Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF KUBRCRIPTTON, 11y (Morntng Bdition) including SUNDAY, p'm'n!)nv Yenr s r 210 00 Yor six Months o or Three Months 1 Tue OMARA BUNDAY ddress, One Y et WrEkLY TR AOF Bir, mailed to any One Year Loy . 4 ANDOIE FARN A 2T Y CRICAGO OFFICE 567 ROOKERY BUILDING New YORKOFFIce, ROOMS 14 AN 15 TRinUNE BUILDLSG. WASHINGTON OFFice, No. 618 FOURTRENTH STREBT, CORMESPONDENCT All communications relating tonews and edi- $orial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR OF THE BER JUSINESS LETTERS, ] All brisiness letters and remittances shonld be addressed 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OmanA. Dratis, checks and postoffice orders 6 be muade 1 he order of the company. The Beo Publishing Company Proprictors ROSEWATER. Editor THEDAILY B Sworn Statement of Circalation. Stateof Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | %9 George . Tzschuck, Secr Mshing Compa aetnal circ week ending Docenibor Bunday, Dec. 9. wear that the DAILY Bep for the 1884, was as follows TZSCH U secibed in 1ver A, D, 188 otary Publie. EORGE 18 8worn 10 before me and presence this 1ith day of 1 eal A ¥ Bt of Nobraska, gy, sciuck, being duly sworn, de- y& that e iy secretary of the Bee that (he actial averaze HE DALY B fo 041 coples; for | for February, 1588, 10639 coples: for for' My, 184, 15,181 coples: fo st, 1368, 15,183 cop 15,164 coplos tor Octoby 1868, was 15,08 ss: for Novenibe 8986 coples, KO, . T78CH Bworn to befors mo and subscril Presence this §th day of Decomber, 1853, N 11, Nofary Public. Publishing daily circul month of | uary, 185, i} copless 1, 1885, IR 53 for Jin 18,65 copies for Keptember, 1¥ BY all means let us have a bench show. A place should especially bo re- served for the exhibition of the under dog in politics. DErEATING the Panama canal bill in the chamber of depu looks as 1f the THOROUGH OVERITAULING NEEDED. The publie lnstitutions of Nebraska are in noed of a thorough overhauling. They have not for a long time received that eareful investi ifon which such institutions should ba subjected to at least onee in two years, in order to pre- vent those in charge of them from wast- ing the puhlic money, ranning into un= warrantable extravagances, and adopt- ing practices of questionable value, It is not doubted that in most of tho in- stitutions of the state a thorough in- igation would show the existence of many things the removal of which would be to the advantage of the institutions and effect a ma- terial saving of the public money. It is not a wise and prudaent policy to a cept unquestioningly the tions of publie officials respecting the condition and wants of the institutions of which they have charge. This has been too much the habit in the past, and reform in this respect may as well begin with the next legislaturo. The maintenance of our public insti- tutions has bocome very expensive, costing relatively more, we believe, than those of a majority of the states, Undoubtedly the are unnecessary als who could be dispensed with without in the least impairing the efficiency of the institdtions, and it is also probable that there i3 not genorally such practical busi- ness methods and judicious economy practiced ns should characterize the gement of these iwstitutions. * are matters regarding which the representatives of the people are ex- pected to carefully and fully inform themselves, and it will be a very im- portant part of the duty of the next leg- islature to ebtain such information. Every citizen of the state desives that the public institutions shall be main- tained with the liberality neeessary to the highest standard of efficiency, but our overtaxed peoplo should ‘bo required to support sinccures or pay for cavc incompetent or reckless man- agement. cry dollar derived from the people for public use should be expended both honestly and prudently A representa- French people were biting off their nose to spite their fuce, HARDLY has the shock of the recent Blackburn-Rucker affaiv, when it is called in to umpire a mill between Mayor Hewitt and Bditor @ockerill, of New York Ourof compliment to “Sunset” Cox, the funny man in congress, it is pro- posed to call northern Dakota, when admitted, the state of sunset. i why the people of Dakota laugh. NEW York sharpers will in all proba- bility give Coloradominers a wide berth hereafter. The scheme to buncoan all- round western man with the worn out game of monte was not altogethér a Towling suceess. —— COMBINATIONS by railroad managers to thwart the inter-state law will only be suppressed by the prompt and vigor- ous action of the inter-state commission inflicting merited punishment on this class of lawbreaken: THE ¢ s of South Owmaha are #aid to be framing a new city char- ter to be presented to the legisla- ture. Let them make 1t one short clause providing incorporation with Omaha. The magic city has been out in the cold long enough. CONGRESSMAN MCSHANE, if he be successful in his efforts to push through the Omaha postoffice bill, will have done for this city a very great service. The city is badly in nced of the building and the increased facilities for handling the business of the government,. THE charter committee of the council will in all probability meet the charter committee of the board of trade. A full and fair discussion of the needs of the city and of the necessary amend: ments to the charter by these repre: sentative bodies ought to insure valu- able recommendations. Tne people of Nebraska have paid handsomely for a fine new eapitol build- ing. They have waited many long years to erect an edifice that would be worth the money it cost and reflect credit to the state. In all probability the building will pe ready for occu- pancy in time for the meeting of the legislature. Such an occasion should be one for congratulation. But the big wide cracks in the walls of the east wing of the capitol building indicate bungling work. MEexX1co is holding out flattering in- ducements to American capitalists, Not only are valuable concessions made to cnterprises, such as exemption from municipal and state taxation, but in many instances the government guaran- teos a fixed bonus. It is to be hoped that the valuable franchises thus ob- tained will not be abused either by the Mexican authoriticsor by the American syndicates. As these franch: ripen into monopolies, the social discontent of the people burdened by them or the exactions of the capitalists and syndi- cates muy lead to complications of a very serious nature. Tue decision of Judge Brewer in the case of Rowena Young against John C. DePutron, on an action to establish the ownership of a valuable tract of land in the business section of Lincoln, will un- doubtedly create some excitement in that city, By tho rulings of the court the plaintiff is granted thetitle toand ownership of the property, which 1s valued at more than a quarter of a million. Without questioning the merits of the case or the parties in- volved, it is an unfortunate occurrence ‘when the title of land in the heart of & city is under a cloud and its ownership reverts back to its rightful proprietors aftor the lapso of years, In such cases usually the land has been subdivided and passed through many different hands, Often it has been improved and is held by iunocent parties, who are made to suffer. No doubt equity will afford some relief to such innocent holders. But values are destroyed, losses are sustained and endless liti- gation follows, to the detviment of the purties concerned, and the people look to their representa- tives to see that this is done. We be- lieve a judicious overhauling of the publ itutions *would rvesult in a very considerable saving of the people’s money, without the least detriment, but doubtless rather to the advantage of the institutions, and we would impress npon every member of the legislature the duty of doing this. THE PROSPE( LOOK BRIGHT. The couference report signed by all the members of the committee on the Omaha public building bill has been put into Congressman MeShane’s hands. It will undoubtedly be put before the house for its consideration within a fow days, and the prospects look exceed- ingly bright for the pssage of the measure, which will secure for Omaha its much-needed new postoflice. With the previous efforts made by our repre- sentatives in congress to secure favora- ble legislation, tho citizensave familiar. On the last occasion on which the measure came up for consideration the unexpected temporary absence of Con- gressman McShane from the house alone stood in the way of its passage. No such unfortunate occurrence is likely again. The full endorsement of the bill by the conference committee and the favorable disposition of the members of the houso to the measure, augur well for its adop- tion. Unless the unexpected happens, nothing but the president’s veto stands in the way of the bill becoming & law, and from that quarter no opposition is looked for. Our citizens will be well sat- isfied with the provisions of the bill as finally agreed upon. It appropriates $600,000 for the purchase of a site and the beginning of the construction of the building, and limits the final cost of the site and building to $1,200,000. Such were the terms originally proposed in Senator Manderson’s bill, but which at the time were not acceptuble to some of the other members of the conference committee. With a postoffico and cus- tom house building to cost in the neigh borhood of a million dollars, astructure worthy of our city can be erccted, and 1t is to be hoped that the well-directed efforts of our represtatives in congress to sceure it will be crowned with success. WHERE THE PROFIT IS, According to Mr. Charles I'rancis Adams, it is the long haul which brings in profits, and this view prevails vory generally among railrond managers.’ Atany rate, it is the general policy of the great railvonds, It is interesting to notico, however, that devotioh to this opinion is not universal, and that the president of at least one trunk line has entered upon a different policy, and isconfident the results will vindicate his course. President King, of the Frie railrosd system, in his annual re- port recently published announces that for the first time in the history of the eogpaay, and contrary to the policy of his predecessors, he has given prefer- ence to the development of local rathor than through traflic. The departure is worthy of attention as a keynote of a very importent and promising tendency of railroad management. One of the most remarkable features of American railrond management has been the ex- tent to which non-competitive local trafic has been 'ne;;lenterl subordinated to through business. It had afforded a striking com- mentary upon the importance, as well as the possible abuses of compe- tition, In the local traffc, suys an eastern journal devoted to the careful cousideration of matters of this kind, in which there has been no competition, railroads have neglected the opportu- nity to develop profitable business, and the localities have suffered from the lack of the stimulation which competi- tion would have given. Through traffic, on the other hand, for which rivairy has been eager and active, has led to such excessive and disastrous competi- tion as is without a parallel. There is abundant evidence showing that local, non-competitive business has yielded a golden reward to railroads which have devoted themselves espec- ially to this service, and the localities thus served have been richly benefitted. The New York Central and the Penn- sylvania railroad gystems are examples of the success of the policy of serving primarily the requirements of loeal, non-competitive trafic, and of the mutual benefit to shippers and carriers from this Thi business belongs pecy to the road by which is developed, is permanent, capable of steady expan- sion, yiclds a fair compensation at well- sustained rates, and is the life blood of successful railroading. On the other hand, through business, to which “the preference has been so largely given, is of much smaller proportions, divided among many competitors, less profitable under the most favorable circumstances and frequently paying little more than operating expenses, uncertain and va ing in amount, and the origin of all freight wars and ruinous complications. Of course both through and lo traffic are nocessury alike to the count and to the roads, and it is the business of evety carrier to secure as large a share of each as it can, but the surprising fact is, in view of results, that when the alternative has prosented itself to railrond managers the prefer- ence has been given so generally to the through to the neglect of local, The change of policy maugurated by the president of the Eri tem, it is not doubted, will be materially to the advantage of that system, and nece ily also to the local interests which will be better served and cared for. 1t is o departure that will attract the at- tention of railroad men generally, who will not fail to watch the results with great tnterest. A PHILADELPITA syndicate is grad- ually absorbing the strect railway com- punies of the larger citios into its con- trol. It has gained possession of the 1mmense street car interests of Phila- delphia. Boston and Chieago, and has just bought up the leading lines of St. Louis. Where the syndicate will stop in this policy remains tobe seen, The fact, howoyer, stands out clearly that the street w business . is im- mense profitable and that the Philadelphians ave shrewd enough to vest vast sums in the enterprise. It is seriously questioned whether the ab- sorption of all street railway lines of a city under the management of a nou- resident syndicate is to be desired. It creates a monopoly in which the public in the end is made to suffer by lack of proper accommodations and by assump- tion of rights by the syndi not anted by the original s, One way to prevent absorption is to grant charters to these street railways pro- viding that the plant shall revert to the city after a specified term of years, as is the case in Omaha. Now that the charter committee is fairly at worl, it should not fail to call before its deliberations, the mayor, the chairman of the board of public works, the city treasurer, city comptroller, the city engineer, members of the council, members of the board of public worls, and other city officials.” Many valuable suggestions and recommendations can be given by these officials, and it is proper that they should be consulted. The field of inquiry mught likewise be extended by inviting prominent cit zens before the charter committee to give their views as to necessary amend- ments. By such means an impartial discussion of the charter can be ob- tained, and the committee would be the better able to malse its report. THoe cause of high license won a nota- ble victory in Boston at the late munic- ipal election. The question of granting license for the sale of liquor comes up for decision every year at the elections in Massachusetts cities. Boston is nat- urally for license, but this year the vote was more than two to one, and the ma- jority more than double what it was last year. A high license law was passed at the last session of the legis- lature, and the vote 1n Boston shows that many who were opposed to any li- cense under the old system are in favor of making a trialof high license. Good results can be predicted with entire safety. LAST Sunday the Lincoln Cull com- menced the publication of a Sunday issue, and it was in every respect a praiseworthy beginning. It was a newsy, interesting pgper, having sov- 1 special features of more than ordi- merit. The enterprising pub- lishers of the Call will doubtless find their efforts to give Lincoln an inde- pendent and fearless journal fully ap- preciated by the people and business community of the capital city, as it cor- tainly deserves to be. The paper has a prosperous look, and if encrgy, push and pluck can achieve success, the Cull is certain to steadily advance, A NEWSPAPER published at the capi- tal of New Mexico says editorially: “Why should the English language not be taught in the public schools of New Mexico? That is the question.” Yet the democrats in congress demand that this territory shall be admitted to state- hood, and threaten. to adhere to the omnibus bill which virtually makes its admission a condition of their agreeing toadmit any of the other territories that are ready to become states. .They believe they have a sure thing for their party on New Mexico, and the above question explains wh VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Fremont Flail; Let a compulsory cleans- ing law be passed aud the anarchists will lose their identity. : Lwing Item: If John Thurston really wants a “posish” he should apply to Jay Gould for a secretaryship in his proposed ‘“‘clearing house,” Jay has & warin place in his beart of hearts for John, and then, too, he needs him move than does Iarrison, Holdrege Progress: Candidates for the speskership may plot and scheme, still we trust that there will remain enough un- pladged republican members, on the night of Lhe caucus, to upset their plaus, and nomi- nate the best mau for the place. ‘Wayne Gazette: There seems to be con- siderable of & rumpus it the republican state comimitee over the manugement or mis- management of the campaign fund ; and the treasurer has resigned in disgust. And now, if the secretary will do likewise, aud en- deavor to earn hisdiving in the future, the public will forgive him the little deficiencies now existing, McCook Tribupe: Thero is a wides foeling favoring a change in the stale asscss- ment Jaws., The papers are agitating the matter, and the people aro thinking about its bility, The mext legislatura will no doubt take the matter into careful considers- tion, and will glve the state an improved and greatly modified asscssment law. The pres- ent statue does mot fill the bill, aud is not a credit to Nebraska fatellizence, Rulo Times: While the nety and the old legislators are figuring on the mako-up of the legislature, they should remember that the people are onto thoir disgracefnl doings of last year {n tho mattor of hiring numer- ous clerks they had no use for, and there will y do it again, 18 a rank, outragoous steal and caused val bills to become 8o tangled up in their that they are now. pronounced of no published in the State Journal, It shows that he has spent a great deal of his life in vetorinary study in this country and in Ger- many. This fact, however, will not afford extensive consolation to the farmer whose hogs have died from tho results of his ex perinients, and it would have been just as well 8o far as he is concerned if the destrue- 1 been accomplished by a man with vastly inferior scientific attainments. It was an unfortunate blunder, and the praper thing for the state to do, will be to promptly pay all damages, Beatrice Republican: As the time for the meeting of the legislature draws nigh, the question as to who will bo the speaker of the house becomes an absorbing one. While the Republican favors a Gage county man it will be satisfled with any one who is calculated to fill the position with ability, impartiality and honesty. It docs not want to see a railroad tool in that position, neither does it want to see a crank honored with the place. It wants to see a man chosen for spoaker of the house who possesses judgment and discretion, a man who owns his own soul, and who cannot bo made to swerve from the principles of rectitude. A man who hates iniquity and loves truth, @ man of moral courage and mental strength, who will to the utmost of his ability subserve the in- terests of the ontire state. - His Dearest Wish, Philadelphia Press: Soliloquy by Mr. Bayard: “Only wallop Hayti and I'll retire hapny.'” e 1t Would be Vetoed, Mail and Brpress, Pension the ex-prosidents, Now's the time to do 1t, when it can only apply to one republican and one democrat, and is 8o non- partisan, let me e e The Main Question. Detrott Trivune. President Harrison’s “southiern policy” will be all right. How is it with the south’s southern policy? That'sethe main question just now. CILh o BelN The Boston Women, Cnicago Wter<Ocean. It isnearly twenty years since tho first at- tempt was made in Massachusetts to commit the republican party to woman suffrage. The women of Boston did more to heip their cause last Tuesday than has been done in all these twenty years of agitation. ey A Good Reason, Globe-Democrat. The proposition to change the name of West Virginia to Kanawha is timely and reasonable. A state that failed to go repub- lican when such a result might have been se- cured by polling only about two hundred and fifty more votes for Harrison, ought to have anew name to represent the new carcer upon which it is s0on to euter. - In Hard Lines, Surec. Philadcphia Press. The French debt is now about §5,000,000,- 000, the largest in the worla by all measuve- ment, and yearly growing by the amount we annually reduce ours. If the republican gov- ernment has not the nerve to let the Panama canal fall through and assume its debt in any shape France will go into national bank- ruptey before the close of the century, s Takes the Place of the Banana Peel. Ploneer Press. All summer the sidewalk coal hole was plugged up with an old chair or a peach bas- ket. Now the iron cover is covered with a thin, yet dangerous glare of ice. The last state of the sidewalk coal hole is something worse than the first, but it merely £lls its appropriate niche in the great law of com- pensation. As an invincible leg-breuker the wiuter coal hole cover supplies the place of the summer banana peel. Chairman Brice has returned to his mut- ton and is once more busily chasing financial rainbows m Wall street. Susan B. Anthouy and George Francis Train are contemplating lecture tours in Ne- Dbraska. And the time of the blizzard is just at hand. Murs, General Tom Thumb, after years of widowhood, has become a three-foot bride, and will be known henceforth as the Coun: tess Primo Magui. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is entirely] oblivious of the tempest in the teapot regard- ing her “literary remains.” She is gotting better and expects to enjoy life for quite a while yet, Matt Quay has declined most gifts and tokens of congratulations over his_campaign management, but_concludes to keep a fine span of horses sent by an organiwation of re- publicans in Kast Tennessce, Queen_Victoria has abolished the royal kennel of stag hounds and with it the master of buck hounds, This was doubtless effected partly by a desire for rotrenchment and partly by the comments of the press, As a proof of his freedom from vanity, Dr. 0. W. Holmes has hanging on his libyar, wall the caricature of himself by “Spy" which appeared in Vanity Fair during his Tast visit to London. Although a caricature, the likeness to the Antoerat is capital, The grossest exaggeration 18 the underlip and the eyebrow, which latter is so long and stiff that it has the effect of a quill pen thrust be- hind his car, Mrs, Amelie Rives-Chanler is declared by persons who have seen hier to be not by any means so beautiful as her pictures repre- sent her. Her noso has o decided hump, and, when proofs of her photographs are sent to her, she completely tones down her promi- nent olfactory organ with a fine lead poncil and touches 1p the features generally, She is something of an artist hersclf, and under- stands just Low to do it, B AMUSEMENTS, The version of “Lost in London," pre- sented at Boyd's opera house lust night, pre- served in part the story of this once popular melodrama, but Mr. Newton Beers has re- placed a considerable part of the original production with extrancous matter of a specialty character, wihich, in view of the manner in which the dramatic work was done, is an acceptable innovation. It is simple truth to say that the spo- clalty features were the only meritorious partof the entertainment, Harry Gilfoil's imitations being decidedly clever, and there being some very fine singing by a quartette of male voices, Mr. Newton Boers, the star of the organizution, has little me as an actor if his impersonation of Job Armroyd affords a fair sample of his ability, and Miss Florence Campbell did not show any superior qualiications in the part of Nellie Armroyd. The entertalument, as & whole, was one of the least commendable seen on the local stage this scasou. It was witnessed by a numerous audience. The case agajust Dr, Freulund, charged with abortion, has also been continued wutil Saturday afteruoon next. THEWORLD'S HIGHEST OFFICE Mr. Bryce Thinks It is That of Pres« ident of the United States, WHY INFERIOR MEN ARE CHOSEN, This He Undertakes to Explain in “The American Com nwealth Vhat to Do With Ex-I'residents —~The Secretary of State. From an English Standpoint. In his work entitied ‘“I'he American Com- monwenlth,” which has croated so much comment in England, and which has been declared worthy of a place beside the works of Hallam and De Tocqueville, the nuthor, M. James Bryoe, says that he considers tho oftice of president of the United States the greatest in the world, “unless we except the papacy,” to which any man can rige by his own merits. Since America is beyond all countries tho one open to talent, in whieh ambition 1s keen and political activity is widely diffusod, we might expoct that the highest place would be filled by men of brilliant gifts, Since the heroos of the revo- lution died out, sixty years ago, he finds only two men, Lincoln and Grant, historical charactors in the white house. Grant is the only one who would be remembered had no not been president, and Lincoln is the only ono who has displayed striking qualities while in the chair. Mr. Bryee accounts for this in scveral way: He does mnot think that the proportion of first-rate ability drawn into politics is as great inthis country as in Europo. In Franco and Italy revolution has made publie life ex- ng and accessible, In Germany an ad- mirably sd civil service develops statecraft. In England men of wealth and leisu eok to enter the political arena, and burning questions touch the interests of all classes, making eager observers and combi- tants, The total quantity of talent devoted to public affairs is proportionately greater than ia the United States, where much of the best ability, both for thought and action, is occupied in a field compar: Iy narrow in Europe, that of developing the material resources of the country. Another reason is tobe found in the methods of congress, meaning, evidently, the length of time a man must be in the lower house to obtain any op- portunity for showing his talents and th ching to re-election; and a third son is that eminent men make more cne- Mies thanobscure ones, and obscure ones are, therefore, the more desirable candidates. Continuing Mr. Bryce sa) “It is true that the eminent man has also made more friends, that his name is more widely known, and may be greeted with louder chee Other things being equal, the famous man is preferable. 3ut other things never are equal, The famous man has probably at- tacked some leaders in his own party, has supplanted others, has expressed his dislike to the crotchet of some active section, has perhaps committed errors which are capuble of being magnified into offenses, man stands long before the public and bears a part in great affairs without giving openings to censorious criticisu. Fiercer far than the light which beats upon a_throne is the light which beats upon a presidential candidate, searching out all the recesses of his past life. Hence, owken the choice lics between o brilliant man and a safe man, the safe man 1s preferred, Party feeling, strong enough to carry onits back a man without conspicu- ous positive morits, is not always strong enough to procure forgivencss for a mun with positive faults, “On_a railway journey in the far west in 18831 fell in with two newspaper men from the state of Ind vho were taking their holi The couversation turned on the next presidential clection. They spoke hope- fully of the chances for nomination by thewr party of an Indiana wan, a comparatively obscure person, whose name I had newer heard. 1 expressed some surprise the should be thought of, They observed that hie had done well in state politics, that thero was nothing against him, that Indiana would work for him. *“But,” I rejoined, ‘“‘ought you not to have a man of more commandrg character? There is Senator A. Everybody tells me that he is the shrewdest and most expertenced man in your party, and that he has a perfectly clean record. Why not run him?’ *“Why, yes,” they answeréd, *that is all true. But you sce he comes from a small state, und we have got the state aircady. Besides, he wasn't in the war. Our man was. Indiana’s vote is worth having, and if our man is run we can carry Indiana,” ‘‘Surely the race is not 1o the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time aud chance happeneth to them all.” . One of the problems of this country he designates what to do with ex-presidents. Only one, John Quincy Adams, returned to the house of representatives, where, for six- toen years, he was a formidable champion of the national theory: of the constitution azainst the slaveholders, He points out that the salary of the president is pot great enough to admit of display nor sufficient to keep him above personal exertion after re- tirement, 1f he had no other estate. At the same time the public opinion of the country would be hrmiliated by his returning to any professional or commercial life. The solu- tion of the problem Mr. Bryce thinks we will find in a pension for presidents, Pouching the requirements of the execu- tive office Mr. Bryce shows that a brilliant man is not required in the presidential office, He need not be a dazzling orator nor possess t coustructive powers to be used in legisjation. The constitution does not admit of the ex se of the one nor public opinion of the other. Four-fifths of his work is of the same kind that devolves on the chairman of u commer ompany or the manager of a railway. Firmness, common sense, and above all honesty are the attributes that make a good president. For ninety-ninc years the presidency nas been satisfactory 10 the people iu the carrying on of its busi- ness. Twice only the executive ventured on stretches of authority—Jefferson in the pur- chuse of Louisiana and Lincoln in the eman- cipation proclamation. The judsment of posterity approved both acts. During the war of sccession the executive became n dictatorship, When the war was ended it sank back into its proper position. *‘It has shown no tendency to dwarf the other au- thorities of the M;uu.' 80 us 10 pave the way i 1 status of the executive, Mr. Bryce suys thut it deserves only admiration, The president is simply the first citizen of the nation, de ity on no title, ofMicial dress, i oftice. Titles dat the begianing, but fell into 5 ident's head does not appear on coins or postage stamps, His official home, modeled on the mansion of the duke of Lein- ster in Dublin, “stands in a surubbery, und has the air of a large suburbun villa, rather than a palace.” ‘‘There is great respect for the ofice and for the wman, us the bolder of the oftice, if he bas done notiing to degrade it. There is no s lity, no fictitious seif- abasement on the part’ of citizens, butsa simple und hearty deference to oue who rep- resents the majesty of the nation.’ After oscillating hetween the ceremonious state of George Washington, who drove 1o open cougress in bis coach and six, sud the osten- tatious piaioness of Citizon Jefferson, who rode up alone and hitched his horse to the post at the gate"—this is one of the few errors into which Mr. Bryce slips—*the president Lias settled down into sy sttitude between that of the mayor of a greui Kng- lish town on a public occasion and that of a Kuropean cabinet minisier on a political tour.” No prosident, ke adds, dave violute social decorum, as European sovereigns have often done. “If he did, he would be the first to suffer.” Washington the critic con- siders one of the handsomest capitals in the world, with d society that cultivates with success the graces and pleasures of life. Mr, Bryce finds in the four years presiden- tial term and the eligibility to one re-clection @ source of great dunger, fo deews it pru dent to make the term louger and to rendor the president ineligible for humediate rve- eleetion, but cligible at a future tiwe. Mr. Bryce explains in detail the difference between the American cabinet and that of Gireat Britain as well as that of several con- tinenjul governwents, He thinks that the cabinet winisters should bave wmore direct ro- latious with congreas. In Washington's tie they did occasionally speal before the house, aad pir. Bryce 1s of optaios that & revival of this practice wounld strengthen both congross and the executive. The constitution being silont on the subject it lios with the public opinion of tho ceuntry to reinaugurate the practice Concerning the secrotary of state Mr. Bryce has this pungant paragraph: *“The most dig nified place in the cabinet is that of the sec retary of state. It is the great prize often be stowed on the man to whom the president is chicfly indebted for his clection, or at any rate on one of the leadors of the party. In early days it was regarded as the stepping stone to the presidency, Jdofforson, Madison, Mouroe and J. Q. Adaws had all serve socretaries to ‘preceding presidents, oonduct of foreigm affarrs is the chief duty of the state department; its head has therefore a larger stage to play on than any other minister, and more chances of far Eis personal importance is all tho greater because the prosident 18 usually so much absorbed by questions of patronage us 1o bo forced to loave the secretary to his own dovices. Hence the foreign policy of the ad ministration is practically that of the socre Tary, except so far as the latter is controlled by the senate, and-especially by the chair man of its committee on foreign relations, Tie state department has also the charge of the great soal of the United States, ops the archives, publishes the statutes, and of course instructs and controls the dinlomatic and consular sorvices, 1t is ofton suid of the president that he is ruled, or as the Amer- icans expresa it, “run,” by his secretary; but naturally this happens only when the secre tary is’ the stronger ormore experienced mar, and in the same way it has been said of presidemts before now that they v like sultans, ruled by their wives, or by thei boon companions, _The ignorance of Toglishmen about the United States senate was well indicated by the question one of them asked o fow you ago in Washington: “How many bishops havo vou in your upper house!” After de seribing the powers of tho senato as logisla- tive, judicial and executive, and illustrating each, he approves of the orgranization of the senate as simpler and mgre effect for fts purpose than arrange- ment in any other countr V8 1 “Every nation which has formed a legisla ture with two houses has experienced the difficulty of devising methods of choice su ficiently different to give a distinet char: to each house, 1 I enate composed of persons nominated by the crown. Tl Prussian house of lords is partly nommated, partly hereditary, partly elective. The Spanish senators ave partly hereditary, part 1y official, partly elective In the Germanic empire the federal council consists of de fates of the sov ties, Iraneco appoints her sonators by rect election. In Ingland the memboers the house of lords now sit by hereditary right; and those who propose to reconstruct that ancient body are at their wits' end to somo plan by which it may be gthened and made practically useful, without h a direct election as that by which members are chosen to the house of commons. The American blan, which is older than any of those in uscon’ the Buro- pean continent, is also better, because it is not only simple, but natural—i. e., grounded on and consonant with the political condi- tions of America. 1t produces a body which is:both strong in itself and different in its collective character from the mora popular house. It also constitutes, us Hamilton an- ticipated, a ligk between' the state govern- ment and the national government.” . X ays: “New York cotland, and as pouu- d, Northumberland and Dur- bam taken together. Delaware is alittle smaller than Novfolk, with about the popu- lation of Bedfordshire, It is therefore as if Bedfordshire bad in one house of a British legislature as_much weight as all Scotland together with Northumberland and Durham, a state of things not conformable to demo- cratic theory. Nevada bas now a population about equal to that of Caithness (40,000), but is as powerful jin the senate w York. This state, wh of burntout min- ing camps, is v of rotten borouzh for and controlled by the great ‘silver men.’ " THE CHARTER COMMITTEE. Another Sop Thrown Out to Quiet Railroad Opposition. There was another meeting of the com- mittee appointed to revise the city charter yesterday afternoon, and one feature of it was the absence of Councilmen Bechel, Ford, Lowry, Bailey and Alexaunder, who were appointed to look after the interests of the but have not yet put m an appearance. rman Bvans called the meeting to order :50 p. m., instead of 2 o’'clock, and the uses of the city charter relating to taxa- tion were first called up, the reading of the reports of committecs being deferved. The words “parts of lots” were ins:ried in section 78, which refers to the special tax authorized to cover the cost of public im provements, and which in the present char- ter reads “lots, lands and roul estate.” The last clauso of section 78 referred to the old sewerage trouble of two years ago, and pro vides for the re-assessment of lots benefitted by the sewers, but as that has all been scttled, Attornoy Conuell thought the clause should be drop- ped. Action was deferred. “The most important change suggested was in section 01, which governs the sale of lands for delinquent taxes. Under the present system the city treasurer makes out a delin- quent tax list for “‘thet year,” and hands it in to the county treasurer on the first Mon- day in Octobe The latter has to advertise the property for sale during the first weelk of October, and this does not give him sufi cient time to thoroughly advertise it for the Dbenefit of the delinguent taxpayer, as well as the city. 1t was therefore decided that the delinquent list should be handed in to the county the first Monday of Septomber, in- stead of October, aud that it should be for uncollected 3 of the preceding year, in- stead of the current year, as atpresen which would give the delinquent twel months' grace, Section 79 was order that it might be discussed lous as ¢ allowed to stand over n by the a whole committes, The one point considera worthy of papecial note was that referring to the assossment of railway property, used for other than omdinary railway purposes, and not Appearing on the couuty rolls, by reason of having been returned to the state board, It was said that if enforced it would prevent the orection of a now dopot here, and it was also said that when the chartor was dis- cussed two years ago, a new depot had boon promised 1f the chartor was amended as iv now reads, The churter was amended to suit, but the depot was not built, and some { mombers of the committeo thought that it the clause were now amended o a8 to mako tho railways py taxes, thoy would combing and jeopardize the passage of the proposed ended charter, It was decided to reduce the bonds ro quired from tho oty englncer to $25,000 stead of £50,000, and thoso of his assistant to 810,000 instead of £25,000, and then the board of public works question was taken up, J. B. Furay pointod out tho numerons defocts of the present system and spoke at some i lengtn on what was needed to improve it. Among other things, ho suggested that the gas, sower, plumbing, sidewalk and stroet inspectors or commissioners be roquived to roport directly to the board of works justead ity vouncil, as at present, Then llowing resolution from the Sixth ward was 1 and referred to Mr, Furay, and the meeting adjourned to moeet again at 2 o'clock vo-d Rosolved, seuse of the Sixth Ward Non-partisan — elub th the Dougias county dele- gation to the state legislature take such steps at the next meeling of the logislature as to insure tho passage of a law providing for tho creation of grading districts in cities of tho metropolitan olass, and to provide for issuing bonds for the payment of said grading in the same manner as is noa done for paving Jous I Dawr, That it is the — LABOK NOT Tt is estimated that over 100.000 feat of pino lumber have been sold in St. Louis this season, A public librar, o e Houtaialo, Pa. A flexible cement which is not injured by Iting is made of cqual parts of gutta sha and white pine pit penter’s union whicl in Birmingham will shortly bu 10 bo useéd orly by labor unions, The canning business is of considerable im- portance in Marylund, Liere are 455 facto- ries in that state, em| 00 men and 1,500 ean makers, A new industrial school, the first of its class in the west, has just’ been established in'St. Louis. 1t is for the purposo of teach ing the art of engraving on wood, and night sessions only are held. ining scems to be going out of style, y few high salarvied journcymen in this line'of business are now employed in tho various shops, and one is now willing to fill in his unemployed time at plain journeyman painter's wark and wages, A struggle for shorter hours hended by English cwployers. The eight- Liour movement is being freely agitated, and it looks ve nmuch as though tho laborers meant to carry their point this time, An eastern mechanic attributes some of the mysterious fires which are of frequent occurrence to “biisters” in the window pares. If these blisters are convex enough to form a lens and combustibles are stored within its focal distauce atire would be very likely to result. One of the newest devices for utilizing saw- dust is the scheme of a_ Canadian mechan He claims that by grinding'the refuse into a uniform finer mixing it with the refuse gas tar from the gas house and compressing for the exclasive use of has been established in 18 boen formed ditselia hall is appre- the substarce into cakes, a fuel can be made in every way superior to soft coal for open fires, The bakers of Washington, D. C.,, have been having trouble of late, Several propri- ctors of balerics, finding they could not sell breed at an advance of 1 cent, undertook to reduce the wages of journeymen from 818 to $12 per week. Lhe journcymen met and put, a stop to that by the masters know that they were ready to stitke — - e TO AVOID CROUKEDNESS, inent Citizen Wants a Safe- guard for the Taxpayer. “Iam glad that Tur Bre shown up certain matters in connection with the school board,” remarked George Higgins, a heavy taxpayer and well kaown citizen, to a re- porter terd “Now, the investi- gation, if such it may be called, has developed one particular point, and that is this, that the school board has a wide leverago and can_conduct a_ sys- tem of robbery in the fuce of tue taxpayer, and what can'you do about it? The recent investigation plainly answers that you can do nothing. Now I'have looked this mattor over very closely and I am convinced that the reports of Tk Ber did not contain all that purports crookedness in counection with the school board. I do mot include only those mentbors aud perhaps two others when I sospeak. The ouly way 1 sec out of this is to have a commission appointed by the governor or auy executive ofoer to which comuission the ubove board must ac- count. And to also visit the final authority every tramsaction in the hands of ° this commission. This will not only be a safegnard against fraud, but it will also keep the board out of politics. Asthe law now stands sthe action of the school board is final in such matters as directly concern the public, and the only accounting done as to the disposition of finances is lumped and not itimized, which is notonly a reckless system of transacting. business but a dangerous one also, Recent developments go show thut something should be done.” A Tro %) It is rumored that W. Burroughs is hard after the position now held by Mujor Me. Clintocls, that of local agent of the Union Pa 0 theroughly cleanse and purify garments without injury, they must be boiled to dissolve the oily exudations of the skin, and loosen the dirt, when both can casily be removed by using a mild but effective soap like the ““Ivory,” 99y At % (pure). Washing Compounds and Soap recommended to be used in cold water, to save labor, fuel, etc,, are highly chemigailed, and are so strong that they attack and destroy any fabric they are used on, A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, r they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, the genuine, Ask for " bory"* Seap and cach represented to he " just as good as the ‘Ivory' fack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of (Rl insist upon getting it, Copyright 1836, by Procter & Gamble.