The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-16


le1 has been provided this year. has been let for
next year for $4,000. The printing expenses
OF New York are about $3.50 900 year. those for
the present year being t122. 900 for legislative
printing, $4,000 for the publication Of general
laws and s42, 900 for of1cial notices.
Tho last general election for District Court Judges
in the districts In which such Judges are 70 be
elected this year was in 1893. and the inequality of
the division between tho districts 10 in part shown
by the total vote then cast in each follows First
$500; Second $4,000: Third. t3.doo; Fourth, 49,
400 Fifth, 1900; sixth, 2o.1oo; seventh. $4,000;
Eighth. 80. 900. Ninth. 80. 900; Eleventh. 10000.
There was election in the Tenth. and the Ninth
has since been subdIvided by the establishment Of
q new district.
Tho Socialist candidate for Governor Of TEXAS At
last years election was Mr.. ROYAL.
Tammany Hall ia not to continue TO enjoy .
monopoly of Sachems sseamores. wtshinkies. sea
of fruits and flowers and oracles OF the harvest
moon. II the Mohswks Of Buffalo. an organization
committed to Bryan. can help 1t. They have
national chief n chief OF scouts. a scribe. a big
medicine man. an outside guard. an inside guard
and tribal scribcs in abundance the Mohswks being
in favor of silver and plenty OF It, and uncondition.
ally opposed. as all Indians have been, either in
politics or out of it. to what ia called by them
"mlitarism." Tho Mohawk held recently con.
yention in Buffalo. and the Committee Rations
recommended war TO the knife. or. rather. war to
the tomahAwk in favor OF Bryan and Organism. and
no concession. compromise or surrender to malin-
gercrs or backsidsrs. whether claiming to be Demo
Gratis or not.
The present Governor OF Indiana James A. Mount,
whose successor will be elected at the Presidential
contest Of 1900. is q Republican. and he has an
nounced recently that he is not candidate for the
ofice of ice.Prcsident or any other. He declares
that Mt the close Of his present term he will retire 10
his farm. Indiana Governors having no higher sspi
rations are rare. Among the Democratic Governors
OF that State Hendricks. Gray and Matthews were
candidates for the Presidential noniS alton. Oliver
p Morton, on the Republican side was Presiden.
tial aspirant and Benjamin Harrison. before being
nominated for President. had been Republican
didate for Governor OF Indiana. A biography OF
Morton. the Governor. written by W. d. Foulke.
has recently appeared in Indianapolis.
Since the northern boundary Of the First Munich.
pal Court district has been Houston instead Of Canal
street. as formerly, there has been considerable
rivalry between the lower or First ward and the up
per, or Eighth ward. portion In the choice Of jus
tice, for which office there will be election this
year Ordinarily the business OF this tribunal would
be about equally divided between the upper and
turc few years ago the important portion OF
the First ward the section south Of Maiden lane and
east of Broadway. the Wall street and mercantile
sections has been Joined to the Second district The
E!Ehth ward portion. in which Judge Lynn who is a
candidate for reelection. resides is, therefore. tho
most important, And his denomination has the sup.
port of the business OF the district generally.
Tho total vote of Newport News Va. is LOO. a
aio NJ oil ~ nj ~ .ha
Old Dominion being Democrats, except in such ma
tional elections AZ that Of 1890. when Mckinley
pollcd 715 votes in Newport News against 670 for
Bryan. A Mayor of the city Is to be elected this
year, and II. +. Parker. superintendent Of the Ches-
ap'ake and Ohio terminal at Newport News. ia an
nounced as a candidate for TINT once. The value of
American exports from Newport News increased
1922 900 900 in the fiscal year OF 1897, and $50 oOO.
900 in the fs, al year of 1898.
The total attendance of visitors at the New Yorl,
1898 1t was .650.471.
There are ninety organized counties in Nebraska,
but the number Of these counties in name only,
having less population than would qualify an in
terror New York town for organization by the Legis
lature as such. Mcpherson county. Neb.. cast only
81 votes in the Presidential election OF 1870 and
only % votes last year. Thomas county cast only
1l3 votes in 1895 and only 90 last year. Blaine
county cast 144 votes in 1890 and 1os votes last
year and Hooker county cast so votes in 1890 and
81 last year. Grant county cast 1871 votes in 1sas
and l5a last year. These minor counties all in
cline to Popuiism and Bryan carried nearly all of
them in ls9t.
The Board of Education in April. 1899. appropri.
ated sTO25 for the purchase of twenty pianos
at prices ranging from 1927 to $3.50 each and after
the contract for then had been awarded to two
petinR firms It was ascertaincd thas under pro-
vision OF the charter the Board Of Public Improve
ments must approve the contract, though precisely
what the Board of Public improvements should
have to do with the purchase OF pianos for school
purposes is not entirely clear. Nevertheless tho
Corporation Counsel in an opinion hGo sustained
this view of the case.
There are two vacancies on tho bench OF the City
Court this year 10 be filled by election in November
the terms of Judges Fitzsimons and Conan expiring.
Judge Fzsimons. who 10 the presiding Judge Of this
tribunal. will. according to present political arrange
ments. be renominated. but in place OF Judge Conan
tho Tammany candidate will he Joseph H. Suner,
now Judge OF the Eighth District Municipal Court.
Mr.. Stiner has been for many years q 10y member
OF the Tammany Hall organization and recently has
become very influential member Of It as we'll. Tho
west SIDE of which he is resident. is at present
Court and OF the reasons for the probable fail.
ure OF Tammany Hall to renominate Judge Conlan
is the fact that the Assembly district OF which he ia
resident. the Fourteenth has another Representa-
tive the bench Of this tribunal in John p. Schuch
man whose term does not expire until 1904.
Miasissippi IN one Of the States having general
election this year for Governor. Lieutenant Gov,
rrnor Secretary OF State. Treasurer. Auditor and
Attorney General. The term Of those ofhciAls is
four years, but the salaries paid them somewhat
mcagrc. The Governor receives 81. 300 year. tho
Secretary Of State is paid 81 ooo the other ocias
get az 600 except the Lieutenant Governor. who ia
paid by the day and only when the Legislature Is in
session in jackson. Under the existing ballot laws
OF Mississippi Democratic nomination there Is
equivalent to an election.
All Of the eleven contested election cases in the
House OF the Fifty Congress have been sent to
the Public Printer. OF these the testimony in four
has been printed. The testimony IL not yet com
plete in the Walker.R hea case from Virginia which
Is likely to be the most notable to before
the Fifty sixth Congress. Gen. walker Republican