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GKXKKA1 CLAKKSON. Delivered at the American Clab'i Ban- qnet, Fittuburg, in Response to the Taast: " Tlio liepublican l'ro**"--A Glowing "Tribute to tlio VI hi It.y and Independence «f Bepabllcwi Newnpupern Krtucatlon the Only Solution or the ltare Problem In tlM South. • II I were going to make a speech in polities, *nd if 1 werrt going to speak for a Hepoblic&a f rese, as I liavo l>oen asked to <lo here to-night wouW say many iilain thiusa in this time of ?Jain need. I can simak little for the press, as bavo been a truant frmi my own work for over Hwo years, ami hardly feel ihe title to speak 1M re in its behalf to-nigh.;, although my heart has been wit.h it all the time I nave be?n in •Other works. It needs littlp apewli from any one; it kpeaks for kt3t)lf The iCeimblican news- jpajforri of America form, as I believe, the strongest intellectunl lorro on this continent* and it is a partyjtreks tnat is loyal, while in< o- iwdcnt, unsellisU, and Jiiway* the ailv-inco .guard of the i>arty. The consideration of the party press daily gro^>a n.ore and mora iuipot- tant. We are In a slate of trai. stion somewhat as to pirty methods. Mr. Brice was much do- Tided tor lii* phrase in 18SS that the campaign •of that yoar was an intellectual one, yet his fctatemcnt «as true. Political conquests are -coming more and more to be fought in the arena •Of iiit>cu8Biou ai d in the new spaper press. The days of parades and physical demonstrations are j retty plainly i n iKhiifg awav. The torchlight .and there&light as political ar-junie.ta are be­ ing superseded by tee intellectual discussion of the press. The campaign of 1992 will be largely s news­ paper campaign, aud it has already began. Let usbefrark, and say that the l>ei locmts prob­ ably saw this before tlie Kepublicans, for any close observer must have setn with interest, and almost astonishment, the marvelous man- * ner in which the Democratic party has been '• strength on ii.g its lines ia the newspaper way in ' tha last few years. It did not use to care much for the newspaper or tin l/ing.i^iao--did not use to care as much as the Hepulilicau party for the newspaper au#inagazine. In latter days it has been beating us in our own game. In the lar^e Cities in the East they have captured nearly all the magazines and illustrated papers. All the mercenaries of press and literature have beau lured into their service. A TBIKUTK TO THE ENEMY. The To-enforced Democratic pivss is a star­ tling thing for the Republican party to face, and it must face it with courage and wisdom. In New York City 1,400,000 copies of newspa­ pers are pTinied daily. Less than '200,000 of ihem are licpublican. This means that two- fifths of the Hopublicans of New York City and its environments are reading Democratic pa­ pers, taking the Democratic version or things. •Bd the young people of the households being unconsciously educ ated against the party of their lathers. I would not abridge the latitude of discussion nor reading, but it is important that young people shoull at least read their own side as well as the other. In Boston the papers of greatest circulation are also Demo­ cratic. New England has largely gone from the faith of the days of the war in its newspapers. The same is true of nearly every large city in the country. Democracy has a'lso pressed its conquest to the agricultural press, and in the last three or four years many of thj fanners' papers in the West have become advocates of free trade. It was largely through this line, and that of the farmers' al­ liances. that the Democrats first based their claim that the Northwest wa=< for fres trade and changing t-o the Democratic party. Even as good an organization as that of the rarmers was utilized, mid fanners' alliances were established systematically with all the Democrats, and all the weak-kn«ed Republican* in the neighbor­ hood ga hered in their fold. Then they wore supplied with free-trade literature, secretly and constantly. Such a propaganda has never*been known in America as th*t of the Democrats in their hunt in secret and through a changing ?ress in behalf of free trade in the WeBt to-day. submit to you as Kepublicans here to-night that it is tinio for our party to take notice of what the opposition party is doing by increas­ ing and strengthening its press. Oar own press 18 loyal, and tt is virile and mighty in power to do, but it needs to be increased iu "circulation. THK Dt'TY OF nKPt'BLICWS. Kepublioans everywhere should at least take Republican papers first. 1 have recently had some canvasses made on this subject. I give re­ sult in one county (and it is tha same in many), a connty in Illinois, near Chicago, whore (>80 Republican familios are taking Democratic pa­ pers, and only ninety-iflvo Democratic families taking Republican papeis. Thene arj signifi­ cant tactB. The Republican press stauds ready - to cover the land with t no true gospel. It re­ mains lor tho liepnblicaus in the neighborhood and in the homes to supplement the labors of the loyal press and extend its circulation and influence. There has been a remarkable decay ill Republican strength in the magazines. It has. an intellectual fa'h on of tho North, especially in Eastern magazines, to seek to make a romance of the uar. in which the Sonthern soldier was a chivalric knight and the •South a beautiful but hapless larBi, while lha Northern soldier Was a rough fellow at best, and won mainly by superiority of numbers. This, as well as the other things I have men­ tioned. show how systematically, how in­ geniously, how wonderfully the Democratic part y has sought through the fountains of every influence to convert tnis country to its princi­ ples and power. HIS CONFESSION' OF FAITH. . If I were in literature, and had the title to •peak for the press to-night, I would tell what I would do by making a confession of faith in What I believe. First, I believe in the ltepubli- -can party--the party that was born ou* of the courage and conscience of tho nation in a time •of great need to grapple with and settle ques­ tions that the previous generation had, in the cowardice that is called conservatism, evaded and shifted tfc the shoulders of the next. I be­ lieve still in the Republicanism of conscience and courage that ruled in the early days. I be­ lieve that a party, the eauie as a mau and a government, should be guided by the instinct of self-preservation. I believ6, aud I love to say . it here that 1 believe, in the Republicanism of Pennsylvania. Itis the old-fashioned kind and the nonest kind. Here you have kept the faith •of the fathers. The Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln, who was such a Republican and so proud of Republicanism that he never thought of beiDg better than his party, is good enough yet for tho Republicans of Pennsylvania, and it Is good enough for me. The Republicanism of Ulysses S. Grant--the best Republican of them all, who died forgiven by ttie Confederates fcr having beena patriot, but unforgiveu by the mugwumps for remaining a Republican--is still good enough here in this State, and it is for me. The Republicanism of Thaddeus Stevons, Simon Cameron, Zachariah Chandlar, aud John A. Logan, brave spirits all--Ood uJess their mem- Ty-^-is still good enough Republicanism in this State, and it is good enough for every man of .honest blood and faith who has any pri'd3 in his party at all. As these men lived and died in the Bepublioan faith I believe in it still I also be­ lieve as thej did, that so long as we have party contest, we ii ust have party government. I be­ lieve that yoi. can carry on business in Govern­ ment or elsewhere with your friefld-i better than your tnemief. I boliove that thy plat g s of Re­ publican campa^iis and platform can be re­ deemed better i>» Republicans in office than bv Democrats. Pledges made by a political party to gain the sovereign approval of the people should be kept in honor by putting in official place the men who believe in the principles and In keeping the pledges. A QUESTION OF 8KLK-RESPJSCT. It is not a ouestion of office nor of salary, but •of self-respect, for a political party must have ^ts self-respect as well as a mau. It has its own self-respect to preserve to tin peojjle at large, and just as much it is bound to preserve the self-respect of the people in its own ranks. When it has called upon the Republicans every­ where, and the smallest neighborhood in the Nation, and Republicans everywhere have re­ sponded, and the Republicans of the smallest •community havo done all that men could do and mado enemies for its sake, the party self- respect in that community must be regarded as well as its own self-respect in the Nation. It does not matter so much who hold the clerk­ ships in Washington, but in the days of a Re­ publican administration tvary Federal office in every neighborhood in the land should be held l>y s"Republican. I not only believe in Republicanism of the old-fashioned sort but also in Americanism. The American theory is for iraquent changes in all public offices and for every American boy to have an honest chance, whether he s^ks it in politics or eleswhere. There is no Americau sympathy for a life-holding class in office and no real American sympathy attends the present experiment of creating a profession of office- holt lere. The people's name is taken in vain by such reformers as have set up in America in later years to try to teaeh the p:ople to be in­ different to pnlilic affairs. Here is the point that Americans guard most jealously of all things else. They have not watched history in vain. They realize the truth stated by Hallam in his great work cn constitutions that "all governments begin as pure democracies, drift into oligarchies, und end iu monarchies." NO T78E FOB THK KN'OI.INH THEORY. Amcrica'is do not believe in the English the- •ory of superior classes and life-holding classes. Tfac.fr own acts, and not the theories of reformers, -constitute thtir own opinions. All officers uu-! <ier their own control they change every two years or four, whether in township, city, dis- irict. State, or nat'on. Never anywhere have the American people made the least expression in favor of a lit'e tenure in civil office. They be­ lieve that frequent changes in public office keep the public service pure, just as the tides purify the sea. They have seen corruption almost in­ variably follow long continuance in office. They also believe in the rotation of public honors. The humblest family iu the land may have an ambition to see ,qbo of its number placed in omcial position. The whole sympathy of the American neople is with the family in that as­ piration. Besides, we cannot have too much education in self-government. We can't have too many intelligent Americans passing •through office for a while, to serve with pride and to fall back into the ranks of the people to teach what thev have learned. The «nnual or biennial Legislature is worth all that it costs in tho people that it sendB back to the communities educated somewhat In govern­ ment. ThiB is true of Congress and of every­ thing which helps to educate in government or to enlist the interest of the people in it.. Not •only do the American people demand that the list of office should be* *--* •hnvfear injury -V-- " V > • • * - « Zi- ' I tz 'h f' - y'• ! ' ^ ' ' '.{-is H AOMtohM _ OoVaramentaaa be 1 My «0ta» in Bum fnsh from tlw> people -whose pride in Hi* cotmtrv will mike him faithful and true. The trouble is not to­ day. as the mugwump sees it., that the people take too much interest, in politics, but that they take too little. I believe the claim of the mug­ wump, that the people favor a life holding class in office, if submitted to the people themselves, would be rejected by 10,0J '.(VK) ao vs. I also believe as a Rcp.-blican. and would ad­ vocate as an editor, the purest nosaibl' elec­ tions. The quest ton of an honest ballot is higher than anything in politics or partisan­ ship. For it. involves nat only the honor but the life of the nation, which is dearer to us aud more precious to our children than auything of party honor or splendor. If the Australiau sys­ tem l»a the right thing, lei us have it. Iu the Month, I think, we need the Australian system for noting but an American system for counting. THK SOl'THKHN QOKSTION. This Southern question is the great and luminous one of all. no matter how much it is ridiculed. The tariff is an anchorage, the car­ dinal doctrine of faith, and the Republican parly in bsing true to that is true to the re­ public. But the Republican conscience wants something which cauno, in any sense be on I led a sordid issuo. The Republican party itself is a sentiment, a.) everything good in" life is a sentiment. There is much of sentiment to attract young men to a partv and to make old men more earnost in it, in putting above everything else, above all other issues, the paramount thing that there must be honest elections, fair ballots, and fair counts. Who­ ever trifles with the puritv of elections is a traitor to his country, aud, if he be a Republi- can, a double traitor to his party. For the Re­ publican party haB no other dependence for it­ self in life than the strictest adhereuce to honest ways iu every act and deed. Indeed, its selfish­ ness would hold it to honest. elections, even ii honesty did not. With thoroughly honest elec­ tions in the Sjuth and in the great cities in the North, party lines would have to change and Bome other party come in to meet the Republi­ can, for with such honest elections the Demo­ cratic party could not keep up its organization. Lot us teach always and ever, then, that first, above everything, first above the tariff and all other issr.en, the great Republican doctrine is the duty of standing resolutely now and always for absolutely pure elections." A sacred ballot is the epigram of an enduring lu public. This moans, if adopted, that the Southern que"*ion becomes paramount in politics ; for there .> « no pretense, even by the candid opposition, that the elections of the South are fair. A few mouths ag > a poet from the South, whf> had a wondrous enchantment in s|>eech, who indeed put wings to his words and sent them singing as flocks of birds about every Northern home, appeared in Boston and carried the staid old city captive with his eloquence. His mis­ sion was t o tell the North, and as the evangel of that mission he did tell the North, although in words of superlative beautv, that the war amendments to the Constitution are not ob­ served fn the fc'outh and never will be observed. His eloquence hypnotized not onlv that city but verv largely the entire North, and the g«m- erou8||ftepublican press everywhere vied with the Democrats in saying an orator has come, a man of a century in words has come, and, aa Americans, proud of the s plendor aud achieve­ ments of American intellect, let us do him homage. That, perhaps, was natural; and I join with all others iu expressing my admira­ tion for this man who came Nor.h to speak as no one else has spoken in this country for many years. I have no doubt his heart was honest"; but his love for his own portion of America led him with his witching eloquence on his lips to come North and ask it to accept a situation in the South which utterly overrules thet verdict at Appomattox. In all that he said of the beauty of the fair land of the South, and in much that he said of its people, every Ameri­ can would join. A TRIBUTE TO SOTTHERX SOLDIERS. I would not undervalue tho South. I would not underestimate the bravery of the Confeder­ ate army nor th:' heroism of the Confederate struggle for nationality. Indeed, I think the North has never discriminated, as it should have done, lietween the Confederate army and the Confederate Government. Tho Confederate Government vexed the eyes of the world for awhile, and passed away to have the contempt of tho world in history. It was an utter, com­ plete, dismal, crying failure iu every respect. It originated lio measure to serve its time, no domestic wisdom, nothing that it could leave in the sight, of men to mark when it had been. No civic monument can ever be ruisel to the Con­ federate Government. Nothing in honor can ever be raised in its name. It was not only the mocking wrong but the cruel farce of its cen­ tury. It was tho creation of men who must have known when they created it. that it would fall; of men calling themselves statesmen who deluded the ignorant of their own section, and led thmi to disaster and death. God never set among men au illustration of tho vanity of ambition, of the insufficiency of ambition supplemented even by power, as he did in the illustration of the riso" and downfall of tho Southern Confederacy. It failed, as all things kindred will fail in time, because it was not. honest. Tho Confederate army was some­ thing else and something better. It was made up of men who. whether deluded as they were in largo part by blind faith in their leaders or by her Mc sentiment of belief in a. Southern em­ pire, were willing to die for their belief and their Ifaith. Any faith held by au intelli- flent man for whicu he i3 willing to di? is enti­ tled to the respect of mankind. The value of that army |was not only great, it was Ameri­ can, and matchless except by othEr Americans. I put the blue alone above the gray in soldierly valor. The Union soldier is the one imperisha­ ble thing that this century of Americans will give to history and to fame. Tha Confederate soldier, the mau he had to couquet, was his worthy foeman. QUOTING HARD FACT3. What has Republican rule done? The wealth of this country in 1860, when the Republican party came into power, amounted to Bixteen billions of dollars: iu 1870, to thirty billions of dollars ; in 1980, to forty-throe billions, and there is reason for expecting lliat iu 1800 it will be shown to have a wealth of sixty billions. In this prosperity the South lias shared equal­ ly with the Norih, "and in such a record and such a proof is to be found overwhelming testi­ mony to the wisdom, non-sectional pr^sperlty, and national beneficence of tho liopubli'm rule. Trie destiny of this nation is now known. The North, South, and West are to be n eighbors and allies, all parts of one republic. Therefore there is ami can be but a conunon interest in a common rule of fair play. The North asks noth­ ing of the South it would not grant itself. The science of the nation cannot lie rid of the black man. In the wisdom of the Father of us all the black man has always played an important part in this republic, and in the continuing wisdom of the Hi-,'h Power he is still with us. The proposition that he shall not vote, the prop­ osition that he shall be sent to another country, are all propositions against the verdict of the war and against fate itself. He is a human be­ ing and our brother man. Because he has been wronged gives his case more merit ratlur than less. This is his own country, and he may not. be sent away from it. He was born here. He has a love for home equal 13, if not exceeding, that of the white man. Indeed, the melodies of the home that we all sing are the melodiesof tho black man's love for homo. It is aquestion to vex the American people; but God sometimes vexes people for a wise purpose. Six genera- erations of Americaus have oppressed and wronged the black mau. The seventh may at least begin not to add to his wrongs, but to try to redress them. When the blv.ck man comes bringing five wounds with him to plead, he must not take six wounds back wiih him to show as the only answer givon him in his tims of liaei. The wisdom to settle this question it may be hard to find, but it must be found. If God rules the affairs of the man (and I reverently believe that he does), the solution for this problem must be gained in the widom that is found when man is alone with God, as Lincoln found it, on hi8 knee9, in the dark days of the war. Let God and his rule not ba forgotten in any po­ litical calculation. NO SURRENDER OP JUS* PRINCIPLES. When Mr. Grady asks the North to give up its opinion as to the South and the negro, and asks the Republican party to give up its platforms ana principles as to the South and tne negro, he seems to have forgotten that even if our party surrendered its creed the conscience of the North and the conscience of good people every­ where could not, even if it would, give up that byword of protection to the' weak which God never allows to be given up. Let tho Republican party be destroyed, let tha North become entire­ ly dumb, as it is now too nearly so--too dumb on this question of the wrongs of the negro- there is still the great question that here is a race of six millions of people on their knees be­ fore God asking for help and protection, and which God in some way will see is granted. So we say to the South, aud we say to the Gradys, good in heart and eloquent1 in tongue, the Republican partv could not give you what you ask even if it wanted to do it. The interest of the Higher Power than any of this world in the affairs of men is not in any question of tariff or reform in officeholding. Gixl does not measure nations by wealth or by tariffs. He has little patience with a nation goin^ persistently wrong. Ten years of wrong toward the weak in auv nation are ten centuries in the eyes of God." Let us remember also that it is an aphorism of the ages that an unsettled question lias no pity for the repose of a nation. The negro is iu America and to stay. He is au American. He loves his country. One hundred and eighty-two thou­ sand black, men stood as soldiers in the loyal army offering their lives to help save the life of the Nation. WHAT WIT,! Tni" SOUTH DO? The black man is a human being and he is a voter. What is the South going to do with him? Its people, and even its best people, say we can settle this question better than the nation can. Perhaps it is right. Perhaps the nation should grant that. But never can this nation be ex- cus k! ofl its conscience from watching to see that the question is in process of settlement, and insisting that in some way it shall be set­ tled. There can be no doubt "that the South wants it settled. Every material interest It has is involved. The very question of safety in its homes is involved, as well as honor. Mere words of eloquence will neither settle it nor begin to fettle it, nor abate the interest and duty of the nation to see it settled. There is a bright spot here and there hi tho South. A few days ago the Charleston News and Courier, in speaking of this Bubject, said boldly, "It is useless for Southern statesmen to con­ demn the Republican method of solving the ne­ gro problem, unless they can suggest a better method." This is the whole thing. It states the Northern position. The nation has a right J olth* ofus all, i«, « patbN and which all must admire and many might imitate, waiting under the blast of the »torm tor th« sol uti n. The negro feels the coercion of the situation. He has largely giv»n up his right to hold office. He saya if that will help to allay Southern prejudice aeainst h«m on account of his ignorance hois willing to wait until his son is educated, and J&ill bi an iutelii ;ent voter. The itaa school is very dear t > the n?gi o. THK H1.AIB The Blair bill, which a Republican United States Senate a few days ago defeated, cannot lingbs defeated. That measure, or something like it, is the forerunner of tho settlement of this question. The South insists tta' itis the ignorance of tho negro to whicii it objects. Then let tile American school come and take away that ignorance and let the Republican party, w hich is the traditional toe to ignorance, nut turn its ba^k oir tnesa six millions of people holding up its hands to lie e lucnt^l uutil it shall be worthy of the ballot. Meantime the negro is right, and eternally right in bis pres­ ent position. Hs has largely sunouderad the right to hold office, but he i.< not wiHing to con­ cede that he has not the right still lo decide between the white men who are to hold the offices. Let every Republican rea tio that any­ thing else than a brave m-nnirtg of this question and a brave, honest settle nent of It is not only treason to the Republican party but perfidy to the Nation. Lot til" R'publican pariy every­ where, if the South is wil i jg to a^k for nati >n- al aid to help educate its ignorant inhabitants, not rt fane to listen to the cry. Ignorance in the South is not a question of color. In the most of the States, for every throe black men who cannot r«a 1 there is one whit» man. Let the Republican party, which is the party of the school-honse aud of education, not be dumb to this cry. Let it support anything that will bring education everywhere in place of ignor­ ance. 4 , It is time now for action in the Fo'ithern ques­ tion. If the South cannot or will no; settle it the United States can and will. Neither the present time nor the future will forgive the Re­ publican party if. while it has complete con­ trol of the Government, it does not provide for fair election of Congressmen aud Presidential Electors in the South. Whatever chauges may come as to tha House, the Striate is sure to be Republican for eight or ten years, and therefore any legislation enacted now by a Republican Congress and approval by a Republican Presi­ dent is sure to stand for several years. The high duty now resting upon U the Republican conscience should hot shirk and dure not In honor evade. New Features of Our Modern Life* Laziness, with rare intervals of great activity in war aud hunting, is the sum of the life of all savages. The impulse created by want and intensified by a cool climate, acted upon for sev­ eral thousand years, brings tho heredi­ tary habit of steady activity and indus­ try. The early races liked to picture heaven as a place of lasting rest, while wo moderns feel that heaven must be a state in which we can continue good work. Each succeeding year makes industry a larger element in human life, and eminently so jvitli the higher races. We are carrying industry to great lengths, practically doing away with leisure. The restless European and the still more restless American seem to find no limit to the work they are striving to do. A hundred years ago women who had a pecuniary inde­ pendence seemed to do nothing, but to-day they write, work, read, take great interest in public matters, and lead lives of much activity. Ours is indeed an industrial age--an age in which our work, aided by machinery, enables us to live better, to accomplish more for ourselves and others than ever before. By habit, industrial ac­ tivity may be destined to become the highest worldly pleasure which hu­ manity can enjoy. The new environ­ ment is certainly changing the activi­ ties, let us hope for the bettor, of the entire human family.--Pullman. {III.) Journal. * Some Odd Ideas or Crime. Did you ever stop to think of the ab­ surdity of this thing we call "crime against society" ? Some one breaks into your house, steals your money, the savings of years, and leaves you lielpleBS. Or some one gets you to in­ dorse his note, leaves you to pay it, and ruins yon financially. This is called an offense against society, the man is dangerous and must be punished and restrained. He is sent to prison for twenty years--so as to give him ample time to repent--set to work, and the proceeds of his labor taken by society. Where are you ? , You are really the one against whom the offense was committed--you are the only sufferer. Why, then, not let the earnings of his labor go to reimburse you ? That seems so simple a rule of justice that the wonder is idiots, let alone lawgivers, have not seen it long since. But they haven't, and they won't as long as we allow men who live by teaching such stuff to do our thinking and lawmaking for us. Even a savage, a barbarian, knows better than this. This "crime against society" is like the old fiction of "a sin against God." You go to hell for one and to the penitentiary for the other, when in fact the only "crime" committed is against the man who suffers the iujury, and the only sin committed is against our. fellow-man who suffers.--Kansas City Timest Had tu Be Polite. On a street car in Chicago. Woman enters, and a man jumps up and urges her to take his seat. The man goes out on the rear platform of the car, and an acquaintance remarks: "You are getting to be excessively polite. This is the first time I ever knew you to get up and give a woman your seat." "This was a case of necessity, my dear boy." "Ah, who is the woman?" "My njife." "What! and a case of necessity?" "Yes, for if I am not polite she might not grant me the divorce."--Arkan- saiv Traveler. tif*lg*is gT'fwer it£m8~oai FROM VARIOUS SOITRCK8, Mrstis1 that Will Not Burn.-- Muslin, as is well known, is highly in­ flammable, and still muslin may be brought in contact with live coals with­ out being consumed. Take a piece of highly polished metal, a copper sphere, for example, and bind the muslin on it as tightly as possible; then lay on it some coals at a white heat, blowing them and keeping them aglow. The muslin will not be scorched. Tha reason of this is that the metal on which the muslin is bound is a good conductor of the heat, which passes en­ tirely into the metal, leaving the fabric unin j tired. The greatest tunnel in the world is the new aqueduct which has been built to convey the waters of CrotonLake to New York, and which will be completed by midsummer. It is 33£ miles long. Coi'LD tell a lie: Jim--I'm just like the father of his country; I can't tell a lie. Jam--I can--some lies. I can al­ ways tell yours a mile off. For in­ stance, the last one. A buxi>le of spider webs, not larger than a buckshot, and weighing "less than a dram, would, if straightened out and untangled, reach a distance of 350 milas. It costs Great Britain $3,312,200 an­ nually for salaries and allowances to the royal family alone. Lemons weighing nearly a pound each are common in Florida. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing;--Matter* of General and Lo«sl Interest -- Mar­ riages and Deaths--Accidents and Crimea --Personal Pointers. --The State Board of Agriculture have issued a crop bulletin in whioh it is stated that-- The report* from the moat important wheat- growing counties of the State more than confirm the accuia^y ot the estimates uiade by 1his de­ partment 011 the £id of March last, and justify uven a lower average condition of the plant than was made at that time. The area winter-killed, destroyed by floxls and fly, will reach 3s per cent., of the area seeded la«t fall, and the condition of that left stan.Ung for harvest is not encouraging for more than j>er cent, of an average yield l»er af r \ Taking the State over, the condition of the wheat cron is nearly r.5 per «nt. short of au average for May 1. The area seeded to spring wheat this season is hardly up to that of 18S9. The weather was unfavorable during seeding time and the crop is very backward, the plant having made but little growth up to date. In the northern division there is such a com­ parative] v small area devoted to winter wheat that it is liardly worth while to take it into consideration when discussing the winter wheat crop of t he Ktate. The area was small when seeded, and there Is a reduction of nearly 10 per cent, on account of winter killing and other causes. The central section of the State Includes the greater portion of what is known as the "wheat belt." and largely determines the extent of the wheat crop of Illinois. Last fall the area seeded to winter wheat was l,077,sr>4 acres, of which 43 per cent , was winter killed, leaving an area standing for harvest of G'i-2.787 acres. The con­ dition of the standing crop in this division is re­ port, ed at 73 per cent, of an average for May 1. The plant suffered less from whiter killing in the southern division than in the central, and the general condition of the standing crop is better. The area seeded to wheat last fall was 916,980 acres, of which 34 per cent, was winter killed, leaving an area of 602,907 acres with a npderately fair prospect of 78 per cent, of ail average crop from the same. The whsat reserve in the hands of th? producer is reported at 15 per cent, of the last year's crop, when the yield wns 37,000,000 bushels. I11 other words, there is nearly 0,000,ODO bushels of old •wheat 011 hanl. The whole winter-wheat yield last vsar in Illi­ nois was a little over 33.000,090 bushels, and a liberal estimate upon what now remains of last fall's winter-wheat seeding, at its present promise, shows that it cannot probabiv yield over 15,OOJ,OOJ to 17.000,000 bushels at the out­ side. --Following is the last crop bulletin issued by the Illinois Weather Crop Bureau. The temperature has been slightly lielow a seasonable average. Frosts have been reported, bnt have not affected growing crops injuriously. An average amount of sunshine has been re­ ported. The precipitation of the week has been above a seasonable average. Adams County--Fruit crop doing well; pear, peach, cherry, and plum trees in bloom. Bond--Oats sown. Farmers plowing for corn. Grass looking fine. Coles -Small grain all in. Meadows and what wheat is 'left look well. Fr*Uit crop promises well. Cumberland--Farmers are backward iu get­ ting in com. Weather of last week affected oats and grass favorably. Champaign--I,ast week was favorableifor oats, •wheat, and grass. Frost during the week. N'o damage. Farmers planting corn. Soil in good condition. Clay Trees out In full leaf. Oats seeding finished. Plowing for corn. Edwards--Not the usual amount of oats sown. Tho wheat crop about as reported last week. Fruit prospects f ood. Effingham--Another cold wet'W^ak. Affecting crops badly. Fulton--Temperature rather l">w for this sea­ son of the year. C rop doing well liotwithstand. ing. Corn plautitm begun ; a f.^w have finished. Henry--No rain during week. Oats and grass need it badly. Considerable corn just plumed. I roquois--Some corn boin^ planted. Oats do­ ing fairly, McHei'.ry -Plowing for corn in progress. Bain needed. Pasture growing very slowly. Perry--Ground still too wet'for plowing. Oat- seeding retarded. Pope -But little corn planted. Temperature of last week has affected oats and wheat un­ favorably. Ktchland--The wheat not injured bv March freeze doing well. Oat-seeding about dune. Farmers busy plowing for corn. Grasi looking Well. Kaudolpb--Oats sowing retarded by heavy rains. Wheat is wry thin In inauy fields, but what is left is growing fast. Scott--Condition generally favorable for grow­ ing crops. Stephenson -- Farmers busy planting corn. Apple and plum trees beginning to bloom. Schuyler--llecided improvement in crop and fruit prospects. The splendid rains of last wrek just what the farmers m-eded. Sangamon--Much of the laud sown in wheat last year has been plowed up and corn planted on it. Condition generally favorable. St. Clair--Farm work retarded oti account of' rain. Tazewell--Tho ground Is being rapidly pre­ pared for corn. Oats. oomlng up. Wheat aid oats looking welk ^ v* --Hon. Andrew Sb«maM, Lientaaatit Governor of Illinois, President of the Chicago Evening Journal Company, and for thirty-four years editorially connected with that paper, died suddenly of spoplezy in Chicago a few days ago. He was born in Lancaster County, Pa., in 1830. Mr. Shuman was Commissioner of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet from 1805 to 1871, and in 1876 was elected Lieutenant Governor of the State. --The fifteenth annual meeting of the Illinois Grand Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workingmen, was held at Quincy last week. The report of Graifd Master C. A. Wilcox shows that nine new lodges have been starjed since the last session, making a total of 323 lodges in the State, with an aggregate membership of 20,900. The report of Dr. J. L. Million, Medical Examiner, says that there were 2,144 ap­ plications for membership last year, of which 1,956 were accepted, the majority of the applicants being labors and me­ chanics. Grand Recorder C. P. Hitch says that the following funds wera col­ lected and disbursed from February i; 1889, to April 1, 1890: Beneficiary fund, $451,292.50; rel ef c ill No. 9, $8,843.80; relief call No. 10, $2,852.50; total, $462,- 991.80, The following officers were elect­ ed: Grand Master, C. fi. Matson, Chi­ cago; Grand Foreman, B. L. McKinley, Paris; Grand Overseer, W. C. Galloway, Aledo; Grand Recorder, C. P. Hitch, Springfield; Grand Receiver, Alex. Mc­ Lean, Macomb; Grand Guide, T. K. Ball, Griggsville; Grand Inside Watch­ man, J. P. Johnson, Rock Island. --The State Board of Charities has approved the plans of J. M. Lawler, ar­ chitect, of Chicago, for the building of the Asylum of Criminal Insane of the State at Chester, for which $45,000 was appropriated. Work, will be begun im­ mediately. --Gov."Fifer his pardoned Samuel El- kins, who has served twenty-four, years' time in the penitentiary upon a charge of which he was innocent. He was charged with the murder of an illegitimate child hardly one day old in October in 18G8, and advices have now been received from the mother, who is now in Kentucky, that the child Elkins was charged with mur­ dering is alive and well. Elkins is an old broken-down man now and cannot live long at most. His accusers are of bad repute. --The fortieth annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society was held at Chicago last week, lasting three days. The following officers were elected for the year: President, 3. P. Matthews, Carlinville; First Vice President, C. C. Hunt, Dixon; Second Vice President, F. C. Schaefer, Chicago; Recording Secre­ tary, D. W. Graham, Ch'ieago; Treasurer, T. L. McIUva'n, Peoria; Assistant Sec­ retary, G. U. Kreider, Springfield. --John E. Gray, aged 40 years, a la­ borer at New Salem, committed suicide by shooting. He leaves a wife and four at Springfield last week. 3. 11. Thompson, of Joliet, Muster'of tht State Graags, Patrons of Husbandry, presided, and W. E. Thompson, of Green­ ville, was the Secretary. The following declaration was adopted: We, the representatives of the agricultural and labor organizations of the State of Illinois, In conference met. express ourselves in unmis takable terms that our future success and wel­ fare must depend on'concerted action and thai we recommend to the different organizations as their representatives, that steps shculd lx taken as Bpeedily as possible to accomplish s consolidation or confederation of the same Our different- organizations im authorized as semblies have passed resolutions declaring tlieii principles and the reforms that they demand in language that cannot lie misunderstood, auc therefore wo tliiuk it unnecessary to reiteraW the same at this time, knowing that these declarations have gone forth, that they cannot lie misnnderstcod by the intelligent citizens ol this great commonwealth. R*solo«tl, That since this organization is madt up of members of all political parties, eacfc member is expected to be a missionary in his own party, to see that only men favorable to oui reasonable demands are nominated for offices it which they may affect our int^resis as a class. We as members of the different parties expect to find them in the ranks of our representative parties, but should we be disappointed we shal: lie excused if we insist 011 voting for our friends We further recommend to our members that they take an active and leading part in political primaries and conventions of all paities, anil that they give expression to their views and wishes in such primaries and conventions by instructions to delegates and resolutions unmis­ takable in terms upon subjects of political eoon- omy now before the countrv. Setoh'fd, That the organizations here repre­ sented are in 110 wise ix>liTical in a party sense, and therefore we recommend that we shall make 110 State nominations as a separate party, but that in Legislative, Senatorial, and Com/res- sional nominations we demand of all candidates that tbey be publicly pledged to maintain the principles and demands herein set forth, and tbat we will support no candidate not so pledged. Resolved, That we demand free and unlimited coinage of silver ; that this country needs, and we demand, acirculating medium commensurate with the requirements of the commercial inter­ est of tho producing classeB. Bfsolvtd, That we further demand an amend- mant to the Constitution of the United States retiring United States Senators to be elected by a direct- vote of the peoplo. Bcsitlved. That we demand the enactment, of a national law which will proliibitthe dealing in futures of all agricultural products. Renolreil. That we are uncompromisingly op­ posed to the principle "of taxing the many for the benefit of the few," and are therefore in favor of a nntlonal income tax. Rcsolrerl. That we demand that the Kailroad and Warehouse Commissioners be elected by a direct vote of the people, and that the present commissioners be urged to take immediate action on the complaints now pending for over­ charges on live stock. The following were elected officers of the fed­ eration provided for in the resolutions for the ensiling year: * General President--J. M. Thompson. General t>ecretary--8. A. Kirkpatrick. For the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association --Vice President, C. J. Lindley: Secretary, F. M. Palmer. For the Knights of Labor--Vice President, J. J. Mahoney ; Secretary.B. F. Harris. For the' Grange--Secretary, J. H. Vanarsdale, For the Alliance--Vice President, A. E, Bran­ son. --It is learned at the office of the State Board of Agriculture, sayB a Springfield dispatch, that farmers all over the State are refusing to furnish agricultural statis­ tics to the assessors, claiming that Board of Trade speculators(use the information to the farmers' injury. The greatest trouble«is said to be with members of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association. Secretary Garrard of the State Board has written to the organ of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association asking aid to correct the impression among the farm­ ers. "They are mistaken," said Mr. Gar­ rard. "The information gathered from them is used to their advantage, which is proved by the recent rise in wheat, corn, and oats, resulting from the publication of information gathered by this depart­ ment." * --The State Board of Charities re­ ported to the Governor the results of the investigation as to the responsibility tot the discharge from the Elgin Insane Hos­ pital of the two women whose alleged ill treatment in the DuPage County poor- house caused some excitement. The $9ard found thft Dr. Stone was acting superintendent in the absenoe of Dr Kit- bourne, and that the trustees appeared to have ordered the discharge of the women, though the records were so imperfectly kept that a grave Question of veracity has arisen between the acting superintendent and the trustees. The Board is of the opinion th .t the trustees erred in ordering the discharge of the patients, beoause the law expressly provides that loss violent patients shall be first discharged, and also because the quota from DuPage County was not then full. The Board decides that the action of the trustees was hasty and ill-considered. --The Chicago Daily Xeies siys: "Four years ago Sunday occurred the terrible Haymarket riot. The story of that day is etill fresh in the minds of all. Its results are almost as well known.* Seven police­ men died of their wounds, and nearly seventy-five more were more or less in­ jured. Three of the anarchists, Oscar Neebe, Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab, are in the Penitentiary. Pardons Fischer, Spies end Fugel were hanged Lingg, who was also condemned to death, committed snicide. The families of the convicted anarchists have been cared for, when necessary, by the Prison­ ers' Aid snd Kolief Society, organized for that purpose. "Mrs. Lucy Parsons is still active in anarchistic work. Her daughter Lulu has died, and 6he has left only one child, Albert R. Parsons, Jr. Fielden's wife and two children h ive been provid­ ed for by the aid society. Spies' family is in comfortable circumstances. Neebe's three children are living with his brother, Louis Neebe, oa Sedgwick street. Mrs. Schwab and, her two children reside on Cleveland avenue. Louis Engel's daugh­ ter Mary was married about a year ago. The aid society has supported the wife and two ohildren left by Fischer. •^An erroneous impression has been formed in many portions of the State re­ cently, based upon a decision of the Su­ preme Court, which is understood as holding to be unnecessary that a teacher as a part of the preliminary qualification to obtaining a school should obtain a certificate from the County Superintend­ ent, but that certificates issued by Boards of Education had equil force. The de­ cision applies only to cities having spe­ cial charter provision to this efifect, like Chicago, Waterloo, and a few others. --Judge Crei^hton, in the Circuit Court at Springfield, decided that tobacco, was not a necessary of life. Toe case was one where a judgment was hal against a minor for a tobacco and whisky bill and was appealed on the gronnd that the sale being made to a minor was void, whisky apd tobacco not being necessaries. The Judge issued an injunction restraining the creditor from collecting the bill. --The last scene in the great drama which cost Dr. P. H. Cronin his life took place at Chicago on Sunday last, when the body of the murdered man was laid fa| • «nw« iu Calvari- Cameterr. 8CMEKI OF. MAK1AC8 BIXKXKD IS A QtEBKC ASTLDM. BKrOBT or THK £< TIG A TING 1>R1 Scenes of Indescribable An*w!»1i Amsat tha Miserable Dsmentol Creature* -- How It Happened. Longe Pointc, [tine.] dispatch: A fire in the insane asylum here was attended with the most frightful consequences. The buildings were filled with patients, many of whom lost their lives, as tho firemeu were powerless to subdue the flames. It is impossible as yet to give an exact estiniate of the number of fatalities, but the number is placed as high as 100. There were about ninety patients in small cells, many of them ravins man­ iacs, some in chains and fettert, and tbey had 110 means of escape. The tire was discovered by J. A. Mc- Kenna of Burlington, who had just en­ tered the asylum for treatment for loss of memory. He was sitting in his room after being examined when he felt the plaster 011 the wall growing warm. He sprang to his feet and ran out shouting "Fire." He became confused and after being nearly smothered with smoke gained the door. He was accompanied by J. J. Enrlght of Burlington. Mc- Kenna is quite rational, but greatly ter­ rified. He lost all his effects and ha's telegraphed - to friends in the United States of his condition The scene of anguish that ensued when the magnitude of the disaster was realized was almost without parallel. There were 1.300 inmates in the build­ ing, many of them bed-ridden. As fast as possible tliey were rushed to the western wing, hurried down staire and out upon the grounds. Thereupon the wet grass some of them huddled to­ gether under the cover of blankets, while others wandered through the grounds with faces untouched by the horror of the scene. More than 1,000 helpless creatures were gathered together within the in- closure of tho grounds, guarded only by the man at the gate. One voting girl in the midst of the drizzling rain, thinlv clad, sat at a piano 011 the grounds and played soft music, while tho terrible tlames roared above her. Those who saw the spectacle will never forget it. In reply to the question, how many lines were lost: "I don't know," one fireman said, "I saw dozens struggling against those bars," pointing to the top windows in the rear of the central building. "They were blackened and shrieking. No help could reach them and tliev fell back Into tne flames." "I saw a largo number of men and women clinging to the windows," said Fireman Laporte, "but nothing could be done. How many perished no one knows. Dozens, I am sure I tried to rescue two women, but could not reach them. I saw them falling back intc the flames. It is rumored that seven ;iuns connected with the institution were burned to death. On calling over the roll it wa^ found that nearly 300 patients were missing, but it is expected that a large propor­ tion of these will bo found eventually. The surgeon of the asylum says that certainly iifty patients are dead, and the sisters admit that th»death-roll may run beyond 100. The financial loss reaches $1,350.000. The Box Didn't Make Change. It would be supposed that by this time nearly every man, woman and child iu this city would know enough about the money boxes in street cars to enable thera to put their fare in the box. Especially in this case when there is a lar^e sign staring the pas­ senger in the face to put "th® exact fare in the box, * The other d\y a lady, nicely dress­ ed, boarded a short line Birmingham car at the corner of Carson and Tenth streets, to rid ? to the city. She flash­ ed out of her pocket, which was con­ cealed where wo man could ever find it: a beautiful 1 title purse, and extracting a dime, she refused the proffered aid of a fellow passenger to put her fare id the box. She walked to the forward end of the car and dropped .the dime into the * pening of the box. Then she stood there with an expectant look on her face and one hand on the top of the box. Whether she expected the box would open and hand out a nickel in change in about the same manner aa practiced by a cabinet "speak easy" the other passengers could only guess. The driver told her she would have to stand the loss of the nickel unless tho car took on another passenger. At the Pittsburg end of. the bridge another passenger got on. He wore a light blonde mustache and self-satisfied air of "mashing" anything in sight, as he tripped past the young lady. As he asked the driver for two nickels in exchange for a dime, the mule puncher told him of the young lady's predica­ ment. Of course, he was on'/ too glad to pay hei back the five cents and smiled sweetly as he handed over that amount. With a "you-bet-l'm-in-it" expression, he turned around and drop­ ped the other nickel in the box. Then he discovered that I10 was out a nickel, and the smiles of the passengers made him go out and commune with himself. The individual who enjoyed the joke the most was the 3 oang lady who caused Ms misfortune. A Remarkable Wedding. A veiy interesting wedding, which can­ not be aptly described as a marriage a la mode, or a love match, or even a mere mesalliance, but partakes of the na- turo of all three, lian lately taken place in on obscure Polish village, says a St. Petersburg correspondent, the bride­ groom being no less a personage than a Spanish grandee, the Governor of the 1'hilippine Islands, and the bride a ©harming artless Polish girl. The nmtch was brought about in this way: A year ago the Spanish dignitary ob­ tained leave of absence and paid a visit to Paris for the sole purpose of seeking for a suitable life partner in that inter­ national matrimonial market. The qualifications required in the bride were few, but important; she should profess the Roman Catholic faith, and should have something more valuable than her face for her fortune. Hirr vigilant eyes soon fell upon a beautiful Polish maiden, who, though a peasaut, could boast of great worldly wealth, and was blessed with good looks, which were over and above the conditions. The Spaniard cultivated the acquaintance of this Slavonic maiden, talked with her father, pro­ posed, and was accepted. Shortly be­ fore the marriage, a Polish prince, the owner of the village of Sandomir, was induced to confer by adoption upon the young lady the title of princess. After this the Governor of the Philippine Islands journeyed to Kussian Poland, to the Government of Kelets, where, a few days ago, he was united in wed­ lock to the lady of his--heart. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Bishop, of Sandomir in the rural church of an obscure village, accord­ ing to the rites of the Boman Catholic Church. The little chapel was filled with peasants of every agej among whom were many of the former play­ mates Of thftbblaliinnr V.mVla J ' '• •r- Test and Bis Collsspisi Sajr Om Mar-* kete of the Country Are Controlled by TOOT Finn* Havtar cldeag* aa Tbeir r'; Headquarters -- Remedies ftdfiiid bjr the Committee. ^ Washington dispatch: The report of the special committee of the Senate ap+ - pointed in May, 18S8, on the transports-* ' * tion and sale of meat products has beeif -..^ ;^,' presented to the Senate by tlie chairman*. • f Mr. Vest. It is a long document, accom* . ^ V 1 panied by a copy of the testimony :n by the committee in prosecuting its in* ^ quiries at St. Louis. Chicago, and Newr ^ York, and is signed by all the members ^ ,x$L of the committee--Messrs. Vest, Coke* „ Plumb, Manderson. and Farwell. ' The several legislative measures . pro* ^,'th i , posed by the committee to remedy th^ " 3: evils of the traffic are set forth in Mr. . I Vest's statement in the report of th# j/-*/ Senate proceedings. The committer <4 says that when the examination of wit*' •> nesses began in St. Louis it "was evi-»- dent that conflicting influences were at- -,,1' work, especially in «he International^ -s^ Cattle Range Association, and that in» ~"J J' dustrious efforts were being made to ..'fl ^ prevent the Inquiries of thecommitte* affecting injuriously the dressed beef "h interests ot Chicago. 1 There was no diversity of opinio* among the witnesses as to the price and as to the fact that the methods »f selling j1 , beef cattle had been entirely revolution*"}hA ized in the last ten years. The revolt^ tion took the form of a concentration of1 the market for cattle at a few pointy--, „ with tho controlling market at Chicago.;- •«!> This change, the committee says, is du# principally to the fact that a few enteiV -j prising mem at Chicago are abl$, .V ' through their enormous capital, to ce^.. 1 \j> t r a l i z e a n d c o n t r o l t h e b u s i n e s s a t t h a t . > ; poiflt. . :;U The dre9s^d-bcef and canning bnsfa \ ness is practically in the hands of fouspV V ' , establishments in Chicago--Armour 41^ ^ Co.. Swift «fc Co., Nelson, Morris & Co.* and Hammond & Co. Whatever diffet1- • * : ! ence of opinion is expressed as to the ^ existence of a combination between these. '-V. firms not to bid against each other ih - the purchase of cattle there was n$> ' hesitation on tho part of witnesses, eve& > s, when obviously prejudiced in favor of the packers, in stating that the control of the market was absolutely in thi J grasp of these four houses if they chose /¥> to exercise it. ' 'AIM As a result of the influence of these ^ houses the committees rfoticed a relucW ance on the nart of cattle raisers and. ^ commission men to testify to facts of1 •* opinions which might prejudice them ift future transactions. The principal in­ quiry which the committee was directed: to make was as to the existence of *- :';S* combination "by reason of which the . prices of beef and beef cattle have beeit J so controlled and affected as to diminish tho prices paid the producer withoi^fhif^ lessening the cost of of meat to the con- sumer."' ' • | The facts developed, some of whiefc 1 are dcuulea in the report, the committee 5i thinks prove overwhelmingly a combina ­ tion such as is described in the clausia of the resolution quoted above. Ttefc " committee quotes a statement from Mf. Armour's testimony that beef cattle ha4t Increased more rapidly than population " during the last five years, from wliiclt ho argued that the low prices of beof - cattle are partly due to overproduction! This argument, the committee states, |§ not warranted by the facts, and the cotft- -- raittce has no hesitation in stating that a combination exists at Chicago which controls the market and fixes the pricft,. of beef cattle in its own interest. Tho railro»j trunk line, says the contr mittee, controls the entire meat traftftf^f " of the countrv in the interests of the railroad companies. Comparing the railroad charges on a car of wheat and a car of dressed beef, the committee shows a discrimination in favor of dressed beef of about 60 per cent. Aa to the remedies to relieve the situation the committee says that Congress, in the bill recently passed by the Senate on th# subject of trusts, has gone so far as power extends. State legislation mu supplement that by Congress to pun combines operating within theState lin and active, intelligent officials must found to enfore the laws enacted. '•If the FMeral and State avhoritf shall thus act in concert and the ot her legislation is to unjust discrimination by railroads in transporting cattle, tta|>,;< : removal of quarantine restrictions as American cattle shipped to Gre^t Britain, and the breaking up of the ra#> ; ;; nopoly in the steamship carrying trade . , of cattle to foreign ports be enacted, wil rV• have great confidence in obtaining re>"; ^ lief from existing evils." > In conclusion the committee says: "If the cattle-raisers of the IThitdt States aro onlv true to themselves, the, immediate future promisos deliverance from present evils. There is no excuse for panic." Tho worst feature of tbo cattle trade Is the fact that so many cows and calves are being thrown upon the market; the indication b?ing th^fc producers are panic-strickcn, and anxious to realize now without rogar4 to the future. There wore marketed ait Chicago during the last year 3,023.241 cattle, of which from 35 to 20 per cent , were cows, and 4 per cent were calves. "The cattle-raisers of the Unit^ V States should be and are tho most com­ petent judges as to their own interestfi, ' but if they will accept a suggestion from those whose duty it has been for months to examine tbe cattle question in all its aspects, they will cease marketing theli/ breeding and immature sto?k and pro- prepare for a larger supply and a : brighter future. It Is only a question of time, and very brief time, when the problem will bo that of supplying oUtr own people with beef without regard I# - .4 foreign markets." STOOD BV THE CHUKCH. m m-Disestablishment Defeated la tbe Uritlsfc Commons. London cable: In the House Of Commons Mr. Cameron moved the disK establishment and dlscndowment of the Church of Scotland. Mr. Gladstone, re­ plying to a member's assertion that the majority of the Midlothian electors were against disestablishment, said he would bejgiad to answer to his electors for the„ vote he was about to give. He would be thankful to the government if they gave him an Opportunity to do so; at the earliest possible moment. The only ground in defense of the- church establishment was that it was performing some special religious work in the country. He believed that tho condition of the Scotch opinion whielt Lord Ifartington described in 1377 as justifying disestablishments, was now readied, and lie therefore supported tho motion. In his opinion there never wa$ \ a country where the question was so-'I.,'gj simplified as it was in Scotland. It "%f would not entail a tenth part of the vio- " 'j lence entailed by the disruption of 1S43, Lord Hartington said he resrettcd th«l ' '• J;" new uosition which Mr. Gladstone had taken up. He was unable to agree witbk him that Scotland had pronounced tin- ^ ^ niistakably on this question. Be«ide^ ^ that it was nevessary to know the linos upon which it was proposed to act. In oDposing 'the motion, however, it n»us%.:^^ not be supposed that they opposed! ,'^fi necessary reform of tho Scotch church or even disestablishment should recon-t struction prove impossible. Mr. Cameron's motion 3SG to 318. ,V, was rejected# ' • ! * - ' 4 -s, v' <£j$: , 4. . ,