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4 THE BfIUY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER ROW, COR. FOURTH AND MINNESOTA STS. Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St. Paul. Minn. WASHINGTON BUREAU, 1405 F ST. N W. Complete files of the Globe always kept on hand for reference. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Paynble in Advance. Dally and Sunday, per Month -5O Dally and Sunday, Six Months - $2.75 Daily and Sunday, One Year - *SA»O Dully Only, per Month - - 4O Dally Only, Six Months - - - - *r-' 2B Dally Only, One Year - - - - JH.OO Sunday Only, One Year 91.50 Weekly, One Year ----- ffl-OO TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, May 22.— Forecast for Sun flay" .Minnesota and North Dakota— Partial y cloudy weather; slightly cooler; northwesterly in the early morning, followed by generally fair weather bunday; cooler; brisk northwesterly winds. South Dakota-Fair; norther.y winds. Montana-Fair; light northwesterly wind*. TEMPERATURES. Place. ""TeinTjPlace. Tf™;. Chfcago 6S-74 Pittsburg GS-.O Cincinnati T4-7» . DAILY MEANS. Barometer 29.63; mean temperature. 58; re'athe humidity, 62; wind at 8 p.m., south we'str weather, cloudy; maximum tem^era ture 67; minimum temperature 0, da. ay range, 17; amount o£ rainfall in last tweiuj four hours, .34. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Tauire Danger Height of Sfng. Line- Water. Change St. Paul " ll ; 0 La Crosse I<> »■* _. o Davenport !•> f St. L.ou;s M "*•* THE OTHER SIDE. The Globe has nad frequent occa sion to point out tne inadequacy and impropriety of setting up "the pros perity test" as a determining factor in the political struggle. It has protest ed against the subordination of all moral issues to material. It has de clared that no country can be secure and no people happy or highly civiliz ed which follows the motto that you must grasp the elusive dollar wher ever you see it, and ignore the means by which it is secured. The prosperity test, if severely applied, must reduce a community to the condition of barbar ism from which it emerged, wherein the only question shall be who can snatch the most from his neighbor. There is another side to this issue, how ever, that bears more directly upon the Immediate fortunes of the people, and of which we do not believe that they have thought sufficiently. This is the fact that the constant presence of the prosperity test as an issue in any com munity is an absolute preventive of prosperity itself. If we are not much mistaken, the disappointment every where at the slow return of better times, the continuance of general de pression and the growth of discontent are symptoms of a disease that will not be cured until the pros perity test shall have been abolished, and the people begin to ask their lead ers onos more, not "what must we do to be rich." but "what ought we to do to be right?" It is a logical necessity. If you urge upon the voters a certain line of policy on the ground that it will make the country prosperous, you have at once developed and fixed the party argu ment. Tour leaders and privates fall Into two opposing bodies. The one says, vote for our man and platform and you will be prosperous. The other says the same. One or the other must be defeated. Now, whichever party is de feated must, until another election comes around, insist that the country is not prosperous, but in most wretched shape, and growing constantly worse. If it did not do this, if it should ad mit, no matter what the facts, that prosperity had come, It would vindi cate the position ot its opponent and destroy the possibility of its own fu ture existence. We have, therefore, as sured, as a consequence of the pros perity test, the permanent presence of considerable organizations of men bent upon proving to the public, right or wrong, as a matter of self-preserva tion, that the times are desperate, and that there can be no remedy until party power has been transferred. Now, what is the effect of this? It is inevitably to bring about exactly the condition asserted to exist. We are all of us pretty well aware by this time of the fact that imagination plays an Immense part, a leading part, indeed, in the lives and fortunes of men. Whan •we are told, as we have been thousands of times in the last few years, that "confidence" is all wt need, it means that, if men believe times are going to be better, they will enter into new en terprises, invest their money and so make times better; and, if they believe that times are going to be worse, they wiil draw their money out of the banks, put it in hiding, close factories, re fuse to make loans, and so bring the fabric of credit down about our ears in the midst of a general collapse. It fol lows, consequently, that, if pretty near ly one-half of our people, constituting the defeated party in any election, ara bound, as a party measure, to preach constantly the doctrine of depression and distress and calamity, then the re turn of good times becomes permanent ly Impossible. The imagination is affect ed by this constant dolorous view of life, confidence Is impaired, and that large bulk of humanity that takes its views from political leaders and political newspapers is perpetually in the dol drums. It is a logical fact, then, that, if the prosperity test is to remain the leacl ing issue in American politics, the ab- Bence of prosperity will be the leading characteristic of American business life. It will not make the slightest dif ference which party wins or what poli cy is put into effect. For the defeated party in any ccaste t whichever it may be, is thereupon bound to assert that we are not prosperous, that we cannot be come so, and that the times must grow worse until a change Is made. That assertion will be believed by enough people to partially or totally destroy the impulse of the most favorable con ditions. We are seeing something of these consequences now, when times ought to be good and are not. "We are convinced that not even Ihe vil lainous Dingley bill, with its disturb ing and threatening effect upon all industries, not even the crime of the party in power in setting its face against financial reform, could ch.jck the mighty forces at work to make the American people comfortable and hap py, were it not for the continual din ning of those who feel bound to say that there can be no prosperity »vith out a change in government; just as the Republicans intensified and pro longed the crisis of 1893, and cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars, by insisting that there could be no pros perity with the Democracy in power. This is a sword that cuts both wrySj and the sooner we lay it away in the arsenal of unused weapons the better for us all. Let us fight as vigorously as we will over political and economic issues, but let us substitute the ques tion of right and wrong for the qiifcs tion of cent per cent. It is both a | logical certainty and a demonstrated fact of experience that .while the pros perity test remains a principal factor of polities prosperity itself will never smile upon our people. «*t». _ EXTRAORDINARY' PROCEEDINGS. The people of St. Paul have seldom been more startled and impressed by any public event than by the unparal leled and scandalous interference dur- I ing the past week with matters sup , posed to be before the grand jury- The facts, which the Globe alone had en terprise enough to secure and honesty enough to give the public, have been the subject of Interested and indignant comment. That secret conferences should be held, participated in by the mayor of the city and by other persons high in political influence, whose sub ject matter related to possible indict ments by the grand jury, is such a tam pering with the machinery of justice as is rarely attempted and never fails to rouse the public to the highest pitch of resentment. The grand jury of this county has been investigating, without fear or favor as we believe, the management of financial concerns whose collapse brought misfortune and discredit to the community and suffering and ruin to thousands of its citizens. No more un pleasant and no more important duty could be laid upon any body of men. Justice and the public welfare demand that their inquiry be searching and exhaustive; that the evil which they are inquiring into should be probed to the bottom; that there should be no immunity because- of place or influ ence; that no guilty man should escape. And here we have a scurrying to and from among the politicians and such a fluttering in the nest as bodes danger to some of its inmates. What call is there to interfere? Who shall say to the men who are under oath to do their duty that they ought to be swayed by any other considera tion? What is the purpose of all this consulting and planning and gathering of the clans, and hastening to a rendez vous, and hiding in vaults, and tipping the wink to justice? Such extraordi nary proceedings are open to the most serious interpretation, and those who participate in them do not escape the public judgment unscathed. We can tell the gentlemen who are so unac countably anxious about the progress of justice in Ramsey county that they are stirring into movement a perfect whirlwind of suspicion, wrath and con demnation. We can tell them that the people who were at first amazed are now determined that political consid erations shall not stand in the way of right and duty. There is but one de mand now, from the lips of all right thinking people, and that is that jus tice be dealt out unsparingly, who ever may stand or fall before her im partial sword. ; — «». TALKING COMMOX SENSE. When Editor Hoard, of the Monte video Leader, takes his eyes from con templating visions of the money power and its infernal machinations to banish silver and enhance gold in order to make the great mass poorer and itself richer — strangely blind that when the mass is poor it cannot be rich — and puts them on actual conditions, he writes with a sanity and a commonsenseness that contrasts vividly with his views when he lets his Imagination loose on imaginary monsters. He then sees that we raise here the necessaries of life, the great food staples, in abundance; that "we have the soil, the climate and all the essential conditions for making a lhfcig," even If prices are low, and, hoping that they may be better, he urges his readers "to study the great question of how to raise two ears of corn where they raised one before and •how to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before." If he will now tell his farmer readers that they are not alone in the shrinkage of prices; that it is universal; that, in spite of legislation intended to prevent It, man ufacturers find their prices forced down ! equally with farm produce, and that even the money power has to take re turns on its investments 50 per cent less than formerly, he will aid them to a contentment, now disturbed by dem agogic and baseless assurance that they alone suffer from price depreci ation. Pursuing his theme, the editor of the Leader goes on to say: If there are any wise conclusions to be drawn from the experiences of the pasc few years, they lie in the direction of better methods and more intense farming. Not that our farms or fields should be larger, but that tho yield per acre, per field, per horse power and per man power, should be greater. It means that we should quit getting eighty acre results from a three-hundred-and-twenty acre farm. It means that a bunch of seven year-old-timber-heel steers are money losers. It means that a cow that gives skim milk. or that can produce only a hundred pounds of butter in two hundred and fifty days isn't worth milking. It means that a hog that is built only for racing purposes isn't worthy the name of "porker." It means that a breed of hens that cackles without laying should THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1897. be potted before they arrive at the age of discretion, and their posterity cut off before they are born. Finally, it means that the average farmer cannot afford to waste even the screenings or the little potatoes or the sour milk or the corn stalks and straw, or the griL'.n and grass that growa In the cor ners of the fields and fences, but that his system of farming should contemplate the consumption of all these on the farm and their conversion into something that will pay. whether It be beef or butter or eggs or pork or mutton or wool. These are wise words well put. The fact is that, ever since the war, habits of living, formed on the inflated prices caused by the depreciation of the cur rency during and subsequent to that time, have led to the violation of eco nomic laws by everybody. These laws have been steadily pressing for a re turn to natural conditions where only slow accretions of wealth are possible, where frugality, thrift and industry are the conditions of comfort, where the margin of profit is small, and during all that time we have all been trying to circumvent these laws. Congresses have been and even now one is bent on fatuously resisting them" and try- Ing to create by mere flat that pros perity that can only come through in dividual economies. The natural pro cesses of the distribution of wealth, created by labor applied to natural re sources, have been persistently inter fered with, the only result being to foment discontent by the spectacle of the rapid accretions of wealth by a I few from the forced contributions of the many. Present conditions are but the economic penalties we, as a people, are paying for the violation of economic laws. We may obstruct for a while the operation of these laws, but in time they work their will and have their way. The sooner all realize that pres ent price conditions are permanent, that they are universal, that they are nat ural results and must be accepted, the better it will be "for the peace of the country. *' ~ HOW NOT TO DO IT. Mr. Arosin, the president of the as sembly and a shining light among the Republican politicians of the city, has at least the virtue, unknown to most of his associates, of frankness. He Is so thoroughly disgusted with the party and Its performances in the alleged government of this city that he was prevented from resigning his position only by the urgent solicitation of others and their representation of the injury that such an act might work politically. He is not restrained, how ever, even by these considerations, from expressing his views and telling the truth with a frankness that does him credit. He Is tired of being one of the wheels in a machine that re volves in the empty air, without any visible connection with sublunary af fairs. He is weary and disgusted with the work of a city council which for one whole year has done nothing what ever in the public interest, but has studied solicitously and continuously the noble art of how not to do It. Mr. Arosin's description of the coun cil proceedings since the election that put into power the precious lot of Re publicans now in the city hall Is frank and Just. Not only has it done nothing, but it has tried, as conspicuously as I successfully, not to do anything. The Globe has followed, week after week, the proceedings of these incompetents, and shown them up to the public as they deserve. The present city gov ernment is not a corrupt body, because It has not the ability that is necessary to win that reputation. It is simply a lot of dawdlers, of narrow-gauge pol iticians, of petty ward bosses, who haven't an idea that rises above the level of a conference in the rear room of a saloon. For twelve months they have met and talked and parted, and not one interest of the city has been benefited thereby. As we said a short time ago, the sum total of the delibera tions and votes of these men can be found in a ridiculous and inhuman dog ordinance, which they have been com pelled to rescind, and an equally ridicu lous and oppressive bicycle ordinance, part of which has been thrown out by the courts, and the rest of which is condemned unsparingly by public opin ion. The immediate grounds of Mr. Aro sin's discontent are well taken. He says, and it is true, that the council has oc cupied practically the whole year with discussions and propositions relating to the street railway company, any one of which has not amounted to a hill of beans. He Is of the opinion, and he has good reason for It, that this is ex actly what was contemplated through out. The council waits upon the or ders of the Twin City Rapid Transit company and does its bidding eagerly, with the silly idea that It can throw dust In the eyes of the people by pre tending to an excess of zeal for the public service, while actually taking care that no improvements are made and no changes that do not originate in the wishes of the street railway com pany itself. We had months of debate over the Broadway loop ordinance, and it is as dead as Caesar, and everybody knew that it would be. We had other months of debate over a connection with the union depot, a matter most vitally important to the people of St. Paul, and nothing has been done, or will be done probably, because it "would require a trifle of extra service. We had weeks of agitation over a direct communication with Merriam Park, and, although the way to this was perfectly plain, by ordering an extension of the Rondo street line, the representatives of the railway company In the council forbade and prevented It. "We had an ordinance ordering University avenue to be boulevarded, which displayed its unfairness on the face of It. That was passed, simply to pull wool over the eyes of the peo ple, on the silly assumption that they would take this as evidence of hostility to the railroad company, and conse quently overlook the servile obedience to its bidding in all other respects. That ordinance was vetoed by the mayor, as it ought to have been and was expected to be, and so this one bit of accomplished legislation came to nothing. An ordinance was passed re quiring the paving of Fourth street be tween the tracks, and then another au- thorizing the change of the cable to an electric line, so that there would be an excuse for postponing the paving until another season. Now the whole racket begins again, with a protest against running, the electric line up Third street and'-Summit avenue, a pro test perfectly TjpjjSll founded in reason and expected and bargained for by the street railway company, so that the deadlock may b# p_ro|dnged. There are few public bodies that would care or dare lb\ make for them selves such a record .as this. It would (have been less 6feen «ad confessed had the council at tftfe outset declared that it would not tdQch Affairs relating to the street railway system. That, how ever, would hay* left-much time on its hands, which it^would have had to fill in with some, desnonsfcration of an em barrassing activity. The street rail way questions were retained, as the Cuban resolutions have been in the United States senate, as a subject for unlimited gabble and a palpable excuse for avoiding the consideration of prac tical affairs. _This council, and the whole administration of which it is a part, stands a lamentable and self-con fessed failure. It Is no wonder that a man like Mr. Arosln, who believes that there should be a little honesty In poli tics, and that city councils are meant to look after public instead of private Interests, is ready to part company with it. The people of St. Paul are pretty unanimously of the same opinion with him. They have never had a bigger dose of incompetence and worse than they have swallowed since last June. Salt would not save the Republican party in St. Paul at the next municipal election, for the best thing that could be done for it would be for the other members of the council to follow Mr. Arosin's inclination and hand in their resignations. It would make no great differen«e, and that difference would be on the side of gain, when we view the record of the last twelve months, if there were not to be another meeting of the council for the next twelve. It would also prevent the local Republi can organization from sinking any low er in the public esteem, if further de scent be possible. Anfl could Mayor Doran and Mr. McCardy be induced to include their resignations in the lot, the community would feel that its gold en age had come again and rejoice; and even the party, upon which they now hang like an incubus, would heave a great sigh of relief. mm CONCERTED. Not for purposes of glorification, but because it is always gratifying to find sound ideas forcing their way to the front, we may notice the remarkable conversion of public opinion in Minne apolis on the subject of city charters and home rule. For a series of years the be3t thought in this direction in St Paul has found itself bitterly an tagonized by the press and other rep resentatives of opinion in Minneapolis. We were told for nwiny years that the Minneapolis charter was not only ideal for that community* but that it "was' so nearly a product of revelation that it ought to be forced, with or without their consent, upon the people of every other city in the state. It is but two years ago that that view was so preva lent as to secure the forcing through the legislature of the Howard charter act, against the protest otf those who were able to point out clearly its er rors and dangers. At that time repre sentatives of St. Paul, were fighting for the Idea of home rule, »nd it was with the greatest difficulty that they were able to obtain legislative consent to submit to the people an amendment authorizing the people of cities to frame their own charters. Had this been obligatory, it would have had no following in the legislature. It was because it was voluntary that they at length permitted such action as would authorize other cities to make their owh charters, If- it should so please them. Two years have passed, and we find the press, the public organizations and a large part of the people of Minne apolis deeply agitated and insisting that no time should be lost in taking advantage of the home rule amend ment and legislation. The press urges the calling of public meetings and the formation of a satisfactory city charter. The people have discovered that a regime of dishonesty and of public plundering has prevailed there for years. They see no end to it, and they find no remedy for it, even through le gal prosecutions, while their present instrument of government remains in tact. The public money has been em bezzled or squandered. The letting of contracts has been a fruitful field for the jobber and the boodler. Vigorous attempts have been made to reach the evil and evildoer, and the prosecution finds itself foiled. Th« people of that city declare that they are tied hand and foot by their present charter, and that the only hope of liberty and security lies in the home rule provision. It Is not without pride that we dis cover this substantial confirmation of views that the Globe has been sup porting with energy and singleness of purpose for years, past. Believing that good municipal g&vermnent knows and can know little distinction of party, it has plead for the right of self-govern ment in cities, for separate municipal elections, and for, all J^hose regulations and restrictions that , -would guard us against the evils universal to day throughout tl*e cities of the United States. Fortunately, this work has not been an empty one. It 'has resulted in giving us such legislation as enables any community to get rid of its pres ent charter and to frame a new one by the act of Its pwn .pitizens, without dictation from a, careless legislature, and without being compelled to expand or compress its individual needs into the mold of others. The work has been a good work, and we are glad that those who once opposed It, but are now con verted by disastrous experience, may enjoy the fruits of It Meantime, for ourselves, let us not be neglectful of our own opportunity, even though the occasion for availing ourselves of It may be a lew pressing one. In the main, the charter of St. Paul prevents gross scandal and puts a bar upon wholesale squandering of the people's money. Tet we have found it to be seriously defective, and we, too, need a new charter. There Is but one opinion today, we Imagine, among the cities of Minnesota, and that is that the home rule amendment and the law carrying it into effect is one of the greatest boons that municipal government ever obtained from a legis lature. It is our business now to ac cept it without delay, to see that we, who originated this reform, are not the latest beneficiaries of it, and to take such action that a new charter for St. Paul, relieving us of all our embarrass ments, preserving whatever Is wise and safe, and adapting our resources to our present needs, is put before the people for their adoption at the coming spring election. PASS THE NEW ORDINANCE. The new bicycle ordinance offered In the assembly by Mr. Albrecht, taken In connection with the action already taken ordering the completion of the missing portions of the cycle path on Summit avenue at the city's expense, would go far toward redressing the grievances of which riders of the wheel now Justly complain. We urge upon both bodies of the council, in the In terest of fairness and on behalf of the rights of riders o>f the wheel, the setting at rest of the bicycle agitation by the approval of Mr. Albrecht's plan. It covers just the points In which the original ordinance was either foolish nr vicious, or both. It deals with the lantern question in precisely the right way. A wheel man who ures any sidewalk is ordered to carry a lantern after nightfall. Such lantern may be affixed anywhere on the forward portion of the wheel, which is all that is necessary. The silly requirement that it be carried only on the axle or fork, which it is improbable that any court would sustain, is done away with. Riders who do not use the sidewalk, but the roadway only, would not be vexed with this petty restriction, but could exercise their option. If they prefer, as many have done for years, to ride without a lantern, keeping off. the sidewalks and neither suffering nor inflicting injury upon any one, the re sponsibility is theirs. They are requir ed to yield the right of way, and are not to be entitled to claim damages for injury In the case of a collision. This is an immensely more satisfactory and practical way of dealing with the ques tion. The man who wishes to ride with out a light can do so and take the con sequence of his act, which is the idea of self-government as distinguished from an odious paternalism. Finally, there is added that clause which has been strangely omitted in every other ordinance, providing proper penalties for those who place obstruction or arti cles intended to Injure the wheel on any bicycle path. The wheelmen of this city are not un reasonable, nor has the Globe asked anything Improper in their name. They do not claim, nor should they have the right to xtae- sidewalks Indiscriminate ly. Wherever an outlet from the city, such as the Summit avenue path will be when completed, is furnished for -wheels in any one general direction, then the wheels should be banished from all the sidewalks on streets whose travel can be thus accommodated. Do that, make the carrying of the bell and the sounding of It imperative, re quire a lantern for all sidewalk riding, let the wheelman who uses the road way exercise his choice at his peril, and then provide proper penalties for Infringing the rights of others for both wheelmen and non-wheelmen, without discrimination or favor, and all will be satisfied. In every substantial par ticular justice will be done to all our people by the passage of the Albrecht ordinance. — MASTER IN EUROPE. What seems to us the most dramatic and singular incident of the termination of the war between Greece and Turkey has attracted surprisingly little atten tion. This is Its startling proof of the absolute mastery today of Russia in the affairs of Europe. If the whole drama of this outbreak had been ar ranged to lead up to a final act, in which the czar should appear seated on his imperial throne with the rulers of the other powers kneeling humbly be fore him to receive his commands, it could not flash upon the world more clearly the Indubitable fact. Through out the preliminaries of the contest and down to the time when Greece ac knowledged herself vanquished and sued for terms, Russia was only an equal among the six powers in the alliance. The refusal to permit the an nexation of Crete to Greece, the tacit authorization of hostilities by Turkey and. all that followed were the work of the powers jointly. While one might be allowed to suspect that Russia had a large share of control, there was nothing to prove It. The representatives of the other powers were prominent and voluble In all the instructions that were given and In all the bulletins declaring what could and what could not be done. The French and English premiers told us exactly what they In tended, how far the powers would go and where the line would be drawn. Then came the mutiny of Turkey against her masters, which fairly star tled the world. When these powers In concent directed the sultan to grant an armistice to consider the terms on which peace might be made, he re turned what was practically a con temptuous refusal. He declined to Take the matter up until after the feast of Bairam. He announced, later, condi tions that it would have been Impos sible for Europe to accept or Greece to fulfill, and, with his splendid fighting machine equipped ready for action, he stood upon his privilege. If the pow ers were not satisfied, he directed them to proceed to Pharsala within the zone of battle and there discuss the matter with him. This brought Europe face to face with the choice between aban doning its whole position and its doc trine of maintaining the balance of power and the Integrity of territory, and bringing armed persuasion to bear upon the Turk. It seemed for a mo ment as if the Turk was master in Europe. Then came the tremendous change. The czar simply lifted a finger, and, where the six powers had been flouted and defied at Constantinople, this one of them secured an instant and uncon ditional obedience. The Russian ruler did not even deign to issue a command or express a desire. He passed the word to his representatives who rule in Bul garia, and Turkey saw that within a week the whole of the Balkan states would be in a blaze. Their armies were to be mobilized, and, before the Turk could press his advantage in Thessaly, he would have been attacked fiercely all along the line by armies which, while considerable in themselves, knew that the whole military power of Rus sia was behind them. Precipitate was the capitulation of the Turk. The tele graph carried an instant order to Ed hem Pasha to suspend hostilities and to proclaim an armistice. The suprem acy of Russia over Turkey was a tri fling matter. It was used to exhibit to the world the supremacy of Russia in Europe. The contrast is made the more striking by the fact that it is Turkey's ancient and more hated foe to whose commands she now bows so meekly. It wouljl ..have been -cojnpar atively easy for her to yield to. England and to France and to Germany^ who not so long ago protected her and re leased her from the hard conditions about to be imposed by the Russian conqueror. But it is at the feet of the Cossack, acting alone through instru mentalities that belong to him, and not to any of his allies, that she lays down the trophies won in war and asks for terms. Masters of ethnology have told us that the Russian stock will produce the coming race in Europe. Men familiar with the resources of that vast empire and the wonderful endurance and equally wonderful ambition and imagi nation of that people- have said that It was growing into manhood where its neighbors were either passing to ward old age or dropping to decay. Events appear to vindicate their judg ment. Whatever be the terms of peace between Greece and Turkey, it is Russia who dictates them. Out of this con flict it mattered little who might come as victor, but it matters much for the future development of history that Rus sia emerges as the real dictator of Europe. This is an event not to be for a moment lost sight of, because it is more impressive and more porten tous than could have been the wiping of either Greece or Turkey from the map of Europe. In the Eastern hemi sphere the czar is supreme. m We do not care to enter into a discourse of what the legislature did or did not do, but we will venture the prediction that if John Lind runs for governor at the next election he will be elected.— Jackson Republic. Why stop there? A safer prediction would be that there will be Democratic representa tives in congress from the First, Third, Fourth, Sixth and ' Seventh districts, aM 'a: Democratic legis.lja.ture is a strong probabil ity. i —^»" Six aspirants, sound of body and mind, assisted by several score of lieutenants, have been shaking the patronage tree very hard of late, but the plum refuses to fall and Jordan has a Democratic postmaster yet.— Jordan In dependent. The longer you can keep the six aspiring and perspiring the longer you will have a Democratic postmaster in Jordan. Keep them shaking the tree. BANKER JOHNSON'S FALL Came to Grief Trying to Protect His Father's Good Name. LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 22.— John F. Johnson, late president of the State National bank, was arrested today. He took the affair coolly. The bond was fixed at $25,000, which 4 he was una ble to furnish. He was taken to In dianapolis at midnight. The following statement was given out for publica tion today by a friend of Mr. John son: "A generous public should know that the present condition of the State Na tional has not been brought about by undue speculation or extravagance on the part of Johnson, nor by his exces sive selfishness, but by the result of circumstances, over which he could not gain control, and for many of which he was not responsible. When his father died, Mr. Johnson was a young, suc cessful and enterprising business man. He took upon himself the settlement of his father's estate, at the request of the widow and heirs, not knowing that it was in debt nearly $200,000. The said debts he undertook to pay, expecting to have no difficulty, but could not sell real estate, etc., and his means gave out. Then he began using the bank's money, hoping, from his various en terprises, to be able to return the mon ey, but was without success. He had no other purpose than to maintain his father's good name by protecting his creditors. He confesses his mis takes and offers no defense, except that he was trying to preserve his father's reputation. When Bank Ex aminer Caldwell laid down the $200, --000 worth of forged notes before Presi dent Johnson and said: 'Mr. Johnson, you signed those notes?' the answer was given without a tremor, 'I did' " The expert said today that certain bookkeepers in the bank knew of the president's crime, but the false entries being made by the president himself saves them from the clutches of the law. Business houses who were bor rowers of the bank have successfully tided over the present trouble, and no failures are now expected. President Johnson will enter a plea of guilty before the United States court, and serve his sentence. * POOLING BU* UP. Proponed Act Considered l»y the Sen ate Committee. WASHINGTON, May 22.— The senate committee on interstate commerce was In session for almost three hours today considering the pooling bill. Owing to the fact that several of the members of the committee were absent no final conclusions were reached. All sections of the bill received attention, however, and it Is believed the measure has been made acceptable to a majority of the members of the committee. The bill will practically be a sub stitute for all existing laws regulating commerce between the states and will legalize pooling and certain restric tions. One of the amendments agreed upon today limits all pooling contracts to four years duration and requires that they shall be submitted to the commission for approval. Another gives the interstate commerce commis sion power to maintain supervision of rate schedules during their contonu ance and to demand that reasona-ble changes be made by railroad com panies upon the written complaint of any community. The commUtee. . will meet again next Wednesday when a ■ report probably •will be authorized. GfIfIfIDJUKYfIESTED BUT COWSTY ATTORNEY AXUKItSOS SPENT A BUSY DAY OF IT. MORE INDICTMENTS COMING. AiNOTHEtR MAN, ACCORDING TO RE. PORT, GOES ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT. ANOTHER CONFERENCE REPORTED Congressman Stevens, Grain lubj.cc tor Clausen and County Auditor Sullivan Get Together. The gTand Jury took a rest yester day, but their servant, Attorney An derson, spent a busy day. It was said he was drawing indictments. Juat who the grand jury have decided to ring in this time remains to be se^n. Tomorrow will probably disclose the re sults of yesterday's efforts on the part of the county attorney to draw .in in dictment or two that will hold water. All sorts of rumors were doing serv ice yesterday, but most of them related to one man and his friends. While it had been semi-offlcially given out That the connection of the gentleman in questidn with a certain bank had been found to be such that no indictment would be brought against him, hia friends still remained exercised about the result and hoped in some way — legitimate, of course —to head off what they con sider would, at the most, be regarded as a technical fault, and which the first Jury that had a chance would so de clare it to be. But yesterday's rumors were disheartening, for it was said that the grand jury had ordered an indict ment drawn, and if the bill isn't recon sidered tomorrow, it may be returned at that time. Whether or not there are any good grounds for this story, time will probably disclose. While it has nothing particular to do with the rumors of yesterday it appears that Congressman Stevens is still hold- Ing conferences. He was one of a party of five who sought a secluded corner in the basement of the city hall Friday#and spent some time talk ing over certain matters. No grand jurymen were present, this time. Chief Grain Inspector A. C. Clausen was there, and County Auditor Sullivan and County Auditor Sullivans" son, and one or two others. The gentlemen were seen to enter an office, and, as they disappeared from the office, and the only place in which they could dis appear was a vault, the presumption is that is where they went. Why there was so much secrecy about it cannot even be guessed at. Mr. Clausen, who went to Chicago last night, unless he changed his mind, M'hen asked by a reporter for the Globe what was go ing on, said the meeting was accident al. He had gone with young Mr. Sul livan, who is an r.ttache of the grain inspection office, to the office of the latter's father. County Auditor Sulli van, and the two had run across Con gressman Stevens, who is a warm per sonal friend of the grain inspector. CIVIL. SERVICE. Another Session of the Senate Imp-. tlKutinn Committee. WASHINGTON, May 22.— The civil service committee of the senate con tinued its sessions today. Several let ters were receivd from chiefs of bureaus, among others one from Mr. Miller, acting commissioner of internal revenue, who suggested the propriety of amendments to the civil service rules. He thought the number of ex cepted places should be increased. These exceptions should in all cases include the chief deputy and cashier of revenue collectors in the larger dis tricts. He also suggested that the col lector should have control of the selec tion of a large number of his sub ordinates. Commissioner of Patents Butter worth advocated a change permitting heads of departments to select their executive staffs, regardless of the recommendations of the civil service commission. The first witness of the day was Almont Barnes, of the agricultural de partment. Mr. Barnes said there were employes in the agricultural depart ment who came in as temporary per diem employes, and have remained there as clerks without passing tlie civil service examination. Albert Ba ker, who was the private secretary of Public Printer Benedict during his term of office, said that the civil ser vice had proved a more desirable means of securing employes than the old system of appointment on the ad vice of congress. Harold Benedict, of the printing of fice, brother of the recent public print er, also expressed the opinion that / c results under the present system were fifty per cent better than under the "spoils system." According to fne witness, Public Printer Palmer had be gun making appointments immediate ly after Mr. Cleveland's election in 1892, and during the eighteen months thereafter had made appointments at the rate of fifty a month until the office was greatly overcrowded. Four fifths of the appointees were Demo crats, appointed by Mr. Palmer, al though a Republican, to secure the friendship of Democratic congress men. Senator Elklns was desirous of know ing how many appointments had been secured by any one member of con gress, and the witness answered that about seventy-five were credited to Representative Richardson, of Tennes see, chairman of the house committee on printing, and about 200 to Senator Gorman, chairman of the senate com mittee. J. L. Kennedy, formerly of the print ing office, explained that ?#. Palmer had made many appointments during the time specified by Mr. Benedict be cause of the "hard times," and it had been thought better to give employ ment to many men part of the time than a few men constantly. The civil service law failed to protect employes, because it did not prevent their dis charge. The commttt*"* adjourned for one week. -m+m Recommended by Tnwney. WASHINGTON, May 22.— Representative Tawney today recommended Drs. K. A. Swartwood. D. C. Cummlngs and M. J. Tay lor for members of the pension examining beard at Waseca; Drs. C. H. Cooper. F. J. Hallorin and R. C. Dugan for the board (it Chatfield; Dr. J. D. Utley, of Spring Valley; Dr. A. Plummer. of Racine, and Dr. H. Slip percn, of Ostrander, for the board at Spring Valley. Patents Issued. WASHINGTON, May 22.— List of patents is sued this week to Northwestern Inventors, reported by T. D. Merwln, patent lawyer, 910, 9U and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul. Minn., and Washington, D. C: John Beta, vegetable cutter; Reuben B. Dlsbrow, Owat onna, combined churn and butter worker; Herb«rt H. Freeman, Pierre, S. D.. hat holder; Victor Klingler, Slayton, steam boiler tlua front; Victor K^ngler, Slayton, boiler flue front; Pinney Sprague, St. Paul, and R. C. Sprague, Cedar Rapids, 10.. rotary ovaporator,