NORWW 1 “V GAZ E’I‘TE ‘ children, but there was a flagrant abuse " structed chiefly of wood. Even if the - life is always taken. intake 8. market for thirty million r' °Truth above all things.’ Entered in the Post Oliice as a.Newspaper WEDNESDAY, JAN‘UaEf 20,1 [897. THE WEATHER —'1'o-da_v, fair to part- Iy cloudy followed by Ito-night with high winds and possible snow. On Thursday, cloudy and stormy with slow- ly rising temperature. Friday fair and colder. " That Texas Horror. Such- a horror as that at the orphan- age-near Dall 1s, where sixteen children perished in the flimes and nine were seriously injured, ought not to have been possible. Of course, the fact that the fire broke out at midnight is a rea- son for the inability to save more of the of'the first principals of safety in hous- ing 247 children in a building” con- fire had occurred in the daytime, there is serious doubt whether the tinder-hex would not have been entirely in flames before all the inmates could have been rescued. Any large building that is in- tended to accommodate a vast number of people should undoubtedly be built of fire-proof material, and the authori- ties in every State should always see to it that this fundamental care of human .0. a.» tAlcohol in thd Arts. senator Platt’s special charged with the investigation of the question of the rebate of the internal revenue tax on alcohol used in the arts has been the subj act under considera- tion for several weeks and has taken 9. Some im- committee iarge amount of testimony. portant information bearing upon the subject has just come to the attention of the commitee. .It has been learned that a movement is on foot in France to abolish the t'axon alcohol for all uses except alcoholic beverages. France is moved to this by the eflect of the lib- eral laws of Germany which have re-' sulted in an enormous increase of her foreign commerce in articles in which alcohol is a factor. Supplementary to this comes a pre- sentation to members of the committee of-the fact that if the use of alcohol in the arts were as large, in proportion to the entire consumption of distilled spirits in"this country, as in Germany, it would increase this consumption in the United States from its present amount of about eight million gallons to one hundred million gallons. This would, members of the committee say, bushels more of corn than can now be sold. ‘ Discussing the question one of the members of the committee said the only reason the United States did not now use more alcohol in the arts was the absurd and outrageous tax of over one thousand per cent." It is claimed by those members of the committee who favored this free alcohol that as Elie United States has twice as many- people as Germany, and as their con- suming power is much greater per cap- ita, this thirty million bushels of corn would, under untaxed alcohol used' in the arts, rapidly increase to double that amount. they say, in this direction are practical- lydimitless. From what members of the committee have said, it is believed a.- report favorable to free alcohol in the arts and sciences will be made to the Senate in connection with the tariff b'll that .will be presented for the con- sideratTOu of the next Congress, or, possibly, as an independent measure. 0» Post Office and Politics. Senator Hill’s proposition that the incumbentmof fourth-class post oflices should be appointed, as ofiicers of a higher grade are, for a fixed term ,of t’our‘years, Wouldvhave the merit of nniiyiog tLe appointment system to this extent and distributing the work oi the party headsman over a longer in- vegvfi If it were understood that all Federal oflicers were to serve a fixed term, it they so long behaved them- selves well, apphcations for appoint. meat might be deferred until the up. ' preach cf a vacancy and thus a new ad- ministration would be measurably re- lieved of the great rush of office-seek- ers and could [take time to distribute the party patronage with discretion. The (suit of the system of a fixed term is that it is based upon the idea, ' which it in turn confirms, that all Fed- The chances for expansion, 7 every change of administration. lyzing to the service than an immediate “clean sweep,” but the reeu‘t is not essentially different. . The postmaster’s incumbeucy is equally dependent .on the success of his party. and not upon his own efliciency add good behavior. Some day we may reach a degree of civilization where the political opinions of the man who delivers our letters, will be of no more concern to us,’ than those of the man who supplies us with milk or. groceries, and when we din register our convictions upon great questions of National policy, without overturningihflholefusiness of the country. r This: will be when politics and the civil service are separated and postmasters are appointed to take care of the mails and not to run the del- egate elections of their towns. Then. it will not be necessary to legislate upon their term of office. Senator Platt to Succeed Himself. HABTFOED,CONN.,Jau. 19, 1897.—Both houses of the General Assembly to-day, by separate action, elected Orville H. Platt, of Meriden, United States Sen- ator, to succeed himself, for six years, from March 4, 1897. The vote in the Senate was unanimous—2i. In the House the vote was 196 to 24 for Joseph R. Sargent (democrat), of New Haven. 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