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ALLIANCE DIRECTORY.
Officers of the National Alliance
and Industrial Union.


President......L. L. Polk, S4l street northwest
Washington, D. C.
First vice-President.........B. II. Clover, Cam.
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary Treasurer II. Turner, 2S9 North
Capitol street, Washington, D. C.
Lecturer,..........J H. wnletts. McLouth, Kansas.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
]. W. Maeune, Chairman. 2ss North Capitol street
Washington, D. C.
A. WardaIl ....,.......". Huron, South Dakota
J. Fount Tillman, .........-.Palmetto, Tennessee.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
II. c. Demming, Chairman-... Harrisburg, Pa
Isaac McCraeken Arkansas.
A. E. Cole ............. - Fowlerville, Michigan
COMMITTEE ON CONFEDERATION;
Ben Terrell, 2a9 North Capitol street, Washing
ton, D. c.
L. F. Livingston Kings, Georgia.
r. F. Rogers, Live OAK, Flortda
W j. Talbert Holmes, South Carolina.
H. L. Clear Lake. South Dakota.
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Now let us be frank. What do these political
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meanl Candidly, their yaporings mean that un-
litcel representatives of nonp0 litical ergsnfxa
ton. there viii be trouble. Candfdiy. 1t means
that II q few nameleSs nobodies cannot rule the
Toost, there WIN be trouble What should the
Democracy dOs Surrender No. A thousand
times. no. Better, far better to go to defeat than
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
FAME'S FAVORED ONES.

Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has remarkable
memory for faces.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR, the head of his
family, is the greatest real estate owner in
the world.
She has been re-engaged for the "City Direc-
tory" play.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON and his family have al
ready gone to their summer home at Buz-
Yards Bay, on the Massachusetts coast.
ALBERT G. PORTER, United States Min
lister to Rome, is preparing to spend the
summer in the Italian Highlands. He has
no idea of leaving Italy.
The Venerable Bishop Crowther, one of
the best known missionaries in Africa, was
born savage in Guinea.
THE wife of Mr. Batcheler, United States
Minister to Portugal, was seriously injured
in q carriage accident in Lisbon Wednesday,
and is in a critical condition.
ANDREW CARNEGIE and Mrs. Carnegie and
Mr.. Walter Damrosch (hIr. Blaines son-in-
law) and Mrs. Damrosch sailed for Europe
yesterday, to be absent during the summer.
GENERAL A. W. GREELEY is in Spokane
Falls WASH, experimenting the laying of
the new cable across the Strait of San Juan
de Fuca to the Island of Taltoosh, for signal
ing vessels.
Ex-GoyERNoR PAUL DILLINeHAN, who ap-
pointed Mr.. Edmunds to the United States
Senate quarter of century ago, is still
alive, and lives at his home in Waterbury,
vt. When Senator Edmunds resigned re-
Gently, he paid his friend graceful compli-
ment by sending him copy of his formal
resignation,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
THE ISSUE ON THE CHARTER.

The shot which Mayor Gourley fred at
the charter supplement by his letter to
Governor Pattison, opens up the whole
question of municipal organization. 1t
plants the Mayor on the platform outlined
by Mr. Bruce and indorsed at the citizens
meeting, namely, separation of the execu-
tive and legislative departments of the
city. 1t certainly seems to have taken
effect, to judge by the withdrawal of the
bill from the hands of the Governor, but
that it will produce different class OF
legislation is more than doubtful.
The supporters of the bill, when it is
divorced from that unnecessary and in
comprehensive certificate of Indebtedness
scheme, will probably take the ground
that as the sole purpose of the measure
is to supply needed powers to the
heads of departments, the larger question
of the manner of their election should not
be introduced at this time. This would
have been an argument of some cogency if
the latter question had not been raised
before the bill was passed. But, the neces-
sity for amendatory action on the city
charter having been agreed upon, this
amendment was indorsed at the citizens
meeting and those who insist on its neces-
sity are certainly sticking to the action OF
that body.
In the contest between the opposing ele-
ments, so far, it has been made plain that
the supporters of the bill in its present
shape are able to control the Legislature;
but it has evidently dawned upon them that
the other side may have the aid of the Gov
ernor In that case the trial of strength
will become very interesting one. If the
Mayors side had not been presented before
the bill reached the Governors hands, it
might have been urged as hardship that
the grant of necessary powers should
be refused because the views of the
reformers are not met. But when
that view has been urged on
the Legislature with the Endorsement
of the citizens, it may very forcibly be
urged that since those who control the
legislative action have refused to provide
the amendments asked for, they them
selves will be responsible, if that action
results in leaving the heads of departments
with limited and ill-defined powers.
Itwould certainly be an unexpected out
come of the present municipal muddle, if
the political influences controlling the city
government found themselves unable to
get the necessary legislation for the heads
of departments without conceding the |
original demand that the heads of depart
ments must be either elected by the people |
OF appointed by the Mayor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
AN EFFETE IDEA.

A constitutional amendment proposed
in one of the States provides for the set
tlement of contests for legislative seats by
trial before one of the higher courts. This
is proposed reversal of what has been re-
garded as one of the bulwarks of repre-
sentative government, namely, that each
representative body must be the sole Judge
of the qualifications of its members.
1t is true that this provision was once
necessary to preserve the independence of
the legislative body, but it is so no longer.
In the time OF Stuarts and Tudors the in
fiuence of the Crown might be such as to
require this check. But all such danger
has passed away, and in its place new
tyranny has sprung up. When it has been
openly declared by the presiding officer of
the National House of Representatives
that contested seats are awarded not by
the evidence as to who was honestly
elected, but in accordance with the die
tates of party exigency, it is plain that the
present danger is not one to be met by
giving each body an irresponsible control
over the title of its own membership.
As we got the present antiquated con-
stitutional theory from England, it is ap-
propriate that we should draw a remedy
from the same quarter. The rule that
Parliament should be the sole Judge as to
the election of its members was abandoned
% years ago The act provides that the
judges shall from time to time depute one
of their number to try election contests
and all that is left for the House to do is to
enroll the candidates declared elected.
This system has given satisfaction to all
parties. 1t has done away with the old
scandal and injustice of seating men solely
because they belong to the majority.
1t is not satisfactory to think that we
are over two decades behind England in
the matter of pure and honest representa-
tion. But when the case is presented so
clearly in this respect, there is no better
course open than an early and universal
adoption of the English example.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
PITTsBURG, FRIDAY, MAI 15, 1891.
THE CONVENTION SCHEME.

After distorting the ballot reform bill
into mockcry of its original purpose, of
course the next thing for the Senate to do
was to pass the constitutional convention
deception With the demonstration al
ready given of the attitude of the Repub-
lican managers toward ballot reform, there
can be no serious pretense that the consti-
tutional convention movement has any
purpose Of aiding a genuine reform.
The politicians who shape the course Of
tie Senate have 10 intention of securing
ballot reform through the convention.
They may use the ll-conSidered demand
of some OF the Democrats, as cloak for
their real purpose. 1t is well known that
there are many things il the present con-
stitution which the practical politicians
and their allies, the corporations, would
like to see wiped out. With the conven-
JiOn set up as the Senate bill fixes it, there
is every reason for them to hope that they
can secure a convention which will emas-
culate some OF the best provisions in the
present constitution. The kind of ballot
reform that can be expected from the
gathering which the Senate bill eontem-
plates can be estimated by the species Of
ballot reform that tie Senate is now con-
templating.
With the prospect of this bill passing, it
will be a good time for the people of Penn
sylvania to organize for the purpose of
action ct the polls TO maintain the present
constitution and to enforce it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
PEOPLE WHO VISIT P1TTsBuRG.

Among the Seventh Avenue guests yester-
day were z. X. Snyder, President of the State
Normal School of Indiana; Jehu Dewitt MiI-
Ter, the Philadelphia lecturer; DR.. w. D. Nc
Gowan, of Latrobe; John D. Frisbee, prom
inent Democratic politician and business
man of Connellsville; Judge W. p. jerks, of
Dubois, and II. P. Currill, of Clarion Mr..
Currill was on his way to West Virginia to
take up mining property.
r. Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon, owner
of the wealthiest iron men in the State, was
in town yesterday and put up at the Du-
quesne. Other guests there were George d.
Wick, the Youngstown iron manufacturer
and j. 7. James, the Waynesburg Democratic
politician and lawyer.
Mrs. Mason and daughter, of Delphos, 10. !:
j. X. Hamilton and wife, of Elkhorn, Pa.
and Mrs. Whitehall and two ladies were
among those who registered at the SchlOsser
yesterday on a May Festival trip to the city.
w. H. McDoel, general manager of the
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway
Company, has been placed in charge of the
property in place of W. L. Breyfogle, who
has resigned.
Congressman Mason passed through the
city yesterday morning, He says that 1892
viii find the people inddfsing Harrison, the
tariff, the force bill and reciprocity.
P. H. Moore, editor of the Ohio VaAey
Manu- facturer, of Wheeling, was in the city
yesterday looking up iron trade pointers.
Judge White returned yesterday from o
brief holiday trip. =
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
THE CERTTEICATE FnLLY.

It is interesting to learn that the bill
making amendments to the city charter has
been withdrawn from the Governors hands
for the purpose of making two bills out of
it, one to define the powers Of the heads of
departments and the other to authorize the
issue Of certificates of Indebtedness. If,
after the division, the bill relating to GER
tifcates of Indebtedness is thrown away,
it will be very wise proceeding
Apart from the constitutional question
with regard to this measure, which has
been fully discussed in THE DISPATCH
heretofore, the most prominent feature is
its utter lack of necessity The necessity
of issuing some sort of bonds to
meet the claims of contractors does
not enter into the question at all:
because the method by which such
bonds can be issued is already provided by
the city charter. 1t is wholly within the
power of Councils at any time during the
year to submit to the people well ma
tured proposition to issue such bonds as
may be needed When that proposition is
submitted according to the accepted con-
stitutional method it win be time to discuss
the merits of the issue. At present it is
enough to point out that the charter
already contains salutary. and sufficient
means for providing whatever issue of
bonds may be necessary.
But, for some reason which remains
wholly unexplained, there is determine
ton not TO adopt this obviously proper
method, but to take one of doubtful con-
stitutiOnality and worse policy. The sup
porters of that measure might as well
throw it away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
THE PRESIDENTS FOOL FRIENDS.

Mr. Russell HarrisOn'S wicked partner
Is putting himself in evidence once more
with a vengeance. The device wrought out
IL the last issue of Judge, consists of a
representation of Secretary Blaine in the
character of chicken-thief, who is scared
away from the poultry-house by paddock
bearing the features of the President, and
who therefore declares ne does not care
much for chicken because "Dar's a
lock on de chicken-cOop door," This
is a gem of altogether too delicate
satire by the Presidents personal
friends to be directed against his
chief Cabinet officer Its terms are ex-
tremely conciliatGry to the leading Repub-
lean who, more than any other one man,
aided the Presidents election, and who
has contributed the single feature that
raises the administration above the level of
pettiness. To call him chicken-thief and
20 picture him as scared from stealing
Presidential nomination by the stern
features of benjamin. Harrison is the most
unique way Oh record of strengthening the
Harrison administration.
An outbreak of this sort from one of the
family organs will not, of course, iniure
the chances of the Presidents renomina-
ton, for he has none to injure. But it will
put every Blaine Republican in the
country on the warpath and disgust
every impartial person. 1t indicates
4 degree of petty spite on the
part of the Presidents personal surround
ing. because the Secretary of State towers
head and shoulders above the rest of the
administration heretofore unheard of. 1t
would be incredible if the evidences of the
spirit of it were not indisputable.
If the President could have placed Rus
sell Harrison and w. J .Arkell on one of the
more ancient naval vessels a month or two
ago and sent them out to sea with orders
to sink the ship, his trip around the coun.
try after votes might not have been so
utterly futile
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
discussion, the committees successors


would have to commence and do itover.
The mere outline of the plan of opera
tons laid down by the Senator occupies
considerable space The further fact that
the slightest branch of the work sketched
there will take much more labor than a
Senate subcommittee, out for a
vacation, is. likely to give it is
another drawback. Thus the investigation
as to wages is expected, according to SEN
ator Carlisle, to embrace an exhaustive
classification of the kinds of work, the
various grades of single occupation,
what the men have to pay for articles of
common consumption and the purchasing
power of their wages. Here is work for
some years; and when we reflect that a
similar plan is outlined for retail prices of
manufactured goods and for the leading
articles of farm labor, it requires san
guine temperament to hope that the work
will be completed by 1896. But, in order
to shed light on the situation, at that time
a new set of statistics will have to be pro-
duced, and the present labor will be lost.
In view of the fact that our free trade
friends cannot expect to pass any tariff
legislation in the coming Congress, they
might as well omit this Sisyphean task.
Let them fight out the fight of 1892 first
Unless Colonel Watterson's idea of COM
promise Democratic position on the tariff
proves contagious, they may then be ex-
pected to attack the interminable task OF
tariff tinkering once more-if they win that
6nbf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
A RARE COLLECTION.
Casts, Manuscripts and Other Objects
( Illustrating Semitic History.

Casts, Manuscripts ana Otner OBJECTS
/ Illustrating Semitic History.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CAMBRIDGE, MAss.,SMay IA. - There was
thrown open to the public at the Peabody
Museum to-day for the first time large and
rare collection of casts manuscripts and
other objects illustrative of Semitic litera.
ture and history. The large and well-lighted
rooms in which these articles are collected
are known as the Harvard Semitic Museum, a
new department, for which the college is in
debted to J. H. Shift, Of New York. Some
time ago he gave to Harvard $4,000 for the
purchase of objects of this kind, and his con-
tribution is believed to be the first ever
given toward the foundation of strictly
Semitic museum. To this end Prof, D. G.
Lyon, of the divinity school, was commits
stoned to go abroad as buyer last year, and
he spent three months in London. Paris and
Berlin with the most satisfactory results
and with the expenditure Of only about one
half Of the sum donated.
Prot. Lyon regards as one OF the most i'm
portant features of the collection the casts
Of some of the great Semitic monuments in
the British Museum and the Louvre, of
which the most interesting are probably the
Assyrian- -Babylontan clay books and stone
art remains. There have threefold inter.
est. They come from the oldest branch of
the Semitic stock, they represent q civiliza-
tion the Oldest known, the Egyptian posi-
bly, excepted, and they illustrate Hebrew as
well as Babylonian history, so intimately
were these two peoples connected. These
casts have, for the purpose of instruction,
value almost equal to the originals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
TOO MUCH TO INVESTIGATE.

The line of investigation which Senator
Carlisle indicates for the Senate Finance
subcommittee with regard to the tariff,
as reported in New York special in this
issue, is very interesting, and the informa-
ton will be valuable if the work is thor
oughly done. But it is subject to the slight
drawback that to thoroughly do the work
outlined would occupy the subcommittee
for the rest of its official life; ard when it
was done. to make it effective In tariff
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
JOURNALISTIC JEsTs.
WHAT WAS IT?

1t happened one morning wee baby girl
Discovered what seemed like a cunning white
pearl.
But when her friends fastened TO see the fine sight,
She closed its small casket and locked 1t up tight.
st. Nicholas.
To Enquirer: No; John Bunyan was
not the compiler of the corn -ChfcD0o Tribune.
Dufer-Grinding monopoly! Tush! Nom
sensel Point out to me if you can an instance Of
grinding monopoly!
Pufer-weil how will the flour combine do for
an instance?-C Chicago Times.
Van East-So you have been elected Q
United States Senator. That Is high Office.
DE west-I should think so. 1t cost me 500, ,0o0.-
Ne,o York Continent.
"Where did you get your dictatorial
ways, anyhow?'| asked Henpeck.
''From you, while 1 was your typewriter" re-
torted Mrs. H.-Puck.
'Iet's see What has become of d. B
Hills he still in Officer asked the rescued cast
away on his return.
.aOh, yes. He is now Governor of New York.
Chief Justice of Connecticut and United States
Senator, with prospect Of the Presidency. y.-LUs.
AT the door of a Ridgway church on SUM-
day evening young fellow asked young girl,
May see you home?'' with as much composure
as he could master. The little lady quickly re-
piled: .'No, but you can watch me start,'i-Ex
DensoTnt. ot1t j
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
JoHNsTowN FLOOD ANNIvERsARY.
Preparations Completed for Properly Com
memorating the Event.

Preparations Completed for Properly Com
memorating the Event.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATcH.1
JoHNsTowN, May A-Arrangements for the
commemoration of the second anniversary
of the great flood, which have been planned
under the direction of the Mineral City
Band, are about completed. Dr. George W.
Wagner, of the Southside, has been ap-
pointed Chief Marshal of the procession on
that day. Already number of bands,
lodges and other civic and military organ
izations have signified their intention to
take part in the exercises, and more are re-
ported daily. Eleven bands have been as
signed places in the ranks. The German So
cieties who have signified their willingness
to take part will number over 200 men. Com
pany III, of this city, will turn out to a man,
and it is expected that most all the other
lodges and Organizations will report at least
one week beforehand.
The Johnstown Flood Correspondents As
sociation, which will meet at Johnstown on
that date, will contain representatives from
most all the cities in the Union. 1t is not
known whether they will take part in the
procession, but it is probable that they will
not. An invitation was extended them last
year, but it was not accepted. Mayor Rose
has accepted an invitation to deliver an ora.
tion at the Grandview Cemetery, and Mr..
John v. Shaffer will speak in German.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-15
EVIDENTLY A ROORBACK.

1t does not involve very much risk to
pronounce that report of the sinking of
the Itata by the Charleston as an arrant
example of the manufacture of sensa-
tional news Beyond the fact that it is
accompanied by an entire absence of time
or place, there are internal evidences of
its unfounded character.
The Itata escaped from the custody of
the United States Marshal a week ago.
At that time the Charleston, with other
United States vessels, was supposed
to be watching American interests
on the coast of Chile Even sup
posing that the order for her
to be on the lookout for the Itata could
have reached her in time, it would be
physical impossibility for the two steamers
to have met each other so that the report
of the collision could have got back to
Mexico so soon as yesterday. AS to the
features of the. report indicating that the
fight took place on the coast of Mexico,
the idea that the Charleston could have
been summoned from the SoutI American