The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-11-21


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Tuesday, Nov. 2i, 1882.
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.
National Thcntrc-"rho worli,"a son.
sntlonaI ana spectacular drama. Matlno3 TO-
morrow.
Ford's Opera Honsc-wllbur Opera
Company. "Oliycttc." Matinee tomorrow.
Thcntrc Comiquc-Narloty perform
ance-Jako Budd appears.
Masonic TcinpIc.-Colnmbin Boat Club
Fair Will continue every evening thi5 week.
WHAT has become of the Cleveland boom
for the Presidency? Did Boss Hewitt sit
down on it2 There are indications that
Cleveland boom was not altogether indis-
pensable to the programme of the Boss.
We DO not wish to appear profano, but Coy.
ernor St. John, of Kansas, is gradually emu.
latlng the shining example OF his great
Christian namesaEo, Saint John, for, like the
latter, no has now seen tho Apocalyp1c.-h'c'
change
No, 1t wasan Apo.collapso he saw
If what Mr.. John A. Walsh says of the
sitting Grand Jury Is true the Grand Jury
should bo investigated, If it is not true
Mr.. Walsh should be investigated. We do
not see how the court can avoid taking cog
nizancc, one way or the other, Of Mr..
Walsh's recent lettcr in the New York Her.
aid.
THE evening organ Of tho iury.fixers still
raves and " takes on about the Miller case.
Meanwhile the Commissioners proceed ac-
cording to law, with dignity and proprlety.
The disposition to disregard the orders of
Crosbynoise is growing, In fact. it already
amounts to what might be called insubordi-
nation, if not open mutiny.
EXTENSIVE improvements in the status
of the Republican as a newspaper are prom
ised under its new management. We do
not know what may be the possibilities of
morning journalism in Washington, but it
goes without saying that the new manager
of the Republican Is precisely the man who
will exhaust the field before he gives up.
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THE newspaper correspondents in Europe
are working quite as faithfully to get up
war between some of the powers over there
as their Washington confrcres are to re.
model the Cabinet We wish them all
success. Our wheat growers need Euro
pean war while nearly everybody needs
change in the Cabinet. But We fear that
there will be failure all round.
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THE proposition of the Garfield Memorial
Committee to buy the old college and
grounds on Meridian Hill as site for their
proposed hospital does not strike us as the
most sensible one that could be made.
That is not the place for bona-fde hos
pital. But it is an elegant locality for q
bona-fde real estate speculation. 1t is pos
sible that the MEMORIAL Committee may be
induced to select some other point.
THE jury-fxers' organ, the Star, had not
n word to say yesterday in rcfutation of the
ISLANDERS against q score of our best citizens
by a self-confessed pejurer. 1t is no doubt
waiting for orders from Bliss & Co. The
ISLANDERS are that members of the present
Grand Jury are guilty of conspiracy against
the Government, because they failed to
find an indictment based on the testimony
of this solf.confessed periurer. And yet
the sneaking star, to further its own petty
spite and malice, indorses by its silence the
calumny against these citizens.
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GENERAL CHALMERS does not seem in
clined to yield without a struggle the Con-
gressional seat to which the people elected
him. On the contrary, he has set out to
exhaust legal expedients in an effort to
compel the authorities to give him the
commission that belongs to him. These
proceedings are attracting unusual atten-
tion from every part of the country, and
there appears to be an almost unanimous
impression that tho case involves the most
fragrant disregard of the rights of majori-
ties that has yet occurred in any State.
WEARE ADVISED that movement is on
foot 10 organize an association of citizens
here to press Congress for restoration of
suffrage and local self.government. 1t is
not to be denied that public sentiment has
been growing very rapidly in favor of re-
enfranchisement during the past few years.
The fate of the proposed new movement
will depend very largely upon the charac-
ter of the men who get the leadership of it.
If it should serve no other purpose than
that of fetching the old and well-wor
group of District demagogues to the front,
it will not be formidable.
A Query.
10 tie Editor Of The Erening Critic:
/ would like TO PROFOUND the following
query; Is an oficer OF the United States
Army who falls to pay his wash or grocery
bills San officer and n gentleman" notwith-
standing the decision OF Judge-Advocate-den'
Ex.CoLoNEL OF VOLUNTEERS.
What is he Paid For?
New York Sun.
According to the Revised Statutes of the
United States, "rhere shall be at the seat OF
government an executive department TO be
known as the Department OF Justice, and an
Attorney:.General, who shall be the head
The law furthermore provides that s'each
head OF O department Is entitled TO a salary
Of ten thousand dollars a year, to bo paid
Benjamin II. Brewster, OF Pennsylvania, is
now the Attorney General OF the United States
and receives ten thousand dollars year OF
money taken from tho people by taxation upor
the assumption that he Is performing the
duties OF his ofIice.
Let us inquire what he is doing In fact.