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The Grand Army,s System or Relief.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: Concerning the
article which appeared in THE Sun OF to-day headed
Never Applied for a Pension" will you please pub
lish the following: Charles McGovern. the veteran
found in the street by the police, was brought to the
rooms OF the Relief Committee. G. A. r., liz City
Hall. yesterday by oricer Smith OF the Twenty.second
precinct by order OF Judge Pool. He was immedi.
ately taken in charge by Chairman Commander
Joseph b. Lord and the committee. and was
thoroughly clothed and provided with meals and
lodgings. When he has sufficiently recovered from
the exposure he will be sent TO the Soldiers Home.
The Relief Committee of the Grand Army attends
to all cases of destitution among veterans brought to
their notice. They have provided for thousands Of
destitute veterans during the past year.
G. II. HESDRIcKsoS,
CLERK. Relief of the Grand Army Of the
Republic OF the City OF New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.
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According to our esteemed contemporary,
the Philadelphia Ledger. the Hon. NARcIssus
LIE GALLIENNE is an Interpreter Of OMAR
KHAYYAM, the Persian poet" Mr.. LIE GALL.
ENNE's Interpretation" consists in a traduc-
tion of ~FITzoERALD's version into bald and fiat
10 Galliennese. 1t is hoped by the eminent
Interpreters friends that ho will ind time to
interpret SHELLEY, KEATS, and T%ENNYsoN in
the san mastery manner Tho business
man on the ship seemed to talk Of nothing but
dollars" says NARcIssUs. to whom dollars
give q sensation OF disgust almost amounting
to a ~fainting At. His lectures and readings in
this country will be positively free to all. Photo.
graphs at the door. No BARRIERS or rival young
poets admitted.
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THE HARRIsBURG CAPITOL.
Gov. Hastings Trying TO Prevent the Award
of n Contract.

Nj
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. 4.-Gov. Hastings Is
after his four colleagues on tho Capitol Building
Commission once more. He isn't satisfied with
what they have done in the way Of plans and
specifications. and he wants to prevent the
award of a contract for the building of the new
State House on next Monday. lie has now in
voked tho aid of the courts, but his first step is
an injunction proceeding to restrain the four
Commissioners who do not think as he does
Mylin, Haywood. Boyer, and McCarrell. 1t was
taken this afternoon before the Dauphin county
court.
Acknowledgement Mccormick and Deputy
Attorney-General ltecder represented tho Gov
ernor. They asked tho court to restrain the
letting OF a contract next Monday on the ground
that the specifications are not in conformity
to the act OF Assembly as to the ireproof re-
Guirement. and also because it is proposed to
erect an incomplete building of a temporary char
acter at u figure largely in excess of the amount
appropriated by the Legislature. After, a brief
argument 1t was agreed. without formal decree.
that the contracts should not be awarded until
after hearing of the complaint on next wednes.
day. 1t is understood that the case will he
Immediately, appealed TO tho Supreme Court.
The opinion Is general here that the courts will
sustain the commission.
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Parenthesis and Bracket.

This cry of a sou puzzled by parentheses
comes to us from Syracuse:
Twas taught that parentheses and brackets are
not interchangeable. that what is included between
q Is q part OF the story. and that what is included
between is not. In newspaper work men use
brackets to inclose . word OF explanation to the
printer or the editor. Should not brackets be used
exclusively for explanation to the editor, or even to
the reader. when that explanation is not q part of the
story; and is not this distinction between and x
peculiar to our ianguagep 1 ask because in books and
in magazine articles written by men presumed to
know the English language, I have found the two
used INTERCHANGEABLE. W. p. b.
There Is no natural distinction of use be.
tween the parenthesis and the bracket.
They are different forms of the same thing.
They are wins The parenthesis is a curved
bracket, the bracket a rectilinear parenthe-
sis. Neither is excessively beautiful, but
you are entitled to make your choice il you
want to. Various printers and editors
make the distinction mentioned by the
Syracusan, but it is a purely artificial and
arbitrary distinction, a matter Of individual
taste or use. The dash seems likely to
drive out the parenthesis. At least it is
not SO ugly as that bow.legged old rascal.
Our advice to the Syracusan and to the
rest of mankind is to avoid parenthet-
ical writing. Go straight ahead whenever
you can. When an explanatory word or
phrase has to be i~ntercalated. use brackets,
il. you like, or parentheses, If you like. The
printer will do as he pleases. He will fol-
low the rule of his Office. Some typograph-
ical law there must be, but it is mainly
founded on individual taste and habit,
after all. We should say that parenthesis
and bracket are mere typographical de-
vices, and their use or disuse is largely a
matter of fashion. The English language
could survive the loss of both.
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p and Hawaii.

The recent withdrawal, by the Mikado's
Government, through its Minister, Mr..
ToRu HosHI, Of any opposition on princi
ple to our annexation Of Hawaii, has been
followed by an amicable agreement con-
corning the status Of Japan's subjects in
the islands.
This, after oil, was the main subject OF
interest for her, when 1t became evident
that she could not prevent the gravitation
of Hawaii to our political system. She
had also to arrange the question of
damages for the turning back of some
OF her emigrants at Honolulu, but when
n ~pecuniary maximum for this claim was
flxed, It was found to be Of minor con-
sequence and its settlement n mere matter
of. detail. 1t remained to provide for safe
guards around her resident citizens after
the transfer Of Hawaii.
The arrangement which Mr.. ToRU HosHI
has reached with the State Department on
this point ought to be gratifying to his
Government. Our treaty Of 1895 with
japan, made to take effect July l, 1899,
places that country on the footing OF the
most favored nations, as to the points COW
cred by It. This was q step due to the
pOSlUlOn WulCu Japan h"h h'"uo
self by her war with China. The new agree
ment assures to Japanese in Hawaii at the
time of annexation the same rights.
But how will it be with their status after
annexation and prior to July 1, 1891 That
is q matter to be left to Congress. But
whether Hawaii is admitted by the ~ratifica-
ton of the treaty or by joint resolution,
various acts of legislation must follow, and
It is safe to say that these acts will not vio-
late the spirit of the agreement with Japan
which takes effect next year, while possibly
they may precede that date.
Under the arrangement with Japan her
people in Hawaii will presumably be
better Off after annexation than they are
now. And yet this experience will not be
theirs alone. Perhaps not in the same
way, but In one way or another, many other
islanders, native and foreign resident, will
nave reason to rejoice over bein brought
into the American Union.
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spaiu,s H,re,,ngs in America.

Tho Parrot IN Sterenson's "Treasure Island"
Pieces OF Eight Pieces OF Eight Pieces OF Eight =
Oh Long ago. on the Spanish Main
Piratical demons sought to gain
Pieces OF Eight.
No shadow Of honor or mercy or feeling
Ever restrained their constantly stealing
Pieces of Eight.
Ships might be scuttled, the crew walk tho plank;
They did not care II thus they could bank
Pieces of Eight.
Women outraged and innocents slain;
Pleading and agonized tears are In vain -
Pieces of Eight
There are many moro pirates than those on the sea,
Whose ultimate object ever will DO
Pieces of Eight.
Whose inhnitesimal aeruples will vanish
Al sight OF the tempting, glitteripg Spanish
Pieces OF Eight.
To those who in this great, enlightened land
VIII to oppression freely give their hand.
And aid with even their poor puny voice
A barbarouS monarchy, with no other choics
Than that between their honor and . price,
tmAy be truly said; "They cut NO ice."
J.LQ
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Disappearance OF tho Gas Experts.

The hearing before q committee of the
Legislature on Thursday, on the occasion
of the annual attack upon the gas COM
panies, was marked by the singular absence
of the experts" who have been hired in
all previous years by newspapers and other
interested parties to appear and give testi-
mony as to the ms and outs and wholesale
robberies Of the gas companies and to sug-
gest means for shifting corporations.
The fact is that the experts got a heart
blow at the last session of the Legislature,
when Cross, the gas expert employed by
FAGIN. and heralded by FAGIN as the
sturdy foe of all corporate wealth and as
the most honest and intelligent shentle-
mans in the world, was discovered in at
tempted negotiations with one Of the cor
porations he was abusing.
1t will be remembered that this letter.
written by Cross, appeared in fac simile in
THE Sun at the time:
"DEAR MR.-; From your asking my ofioe ad.
dress It occurs to me that you have had in mind tho
possibility of having some communication to mako
from your friends uptown.
las the situation is to-day I am still free to act
wholly in accordance with my own interests.
81 am confident the gas companies will have to
make some concessions to the public in any event.
But there are certain plans in the way of organizing
and concentrating the opposition, which. II carried
out, will make It surely more difficult for the compa-
niles. and probably impossible for them to reach such
results as they now expect.
:This organizing work. II not done by me, may
not be done at all, and III am out of 1t no one in New
York can do It as well. But within n day or two. II
not otherwise engaged. I shall be committed to such
an extent that I could not on any account fail to stay
in TO the end.
~ am not in the ONCE very much. and I suggest
that you send q note or telegram II there is any o-
casion to SEE mo on Monday or Tuesday. Yours very
truly, H. n. Gross.
"NEw YORK, Jan. ~. 's7."
The publication of this letter was fol.
lowed by the immediate disappearance Of
Cross from Albany and, on the part of
FAGIN, by a tomb-like silence, which has
been maintained on the subject Of gas and
gas companies ever since.
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Tho Secrecy Of the Pension List.
This Is from the Kansas City Journal

This Is from the Cuy JOURNAL
q Republican newspaper:
"some of tho Republican journals of the large
cities have committed themselves ~ Iavor o. 'no
puenes.oh :, = pens" : o,,s.. su,nt = are ont.
,notsn on Tho o,bcr aide,
"The position taken by the Journal some weeks
AGO is the one which evidently impres'e' Republican
editors generally as the right one, 70 WV IL .se
oove'nmen. - y !, n1s t. ,ho dsn,r,msn, and
thew can be inyest,aated thoroughly without publ.
cation. II there arc no known cases on hand, but
only a general suspicion launched against the whole
body OF pensioners, then the assaua, emo0alea IN .ns
~ v,ooromsix rond.mn.a hv ths friends Of tbo old
soldier every where.
1.-THE Government has no right to suspect the hon.
esty of any veteran whose case IL has passed on and
10 whom i. mas granted a pension, wmnou' spesmo
.nsnsc,sd nsr.or. w,,hou, sny .,d from nrInted
lists. In fact. such publication would be wholly use
less in the investigation of suspected frauds"
The foregoing opinion is based on the
two great fallacies which underlie the
whole pension business in its perverted
and corrupting aspect. namely
First, the assumption that there is only
one kind of old soldier, the honest, worthy
veteran, incapable of misrepresenting his
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. srxAron LINDSAY wILL STICK.
His Reply 10 the Resolution Of the Kentucky
LEGISLATURE ReanestInr HIN TO Re.iEn.

WASHINGTON, Fob. AIN the Senate today
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, rising to a qucs.
ton OF personal privilege, replied to the resolu.
ton Of the Kentucky Legislature requesting him
to resign because Of his vote against FREQ silver.
Mr.. Lindsay said that tho Senate had no con.
Germ with tho relations between n Senator and
his constituents, but there woro exceptional
cases in which n Senator might DO justified in
calling attention to transactions which. II left
unexplained. might create the impression that
ho blood officially charged with conduct which
would render him unworthy Of q seat in the
Senate. He then sent to the clerks desk and
had road tho resolutions Of the Kentucky Legis.
lature demanding his resignation, so as " to give
place to some Democrat who will represent the
interests Of the Democratic party" Tho pro.
amble describes Senator Lindsay as ono Wi.
liam Lindsay" and charges him with being
opposed to the free and m coinage Of
and with voting against tho Democrat NOMINEES
for tho President IN 1890.
full of the ordinary amenities OF life. 1t is n do
mand that / shall surrender my place in order
to create a vacancy and make room, here for
with the authors and supporters of tho rcsolu.
tion. protest against that nsqrpati9n Of I'm.
6 %nl kedasss sstsi. put am also a senator OF tho
Mi. Lindsay went on to say that up to the
votes against free silver coinage were in 40
cordance with the views of the people of Ken.
lucky, and that he stood to-day precisely where
he had stood then; so that 1t was not he who
had changed: Tho people of Kentucky had
changed, while no had remained stcadfast. lie
asserted that he did not hold his place at the
will Of the Legislature. He did not represent a
party or q faction, but "all the people
Of kentucky. His constituency was equal
to the combined Constituencies of all
the members Of the General Assembly.
His term Of service was fixed by the Constitu.
tion Of the United States and could not be alb
rogated by the action OF the Kentucky Logis.
Iature. Any attempt to abroGate it by certain
members OF that body was the assertion Of q
right which did not exist, and could not exist,
without impairing the independence Of the
Senate.
with these remarks" he added contemptu.
quest for my resignation" ["Good, good"
from Senators near him.
The Senate then went into executive session
on the Hawaiian treaty.
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CLEVELAND. Feb. 2.


EhFthcE soe"D oh INV
To THE EDITOR OF THE sUs-Sir: In THE sun or
Monday "W. A. NJ" suggests that the salaries OF
some Postmasters bs reduced In order to reduce the
deficiency In the Post onico Department. heartily
agree with him. and would like TO add that the car
riers, between the trains and the Post onlces and on
the 'star routes be increased in proportion to the
work done.
The contracts are given out by bids. and the in.
spectors induce irresponsible persons to bid In order
to get lower bids. That your readers may Judge how
low these contracts are taken l will give an instance:
once receipts. q little over els. 900; carries twelve
mails both ways every day; receives less than 81 per
day. out OF which he must keep a horse.
Carriers are paid for three months at a time, and
they have TO wait nearly two months after It Is due
before they receive their pay. making Ave months
they must work without any pay. Why do they not
receive their pay weekly, as do tho regular mail dis.
tributing carriers, and why are they not paid al fxed
weekly wages suficient to support them instead OF
paying such large salaries to Postmasters when they
can employ plenty OF responsible men for one.half Of
what they now pay?
II is not necessary to run the department at o loss.
II properly arranged 1t could be made q paying insti.
tuition. IT,.
NEW YORK. Fob. 4.
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A bill "to protect the children of the
State from the baneful influence of wrong In.
struction " is before the South Carolina Legisla-
ture. 1t recites that gross and manifold errors
have been. and are. and in the future may be.
manifest In some OF the so-called accounts OF the
late war between States" and that Justice and
patriotism and truth demand that the sons and
daughters of this State, now in infancy and yet
unborn. should, as wards of the State. re-
ceive correct instruction MS TO the causes
and effects Of that tragic drama" The bill then
directs the Board of Education to make up. on
or before July ]. 1903. on or before July / OF
every succeeding year. an index or a list of any
and all such text books as ought not to be used
In the instruction of the children OF the State"
Amy teacher or other person who shall use
one of tho forbidden books in tho In
struction of children shall bo guilty OF
a misdemeanor and shall DO liable 10 a fine Of
not moro than 800 or imprisonment for not
moro than thirty days; and II q teacher In q
State. county. or municipal school, his salary
Shall stop at once and ho b b discharged.
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AMBASSADOR HITCHCOCK.
The Diplomatic Rank OF Our Minister TO nj
Petersburg 10 Raised. q

Petersburg 10 RAISED. q
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-The authority for the
elevation of the United States mission Mt st.
Petersburg 10 the rank Of an embassy is found
in o law Of Congress providing that when q for.
cign Government shall send an Ambassador to
this country the President may reciprocate by
raising tho rank of the diplomatic representa-.
tive of the United States to that Government.
In this way the embassies at London, Paris,
Berlin. and Rome were established, England,
France, Germany. and Italy taking tho initia-
tive.
Ambassadors havo greater rights and priv.
ileges than Ministers, but their additional
honors oblige them to make a lavish social
show. Mr.. Hitchcock is financially able
office. which would DO hard to main.
which no receives, as ST.. Petersburg is
the most extravagant court In all Europe for
persons in official position. AS an Ambassador
he could rot do as the Minister Of the United
States without making a previous arrangement
with the Foreign Office, and is permitted TO
lcge not accorded to diplomatic representatives
of lower rank. A sovereign may also make per.
sonal visits to an Ambassador without injury to
his kingly dignity, as the Ambassador person.
ally represents and has equal rank with the
Russia has now no Minister in Washington.
but 1t was understood that Count Cassina, who
has been selected for the post, would be accred;;
rank. The advancement of Mr.. Hitchcock was
caused by the receipt of n. cable despatch from
sion to Washington would he raised to tho
grade OF an embassy. This notification came
on Wednesday, and the prompt nomination Of
Mr.. Hitchcock was tho answer OF tho United
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Plush.

Haggard and groggy, but still venomous,
WHITELAw REID had the Tribune an
nounce yesterday that he will oppose to
the end the noticeable effort to restore Re-
publican harmony and to solidify the party
for the serious business of electing a
s~ound.money delegation from New York
to the House of Representatives.
A different course on WHITELAw's part
could not have been expected. He origi-
nally turned upon his party because he could
not get through it a certain specific thing
which he coveted, and he will continue
hostile because Of his bitter reflection that
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-05
The Democratic State Executive Commi,

The Democratic State Executive Commit
teo of Arkansas has ordered that primaries shall
be held in every county in that State May 7. and
that the candidates who receive a majority OF
oil the votes In NIL the counties shall he nomi-
mated by the Democratic State Convention. In
case there is no majority for any candidate the
State Convention shall nominate. This is a plan
of nomination which, with one simple change,
would be satisfactory to the Fifty-three high en-
rollers OF this town. II the candidates having
u minority In all the counties could be nomi-
mated by the Republican State Convention. the
Fifty-three could depend upon controlling tho
Republican nominations every time.
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that certain specific thing cannot be got
through any party reorganization.
WHrrELAw, whom Honest JOHN SHEER
MAN thinks Of always as a ragged little
boy in the streets Of Cincinnati" Is stricken
with a mania to wear the plush breeches Of
a diplomat at the English court.
Two and a half yards of plush, f1ttingly
cut, was the price for REDS services In the
PLAT ranks when SETH Low entered
upon the field, and that is the price to-day.
If, after MoKINLEY's Inauguration, the
Hon. THOMAS G. PLAT had risked the
shock to his party in the Empire State of
lending its influence to the protrusion OF
REID into diplomatic life, the Tribune
would have remained a straight party
organ. Because its unfortunate editor now
knows with modification that, even with
the State Of New York left out, his nomina.
ton could never be confirmed In the United
States Senate, for any Office, he has resolved,
as the only available retort to the supposed
author Of his disappointment, to remain an
implacable bolter. A subscription could
be raised, perhaps, to buy n specimen of
WHITELAw's desire; but without the of.
fetal stamp, yards indefinite Of plush
would not appease him.
Whatever can be lone toward harmony
by the organized Republican party, rea'
sonably, wisely, and avoiding a compro.
mise of the principles of its political ex'
i~stence, will be done surely as an imper'
alive duty Of the crisis. But evidently
union must be accomplished without
WHITELAw REID and the reckless traitors
to the cause of conservatism whom he can
keep sticking around him.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: A statement re.
garding the vote received by Lewis. the candidate of
the negro protection party" in Ohio last fall. is not
correct. He received nearly 900 votes.
There are lie. 800 voters in three
counties OF Ohio. viz: Hamilton. Cuyahoga and
Franklin. There are almost as many more in Lucas.
Clarke, Green and Muskingum counties. Lewis's
vote-nine teuths OF it-camc from Afro.American
Republicans, who would not support Gov. "Urbana'
Bushnell because he permitted IN
to be lynched at Urbana, o.. in June last. They
helped to cut down his plurality Of two years ago
over 90. 900 votes.
The rest Of the Republican ticket. State. county
and local, was unanimously supported by Ohio AFRO.
Americans. all OF whom. with the exception OF about
four or i've. are Republicans.
AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN.
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The Hon. JOHN WARWICK DANIEL. a

The Hon. JOHN WARWICK DANIEL. a
Senator in Congress from Virginia, but more
widely illustrious under the name Of tho Human
Photograph, has at last condescendod to his
genius. He has signed q contract with n lecture
bureau. and between sessions he will spread
eloauence over the whole Southern country. AS
n declaimer, reader, and elocutionist Of the arti-
fetal old tragedy school. Mr.. DANIEL is a class
by himself. In solemn melodramatic ~singsonR
he is believed to be unequalled. Like Mr.. PLoR-
NIsH's mclodious father-in-law, John EDWARD
MANDY, Mr.. DANIEL comes the MARBLES finely.
As he has a sublime speaking countenance.'
his audiences will get two performances for one
admission fee. Evidently tho laurels OF tho
Nebraska Peripatetic have given Mr.. DANIEL
insomnia. which he now proposes to distribute.