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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MOgzDAY, AUG;UST 20, 1900. r b | \ i o YO0RK CRAT SAYS BRYAN 1S LOST eclares That the Nebraska Orator Has No Chance Whatever. e Chauncy S. Truax, a Prominent Goth- am Counciler, Explains Why 1 Be the U bl Ot the most ys of New ton the present that the RARE TALENT OF ITTLE DANCER Eight-Year-0ld Girl he “Brownies.” - s @ - e = BLANCHE TR ago, which considering. WEST OAKLAND VALUES ON THE UP GRADE —Property owners are encouraged lopme of recent date has been given to val- of the city. Notably . grain warehouses & Co. at the foot of cen an element, while ment that the Pacific smpany proposes shortly T for transshipping i factor in the situation. propositions mean om- ffeot. Without any special spurt gular demand for medium e properties. House rent- con estate is rushing work upon vements of Cavalry Hall ishaw syndicate an- w electric railroad to be constructed as through Berkeley, are obtained. The a Costa County work be com- hs and that the 11 completed inside of two e company will pay $100 for the |2 per cent of the net receipts and asreces to maintain years, ToSSIngs. ——————————— . fessor tein of Gottingen advises who have reason to dread cOrpu- especially young persons—to take ‘,'E’ prey ing their muscles, eating in moderation, | rent); &voiding sweet things, eating slowly and | utes masticating thoroughiy and avoiding too much sleep. men, which is certain | i real estate market is ;Mr& Inez Castro Schmidt Makes a | | | | | | | | | | ! of death is supposed to have been heart ntive measures in time by exercis- | gpasms I a great crowd collected to witness the bair-pulling match. Angered beyond con- | trol, Mrs. Schmidt tried to reach the cause | residence of the elder Schmidts, at Sev- enth and Campbell streets, being followed later by Schmidt., There was another quarrel, and then cries of “Police!” dis- | turbed the air. A patrolman hastened to and upon ¢ nt of Mrs. rested her hu nd, who, she lly choked her because WS FROM THE OCEAN AND THE WATER FRONT Ship Canada Is Having a| Hard Time Getting to Manila. Jioi. > e Dismasted by Wate: Port, Again Dismasted in Gale, She Now Makes a Fresh Start. SR T A e e B e i e e e S R Few stranger tales of the sea will ever be told at which Captain Taylor | of the ship Canada will be able -to relate when gets here from the Philip- | pines e ever does. | The Canada left Norfolk, Va., with a | States war- | 1899, | ins bad weather R y was followed by | A waterspout came sailing | d of coal for the United M nila Bay on August >k the mizzen mast out of arly in May of th - the | into Melbourne, Au lia, to ed the coal was | had to arged, and | the coal 23 the i was di d been made and on May more. On June emantle, Aus nd Yesterday the news | 1 d other start for judg her _ present | will not reach San Francisco | et e el e onee but STEAMER PERU ARRIVES. Mail steamer | ports | 102 ln| Compan on Lewin the Peru s in the steerage e for Hongkong. NOTES. e Oceanic Com- ing th = until f tons of on the wharf, and as the work of loading The Australia will once. Smith of the first divi- Jattalion was married Minnie Jansen. brother ‘officers ng. As tt been sold by John Rose 1 ns to Hume Brothers & Hume. The pu id to be $90,000. The ¥ bark t put in h in distress while bound ym Japan to Portland in ba | was Gismasted and me in under a jury | rig. Later she ld to the Rosenfe and put er the American flag. . 2 member of the Home Oakland, fell and broke the ferry landing yesterday was cared for at the Harbor Hos- al. WIFE BEATS THE WOMAN WHO BROKE UP HER HOME Sensational Attack on Her Husband’s Companion. Oakland Office Sa ancisco Call, | A happy been broken \g wife's pitiful story of e and neglect is the cuimi ,and a | ardship, | home tion of hat she declares is her spouse’s infatua- tion for another woman. The troubles led to a street scene late last night at West Oakland, when Mrs, S nd her mother-in-law discovered d his inamorata stroll- ng Seventh street. The for the woman, while ing arm-in-arm a wife made at onc of her troubles, but the husband managed to keep the furious woman off, while he ully piloted the other out of harm's The mother and the wife returned to_the d with him about his t. midt was formerly a_confectioner in His wife is a daughter of the one of the earliest of the (heir home was formerly sands of dollars. Until lately the Schmidts had been re- siding at 68 Twenty-first street, near West. But the domestic difficulties caused the breaking up of the home, and Mrs, Schmidt with her three voung children sought refuge with her busband’s parents. Schmidt is out_of jail under bail. "His e will be heard to-morrow in the Police Court. The woman in the case is known as Mrs. Kan FRESHMEN WILL MEET PRESIDENT AND FACULTY BERKELEY, Aug. 19.—To-morrow will be a day full of activity for the freshmen of the University of California. On that day they will assemble at 11:15 a. m. in the Harmon Gymnasium to meet the President, the Geans of the colleges, their instructors and _advisers. resident Wheeler will deliver an address to them. They will then be registered and formal- ly become students. At 8 o'clock in the evening the gym- nasium will be the scene of a great rally given by the upper classes to the fresh- men, Professor Henry Morse Stephens of Cornell University will be the princi- pal speaker. Ralph T. Fisher, president of the Associated Students, will preside and other addresses will be made by Pres- ident Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Football Captain Charles A. Pringle, Baseball Cap- tain William Hunter, Track Captain Will P. Drum and Track Manager Ezra coto. From 8:30 a. m. until 4:30 Monday after- noon intrants can procure registration cards In the gymnasium. ‘Committees of upper class students from the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Association will be present to assist freshmen in making out the regis- tration cards, which will be filled by 4:30 o’clock. At 11:15 a. m. to-morrow the university cadets in uniform, with the exception of the freshmen, will assemble at the flag- pole, where Captain Henry DeH. Waite, ine new professor of military science and tactics, will be presented to them. SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. EDWARD R. HILL OAKLAND, Aug. 19.—Mrs. Amanda J. Hill, wife of Edward R. Hill, the artist, Aaled suddenly at ynidnight at her late residence, 209 Howard street. The cause disease. Mrs. Hill was seized with severe early in the evening, but appa- recov;redd(rotx: tl!:em. fl.:ref:w min- uf a very tiack, which ~ resulted fatally. ere attack Cor an inquest. GEORGE FISH Haying Been Tw F Francisco. off the South American coast. coni & Fisher of this city. to enlist in bility. In November, 1888, he di ry F named Max Lentz, now at the Sailor: happened I don't know, but one morn ment as myself was a lad named Geo California and was on his way home 'All we could do was to make wue sail of port. The captain dered a staging rigged over the side. ordered him over the side. disappeared. “The Stadacona reached Buenos A we got I and two others left her. w in by Crimps. ROM out the sea world of tne mariners has come a man, buffeted by the squalls of many climes, who presents to sorrowing relatives the solution of the mystery surrounding the o of George E. Fisher, a youth formerly well known in San The lad, who longed to hbecome a soldier, died a sailor after be- ing twice shanghaied, and his bones rest forever at the bottom of the ocean George E. Fisher was the nephew and adopted son of George Fisher of Niles and nephew of Charles Fisher of the well-known liquor house of Ros- ‘When the war with Spain broke out he wanted the National Guard, but was refused-because of physical disa- appeared from home and was from again until he wrote to his adopted father from the Mariners’ Home in Liverpool saying he had been shanghaled at Astoria by a man named Lar- ullivan and was then trying to get a berth on a ship bound for Mobile. m that day nothing was heard of the lad until yesterday, when a man T was in Mobile about the beginning of the year, wooden bark Stadacona and bound for Buenos Ayres. Cogswell (the sailor only gives the surname, the initials being taken from Lloyds’ register) proved to be a tyrant and we had a terrible time. We left Moblie on February 10, 190, and on March 27 we were within about a month's anted the old wooden box painted up and he or- The rope used was the oldest on the bark and some of it had been spliced and splice® again. seemed to have taken a dislike to young Fisher and everv chance he got Fisher was hard at working of the ship caused the spliced rope to part and the young man When the Stadacona was hove to there was no trace of the boy. When the American ship Edward Sewall put In with her cargo heated we got on her and came to San Francisco. I think, and so did everybody aboard the Stadacona, that Captain Cogswell s morally responsible for the death of George was not properly found, for had she been that rope would not have parted and the young man would not have been drowned.” In a memorandum book kept by young Fisher and brought to California young man notes under the head of pool, he wrote to papa and Uncle Charley. The next entry shows him in Mobile and very friendly with a man named ‘‘Jack Holmes.” The itude 11, N longitude, 25 East.” This must have been about which the Stadacona was when young dacona left Buenos Ayres for Santos on June 26 and from there B e e e o e S e e e e, ER’S FATE IS TOLD BY A SAILOR Young Californian Drowned in Midocean After ice ¢“Shanghaied’’ disappearance nearly two not heard s’ Home, told the rest of the story. said Lentz. “How it ing I found myself aboard the British In the same predica- rge Fisher. He told me he was from when the ‘“‘erim caught him. best of the matter, but Captain D. M. Captain Cogswell work painting when the res on April 30 and the first chance Fisher. The Stadacona “Mariners’ Home, Liver- Fisher was lost will probably go to Europe with nitre. She is a Nova Scc.an bark, owned in Barrsbro. 4 B i e D o e e a2 20 N e S S ] SABBATH BREAKERS ARE CONDEMNED BY PREACHER The Rev. Nelander Declares Every Offender Nothing Less Than a Criminal. Rev. E. Nelander of the First English Lutheran Church last night preached a powerful sermon in faver of a better ob- servance of the Sabbath. He took for his subject “The War on Our Sabbath,” and in part he said: “With solitary. exception every one of the States of the Unlon has enacted Sabbath Ia s a dies non in our courts and Leg The seculariza- tion of the fon of the of our State. Sabbath- er is a criminal and he who attempts to override the State insult laws of the c The rerd ave little or no rvance is not to the point. 2. Those who want a go- abbath are welcome to en- the Atlantic. ous people would hardly wish the ath abolished. This wi done in the t of the French revolutior: when day was erased from the calen ter the mobs. had surge - streets and th gutters had run with blood. One such experiment will answer for ail time. Thé the Sabbath wo be for the & States the beginning of the rei of Mammon, Bacchus and Venus. Froin such a fate may the God of Lexington and Gettysburg d iver u Cameras and Photographic Supplies. This 1s one of our busiest departments now, in which we carry a full line of Eastman and Montauk cameras _ and | everything in the line of supplies. Print- ing and developing done. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . RABBI MYERS TALKS 'ON “THE JEW AND THE BOXER” Draws Parallel Between Movement in China and Persecution of Hebrews. Rev. Isadore Myers delivered an inter- esting discourse at Ohabai Shalome Tem- ple last night on the subject, “The Jews and the Boxer: He drew a parallel be- tween the movement of the Boxers against the Christians in China and tha persecutions to which the Jewish race has been subjected for many centuries. He | ascribed the cause of the massacres by the Boxers to the interference of foreign- with their cherished ideals. The term Roxer Is synonymous with extreme fanaticism and intolerance, Dr, Myers. “The Boxer spirit is an old i ution and goes back to the time of od, who persecuted Abraham; to F ites. The history of the Jews for the last 1700 years has been one unvarying expe- rience of Boxerism. The police of the world have driven the Jews from corner to corner, to be burned, to be driven into the sea and expelied at a moment’s no- tice. The Jews have ever been the vie- s of intolerance and fanaticism. It is spirit which compels people to change religion under pain of death or os- tracism. Let us be thankful that the spirit of Boxerism is dead in the two Anglo- Saxon nations—America and Great Brit- in. It is fortunate that the laws in these two countries are made for all men alike; but let us not be too sure that the times will not cause a change, for it is difficult to kill the spirit of fanaticism.” ————— The growth of Belfast, Ireland, during the last few years is probably unprece- dented. On the outskirts of the city in all directions house-building operations are | being actively pursued and in the Lisburn road direction it is especially noticeable, where scores of neat houses have been erected. ioferfesfeleferteefefoiieleelededeleleleleiledeoleiel des duleodele dofefeledefufelefe deldeeiseeieg deidebebeietreeedeel said | haraoh and Haman, who slew the Israel- | | roll. | and convalescent soldier could be seen | | contentedly BHTTALIN OF FRST INFANTRY T PRESIDI Companies, Filled to Maxi-) mum, Present a Fine Appearance. e it Large Number of People Visit the Soldiers in Their Camp and the Sick in the Hospitals. SR Companies C and D of the First Infan- try from Fort Leavenworth arrived at the | Presidio yesterday afternoon and went | into camp with their comrades of Com- panies A and B, who arrived late Satur- day night. The four companies comprise the First Battalion of the First Infantry | and are commanded by Captains Robert | Getty and F. E. Lacey, Lieutenants J. N. Pickering, J. B. Murphy and E. E. Car- The men of this battalion are near- ly all recruits, but are a fine looking lot. Four of the men were sent to the Pre- sidio in an ambulance, having been taken sick en route. On examination at the post hospital one of them was found to have the measles and was immediately i{solated It seemed like a special visiting day at the General Hospital, so great was the number that applied for passes. The fruit peddlers disposed of their stock long | befcre the day was over, and every sick | munching the grapes and | pears glven them by the Kkind-hearted | crowd. Bixty-two cavalry horses purchased by Colonel Marshall in the southern part of | the State arrived at the Presidio yester-| day afternocn. A great many of the anl- mals lately purchased are to replace the glandered animals of the Ninth Cavalry that were killed. FRENCH LEAGUE SPENDS A DAY ACROSS THE BAY The sixth annual picnic of the League of Henry 1V, a French benevolent organ- ization of this city, was given at Shell Mound Park yesterday. Nearly three thousand people attended and the day was one of pleasure. The prize winners in the various events were as follows: Bar-throwing, Joseph Barellies and D. Lahaderne; high jump- ing, C. Loustaunou; egg race, Miss C. Dugan; girls’ race, Miss C. Dugan; boys’ race, A. Bauchou; three-legged race, Emil blfue and Fred Coustette. The officers of the soclety are: P. Bel- legarde, president; J. 8. Godeau, first vice president; J. Merllette, financial secre- trary; J. Labarthe, treasurer. The reception committee for the plenic was composed of P. B, Berges, J. Bayla, P. A. Bergerot, Dr. J. E. Artigues, Dr. y" R. Orella, Dr. A. Masson, L. E. Brun, J. | A. Bergerot, J. B. Lucaze, T. Lacoste, B. L. Bareilles, R. Aguirre, P. Bigue, L. Chassagne, J. Godart, E. Blanduine, C. J. Auger, B. Bauchou, Dr. L. Bazet, J. Hnrei]les[: P, Calou, J.'B. Chicon, E. J. Dupuy, L. Duprai, L. J. Hillon, J. L - net, 31 Lacoste, X. Mefret, D. Pnlé:i’-?r‘l. (sfi.lltl. Porta, F. F. Terramorse and V. alet. The floor committee was composed of | the following named: P. Arripe (man- ager), J. Longe (assistant manager), M. Andichon, Joe Banchou, P. Bellocq, L. Bet- mon, Bordenave, P. Canbisens, P, Ducasse, B. Du uxg, E. Hitte, A. Larque, J. Pouquette, C. P. Robert, B. Sans and G. Palllet. FUNERAL OF LATE GENERAL HEUSTON OAKLAND, Aug. 19.—The funeral of the late General John Heuston Jr. was held this afternoon from the Church of the | Adveut, East Oakland, the Rev. Willlam | C. Shaw officlating. The Episcopal rates | for funerals were observed, | There was a large number of friends present al the services. The pall-bearers | were Dr. J. H. Todd, A. F. Rodgers, W. | Lyon, C. Bartlett, Dr. Randolph, L. A. Booth, W. C. Chopin and A. H. Grimwood, State @ e eies * & . 4 + * % i i ® ERKELEY, Aug. 19.—Japanese is to be taught in the University of Cal- ifornia. Under the department of Oriental languages and literatures a course is offered this term for the first time. This places Berkeley among the few ifstitutions in America where the Japanese tongue is taught. Russia and Germany have realized from a commercial standpoint the value of a knowledge of Japanese among their peo- ples and have founded schools for its stady. Other nations have neglected this and these two countries are leading the world in the trade with Japan. The fm- yortance of the study of Japanese in the TUnited States, especially in the West, led to the introduction of the subject in the university. WALTER N FONG. The new course will be taught by Yoshi Kuno, a native of the flowery kingdom. Mr. Kuno graduated from the State Uni- versity with the class of '97, receiving the degree of B. 8. at that time. In 1899 he completed the natural sclence course, re- ceiving his master's degree. Before com- ing to this country Mr. Kuno graduated from a school in Japan corresponding to the German Gymnasium. He entered the State University from the Berkeley High School. For the last two years Mr. Kuno has been assistant at the students’ ob- servatory, but at the request of Dr. John Fryer, head of the Oriental department, has glven up his astronomical instruc ;lwfo‘l‘fllfl t to teach the class in 'apanese. course will consist of mreemnnwnk.omubalg REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES Japanese to Be Taken Up as New Course at the University-—Chinese Stanford Made Instructor in Cantonese. Graduate TWO MEN OF MONGOLIAN BLOOD WHO WILL TEACH LANGUAGES OF ORIENT. e et o te o ool o e e From O ranged to suit the students. In the Oriental department Walter N. Fong has been appointed the new assist- ant in the Cantonese dialect. Two courses are offered of three hours each, one an elementary and the other an advanced fonese” dialect nas. heca talcht. ‘bt the en tau, . but e m-;‘: u;der n"Chlneu lnutruc‘tofr. r. Fong a duate of Stanford with the class of "{r:ecelvlng at that time his A. B. He completed the preparatory degnrtment of the University of the Pa- cific in 1892. Mr. Fong came to this coun- T imive S S fon W ease and fluency of an Ax:‘el:ltcem. ‘The Cantonese dialect is the tongue spoken most of the Chinamen in_t country, in Honolulu, Australia, the Phii- %filnel. Straits Settlements and in REORGANIZATION AFTER THE WAR. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES. — e XVIIL Reconstruction Views of Lincoln and Johnson. President Lincoln se: forth in his first inaugural his belief that the Union could not be broken by any so-called ordinance of segession in one or many States. The illegal and rebellious acts were regarded as those of assemblages of individuals, and not of the corporate States as such. This was the view commonly adepted in the North at the time. But to Lincoln's practical mind it seemed, when concrete questions of restoration were to be defl- nitely decided, that this theoretic position respecting the status of the disloyal States was “a merely pernicious abstrac- tion,” which he ‘“purposely refrained from discussing.” Still the steps which he had taken before his death toward the reinstatement of the disorganized States of Arkansas and Louisiana were inappar- ent harmony with the prevailing theory of the early years of the discussion. It is stated that Andrew Jackson held similar views as to the indestructibility of the Union, but he reached his conclu- sions by a different line of reasoning and supported them In so intemperate and overbearing a manner and with such ex- aggerated deference for Southern State rights principles that he was soon em- | broiled in an unseemly quarrel with the party which had adopted him. As a life- [ e dns dne dn e o e o de ol o ol ] v B e T e 1 ANDREW JOHNSON. B R R aa long strict construction Democrat, he maintained that the corporate relations of the States to the central Government had not been interrupted by the war and remained intact when hostilities ceased: that the United States had no authority to coerce a State; since the rebellious con- duct of individuals had deprived the peo- ple of certain States of all civil govern- ment, it had become necessary to enforce the obligations of the United States to the people of those States “in securing +them in the enjoyment of a republican form of government.” When Johnson assumed the reins of government he was cager to hasten on the work of reconstruction which Lin- coln had begun. As Congress would not meet _until December, the executive had for eight months a free hand. By mid- summer he had appointed provisional Governors in all the remaining States of the disturbed section, defining their du- ties and powers much as Lincoln had de- fined those of -Johnson himself on ap- pointing him Military Governor of Ten- nessee, and before Congress asserabled in December State governments had been erected under the President's proclama- tion, and Senators and Representatives from all the States lately in rebellion, ex- cept Texas and Florida, were ready to demand seats in the National Legisla- ture. The political powers and privileges in the several States were confined to those who should take the oath of am- nesty, but the number of loyal citizens was swelled by the granting of special pardons to many who were excluded from a share in the restoration offered by the Zeneral amnesty. The conditions imposed by the President for the recognition of the new State governments were ratifica- tion by the first State Legislautre of the thirteenth amendment, which made slav- ery forever illegal in the United States, nullification of the secession ordinances and repudiation of the war debt. Status of Slavery and the Freedmen. The emancipation proclamation of 1863 was a purely military act. It destroyed slavery only within the districts controlled by the army, and did not affect it in the loyal States.” Only as commander of the military forces of the nation had the Pres- ident any power over the Institutions of the States, and that power was strictly limited to the regions where the army was actually in possession. Some of the slave States not affected by the procla- mation soon commenced a legal process of emancipation, but not until the adop- fion of the thirteenth amendment was any legal standing given to the freedmen. Con- gress submitted the amendment in Febru- ary, 1865, for the action of the States, and by December of the same year it had re- cetved ratification by twenty-seven States. eleven being siave States and eight of them those recently in rebellion. Now at last slavery was dead, but in aving it bequeathed a sinister legacy to divide and embroil the estranged sections and to delay the restoration of brotherly relations—which is, Indeed, hardly vet complete_ A helpless horde of contrabands and freedmen began early in the war to embarrass the army and to gather along the Confederate border. Private charity under military protection did much to re- lieve their rcore pressing needs, and Northern philanthropy at once entered upon the task of educating and civilizing them; but it was felt that they had a rightful claim upon the Government which had given them freedom for some per- manent provision for their future. By the establishment, in March, 1865, of the freed- man’s bureau under the War Department the Federal Government recognized its re- sponsibility toward the dependent blacks. e te bureau was given control of all mat- relating to refugees and freedmen and abandoned lands from or within the territory held by the army. The act was to remain iy force for only one vear from the close of the war. As based solely upon the war powers of the Government, it would necessarily expire with the return of 0. vague were the terms of the bill that, while it availed to relieve the immediate destitution of the negroes and to inaugurate some measures for settling them upon abandoned or confiscated lands in the South, it did nothing toward estab- lishing their rights before the law or de- termining their political standing. The Bouthern States adopted constitu- tions prohibiting slavery and accepted the thirteenth amendment. But to the eves of the watchful Northern friends of the emancipated slaves the legislation which jmmediately followed in several of the States seemed to impose inconvenient and oppressive restrictions upon the colored pogulnlon which tended to keep them in a degraded and practically enslaved con- dition. The Southerners denied any in- tention to do more than to provide for the absolutely pecessary restraints up n a “la- boring, landless, homeless class,” wholly untrained in freedom. They showed that the vagrancy laws which were bitterly as. sailed as intolerant and cruel were couched in almost exactly the same terms as those in force in some of the Northern States, and were certainly no more severe. Buf the temper of the Republican Congress ‘was such that suspicion of Southern pur- poses respecting their former slaves could not be allayed, and a radical policy of re- construction which should 'retain the gouv.h in a o{m'e‘lltlion a{ subjection to the ‘ongressiona untfl thal shoul be satisfled as to the safety of th’o h‘“lfl men gained favor. Reconstruction Views of Congress. The Thirty-ninth Conj agsembled mber 4, 1565, in nofim frame of nd and not dis; to accept the Pres- s assurance that the B R R e SRCaR SCE = | battle, | sentatives w; | Lesgisiature. | Southern State | South country was pacified, the seif-governmens of the States re-established and the di- visive subject of slavery on the poiat of permanent _elimination from national questions. Nor were they prepared to re- spond promptly to his request that they should permit the States whose powers had been so long in abeyance to resume their places In the national Legislature, ‘‘and thereby complete the work of res- toration.” Not only was Congress dis- satisfied with the acts of the new Soutn- ern Legislatures but with certain proc- lamations of the President also, which gave to delegate conventions or Legisla- tures In the reorganized States power to prescribe the qualifiecations of electors and office holders. This was contradictory to a_doctrine held by the most radical members of the Republican party—thac the enfranchisement of the negroes fol- lowed necessarily upon emancipation. As- suming that by secession a State de- stroyed, all its constitutional rights as a member of the Union they declared the whole matter of the civil and poiitical rights of the inhabitants of the rebel- lious States to be in the hands of the Fed- eral Government and that the Govern- ment was bound to guarantee to the freed- men equal rights with the whites. The seceding States, having destroyed their statehood by their own acts, were no longer States, but Territories, to be read- mitted into the Unlon upon such terms as Congress might choose to impose. Upon these issues the legislative and executive departments of the Government joined The President was irascible and violent, Congress was suspicious and un- vielding and the breach was continually widened. Impeachment of the President. Congress was determined to through its own policy of reconstruction and used its legisiative power to pre- vent the success of that which the Pres dent had Inaugurated. Admission of members from the reorganized States was delayed while bill after bill was passed Whose purpose was to secure what *he radicals deemed the rights of the freed- men. These bills were one after the other returned with the President’'s veto. Excitement ran high over the elections of 1366 by which a new House of Repre- to be chosen. The issue was that between the executive and tho The body of the Republican party rallied to the support of Congress, while the Democrats and a faction of the Republicans stood by the President, though not a few who inclined to his | views of the constitutional points involved in the quarrel were driven by his ill-tem- | pered and violent speeches into the ranks of the radicals. The new House was over- whelmingly Republican and Congress continued to pursue its own way regard- less of the President’s wishes. It passedl over the veto the bills that were deemed necessary to control the conduct of the governments. It also turned its attention to measures for re- stricting the scope of Presidential au- thority. Congress was to meet henceforti on the 4th of March instead of in Decem- beér, so that it could constantly exercise resiraint over the President. The President’s power of removal from office was made subject to the approval of the Senate, and he was practically de- posed from his command of the army and navy. The fourteenth amendment, designed to insure the right of suffrage to the negro, was passed and ratified, though several States rejected it; and in March, 1867. the great reconmstruction bill as carried through, which divided the into military districts under offi cers of the army and gave entire control of the condition of the Southern States to Congress, which body pledged itself R e e e R e . ] * Rd ES g $ ® ® * * > - + . L4 L 4 . . ® . + + > - * * ? ® * + - : + + . 4 . ® 3 ¢ * ; EDWIN M. STANTON. 1 Q+o s s0 000000 +0e9 admit to the Union any State which, der prescribed conditions, should form a State government and ratify the four- teenth amendment. All_this only exasperated and e the President., and his irritation mani- fested itself in his conduct toward in- dividuals. ¥e had taken a particular aversion to Secretary Stanton and asked for his resignation, which was refused. Then, added to what had gone before, his repeated efforts to remove the Sec- retary in defiance of law led the House to a resolution that the President should be impeached before the Senate for high crimes and misdemeano: e trial was begun in March, 1868, but after more than two months it appeared that there was not a two-thirds majority for conviction and a verdict for acquittal was rendered. The Election of 1868. In the midst of the tension of publie feeling over the impeachment trial the Republican convention met in Chicago. The Congressional plank of reconstruc- tion was approved and General Grant was nominated for President. The Demo- cratic convention demanded Immediate and unconditional representation in Con- gress for all the States, with the power of self-government and the regulation of suffrage by each State for itself. Hora- tio Seymour of New York was the can- didate. _ Grant received 214 _electoral votes, Seymour %, but several of the Southern States had not been readmitted and were not allowed to vote. The di- vision between the partles was drawn by the question of reconstruction alone. Pro- fessor Johnston says: ‘“As the issue be- tween the parties was distinctly made, the result of the election would seem to settle the rule that any State which for- mally casts off allegiance to the Federal Government and is cnnayelled to submit must be readmitted by Con in much the same manner as a Territory applying for admission as a State.” JESSE MACY. Towa College. Healthy for Years. Goldfish are easily kept alive and heal- thy for many years if one only knows how to do it. “Goldfish,” says an expert, “should never be kepd in the so-called globe, or circular aquariums. Constantly swimming around the vessel, they ex- haust themselves and die. sometimes after a couple of days. Square aquariums are best, and the vessel must properly filled with gravel and aquatic plants, the more plants the better. “Furthermore, the fish should never be kept in running water. and the water should never be changed more than twice a year, provided, of course, the rium is properly constructed and has the neces. sary amount of gravel, aquatic plants and the like. If this be the case, the carbonic acid ras exhaled by the fish is inhaled by the plants in the water, and the oxygen given out by the plants is breathed by the fish, thus producing an equalization that keeps the aquarium in a healthy condi- tion and obviates the necessity of chang- lngvlvl;’e ‘water. en it is necessary to water it should be done room, and the fresh water must not be of lower temperature. In changing the water the flsh might easily cateh cold, a thine to be avoided. “There should he a number of tadpoles in every aquarium. They not only eat the waste ms‘:;flnl. 'Pm« they form an interesting _subject of oug::aon when changing from the tadpole the frog.’ Phiiadelohia Tnauires,