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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1884.
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EQUAL SHOW FOR WATER AND UAH,
THA N8P0 It TA TION.
This week it appears Is to witness the fur-
thir struggle in Coiifcrras over the question of
some kinri ol government regulation of inter-
ktate railroad traffic, Two different methods
of dealing with (he question are proposed.
Tbe house committee on commerce h is sub-
mitted a Mil to tstabli>h u board of commis-
iriocers of Interstate commerce with authority
to supti>itu and iu a measure to regulate the
interstate ruilrcad system. Mr. Reagan ob-
jects to this method, and continues to urge in
its stead what is called tile Reagan bill, which
leaves euf a ce mmisslori, but provides a sys-
tem of prohibitions and penalties to prevent
prolfrg Knd unjust disorimintiona. It
is deiittful that any definite action
<11 the question will bo reached at
the present sessioD. It is desirable
that the government should have a defined
and fettled policy as regards the exercise of
the constitutional power of Congress to regu-
late commerce between the States; but it is
not desirable that in the exercise of this power
a beard of commissioners, or any other agency,
ehould he invested with arbitrary authority Co
regulate railroad freights, or the intricate and
delicate details of railroad manageoaeut.
However railroad interests might be affected,
it is certain that the public would be a sure
sufferer, and the greatest sufferer, by every
abuse of that authority. Nor is the public
interest to be promoted by a system of statu
tcry regulations, which would destroy tho
freedom of individual or associate action
that is wanted to encourage legitimate an 1
solid investments of capital in railroad
properties and enterprises. Upon mature
reflection doubtless the true solution of this
interstate commerce problem is to be found,
not in arbitrary regulations either local or
general, but in some comprehensive, capable
and horn Bt supervision which will give the
public the facts of the railroad situation and
threw true and timely light on the condition,
relations and opeintions of all tho important
railroads, for the benefit alike of the public at
large and of all who are directly or indirectly
concerned in these roads as stockholders,
creditors, dealers, or in any manner what-
ever. 'J'fco public interest in railroads
has refer*lice entirely to tho problem of tho
test attainable facilities of transportation.
Only this purpose conkl have justified tho
giant of the many millions of acres of public
land to railroad companies, and the grant to
su< b companies of right of way to lay down
railioads in such an unlimited measure a? to
make competition in railroad building about
us free as competition in steamboat and ship-
tuiidirg, It is indeed with respect to the
problem ef the best attainable facilities in
w ater transportation, as a complement to the
railroad system, that the producing and com-
mercial interests of the country have now
more special reason to b * solicitous. It is here
Ifcat the deep-water question represents the
claim of larger facilit.its of water transporta-
tion to hh equal share of consideration.
The equivalent of twice ?500,000,000 iu cash
would bardiy be too high nn estimate of lands
and other values given by the United States
and by states and citits and local communities
to pron.ote railroad enterprises. Such grants
in Texas alone amount to a cash value of
scarcely less than #00,000,0,10. But what has
the government of Texas or the government
of the United States done for tho promotion of
Jai ger facilities of commerce on the high-
ways of water transportation? The amount
of it is infli itesimal in comparison tither as to
value or effect. Indeed the practical ten-
dency of the fedeial policy has been to
stifle rather thsn to develop the principle of
free competition on the great water highways
which nature has provided. But the time has
come when the producing and commercial in-
terests of this country, to escape disaster,
must have the amplest facilities for movement
and exchange by both water and land trans-
portation. Our railroad system, if left corked
up, so to speak, by artificial as well as natural
obstructions along the seaboard as well as
along the interior bouudaiies, will languish
more and.more and suffer more and »uore
under the effects of unhealthy competition in
circumstances of internal congestion and en-
gorgement.. Deep-water outlets and freer con-
ditions of trade seaward and outward in all
directions are as necessary for the health and
prosperity of every great railroad property in
the country as for the health and prosperity
of every staple form of commerce and pro-
ductive industry in the country.
the discretion to aid one such school and to
withhold 'iid from another, as the plan of the
committee proposes, and still less acceptable
'8 the proposition to empower the board
of education to aid private schools.
The availablo school fund is already
In too inany cases diverted wrongfully from
the purposes for wbicb it was collected. The
board of education is specifically empowered
by the constitution to apportion this school
lunel in a certain prescribed manner, which,
however pleasing it might be to the board to
encourage private enterprise, is not permitted
tli ni to do wiih the fuui's to be distributed to
the counties. These objections to the plan, as
ulmitteel by the committee, may be obviated
by change s be fore the proposition comes before
the legislature.
GENERAL QliANT DECLINES A PEN-
SION.
In declining to accept the pension, which
feme members of Congress proposed to confer
en him, General Grant showed better taste
than the record of his life led people to oxpect.
It is not at all likely that the bill to pension
General Grunt could hav> passed both houses
of Congress, and his action in asking that the
bill be withdrawn, in all re'pects timely and
judicious, has doubtless saved him from hu-
miliation. There is no urgeut reason whv
General Grant should be provided with a pen-
sion. He is not in want. From the " oldest
ex-president fund" he receives 175,000 a year,
which, with ordinary economy, ought to be
sufficient to support himself and wife,
with the necessary servants—which
row comprise his family. Congress
has been altogether too liberal in granting
pensions. The pension laws of the county fur-
nish one of the most oppressive burdens that
the people art . eq.nred lo bear for public pur-
poses. The pension bureau Is a hot-house of ex-
travagance, corruption, venality and perjury.
There are undoubtedly veterans of the Union
armies entitled to pensions, but no man who
escaped the shock of battle unhurt, or the ser-
vice uninjured, should be the recipient of a
bounty. General Grant never received a
scratch in the civil war; neither was his health
impared by exposure, fatigue or any other
cause incidental to military life. At the last ses-
sion of Congress on effort was made to pl icn
Genera) Grant on the retired list of the army,
with the rank and pay of general, but it
failed, and bencethe presidential recommenda-
tion that, a pension be granted him at tais sas-
sioD. While many will be inclined to believe
that General Grant would not hive declined
tho pension if he had been fully convinced
ttat the bill would pass, still it is better to
take a generous view of his action and give
blm credit for pure motives and lofty thought.
VI e all know, of course, that he is in debt;
tbat (he failure of tbo swindling concern in
which be was a partner put him flat on his
back in a financial sense, still, the tax-payeri
of the country have not engaged to pay hi)
private debts, and he has am do rnea'is for
bis own and his family's subsistence. Ic
was only a short while ago semi officially an-
nounced that he was to receive $50,000 for a
series of personal reminiscences of the war for
publication in the Century magazine, and
there is no doubt tbat if he should attempt a
history of the war or of his administration
w bile president, he could clear a handsome
st m. Let him emulate Blaine and try litera-
ture. It is more profitable and moro manly
to earn his own livelihood tban to depend on
tfce public. A pension to General Grant at
this time would undoubtedly be in the nature
of a civil pension, and to open a civil pjnsion
list is on innovation that every thoughtful
citizen, alive to the mischievous con-
sequents, will Eet bis face against. If
General Grant were pensioned by Congress
there could be no good reason why McClellan,
Butler, Slocum, Franklin, Banks, Rosecrans,
Palmer, Logan, Arthur, Blaine, Conkling, and
hundreds of other# should not be knocking at
the doors of Congress for pensions, at the
next session, in consideration of past pub-
lic set vices, civil cr military. The prin-
ciple is a bad one, and if persisted it would
beci me dangerous. Hence it was the very
wisest thing that General Grant could do to
decline in advance, before Congress got a
( hi.rice to discuss the matter.
climate and four crops in the tropics. Fx
pcriments have shown that this plant can be
cultivated with success south of tho
41° of latitude, anil according to
Mr. Jagerhulier it has been raised
with success cn swamp lands of New Jersoy,
The profit on ramie is said to bo from $40 to
#50 per acte, thus offering to tho farmere of
the section south of this degree of latitude a
better crop than flax, on which the profit is
said to be but f!ir> per acre. That the cultiva-
tion of ramie is receiving attention outsido of
this country is evident from the faot that plan
tut ions of it are scattered through France,
Spain ni.il Portugal, and extensive areas have
been planted with it iti Egypt, Algiers aud
Ceylon, the profit from which, it is said,
amounts to as much as $100 per aero.
The coachman is again asserting his rights.
Tw o of him got in his work with younger
daughters in the solemn .-.tate of Massachusetts
last week.
Newspaper mention his been mads of tho
death of tho mother of John H. Oberly, chair
n an of the Illinois Democratic state commit
tee. The venerable lady was 83 years old at
the time of her deatb. Her father serve I
under Washington at Valley Forge and Braa-
dy wine, and for yearn before her death Bhe
represented five generations, being a great-
grandmotber. Cyrus 8. Oberly, The News
correspondent at Houston, 1b her son.
Tiik review of the interstate commerce bills
now before Congress given by our Washington
correspondent this morning will be read with
interest.
The Texas German Post sayi It can not con-
cede to the legislature the right to suppress the
sale of any production from the press. The
first step affects the Police Gazettes. The
next may be free-thought literature or matter
objectionable to the temperance party. There
is no place to draw the line. The argument is
similar to tbat againBt allowing the post nas-
ter-gineral to exclude lottery tickets from the
mail. They may begin with lotteries and go on
to other matters. The moral spirit of the people
iR the proper power to reject any objectionable
literature. Meanwhile the judicial authority
has settled the legal status of the Polics
Gazettes in Texas. It remains to be seen how
the law will work.
HIGH GRADED PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
THE UNIVERSITY.
The plan of a system of high graded public
schools submitted by a committee of the bon d
of university regents may, io several particu-
lars, be found incomplete and impracticable,
but there can be no question of the value and
importance of the general proposition which
tfce committee submits. The plan, which is
elsewhere printed in full in this issue of Tub
News, will be found to contemplate the estab-
lishment of a system of higher public educa-
tion inteimediate between the public schools
and the university. It is conceived as a ne-
cessity which has become apparent upon
finding a great free university in the State
comparatively without students, because the
youth of the State are without attainments to
pi epare them to enter their university. But
it is of the very least of the advantages of a
sjstem of high graded public schools that it
serves for the pi eparation of university stu-
dents. Not only university students,
tut students for the Agricultural and
Mechanical college, for the normal
schools, and for other colleges in the
State will be prepared, as well as students for
the professions, and for mercantile aud scien
tific pursuits, who may not enjoy collegia'e
advantages. It is not worth while to advert
at length to the defects in the plan under con-
sideration, for the reason that it does not ap-
pear other than a general proposition, subject
first to the action of the board of regents, aud
next to legislative action. The principal ob-
jection to the plan proposed is that it seeks to
connect private schools and classj8 in private
schools with the public sjstem. W%h respect
to the source from which the support of the
si stem is to be derived, there will also be much
difference in opinion. The tendency of public
sentiment is to remit to local taxation the sup-
f oi t of public schools maintained as to time or
as to grade beyond the scope contemplated in
the general provision for the common schools.
The plau proposed disregards this requirement,
aid apparently contravenes the constitutional
mle with respect to the distribution of the
public school fund. This fund must be appor-
ticned to the counties according to scholastic
population, and can not be used to assise high
schools scattered here aud there through tli9
State. But were it proper and lawful to use
the school fund in such manner, it would not
Le light to clothe the board of education with
It transpires that the "lobby," so-callod, or-
ganized at Washington to impede the E.ids
till, has made, or designs making, the Galves-
ton Wharf company a principal object of at-
tack in framing objections to the granting of
an appropriation for the improvement of the
harbor. It will be represented by this so-
railed lobby that the Wharf company stands as
a bfiirier to commerce between the high seas
end the interior, and to prove this position tho
back history of the Wharf company will be
cited in evidence. As the Galveston Wharf
comjany has been here all along while the
United States through its engineer corps was
seeking to improve the harbor, and would,
from the base of this so called lobby, have
been quite as much an obstacle to commerce
if the United States engineers had
ebtained deep water as if any other agency
hod obtained it, it is not clear why the Eads
bill should lie opposed because of the existence
of the Galveston Wharf company. Shipping
must be accommodated with wharves, aud
shipping pays for the use of wharves wherever
shipping touches. The Galveston Wharf com-
pany of to-day is not the Galveston Wharf
company of ten years ago in the matter of
charges, for there has been a steady and intel-
ligent improvement on the part of the Wharf
company in this direction since the days when
Tee News first brought its guns to bear upon
this corporation. But that is neither here nor
there. The News simply alludes to this pecu-
liar mode of attack upon the Eads measure as
showing the two-edged nature of the
framers of the design. Who and what
this sc-called lobby is composed of has not yet
been made public, but it is believed for the
m ost part, to be a composition of itinerant ad-
venturers, who would not object to being
bought off by the friends of the Eads bill on
tfce one band or the Galveston Wharf company
or. the other. A proper sense of self-respect
will admonish all concerned to have nothing
to do with this so-called lobby whatever, for
it cau scarcely be possible that a great work
or a great cause could be seriously hazarded
by the nefarious practices of a list of irre-
piessible adventuiers. Their methods and
personnel may require exposure at the hands
of tbe deep-water committee, but surely noth-
ing teyond this
It has not been stated whether Rev. Henry
Ward Beecber attended the funeral of "Mutual
Friend" Moulton, Henry, doubtless, would
much rather have attended his funeral in the
fall of 1875.
The article of fraud current in Chicago is
not of the right Brand.
In tbo last issue of the New York Dry
Goods Bulletin the editor, Mr. Jagerhuber,
examines the subj ct of ramie culture and
tbe preparation of the fiber aud gives it as his
opinion that this plant will furnish the cheap
fiber-producing materials of tbe future. Ac-
cording to Mr. Jagerhuber the ramie, which
belongs to the nettle family, can be made to
produce two crops per year in a temperate
Senatoii Vest'si resolution for an investiga-
tion with regard to the leasing of Indian lands
should pass. There is no doubt tbat there is
an extensive Held for fraud in that directio i,
and it is equally certain that speculators have
taken advantage of it.
The New York Heraid's cablegram says that
Baron Manteuffe), the governor-general of
Alsace-Lorraine, has again tendered his
resignation to Emperor William. He urgent
ly solicits its acceptance. He positively de-
claies that bis mission to govern the territory
has been a failure, and states that any at-
tempt to do so under tbo present form of gov-
ernment must necessarily fail. The baron be-
seeches the emperor to renounce tbe idea of
autonomy for Alsace-Lorraine aud to open his
ej e s to tbe truth that to weld the province into
Germany as a lasting aud adhesive part of
Ihe empire, a despotism, for the present at
least, is absolutely essential.
A close friend of Governor Cleveland says
tbat Bayard, Thurman aud Pendleton are cho
only names considered so far in connection
with Ihe secretaryship of stat >. The earn i
authority says that Thurman is the favorite,
that Bayard would prefer the Senate, and
that Pendleton will be sent to the court of St.
James. j
The New York Herald can not see with
sanguine Mr. McCulloch how the subsidy poli-
cy would pay. It notes tbat Mr. McCulloch
holds tbat with free iron, etc , the American
bmhiers could compete with the foreign ship-
builders. At this reasoning, repeal would
give us tbe ships, if needed. But really it
w ould not pay to run the ships if we had them,
argues Mr. McCuiloch. If so, the Herald
tbinks the government would have too much
on its hands in undertaking to pay the lines
for running. It then discusses the subject in
connection with the protective system, as fol-
lows:
Hiding naturally stimulated domestic Industrial,
It is now proposed to s imulate shipping, and, curi-
ously enough, this proposition is brought forward
at a time wh- n the protective policy, as applied to
manufactures, is about to be abandoned. H is sail,
first, that shipowners could compete with foreign-
els on equal terms; hut, second, that even given
equal terms, they could no'; and so h is proposed
to bribe them to sail vessels, to grant there a
ceitoin return on their investment to be
taken in taxes from the whole country. Sucli
a policy cau be defended on no rational ground. It
would be class legislation in its worst form and
prove a very costly experiment. The merchant
marine of the world is now In excess of the trade
requirements. Why add to the number of vessels
when maintaining a tariff which effectually pre-
vents the exiension of commerce? We regret that
for. McCulloch should have given the weight of his
authority to uny such proposition.
The legislature of Illinois is evenly divided.
Wont there be a beautiful row for the United
States senatorship? One party will have to
weaken, and which it shall be will be the lead-
ing question until the thing is done.
The ITnited States government has now four
half-finished, ungainly-looking iron clads on
hand ns a relic of Secor Robeson. Of course
Chandler and John Roach and the other naval
jobbers want Congress to appropriate money
to f nish them. The New York Sun advises
Congress to invest #1300 in 4000 pounds of
dynamite t ) be divided evenly between the
Jour hulks. Then, says the Sun:
The touch of a key, a puff of smoke, a dull rum-
bling sound, and one after another the four fraud-
clou monitors, the gigantic monuments of Roober-
sonian corruption, and the standing invitation to
continued jobbery, the unfinished and impracti -
cable monstrosities *hich have come down to the
present generation from the golden age of gang
rule in the navy, will disappear forever from the
sight of the plundered taxpayers. Millions upon
millions of dollars have been absorbed by these
four pacln dermatous hulks. Let it all go. Charge
it bII to profit and 1 ss, and count the $t?0t) expend-
ed for dynamite as the best investment ever made
in the interest of an honest administration of the
novy department. This is the way to finish the
fraud-clad monitors. Finish them effectually!
It is barely possible tbat the Suu is preju-
diced, and that under a new and ecouomical
administration the four half-finished vessels
might be completed with promptitude and
profit.
An Arizona postmaster was killed by Mexi-
cans a few days ago. Could this becallel
civil service reform?
The Washington correspondent of thePhila-
elelpfcia Times, describing the scenes and in-
cidents attending the opening of Congress,
says:
The hoary-headed "Richelieu" Robinson had
his hair really trimmed ond carefully disported in
Riiea waves Amid the general hilarity llorr, tho
fanny man from Michigan, looked gloomily on. Ho
had had ail the fun he wanted. Colonel Tom Ochil-
tree sat quietly in his seat, conscious of having
won tbe respect of his fellow-members and deter-
mined to retain it bj the demeanor of a gentleman.
Genial Frank Hurd limped about with his cane, eu-
tertoining bis numerous friends with Ohio polities,
and apparently oblivious to his early retirement
from public life.
It will please the friends of the represent-
ative of the Seventh district to see this kindly
mention of him, from a sometimes over-
severe critic.
The Washington Star has iearned from a
New England congressman who knows Mr.
Cleveland, that the latter was more annoyed
by the story of a disagreement between him-
self fiLd Mr. Hendricks than anything that
had appeared lately In tho papers. Ho Bald
that ex-Governor Hendricks, while on a trip
east, traveled out of hia way to pay a brief
visit to his associate on the tfe-ket. Governor
Cleveland was not aware of his coming, not
having had time that forenoon to read the
New York papers, in which the visit was an-
nounced. The governor saiel he was glad to
fee Mr. Hendricks, and they had a very pleas-
ant talk; thnt very little of their conversation
related to politics, and that in a casual sort of
way, anel they parted in the most cordial man-
ner petriple.
In the Reichstag, on the ilel, Prlnoe Bis-
marck declared that the introduction of Dr.
Windthorst's motion to repeal the law em-
powering tho government to expel or intern
priests for illegally exercising their functions
after its recent rejection by the BundesratH,
wos disrespectful to the Bundearatb. More
over, be Bald, tho last two Prussian mini (tor-
of public worship bad not applied the law.
Tbe attitude taken by the party of the Center
impelled an understanding between Germany
and Borne. Prussia would not consent to re-
peal the law, at least not for the Polish
districts. The government would only ac
cept a prelate for the archbishopric of Posen
who did not sympathize w ith the efforts co
sever western Prussia anel upper Silesia from
the Prussian State The negotiations between
Prussia and tbe Roman Curia since 1878 had
been practically without result, although
Prussia bad granted various concessions.
These negotiations were still pending. The
government could afforel to wait. It would
only make further concessions In case onoes-
sions were made by Rome with a view to the
restoration of peace. Dr. Windtborat replied,
and Prince Bismarck resumed speaking. He
spoke against parliamentary government. The
law, he said, was directed against political
agitation and not against religion. In spite of
Prince Bismarck's opposition, Dr. Windthorst's
motion to repeal the law in question was
passed by a vote of 217 to 93.
The Chinese are said to be contemplating a
spirited foreign policy. It was surmised that
they bad heard some time ago wbat a spirited
foreign policy means, and were trying it.
A telegram to the Globe-Democrat from
Washington says: " M?. Randall ia quiet'y
advocating tbe idea of doing next to nothing
this session?" Mr. Hurd is reported as saying
be will try hard to have the revenue reduced.
Mr. Mills is reported to say that there will be
no meddling with tbe tariff till next term,
when "steps will be taken to reduce the
revenue." The revenue seems to be tho enemy.
Would tbe tariff be much less oppressive if
tbere were no surplus?
The supreme assurance of General Newton
i» maintaining that the work of the govern-
ment engineers in Galveston harbor has boen
so far satisfactory, eccording to the estimates,
as reported from Washington to The News
this morning, is in keeping with the character
of gall which this head of the engineering de-
partment is in the habit of emitting. Genetal
Newton has apparently forgotten the per-
forating criticism which Captain Eads dealt
him before a joint committee of the Senate
and House last summer, when the former
gentleman denied substantially the statement
contained in one of the report) to
which wis appended his own siguiturt,
General Newton was ignorant of the stuf
which ho had signed as an official report, and
it was only afte-i Captain Eada had produced
the report with tbe Newton signature thereto
ttat that confused personage concluded to
sque lch himself. The engineers, like some of
their betters, perhaps, never know when to let
np claiming. Colonel Moody must have bean
at a white heat yesterday in Washington
when the extent cf General Newton's claims
reached bis ears.
STATU fUEBB.
What the Interior Papers Say.
Says the Lavaca Herald and Planter:
No better or more effective immigration eloeu-
mer t coi.!d he given to tne world than this the
deep water of The Ualvbston News.
The New Era is the English name of a new
papei, printed in both English and Spanish, at
Paso del Norte, on the Mexican side of the
Rio Grande. It is a handsome seven-colutnn,
four page paper, and expresses Its aims to be
the promotion of the social and political re
generation of Mexico. With this object, the
New Era has been located at " a point of the
geographical limits between the republic of
Mexico and the United States." It will aim
to make intelligent people acquainted with the
country, to the end that they may form an
estimate of the abundant elements of pros-
perity that the soil of Mexico treasures. It
says:
We neeel foreign industry, activity In our midst;
w e need farms and capital lo aid us in exploiting
those treasures and in augmenting production,
ond by such me-ans increasing the prosperity and
well-being of all classes of society. Mexico has
in good faith opened her frontiers to give freedom
to proper active intercourse with our neighbors.
The country of Washington and Lincoln, and thit
of Moreles and Juarez are now bound by close
links which causes n fruitful activity between taa
two civilizations. The Mexican Central railway,
which places the capital of Mexico In communica-
tion with the UDited States of North America, is a
pledge of amity between both peoples.
The Austin Statesman would follow the rule
of the villagers toward poor tramps. It says
Civil sei-vice reform can best be carried out by a
clean sweep.
Such a course would do moro than almost
anything else to return tbe Republicans to
power. When it comes to a mere scramble
for office the outs are always stronger than the
ins.
The San Antonio Light reports the passage
through that city of three representatives of
the improved order of red men on their way
to Mexico:
They bear relationship to each other of chief and
two subordinates. Quanale Parker is the chief,
arid as he speaks very good English. They will
visit the City of Mexico before their return. They
came from Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Indian
agency, and Parker bears a paper from Indian
Agent Hunt that he, Parker, is a son of Cynthia A.
Parker, aud is one of the most prominent chiefs of
the half-breed Comanche tribe. He is also a suc-
cessful stockman and farmer. He wears a citizen's
suit of black, neatly fitting, regular tooth pick, dude
shoes,a wotcli and gold chain and black felt hat. The
only peculiar item ir. his appearance Is his Ion g
hair, which he wears in two plaits down his hack.
His two braves also wear civilization's garb, but
wear heavy hoots, into which their trousers are
thrust in true western fashion. They speak noth-
ing but their native language.
The Fairfield Recorder remarks:
The Galveston News deep-water edition was a
big paper. It dealt strictly with statistical facts,
and was wholly a deep-water paper.
It seems strange, but it is a proverbial fact,
that professedly religious papers are more in-
tolerant in controversies than the secu
lar press, even when exciting political discus-
sions are the subject. The Houston Journal is
ever ready to take up the gauntlet when
thrown down by a secular paper, but in do-
elinimz a challenge to a religious controversy
it says:
'I lie Journal desires to say that nothing short of
blank necessity can draw it into a religious contro-
versy. It would rather endure the effects of
slander and a lie than to dip its pen into sectarian
gall.
Tfce Cuero Star says:
1 he deep water edition of The Galveston Niws
contains descriptive articles or soin« t v--ntv S'-i'es
one! Territories, mentioning their resourc B capa-
bilities and prospective greatness, and showing
II.at this immense territory will be greatly bo >u-
fitted by securing deep water at Galveston.
The El Paso Times remarks:
The Galveston News of the 1st presents to its
host of readers a book, a volume, a history, n i
enly of the city of Galveston, but more valuable,
useful fliul general rending matter than In the past
j ears could have been fouud In the history of the
whole com try for a period of years. We
I or jlI'Mtulote our neighbor of tho wouthoast
extremity of the empire of Texas on its creditable
enterprise, push ano just conception of tho nee Is
ond requirements of this railway and telegraphic
Kge. The earnest and effective manner lii which
li points out, sustf ins and develops the great, possi-
bilities of the city of Galveston and the interest of
Texnsdeserves and will receive the liberal support
olid the commenelntioti, not only of the surround-
ing st etintis, but of all the enterprising and all the
libt nil minds throughout the length and breadth of
llie great Smte of Texas.
The T% ltr Democrat aud Reporter says:
Uncle Uau McGary, of the H mston Age, lias
hern unanimously elected by tho press of the tjtate
as pristmaster at Houston.
That elepends oil whether Uncle Daniel lets
up on Galveston. If he keeps pitching into
deep water 'The News will vote against him,
Tlie Democrat and Repot ter says:
The indications now point to an illaiid'iMo scram-
ble for oiflie under Democratic rule. We make
this confession with mantled cheeks. Wilt not our
opponents, who asserted, from time to time, that
all our zt al, all our effort, all our outlay of time
aid means, were selfish and m-rciU'iry,
enly for the spoils of otllce, th'j ol"d
eloi pep, plead a sufficiency of evi-
dence are! nsk judgment ngainst us, if the appli-
cations for plat es from the highest to the most un-
important should I e so numerous, and so earnestly
pressed, ami backed by llie signatures of thou-
sands r.f petitioners, that the epntest will wax hot,
the friends of opplic&rits become embittered, ami
ti e whole affair end In a disgraceful S'ramble.
Permit ua to warn the thousands whoare hanker-
ing for office oil over the country, that many of
them will l e disappointed. Let them remember
that Messed ore they who exDect nothing, for they
Bholl not be disappointed.
1 he Texarkana News sayB:
The old style of journalism which required a
long ond poderous leader, on the political situa-
tion, is a thing of the past .In this age of light
liing thought, Invention and quick transit, tho
world does not stop to sit down to reael and p ri-
der. It w ants a fact concisely stated; an idea sun-
ply suggested; it rejects a solid column of learned
matter, to read the short, sharp, crisp paragraphs
The Greenville Herald says: "An editor
who is doing a good business can't afford to ao
cept a po8tofflce."
The Herald also says:
The Oai.vi ston Kews Issued Its mammoth deep-
water edltirn on the first. It Is a valuable paper,
filled with historical, geographical, statistical ami
other matter, showing the natural advantages of
Galveston ns the roadway to the sea. It lsa credit
to the ability and enterprise of TheNuws.
Tbe Bellvillo Times says:
The Galveston News deep-water edition shows,
beyond question, that twenty fatales and Terri-
tories of the great Northwest are naturally tnbut
oryto Galveston as a shipping port for foreign
commerce The amount asked Is insignificant in
comparislon with the grand results; while the vast
area and immense population Interested gives a
rational character to the enterprise. Congress
ought not lo hesiltate in the matter. There is
little doubt of a favorable result if the matter doet
go over, bi.t it is extremely desirable that a year
ehould not be lost.
Old High Private "passes" State Press from
the Cresent city; but fails to say why he has
po long neglected to Btart a newspaper in
Texas. No matter. He is bound to do so be
fore long. Old habits are not easily broken.
Tbe venerable Mrs Mary S. Helm, author
of Se'raps of Early Texas History, writes from
Connorsville, Indiana, and asks tho correction
of a supposed error in nn extract from her little
took, but she does neit specify what it is, but
simply fays thnt sho lived in Matagorila part
of 1843 and four or five months in 1813, and
that no storm bad injured the place at that
lime. The News said nothing to the contrary.
The great storm occured long after.
Tfce Indianola correspondent of the Cuero
Bull tin says:
The fishermen maele the Inrgest shipment of fish
last week thnt has been made for sometime. Fif-
teen theiusand pounds or red-snappers were shipped
to Galveston per steamship St Mary. The Gal
vestou dealers send them to all parts of the Stat- ,
and, being securely packed In Ice, some reach the
markets of St. Louis, Kansas City and other north-
ern towns.
Nothing is more common than efforts to
boom aspirants in the manner indicated ba
low; but the papers generally let them down
easier. Tbo quotation is from the Laredo
Times: ^
IHE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE HILL
UN1MER EIRE.
Weere in receiptor a half sheet from Hempstead
containing marked notices of its advocacy of Fos
ter for the speakership of tho House of Henresenta
lives, and of some one eslse of the same place for
doorkeepe r, or dog-pelter, we forget which. Why
the mcdest peoplt- of that bailiwick should rest con-
tented with am thing short of all the fat places, Is
not stated; but such modesty ami disinterestedness
will eerie to phove Foster and the would-be door-
keeper right along—out of sight.
The Flatonia Argus remarks:
The News management deserves the highest
praise for the energy ami enterprise they have dis-
played 111 the matter of deep water, which every
citizen of Texas is or should be interested iu. May
their efforts he crowned with success.
The Bicbmond Nation remarks:
1 lie deep-water edition of Tne Galveston
News is replete with information and statistics of
the w ealth ond products of the States. To all seek-
ing information on these subjects it will repay a
thorough perus.il.
The modesty of the San Antonio Express,
and its small professed regard for some of its
contemporaries, is expressed by that paper as
follows:
A few insigidflcant news(»)papers of this State
continue to make spiteful and envious flings at the
Express. It is a little rough on the boys, it is true,
after abusing this paper for so long, and bouncin?
it out of the party on divers and sundry occasions,
to see it fully indorsed by both the national Demo-
cratic convention and the people at the ballot box.
The Express should bo grateful to the con-
ventions and the people, if what it says is true,
tut some proof of the alleged indorsements
would go a good deal further than keeping
them secret.
The Dallas Herald discourses as follows on
the unprofitable character of suits against
newspapers for libel:
In the libel suit of John Thomas against The
Galveston News, tried in yuitinan this week, the
jury found for the defendant. The suit was
brought on the remarks of a correseondent, to the
effect that Mr. Thomas, who was an alderman in
Mineola. was a "ward politician of unclean
methods," and "catered to the negroes." The
verdict of the jury was no doubt just and in ac-
cordance with the law. There are a great many
persons who believe they can get a nice
little sum of money sometimes by insti-
tuting suit against newspapers for libel,
but alter expending a great many silver
dollars ill lawyer and witness fees, they find the
new spopers come out on top. There are few news-
paj eis that publish articles reflecting upon any
any with malicious intent, and when they are
convinced of error gladly make an honorable
amend for the wrong doue. This bringing suit for
libel is not very creditable at best, and should only
be dene w here malicious wrong is intended. Mr.
Blaine has a lioel suit pendlug against the Indian-
apolis Sentinel, ond if the uj uchly-marrled man
don't dismiss proceedings he will probably come
out of the sani3 end of the horn as Mr. Thomas
did.
The idea that the rules of law and equity
are different in tbe courts of the United States
and those of the States has received a check
t y 'the late decision of Judge Sabin, of the
United States District Court at Galveston, in
tbe case of Angerhoffer and Dun's Commer-
e-ial agency, in which the latter thought to se-
cure an advantage by attempting to remove
the cause from the state to the United States
court, tut the judge of the latter refused to
assume jurisdiction. The Dallas Herald says
this is a righteous and just decision."
In tbe primer poem little Robert Reed says
he will never chew tobacco, because it is a
filthy weed, but according to the Wasp a
Buling lawyer is line idle Jerry Jones, and
takes pride in the practice. The Wasp prints
a dispatch by grapevine from Springfield, 111.,
e nnouncing a contest for the championship in
tbe use of the weeeiand its concomitants:
General John A. Logan, the champion expecto-
rotor of the United States, has accepted the chal-
lenge of the Wasp, and will meet tne Luling law-
yer at a spitting match at New Orleans on
the 3d day of January next. The first
match will determine which contestant in
trial of force can spit over the Lee
monument at Tivoli Circle. Tho second trial
will be a question of quantity, and will result in
lavor of the t ne who succeeds in covering one-half
t f the floor of the Exposition building in the fewest
minutes, and the third will he atrial of skill at
killing bun.ble bees on the wing. The contest iv.ll
be aceording to tho Marquis of Queensbury rules
end the prize will be an elegant gilt elge spittoon.
Both parties will use navy plug tuba -co.
The test will hardly bo a fair one. The
Illi:»e is kni ht is a good deal out of condition
lit on the effects of the lat 3 presidential con-
test.
The Committee Hill Compare! with the (leagiu
fruliMlttuin- 'llie Mrong t'oinU of Defer-
ence lletwcen ihe Two M('-.iftoreH,
1-alliil-t Kpectil&llon—I'mllxnifloil gcrnmblo for
Dignified I'f.kl I [toot lift ve Culherson
Complimented.
[Special to Tbe Ngws.1
Washington, December 8.—The question
of regulating interstate commerce an! pro-
hibiting unjust discriminations by the railroad*
received considerable attention anel was elab
orafely discmeed in the House during the pas#
week. At the last session of Congress tha
committee on commerce had seventeen bills oa
this subject referred to it, and failed to agrea
on aiy-of tfcein. The committed agreQtl, how-
ever, in order lo get tbe subject before th*
House, to report n bill «» n substitute, reserv-
ing the right to individual members of the
conimitfeo to propose and vote such amend-
ments an tbey might deem proper whin th*
bill i bould come up in the House for considera-
tion. Anionp. tho bills defeated in the cjtn-
mitlt e was tie one Judge R-igan has beea
pressing a number of years, and whlclt
passed the House by a majority of thirty-five
votes in the Forty-fifth Congress. The ques-
tion which ba? principally been discussed thU
week ii as to the relative merits of the com-
mittee's bill and the Reagan bill, which Judge
Re agan pre posed its a substitute. Some of the
points of difference between the two bills are
very imiiorfant, and one strong argument ia
favor eif tbe B<ngiiu bill consists of the faci
ttat while the business men and commercial
interests generally prefer the latter, the rail-
road lobby is active iu oj position to it, and ex-
press preference fi r any of tho other proposed
meosuies. The le idlug points of distinctive
difference ore as follows:
1. Tbe committee bill inake3 the penalty for
a violation of its previsions not more than
$1COO and provide.^, that this penalty snail nob
apply to the first section which prohibits
extortionate charges, while by the 8ubstitute
all violations of its provisions are made penal
and the fine in a<y case is not to be lesa thau
JIOCO.
2. Under the provisions of the committee
bill the liability e f a railroad corporation to
any person suffering wrong by its action is
tfceattual damages sustained, whi e by tli»
provisions of tbe substitute they are liable for
three timeB the amount of such tiamage.
3. Tbe committee bill in its remedial provi-
sions only gives legal remedies,while the other
provides both Jegul and equitable remedies.
4. The committee bill dews not prohibit rail-
read companies from chargiug more for a
shorter than for a longer haul, while the
fourth section of tbe substitute does prohibit
this character of discrimination.
5. The till of the committee only prohibits
tlie allowance of rebates, drawbacks or othar
advantages to any one person, which are mi
allowed to all others. The substitute pro-
hibits rebates, drawbacks, etc., in any case,
fi. The committee bill does not require rail-
read companies to post up schedule ratei of
their charges, while the substitute does. This
lequirement is essential to secure fairuess aid
equality and to determine whether discrimina-
tions or unreasonable charges have been made.
7. Ihe committee bill fails to give dir.ict
legal or equitable remedies for many inj iries
to indivieluals, but refers such matters to a
railroad commission, and in many cases pro-
vides no possible remedy for wrongs done to
individual citizens, while the substitute gives
cemplete legal aud equitable remedies without
delay through the courte. As stated in a
foimer dispatch this is the most important
difference between tbe two bills,
8. 1 he committee bill directs tin? commis-
sion to be appointed under it to inquire into
the methods of pooling and to report as to
needed legislation in relation thereto, while>
the Reagan substitute absolutely prohibits all
pooling of freights by competing roads.
There are several other points of difference
in which those not especially partial to tna
railroad interests regard the Reagan bill as
greatly preferable to the other. A v.ite will
probably not be reached for at least two or
ihree days, but the friends of the Reagau bill
are sanguine in the hope that it will ba sub-
stituted for the committee bill.
CABINitT SPECULATIONS.
Cabinet making is now a common business
about tbo capita), and the man who has or
ptetends to have no opinion as to any part of
the make-up of the new president's cabinet,
eioes not pasa for much of a politician.
Nearly every State iu the Union has
at least one citizen who aspires t»
a position at the head of one of
tfce departments. Texas is not behind the
other States in this particular. Ex Governor
Hubbard is talked of as an aspirant for one of
these places, and has the support of several
members of the Texas delegation in Congress.
The particular department of which he desires
to be plat ed at the head Is not stated by his
friends. One fact that is commented upon
most unfavorably iu connection with the aspi-
rations of those who are mentioned for cabinet
f esitions is that many of them are their own
most earnest advocates, and are as importu-
nate and persistent in pressing their claims as
th$ averago cross-roads politician seeking to
secure a country postofflce. As a rule,
tbey are not very particular as to
what department tfcev may be assigned
to, but are willing to take whatever portfolio
tfce president may choose to give them, and
they besiege senators and members of Con-
gress with urgent solicitations in their own be-
half. It presents a glaring picture of one of
the evils of the spoils system in poiitics that
men sufficiently prominent to be named in
connection with such positions will descend so
for as to engage in a personal scramble for
tbem. It would seem that even a prjfessional
efflce-seeker would have enough modestv to
refrain from seeking to force himself into the
confidential relations w hich necessarily exist
between tbe president ami the members of his
official family. It is not by any means com-
mon to hear such coniuct cliaracterized as in-
decently cheeky and shameful.
Representative Culberson, of Texas, was
complimented by the intelligence from a mem-
ber of tfce national Democratic committee
tfcat 20,000 copies of his tariff speech, deliv-
ered last session, w ere distributed for campaign
use in Indiana during the late contest.
The American woman suffragists' compli-
ment to Lord Salisbury, the English Conserva-
tive leader, is due to the fact that Salisbury
proposed to Gladstone, in the private prelimi-
nary conference, that the franchise bill should
be amended to give the ballot to women house-
holders. A cablegram to the New York Her-
ald from London, December 4, says that Lord
Salisbury had his weunnn-suffrage amendment
all ready to be tacked on to the franchise bill
during its passage through the House of Lords,
tut at tht last moment he abstained from of-
feting it, in consequence of a significant hint
received from tfce government, Mr. Glaistotie
reminded Lord Salisbury tbat Mr. Woodall
and the other friends of woman suffrage made
on exceedingly strong fight in its favor iu the
Houselast June, but were defeated by a vote of
271 to 185. If the franchise bill were to come to
the House with « woman suffrage amendment,
the latter would, without doubt, be stricken
out, and the bill be returned to the lords in its
original shape. This would Bimply put things
back to the position they were In during tho
recess and revive the crisis that t ien existed,
when not only the Radicals but the whole
I-ifceral party demanded the extinction of the
House of Loidsandof hereditary legislation
I ecause of its interference with public progress.
In the face of this warniug Lord Salisbury
did not see fit to insist upon his amendment.
President Arthur wiil receive the thanks
of 6tnokers for his bull against the tobacco tax.
It re quires more steady patriotism to smoke
five cabbage leaves a day than to go to the
front in a national unpleasantness.
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