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4 THE DAILY GLOBE PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT THE GLOBE BUILDING, conNEKKoorrn and CED Alt STBKETS. »T. PAUL GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION RATE Daily iKct Ikclupikg Si^bat.i I vr in advance.SS o'> I 3 m in adyauce.S2.o'J li in in advance. 4 OO 1 ti weeks in adv. 1 OO One month. T**-*©* daily anu maausc. ___« 3vr in Bdv-nccSIOOO I 3 mos. in adv.. s2 SO bm in advance. 5001 i> weeks in adv. 100 One m0nth . ... . . Soe, KIWI ALOSE. 1 rr Iv advance.. s-00 1 3 mos. In adv.. .oOe B m in advance.. 1W 1 1 m. in advauce.'iOc Tbi-Wekkly- (Daily— Monday. * Wednesday and Friday.) , * . I}r in advance. .? 400 |»> mo. in adv.,s- vQ 3 mouths in advance $1 OU. '.__• TTTy. -WEEKLY BT. PAUL GLOBE. Cue Aear. 81 i six mc.. use | Three mo.. Rejected communications cannot be pre itntd. AcdictsallletierK and telegrams to THE GLOBE; St. Paul. Minn. Eastern Advertising Ofiice--Room 517 Temple Court Building, New York. WASHING-ION BUREAU,* MCB F ST. NW. Complete fit h of the Gloie ftlwayskept o" baud ler reference. Patrons friends nre cordially iuvittd to visit themselves of the ln-:ilities of our Eastern OBices while " in New York and -Washington. ggj A woman* has been elected mayor of Pleasanton, Kan. That must be a pleas ant town to live in. _«_ The vote of the house of representa tives in lavor of free wool indicates that it will no longer be possible to pull the wool over the eyes of the sheep-raisers, as has been dove iv the past, ** -tm Many parts of Nebraska were visited by a violent earthquake Wednesday, it is reported, but the commotion may have been due. to the breaking out of Populist Allen in a few new spots. «<_»_ Although the new government bonds now being issued by the secre tary of the treasury do not bear a high rate of interest, they will be eagerly sought by tiiose wlio desire security that is above suspicion. — * — Ax Indiana woman has been sent to tlie insane asylum simply oecause she declared that it was ordained that she should marry the local minister. As lie was neither young, handsome nor rich, her insanity was apparent, and the jury lost no time in committing her. - — **■** Senator Ho Ait is not a believer in the doctrine that to the victors belong the spoils. It was all right as long as the Republicans were in control of the appointments, but now that the Demo crats are dispensing patronge, it is a horse of a different color. The national Dairy association de mands au increase of the tax on oleo margarine. Such a tax would tend to a reduction of the price of hogs, to which breeders will decidedly object, and a conflict will ensue that will prove both interesting and instructive. The Chicago health commissioner says that as long as a small-pox patient ran walk there is no danger of his sommuuieating the disease to others. "Notwithstanding this expert opinion, However, the majority of people will prefer to give all such patients a wide Berth. *■»■ Singularly enough, the downfall of Lewis Redwlue, the defaulting cashier :>f a bank at Atlanta, Ga., was. caused by his too frequently, looking upon tiie nine when it is red the cup. He will be more abstemious for the next ten years, as he will spend that time in the penitentiary, where the wine list is not extensive. The Chicago Republicans have finally screwed their courage up to the point of carrying out their threats, freely made a month ago, to contest the election of Mayor Hopkins. The contest, however, will result in nothing. Mr. Hopkins Binudt be unseated, however, for he has uot only a prima facie, but an equi table right to the office. Gov. Watte is not satisfied with hav ing the Colorado legislature on his hands, but wants more trouble. He has called a convention of the wool growers ot the state to consider the Wilson tariff bill. After this convention has freed its mind on the subject, congress will go on as before, paying no attention to Colorado or its crank governor. The cold snap came opportunely for the curling clubs assembled here for their annual tournament, and the braw Scots entered Into the sport with all the zestof their ardent natures. Whatever rink may carry off the honors, all heart burnings will cease over the beef and greens, and all jealousies be washed away by a bowl ot fragrant punch. A POWERLESS COMMITTEE. Whatever the good intentions of some members of the council may be to thoroughly investigate the charges made against Aid. Franklin, it is manifest tothe most cursory observer that its inception was for the purpose of acquittal. In the first place Mr. Frank lin is no longer a member of the council, and that body can no more, legally, investigate his conduct, than they can that of any other citizen, In fact. Assemblyman Light ner, ono or the prominent attorneys of the city, conceded last night that the joint committee had no power to compel the attendance of witnesses, or to com pel them to respond if present . The bombastic stump speech, hen oratory of Counselor |Townley shows conclusively . that he has been em ployed by his client to throw dust in the eyes of the public by his fan faronade. His demand for an investiga tion, coupled with threats that other hearts would ache; that if .bis client was guilty others must be equally so, was merely the swash of a cunning attorney for the purpose of intimidating wit nesses. lt'is not a question of bribery, but of an official levying tribute upon public officers in return for doing or failing to do an official act. One mau can be guilty of blackmail. The person upon whom the levy is made may be foolish to submit, but his submission is not a legal offense on his part. If parties went to Mr. Franklin and offered to bribe him, that should be de veloped, and then the able legal hen ar gil ment of Mr. Townley will come in play. So far that is not the charge, and when two hens appear upon the scene it will be time to consider- that situa tion. T'-^< : -y At present there only "one hen on," If we may be permitted to use the classic v legal phraseology of CounselorTowuley. But, of course, a committee with no powers, however good Its intentions, will discover nothing of moment. Fortunately, there is a body — the grand jury— which- has * some I. legal powers in the premises. That body can compel the attendance of witnesses, and compel the answering of questions, the law wisely protecting the witness from 1 having, his -answers used; as iucrlm iuating testimony against himself. . The- grand jury '-", can discover the truth/. . .- - .■ * . ;. ;*-■•■ -.*'. .:. ".:. ■•. , . The council ; committee can discover nothing save by the accident of willing and voluntary witnesses. • -..'. ~ Tho Globe trusts that the report that the vital witnesses: have been sum moned to . appear before the grand jury on the 29th is correct. *. c Mr. .Townley and his hen will not cut much of a figure before that body. • It would bo sad Indeed r If -Mr. Townley 's hen should lay au egg in the council chamber. >v'^ — ***** TUB BOND ISSUE. -.*-': i Secretary Carlisle has decided that he is authorized by the act of 1875 to issue bonds.; to maintain the greenback re demption fund, which lias been reduced by redemption of silver notes and the pay ment of operating expenses far be low the amount set aside for that pur pose. Ty-.-.-'T "'..-.' ":*,;.';: a The opinions known to be held by the secretary make it certain that he lias yielded his judgment in this matter either to Imperious circumstances or to superior authority. He has shared tho opinion held by the major, part of the party, aud paramount among the Demo cratic representatives— that no bonds should be. issued. . •* .. v ."y •''£. lt is known that there has been a con stant pressure emanating from interests of which Wall street is the"* incarnation upon the administration for the. issue of bonds. It bore so hard on the Harrison administration that Secretary Foster had the plates for printing the bonds prepared and arrangements for floating them made. There is a great amount of hoarded money hunting a safe invest ment, and none is so sale as federal bonds. Then the national banking in terests wish more to extend the use of the money which --'has- accumulated In their vaults, for which investment must be found. '■"■'•:•'. .; *-••:'•-*: : 2- ■■'■• > The Globe has opposed this policy, and it is not content to accept it now. It believes that it is not necessary; that other and cheaper methods are at : the com maud of the government. Mr. At kinson suggested; one in the issue of; certificates of debt, payable in one or two years, for the payment of that ■ portion of each pension allowance which represented the arrears of pension!- We believe it would be better far to issue greenbacks redeemable in payment of taxes or to use the silver bullion paid for by treasury notes* redeemed and re issued; and we are clear that it is not good policy to mortgage the revenues for ten years to these bonds until every other possible method had been tried and failed. We agree with Benton Mc- Miliin that a party which in one admin istration redeemed the. bonds at a premium of uearly thirty percent should not, in its next, issue more bonds. Another serious question is the legal ity of the issue. There have been grave doubts of this.and lawyers and the legal advisers of the treasury have been di vided on it. The gold fund was set aside solely tor the redemption of green backs. It has been depleted in part to pay running expenses; treated as ail able assets of the treasury. It is ques tionable if bonds can be issued to any further extent than to replace the gold paid out for redemption purposes. Prior to the stoppage of the retirement of the greenbacks by. the act of 1878, some $30,000,000 of the fund had been used in redemption. If* §04,000,000 re main, it is all that is needed to satisfy the object for i.which., , the .fund was,; created. '" It is evident that the issue of" the bonds, has been decided* on under the doubtful authority of the act of 1875 because there has developed an opposi tion in the house which would render the passage of a bond bill impossible. The investigation of the council com mittee in the Franklin case may have to be postponed today to enable Coun selor Townley to attend the poultry convention in Minneapolis. y-.i--j.\^yyy HAWAIIAN FILIBUSTERING. r It is reported that an armed body of Canadian adventurers have rendez voused at Victoria, and will shortly set sail for Honolulu with the purpose of capturing that city and raising the Brit ish flag over the late domain of Queen Liliuokalani. The plan is said to be secretly favored by some of the leading politicians ot the dominion, who are ap parently more plentifully supplied with patriotism than discretion. ' The promoters of this expedition— if it Is really contemplated— must be aware of the penalties they evoke by such ad ventures. Many years ago it was all the rage in this country for restless spirits to lit out expeditions for the capture of Cuba. A number of such expeditions actually set sail, and ; one actually land ed from the Virginius, headed by a fiery young Irishman named Ryan, who had served with distinction in our civil war. The party was captured by the Spanish troops, and every mother's son of them was shot after trial by drum-head court martial. Appeal was made on their be half to the - United States J gov ernment, * but ..neither could their lives be saved* nor could indemnity be recovered. . They- were treated as pirates are treated under the law of nations, and all the world 'approved their punishment. ., Walker and his fil ibusters met a like reception at Nicara gua in 1857. If the Canadian party should invade the soil of Hawaii with the purpose of conquest, they would be exceedingly fortunate If they escaped the fate that befel the American fili busters in Cuba and Nicaragua; and the British government, if it . observed its own traditions, would be the first to ap prove of their execution. There is no doubt that the preseut disturbed condition of affairs in the Hawaiian islands offers a great tempta tion to adventurers from every part of the world. It is thought that the peo ple are practically defenseless. It is true that the native army is small and insignificant, and could offer but. a feeble resistance to invasion. But the foreign population is by no means in significant. Less than two thousand of them are of British birth or sympathize with the British government. The Ger mans, Portugese and Americans, to take no account of the Chinese and Japanese —the latter an Important and influential element of the population— would look upon such an invasion as the one con templated as an assault upon their rights, and would- resist it to the bitter end. An army of five thousand. men would be insufficient to overcome them; a ship's load of imperfectly disciplined adventurers would be swept into the ocean with a rapidity that would cause the world to wonder. The report in question is probably the creation of some sensation-loving cor respondent, or the invention of : some zealous annexationist, who hopes by such means to precipitate ■ aotion ;by the American congress— most. likely the latter. It is not reasonable to suppose that any sensible : official connected with the British or Canadian govern ment would lend countenance to such a scheme, for would be fraught /with extreme hazard. Neither the United States nor Germany could afford to per- : mit such a thing, and would resent it to THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, io')4. the utmost "extremity.'* If "the* plan Is entertained at all,' it is merely the»ex ploit of- Individuals reckless of their own necks, and of -the safety of j those who may become associated with them. The future of Hawaii is yet a matter of speculation. Of one thing the coun try may be assured: "It will never ' be come a dependency of Great Britain, lt is probible that its independence will be brought about and guaranteed by the. United Slates. Our trade relatlous with the islands warrant this much of inter ference in their domestic affairs./ The people, having closer relations with the United Stales than with any otlier coun try, will become more and more assimi lated with us. ~ As a friendly republic, commanding an important strategic and commercial position— the half-way house , between the teeming marts of Asia and those of our own continent— the group, will be of value to, although not a part of our nation. The Canadian filibusters. If they have . an existence, will do well to consider any aggressive - expedition well before undertaking it. Failure would be the inevitable result. ' Their lives would hot be worth an exclamation In the domain of Lucifer. The plan is impracticable and foolish— the exploit of ■ madmen, rather than of human beings endowed with reasoning faculties. ' " . [T[ V BROADEN THAT BASIS. 7* ' The letter in which the chairman of the Democratic state central committee tendered his resignation r from it em phasizes the position taken by the or.i*:, th at the base of the party should be broadened if its uprightness is to be maintained, It also emphasizes .what the Globe has said as to the effects for evil on the fortunes of any party bur dened with the /distribution of federal patronage. t-'sAS-.t - ■ Until some heaven-sent genius comes to give us some better method of filling these offices than . that which now pre vails iv all parties, and .which follows changes of administration either be cause of that or through the operation of natural causes; or until the better time comes when the people will accept . the idea generally that tenure of office should depend only on faithfulness of service, as it does in any other business, tbe distribution of office will be a con stant source of irritation. If good judgement, unselfishness.pub lic-mindedness, wisdom should alone guide the recommendations and ap pointments under the present methods, still friction would be unavoidable; while If personal advantage, or the use of power to reward purely personal services or to punish. offenders, regard less of the public or the party's welfare, be the controlling motive, the irritation is sure to grow into open and disruptive' revolt. t-yTT" -*•* It is the interest and duty of all polit ical organizations to guard themselves against the danger? of such a method of distributing what is aptly aud correctly called the spoils, and to see that the primary purpose of the office is kept constantly in view— the good service of the public Under the present bad sys tem, which makes it necessary that the appointive power shall rely on the rep resentatives of the party for commenda- ] tion of fit appointees, a method practi cally unavoidable now, it is for the, in terests of those representatives, as well as of the parly, that they discharge that responsibility with aiview.to the good of the service, the welfare of the party, and, where it Is possible, only after those immediately concerned have been consulted and their majority wish ascer tained. .'. '"■' .':.' ; The- word "boss" is offensive j to the ears of v every citizen^ Leaders there must bbrase r as long as men-are as unequally endowed as now. but the difference be tween the leader and' the boss is a vast one. The true leader is readily recog nized by his fellows and willingly fol lowed, because his ability and character inspire confidence in him. The leader of men leads because he persuades and convinces them that the course he. ad vises is right and the best. He does not avoid, but he seeks,cousultation'and ad vice. He yields wisely: he resists with persuasion aud argument.: He is more careful to be right than he is to be suc cessful, because he knows that "thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just," because he knows that he who stands on ground rock-laid with right will command the confidence and support of his people. * «L*;L-:'f. : .c] /TtttC ' It.is.for this that we urge the broad ening of the base of our party. We urge that the selection of persons for federal appointments, from the highest in the state to the. lowest, be left to the largest possible number of those interested in the service of the office. Widen out the responsibility. Put the pyramid on its base, not on; its apex. No. one man should dare to assume a right to exercise arbitrary power; ,no admin istration of any party should per mit any one man to. do it if he would; and no party should: permit such a con dition to exist without a vigorous pro test, made, regardless of its effectiveness for any other purpose but to vindicate its own self-respect. We are glad that the state committee has seen the evils inevitably incident to the present con ditions, and has taken the preparatory steps towards correcting them ; and we trust- that the plan of organization which the committee is charged with preparing will be drawn from beginning to end with ; the view of broadening the base of the party by leaving more power and responsibility to the rank and file of the party. . INFAMOUS INSANITY LAW. As bearing upon the infamous law of Minnesota touching the ■ rights of per sons accused of insanity, the case of Mrs. Blaisdell, recently on hearing be fore the supreme court, and reported in the Globe of yesterday, may be cited. Mrs. Blalsdell was committed to the in sane asylum at Fergus Falls under the -provisions of the law, which, it will be borne in mind, gives to a commission of two physicians power to conduct an ex parte examination of the person accused, and, without giving that person an op portunity of defense, commit him or her to an asylum. The judge of the court has no authority under the law to reject absolutely the report of the commission ,' for he is not permitted to hear or con sider the testimony upon which it may be based. If he has good reason to sus pect that undue influences have been employed.he may appoint a second com mission, whose report shall be final ; and here his rights and responsibilities The law of '■■_ 1393, under which , Mrs. Blaisdell was committed, was not called iv question when the ca3a was brought on appeal to the supreme court. The commitment was made under the pre viously existing law, although the proc esses, employed were those autho rized by the later statute, In the present ac tion, however, the constitutionality of ' the law is directly raised, and this will be the issue that the decision will ;be ■ based upon. - . Ttls a matter of grave individual con cern as to whether . or . not our, citizens shall be liable to imprisonment, either in. jails or insane ; : asylums, at ; tba op- j tion of an irresponsible star-chamber tribunal, having no shadow of right to existence under the constitution. 't hat instrument provides that the right of trial by jury shall not be abridged or de; nied -to any citizen. The privilege may b ■•) waived by the person accused, but it 'cannot be arbitrarily taken ;f rom,.hlip". 1 1 also provides that no], person sliall be deprived of his liberty without due proc ess of law. The act of IS'.»3 Is an at- 1 tempt to overturn this constitutional,' 1 safeguard by substituting for tria^'p)^ jury a process not: contemplated by, .*sh_. constitution, and therefore null - aim void. '- ''■':.:' t '.* There is occasion for alarm at tbWUft--'* novation, and to protest against it. |;tt' it is possible to .take;- from persons ac cused of Insanity the right to,b^*jj^.j .amlned in open court-, before a properly ! constituted ( tribunal, it Is also possible to deny the "same right to person^ he-:* cused of crime. There are few medical' men wlio are more capable of discover*!! ing insanity— no .= larger a proportion-,,. than may be found among men of good.i average intelligence In other , prof e_h>i sions. Added, to this is the fact that: the two physicians to whom a case v irra'y 3 be referred may be prejudiced against .the person .accused. And there, ; is a*, still stronger objection- to such a jury. The ethics of the | medical profession; which are as ; unalterable. as the laws of the Medes and Persians T hold that it is the duty of all physicians to stand by each other, and to repel any Insinuations that might reflect upon the conduct or char acter of any member , of the profession Under these circumstances it is not only possible to procure a packed jury, but all peases are certain to be prejudiced. For the, verdict of , one physician who ; has once passed upon the case will be the verdict of a . thousaud. . . The eti quette of the profession requires it. v . *• The two cases referred to sin the Globe— those of Mrs. Blaisdeli, of Fer gus Falls, I and Mrs. Perry, of , Minne apolis the Hoskln case besides.* show to what extent the abuse .of the insanity law may be carried. gj Whether those persons were insane or not has no bearing on the issue. The fact that they; were committed' to an asylum without, trial by jury, and : therefore without due process of law—for the law of 1893 is so manifestly unconstitutional that it does not deserve to be dignified by being called a law— shows that any citizen, no matter what his mental soundness or social standing may be, is liable to be thrust into the company of lunatics, and kept" there Indefinitely at the caprice of an enemy. No citizen is safe so long as ;he has an enemy, and his banishment from the world may be male perpetual. The vilest criminal in the land has greater privileges, which no one dare assail. The insanity law of 1893 is an abound- ; .ing Iniquity, disgraceful alike to our state and .to . the age in .which we live. Its infamies are already manifold. The greatest injustice it has brought is that it has not resulted in the confine ment of its authors in an asylum for the : feeble-minded or the insane. It was manifestly concocted in the Interest of the managers of the so-called "private" hospitals for the insane, which .are noth ing better than prisons, to which per sons possessed of j abundant 1 means aYe ■•* ' kidnaped, and In which they are con fined while dishonest relatives and '-bbslf-v J ness associates plunder their estates j* ' for, under the law, the complainant^ • are permitted to consign them to private' as well as; public 1 institutions for the i care of the demented. .-{y'lr: -"*■•-- sfiy** -■"- Congressmen, it is said, are despond ent because the condition of the public* treasury will restrict appropriations; for 1 - i new public'" works. : The outlook, how- . ever, is riot displeasing to J the taxpay- 1 ers, who have long . been calling for aj* j halt in the extravagance displayed in i ? thi? -direction. A littie economy in such outlays, even if it is enforced economy, _ will be a grateful change. / S V ; : ; : VJt Painter, the Chicago wife murderar, has received a spirit message from the' woman he' so brutally slew, telling hlm that she forgives him freely, and that she is thankful that he hastened her _ entrance to her present blissful state, arid expressing the hope that Gov. Alt geld will commute his sentence to im- • prisonment for life or pardon him en tirely, lt is doubtful if -the governor •can legally entertain the petition from such a source. It would probably be best to teunite : the loving couple as • speedily as possible. r J:;'* 1 ' .FIFTY WERE KILLED. In the Bombardment - of the Bat teries at Nictheroy. j Buenos Ayres, Jan. Ad vises from Rio Janeiro say that the insurgent war ships continued the bombardment of , the batteries at Nictheroy on 1 the night of the 15th and killed fifty of the government forces. The engagement had no decisive result. ;.,',. « | The government forces will make an attempt to capture the island of Viariria with a view to preventing the insurgents from renewing their stores there... It is stated that President Peixoto is becoming suspicious of the fidelity of the government troops. '-. " c According to news from Rio Grande do Sui the insurgents have captured Paranagua, one of the most important ; towns in the province of Parana. : '■'■-.' The Globe Properly Rebuked. . LelSueur News. ....*■ - The St. Paul Globe seems to be de riving a heap of comfort out of its ef forts to belittle the couutry press," ; reason of the fact that several country editors have merely suggested that the city .of Minneapolis, when the time comes for entertaining the State Edi torial association, omit the usual ban quet, and de-rote the funds that would be used for that purpose to the allevia tion of some of the misery and want oc casioned by the hard times. Certainly \ the proposition, -viewed ; In any light,' is : ' a noble ana charitable one, and, if per- ' haps uncalled for, because . unneces sary, the strictures j of- tbe j Globe are equally uncalled for and unnecessary. mm The Conntry • Stands No Chance. -. Le Sueur News. ; <j*r;' ;*- Already politicians of the Twin Cities are 'dealing out prophecies as to wiio. will be elected : United . States senator ' when Washburn's term _\ expires o_e year from now. If Mr. Washburn is not called upon to succeed himself, the entire state outside of the cities "should make common cause In electing a man from the country. "The woods are full" ' of meu qualified in every way to fill the position, but the country member of the legislature does not deem It possible to get a man for the position outside of Minneapolis or St. Paul, and per conse quence the country stands no chance in the race. • : * . ~r • " ■-*..- . . ■**■»» — — Why Not Escape by Resigning. Redwood Gazette. ■. . ;".,,. Mayor Wright wants to be re-elected mayor of St. Paul. He was elected as a reformer. ;* His reform , measures ; have been in the . nature of a farce. If • the : people of -•' St. Paul think as freely as they did when they elected him in 1892, he will be burled under au avalanche of red ballots next spring. :'■■■■ V..-V-J; ... Not the . Proper Caper. Anoka Union, : .'. *.*.- '.'.'-. . \ v. It is hardly the proper caper to crit icise the entertainment furnished by a host The host should be - the lodge of what be should provide,, rather than the guest. - -.-■.' 'J \: '. . ;.-. '"., .. Vy'. I WITH THE TRAVELERS. c- J. H. Kenney, of Moyville, N. D., wr.a a Merchants' guest yesterday. He rep resents the great land linn of . Grindfn - «fc Edwards.'; He is on his", way to New York. r , Mr. Kenney is a newspaper cor-' respondent, as well ; as a real estate: man. and has the Grand ; Forks Herald, j the Fargo Argus and }. the | Minneapolis Journal on Ills staff. He spoke of North Dakota in glowing .terms.: He said: "Last summer a number, of well-to-do farmers sold out their belongings near .Mayville and went 'out* to Silverton. Or., to lake up lauds there. These same people are now 'writing^letters to the effect that they wish they 'could buy back their old farms lv the Red river valley, than whicn-. there are none bet :tesiin tho > world. •..Diversified* farming 1 is quite ;iu | vogue | in \) my section. A number of our "prominent farmers pro pose to put in from '500 to 1,000 acres of .flax this spring, - besides their ' other crops. Some .will put -iv even more than this. -^ . . •". -. "Tiie farmers about Mayville are now agitating the' questiou. of putting iv a creamery at May ville, for which they T can supply nil the-, milk needed. This will, of course, necessitate ,tho buying * of more cattle." . ■*. Trocy R. Bangs, one ; of the leading young Democratic* lawyers of North Dakota, is at the Merchants'.::, Bangs* is; au enthusiastic admirer of Grover Cleve land, and an uncompromising advocate of the Wilsou bill. -No Democrat in North Dakota contributed more than he. :to the defeat of the Republicans in the. last campaign. His arguments were simply vincible, and ■ they were sea-* soned with sarcasm and ridicule to such; an extent as to Keep his;. hearers iv. : an* almost, continuous roar of laughter. His lather, Judge A . 11. /'Bangs, is j remem bered by many of the old Mlhnesotians as one of the brightest lawyers of the old time in Minnesota. . He reports very great improvement in the condition of the public health at. Grand Forks. The change in the weather : is • of - great ad vantage. There are comparatively few new cases, and not many . "of the cases now on the. list are alarmingly. serious. Mr. Bangs tl'inks Judge ..Brooks will ; soon., returu to the *--itatj^ with a land office- appointment, aud believes the administration will soon maKe other im portant appointments from among the faithful ones in North Dakota. The new marshal is acceptable to every interest in the state. -. : ->;; ■Andrew Bicwelt and' Joseph Hare, ; North-Dakota* Democrats, both candi dates for surveyor general of that state; met at St. Paul yesterday for consulta • tion as to the office in question. They friends, and both have the interest or the party at heart, and* the chances are that they will not antagonize each other.but that one or the other will drop -out ot the controversy. Budd. Reeve has an application on 'file, but it lacks tne indorsement; of the senator. J It is said sub . Rosa ■ that" Dr. Purcell signed Budd's recommendation aud was about to present it to Senator Roach for signa ture when complaint was made that •Budd had been too free with his criti cisms.and Purcell scratched his name off, i and returning it to Budd, told him to . "go to," or words to that effect. The , chances appear to be in favor of Blawett, '- who is going on to Washington. He •is accompanied by Anton Klaus, who is a is candidate for the Jamestown postoffice. ilf Hare should decide' ito S recommend (Biewett he will probably take in' the midwinter fair at San Francisco, as his inclinations are drawing in that direc . tion. 'North Dakota. Democrats, are to - be 'commended for. one thing: They intend to fight out whatever differences they -may have at home, even if they , have to give up some the twenty-one departmental "positions., at Washington ! they are-entitled to in order to fill their quota. * '_ "■ '* . ''"' IN THE THEATERS. ».- ■. — *..-■- . .. ■ Eugene Tompkins'^corapaiiy, in the big spectacle, "The Black Crook," will give but. three more performances at the Metropolitan opera house— tonight, tomorrow matinee and night. The mat inee tomorrow will be played at reduced prices for the * special benefit of ladies and children who desire to see this grand production; •* This will be the last appearance of "The Black ' Crook" in this city this winter. ' . - : . : . . ..*•* Theodore BoUmaun's German com ■ pany will give their thirteenth subscrip tion performance at the Metropolitan opera liouse Sunday -evening,' present ing the great j German comedy success, j "The Lockup." Seats and boxes for this performance can now be secured at the box office. : - '"■.' **,'. . '.". .'*.......,-,■ ■-.-■'- • •■*" *'* * '* " -."'-T-ifT' Chauncey Olcott, who has been se lected by Augustus Pitou as poor W. J. Scanl'au's successor, is as handsome a young fellow as one might wish to meet on a summer's day. He was -born iv Buffalo of Irish parents ; about; thirty years ago, and v< hen ouly sixteen years old, at the commencement exercises of St. Joseph's parochial school, where he was studying for "holy orders," he at tracted the attention of -'Uncle Dick Hooley," who engaged him to | sing in first parts of minstrel . entertainments. Later he joined Emerson at San Fran cisco,* and the next season he joined Thatcher, Primrose and West's, tour ing the country advertised as the boy "with the phenomenal voice." He next joined an opera company that was about to produce "Pepita." The young tenor was engaged by. Teddy Solomon to sup "port Lillian. Russell, continuing in the same capacity., with this fair prima donna under McCaull's and Duff's man agement. For two years past Mr. Olcott : hae been a London favorite, having .* created the part of Patrick O'Flahnlgan, the Hibernian Admiral and Hi span Toreador, in "Miss De ciuia." as "Miss Helyett" is -entitled abroad. Mr.Olcott in "Mavourneen" will be the /attraction at the Metropolitan opera house all next week with the 'usual matinees. -.; A feature will be made of the Wednesday ; matinee of "Mavour neen;" the prices for this performance will be. made lower than it has ever been .played at the Metropolitan* during the regular season. " Fifty cents will- be j charged for the. best seats on the lower 'floor and 25 cents for the balcony. > • -y - - - • * W * '■ The "Devil's Auction," j wltb * its prettty girls, its marches and dances iiand many specialty features, continues to do excellent business at the Grand. The equalities that commend this perform ance to the amusement 'seeker are its varied and i rapidly changing scenes, all of which are full of novelty. Utile ; Miss Columbia is without a doubt the bit of the performance, as she is a little .wonder. . "-■.'-■•■■•■• »'»'-_■ *-■--■.. l On Sunday night Hallen and Hart will be seen at the Grand in "The Idea." Fun of a fresh and J sparkling quality will be on tap, and it will be distributed to the public in large quantities by those well-known farcical entertainers. Hal len , and Hart : ". they . stand jat . the I top of - '■' the list .* of this kind of players ; for ; their originality and cleverness, and they have a baud ot as sociates this season who are said to compare most favorably with the prin cipals in individual merit. in this list of adepts *; at the merry art are J. Aid- i rich, Libby, Al " Wilson, ; Carrie De Mar, Margaret J La Mar, -. Florence • Holbrook, : Albert Hawthorne, v and -Fanny Blood good. The performance is one of most excellent merit, from - all ) reports, : and the' Grand should enjoy a -week of laughing prosperity. : %•$ ;,*• £ ■__%■ vS..>«'>j,i**j Do the Senators Employ .'Era? Anoka Union. ■ '-- /"^ Z t- ' : •* It begins to look -as.' though some of the Washington correspondents were in ] : employ of some United " States sen- I ator wbo desire a reflection. HORNBLOWER'S REJECTION. Mr. Hornblower lias been silenced, but his friends have sounded a bugle blast of wai.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Hornblower will not sit oil the su preme bench. "■ Score another knock-out for. Grover and the Mugwumps.—Cleve land Leader. • " V ; -'.It is notorious that the nomination was rejected because Mr. Hornblower. had ; made David B. Hill ' his enemy.— New York Times. •■'. ■'-*•'. .'• DThe rejection of the name of Judge Hornblower, nominated for the supreme bench-shows* that the* United States senate is a political rather than a legis lative body.— Chicago Dispatch. We may fairly infer that Senator Hill and the .senators 'who- voted with him believe that it is the "prerogative" of senators to be consulted before nomina tions aro made.— Louisville Courier- Journal. ;• •-"*•.■•- . :*--'.. ; After Senator Hill's experience in the championship of Maynard's unrighteous claims injudicial nlace, it Is rather re markable to find him calling iuto ques tion the -' qualifications of 'a', man like Hornblower.'— Washington Star. . The rejection of William B. Horn blower. by the United' States senate would seem to indicate that the long threatened rupture between the Demo cratic piesident and the Democratic senate has finally taken' place.— Albany Journal. '■:"■-. z r Mr. Hill has convinced the 'president that the senate has still a prerogative in the matter of candidates lor high public station. Having done so. we think that lesser nominations will be acted upon, and in ail proper cases favorably.— Buffalo Times. ' • Undoubtedly this was meant as a check upon the personal j power of the president, and the senate would be false to its obligations if it failed to subject nominations to the closest scrutiny and to act independently when occasion ; re quires.—New York World. The rejection '. by the • senate of the nomination of Mr. Hornblower . was undoubtedly due in- the main to the jealous resentment and machinations of the New York senators, whose opinions and personal interests had been ignored in the selection.— Boston Traveller. Mr. Cleveland is not the only presi dent -- whose, nominee to the supreme court . has failed to find senatorial ap proval, by any means. Nor is Mr. Horn blower. with all his excellent qualities, the only man in the East worthy to wear the silk robe of high judicial station.— Boston Globe. . Mr. Hornblower Is defeated, the result of a combination of Republicans of. the. kind that Chandler can influence and of Democrats of the kind that Dave Hill can influence. It is a disgraceful com bination, and one that denotes the low boss of tone that pervades our public affairs.— lndianapolis News. , -f.-.'- Mr.Cleveland should now lose no time in making another nomination. Already the vacancy on the supreme bench has existed more than three months, with no little detriment to the public in terests. It is important that it be filled at once, and there can be no excuse for failure to do so.— New York Herald.* '*' Of his qualifications for . the office of supreme court justice there is only one opinion among tlie well informed, but he had committed the unforgivable of fense of * opposing Isaac 11. May nard. Mr. Hornblower comes out of this af fair more creditably than his enemies, and his good name' has nut suffered.— -New York Tribune. . . \ Hornblower was not worth a fight and a humiliating defeat for the administra tion. " When" so many great public aud party ends call for harmony and active co-operation between Democrats it is a shame for the administration and Demo cratic senators to be snarling and wast ing energy over patronage squabbles.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. • By an .adverse majority rtf six the senate has rejected the nomination. of ■Judge; Hornblower to the supreme bench. In doing so it has furnished fuller proof though, assuredly, no ad ditional evidence was needed to estab lish the point— that the. public Interest is likely to kick the. beam-when it J is weighed against the "courtesy of the senate."— Boston Herald. ../:.;■::*;-'; ' So far as the public is interested in the Hornblower case,* it may be said that no damage has been done. While Mr.. Hornblower .is an unexceptionable gentleman, it .cannot:' he truthfully urged that he compares favorably with the distinguished lawyers whom it has been . customary, Jto nominate for the supreme court— not even with the ap pointments made !by Mr. Cleveland, which have not always been the most judicious.— Baltimore American. The manner of the' rejection". was still more discreditable to the senate than the reasons which inspired it. v Mr. Hornblower was appointed in. Septem ber, the vacancy, on the supreme .bench has existed more than six months, the work of the court is - greatly- in arrears, and it was highly necessary that the vacancy be filled at the earliest possible moment. If Mr. Hornblower was to be rejected at all, it should have been done three months ago.— Philadelphia Times. PRESS OPINIONS. Mr. Holman has a cinch on the title "watch dog of the treasury." but we might call Mr. Kilgore the mule there of, in view of "his kicks.— Washington News.. . r. ::.y:;.-T'T-r Mr. Simpson's overcoat was evidently not made of the*same material as Sena tor Teller's winter clothes.—Washing ton Star. , . .' .j ; '. .. Mr. McKinley is likely to become a victim of his own permaturity. The early boom catches the worms aud gets the vermifuge.— New York World. . Congressman Holman's interview on the Hawaiian question makes it appear as if the bole into which the administra tion lias fallen really had no bottom.— Philadelphia Inquirer. . Speaker Crisp is controlling the pro ceedings of the lower liouse of the pres ent congress, aud lie is taking great pains to apprist* Congressman Boutelle of the fact.— Omaha Bee. The Harrison boom appears to have been temporarily lost in some of the Indiana marshes. If not captured earlier it will be found when your Uncle Benjamin sallies forth at the opening of the duck-slaughtering season. —Detroit Free Press. ;:Jv.; J_ The administration will not emerge from : the Hawaiian episode* without profit if the lesson conveyed in Lilitio kaiaui's demand for the beheading of her political opponents is not lost. Let Mr. Btssell sharpen the edge of his snickersnee and begin,— Louis Re public. Try.:..- .""-_; ' "/'■>'-^,' : ->>'*'-* THE MUSCLE MEN. John li. Sullivan - was lately, knocked insensible by his wife, they say. _ If so, she ought to challenge the winner in the - Mitchell fight.— Globe. ' We believe Mrs. John L. Sullivan ought to practice with heavier Indian clubs if she wants to earn the everlast ing gratitude of this country by and by. —Chicago Dispatch. . " The people of Florida should hold un the hands of Gov.. Mitchell, aud aid him in his efforts to prevent the state from legalizing an illegal slugging match.— Baltimore American. 'Champion Corbett is playing the role of Richard 111. very successfully in Florida. He has already found another Mitchell in the field before he van quished the first Milwaukee Jour nal. ".:•' -. - :--flf the Mltchell-Corbett fight could be pulled off in Chicago with >. guaranteed /•police protection it would be witnessed by 25,000 r: ticketholders. If . that is treason, make the most of it.— Chicago Dispatch. -'.;.' - ; -.*-.. V \. If Gov. Mitchell finds himself power less rto prevent the Corbett-Mitchell fight he will have the melancholy satis ; faction of knowing that he has. given it a large- amount of free advertising.— ' Chicago Tribune. .. r j . ..' •'?_}■ Gov. - Mitchell, of | Florida, will prove himself a very weak and silly ; person, if he in*, any way relaxes bis efforts to prevent ••* bis -.' state -' from ■ beiug j disgraced by tan "international" t prize fight.— Cleveland Leader. WORLD'S GRANDEST VOLCANO How the Lava Made Hawaii— Wild Life Thereabouts. I have no spite against . the reader of this article. I* shall, therefore, not add one to the 200- and odd *. descriptions of , Kilauea now extant. As the raw attor ney who began his maiden speech. by telling what the ■ common law is was directed by the judge "to assume that this court knows . . some thing-' and - hot be so arrogantly instructive," so 1 shall, assume that the reader has read the old Fifth Reader, and. the usual Suuday school . book,' and at least one general work of travel, and that he takes at least one good weekly paper, in which case he must have seen half a dozen descrip tions. ; 1 will only say that of the many I have read since : leaving the islands, that of. Mark Twain seems -to me the best, and theii go on to mention a few points wliich astonished me and are not generally mentioned, in the ac counts. '..'"."''' ' ■■■' r rT :^.'T-.TTi I The lirst is the course of : the lava. , I had an idea that it dashed down the mountain side iv a . "mad torrent," but it doesn't. At any rate, it never does un less when the quantity is 1 enormous and while it is still so hot as to maintain great fluidity. Almost always— always in small streams— it maintains a sluggish flow, like warm tar or thin mush, aud as it flows the surface is rapidly cooling and forming a sort of case. The 'molten interior bursts up tnrough this, aud the outflow, cools again, and this is repeated so often that a moderate stream of lava often assumes the appearance ot a great cylinder slowly creeping down. Even when the outside seems comparatively cool the;, thing -is really an enormous tube,- down : the '■ interior of which th , hot and pasty lava is slowly forcing its ' way. -j -. .**.> .'.- v*j;* •_. . T'-.'J.t - lAnd this is the reason few or no lives are lost in an ordinary eruption. One can walk- up to the advanced end of the stream, gather a littla of it into a moid of-' any desired .shape, and all witnout danger, and this though the cylinder or tube-: may be ten feet thick. The sec ond .-fact: that astonished me was the location of the' crater. Mauna Loa is the mountain and Kilauea is the crater, : and - Kilauea is hoi really on Mauna Loa — that is, not on lop of it. It is indeed but one-third as high, and, so far as sea. level -is concerned, no higher than Salt Lake City, it is, so to speak,, a boil on the flank of Mauna Loa. and -yet:' the crater itself does not overflow; .When -the lava pressure becomes too | great J to be restrained it breaks out somewhere away down the mountain, side. By and by, tho "rock sharps" say, it will, burst out away off shore.and then we shall have an addition to Hawaii. .--.*-. Another fact, and a very surprising fact indeed to me, was that the nearer one gets to the volcano the more heath enish the natives are. This little fact "stumps ray philosophy," as they say at Harvard, but it certainly is a tact, In the islands of Kauai, Oahu and Maui 1 did not see a sign in the common life of the people that there had ever been idol atry tliere, but with every mile's travel toward the volcano I saw more signs till, as we emerged from the forest on the rock fiat near the hotel, our native attendants. showed themselves regular Pele fanatic*.- Even "Old Antony/ the guide, recommended to us especially for his Christian character, "backslid" wnen he saw smoke and hinted it might be as well to gather some berries to offer as a sacrifice. This comical retrogres sion in faith equally with progression in altitude reminded me of the formula in use In Texas wheu 1 was there in 1857: "There was no Sunday west of the .Trinity, no law west oi! the Brazos and no God west of the Colorado."" .. '. x They say that the topography is the cause of this local backsliding. Maybe so, but ' it", is almost impossible to de scribe the topography. , In truth, a very large part of Hawaii consists of a high tableland inclosed In a sort of triangle between the three great mountain peaks ol Mauna Loa,. Mauna- Kea and Mauna Hualaiai, and this plateau is a dreadful wilderness of tropical vines and giant trees, growing among and hiding im mense rocks and crevices, with here and there a bare field of ; splintered lava or loos« ashy stuff, and more, rarely a fertile little valley. In this region the cattle introduced by early voyagers have left a progeny as wild as any buf falo of the olden time, and much more dangerous. But along the borders of the island/ the north especially, are DISTANT VIEW OF KII.AUEA. some wonderfully fertile little tracts, and the Kanakas have here and there cultivated patches near the mountains. where the lava seems to have cooled nut yesterday;; We took what is called the new route to visit Kealakeakua bay. where Capt. Cook was killed, and of that tragedy I received a very.curious account from a Mr. Broughton', an aged Briton, who reached the Islands as a sailor in IS4O. He had it direct from two aged Kanakas who witnessed the killing. it seems that after j Capt.. Cook had carried matters with a high hand for awhile two par ties formed. One said lie was Lono, the god: the other that he was Kanaka, or "man," such being the meaning of that word. The argument as reported bore a suspicious resemblance to that in the correspondence between President Ed wards and Dr. Samuel Hopkins. On said, "He cannot be a god. for he i cruel, vindictive and greedy." Th otlier said, "You cannot tell how a go will act. and perhaps" — It was the familiar issue: Are right and wrong absolute, and* is the moral law obligatory on Deity as on mortals? Well, the Edwards party, so to speak, carried the day, and it was decided that the supposed Lono should bo put to the test A blow— not mortal- was struck: the captain groaned and blood flowed. "Kanaka, no!" (a man, indeed!) cried the skeptics. "Oa! Oa!" (True! True!) screamed the others. "Kanaka no!" and ho was at once dispatched. "And,", added Mr. Broughton, "when the old men told us this the tears stood in their eyes, for 5 they were among the few who continued to believe that Cook was a god, or at least a superior being." With- the horseback ride thence to Kilauea and the descent into the crater all general readers are familiar. Every body knows how Pele, the devil goddess of the Kanakas, used to hold her fiery court in the flaming lake; how the fila ments of lava, like glassblowers' "thread," thrown off by the fiery _ waves, were believed j•* to be her hair: how the natives, when warned by well-known signs that an eruption was near, threw many fat hogs aud other articles of valuo into the lake, and finally how the brave Princess Kauikulani, to convince her people that idolatry was foolish.' descended into the crater without the usual ceremonies and returned unhurt to her amazed people. Is it not all written in > missiou reports and Sunday school books? MINNESOTA NEWS. If Nelson 'Is a candidate for United States senator, he has no business to bo for governor.— Anoka Union. *'' The Logan of the Northwest, Moses E. Clapp, -is ; good material r, to make a United States senator out * of.— Anoka Union.- TT-: ■'■■:. ■- .-. ,'-'". A few Populist papers' in this state' keep right: on ""sawing wood," though tho Populist party seems at present to have gone where the woodbine twine'h. — Ortonvllle Headlight. ' '■. A naughty Chicago newspaper de clared that if Editor Stead really wanted to relieve the distress of Chicago, the best way to do it would be for him to leave town.— Winona Herald. Owing to the hard times 1,500 beer saloons in Cincinnati have closed, limes-must bo tough indeed there if this is a true report. Where else have they been as hard?- Winona Herald. J The proposition from the Colorado house to abolish the governor's veto power is hardly what Governor Waite expected. It would •be more his Idea to give the law-making power to the executive.— Duluth Commonwealth. Senator Hill, of New York, is making a good move for the- peopie in intro ducing an oleomargarine law in con gress. That giant needs a general law to cjntrol and hold it. and we hope con gress may enact one.— Waseca Radical. ; lt may be cruel to say it. but an in vestigation will show that the sbouter for an income tax is invariably either unable or unwilling to earn an income worthy of being considered such. — Rusbford Star. EdwardAtkinson;is delivering lectures in Boston to prove that it is possible for a man to live on -Sl a week. Now if he will show the man where to get fla week this winter, the problem of the unemployed and destitute will be solved. —Duluth Herald. lhe most dangerous kind of anarchy is monopoly, which is fortified by spe cial privileges of legislation and cor porate power, it ignores "equal rights to all," which is the highest law and blessing of free government, aud thus law is prostituted and anarchy reigns. - Albert Lea Standard. ; it may appear a somewhat singular thing to the rich men of " the country, both, houses of congress Included,. that not a single voic_ is raised against the proposed income tax among the farm ers, mechanics and laborers of the coun try. Yet they constitute the large ma jority of the people. — Belle Plaiue Herald. ..-:•-. -We do not believe in the least degree of protectiou unless those who ought to be its equal beneficiaries, to- wit, the laborers and their families, can be and are verily made such. Employers can not be trusted to apportion protection's benefits; they are dominated by too great human selfishness and greed to do it, and it being practically impossible to euforce an equitable division, and as it manifestly is not beiug voluntarily made by employers, we contend that the pres ent protective tariff is wrong, unjust and is resulting in serious evils to society and the state. — Albert Lea Standard. -..* The Cass County Pioneer is the name of a new seven-column folio newspaper published at Ellis, Cass county. Speak ing of prospective Cass county organiza tion, the Pioneer says: We have paid assessors to assess the property of tiie county only to have the equalization board of Crow Wing county cut the assessment of wealthy . . lumbermen down So per cent and leave our assess ment at more than the property would sell for. We rejoice that freedom is so near at hand. -;:--■ THE GLOBE'S GREAT OFFER "WE ARE ADVERTISED BY OUR LOVING FRIENDS." 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