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THE BROOKLYN 20, 1889. 9 DAILY EAGrliE SUNDAY, fAUAiY WAITING FOR BISMARCK PUTTING UP EXTRA BARS FEOM THE STATE CAPITAL OFFICES COMING OUR WAY undoubtedly degeneracy in our municipal legislature, but no great change in tho last fivo and twenty years. The adoption of the singlo district system in our State has probably led to vitiation in the character of the State Legislature. But as far as Congress is concerned my opinion is ttiat there is almost no degeneration at all. I have visited Washington very frequently since I was a member of the House of Representatives more than thirty years ago, and my impression is that the House and Senate compare well with the two bodies when I first saw them, both in intelligence, in patriotism and in ability.

Peoplo often institute comparisons between tho Senate of a given time and those days when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Benton were the great lights; but such lights along the shores of time aro only met with at long distances, and I think tho Senate of to day certainly of six or eight years ago would average well witii the Senate at any period in the history of our country." PAID HIS BILLS WITII FORGED CHECKS And Han Off, Ml" Wife to be Arrewted. and not to tho States. Chinese immigration was not investigated for lack of time. On tho subject of immigration generally the committee, after speaking favorably of its benefits in the past, says: From tho inquiry wo have mado we believe that tho time has now come to draw tho line, to select the good from tho bad and to sift the wheat from tho chaff. To any person familiar with the results of the committee's investigation it muat be apparent that this country cannot properly assimilate tho immigration now coming to our shores.

Take the class of persona known as Anarchists, for instance A few years ago they principally lived in Germany. The officials of that empire determined to get rid of them. Their newspapers were suppressed; they wero forbidden to hold meetings; they wero prosecuted in different ways until Germany bocamo an unpleasant abiding placo for them. They then immigrated to England in large numbers, but the officials there mado it so uncomfortable for them that they came to tho United States. Here they have proven a lawless, turbulent class, and the whole country is familiar with their recent acts of violence.

These disorderly persons do not come here to uphold and maintain our form of government. Their object and purpose is to destroy and tear it to pieces. They hold any law in contempt which does not meet with their individual approbation, and believe disobedienco to it is perfectly justifiable. This class of persons, in the judgment of the committee, ought to bo rigidly excluded from entering this country. Generally speakiug, the class of immigrants who have lately been imported and employed in the coal regions of this country are not such, in the opinion of the committee, as would mako desirable inhabitants of the United States.

They are of a very low order of intelligence. They do not come hero with the intention of becoming citizens; their whole purpose being to accumulate by parsimonious, rigid and unhealthy economy a sum of money and then return to their native land. They live in miserable sheds like beasts; the food they eat is so meager, scant, unwholesome and revolting that politicians and some of tho editors went and were very agreeably entertained. The lujich waB superb and the liquor above reproach. Yret but for tho Assembly Albany feels sure it would bo good.

During tho week three pretty girls raided the Senate and Assembly and sold ticlvtets to Senator Pierce and other amiable great mn for the Jack eon Corps fair, each ticket standing a show to win some sort of a prize. Thus do tile statesmen degrade the guileless town. Universal assent awards to the Hon. James P. Graham, of Kings, the palm of beauty in the House.

Mr. Graham has a high marble brow bedecked with lovely curls and his eyes are soulful. Ho wears a wide standing collar and has taste in neckties, while his tawny mustache could tickle his car tips if it branchod that way. He far outrivals, excopt in clothes, the ox wicked Gibbs, of New York, who is a professional beauty. Tho truth about that Piatt petition at tho Fort Orange Club rccoption to the electors on Tuesday evening had better be told.

General John N. Knapp has been abusive and General Clinton D. McDougall evasive when questioned on the subject. General Knapp has taken the trouble to attribute the story to the imaginations of Mugwump reporters, unehastened by defeat. But tho whole story is simply this General Cliuton D.

McDougall, who was an elector and who went to succeed Walter Bunn as United States marshal of the Northern District, was among the guests, and, exhilarated by the cheer and the occasion, pulled out tho Piatt petition and waved it on high, at the same time suggesting with fervor that electors who hadn't joined in honoring that great man had better begin. Three or four signatures had been secured when General 11c Dougall was made conscious of his impropriety and tho petition was then rolled up. The incident, aBide from its bad taste, was unfortunate for Mr. Piatt. It reveals him as a common man, resorting to common motbodB to secure a deBired end, instead of a potent person with a mighty pull.

It reveals, too, how utterly uncertain Mr. Piatt and everybody else aro about General Harrison's intentions. So far as General Knapp is concerned, ho acted with equal ill taste at tho time in aiding Mr. McDougall. He was not an elector and therefore an invited guest.

He mado himself none the loss at homo and was a part of tho Piatt proceeding. A enrious specimen of the iiedtculiui leoisktUts can be found in the Senate in the person of George F. Langbein. Langbein is a little Dutchman who succeeded the intellectual and courtly James Daly from the Seventh District by a queer quarrel between Jake Patterson and John J. O'Brien, which divided the Republican opposition.

Somo railroad has recently passed Mr. Langbein to Wash ington, whero he has seen the reporters penned up in their gallery in CongresB, and he has taken it into his small head that they should bo excluded from the floor of the Senate, where their ready access to bills and general sharpness of eyo prevents much that some men would like to do. Mr. Langbein is credited with tho idea of tearing out the rear Avail of onyx and hanging up a gallery for reporters beyond hearing distance of the desk. The Committee on Rules is struggling with his idioByncracy.

The Sonato Committee on Rules is also trying to fix on a plan for excluding everybody from tho floor, taking down tho rear railing and rearranging the seats, mainly because this little Langbein doesn't liko the location of his pew and because tho talk of the visitors annoys him. This is putting tho committee to a heap of trouble for nothing. Mr. Langbein 's term endures for this session only and he will never come back again. He is a sad samplo of popular representation.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners have unloaded their annual collection of bills upon tho Legislature. There are ten of them this time. Nine of theso aro designed to givo the Board some real power, which it hasn't now, and the tenth is new. It makes it a misdemeanor for any company hauling people about this Stato to neglect placing a thermometer in each car so the travelers can go and look at it when the tomporature is not pleasing. It does not say whethor the mercury shall be susponded in tho sun or shade, or away from the steam pipes which will warm future cars.

This now feature in a railroad car should producehappy resultB. It would settle a heap of trouble and relieve the woes of; the brakeman. Few passengers can now agree on what should be the happy medium. If the Commission will only get up a law to kill off the persons who poke tho windows up in Winter and keep 'em shut in Summer it will have demonstrated its right to live. Criticism is mado upon the manner in which the Hon.

P. Henry McCarreu, of Kings, is growing bald. It does him wrong. While Mr. Mc Carren is growing bald and is doing it in unorthodox fashion, the loss of the clinging forelock, which most men retain until tho last, has an explanation.

When Mr. McCarren thinks he places the palm of his left hand against the place whero the forelock was and gently vibrates his cranium up and down, creating an agreeablo friction. He thinks a great doal and thus has worn all his hair off. The usual crop of normal school projects is visible, but out of the lot only one is meeting with commendation, and that is the establishment of such an institution at Jamaica, Long Island, for which Senator Hawkins has introduced a bill. It is recognized without dispnte that Long Island is certainly entitlod to the school, and it looks as if tho $100,000 required, or some approximate sum, would bo voted.

The normal schools are a good deal of humbug, so far as the real object for which they were established is concerned, namely, that of supplying school ma'ams, but they are of value to the adjacent communities, and while tho Long Island counties of Kings, Queens and Suffolk contribute largely to the support of tho up country schools from which they are entirely isolated, it seems no more than fair that they should be accorded the opportunity to receive tho local benefit conferred. Jamaica is a delightful town, now readily accessible to the vast City of Brooklyn, whence pupils eonld easily make the journey daily. There isn't a normal school within 200 miles of Grtenport, River head and Sag Harbor, or within 100 miles of Brooklyn. Smart men from Long Island are coining up here pretty soon to say these things convincingly. A caucus resolution of the Republicans last year, passed in a desire to bo good previous to an important election, killed tho measure ten Now it is explained that Kings County got no Democratic Assemblyman on tho Citie'B Committee because Mr.

E. Howard Crosby, its chairman, did not care to have any KingB County Democrat in his society. The ostentatious freshness of the green bay tree is mild in comparison with the quantity of that quality possessed by Mr. E. Howard Crosby.

It is a painful but necessary troth to be revealed that the presence of two Democratic Now Yorkers in this select committee, keeping company with the immaculate Mr. Crosby and Colonel Robert Ray Hamilton, is duo not to their virtues but something else. Mr. Blumen thal got there by force, and Mr. Hagan bocauso Mr.

Crosby "wanted" him. Tho reason why Mr. Crosby "wanted" him was that Subway Commissioner Jake Hess "wanted" him, too, and Mr. Crosby's political future ia to a healthy extent in Mr. Hess' hands.

Mr. Hess is wicked. Tho gossips have had much to say concerning poBBible changes in the State departments, and Rumor has of late kept her finger pointed at the shapely heads of tho Hon. James Shanahan, Superintendent of Public Works, and tho Hon. Robert A.

Maxwell, Superintendent of Insurance. Mr. Maxwell's department is the best managed of the State's annexes and pays $75,000 a year into tho Treasury. But his head would fall were there any chance of securing the confirmation of a Democratic successor. There isn't.

While there is clamor among the canal men for Super ntendeut Shanahan's replacement it can be authoritatively said that he is not going. A BOGUS "JACK, THE UIPPEU" LOCKED IIP. St. Louis, January 19. James Thomas, alias William Brennan, who was arrested yesterday for writing threatening letters to fallen women, signing himself "Jack, the Bipper," was to day committed to the insane asylum.

When arrested he frankly confessed that he had come to St. Lduis for the purpose of killing women on Poplar street and Clark avenue, a notorious quarter of the city. THE COLLEGE BASE BALL LEAGUE. Boston, January 19. The annual meeting of tho CoUego Base Ball League was called hore to day, bnt the Yale delegates not appearing the meeting was adjourned till later in the day.

To Declare the Colonial Policy of Germany. It Will Probably be Favorable to the East Africa Bill England's Attitude Becoming an Interesting One. Copyright, 1889, by the New York Associated Berlin, January 19. The Bundesrath will dispose of the East Africa bill without delay, and it will be submitted to tho Reichstag at the end of the week, when it will evoke the long expected declaration from Prince Bismarck on the Government's colonial policy and its relations with England. Tho measure, it is believed, will be finally passed by a largo majority.

The measure is known in Parliamentary circles as the outcome of an agreement between the leaders of the Government groups, after a consultation with Prince Bismarck. The Center party will also approve of following lie policy observed during Tuesday's debate. The opposition will thus be left to the Progressists only, and this will narrow the debate into lively encounters between the Chancellor and persistent assailants. An important part of the bill, tho. proposals relating to the enrolling and disposition of levies, it is understood, will be settled in a secret silting of the committee.

Interest really centers in what Prince Bismarck will choose to reveal concerning the co operation of England. It 'is noted hore that English opinion against colonial extension by Germany gains ground, and even Conservative papers suggest that Lord Salisbury weakly yielded to the requests of Prince Bismarck without knowing how far the Chancellor's designs extended. Probably Prince Bismarck will frankly disclose how completely the English Government has been apprised of every phase of the German policy as embodied in the East Africa bill. He ia desirous of preventing English Liberals from making party capital from (he concert of the governments. Every suggestion coming from Lord Salisbury during the negotiations has been accepted here.

Chancellor will therefore announce absolute harmony in the co operations. The Morier incident has not had 'he slightest effect on the relations between the two Gov, ruments. It may have formed the subject of conversation during recent interviews between Prince Bismarck and Sir Edward Mulct, the British Ambassador. Officially Lord iMisbury leaves Morier to fight his own duel. The diplomatic circle is confident that Prince Bismarck Fias a strong card in reservo against and will probably oblige Lord lisbury to take official notice of the affair by transferring Morier from tit.

Petersburg to somo I ost lhat lias less influence on European politics. The Gefl'ekon correspondence, covering ISO folios, has been submitted to the Bundesrath. It was intended to publish the correspondence, but the Government is beginning to learn that the country has had a surfeit of GciTckun. Beside, pub': opinion is maturing in favor of GcffcUen. i The Progressist press, knowing it to be a pow i ful weapon of offense, would sustain the agita I tion.

The TagrMutt demands a complete clearing I of the affair, the production of the appendices to the indictment, the answers for the defense, I the reasons for the decision of the tribunal, etc. The semi official press continues to give favorable extracts from the correspondence, but otherwise has ceased to refer to the matter. The offi. ial press of Vienna upholds the action of Prince Bismarck. Count von Taafu's organ, the 'ivssf, holds that the prosecution was forced upon the Government by the exigencies of actual politics and denounces GetVokcn as hardly waiting for his royal friend to sink into the grave before publishing the diary.

The paper blames Emperor Frederick's selections as a confidant person without responsibility. Tin's public comment, which is entirely in taste with the German official press, does not disclose he real opinion of the court and official circles of Vienna, which censure GelWken and condemn the unwise course of Bismarck. The Austrian official mind cannot understand tho Berlin Government fighting its opponents by disclosures affecting the Imperial family. Private letters from Berlin convey tho impression of profound surprise at the folly of Bismarck. The malicious reports of flu: ill health of the Chancellor originated with the Ovz 'Artlmvj.

the organ of the ultra Conservatives and orthodox declarants associated with Dr. Stoker. The reports represent the yearning of the orthodox to see Bismarck prostrated. His life in Berlin under his modified work agrees with him. He walks daily in tho vicinity of Wilhelmstrasse, seemingly unattended, but in reality guarded by several police agents.

His residence is also guarded on both the Wilhelmstrasse and Koemiggraetz strasse sides. The household is limited, twelve servants being sufficient for the simple life led by himself audtho princess. He works in a spacious cabinet, plainly furnished with a bookcase and an immense table covered with documents. On the walls are two paintings representing tho late Czar and William I. The Chancellor works to a late hour and is not an early riser.

Count Herbert Bismarck visits his father in the forenoon, first going to the chancellerie, the officials of which have learned to await him, and are punctual workers. Life within the chancellerie is understood to be anything but pleasaut. Count llcrbcrt.who is himself a glutton for work, compels robust service and is a harsh critic of official reports. Always rough and imperious, his manner has become worse since he attained his present office. The succession to the throne of Holland, combined with the Luxenbourg question, occupies the attention of diplomatists.

Under the advice of Bismarck the Duke of Nassau has abandoned his intention of abdicating in favor of his sou on the. death of the King of Holland. The German Government will not change the position of Luxenbourg fixed by the treaty of 1807. The Duchy will enter tho German Zoll verein, but will otherwise remain separate from the Empire. The Budget Committee of tho Reichstag has agreed upon the estimates for the construction of warships.

Stoeeker has induced the ultra Conservatives iu tho Reichstag to support the proposals to prohibit the importation of alcoholic beverages into tho German colonies. Stoeeker is in difficulty through his denial that he wrote a letter, trying to influence the legal evidence iu the case of Rev. Dr. Witte. The latter has produced the letter.

A consistory of tho clergy has cited Dr. Stoeeker for trial. The applications to enter Lieutenant Wiss niann's service in tho East African expedition amounts to 4,000. The African travelers, Andreas Kuentzel and von Strausky, accompanied byHerr Gerstaecker, an engineer, left Munich to day for East Africa. STRUCK AND KILLED BY A TRAIN.

Special to the Eagle. Jamaica, L. January 19. An unknown man, about 40 years of ago, evidently a tramp, walking on the track of tho Long Island Railroad at Van Wyck avenue was struck by the 3.30 o'clock train from Brooklyn this evening. His skull was fractured and leg and his arm terribly mangled, he was taken to Jamaica where he died at 7 o'clock.

CAN. UTAH COME IN. Washington, D. January 19. The House Committeo on Territories to day heard a continuation of arguments pro and con upon the admission of Utah, Governor West and Mr.

Boskin opposing tho proposition and Hon. J. M. Wilson, counsel for the advocates of admission, making a long legal argument in favor of making Utah a Stato of the Union. DIED ON 1HS HOMEWARD TRIP.

Cuicago, 111., January 19. Robert W. Lindsey, a clerk in the War Department at Washington, died last night on a Baltimore and Ohio train while on the way to bis home in Galena, 111. He was accompanied by his wife and four small children. LEVI P.

MORTON IN THE 1V1IITE HOUSE. Washington, D. January 19. This afternoon the Hon. Levi P.

Morton, accompanied by his wife, called at the White House aud were cordially received by President and Mrs. Cleveland. TARDONED BY THE CZAR. Geneva, January 19. The ex Nihilist Thikomiroff has been pardoned by the Czar and will return to Russia, To Check the Growing Immigration Rush.

A Bill Beported to Congress by the Ford Committee Its Provisions, Restrictions and Penalties. Washington, D. January 19. The bill reported by the Ford Committee on Contract Labor and Immigration to tho House to day, as a result of the investigation of last Summer and Fall proposes in its first section to prohibit the admission into the United States of any person who is an idiot, insane, a pauper, or liable to become a public charge, or who has been legally convicted of a felony, other infamous crime, or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or who is a polygamist, anarchist or socialist, or who is afflicted with any loathsome disease, or who has entered into contract, express or implied, oral or written, to perforin labor or service for any person, firm, company or corporation in the United StateB, or doing business therein, or whose passage is paid on a promise to labor. It also provides that alien laborers, other than those excepted by tho Contract Labor law, shall not be admitted to labor for a limited timo with the intention of returning.

The section excepted professors in universities and ministers from its prohibition. The second section declares it to bo a misdemeanor for such objectionable personB to come into the United States, or for any person to assist them so to do, and a penalty of not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment for three yoars iB provided in such eases. Prosecution may bo commenced within two years after tho commission of tho offenBe, and the alien maybe returned within two years to his couutry, at the expense of the transportation company or of the United States. Section 3 limits tho carriage of incoming foreign passengers to one passenger for every five tons burden of the ship, excepting children under 1 year in age, and counting those between 1 and 8 years of ago as one passenger. Violation of the provision is made punishable by a fine of not exceeding $500 for each passonger in excess of tho allowance.

Tho fourth section proposes to levy a tax of $5 on every alien coming into tho United States, which is to be paid to tho collector at tho nearest port by tho transportation agent or master of the vessel. Diplomatic representatives, consuls, or agents of foreign Governments are exceptod. This section also creates a permanent annual appropriation to defray expenses of the execution of the act. Section 5 requires an intending emigrant to the United States to possess a certificate from a United States diplomatic representative or consul near his residence, issued after examination into his character, without fee, but this certificate is not to bo conclusive evidence of the right of the parson to come into tho United States nor relievo masters of vessels of responsibility. Tho sixth section requires the masters of vessels and officers of railroad trains coming into the United States to roport to the Collector of tho Port or his agent the number, nationality and condition of foreign passengers.

The Government officer is then to board the vessel or train, inspect the passengers and compare their certificates. Passengers may bo landed temporarily awaiting inspection, and tho only appeal from the Collector's decision shall be to the Secretary of the Treasury. In tho Boventh aud eighth sections the Secretary of the Treasury is charged with the duty of supervising immigration; authorized to make rules and contracts and employ assistants, not to exceed three inspectors at any one port at a salary of between $1,500 and $4,000, and to use United States property and reservations. Tho laBt section vests full jurisdiction in United States Circuit and District Courts in all causes arising under tho act which is to take effect July 1, next. The report accompanying tho bill begins with a recital of the existing statutes upon tho subject of convict and pauper labor and immigration generally.

It says that the committee has held sessions in New York, N. Boston, Pittsburg, and Detroit, Mich. A great many witnesses have been sworn and a large amount of testimony has been takon. Tho investigation was more extended at New York than at any other place, hecauso the great majority of immigrants aro received there, 418,4211 personB, out of a total influx of 546,880, landing there during the fiscal year 1888, sometimes at tho rate of 9,000 in one day. The report describes how the immigrants are received at Castlo Garden and examined singly by the Registry Clerk.

It says that owing to the large number of immigrants received each day during the Spring and Summer months these questions must be aBked rapidly, and the inspection is necesarily done in a very hurried manner in order that there may be no undue delay in landing them. It was very obviouB to the committee that it was almost impossible to properly inspect the large number of persons who arrive daily during tho immigrant season with the facilities afforded; and the testimony taken puts it beyond question that largo numbers of persons not lawfully entitled to land in the United States aro annually received at this port. In fact, one of tho commissioners of immigration himself testified that the local administration of affairs at Castle Garden, by the method and system now followed was a perfect farce. Upon this subject the committee invito attention to tho testimony of Dr. Hoyt, for twenty years connected with the Board of Charities and Corrections, who testified that every charitable institution in the State of New York is now not only filled with occupants, but overflowing, and that the State annually expends in taking care of paupers, insane peraons, $20,000,000 and that this condition of affairs is largely due to im proper immigration.

The investigation at Pittsburgh, elicited the fact that over 500 immigrant paupers and insane persons were received at that city within the last six years, tho great majority of whom wero admitted through the port of New York and that many of these pauper immigrants bore upon their clothing the branded name of tho workhouse of which they had recently been inmates in Ireland. The investigation at Boston disclosed that a few years ago an organized effort was mado by the officials of Great Britaiu aud Ireland, through and by means of an association known as the Tuke Society to assist poor persons, paupers, to immigrate to thiB country, by furnishing them with tickets for the necessary transportation and that the number of Buch assisted immigrants, who were landed in Boston, between April 3, 1882, and July 8, 1888, was 4,922, a great many of whom subsequently became inmatos of charitable institutionB in this country. And by certain English Btatutes guardians of the poor are authorized to appropriate funds at their disposal for the purpose of exporting to other lands persons who have bocomo public charges; that tho English authorities have mado liberal use of these laws is absolutely attested by tho number of aliens who aro inmates of charitable institutions in this country. In fact, tho testimony upon the subject of pauper immigration conclusively shows that there aro thousands of alien paupers, insane persons and idiots annually landed in this country who beconio a burden and a charge upon the States whero they happen to gain a settlement, many of whom aro aided and assisted to immigrate by the officials of tho country whence they came. The report says that as no inspection is made of immigrants, along tho border between Canada and tho United States, largo numbers of alien paupors, insano persons and others not lawfully entitled, enter the United States by this way, the numbor during six months being estimated at 50,000.

In many instances immigrants coming to Quebec have, within forty eight hours after their arrival, been applicants for shelter in New York almshouses, and the charitable institutions of Wayne county, Michigan, aro filled to overflowing from thiB cause. Tho report next recites testimony to show that criminals are shipped to the United States by officials of foreign governments, an association for thiB purposo existing in Germany, and tho officials of Great Britain and Switzerland have persisted in this course, even after having been requested by our Government to discontinue it. Of the Contract Labor law tho report says that it is easily evaded and to a largo extent in spirit, while the letter iB usually observed. This state of affairs is said to be owing to inadequate machinery and not to a want of diligenco on tho part of officials. The committee believes that tho enforcement of aU acta to regulate immigration should be entrusted to the Federal Government The Assembly Ceiling Still the Albany Sensation.

It's Pretty Certain to Get the Attention or the Senate Truth About. That Piatt Petition. The Jamaica Normal School. Special to the Eagle. Albany, N.

January 19. Tho Assembly ceiling continues to bo the State Capitol sensation. At last the most charitable critics have become convinced of tho utter worth lessness of the work dono by Contractors John Snaith andTimothy Sullivan, with the connivance of Superintendent Charles B. Androws. They have become convinced that the panels and mas sive carvings are one and all mere chunks of plaster of paris, stuck together with burlaps or jute bagging, and that the State lias been swindled to the extent of $1 To the contractors, Andrews and the alleged architect has gono in all $277,000, and for it the State has lost the magnificent arches of Eidlitz and tho mural paintings of Hunt, to get in 'their stead some stained glass, sawed off galleries, barroom partitions and some thousand square feet of plaster of paris gimcracks.

The cheek of these fellows is simply colossal. Tho Eagle has already stated that the combine contemplated getting possession of the entire capital, depriving Commissioner Perry of his powers and letting these rascals plunder up to millions. They have been busy since the session opened, trying to thrust the storm over tho'ceiling underground, and making a bold face of it above board by justifying their course and defending the plaster devico for stealing. Then all the while their lobbyist has been to work, aided by conspirators on the floor of the House, in speed ing furtherance of their plan. An artless Albany newspaper gives space to their design, quite innocent of its full import, in this ingenuous way: There i a growing sentiment among the members of the Legislature in favor of the speedy completion of the Capitol by means of an annual appropriation for a certain number of years within which the work shall be dono by contract.

Senator Krwin has followed tho lead of Senator Sloan and openly favors the plan. Other Senators and many of the Assemblymen have expressed opinions favorable to the project and appear willing to vote for it. The majority are with Speaker Cole in his opposition to Capitol Commissioner Perry, and if the contract plan is adopted he will not be incorporated in it as superintendent of the work. The man who will bo chosen to act as superintendent of the work, so far as the Legislature can effect it, will be Super intendenfc of Public Buildings Andrews. It is thought that if a bill embodying the contract idea is passed by the Legislature with tho provision for the superintendeney of Mr.

Andrews, the Governor will not refuse to sign it. There will be nothing of this sort done. Tho Eagle's disclosures have disposed of this latest capital robbing combine. As for Superintendent Charles B. Andrews, his case is simple.

It rests in the hands of Governor Hill, for whoso action tho evidence is ready. Ho should be compelled to disgorge tho $11,500 he has illegally drawn from the treasury for abetting this fraud and bo removed from office. The Sloan resolution passed on Friday, requiring the Capitol Commission to investigate tho state of the structure and report to the Sonato tho estimated cost of completing tho building, is in line with this completion by contract idea. While Mr. Sloan is, perhaps, entirely disinterested in standing as paront of the resolution, he is serving the ends of the Snaith Andrews Sullivan combination.

But out of it may come an investigation of the fraudulent plaster ceiling by the commission. Nobody could be better selected for tho work of examining the cheat. Tho commission comprises Lieutenant Governor Jones, Senator J. Sloat Fassett, president pro tcm of the Senate; Capitol Commissioner Perry and Speaker Fremont Cole. Therefore the commission affords three honest, honorable men at least, who were in no manner connected with tho job, and who could be depended upon not to be influenced by the fourth, who waB.

They could be relied upon to test the merits of the plaster and thread the intricacies of tho contract, which, ennningly as it and the accompanying specifications were drawn, does not afford immunity to the sharpers who haveprofittcd by it. Jones, Fassett and Perry should be the investigators. Chance seems to indicate that they will be. Samples of tho stuff are coming to the surface. Senator Coggeskall has a piece ready to exhibit to a trusting world, and says he just aches to tell about it.

When tho Eagle pocket sample was exhibited on Friday Mr. Fassett made a test of tho jute burlap, which Andrews calls asbestos. He touched it with a match and it melted away under the flame. Asbestos does not act that way. This was only an incident.

Tho stuff does not require technical definition. It is so palpably worthless that all now required is official exposure, denunciation and punishment. It is to bo romembered that $40,000 is yet due the combine. This they should not receive. It would be but small recompense to the State but its retention would cut down the dividends of the robbers.

While questions aro in order some one might ask what Mr. Andrews has done with the $20,000 given him to fix up the acre and a half Capitol park. It was resodded, had one walk laid around and four through it, the rubbish cleared away, and in addition a new pine board fence, of cheap, knotty wood was built about three sides of the Capitol. This was paid for by the State at tho rate of about $1 per sod. Feople who protend to know say tho contractor who did the work got about $8,000 for it.

Who received the rest? The contest of W. L. Brownell for tho seat of Philip T. Cronin, who represents the sinful part of Queens County, is not likely to reBiilt in Mr. Cronin's exit from his mahogany roller swivel chair.

Mr. Cronin is to be useful as a legislative foil to that fierce ax swinging giant. Mayor Patrick Gloasou, of Long Island City. Tho languid Legislature after throe weeks of life has yet to begin moving. During the days that have elapsed since it convened the men who make and mangle laws have managed to hold Beven sessions, averaging less in the total of as many hours in length.

This reluctance to get to work, while nothing more than common, has features. While many bills have been introduced none of consequence have been pushed. The two or throe passed have been of a corrective or urgent municipal nature. Tho real machinery haB not turned a wheel. Nobody wants to hurry anything until a great mass of business accumulates and speed comes by gravitation.

The notion of the astute Assemblyman seems to be that his little games will slip through much more slickly when everybody gets breathless. So measures aro allowed to "set" and hatch and all tho committees play lazy. It takes about a month of this thing before tho gist can be considered ready. The signs of a long session grow, however. There will have to bo au adjournment over Washington's birthday, but as that noble anniversary comes on Friday it will not afford excuse for abandoning a week, as will Benjamin Harrison's inauguration tho first seven days in March.

Then the celebration of the centennial inauguration will take out another slice of time, and if blizzards pass the season by it must, with the best of luck, run plump up to the 1st of Juno. The Hon. George G. McAdam, of Rome, is tho only truly sportive membor of the Assembly. He is a fair and fleshy young man, who sells butter, looks aB did Marc Antony when fat and once created a sensation at Dunkirk by putting on the gloves with Charles Mitchell and getting tho wind whacked out of him.

Comment upon the state of sin in Albany, for the existence of which the gay legislator ia credited, is enhanced by moral incidents which show how tenderly tho Capital city takes caro that these untoward tendencies of the statesmen and the persons they attract shall not go unsatiated. A while ago, before any Assemblymon or Senators or lobbyists wero here, the sheriff took it into his head that an aU tho year gambling house on Stenben street sb juld be raided. Ho went down with a posse and found a cordon of Albany police at the door who resisted entrance with success, and the gamblers went untrammeled on their risky way. Tho gentle Albany papers wrote it up in a paragraph aB a conflict of authority." It wasn't long ago that the proprietor of tho new and gorgeous JameB Btreet gambling house opened his palace of chance and startled the town by sending out engraved invitations to all the editors and politicians of the city. AU of the For Brooklyn's Doubtful Democ racy is Growing Attractive.

If President Harrison Should Forget What This City Did for Him Mr. Quay Will be Pretty Sure to Drop a Gentle Reminder Talk of the Week from the National Capital. (Special to the Eagle). Washington, D. January 3 9.

KingB County will probably fare well under tho new order of things in the next six months. For if the President elect is not already deeply impressed with the idea that without the 8,000 votes the Democrats lost there he might never have been what ho is, he is sure to hear enough of it when he comes here next month. Even Senator Quay may not Hesitate to corroborate the arguments of Kings Comity magnates reciting the fine work that was done on Long Island in the interests of the national ticket. That fine work closely resembles the manner in which tho expected majority in Kings was so mysteriously cut down in 1880. Then the outside Democrats were just as dumbfounded as they were more recently, although the members inside the organization of bosses did not appear to be particularly surprised.

The parallel between 1880 and 1888 is in many ways remarkably close, so close that the events of 188!) can hardly differ except in degree from those of 1881. They called it soap then, and fat now, but greaso includes. them both. Wanamaker was one of the most liberal contributors to the Garfield campaign and Dudley handled the floaters in Indiana and elsewhere. The nominee for Vice President was the most skillful politician in his own State and took enre of Kings County.

He did not need much diplomacy or finesse to accomplish his purpose then nor did Mr. Morton eight years later. It is no violent surmise to assume that the men who treated with Arthur in 1880 were the same who sold out in 1888. On both occasions the Democratic managers were straining their eyes to delect and thwart machinations in New York City, never thinking to cast a glance across East ltiver. Of course it will never do for General Harrison to become impressed with the idea that Democratic rottenness in Kings County was his salvation, but he can scarcely fail to get the deepest conviction that he owes incalculably more to Brooklyn than New York City.

He will undoubtedly be brought to appreciate that Brooklyn is more doubtfully Democratic than New York, that a great election is pending in the City of Churches next Fall while little or nothing is at stake across the bridge and the great national patronage incidental to the Custom House with its dependant offices will undoubtedly be thrown in the balance against ring rule on Long Island. Everybody here, especially the New Yorkers, thinks that Brooklyn will get the lion's share in the port patronage for these very plausible arguments which are all one sided. New York City is too overwhelmingly Democratic for any Republican Pres ident to waste time trying to drive an entering ivedge. In Brooklyn the log is lying ready to be split. In fact it is already cracking open from dry rot.

Who is not going into the Cabinet does not interest statesmen here as much as who is going into it. There is only one thing that nuzzles them: whether the leaders of the Republican party are to have any say at all in the matter or whether General Harrison is going to follow Grover Cleveland's example ajul suit himself. If Harrison is going to do this the statesmen are all at sea, for to get satisfaction Harrison must get harmonious spirits together, and this can be accomplished only by choosing absolutely unknown men. Looking back at the parallel, it may be noted 'that Garfield had the following Cabinet: James G. Blaine, of Maine, Secretary of State; William Windom, of Minnesota, Secretary of the Treasury: Wayne MaeVeagh, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General; Thomas L.

James, of New York, Postmaster General: Samuel J. Kirkwood, of Iowa, Secretary of the Interior: Itobert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, Secretary of War; William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, Secretary of the Navy. In eight years most of those names have been forgotten.

But one is now mentioned on the roll of the party. If Harrison is to have his own way, the belief is general that his Cabinet will he a similar one. Washington quidnuncs assert with great confidence that Blaine will be the next premier. The prophecy, based as it is upon a grateful appreciation of his services in the late campaign, appears to he ill founded, if precedent furnishes a standard. Conkliug was, perhaps justly, credited with the election of Garfield.

Until the great New Yorker volunteered his own aid and enlisted tho services of General Grant Garfield confronted almost inevitable defeat. When elected he not only ignored the greatest man in his party, but sought an opportunity to resent the honors conferred upon him. Oop.kling retired with dignity to private life. Most persons think Blaine, under the same circumstances, would have so resented the slight or insult that repentance would have put the WhitelHouae in sackcloth and ashes. The use of Blaine's name now for the choice of Cabinet places does not take the form of an humble petition; it is in the shape of a thundering demand, and if it is refused the horizon will become darkened by the Vrsuvian outburst.

Blaine has come here to Washington with his family and settled down for the Winter. He has built a shrine near the Treasury Department and near all the hotels where none but leaders of the party are permitted to worship. And it must be confessed that all his time is occupied listening to oaths of fealty from the powerful. He is regarded by his friends as another Ca'sar who has thrice refused the crown. They claim that cablegram conveying the monosyllable "Yes" would have secured him the nomination; they hold that his magnanimous consistency and self denial placed every candidate under an obligation of snch degree that it could never be honorably or safely ignored.

They further maintain, perhaps rather presumptiously, that but for his brilliant, able and efficient campaign work General Harrison could never have been elected and they conclude by declaring that to ignore the man, his services and his following would he a folly, a blunder and a crime. And this is very much the language used by Conlding'8 friends in 1880. The calm before the storm may last until March 4. After that, the deluge. There is a very strong antagonism of recent birth against an extra session, though from the slow progress legislation is making in both Houses this is not particularly apparent to outsiders.

But aside from the Speakership candidates, who, of course, would like to have their light oyer as soon as possible, the most thoughtful Republicans are recalling the outcome of Garfield extra executive session, and with that picture Of family dissensions and resulting horrors beforeNtheir eyes, they are indisposed to have their nexting shaken from his throne by the disgruntledjagrumblinss of the dissatisfied and A Rummer interregnum is deemed healthy or all concerned. The period between March anftJJeeember is long enough to oool the passions ana moderate the expectations of men. General Hprrison will be a freer man and a much happic President if Congress is not with him, and the arty will not be in such danger. Whether the wishes of the deep thinkers will have much effect upon the preponderating body of wind jammers remains to bo seen. The probabilities of an extra session are exceedingly strong and numerous and they groiy more powerful and diverse every day.

Hon. James Samuel Thomas Stranahan has attracted a good deal of attention here during the past few days, both on account of his venerable dignity and tho conspicuous favors he received from eminent men. He said the honor of bringing the electoral vote to the Senate was against his wish, believing, as he did, that it could do him no good, he having finished his political course and having his books all written up and closed. Tho position, he thought, might have been not only interesting but advantageous to a younger man whose future was before him. He said ho did not feel like criticising public affairs.

When he went out of that life he had promised to quit fault finding, feelujg assured that there would always be enough fault tinders to purify tho body politic. But there was one subject upon which he was decidedly emphatic. He is no believer in the pessimistic ideas of the depravity of the times. "We hear a good deal," he says, "about the degeneracy of our public bodieB, some of which is true and some does not bear that character. There is Cincinnati, January 10.

A man giving the name of Charles Schmidt came here with his wife about January 1 and pretended to be about to establish a sausage factory. He bought a house on West Soventh street and employed workmen to tear it down in order to build his factory. He postponed making the first payment until Thursday, when he gave a check for $8,300 on the Atlas Bank of this city. In the meantime he made a number of other purchases, for which ho gave checks and received small sums in cash. One of these checks when presented yesterday was found to be a forgery.

It purported to be drawn by Roberts it but the signature was Roberts." The checks signed by Schmidt had no money on deposit to meet them. He and his wife were traced to Love land, where the woman was captured, but Schmidt escaped. He realized less than $100, so far as known, from his elaborate scheme. The woman says they are from Cleveland, that her father's name is Murphy and that he lives at 5(30 Kinsman street, Cleveland. She admits that she forged the Roberts check ami two others, which she afterward destroyed.

She says her husband's father is a retired merchant, living at Woodland avenue, Cleveland. She is about years of age. When arrested at Loveland she had almost bribed the deputy constable to permit her to escape, and but for the timely appearance of another officer would have succeeded. MUKDERRD BY A HIRED MAN. Tile Fate of a Woman TVlio llenuunctl Alonn in ll Mouse.

Rochester, N. January 1 9, A dispatch from Mumford, N. savs a cold blooded murder was committed last night at the house of Myron Davis, two miles southeast of Chili Station. Mrs. Hale was tho victim.

She remained at the house with a hired man while the other members of the family, with the exception of two small children, who were left in Mrs. Hale's care, attended a social in the neighborhood. When the members of the family returned from the social they found Mrs. Halo lying on the floor with her head badly crushed. The hired man had disappeared.

The supposed murderer's parents are said to live near Rochester. He had worked for tho Davies family only a short time. His name as yet is unknown. Deceased is a sister of Mr. Thomes Brodie, of Caledonia, N.

Y. SHOT FROM BEHIND A TREE. A Harking fr IJrov William Kizer to His Dentil. Louisville, January 10. William Kizer, who lives on the Licking River, in Rowan County, was fatally wounded one night this week by a man concealed behind a tree in his yard.

It was dark and Kizer, aroused by the barking of a dog opened the door and looked out. Seeing the man ho called to him and tho other began firing at him with a revolver. He fired five times but only one bullet nit Kizer, passing through his body. John Weskitt has been arrested on suspicion of being the assassin, as it is known he has been jealous of Kizer's attentions to his wife. THE LATE JOHN 31.

PHILLIPS. Cincinnati, January 1 9. The remains of the late John M. Phillips, senior agent of the New York Methodist Book Concern, arrived here to day accompanied by Mrs. Evans, of Rose Hill, N.

and Miss Phillips, of Brooklyn, daughters of the deceased, and Mr. John Phillips, the son. Also, General Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey; the Rev. Dr.

A. K. Sanford, of New York, and Mr. H. W.

Knight, of Brooklyn, representatives of the New York Book Concern. The funeral will take place to morrow afternoon from St. Paul's M. E. Church.

AN ATTACHMENT FOLLOWS THE FIRE. (Special to the Eagle. Patcuooue, N. January 10. A fire, supposed to be a trifle suspicious as to its cause, occurred a week ago in the Bay Shoro House, kept by William Sunderland.

Yesterday an attachment on what stock remained was levied by the firm of Smith Brewster to satisfy a bill of $70. Constable Benjamin made the seizure. Mr. Sunderland is away from Bay Shore at present and his insurance of on stock has not as yet been paid by the Royal Insurance Company, whose representatives aro waiting for his affidavit or proof of loss. TROUBLE ON" THE MAXWELL LAND GRANT.

Denvek, January 10. On the Maxwell land grant on Thursday a dozen armed men went to the ranch of Rev. J. McGaughey in daylight ami tore down some fence. The armed men then visited the house of Mr.

Smith, set his goods out doors and notified him to leave. The Sheriff of Colfax County went to arrest them, but they declined to be arrested and the sheriff left them. The trouble seefns to be between the settlers, who claim rights from the grant company, and others who ignore the grant rights. AN INSANE MAN IN PATEliSON. Patehson, N.

January 19. John Benz, a shabbily dressed man, carrying a bulging umbrella, presented himself at the First National Bank of Paterson this morning and announced that he was president of that institution. He demanded that the salary of the president for eight.months be paid him, declaring that he had held the office for that length of time. He also claimed that he owned the United States. Benz, who is undoubtedly crazy, was taken into custody and lodged in the county jail.

DEATH OF A VETERAN LAWYER. PiTTsmnto, January 1 9. Hon. Samuel B. Wilson, the oldest member of the Beaver County bar and one of the most prominent Democratic politicians in WV.stern Pennsylvania, died at an early hour this morning of nervous prostra tion.

Tho deceased was also the oldost Mason in tho county and was for forty years prominently identified with the order in Pennsylvania. Ho waB born at Newcastle, on February 20, 1824. THE OSSIPEE QUARANTINED. Washington, D. January 19.

A telegram was received at the State Department to day from the United States Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, saying that the United States steamship Ossipee had been quarantined at that port, because of her visit to Port au Prince, an infected port. He adds that a special hoard has been appointed to examine tho vessel and" that there is no reason to believe there is any sickness on board. MR. MORTON IN THE SENATE (iALLERY. Washington, D.

January 19. About five minutes before the Senate was callod to order to day Vice President elect Morton walked into the reserved gallery of the Senate alone and sat, an interested spectator of the proceedings, during the morning hour, when miscellaneous business was being transacted. He watched this closely, and then, when the discussion on the Tariff bill was resumed, quietly walked out. BIDS FOR GUNS. Washington, D.

January 19. The Chief of Ordnance has received bids for the steel forgings for one twelve inch breech loading rifle, as follows: Bethlehem Iron Works, 34 cents a pound, to be delivered in ton months, and the Midvale Steel Company, 40 cents, to be delivered in twefity uino weekB. it would nauseate and disgust an American workman and he would find it difficult to sustain life upon it. Their habits are vicious, their customs are disgusting, and the effect of their presence here upon our social condition is to be deplored. They havo not the influences, as we understand them, "of a homo; they do not know what the word means; and, in the opinion of the committee, no amount of effort would improve their morals or Americanize this class of immigrants.

They have been brought here in such numbers, and have been employed at such low wages, that it has resulted in their replacing the American citizen, who formerly performed this class of labor, until now there are comparatively few Americans engaged iu mining coal in Pennsylvania. The agents of steamship companies in portions of Europe have been active in inducing, encouraging and stimulating immigration to this country through false representations. The report condemns the practice which has prevailed among certain foreigners resident in this country of importing men for the purpose of contracting them on railroad works and keeping them in a state of almost abject slavery. Reference is also made to the daily crossing into the United States of Canadian laborers, it being shown that about eight hundred Canadian carpenters daily labor in Detroit, while the fame number of Americans lie idle for lack of employment. In conclusion tho committee "Certainly the effect of the present unrestricted system of immigration, as applicable to the conditions under consideration upon tho industrial situation of this country, lias been very bad, and the committees believe that the time has come whon immigration fhould be more effectively regulated; that persons who immigrate to tho United States should at least be composed of thoso who in good faith desire to become its citizens and are worthy to be such." Mr.

Spinola does not agree with the majority of tho committee in regard to either the report submitted or the bill presented. Iu a minority report he states that he is opposed to a head tax of more than $1 for each immigrant, believing this sum to be sufficient to meet all the required expenses necessary to conduct the Department of Immigration. He also disagrees with the majority in regard to any change of existing law limiting the numbor of passengers to each 100 tons of the vessel conveying the immigrants, considering, as he does, that the safeguards of the present law are sufficient. Ho is of opinion that the committeo was charged only with the duty of making a thorough and full investigation, and to roport a bill effectually to protect the country from a flood of paupers, lunatics, idiots and cripples, entirely incapable of self support, thereby becoming a charge upon tho country and adding greatly to the burdens of the people. Another subject of investigation requiring consideration by tho committee, was to check or prevent the influx of criminal as well as to wipe out thoroughly the unjust and injurious rystcm of the importation of laborers and mechanics under contracts mado abroad at a very much lower rate of compensation than tho wages paid in this country, to tho great injury of our own mechanics and workmen.

So far as the bill of the majority deals with these propositions tho minority is prepared to go to any length in advocacy of a proper measure in order to shutout paupers, lunatics, idiots, cripples and thieves as well as all evil doers, who come hero to practice their wickedness and fill our poorhouses and prisons. Mr. Spinola declares his unqualified opposition to the passage of any law that will in any way check or stop the influx of honest immigration, believing that our happy and prosperous country will in the future, as in the past, continue to receive with open arms every industrious, honest man wlo may seek a homo among us for the purpose of improving and benefiting his condition in life, whether such comer bo with $1 or $1,000,000. STILL ADDING TO THE NAVY. Senator Hlair' Bill for tlie Construction of Four Torpedo Boats.

Washington, January 10. Senator Blair io day introduced a bill "for the construction of four semi submerging torpedo boats, with armored protected deflective decks." Two of them shall be about las feet long, 20 feet beam. The other two shall be about feet long and about 30 feet beam. The boats shall be armed with the most approved system of torpedoes and dynamite guns and shall bo of sufficient horso power to drive them as follows: Tho 135 foot boats at not less than 22 knots and the 230 foot boats at not less than 24 knots an hour. The vessels shall bo constructed upon the plan and specifications of the designer, W.

F. MaBon McCarty. The vessels, exclusivo of armament, shall not cost to exceed a sum of $170,000 each for the smallor and $200,000 each for the larger ones. THE SUGAR FRAUDS REPORT. Washington, D.

January 19. In accordance with a Senate resolution of tho 8th instant, Secretary Fairchild to day transmitted to that body a copy of the manuscript report of frauds in sugar in New York and Philadelphia, dated November 1, 1887, which was submitted by special employe, T. Aubrey Byrne, of tho Treasury Department. This report is the same as that called for iu a resolution of the Senate of tho 1st of March last, and its copying, the Secretary Bays, haB progressed as rapidly as tho current work of the office would permit. A FORCER'S SUICIDE IN JAIL Woodbuby.N.

January 19. Charles Fries, who was committed to tho Gloucester County Jail a week ago for forging a noto and presenting it for discount at the Swedes boro Bank, committed suicide by hanging himself to the door of his cell at an early hour this morning. Fries was a member of ono of Salem County's best families and the charge against him created a sensation throughout South Jersey, where he was well known. Since his arrest ho has been despondent and had but little to say. A PITTSBURG SHOE DEALER FAILS.

Pittsburg, January 19. Joseph H. Borlan, ono of the largest shoe deal crs in this city, has confessed judgments aggregating $18,600 to various parties. The cause of tho embarrassment is not known, as Mr. Borlan could not be seen this afternoon.

FRIDAY NO LONGER A HANGING DAY. Habbisbuho, January 19. Governor Beaver has fixed Tuesday, March 20, as the date of the execution of Peter Barononski, the murderer of Acnea Ketch, in Schuylkill..