The Press., 1893-04-13

Que pre&&, Thursday. Evening. April 1s. 1893.
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 THE Pinney-Keeney contest in the state senate is ended by the adoption yesterday of the majority report of the committee on contested elections, giving the petition CT (Pinney) leave to withdraw. The vote stood ii to s, two democratic senators, Cleveland of Hartford and Pierce, chair man of the committee, voting with the majority. Two senators of each party were paired and absent.
 IT is now fully assured that Daniel Morgan of the Connecticut senate is to be made U. s. treasurer The qualification will be delayed for the reason that Sen- ator Morgan's withdrawal from his pres ent position will leave the senate in con- trol of the republican party, though 1t IS probable that pair on all political ques- tions could be arranged with some repub- lican senator, should MT. Morgan request such courtesy, to enable him to fill at once the honorable position offered him.
 
 NEARLY all of the 4,O00 men employed at the Chicago Exposition buildings went on strike on Monday. Most of them have since resumed work. The strike was based on demand that non-union en- ployees be discharged, condition pro- hibited, however, by the relations of con- tractors to government also expressly covered by the bargains made, between eontl actors and employees. The strike had no basis to stand upon, and failed of its object. AT the Rhsde Island state election last Wednesday there was no choice Of state officers. The prohibition vote was larger than usual and the democratic candidates got a small plurality in the light vote given. The election, therefore, goes to the legislature, which is yet in doubt, many members being yet to be chosen in cases where no majority was obtained. So far the chances favor the republican control of the legislature, with consequent republican state officers.
 LAST Saturday was phenomenal day. By spells it was cool and hot, clear skies, alternated with tornado looking clouds racing across the sky, sometimes yellow, and frequently causing darkness that made need of artificial light. Repeated thunder showers passed over. The ground meantime was white with the heavy snow fall of Friday. In many places there were hail storms. Sunday again was a spring-like day, very little snow being ir sight, but the grass looking as if it had highly enjoyed and thrived on this ''glorl ous climate of New England"
 SOME better reason should be advanced for giving to Sheffield scientific schoo the aid designed to promote agriculture knowledge than that it will be a breacl of contract to take it away. The Shef field school is not imparting agriculture knowledge; is not being patronized b. farmers sons; does not make pretenc of regarding the fitting of youths for farn life as leading object of it's being Tn money it is getting is designed to be use in the main for imparting informatio useful to farmers. The farmers knoN that Storrs school is doing a big work t ennoble their calling, and to train up thei sons to be intelligent, practical farmers It is their ideal school, which Sheffield not, in any sense. They have right t speak in the matter, and they are talking If the newspapers do not agree with theI in this matter, so much the worse for tn newspapers. It is less their affair tha that of the farmers. ,. Hartford Post: Such sentiment 8 MT. Murphy awoke in Hartford must nc be allowed to die out. The work is onl fairly begun here, and it lies with the pull lic-spirited people to keep it moving. is not enough that these men should hay quit drinking; something must be give them to take the place of the social flea ures and other attractions of the salool and the coffee house proposition seems fill the bill." For most of the men WI have homes, the revived interest in u family and in the home will perhaps sufficient, but for the young and old men who are completely friendless her who live in small bedrooms and have I social privileges, such place as the pr posed coffee house will furnish cheerf rendezvous, free from the temptations
 the saloon, and equally so from the I straints of many less objectionable place Music, books, papers, smoking-rooms al the privilege of buying comfortable lun' will make the place attractive and VI iant rival to the saloons. Moreover, u place should be self-supporting, and eve dollar put into it may be a dollar we'll vested. The dividends at all events W be the good results as shown in mems bt ter lives and happier homes.
 Mir. Wolfenbarge1, the national prol bition speaker, during the late campai in Rhode Island said that the prohibiti party was mot even a moral organiz .tion," but was stricly political assoc tion. He said that personal total abs hence was by no means necessary qu iffcation of consistent member of tn party; on the contrary, he asserted tf .'the man who drinks every day and vol the prohibition ticket is better temp ance man than the total abstainer " votes for either old party" Comment on this the Westerly Weekly says: