Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1887, Page 4

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Subseribed and sworn to_in my this 20tk day of January A, D)., 1887 N. P. FEIr [SEAL! Notary Publ Geo, B, "T2schuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is seerctary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actial av- eraze daily eirculation of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 184, was 10,58 copies, for Fohruary, 18, 5 copies; for March, 1886, 11,587 copies; ‘for April,” 185, 12,101 3 es: for June, 234 copies Septemb presence 0_copies: for Oete for November, 158 3 conies; for ; _GEO. B, T7scnvek, Sworn to and subscribed betore me this st It is a real estate boum with a Big B. AN enlargement of the county of Doug- 1as s0 as to afford room for a half dozen more additions to the city of Omaha will be the next matter strictly in order. Tur defeat of Omaha's charter would mean a loss of millions of dollars to our citizens and a heavy blow at our future development. Are the men who do not blush at being owned by the corporations ready to shoulder the respon lity of vlaying into the hands of the railroads SECRETARY BAYARD is quoted as say- ing that the president and cabinct « in perfect accord on the fisheries question, and that the recent rumors to the con- trary are without foundation. Scerctary Manning’s characterization of the course of the Dominion authorities as *“‘brutal” indicated the feeling in administration quarters, —— A MEETING of trunk line presidents is to be held in New York on Thursday tiscuss the inter-state commerce bill, I8 not understood that this meeting ealled with the design of taking ac that shall have an influence at Washing- ton, but rather to determine the course of the railroad companies connected with the pool in case of the Lill becom- ing a law. Tue striking ceal handlers of New York and New Jersey ave very naturally appealing to public sympathy by citing the monopolistic character of the coa) roads and cempames with which they are in confliet, and it must be confessed their argument is not without force. If the injury and hardships incident to this trouble could fall wholly, oreven largely upon the soulless corporations who cm- ploy the dissatistied Inbor there would be little regret at the occurrence, but un- fortunately such is vot the ecase. There nas already been a great deal of suffering and loss among the people of the region affected, and there 1s certain to be much mor Meanwhile those upon whom the penalties ought to fall are experiencing no privations, and except as they may be anxions regarding their contracts are not manifesting any serious solicitude respecting the situation is It wiLe be unfortunate if the house of representatives shall succced in defeat- ing the extension for seven years of the treaty between the United States and the Hawaiian islands. ‘The effort to do so has no other motive than to benefit the Louisinna sugar growers. It is not prob- able that the privileges accorded to the Hawaiian sugar mterests would work the least harm to the home industry, but if 1t should do so 1t would be very largely counterbalanced by the political and commercial advantages gained by the country from the presentalliance with the islands, which constitute the most im- portant port in the Pacific, ana affords us an invaluable point of vantage in ref- erence to Asiatic nations, England and Germany are known to be very anxious to secure a hold on the islands which we now have, and if we relinquish it, one or the other of those powers will certainly step in and rob us of the only a ble coaling and victualing station hetween San Francisco, vapan and Australi will thus, morcover, divert to Karope the valuable trade with the islands which is now exclusively our own. Tar long senatorial struggle in xas has happily ended in the election of John H. Reagan, who will succeed Scnator Maxey in the upper house. Reagan's election will be haded with pleasure throughout the country. e has fought 8 desperate fight against the corporations, backed by a following of devoted sup- porters, and has won. For long years he has been the apostle of the regulation of inter-state commerce in the house of rep- resentatives, laboring manfully to ad- vance the cause of anti-monopoly and to impress his 1deas upon the publie from the public rostrum. Mr. Reagan is the father of anti-monopoly legislation and the veteran enemy of corporate jobbery. For this reason the railroads made a desperate attack upon his can- didacy and fought it to the bitter end. The battle of the ballots in Texas has been in progress for nearly two wecks, during which Reagan's following never wavered. Deaf to threats and allure- ments, they never swerved from their duty. Half the devotion on the part of ihe men chosen by the people to return Feneral Vau Wyck would have made his dection sure. | ballot box fHE OMAHA DAILY BEE WHDNESDAY Let Them Beware. The methods by which the confederated corporations of Nebraska are trying to control legislative action at Lincoin calls for decisive action on the part of the people. For the second time in two years the corrupting agencies employed by the sout railroad mana flagrant betr defianee of rs have brought yal of public the popular expr 1 through’ the Two years ago the proposed trust and will as railroad commission amendment was re- jected by ne: but the per nicious influence and pressure of the railrond bosses, headed by Hol- drege, of the B. & M., and Thurston, of the Union Pac rly two-thirds of the voters, fie, forced upon the s a frauduley ilroad commission. The present ses a more reckless reversal of the popular 1 through the same agencies. With the money wrung from the toiling pro- duc satraps of Wall street gam- blers and Roston railroad kings have de b s and brou, legislature into gencral disrepute. I'he time is now at hand for somethi ion has witnessed even W 1ched the lawm it our more decisive than indignation and popu The railrond manager who are engaged 1n this villunous work must bo made to understand that they are no better than the scoundrels whom tl and corruption. lar resentment s employ to do their work of bribery The people must, if 1t teach a lesson that forgotten. The defeat wholesale burglars becomes neeess be pire will not men who cons to legis- by than lation are corruption worse or common They are outlaws against wnnot protect them- king the law 1nto thei This is plain talk, but only give voice to the deep undercurrent which is setting in the direction of highwaymen, whom the peop! selves without own hands. wo vig- ilance committees. Let the at the car ont- raging justice by ta ring with the legislature, beware. They are tread- ing on dangerous ground. An ontraged and exasperated people are de- termined to put an end to their infamous methods, There is such a thing of we ing out the forbearance of a long-sufler- nt people. ilrond man- a who are ing and pati Side-Tracking the Omaha Charter. Mr. Andrew J. Poppleton, who has made himself so useful to his railroad employers in the charter committee, has avother flank movement to bull- ¢ the Douglas county delegation and gull the icgislature. e ealled a star chamber icus of the defunct com- mittee, sccured the attendance of nine members, and by his on ed appeals induced a ma- jority of this faction to adopt a resolution requesting the legislature to reject the charter as introduced by Mr, Lininger and substitute a-bill which sumits Mr. Pop- pleton and his corporate employe In stead of treating the Douglas delegation with due courtesy, which required that the resolution be dirceted to them as rep resentatives of Omaha, he hud the reso- lution sent to Mr. Shedd, who has no business whatever with it, This is a picce of railroad strategy to decd the legislature as to the true interests and wishes of the people of Omaha, It was a hkigh handed proceeding in full keeping with the erooked and dis- reputable course by which it 1s attempted to foist 8 charter upon Omaba framed purely in the interest of the giant corpor- ations. It wa 1died attempt to treat the Douglas delegatiou s mere dum- mies. Mr. Poppleton has overshot the The charter committee not or to dictate to the delegation, but merely to furnish the leton for the charter, which the delegation was expected to father, and for which it, and not Mr. Poppleton and the railroad employes of the committee, will be held responsible. 1f Mr. Poppleton was honestly laboring for Om Al the state instead of play ing decoy for the railroads, he would not meddle with the charter as agreed on by the delegation, He has misrepresented On and the state on the committee and itis high time that the mask be dropped, On behalf of the people of Omaha we resent this attempt to misrepresent their wishes. The seven men who joined Mr, Poppleton in passing the decoy resolution did in no sense voice the wishes of this community. Four out of the seven are on the pay-roll of tho railroad and ex- press companies, and the others wero sled by Mr. Poppleton’s jug-handlea cntations, The people of Omaha have full con- fidence in the delegation. They heartily approve the charter proyision levying city taxes on railroad estate, which is the bone of contention, Mr. Poppleton of course had no trouble in enlisting in s cause the rock-rooted railroad organs of both parties, but he underrates the intelligence of the legis- lature f he imagines that they cannot road between the lines, For our art we want this issue publiely discussed. Mr. Poppleton and the other railroad attorneys will presently discover what eur citizens want in the premises. There will bs no star chamber meetings but a popular demon- stration that cannot be misunderstood or Will They Dare? The railroad lobby at the state capital has never been more numMerous or power- ful than at the present session. The sen- atorial election showed this fact clearly enough. 1t verified the churge made by this paper early in the eampaign that the railroads bud pooled their issues to join in opposing the expression of the populae will. The success of these cor poration cormorants has made them more audacious in their threats and boasts than ever. The political attorneys of the allied monopolies arc now openly boasting that no measure of whatever nature which directly or indireetly af feots eorporation 1 sts in this state an pass the legislature without their sanction. They are threatening a eity of 80,000 people with chaos in its govern- ment and a permanent check to its pros- perity through the defeat of its eharter unless the Douglas county delegation Id to their wishes in the amendwment of the bill. With a brazen assuwption of personal ownership of the two honses at | Lincoln, they boast that no charter for | the city of Omaha can secure a passagze which has not been stamped with 8 al of approval at railroad headquarters, | ived the assent of the corpora- tion lobby. It remains to be s orew who make traflie and barter and sell the consciences representatives of the people can earry | out their thr Will the 1 dare to deliver themselyes body into the hands of the confederated monopolics? Will they venture to risk the results of violated pledges, broken | political vows and brazen-faced - treach- ery to their constituencies? Can the - ford, in the face of the undisputed popu- ar sentiment, to play and loose with | their own conyictions of decency and fair play? With the demand for legisla- tion to remedy the which Nebraska is su hands of these corpors srtioners will they dare to close their ears to the plea of the voters and tax payers of this state regard- Iessof party who have committed to their hand sacred trust of righting their wrongs? ther the venal in men en W ats Peesia the railro appreciable in opposition Operating on th y signal failure c porations to exert any tluence upon cor the inter-state commerce bill did lead them it should have done, to abandon further effort to defeat the will of the people. They determined to pla their game to the end, and as soon as the | measure had gone from the legislature to the exceutive branch of the government, the corporations turned their attention to the president, and have since been bringing to bear every pressure at their command to receive a veto, A convenient instrument was found in At- General Garland, who while in th te opposed the Cullom bill as un- constitutional, and this is the ground on which the ¢ rations have now taken their stand. The president has until next Friday in which to approve or veto the bill, and m the meanwiile the attorney general is expeeted to furnish an opinion regarding the constitationality of the measure. b hedp bim in this task he | has received from the attorneys of the corporations written briefs, claborately | setting forth the views of Mr. rland when in the se , the later opinions of Senator Bvarts to the same effeet, and such additional and origing ru- mentson the question of constitutionality as these astute vyers are capable of presenting, The general feeling seems to be that notwithstanding some material hanges i eireumstances and conditions wee Mr. Garland in the senate opposed wion, he will be found d his position, and the ssaid to be very hopeful a favorable opn from him. In that event they will storm the white house with tremendons vigor. There is reason to believe that the corpo- rations conld hardly ha a more im- and trustworthy friend in the rney gen- nt, cor- in to not o corpors of secur ington is ent will sign the bill unless Mr. Garland is able to fully convinee him that 1t is not constitutional. This is not entiroly reassuring. There are reasons for thinking that Mr. Cleveland is not enthusiastically in favor of sueh legi tion, and it may not require very weighty argument to produce the conviction in his mind which the corporations desire. But there is another mifluence to which the president is very susceptible, namely, the possible political effieet of aveto, that | California, and in the will undoubtedly receive very grave con- sideration. The great “majorities by which the bill was passed in both hous of congress were an un- mistakable deelaration of the popular will—the result of y of carnest and patient effort by the people to secure re- lief from the seltish and unjust methods of the railroad corporations. It was the most signal trinmph in the history of the couniry of the le over corporate power and monop 1t has been heart- ily welcomed by tie people at the begin- ning of an era of indepemlence of cor- porate dictation and control. To defeat or seriously obstruct the full consnmma- tion of this work must be fatal to the political hopes of any man responsible for the failure, partial or complete. Will Mr. Cley eland take this risk Will he even with the support of the attorney general, array himself against the peo- ple and the nearly unanimous action of their representatives, in the interest of the corporations, on & proposition the determination of which can be safely re- mitted to the courts? We are strongly inclined to thing he will not. However well he may think of the opinion of his attorney general, assuming that it is still the opinion he held as a senator, he will hardly permit it to outweigh the judg- ment of scores of others equally able who tound no constitutional impediment to supporting the b However highly he may esteem the friendship of the corpor- utions, he will hardly fail to sc it would be largely overbalanced by the loss of popular confidence that would follow adverse action upon the measure he now has in his hands. We do not believe Mr. Cleveland will make the grave political mistake of interpe the exceutive opposition to this legisia- tion, The Business Situatio Th st week of the month has closed with a fair but by no means unusual activity of businessin any quarter. Labor troubles east have seriously embar ments o the iterior, points report good trade and a gradual improyement in commerclal condition Omaba as is her habit shows a steady in- crease 1n business th Consumption is keeping pace with pro duction is most departments, and in sev eral, as in iron and steel and some of tex- tile manufacturing, the demand is call- ing for an extension of plantand a larger output. This healthful condition of af- fairs promotes a cheerful feeling in tr: eircles, and merchants generally forward to a satisfactory expansion of business as the season advances toward spring. Wool continues firm with advices of & rise of 10 per cent in the prices secured at the colonial auctions in Liverpool. The prospects are regarded as favorable for a goo trade in manufacturers of wool of all kinds, but selling agents find it very dif- ficult to advance prices above the level of values ruling a year ago. The iron and 1 industry continues in a strong po ¢ orders previously keep mills. and urnaces sciively em- ste ployed, but new business i the high views of makers and consamers in man aiting a elearce discernment of future conditions before placing new orde Grain ma k. Exp demand is small. The wants of forej, buyers are being supplied by large ar s off the coast of the United m American Alantic ports an restricted by and sellc fr sence of s English buy- ding off. Clear r this week owi troubles in New stocks for immeadiate w. ers are temporarity he ances have been smal in part, to the labor York harbor; and as the Interior move ment of soring wheat has increased a little t endency to a deeline in visibl stocks D been momentarily rested. These features of the situation and the peaccful tenor of the fo news have caused a weaker feelir the market, the eftect of which is apps ent in the decline in p The weak ness 1s chicfly noticeable in the late op- tions, as the actual property is largely banked against cont and is not freely offered for 5 Iull in ex- port demand is regarded as unlikely to continue for any length of time, and there is an underlying feeling of confi- dence in the market, as ested by the small decline in futures and the corpar: ative steadiness of the ¢ sh PEESIDENT CLEVELAND has signed the bill to complete Fort 11 in Wyom ing and r 1d rebuild Fort Robin- sonmt By ‘ment between Genc ridan and Senator Mander gon, a sum sufiizient to complete Fort Niobrara, will be ailowed from the fund wpropriated by the sundry civil bill Both of Nebraskas trontier pests will now be placed in & condition demanded by the interests of northwestern Nebr: and the large population of settlers along the southern line of the Sioux reserve. Dirrisi journals are said to be amused at Senator Ingalls' sveceh in which he expressed a desive to sail throngh seas of English gore. They are probably no more amu than Mr. Ingalls' constit- who compare our navy of three gunboats and a score of old hulks and’s magniticent fleet and ny of 25,000 men, including cooks and oflicers’ servants, side by side with England’s colomns a half a million strong. Mr. Ingal ils from Kansas, If he contemplates a sailing expedition of the Kind mentioned he should promptly organize flect of prairie schooners, place our Mi. CizANE was in favor of raising the age at which girls could ent to their i, Lo seventy-five yo If the age at which members of t gislature could nt to their political ruin haa been *d to an equal limit some years ago, Mr. Crane would be in a better position before his constituents. cor Tue law making tions day’s state iolidiys d, Wil benelit every one except the newspaper men. PROMINENT PERSONS. Justin Feb. 8, Whistler, the well known London artist, 1s a uative of Baltimore. | Mis, Frank Leslie wears diamonds the size of bird’s egs on fashionable oceasions, Lester Wallack will be sixty-eizht years old this month, He has snow-white hair and is a little lame from gout. Mason Bev, formerly an oflicer in the con- federate navy, is the only American now in the service of the khedive of Egypt. Minister Phelps is much censured in Lon- don for his somewhat rude refusal to attend the dinner given to Stanley, the explorer. Judge Albion W. Tourgee, the author, has made application to be adwmitted to practice as au attorney i the courts of New York, Miss Clara Foltz, the suceessful lady lawyer of San Francisco, nducting an important land suit in the federal conrt at Kansas City. Minnie Hauk will leave her Paris home in arch and make a professional tour thrsugh Germany and Austria, and afterwards test again the flexibility of the English purse, A. Drexel and George W. Childs of Phitadelphia subseribed the greater portion of the $100,000 to be used in the endowment of the Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Lora Randolph Churehill spent last week examining the points of racehorses at New- warket. 1f e fails to make the people see 10w big aman he is, it is expected he will abandon politics for the present, and go in ra sporting hie. 1. DPendleton 18 home from Germany, and there is no mi: r from is country now at Berlin, Vienna or Con- wtinople, ‘Phe dignity of this great coun- try is largely sustained ubroad by the aged and useless Phelps and the youthful and ac- complished Cousin B Mr. Barnes, of Georgia, is the heaviest mewber of the national house of representa- tives, He weighs over three hundred pounds, Messrs, Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Stanford, of Callfornia, are the portliest men in the senate and have the fattest pocketbooks. 7 he smallest man in congress is General Wheeler, of Alabawa: the tallest man is Mr, Stewart, of Texas, who stands six feet three inches in his boots, McCarthy is to lecture in Chicago S — Lights Out, Roger Pocock, ‘The sentry challenged at the onen gate, Who Emwml hiw by, beeanse the hour was ate; SN “A friend!” Who woes there?” AIUs well,! ©A friend, old chiap!"—a friend’s farewell, And I'had passed yi.r zate, And then the long, 1 4t notes ware_she “ALe echoingeall's last notes were ds A sovaded sadly, usd stood without, Those last sad notes of all, Lights Out! Jights Out! Farewell, companions!, We have side by And worn the scarlet, laughed at, paid And buried comrades lowly laid, And let the long vears elide; And toil and hardship have we known, And followed where the tlag had gone, But all the echoes answering round about Have bidden you t steep: Lights Out! Liglts Out! And never more tor e shall red fire flash From bright revolvers—on the erumbling sl Of lite is hope's fruition, Fall The withered fricndshipss and they all Are sleeping, Fast away, The tubrics of our lives decay, ‘T'he robes of night about me lay And the air whispered as I stood without Those last sad notes of all: Lights Oat! Lights Out! - Hence His Defeat, Loutsville Courder-Jo Van Wyek is full of marked peculiarities that separate hin from the close councils of the republican party. tWoof which are his rugeed honesty and his sworn enmity 1o monopolies. Hence his defeat, i He Will Be Missed, San Franciseo Call Van Wyck bas been & thorn in the repub- licau side for several years. He 1s one of the few senators who talk right out in meeti whether it pleases the CONEIOEAtion or Bob. FEBRUARY 2. 1887 | Hels a good man te have in a legislative instances are | | | | | | ten years. body composed larzely of respectable fossile, who care more to preserve the appearance of virtue than te be virtuous. Van Wyck was honast end outspok 1t he saw sham, he Wwouid attack it. He will be missed in the senate respects he has pot left a a it The Rtushers are Wrong. Philadelphia Record, Thomas A. Edison, who spent his strength in the strain after fame and fortune, is so much better that he has turned away from deat’s door and has planned some south- ward journeyings to meet and gicet the spring. Mr. ison did a lifetime’s work in He is an example of the rushing ys of the aga. Wnat he accomplished all of us know of and honor him for: but to say that the rushing method is right would be to offend The rushers ara wrong. Who wants all of his lightning in one minute and all of his thunder in one hour? Our fathers were better mien in some ways than we are. od sense, STATE JO H. W. Ross, county county, died suddeniy NGS. troasurer of Monday Hon Thaye niglit Podunk 18 the euphonious title of a new town on the South Loup in Custer county, The general George C. Drew tents, destroyed by fir ago, cansing a loss of § An engine wipe at G out on « hunt for chickens with a londed to the muzzle. The first sickened him and the bird escaped. has taken a thirty-day lay-off with broken shoulder. . When Hiram Weeks dug his own grave vwell near Anselmo, and covered up | thirty-live feet of earth, his fellow kiien, Ross and Munger, did nov ery or hielp, but gazed into the cavity and bid hima tearless farewell. A few days after they concluded to uotily the coroner, but Hiram was stiil i the hole at last accounts. The Lincoln artist who photogr: asonl on jts hht through space, | veloped a mania for body snatching, His latest “'stit” is one of the rankest cadavers ever exhibited in _public_print, Prince Richard Thompson, L. L. M., of MecCook, has abdicated the throne of the Forty Liars and tendered the Kingdom and all its royalties to the rising . genius of the Saline suburb. The wild blizzard of Bazle known in political cireles us Geor ; Brooks, is so cnthusiastic over the clec- tion of Paddock that he proposes to bun- quetthe “straights’’ of the county assoun asa sufliciency of internal vaint can be imd. Brooksis the fellow who gained some notoriety in Chicag fter the nomination of Blaine, by nting hi plug to match the sunflower on smelle The advent of the Kansas City & Omaha road has infused considerable life in the commercial veins of Sutton. A board of trade was organized Monday ht with representatiye men at the head. The oflicers-ele re: L. I Fow- ler, president; own, first viee prosident; K. ond_ vice president; 1. D YW Johnson, corresponding sceretary; Daniel 8. VanValkenbergh, recording secretary. Abraham_ Thicssen, a_member of the Russian colony and_ citiz of Jefterson county, recently visited his old home in the dominion of Czar Aleck, and now come dark and bloody rumors from the state of Beatrice that Thicssen has been beheaded, cast into prison, and hurried off to the dismal tombs ot Siberia, Mean- time friends of the deceased or the im prisoned, as c choose to take it, can tin peace, nees that the riendly offices of Unele Sam will rescue ham from the ¢ s of the bear. lier General Colby, commander in chief of the state mili Sollicers and men, reports that during the past two years white-winged peace held a tight grip on the affairs of the common- wealth, and that nothing occurred to mar the brilliancy of the Camp Dump and Pegleg Griflin eampaigns, As a conse- quence the munitions of war are musty, the accoutrements rusty, and the fringed collar of the brigadi bathed in dan- druff, calling ~loudly for a liberal approprigtion. merchandise store of t Taylor, was with con- fow evenings 000, cand Tsland started un shot e a in wi Wi out True and Fals The Fice Press, St. For the last fifteen yi charlatan of the Omaha Hes been usig the democratic party of Nebraska as an article of merchandise, and has successfully kept his eloven foot hidden from the demo- crats of the state. lut the late senatorial contest has uneovered him, and the Herald standsout boldiy asthe champion of jobbery and the tool of repubiiean job- bers. Thie present legislature has a larg demoeratic representation who wer elected by the anti-monopoly vote of the state. 1d tor the parpose of representing the people of Nebraska, instead of the Omaha Herald and its constituency These democratic representatives come from the people who have long suspected the Herald of treachery to their interests anda of being the subsidized agent of the enemics of the best interests of the mass These representatives of the the people refused to cast a compli- mentary vote for a tool of monopoly, the editor of the Omaha Herald, and this is the secret of his wrath. He no doubt i contracted with the monopoly inter- ests of the state to hold the democrats out of the senatorial tight and allow the mon- opoly majority of the republican party to elect a railrond tool to the United States senate. Dut twenty-live of the demo- cratic representatives of the people re- fascd to do his bidding and attempted to elect C. H. Van Wyck, whom the people of Nebraska asked to have elected For this the pirate of democracy puts C. D. Casper, J. M. Higgins, 5. N Wolbach, C, J. Wright, Philip Andres, J. G. Gilmore and C. J. Harrison on his black list and holds them up to scor But each and every one of these rentlemen will have cause in the future to thank his political god that his name appears on the voll. In the future of Nebraska democracy these entlemen will only have to produce & copy of the Owmaha Herald to prove that they wre truo demoarats and kept fuith with the people whom thev represented The time is coming, and is hcrs, when a dem t must deline his demoe- racy before he can claim the support of honest men, and any man who worships at the shrine of the Omaha Herald will be scorned as a false pre- tender and montebank by an indignant and loyal people. Weo say all honor to the loyal seven. They have proven themselves, in the face of corporate power backed by sniveling sycowhants who blacken the character ot all who re fuse to bow to organized wealth, to be honest and rless men. Their mes will he on the roll of honor with the people in the future, while the Omaha Herald will be despised by every citizen who has honor or self-re- spect in any degree. S e Mail Matter, To the Editor of the BEe I doubt the propriety of a person thrusting open the door of a family residence, unawares to the inmates, and unceremonionsly tossing upon the floor documents of importanc transmitted through the mail. And e P Ily if there be persons present to re ceive the mail. 1donot know whether others have cause to make the same com- plamt or not, but I say without hesitation that it would be pleasanter for me to have to call at the postoffice and get my mail than to reccive it in such an indecent way as [ have for scme time past, CUMING DTREET. the WAGE-WORKERS' MEETINGS. Where Ocossional Excitement Always Ends in Calm Deliberation GREAT GOTHAM CATHERINGS How tors Reporters are an Received - Edis fake Part— al Bueincss a P'rofessors the Gen is Condu How New Yonrx, Jan, 29.—[Correspondenco of the Brx.]—There are few oceupations more interesting and instructive than that of mingling with and observing the workingmen who are making a mighty cifort to accomplish something in poli tics. Perhaps the leaders of the estab- lished parties might succeed better in regaining the allegianceof the working- men would they adopt such a course of action. As it is, those who stand outside nd aloof, from any reason whatsoever, fail generally to estimate with any ap proach to corrcetness the intelli- gence of the men in the move- ment and their devotion to it. They are noisy and disputatious in their protracted conventions; they are suspicious to excess of all men not known to be partisans of their eause; they are now and then in- temperate in their denunciations of laws and persons; it may be admitted for the sake of argument that they are given to absurd, preposterous theor: But through it all the candid observer will sce asteadfast determination to arrive ot a desired end, will see that there isastrong undercurrent of harmony that no clamor and incidental bickering can turn back Clamor and confusion frequently obscure the harmony for hours, and then 1t will suddenly appeor with astonishing force, quelling tempest and babel and carrying off all jealousies and contentions with a rush. Let me try to sketch a scene or two in a typical labor convention, such as sits here in this city once cvery week TYPICAL LABOR MEETINGS, It is about half past & and the delegates have been assembling for upwards of an hour. A sergeant-at-arms guards the door and admits no one who cannot p sent a eard of admission issued by the exeeutive committee in exchange for the s eredentials. The only excep- tions ure a dozen or 8o reporters faces are well known to the ofliei bona fide newspaner men. The reporter calmly take possession of the small pl: form, leaving the ehai Just room enongh to perf tive dutie reporte 1 their respee- It 1s not every time that the ot their privilege of admission to the meetings of the workingmen, and they are inclined to make the most of it when they do. John MacMackin is the chairman of the convention, but he is usuall n on the floor of the house wiating the gavel to the first vice ‘man, Frank Ferrol, the populay col- errol makes a pieturesque r, and on the whole a satisfactory one, s no one questions his intention to be fuir. Itis suid that the veople in Harlem know when he has the v by the incessant rumbling that re- sults from his pounding the convention to orde! He 1s an engincer, but he has the form and the musele of a blacksmith His gavel s made of - particulariy heayv: and Tough wood, and he broke it in two at the last session of the convention, At the first session he and the ry. Jumes P. Archibald OCCUPIED THE SAME TA ST and Ferrol pounded so mueh and so vy lenty that Archibald could not taki At the next meeting Ferry provided with a small stand espee pound on. He is vpunctillious maintaining order and he manages cure it by making about twice as nose us the delegates themselve ys as ek witted as might be sirable, and the nothing Jike a labor convention to take advantage of an unnec y se 1 the proccedin t excuse 1s seized by the score of men who have a speceh to- make in advoeacy of this or that, and then Ferrol shuts his expansive lips' together, looks blandly at the ceiling in the buck of the hall, and pounds steadily whack, whack, whack, with an oecasional “Gen’lm'n, come to order,” until the delegates gel tired of his noise and wait his ple 1 Arts the meeting ofl in good by refusing to allow the sc a the minutes until every man in the bas been seated and stopped talking, CUSHING RULES, Every man of the delegates is a parlia- mentarian, and nothing can ve done with- out the strictest adherence to the pro cedure as lmd down by Cushing, for whenever the chair attempts to save time by allowing some motion calculated to expedite matters at the expense of mere formulity, there is always some one to spring up with objeetions and points of orderto insist on things taking thewr re- Among the delegates who have been ehicrishing hope for s of the party for yeurs, and their interest in it is us ten as that of a mother’s, They wateh the procecdings with patience “and anxiety. Now and then one of them rises to appeal for the laying aside of petty diflfercnces on un- important questions that the party may mauke ready for a lively campaign” when the clec sgales to the state con- stitutiol ntion comes on. As a rule they 'd in perfcet quiet and now and then their speeches have the de- sired eficet; but generally the conyention insists on going on in the painfully slow, noisy w and all efforts to su time are thrown away if anybody suggests that an attempt is being made to enforee a gag law THE PREVIOUS QUESTION 18 MOVED about once in live minutes, but it is voted down almost every time 1f any delegate shows a desire to have a further on the matter pending. A vote invarisbly tles a dispute at once; theoretical it s in other bodics, but here what “ap pears in debate to be the 0t nerimony gives way to majority decision and becomes nood nature,” ‘Llicre is now und then a suspicion of disconte wn 1} delegates claim the floor at once and the chairman’s recognition is pal publy mistnken, F )l got out of a dif- ficulty of this kind once by suying SMr. Jones, you have dé flo’ now, next you, Mr, Smith, and den you Mr. John Bon “This was satisfactory and the speakers were heard in the order announced striking feature of the meetings 15 that when a delegate of pronounced ability contends for the floor, he usually gets it by the will of the hou Such men are Louis . Post, formerly cditor of Truth; Duvid De Leon, of Columbia college; Dr. MeCarthy, John Aluc- wckin, Colonel . J. Hinton and Wil- m McCabe, The latter is an earnest, modest man, a type setter by trade, ana one of the poneers. He ean make an ent speceh and s profoundly re- spected by his wssociates. These men get the floor whenever they want it, not through the breaking of any purliament- ary rule, but because the house howls for them when they rise and the speaker who has the floor finds it advantageous to get through quickly, and AFTER HIM NO ONE CAN BE HEARD to call for the chairman’s attention ex- sept the leader who happens 1o be on his feet. Another interesting feature in con nection with this is the fact that the edu cated professional men wmong the del about 1o se- mucth He hall gates disagree upon the questions beforo the house as radically as the storming workingmen themsely Many a time it hias scemed as if an earnest speech from De Leon, advocating a cortaim gensibio course, might pre Lif Post did not ine mediately get up and make an equal'y strong speech for just the ovposite. Da Leon does a groat deal of hard work for ybody in_ drawing up doctments, ard® joves him a bit to have them piekeds in the heat of adebate. Ho would like to have the convention talg for granted that his earefully consider d plans are the thingsneeded, but the w men won't have it, with all th [m.( for the professor and grat 1is valuable assistance, and mec | that, the professor’s educated coile N | are more likely than not tobe found on the side of the flaw pickers. After the cavilling and long-winded debating npon | the minor matters that come before it, it is wonderfully refreshing and astonish- ing to see the convention settle down to profound quict in the discussion of somo really significant moasure. to hoar what the cducated man is accustomed to call “acommon workingman,” get up and make a clear, terse, grammatieal speech, the keenness with which diserin & OMAR JAMES - Senatorial Blect San Pronciseo Chr The defeat of Van Wyck will tend very strongly to convinee people of the United States of the necoes ity of a radical change in the method of electing United States senators, In Van Wycek's ease, notwithstanding tho popus lar sentiment had been clearly and legally indicated in his favor, somo members refused to be bound by the ex press wish of their constituents, and re- fused to support Van Wyck. The only possible legal remedy for such a breach of trust as this, and such a defeat of the popular will, is'to adopt an amendment to the constitution of tho United States depriving legislatures ot the power of electing scnators and making them dependent for their posi- tions upon the dircet vote of the people of the several s The idea upon which the constitutional provision for the clection of senators by state legislatures was found has lost afl actualil At the time of the adoption of the constitution a feeling of intercolonial jealousy and distrust was eager and in- tense. The new repubhie was an exper ment attended with many doubts and fears, and it was thought expedient that the balance of power should be preserved as exactly as possible, at leastin tho ate. For this reason it was insisted that each state should be regarded as an entity, separate and distinet from tho people of the state, and that while the people should be directly represented in the ho of representatives, the states, as such, should be represented in the senate. For this son the number senators in each state was made the same, wrespective of populution: and to take away the idea of the senate being in any respeet the representative of the people, the sclection of senators w committed o the legislatures, as the con crote expression of the state. Of late ye Wd morce especially since relations rosed of which bad crept ove 1d nrdden the true idea of states’ rights, it has been scen that the states are the people; that California or Neb no meaning. no existence, no potentiality, if segiegited or distm- guished from their citizens and residents. In addition to this, the old-time jealousies and distrusts, each of theother have very largely died out or worn away, and the more perfect union which the” pream to the constitution recites as o moving cause to the adoption of that instrumen is seen to depend rather upon patriotism, devotion to the country and mnational pride than upon an evenly adjusted system of independent sovereignties,held together only by & written compact, even though that compact be the constitution. It is a well-known legal maxim that when the reason for a rule ceases the rule should cense nlgo. That is preeise case with the election of United S The rc n for the rale of them by state legislature has he rule ould also ce tion be committed dircetly to the people But there is another and pregnant rea- son why such a course should be adopted. The election of a senator by a l is the fountain-head and source stream of corruption and bribery whicl sweepsunchecked throngh the legislative 1ls of nearly every te in the union, The member of the state senate or ussem- bly who allows himsclf to be improperly influenced, either by money or promises, in the eleetion of asenator,is like o woman who yields her honor; she may strugelo ck into the path of virtue, but the odds iinst If o membor of urrenders s integrity in to a senatorinl eleetion he b a mark for the aftacks of the and he eannot consistently refise v second time, having taken one once, m the first slip his des s rapid, and he finds plenty to assist hi on the downward path We eannot expect or even hope that such a sweeping reform ean be efloctod this year or next, nor may be for(cn ye: Public sentiment must first be ed- uecated to its importance and necess; but when it 1s 80 educated nothing can prevent the ehange. It may fake nime ous other instances of the will of the peo ple being thwarted and their posi tive instractions disobeyed, but each will but emphasize the absolute truth of the sentiment that all power is inherentin the people themselves, and that it is far better that the people should select their own servants to do their biddaing i both houses of congress, than to delegate the authority to stute legislatures, by whom they are but too often deceived and be- trayed. ons. comes Jobl a bribe SACLLED HEARD CONVE An ¥nteresting Progran Monday Night, 2 lust of the literary entertainnmen given on the oceasion of the semi-annuul exammations at the Sacred Heart vent, oceurred Monday night. All the ticipants aequitted themselves ere ditably and it is to be regretted that lack of gpace will not permit o dotailed review of the programa sonclusion the peani-annual prizes awardsl to tho Buce il contestunts The e carried out g wus us follows AN HOUK WITH WORDSWOITIL Introdiicioty <. Misw C. Babeock White Doe of L Miss 8. Lowe Laodamia Miss 8. Nash Petor L sasene s5 A, Babeoek Heart-Loap Well o Mist J. Gregi The Excursion 4 Miss A. . Jones ke Growth of t's Miind.. A 5 Mise C, Creighton NURICAL INTLILUDLS. Tyroiean Song Kutha Misses Dwyer and McShane Sweet Tears—Voeal Dio Misses C. and K. C Last Hope , e Miss 1. D Itis Better to Laugh thun b Vocal Solo, ... Miss C. Postillon 1'Amour.. anass Misses M. and N. MeNamara Moonlight on the Lake—Vocal Quar: telto W1 Misses C. Urei R o Rendered con- N pare o, evens 1tylatone: . M 1 Entree Pacinl ighion, Gotisehalle Donlzetti Polish Serenads. .. Miss May Miller, Protect Us Throu b the Coming N Night, . Novello Misses K. ( (o] and A. Bubcock ure wild Try it. Laundresse wyer Elcetrig | Lustre Starch. i