The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-20

GATE Tor PRESIDENT In 1860, was born In Vermont
This years appropriation for the State Architect. Of
New York Is S.: So.
The city OF Troy, which has been enlarged BY tbs
annexation to Il, OF the towns Of LAnsingburg and
Brunswick, Is one Of the oldest cities In New York,
having been Incorporated In 1915 a, a time when the
only other Incorporated cities IN the State were New
YORK. Hudson. Albany and Srhe rcctady. New York
and Albany have retained since their distinction. tho
former rs the financial and the latter as the political
capital Of the state. and Hudson and Schenectady
have been exceeded In population and resources By
hall a dozen other places, OF which Buffalo, Syracuse.
Troy and Rochester are The most conspicuous. Lam
Singburg was established as n town in 1907 and
brunswick In the same year Both were parts Of the
city OF Troy TO which, after a lapse OF more than
ninety years they are reunited now politically.
1t has been determined by the Philadelphia mana.
gers Of the Republican National Conve ton, which 10
to meet In that city in June, that no doorkee pers shall
be appointed from that city for the reason that they
may be Imposed upon by Philade lphianS OF their ac-
luain'ance' whose demand for admission 10 the con-
vention without tickets, credentials OF badges they
would md 4, difficult to refuse. Philadelphia Is q
nelghborly place, and a doorkecper OF kindly disposi.
tlon might Inadvertently II Is feared, Ill the conven-
ton hall with his ~nslghbOrs before the delegates AZ.
rived. a contingency to be prevented at all hazards
Contracts for publ shing legal notices and adver-
isemrnts in 1900 have been ent cred into with the
four Brooklyn papers following. TO the amount Of
100000 each The BROOKLYN Times. Brooklyn linton.
Brooklyn Cftrn and Brooklyn Frste PreaM
A majority Of the Southern States adopted Cons0-
tutions under the terms Of which civil administration
was reestablished between the years 1857 and 1870.
but unlike what has come to be the custom In mox
Northern States, .hes. Constitutions have not from
time to time been amended BY popular vote, but 70.
main intact without revision. as they were thirty
years ago. In three States, South Carolina, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, new Constitutions have been
adopted-in the last State by the Legislators without
any formal ratification by the voters. As the present
Constitutional provisions are. many Of them. impras-
tcable Of enforcement or no Longer suitable. a general
overhaullng Of State Constitutions Is now going on
In the South In which, recently. Virginia and North
Carolina have Joined.
The Republican National Convention Of June In
Philadelphia will have an unusually large number Il
United States Senators as deleg ates atlarge. Nearly
every Republican Senator will be a elegate-atlargs
from his home State, and among the De mocrats, too, q
like preference for Senators is being shown. Senator
Morgan Of Alabama will he chairman OF hi, States
delegation. Jones that Of Arkansas. Tilhnan that a
South Carolina, ana so on.
New York's municipal hudg Il In elud.. an a~ppropsi.
alton Of s6s3 900 for the Department Of Highways IA
The Bronx $500, 600 more than Is allotted 70 Brook
lynn, $4,000 FOR the Department Of Sewers. Slis.-
900 for the Department Of Health, and s3sS 900 fog
the Department Of Parks. In a majority Of the de-
%parments, however. there Il no separation Of tbs
items allotted to Manhattan and The Bronx.
The Republican candidate for Governor Of Indiana
is Winfield T. Durbin. who is the Indiana represents-
tive 10 the Republican National Committee and 10
a resident Of the town Of Ander son. In Madison county,
In the natural gas district. Madison Is usually q
Republican county though in the last State election
OF 1898 Il, was close between the two parties. For
considerable time there has been some political antag-
onism between the Republicans OF the indianapolis
or capital district and those from rural constituencies
in Indiana. and the latter. who prevailed at the recent
Republican State Con vention. were the supporters n
Mr. Durbin's nomination. the vote Of Marion county.
which includes the city OF indianapolis, being caN
for Grin,hs. the rival candidate. Anderson II .
town producing nails and strawboard chiefly.
The President has signed the bill, passed By Con-
gress authorizing the construction OF a bridge across
Ta,aha,chie River. Miss. and a bridge over the Blu
Sandy River from Kanawha. ". Va. to Catetts-
burg, Ky.
The Department, Of Public Charities has entered into
a contract for the purchase Of even soup boilers and
two coffee urns for use in the AImshouse. and the e.
t.nsive requirements OF these articles are shown ~
the fac, tha, the stipulated price at which they are
sold to the city 81,
Former United States Senator johnson N. Csmdsa
OF PafkerSburg 1, a candidate in West Virginia 10
succeed Stephen Il. Elkins. the present Legislature
being close on Joint ballot and the Democrats having
a majority Of the followers. Senator Elkins will bs
In the Republican feld alone, HIS friend, are con.
6dent OF his return 10 the Senate by q safe margin.
The Republican r. representatives who voted sgainn
their party associates on the Porto Rico bill were
Mccall Of Massachusetts, Littleheld Of Maine,
Iorimer and Warner Of Illinois, Crumpacker and
Lake Of Indiana, II. c. Smith OF Michigan and Heat
wole and Fletcher OF Minnesota, States carried Sy
the Republicans In 1895 by the majorities followtngi
Massachusetts,, l75.O0o; Maine. $4,000: nlinois,
l4l. 900: Indiana, $4,000: Michigan. $4,000. ana
Minnesota, $1,000
Although Samuel J. Tilden was one Of the most
d. s,ir guished OF the Governors OF New York and
more intimately identInsd with legislation In this
State than any OF his immediate successors in that
once. no portrait OF him hangs in the City Hall.
where are the portraits OF every Chief Magistrate Of
the State from Clinton 10 Dix. The Governors room
has daily many visitors, to whom II Is necessary Ia
give In many case, some ex PLANTATION of the fact that
since GOv. DIX no portrait OF n bOVefneT hAS Deen
added To the collection. though the city government
makes appropriation annually for the maintenance ~
tho City Hall and has wasted many thousands OF
dollars on the Lorelei fountain and other like offences
against artistic taste.
Il Is popularity supposed In West Virginia that
Judge Tsvenner Of Parkcrsburg will be the Demo-
cratic nominee for Governor and 4. n. White OF the
same place will be the RI publican nominee. Congress
man Romeo II Freer has withdrawn from the contest
for the Republican nomination.
The consideration ~ military affairs has fequired
con siderable attention from the present Con gresa. bu1
II has not been devoted exclusively tn the present CON-
dltlon Of the Army either in the United States or Ia
territories over which American Jurisdiction has been
extended, bu.. Includes matters connected with both
the Civil and III. Mexican War. Among the bills
recently con sidercd by the House Of Representatives
were tho following \ bill to erect a monument to
army nurses a bill to pen sion prisoners OF war. q
bill To pension certain scouts and guides In tho Civil
War, a bill to increase pensions Of widow. of soldiers
in the Mexican War and A bill to amend the act FOE
the relief Of volunteer and regular soldiers In thS
Mexican War.
Congress has Included in the appropriations 10
the Agricultural Department this year $40 600 sos
The distribution. at public expense, ~ SEEDS 10 the
constituents Of Cong reSSmen; and those PERSONS vho
u,re ennrehenSlvr Of an aba ndunment OF this occa-