Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-26
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !


ETY. is again in chaos. Another prince il
lu town. A prince can always agitate
Washington. In fact any description OF
foreign blood takes well here, for Washing.
tonians are susceptible of gullibility, and
all gullible people bow low to foreign peo.
pie of rank. This is probably all right
but it is really amusing to notice the fuc-
tuating pulse Of society when royal blood
enters. This latest addition to the prince
~ fold is Prince Tarwhito, of Arisugawa.
he is an uncle of the emperor of Japan,
and reached town yesterday afternoon.
he was accompanied by the usual escort,
and took apartments at the Arlington. He
will remain here until the 9th inst, when
he will leave for San francisco.
NO programme has been arranged for his
movements while here. 1t is understood.
however, that he will be entertained by the
secretary of state, and will be granted an
audience with the president. A member
OF the princes suite said last night that
the prince was only travelling through this
country for pleasure, and that no signif-
canoe whatever could be attached to his
visit to Washington. The prince is a
stoutly built man, of medium height, with
an intellectual cast of countenance, and
appears to be about forty-se years of
age. He belongs to that one of the four
branches of the imperial family of Japan
that is next in order of succession to that
of the present emperor, who has only one
son. In case both should die without
further issue the prince would
succeed to the throne. The prince
came to this country en- route for japan
after an extended tour through Europe.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
1t is very evident that Captain John
Cowdon and the special congressional COM
mittee on the improvement of the Missis-
slppl river meant to do away with the Mis-
sissippi river commission schemes. In
point of CONCEALED fact, the plans of Eads
and the commission are dead ducks in the
pond. This special committee was origin
ated to disembowel the Eads plans, those
adopted by the river commission, and
hight well is the work being done. The
evidence taken down the river in Novem-
Der was every particle against the work
adoted. That taken since the committee
arrived here, is in the same line It all tends
to give the commission not only black
eye but black record. The
expenditure of the moneys under the COM
mission are shown to be not only extrava-
giant but useless. The improvements
are not Improvements at all. They are
simply means for spending the millions
appropriated and are impracticable. There
is little doubt here, in the minds of those
best posted, that the outlet system pro-
posed by Cowdon will be adopted. It
proposes an enlargement of the mouth of
the river. If it does not do anything else,
1t will at least put temporary stop to the
experiments on the lower Mississippi
levees and beds.
RELIEF FOR THE SUPREME COURT.
The Davis judiciary bill is not likely to
have as rosy path as seemed opening up
before it week or ten days ago. The
assurance of President Arthur that he
would appoint one-half of the new judges
from the Democrats led many to believe
that there would be no difficulty in getting
the bill through. But this rosy assurance
is the lion in the lane that leads to the re-
modelling of the judiciary. Republicans
declare that they will not vote for meas
ure that is to give life offices to Democrats,
if the president keeps his word, while
the Democrats are greedy for all the
judgeships, and, feeling certain of victory
in 1884, will oppose the measure. Proctor
Knott says the bill cannot pass the house,
for these reasons. Mr.. Hewitt, of New
York, to whom the president gave the
promise that he would divide the appoint
ments equally between the two parties,
thinks that the bill will get through by a
large majority if it can be reached early in
the session.
THE PARK.
gentleman representing Rufus Hatch
says the proposed lease of the Yellowstone
park is in Hatch's interest. That the lease
would have been signed by the secretary
of the interior if the Vest resolution of
inquiry had been delayed three hours:
that the incorporators include prominent
men in different parts of the country.
among them Rufus Hatch, John B. Lyon
of Chicago; Ashbell Green, of New York;
Roscoe Conkling and Richard Merrick
The objection to the lease comes largely
from Gen. Sheridan, whose troopers in
that region did more damage last summer
than has ever been done before; that
through negligence in their camp fires
they burned over 10000 acres of timbe,
land and the soldiers besides cut dovu
trees and used them fol-
battering rams to break of,
pieces of the geyser crystals. A PROPOSE
tion will soon be made to congress to pass
bill authorizing the secretary of the in
terror to execute the proposed lease and to
make of the Yellowstone park reserva-
on,similar to the Hot Springs reservation
in Arkansas, which shall be governed by
commissioners. The secretary of the in
terror has sent to congress an answer to
the resolution putting forth the proposed
lease.
AN ORGAN WANTED.
It is known to only few that the Dom
ocrats of Chicago, after failing in their eff
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