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St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
A BAD .BLUNDER.

Minister Willis has not served the ad-
miniStration we'll or wisely. He has
not shown that acumen which the situ-
alton requires, and which is quality
required in diplomacy. He has missed
an opportunity to relieve the admins
tration entirely from what has been
from the start one of those unpleasant
situations where duty opposes itself to
popular sentiment. The opportunity
opened wide door of escape, and the
minister deliberately and persistently
shut it.
We have not changed our opinion
that every consideration of right con-
duct, of the dignity of the nation, of
our national self-respect, justified the
course taken by the president. Moth
ing was clearer than that the revolution
which deposed the queen would have
had neither inception nor success but
for the covert support it received from
Minister Stevens, shown openly in the
landing of our forces. Under such cir
cumStances full reparation for the
wrong was duty laid on the president
and this country by every rule of right.
1t was also right to demand that, in
protfering reparation tor the wrong
done her with our connivance, amnesty
should be extended to the men who en-
gagged in the enterprise relying on our
support.
When Minister Willis had prelimi-
narily laid before the queen the condi-
tiOn of amnesty as a precedent to any
action by our government for her res
toratiOn, he had made the first step in
his course of proper action. Any sub
sequent step hinged on the answer of
the queen. If she assented, the pro-
visional government was next to be in
formed of the course intended to be
pursued. Should she refuse to accept
the conditions, then all further steps
were stayed. 1t was not the duty of
the minister to labor with the queen to
induce her to revoke her decision. Her
answer should have been taken as a
finality, and all further action looking
to the restoration suspended.
The refusal to grant amnesty to her
rebelliOus subjects was our happy de-
liYerance from complication becoming
udllJ ilSI. I1du w Ills pOS-
sessed ordinary acuteness, he would
have seized the opportunity afforded our
government to relieve itself of matter
none the less annoying that it is insig-
nifcant, and ceased from performing
any other than his routine ministerial
duties. No obligation rested on us to
exert ourselves to convince the queen
that she should not roast her subjects if
restored to power. 1t was for her to say
if she would accept or not a condition
that was humane, and justified by the
situation. Her refusal should have
closed the door to further effort in that
direction.
By his strange and off1cious persist
ence in coaxing the queen to consent to
the condition, the minister has badly
blundered. The only escape from it is
in the fact that the president had COM
mitted the whole matter to congress,
and that body cannot too quickly disa-
VOW the action of the minister subSe-
quent to his proffer of the conditions to
the queen and her refusal of it. His
recall should follow. He is too simple
person to be entrusted with important
diplomatic duties.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
; MINNESOTA SENTIMENT.

Gov. Lewelling is likely to have con-
siderable trouble with Mary Ellen
Lease. Mrs. Lease positively refused
to stand hitched. = Wright County
Times.
The egg factories are pretty much
all shut down, it is presumed on ac-
count OF the uncertainty as to what the
Democrats will do about the tariff ON
that ndustry.-Dawson Sentinel.
The best thing that congress can do
with Hawaii is to let it alone. Let the
people of Hawaii govern themselves.
They are capable of doing it without
any assistance Duluth Herald.
Those who oppose the income tax on
constitutional grounds are barking up
the wrong tree. The courts declared it
to be constitutional when it was on the
statute books before.-Crookston Times.
The depressed times are affecting no
line of business more than the saloon
keepers.-Nearly all of them are COM
planning of dullness, and the same state
Cf affairs exists i'll other toWnS.-Brain-
erd journal.
Perhaps the oath which the committee
administers to its witnesses NAV have
something to do with the reluctance of
Mr.. Stevens. A man doesn't have to
swear to statements made in a BANQUET
speech. Fairfax Crescent.
The organs that think it good politics
to fight any modification of the Nc
Kinley tariff are simply planning to
continue the agitation indefinitely, to
the continued disturbance of the bus
mess of the country.-Winona Herald.
Why shall not the wealthy class pay
their just share of the taxes? We all
know they do not; much of their prop
erty is hidden from the assessor, and
many swear falsely. An income tax
then only evenS 1t up.-Glencoe Regis
ter.
If Preside nj Cleveland will have his
new tariff bill amended so as to put a
high tariff ON foreign cranks, he viii
receive the undivided appreciation of
the public. We have had free trade in
that product long enough.-Prison Mir
TOT.
The senseless rule is still in force
under which congressman can occupy
a seat, and when the time comes to
transact business that he was elected to
do and is paid to attend to, he can play
that he is not preSent.-LincoIn County
Journal.
That boy Comptroller" can't make
any laws, but he can and does carry out
the laws already made, even when they
do not meet the approval of interested
Wall street bankers. And. come to
think. that's just what he was made
comptroller of currency for. st. Cloud
Times.
If the Democrats in congress find
upon investigation-as we think they
are certain to-that President Cleveland
has done the proper thing i'll the Ha-
waiian matter, they should sustain him
with all the power of the government,
in spite of HOar, Boutelle q Co.-New
iUlm News.
Certain Democratic congressman are
disposed to kick against the passage of
the Wilson tariff bill because it does
not cut protection off entirely at once.
Like them, we, too, would like to see
every vestige of a protective tariff blot
ted off the United States law books, but
if we can't get to 1t at one jump let's
make two. or even three, and get there
just as soon as possible. Pass the Will
son bill this session and the johnson
bill Ulm News.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
NORTH DAKOTA POINTS.

The bar bill is probably the most ex-
tensive whiskey trust in the country to-
day.-Sismarck Tribune.
There is no money in the North
Dakota treasury-what does our legis-
lature want to meet for?-Fargo Forum.
The Republicans of Kansas should
present a solid front to repel Mrs.
Leases efforts to become one of them
Bismarck Tribune.
The Daily Populist is a newspaper
recently started in Denver. The object
of the paper is to add weight to Waite
-Casselton Republican.
The manufacturers income would mar
row very quickly and materially were
an income tax in force. The manufact-
urer himself would do the tri mming.-
Grand Forks Plaindealer.
1t is said that threshing machine
owners and manufacturers have formed
q trust in the Dakotas to keep up prices
Now let the farmers 'bust" the trust
Valley City Times-Record.
If ever the cold irony of constitutional
justice was manifested, it was in the
case of the peopl5 who undertook to
down the coal combine in Minnesota
The Minnesota coal combine is not only
on top, but has been awarded damages.
Fargo Commonwealth.
The editor of the Henning, (Minn. J
Advocate was incarcerated in an insane
asylum for rasping the banks while in
this state the editor of the Grand Forks
Herald still pounds away on the Ha-
waiian question and walks the streets
of that city free man.-Jamestown
Capital.
Albert Schmidt. of Abercrombie, in
forms US that the weed (the Russian
thistle) has been growing there for a
period Of something like twenty -fiYe
years. to his knowledge. He believes
that the seed was brought IN with seed
imported for government mules.-Rich-
land Count Y Gazette.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16

days came and went without any inyi-
tation to the White house, the member
from the Sixth district finally came to
the conclusion that the influences in
favor of Bruener and against Ellen
becker were too strong and practically
gave up the fight several days ago.
Finally came the visit of last Satur-
day morning to the president. Mai.
Baldwin visited the White house and
appealed to Private Secretary Thurber,
and was admitted to an audience with
Mr.. Cleveland. just what was SAID at
this Interview must be surmised; but
Maj. Baldwin on his return was less
confident than ever OF the appointment
of his man. He now says: "I have ex-
hausted all my ammunition and give up
the contest. Those who have secured
Mr.. Bruener's appointment must take
the responsibility"
A report is now being circulated
among Minnesotians in Washington
that serious charges have been filed
against Bruener, and that the president
Will Insist upon new man being Sc
lerted for register of the st. Cloud
o flee. independent OF both contestants.
There are conflicting rumors as to
whether Mr.. Doran will come to wash
ington. Some assert that he may be
here any day, and others that he has
sent word that he will not come.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16

the recipient was such forcible evil
dence of his mental vigor and physical
powers that those who had limited OF
failing intellect were completely ST.
fenced.
NJ. Waddington was one of the great
est men of France. intellectually he
combined the vigor of the Briton with
the brilliancy of the Gaul. He was we'll
versed in diplomacy, scientist Of broad
culture and research, and litterateur
of acknowledged standing. He was
successful in all he undertook. for he
was thorough in his methods, and al
ways sought to reach the underlying
cause of every event and deduce his
conclusions through logical channels.
While he was great admrer of the
people from whom he originally sprang,
he was unswervingly loyal to the land
which gave him birth. and in whose
service he spent the best part of his
manhood. His death will be sincerely
regretted by the world at large.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
The "Refreshments.n -

Mr.. Lamphere, editor of the Moorhead
News, makes some very sensible re-
, marks anent the coming editorial asso-
citation meeting. The meeting. as lie
says. is for business, and every editor of
the state will find it to his advantage to
come. Some who do Lot come imagine
that it is merely meeting for amuse-
ment, and thereby make great mis-
take. The News says:
The News has not argued against
having modest banquet, or to speak
plainly refreshments, but has said
thattne banquet should not be held
ont as principal inducement to draw the
state editors to Minneapolis. The first
consideration of the meeting is for 1.-THE
discussion and adoption of measures to
promote the interests of members of
the profession" and let US keep that
object in view. After the business is
dispatched we can eat and drink III
moderation and if Minneapolis con-
siders it her duty TO pay for the edibles
and tIrinkables, we will not object, and
if our dyspepsia is not too bad, will do
;mple justice 10 them.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
MARY'S TONGUE.

Mrs. Lease is ON the warpath, but Mr..
Lease, poor man, is likely under the
woodshed.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Mary's pluck in locking horns with
the governor of the great state of Kan
sas is equal to that Of the gentleman
cow" who bucked the ocomotive.-
LeaVenworth Standard.
If it had been Mary Ellen Lease in.
stead of Liliuokalani she would have
been back on her throne by this time or
somebody would have been talked to
death.-Chicago Tribune.
The Kansas PopulIsts are now claim
ing that Mrs. Lease has been hypnotized
by Republican named Peck. Anv-
thing might happen to a female like
Mary Ellen.-Des Moines Register.
Mrs. Lease has convicted herself of
telling falsehood. This makes it easier
for Gov. Lewelling to classify the fibs
she has told. Mary Ellen seems to be
like many other politicians Cleveland
Leader,
Mary Ellen Lease, nominaliy of Kan
SaS, denies the report that she will edit
PODuliSt daily paper in Omaha. Th e
people of Kansas will not let her go
Without Mary's mouth life in that state
wonld be monotououS indeed. Omaha
Bee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
THE sPoILs.
How the Offices Are Distributed d
Among the Several States.

How the Offices Are Distributed
Among the Several States.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-1n the last
appropriation bili,providing for the blue
book, which gives the list of persons
holding positions in the different de-
partmeEtS, provision was inserted re-
quiring that the list of employees by
states be furnished. This provision
has been carried out in the book just
published.
Representative Houck, of Tennessee.
+ has made comparison of these figures
with the census of 1890, showing the
number OF offices each state would be
entitled to If according to the popula.
ton. His object is to show that many
states, the South in particular. have not
Just proportion. His figures show that
the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Mississippi. North Carolin. South Caro-
lima, Tennessee. Texas and Virginia
have but 2,545 persons Ill office. about
500 less than the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Houck thinks the civil service COM
mission should make no more certiti-
Gates from states which have full
quota, and that those which have more
than their share should be speedily re-
duced. The following is the list show
ing the number now i'll office from the
different states, and the number to
which each state is entitled according to
populations:
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
DOCUMENTS SEIZED
In French Towns During the An.
archist Raids.

arChiSt Raids.
BERLIN, Jan. 15.-Advices received
here from st. Petersburg say that the
French police have sent communica-
tion to the Russian police stating that a
number of revolutionary documents
were seized by the police of the differ
ent towns of France during the recent
anarchist raids which followed the ex-
plosion of Vaillant's bomb in the cham
ber of deputies. These documents are
said to compromise a number of Rus.
slams residing at st. Petersburg and in
other parts of Russia. As result of
these communications. the Russian DO
lice are said to have made a series of
domiciliary visits and have arrested
number of nihilists.
1t is also said that many Russians of
all classes are now shadowed by the
police, and that the documents found Ill
France are believed to have pointed out
plot involving attempts upon the lives
OF the imperial family on New Years
day, when exceptional precautions were
taken to protect the different members
Of the imperial family.
Count Delianotf. minister of educa-
ton, is taking vigorous steps in order to
prevent outbreaks on the part of stu
dents, and especially in the technolog-
lcal institute and the school of mines.
The minister OF education will also paw
particular attention to any outbreak
which may occur in the schools of St,
Petersburg, as we'll as in the schools in
the other large towns.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
PERSONAL MENTION.

Misses Anna and Mollie Roach, of
Grove street, are entertaining their
cousin, Miss Aggie Hickey and Miss
Mae Burns, of Graceville.
DR.. and Mrs. Ovid Martel. who have
been spending several months in Eu-
rope, have arrived in New York and are
expected home in few days.
Lemuel P Hunt, editor of the Man
kato Pree Press. is at the Windsor. He
came down to settle some accounts of
the worlds fair commission.
At the Windsor-E. A. Gawron, Port
age, Wis; A. Barto, st. Cloud; j. A
Smith, Duluth; o. H. Havill, ST. Cloud; !;
John c. Gilker. Winnipeg; II. W. White,
Chicago; A. l.. Stevens, Council Bluffs.
The many acquaintances in st. Paul
of Nick Nelson, of Larimore, n. D., will
be panied to learn of his death, which
took place Saturday. Nelson died of
pneumonia, which is epidemic iu Lari-
more.
Hon. E. NJ. Pope. of Mankato, is at
the Windsor. He came to the city to
appear before the railroad commission
relative to alleged discrimination
against Mankato in coal rates from Du.
luth, as compared with rates from Du-
lulh to st. Paul.
At the Clarendon-E. L. Warren, De-
trolt; A. F. Scherfenberg, Robert Nor
risou. White Earth; NJ. Casey. Elbow
Lake; P. j. Lundquist. Red Wing: l..
S. Otis, Staples; d. W. Higson, Charles
Cater. Herman.
Hotel Sherman-L. S. Otis, Staples.
Mimi; l. j. Todd. Salem, N. D.; F. NJ.
James. Fargo, N. D.; E. r. Blair,
Mosinee, Wis: Frank Klein, Eagle
Center, TO-; FL. G. Staples, Boston,
Mass; M. l.. Sullivan, Langdon. N. ID. !;
James Rodgers, New Ri chmond, Wis.
At the Me tropolitan-H. W. Williams.
Fl. NJ. Lea, S. s. Chandler, Jr., A. NJ.
Chandler, 81. NJ. Hollenbak, j. Wads-
worth, j. Il. Mccormick, Frank Whip
pley. Frank Stout, E. B. Knapp, /. Il.
Hoffman. Waupaca, Wis.,; L. S. Pal
mer. r. ]. Mcleod, r. Smith, d. Smith,
Dan. f. Fullerton, Duluth.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
THE ELEVATOR DECISION.

We think the decision right, not only
from legal standpoint, but consider it
in harmony with the correct idea of the
proper functions of government.-Lin-
coin County journal.
1t was decision against paternallsm.
and much as we would like to see the
elevator built here, we must believe
that the decision Is good law, and there
fore right.-Duluth Tribune.
However, at present the supreme
court is our only safeguard against the
spasmodic legislative vagaries of such
as he,and like other institutions assaIled
by him (Donnelly) will feel no shock
Two Harbors News.
When the state of Minnesota runs up
against a corporation the state seems to
get the worst of it every time. Which
leads us to inquire: Are certain cor
porations doing business in Minnesota
bigger than the state?-Norman County
Herald.
The elevator law has been declared d
unconstitutional by the supreme court.
and the farmers are knocked out Some
how or other, laws can be construed TO
work to their detriment whenever grea
interests ale inyoived.-Big Stone
Journal.
(. The people of Minnesota are noted
for their respect for law. But anarchy.
or rather no constitution and~no law. is
preferable to unjust laws. or Just laws
unfairly Interpreted. The spirit of
Anglo-Saxon law is equity. When that
spirit has gone to the happy hunting
grounds the corpse becomes a decaying
carcass, only lit for interment. If
Donnelly will apply his great talent to
the reformation of our judiciary, he
may yet earn undying fame i'll th9 an
nails Of poSterity.-New London Times.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16

Auction" being given this week at the
Grand, is by far not only the best one
yet seen in this city of this particular
spectacle, but 1t Is also one of the best
entertainments of it's kind seen in this
part of the country, as it has more of
novelty in its features than is usually
found, and not only that, but it has
more of them; it is, in word, rapid
transition from one good thing to an
other, until the auditor Is at loss to try
to select which one is the best. The
crowning feature, and one that brings
to most fitting finish this series of
elaborate stage creations, is the trans
formation scene, "rhe Advent of
Spring." which pictures the coming of
the warmer days in a series of some
thing like twelve beautiful tabeaux.
There Is not dull moment in the
entire performance. nor can it be said
that there is an old or hackneyed thing
In it, but it is all new. bright and, above
all, thoroughly entertaining.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
HON. HENRY M. RICE.
Continued From FIRST Page.

Whitall, and both he and his estimable
leaders in st. Paul. Not in
the sense Of social butterflies.
but home social circle which made
their presence sought OH all possible oc-
casions, for their worth. For over
thirty years they have resided on Sum
nit avenue, locating there when it was
almost out of town. a plain brick
house, built in Southern style,
was the pleasant home of Mr.. Rice
during the more active years of his
manhood after returning from the sem
ate. The residence of A. b. Stickney
now occupies the site of his former
home and spacious grounds. Upon sell
ing that property he removed to the OPP
site side OF the avenue, erecting a COM
Portable but plain frame dwelling, which
was his home up to the time of his
death
a AS contrast between the time Mr..
Rice came here and the present it can
be noted that he once made trip to
Prairie du CHEN on a French pony,
travelling all the way on the ice on the
Mississippi.
There were no regular means of
egress or ingress to Minnesota in those
days, even in the summer time only
wild boats coming up the river to Fort
Smelling.
When Mr.. Rice came to Fort Smelling
in 1S49 he was twenty days on steam.
boat from st. Lcuis to Prairie du CHEN,
and some ten days more from that point
to this, making some thirty days from
st. Louis to st. Paul.
Mr.. Rice gave two acres of ground to
the st. Joseph's hospital, and the AS
sumption church occupies part OF that
donation. Rice county was named after
him, and in return he donated the
county handsome library.
Among the Indians he stood next to
Gen. Sibley in influence, for they al
ways trusted him.
His last public position was In
dian commissioner for Minnesota,
to which Office he was ap-
pointed by President Cleveland,
during his first term as president.
His efficiency was so we'll recognized
that President Harrison laid politics
eside and retained the Old-time
Democrat in the position. Mr..
Rice was familiar with bth the
Chippewa and Sioux languages,
was we'll known to the older people of
the Indian race. hence was most
serviceable in the position. There was
scarcely anything the Indians would
not do for him. There were two Chip
pewa Indian outbreaks during his term
of office, but they were during bis ab-
sences from the reservations. And
although United States troops were
sent to quell the disturbances. his pres
ence was much more potent. There
was no bloodShed in either outbreak,
fact due to the influence of Mr.. Rice.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the funeral, but his remains will be
brought to his old home, where loving
friends will gather to pay their tribute
to one of the ablest and best men who
ever resided in st. Paul or the North
west.
St. Paul daily globe., 1894-01-16
WAS HOT WHILE IT LASTED.
ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN RIO REBELS
AVID PEIX0T0'S TROOPS.
HUNDREDS REPORTED SLAIN

Effective Use OF the Guanabara's
Guns Which Caused the Gov.
ernment Forces to Retire
From Their Position, Leaving
Many Dead and Wounded
Conflicting Reports.
RIO DE JANEIRo, Jan. 15.-The en-.
gagement between the rebels on
the Guanabara and government
troops. supported by the guns of
Cobras island, Saturday last, when that
small war ship attacked the government
positions along the shore, was very hot
while it lasted. The Guanabara had
the best of the fight, running close to
tine shore and making very effective use
OF her guns, which caused the govern
ment forces to retire from their posi-
tions. leaving number of dead and
wounded behind them. Peixoto's Off
GERS, while the Guanabara was within
easy distance of the shore, suddenly
made an attack upon her by means of
number of small boats filled with
troops. This movement was unsucceSs-
ful, as the GuanaOara opened such a
deadlyhre upon them that she easily beat
off the boarding parties, killing a num-
Der of the soldiers who manned the
small craft. As in all these engage
ments. it is difficult to get at the right
facts In regard to the number of killed
and wounded; but the rebels claim that
at least one hundred of President Peixo-
to's troops were killed or wounded dur
ing the attack made upon the Guiana
bara by the small boats, and that proba-
bly, as many more were killed and
wounded during the rebel ships attack
upon the land batteries. On the other
hand, reports say that the losses during
Saturdays action we're trivial, and that
the insurgent reports of the number of
killed and wounded are grossly exag.
gerated.