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w Wxt Sjattu sfotfiw. c7,,a cy ASTORIA. OREGON: SUSDA.Y. .MARCH 6, 1S57 .4 CONTEMPTIBLE ACT. The man whom the iron of froward fate has made chief exec utive of the nation has had oppor tunity to show his littleness and has abused.the privilege. By contemptible and character istic smothering of the nation's will, as expressed by the national legislature, this man withholds necessary appropriations for public works and smites us of.the west and northwest in the face. He does this for motives of per sonal revenge, through malicious spite and low desires at reprisal. For proof we point to his action throughout both sessions of the 49 th congress. This is a matter that has noth ing to do with" party. It affects the higher domain of politics the science of government and is as unfortunate for Democrats as Republicans, involving common retrogression and retarding im portant and necessary work. It is hard to write with usual edi torial calm on this matter. A court buffoon, a prince's jester, the priv ileged favorite of a profligate king; these and such as these have "induced and caused foolish acts in high places,but that the chief executive, the president of 63,000, 000 Americans, the head of earth's greatest Nation,should so far forget the great attributes of his great po sition as to stoop so low in per sonal remembrance and revenge of personal spito, would be past belief were not the fact so patent. A veto would have been his prerogative, and we all -would be obliged to respect him, how ever much we might differ with him, -for even a president has a right to be wrong. But as if afraid the house of representa tives would vindicate the judg ment of 38 sovereign states and pass the veto over his head, he ignored the plain pointings of manhood and stealthily stifled the bill appropriating moneys for the aid of the great commercial arter ies of the Nation's life. The failure of the river and harbor appropriation bill is -i se vere blow to the northwest, not wholly irremediable, for wo are a people of wonderful elasticity, bus yet, measurably injurious to our best interests. The consciousness of the utter futility of comment, other than to set the stamp of popular disap proval on. the chief executive's latest folly, impels us to forego further comment. Only one man has been offered a place on the interstate railroad commission and he has declined it. One candidate selected by the president was ex-senator Thurman, whose declination is positive. Further than that the formation of the commission has not advanced. The president has simplified iiis work by announcing to the Cali fornia representative who called upon him in the interest of Mr. Swift of that state, that he would not go as far west as the Pacific slope for a member of the com mission. Tho commission Vill consist of one man from the New England states, another from the middle states, probably from New York; another from Ohio, Indiana or Illinois; a fourth from the north west and a fifth from the south. Applications to the number of lour hundred or moro are not likely to influence the president's choice. He had about chosen the eastern man and the storm of crit icism provoked by the mention of the man's name has made doubt ful the wisdom of appointing him. The difficulty that has been thrown in the way of selection 'is the op position of Democrats to the se lection of Republican members from several states mentioned. Democrats all want to have them selected from some "other state In New York the president finds it difficult to get the sort of man be would like to accept He would be glad to put a sound business man on the commission, one who could be relied upon, but men of business who would be qualified to undertake the work are in de mand at much greater salary than the government will pay. The nomination of Capt. Gree ly to be chief signal officer, which gives him the rank and pay of brigadier general, is something un paralleled in the army in the time of peace. It is only a short time ago 'that Greely was a lieu tenant on less than $2,000 a year, and when he is confirmed in his new rank he will receive 65,500. It can not be said the sudden ele vation of Greely to such high rank is warmly approved in army cir cles. To those in the arm' who look at men who are now but colonels, and who have command ed in divisions in the war of the rebellion, the picking up of a cap tain to jump him over all the files in the intermediate ranks of ma jors and colonels seems very strange, as it is certainly unprcco- dented. But the influences that secured the promotion have been able to manage his confirmation. All honor to senators Dolph and Mitchell, and representative Hermann! They worked hard for the northwest and the material interests of the great section they represent, and no shadow of the stigma can fall on them that fastens to the chief executive of the mugwnmp faction whose de sires are favored to the detriment of the American nation. Cleveland will get praise from the New York mugwumps for his refusal to sign the river and har bor bill. Adulation from those creatures is incense in his nostrils, and the needs of the Nation are secondary in his eyes to the ap plause of the contemptible clique in the Empire state that made pos sible the misfortune of his elec tion. If Cleveland didn't want to have the appropriation made for the rivers and harbors of the nation he might at least have acted like a man with the courage of his convictions, and vetoed the bill, and given his reasons. But no he was afraid the house would jass it over ms neaci, so, like a : sneak, he strangled it in his pocket "It is great to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to useit like a giant." The man in the "White house who by the grace of the prohibitionists occupies a statesman's seat, dressed in a little brief authority, prostitutes his power by moving backward the hour hand on the dial of the Na tion's progress. Jay Gould says that if he should jrive fifty men five thou sand dollars each to ro into busi ness for themselves one-half would fail and lose all within five years, and the other twenty-live would be mad because he was able to make it ten thousand and didn't do it. Hurrah for St. John! Had there been no St. John," there would have been no Cleveland; had there been no Cleveland, there would have been no man in the White House great enough to ig nore the wants of the nation and slap the northwest in the face. "Why did Cleveland refuse to sign the river and harbor bill?" Pure cussedness; that's the only reason. What else could ycu ex pect from an ex-sheriff who hanged a man himself to save the custom ary fee paid to the executioner? A grain commission firm in Milwaukee reports having re ceived from the agent of the Ger man government at New York an inquiry as to the terms for 200,000 bushels-of oats. Wonder when the president will cease punishing Oregon for giving Blaine a majority. We deserved a little disciplining, but this is sort of crowding the infliction. A Minnesota legislator affirms that he was offered $250 to voto against a certain bill. The Minne sota papers think such :i ease is without -precedent. A tkadke at East Saginaw, Mich., recently treated each of his clerks to a cigar and then deducted 10 cents from tho salary of each on Saturday night. President Cleveland's action toward the river and harbor bill is a horrible example of the tremon dou inertia of ignorance. Cleveland thinks that the Alleghany mountains are the western boundary of this country. Cleveland is a t'pical Bourbon. He never learns anything and nev er forgets anything. Someone send Cleveland a ge ograp'hy. It is the unexpected that hap pens. Brace Up. Von nm feplin' lonrossoJ nin- ?m. netite is poor you arc bothered with Headache, von are fulprpflv. nervnns. and generally out of sorts, and want to orac ui. 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Conn. NEW TO-DAY. LADIES TAKE NOTICE. Mrs. F. E. Hudson lias removed to the corner of Genevieve and Chenamus streets, up stairs net to VanDusen & Co.'s store, where she is pre pared to do Fashionable Dressmaking. Agent for Estes, Tavlor Square for Dress Cutting. ASTORIA nine Mill. HOLT & CO. Proprietors. Manufactures i MOLDINGS, SASH DOORS, BLINDS, RAILS. BALUSTERS, NEWEL POSTS. BRACKETS. Scroll and Turned Balustrades. Boat Material, etc, Orders solicited and Promptly attended to. Satisfaction Guaranteed as to Style.IQuali ty and Prices. Mill and Ofiicc cor. l'ollc nnd Concomly streets. Astoria. Oregon. Annual School Meeting, NOTICH IS I1EREBY filVEN TO 'TIIE legal voters of School District No, l, Astoria, Clatsop county. Oregon, that the annual school meeting of said district will be held at the school house of said district, to begin at the hour of 7 :30 i M., on the llrsr Monday, being the 7th day of March, A. I)., 1S37. The meeting is called for the purpose of electiug one director to serve for three years, and one clerk to serve for oiie year, and the transaction of the business usual at such meeting, J. G. HUSTLER, Clerk District No. i. Astoria, Feb. 21. 1&7. One A?ont Mnnln , only) wanted in every i ujivu, ii. iv. Jarum l uo., i)j Ktato St., umuauu. 0. L. BECK & SONS, Agents. Notice To The Pubiic. OWINCxTO MY inability: to COL lect from the present undertaker, par ties wishing graves dug at Clatop cemetery must accompany the order with five dol lars to Insure the graves being dug, A. Y. GltUBB, . . City Sexton. Clatsop Cemetery, The First National Bank Will Buy. CLATSOP CO.B. FUND" WAERANTS. and Astoria City "Warrants. RE WARE FrfV Aifi WATOHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY. CiLRXi iLDEsSSt Manager. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. The New Improved Family And Manufacturing SINGER Sewing Machine. Call and Examine at the American NWs Depot. A. BALMANNO, AGENT. 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Also, Direct from the East, Gents', Youths', Boys', and Children's Fine Clothing and Hats. All of which we will sell at the Very Lowest Prices. Our Stook of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods is one of the most complete north of San Francisco. Our past reputation justifies us in saying that We Lead in Quality of Goods and Prices. W. T. P2LXi22D2l, Manager. DKAr.F.U IN Hay, Oats, and Straw, Lime, Bricl, Cement, Sand ai Plaster Wood Delirered to Order. Drajlue. Tf.imlnirand Ktpm Basluest TR apply to tho Captain, or to Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Made and Bepnlrcd. Paper Hanging, Carpets sewed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission. Snon. corner Main and Jefferson Streets MARTIN OLSEN. J. C, OOtTKTTY Coronar's Office, Undertaking Boom'; next ft1" r .-ft.rt i. i b . -rrv-s. x jiinBlBSsBBfSr Ire, B nTi ' PH iiiiiiWHi1ln i i IWHW iiiTiiiM MHim j lZ' J. R. LEES0N & CO., BOSTON, SOLI! ACfEXTS AND IMPOIiTEKS. The Jotatone (Scotlai) anil Grafton (Mass.) 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