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A REMARKABLE DECISION.

Students of the American constitution
always notice with regret any tendency
On the part of our courts to interfere in
matters which belong to our legislatures.
The judiciary in our country has the
most extraordinary power. There is
nothing like it under any other constitu-
ton. In England, the most liberty-loV-
ing land in the world except our own,
no court presumes to set itself above the
will of parliament and say that any law
which it pieaSes to enact shall be i'll
operative because it is unconstitutional.
The will of parliament constitutes the
English constitution, and if its pleas
ure violates the popular sense OF right
the.remedy is at the polls, not through
the courts.
Under our system it is different. We
the authority of the legislatures and the
executive. and the Judiciary is empew-
cred to secure the observance of these
checks by vetoing any act which, in its
Judgment, is calculated to infringe
them. This makes the courts the dom
inant branch Of our government, and,
in general, the effect of such a depart
ment has been salutary. There is a
danger in it. however. because our
Judges hold office for long terms, and.
sometimes for life, and while in position
are subject to no restraints except those
supplied by their own wisdom and by
popular opinion as EXPRESSED indirectly
through the newspapers. The time was
when the only constitutions to which
the courts required that the legislatures
should make their laws correspond
were tie written constitutions strictly
interpreted. Now quite generally laws
are held unconstitutional because the
Judiciary conceive Of them as infring-
ing the general spirit of our institutions.
This particular extension of judicial in
reference will. perhaps, work no seri-
Gus harm. but the courts should be
careful. Judicial tyranny is as much to
be feared as.any other, and those of us
who love our institutions tremble whe II
any sort Of usurpation promises to make
our citizens restless and re5entfuI.
The tendency to pass laws which
seem to be needed is another form of
judicial interference which should he
guarded against. A yeay rtmArkaJle
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
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THE LOTTERY FIGHT.

Senator PIERCE may find some salts
faction in the fact that the lottery men
in North Dakota, who have been spe-
cially hostile to him, have been stripped
of part of their panoply and forced to
do the swallowing act ad nauseam. The
attempt of the Louisiana octopus to ill-
wade the Dakota land has reacted upon.
it and forced the national adminiStra-
ton to ostracise it. That it is in crit
zeal position is apparent. The loss of
the use OF the mails has proved disas-
ter that it has been unable to find way
to retrieve. Its business has shriveed.
and advantage has been given its re-
lentiesS opponents in its own state.
1t seems to be on the way to the morgue.
but still able TO fight. Its charter eX-
pireS at an early period, and Its eX-
istence depends upon renewal.
Should it obtain this, it will, per-
haps, find the lymph that will
restore its lucrative activity. 1t has
recently gained a point in the use
of a supreme court mandamus COM
polling the secretary of state to provide
for vote of the people on the question
of the extension Of the charter twenty
five years. 1t will be remembered that,
when the governor vetoed the act sub
hitting it, the vote to pass it over his
head lacked one of the two-thirdS in
one house, insisted OH by the opposition
rs necessary. The vote will not be had
till next spring, and the great effort of
both sides is to secure Endorsements in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
STATE OPINIONS.

The assertion made by some of Our
editorial friends that 1gnatus Donneily
las met his match in John Day Smith
shows poor judgment Smith is no
more match for DonneHy than Jack
Dempsey would be for John L.. Sulli-
van. -Faribault Pilot.
< For the past thirty years the Repnbi-
cans have controlled the state and made
the appointments for congressional
districts. This year the Democrats are
i'm control, and ON the senatorial COM
mittee for eappOrtionment are seven
Democrats, four Alliance and two Re-
pubiicanS. This has caused the latter
to kick, because they fear that the Dem
oerats will do as they have all along
done, fix things things to suit them and
not the opposition. We miss our guess
if the state is not SO dIstricted as to in
sure at least two Democrats out of seven
congressional districts. st. Peter Her
aid.
Mr.. Donnelly and the leaders of the
sessed of their share of the bristles
which occupy prominent part on the
back of one Of our principal live stock
products. Valley Footprints.
The way senators and members are
tuinbling over each other to introduce
railroad bills is precursor that mighty
little railroad legislation will follow.
The innate desire which has laid hold
of some of the members to find out all
about the business of the roads, if car
ried into execution, will furnish more
work than the solonS can perform in
120 days if they devote their entire time
thereto. In the meantime, what p
Mankato Free Press.
Anti-railroad antl-most-every thing
bills are fairly raining in Oh the legisla-
ture. The average legislator seems anx-
ious to establish a reputation as par
alyzer and pulyerizer.-Ma Martin Sen
tinel.
We notice there is move on foot to
wage war upon the express companies
in the present legislature. The sooner
these express robbers are brought to a
full understanding that the public has
some rights in regard to charges which
they are bound to respect, the better it
will be. A wholesome regulation OF the
express companies is badly needed, and
we hope our representatives will use
their best endeavOrs to this end.-Pipe-
stone Star
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
REpUBLICAN REBELs.

In looking forward to the political
status of the next senate, when the house
will overflow with Democrats. it may
be anticipated that disintegrating proc
esses will have had some effect upon
the nominal majority of half-doZen or
less. There will be HANsBRoUGH, of
North Dakota, Republican pledged
not to get in the way of Democratic
measures. Then there are eight Re
publican senators who have recently
boIted the imperious demands of caucus
and stood out at the peril of the hot
wrath of the administration. Seven of
this number will be in the senate
the next four years. All the i'm
portant Republican organs that are
recognized as staunch and unsWery-
Ing are now engaged Ill de
nouncing these eight senators as
traitors to the party and assistant Con-
federates. Their names are paraded,
plastered over with the badges of party
dishonor, and conJraSted with the loyal
aid true forty-three who faced the
music There have been other occa-
sions when Republican organs have
stigmatiZed persons as traitors and very
bad miscellaneouoly for differing with
them on some legislative measure. But
ii mast be somewhat of a novelty to the
ears of senators like INGALLS,, STAN
FORD and WAsHBURN. The most prom
inent Republican paper In ONO, with
perhaps one exception, gives The list OF
the 'betrayOrS or the party" ana asserts
that the course of these senators has
been governed by SOrdid financial
considerations" The explanation in
the case of the recreant from Mime
sofa is that "WASHBURN OWNS Touring
mills, and has business and social con-
lIectionS in the South" Most OF them
are accused of selling out human
rights" for silver. They trafficked with
the enemy and battered political con-
yictionS for free coinage. CAMERON is
denounced the most bitterly of all, and
the Indignation felt is lurid with shame,
as the paper indicates it. mo WONDER"
it says, that he has been burned III
el1igy in his own state" There is
much. similarity in this case, and the
view taken by the party organs, with
the situation in the impeachment of
I ANDREW JOHNSON. All the hot and
radical blood Of the party was in fierce
flow against the offending preSi-
dent, and but one vote was lacking
on the trial for the requisite
tWo-thirds Then seven Republic
cans voted with the Democrats, boiling
the party beheSt and defying its tierceSt
abuse. They were denounced just as
are these seven Republicans in the sell
ate who voted against the force bill.
Nor were they ever forgiven. Only one
of the number, HENDERSON, of Mis-
souri,, was ever able, if he sought it, to Sc
cure even partial conformation of his Of
tense. FEsSENDEN, GRIMES and DIXON
were bounded out of public life and to
their graves. DooLITTLE, FRUMBULL and
Ross are still living and acting with the
Democratic party. If these senators
who have now dared to vote their con-
yictionS against their party are not
made to take the rear seats or peniten
tial bench, it will be due to the fact
that the party itself is too nearly in the
soup to enforce discipline.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
THE NEXT SENATE.

The United States senate now consists
Of iifty-one Republicans and thirty
seven Democrats, of whom twenty
will go out on the 4th of March next,
comprising twelve Democrats and sew
enteen Republicans. The elections have
all taken place except in Florida, where
the legislature does not meet till April,
and South Dakota and Illinois. The lat
ter two have been deadlocked for two
weeks, and no immediate result is fore
Shadowed in either. 1t is, however, ey-
idcnt that neither will send a Republi-
can, and pretty fair prophets anticipate
the election of PALMER and TRIP,
Democrats, this week. Florida, it is
conceded, will return Senator CALL,
Democrat. Of The seventeen Republi-
CANS whose terms expire, but nine will
be senators after twenty-nine days.
But the Republicans have elected Dt-
BoIS i'll Idaho in place of SHoUP. GAL
I.INGER in New Hampshire to succeed
BLAIR, and HANsBRoUGH in North Da-
kota to follow PIERCE. The other five
seats are or will be lost to the party.
The changes in individuals have been
as great with the Democrats as the Re-
publicans. They have returned but
seven out of their twelve, and with
CALL will have but eight, but they have
lost no seat, unless the one in South
Carolina proves to be such. IRBY, the
man who is to push out WADE HAAIP.
TON, is Farmers Alliance Democrat
EnJ1TnN- ic fn cnnannd
BROWN, of Georgia, and was elected by
an Alliance legislature. BRICE follows
PAYNE from Ohio, and Wilson is the
new man in place of EUSTIs, of Louis
lana. Five Republicans are to be fol-
lowed by Democrats OF Alliance
men. SPooNEG. of Wisconsin, retires,
and Villas comes in. So does EyARTs
his place. These are straight Demo
cratic gains. INGALLS,. of Kansas, went
over with a thud. ana PETER, the AL
lance choice, comes in. Tnen South
Dakota and Illinois must be counted as
losses to the Republicans. The Repub-
licans have been looking earthly to
Senator HEARST, of California, to die
and give them a Republican gain, but
he is understood to swear that he will
not oblige them. If he lives. and the
political horizon presents no un-
looked-for clouds after the 4th of March.
the senate will stand: Republicans of
all shades and tcmpers, 46; Democrats
and Alliance, AZ. 1t ought not to be
very difficult to wipe out the rest of the
Republican majority in 1892.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
DANGERS TO THE FAIR.

The two Republican senators from
Illinois seem at last to realize that the
force bill is veritable menace to the
fair that is to be held in their state.
They have shown a recklessness in par
tisan bgotry that can only be due to
natural illibera!ity and an ambition for
further distinction, to be obtained only
through the Republican party. 1t is
given out, however, that they will vote
against further attempt to take up the
bill. This is in quiet voice. as they
begin to perceive the danger that
threatens the fair, but are unwilling to
lose any prestige with the bloody shirt
element. There is small danger of a
retracking of the measure, but there
cannot be too emphatic or speedy as
surances Oh that point for the welfare
of the exhibition. The MCKINLEY tar
iff has played the mischief with it
abroad, aud the force bill would be a
Siaggerer at home
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

the party platforms. The fight against
it is in the hands of the Democrats en-
tireIy, apparently, the Republicans and
negroes forming the main hope of the
lottery 1t is not a rosewater. kid
glove campaign, and if it does not
have violent episodes, and even
tragedies. it will be due to the
forbearanee and good sense of the OPP
position. The history of political con-
troversies in that state IS not encourage
ing in this respect A lottery advocate
in one of the parishes was recently
lynched, and threats have been made
against the judge who granted the man
damus. This is not creditable or com
mendable way OF promoting righteous
cause. but the lottery has had a good
deal to do Ill lowering the tone of 20
Iitical morality, and desperate measures
may be believed needful for its over
throw.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
FUNNY FANCIES.
, this place healthy9'

us this place healthy?"
Healthy? This air would bring
dead man to life"
''1hat being so, how do you account
for the great array of graveStones up in
this country"'
Chem? Oh, them's to keep the
cerpses what's buried there from comm
up and overpopulatin' the town.
Greensburg Sparks.
When man goes into anything he
should always 90 into it with his whole
soul, but it does seem little absurd for
q sprint runner to shave himself clean
in order to remove the obstruction
caused when he runs by the wind blow
ing through his wiiiSkerS.-
Journal.
Depravity and ungodIy levity are fast
graphing the Congressional Record. 1t
recently printed the familiar word
chestnut" 1t has printed words of
strong chestnut tlavor-many time,
many time.-Sayannah News.
nently money? In recorders court
s25 or thirty days.-New Orleans New
Delta.
THAT senator who Just sat down is
awful prOsy. He talks like book
That is only his natural development.
He began his career as page. New
York Evening Sun.
Grin-See dog fight?
Barit-No; the dogs only stood off and
ye!ped at each other.
EGrir-Ah, bark mill, as you might
say.-BuffalO Express.
Gushley-Did you ever, like the poet,
''stand on the bridge at midnight?' Is
Rounder-No, but I've often stood on
a bobtaii flush at about that time of the
eyening.-New York Herald.
There is complaint at Washington
balls of the scarcity of young men who
dance. But there is no scarcity of old
men who dance and dance wiIdly-on
Capitol hill.-New York Press.
Kind Did Lady-And so you are blind,
my poor man?
Poor Man - Yessum. 1 was born
blind.
Kind Old Lady Shocked Born Blind
Is it possible? How you must feel the
loss of your eyesight .-Texas Siftings.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
CUTTING DOWN SALARIES.

Economy i'll public expenditures is
good thing, but it is not impossible TO
display great profundity OF wisdom
over token money and at the same time
to be guilty of endless folly about dollars
which are much more important. The
Minneapolis papers, for example, are
showing some opposition to paying their
district court judges $4,000 a year.
There are few men with important in
terests to be guarded who would not
count that q small price to pay for
WILLIAM LoCHREN's or SEAGRAyE
SMITHS services; and Ramsey county
would rather eXpend good deal in ex-
cess of $1,000 a year than lose its HAS
CAL II. BRILE. In the same way, our
charter tinkerers may think themselves
very brilliant if they cut down the city
engineers salary to 5000 or the city
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
THE INDIAN QUESTION.
Government Inhumanity.

Charleston News
We hope that congress will direct a
thorough investigation to be made of
the causes Of the war. and will provide
the severest punishment for the agents
OF the government who are responsible
for the lives that have been lost and the
inhumanities which have been practiced
in dealing with the Indians. The Indian
policy of the government is reproach
to the country and an offenSe to every
principle of Christian civilization. If
it is determined to eXtermnate the In
dians, let them be massacred i'll direct
obedience to the mandates OF the law,
but, for Heavens sake, do not let them
be cheated out of their few remaining
possessions and then killed for COM
pIaiDinr
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THE STORY OF n DAY.
Iseca has a 800, 900 fire.

Waseca has 100000 fire.
Gen. Morrow dies at Hot Springs. Ark
The worlds fair directors want Sl5000,000.
There will be no extra session Of congress.
Secretary Noble is pushing pension claims.
Warden Garvin takes charge at saltwater.
The funeral of William Window will occur
to-day.
Several soldiers and civilians are arrested
at 0poFto.
1t is said John C. New viii be secretary OF
the treasury.
Two men are killed i'll collision on the
Montana Union.
The temperature drops to q degrees below
zero in Montana.
An Asbury. N. j., girl takes morphine for
insomnia and dies.
An editor and several others are burned
ont at Montgomery.
Cartwright makes 81 miles and wins the
Minneapolis walking match.
Clark Wells is arrested at Worcester, Mass,
for forging check for 5000.
The press of both France and Italy is
pleased over The fall of Premier Crispi.
Four negroes are killed and several others
fatally injured by white miners of Alabama.
European physicians fail TO make kochs
lymph after being told how except in one
particular.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

attorneys to 1850. but if they do they
will either get a S2000-a-year engineer
and s2,500-a-year lawyer or else shut
out everybody but the rich OF dishonest
from the occupancy of these positions.
Either of these alternatives would be a
bad thing for the city, both in its moral
and pecuniary aspects. Competent men
can always get good prices Tor their
services, and, if the city will not hire
them, some one else will.
There has PROBABLY been good deal
of extravaganza in our municipal eX-
penditures in late years, based largely
Oh the general feeling Of popular buoy
ancy and expansion. The school board
seems to have been the chief sinner, but
OUTLAWS for children's education i'll adj
vance of real needs, while an evil, are not
the most serious form of evilimaginable.
School houses. like bridges and public
buildings, are permanent investments
which will not fade away. and we shall
have them when oar limits broaden for
the use of our people. The burden Of
taxation is as great as it is in our state
not only Or chiefly on account OF
our excessive expenditures. 1t is
because the greater part of the
property in the community is not
taxed at all. Real estate bears prac-
tically the whole burden. If corpora
tons enjoying natural monopolies
granted them by the government paid
an adequate price for their franchises
and the secret wealth of the plutocra
were brought to light, there would be an
amazing reduction in our tax rate. The
two great questions before our Demo
crstic-Alliance legislature are the regu-
lati0n of public corporations and re-
form in the tax laws, and the GLOBE
expects it to do good work in these
directions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
Plain Conditions for Peace.

Omaha Bee.
The commissioner of indian affairs is
most pronounced in favor of rigidly pro-
tectihg the service against the spoils
system, and undoubtedly the president
and secretary of the interior are in full
accord with him. Congress should not
hesitate to do whatever may be required
of if to establish this principle. Full
and prompt compliance with agree
nlentS by the government. fair and hon
est treatment OH the part of agents, lib
eral provision for education. and course
generally toward the indians that will
win their confidence, are the plain and
not difficult conditions necessary to III
Stare uninterrupted peace with them and
their steady progress in civilization.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
Printers Favor Early Closing

At the meeting of the typographical
union yesterday, the following was
adopted:
Whereas, Aneffort is now being made
in this city to make the eariy-closing
movement as widespread as possible /;
and
Whereas. It is necessary. in order to
further this effort. that all organizations
in the city should put themselves ca
record in the matter; therefore
Resolved, That the typographical
union does hereby record its cordial ap-
prevail of the, early-clostng moyemenG,
and the members do hereby pledge
themselves to aid and encourage the
same by all legitimate means, and by
giving their patronage. in making pur
chases, to IlH,se dealers who close their
places of business in accordance with
The eauiy-closing agreement
The union also indersed the label
adauted by the iourneymen bakers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

The Republican papers in Iowa are
devoting their chief energies to abdsing
Gov. BoIEs on account of a speech he
made in New York, in which lie said
something about the cost of corn grow
ing in his state. They must be afraid
that he will be a candidate for vice
president
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

THE Georgia legislature has made it
a crime to sell or give cigarette to a
minor, OF even the paper of one. That
is the prevalent rule, aud i'll one OF two
cities ordinances prohibit their sale en-
tirely. 1t must be assumed that they
are harmful to adults also.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
Something Gained.

ST. Louis Post-Dispateh
The lives of the indians killed in the
recent outbreak were not sacrificed in
vain. Their surviving fellows have
been saved from starvation, and re-
FORM movement has been inaugurated
which promises to eliminate many of
the worst evils of Indian management.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

q A BosTON doctor asserts that he has
an absolute preventive for pneumonia.
The disease has 10 show whatever in
the face of his barrier. Still, people go
on Having the relentless malady. Per-
haps they prefer TO die rather than take
the doctors prescription.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

n CHANCES for people to rise up and
praise WILLIAM MCKINLEY are con-
stantIy arising. The makers of wire
fence and the California fruit Gamers
have been able to get together sepa-
rateIy and advance prices while cutting
the wages of labor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

ONE familiar with the subject says
there is locally more effort to sell min
ing stocks than has been known for
years. Most of the offerings he regards
as straight goods, but specifies a few
instances that warrant prudent con-
sideration. He had seen specimen of
ore into which the gold dust had been
blown by pistol.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02
seryitude that even many Legislators do
not struggle to escape from.

THE Detroit Free Press understands
Archbishop IRELAND tohave prohibited
all lottery OF chance devices at church
entertainments in Difference to public
opinion. and suggests that the church
should Lead and not follow popular SEN
ti,nent. That depends.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-02

i SARAH BERNHARDT is this morning
about halfway across the Atlantic on
her mission to give farewell tour in
America. She understands that fare
wells draw best in this country, and
will always confine herself to them on
her American tours.