and evening. EPSTEAN'S MUSEUM -10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
KOHL MIDDLETON'S MUSEUM -10 a.m, to 10 BENATORIAL DELAY. It hardly is a minority of the Republican members of the Senate that is rejoicing the Democrats of the country by opposition to vital clauses of the McKinley bili; just as the solitary newspaper whieh professes Republicanism and preaches Democracy hardly is worth considering as a minority of the Republican press. Senators Allison and Plumb, however, are not chroado grumblers, except upon tariff matters. It long has been understood that they were not In sympathy with the tariff plank of the Chicago platform, or with the Republican idea of protection to home industries, though the great States which they represent ever have voted most numerously and most enthusiastically when the protective idea has been brought most plainly to the front. The distinguished Senators have acquired great wealth since they entered upon public life, and have, it is te be feared, lost touch with the people in proportion as they have gained pecuniary independence.
Certainly neither of them seems to realize how thoroughly the McKinley bill represents the will of the Republican party; it being 8 bill which passed the House with but one dissenting voice on the Republican side, and which received the support of all the trulv Republican press, and, indeed, of all the nominally Republican press, with but one inconsiderable exception. It well can be imagined that not every clause of the House bill now under consideration by the Senate committee is acceptable to every Senator; it is not probabie that every clause was acceptable to every member of the House; but members of the House kept in mind that they were representatives of the people, and 60 voted. It will be well if the Senators from Kansas and Iowa keep In mind that they are representatives of States which have declared broadly for protection and for revision of tariff upon the line of protection. No tariff bill can be considered as a finalitv. The bills of 1861 and of 1883 underwent change in almost every session of succeeding Congresses.
This article was moved from the dutiable to the free list, that was made subject to a lower duty, another was given an increase of duty, AS time and experience taught the need of change. No bill covering items so numerous and dealing with interests so vast as are covered by a general tariff act can be interpreted as a law of the Medes and Persians. Such an act is experimental. But the Republican party, which the Presidential election proved to be a majority of the States and people of the Republic, has directed that the experiment of tariff revision shall be made in the manner indicated by the bill to the vital clause of which the distinguished Senators are offering objections. The need of the hour is that the McKinley bill, or one very like it, should pass.
The duty of the hour is that the Republican party should redeem its pledge of tariff revision in the direction of protection. The policy of the hour is that the pledge should be redeemed promptly, so that before the shadow of the next campaign is cast new industries should be established, old ones enlarged, the condition of agriculture improved, and that of labor made more -prosperous. Delay on the Republican side of the Sen- ate is ammunition furnished to the Democratic party throughout the Republic. THE Republicans of Rock Island County have shown their. appreciation of Representative Crawford'e services in the lower, AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT.
KINGSTON, Ont, June 11. -Special Telegram -There was great excitement in the city this afternoon. The occasion was the leaving of an excursion on the steamer St Lawrence, under the auspices of the Foresters. It appears that some days ago permission was received from the government for the BL Lawrence, which is an American boat, to call at Canadian ports dowa the river. Consequently, abe is for today a purely Canadian bottom.
The band of battery was engaged by the Mayor to company the excursion. When the band arrived at the wharf Sergeant Carey informed the Mayor tuat Colonel Cotton gave him orders not to board the steamer unless the American Sag WaS hauled down The owners of the steamer were consulted and informed concerning Colonel Cotton's orders to the baud. They refused, bowever t2 baul down the stare and stripes. The stare were at the end of the the Union jack at the top of the staff at the bow of the boat, and the stars and stripes at the stern, while the Canadian flag was dying amidships. After the Mayor bad consulted with Folger Brothere, and learned their decision to keep the Yankee flag dying.
he immediately informed: Bandmaster Carey of the result, and the coasequence was that the band wheeled and returned to the barracks Mr. Folger states that the steamer carried Governor General's foot guards of Ottawa turee years ago 0D an excursion and flew the very saine daue' The Mand also took down the river General Grant with the Univo jack at her stem. A milnary band, paid by the government, is in a ditferent position from a city baud. It is supposed. to play on Cabadian territory and under the British fa*g only, unless special provision to de otherwise is secured Colonel Cotton WaS 1D- terviewed and said that when be first refused the Mayor to let the band go he thought the Lost would stop at Clayton, where there would be procession, aud where the soldiers would remain, and all.
If ibey RaW dit On belve told that the boat was au American bottom, be asked if she flew the American flag, and was to.d that sue did He then said the fa*g would bare to come dowu or the baud could. pot KO. He was willing to let the baud go if 16 flag was dowa: in fact, he was willing to leave the matter of dying a dag bu American territory to the Mayor, but while in British territory the band could play under the Union jack onlv. He had to be very careful in such mattere. Colonct Straubouzie, wEo was also interviewed, elated that c'olonel Cotton did right F.
Iger Bros, ara au Americau Arm doing geueral commercial business this port NEWS FROM MILWAUKEE not close it voluntarily, FLAX IN THE DAKOTAS. Attitude of the Masonic Order Toward Liquor Dealers- -A Wedding. MILWAUKEE, Wis. June 11. special Tele.
gram. -At the ecssion of the Masonic Grand Lodge this moruing the resolution adopted af the last annual session preventing saloonkeepers and all others engaged in selling intoxicating liquors from being Initiated into auy subordinate lodge WAS amended this morning, The amendment permits saloon-keepers of liquor dealers already 10 the order to aftiliate with otber lodges in case of removal from jarisdiction of the lodge where they were initiated. In the presence of pear relatives and a few inmate friends, Miss Nellie Henrietta Taylos and A Markie were made man and wife -t 1 o'clock to-das. Mr. Markie has been connected with the Milwaukee press for a number of years, and 18 at present Washington correspoudeut of the keening Winconsin.
The bride 18 the daughter of Mr. aud Mre. W. R. Taylor, of No.
154 Fifteenth street, aud the marriago took place at tue family residence. Rev. W. P. Hellings, of the Firet Baptist Church, officiated, Mr.
Markie's newspaper frieuds, the members of the Press Club, preeeuted him with a Very handsome s-cretary. 'The young couple left 0g the 4 o'clock train for Washington. The titteenth annual meetiug of the Milwankee, Lake Shore and Western ilroad Company Wad held at the general offices here at Doou to-day Tho only directors present were D. P'arrisu, of Philadelpuia; Joseph Vrias, of Manitowoc: James H. Mead, of Sheboygan, and F.
F. Thompson, of New York Presideut Kuluelauder is in Europe. Altogether 48,000 shares out of 70.000 were represented. Direc tors Charles Luting, Manitowoc; F. F.
Thompsop, of New York, and Joseph Busk, York, whose terms of office expired today. were re-elected. The total directory 14 made ap of the following named gentlemen: F. W. Rniuelander, Samuel Sands, Charler Dava, Joseph K.
Busk, F. F. Thompson, W. K. Hinman, Gordon Norie, and W.
all of New York: Theodore M. Davis, Newport D. Parrieb, Philadelphia; Juseph Vilas, woc: James H. Mead, Sheboygan, aud Charles Luting. Manitowoc.
The reporte showed that the company is now operatio: 691 miles of road. The authorized common stock 18 $5,000,000, with $2,000,000 lasted; pre erred stock, $5,000,000, of which all is issurd; total capital stock, $10,000,000, of which $7,000,000 18 lesued. Tue company bae been doing highly sate istactory business since the last annual meetlug. the earnings being largely on the 10- crease. The total earnings for the preseut vear, up to the fires of the present moutu, were $1,370,106, against $1,162,490 tor tbe same period 1D 1889, au increass of $207.616, auring the first five mouthe of 1890.
The total earnings for the year end. 1Dg December 31. 1889, were $3.469.175, against $2,822.849 for the entire year of 1888, an increase in 1859 of $646,326 over 1888. The year 1890 promises to show a much larger bueiness than the excellent showing of last year. The directors of the company will meet New York in septetuber to elect officera.
It is detinitely decided that the traffic department of the Wisconsin Central iucinding the, entire force of the general passenger aud freight offices, will go to Chicago July 1, or 8000 as the offices in the new depot are fitted up. The garbage crematory in the Menonuine. valley, in quietly pursuing the even tenor of it way, making fertilizing material out of the city's garbage, has aroused the wrath of the West Siders, and must go. Since the warm weather began the stench that pours from the crematory chimney 18 almost unbearable. Mayor Peck to-day suggested to the owners of the crematory that they purchase large boat and fit it up with furnaces, carry the garbage ten miles out and burn it there.
West Side citizens will pray for an injunction against the operation of the crematory, if the owners de ELLENDALE, N. Jane Telegram. -The cutworms are doing an unusual amount of damage to the growing fax. They are reported as working havoc in nearly every field. They are found in bunches or hives every few rods In number and destructive capacity they far exceed anything ever known before.
They cut down all the stems of the fax in large patches. Farmers find the pest unusually difficult one to deal with If the damage, proceeds at the present rate on half of the crop will be destroye Dickey County has 30,000 acres fax this seasou. The total yield the two Dakotas last year. was 3,500, bushels, worth $4,000,000. There is a al lucrease in the acreage this year, and favorable circ*mstances a very profitable will be raised.
Much of the fax rained in and South Dakota is disposed of an Ch The crop is becoming more important year. It is nearly always raised on new and is one of the best subduera of soul be sown on the sod. and while the yield erally smaller than that of wheat. the more than makes up for this deficiency crop of ten bushels per sore is consider itable. The price here has averaged per bushel during the past five years average yield per acre during the about eight bushels.
There of nine bushels on 400,000 sores ago, and the Dakotas now produce of the entire crop of the.
