The Washington critic., 1886-03-19

that he got 500, 900 for voting to grant
the franchise, and also says that he re-
ceived $4,000 for every vote that he
cast for other railroad schemes during
his three years service as an alderman.
AS Mr. Jaehne was ut the same time
running q "fencc," and as there have
been a good many railroad schemes be
fore the Board of Aldermen during the
past three years, ii is likely that he Is
very well off rs from monetary
standpoint. 1t appears that Mr., Jaehne
was not the only alderman of this pc.
culiar brand. lie says that other alder.
men also got money for their votes and
gives their names and the amounts
which each one received. The gov
ernment of Gotham, under the Tweed
regime, was respectable by comparison
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THE Philadelphia Press and the
Philadelphia Ncws can scarcely find
hard words enough, though they find
good many, to express their dissatis.
faction with the Presidents civil SER
vice appointments. The Press says.
Every change which President Clevc.
land has made in the Civil Service
Commission has impoverished its moral
status and reduced It's character to the
level of commonplace mallc.shift
The tendency of Mr.. Clevcland's whole
conduct toward the commission has
been TO render the law n nullity and n
farce" And the Neios pitches its
song to the same key: "The new com
mission is composed of nonentitics. Mr.
Edgorton is an amiable man Of no
particular force. Mr.. Lyman is u good
bureau clerk Mr.. Obcrly is an old.
fashioned sporting politician. Civil
Service Reform is not, we fear, to be
made one of the glories of the Demo.
cratic administration
Our esteemed contemporaries appear
to have forgotten that the Commission
was once composed of Eaton, Gregory
and Thoman.
Mr., WALTERS has at last admitted
that he purchased the celebrated peach
blow vase, but he did not pay $4,000
for It, Shortly after the death of Mrs.
Morgan, Mr.. Walters offered the ad-
ministrators of her estate $4,000 for
the vase and the offer was accepted.
The auction of the vase was mere
formality, no one thinking that it
would be run up higher than SIC, 200.
1t did go to $4,000, but the admins.
traitors had to keep their contract with
Mr., Walters. The important question
of the vases ownership now being
settled, the curious can devote them.
selves entirely to finding out exactly
what struck the Oregon.
The employees of the street. car COM
panies In Baltimore have not been sue
cessful in securing satisfactory hours
of labor and the Maryland Legislature
has taken the matter up, A bill has
passed TO Its third reading in the lower
branch Of the Legislature which says
that conductors and drivers employed
on any street railroad in the State shall
not work more than twelve hours a
day, and provides penalties for any
violation Of the law.
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Mr.. RUsKIN says now that he can
no longer walk up the hills he finds his
greatest delight in attending the thea
tres. Most gentlemen who reach Mr..
Ruskin's age develop a great weakness
for the stage and arc generally to be
found well up towards the foollights.
Jedge WaXem is about as old as Mr..
Ruskin.
If transportation across the con
tinent continues to cheaper at its pres
ent rate, there will not much longer be
any inducemcnt to the tramp to steal q
ride in boX-car or hang on under
the car. First class tickets from the
Missouri River to points in California
are only $23 and second class only &12.
SENATOR Brown Of Georgia has a
very large majority of the Democratic
party with him when he says, as he
did in his speech yesterday, that the
fault of the Administration is not that
1t has made too many changes among
the office holders, but too few. That's
Democracy all wool and a yard wide.
COLONEL AYREs of the Kansas City
Times, in his last Washington letter to
that paper, says that $50 far as q
worlds exposition is concerned Wash
ington certainly presents more favor
able features in the attributes of success
than any other city in the Union" ;"
Correct.
1T is now apparent that what bottom
there was to the Senate discussion on
the Duskin case has pretty much fallen
out. A few more whacks like those
Beck gave Edmunds the other day will
finish up the whole business.
THE Mikado of Japan will contrib.
ute $500 to the Grant Monument fund.
The people of this country have con.
tributed great deal to "The Mikado"
himself.
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
The Tribune this morning objects to the
Presidents civil service appointments. He
has thus made a commission I'm which "Nr