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The times., 1898-01-12
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IL, 1898.
All Hail.

How can we express our delight
and joy over the triumph of Marcus Au-
reIius Hanna and true Republicanisnl
in Ohio? Always confident of the great
mans success. stili. sometimes we have
had moments of passing doubt, But
they are past and gone Hanna is IN
top. as he should be, on every partisan
ground. Nobody more than the ad-
herents of National Democracy should
be glad this morning.
II we had lost Hanna as an object
lesson and horrible example in the
Senate, there might have been reason
te fear the American people could be
brought to believe that his methods and
practices had been spurned by The re-
spectacle elements of his own party,
and that within that organization there
existed the yeast which would fermenu,
rise, and change the mass into SEM
blance of propriety and patriotism.
We have been with Mr. Hanna from
start to finish. His ideas, purposes aud
conduct may be obnoxious to every
conception of good citizenship, bat they
are distinctly and legitimately Repub-
lican. They were acclaimed and in
dorsed by the Toledo convention. They
were previously heralded as Sreat big
thing when they were successfully used
to purchase the election of SIR. Nc
Kinley. Once more they receive ;,tc
hall mark of sterling worth from the
Ohio Legislature
We congratulate all concerned On the
result. We congratulate Mr.. Hanna.
We should be lonesome with"rt him.
We congratulate everybody :nut opr-
selves Absolutely We are afraid that
a few episodes like this will give us
such majority in the next House o:
Representatives as may tend to make
the Democratic party foolish and reck-
less, and injure its prospects at the
polls in 1900. Otherwise, everything is
joyful. Let us get out the Gated calf
and the butcher and have outlets.
The times., 1898-01-12
The church and Patriotism.

That the American pulpit should lead
IN all the things that go 10 make our
country and its Institutions purer, bet
ter and more virile in their advance
ment, in every respect of civilization
and God-fearing manliness, will not be
questioned by most people That it does
so TO some extent may be admitted.
That it does not to the extent that It
should, is open to demonstration.
Not long ago the distinguished
Bishop of New York. the Right Rev.
Henry c. Potter, made a speech at
the meeting OF the Church Club in that
city, in the course OF which he COM
pared American with British institu-
tions and government, much i'm depre-
cation Of the former. At the time, we
treated the matter lightly. regarding
the Bishops remarks. from the point
of view of an after-dinner talk. which
calm reconsideration might induce him
10 explain or modify. for the benefit of
his many admirers. But. to our knowl-
edge, he has not done SO, and we feel
The times., 1898-01-12
Philanthroric John Ruu.

The speech of Mr.. Balfour to his
Manchester constituents is an evidence
1llal the British Empire breathes more
freely than it has for some little time.
A nephew OF Lord Salisbury and a
member of the British Cabinet,
Mr. Balfour always speaks by
the book. He declared that the OBJ
sects of England in thu Orient were not
territorial. but commercial, and that as
long as the 'protectionist nations Gid
not present. a captured front On the
1hinese coast against fir-itish free .lade
laere was nothing to say concerning re-
rent movements of lis cougtrys polit-
hal antagonists.
Such a speech must be regarded as
additional evidence that an entente
eordiale" has been established between
England and Germany on the basis
that the former is not TO be bothered
IN its design to grab the T'7ansvasil,
and the latter is to absorb the Chinese
province of Shan Tung without ohjec-
ton.
All the powers of western Europe
appear to have an excellent under
standing among themselves as TO the
division of tispheres of influence" IN
that part of the world stiil open for
the extension of commerce. Whatever
may be the fact politically, when if
comes to considerations of production
and trade, the only great powers ap-
parently isolated are America AMI Rus
sia. BY and by. perhaps they may have
something to say, either severally or
iaintlN.
The times., 1898-01-12
THE KLONDIKE TRAFFIC.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion's Privilege to Railways.

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has granted a suspension of the
short haul clause of the interstate COM
merce law, with regard to certain
classes of business over the trans-con-
tinental roads that compete with the
Canadian Pacific. This privilege is
considered of great Importance in view
of the immense business expected dur
ing the spring to the Alaskan and Brit
ish Columbian gold fields.
The exact nature of the suspension is
that the Grand Trunk road is allowed
TO give a lower through rate to passen
gers from east of Detroit over its
American branches. among them the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
to the Pacific coast. This is with the
provision that the American roads
shall not themselves institute any rate
cutting, but may only keep their rates
as low as those of the Canadian Pa-
cific
This suspension was urged on the
commission in last May, when the
Kootenai mining districts in British
Columbia were attracting large inter-
est. The attorneys for the American
roads then argued that the Canadian
Pacific road, built with government aid,
subsidized by the government, with 40
long and short haul clause" and de-
pending almost entirely upon through
trips, would be able. if it saw fit, to
cut its rates 50 far below its American
competitors as to take away all of their
through business. Under the law the
American roads could not cut their
through rates without also chopping
down proportionately every short haul
rate between intermediate points. This
would be suicidal.
The commission saw the force of
this and granted the privilege tenn
porarily. In July il was extended to
January /. 1873. So far the roads have
not been obliged to avail themselves
of the privilege. The Canadian Pa
cific saw the point of the new ruling
and made no cuts.
At the beginning of the year the
commission was inclined at first not to
allow the suspension of the law further.
The railroad lawyers, however suS-
gested to the commission that the
very largest use of the suspension and
the one of most Importance will come
in two or three months now when trav-
ell to the Klondike begins This bust
ness, it is conceded. will be enormous
People from Eastern Canada and the
whole eastern section of the United
States are expected to begin this mi E.
grafton in a vast body in March and
A ApriI. The Canadian Pacific would un-
ioubtedly cut its rates III half II nee
assary, and secure four-fifths OF this
very business if the shorthaul clause
were continued in effect on the trans
roads in the United States
And so the commission has extended
he suspension for one year.
The times., 1898-01-12
Now for Democratic Ohio.

Some uD-tO date physicians have been in
vestigating leprosy, with the very up to-date
result of believing in its cure. They express
the opinion that if the patient is Kept clear n,
cheerful and reasonably good, he can be
cured; and that the disease Is, in the first
Mace, caused by unhygienic surroundings.
There may be something in this. People
have always been too much fraid OF leprosy
10 investigate it very closely, and as in
the case of most unpleasant ailments, in
cludine moral ones, il was easier TO segre-
gate the patients than to cure the disease.
Moreover, the Importance OF the bath as
preventive and cure OF various disorders
has not until within the last hundred years
been well understoOd-in civilized nations.
The japanese have always made pointo or
being clean, and so have two or three other
nations whose cleanliness was part OF their
religion, but water, like laughter, was
eschewed by many medieval leaders OF
thought as being ppleasantto be righteous
In fact il sometimes seems as IL the theory
on which the Occidental world was run dur
ing two or three hundred years was that
the human race was doomed to destruction,
and it was helping Providence to hurry on
The. work as fast as possible Pestilence and
vice were called visitations OF heaven, and
woe and lamentat ton were regarded a signs
of uooduess The present century might
almost be lied the era Of hope, so great
has heen the progress toward a sa ner, more
rational. and more cheerful way OF living.
The Preyfdent-"well, Mark, I'm as glad
as l can he, but there are some things
wouldn't do even to be elected senator'
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Is the Commission SLOW

To the Editor of The Times:
L noticed Secretary Longs complaint
QUOTED in Sundays Time9 regarding
the slow manner in which the Civil Ser
vice Commission moves and transacts
public business. The honorable Sec
retary says there have been several
casas-vacancies awaiting a man To
fill them, whom the commission either
does not have ON it's eligible lists OF
are unable to supply without unrea-
sonable delay.
The present writer has been informed
by a person who is in a position to
know whereof he speaks. that men are
now actually needed BY certain depart
mentS to fill vacancies. but as there
are no persons on the eligible lists who
are qualified for the places they remain
vacant, and the service suffers. E.x-
aminations for these positions were held
last October-moTe than two months
age-but no report as to the standing
of the applicants has yet been made
says my informant.
The commission may plead an insult
ficient number of clerks and to many
this would seem a good excuse but il
is not. The working force under the
commission IS more than capable OF
transacting all business promptly. were
II not lOf TIE TuiilDuSlN eNIIdNdSdUL
and SenSeleSS policy which requires
every applicant to take an examina-
ton once year. IL he wishes to remain
on the eligible list. The total number
examined during the fiscal years 1894.
1885. and 1896, according to the report
of the commission. was over p. 900 per-
sons. Out of this number only about
3,e0e- were appointed during the same
period.
Ii the eIigibles were kept on the list
for several years (say at least three)
without being compelled to take a re-
examination during that tine. the COM
missions duties would re compare
lively light. This explains one reason
why the commission moves so slow;
why department officials are at their
mercy: and last, but not least, where
enormous sums of the peoples money
are annually thrown away
RECENT CONVERT.
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compelled to call national attention to
his utterances. because they seem so
unpatriotic and un-American as to de-
mand attention. emanating as they do
from a man of high social and theologi-
cal standing and, moreover, from one
who is a scion of good old American
family whose members have not in
bly, been of the aristocracy but
some of whom have held the plough.
or shot the shuttle, like other worthy
people OF our land
We regret that Bishop Potter does
not appear to be so much a represen-
tative of that kind of ancestry as of
what is known in this country as
Anglomania. In his individual case,
this is not SO astonishing, but we shall
not deny ourselves first-class text by
excusing an American prelate who, be-
cause Of the fact that he is sometimes
addressed as my lord" in England,
and, in virtue of his prelacy, has the
entree of royal and noble society, there
by naturally finds everything superla-
lively superior on the other side.
Let us consider the Anglomaniac pes
simism of Bishop Potter aside from his
personality In his New York speech
he declared that the British people
take more interest in the details of
government than Americans do; that
they are better governed, and that he
agreed with the view that this country
never again will enjoy the prosperity
that characterized it for the two dec
AIDES preceding the panic manufac-
tured by the Rothschilds and Grover
Cleveland in 1898.
From the British standpoint of Bishop
Potter. the last proposition is quite
conceivable. OF course, we cannot have
prosperity under the gold contraction
slavery which his British friends
through the use of diplomatic influence
and the corrupt application of money
in procuring legislation, have imposed
upon us. Nobody expects it, What we
do look for is the popular revolution
against Anglomania and foreign con-
troll of our financial policy that is grow
ing to head. and which all who agree
with Bishop Potter are trying to pre-
vent.
We may have a good deal more to say
on this subject in the future. For the
present purpose il is only requisite to
make the remark that the utterances of
persons like the denationaliZed Small
ley. of the London Times. only appear
to find support among clergymen like
Bishop Potter and certain American
colleges. Smalley, after twenty years
of service under an alien flag, is able
to act the mentor to his former fellow
countrymen, and to teach them that
there is nothing much of good in the
world, unless ii be English. Outside of
the pulpit and some colleges. creatures
like Smalley are without constituents
tions. Angiomania is not without its
potent force. BY way of example We
will state that not less than fifteen
American Senators voted for the infa-
nous Olney- -Pauncefote treaty last win
ter who would not have done so If it
cational influence organized in the Brit
isb interest in their States
One of the great needs of the day is
more sterling Americanism in our
schools and pulpits. We ought to re-
turn to the days when the preacher
would take off his cassock and lead his
flock to fight for American independ-
ence. Those were grand old days. Shall
we ever see them again?
The times., 1898-01-12

Mr. Paul Wilstacb, who has been for
two years past the dramatic editor of
The Times, left the paper yesterday to
accept a prominent position from Mr..
Richa rd Mansfield. Mr.. Wilstach's critical
work has been marked by dignity of
treatment delicaey of touch, and thorough
knowl ledge, which made him valued
member OF The -Eis-as staff. He has
also written some delightful comedies,
curtain raisers and farces, two OF which,
at least, made their first appearance in.
Washington.
Mr.. Wflstach is native of. Lafayette.
Ind, town which, for it's size, has
produced goodly number OF famous
people. He did his first newspaper work
in Chicago, not very many years ago,
and came to The Times in 1895. TIE
good wishes Of all his Washington friends,
and they are many, will follow him in
his future career.
The times., 1898-01-12
A Home for the Blind.

There is no possible way by which
liberal minded and charitably inclined
persons can do so much good as by
contributing to establish in the Dis
| trict of Columbia a Home for the
| Blind.
Provision is made, more or less lib
orally, for almost every other class of
| unfortunates. but for the blind, who
are the helpless victims and never the
authors of their misfortunes. nothing
practical has been done. Such of them
as are unable to obtain a rudimeniary
education at the public schools may.
after a considerable exercise of time
and influence, be sent at the expense
of the Government to the Maryland
Blind Academy, but after that is done
for them they are no longer consid-
cred.
The plan of the association which
has lately been organized, and of
which Mrs. John Russell Young has
been chosen president, is to establish
home where the dependent blind can
be taught such light trades as will
help them to a permanent support. To
rent such place and moderately fur
nish it is not so great task. but to
maintain it until the inmates can be-
come self-supporting is charge that
must be provided for
There are probably over a hundred
persons in the District hopelessly
blind, many of them dependent on fit
full charity; many terribly neglected,
and all proper claimants upon the at
tention, the-care and the liberalit- of
their more fortunate fellow citizens. 1t
is to provide for them a shelter, or, if
il can be attained, a real home. so that
their present misfortunes may be al
leviated and their lives a little bright
ened, that this movement has been re-
gun.
There can be no doubt that every
cent contributed will be properly ap-
piled. The TIMES has been requested
to act as a collecting agent, and with
this request it cheerfully complies. 1t
viii receive and acknowledge subscrip-
lions. large and small, and begins the
work with a contribution of $50.
The times., 1898-01-12
SOUTH CARoLINA's SDs.
Deficit in the Treasury to Be Pro-
yided For.

Columbia. S. c.. Jan. 1.-THE Legis-
lature met here to-day in annual ses-
sion under somewhat gloomy circum-
stances. There is no pressing iegisla-
ton that aroused enthusiasm.
The announcement by the Governor
that the Legislature must provide for
deficit now existing and that the in
come from phosphate royalties was last
year but little more than hair the
amount guaranteed the bondholders
from that source, as sinking tuna,
together with the uncertainty about the
dispensary law, was not cheering.
Speaker Gary urged the members to
conclude their work in hurry and ad-
journ. as the people were in no mood
for paying expenses of long session
A resolution to extend the time OF pay
ing taxes six weeks was the first intro
duced. The phosphate industry. as rep
resented by the river mines, seems
about to collapse entirely 1t was de-
cided to elect a Supreme Court and sew
eral circuit judges January 19.
The times., 1898-01-12
Pictures in the Fire.

We watt together; but in shade and shine
You see the golden future OF your ways
And the lightthat shone on vanished days:
No; though together eyes and hearts com
bine
I cannot see your pictures, nor you mine.
Yet as the fire burns low, and sinks the
blaze,
From the cold hearth 1 turn-a moment
gaze,
And read our union in those looks of thine.
When on the hearth of Life the fire burns
low
Wherein our lonely dreams and visions
Shone,
When the last picture sinks with all the
rest,
Dear, may we turn as trustfully as now,
May we as gladly quit the cold hearth
stone,
And know that Loves Reality is best.
E. Blair Oliphant, in Chambers Jour-
The times., 1898-01-12
IT CALLS FOR 81. .7ss. .s4s2s.
The Urgency Deficiency Bill Re.
ported to the House

/ Ahc tEStHty GeilC1tHtN Dill Ee-
ported to the House.
The total amount asked for in the urgency
! deficiency bill, reported to the House
yesterday, is 81, ,8432s OF this
amount the State Department receives
S41,s7 Library OF Congress 81 900:
Treasury Department, S411.715.40; Dis
trict OF Columbia, S56. .3O2- -83: Fish Com.
mission, s23640; War Department, $685.
O24; Navy Department, $40, 900: Interior
Department. S56. 6.1s9.05: Postoffice De-
partnent, $4,000: Department of Labor.
$4,000; Library OF Congress for additional
clerks, S2,O6s.4o. The new postoffice
receives S175 600.
The bill provides that all the
new postoffice building from the
second to the eighth floors. inclusive.
shall be assigned to the Postoffice Depart
Iiient including the money order office and
the office Of the auditor for the Post
office Department, including the records
OF the office now in the Union building and
the office or topOgrapher. Continuing,
the bill sa vs.:
That the space in said building on
the floors other than that 10 be occupied
by the executive offices OF the Posteffice
Department and the executive offices Of
the auditor for the PoStoffiee Depart
ment shall be assigned as aforesaid. on
the basis of an average of not exceed
ing one hundred square feet 10 each
clerk. which space is also to aeconmo-
date current files. Upon the Complexion
of the assignment, as aforesaid. if suffi
cie!t space remains available. the same
shall be assigned by the Secretary Of
the Treasury to some office or bureau
oil the Government now occupying rented
quarters IN the city Of Washington. on
same basis as to square feet Of space
indicated as0ve as TO Pcstorfice Depart
ment and auditors office: and that So
soon a S said assignment OF the entire
available space in said building shall have
been completed said building shall be I'm
der the custody and control Of the Post.
office Department
Other amounts named are:
For the completion of the Western High
school. S33@.000; equipment Of the same
building, $4,000; grading and laying out
the grounds for the school ST. 900: 10
j. C. Hurst, for lots 30 and 30. block
OF Clark and Hurst'S subdivision OF part
OF White Haven. 81 ,TO2.S3: salary OF
treasurer Of the Reform School for Girls
Tor the fiscal year 1897 5000.
The District Of Columbia must paw one
half of the foregoing amounts TO mxet de-
ficiencies. The bill Will come ND today
for coDSidera ton.
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1t is suggested by the ever-enterprising

II is suggested by the eyer-enterprisine
Chicago press that now is the time, There
ever was time, to drum up American pro-
ducts in China. This argument is ma de on
the theory that the Chinese farmer will be-
fore long become tired OF using the ldpIows
ami reapers and wagons and things which
his ancestors used. and willbegin to irnport
observation-disclosures of a new wandimprovedp pat-
tern. Moreover, there is q movement on
footto hold an eXpositionof fAmericanmanu-
factures In Shanghai, which shall be per-
manent, complete and instructive. This, it
is argued, will cause the Chinese farmer to
The times., 1898-01-12
A. q. SpaIding & Bros.

venerable Captain Bassett. 1t was
while occupying this position that he
came into confidential relations with
Republican Senators and built up
reputation that has made him
one of the most valuable en-
ployes of the Senate. At the
time of Captain Bassetts death, two
years ago, he was nominated and unan-
imously elected assistant door-keeper,
and at the same time b. W. Layton
was elected acting assistant door
keeper, Mr. Layton is Democrat, 50
that under this arrangement each party
has its confidential employe.
While attending to his official duties,
Mr. Stewart studied law at the Co
lumbian University. and was admitted
to practice before the supreme court OF
the District Of Columbia. and in the
State courts OF Iowa. He has been
practicing for five years.
No action was taken yesterday by the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
with respect TO the nomination of At
torney-General McKenna to be
Justice of the Supreme Court The
time of the committee was consumed
in reading the numerous communlca-
tions, both for and against the noml-
nee. There are great many Of these
letters on each side, but it is under
stood that those urging confirmation
are in excess of those opposing MI
McKenna. There was no expression OF
opinion and no action OF any KIND
taken The committee will meet again
tomorrow There is hardly doubt but
that Mr.. McKennas name will be
favorably reported TO the Senate, and
that he will be confirmed.
The Stanley Matthews resolution was
discussed by the Senate Committee on
Finance informally yesterday morning,
but at the request of some members
it went over until the next meeting
which will be held next Tuesday
There is no doubt but that the commit
tee will order a favorable report on the
resolution, which declares 1t TO be the
sense of the Senate that the obliga-
tions of the government can be paid in
silver without impairing the rights OF
the holders of such securities.
The times., 1898-01-12

And so the Grand Army of the Republic
wants the pension rolls published This
is startling. Gen. Goblin. the commander
m-chief. is in Washington to insist upon
an investiga tion, in the interests of the
WORTHY OLD veterans, who do not like to
think that they are in the company of
ira uos There is some danger that an
effort may be made to make Gen. Goblin
see that a fraud upon the country at large
may be an excellent thing for the political
party in power. But it will not work
he is q soldier and a gentleman
The times., 1898-01-12

Mr.. Wolcott, on Monday next, VIII adj
dress the Senate on some matters and
things connected with his late mission
to Europe. He ought to have full gal
lerics. His position is unique. He Is
Republican who not only believes in sill
yer. but wants TO believe that Mr., Nc
Kinley is with him. Gage and Peabody to
the contrary Notwithstanding. We pity
Mr.. WoIcott. and will hear what he has
to say with amiable complacency- such
complacency as always should be shown
to good man, unfortunately in bad
company.