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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
Daniels Searching Question.

Those papers that have been attacking
the President so viciously on account of
his Hawaiian policy will not find it an
easy matter to answer the question pre-
scented by Senator Daniel, of Virginia who
in his speech in the Senate on Monday,
on the Hawaiian matter. asked why it
was that President Harrison, in the
treaty he sent to the Senate at the close
of his administration, providing for the
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, pro
posed to give the deposed queen of Ha-
wall and the princess 10000 a year each.
If the United States had no hand in over
turning tho Hawaiian monarchy, on what
ground was it proposed that the United
States should give the deposed queen and
the princess large sums of money annu-
ally, In the proposition to pay the de-
posed queen and the princess pensions is
there not an acknowledgement that the
United States were in some way response
BILE for the downfall of the queens gov
ernmcntz Unless President Harrison's
administration thought that wrong of
some sort had been done by this country
to Hawaii it is strange that it should
have undertaken to provide for the chief
victims of the revolution.
As matter of fact, did not the Harri-
son administration acknowledge as fully
as the Cleveland administration has that
the United States committed a great out
rage upon Hawaii? The difference be
tween the two administrations in dealing
with the Hawaiian matter appears to be
this: The Harrison administration ad-
mitted that the United States had done a
great wrong to Hawaii and proposed
buying the silence of those who had
been wronged, while the Cleveland admin
istration admitted the same thing. and
peaceably tried to undo the wrong that
had been done Looking at the matter
from this standpoint, it appears that the
course followed by the Cleveland admin
istration is the more honorable one.
When the bottom of this Hawaiian bust
ness is reached it will be found, in all
probability, that our minister, Mr..
Stevens did not act an honorable part
when he took sides against the deposed
queen. He has succeeded IN covering up
his tracks pretty well, but the truth rela-
tive to the overthrow of the. monarchy
will come out eventually, and then it will
appear that Mr.. Cleveland has been right
all along in his Hawaiian policy.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
As to Contested Elections.

One constitutional provision that is
jealously guarded by politicians, of the
Republican party especially, is that
which makes legislative body the sole
judge of the qualifications, including
their election, of its members, The pro-
vision is found in all of the state consti-
buttons, as well as in the federal constitu-
tion.
This privilege of the legislative body
originated in England at a time when
civil courts could not be trusted to decide
with perfect fairness between the will of
the people and the will of the crown, and
was adopted in the interest of legislative
independence and popular rights From
England the idea was brought to
America and made part of the sew
eral constitutions adopted by the states.
England, however, no longer continues
the custom. The courts having been
made pure, public confidence in them is
perfect, and parliament has surrendered
to the courts the duty of deciding con
tested elections. Thus in England dis
puted seats in parliament are awarded
with the same even-hauded justice that
disputed property or estates are awarded
In this country the old prerogative in
vented to circumvent corrupt royalist
courts that might be disposed to rule
against popular will, is insisted upon bv
representatives of the people," who Of
ten represent nobody so much as them
selves, unless it be a selfish political fac
ton
An illustration of the working of this
legislative prerogative, as pointed out by
Harper's Weekly, is found in the troubles
in the New Jersey legislature. Ten sena-
tors, by conspiring together to seat a
candidate of their party, although he
does not claim to have been elected. and
working to carry out their plans, have
been able to block the legislative business
of the state for weeks. The senate is
split and in deadlock through the opera
! ton of its constitutional right to pass
upon the qualifications of its own mem
Ders number of the members insist
upon using that right for their own polit-
zeal ends, in defiance of decency or JUS
tice.
In the House of Representatives of
turning on the same point, and which
will be settled in favor of the stronger
political party wiyhout reference to
any consideration beyond the politics of
the contestants. There has not been a
session of congress for years but we have
seen one house or the other. or both.
Judge the qualifications of its members
and decide contested election cases in
favor of the candidate who would vote
with the party in power
The republicans have always made this
constitutional right of congress to Judge
qualifications OF its members one of the
bases upon which to rest its arguments
for federal domination of congressional
elections
Now that the reform of elections mat
tiers has been instituted, in the repeal Of
the federal election laws, would it not be
wise to take contested election out of the
hands of the politicians and place them
in the civil courts
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
ORDINANCE.

BY special committee on railways
AN ORDINANCE to grant an extension to the
Macon, Dublin and savannah Railway Com
pany under the terms and conditions herein
expressed.
Section /. Be it ordained by the mayor and
aldermen of the City of Savannah in council
assembled, That all the rights and privileges
granted to the Macon, Dublin and Savannah
Railway Company, a railroad corporation OF
the state of Georgia, under that certain ordi-
nance passed by the council of the city of Sa-
vannah, on the % day of March. 1892 and en-
titled An ordinance TO grant to the Macon
Dublin and Savannah Railway COMPANY a
railroad corporation of the state of CeOr-
gia. terminal facilities in the city of Sayan-
nah, certain lots Of land herein described and
certain rights and privileges upon the terms
and conditions expressed in this ordinance
and the grants and benefits contained in the
SAID ordinance are hereby continued to the
said railroad company until the first day of
March 1895, Cthe same expiring by Limitation
under previous ordinance on the md day of
March 1894, except in so far as are concerned
Olive West Broad West Boundary and Bav
streets. AS to the'said four streets lust men
toned all rights and privileges granted TO the
said railroad corporation are hereby re
scinded. annulled and declared void
Sec. p Be ii further ordained that all ordi-
nances and parts of ordinances in conflict with
this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Ordinance read in Council for the rst time
February II, 1894 and published for informa-
tton. +. f. REBARER, Clerk of Council.
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OFFICIAL.
UT r IJlAks
N-~1~O~-~-~~-~-OO
ORDINANCE se,
AN ORDINANCE to amend section 264 of Mac
Don5ll's Code of Savannah .4

AN ORDINANCE to amend section 264 of Mac
Don5lls Code of Savannah. .4
Section !. Be it ordained Dy the mayor and
aldermen Of the city of savannah in council
assembled. That in lieu Of the words twenty
four hours, in the last clause of section 264
OF Ma2Donens Code of Savannah, the words
tive days be substituted, so that clause
when thus amended. shall read as follows
Aud it shall also be the duty of the city en-
glneer, on the application of any lot-holder,
to attend and stake OF such lot within live
days after sdch application is made
Sec ?. Be it further ordained, that said
section 24 be further amended by adding
after the WORDS, application is made" at
the end of said section, the following words ::
provided, nevertheless, that it shall be the
duty OF the city engineer when an ap1liCa-
ton Is made for the street line only to give
such line without cost to the holder as occu-
pant OF SAID lot and that when it becomes
necessary, under the provisions of the CITY
ordinances, that plat shall be given by the
city engineer, showing all the holdings lines
etc. OF said lots re luirnc survey for the
purpose, the sum of i've dollars shall be paid
for the survey, said amount to be first paid
to the city treasurer. and. upon the exhibi-
tion OF the treasurers receipt to the city engi-
neer, the survey shall be made.
Sec. 3. That all ordinances and parts OF
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed.
Ordinance passed in Council, February IA
1894 JOHN J. MCDONOUGH, Mayor.
Attest: T.. E. REBABER Clerk of Council.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
Street Paving Material.

The city engineer has given consider
able attention to ebert as a material for
street paving, and he is very favorably
impressed by it, In our local columns we
call attention to another material sug-
gested by Mr. C. B. Warrand. 1t is
found in Tattnall county, and in immense
quantities, on the line of the Savannah
and Western railroad. Mr.. Warrand
describes it as a mixture of clay and iron
nodules, there being as much as 40 per
cent. of iron
Mr.. Warrand says that the material
makes an exceedingly firm and hard road
bed being superior in every respect for
paving to either oyster shells or ebert.
Ohe great advantage it has over either of
those materials is that arold made of it
is comparatively free from dust. Mr..
Warrand is confident that it makes a
much more durable road than shells or
ebert, and one that is as smooth as
asphalt. OF course no one of these three
materials is intended for paving where
there is heavy traffic, though the TAFT
nall county material is subjected to that
kind of traffic in that county.
II Mr.. Warrand's conclusions are correct
we have a very cheap paving material
close at hand. 1t can be obtained for
nothing, because there are thousands of
tons of it along the Savannah and Western
road that have been dug out where cuts
have been made for the railroad track.
1t could be brought to the city for about
half what ebert would cost, and it is esti-
mated that ebert would cost third less
than shells.
Would it not be advisable for
the city council to have an in
vestigation made of this Tattnall county
materialR Why not send an expert to ex-
anime it, or, at least have a car load of it
brought to the city? No doubt there are
different grades of it, some deposits of it
containing much larger percentage of
iron than others. 1t might be well there
fore, TO make pretty thorough inquiry
as to the character of the material If
Mr. Warrand is right, we may be able to
do a great deal of paving every year, and
at small cost to the city and property
owners. twill cost nothing to find out
whether or not the material is at all
valuable, and the investigation should not
be delayed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
The Senate and the Wilson Bill.

1t would be rash to predict what
changes the Senate will make in the
Wilson bill. The finance committee of
that body does not seem to know what TO do
with the bill. The report from the commit
tee one day is that coal iron, lumber and
sugar are to be taken from the free list
and made dutiable, and the next day it is
stated, with equal pOsitiveness, that moth
ing has been determined in respect to
these articles. In our dispatches on Mon
day it was asserted that the committee
had about reached the conclusion to make
no recommendation in respect to sugar,
but TO let the question, as to whether it
shall be placed among the dutiable
articles, be settled in the Senate.
If the bill goes to the Senate without
any recommendation in respect to sugar
the way will be opened for a long debate,
because if duty is placed upon sugar
very considerable revenue viii be re-
ceived from that source, and that fact
will bring about condition of affairs
that will neccssitate changes in the duty
on other articles.
The country hasn't the strongest con
fidence in the wisdom of the Senate II
remembers how it wasted weeks and
weeks last summer in discussing the bill
to repeal the purchasing clause of the
Sherman silver law, while the people,
who were threatened with financial ruin,
called for action. and it remembers also
that it permitted itself TO be influenced as
to its action upon the supreme court nom
nations by the faction quarrels in New
York. If theaSenate, therefore, should
take hold of the Wilson bill with the de-
termination to change it only to the ex-
tent of making it more in harmony with
the tariff plank of the ma
tional democratic platform, and should
pass it quickly, the country would ex-
perience a genuine surprise. The pres
ent outlook is that when the bill gets into
the Senate it will stay there a good while
longer than it ought to, Notwithstanding
the urgent necessity for prompt action
upon it. Many of the senator's are so
welded to certain theories and ideas
they have, that they cannot take broad
and comprehensive view of business con-
ditions. There is no certainty, therefore,
what the Wilson bill will be like when
the Senate gets through with it, nor when
il will be voted upon.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

MEETNG-Catholic Library Association.
MILITARY ORDER-Order No. Z, Savannah
Volunteer Guards.
SPECIAL NOTES.-The Winsome lie Panic
Cigar, VIM. NJ. Mills, Druggist; Soap and
Civilization, E. L. Mastick; Notice to Supe-
rior Court Petit Jurors; Notice TO Owners of
Ground Rent Lots; Notice to City Court Ju-
rors; Jack Carr Sells the Best Beer.
AMUsEMENTs-Rheaa at the Theater Satur-
day, Feb 81
Our LINE OF FAST BLACK HosE-Appel &
Schaul.
DIVORCE YOUR PANTs-B. H. Levy g. Bro
ARRIVED LATE YEsTERDAY-At Adler's.
CHEAP COLUMN ADyERTIsEMENTs-Help
Wanted; Employment Wantei; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

New York newspaperdom, with one ex-
ception, is laughing at the manner in
which Tom" Platt recently put the
screws on an obstreperous republican
kicker The kiclser in question was the
New York Mail and Express, a newspaper
owned by branch of the Vanderbilt
family. A week or so ago the Mail and
Express violently assaulted Platt and his
policy, and denounced on every page. the
corrupt practices of the republican bosses.
Platt, Reid and Milholland. All at oncea
bill appeared in the legislature at Albany
to forbid the burning of soft coal in any
tunnel in New York city. Such bill. if
it were to become law, would
put the New York Central rail
road to an additional expense of
at least 100000 a year. simultaneously
with the appearance of the bill in the
legislature the Mail and Express ceased
its attacks on Platt, and began to appeal
strenuously for harmony" in the party.
II is said that Platt knows precisely
where the bill originated. and old stagers
at Albany refer to it as performing a
function known as ringing the bell on
Chauncey Depew."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
The Senate AID the People.
From the Baltimore Sun Deml

- 70 -71lII VI1NIl'Is
The issue raised by the rejection of the
successive nominations of Alessrs. Horn
blower and Ieckham broadenS into a oI,es-
ton Of the first Importance. 1T ceases to be
an issue between the President and senator
Hlll, or between the President and the Sen
ate. 1t becomes an issue between the Senate
ami the people-and the people who made
Mr. Cleveland President and who trust him
anu support him to day. and who cherish the
constitution as the charter OF their rights
and liberties, will easily know how TO deter
mine that issue. A reformed senate a Senate
which VIII be taught respect for and depen-
dence upon the people by being made directly
for spoils win be curbed and re 5tricted Nv n
constitutional limit upon its supposed pre-
rogatye' OF arbitrary and capricious con
nrmatlon or rejection of exc cutive nomina-
tons, Is one of the possible and most likely
results Of The present temper and behavior of
the senatorial body. he people after all
are the masters still
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
It May Not Be.

or all sad words OF tongue or pen.
The saodest are these-it might have been. "
Yes those words are sad, but it seems to me
These are sadder still-it may not be
For you may rest with a certain degree Of
ease
When hope is dead and when strivings cease.
But the strain of attempting something to
gain
Without hope to cheer you, is bitter pain.
And looked for JOY Is strangely sweet;
Swoeter sometimes than when we reality
greet.
In the death Of hope lies the greater pain,
For the promise is gone while the yearnings
remain.
Regrets for the past may have their sting.
But we live in the hope Of what trying will
bring.
Eternal hope is our mainstay here
Without 1t this life would indeed be drear.
III"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

There are prospects Of an ice war on the
Hudson river. Employers and employees
are at differences with regard to prices
for harvesting ice, and a strike may be
the outcome. Employers insist on cut
ting wages and employees insist on getting
the wages they got last year The re-
publicans viii, Of course, point to this
trouble as result Of democratic rule and
fear Of the Wilson bill. For, If the Wilson
Dill should be passed would not foreign
pauper ice be admitted in competition
with the native product And are not
employers ia the ice business justified in
cutting wages ia anticipation OF Prof
Wilson'S attack upon the Industry Of
American cold wavesl The threat Of an
Ice war on the Hudson recalls a similar
war at Yerpiancls's Point, ~ v. five OF
siz years ago. when the azgrieyed native
labofers drove out the ItahaHs and slays
lhal bad been engaged aJ harvesting and
poured kerosene on over al the Ice that
BAD been stored
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

The enterprising town of Cuthbert, in
Randolph county, this state, is doing in
telligent work, towards inducing home
seekers and investors TO examine into the
advantages and resources of fruitful and
rich Southwest Georgia. neat illus
trated pamphlet, descriptive of Cuth-
bert and Randolph county, has Just been
published and is being widely circulated.
The pictures, which are exceptionally good
and are printed on a superior quality of
paper show that modern ideas and nine
tocnth century pluck dominate the people
of Cuthbert. And tho text, which is
almost void Of superlatiye adjectives-a
virtue which will be appreciated by per-
sons seeking good faith information
gives plain statements OF resources and
interesting short articles on experimental
farming, fruit raising. etc The villages
OF Coleman and Shellmau are also de-
scribed IN the pamphlet
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
Some Things Mckinley Forgot.

from Inc PhlIa IeIphia Times IndD
What will light our furnaces asks Gov
Mckinley in his Piftsburg speech 1t is a
fair question Mr.. Carnegie remarked before
going to Egypt that the Wilson oil would he
now closed by excessive SUBSIDY taxes Fx-
National Republican Chairman Jones said
last week right in Pittspurg thai every ind 5.
try could get along very wen under the vii
son measure. But there are some things in
the way that did not occur to the governor to
mention There Is the southern lronmaster.
for instance, selling pig iron at the furnaces
at ~ % the ton for delivery in Pittsburg at
1898. and at Liverpool for $3.50. Pitts3urp
can do no better than &l3 so This did not
seem to bc OF sufficient importance for ex-
PLANTATION,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
"old Joe" Shelby is All Right.
From the New York WORLD mem

from the New York World tDem.l
Gen. joe Sheloys one4 Sc seems to be that
he did not Join the Republican party at the
conclusion of the late unpeasantness and ex.
change his hayersack for carpet bag He
has done nothingsto, disrupt The union since
peace was declared, and the chanL es are that
he VIII be as much Of a terror TO law breakers
in western Missouri as he was to the federal
cavalry there thirty years ago. H sisgood
citizen now in his eaunt and Grlzzled hge as
he was fighter in his prime. 1t is a fact of
curious interest that when Gen. Shelbywas A
clerk in Lexington tKy.) store before the
war he was too bashful to wait on the women
customers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

The tradesmen of Paris-merchants
costumers, tailors, jewelers., art dealers.
etc, have begun to consider the anarchist
agitation from business point of view.
They find that business has been seriously
hurt by the anarchist outrages. Tourists
avoid the bombstricken city, breaking
their journey at Rheims and going south
ward without touching the capital. The
tradesmen, therefore, are urging the gov
eminent to deal with the miscreants
promptly ana severely. The British au-
thorities will be pretty sure to take care
that similar outrages do not affect the
trade of English centers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

Col. Henry Watterson desires to know
how 1t happens that various senators.
who were tearing their hair during the
debate on the silver-purchase repeal, be-
cause the Senate had no closure rule. are
silent on the subject now. The ex-
PLANTATION may be found in the fact
that there is no immediate need
for a closure rule When the
protectionists begin to kill time on the
tariff bill we shall probably hear from
the 'reformers" again, and when the bill
has been passed the demand for closure
will once more subside.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21

The death of young Under, the Har-
ward student who was injured in a box
ing bout with his fellow student, Arthur
Foster, of Florida, considered apart from
the very regrettable occurrence itself,
will probably have considerable bearing
upon future college athletics. A day or
two ago it was announced that Yale
would permit no more boxing contests in
exhibitions by students; Harvard will
probably now follow Yale's example if.
indeed, boxing in private is not put un-
der close restrictions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-21
Unconstitutional Road Laws.
From the Baltimore American cRnnl

A good road law is desirable. but, as Vir-
ginia has found to her cost, it is well to have
one that Is constitutional i he law OF that
state provided that every man who did not
pay road tax should do a certain amount of
work on the public highway. This work one
farmer refused to do. and was arrested ne
carried the case to the supreme court. and the
decision was IN his favor Similar laws pre-
vail In other states.