Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1884, Page 4

. e ycgre s, 4 O e THE OMAHA BEE] Oroaha OMce, No. 916 Farnam S Council Bluffs Office, No, 7 Pearl St Btroot, Noar Broadway., | New York Office, Room 65 Trit une Building. The Pablished every morning,” oxoopt Bunds y\ only Monday mornivg daily, TITE WRAKLY RER, PURLISIRD RVRRE WRDNRSDAY. THAXS POSTPAID. One Year. Three Misnth Bix Months., 1.00 | Ono Menth.. . orloan Xows Company, Sole Agonte, Nowsdeal in the Unttod States. o CORMRAPONDINM, © ANl Communioations relating o News and Editoris btors should bo wildroased o the Epiron or Trw RURINRRSSuBTERRA, All Businoss Tettors tand_Romnittances” ddrossed to Tws Ban PonLieriing CoMPAX Dratts, Checks and Postoffice ordors to be ablo to the oréer of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING C0., PROPS’ E. ROSEWATER, Editor. A, JL.F¥ch,-Manor Deily Circulation, P.10. Box . ‘should"b MATIA o pay Wr are told that Mr. Boyd's proxy, which Dr. Miller carried triumphantly to New York, was signed in blank, Now that James E. Boyd has returned the Herald will at once order a general illumination and a torchlight procession. Jonx Keuwy's New York morning Star refuses to be the guiding star of Grover Cleveland. It has been a cloud of light in the day and a pillar of fire in the night for the benighted democracy of New York. Tuosk heavenly messengers from the democratic national convention bearing the benediction of the d. o. p. (dead old party) have not yet reached Grammercy Park. It will be an affecting scene when they get there. Waen Grover Cleveland asked John Kelly to sit down on Grady last October he addressed him as ‘“My dear sir.” composition of juries. point Judge Pitman sa) rent notion that the reason why so JURIES AND JURYMEN. In the North American Review for Ju- ly, Judge Robert C. Pitman presents an article on ‘“Juries and Jurymen,” in which he says that “‘the theoretical qual- ifications of jurors in all the states are reasonably high,” This may be true, but the fault lies in the practice of melecting jurors without regard to the proper qual. ifications. Such indeed has been the practice all over the country, and partic- ularly in Omaha, until quite frequently. The fault lies with the officials and not with the laws providing for the manner of selection. It is a gratifying fact, how- ever, that in Omaha there has been dur- ing the last two or three years a gradual and perceptible improvement in the se- lection of grend and petit jurors. The reform 8o far has been in response to the demand of the people, who-are tired of seeing the professional jurymen and the irresponsible nobodies constantly filling the jury box slmply to pass away time and draw pay. Such juries can. not, and will not do justice, and hence their rediculous or outrageous verdicts, as the case may be, while caus. ing little or no surprise, excite great in- dignation, Swmch juries afford a profitable occupation for the professional jury fixer, It seems, however, that the commission- ers aroat last beginning to realize tho importance of sclecting grand and potit jurors with some referenco to their moral and business standing in the community; and if they succed as well in the future as they have in choosing the jurors of the prosent torm of court, the public will have no reason to find fault with them., It is too often the case that reputable business men, when drawn as jurors, endeavor to avoid their duty to the pub- lic, and the court is too apt to accept their excuses and dismiss them. Such men should remember that if they will not perform jury duty they become re- sponsible to a large extent for the poor Upon this point : ‘It is a cur- The next confidential letter that Cleve- |fow first class business men are land writes to the Tammany boss will [found upon our juries is that probably begin with *‘Dear John.” they are excused by the courts. A COMPARATIVE statement of the quan- tity of food and liquids consumed at the Palmer house during the two national conventions, shows that the democrats nobly maintained their reputation as the greater drinkera, During the democratic convention the quantity of whisky con- sumed never ran below 60 gallons a day atthe Palmerhouse,and on the nomination of Cleveland 60 gallons of the stuff found its way into bourbon gullets. During the republican convention ouly 30 gal- lons a day were consumed at the Palmer. These statistics will no doubt have a valuable bearing on the campaign. They will be referred to with pride by Petro- leum V. Nasby at the Confedrit X Roads. How many more cornerstones will they lay for the atate capitol of Nebraska? They laid. a corner-stone when the left ‘wing of the capitol was begun, Then they laid a corner-stone when the right wing ‘was commenced. Now ihey have laid a The returns we have given show that such men rarely get upon the jury lists, In the exceptional cases, where such men are roturned to serve, it is no doubt one of the most important duties of a judge to brace himself up against yielding to any but the best of excuses. Boards of trade would do well not only to indicate it a8 a point of honor that none of their members should seek to shirk this grave public duty, but to see to it that their class be properly represented. let me add that the general hardship of the jury duty is over-estimated. repeatedly had business men, at the end of a term, confess to me not only the sat- And here 1 have otion they have felt in performing this function, avd the interest they have felt in their work, but their surprise that it was g0 little onerous.” Judge Pitman very properly advocates the better treatment of jurors so that their duty will be performed under more agreeable cirzumstances and more com- corner-stone for the center. If another .“"ubh mrrmfndingn. Eloyseyar) additon is buill we - préstme another improvements in this respect are gradually being made, corner-stone will be laid with great cere- mony. The last corner-stone we are told was taken from Stout's lime-stone quarry at South Bend, and was cut and dressed at the penitentiary. The names of the artists who dressed the stone wore not engraved upon it; but the names of the ‘boss and the penitentiary contractor were cut into the rock to be handed down to future generations, A necenT telegram to the New York Herald from Mexico states that the nom- ination of Cleveland is received with great satisfaction by the Mexicans, This must be very pleasing news to Mr. Cleveland. He now has the support of the British lion and the Mexican greaser, The Mexican greaser is laboring under the improssion that Blaine will invade and capture bis country. Immediately after Mr. Blaipe's nomination a Mexican paper advised the u:mostvigilance on the part of the national guard, the arming of private citizens and preparations to pre- vent the threatened invasion by the plumed knight. Itis probably for the same reason, if the truth could be known, that the British lion now roars for Clove- land. Ho is perhaps afraid that Blaine and Logan will invade Canada and annex it to the United State: Tre New York Herald publishes a map showing the paths followed by the cholera during its several visits in this country. In 1882 cholera came from Ireland to Quebec, and thence to Mon- treal, Kingston, Buffalo, Detroit, Chica- 80, 8t. Louis, up the Ohio river to Cin. ecinnati, and down the Mississippi river to New Orleans. 1n 1848 it came from Havre to New Orleans, then pr'ooudod up the Mississippi river to St. Leuis and overland by the emigrant route to Leav- enworth, Fort Laramie, through the south pass to Salt Lake City, San Fran- cisco and Sacramento, and also up the Ohio river to Cincinnati, 1n 18564 it came to New York from England, France and the discomforts of jury mervice are not half so severe as they were some yeara ago. In the olden times the jurors were kept without food or fire until they agreed, and it was only at a comparadvely recent date that jurors were allowed to separate during the trial of a criminal case. The judges of the superior, circuit and county courts, in Chicago, propose to hold a conference this week to discuss a proposition to improve the jury system by calling for the attendance of jurors during only one session each day, from 1 tobp. m. Under the present system the courts open at 10 o’clock, and at least an hour is taken up in the hearing of motions, granting orders, and other busi- ness, before the regular trials begin, Thus the jurymen are compelled to lose nearly the whole morning, which they might profitably devote to their own bus- iness, It is the same in Omaha, and the Chicago plan no doubt would be found to work equally as well here. Itisa matter worth considering by the judges and the members of the bar, Under the proposed plan the Chicago courts will devote the morning to motions, orders, &c., and the afternoon to jury trials, 1t isbe believed that by this di- vision of the day, business will be expe- dited, and jury duty wiil be less onerous, and consequently business men will not be 80 apt to make excuses for not serving as jurymen. This of course will be the means of securing a better class of jurors, The Chicago News, in urging the adop- tion of this plan, says that the advantages are 80 obvious that it is difficuly to under- stand why it should meot with any oppo- sltion; the whole judicial system will be benefitted by it; lawyers will have the morning to devote to oflice work or mo- tions, judges to the hearing of motions and the examination of a uthorities, and jurors to their own business. and Germany and was distributed through the United States, In 1806 it came to New York from England, France and Germany and was carried to Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Ciucinuati, St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and all other principal cities and towns in the United States. It was also carried the Indian Territory, along the route of the Union Pacific, then building. In 1873 it came to New Orleans from Havre, Bremen and Hamburg, and Wwas carried up the Mississippi river to Memphis, Vicksburg, St. Louis, Chicago, and up the Ohio river to Cincinnati, Wheeling _and Pittsburg, and almost to Philadel- THE BOYCOTTERS ONCE MORE The protest, filed with the city council, against letting the city advertising con- tract to Tre Bek is another specimen of the feeble attempts to boycott this paper, The protest is signed by nineteen per- sons, who are put forward as the repre- sentatives of the entire organized labor element of Omaha, Upon its face the remonstrance bears evidences of the utter duwregard for truth and common sense. It is alleged that Tur Bee is a *‘rat” office and does not pay fair wages. The fact is that the printers in the Bee oftice get better wages than those employ- ed in any other newspaper office in Oma- ha, We pay 84 cents per thousand, i Now Yok The episede of | 1ile the Herald and Republican only fotlowed the same cours pey 90 cenlsand Jhe aggeegale amount of OmAHA DAILY BEE-"YHUR small type sot in this office is greater than that in any otber, Every union printer that left this office would be only too glad to come back. Union printers are not ex- cluded on account of their unionism, but only when they are sent to this office to create trouble. If our wages are unfair why does the Omaha printers’ union give permits to members to work in this of- fico? The boycotters ask the city council to lot the advertising to tho paper that has the largest bona flde circulation, This is precisely what we demand. We are roady not only to establish that we no only have the largest actual circulation in Omaha, but we are willing to do the ad- vortising free of charge if our circulation is not four times larger in the city of Omaha than that of either of the morn- ing papers, We are not only willing ' to make affidavit as to the circulation of Tue Bek, but we are ready to place the subscription list with the names and resi- dence of the paying subscribers before the council for inspection. The stupid fabricator who concocted that remonstrance says that the morning Bk circulates only in Counéil Bluffs,and asa clincher declares that tho circulation in Omaha has been almost wiped out by the withdrawal of the workingmen from its lists. This is decidedly rich. We do not pretend to deliver the morning edi- tion of the Bee in Omaha by carrier, and therefore the reference to the Council Bluffs delivery is mere buncombe. But it is a fact, nevertheloss, that the general circulation of the morning Bek is fully double that of any rival paper printed in Omaha, The workingmen, however, have never been subscribers to that edi- tion, They take the evening Bke, and the boycotters have never been able to reduce the circulation among workingmen to any appreciable extent. Our subscription books show that the largest number of [patrons, of all kinds, that were induced to drop the Bre dur- ing the recent strike was 190 and most of these have renewed their subscriptions, We can show to-day that out of 3,600 patrons in Omaha notless than 1800 laborers and mechanics are regular subscribers to the evening edition of the Bee, and where one workingman subscribes from three to five read the paper. The reason of this is that the working people have never lost faith in the Bee as a true friend of labor, and the most effective DAY JULY 17, 1884, WEST OF THE MISSOURL The statistics from the records of the county assessors of the state, published recently in Tre Bee, furnish a variety of interesting information concerning our rapid growth in wealth and population, The reports covered twenty five counties, from Buffalo on the west to the Mis- souri river, and from Richardson on the south to Knox on the north. They embrace a majority of the best counties in the state. The assessed valuation of real estate in these counties shows an in- orease of 4,811,617 over that of 1883, while personal property inoreased in the same poriod $2,325,080, or a total in- croase in taxable property of §7,137,303. This is certainly a remarkable showlng for one year. Estimating this to be one- fourth the actual value of the property assessed, we have a total increase of $28,640,212 in the general wealth of twonty five counties, Taking it for granted that the counties referred to rep- resent one half the wealth of the state, a low estimate, the total Increase would be 857,008,424, or $156,434.14 per day. The increase in wealth is the natural result of tho vast number of emigrants from the crowded east and the old world who have settled in the state during the past year. The government census of 1880 vave the state a population of 452,402, and the school census of last spring showed a population of 690,000. The reports of the assessors show a popula- tion of 453,649 in forty counties, while tho consus of 1880 gave the same counties 321,742, an increase in four years of 131,807, or an average of 32,026 a year. Should this ratio of increase continue until 1800 the population of the state will reach 1,100,000, Oae important feature of these statis- tics is the fact that the cultivation of wheat is rapidly decreasing. In the twenty-five counties referred to there has been a decrease in the area under wheat, compared with that of 1883, of 20,698 acres, Only six counties—Nance, Saun- ders, Stanton, Platte, Wayne and Dou- glas—show an increase, amounting to 823 acres. But while wheat is being aban- doned, corn is becoming the great staple, the increase for the present year being 105,665 acres. The counties of York and Saunders show a decrease in area of corn planted, the former of 10,696 acres, and the latter of 36,634, The total increase in land under cultivation in twenty-five counties foots up 3,846,160 acres. In 1880 there were 05,504,702 acres cultivated, and it is safe to estimate, from the above figures, that fu'ly 10,000,000 are under cultivation the present year. These fig- ures speak louder than columns of words of Nebraska's rapid growth in population and wealth, proof of this is that one third of the men who have been induced to sign the remonstrance are now regular sub- soribers of the Bk, and there is nodoubt that the others read the paper just as rogularly as those who subscribe. Why. Td. Walsh himself, who certainly kicked as hard as anybody, now tikes the Bre ag regularly as he does his snpper. And yet the boycotters advise the council to give the city advertising to the paper that is read by the workingmen. If the council acts upon their request it can do nothing else but make the Bee the offi- cial paper. The boycotters are only making themselves ridiculous to try and injure this paper, Tue Denver Zribuncis again agitating the subject of the removsl of the mili tary headquarters of the department of the Platte from Omaha to Denver, 1t says that the officers at Omaha are unan- imously in favor of moving ‘“‘from the side of the murky waters of the Missouri to the more genial climate of the Queen City of the Plains,” The Zribunc is simply waating its time in trying to raise the hopes of the people of Denver that such a removal will take place. The statemont that the officers here are unan- imously ia favor of moving to Denver is a falsehood. The officers located here aro ltable to removal to other points,from time to time, but the headquarters will remain here. The Zribunc seems to forget that Omaha is the natural location for the headquarters of tho department of the Platte. Furthormore, Fort Omaha and the government corral or depot are permanent establishments, and have their influence in retaining the head- quarters here. There is no more like hood of the military headquarters being moved to Denver than there is of the removal of the headquarters of the Union Yacific or B, & M, Wk havo always been 1 favor of all the public improvements that the oity can legally pay for, but there is danger of incurring liabilities which we cannot meet. It is not desirable that our war- rants should be hawked about, nor that we should have a large floating debt. We can better afford to delay some of the work for another year, Rome was not built in a day, as the saying goes, and Omaha should not attempt to over- do iteelf. Hexoricks has bravely come to the rescue of his wife, who has been indis- oreet in expresalng opinions about Mr, Cleveland that are far from complimen- tary. Fortunately Mr, Cleveland has no wife orthere might have beenZtrouble in the democratic household. Ohina and France, Suananal, July 16,—The French minister at Tien bas demanded the withdrawal of C nese troops from the frontiers of Tonquin and the payment of indemnity asked by France. The demand was delivered to Tsung Li Ya- men, who rejected it. The time allowed China by France for compliance with the torms she offered expires July 19th, and war apparently is inevitable, The Deadly Flague.$ ManswiLies, July 17.—L'wenty deaths from cholera yosterday, TouLox, July 17, last night, 22, includi ral Fisquit, Municiy was attackod by tho disease last night aud diod this mornivg. Rosseau, minister of the inte- rior, and Herrikon, minister of commirce, ar- rived. They were invited to visit St. Man- drier hospital. Cadavers Oarried Off, CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa,, July 16,—Body snatch- ers oarriod off the' badly of Johu May, who murderad his deughter and suicided las wels A correspondent at Bordeaux, Sioux county, Neb.. writes: ‘Where is the Omaha Tndian reservation? Is it sold or being sold to settlers and how are thoy sold, under the homestead or pre-emp- tion laws, or can any ono purchase them by settling on them? Are the lands good? What is the price of them? and who sells them? The Omaha reservation lands, situated between Burt and Dakota counties, were opened to pre-emption settloment last April. The lands were first appraised at prices ranging from $0 to $20 per acre, according to quality and location. The terms cf the government were the ap- praised price of the land filed on, one fourth cash &nd the balance in five years. The lands were appraised in forty acre blocks, A large number of people have already settled on the land and doubt- less the cream of it is taken, The land is among the best in the state, well watered and suitable for all kinds of farming. The Neligh land office has charge of it. Reports from Cheyenne indicate that the Burlington will tap the Union Pa- cific at that point, This ie not surprising for scarcely & week passes that the push- ing and progressive Q" people do not drive a wedge into a root of its mommoth rival. The plen is to build north from Hudson on the present line to Cheyenne, a distance of forty miles. The new boom following on the heels of the Yellowstone road makes the magic city broaden at her girth and feel as if the rest of the world was doing homage to her greatness. But Cheyenne deserves her good fortune For pluck and perserverence she takes the beanery. The Leader says of the new road: ‘“‘Gieneral Manager Potter, of the Chicago Burlmgton & Quincy road, said to one of the leading citizens of Cheyenne, a gentleman who has very large interests both in Cheyenne and Laramie county, and indeed the whole territory, that he was astonished to hear of the amount of business being done in Cheyene, and it would b for the intorest of his road to oxtend their lin at onco to this city. This substantially is what he said, they intend to dc and to do the right way, just as soon as the necessary arrange- ments can be made and consummated. Of the fact that this company will then prepare to extend their line at, once to this city there can be no reasonable doubt. At the prosent time it is loss less than sixty miles from the Colorado line to the northern terminus of the Bur- Itngton & Missouri road and it is there- fore plainly to b seen that just so soon a8 the authorities of that road are con- vinced (as they appear to be now) of the fact that it is for their interests to run run their road to Cheyenne they can and will do 8o at once, Hon. John Dlllon, the well known Irish agitator and ex-member of parliament, who moved to Colorado last spring, has started a colonization scheme, backed a number of prominent Irishmen of the west and east. Itis proposed to purchase 100,000 acres of land in the Ogden Val- loy, Utah, which will be colonized with immigrants from the Emerald Isle. The details of the scheme are not made public, This is & praise-worthy undertaking and | ® one which will result in much practical good to his fellow countrymen. Mr. Dillon has devoted the greater portion of his life to improving the condition of the people of Ireland, and extorting from an unwilling, alien government a fow half civilized laws saddled with coercion. One of the straugest festures of lrish immigration to this country is the fact that at home the majority of them strug- gle against high rents to make a living Cfia fow acres of ground, yet in this country where land can ba had for a gift, they crowd the tenements of large cities instead of taking advantage of the nation’s bounty and making for them- sely home and competence on a farm, freo of rent aud rasping landlands, The Denver papers are handling Presi- dent v, of the Rio Grande road, without gloves and contrary to all pugi- listic rules, It will be remembered that Lovejoy came from the east as a rallroad reformer, and the result of his manage- ment of the Rio Girande property is to be found in the fact that the road defaulted the July interest on its bonds and a re- ceiver has been appointed. Lovejoy sig- nalized the close of his career by tearing up one mile of the road where it joins the Denver & Rio Grande Western, ina spirit of spleen because the latter road, being operated under a lease, would uot knuckle down to his whims. Speaking of his rise and fall the Denver Opinion says: *‘Tho probabilities are that Presi- dent Lovejoy, of the Rio Grande, will never come back. Inany event, he will not come back as president. “‘He has been a lamentable illustration of the folly of placing an ass in a place of power. Atno time has he known any- thing about the road. Utterly ignorant a8 a railroad man, he has depreciated the property to an extraordinary extent. Frequently in a state of beastly intoxica- tion, he has been unable to devote even the small intelligence he may be possessed of in his sober moments to its affairs. He has been the most disastrous fizzle in the railroad history of this country. ‘‘His order to tear up the track of his road is an illustration of his theory of fighting. An ordinary president would have been content with having the track washod away through his own ignorance and carelessness. He would not wish to add to the damage by hiring men to steal money from the stock and bond-holders by committing malicious mischief. Mr. Lovejoy appears to be an ass of origin- ality, however. He has a fertility of idiocy. Or, perhaps, he was drunker than usual when he sent the dispatch to rob the stock-holders by destroying their property. ‘‘It is about time that those who have money in the company should rid them- soives of this failure. The suddonness of his elevation lost him what little head he had and he has ;been running on the remnant ever since. The sooner he is driven out of control the better it will be for the Colorado and for the RioGrande.” —— NOTABLE VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Records of Those Who Worthily Filled the Important Office. Chicago Herald. The office of vice-president was intend- ed by the founders ot our government to be an office of great dignity and impor- tance. Under the mode of election as at first contrived, the vice president was to be, in fact, the second choice of the elec- tors for president. The electors were to assemble at the time appointed in their respective states and vote for two per- sons, The votes were to be transmitted to the senate and thero opened. The per- son having a majority of the electoral vote was to be the president, and the person having the next highest number of votes, without respect to a majority, was to be vice-president. At the first election Washington received the unani- mous vote of the electoral college, but John Adams received only thirty-four votes out of sixty-nine, not a majority but the next highest number. One of the firat questions that Adams addressed his mind to was to the titles which should go with the offices of presi- dent and vice president. Sturdy patriot and great man that he was, he liked the trappings and the suits of office. Ho appeared on the streets accompanied by four sword-bearers, and he thought and said that the chief officers of the nation should be surrounded with splendor and pageantry. ‘‘High Mightiness and Pro- tector of our Liberties” was the very lowest designation he could think of with which to approach the president. As to his own title he was uncertain. At the inauguration of Washington the arranged ceromony was that the president-elect should be received by the senate and be escorted by it to the house of representa- tives, where the oath was to be adminis- tered. This threw Adams into great per- plexity, and he addressed the senate as follows: *‘Gentlemen, I do not know whether the framers of the constitution had in view the two kings of Sparts, the two consuls of Rome, or the two suffetes of Carthage when they formed it—the one to have all the power while he held it and the other to be nothing. Gentlemen, I feel great difficulty how to act, Iam possessed of two separate powers—the ono in esse, tho other in posse, I am vice president. In this I am nothing, but [ mey be everything, But I am president also of the senate When the president comes into the senate what shall L bo? I wish, gentlemen, to think what I shall be.” A solemn sflence ensucd, though the sens0 of the ridiculouslous was s strong with some of the senators that thoy came near bursting into laughter, Then Kils- worth arose, with most profound gravity, and saia: ‘‘l have looked over the con- stitution and I find, sir—it is evident and clear, sir—that wherever tho {senae is to be there, sir, you must be at the head of them; but further, sir, I shall not pretend to say.” The senate held out some time for titles, but the house of represontatives would not listen to it, and it was finally ordered that the president should bo addressed by his offi- cial titlo only—DMr. President, "As to the vice president, he had no deslgnation whatever, Adams continued vice president during the yearsof Washington's administration, and then succeeded to the presidency, being followed in the vice presidential chair by Jetferson. It was during the latter's incumbency that he composed the manual of parliamentary rules that lies at the foundation of parllamentary law of the United States. Aaron Burr succeeded Jefferson after that memorable contest for the presiden- oy of 1800, which led to a change in the wmethod of choosing the vice president. It was while he was vice president that his duel with Hamilton took place. One of the best presiding officers that ever filled that chair, he is described as having *‘the impartiality of an angel, and the rigor of evil.'" His farewell to the senato at the clogo of his term produced an unex- pected and profonnd sensation. At its conclusion the whole senate was in tears and so unmanned that it was some time before they could recover themselves sufficiently to come to order and choose a vice president pro tem. To Bure succeeded George Olinton,the famous war governor of New York, dur- ing the revolution, He was an able, wary, self-willed man, very popular, but despotic in his nature. He was one of the strongest opponents to the federal constitution, and came near defesting it in the New York conventlon. He was a very imposing figure in the politics of his time, bat ho is known less as vico prasi- dent of the United States than as gover- nor of New York. Governor Clinton he was to tho end of his days. He was vice president under Jefferson’s second term and Madison'’s fivst* term, He gave the casting vote against the renewal of the United States bank charter in 1811, He tl"l:l(}’ in the office at Washington in April, The next vice-president was Elbridge Gerry, signer of the declaration of inde- pendence and "member of the constitu- tional convention, minister to France and governor of Massachusetts, a wily and adroit politician, whose name is now chiefly remembered because of association with gerrymandering, a political device that he invented. He also died in office in Washington in 1814, Daniel D. Tompkins, of New York, fident for eight years, from 5. He had been the governor of New York during the war of 1812, and as such had rendered great service to his country. At the close of his term of vice-president he was one of tho most prominent candidates for the *presidency, but unfortunately for him, the careless- ness with which he kept his accounts during the war governorship gave rise to accusations of default against him, and he sank into an obscurity so profound that even his vice-presidency is hardly remembered. The next was John C. Calhoun, better known as a senator than as vice-presi- dent. He was in fact a leading candidate for president in 1824, with Crawford, Adams, Jackson and Clay,but his friends prevailed upon him to take the second place, with a chance for the succession afterward. Bat for him that time never came, owing to Jackson's hostility, and then it was that he began to brood over secession schemes. He delivered his casting vote against Van Buren's confir- mation as minister to England, where- upon Old Hickory swore that Van Buren should be the next vice-president, with succession to tho presidency. All of which happened in accordance with the iron will of that old despot. Van Buren was succeeded by ‘‘Col. Johnson, who killed Tecumseh,” Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky. His case was the first where the senate was called upon to elect a vice-president, there being no choice by the electors. He was an amiable and somewhat garrulous old ignoramus,whom the peoplo of Kentucky delighted to honor with high office. His lucky shot at Tecumseh made his everlasting fame. The evidence in regard to that same shot, pro and con, delivered before the people in 1840, when he was again a candidate, would fill many bushel baskets, It is now agreed by the historians that he is entitled to the honor. But no Whig would believe it in 1850, and ‘‘Tippeca- noe and Tyler, too,” laid out VanBuren and Johnson, John Tyler was the first vice-president that succeeded to the presidency in the constitutional method, and it is generally agreed that ho did not increase his fame by his acts thereafter. The people laid down the rulo in his case which they have confirmed in three succeeding ones, that his accidency shall not become his excellency by vote of theirs, George M. Dallas, of Penusylvania, next succoeded, 8 man of dignity and character, but of no great ability. He had been United States Senator and had held other offices. He was afterward minister to England under Buchanan, As vice president he gave the casting vote in favor of the tariff of 1840, a free trade measure, much to the disgust of his Ponnsylvania constituents. He has also entered the realms of the great obscure, The remaining incumbents for this great office are noted chiefly for the re. spectability of their mediocrity, Fill- more, King, Breckenride, Hamlin, John- son, Colfax, Wilson, Wheeler and Arthur are names that will certainly never be historic in any very high sense. John- son will always remain the most notori- ous as well as the most celebrated. His only act of vice president was to take the oath of office while excessively drunk,and then to deliver himself af an inaugural screed that shocked everybody both friends and foes. At such a spectacle well might the dignified ghost of old John Adams repeat to itself, ‘I wish, gentleman to think what I shall be.” —— Contract Labor, The Million. The bill prohibiting the importation of foreign laborers under contract to work for a stated time at stated wages, or pay- ing their ocean passage, has passed the house, The spirit of this bill is right. It is the first attempt at any real protection to the American workingmen, It does not forbid any of God’s creatures from sccking & home in any portion of His domains. It will, if successtul, simply prevent an unnatural migration, now carried on to the detriment of earlier set- tlers and the derangement of the social o\rg'mlmtiunl naturally growing upamong them This unnatural, congested migration is like the slave trade or the coolic imigra- tion, a thingto be depreeated witnout srejudice to natural migration, We all believe in the payment of the public debt. But those who have stud- 1od the matter most carefully are con- vinced that a too rapid payment of pub- lic debts, especially when, as is our case the debt is interwoven into the bueiness of the country, is injurlous, But while this unnatural migration is a bad thing, and while tne framers of the law against it mean well, and wmay do some good, we fear that they have under- taken a big job. There are some things which plainiy ought to be done if pos- sible, which are yet provokingly impossi- ble. There are others which plainly ought to be dons if convenient—that is, if their doing would not involve collat- eral damages of injustice equal tc or greater than the benefits and rights to be conserveb. We very much fear, while hoping for the best, that in one of these two classes will fall the attempt to restrict the im- portatlon of laborers, It ‘may be down- right impossible; it may be only inexpe- dient. For ono thing, certainly, it will griev- ously disappoint its friends. The labor imported under contract is only a tithe of what comes in, to compete with Amer- ican labor. There are a thousand other ways of unnaturally stimulating immigra- tion, which are beyond the reach of law. And if not one of them were used, cheap ocean passage, increasing war burdens and other burdens in Europe, and Fincreasing population there, breeding social disturbances, all taken together, will inevitably force upon us for years to come an immigration which it will be idle to attempt to stem. 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