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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
AN ANNEXATION RECRUIT

Toronto Now Has Daily Newspaper hich
Advocates Political Union.
TORONTO, ONT, Dec. 2L-The first issue Of
an evening newspaper, the Sum- appeared
here tonight. It's avowed object is 10 ad-
vocate the annexation OF Canada to the
United States. In its "salutary" it says:
1--WE have no hesitation in saying our lack
OF like progress has been and is entirely due
to our unhappy separation from the Repub-
lie OF the United States: and, as our faith is
that as one of the States of that Union we
would become more prosperous than we
can be as British colonies alongside the
overshadowing great Republic, we shall de-
vote ourselves to the furtherance OF this
great mission. With England we have no
quarrel, nor are we unmindful of her great
services on behalf of human freedom; but
our hearts and energies should be devoted
own people, and consider what is best for
ourselves rather than what is best for the
country With which we cannot long be prac-
tically connected and whose people care
little II anything for Us.
1.-The advent of this paper is not due to the
financial aid of Americans nor to the con.
tributions of favored classes in return for
Governmental patronage. We come hon.
estly before the country to secure, 50 far as
in us lies, the bright aud better day for our
abundance OF her choicest gifts, have failed
to reap any harvest but one of disappoint-
ment and humiliation. Or course, none but
constitutional agitation will be resorted to
or countensnced by the Sun. We advocate
the political union Of Canada and the United
States upon lair and honorable terms, and
as the act of two free self-governing peoples:
bnt we do not advocate such union, nor
would we consent to it, without the consent
Of Her Majesty and the Parliament of Great
RrftAin.n
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
SINCERE BUT ONE-sIDED.

Congress is to reconsider the question of
opening the Worlds Fair on Sundays. As
the matter stands, the vast educational
treasures to be gathered together at Chi
cago under national and international
auspices are 10 be rendered useless during
one-seventh of the time of their accumula-
ton. Various good people up and down
the country petitiOned Congress for the
absolute closing of the Exposition on
every Sunday They, no doubt, honestly
believe that such a closing will be for the
good of the people, majority of whose
religious element they claim in somewhat
exaggerated terms to represent
The petitioners have presumably failed
to note that Chicago saloon keepers are as
desirous as themselves that residents of
Chicago and visitors to the Fair should be
denied admittance to the Exposition on
the first day of every week. They have
paid no attention to the fact that Chi
cago's labor organizations have asked
that opportunities be given to visit the
Fair on Sundays to those who would
otherwise have little chance of enlarging
their knowledge by the instruction to be
gained therefrom. This is matter to be
settled as all legislative matters should
be, according to the greatest good of the
greatest number. Congress should with
out doubt provide for the opening of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition on Sun
days under certain proper and easily de-
fined conditions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
UNDERESTIMATE POWERS.

The City Attorneys opinion in reply to
the Mayors letter concerning the relative
powers of the Mayor and the Chief of the
Department of Public Safety is chiefly
calculated to impress the lay mind with
the intricacies of the division of power and
authority between the two officials. This
is the natural result of the ill-defned bor-
derS of the jurisdiction of those public
servants; but the City Attorneys opinion
requires great deal of space to make it
plain that the question of superiority and
subordination there are very cloudy
After quoting from Justice Williams
decision in the street cases to show that
the Chief of the Department of Public
Safety has very limited powers and that
the Mayor occupies his old position, the
City Attorney reaches the apparent con-
ciusion that the Mayor has authority of
the Chief to order him to do any act with
in the latter's line of legal duty. But the
enforcement of this authority arrives at a
somewhat lame conclusion when the
opinion Ony specifies as a means that if
there should be a refusal or neglect to
obey such an order the Mayor should
report such failure or neglect to Coun-
ellis"
As to the particular work under dis
cussion the attorney gives his opinion that
the Mayor or the public magistrates can
proceed against disorderly houses by ar
rest on view, where breach of the peace
is committed, or by information and war
rant It does not specifically say so; but
by inference indicates that the recent re-
markabe theory that the police can enter
a house and, by virtue of their own judg-
ment that it is disorderly, turn the in
mates on the street without trial, does
not find much acceptance with the City
Attorney.
On the whole the opinion is most valua-
BILE as calling attention with some detail
to the fact that while the Mayor has NOM
inal supervision over the city departments
the means of enforcing his authority are
wholly lacking.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
SENATORIAL INEQUALITIES.

The action of the Supreme Courts in
other States in vacating appointments
that are not made with a due regard to
equality of population calls attention to
the need of revision of the Senatorial
apportionment in this State. The legis-
lative and Congressional apportionments
were made in 1887, and while peculiar In
some respects have not the glaringly un-
equal character of the Senatorial appor-
tiOnment. That is nearly nineteen years
old, and the changes in population since it
was made have invested it with remark
able inequalities.
The average of population to each
Senator is now 1O5, 100. Comparing the
departure from this average We find some
remarkable results. The fact that ALE.
gheny county is entitled to five senator
ships while it has but four is among the
commonplace inequalities. Thus LuZerne
with 104, 900 more than the average has
one Senator, while Lebanon with 81, 900
less has also one. A vote in the latter
county has more than four times the
influence in the State Senate that a
vote in Luzerne has. 1t has two and half
times the force of vote in Allegheny
county, and is equal to about three votes
in Berks, Lackawanna, Clinton, Clear
field and Center, or Blair and Cambria.
The comparison might be continued, but
the extraordinary influence of the LabanOn
voter in Senatorial elections is the most
glaring example of the inequality. The
voters in one of the Sehuylkill districts
(the Thirtieth) in Crawford, in Cameron,
Elk, Clarion and Forest, in Perry, Mlfflin
and Juniata, in Susquehanna and Wayne,
and the Bucks and Delaware districts
have also large preponderanceo of weight
in deciding the constitution of the Senate.
The fact that the Governor and Leg
islature are of different political parties
should not be permitted to delay the
rectifcation of this lopsidedness. Indeed
as that fact should stimulate an impartisl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22

there, and carrying all the materials to
San Francisco? Or, to put the problem
more precisely, inasmuch as the vessel
vii! be kept in comm ssion anyhow, what
is the difference between the extra cost of
a possibly necessary voyage to- the Pacific,
and the positive extra charge which the
Union Iron Company make for building
the vessels?
As this old argument does not appear at
present we may conclude that it has been
worn threadbare, and the Secretary relies
on the plea of distributing the work. But,
however important a distribution of the
work may be, it is not half so important
as the rule that public contracts must be
awarded to the lowest and best bidder.
Any infraction of that rule opens the gate
to the most dangerous practices. That
way lies jobbery, favoritism and corrup-
ton III the performance of public services.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
VERY BAD PRACTICE.

The report that the Secretary of the
Navy is contemplating the award of one
Of the new vessels for the navy to another
bidder than the lowest one, on the ground
that he wishes ''to distribute the work, 4"
calls attention to =, a practice which has
already been carried too far, and which is,
to use the mildest term, very dangerous
precedent II there were any question that
the lower bidders were irresponsible or
would turn out bad work there would be
good reason to refuse to award the con-
tract to them. But inasmUch as the low
est bidders are the Cramps, of Philadel-
phia, who have already done the best
work on the navy, and as their response
bihty is to be recognized by giving them
part of the work, the arbitrary bestowal
of another part on a higher bidder is a
proceeding which cannot be upheld on
any grounds of public policy.
The bidder thus to be favored is the
Union Iron Works, of San Francisco; and
that establishment has already been the
recipient of some marked determinations
in the building of other vessels The
previous action was supported by
an argument that, as vessels were
needed on the Pacific Coast, it was
better to build them there than
10 incur the expense of a voyage
around Cape Horn. Besides the question
whether the necessity of building vessels
on the Pacific coast at a marked increase
Of cost is to keep the Union lion Works
indefinitely supplied with contracts, this
argument requires some examination.
What is the difference between sailing a
vessel around Cape Horn, if it is needed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
A DECLARATION OF WAR,
l. the Way General Miles Looks at Eng
lands New Cruisers on the Lakes.

Is the Way General Miles Looks at Eng
lands New Cruisers on the Lakes.
CHICAGO Dec. 2l.-"If Canada has built and
armed three vessels for service on the lakes,
as described by the officers of the Revenue
Marine Service at Washington, it amounts
to a declaration of war," said Major General
Nelson A. Miles to-day.
II do not want to be quoted as saying that
Canada or Great Britain means war;" said
General Miles. "The fact is, though, that
these three vessels are in direct violation of
the treaty of 1917, which limits the war YES
sells that either may have on the lakes to
certain number and limits their gun power.
The action of the Canadian authorities in
building the three vessels described by the
officer of the Revenue Marine Service vio-
land can send large feet o Hght-draught
war vessels up the st. Lawrence river into
the great lakes which could burn every
town from Duluth to Detroit. And the sim
pular thing is that the United States could
do scarcely anything by way of defense, so
far as doing battle on the water is con-
cerned; for, while we have some light
drAught warships that could get through
the canal, we couldn't get them to the up
per lakes for the reason that they would
have to pass through British possessions,
and that Canada or Great Britain would not
allow"
General Miles has a list showing that the
British navy has 35 protected cruisers l8 un-
protected cruisers, 20 torpedo vessels, "a gun
vessels, armored vessels, dispatch vessels
and armed cruisers OF draught light
enough TO allow their passage through the
Welland Canal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
OFF THE BRUSSELS CARPET.

THE Monetary Conference has decided to
90 Philadelphia Record
THE Monetary delsQates will have medi-
tatiye Christmas.-NeaC York World
So far rs any conclusion in regard to sill
yer coinage is concerned, i5 might as well
have not met-B .HinloTs Herald.
ON the whole the International Monetary
Conference has accomplished all that in
reason could have been expected of it.-NetO
York Press.
extent at the international Monetary Con-
ference. Itended as it began-in speech
Bos on Trdretter.
THE adjournment of the Silver Conference
to Nav will force Grover Cleveland to show
his hand on the silver question at an early
stage of the new administration.-EhiLa
phfd Bulletin.
THE Monetary Conference has adjourned
over to May. The delegates, however, may
as well kiss each other goodby. They will
never see each other again N members OF
the conference.-AtldnSd Cons itui on
THE obvious lesson is that the United
States cannot depend on Europe helping it
make silver mining more profitable tnan it
is. and it had better let silver take care of
itself, as gold Philadelphia Press
THERE hasn't been practicable proposi-
ton discussed during its sessions. 1t will
follow its predecessors into the cave of for
getfrllness. The world, on this question of
an international money standard. must wait
on events. Chattanooga Times
THOUGH the conference has failed in the
purpose for which it was called together,
its deliberations have not been without
effect on the silver question in this country.
For this reason We are glad now that it was
held. It has shown US how others regard
us.-Bv6aIo Express.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
No outsidcrs can aid France in any sui

No outsiders can aid France in any sub
stantial way in its efforts to punish individ-
uals in high places for maIfeasance in office
But there is abundant reason for Americas
deep sympathy with the French people in
this hour of crucial trial for its Republican
institutions. Corruption has fourished for
a time, it is now in process of exposure, and
there are ample means for its punishment
all under French Republic. Opportunities
Tor governmental fraud would have been as
fully used under French monarchy, but it
is doubtful whether the fraud would nave
been disclosed and still more doubtful
whether the fraudulent could have been
brought to Justice under any but Republi-
can government. The logic of the situation
is obvious, and France will be safe in its
democracy If reason be allowed to prevail
over impulse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
GERMANS AND THE FAIR.
Conflicting Views as to Their Feelings Re-
garding Quarantine.

COnulcClng views as Co Ihe1r teennSS he
garding Quarantine.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2I.-Emil L. Boas, General
Passenger Agent of the Hamburg American
Packet Company, returned on the steamer
Coumb bia from Hamburg, where he went to
consult the directors about the threatened
stoppage OF immigration.
Mr.. Boas said arrangements had been
made for. DR.. George Nash, a deputy Of
Health Officer jenkins, to go to Hamburg to
examine all passengers before sailing. He
will supervise the disinfection of luggage
and cargoes. He said that the people OF
Germany were greatly stirred up over the
close quarantine regulations OF the United
States. The newspapers were advising Ger
mans to stay away from the Worlds Fair.
.Adolph Wermurth, Commissioner OF the
German Empire to the Worlds Fair. is at
the Victoria Hotel, having arrived Monday,
from Hamburg. He expects to go to Chicago
Friday. To a reporter he said that in his
opinion the cholera quarantine and restric-
tfon of immigration would not keep the
German manufacturers from making elabor-
ate exhibits. The furniture, twine and tex
tile goods exhibits will be very large. while
Krupp will show the finest cannon ever
made 1t is to be sent by special steamer,
and carried over the Pennsylvania Railroad
from Baltimore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22

ECONOMY is a grand thing, but it cannot
be achieved in national affairs at the ex-
pense of injustice. The amount of the Nc
Garrahan claims, and the expense which
their proof would involve to the National
Treasury, had nothing whatever to do with
Congress. That body is simply called upon
to decide whether the evidence adduced is
sufficient to warrant the submission of the
claims to the Court OF Claims If the claims
be just great wrong has been done by the
continual postponement OF their recog-
milton. II the claims be unfounded, the
Court may be depended on to so decide
The long delay in the matter is a Disgrace
to the country and an opportunity ought to
be given for its settlement on its merits
once ana for ALL Promptness in the ad-
ministration of Justice is more important
than anything else, and it 10 about time to
remove some of the lead from her wings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
pEHNsYLvAN1A's LAST WILD BEAST.

Probably the Only Uncaged Panther in the
State Killed in the Lumber Region.
DUBOIS, Dec. 2L-[SpectdL 1.-The reports Of
q panther operating among live stock in the
wild country around Hoyt's Mills has ba-
sis in truth. The animal was killed last Sat
uriay in the forest near the mills-probably
the last uncaged beast of its kind that will
ever be seen in this State. The animal had
been stalked nearly all day before the hunt
er got a fair chance at it.
Old lumbermen say the panther was an
old one, and had probably been at home in
the up-river country for many years. From
its mnZzle to the end of its tail it measured
nine feet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
IDENTICAL INTERESTS.

The communication from staff CORE
spondent in West Virginia published in
The DISPATCH this morning is full of sug-
gestion tor PittSburg enterprise. The i'm
poriance to this city Of establishing means
of transportation with West Virginia can
not be overestimated. That States teens
with raw materials for which there must
inevitably be a growing need here. West
Virginians look upon Pittsburg as the
natural place for the consumption of their
coal. coke and lumber and desire to be
brought into touch with this center as
promptly as possible. The development
of their riches means an invaluable rein
forcement of Pittsburg's supply of raw
materials and growing trade for Pitts
burg merchants in filling their wants.
The article referred to enters into de-
tails which it is not necessary to reproduce
here Broadly speaking, the interests of
Pittsburg and West Virginia are Identical
in the establishment of transportation
facilities. The opening for railroad con-
sruction is clearly indicated, and nothing
but vigorous private enterprise is neces-
sary fer the inception and rapid pushing
of the work. With regard to the improve
ments of the Monongahela-the need for
and advantage of which have been pointed
out for sixteen years past by United
States engineers-those can only be
secured through Congress. And
to secure slackwater on the
Monongahela from Morgantown up to
Fairmont the Representatives Of Western
Pennsylvania should unite in energetic
action with those from West Virginia.
The DISPATCH can but urge these mat
tiers upon the attention of the community,
and it does so with confidence that a
knowledge of the facts is only necessary
to a prompt and proper recognition of
their importance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22

tainment was said to be the most successful
ever held in Cyclorama Hall.
Miss LUCY wHExLoCK, who speaks on
Tuesday evening in the interest of the Free
kindergarten Association OF this city, viii
also hold an informal talk with mothers
either Monday or Tuesday afternoon at the
Alinda Preparatory School, corner Filth
avenue and Craig street.
MISS MAUD MOORE and Mr.. William W.
Sheeny were married last evening at the
nome or Mr.. Henry b. Rea, North H1Enland
avenue. Rev. 8. H. Moore, of Williamsburg
performed the ceremony.
The ladies connected with the First UNI
tartan Church are preparing to organize
sewing school, which will be held at ire
quent intervals in the church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22

The admission of applicants to the High
School should depend simply and solely
upon their fitness to profit by the instruc.
tion of that institution. Where their pre-
liminary learning has been acquired is q
matter entirely impertinent to decision as
to their qualifications to enter there. If the
High School be too small to admit all appl-
cants properly qualified by knowledge al
ready acquired, then its accommodations
must forthwith be enlarged as speedily as
may be. There is no room for even a sus-
picion of sectarianism in the management
of any branch of Pittsburg's public schools.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

JOHN TOWNSEND, the veteran tragedian,
is dying of cancer of the liver at Toronto.
A MRS. STEWART, of Fargo, N. OAK, is
a candidate for the aldermanship of her
ward, and intends to make it hot for any
man who ventures to oppose her.
IT is now claimed that it was mistaken
sense of delicacy which prompted Mr.. Bes-
ant to tender his resignation OF the chair
manship of the Society of Authors.
The probate of Lord Tennyson's will has
been granted. The gross personal estate
amounts to S2s6 6030. The enta lied estates
descend from Hallam Tenn yson to the sue
ceeding male heirs.
PROF. WALDsTEIN GREEK, Royal Com
missioner from England to the Chicago Col.
umbian Exposition, will take passage for
New York on the White Star steamer Brit
annie. which sails on january. 4.
A CORRESPONDENT in Lima telegrap hs
that President Bermundez and the members
of his Cabinet visited Admiral Gherardi on
board the United States war ship Baltimore
at Callao. They were entertained at
luncheon by the Admiral.
SAMUEL REA, an sttache of President
Roberts Office is liable to be chosen second
vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
in place of the late Joseph n. Du Barry. He
has executive ability and skill as an
engineer to commend him to promotion.
THE marriage of Miss Woyne Cuyler, of
Baltimore, Nd. to Sir Philip Henry Brian
Grey-Egerton will take place in London. on
january l. Sir Philip is a nephew of the
sixth Earl OF Selkirk. and Miss Cuyler is a
daughter of the late Patrick Cuyler, of the
United States Engineering Corps
PROBABLY it has been forgotten that
Sardou was ever in America, but he was
here in the SOS, says the Brooklyn Times,
and he came TO '1ook over the ground" and
see what it afforded for dramatic subjects.
He did not go to the theaters or into society.
but lived anonymously at the hotels, saw
the Hudson, Niagara, Boston and Philadel.
phia, then went home declaring US a nation
of savages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
MISSING WORD GUESsERs LOSERS.
The Money They Sent to an English Weekly
to Enrich the Crowns Revenue.

The Money They Sent to an English Weekly
to Enrich the Crowns Revenue.
LONDON, Dec. 2L-A decision has been
handed down in tho case of the Queen
against Pe7rson's Weekly, one of the papers
that was conducting the "missing word"
competitions which. were stopped by the
courts as an infringement OF the gaming
act. When this decision was made the pro-
prietors of Peurson's Weekly had on hand
the money sent in with guesses of one miss
ing word This sum amounted to Sl20,0
and question arose as TO what dfsp position
should be made oft. The addresses of the
persons who had not guessed the proper
word had been destroyed, and it was i'm
possible to return the money, and the ruling
OF the court prevented its distribution
among those who had guessed the missing
word.
Z The Judge to-day ordered that Pedrso1's
Weekly pay tho money in question into the
court. It is probable that the money will
revert to the Crown.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-22
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Edward II. Mil er, Jr., Capitalist.

Edward II. Miller, Jr., First Secretary
Of the Central Pacific Railroad and former business
partner of Mark Hopkins the deceased millionaire,
died at his residence at Alameda. CAL, Tuesday
night of Brlght's disease. He was born In Green
vile, n Y, in 1895 and went to California in
1s49 He is credited with having organized the en-
tire accounting and financial system of the Central
Pacific, and when the Southern Pacific Company
was organized, Miller became Secretary OF that
railroad, and remained SO until three days ago,
when he resigned. He continued as director OF
both companies. and was also in the directorate of
the Crocker. WOolworth Bank of San Francisco.
He leaves q large estate.