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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
UNCLE JERRY'S NEED.

If the Signal Service makes many more
such wild shots as it did with its predic-
ton for yesterdays weather Uncle Jerry's
Doom will undergo irreparable damage.
What is the profit for farmer-statesman
to organize Republican weather bureau
and have it presently observe an area Of
high barometer with a narrow trough OF
depression preceding it, from which is
predicted warmer and fair weather, while
the obstinate elements produce cold, snow
and other wintry discomforts in profusion?
The honest granger who on the strength
of the prediction got in readiness to start
his spring plowing will lose faith in the
infallibility of the Agricultural Depart
ment if this sort of thing happens fire.
quently. Uncle Jerry will have to reform
either the Bureau or the weather if he
wishes to carry the rural vote in his
capacious pocket
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
FLVORITES OF FORTUNE,

II. G. MoULTHRoP was yesterdy confirmed
postmaster of Conneautville, Pa, by the
Senate.
SENATOR KYLE, of South Dakota, is a
giant physically and the most robust of all
the Alliance members. His digestion is per-
feet
MRS. AMANDA E. CHEsNEY, of Kansas
City, claims James Whitcomb Riley, the
poet, as a long-lost son. Riley denies that
relationship exists
DINGLEY, Of Maine, has set up in bust
ness as the professional humorist of the
House, and is determined to be funny no
matter how hard he has to work to do it,
The Swedish King has conferred on DR..
j. A. Ouchterlony, OF Louisville, the Royal
Order of the Polar Star, a decoration re-
served for statesmen, scientists and writer's
Of note.
A CURIOUS individual, for Kentuckian,
is Jack Irwin, of Glovsr's Mill, who IN 36
years has not swallowed a drop of water.
He drinks only tea, coffee and milk and has
passed his s0th yeay.
AT the Pennsylvania Worlds Fair Office
yesterday, Executive Commissioner Whit
man stated that his resignation is in the
hands Of the Governor. His health does
not justify him in continuing in the office.
WHEN absorbed in thought the Emperor
of Austria puffs out his cheeks, the Gar
runs his fingers through his hair or laws his
hand nat on the top of his head and the
Khedive taps impatiently with his left foot.
THERE is story current that Senator
Hill is about to marry. The name of tho
daughter of the late William L. Muller was
mentioned. and this statement was promptly
denied. Now it is said to be rich Albany
widow.
THIS Congress has produced some very
rapid speakers. but the fastest OF them ali,
it seems. is Representative johnson, OF In
diana, who delivered long Speech in the
Craig-Stewart contested election case at the
rate of $50 words minute.
SENIOR DON MARTINEZ DE RoDA, the
Spanish Senator, according to reports, is to
marry the widow of the President of Guate-
mala, Nine. De Barrios. arrived on La Cham
payne to-day. The engagement was said by
the lady's brother tonight to be without
foundation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
THE TRUE RESPONSIBILITY.

The undisguised jobbery in the New
York Legislature manifested in the pas
sage of bills comforting franchises of mo-
nepolistic character without the slightest
check or misuse or abuse has aroused
almost unanimous protests from New
York newspapers. 1t is at least saving
sign of frankness that Democratic news
papers are outspoken in declaring such
legislation to be wantonly and defantly
corrupt
The pertinent fact that these protests
come rather late is shown by the New York
Advertiser, which asserts that 1t has
pointed out the progress of the bills by
reference to packed committees and polit-
ical deals. 1t is true that the protests
against this corrupt policy are belated; but
it is also true that the esteemed Adoer-
tiser's exposure of the jobs was only a
little less behind time. The time to stop
such measures was at the election of the
men who pass them; and in the presence
of the prevailing jobbery the journals
which supported the party now dominat-
ing the New York Legislature can extract
what comfort is possible from the fact that
they must accept their share of tine re-
sponsibility that comes from the action of
the men they helped to elect.
Nor can they plead that they did not
take the responsibility with their eyes
open. The character of the faction
which was securing the control of the
New York Legislature was well-known to
be unscrupulous and brazen. Its political
strength notoriousy lay in its open alli-
ance with men who use the powers of
government and legislation for public
plunder That the supremacy of such
men should result in the gifts of fran
chises to political favorites, and the sad
ding of monopoles on the people, is re-
suit that was to be expected The news
papers and voters, who helped to put such
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
CONSTITUTIONAL POINTS SETTLED.

The United States Supreme Court yes
terday gave important decisions, one OF
which will generally be taken as vindi-
cation of ex-Speaker Reed, while the other
sustains the Mckinley act In its present
form. One case involved the constitution
ality of an act passed by counting .
quorum. The other was the case chal-
lenging the constitutionaiity of the tariff
act on the omission from the engrossed
bill of the rebate clause and on the ques-
ton Of the powers granted to the Presi-
dent in the reciprocity clause.
There was really very little expectation
of any other decisions than the ones rem
dered. As to the constitutionality of
counting quorum, the power of the
House to pass such rule has not been
seriously questioned except for legal pur-
poses. The opponents of that legislative
method did not attack its constitutions
but its parliamentary fairness; and one of
the most able arguments in favor of the
right of minority to block bill by re-
fusing a vote was made by Thomas B.
Reed in 1SS0-when he was one of the
leaders of the minority.
AS 10 Ine QueSiOnS IalSeQ 8gainSt tuo
Mckinley act, there is more room for de-
bate; but the general opinion has been as
the Court decides it. 1t certainly does not
seem essential to constitutional govern
ment that the blunder of an engros sing
clerk should defeat the legislative will,
and that is just what the first point
amounts to. The division between legis-
lative and executive authority permits
some honest difference of opinion as to the
power of the President under the reci-
procity clause. 1t is a reasonable view,
however, that when Congress, by legis-
lative act, defines and authorizes the re-
mission of tariff duties under some con-
ditions, and their imposition under others,
the limits of authority are not transgressed
by giving the President a reasonable dis
cretion in carrying out the act.
The decisions end all the constitutional
questions raised against the leading
measures of the last Congress. The
opponents of the tariff policy Of that
body cannot defeat it in any other way
than by winning the victory at the polls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
TWELVE PAGES
vEToEs AND FRANCHISES.

The Mayors vetoes of the traction con-
solidation ordinances did not interpose a
very serious obstacle to the passage of
those measures, which went through both
branches with votes to spare. While the
subject is somewhat complicated the
Mayors objections were deserving of a
more careful consideration than is implied
by this prompt action.
The actual need, in the light of ordi-
nary fairness, for securing to the city some
return for the valuable franchises granted
to traction companies has often been
pointed out in these columns Whether
that object cannot now be attained by a
general ordinance is question for consid-
Grafton; but it was pertinent to give some
consideration to the question when a
measure is up which extends the fran
chises of each company over the others
lines.
In addition large question of public
policy is involved Everyone knows that
the consideration for which the very
valuable franchises of the Duquesne Trac-
tion Company were granted was the estab-
lishment of competing line. Everyone
is equally well-informed to the effect that
the purpose of the ordinances passed
yesterday was to complete the consolida-
tion of those two lines. The competition
to be established by the Duquesne was a
public benefit which went far to justify
the liberal gift of its very extensive fran
chises. What the public benefit will be
from the permanent wiping out of that
competition is a question meriting careful
consideration when the attention of
Councils is called to it by message from
the Mayor.
Still it is necessary to renew the oft
repeated remark that the time to see that
the public interests are properly guarded
is when the franchises are granted. And
the time to make sure that Councils
properly perform that duty is when the
people elect their Councilmen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
APRErTY MIX AT HUNTINGDON.
All Acts Of the County Board Illegal, as One
of the NJ M.mbers Is Ineligible.

of the Members Is Ineligible.
HUNTINGDON. Feb. 29.-TSpecia. IA serious
question has arisen as to the right of John
Mierley, one of the County Commissioners,
to hold that office, and it may affect the va
ndity of all the acts of the board since 1t
went into office in January, 1891. Mierley
was a member of the Borough Council at
that time and has since been filling both Of
fees. Lawyers have found q section in the
act of 1874 which they construed as prohibit
ing Councilman from being a County Com
missioner. Ii this construction of the law is
sustained by the courts, it will not only oust
Mierley from the office of Commissioner, but
will render him liable to the penalties i'm
posed by the act for its violation.
The consequences to the people of the
county and all others who have transacted
business with the Commissioner will be still
more far-reaching. When the board organ
lied after their election there was contin-
ual contest over the election of their clerk,
Mierley's candidate being his own son.
After many ballots, lasting through several
weeks, young Mierley was elected by the
members OF the board, the third member
refusing to vote for him. If John Mierly is
not legally Commissioner, it follows that
his vote for his son was q nuility, that no
clerk was legally elected, and that the board
had been acting without one, Miller and
Lamberson can remove the difficulty for the
future by electing clerk, which 1t Is ex-
pected they will do. Mierley has resigned
as 4 Councilman. but that will not make him
eligible to the Office Of Commissioner if he
was not SO when elected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

men in the control Of the Government Of
New York, cannot escape the reflection
that they used the fetish Of party to
discipline and secure exactly such results
as those they now protest against
So long as party newspapers are ready
to place honesty and scrupulous respect
for public rights second to partisan sue
cess, exactly such betrayals Of the public
interest are to be regarded As the natural
outcome of vicious party organizations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
OF INTEREST TO HoRT1cULTUR1srA
Requirements Of Their Department. in Ac
cepting Worlds Fair Exhibits.

Requirements Of Their Department. in Ac-
cepting Worlds Fair Exhibits.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 81. NJ. Samuels
Chief of the Departments of Horticulture,
Worlds Fair, has issued circular letter to
each of the Secretaries of the Horticultural
Committees of the different States. as we'll
as to the leading horticulturists of this
country and Europe, to the effect thai he
feels that it will be of interest to all con-
nected with horticultural pursuits to make
an exhibit at the Worlds Fair, as it will be
visited by at least 80, 100000 people. 1t is the
desire of the department. that all hardy
shrubs for decorative purposes be planted
by May !, 1902
The department. wishes to impress on all
contributors either of competitive groups
or donators Of trees. shrubs and plants. that
under no circumstances will badly rooted
or poorly grown specimens be accepted.
They must be superior to ordinary nursery
stock vigorous and shapely enough to be
effective. All trees and shrubs contributed
or loaned will be cared for at the expense OF
the department.. The Horticultural Com
mittee OF this State, whose headquarters are
at horticultural Hall, philadelphia, will
gladly furnish application blanks and any
Information required through their Secre-
tary, John Dick, il.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

TH1s is supposed to be an age Of restless
activity and medical enlightenment. Yet
cases Of prolonged sleep are constantly re-
ported, and we are invariably told that the
doctors are puzzled. The long sleeps no
an average somehow, and the enlightenment
Of the physicians is shown by their admis-
sion that they cannot diagnose tho cases.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
Tine Beautiful IA Inches Deep.

HUNTINGDON, Feb. 20. Especial The
greatest snow storm of the season visited
this county today. The snow began falling
last night, and has continued falling all day
to-day, and tonight the storm shows no signs
of abating. The snow is already Il inches
deep and very heavy, and it is feared that
unless the snow ceases falling much dam
age will be done to roofs and telegraph lines.
Railroad trains are greatly delayed, and
transportation has been practically sus-
pended since yesterday,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

WHATEVER be general opinion in regard
to whether . college training units q man
for q business career,sppearances lend every
support to the idea that men obtaining seats
in Congress have either no business ability
OF no inclination to use it for the benefit of
their country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

STILL the cry is for Egan's recall, and
still no Official action is taken in that de-
sirable direction. Can it be possible that
political exigencies demand that he remain
where he is until all the Presidential posi-
bflities have been reduced to certainties in
one direction or the otherf This sort of
thing is bad enough in internal affairs with
out extending it to International matters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
LIGHT LITTLE LAUGHS

Friend-I hear your minister Is making
more or less heretical uttersncesevery Sunday.
Deacon Snoozer-Whatl Do you mean 1t?
That's what folks say
s.Mercifui heavensI III stay awake next Sunday
and listen. ."-Puck.
When maidens at just twenty stay
It's dollars to . dime
That we with perfect truth may say
They take q tuck in time.
-M,o Yors Herald.
Preacher-Every man must some day set
tie his account with his Maker.
Taflor-I wish you could impress young Sspmind
with that idea. He hasn't settled with me In about
. year and half.-Boston Courier.
For the party there's trouble brewin',
Which can't be helped alack!
With Dave tbs rule or ruin,
And Tammany's at his back.
-Nev York Press.
Coal Dealer-Shall send along man to
put in your coalr
sedentsry Citizen-No. 1 want the exercise.
.'You surely don't intend to shovel In the coal
yourself.''
.'Oh. no: III get exercise enough hunting up .
man to do 1t. ''-PaDtucket Me1cs
A woman had q secret which
The tale is true; pray note it
Although twas full of gossip rich.
-Washtnoton Star.
She (sfter the seryice)-You dreadful fell
Iowi Why did you smile during the onertoryf .
Hell couldn't help 1t. There was Miss Addis
Pose singing, Had the wings OF dove" Tne
mental picture Of 12-stoner trying 70 NJ Win .
pair of four-inch wings was too much for mo-
fearson's Weekly.
Upon the floor the baby fell -
And with swful scream did fetch NJ.
What did give It to stop it's yeIn
1 gave 1t to ma to catch up.-Judgs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

A POSTMASTER in Connecticut has been
caught opening some of, the letters passing
through his handS He should be taught
that he has gotten into hot water which will
remove him from office as effectively as
steam will overcome the adhesion of the Or
dinary envelope.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THERE is something pathetically noble
in the HeralTs efforts to foster journalistic
interests. Not content with booming
watterson five or six times day in italics,
as the one and only desirable Democratic
candidate for the Presidency, it now comes
forth in all its might to urge Whitelaw Reid
on the Republican party for the second place
on its ticket.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

WHETHER the rumored changes among
Federal office holders in Philadelphia be
based on fact or not, the very possibility of
such rumors is an indication of the discred.
liable but prevalent system of making ap.
pointments to and preservation of official
positions dependent on political influence
rather than executive ability.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

AS evidence of the evil conditions of life
in Vienna We are told that in one building
seventy persons were found occupying
twenty-one rooms. Yet far worse examples
of overcrowding than that are of nightly
occurrence right here in Pittsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

IT is well-nigh impossible to imagine
such barbarous inhumanity as leads 60 in.
discriminate attacks on life and safety ike
the last dynamite outrage reported from
Paris. Perpetrators of such deeds have lost
all claim to be treated as men, and should
BIT hunted and annihilated rs wild beasts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

ARMY officers will be placed in chargesof
Indian agencies when there is a decision to
make army commissions more than a sine
cure and q desire to treat the aoorigines
with Justice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

PHILADELPHIA has fully made up its
mind to have a Bourse and Washington
monument, but it seems impossible to arrive
at anything like unanimity as to where to
put them. The City of Brotherly Love is not
lacking in independence of opinion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THE accusations against Michael Davitt
in connection with DR.. Cronin's murder are
vague but serious. They can only be ex-
cused by strong evidence, and even then
they should have been embodied in legal
action, ..r
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

RUSSIA is not the most likely country to
60 to for hints on practical legislation, but
there is much good sense in the provision
that knowledge of the language and tho
laws of the land shall be essential conditions
to naturalization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THERE is competition even in snobbery,
as witnessed by Oscar Wflde's bid for atten-
ton by Introducing IS the badge Of refine
ment flower remarkable for its unnatural
ness, u2liness and price.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

The French officer who composed the
words and music of the "Marseillaise," in
Strassburg, little knew that it would become
so much the recognized song of aspirants
for liberty as that it would be chanted by
q German mob just 100 years after its compo-
sition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

KAISER WILHELM will learn some day,
though probably not before it is too late,
that it would be more polite to remove OBJ
jectionable German dust by a clean sweep
ing reform than to let it remain to be shaken
from the feet Of departing emigrants.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THE recent disturbances in Berlin revealed
a condition of affairs which demands re-
form, and it is to be doubted whether sup
preston without remedial measures can 80
cure more than temporary quiet.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

The public pay in many ways for their
rapid transit facilities, and it is high time
that the traction com panies give fair
equivalent for their privileges.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

tion ordinance. Tho practice Of raflroading
that measure without proper examination
Of Its provisions seems likely to obtain this
year, as usual, for the reason that no time
will be Left to do anything else.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
HARD TIMES IN COSTA RIGA

Coffee Two-Thirds Crop and Many Bust
moss Failures Imminent.
SAN JOSH COSTA RIGA, Feb. 29.-Events Of
the past lew weeks portend a serious econo-
mic crisis. The Government appears to be
30 much impressed with the gravity of the
situation that it has suspended for the
present efforts to secure loans.
The coffee crop has been but two-thirds
the amount of the previous years harvest,
and the price is stationary at $35 peo Quin tai.
There is much anxiety in commercial cirles,
ana it fs feared several houses will fail
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

This is the kind of weather which de-
mands warm heart and clear conscience
for the maintenance of an equable good
temper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

NEW YoRK's claim to the most efficient
hre department in the world may be all
right, and there is no doubt that she is hav-
ing run of big fires that show its neces-
sity,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

wiIhelm's Speeches Always Contain an L
Chicago Times.1
In the German Emperor's speeches the rs
always have it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

Enough Planks to Build . white House,
ss Louis Post-D -Dispatch.l
The candidate Of the Peoples party need
not feel down-hearted If he fails to get into
the White House. There will be enough
planks in his platform to build another one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

In these days of delusion, doubt and
discussion it is restful relief to reach occa-
sionally the bottom rock Of Supreme Court
decision.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
Hill to Address q Legislature

JACKSON, MISS, Feb. Ex-senator David B.
Hill, of New York, has accepted the invita-
tion extended some time ago by the House
of Representatives to address the Legfsla-
ture Of Mississippi. The date named Is
March Is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
wi,h That silver Was silence.

Chicago Inter-Ocean.1
"silence' is golden.": and Democrats are
wishing that silver was silence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

The old Councils went out like March
came in-with q storm.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

ANOTHER meeting of Councils has passed
without the Introduction Of the appropria.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THE final cotillion of the Orinda comes
off this evening in the Linden Clubhouse.
under the chaperonage of Mrs. Charles
Curry, Mrs. E. T. Normicutt and Mrs. Lind
sey.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

Miss JULIA WATSON entertained party
at dinner last night in the Pittsburg Club.
at which Mrs. o. G. Ricketson was the guest
of honor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

TODAY Mrs George P. Lewis, Of Sharps-
burg, will give progressive euchre for Mrs.
Wesley Linford Smith.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

THIS evening Mr.. Wilhelm will be mar
ried at 7 o'clock to Miss Mason, the cere-
mony taking place in Calvary Church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01

The Secretary of State has received Off
cial. notice of a definite agreement for the
establishment of a commercial reciprocity
States,