The Death Of Senator John W.

Watts, of this district, loses to this state a valuable representativo. Mr. Watts had been in the legislature sev. f ral times before the present term, and his sound judgement and long experience will be missed in the senate and in the councils of the committees upon which he had been appointed. Mayor Darling made a good appointment whn he named Glen V. Mills as city clerk to fill out the vacancy causod by the resignation of Will Miller. Mr Mills, we are certain, will prove entirely competent to attend to the duties at the office. The Republicans could not do better than to nomínate Mr. Mills this spring for this office. Ho has certainly proven himself worthy of this position, and if hard work for the party counts for anything, he is entitled to the nomination. If nominated, as he very likely will be, he will carry the city by at least 200 majority. The present flnancial condition of tha treasury has been foreseen for years and it must be a great dissapointment of the President that his party in the present Congress has been either unable or willing to do anything to remedy the difficulty. If the present Congress does anything during the next month to assist the treasury in its cliliiculties it must be by the work of the Republicans in Congress assisted by the few Democrats there who care anything about the currency other than to tranier it to from the treasury to thoir own pockets. The Democratie majority in Congress is utterly helpless and totally incompetant to deal with the currency question. It presents a pitiable spectacle to the countrybankruptcy of the treasury staring them in the face, the great business interests of the country in peril, their own President begging for action ; yet Congress doing nothing - its members hilarious and promptly drawing their pay. The like of the present Congress has not been scen since the iïrst Congress met in New York. It is a national disfrace.