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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29

syndicate, is going to build new set of
mills in Kansas, and that he has already
commenced the work by the construction of
an elevator with a storage capacity of l.
500, 900 bushels The report is valuable as
illustrating what THE DISPATCH has sew
eral times before said, that unless there is
some extraneous means of preventing new
competition this syndicate business contains
little danger of monopclies, and involves
more danger to the confding British invest
or on whom these properties are unloaded at
profits which enrich the promoters.
1t is noticeable that the force of the illus
tration does not necessarily depend on the
correctness of the report. There is nothing
to prevent Mr.. Pillsbury from putting up
new Touring mills. either at Kansas City or
wherever else be may find an eligible ioca-
ton. If the syndicate mills should estab-
lish an excessive profit, it is almost equally
clear that either he or someone else would
surely do so, and as the stock on the syndi-
cate properties has been notoriously watered
and requires large profits to pay dividends,
while the new mills would represent solid
cash investment, it takes neither prophet
nor the son of prophet to tell that in the
competition the watered concerns would be
greatly at a disadvantage.
The same argument applies to the past or
prospective purchases of breweries, glass
works, iron mills or salt works. If the
British promoter wants any of these proper
ties at more than it will cost the present
owners to replace them, ne must take them
at his own proper peril.
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JoHNsTowN,s GOOD WORK.

The power of recuperation which can be
shown by a ruined city has been displayed
BY Johnstown to a marked degree, as is
shown by a special article elsewhere, on the
progress that has been made in rebuilding
that city in the year that has elapsed since
its great disaster.
Some of the facts disclosed with regard to
the work that has been done are of surpris-
ing character. The first six months were
necessarily spent in clearing up the debris
which occupied the site of what had been
the city. That made the work Of rebuilding
really commence with this year, and the
consequence is that the present is the
busiest time that Johnstown has ever ex-
perienced. One thousand buildings have
been erected, largely frame, although some
substantial blocks have taken the place of
the former structures. Two or three thou
sand houses are still to be constructed to
replace the total of those destroyed. Money
is plenty, and there is very little borrowing
considering the amount of business done.
The surprising fact is also revealed that
there are ninety more stores in actual opera
ton than in the year before the food.
1t is an honorable record for the people of
Johnstown which they have made in their
effort to recuperate from the disaster of last
year. The world at large will be glad to
learn how the aid which it extended to the
ruined town has encouraged and helped the
brave attempt to repair that terrible destruc-
finn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
THE HOuSE BAR CLOSED.

Charitable persons having expletives and
objurgatory adjectives at their command
should send them to their representatives
in Congress. A crisis is approaching
in the House of Representatives; the
ominous mutterings of the storm are already
drowning the piercing voeals of the capital
guides The shadow of Speaker Reed,
gigantic and strongly sulphurous, falls
athwart the halls of Congress, and the
lights in the lobbIes are burning blue.
Yesterday Speaker Reed closed the House
bar-room.
''This is the hendr' as Miss Fanny
Squeers said after the catastrophe. Not
content with abridging their liberties, with
making fun of their fre-eating proclivities,
with counting them against their wills, and
refusing to get angry at their insults,
Speaker Reed has aimed a cowardly blow
Rt the personal comfort of our representative
Statesmen. Yesterday he closed the bar-room
of the House. Without word of warning
he shut off the supply of whisky. The blow
has no parallel. It is unprecedented,
revolutionary. Some years ago, it is true,
there was an attempt made to deprive the
Senate of similar privileges, an attempt
that resulted in the tremendous reform of
calling whisky "cold tea" and serving it in
the Senate restaurant in china cups instead
of glasses. But no Speaker before, we
venture to say, has dared to think of
shutting up the House bar. Such pro-
ceeding shows the desperation of the
Speaker. He must realize that he cannot
much longer cope with the mighty orators
of the Democratic side. Does he calculate
10 silence his adversaries by depriving them
OF the source of their inspiration? For it is
a good long walk from the House to the
Senate restaurant, and everybody knows
that the form of courage known as Dutch
evaporates rapidly.
We trust that the tyrannical abridgemsnt
OF the rights of the minority will be properly
resented. Perhaps the aid of the Supreme
Court might be invoked. Otherwise nice
! de in original packages will spring up
- he lobbies.
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THE MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT.

The imperative progress of the work Of
Improving Pittsburg's transit lines, is
shown by the action of the Pittsburg, Al
legheny and Manchester Company yester-
day, in deciding upon the construction Of
an electric line, and the immediate reduc-
tion of its six-cent fares to five cents. With
this change and that already decided on for
the Birmingham line, every leading street
car line in Pittsburg will be converted into
either electric or cable roads. This practi-
cally doubles the area of the two cities,
available for residences. and allows an in
definite increase of population and business.
The change was made. necessary for all the
leading lines, when the first Improvement
was begun, and now that it is nearing
completion, we can see what an immense
addition it gives to our city life.
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MORE ORIGINAL PACKAGE TROUBLE.

Another practical test of the constitutional
question involved in the original package
case is to be furnished by the application fol
writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Silver.
man, who was arrested for selling beer al
Leechburg as the agent of Cincinnati firm,
The indication is that there will be harvest
of such cases. Yet the ease with which
such case can be removed to the United
States and the prisoner discharged on the
principle laid down by the Supreme Court
may have the tendency to decrease the FIRE.
quency of such arrests.
1t would doubtless be well to have a new
test case made up, in which the full effects
of the original package case are shown, and
to give the Supreme Court an opportunity
to revise or modify its position. But it
hardly seems as if the Silverman case would
present the issue that is wanted. A case
from Pittsburg, in which the claim must be
clearly made that the right of the State to
license or regulate is set aside, would be
very likely to evoke a shift of position on
the part of the Supreme Court. But the
Leechburg case, coming from a prohibition
borough is almost identical with the Iowa
case that formed the subject of the famous
decision.
Under those circumstances it is difficult to
see what other termination there can be of
this case than the discharge of the prisoner
under the ruling of the ultimate Court.
But what will follow is ques-
tion of interest and importance. Will
arrest under the State law and dis
charge by the United States Court con-
tinue to infnity. until Congress or the Su-
preme Court introduces new elements?
There would be public importance in hav-
ing at least another test case in which the
extreme application of the Iowa decision is
shown; but beyond that the warning should
be given that there may be considerable
hazard in the persistent arrest and impris-
onment of people for the exercise of rights
belonging to them under the Constitution as
construed by the highest judicial authority.
Whatever course is taken, it is clear that
a succession of complication is inevitable
unless Congress cuts the knot by enacting
that whatever regulations State may estab-
lish shall govern interstate commerce to
and from that State.
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NATIONAL CATTLE INSPECTION.

Senator Farwell, OF Illinois, has proposed
an amendment to the pending bill providing
for cattle inspection. The Illinois Senators
measure provides for inspection under the
direction of the Secretary of the Agriculture
whenever he may deem it expedient. The
original measure is understood to provide a
system of general and permanent inspection;
and the opposition to the Chicago press and
legislators to such a standing precaution
against the shipment of diseased cattle or
meat places the meat trade of that city under
suspicion.
The Supreme Court having correctly put
a quietus on the attempts OF certain States
to prohibit the trade in Chicago beef, it is
plainly tine duty of Congress to provide
thorough and permanent safeguards against
the shipment of either diseased cattle or
meat An occasional and sporadic system
of inspection, which will be enforced only
after the necessity has been proved by the
harm being done, will not do that. If the
meat trade is to be controlled by the railway
policy which concentrates it at few points,
it will be easy to provide such an inspection
at the central markets; and the fact that the
vast majority of the traffic must be brought
together at those places, renders the strict
est sanitary precautions all the more neces-
sary, 1t is to be hoped that Congress will
be able to take sufficient time from the
tariff and silver to pass an inspection law
which will place the meat trade beyond all
suspicion of disease.
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"DID anyone try to catch the trou
ghost2
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.

CHICAGO is having as much trouble in Sc
curing site for the fair she had in wrestling it
from her competitors. AS California has asked
for 10 acres of space, it looks as though Chicago
would be compelled to borrow space from her
suburban villages.
MRS. McCLosKY. of Logansport, Ind. has
sued Willard Harvey for $10 600 damages for kill
ing her husband. The deceased must have been
an exemplary good man, or else model husbands
must be a scarce article when that amount is
asked.
A PROFESSOR at Washington is teaching
people how to smile. Pittsburgers can smile
without the aid of professor. wink from a
friend is generally sufficient here.
BEN BUTTERwoRTH says ne belongs to the
Republican party. When the Ohio Statesman
made his famous speech it was generally believed
he owned himself, but when his vote was recorded
1t was too transparent that somebody had very
large mortgage on him.
THE national inquisition will start on its
rounds next week. Long headed men will lose
no time in settling with their tailors. Ladies
should also bear in mind that they must give the
enumerator their exact ages. 1t is not only for
publication, but as guarantee Of good faith.
ABOUT 3,5Oo,O 900 quarts of champagne were
consumed in this country last year. This is ex-
elusive of the cider sold champagne. Will some
one please figure out how many swelled heads
those 8, 500 900 quarts caused?
BEFORE General Sir Frederick Middleton
steps down and out from the Canadian militia he
proposes to make the fur fly. Sir John A. Macdon-
aid and the majority Of Parliament have found
him guilty of seIzing furs and appropriating them
to his own use, but as he divided the spoils with
many government officials, nobody appears
plucky enough to bounce him, the General is
liable to tread their corns. He still holds the
fort.
NOT even a cyclone or an earthquake visited
Rhode Island this week, notwithstanding the
fact that the Democrats are holding the reins of
government.
OF all the impertinent questions to be pro-
pounded by the census enumerators, we fail to
discover the important one. ''Do you
pants?'' Some one has blundered, and the voter
should remember him at the next election.
OUR baseball clubs relieved he everyday
monotony of affairs, and instead of getting
licked twice, they got it in the neck three times
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
AN EFFECTIVE DECREE.

At last it seems as if one court has decided
to make its DEGREES effective against trusts
which suspend competition. That is the
indication from the action of the Chicago
court which yesterday eDjoined the transfer
of the assets of the Chicago Gas Trust and
decided upon the appointment of a receiver.
For long time the courts and trusts have
presented modern example of the fable of
the old mar who tried throwing grass before
he resorted to stones. The courts have been
deciding that the trusts are illegal and the
trusts have kept up their operations without
intermission. Now that the legal missiles
have taken a solid and effective form, we
may have the satisfactory demonstration
that the law is more powerful than illegal
combinations of capital.
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SHERMAN TO 60 TO PORTLAND.

The Generals Characteristic Letter in Ac.
cepriug the Invitation.
PORTLAND, Me, May 2S.-Mayor Melcher
has received the following very characteristic
letter from General Sherman:
NEW YORK, May %, 1890.
The Hon. H. 8. Melcher, Mayor, Portland. Me-:
DEAR SIR-I wrote you some days ago that
could not come to Portland on the 4th of July
next. have to-day concluded arrangements to
go to Cleveland to witness the unwilling of the
Garfield monument May 30, Decoration Day.
will then go to West Point June L for the gradu-
ating exercises, and the next positive engagement
is for Boston, August Il, the National Encamp-
ment, and Chicago in September, the unveiling
of Grants equestrian statue. AS L am thus
robbed of all chances for a summers holiday.
might well take in Portland, Me-, for the
Fourth of July. and the everlasting Army of the
Potomac, which seems Jealous that have out
lived all their commanders and want to kill me
come to Portland in my own way, and secure me
a room at a fair hotel, will come, attend their
exercises, share their banquets and get back to
New York. prefer to be independent, not the
guest of any private family, or even of your hos
pitable city, but to take 1t easy in ''mine own
inn, - where old friends Will call who would not
intrude on the privacy of a family This is not
whim of mine but a conclusion reached by Grant,
Sheridan and myself more than ten years ago at
children and eight grandchildren, who expect me
to give them some of my thought and attention.
WAN W. T. SHERMAN.
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TO A FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD.
Congressional Excursion From Washington
TO Geftysburg To- Morrow.

TO Gettysburg To- Morrow.
WASHINGTON, May &.-The Congressional
excursion from this city on Memorial Day, May
30. to Gettysburg. Pa, promises to be well
patronized. 1t will leave the Baltimore and
Potomac depot, Sixth ana streets, at A. M,
taking the West Maryland road to Baltimore.
arriving at Gettysburg about noon, the train
going directly out to the famous railroad cut
near which the battle opened July l., 1853, and
a description of the engagement together with
the location of the troops, will be given. After
the visit to Railroad Cut is finished the train
will return to town and go out on the Gettys
burg and Harrisburg road to the base of Oak
Hill where the afternoon battle of the first day
will be described. The distance between the two
points is half mile, completely filled In with
a line of monuments, and the cars will move
slowly while points OF interest are being deslg-
mated Little Round Top, the scene of the
second DAYS fight will be next visited, and
then the train will go to Hancock station The
excursionists will here be given walk of'about
100 rods to the copse where Longstreets assault
was repuIsed on the third day, description of
which will be given.
The cars will then return to town. but those
willing to walk Will have an opportunity of See
ing East Cemetery Hill where the attack was
made on johnson and Early's divisions, and
where the engagement between Gregg'S and
Stewards cavalry took place. When the party,
on their return, shall reach the Maryland Rail-
road station, they will enjoy the hospitality of
the Blue Mountain House Company, and enjoy
an hours ride through the wild and pictur-
esque Blue Ridge. On Saturday morning
drive will be taken to the High Rock on the
summit of the Blue Ridge. and after dinner
the excursiOnists will start for Hagerstown,
en- route to this city, via the Baltimore and
Oh1o road, passing the Antietam battlefield on
permit.
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A UNIVERSITY ASSURED.
The Sum of 100000 Raised to Found n
Baptist Institution.

The Sum of 100000 Raised to Found n
Baptist Institution.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-One of the most enthusi-
astic meetings ever held in this city was that of
the American Baptist Education Society meet
ing to-day, held in the Immanuel Baptist
Church. The report of the board of managers,
submitted by Rev. F. T. Gales, shows that the
contributions to the cause of academic and
collegiate education have been many times
larger this year than during any previous year.
The great work of the society for the year
has been the raising of 100000 to meet the con-
ditions of Mr.. ]. d. Rockefeller's pledge of
5000, 600 to found a university in this city. Not
only has the S425 900 been raised. more than
meeting Mr.. Rockefeller's conditions, but in
addition Marshall Field has pledged 2I25 600 to-
ward the cost of the site. The total amount
pledged to the new institution amounts to
81, ,2O0 QUO. The great audience broke into wild
cheers as this announcement was made, and
for time the chairman was overwhelmed with
pledges from all parts Of the audience, rep
resenting different States and foreign lands.
The announcement that the Hebrew citizens
of Chicago had raised 1000 toward the enter
prise called down enthusiastic applause.
The new institution will be called the Uni
versity of Chicago, and the alumni of the old
university are raising fund of 800, 600 to endOw
a professorshlp as memorial to the lamented
President Edward Olsen, who perished in the
Minneapolis Tribune fire. Hon. George A.
Pillsbury of Minneapolis. was reelected Presi-
dent and Rev. F. 7. Gales. Corresponding Sec
retary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Ex-PREs1DENT HAYES is said to be worth
nearly 81, 100000.
SEN AToR and Mrs. Stanford will go tc
Kissingen next month.
RICHARD CROKER, Tammanys chief, is or
his way home from Europe.
MRS. WAITE, widow of the late Chief Jus
tice, and her daughter will sail for Europe to.
day.
| THE family of Vice President Morton left
| Washington yesterday morning for their coun.
| try home az Ellerslie, Rhineclitf-on-the-Hud nd.
| son.
| COMMANDER MCCALLA is announced to
spend his three years of retirement at New.
| port, his penance beginning there with the
coming gay season.
NJ. B. BAILEY, Bernard McDivitt, Julius
| JONES' John Kelley and P. c. Harbourg are the
incorporators of the Chicago Tower and Con-
struction Company, with capital of $4,000, 600.
THE late Fletcher Harper was a sailor to the
Chinese seas in his youth. There is another
Fletcher Harper the third of his name, and a
great-grandson of the founder of the harper
firm.
| MRS. PHILIP n. WEIGH, widow of the late
| humorist, whose death occurred about a year
ago, has taken charge Of a children's depart
ment in the Saturday issue of the Brooklyn
| Standard Union.
Mr.. WALT WHITMAN, who will be II years
| old on Saturday is said to be failing rapidly In
| health. He is no more seen on the streets of
| Camden in his wheel chair, but is confined to
| his modest home.
| SENATOR MANDERsoN, of Nebraska, has
been confined to his house in Washington
several days by an attack of quinsy. He is re-
| covering, but it will be week or ten dan be-
| fore he can venture out.
| THE Duke of Northumberland is no doubt
the greatest landowner in England. He owns
more than 100000 acres and has a rent roll of
SS75, 900 year. He is 81 years of age and all
| his life has been great reader.
THE President will leave Washington in a
| special train this evening at o'clock for
| Cleveland to take part in the Garfield monu-
ment celebration on Decoration Day. He will
be accompanied by Vice President Morton,
| Secretaries Blaine Window and Rusk and At
| torney General Miller.
The popular subscription for erecting mon
ument to the newly made Duke of Lauenburg.
| Prince Bismarck, is very successful. At Ber-
| lin and Hamburg alone no less than S37, 500 has
already been gathered. The late speech of
Mr. Won Hohenthal, in the Chamber of No
bility, at Berlin praising the ex-Chancellor, has
produced q great sensation in Germany.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-29
STATE POLITICAL NOTES.

BEAVER COUNTY will hold her primaries to-
day. Delamater delegates will, in all probabll-
ity, be elected.
A. D. LOWING, of Center Road Crawford
county, is candidate for Congress in the
Crawford Erie district. The back districts are
now being heard from.
WEDNESDAYS Du Bois Courier contained
two-column cut of Major Montooth. The
above paper is putting in some pretty big lieks
for Pittsburg's favorite candidate for Gov
ernor.
BLAIR COUNTY Republicans will hold their
convention on Tuesday, June "a. at Altoona.
It's anybody's race in that county up to date.
As yet no cry of fraud has been heard in the
county.
FIVE candidates for the Assembly and about
as many more for the Senate have announced
themselves as ready and willing to serve their
constituents and their country from Crawford
county.
THE Westmoreland Tribune Herald says
that the primaries held in Indiana county will
not be conducive to harmony. and would like
to have some man not mentioned yet get the
nomination 1t seems to think that there are
breakers ahead.
HANNIBAL K. SLOAN, of Indiana. is in the
race to the finish for the Lieutenant Governor
ship on the Democratic side. He was gallant
soldier during the war, is a resident of an agrl-
cultural district. and enjoys the confidence and
knows the wants of farmers.
ALL the principal candidates for State Of
fees have already secured quarters in Harris
burg The Lochiel Hotel will be in the hands
of the politicians during the convention.
Rooms have been reserved for Senator Quay,
but it is stated he will not be in attendance.
COLLECTOR COOPER desires to see clean
.f,N f:OT1T in Tho
Sixth district; that he wants it understood that
he shall give no orders to his Custom House
employees as to his preference in the matter,
but THAT he and they are free to exercise their
choice as they deem best. As for himself, he
is in favor of Captain johnson.
MEADvILLE, Notwithstanding her extreme
bashfulness, is not lacking in furnishing a full
quota of men willing to suffer for their con-
stituents. One of her citizens wants the Gov
ernorship, another the Congressional nom1na-
ton and still another the State Senatorship. So
far no Presidential bee has been heard hum
ming there, but the campaign is still young.
DEPARTMENT COMMANDER JOSEPH q
DENNIsToN has issued a general order rela-
tive to politics in the Grand Army OF the Re-
public. Among other things the Commander
says: "If any desire to assist in the way of po-
litical preferment any ex-solder, it can be
done as citizens, but not as members of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Posts must not
indulge in resolutions of Endorsement of cam
o1dates, whether snch candidates be comrades
or not.
FRANKLIN, the county seat of Venango
county, the home of all classes of politicians,
from County Commissioner to United States
Treasurer, is not making much noise during
the present campaign. A gentleman from that
city, now on business here, gives as reason