Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-21
provement, and the militia began to be dis
Result of One Strike.

Tho net results as summed up by tho best authorities were that 400 men had been killed and damage donc to the amount of about Sl00, GOO, 900. Tho claim on Alleghany county (Pittsburg) for dnm- ages done in the riot was for $4, loo, 900, but the commissioners succeeded in get ting 1t rcdccd to $2, 712, 3I9, of which Sl,- 600, 900 went to the Pennsylvania rail road. A vigorous attempt was made to get tho state to pay it on the ground that state militia was at fault, but the legisla- turc refused, and the county issued bonds. Some of these arc matsring now, and this years taxes arc larger in consequence. It may possibly comfort some people to know that things arc not as bad this year as in 1877, and that after the riots wcre over the philosophers decided that they were really an indication that business was beginning to improve. It was then that tho famous letter of Macaulay to Ran dall, tho biographcr of Jefferson, a letter which Americans had ridiculcd so mcrci- lesslyswhcn it was first published in 1857, was resurrectcd and widely published and far moro sobcrly considered. If that letter had been delivered as a prophecy by some great religious teacher, his followers through all time would have quoted it as unanswcrable proof that he was inspired, for every line of it has now been fulfilled to the very letter. What was not fulfilled in 1877 has been in 1894.
 Common Sense and the Law.
 Four members of the senate have re- cciyed particular attention on account of the riots General Palmer is indignant be- cause his action in 1871 has been compared to that of Governor Altgeld. ''It is absurd,
 perfectly absurd, {" he says. At that time
 the fire was over, and the worst of the
 trouble was over, and the state and city authorities were perfectly competent to keep order in Chicago. It was sratuitous
 impertincncc for General Sheridan to take
 the action he did Now the mails and in tcrstate commerce are obstructcd, and the duty of the president is too plain to be mistaken. Hc should use every man and call for moro as they nrc needed" Scna- tor Cullom, according to his custom, is
 quito reserved as to opinions on the action of the president, but as to his own acts during the riots Of 1877 he is very cN- plicit. His statement of tho law Is very clear and of especial intCr,St because of his authorship of the interstate commcrce
 net. He says: "Thcrc is one ruling pE1Rci- pie as old as the common law-yCS older because it is the expressed essence of com | mon sense. It is this: \ grant of power
 implies necessarily that the power is to bc exercised in the usual and customary way, whatever that is. If every statute had to contain explicit dircctions as to the meth ods in which n power was to bc exercised,
 legislation would be an amending labor" More From Ben Butserworth.
 Senator sherman has been most mcrci- | lessly criticised for his proposition to re- ducc the rate on Pullman cars by law while the strike is in progress, and even | Senator Kyle, the mildest hammered man
 that ever entered stormy politics and prob
 ably tho most cautious and least radical I man of thR flirtl marty hnS Cnuuht if mar ticularly hot and heavy. In fact, the pub | lie mind Is in such state that anything | which looks the least bit like tCmporizing | Is denounced as trCason. As giving the
 radical view on this subject n few morc | caustic remarks from Ben ButtCrworth are
 in point. He says: The great trouble is cowarlicc. In all that capitol there isn t