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1 1 TWELVE PAGES. ITILE UHICAGO TRIBU NE 1HUItSDA 17, MARCH 5. 1885 1 I. .0 4: Grover was credited with the heroic saying to his friends: "Tell the truth about me ano But it seems now that he did not mean the motion of censure was within forty-seven of a full House. The original majority ever all has been reduced tune 1839 by the results of (4r-elections, and the majority of fnurteen over all was pretty good.

It would have beta larger but for Gladstone's refusal to bargain with Parnell. 4STIr 11:11313 OIf SUBNCRIVILON. TILERE is reason to believe that by the close of the present week Mr. Cleveland will have reconsidered his view that the duties of a President are "merely executive." PERSONALS. 1 Trr MAILIN ADVANCEPOSTAGE rnErAm.

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ular sentiment and so does not reflect any sPecial honor upon the Congress Whiell passed It. It Ivas only au expression of common gratitude to the great soldier who saved the Government by his Generalship and who fought one of the decisive wars of the world through to absolute victory and established the great principles for which it was fought upon secure and lasting foundations. Gen. Grant not only saved the Union with the armies which he led, but he compelled the rebellious section of the cotintry to recognize the principle that that Union is except by overwhehning for. It does not therefore entitle COngress to any special honor for passing a bill which recognizes Gen.

Grant's services, but It would have redounded to its eternal dishonor had it failed to pass it. If any member of that Congress fancies that he has any reason to boast of his action let him reflect that he was shamed, Into It by the recent sad announcements made by his faintly and physicians. It will, however, be a great pleasure and comfort to the old soldier that at last his rank has been restored, and it will be a satisfaction to the country, if he is destined to be called away, that he will leave us as a soldier wearing the title of that office which he once filled so nobly. Victor Estephe, for many years the chain- pio billiard-player of Pennsylvania. died at Oce 3nic, N.

of pneumonia. Mr. Estephe wits 64 years old. Me made his tame as a billiarciplayer before French carroms aupersedeel the old American game, and more than once successfullv crossed cues with Michael Phelan, Dudley KtiVanHgh. John Decry.

and John Sereiter. and other of the eharnpions Of those days. lie abandoned the cue in and began to manufacture billiard-tables. Henry VI Hard is living quietly at Berlin. He severed the last remaining tie that bound him to America only a short time ago by resigning me positton of President of the Oregon ik California Railway.

When his blind pool was in full swing and the Villard stocks were at their highest figures be was worth, on paper. His tall was tremendous and the wreck was complete. Out of Urn chaos be saved 4500,000. and that represents lima fortune be took to Berlin V) settle down on. itrIA Ii IN spite of himself Mr.

Lees, the late President of the New York Gas Company, gave yesterday some very interesting and instructive testimony. The capital of this company was originally $1,000,000, of-which it does not appear how much was paid in. Ia 181t this capital was increased to $1.000,000 without the payment of one additional dollar, "because the property was estimated to be worth that amount." In 18S3 the property, which hal been estimated twelve years at 000. having originaily cost an unknown traction of $1,000,000, was assessed for taxation at 01,430, while at the a me time it paid 10 per cent on a valuation of $4,000,000. or 40 per cent on the actual investment.

Who can fail to sympathize with the indignation and disgust Of Mr. Lees, as a stockholder on the ground floor" of this admirable corporation. at the impertinent curiosity of tne people who are prying into its private affairs under the frivolous pretext that, as the creature of the State, It is respons ble to its creator" nO brother holder of New Yoric gas stock. Meanwhile the public that has paid the bids Out of which the dividends voere mace seems actually to enjoy the shameful spectaele.N. Y.

Tim. leave him free to put any construction upon his words which occasion may suggest. His position in regard to civil-service reform was awaited with keen interest, but in this respect, as in other respects, the message affords little information. Civil-service reform is indorsed in a perfunctory way, as might have been expected, but there is nothing practical or reassuring ill what he says. He does not say that he, will retain in service the competent and experienced Of the Government; he does not say that he Will make no changes in office until the terms of the present incumbents shall expire; he does not say that be will remove only for good cause.

Here, as elsewhere, he generalizes when he hail an opportunity to make a plain, straightforward statement of the policy he Intends to pursue. The impression one gathers from reading the message is that the author intended to be non-committal, and that this purpose was uppermost In his mind when he was writing it. This conspicuous feature of the document suggests the theory that Dan Manning was near Mr. Cieveland's elbow when the message was written. Hence there is nothing in It which will either gratify or alarm the people.

It leaves the reformers who supported Mr. Cleveland just as much in doubt about his plans as they were before, and the spoilsmen are no better satisfied. The inauguration has not changed the situation in any essential respect. The people must wait to see what the new President will do, since he has declined to tell theta what he intends to do. mary removal from office.

Perhaps it is owing to such a rigorous control of officials that Iowa has enjoyed such a long period of good government and known so little Of official rascality. It is too often the case that laws for the government of officials are shaped by men who have a personal interest in suiting them to their own comfort. They make the bed soft in view of the time when they may rest on it. Hence it comes that there is often no means of removing an officer unless a criminal intent can be shown, and there is no remedy whatever for gross carelesness and incompetency. A striking illustration of this is found in this city in the case of the indicted election judges who, to say the least, were guilty of outrageous carelesness and negligence, but who go free simply because it is bnpossible to examine the state of their alleged intellects and prove the existence of a criminal motive.

The Injury to the public may be just as great whether the motive be good or bad, and there iought to be some means of protecting the public against officials who are negligent and careless as well as against those who are positively criminal. in all kinds of private business a man may be quickly displaced because of carelesness or negligence. In such a case no one would think of waiting to find a criminal motive. Iu the ordinary affairs of life the incompetent are quickly displaced without any inquiry as to their motive; and there is no more urgent need in public affairs than the strict and partial enforcement of such methbds of private business. An inquiry as to motive may be very important when the question is whether an official should be sent to the penitentiary or not, but it has no particular bearing on the question whether be should continue to hold office at the expense of the public good.

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and that when a new Administration came into power be would into favor. An interview with him, however, which was published a day or two ago, in which he declared Secretary Lincoln as responsible for the loss of so many members of the Greely party, wasAhe straw that broke the camel's back. There call hardly be any question that if Gen. Hazen's proposition had been adopted another dlsaster would have occurred. The War and Navy Departments, after the return of the wrecked Proteus party in September, 1883, made every possible inquiry to ascertain the feasibility of sending an expedition that autumn, and the opinion of every experienced person was adverse to the tiope of accomplishing anything by it Lieut.

Caning-ton of the Proteus, Commander Wilder of the Yantic. Engineer Melville of the navy, Dr. Laws. the surgeon of the Kane relief expedition. Capt.

Tyson of the Hall expedition, Capt. Greer of the Tigress, which was engaged in the Polaris search, all testified to the hopelesness of accomplishing anything, and were agreed that under the most favorable conditions a vessel might reach Upernavik, but could go no further that season, and that sledging north from there was impossible. After long and careful consideration both the Secretary of War and of the Navy came to the conclusion that it was unwise to make any further attempt that season, and the wisdom of that decision was still further confirmed by the official report of Commander Schley, who was at the head of the naval expedition which ultimately rescued those who were left of the Greely party, and who declared in this report that the winter of 1883-'84 was the severest ever known in Melville Bay, and that any vessel attempting the navigation of it would have been a total loss. Under such circumstances as these the effrontery of Gen. Hazen in openly placing responsibility for the disaster to the Greely party upon Secretary Lincoln is not only a very grave infraction of discipline and respect for superiors, but displays an assurance and impertinence which is simply amazing.

His persistence in giving vent to his personal pique and officialignorance has been properly rebuked. It was high thne that it should be checked, though the public will be the principal sufferer in having to listen to the tedious, miserable story of Arctic scandals, and Arctic blunders, and Arctic fatality told all over again. Jr was probably through an oversight that Gen. Hazen neglected to prognosticate the breeze which has occurred in his branch of the service within the last forty-eight hours. TRIBUNE IiRANCII OFFICEI Ti'? CI IttrAnn TittarN had established Drench ()fleet, for the receipt of sunscriptions and advertise-woos es follows: NEW Si and CA Tribune Bu J.

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EDWARD G. LOVE, the gas examiner for the New York Department or Pohtio Works since 1877, gave the following as the average candle power of the gas furnished by the several companies during 1881: New York, 24.03; Manhattan. 18.51; Mutual. 28.53; Municipal, 28.16; Metropolitan.22.01: Harlem. 18.64.

He explained his method of tests, and added, The companies, you must understand, refuse me information the same as any one else." He found impurities in the' gas, per 100 cubic feet, as follows: THURSDAY. MARCH 5, 1893. Ali THU its last official act was the signing of the bill "regulating appeals from the Territorial Supreme Courts." George Henry Calvert, who lately delivered a lecture at Newport, R. L. on from whom he claims descent on his mother's side.

as be does from the first Lord Baltimore on his fathr's aide, Is peat 82, and yet full of intellectual activity. A native of Baltimore. he has lived at Newport, or which he once was Mayor, for more than forte years. Having inherited a fortune he has always been able to his tastes and inclinations as few Americans can. He ts a marked and venerabla example of a native dilettante.

There has been an 4ttempt made to (Ili-credit the authenticity of the letter in which Gen. Wolseley set "Gen." Lee off aeatnet, "Mr." Grant, but it Is a failure. Americana who were in England about the time It was published remember that British army officers expressed themselves quietly to the effect that It was about what they would expect from the man. while civilians thought its snobbish tone entirely characteristic of the matt who wrote IL Even then the feeling that he was an overrated man who had been the tavorit of fortuneup to datewas the common one. A stout man with a tuft of gray on his chin, with heavy.

resolute face and gray eyes, and who speaks with a pronounced German accent, is one of the closest yet most unassuming observers of the Wall street market. He Max Weil. the old St. Louis dry-goods merchant. He is not a trader In the ordinary sense.

He buys or sells in a small way who his judgment tells hint to. and every turn nets him a profit. He owns 3,000,000 worth of real estate in New York. He came to this country from Germany a poor Immigrant thirty vears ago. Ile tramped all through the Pennsylvania coal regions, Peddling from a basket.

He dates everything from the time he was a peddler. He will raise hie forefinger when he is talking and start in, "When I was peddling." Co. Vandevelde, Governor of the castle of Bouchout. Belgium, to whose care Carlotta, the demented widow of Maximilian. was committed died recently.

The Empress Is as yet unaware of his death, having been told that he went. on a voyage. She is deeply affected by his absence, and refuses to speak to any of her attendants. Since his death she has not touched her piano nor her brushes. for she paints very beautifully.

All the affection be bore toward the Co'anel she now lavishes on a little pet dog. Her mental malady is a puzzle to physicians. As one of its symptoms is a total loss of memory, it is hoped she will soon forget her former companion. Hence she never mentions Mexico, Maximilian, or even Leopold L. her father.

to whom she was devotedly attached. Another and more recent symptom of the malady Is a total disregard for her toilet. Formerly she was very particular In this respect, and was in the habit of dressing imaginary ladies, with whom she wouid converse in several languages. Sae now wears plain black. Eulphur compounds.

AMMOILitt. New York 3.43 grains .87 grain. Manhattan 27.26 grains 73.15 grains. New York Mutual 5.19 grains .39 grain. Municipal 4.24 grains .15 grain.

Metropolitan 13.67 grains 7.94 grains. Knickerbocker 7.34 grains AU grain. The maximum standard in London. said Mr. Love, was twenty grains of errn pounds and four grains of ammonia per 100 cubic feet.

In Massachusetts a statute axed the standard of purity within the limits of public at twenty grains of sulphur compounds and ten grains of ammonia. lie tbothrbt live grams of ammonia a very much better maximum. THE Sultan of Zanzibar has been formlilly notified of the annexation by Germany ot 2,500 square miles of 104, dominions. As appeal is to be made to the Supreme Court from judge IllodglAes decision the validity of the Mortgage held by the Union Life-Insni-ance Company of On the property of the Chicago University. Houses of the Forty-eighth Congress adjourned sine die at noon yesterday.

The SLAtate was reorganized as the Senate of the Forty-ninth Congress. It was called to order In extra session by Mr. Hendricks and mliourned until today. WE have no war on hand just at present, but when we do have one Ithude Island may be reiied upon. The report of her Adjutant-General shows the State to have a militia force of 700 men, of whom 122 are officers and Ilftytwo are on the stair.

Rhode Island Is all there. THE SENATORIAL CONTEST. The Democratic factions at Springfield are again split up, and have resolved themselves into a bear garden. Discipline has been thrown to the winds and harmony has given place to dissonance of the wildest sort. The party is rent in twain.

Haines has thrown Morrison over and voted for Bishop. Morrison himself has confessed that his goose is cooked by running away to Washington. Members have given free vent to their choler and two of them have slugged each other on the nose in the approved scrapping-match style. What is the use of continuing this farce any longer It Is a shame that this muddle should be allowed to last another day. If the Democrats have any respect for the popular sentiment, any consideration for the wishes of the majority of the people of Illinois, they will at once permit the reClection of Senator Logan.

They are fighting against the choice of the people, as they well know. There is not a member of the Legislature who does not know that the people want Senator Logan returned to the position in which he has done the State and himself such honor. He deserves it himself for his past services and the State deserves that it should have the honor of his reaection. He has 40,000 majority in his against any man the Democrats can name, and no good reason can be offered why the Democrats should longer oppose the will of the people because they happen to have an accidental majority of one in the House, obtained by Ilepublican wrangling and divisions. Mr.

Morrison cannot be elected. Ile has acknowledged that by quitting Springfield. Haines has withdrawn his vote from him. He has his position in the House and is Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee---a position which he could not better even if he could get to the Senate. Ile is a credit to the State in his present place.

For the sake of peace and order, as a matter of justice to the people, by every consideration of self-respect the Democrats should vote to send that other favorit son of Illinois, John Logan, back to the place in the Senate he has filled with such honor to himself and his State. Let us have an end of the farce. Let the will of the people be respected. THE Chicago produce markets were less active yesterday, tut much stronger, being led by wheat, which was excited by war rumors from the Old World. As compared with Tuesday pork closed higher, lard and meats 5c higher, wheat lc higher, corn higher, oats higher, rye and barley bteady, flaxseed firm.

NOW FOR THE PLUNDER. The first and crowning act of the great Democratic drama has been Grover Cleveland Is President of the United States. The after acts must now be performed, and the major part of the office-seekers, whose names are legion, are now in Washington to see that they are performed as they should be. That city Is full of them. There are acres of patriotism and statesmanship seeking recognition and presenting claims for that official compensation which is the reward of Democratic virtue.

The men who were most prominent in making Cleveland President are there. They have marched in processions; have blown trumpets and fired Roman candles; have painted the avenues red and yelled till all was blue; have danced at the ball; have sent in their cards, and are now waiting to see what the I'resident whom they have made will make them. It Is gratifying to observe that every part of the country is represented, from Maine to California and from Minnesota to Louisiana, the Southern Brigadiers holding their own well with the Northern Copperheads and the old Bourbon Mossback-, who have very old dates branded on their backs. It Is also gratifying to observe that the delegation from Chicago, headed by that eminent Democratic statesman, Michael Cassius McDonald, is there in numbers sufficient to take all the offices in 111111013, and every man expecting one, counting not so mech upon the honor of the office as the salary attached. Though every one of them seems to be desirous of having the Marshalship, it Is probable every one of them would take a Cabinet position or a diplomatic post abroad If it were offered.

Their proclivity towards the money-bags is indicated by their photographic association with the Treasury Building. The only regret which an outsider can feel in this connection is the absence of that fine-worker, Joseph Chesterfield, whose present engagements with the Government make it very uncertain whether he will be in a position to take an office should it be tendered him. Apart from this It is a very breezy delegation, and every one ot them has a lively bee buzzing in his bonnet. Every man of them has his eye on something pretty comfortable, and if he does not get It it will not be because he does not wear the largest badge and blow the loudest horn in Washington. It is not very courteous to the new President that some of his henchmen who carried the standards of reform should commence growling at him before the prizes are distributed.

Among this class Senator Voorhees stands conspicuous. his State has the Vice-4 President, What more does she deserve lie should reflect that Indiana did nothing for the ticket from a sense of patriotism or of loyalty to the Democracy. She had to be bought and paid for by Gorman and Seven-Mule Barnum. Connecticut and New Jersey are much more deserving of consideration, and If Barnum is not taken from the one what virtue is there In boodle If McClellan Is not taken from the other where Is the sense of gratitude for his services in the Southovithout whose aid Cleveland could not have been elected As the distribution of prizes must commence at once. the patriots will not have long to wait.

Those who get them Nvill probably come home in Pullman cars and the others will walk, but then the walking is getting better every day. Meanwhile will not Cleveland wish today that he were far from the madding AMUSEMENTS A LETTER from Peosaeola tells how "home rule is respected in Florida by the Confederates, who have recently abolished the Pensacola City Republican Government and authorized the Confederate Governor to appoint a Confederate Commission as a substitute. A letter dated Feb. 24 thus relates the outrage: The stories told by Northern men, leading property-owners. who settled here after the War.

of Southern intolerance, intimidation, and Outrages. will make an interesting letter, showing what has been the chief drawback in the pest. A statement of a few facts will throw light on the subject. In this Suite the Governor appoints not only all the election officers, hut all Judges, county officers, and every officiai excepting the Mayor and Aldermen in cities. Pensacola has a large Republican majority.

and the Republicans have managed to retain control. Despairing ot getting things in their own hands by other means the Democrats went to the Legislature a few weeks ago and bad a law passed abolishing the City Government of Pensacola, and providing as a substitute a commission appointed by the Governor. Thus In a Republican City the members of that party have no voice in saying bow they shall be taxed or ruled. When they did have possession of the City Government the Democrats refused to pay taxes. and as the Judges were appointed by the Governor they were of course Democrats, and the courts were used to shield Democrats from paying taxes to a Republican City Government.

This is the spirit of Dem ocratic intolerance which blights the progress of the South today A encampment of Oklahoma boom(I's' la pitched near Arkansas City, Ks. Reinforcements are constantly arriving. Capt. Couch aml twelve other leading officers of Um boomers were arrested 3 esterday. Capt.

Couch assured his comrades that his arrest was a mere farce, and said that he would be again at liberty by SAturday. lie advised them to await his return before attempting the projected invasion of, the territory. ARTHUR'S ADMINISTRATION. President Cleveland is credited in a Washingten dispatch with the statement that he will be entliely satisfied with his Administration if he shall be able to retire from office with as much popular respect as Mr. Arthur enjoys today.

The compliment, if uttered, was not only graceful but deserved. Mr. Arthur has given the country a conservative Administrationnot free from mistakes, of course, but clean, manly, and creditable. In retiring front office Mr. Arthur is the more entitled to encomium because he entered it under very embarrassing conditions.

He had been rated merely as a "practical politician," and his New York associations were regarded with special distrust lie succeeded a President who had been assasinated because he antagonized the faction with which Arthur had been identified. lie was met at the threshold of the White House with these spectres of the past. But he began immediately to win the sympathy and good-will of the people. Ile broke away trout his old associates. Ile did not take advantage of his accidental position to work out factional revenges.

He assumed a new dignity and ambition commensurate with the high office to which he succeeded, and he soon inspired public confidence in his intention and ability to administer the Government in a fair and impartial spirit. The chief blots on Arthur's Administration were his interference in the State politics of New York, which led to the election of Cleveland as Governor and prepared the way to make Cleveland President; his attempt to use the influence of his position to secure his own nomination in the Chicago Conveution; and his apparent indifference to Blaine's cause after the latter was called to lead the Republicans in the Presidential fight. The lesson which Arthur received in the overwhelming defeat of the late Judge Folger ought to have protected him from repeating his error in his own behalf, and he was too old a politician and had received too many favors at the hands of his party to be able to justify sulking over the loss of a nomination to which he had no original claim. But these exhibitions of human nature, which is very much the same in Presidents as in other people, can be forgiven more readily than would bct such mistakes as were calculated to prejudice the public interests or disgrace the party which Arthur represented. A review of Arthur's Administration will show it to be free of eccentricities.

He has been criticised in some quarters for dressing too well and living too freely, but the people as a whole find no fault with him for being a gentleman in appearance and demeanor nor for maintaining the repetation of the White House for hospitality, which had fallen off under the Ita3-es Administration. lie outlined no striking policy during his Administration, except the reciprocity treaties which failed, but his negative or quiescent course guarded him from mistakes. Mr. Arthur will pass into American history as one of the respectable Presidents. and his career as Chief Magistrate is conspicuously honorable and brilliant as compared with that of Buchanan, with whose Administration the Democratic party terminated its control of the Government I Ix the closing hours of Congress yesterday the conference committee patched up a compromise on the Post-Office appropriation by which Huntington, Roach, and Jay Gould got their 6400,000 of subsidy swag under pretense of carrying a mail box.

Each letter they will carry to the isthmus will cost the Governmeht a dollar; the expense heretofore was the ocean postage of three cents. But aside from this abominable plunder grab and some other bad features the bill contains severable valuable ones. By one provision the postage on a letter weighing an ounce will be only two cents instead of four after the 30th of June next. All letters now pay two cents on a half ounce and an extra two cents for any fraction over that weight. Multitudes of letters overrun the half ounce a trifle, and if the extra weight is not prepaid by the sender it is collected from the receiver.

A great many letters weigh several ounces, and they will, after the 30th of June next, be charged only two cents an ounce instead of four cents as now. People in writing here-. after will not be afraid to fill up another half sheet lest their letter overruns the half-ounce limit. The postage on newspapers sent by publishers to subscribers is two cents a pound, payable in advance, which means that the publisher has to pay the postage instead of the subscriber. Ever since this law was passed, a dozen years ago, publishers have felt the postage tax to be an onerous burden.

But by an amendment to the Post-Office Ap, propriation bill that tax will be reduced one-half on and after the 1st of July next, which will be a material relief to hundreds of publishers in the United States. Under these and some other amendments to the bill postage on both letters and newspapers will be cheaper in the United States after June next than in any other nation in the world. The Post-Office Department is felt to be the most useful one in the flow it will be managed hereafter by the hungry, rapacious, scrambling, officeseekmg crowd remains to be seen. It has certainly been well and satisfactorily managed by the Republicans. E.17,1s11 continues to deal with communications from the British Foreign Office with exasperathlg slowness.

Lord GraILVIIIC'S message sent last Monday conveying the expression of England's determination to protect the rights of the Afghans has not yet elicited a reply. In the meantime the British public is in a state of feverish anxiety. Complaints are made that neither the army nor the navy Is adequately prepared for such It crisis as is threatened. AN expression of opinion from Carl Schurz and George William Curtis as to the qualifications of Mr. Daniel Manning for Secretary of the Treasury is still awaited with a degree of Interest.

66 Woman Asrainst Woman." Frank Harvey, the author of The Wages of Sin" and "Woman Against Woman." writes to suit the taste of the provinces in England, and he puts 3o much strong but rude feeling into his work, so much breadth of characterization without delicacy of shading, and so much humor that is coarse but true, that it is no wonder that his plays should enjoy popularity at home and strike responsive chords in many an American audience. The drama that is presented at Roo ley's this week bears the same relation to a finely-polished play that a charcoal sketch does to an etching; but the charcoal is held In a firm hand, ana the picture on the stage, rough though it be, in many respects shows strength, deaisiote and truth. Here is a work with some human fibre in it, and it is such a relief to find a drama that is not emasculated that one tees a pleasure in praising it and a disposition to overlook its faults. The story is one of country life in England and shows the sacrifice of a woman who, like Walter Scott's heroine, thinks nothing too hard to do to save her sister from shame. It seems improbable that sisterly affection could go to euch lengths as in the present instance, but self-sacrifice always seems improbable from its rarity.

From one who is not admirer of Marie Presoott's art it is no little concession to declare that her work at the close of the fourth act is charged with superb dramatic power. She thrilled the house by force of tnat sensibility which, when excessive, is the secret of greatness. As for her general acting one can find little to praise in it. See has an unfortunate method inasmuch as she does not understand how to grade her effects; that is, she strives to be as pathetic in the most commonplace passages as she does when there is a truly exacting occasion. Hence her acting lacks the charm of contrast and also the beauty of progressive power which was never more finely marked tuna in the method of her predecessor In the company, Atrnes Booth.

Miss Prescott reminds one most of the time of a jelly, always shimmering and quivering until its monotonous tremulousness irritates the nerves of the spectator. The company playing this piece is really an excellent one, and one cannot repress the wish that it might remain as a stock organization at Hooley's. Several of the minor parts in this performance are taken by actors who deserve much credit even if their names are not "starred" on the play-bills. Mr. J.

A. Howell and Mr. Owen 'Westford do remarkably well, and Mrs. Julia Brutone could not easily be surpassed in her delineation of the Englishwoman of the lower classes. Mn.

A. A. TERRELL Of Sterling has been suggested as a candidate for the Legislature of the Whiteside and Lee district to till the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Logan. This would be an excellent selection.

Probably there is no man in Whiteside County better fitted to represent the district in the Legislature in the present juncture of affairs than Mr. Terrell. He is well known as a man ot high character and strict integritya Republican who joined the party at the time of its first organization, Nit who never worked for its success with grater enthusiasm tban in the late campain for Blaine and Logan. He would make a stanch and true Representative. Owing to the short time before the election it is probable no convention will be held, but the nomination will be made by the County Central Committee.

If Mr. Terrell should be named there can be no doubt that the selection would be heartily ratified by the voters of the THE OKLAHOMA DECISION'. The late Congress is deserving of credit for doing something in the closing hours of its session toward the settleinent of the Oklahoma question in the interest of settlers' rights and fair play. The Senate bill providing a new series of pains and penalties to be visited on every white farmer found iu the Oklahoma district was handsomely defeated, and the House bill which looks simply to the opening up of the country to settlement was passed in its stead. The whole matter is now referred to the President for action, and if he proceeds promptly and wisely there is no reason why the Oklahoma country should not be opened up to settlers inside of sixty tdays.

This will be one of the first important to come before President Cleveland, and the country will look to him to perform his duty in regard to it faithfully and promptly. The rejection of the Senate bill amounts to an Indirect condemnation of the use of the army to keep farmers out of Oklahoma. The President is directed to open negotiations with the Indians for the surrender of the fine-spun technical rights they are supposed to have to the Oklahoma district, and the sole purpose of the bill is to open the country to white settlement as soon as possible. It now becomes the duty of the President to act promptly and energetically in attaining this object There is nothing in this bill providing for keeping white farmers out of the district through the use of the army or otherwise, and, as its sole purpose is to open the country to settlement, it becomes the duty of the Executive to enforce it according to Its obvious spirit and intent. IN the joint session at Springfield yesterday I tables caused a sensation by declaring that, as there was no longer any hope of Morrison's election as United States Senator, lte would vote for Richard Bishop.

After the adjournment of the joint assembly there was a pugilistic eneounter between Representatives Campbell and Baker. In the State ate bills were introduced providing for the recovery of usurious interest, to prevent gas extortion, to repeal the Elevated Railroad act, and to prevent the consolidation of parallel roads. In the house a bill was offered to submit the question of taxing church property to a vote of the people. THE Democrats in the House did not C071- t3ent to pass the bill placing Gen. Grant upon the retired list until they bad been bribed to It.

They refused to permit its consideration iniess the Republicans would consent that a Note should be taken on the Fredericks-Wilson election case. So the Republicans decided that If Mr. Wilson was willing to come to the rescue of Gen. Grant and permit the Demerrats to declare Fredericks entitled to his seat they would consent to the compromise. Mr.

Wilson gracefully consented to the sacrifice, and the resolution of the Elections Committee giving Fredericks the seat was passed. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the Grant bill was then adopted by a vote of 198 yeas to 78 nays. The Democrats hoped to keep the Grant bill back so long that it would not be possible for Mr. Arthur to nide the nomination, but In this they were unsuccessful. MR.

TILDEN weighs twenty-five pounds more than be did a year ago. Mr. Cleveland weighs several tons more. Premier Manning. I am the boss of the new Machine! And I'm Just the man for the place.

I mean To run her for all she is worth. We've got Four years to operate in! Great Scott! What more can we ask for I've had the gall To run one State, and I'll run 'era all! I am a schemer, and know my gait, And my work's cut out until TS. While Grover's the figurehead, it is Dan Who holds the throttle-valve! I'm the man Who made the President, and he'll serve The purpose, too. I've got the nerve, And I've got the chance, on an awful scale, And I'm not the kind of a man to fail. I want the Earth! and, as sure as fate.

I'll own it, mostly, In '881 HUNDREDS of persons have Invaded the Winnebago Reservation in Dakota on the authority of a dispatch saying that the President had restored it to the publie domain. The Sioux Indians are manifesting bad blood over these aggressions by the whites. In their efforts to prevent the invasion they nave 13 red severat of the shanties hastily erected in the disputed district- There are wild rumors of bloodshed, but settlers lately returned say thnt no open break has occurred. The choice claims along the border are taken by squatters, some portions having more settlers than there are quarter-sections ONE ot the Democratic leaders la Washington is reported as saying that the new Government will be "square" in the division of the offices. He's probably rightthe certainly won't go round.

Great Gosh! The Treasury! What a haul! I'm a way-up rooster! I'm getting tall! They may talk ot statesmen for such a place, But it's tricks are wanted. Fit set the pace, And ril make it smashing. We've got 'em foul! They may howl if they want to. We'll let 'em howl. rii show 'em a trick in finance; Iwell, put the money where it will tell! We've got 'em for keeps! We control the stamps; corralthe mugwumpsi I'll put on the clamps Of cash and patronagebind 'em fast.

With something to live on their faith will last. We've got the revenues! Coin will tell. I'm a boss machine man. I'll run it well. I'm a la-la at plotting! I'm Warwick to date, And hold that commission in 'atil THE INAUGURAL MESSAGE.

Mr. Cleveland's inaugural message, like his letter of acceptance, is short, but, also like his letter of acceptance, it is not to the point. lie has a remarkable faculty for uttering commonplaces, and his message is made up almost entirely of phrases from which special significance can be extracted only by inference. Passing over many meaningless generalities, the first sentence which aorrests attention as possibly implying a policy is that which relates to "the greatest good to the greatest number." If this Involves the surrender or postponement of private interests and the abandonment of local advantages," he says, compensation may be found in the assurance that thus the common interest is subserved and the general welfare advanced." This phrase would seem to point to protection and indicate a leaning towards revenue reform. If it cannot be glven this significance, then it has no particular meaning.

But if it was Intended to give comfort to the free-trade wing of the Democratic party why didn't the new President express himself so plainly that there could be no doubt about It? Ills specific utterance on the tariff is simply an extract from the ambiguous party platform. The old Democratic sophism of State sovereignty crops out in the following sentence: In the discharge of my official duty I shall endeavor to be guided by a just and unrestrained construction of the Constitution, a careful observance of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States," etc. This means strict construction "a term Whiell had a special significance before the constitutional amendments were adopted, but which now threatens a return to the Constitution as it was." This utterance was probably intended by Mr. Cleveland to vindicate his orthodox Democracy. It will be construed by the Bourbons as favorable to a re-.

Peal of the United States election laws, to a rejection of all measures looking to the regulation of railroads by the National Government, and to a repudiation of the Immense progress which has been made toward nationalism during the last twenty years. Whether Mr. Cleveland really means all this or not, his method of expression are evidently Intended to conceal his ideas and THE HAZEN COTIRT-111ARTI4L. At last the Chief Signal Officer of the army, W. B.

Hazen, has been ordered court-martialed. It is a tardy order, but better late than never. If ever an officer deserved to be court-martialed for infraction of army discipline and for disrespect to his superiors it is Gen. liazen, and the country will gladly spare him from his erratic meteoxplogical duties long enough for a jury of his peers to determine his guilt or innocence, and, if guilty, the measure of his punishment. The public will not suffer in the matter of weather reports while he remains suspended, but will probably be benefited by the change, for any change must be for the better.

The special charge against Gen. Hazen is his criticism of the Secretary of War, as well as the Secretary of the Navy, because they declined to act upon his suggestions for the relief of Lieut. Greely in 1883, for the expression of which the Secretary of War in his last annual report censured him in the following severe terms: The expression of the Chief Signal Officer is an intrusion of an official opinion as to the propriety of the course of the secretaries of War and of the Navy in not hazarding more lives in 1583 in a nearly hopeless adventure upon his teiegraphic requests. This excursion Into an official jurisdiction beyond his own and his dictum upon the exercise of a superior responsibility which he was not invited to share are extraordinary in their time and place and are hardly excusable even under whatever of irritation may have been caused by the ot the Proteus court of inquiry. Waiving, however, that consideration, if there had at the time been sriven more weight to the views ot that branch of the public service under whose management there bad been one futile and one disastrous expedition in the Northern Fe as in two successive years than to the views of men having experience in such matters it is now hardly to be doubted that we should have had last summer the news of two Arctic calamities instead of one.

Gen. Hazen evidently belongs to that class of men who have the gift of garrulity so well developed that they are unable to control it. Not even the censure, of his superiors has been able to keep him still. Ile has aired his so-called grievances upon every pea EA11LY-RoSE snake stories are already on the market. The supply comes chiefly from the far South, where the serpent soonest recovers from his winter torpidity.

So far as can be determined at this time, the fashion tor 1885 seems to be in rattlesnakes. Thrilling adventures with nests of the serpents, found under big stones and in stumps, are already in print, and some ot them so creditable in style as to Indicate that the long-looked-for American Novelist has been born and is growing. STOCKHOLDERS in the St. Louis Exposition do not come in crowds to take up bonds issued to complete the musio and amusement halls, though appealed to plaintively by the directors. St.

Louis occasionally makes a middie-ageti spurt at some publics enterprise, but usually subsides.into lethargy again before the thing is completed. Just what is the matter with St. Louis has never been detinitly learned, though a large number of thoughtful men have considered the problem in all its bearings. The sluggish old city is well situated for commercial purposes, has more than half the population of Chicago, and ought to go right ahead, but grows no more than a mule after it has reached maturity. Climatic influences and a bilious tendency in the natives have, doubtless, much to do with the phenomenon.

The contrast between occasional spasmodic effort and the steady swing of progress seen in a great city like Chicaro affords one of the most Curious studies of the age. GROVER was Inaugurated at Washington yesterday. The day was a beautiful one and the. city was filled with tens of thousands of people from all parts of the Union. At 10 a.

m. the new Pretsident and Vice-President were escorted to the White House, whence they drove to the Capitol, being eFeorted thither by troops of the regular army, the marine corps, and the District militia. Shortly before noon President Arthur, President-elect Cleveland, alnd Vice-President-elect Hendricks entered the Senate Chamber. .11. Hendneks was bworn, in as Vice-President and proceeded to PUalinist(T the oath of ollice to the newly-elected members of the Senate, thus completing its reorganization.

The procession tormod end escorted Mr. Cleveland to the platform on the central portico of the Capitol. President Arthur stepped forward, followed by the President-cleet, Chief-Justice 1Va1te, and the Ser4eant-at-Artns of the Sett-ate. Mr. Cleveland then delivered his gural address, at the conclusion of which he took tho oath as President of the 'United States, which was administered by Chief-Jus tiN1 Waite.

The ceremonies Over, the Vent and Vice-President returned to the White House. The display of fireworks in the evening was followed by the Inauguration loan. OFFICIAL TROUBLE IN IOWA. The action of the Governor of Iowa in suspending the Auditor of State from office is rather a surprising piece, of news to be reported from Iowa. For a long series of years there has been very little scandal or nialadministralon 14 the affairs of that State, and the last instance of the suspension of a State officer was in the Administration of Gov.

Grimes nearly thirty years ago. The present Auditor has been the subject ot much complaint and bitter criticism for over a year past, but it was not thought that the accusations would lead to his suspension from office, since most of the charges against him were widely published during the campaign last fall, and Mr. Brown was nevertheless relected by a majority not much less than that of the candidate highest on the ticket. Since then, however, the Governor caused an examination to be made of the Auditor's office, and it is on the basis of this examination that the suspension has been declared. The laws of Iowa are peculiarly rigorous in holding officials to a strict accountability.

Suspension from office does not necessarily imply any very heinous offense. The statutes of Iowa not only provide for the suspension of any officer guilty of defalcation or misappropriation ot public money, but also make it the imperative duty of the )vernor to suspend any official whose books and accounts are kept in a careless or improper way. Indeed, the law is so strict in this respect that the Governor has no discretion, but must at once suspend any officer whose books and accounts are kept in an Improper manner. Bad bookkeeping and carelesness form at any time a sufficient cause for sum Foyer Gossip. Mr.

Morrissey has designed souvenirs in the shape of tiny silver plaques for the ladies who attend Rh performance at the Grand Opera-House Saturday evening. Mr. IL E. Abbey is at present in Paris, busily engaged in arranging for the visit to this country in June of Mary Anderson and the Lyceum company. Mr.

Osmond Tear le will not star in America, but in the provincial towns of England, when be leaves the Val lack comnanv. His wires, Minnie Conway, will join him in his tour. The German tragedian Von Asten will soon P.O to England to play a series of characters in English. It is reported that he is a peffect master of the language. Ile also projects an American tour.

"Our people want only the freshest In the dramatic market," said the Dakota dramatic critic, to the representative of an Eastern tragedian. I know this 'Merchant of Venice' you talk about. I saw it in Salt Lake as far back as 'SI. No such wormy chestnut will go down with a cultured community that bad 'Young Mrs. Winthrop' and The Bandit King' three months after they were brought out at Drury Lane." There will be another week of grand German opera, which devoted to a production of "Die Walkilre," whicn will have three representations; "Orpheus I' one.

and there will be a repetition of "Lobengrin." The theatre will be closed Monday night reit to Rive Mr. Damrosch an opportunity to fully rehearse "Die Walkilre," this being necessary because of the difference in the sizes of the Columbia and Metropolitan stages. It was to build the entire stage-setting here. An extra perfortnance will be given Sunday night to enable music-loving people in the suburbs to attend a lei la performance. Excursion-trains will be run 1's other he rp pe 1.1 at oe er am.

a laTe he curtain ea will rise 10 O'Clock. 1' EASTERN newspapers are making painful reflections on the personal courage of those fierce Socialists, Herr Most and Herr Schwab. There's nothing in the circumstance. The difference between talking blood and shedding It has ben fully appreciated by every foul preacher of wholesale crime, from Robespierre down. THE Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette makes this startling revelation: 'To an old schoolboy friend of his in New York Mr.

Cleveland said that he had no objection to legitimate assault upon hint in a political way, but that he is almost sensitive upon any attack upon him personally, and particularly in the Halpin matter. Every paper that mentioned that matter he has the name down in his pocketbook. and his blacklist contains the name Of every man who was instrumental in circulating that story. lie said to Mr. Spracue.

formerly of the Emery Hotel in Cincinnati. and an old personal friend: "I will never forgive the men who aided In the circulation of this scandal about me. I do not deny the allegations and never have. but they had nothing to do with my litness or enalitications for the office to which 1 have been elected." This black-list rules out an the Republican papers, including The CHICAGO TRIBUNE and those Democratic papers which first told the Halpin adultery story. There will be no pie or plum-pudding for the men who the scandalous truth, tbus showing that It is not safe to tell the truth at all times; and yet i Tim; Forty-eighth Congress at the last mom-nt saved iticif front univeNal popular 111- -nation and the country from a National -race by passing the Lill retiring Gen.

It was a tardy concession to the pop WHEN the present British House of Commons was elected in 1880 its members were classified as Liberals, 338; Conservatives, 239; Home-Rulers, C.b. This gave Mr. Gladstone a majority of ninety-nine over the Conservatives and thirty-nine over all. Last Friday' vote ort a i i 4 1 I a) I 16, mro r-.