Show the senate sets its face ace against again st any an investigation of the recent senatorial election Is it afraid it la is good news indeed that the park city extension e of 0 the rio grande Is likely to tale take form very soon boon and bo be a strong factor in ilia iha development ment of 0 riches it Is understood in ther east that the anti ticket scalping bill ll Is dead dad it seems deems to have been scarred by a rl rc mark made cy by senator siewart that it called up tn la the senate ho he aou would id talk it to death in tile the few remaining weeks that congress in to be in session it Is understood that none bulver but very y important logI legislation bill be allowed tiny any extended talk the senate proposition to hold alt the municipal elections on the day ot of the genral election Is a vicious one municipal elections have little in common comman with a political election and should never be held on tho the same day to so hold them gives elves the people no chance to pass on the merits or demerits of an administration but forces the fight to be on political lines where it 11 assuredly does not belong theres enough in tile the quarrel between greece and turkey from thessaly to crete to account lor for a 0 dozen wars and to involve all if 1 necess necessary axY to pay off on ts the ie scores ot of the ages at the same time the powers axe are in poor business when they try to snuff out the aspirations ot of the greeks that ancient race should be allowed to repossess its form former or heritage just as fast as the same can be reclaimed from the hell bell of turkish h oppression and wrong only a trine trifle over three weeks remain of 0 the legislative session and the house Is wrangling about trilling little propositions of course killing the most of 0 them but as a a body it h baa done nothing hing whatever about the code which will take pretty much all the time remaining to read the members must have a lurking idea that come miracle Is to be worked in their behalf to see them through and it would require almost as great a one as was as worked tor for their election the investigation so called now in progress with to tile the burning of 0 the scott auerbach building Is commonly spoken of as a farce but it Is worse where a commission will undertake such a hearing without allowing tho the presentation of 0 both sides and with no provision for the correction of erroneous statements made innocently of 0 otherwise it looks much more like a vindictive hounding of somebody than a farce of course a genuine investigation vesti gation seems out of the question when we read that sir mr morgan end and mr carnegie and mr rockefeller have lave secured tin the mines and the works to monopolize the iron trade we do net realize what nhat that means when we lead of great sales of iron we do not icelle what that means the truth Is it takes about 00 rulles of new track to keep the jalli oads already built in this country in repair yearly that means about tons of steel rails every year that Is if allowing the life of the steel rail to be twenty years in the past four years the lall roada have gotten along with anith just as little renewal ot of tracks track as pos possible M ble and we suspect that tons of new ralls rails are arc almost an absolute just at the present time the greatest hit of ine season has been made in europe by the american apple mason the united states 6 con I 1 sul general at frankfort declares that the victory ot of the apple has been one of superior quality rather than mere cheapness and quotes from the agri tural papers in germany the ing statement that no less lera than double cen cent ners of 0 our apples more than twenty times the import of any previous season nere ere sent bent to ge germany amany lost last year consul monaghan at che mintz thys bays the chole german empire is 31 alarmed with the great appl ili im ports the keeping qualities of the best arn american er winter apples are arc as dg ars n nho t pre prea alion horb told th that a Bald balden vL will e easily aa ily Aee pix ix to months n t s the earne reports reports comer come from rn nn angland gland I 1 n of the Democrat lo party mr watterson of the courier journal says it will weather the rocks ind find ride the waves when those who are now opposing us u so noisily and so 0 o senselessly will bo be working work ins their passage across hell for sartin on A L mud scow tile the party must be built on an the principle of the torpedo boat that can call run na is well under the weter as aa above surely it Is running mighty low now gersona sona proposition Is to salve eave hla his on oin pirty parly by making the other oher fellows Bu horse foot oot anil and bag gage and the two things thing that ohp th edu gilted gentleman offers as a basis on oil which to surrender are arc the gold galil standal d and flee fice trade which IA aich leads one to believe that while mr watterson Is S a very brilliant man main he does riot not know much utter after nil all ile he did not show oft veil as aa an equestrian ahen hen 1 T I ith the lac of 0 the star eyed goddess eod ilesa wore before him lie he rode rod the tingle single hobby p f free trade it if in tho the double per torn ianco he does not into inlo the sawdust a he mill bronk oll all the rules nilca that ever governed rovern cd a circus A dispatch some days since said paid that elih of tho the illinois central railroad lall lail road thought thit the government ought to lo take in n tile and the central pacific at the same aanie time and make them public highways that la is its ills plan flan would be for the government to lo pay the first mortgage bonds take in the roads keep them in repair as a toll loll roads are kept in repair fix their schedules and let any other load or any other company run cars by pa ing toll very strangely that Is 13 exactly C 1 ia idea of how a rail road dought roa ought to be run they ought to be kept in repair by some sovereign nover elen power regulated J to prevent collisions etc and then every one should have the L he right of 0 way with airs cars the same as teamsters have the right of way over bridge this would enable such buch concerns as aa the th standard oil company to run their own trains also the great iron ot of the east also a hundred other industries still th the C arran arrangement gement would not be entirely satisfactory to heavy shippers because they have special rates we pr eburne the standard oil could never bae attained its present proportions had it 11 not made its terms with the railroads and because of shipping more oil oft than any other concern had that oil snipped shipped cheaper by the way ay the road to sioux city from the illinois central Is a bianch ot of the illinois central road how boull mr IT rish flah like to have that branch taken in by tho the government ind and conver converted teI int into a toll to road ill |