Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-01-20

Blaine from the committee on rules 10 enact
JOINT rules substantially those in existence at
the close OF the 43d Congress. including tile
said 18th rule.
"Stet" had better overhaul his joint rules be-
fore he undertakes 10 call the attention OF the
Vice President and Speaker to anything more.
NERITAS,
Fifty Gents a Day.
Editor !StGr;-"Citizen' says he has worked for
less than fifty cents per day in the harvest field:
so have |, but II he would remember that he re-
celVed his board and house rent thrown in. it
might put different aspect on the thing. Fifty
cents day amounts is $3 per month, ana the
poor man has TO pay SO for house rent. and has
balance on hand OF 81 to support his family:
and this in country the grandest, the greatest
and the richest that the sun shines on. BIT it
SHOWS In measure how the wealth OF this
country for the last ten years has been using its
influence TO pauperHe labor. But then We have
congress to look to Tor our interest. (Oh. yes
LOOK at them granting privileges TO ricn c5rpO-
TaJlCnS or all kinds; millions OF acres to rail
roads. but the District OF Columbia may go a
begging for one acre for school purposes. OH.
but they have commenced to do better. They
nave begun TO economic. so they have. Yes,
ndeed' they reduced the laboring mans pay
ana all others in the departments who get one
thousand dollars and under. and allowed all
others 10 remain, even their own. JUSTICE.
Complete the Monument as Designed
NJ. Edit0r:-ln this far of day. dies lila, when
The Washington monument shall have been
completed it Will be a proud thought to YOU
that the EVENING STAR had done so much to-
ward moulding public sentiment and guild ing
pubic taste by throwing open its columns TO
CRITICS ana caFlleTs as well as to architects and
artists, thus marshallng before the community
and congress whole battallOnS OF designs and
armies OF suggestions Out OF the multitude of
whose counsel safety might surely be found
l Unfortunately, the day OF completion seems to
be long way off, and the multitude OF cOun-
selors' pulling vigorously in divers and oppo-
site directions, seem to have effectually stopped
all growth.
Permit your present correspondent then. not
as architect or artist, but as an enthusiast and
student $50 far as his humble opportunities per
NIT in all art, TO have his say for what il is
WORTH especially as he feels that he is making
the minority report from the seif-cOnStituted
committee on public sentiment, in advocating.
as he does the completion OF the noble shaft as
originally designed, but without the pantheon
or clustered columns around the base.
When the approach OF the hundredth ma
t tional birthday reused Congress, for very
SnaIne 10 make partial provision for the com
pletfon OF the Washington monument, it was
our misfortune that every ambitious artist
architect, and sculptor instantly lost sight Gifts
true OBJECT, and saw in the tardy appropriation
a possible provision. and in the unfinished
Shaft a possible monument for himself And
the committee and commission having the mat
ter in charge were overwhelmed with designs
varying all the way from a triumphal arch
to bell tower, and alike only in being designed
1or the honor and glory OF the artist instead of
in cOmmemOration OF the character and ser
vices OF George Washington. With one accord
these ambitious gentlemen denOunce the
- heathen obeliSk and deny that it is '.monu-
mental Is not this dwelling nonsense? What
man or woman Is there who has not from child
hood associated the ObeiiSk with the dead and
marked its stately simple lines preponderating
in an hundred graveyards? The artist and The
sculptor have each a noble field in cOmmemO-
rating the illustrious dead; right, good and
worthy Is Is OF great nation to multiply
statues ara hang paintings OF its heroes and
statesmen.
Pinsitur in tabulis formae p,ritura vcaustas.
Nl'at III III tabtIs. Guod pert in face
But no sculptor can carve, no painter paint
AdtiC7di Monument. Those good citizens and
gentlemen who thirty years ago adopted the eX-
lStlng design said 10 each other All Americans
are accustomed 10 mark the resting place OF
Their honored dead by Obelisks, simple, stately
and severe; let us as Il nation raise to orr chief
est hero an obel1Sk great i'll proportion to all
other monuments. as Washington lowered
ABOVE all other men," And 50 ought we to say
now. We DO not want monument which the
curious Slght-Seer may examine through his
glasses, and inquire as he notes its details
:, VINO designed these arches?' or Who carved
tEese ngufeS?'-but rather shaft so grand
ana IOlty DIS 10 tell us own story as far as human
eye can reach, SO strong and solid as to last for
dateleSs ages, and so severe and simpla os tn
point straight to the great dead whom it com
memorates, without thought of the brain that
designed or the hands that builded; and such a
monument we will have If the commission are
permitted TO carry out the plan delivered to
tneli ny Tue oiu society. WERNER.
More Upon the Fifty Cen. Question.
a. E0, a Sgt Ii; l." seems to ignore the
law OF supply and demand as a regulator OF
prices i regret l am not ''vulturen for
have no means OF employing any necesSit
man at any rate OF wages. / won't ask ct II.
''yulture," and thereby able to hire Iaborers at
so cents; but l will ask him to go to the old
Central guard-house, Louisiana avenue odging
department, with 55 cents-75 cents or more
VIII be better-and pay the amount daily to
some OF the strong, able bodied men there who
are willing to work for 50 cents, but will not re-
! NJ for 6Atv.S Inhn nnU
! trampS, but cannot get work at any price and
| are necessarily forced into charity lodgings.
Ealing me names Is no sign OF charity b On tne
| cerity by paying men even 30 cents day for
labor done rather than let them suffer or starye
ahan DAY nGa Paa ~
| where the city furnishes stone breaking and
| pays 20 cents day, the tramp and the aristo-
crat refuse to work for it, but hundreds OF able
bodied men with families are glad to accept it
simply because more cannot be had. There are
men in Washington who, Cohen like, would
hound any laboring men TO the death for taking
| low wages, and yet, Cohen like, would not give
| even penny for any work done. ] am labor.
| ing man myself and work hard to get even grut
greet that there are men in the lodging house
, who cannot get work In Washington at even sc
| cents day. Now won't st. H. L." find them
| work for say, 55 cents day. j.
Justice to the Physicians Who Did
| the Work.
Editor STAR am positive that the spirit OF
| impartiality that has always imbued the man
agement of THE STAR viii prompt it now to find
space for remonStrance against an ungener
| Gus scheme, that was recently conceived, shaped
| and executed by some influential person. Many
residents are aware Of the fact that the Com
miSsioners made overtures TO the physicians t
| the poor when that s, 900 was nearly exhausted
indiGent SEX sUpnosing this to- be nas ~ s1s
| ID fe-appOntment when Congress provided
means for Its continuance, every physician t.