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THE 1WA STATE REGISTER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1880. -MORNING EDITION, Incentive to all that is best in life and safest the appointment and the National-Liberal en a well-earned and deserved tribute to the gallantry and bravery of Gen. Hancock. Per Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr.

Parnoll's descent Is undoubted and direct I have verlfb'd a table recently published on the subject The king maker of the Fifteenth century loft a daughter, who married tho Duke of Clarence. Their daughter, the Ill-fated Couutess of Sal-Isbuiy, married Sir Richard Pole, whose son, and greatly encouraging to tho rising artists among them. Wo hope that the Legislature will at least make a beginning this winter In providing for tho work that Is to ba done, to make the Interior decorations of the now Capitol worthy of the magnificent structure. Br r. AWP J.

8. CLARKSON. CCL0H. Snow in the garden tips tho branohog gray, I'liiilnttlo snow-drifts till the pathless way; I'l nil the hill and sllont brook below In feathery vistas lies tho cheerless snow. Whllo as a lily In a moonlight sea, White its a white dove lu a white roso troo, Stretches tho ghostly prospect out ot sight Nauglit to relieve the chid unending white-.

Until a splosh of azure set aglow, 3 Sudilen, in purple bounty through, tho snow, Willi pinnies full spread, I see him lightly glide The peacock In his irldesoont prldo. it. A'. MunkitrkK in Outing, SOME CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Jrm lo Subnerttters by mall (M)fwe(VepiiiJ.) lmf y.

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Kiphahdson, Special Agent, wiitsre sdrertUlng nade YoubFbiends: If you want to keep ttiem posted In regard to Iowa and all the world, Bend them The Weekly Register. Sand your order aud 81.00 to Clarkson Dos Moines, Iowa; or subscribe with the editor of your local Republican paper, postmaster or news dffller. tf FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1838. thuslastlcally approving It The hostility of the Whigs to Mr. Gladstone Is Intense.

This is shown In the difficulty experienced by the rremlcr Iu fllllnic Peeresses' posts In the the Queen's household. The Duchess of Bed loru ana jjuchess of Westminster have refused appointments and others will follow their example. THE TARIFF AND THE COLLEGES, It has been the experience of three-fourths of the college educated men, that while In col leg) they were warped toward free trade by the theories of their teachers; yet a few years of practical life afterwards changed their convictions completely. It Is unfortunately true that as a college theory to figure promi nently In text books on political economy, and be the subject of discussion In a class room, free trade Is a blooming and beautiful success. There Is something very alluring and enchanting about the grand idea of the human all exchanging commodities with each other on equal terms, with no one to hinder or make tliem afraid.

That Is very beautiful, and is quite poetic In the felicity of Its thought. But it Isn't business, and It Isn't practical sense, Whon the millennium Is ushered In, and ail the nations of the earth stand on an equal footing as regards their social status, when there Is no pauper labor In one country to break down by competition self-respecting manhood In another, when nations are not obliged to build op their manufactories to be ablo to stand on their own resources In case of war, then this sweet and beautiful theory may be transplanted from the hot-house of the class room to the practical woik garden of every day life. But for the present, doctrinaires and theorists, who don't dare look beyond the covers of their text-book for fear their beautl ful theories would be rudely jostled by practical facts, are having tilings pretty nearly their own way In the colleges. In nearly all the leading colleges of New England, the pro-fesors of political economy, have baen free traders, and have been sowing their pernicious doctrines right In the face of the practical de monstrations of their folly and impractica bility. They haven't been able to do as much haim In New England, however, as they could havo done In other sections, for the poison they have disseminated has found Its antidote right at hand.

The thrift and pros perity of the Now England manufacturing towns is the ever present argument against the unwisdom of free trade notions. But it has been the more annoying that the colleges whose patronage comos largely from the classes that daily witness the lienefits of protection, should teach a view of the tariff question so abhorent to the practical sense of the country, and so harmful to young men just forming their impressions and maturing their ideas. The most ultra free trader in the country, Trof. Sumner, has for years had charge cf the department of political economy at ale. Trot.

Perry, another rank free trader and one of the propogandistsof this doctrine, has filled the same position at Williams. Other free traders of lesser note have taught their theories in other colleges. The re sult has been that young men go out of college taught to despise and reject the policy which their fathers have demonstrated as wise and beneficial, and which in a few year's time they ill themselves as heartily endorse. The teaching of Perry and Sumner has had its in fluence in keeping away students who want their political economy unadulterated and unbiased by theories of a hobby-riding Trofessor. So the trustees of theso various institutions have concluded that It is about time that tho protective side of the question be given at least a fair hear ing.

Thus the trustees of Yale have arranged for a course of lectures on protection by an able advocate of that doctrine, Prof. Thompson, of tho University of Pennsylvania. He has begun his work at Yale, and the young men who have heretofore had no view of the tariff question, except that which came through the free trade lenses of Prof. Sumner, are rejoicing at the opportunity now afforded them. Williams College has also made arrangements to have teaching on the benefits of the American policy of a tariff.

Hon. Ellis II. Roberts editor of theUtlca Herald, has already delivered at Cornell University a series of lectures on protection, of great and abiding value. They have been preserved in book form, making a text book on the subject of great stiength and merit. Many colleges are beginning to see the mistake they have made in providing instruction on only the un American side of this great question.

The doctrine of protection Is growing In favor with the people as its wisdom and soundness become better demonstrated It ought to be a reproach to tho colleges that they are so tardy in finding it out The schools ought to lead not follow In spreading the gospel of economic truth. The Houso tested Itself a little yesterday as to its opinion of the Brown matter and the investigation of it that it has ordereJ. Tho Auditor who Is to be investigated, not llkin the methods and Intention of the Invest gating Committee so far, had a friend introduce a resolution in the House, giving the ciinmlt-tee somo voluminous directions, which where practically to rescind its own orders and go as Mr. Brown would like to have It. The resolution was almost tierbattm from an editorial article In Mr.

Brown's organ of a late issuo. When they were read, Mr. Weaver quietly suggested that that was hardly a proper thing to do with a properly appointed committee. Then Col. Thompson, of die committee, appeared on the scene, and in a few sentences of great strength and earnestness, called the attention of the House to the proprieties of legislation and to the exceeding freshness of this attempt The member from Linn warmed up to a righteous degree, and made such a powerful little speech that the House broke into cheers of applause, and then laid the resolution on the table by a vote of 73 to 21.

Whenever Col. Thompson is to ba taken to raise in matters and details of legislation, it is clear it ill have to be done with more skill and gumption than have been shown in any of the several lamented attempts so far. It will be seen by a special published else where that prohibition does prohibit, to t'10 great grief of several saloon keepers at Marengo. Tne heavy fines Imposed by a rlglit-ous judge in Iowa county have baen so efficacious as to drive several saloon keepers out of the business. A Brave Solairr'g Tribute to HU Old Com-maiuler.

Avoca, Iowa, Feb. 10. Editor State Register I notice in to-day's Register that Col. Keatly, Representative from this county, paid In government. The Committeo on Woman Suffrage, to whom the Redhead bill was first referred, washed Its hands of it and reforred It back to the House, Then tho House sent it to the Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.

The Intention cvidontiy Is to burlosque It to death, rerhaps It may deserve no hotter fate. A BESSIRLK BILL. Senator Gatch has Introduced In the Legislature a bill to restrict lawyers In the time allowed for making arguments to the Court and Jury in all cases save In trials where the pun-Ishment may be death. This Is striking at a vicious and costly abuse. Under the present rules a lawyer may talk a whole day or a whole week and Court and Jury arepower-lefs to prevent It Speeches one, two and fhree days long are very frequent.

They do no one any good and cost the State every year tens of thousands of dollars. Polk county alone has paid enough for unnecessary lawyers' gab to build Itself a new fifty thousand dollar court house, saying nothing of the wear and tear on the Court and Jury. The law proposed by Senator Gatch would give the Judge the power to limit the arguments. In nine cases out of ten the Judge In mercy to himself, If not from sense of duty to the State, would exercise the power thus conferred upon him. This not a trivial matter.

For aside from tire great expense that tills vicious habit entails upon the public treasury, It also ferves to retard the work of the courts, making unecessary delays In the trial of causes, and largely blocking the wheels of justice generally. Nearly all lawyers admit the pre valence of the evil aud the necessity of abol ishing it There are enough lawyers In the Legislature who know that It should ba abolished to see that it is done. Every Legislator knows that the people ex pect reduction In court expenses. It is the burden that Is breaking the back of the pub- le. Senator Gatch, from his prominence In the bar of Iowa, Is a good man to lead In this re-foim.

He will be able to sustain it with sufficient facts and arguments. No member In the Assembly can present a good reason egaicst it. It is one of the costly nuisances that lags supeifluous at public expense. It is time to cut It off. Senator Catch's bill will do this, and should be promptly passed.

THE IOWA BREWERIES. TheLes Moines Ameiijcrha the following paragraph in Its last Itaue The State Ueoisteu says: There were HI breweries In the State of Iowa when the Prohi bitory law went Into effect. The average value wes estimated at $15,000,000, which include! the utenBllB and apparatus." Tho Anzeigcr had only counted 125 breweries and placed their volue at the low figure of five million dollars. Of course we did not estimate iu this the loss of butincES, the trade established, which is worth about as much as the buildings and fixtures. The paragraph quoted from The Register was a fugitive one, picked up among lioat-Ii items.

It has no parentage of facts. The estimate of 144 breweries and 815,000,000 In value is absurd and wild. There were never half that number cf breweries In Iowa. We do not believe that the value of all that there are in the State will amount to a million of dollars. The must know the exact number and location of them all.

Will it not give a full list with Its estimate as to the value of each brewery? If It will do this, as we have no doubt It can, the question of number and value can soon be definitely ascertained. All these wild estimates as to the number and value cf Iowa breweries are being made for a purpose. The brewers are hoping that, under the decision of Judge Brewer, they may recover trom the State the full value of their properties. As a preliminary they are filling the public mind with these exaggerated esti mates of values, so that they will find courts and juries and the Legislature more ready to pay them undue amounts. The truth Is that the property is not destroyed In more than one-fifth part The grounds and buildings are by far the more valuable part of them.

If it Is decided that the State Is to pay damages to the brewers it will have to pay, at the most, for such part only as may be really destroyed. The ground In cities Yi ill keep its value still. The buildings cau be converted into other uses. Nearly all the brewing machinery aud utensils can ba shipped to other States and sold. The State would have to pay merely for the shrinkage in the value of tho building and the niachin ery.

The total of this in Iowa, Instead of being $15,000,000, or $5,000,000 as the An- ztlycr it, we do not believe would amount to half a million dollars. Will Col. Eiboeck and the Amclijcr look this little ar- ticloover, sennits statements closely, figure on its estimates and tell us if we are not correct If not, will it show wherein we are not lliT IN THE CAPITOL. Now that tho new Capitol is about completed in its main, substantial appointments, it is well to consider the subject of its Interior furnishing and adornment. The plans of the architect provldo for several representations of statuary and other works of art throughout tho building, and there seems to be a general ice-ling that something should be done toward cairj ing out these plans during the next two years.

Iowa's magnificent Capitol should be completely and systematically furnished in all its decorativo appointments to correspond with its strong and massive proportions, and solid, and enduring superstructure. It should be made a permanent educating Influence and con bo largely a temple of art as well as justice. To do this will require but an inconsld-ei able expense compared with the millions that have been expended in the building. The State can very well afford to set aside a few thousand dollars or this purpose, and should begin the work this winter. Many have ex-piessed a desire to have the busts of soma of Iowa's strong men placed in the niches prepared for theni In the rotunda.

It has been suggested that busts of one Democrat and one Republican might be ordered by the pitseiit Legislature, and they could be com peted before ttie next General Assembly. The Idea is a good one, and wo feel like strongly commending it There are two names that would be instinctively suggested to thousands of peoplo as the fitting ones among Iowa's honored dead to be given these first places of distinction. By starling with two busts the work of adornment could be begun during the next two years, aud the State wouid never feel the expense. It Mould also be eminently fitting and altogether proper that if practicable the work should be done by Iowa artists. This recognition of native talent would be very gratifying to the people of the State, mit me, another who seived In the Army of the Potomac, and on Gen.

Hancock's stuff, to add a few words to tho praise of as able a soldier as commanded a corps in the army, Terhaps no man surpassed Hancock In per sonal magnetism, In the confidence he was able to Impart to his men, and "the loyalty wun wuicn me "uia second Corps" answered his orders never cau be excelled, Feailess and brave, yet possessing the kindest of hearts for his soldiers. At the Wil derness" his bravery carried ulm to the line ef the enemy, aud at one time the blue and the grey occupied the same ground. It was Hancock, atilie "Brown House," who made that splendid large capture of rebels, Including Gen. Stuart At another time, while his corps was commanded by another ollicer, while he lay In his tent suffering from the wound received at "Gettysburg," one of his brigadiers had been surrounded; the fact being reported to the sick General, he hastily mounted his black mare and like a Hash tho brigade was saved and prisoners taken, the boys of the Second corps" encouraged by the cry, Hancock is with us." At Ream's Station," vtl.ere one division of his corps had been sent to destroy the railroad, and was almost surrounded by four times the number of men, commanded by Longstreet, aud every available means had been used to rally the men, his sword, exclaimed Boys, are you going to let them take your General The answer came as It always did, by the boys repulsing the rebels, covering the lost guns and extricating themselves iu good shape out of this place. One day, on the inarch, a private soldier who had lost his regiment asked an ollicer for information as to the whereabouts of his regiment for an answer the officer abused the tired out Infantiyman.

Hancock hearing the conversation reprimanded this ollicer, usln? language not to be misunderstood, or forgotten, and calling up the soldier kindly informed him where he would find his regiment No wonder tho "boys ot tho Second erps" loved their General he loved them and never will they forget his gallantry and his many chlvalrio Dualities. All honor to Col. Keatly for remembering Hancock yesterday in me i.rgisiatur& A. Consicjny. IOWA OPINION AND COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal A bill has been In troduced in the Iowa Legislature to abolish all terms cf the Supreme Court outside of Dcs Moines, and to make that court stationary at the State capital. The bill, of course, precipitates tho old quarrel over the matter. It is promptly and vigorously opposed by the papers oiuouncil Uluils, Dudumuo and Dav enport where under the present arrangement tern of the Supreme Court aro held. It will be remembered that a similar bill was Intro-duel din the Nineteenth General Assembly by Senator Hall, of Des Moines county, and successfully pushed to Its last parliamentary stage, and that It was then defeated only by the records being spirited away. The same bill was reintroduced In the last General Assembly by Senator Hall, but it failed by a narrow margin.

Now that the subject Is up again thi re is a good deal that can be said on both sides, as there has been all along. tiling that can be said Is this, that if the Su- pieme Court is to ba kept on wheels it should be drawn around the State more evenly than it has been heretofore. The entire northwestern quarter of the State has claims which have never been recognized. A term of ttie court at a convenient point say at Sioux City In northwestern Iowa, would tend to equalize matters which have never yet b.en equalized. Osceola Sentinel There are great princi ples which define the relation of the citizen to society, and these principles should not have been overlooked by Judge Brewer.

A law was once passed prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons. It would have been wrong at that time to hold that law Inoperative until the State had first paid for all the dirk-knives and revolvers within Its borders. We yield the greatest respect to the opinion of an able and upright jndge, and such we believe Judge Brewer to be. But the question involved Is so mportant and so tar reaching in its results, that the public generally will only ba satisfied with this decision, when it is finally sanctioned by the highest tribunal In the government. Fairfield Ledger Senator Lafe Y'oung of Cuss county, is but 37 years old, and yet there Is but one other man in the Iowa Senate who seived in that body with him when he was Hist elected twelve years ago.

Young Is a bright fellow and Is the strongest man in his Congressional district See his possibilities Cedar Rapids Republican If petitions can kill bogus butter, mortification will soon set In, for petitions against the Imposition are pouring Into Des Moines by every mall, FEBRUARY. February makes a bridge, and March breaks it. Herbert: Jaeula Pruitentum. I Sent My Boy to College." am Jones' Sermon at Cincinnati Last "I sent him off to college." "I sent him off to college." That Is the epitome of damnation of thousands of boys. I sent him off to college." Now, sir, you strike ma at a point where I am ready to say this It Is a question In my mind whether I will ever send one of mine to a college or not.

Yes," you say, you are opposed to education." No, I ain't but I'd rather my boy would sit down In heaven to learn his A C's thaa sitting down in hell reading Greek. I tell you, my congregation, if I had a good boy who was lotal to God and the right, 1 might trust him at col lege; but if I have got a wayward, dissipated boy I will never send him to college to get shut of him. You have made a mistake as long as eternity to do so. There Is many a man who has sent his boy to college because he did not know what else to do with him. You haa better lure that boy to steal some thing and send him to the penitentiary.

That is my judgement. It he is no account the penitentiary is about lafe a place as college, because he will not only dlsiipa'e lu; ruin every other decent boy he meets there. Let him practice on convicts if you want him to ruin somebody. Boys, let us be a comfort and consolation to mother. A New WrlnfclA for Modern Society.

From the Washington Republican. As there are flirtations and rumors of fllr- ta'iois In the air the expected early Importation of the system of screens now in vogue at rails will come none too soon. No drawing room will then be considered camplote with out screens enough to render each couple in the room secure in the privacy of the enfolding panels. Well, the one couple left out, of course, will not require a screen. The idea is to obviate all the difficulties now in the way of conversation, don't you know, and remove the tension lm posed upon the nerves of a person who is try ing to make a few pointed remarks and at the same time look totally unconcerned in the eyes of tho probably observing company.

There are a scoie of advantages to be gained from the screen scheme in society. Each per son will fit a set to his own particular wants and needs, and hen the hour for striking the blow in favor of the new reform arrives, the city will be ready to a man to say a word In Its behalf. How charming Mrs. Whitney's new ball room will look broken Into scores of cosy nooks, each with its own pretty decorative arrangement and central motive. Think ing of a tew parlors in town now.

I balieve the screen notion is rot entirely unknown In the city. Mme. do Strove arranged her parlors with subdivisions aud nooks, with banks and hedges of greenery arranged, and everybody was charmed with the supremely artistic effect Faruell and Ills Ancestors. Fn.m the New York Herald. Mr.

Painell, who made and unmade Lord Salisbury and unmade and then made Mr. Gladstone. Is resting in camp like his great ancestor' Warwick, the King maker." Tba latter was an Earl of Salisbury and once Lord Lord Montacute, was beheaded like his moth er. He had a daughter, who married the Enrl of Huntingdon, the great-groat-grand father of the Earl of Peterborough, who was impeached for treason under William and Mary and who was the great-groat great grandfather of Sir John I'arnell, ttie grand father of the latest Warwick's" father, who married tho daughter of Ironsides," the king fighter. This retrospection Is Interesting Indeed at tills crisis, when tho descendant of one of the houses of Salisbury unmakes the Salisbury of another house at as critical a point Jn British history as when Mr.

1'ar- nell's ancestress, the Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A KISS. From the Boston Herald. The blunt, honest soul of Mr. Moody, the Evangelist, now on a revival mission In the West, seems to have got thoroughly stirred up over some of the methods resorted to out there for raising money for the benefit of the church.

From personal knowledge he testl fies to one church fair, at least which publicly advertised that a man could kiss any girl for twenty-five cents." This he calls an abomination," and adds I would rather jou would worship In a barn than resort to any of these methods," Mr. Moody Is un questionably right All Important as It Is to develop a spirit of devout aul un hesitating self sacrifice for a sacred cause in the breast of woman, and stimulating as the examples are In the past of ter stripping off the rings from her fingers and the bracelets from her arms, to throw them Into tho contribution box, It still Is open to doubt whether the spiritual Ideal of all tho iburch should stand for. In pure virginity of soul, Is lu reality enhanced by such peculiar methods. Only here and there Is a maiden to be fourd of such transeendaut elevation as to bleed Inwardly with all the anguish of a mar tyr while, for the cause ot Christ sub mitting to be kissed outwardly by Tom, Dick and Harry. Tho test ot every doctrine, said the devout old cathdral builders, Is to put It into stoun, aud see whether it will command the reverenco of all coming generations.

In this spirit was It that iney set up In their ministers statuos ot the Madonna and child, of St Cecilia, Santa Barbara, or of any transfigured woman, to the divinity of whose life or the allluence of hose praj ers they felt they owed the troas ure that went to build the church. Now, would even tho most advanced of far western church committees bo willing to stand this test? However high wrought their gratitude to our blessed lady of osculation, whose supreme eelf-sacrllice had enabled them to emi grate from a humble barn into a stately temple, still would they have tho countenance devoutly to propose an appropriation of, say $500, toward a memorial statue, with the recoid emblazoned underneath: The girl that as kissed the most times by the most men. at twenty-tivo cents a head." That tills might re nder for a whllo the especial temple questioa a popular resort for a certain class of young men Is, perhaps, indubitable. But would there be any element of stable religious growth In the act? Indeed, it is a curious question how these Innovations of method have continued to commend themselves so heartily to the mature Judgment of such mem bers of churches. Is It the lay element or fie clerical that it Is to be held responsible for 1hem? Common justice would seem to demand that they should be fathered on the lay element.

They represent. In fact, what may be termed the introduction of sensational business methods into the management of the church. A widespread disposition has now for a long time prevailed to draw everybody Into the gospel net, and Just as In tho earlier days of tho church, St Christopher, the burly giant, who said lie could nd her pray nor fast but was strong as a horse, was encouraged to work off Ills real religion by standing at the swollen ford and cairying travelers and pilgrims across on his back, so now the kindred feeling seems to be to make each and every one useful in his own Individual way. Here is a man to-day to whom fasting and praying coma as hard as they did to St Nicholas of old, but who earningly says, I am tremendously devel oped In the way of getting up a boom on any article in the line of shoe blacking or stove polish or moukey-wrencnes. Make me boss of your fair, and let me introduce a few modern improvements in the way of cigar tables, betting which Is the handsomest man, and getting pretty girls to agree to being kissed, and If I don't fill up the Lord's treasury, then just put some other fellow Inl The spirit is, no doubt praiseworthy.

But may it not luvade too presumptuously even the very shekinah of the sanctuary All honor to the modern St. Christopher, but let him remember that his old-time prototype was a model of reverential Humility, and never thought of insisting on coining In all muddy from the ford, and flinging on tho priest's garments and celebrating mass, and then siting St. Anthony and St Cecilia, St. Banodict aii(lSt. Agnes to kissing one another, all for the greater financial glory of the church.

Exempting Mtina factories lu Iowa. From the Fairfield hedner. Senator McDonough lias introduced in t'ia Senate a very important bill to encourage manufactories by exempting them from taxation for a period of five years. Iowa is deeply Interested in manufactures, and almost every locality In the State is offering Inducements to have them established. We neei manufactories and should not stop at any reasonable means to secure them.

Some of the States and localities secure them by offering exemption from taxation for a series of years. We think Senator McDonough's bill should become a law. It provides That any company, firm or individual erecting a manufacturing establishment, Including the grounds actually owned and used therefor, and the capital actually employed therein, shall be exempt from taxation for a term of five years on the fulfillment" of certain conditions. Proof shall be furnished the Board of Supervisors that the capital has been so used for a period of five years, and it shall then remit all taxes paid during the term, and the Auditor shall draw wairants on the Treasurer for the same. The provisions of the bill do not apply to railroad shops built by companies for their use.

The passage of such a bill would give an impetus to manufacturing in Iowa that would ba of vast benefit to all our people. The Trtll orthe ltlrtl. From Senator lngalls. With other Republicans, I have always been willing to acknowledge that the tall went with the bird; that the offices went with the election. Mr.

Cleveland, however, has said that he would not remove any one except for cause. If any one thinks now that I will vote to confirm any of his nominees where the information as to the cause of removal has been refused, he don't know me. This whole situation is to my mind an illustration of the rot and debauchery of this so-called civil service reform. The President has gained nothing by his course. Ho has split up his own party.

He has not pleased tho civil-service people, and finally has alienated from him tha Republicans who, like myself, were willing to acknowledge his right to make changes where he saw fit lie Learned How to Get Rich. From the Butler Citizen. An np-town man sent twenty-five cents to learn how to make $50 a week at home working on a capital of 81, and received the following printed slip "Fish for fools, as I A Cheap Privilege. From the Chicago News. It costs 88 a year to keep out of the Missouri militia service.

But the privilege of being called plain Mister is worth it in that AN ATTORNEY GENEBAL. The Dcs Moines Capital, which has been the organ of Mr. Brown, and which is making itself the organ of Mr. Baker, the Attorney-General, Is greatly distressed over the fact that many of tho papers In Iowa are commenting on the coincidence that Governor Sher. man suspended Auditor Brown on the advice of the Attorney-General, and that Governor Larrabee reinstated Auditor Brown on the advice of the same Attorney-General.

Some of the papers have even said that It Is a fine weathervane we have In the Attorney-Gen-eial. Others have quoted Shakespeare and have recalled the dialogue between Hamlet and Polonlus as to the great resemblance between the camel, the weasel and the whale, to show how even to great minds very different things enn look very much alike. This Des Moines organ of the Attorney-General who claims the right to have a weasel look like a whaio if he wants to, has an article In a recent Issue. In the article It says Wo notice in some of our exehangos criticisms of tho Attorney-Gentiriil for advising both the suspension aud restoration of the Auditor of Statu, aud eomo of these criticisms are copied, without comment. Into ono of our city papers, which knows how different the faots aro.

The Attimey-Gcneral never aave any opinion favurahle to the mitprnsion of the Anditor." This Is a very surprising statement for even a stupid paper to make. In an official opinion of Attorney General Baker to Governor Sherman, fourteen pages long, dated February 13, 1885, the whole matter and report of the commission appointed by Governor Sherman Is reviewed. The action of tho Governor in appointing the commission Is heartily ap proved, tho Attorney General's own words be ing There can be no other verdict than one of approbation." He adds "It is ono of the methods wheroby tho law makers have wisely provided for the security of the public revenues and no ollicer who hiw discharged his duties in tho manner required by law can or will compluin whon you so exorcise tho duties of your olUce." He says further Having appointed such commission, they became forthotlmo being tho sole Judircs of tl 0 facts submitted to their Investigation, and whenever such commission reports to the Governor that any sueti cflicer has been guilty of any defalcation, or niissapproprlallon of tho publio moneys, or that his accounts, papers and books lire improperly or unsafely kept, and that the State is liable to suffer losithorebv, tho Governor forthwith suspend such olHoar." Having thus discussed the commission, ap-pioved the action of the Governor In appointing It, aiid 6aying that Its report loft no other courso for the Governor but to suspend the Auditor, he adds the following by way of extra emphasis This is the plain language of the statute, and it admits of no construction. It ooustrues itself, aud however delicate and painful it miy be, I see no avenue of escapo in the discharge ol your official duty. If the Commission have erred in their conclusions the responsibility is with them.

The law leaves you no discrotiqn." Nothing could be plainer than this Instruction of the legal adviser of the State, that tha Governor had left under the law no other possiblo course than to suspend the Auditor. As If to make plainness still more plain, tho Attorney General in transmitting his opinion to the Governor, said in another lotter dated Feb. 14, I wish there was some way of settling this without proceeding to extreme "measures, but I can not give any other opinion than as It Is written a3 matters now "stand." It will be seen that the opinion of the Attorney General himself makes absolutely ridiculous the dishonest claim of tho over-zealous organ, that ho never advised the suspension of Auditor Brown." But this is not all. We can tell the Capital In confidence, and it can tell all others it may wish, that Attorney General Baker not only advised Governor Sherman that he not only had no other course than to suspend the Auditor, but that ho also in a later opinion instructed and advised tha Governor to use the militia to eject Brown from office after the latter had defied the power of the Executive aud barricaded his office. Terhaps the Capital, in reading up the history of its State, In which It seems so wo-fully ignorant, would like to read this opinion too.

Or perhaps it would like to deny It If it does, and will call for the papers and the proof, It shall have them. We broadly say, meantime, that In every step Governor Sherman took he was sustained by the Attorney General. Tho appointment of tho Commission, the suspension of the Auditor after the report of the Commission, the ejectment of tho Auditor by the militia, were all advised and approved by the Attorney General. The Capital cannot draw a line in this inattor, If it would, between Governor Sherman and Attorney General Baker, and condemn tho one and approve the other. The Attorney General not only so advised Governor Sherman as we have shown, but iu his opinion given Governor Larrabee, dated January 22d, 18S0, ho re-aflirmed his previous opinion.

In speaking of the Commission and the Governor's action, he says The report of tho Commission does not in my opinion show any defalcation or mlsappro-piiiitiou of funds. They do report, however, that the Auditor's accounts, bonds and papers wero improperly and unsafely kept and that the Elate wus liable to suflor loss thereby. Thti be-iny hue it wan the imperative duty of the Governor to furthwilh suspend the Auditor. But the duty of Iho Governor did not stop there. Tho report wns sufficient to warrant him in suspending, in fact made it his duty to do so but it was equally his duty to investlgato the matter and sec if the report had sufficient foundation iu fact." Need we add anything more The Attorney General himself as a witness completely disproves the stupid and absurd claim of his organ.

Auditor Brown and his friends, profiting by their experience in the Houso yesterday, will probably not try to have the Senate Instinct the Investigating Committee to their notions. It always pays to be wise, especi ally when wisdom is dearly earned. Specials to The Register this morning show that Senator Allison's silver bill Is being accepted iu New York and the East generally, and also in Cougrass, as the wisest solution yet suggested of the sliver problem. Whenever are tho boys in the Legislature, in skirmishing around Col. Thompson's neigh-boihood, going to learn enough not to monkey with tho buzz saw Mr.

Gladstone's appointment of Mr. Broa l-hurst as Under Homo Secretary has caused a sensation in political circles, that gentleman being the first worklnginan that has ever risen to the Ministry. The appointment Is taken as an indication that It is Mr. Gladstone's Intention to rely upon the masses against the Influence of the aristocracy. The Liberal clubs are divided in opinion on the subject, the Reform and Devonshire disapproving ot Louisa M.

Alcott, the novelist has been perpetuated in bronze In a bos-relief by a Boston artist. Tho famous Dr. Schliemann Is now a guest In the palace ot Don Miguel de Aldaina, at Santa Rosa, Cuba. The' probable restriction of the editorial department of Journalism Is not considered liu inlnent Lynu Transcript, 1 have considered the question of suffrage; for women at municipal elections somewhat carefully, and 1 think It ought to be granted, -J. G.

Abbott Forty years hence probably much sooner the most conservative woman will vote as a matter of course, and It will excite no mora lemaik than a lecture by a woman does now. Woman's Journal. Moreover, nobody can suppose that tho United States Executive would havo become a party to this patent suit If the Attorney General bad never held shares lu the Y. Sun. A directory of'Parlsians who were likely to give alms has been seized In Paris.

It was compiled and published by an old and well-posted beggar for tho beueht of younger members of tho profession. Lord and Lady Carnarvon are personally unknown to Irish society. During the six or seven months they were in Ireland seclusion to an almost monastic extent was observed at the Vice-Regal lodge, Mark Twain says that he owns nlno-tentln of the capital in the publishing house Las Issued General Grant's book. Ho adds Hint he recently received 55J.0O0 profits on 'Huckleberry Finn," his own last work. Ex-Mlnlster Washburue, who was called aa a witness recently In the Storey will case la Chicago, was If he considered Mrs.

Storey a young woman. 11a replied diplomatically "All women are supposed to ba young." Mysterious bell ringing that has been heard for some years past by fishermen and sal lor who could not account for the sounds, ha been explained by the capture some days ago at old Lynn, Ct of a bald with au old. lashiuutd sleigh-bell secured about his nock. "We learn" Rajs the Atlanta Cmwilrii im, "from the Boston Ucralil, that In 1SS1 the Mugwumps will vote neither the Republican nor the Democratic ticket This will be gotd news to those who believe the Mugwumps will be selected to escort the Chinese out of this country." A Boston clergyman was asked recently what ho did lu his church to break up tin) lablt, so frequent at church sociables, of ladles airanglne themselves In rows or clusters, thereby causing the gentleman to do the same. His answer was that tho game of missionary was the best and most popular way ot doing It, and ou being asked for an explanation of the game, gave tho following: We arrange all the ladies about the room, and request a gentleman to stand directly in front of each of them.

Then It Is announce 1 that tho young ladies are to represent 'missionaries and the young gentleman A signal Is then given, and tho heathen theu embraces SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE. From Hie Wchoter City Freeman. Hon. Augustus Anderson, of this county, has Introduced In the House of Representatives a bill to provide a suitable monument to the memory of the people who lost their lives in the Indian massacre at Spirit Lake iu 1857. This provision Is to tiie effect that a plain granite monument shall be erected near the scene of the massacre, upon which shall be inclined the names of the settlers who wore killed, together with those of the two volunteer soldiers whose lives were lost on the relief expedition.

One of thosa lost Captain Johnson was from Webstar City, and the other, Burkholder, (a brother-in-law of Gov. was from Fort Hedge. The bill further provides that the State shall give to each officer and man win) went out on this expedition, a model, not to contain above 5 wortli of coin sliver. Tha bill would appropriate not to exceed to meet tho expenses of the whole memorial, to be paid fiom the State Treasuror during the fiscal years of 1887 and '88. This is a bill which ought to become a law.

If we go into the Eastern States, or Canada, wo find many monuments erected at tho public expense to the memory of tho plonoors who fell In the Indian border wars We do not know whether other white people were killed by the Indians in our State, but this was a case which in our judgment tha State will only do honor to itself by doing a just and handsome thing In the way of per petuating tne memories both of tho slain pioneers and the gallant volunteers who flod to their relief. This Is ail the moro a matter ot justice as it was peculiarly a local State affair, and outside of any hope of pensions for any of the participants In the affair. We tiust that the Legislature will cause the matter to be thoroughly Investigated, for that will only give Mr. Anderson's bill a bettec chance. A Senator liesleglng a Rich Widow.

From a Wanhington Letter. A great deal ot comment has been cause! by the prolonged absence of Senator Jones, of Florida, from his seat in the Senate. The last time he was in the Senate was during tha special executive sessions of last spring. Senator Jones has been In Detroit constantly since the 1st of last June. He Is Infatuated with a charming widow, one of the most prominent figures In Detroit society, who hai an independent fortune of 82,000,000.

The gallant and enraptured Senator Is a widower with live or six children. He. has thus far been unsuccessful in his suit for the widow's hand, but be is persistent, and it is reported that he has sworn he will never leave Datroit until tho widow succumbs. It Is said that the Senator faithfully sends every day to his adored one a basket of flowers and a written avowal of his undying love. The notes and flowers are never acknowledged, but the pa tient Senator never permits this obdurate silence to discourage his appeals.

Up to the present date the Senator has sent to the un moved one 220 avowments with 220 bouquets, equal in number with the days ho has spant in letroit. 'r 1 1 11 ft iT ERCT'FERFECT MADE'' Prepared with special regard to hoaluh. No Ammonia, Lime or Alum. PRICE BAXIHQ POWDER CHICAGO. tJ is 1 1 1 1 I'-ia I'.

Ttf 3. IT Bft AFTER A MALTHUS A BEDHEAD. Mr. Wesley Redhead, a man of quiet life heretofore, has risen up in the Iowa Legisla-- ture to ask for a Jaw to keep poor people from marrying. It Is Impossible to understand what has moved quiet Mr.

Redhead to make tuch a lequest. Other men In different ages the world have appeared In public to ask the same thing. Notably Mr. Robert Thomas Malthus came forward and shocked staid and sober England by demanding that this commandment should be put In the law of the kingdom, "You shall not marry until yon can Eupptit a An American, one Benjamin Franklin, had touched upon the same ff.me subject In an incidental ray. So had Hume, Wallace, Townshend and others.

Miilthus devoted his life to his Idea, and wioteniany books about It, only to make every one doubt the good man's moral Intentions. In earlier times one or two of the older governments had tried such legislation. But such a fearful Increase of Immorality aud illegitimate children followed, that the nations wero horrified, and repealed the law. Yet the bad fleets of it could not be recalled nor eradicated and continue in the countries to some degree to this day. Later, and In the last few years, Mr.

Brad-laugh and Mrs. Bessaunt attempted to popu-ularize this Malthus-Redhead Idea in England, and together wrote and printed a book about it, only to have it suppressed by the Government as a work of Immorality and teacher of vice. This was the lat in the line up to the present date. Now appears Mr. Redhead, and as a mem I er of the Iowa Legislature, introduces the following bill for a law A JDill for an act to amend Chapter one anil Section No.

8188 of the Code, in relation to marriage. Be it enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Ioica: Section 1. That the followlnjr plall be added to the end of section No. 2188, of chapter ono, of the Codo: And each party shall give satisfactory evidence to the clerk granting tho license that they are able and competent to maintain and support each other with all the necessaries of life, and also to take eare of tho children, if they Bhould have any. There 13 nothing in this that Is hidden or evasive.

It has the one virtue of baing direct and pointed. It means, If Mr. Redhead can get his law enacted, that no poor people shall got mauled in Iowa, It doesn't mines terms at all. Unles the two people desiring to get married have enough property to begin with, to support each other with all the necessaries of life, and to take care of the children, If they should have any," or unless they can convince the County Clerk that they have, our Mr. Redhead proposes to see that they shall not get married, lie intends to reserve matrimony as an estate for tne rich alone, or for those not poor, and to take away from the poor and honest the great incentive In life and Industry to rear a home of their own.

Old Kentucky had an idea of this sort in it3 laws in its darkest days, and It came near preventing Abraham Lincoln from being born by preventing his parents from getting married. If Mr. Redhead had lived in the earlier dsjsof the Republic, and been making the laws of tho different States, we should have had no Lincoln, no Grant, no Garfield, nor hardly any of the great men of the Nation, born of poor parents in log cabins. Indeed, it is possiblo that the world ran the narrowest cf escapes as to Mr. Redhead himself, for it is not unlikely that he, as he is a self-made man, would never have been born if his proposed law bad been in force In time.

This wonderful and most fortunate escapa from so ient a los-s should, of Itself, conviuee even Mr. Redhead of the unwisdom and danger of it. We beg the gentleman to pausa nnd reconsider, and not Insist on cutting the fforld off from all the Wesley Redheads of lte future. Mr. Readiiead should use some of the leisure hours of a busy and useful life in reading history.

It is always a pleasing and valuablo pastime. If Mr. Redhead should Indulge In it he would discover that all tlie nations which have encouraged matrimony atd the founding of homes have been must prosperous and happy. It is the only op in pnth to the contentment and independence of a people, and to the sure establishment of the domestic virtues, without which every ration is baibarism and vice. The nations that most encourage marriage, and the rearing cffamilies.have the happiest, noblest, and most useful of people.

To discourage matrlmjny Is to encourage immorality, fill the land with Illegitimate children, and build up a na-llon without tomes or honor. Marriage Is an.