Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1895 — Page 4

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Mayor Swift, of Chicago, draws the lino distinctly between a strike and a riot. The former is all rlsht and the latter is all wrong. eBBBBSSBSBBBBSssBBssBBBBBBsssBSBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBBssBBB The Suar Trust might find it to Its Interest to help the Cubans, but the last state o that people might be worse than the first. Hfiry Watterson says the Democracy have come to where the roads cross. They have come to that point many times, and they always take the wrong road. The voters in the several school districts who are In earnest to defeat the ring members must select intelligent and clean men for candidates. Real reform begins with the record of the candidate. tfenator Brice has gone "so far In his fight against free 'silver in Ohio that he cannot retire If he .would. It will be a more interesting contest and fairer test of the sentiment of the Democracy than that which is going on in Illinois. . The Journal would remark that if the State officials selecting the monument regcnt3 desire future political honors the sound Judgment they displayed in their selections commends them to most favorable consideration in the future. The reason that the furniture makers cannot advance the prices of labor in Wisconsin Is that so mnny convicts were let to manufacturers for that purpose that outsiders cannot compete with them and pay more wages than at the present time. . Quite a number of excellent persons Trill be relieved to learn from an afternoon paper which always speaks from the throne that the members of the monument regency are competent for tne task for which they have been eelccted. It Is said that the ground upon which the county officers will try to have the salary law set aside Is that it is special legislation because a salary is fixed for each county. This objection may hold. but special legislation has usually had a. very different meaning. If this government reserved its fir and Its strength in ? the case of Nicaragua to make them more effective In that of Venezuela it is likely to have an opportunity of showing its Intentions. The attitude of Great Britain in Venezuela furnishes a much stronger case for the assertion of the Monroe doctrine than her course toward Nicaragua did. Ex-Speaker Crisp says the soundmoney convention soon to be held at Memphis 'will represent the boards of trade and commercial organizations of the South, but it will not be representative of the mass of the people nor their sentiments about silver." This implies that monetary questions and financial 4 policies should be settled not by intelligence but by numbers. Those who are now insisting that Bound money conventions "do not represent the masses of the people" are the ones who years ago insisted that "the . masses of the people were opposed to the resumption of specie payment and " in favor of an unlimited issue of Irredeemable paper money. When the masses of (the people want what history and experience prove to be wrong and dangerous they should not be permittedto have their way. It is unfortunate that a. Senator or a legislature should declare that the United States desires to annex Canada, for the reason that there are people occupying soft places In the costly government called the Dominion of Canada who at once become excited and mlsrepresent the 67,000,000 people to the south of them, as does the Clerk of the Dominion House of Commons in the May Forum. The United States do not care for Canada, and when the people here learn that the revenues have not been equal to the expenditures for a score of years they will conclude that they can have no use for the Dominion unless It. is needed as an annex for Democrats to practice on deficits in a small way. The forthcoming annual report of the Trarden of the itings county. New York, penitentiary, will show that sixty-eight former ba$k officers are now serving sentences in that prison, namely, seven former bank presidents, twelve cashiers and forty-nine tellers or trusted clerks. All were connected with national banks, and were, of course, convicted under United States laws. There are four other State prisons which, by arrangement with the general government, receive prisoners convicted In the United States courts, and it is said the aggregate number of former bank officers in these prisons is as great as that in the Kings county prison, and a few are confined in other prisons. This shows that from H0 to 100 former bank officers are now serving time in prison. The fact is atonoe a refutation of the charge

often made that only petty criminals are punished, and an evidence of the vigor with which national bank defaulters are prosecuted and punished by the government authorities. i)i:cmi; cinnnxcv questions by "WAG Kit.

The report of the et made by exMayor Hopkins, of Chicago, and another well-known Democrat of that city, and of the decision of the umpire in the case presents some amusing features. It states that the dispute which gave rise to the bet occurred at the Iroquois Club, and the point at issue was reduced to writing by the parties themselves as follows: "Sigmund Zeisler states that under the statute of 1702 both gold and sliver were made units of value in the United States; John P. Hopkins denies the proposition." If the disputants had any clear idea at the beginning of the dispute as to what a unit of value was they must have become confused on Iroquois Club refreshments, else they would not have talked of "units of value" and of these units being made of gold and silver. The question in this muddled state was submitted for decision to Judge Vincent, who prefaces his decision with a letter addressed to him by Mr. Cleveland more than six years ago apologizing for having removed him from a Judgeship in New Mexico and offering him a similar position in Montana. Thus Judge Vincent proves his good standing in the Democratic party and gets a free advertisement besides. This letter is outside of the record and really not a part of the case, but as the whole proceeding is extrajudicial it may be allowed to pass. Judge Vincent premises his decision by stating that when the question was submitted to him he "had absolutely no opinion as to the precise technical question involved." In other words, he was in a state of impartial ignorance, being in this respect like both of the parties to the bet, as their statement of the question shows. After reviewing Hamilton's report on the establishment of a mint, Jefferson's Notes and the coinage act of 1792, Judge Vincent decides that the act established a bimetallic unit of value, or ratter a double unit of value, one of gold and one of silver. "A unit of value," he says, "is the unit in which values are expressed; the value of both gold and silver are expressed in the act of 1792, so we had two units of value." Here he flounders into the same hole in which the disputants fell. The phrase "two units of value" is a contradiction of terms. There can only be one unit in anything. The unit may be multiplied Indefinitely, but the result Is only an aggregation of units. To speak of two units of value Is as if one should speak of two pints of different measurements or two Inches of different lengths. Further on Judge Vincent patches up this phrasefand comes very near setting himself exactly right when he says: "Under the act of 1792 the unit was to be the dollar,. the value of which was to be measured In both gqld and silver." This is right as far as it goes, but the Judge is still struggling with the bewildering idea "unit oT value." If Judge Vincent has occasion to decide any more bets on this question it may help him to know' that neither Jefferson nor Hamilton ever once used the phrase "unit of value," and much less "units." They used only the term "unit," and that Invariably in a mathematical and abstract sense. The word "unit" as they used it meant a starting point for a monetary system which would adapt itself readily to the process of multiplication and division. It was a foregone conclusion that the coinage 6f the country should be gold and silver. No peron thought of anything else. Whether the unit should be called a dollar, a pound, a franc, a mark or what not, it would be coined In both metals and must be such, as Jefferson said, "that Its parts and multiples be in easy proportion to each other so as to facilitate the money arithmetic." All their writings related to a unit of account. It was left for recent writers on finance to invent and for such blind leaders of the blind as "Coin" to popularize the phrase "unit of value." Judge Vincent's decision Is substantially correct In finding that the act of 1792 provided for the coinage of dollars and multiples of dollars in both gold and silver, and thus practically established bimetallism, but he obscures the subject when he talks about "two units of value." Perhaps, like the original disputants and parties to the bet, he had been visiting the Iroquois Club house. TUB SCOPE AMI ITENT OV LAW, A correspondent is inclined to take exception to the statement of the Journal that "all the laws relating to the coinage of the two metals are designed to make a parity in the purchase power of dollars on the gold basis," and wants to know where to find such statutes except the so-called Sherman lav of 1890. The effect and intent of laws are quite as potential as their clear declarations or prohibitions. For instance, under the act of Feb. 2S, 1S78, the coinage of silver was 'limited to $t,000.C0o worth of bullion each month, to the end that the silver dollars might be so limited In number that In the exchange of money a parity might be retained with gold. To accomplish that purpose the free coinage features of the Eland bill as passed by the House were stricken out in the Senate and the issue limited to the amount of silver money that could be kept at a parity with gold. In the Sherman act the notes were issued for the gold price of the silver bullion purchased at the time, and coinage was practically suspended to prevent an increasing disparity in the value of dollars by letting them drift apart. The correspondent also desires to know where he can find the law which says that the greenbacks shall be redeemed In gold. The law says "coin." but at the time the resumption act was passed. Jan. 14. 1S73. gold alone -was the full legal-tender coin of the United States. Moreover, under that resumption net greenbacks were to be redeemed in "coin" and the only full legal-tender coin recognized by law at that date was gold. Bonds were sold to get gold for the reserve, and the greenbacks have been ever since redeemed with gold. Consequently, it is fair to say that greenbacks are redeemable in gold because they have been since Jan. 1, 1S79. The correspondent goes on to say that "if such a law (as that greenbacks are redeemable in gold) -.an be found it will

go a long way toward the solution of the silver question." He may be right; but most people regard the present Issue to be between international bimetallism and silver monometallism by the United States." If so, it Is a matter which cannot be settled by an existing law. International bimetallism will come in time, but the silver mine syndicates seem not disposed to wait. They insist that the value of their bullion shall be Immediately doubled at the expense of the rest of the people. Should they succeed the greenbacks would be redeemable In silver dollars. Those dollars can never have more than S3 per cent, of the purchase power of the present gold dollar, so that the $200,000,000 of greenbacks now In circulation, worth their face in gold, would shrink in purchase power to J253.000.000 when expended in the worldwide staples wheat, wool. Iron, cloth, sugar. A loss of $43,000,000 in the purchase power of the greenbacks in the hands of the people to enable the silver mine syndicates to nearly double the present price of their silver bullion is too great a sacrifice for them to ask. The New York World publishes a list of about one hundred stocks, the prices of which have advanced nearly $300,000.000 on a par value of over $3,000,000,000 since the beginning of the year. These stocks include everything from the absolutely worthless Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fc, of which the par value is $101,492,797, to the Standard Oil stocks, whose lowest figure has been $133 and whose highest has been $183 per share since Jan. 1. The aggregate advance from the lowest to the highest figure of the Standard has been $29,173,000 on a par value stock of $97,230,000. In that speculative gain there are millions made by a few and losses made by others who are more numerous, since every rise represents a corresponding loss by somebody, no absolute values being created in the exchange. The most notable feature of the list is the worthlessness of many properties as shown by the Stock Exchange prices, such as the Atchisorl at $7; the Mexican National, which ate up $33,330,000 of Eastern capital, at $3 a share; the Mexican Central at $10; the Northern Pacific at $3, and the' North American at $6; the Oregon Short Line at $8; the Texas Pacific at $3.93; the Union Pacific at $15.374; the Wabash at $7.6212, and the Central Facific at $18.23 all the highest quotations. The aggregate of the stocks of the railways above named is over half a billion dollars, and yet they are really not worth a dollar except for stock trafficking purposes. W. II. Harvey, author of "Coin's Financial School," says that in the act of 1792 Congress "turned Hamilton down" by refusing to adopt "the gold unit clause" recommended by him. Hamilton in his report suggested one gold piece of the value of ten dollars, one gold piece of the value of one dollar, one silver piece of the value of one dollar and minor silver pieces. The act of 1792 provided for the coinage of gold eagles, gold half eagles and gold quarter eagles of the value of ten dollars, five dollars and two and a half dollars, respectively, and silver dollars, half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes. Hamilton recommended two gold coins and two silver coins, and Congress provided for three gold coins and five silver coins. Harvey calls this turning Hamilton down.

In the argument on the income tax lawyer Choate made a neat point on the Attorney-general. The latter had argued that if the present law was held unconstitutional the covemment would be morally bound to refund moneys col-" lcctcd under former income tax laws. "That." said Mr. Choite, "Is not an argument addressed to a question of law or of constitutionality. A moral argument the Attorney-general calls it. I call it an immoral one. The idea of the Attorney-general standing up here for the Nation and asking that because the government has collected much money illegally in the past it must go on collecting money Illegally." The Attorney-general does not seem to have thought of It In that light. Gen.' Joseph Hooker was so much a Western soldier tho last half of the war that he was known by as many Western as Eastern veterans. Consequently, whatever is said of him is of interest to both sections. The Third Army Corps Association, of which he was the first commander, held its reunion this week at his birthplace, in Hadley, Massachusetts. General Sickles was there to be his eulogist. Hooker was one of the brilliant men of the war. At times he fought with skill and won with valor, as when he withstood all of the Confederate army at Williamsburg, Va., in 1$C2, with a single division. He was one of the most resolute -in McCIellan's fatal campaign, and at Antletam he was an inspiration. The plan of his battle at Chancellorsvibe was brilliant, and its execution was most successful for a time. Before Lee wa3 aware of it he had crossed the Rappahannock and placed himself between the rebel army and Richmond. He was elated, but at a certain stage all movement was stopped. Confidence besot carelessness so that one corps, whose commander was suhrcquently thanked by Congress for a victory due more to others, had no skirmishers, and consequently was surprised by Jackson and his troops thrown into panic. Victory could yet have been won, but in the meantime General Hooker had been stunned by being struck with a piece of timber detached by a cannon shot. Nothing was done for hours, an 1 yet victory was possible. After having divisions roughly handled while other troops were within support. General Hooker gave orders to retire, to the sui prise of many of his subordinates. Chaneellorsville was one of the lost battles which was once more than half won. At the meeting at Hadley which was held on the anniversary of Chancellorsville, that event was discussed. General Sickles denies the charge of drunkenness with great emphasis. As General Hooker was not an intemperate man, there is no reason why he should have selected that occasion. In his confidence ho prooably waited, then came the disaster which stampeded the lileventh Corps and shook the Third. Before he had perfected plans ho was knocked senseless and was not himself again. Without such an explanation the ending of an event so full cf promise is without explanation. N J. K. C, South Whitley: The number of sheep In the United States Jan. 1, 1833. soon after the presidential election, was 47,273,533. valutni at $125,709,264. The number Jan. 1, 1S95, was 42.294.064, valued at $66,6S5,767. aaiaaaHHaaaaMMaBiaaaBMBBMaBaBHanB E. L.: One of the reasons why our State. ) county and city bonds are not made of small denominations and sold to the people hereabout Is that the rate of interest Is so low that the searching system of taxation makes a small bond appear on every tax return, to that when the tax oa a four-

per-cent. bond shall have been paid, tht investor would have less than 2'i per cent, on hl Investment. Eastern savings Institutions buy;thes! bonds because in some States the investments of savings banks are favored in the matter of taxes. Mr. E. Fuller, of this city, long a personal friend of, the late Dan Paine, has two volumes of James Whitcomb Riley's poems, in each of which Mr. Paine wrote a few lines ortrlbute to the "Hoosier Poet." As showing how generous was his appreciation of other writers the lines are here given: Words multiplied cannot define his place, In Hoosier hearts and homes his name is best. No title could lend dignity or grace The simple "Poet" covers all the rest. With the bright shaft of polished Wit, Or Dialect's crooked arrow. He hits the mark, scarce wounding it Be the margin wide or narrow. In Poesy's realm, where his range is free, His angels beckon from shrub to tree. Be Love h?? theme he is sure to hit. Be it Pathos, or Joy, or Sorrow Whatever the mark-never mlr.dng it; From every source does he borrow; Be his target the broad disk of riant JAm , Or the sharp point of Humor the aim of his gun. DunuLEs i the: a hi.

- Two Experiences. Abbott I have never been in Chicago, but I have been through the town a few times. Babbitt I have been in Chicago, but the town went through me. Half Repartee. Trolley Car Conductor Settle now, or get off. Dignified Citizen What do you take me for, sir? Conductor Fi cents, same as anybody else. Sn reus m. "If I had a trunk," growled the tiger, "that couldn't be put for more than a few peanuts, I think I'd be satisfied to carry a valise." - ' Tho hyena laughed, but the elephant merely turned up his nose. Cruel. "I may be young," said the very young man, "but my love for your daughter is as strong and truo as if I were whitened by tho snows of innumerable winters." "Oh, I don't doubt your love," replied the stem father, "but have you ever had the measles, or. the whooping cough? It wouldn't be fair, you know, for us to take you into the family and have to nurse you through those complaints some time or other." AIIOLT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Edwin Burne-Jones, the famous British artist, is cf Welsh extraction. He is Hudyard Kipling's uncle. Burne-Jones is almost entirely celf-taught. "Great bs Diana of the Ephesians," once exclaimed Sir William Harcourt in the course of a terrific onslaught on Mr. Cham-b-rlain; but a provincial paper improved the quotation in this novel fashion "Great Dianah, what a farce is this!" Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) j setting to work in earnest to repair his money losses. He has Just signed a contract for a lecture tour around thft world and has sailed for home with his family. Then he will proceed by way of San Francisco to Australia and IndiaWhen Senator John Sherman calls the Ohio State Republican convention to order at Zanesville, on the 2Sth Inst., he will have performed that duty for the seventh time. The first 'convention over which he presided was held at Columbus on July 13, 1858. At that time he had Just entered Congress, and he has never been out of office since. Mrr.e. Domlnguez, mother of the new Argentine minister to the United States, appears to have solved the problem of converging in a foreign language, fc'he chats on gracefully and without concern in SpanLh. which her auditor does not understand, and listens to repHcs in English, of which not one word is'intelilglble to her, but does it all so cleverly and easily that each party to the conversation enjoys it. Mary Blrchall, of Jefferson county. New York, is a living dynamo, and can do all sorts of things with the electrical power stored in her body. She can light up dark rooms, turn sewing machines and grindstones and do other useful things. The other day her pet dog rubbed his noe against hers and was killed. So was a heifer that tried to kick her. As a rule people do not shake hands with her twice. It appears that the story of the lashing ' of Admiral Farragut to the mast of the Hartford in the battle of Mobile bay is true after all. Capt. J. Crittenden Watson, who was the Admiral's flag lieutenant during the engagement, contradicts Mr. H. U Slade, who denied the story the other day. He says that not only was the Admiral so lashed, but that h was twice lashed, and that the last ttme he himself tied the old warrior to th mizzen rigging with a light rope. If this, corroboration Is not enough, it is recorded that the Admiral frequently related the incident of this battle with much zest, and that he himself posed in that historic attitude for Page's great painting. Ho called her tootsy wbotsy, love And birdy. like all men; But when he came home late at night He didn't call her then. New York World. On berries ripe and juicy We now can freely feast: A dim will buy a nice quart box. Which holds a pint at least. Kansas City Journal. THE SILVER A(UTATI0 Why It Im Injurious io the Country Danger Abend for Political Parties. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: From a commercial standpoint the present widespread agitation of the silver question in the United States cannot but be harmful. The expose to the world of tho extent of uniound money views existing in this country, which a public discussion of this question Is bringing forth, will not have a tendency to sustain the value of American securities held at home or abroad. When the debtor talks of discharging his obligation with a cheaper dollar than the one contemplated in the bond thero is just cause for uneasiness on the part of the creditor. But, notwithstanding tho temporary damage that must result from the silver discussion there Is abundant hope that the final outcome of the issue will be to the everlasting glory of our country a round and stable currency. When tho battle of "Silver Creek" shall have been fought and won, which event will happen in tho year 3805, the revolution against honest money, which has been raging with more or less fury for the past twenty-five years, will be forever ended. There Is danger ahead for both the old political parties, for neither can survive defeat on an unsound financial platform, and a victory achieved at such a cost would not be worth having. It is useless to talk about compromise on the silver question; there can be but one unfluctuating measure of value, and that Is the gold dollar. Silver can - and should be used as a part of our. monetary system, but only to such an extent as it can be safely maintained at a paritv with gold. The value of silver could not long be bolstered up as a commodity either by legislation on the part of the United States alone or by international agreement fixing a ratio between silver and gold as money. That the United States alone cannot enhance the value of sliver by legislation has been clearly demonstrated by tho failure of the Sherman law of 1S91 to accomplish such an end. That international agreement to free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio will not permanently impart to an ounce of silver a rixd and unehanging value is. I think, equally true. Then. If such be the caso, international bimetallism is a snare and a delusion If It goes to the extent of the free coinage of silver and gold at a fixed ratio. The commercial ratio of these metals is the thing that counts, not the legal ratio, and that ratio is dependent upon a different law from that of international agreement. The commercial ratio of these two metals is constantly changing; this ehangeableness of ratio renders It impossible for any country to maintain a double standard of value in its monetary system. The cheaper metal wiU al

ways drive out the dearer one where the two metals are given an equal chance. If legislation could Impart value this would not be the case, but the value of silver and gold is fixed bv another and different law. No matter what legal ratio be fixed between gold and silver, whether It be 15 to 1 or 30 to 1, the commercial ratio will rule, and when these ratios part company the dearer metal will be at a premium measured by the other. Giving to money legal-tender power does . not give It value In more than a limited sense. The bill of a national bank, which is not

a legal tender, is Just as valuable as aJ greenback, which is a legal tender. It isU tne security behind the bills that imparts to them value. In the ease of metallic money it is the Intrinsic value of the coin that counts, not the government stamp upon the coin unless the government makes an open declaration - that It will exchange a good dollar for a bad one bearing its stamp, on demand, and has the ability to keep its word just what the United States Is dnlng to-day in. regard to its silver dollars. Fiat money will never go in the financial world, whether it be created out of paper or silver. The statesmanship that .now advocates the free coinage of silver under International agreement will be the subject of riiicule ten years hence. v J. H. CLAYPOOL, Indianapolis. May 8.Xev Definition of Treason. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal. The recent decision of Judge Vincent in deciding the bet between Sigmund Zeisler and John P. Hopkins as to whether, under the statute of 1792, both gold and silver were made units of value in the United States, Is a victory for the silverites. There can be no question but the framers of the Constitution wisely intended that silver should bear Its part equally and proportionately with gold an a legal tender for all debts. That it did so for many years until avarice and greed on the part of a few thwarted the will of the people and debased the metal of lesser value, the records of Congress testify. It is the intention of the people, regardless of party affiliation, to again place silver money where Hamilton and Jefferson believed and intended it should remain, and any man or set of men who oppose the will of the people on this important question is as much of an enemy of this government as the man who tired the first shot at Fort Sumter. L. M. MATTHEWS. Grecncastle. Ind., May 9. HOTBEDS OP JESUITISM. President Trnynor's Annual Address yto the Supreme Council, A. P. A. MILWAUKEE, May 9.-President Traynor, of' the Supreme Body of the American Protective Association, to-day delivered an address of between 25,000 and 30,000 words, in which he made suggestions and recommendations cqvering practically every leading question of the day. He denounced the laws which accept the vote, of the ignorant foreigner who is unable to read or write the English language and reject the votes of the intelligent women .who are directly interested in the welfare of the Nation, and who have proven their ability to manage public affairs. He declared that the city of Washington is a "perennial hotbed of Jesuitical lobbyists, who carry their points by bulldozing and boycotting Senators and Representatives." He strongly urged the establishment of a national headquarters of the A. P. A. and a national organ at the national capital, with earnest officials chosen from the active and prominent representatives of the order from the various States of the Union. President Trayncr then declared himself to be in hearty accord with the'movement to extend the A. P. A. to every civilized country on the globe. In regard to political action he recommended the effort to raise the standard of politics by educating the masses on the lines of patriotism laid down by the constitution and declaration of principles of the A. P. A., and advised the support of a new political party which will indorse the leading principles of the order, or tho support of any national party which will indorse the leading principles of the order and accept the doctrines of the A. P. A. President Traynor said the order had been extended to every State of the Union except Mississippi, in which State there is yet no organization. The Southerners at first regarded the A. P. A. as a great carpet-bag institution, but after they had studied Its principles they embraced the order with the utmost confidence. He believes that the A. P. A. iwlll assist materially in uniting the North and the South. The Increase in membership In the South during his past two terms as president has been five or six times greater than the Increase in the North. The increase in the East and New England during the past year has been greater than the increase in any other section of the Union. The order has decreased in membership in one or two States, but its influence is Just as strong. He pronounced the city of New Orleans a hotbod of Romanism similar to Washington. He declared. that the national political parties had violated their pledges to tho people In many cases, and intimated th.it they cannot be trusted unless they indorse the fundamental principles of the A. P. A. He favored the suspension of Immigration until the country had assimilated the foreigners which are in it, and also favored the taxation of church property. The original "little red schoolhou9e" presented to Congressman W. S. Linton, of Michigan, at- the opening of Congress. Dec. 3, 1834. by the citizens of Washington in consideration of his defense of the public school system, has been brought to Milwaukee and Is being exhibited to the delegates. This little work of art, which is four feet long and two feet wide, will be taken to every State in the Union and may be sent to Europe. On July 4 It will figure in the celebration of the country's national day at Louisville, Ky where the altar upon which it will rest will be surrounded by 35,000 school children. Lithographs of the schoolhouse have been published and are being distributed to members of the A. P. A. and others. SBBBBSSBBBSBBBBSSMSSBSHSMBBBSSBBBBBSmBBBBSSBSBBBa MANITOBA'S SCHOOL FIGHT. Premier Greenway Will Prolonar It ly Agnin Adjourning: the Legislature. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 9. The battle now raging over separate schools is to be further continued. Upon the reassembling of the Manitoba Legislature, to-day. Premier Greenway said: "I am now about to ask the House to order a further adjournment until June 13, in order that further consideration of the school remedial order may be had. I am aware in making the motion that the House do now adjourn I am asking the indulgence of the House, because In making the motion it would require, if my honorable frtend-s opposite insisted, that I should give notice, a.s it is not the intention to proceed with other business until this matter is disposed of. I now desire to move that the House do ad journ to Thursday, June 13." No sooner had the speaker taken his seat than A. F. Martin, leader of the opposition, was on his feet, and for two hours he spoke in opposition to the Premier's motion to adjourn. He claimed that the duty of the government was to at once decide on this school matter. He v:as himself a Catholic, and represented his coreligionists there. The delay, he asserted, was simply a move to shelve the responsibility upon other shoulder. nd he stron-jly protested against such tactics. Martin continued speaking until 6 o'clock, when Premier Greenway asked him to move the adjournment of the debate until this e. ening. to which Martin assented, and the House adjourned. WAGEKKD II1S 1101) V. An Italian Lost at Cards and orr There Is n Fight Over His Corpse. DENVER, Col., May 9.-Dr. Hucker, coroner of Pocotello, Ida., arrived in Denver to-day. He is seeking possession of a body won In a. game of cards. His antagonist is Dr. Cueno, the Italian consul. Calo Terri committed suicide Jast before the day set for his execution for the murder of a man named McNamara. One day Perri offered to wager his corpse asainst $100 that he could defeat Dr. Ruckor at card?. If he should win mc Doctor should send the money to Perri's mother in southern Italy. In case he should lose the Doctor Fhould have his body to dlsect. They played and Dr. Rucker won. Perri signed a pape- ordering that his body should forever remain in the iossession of Dr. Rucker. Dr. Cueno will make every effort to gain possession of what Is left of the Italian murderer and bury the bones according to the rites of the church of Rome. l.rtOO Deaths from Cholera. YOKOHAMA, May 9. Advices received here from Pescadore islands show that 1.300 persons died there from cholera during one naaut. Ta aeldsmlc la uow subsiding.

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MESSRS. UIM2SIIAM, 1IITT AM) PLEASAXTOX SLIGHTLY BETTER. Cotvrell and Almy .Not So Well The Tln-PIatc Industry Abrond as Reported by Onr Consuls. WASHINGTON. May -Secretary Grcsham.had a very good day, and is reported by his physicians to be doing nicely. Representative Hitt was a trifle stronger throughout the day, and is more comfortable. His physician is hopeful that the patient may yet rally from the extreme weakness which characterizes the case. The oppressive weather had a bad effect on Representative Cogswell, and he was not so well to-day. Rear Admiral Almy still continues very weak, and his condition is precarious. General Pleasanton. the former Union cavalry leader, is reported improving rapidly. GATHERED II Y CONSULS. Information Ileitardlncc the Manufacture of Tin Plates. WASHINGTON, May 9.-Probably the most thorough and valuable, from a technichal point of view, of the reports emanating from the State Department is one Just issued from the Bureau of Statistics, devoted to a description of the processes In use In the various countries and provinces of Europe for the manufacture of tin plate, as well as of the iron and steel plate, forming tho basis of the finished tin plate. The inquiry was undertaken as the outcome of a request from a Pittsburg firm, in the course of which it stated: "That the progress of the tin-plate industry in the United States has been very much held back by the cjst of producing the sheets: that tho bulk of the tin plate produced in the United States is made from sheets imported, from Wales and simply coated with tin here." Therefore, a circular of. instruction was sent to all consuls of the United States In those parts of Europe where either tin plate or the raw sheets are made, intended to develop the exact processes used. The result is a mass of technical information, illustrated in many cases with cuts of apparatus that should be of value to the sheet metal trade. Max Judd, consul-general at Vienna, sends a long and complete report, in the course of which he says that while much fine plate is produced In Austria, superior to cither British or German in quality. In spite of a protection of from J2 to $3.20 per 100 kilos, the Austrian manufacturer finds It difficult to compete with the British In his own n-aiket. George Roosevelt, consul at Brussels, where no tin plate but all. kinds of fine iron and steel plate are produced, found difficulty in getting at the process cf manufacture, particularly the cleaning process. From Liege, Consul Nicholas Smith reports that no tin plate Is now produced, the once flourishing Industry having expired In spite of efforts to continue it by heavy protection. He predicts thA rapid abandonment of tin plate for uses in the mechanic arts cr even roofing. Consal Monoghan, at Chemnitz, describes in greit detail the new process now being used in Germany in the production of tin plate, resulting in enorit.cus saving of-labor and time. Everything is done mechanically and automatically, even to making adjustment of machinery'. which is executel much more perfectly than could be accom plished by the human hand and eye. Rrpcrts crme from Cologne. Dusseldorf,'. Frankfort, Essen and many other ironnaking points, and those from Great Britain are particularly ample, treating of lator scales ther and here, and endeavoring to show how it Is that Great Britain maintains her hold on this manufacture. Pension Attorneys. Fees. WASHINGTON, May 9. Ihree decisions in the matter of attorney's fees in pension cases have been rendered by Assistant Secretary Reynolds of the Interior Department. The first case is that of an attorney who received a fee for securing a pension for a soldier. Iater he applied for an increase of pension for the claimant on other grounds than those for which the pension had been first applied for. This application was rejected and afterwards another application for increase was filed through another attornev. The first attorney then claimed a fee for its allowance. Secretary Reynolds holds that the payment of the first fee was a full performance of his contract bv the claimant, and that he was at liberty to discharge the first attorney and employ another one for the prosecution of other claims. In the second case, a claimant filed through an attorney to whom he agreed to pay a fee of $10. This claim was rejected and four years later he filed another claim personally and without the services of an attorney. This was allowed and the attorney in the first application claimed the $10 fee. Secretary Reynolds holds that he was not entitled to it, as he performed no service in connection with the second application. ' . General Casey to He Retired. WASHINGTON. May 9. General Casey, chief of engineers, will retire to-morrov. It has been generally supposed. that Col. William F. Cralghill will be appointed his successor, but it is now believed that tho President Is seriously considering the promotion of the man next In line, Col. George H. Mendella, who Is in charge of all public works on the Pacific coast. Colonel Mendella will retire Oct. 12, 1895, Colonel Abbot Aug. 13, 1S93, and Colonel Cralghill July 1. 1897. The promotions that will follow General Casey's retirement aside from the promotion to chief engineer are as follows: Lieutenant Colonel John W. Barlow to be colonel; Major David P. Heap to be lieutenant colonel; Captain William L. Marshall to be major; First Lieutenant Henry F. Watterman to be captain; Second Lieutenant Edgar Jodwin to be first lieutenant. veiv Mall Servlee and Postmasters. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. May 9.-Postal service has been established in Indiana as follows: Rex to Hymera, three times a week; Leopold, by Lilly Dale and Don Juan to Tell CHy, six times- a week; Leopold, by Terry and Ranger, to Prospero, six times a week from July 1. 18W; Apolona. by lusher to Unlontown, six times a week; Sullivan, by Farnsworth and Cars, to Duggfr, six times a week. The new service goes into effect July 1. im. The following postmasters have been commissioned: Thomas Irwin, Fairfield, Franklin county: William F. Blake, Central, Harrison county: E. I Bolln. Hocsierville. Clay county: Marcus N. Aker, Saturn, Whiiley county; Amanda Pfenning, Wegan, Jackson county. ' Meade Grunted Leave of Absence. WASHINGTON. May 9. Admiral Meade has requested to be relieved from command of the North Atlantic station and granted a year's leave, of absence. The request has been rfanted by Secretary Herbert. Admiral Tleado has also notified the department that he intends to retire on June 1. This will also be granted. The choice for the Admiral's successor will be between Admiral Walker, presldpnt of the Lighthouse Board and Admiral Ramsey, who is now chief of the Bureau of Navigation in the Navy Department. Germans Peur Americans. WASHINGTON. May 9. The Stale Department is Informed by Consul Monohgan at Chemnitz, Germany, that an effort is being t;Mde there to keep foreigners out of the technical industrial and industrial art schools. A petition to that effect is being circulated in all the Saxon cities. The consul has tried to procure a conv of the petition, but has not . succeeded. He Is told that while its purpose as expressed In the preamble is genera!, its real object is to keen out Englishmen and Americans. 1-Vtifl Mcn Leave for Memphis. WASHINGTON.. May 9.-The National Fencibles. who won the championship cup for the best drilled company In the United States, at Omaha, in 13, and successfully retained the ame at the interstate drill in Little rtok. in 1S91. and the Morton Cadets, both of Washington, left here over the Southern railway, to-night, on the vestibule limited, via Atl.lnta and llirmingham, for Memphis, each company carrying fifty men. Ilnnk Statements Called For. WASHINGTON, May 9. -The Controller of the Currency hap lsued a call on national banks for a statement of their condition at the close of business May 7. General Notes. WASHINGTON. May 9.-To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury hhows: Available cash balances. IH2.3SI.C15; gold reserve. $3.o;,S?;s. Distilled Spirits In Bond. CINCINNATI. May 9. InLmal Revenue Collector Dow ling to-day received- notk

from Washington of a new regulation 'regarding distilled spirits in bond. The regulation provides for the reduction In proof of distilled spirits upon the withdrawal from, a distillery warehouse, special bonded warehouse or general bonded warehooe for xportatlon on bond, free of tax. Whenever a distiller deir?s in the future to reduce the proof of the spirits in the original lockages a statement must be filed at the tlm of the change of pi?xf, and the proof must not go beliw 100 per cent. The chan.Ke la the proof must only be made by th addition of water. The spirits must then b regauged. and the regauglng must be legibly marked on the starnphcad. Heretorora it was not permitted to reduce the proof la the case Just mentioned. THAWED AND MURDEKEI).

Hon- Dynamite Dick" nml "llltte Creek" Were Killed. GUTHRIE, O. T.. May 9.-Newcorrrb. alias "Bitter Creek." and Pierce, alias "Dynamite Dick." leaders of the desperate Dalton-Dol-Iin gang of outlaws, who were killed Ist week, were bettr.ytd by supposed friends, entrapped into tl.e latter's home and cowardly murdered while they slept under their host's roof. The kiding. acordin t & siory of neighbors brought in from Ingalls. was done by the Dunns, who had been promised large "rewards by the deputies, who claimed later to have made the ctpture of the famous outlaws. The latter's frienJ have sworn vengeance, and the Dunns are arming to protect themselve. The killing Is on a par with he assassination by the Ford boys of Jesse James. The Dunns w ere in Ingalls on the afternoon of the killing and went home with a large amount of beer and whisky. It had been arranged to hive Sallie Niles, a sweetheart of "Dynamite Dick." and the two outlaws meet at the Dunn house that night for a "goM time." By midnight the outlaws were badlv under the Influence of liquor, and shortly afterward went to sleep heavily armei. While In this condition. It Is asserted, the Dunns perforated them with Winchester balls and buckshot. An examination of the bodlee showed that all bullets and buckshot had Ene Into the bodies in Ftich a wav as to tve no other ronclusion than that the men were lying down when shot. Or.e of tht Dunn brothers was brouaht in here a fer days after the capture and lodged in the federal Jail, but in two days was turnel loose. The Dunns are "lvln? verv low." Their house is an arsenal. 'and tbev fear a raid any night, as Newcomb and Pierce had many friends in that country. DESTROYED HIS ROOKS. Charles S. Smith's Disappearance Cx plained by His Emptorus. SAN FRANCISCO. May 9. The mystery of the disappearance of Charles S. Smilh, bookkeeper for McLaughlin & Co.. the grain brokers, who engineered the late Senator Fair's $3,000,000 wheat deal, is clearing and the firm now asserts that the young bookkeeper is an embezzler. Smith dropped out of sight a week ago Sunday under such peculiar circumstances that his wife and friends insisted he was demented. Then some said his departure was due to those who wished to prevent an investigation of the methods used in getting Fair Into the big deal, and that an important account book was missing simultaneously with, Smith's disappearance. The brokers nor admit that Smith may be a defaulter to the extent of many thousands of dollars. They admit that up to the present time they have been unable to ascertain to a certainty whether any amount of money, great or small, has been stolen from them by Smith. These apparently contradictory statements are explained by the fact that before leaving the office of his employers Smith destroyed the. book that would have been the evidence of his peculation . All the leaves in tho current cash book and ledger, or as many of them as hore written records, were cut out and either car ried away or burned. , FISHERMEN FRIGHTENED. Dummy Shell Fired from Sandy Hoolc Almost Touched Their Boat. NEW YORK, May 9.-A dummy mortar shell of rather significant proportions, fired from the proving grounds at Sandyhook during a series of experiments there, fell into tho water near the passenscr steamboat Al Foster, which was returning to this city from a fishing excursion at Ha, and besides , giving her 150 passengers a rude shaking up. friKhtne.l most of them into a' panic, cjrptain Fo?ter claims that the distance between the stern of his vessel and the spot where the shell struck was no more than fiuy feet, and his statement is corroborated by the pilot of tho Foster. Charles Clarke, and the passengers. They also state that Just as soon as the shell disappeared under the water the Foster shlvereu all over as though fh had suddenly run upon a rock. The fwr men on deck rushed headlong Into the cabin, crying" out ii their fright that tea vessel had oeen struck. This so alarmed the rest or the passengers that In moment, to a man, they were scrambling for places of safety and shrieking in wild alarm. The engineer of the Foster wai at once ordered to crowd on all steam an I get the boat out of tne range of the gum .ashore. WHISKY TRUST AFFAIRS. Result of the Expert' Exanilnatloa of the Company's Hooks. CHICAGO, May 9. Expert accountants. O'Brien, Harrison and Bugbee, have finished their examination of the books of the Whisky Trust and their final report for the period from March 31, 1S91. to Jan. 2S, 1895, has been filed in court. The statement of receipts and disbursements for that time shows that the net gain by operation of the company's distilleries was $.1C.7 and the net gain from distilleries operated by other persons under contract was $37,40. The net profits for the ten months was $X8,495 and the exports make the surplus Jan. 28, l!&", $1,735,103. The balance sheet now Issued presents no material differences from that of the same date issued by the experts when they began the examination, except in regard to the discrepancies and explained items discovered and heretofore published, t ' The new' bill for an accounting tiled by Receiver McNulta against J. It. Orenhut. Nelson Morris, P. J. Hennessey and Samuel Woolner waa placed on file to-day. It is identical with the old one save the receiver stands alone and all reference in th history of the reorganization committee is eliminated. Robert Ray Hamilton's Estate. NEW YORK. May 9.-The report of George P. Webster, who was appointed ajpralser of the estate of the late Robert Ray Hamilton for the purpose of fixing the value of the estate with a view to having the tax fixed In accordance with the law, has been made to the furrogate. He finds the gross value of the estate to be $41D.kS7.46 and the net residuary estate to be about $-T2,417. Under the will of Mr. Hamilton, he provided for the payment of an annuity of llJM to tho chill. Beatrice Ray. which had been foisted on him by Eva L Mann, or Hamilton. The child is put down as a "stranger" In the document and th cash value of her annunity is placed at $16,890. Testimony AgHlnmt McLaughlin. NEW YORK. May9.-The trial of Toilet Inspector Mclaughlin hepan to-!ay. ' McLaughlin is under Indictment for accepting bribes and extortion. Thomas E. falligan. Jr.. a building contractor, testified that several years aqn. when Mclaughlin was a police captain, the latter had summoned him to the station house and threatened him with arrest for obstructing the street. The two had quarreled violently, and Galhgan had left the captain's room in anger. Outside Ward man Burns suggested that the trouble need not ro further, that $l-o would fix It. He paid the money, nl there wa no police interference after that. Tun Highwaymen Cap tared, LAKE PORT. Cal.. May 9. The brace of highwaymen who held up the Mae . te tween Callstoge and Mirabel xniv.c on Tuesday afternoon, wire captured to-day in Irryson vally. WheiytLordered to throw m their hands, the talWr of the two ret-lMe-i and attempted to shoot himself. The of!icers shot and wounded him. when both gavo themselves up. All the Jewelry miH most of the money taken from the stage was recovered. One of the robbers Ik Ruck English." an ex-convict. The other is unknown. Oil matter nt I'ittaburK. PITTSBURG. Mav 9.-Oi! Is a cood deal stronger to-day und stands Cu points ahead of the t-'tandard's price for credit balances. The price for credit balance remains unchanged at $1. .. Oil opened nn the exchange at $!. and the lirsl sales wait at $1.71'. The stimulation "is believed to tx due to the recent advance in the pri-e of refined. Brokers expect It to stay above $1.50 for some time set.

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