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4 THE DfflLY GLOBE is PUBUSHED~IVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER ROW, COR. FOURTH AND MINNESOTA STS. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ST. PAUL.. SUBSCRIPTIb^ RATES. Payable in Advance. Daily and Sunday, per Month .BO Daily and Sunday, Six Montb» - f 2.75 Dally and Sunday, One Year - $5.00 Daily Only, per Month -- - - .40 Daily Only, Six Month* »2.25 Daily Only, One Year ----- f4.00 Sunday Only, One Year -- - - $1.50 Weekly, One Year -------- $1.00 Address all letters and telegrams to THE) GLOBE. St. Paul, Minn. EASTERN' ADVERTISING OFFICE, ROOM 401. TEMPLE COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK. _ r WASHINGTON BUREAU. 1405 F ST. N. W. Complete files of tho Globe always kept on hand for reference. TODAY'!* WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.— Forecast for Fri day: Minnesota— Partly cloudy weather with light Unal showers: variable winds. Wisconsin— Light local showers; light south erly winds; warmer in eastern portion. South Dakota— Kair, preceded by local show ers In eastern portion: cooler Friday night; winds shifting to northerly. North Dakota— Local showers; variable winds, shifting to northwesterly, and cooler Friday eight. .Montana— Local showers, followed by fair weather; cooler; northwesterly winds. TEMPERATURES. Place. Tern. | Place. Tern. Puluth 72!Minnedosa 74 Huron ■ TSjWinnipeg 74 Bismarck '.is; Bismarck 68-80 Williston 72 Boston 66-74 Havre 8-Buffalo 64-70 Helena 80 Cheyenne 72-86 Edmonton r.2! Chicago 74-78 ISattleford 72 Cincinnati 74-80 Prince Albert 74 Helena 80-82 Calgary 52 New York 66-72 Medicine Hat 72 New Orleans 92-94 Swift Current 7G Pittsburg 68-72 Qu'Appelle 76 Winnipeg 74-82 DAILY MEAN'S. Barometer. 2&A5; relative humidity. 68; weather, cloudy; maximum thermometer, 82; minimum thermometer, 63; daily range, 19; amount of rainfall or melted snow in last 24 hours, trace; thermometer, 72; wind, south. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. 'Water. Change. Bt Paul 14 2.1 —0.1 La Croaae 10 2.3 —0.1 Davenport 15 1.7 —0.1 St. Louis 30 11.1 »0.6 —Fall. *Rise. Note— Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F, Lyons, Observer. • RKTI lI.MXG CO>"FIDEXCE. There can be no question that the opinion prevails in every part of this country at the present time that the cause of free silver has lost immensely and irrecoverably within The past week or two. The date from which this can be exactly determined is the delivery of Mr. Bryan's speech in New York. To a slight extent he was the victim of circumstances and all that over strained expectation which would be disappointed by anything short of the miraculous. But, in the main, his dis comfiture was the inevitable conse quence of the weakness of hi 3 cause and of his own character as a man of flighty words, rather than of sober judgment, of statesmanlike views or of the capacity for executive planning. The verbose and disjointed address which he delivered there, and which drove half of his audience out of the hall before he had finished, gave the measure of the man. Even his adher ents were woefully disappointed by the suddenness with which it and he and the cause that he represents became "stale, flat and unprofitable." We would by no means be under stood as saying that the free silver cause is dead or beaten. That cannot be predicted with safety until after November. But we do say that it has been, ever Blnce the Madison Square garden meeting, on the wane, and that It is at this moment declining. The same influences seem to be at work in the West as in the East. From every state, county and town come advices saying that the free silver sentiment has been vastly exaggerated, and that those who were inclined to accept it are returning to sound money views every day. We should doubt the value of reason as a guide if this were not so. In the end, among intelligent and honest men, the truth must pre vail. The advocates of free silver have constructed some ingenious sophistries, and they have some plausible argu ments. Men must be captured by these until they have looked deeper into the matter and learned more of history and political economy than the average man is expected to know. But when such an issue is at the front, the cam paign of education must tell. To ham mer away day after day with the inex orable fact, to expose fallacies and tear down the flimsy edifices of illogical argument, to give blow after blow with the sword of truth, must eventually show to a majority of men in what di rection the truth lies. Therefore, we have never, for one moment, doubted that, as this campaign progresses, the cause of the free coinage of silver by this country alone at an impossible raiio must lose more than it gains. That the country at large is recov ering from the scare into which it was thrown temporarily and very naturally by so extraordinary an event as the capture of the Democratic national convention by the free silverites and the Populists, is now apparent in the course of the markets. For a time we seemed to be trembling on the verge of a panic. Men were getting ready to make a grab for gold on the suppo sition that a silver victory might be possible. All hands were taking in sail, and set eyes were fixed upon the life boats, as this storm appeared to approach nearer and nearer the ship of state. But we find, now, the condi tions growing easier and more settled. It is evident that the people of Euro pean nations take no stock whatever in the idea that the United States will go to the silver-basis. Thousands of them who were easily scared got scared long ag3 and have disposed of their hold ings. The rest of them have come to the conclusion pointed out in our arti cle of yesterday, that there never will be a better time to purchase Ameri can securities than this. These facts, together with the larger shipments of our products, have affected the price of exchange. They have been aided by all influences which the financial men of the East could bring to bear to as sist the treasury and sustain the credit of the country. As the banks came to the rescue of the treasury reserve by replenishing its gold fund, so the men powerful in financial circles have ex erted all their efforts to prevent a fur ther export of gold, and to turn the tide, if possible, in the other direction. They thus give the lie to those who have charged Wall street with at tempting to precipitate a panic, in or der to affect the political situation. On the contrary, if the moneyed men of the East had chosen at any time since the Chicago convention to bring disaster and collapse upon the financial interests of this country, they could have done it with a breath; so trem bling and tottering was the edifice of our currency. But, just at a time to be effective in behalf of the cause which they themselves support, they have banded together to make market conditions easier and to restore gen eral confidence. If the import of $2, --000,000 of gold is followed by other con signments that will bring back to us $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 of the amount that the treasury has lost, it will go a long way toward banishing the last doubt from the public mind. That this could not have been done but for the growing belief that Mr. Bryan's cause is hopeless, we have not the slightest doubt. A further slight indication of this is possibly to be seen in the small de cline in the price of silver bullion. Con ditions will restore themselves rapidly to the normal as quickly as the people feel sure that there is to be no revolu tion, financial or otherwise, in this country. The general belief at the pres ent time that there is jio possibility of Mr. Bryan's election, based upon re ports from all quarters during the past ten days, has proved a restorative and tonic. Let us once be certain that this country proposes to maintain its pres ent monetary system, and to stand on a level with the other civilized nations of the world, and we believe that our own people, even the most sanguine of them, will be amazed at the immedi ate outburst of business activity, the rise in value of all kinds of property, and the general return of a prosperity that shall include in its blessings cap ital and labor alike. A GRAVE SUBJECT. We hope that the din of politics and the clash of conflicting argument on the silver question will not prevent general attention from being given to the admirable address of the president of the American Bar association at the opening of its annual meeting. While setting forth some general principles of considerable importance, to which we need not here refer, in its initia tory paragraphs, the address is de voted mainly to the subject of railway reorganizations in this country and the part which our courts are made to play therein. It is encouraging to find a great association like this, represent ing the legal profession in the United States, on an occasion to which a spe cial significance attaches, by reason of the distinguished visitors who are en tertained, taking up seriously and practically the question of reform in the matter of one of the moat impor tant functions that devolve upon the federal judiciary. It is too true that, in the past, the financial operations connected with railway construction and management in this country, which have brought scandal upon us and disrepute upon our securities in other nations, have been fitly supplemented by the direc tion of matters when the finances of a system had come to a crisis. After millions, and perhaps hundreds of millions, have been invested by people in this country and in others in some great enterprise, it is found to be bankrupt. It is not earning its fixed charges, and its obligations are in de fault. The road is then sold, under foreclosure proceedings, and, after a readjustment of the different securi ties, it again attempts to demonstrate its solvency. The chasm between the old regime and ttie new is bridged over by a receivership. This receivership is conducted under the authority of the courts, and by officers wh^ are named by them. It has been the custom too fre quently in the past, without collusion or intent to injure, we are sure, but none the less unwisely, to permit the management of a road und?r which it went into a receiver's hands to name the persons who were to conduct its business ad interim. This means, usual ly, that the old management is perpetu ated and continued in control until such time as the reorganization is com plete. Now, it is not usual in other business affairs, in mercantile enter prises, for instance, after there has been a tremendously heavy failure, as the result of either bad manage ment or dishonest financing, to commit the work of rebuilding the fallen for tunes of the house to the hands that were responsible for its disaster. At least, the high repute of the judiciary of this country will not bear patiently any such suspicion. Let the case be as it may with reference to the Inter ests of property, the honor of the bench demands that all possibility of the charge of a personal, selfish or pecuniary interest in the matter bt avoided by the utmost independence of action and a rigorous refusal to do anything that could possibly be con strued as condoning wrong or assist ing to perpetuate it. No court ought to do less, when applied to to select receivers for an insolvent corporation, than to select men in its judgment competent to fill the important office of receiver, but men who were abso lutely dissociated from the former management of the road, and who would not be amenable to any influ ence that it might see fit to exert. Considering that about one-fourth of the railroads in the United States have been, or are now, under the control of receivers, the subject is one of im mense present Importance. Are the persons managing these roads which have failed, and concerning which it is important to inquire whether their misfortunes are due to unavoid able circumstances, or whether they have been deliberately wrought by mercenary speculators, selected with out reference to their personal tter- nm &*®rr mtxrt otobe: frioay, august 21, Isoe. estß In the Insolvent pfopertfeg, and are they those by whose direction the in terests that should be the first and most importunate care of the court will be most likely to realize something from their investments? It is a great responsibility that has been thrown upon our judiciary through the finan cial reverses of such an enormous number of railways, and we are sure that the duties attending It have been discharged, upon the whole, with fidelity. Still we believe that President Story is right; that when a railroad becomes bankrupt every other consideration should sink out of sight in comparison with what- will be of most benefit to those who nave put their money into It; that the court, into whose hands the business goes, should manage it actually, and not only in name, by selecting its own agents and naming such as have had no previous connection with the prop erty. In doing this there should be the amplest notice to the stockholders themselves, and their advice and co operation should be sought at every step of the proceeding. We believe that the courts themselves are now of this way of thinking, but it is well that the opinion of the profession and of the public in general should rein force and sustain a view of their duty which is the only one consistent either with maintaining the dignity and honor of the bench, or doing justice to a class of investors who have suffered more from bad judgment, when not from actual dishonesty, in the devel opment of this country, than any others. TAXATION IN CHICAGO. The effort made to secure an assess ment of land and improvement values for taxation in the city of Chicago has met with failure. We called attention at the time to the report of the bureau of labor for Illinois, which was devot ed largely to the inadequacy and ine quality of the valuations of property in Chicago, and, later, to the work of the commission appointed by the may or to examine into the matter with" a view to correcting the manifest abuses growing out of either the incompetence or dishonesty of the assessors. The statements made by the labor bureau were confirmed in a remarkable man ner by the facts brought out by this commission, a body composed of busi ness men, experts in real estate val ues. The purpose of the mayor was to obtain a valuation of property by competent men that would be taken by the assessors as a guide and basis in their work. The assessors have just completed their tasks and the result must b° dis couraging for those who have tried to better conditions. The assessment district of the town of South Chicago embraces the territory south and east of the river to Thirty-ninth street and east of Western avenue. In this is to be found the most valuable por tion of the city. It is the great whole sale and retail district, the banking, hotel and railway center, the heart of I the city, in fact. Two-thirds of the j value lies north of Twelfth street. The assessed valuation for 1895 was found by both the commission and the bureau to be less than 10 per cent of the actual value, as determined by sales made or estimated from ground rentals, and this undervaluation has | been decreased over $3,000,000 by the assessment this year. It is probable that the discriminations found by both investigations continue and that some are favored at the cost of others. The total valuation of the county, with which the city is practically iden- j tical, for this year is, for realty, $179, --785,767, and for personalty, $26,682,303. In 1873, two years after the great fire, ', the realty was valued at $228,599,660, ! and the personalty at $55,076,340. In j twenty-three years of tremendous growth in population and wealth the I value of real estate for taxation has shrunk 25 per cent and personal prop erty over 50 per cent. This decrease has its roots in the system which re tains, absurdly, the township system of taxation, each with its own sepa ater officers, for the taxation of the city as a whole; and in the purely hu man, if not commendable, impulse of the individual to escape burden-bear ing as far as possible. This impulse is justified to itself by the suspicion that others are escaping through un due influence with the officials. It matters very little whether valu ations are high or low provided they are as nearly equal as fair and intelli gent judgment can make them. There is but one fixed factor in direct taxa tion and that is the amount of r.,oney to be raised. As the valuation rises or falls the other variable factor, the percentage of taxation, falls or rises. Thus the average percentage of taxa tion in the three principle towns of Chicago for ten years, ISSS-94, was $6.26 on each $100. Were the taxes extended on the actual value of prop erty as found by the commission and the bureau, about ten times its as sessed valuation, the percentage of taxation would be 62.6 cents on $100 instead of $6.26. m CERTAISLY NOT. To the Editor of the Globe. Your answer to my query of the 18th mat. is noted. If the legal tender function were given to the Mexican dollar and the trade dollar, would they not be on a parity with the standard dollar and the gold dollar? —Voter. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 19, 1896. This Is all a question of the limita tions of credit. Just how far the United States can go In promising to maintain an inferior currency on a par with the best before its credit is injured and its currency depreciated, no man can say. As to the trade dollar, the probability is that legislation would make little or no difference, because very few are known to be In circulation in this coun try, and their redemption and recoin age Into standard dollars Is author ized by law. There being so few of them, possibly the government might be able to add them to the big block of currency that it is now sustaining on a gold level. Aa to the Mexican dol lar, certainly not. The addition of all the silver that Mexican mints could turn out under free coinage to our le gal tender money would bring us to the silver basis forthwith. This is not because there is potent virtue or otherwise in "legal tender," but be cause, by making a coin legal tender. the government includes It in the mass of currency which it has promised to keep at par with gold. Faith in the ability to perform that promise would vanish in such a case. Now, in turn, we would like to ask "Voter" two questions, which we have kept standing^or a long time without any satisfactory rteply. The first is why, in Mexico, where a Mexican dol lar is a full legal tender and the Ameri can standard dollar is not, you cannot get a gold dollar in exchange for a Mexican dollar, but you can get two Mexican dollar* for an American stand ard dollar, which contains about six grains less silver than the Mexican coin? The second question is, if the conferring of the legal tender func tion upon anyi object puts it at a par with gold, why,, the government should not make not only standard silver dol lars, but nickej,^pieces, copper cents and poker chips each legal tender for one dollar, or for a thousand dollars, as the case may be, and thus multiply wealth instantly, and indefinitely and make us all rich at once? FRAM IS SAFE. Dr. Sanscn's \ «•**«■ I Uhm Arrived in Port. CHRISTIANIA, Aug. 20.— Dr. Nan sen's ship, Fram, which he left embedded in the ice, early in January, ISUS, arrived at Skjorvoe, province of Tromsoe, yesterday evening. Capt. Sverdrup, her commander, reports all well on board. The Fram, he added, called at Dane's island on Aug. 14, and saw Prof. An dree, who was still waiting for a favor able wind, in order to enable him to attempt his balloon trip across the Arctic region. Capt. Sverdrup, short ly after his arrival, sent the following tt-legram to Dr. Nansen: Fram arrived safely. All well on board. Leaves at once for Tromsoe. Welcome home. Dr. Nansen replied to this message as follows: A thousand times welcome to you and all. Hurrah for the Fram. The Fram left Skjorvoe this morn ing on her way to Tromsoe, where Dr. Nansen will meet her. Additional details received from Skjero regarding Dr. Nansen's arctic exploring ship Fram, are to the effect that the boat defied from a point 85.59 degrees north. The greatest sea depth obtained by '•sounding was 2,185 fathoms. The lowest temperature noted was 52 degrees below zero. F. H. Johansen, the stoker, it is reported, had a narrow escape from a terrible death. He was attacked by a polar bear but was rescued by Dr. Nansen, who shot the animal. Dr. Nansen gain ed 22 pounds in weight on his journey to Yardoe, after leaving the Fram. _*»_ _ , MANITOBA PROBLEM. Laurier Says It Is Not as Yet Solved. OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 20.— 1n the house of commons today Sir Charles Tupper asked if the report in the press was correct that the Manitoba school question was about as good A3 settled. In reply the premier said that he sent for Attorney General Sifton, of Man itoba, and had a conference with him upon the matter. Further than that, ho would not say anything at present. In the senate Sir Oliver Mowat was also asked what stage the Manitoba school question was in and he replied that the government did not expect to have the matter finally disposed of this session, but before another session it would be removed out of the way. KRIGER WANTS PEACE. Snjs Ensland «i*d the Transvaal Will Xo-t Fight. PRETORIA, Aug. 20.— President Kruger, of the Transvaal Republic, in an interview declared that the stories attributing hostile intentions on the part of the Transvaal are absolute in- Aentions, spread by people who were angry because England and the Trans vaal could not be pushed into a war with each other. In conclusion he ex pressed the opinion that war between the Transvaal Republic and Great Britain would never occur. Dr. W. J. Leydes, secretary of state of the Trans vaal Republic, in an interview just published, expresses similar sentiments. He denies all the rumors of recent troubles between the two countries, and the assertion that the Transvaal has negotiated a treaty with a foreign country in controvention of the Anglo-Boer convention. In con clusion, he declared that the Transvaal Republic is doing it? best to secure I 'eoniplete harmony all around. MOUNTAIN CLOUD BURST. It Did Great DnimiKc in the Mogol lon District. SILVER CITY. N. M., Aug. 20.— Telegraphic communication has been re-established with the Magollon mining camp, eighty-two miles from here, and details of the cloudburst of Wednesday afternoon received. The water swept down upon the camp about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, totally destroying twenty six houses and busih-ess places. John Knight, a miner, was caught asleep in his cabin and drowned. An unknown Mexican was car ried down the canon and drowned. There are reports of eight people' missing, but the loss of life, so far as known, is limited to Knight and the Mexican. BIG STRIKE COMING. All Eastern Express Employee* May Go) Oat. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.— The World this morning says: All employes of the Adams Express company In Eastern cities may stop work in two days. The general executive board of the Knights of Labor ordered this sympathetic strike yesterday. It Is said that the Switchmen's Mutual Aid association s ands b«hir.d ths strikers and that the switch men in the Jersey City yards of the Pennsyl vania railroad may go out. m TROOPERS IS A RIOT. Free Flight Among Soldiers Bound for St. Paul. Special to the Globe. CHICAGO, Aug. 20.— Company A, Fourth cavalry, United States army, ia In transit from Pittsburg to the far Northwest. Its primary destination is St. Paul. Tonight the company rolled into the union depot at 9:55 with some of its members much battered and in a bruised qondiOon. About halt of the men wore blacj^ned eyes trimmed with raw beefsteak, and «ne or two were ready to go to a hospital. There had been a riot on the train, and a free ftght, in which a car load of troopers took part, was fought to a finish. Whisky wa» responsible for this di version, and the incapacity of those engaged in combat to deal telling blows perhaps ac counts for the fact -> that <no one was fatally Injured. The troops will reach St Paul to morrow. 1 m> A>"DREE GIVES UP. Will Hot Make Hl* Baloon Voyage This Year CHRISTIANA, Aug. 20.— Prof. S. A. Andree, according $> reports received here, told Capt. Sverdrup, who visited the aeronaut, that it was now too late to make the proposed ascent and that he would probably soon return to Spitz bergen and make another effort to reach the North pole In a_ balloon next April. Congo Free State Threatened. BRUSSELS, Aug. 20.-The Soir says that Baron d'Hannis. commanding a strong force has taken the offensive against the Mahdists in the Upper Congo. It is added the situa tion causes the greatest anxiety regarding the security of the Congo Free State, and it is predicted that serious political difficulties may arle«. TUB'S WISH FIHE IT SWKRPS THE CITY'S EXECU TIVE DEPARTMENT FROM STEM TO STERN. NOISOME GARBAGE PILES PROVOKB THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL TO SK-VEIMI, HITTER TIRADES. STONBJ, RUNDLETT, KINGSLEY, All Feel Hl* Hot Breath on Their Blushing- Cheeks— Contractor Fielding Suffer*, Too- After exercising an unwonted re straint of gome three months' dura tion, Hon. Tim Reardon broke loose in the council chamber last night. The vials of vituperation that Mr. Reardon has kept corked up for several week.3 past, he uncorked, and poured their scalding contents upon the heads of Ms pet aversions, the garbage con tractors, the city engineer and the building inspector. When Reardon rose from his seat and, turning upon the garbage con tractor, offered, in stentorian tones, to bet him $100 that the garbage had not been properly loaded in the cars, the scene would have been highly dramatic were it not that all the rest of the assemblymen spoiled it with shouts of laughter. Then Assembly man Daly completely ruined the cli max by moving that Mr. Reardon and the garbage contractor be provided with seven-ounce gloves. Both bellig erents thereupon resumed their seats. The exhibition was the result of a controversy over a resolution permit ting Fielding & Shepley, the gar bage contractors, to continue, until after the expiration of the G. A. R. encampment, to transfer garbage from their wagons to the railroad cars at a place in the Ninth ward, about 500 feet within the city limits. The con tract forbids any transfer or i-eloading of the garbage at any point within the city limits, but the contractors have been transferring the garbage ti the cars at the place mentioned for sev eral weeks past. It was on this account that Health Commissioner Stone re fused to certify to their July bill, which the council, nevertheless, al lowed. The contractors explained that there were no facilities in the neigh borhood outside the city limits for loading the garbage onto the cars, but that they would be ready im mediately after the encampment. In the meantime, in view of the large increase in the quantity of garbage to be collected during encampment week, they desired the privilege to do their transferring at the present lo cation. Mr. Lew's thought it only fair to grant the permission, but not so Mr. Reardon vo^°W d the resolu tion with all the V*mJ£J& command, and he has some. ..?♦"* c assembl >'. Mr. Reardon said: Its the same old story over again I-ast year the garbage contractors fail ed to live up to their contract, and the exf^nL COn T traCtOrs are blowing- their example. I say we have no right to change a contract with the city The Ur fIZT S h f Ye R ° busin «^ to tran" lei that garbage to cars inside the city limits. They've been doing it for the last three months, and D? Stone k " ew , /• but h * never refused to audit w£j^£ IPS' laPt month when th" Ninth Ward Republican club called on aTt £\* . c °mplained of the nuisance. r/u b^ore, it's the same old story The garbage contractors don't care anything about their contract Why only week before last, I saw, with my own eyes, cars containing- loose gar bage that had been dumped into them." triS" f pl H y ' °" c ° f the » arb age con tractors who was seated outside the «L « P J h u r u ar , of the chamber, was asked if he had anything to say in response he came forward and standing directly behind and in close proximity to Mr. Reardon, he first explained why he desired the privilege asked for and then added: "We never loaded any loose garbage into a railroad car " "You did, for I saw it." rejoined Mr Reardon. "I say we did not," retorted Mr Shep ley. "We never did such a thing." That's false," exclaimed Reardon 'for I tell you I saw it with my own eyes and can bring two witnesses to prove it." Mr. Shepley again denied the charge when Reardon jumped to his feet and thrust his hand into his trousers pock et for his wallet, ejaculating, as he did "I'll bet you $100 you did!" "I'll take you," cried Mr. Shepley "I haven t got the cash with me, but"— producing his check book— "my check j IS g"GOu . By this time Reardon was standing in the aisle face to face with Shepley and there the two stood glaring fiercely at each other. "I move that the two gentlemen be provided with seven-ounce gloves," sug gested Assemblyman Daly. At this the assemblymen and spec tators burst into loud laughter and Messrs. Reardon and Shepley receded from each other and took their seats Then the resolution was adopted by a vote of six to two, Messrs. Reardon and Daly voting in the negative In explaining his vote Mr. Reardon once more vented his antipathy to the gar bage contractors and declared that Mr Rhepley was "an infernal liar" As this parliamentary privilege was ex ercised during roll call, Mr. Shepley was powerless to express in words a return of the compliment, but the gen eral aspect of his countenance seemed to say, "You're another." Later in the, evening a resolution was offered instructing the city en gineer to repair certain streets in the First ward. Reardon saw his chance here to remark: "What's the use of a city engineer anyway?" When the vote was taken Mr Thompson asked what the resolution was. "It's a resolution instructing the city engineer to do his duty," snapped Reardon. "Why then I'll vote for it," replied Mr. Thompson, amid general laughter. But Mr. Reardon voted "no" for rea sons of his own. Finally when a resolution relative to erecting street stands for the G. A. R. parade was offered. Mr. Reardon took occasion to score the building inspect or, holding that he was responsible for what he, Reardon, considered the flimsy structures, now in process of erection on Sixth street. Aside from the foregoing diversions furnished by Mr. Reardon, the meeting of the assembly was devoid of any en tertaining features. An interesting resolution, however, was offered by Mr. Lewis. It provides that the com, missioner of public works shall be charged with all the duties heretofore devolving by law upon the board of public works, and requires such com missioner to see that the contracts for lighting the city are faithfully per formed by the contractors. The reso lution also directs the commissioner of public works to submit to the common council, a sufficient length of time prior to the expiration of the lighting- con tracts, specifications for lighting the city with gasoline, gas and electricity, so that the council can advertise for proposals and enter into contracts for the future lighting of the city as re quired by law. The preamble of the resolution recites the lighting con tracts under which certain duties were to be performed by the board of public works, and the adoption of the act substituting a commissioner of public works therefor. The real intent of the resolution is to supply the defects in the act of 1895, which does not impose upon the com missioner of public works the duties that devolve upon the board of public works relative to the lighting of the city. Whether the common council can supply what an act of the legislature has omitted remains to be seen. Mr. Lewis explained that the resolu tion had been prepared by the assistant corporation attorney and Commis sioner of Public Works Copeland, for the purpose of authorizing the com missioner to perform the duties that formerly devolved upon the board of public works with reference to the contracts for lighting the city with electricity, gas and gasoline. The resolution was adopted. Assemblyman Thompson introduced a resolution instructing the commis sioner of public works and the city en gineer to open up a driveway on the levee from the foot of Jackson street to Eagle street, and to remove all ob structions that it may be necessary to clear away, in order to provide such driveway. The resolution was adopted, and if it becomes effective, It may necessitate the tearing up of several railroad tracks. Mr. Thompson ex plained to the assembly that there Is a street along the levee and that the city granted the Omaha & Milwaukee railroad companies the right to lay only two tracks along the levee, but that the companies had overstepped their rights and practically confiscated the street by laying additional tracks. The mayor's communication an nouncing the promotion of Michael Gebhard to the rank of sergeant and the appointment of James Troy as patrolman, was referred to the com mittee on police. The following police appointments were then confirmed on recommenda tion of the committee on police: Louis j J. Galvin, August Christopherson, J James Holland, Charles H. Gerber, I John Lindon. A preliminary order was passed for the repaying Sherburne avenue from Rice street to the terminus of the ave nue. The resolution to vacate the alley ad jacent to the Northern Pacific general office building was referred to the com mittee on streets. Assemblymen Lewis and Kirke were appointed members of the special joint committee, created for the purpose of considering the construction of a new bridge on Raymond avenue. The resolution instructing the city engineer to put Dale street in good order for carriage travel from Fair mont street to Como avenue was adopt ed. Mr. Lewis called attention, during the course of the meeting, to the fact that the council some time ago had adopted a resolution directing the street rail way company to repave that portion of the Wabasha street bridge between its tracks, but that the company had practically ignored the resolution, as it had laid nothing but a few planks. i^ BRYAX'S XEW PLAN. Expects tol Spend Some Time In New York. UPPER RED HOOK, N. V., Aug. 20. — It is pretty apparent today that Candidate Bryan's plan to spend some time in New York state cam paigning, is not objectionable to the j leaders in Democratic state politics, I. but that on the contrary he has their i co-operation in the movement. Among the significant evemts are the visit late last night of Elliott Danforth, of the New York organization; the proposed visit of Mr. Bryan to Albany, and the inviting of Mr. Bryan to -meet a number of Democrats at Winniesook Lodge, | in the Catskills, presided over by Chair man Hinckley, of .the Democratic state committee. With these significant facts is coupled the arrangement this morn ing of a new Western itinerary that includes several points in New York. This new itinerary includes, after the Erie speech on the 26th, these points: Speak in Buffalo the evening of the 27th; and in Medina, N. V., the after noon of the 28th, spending the evening at Niagara Falls. Go to Hornellsville, by way of Buffalo, on the 29th, Satur day, and speak in Hornellsville in the afternoon. Then go to Jamestown in j the evening, and direct to Chautauqua, where a Sunday will be spent. On Mon day, Aug. 31, Mr. Bryan will go direct to Cleveland, where he will speak in the evening. Tuesday he will go to Colum bus, Ohio, speaking there the even- Ing of the Ist of September, and at Toledo on the second. The evening of the third he will speak in South Bend, Ind., and Sept. 4, will be spent in Chi cago, at national headquarters. Mr. Bryan does not expect to speak in Chicago. The morning of the fifth Mr. Bryan will leave for Nebraska, over the Burlington road, making no stops. He says his speeches in all the places named will be very brief. NO JOINT DEBATES. Bryan Will Meet No One Cnle»n It la M'Kinley. UPPER RED ROCK, Aug. 20 —Mr. Bryan did not leave the house today. He said he was busy with his letter of acceptance and his largely increasing mail. He was asked if he had read the speech of Bourke Cockran, and said that he had gone through it today, but did not desire to answer it in any way. He said: "I have received many invi tations to debate the silver question with various public men. In order to avoid further invitations of this nature, I wish you would say that I will not consider any proposition to debate any question with anybody during this campaign, unless a debate should be arranged between Mr. McKinley and myself. So far as I know, no place for such a debate is under consideration by either national committee." Silver Clubs. WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.— George P. Kee ney. the national organizer of the silver party, and a member of the executive com mittee, has been appointed by the silver party national president of the various non partisan silver and bimetallic clubs of the United States. Mr. Keeney has called a na tional convention of such clubs to meet at Chicago Sept. 23. Jones In Chicago. CHICAGO, Aug. 20.— Senator J. K. Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic na tional committee, arrived in Chicago from Washington today. The immediate result of Senator Jones' visit was the closing of a deal by which the national headquarters will be established at the Sherman house. .«». Resignation Not Forced. BERLIN, Aug. 20.— The Relchsanzelger publishes a semi-official note which declares that Gen. Bronsart yon Schellendorff, who was recently minister of war, resigned on ac count of ill health, thus denying the reports that his retirement was due to a difference of opinion with the emperor regarding re form in military trials. -«- It Is Republican. To the Editor of the Globe. Will you kindly state through the columns of your paper what the politics of the Chi cago Times-Herald are, thus obliging one of your constant readers. Very truly yours E. H. G. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 20, 1896. (The Chicago Times-Herald is a Republican paper. Its proprietor, Mr. Kohjsaat, is one of Mr. Hanna's most intimate friends and confidential advisers.— Ed.) _^»_ Plnnklntou Must Pay a Judgment. In the United States district court yester day there was heard an order to show cause by the town of Planklnton, S. D., why it should not levy a tax to pay a judgment of about $5,000 recovered against the town by Grey Brothers, of Milwaukee, for putting in an artesian well to supply the town with water. The city admitted judgment and asked that it have ten years In which to pay the judgment. The court ordered that a tax of twenty mills be levied each year until the judgment was paid. liEfl^ED jus iifljUE JOHN STRAI.'S BKLIEVEI) TO HAVE] BEEN THE DRIVER OF THE RIO WHICH STRUCK MRS. OTOOLE. THE OLD LADY'S INJURIES SUCK THAT DEATH ENSUED YES TERDAY. POLICE LOOKING FOR THE MAN Who Disappeared Froim Hl* Place of BuMlne** Early In the Day and Wasn't Seen Afterward. John Straua, foreman of the Great Northern Express company's barns, is believed to be the man who was driv ing the rig which knocked down Mrs. Bridget O'Toole at Sixth and St. Peter streets Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. O'Toole died at the city hospital yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. The body was removed to O'Halloran & Murphy's undertaking rooms, and yes terday afternoon an autopsy was held by the direction of Coroner Whitcomb. The postmortem was made by Drs. Finnell, Skinner and Wheaton, and re vealed that Mrs. O'Toole had been frightfully injured by the accident. Six of her ribs on the right and two on the left side were broken, and the skull was fractured across the back of the head. It is supposed that her ribs were broken by the shaft of the buggy I and that her skull was fractured by j the hoofs of the horse. After the au topsy the remains were removed to the residence of her son-in-law, Walter Curtiss, at 346 Market street. The funeral will take place Saturday morn ing from the cathedral. The police and detectives were at work on the case early yesterday morning, and, although there were as many descriptions of the buggy, horse and men as there were informants, the officers finally settled down to the de scription of the rig and men as given by George J. Flint and D. D. Dona hue. These men were the ones who followed the rig about two miles out in the West Seventh street district, but finally lost the trail near St. Clair street and Oakland avenue. Thomas Burke, who lives at 450 Banfll street, and is employed as street sweeper on Sixth street between Wabasha and Seventh streets, said he made an at tempt to stop the horse and buggy after Mrs. O'Toole had been run down,' but the driver swore at him and threat ened to run over him and he allowed the rig to pass. About noon the de tectives were given a tip as to who the driver of the rig was, and at once three detectives were sent out looking for the man. The tip came through the young man whp was one of the occu pants of the rig at the time the acci dent occurred and who, it is under stood, is a son of an employe of the Great Northern Express company. Chief of Detectives Schweitzer was in clined to be very non-communicative about the identity of the occupants of the rig which caused the death of Mrs. O'Toole, but said the names of both parties were known. The young man who was in the buggy, but not driv ing the horse, was, he said, not wanted by the police, as he had nothing to do | with the accident. The name of the driver he was not ready to give out until he had been arrested, but he thought the man would either give hive himself up or be arrested within a few hours. Up to midnight last night neither had happened. It was learned, however, that John Straus, foreman of the Great Northern Express company's barn was the driver of the rig and that the other occupant of the buggy was a young man whose father is employed by the same com pany. Straus, who has been in hi 3 present position since the company started, is foreman of the barn located at 264 East Ninth street and lives at the same place with his wife and three small children. Wednesday afternoon he started from the barn shortly be fore 3 o'clock, Intending to go to Mer riam Park and select some horses for the company. On the way up Sixth street the accident occurred, and then followed the chase after him out West Seventh street. He returned to the ex press barn at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night, just after dark. Yesterday morning he learned that Mrs. O'Toole had died from the effect of her injur ies and about 9:30 o'clock he left the barn and up to midnight had not re turned. From an associate it was learned that Straus was excited and greatly worried by the accident, and It is feared that something has happened to him. Friends of Straus say that he is an expert horseman and that the ac cident which resulted In the death of Mrs. O'Toole could not have happened by reckless driving, but that It was a mistake or misjudgment on the part of Straus who evidently thought the woman would cross the street before he reafched her. This opinion is born out by the statement of Jeremiah O'- Brien, who is employed as janitor at the Cathedral, and says the horse which knocked down Mrs. O'Toole was not going at a very fast gait, The ac tions of Straus, after the accident, can not be explained by his friends, how ever as the least he could have done would have been to stop and ascertain the extent of the woman's injuries in stead of whipping up his horse and making his escape. Mr. Curtiss, the son-in-law of Mrs O'Toole, called at the central police station last night and made inquiry as to whether the parties in the rig had been arrested. He was informed by Capt. Rouleau that they had not but that their identity was knowrn and it was expected that they would be in custody before monring. Mr. Curtiss expressed himself very forcibly and in timated that the parties would be pros ecuted to the full extent of the law for the death of Mrs. O'Toole. Coroner Whitcomb seen last evening said there would be an Inquest, but as to just when it would be held he was not prepared to say. If the police suc ceeded in capturing the men who wero in the buggy, which, he said, was very likely to occur during the night, the jury would be empaneled today, but the taking of testimony would not com mence before Monday. Mrs. Straus is prostrated by the shock and could not be seen last evening. Detectives shadowed the house yester day afternoon and last night, but with -o liLS«cceß3L S « cceß3 - Thoae best acquainted with Straus say that it would not sur prise them if, under the nervous strain to which he has been subjected he had committed some rash act. H. M. Lyttle'tt New Sit. A New York Associated Press teleeram of J"t night says: "H. M. Lyttle, formerly of Louisville, later of St. Paul, but more re cently of Brooklyn, was today appointed man ager of the Metropolitan Street railway of this cKy." Small Fire Near Como. The residence of John Foster ar 477 Ton- El™ B t ßtreet was damaged to the extent of *3w by flre this morning at 1 o'clock Tho loss on contents Is also estimated at S3OO Loss covered by Insurance; Double Primaries Tonight. X T^ c .? e PJ lbllcan and p oPi»«t primaries will I el evening at the regular polling