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The Case OF Scot1.

Tho dismissal by the Supreme Court In
Havana of the charges against CHARLES
SCOTT furnishes one more suggestion that
the Spanish authorities fear the new Ad.
ministration at Washington, and are anx.
ious to propitiate it.
Mr.. SCOTT, an American citizen, was ar.
rested on Feb. o, charged with having
Cuban postage stamps in his possession
He protested that he was in regular bust.
ness in Havana, the employee of an estab.
lished corporation there, and that the col.
lecting of stamps was pastime for him as
for hundreds of thousands of other people
Nevertheless he was not only imprisoned,
but shut out from communication with
friends, and Minister DE LONE explained
this treatment on the ground that he was
suspected of being a conspirator or spy.
The case excited special attention here
from the fact that Gen. LEE made it the oc
casion of his appeal to Mr.. OLNEY for SUD-
port, saying that he could not stand
another Ruiz murder" and that II he was
not to be backed up by the Cleveland Ad.
ministration he must leave Cuba. As sub.
sequent correspondence showed, the Spanish
authorities themselves that same day
yielded to Gen. LEES demand that SCorr
should be released from his condition of
tnconunicndo, and SO that part of the case
was disposed of.
Now we find that, after holding this man
In solitary confinement beyond the limit
fixed by the law, and then putting him into
communication with his friends only upon
the protest and demand of our Consul.
General. the court on ex ami N In ~ tha ,ho.cxo
ITSELF dismisses 1t. ScoTT's stamp album
Will no longer be classed with dynamite or
other insurgent supplies. He has been re-
leased, yet only after Imprisonment, like 80
many other Americans whose very citizen
ship is cause of offence, suspicion, and
grievous ill-treatment.
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The Ignominy of tho Democracy.

The Philadelphia Ledger presents the
subjoined piece Of suggestive information !:
Tho soundMoney Democrats feel agsrieved be.
cause they believed that tho tariff bill would be
moderate protection that would enable them
to continue to fight with tho Republicans against tho
free e-silver heresy."
What are these Sound Money Demo
Gratis" going to do theni Are they going
to give up the " fight against the free-silver
heresy" in order to concentrate their ener-
gies for fight against protection7
Moreover, what is their notion Of o
moderate protection
Does the Wilson tariff fill the bill, with
an enormous deficit as its consequence
Perhaps thoy had better drop the subject
1t recalls a disgraceful record of perf1dy
and stupidity which, for very shame, all
Democrats would wish to forgot, with the
treachery and dishonor of GROVER CLEvE-
LAND at it's head, and WILLIAM L. WILL
son as its chief and unblushing sponsor.
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About tho Railway Problem.

A bill to amend the Interstate Commerce
law was introduced in the last Congress,
and it is certain to be laid before the pres.
ent Congress, if not at the special session,
then at the first regular session, which
begins In December The bill is described
and advocated by the Hon. LLOYD BRYCE
In the March number of the North Amer
icdn RevielD
The problem, of course, is to make rail-
ways pay, while at the Same time satisfying
the reasonable claim of small as we'll as
large shippers with regard to freight
charges. Mr.. BRYCE holds that the ma
tional legislation respecting railways which
was inaugurated ten years ago was a
move In the right direction, and he thinks
that In its extension and improvement NAV
be found the solution of the problem. The
railway companies of the country generally
recognize, he says, the usefulness of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, and have
aided the Commissioners in the enforce
ment OF the law. Had 1t not been for what
he deems the fatal experiment, known as
the anti-pooling" section of the law of
1887, the work of the commission would
have been, in his opinion, far more effect
been increased, and an equality of rates
between large and small shippers would
have been much nearer accomplishment.
1t Is pointed out that Judge REAGAN the
author of the anti.pooling section, now con-
fesses that further study has caused me
to believe that the section may be amended
80 as to benefit both the railroads and the
people by allowing the railroads to enter
into traffic arrangements with one another"
The State Commissioners of Railways, at a
convention in Washington in S94, adopted
resolution to a similar effect: at Is the
sanse Of this convention that competing
common carriers may be safely permitted
to make lawful contracts with each other
for tho apportionment Of competitive traffic
or of the earnings therefrom provided that
conditions and restrictions be imposed
which protect the public from excessive
and unreasonable charges"
Mr.. BRYCE considers it fully established
that under the working of the present act
unjust discrimination on the part of com
mon carriers Is more hurtful, although it Is
more secret, than it was formerly. II all
the railway companies charged according
to their public rates, there would be no
trouble, but the increasing cost of commits
sions and the enormous sums paid for So !
Letting business betray the existence of
discrimination so plainly that even Judge
REAGAN, as we have seen, thinks his favor
lite "anti-pooling" section may be amend
ed. 1t appears that the proposed law
would remedy the mischief of discrimina-
tion to large extent. Tho railways
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Since the time of the Cardiff Giant the
results Of archaeological research have been
received with q certain air Of suspicion. There
can be no harm, however. in recording tho fact,
II fact 1t be, that some workmen who had been
blasting In a stone quarry in Ottawa county,
Mich. "came upon pocket in the solid rock
containing flint instruments, unquestionably
wrought by human hands. Three Of tho instru-
ments evidently had boon used for hammers,
as there arc grooves around them by which
they were fastened to the handles" II the
report from Ottawa county is true, It Is
curiously illustrated by passage in Professor
DIoNYsIUs BoUEs Aztec Remains" AT this
period" he writes [vol. III, pp. ls0l-lso2l,
what is now the State Of Michigan seems to
have been under the sway Of a fierce and power
full sovereign called PrAToPINsREE. His chief
places Of residence were the towns known thou
sands Of years later as Lansing and Detroit.
Ho wns famed as a hunter of octopuses,
and In his idols, which arc very numer-
ous, he is represented with Q stone hammer
in his right hand or with his right hand up
raised. after having thrown the hammer In
some rude stone carvings, now 1861 in the
Smithsonian Institution, PTAToPINGREE ia de-
picted as powerful man, bald, bearded in the
middle Aztoo fashion. Three hammers arc in
his right hand. Three octopuses cower at his
feet. Period uncertain" Prof. BoUE is now in
Yucatan. but is expected back tho last of the
month. Until his arrival, 1t would be unsafe to
express an opinion as to tho Ottawn county
rolics
The sun., 1897-03-20

No historian, who wishes to be faithful to
tho task of recording tho progress of the new
economies and tho new science of government
among the law manufacturers, can AFFORD to
neglect tho very interesting bill which Is now
before the Minnesota House of Representatives
This measure provides that city councils shall
have the right to fix, by majority vote, the
price of electric light. gas, and water. OF course
city council which has once enjoyed the right
OF fixing tho price of electric light, gas, and
water will find power 80 sweet that 1t will
not rest content until IL has the right
to NIX the prico OF every other commodity
II Legislature once grants TO n city
council tho right to set a prico on other
peoples property OF a certain kind, 1t cannot
logically refuse to grant the right to set price
on other kinds OF property. Tho price of elec.
trio light Is not OF nearly as much Importance to
the community as the price OF bread and milk
and boots and shoes and clothes. The Common
Councils will have to havo the right to say at
what price these and other necessities OF life
shall be sold Obviously the lower the price, the
more popular will be the Common Council and
the more grateful their constituents. Luxuries
will have to follow the fortunes OF neces-
Sities. The price OF everything win have
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What the Cuban war I. Coating Us.

From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Anticipating considerable falling on OF imports
OF Havana Tobacco" says Mr.. Dingey. =" because Of
the revolution in Cuba reduce the estimates
ditfonal revenue TO be derived from tho tobacco
schedule to S4.Ooo.ooo."
Tho meaning this Is that this the Cuban
war Is to cost our Government loss Of o. 0oo-
600 Of annual income. This is only a single item OF
this bill OF costs and, comparatively speaking
very important one. Tho main cost OF tho Hispano
Cuban war which falls upon this country Is that In
volvcd in the loss OF our commerce The trade be-
tween our ports and the ports OF Cuba to and fro
should amount TO at least 900. coo. 900 annually
With anything like q civilized Government ostab-
hshed on tho Island these figures would be doubled
and we should eject exchanges to the of not
less than s2ooooo.ooo per annum: but Spain never
was able and neTcr will be able. provide civilized
Government for Cuba and consequently our com.
merco with the island will be normally de-
veioped Is long as Spain keeps Possession oft
The sun., 1897-03-20
Attention, Poets: /:

Our esteemed contemporary, the augusta
chronicle, contains a communication of
great interest to the poetry.manufacturers
and verse-turners of the United States and
of the rest of the world. A resident of this
town who bears the doubly poetic name of
WILLIS ARDEN writes that he is "endeav.
oring to make collection of poetical works,
to include one copy by each poet the world
over, and in every language" 1t will be seen
that it is Mr.. WILLIS ARDEN's ambition to
collect the largest library in the world.
" also desire" he writes, "to receive pho.
tographs of poets, engrayings and photo.
graphs OF their residences" 1t will be
seen that it is Mr.. WILLIS ARDEN's ambi.
tion to have the largest gallery of prints
and photographs in the world. Not for
The sun., 1897-03-20
WHORE Garfield WINS Shot.
rom the 50. Lorts Globe. Democra,


WASHINGTON, March 15.-The marble tab,st
that rested in the south wall OF the ladies' wai,.
Ing room Of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway
Company's depot and tho brass star placed In
the tiled flooring of the apartment to mark 70;
all time the spot on which President Garfield
fell when assassinated have been removed
A superstiHous dread on the part OF the trayeb
ing public Of constant reminder OF u tragedt
seems to have led to the removal OF these monD
ments. The immediate cause OF the removal oi
tho tablet and star was the fire which occurred
in the depot on the night OF March T. which dam.
aged the tablet to such an extent that The
officials Of the company declared 1t was NOT in
condition TO be replaced. A portion Of the mar
bic tilinR also had to be removed, and although
the metal star placed where the President feil
might have been put back in its old place II was
permanently removed, and the spot Is now
marked only by piece OF red filing, which
would pass unnotioed except to those familiar
with the place and the tragedy that was enacted
oficials of the company stated to-day that
there was no purpose In removing the monu.
ments except that they had been damaged by
hrc. From other sources It was learned that
there had bcen much complaint on the part OF
the travelling public of having the horrors OF
the assassination constantly recalled 10 their
minds when going through the depot or waiting
for trains. To such an extent h1s this feeling
prevailed that the company has long regarded
the reminder Of the tragedy a disadv antaRe
and 1t is believed BY many that the officials were
only too glad to have an excuse to obliterate the
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AS the Cuban patriots have n,

AS the Cuban patriots have never OBJ.
tanned very much pecuniary assistance from
this country or from any other, many people
have wondered in what way they meet the ex.
penses that arc incurred In the revolutionary
war. 1t is by lawful taxation that they procure
such means as are necessary. Their Govern
ment holds possession OF the greater part Of
the territory of tho country, and, like any
other Government, 1t imposes taxes for civil
and military purposes. There arc assessors
and collectors in tho service of its Trens.
ury, who perform their duties In tho ordi
nary manner. Heavy fines also arc frequently
imposed upon those among the inhabitants
who violate such rules as arc established In
the various provinces by the General-in-C Chief.
under tho authority of the republic. 1t Is like
wise to be borne In mind that little money goes
long way in this case. Tho patriot army is not
an expensive one; II fights without pay and
most Of its wants arc freely provided for by tho
people OF tho districts In which the detaohmcnts
of 1t are employed. Money is needed by the rev.
olution mainly for the purchase of arms and mil
itary supplies.
Be 1t always remembered that the Cubans have
government of their own, which administers
public Affairs enacts and enforces laws. and
takes charge OF tho revolutionary finances. The
civil officers OF the Government arc men OF abil-
ity. not less faithful In tho performance Of their
duty than are the military officers.
man who was recently tho President OF tho
United States always denied that the Cuban
patriots have government; but they have one,
for all that. very good one and have had It
ever since tho hrst year of tho war.
The sun., 1897-03-20
THE sum, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1897.

would be benefited by being relieved
from expenses which they arc now Obliged
to undergo through inability to unity and
concentrate their business. Not only would
the railways be satisfied with the projected
change In the law, but so would all such
shippers rs seek no individual advantage
Mr.. BRYCE reminds us that at the annual
meeting Of the National Board OF Trade,
held in Washington in January, 1897, re-
port Of the Committee on Railroad Trans
portation was adopted, looking to a remedy
through the medium of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. This report declares that
there can be no doubt that the great major
ity Of railway managers and Of shippers on
railroads are sincerely desirous of put
ting an end to unjust determinations; and
through the cooperation of this majority
with the Interstate Commerce Commission
It seemed to the National Board Of Trade
that the evil might be eliminated gradually.
1t was pronounced an Indispensable con.
dition precedent, however, that to railroads
must be given the power to enforce their
agreements upon each other, which they
are now debarred from doing by the pro-
hibition Of pooling in the Interstate Com
merce law. The reports conclusion was
that this law should be so amended that
pooling under the supervision of the Com
mission should be allowed.
Under the proposed law the determine
tion Of what constitute reasonable rates
on competitive business would be subject
to review by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and by the courts. This seems to
Mr.. BRYcB an adequate guaranty of Justice
and equity, and he submits that law
which sanctions an agreement for the pur-
pose Of maintaining fair prices and Of pay
ing endurable wages cannot be contrary to
public policy. He would have the measure,
In a word, 30 framed as to protect the pub
lie and the shippers against high rates,
while enabling the railway companies to
get the schedule rates from all. He does
not, however, seem to be aware that 1t is
another step toward the establishment Of
State socialism, Of which We have taken
too many already.
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Legislative Regulation OF Prices.

The Kansas City stock yards are half in
Kansas City, Mo-, and half in Kansas City,
Kan. The Kansas Legislature having
passed law reducing stock yard charges,
the proprietors threatened to move the
Kansas side Of the concern into Missouri.
The Missouri House Of Representatives has
passed stock yards bill which, If it goes
through the Senate and escapes veto, will
mako Missouri no comfortable refuge for
stock yards proprietors dissatisfied with
Kansas. This bill is curious specimen of
Q sort Of measures which find favor with
many Legislatures, and not in the West
and South alone, measures for the partial
eonfiscation ofprivate property without COM
pensation to the owners. 1t declares that
any stock yard which has had an average
daily receipt of not less than 100 head of
cattle or 200 head Of hogs or SO of sheep is
ga public stock yard" The proprietors of
such public yards are required to make
sworn returns every year of the number of
cattle and so on received during the pre-
ceding year, and are forbidden under
penalty of fine and imprisonment to charge
more than certain price for yarding
weighing, and watering cattle.
OF course, If the Legislature of Missouri
oan fix, and greatly reduce, the charges for
taking care of stocks in the yards, 1t can fix
the charges for any other services and the
price of any commodity. 1t can declare that
farmers who have raised certain amount
Of crops in the preceding year, or store
keepers who have sold certain amount of
merchandise, are public farmers and public
atorekeepers; and can prohibit them from
disposing of their crops and their goods at
more than the figure fixed by statute. If
the Legislature can interfere with the nat
ural course of any private business, not dan
gerous to the public health or morals, 1t can
interfere with any private business what
ever. If 1t has right to say what the pro-
prietors of a stock yard shall charge their
customers, it has right to say what work
men shall charge for their labor.
A new Statute of I.aborers would be per-
fectly logical bill for the Missouri House of
Representatives to pass; and the Missouri
House of Representatives is by no means
alone in its folly. There are plenty of hum
bug and fool economists Of the same sort
In other Legislatures.
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The New State omoers at Trenton.

The New Jersey Senate has now confirmed
all o: the important nominations sent In
by Governor GRIees. including that of the
Hon. WILLIAM BEETLE of Camden to be
Superintendent Of Banking and insurance
This is the nomination so dercely and un-
justly attacked by certain persons, who
voluntarily assumed the custody Of the
Governors conscience, including on the one
hand some few Mugwumps of the Godkin
stripe and on the other the unspeakable
political moralists Of PuLITzER's Academy
of Crime; and, as might be supposed, 1t Is
likely to prove one Of the best and flttest
appointments made by any recent Governor
of New Jersey.
The Hon. GEORGE WURTs Of Paterson,
who makes way for Mr.. BEETLE as Banking
and Insurance Commissioner and passes
into the Office of Secretary Of State, which
the Hon. HENRY O. KELSEY has held for SO
many years, is the accomplished editor Of
the Paterson Evening Press, and no better
choice could have been made by Governor
GRIGds. Another excellent appointment
which seems to crafty everybody, is that Of
the Hon. WILLIAM RIKER of Essex to be
Clerk Of the Supreme Court.
These changes, including others, among
which the most important is the appoint
ment of the Hon. SAMUEL II. GRAY of Cam.
den to succeed Attorney General STOCKTON,
who goes out full of a veterans honors and
with the respect Of his fellow citizens of all
parties, have been decided upon by the
Governor with q single view to the good of
the public service. No one who knows Gov.
ernor GRIGGs or appreciates the sturdv in
dependence of his character, can doubt that
for an instant. But If, beyond that consid-
Grafton, the new arrangement of the State
offices indicates a perfect understanding
and harmonious political relations between
Vice-President HOBART, Senator SEwELt,
and the Governor, the circumstance is for.
tunate for the Republican party of New
Jersey; and it need be deplored by nobody
but the adversaries of that now strongly
intrenched organization.
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Now that the Greeks Of Chicago have organized
o regiment TO help the 0reeks Of Greece col doom
scEARck OF Troy will doubtless motse his rarfan,ed
Trojan invincioles.-hemphfs Commsroiai- ppeaI
Col. Doom ScEARcE will do very we'll as myth
OF tho Trojan War. but tho real. genuine rhry-
gian hero and statesman Is the Hon. SQuNcH
CURD of Scamander Crock, KY. He is not going
to war, because he cannot be spared. and be-
cause he admits that peace hath her victories,
but anybody who saw tho Hon. SoUNcH CURp
In command OF tho Scamander Creek fotilla,
while the Hon. JOE BLA CKBURN and the Hon.
JACK CHINN were carrying on hostilities In
Kentucky last year. knows what gonius Is and
what is generalship
The sun., 1897-03-20

Mr.. GLADsToNEs letter to the civilized
world, under address to the Duke of WEST.
MINISTER, on the Cretan question and the
policy of the powers in relation to 1t, will
stir against him the rage of every reaction.
airy in Europe. 1t is just twenty-one years
since Mr.. GLADSTONE thwarted the inten-
tions of the Beaconsfield government to aid
tho Turkish assassins of the Bulgarians and
oppose the wise and brave ALEXANDER
H. who was unsheathing the sword of
Russia in the cause of humanity. His re-
view of the present situation and of the con-
duct of the European powers from that day
to the present time is unimpeachable, as it
necessarily should be, coming from the pen
of a responsible statesman intimately famil-
tcr with all the circumstances relating to the
subject of which he treats In disclaiming
for the British Government large share of
the responsibility for the present crisis, Mr..
GLADSTONE vindicates the bipartisan char
acter of his pronouncement, and, to that
extent, strengthens the hands of Lord
SALISBURY In any efforts he may be dis
posed to make to prevent extreme measures
against Greece for her championship of the
Cretans and her own rights.
1t hardly needed Mr.. GLADsToNE's pen to
hold up to derision the "concert of Europe"
or the integrity of the Turkish empire"
Long ago these phrases had made themselves
and those who employ them ridiculous, and
not only ridiculous, but also contemplate.
The illustration Of what the concert of
Europe meant in 1880 is graphically drawn,
and one can understand in reading 1t how
the spirit of the writer must have chafed
under the curb of inaction placed on his
Government by the Governments of Ger
many and Austria, the two powers that
were responsible for the non.fullllment of
the reforms promised to the Christians of
Turkey by the Berlin treaty of 1878. In
describing the celebrity of the Sultan In
handing over Dulcigno to Montenegro,
In 1880. when he found England and
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A Brahenan,u TearraI Peril.
From the panrtlle Adrocats.


Tho terrible experience of Mike MaIoney.
Cincinnati Southern freight brakeman at High
Bridge, was not exaggerated by first accounts
Maloney was running or standing upon the top of
afreight car as the train was crossing the bridge
When about midway Of the structure his foot
slipped. and he shot over tho edge OF the car and
rocks below. Persons who witnessed the acci.
dent say that Maloney grabbed wildly in all
directions, but could secure no hold upon the
roof OF the car. As luck would have Il, how.
ever, he foil to the side along which the tele-
graph wires run and, Just rs his body was about
with deathlike grip and hung there
This saved him from a terrible death. A num-
Der OF persons hastened to his assistance and
found him too weak TO do any thing for himself.
de was deadly pale, and big drops OF sweat stood
moved from his perlous position. and it was
somc time after he reached his home al George
town until he began to recover from the shock
upon his nervous system. 1t was ono of the
closest calls any man ever had. Maloney will
hereafter cross High Bridge In a caboose.