The Press., 1894-01-18

republican.
 THE house of representatives has re- fused to continue the present rate of duty on Sumatra tobacco, as requested by MT. Sperry of this district in behalf of Con- necticut tobacco growers. Only four dem- ocrats, including Sperry and DeForest of this state, voted for the amendent.
 IT is not unlikely that Senator Gray, of Delaware, will be nominated for the va cant supreme iudgeship, for which the senate refused confirmation to Judge Hornblower. If so, it is also probable that Minister Bayard will resign and re- turn from England to succeed Gray in the senate.
 JUDGE HoRNBLowER, of New York, nominated by President Cleveland to be a justice of the U. s. supreme court, has been refused confirmation by the senate. Senators Hill and Murphy, of New York, in this way pay off score against Judge Hornblower, who opposed the collection of Judge Maynard at the last November election in New York.
 THE latest railroad slaughter is report ed from New Jersey, where an express train three minutes behind time, slowing up in the fog before crossing the Hacken- sack river bridge, was run into by an ac- commodation train. Nine persons were killed and many injured, among those fla tally injured being the engineer and fire man of the rear train, which was but 9 It is claimed that the accommodation should have slowed up on approaching the bridge as did the express, and that the blame therefore rests upon the dead engineer.
 AT last the people have been taken in to the confidence of the powers that be, and the inwardness of the Hawaiian mat ter is published. Willis, the minister, told the queen she must forgive those who had trespassed against her as price of her reinstatement. She for time insist ed upon cutting off their heads first and then taking their property, then came down to perpetual banishment, but finally reluctantly agreed to forgive-reluctant- ly, because the continuing of these people in the country meant short reign for her. But President Dole, notified that he was now expected to retire, couldn't see JUh hXy iol1 IO ,l- MT. Willis as an arbitrator in the matter at all. The whole matter is now relegat- ed to congress, as is quite proper, and with the American people in sympathy with the present government, as the ma- jority of the Hawaiians most surely are, it seems as if it was bad look ahead for Mrs. Dominus, the late queen.
 THE annual report of the bank com- missioner shows that the amount of de- posits in the savings banks of the state were $133, ,967 ,220. il Oct. 1, 1893, against $13O, CSC, ,729. 29 Oct. 1, 1892, the number of depositors also showing an increase of 4,S18. It is not unlikely, however, that
 
 is in excess of deposits, as many are need ing their accumulations of savings to live upon. All the Holland county savings banks show an increase in amounts on deposit, as follows:
 Total amt. Increase Savings Bank of Staf-
 ford Springs, S432, ,O21.57 s31 ,t492C stafford Savings Bank, 465 33451 129 1! Sav'gS Bank of Rockville, 1904 64OH 71 OS3 S1 Peoples Savings Bank Of
 Rockville, 467 O93 50 21 12o 9f Savings Bank of Holland, 15a,862.S5 19'755 F
 The commissioner commended the ac- tion of the great majority of the savings banks in July, in requiring notices of withdrawals, in order to protect them selves against possible runs in consequence of the ''panicky' feeling. The good sense of Stafford depositors and the public con- fidence in the good management and soundness of our local banks is shown in the fact that neither of these institutions were of the 'great majority" which re- quired any notice of withdrawal.
 
 HE Connecticut state grange held a very successful meeting in Hartford last week. Dr. G. A. Bowen, of Woodstock was reelected master. notwithstanding his advance declination of the honor of a third reelection to the office, there seem. ing to be no union upon any man to suc- ceed. him. All the other officers were also reelected. The grange passed a vote of censure upon the Conn. Farmer for having criticised the state board oi agriculture's failure to re-elect Gov. Hyde to the place he has so long honored-that of vice-president of the state board. The Farmers language was as follows:
 "There is widespread opinion which has found expression in the daily press o1 Hartford, that this movement is one di rectly engineered by officers of the state grange primarily for the purpose of pun 1shing Gov. Hyde for his refusal to ioir in the demand for the Storrs college legis latlon which that organization so warmly advocated last winter.''
 While the Farmer was perhaps wropo in charging this action as grange move ment it no doubt had good reason to as sume that it was right, as the opposition to Gov Hyde came from men prominent by reason of connection with the grange But whoever is responsible for the action it was mistake so far as it was an intend ed punishment to Gov. Hyde for holdins opinions as to the legality of transferring the national governments grant in aid O. agricultural colleges from Sheffield tt Sterrs. Gov. Hyde was honest in the opinion he expressed, but was at no tim, hostile to Storrs. That school has hac no stauncher friend, none whose time ha. been so freely given to it's interests, ol more faithful in friendship when friends were not not so numerous as to-day. We gladly accept the disclaimer that the grange as an organization had no part ir in the work of throwing him out of the yice-DreSidency for the oranpe bac hatta1