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interest oil the public debt. That Is the
reason for the exception 1t must be
clear to any reasonable man.
1t is past comprehension that sensible
men will listen to those persons who in
sist that irredeemable n unlimited
issues of paper notes can take the place
of money redeemable in, coin or that
they will waste time in listening to
cheap demagogues who prattle about
the difference between the demand note
which ceased to be thirty-three years
ago and the legal-tender note. charging
that it was made to rob the people. Do
those people who listen to these ISLANDERS
not know that such men as Abraham
Lincoln were in the conspiracy which
these howlers make responsible for the
difference between the demand note ana
the greenback? Why will they be duped
into threshing over and over this straw
which has been beatenp fnt6 chaff? Why
do not well-meaning people get in touch
with h men and the living issues Of
to-day?
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In his address at Edinburgh Minister
Bayard denounced protection as state
socialism" said it had slapped the pop
ular conscience" In this country. ''di-
vorced morals from politics." and "done
much to throw Legislation into the polit-
ical market where jobbers and chafferers
take the place of Statement" There
was much more on the same line. Let us
put the shoe on the other foot Sup
pose that Sir Julian Pauncefote, British
minister to the United States, should,
in a public address in New York. say:
In my own country L have witnessed the
mischievouS effects OF the so-called policy
OF free trade, which / believe has done
more to strengthen the classes and weaken
the masses. to depress agriculture, to create
sive and patriotic Englishmen from the
public councils and to revet the power of
the ruling class than any other single cause.
Under the false pretense Of free trade 1t
has destroyed fair trade and has slapped
every other interest of the empire to foster
a mercantile spirit that is eating out the
life and heart of the nation.
This is not a stronger attack on free
trade than Mr.. Bayard made on protec-
ton. An Englishman might make it in
England without being called to ac-
count. but suppose Sir Julian Paunce-
fote had made it in New York. He
would have received a peremptory re-
call by cable he next morning.
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Mahony's bronze statue OF General Will
liam Henry Harrison was placed in posi-
ton in Monument Place yesterday and at
tracted much attention. the general verdict
being that it is a good piece of work. 1t
represents General Harrison In the prime
OF life and in military dress. The body
is we'll nodded. the expression Of the face
life-like. the pose of the figure natural,
and the drapery, a military cloak. harmon
ICES with the whole. At first glance some
thought the nose too large, but Genera
Harrison had a large nose. Ex-Mayor
Caven was a boy in his teens in 1871 and
was one OF a party that steamed down
the Ohio river to meet General Harrison
near Pittsburg on his way to Washington
as President-elect He says the General
showed some signs of age at that time
he was then sixty-eight years old-and the
feature that most impressed itself on Mr..
Caven's memory was his big nose He re-
members, also. that the Generals right
hand was greatly swollen from shaking
hands with the multitude. A few weeks
later he was a corpse. The new statue is
a distinct addition to the attractions of
Monument Place and will add to the fame
of the artist.
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VERY ANCIENT HISTORY.

About three years ago a correspondent
sent the Journal for answer the follow
ing questions:
many were issued and have these notes al
ways since their issue been at par with gold?
In the next issue of treasury notes or green
backs why was the clause prohibiting pay
ment of duties on imports and interest on
the public debt inserted?
At that time these questions were an
swered. This week a correspondent
sends the same questions for answer,
indicating hat the persistent fiat money
cranks are yet laboring to deceive peo-
pie in order to make them believe that
irredeemable paper or fiat money can
be as good as gold. and that there was
some trickery in the legislation Of that
time. The questions are easily an
swered. The two issues were in no re-
spect alike The demand notes were
issued under an act of Congress passed
July IL, 1861, before the suspension of
specie payments. There was but $780,
900, 900 issued in all. The demand note
reads: ION demand the United States
promises to pay the bearer ten dollars
receivable in payment of all public
dues" They were not a legal tender,
consequently. while the government
was compelled to receive them for all
dues, including customs, 1t could not
compel any one to take them in pay
ment of an obligation of the govern
ment. The demand note, therefore. was
a money which the government could
not put out and keep in circulation be-
cause il was not a legal tender. Being
receivable for duties. the demand notes
came into the treasury instead of the
gold which was so much needed to pur-
chase the munitions of war in foreign
countries and to pay the interest on the
public debt. They remained at par be-
they could all be used to pay customs.
July /, 1862, $53, 040. 900 of these demand
notes were outstanding, but just one
year later the amount vas reduced to
s 1851, 019, while July /, 1866, the amount
was s472. COS. In thirty years no one has
seen any of the demand notes in circu-
lation because they have not been in
ex~istence-s5O, 900, 900 of the first issue of
| greenbacks being set apart to take the
place of the demand notes.
The legal-tender act under which the
| ~greenbacks were issued became a law
| Feb. %, 1862. The government could use
these notes to pay all debts except in
| ~terest. whereas the governments or any
individuals creditor could not be COM
| PEELED to take a demand note for a debt.
The greenback could be used to pay
| every obligation OF the government ex-
| cept interest on the public debt. The
| bonds which the government was SELL
ing. bearing 6 per cent. interest. were
| redeemable in coin. and the interest
was payable in he same. Without
such a pledge the bonds could not have
been sold and the war would have come
to an end in defeat The government
| required duties. on imports to be paid In
gold. because it was needed to buy NUM-
! tions Of wal In Europe and to pay the
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

An exquisite poster put out in Boston by a
publishing firm for it's Easser announcements
shows the head of a beautiful woman with
golden hair and robed IN a blue gown and
hood of medieval design, holding in her
hands Enough these are left out of the pic
ture), a cluster Of annunciation lilies.
1t is stated by one who has investigated
the subject that the average yearly expenses
OF a cooperative building and loan associa-
ton OF Philadelphia is $3.50. In most cases
no salaries are paid except TO the secretary,
and ne receives about $50 per annum. There
are over four hundred associations in Phil
adelphia.
DIR. Pendleton, who Is described as a pow
erful preacher and an "old war-horse m
Methodism.' has been assigned TO the Bald
win circuit in Kansas. with a salary of $3.50
a year. DIR. Pendleton has twelve children.
several of whom play on musical instruments
and discourse sweet strains at the Doctors
religious meetings.
General Neia Dow. who was ninety-two
years old on Friday. il remarkably vigorous.
.His mental powers" says the Boston Tran
script. have not as. yetsfelt the touch OF age.
and during the late municipal campaign he
wrote q series of letters for a local paper, In
which he assailed those TO whom he was OPP
posed with all his old-time vigor. Last sum-
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mer he Travelled freely. and responded to
many calls for his services as a public speak
er. In the early summer he addressed a
great number of Guido )r meetings in Port
land. and in the fall spoke to az least six
thousand people at Old Orchard. During the
year ne wrote much for publication, and kept
up his great correspondence with temper
ance workers all over the world"
One Of the friends of the Due d'Aumale
the other day. in talking to the Prince of
the coming marriage Of the second daughter
of the Due de Chartres to the son Of Marshal
MacNahon, referred to the possible poliricai
OF the Seventh Corps. I'VE have been forbid
den to give our sons to the army, SO We give
our daughters"
The rare and splendid collection OF Welsh
manuscripts formed by the late Sir Thomas
Phillips, OF Middle Hill and Cheltenham.
England, has been sold for $500 TO the COM
mittee Of the Cardiff Free Library, who were
enabled to make the purchase by the liberal
assistance OF Lord Butte. Lord Windsor, Lord
Tredegar and other friends. This collection
consists OF 1.461 items.
Barney Barnato once rented a little house
In one Of the frontier towns Of South Africa.
After a time. however. he quarreled with his
landlord, and was ordered to leave 1t. Then
he got even with the landlord by inserting the
!!T1owing advertisement S IN the local paper;
leave dwelling occupied by him In condition
In which he found it. 100. 900 lively black bee
ties"
In HIS "reminiscences of the late Ambrose
Thomas, NJ. Jules Simon tells an interesting
story. After the war Of 1870 VI. Thomas re-
turned to his villa, expecting to find every
thing topsy-turvy, as il had been occupied by
Prussian soldiers. Instead OF which every
thing was intact. and on the hall table was
a card bearing the name of the officer. and
underneath the words, Nephew Of Meyer
beer"
1t has been decided to erect a George Eliot
memorial library at the novelist's native
town. Nuneaton. in Warwickshire, England.
The design is to have it somewhat ike the
memorial theater at Stratford-on-Avon, and
to place in it for public exhibition a collec-
Of the celebrated author. Subscriptions are
sought from America, and, as in the case Of
the Shakespeare and Carlyle memorials, it is
expected that the United States will furnish
more than their quota OF funds.
One Of the most intimate friends of NJ.
Dumas. fls. was a retired naval officer, who
lived in a distant corner of Normandy. AS
soon as the author of Camille died. the
officer went over all the letters which he had
received from Dumas, and destroyed every
one which referred to any private affairs of
the author. Where the letters also con-
tanned literary and philosophical discussions,
he carefully Olotted out the personal parts.
in. order that nothing of q personal nature
might ever reach a publisher. This is an ex-
ample not often followed.
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ANOTHER TRUST FORMED.
Consolidation Of the Principal Elec-
trio Heating Apparatus Concerns.

BOSTON. March 3.-The American Elec-
trio Heating Corporation, which includes
all the companies Of importance engaged
in the manufacture of heating apparatus,
has been formed, with headquarters in this
city. The new corporation is controlled by
a syndicate Of Boston, New York and
Western capitalists. j. Murray Forbes. of
Boston, is president Of a board Of twelve
directors. n James 1. Aver. ex-president
of the National Electric Association, is
general manager. Negotiations. with this
consolidation in view. have been pending
for some months, and the chief object Of
it's formation is to secure a more rapid
development of the electric heating pro-
cess by a concentration of patents and cap
ital than has been possible while they
have been widely scattered. TO do this the
OO0,OVo. An issue of $50o,00 ffteen-year 5
per cent. income bonds will be made. OF
these securities $8,90 900 stock and $269, 600
bonds viii be used to buy up for the com
panies who comprise the corporation all
patents. processes and devices throughout
the country thai are believed to be of value.
income bonds will remain in the treasury
for future needs. The bonds will be cumu-
lative after JAM i. 1890. and a sinking fun
Of $4,000 per annum will be provided.
~ oOSOA ny lIC ItW COI-
poration are: New England Electric Heat
ing Company; the Burton Electric Com
pany, Richmond. Va; the Carpenter Fec
trio Heating Manufacturing Company, st.
Syracuse, N. Y; the Rich Electric Heating
Company, Mt: Vernon. N. Y; the Western
Electric Heating Company, ST Paul. Mimi,
and the Central Electric Company, New
York. The manufacturing plant will be at
Cambridgeport and the head office in Bos-
ton. with agencies in New York and Chi
cago. James /. Aver, ex-president of the
National Electric Light Association. is the
general manager. Among the prominent
men included in the syndicate are: Charles
A.. Morse, w. A. Endicott, jr.. Charles E.
Perkins, Charles J. Paine. Oliver Ames, K.
s. Convers. NJ. L. Corning, Thomas Nelson,
Z. n. Fenno, A. r. Whittier. A. c.. Con-
vers, Jackson & Curtis. E; D. Barbour. Rob
Paine, jr., and others. The board of di-
rectors consists of j. Murray Forbes. pres
fdent; Charles A. Morse, jr.. Edward C.
Perkins. Charles L. Edgar, Of the Edison
Electric Light Company; Charles Francis
Adams, Everett Morse, Arthur B. Smith,
George u. Croker, Ambrose Eastman, ali
of Boston: s. S. Wheeler. Of the Croker
Wheeler Electric Company; Arthur NJ.
Dodge, Of New York, and H. b. Scott, Of
Burlington, Ia.
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INCIDENTS IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Boutelle Accuses General Wheeler
Of Changing the Record.


Of Changing the Record.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The House to-
day took up the naval appropriation bill.
and, despite several diverting incidents. made
such rapid progress with IT that when the
adjournment was reached all the paragraphs
had been passed save those relating 10 the
increase of the navy. The bin carries $751;
Gil, 0sES2 ass. ABS more that the current law
and authorizes four new battle ships and
fifteen torpedo boats. the cost of which. COM
plete. will be almost So. 200. 900. Not a single
amendment was adopted, although there was
an effort to provide for a new dry dock at
the League island yard. During the day Mr..
Bouteile and Mr.. Wheeler continued their al
tercation of yesterday over the record OF the
Democrats on the bill TO retire General
Grant. The other incident Of the day arose
in connection with an attack made by Mr..
Cannon. chairman of the appropriations COM
m.ttee. on naval officers detailed at the naval
observatory.
There was a dash of excitement In the
opening proceedings OF the House to-day.
Mr.. Bartlett rose to a question OF personal
privilege 10 deny the statement that he had
furnished the campaign circular used by Mr..
Sulzcr. a few days ago, in an attack upon
Mr.. Gibson. He denounced the charge as a
libel and 4 lie.
Mr.. Boutelle was or his feet as soon as
Mr.. Bartlett sat down He. too. had a ques-
ton Of privilege TO present, he said, in con-
nection with a colloouy between General
Wheeler ard himself. during the debate on
the Confederate disability bill yesterday. His
opening sentence raised a laugh. During
one Of those bursts Of fervidf enthusiasm
which occasionally sweep over the House."
said he. land almost drive US into war with
England and Spain. the House. on yester-
day, undertook negotiations with the South
ern Confederacy for peace. ] made q few
remarks and several gentlemen were anx-
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The Spanish people gave a notable
illustration of the mercurial nature of
the Latin races in their recent hostile
demonstrations against the United
States. and now they are likely to give
another in the opposite direction. The
temporary postponement of the Cuban
belligerency resolutions in the Senate
seems to have reversed the current of
popular feeling. and instead of wanting
to tear Americans to pieces they now
want to shake hands with them. No
doubt there is an element of good feel
ing among the Spaniards. but the fact
remains hat Spanish government in
Cuba is a disgrace to nineteenth century
civilization.
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The fact that sixty-four of the first
seventy-nine replies received from the
leading manufacturers and exporters to
the circular of the ways and means COM
mittee strongly indorse the proposition
for a renewal of the reciprocity treaties,
indicates o popular this Republican
policy has come to be with the business
men of the country. One of the strong
est Of these letters is from the Millers'
National Association, which says:
1t Is the firm and unanimous conviction
OF all the flour manufacturers in this coun-
try that the restoration of the reciprocity
principles 20 future tariff legislation Is an
absolute necessity to the -four milling ir-
dustry. which represents an investment o.
over 100000 900.
The manager of a large exporting firm
in New York, representing forty cotton
mills, gives the ways and means COM
mittee figures showing that over two
thirds of the firms trade with Brazil
and a Domingo was lost with the
revocation Of the Harrison treaties made
with those nations, and that the whole
of its Cuban trade went with the treaty
with Spain for reciprocity with Cuba.
Iron manufacturers report a loss of
trade in South America and in the
Spanish West Indies since that Demo-
cratic policy was put in effect.
No doubt the Republican tariff will
embrace a scheme for the restoration of
treaties of reciprocity, but it must be
borne in mind that the reciprocal trea-
ties of the Harrison administration were
the. result of long, patient and skillful
negotiation. In France n Germany
the securing of the treaties was the
work to which Ministers Reid and
Phelps devoted their energies. John w.
Foster, Of this State, an experienced
diplomat. was sent to Spain to COAX
from the Spanish government a trade
treaty. nearly all of the advantages of
which were for us at the expense of
Spain. That arrangements were made
with the South American nations was
due very largely to the good will in
spired by the generous treatment of
them by the Harrison administration.
All this has changed. Without the
courtesy of a formal notice the Demo-
Of the treaties. That some protest was
not made is due to the fact that some
of the governments were gratified to
have arrangements which were so de-
cidedly favorable to the people of the
United States set aside. Now that the
treaties have been ~abrogated Germany
and France seem disposed to discrimi-
nate against our products. unmindful of
the advantage which has been derived
by them in the enactment of the present
tariff law with its lower and ad valorem
duties.
1t will take time and craftsmanship
to restore the reciprocal treaties made
by the Harrison administration and
recklessly thrown away by the Demo-
cratic C0ppress
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J. B. T.. Liberty Center: Yes; il A buys a
farm of B and gives his note for 1900 he can
compel B to take two thousand standard sill
yer dollars in payment. The standard silver
dollar, containing Sn.25 grains of pure silver,
has been an unlimited legal tender since the
creation of the United States mins, April 2,
1792-nearly 14 years. The standard silver
dollar was never demonetized. 1t was dropped
from the coins of the United States in 1873.
but coinage was restored In 1878. Feb. /. 1885,,
there were AZ, $780, 90 3f such dollars in the
United States. of which 5S,69.676 were in
circulation. Previous to 1878 there had been
only a few over 100000 of such dollars.
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Minister Bayard's latest speech ag-
gravates his original offense. Read be-
tween the lines 1t is mt only a con-
temptuous defiance of Congress. but a
denial that he has committed any
offense whatever. There is nothing I
would say at home" he says. that 1
would not say here, and there Is nothing
1 would say here that 1 would not say at
home" This shows that he utterly
fails to appreciate the proprieties of
the situation. There are many things
of a partisan or criticising nature that
an American might say at home which
he ought not to say abroad, and the
case is still stronger with an accredited
representative of the government
abroad. Mr.. Bayard talks to the gal
leries about the freedom of speech, etc.
1t is not a question of the freedom of
speech, but of the propriety of a United
States minister in a foreign country de-
crying his own by declaring that it's
people are misled, it's politics corrupt
and its legislation venal. An American
might say that at home and it would be
set down To the account of PARTISAN
ship or pessimism, but when an official
representative Of the government says
1T In a foreign country it is unpatriotic
and s~candalous. Mr.. Bayard's original
offense could have been forgiven as unin-
territorial. but his defense of it is un-
~pardonable. If the President had a
spark of true American feeling he would
recall him, but he and Bayard are two
Of a kind.
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fraud. In ordering a rehearing of the
case the Supreme Court may be seeking
a a out of a disagreeable dilemma.
Naturally it would like, If possible. to
decide in favor of pensioners, and at
the same time it may hesitate to tie
the hands of all administrative officers
of the government by holding that they
their predecessors. Perhaps the court
thinks If the case can be tided over till
a Republican administration, or till
after the next presidential election.
which is pretty much the same. it will
somehow settle itself
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The war cloud seems to be gathering
over the Transvaal again. President
Kruger's declination or cir. Chamber
lain's Invitation to visit England TO talk
matters over would. in Itself. be ominous
Of trouble, but the building OF forts
and other warlike preparations are still
stronger indications. II looks very
much as IL the Beers had determined to
make a strike for complete inde-
claim of suzerainty In the T~ransvaal
foreign affairs hat Is a claim which
Great Britain could not surrender with
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out serious loss Of prestige in Africa.
and which she certainly will not surren-
der until compelled to. If the Beers
have decided to make that their ulti-
maturn they can make up their minds
to a hard fight. and IL, as a dispatch in
Inmates. Germany, Austria and France
have decided to guarantee the complete
independence of the Transvaal. 1t means
a European war
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The OnIv Cour.e-

Dear me-" said the lovely lady, p~etulantly.
Those are beautiful verses you have writ
ten about me, but it happens that my hair
Is dark brown, instead of golden"
"Haw! By Jove! So it is" said the petted
society poet. well, there is only one thing
to do. You must have your hair bleached."
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Banker Morgan has declared that the
folly sof Congress stands in the way Of
the tmproYernent OF business. AS Con-
gress'interfered with a bond lea which
would have added several millions to
the bankers pile. he may not be re-
garded as an impartial Judge. Still. no
n can say much for the silver ma
jority which has prevented Congress
from enacting useful legislation.
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The principal occupation of European
governments Is interfering. the balance
OF power. depending on whether the
number OF interfering governments is
greater or less than that of the govern
ments that interfere to prevent inter-
ference.
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1t was hardly necessary to cable from
London an official denial of the rumor
that the British government a init
mated a willingness to act with the
United States In recognizing the indie
pendence Of Cuba Great Britain's
foreign relations are sufficiently COM
plicated now without the insertion of
any new wheels