The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-10
Editorial Ends.

Editorial Ends.
Congressman ANDERSON has intro /
duced a good bill into the House pro-
viding for the adjustment of all grants
of lands to railroads doing business in
Kansas.
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The House committee on military at
fairs has authorized Gen. SLOCUM to
report bill for the relief of FITz JOHN
PORTER. and it is probable that that
gallant and long abused officer will
have justice done him. y reinstate
ment, too long withheld, is due him.
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Judge W. MCCRARY has resigned his
position as Judge of the Eighth United
States Judicial Circuit and has accepted
the general solicitorship Of the Santa
Fe road, rice Mr.. GEORGE PECK. re-
signed. His headquarters will be at
Kansas City. There seems to be man.
ifest disposition on the part of the Kan
sas roads to remove their general offices
to Kansas City, when the laws of the
State require them to be kept within its
borders.
The election of a Congressman in the
SecondDistrictt to succeed Mr.. HASKELL,
which is to be held on Saturday, March
End, is assuming a national Importance.
All organizations opposed to prOtec-
tive tariff, democrats, greenbackers and
free-traders, have combined and will
force the fight on the CARLISLE plat
form. 1t is not too much to say that
the tariff-reform candidate will beat
the republican prOtectiOnist two thOus-
and votes. The indications all point
that way.
Congressman SPRINGER has accepted
the position in theIIOuse committees to
which he was assigned by the Speaker,
and in the face, too, of the Republican
clamor which beset him. The inyesti-
cation of the department of justice, he
says, will be non-partiZan and impartial,
but as thorough as he can make it. Mr..
Cox, ween heard from, will no doubt
accept his position, and all prospects of
a row which would be felicitOuS to
our republican friends are dispelled.
The democrats in the House are leading
their party Oh to victory.
The extreme cold weather of last !
week extended to all parts Of the conn |
try, and business in the trade centers |
was almost paralyzed. 1t was reported |
that the cold was the most severe felt |
for years. At Springfield, Mo-, the |
marked q degrees below |
zero; at Jefferson City, IS below; at st.
Joseph, Mo, 26 below; at st. Louis, %
below; at LeavenWorth, IS below; al
Chicago, 81 below; Omaha, 81 below;
Dubuque, 80 below; at Sioux Falls, Da
1Ota, 40 below; in Vermont, Is below
in Virginia, Delaware and Tennes-
see, heavy snow and colder than for
.en years; in Kentucky and Ohio, Is
below; in Indiana, "a below, in Mime
sofa, 81 below; and at Rock Island, ILL.,,
s. below.
Republicans treat IriSh-American cit
Zens the same as they do German-A-
or any other class Of good
citizens. Gazette.
How does the republican party treat
he Negro, the main stay of the party?
By an accident a colored man was elect
d Auditor of this State, and his duty
las been intelligently and faithfully
But an effort is forming in
epublican ranks to defeat him for re-
And the republican party,
aving control of this country, allowed
)'DONNELL, an IriSh-American citi-
en-, to be hung unjuStly. At the i'm
of a number of democratic
the President sent over a
amt protest to the dude Minister at
london, but England laughed her scorn
nd went on with the most infamous
angling of modern times. And Irish
Oters ought to be republicans. Bah!
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After paying all expenses and divi-
dends, providing for the sinking fund,
paying for all Improvements to road
bed and new rolling stock, expensive
real estate, new buildings, etc. the
found that the a. I. &
Fe road in Kansas had a surplus of
!, 62l ,691 remaining. They very prop
.ly made new freight rate which de-
eased the gross freight earnings
2 200, 600 in round numbers. but the
anSaS City Journal, the republican or
IN of the west, says that the commits
OnerS have done wrong, and that the
ad should be left undisturbed so that