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before the audiences which listened to Emerson and to Dr. Holmes. He was contemporary with the remarkable group of litteratures now falling by the way, knew them all, and enjoyed and contributed to their society. His talent was not equal to theirs, but it was his own, gave him a respectable place in their midst, and was exercised like theirs, to lift the people up to the great moral and political evolution which the last half of his life has witnessed. Never did a school of essayists, lecturers, poets, novelists, and preachers turn the earth upon a revolution so mightily as did these men, and to the great end of freedom Mr. Whipple also labored. Achievement of that end, and the rise of a new school of literature, with different moral purposes, if any at all, has hurried the world along, and it is doubtful if Mr. Whipple will leave much which will be read in the future. Mr. Whipple's figure will be recalled as that of a slender man, with a large head on a small body. His eyes were far apart and very prominent, and bespoke good perception and expression. He kept a literary fireside at Boston in a humble way.— Springfield Daily Republican.

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His opportunities in youth for preparation for the work to which his manhood was given were meagre, but he made the most of them. His school-days were devoted to acquiring the knowledge adapted to fit him for a business career. college was the Mercantile Library Association's books and debating club, but he felt the impulse of his faculties, and gave them all the opportunity his circumstances permitted. At the age of 24 he published an essay which put him at once in the front rank of American reviewers and drew to him attention from abroad. From that time his life-work was determined, and for thirty years he continued to delight the public by successive series of essays concerning literature, life, and character that were always welcomed with gratification by intelligent and earnest readers. For a few years his pen has been less busy and his health has been precarious. The attenuated vital thread was suddenly broken; but for long years to come the student of English and American literature who seeks for a strong and wise master to inform his intelligence and educate his judgment will be referred to the essays of Edwin P. Whipple.--Boston Advertiser.

In the death of Mr. Whipple Boston loses, in the ripeness of years and of fame, its foremost literary critic and one of its representative authors. For nearly fifty years Mr. Whipple has been known to the American public as a critic and author. His first work of a notable character was an essay on Macaulay, which, as the production of a young man in his 25th year, was as remarkable in its way as was Macaulay's essay on Milton, which was written when he was fresh from college; but the wonder is greater in Mr. Whipple's case than in that of Macaulay. The Englishman had received the choicest education which England can bestow upon her favorite youth, while young Whipple had never seen the inside, even, of an American college, and had picked up his culture, his style and his general conception of what criticism ought to be by the process of an almost exclusively self-education, the bent of his thought supplying the lack of training in the schools. Many men have educated themselves, but comparatively few have risen, as Mr. Whipple did, to the highest rank as literary critics, without the amplest preparation and the largest culture.-Boston Herald.

THE death, at his home in Boston, of Edwin P. Whipple removes from the literary circle of this country one who, if not in the fullest sense a great author, was at least a writer of exquisite literary culture, of remarkable critical acumen and poise, and of graceful yet vigorous style. By the bent of his talent Mr. Whipple was distinctively critical rather than creative. In this direction, and as a writer of charming essays, he did much to improve and direct the literature of his time. He was a critic in the best sense, never sacrificing exactness or good nature to the temptation of brilliant writing, always calm, fair, and judicial. In later days the reading world and the lecture room audience have read and heard but little from the veteran writer and lecturer, but in the rare days when Emerson and Hawthorne and Longfellow and Choate were at their best, Mr. Whipple was one of the magic circle, and not the least honored and regarded of the band of men who gave Boston its literary pre-eminence.-The Christian Union.

THE death of Mr. E. P. Whipple, the Boston critic, recalls how short the period has been of anything that may be called literary activity in America. His writings are hardly familiar to the present generation of readers, and they are not likely to be familiar to any future generation. Indeed, his criticism was neither so discriminating nor so illuminating as to give it permanent value; but it did useful service in attracting readers especially to the American writers who were just beginning to find readers enough to be able to print their books. He coached the public to a somewhat quicker appreciation of Emerson and even Longfellow than it would have had without him. That he was himself so nearly forgotten in his own lifetime shows not only the briefness of the period since we became a reading people, but a very rapid advancement also toward the appreciation of a more subtle if not more useful criticism than his.-Brooklyn Union.

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NOTES.-Henry Onderdonk, Jr., author of numerous general historic_works, died suddenly on June 22 of heart disease at his home in Jamaica, L. I., aged 83 years. He was principal of the Union Hill Seminary in that village for thirtythree years.-Prof. Hosmer, of St. Louis, whose "Story of the Jews," has been well received, left for England on Wednesday, being engaged in more literary Dr. Taylor, of Cambridge, has issued a pamphlet on the original source of New Testament ethics in his " The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," with illustrations from the Talmud.- -An Italian literati, Signor S. Colombo, has translated into Italian the romances of Sacher Masoch. "The Little Black Cabinet of Leopoli" is the latest one published, and offers a curious and interesting study on the customs of Galacia. The "Raffaelli" is the next promised issue by Signor Colombo.A new street of Paris will be called after the poet Heinrich Heine. -Rosegger is recognized as the most prominent poet in the Styrian dialect, and as such is very popular. -The late Von Ranke, the great German historian, had two secretaries whom he kept busily engaged in reading, looking up authorities, making excerpts and writing from his dictation. Since he com

menced his English history he dictated, and he found that some of his works thus produced were better received than others. Dictation, he said, enables one to be less fastidious and more natural. He lived in the same place for forty years, humble as it looked, and one of his reasons for not changing was that he had around him 30,000 volumes, which he declared he "never could get properly removed and re-arranged."- -Marshal MacMahon, the illustrious general of whom France is justly proud, is engaged upon the compilation of his memoirs. -The Attorney-General has decided that the Police Gazette, and papers of that class, can not be sold in Kansas, under a law passed at the last session of the Legislature. A discovery of great literary importance has been made by M. Pierre de Nohlac, of the School of Higher Studies, Paris. He has found that the Vatican MSS. 3195, containing the songs (Canzonsère) of Petrarch, is an autograph of the poet himself, and consequently will not be subjected to the more or less conjectural readings and corrections of critics. He has also discovered the autographs of the Eclogues and the De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia of the same Petrarch. An account of this remarkable literary event will be given in the "Historical Journal of Literature," about to be published. Miss Cleveland's story, now in press at Detroit, is a summer sketch of modest dimensions and aims, written by her several years ago. It is a novelette, not a novel.- -Compliments

to our writers are grudgingly paid by English critics, e. g., The Saturday Review says of Prof. Whitney's work on Sanskrit roots and verb forms, recently published in Leipzig, that it "supersedes all its predecessors, and starts a fresh epoch in Sanskrit studies." Of Harrison and Baskervill's "Handy Anglo-Saxton Dictionary," founded on Grosschopp's Grein, it feels "bound to confess, to the discredit of English scholarship," that it is "by far the best work of its kind in the language." The Athenæum says of the translation of Balzac, which Roberts Bros. are publishing, that it is "very much above the average of English translation of French." -Mr. Stockton's novelette, which will begin in the August Century and run through three numbers, is called "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine." In the July number there will be an anecdotal sketch of Mr. Stockton, by C. C. Buel.- Mr. Julian Hawthorne is quoted as having said recently: "I am sorry to say that three new books of mine will probably be published during the summer and autumn. The first is a short novel, John Parmelee,' recently contributed to the Boston Evening Record; the second is a volume of critical essays written since 1883, some of which have appeared in The North American Review and Princeton Review; the third is a volume of two short stories, written some years ago -Mr. Beecher's sermons in England are to be reported monthly in The Brooklyn Magazine. Mrs. Beecher has promised to furnish the magazine with a series of "Letters from England."- -Crabbe's Poems have been added to Cassell's National Library.- -Funk & Wagnalls have in press "The Life of Schuyler Colfax," by J. O. Hollister, a member of the Colfax family. The biography has been prepared with the approval and assistance of Mrs. Colfax.

BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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Owing to the bewildering variety recently introduced into the size and form of printing paper the old designation of books, as 4to, Evo, 12mo, dc., gives little indication of size; we shall therefore, in order to be of most service to our readers, give the measures of books in inches and quarters, the number first given being the length. We shall also add the number of pages and kind of binding.

SOME PHASES. A Review of Ingersoll and his Methods. By Ottoman Hebern Rothacker.
6x52, 60 pp,, paper covers. 50 cents. Hatchet Publishing Co., Washington, D. C.
The author of this little brochure is modest enough to call it a "mob of thoughts,"
rather than a "train of thoughts." We don't know but that he may be right, but
there is method and design in the "mob." To say the least, we like it. We wish that
all who have read Ingersoll would read this; but then it is hard to get such good
thoughts into thoughtless minds. The style is brilliant. Many of the sentences are
gems. It offers a chance for a rich Christian to do good by the purchase of a few
hundred thousand of them for distribution among young men. We wish it may be
done.

THE OTHER SIDE.-A social study based on fact. By M. A. Foran. Gray & Clarkson,
Washington, D. C. 7x5, 461 pp, cloth, gilt.

This is a novel with a purpose, that purpose being to justify the laborer in the late struggle between capitalists and the employed. The language is bold, at times eloquent; the plot is ingenious and wrought out with considerable skill. It is bound to make a sensation.

HANDBOOK OF BOSTON. By Moses King. Moses King, 279 Broadway, N. Y. 8x5%, 300 pp., cloth, gilt.

Next to going to Boston and seeing the sights of the "Hub," the best thing we know of is this handbook. It is full of illustrations; they are on nearly every page and really very good. The early history of the city is satisfactory, and the effort to bring the work down to date is remarkably successful.

THE DESTRUCTION OF GOTHAM. By Joaquin Miller. Funk & Wagnalls, New York. 7x 5, 214 pp., cloth.

A powerful story, intensely dramatic, and intended to reveal in the garb of fiction some plain truths which the devotees of Mammon had better heed before it is too late.

PAMPHLETS.

THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, &c. By Jonathan Swift. Cassell & Co., New York.

MAGAZINES.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. July. 30 Lafayette square, New York.

A mere glance at the table of contents indicates by its subjects and writers that this number is full of matter which the man of affairs will read with relish and profit.

THE NEW JERUSALEM MAGAZINE. July. 169 Tremont street, Boston, Mass.

Deals exclusively with matters pertaining to the Swedenborgian church, or from the standing-point of the New Church faith. It is quite able.

OUTING. July. 140 Nassau street, New York.

Very beautiful, entertaining, and useful. It occurs to us, however, that we have seen some of the engravings before.

THE JOURNAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY. Edited by W. T. Harris. D. Appleton &
Co., New York.

Up to its usual standard of excellence.

OUR LITTLE ONES. July. The Russell Publishing Co., 36 Broomfield street, Boston,
WIDE AWAKE. July. D. Lothrop & Co., Boston.

As charming, if not more charming, than ever.
CASSELL'S FAMILY MAGAZINE. Cassell & Co., New York.
THE MAGAZINE OF ART. Cassell & Co., New York,

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WIT OF THE WEEK.

"DANIEL, what is a miracle ?"

“A miracle, Grover, is something wonderful---something that is not likely to happen."

"Give me an illustration, Daniel."

'Well, suppose you were to be married again. If you succeeded in keeping the press in ignorance of the fact, it would be a miracle."

"I take it, then, Daniel, that a miracle is an impossibility."--The Rambler.

M. PASTEUR is thinking of taking a short vacation. We suggest he go to Cowes, since cows often go to pasture.-Tid-bits.

"WHAT'S the matter?" asked a passenger on a Dakota train, as they began to run considerably faster.

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Why, you see, there's a blamed cow running ahead of us on the track, and we're trying to catch her."

"What do you want to catch the cow for?"

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Why, great gosh! to kill her, of course! The rules allow us train men the hide and tallow, and the meat goes to the directors. You bet I'm going to catch that cow unless she leaves the track, or run the wheels off of these cars. I told the fireman to break up the trunks in the baggage car, and heave them into the furnace to make a hot fire, and I guess he's doing it."-Tid-bits.

A NEIGHBORING paper reporting a recent social says: "The opening piece was rendered by a mule quartette." The reporter wrote it "male quartette," but the compositor knew better.

A YOUNG law student was being examined for admission to the Texas bar. Judge Stewart, the chairman of the examining committee, asked him: "If a man who had committed a murder employed you as his lawyer, what would you do toward having him acquitted?" Student: "Excuse me; but how much money did you say the gentleman had?”

FIRST DUDE "Ole fellah, what do you think of Miss Commonsense?" Second Dude-" Well, ma deah boy, me opinion of her is not very flattwing." First Dude-"Thath bad. Wat's the weason you don't like her?" Second Dude-"Too deuced sahcastic, don't ye know. W'y, the other day we were out widing, she and I, and we passed by one of these donkeys, a miswable animal, you understand, and I asked her the difference between that beast and myself. I thought she would say she didn't know, and I would tell her that the donkey dwew loads and I dwew pictures. Ye know I am a sowt of an ahtist, and that would be a fine joke, bah Jove."

First Dude "And what did she say?"

Second Dude-"She said the only diffwence she could see was in the length of the ears."

A WEALTHY New Yorker had engaged a splendid cottage at Newport, and also a new driver for his horses. The driver was advised to be very polite if he intended to keep his place. Accordingly, when the master visited the Queen Anne stable, the following dialogue ensued: Master-" Well, John, how are the horses ?" Coachman-"They are quite well, sir, thank you; and how are you?"

It is reported on "perfectly reliable authority," the New York Sun, that the latest conundrum at the London clubs concerns Miss Fortescue, to whom Lord Garmoyle paid £10,000 for not marrying her. This is it: What is the most expensive kind of oil? Garmoyle. Because it costs £10,000 per gal.

ridiculous, and that the Irish would accept Gladstone's proposals as final. Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes received from the University of Edinburgh the degree of LL. D., in the
presence of a distinguished company. The Russian diplomatic representative at Con-
stantinople instructed by his government to call the attention of the Porte to instances in
which Prince Alexander is violating the organic laws of Roumelia, and to insist upon the
energetic intervention of the Turkish government.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 26.

DOMESTIC-Ex-Senator David Davis died at his home, Bloomington, Ill. Strike at Ohlcago by Lake Shore switchmen attended by lawlessness and scenes of violence. Eleventh annual meeting of American athletes held at Staten Island. Tenth anniversary of the Custer massacre. Chief Gale, one of Sitting Bull's lieutenants, showed a party of officers where Custer lost his life.

CONGRESSIONAL.-The House in session. Debate on the Sundry-civil bill. Bill to give
Government employes 15 days' leave, with pay, passed.

FOREIGN.-Lord Randolph Churchill defends his election manifesto. A Madrid corre-
spondent sends, via the Mackey-Bennett cable, an account of the measures taken by Min-
1ster Curry to enforce the terms of the treaty of 1884 with regard to the rights of the
United States flag in Cuba and Porto Rico.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 27.

DOMESTIC..-The Priscilla arrived at Marblehead. Rumors that Attorney-General Garland will resign. The President returns to Washington. Strike of railroad yard men at New Orleans.

FOREIGN.-The Reichstag, before the close of the session to-day, rejected the brandy-tax bill. Further fighting occurred in Burmah between the Dacoits and the British troops. The latter lost 7 killed and 23 wounded. Gladstone publishes a letter to John Bright in which he says: "Without losing a moment I beg of you either to publicly except me from your assertion that one year ago all Liberals held Mr. Rylands' opinion, or to give proof of what you say. Never since the home-rule struggle was started, fifteen years ago, have I once condemned it in principle, or held in any way the opinions of Mr. Rylands, which, to speak frankly, I think absurd." M. Lockroy, minister of commerce and Industry, addressing the chamber of commerce, to-day, declared that he was a strong advocate of free trade. The committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the issue of the Panama canal lottery loan decided to closely scrutinize the bill authorizing the loan. The committee demands access to all documents throwing light on the condition of the canal. MM. de Lesseps, Rousseau, and Bathaut will be examined by the committee.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both branches in session. The Senate debates the Fitz John Porter House-Mr. Henley makes an attack on President Adams, of the Union Pacific; Mr. Lay defends him. The President vetoes twenty-nine private pension bills. Sixty thousand dollars appropriated for the construction of a light-ship at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. Democratic Congressmen held their first caucus this session.

FOREIGN.-The French princes leave France amid affecting demonstrations on the part of their friends. John Bright issues a manifesto to his constituents at Birmingham in which he announces that he will not support Gladstone.

FRIDAY, JUNE 25.

MONDAY, JUNE 28.

DOMESTIC.-Class day at Yale. The Lake Shore strike ended in Chicago. The Presi dent excuses himself from witnessing the conferring the berretta on Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, on the plea of overwork. The first through train to Vancouver, on the Canadian Pacific railroad, left Montreal. Many of the most prominent men in the city, including representatives of all commercial bodies and thousands of other citizens, witnessed the departure, and a field battery fired a salute of fifteen guns.

DOMESTIC.-Boat race between Yale and Pennsylvania crews won by Yale. Class day at Harvard. The President takes a pleasure trip down Chesapeake Bay. Mayor Grace, of New York, removes General Shaler from the presidency of the health department of that city, for bribery. Collision on Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road; four killed and others wounded. Rev. Father Sullivan sent to prison for eleven years on being found guilty of criminal assault.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both houses in session. Bill to relieve Gen. Fitz John Porter passed.
Elections Committee decide against investigating the Payne bribery charges. House-
Sundry-civil bill debated. The President arraigned for his vetoes.

CONGRESSIONAL -Both branches in session. The Chair laid before the Senate the report on the Post-office appropriation bill, stating the committee was unable to agree. The Senate then insisted on its amendments; yeas, 33, nays, 12. Mr. Evarts delivered an argu. ment in support of the President's veto to quiet titles of settlers on the Des Moines river lands. Mr. Allison urged the passage of the bill over the veto. In the House a bill was introduced by Mr. Randall (Pennsylvania), to reduce and equalize duty on imports, to reduce internal revenue taxes, and to modify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenue. A preamble and resolutions were submitted by Mr. King (Louisiana), viewing with great disfavor the contemplated action of the French government, identifying it with the Panama canal, as such action is opposed to the policy of the American people as expressed by the Chief Executive of the United States at the inception of the canal. Mr. Laird (Nebraska), made a severe attack upon Commissioner Sparks in his administration of the General Land Office.

FOREIGN. The English parliament prorogued. Gladstone delivers an address at Manchester. Mr. Parnell, addressing electors at Portsmouth, said the separation Idea was

FOREIGN.-The Porte ordered the withdrawal of 40,000 Turkish troops from the Greek frontier. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was on the platform while Mr. Gladstone was speaking at Liverpool. Two men sailed for New York from the Clyde in a boat nineteen feet long. The Chamber of Deputies resumed debate on the bill imposing a surtax on cereals. Prince Luitpold formally made regent of Bavaria, to administer the affairs of the kingdom during the occupation of the throne by King Otto, the insane successor of Ludwig. Mr. Cyrus Field and Mr. Labouchere settle their case by taking it out of the

courts.

TUESDAY, JUNE 29.

DOMESTIC.-The Puritan beats the Priscilla. Assistant Secretary Smith of the Treasury resigns. David Davis buried. Thomas Coggeswell nominated for Democratic governor for New Hampshire. Dr. Whittaker, missionary bishop of Nevada, made assistant bishop of Pennsylvania.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Both houses in session. Senate-Army, Postal, and Agricultural appropriation bills passed. Des Moines land bill passed over the President's veto. The House also passes the Des Moines land bill over the President's veto.

FOREIGN.-Herr Singer, a social democrat and a member of the Felchstag, expelled from Berlin. The Marquis of Lorne, formerly governor general of Canada, contests the Sevenoaks di vision of Kent in the coming election as a Gladstonian candidate. The Journal de St. Petersbourg accuses Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, of violating the decisions of Europe, while the Forte, it adds, displays little concern, rendering the situation preg. nant with serious danger. Despatches from Rangoon state that a force of British troops, with two batteries, has had a severe fight with 1,500 Burmese rebels, strongly intrenched near Tummoo. The fight lasted five hours. The British, failing to dislogde the rebels, retired. Several officers were killed and wounded. The French Senate to-day adopted the bill authorizing the city of Paris to issue a loan of $50,000,000 to inaugurate and carry on public improvements for the purpose of furnishing work to the unemployed, striking out, however, the clause, interpolated by the Chamber of Deputies, forbidding the use of material obtained outside of France.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30.

DOMESTIC.-Archbishop Gibbons is elevated to the cardinalate with imposing ceremonies, the investment occurring in the Baltimore cathedral Lice are damaging cotton in the Carolinas. J. A. L. Wilson, secretary and treasurer of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal company, is said to be a defaulter to the extent of $178,000. The Pennsylvania Republicans nominate Gen. James A. Beaver for Governor.

CONGRESSIONAL.-Mr. Edmunds Introduces in the U. S. Senate a bill to vest in the President of the United States the appointment of sundry inferior officers thereof, to reg ulate their tenure of office, and to provide for their removal when the public interests shall require it. The question of open executive sessions is debated in the Senate. Sev eral vetoes of private pension bills are sent to the Senate. The legislative appropriation bill is under consideration. House-The Pan-Electric investigation committee submits its report. The House devotes the day to the sundry-civil bill.

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VOL. I.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE PUBLIC OPINION COMPANY.

WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1886.

POLITICAL.

THE PAN-ELECTRIC TELEPHONE REPORTS. FOUR of the Democratic members of the Pan-Electric Telephone Investigating Committee submitted a report exonerating the Attorney-General and others whose names had been mentioned in connection with the case that has been brought by the United States to test the validity of the Bell telephone patent. The four Republican members of the committee made a report severely censuring the Attorney-General. One of the Democratic members declined to concur in either of these reports. The appended comments are based on these facts.

New York World (Dem.), July 6.

If the House of Representatives should adopt the whitewashing report of the Democratic investigators and the resolution pronouncing the action of those public officers involved in the Pan-Electric enterprise not censurable, it would lower the standard of public honor. If President Cleveland had promptly rebuked the connection of public officers with the Pan-Electric speculation he would have set a good example and have elevated the standard of public honor. The greatest good the President can do for the country is not in his appointments, not in his proclamations, not in his vetoes, but in the example he sets of perfect rectitude and unsullied honor in the public service. Mr. Cleveland's struggle against extravagance is commendable, but a few strong, ringing words from the President condemning conduct in public officers which has even the appearance of a disregard of the high obligations of official responsibility, would do more to stop official impropriety and indelicacy than all the reform letters he could write from now until the close of his term of office. The real question involved in this Pan-Electric business is one of example-one of the lowering or the elevation of the standard of public honor. The personal interests of "half a dozen impecunious politicians" who, not being able to make poker pay, went into the Pan-Electric speculation in the hope of realizing a fortune, are not of any public consequence. But it is most important that a Democratic Administration pledged to reform the condemned methods of Republicanism by the example it sets in this unfortunate business should prove its determination not to sanction the use of Government offices for private purposes, and its intention to carry out in practice what it has so proclaimed on paper, that "public office is a public trust."

Toledo Blade (Rep.), July 3.

By pushing Garland's opinion and suppressing the facts furnished by Marble, the ringsters scooped in $35,000, of which $24,000 was clean profit to them. Then they used the influence of the Government to push the Bell people to the wall, by having a suit brought in the name of the United States to contest the validity of the Bell patents, with the sole object of compelling the owners of the latter to compromise, or rather to buy them out; and the Bell company might well be frightened at a suit backed by the Government, with a Pan Electric schemer, and a director in the company, at the head of the Department of Justice, with his official course controlled by the interests of the Pan Electric swindle. Could a man with no more sense of the fitness of things than to accept a million dollars' worth of the stock be depended upon to deal justly when his course as an officer of the Government would aid materially to render that stock valuable? They obtained from the Attorney-General's office, in defiance of all precedent and all rule, permission to bring suit wherever it would suit them to have it tried, and at whatever time they wished. Does all this read like a partisan charge? It is summarized from the majority report of the committee, a committee formed to whitewash Garland and his associates. If his friends talk of him in this strain, what is to be inferred by the people except that he is a venal and corrupt man, a chief promoter of a villainous conspiracy to swindle men out of their money, and a man with the brazen assurance to use his official position to promote an unrighteous scheme to enrich himself? This is the sort of "reformers" the Democratic Administration puts in power!

Springfield Republican (Ind.), July 1.

THE resolution reported to the House by the four Democratic members of the committee would do for a verdict if there were added a short statement to the effect that certain of the persons named were guilty of incredible assininity in their relations to Rogers and his Pan concerns. The public judgment upon these men will not be changed by these reports and in all fairness will run about like this: Mr. Garland, while technically and perhaps sincerely scrupulous and correct as Attorney-General, had, as a Senator, suffered himself so easily to become the complete dupe of a transparent nincompoop, one who only lacked the smartness to swindle to be a swindler, that the Attorney-General's ability is totally discredited, his honor disgraced and his usefulness to the Administration at an end. Mr. Goode, the Solicitor-General, decided upon the case at first in such haste and with so little regard to proper counsel with the Interior Department, as to demonstrate his unfitness to act as Attorney-General pro tem, or in his present official capacity. Mr.

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Lamar is not involved; neither is the wisdom of his action in advising that the suit be brought impeached. The official standing of Mr. Atkins and Gen. Johnston and of Senator Harris is not touched, but their reputation as men of sound sense, business capacity and acute sense of honor suffers with that of the rest. The passage of the House resolution will neither exonerate nor vindicate anybody who needs it. Such action will simply smirch the House with a scandal which is now the exclusive property of the Administration. The only possible relief for anybody is for the Attorney-General to retire. The Solicitor-General has never been confirmed and probably never will be.

Boston Journal (Rep.), June 30.

THE report prepared by Mr. Ranney and signed by his three Republican associates, and the report of Mr. Hale, of Missouri, a Democratic member of the committee who could not sign the report made by the chairman, should be regarded as the majority of the committee sustaining the general charges made against the Attorney-General and other high officers connected with the Pan-Electric scheme. It is well known in Washington that one of the Democrats who signed the report of the chairman did so with considerable reluctance, yielding to the pressure which party friends brought to bear. In view of these facts, the reports of the committee are anything but a vindication of President Cleveland's Attorney-General. On the contrary, it is safe to say that in the history of the Republic no scandal of equal magnitude has ever been proved against a Cabinet officer. To understand the full measure of the Pan-Electric conspiracy and how hopelessly the Attorney-General is involved in it, one needs to study the full text of the exhaustive report prepared by Mr. Ranney. The case is not created by an attorney, but made by the testimony of Mr. Garland and his friends. Once embarked in the enterprise, Mr. Garland seems to have lacked the power to clear himself. Having taken half a million of the stock in exchange for his influence, he seems to have been used and to have used his office to promote the interests of the Pan-Electric. A careful reading of the Ranney report leaves room for no other conclusion, since the report is simply a logical arrangement of the testimony.

Washington Post (Dem.), July 1.

THE Committee of the House which has made such an exhaustive investigation of the outrageous charges against Attorney-General Garland, Secretary Lamar, and others yesterday handed up a majority report exonerating all parties concerned in the most explicit and comprehensive manner. Here is the resolution signed by all the members of the committee except the offensive partisans:

Resolved, That a full, fair, and exhaustive investigation has failed to adduce any evidence which tends to show that Attorney General Garland, Solicitor-General Goode, Secretary Lamar, Indian Commissioner Atkins, Railroad Commissioner Johnston, or Senator Harris (they being the officers named in the Pan-Electric publications of the newspaper press which gave rise to this investigation) did any act, officially or otherwise connected with the matters investigated, which was dishonest, dishonorable, or censurable.

C. E. BOYLE.
WILLIAM C. OATES.
J. B. HALE.
JOHN R. EDEN.
BENTON J. HALL.

A few Republicans, bent on blackening the fame of reputable members of the opposite party, may remonstrate against this and pipe never so loud their note of defamation. Nevertheless, this majority report will stand as the voice of the House of Representatives and the voice of the country-a complete vindication of the officers of the Government against partisan calumny.

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Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), June 30.

PUBLIC opinion will not be influenced by any praise or blame this House's meddling in this matter may evoke. The press and the people have carried the essential parts of the matter in their own minds. They know that the Pan-Electric crank the Rogers group of poets and jobbers, are now the tools of the Bell people, whom at first they antagonized. They know that the Administration instituted the suit against the Bell monopoly on prima facie evidence, which indicated the fraudulency of that monopoly. They know that that suit is in the courts, wherein the Government case is managed by Allen G. Thurman, great as a lawyer, honest as a If the monopoly is overthrown on the facts or law, telephones will become a universal possession. If not, they will remain the monopoly, for which people pay a profit to the monopolists of from 600 to 2,500 per cent. So powerful is that monopoly, or so addicted to monopoly is Republicanism, that the latter party has virtually bound itself up in the meshes of the Bell claimants. The issue is with the courts. The character of Cleveland, Garland and Lamar is better than that of men or papers, Congressmen or editors, that pervert facts to malign it. The whole "investigation" is but an industry of the House in subjects outside of its business. It will be resultless in any respect. The real matter is in the courts and is a judiAbout that the people are not deceived. They wait the issue patiently and hopefully, and are glad the Administration has raised it for them.

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with a view to legislation, sell State rights in their concern to innocent outsiders, and when the courts proved troublesome get the Government to take their suits off their hands, it would be said that they had engaged in a very dubious "wildcat" speculation indeed-a kind of adventure which business men careful of their character avoid as they would avoid cholera or small-pox. When, however, these impecunious statesmen in addition get themselves into important Government positions one of them even into the Cabinet-the matter becomes much more serious. Mr. Boyle, as a Democrat, may think they did no act, "official or otherwise, which was dishonest, dishonorable, or censurable," but the general public opinion is not with him. We, as well as he, have read the testimony. They have done nothing which would get them into jail. So much we grant. But they ought not to be retained in their public places. The people expect Mr. Cleveland to stop vetoing bills long enough to get himself a new Attorney-General. And, unless we greatly mistake Mr. Cleveland, he will do it without much delay.

New York Star (Dem.), July 1.

THERE is absolutely no evidence quoted or referred to in Mr. Ranney's report which shows that Mr. Garland had any but a proper business interest in the Rogers inventions and the Pan-Electric scheme. There is nothing which shows that he had any knowledge of the designs of the associates to induce the Government to bring a suit until the demand was made upon him-a demand which he refused to comply with. There is nothing to show that he referred the associates to Mr. Goode except as the angry enemy of the Attorney-General swore to what he heard from Casey Young. Mr. Ranney could not secure the conviction of a pickpocket on such testimony as that on which he has condemned the Attorney-General. Naturally, Mr. Ranney omits all testimony from his review which goes to Mr. Garland's vindication. He says nothing of the Attorney-General's explanation of his attitude, nor does he allude to Rogers' confession of his anger because Mr. Garland refused to lend him the aid of his high office for the advancement of the Pan-Electric Company. The report is disgraceful. It calls loudly for the investigation of Mr. Ranney.

Boston Herald (Ind.), June 30.

WITHOUT accepting, or at this time controverting, the judgment expressed in the Ranney report that "there was no sufficient reason nor exigency for bringing the suits" (to test the validity of the Bell patents), we are constrained to agree to its pungent statement that "the questions presented to the Executive departments received no consideration adequate to justify these suits, for the department which considered the evidence formed, no opinion, and the department which formed an opinion never considered the evidence." The testimony of Mr. Young proves that the company wanted to use the Government's name for its own private interest— "that was all the purpose I had in the world," are his words. And with the large interest which the head of the department had in the issue-conceding that the breaking of the Bell patents would give value to the Pan-Electric stock--this use of the Government's name was a scandal. The Republican members are right in saying that "a Government which expects to be respected cannot permit such things to be done, such influences to be sought for, or such personal interests to exist and avail."

Chicago News (Ind.), July 1.

then, Mr. Cleveland has shown a moral pachydermatousness in regard to the retention of Mr. Garland, since his unfitness for his place was shown, that deprives him of any advantage from the plea of ignorance. If, however, the Democratic House does not impeach, or Mr. Cleveland does not remove Mr. Garland, and that speedily, a Republican House will be elected next fall that will do its work of exposure and justice with thoroughness.

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, June 30.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

SO FAR as concerns the report of the Republican members of the committee, it amounts factitiously to an ex parte statement of the case. These gentlemen have relied exclusively upon the testimony of those witnesses which is as unfavorable as possible to the Government officials implicated in the affair. In so far as it attaches any positive blame to Attorney-General Garland, whom the investigation chiefly concerns, the tip is not broken off by this evident partisanship. As no majority report has been aimed at, the House will, perhaps, spare itself entirely the trouble of any choice between the three minority reports, and the latter will simply be recorded among the acts of Congress. The judgment of the public has long since been formed. There has been a deficiency of tact, but there is nothing in the least to be reprobated in the integrity of the Attorney-General. Herein the reports will effect no change whatever. Thus it remains, and such is the final issue of a sensation proclaimed with such a flourish of trumpets.

MR. GARLAND got a large block of stock in Pan-Electric for nothing, except the use of his name and influence and an opinion which gave the stock its market value. The whole course of his connection with the application for permission to use the name of the United States was equivocal and open to no other construction save that he sought to have done indirectly by his substitute what he had too much "delicacy" to do himself. All the report of the majority needs to make it a strong arraignment of Mr. Garland is the use of certain words and phrases which became obnoxious to Republicans in the campaign of 1884, and can only come with grace from men who repudiated Mr. Blaine because he was not above being a deadhead in any enterprise. Between the sins against official morality of Mr. Garland and Blaine, the distinction is too thin to admit of popular demonstration. The retention of Mr. Garland in the Cabinet is an anomaly in the administration of a President who was clected to emphasize the people's mistrust of officials with itching palms. So long as office is a public trust Mr. Garland should be considered unfit for office.

New York Sun (Dem.), June 30.

New York Evening Post (Ind.), June 30.

THERE is nothing in the report which the Republican members of the Pan-Electric Investigating Committee have put forth which entitles it to serious consideration. It is simply an extremely partisan campaign document. It has been given to the press in advance of the majority report, and great efforts are made by the anti-Administration press to have it appear as a judicial and fair review of the evidence taken by the Committee. The author of the document, Mr. Ranney of Massachusetts, has been throughout the investigation the undisguised partisan of the Bell Telephone interest, and his report reads like the special plea of an advocate who, in addition to serving the interest of his clients, desired also to make an attack upon the Cleveland Administration and its Mugwump friends. He is evidently a ferocious Mugwump hater, and his sentiments are fully shared by the other Republican Congressmen who have signed his one-sided report.

If the Attorney-General implicated in this scandal were a Republican Attorney General, and if it were a Republican President who refused or neglected to remove him from office, who doubts that the Democratic House would proceed promptly to bring him to trial before the Senate? Is the case changed because Mr. Garland and Mr. Goode and Mr. Atkins and Gen. Johnston and Senator Harris call themselves Democrats? We draw no such line in the enforcement of the laws of public morality. The Sun takes up this matter in the interest of good government and the honest administration of public trusts, and for exactly the same reasons as moved it in the case against the Credit Mobilier statesmen. Then the majority of men implicated were Republicans, but there were not wanting honest Republicans on the investigating committee to denounce the bribe-takers and to use plain language about their crime. Now, the persons indicted are all Democrats-all Southern Democrats. Is the duty of the Democratic House any less urgent, any less plain, because that is so?

New York Mail and Express (Rep.), June 30.

MR. GARLAND stands pilloried before the world as an exception to the long line of Attorney-Generals, that includes such names as Wirt, Pinckney, Legare, Crittenden, Reverdy Johnson, Jeremiah S. Black, William M. Evarts, Edwards Pierrepont, and others of like character and more recent service. The Ranney report affords more material for his impeachment than has ever been submitted to the House for the impeachment of any previous Cabinet official. If Mr. Cleveland had not been so ignorant of public men and affairs, he might not have appointed Mr. Garland to the position where he has served the Pan-Electric fraud. But,

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.), July 2.

THE report contains nothing new, but the majority of the committee have made themselves liable to censure for a vain and useless desire to whitewash everybody connected with the notorious Pan-Electric business. The statement that Messrs.

Garland, Harris, and others were guilty of nothing improper in accepting an interest in an invention because at the time of the acceptance it was worthless is as foolish as it is unfortunate. It was the design of the inventor to have his invention made valuable through stockholders who were officers of the Government, and who could command influence on account of their positions. When the eminent officials accepted an interest in the invention under such circumstances they may have done nothing dishonest or dishonorable, but their action was unquestionably improper. It showed a dullness of the moral sense that is very regretable in eminent public servants.

New York Tribune (Rep.), June 30.

IT was expected that the Democratic members would sum up the case in a pettifogging spirit and make the best possible plea for the prominent officials and statesmen implicated in this scandal. This Mr. Hale has done with very poor grace, while dissenting from the wholesale “vindication" prepared by his colleagues. But the evidence has been collected with fairness and painstaking care, and there can be no ground for dissatisfaction on the part of advocates of good government with the results of the inquiry. Reputable journals of both parties united in the demand for a thorough investigation. It has been had. The evidence is before Congress and the country. On that evidence the Pan-Electric type of speculative statesmanship stands convicted before the bar of public opinion. Special pleas and partisan defenses are of no avail.

Brooklyn Union (Ind.), June 30,

By stubbornly holding his place Mr. Garland has shown the same gross qualities which he showed by allowing the Rogerses to trade on his reputation. Now he is allowing the Administration to lose much more, perhaps, than anybody now clearly foresees by his participation in it. There is more to suggest the untrust. worthiness of Democratic statesmen and of the party whose members in Congress refuse to take offense at this scandal, in this dense, impecunious, adventurous Attorney-General and his partisan friends than in all the old campaign material that was picked up out of the memory of the rebellion. The Democratic party, the House and the Administration itself, will show by a continued inappreciation of this something of the same denseness.

Florida Times-Union (Dem.), July 1.

GENERAL results were all that Chairman Boyle had need to state in his report, and his labored defense of everybody and everything is, as we have said, a work of supererogation. Mr. Garland stands clearly exonerated from the charge of using his office to further private schemes of money-making, and so does Senator Harris, and the Rogerses are shown to have been actuated by anger at them because they would not do so. These facts were all known to the public before the Congressional investigation took place, and the only excuse Chairman Boyle has for his labored report is the partisan screed that Ranney, the paid Congressional attorney of the Bell people, got off in advance of any regular report of the committee. St. Paul Pioneer- Press (Rep.), July 2.

THE public passed its judgment long ago. It does not regard the politicians who took part in this incipient scandal as corrupt and disgraced. It does know that they were unpardonably imprudent. Their reputations can never again be

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wholly cleared. Theirs is the lot of the woman whose character has once, with sufficient reason, been assailed. Perhaps that is punishment enough. The obstinate and mistaken adherence of Mr. Cleveland to the fortunes of his Attorney-General can never make the public believe that Mr. Garland is a man fit to be trusted in an important station.

Boston Advertiser (Ind.).

THE New York Times prints not a word of Mr. Ranney's report on the PanElectric investigation. But it gives a good deal of space in its editorial and Washington correspondence columns to coarse abuse of Mr. Ranney. Liar, knave, and scoundrel are some of the choice epithets applied to him. The reason of this singular behavior of the Times is obvious. When the scandal was novel in the public mind the Times attempted to break the force of the revelations of Administration wrongdoing by a sneaking insinuation that other New York journals had improper relations with the Bell Telephone Company. The committee investigated this charge with the result of finding that the editor of the Times had knowledge of no facts justifying his intimation.

Brooklyn Times (Rep.), June 30.

We do not think that Garland would have remained many days in the Cabinet of James Buchanan after such a revelation. We are certain that he would never have dared to sit down at a council table presided over by Andrew Jackson. And if Samuel J. Tilden sat where Grover Cleveland sits we are very sure that the dishonored District Attorney would soon be stealing home to hide his disgrace in the recesses of Arkansas. But Grover Cleveland is so terribly exercised lest some maimed and invalid Union soldier may get ten cents more than his legal due that he has no time to waste in purging of his own Cabinet from dishonor.

Baltimore Herald (Ind.), July 1.

THE coat of whitewash is entirely "too thin," and has begun to flake off even before it is dry. It does not satisfy the expectations of honest Democratic newspapers; still less does it alter the effect of the evidence at the bar of public opinion. Few will care whether the report of the Republican minority is or is not an argument in the interests of the Bell monopoly. The vital point is that Government officials have been charged with prostituting their positions to the ends of private gain, and that this charge has been in no way rebutted or refuted.

Philadelphia Press (Rep.), July 1.

THERE is no reason to hope that the several reports of the telephone investigation will persuade Mr. Garland to vacate the office which he has, consciously or unconsciously, employed to further the schemes of a syndicate of stock speculators. Mr. Garland long ago showed himself ignorant of and indifferent to the fine public sensitiveness which holds that a Cabinet officer should be above the suspicion of using his office for private profit, and the fact that he has not resigned is sufficient evidence that he has learned nothing since.

Milwaukee Wisconsin (Rep.), July I

THE result now reached was to have been foreseen. It was deemed the partisan obligation of the Republican members to return findings that would make party capital by smirching the Administration through its Attorney-General. It was equally deemed an obligation upon Democratic members to make party capital by acquitting Mr. Garland. Each faction of the committee has worked with partisan motive and with but incidental reference to the merits of the case. Call it a draw game.

Troy Telegram (Rep.), July 1.

FOR the protection of his administration, that it may be purged of this scandal so far as is possible at this late day, Mr. Garland's resignation should-be at once demanded by President Cleveland; but even that will not be sufficient. The facts clearly demand Garland's impeachment, and Congress should not be slow in moving in the matter, either. We hardly expect Congress will have the courage to meet the emergency in the manner suggested.

Illinois State Journal (Rep.), July 1.

IT IS a long time since anything so interesting and at the same time so humiliating has come to public notice as the reports of the House committee on the PanElectric telephone affair. The report does the Attorney-General up in very fine shape. "The best that can be said of him is that he lent himself to this scheme because he got his stock for nothing. If he was not active in it himself, he suffered his name and influence to be used by others."

Washington Sentinel (Dem.), July 3.

Nor a fact has been brought to light that gives any reason for questioning the integrity or the honor of any of the Federal officers connected with the Pan-Electric company. Mr. Hale who does not concur with the other Democrats in the whole of the report, joins in reporting this resolution. This fact shows how maliciously the Bell Telephone organs have misrepresented that gentleman's position.

Albany Journal (Rep.), July 2.

In all the shameful records of the Credit Mobilier scandal nothing worse than the conduct of Mr. Garland and the other Pan-Electric statesmen was disclosed. The Credit Mobilier scandal terminated the political existence of a number of Washington statesmen. The Pan-Electric shame must inevitably compel Mr. Garland and his associates to retire for the rest of their lives to the shades of private life.

Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette (Rep.), July 1.

THIS is a "vindication" that will not vindicate. Whatever disposition may be made of these minority reports, the evidence is upon record, and it places the Attorney-General in a very humiliating, not to say disgraceful attitude before the people, and the Administration, by continuing him in a position which he has dishonored, must take its full share of the responsibility.

Richmond State (Dem.), July 1.

THE Bell Telephone Company and these stockholders in the Pan-Electric Company and these malignant newspapers and a minority of a Congressional committee, whose report is a disgrace, have shown themselves utterly unable to stain the characters of Attorney-General Garland, Solicitor-General Goode, and other officers of the Administration.

Omaha Bee (Rep.), July 1.

IT IS altogether a very scandalous mess, and it would have been well for the Administration and the country if President Cleveland had promptly removed the over-zealous Solicitor-General, and Mr. Garland could have found some reason satisfactory to himself for returning to private life.

Attorney-GENERAL GARLAND allowed the machinery of the Department of Justice to be used to promote private and personal ends, in which he was pecuniarily interested. This is the scandal of the telephone matter, and no amount of special pleading by Democrats on the committee can wipe it out.-Boston Record (Ind.), July 4.

MR. GARLAND did what any other citizen, in or out of Congress, had a right to do; and, so far from yielding him a profit, his stock has only proved a source of pecuniary loss and mental annoyance. His integrity of character is above question or reproach.-Richmond Whig (Dem.), July 1.

GARLAND and Goode may be in contempt of public opinion. country will be able to stand it. GENERAL GRANT was noted for standing by his friends, but he would have lost no time in removing the reproach and absolving his administration from any possible complication in such a scandal.—Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.), July 1.

suffered to remain where they are in office and If they and their party like that, doubtless the Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.), July 1.

ACCORDING to the report of the Democratic members of the Pan-Electric committee Mr. Garland is altogether too innocent and guileless a person to suffer the contamination of public office.-Detroit Tribune (Rep.), July 4.

THE result of the Pan-Electric investigation leaves the matter just where, upon its first inception, the strong common sense and sturdy honor of Attorney-General Garland placed it.—Washington Gazette (Ind.), July 4

IN condemning Attorney-General Garland for his official course in a case to which he was clearly a party, the minority report reflects the general sentiment of the country.-Rochester Herald (Rep.), July 1.

AS THE Appeal said at the first, there was nothing to justify an inquiry that had its origin in malice, and was continued in a spirit of envenomed political and sectional hate.-Memphis Appeal (Dem.), July 1.

THE Brooklyn Eagle assures its readers that Attorney-General Garland "is clothed in the impenetrable armor of an honest man,” but neglects to give the name of the owner.- -Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.) July 3. The public

IT is not quite a whitewashing, but it is very suspiciously like one. will have its own opinion and will keenly watch the President's action in the premises.-Newark News (Dem.), July 1.

THE Administration will continue to exist all the same and the public keep right on in its faith that it is doing about the fair and square thing.-—Manchester Union (Dem.), July 3.

THERE is a strong revival of the clamorous demand for Mr. Garland's retire. ment. Mr. Garland will probably stay.-National Republican (Rep.), July 5. WHAT is the Administration going to do about it? The thing is worse than we thought. Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.), July 4.

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MR. EDMUNDS' BILL.

Mr. Edmunds in a Press Interview, July 2.

SENATOR EDMUNDS said to a reporter yesterday that the object of his bill providing for Presidential appointments and judicial removals was to diminish the influence which the Executive, by virtue of vast patronage, now has over Senators. At present, he says, it is only in a rare case where something is discovered that would, if known, have deterred the President from making the nomination, that a nomination is rejected by the Senate. "I therefore think," said Mr. Edmunds, "that the Senate, in giving the President the sole power of appointment of these offices, is not giving up a function that is now of any practical value." An officer, when once appointed, Mr. Edmunds thinks, while he obeys the law and does his duty, should remain in office for four years, and not be removable at the mere pleasure of the President, and so he has made that principle a provision of his bill. "But," says he, "in order that misconducting officials shall not continue in office, the bill provides a ready and summary means of public inquiry and judicial removal, and by such a system and under such securities that, while justice and fair play must be exercised toward the official, no injury can come to the public service in respect of continuing an improper person in place." The power of unlimited removal which exists in the President and heads of departments is the difficulty with the present civil-service law. At the time the civil-service law was enacted, Mr. Edmunds says, "it was not considered constitutional to limit their absolute power of removal, but the judgment of the Supreme Court removes that doubt, and over all such offices the law of Congress is absolutely supreme. The bill, Mr. Edmunds thinks, provides for a real civil service reform which will take the great body of these merely administrative offices out of the circles of politics, so that they shall cease to be the prizes and rewards for party services. Throughout the Presidential term of a Democratic President the terms of officers appointed by the pre

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