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Tho False Witness.

There are many famous cases OF criminals
watching furtively the trial Of innocent
men for crimes committed by themselves; ;
4 some have even aided, with trumped-up tes-
timony, in convicting the accused OF guilt.
In the various phases OF crime scarcely
anything IL abhorred az moro despicable
than this form Of false witnesa That, how
ever, is the role being played to-day by the
statesman who would have the country re-
gard him az foremost in preventing the
adoption OF q free-silver resolution in the
Chicago Convention.
President CLEVELAND has charged the
gold standard with having caused the
issue Of two hundred and sixty-two mil
lion dollars Of bonds, by which the ma
tional debt has been increased during his
second term. Upon his false statement
these bond issues have become the chief in
citement to enmity against the gold
standard, and to the apparently Unsuitable
craze to strike 1t down.
More than half Of tho bonds have been
used to meet the revenue deficiency caused
by the Administration's tariff tinkerinR.
II the bonds must be called either De-
ficiency bonds or Gold Standard bonds,
according to whichever title describes them
more faithfully, Deficiency or CLEVELAND
bonds is their riRhtful name. They have
been used moro to pay the Administra-
tion's debts than to repair the house OF
honest money.
Yet because Mr. CLEVELAND cannot brace
himself to tell the truth at this crisis, and
confess that his inexcusable folly has been
the cause of the emptied Treasury, he sits
in criminal silence while the gold standard
is being charged with his misdeeds, and is
being sacrificed to deluded Democratic in.
dignation The talk about GROVER CLEvE-
LAND being disinterested and earnest in his
support of the gold standard is talk, talk
talk; and nothing but talk.
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WHO BIDS FOR scoW zRIMMINes
Board or Estimate Has IL Ont with wariag
Contract to he Advertised.


-Contract to Re Advertised.
According to the programme laid out by Pres
ident Jeroloman of the Board of Aldermen. Col.
waring was hauled mp before tho Board of Esti-
mate yesterday morning and asked TO explain
why he has not advertised the scow-trimming
contract, as he was instructed to do on June 2.
The Colonel said that tho contract had been
drawn up on Juno and submitted to the Cor
poration Counsel. who had sent II back only
last Saturday. He said he really didn't think
the contract was worth advertising because.
into effect on Aug. l. the New York Sanitary
Utilization Company will take all tho refuse
that is worth having and this will minimize the
value Of the scow trimminRs.
Mr.. Jerolomsn reminded Col. Waring that
ContractorTate had offered S245.Ooo o year
for the privilege. and that the Colonel had said
That was under different conditional" said
Col. WarinR. " Mr.. Tate wanted only certain
parts OF the garbage. and It was proposed TO
have dh the tSfn separate o",od, ,.v
enough to do In separating ashes and garbage
without separating the garbage for Mr.. Tate7"
asked Mr. Jeroloman.
They would prepare 1t for me. not for Tate"
They will not go any further" said Mr..
"But they will go further before they finish
with me-" retorted the Colonel.
Here the Mayor broke in. saying that he had
supposed tina: the scow-trimming privilege was
to be advertised as formerly, and MIR. Tates Of
fer had been the basis for that supposition. Tho
Colonel was ordered to provide each member of
the Board with copies OF the contract so that 1t
could be considered at q special meeting of the
Board to be held to- morrow.
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Warden FalIon's Case.

The decision Of the Appellate Division OF
the Supreme Court in the FALLoN case will
probably not ue without Its effect in the
case of the two Fire Commissioners whom
some Of the reformers, with no better pros
pect Of success, are endeavoring to have re-
moved under charges. The Warden Of the
Tombs prior to the administration of Col.
STRONG was JOHN j. FALLoN, a war veteran
and Democrat His place paying 81, 800,
was desired for one of the Union League
Club reformers chosen in advance of any
charges being preferred. case was accord
ingly "made up" against the incumbent
FALLoN, and after FALLoN had been removed
he appealed to the Supreme Court for rein
statement. on the ground that the removal
had been made without cause and in viola
ton of the law. The case has been decided In
his favor and the part taken therein by the
proponent SHEA is thus characterized in
the decision:
1T is impossible for any fairminded person to read
this mans testimony without being convinced OF Its
malevolenco and untTuthfulnessi nor without reach
ing tho conclusion that this trumpery charge was put
forward by him for partisan, POLITICAL personal or
cause and not for conduct with the
position held by tho relator."
When the Power of Removal bill received
the approving signature of Governor NOR
TON the three Fire Commissioners in office
here were ScAEEELL, EIcKHoFF, and ROB-
BINS, and Mayor STRONG, after a consulta-
tion with his advisers, 80 the story goes.
selected as their successors in Office the
three gentlemen following: o. H. LA
GRANGE, HENRY WINTHROP GRAY. and
THOMAS L. HAMILTON. 1t was at that time
the Mayors policy in his appointments OF
Commissioners to Office to have in each
Board of three members one Democratic
representative, the two Republicans being
chosen, so far as feasible, from the then
evenly matched factions in the Republican
CouRty Committee-PLATT and anti-PLATT.
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PAsroRs INrERoEDE FOR M,KASn
Ouo Pleads Family Ressons for Mercy,
Another. that the Penaity wss Too Heavy.

Gao Pleads FeUily Reasons for Mercy,
Another. that the Penaity Wss Too HEAVY.
ALBANY. June 3o.-A delegation called upon
Gov. Morton to-day and asked that he exercise
executive clemency and grant q full pardon TO
John Y. McKane. the former political boss OF
Gravesend. who 10 now serving a si1-year sen.
tence in Sing Sing prison. Tho delegation In
cluded tho Rev. D. w. Couch Of the Beekman
Hill Methodist Church. New York city; the
Rev. T. l.. Poulson OF tho Olin Methodist
Church. Now York city, md A. Tredwell and
Victor Bedingneld of Brooklyn.
Tho Rev. Mr.. Couch was spok He
said he ad vocated clemoncy for McKane for tho
following reasons: Firet, the prison physician
believed that his life would be shortened II he
remained in the prison. and said he would have
q much better chance for life IL he were free:
second. his wife was frettng her life away;
third. his blind boy needed his care; fourth Il
was not thought that he intended to commit
the grave offences he did, as bad as matters Ap-
be was caught In q whirlpool of political
element: fifth, II was believed that II he were
pardoned his subsequent character and life
would vindicate the Governors action; sixth.
he might have an opportunity to gather up his
shattered possessions so TO have something
left for his family in old age: lastly. 1t held
that the ends OF justice had been fully met BY
the puninhment he had endured;
Tho Rev. Mr.. Poulson stated that all believed
tho sentence 10 have been excessive for the
crime of which McKane was found guilty
The Governor listened TO the application but
did not made apparent any action that he might
take in the matter.
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Tho oratory OF Major Mckinley.

Several months ago Major HANDY of the
Chicago Times Herald recorded his personal
impression of Major MCKINLEY as an ora
tor. Having accompanied the candidate on
a speechmaking expedition through some
Of the central Western States, and having
heard him speak many times under varying
conditions, Major HANDY, himself u grace
full and felicitous rhetorician and an expert
judge of the art as practised by others.
reached the conclusion that there had been
a remarkable change in MckISLEY's ora
tory since the days when he used to deliver
very earnest but somewhat unimaginative
and uninteresting speeches on the tariff in
the House Of Representatives.
We were inclined to regard this opinion of
Major HANDY's as the result Of political
enthusiasm and personal loyalty rather
than of strictly impartial observation. We
had not read the speeches which Major
HANDY heard Major MCKINLEY deliver
Many of them. probably, were never re-
ported, for the Major was not then so i'm
portant parsonage as he has since become.
1t seemed hardly possible that in the oratory
of man who had reached middle age new
circumstances should suddenly develop a
power and a charm not discernible in any of
his earlier efforts. Yet now we are not sure
that Major HANDY was far wrong
1t will be remembered that something of
the same nature happened in the case OF
Gen. HARRISON. When he was in the Senate
the galleries never filled with eager auditors
upon notice that BEN HARRISON Of Indiana
was about to deliver a set speech. But
after he became President he surprised
everybody by the aptness, grace, wit, and
good taste Of such occasional remarks as he
uttered from time to time as he went hither
and thither and encountered his fellow
citizens. HARRIsoN's little speeches, semi
political and semi-social, are justly regarded
as models Of their kind.
The first elaborate effort OF Major Nc
KINLEY in his new relation to the people Of
the whole country was reported yesterday
morning. We think no candid person can
read the Majors speech in reply to the noti-
fication committee without giving him
credit for resources of expression previously
unsupported Viewed artistically. that is
to say as to form and suitableness, it is an
extremely creditable performance In dig
nifty of tone. direct simplicity Of language,
compactness OF ideas. and adaptation of
phrase to the proprieties Of the occasion, it
rises above the ordinary. 1t may be read
moro than once with pleasure and profit
even by those who do not agree with the
Major In any Of his opinions.
This is encouraging. 1t will be a great
relief to all concerned II time shall prove
the correctness of Major HAEDY's estimate
of Major McKINLEY's newly developed ora
torical abilities A deadly dull speaker run
ming for President or elected as President,
stilted, canting, platitudinous phrase
maker, a bungling workman with that
noblest of instruments the English Ian
guage, is a public misfortune, vicious
example to the ingenious youth OF the
United States OF America and u constant
evaporation to the judicious.
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A Reproach to Brooklyn.

e, On Monday the Grand Jury Of Kings
oncounty brought into the County Court in
y Brooklyn presentment concerning the con-
dition OF the various county institutions,
containing the following statement:
"The Kings County hospital wefound overcrovded.
There is room for about 400 patents and there arc
about 900 there and have to be spread
the floors for many Of tho patients. We recommend
that immediate steps te taken to remedy this evil IL
n ueems that the city should furnish adequate ac
IasDommodatons for tho reasonable comfort OF these
and that tho necessary money should be
ecaIsed that purpose though at increased
max rate"
last If the facts are correctly set forth by the
lw md Jury, the state of affairs in the Kings
soanty Hospital is a reproach, not to say a
ecsshisgrace, to the people Of Brooklyn.
tn 1t is easy to get the Legislature to appro-
HDriate three hundred thousand dollars in
Said Of the Brooklyn Institute Of Arts and
Sciences. Ten thousand dollars can be
! raised in Brooklyn to put into a silver punch
bowl and other vessels from which naval
officers can drink wine on the United States
cruiser Brooklyn. Public subscriptions are
plentiful to aid in the erection of statues
to Gen. GRANT and Gen. WARREN and
JAMES s. T. STRANAHAN, carrying his over
coat and um brella. But when it comes to
providing for the sick poor in the Kings
County Hospital, they must be left to lie
and perhaps die on the floor!
And yet this is how the end of the highly
civilized nineteenth century finds the
tCity of Churches.
Still, there may be one cause for satisfac-
lion. If the people will not tax them
telves to provide enough beds for their hos
esitals, they resolutely continue to raise
hAufficient money by taxation to teach music
Eta the public schools. Though the poor
FAY suffer, the young must sing.
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MOVE UP FRONT"
Moro Than Ono Reason for EnforcInE th
Order sn street Cars.

Moro Than Ono Reason for Enforcing the
Order In street Cars.
"one Of the questions that has been raised in
letters that have received complaining OF con.
ductors," President Vreeland Of the Metro
politan Street Railway Company said yesterday,
is as to the authority Of the conductor 10 mako
passengers move up in o crowded car. My or
ders have been positive to the conductors to en-.
force the company's regulations against OBJ
structing the doors Of the cars. and think
there would be no complaints from rigLt-minded
people II they realized one Of the important re-
suits sought TO be obtained by this reeqlation
The man Is fortunate who has not had related TO
him by an indignant woman. perhaps his wife
or sister d or dnuGhtsr: 1t oIy stSTy OF Oh Vn, tss
surface or elevated railway cars in this city.
It is extremely disaRreeable to q woman to be
Obliged to crowd past q man in the DOORWAY ia
order to enter q car. Tho man may not intend
to be offensive. but to get BY him involves an
amount of personal contact that 10 repulsive.
How much worse Is It II the man designedly
obstruets or narrows the passaGeway? Tho
are directed TO be alert to enforce 1t when the
occasion requires their Intervention"
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tistio taste in this country. The Scademi-
clans would not be academicians In the
present sense merely, but also and further
as members OF the greatest American uni
versity system. They would be brought
into the brotherhood OF learning and enlight-
enment, and would thus hold new and
higher place in the community. The associa-
tion, too, would conduce to their material adj
vantage. They would be part and parcel ofthe
educational forces which are strengthened by
everything that contributes to the advance
ment OF the civilization Of the Greater New
York. They would be among their natural
patrons and their most powerful we'll
wishers, the thousands Of the alumni, the
other thousands of the students, and the
numerous body of their friends and as
sociates throughout the Union.
These are only few OF the more patent
advantages of such an alliance as we have
proposed, and they are not set of by any
drawbacks which have been suggested or
which seem to us imaginable. Their reality
is indicated by the increased prosperity
which has come to the College of Physicians
and Surgeons since its similar alliance with
Columbia University. 1t has grown steadily
and greatly in consequence as professional
school, and in its influence at home and
abroad. 1t is vastly richer and stronger,
and has not lost its identity.
The project for an alliance with Columbia
University does moro than hold out the
promise Of like gain for the Academy Of
Design. It affords an opportunity for an
institution now declining in esteem to leap
into far greater Importance than 1t has ever
had, and to command q larger measure OF
public interest than it has ever received.
The moro the proposition is discussed the
greater will be the favor It obtains. AL
ready many Of the leading artists in the
Academy see its advantages, and people
generally who are ambitious for the devel-
opment of American art are made hopeful
by the suggestion.
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STOW Up ON rHE 0DhYh.


60. ,.E..- Me-.
Aldermen After the broadway 9eHs-'
vreeiapd on the Dihleu,siss. y.
,,.,,. rr., oo-,,.nv ,a to be
The metropolitan Iraetoh oompeuy
called on TO tell why IL can't run It's care erounu
curve. at low amazed In the Board Of Aldermen
,, ~ ~. NN,.. .a,ohtn,, th. subiect
yesterday Two resoiuton" Vouon.s s,...a,,
were offered and an old piPeonholeu repoiutior
,vos bron,bt m tho lIuht acain. Alderman
-, ,.,s,, n.i,,ro ppon the
Noonan oHereu resoiuuoh e"ii"S p -
Railroad Committee TO frame an ordinance
regulating the spced at curves after holdEy
iess''s '"o oP' -. MI. ...olr,v,n
public hearings on tho SUBJECT iho 'o'o'"''''
was adopted.
AId.rr,n ,ro,I nreaented an ordinance max
to ton. ,,,,ioa ,ho ,hs,,r,,,m sncod AT tho Four
ing iour mics the mhNilhu" Spoou ~ W" -.
teenth street and broadway curve. and making
the penalty for each violation 500. This was
'"e po.a', AZ, rL,,I, 80 S,'...,,,,a. Alderman
referred 70 the haiiroad Comm'.ee' ,r,,-
Ware then said he had introduced a simner
.o.o,r,,on o,,a.p or tteen uonths AGO and it
., W -, n u.,,-a.a r,or,ri,,.o
had been referred 10 the ha'iroau Son0'
where IL still remained. A series OF public hear
INCA viii he hoId on the resolutions
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The report that,1ss, Hon. MARK HANNA
chews tho gum plant will not be believed until
fuller and moro Trustworthy information is re-
ceivcd. The proba blities vote against the truth
of the tale. In tho first place. Mr.. HANNA. as
superintendent and committee on everything
for the Republican party. has no time TO give to
gum chewing. which seems TO be laborious art
and one which writes a painful history on the
face. Mr.. HANNA has to receive too many dele
cations. 4 man can't well converse and
masticate at the same time. In the second
place. Mr.. HANNA's celebrated Cuyahoga hum
dred- weight diamond pin casts such fire that
nobody's jaws can remain in motion in the vi
cinity OF It. As Mr.. HANNA values this won
derful illuminator as the chief jewel of his
crown. II is out OF the question that he should
be gum chewing philosopher.
The sun., 1896-07-01

Gen. La GRANGE was then, ~ now, the
representative OF the anti-Platts. Mr..
HAMILTON was then, as now, the close po-
litical friend Of the Tioga chieftain and
was especially recommended and endorsed
by ex-senator GIBBS, New York's new rep.
resentative upon the Republican National
Committee Mr.. GRAY was to be the Dem
ocratic Commissioner.
In the Law Department Of the city there
Is an Attorney for the collection Of arrears
of personal taxes" This functionary re-
ceives 81, 900 year, and for this place there
had been selected by Mayor STRONG and his
advisers the Hon. JAMES r. SHEFFIELD, a
Republican, former member of Assembly
from the district which has given to the
polite. of the nation Jon +. HEDGES and
CALEB SIMMs Mr.. SHEFFIELD was to be
this attorney, but instead became Fire
Commissioner at S5, 900 year. He was ap-
pointed along with Gen. LA GRANGE and
the Hon. AUSTIN i, FORD. LA GRANGE and
FORD, warrior and publcist, entered into
an arrangement to act together in Fire
Board matters, and Mr.. SHEFFIELD. who
was strongly supported by all the Good Gov
ernment Club members in town, found him
sell, as ne mas Decn since, III minority. lC
was under this condition of affairs that Mr..
Z. LAWRENCE GoDKIN made the same
move against LA GRANGE and FORD
that SHEA had made against FALLoN,
the difference, however, being that whereas
the formal charges against FALLoN were
made by SHEA as deposition under oath,
the charges against LA GRANGE and FORD
are made and continue to be made with
moro malevolence than formality in the
newspaper columns
1t is certainly desirable that any official
neglect Of duty and any proved incapacity
of the Fire Commissioners should receive
the penalty which the law prescribes for
unfaithful functionaries. The present city
administration has not been without many
such charges, and from sundry indications
there is q promise OF Others still more seri-
GUS, by Mayor STRONG, against some of his
own appointees. But the policy of getting
| rid of" a Commissioner because he will not
consent to vote as another Commissioner
| desires, Is an intolerable proposition
which in the FALLoN case has received q
| scathing rebuke OF the Appellate Division
Of the Supreme Court.
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A Defence OF tho -Pern,e,ous" omesho,dsrs.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Sfr: The announcement
that Jonea. Eckels Maxwell and other oniceholders
will go the Chicago Convention has filled mere
formers with wonder. They quote tho Presidents
famous order prohibiting ofiiceholders manipulating
conventions and threatening vioators with dismissal
Thcse reformers Invoke the Civil Service law and the
rules signed by tho President. They make out
prima. .facie case.
But while. on q superficial view. Jones and Etkeis
and others attending the Chicago Convention should
be dismissed from Office closer view shows that the
First and Fourth Assistant General, the
Comptroller OF the Currency, and all other oficiais
attending the Chicago should be sustained
in this. II in nothing else
Compliance with ordinary laws and rules may do
for persons. Rut doing the Will OF the Pres
dent is the highest compliance with all laws. all rules
and all equities.
wond The Presidents order OF 1850. the delight OF
every cyt reformcr says that the Influence
OF Federal oficrholders should not be felt" In Ron
mating conventions; IL will not ba felt at Chicago
partly because the officeholders have no influence
partly because the Chicago Convention. OF all Others
directly ludirectly from the present Administra
tion. The Administrator is too high above such
things as . Democratic Convention Ty way OF cour
tesy accident few officials may go; they Will
neither "coerce" nor be felt. To charge these
highly respectable gentlemen with pernicious
activity" Is not justified. Politically they can do
nothing. Let no man. reformer or gentlemen Re
tIvity. pernicious or useful GREN
SwAMpSCOTT, Mass, June 30.
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TO EXTEND OUR TRADE.
A Party OF EnterprtsinG Buninass Men
Starting To-day for south America.

A Party OF EnterprtsinG Bunin1ss Men
Starting To-day for South Aneriea-
A party of United States businessmen will
start this morning on a trip through the Ar
Eentine Republic, Uruguay, and Brazil. They
will 20 to Southampton on tho American
liner st. Paul. and after spending two days in
London will sail for South America. To cole
brate their departure from this city u faro
we'll dinner at the Hotel Waldorf was given
the party last night by Theodore c. Search.
President Of the National Association Of
Manufacturers, at whose instance the trip has
been undertaken. The members Of the party
are Frederick Stearns of Detroit, ]. N.
Studebacher OF South Bend. J. r. Kilbourne
Of Columbus. o.; Henry r. Gilbert of Syra-
cuse. William Harper Of Philadelphia. 4. d.
Palmer OF Newark. w. T. Adams Of Memphis.
Tenn; F. L. WaRar. Wagar, Ala; John A.
johnson OF Madison. Wis. Samuel +. Racon
the latter the manager Of the expedition.
Besides the guests Of the evening some Of
IhGs e. hs @ II ny ssr
dence. BENJAMIN Atha Of Newark. the Hon:
Warner Miller, Mayor F. w. wurster of
4. Griscom of Philadelphia. A. NaumburG of
New York. Frank G. Riggs Of Syracuse, Thomas
Meron Mnser from the %
Search seior Meron J%hn A. JEhnson Fred, cd
Hon. Warner Miller. Mayor wurster. Thomas
A. Eddy. and +. ). Fsl. all advocating closer
her sister republics in South and Central
Mr.. search said that the expedition was the
was BROADLY represohtative Of American man; nam
an or
the, purpose of ascertain'ng how best the mu.
.ual interests Of the American republics could