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fe # THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1890. SOCIAL MATTERS. Weddings Soon to Take Place— Movements of Persons in Societ ‘The arrangements for the New Year's recep tion of the Vice President and Mrs. Morton at their residence, 1500 isl: as follows: From noon u bers of the cabinet and mem diplomatic corps: international Amerie: etary conference and the American i tional railway conference; the and associate justices of the S ar the United States. the judges of the Unit States Court of Claims and the judges of the Suprem Court of the District of Columbia and the officials of those courte: Senat Fesentatives in Congress houses; the officers of t ¥ and navy and marine corps: the Commissioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia and other federal and District oiicials. From 2 to 3 o'clock a general tecep- tion will be held. Large dinner parties were given on Saturday night by Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Warder, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Glover and Dr. and Mra. A. F. Ma- grader. The announcement of the marriage of Miss Florence Andenried and Count Devorme of France is made. The ceremony will take place at St. Matthew's Charch on January 14. Count Devorme’s three brothers have arrived in this city from Europe to be present at the wed- ding. A delightfal dance was given by Miss Grace and Flora Rhees at their country residence, Oakmont, last Friday night. The rooms were artisticn!ly draped with ground pine and danc- ing was kept up until alate hour. Refresh- ments were served at 11:30. Among those resent were Mimes Marie Boynton, Lorena Beni Kathryn Brodhea Meta Boynton, Elaine Childs, Belle Duvoix, Daisy Devis, Anna Hoeke, Mae MeCaule Annie Pierce, Sue Quay, Ella Kamsey, M: Shaefer, Catherine Saxton, Emily Stickne Madge Shaefer, Louise Tayler, May Mant v8, ‘Marian Worthington, Winger, Mena Williams, Bessie Warner, Woodward. Lily Woodward, Messrs. Tramann Abbe, Will Aspinwaill, Claren i Ledroict Barber. ricco, Harry Crei Davia, Fd. Burket, McLear, Daniel Pierce, Harry Woodward, Brainard Warner, ¥m. H. Rhees and B. Rush Rhees. Mra, Geo. Whitfield Brown, her sister, Miss Jeasie Cuthbert, and Miss Montrose Eliott will receive at 1710 Connecticut avenue on Satur- days. Gen. and Mrs. Daniel Butterfield of New York are at Welcker’s. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Staples are at Asheville, X.C., where they spent Christmas day. Mias Durant is with them. Mr. Frank P. Gross, jr., son of Capt. and Mrs. Frank P. Gross of this city, will be mar- Tied soon to Miss Minnie Rice of New York. Mr. and Mrs. John Noble Stearns arrived in €., and are at the G ace of Mrs. Potts. Mr. and Mrs. sil return to New York city soon, and will keep house at No. 10 West 58th street. Lieut. and Mrs. Davis are in the city and are ‘the guests of ex-Marshal and Mrs. A. A. Wilson on G street. They arrived from Fort Leaven- worth, Kxx., a week ago, and will leave for the west on next Saturday. Mrs. John G. Carlisle is visiting in New York city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleve- land. ‘The ladies of the congressional circle at the Elmuere this season are Mrs. Townsend of Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Townsend of Miss Townsend, Mra. Brickner, Miss Mrs. Culbertson and daughter, Mrs. | s. Wilkinson, Mra. Burrows. “They il receive on Tuesdays, January 13 and 27 and February 10. iiss Aurusta Jones of Fredonia, N.Y., is the gwst of Mrs. Radolph Kauffmann, steet. ; Mrs. A. U. Wyman of Omaha is on a short vait to her sisters, 1437 Corcoran street. Mrs. J.C. Tarr of Boston, Mass., is visiting ©. Friend, at No. 814 11th @ Mr. Ernest W. Filland Misa Lucy Schoor.- maker at Springfield, Mass. January 6, 189: Ot their bridal irip south they will stop in thi ciy, and will be the guests of the groom's ‘ir residence, 1332 12th street. E. Griffith, general organizer of | th Woman's Home Missionary Society of the | ‘Mého.tict Church, is in the city, the guest of Mr. La Fetra. ‘She regular monthly dinner of Tax Evexrxo Diniag Club was given at Wormley's on evening, and according to annual curtora, this being’ the Christmas dinner, each member of the club was accompanied by a hay. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Crosby 8. Mrs and Mrs. 8. HL. mann, Mrs, Augusta Jqnes Mrs. John P. Miller. irs. Findlay Harris, Mr- affmann presided | the most thoroughly en- ledinsers ever given by the club. Ainridge entertained some of her 4s Saturday at tea. Mise Phrthi kin- | present, her cousins, nil Mre. Dimmiek,were the chape- rones. Mise Harriet Isham of’ Chicago will be wits Gn. and Mra. Breckinridge for a visit. MrsT. R. Benton of St. Paul is visiting ber mothr ct 1523 Sth street northwest. ‘The wife of Major Wm. H. Powell, who has been “ing seriously ill for the past four weeks | at th Woodmont, is able to sit up for half an hourt so each day. Mr Leibtag.daughter and sister, Miss Duffy, of Olo. are spending the holidays with their sixte Mrs. W. H. B. Ramsey, of 705 5th street nortwest. ‘Ms Margaret Schmit of Wallach place! is speting the holidays with relatives in New Yor. Ses Corrie E. Fowler of 1137 29th street will the winter with her aunt, Mrs. Fowler, at ‘Townsend, Washington. frs. Mary Kram and Mra. N. E. Fulford of Carficld, Ps..are visiting the family of Con- Gyre Bere ot their ‘residence on Capitol Mr. and Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney and amily arrived at the Shorcham Saturday, where bey will remain until their house iscompleted. Mrv. james Maxwell Durant will be at home, 729 Corcoran street. Saturdays in January. Mrs. Addison Pierce aud daughter Estella of amestown, N. Y., are guests of her brother, ‘apt. F.C. Jones of the War Department, at de rees lence, 329 F street northeast. Invitations will soon be issued for the rarriage of Miss Clara Rodrigue and Dr. homas Marshall Norton, to take place in, St. ohn’s Chureh at high noon Wednesday. enuary 2ist. The ceremony at the church will ¢ followed by a wedding breakfast to the Tidal party at the residence of the bride's arents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bruce Gray, 1318 Tinetenta street, after which Dr. and Mrs. Nor- ‘wm will go northward oa a wedding journcy of ‘vo or three weeks. . ‘The Misses Williamson of 1638 Rhode Island gente will receive on New Year's day and on ‘Revdays until Lent. Hon. J. G. Cannon and the Misses Cannon of Iinoix have returned to the city and are at tel Arno. The Misses Weller of Rock Enon, Mont- gmery county. are visiting Mirs Dunn of 6th sect southwest. Mrs. Bessie Stewart, formerly Mrs. Hooper, fin Washington and will spend the winter vth her parents, Senator und 106 Hestreet northwest. She fom Heidelberg, where she left her two sons beollege. Mrs. J. J. Albright of Buffalo, N. ¥., is visit- ig her sister, Mrs. A. L. Larber, at Belmont. Some of the ushers at the coming coneert of th Harvard Glee Clab will be Mr. Larz Ander- sn, Mr. Waisen Myer, Mr. Grant Webster, Mr. | Jan B. Henderson, jr.. Mr. Julian bliss, Mr. | Witer D. Davidge, jr., and Mr. Marshall Cush- | re. RF. Mustin, jr., of Philadelphia, and De danghter, Faith Mustin, are «pending the Biidays in Waskuington as the guests of -Mre. Yistin’s brother, Mr. James R. Young, at 1506 Qureet northwest. wir. Thomas Maddox of New York city, with Iesisters, Mrs. Thorn and Mrs. I ad Miss Alice Maud, are possing the Y mason in this city, gueste at Willard’s. Mra. Addox ithe widow of the late Thomas Mad- éx, the English manufacturer and importer porcelain. She has just returned from a to years’ trip to Europe. ‘The Girl Triplets Remembered. fhe three girl babies who were born to Mr. 1526: Q4 £ | Ithasn’t been real cold more than five con- secutive days, yet plumbers who started in business last fall have already refused to recog- | nize many of their old friends. | SHOOTING STARS. | A mRassy JOKE YOR PRINTERS. Poor rule that won't work both ways.” Baggs, meeting his friend Jaggs in a saloon— | “You here! Last New Year day you told me you would never drink @ drop of liquor while you breathed.” “Nor dol,” replied the smiling Jaggs “Watch me; I drink while my breath rests.” MIDWINTER HADERDASHERY. The stocking season closed last week, but | slippers are still here. | Sobbed Jill to Jack, mid matrimonial strife, ‘Curs't be the day when I became your wife.” Tam amazed,” said Jack. “It is too bad | To curse the only happy day we've had.” | | “Tsce through my error,” said the boy who | broke Jones’ window with a snow ball and then | poked his face through the hastily-made aper- | | ture in an apologetic manner. And Jones for- gave him. The snow ball has usurped the popularity of | est society set. | TRE PROUD PLUMEER'S FALL. Claude P. Lumber: “And so after all you | throw me over for that Montmoreney de Jones. Why is this Clarita? Am I not rich enough to please you? Have you forgotten that by the work of only three winters and a constant at- tention to my account books I have amassed a fortune so great that I am now rich beyond the dreams of avarice? Surely you must know that I have a good fat mortgage on every house | into which I have ever carried my plumbing tools; and yet you cast me aside for this up- +t, this parvena!” larita: “Yes. I know that all you say is true and besides I love you for your worth alone. But you know, Claude dearest, my parents are ambitious and are foreing me to wed for wealth and proud estate. You are rich it is true, but talking about rocks you're not in it, for Mont- three sleighs and there isno sign aude P. Lumber's proud heart fell +., for he realized the utter hopeless- ‘THE CHRISTMAS HOMICIDE. ‘The case of Frank Scarce, held in jail under the commitment of Mayor Downham for shoot- ing and killing John Witzel last Christmas, will be called up again in the mayor's court this week. Messrs. 8.G. Brent and John H. Greene, counsel for Scarce, say that they can show that the shot was fired by Scarce in self-defense. ‘The mayor will certainly not discharge Scarce, but the testimony tending to prove self-defense may be strong enough to induce him to admit CHRISTMAS FESTIVALS. ‘The Christmas celebrations of the Sunday schools have been continued since Christmas. ‘Tho: celebrations of the schools of the M. E. ‘hyrék: South and of the Second Presbyterian Charch made nt evenings for the children at the close of last week, and this afternoon the Catholic Sunday school’ had its celebratio the Lyceum Hall, on Duk: street. On tomor. row night the children of the Trinity (M. E.) Church Sunday sehool will hold their Christmas | fest TEMPERANCE MEETING. The public temperance love feast to be given by Talisman Lodge, No. 754, 1.0.G.T., tonight at Pythian Temple, on North Pitt street between King and Cameron strects, will doubtless prove a most enjoyable occasion to all who may at- tend. The following speakers have been en- gauged by the committee in charge: Dr. E. W. kirby and Grand Chief Kalstror of Washing- ton ant ur. W. J. Young of this city and other prominent temperence of this city aad Washington D.C. All the. temper. ance organizations of this'city will attend. NOTES. Oriental Lodge. K. of P., has chosen Thomas ¥. Bruffer its chief commander.—The na- tion! banks her2 have declared semi-annual dividends of 354 per cent or: their stock. ph scl fee GEORGETOWN. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN LADY. Mrs. Hill, the wife of Maj. George I. Hill, died Saturday night at her residence on M | street. Mrs. Hill was well known for her active tion in charitable work. Ske lea rge circle of mourning relatives and friends. A BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED. About 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon horse attached to a sleigh owned in Virginia ran away on Pennsylvania avenue near 15th street, going up the avenue to M street in corgetown. At 32d and M streets the seven- year-old boy of Jefferson Angell of 1065 324 | the ordinary evening dance among the young- | ‘TAXATION DISCUSSED. A large attendance of members marked the opening session this morning in the hall of the Columbian University building of the second day's meeting of the American Economic Asso- ciation. The hall contained a considerable number of the representative writers of the country on economic topics in addition to the members, and there were many visitors who displayed their interest in the subjects dis- cussed by their attention to the proceedings. ‘Topics discussed all related to taxation. LOCAL TAXATION OF REAL ESTATE. President Walker called the association to order shortly after 10 o'clock, and Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia College, New York, — = “The incidence of local taxa- tion.” He said that the question of incidence of taxation has been called the squaring of the circle litical “econom: tical re He dealt, ane with the in- cidence of local real state tax in the two branches—the land tax and the tax ‘on city real estate. In city real estate, he said, there may be four systems; first, a tax on the ground owner—the single tax idea: second, a fax on the house owner—the ‘continental sys tem; third, a tax on the ground owner, who is at the same time the house owner—the Ameri- can system, and fourth, a tax on the occupier —the English system. "A tax on the ground owner, the speaker said, can never be TAXES ON HOUSES. Atax on the house owner, he said, if it be a special tax, will remain on the building owner when popu’stion increases or is stationary. It will be shi‘t d on the ground owner only in certain exce’ tional cases. "It will be shifted o the occupi¢ in the normal condition of ad- vance in economic welfare. If it is not an ex- clusive tax only so much will be transferred to the occupier as exceeds the usual rate for other roperty. The remainder will fall on the Rowe owner, in proportion as the general property tex is practically a real property tax and as the value of the house generally exceeds that of the lot. ‘THE MATK DURDEN ON THE POOR. ‘The main burden of the tax under actual con- ditions of increasing prosperity, he said, is shifted to the occupiers. The property tax in least able to pay. A tax levied on the occupier will rest as to the building rent portion almost | entirely on the occupier, and as to the ground rent part will fall to some extent on the occu- jer. By far the larger portion of the tax is tne bythe tenant. The English system, he said, is even more unfavorable to the occupier than the American. ‘The speaker showed that a tax on economic Tent, all writers are agreed, will fall on the land owner and cannot be shifted. A tax on agri- cultural profits, produce or value of the land, some have sup) will be shi But the Ricardian theory holds good only on the as- sumption of the absolute mobility of capital and the complete isolation of the community. In practical life he said, these assumptions are untrue. land tax will tend to rest on the land owner, not the consumer. “CROOKED TAXATION.” Tho next paper was on the subject of “Crooked Taxation.” by Mr. T. J. Shearman. The names under which taxation of various forms exist, he said, havea great deal to do with their popularity and in some instances their existence. The term “indirect taxation” has a not unpleasing sound, as there is nothing in it suggestive of fraud, oppression or in- equality. “On the other hand, “crooked taxation” has a pleasant sound and it would be hard to it the war cry of a popular movement, and yet, asked the speaker, is it not a far more accurate definition of the thing that is really meant by the other name? In neurly all. na- tions there exists asystem of taxation which bears certain uniform characteristic: under which the taxes are paid to the government by persons who are authorized and expected to recover the amount from some one else, with interest and profit, on which a limit is placed by law. No one ‘can tell the precise umount actually contributed to the support of government by any one per son tnder this system, nor how much of that paid by the finai ‘taxpayer goes to the support of government or how much into the private urse of the individuals. A large part of the final tax is always perverted to private use, whils often nine-tenths and even nineteer.-twentieths is thus perverted. Thus private property is forcibly taken for private use, an operation which every court in civilized countries declares in so many words to be ROBDERY UNDER THE FORMS OF LAW. ‘The amount of the tax has only a remote connection with the actual needs of the govern- ment, being often either much more or much less. The taxpayers often pay a lighter tax for several years together under an extravagant and even corrupt government than they pa; under one rigorously economical and hones! This, — inherent in the system, 1s no acci- dent. ‘The pressure of such taxation, there- fore, has almost no effect in educating the people to demand or appreciate good gov- ernment. The more wisely and honestly such a system is administered the more ‘poposr does it make public extravagance and the more Under such u sys- ‘unpopular public economy. tem a few make large profity sud uate v street was struck by the runaway team, knocked down and severely injured. YROFOSED FOX CHASE IN FAIRFAX. A second invitation has been extended, through Mr. John Moseley Worcester, to the member’ of the Woodley Hunt Club, for a fox chase on New Year's day at Fairfax Court House, Va. Itis more than likely that the invitation will be accepted by about ten members. A NEW YEAR'S EVE BALL. give a grand ball on New Year's eve at Linthi- cum Institute Hall. ete ee Three Assignments. Assignments for the benefit of creditors were filed in the office of recorder of deeds today as follows: Joseph H. Sammons, market store at 1800 14th street north west, to Walter B. Watson; Isaac E. Swartz, dealer in notions, furnishings, d&c., at 926 7th street, to H. Ganss; C. E. Howell and 8. Edgar Murry (Howell & Murry), shoe dealers at 900 7th street northwest, to C. A. —— Enforeing the Snow Law. ‘The law requires of owners, agents or occu- pants of houses that they shall remove snow from the sidewalk in front of their houses within four hours after the snow has ceased to fall. Persons who fail to comply with the law are apt to hear from the police. The first warrants of the season under this law were iscued today mst eleven citizens. ‘The us imposed in these eaces is gz. NY MANY simak Alleged Policy Writers Arrested. Detective Block and Sergt. Byrnes went to the 6th street depot this morning and arrested two alleged policy writers—Frederick Dreuke, white, and Frank West, colored. ‘They were taken to police headquarters, where some policy papers were found on them. It is Elaimed’ that they are “curbstone” writers. oes ‘Tho American Forestry Association. The American Forestry Association will hold its annual meeting tomorrow at the Agricultu- ral Department. Sessions will be held there in the forenoon and in the afternoon. In the evening the association will meet in joint ses- sion with the American Economic Association atthe National Museum. The following are the papers announced for this joint meeting: or Pe ES iene tale at ae Pe ice pean ‘Government Forestry “Abroad.” Gifford E. D. Bowers, formerly i tor of ic lands; *“Practica- bility of an American Forest Administration,” B. E. Fernow, chief of the forestry division. ————— and Mate Fined. Dan Smith, the colored captain of s wood boat, and his mate, Frank Kimball, a white boy, engaged in a row on the wharf Saturday night, and today they were tried in the Police Court. “We are Baltimore toughs,” was the language attributed to them. “We haven't had Christmas yet and we are going to have it now. ret Tortanately no ons wag hurt inte Sax, are growing finely and show ex- | TOW, but Capt. health and vitalit; for triplets. On | punit= O04 hie mate were fined $6 each for their day, the little ones were ple antly by friends of the famaly and by | iat Geadlomneaa ne <a ward Clark filed Predint ana Mra. Harrison sent ts to will of the late Edy Dean, exch @ of the chikiren and the happy and | today, names his wife, Amanda M. Dean, and tothe cl tn Mre‘Brocnaas "| tr We wens itwand Clarence (Dean, wt te or Soiechoescnaiastongaasie: remainder of his estate to his wife. Hermoine Division, No. 4, U. R. K. P., will | 76! Both mer were sent to the sixth police station. | all; easily concentrate. their power t and extend it in such form as more and 1ore to diminish the proportion of revenue which goes to the public use and to increase the hus profit ion in which it is diverted to mder such @ system those who acquire a “vested interest,” interference with which is regarded by multitudes of honest and tnselfsh men as something, positively wicked, and the right to live by robbery grows to be not merely equal, but even superior, to the ‘ight to live by work. The right of work is rec- ognized by law or public opinion, while the right robbery is not. At first, under this system, the abandonment by honest men of honest work for Soe robber; is # merely incidental force, but finally it becomes intentional and deliberate. The whole burden of such taxes rests uj consumption, and not at all upon wealth. system actually exempts Property, from the support of government and draws taxes only from those who have to spend and in propor- tion to their expenses. THE LOAD OX TRE POOR. Since the expenses of the very poor area hundred times as large, in proportion to their means, as those of the very rich, he said, these taxes bear with a hundred fold ‘severity upon theformer class. On the average the poor pay ten times their proper share of taxes. ‘The ‘also generally, though not inva- bly, adds to the cost of supporting the government a private profit so as to far exceed the-whole amount of taxes paid by the rich asa class, the whole of which goes to a portion of ‘the richer class, thus, exempting from ali taxation and giving them a large net profit from the very fact of taxution. MAKES THE RICH RICHER AND THE POOR POORER. ‘The tendency of this method of taxation, he said, is, therefore, (1) to make the rich: richer and the poor poorer; (2) to shift the burden of taxation from those best able to bear it to those least able; (3) to remove all checks upon the extravagances of government by making the only persons who know that thoy pay taxes in- different as to the amount of taxes, if not actu- i intaining ‘taxes; @ existence a class of wealthy — men gsised cpblerys (i) crcomaioce te tol vs com 1 enormous burdens are’ kept upon ¢he people, for fear that ‘vested interests” will suffer if these burdens are removed; (6) to feck bribery and corruption by csiness profits depend directly upon political action. AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. rivate use. int to fore into These cl for the it of $50 army ee come a life ber. York Rev. John G. Brosktom, Ferguson, Hartford, iustin, Tex; Gunton, Now York sity, Prot W, Farnese, New Haven, Conn.; Prot. A. 1. Hedley, New Haven, Conn; F. ih. Hawiey, New ¥ i ft teg Sa 1) ineppand, Eroae. {opm i Prot AW, Saul, Water, Me, ‘The for this afternoon ‘the eine See es American cities is in the main borne by those | S¢P' pro- | the flag of independence on the ¥: Second Day of the Mecting of the Amertean | “"\'srllcbue of' Economic Association. Folwell; ‘The Civil Service Commissioner Repiles to the Postmaster General. 4 LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT IX AXSWER—MR. ‘WANAMAKER'S STATEMENTS—FIGURES QUOTED ‘TO SHOW THE CHARACTER OF CIVIL SERVICE A POINTEES. The civil service commissioners have sent the following letter to the President: “Sir: The civil service commission, having reeived a copy of the annual report of the Postmaster General, wishes to call your at- ‘oy, | tention to the portions of the report dealing them from slipping. “I know of none better,” said he, “than the scriptural admonition, ‘Let him that he stand take heed lest he fall. ———_ University Extension in England. Prof. R.G. Moulton of the University of Cam- bridge, England, will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the Washington Society for the Extension of University Teaching tomorrow afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock, in the room of the Columbian University. Subject: Uni- versity Extension in England. gestation anand ‘Will Help Senator Pinmb in °92. Republics may be ungrateful, but individuals are frequently otherwise. Mr. L. Countryman of Oklahoma City, 0.T., has troubled Senator Plumb to the extent of requesting him to introduce for him a bill In a Bortecript_ to his letter of | transmittal ir. Countryman says: “I trast I may be able to render yon some service in 1892, should you desire it, for your many favors alrcady granted me.” tor Plumb has at least one faithful follower. —.__ Shot Her Husband in the Leg. In the Criminal Court, Chief Justice Bing- ham, today Lucy Edelin, a colored woman, was placed on trial charged with an assault and battery on James H. Edelin, her husband, in tember last, Mr. Barker ay for her. They have been married thirteen years, but were not living together at the time of the as- sault. In defendant’s house there- was some farniture, bought from an installment house, for payment for which the husband snid he was responsible. The husband claimed that he wont to the house when the man went to re- move the furniture, and while they were re- moving it she shot him, the ball passing through his leg. ——— Only One Undecided Election Contest. Mr. Rowell of Illinois, chairman of the House committee on elections, in- tends during the month of January to secure if possible final action by the House on the remaining undecided elec- tion contest—that of Laton against Phelan, from the Memphis, Tenn., district. A Nefarious Divorce Traffic. The efforts of the United Hebrew charities to break up the nefarious divorce traffic carried on in New York by the so-called “rabbis” yielded their first fruits yesterday. Rabbi 8. M. Siskind, who has undoubtedly issued more of these fradulent divorces than any one in the business, was arrested yesterday after- noon charge with obtaining money under false retences. on, furnishing mail. Siskind’s methods have been thor- oughly investigated and the number of divorces which he bas granted in the past ten years is simply appalling. They run up to thirty or forty years, for which he received all the way from $10 to £50 each. In most cases the parties divorced have remarried, so that number of Russian and Polish Hebrews indictable for big- amy must be astonishingly large. ——— UNDAUNTED, THOUGH BEATEN. Vincent Scully On His Defeat—A Proclama- tion That Causes Excitement. Dvstix, Dec 29.—Mr. Vincent Scully, who was recently defeated by Sir John Pope Hen- nessy in the contest for North Kilkenny’s seat in parliament, has written a letter to the Freeman's Journal in which he says that the attitude of the Irish bishops before and dar- ing the election referred to only shows that Mr. Parnell “‘committed a private vice” and ul- lowed judgment by default to be delivered against him and thercfore has been prononnced to be no longer eligible to a position of public trust. Continuing, Mr. Scully says that the Irish struggle is essentially a political and not a moral one, a struggle for leave for the Iriah to manage Irish affairs after their own fashion. ‘The struggle is one of pounds, shillings and pence and not of the sicraments. STIRRED UP BY A PROCLAMATION. Athlone, Roscommon and Westhmeth are being excited by a proclamation placarded in all prominent places. It states that true Irishmen have resolved to 6 their independence, and tl ho Kilkenny reverse a “trampet call for you to close your ranks and make a last supremé fight for,the cause.” It adds that “the Fatherland is threatened by a calamity surpase- ing a thousand coercion acta—the lowering of ague promise of a British statesman. Irish history teems with disasters resulting from reliance placed upon English promises.” ‘The proclamation, continuing, asks the peopl> to sustain the tried _ policy of the independent party in parliament, ple of Ireland and it it should sustain that ic a on De adding that with the America uni hin the leader who made led you to victory until now. Jamue “between the dependent party was as to whether the people thould choose our own leader and party or as to whether the should become merely a part of the Englis 3 m | liberals and accept a leader dictated by the English ers. ‘That would not be home rule. We want real home rule—the home rule for _ which Emmett and other patriots gave their noble lives. We were advancing to victory under a good leader. Support him and Ireland's cause forever. God save Ireland.” : ————»—.— NOT AT ODDS. General Booth and Commissioner Smith Still on Friendly Terms. Loxpox, Dec. 29.—Gen. Booth, in a comunni- cation to the Times, says: “I deeply regret that misapprehension and some differences of opinion as to the best plan for working his de- partment led Commissioner Smith to resign. In viow of the serious obligations I have pub- liely undertaken I naturally desire that the scheme ehall be treated on lines in ‘harmony with my own ideas. I very highly esteemed Mr. Smith and this extract from his letter shows no unfriendliness.” Here he quotes Commissioner Smith: “You need have no alarm regarding my intentions. Icontemplate no opposition to you. I just as earnestly as ever agree as to the end desired. We differ as to methods. You may reckon on any outside assistance I can giv Gen. Booth, continuing, says; “A deed of trust for the fands will be executed in ® fow days. Nothing is yet done because the neces- sary fands are only now assured.” ion. Booth adds that he hopes to answer criticisms of his scheme and offer suggestions in @ pamphlet which he expects to have published during January. with the appointments made under the com- mission to the Post Office Department. These portions are to be found on pages 4, $7, $8 and ‘89 of the report and read as follows: “‘Thope to see the civil service examina- tions, especially with reference to the railway mail, improved, for only in proportion as these yield the most efficient civil servants can the benefits of the civil service system be extended. “A year's experience confirms me in the judgment formed twelve months ago that the civil servicé system, as applied to the rosters of the Post Office it, in ble of Smprovement. ‘The ‘examinations forthe ire spector force and for the railway mail service ought to be made more difficult, so that the candidates for places will better stand the test of actual work. The practice of the ment shows that the it force, for ex- ample, is more efficient asa whole if eligibles who have seen public servire are selected in- stead of those who have simply been examined. This means either that the examinations are not thorough enough or that examinations never can result in the selection of the proper proportion of efficient inspectors — a thi which I do not believe. _ It is estimated by the railway mail office that the proportion of rail- way mail eligibles who fail to fill the require- ments of that exacting employment is a quarter or™third of all those examined. This means either that the examinations are not thorough enough or that it is impossible suitably to examine candidates for the railway mail service —a thing which is certainly not true. ‘The railway postal clerk cannot be most efficient unless he has physical endurance. ‘The inspector cannot be most capable unless he is full of resources and alertness. Perhaps these observations seem trivial, but if I may permitted to make the statement it is just i proportion as the examination system (w intends to be a merit system) provides can dates who succeed not only in holding their places, but in adding to the efliciency of the Public service that the reform can hope to gather momentum. “Nor is it truth—and it will not stand the test of time—to reiterate over and over again that the railway mail service, which had been made the most effective body of civil servants ‘in the United States under an old established uibrit system of its own, was basely prostituted to partisan ends when this administration of the Post Office Department was busying itrelf with putting back these trusty and tried menin the of persons whose room was more valuable than their bungling assistance and with waiting for the tardy certification of eli- giblen.” sgghen Rtterunces of the Postmaster General ‘@pparently in the nature of a criticism on the examinations of the civil service commis- sion, and having been thus publicly made it is due to the commission that they should be as publicly answered. NEVER RECEIVED A HINT. In reference to the first sentence, in which the Postmaster General says that he hopes to see the civil service examinations, especially those for the railway mail service, improved, the commission can only eay that it will heartily welcome the co-operation of the Postmaster General to this end. The commsesion has never /received a hint from the Post- master General that its exnminations were not proper and the individual commissioners have repeatedly told various subordinate chiefs of the Post Office Department, including the general superintendent of the railway mail service, that they were anxions to get any ad- vice from the Post Office Department about theee examinations and would at once remedy any defect in them that wes pointed out or adopt any new suggestions of value that were lc. The commission has just written to the Postinaster General specifically asking for any suggestions he has to make about improving the examinations, for the commission takes it for granted that the Postmaster General would not thus publicly comment upon the shortcom- ings of the examinations unless he had some detinite proposition to make looking to their improvement. Asa matter of fact the system of examinations and tests applied after ap- pointment under which the Postmaster General ways the railway mail service had become the most effective body of civil servants in the United States has been preserved intact, with- out an its of change under the civil service rules and in addition an entrance test has been prescribed in the form of an open, competitive examination, which takes the place of the prac- tice in vogue before the civil service rules wers applied to this service of allowing members of Congress and others to nominate to the department the persons to be aj Pointed. ‘These examinations have been made us practical in character as possible. ‘The com- mission has no doubt that, as the Postmaster General says, the system ‘of examinations is susceptible of improvement; but it would like a little more definite information as to the kind of improvement to which the Postmaster Gen- cral alludes. ‘The Postmaster General says that mail service ‘The com- hem so if it isdesired, bat this is timation to this effect which has been received from the department. AN UNUSUAL COMPLAINT. Hitherto the complaints made to us have always been not that our examinations were too easy, but that they were too severe. Ap- parently the Postmaster General desires some physical test for the railway postal clerk exam- ination. We require now # surgeon'scerfiticate as to the applicant's good health and strength. Moreover part of the examination is, as the Postmaster General doubtless knows, the six months’ probationary test. ‘The commission believes that this probationary test in doing the actual railway mail work affords the best possi- ble means of finding out the clerk’s physical capacities, and that it affords a much more satisfuctory test than could be devised in an other way. But if the Postmastor General will suggest to the commission any plan for afurther ical test it will receive prompt and full con- ‘The commission desires to point out, however, that if complicated tests are needed the commission must have force suffi- cient to: make them. Under the law the ci in ‘| service examiners are detailed to the com- mission from the various departments. The Post Office Department until within the last "two months has been very backward in thus detailing examiners. Not an examiner was de- tailed to the commission from the railway mail service until a year anda quarter after this sorvice had been classified, and only then when the commission, after repeated requests for the detail, was obliged to notify the department that if would no longer be able to do'the work for the railway mail service unless the detail was given it. ‘Thus fora year anda half the entire work of the commission for this branch th Z : He F j i rE rH i i; rH ine | nations for the inspector force of the postal pai patronogeaystem which it has sup | iy dismissed. fore obvious that under the new srfem a much more satisfactory set of appointees s than under the sid. ‘TRE IxsPECTORS. The same holds true in regard to the exami- service. The commission is strongly of the | oninion that in most cases this force can be best | supplied by promotion of men already in the Post Ontice Bey ins ii neighborhood of 17,000 classified employes. | The commission, however, is confident that it | can supply a reasonable number of good post office inspectors from its open examinations, and is surprised tolearn that the Postmaster General does not there examinations as satisfactory. They are of the same kind as those that were used in the department itself be- fore these employes were classified, with the ex- ception that from being pass examinations they are now made competitive. If they were good to test the merits of applicants then they are rarely good to teet the merits of applicants now. We have merely gone a step further and used them to test the relative merits of the ap- Plicants, | Of the seventeen men appointed from the commission's lists to these places dur- ing the year and a half that has just elapsed sixteon are now in the service. Only one has | resigned or been dismissed. Any rystem that produces such results cannot be said to be in- effective or to work badly. In any event the commission is convinced that it will be most detrimental to the public interests to go back to the old method of treating the appointments of these office inspectors as so much patronage. “Moreeffort has been mede to have these post office inxpectors put back und patronage system than has gard to any other branch of the cl service. Every member of the commission has been approached by influential politicians asl ing that post office inspectors should be e: cepted from examination, and in almost every instance where the request has been made it has been based upon the ground that the post office inspectors in office when the service was classified had been appointed chieiy for polit cal reasons. One of the commissioners has him- self seen a letter in which a very prominent political leader was urging this “change and | urging the appointment of a post office in- spector in his district frankly for the reason that he wished to know about the political ut- titude of the various local postmasters and for the further reason that the post office in- spector, owing to the nature of his work was fitted to be a particularly useful POLITICAL ALLY AND SUBORDINATE. Another of the commissioners was frankly told by @ political leader of great importance in a certain state that he wished the inspectors partment, which contains in the | BS PIUTE INDIAN TALK. Capt. Lee's Report of His Investigations in ‘Nerthern ‘NE RECOMMENDS THAT FORT BIDWELL, CAL, BE NOT ABANDONED AS A MILITARY POsT—THE PIUTES AND THE MESSIAN CRAZE—TALKS WITH THE RED MEX. The report of Capt. J. M. Lee, ninth who recently investigated the condition of the Piute Indians of north- ern California, just madé to the adjutant document. thence he went by stage 150 miles to well, Cal. To judge from the talk he Thy, the general im ression seemed to the outlying settlement exposed to danger. He arrived at the fort at noon on December 1 and found Lieut. Phister, first infantry, in com- mand of a detachment of ten men awaiting or- ders to complete the abandonment of the post. (WHY CHIEF ARCHIE WANTS THE SOLDIERS To STAY. That afternoon he had an interview with Chief “‘Archie” and ten of his bucks, in which the latter said: “We try to do right; what the government wants. le like to live here always and nowhere else. Tell | whites are e there. No for-us to go, an Sree but stay here. Had a few ponies; all winter but one or two. We have eno’ to eat. Get flour, get | some game, deer, antelope, rabbits and “ducks in the mountains and lakes. This has always becn our home. Our children born here. Old ones die here. “Here before white people came. Glad white people here. Giad soldiers here, cause they give Indians something to eat AN INDIAN RESURRECTION PROPHESIED. Then Jo Evans, a Piute, remarked: “About ley, Walker river. He has two names, Kort- a Wo-po-kah-ti. and tell Indians he where dead Indians are. all live again and have long hair. come back and live here. He say he destroy soldiers, ‘Tell soldiers hurry up and come an he will destroy all of them. “Can take club and destroy them. Soldiers will have no bones and will drop down. Will destrov all white with big snow or something like that. take away Indian food. He will make come back plenty.” HOW IT LOOKS TO THE BLIND CHIEF OCHOHO. ‘The next day old Chief Ochoho was inter- viewed. He said:)Twenty years me chief— long time—now me blind, no good for chief Vhites any more. When I was @ boy white jman come. We think good. Now we same as white man—all friends. Some white man may sey he cut m: head off—me blind. No like that.” That's bad. White people got ali the land. All right, we no bother them. I want to stay here all time I live I want nobody to come along to kill me. White men give Indians work—that may get grub. Me no care whether soldiers y OF not. Long time ago soldiers give Indians grab nd clothes, then they quit, and now I don't exre if Washington : * for soldiers to go away—soldiers go aw... maybe some bother follow—maybe not. Maybe wome white man drunk, go to Indian camp. make trouble. Don't’ “know about that. Whenever trouble, Indian always = go. to soldier chief, and he stop all ‘trouble. Me all same as Washington. If Washington want white man to go over this country, bring stock, cattle and all thet, me say all right. All same as Washington.” GEORGE SAYS THE HUNGFY INDIANS HAVE TO EAT SLOrs. George, anotixer Pinte, suid in a private talk: “Indians feel all right to white people, afraid to be excepted from examination because from the nature of their ofice they were calculated | to render such very important political servic inasmuch as the previous inspectors, thi iiice, had rendered this service to the out- going administration the gentleman referred to | desired that their successors should render | equal political assistance to the incoming ad- | ministration, The commission, on the con-| trary, recognizes the abuses that have grow out of the system of appointing as post otf inspectors political agents in the past, an thinks it would be extremely unwise to agai resort to that practice. If there is ny class of public employes which should be wholly re- moved from partisan politics certainly this is | such an one. ‘The commission is glad to find iteelf in hearty accord with the Postmaster General in his expressed desire for an improved clastifica~ tion of the whole post office clerical force, for a better common spirit and purpose among ail classes of employes, and for the adoption of some just, general and certain place of promo- tion which will encourage men to new exer- tion. ‘the commission is convinced that no work which it would undertake has in it the promise of better results than the application and supervision of regulations providing for uniform and just methods romotion throughout the whole classified service. While legislation is needed before the best resu!ts can be attained in some branches of the service yet with the hearty co-operation of heads of departments much can be done without legis- " We have the honor to be Your obedient servants, Cus. Lyaax, ‘Tacoponx Roosevert, Hoan 8. Tuomrsox, er The President. $s ‘The Tale of = Mule. Ike Smith, colored, was in the Police Court today charged with having for €30 the day before Christmas sold his employer's mule and wagon to an old colored man named Alex. Fruman, who lives on the commons nea: ‘he jail. Smith had been employed by Hill to take charge of the team and huckster vegetables | from it. Sergeant Burgess and Policeman Parker arrested Smith and recovered the mule. Yesterday the animal was turned in to the property clerk of the nd. was in the st tion. During the day the mule slip halter and enjoyed a Christmas feast, ar ing all the hay, oats and corn in sight. ‘The | ail result of his indiscretion was that he hada severe colic, and in his death struggle knocked down the ‘tall partition and wrecked the | hydrant, and the stable was soon flooded with | water, ‘Then the victim tried to kick himeelf | out of the stable, but death overtook him after a section of the brick wall had disay ‘The prisoner was tried in the today and Judge Miller held him to await the action of the grand j --——__ THE COURTS IN 1891. ice Court in $300 bail jury. ‘The Court in General Term today made the following assignments for holding the courts Probate Courte—for January, Judge Bradley; for re- to do anything against whites. White man kill an Indiun may be, Indizns make no trouble— ite men kill another Indian—still Indians submit, they are afraid of white men ‘and will hide. White man take Indian land and Indien do nothing bad. Indians very poor and have hard times. White men settle all over country and kill all the game. Indians suffer, get hun- gry, work for whites. In winter Indians beg for’ grab. Gooa deri soap in slops, but Indians eat slops from boxes and barrels when they are hungry. IX REGARD TO THE MESSIAM, George raid. “Two Indinite from every tribe— about twelye tribes—come long way to hear prophet. Some three, fonr and five months journey. Some of these Indians talk by signs. Sometimes four or five hundred Indians in Mason's valley near Walker Lake. i to the ‘dreamer’ or prophet. Some Indians laugh and say prophet ix crazy, but most In- dians listen to him and think he will make good times for Indians. “He say when Indians die they go way off (pointing south instead of up). “Nineteen or twenty "years ago some kind of prop! falker Lake he dic and his son take his place. Indian prophet preach that way for long time. Ho tall Tetinst ao oop up dances and good times will come and will all be snowed under.” CAPT. DICK'S POINTS ABOUT THE MESSIAH, ETC. One Piute, “Capt. Dick” by name, made an interesting reference to the relation of the two races: “Good many white men many times bother Indian squaws, Bad talk, whisky give ‘cm: Oller satay So better iatien squew. m bucks no like dat. Maybe so me try to get big white man, lawyer, policeman, to stop that.” Dick gave Capt. Lee evme valuable ‘points about the “messiah” doctrine. Long time, same way, same as you hear now. In one year, maybe, after he begin talk he die. “Three years ago another years ago me Lake, me ree Johnson Sides. Le fi bs game be thick everywhere. back and live again. ‘They all be ke Indian see every kind. ‘All dead Hil young men—be young again. in and nobody but Indians anywhere and game all Kinds thick. ‘Then medicine man tells ee iy: mt egy nn, eee ay neg ge ney this word will grow litile, just about @ foot high, and stay that way. will be turned into wocd and be burned in fire. That's way Sam tell me thatis bat Big Man (God) waa'te come, but. be net come? Tin Medicina man sonal word that God come in July (this ‘was in 1888), but no God come then. ‘Shon me think ail lie and come back mit lake, eighty tiles Indian from iowa ‘to “oll sso cbout wed wan ‘Maybe 80 Botiove ‘medicine man. crazy and ‘THR BULK ‘THE NES Capt. Lee of the In- dians believe ‘concludes by should not Pabindeoed fo come. ‘Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the ‘Maske and Annie Prince George's county, F. Hanrahan and Nellie E. ter Williams ‘Nannie E Smith; ‘Maggio Hart; ‘Hange of the Thermometer. . fio today 98,3 path meinen, an, ae Its Second Annual Meeting Opens Teday— ‘Officers and Members Present. ‘The second annual mecting of the Geolog- ical Society of America convened this after- noon at the Columbian University. ‘There will be s seasion this evening, three to- ‘morrow and two on Wednesday. The member- sbip of tne socicty is about 200 and comprises the leading geologists of this country. The program of papers to be read at the present mecting comprises some fifty mbjects. The seasion this afternoon was presided over by Prof. Alexander Winchell, one of the view ite, in the absence of the . Baus, oo Gia ater ies presi Newbury. “Am address come was de- livered by pr. J. C. Welling, the vice president of Columbian University. A was ‘made in behalf of the society by Prof. Winebell. PROF. WINCHELL'S ADDRESS. Prof. Winchell, in the course of his remarks, said: A few words as to the society which you have so courteously welcomed. Externally it appears to be a society two years old. With organization completed at Ithnen two ago it held its first annual meeting in New York last vear and is now entering upon ite second annual meeting. Fut the Association of Ameri vital, even an organic, existence for more then half a century. It was the predecessor of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science and for fifty years formed one of ite most active and in- fluential sections. There are many reasone why geology has always consolidated a large and de- voted following. To the casual observer even Reology sustainsan intimate rele tion tothe de velopment of the natural resources of our coun- try. These y constitute the basis of our characteristic civilization. The and costly enterprises undertaken im the development of the practical results of geologh cal investigation testify to the public estimate of the auxiliary agency of our science im pro moting oer civilicauion. | Bat to remind you and my this is to leave uninentioned the relations which the prosecutic sustains to modern enli | feience is not like mathematics or payechalogy— @ year ago I see medicine man at Mason's Val- | buffalo | Indians eat slop from kitchens. | © one which deals in a single range of concep tions and calls into activity a limited | Tange of facultics. From the observation e it \t© generalizations, and the foundation | of doctrines. From doctrines settled a gen- eral principles it is the prerogative of the | geologist to pursue deductive courses of rea- soning. These trains of deductive thought | Pieced without reference to time or place. | What is troe—what is a true imference—is valid through the ages past and the ages to come. And the geologist ponsessce the magical power of penetrating the past nd future. In all these procemes of gealo- al activity the picturing powcr of the mind is a lamp which illuminntes the pathways Which reason pursues, and the details of re mote histories which’ only reason can make present to humen consciousness. Tange of intellectual activity in these diversified fields of geological research and reflection. It to me there is no power of the mind not called into exercise. It appears to me the pursuit of geological studies is the means of a univerml culture. ‘Not less is the ethical influence of the methods of geological study an mportant agent in developing the true soul and putting # im just relations to human. life and conduct. Bat these points eax be simply mentioned in this connection. ‘These are suggestions of the reasons why the devotees of geology feel +o strongly bound together and yenerate their science #o de- votedly. It is becanse we hail in you a representative of learning who understands the i agency of geology in culture and. civiization that we, the of that sctenes, extending to you the our appreciation and thanks. PROGHAM OF PAPERS. ‘The program for the afternoon and evening sersion contains the following papers: “The Structure of a Portion of the Sierra Nevada of California,” forty minutes, Gearge F. Becker. Its of the Southern Ap- hiane,” thirty minutes, C. Willard Hayes. Notes on. ‘the “Variations in ‘the Tertiary and ‘ost Pliocene Continental Subsidence,” tw@ty minutes, J. W. Spencer. ‘On the “Probable Upper Jurassic and Basal Cretaceous Leds of the Texa»-Arkanune Region. Coastward of the Present Paliezoic Arena,” to- gether with “Remark on Pre-caisting Ouma- tions and subsequent Erosion,” R. T. EVENING SRssI0N, 8 P.m. “Glaciers of the St. Elias Region, with lantern illustrations, forty minutes, I. ©. itribution to th: Geology of “Coutribution to i with lantern illustrations, fifteen minutes, P. H. Mell. ‘The committee on ra i hacen toe attention to their ton otographs es- hibited in the conversation room. OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY. The officersof the society are as follows: James D. Dana, New Haven, president; John 8. Newbury, New York, and Alexander Winchell, Michigan, vice presidents; Jobn J. Stephensan, ‘New York, secretary: HenryS. Williams, Ithnes, treasurer. Prof. John W. Powell of this city member of the council and W. J. MoGee this city is editor. Prof. Winchell was chosen president of the society at their season tas afternoon. ae MEMBERS NOW IN THE CrrT. ‘The following members are already im the city: Prof. H. C. Hovey of Bridgeport, Coum. Prof. Abraham Bentley of New Brighton, Pa; L. Chapan and J. E. Wolff. ——— THE DISTRICT IN CONGRESS, BI to Amend the Charter of the Beck Creek Railroad '. ‘Mr. Walcott introduced in the Senate today bill toamend the charter of the Rock Oreck Railway Company, 80 as to authorize them to i li i i i 4 s i E FE wf j t s f. tf fy lt i i. j [ : & F E i i i | th | ‘ i i FE ; FS i 1: i i | ? ti | I lf

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