Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-14

-l4i 8 4 lrfeAtil4 cane iill1 power tAcAc
have been made an average II twenty
ssy-n appoinimelIs Per DAY, % more
than on.s every hour. inelading nights and
sandayb. and the Bourbon Democrats
ssy Do ISN'T turning thsIa ia faat enough.
Bat ws must ty b bear up under their
disappointment
THs Detroit Free Press of yesterday
ssid IN ils Washington dispatch that
Michigan would be surprised IA a few
days 0Y the aEpomtment II Michigan
man to an cffice outside 81 the State.
Can tbs mean MessmOrss II 81, the
local D,sInosracy will 10 contsated with
nothing less than hfs appointment for
thsis gallant casmpion-
Tax ish, owing o. the chilly a'mos-
pasrs, are r0t biting a. sariy As usual
thls season. Congressman Comstock and
az Congressman Houseman returned
froaa Washing ton yesterday and reported
nary a bite Their political bench
men. fortunately, ars 30 organized, that
they can ia tie absence of solid food,
subsist GA hpud nouushment
AEruCR BIsszLL. VINO bar been named
A. collector at the port Of Buffalo, Is not
tho Presidents former partner, As some
seem enormously 70 suppose, bat Is a
brother u that gentleman whose name Is
Wilson =. BisselL The rotund attorney
IL stil practicing law quietly 10 Buffalo.
Arthur was graduated az Yale College
about seveuteea years ago and has since
been a business man ia Buffalo, whore be
"a said b. bear good reputation. His
fitness for the Office ot collector Is gen
erally recognized
VIZ breathe more easily since Monday
night Before that there was an unes-
planned and anexplainablo deficiency IN
the United States Treasury. Matters
we're found asl the Democrats suspected
they we're. But Monday night a dis
patch came with the gratifying news that
the count had been completed and every
cent had been found Yesterdays dis
patches explain how It happened The
two psnnsss which were missing were
found on the floor where they had been
dropped We take tins as evidence that
new broom sweeps clean
THaRn seems a probability that the
Prohibition law in Iowa VIII suffer at
least temporary defeat. because it's pas
sage vas not recorded on the Journal in
one branch ot the Legislature, an ~acci-
dent" which sometimes happens when
measure cannot be defeated In any other
way. Il - not because Of sympathy with
tho prohihiti0nists that We consider It
very stupid thing FOR the opposition to
10. The trick viii be condemned by
every honest voter. and the result wiH be
reaction which viii ALLEVIATE respectable
friends from tbeopposition, and strength
an the Pr0hibiti0nists IA the fight.
TVS Presidents sarcasm Is very cruel
az times. 4 number ~ Illinois Demo-
crafts called AZ the White House few
days ago t3 read the President a lecture
on sending she party 90 the bad. When
they had concluded the President ob-
served thar f they had been at home and
half a. sCtive there for the interests of
The party 81 they had been IN Washing
ton trying e. divide up the oihces among
themselves the party might perhaps have
saved Unibsd States senator instead of
lossng one hv allowing a state senate
district to ~ Bepubhan bv default. The
visitors dniu't tsel like trespassing longer
upon the Presidents time
THE Michigan Congressional office
seeking Delegation AZ Washington ia get
t'ng to be held n contempt more and
more by the President The latest cause
Or disgust 40 the part og the President
Is the protests arsrnst The appointment,
% Minnie 81 be Consul st Saruia. whom
the dslegstcu bad commendsd MAY
bury. Carleton ami Pennington called ou
the President rues,iay and rhe Free Press
correspondent remarks that ~there -
every reason O. beheve that the Presi-
dent in,bcsted annoyance AZ these pro-
tests. IL IS very evident chat Congress
men would have been held ia m8ch
higher ashmition r they bad STAYED at
home. The more Intimately s8me peo-
bie are known the more heartily they
sra despi=ssl
IT IS amusing n1 noflce tne axplana-
tions she fleinocratic press makes For the
small Denss-ratic vote east Err state
senatsr in tbe fhirtv-1ourth Tlhnois Dis
trist. The New York S1fn hsa been
ztn,lviuQ ths ulatter and hss arrived st
an cplniaia. "A process auet common q
the e.iiter ~ t5e sna.thouzh his opinions
VII net alusrvs a. q, tie e.. A Wash
s,o+,o e,nrrpsuonsisnf has attributed the
sanls 4, sie dis~stisfaction telf AZ Cleve-
4.