Show las relating to affairs in samoa transmitted to congress by president cleveland allows very clearly that the gernian authorities in samoa anve overstepped over stepped tho bounds of international law in dealings with the natives und in their interference with tho resident to of other governments is not easy to believe that he german government could havo sanctioned or authorized in any v ay the insulting and conduct of the germans stationed in the samoan ports in their treatment of other residents of the islands and particularly of americana it is evident enough with it all that the samiaa people are greatly in need of a firm and responsible government and that it cannot have euch a government except under the care and direction of foreign powers our own interests in the islands aro too great to permit the absolute control of them to pass into alie hands of germany or any other one nation the true solution of the problem auld seem to be eliat proposed by secretary bayard that n government should be established in samoa to consist of a council composed of five persons the king vico king and three nationalities hiving treaties with samoa this would ensure n proper re tho interests of foreign residents in the islands and a peaceful and stable government WE doubt very much whether the bill introduced by mr holman of indiana in the house of lating to the improper use of money in elections would effect the object for which it is destined if it became a law ona section of the bill makes it unlawful for any person to receive money to be expended ia any national or congressional election or in any political canvass immediately preceding the same and another section forbids any person to contribute money to be employed in any election for electors of president and vice president or for representatives or delegates in the congress of tho united states etc congress has no authority under the impose such regulations aa these upon the conduct of elections with the exception of a few well and clearly benned denned point the whole matter cf elections local and national is under the control of the states the most practical and effectual method fordem the abuses connected with elections the improper uso of money with the rest lies in the adoption of alie australian system of voting let every state in tho union adopt this system and we shall have an end to bribery and all its attendant evils IT is by no means certain that all the stories told of outrage and misrule in alaska auder the administration of the alaska commercial company are true but they have a sufficient coloring of truthfulness to afford abundant justification for the investigation now in progress by a committee of congress it is to bo remembered that the cae against the company does not rest solely upon the evidence of the witnesses brought before the committee nor upon newspaper reports charges af corruption and misgovernment on alie part of the companas comp anys agents have been made time and time again in the past few yeara by teachers missionaries and other responsible persons who have bej in a position to know the fat the states Gover governal nag a great responsibility ting upon it in the caeg of the poor savages y inhabit its alaskan possessions f and it carnot shift that responsibility upon any corporation no mattar what its character may be if half the stories that are told of the alaska company are true its charter cannat be too quickly revoked its agents ordered from the country Coyo BEsa is doing just ahat it expected to do when the present session opened and that is simply nothing with a democratic majority in the lower house a republican majority in the senate a democratic executive and more than all with a certainty of a general change all around in the political status in the immediate future it was too much to expect that any important legislative work would be accomplished but nothing can stop the introduction of bills and this part of tho business goes on as merrily as over some of these measures are highly important or would be considered so if there was any probability babi lity of their successful passage electrician thought he had discovered a way to secure peaceful dreams he fixed a wire round his fence and on retiring to rest turned on battery enough to knock any gallant thomas silly who might be serenading sere miss tabby his daughters young man is now very sick AT scottsdale scottdale Scott dale pennsylvania the other day a brakeman fell between tha cara of a moving trin he counted sixteen cars and a caboose as they passed over him and he jumped up and took his place acain at the brakes he was not scratched construction of three new cruisers one of nine thousand and tho other of six thousand tona is about to bo commenced in russia three submarine boats will shortly be finished the work on them is done with the utmost |