The sun., 1898-12-18
poIIrToAE NorES

In 1884 and in 1896. In the Presidential elections
Of 1883 and 1892 the post was held by Democrat.
There il renewal of the proposition submitted to
some previous Legislatures 10 do away with the ONCE
OF city Chamberlain Of New York. The duties which
the Chamberlain performs the same which in
other parts OF the State deyolvo upon the County
Treasurer, and in practical operation dovolye
in New York upon the Comptroller hgh-sAlAried
ofhcer Yet $4,000 year is paid from the pro-
goods Of taxation to the Chamberlain his personal
salary, and s2o.eoo additional has beon appropri-
sted for 1890 for the expenses Of clerk hire. mes
ssnGers ana attendants. These items do not include
the rental for rooms In the Stewart building for the
OhAmberlains once. The advocates OF the aboli-
ton Of the post Of Chamberlain urge that IL would
bo move in the interst Of economy and Of moro
efhcisnt public service a. well.
There IN great excitement politically IN Vermont
the State of steady political habits and unchanged
political conditions II arises from the fact that in
two particulars the former established rules have
been broken there Tho FIRST of these rules In that
the Montpelier Legislature shall adjourn on the day
before Thanksgiving with all its work finished This
year, for the first time in eighteen years. II is said II
didn't The second cause of political commohon is
this: bill favored by the Governor Of Vermont TO
attract wealthy strangers to tho State by rcarranGe
men Of tho tax laws failed to the assent OF
Legislature II this business keeps on, some day
Vermont may 20 Democratic.
There will be no State census Of New York until
1908. The last State was In 1892 Tho pre-.
yious ono 20 that in 1876. ostensibly there n
State census every tenth year, midway between the
Federal enumorations.
On the Thursday preceding the November election
tho Board of Armory Commissioners opened bids
for the materials and work required for the altera-
ton and Improvement Of the roof Of the Twenty
second Regiment Armory. on the Boulevard, at
sixty-eevonth street. The estimate was s4.e5o.
There was only ono bidder. His bid was $4,000.
Tho contract was awarded to him.
That the world moves was illustrated at the re-
cent election In the cities of Utica and Rochester
when in the former the returns Of the vote in the
Fifteenth ward were brought by bicycle mounted
messenger to political headquarters q few minutes
after the closing Of the polls. while in Rochester
seventy three voting districts werc equipped with
automatic voting machines. The polls In this State
close at O'Clock. At B:15 tho machines in Roohes-
ter had been unlocked and the records transcribed
blanks and given to men on bicycles. At $40
the results wero made known throughout the State
over the ong-dstance telephone.
These are some of the scheduled civil service en-
Aminatons for the last two weeks Of December:
Wednesday. Dec IA. meat inspector; subjects Of
animation. handwriting. arithmetic, experience and
technical. Thursday, Dec. 15. janitor; subjects,
duties. experience handwriting. reading and arith-
metic Friday. Dec 1e. janitress; subjects. duties.
experience. handwriting. reading and arithmetic.
Monday. Dec. 10, typographical draughtsman.
Wednesday, Dec. 21, inspector of lamps and gas.
Friday. Dec. 20, examiner Of claims, Department of
Education.
Centemporaneously with the completion Of the
New York State Capitol and the cessation OF appro-
pratons for II, other States devoting attention
to Capitol construction. Pennsylvania and Rhode
Island among the number. Neither can hope to
rival, much less excel the bounding State OF Texas
IN this regard Texas has at Austin hreproof Capt.
tol which in form approximates Greek Cross It is
be6 feet long and 2ss feet wide at its greatest width
It is 811 feet In height It accommodates the entire
executive, judicial and legislative departments of
the State Government, and Is fitted with arrange
ments and apparatus for lighting the building by
electricity, and for steam heating and with ny
drauc elevators IL 10 the largest Capitol building of
State. second in size to the Capitol at Washing
ton. and the seventh largest building in the world
it Is asserted.
The Oldest surviving New York Secretary Of State.
Gideon j. Tucker. elected in 1857 is q resident of
the city of New York and, With exception. the
only New Yorker elected to that once since David
F1oyd-Jones was elected in 1859. Horatio Ballard
WAS q resident of Cortland village and Chauncey NJ
Depew was. when chosen in 1868. 4 resident OF
Peekskill. The late Francis G. Barlow was q New
York city man. Homer A. Nelson from Pough.
keepsie @. Hilton Scribnor was from Yonkers. Died
rich wlers, Jr.. n resident of yarick in Seneca
county, John Bigelow a resident OF Highland
Falls, Allen c. Beach OF fwatertown. Joseph B. Carr Of
Troy. Frederick Cook Of Rochester. and Frank Rice
| of Canandaigua- The performance Of the duties Of
Secretary of State in Albany appears to be conducv,
10 longevity for there six surviving Secretaries
of State. and after Dec 81, whom the term OF Capt
Palmer closes. there will be seven. There fewe
survivors among holders OF the other State ofices.
These arc tho States which have already choser
their United States Senators for the term beginning
| on March 4. 1899: Maryland, Mississippi, Ohio
| Oregon Rhode Island. Virginia and Vermont
As result OF the race troubles in Wilmington, n
c. and its vicinity it is thought probable that tn
ballot laws of the Tar Heel State will be overhauet
and revised by the next Raleigh Legislature. which
meets on Jan. next. Biennial sessions the rul
| In North Carolina, and both Senators and Ropre
sentatives IN Raleigh elected for q term of tw'
years. Legislators paid by the day. and the
stitutional limit of the session Is sixty days. On
| effect of the North Carolina race troubles seem
likely to be the oblteration Of the Populist party
heretofore strong. in that State. For several year
| tho North Carolina Populists held tho balance O
| power there.
| Considerable hostile feeling has sprung up be
tween the Socialists and the Populiss and II appear
| TO bode no political good luck to tho latter. Tn
Populist party is Of rural origin. II In the
Of tho Farmers Alliance. It's early recruits wer
secured from out Of the ranks Of those farmer
| whose financial distress caused by low prices TO
the products OF their land and tho Of NOR,
gage obligations resting upon IT, In the first Presi
dental election in which 1t participated. that o
| 1892. the Populist party polled q vote OF nearl
100000. drawn almost wholly from tn
| farming regions of the country. In 1895 tn
labor men in the large cities made com
mon with tho Populiss In support o
Bryan, and thereby incurred the hostility OF tn
Socialists, who regard themselves as the veritabl
and only genuine labor party. Now. by degrees. tn
| Labor party voters arc Joining the Socialists rank
and the Populists losing what hold they pre-
viously had in tho large cities. In Massachusetts
for instance. whore two Socialist legislators hav
| been elected, one 10 . union shoemaker and tn
other was connected with . street railroad compan
| and participant IN tho strike Of its workmen an
employees against the introduction of tho indemnt
bond system on Its lines.
There Is already some talk of changes in distrir
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