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The herald., 1897-12-23
A STATESMAN SATIRIZED

Hon. Charles n. Fowler has made the
mistake of sending to Judge A. J. Utley
of this city a copy of circular letter in
viting criticism of his bill to amend the
national banking act blouse bill 500,
which he has already supported in a
geles man has taken occasion,
in letter to Mr.. Fowler, n copy of
which is published elsewhere, to satirize
the Fowler plan in vein most pleasing
national bank dogmas He suggests TO
Mr.. Fowler that, inasmuch as his scheme
is somewhat complicated and that some
Of its provisions are liable to be mis-
understood, especially by the common
people, he would do we'll to consider the
propriety of substituting some of the
provisions of the banking law of Spain.
This law is model of simplicity, and it
IS impossible to misunderstood or mis-
construe its provisions Moreover it has
been tried, and under it Spain has at
tained a remarkable financial position
among the gold standard nations of the
world, and since we are now about to
follow her example he thinks we should
have the manliness to acknowledge her
rs our financial prototype If" he says,
with dash of irony that is rasping, Eve
probability in a short time be able to
stand shoulder to shoulder with this
great financial reformer, and become, in
The same manner as Spain now is. one
Of the great money centers of the gold
standard world"
The Spanish law, thus commended to
Mr.. Fowler, provides for the redemption
by the government on demand of all her
token money, not in gold coin, but in
certain weight Of fine gold. The produc-
ton and importation of gold. its con-
version into coin and reconversion into
bullion, expectation, monopolization. Sc
It's use as money, are left entirely in the
hands of the banking classes, and the
prerogative of the crown is limited to the
fabrication of coins at the option
and upon the demand of the bankers.
and at the expense of the public. Sub
Eidiary coins are limited in quantity to
the actual needs of private parties, and
are redeemable b.: the government in
gold AS it is sometimes TO the in
.erest of the banking classes to initiate
'r contract the currency more suddenly
han can be done by means Of coins, they
The herald., 1897-12-23
NEWS HUNGER SATED

The German commander in China has
refused to admit newspaper correspond
ents within his lines. London publishers
are out of conceit with war correspond
ence generally, but it is not probable
they will relax any of their proverbial
enterprise in securing reliable informa
ton for their readers, should hostilities
break out in the Orient. Certain it is
that a number of American journals will,
regardless of the expense and quite indie
pendent of possible circulation returns,
send distinguished news gatherers to
the front, with powers of unrestricted
coinage, and without waiting for the
consent of any other nation
In the late Graeco-Turkish war Amer
lean papers showed to an astonished
world the possibilities of war corre-
spondence, and the bills they afterwards
footed for eminent writer's, distinguished
artists and an eXhaustless courier serv-
ice, was doubtless such as to make the
financial managers weep. But they set
the pace for all future occasions, and in
the event of a scrmmage in the Orient
Julian Ralph, Sylvester Scovill, Stephen
Crane and Richard Harding Davis. the
heroes of the last campaign, will be in
great demand by the rival newspapers of
the metropolis. There may even be
demand for the services of John ]. In
gals, should the bellicose statesman not
be detained on this side by the exgen-
cies of the Julians and the Bradys.
1t may be interesting to the general
reader to learn that modern newspaper
enterprise in the collection of war news
is neither profitable in the United States
diligence. Mr.. Alfred C. Harmsworth,
financial manager of the most enter
prslng journals in London. the Daily
Mail and the Evening News, who spent
q princely sum in salaries to correspond
ents to follow the fleeing Greeks, fully
attests British Indifference to the course
of events. saying:
The pubic took not the least interest
in that war. Our war correspondence
added very little to the sales OF the
paper. Your directors are the most of
them concerned in the direction of some
four daily journals, and neither in Lon
don nor in the provinces did they find
that the people wanted to read either
about the Turks or the Greeks.
London journals find reports of Aus.
tralian cricket matches at six cents a
word more profitable than fresh intel
lgence from the Thessalian frontier or
costly and carefully prepared CORE
spondence from the British advance in
the Soudan.
Nor is the American public free
from the imputation. II 1t be
The herald., 1897-12-23
Couldn't Tell Much About It

The following conversation took place
between the president of the state nor
NAL school at Mansfield and George K,
farm laborer, when the latter. after
debating a long while in his own mind
whether to get bike" or take a course
at Mansfield, applied for admission to
the school:
Have you ever been through alge-
bra?"
"Yes, sir"
Can you tell me anything about it
now?"
George K. (promptly)-'It was gettin'
dark when 1 passed through, and the
cars went so fast I couldn't get much of
an idce what it was like. philadelphia
Call.
The herald., 1897-12-23
IN THE LABoRER's BEHALF

1t is gratifying to know that street
Superintendent Drain has determined to
test his own authority to compel con-
tractors on street work to pay their en-
ployes, as an indispensable condition to
being paid themselves.
We have already alluded to the de-
plorable condition that has sometimes
prevailed, whereby certain contractors
on street work have deliberately cheat
ed hardworking laboring men out of
their pay. Hardlya day has passed for e
number of weeks that a complaint of this
kind has not been made at the city hall,
while the officials are powerless in the
matter, however much they would like
The contractor who improved Thomas
street having demanded his warrant,
Superintendent Drain refused to deliver
it until the man should have paid sew
progress of the work. The warrant had
been assigned, and it is probable that
mandamus proceedings will be entered
into to compel it's payment. The super
intendent may be beaten and made to
pay, but he will have the satisfaction OF
knowing that he attempted to protect
the interest of the laborers, who are
necessarily at the mercy of the con-
tractors.
OF course, many of the contractors are
cheating laboring men out of their hard
earned wages; but the INSCRIPTIONS
gentry are sufficiently numerous to
cause a great deal of trouble and hard
ship.
The herald., 1897-12-23

are given control of the emission of pa
metal which they are legally empowered
to monopolize. The government divests
itself of any possible means of ascertain
ing the quantity of money in circulation,
and the dimension of the value, or meas
ure of value, is only known to the bank
ing classes
While conceding that the Fowler bill
does not materially differ from the
Spanish law, Mr.. Utley yet suggests the
substitution of the one for the other, on
account of the prestige already earned
for the law in force in the peninsula, and
because every American banker and
gold standard advocate will hail it as the
very essence of financial wisdom.
The closing suggestion of the Los
Angeles man is that power should be
taken from congress to repeal or modify
the proposed law for period of at least
fifty years. He assures Mr.. Fowler that
any opposition can be held in check, as
the advocates of free silver coinage have
been kept in subjection. although in the
majority in the country. Albeit the
supreme court is still doing business at
the old stand, and may be depended upon
in an emergency.
Criticism of pending financial legsla-
tion in this satirical vein may have the
effect of arousing the people to the
enormity of the eXactions being made
upon congress by the creditor classes
of the country in the matter of currency
reform, even though it directly fails to
its uses,
The herald., 1897-12-23

such, Of preferring news from
the football fields and the encount-
ers between gentlemen athletes such as
Fitzsimmons, Corbett, Ryan, Lavigne,
and the various kid representatives of
the manly art The Herald will not in
this connection undertake to moralize
upon the fact. Almost any kind of a
moral can be drawn from it. We at all
events do not think it necessarily indi-
Gates moral degeneration
The herald., 1897-12-23
THE DIALECT NOVELIST

He walchelt and bachelt,
He schughelt and sauchelt,
With many a hech and hotch,
He scartit and rakit
His memory, and scrapit
A story he said was braid Scotch"
He rowled and he sowled
In style ould and bould,
With lot of begorrah and wall;
He bejabbered and gabbered
And paper he glabbered,
When he wrote his mscalled Irish tale
He humid and he begum'd,
He swowed. swan'd and vumd,
And begoshed about keows nd the barn
He chawed and he hawed,
AS his poor pen he paved.
While writing a fake Yankee yarn.
He AMID and he hegged,
AS he 'ammered and dregged
His his and is in the strife,
Between 'alf and 'alf coster
And unabridged Webster
In novel of English life.
Waterbury Globe.
The herald., 1897-12-23
One Essential Lacking

The Engineering and Mining Journal
says: "If those who think of going to
the Yukon country to get rich will work
as hard and undergo as many privations
here at home in the pursuit Of money
they will, we have no doubt, be richer at
the end of five years here than will be
the average of those who go to Klon-
dixie" The trouble is they can't find the
privations here.-Boston Transcript.
The herald., 1897-12-23
SVmpathctic

Mr.. Brown-Terrible tragedy at bar
gain counter. A woman who had secured
the last five yards of cheap silk was shot
by another woman who had been wait
ing from midnight without having u
chance to get any.
Mrs. Brown-Poor thing! Surely they
won't do anything to her, will they,
John?-Harlem Life.
The herald., 1897-12-23
The Counts Mistake

$50 Gwendolyn is not to marry the
count after all?"
mo, poor man He tried to tell her that
her singing was something that made
one glad to live, and his pronunciation
was so bad that she thought he said it
made one glad to leave. And then she
requested him to leave. ve."-Indianapolis
Journal.
The herald., 1897-12-23
ONLY One Thing More Needed

The Illinois Republican leaders propose
to gerrymander the state again, in order
to secure, if possible, a few more legis-
lative and congressional seats. If they
could only deprive the minority of rep
resentation absolutely, they would rest
content.-Manchester IN. H.) Union
The herald., 1897-12-23

The anomaly is presented of free
colored labor in the south working the
destruction of the cotton manufactur-
ing industry in Massachusetts. A hint
of such a possibility in 1860 would have
been pronounced wildly visionary.
The herald., 1897-12-23

In the case of the Yukon, some will be
disposed to discount the old aphorism
that it is better to give than to receive
But all will perhaps agree that it is
better to give a little now that we may
receive the more by-and-by.
The herald., 1897-12-23

Weyler has threatened to level his
typewriter at our esteemed president.
The difference in rank between the two
men, one being general and the other
only major. will preclude other and
more sanguinary satisfaction being de-
manded. We trust the fiery Castilian
will be decorous and circumspect in the
use Of adjectives
The herald., 1897-12-23

This time the Republican party is in
debted to Messrs. Armour and Letter
for a December lift to wheat. 1t WILL
however be passed to the credit of the
Dngley tariff law in time for future
NC
The herald., 1897-12-23

Our dispatches this morning indicate
the possible success of the annexation
lists in securing a majority pledged to a
joint bill of admission. They have evil
a ratification of the treaty.
The herald., 1897-12-23

the Sagasta scheme of pacification. en-
dorsed Weyler. and gone out of busi-
ness for the time being. Perhaps few
will doubt the wisdom Of the last named
act upon the part Of the Spanish
element in Havana
The herald., 1897-12-23

The persistency with which the presi-
dent adheres to Charley Bryan. in con-
nection with the Chinese mission, indi-
Gates belief that the young Chicagoan
IS, in the presidents view, in some way
related to William Jennings and a de-
termination to get him as far away
from the United States as possible.
The herald., 1897-12-23

Forty persons and corporations in
Denver pay taxes upon an assessed
valuation of 5000, 100000, which is sup
posed to be half the actual value of their
holdings. Adversely doesn't seem to be
Wintering in Colorado,
The herald., 1897-12-23

The mission to Tiburon appears to
have been bootless. The official report
is calculated to arouse a doubt as to
whether it was really undertaken in
good faith.
The herald., 1897-12-23

The value of mans prediction as to
the probable range of wheat should de-
pend somewhat upon the extent of his
holdings.
The herald., 1897-12-23
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State OF California, County Of Los Ange-
les.-ss.
L. NJ. Holt. superintendent Of circulation
Of the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
for the five months from February I. 1897.
to June 30. 1897 Qnclusive). the total circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was 1890 6S5
copies, being an average daily circuln-
ttOn of S6O4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1.071,567 being daily
average of S3OO copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 2l9,059. being an average
for each Sunday of 1O,431.
L. NJ. HOLT,
Superintendent Of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of July, 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER.
Notary Public in and for the County OF
Los Angeles. State Of California
The herald., 1897-12-23

Argentine decides not to retaliate.
but right away increases the duties on
commodities.
The herald., 1897-12-23

Bailey's circus is holding forth at the
Olympia in London. 1t is the first Amer
ican attraction since General Miles's en-
gagement.
The herald., 1897-12-23
The New DAYS in Kansas

What do you call that affair? Is it n
new tangled threshing machine?'
Nav. That's steam mortgage can
ccler."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The herald., 1897-12-23
WOLCOTT'S DILEMMA

The dsaffecton between the president
and Senator Wolcott, which has already
begun to disturb the serenity of admin
istration leaders, was inevitable. Mr..
Wolcott is shrewd enough to see that
he cannot serve two masters, and The
Herald has already asserted it's con-
vction that when it came to a show
down the Junior Colorado senator would
range himself with the prevailing senti-
ment in his state in favor of independ-
py tentative position. He must take
his place in the senate, after the recess,
as the champion of his people and their
cause, or he must throw overheard ali
hopes of a political future, and champion
the cause of the administration in the
matters of the currency, Cuba and Ha-
waii, each of which is as unpopular as
the other among his constituents in the
mountains. The immediate future
movements of Mr.. Wolcott will be
watched with interest, here as elsewhere.
---e>
Tnree mllllOnS OF national Dank cur
rency has this month been surrendered
because of the plethora of money at the
financial centers and the consequent low
rates of interest have enhanced the value
of United States bonds. And still the
wonder grows that in a rich and re-
sourceful country like the United States
money cannot find profitable fields for
investment in industrial undertakings,
but. instead, shrinks back into the bank
vaults and hides itself behind mortgages
and trust securities. Can it be posi-
BILE that there is anything the matter
with our laws?
The administration has met with lit
tie success in its efforts to secure the
removal of the restrictions placed upon
the importation of American meat prod
ucts into France. Not only have the
proposed reciprocity negotiations failed
but the French government has actually
increased the embargo. The Dingley
tariff law not only gives no promise of
opening new markets to the surplus
products of this country, but threatens
to close a number of the old ones.
&--
The reunited Union CONSTITUTIONAL
party Of Cuba. the Tory contingent on
the island. has formally resolved against
The herald., 1897-12-23

The reunited Union Constitutional"
party Of Cuba. the Tory contingent on
the island, has formally resolved against
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-24
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR.
SEVERAL OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE IN YEsTER-
DAYS LIST

SEVERAL OF LOCAL IMPORTANCE IN YEsTER-
DAYS LIST.
Albany. March 2S.-Among the bills signed by tho
Governor to-day were the following:
Chapter so-Senator Elsworths. exempting from
taxation State bonds issued 10 pay for the sSoVV"
CHAPTER sl-Senator Guys apprcpriating 5000 for
the law library of the Appellate Division of the SUI
library of the Supreme Court, First District.
Chapter Ssenator Fords providing for the pay sy
ment by cities of moneys due by reason or the ter
mination of liquor licenses on June 80 ls% 49,
Chapter S-Assembl,man Nixon's, providing the ne
sum of s. 600 for the representation OF the STATE IN
the negro department OF the Tennessee Oenteiilia'
Exposition a; Nashville. and making general ap
preparation of $1,000 for the expense Vi INC We"
Chapter SGIAssemblyman Gilliand's. authorizing
SOC O00 for the construction OF bridge of single
span of forty feet across the Harlem River 10 pro-
vide for the proper extension OF broadway, or
Kinesbrdge Road. 10 its present terminus IN the
Twenty-fourth Ward. xu,,
New-York CITY To issue 100000 additional bonds 70
provide for the requirement. of streets ana avenues
providing for a public driveway in YORK rela,
tive TO confirming reports as TO any special parce!
% CHATTER ham si-Assemblyman Nixcn's, designating
April p, 1874 as. public holiday in Newt ork'
Chapter 92-Assemblynan Marshalrs authorizing
the Justices of the Supreme Court OF the second
Judicial District living In Kings county 10 appoint
Interpreters and TO fix their salaries
Chapter 97--Assembyman Aqstin's. appropriaung
and kindred subjects IN normal and other schools
Of the State. ,,. ..s.,.,. a.
the general fund of the city OF Brooklyn all nnex-
vended balances Of the county Of Kings al me
time the said city extended as 10 nclude the
entire county within its corporate limits. -
Chapter Ex-senator Cantor's. incorporating me
Sailors Rest OF the city Of New-Nork with the
following directors: Mayor William l.: Strong OF
New-York Mayor +. W. Wurster OF BROOKLYN
lanes " ElwoN president OF the American Sea
mems Fund Society: Commodore Scard, l.; s. n.
commando of the Brooklyn Navy Yard; Captain
= j Higeinson l. S n: J. Pierpont Morgan,
commodore Of the New-York Yacht club 4; -, +.
orr president Of the New-York Chamber OF Com
merce: Rear Admiral Henry Erben, L. 5. n; v II.
Brown +. J. Berwnd. :. Nicholson Kane: George
L. Kemp, &. a. GriscoIn, Jr., r. u i5Iackioru anu
w. Berri. =, -,
Chapter 102-Assemblyman Austin's. amending the
New-York City Consolidation act relative TO the
sale OF bonds
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-24
rur NEW COPiRTNERSHIP DIRECTORY.

The forty-nfh volume OF Trow's formerly Will
son,s, copartncrship and Corporation Directory has
lust been issued II contains inc names OF SSoio
a,,ns corpnrations ETC. Increase over last year OF
ooi Tho aim OF this work Il TO furnish To lawyers
hanks bankers brokers. insurance companies. trust
companies merchants capitalists and investors the
following information: The correct hrm or corporate
name the names OF the members OF each trm both
General and special where there are limited firms
the names OF the special partners and amount OF
snocial capital the term Of It's DURATION the names
of the various banks. insurance ana trust compa-
Mes their capital officers and directors; the capt
o., oUcer4 and directors OF the numerous manu-
featuring and mercantile companies and the name
NJ IN. State under whose laws they are chartered
tho various trade and the proprietors there
az. the names of the foreign houses In Newly ork
and I'm connection with each the location OF the
home Office the name OF It's NcW-lork representa-
five and the location OF IT, New-fork Office. Al
This Information has been obtained since January J.
'rhe volume Is arranged In alphabetical order and
Is a work OF easy comprehension and great utility
The publishers. the Trow Directory, Printing and
Bookbinding Company. No. Il University Place have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-24
me- This was voted down without going to for.

one This was voted down without going " A''
Mr. Brennan offered an amendment to Section 2sS
eauazing the pay Of doSrmem W for their pro-
MIR Abel offered amendment to sec5 mo member SeT
Of the force can be retired except upon the cerunca-
Mr. Roehr offered an amendment to Section 90 90
providing that any deputy commissioner or de-
resident of the borough Lost. ..,. .,e ,,,. NJ
An amendment offered TO section 900 os M ~e
Abell preserving relatively the NUMBER OF men re-
ouircd to inspect the streets under the new Ssree
Cleaning Department system in the borough ol
Mr. Nixon suggested that the House was in suf-
nciently good humor TO om, resaing tne n GEN.
orally be considered. This was done aHu "a d
great variety Of amendments were onered anu IT,
MIR Nixon in ending the majority side Of me de
bate before the amendments We're put asserted tnat
The volume OF the measure not the only eX-
cuse for not having read it, The charter nad pee n
S of the an sac1n Of the State affected well
aware of what it provided
HOW THE MEMBERS VOTED.
A call Of the House was moved at 2:So The
charter was then taken UP for final consideration
and passed by vote of rs to 2S Those VINO voteo
against the bill were Messrs. Barry Corrigan'
DAILY Dempsey, Donnely. Fritz. Glodhll, Green
Hart Hutton Kelley. Leonard Maloney, Mathew
son. G. W. Meyer. jr. Murray, I. r. Myers
Palmer Reinhard. Robbins, Roche, Sanger. r.
schmid sehulum. Steiner Tooher Trainor ana
Finn.
The affirmative vote at first announced as
III but was afterward changed 10 lis 1t lolIoWs:
Messrs Abel. Adds Adler. Aids. Anderson, H.
r. Andrews. j. j. Andrews. Armstrong, Aus'ih'
Baker Bates. Bayliss. Bedell Belen. Benhom
Blasdell, Bondy. Braun. Brennan, b. d. Brown l..
J.. Brown, Bud, Burr Cain. c. J. Clark j. Clark'
Cole, Costello. COughlin, Cromwell Cullen, pegnan
Downs. Dudley. Eidridge. Fish, Fitzgerald. For
roster. French Fuller CARLY GlieIand, uen'
GoOdsell Gorham. Gott Graves, Gray, !fIhha'
Harrison Hill. Hobbe. Hoes. Hoffman, fiolper,'
Horton. Hughes, Hustled, Ives: kavanaush Mel
pey Kennedy KNAPP. Roster, 1.aimbeer Leversee'
Lewis, Maccabe Mackey. Marshall, g. a Matte
ton Mazet j. r. McEwan, McCsraw, j. Mckeown.
Mcknight Mclaughlin. Miles. {. II Miller n j.
Miller Murphy. Nixon. Pafshall, Perkins. Peter
SON. Pho Pierce, Post, Raplee, Roehr. ROUNDS.
Sanders, Saunders Scherer. Sc1neider sears.
Sheldon Smith. Soper Springer. j. L. SULLIVAN, l.
y sullivan Sweet TAYLOR. Ten Eyck. Tupper, van
Colt Van Keuren, Wagstan. Warner, NeDs,
Whritner. Wilson. Winnie Witter. zimmerman,
The absentess were Pratt. Lennon and e. L.
Schmidt ,,u
The House then passed the supplementary bills.
and on motion of Mr.. Nixon. the rest or the order
of third reading was abandoned for the day. being
made special order for tomorrow morning, atter
tho reading Of the journal. ,, su
The Chair handed down communica ZION from
the Senate returning the Appropriation bill, with a
notice that it had appointed conference COM
nittee The Chair ned Messrs Nixon. Horton.
Wells Costello and Finn conference committee
of the Assembly.