davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-03

been guilty of atrocious murder but of their
kindred and friends, who, while they remained
upon their reservation, furnished aid and COM
fort to those absent with bloody intent
These prisoners should be treated kindly
and kept in restraint far from the locality of
their former reservation; they should be sub
jected to efforts calculated to lead to their i'm
provement and the softening of their savage
and cruel instincts, but their return to their
old home should be persistently resisted. The
Secretary in his report gives graphic history
of these Indians, and recites with painful
viyidness their bloody deeds and the unhappy
failure of the government to manage them by
peaceful means. 1t will be amazing if a De-
rusal of this history will allow the survival of
a desire for the return of these prisoners to
their reservation upon sentimental or any
other grounds.
THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
demonstrates very intelligent management in
that important department, and discloses the
most satisfactory progress in the work of re-
constructing the navy made during the past
year. Of the ships in course of construction.
five, viz, the Charleston, Baltimore, Yorktown,
yesuvius and the Petrol, have in that time
completion; and, in addition to the above, the
Philadelphia, the San Francisco, the Newark,
the Bennington the Concord, and the Herre-
shof torpedo-boat are all under contract for
uenVery 10 the department. during the next
year. The progress already made and being
made gives good ground for the expectation
that these eleven vessels will be incorporated as
part OF the American navy within the next
twelve months.
The report shows that notwithstanding the
large expenditures for new construction, and
the additional labor they involve, the total or
binary or current expenditures of the depart
ment for the three years ending June 80, 1885,
arc less by more than 20 per cent than such ex-
1884
The various steps which have been taken to
improve the business methods of the depart
ment are reviewed by the secretary. The pur-
chasing of supplies has been consolidated and
placed under a responsible bureau head. This
has resulted in the curtailment of open pur-
chases, which in the years 1884 and 1885
amounted to over 50per cent of all the purchases
OF the department, to less than IL per cent;
SO that at the present time about 80 per cent of
the total departmental purchases are made by
contract and after competition. As the ex-
penditures on this account exceed an average
OF 80 900 900 annually, il is evident that an
important improvement in the system has been
inaugurated and substantial economies intro
duced
THE REPORT OF THE rosTslAsrEn-aExERAL
shows marked increase Of business in every
branch Of the postal sarvioa. The number Of
pest-ofAoss en- July !, leoo, IVES s7,s7e, A In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-03


AUTHORITY. daily purchases of bonds were COM
menced on the 23d day of April, 1888, and have
continued until the present time. BY this plan
bonds of the government not yet due have been
purchased up to and including tho 30th day of
November 1888, amounting to S94, zoo, 400, the
premium paid thereon amounting to $17 $685.
613.08.s
The premium added to the principal of these
bonds represents an investment yielding about
2 per cent interest for the time they still had
to run; and the saving to the government rep
resented by the difference between the amount
of interest at per cent upon the sum paid for
principal and premium and what il would have
paid for interest at the rate specified in the
bonds if they had run to their maturity, is
about $27, 1865, 900. At first sight this would
seem to be u profitable and sensible transact
ton on the art of the government. But, as
suggested by he Secretary of the Treasury
the surplus thus expended for the purchase Of
bonds was money drawn from the people in
excess of any actual need Of the government
and was so expended rather than allow it to
remain idle in the Treasury. If this surplus
under the operation of just and equitable laws
had been left in the hands Of the people, it
would have been worth in their business at
least per cent per annum. Deducting from
the amout of interest upon the principal and
premium of these bonds for the time they had
to run at the rate of per cent the saving of
per cent made for the people by the purchase
of such bonds, the loss win appear to be 555,-
760. 900.
This calculation would seem to demonstrate
that if excessive and unnecessary taxation is
continued and the government is forced to pur-
sue this policy of purchasing its own bonds at
the premiums which it will be necessary to
pay, the loss to the people will be hundreds of
millions of dollars. Since the purchase of
bonds was undertaken as mentioned nearly all
that have been offered were at last accepted.
It has been made quite apparent that the gov
eminent was in danger OF being subjected to
combinations to raise their price, as appears
by the instance cited by the Secretary OF the
offering OF bonds of the par value of only
s326OO0 so often that the aggregate of the
sums demanded for their purchase amounted
| to more than S19, zoe, 900. Notwithstanding the
large sums paid out in the purchase of bonds,
the surplus in the TSeasury on the 30th day Of
deducting about S2O, 900 900 just drawn out for
| the payment Of pensions.
THE SILVER QUESTION
| At the close of the fiscal year ended June so,
| 1887, there had been coined under the COM
pulsory slver-coinage act s266 9ss, 2S0 in silver
dollars, s55, 504, $40 Of which were in the hands
Of the people. fQn the 30th day of June, 1888,
there had been coined s29s, 7OS, 100; and Of this
e55, 629, 303 was in circulation In coin, and
| s200, S87 $40 in silver certi6cates, for the
redemption Of whieh silver dollars = that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-03

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The transactions of the Department of JUS
tice for the fiscal year ended June 80. 1888. are
contained in the report of the Attorney-Gen-
eral, as well as a number of valuable recon-
mendations. the most of which are repetitions
Of those previously made, and ought to receive
consideration. 1t is stated in this report that
though judgments in civil suits amounting to
$50, -O0 were recovered in favor of the gov
eminent during the year. only the sum of
Sl32. 934 was collected thereon. and that though
fines. penalties, and forfeitures were imposed
amounting to S54l, SOS.43, only sos, 64s.42 of
that sum was paid ON account thereof These
facts may furnish an illustration of the senti-
ment which extensively prevails, that a debt
due the government should cause no inconye-
nience to the citizen.
THE PoLYGA,rY PROSECUTIONS
1t also appears from this report that though
prior to March, 1885. there had been but six
convictions in the territories of Utah and Idaho
under the laws of 1862 and 1882, furnishing po-
lygamy and unlawful cohabitation as crimes.
there have been since that date nearly 600 con-
victions under these laws and the statutes of
such firm and vigilant execution of these laws
and the advance OF ideas opposed to the for
hidden practices polygamy within the United
States is virtually at an end.
suits lnstltuted by the government under the
provisions of the act of March 8. 1887. for the
termination of the corporations known as the
Perpetual emigrating fund company and the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
have resulted in decree favorable TO the gov
eminent, declaring the charters of these cor
porations forfeited and escheating their prop
erty. Such property, amounting In value
to more than $500, 900, is in the hands Of a re-
ceiver pending further proceedings, an appeal
having been taken to the Supreme Court Of
the United States.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
In the report of the Secretary of the Interior,
which will be laid before you, the condition Of
the various branches of our domestic affairs
connected with that department and its opera
tions durirg the past year, are fully exhibited
But bries reference to some of the subjects
discussed in this able and interesting report
can here be made: but commend the entire
report to the attention of the Congress, and
trust that the sensible and valuable recon-
mendations il contains viii secure careful con-
sideration-
cannot too strenuously insist upon the inn
portance Of proper measures TO inquire a right
disposition Of our public lands, not only as a
matter Of present justice, but in forecast Of
the consequences 70 future generations. The
bread, rich ceres Of cur agricultural plaiU
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

By REFERENCE to the local colu INNS of
the HERALD to-day it will be seen that
the District Attorney decides that there
is no law for the publication of supple.
ment to the Great Register of this
county. He also decides that electors
may not legally vote on certificates of
registration issued from the County
Clerks office. 1t will be observed that
an appeal on this matter has been taken
to the Attorney General of the State.
In view of this latter step it will be wise
for electors who are not yet on the books,
to register at as early day as possible.
They should also take in all cases
. certificate of registration from the
Clerks Office. There is no telling what
view of the law the Attorney General
may take, and it will be we'll to be pre-
pared for any event. We most earnestly
urge upon all Democrats whose names
are not on the Great Register and who,
if they were registered, might vote, to
place their names on the books at once.
There are probably at this time>two
thousand to four thousand qualified
voters in the county who have neglected
to register. 1t is pretty certain that re-
spectacle majority of these are Demo
crs.s. Let them register at once.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

YESTERDAY at Detroit Mr.. Blaine made
. speech, an abstract of which came to
the HERALD in it's dispatches; but it was
crowded out of these columns by the
exhaustive resume of the Senate Tariff
bill, which we present in full. Mr..
Blaine's speech is devoted to single
point, the Presidents use of the veto,
which constitutional power the Maine
statesman gives historical sketch of.
He ends by claiming that in addition to
the present great largess of
$50; 100000 year given by
the Republic to her soldiers
the proper use to have made of the sur
Plus would have been to have given it
too to the veterans of the late war. The
Republican Senators do not agree with
Mr.. Blaine as is manifested by their
efforts to cut down the surplus; and the
people Of the Union disagree most en-
phatically from Mr.. Blaine, as will be
manifest when they come to the polls in
November.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

tance of dozen blocks. On Main the
work is going on rapidly out to Washing
ton street, nearly dozen blocks more.
1t is also found on North Main and Upper
Main. Then there is great deal of
building for business purposes going on
along Los Angeles street, between Also
and about Third. The same is true
of Fort street and to less degree
of Hill, from Temple on the former,
and from Second on the latter, to
Sixth. All the cross streets from the
present Southern Pacific depot to the
new passenger depot of that company are
sharing in this boom in the building of
blocks for business. This includes more
than dozen thoroughfares.
AS to residence improvement, the area
over which it extends is very wide. 1t
embraces all sections of the city, and its
exuberance overfows on all sides into
the many suburban tracts that surround
the city proper. This diffusion of the
work of building the city makes its
progress less likely to be properly esti
mated.
There is no city in the Union where
there is so much building for business
and residence purposes going on at this
moment as there is in the fair City of
the Angels.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
They Don't Like 1t.

We have made it our business to inter-
view great many Democrats on the new
Charter, which districts the city into six
Republican, one Democratic and two
doubtful wards, and they repudiate it
without an exception. Thousands of
Democrats who would have voted for it
with an equitable apportionment of the
wards would not touch it now with a
forty-foot pole. The right thing to have
done was to have left the demarcation of
the wards to the City Council. But in
the eagerness to dedicate the city to the
Republican party for all time to come
the game was played little too fine, or
little too low down, according to the
way the voters prefer to look upon it.
We find plenty of Democrats
who would have voted for the
new Charter with the apportionment
left open who will repudiate the gerry
mander, and who tell us that their Re-
publican friends, who are imbued with
the spirit of fair play, will also repudiate
it. We are told by the Times and E9-
press that the new Charter will be
adopted. We beg to differ with those
journals, and believe that it will be de-
feated. The right apportionment of the
city, even if it involved some little
trouble TO mark out the lines, was to
have given us three Republican, three
Democratic, and three fairly doubtful
wards. There would have been some
style and justice about that. When our
contemporaries so boastfully announce
that the new Charter will carry, they
overlook the fact that the workingmen
of Los Angeles are arrayed as a solid
wall against it, and that the workingmen
and the Democracy together are in
vincible.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

Our dispatches contain to-day a very
full resume of the proposed Senate tariff
bill. We shall refer to this more at
length hereafter. Suffice it to say at
this time that it knocks the ground COM
pletely from under the Republican
party. The claim has been set up that a
surplus was good thing and not an
evil then it has been claimed that there
was no surplus. Both these fallacies
have been knocked higher than Gill
deroy's kite by this Senate bill. 1t aims
to reduce the revenues by $75, 900, 900,
which is fully up to the intentions of the
Mills bill. 1t adds to the free list and
reduces the duty on many articles of
manufacture. Jubilation over a surplus
and the false cry of free trade are both at
an end. Boss Quay begged the Senate
to let the tariff alone or the manufactur-
ers would not "fry out the fat" for cam
paign uses. But the Western Senators,
with John Sherman as their leader. seem
to be more intent in securing their own
reelection in their several States than in
getting votes at the East for Mr.. Har-
risOn.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
Thirty Thousand Voters

The names of the registered voters of
the county have been nearly all copied
off by the clerks, preparatory to being
sent to the printers who are issuing the
Great Register. The number for the
city and country is now over twenty
seven thousand, and the clerks who have
the matter in hand state that it will rise
to probably round twenty-eight thou
sand when all the names shall have been
copied. Two years ago the total regis
tration came to about eighteen thousand
voters. That embraced very large ratio
of the people entitled to vote at the State
election of that year. The registration
of the present time as here referred to
stops five weeks short of election day.
There is no doubt that there are large
number of electors in the county who
have been in the State the years time
necessary to entitle l.. them to a
vote, but who have up to this
date neglected to register. There are at
least two thousand such persons. There
may be twice that number. If there is
only the number just given, then the
number of voters in the county will
stand at thirty thousand. This indicates
for the two years an increase of six
thousand year. Now there are a great
number of newcomers in the county who
have not been in the State the year
necessary to give them vote. Esti-
mated on the increase of resident electors
for the past two years, it would appear
that there are five thousand to six
thousand voters who have come here
within the year. If this estimate be cor
rect, then the number OF electors resident
in the county at the moment is thirty
five thousand or thirty.six thousand.
This is double the number of registered
voters of two years ago. 1t would not,
of course, indicate the doubling of our
population in that time, for there were
perhaps nearly as many voters here two
years ago who had not been in the State
a year as there are at the present
time. But these figures, at the lowest
estimates possible to make, do prove
tnat the population OF Los Angeles city
and OF the entire county, is quite as large
as the most sanguine of us have put it at.
According to the books in the Clerks
office the population inside the limits of
this city is, as nearly as possible, an
even half of that in the entire county.
In 1886 the entire vote cast in the
fourteen counties, constituting the Sixth
Congressional District, was 3S,646. In
the approaching election we may expect
to see it run to fully one hundred thou
sand as the actual vote cast. The in
crease in the south end of the State has
been marvellous one, and it has been
very general in all parts of the section.
OF course Los Angeles leads all, but
all her sisters follow her pretty closely.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

PAT upon the signing of the Scott
Chinese Exclusion bill by President
Cleveland the HERALD advised everyone
who had made estimates upon the vote
of the Pacific Coast States irrespective of
that measure to remodel their figures.
The fact is that the Scott bill, distinct
lively Democratic in its inception, with
the cap-sheaf put upon it by Demo-
cratic President, has revolutionized the
campaign on this Coast. The Demo-
cratic chances, good before in the light
of Harrison's pro-Chinese record, have
been improved till they are now posi-
lively rose-tinted. In no re zion has the
effect been more gratifying than in Los
Angeles, San Bernardino ar. San Diego
counties. The statesman ike attitude
of President Cleveland on the surplus
and on the tariff had already made
him strong. The signing of the Scott
bill by that sagacious statesman has
been Godsend to the Democratic county
ticket of Los Angeles. 1t has improved
the chances of its nominees twenty per
cent, and converted chance into GER
tainty. Why should not Los Angeles
put herself in line with the victorious
and progressive Democratic party? There
has never been better opportunity than
the present for the county to resume its
old attitude of invincible devotion to
Democracy, and that is just what is
going to be done. The same note reaches
us from San Bernardino county, and San
Diego cannot keep out OF the charmed
circle if she tried. What a beautiful
spectacle it would be to see the three
extreme southern counties of the State
joining hands to assure four more years
of prosperity to the country under Grover
Cleveland!
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

Our esteemed contemporary, the Er-
press, yesterday INDUCED in a labored
plea against the use of the epithet
"greaser," as applied to very respected
and respectable portion Of our popula
ton. We beg to offer our earnest con.
gratulations to our neighbor on this, as
it manifests most desirable change of
heart on his part. 1t will perhaps not
be necessary in the future to call our
neighbor to taw as we were obliged to do
not long ago for heading an article "a
Greaser's Act" The new departure is
decidedly in the line Of better manners.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
A Growing Civ.

People who allow themselves to think
that there is any Stacking of pace in the
building up of Los Angeles commit a
gross error. On Sunday last, while
standing at the intersection of Ninth
street and Union avenue, we counted ten
new residences which are in course of
construction. Down by the new pass
enger depot, along all the cross streets
from Fifth to Tenth street, there is a
great deal of building going on. The
same is true of nearly every section of
the city. In the business line, too, there
is great deal of work being
done. There is the new six
story block just begun on the
corner of Second and Spring streets.
The big Burbank theatre is going on
slowly, the foundations being all laid up.
At the corner of Spring and eighth the
cellar has been excavated for fine build
ing. On Main below Fifth excavations
have been made for fine block. All
along Main and Spring both streets are
obstructed in every block, almost, be-
tween the two functions, with material
for business blocks either being finished,
but just begun or at some intermediate
point. The trouble is that a few years
ago all the improvements for business
we're made on half dozen blocks in the
center of the city, and all the new
residences were being built within sight
of the Nadeau Hotel, but now business
blocks are going up all along Main and
Spring, between the two functions, dis
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

PERHAPS the most peculiar and dis
tinctive things as to the position of the
Republican party have been Blaine's out
givings about trusts and Harrison's con-
slant iteration as to the good policy of
buying Government bonds at high pre-
MUM with the surplus, instead Of abol-
ishing the surplus by long needed
revision of the tariff. Commenting upon
this last vagary OF Harrison, the Spring
field Republican, for years one of the
leading organs of Republican opinion,
says:
Prices for per cent. Government
bonds advanced to 13O yesterday, at
which figure the Secretary of the Treas
ury made an extensive purchase. 1t is
the pressure of a surplus revenue on the
one hand and of shrewd bondholders on
the other that causes this steady increase.
No party can afford to identify itself with
such continued financial policy.
No wonder that the premium on United
States bonds is going up steadily when
the recognized head of a great party
stands committed to their purchase in the
open market, not as an occasional ex.
pedient to relieve a stringent money
market and break up brokers' corner,
but as steady and recognized every day
feature of our fiscal policy. With Har-
rison elected, and pledged to carry out
such a programme, the premium on the
four-per-cents would shortly be up to $50,
It's, nay to 200. What contrast is pre-
sented by such an unprincipled scheme
to waste the peoples money by Grover
Cleveland'5 statesmanlike and conserva-
tive plan OF so reforming our fiscal meth
DDS as to leave the surplus in the pockets
of the people, where it belongs?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

ALTHOUGH we do not hear much from
the Prohibition forces of Los Angeles
county some quiet but splendid work is
being done by that element. They are
making still hunt. The leaders of the
movement have advanced their figures
to 2500, and the probabilities are that
they will make it 5000 before they give
over their labors. This will leave the
Republican National ticket and the local
nominees of the Republican party in a
very sad plight.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

TALK about protecting labor. The
Scott Exclusion bill which shuts out
General Harrison's pets, the Chinese
who can live on ten cents day, will do
more for the wage-earners than all the
tariff schedules in the world.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

RUsKIN says, "Man should resemble a
river" Some men do, in one respect at
least. The biggest part of them is their
nouth. Exchange.
This must refer to the Republican war
tariff orators.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04

Now, Mr.. Harrison, as you read the
Senate Tariff bill over your coffee this
morning, what do you think of maxims
and markets? Is it not now question
of schedules?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
City and Township.

WHAT terrible free trade fellows those
Republican Senators must be- Did you
ever see such an onslaught on wages in
your life?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
YELLOW FEVER.
The Cold Weather has Improved the
Outlook.

DECATUR, Ala, October 3.-The cold
wave has made the outlook more encour-
aging. Four cases have been reported
during the last twenty-four hours; two
deaths have occurred.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. October 3.--News
cases, seyenty-three deaths, six.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-04
Democratic state Ticket.
Democratic County Ticket.

Chief Justice M NILES sEARLEs, of Nevada
Associate Justice. JEREMIAH SULLIVAN, of
San Francisco.