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XIII IL at Once

1t il to the credit Of the Albany Evening
journal that the friendliness It now show
to the monstrous Ellsworth bill Is labored.
and, manifestly. restrained by the spirit Of
revolt to which at first 1t instinctively gave
frank expression.
In an article published In our contempt
rary this week, Of two arguments for the
proposed revolution In the law one was
that the World printed q picture of the
tights of an actress whose husband had
Just died; the other was that some news
paper may in the future print q picture Of
the recently broken leg Of a lady in Boston
So 1.-THE public, ooner or later" remarks
the Albany Evening Journal, twill de-
mand the enactment Of q measure in
some DEGREES like the Ellsworth bill"
Our contemporary thinks it to be as GER
tain as the sun shines that sooner or later
"sonsething like the proposed Ellsworth
law will be enacted"
The future. no doubt, will take care
of itself. But no Ellsworth bill, or, in
other words, the Ellsworth bill In no
state of modification and amendment, can
be safely passed or even kept alive in a Re-
publican legislature without grave injury
to the Republican cause in the Empire State
and all it represents. No beneficial n Is
possible from such a beginning.
The passage Of this measure through
the New York Legislature is ~inconceiv-
able, except upon the theory Of some ex-
treme and unusual application Of power
from within the two political organize
tions. The exhibition of q Republican
Democratic combination for so indefensible
a purpose would necessarily be disastrous.
If not fatal, to the Republican side of it.
For everything done under a Republican
Legislature and Governor. the Republicans
will have full responsibility.
In New York the representatives of
Organism have nothing to lose. The Re-
publicans lave everything to lose: and a
movement to imperil what they have, by
imposing upon them ar unbearable burden
Of offensive, unnatural, and unnecessary
legislation, calls for the careful considera-
tion and the most emphatic protest by the
party.
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Going in Search of Andree.

The project of NJ. GODDARD, the we'll
known French %aeronaut, which has been
reported by our Paris dispatches, ex-
cites a double interest. He proposes to
rig out his balloon with a dozen smaller
reservoir balloons, and to go next summer
to look for ANDRE. He thinks that these
supplementary balloons will enable him to
stay up in the air for a couple of months.
and to cover a vast area in his quest. The
immediate public interest in this project is
that of its possibility Of carrying relief to
ANDREE, If by any hance he is still living.
Then there is the renewal Of polar discov-
cry through aerial navigation.
AS to this last, it may be remembered
that the French ~aeronauts, even before
the start of the Swedish expedition, had
planned a similar quest of their own for
the coming summer. After Commander
CHEYNE's project had been abandoned in
London, a plan of two French aeronauts,
HERMTTE and BEsANcoN. fixed for 1892, at
tracted attention in Paris, where, how
ever, it received adverse criticism from the
Society of Aerial Navigation. Then NJ.
GODDARD and a companion took up the idea,
but it was somewhat overshadowed by
the enterprise which the daring Swedish
a~eronaut at length carried out. About a
year ago, however. they renewed their prep
arations, fixing their start for the sum
mer of 1898, and this, in fact, is the under
taking of which our dispatches speak.
OF course the possible rescue of the hap
less ANDREE will give the undertaking an
additional motive, and the best hopes of
all will go with it in such a purpose. And
yet the art of ~ballooning has not advanced
enough to make another such venture into
the dread regions of the pole very hopeful
of success.
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Drenn Rerore Accident

To THE EDITOR OF TEE suI-sir: Does TH1 Bun be-
neve in dreams and do other people have dreams a.
lido? have had many that were peculiar, and only
last week / had one that I will tell you. thought I
was in q store somewhere and the clerk or man there
came and asked me what I wanted. I told him I
would like 20 have a calendar 10 give TO my little
girl II he had one TO spare He said he had and went
after one, coming back presently with g large one in
his hand. ! was about to reach out and take 1t when
he held It back. and. tearing OF, the sheet. he held it
up before me and touched q match 10 It 1t burned
mp right away. but did not seem TO burn his fingers,
though the flames curled around them. He held on
till the IRE had consumed the sheet except that part
In his hand, and when he blew the char away he
handed the paper to me. The figure 8 was all there
was on IT. Iwas angry with the man. and was On
the point Of telling him so when ! 4 invoke.
This was on the LIST day Of February. and on the
9th my little girl. while playing near the stove in her
nightgown- caught fire and was 90 badly burned that
her life is d~espatred OF. write this now to tell you
OF it and to AJAX II there 10 anything In dreams. and
do they come to all people alike2 Mrs. I.
REooKLTN. Feb. Is.
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sire to be increased ct nee xpenss Of tbs
| other two arma, small enough now.
why attempt to get something Of value
and pay nothing for I'll The present enlist
ed strength IL based on conditions prevail
ing over twenty years ago. and We cannot
increase Il without cost. We need trained
nrtillerymen for the new coast defences,
which were not In the calculations OF
twenty years nc at all; and In getting
them we should leave the infantry and
cavalry unredueed.
After all, what IL this extra annual cost
of two regimentsi II composed OF foot bat
teries. wholly, for coast defence, the ad-
ditional pay for oflcers would be $125 600;
for enlisted men, as we reckon, $207,572;
while the clothing, at 65 enlisted men to q
battery, or 1850 men In all, and their sub-
sistencc would carry the total amount to
between $500, 900 and $507, 600. For about
half q million dollars q year. then, we
should supply this great and presaing need
of the country's defenees.
Is 1t worth while, with annual OUTLAWS OF
half n billion, to dilly-dally over a sum
90 small for q result 90 great Every
man of our infantry and cavalry might
be needed tomorrow for Indian or other
troubles Of the interior, and yet we must
have men for the coast. The House Mil
itary Committee has not hesitated to TO-
port favorably a bill for establishing .
military park at vicksburg. while Mr..
HULL has introduced one for providing q
new military post at Des Moines, his "
home. 1t seems to us high time to give the
first attention to the needs OF the hour.
The members Of the committee who under
stand the immediate importance Of thea ar
tillery increase, and we think they are .
majority, should zee that the right bill for
this purpose is promptly brought before
Congress for action.
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To THE EpToE OF TEE sUS-Sfr: ! have heard some
thoughtiess persons OF the kind who value speed
above every other consideration cavfl at the new
trolley service on the bridge. They must speak from
hesrfsy merely. for ! cannot imagine that any one
would say 4 word In condemnation OF this new form
of rapid transit after having tried it. Lat evening,
being in search of = new sensation. / waited At the
New York end OF the bridge for q Fulton street chr
and when IL came. thanks 20 many utter strangers
who pushed me, ! was soon landed in the aisle. while
they tat all around me. Finally. after the car a.
nlhed Two deep. TO prevent jogging. we started for
brooElyn. ana III venture to say that not even tlote
who Walk across the bridge ever he'd such an opuor-
tunify for viewing the beauties Of the hArbor a. ala
we There was no unnecessary hurry it waF as n
We had been on . canal boat gliding through a
beautiful country. 50 del. berate was the motion. Once
In q while the lights would go out. and linen tie
glory OF the bay was enhanced. Foolish reoule
whose only thought WAS 70 reach home after an
Ardgouh day sped past on foot. awherl, and In The
cattle cars bus we were content 10 advance by an
almost impercsntible motion.
Soon. ali too soUn Inside of half an hour. We
reached the Brooklyn side, out We had receive ed such
an impression OF the beautiful view as shall never
fade away.
would suggest that instead of stopping for ave
minutes every minute or two the ears STOP for a
quarter Of an hour in the middle OF the bridge, ms
would give passengers . chance TO stretch their leEs
Save for that. the service could not 10 improved. nj
hsil rapid transit! CHARLES BAITEIL Looms.
l+3 LEFFERTs F1AcE, Brooklyn.
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1EIrrR,s REeArD FoR rnE BEARa
..rr ne Pr,cs 81 wscst p,a rot &c psu..
unfhi.r Noria Encnnrnen Tl.ea.r

CHICAGO. Ill, Feb. 1e.-"Joe" Letter. with the
magnimity TO be expected of one who has
achieved greatness, and who has had his early
life and youthful sayings published by enter
prising journals. his morning put himself on
record as being possessed of a large reservoir
full Of the milk Of humaNkindness. He insists
he IL convinced Il was best that the wheat mar
ket decline. "for." he said. IF there were never
declines. there would be nothing TO encourage
the bears. and in n short time we would have no
bears at all"
How about the report that you sold 5000, 600
bushels Of wheat yesterdAyF'
THAT lie a liei' came the emphatic reply. "on
the contrary. I bought a little. To be sure. i
have wheat to sell to exporters and miliers but
yesterday I bought and did not SELL.
offices seem to incline to the belief that rumors
Of !. corner in May wheat are rather premature.
"fbaye never heard Of a May corner in the
middle Of February. We can't tell what viii
This was repeated to Mr.. Letter. who dis
claimed all knowledge OF or connection with n
II am not trying to run a corner. and I never
have be insisted. although some folks seem
After relterating his oft-expressed opinion
prices Of wheat was several Kinds Of . fool. and
fact that the shorts had pretty well covered.
Mr.. Letter changed The subject 10 the Cuban
war scare. OUT hhlQ DoininE CONCERNING lh nTop
able influence on Board Of Trade markets. There
was no excitement on Change to-day. The
wheat pit was remarkably quiet and trading
light
The first definite news that Letter wheat. on
itn way TO Europe. 10 to be brought to this port
was received at the New York Produce Ex-
change yesterday. when it was announced that
there had been engagements Of berth room on
regular ocean steamship lines hCRregating
900, 600 bushels to Liverpool and BOO. 900 BUSH
els TO Hull. The engagements are for March
and April shipment and were at the rate OF
about Sd. q busheL 1t was rumored that. besides
the local engagements, ocean room for Letter
wheat had been taken in considerable volume at
Boston and Philadelphia
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John ?. st. John ana the A..oe,area pr...,

To THE EprroR OF TIE sus-Sfr: We have Just
received the following report from Gov. ST. John OF
Kansas relative 20 the Associated Press despatch In
the Tuesday morning pApen. Respectfully.
EDrroR OF TIE VOICE.
The Associated Press despatch as q whole Is =
monstrous lie. There was NO Indignant meeting"
! was not forced TO retire" A meeting was held TO
protest against Issuing permits TO druggists after the
statutes had been explained. and It was shown that
ever thing had been done in strict accordance with
our most stringent prohibitory law. The resolution
against granting permits was practically withdrawn
by its author moving to adjourn without even taking
q vote upon it There was q pound OF politics 10
every grain OF religious truth in that Associated Press
despatch JOHN P. ST. JOIN.
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STATE OF NATIONAL QUARANTINE
The Fight Against the Marine Hospital Ser
vice L. On Again.

vice L. On Again.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-The fight against the
Marine Hospital service is on again over the
question of national or State quarantine In
time OF epidemic. There are q number of bills
before the House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce on this subject, and the conn
nittes to-day heard arguments in relation to
them. One of these il known As the Caner4
bill. advocated by the louisiana SENATOR
out OF the conviction NJ the necessity Of na3
tionsl control Of the agency born of his eIpertY
ence last summer with the local management il
his own State during the yellow fever excited
ment there. For several weeks he WAS held uU
in q region remote from his home and unable To
proceed. owing 10 the vigor with which local
authorities regulated the movement Of trayel}
lerR. although he had not been exposed 10 the
disease. Another. also o Senate bill. known a
the Spooner bill, ceals with the subject in q
interfere with State control.
DIR. Doty, the New York Health Officer, was
the principal speaker. BE advocated the
Spooner bill. asserting that State control would
be much more effective than national. He
raised quite a laugh at the expense of the sur
geons in the Marine Hospital service. some OF
whom were present, by saying that in great
emergencies the force Of the Marine Hospital
service would be incapable OF doing effective
work. composed as it is OF inexperienced young
men; who got in through the operations OF the
Civil Service law.
Other speakers along the same lines were DR..
Holbeck of Charleston, s. C.. and DIR. Wingatet
Secretary of the Wisconsin State Board Of
Health.
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THE HOURS OF LABOR.
Resolutions Giving ConEress the Power 10 Reg.
pIate Them Al OVer the Country.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 1s.-In one Of the numer-
Gus prosperity coloQuies which marked the
progress through the House Of the regular sp-
preparation bills within the past two months,
Mr.. Dingley, speaking of the causes leading CD
TO the recent reduction of wages Of cotton mill
operatives in New England, expressed the opin.
ion that Congress might find itself compelled 70
consider a constitutional amendment whick
would give it power TO regulate the hours OF Ia.
Dor all over the country in order that SINH.
lar conditions might obtain everywhere. Al.
ready two resolutions looking TO this ve;y End
have been introduced. and to-day the House
on the Judiciary listened TO argue
ments for and against the proposition. They
were presented by Messrs. Barrett and Lover.
ing OF the Massachusetts, delegation and are
substantially alike, Poyidipg that Congress shat
the wages of laborers employed in the textile
manufacturing industries in the United States.
The|resolution was su pported by Representa-
tives Lowering, Walker, and Fitzgerald OF Mas
sachusetts, Their argument was based on hu-
manitarian grounds; that long hours OF labor
and the employment Of child labor, which the
laws Of the New England States forbiG, meant the
restriction Of the physical and moral natures OF
the operatives. Where one section Of the coun-
try was tied up to the observance Of q ffty-eieht
hour weeks prevailed in other parts, there cod
be no real competition in business. :
The resolution was opposed ~ Col or and
Capt Smythe of Charlotte. n. C.. the former
pany. employing 1,40o hands
The hearing Will be continued at the meet
ing Of the committee next week Friends o. the
resolution do not expect to secure favorable con-
sideration at this session Of Congress-, but co
hope to inaugurate an agitation that VIII result
in securing the reform they seek by drawing
Dor day;and py:enlisting. the aid Of the labor or
CARNATIONS OF the country.
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No One Will Parade Arost SeIt ST. PatrieL's
Day " There Are Carriages RaouEb.

A meeting Of the delegates OF the various
Irish societ es that are preparing for the celeora.
ton of ST. Patrick's Day was held last evening
al Curry's Central Hall. The selection Of LloA
Park on the west side and Suffers Harlem Rive
Park on the east side as the places where tS0
picnics will be held was aunoUnceI. The Com
mittee on Coaches. which had been instructed 10
hpd out If there was a large enough supply %
coaches in the city 10 enable every participant
in the parade 10 ride, reported that there VS..
II has been the custom heretofore Tor only ahouS
one-half OF The parsaers 10 ride. but this year
Il is desired that none should walk.
Michael Kennedy, Chairman of the Commit
tee Of Arrangements, said tina, the line OF
march would be selected in two more meetings.
pointed.
Il was explained that the reason al! hands
Will ride this year was thai as all shared axe
in detrSying the expenses OF the parade. those
who went cfoOt in former years had complained
OF the hardship II entailed, and hence it MAS de-
should be considered.
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Give Us Men for the Forts!

For harbor defence nothing Is more ur-
gently needed to-day than an increase of
artillerymen. The bill which provides for
more guns and forts after July i, next, is
most wise, but what we lack is men to
handle and take care of the guns already
mounted, or that will be mounted before
July !. Senator HAwLEY, in promising,
the other day, to push his measure for
W new artillery regiments, as q great need
Of the hour. said there were not now artil.
lerymen enough even to keep the sand out
of the muzzles of the guns hat will be
ounted by July. The mechanism Of cost
ly modern high-power guns can quickly be
disabled or ruined by neglect, while men,
too, must have a long and careful training
In order to use them effectively.
Why Ii this increase of the artillery de-
layedi Not, certainly, for any lack of pub
lie sentiment in its favor. The boards of
trade and chambers Of m of the
seaboard cities have urged it, from Boston,
New London, New York, Newark, Phila-
delphia, and Baltimore, on to New Orleans
and Galveston in the Gulf and to San Fran
cisco upon the Pacific coast. 1t used to be
thought that when the House Military Com
mittee, of which Mr.. HULL is Chairman.
had disposed of the Army Appropriation
bill, 1t would push the artillery measure 4;
but this has not proved true.
Does that committee appreciate the ur-
gency of this need of the new coast bat
teriesi II has been pointed out as singular
that the subcommittee o N army reorgani-
cation and appropriations, which Mr..
HULL selected, contains not one member
from a seaboard State. 1t consists of Mr..
HULL himself of Iowa, GRIFFIN of Wiscon-
sin, MARSH Of Illinois, LENTZ of Ohio, and
Cox and BRowSLow of Tennessee. Some
of these are known to favor the artillery
bill, yet the committee has halted in its
work. OF the remaining ten members of
the House Military Committee, no fewer
than six are from seaboard States. while q
clear majority of the committee as a whole,
It is believed, favors the artillery Increase.
Why do they not get at it'll Mr.. HULLs
special interest seems to be in the three
battalion infantry organization. The in.
fantry understand perfectly well. we think,
that 1t is impossible, at this session, with
the current demands for economy, to enact
the complete Lamont bill of the last Con.
eress, which calls for a total increase OF
$~1,77o,O73 a year. We think, too, they
well understand that. with the artillery
part Of that bill disposed of now. its total
expense will be 80 much reduced as to give
them q better chance for their W part OF
1t next year, when the finances. also, will
doubtless be in a far better state.
Yet we see 1t asserted that Mr.. HULL has
been working on q plan to bring about a
full line reorganization without increase OF
expense. That is, he would s~keletonize the
cavalry regiments and a part of the infan,
try, transferring their men to the artillery,
and 80 getting the needed two regiments
there. 1t seems to us folly to deal with the
matter in any such way. The infantry and
cavalry would vigorously oppose a bill Of
that sort. while the artillery has no dc
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SENIORS, President KIDNAPPED.
1npFtsenea en- o Yacht ut Grevesepd when Ne
sheuld have Been ut . Dance.


The senior class OF the Long Island College
Hospital gave its annual dance at the Pouch
mansion. in Clinton avenue. Brooklyn, last
night. but President George A Clarke. who in
tended to lead the grand march. was not pres
ent. having been Kidnapped in the morning by
members Of the Junior class. On Nov. % last.
when the juniors had q theatre party. their
President. julius Tannenbaum. was spirited
away, and was kept a prisoner at Bath Beach
until the following morning. The juniors then
threatened revenge.
While the seniors we're at lecture at 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning Mr.. Clarke was
to visit q sick friend in Amity street. He was
accompanied by two OF his When
they arrived in Amity street they were sur
rounded by about 100 of the juniors. and after
q hot tussle Mr.. Clarke was captured and
thrown into q passing express wagon, where be
was bound with cords. In Clinton street q coach
was in waiting. and Mr.. Clarke was transferred
to it and then driven to Florence Donoyan's
hotel at Gravesend Beach.
During the day the member of the Junior
class visited the hotel and had considerable
sport at the expense of the President Of the
seniors. Mr.. Clarke made several attempt TO
escape, and for fear that he might get away q
sloop yacht was hired and the President Of the
senior class. under guard. occupied the cabin
during tho night.
H. L. Anderson, the vioe-President Of The
senior class. led the grand march in the Pouch
gallery.
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1t will be observed that New York leads
the list with q National Guard numerically
nearly as strong as the combined forces of
the two States next in order. Pennsylvania
and Illinois. After New York. Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois come Ohio. Massachu.
sets, Georgia, New Jersey, California,
South Carolina, and Texas, in the order
indicated. The military strength, as shown
by the figures of the State organizations, is
not strictly proportionate to population.
nor is it sectional in its distribution.
Our second table shows the number of
men unorganized but available for mill
tary duty, as estimated by the several
State Adjutants-General in their returns
to the Adjutant-Ge Generals Office at Wash
ington. Here the census is based more or
less on individual judgment and varying
methods of computation. This is shown
by the circumstance that New York re-
turns 100000 men, while Pennsylvania
returns $40, OOO; again. Massachusetts, re-
turns 433,975, and Indiana. with about
the same population, returns 500, 900,
while Michigan, with nearly the same, re-
turns only 8 10000. Nevertheless, these
figures are probably as accurate, taken
altogether, as any that can be procured: