Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-05-25

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Gibbs & Sterret Manufacturing Co,
VS.. s. S. Guthrie, verdict for plaintiff for
1855. Motion for a new trial made.
Crawford Jones VS., VIM. Leckie,
settled.
T. Watson VS.. E. G Leithold, case
withdrawn.
J.E. Grossman VS.. S. p. Grossman,
case settled.
Commonwealth of Penna., for use OF
J. FL. Walter, VS.. H. D. Thompson,
verdict for plaintiff, for $294.65.
All other cases on the list were con-
tinued.
Senator Robertson's nomination
has been confirmed by the Senate The
overwhelming majority in his favor,
Notwithstanding the resistance made
by Senators Conkling and Platt, shows
that the President was entirely justifi-
ed in not asking the permission OF
those Senators before submitting the
nomination to the Senate. A large
majority OF the Republican Sc lators
sustain the President in this matter.
Senator Conkling's insolent pretensions
are rebuked most emphatically, both
by the Senate and by the Senators OF
his own Iarty. No one has ventured
to deny that Senator Robertson is
abundantlv able and worthy. Only
one member of the committee dissented
from the report in his favor, and the
opposition in the Senate faded away so
completely that the friends of Mr.
Conkling did not venture to expose
their weakness by calling the roll. In
view of this remarkable unanimity, Re-
publicans in all parts of the country
will ask what possible excuse Senator
Conkling could have had for his persist
ent, unscrupulous and malignant oppo-
sitiOn.
1t is certainly rather remarkable
achievement that several hundred
thousand copies of the revised New
Testament should Lave been stored in
New York for month without any
outsider having been able to get hold
of a copy. Now that a sufficiently
large edition has been printed abroad
to supply the expected first demand,
the seals are broken and the vol
umes turned loose upon the
American public. In the absence of an
international copyright law-which in
the interest of the people who read
books it is to be hoped we may not
have put on us in a hurry-everybody
who pleases is at liberty to reprint the
work OF the revisers, and no doubt
many persons will avail themselves of
the privilege. The result will be that
the country will be flooded with cheap
editions, and thousands of people will
be led by curiosity to read more Scrip
ture than they ever read before at any
one time in the whole course of their
lives. If they would only keep On at it
great amount of good would doubt
less be accomplished.
General Grant has written let
ter to Senator Jones. Had General
Grant been in Washington instead of
in the City of Mexico he would proba-
bly, not have chosen to have letter of
the kind promulgated at the present
juncture.
The fact is that Grant, who was
never SO much statesman or politi-
clan as a military leader, unwisely
wrote this letter, while there was no
more serious complications between
the Administration and the New York
Senators, than that involved in the
nomination of Robertson. But Mr.
Grant is an adherent of Conkling and,
as such, his hour has come 1t is
only question of time as to how soon
the warmest of Conkling's personal
friends shall be sacrificed as burnt
Offering upon the altar of that Senator's
private ambition. General Grants
time has come and be is now, by the
publication of private letter, held up
to the derision of the world, simply
because such publication was deemed
to add some real or fancied strength to
Conkling's cause.
An English Journal. descanting
on the progress of prohibitory liquor
Legislation in the United States de-
clares that the satisfaction with which
men regard the progress of the temper
ance movement across the Atlantic
would be seriously impaired if it were
found, as some assert, that opium gains
all that alcohol loses. That of course
is too sweeping statement; but it is
unfortunately too true that, side bv
side with the progress of the crusade
against drink, the Americans have to
show rapid increase in the consump-
tion of opium. The import of opium
in 1876 into the United States showed
an increase of 10 per cent. over that of
1867; but the import of 1880 was 140
per cent. in excess of that of 1875.
Four years ago the American opium
eaters were believed to number 200, 900,
but since then teir numbers have
doubled, and it is now calculated that
they consume FIVE million grains per
annum West of the Mississippi the
Chinese have almost monopoly of the
drug, but in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Kentucky there are said to be
three opium eaters to every lO0 CT
population. Physicians, druggists and
traders all report that the use of opium
is alarmingly on the increase, and they
attribute it chiefly not to the disuse of
intoxicants but to the increased use of
the hypodermic syringe for injections
of morphia. 1t is noteworthy that
women are said to supply four-fifths of
the victims of opium.
The two-thirds vote necessary for
the suspension of the rules of the House
of Representatives, as well as the con-
stitntional provision that majority of
the members elected to each House
shall be required to pass any bill, are
doubtless wise restrictions upon the
action of the Legislature and necessary
to the protection of the rights of mi.