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TIN PLATE TRUTH.
In our local columns to-day will be
found an interview with three 'Welshmen
who arc looking around in this country for
a place to resume the manufacture of tin
plate which the ilcKinleyhill forced them
to relinquish at home. The statements
are of special value because they are made
against inclination. Mr. Owen regrets
that he should have to leave the old coun
try, but asserts that the tariff on tin plate
demands that departure. He confesses
himself a Democrat, and in the same
breath emphatically declares that Protec
tion is the only policy for this countr'.
He wishes that Wales could continue to
compete with American manufacturers,
but confesses that the tariff is all that is
needed, vith the advantages of cheap fuel,
capital, and energy, to insure the absolute
supremacy of the American made article.
The testimony of men such as these, who
know the details necessary to insure the
success of tin-plate making, should be
enough once and for all to silence those
who seek to smother the industry under
false ridicule in order to manufacture a
party cry. The manufacture of tin plate
is already well established, and under a
protective policy its growth will rapidly
insure America's independence of foreign
producers for its supply of this necessary.
a fah. roLicY.
The statement that the World's Fair
management has been granting exclusive
.irivileges in the line of exhibiting the
processes of manufacturing glassware and
selling it, of transporting passengers to the
Fair by boat, of exhibiting lapidary proc
esses, and so on, is one that, unless denied
or explained, will have a most damaging
effect on that enterprise.
It is simply stupidity to take away the
universal character of an exhibit like that
of the glass industry by giving a single
firm exclusive privileges. It is even pos
sible to raise the question whether under
the act of Congress providing for an ex
hibit of industries such a plan does not so
destroy the public character of the exhibit
as to be bej ond the power of theboard.
The provision that the Fair gets twenty
per cent of the gross receipts in return for
these privileges is the attraction for the
management; but that indicates that the
grantees of the privileges are going to
make a much larger percentage of profit
Will the knowledge that the visitors to the
Fair are to be subject to the phlebotomy
necessary to make these monopolies pro
fitable attract or discourage attendance?
The World's Fair management should
promptly correct these false steps, if they
have been taken. In the meantime Pitts
burg manufacturers should tike prompt
measures to forestall any more such ex
clusive grants in the manufacturing line
by general applications for space to ex
hibit their products and processes of man
ufacture. A deliberate choice.
The bill introduced by Senator Chand
ler yesterday, to extend to Austin Corbin's
steamship company the privileges granted
In the cae of the City of Paris and the
City of Xevr York, indicates the course
that is being taken in this matter of steam
ship registry. The first bill extended its
privilege under general terms, with re
strictions as to the character and circum
stances of the steamers admitted to regis
try, which confined its operation to a
special case. The second bill makes no
secret of its character of special legisla
tion by naming Mr. Austin Corbin and
the American Steamship Company as the
beneficiary of the bill
It would be the easiest matter in the
world to draw up a bill that would be ap
plicable to all people alike and give every
one an equal chance. Therefore the re
sort to special legislation looks like a de
liberate choice in favor of jobbery and
favoritism.
CORRUPTION AND CURES.
The question of corruption in elections
has recently produced two contributions
to the general literature of the subject
One is an address by Prof. McCook to the
Hartford Board of Trade, in which the
startling assertion is made that an in
vestigation in fourteen average towns of
Connecticut shows one-sixth of the voters
to be purchasable, and arrives at the opin
ion that 25,000 of the 166,000 votes in Con
necticut can be bought The evidence for
this statement is not given. The remedy
proposed is disfranchisement for the
criminal class, especially the buyers and
Fellers of votes. The New Tork Post calls
this "radical;" but, even supposing that
there was any guarantee of the conviction
of politicians who bought votes and the
ignorant and depraved people who sell
themselves, it is really a mild punish
ment The other proposition is one pending
before the Massachusetts Legislature "to
prevent corrupt practices in elections."
It adopts the latest fashion of requiring
reports of expenditure by cither candi
dates or political committees, with close
provisions as to the manner in which
either class is to regulate its disbursements
and the method of keeping accounts of
them. It is hardly necessary to go into
details because, like all similar measures,
the act overlooks the probable supposition
that the law-breaking class will secretly
violate its provisions. The buyers and
sellers of votes are law-breakers. They
systematically conceal their operations,
where all respect for the law is not wholly
cast aside. What is to prevent any candi
date or political committee or this class
from making reports of expenditures with
the Illegitimate items strictly omitted, and
-A fTtrt " smfa-'at.- .-aifci-'---r.lJ-J-J!
to preserve the secrecy on that point with
the same success that. secrecy as to bribery
is now maintained? The man who buys
votes is not likely to boggle over so sim
ple a matter as suporessing the evidence
of It
The trouble with the present tendency
to multiply laws as a remedy for abuses is
tha't It Ignores the fact that laws do no
good unless the community is educated
up to the point of maintaining them. The
provisions against corruption should be
simple and direct; and then if the evil is
to be abolished public opinion must be
raised to the stage whe.re the whole people
will join in wiping It out
EXPENDITURES AND ELECTIONS.
Besides the points on the increase of ex
penditure noted by The Despatch the
other day, there is a relation of political
cause and effect which only the most
stupid can fall to understand. It iset
down in the comparison of the annual ex
penditures of the Government with the
results of the national election, and re
veals a popular sentiment on the subject
of Governmental economy very different
from that expressed by Senator Gorman
and the" organs of plunder which pretend
to oppose him.
In 1873 and 1874 the process which had
been previously going on of cutting down
Government expenditures at the rate of
fifteen to twenty millions per annum, was
checked From a minimum of $277,000,
000 in 1872 expenditures rose to 5292,000,000
and $287,000,000 in 1873 and 1874. The re
sult was that inl874aDemocraticHouseof
Representatives was elected for the first
time since the "war. The lesson had some
effect, and the Democratic nouse aided in
cutting down expenditures to $274,000,000
and $238,000,000 in 1875 and 1876. The
showiugas to retrenchment caused the
very close approach to an election of Til
den in 1876.
During the succeeding four years there
was an apparent comprehension of the
value of economy in public expenditures.
Th". total reached the low-water mark in
1878 of $236,000,000, and the Republicans
carried the elections of 1880. But the
leaders of that pirty, with Kiefer as
Speaker of the House, displayed the
present tendency. Appropriations for the
first time reached $777,000,000 for the en
tire Congress; and the people put in a
Democratic Congress. That Congress cut
down appropriations, under the leader
ship of Randall and Holman, to
$635,000,000 a reduction of $60,000,000
annually, and a Democratic President was
elected in 1884. During the first half of
the Cleveland administration the Demo
crats bore the lesson of these elections in
mind. Expenditures were kept down to a
moderate level, notwithstanding the
growth of the pension list; and the
Democrats retained control of the Lower
House and were within one of a tie in the
Senate. But the Fiftieth Con
gress yielded to the standing temptation
of the small politicians. Randall
was retired from his controlling
position. Appropriations increased in the
first session $43,000,000 over the corres
ponding session of the preceding Con
gress and $58,000,000 over its last session.
In the sucecedingelectionthe Republicans
elected the President and gained full con
trol of Congress for the first time in eight
j ears. The final example is too recent to
need more than a mere reference. The
Billion Congress, subjected to the most
sweeping defeat ever suffered by the Re
publican party, completes the record.
These facts, with the present indica
tions that the Democratic House is rival
ing the Republican vice of extravagance,
prove not only that both parties are
equally prone to place private grabs above
public welfare, but that the representa
tives of both are alike too stupid to 'read
this lesson of popular condemnation fol
lowing every marked increase of expendi
ture. Or is there the ability to understand
this lesson, and have our politics reached
that stage of profligacy in which the pres
ent opportunity of plunder is more desira
ble to the public man than the continued
supremacy of his party?
THE GARRAGK QVV.VTIOS.
The garbage question is an important
one for every large city, and it is given
especial pertinence for Pittsburg by the
pending municipal measures concerning
it A careful consideration of the means
to be adopted for its collection appears in
another column, written by the head of
the Ladies' Health Association, who hag
given this subject careful study.
The facts and conclusions given in that
contribution speak for themselves so
clearly that they need not be gone over
here. It is pertinent to point out that in
a matter affecting on the one hand the
health of the entire population, and on
the other the taxation, direct or indirect,
of every householder, no treatment is
proper except that which secures t the
doing of the work in the most thorough
and economical manner. The subject is
eminently one in which it is true that the
best is the cheapest. It would be the
worst economy to let any consideration of
cost interfere with the complete removal
of garbage; yet the fact that economy
might be subserved while thoroughness is
secured is strikingly illustrated by the
comparison of cost per capita in nineteen
American cities with the high charges pre
vailing in Pittsburg to-day.
It is extremely pertinent to say that no
municipal proposition for the collection of
garbage can be approved which will either
create a nuisance or impose burdensome
charges on the citizens.
A PLEA FOR LOCAL HISTORT.
The Historical Society of Western Penn
sylvania issues a stirring appeal for a
greater support from Pittsburgcrs than it
has hitherto received. The objects of the
society are such as should insure a hearty
response to its call for aid. Pittsburg's
surroundings are peculiarly rich in histor
ical associations, and yet its inhabitants
for the most part know little thereof.
Surely there should be public spirit enough
to encourage and maintain a society whose
object is to delve in the annals of the past,
to make known the results of the research,
and to preserve the records of the stirring
times of old. ,
Our city is rapidly undergoing changes
which obliterate ancient landmarks. Man
ufacturing industries are changing the
very surface of the earth, and old scenes
take on new aspects, and all too little is
done to record the alterations. Pittsburg
ers are too much absorbed in their own
private affairs, and they and their city
would alike benefit by an extension of
their business-bounded horizon. The
founders of this city played a manly part
in the history of the nation, and its en
virons were scenes of many memorable
events. And it is due from the folk of
to-day that they should learn to whom
they owe their city's foundation, and
whereon that foundation was laid.
Journeymen horseshoers in their
union's annual convention at .Boston
adopted a resolution calling upon the Presi
dent to "patronize union labor, and have
his horses shod by union men, who receive
American wages." This suggests a serious
and searching Inquiry "as to where graud-
, ii - .1 iiiiifetfjiitii,! ' v.;&atr
fatherreall'y did get that hat, to say nothing
j as to the superiority of American over
European china for white llouso purposes.
The New Castle Ministerial Association
is advocating some reforms in funerals, and
its example might veil be followed by Con
gress. A HANqiNO in Allegheny county should
have a'beneflcial effect. It may even bring
home to Councils, among other evil-doers,
the fact that there is a limit to the patience
of public opinio. l But the execution loses
some of its force hen it is remembered
that the fate or the culprit is due rather to
his luck of funds and friends than to any
great improvement in tho legal maohinery.
One of the uses of a circus in Allegheny
is that it can be made an excuse for a larger
list of police court offenders thanmsual.
The Convention hall at Minneapolis is
within sight of the falls of St. Anthony.
With this spectacle before them delegates
can hardly be expected to be rigid in their
political purity, but the falls of St. Anthony
should be regarded as vicarious to savo tho
convention as a whole from a descent from
grace.
New York is suffering from an epidemic
of mad dogs. The Tammany Tigor ought to
be turned loose on them for a time.
There are two rewards of 500 offered by
tho Governor of California for tho-nrrest of
two sets of stage robbers. A few more such
offeis should piove so inviting to honest de
tective effort that the persecution of news
boys would be deserted for moie profitable
fields.
Why should Diamond alley be widened?
To judge from lecent events it is Just about
broad enough for a street railway.
An ordinance should he passed on behalf
of public salety to forbid pedestrians to ap
pear on Market stioet between Fifth ave
nue and Liberty on pain of death, when the
street cars have commenced operations
there.
The toss of a coin, or its equivalent in
patronage, is likely to settle many political
questions this year as always.
Citizens too indolent to insist upon the
election of proper coftncilmen, when they
have an opportunity to do so, should not
complain when they find that the city's
affairs are not conducted for tho city's ben
efit. Again we suffered defeat at Chicago's
hands yesterday. But, then, we ale getting
used to that sort of thing now.
From the number of aspirants more or
less in tho field, and the diversity of opin
ions expressed on their chances of success,
one is tempted to forget at times that only
one President is to be elected in November.
Judge Morrow's success at Brooklyn
is a good omen for the popularity of Pitts
burg's Controller.
The promiscuous granting of street rail
road franchises free of cost Is a matter of
knavery or folly. Councils may take their
choice as to which word they proler to de
scribe their action.
Slightly damaged Prcsidental booms
may now bo secuied at moderate rates and
on easy terms.
Sufferings from the floods of the Mis
sissippi are enoimous, and there should be
little delay in raising ft fund for tho relief of
thoso who have lost home and pioperty.
There are some dark features in that
matter of lighting the World's Fair.
The Chicago directory of the World's
Fair may be a most estimable circle of gen
tlemen, but they Indulge inauexclusiveness
to wlilclj they have no right.
Smoke consumers are becoming a burn
ing question in Pittsbutg.
'
The Beading combine may send up the
price of coal a evidence ot its desire to
benefit consumers, but it cannot prevent
coal going down the river.
Warmer weather is wanted just now for
sun-dry reasons.
Water has been behaving so badly
aiound the Mississippi that Prohibitionists
are likely to havo less stiength than ever
this year.
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.
The President went blue fishing yester
day ind as quite successful.
Comptroller of the Currency La
cey will soon become President of the
Bankers' National Bank of Chicago.
Mrs. E. C. Pullman, mother of G. M.
Pullman, of tho Pullman Palace Car Com
pany, is in a dj ing condition. She is 84 yeais
old.
Dr. Munsterberg, Harvard's newly
engaged psj chologist, is desoiibed as a pupil
of Wundt and the author ot a particularly
famous monograph ou Will.
Kate MArsden, who is interested in
the project foroiganlzing a leper colony at
Vilioisk, a town of Eastern Siberia, has left
St. Petersburg for the United States.
Mr. Justice Harlan and Senator Mor
gan havo formally notified the President of
their willingness to serve as arbitrators on
behalf of tho United States in tho Bering
Sea matter.
It is announced that Secretary Blaine
has appointed us lunior counsel for the Uni
ted States before the Beiing Sea arbitrators
Russell Duane, Esq., of Philadelphia, and
has sent him a large letainiug fee.
President Harrison will have a wire
fi om Minneapolis to tho White House dur
ing the National Convention, and it is
thought that ho will know the result inside
of two minutes from the time the nomina
tion is made.
Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister,
expects to leave Washington to-day for a
visit to Mexico on special business. On his
return he will settle up the affaiisofthe le
gation and with Senora Romero will sail tor
Japan, in which country he will travel all
summer.
LEOroLD, hereditary Prince of Isenburg
and Birstein, the oldest son of Charles, Sov
ereign perman Prince of Isenburg and Bir
stein and Louise, Archduchess of Austria,
has arrived in Washington, having made a
tour of the United States during the past
three months.
KOI ONE CENT FOE CHABITY.
The Court Gives Millionaire Male's Money
All to the Iletrs-at-Law.
Trestok, N. J., May 17. Special. The rig
idity of the New Jersey law with lespect to
the making or wills was amply illustrated to
day by the Tejection by tho Court of
Chancery of the last will and testament of
Job Male, who died in Plainflelda lew jeais
ago, leaving an estate valued at several mill
ion dollars. On his deathbed Mule sent for
bis lawyer, Craig A. Marsh, and directed him
to draw tho will, giving specific Instructions
lelative to the provisions. The lawyerdrew
the will and read it to the dying man, who
assented to all its pi ovisions, but when the
attestation clause was added Male was un
conscious; his signatuie could not be ob
tained. , ,
At once the court was asked to establish
the testament as a noncupative will, and, in
the opinion lead by Chancellor McGIU to
day, be holds that this cannot be done be
cause the testator did not declare it to be
his intention to execute suoh a will, and be
cause he has not complied with the law for
the validation of such wills. Male's millions,
represented by real estate, now go to the
heirs-at-law, and all the special bequests, in
cluding those for charity, are void. The
Plainfleld Public Library thus loses a valu
able building and three lots, besides the
brio-a-lirac known as the Scbooniver col
lection. Going the Other One Better.
New York Recorder. J
It is a billion-dollar country and a billion-and-a-half-dollar
House of Representatives.
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- MICHIGAN'S DISPUTE.
The Controversy May Have an Important
Bearing on the Presidental Contest
Features Which Give It a Serious Aspect
Interesting Electoral Precedents.
The case brought by the Republicans
or Michigan before the Supremo Court of
that State to test tho validity of the law
passed by the present Democratic Legisla
ture nrovidinor for thn eholce of Presidental
electois this fall in the Concessional dis?
tricts Instead of by the State at large is
the beginning of a struggle which will as
sume more Importance as election day ap
proaches, and upon which it is entirely pos
sible that the naming of the next Presi
dent may depend. The Congressional dis
tricts have, of courso, been gerrymandered
by tho same Legislature that passed tho law
in dispute, and tho Democrats confidently
expect, therefore, to secure at least half of
Michigan's U electoral votes.
Theso seven votes might easily become
the decisive factor in the national struggle.
The hitherto solid South is relied upon
to furnish the nominees of the coming
Chicago convention with 159 electors. The
number necessary for a choice is 223, leaving
Gt still to bo secured. lf tho Democrats
should bo so fortunate as to carry New
York, New Jersey and Indiana, with thoirOl
electois, only three moro from the Michigan
districts would be necessary to insure suc
cess, without the support of Connecticut,
usually so close in national contests. Or if
tho Demociats should lose Indiana and
carry Connecticut and Khode Island, soTen
or eight district votes from the Wolverine
State would either tiothe Electoral College
or turn the scale, and a tio this year would
mean the election of the Democratic candi
date by the House of Kepresentatives. Then,
too, should the Republicans be successful in
breaking tho Southern ranks and capturing
West Virginia's six votes, the Michigan con
tingent might be able to close the gap in
the Democratic column. And so on, through
a lengthy sories of combinations, a few
votes from Michigan are capable of playing
a most decisive part in the electoral total.
A Serious Dispute Very Probable.
But even this is not the most serious
featuie of the matter. If both the Ilepub
licananl Democratic paities in Michigan
persist in the pi esent declarations the for
mers ill in November vote for 14 electors
under the plan which has been in vogue,
while the latter w ill choose by tho district
method. In that case each pai ty will un
questionably claim to have elected the en
tile delegation, and in the event that the 14
disputed votes have any bearing upon the
final lesult the contioversy will at once be
come national in every sense of thewoid.
The loss of H votes to ono organization and
their acquisition by another would entail a
net gain of 28, quite enough to bo a factor of
the utmost importance.
The Michigan Democrats back their posi
tion upon the language of tne Federal Con
stitution, which says "eacn State shall ap
point in tho manner which the Legislatuie
thereof ma j direct," etc. The Republican
claim is to tho effect that under the method
adopted by the Legislature the State, as u
State, does not appoint at all. They also
arguo that in case the electors were evenly
diidcd, seven to seven, Michigan would
practically liave no vote at all, and the re
sult would be just the same if the Wolverine
State were not in the Union. The present
Supreme Court of Michigan has a Republic
an majority, and the Supreme Courts of
Western States, the Judges of which aie
usually elocted for short terms, are noted
for deciding political questions according to
their partisan leanings. It is very probable,
theiofoie, that although the precedents of a
bundled jeais establish the power of the
Legislature as practically unlimited, the
Michigan tribunal will declare thelawpio
viding for the election by districts invalid.
Indications ot a Crlslx.
The Democrats autiounce in the most
vigorous manner that they will not pay the
slightest heed to any such decision, claim
ing the State Supieme Couit cannot over
ride the Federal Constitution. Michigan's
picscnt Governor, E. G. Winans, is a Demo
crat, and will undoubtedly stand by his
party, and cettify to the election of the en
tire 14 Democrats if the Republicans persist
in running their candidates in the State at
largo. Considering that tho Federal Gov
ernment has no tribunal for deciding such a
dispute, except by-special enactment, as in
the case of thefamons electoral commission
of 1878, it is impossible to moro than specu
late as to where or how such a contioversy
w oulil end.
The creditor blame, however, of injecting
this point Into tub present Presidental con
test does not belong to- Michigan, but to
Ohio. Duiing tho Campbell regime in tho
Buckeye State, while the Legislature was
Democratic in both branches, state Senator
Buchanan introduced a bill similar in its
provisions to the one afterward adopted in
Michigan. It was largely intended as a
bluff, though. The Democrats had just
passed the notorious gerrymander which
rctiied McKinley and so many other pi om
inent Ohio Republicans from Congress.
Somo of theso inemnars, anxious to pre
set vo their seats, were pressing through
Reed's House of Repiesentatives what was
called an anti-gerrymander bill, and
which provided that the Congressional
elections in 1890 should be hold
within tho same distuct lines as
in lb83. Tho Buckeye Democrats vowed
that it this measure was parsed titer would
put tliiongl) the Buchanan scheme for
choosing electors by districts; Neither
threat was cairied into effect. Tho Ohio
Demociats had a particularly good reason
lor going slow, because another Legislaturo
was to be chosen before tho Presidental
election, whicn could easily repeal tho law,
and the authois would incur all tho odium
without any or the fruits. But this consid
eration did not apply to Michigan, where
another Legislature will not assemble until
after tho national contest has been decided,
and the Bi.ohanan scneme was promptly
taken up in the Wolverine itate.
TIib Practice in former Campaigns.
While the choice ot electors by districts
is quito a novelty at the picscnt time, it was
by no means so in tho earlier days of the
nation, and a largo number of precedents
have been established as to the power of
the State Legislatures in the premises.
Until 1824 a majority of the various Legis
latures chose tho Presidental electors by
their own vote, without the people hav
ing any diiect voice in the matter,
eithor by districts or otherwise. Tho
first dispute on the matter was in 1797,
at the third national election, when John
Adams and Jeffeison were theopposing can
didate'. The Legislatuie or Vermont, with
out even coing through the formilftv of nra-
viously deciding upon the manner in which
electors should bo appointed, selected the
State's quota favorable to Adams. The point
was raised that while the Legislatuie had
the power to choose the electois It should
have ill st passed a law regulating tho
method, but Vermont's votes were finally
counted by unanimous consent, insuring the
election ot Adams.
Pennsylvania had somo hot disputes on
the subject. In 1793 the State Senate had a
Federalist majority, while the adherents of
Jefioison were la control In theLower House.
The first bhdv insisted that the electors
should be chosen by distiicts, and the latter
that they should be elected on a general
ticket. Governor McKean took an active
part in tne quarrel beloro it was decided.
Aaron Butr owed a large part of his prom
inence in the campaign to the fact that he
had overturned the Federalist majority in
New Yoik City, and secuied conttolot the
Empire State Legislatuie which wastonamo
the electois for that year.
The New Jersey Legislature at one time
passed a law lorthe choico of electors by
tho people, but, becoming afraid tho election
was going the wrong way, assembled in
special session and appointed the electois.
South Carolina held to this system until
1868, and the electoral votes ot the new State
ot Colorado weie cast in that manner in
1S76. In the three national contests since
that time until the present all the electois
have been chosen by the States at large by a
vote of the people. L. D. B.
To Bo Hurled Beside His Wife.
Washington, May 17. The remains of Sen
ator Batbour accompanied by the Con
gressional Committees, his immediate rela
tives and a few personal friends, all in
charge or Sergennt-at-Arins Valentine were
taken from his residence this morning and
conveyed to Popular Hill, Me., where they
weie interied beside tBoso ot his wife.
A Soasldo Sign of Aprlug.
Philadelphia Hecord.J
Blue skies are still coy, and likewise blue
birds; but there's a pledge of spring in tho
plenitude of blueflsh.
OFFICIOUS FRIENDS,
There was a man of Maine State,
And lie was woudrous wise.
He wrote a famous letter once
That put out both his eyes.
But when they found his eyes were out
With all their might and Maine
Bis friends forgot the letter
And voted still for Blaine.
I F. J. M.
OUT 70S HEW YOBK.
Elkins and New Will Try to Capture the
Boys for Benny.
New York, May 17. Special. The Hon.
Stephen B. Elkins, Secretary of War, is ex
pected to arrive from Washington to-dav
for the purpose of greeting John C. New,
Consul General to London, who is due to
arrive from Europe. IncIdentally.Secretary
Elkins on this visit will, it is asserted, con
fer with some of the New York delegates to
the Minneapolis Convention who are not
boiling over with enthusiasm in their de
mands for the President's renomlnation.
The meeting betw oen the Secretary and Mr.
New is expected to havo Important results.
Mr. New is tho Indianapolis champion of
tho President. He liasa record as a success
ful organizer in preliminary convention
matters. It Is expected that both Mr. New
and Mr. Elkins will put in their bost work
to win over a majority of tho New York del
egates to the President. Mr. Elkins is from
West Virginia and Mr. New from Indiana,
and they will undertako a contract which
Senator Hiscock and Chauncey M. Depew
have not laid hold of verv vizoiously.
Meanwhile, Secretary Tracy and Senator
Hiscock, with the advice of Collector Hen
dricks and Jacob M. Patterson, are at woik
in Washington. Secretary Foster for many
months, on the advice, it is said.of friends of
the President, has "hung up" a great share
of New York's treasury patronage, and it
may come in hnnclynow. Tho Bnggs Cus
tom House cartridic contract is considered
the most important of theso factors. The
appointment of the Commissioners to build
tho new Custom House and appraisers'
stores is also of tlio highest consideration.
The filling of the vacant Assistant Ap
pralsershlps comes next in the lino of im
portance, and after that tho vacant spots in
the Assistant Weighers', Assistant Guugers'
and Customs Inspectors' bureaus are not by
any means unimportant.
General Jnmes S. Clarkson, Chairman of
tho Republican National Committee, tele
graphs Horn Chicago to friends in New York
that be has been detained in his Eastward
journey. He is not expected in Washington
now until tho close of the month.
PBEPABING THE SEAL CASE.
The President's Appointees In the Bering
Sea Controversy Willing to Serve.
Wasuisgtos, May 17. Justice Harlan, of
the United States Supreme Court, and Sen
ator Morgan, of Alabama, who havo been
selected by the President as arbitrators in
the Bering sea controversy, havo each ac
cepted tho appointment. Justice Harlan
said this afternoon that his plans had not
yet been fixed, but that he would piobably
go abroad about the latter pirt of July.
Tho Justice was asked if it would not bo
September betoie the Bering Sea Arbitra
tion Commission would meet. He replied
that he thought It would be later than that.
Justice Harlan was on the floor of the Sen
ate for nearly an hour this afternoon, and
spent some time in conversation with Sen
ator Morgan.
By the terms of the convention between
Great Britain and the United States under
which tho arbitration proceedings are to be
conducted. 90 days are allowed each covern
ment after the exchange of ratifications In
which to prepare its caso and state the
grounds on which it rests its position in the
contioversy. These briefs are then to be
exchanged and an additional period or 90
days is civen the repiesentatives of each
nation in which to prepare any matter to ic
but and controvert facts and claims made
by the other side. The agents of the two
governments aro now engaged on tills pre
liminary work, and it will not be until it is
completed that the active labors of the
Arbitration Commission w ill begin. Ic will
thus bo seen thut it will bo next autumn at
the earliest before tho Commi-slon assem
bles, and how long it will then tulco to con
clude a settlement of tho contioversy is
problematical. It is reasonably certain,
nowover, that Justice Hailan will be away
from the Supreme Court a considerable part,
it not all of next term.
WILL HANG ON LONG.
Tho National Legislators Promise to Spend
the Summer In YVnahliigton.
Washington, May 17. There appears to be
a decided difference of opinion among Con
gressmen as to the time when the work of
the present session will be concluded.
Some Democratic Representatives ex
press tho. belief that tho adjourn
ment will, be early. Speaker Crisp
says the work ought to be com
pleted by the middle of July. Mr. Holman
thinks that August Is the latest date that
ought to be fixed upon. He bolieves that all
the important measures will have been cpn-
sldcred by that time. Mr. McMlllin says The I
House should adjourn July 10.
In the Senate tile idea of an early adjourn
ment does not nppear to have mUoh sup-,
poi t even among the Democrats. Mr. Cock
rell (Dem.l said that he did not believe the
work could be completed in time to ena
ble the mombers to get away before Au
gust L
ANXIOUS FOE INFORMATION
From Other Governments on the Inter
national Silver Conference.
Washington, May 17. At the tequest of
the Secretary of tho Treasury, the Scci etary
of State has instructed the United States
Ministers in all the European countiies in
vited to participate in the proposed interna
tional silver conference to cable as soon as
known the action of the respective govern
ments in the matter.
Tho formal Invitations must have been re
ceived at all the capitals at least a week
ago, and it is desired to have the result by
telegraph as soon as possible while awaiting
the receipt by mail of the formal responses.
Great Britain, Italy and Austro-Hungary
have already accepted tho invitation, and
it is understood that assurances have been
received of favorable action on the part of
Fiance, Switzerland and other European
countries.
SOAKEli FOB $30,000.
Th9 Gripman Was Watching a Parade
When a Child Was Han Over.
Chicago, May 17. A Jury in the Superior
Court to-day rendered a heavy verdict
against the West Chicago Street Railway
Company. On St. Patrick's Day, as Chailes
Camp, an Sjear-old boy, was running acioss
Milwaukee avenue, he was run over by a
cable tiain and both legs cut off above the
knees.
His parents sued for $73,000 damage, al
leging nezligence, unci on the trial their at
torneys set forth the fact that tho gripman
was watching a parade and failed to ring
his gong. The Jury"folind for the plaintiff,
fixing the damages at $30,000.
DEATHS UEKE AND ELSEWHERE.
General George Klapka.
General George Klapka, a cotemporary ot
Louis Kossuth. Is dead at Buda-Pesth. He was
torn In 1820. He iras aboat to travel abroad when
the Revolution of 1818 broke out, and he resumed
the profession of arms. Planting against Austria,
he took command of a company of Honreds. and
distinguished himself In the war a?ilnst the Serv
ians. Under Kossuth he was Minister of War, and
entered completely Into the views of the Jcovern
ment of revolution. Quitting the Ministry, he took
command of Comorn. and ralnly endeavored to
reconcile Kossuth and General Arthur Uorjcel.
Klapka maintained himself heroic Uyln Cumorn,
an'l menaced Austria until he heanl,of the alleged
defection of Gorgel, In the arrangements set on
fool by Garibaldi for the attempt on Rome In 1862.
when he sought to excite the Hungarians to take
the Held, a Judicious counter proclamation from
Klapka. pointing out the temerity ni rashness of
the undertaking, kept them quietly In their homes.
Captain Daniol K. Keamev.
Captain Daniel IC Kearney, aged 80 years,
proprietor of the American House, of Hollldays
burg, one of the most Influential citizens of Central
Pennsylvania, died yesterday. He was famed as a
builder, having erected the first Court House In
Blair county, the Hollidaysburg -emlnary and sev
eral public institutions of the State. His son. L.L.
Kearney, is liacomraand of the Asiatic squadron of
the United states A'ayy.
Bev. Gilbert Delamatyr.
Eev. Dr. Gilbert Delamatyr, pastor of the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Akron, died
yesterday afternoon, after an illness often da) s. Dr.
Delainatir has taken a prominent place In all re
foim movements of the day, and In 1878 was elected
to Congress from Indiana on the brecuhack ticket.
He has held charges in Aew York, Denver, Col
orado springs and Indianapolis.
Obituary notes.
Hos. William Walsh, ex-member of Con
gress, and the most prominent lawyer In Western
Maryland, died yesterday at his home In Cumber-'
land, Md., In his (Hth year.
William Watsos. a pluneer of Mahoning, who
was a noted antl-slavery adherent before the war,
died yesterday at his home In LoweviUe, aged 75.
For many years he was a merchant.
Adbian- Petard, an old citizen of St. Louis. 4s
dead. He was burn In the French West Indies,
and at an early age he was sent to the famous col
lege of Snilly. near Paris, and graduated wltn dis
tinguished honors. During Ills stay In Paris his
intimate friends were Lamarllne, Victor Hugo, De
Musset and other choice spirits of the literary
world of that day.
1 4.
BACK TO OLD STYLES.
Iron Bedsteads With Draping! Are Again
the Craze Edgewood Presbyterians
Trying to Baise Funds Campbell-Caiey
Nnptlnls at St. Peter General Society
Gos!p.
There seems to be a revival ot old fancies
in tho furnishing of bedrooms. People are
becoming tired of walnut, oak, cherry and
other fancy woods in bedroom suites, and
iron is resuming Its place as the preferable
substance for bedsteads, if for no other
article of bed chamber furniture. These
bedsteads are always daintily decorated
with paint of delicate shades, and brass
knobs and bosses. They look cool and in
viting for warm weather, and cozy for cold.
Twenty-five years ago they were in general
use, and they have never been given up in
hospitals and other public institutions.Tbey
have always been found healthful and clean,
and style has not been allowed to drive
them ontof places where utility and sani
tary perfection nie the chief considerations.
It is not onlyi in the material or the bed
stead that there Is a return to old fashions.
The chintz hangings and vallances, that
have been consigned to the lumber room
since our grandmother's young days, aro to
be used again. It Is now the thing to drape
bedsteads with chintz and cretonne in all
the gorgeous patterns that were such favor
ites in tho old days. A popular way of ar
ranging these is from a half circle of iron
rod above the head, from which tho cre
tonne or chintz Is hung, being caught up in
gathers at the top, in such a way as to sug
gest a sun. It is on that account called a
"ray." The vallance is a box-oleated hang
ing of the same material that passes around
the edge of the bed, dropping to the floor,
and concealing "the man under the bed"
that has been looked for for generations by
timid women.
Sometimes the spread and bolster are
made of the same material, each ond of the
bolster having a large rosette, that
gives it finished npnearance. Chairs
are to be covered with these goods,
and window curtains of full length will also
be of chintz mid cietonnc. A very pretty
design for a curtain Is to festoon one and
have the other hanging straight. This can
only be done on a laige, wide window. A
couch, covered in cretonne or chintz, has a
large box underneath the seat which can
be lifted like a bed lounge In which dres-es
can be laid full length, so as to picscrvo
them free from wrinkles. Three pillows go
with this style of lounge, and altogether it
is a very luxurious as well as useful article
of furniture. A new idea in window awn
ings Is a Venetian blind, strung on copper
wire, wliich can bo opened to lot the sun
shine in or closed to keep the rain out w lth
out stopping all ventilation.
It will thus he seen that there is every op
portunity for making the bedroom attractive
this spring in a new and original way, to
say nothing of the cleanliness.
A musical and literary entertainment is
to be given by tho members of tho Edge
wood Preshyteiiau Church on Friday, the
37th Inst., for the benefit of the building
undo! the proposed new Chanel. The con
gregation hud intended to build an elegant
church, butr mature consideration resulted
in the resolve to build a chapel first, the
chuich to follow when the congregation had
more money. The plans lorthe chapel have
been uecided upon. The edifice is to seat
COO people, and will be on Swlssvale avenue
on a large lot owned by the congiegation,
adjoining the grounds of the mute school.
Tno installation of the pastor or the church,
Iter. Ernest L. McCartney, is to take place
this evening in the new public schoolhouse,
exercises being diiccted by the Rev. S.J.
Fisher and Rev. S. D.Moore. This is Mr.
McCartney's first charge. He is a graduate
of the cstern University and is only 2
years of uge. He is the Hi st minister ot his
congregation, and he commences his minis
terial career in a new church. The musical
progi-amma for the 27th w ill be Of a very in
teresting character. Among the participants
will be Mrs. C. C. Melor, Miss Margaret
Ciouch, Mr. McCaushiud, Mr. Griffin and
Pi of. Roberts.
A pkettt wedding ceremony that linked
for life tne fates of P. J. Campbell and Mar
garet C. Casey was performed at 4 o'clock
esterday afternoon, In St. Peter's Cathe
dral, Allegheny. Kev. Father Shanahtin
poi formed tho ceremony. A lare number of
xriends were piesent and accompanied the
bridal party to tne Roscmont cafe, Smith
field street, where the wedding supper was
served. The couple then left for tho East.
Mr. Campbell is one of Pittsburg's best
known young business men.
Tuesday's social Chatter.
Masaosr Wilt, of the Grand Opera House,
has all tne commencements of tlm two cities,
which are as follows: Class night Pittsburg
Academy, June U; commencement exercises
Pittsburg Academy, June 17; Curry Univer
sity commencement, June 21; Duquesno Col
lege commencement. June 2.'; Pittsburg
'High School commencement,, June 2J; Alle
gheny High School commencement, June 33.
The annual dinner at the Home for Aged
Couples, at Wilkinshurg, is to be held Thurs
day, JuneZ. from 12 to S. Housecleaning has
been going on for somo time, and everything
is particularly blight and inviting. The an
nual dinners at this place are always good
and well-served, and visitors are sure of a
pleasant time.
AcoscEBTfor tno benefit of theUniver
sallst Church, that has been holding its
meetings in Cuiry Hall, is to be given at
that place Friday of thi3 w eek. There will
be an opeietta called "The Seven Old Ladies
of Lavender Village."
A beceptiox was given Mrs. F. G. Paulson
and Mrs. Lathiop Schoonmaker, or Xew
I ork, Dy sirs. George jiai ton ainger, yester
day afternoon at the home of the hostess,
Penn and Homewood avenues.
An elocutionary and musical entertain
ment of a verv creditable character was
given at Duquesne College Hall lust cvonimr.
It wa3 under the direction of Mrs. Virginia
Wooster.
Miss RASDOLrH. of Now Tork, who has
been tho guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Painter for two w eeks, will go home to-day.
Ho:?. William II. Graham will lecture to
morrow evening at the Thirty-third Street
U. P. Chuich on "Travel Talk on Eat ope."
There will be a concert by tbe Philhar
monic Orchestra and the Spanish Orchestra,
at the Linden Club House, Friday, May 27.
The annual reception at the Home for Col
ored Orphans, on Greenwood avenue, Alle
gheny, is to take place this afternoon.
A coXEr.T, under the direction of the
United Italian Republican Club, is to be
given this evening in Old City Hall.
Rev. Charles A. Shoemaker will take Rev.
A. W. Arundel's place at Trinity during
Mr. Arundel's absence in the East.
Miss Marguerite Wilsow gave a mnslcale
at her home on Adler street last evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Kicketsos go to their sum
mer cottage at Kormecourt this we6k.
NEW YORK'S ANTI-SNAPPiJRS.
What profit will it bring the snap conven
tion's delegates to secure recognition in
Chicago when the candidacy is to go to tbe
other man. Somerset J'eics.
The most novel convention of the year will
probably bo that representing the Cleveland
Democracy in New Tork, which will meet in
Syracuse May 3L Cincinnati Times Star.
There is every indication that the Demo
cratic organization which will be cemented
at the Syracuse Convention this month will
be made a permanent power in the politics
or this State. Buffalo Express.
The New Tork "anti-snap" convention
promises to be a large and lively gathering,
and eveiybody understands that it will bo
worth moic to the Republicans than to the
Democrats St. LouisGlobe-Democrat.
The genuine Democrats among Mr. Cleve
land's supporters in New Tork are becoming
seriously alarmed with legard to the prob
able action of the bolters' convention at
Syracuse on tne 31st inst. Chicago Herald.
To see the long list of 150,000 names at
tached to the call for "that other Demo
cratic Convention" in New Tork, is calcu
lated to make the bald-headed Senator from
that Suite ask: "Is life worth living?"
Peoria Journal.
TnE Democratic State Convention to be
held at Syracuse on May 31 is mistakenly
considered solely a Cleveland movement.
It would have been hold il Giover Cleveland
had not been in existence. It is held pri
marily to organize a new Democratic party
in the State. JVeto Yurk Tribune.
Notwithstanding "the dont's" heaid from
various political bosses New Tork Demo
crats go right along preparing for "the May
convention" in that State. Boss Hill has the
biggest Job of his lire Jnst ahead of him.
When a man sits down on the "fat prophet"
and doesn't even say "I bog your pardon,"
lie will have to accept the results of bis
folly. Chicago Liter-Ocean.
Washington's Headquarter at the Fair.
Tresto:i, N. J., May 17. The World's Fair
Commlssloneis to-day adopted the design of
Charles Allen Gifford, or Newark, for the
State building at the Chicago Exposition.
It will be a reproduction of the Washington
Headquarters at Morristown. The bnilding
will be elected in this State and sent to
Chicago.
CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.
Glynn county, Ga., has a woman her
who has only spoken to three persons ii
years.
ITive million sterling was last year gi
or bequeathed to various charities aU
world over.
It is stated by tbe attendants at
zoological gardens, that no ape will si
flat on his back, as adult man often does.
The electric current on the 30th
March turned its first furrow in Amerii
soil at the Kansas sorghum experimen
station.
An Indian, who killed a squaw
Kyoquot, B. C, gave tho tribo an Indian
to replace the one he killed, and this has
dently been mutually agreeable.
One answer to an advertisement in
Dcadwood Pioneer for a "girl for ligbt ho
work," contained an inqniry whether "bo
ran from the lighthouse to tho city."
Three factories in the United Sta
consume nearly 2,000,000 eggs a year in m
ing the peculiar kind of paper used by p
tographers, known as albumen-paper.
While the "West is suffering from f
floods the Stato of Maine is suffering fr
drouth. Lako Sebago is eight feet and n
inches below its normal level at tni3 seas
The locusts are reappearing in Alge:
in greaternumbers than ever, in spite oft
efforts that were made by the French j
ministration last year to annihilate t
pests.
There are in Great Britain and Ireli
no fewer than 2,7SS,000 acros of woodlo.
Notwithstanding this fact, timber to l
value of X 16,000,000 is annually imported ir
the country.
Ales and beers are clarified before b:i
sent to tho shop3 by means of Isinglass
kind of glue made of the sounds and a
bladders of certain 11, h, particularly of t
sturgeon of Russian rivers.
Farmers in Mexico always use oxen
one color in the morning and of auotl
color in the afternoon. They do not kn
why: bat they know that it must be t
right thing to do, because their forefatb
did it.
There was blooming in Pasadena, Ca
a week ago, a Gold of Ophir rosebush,
climbing variety, with 200,000 roses amfbn
onit. The OAiierof the tree, who certif
to the number, is said to be a returned n.
sionary.
A Xew York maker of travelers' goo
Imports a great many elephants' hides, a
bundles of them are usually to be seen up
the sidewalk in front of his factory. '
says that elephant trunks are becomi
very popular.
Of the editors of the nine New Yo
morning papeis published in the Engli
language, seven aro American born. T
Pulitzer brothers came from the other sit
Of the seven Americans but one, Mr. Benne
was born in New Tork City.
The felt cloth which is made into hi
is composed chiefly of the hair of rabbi
hares or goats, mixed with much wo
These substances aie entangled togetl
and pressed and beaten until they adhere
form a compact but flexible material.
At Gilbreath, X. C, the other day, sa
tho Durham Globe, a. 15-ycar-old lad, nam
rietcher, was standing under a treewhi
tho lightning struck. It entered tho lac
coat at the neck and went down his spir
making a blister all the way. Tet it
thought he will recover.
The new Temple Israel of Brooklyn
built after the plan of tho famous Church
St. Sophia in Constantinople. The arches
its main entrance arc supported by polisln
mottled marble columns, and it is surmour
edbyagilued dome. The wallsof the tntc
ior are frescoed in green and gold. The to
grcgution has many rich members.
Guinea pigs kept loose on the floor
afowlhouso will scare away rats most
fectually. Some people say that it; Is b
cause they are so noisy and restless- Pos;
bly tho fact is, however, that a boar Guini
plC will attack a rat as relentlessly as
ichneumon attacks a snake. His thick nee
and hog mane give him a great advantage.
It is not difficult to tell whether rabbi
are purbued by vermin. When rabbits a
seen running and suddenly stopping
listen, and then running on again and sto
ping, they are pretty certain to have
weasel or a cat or a fex after them. Tin
are not long-winded, like hares, and soc
pant for want of breath. A weasel can
ways tiio tbemont.
Antone Nelson, a Colorado cowbo;
lassoed an eagle a few days ago. Nelson w:
riding over the prarie on his little cow poc
with the lasso tied to his saddle, when 1
saw the eagle flying ahead of him quite do.
to the ground. He started his pony on a rx
toward the bird, and when a short distant
away throw his rope, whicli settled over tl
eagle's neck and under one wing, and he su
ceeded in getting the bird to the ranc
bouse alive.
Plans have just been completed for tl
construction of another great irrigatin
canal, with reservoirs, in Arizona, in tl
Santa Cruz Valley, and when it is complete
303,000 moro acros of the Great America
Desert will be supplying the finest kind c
fruits and grains and other products for th
Eastern markets. The canal will be 70 mile
long nnd 30 feet wide at the bottom, and th
construction of tho works will cost abou
$1,200,000.
One of tbe oddest fishes that ever swai
in any sea is that known to naturalists unde
the unattractive naino of "ophiocephalus.
A species of it is found in the Sea of Galilee
whero it builds a nest which for beauty c
design and eieianco of workmanship excel
the efforts of the majority of feathered nesi
builders. Its favorite spot for building is i
an old root or rock projecting under th
water, and the material consists of seaweec
grass, and leaves.
According to an Indian newspaper th
King of Siam endeavors to keep cool by In
ing underwater. He has built a house c
"lass in the middle of a sluiceway. Th
walls, floors, and ceiling nro formed of dil
ferent thicknesses of glass. A single doo
closes hermetically. When the weather i
very sultry the King entors his, glass house
closes the door, opens a reservoir, and sul
merges his house with the exception of
ventilating pipe. Tho result is said to be
particularly cool and pleasant atmosphere
Sound travels by waves radiating froa
a central point ot disturbance, Just a
waves radiato when a stone is dropped infc
still water. So far as the hearing ot each in
dividual is concerned, these waves move ii
a direct line from the cause of the sound ti
his ear, the impact being the greatest in th
ear nearest to the source. This being t!i
case, a person who has totally lost the sensi
of hearing In one ear, althoagn he may im
agine that the defect is oflittle consequence
cannot locate tho direction or a sound t
save his life, even when the center or dis
turbance is quite near him.
JOKELETS FK03I JUDGE.
Foggs My rank is higher than yours.
Boggs I deny that.
Foiss-1 always precede you to dinner.
Boggs-And I always precede yon back tothi
drawing room-
Sweet Jane to books applied herself ir
youtb.
And oft applied her hand to the unwise.
TIs said the thing she loved the most was trnth.
And yet you now see how the woman lies.
j,acev You want your body cremated?
Tf hat'ever put that Idea in your head?
Bailey I live In IIoboKcu and I bare been buried
longenougn.
Fair Susan died with water on the brain;
She didn't know she suffered auy pain.
When asked Hcodnsh balls she liked, replied:
I've ne'er attended any." Then she died.
Cecil No, Weggy; you must not tempt
meweJlly you must not. I pwomised her I
-would smoke but three clgawettes a day."
Reginald Oh, Cecil, dean, boy! how you must
love her!
The doctor ran an institute,
Ills life was full of care;
s Although he was a principal.
He hadn't much to snare.
St- Peter You'll find your mansion on
block down to the right.
Spirit Can't you fix It so I can live a Utile way
ontofheavenandcomcln everyday? On earth I
was a New Tork man who lived in Iew Jersey.
Pat's nose was like Longfellow's poems, 'ti
said.
Because It was always extensively red:
He stole some champigne and drank It to fast
That his pain was no sham when he inurmnred hi
last.
"Browning, dear," said Mrs. Emerson, of
Boston, to her husband, "what is a chtaneom
pastime?"
"A cutaneous' pastime, love? I never heard or
sucn a thing."
Well, I heard two men on the street car talklsf
and one of them spoke of a skin game,"