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The morning times., 1896-01-26
BUDDING Intellitence'

The Evening Star OF yesterday made
a peculiar attempt to mislead the public
as to the true nature OF the bond bill, and
also toboister up the schemes OF a ring OF
real estate spectators by the following un.
reasoning, unreasonable and partly incom.
prehensible editorial, entitled Budding
Intelligence"
Gradually but surely the light OF knowl-
edge is penetrating the dark places and the
previously unenlightened are learning ID
that the seven and a half million bond bill
is by large majority sewer bill and not
q street extension bill; and t2l that the
comprehensive sewerage plan OF the beard
of sanitary engineers. which the bond bill
is to carry into effect, Is a trunk line prof.
ect affecting the present city and is not ut
all a suburban sewer extension scheme.
And with this knowledge come To the
hitherto benighted the discovery that if the
bond bill is steal and job .he thieves
and jobbers are primarily the entire popn
lation of the present city of Washington 10
whose benefit The truni. sewer plan cnurcs.
and. secondariy, the suburban properly
owners whose land is To he taken in street
extension and to whom the money arrro-
pTiated for such extension will he paid.
THIS second bGlfi OF alleged robbers is
loudly complaining OF being robbed, and is
prociaimins tiiat the steal in the affair is
to he found in the virtual confiscalion of
i;S properly by the government. II thus
appears that everybody Is the thief in the
alleged steal. and where all are So reason
ably aud intslliEently accused. any discrirI-
ination among them would obviously be
invid!oIS. '-'''
The title OF lie tond bill states clearly
that il Is ITO provide for continuing sys-
TEN OF irrnk sewers in the District of
Columbia, for completing the system OF
sewerage disposal and protection against
floods. AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
and the statement OF tic Star that the bill
is by a large majority a sewer measure
affecting the city alone is misleading and
untruthfui, especially when the bill pro-
yides that only four million dollars is TO
be applied 10 extending trunk Sewers, for
eraredisposalaniforp protcctiona gainst
floods. The general public does. not OPP
pose these improvements. On the con-
trary, most people urge that they lie made
as soon as practicable, but there is u
and justiiiabie opposition 10 that
part of tie bond bill which refers 10 the
highway act and which is designated in
its little, land FOR OTHER PURPOSES"
The bill appropriates S3,000,GG0 for
street extensions, when it is known among
those Interested that there will be AT leas;
8, 200. COO feet OF land 10 hc purchased.
The average cost OF which will be ST per
loot. Then there must lie funds to grade.
pave and otherwise improve the new streets.
besides laying sewer pipes, and ii is esti-
mated by good authority that these ini-
,rovements will cost not less than S2O.-
)OO, 600, and probably a much larger |
imount. Mr.. Chaplin Brown, well known |
The morning times., 1896-01-26
1t Takes Time to Get Ready

There is some comfort in the statement
made by members of The House Committee
on Naval Affairs thai the Forthcoming
naval appropriation bill will make provis-
ion for two or three battleships and a
number of torpedo boats. This is as it
should be, for the country needs all the
fighting ships ii can get, not because it is
in peril of war, either in the immediate
or more or less remote future, but as q
guarantee of peace. That nation is strong
est and rests most secure that, with every
desire aud practice for peace, is prepared
TO strike sturdy blows when it becomes
necessary to do SO.
No doubt Congress is in the right humor
to grant appropriations for increasing the
navy. Nothing less than a navy as big as
Great Britain's and coast defenses galore
will be sufficient to back up the Monroe
doctrine resolutions, concerning which
many more or less able statesmen at the
Capitol are tearing their throats and lungs
to pieces. They have been told by every
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Now for a Congressional Inauiry.

A few days ago The Times called upon
Congress to abolish Uncle Sans mail bag
sweatshOp and give relief TO its suffering
employees, but Gecent Developments now
make necessary an investigation of its
entire affairs and an immediate reor-
ganization so as 10 place it under differ
ent management, The grounds for this
Congressional inquiry may be briefly stated
as follows:
The mail bags used by the department
are manufactured in the Brooklyn peniten-
tiary by United States convicts. for whose
board the prison authorities are paid a
stated sum by the government, and which
is not credited on the bill rendered for
the mail SACKS
The employees OF the mail bag repair
shop are grossly mistreated and an investi-
CATION will show that there are other
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Facts and Figures for Mr.. Blanchard

There is little doubt that the vote on Sen
ator Blanchards amendment TO the
memorial bridge bill, whereby one-lalr of
the cost OF construction is TO be Put upon
the District, will be reconsidered tomor-
row and the question again brought before
the Senate. In order that the louisiana
Senator and those who voted with him
who also may he presumed TO agree with
him in his proposition that the general
government pays more than its proper
share of District expenditures-may have
clear Understanding OF the relations of
the government to the District, few
facts and figures are in order.
When the present form OF government for
in 1873 the joint committee or Senate and
House. intrusted with formulating the
plan, said in its report:
your committee has been convinced
thai II Is the duty OF Congress 10 make Iegu-
lar ANNUAL appropriations toward The eX-
penses OF the District government, and from
a careful examination of the estimated
value of tie property owned by the United
Sta'es anu mat belonging 10 private per
sons and corporations. the committee con-
sidcrs the fair proportional part thereof
which the Federal government should bear
is not less than forty per cent, and the re-
naming sixty per cent should be realized
by taxation"
After the report had been fully considered
upon the presentation OF all the facts in
the case. Congress came 10 the conclusion
that forty per cent did not represent "a
fair proportional part" and in the organic
act the amount was changed to fifty Per
cent. This adjustment was regarded as
liberal to the United States, because even
at that time lis untaxed property in the
District was S6,64O, ,335 in excess of the
taxable value of property owned by the
citizens. Since then the United States
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| mas acquired a good deal more valuable
property 10y condemnation and otherwise
and erected costly buildings thereon, thus
increasing by many millions the value of
Its untaNed property.
About year ego the Board of Trade
| prepared and issued pamphlet setting
forth the relations of the United States
to the District, in which occurred the fol-
lowing passage:
| III the United States paid taxes on its
| property at the same rate that citizens do
on theirs, as is done by the German govern
| nent In its national capital, il would
| amount 10 considerably mere than 1t now
| apISopriates. To be strictly Just, the
government ought TO ray its half from the
| beginning, and, If it were 10 Go that. it
would extinguish the present District debt,
nearly all OF which was created by Officers
| OF the United States government, acting uD-
der the authority of Congress, and not
by the citizens of the District"
From the Board OF Trade exhibit 1t ap-
pears that in 1898 the District OF CoIum-
| bia paid in internal revenue for the sup
port or the general government, twelve
times as much as Vermont, eleven times as
| much as either Arizona, Mississippi or
North Dakota, thirteen times as much as
Nevada, nine times as much as either Idaho
or New Mexico, eight times as much as
Wyoming, six times as much as Maine and
so on through a list of fifteen States and
four Territories. For public schools, uni
versities and agricultural colleges Congress
has given to the States 2s,0OO,0OO of
surplus cash from the Treasury and millions
upon millions of acres Of public lands. The
District never got dollar nor an acre.
Facts could be multiplied Indefinitely to
prove that the annual appropriation of
fifty per cent OF tie expenditures of the
District is not a tonus from the general
government, but only what it fairly and
squarely owes
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Not Misleading, But Incomplete.

The statement made by Commissioner
Carol d. Wright, in a published contribu-
ton on labor, that wages have increased
not misleading. but it gives the impression
that labor is better off than it has been
in the past. when, in reality, the contrary
is the fact. At no time since the war have
there been SO many wage earners out OF
employment or so much distress among
their families, and in some localities their
appeals for work are pitiful in the ex-
treme. This lamentable condition is due
entirely to the business depression and as
Boon as Congress will give us a stable fl
nancial policy trade will revive and those
who depend on their daily earnings will
be given steady employment. In this con-
nection a reader suggests that Congress
might consistently amend its resolution OF
sympathy for the suffering Armenians by
extending condolences to the destitute of
this country.
Mr.. Wright also probably correctly esti-
mates that of the l 5, 100000 wage earners
to be found in the United States. only
/ .400, 900 of them are members of organ
lied labor. That comparatively small pro-
portion is easily explained by the fact that
the labor movement in this country is yet
young, and as at least two-thirds of the
wage earners included in Mr.. Wright's esti-
mate do not belong to the industrial trades
they could not be expected to SO readily
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realize the importance and influence OF
organization.
II one-half The wage-carners of the conn
try were organized and could be induced to
support only friends of labor for public
office, there would be fewer strikes and
Ii Dor troubles and more general prosperity.
The growth OF organized labor and its in
fluence in controlling popular sentiment
has already had much TO do with impreSsing
the public that strikes are the na tural con-
sequences of desperations brought about by
the aggression of employers, and are not the
results of organized attempts to enforce
unjust demands. Organized labor has also
called public attention to the necessity of
suitable arbitration laws, and in some
States has succeeded in avcrting strikes
by resorting TO the good offices OF an ar
btration board for justice and fair treat
inent.
But until Congress takes hold OF the
question of protecting labor, neither organi-
zation nor State laws can afford the needed
relief. As long as trusts regulate com
mercial and Industrial affairs. and as long
as corporations control our national legis-
lative body it will he next to impossible to
secure satisfactory labor legislation. Or
ganized labor, however. will continue It's
lie mind. and in time win secure Congress
sional protection for our vast army of wage
earners.
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body that knows anything about it that
our seacoast cities would be pie for any
hostile naval force, and that any one of
them from Portland to Galveston could be
laid in ruins by a first-ciass battleship.
1t is wise, for these reasons, not only to
construct more fighting hips, but to
build coast defenses at every exposed point
1t will take a good deal of money to do
both, but when it comes to putting the
country in condition to back up its words
with its muscle, few millions are of little
consequence. Every shipyard where a war
vessel, big or little, can be constructed,
ought to get an order, aud Senator Lodges
bill providing for a loan of 500, 100000
for the erection of coast defcnses ought to
be passed at once. The engineer depart
ment of the army estimates that it will take
ten years, with all the force that can be
employed, to build proper defenses along
our sea and lake coasts. If that is the case,
the sooner the job is undertaken the better,
for it takes time to get ready.
The morning times., 1896-01-26
A Trapedy,


There was ''cop" of local fame,
Who claims your kind attention:
Protecting morals was his game
His name l shall not mention.
a man of overmodest sense,
He always ordered from the fence,
With hue and cry,
All posters ''fly,"
His name shall not mention.
This copper's morals were the best
And never on his table
Would beef appear unless twas dressed;
The horses in his stable
Were each provided with four pegs,
On which hung leggins for their legs;
Morality
Should reach quoth he.
The horses III ones stable"
One windy day he chanced to meet
My tale now grows more shocking.
A comely maiden on the street
A blast exposed her stocking;
At sight of this he fell kerflop,
The shock had killed the modest COP,
And on his urn.
Who runs may learn
HE died from too much stocking.''
MORAL.
l hate to preach. 1 hate to prate,
And yet there seems emphatic
A lesson in the awful fate
OF this bluecoat fanatic;
For he who takes this moral stand,
His life. perforce. takes in his hand,
And woe betide
A suicide
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reasons why decent women employed there
have reason TO complain.
The law requiring that the waste of the
mail bag department shall be disposed
OF by yearly contract is persistently and
purposeiy violated, much to the detriment
of the government, because of a combina-
tioD among purchasing dealers to force
down prices. There is also reason to
believe that part of the amount received
for this waste is misappropriated. mas
much as some OF the checks received in
payment have been returned to the makers
without the Treasury Endorsement
The Times is prepared to furnish evidence
to the proper authority to substa Dtiate all
the above statements, and unless Congress
desires to overlook such an example OF
official misma ma cement, it will order
an investigation OF the affairs of Uncle
Sans sweat atshop without unnecessary
delay.
The morning times., 1896-01-26
Tug Lost Her Tow

Boston, Jan. 25.-The ocean tug Samson,
towing the barge Henry Clay. of the PhiIa-
dolphin and Reading fleet, from Philadel-
phia. arrived this afternoon and reports
parting hawser and losing the barge off
Race Point at O'Clock yesterday after
noon. The barge was spoken today off Half
way Rock. drifting, but showing no signs Of
distress.
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SIGEL ROuSH.
Steamship jamestown Damaged

New York, JAN 25.-The steel steamship
jamestown, of the Old Dominion Line run
ming between this port and Norfolk. Va,
is lying ut her pier with fifty feet of her
starboard rail stove just aft of the bridge
and her upper Joiner work full of holes. The
damage was caused by n big wave, which
boarded the steamer about 2:3O O'Clock
yesterday afternoon off the Highlands Of
Nayesink.
The morning times., 1896-01-26

In surrendering to the qua rdia nStip OF
Russia, it was expressly stipulated that, in
consideration of her helpless condition, the
car would not insist in time of war on any
other articles of the agreement than that the
Dardanelles should be closed TO the armed
vessels of other nations.
Since the framing of this agreement which
was abandoned under the vigorous protests
of France and England, there has been a
wonderful change in the physical and social
conditions Of Russia, and 1t is but fair to
presume that her influence on Turkey. in
the event of an alliance, would be for good
even should it result in the final extinction
Of the Ottoman government. While Russia
has been making rapid strides toward civili-
zation during the intervening so years. and
has developed surprising material resources
Turkey remains the same cruel. treacherous
and despotic government. If there has been
any change, she is even more cowardly and
helpless then when Sultan Mahrnond II
sought the protection of Russia before, and
nothing could give greater satisfaction to
this country than n verification of the re.
ported RussiaD-Turkey alliance
The morning times., 1896-01-26
Aunt Rachaefs HorehOund and Ele-
campa ne for SINGERS.

There are thousan nds of cases on record
where persons suffering from consump-
tion have been completely cured by the use
or Aunt Rachaers Hosebound Herb, Ele
campane Root, and Speer's Grape Juice,
and persons are willing today to testify
to the miraculous cures wrought for them
by this pieasa Mt and most effective remedy.
Used by public speakers. For sale by
druggists.
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Cashier.
Twelve Hours Ago.

If you miss any news in the morning
edition look In he list below What
you're looking for was proba bly,
printed la last evenings edition,
and As The Times never repeats
Vou1l hnye to take both editions to
get an the news as quick as 1t hap
pens.
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my dear wife, please let's have a few
minutes without that guitar music.''
"And If 1 ask you to stop smoking that
horrible tobacco?''
THAT isn't parallel case. My tobacco
discommodcs only you."-Petit Journal
Pour Rire.
The morning times., 1896-01-26

We see nothing Objectionable in the
Davis resolutions except this-that no such
declaration is needed. It is just as well to
leave the Monroe doctrine as it has been
left for years. The general statement of
the policy and the principle involved is
the safest statement.-Bufralo Enquirer.
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A man stood beside a mighty ruin ana
gaZed upwant at the silvery disc through
the yawniug cavities where window should
have been. Patches of soft light fell upon
the earth at his feet, and the somber piH
cast fantastic shadows about him.
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CHAPTER Y.

He clung more closely to a friendly tre.
In awe-stricken tones he murmured, ''Tis
Melrose Abbey. Alas, I've wandered far.
Oh, take me back to home and mother"
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wanted to continue to have a gccd time.
They were not in a condition to attend
court, nor did they feel disposed to have
their fun interrupted
IL was decided that they would march
to the courtroom and demand of the
Judge TO adjourn court. Repairing to the
temple of justice one OF the lawyers 10 ounted
chair and addressed tue court in the
following language:
yer Honor, we are old hosses we are
and want court Gdiourned; were having
too much fun"
"GeDtiemen,' shouted the Judge, "when
/ am off the bench am plain Tom Bowen.
and enjoy good time as much as any of
you; but, on the bench am Judge Bowen.
and will uphold the dignity of the court.
Mr.. Sheriff, take the 'hosses' to the stabIe',
ONE of the Senators has a son who
| while he is not dissipated In any sense
OF the word likes nip now and then
The Senator himself is a broad man
IN this respect. and believes more in
letting the boy build himself up than by
holding forth on the terror of the laws
In their little country home the boy is
as well known as his father. One day last
summer one OF the ministers of the village
called on the Senator and asked To see MIN
at once.
DO you know. Senator, saw your son
coming out of the saloon, Just now"
Well was the cutting reply, would
you have him stay in there all the timer
THE Senate District Committee has Sc
cured a new form of notification.
1t is all due tc the clerk of the COM
mittee, Mr.. Charles Moore. He de-
clared the old ones were an outrage
and insisted on the new ones.
Every one who receives them from this
time on will agree that Mr.. Moores sug.
gesuon was a good one.
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A New York society reporter knew what
she was writing about when she described
a wedding gown as "bridle costume"
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little incident that recalled u scene
upon the battlefield thirty-cne years
ago. Those present say there was a
suspicion of tears IN the eyes OF that stal-
warC statesman
Mr.. .WaterhuIse, an attorney from Oshkosh,
Wis, handed him "A portrait that he had
been requested tu carry 10 the general He
had NO sooner viewed the picture than he re-
marked:
THAT is George Simpson, my aide-ie-
camp; / have not seen him in thirty-one
years.
The general then seemed 10 be lost in
thought. Events of the past were revolving
in his mind Those around Mr. Curtis at
the time, the committee room Of the Mil
itary Affairs Committee being the scene of
the incident. noted that the old soldier was
greatly touched and they We're interested in
hearing the story that followed. After
quite pause Mr.. Curtis feelingly exclaimed:
ITO him more than 10 any other being
do owe my life. He breathed The breath
of life into me when l lay in a hopeless
condition on the battlefield
Mr.. Curtis then explained that he was
lying in the hospital. after an engagement
during the war, when his aide-de-campc came
rushing in and inquired for Gen. Curtis.
Lying over there, dead,' was the in
formation Mr.. Simpson received. Rushing
to the side of his superior. Simpson observed
a muscular movement about the eyes. and
exclaimed: He is not yet dead" The
braveaide fellupon the general. and lavished
kisses upon him. and by his noble efforts
induced respiration. He did breathe the
breath of life into the man he so devotedly
loved.
After the war their paths took them one
to New York and one to Wisconsin. but the
memory of that critical moment forges
binding link that only death can remove.
Gen. Curtis told by his action palmer than
words can tell of the relation that exists
between him and his aide-ie-camp in the
war Of the rebellion
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1t is evident that Senators with chips on
their shoulders are also afflicted with bark
in their throats.
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Allison, Morton, Reed, Mckinley, Har-
rison, Sherman, Alger, Davis-all these
humming Presidential bees and yet not
literal suggestion of it among all the lette )
In their names.
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The new poet laureate is now busily
engaged ON an elegiac and is trying to find
something that viii rhyme with "Batten-
burg" and ''Ashantee."
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If wei must have aRussian-Turkey alliance
let 1t come in the form OF establishing a
connection between the Sultan and a ball
and chain in Siberian salt mine.
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CAN COME AS INDIVIDUALS
But the Sultan VIII Bar Relief Organ
izations..
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1t is again demonstrated that there are
very few sights in nthevicinity of fco-operative
town sites.
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ALLIANCE Is CONFIRMED
Notwithstanding Semi o fficial Denials
From Diplomats.
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NUMBERING AND LOOTING
Horrible Work of kurds at AiDtab, Cen
trail Turkey.
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&aPs'k9RI'o''o'H, s'9RI' Of !,
VAlHRf

)ME OF the licensed guides at the Capitol
grow little extravagant, at times
Perhaps IL Is because me monotony II
The things pales on them alter Il while
But anyhow they some times stretch
and sometimes try To be funny.
The other afternoon one OF them was
showing a party OF ladies and gentlemen
around. The Senate was not in session
and he stepped into one OF the galleries
with them. Pointing to the beautifully
colored glass ceiling, he said, referring to a
certain section:
DO you see that .brownish looking spot
there?"
After some little pointing and directing
the alleged spot was in view of all.
THAT is" he then added withouta smile,
"where Senator Ingalls, scorched the cell
ing the last time hespoke." "H "
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CHAPTER VI.

The policeman grabbed him and said,
You're drunk and that's the new city
2ostoffice."
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The Maine minister who seeks divorce on
account of his wife's cruelty needs the at
tention of local Home Missionary Society.
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MONEY FOR SUFFRAGISTS-
Mr.. Reese'S Generosity Stimulates Others
to Do Likewise.
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CHAPTER Nv.

The gloom lifted and the moon kissed tho
edges of the scUdding clouds.
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STEAMER ST. PAUL ASHORE
Stuck in the Beach Off Long
Branch.
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TRAIN WRECKED BY A ROCK
1t Caused Bad Smash-Up Near River
ton, Va.
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A speaker on the affirmative side of a
debate among the law students of the
Columbian University last night denounced
the Gas Company as robbers of the people
and the speakers in the negative didn't dare
to contradict him.