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Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

The normal department of the Uni
versity of New Mexico will open
Wednesday, June 10, 1892, in the
academy building, Albuquerque,
with competent corps of teachers.
The tuition is lree, and board may be
secured at reasonable rates in the
city. The length of the term will be
ten or twelve weeks. All desiring
to take a thorough teachers course
should attend the territorial univer-
sity. For information address
G. S. RAMSAY,
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

The Democrats in Congress have
not redeemed single one of the
pledges upon which they were elect
ed, but they have perpetrated enough
folly and stupidity to beat their par
ty in the coming contest.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

One of the results of the quarrel
now eliminating at Minneapolis is
likely to be the adoption of the one
term idea by the Republican party in
the future. The Republican party
started out with two-term example
in the case of Mr.. Lincoln, but this
was under the exigencies of the war
period. 1t repeated the experiment
IN the case of Gen. Grant, but with.
out great success, as Grants second
term was not conspicuously good In
drift or tendency. There is much TO
be said for and against a second
term, but the balance would seem to
be in favor of leaving it an open
question, to be determined on the
merits of the first term. AT any rate,
there is a good deal TO be said against
the adoption of a constitutional
amendment limiting the service to
one term. Globe Democrat.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

The Fort Worth and Denver rail
road is now being taxed TO its full ca
pacitY hauling shipments of young
steers from Texas 10 Montana and
Dakota.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

The water and insurance questions
have been the great subjects of dis
cussions on the street today.
Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-06-10

Hurrah! for the State of New
Mexico.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
THE TsUsr Is RESPONSIBLE

The counsel for the Sugar Trust is re-
enforced by grocery company in st. Louis
asserting that the price of sugar is reason
able and that injury will be inflicted on the
vested interests if the sugar duty is re-
pealed The reasonable price of sugar,
like that of every other commodity, is that
fixed by competition. A competitive
price expresses the average willingness of
labor and capital to do the work for that
award. A non-competitive price ex-
presses the ability of those who have sup
pressed competition to get what they
want The advance of &c per pound on
sugar means that by suppressing competi-
ton the Trust is able to extort S11, ,25O, 900
per annum more from the people than
what would be paid under competition.
If any injury is inflicted by the repeal
of the duty no one is to blame for it but
the sugar monopoly. That organization
undertook to antagonize and defeat the
purpose of the protective duty, namely, to
diminish the price by stimulating home
competition. When it thus attacked the
protective purpose it justly forfeited all
claim to protection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
NAMES FREQUENTLY HEARD.

PRESIDENT POLK, of the Farmers Alli-
ance, has a beard which ought to make
PETER green with envy.
SENATOR RANSOM, of North Carolina, is
supposed to be the best dressed and most
polished man in the Senate.
SENATOR CAMERON is said to take more
pleasure in holding the reins behind a fast
horse than in any other occupation.
ASSISTANT SURGEON J. B. SToNER, of
the Marine Hospital Service, Detroit, has
been found qualified for promotion.
SENATOR BRICE will be a resident of
Rhode Island this summer, and has taken
the Newport cottage belonging to Danny
Fearing.
The Car and Czarina sailed for Copen-
hagen Saturday for the purpose of attending
the golden wedding of the King and Queen
of Denmark.
HERR LAUTER, the manager of Krupp's
great gun factory, is about to start for the
United States to arrange for the transporta-
tion of the big guns that Herr Krupp will
exhibit at the Chicago Fair.
ALLEN MANvEL, President of the Atchi-,
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, arrived
in New York Wednesday from a two months
visit abroad, the greater portion of which
was spent at Genoa, Italy.
NOTING the fact that Count Hesse-War-
tegg is now in Paris as the correspondent of
a syndicate of newspapers, Eugene Field
says that he pursues literature as an avoca-
tion; by vocation he is the husband of Min
ME Hauk.
JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, the new
President of Cornell, was a clerk in village
store on Prince Edward Island when boy
of l3 He studied hard at home and gained
some scholarship in local colleges which en-
abled him to go to London.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
HARRIS0N'S ORDER A BLUFF.
His Personal Friends Don't Mind His Anti
Convention Warning,

WASHINGTON, May pa Special. 1.-The Fed
eral officehoIders in Washington are in
great state of mind over the Presidents in
timation that they are not expected to make
themselves active conspicuous at the
Minneapolis Convention. The suggestion on
which the Presidents so-called order was
based was made by Secretary Foster. The
minor officials who are not delegates have
promptly determined in their course. They
will remain at their desks. One of
them, who is the chief of q big bureau and
who had made all his arrangements for at
tending the convention, said to-day. well,
don't know just how broad the President
intended to make his intimation to office
holders to stay at home, but it is certainly
mean to risk my official head by flying in
the face of the President. 1 shall remain at
home although 1 feel pretty mean about it.
The other bureau officers Will, think, as
rule. also remain away from the conyen-
ton"
The higher officials, like Dan Ransdell of
indianapolis, Harrison's warm friend, regard
hand early at Minneapolis Republicans
generally in Washington do not seem to
know just W hat the President means by his
anticonvention warning, but they think it
hardly possible that he means that office
holders who are delegates shall resign their
commissions. If he should do SO it would
play havoc with his chances for renomina-
tion, for somewhat hasty study of the list
of delegates from the various States shows
that over 100 of them are officials of the ad-
ministration. One-eighth of the delegates
are beneficiaries of the Government purse, q
larger proportion of public servants than was
ever before sent to a National Convention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23

wrecking of the bank, but the secret where
that money went to is as jealousy guarded
as ever.
1t is clear that thetwo millions of dollars
which disappeared in the wrecking went
into the pockets of some one. Of that
money large share was composed of
public funds. and all of it was money in
trusted to an institution under govern
mental supervision. Under those circum-
stances it is not any part of the duty OF
the administration to cover up or protect
those who profited by the plunder. If the
fact be as stated, that the experts reports
disclose where the money went, the sup
preston of the facts lifts the scandal from
the local administration of the bank and
the subordinate officers of the national
banking bureau to the national admins
tration.
The reports of the experts should be
made public so that the facts may be
known. If the Treasury Department will
not disclose them in any other way Con-
gressional investigating committee should
demand their production.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
is 1T COVERED UP?

The fact that the great mystery of the
Keystone Bank in Philadelphia is only
likely to be solved by Congressional in
vestigation is brought to the point by the
Philadelphia Ledger There is national
bearing in the suspicion of persistent
smothering of this plundering of bank
under the supervision of the Government
that certainly calls for ventilation.
The repeated evidences of a disposition
to stop the investigation into the wrecking
of the bank received due notice as they
appeared The efforts of Philadelphia
business men to have the examination 90
on were ultimately successful The
Ledger states that the experts making the
examination have traced every dollar that
went into the bank, and that their reports
to the Treasury Department show where
the missing money went But any informa-
ton to the public, or any prosecution of
the people who pocketed the money, is
conspicuously absent Bardsley has been
taken out of prison to testify that he lost
over million of public money by the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
NOT AN IMPROVEMENT.

The recent declaration of that organ of
most conservative financial interests, the
Financial Chronicle of New York, in
favor of repeating the national tax which
prohibits State bank circulation has
caused a general following of the lead in
quarters where it would be least expected.
The proposition is supported undoubtedly
by the shrinkage in The volume OF ma
tionaI bank circulation; but that hardly
seems reason why in remedying that
matter we should take the illogical course
of going back to the conditions of thirty
years ago.
One New York paper in favor of the
change argues that the conditions now
are differeHt from what they were thirty
years ago. Whether they have changed
in the respects which would make it safe
to open the door to wildcat bank circula-
ton may be matter for discussion. Our
corporate system at large does not show
any marked diminution in the disposition
of spectators and operators to inject
large proportion of wind and water into
the total of business and investments.
Imitation in prices and speculation is not
shy of appearing. The record of broken
State banks and private bankers is not an
assurance against unsafe banking. Bogus
insurance schemes and shallow invest
ment frauds spring up like weeds wher-
ever gulls can be found to sustain them.
We search in vain for any evidence that
the same class would not utilize the op-
portunity to impose on the public by put
ting in circulation an indefinite amount of
bank notes whose ultimate value would
be in its weight for waste paper.
The example of the Canadian bank cir
culation is referred to in defense of the
State bank circulation. But before &C
cepting that as proof in favor of State
bank circulation it may be well to inquire
whether the banking question in Canada
is not a subject of Dominion and not
Provincial legislation and whether char
tiers are not granted so Sparingly as to be
too valuable to risk by wildcat banking.
Certainly the feature with regard to them
that every note is returned to the issuing
bank for redemption as soon as it comes
into another bank offers no superiority to
the universal acceptability and stability of
our national bank notes.
The disappearance of Government bonds
as basis for banking requires the adop-
ton of some securities of equal soundness
for the same function. 1t will be no in
provement of the situation to open the
door to the condition of things when it will
be necessary to get a mercantile agency
report to determine the value of every, five
dollar bill you happen to hold.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
BUGS ON HIS RETURNS
An Illustration of the Loose Way in Which
Connecticut Election Officers Worked.

All Ahustratioh ol tnS Loose way IN "hich
Connecticut Election Officers Worked.
New HAVEN, CONN, May e2.-Counsel in
the Phelan- Walsh quo-warranto case to ex-
pedite matters have appointed a committee
OF two Republicans and two Democrats to
canvass the votes cast for Secretary of State
at the last State election. 1t was agreed
that the finding of this committee should be
accepted as fact in the presentation of the
case to Judge Hall and when the case is
taken to the Supreme Court. The count
was completed yesterday. 1t was found
that Phelan received maj ority OF T7 votes
for Secretary of State, which is more than
the tabulated returns compiled by the Sec
retary Of State gave him.
= The writing on many of the statements Is
almost illegible and grasses and blots are
common. The ink used by the counters was,
as rule, very poor, and has already faded.
In several cases where the counters did not
use the printed form for making out the re-
turns they took the official ballots Of the
dlHerent candidates and wrote tho number
or votes they received on them. Tie most
remarkable return the committee have yet
found came from Goshen. The counter in
That town, instead of using the official blank,
tore couple OF leaves out of a book on
zoology and wrote out the result on them.
The papers are covered with illustrations of
highly colored bugs and insects that live
under water This return the committee
think should be framed and exhibited con-
spicuously in order to show the hit or miss
fashion IN which elections are recorded in
this State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
LEGISLATIVE REGULATION

The application of the theory of legis-
lative regulation of rates to be levied in
the railroad business, or any other charged
with public obligations, receives couple
of illustrations in the Eastern press. The
inadequacy and iniquity of that policy ap-
pear in carrying it out into such details as
this.
One is furnished by paragraph to the
effect that summer railroads" not over
ten miles in length are permitted in New
York to charge fares of 15 cents per mile.
This naturally provokes from the New
York Herald the comment that, If a road
happens to be little over ten miles long.
it will make money by tearing up a fur
long of its rails and letting its victims
walk the rest Of the way Beyond that,
the absurdity of summer road ten miles
long being authorized to charge fare of
81 80, and one 10H miles long which must
not charge more than 31% cents, is a
signal illustration of the arbitrary di-
visions which legislative regulation neces-
states.
The other case is from Massachusetts,,
where in pursuit of the same policy
measure is proposed that railroads whose
shares have market value of 115 on the
par of 100 shall be subject to the two
cent-a-mile restriction. The proposition
is an attempt to incorporate into law the
general and undeniable theory that as a
railroads business grows its charges
should diminish. But as a statutory pro-
vision itNwould be both unjust and in
adequate There are many railroads
doing a profitable freight business on
which passenger traffic at more than two
cents per mile is absolutely unremunera-
tive; and there are many more which
might justly make such reduction whose
stocks by reason of water or manipulation
never rise to Is per cent above par. Here
we have suggestion of the principal
effect of the proposed enactment ANY
railroad desiring to evade that provision
could by the well-known methods initiate
its stocks, so that an apparent quotation
of 60 or 65 on the par of 100 would be
real premium of 20 or 30 per cent on the
actual investment.
There is just one way to insure the
equitable adjustment of charges to the de-
tails Of each case. That is to make COM
petition in it SO free that the charge for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
THE BLAINE SITUATION.

BLA1NE's pole can reach the persimmons
| if he wants them.-S. Louis Globe Democrat.
! IT is becoming painfully apparent that
Mr.. Blaine is putting the "crown" aside
each time more gently than before.-C2eve-
| land Pain Dealer.
BLAINE may be q sick man, but the Blaine
boom is at present enjoying very robust
| health and indulging in exuberant activ-
ity-Ne,o York World.
THERE is authority for the statement that
Blaine will let Nature take her course at
MINNEAPOLIS This denotes that the Secre-
tary of State doesn't regard the course as
Harrison's exclusive eproperty.-PhiladeEphf
Record
WE regard Mr.. Blaine as out of the Presi-
dental race of 1892, and this last and most
desperate of all the Blaine booms is likely
to perish before the Minneapolis Convention
shall meet on the 7th of June next.-PhiLa
de'phia Times.
WE think it plain that some of those most
vehement in pursuit of Mr.. Blaine to be a
candidate are sure he will not be- They
want to use him to beat Harrison, and then
put to the front some mysterious deal of
their own.-Brooklyn Standard Union.
WE have the best of reasons for believing
that Mr. Blaine would be unspeakably graf
flied we're he to receive the spontaneous
nomination of his party at Minneapolis.
Whether he would accept it we do not
know. 1t is our belief that he would Wash
ington Post.
THIS Blaine revival will be as futile as all
the other movements that have been started
during the past six months to induce the
Secretary to come into the field. The great
majority of Republicans have made up their
minds that he is not and will not be a candi-
5..o Db;Jodor,1bio J,LILsfin
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
HARRISON IN TRAINING.
The President Bravely Undergoing Very
Severe Massage Treatment

WASHINGTON, May 22.-[Specias. Every
night before retiring President Harrison
undergoes the massage treatment at the
hands of an experts vigorous manipulation.
Ten or half past ten o'clock is the hour at
which the President retires, and the thump-
ing process occupies from Is to 20 minutes
prior to that time. He is also an early riser
and hearty but careful eater. While his
habits are as regular as clockwork he has
heard of tho various methods employed by
other distinguished men to secure perfect
health, and he does not propose to be "out
of condition." if he can help it when the
great Presidential handicap is run. He is
aware that Secretary Blaine is now living up
to the Muldoon system of training, and as he
is an early riser, he probably sees his Secre-
tary of State taking his early morning sprint
on the White House lot, or in Lafayette
square.
1t is said that the President does not
finch under the severest pounding by his
manipulation, and the latter is sometimes
surprised at the brave manner in which the
patient takes the punishment. A we'll
known anti-Harrison man, when informed
that the President was undergoing q case of
massage treatment, was moved to remark,
"Well, he probably expects to get some
pretty hard knocks at Minneapolis, and he
wants to prepare himself"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
HOW MUCH GOLD REsERyEs

An admission is credited to Secretary
Foster, in his testimony before the House
Judiciary Committee, that the gold re-
serve in the Treasury has been reduced
from 1OO,OOO,OOO to S62, 100000. Whether
that admission was definitely made or not,
or whether the fact is so or not, can best
be decided by reference to the official re-
port of the testimony when it is published.
Our Democratic contemporary the Boston
Globe makes it the basis of an attack on
the Secretary's disregard of the enactment
that when the reserve falls below $780,
00O, 900 the issue Of gold certificates shall
cease.
Certainly the law should be strictly OBJ
served in such a matter; but that is not
the chief reason why the fact should be
placed beyond dispute. If it is true that
the gold reserve is diminished to that eX-
tent we have an evidence of the progress
toward the necessary result of Mr. Fos-
ter's much-trumpeted policy of heaping
up silver in the Treasury and then using
the gold reserve to sustain the silver GER
tificates at par with gold Sixty-two mill
ions may suffice to maintain this status for
some time; but the reduction of one-third
in the gold reserve indicates that if the
process is kept up the time must come
when the Treasury must resort to silver
for its payments.
1t would be one of the ironies of fate if
after the free silver coinage proposition
had been efectually postponed to another
administration the chosen policy of the Re-
publican party should result in landing
the nation on the same silver basis. Yet,
if the Treasury finds its stock Of gold de-
pleted, what other resort can it have than
to the overgrown pile of silver in its
vaults? The allegation is an interesting
one, and the public will await with con-
siderable interest the report of the COM
mittee to determine whether it is fact or
not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-23
THE SWEETEST COMET YET.
1t Is Cutting a Wide swath In the Hearts
of the Scientists.

1t Is Cutting a Wide swath In the Hearts
of the Scientists.
New York Evening world.1
comet with eight tails Is visiting around
in the suburbs of our solar system, causing
many a flutter in the most recherche circles
OF ultra-stellar society and cutting q Swath
in the hearts of susceptible scientists that
surpasses any like meteoric performance of
the past. The distinguished luminary is now
shedding his luster in Pegasus place, one of
the most fashionable quarters to which
planetary commuters hurry when their
days or nights toll is done. 1t cannot be
seen by the naked eye, but an eye in night
shirt may discern 1t just as easily II it
ascends to the roof with pair OF opera
glasses and perching on chimney-top
about $3.50 O'Clock tomorrow morning pro-
jects its gaze along the eastern horizon. In
block 1885, section s. of the Pegasus addition
to our universe the searching eye Will light
upon the cta-caudalled stranger wandering
on the ether lawns of the constellation or
pumping its bicycle on the cerulean pave
ments, entirely regardless of Kepler's laws
or the city ordinances that govern and regu-
late speed on the cosmic thoroughfares.
The eye that ressts sleep until the hour
named will be amply rewarded for the Gacrt-
flee. The comets tails are not only bril-
liant, but there are more of them than
comet ever grew before. A century and q
quarter ago there was great comet with
six tails that thought :taelf some pumpkins
and was much feted an celebrated by the
sky-scouring 400 of its day. This new comet
sees those six tails and goes them two bet
ter. 1t is really the swellest comet that has
yet done us the honor of appearing "in our
midst" Space is full of cobbed comets,
comets in clawhammers and comets with
one long, woe-begone, lonesome tail, but
comet with an octet of appendages has
never been seen before, and really deserves
to be liberally tead and "swayrayed' and to
have its name appear frequently in the So
c1ety columns of the newspapers. Nobody
knows what the comets business is with u.s.
but the cometitself probably knows. Surely
there can't be any flies on comet that
swings eight tails.