The Washington critic., 1886-07-01

other Southern States nrc very much In
earnest In This matter For this reason
Atlanta may be expected to succeed
much better in enforcing prohibition
than the cities of Maine, Iowa and
other States.
In MAY be Of interest to the employees
Of the Treasury Department to know
that n e cucwly.appointcd Assistant Sec
rotary Of the Treasury is firm be.
lever In Civil Service Reform. While
member OF The Legislature Of South
Carolina he introduced a resolution,
which was passed and forwarded to
Mr.. Cleveland, then Prcsidcnt.elcct, re-
affirming "a former resolution asking
the Senators and Representatives In
Congress 10 stand by the Civil Service
law, and rendering to the President the
approval aud support Of the people of
the State. Employees who bronthcl
short in presence Of Secretary Smith
can take long breath In the presence
of Secretary Thompson-proyided it is
not too late.
ApTuE commencement of the last
school year the appropriations were
found 10 be inadequate through some
careless miscalculation, to pay the
salaries for which they were intended
TO provide. There was in consequence
general reduction Of three per cent.
Of salaries of teachers, with the under
standing that refund would be pro.
yided for in the ncNt Deficiency bill.
The lady teachers, who are Mt the best
poorly paid, are now making anxious
inquiry as to what has been done to re.
deem this promise. Justice anl fair
ness require every effort t. secure the
repayment to those who consented to
the general reduction TO prnieot the
small number who wouid nave other
! wise been displaced for lack OF funds.
A sprcrAL correspondent Of the Gin
cinna,i COmmGcidl Gogctto at New Al.
bany, Ind, says that the vote Of Sen.
ator Logan against the Payne investi.
cation has killed him as dead as n
smclt." Put this is not all. In more
classic. but less odorifcrous allegory,
the Senator's fall recalls to the mind of
the correspondents informant, "the
description given by Milton of the fall
Of LuCifcr from the highest pinnacle
of heaven to the profoundest depths of
hell" Which we must say leaves Lo.
gan in bad fix, not only dead, but
roasting. But we have great faith in
"Black jacks recuperative powers.
Nobody is going to be sacrificed this
year to the vagaries of Ohio politics.
Mr.. HCAR speech in the Senate
yesterday berating the President for
removing Republicans from office and
putting in Democrats reads like the
speech of disaffected Mugwump In.
asmuch as the Senator from Massachu-
sets is stalwart of the stawarts,
however, who did what he could to
prevent the election of Mr.. Cleveland
and is now doing all he can to under
value his administration, we do not see
what business Mr.. Hoar has to com.
plain of Mr.. Cleveland for not keeping
Mr.. Hoar's friends in place.
FROM present appearances the bulk
Of the baggage of our gifted country
man. DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, on
his return to the United States will con
sist of the honorary degrees he is
receiving abroad. An American is
seldom so honored-ucver one who
bears his honors with such gentle.
manly good nature and quiet grace
| SENATOR INGALLS, has introduced a
bill appropriating $4,000 to be OK.
| pended in gliding the statue of the
! Goddess Of Liberty on the dome of the
Capitol. Congress might save that
money to the Government and at the
same time help the rest of us in making
the Goddess a work of art by painting
her red next Sunday
| HON. hNUTE NELSON, one of the
four Republicans who voted In favor
of consideration of the Tariff bill, has
received news of his denomination by
acclGmation. The friends of revenue
reform in Minnesota are firm in their
faith and stick fast to their friends.
Mr.. BLAINE has made no public pro.
nouncement to that effect, but ii is
reasonably safe to say that he Is warmly
in favor of the Ohio Senatorial investi
cation.
NOTES AND GOSSIP.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will be unable tc
attend the Portland Centennial.
RUBENsTElN, the pianist, gave eight con
certs and made S25, 900 on his recent visit tt
| London,
| Fashionable Newport trousers measure
twenty-five inches round the bottom. !
small man can wear these trousers upsid
down. Inter-Ocean.
THE Chicagoan always dates everytnin,
hack TO the time "before the hre." Tn
average Chicagoan never heard OF the flood
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