, 1884-01-03

an eastern newspaper gives some fig
ures from the records of the internal
revenue bureau, which afford an inter
esting comparison between the years
1878 and 1888, as regards the liquor
traffic: Ten years ago there were
200,676 retailers. and now there are
l95,S69. In Maine there were 1854,
and now there are 1162. New Hamp-
shire has decreased from 1,500 to
1,2SS; Vermont from 6S4 to 526; Mas
sachusetts has increased from 7,26S
to S.476; Connecticut from 2,7S4 to
1857; Rhode Island from 906 to l, 40;
New York had 40.S47, and now boasts
of but 31,001. There Is, as most of
orr readers know, a special revenue
tax of S25 year levied on retail
liquor sellers, and it Is from the re-
turns of collectors that these figures
are taken. Three of the states men
toned above, Name, New Hampshire
and Vermont, have prohibitory laws.
In the estimate of the national ex-
penses the salary of the senator's is
set down at S3S0,000, and that of the
members of the House $685. 900,
making the salary of members of Con
gress alone over S2,0O0.000 a year
The mileage for the year is estimated
at So, 900 for the senators and S110,-
600 for the House. The salaries of
the page boys in the House and Sen
ate is estimated at over $4,000, and
the total cost of Congress for the year
at between S3,OOO,0OO and S4,OO0,000,
including the salaries CT members.
The expenses of recruiting for the
regular army, to keep it up to its reg
ular standard in size, are set down at
S113,000. The number of recruits now
needed for the army at present is, the
report says, 1,600, while the number
whose terms will expire during the
year is $500, while the losses by
death, desertion and dismissal for the
year are estimated AT 1852, making
the total to be recruited during the
year over 10000. For the subsistence
of the army the yearly estimate is 10,
0OO,O0O rations at 20 cents each, or ST.
| 000,000.
The New York Globe, the ablest
and most conspicuous orgaa of the
colored people, shows that the freed
man are beginning to understand the
extent, as we'll as the limitation of
their rights, and that they are not
expecting much benefit from the new
legislation proposed by Senator Ed
munds and Senator Wilson. In its
last issue it says: I'VE are not to be
deceived. We understand the situa-
ton thoroughly. What colored men
need is, not so much Legislation in
their interest, but earnest, resolute
manhood. We can see in the light of
the recent decision of the judicial
owls, no remedy in the constitution,
therefore no power in congress to
remedy the injustice to which we are
subjected. The highest tribunal in
the land has told us that We must go
to the states for remedial legislation
that the constitution and congress
have no power to protect citizens in
their rights. Then why should so
able constitutional lawyer as Sen
ator Edmunds attempt to gull us with
remedial bills which can never become
law? We have now as many rights
as any other class, and what we must
do is to assert them. We should not
lcok for assistance from whence none
can come."-OregoRian.
S. f. Gail: The failure of what is
known as the Edmunds law to reach
the object at which it aimed, viz, the
suppression of polygamy in Utah, is
admitted. In letter to the Independ-
ent, Senator Edmunds asserts that it
has put stop TO plural marriages.
In this he is apparently much de-
ceived. for the Salt Lake Tribune,
which is on the ground, and has bet
ter opportunities to become acquaint-
ed with the facts, asserts that the so
called Edmunds law has accomplished
but little The elders of the Mormon
Church preach against it, and defy
the government to carry its provisions