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SUNDAY, MAKCH 23. 1890,
THE HERALD'S NEW DRESS.
The Herald this morning appears in
a new dress supplied to it by the well
known type foundry of Palmer & Rev,
405 and 407 Sansome street, San Fran
cisco. Allowing for the hard working of
the new type, it ought to be a triumph
of the art preservative of all arts. In
fact, no daily newspaper on the Pacific
Coast surpasses it in artistic finish and
style, and few approach it in these essen
tials of a newspaper. It has been the
aim of the publishers oj this journal to
furnish its readers with a medium in
which, in a compact shape, they will
receive all the news of the day. We
have eschewed the blanket sheet, which
may fairly be described as a modem
nuisance, and which makes it a labor to
the well-intending citizen to get the
really important intelligence of the day.
The Herald, like good wine, needs no
bush. It has been in existence for over
seventeen years; and, during all that
period, its record has been honorable,
high principled and progressive.
It is gratifying to know that gentle
men of the newspaper guild in the
United States have taken cognizance of
the retirement of Bismarck, and that
they have arranged things secundum
artem from a diplomatic point of view.
The speculations of the average Amer
ican newspaper man on European pol
itics are quite up to the vagaries of a
Digger Indian on the Milky Way. For
our own part, we confess that we are as
frank on these weighty issues as was
Ijord Palmerston when approached on the
Schleswig-Holstein question, on which
occasion the witty British premier said
that there were only two human beings
who ever understood the question, Lord
John Russell and a man who had ex
plained the thing to him, and that the
man was dead and Lord John had for
gotten all alxait it.
Oub esteemed contemporary, the Ex
press, the other afternoon printed a cut
which was said to be a likeness
of Mrs. Quay. If we were per
suaded that Matthew Stanley really
had a. wife that looked anything
like this fearfully and wonder
fully made purported counterfeit pre
sentment we would forgive him all his
political transgressions at once. He
may be a boss and a running mate of
Wanamaker, but in tlie event stated
he has all the retribution we could have
the heart to ask in his own household.
At the same time Mrs. Quay is probably
an attractive lady and deserves a better
fate than to be served up in crude
newspaper silhouettes, which very
rarely convey any likeness of the pets m
sought to lie honored.
Los Angki.es is to get 1f460,0(K) addi
tional for her public buildings, and San
Diego also comes in for her share. The
debate accompanying the report in the
Senate yesterday furnishes very agree
able reading lor Angelefios and
Southern Californians. All the Senators
who were out here recently on the sev
eral commissions spoke handsomely of
this section. This gave Senator Hearst
an opportunity, of which he happily
and promptly availed himself, of saying
a number of exceedingly timely and
kindly things about the claims and
growth of Southern California. The
Democratic Senator from this State, al
though he hails from the Norths is a
staunch and powerful friend of Southern
California.
There is a very general feeling
amongst the taxpayer! that the contract
for the building of the interceptor sewers
should be let in small sections, so that
people of moderate means may be
enabled to bid on the work. If bids are
invited in a lump sum there is great
danger that-the workingmen may not
benefit by the construction of the sys
tem to the extent they hope. If the
contract to build the interceptors is
awarded to a single contractor, or to a
combination of contractors, there is a
decided probability that imported cheap
labor may be employed.
The jwpularity of electricity as a motor
is not generally understood. The
Thompson-Houston Electric Company
has ninety-three electric railways in
operation and under contract in this
country. The roads have a total mile
age of 814.95 miles and 1,028 cars. Since
September 15,1889, the increase in roads
constructed has been eighteen, with a
total of 404 cars and 217,54 miles of
track.
THE LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1890.
CAN'T BE HELD BACK.
The commercial traveler, in traversing
the vast region between the Atlantic
and Pacific Coasts, encounters DO city
on his way which shows more vital signs
in all lines of business and development
than Los Angeles. Here and there he
may have struck, a town in the throes of
a real estate excitement, in which the
last purchaser will hold the bag and the
seller will have the game; but, as a
matter of fact, there is not a place on
the American continent today in which
the streets are so crowded as in the
Angelic City, nor is there a city of like
population in which building improve
ments are being Carried on on such a
scale of magnitude, nor, we may add. a
country in which production is being
stimulated in such various lines.
And when this matter is looked into
it is not at all surprising that this should
be the ease. For two years past the
country Iras seen an unusual and febrile
movement of population to Oregon ami
Washington territory — regions which
are undoubtedly destined to a
splendid development. The trains
of the Northern Pacific and Canadian
Pacific railways have been loaded down
with tourists and settlers to those re
gions, in the measure of a boom, for
quite two years. And yet what is there,
outside of a rude plenty, the salmon
fisheries and limited coal mines, to at
tract immigrants to that section ?
When the enthusiastic settler lands in
Oregon—we select that State because it
is furthest advanced in development of
the commonwealths north of San Fran
cisco—he finds that he has dropped
down into a region of almost perpetual
rain—into the temperate zi me equivalent
of the Isthmus of Panama. In the latter
territory it is rain and vaporized re
sumption of rain all the time. The
Oregon farmer nine, months of the year
is up to his knees in mud, and he
ploughs in rubber boots and overalls.
This is the condition of the farmer of
the Willamette Valley who, through
constant cropping in wheat for twenty
live or thirty years, has reduced the
yield of his land in that cereal to about
twelve bushels, to the, acre. Notwith
standing such drawbacks, and the
fact that from (he beginning of
the century — away back to and
beyond the operations of John Jacob
Astor, which * gave birth to Astoria
—the entrance of the harbor which leads
up to Portland is a death trap, Oregon
has advanced at a splendid rate. Its
people have accustomed themselves to
regard rain, smut, mud and fog as bless
ings in disguise; and, with the assist
ance of the red apple and wheat, in con
nection with the salmon canneries, Port
land bids fair to be a metropolis, with
Seattle, Spokane Falls and Taeoma
trooping in her rear almost as able
bodied as herself, the whole batch of
promising towns rejoicing in almost the
most execrable climate on the face of the
I earth.
The contrast which Los Angeies pre
sents to these candidates for local, trans
continental and international favor is
striking in the extreme, and when we
say Los Angeles we of course refer to the
more favored portions of Southern Cali
fornia as well. That our own attractions
have been great is shown by the fact
that in tlie last decade we have
grown at a rate which has given
the City of the Angels a greater
population than Portland, Tacorna,
Seattle. Spokane Falls and Port Town
send put toget her, with margin enough to
take in Sacramento or San Jose beside.
Of course there is an explanation for this
magical growth.
First, we have climate. The Riviera
of Italy is admittedly inferior in climatic
attractions to Los Angeles. The medi
cal department of the United States
Army is on record to that effect, and the
meteorological records of the Signal Ser
vice prove it without ihe need of learned
medical disquisition.
In the second place, in a comparison
of relative advantages, Los Angeles has
a railway system absolutely unap
proached on the Pacific Coast. We
already have two transcontinental rail
ways with termini here, the Santa Fe
and the Sunset routes; and can avail
ourselves, through these two roads, of
all the ramifications ol the Atlantic and
Pacific and Texas Pacific railways, and
are withal as fully a terminus of the
Central and Union Pacific systems as is
San Francisco. In addition, within two
years at the outside, we shall have
the Utah Central with a termi
nus on our splendid expanse of ocean,
with a branch of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway—Jay Gould's pet west
ern transcontinental road—to prevent
the others from feeling lonely.
In addition to incomparable cli
mate, unapproached railway facilities,
unsurpassed harbor advantages and a
geographical location suggestive of illimit
able possibilities,this city is the center of a
mining section which, when even partially
developed, will recall the splendid treas
ure output of the Comstock lode in its
palmy days. Iron, copper, lead, tin, and
' numerous other ores abound in unlim
-1 ited quantities within a short radius of
this city, plainly pointing out Los An
geles as one of the great smelting and
manufacturing , centers of the future.
The completion of the Utah Central
branch of the Union Pacific railway will
give us the cheap fuel needed for utiliz
ing these manufacturing resources, and
we may reach this desideratum sooner
through the development of the petro
leum which underlies the whole of this
section, and which is already being ex
ploited in Los Angeles county alone to
the amount of several millions of dollars
yearly.
Getting down to the products of the
soil, Los Angeles produces everything of
value on the face of the carth —wheat
more bountifully than Oregon or Wash
ington, corn in larger measure as to the
acre than Illinois or lowa, apples more
abundantly than Michigan or Ohio,
peaches more reliably than Delaware or
New Jersey, and a range of the other
deciduous fruits greater than any half
dozen of the Eastern States combined.
To these we add the olivo ; pomegran
ate, orange, lemon, lime and a hundred
other specialties of the semi-trwvfeal and
sub-tropical climes. Our wines and
brandies are already of world-wide fame.
It is impossible to keep such a coun
try lwek. Los Angeles, from 11,300
people by the census of 1880, has already
increased to 80,000, and that fact w ill be
disclosed by the census of ISIIO, and
even a greater population. The own
ing of the twentieth century will see
this cjjy with a population of 260,000
souls. It is absolutely impossible to
keep such a country back. It would be
just as feasible to arrest the tides or the
roll of the earth around (he sun.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENGLISH SYN
DICATES.
The American people have been some
what stupelied at the magnitude of the
investments oi English syndicates in the
industries of the United States. A New
York Murnal has devoted special atten
tion to the details of lb is eccentric move
ment, and has ascertained that in the
comparatively brief period covered by it
$208,(10,000 have been placed in the
leading cities of the United States.
Englishmen were ready purchasers of
our securities during the war. and they
made titrge money as a result, but this is
an entirely different proposition. Then
the investor knew that a great nation
was behind our bonds, and his confi
dence was encouraged by the mobiliza
tion of great armies and the glamour of
frequent Union victories. Before he
could lose his money the republic would
have to be dismembered; and even then,
in the adjustments following the war,
he was certain of protection to
some '"extent at least. I'.ut the
present movement of British capital
is absolutely without guarantee 0f any
kind. .Much of It has been placed in
breweries, and the adoption of a prohib
itory law in any of Un? States which
have been the theater or English in
vestments would absolutely annihilate
this capital without recourse. The (acts
are patent to every one, but only a
single ■ journal, The Age of Steel, has
undertaken to give the philosophy of
this new English departure. It says
that ihe mania for the investment of
English capital this Bide of the Atlantic
has a deep and profound significance.
It is something more than financial
speculation and personal enterprise.
When money has to leave home and mi
grate for investment, it is logically evi
dent that it is idle or risky where ;i is,
and seeks a wider and more prospective
outlook.
The migration of British gold in a con
fession of industrial and commercial
change, ami the rising of a new nation
to supremacy.
Europe today is standing on a volcano.
The final explosion is ainjtplya matter of
time, or some precipitating event. On
that eruptive occasion, it will he a
matter of revolution in the methods Of
government. The people are coming to
the front, and the rights, both social
ami industrial, long denied, will he the
momentous consideration.
ln England the symptoms are beyond
question:; They are cropping out in all
directions, and their eventuality can he
anticipated without a guess or query.
Public opinion in England is slow and
certain on vital questions. The people
are conservative in the processes of de
velopment, but never retrograde when
once a Certain idea has crystallized into
a national conviction. It lias reached
its present freedom by degrees, and what
it has of that precious article it holds
tenaciously. No nation in Europe is on
par with Britain in its present status of
freedom, security and sacredness of
individual conscience, and tltere is
no immediate need of governmental
change, but so much the more
absolute certainty of its being realized
when demanded. The progress of the
masses in intelligent conception of po
litical and industrial justice will place
them everttually at ihe head of European
advance in these directions, but the
music of change has no charm for timid
and suspicious capital, and its migra
tion is a confession of its apprehension,
Add to this the conviction of the mod
ern Shylock that commercial suprem
acy is changing hands, and you can
read his reasons in his investments.
The balance of power and the star of
empire are moving westward* Com
merce gravitates to the largest load
stone, and Great Britain must eventu
ally surrender its commercial royalty to
a hemispherical nation. The establish
ment of republican government is here
lan unprecedented success, in its prom
| ise of perpetuity and iis basis of truth
and justice. Capital is not timid in
such conditions of security, and it is an
| indication of faith in government and
future on the part of English investors
that they are shipping their gold across
the Atlantic.
BASEBALL.
Two Games Played by Amateur
Nines.
The Star amateur baseball nine of this
city paid a visit lo Norwalk yesterday
afternoon, and after a hotly-contested
game with the Artesians, carried off the
laurels of victory with a score of 10 to 7.
The feature of the game was the bat
ting of McCrea and Pauly for the Stars,
to whose wielding of the sticks the vic
tory was due, in a great measure. The
fielding of the local team was especially
worthy of notice, and though the Arte
sians made a game struggle, they were
outplayed by their opponents in every
particular. The score by innings was as
tollows:
INNINGS.
I£3iS f 7 8 «
Stars 1 0 3 » 0 IS O 1 0— 10
Aitesiuns 002101 - 1 (1— 7
The Stars, who have for some time
past shown with suclr brilliancy as to
eclipse all their amateur brothers"on the
diamond, have never since their organi
zation, tasted the bitter dregs of defeat,
and are now open to a challenge from
any non-professional club in the State,
and are anxious#to hear from some of their
more ambitious brethren in the near fu
ture.
The Young Quicksteps defeated the
Bonnie Braes yesterday, by a score of X)
to 1, and challenge any club whose mem
bers aie under thirteen years of age.
A WISE DEBATE.
The Senate Awaked to Cali
fornia's Claims.
Some Eye-Openers for Hasten
Pessimists.
A g300,006 Appropriation Voted for
Sun IMeir/n.
The Practical Result Of Visits f'.-oin East
ern Senators—Senator Hearst's
Happy Remarks.
associated Press Dispatches. ]
Washington, March Tl. —The Senate
took np the calendar. The first bill
reached was one, appropriating $800,000
(or a public building at San Diego. Sher
man suggested that that was a large ap
| propriation; he had been in San Diego
a short time ago, and il was then a com
paratively small place. 1( there was any
special reason for such a large appro
priation, he would like to know it.
Stanford, chairman of the committee
on public buildings and grounds, stated
that San Diego had a population of
40,0iK>, and the building was to accom
modate the custom house, international
revenue office and land office, as well as
the postoffiee.
Ingalls inquired as to other appropria
tions made for public buildings in Cal
ifornia at the present session.
Stanford was not prepared to furnish
the information asked, but referred
Ingalls to the proper department.
1 Ingalls said this answer was rather
vague. He wanted to ascertain in re
gard to all these bills whether the build-
I jugs were needed, and what appropria-
I tions ought to be made fat tUtUJ, There
was a general complaint, he said, in the"
j press, that the appropriations for public
buildings was exorbitant and extrava
gant. He submitted that the Senators
were entitled to information before be
ting culled upon to vote large sums; he,
| therefore, repeated his request for in
formation.
Stanford said if the Senator wanted a
detailed report, he (Stanford) would
furnish it to him ; but could not do so
j from memory.
Sher/man said all he desired was to
1 have a general rule applied to public
buildings. Three or four public build
ings were asked for in Ohio, but he
thought $100,000 the largest appropria
tion allowed for them in such towns as
Dayton and Springfield. He wanted to
see a fair divide.
Spooner, a member of the committee
on public buildings and grounds, said
t»he propriety of the appropriation for
San Diego w as not affected by the appro
priations for other places in California.
The Senator from California (Stanford)
brought the attention of the committee
tii facts which he could not now recall in
detail, and satisfied the committee that
the appropriation for San Diego, a place
rapidly growing in importance, was not
t&O large. The cost of a site there would
i absorb a Considerable portion ot' the ap
propriation. San Diego was within tif
j tf-en utiles of the Mexican border, and
i was, therefore, an important place in
connection with tbe customs revenue.
California's Remarkable Growth.
Piatt spoke of the recent remarkable
growth of San Diego and other towns in
Southern California, which Eastern men
could hardly comprehend. The Sena
tors might as well understand that this
was a great country and had great needs.
San Diego was a very important place j
its business was increasing rapidly. In
many growing Western towns public
I buildings had been appropriated for,
bin before completed they were found lo
Ire entirely inadequate. He instanced
Los Angeles as a case of that kind, and
said Southern California had so grown
in population since the last appropria
tion that Congressman Vandever, ils
representative in the House, now repre
sented a constituency of about 500,000,
If San Diego increased in the same ratio
in ihe next ten years, the building pro
vided (or it in the bill will not be large
enough.
Spooner said the bill as introduced
provided (or an appropriation of only
(200,000; that lie had referred the mat
ter to the supervising architect of the
I treasury, and that official recommended
an appropriation of !f500,000.
Morgan said six years ago San Biego
had not more than 4,000 inhabitants,
while now it had 36,000 or 40,000. It
was a remarkable instance of expansion,
enterprise and industry; its houses were
on a magnificent scale, and the city's
surroundings were beautiful; the harbor
was something to excite the pride of
Americans. Its harbor not only admit
ted the very largest ships and steamers
on the Pacific, but was perfectly land'
locked.
Stanford withdrew his suggestion to
let the bill lie over till Monday. He
thought the Senate was now prepared to
pass it.
Hearst Makes a Tenstrlke.
Hearst said he was glad to know that
the many Senators who had visited Cali
fornia last year had brought away such
good impressions of it. He spoke of San
Diego as .having a beautiful harbor, and
said its population and industries were
growing very fast. It was a railroad
center, and was becoming a military
depot, being only fifteen miles from the
Mexican line. He would not have
spoken of the growing importance of San
Diego as the Senators had spoken
of' it today, lest it might be sup
posed he was "bulldozing the Senate."
He regarded himself as "the silent man
of the Senate" (laughter), but while he
was up he wanted to say his colleague
and he intended to present to the Senate
this session their claims for public build
ings all over the State of California.
They intended lo do it honestly; they
did "not intend when they wanted only
$100,000 to ask for *.'soo,ooo, but they ex
pected to get every dollar they asked.
They expected to show that they were
entitled to it, and they would prove it
by every Senator who had been to
California last year, and he thanked
goodness there had been a good lot of
them there and some of the best of
them. fLaughter.]
Si»n Francisco's Disgrace.
Continuing, Hearst said he expected
tousk for a postoffiee in San Francisco;
to ask a large sum for it, and to have
the Senate vote for it. They had put
up with a temporary building there, a
sort of a shed that had to be propped
up. for the last forty years. They had
trtyd to get along with it, but it was
down in the mudflats, in a dark part of
the town, where no lady would venture
at night, and would hardly venture in
daytime- tie would venture to-say that
BO Senator who had visited San Fran
cihco had been driven to see the post
office as one of the sights ot the city.
Mitchell remarked that the postoffiee
at San Francisco was a disgrace to the
city and nation.
Hearst—Of course it is.
The five minutes allowed for debate
having expired, unanimous consent was
given Hearst to continue his remarks,
but he did not avail himself of the privi
lege only saying: "Well, go ahead and
pass tin bill ;1 « have plenty of time
to talk on the other bills that are
o iming."
Dawes Gives the West Its Dues.
Daucs said that of all the appropri
ations for public buildings that had come
before the Senate, there was hardly one
more just than that for San Diego. It
wm one of the three most important
harbors on the Pacific Coast. These
three were San Diego, at the extreme
southwest of California; San Francisco
and l'uget sound.
Mitchell—And Portland, Oregon.
Daw cs —Portland is not on the Pacific
coast, but it is a very important place,
and tiiere is every justification for a pub"
lie building there. The debate has taken
a wide range, but 1 think it is a wise
debate. 1 think there is occasion for us
to consider more carefully how far we
will extend these public buildings. That
they have got to go more largely in the
West and less in the Fast those of us
from the East are unfortunately com
pelled to admit. Nothing so amazes an
Eastern man as to travel West and
see the immense development there.
But the difficulty with the public build
ing reports is thai they go so largely on
the idea of partition; it is nothing else;
it is a most difficult thing for the com
mittee on appropriations to lose sight of
the idea of partition, and to confine
itself to the absolute merits of the case.
Stanford —I have never known a mem
ber of the committee on public build
ings to attempt, to gain anything for his
Locality that was not based on the pub
lic! interests, and the committee has
made that the controlling idea in de
termining the amount of the appropri
ation.
Ingalls Justifies Himself.
Ingalls said there was an impression
in {he public mind, and which he had
derived from reading the newspapers,
that the appropriations on (he river and
harbor bills and bills for public build
ings, went by favor, and that large ap
propriations had been made for which
there was no Apparent justifica
tion. Public attention had been
called lepeaiedly to (he fact that
after the formal business of the Senate
was over, the session had been contin
ued, and With far less than a quorum
present, bills were taken up, read hastily
and passed without a report being read
and without the slightest discussion,
and millions and millions of appropria
tions had thus been piled up without
any reason being given why the bills
should have been passed. The debate
today had been instructive and advan
tageous. It had justified the action of
the committee on the pending bill,
which, without explanation given, would
have gone into the same category as
those which had preceded it. He be
lieved the Government of the United
States ought never to be a tenant forthe
premises it occupied, but wherever there
was Government occupation there
should be Government ownership.
It would be, he said, an object
lesson in patriotism if, in every
town and village in th© republic there
was * place, large or small, from which
every day the Aug of the republic should
fly as aii indication that (here was a
visible presence of the majesty and
power of (he Government. He had
been in favor of liberal appropriations
for public buildings, and should be glad
to support a measure that would pro
vide tor a postoffiee building wherever
the Government had occasion lo hire
buildings. He condemned, however,
the practice that had grown upon extra
vagance and co-extravagance and costli
ness in public buildings, and cited as a
model the appropriations for buildings
for the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, for the Pension Bureau and for the
National .Museum.
The ism Pasted,
Al the close of the discussion the bill
was passed.
Blair introduced another educational
bill, and it was referred to the commit
tee on education and labor.
Among the bills on (he calendar
passed were the following: To confirm
to the City of Buffalo, Wyoming, certain
lands occupied for school purposes; ap
propriating $80,000 for a lighthouse at
St. .Mary's island, Alaska; to establish
two additional land offices in the State
of Montana.
Altogether there were fifty bills
passed, most of them private pension
bills.
Adjourned.
House Proceedings.
Washington, March 22.—The House
today passed the bill authorizing the
Secretary of (he Interior to negotiate for
the sale to the United Stales of the west
ern part of the Crow Indian reservation
in Montana.
The bill repealing the timber culture
law was also passed.
At 2 o'clock public business was sus
pended and addresses were delivered by
various members in eulogy of the late
Representative Gay, of Louisiana, after
which as an additional mark of respect
the House adjourned.
Railroad Disasters.
Kansas City, March 22.—A Timet
Brookville, Kan., special says: A pas
senger train on the Union Pacific was
ditched near here this evening, the rails
spreading. Only the sleeper remained
on the track. Four are reported killed
and several injured. The wires are
down, and information is hard to get.
Brookville is fifteen miles west of the
Colorado State line.
Winnipeg, March 22. —It is just learned
that there was a serious accident on the
Gait road, last Wednesday, near Duns
moor. A heavy train struck a snow
drift, and was" derailed. Several pas
sengers were badly injured, and all
traffic on the road was suspended.
Portage, N. V., March 22.—8y a head
end collision tonight between a passen
ger and freight train on the Western
New York and Pennsylvania railroad,
Engineers "Warner and Stout were badly
scalded, and Brakemcn Riley and Olsen
and a fireman named Hughes, killed.
An unknown man from Rochester had
both legs ground off, and a passenger
received fatal injuries. Conductor God
frey was badly hurt.
General Schenck Dying. % .
Washington, March 22.—General Rob
ert C. Schenck,' ex-United States Min
ister to England, is lying very low with
pneumonia. General Schenck i« so
years old, and it is feared will not re-
cover. •'■ ■ ,' ' •'•
AKnlgned.
Toledo, March 22.—C. If. Whittaker
& Go., hardware, assigned today, with
liabilities $100,000, and assets somewhat
less.
PARTY LINES.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle Deftnes
the Democratic Position.
The Republicans' Schemes for
Stealing; Power.
What the Federal Election Bill Means
If Enacted.
The Democrats Opposed to the Iniquitous
Measure—Tariff Reform Still the
Great Issue.
associated Press Dispatches.]
Washington, .March 22.—The .SVji-
Qtuette ol this city tomorrow publishes
an interview with ex-Speaker Carlisle
on the attitude of the Democratic Repre
sentatives toward several important
measures pending before the House.
In the interview Carlisie|first attacked
the Lodge bill providing for federal reg
ulation of elections for Representatives.
He says: "The Democrats in the House
are a unit in opposition to the first clause,
which in practice would make the bill
operate only in certain sections of the
country. If we are to have such a law,
it should operate everywhere alike and
not he left, as the Lodge bill leaves it, to
operate here and there as may be re
quested by a given number of voters in
this or that Congressional district. The
intention is, in other words, to control
the machinery of elections for Repre
sentatives in- Congress from Southern
Congressional districts and not from
North- crn districts. This we shall
op] lose."
Continuing, Mr. Carlisle said : "It is
estimated that to carry out the provis
ions of the bill, would require the em
ployment of 80,000 officers of election, at
an expense of from $10,000,000 to $15.
--000,000 every two years, which would
have to be met by the United States
treasury. If the Australian system is
adopted as iiroposcd, it would neeesifK
tate U V !lt *t increase in the number of
polls. Then, too, the bill is so complex
that its requirements could never be
made clear to the illiterate voters, or to
the ignorant Republican election officers
in the South, and a legal election would
be impracticable. The bill would be a
prolific source of innumerable contests,
and," continued Carlisle, with great em
phasis, "that is just what they want.
They could take advantage of every ir
regularity that might and will arise un
der this multifarious law."
He contended that the bill did not
come within the meaning of the clause
of the Constitution conferring upon
; Congress the right to prescribe the
manner of elections. It deprived the
| (mvernor of the right, to issue certifi
cates of election, and, in fact, took away
from the State all control of elections,
Carlisle further said the McComas bill •
providing that elections for Representa
tives shall be held in the districts as
they were constituted at the last elec
tion, is open to the name objection.
In conclusion, Carlisle said while the
extravagant expenditures of the' party
in power and the proposed partisan laws
were important questions, they would
not be the overtopping issues of the fall
campaign, but that the great question
would continue to be the relief of the
people from unnecessary taxation by
tariff laws.
NKGKOES ARMING.
A Methodist Minister's Forebodings on
the Itaee Question.
Carlisle, Pa., March 22.—Excitement
ran high here today after the arrival of
the papers containing an account of a
sensational speech delivered by Rev.
George Cray, of Chicago, before
! the Methodist conference in reference
!to the arming of the negroes in the
I South. The clergyman was seen this
I afternoon and asked if such was his
I statement before Ihe conference. "Un-
I doubtedly," he said, and the words
uttered are true. The information
came from a reliable source. 1
jam assured that the colored men
are applying for arms to be used in
their defense when an emerge: cy may
arise. Perhaps this is in-some measure
due to the recent outrages perpetrated
in that section upon them. Rifles have
been sent from Chicago to certain sections
in the South, and for all t know this
has been going on for some time."
"Then you think the country is
menaced?"
"That is what I mean. This country
is to an extent more than believed in
danger from these people. It is ah;
owing to the Southern black man's il
literacy. This is the only cause to which
I assign it and for this state of affairs
the North is culpable as well as the
South. lam a peace man and have not
made this statement, to embitter sec
tional strife. This is a national viues
tion, although located in the Soiiiflern
States. , ,
A SOLID INSTITUTION
Satisfactory Progress of the National
Bank of California
The National Hank of California in
Los Angeles is in the elegupt.Buxdick
block, at the corner of Spriug ami Sec
ond streets. The offices are the most
complete for the purposes in the city.
But that is not Vhat oiut. wants to say.
It is the business of the bank that the
public are interested in. The Hank is a
new one; about a year since it opened
its doors. A new report of its condition
has been in the Hekamj, for v few days
past whose figures must be both flatter
ing to the managers of the institution
and reassuring to the public. The re
sources have already climbed up to the
very handsome sum of nearly half a
million. The bank has $103,4<i8.79 on
deposit. What is the secret of so much
prosperity in times so dull as these? The
answer is simple enough. Tlie man
agers of this institution are men of'ex
perience iv their business. There is
more banking ability in tlie directorate
of this concern by a hundred per cent,
than is generally found in banks -of
many times the/ age of this, or of many
times its e.apitaly A conservative policy,
founded on the' ripest sort of experience,
cannot fail to make a bank |>opular and
prosperous, and such is the policy of the
National Bank of California, of Los An
geles. '
Postponed.
The meeting of tlie Central and North- .
em California Press Assocjation has ;
been postponed on account of wet
weather and high water until March
31st. ' ; '
