The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-01-09

lieves in the equality of all citizens be-
fore the law, but he cannot subscribe to
legislation which under existing circum-
stances he holds would measurably de-
feat It's own object, and, by injecting a
disturbing element into the new econo-
mic conditions of the South, inevitably
tend to delay rather then promote the
gradual rearrangemento fparties on lines
that would give the colored vote an
equitable recognition. In thus antago-
nizing the sentiments of the time-hon-
ored leaders of his party, to whom age
has become the synonym of authority,
mated by no factious purpose, but by
well settled convictions.
The decorum of the Senate was actual
ly shocked yesterday morning. The
galleries were crowded with the visiting
school teachers of New York and Brook
lyn, but the Senate was In state Of
mastery inactivity, owing to the lack of
quorum. After the crowd had waited
in vain for fifteen minutes for some
show of life on the floor, they began to
applaud-just as any impatient crowd
begins demonstration in order to bur-
ry up the curtains rise. The noise was
promptly quieted, but even the Sena-
tors had to smile at the truly American
way in which the citizens and taxpay-
els manifested their displeasure because
the wheels of legislation would not re
volye.
The deficiency appropriate hil,
which will be reported to the Ho. Sc
next month, will be the largest ever
known in the history of the Govern
ment. The lite ms which it will contain
are now being prepared at the Treas
ury Department, and no definite est-
mates can be made by the Appropria-
ton Committee until these figures are
received at the Capitol. 1t Is known,
however, that the pension deficiency is
$34 SOC, 900, and it is expected that the
other DEFICIENCIES will bring the total
amount up to $4O,0OO,000. This Is an un-
exampled aggregate, and Will form the
| text of many Democratic speech.
| It is the intention of Chairman Hale
of the Senate Committee on the census
to call hiscommittee togither next week
and begin the consideration of the ap-
portionment bill passed by the House.
The chairman says that the PROBABLE.
ties are that the committee will fix the
lumber of representatives at 1856, as
agreed upon by the House, or at 359,
which would give an additional Repre-
sentative to New York, to Arkansas, and
TO Minnesota, States having large unrep
resented fractions upon basis of a
membership of 356 in the House.
Washington is rapidly coming to the
front as the Convention city of the
country. The holiday week has been
rendered remarkable this year by the
fact that during it the annual meetings
of three of the most important of the
learned associations of the country
have been held in this city. The bodies
thus meeting have been the American
Economic Association, the American
Historical Association, and the Geologi-
cal Society of America.-Among those
who are in attendance at the meetings
referred to, and who are participating
in their discussions, are some of the
best-known men in the literary and
scientific world. The papers which have
been read, and the discussions to which
they have given rise have been of great
value not only for the information con-
veyed, but also because they give an in
dication of the advance made through
research and investigation in historical,
philosophical, and physical science.