Arizona republican., 1900-10-24
VICTOR EMMANUEL's CHANGES.
Cutting Expenses and Setting Up a
 New Moral Standard at Count.


 New Moral standard at Count.
 
 King Victor Emmanuel has inaugur- ated an era of strict economy in con nectiun with the royal household. At the time of his advent to the throne there were 400 horses in the royal stables. The king has reduced this number to l6O. Humbert insisted that the filters should be changed four times a day. His son has directed that it will be done only twice. The whole service of the court is being reformed. and even the royal dinner table has been reduced to the most modest pro portions the king at the same time providing that there shall be nothing Gnninished in the grandeur or sp!end"r of state entertainments.
 There is one point in connection with the new reign which is particularly worthy of note. Henceforth the Italian court will not be as easy of access as heretofore. IL has become far more exclusive and the lines are more sharp ly defined. Victor Emmanuel. unlike his two predecessors on the throne is inexorable on the question of moral ity and decorum. It may be remem- ' missed his chief of household. General Trrzhagi and banished him from court for the sole reason that the unfortunate officer in sending out the commands to ball given by the then crown prince and crown princess at Napl-s had inadvertently comprised in the in vitations a high official dignitariea wife. who. prior to her marriage had
 I 1.aH of the san Carlos theater.
 Military officers have ben taken tn task. transferred. and even pla, ed on half pay for marrying. or even public Iy assuciating with women of question: able antecedcnts while the least in delcacy in money matters is punished. where military officers are concerned. with a stern hard.
 The king has likewise intimat-d p the members of the cabinet that he expects more decorUcn than heretofore in their parti uIar mode of life. ana that in particular he strongly disap- proves uf the habit which several of their number have of frequenting pub lie cafes where they have been accus- toned to sit for hours together, sur rounded by d petty court of obs -quious parasites. discussing political and ad- ninistrative questions with utmost freedom. In fact. Sig. Granada. for so long minister of justice. and as su-h. at the head of the entire iuliciary magistracy of the kingdom. used to be seen every night throughout his term of office in one or another If tho music halls or cafe .chantants Of Rome drinking champagne with footlight fla vorit,s
 Victor Emmanuel at present is engaged in carefully going through the voluminous mass pf private pape,S left by his father, employing the eariN hours of the morning b-fore bre akfASt for the purpose Humbert made point of never under any circumstances destroying any letter that was ad~ dressed to him. Everything. no matte" how trivial in the way of epistnlarN communication. was filed away. And while this has resulted in the accumu- latiOn of an immense mass uf p-rfeCt- ly useless paper the continuation there uf by the young king is not without en- Tightening him on the subject 1f many peculiarities with regard to the statesmen and politicians of his faith CTS reign. some Of whom cannot fail to be terribly perturbed at the dis covery that King Humbert. so renown- ed for his magnanimous reti.euce and generous discretion. had been in the habit of keeping every communicauI confidential and otherwise. addressed to hm.-Chicago Tribune.