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Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. PanI RaIIW3
DEPARTING TRAINS.

Corrected up to July 1, 1883.
Arrlvsi and departure OF through passenger try,
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Corn receipts in Chicago, sos, 1886 bushels;
shipments, 269,056.
Year corn closed in Chicago at 1870.
Year oats closed in Chicago 26c.
January pork closed in Chicago at 11.75.
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Com misston Dealers.

The following Gre the quotations Of sales from
by commission mon yesterday and are subject
70 dsilY fnctuat:ons:
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Dining Cars on all trains to and from.Chicago, an
tins Is the only route that runs Dining Cars on 81
Chicago trains every day in the week
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DEPARTING TRAINs.

Des Moines fast Express. .
Chicago Day Express.
Chicago s Milwaukee Ex. .
Sioux City & Sioux Falls. . e.
Shakopee and Merriam Jet.
Omaha and Kansas City.
Green Bay and Appleton. ;. .
Shakopee and Merriam Jet.
North Wisconsin h Superior
River Falls. s..
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Leave LesVs
Minneapolis st. Psu..
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EVENING REPORT.

Money market easy at S9315 per cent,
closing at per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper 5G6 per cent. Sterling ez-
change, bankers' bills weak at $4s2L; do. ez.
demand, 81 Sc,
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OFFICE OF THE CITY TREAsURERr, J
ST. PAUL, MINI, August IL, 1889.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.

Among the many important bills which in
the haste and confusion of the closing days
of Congress have but slender chance OF be-
coming laws is that for which Mr. lloar
stood sponsor in the Senate, aud known MS
the Presidential Succession bill. This meas
urc, it may be well enough to recall, pro-
vides for the performance of the duties of
the Office of President in the case of the re-
moval, death, resignation or inability both Of
the President and vice President of the United
States and under it the duties will devolve
in succession upon the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of the Treasury. the Secretary
of War, the Attorney-General, the Secretary
of the Navy and finally upon the Secretary
of the Iutcrior-wth the proviso' that the
Cabinet officer who shall succeed shall do SO
only for the limited term necessary under
existing law for filling the vacancy by gen.
eral election. If the bill fails to pass, the
country will be exposed to the highly i'm
probable though not altogether impossible
danger of dispute as to the occupancy OF
the White House for but one life stands be-
tween us and that peril. From the fourth Of
March to the assembling of Congress in De-
cember the Senate will have no presiding
officer and the House no Speaker. The risk
incurred may be slight, but it can be easily
avoided, for the Senate has power to do
away with it entirely.
The present condition of affairs has par
allel in our history, for in 1867 Senator La
fayette $. Foster, whose term expired with
the Thirty-ninth Congress, was Acting Vice
President. johnson having been elevated TO
the Presidency two years before by the death
of Lincoln. Mr.. Foster was succeeded on
March second by Ben Wade. When Fill
more was President, the Senatorial term of
William r. King, President pro tenn. did not
expire at the Close of the Thirty first Con-
gress hence no action was necessary. When
Tyler was President, the term Of Willie p.
Mangum of North Carolina did not expire
with the Twenty Congress, hence
the succession would not have been broken
in that case. But even when there is Vice
President IL has been customary with the
Senate to provide for constant presiding Of |
ficer by electing President pro TEN. before
the 4th of March when the term of the serv
ing officer expires on that date. In May,
lS42, however, Samuel L. Southland of New
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
TIE TOWN ELECTIONS.

Tic day is fast approaching when the an
nual town elections are to be held, and We
would like to urge upon the people
of the State the desirab!lity OF
the attendance Of every voter at
the polls. The elections will be ofmorc than
usual interest, since two constitutional amend
ments are to b. voted upon. These we have
heretofore explained and discussed and it
need only be said at this time that the first
requires of members elect Of the Leg
islature that they do not hold any Office I'M
der the authority OF Congress; and the
second provides that the State Treas
urer and State Auditor shall be elected by the
people. AS to the first of those, that the
idea which it embodies is an excellent
one will not be disputed by any one. To be
sure, the Constitution already contains a
clause covering pretty much the same
ground but the number of Federal Office
holders who have been members OF recent
Legislatures is sufficient proof that the salu-
tary provision has fallen into desuetude and
a restatement of the principle in such form
as to ensure its enforcement will be a desira-
bic thing to accomplish. AS TO the second
amendment. there is no logical reason why
the treasurer and auditor should not be elect
ed by the people, as they are in almost every
State and as the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor are in this State. And then, too,
the Legislature will still have an ample sup
,,lv Of onip tn Ito
bers, as it generally does fill them, and we
shall be glad to see its encroachments check
ed to the extent Of the two important trusts
alluded TO. We trust, therefore. that the
Constitutional amendments will receive
cordial and general support and will become
part of the organic law of the State.
On other grounds, also, VIC hope that the
town meetings will he fully attended, on the
9th of March. Our voters thoroughly I'M
derstand their political rights and the cores
pondng duties imposed by them; but when
no ts,irrlng issues are under discussion and
no great questions at stake there is apt to be
remlssness on the part Of many OF the
voters. They do not take the trouble
to investigate and discuss town affairs; they
do not bother themselves to 60 to the
polls. This all wrong. The town meeting
is the foundation OF the American system
OF government. If there is anything wrong
there it affects the whole system. II the
fountain is corrupted, the stream that flows
from it is impure, When the people rally
to the polls in force, there is small danger
that bad men will be elected to office or
measures adopted injurious 10 the towns
best interests. 1t is when the attendance at
the meeting is light and the popular interest
small that the cheap men and the bad men
and tho demagogues carry tho day. And
while it is at all times of the greatest import
anco that the town offices are filled with
faithful and competent men, il is especially |
necessary that those who will have charge
of the enforcement of the tax law be the
best men In each commun ity- capable, up
right, courageous. Our tax system has !
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

THE WEEKLY FREE PRESS islb cents copy,
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Jersey, resigned his seat In the Senate and
his Presidency pro TEN. at the same time.
There was then no Speaker of the House,
and had President Tyler died then the coun-
try would have been In the same situation
That would have prevailed a year ago last
Fall had Arthur died. The Senate will of
course elect presiding officer to succeed
Senator Davis, before the close of the session
and 1t is not at all probable that any grave
contingency will arise, to make the country
regret the failure of Senator IIoar's bill.
That bill, indeed, seems to us to be open to
grave objection namely, that it makes
ministerial officer, who owes his position 10
appointment, President of this Nation, while
it was the manifest purpose of the founders
OF the government to keep the Office elective
II anything is plain in the Constitution, ii is
The intention to make the Presidency an
elective office. To fill that office in any
emergency by Cabinet officer. who holds
his place by appointment and can be dis
missed at any moment, is marked depar-
turc from the ideas of the fathers and the
spirit of the Constitution IA step which
deprves the people Of all voice in the sccc-
ton of their chief executive. Therefore, if
the Senate chooses presiding officer to sue
coed Senator Davis. ii is just as well that
Senator lloal's bill fails Of becoming law.
Senator Edmunds's proposal, that the bill
be amended, so that, should there be NJ
President pro tenn. nor Speaker at the time
of the vacancy in the Presidency, the Secrc-
tary of State shall be empowered to act as
President until the Senate can be convened,
which would be couple of weeks at the
most, strikes us as being much better
pl1n
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

Here is an example Of the manner n which
the great Western railroad corporations en-
rich themselves at the expense of the Gov
eminent and of the people. The Southern
Pacific railway company built its road from
San Francisco to Sierra Blanca, Tex, out of
the profits Of the Central Pacific railway
company, but has no land grant. The Texas
Pacific railway company has a land grant
from the State of Texas applying to all the
road which might be built in that State, OF
TO- 900 acres per mile. 1t also secured from
Congress an additional grant, applying to the
road west of Texas, of $4,000 acres per mile
in New Mexico and Arizona and 1880 in
California. The two roads met at Sierra
Blanca, nincty-two miles east of the West
ern boundary of Texas The Texas Pacific
could have gone on with its construction and
built parallel line to the Southern Pacific
snd SO earned its land grant. But Jay Could
OF the Texas Pacific and c. 7. Huntington,
OF the Southern Pacific, thought they saw 4
better plan than this. They agreed to con-
solidatc, and through this means secure the
land grant, which one company has not
earned, and the other is not entitled to, Of
IA, 0OO 900 acres velued at S25, coo, 900. There
are two bills now before Congress, one in
either branch, intended to accomplish this
jph
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
THE LAPE PRESIDENT CHAD
BOURNE.


Rev. DR.. Paul A. Chadbeurne, president
of the Massachusetts State Agricultural col.
lego and ex-president Of Williams college,
died in New York city on Friday. DR..
Chadbourne was born on October 81, 1928,
in North Berwick, Me, where he worked on
farm in summer and in a carpenters shop
IN Winter until lie was seventeen years of
age. Then he removed to Great Falls N.
H., where he studied medicine and was clerk
in drug store. Next he entered Phillips
academy at Exeter, N. H., with twenty
three dollars as his sole wealth. There he
fitted for college, defraying his expenses
chiefly by work us Il cOpyist of law and in
surance papers. In lS4S he was graduated
from Williams college at the head OF his class.
After teaching school and studying theology,
in 1868 he was appointed professor of chemis
tryand natural history in Williams College, and
in 1852 without relnquishing this position,
he accepted similar professorship in Bow
doin College lie held both Of these places
for seven years afterward, being also pro-
fessor in the Berkshire Medical College,
Mass In addition he was for thirteen years
chemical lecturer in Mt. Holyoke Seminary,
Massachusetts. In 1856 he waited New
III low hc lcu u SCiGutlllG DdTIy
in Florida, and in 1859 he visited Europe.
For the purpose of studying gcysers and vol.
canoes he cxtendedhis tour to Iceland. In 1869
he made visit visit Of exploration to
Greenland. lie was elected to the Msssachu-
sets State Senate for the term OF lS65-G8.
and while member of that body was chosen
first president Of the Massachusetts Agricultur-
al College. The state of his health compelled
him to leave this position in the same year.
and, by the advice Of his physicians, he re.
moved to the West, being soon elected presi-
dent Of the University of Wisconsin. After
three years of valuable services in this insti.
tuition, he passed two years among
the mines in tho Rocky mountains for
the benefit OF his health. Then
he was chosen president of VIII
lisms College, and filled the Office for nine
years, At the beginning OF last year he was
,gain elected president of the Massachusetts,
Agricultural College. lie was the author of
a number of books, Including Natural The
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

Some observations made by Gen. Frye, in
u late issue of the THited Service, on nd
mission to the military academy at West
Point" bring out APPOINT which can not be too
often presented, to the effect that the common
school cducai ion, Of the country as whole,
is poorer than it was forty years ago. The
applicants for admission 10 West FONT, by
their bad reading and spelling and poor mast
cry If elementary matters, prove the asscr-
ton. The same discovery has been made
in vaiions quarters aud we believe that it
might b, made almost anywhere. The
schools have been running too much to show
and exhibitions. The teachers have been
interesting tn mscvcs i'll novel tlummcrics,
instead OF insisting on thorough elementary
drill, for which no substitute can be provid
ed; and scholars lose, or never acquire, ,hc
habit of serious application aud study
The subject is one demanding sober cousld-
Grafton at the hands of all concerned with
the education of the young.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

not yet passed beyond tho stage OF
experiment. 1t has worked admirably,
thus far but in order to maintain and eI-
tend its efficiency it is absolutely necessary
to enforce 1t without fear or favor, 10 en-
force 1t thoroughly and well. by the choice
of weak or incapable men for assessors the
force of the law will be irreparably broken ;
gross injustice will be done, both TO the tax
payers Of tho town and to those Of the State
at large; and great step will have been
taken backward, to the old, incqui;able, out
rageous system from which we have now
had two or three years relief. Let the
voters of each town see 10 it, therefore, that
1t elects good men to the town offices; and
to this end, let them rally to the polls on
election day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

The latest failure of clerical bankers is
that of the ''Augustinian Society,"" at Law
renee, Mass. failure which repeats in its
main features that of Archbishop Purcell,
though much less disastrous than his. 1t
appea's that for nearly forty years the Law
renee Roman Catholic priests have been in
the habit Of receiving deposits from their
parishioners, issuing books therefor, paying
interest, and, in short, assuming all the func-
tions of savings sauk. In 1870 lhey were
incorporated under the name of the August
inian Society. As is the usual outcome Of
such an undertaking, this society has now
failed, owing S540,00O, of which S43O, 900
is due its dcpositors More than this, ii
now appears that the priests, in their efforts
to avert the failure, have mortgaged the
churches, parochial residences and educa'
tional institutions for amounts aggregaling
over Sll0,0 AS was to be expected, the
depostors in the society are, the telegraph
announces, mostly poor women ard girls,
domcstcs aud factory operatives.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
MIsIl AND TIE SIiGE.

Theodore Thomas says Schubert was tie
greatest musical genius that the world has
known.
Oscar Wilde is really coming back here.
Marie Prescott, the actress, is to produce her
new play next season and Oscar must come
over to rehearsc ii. Besides Oscar is study
ing the part Of Romeo 10 play himself, aud
| desires 10 make his debut in the United
States.
The n. Y. Tribune says it is imposs bic
for any Shaksperan scholar to accept the
Lear" of Salvni as he is now performing it
in that city, and that il should be seen Us II
curiosity.
Barley Campbells powerful drama Of
My Partner has been performed thous-
and times, and the event was appropriately
COMMUNICATED at the Windsor Theatre last
week 1t is pretty good record for an
American play.
The arrangements for the Philadelphia May
Musical Festival are progressing rapidly.
The home talent will lie materially strength
ened by outside help. Negotiations are now
in progress, as a result of these, il Is posi-
BILE that either Pa'ti, Albani Scalchi or
Nilsson will be present. 1t is yet too early,
however, to speak definitely on this point
The music, already in the hands OF the
chorus, is as follows; "Odysseus, Max
Buch Hymn Of Praise, Meudelssohn /;
Last Judgment, Spohr; Chandos Anthem,
Handel Nazareth, Council; Forty-siXth
Psalm, Gilchrist.
The efforts made to secure an endowment
for the Royal College of Music in England
have been extended in every direction The
Princes Of Wales, grand master of the Ma
sonic order, having expressed a wish that
the lodges Of the order should contribute,
contributions of from five TO twenty guineas
are coming from the free and accepted all
over the kingdom,
"Parsifal" and THE Damnation Of Faust"
are 10 be given IN May under the direction
of Mr.. Damrosch, of Cincinnati-a scheme
of the College Of Music. The nucleus. of
the chorus will be the Cincinnati Manner
Choir, the Germauia Mennerchor, the Col
lege of Music choir, the Welsh Choral So
cety and chorus of boys from the public
schools, all under the direction of Otto
Singer.
Late advices from Nice mention approving
y the first appearance in concert, under the
sage name of Giannini. of young Amer
lean singer, pupil of Signor Muzio, from
whom much is hoped. She is a Californian
named Sawyer. 1t is reported that Verdi is
to supcrntend her debut in aida next
month. and that. he says the young lady's
voice is of marvellous quality.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

AIabi Bey, in his exile in Ceylon, is learn
ing English, in order, as he says, TO know
what the newspapers are saying about him.
He and his fellow exiles are anxious hot only
to have their children well educated, but are
perfectly willing to have them educated by
the English. What is stranger still, they de-
sire that their daughters shall have exactly
the same advantages ms their sons. When
told that the bishop of Ceylon had cstab.
lishcd good school, they AT once expres:e ed
an intention of sending their children 10 it,
They were quite willing, they said, that their
daughters should be instructed In Christian
ity, which was itself good thing. and as
their children were well grounded in the Koran
it was impossible that they could become
Christians at heart for God was good aud
they fully relied ON the virtue and power of
the Koran to keep their children in tho true
faith; but educated they must aud should be.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

tied to vote-women as intelligent, as culti-
waited, as familiar with public affairs as can
be found anywhere in this country. But OF
this number an average of not exceeding n
bakers dozen have voted at the election of
School Commissioners And all through
tue State, as far as our observation has
eXtcnded-and we have watched the work.
ing OF the law pretty closely-the proportion
of actual voters to those who had the right of
suffrage has been about the same. A CON-
paratively large number of women have been
elected town superintendent of schools-of
the two hundred and forty.onc towns in the
dents-but they were elected by the votes
not of their sisters but of the sterner sex
and the custom of occasionally filling the
Office mentioned with woman antedatcs
by many years the legislative act we have
referred to- This shows pretty conclusively,
we think, that the women Of Vermont do not
desire the right of suffrage. And while
they do not want the elective franchise,
they also are certainly not entitled to 1t on
abstract principles, for as has well
been said, suffrage is not n natural right
which every person may justly claim by vir-
tue of his or her humanity, but govern
mental function, which society organized
for political purposes may assign to per-
sons, or classes of persons 50 that
the general welfare may be best pro-
NOTED. This is true beyond all reasonable
controversy and as to the other branch of
the subject, the women of Vermont, as a
body, evidently agree with those women of
Boston, eminent in social and philanthropic
circles, who, in view of a threatened raid on
the Massachusetts Legislature in favor of
female suffrage, pettioned that body to re-
frain from imposing any political duties up
on the women of that State.
There, the campaign has taken the form
of an attempt to secure for women
the right of suffrage in municipal
affairs. 1t differs from the ordinary
course of the ''straggle" for the
"downtrodden' sex, however, in that. the
idea originated in the fertile brain of Govern
or Butler and is almost unanimously sup
ported by the Democrats, on the ground that
if they can pass the bill giving women the
municipal franchise there will not be Re-
publican city government il Massachusetts,
next year, because the women who vote
would be those who wanted to vote, and
they will through gratitude, give their sup
port TO the party which had conferred the
right upon them. of course it follows that
the great majority of women, who did not
want the right to VOTE and thel efore will not
be grateful for it, will not vote, and the adj
Vantage will thus be entirely with the Demo-
cratic party. This is putting the ''reform'
on pretty low grounds but looking at the
thing on the merits of the measure, there is
this to be said: In accordance with the true
and proper theory of municipal government
only those who paw taxes on property ought
to be entitled to the right of suffrage Every
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02

The treaty of commerce and navigation
between the United States and Corea, peGo-
tiatcd by Commodore Shufeldt last May and
recently ratified by the Senate is now being
taken to Corca for that Kingdoms accept
ancc, and the text is now made public. This
treaty opens to the United States, to the ex-
cluson of all other Christian nations, the
commerce of n rich country, and its
value TO our traders will probably
be very great. The Coreans are dealt
with ms though independent of chi
nese domination, and in Secretary Ere
linghuyscn's opinion the provision allowing
Coreans to freely visit this country and do
business here docs not conflict with the act
of Congress regulating Chinese immigration
Even supposiug the contingency pos
siblc Of such an enforcement of Chinese
sovereignty over Corea, as would destroy its
independence, that of itself would annul
Corea's treaties and extend the existing
foreign treaties of China over the Corean
Peninsula.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
Ghe I'ree press.
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAR. ., 1883
PUBLISHED BY
The Free Press association.
&. q. BENEDICr, Editor,


The Long Island Farmer, from which we
copy noticeable article on Mr.. Edmunds us
the best choice the Republican party can
make for its candidate for President. is one
of the oldest and most influential Republican
papers in the First Congressional district of
New York, and there is very obvious weight
IN It's suggestions.