National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-15
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men and Measure

| ureener were conspicuous by their absence,
and the fact has caused much gossip. Prof
Greener was the first colored graduate of
| Harvard college, and has generally been
guest at Harvard dinners. He was asked
yesterday why no did not partake of the last
one, and replied 81 was not there simply
because l was not invited to be there.
have attended Harvard alumni reunions in
New York, Boston, Chicago, and other cities
Why was not invited to this one neither
know nor care"
A Boston man, not q graduate Of Harvard,
in commenting upon this matter, said 81 un-
derstand that it was the intention of the
Harvard mon to administer a deliberate snub
to Prof Greener, and that the reason Secre-
| tary Lincoln was not there was because he
refused to be party TO this snobbish proceed
ing"
you speak nippantly of claim seekers"
said resident to the Avenue Man but do
You know that in the French spoliation bill,
| to which you referred the other day, there is
O grievious wrong that has been perpotuated
| by the great United States government
through nearly three-quarters Of a century?
During the war between France and Eng.
land French cruisers seized largo number
of American vessels, with their cargoes, con-
fscating them for their own uses. In many
cases these ships and cargoes were owned by
vessel owners of Maine, Massachusetts, Mary
land, South Carolina, and other states, and in
these ventures their entire fortunes were en-
barked, so that in their conhscation these
men and their families were absolutely
impoverished, and they and their heirs have
been anxiously waiting all these years for their
government to extend just relief. After the
war demand was made by the United States
government for reparation, and Napoleon,
tho head Of the French government,
in fair spirit of equity, coded the
territory which is now known as
the state of Louisiana to the United States,
as payment in full for all damages, the latter
government agreeing to settle all claims of its
| private citizens. On three or four occasions
congress, acknowledging the debt of honor,
has passed bills ordering these claims to BIO
paid-but in each instance, owing to the fact
that nearly every claimant was northern
man-southern influence has been used to
procure q veto by the President. The claims
are just, as any honorable man or any hon
orable body will avow, and if they had been
duo to citizens Of any foreign nation, except
some weak one, like Japan or Hayti, they
would have been paid, with interest, years
ago. As it is, the puissant and honorable
government of the United States has been
liable to indictment for larceny as bailee at
any time during tho last seventy years"
| &c
"I hope" said the general, "that congress
will ever grant o charter to this cable street
railway company without inserting provis-
ion for all.night cars After 1890 o'clock
a. m. they need not run their cars oftener
than once in fifteen or twenty minutes, and
perhaps they might stop running tho night
cars at 3 o'clock a. M, but certainly they
ought to run as late as that. Tho company
could well afford to do it, considering the
privileges that are granted them. They are
given the use of the public streets, and their
franchises are sure TO be very valuable. They
grow more valuable in a city like this with
every year, and they ought to be compelled to
consult the convenience Of the public.
Few people know how large a num-
Der of men are compelled to be
abroad after midnight. All the newspaper
| men, all the printers in newspaper Offices,
many printers in the government printing
| OhSo NhOh WoAA 10 PiOooihBt ohu III bhC
bureau of printing and engraving many
of the telegraph operators, besides other
individuals who work away into the
night-surely there are enough to demand
consideration, even if they are not sufficiently
numerous ut present to make the night cars
profitable. Many of the congressman, If they
do any important work in consultation with
their colleagues are compelled to work in the
night, when they are free from the crowds
and disturbances Of tho daylight hours.
Night cars would be a great convenience to
them. In most other cities the street car
companies are compelled to run night cars,
and in New York, since Jan. /, the elevated
roads run their trains all night While con-
gress is making this condition with the pro-
posed new company it might very we'll i'm
pose the same upon the old companies, who
are making plenty of money and are not
straining themselves badly in their efforts to
accommodate the public"
so
"The democratic national committee" said
the gentleman from st. Louis. will find
some queer complications when they come to
decide upon the place for holding the national
convention. The struggle is between st.
Louis, Chicago, and Cincinnati. The Nc
Donald Morrison Carlisle wing want the
convention held in Chicago; Morrison thinks
that will insure him the second place on
tine ticket, and Mcdonald is will
ing that he should have it. The
"pusher' of the house has discovered
that the people Of this country arc not moan
ing to make him president, and he will be
satisfied with the second place and the
chances that Mcdonald will die before his
term is out The Payne party desire that the
convention should be held in Cincinnati, SC
that the Standard Oil king should be upon
his native heath, as it were John r. Mclean,
who is Payne's chief bugler, naturally thinks
| that the city whore his paper is published
would be the best in the world in which
to hold a great political convention
, There are q number of the members
of the committee who are known to favor st
Louis, but they will meet with stormy and
Z decided opposition from all the candidates
/ and for peculiar reason. These candidates
. know that there will be hot fight, and theI
1 fear that if tho convention is held in thu
great hall of the chamber of commerce in st
A Louis, where Tilden and Hendricks wer
{ nominated in '76, the delegates, finding tina
b it is impossible TO reconcile the claims o
4 really living candidates, will have rush o
I sentiment to the head and inoontinentl!