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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
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hey are not all alike anyway" re-
marked congressman to his clerk, laying a
letter he had just read down on his desk &C
corGi1g 10 the Detroit rec Press.
VINO are not: inquired the clerk for more
DEFINITE Information.
People who want Office Here's q man liv-
Ing on the Pacific slope now who used to he a
Constituent OF mine. failed in securing him
an ONCE he wanted once, and he swore he
would get even with me, saying hadn't tried
hdrd enough, which was to some extent true
for 1 thought he had letter stuff in. him
Listen to what he writes, and the congress-
man read from the letter:
told YOU 1 would get even with you for
not getting me thai once, and l Will You
may think that CcCauSC have gone west that
nave forgotten how you treated me when l
was constituent of yours. but I have not.
You refused to help me then and practically
drove me out OF your district and | came
mere L nave made tenStrike in business
ana nave got more money to throw away
t1an you can make In forty years in con
gress, and part Of that
have set as de as a revenge fund.
have $4,000 ready to put where il will serve
my purpose. and twice that much more in
reach If that is not enough Forgotten YOU.
have !: Well, not much. This amount l
propose to spend in your campaign on your
tehalf, and 1 intend to do it every year, if
necessary, until YOU get so sick and tired of
going to congress that you will get down on
your knees to your former constituent and beg
MIN with tears in your eyes for the Lord IS
sake 70 let up. You, sir. have put me in a
position TO be able to do this thing and YOU
must be the one to suffer. II you ha1 secured
me that ONCE this condition of affairs would
not have been posi- Die, and there is no one to
blame for it except Yourself and am free to
confess that am not sorry things have turned
OIt as they have
there said the congressman. laying it
down again what do you think of that
And the clerk was willing TO admit without
extra pay that the congressman's late con
slltuent was a corker.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

The seigniorage bill passed the Senate
yesterday without amendment. The
question now is will the President veto
it, There is ground for suspicion that
many who voted for it did so with the
belief that it would be vetoed, because
they objected 10 having it amended when
its acknowledged defects were pointed
out.
In the House the fact that 1t is open to
two interpretations was pointed out, aad
permission asked to amend it so that it
would clearly express the intention of the
House. In the Senate its ambiguous Ian
guage was commented upon, and few
seemed to question the assertion that it
was crudely drawn bill and that au-
thority could be found in it for issuing
$50, 100000 more silver certificates than
were intended 10 be issued. 1t would
have been amended in the Senate, proba-
bly,, had it not been carelessly permitted
TO go beyond the amendment stage by
those who were seeking to get it in such
position that it could be used to stave
off Consideration Of the Wilson bill.
, If the President vetoes the bill he will
do so probably because of its doubtful
meaning. He certainly has good ex-
cuse for vetoing it without taking a posi-
ton against the coinage of the alleged
seigniOrage, and the friends of the bill
have furnished him that excuse knowing
w. Why did they not allow il to be
amended so that it would express clearly
the alleged purpose of the bill2 That is a
question to which no answer has yet been
given. 1t is probable that an answer will
be forthcoming if the bill is vetoed.
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A New Howl.

From the Philadelphia Times GndD.
The calamity organs have a new subject to
howl about American wheat. corn, -four and
feed the people of Europe. while passing the
steamers on the Atlantic are vessels loaded
with potatoes for the United States which
nnd ready market in New York at 81 so the
barrel The potatoes come from England
Scotland and ireland, and comprise millions
OF bushels, on which the Mckinley law i'm
poses 25-ceut duty. and the organs are busy
charging the whole thing home to the Wilson
ON ana crying out for protection to American
farmers. he organs must not ignore normal
conditions. Consumers paying high prices
for potatoes know the cause. The scarcity
here Is entirely due to crop failures The lSi3
harvest was "A short one Ana that is the
truth the organs see at 10 ignore
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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGS Landrum Lodge No. As. F. &
A. NJ; Tammany Club; Eureka Lodge No. ],
A. r. & A. M; Division No. g. Ancient Order
OF Hibernlans.
SPECIAL NOTICES-Sea Foam. Pertumed
Soap for the Laundry, Henry Steljes; Good
Liquors and Wines, Henry solomon & Son;
Auction Sale A F. Fliut
LEGAL NoTTCEs-Notice in Admiralty
AUCTION SALEs-Conunued sale, by J. H.
Oppenheim & Son.
OVERHAUL YOUR OvERvLLs-B. H. Levy
kBro
IN STEP WITH THE Wakefield.
TOMORROW Is THE SEVENTEENTH OF
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HATS. HATs-Falk Clothing Company.
CHEAP COLUMN ADvERTIs EMENrs-H Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent
For Sale; Lost; Personal: Miscellaneous.
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Is Brazil to Have PeaoeP

If twerc not for the statement in our
DISPATCHES from London yesterday that
the belief in commercial circles is that
two great states, Rio Grande do Sui and
Santa Catharina, which have London con
nectiOns, will declare their independence
and fight under the leadership of Admiral
Mello to obtain it, there would be no
doubt that Brazil would have peace at
once, and would begin Immediately the
work of repairing the damage done to her
commerce by the war. If, however, the
center Of the revolutionary movement has
been transferred from Rio to Desterro
the war may be continued for several
months.
Admiral Mello was the real leader of
the insurgents, and it was, Therefore,
matter of great deal of surprise when
he disappeared altogether from the vi.
cinity Of Rio. 1t is probable he saw that
he had no chance of defeating the gov
eminent, and, hence, abandoned his origi-
nal plan and formed the new one to which
attention is called But if he could not
succeed at Rio, what good reason has he
for thinking he can lead a movement for
the independence of two states to SUGGEST
The whole of the navy was at his com
mand little while ago. Now he has only
two ships, the Aquidaban and the Re
publica, both of which are said to be in a
practically disabled condition.
If it be true that movement for the
independence of two states has been be-
gun it ought not to take the government
long to check it under existing circum-
stances. It's not nearly so formidable
as the movement against the government
was, and it is doubtful if it will meet
with much encouragement The insur-
gents have found out that public senti-
ment is not so strong in their favor as
they thought it would be, and conse-
quently they may come to the conclusion
that it would be folly to carry on the war
in any part of the republic
What Brazil now needs is peace. If
she can have that in the fullest measure
it will not be long before she will be again
in prosperous condition. If she is wise
she will not hold 10 the strictest account
ability all of those who took up arms
against her. The leaders of the insur-
gents will be, probably, and ought to be,
punished, but it would be a mistake to in
stitute campaign of hate and revenge
against those who played only very hum
BILE parts in the revolutionary movement.
Amnesty for minor offenders would do
more than anything else to restore good
will throughout the republic, and thus
open the way for the return of prosperity.
Neither DaGama nor Mello is entitled
TO any consideration Neither showed
leadership. Mello ran away as soon as he
saw signs that indicated his cause was
hopeless, and DaGama showed he misun-
derstood the sentiment of the people
when he announced he was aiming TO
restore the empire. Under such leaders
the cause of the insurgents never had any
chance to succeed.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
IsNot Pooline the Remedy

Did not congress make mistake when
il put the anti-poOliug clause in the inter
state commerce law When that law
was under consideration there was a
widespread belief that railroads formed
pools for the purpose of defeating compe-
tition and putting up traffic rates. The
Senate did not take this view, however,
and the conference committee of the two
houses would have left it out of the bill
had it not been for Judge Reagan, of
Texas, who at the time was "a member Of
the House. and who declared that the
committee would never reach an agree
ment unless the anti-pooling clause was
put into the bill Judge Reagan was ex-
tremely hostile to railroads, and he is
responsible for the breaking up Of the
pooling system.
II looks now as if congress would amend
the interstate commerce law by striking
out the anti-pooling clause. Congress
men who have given the railroad question
thorough study have about reached the
conclusion that pooling is the remedy
against the dishonest practices which
threaten to ruin many solvent railroad
properties.
1t is evident that traffic associations
cannot prevent members Of the associa-
ton fr.m resortiug to unfair practices to
get business. These practices are disas-
trous to nearly all kinds Of business in
which traffic rates are an important fac
tor, because they Omen the way for dis
ordinations in favor Of certain shippers.
The result is that business men who are
favored are prosperous, while those who
are not are ruined.
The purpose of pool is not to raise
traffic rates. 1t is 10 give each railroad in
the pool its legitimate share of business.
The rates were fixed by the interstate
and state railroad commissions. The
railroads could not change the rates if
they desired. The power to raise or
lower rates is in the commissions.
1t is evident that there are very few
railroads in the country that can stand
rate war. Their revenues have fallen off
immensely within the last year Not one
of dozen of them is in prosperous con
dition. Traffic associations are going to
pieces because some of the mcmbeFs of
them persist in cutting rates. Rate wars
are threatened in the east, west and
south. Business men hesitate to make
contracts for freights because they are
afraid that rates will be reduced,
which viii give their competitors an
advantage. The railroads suffer as well
as business men, and when the rate wars
come their revenues fall off because the
lower rates bring no increase of business
The amount of traffic is limited and a
rate war does not increase it. The road
offering the lowest rates may geo the
greater portion of it, but what benefit
is a large traffic to a road when rates are
below the actual cost of carriage
Congress ought to pass the pending bill
repeating the auti-rooling clause of the
interstate commerce law. II the pooling
system is found to be inimical to the in
terests Of shippers it can easily be pro-
hibted.
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Time for Free Sims.

FROM the Baltimore sun lDem.)
The time has come to repeal the navigation
laws that have protected our ocean ship
ping until there is not much left to protect
ana admit foreign Oullt ships to free registry.
Whether II is the wisest course to ADOPT the
policy Of the act OF 1892 ard put American
purchasers OF foreign built vessels under
pledges to build an equal tonnage in Ameri-
can yards we are disposed to doubt. We
think the carriers had better be thrown down
entirely ana American capital enterprise and
labor allowed TO 20 out upon the seas and into
the ports OF the world in fun freedom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, is still
an ardent American annexationist Fail
ing in bis national scheme, he is now en-
gagged in a personal annextion scheme of
his own, in which Miss Harriet w. Pot
ter, Michigan young lady, who was con
nected with the Hawaiian exhibit at the
Worlds fair, is to be the annexed The
wedding is to occur during the next fort
night.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
Reciprocity With Canada.

From the Philadelphia Record. DEM
Toronto manufacturers express the appre.
henslon that the effect of the reciprocity in
agricultural implements provided for by the
Wilson bill will be to close all OF the Cana.
dian factories in that line. Such prospect
should change the implacable attitude of the
protectlonists towards the bill TO one Of en-
thuslastic approval, in accordance with their
pet theory that the true and only get.rich-
quick specific for this country consists in
driving all other nations into a state OF dire
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

New Orleans is an unhealthy place for
secret organizations with designs upon
the peace, lives ana property of the citi-
zens. Those anarchists who are dis
tributing threatening letters and loading
bombs in the Crescent City had better
take warning from the fate of the Malta
gang.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
CURRENT CoMNENr.
A sample of Philadelphia Humor.

From the Philadelphia Press (Repl.
Rosinsky brothers, breeches makers in
New York, wanted the sky knocked of
aud their names changed TO PLAN Rose.
Judge Pryor declined to do so, and now tho
breeches makers OF Gotham are wondering if
the Rose will be as red and the sky as blue
for the Rosinskys as heretofore
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
An Incident of Carpetbag DAYS.

John Mcclure, Of Arkansas, known over
all the southwest as Poker Jack is a pecu-
liar character said John s. Sullivan Of JEFF
ferson City, who is in st. Louis for both
pleasure and business. to a Republic re-
porter Il knew Mcclure during the war
when he was major in the federal service.
nrst saw him then one day when was work
lnG on steamboat on the Ohio river. After
the war was over met him again on a boat.
ana ne looked as II hard times had struck
HIM He was run down at the heel as the
boSs say. and had shabbv-genteel appear
ance.
Several years later was in Little Rock
ARK one day, when l ran across Mcclure
again. lie was dressed in the hight Of fash
ION, tWlrIed line cane. wore "A silk tile and
used a handkerchief saturated with the latest
peru tie shook my hand. and we walked
down the street and sat down together on
luEn er pile to chat about old times.
well you seem to he prosperous Jack
ing him.
oh, yes; I'm on the supreme bench now.
mere IN Arkansas. he replied, as he assumed
look Of grave dignity.
The II you say remarked. with as
constituent.
Then learned that Poker Jack had drifted
10 Arkansas after the war, along with those
other carpet baggeTs Dorsey. Clayton, Roots
ana the whole crowd. OF course. Poker Jack
stood In with the right crowd to be boosted
INTO once down there in those days
But Poker Jack is ri ght as a new pig-sil-
Yer dollar. ! shall never forget one remark
ne made which summed up the whole tariff
question in nutshell. | met him in a hotel
one morning few years ago when the whole
country was agltated over the tariff problem
the same as it is now. 1t was after Q O'Clock
al ne was just coming down to breakfast. !
remarked: Judge called him judge then
-yol seem TO be getting up rather late this
morning.
oh, We'll, said he. the consumer doesn't
nave to get up early-it's the producer who
must e up with the sun
Mcclure acquired the sobriquet of Poker
JACK nom the fact that he is a most success
iul player of the great American game. He
mas reen known to have s. 500 at stake, to win
or Jose in minute, and one couli no more
teH what kind of hand he he'd by booking
at his face than by looking at a e.e of
Cdrrara marble It is said that he won val
u2' lie house ard lot from the sheriff of a Ger
tain county IN Arkansas once in those days
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

The age limit for appointments to as
sistant paymasterships in the navy is 26
years The wife of a senator is reported
to have written to Secretary Herbert
that Vice President Stevenson's son, who
was recently appointed to such a place
is year over the age limit. The infer
ence to be drawn is that the senator's
wife wants some relative or friend of her
own, or of her husband, to have the
place.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

The finding of the coroner's jury in the
Cornell poisoning case, in which certain
students caused the death of a colored
woman with chlorine gas, leaves the dis
covery of the culprits in the hands of the
grand jury, as stated in our dispatches of
yesterday, 1t is not likely, however, that
any of the students will be punished for
the affair. In charging the grand jury a
few days ago the judge of the state court
took occasion to express the opinion that
an indictment against the students would
not stand, because even if the students
who compounded the gas could be found
and identified, it would be impossible to
prove malice or criminal intent. Person
ally, he did not believe any harm was in
tended by the students. Nevertheless, he
told the iurymen they must decide for
themselves about bringing criminal pro
ceedings.
Ex-senator Ingalls, denies the published
report that he contemplates entering the
ministry. II suppose the report gained
currency said the ex-senator, from the
fact that | once had a brother who used
to think Of becoming a minister" The
far-fotched supposition is a reminder, by
opposition, of a story Mr.. Ward McAllis-
ter tells. a society man who had looked
too often upon the wine when it gave its
color in the cup, was trying to entertain
his vis-a-vis at a dinner. "Do you like
cheese" he asked. No" Does your
brother like cheese !' Il have no
brother" IF you had brother, would
he like cheese2"
The death of John T. Ford, reported in
our dispatches yesterday, recalls pleasant
memories of the old days of the drama.
when water tanks,and fire engines were
not stars of the stage, and when the real
stars Booth, Jefferson, John f. Owens,
Mrs. Drew, and others-played with
stock companies of local artists who saw
something more in the drama than
means to a weekly stipend from the
treasurer Ford death also recalls that
national tragedy at Washington, which,
besides removing a President, clouded one
of the create 'ames on the American
stage.
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Senator Sherman is coming south for
his health. He has been suffering with a
cold. There are rumors that lie will re-
sign. The resignation rumor probably
amounts to nothing but il has been no
ticed that Senator Shermans health gets
bad Of late years whenever there is hard
fighting ahead of his party. He got sick
two years or so ago when he was wanted
to boom Harrison, and his i'll health pre-
vented him from giving Mckinley the aid
he wanted in Ohio. And DOW that the
tariff fight is at hand, the senator is sick
again. BY coming south for his health
Senator Sherman will not hear the demo-
Gratis quote from his low tariff and free
ship speeches of years gone by.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16

Representative Diamonds bill TO pre-
vent federal courts from interfering
with the collection Of state taxes upon
corporations that are in the hands of re
ceivers by order of the courts, is a rather
peculiar measure, in that it charges by
inference that the courts are not what
they should be. The report accompany
ing the bill and recommending its pas
sage says that sometimes state taxes are
not paid through the caprice of the fed
eral courts 1t would be interesting to
know what federal court is dominated by
caprice, or what judge Of federal court
rules by caprice and not by law. If
there arcsuch judges on the bench they
SHOULD be pointed out and the charge
against them proved, in order that they
might be forced down and out. 1t is not
TAR TO the bench at large for Mr. OAR
mond 10 make such charge aud leave
open; he should specify.
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EASTERN OFFICE, % Park Ro1, New
York City, c. 6. FAuL.ChER, Manager.
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A newspaper clipping bureau has been
making collection of the things said
about Mr.. George w Childs since his
death by the newspapers of this country
and Europe. Some $500 papers had
something TO say about the great philan-
thropist, and out of that number lust one
editor said a mean thing about him an
Ohio editor it was, and he said Mr.. Childs
could not have been honest, because he
left great fortune. The clipping bureau
is making six volumes of collections from
the press about Mr.. Childs for certain of
his family and friends. Each volume, be-
ing identical with every other, will con-
tain copies of the $500 clippings, and be
bound in the finest full-black morocco.
The municipality of Westfeld New
Jersey, is going to revive the cato nine
tails and the whipping post as a specific
for the tramp evil. The pests have be-
come so numerous in the town that
special ordinances have been passed to
meet the demands of the situation.
Every tramp found in the town limits will
be sent TO the chain-gang and put to
breaking rock for the roadways Those
who work will be released after a few
days Of Imprisonment, provided they will
leave town at once. Those who refuse to
work or are refractory will be given forty
lashes under direction of physician.
loaded with a ball and forced to break
rock They will, however, be. given OPP
portunities to escape if they want to and
can carry the 50-roGnd bail along 1t is
safe TO say that tramps will not long
poster Westfeld