The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-20

crowded with exciting incidents that the
briefest description would fill volume,
but the month ended with marked i'm
provement, and the militia began to be dis
banded
Result of One Strike.
The net results as summed up by the
best authorities were that 4e0 men had
been killed and damage done to the
amount of about 500. coo, 600. The claim
on Allegheny county (Pittsburg) for dam
ages done in the riot was for s., 100, 900,
but the commissioners succeeded in get
ting it redced 70 -, 712, $40, OF which ST.,
600, 900 went 70 the Pennsylvania rail-
road. A vigorous attempt was made TO
get the state 10 pay ii on the ground that
state militia was at fault, but the legisla-
tura refused. and the county issued bonds.
Some OF these are maturing now, and
this years taxes are larger in consequence.
1t may possibly comfort some people to
know that things are not as bad this year
Is in 1877, and that after the riots were
over the philosophers decided that they
were really an indication that business
was beginning TO improve. Il was then
that the famous letter of Macaulay TO Ran
dali, the biographer OF jefferson, letter
which Americans had ridiculed so merci-
was resurrected and widely published
and far mere soberly considered. If that
letter had been delivered as prophecy by
some great religious teacher, his followers
through all time would have quoted it as
unanswerable proof that he was inspired,
for every line Of il 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-
ceived particular attention on account OF
the riots. General Palmer is indignant be-
cause his action in 1871 has been compared
10 that of Governor Altgeld. 1T 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. 1t was gratuitous
. impertinence for General Sheridan to take
the action he did. Now the mails and in
terstGte commerce are obstrGcted and the
duty of the president is too plain to be
mistaken. He should use every man and
call for more as they are needed Sena-
tor CullOm, according to his custom, is
quite reserved as TO opinions on the action
of the president, but as to his own acts
plicit. His statement of the law is very
clear and of especial interest because of
his authorship Of the interstate commerce
act. He says: There is one ruling princi-
pie as old as the common law-yes, Older
because it is the expressed essence of COM
mon sense. 1t is this: a grant of power
implies necessarily that the power is TO be
exercised in the usual and customary way,
whatever that is. If every statute had to
contain explicit directions as TO the meth
DDS in which a power was to be exercised,
legislation would be an unending labor"
More From Ben Butterworth.
Senator Sherman has been most merci-
lessly criticised Tor his proposition to re-
duce 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 the most cautious and least radical
man of the third party, has caught it par
ticularly hot and heavy. In fact, the pub
lie mind is in such "a state that anything
which looks the least bit like temporizing
Is denounced as treason. AS giving the
radical view on this subject a few more
caustic remarks from Ben Butterworth are
in point. H says: THE great trouble is
cowardice. In all that capitol there isn't