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Show A recent dispatch from Washington says there is a possibility that the Fitz John Porter bill will be defeated in the Senate, although it passed that body two years ago. If every man who was in the Senate when the bill was up before votes now as he did then, and there is no doubt on this point. and Senators Stanford of California and Mitchell of Oregon vote against the bill, as they are expected to do, the Senate will be a tie. These Senators succeed Democrats who voted for the bill. There is some doubt, however, how-ever, as to how Stanford will vote. He talks very frankly on the subject, and says that, in his own mind, he is very strongly of the opinion that Porter ought not to be re-I re-I stored to the army. But his estimate of the opinions of Gen. Grant amounts to a reverence. rever-ence. He says that he knew Grant intimately inti-mately for twenty years, and believes that his judgment was almost infallible. On a question of this sort he should not vote against the opinion of Grant without serious reflection, and proposes to study the matter thoroughly. In Chicago the other day there were two or three runaways of unhitched horses. The following day the police were ordered to "bring in" every rig found in the streets where the horse was left alone or unhitched, and over fifty buggies, cabs, wagons and drays were driven to a livery stable, where their owners found and redeemed them by the payment of costs. Lots of. profanity followed the enforcement of this ordinance, j Salt Lake has just such another ordinance, j and it should be rigorously enforced. j The discovery of a Chinese leper in a Connecticut town where friends of God and humanity are supposed to be more numerous numer-ous than they are in the West, draws out the remark that "the Chinese must go" with quite as much enthusiasm as has been exhibited ex-hibited in any place on the Pacific Coast It is popularly believed that 1,000 Chinese I lepers well distributed would convert all New England into a howling home for hoodlums. It is believed that the Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, will be repaid re-paid by the government for their losses sustained in the riots there. The unemployed unem-ployed laborers of this country may be disposed either to attach this money or send in a counter claim to the Chinese government for losses sustained bv beinir displaced hy Chinese labor. S |