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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
THE RESULT.

The general result of the election i'll
the State is disappointing and discour-
aging to Democrats. At this writing,
we arc not sure that Senator German
has any chance whatever for re-clcc.
ton. but it appears possible that the
Democrats may be able to organize the
House of Delegates The majority is
so small and the probability of compli,
cations in Annapolis next winter Sc
manifest that there is very little com
fort to be derived from the contempla-
ton.
That we have rescued something
from the wreck in this county is due
to the personal popularity of the sue
cessful candidates, aided by good Or
ganzation and vast deal of active
campaign work. The interests Of the
county will be cared for in Annapolis
by our Senator and two Delegates.
Mr.. Downings defeat by 4 votes is I'M
fortunate. He has had experience in
legislative work and would have been
a useful member Of the General Assem-
bly, had he been elected. The defeat
of Dr. Griffith for the clerkship gives
the Republicans control for six years
more of what is possibly the most i'm
portant political office in the county,
and the loss of the County Commits
sioner gives the Republicans control
of the Board and the distribution of all
the local patronage.
The defeat of Mr.. English as survey
or is to be regretted, as lie is an excel
lent engineer and an industrious young
gentleman.
The figures published elsewhere of
the vote in the judicial circuit show
that q gallant fight was made by our
candidates. \ majority Of over two
thousand was reduced to about eight
hundred, and had it been contest for
the judgeships alone, with no local or
state issues, the verdict Of the people
might lave been different
The republican majority i'll the Leg
islature is so small, and the plurality
Of the State ticket is SO meagre that
Mary lund Democrats will ha+v plenty
of inspiration for the next campaign,
and by starting out upon fresh lines
will be able to elect the Governor two
years hence.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
UNION PACIFIC SOLD.

The Union Pacific road property. in
Guiding the buildings, and all that goes to
operate the system, was, on Monday morn
ing. sold to the reorganization committee
for the sum of :;53, 529, 532 &C. This amount
does not include the sinking fund in tn,
hands of the government, and, taking this
to be 81 ,O36 400, the amount stated in the
governments decree covering tie sale OF
the road, the total paid for the property
was $51 ,564, 932 Is. There were no other
bidders, and the road went to the reorgan-
ization committee without any OPPOSITE on
The sale of the road was in itself one OF
the tamest and most uninteresting per
formances possible to imagine. The
crowd, which was not over five hundred,
all told, was packed so closely around the
doorway and up in front of the centre of
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05

The time when the newly elected Off
Gals of Baltimore city will enter upon
their duties, their terms of office and sala.
ries are as follows:
Mayor, takes charge Monday, November
sth, term two years, salary $1,000 a year.
Judges, qualify Immediately after cleo
ton, term fifteen years, salary $l5,COo a
year.
Sheriff, qualities Immediately after cleo
ton, term two years, fees about $1,000 a
year.
Court clerks, qualify Immediately after
election, term six years, salary $500 a
year.
Register of wills, qualities Immediately
after election, term six years, salary So $500
City surveyor, qualities Immediately af-
ter election, term two years, fees about
$500 year.
Members First and Second Branch City
Council, take up official duties on the third
Monday in January. Term-First Branch,
one year; Second Branch serve for two
years; salary for each branch 81 900 year.
State Senator, takes up his official du-
ties on the first Wednesday in January,
term four years, salary s. per day during
session.
Members of the House of Delegates,
take up their official duties on the first
Wednesday in January, term two years,
salary s. per day during session.
Comptroller Of the treasury, qualities on
the third Monday of January, term two
years, salary $4,000 year.
Clerk Court of Appeals, qualities imme-
diately after election, term six years, COM
pensation by fees
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05

now exist" In other words, the establish
mcnt of the single gold standard by law,
instead of by the i'll of an adminiStra-
ton, as at present, is demanded. The diff
ference between demanding and getting
from Congress will soon be apparent from
the administration
How the Dingley tariff law acts to re-
ducc our trade with Mexico trade which
naturally belongs to lis, is shown by the
following remarks of Mr. +. l.. Stillson.
now in Washington, vino Las been i'll
Mexico for fifteen years. as manager of a
Philadelphia silver mining company: This
country, | think. is not pursuing cNHctly
the right policy i'll its relations to Mexico
We ought, by right of cont rnity to have
almost Il monopoly of the trade of the sis
ter republic Everybody knows that in
stead Of buying the bulk Of its imports
from the United States that Mexico pre-
fers to get them of France and Germany.
The reason for this is that we have put /,
high tariff on Mexican products, and so
the DaZ government thinks it proper to
get back at us by lcvying stiff duty on
American wares. The goods of France
and other foreign countries are not so
heavily taxed, and therefore crowd Yam
kee products out of the market. AS long
as we levy such high tribute against them,
we may expect to see their trade almost
monopolized by transatlantic countries"
Notwithstanding the iollying that At
torney General Mckenna has been public
| ly giving himself for his work in h'lning
the Huntington syndicate nl..kc sure of
getting the Union Pacific Railroad at a
price admitted to be many millions below
the actual value of the property, he is said
to fear that it may keep him out of that
| coveted seat on the bench of the United
| States Supreme court, to which he will be
| nominated in few weeks. He knows
that there are a number of Senator'S who
are Thoroughly posted on this whole Union
| Pacific bu ness, and he has dread les;
| they should see fit to either hold up or de-
| feat his nomination to succeed Justice
| Field, as a punish nelt for his connection
| with the deal.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
SPANS GLOOMY FUTURE.

1t is not alone in the ina gination of her
impractical statesmen that Spain is living
in the past; in a material sense. she is
living upon the past. Financially as well
as politically to great extent she is in
the hands of the French financiers, who
with niggard hand are doing out to her Il
little more gold in the hope that it may
serve to tide over this period of trial and
to save some of the many millions which
in the prosperous. thoughtless years they
poured so lavishly into the bottomless pit
of Spanish credit
Dark as this picture is, the political
tableau is still more somber Above the
cry of those who are asking for bread, and
Cor the return of their sons and brothers
.nl husbands who will never come back
from the pcstilential colonial wars, can tie
heard again the hoarSe cry of party strife,
the uproar of the most irreconciable
political divisions and antagonisms The
widows peace that CanovaS proclaimed
when, six months after the death of his
=
truce which Spanish chivary has main
tanned for twelve years, is over, and there
is about to take place struggle for the
throne to which the posthumous child
e god given" above all other children, us
Grilo, the poet addicted to the Bourbon
dynasty, proclaimed in patriotic verse;
was born, but to day action is in order,
and no one knows better than Senior
Sagasta that every leader of the various
groups and political creeds in Spain is
griding up his lions and marshaling his
co -reli gionistS Ga literal translation of the
Spanish word which shows with what
fanaticism political questions are fou rht
out in Spain today. and are n king
every preparation for the era of chaotic
civil war which is dawnng, and out of
which no one knows what will come.
1t is very difficult II draw Il clear
picture of this state of political tur-
moil and fermentation, because its most
yet at any moment it may assume very
definite and menacing shape for the up
holders of the present regime in Spain,
among whom, by the way, Senior Sagasta,
the present prime minister, is not regard
ed as the most stanch an3 uncompromis-
in his loyalty.-From The Situation i'll
SPAIN by Steyhen Bonsal, in american
Monthly Retiec Of Reri ~s for November.
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OUR WASUINuTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., November LIST.
Mr. EDITOR-Secretary Gage now owns
| up to the gold bond scheme, which so
| many republicans took the trouble to deny
when it was publicly stated a short time
ago that it would form the foundation of
the administrations attempt to secure
financial legislation from Congress at the
| coming session. Mr.. Cages statement to
| the Cabinet has been made public, proba
bly, with the hope that it viii meet favor
| with the people to a sufficient extent to
| influence Senators who are naturally OPP
posed to such Il scheme, which for bam-
boozling purposes, Mr.. Gage calls anti
| radical in character. This country fought
the greatest war of modern times without
| finding it necessary to issue single gold
| bond, yet, now, in time of peace and
amid boasts of continued and increasing
prosperity, the administration will ask
Congress to authorize the issue of a sutfi-
cient quantity of gold bonds to refund the
entire bonded Indebtedness of the country
and to add hundred or two million to
the gold reserve fund. Some of the argu-
ments advanced in favor of the chang are
little short of ludicrous. For instance,
when Mr.. Gage says that making our en-
tire bonded Indebtedness payable in gold
would strengthen and confirm the public
credit and put us in a position to command
the markets of the world for our securities
on the most advantageous terms" Every
schoolboy knows that We already occupy
that position; that the securities of no
country on earth are in greater demand
all over the world than those of the United
States.
Mr. Gage repeats the Cleveland Carlisle
recommendation that the greenbackS and
Treasury Notes be retired, and offers as
substitute the probable increase of Nation
al Bank notes that would follow the adop
ton Of his recommendation to allow Ma
tional Banks to be established with CAPT
tai of f25, 900 in towns of less than 1000
Inhabitants and to allow all National banks
to issue notes to the par value of the bonds
they have deposited with the government
| to secure their circulation. Taken all in
all, the financial recommendations of the
| present administration bear a close re-
scmblance to those of the Cleveland-C Car
Isle regime, and the following words
written by Mr.. Gage, after telling about
how prosperous the country is now on ac-
count of bountful crops, etc, indicate
that the administration might even follow
Mr. Cleveland's example in giving the
country financial object lesson to i'm
press its views upon Congress: "Unfortu-
nately these good conditions cannot be
assured to us. Commerce and industry,
sensitive to all unfavorable events, and
watchful with anxiety against dangers as
yet unseen, need for their full rehabilita-
ton from past reverses and depressons, 4
renewed confidence that the governments
finances are to be firmly placed on strong
CT and more enduring foundations than
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
NEW CONGRESSIONAL
LIBRARY OPENED.

The library of Congress, in its new hon C
was opened to the public Monday. The
magnificent building in which the library
is now housed has been opened for inspec-
ton during the past year, but for the first
time the books themselves were made ac-
ccssible on Monday, and the business of
library which was suspended in the cap
itoI building about three months ago,
when the work of moving was begun,
Was resumed at the new building as if it
had never been interrupted. There were
no ceremonies of any kind in connection
with the event, important as it is. The
grandeur of the building and the greatly
improved facilities for readers themselves
form more impressive dedication of the
institution to .he high purpose for which
it has been designed than any cere-
monial.
While the library is ready for the public
there is still some work to be done be-
fore all its many divisions are in complete
order. This work will be carried on,
however, without interfering with visitors
in any way, and will all be finished be-
fore Congress meets.
1t has taken six years to construct the
library, and the cost of the building and
the site was $6250OOO With all the
rapid accommodations of books in this age,
the capacity of the colossal library is so
great that it will meet every possible de-
mand for more than hundred years to
come.
Although the present number of volumes
in the library is only sufficient to fill
three of the regular stacks, each stack or
building being IS feet high. 1l2 feet long
and 40 feet wide, the total accommodation
of the stacks in the library is for over
2 ,0S5 900 volumes, or, as it is estimated,
reckoning nine volumes to the foot, the
capacity is about 45 miles.
Besides this bookshelving there is an
additional capacity for shelying for about
$500, 900 volumes, and the architects have
estimated the utmost capacity of the build
ing for books, without encroachins upon
the pavilions, corridors, reading room,
museum halls or basement or cellar to be
upward of 4,5OO, 900 volumes, or, as they
put it, somewhat less than 100 miles of
Shelving.'
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
THAI AMENDMENT.

The proposed constitutional amend
ment in favor of civil service or 1he
merit system in state, city and county
appointments was so overwhelmingly
defeated. says the .1meriran, that its
friends naturally feel discouraged. or
are searching for some reasonable cN-
PLANTATION of the popular disapproval of
majority against the amendment was
nearly 80 eco votes. True, the total
vote cast OH the amendment WAS not
one-half the total vote cast for mayor,
which showed that large part Of the
voters either ignored it or forgot it.
The returns from the counties show
about the same general average, and
so the movemC Mt in this direction re-
cS.yes, at least fer tie time being, Il
decided setback.
There is no doubt that the manner
in which the civil service plan was
manipulated by President Cleveland
for the sake Of keeping his friends in
office after he went out of it, has
made many people suspicious oft. He
proved that law or system in the
main good can be SO handled as to work
injustice to the many in the interests
Of the few, and at the same time to do
harm to the public service instead of
good \ principle may be all right,
but the practical application OF it i'll
the hands OF 4 partisan executive. be
he president, governor, mayor or 4
county commissioner, may be all wrong.
The people want good service from
their public officials, from the highest
to the lowest, but they do not want a
law that will allow partisan to put
in office, and keep there for life, men
whose sole qualification for office is the
fact that they can pass an examination
which is very likely to be no fair test
of their ability, capacity, honesty or
character.
While this defeat Of the civil service
amendment in Maryland will. for the
time, discourage its ardent advocates,
they will probably appeal to the new
legislature, with what success remains
to be seen. Many of them are earnest
men, welded to the principle which
they advocate, and even such an over
whelming defeat as that Of Tuesday i'll
all parts Of Maryland will not cause
them to lay down their arms.
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the building that the members of the rcor
ganization committee, the men who came
out to buy the road were unable to see
anything or hear Il word of what was 60
ingon.
The Baltimore -Imcr'c';n says: 1t was an
excellent sale for the government 1t OBJ
tanned the whole of its demands. Some
years ago this was believed to be impossi
bic The popular impression was that the
government would get nothing but the
railroad, and that in dilapdated condi-
on Good management of the property,
however. together with the creation of
proGu tive branches. made it profitable
for Il syndicate to come forward and pur-
chase the government lien. II it can
succeed as we'll with its other railroad in
vestments, it will be fortunate. But it
must be borne in mind that these railroad
loans were not granted with the primary
expectation that they would pay.
They grew out of a great crisis in the
nations history, when it was deemed OF
the first Importance to connect the Allan
tic and Pacific by close bonds. The coun
try was at that time as much in need OF
them as the people, Or at least imagined il
was, and the bonds were endorsed and the
land grants provided. The roads were no
finished until long after the war, and
therefore, did not contribute particle to
its success, beyond placating the people
on the Pacific, so that the government
reaped no advantage of any account in
that way. In numerous other ways, how
| ever, it the gamer.
These raj roads opened up magnificent
stretches of forest and virgin prairie tc
settlement. Immense plains which bad
been regarded as deserts were converted
into productive farm lands or cattle ranges
witch have supplied the world with meat
\ scattering population of hunters and
a Nentl ca, mat could almost be number
ell by hundreds has swelled to many mil
lions of industrious and epterprising citi
zens, adding largely to the wealth and i'm
poltance of the state OF course, there
are men who claim that this was prenla
ture development, which Injuries more than
it helps; but this is not the REVEALING eco
nomical opinion.
But, SO far as money is concerned, the
government is not yet clear on these roads
While the advantages have been undeni
able, the transaction, as a whole, has been
one that it will be well to avoid in future
1t is not So much the money as the dem
oralization which that money has caused
on more than one occasion, which should
lead American statesmen to steer clear OF
subsidies to railroads, and canals also, in
| future.
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The Maryland Senate.
HOLD-ONER SENATOR'S.

FOLLOWER SENATOR'S.
Anne Arundel-J. Writ Randall, r.
Baltimore City,, Gustavus A. Dobler,
r.
Baltimore City-3, Frank S. Strobridge,
r.
Baltimore County-D. Hopper Emory,
r.
Carroll-Joshua W. Herring, d.
Frederick-Frank c. Norwood, r.
Howard-George D. Day, r.
Kent-Charles 7. Westcott, r.
Queen Anne's-W oodland p Finley,D.
Somerset-A Lincoln Dryden, r.
Washing ton-Norman B. Scott. Jr., II.
Wicomico-Elihu E. Jackson, D.
SENATOR'S NEWLY ELECTED.
Allegany-David E. Dick, r.
Baltimore City-Louis PutZel, II.
Calvert-Charles l.. Marsh r.
Caroline-Robert NJ. Messick, r.
Cecil-Austin L. Crothers, ID.
Charles-George I. G. Gray, r.
Dorchester-Wm +. Applcgarth, d.
'dIIcll~lODCll ~ NAV CuSCIOll, H.
acknowledgements \. Williams, II.
Mont gomery-Wm Viers Bouic, j. r.
Prince George s-Wm. b. Clagett, ID.
st. Mary's-W ashin gton Wilkinson, r.
Talbot. Frank Turner, d.
Worcester-John Walter Smith, ID.
SENATE.
Democrats ..................... s.
HOUSE OF DELEG ATES.
Allegany-James Campbell, Matthew Rowe. j.
b. Robinett, Charles II. BrandIer, Jon Leake. Five
republicans.
Anne Arundel-B. Allen WEIGH, B.uner r. An
derSon, Peter ID. Potee, Hugh r. Riley Four dem
oCrats.
Baltimore CITY District DIR. Charles 7. Scud-
der, Thos. A. Robinson, Emanuel II. Jacob
Aquilla A. Baldwin. Frank II. Quast, VIM. F.
PentZ.
District J CHARLES NJ. Short, W. Baltzcll .Jen-
kins, Edward DE Lacour, Oscar l.. Punan, Upton
$ Gosnell, Henry j. llalbert.
District }-Phillp IL. Lendelking, Edward f.
Tolson William L. james, Louis Schaffer, Bena-
min l.. Turner, Cho,les L. Schirm. Eighteen re-
publicans
Baltimore County-Jno. ;. W llSon, Edward ). W.
Choate, Harry Malcholm Henry w. Knoebel,
James b. Fcard, Joseph Sandman. Six democrats.
Calvert-Dr. Abram j. Williams, James c. Cha
ney. Two republicans.
Caroline Charles H. Todd, George I. Redden.
one republican. one democrat.
Carroll-Daniel j. IlesseI, DIR. Milton NJ. Norris,
James W. Taylor DIR. Clo.worthy Birne. Three
democrats one republican.
CeciI-John 5. Writ, John II. Jenness, Wilmer
d. Thompton. Three democrats.
Charles-DeB. Walbach, F. Albert Hicks Two
republicans.
Dorchester IJnzo l.. Niles, Charles W. Hack
ett' benjamin J. L!nthicum. Three democrats
Frederick-John X. RouZer, j. Frank Butts,
Thomas High:man, Edward L. HON. Harry +.
Chaplihe. Five republicans.
Garrett George w. Noon, WI liam II. jacobs
Two republicans.
uarford-Hernan Hanson, William NJ. White
fo-d, r. l.ittletcn Hanwav Robert Seneca -Four
democrats.
Howard County Elias Green Seihy, Gro->enor
Hanson, Two democrats
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William 7. Master was elected
Mayor Of Baltimore city over Henry
Williams. by $3.50 plurality.
Baltimore city elected an unbroken
line OF ofnincteen Republican members
Of the next General Assembly.
Mr.. Lewis g. Putzel was chosen t.
the State Senate from the second leg.
islatiye district by Il plurality of $50
votes over DR.. J. Pembroke Thorn, his
Democratic opponent. Six Rcpubli.
cans were chosen to the House Of Dele
gates in each of the three city districts
The plurality Of those i'll the first was
1852, in the second 3.lS3. and in the
third l.l2i
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-05
1873 ACRES
OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,

LOO
OF LAND, MORE OR LESS,
adjoining the lands Of Frank NJ. Hall, B.
Lee Belt and others.
The improvements consist ! @-CO
of DWELLING, BARN,
STABLE and necessary out 49, ~
buildings.
This property is located on the public
road leading to Halls Station which is
about mile distant, and offers a rare op-
portunity for anyone desiring to purchase
a small, well-located farm.
TERMS OF SALE:
One-third cash and the balance in equal
instalments of one and two years or all
cash as the purchaser may elect the de-
ferred payments to bear interest from the
day of sale and to be secured to the salts
faction of the undersigned. These terms
may be modified and a portion of the
purchase money may remain on mortgage
if deemed advisable. A cash deposit Of
500 will be required at the time of sale.
For further particulars apply to
PHIL. H. TUCK,
Attorney named in Mortgage,
207 NORTH CALVERT ST., BALTIMORE, Md
October 10th, 1S91-tS.
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Kent-Enoch G. Clark, George f. Nolind. Two
democrats.
Montgomery-Ashcy NJ Gould, George Minor
Anderson, James E. Ayton. Three republican.
Prince Georges County-George S. Dove, Robin
White, Thomas NJ. IND rwOod Two demo
Gratis. One republican.
Queen Annes-Eugene L. Dudley, S. Collins
Wright William P Price, Jr. Three democrats
Somerset-Maur,ce \. Carew, Isaac P. Dryden,
Amos Irving Dougherty. Three republicans.
St Mary'SPerry Hayden, John S. Jones. Two
republicans.
Talbot-Wilam C. Duley, Levin IL. TulI. One
democrat, one republican, one tie.
Washington-B. Aaner Belts, Newton E. Funk
houser, Lewis d. Syester, Harvea S. Bomberger.
Three democrats, one republican.
Wicomco-John f. Taylor, John w. 2. Insley,
Minos A. Davis. Three democrats.
Calvin B. Taylor, j. Edward White,
Lloyd Wi kinson. Three democrats.