The times., 1897-04-04

gress from Philadelphia. He has intro
duced Independent bills providing appro-
pTiations of 500, 900 each for the erection
in this city of stat tues in honor OF Father
William D. Kelley and Speaker Samuel ].
Randall, who for more than d quarter of a
century each, served in Congress and
aided in establishing the high character and
great usefulness for which the delegation
from the City of BrOtherly Love has so
long been renowned, and which IL stin
retains. Mr.. Young's bills both provide
that the sit es for the projected sta tues
shall be determined by commission TO he
compos ed OF the Vice President, the
Speaker and the Architect of tie Capitol.
Judge Maxwell, the venerable Populist-
Democrat from Bryan's own State of
Nebraska, hastntroduced bin transferring
all the postmasters Of the United States
from the list of appointive offices. His
bill is the most Ella aborate one ever proposed
on this subject. 1t not only provides that
hereafter all postmasters shall be elected,
but it divides the United States into post
office districts. The work of division
is not to be trusted, under the Maxwell
bill, to the PostoffiCe Department, but
is to be made by the county board in every
county in the United States, and no part
OF the country is to be omitted from some
postal district. The bill also takes care
OF fracti onal districts which may be
formed from part of two OF more counties
In such cases the county In which the
building occupied for postOrfice purposes
is located shall have charge OF the division
and the Arrangements for a popular cleo
tion.
Judge Maxwell was long a member OF
the supreme court bench of Nebraska and
is a man of great influence in the State
He is serious in his present proposition
and thinks it would do more good as a
means of removing the Postoffice Depart
ment from the control of any political party
than all the civil service reform acts that
have been written on the statute books.
tits said that Senator Allen Will present
a similar bill in the Senate. II the next
COngressis Democratic. and Judge Maxwell
is one Of those returned to it, ne will make
the agitation of this bill a feature OF his
term.
The Maxwell bill provides that the terms
of all postmasters now in office shall ex-
pire on the 1st day of January after the
bill becomes a law; that pCstmdSters shall
be elected for theterm offour years through
out the United States at the general
election OF 1898. All that is left OF the
patronage of the POstOffice Department
under this comprehensive and sweeping
measure is the night to fill vacancies until
the next general election. The bill coyess
all classes of postmasuers and places Po-
dunk Cross Roads on exactly the same foot
inv this "A world
oils OF Greater New York.
Senator Mills has a bill that will make
the bloody shirt shouters very weary. 1t
provides for the donation TO the Ladies
Monument Association of Dallas OF a hun
dred condemned mUskets and the same
number of sabers to be used in the erection
Of a monument to the Confederate soldiers
This is a Government recognition of the
fact that there was such a thing as a
Confederate army, that it was composed
Of brave men, and that many Of them fell
in battle. Every suggestion OF this kind
has always given certain class OF Re
publican campaign orators in and out of
Congress the hydrOphobia. Undoubtedly
some of them will get the disease again
if the Texas Senator presses his bill
Representative Beach OF Cleveland, who
is one OF the few Republican members
chosen last fall who claim to be still
loyal to silver, evidently believes in the
party bluff regarding the promotion of
an international conference. He has pre-
pared bill authorizing the President to
call an international conference of
different sort, which is to meet in this
city. IL Mr. Beach's idea is carried into
effect, this conference will be attended
by delegates from all the American re
publics, and will formally accept and de-
clare the Monroe doctrine to be q pTfnci-
pie of international law.
Secretary of State Sherman is to be the
American delegate to such a conference,
il called. But other nations that paruci-
pate in It can have as many delegates as
they choose to select