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iifi su 4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SATURDAY MARCH 19 TWELVE PAGES BKCLE- tSA2TSv S0LDIEBS PROBABLE CHANGES IN THE STATIONS OF adjctants-gexeral ij I ll i i i'i I- ir i i '4j TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION MAIL-IN FOSTAGN PUPAm VMIjr ((WNtarV erne iiMnnitltttt 4i99 MMMIM io Vail m4 udar wt TMrMlaaMNIiNiaM irailyandllaadarthreemoiiths SM TMlajnaN4sr lalirfar pwnv 400 WMiMtay PrMay par year 4-Oa talartay UlHca 4oibl( ihaM Sao BiaiaytmtriptmtHUht pmm SOO Trlbai hi rtu 140 To conn try nawadaalara postage prepaid I east paaday Edition postage prepaid jm canu Glva Foat-OBce address la full la eliding Cossty and State by draft Post Ofllra ordar Americas Uni tad ItatHHWilii Fargo 4 co Kxpraia aioaay ardai aria raglatarad lattar atoarruk TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS pally delivered IB cent per weak Dally delivered Bar day laelndad BOeaataparwaak Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY Coraer lladlaoa aad XUarbom-ata CMesgaHh BRANCH ADVERTISING OITICB Roa a and Tnbuns Building Raw York our postage: false pretenses Doubtless it would bo a great aentevement to prejudice the drummers against the law aad convert them into traveling missionaries to poison the public mind against the measure and prepare the way lor its repeal but fortunately the commercial agents are entirely too intelligent to be duped in this way and made to pull railroad chestnuts out of the fire They understand perfectly that the new law contemplates a decrease of charges and that an increase can be made only by an evasion of the purposes of the act and an abuse of the discretion it left to railroad officials If the unjustifiable increase on mileage tickets is persisted in the drummers will soe to it that the matter is not overlooked when the Inter-State Commerce Commission meets If ns is not probable that body should regard mileage tickets as beyond Its jurisdiction It will be an easy matter when Congress convenes to have it take away from the railroad officials the discretion they have abused and amend the law so as to fix maximum rates for mileage tickets and fix them low Meantime the commercial travelers and their employers can arrange to pool their patronage and divert traffic as far as possible to roads not engagedln this insidious attempt to pervert and abuse the terms of the new law Doubtless tho Goncral Passenger and Ticket Agents will find before long that in the underhanded attack on the drummers under cover of the Inter-State Commerce act they have waked up the wrong passengers is absolute safety one way and absolute dan ger the other Combinations and consolidations seem to be the order of the day in this region The gas companies are being combined electrio light companies are being solidified and railroad corporations pooled and now it is announced that the street-car companies are about to double It is said for instance that thet Mike McDonald-Harrison-Weeks road is about to be purchased by the West Division Tram Company and that the price has been arranged the stock fetching it is reported 1EX The road has a sort of administration flavor' about it The President is Harvey Weeks the partner the Superintendent is Austin Doyle the ex-Superintendent of Police and Mike McDonald the boss of the Democratic party Is the principal stockholder The sale of the road at this time will give rise to many speculations concerning the motives of tbs sellers and the trayera" If It turns out that the rumor about the propbsed sale is true the West-Siders will have reason to regret it as it win put an end to competition which resulted in improved street-car facilities Weeks McDonald Harrison Doyle Sc Co have made well out of the Ho doubt they are amply satisfied Tlie Im-O" and Verkes Our hyphenated contemporary finds (Ault with The TmquKK's opposition to the Verkes loop-line ordinahee In its present shape and in doing so resorts to unworthy inuendoes What Thh Tribune has urged against the ordinance Is that It is Indeflnit and that the compensation offered by the street-car company to the city for the very valuable loop-line franchise is entirely inadequate The Tribune in this matter indorses the position of the property-owners along the line of the loop They have petitioned the Mayor and the Connell to Insist that the street-car company shall build' a new double-truck steam-turned bridge orer the river at Dearborn street and construct tbs central pier and the abutments The Mayor Who Is not unfriendly to Yerkes eomplsins that the language of the ordinance passed Monday night Is ambiguous and In-definlt The Mayor should therefore veto the ordinance for the purpose of enabling the Connell to correct It in the particulars named Mr Yerkes is now trying to evade his agreement about the Clark and Wells street bridges owing to some similar Indeffnitness of description Under the circumstances the advocacy by The Trinune of veto is distinctly In the interest of the people of Chicago and directly In the line of the prayer of the property-owner But how about the Mer-Oetan It is against reconsideration of the ordinance end opposes veto for that purpose Does It think that the removal of an old worn-out bridge for two blocks by the Yerkes company Is sufficient compensation for the loop-line franchise? Docs it hold that the property-owners should have nothing to say as to the ordinance or the character of the bridge? If so it would be deeenter to come out and boldly say so leaving Its readers to judge of the Influences which bring it to that remarkable way of thinking The I-O argues that if the ordinance la allowed to stand ns Yerkes wants via only requiring his company to remove the old Wells street bridgqto Dearborn street instead of building a new double-track steam-tnmed bridge and not compelling it to construct the central pier or the tin effect will be to raise the rental of The Tribuns's lease hence the latter's opposition! whereas by parity of reasoning if company is compelled to erect the double-track new bridge and put In the central pier and abutments as The Tribune Insists the effect will be to lower tbs rental of the said lease therefore for that selfish reason The Tribune advocates vetoing the ordinance and subjecting company to that large expense instead of the taxpayers 1 The Inter-Ocean In making ridiculous insinuations against a contemporary and In opposing the wishes of the people In the Interest of a foreign monopoly put itself In singularly awkward predicament and it mnst not be surprised if the taxpayers concerned attribute its attitude to sinister motives Of beer any asy than to bnir hia whole family in snch a cheap and out-of-the-way XorrlMUnem HrralJ First Omaha Yen put Mr Hew-beam to handsome bnt snch a fooL" Second Omaha It seem possible" true though At the concert the other night I eaught him staring at me and I looked book at him in a surprised angry sort of way yon he didn't once glance in my direction again tho whole evening' Mr Die Now see here are you going to the party in snch a dress as that? Mrs De Why dear it is in the very latest style the matter with it? has no waist to speak of bnt then perhaps yon Intend to wear something of course yott goose yon surely don't suppose go this well that's different what else have yon to pnt onf pearl necklace and the big one you Omaka World PERSONALS Mary Anderson has nearly concluded her riding lessons in London She will shortly take her dolly canters in Rotten Raw at tha fashionable hour Henry Ward Beecher once took indoor exercise by shoveling from one end of his cellar to the other a load of sand which he hod put there for the purpose Evangelista Ross and Goodfellow were refused a license for their gospel tent la San Francisco whereupon they proceeded to erect It In deflanoe of the law James Marr 81 years old and Judge Lawrenson 64 are thd patriarchs of the Postal Deportment at Washington They were both appointed in 1831 by President Andrew Jackson Judge Fontaine Fox Prohibition candidate for Governor of Kentucky modestly remarks that the ticket of which he lathe head 1a best one morally and Intellectually ever nominated In Mr Herndon the old law partner of President Lincoln has in a forward state of preparation another vLlfe" which ha will publish in the near future This work will deal principally with the career of Mr Lincoln np to the time he became President Prince Henry of Baftenberg has consented to preside at a festival of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress and a London paper thinks it very creditable that he still- sympathizes with those who are suffering evils from which he has Just escaped Gen 8 Buckner who aspires to he the Democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky may as well withdraw from the field His opponents have nneorthed and are making much of the damning feet that could spare only a pitiful two for the Confederate Home bat he sent Mrs Grant his check for ILUOUL" That settles Simon Bolivar Senator McPherson congratulated upon his improved health sold that it was all due to the tact that always before going to a Wasbington dinner he eats a howl of mush and milk and another after his return meanwhile eating little or nothing at the dinner aad drinking no win Ha said that in that way only was ho able to retain good health throughout tho season Jo Cook has fallen into sad disfavor in Bos ton snd the newspapers mercilcsly ridicule his pompous pretensions The AdvertUtr cruelly assures him that world does not yet clamor for an expression of opinion from him on every concelvaDle question and there are certain questions which it prefers that be should leave alone until he ia called upon for his opinion" Secretary Manning expects to spend the greater part of his vacation abroad In France Albany papers suy that his physicians have hod some hesitation In allowing him to undertake the voyage at this time bnt as Mr Manning ia extremely noxious to get away and ia constantly subjected to annoyances from various sources while in this country it was thought advisable for him to go Mr 8 CL Ids ter the silk king of England ia more than TO yean Old bnt stout and hearty and busy every day with the concerns of hia great factories and landed estates Ho invented wool-combing by machinery velvet and plush making by machinery and the utilization of silk waste fie spent t30(AVOOO in developing those industries and has made more than fcSHMKti a year out of each of them He says he never went in for anything in which he did not confidently see ttaiMO year George Graham once the owner of Or-kam'e Magazine and for many yean the leading publisher of Philadelphia who gave employment in their early days to men and women who have become the shining lights of American literature Is now i poor Infirm old man and but for the kindness of philanthropic Philadelphian would be in the Doorhouse He is lying hope 1ms and practically friendless invalid in a New York hospital Among tho regular contributors to brah am'e Magazine were Henry Longfellow William Cullenl Bryant Fenlxnore Cooper Richard Henry Dana Nathaniel Willis James Russell Lowell Lydia Sigourney Francis Sargent Osgood ana Ann 8 Stevens Some of the earliest and best productions of these now famous writers first apnea red in this publication Edgar A Poe was long employed upon it and put some of hia best work in its pages rj ii -i i ii I 'i-i I ii I i 'isi ii 'ij -ii li 11 4 i Vii I 4 i ii i -ii 1 5 i i i i 1 I 'i 1 i i I i i i i I I i i produce markets opened firm but the strength was soon lost under large local offerings especially of wheat and provisions As compared with Thursday pork dosed nominally unchanged lard UK cents lower meats 23 cents lower wheat and corn cent lower oats 3tf cent lower rye firm barley Kcent higher and flAxseeds cent lower Pexhaps the most pleasing feature of primary polling was the defeat of nearly all the Aldermen calling themselves Republicans who have aided abetted and voted with the HUdreth-Colvin combination in the Common Council in favor of gas street-car and boodle Jobs Lyke was beaten in the Thirteenth Ward by Mr McGregor a reputable business-man Mr Badenoch an intelligent flour and feed dealer was chosen to succeed Mr Sam Simons in the Eleventh Ward Walter 8 Hull did not dare to challenge the verdict of his constituents in the Twelfth Ward and will be succeeded by a better man yet to be named Aid Eisfeldt retiree in the Fifteenth in favor of Mr Reich a bright young an 1 Mr Burmeister an intelligent mechanic succeeds Beverin in the Sixteenth and Mr Linn yields to Mr Weisbrod in the Seventeenth Aid Dixon and Aid Manierre have been renominated as was proper There is a strong protest against Revere in the Tenth Ward and an Independent will be run against him Ho self-respecting Republican can vote for Revere In the Second Sixth and Ninth Messrs Kearney Monear and Harris the Republican nominees are much better men than the Democrats they have been selected to succeed The Republican nominees in some of the other wards are also good men The new Council will be better than the old one LITTLES SHIS WASTED The genial Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations Mr Littier of Spring-field is in an unhappy frame of mind The session is more than half over If It should adjourn about the usual time and he has not been able to get a single full meeting of his important committee although the members are all present in the House every week A week or so ago he called attention to this foot and yesterday he laid the matter before the Honse a second time asking that the membership of the committee be increased by adding six new names to it pledged to attend This was not done nor any step taken in that direction which would indicate that the House prefers the remedy suggested by The Tribune a few days ago We advised Mr Littier to vigorously apply a broad- ax to the appropriation bills and cut and hew them down to something like reasonable proportions and then his committee would attend with alacrity- This would be far better than to increase the number of appalled members The trouble is not with the size of the committee but the size of the bills The appropriations of two years ago were about 7 millions under rather than over this amount and the aggregate of the bills already pending' including those actually passed up to date figure up nearly if not quite 19 millions an increase of almost 100 per cent the rub It Is the fear of being party to snch a monstrous increase in the State expenditures which bids the members pause and frightens them away from the committee-room The State has increased in wealth and population only 5 or 6 per cent during the last two years and the previous General Assembly made liberal provisions for all departments of the State- Government and for all educational reformatory charitable and penal institutions including enough mony to procure a site for a home and for putting on suitable improvements It Is only necessary for the Legislature to provide for the current expenses of these numerous institutions The Btate is hardly prepared to go into the eleemosynary business on the Socialistic plan of paternalism taking care of very tomboy girl and bad small boy that some man or Vroman thinks would be better off in a than anywhere eue and who if hard pressed could name persons Just fitted to draw the salary for helping run institutions for that purpose The few millions asked for now would soon swell to many millions It is evident that there are some men on the Appropriations Committee who appreciate the situation and don't want to destroy their political future by reporting such robber bills which will set their constituents in an unappeasable rage There are fifty-one districts represented in the House and in only one of them nil in which procuring State appropriations is the principal Industry Mr Idttier should understand that no other member of the Appropriations Committee except himself could afford to have the expenditures nearly doubled as compared with 1885 If he had the naming of hia own associates he could not secure a committee which would consent to any snch extraordinary and enormous prodigality as these bills taken collectively contemplate If the ax is not used on the bills if passed at all then the hatchet would be used on the individual members of the committee the Chairman alone excepted and they all know it very well Each has a constituency of too much intelligence and too much regard for their interest to submit to such outlays at the expense of the tay payers In a word the remedy for the trouble complained of by the Chairman in regard to the bills is plainly suggested by his own bum- BAILBOAD ATTACK OK THE DKUmSEHS Tub Tribune is not disposed to spend any further time discussing the conflicting interpretations put on the provisions of the Inter-State Commerce act in respect to mileage tickets for the simple reason that whichever construction is adopted there is nothing whatever to authorize or require an increase of the rates for 1000-mile tickets Senator Cullom the author of the bill and Judge Cooley who has been appointed a member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission and an official interpreter of the new law concur in this statement Adopting the mi unfavorable construction that can be nut on Section 23 of the act and admitting even the unfounded claim that an equal rate to all purchasers of 1000-mile tickets cannot be made without loss to the railroads It Is still indisputably dear that the managers can if so disposed- arrange this matter in a manner that will accord with the requirements of the law satisfy everybody concerned and enable the roans to sell an increased amount of mileage transportation at rates previously found profitable Why do the managers refuse to do this! Why they give the regular commercial travelers 1000-mile tickets limited availability at HO while if they must do so charge transient purchasers 25 for a ticket good for a longer time! -Ho one contends that such an arrangement would be opposed to the letter or spirit of the new law It would secure the roads a large amount of business on terms that have yielded a good profit heretofore and would be satisfactory to the commercial travelers and the merchants and manufacturers back of them as well as to the general public Why then is it not adopted! Railroad officials may as well understand that this furtive ill-concealed attempt to make the Interstate Commerce act odious will not serve its purpose The commercial travelers are not fools and their principals behind them am not to be hoodwink by were overshadowed by solemn-looking man in block who said that if his dear old grandmother had only lived until the 10th of this shd he wiped hie eyeaurlth a black-bordered she Would have been 10S years old He was the hero of the group until someeno asked him sympsthlzlngly when the old lady died years replied the solemn-looking man The President's magnanimous offer to trade Indiana for Massachusetts excites very little interest among the Bostonians They regard it as a thinly-disguised effort to draw their attention away from Mike Kelly Farmer to How does it happen that I get bnt cento per pound for my butter? You used to give me 87 cents and you know genuine Yes I know there nsed to be a bigger demand for genuine butter than there Is now Since yon farmers had that new law passed got to sell butte rlnC butte rlne and lota of my enstomen have fonndthat the kind of butter been using for the last two or three years and paying SB cents for and they care for the regular country-made article any more They like the butterine aa well and have to pay as much for it as they once did In fact some of them like it better one of the practical workings of the Oleomargarine law How do yon farmers like it? Fanner takes 88 cents for his butter and goes Sway muttering something about gol-blamed conspiracy against The most unobtrusive being in the world is the man who is Sunday-school superintendent and editor of tho village paper making his way to the show-gronnd circus day through back alleys accompanied by his whole family and armed with sixteen complimentary tickets of admission Senator Southern tour has been well advertised bnt he will be much disappointed If he expects It to attract as much attention as little trip did that was made in the month at December Itti across the State of Georgia by his brother Cump Do lawyers make the best lawmakers It is doubtful if the average farmer or mechanic of intelligence cannot draw np a bill the provisions of which will be plainer and more readily construed than ordinarily one drawn by a lawyer It has taken some time for this fact to dawn upon the mind of the community The Omaha calls for an extra session of Congress Omaha with the advance of civilization is no longer so far West that it has lynching parties Secretary Exdicott may resign but his resignation can never equal that the country has shown since he has been in office A Georgia Justice before whom was recently brought snlt for possession of negro baby tried to Imitate Solomon and proposed to diride the child between the claimants To his astonishment both parties yelled out: Boss don't kill him I You may have There is a time apparently when judicial decisions lose all the dlgni tied effect of precedents and take cm the weak Ignominy of and this is what has happened to Judgments The Chaplain of the Minnesota Legislature prayed for newspaper reporters which indicated broadness of view on his part A good many clergymen are of the opinion that the class can't he saved Recent events mnke it look very mnch as if Bishop the mind-reader couldn't read his wife's mind any better than the ordinary man Yet this gift is whut the ordinary man most wants when he goes home at night Anarchists and Socialists howl for freedom of speech and freedom of decent speech Is good thing but Anarchists and Socialists don't like it in their representatives A California temperance society allows its members to drink when If the members of that society do not go about looking mighty gloomy good deal of the time human nature on the coast is exalted Brooklyn woman suffragists want the Governor to call out tho militia to protect them election day They are unconsciously preaching the real sermon against their claims They want the right to help govern while they are not physically capable of defending even themselves Yet all government depends finally upon brnte force The noblest laweter framed depends upon sheer animal strength for its enforcement This is putting the situation roughly bnt it is the way nature has pnt it and so far all attempts to thwart nature's statutes have been miserable failures The Czar of all the Rusaios has considerable influence In his dominions but there is consensus of opinion that he would he happier as a street-car conductor in Chicago There is reported decrease of American claimants to great English estates This indicates either that the most derelict of has been attending to business once more or that the people in this country an learning something Who ever heard of an estate in England being really handed over to a horde of American claimants? The idea is absurd on its face Estates are not lost sight of in little England Tub great question of the advisability of capital punishment still agitates the minds of great lawmakers and in about the usual number of States the law providing for the death penalty Is being repealed It may be added also that in about the usual number of States it is being restored The speaker at a Republican meeting made some remarks in which he bore down somewhat heavily on the record of the Democratic party for loyalty to the Government Two prominent Democrats in the audience arose and walked majcsticnlly toward the door The speaker paused a moment and said: ia all right if tha gentlemen feol that they must leave but I am always sorry to see a man go oat of a barbershop when he is only half First bootblack looking at morning paper and munching an Hullo Bill it says hero K'zar Escapes from Another What's been the matter with Mm? Second bootblack working vigorously on the shoe of a I think It wax a attack of participates that kind An auctioneer is invariably a man with a more-bid appstite CURRENT MOTES Ho matter how bad and destructive a boy may be he rarely becomes so degraded or loses his self-respect sufficiently to throw mod on a circus Ttxat tUftingt A Michigan school-teacher punishes the big girls by kissing them when they misbehave As a consequence he ban the moat unruly school in the FkitaMpkta Call Salt is now sold in Michigan at 51 cents per barrel the lowest price since freshmen and Connecticut detectives mImimm bow lay in their stock Aw Harem Sew A gentleman writes to the Evening Pont on the subject of spirits snd beer One point he falls to make is that too mnch beer riairrt one lose one's spirits while an overindulgenee In spirits is only too likely to result in a prematura bier Life Bo you drank anything for a month Unele Bastus? Uncle No sah not er drop You deserve credit Uncle Yes sab Cud yo mo to er ham till day after tomorrer at qua'ter pass fob? No I never give An i ork Hum As a gentleman in the parquet remarked lost evening' bnt women Who have purchased high hats snd have none other to wear because they afford to buy new bonnets would dare to wear them to the theatre after all the hoe and cry that has been FAUatM-phla Jiultetln Lady (in up-town Why Mrs is this you and in mourning? I heard that Mrs Yes Mr was laid at rest two weeks aga I am so shocked Was his death a sodden Mrs Very without warning He died of cold contracted only the day befom Aren't the shops A'n Hum An agricultural Journal figures it tbt land la worth 840 an acre one glass of beer at five cents would represent a piece of nine feet wide and twelve feet room enough to bury the whole family This may be so bnt it la 1 mighty poor inducement for a man to give np his beer He would rather have a gists Several Officers la Washington rrnni Gen Sheridan's Visit of Inspection to Western Military The Kew Has -pital Maj tlonable Salary Accounts Candidate i for the Late CoL Scott's Place-z Shot Washington March 8petfon Adjutant-General Drum ia understood to be preparing a list of changes ia tiona of Assistant AdJutants-GeasMi which he will hand to the of War upon hia return here ten? row for approval It cannot be laZj definltly Just whose names are on but it ia expected that the change wiqv pretty general and that several of the on cera here are concerned When Gen Drn sent a draft of the bill which has latobt? come a law to Congress for xearraneeam of the grades of Assistant Adjutial General he represented that the creased rank therein given was for tfe purpose of having a Lieutenant-Colonel the headquarters of each of the six depart ments one Colonel for each of the three di vision headquarters and one as principal as-aistant to the Adjutant-General and the six Majors for duty at the War Department and at such division and department headquar-ters as the imperative demands of the service may require This being the plan upon which the law was based it would now seem to be in order for those who have received promotions to take stations corresponds to their rank This would take Lfcnu Uols Green and Wood awgy from Wasffi ton and place them on duty at department relieving two Majors Greco ii is thought will relieve Maj Martin Ad jutant-General of the Deportment of the Mto aouri the latter probably coming here as ss assistant to Gen Drum There must be cm siderable shifting around of the other Melon before department is found for Lieut jvi Wood The changes will be announced an early date Owing to the low state of tha mileage fund they will probably not take effect before July 1 when the new fund becomes available Lieut -Gen Bheridan Inspector-General Baird and CoL Mike Bheridan who left hem Wednesday night for Chicago and several Western military posts will be absent about ten days After leaving Chicago they will visit Fort A Russell WyoTerv to arrann for the full completion of the barracks ud quarters there and will thence proceed ta Denver to select the site for the militarr pint authorized to be established near that cUr Gen Bheridan looked the ground over durur a visit last October but several sites ban since been tendered which he: desires to inspect before annoffiicisr his choice Leaving Denver the iportr will proceed to Fort Riley where they art due March 34 Here they will meet In Willistonof the Third Artillery who hs Just been ordered to assume charge of tbs construction of the light battery quarters ts be erected in conjunction with the canity schooL The party will select sites for erection of these buildings and will tyn turn to Washington Maj Williston it is understood will not only remain in channel the construction of the lignt battery lraiid-inga but will be placed in command of this branch of the post when the school to in foil operation Before carrying out the law in regard is' the new hospital corps of the army Burma General Moore has determined to obtain tbs views of til officers of his department ask the best method of organization man are xuent etc With this end in view a circa letter will be sent out in a day or two inviting answers to a set of questions carefully prepared by Gen Moore Buggestions on invited as to whether appointments should be made direct to the new corps from dU life or from the one or tun year recruit of the regular army whs have gone through the disciplining process Gen Moore believes that the cooks sad nurses should have some special training before being placed on duty in hoapitai ui asks for suggestions as to the best plan of accomplishing that purpose When replies have been received to the circular a board will probably be convened to consider tbs recommendations and to compile set of regulations for putting the new tar into effeck The proceedings of the court-martial igthe case of Maj Benteen Ninth Cavalry nba wua recently tried at Fort Dn Cbeno tteh on charges of drunkenness are on their to the President for final action which to reml positive that the sentence is i It Is learned through private sources however that the court put in recommendation ox merer so that the Major has still chance to rave his commission The verdict to great surprise to officers here rathe few particulars received indicated Iran tha start that ha was a victim of persecution and that ha would pull through without blemish to his splendid record The officials of the pay department of tbs army are in something of quandary os to tbs settlement of the salary account of tha iats Lieut Powell of the Signal Corps Fire of hit vouchers for tho same number of swaths have been presented for payment four of which are fraudulent but it is difficult da termine which of the live ia the proper son They were presented by iffereut uosn-lsad-era each of whom claims that he bus the proper account A decision of some of tbs law officers of the Government will probably be necessary before any action can Betakes i I i i i i i I Ii by the pay department Lieut Jai antes Wilcox Seventh Cant rv is the latest addition to the list of officers charged with duplicating pay accounts Two of his accounts for the month of March were presented to the Paymaster at FortEeozV Department of Dakota The Paymaster immediately reported the fact to the deput-ment commander who on sending for nit cox learned that ho had disappeared Today the War Department was informed of bis arrest at Sk Louis He will be sent to Fort Knelling to stand trial by oourt-martial os charges of duplicating pay accounts and tlK sence without leave It is learned that Lienk John Shaw Sxth Infantry who ia wanted for duplicating bis pay account hypothecated nineteen fruxia-lent accounts nine of which were paid by tbs pay department The detail of an officer to succeed tbs lata CoL Scott in charge of the War of ths Rebellion records is looked for within- ths next daw or two The choice it is believed resta between Lieut -CoL Lazelle Txrcntjr-thira Infantry and Maj Hall Twenty-second to-fan try either of whom nave acknowledged qualifications for the place The failure of the Fortifications bill has crippled the Ordnance Bureau of the- troy that it has not money enough to purcbsc powder for firing tne customary morning sad evening gun at military posts Thepowur left over from the late War has been used for this purpose but the supply is now exhaata-ed and as there is no money to buy more-general order has been issued discontinuing the firing at all posts except the Military Academy and the Fortress Monroe andlesF en worth military posts The Lientenant-Ueneral has decided tarn officers attached to light batteries will sotbs considered eligible for detachment from thw batteries for nfle practice nor to enter tt department rifle competitions The following officers are registered tt tbs War Department: First-Lieut Edward Farrow Twenty-first Infantry: First-Lie Curtis McD Towusend 'Engineer Cspt Story Fourth Artillery CoL LV-gruder Surgeon- Capk- Bixbft I gineer First-Lieut John Bigelow Cavalry: Maj Williston Third AW lery Cant tk A Day Fifth Artillery Gladstone and His Wilis In a Fog' London Standard March 4: Mr and Gladstone dined with Mr Kaollys at Qae Anne's mansions Thursday evening and about 10:80 for Dollis Hill in a wfrMJJ open phaeton A dense foe prevailed and on tering Hydo Park the coachman was onsWe see his way the result being that one of wheels of the carnage came into contact the curb near Stanhope gate The eoacbmm pulled up and Mr and Mr Gladstone resol to return to Carlton House teirucei They aligw ed from the carriage and were soon recogun by sonic policeman who rendered them assistance The coachman took out obe of carriage lamps and led the horse accwmps by three policemen out of the park oci caailly to ConatltutioB Hill Mr and Mrs Ul stone proceeded on foot as far os the WclUnE-j Arch where they reentered the carrinye tag been driven through 8k Park foot of the steps lending to the Duke of Column they walked to No Kl csrltoa Bo terrace arriving there at HmO The ca their unexpected return caused much in the household Neither of them wss soy worse for the experiences of the nighk- evening Mr Gladstone returned te Cmjf House terrace at 183 o'clock having in quence of the continued fog abandoned tMv tcntlon of proceeding to Deals HilL v'i i i i i rt 'i i (EMwvdetChfMssFwt-QJlMa iwil iha imUm XlakttaattralTaaad oerteaa papa pa par 1 eaat fcaiurday or Sunday pi par cent foreiam Efeht tan twelve and foortaaa papa pa par canto alphtaaa aad twenty papa papar! aanta Tweaty-twe aod twaaty-loar papa irA aaaia SATURDAY MARCH 19 1SS7 Fruidknt Cutiusd was SO years old yesterday The Jury has been secured in the case of ear Aid Cleary of New York Qcin Victoria held her second Jubilee drawing-room at Buckingham Palace yester-flay Tweet r-rivn of Christian County Missouri are now In Jail at Ozark Ex-CoxobissxaxHall of Burlington la Kll probably be made Commissioner of tents Fathxb Keller of County Cork Ireland tras arrested yesterday in connection with the anti-rent agitation St Loots has been designated as a central reserve city under the provisions of the net passed at the last session of Congress The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies having the matter in charge has fixed the import duty on corn at 8 francs Stations in the lower lake districts of the life-saving service will begin operations April 1 and the others between thatdate Bud April 1A The FostOfflce Department has approved Fostmaster Judd's plan for the reorganisation of the Chicago offloet It will be carried into effect at once Michaeii Hoikosky -Hungarian living in this city yesterday tried to kill the woman with whom he lived and then puts pUtol ball into his own brain More than fifty banquets were held in Paris and the French provinces yesterday in honor of the sixteenth anniversary of the declaration of the Commune Six per cent gold bonds of the Mexican Rational Railway Company to the amount of 11000000 have been offered at public subscription in London at 98 per cent Finn at Buffalo early yesterday morning destoyed the Richmond Hotel A dozen or more lives were lost and half a million worth of property destroyed It is now supposed that last plot to assaainatq the Czar of Russia was planned by Deeaiqff alias Jablonski lha famous ibilist leader who has thus far escaped arrest XL Da Co in their weekly trade review say: is becoming more generally realized that the Inter-State Commerce bill is for the time affecting business unfavorably Joseph Rot of Wisconsin has been appointed Chief Clerk of the Post-Office Department vice Thomas Hash resigned to become General Superintendent of Railway Mall Bervice The business failures during the week number for the United States 1S7 and for Canada 83 or a total of 230 against 2S3 last week and 225 in the corresponding week of last year Drnnro the week ended March 13 there Were received at Washington 0355 applications for pensions and 2151 cases were disposed of during the weei leaving a total of 290206 cases pending De Lesseps says that while in Berlin he received the most friendly assurances from Prince Bismarck as to the relations of France and Germany and the pacific intentions of the latter Government toward the former T11 arguments in the Anarchists case at Ottawa were concluded yesterday Attorney-General Hunt closing for the State and Capt Black making the final address for the defense The matter was taken under advise-Xnent Mr Littlek raised another breeze in the Illinois House yesterday by a motion to add six members to the Appropriations Committee which he censured for its failure to attend to business After a warm debate however the resolution was tabled Disasteu fast treads upon the heels of disaster this year Scores of lives have been lost in the storms which have swept over Montana and Dakota Five terrible railroad accidents in quick succession have killed over 100 persona and mangled nearly 200 morn The earthquake in the Riviera swept away hundreds Three or four hundred persons have lost their lives in the collieries of England France and Belgium Fires and floods in the Old World have carried off hundreds more and now comes the terrible hotel fire in Buffalo with its heart-rending details of death and suffering Truly misfortunes never come singly The large circle of the Hon friends and acquaintances and this community in general will receive with profound regret the intelligence of the death of hia estimable wife Mr Washburne has been- sadly afflicted first in the striking down of his son by heart-disease then by the death of his life-companion and lastly by his own shattered health In tnis succession of afflictions he will receive the hearty sympathy of the people of Chicago and the whole West where his long and useful life has been tpcftt coupled with the hope that his own health may be speedily restored The local money market of yesterday was with a fair demand for bank acconuno-dationa There was little doing in local Hew York exchange was weak currency was ordered from the Foreign exchange was steadier Stocks in frill street were very dulL-The Chicago GLADSTONE'S LATEST SPEECH Mr speech at the Yorkshire banquet Thursday night was in hia best style While affecting to be conciliatory he made no concessions to the Chamberlain party and neatly turned some of their own talk against the Tory-Umomsts He reiterated a statement made some time ago concerning the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament over the proposed Irish Parliament from which it appears that he has abandoned idea of excluding the Irish members from the Westminster assembly At the same time he will probably leave the question of the extent of the Irish representation in the superior assembly to the Irish members themselves Ho took Maj Sanderson swashbuckler Irish militia officer at his word that settlement of the question must emanate from thalrisli While complimenting Trevelyan on his recent conciliatory attitude ha dealt with Mr Chamber-lain in an entirely different fashion He had the Birmingham Radical in his mind's eye when he said Irish question is one not of individuals but of nations and when nations collide individuals are liable to be uncomfortably The laughter which greeted this sally showed that it hit home and was cordially appreciated by the stalwart Yorkshire Radicals He struck hard agaia at Chamberlain when he said that the Liberal masses were united it was only the party that seemed to be divided Perhaps the most important port of the speech was that having reference to the landlords in which he intimated that in any future arrangement their treatment be so generous as that proposed in the Land bill rejected last June There was a hint of falling market which has not touched in all this and coming at a time when the Tories propose a further reduction of rents and making the revised rents the basis of purchase price it will not have a very cheering effect on tho unhappy Irish feudalists The hopefulness of the ex-Premier after the frequent defeats in the House of Commons recently is remarkable He talks confidently of the future as if he were fully assured that the complete solution of the Irish difficulty in a brood and generous spirit remains for him There is not the least feeling of bitterness or disappointment in the speech The reference to Chamberlain and the Unionists was in a spirit of badinage rather than of accusation Mr Guthrie who returned Springfield yesterday says there is no doubt that the two drainage bills introduced in the General Assembly will become law this session in a slightly amended form The committee of investigation will insist that the Winston bill shall be so amended that any damage inflicted on the people of the section between Joliet and La Salle by the widening of the channel and the increase in the volume of water shall be borne by the drainage district The Government engineer who has calculated on this matter estimates that the damages will be very slight and may be offset by advantages The committee also insists on the insertion of a clause iu the bill which will more clearly define the nature of the improvement and that it shall be mado along the Desplaines River channel have a declivity of three inches to the mile thus giving a full velocity of two miles per hour and a cross section of 2000 feet This would mean a width of about 130 feet and a depth of about sixteen and two-thirds feet With these amendments the Winstonbill will certainly pass notwithstanding 'the active lobby of misguided people from Joliet sent down there to be coached by Mr Riley Mr Woods and others The Joliet opposition is the most extraordinary thing of this decade They complain bitterly of the smell of the canal water in winter when the ditch is covered with thick ice excluding the air and oxidation bnt with incomprehensible fatuity oppose dilution whicn will render the water unobjectionable It is proposed to add ten gallons of pure lake water to each gallon of the sort of water that flowed over their dam last winter thereby rendering it only one-tenth as objectionable and they at this purification relief! And some donkeys even contend that the more pure hike water is mixed with the sewage water the worse it will smell I There la no use in arguing with such people as they seem to be destitute of comprehension of the simplest facts in nature Everybody of any reflection can see that just in proportion as pure water is mixed with Impure the latter approaches a state of punty and Inoffensiveness However there are no persons so blind as those who shut their eyes and refuse to see The letter which the Hon Ben Butterworth has written to the Toronto Jiitf on the question of reciprocity already printed in this paper is on the same line with the arguments heretofore made by The Tribune that complete reciprocity furnishes the only effective method of settling the differences between the two countries Mr Butterworth makes his point with admirable precision and it gains additional force by his Intimation to Canada that she has an undisputed right to enter upon the negotiation of such a treaty because her connection with Great Britain is not commercial hut sentimental and that if England should refuse to recognize such a movement the only effect would be to speedily sever the sentimental tie As Mr Butterworth shows Canada resources which we need and we have markets which she needs and there can be but one alternative either to pull down the partition tariff wall and allow trade to flow back and forth unrestrictedly in its natural rhnnnpis or to picket the frontier with forts pnJ custom-house spies increase our cruisers and prepare for war That is the situation in a nutshell and Mr Butterworth has stated it in a manner which admits of no controversy There should be no doubt on the Canadian side which horn of the dilema to seize There The Socialistic members made very bad record in the Honse Thursday when the anti-Weeks street-car grab bill came up for action Leo Dwyer apd Karlowaki voted against the bill and the other Dwyer O'Connor and Kohr-back dodged at the time the vote was taken It was not In tbs least surprising that the two Democratic members (Tom the Lawler-Uildreth district Mahoney and McElilgott should vote against the trill and for monopoly and grab A fennt paper which- has manifested a more than friendly Interest in Judge Prendergast announces that he will be the Democratic candidate for Mayor Mr Harrison having been unable to reunite the local Bourbon managers in his support Of course the expectation is that Prendergast will be able to poll something like the vote he got last fall for Judge He Is likely to he disappointed In this however The secret-lodge party have served their purpose by the election of Prendergast They have obtained representation among the election judges have demonstrated such strength as they have by their vote last fall and now they are going to sinks out on new issues on which even Judge can hardly agree with them There la an element of the Labor party that would probably support the Irish Catholics who have hitherto been Democrats But they are not numerous enough to command success for him Their support would also antagonize the German-Pullsh-Bohemian Socialists between whom and the Irish the feeling Just now Is anything bnt conliaL wishes to know if there is any asylum in this country for poor overworked laboring man who bos never been a soldier an actor a minister of the gospel or anything of that Thera is a 0NMW0 palace in Philadelphia against which a poor laboring man can lean and rest himself If overworked and worn out hut he get any accommodations on the inside The interior of the palace is an asylum only for the nobility Nobody under the rank of is entitled to Its benefits Under the beneficent workings of the new order of things the laboring man's continues to be as only a little more so poor-house Republicans are getting ready for the campaign of 1888 under some disadvantages They had not anticipated that the entire reserve of the Democratic party was to be brought out of me penitentiaries before the first gun was fired Justice Englehakdt should correct the errors In the marriage certificate of Anarchist Spies and Nifta Van Zandt and have an edition de luxe printed to compensate him for the strain to which his Intellect has been subjected In preparing it A few copies coaid doubtless be sold by subscription and some might be disposed of by proxy Although it is late in the season all accounts agree that the popular resorts in Florida have never presented a scene of greater life and animation than now particularly among the fleas The Florida flea of 1867 is the most enthusiastic friendly and confidential Individual that ever welcomed a Northern visitor to tho Sunny South The rumor that tho Cornish wrestler Car-keek is heavy stockholder in a Canadian railway grew out of (he fact that he has grand trunk inarms and eager for the Frey It appears to he exceedingly hard to raise money for base-ball purposes in Indianapolis this spring This shows that the canvassers must have failed to call on the Hon Bill English Tax Sultan of Morocco absolutely prohibits the nsa of tobacco or liquor Ha also has people mnrdered occasionally but that doesn't matter He Is a typical prohibitionist He thinks he can seen re a reform by brute force He may be wbsi Is called an Ignorant tyrant bnt in his temperance ideas he bnt conforms to the plan of great many worthy but narrow-minded people in the United States Both he mid they mast falL Temperance is secured by other means force a Avan evening party in this city recently several persona in the company were comparing tha ages of their ancestors Some could boast of grandparents 90 yean of age or more but they ThoM Blnlno-gbormnn Letters New York Sum: We regret to see that-in a recent letter to Gen Martin Beem of Chicago Gen Sherman seems to chuckle over the fact that the newspapers failed to obtain the letters which passed between Blaine and me in This refers no doubt to the offer which Mr Blaine then mode him of the Republican nomination for President and we cannot imagine any good reason why these letters should not have been published long ago We are sura they were creditable to both correspondents end the people of the present day would read them with much more interest than the people of twenty years hence Can it be that Gen Sherman thinks they are too creditable to Mr Blaine and withholds them for the purpose of doing bod torn? Queer Announcement of Ills New Evening Paper New York Sun: A new daily newspaper will make its appearance this afternoon We know tho editor and we wish to state that he eajovs our fullest confidence While brains are more expensive than ever before paper is cheaper and the new paper will be sold to tho pnblie for one cent a copy It will not of course be ns large as the Sun but it will be a mighty lively paper all the some and upon that fact we are ready in the language of the late Dr Greeley to bet 83 snd stake the money The name of this interesting Journal will be the Ktening Bum A Crazy-Quilt Concern Philadelphia As an effort to apply the crazy-quilt theory to statesmanship the present Cabinet to creditable and nnique aueccsa bnt its value os an agency of executive administration to not great enough to warrant Its preservation Mr Cleveland should tear down the whole structure and try his hand again The Failure of Congress St Paul Pioneer-lreee: The revenues of the Government exceed the average rate of a million dollars a day bnt Congress left untouched the heavy taxation incident to tariff duties levied for war purposes and which to not needed now Thin Congress was perfectly aware of yet' did nothing to remove or modify the burden Hark from the Tombs Minneapolis Trauma: These Louis Globe-Democrat wonts a fast mall to Chicago claiming that it could np that if It could only reach there by 10 o'clock a 8k Louis will wake np Chicago when the mole excites feelings of uneasiness in the bosom of the eoyoteu Making Oregon Solid Portland Oregonian: President Cleveland by the River and Harbor hill has mode it Impossible for any Democrat to carry Oregon in the Presidential election of next year It will be quite useless for that party to present an Electoral ticket in this State- The Spider and tho Fly Peoria Transcript: Carter Harrison to now trying to effect a combination between the laboring men and tho Democrat If tho labor fly walks Into tho parlor of the Democratic spider It will be attended with the usual resulk The Short and Sensible Finn New York World: The best thing to do with the surplus Is to stop It And the best way to stop It tocto reduce the taxes Unnecessary taxation to unjust Unjust taxation is oppression Started Out Too Late Sacramento Dee: John Sherman proposes to make a march through tho South on a hunt for the Presidential coon It will be of no use for the animal has already been bagged in the wilds of Maine Is Endieott Frightened? Grand Rapids Eagle: The report from Washington that Secretary of War Endieott to about to resign from the Cabinet start a suspicion that possibly the War Secretary to afraid war to 1 A A A.