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6 TCE MO-KJSnDSTGr TIMES, SUNDAY, MABCH 28, 1897. (Moisting, Evnwixc axd scud at) By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Co. HUTCHIXS BUILDING XCoktjieast coiotb Tenth am Sts. Telephones Editorial Rooms. 4S1 Iiuslncs? Ofilee, HUO I ri TOPIC orFlCE, TRACT UCILDIXO frlcc Jlo-nlngor Evening Lditiou.

OuoCcut Sui iy Edition Tlirco Cents ilcutlily, liy Carrier Morning and Ccns Evening Cents Uoining. i Eenlngand Fiirrv Cents Sunday, BY MAIL POSTAGE PREPAID Morning, Evening and Suuday 50o Horning and Sunday 3Go Evening and Sunday 35o JVVASHINGTON, SUNDAY, MARCH 28, tbelcss enabled to pny political debts or reward personal favorites by reducing or increasing tlje pay and grade of employes already In office, and very often to the detriment of tlie sen-ice and in defiance of equity. Operations lite that will cease with the perfection of the system, and that perfection we confidently expect to see accomplished before the end of the present Administration. The Republican Coufoslon. Very few episodes in American parliamentary history have been more sensational or startling than the amazing frankness -with which the Republican majority in the of Representatives has confessed its complete subservience to the trusts and monopolies, which, it admits, in a perfunctory -way, are throttling the people of the United States.

Perhaps the most suggestive feature of the occurrence is the fact that, -when Mr. Dockery offered his amendment to the enacting clause of the Dingley bill, providing that -whenever it was shown to 'the satisfaction of the Pi evident that there -was a trust or combination to control the price of any article on the dutiable li-t, the duty on tucli article should be suspended, the trust repre-bentutives on the floor did not dare to allow a vote upon it. although, the House being in committee, the yeas and nays could not Imve been ordered, and the ruajoiitj could have voted it down, en masse, and then iiMividunlly denied contribution to that result It all goes to show cither that the Republican trust members are afraid to appear in the remotest degree in any aspect save that of willing and eager agents of the monopolies, or they have grown so bold and insolent in the belief that their masters are omnipotent and their infamous cause impregnable that they have reacted the point of throwing: off the mask of political hypocrisy, and are now ready to appear before the country in their true character and uniform. We are much mistaken if the incident Is not destined to form a very serious object lesson to members of the other House whose "complacency'' has been counted uxion to aid in the pn-ssage of this tariff nieasufcrnow irretrievably admitted by its managers and friends to be strictly in the interests of the trusts. Whatever personal view of the situation the Senators in question may feci inclined, or open to iwlocesneut, to take of the situation, there can be but one opin- ion as to how public sentiraent in their several States will Tiew this strange disclosure, of the leal Republican position and purpose in trying to force the Dingley bill down the throat of the nation.

The action or the Republican majority in the House in the matter of tsc Dockery proposition is public confession of ownership by the trusts and active agency In their in the current tariff legis lation. The fact will have its effect upon the people. It will rill them with in-dfeMafeiod ami Bs.gast; but probably neither that nor any stfcer consideration wttl servo to ay the hand of the trusts coparceners, or prevent the ultimate passage of the corrupt and destructive measure in the blanch of the national legislature. What shall hogpen to it in the Senate Is a very serious question between conscience and daty on one side and "complacency," "influence," and' the stock-ticker on the other. Many million eyes will be focussed on the Senate from this time to- the end of the session.

The Nation In Miniature. Senator Caunon, of Utah, has introduced a resolution which pertains to the making of a gigantic geographical object lesson out of what is now known as Potomac Park. It is the upper part of the reclaimed Potomac flats, and it is proposed that this be laid out In the rorm of. a relief map of the United States, with all State divisions, villages, and phy sical features distinctly brought out. ft is evident that the value of such a miniature reproduction of the United States can hardly be measured.

To say nothing of school ch ildren who will thus be disabused of the idea that meridians are marked on the surface of the earth as they are on the map, and that the "Western States are the same size as those of New England, each filling one page of 'the geography, this park, will be a wonderfully intciesting thing to visitors and to older citizens of "Washington. From the top of the Monument it will be possible to obtain a bird's-eye view of the map, which will be very much like the view that one might get or the entire country if it were possible to get far enough away from It in a balloon. Then, if desired, one may drive or walk about, in the park itself, for a nearer view of each State and its natural features. Several similar schemes are on foot in Europe. M.

Borget-Court has designed for the Paris Exposition of 1900 a colossal metallic globe; and a similar plan Is suggested by a London scientist. But this idea would necessarily be worked out on a much smaller scale than Senator Cannon's Miniature of Our Country," as he likes to call it, and would not be nearly so satisfactory on account of the difficulty with whicht could bestudied. The only feasible way of doing this would be by a spiral staircascror something of Che kind-Senator Cannon's scheme has a distinct political value, though this is not at first sight quite so evident as its educational merit. It Is to be doubted if most Eastern people have the clearest possible idea or the magnitude of the great "West, and it is certain, that many members of the foreign legations have not. This park would give a comprehensive idea 3f the proportions of the various States and of their geographical characteristics at a single glance.

It would make clear to those in terested ia many a bill relating to the commerce or development of some State Just what the arguments for and against that bill might be. It would set forth the physical advantages and disadvantages of one State and another as regards emigration. It could be used as an object lesson on climatic conditions, and commercial and economic conditions. It would, in short, do quickly and completely what pages of statistics sometimes fall to do, aid statemen ami diplomats to understand the conditions under which Oieir fellow-statesmen and fellow-diplomats are forced to act. And it would make what is now an unsightly and disreputable-looking tract of land a place full of use and beauty.

It is to be hoped that no time will be lost In passing whatever legislation is necessary to effect this result. Then we shall have, in place of thePotornac flats, oae of the most unique and interesting parks in the world, and one which has no duplicate in this country or any other. Senator Cannon's- has Invented. The invention 'called the Luxfer prism is Intended to make it possible lo dispense with artificial light In the daytime. It is based on the principle of refraction that same principle which causes a ray of light to be bent in passing from air to water.

The somi-prism deflects the light rays of the sun in any desired direction, and by the use of large plate-glass windows covered with these tiny semi-prisms it is thought that light can be thrown Intoastoreroonior basementor into any dark office-room, making it as light as those at the very top of the build ing. The invention originated in Canada, but has been perfected in Chicago, where It is surely as much needed as anywhere else in the, Gus companies and oculists may object to it, but real estate owners will rejoice. They can raise the rent on some of their lower dfflces. And the cleiks in those offices will be happiest of air. WHAT ISUOING ON" IN SOCIETY.

New York is considering a plan for connecting the New Yoik nndHrooklyn post-offices by a pneumatic tube. This plan was conceived some little time ago, and permission granted for it by the bridge authorities, but it has been in abeyance for some reason, or other, and only lately revived. It is said Hint this scheme will transmit letters from the one city to the other in three minutes, wheieas the pies-ent carrier service consumes half an hour. If it proves as satisfactory as it Icoks on paper, itwill ben greatboonto the business men of the metropolis. This pneumatic tube experiment in the postal service is of intciest, not only to New York, but to the whole country.

Its success means an immense reduction in expense to the Postoffice Department, a quicker transmission of important news, md that closer couneetlon of the whole nation in thought and feeling which always comes from increased facilities in communication. If it succeeds in New York, it will undoubtedly be put in foice at various city post-offices and over short-distance routes in various parts of the country. Undoubtedly It will mean loss to the telegraph companies, and loss of employment to man camera. That the other side of the question. In any light, it is an important matter, and will be watched with interest.

Mr. Cleveland took to private citizenship like a duck to water, and it fs thought the ducks also enjoy being: private citizens. The St. Louis Republic says that the dams are breaking loose in the Mississippi Valley. "We should think thoj would, unless the inhabitants are unusually pious.

If Mr. Charlemagne Tower has been slated for the Austrian mission, it will look very much as if anothei patriot who "held the same place under Harrison" must go hungry this time. Famine ia widespread in Cuba In the vicinity of the Spani-h positions. "Weyler has destroyed the farm, l.oiiifs and crops of the people. He will not feed them in the cities, and if they go out to the country his guerrillas intercept and butcher them.

Thousands are dyimr of starvation. Mr. "Wan a maker's friends are very inconsiderate. They want him to run for office all the lime. idea ia fine.

An Impregnable System. That the outbreak of abute against the merit system in the civil service which has marked recent Senatorial debates is an unpleasant commentary upon the good sense and dignity of some members of that body, is rather too obvious to meet discussion. It has not tended to increase admiration or reverence for the upper house of our parliament, in the minds of thinking and educated people. It ia altogether to be regretted because the national '-gallery'' to which it was played will not take it, or even its projectors, seriously. The object of the explosion is extremely open to suspicion.

It Is even suggestive of a possible purpose to create an impression that the Senators attacking the system would demolish it if they could, and then spend the remainder or their devoted lives In the pleasant pursuit of distributing publio pie among their adoring constituents. As a matter of fact, they do not want to sec civil service reform abolished. The time is too recent when, under the spoils system. Senators and Members of Congress were nttle else than office-brokers, trotting around all day from one department to another, begging, influencing, crying or bullying to secure places for rapacious local partisans or personal henchmen, and neither the necessity nor the practice was comfortable. In addition to that consideration and the advantages of the rerorm to the comfort and efficiency of representative service, the Senators who are busiest in attacking the merit system are entirely advised as to the hold It has upon general public confidence throughout the country, and know as well as wo do that it has come to stay.

This does not mean that in staying it is not to be eubjected to further reform, because It 1b not yet perfect, and has been loaded with certain abuses in contempt of its true spirit and principle These abuses form Just ground for complaint against the looseness of the law which has permitted them, and against the unjust use of the opportunity thus presented to evade the trueintcntand meaning of the law by many public officials. Under the Cleveland Administration, for example, admission to the civil service being largely controlled by thelaw on that ubject, heads of departments were never- On to The-salvv The special, confidential, and exclusive communications of crowned heads and prime ministers to favored newspaper cor respondents are so frequently subjects for denial after publication that one needs to regard them with the critic's eye, always suspecting that they may contain imperfections, which later may have to be passed by, or according to the taste or inclination of the reader. On this account we are not prepared to say that King George really did assure a New York reporter of his intention to cut loose and defy the powers on their commencing the blockade of Greece, but it is probable he told somebody so, because it is about the only course left open to him, short of a miserable surrender to the brutal demands of his enemies, the abandonment of his Cretan kismen, and thedisbmd-mentof his army, now face to face with the Turks, under Edhem Pacha, the notorious butcher of Armenia. Reports justify the expectations that, among other ports, the Gulf of Volo will be closed at once. This would cup the sea communications of the Greek army in Thessaly.

It is this particular measure that King George is represented as intend- I ing to resent with an instant strike across the frontier. St. Petersburg news indicates- that Russia- expects such a movement, and very likely has finessed to bring it about as a convenient prelude to what' ever action the czar may hz contemplating. The situation is by no means clear, but it is evident that the usefulness of the "Concert" is at an cndr and that the shell of that coalition Is on the eve of coHapse. The first battle in Thessaly would develop things other than dead Greeks and Turkg.

We should sec things humall the way from the Black to the Aegean Sea and an international row fit to shako Europe Under theMcKinley law the duty on barley equaled GO per cent. The Dingley bill makes it SO. In ISflti the imports of barley amounted to S37.3S-1 bushels, while the exports were 7,630,331 bushels. In 18S3, when the tariff on barley was 10 cents, It yielded a revenue of $1,000,000. If the Dingley bill were part of a comic opera, it would make the hit of the season, but comic opera bills were never Intended for national politics.

The President desires papers concerning applications for office in the form of briefs, and he likes the same kind of talk on similar subjects. The forest reservation policy never had amore striking or unanimous backing tTian it gets- from the terrible "Western and Southern floods now in progress. But for the deforestation of the headwaters of rivers and streams, and of watersheds irenerallv. such calamities would be im- tne fashionables, among whom were Mrs. I Altirtt.

"Vrltlrtt MVr PrrrTJcT. Ifmn vmkj 1.IH.C Fashionable "Washington has not been so completely hftldej by Lenten seclusion and sackcloth is 'is usual at this season, owing to the inrBuxof new people which the new Administration and the.extra session have brought with them. Though fashion dictates thafcj! decorous dullness only is good form during thb penitential forty days, hospitality has demanded that the newcomers be dindd nndolhcrwisciutroduced. For once hospitality taken the lead, and dinners, luncheons and receptions in honor of the new Cabinet and recently-elected Senators have made the dull season quite gay. Some of these affairs have been very elaborateand have evidenced thefactthat lavish expenditure and thorough good taste are perfectly compatible in certain households.

Visiting lists, Instead of having been laid aside, are being carefully revised, now names have taken the plncc of those who have gone, and, as society bids farewell at one door, she welcomes the lions of the new Administration at the other. At least this ia the state of arralrs In political and semi-political circles, which naturally take up so largo a portion of Washington's Vanity Fair. However, the one thing ror which we are all devoutly thankful, in the kaleidoscopic changes or our very cosmopolitan social circles, is our contingent or old Washington families, who have their permanent homes here and help to give some semblance of stability and tone to the society of the Nutlonal Capital. Such people as the John It. McLeans, the Emery the Edward McCaufeys, and that stately and clK'rming lady, who has so long been a social leader of the highest rank, Mrs.

Harriet. Lane Johnston, are they who con stitute the leal upper tendom of our capital city. Who is going to take the place of those lavish enteitaincrs, the Brices, with the passing of whom the glories of Corcoran Holme are said to be on the wane? Where is the di net -out, who, having sat at that generous board, and breathed the perfume rrom the great heaps of roses, which have almost nightly been sacrificed upon the altar of the Ilricc hospitality, does not heave a sigh of regret at their departure? Who among the newcomers will have the De Reszkes, Melba, or Lilli Lehman pouring foith their melodious notes at $2,000 an afternoon, which will float out, through the drawing-rooms and cor ridors, as they have done at Corcoran, House, at the nmsicales which have been given by the Ililces for the pleasure or their 000 inlimute friends? Will the mantle of such splendid hospitality descend easily and gracefully upon the shoulders of the Hannna, to whom the lease of Corcoran House has been offered, and by whom it has been declined; not, as lias been declared, because Senator and Mrs. Hanna arc going to remain at the Arlington, but because Mrs. Hanna prefers a more modern mansion? That she lias been veryquietly but very assiduously house-hunting is known only to a very few of her friends; and that she will soon decide upon suitable lesidence will be food for much pleasant chatter among the gossips.

By the by, an interesting Tact which is beginning to be realized by Washington's, swell set is that Mrs. Hanna is not only handsome and aristocratic but that she Is brimful of tact and is a diplomat to her very finger lips. The past week has not been so given over to "affairs" for the newcomers as was the previous one Still It has been pretty well filled up with a somewhatdiversified social program. The marriage of Miss Sigsbec to Mr. Kitellc, of theNavy, was the first important event of the week, and it has been lollowed by anumber of luncheons, dinners and informal card parties.

The first CjilSWt dinner of the Administration occurred on Wednesday last, and the mooted, question of "wine or water" was settled beyond dispute. Although to 'diplomatic diners out and some of their American brothers canvas-back without Burgundy will scarcely be "canvabuck," and White House dinners will of course be noted very dry, there are the White Itibboucrs whose rejoicings will be sufficient requital to Mrs. McKinley to offset the adverse criticism of the non-temperance people. In having thus shown the courage of her convictions this esti-mablelady has also mado manifest the fact that the Hayes regime will serve as a model for the present Administration. The drill on Friday afternoon at Ft Myer was a most interesting event, owing to the fact of its being in compliment lo the new Secretary of War.

All the Cabinet members and a number of the ladles of their families took lunch with Col. and Mrs. Sumner, and later witnessed the drill, at which the President and Mrs. McKiniey were present. Then we hnve had with us the Boston Symphouy Orchestra, who had nearly all society entranced with their rendition of a Wagnerian program on Tuesday evening.

Those who had not secured boxes or parquet seats, overflowed into the balcony and galleries. The audience was distinctively of the music-loving- set, whicli numbers many of KSKHS2B EBHS2S5 HE2ZJ2E SEHSJHHS SSSESSSSi A six-week trip to Europe with such a prince or entertainers" as Cor. E. B. Hay tIrne yo" ave Washington over the Royal Blue Line, July until you return six weeks later-all expenses paid by us.

That a what's in store for the most popular school teacher. Cast your vote tor somebody A. vote with every half-dollar purchase. Washington's Wonderful Stor Saks' is a wonderful store. Wonderful in.

its bigness in it's scope in its undertakings fit its influence in what it accomplishes. Theoower of six big- Saks stores one here, two in New York, one in Richmond, one in Norfolk, one in Indianapolis concentrate their buying- and selling capacity to the benefit of this one. The prestige of a modern manufacturing- plant adds to its advantages. At no point in the retail world are producer and consumer brought closer together than at Saks5 counters. This store's home fs the fdeal home for an honest business spacious convenient light.

No dark corners to shield shoddy and hide deceit. It's very architectural plan proclaims the intent and purpose of its This is the leading Clothing Store because we give, our garments quality and tailorship that make them superior. This is the leading Hat Store because it offers all the leading shapes and strictly on the merits of value. It wears noamaker's fetters. This is the leading- Shoe Store because it controls the leading makes of Men's and Shoes and sells them at Saks-prices.

This is the leading Furnishing Goods Store because its stock is always fullest and freshest its qualities always best and its variety exclusive. This is the leading Sporting and Athletic Goods Store because it saves you from 20 to 30 percent on all stan'dard lines. This is the leading -Ladies' and Misses' Suit and Wrap Store because it brins the choicest styles of the fashion centers of the world before you. This is the leading Tailoring Store, because it has the talent to execute the finest work and the feature doing it for what it is worth. bj This is the leading Livery Store, because it keeps in touch witk fashion and keeps i(s prices within reason.

This is a Store of Stores ail under one org-anization with one purpose one policy leading to one result that of servings better than any does best that any 4 can It's the store that suits the people and the people deserve the store. It's 4 broad-g-auge it's liberal it's straightforward. It says, bring back what isn't satisfy factory and get your money. It means that. It's not afraid to acknowledge a mistake, fcj It's safer to trust because of such bravery.

Ifs a more wonderful store now at the beginning- of this spring season than it has ever been. Study it. SAKS AND COMPANY, jj "SAK'S CORNER." aS2K5SSffi55S2SESS2JffiSS, THE LOUNGER ON THE AVENUE. possible. Mr.

McMillin asks If a clean shirt Is a luxury. It may be, if the tariff on soap goes up much higher. lleportsfrom the flooded regions seem to afford the hope that the -worst in past. Unless a fresh volume of water should come down from the far Xorth, -which is still an uncomfortable possibility, a further rise in the lower valley districts ta not looked for. Relief work is neingprosecuted -with vigor.

We trust that Senator Plattls notsnper-stiUoiiSr otherwise the receipt of a Black eye in the Capitol might seem ominous in connection with comfortable control of the home machine. The Luxfer Prism. Oae of the dangers -which threaten us in our skyscraper civilization is the possibility that certain species of the human race -will be reduced to the condition of the flsh in the Mammoth Cave, or otherwise physically modified, through working in dark rooms. Some of the office buildings of our large clUes must be lighted day and night by artificial means; some corners of lower floors in most office buildings are dark enough to exist In a sort of perpetual twilight, and the result of all these things is more business for the oculist. It is universally conceded that natural Ught, when it can bo had, is better than, gas, electricity or anything else that man Tcrhaps there Is -wisdom in selecting a West Virginia maa for Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Most people in that State have a pretty shrewd notion as to localities -where moonshine, is most refulgent, and the knowledge might come handy All Right Under the Hnt. (From the Boston Globe.) The silk hat worn by Secretary Long in Washington is said to be the talk of the town. But the distinguished Kew Englander, who can boast of being "both sailor and scholar, is more concerned with what is in his Head that what Is on it. Sink or Switn. (From the Omaha- World-Herald.) One esteemed contemporary insists that our Navy bo designated as "the floating debtr" and another amends by asking" that it be" called our "sinking fund." fund or bond, our Navy seems to be well watered.

The Tariff in Europe. (From the Houston Tost.) Europe ought not to be kicking so against our high tariff propositions. The people over there can still buy our goods much cheaper than we can buy them at A State in Town. (From the Atlanta Constitution.) It is stated on reliable authority that Ohio has moved to Washington, and is camping in the streets and party, the Swiss Minister and Mme. Pioda, Senator and Mrs.

Elkins, Mr. and Mrs. StiIon Hutchina, Dr. Burnett, and hosts of others. The Caid Club met on Thursday evening at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Howard, of Sixteenth street, and next -week the same club will be entertained by its president, Mr. Parker Mann, nj his chaiming home, Tangle Bank, Washington Heights. Mrs. Hichborn and Mrs.

Hitc have been nniong the hostesses at pretty Lenten luncheons, and among the dinner givers of the -week were Senator and Mrs. Lodge, Col. and Mrs. Myron Parker, rhe Hawaiian minister and Mrs. natch, and Representa tive and Mrs.

Sprague, who fast evening gave one of the handsomest dinners or the season. Our fashionable charities are flourishing, although there has been so much going on socially for them to have had- quite the usual Lenten attention. The news which -was given outearly in the month ofMra Hearst's intended sojourn abroad ha caused a general pang of regret, and has given much concern to charitable circles -who depend so'largely upon her leadership and generous purse for their success. The charity concert for the benefit of the Homeopathic Hospital was a great success, musically, socially and financially. Mr.

Thomas Waggaman materially aided the Sisters of Mercy by opening his art galleries to the public for their benefit. The daughters of Postmaster General Gary are all in Baltimore, -where they have gone to prepare for the marriage of Miss Ida Gary to Mr. Francis Pegram, which is to ocdor on Wednesday, April 7, in that city. A. great deal of interest attaches to this marriage, especially as it is a fact that President and Mrs.

McKiniey are to be among the guests. They and the members of the Cabinet were the only people In Washington, -who -were Invited owing to the small seating capacity of the Church, -which only holds The Gridiron Club banquet at the Arlington last night w.ts a brilliant ending to a very enjoyable -week. I think we were discussing, two or three weeks ago, were -we not? the difference between having, in this matter of seeking orfice, an Influence that is really for you and one that is merely for you, and it hasn't surprised me a bit to find out that Thomas Collier Piatt is going to be one of the influential who will really be for you if he pretends to be. He has already sent -word to the President, to his secretary and to the various Cabinet officers that they are not to pay any at-tenUon to any recommendations, that pretend to be brought to them from Mm. He has recommended nobody and Isn't yet ready to do so.

He is going first to see -what the Republicans of New York -want, and then he will submit a slate winch, of course, the President and his advtsers can follow or not, as they choose. At any rate, he Is going to tote fair with the office-seekers of New York When the slate is first roughly made Mr. Plutt is going to try to determine with his own advisers who are the most deserving among nil the-candidates rrom a party poiut of view. From these he -will sift tliose who might turn out to be Incompetent or not thoroughly efficient. Out of the remaining ones he will pick as many as he thinks New York State is entitled to, and these he will urge upon the President.

In that way Mr. Piatt avoids iMDtheriiig Mr. McKiniey and his Cabinet officers-, he escapes a tremendous amount of worry himself and he acts on the square with everybody. passes within a foot of Senator Hanna and tbey seem to look into each other's faces, but no salutation occurs. Can it be possible that this Great Republican Manager and this Eloquent Republican Spellbinder have never met? And It this la not for a moment possible, can it- be that chcyhavemet and parted? Surely theHoa.

CAPITOL NEWS AND GOSSIP. Senator Warren, of Wyoming, is making an effort to secure Government aid for tJte mining schools of the Western States, fte says he is, hopeful that the bill he ftatia-duced looking to that end may beemae a Robert made glowing speeches during ho tnt! ZWtZJZrz; w- receat campaign for Mr. Hanna's candi- It I Money for Cruisers. Berlin, March 27. In the course of consideration of the naval estimates on the passage of the measure to its third reading in the Reichstag today, that body 1 ejected the proposal for a credit for the building of two new cruisers and a number of torpedo boats by the same vote 20 1 to 1-13 as that recorded upon these items in the second reading, a week ago.

We have known things to be far different ia many other eaes. We have known many persons of influence Senators among them to take eager constituents- and ill-advised ones, as well as friends and acquaintances from everywhere else oat-Eide of their constituencies, up to the White Hoifse and around to Home of the departments nearly every day. They may not intend to deceive these people, but they surely do deceive most of them- for don't think It would be a bad guess to say that every one of these men appear interested In ten times as many persons as can possibly be appointed. The result Is that the poor, deceived devils hang around, build their hopes on. nothing, and finally- go home disgusted, out of temper and out of money.

I have known prominent people to give applicants for favor strong letters of indorsement or of introduction, and then dispatch a messenger to the officer to whom the introduction was given, to say to him, before the applicant got there, that no attention was to be paid to the letter. The way of the Easy Boss Is surely bet ter; and if yon ever stop to think- of it, probably the President and Mr. Piatt each other thoroughly. Later on you will find Mr. McKiniey, Mr.

Bliss and Mr. Piatt sitting down together quietly, and deciding all of a sudden about two or three bushels of New York appointments. There is no doubt that chickens come home to roost. Recall the case of the Northwestern governor whose wife Is said to have snubbed the wire of a Northwestern Senator on ono occasion? It is probably a true bill: and probably it 13 true thnr, Davis, who is chairman of 1 Foreign Affairs In the Senate now, and about as big a toad as there is in the Senatorial puddle, prevented the appointment of ex-Gov. Merriamto anylmportant place.

And now I hear thatthis same Mr. Merriam has received all the recognition he will get from this Administration in the promotion of Mr. Meiriam's fafcher-la-law to be superintendent of the stationery room in the Pension Office. The geudeman's name is John Hancock, surely a distinguishedname; for doesu'tit suggest to any of us who have ever dined on the south side of the Avenue the finest of chicken dinners, with no end of white gravy, and the finest of cocktails with no end of sugar fringe and fruit depending from the tops of the glasses7 date and Mr. Banna's platform.

And is it not also one of the matters record that it was at Mr- Hanna's own suggestion Mr. Ingerooil made the speeches? One expla nation vouchsafed by a member of the expectant passing throng is that there may been some difficulty as to the proper remuneration for this binding of spells around the hearts of Republican voters, and yet this seems preposterous. 1 have been fearing all aiong that the Republican chairman-Senator, Mr Hanna, no matter how catlike hi? footsteps, nor how velvety his hand, would find a good many things to trip him up in the Senate Nobody wants to laugh too early, but it appears-trrat Allison, Aldrichandtheothera are going to oppose cloture, which Mr. Hanna is reputed to have Induced Mr Hoar to introduce, and that the Senate proposes generally to take its time discussing the Dingley bill. Nothing else was to be expectednothing else with regard to cloture, or with regard to the tariff.

It is way the Senate always has, and. while the influence of the Administration, whichMr. Hanna can undoubtedly exert everywhere, I Is going to be tremendous, the task: Is also going to be tremendous. The new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Brigham. is six feet four Inches tall.

He is a great walker. Mr. Brigham does not go in much for clothes, except strictly as wearing apparel. Mr. Brigham has a warm, firm hand pressure, a jolly mantlet, and he makes friends of all he meets.

He is said to be almost an Ideal man for this agricultural position. Ha has been the head or the national Grange for many and is perhaps the force that has kept this organization running and when other farmers organizations have fallen by the way. Notice Mr. Brigham, and mako his acquaintance, ir you can. Ton will like him.

On the finest day last week such a sunshiny, gladsome spring day as Col. Ed. Hay especially delights la, I met this gentleman in front of the Treasury Department. Col. Hay has blossomed ont as a great admirer of Gen.

Porter, the new ambassador to France. Said Mr. Hay: "The thing I like best about Gen. Porter Is Ids strong and persistent admiration of Lincoln. He never neglects the opportunity to tell a Lincoln story almost ns well as the President could have told it himself.

And to me it has seemed that his orations on the character of the martyred President are the finest that have ever been delivered. Surely no one who heard that great address of his at the last meeting of the Loyal Legion on Lincoln's birthday will ever forget it. If you wish to compare Gen. Porter's oratorical pow ers with those of Dr. Depew, he Is perhaps not 60 eloquent, in bis periods, but he is serious and earnest and there Is just enough humor in his remarks to keep them away from any suggesUon of proslness.

There is nothing of the buffoon about Gen. Porter." Aiuutcu uiii univimni. mr- aifiiMn. aa tam scientinc institutions. He says he beliees that if the mining schools eaa be placed the sain- basis as tbe agrfcwtawaf institutions each State of the mautttoria west can and will support a ffrst-cfasa mining school.

The Senator's bill provides that hereafter if any State- sha establish a school of raises ic melt fe placed on the same bast as estaMfefced. the law retoiiag to GoveraraeHt support as the State agrieultural colleges. Tlrti provides that Mmj UoveraiBf at shall pay each of thee institutions 513,000 Me ftew year after adoption, increasing tfce appropriations each year after passage by $1,000 a year until the sam reaches 525,000 per and continuing after that time annual appropriations at that sum- The Senator says that a bill to this same effect was introduced In the last Coagres.s and favorably reported by the Hmse Committee en Muxes and Mining, but wasaoS acted upert. He says that he is coafktern; shai Ctts will yet determine In favor of extending Uhj same aid to sciiools ot mining as are afforded 3tate agricultural and scientific, schools. Many States outside of the West.

Hfe. Pennsylvania, West Virgmla North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama are alao ex. pected to establish similar schools if Govern ment aid can be depended upon, Hon. William R. Bates, a.

member ot the ITichigau legislature, and a weli-knewn member of the Republican party. Is- in the city. Mr. Bates is familiarly remem bered in Washington as. having formerly been secretary to Senator McMiHon.

Representative Bates is one of the best known and most active members of the legislature. A quarter of a centnry ago, when in his twenty-first year, be was first elected to the legislature, fall he went back to Lansing, after twenty-five year3 absence. "Yes." said Mr. Bates yesterday, "I have got the legislative bablt I an going to make It a business to be elected to the legislature every twenty-five yeara. I was there that long ago, I am tteero now, and I assure you I would be quite willing to go there every twenty- ttw years for tlie next 3,000 years." GREAT SCARCITY- OF SEALS.

Marcus Aurelius Hanna Is seen standing on the corner talking to a constituent. A peaceful and, fatherly smile Irradiates his face. "You wish something in the Treasury," Mr.Hannais saying. Anotherpeace-ful and fatherly smile Illuminates the middle distance on the face of the approaching RobertGMngersoll. Passers-byknowing both these distinguished gentlemen hesitate a second in expectation of a happy meeting.

It does not come. Mr. Ingersoll Newfoundland' Cntcli tlie Smallest in a. Centnry. St.

Johns, N. March. 27. News from the east coast sealing fleet was received today. Out cf sixteen steamers fishing in the North Atlantic eleven have been heard from.

Their combined catches are only 21,000 seals, less than a load for one steamer. ThLs is the worst record for a hundred years-There is little likelihood of the ffshery being retrieved later from total failure. Including three laden steamers Ashing In the Gulf of St.Lawrcncc, seals aro now reported, and It is not probable that this number will bo doubled before the close of the season. Suicide of a Commission Merchant. Charlotte, March 27.

Scott Sea-volt, a prominent commisslvu merchant of this city, shot and killed himself in the woodshed of his residence at noon today. No cause Is known for the suicide. Judge Martin V- Montgomery, formerly of the District supreme court, is at Cfcam- berlin's- He was a gold Democrat in the late campaign, but declares himself to be, in spirit and principle, a biructalilst. He admits that be does not yet see his way clear to any hope of the harmonious reunion of the Democratic wings. He finds Loth to be singularly and unusually stubborn.

He says he would be glad to see harmony restored, for he is a Democrat and not a Republican. "This ridiculous Dinglej bill makes me worse than tired." he says; "but I do not propose to vote for any repudiation party. A few years ago I would have been very angry if any man had tried to convince mc that I shoirfdever vote for a Republican President. But I lived to vote for McKiniey and the straight Republican ticket, audi have to say that I shall nevcrr again vote for any Democratic pickets while they are headed as they are now in my State Deaiocratic-Pcopla's-Unlon Silver ticket. I am not a Populldt or Republican." Attorney General McKennn has usketf Congress to appropriate S100.000 mori for jury fees.

In his letter to Speakei Reed he shows that of the $533,000 appropriated for the current year. only about 310,000 remains in the Treasury. He says that a decrease In the amount needed is expected, but nobody can estimate accurately how much. Based on the expenses for the past eight months, tin estimate is for the amount asked. It it is too much it win bo returned at tha close of the year.

The appropriations for 1S95 and ISO1! were and SS00.000. respectively. A musical andllterary entertainment was given at the National Capital Bank Half," Thursday evening, under the auspices ol Standard Comciandery of TJ. O. G.

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