The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-27
will make that of the Ford thsater seem q
trlGe by comparison.
Interesting Private Bills.

zen OIL New MeAlCO governor OF Jne 1OrJ
named for him, when our forces took pos
session of that country in 1916, and the
next year he and his men did splendid
work in protecting American residents.
A large number of disputed land claims
have been settled Every tribe of Indians
in the United States, says Mr.. Holman,
has been at last located where 1t wants to
be, their accounts have been put in process
Of satisfactory settlement and some tolsr-
ably good land has been obtained for white
settlers, but nothing like 80 much as many
people imagine, If may judge from the
letters of inquiry received. Incidentally
the old sore about UNCONVENTIONAL schools
for Indians has been pretty severely eau
terized, aNd we are promised that In few
years there will be no more Of them. The
District Of Columbia has Jared we'll and
at the very last the commissioners were
authorized to appoint women az school
trustees, which ia recorded by the Vino
daughsis as another victory for the sex.
As TO the things which congress neglect.
ed or refused to do--well, am not COM
piling an encyclopedia, but few facts
may be mentionsd without offenss, hope.
The FIRST blunder of the president WAS, SO
say all the judAoious party leaders, in not
discovered that trouble was jpst ahead.
He said that "the country needed an OBJ
jeot lesson, and the people would have to
suffer considerably before congress would
do its duty as to the finances" His Sec
ond and truly phenomenal blundsr was In
supposing that any congress at this time,
in view Of public sentiment, could be in
duced to retire the greenbaoks and COM
NIT the issue Of paper currency,entirely to
the banks. Nine congressman out of ten
from the states west Of Ohio and south of
the Chicago parallel and very many Of
those from other sections say that such
action would simply have been political
suicide on their part. 1t lie bit,singular
that the president should have erred so
grievously in regard to public opinion,
and the net result of his error and the
hopeless split in his party on the finances
Is that we have had all the misery of the
object lesson and have settled nothing
whatever, unless 1t be that the Fifty
fourth congress is to confront still great
or problem than the Fifty-t third did, and
that unless 1t can promptly settle 1t
finance will be the great If not the only
political issue in 1895.
Generally Admitted.
As to the great leading measures, some
facts are freely admitted by the leaders Of
both parties. For the repeal Of the Sher-
man law no one is now sorry. The same
is true of the repeal Of the federal elections
law. So far the last congress was sue
cess. AS to the Wilson German tariff act
1t is generally admitted that it must have
a few years trial anyhow. The income
tax is criticised less every day, and if one
may judge from the reports so far received
1t Is the most popular feature of the bill
I am almost persuaded that the railroad
pooling bill as it passed the house was the
most unpopular, but as to the reasons why
one must read the speeches of the Populist
members. The defeat Of the Reilly bill for
refunding the debts of the Pacific railroad
was and is a subject of such venomous
controversy that as to the Judgment Of the
future one mans guess Is as good as an
others.
1t would be pleasing though possibly
invidious task to set forth the gains and
losses of individual members of the Fifty
third congress. 1t is matter Of common
remark that many old members have lost
ground from the start. Their records have
been made to appear very inconsistent,
their eloquence has lost force and their
regulations have been dimmed.
Some Coming Men.
On the other hand, many comparative.
~ new men have gained wonderfully, and
no congress has developed more good speak
ers. If Ihad to name the coming men of
the Democratic party, should place Mr..
Bailey of Texas-Judge Bailey, as we
sometimes call him-among the first He
possesses every needed qualification for a
growing man-perfeot health, the form
and stature Of Apollo, q strong and
tolerably pleasant voice, firm nerves, a ju-
dicial temper and the rare combination of
good judgment and readiness in debate,
being equally strong In an impromptu five
minutes debate and an elaborate address.
And he is only 80 years old. He was dis
triot presidential elector at 30, elector at
large at "a and member Of congress at 80,
On the Republican side Mr.. Hopkins of
Illinois possesses many of the same quail
ties and rather more pleasing voice and
address. He is not nearly SO young as he
looks and has been continuously in con.
gress for ten years, is reelected by great
ly increased majority and is evidently one
of the growing men of his party. Another
is Hon. Charles Curtis, the first native OF
Kansas to represent 1t in congress and
still living almost within a stones throw
Of where he was born, reared and educated
in Topeka He was a practicing lawyer at
81, county attorney at 23 and congressman
at 80 and has gained steadily from the day
he entered the house. Another steadily
growing man is the boyish looking Mr..
Stallings of Alabama. Among the young
and promising men from the west are Mr..
Sweet of Idaho who went down before the
November Cyclone, but will rise again; Mr..
Deliver Of Iowa, whose fame is already
national, and who comes again in the
Fifty fourth; Mr.. Hall of Missouri, who
survived the cyclone, but by a scratch; Mr..
Hartman Of Montana, and Mr.. KEN of
Nebraska, the last named being one of
the clearest headed men in the third party.
AS to the old fellows of course the great
interest centers in Tom Reed, and the one
question continually asked is, Ibid he
hurt himself by his recent performance ON
the financial measuresf'' Every reader
may answer this according to his personal
sympathy, for If 60 farther 1 shall run
1t into politics. - j. B. PARKK.
A Literary Order Of Merit.
Fleet street and Grub street, London.