Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-05-26

party and the veterans reform" Verify,
democratic reform is but another name
tor partisan narrow mindedness.
Tue administration has no apparent
intention of trying TO prevent the Sun
day opening Of the worlds fair, not
withstanding its being direct violation
Of law, and it is reported that as much
was inumated to representative OF the
local board Of control who was here some
q Tvs ago to ascertain what would be
done 10y the administration if the eX-
position was opened ON Sunday. This
IS not a question Of the personal prefer
ences Of the individual members Of the
It is against a law Of
the United States to open the fair on
Sunday, and every member Of the adj
has sworn to observe and
enforce the law, and failure to do so
viii be a violation of the oaths they took
upon assuming Office. Attorney Cen
eral Olney has given an opinion, at the
request Of the postmaster general stat
ing that the opening of the branch post
office at the worlds far on Sunday
would be unlawful and it is presumed
that orders viii be issued in accordance
with that opinion not to open the post
office on Sunday.
The administration is itself solely re
.ponsIble for the unique position it found
itself in when the Chinese exclusion act
was declared constitutional by the su
preme court, 1t has allowed those who
control lhe actions of nine tenths Of the
Chinese in this country to know that 1t
expected the law to be declared uncon-
sttutional, and that it vas opposed to
enforcing it anyway. With that knowl-
edge it is no wonder that these people
advised the Chinese not to register, not
that the Chinese SO largely followed
that advice. Had the Chinese registered,
as they all probably would have done if
satisfied that he authorities intended to
enforce the law, the administration would
not be in the present embarrassing pos
ition OF being unable to carry ont the
law, even if so disposed, for lack Of funds.
There is only one redeemlng feature
about the situation nobody here wants
the Chinese already in this country for
chilly driven away, and nobody seems to
expect THAI congress will appropriate the
FIVE or six million dollars that would be
necessary to send away those who did
not register,
Much amusement has followed the re-
fUsal of Mr., Cleveland to appoint a
Georgia editor, backed by eX-Speaker
Crisp, to position because the afore-
said editor had once said in his paper
that Mr.. Cleveland was a mugwump.
81 will appoint no man to any office,
Mr. Cleveland is reported to have angrily
said, "who has ever accused me of being
mugwump.' No man is to be blamed
for Directing to being called mug
wump, but it had been generally sup
posed that Mr., Cleveland took sort of
pleasure IN being classed with them.
The amusement Is caused by the knowl-
edge that some Of the very best places
at his disposal have been given by Mr..
Cleveland to those who have openly
charged him with mugwumpery, eX-
Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, for IN
stance, who is now ambassador to France,
The real reason for the failure Of the
Georgia editor to get the office he wanted
is believed tc have been his refusal to
recognize aud bow down to the great
ness Of Hoke Smith.
Il was long ago predicted in this cor
respondenee that Representative Springer
would not be at the head of the ways
and means committee Of the next house,
the committee which will have the very
doubtful honor Of ratifying and report
ing to the house the tariff bill that the
administration is now having prepared
by such eminent free traders as David
A. Wells and that prediction was yeri-
fed this week by the semi-oHicial an
nouncemont that Mr.. Cleveland had de-
cided upon Representative W. l.. Wilson,
of West Virginia, as chairman of the
committee. When the house has been
republican the man who was elected
speaker has had the naming Of the com
mittee chairmanshjps, but the Cleveland
idea is that ALL authority is vested in
the president, and the Cleveland idea is
Just now very much on top.
Worlds Record Beaten.
WASHINGTON STATE BUDDING,