Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10

to make its earliest appearance. On one side of this line it is always to-day and on the other side tomorrow.
 WHERE VOTES ARE SUPPRESSED. In 1888 Florida cast SC per cent of its possible vote, and Connecticut cast 77 per cent, according to calculations pub lished last year in the New York Press, a republican paper, edited by Robert P. Porter until he took charge of the cen sus. These figures says the National Democrat convince Henry Cabot Lodge that there is a fradulent suppression of the vote in the south. In 1888 West Virginia cast SS per cent of her vote, and Massachusetts cast 60 per cent, in view of which fact Mir Lodge demands that the vote in the south be counted by federal officials. Mir Lodge opposed the amendment to the Davenport-Ro Lodge bill, offered by Mir Lehlbach, q republican, that would make the federal election law apply to Massachusetts as we'll as to West Virginia.
 The northwestern group of states cast S3 per cent of its vote the south, out side of six states, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, cast 75 per cent. The six New England states cast 63 per cent and the six southern states above enu- merated cast 45 per cent, but one of them, Arkansas, cast n higher per cent age than New England.
 Mir Lodges section of the country seems to be in as great need of federal re- turning boards as the south. The main difference between them is that most of the representatives from New England are already republicans. and the Lodge scheme is to get republican representa- tives from the section where the people elect democrats.
 In the City of Mexico the income from the taxation of liquors and the license on saloons is very large indeed. Every liquor and pulque shop pays a monthly license. In addition to the license fees on saloons, an octroi, or entry tax, is collected on all pulque coming within the city limits. For the fiscal year just ended this gate tax amounted to the sum of S560, 900, or more than Sl,5O0 day. The pulque shops open at six o'clock in the morning ard close at five o'clock in the afternoon, and not one of them has a back door.
 The value to Scotland of the oppor- tunities for sports is very large. The deer forests, of which there are 109, cov- bring LOGO square miles of land useless for agriculture, rent for G100, 900 an nually; 9l2, 500 of this goes to the local taxes. If any forest fails to be rented, the whole neighborhood feels it greatly in the diminished amount of money eX- pended there. The grouse moors rent for E44O, 900, and pay 955, 900 in taxes. Most salmon rivers are let with the moors, but some are rented alone, and add considerable sum to the total all ready given.
 Some strange judicial proceedings are reported from Queensland, Aus tralia. The presiding judge was in a hurry to get away, and tried cases con tinuously for thirty-six hours. At one stage all the available jurors were oc- cupied in considering verdicts, and, not to lose time, the judge ordered the doors of the courtroom to be locked, and then impounded every person in the audience qualified to serve. Many
 
 of the jurors were so exhausted by con- tinuous service that they fell asleep in their seats, but the trials went on.
 A decided change has taken place in the Siamese Government The great office of Second King has disappeared. The man who would have been Second King in the old order of things is Min ister of Finance under the new order. The dignity of Crown Prince has been created. The Ministers of State no longer exercise their powerful func- tions in the privacy of their own palaces, but their offices are in the palace of the King, where they must meet every day, and the Governors of the province, who were formerly quite independent, are brought into direct control of the central government.
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