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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14

Senator. Failure to comply with the pro-
visions of the act will work forfeiture of
the seat in the Senate.
This is reasonable proposition enough,
although it will undoubtedly be opposed
by the newly-seated Senator from New
York. But, like some of Senator
Chambers other reformatory efforts, it is
open to the criticism of not taking in all
the abuses in that line. According to the
published abstract, the hill applies only to
persons elected to the United States Sen
ate. Why not include members of the
other branch of Congress? A case equiva-
lent to Senator Hills occurred with re-
gard to one of the Congressional seats in
this State. The fact that Hon. John B.
Robinson, who hung onto the State Sena-
torship during his Congressional term, is
member of Chambers party should not
blind the reformatory Senator to the ne
cessity Of making the principle of the
thing consistent throughout.
Besides which it is necessary to criticisa
Senator Chambers zeal in the new Ito
him) line Of reform as only active against
the Senator's political enemies. When the
Senator begins to attack abuses in which
his friends are interested he will assume
the full stature of real reformer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
THE USUAL RECORD.

Republican organs are commenting in
sarcastic tone on the failure of the Dem
ocratic House to get down to business.
True, up to the present the performances
of the House have been conspicuous by
their adherence to the general rule of
doing nothing till the session gets old.
The very large Democratic majority seems
to have exhausted its energy in the quarrel
over the Speakership. Since then it has
been notable for a large amount of talk
about what it is going to do, balanced with
an inversed ratio Of doing nothing.
This is certainly far from what might be
expected from House which predicated
on its immense majority promise that it
would tear everything up by the roots.
But somehow the record is not yet particu-
larly verse than that of Republican Con-
crosses. If we 90 back to this date two
years ago we will find that the Republican
leaders had not fully got to the point of
beginning to prepare to do business by
bringing in the famous rules, the result of
which was that it took the longest session
on record to get through the scheduled
tariff bill with the Republican party con-
trolling all branches of the Government.
Another thought might also temper the
joy of the Republican organs over the
Democratic failure to get down to busi-
ness. That is that the Republican record
in the Senate shows up to date exactly the
same amount of nothing done as the Dem
ocratic record in the House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
THE CAMPBELL HAS GONE.

THE Campbells have gone.-Springtfed Re-
public Times.
GooDBY, Governor Campbell! Well see
you later.--Colu,nbass Dispatch
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL retired gracefully
January IL and Governor Mckinley was in
troduced enthusiastically.-Dayt Journal
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL is going into business
in Columbus, and apparently proposes to
eschew politics. He will be wise TO do so.-
Toledo Blade.
Ex-GovRRNoR CAMPBELL, of Ohio, may not
he a successful engineer of second terms,n
but he knows how to induct hostile sue
cessor gracefully.-NeO York Tribune.
IT is Ex-Governor Campbell this morning.
After two years of misused opportunities
and n,isapplied ambitions in great public
Office he again returns to private life.-Czeve-
land Leader.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL will now retire to
private life and endeavor to repair his
shattered fortunes. He should waste NO
time on his Presidential boom for that is be-
yond the cobbler's art.-Minneapofis Tribune
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
WEATHER. VERSUS FoREcAsrs

The signal service brought the opening
cold wave of 1892 to time with great eclat
But since the touch of winter a week
ago its performances have furnished a
notable Illustration OF the fact that even
.I9Te mods and weather bureau Projectors
go astray as wotully as Hicks or Virgins,
Thus, turning back to the forecast of
last Friday, We find that this region was to
be treated t. ''Snow flurries and warmer
Southwestern winds" while the obstinate
weather turned out drop of u degrees.
The Wednesday before, the prediction of
''snow turning to rain, - for Western Penn
sylvania, and the contradictory one of
'cOlder" for West Virginia, was made
with an equal absence of verifcation in
both cases. Saturday the prophecy was
''snow flurries, colder by Saturday night, -
hut we escaped the snow, and
the colder prediction fell short of the
reality of zero weather Mondays pre-
dicUiOn kept at the "snow fiurries'' with a
persistence worthy of better cause: but
the prophecy Of slightly warmer" weather
turned out SO below the truth that the
only snow we enjoyed was the rain on
Monday night. Tuesday mornings pre-
dictiOn was an accurate forecast; but un-
fortunately the Weather Bureau had to
improve on it in the afternoon by an
nouncing q cold wave for Wednesday,
which up to the present writing has failed
to materialize: and Wednesday mornings
forecast scheduled the rain to turn into
snow, which it has with equal obstinacy
declined to do.
These, as Beau Brummel's valet said of
his armful of crumpled necktieS "are our
failures. The Signal Service does some
very good work, and has on the whole
valuable record Occasionally, however,
it strikes a streak Of incalculable and, for
the past few days, unspeakable weather
in which its predictions get so tangled up
as to leave the impression that Uncle.
Jerry's plans for Republican weather have
been as completely demoralized as the ad-
ministration forces at Philadelphia.
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Reciprocity Information Wanted.
STOKES VERSUS MACKAY,
The Suit to Recover $4,000 Due ON al
Alleged Contract Now On.

The Suit to Recover $4,000 Due ON an
Alleged Contract Now On.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13-The Supreme Court
took up to-day suit in which Edward S.
Stokes is the plaintiff and John w. Mackay
the principal defendant. Hector De Castro
is Joined as party defendant. Mr.. Stokes
seeks to recover SIS, 900 alleged to be due on
contract said to have been executed between
himself and De Castro acting as Mackay's
agent.
1t is claimed by Stokes that Mackay en-
tered into an agreement, December 26, 1888.
by which he agreed to give Stokes 500 900
for all of his interest in the United Lines
Telegraph Company, his tnteresG in stock of
the Chicago Board of Trade Telegraph Com
pany and the Pacific Mutual and the Lehigh
Valley Telegraph Companies. and con-
tracts with E. L. Martin for the purchase
of additional stock in the two Pacific
companies. Stokes says he turned over to
Mackay's representative s935,0O0 in first
mortgage bonds of the United Lines COM
pany, and received in February, 1888. $25, 900
on account of the agreement. Mackay de-
nies that he ever made or authorized to be
made any such agreements. De Castro ad-
mits afixing his signature TO the paper, but
says it was obtained by misrepresentation
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
THE DICKRY CLUB REFORMS.
Letter Sent to President Eliot Pledges Its
Members TO Behave Themselves

Members TO Behave Themselves.
Boston, Jan. 13.-tSpecidl 1.-The famous
"Dickey Club" of Harvard College, has
backed down. At the meeting of the Har-
ward overseers this afternoon, a letter was
received from it's President and read to the
board. This letter the secretary of the board
refuses to give to the press. 1t is under
stood, however, to promise a reform, so far
as it is practicable in the practices and con-
duct OF the organization. The overseers
have accept ed the letter in good faith and
by:a unanimous vote they have put the club
on its honor that it will discontinue any
and all practices which can by any posi-
bility tend to the discredit of the college,"
This states. in a nutshell, the result of one
OF the most interesting meetings the over
seers of Harvard ever held. President Eliot
put in his appearance to defend, if neces-
sary, his policy in the conduct of Haryard's
affairs, so vigorously assailed by Henry W.
Putnam, of the board, in his recent com
munica ton. The subject of discussion was
the deeds, or rather misdeeds of the one
time Harvard chapter of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity, now cast forth from that
organization by its indignant sister chapters
into the foolish, ifs not wicked "Dickey"
Club.
The tone of the meeting could be expressed
no better than by quoting these words of
one Of the trustees, overheard by the re-
porters who were awaiting iInpatiently the
result of the meeting: I'VE have young men
there for whose conduct and morality some
authority of the University is responsible.
The president has said it is none Of his bust
ness, and it therefore devolves upon us to
discover who is responsible" From this
statement it is quite evident how some of
the overseers regard President Eliot's in
action in the matter. Finally, on motion OF
Henry W. Putnam, motion was passed &C.
cepting the promises of reform incorporated
in the Dickey Clubs letter, and the meeting
adiOurned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
JoKELETs FROM JUDGE.
"She is a perfect Amazon.

''She is perfect AudzOu
''why do you say thatS She is not 1T all Ike the
Amazons of DID,
''Oh, no; mean like the river. She has large
mouth and babbles on forever
Her tongue was ever going yet;
She talked in joy. she talked in pain;
And when she died her last regret
Was that she ne'er could talk again.
Visitor-You nave q wonderful collection
of curious coins. How did you get them?
Parson (dryy)-Found them in the plate.
Wife-John, want $40.
Husband-Maria, I'm sorry to say that haven's
that amount to-day.
wife-John Henderson, I 90 believe you sat
up with another sick man last night!
1t was dark upon the waters:
Scarce a star cleaned in the sky;
But saw the ghostly shadow
OF rowboat passing by.
Then heard a gentle whisper
Twas a voice CHANGED to know
And the owner was enchanting
''Do you need both hands to row? ?'
Hunker-I wish had courage enough to
propose to Sue and end my misery.
Spatts-That might not end 1t.
Hunker-How's thatp
Spatts-she might accept you.
She-Do you know what it is to have
soul at war with itselfP A.
He-Dou'tI, though? Ny father was Irish
man and my mother an italian, you know.
She claims the first of every joy,
Yet you should not demur;
For as you are in love, my boy.
You must be after her.
She-Does he believe in red tape?
He-oh, yes; he wouldn't search the Scriptures
. without warrant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
TIE ADMINISTRATIONS wATERLoo


The Waterloo which the anti-adminis-
tration forces administered to the admins
trstion forces at Philadelphia, in the pri-
maries as to the election of national dele
gates, has considerable significance. 1t
resembles Waterloo in more than the CON-
pleteneSs of the overthrow. 1t is the
opinion of the deepeSt students of the
Waterloo campaign that one cause Of
Napoleon's failure was the hasty organiza-
ton Of his army; and, since the admins
tration generals commenced to enlist their
cohorts in Philadelphia only few weeks
ago, they may solace themselves with a
similar explanation of their defeat
Still the popular expression is so over
whelming that it will rank as one of the
decisive battles of the nominating cam
paign, so far as Pennsylvania is concerned.
The usufruct of the victory will doubtless
accrue mainly to Senator Quay, for they
were his forces and his organization which
demonstrated the light weight of the
Federal offices in pitched battle. But
in looking beneath the surface it is well to
recognize that Senator Qu2y was able to
win the fight by adopting t. The material
affairs of practical politics EmerSon's trans
cendental advice, glitch your wagon to a
star" Whatever blotS may exist on Quay's
past record, he had the foresight in this
case to cast in his fortunes with the cause
dear to The popular heart in Pennsylvania.
There is no doubt that he could have re-
manned in close touch with the Federal
OFF 1,n ho1 10 e4i a. 4ho
Harrison boom. But he shaped his sails
to the wind of popular desire for Blaine,
and by being ''pLus rOyalSst gote Je rot,"
more outspoken for Blaine than that
statesman himself, is able 70 survey with
satisfaction the wreck of administration
machinery in the chief city OF his State.
Between the supremacy of a Harrison
Wanamaker machine and the continuance
of Quay machine the people have little
to choose per sc. But there is feature IN
this outcome of the struggle which
makes it not unpleasant to men
who believe in principles. Senator Quay
has never sought advancement on civil
service reform pledges. He had never
made any professions in the reform line,
until his unique appearance the other day
by his resolution in tie Senate, as re-
former from the outside The President
on the other hand is pledged to the effort
to keep the Offices out of politics. By
long line Of avowals, both as Senator,
Presidential candidate and President-elect,
he more than almost any other public man
is estopped from removals and appoint
ments for the purposes of controlling the
choice of delegates. Every one of these
pledges was violated in the Philadelphia
campaign under the direction of Messrs.
Foster and Wanamaker
Men who think that principles should be
maintained and pledges fulfilled will find
much satisfaction in the contemplation of
this instance, in which the violation of
both resulted in utter failure to attain the
object for which principles and pledges
were thrown overheard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
Obituary Notes.

VIsCoUNT DILLON, 18th bearer of that title in
the Irish peerage. is dead.
Ex-MAYoR EDWARD HEATH. of New Orleans,
died In Maiden, Mass, yesterday morning, aged
73.
FREDERICK GENNETT. the veteran circus pro-
prietor, died Tuesday at Brighton, England, of in
fluenZa.
EDWARD MCLEAN, a variety performer who
was conspicuous dozen years ago, is dead at his
home In Rockford, Ill.
ANTHONY B. ALLEN, for many years editor of
the American A0rtcuLt,rist. died at his home in
Plainfeld n. j., Tuesday. He was 10 years old.
Mrs. DELILAH SMITH. coloTed, died yesterday,
at New Castle, at the age of los years. She re-
membered the famous whisky War; Of the last
century.
HON. GEORGE v. HoUK, for II years member
of the Supreme Court of Indiana and one Of the
noted lawyers of the West, died yesterday at New
Albany from the grip. aged 81 years.
MRS. BELINDA CUDDEBACK. one of the last of
the old descendants OF the original Westbrook and
Bennett families who settled In the Neversink
Valley nearly 200 years ago died in Milford, Pa,
Sunday. aged 50.
LIVINGSTON RoBB. a highly respected citizen or
Walker township. Huntingdon county, died Mon
day night of pneumonia, aged " years. He was
prominent Republican and active politician and
member of the Masonic fraternity.
PROF. ALBERT HUIDEKoPER. aged 80 years.
died at his home in Meadville yesterday morning.
The deceased Was the founder of the MeadSie
Theological SelooLe or Unitarian College, and has
been noted as one Of the most unostentatiously
benevolent men In the community.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14

IN ATTRACTIVE PRcGRAMME.

According 20 latest accounts from the
seat OF war, the Law and Order Society,
which is rapidly becoming familiar as a
household word. got its advance columns
in motion yesterday. Newsboys and car
TierS to an unknown number were noti-
fed to step up to the alderman's Office and
settle with Commonwealth whose mai
esty they had offended by supplying its
citizens with something 20 read last Sunday.
The enornity Of furnishing occupation for
the vacant mind of the citizen during any
part of the a hours will be duly punished.
Bv and bv tie more than a million peo-
PIE in this region who wickedly read arti-
clss on religion, politics, literature, art,
science, or the news of the day on Sunday
will be educated by the compulsion of law
into sweet concord with the views of the
three or four persons who compose the
Law and Order Society. After they have
done without their newspaper on Sunday
they will find it tolerably easy to go with
out newspapers on Monday. The print
ing of the latter and the gathering of the
news for it on Sunday being equally an
infTaction of the law can, of course, be
stopped. When they no longer know or
care wh5t is happening in the outside
world, the work Of the telegraphic compa-
MES can, Of course, be dispensed with;
also Of the messenger boys. They, too,
are under the han Of the Blue Law.
After that another sinister encroachment
made by science on the Blue Law,
the telephone, must be shut off, as
5g H.
having existed very well without it until
within a few years Certainly the legisla-
tors Of 1894 knew how to live in their day
and generation, and not one of them ever
used a telephone. If they could telephone
to Us now they would undoubtedly concur
in the opinion that of all sources of veXa-
ton and ill-feeling the raising of "Cen-
tral'' is, Sunday or Monday, the very
worst. The Law and Order Society, Limi-
ted, viii therefore have hearty public ap-
probation whenever it inscribeS upon its
banners, 1.-The Telephone Must Cor
The illegal practice of running electric
light works, likewise being no necessity,
must stop Gas is good enough-though
none too good in itself, as there is some
Sunday work upon it, too. The truly cor
rect thing is the Tallow Dip-the old
fashioned, mountaineering Taliow Dip
Of 1894.
As to the mills and glasshouses and
trainmen, tits hardly worth while to notice
their cases. The Offenses there against the
Blue Law are so gross and palpable that
there is no room for sophistry: and the
alderman in Judgment will be expected to
assume his severest frown of condemna-
ton. The owners may say of Pittsburg
as a poor couple once did to Voltaire,
"But We must liyer' but if they do, the
alderman can answer as VOltaire did, and
quite in the spirit of the Act of 1894, "I
Go not see the necessity
Then-but what is the use? After these
and some other things are accomplished
then Nirvana-or, if any modified state of
mental activity be permitted, it will mere
" be such as may permit rapt contempla-
ton Of the general superiority of 1894 over
1892!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14

WHILE the previous announcements of
the coming marriage of England's heir to
his cousin the Princess May of Teck has
evoked the usual display of republican inde-
pendence in jesting comment on this side of
the ocean, this country, in common with the
rest of the world, will hope that so festive
an occasion may not suffer the tragic inter-
ruption which seems to be now threatened
by the severe illness of the royal bride
groom. A marriage prevented by sudden
death arouses the sympathy of all who know
of it, and in the case of q wedding that
attracts the notice of the whole world it
would be sure TO evoke the regret and con-
dolence of all nations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
NICKEL STEEL The BEST.
Another Test which should BE Very Grat-
flying to in, Carnegie Interests.


flying to ths Carnegie Interests.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.-[Speciat. 1.-The COM
parative tests OF armor plates partially car
ried out at the Indian Head naval ordnance
proving ground in october and November,
were concluded to-day by the trial of the
two plates made by Carnegie, Phipps Co.,
of Pittsburg. One was a low carbon all
steel plate and the other high carbon nickel
steel, both treated by the Harvey process OF
surface carboniZation.
The plates corresponded in their chemical
composition with two plates from the Beth
lehem Iron Works tested in the former
trials. Their value for comparative pur-
poses was somewhat lessened by the fact
that neither was up to the proper dimensions
They should each have been I0H inches
tNfck with a superficial area of sx6. The all
steel plate was warped in tempering, and in
order to get a fat surface for securing to the
backing it was planed down so that its
thickness at the sides was reduced about an
inch. The reduction at the points of i'm
pact was not SO great. The nickel steel
plate was cracked at one end and about 20
inches was cut of, reducing it almost to
square. Owing to this reduced area but
four shots were fired at 1t instead of f1ve, as
at the other plates.
Today's test again demonstrated the ad
vantages OF nickel steel, espec ally in con-
nection with the Harvey process: e The
oeSOi pave ~ i.e Si'oih
and the close grouping of the shots, was sub
jected to q very severe strain, yet until It
had been weakened by three shots IL kept all
the projectiles out. The all steel plate, how
ever, let every projectile through. Owing
to the defects in these plates they cannot be
accurately classed with the others tried.
There is no question, however, but that the
all steel was the poorest of the eight fired at
in the series of tests, while the nickel steel,
had it been full size, would probably have
ranked about third or possibly second.
Incidentally the series of trials seems to
demonstrate that the rolled plates have not
yet been brought entirely up to the standard
of those made by forging. They have
armor plate material thus far produced is
nickel steel with moderately high carbon
treated by the Harvey process.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
CHANDLER AS A REFoRMER.

Senator Chambers zeal in the reforma-
tory line continues to manifest itself in
the introduction Of measures to correct
abuses that appear to his mind to be
notorious. He promptly follows up his
anti-free pass bill with another by which
person elected Senator is to be required,
before the commencement of the term for
which he has been elected, to resign any
incompatible office he may hold, and shall
also signify his acceptance of the Office of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
MADAME DEL sARrE 1HDIsposED
In New York Escapes Most Unpleasant
Week in Pistsburg.


MADAME GERALDY-DEL SARTE, who
should have arrived in PittsDurg this week,
is detained in New York through illness,
which, since it did come, came fortuitously
with very sick polite world on our own
hands at home. The severely irregular
nature OF the weather has been very trying,
and consequently had Madame Del sarte
come this week she could not have been
done justice to. When she does arrive,
which doubtless she will some time next
week, several causeries in private drawing
rooms will be arranged. and intimatton
given OF them by invitation. This
alone will be the "Open Sesame"
to the Frenchwoman's presence, as Madame
Del Sarte Is making no lecturing tour OF the
country, and probably will favor only four
cities OF the Union with her presence: She
will be here under the auspices OF the
French Mission and at the personal 1nv1ta-
ton of its Secretary, her countryman; Prof-
Henry Rollin Parker. The society world has
taken her up and PittsburR will be afforded
an opportunity of getting the real loaf OF
Delsartism, instead of the stone, which
hitherto it has been endeavoring to swallow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-14
BAILEY BUYS THE FoREPAUGH SHOW.
Barnum's Old Partner Now Owns Both of
the Big Circuses.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13-[Speciol flames
A. Bailey, proprietor of the Barnum Bailey
shows, to-day purchased from Catherine A.
Cooper, widow Of the late James Z. Cooper
and adninistratrix OF his estate, the big
Adam Forepaugh show. Mr.. Bailey immedi-
ately transferred q one-half interest in the
purchase to Joseph T. McCaddon, who has
been the manager of the shows since Mr.
Cooper purchased them from the Adam
Forepaugh estate two years ago The
amount involved in these transactions is
not known.
The arrangements under the compact ex-
listing for several years between the Fore
paugh and Barnum shows. whereby they
aIte-pated in Eastern and Western territory
will be continued Joseph T. McCaddon is
Mr.. Bailey's brother-in-law. He is still
young man. Notwithstanding Mr. Bailey's
interest in the shows Mr.. McCaddon's man
agement will be absolute, and the Forepaugh
and Barnum shows will remain entirely In
dependent organizations.