The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-06
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
TIE FIRST OF THE WEEK As THE
SCRIBES SEE n.
Randall and His Bill New Classification
OF Postofice Clerks Double Headed
Sherman-A Printers strike-POssible
Tie-Ip-Mr. Mills and Mr.. Randall

sherman-A Printers strike-Possibic
Tie-Up-Mr. Mills and Mr.. Randall.
Ex-Speaker Randall's tariff bill is
looked for on next Tuesday. The meas
urc does not create a great deal of inter
est, because ii is well known that II Mr..
Mills bill cannot pass nothing proposed
w Mr.. Randall could secure enough votes
10 insure its passage. Mr.. McAdOO, one
Of Mr.. Randalrs chief lieutenants, says
that the Pennsylvania Representative
has thirty adherents who can be relied
upon TO vote with him against the tariff
bill at present beforethe Ways and Meas
Committee. Mr.. McAdoo's estimate is
entirely too large, in the opinion of less
preiudiced observers. 1t is not likely
that Mr.. Randall will have over twelve
supporters, and Mr.. Mills hopes to offset
this loss by gains among the North
western and Western Congressman. At
any rate, if any effort looking towards
tariff reform is defeated by Mr.. Randall
the responsibility can be quickly and
plainly placed where it belongs.-Er.
change.
The clerks Of the irst-class pOstoffices
Of the country have united in an appeal
to Congress for just classification and
pay for their services, and, as the Phila-
delphia Times says, 1t needs only a glance
at the facts Of the case to satisfy any fair
minded Congressman that their appeal
should command a favorable response
from the Government. The present
method Of paying pOstoffice clerks is AT
variance with every principle Of justice,
and equally AT variance with every theory
of obtaining the most efficient service.
A lump appropriation is made By Con-
gress for each Office, aud the pOstmasters
are compelled to have the mails handled
for that sum in the best way they can,
regardless of the increased mails and in
creased labor 10 be Golds5or0
(N c. Aygus.
In l. Economiste Francois of January
% the editor of that journal, N. Paul lie.
roy.Beaulieu, undertook to show from
the Panama Canal Company's own re.
ports that even under conditions more
favorable than have heretofore prevailed
a canal with locks on the Panama route
could not be completed in less than five
years, and that the cost of such a canal
must be at least 1925 100000 in money
actually expended. We showed two
weeks ago how he had reached these con
illusions, and pointed out that if the
money required should be raised on terms
similar to those of the last two loans the
company's obligations NOV 1894, SOC, 000)
would be swollen to more than 81 900
000, 000-N J. Times.
Mr.. John Sherman has thought ii neces-
sary to write to a Mr.. Willis of Tonnes
see a letter attempting a concordance be-
tween the dose of taiiy lie gave the South
in a speech at Nashville last year, and
the dose of NORWOOD he gave the South
sOOd after ward in a speech before the
Republicans of the Illinois Legislature.
OF course, the letter is written for publ
faith. Mr.. Sherman wants ii understood
that he repeats " with entire sincerity"
every word Of his Nashville speech aud
of his Springfield speech. The mere fact
that it is impossible to reconcile the SEN
timents Of the TWO speeches doesn't
bother him in the least. He has speeches
for all attitudes and longitudes, and they
are made with entire duplicity every
time. He is for or against anything ac-
cOrding TO his estimate OF the votes in il.
This estimate varies with time, place, and
circumstances, and so Mr.. Sherman often
incurs the r%eproach Of Inconsistency and
insincerity.-N J. Sun.
The printers OF Louisville have lately
had a strike with two of the leading
newspapers of that city. What would
have been thought of the Typographical
Union if all the union printers Of the
United States had been commanded TO
leave their cases to force an adjustment
between employers and employed in a
single city? What would be said OF the
coal miners of the country, if they
had a national organization. and
called II on strike all the coal
miners of the nation TO force a
settlement of the Lehigh or Schuylkill
dispute, And what excuse could there
be for calling the locomotive engineers
off the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and
Ohio, the New York Central, and other
great trunk railways, where both work
and pay are satisfactory, 10 force a settle
ment of a dispute that is confined 10 a
single Western railway system-Phap.
Times.
The locomotive engineers who are en-
ployed on the railroads that concentrate
in New York city are up in arms to sus
tain their brothers IN the Chicago, Bur
lington, and Quincy Railroad. They are
threatening II general sympathetic strike
and tie-up all over the United States and
Canada. They are determined 10 put "A
stop to all communication by rail, and
cause losses and inconvenience TO all
classes Of citizens all 0yer the continent.
50 as to compel a single railroad company
in the West 10 pay its men the rates of
wages which the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers believes that they
ought 10 haye.-ErchdHgc.
The locomotive engineers strike is be.
coming hourly momentous. Chief Arthur
declares that it is a fight of life and death.
and that If ii is necessary TO the winning
of the struggle every road In the United
States will be tied up. In such an event,
the disaster 10 the traffic and commercial
OF the country would be appall-