The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-10
VOICE. OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jscts Of Living News
Interest.

would be an outrage for the Legisla-
ture to pass a law requiring the intro
duction in every voting previnct OF any
ballot machine that has not been tested
| by actual operation in elections" 1t
certainly would-either that or piece
Of remarka BILE folly. We do not see why
number of the machines should not
have a practical trial and not only one
that some committee or other may hap
pen to have been taken with and has
recommended
SOUND, COMMON SENSE.
| Ukiah Republican-Press: Governor
Cages inaugural address was full Of
good sound common sense. Among
other things he condemned many of the
present boards and commissions and
declared that the pay Of the officers was
excessive. The Governor stated that
the proposed suits Of counties against
the State to recover commissions for
the collection of State taxes, the claims
amounting to over 81, 100000 vas a
very shortsighted policy. In the end,
said the Governor. the people must pay
not only the commissions but the ex-
pense Of the suit and the charges Of
the attorneys. even should the suits go
| against the State, which it was limited
was a question
THE CIVIL SERVICE
| Oakland Enquirer: Yesterday, for
the first time since civil service reform
was instituted, it's enemies in the House
of Representatives succeeded in defeat
| ing an appropriation for the commits
sion. Every year the motion to strike
| this appropriation out of the executive
| legislative and judicial bill is made and
yesterday for the first time it was car
ried through the Committee Of the
! Whole by a small majority. There
will be another chance to vote on it in
the House and the hope is strong that
the item will be restored to the bill, but
| at the same time the fact that civil
service should sustain its first defeat
in Congress just at this time is on1i-
nous.
HEALTHY INDICATION.
Los Angeles Times: One of the es-
pecially healthy and hopeful indications
for the new year is the fact that thus
far during the present fiscal year there
has been an increase every month in
American exports over those of the cor
/ responding month last year. This fact
| hopeful showing made by Secretary
Gage in his annual report The for
eign demand for our products contin-
ues to increase, and there is every rea-
son to expect that our export trade this
year will surpass that of last year by a
large amount
| CONSTITUTION IN THE WAY.
Portland Oregonian: The Augusta
| (Ga) Chronicle urges those who value
tranquility. and sectional good feeling
not to treat9 the Presidents reverence
for the graves of the Confederate dead
as equivalent to advocacy of placing
the Confederates upon the pension roll
There is no occasion for worry upon
this point. The fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution would have to be
repealed before we could add 100000
lConfederates to our pension roll and lift
our annual pension bill to $500, 900, 600.
Even If the fourteenth amendment was
not an effective obstacle, the Southern
Senators of influence would never lend
themselves to the advocacy of such a
proposition. Senator Vest of Missouri
is to-day vigorous opponent of ex-
travagant pension legislation, and when
General Butler of Massachusetts, in
his last term in Congress, declared
himself in favor of pensioning Confed-
crate and Union soldiers alike, he got
no applause or sympathy from the
| South.
1898 AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR.
| Eureka Californian: Our exports for
| the calendar year 1893 will approx
mate billion and a quarter of money.
The exports in calendar year have
passed the billion-dollar line but twice
| in our history According to a state
ment from the Treasury Bureau of
| Statistics, the November exports are
not only the largest in our history for
that month-they are larger than those
of any other month in all the history
| of American commerce. Never in all
our history have we exported in a like
period SO large a quantity of bread
stuffs as in the eleven months ending
with November, 1898. On the other
hand, the total imports for this year
prove to be less than those of any other
calendar year since 1885. In 1898,
therefore, have occurred the smallest
imports in many years and the largest
exports in our history. Furthermore,
our imports Of gold in 1898 have been
larger than those of any other calendar
| year III our QlSIOTy. DSCtLlUcT Isl luSy
had reached in round numbers $50,
100000. The only previous year in
which gold imports ever passed the
100, 600, 600 line is 1896 Plainly visi-
Bile in the increased circulation OF that
metal is the combined effect of this
large importation of gold and the in
creased production Of our mines.
| THE PRESIDENT TO THE FILL
| PINOS.
| Los Angeles Times: There is no I'M
certainty as to the Presidents mean
| ing as conveyed in his proclamation
to the Fflipinos, which has just been
made public at Manila 1t is couched
in simple, direct, kindly, but firm Ian
guage. such language, in TRUTH as is
employed by the President in most of
his official utterances. The proclama-
ton is admirable for its conciseness
as we'll as for its kindness and firm
ness.
sHORTSIGHTED AGUINALDO.
| Stockton Independent: 1t seems to
! be the determination of Aguinaldo and
his faction to venture a conflict with
the United States forces in the vain
hope that it may contribute to the com
plete independence Of the Philippines.
Aguinaldo may be a shrewd Malay, as
Malays go, but his policy is very
short-sighted one and must lead to his
| immediate reputation by the Ameri-
can Government and ultimately by his
own people The Fflipinos will gain
more real independence and individual
| liberty under the American flag than
they could secure by an attempt at