St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-24

to grave impositions upon the legislature.
An attempt at this late day to secure an an
nuity from the commonwealth TOR injuries
alleged to have been suffered more than half
a century ago. is scarcely entitled to serious
consideration.
The. amount was not large, but the
bill opened the way for thousands of
claims, and in the end would have in
flicted another burden OH all Oyertaxed
people. At nearly every session of the
Minnesota legislature claims resem-
bling this are presented, and, on num-
Der of occasions, lump sums have been
protest serves to call the attention of
the people of the several states to the
danger there is of the adoption of
scheme for state pensioning he will per-
form almost as good service for the
states individually as Grover Cleveland
did for the federal government by his
celebrated pension vetoes.
There VIII BE Reform.
Although the mugwumps, who are
pushing their claims for office by decry-
ing the appointment of Democrats who
have served their party we'll aud loyalty,
are still frantically bowling for the
president to include chiefs of divisions
in the civil service, the work Of remov-
ing these high-salaried gentlemen is
still going on, and in a few weeks none
but Democrats will be on guard in these
positions. President Cleveland allowed
many of this class to hold on through
his first term to his sorrow. In 1883 they
were the most bitter partlsans, and
many of them did all in their power to
embarrass the administration. They
were even willing to risk their places in
the work of discrediting the administra-
ton, and many of them received promo
tionS for their services by appointments
to better places as soon as President
Harrison came into office in 1889.
This mistake will not be repeated.
Mr.. Cleveland is Democrat, aud he
does not believe the mission Of the party
will be fulfilled in the coming four
years. From gentleman who stands
as close to the president as almost any
one outside the cabinet comes the state
ment that if there is one thing more
than another desired by the president it
is the proud privilege of handing the
presidency over to Democratic success
SOr on March 4, 1897. This great project
is not to be
Hindered by Spoflsmen
appointed by past administrations in
consideration of services performed and
all that class will be removed as was
Sturtevant by Secretary Carlisle. In
this connection Democrats who believe
that men in sympathy with the admins
tratiOn should be appointed to all posi-
tons outside the classified service will
be glad to know that the whining hypO-
crlteS who are indorSing something they
know not what in the name OF civil
service reform are not helping their
causes with The president in the least
in other words, he is "Onto them"
Scratch man who indOrSes the creation
of aQ of1icehOlding ariStocracy and
candidate for something very good in
the way of al Office will be found every
time.
And this class of men are not running
the present administration. There is
the veteran Dan Voorhees,, of Indiana,
for example. It's poor day that does
not see him carry off several good ap-
pointmentS for the HOOSier workers,
and he takes no pains to conceal his con-
tempt for the civil service reform laws
and their advocates, and he is welcomed
at the White house as well as at all of
the departments. Last Saturday Judge
Bradley, of the district supreme court,
rendered decision, in which some OF
the beauties of the present civil service
system and its administration were
shown up.
Not a LaWmaking Body.
A man named Pulaski took all eXami-
nation for letter carrier and passed. He
was subsequently appointed when his
name was reached on the list, but the
local postmaster. Sherwood, neglected
to notify the civil service commission
within Seyenty-tWo hours of his action,
and so this autocratic body demanded
no 6icmiCcaI Of pu1aClyi frurDnd ont
through no fault of his the letter car
rier carried the case into court, with the
result that Judge Bradley held that as
he had complied with the law he had a
legal right to the office-in other words,
that the three gentlemen who make up
the civil service commission are not en-
powered to make laws for their own
guidance that require things not COW
cred in the acts that brought them into
official existence.
1t All Depends.
There is more or less talk at present
about the president having determined
upon his policy to be pressed upon the
attention of congress when that body
meets. One authority insists that the
levying OF an income tax will be rec
commended along with the repeal of the
Sherman act and the repeal Of the act
taxing the circulation of state banks.
Another equally as good insists that
there will be no recommendation re-
garding an income tax, but on one mat
ter all are agreed, and this is that Mr..
Cleveland will strongly urge the repeal
of the Sherman act, and it he had felt
certain that congress would do this
there is little doubt that ali extra seS
sion would long ere this have been
called. The free silver sentiment in the
senate is still strong, and the Sherman
act Will stand as 1t is unless something
is given in place of it. No one indorsss
the folly of the present policy toward
silver, but the silver men see in it a
club to force the other fellows into some
valuable concessions, and the history Of
the past few years has demonstrated
pretty effectually that they are not men :,
to throw away any advantage in a con-
test. The attempt Of the New York
bankers to take advantage of the
government has discredited their opin-
ions among the congressman from the
South and West, and If they keep on
talking the chances for the passage of
bill repeating the Sherman act will be
poor indeed.
Not long ago President William Daw-
son, of The Bank of Minnesota, eX-
pressed his views on the silver question
and the repeal of the Sherman law in a
lengthy interview in the GLOBE. This
interview was shown to Secretary Car
Isle, who. after carefully reading it,
expressed his qualification at learning
that one of the leading bankers of the
Northwest held such opinions and de-
Tended them so ably. Mr. Carlisle is,
like Mr.. Da wson, friend of silver, but
of the opinion that the Sherman law
should be repealed, and by his policy
since he became secretary of the treas
ury he has done much toward making
repeal possible.