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hibit. and it is to be hoped that the senate
will promptly concur in the favorable acuoh
already taken by the House.


will promptly concur IN the favorable ac'ioh
already taken by the House.
The Assembly yesterday unanimously passed
a resolution requesting the Railroad Commit
tee to consider whether the Metropolitan Lie-
waited Road should not be required to run
half-hourly trains between midnight and
a. m. 1t is understood that the Committee
will probably report bill to that effect. Inc
Company might make a graceful surrender
by issuing the necessary orders before the
bin can be passed.
A movement is on foot to check those lttie
friendly games of poker to which rugged ana
honest gentry in the stock-drivng business
are constantly inviting the much-bored uaV-
eler by rail- bill is before the Legislature
to prohibit these innocent games, which are
harshy designated by the name of gambling"
and to authorize conductors aud firemen to
arrest lieht-hearted persons who indulge in
them. The bill passed the Assembly yester-
day.
1t was once remarked by an eminent literary
authority that Chaucer was a very good poet
but he couldn't spell. This is the allegation,
in slightly different form, which dis
tiDguished member of the Senate has pre-
ferred AGAINST an applicant for the responsible
position of Census Supervisor. He has insisted
that man who could not spell ought not to
be Census Supervisor. and has laid especial
stress upon the damnng fact that this candidate,
in addressing the President, allowed but one
81" in the word Exceency. Now the saddcning
discovery is made that the Senator himself in
his desire to avoid This blunder doubled it, as
it werc In bis letter to Mr.. Stephens, he
spelled Marshal with two "fs' and cOntrO-
versy with too many "e's." IL would not have
been noticed if he had not recently arisen as
the apostle of correct photography. Now we
must admit that we have been convinced by
his own logic. A man who can't spell Is not
fit to be United States Senator We shall ex-
pect the Generals resignation forthwith, and
we suggest quite in a friendly way that it be
written with the aid of the dictionary.
1t is the belief of many who have given the
Indian question careful study that in the de
struction of the tribal relation, and IN the
transformation of the Indian into an indiyid-
ual citizen landholdeT, lies the best possible
solution Of the problem. A bill, quoted
elsewhere. authorizes the Secretary OF
the Interior in cases where the To-
cation of reservation is advantageous
for agricultural and grazing purposes, and no
provision for allotment has been before made,
to allot the land in severalty in parcels of not
more than 100 acres The residue of the
land, it is provided, shall be sold, and the
proceeds invested in four per cent bonds, the
interest to be paid to the Indians once
holding the reservation. The objection Is
made to this by " II. H. that they would, i'll
many cases, retain only a small portion OF
their lands, while the annuities might be no
better assured than they have sometimes
been in the past. The suggestion is not con-
elusive, as it is but fair to hope for improved
administrations in the future; but it Is
worthy of attention, and the same may be
said of the point made that the Indian is
deprived of all the control of an owner oyer
his land, except for holding and tilling it.
Mr.. Lucius Robinson, formerly Governor of
this State, will rub his eyes Overh his newspaper
this morning. The bill authorizing the cleo
ton of women as school trustees which he
vetoed and otherwise despitefuly used, was
passed Yesterday through both houses Of the
Legislature, without one dissenting vote in the
Senate, and with but three in the House And
its final enactment into law would he assured,
inasmuch as Governor Cornell distinctly
recommended the bin in his Message, if were
not that its scope has been enlarged 1t now
that women shall be allowed
10 vote in the election of schoo
trustees as well as to be voted for. II
is not known that Governor Cornell fayors
this addition to the measure, but at the same
time it is not known that he is opposed to it.
Certainly the experiment Of feminine voting
and feminine olfce-hOlding seems in a fair way
TO be tried, and we may soon see the question
practically tested whether the women of New
York are any more anxious than the women
Of Massachusetts to minglc In the fray Of
politics. Ia that State the idea Of eecthg
women TO school boards seemed to be regarded
Mt the election last December by both sexes
with equal favor. but the idea Of participating
in the election was not rapturoUsy received
bv the women themselves In five cities the
t0tal'number of women elected as trustees
was seven; of men, fifteen. But the votes
cast by women in the whole State did not
number many hundreds all told.
VUY THE COUNTRY DiSIRUS1S THE DEIO-