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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
ored of his predecessors. Mr.. WINDOW
will be fortunate if he goes out of office
with as clean record as Mr.. MANNING
left behind.
CIVIL SERVICE SHAM.

The exposures made by the Washing
ton Post in its controversy with Civil
Service Commissioner ROOSEVELT have
been very damaging to the administra-
ton of that ideal department of govern
ment. If purity and exact justice are
to be found in any branch of govern.
ment machinery, they are supposed to re-
side in the civil serv ice bureau; but the
facts, as they have been developed by
the Post, tend to prove that there is
really more skullduggery in the adj
ministratiOn of this bur eau than in
almost any other department of the
government. The civil service COM
missioners have been exposed to any
amount of ridicule for the absurd sys
tenn of examinations that has been
established. Questions are proDounded
and required to be answered that
are of no possible consequence
and have not the remOteSt bear
ing on the qualifications of an
applicant. But it seems that this tom
foolery of Civil service examinations is
by no means the worst feature of the
civil service humbug. 1t has been
shown that favoritism counts for more
| than qualification in securing promo
ton in the line of the civil service, and
now it is demonstrated by the Post
that money counts for more than both
favoritism and qualification. In other
words, the civil service is being run on
commercial basis that discounts
QUAY's methods of conducting cam
paign. 1t is an open secret that the APP
pllcant who is willing to pay the tariff
rate Oh an advance copy of the list of
questions that will be submitted at
the examination will be the lucky
drawer of a civil service prize. In
one instance it has been shown
that these advance copies were peddled
out at S25 each, and no doubt brought
quite snug little revenue into the eof-
rers of the men who were posing as
model reformers on a government sal
airy.
In view of the abuses that the civil
service administration is being sub
jected to in this respective suggest that
the civil service rules be amended so as
to do away with examinations altOgeth-
CT, anu W duOpI lHotSau euO liz" A"O"
in public school management of estab-
fishing the monthly record system. In
this way the employees in the civil serv-
ice could be graded SO that those show
ing the highest average monthly
record would be promoted as va
cancies occurred. 1t isn't PERSONS
knowledge of geography, mathematics
and natural philosophy which qualities
him or her for places in the government
service so much as it is personal apti-
tude for the peculiar work that is to be
performed. Whenever the civil service
commission abandon theory and become
indoctrinated with good horse sense the
civil service will be rendered efficient
and incorruptible, and not till then.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
THEY ARE FIJI,

The London Times is of opinion that
the direct results of the Pan-American
congress will not be very great because
the interests of mankind are the true
trade winds which commerce will fol-
low in spite of diplomacy. At the same
time the great London journal frankly
admits that if the middle wall of parti-
ton which the tariff has erected were
broken down European countries would
have something to dread from the es-
Enlistment of an American Zollverein.
But as long as the high tariff remains
they can snap their fingers at the steam
ship subsidy scheme and all other de-
vices we may employ to capture the
South and Central American trade. The
worst feature of it for us is that the
premises upon which the Times bases
its argument are sound. Our condition
is somewhat tantalizing. We are
hungering and thirsting for South
American trade, but are prevented from
reaching it by the chains which we have
forged around our limbs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
THE BONUS POLICY.

Yankee shrewdness. and perhaps a
quality or two not so commendable,
are exhibited in cases cited in a
late New Hampshire paper, in
which the policy of encouraging new
manufactures by exemption from taxa
ton had an unsatisfactory conclusion.
An extensive shoe mandatory was in
duced to locate in one of the towns by a
bonus of no taxation for ten years. The
decade has expired, and the law does
not allow any further extension of the
exemption; consequently the extensive
factory packs up and removes to a
Massachusetts town tnat perhaps offers
a similar inducement. The paper states
that this is a not infrequent occurrence,
and bases upon it opposition to the
bonus policy. This could hardly be a
serious danger where costly structures
are used in the business. 1t is not a
point against generous encouragement
to new enterprises, but may afford eau
tionary suggestions in providing for
their permanency so far as practicable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
THE CHIPPEWA COMMISSION

The members of the Chippewa COM
mission have had much more labOri-
Gus task to perform than that assigned
to the Sioux commission; consequently
there has been delay IN completing the
negotiations by which the Chippewa
reservations are TO be opened for set
Element. The Sioux Indians are more
numerous, and their reservations larger,
than the Chippewas; but the Sioux COM
mission had the advantage of being able
to reach the various agencies by easy
modes of travel, where-t they found the
Indians assembled and in readiness TO
treat with them. Another advantage
was that the great body of the Sioux
followed the advice and guidance of a
few leaders, which made the work of
negotiation comparatively easy for the
commission. The Chippewa commits
sion had the reverse of all these cOndi
tionS to encounter. They had to visit
remote localities, most difficult of ac-
cess. and when they got there they
had to treat with each individual In
dian. There was enough opposition
among the Chippewas to the govern
tlGHl pOllIN W WI n O1 liAO
commission most laboriouS, and to re-
quire the most Skillful diplomacy. Con-
sequeDtly a great deal of time was nee
essary to overcome all the difficulties
before them, but they labored patiently
and zealously until success crowned
their mission. Very little more remains
to be accomplished, the signing OF the
Mile Laos Indians having secured to
| the government nearly all of the lands
included in these reservations that are
of value. The Mile Laos prefer to take
land in severalty to being removed to
the White Earth reservation; still, there
will be about 3, 200, 600 acres to be thrown
open to settlement. All the members
| of the commission merit the gratitude,
| of their countrymen for their long and
| painstaking endeavorS: but it is no dis
paragement to the other members of
| the commission to say that the country
was singularly fortunate in securing
the services of Senator RICE for this
| delicate work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
SOUTH DAKOTA TALK.

Now that the capital is located at
Pierre, there is no reason why the presi-
Dental proclamation opening the reser-
walton should not be issued. The COM
mission should make its report and the
president should proclamate. No use to
lie any longer about it having to go
back to ongress.-YanktOn Telegram.
From the latest returns obtainable it
is apparent that the Democracy of
South Dakota will be represented in
the legislature by thirty members.
This will interfere greatly with the
plans of certain gentlemen. While the
Democracy will not have sufficient
force in the Legislature to carry through
the schemes of its party leaders, it
however, will be great, and no doubt
will be exerted for the best interests of
the territory.-Rapid City Journal. :.
Reports from the twin to the north
Indicate that prohibition has also car
ried there, but by very minute major
ity. There is no doubt that the cOnsti-
tutional provision in the South has car
ried, and by large majority. The
Press opposed it, for what it then con-
sidered, and still considers, good cause;
but now that it has becomS a portion of
the constitution let it be enforced, for
if an unenforced legislative enactment
is bad, an unenforced provision of the
constitution will be worse. Only I'D this
manner can its value to the state or its
lack of value be demonstrated. Sioux
Falls Press.
One of the redeeming features of the
late capital unpieaSantneSS is the roar
ing good time those Pierre fellows are
having. 1t seems as if every town in
the iist.ought to have the capital a little
while !-Huronite.
Huron can never be the permanent
capital. A witness known for his truth
and veracity, and whose testimony is
corroborated by those who know where
of they speak, says the Huron artesian
water "won'tcook BEANS" That settles
the question for eyermore.-Watertow
Journal.
Sioux Falls will feel the result of the
prohibitory law greater than any other
city in Dakota. 1t will not do to let this
interfere with our advancement. We
must continue to grow and multiply and
increase as though we never had sa-
loon in our midst.-SiouX Falls Journal
High license has gone by the boards
and prohibition handles the ladle in the
soup bowl. May the Republican party
and its prohibition brethren now expert
ence what all other prohibition states
have gone through. That of holes-in-
the-wall. law suits and more drunken
ness than when under.,a high HceneS
rule.-Mitchell Mail. 3
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
UNDERWRITING PROPERTY.

The methods of assessing property for
taxation in Illinois are similar to those
of this state. Market values are the
requirement, but the practice is to fix
the value less than third. The singu-
lar statement is made that farmer in
Marion county recently was sent to Jail
one year for perjury in undertaking
his property in making his return to the
assessor. His figures are given as $50
for horses, $50 for cattle and SIS for
mules. Those are fair values, and it is
more probable that the offense which
gave him year in prison and S24S fine
was concealing property or denying the
ownership rather than undertaking.
The Pullman Palace Car company
had last year stock for S19,S72, 900, and
.yetit.was assessed for taxation at only
1858, POS on its entire capital stock. The
farmer evidently ought not TO be lone
some in his confinement. But rich cor
porations have an easy time generally
under Republican policies, and the
farmer takes the burdens.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
THE DIFFERENCE.

The opponent of Gen. BoULANGER in
the Montmartre district, NJ. JoUFFRIN,
would not do for Republican politician
in this country if he has resigned the
seat awarded him in the French cham
Der of deputies simply because he had
but $500 votes out of IA, 200. He would
be regarded as crank in some political
circles in this country. There are a
dozen or more men who fell thousands
short of having the most votes in the
congressional election last year, and yet
they are insisting upon being recognized
as having claims. Most of them expect
to get seats simply because the party
has majority. and can give them what
the people refused to. In cases where
there can be no plausible theory con-
structed to base their admission upon.
they will be allowed pay for their in
tentions. 1t is wonder that all the de-
feated Republican candidates in the
South do not contest. on the general
principle that they ought to have had
votes cast for them. and for the money
there is in it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
TOO MICH GROW.

If MALONE is prudent man, he will
follow the example of CHALMERS and
get out of the way. The recent gather
ing of prominent Republicans opposed
to him shows that most of the brains
and better elements of his own party are
against him. He has evidently under
estimated the extent of the revolt, or
put too high an estimate upon the power
of federal patronage at his disposal to
smother honest convictions. There will
palpably be thousands of Republican
votes cast against him. The general ex-
preston at the recent conference was in
favor of not only cutting off MALONE,
but voting for the Democratic candi-
date, as the most effective course to de-
feat him. They are stronger than the
Democrats in charging him with the
most fragrant political sins. such as
bribery and systematic corruption. Yet
all the efforts of the president and adj
ministraton are given to his support.
QUAY and his committee are contribut-
ing of their resources, and the result
will be severe rebuke to them by the
honest elements of the Republican
party in the state.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
UNNECEssARY TAxATTON.

With TANNERS disappearance the
surplus again hobs up sereneIy. The
last monthly treasury report shows an
excess of s13. 6S5, 600 of receipts over ex-
penditures for September. Now that
Secretary WINDOW has been frightened
out of his bOnd-purehasing scheme by
public clamOr, it is probable that the
surplus will continue to grow and be a
perplexing problem for the protection
lists who are seeking some excuse to
keep up the tariff schedule. If the Re-
publican majority in the next congress
are wise they will heed the note of
warning uttered by Mr.. DEPEw in his
Saratoga speech, in which he Informed
the party leaders that the surplus repre-
scented only so much unnecessary taxa
finO
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09

outbreak of a disease epidemic in that
gent people would incur the risk of re-
building the town and making their
BONES there until the disease danger
had passed. The autumn is always the
most fruitful season for the virulent
fevers, and it is a matter of surprise
that the work of rebuilding Johnstown
had not been postponed for at least an
other year. 1t will, perhaps. be several
years before the place will be entirely
free from disease, but the danger will
diminish with each succeeding year. 1t
would. perhaps, be providence if an
other flood would sweep down the ill
fated valley to carry away the debris of
the last flood.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
MARINE MATTERS.

DULUTH-Arrived: Northern Wave, Arctic,
Samoa, David Vance. Buffalo; Osceola. Port
Huron; Susan E. Peck. j. p. Donaldson,
Cleveland. Cleared: Calumet, j. P. Donald
son, Ashland; Osceolo, Port Huron.
AsHLAND-Cleared: Kittie NJ. Forbes, Twin
Sisters. Couch, Allegheny, Italia, Iron State.
ore, Cleveland.
WINoNA-Boats Up: Silver Wave, G. W.
Cowles, Juniata, Daisy, United States Alert,
Ravenna, Brother Jonathan. Belle of Belle
yue, Robert Harris, Phil Scheckal, P. G. A.
Denkmann, J. G. Schapman. Boats Down:
Juniata, Daisy United States Alert, c. W.
COwles, Belle of Bellevue, Silver Wave, Raw
emma, Muster, r. Wheeler. Water one foot
eight and a half inches.
SAULT STE. MARIE-Down, p. m. Cormor-
ant Wall, 8; Baldwin, India, Whitney, Dash
ing Wave. g; City of Traverse. $40; Fay, ID.
P. Rhodes, Fayette. Brown, IL 80; Q. M,
Chauncy Hurlbert, Hurd, Idaho, IL 80; Hi
awatha, Minnehaha 1:50; D. NJ. Wilson,
ManitoWoc, 2 80; Fedora, Nahant, $40; ST.
IBERIA, 4:30; Spencer, Pennington, 6:30;
Moran, 1U:2U; Continental, Holland, IL 40;
D. M, Iron Duke, Iron Cliff, l 80; Elfnquere,
Wadena, 2:3O; Campana, 4:10; up. a. m,
Pontiac, $50; George Presley, II. A. Tuttle,
$50; George G. Hadley, Rosedale, IL p. m,
Nyack, $3.50; Mark Hopkins, Middlesex
4 $40; Olympia, $50.
GLAsGow-ArriYed: Circassia, from New
York.
LoNpoN-Passed Brow Head: City Of Paris,
from New York for Liverpool Sailed:
Amethyst, for Galveston.
Observation-Disclosures Aiddles-
borough, for New Orleans.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
LESSEPS' BIG DITCH.
The Scheme Is Not Dead, But
Sleeping.

PITTsBURG. Oct. S.-Col. James An
drews, chief engineer the Tehuantepec
Ship railway, in an interview to-day.
says it is his belief that an impetus will
be given to the Tehuantepec Ship rail-
way enterprise by the convocatiOn of
the international American conference.
That subject, together with other trans
continental enterprses-the Nicaragua
and Panama scheme will be brought TO
their attention while on their tour to
this country-probably while in this
CITY,.
1.-The Panama canal project is not dead by
any means" said Mr.. Andrews. when in
Paris this summer paid visit to NJ. Brunot
the receiver IF the bankrupt company. He
has, after paying all the debts, about i 000,-
00O francs left in the treasury. He has de-
cided to send out commission of engineers
to Panama during the coming winter. They
will make as accurate survey as possible of
the amount of money necessary to finish the
canal. This, NJ. Brunot informed me, will
be the first reliable survey since the work was
commenced"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
FOUND A FORTUNE.
Lucky Find of a Day Laborer

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. s.-A day la
bOrer by the name of Devaul made
lucky find last Saturday. He was help
ing to grade Lincoln park, just below
Red Bank, Nj. when his shovel sudden
ly threw up stack of banknotes to the
amount of $4,000. All the notes had
been issued by the Concord Bank of
New Hampshire many years ago, and
alongside of them were unearthed SIX
teen plates that had evidently also been
the banks property. 1t is believed the
money was buried by man named
Sherman, who lived in that neighbOr-
hood some years back, and was famous
as a bank robber. He was drowned
through railroad collision twenty-five
years ago. Lincoln Park has been re-
Gently purchased by Robert S. Patterson
and other PhiladelphianS, who consti-
tute the Lincoln Park association, and
it is said that they will claim the money
as their own
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
UNlONISTS IN A HOLE.
They Sustain a Crushing Defeat
in Peterborough.

LONDON, Oct. s.-The result of the
election in Peterborough yesterday is
all unexpected blow to the Unionist
cause. Mr.. Morton, the successful can
didate. is a Gladstonian and an adj
vanced Radical, and he takes the place
in the house of commons of Union
ist who had been elected by a
handsome majority over his
Gladstonian opponent. Yesterday
day the figures of the previous election
were exactly reversed. The UniOniSts
are not without an explanation of their
defeat, with which they profess to be
satisfied. They attribute it to the fact
that their candidate was not resident
OF Peterborough and was almost nn-
known to the constituency. but as Mr..
Morton was equally stranger to the
electors it is likely that the Liberal
claim is the more reasonable, that the
Peterborough electors have experienced
q change of heart.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
Foreign Flashes.

The convention to inaugurate The Tenants
Defense league will meet at Thurles on the
18th inst. Mr.. Sexton will preside.
The Berlin Tagebla:t CONSTITUTES as peace
full sign Russias decision to adopt small-bore
rifles, iuasmuch as it will take several years
to make the change.
The Hamburg Nachrichten says that the
new Zanzibar steamship line will receive a
subsidy OF 100000 marks annually. Sew
eral German firms propose to establish an
African coasting service in connection with
the new steamship line.
Two thousand women workers of the East
end held meeting yesterday at which they
resolved to organize for the purpose of i'm
proving their condition. The bishop of Bel
ford presided, and among the wellknown
persons present were Lady Sandhurst. Rev.
Messrs Price. Hughes and Clifford and
Messrs. Burns, Tillett. Mann and Champion
the labor agitators.
Gen. Ignatieff in an interview referring to
the possibility of a Russo-French alliance,
declared that the TWO nations were
united at heart, and that that union was
preferable to one of protocols. He had moth
ing to say in regard to the rumored visit of
the czareyich to this city. If he came. it
would be at a time which would not remind
him of the revolution.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
Every County iu England Suffers
by Mondays Storm.

by Mondays Storm.
LONDON, Oct, s.-The storm which
swept over England and Ireland yester-
day. though doing serious damage
everywhere, appears to have spent
its fury in the northern portions.
Reports of casualties resulting
from the high wind which pre-
vailed all day come i'll hourly
and the aggregate loss of property will
be enormous. Several lives were lost
by contact with flying timbers and de-
bris of demolished houses, but the tele-
graph wires are everywhere so crippled
by the storm that accurate figures can
not yet be given. In almost every
county in England and in ireland houses
were blown down by the force of the
gale, and In many cases are reported in
which the occupants remained for
hours buried in the ruins, until rescued
from their perilOuS positions by their
mere fortunate neighbOrs. In most of
these cases serious injuries were SuS-
tanned by being dragged from the ruins,
and in some death has resulted. In the
city of Bradford large warehouse was
blown down, and the heavy brick walls in
their fall crushed in four houses adloin-
ing. The occupants were buried all
night under ton of tangled debris, and
it was not until late this afternoon that
the hundreds of men who had been set
to work at once to rescue, managed to
get them from under the ruins of their
homes. Many of the victims are fright
fully manned, and several cannot re-
cover,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
CONNECTICUT TEMPERANCE.


1t is singular that longitude and loca-
ton should shape moral conditions as
they are claimed to at times. Take this
matter of voting prohibition into the
constitutions. Out III the Dakotas last
week it was question of high morals,
the sanctity of the home and the pres
ervation of the social fabric from dis
aster. On Monday the state in the East
of prOverDially steady habits and high
moral and intellectual culture voted on
the same question as the DakotaS and
buried it under a three-fourths vote. To
a large extent the same class of men
that in the sunset states drew all the
moral and religious lines at prohibition
in Connecticut, which looks back to
Puritan ancestry, and past the most
azure blue laws, sat down ON prohibit
ton. As an instance may be mentioned
the venerable and pious ex-PreSident
PORTER, of Yale college. He says: 81
do not believe in prohibition" Rev. DR..
NEWMAN SMITH, of New Haven, says:
''When the impracticable and doubtful
idea of prohibition is finally removed
from the field, all temperance people
will be able to unite in accomplishing
whatever can be wrought through law
in limiting the power of the saloon"
Prohibition and temperance are evil
IDENTITY not regarded as identical in Con-
necticut.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-09
GHOULISH BUSINESS.

DANIEL MANNING was a strong par
tisan and a fierce campaign fighter, but
that fact did not justify Secretary WIN
DOM in casting reflection upon an
honest mans memory by furnishing to
the press for publication the contents
of an anonymous letter received from
Missouri thief, whose qualms of con-
science compelled him to make restitu-
ton of few hundred dollars that had
been long ago stolen from the govern
ment. The conscience-stricken thief,
who hasn't honesty enough left to put
his name to the charge, accuses Mr..
MANNING of having appropriated to his
own use, while he was secre tary of the
treasury, a conscience contribution of
5000 that had been returned to the
treasury. The infamy of the accuSa-
ton is too glazing to need contradiction;
but it is amazing that Secretary WIN
DOM should have given circulation to
such vile calumy, especially when it
affected the reputation and memory of
one of the most honest and most hon.