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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1891
Page
5
Conservative Democrats opposed to free coinage outline their stance as the next campaign unfolds. The piece notes divisions within party ranks over monetary policy and the political implications for campaign messaging and voter alignments.
Edward E Hale suggests a celebratory plan in a May 20 Columbus dispatch. Colonel Thomas M Bayne, a Western Pennsylvania Republican leader, opposes free coinage and predicts Harrison will be the next nominee with Cleveland as Democratic opponent. He argues neither candidate would permit free coinage if in power, and that free coinage advocates are debtors or demagogues without broad support among business and responsible press.
Postmaster General notes ten sea post offices in operation aboard as many vessels since the Havel arrived on April 9. Since then fourteen trips from Bremen and Hamburg to New York have brought 800,000 unregistered and over 11,000 registered letters plus printed matter. Clerks from New York and railway service handle delivery with a scheme to route mail to New York City addresses or outward to rail hubs. The time to reach New York City drops by at least six hours. for distant points gains approach two days. Ice-steamer voyages run eight to ten days. Each ship staff includes one U.S. clerk and a German clerk with helper. Passengers may mail on board as on land, stamps provided by respective countries.
Rev Edward FK Hale writing for the American Antiquarian Society proposes a commemorative voyage to retrace Columbus voyage. He suggests a steam vessel touching Atwood's Key on October 12 and following Columbus day by day, including matching events from his logbook and even catching species the explorer noted.
The Latin American department seeks details on a little quarto printed in Rome in 1403 containing Pope Alexander VI’s bull dividing the New World between Portugal and Spain. Only two copies are known: one in Munich and another sold at Puttick & Simpson on May 24, 1854, later bought by Obadiah Rich for a U S private library. The exposition aims to locate the surviving copy for historical study.
A call for information requests anyone with knowledge of a vanished historical treasure to contact the Department of State in Washington, D. C. The item has disappeared from bibliophiles and left no trace. Anyone with information is asked to come forward.
The Secretary of War with the President's approval assigns militia funding by state based on Congressional representation. Connecticut receives 8528 dollars, Maine 5528, Massachusetts 12009, New Hampshire 5785, Rhode Island 3685, Vermont 8685. Funds become available July 1.
The President granted a one day pardon to William C Waters convicted in Connecticut of postal law violation. The pardon takes effect the day before his one year sentence would have expired.
Narioki Kozaki, a Kumamoto native and Harvard Divinity School student, is chosen to deliver the Commencement Day address. Born in southern Japan, he trained at Dashisha College and Dabisha College, later studying in California and at Pacific Theological School before entering Harvard. He plans to return to Japan to teach and preach, noting orthodox Christians remain a majority while Unitarian influence grows.
The Seamen's Union of the Atlantic Coast held its second annual convention at 258 Commercial Street with about thirty delegates. General President John F. O'Sullivan presided and committees were named to address credentials, constitution, reports, rules of order, resolutions, finance, and the president's addresses. O'Sullivan highlighted wage gains since organization, noting coastwise wages rose from 20 to 50 dollars and foreign wages from 18 to 26 per month, a 60 percent and 25 percent increase, respectively. The afternoon session was brief with no major actions, and the convention planned to reconvene the next morning.
Obituaries report M Jean Jacques Weiss a French journalist born Nov 19 1827 in Bayonne who edited the Journal des Debats and helped found the Journal de Paris. Additional deaths include General George A Washburn of Hartford killed in action at Antietam, Charles H White of Samford Conn, David T Ferson of Fitchburg, Arnold Wakefield of Smithfield aged 68, and local officials C H Person and others.
The Castillian Club met yesterday at Mrs. Jones A. Woolson’s Cambridge residence with about seventy-five attendees. Miss Frances Webster presented a paper on Avila detailing the town’s beauty, history, and surroundings, followed by discussion and tea. Bi-monthly meetings suspend for summer, resume in early fall.
A sparse Somerville public gathering in Bow Street Hall drew only fourteen residents plus five reporters. Charles S. Lincoln presided, George L. Baxter acted as secretary as a ten-member committee was formed to nominate officers and outline celebration plans, with the group adjourning to June 11.
Executive Council hears Pillsbury opinion that T E Davis may be paid from the refund fund unless he used questionable methods. He says the Congress act does not forbid payment to an attorney and no further legislative appropriation is needed. The ruling discusses trusts, champerty, and legality of the contract for services before Congress.
Governor Russell asked U S Senators for views on three questions about paying a Commonwealth employee to aid the Direct Tax bill. Senator Hoar said he did not know of any state employing such an agent and favored refunding paid quotas as justice. Senator Dawes stated Davis was employed to collect war claims, argued compensation was excessive, and said delegation members could have done the work themselves without outside help.
Governor Russell sent nominations to the Council including Joseph N. McLaughlin M D Boston to be paren and surgeon at the State Prison replacing Lawin Thomas J Cobb New Bedford to be clerk of the Third District Court of Bristol Elmer H Capen Somerville to be member of the Board of Education Charles J Moore New York to be Commissioner of Deeds for Massachusetts Horace J Wadlin Reading to be chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor McLaughlin born in Boston in 1861 educated at Boston College Harvard Medical School and medical examiner for New York Life Insurance Company resignations noted for Dr Lawin who has resigned to focus on private practice.
At a Boston Society of Natural History gathering last evening Professor W O Crosby presented a paper on The Geology of Uingham and Mr G H Barton described a glacial pot hole at Pearl Hill Fitchburg, showcasing regional glacial geology discoveries.
Local notices list engagements and marriages including Bachelder Harlow in Middleboro with Harlow and Lawrence ministers, Dearing MacMillan in the city, Griswold Higginson Grace Church nuptials, Johnson Andrews in the city, Nye Savage in North Falmouth, Alden Keene NH, and multiple death notices such as Barker Bracken Ellsworth Felt Giles Goldsmith Hamilton Hooper Heywood Page Stevens Weeks Tilton. Also notes about funeral plans and burial arrangements.
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