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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
PUBLIC PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

NJ. JULES SIMON recently declared French
| to be the most difficult language in which to
| talk nonsense. Yet it has been the diplomatic
language of Europe.
THE will of the late Lord Sackville. who left
the bulk of his fortune to the Queens maids of
| honor, will be contested by his sister, the
| Countess of Derby.
QUEEN MARY II. and Queen Anne of En-.
gland were both born in the house of Sir
Mount-Stuart Grant-Duff, at Twickenham, in
which Laurence Onphant died.
JOHN STUART WEST, now living in England,
served under Moore and Wellington in the
Peninsula, and afterward in the Kafir War.
He now has the munifcent pension of a shill-
ing day.
Mr.. RICHARD QUAY, son of the Pennsyl-
vania Senator, is a partner of Senator Cameron
in the ownership of a splendid cattle ranch,
eight miles square, in Mexico Mr.. Coleman
Cameron and Mr.. Brewster Cameron are also
in the firm. The Camerons are spending the
winter on the ranch, and Mr.. Quay will soon
Join them there.
AMONG the other petty insults to which the
widowed Empress Frederick has been SUBJ
jected by her eldest son, is the order recently
published in the OFFICIAL Gazette depriving her
of the use of the imperial crown on her coat
of arms, and decreeing that in future she must
content herself with the attributes of mere
Queen of Prussia.
A MEMORIAL of the late Sir Henry Maine, in
white marble, has been erected in Christs
Hospital, London 1t bears a detailed record
of his long and useful career, and concludes
thus: This tablet is erected by governors and
former scholars, that for all succeeding genera
tions of Blues it may point the moral-'Suc-
cess and glory are the children Of hard work
1c foro
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
AN UNCONVENTIONAL SENATOR.
Bowen, of Colorado, Enjoys Life, but De.
nies That He Is Poker Sharp.

Bowen, of Colorado, Enjoys Life, but De.
nies That He is Poker Sharp.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, January u.-Senator Tom
Bowen has returned to Washington from his
unsuccessful trip to Colorado in search of a
second term in the Senate. He is quite dis
appointed at the result of the fight but takes
his defeat philosophically and says that Colo
RADIO is pretty good State to live in after all.
He commends his successful rival, Ed" VOL
colt, as man of brains energy and education,
born orator and man who will be credit to
the Senate.
In dress manner and speeches. Mr. Bowen is
the most free and easy, unconventional
member Of the Senate, and when he and
Riddleberger go out ON the 4th of March, the
standard of Senatorial dignity will move up
several points in the scale. Mr.. Bowen at
tends the sessions less regularly than any Sen
ator except Riddleberger and Jones, of Ne
vvada. He never makes a speech. and seems to
nave no great interest in anyparticular class OF
legislation. He is Chairman of the Committee
on Enrolled Bills, which has very cozy little
room on the main floor, elegantly furnished,
and in which public business is not pressing.
Here Mr.. Bowen spends much Of his time
cracking jokes with a few choice friends, and
driving dull care away.
The Senator from the Centennial State has
the reputation of being wonderful poker
player, but he has always denied this. and
claimed that he is no match at all for such men
Bowen is genial fellow with big heart and
level head, and many people in Washington
beside his colleagues in the Senate will be
sorry to lose such good friend.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12

THE reckless and rapid manner with
which journalism comments upon events of
the day has often provoked adverse COM
ment; but our esteemed cotemporary, the
Minneapolis Pioneer Press, is free from any
such fault in the following announcement:
ga person called Ward McAllister, living
in the city of New York, has bumptiously
announced that the number of people who
could really be reckoned 'in society in
Gotham was not greater than four hun
dred'' ''McAllister's Four Hundred"
having formed one of the topical songs of a
year ago, it will be seen that the Pioneer
Press is totally exempt from the vice of
haste. At this rate there is reason to hope
that some time in the next century it will
attain qualified degree of light on the SUBJ
iect of the Interstate Commerce act.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
THE CHRONIC DEADLOCK.

The condition of pernicious inactivity to
which the House has reduced itself is in
structive as to the workings of our national
legislative machinery. First an attempt is
made to fix up things SO as to give priority
to certain large-sized measures, in favor of
big interests, and it is blocked by the
opponents of the bills. Then another men,
Der chokes off all legislation because he
cannot get his pet measure in ahead of the
rest, and, finally, another carries out the
policy of the member of Parliament in
Nicholas Nickleby'' by objecting TO every
thing on general principles. 1t is well to
bear in mind that all this arises with refer
ence to special legislation, of which there is
such mass that it can only go through
under suspension of the rules. A very
satisfactory remedy of the difficulty could
be furnished by abolishing all special legis-
lation; but prior to that, the most necessary
reform is to get an improved breed of states.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
CAPITAL AS A BOYCOTTER,

Some of the inside details of the railroad
agreement which are coming out by frag-
ments, put the distinguished representatives
of the financial interests at that gathering
in rather peculiar public light. One Of
the covenants is stated to be that, in answer
to a complaint of President Roberts,
pledge was given that none of the three
banking houses would float any securities
for new railroad intended to compete with
any of the old lines.
This boycott, as one report correctly
terms it, entered into by the greatest repre-
sentatives of capital in the land, puts the
status of railway capital clearly before the
public. 1t has been frequently pointed out,
and also denied by the representatives of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, that what
trouble existed between the trunk lines was
for the purpose of choking off the South
Penn. The truth of that assertion is shown
by the appearance of this remarkable pro-
vision in the agreement. No enterprise,
however legitimate, or however solid its
securities, is to receive the privilege of
negotiating its securities through these
firms, if it exercises its legal right to COM
pete with an existing road, and yet some
people claim that these agreements are not
intended to suppress competition!
The boycott of those banking firms named
is not likely to be very destructive of new
railroad enterprises. There are many thou
sands of millions of capital in the country
that are not carried in the vaults of these
bankers. If new enterprises exclude water
from their capitalization and are based on
sound business principles, people will be
ready to invest in them. But the position
of the New York bankers is instructive.
Every merchant, every farmer, every man
ufacturer must take the chances of having
inconyenient competitors; but the great rail
road corporations, with all the strength of
concentrated capital and enjoying public
franchises, must not be expo to the reg
lative force which is universal to the COM
mon people In the pursuit of that great
goal of privilege for the few, these bankers
resolve, that whatever the needs of any Sec
ton for increased railroad facilities, they
will do their best to shut it out from in
vestors if it dares to start line which will
compete with the favored corporations.
The courts have had something to say
with regard to misguided workingmen who
resort to the boycott. 1t is pertinent to ask
what they will say to this boycott on the |
part of great capitalists to sustain watered |
stocks and great railroad combination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

THE Arctic whaling season for 1883, which is
about over, resulted in a catch of 164 whales
against 293 last year.
ACCORDING to the latest report of the De-
partment of Agriculture, there are in this
country A, 900. 900 swine.
IN 100 years England has aided her merchant
ships to the amount of s2750O00O0 and her
private ship yards to the amount of s10o, 900 0OO
In the single industry of iron and steel in this
county 81, $50 men are employed, who receive
every two weeks $685., 500 in wages, or s2 4Sz 500
year.
A LAW has recently been enacted in the Ger
man Empire prohibiting the use OF tin alloy in
the manufacture of cooking, eating and drink
ing utensils, that contains more than 10 per
cent OF lead.
The total carrying capacity of the mercan-
tile vessels of this country is l91, ,915 TONS be-
ing an increase of 212 900 tons over 1887. Forty
six per cent of last years increase was in our
western lake marine.
STOCK of wheat in the United Kingdom at
the beginning of the year is officially reported
as about 10000, 900 bushels, the same being
1000 600 bushels less than some recent estimates
Stocks of both wheat and flour are returned as
1881 ,259 bushels in the British Isles ii 500, 900
bushels on ocean passage, 1866, 600 bushels in
Odessa (all wheat), l, III. .475 bushels in Paris
and !, 147. $50 bushels in Marseilles. Men in the
export trade say the foreign situation is i'm
proving, with news of drouth in India. failure
in Australia and smaller yield in Russia than
has been estimated.
THE kind of money in the treasury changed
somewhat in the last fiscal year. The increased
holdings consisted largely of legal tender notes
and credits to the Government in no Ial
banks, so there was no disturbance Of Or
dinary circulating medium. OF 1862, $50. 900 of
interest bearing bonds which remained out
standing January 1, 1889, s163 4sO, 900 were held
by the treasury as security for national bank
note circulation and $48, ,249 900 for deposits of
public money, leaving only s645, sol, 900 Of Gov
ernment bonds exclusive Of those In the Gus
tody Of the department..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12

the vast bulk of its component parts is made
up of corporations which were combined by
exactly the methods which Judge Barrett so
vigorously dissects.
Supposing the trust to be exclusively
what it claims to be, "a union of stock
holders" there is very decisive statement
of its character, and its position before the
law, in the following extract from Judge
Barrett'S decision:
Any combination, the tendency of which is
to prevent competition in its broad and gen.
eral sense and to control, and thus, at will,
enhance prices to the detriment of the pub
lie, IS legal monopoly. And this rule is ap-
plicable to every monopoly, whether the sup
ply be restricted by nature or susceptible of
indefinite production. Fortunately
the law is able to protect itself. And while
further legislation, both preventive and dis
ciplinary, may be suitable to check and pun
ish exceptional wrongs, yet there is existing, to
use the phrase of distinguished English
judge, plain law and plain sense" enough to
deal with corporate abuses like the present
abuses which, if allowed to thrive and become
general, must inevitably lead to the oppression
of the people, and ultimately to the subversion
of their political rights.
1t would not be strange if the Standard
Oil Trust were able to ignore and over
ride the law, as declared BY Judge Barrett,
as it has done with other plain principles of
law and equity. But it is of much value
to the people to have its legal status so
clearly defined as it is in the above words.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
MAKING A DEAD SET.
Harrison Being Urged to Call n Special
Session of Congress Against His Will.

Harrison Being Urged to Call n Special
Session of Congress Against His Will.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
INDIANAPOLIS, January l0.--A dead set for
a special session of the next Congress is being
| made by visitors to General Harrison these
past ten DAYS, and it is said that abundant
epistolary urging in the same direction is being
brought to bear upon him. The Dakota people
and the Southerners are doing, the heaviest
work in this direction. General Harrison,
it is understood, is anxious to avoid
calling a session if it be possible and will put
off making his decision about it until the latest
moment. He thinks the extra session might
do a great deal more harm than good to the
party, and as for himself it would be dread
full nuisance to have to bother with Congress
before he had got fairly Settled in the White
House, and while he was still besieged by the
first rush of the officeseekers. Nevertheless,
he will not hesitate to call special session II
the present Congress adjourns leaving SO much
eral sentiment of the country seems to demand
that the new Congress be called.
General Harrison has vast respect for the
general sentiment of the people as is evidenced
by the newspapers and in other ways He Is
man who likes to be in touch with prevailing
sentiment of the day, and if the Dakota people
and Southerners only knew what were their
wisest course they would direct their argu-
ments upon the newspapers rather tnan on
General Harrison directly.
Judge Stratton, of Birmingham, Ala, and his
friend, Mr.. Kirkland, called upon General Har-
rison to-day, and the Judge exhibited his scars
received in his famous encounter with the rot
ten eggs of alleged Democrats in Birmingham,
He estimated his damages at a seat on the
bench or n district attorneyship at the very
least. and came away disappointed because he
got no particular evidence of sympathy from
the President-elect. Both the Southerners said
that they were pleasantly received by General
Harrison, and that from his conversation they
were convinced that under his administration
the business interests of the South would take
a great stride forward
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
WHISKY Is SAFE,
At Least the Members of the Trust Ap-
mann O.

At Least the Members of the Trust Ap.
pear to Think So.
CHICAGO. January 11.-Whisky Trust stock
has not been deprecated in value by Judge
Barrett's decision in the case of the people
against the North River Refining Con-
pany, otherwise the Sugar Trust of New York.
1t appears that the Whisky Trust at this incep-
tion, secured copy of the charter of the sugar
combination, but that the attorneys picked it
to pieces, removing the weak points and boil
stering it up IN anticipation of just such an
emergency as is now presented. Doubtless that
is the reason that the whisky men are so un-
concerned. Mr.. Abel, of the Phoenix Dis
tillery Company, speaking of the matter to-day,
said:
THE Whisky Trust did not fashion its
charter after that of the Sugar Trust although
1t may be similar. Whether it is like it or not
is Of very little concern to us, as we think
there is little, If any, fear of any law on the
bit.h
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
An ENGLISH REVIEW
OF the Political Events on This Continent
During the Year 1858.

VI tu0 fOnticat 6vents on luis ContlnenL
During the Year 1883.
The London Saturday RevteU, in comment
ing upon the affairs of the English Govern
ment in North America for the past year, says:
A much more serious matter has been the
failure Of the fishery treaty with the United
States. By the exertions of Mr.. Chamberlain
and the Canadian delegates, helped by the ap-
parent goodwill of President Cleveland's ad-
ministration, convention had been made
which was firmly believed to be acceptable to
both parties to the long-standing dispute. 1t
would probably have been duly ratified If this
year had not included Presidential election in
the United States. AS President Cleveland Is
Democrat, the Republican majority IN the
Senate thought the interests OF their party
would be served as representing him as unduly
favorable to Canada and England. The treaty
was therefore rejected, and, as far as we are
concerned, came to an end. 1t still, however,
played its part in internal American politics.
Mr.. Cleveland. to show that he was not more
mindful of decency and good manners in deal
ing with England than an American who
wishes to remain in politics ought to be, recon-
mended policy of what he called retaliation
against Canada, which also was rejected by the
Senate.
Before long Mr.. Cleveland had another op-
portunity of showing that he could be rude
enough to please even Mr.. James g. Blaine.
Very shortly before the time fixed for the
election of electors, Lord Sackville, the En-
glish Minister at Washington, was induced to
write very imprudent letter of advice to a
correspondent who represented himself as a
citizen of the United States, born a British
subject, in want of guidance as to what he
ought to do with his vote. By an ignoble trick
this letter was published, and the Republicans
made capital out of it against Mr.. Cleveland.
When the President found that he was being
represented to the Irish voters as too civil to
England-because he at first saw nothing to
make disturbance about-he hastened to put
himself right by first demanding the recall of
Lord Sackyille, and then, without waiting to
allow the English Government to inquire or
decide, by sending the English Minister his
passports. Mr.. Cleveland's efforts were barren,
however. When the election had been held, it
was found that majority of the States had
voted for his Republican rival, Mr.. Harrison.
This incident, and the knowledge that Mr..
Cleveland was favorable to such a rearrange-
ment of the United States Tariff as would
practically work for free trade, have given this
election an exceptional interest in England.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
WEAVER MUST BE TIRED OUT.
Speaker Carlisle Has a Plan to Lay the
Deadlockist on the Shelf.

Deadl0ckist on the Shelf.
Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, January ll.-General Weaver
must be dealt with, and Speaker Carlisle has
proposed plan which might be effective if it
could be put in operation. 1t is to do away
with the o'clock adjournment, and to keep
the House in session until General Weaver is
worn out. To hasten the break down of the
deadlock, the Speaker would make him stand
as teller all the while, though the teller on the
other side would be relieved from time to time.
If General Weaver would ask to be excused
from this service, the House would refuse to
excuse him. Twenty-four of 48 hours on his
feet the Speaker thinks, would be enough for
him.
Undoubtedly this would break the deadlock
in a day or two, but the difficulty is that to do
this the rules must be changed, and General
Weaver can filibuster against the change. The
only amendment to the rules he would agree to
would be such as would give his bill chance
to be voted on. Meanwhile there are a number
of important bills which will, through this de-
lay, be compelled to go over until the next Con-
gress for consideration.
In the House to-day Weavers tactics were
resumed, but they were successfully met by
motions of Mr. Randall on points of order and
rulings of the Speaker on rights of precedence,
so that little headway was made A couple
of conference reports were agreed to. when
General Weaver again asserted his power, and
the House adjourned till the usual evening
pension session,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
THE COMMISSION EVIL.
1t Causes an Outrageous Attempt to Swindle
an Old Man.

CHICAGO, January ia poor old man who
could neither read nor write, came into the
Central police station this afternoon and told q
story which excited the sympathy and indigna-
tion of the officers. His name is Lawrence
Carr, and he had come from his home in Alcrai,
near Cleveland, and was on his way to Join his
son in Los Angeles, Cal. He applied to the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern ticket
agent in Cleveland for transportation to Los
Angeles and was sold ticket for $50 80. He
reached Chicago to-day and learned there for
the first time that his ticket read, "Via North
ern Pacific Railroad to Vancouver and by boat
to Los Angeles" an extremely circuitous route,
which would require weeks of travel, entailing
considerable hardship for feeble old man
this time of year.
Besides these objections he had only few
dollars in his pocket and by no means enough
to keep him from starving, or the greatest pri-
vations, while making this long overland jour
ney and ocean voyage, The only motive for the
deception which was practiced upon the old
man, must must have been the So commission
which the Northern Pacific pays to agents.
Officer Junger went with Mr.. Carr to the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern office and pre-
sented the case to the proper officials. They
claimed to strongly discountenance such prac-
tices on the part of agents. A part of the
money, $40 so, was returned to Mr.. Carr and he
will endeavor with that amount to reach his des-
tination.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-12
CHAUTAUQUA PROSPEROUS.
Annual Meeting of the Trustees and Election
of Officers.

Special Telegram to the Dispatch.
AKRON, January 1.-THE annual meeting of
the Chautauqua Assembly Board of Trustees
was held in this city to day, Lewis Miller pre-
siding. Bishop Vincent, Chancellor of Chau-
tauqua, started from Buffalo, but was beaten
back by storm. The report of Secretary and
Superintendent w. A. Duncan, of Syracuse,
showed receipts for the year of SSS l29: expendi
lures, s63 994 leaving balance of Sl9 236, which
was expended for improvements and in buying
additional assembly property. The indebted
to-day is SS4 759 and in the past year 81, 500
mortgages have been paid. The total debt re-
duction in five years is S5l, ,574. Secretary Dun
can says the prospects of the assembly were
never better; that the troubles with lease
holders that resulted in litigation are over, and
that the best feeling now prevails. He recon-
mends the starting of an endowment fund, that
the burdens of taxes and licenses may be re-
duced
officers were elected as follows: President,
Lewis Miller, Akron; Chancellor, Bishop Vim
cent Buffalo; Vice Presidents, F. H. Root, Buff
falo: Glen Srudebaker. South Bend, Ind; Jacob
Miller, Canton; Secretary and Superintendent,
w. A Duncan, Syracuse, n. Y: Treasurer,
E. A. Skinner. Westfield, N. Y; Executive
Committee, f. H Root, c. Studebaker Jacob
Miller, VIM. Thomas, ]. c. Clifford, ]. I. Ed
wards.