Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVBHY THL'RHDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. fI.OO PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoftlce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall mutter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, MARCH 7. Hoot pr At Son of Portland, do not need a new safe to hold their overproduction of prosperity, having assigned for the benefit of their creditors. Assets $6,000 with liabilities amounting to SII.OOO. Mayor Carter Harrison has I teen renominated as the democratic candidate for mayor of Chicago. The nomination was unanimously tendered and is the third time he is thus honored. The whitewashing of Superintendent Hert of the Jeffersonville reformatory, was as complete as it was intended to be. The investigation committee have banqueted with the wily superintendent, and everything is lovely. Judge Watkins of Huntington county, is red hot on the trail of an appointment to the appellate bench. The office is a creature of the present legislature and will be filled bv appointment, the same coming from the hands of Governor Durbin. The Indianapolis Sentinel is again in clover. With their usual display of energetic nerve, they claim the distinct honor of championing the crusade that ended in Governor Durbin vetoing the Joss railroad consolidation bill. When it comes to blowing their own horn, the Sentinel is a bright and shining star. The announcement is made that Henry C. Berghoff will make the race for the nomination for mayor of Fort Wayne, and this practically decides that part of the contest. As a candidate Mr. Berghoff stands pre-eminent and as mayor of that special chartered city, he would add the proper dignity. Here is wishimg you well, Mr. Berghoff. The senate Cuban investigation cost about $15,000, and amounted to nothing. The report of the committee says further investigation is unnecessary, because the frauds are now being handled by the Cuban courts. It is understood that several prominent republicans felt very much relieved when the report was announced, owing to their knowledge that any real investigation would make things verv unpleasant to them. It is nothing but a good business proposition with the voters and taxpayers of Kirkland township, and when they vote for the proposed macadam roads, they simply place themselves upon the right side of a sensible buriness proposition. Good roads the year around are worth more to a good farmer than any other improve ment, and it adds more to the value of the lands as well, and after thev are built you would not have them re moved for ten times their cost. The voters of Kirkland township should think long and loud before permitting this opportunity to slip by.

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President M< Kinley has appointed his old cabinet and they have been confirmed by the senate. It is understood that all of them will remain during the second administration, with the exception of the postmastergeneral who will retire April 1. Mr. McKinley didn’t like the Hoar amendment to the Philippine amendment to the army appropriation bill, which heads off much contemplated looting by preventing the granting of long time franchises and the disposal of public lands in the islands, but he did not dare to veto the bill on account of theamwidment. as that would have been a dead give away, showing his disappointment because the whole looting program should not be carried out. Democrats have no reason to complain when the work of the Fifty-sixth congress, which ended just before noon Monday, is studied. Being the minority party they could not prevent extravagant appropriations, but they did prevent the putting through the most extravagant single piece of legislation proposed the ship subsidy bill just as they compelled the republicans to abandon the scheme to kill the bill reducing war taxes, both of which were substantial victories for the minority. According to figures compiled from Muncie's new directory, prepared very carefully by Charles Emerson, that city with all its suburbs has a total population of 29,401. For Muncie proper, exclusive of suburbs, the figures are 22,670. The government census gave Muncie proper a population of 20,942. Some of the people of Muncie were dissatisfied with these figures and urged a recount. This they have had, with the result as stated. Notwithstanding the alleged difference between the two counts, that of the United States will be the one that governs.- South Bend Times. President McKinley rode in the inaugural procession in his own carriage, and behind four of his own horses. It was said—and we Ohio people who personally know the president may well believe the statement Mr. McKinley was modestly satisfied with two, but he was in the hands of the managers of the spectacle, and four it had to be. The custom of hauling the president to and from the capital, on inauguration days, liehind four high-stepping and arched-necked equines, has prevailed ever since the time when Thomas Jefferson hitched his saddle horse to a tree on Pennsylvania avenue. Enquirer. In vetoing the Joss railroad consolidation bill, Governor Durbin surprised his friends and at the same time displayed the right kind of mettle for a governor to me made of. The bill itself was a vicious measure greatly enlarging the rights of the railroad corporations and ditnipish ng the rights of those compelled to transact business with them. The method involved in the passage of this bill through both branches of the legislature was questionable, even to the limit of being vulnerable. It was a job of the worst sort for which the representatives of these corporations paid the price and got what they |>aid for. In vetoing it, the gov- j ernor did right, and the press of the i state regardless of party are highly commending the action 'of our chief; executive.

IN ITS LAST GASPS I Sixty-Second General Assembly of Indiana Coming to a Close. HORSE PLAY HAS THE CALL Closing Days of the Legislature Being Given Over to Merriment. Louis Ludlow Has a Word to Say Regarding the Biennial Pilfering and Horse Play Which Characterizes the Final Acts ol the Hoosier Solons—The Great Leeson That Is Taught By the Legislature and Some Comir.onts Thereon. [Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, March 6.—The sixtysecond session of the general assembly is in its last gasps. The biennial pilfering and horse play are practically all that remain to be done. The pilfering is Indulged lu by nearly everybody connected with the legislature. Knives, inkstands, pens, wastebaskets, law books everything loose—disappear as if by magic. Net all of the I members indulge in this petit larceny, but those that do not are tbe exception rather than the rule, and It is a strange tact that most of them see no moral Impropriety lu so doing, although there is not one of them but recognises that such pilfering from a private individual would result in a line and a jail sentence, perhaps, if not a worse punishment. There is quite a common sentiment that no wrong is done by getting in one’s graft as against tbe state. x—x—x The horse play has already begun. The speaker, ordinarily sober and sedate. several times last week got off of his perch of exalted dignity to perl>etrate a joke, ail'd he slackened tbe reins perceptibly on members that have l>een itching to break loose like so many schoolboys and have a roaring good time. Once tbe speaker wrote a communication which be handed (low u to the reading clerk to be read, it directed attention to the fact tliat Representative Cotner was living sketched by a cartoonist. Sure enough, sitting in one corner of tbe room, was the good-looking and well dressed Mr. Cotner isisiug like a statue liefore tbe artist. He turned the color of a healthy and well nourished beet and made a dive for tilt nearest exit. Once Messrs. Kirkman and Davis of' Wayne boblied up simultaneously to; seek recognition. The speaker, look- I lug down over bis spectacles, said: "I will recognize tbe best locking one of you. Determine uiat between yourselves." "I yield." said Kirkman, making a profound now to his colleague. "Age before beauty." said the latter, ! returning the salaam. x—x—l It is a well recognized fact that Representative James F. Stutesman of i Peru has congressional aspirations and I . that R/presentative Edward Everett i i Neal of Noblesville has a consuming : I desire to Im* clerk of the supreme court. When the Calumet canal bill was un- ; der discussion the speaker tolerated a

good deal of horse play <>» the part of these gentlemen. Stuesmau was unalterably opposed to the bill and made a rattling speech against It. The burden of his speech was that there was no assurance at all that the government would take charge of the waterway and maintain it. When Mr. Neal arose he said: ••When the geutJeiniin from Miami gets into congress it will lx* the pride of his life to secure a good appropriation for this waterway.” "May 1 ask you a question?" interrupted Stutesman. "Certainly.” was the reply. "What will the clerk of the supreme court have to do with it?” "He will see that all of the records pertaining to the canal are kept straight.’ answered Mr. Neal without cracking a smile. X—X—X The speaker’s levity has been manifested in other ways. One day when he was trying to hand down a bill to the rending clerk and the latter, with a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes was thinking of other days, the speaker threw the bill at him to attract his attention. It spread out like the wings of a turkey buzzard in the act of alighting and gave the reading clerk a momentary scare that he will not soon forget. Even Henry Wealing, the chairman of the house temperance committee, became imbued with the spirit of fun last week and succeeded, according to re]x>rts at the Columbia club reception, in getting one of the leading exponents of temperance in a very felicitous frame of mind by frequent proposals to drink to the cause «f temperance from tbe big punch bowl, which was filled with a superb quality of lemon punch. Mr. Wesling is an honest old German farmer who makes no denial of the fact that he likes bls grog occasionally. The temperance apostle who fell from grace says that Mr. Wesling worked a very mean trick on him. "He told me,” said he, "that it was nothing but rain water and lemon juice, and I ain’t no chemist.” x-x—x The spirit of fun was rampant during the debate on the Neal resolution to amend the state constitution so as to allow women equal suffrage rights with men. Mr. Metsker of Marshall county arose and in a voice of profound depth, said: "1 am a Democrat and my wife is a Republican. I vote against this resolution.” Mr. Muller, a nice young unmarried man of Vanderburg county, said: "As long as I am unhampered by tne mandates of a dictatorial spouse. I shall vote against this proposition." Nearly every member had some funny excuse to offer for his vote. X—X- X The close of this week will witness horse play on a gigantic scale. If precedent lx* followed the members will do little else durlug the last three days of the session except adopt funny resolutions, bawl songs at the top of their voices, hurl papers and books at each other ami “cut up Jack” generally. While they are having this good time they will not forget to draw their s(> a day from the state. Heretofore pamphlet copies of the governor's message. folded and ready to lx> mailed, have Ixx-u the favorite missiles of the solons and a bald head the favorite target. ’1 here are plenty of bald heads this year, notably those of Stutesman, Stookey. Davis of Wayne and Short, which would make admirable targets for the legislative marksmen, but the legislature in a cruel tit of economy

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refused to have any of the message* printed for this purpose. X X—X The great lesson taught by this leg. islature is that everybody would be better off if the sessions were held much farther apart than two years. A session of the legislature costs the state |105,000 and this year, qs is often the ease, the people will derive no benefit from this enormous expenditure. No remedial legislation worth mention has been enacted, and two or three bills that will work positive injury to the people of the state are awaiting the governor's signature. Recent legislatures have been taken up largely with attempts to work through nefarious schemes in the interest of certain monied class 's, while if the legislatures were no held so frequently, the people would not be put so often on the defense to p"otect their rights. Any falr-mind'-d person will admit that a session of the legislature every four years would ordinarily be sufficient. x—x—x A retrospective glance of the work of the legislature shows that some of the members may well lie proud of the records they have made. They are men that have held out with all the force at their command against vicious legislation. It is not right to judge a man s motives, but a person of only ordinary perspicacity can discover the wrong-doers and the right-doers in a legislature and the omens of crookedness are so many and palpable that it Is almost impossible to be mistaken. For instance, when a member liaa made a valiant stand for a hill against which vast monied Interests are arrayed and over night changes his mind, making a violent attack on the bill the next day some strong conclusions are natural and permissible. There have Iteen Mweral notable examples of that kind in the present legislature. A man of firm conviction* of right and unswerving rectitude ia Representative E. E. Neal of Hamilton county. No member of either party has made a belter rword In this legislature, .lames A. Cotner (Democrat) of ('ass comity has proved one of the most popular member* of the house and he has been able to detect vicious legislation at a glance. His strong opposition to the railroad consolidation bill enshrined him In the hearts of his people. While he i« a sterling Democrat he always looks to tile merits of a bill, and it is predicted that lie will live a long time in politics. Representative Reser of Tippecanoe county has voted right on •II of the fundamental propositions before thia legislature, and no Influence could change his punsise. Representative Rtuteaman has proved to be a remarkably able man in de 1 bate, and with a few exceptional In- 1 stances he has stood for the people during thia session. He has proved tt) be « leader and half a doaen members. Including the First district representatives who ar« fondly attached to him. and Roberta of Dearborn (a Democrat) usually looked to him for guidance Representative Black of Johnson coun-!

ty has proved one of the stars of th i minority. Able amt impressive in debate, with the exception of his voti in favor of the railroad consolidation bill, his record is a good one. Representative Davis (Democratic how leaden has voted right on every propposition and his record has liven for the pisiple. Representative Zelltuu (Democrat) of Clark county has tried hard to serve the people. In the senate Mr. Agnew has been a conscitu- , tions and able legislator. There tire i few lietter lawyers or more forcible speakers in the state than he. Senator , Charles of Grant county ehaiupiened several measures In the interest of th« people. Senator Inman (senate Democratic leader) deserves much praise for his ability and proper attitude on public questions, while Senator LaytuM of Indlanaixdis has been active is fighting vicious legislation. Senator Corr has made a record that he may point to every day in the y< ar with pride. 'I uesc .-ire some of the men that have tried to serve the people that i gave them official station. It most i not be taken for granted that there tn , not a good many others of the saute , class. It Is unnecessary to nientieS , the ones of opposite charm ter—"tbe black sheep”— for the people will flud them out. LOUIS LUDLOW. I Yes, the second inauguration of Mr McKinley was certainly carried through on an imperial scale. As > E ancient Rome, the people are amused , with gorgeous pageants, while they are losing their most precious pwe sion—liberty. It was fitting (terhap* that a man who had just Is’en giwo by a subservient partisan majority u> 1 congress more autocratic power that was ever possessed by any American president, and more than many king* are allowed toexercise,should be given an imperial inauguration. !• ' also in keeping with the public w travagance which nas grown to ' stupendous magnitude under bin fir** administration as to stagger and 1 frighten the conservative element o' the country, that more public mon*.’ should be spent upon his second io 1 figuration than was ever spent upo* 1 the inauguration of auv other president. Just how much this inaugura 1 tion has cost the public treasury Wll ‘ ' never be known, but that it is an 1 enormous sum anyone can see. f ulir i companies or Porto Rican troop* i brought all the way to Washington to ’ march in the imperial parade sampl*’ i of colonial subjects, as it were; li»*' i wise the cadets from West Point am Anna|K>lis, who bad not p*rtici| wt «" iin an inaugural parade since fxrantI second, before, and the regular troop from every military post in reach, addition to these, seven war snip were brought near enough to b®”‘ their entire crew in the parade. • i of this cost a heap of money, to wm' must be added the $50,000. which use of the tiension office for the m augural ball cost the governmen Like the legislation of the congress, inauguration was conduct I regardless of expense.