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Year: 1875

LETTER OF TIE HON. ADRAM S. HEWITT IN FAVOR OF


THE AMENDAToRY ARBITRATION ACT.


The Hon. Abram S. Hewitt has written
letter 10 Assemblyman Waehner, Chairman of the AS
sembly Judiciary Committee iu regard TO the Amenda-
tory Act In reference the Court Of Arbitration adyo
eating the act speaking Of the Importance OF the
sysem OF arbitration. Following is the text Of tho letter.


greatly regret being confined to my house by Illness
and therefore unable to accompany the COMMITTEE OF
the Chamber OF Commerce. and appear before your
Committee in behalf OF the AmendatOry Arbitration
ment Of the salaries Of the Arbitrator and Clerk OF
Arbitration by the Supervisors, the expense OF Tue
rooms fuel stationery, &C., being born by the Champcr


The Arbitration Court has proved great success, ana
would public disgrace to suffer 1t 10 die All com
mercia cities need sucn tribunal, aud III Europe tney
generally have them. The experiment has been made
here through the iberaty OF the Chamber OF Commerce.
and should now be publicly recognized and the Court
put upon lasting basis There is and always VIII DO
great amount of arbitration going on III this port IN
irregular methods, in merchants counting rooms. WIZ
out counsel without eSt9Dshed precedent without the
warrant OF authority Shall these things continue or
will the Legislature the fact and bring these arbltTa
tons of their hiding places to public FORUM where
all may obtain justice and tne settlement OF disputes
without hne or punishment in seeking their rlghsf


The present Legislature have a golden opportunity,
by accepting the offer of the Chamber OF Commerce 10
institute great public benefactiOn aud provide Tor
great commercial necessity at the trng expense pro
yided for IN this bill Those who advocate and vote Tor
the bill will deserve well OF the puDlc and certainly,
country ought to stand 10y It's commercial and mercantile
interests which, for long time and 10 unanimously
have demanded the establishment oi tAs very arO!tTd-
tiOn court.
Year: 1875

burden Of supplying tho money for nearly ssoooss Of
additional taxes and would require ut least s1soooo
moro capital and at this money s sent directly away
from the city it would heavily the banking
capital needed for other branches OF business. Toe
Chamber A also persuaded that the increased tax would
encourage fraud 10 the collection Of the revenue.
Year: 1875

Our modern funeral obseryauccs and the
set fashion of mourning are in as direct con-
tr,st with the manly resignation of the
Hebrew king as they are IN giariug contra
diction TO the professions We make OF faith
in the present happiness and continued
existence Of those dear ones taken from our
sight. II we really believe that it is well
with the child for whom Che mothers arms
are aching and empty, ii we are not inton-
ing with mere lii-seryice our " Blessed are
the dead who die In the Lord" why this
ostentatiou of Grape, of bowed windows and
darkened chambers Why do we shun the
sunlight and avert our faces from all glad
ness, and hold ourselves disloyal TO the dead,
if a smile or laugh steals upon Us unawarcs?
Either we do not really believe that our
friends are happy, that We shall see them
again, or we are hypocritrs with this out
ward paraphemalia, this etiquette Of sorrow.


Why should we darllen our houses? The
sunshine is sent to purify, TO resuuect its
mission is 10 stricken lives as Wen as 10 frost
bound fields. In the heavy hours weighed
down with the unnecessary gloom and cir
cumstance of the customary funeral rites,
surely We have need of all that can cheer
and warm and inspirit us Worn out with
watching, it may be, depressed with the care,
the suffering with all that has gone before,
the mourning household is the one of all
others that should throw open its easements,
should gladden. itself with flowers, and the
comfort that twitters through the chirp Of
even the city spauows.


Some people think they show tondeiost
memory of the dead by allowing despond-
ency to develop into illhealth; they culti-
vate illness and weakness as a fine art of





waits on good appetite aud accustomed eX-
energy, is reproach TO them; it sayors of
dsrcspect.


Could we butsee that the truost and tender
est way Of honoring our dear ones is 10 live our
honest lives right on in the usual way, add
ing, ii possible, To our work, that which their
tired hands lay down


We pay dearly for the etiquette which
would keep us sitting in darkness when a
sudden impulse comes to hear some music,
see bright picture, or visit friend in
whose voice and eyes we find both. But
the impulse does not come TO true moumers.
All, the heart beats humanity enough beneath
the heaviest veil. Decorum teaches us 10
repress each impulse TO the light, "1d come
too Soon" Shallow, indeed, is the loneliness
and loss that can map out the months into
districts of dress and behaviour and let in
the sunshine and the world hand in hand by
a computed timetable and registry of days


Dress should be typical; it should be in
tone with the age, needs and disposition OF
the wearer. If our thoughts are set in a
subdued key, unconsciously we get the same
tone into our surroundings but for the mat
ter of that, can we not be as grave and
thoughtful in brown as in black, in dark
blue as in drab The Quaker drab has
been highly commended, not only that ii
acts as an 9gis of protection TO lone women
travellers from Maine to California, but that
in its simplicity and unobtrusiyeness IL har.
Year: 1875

Bishop Haven has made his official state
ment of what took place at the Boston con-
vention, and we do not see that it differs ma
terially from the reports that were pub
lished previously. 1t is admitted in
this statement that he, prelate Of the
Methodist Church, addressed a Methodist
Convention, and asked them to ''pray for
the denomination Of President Grant" The
difference between this request for prayer
and the formal nomination of the President
is not essential. The fact remains that this
Methodist demonstration in favor of the
reelection Of the President begins with
the Bishop, and is indorsed by a conven-
ton of clergymen and laymen. Bishop
Haven is, of course, entitled to his own
opinions as to who should be President,
and to pray for whatever candidate he
pleases. He has probably learned by this
time, however, that nothing could do his
Church more harm or could do more injury
to true religion than for the priest Of any
denomination to interfere in politics The
prayers which good men offered for the sue
cess of the country during our Revolutionary
war and the struggle with the rebellion were
far different from this praying for
the success of President who could
only assume the Office by violation
of O sacred tradition Of the constitution.
Bishop Haven must know for he is an intel
ligent man and before the war belonged to
the radical element Of the country-that
nothing could do more violence to the ele-
mentary principles of republicanism than 30
elect any President for third term. He
must know that this would be the beginning
of Casarism He must feel that if it is
necessary" to elect President Grant for a
third term it would be just as necessary to
electIim for fourth or fifth. His mind is
logical enough to see that such an election
means the permanent occupancy Of the Pres
idential Office by the President.


Bishop Haven was a radical before the war.
among those men who believed in anti
slavery and in absolute freedom fer all men


Yet we find him now following the emotions
Of religious association and taking ground
compared to which the EXTREMIST doctrines of
the old shareholders in favor Of State rights
were conservative. We are rejoiced to find
that the Methodist Church has so promptly
repudiated the mad venture of its Bishop.
We trust that this will be the end of the
/ effort to make the Presidential campaign
upon the platform Of "No Popery and the
protection Of the Protestant religion Sucl
a platform would be the basest kind o.
demagogism, and its support is altogether
unworthy Of the sacred Office which BishoI
Haven holds. To-day we print series
! interesting interviews with prominent mem
Year: 1875

The FUTURE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC is
well assured in the result Of the elections TO
the Senate. Ten more republican life
Senators were elected yesterday by the As
sembly, leaving it certain that out Of the
seyenty-fve to be chosen by that body there
will scarce be dozen not in sympathy
with the conservative Republic. The effect
Of this upon the country will be immense,
and insures an overwhelming republican
majority in the Senate when the balance IS
elected by tue ueooie and in the new As
semblv,
Year: 1875

The INDICTED BABcocK has not appeared
at St Louis yet. Meanwhile his friends are
busy writing letters to prove to the Presi-
dent that Babcock did not influence him in
his suspension Of the order Of Douglass.
The rumors attempting to connect General
Grant personally with the doings Of the
Ring by connivance at the frauds are, we
trust, utterly unfounded No such crimi-
nality could square with his war upon the
Ring which was unhinching up to the point
Of Babcocl5s implication.
Year: 1875

We ARE GLAD TO SEE that the authorities
have taken steps to apply the hygienic prin-
ciples, laid down in General Viele's
Baltimore address, to buildings hereafter to
be erected in New York. 1t is high time that
sanitary requirements should be enforced in
this respect. The plumbing Of our houses
will cost but trife more than it does in the
present unscientifc manner in which it is
generally applied. The noxious gases which
fill our houses and eat away the lives Of in
mates will in buildings scientifically drained
escape into the air without, where they will
be absorbed and carried away without danger
to health. This is great step forward, and
if the power existed to have the gas-escape
pipe applied to all dwellings within the city
limits we should expect to see the heavy
death rate of New York considerably lessened-
Year: 1875

Mr. BEEcHER last night moved that Ply
mouth Church call an advisory council to
consider its case against the members who
decline to leave and will not attend it. 1t Is
a bold flank movement on the call for
a mutual council, to which Plymouth
has already asscnted. The pastor de-
sires TO meet advisors who will greet him
with the palms Of their hands, and not the
knuckles thereof His enemies he says
have been pelting him with "dory ice
Goodness that burned like fire." We
thought he had been kent IN ''hot water.
Year: 1875

sentence


The anomalous feature\ of our law which
allows the fate of the man condemned to
die to remain undecided until he is at tho
foot of the gallows should be changed to such
an extent as to fix definite time before the
execution at which all hope should cease.
1t is also desirable that the authority to
stave off the punishment should not be
diffused as it now is. To-day the
three colored murderers will walk forth
to the death they have merited. Dolan, who
is under sentence also, and who was respited
a week since obtained writ of error yester-
day through one Of the Supreme Court
judges and thus has his hope of escape re-
newed, although the Governor had decided
not to interfere further with the course of the
law. With the life Of human being at stake.
even though-it be that Of professional thief
and outlaw like Dolan, we do not desire
that anything should be left undone to
make sure that the sentence is just,
but the machinery of our law has so
many loopholes for delay that it is often OBJ
tanned for the deluded wretch without saw
ing him finally from the gallows. We recall
a case in London, where an Italian who lay
under sentence of death was rescued from
his fate by the real murderers presenting
themselves for punishment 1t was q case,
too, of direct evidence, not crcumstantial,
the error being one Of identity. In Dolan's
case the ''new evidence" is merely an asser-
ton of the prisoner that he obtained
Mr.. Noes watch from a thief, whose
existence under the alias of Diamond
Jim," is the solitary fact to support it.
But the writ of error was granted by Judge
Donohue upon technical grounds, while we
learn additional evidence of Dolans guilt
was in the hands of the District Attorney
The whole affair is farce upon justice and
the blame appears to lie upon the loose state
of the law. The death sentence is only the
beginning Of the real fight for the life of the
condemned, when it should end it,
except in such an extraordinary case
as that above alluded to. It is
impossible, as the law now stands,
for a wretch awaiting death to give any time
or any thought to the duties of religion,
which our humanity teaches belongs 10 all,
no matter how depraved or unfortunate In
England and in France these things are done
better. The execution in France generally
follows in q very few days after the sentence.
The execution in England is supposed to
come within twenty days. We like the
English plan better than the French plan
but we should have plan of our own,
humane and firm In all cases Of murder
there should be prompt trials, and, wnen
guilty, prompt punishment. We can
imagine no torture more agonizing than
that Of the condemned men in the Tombs
who, like Dolan, hang between life and death,
expecting pardon or reprieve or some inter-
ference, and who, like the negro murderers,
only know that they are really to die within
few short hours Of the dread moment OF
execution.
Year: 1875

The New NATIONAL OPERA House IN Lon
don had its foundation stone laid by the Duke
Of Edinburgh yesterday. How long before
New York can have a good Italian opera to
support in the building it already possesses?
Year: 1875

TIE ARcT1c.-Captain Young, who com
manded the Pandora in her late voyage in
the Polar region, will be sent BY the British
Admiralty next year to communicate with
the British expedition in the Alert and Dis
coyery, which is aiming to reach the North
Pole via Smiths Sound. BY this arrange
ment the world will have news Of the gal
Iant band under Captain Markham IS soon
as possible
Year: 1875

The SALARY QUESTION. Mr. Buckner, OF
Missouri, proposes to reduce the salary OF
the President There has been great deal
Of cant on this subject in the last few
months, but the common sense Of the coun-
try has taken no part in it. The salary Of
the President is not more than it should be.
The democrats will make no capital by this
agitation.
Year: 1875

THR Coal MINE HoRRoR this time is in
Belgium. The ire-damp was again ex-
ploded, doubtless through the negligence OF
one Of the unfortunate men who lost their
lives It is the old story of contempt OF
danger, begotten by familiarity, with the
danger taking its fearful revenge.
Year: 1875

THE KHEDIvE begins already to feel that
he is a suzerain of England instead Of
Turkey His designs on Abyssinia are shorn
of their vagueness, which might have in
cluded conquest and occupation, and limited
by an English demand to exacting satisfac-
ton. He is quietly told to give up an
nexation in that direction and keep at his
work Of making the Nile Valley back garden
for Manchester. TO this end English capital
will help build his Alexandria, Khartoum and
White Nile Railroad, to bring the Soudan
cotton TO market
Year: 1875

THE dynamite PLoT. Death has removed
the wretch Thompson from the punishment
of man. He is said to have fully confessed
his crime and to have disclosed the names of
his accomplices, which, for the present, are
prudently held in reserve. We hope our
police authorities will work actively to ferret
out any of the criminals who may be upon
the soil of the United States. An affrighting
catastrophe only prevented one still greater,
but it at the same time providentially made
it possible to detect what looks like the most
awful conspiracy against human life ever de-
vised by the depraved ingenuity Of man.
Year: 1875

Our AVENUE. We trust that the DISPOSE
tion to make the Fifth avenue worthy Of its
fame as the great highway Of New York will
not be arrested. We can appreciate what the
avenue might be. in this glorious winter
weather. which fingers with US now almost
to the verge Of Christmas. This avenue
should be macadamized without delay, to
make it truly the avenue of the Champs
Elys6es Of New York. 1t would cost but
very little money, and at the same time add
largely to the comfort of all classes Of people.
Year: 1875

Ex-Speaker Blaine has introduced an
amendment to the constitution embodying
the suggestions in his recent letter This
amendment proposes ''that no State shall
make any law respecting the establishment
Of religion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof, and that no money raised by taxa
ton in any State for the support of the pub
lie schools, or derived from any public funds
therefor, or any public lands devoted thereto,
shall ever be under the control of any reli-
gious sect, and that no money or land 50
devoted shall be divided among religious
sects or denominations.


We think it would be wise for the demo-
Gratis to take Mr.. Blaine at his word and pass
his amendment to the constitution Of
course the motive which prompts the ex-
Speaker is clear. He is in charge of the in
terests Of the republican party and about to
open new campaign for the Presidency.
He wants what Mr.. Schurz happily called it
the other day. ''an emotional question" As
we have got through with slavery the ex-
Speaker would like to conduct the canvass
upon the platform of free schools and no
Popery. Now it is always wise in war to do
the very thing which your opponents dread.
The one thing that would annoy the repub-
licans beyond measure would be the adop-
ton Of this amendment by the democrats
If they do not adopt it we shall have the cry
Of ''no Popery" ringing through every State
in the Union during the coming campaign
The wise plan for the democracy is to pass
this amendment, and in doing 50 spike the
most important gun in the republican camp.
Year: 1875

The Turnverein Germania are max
ing preparations to give grand mas
querade ball on the 4th of March next
The society has already bought some
costumes, and will have many more
made here, so that they will be en-
abled to loan them at reasonable
rates. A lot of selected masGs will be
purchased and on hand when the cos
TUNES are completed. The committee
of arrangements, appointed by the So
ciety, has had full experience in con-
dueting such balls and has already
com mmenced the necessary arrange
ments.


During the evening the audience
will be entertained with characteristic
representations on the stage and on
the floor.


Two valuable prizes to the amount
of 500 will he awarded-one for the
best lady, and the other for the best
gentleman character. The public can
be assured thatthis ball will surpass
anything of the kind heretofore given
in the city.


For the better accommodation of the
spectators, the gallery in the Turn
Verein Hall will be extended along
each side of the hall, and the work is
in the hands of the architect for i'm
mediate execution.


Parties having costumes for sale at
reasonable rates will be able to dis
pose of them at once to the society.
Year: 1875

The dispatch from Mr.. CROKER to
Superintendent HEWITT, announcing
the early commencement of work on
the San Fernando tunnel, published


in the HERALD of yesterday morning,


is received by the people of Los An
geles county with satisfaction. 1t cam
not, however, be taken as evidence


that the company intend to abandon


the change of route provided for in Mr..
HoUGHToN's bill. 1t will be remem-
bered that the bill provides for the
retention of the route which will use
the San Fernando tunnel, but refers to
it as branch road via Los Angeles.


Mr.. CRocKER telegraphs to Superin-
tendent HEWITT that there is no in
tention of abandoning that route. we
never supposed there was, but there
appears to be very decided intention
to change it from main to branch
line and to delay the time of compile
tion from 1877 to 1885. Notwithstand-
ing the efforts of the company to the
contrary, we feel confident they will
complete the road from Tehachape
Pass to this city within the next two
years. We believe this because VIZ
believe Congress will not be so unjust


as to permit the company to abandon
route over which they have agreed
to build the main road and in consid.
Grafton of SO doing have received 0
Year: 1875

The people of Los Angeles county
are not pleased with Mr.. LUTTRELI S
offer of compromise with the South
ern Pacific Railway Company. If the
telegraphic report is correct, he pro-
poses to withdraw his opposition to a
change of the line of the rood on con-
dition that the company consent to
sell their lands at the Government
price of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. Should the company
agree to this, of which there is little
probability, and thereby secure the
passage of HoUGHToN's bill, it would
work serious injury to this part of the
State. There is another aspect OF the
case to be considered. How can an
agreement to sell land at reduced
price affect q contract between the
people of Los Angeles county and the
Railroad Company? We claim that
the main trunk of the road should run
through this city, More than TINS,
we claim, and have the regularly
signed contract to prove, that for a
consideration to them paid the COM
pany have bound themselves to build
and operate the main line of their
road through this city. When these
facts are made manifest to Mr.. LUT-
TRELL, as they will be when he re-
ceives the documents forwarded by
the Chamber of Commerce, we appre-
hend he will see the impossbility of
making any kind Of a compromise by
which the proposed change of route
may be effected.
Year: 1875

ENGINEER CRAWFORD has received


instructions from San Francisco to
prepare plans for q wharf twenty-sev-
en- hundred feet in length at Truxton.
1t is the intention of the company to
extend their wharf to water sufficient
ly deep to accommodate the largest
class of ocean steamers. The wharf
now in contemplation will reach
water thirty feet in depth at low tide.
Year: 1875

large sum in the shape of subsidy from
the people of Los Angeles county.
Congress and a desire to head off the
Texas Pacific will induce the South
ern Pacific to fulfill their contract
with Los Angeles county.
Year: 1875

THE purpose of the Congressional


Committee seems to be merely to de-
termine who received the money dis
bursed by IRWIN. He has given the
names of those to whom he dispensed
coin with such a bountiful hand, yet
we hear Of no arrest or orders to ar
Year: 1875

One of our ignorant rich men, many
years ago, refused to contribute in aid
of the observatory at Cambridge, be-
cause the astronomers would be dis
covering more stars, when there was
no use for half the stars already
known Boston Evening transcript.
Year: 1875

THE first reports from Marysvills
after the flood were to the effect that
the loss would exceed million dol
lars. The latest information is that
the loss to the merchants and business
men will not reach half million.
Year: 1875

4 lady travelling from New York TO
Boston a short time ago, took her seat
in a drawing-rOOm car. the only Occu-
pants of which were two gentlemen.
One was smoking; the other held a
fresh and unhghted cigar just ready
to apply the match. The fair traveller
did not like the OdOr of smoke. and
calmly remarked aloud that this was
the drawing room car, and they would
please find the smoking car forward.
for the smoke was very offensive TO
her. Tie gentlemen removed the OBJ
noxious weeds but looked extremely
serious about it, and had a word or
two with the conductor when that
functionary entered. He mildly re-
quested the lady to step into another
car, but she was comfortably seated
and declined to move. By and by
other gentlemen appeared and adj
dressed the would-be smoker as Mr..
President and when at last some
one let drop the mystic word Grant,
the obtuse and well-meaning dame re-
cOgnized her company, and summon
ing the conductor, sought another car.
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