Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1884 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED 1823.

WHEN INDICATIONS. Thursday. Partly cloudy weather and local rains. The prices we have named for the unsold portion of the stock of Umbrellas lately removed from the McKenzie store (closed a few days ago) to the WHEN Are so far below the ordinary figures for such goods that those who neglect to make use of this opportunity to supply their wants in this particular will certainly be disregarding their self-interest. Here are some prices: ALPACAS reduced from $3.50 to $1.75. from $2.75 to $1.25, from $2 to sl, from $1.75 to 75c. from $1.40 to 500. SCOTCH GINGHAMS reduced from $2 to $1.25, from $1.50 so sl. from $1.25 to 75c, and a large number at 50c that have been reduced from $1 and above that. SILK reduced from $5.50 to $4, from $4.50 to $3.75. from $4 to $3. Like bargains from the McKenzie stock are to be found in all departments of the WHEN. T YPE. The body and display type, rules, dashes, cases and stands heretofore in use on TIIK JOURNAL, can be seen at the warerooms of IV AN AM AKER & CARSON, Electrotype Founders and dealers in Printers’ Supplies, No. 192 South Meridian street, where they ar e conveniently arranged for inspection and sale. This material is in first-class and can be . bought at very reasonable rates, in quantities to suit purchasers. The uniform elegant typographical appearance of THE JOURNAL is sufficient guarantee that this type Is in good condition, and printers should take a look at it if they want good material at a low price. Call on or address WANAMAKER & CARSON, No. 192 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, ItuL A NIMBLE-TONGUEI) lUSCAL. Operations of a Smooth an(l PlausibleScoundrel at Titusville, Pa. He Represents Himself as a Member of the ’‘ Stndpbaker Family, of South Bend, and Finally Lands in Prison. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Titusvillb, Pa., Jim. 30.—For several days past a stranger, representing himself as one of the Studebaker family, of the extensive wagon shops of Studebaker Bros., South Bend, Ind., has been staying at the Hotel Brunswick, this eity, giving out that he was about to establish a branch shop here, employing 250 men, and that he was looking for an eligible site. Calling on a well-known real estate agent, he secured his services and inspected several localities. His alleged business coming to the ears of some leading citizens, he was called on, taken out, riding, and assisted in his inspections. He said emphatically that he wanted no bonus from the city; that the freight and lumber resources of this district had determined him to come to Titusville. He. bargained for fourteen acres lying along two railroads, and paid the real estate agent for his trouble. He employed the city solicitor to look up the ti.tles and draw up pipers. This morning at 10 o’clock he presented himself at the Commercial Bank with a duly certified check for $550, on the Quassac National Bank, Newburgh, N. Y., which, as he had been seen in the company of leading citizens, was paid. He explained that this money was to he paid down on his land contract. A little later it was found he had postponed his meeting with his lawyer, hired a good livery rig, with a driver, and had taken the road to Oil City. Upon wiring to Newburgh the check was found to he a forgery, and afterwards that no such person was known to Studebaker Brothers. The swindler had left his hote l bills unpaid and an empty satchel in his room. He is apparently thirty-five years old, with sandy hair and mustache; is about five feet four inches high, and of good address. It is thought he took a disguise out of the satchel, and has changed his dress and appearance. Officers and citizensare in pursuit. The last trace of him was at Oil City, and telegrams have been sent to various chiefs of police giving his description. He asked the editor of the Herald not to mention his mission until his contract had been signed, so as to prevent the parties backing out, and that then he would give a full account. Later.—A dispatch just received says the Swindler was caught at Sandy Luke, and will be brought here to-morrow morning. Mississippi Valley Dairy Association. St. Louis, Jan. 30. —The Mississippi Valley Daily and Creamery Association met this morn ing at 11 o’clock. Norman J. Coleman, presiding. A liout fifty delegates are in attendance. The ( hair appointed a committee on arrangements, and after informal remarks recess was taken. After recess C. \V. Barstow, first vice-president of the Merchants’ Exchange, delivered an address of welcome, to which President Coleman responded. Several papers were then read on dairy subjects. Strange Disease Among Cattle. Dallas,Tex., Jan 30.—A strange fatal disease is reported to have broken out among cattle in tbe western part of the county. A large number have died. The disease fails to yield to treatment. A mass meeting of cattle men was held at <lrani! Prairie, to day, looking toward a movement to check its ravages. Disabled at Sea. Baltimore, Jan. 30. —The pilot of the steamship Carolina reports the steamer Heathmoro at the mouth of the Patapsco river, having lost three blades of her propeller at sea and another >n Craighill channel. She was hound from New Orleans to Amsterdam. Assistance has gone to her.

NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS. Virginians In a lingo over the Coming Inquiry" Into the Danville Riot. What Is Said About tlie Rumored Resignation of Jtidge Drummond—Belief that Gen. Gresham Will Succeed Him. Mr. Lynch Well Satisfied with His Prospect for the Treasury Vacancy. Gen. Coburn and the Governorship of Dakota —A Tariff Bill To Be Presented Shortly —Gossip of the Capital. THE BIOT AT DANVILLE. The Bourbons Invite a Congressman to Pay Tlieir Town a Visit. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 30.—Representative Miller, of Pennsylvania, like all members of Congress, received the report of the Danville committee of forty, giving their version of the political massacre there. He wrote a letter to the chairman of the committee, W. T. Sutherlin, in which he severely criticised the report. He said, among other things, that it could not be fair, because it did not contain the evidence of the Democratic judge who saw tho commencement of the riot, and said that it was premeditated and deliberately brought about by the Democrats. Mr. Miller also said, what bothered him most was that in all political riots in the South only Republicans were killed. He to-day received an answer to ’ liis letter; Mr. Sutherlin says that the massacre : was only an occurrence which might have happened anywhere; that political feeling ran high, and both sides were greatly excited; the people of Danville had been for two years under negro rule, and had been insulted frequently by negro officials; they were chafed in spirit; it was, therefore, almost unavoidable that a personal encounter between a white man and a negro should have culminated in a riot. He concludes his letter by inviting Mr. Miller to go down to Daqvlle some Saturday and spend Sunday with him. He will find out, he says, that the Danville people are not butchers and desperadoes. Mr. Miller says he is going to accept the invitation. An Outraged Virginian. Special to the Indiauapolis Journal. Washington, Jan 3C.—Colonel George C. Cabell, who represents the Danville (V’a.) district in Congress, was one of those who, when the recent election riot was raging in the streets of Danville, rushed out and implored his friends to desist from shooting and disperse to their homes. He is one of the brigadier Bourbons, and looks upon the action of the Senate yesternay toward investigating that Danville affair as one of the modern acts of inquisition. He ridicules and curses it by turns. 1 ‘We don’t fear the result." he said to your correspondent tonight, “but, on tlie contrary, invite it. lam satisfied, however, it means the inauguration of a bloody-shirt campaign. I see what Mr. Hoar intends to do. He will go down there with a committee when Congress adjourns, and will begin to take testimony that lie will peddle put and have printed in installments to suit the demands of his party.” “What was there really in the riot?” asked the reporter. “Only this,” replied Colonel Cabell, “and nothing more: A whole parcel of negroes, maybe 200, got into a fight, involving a few white men, and a half dozen black rascals got killed.” “But didn't the whites precipitate the row!” “Well, if they did, it was done to chastise some of the impudent black men who insulted a lady. I consider this whole matter of investigation an outrage and an insult to our Commonwealth. That riot was an offense to he punished by local officers, and congressional interference means waring of the bloody shirt for the pending campaign.” JUDGE DRUMMOND. His Resignation Considered Probable Will Gresham Succeed Him? Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 30.—Considerable talk is indulged in here to night regarding General Gresham and the United States circuit judgeship. A Chicago lawyer, in conversation with the Journal correspondent, stated that it was understood in Chicago that General Gresham would succeed Judge Drummond. He seemed surprised to think that anyone here doubted whether or not General Gresham would accept the position. “When General Gresham was at Chicago, recently,” said he, “he was constantly witli Judge Drummond, who, it is understood, would prefer Gresham to any other man to' succeed him when he retires.” It is believed in Washington, by those who take enough interest in the matter to inform themselves on ’ the subject, that General Gresham intends to accept the place as soon as Judge Drummond retires. It is further believed that the latter will not retire until after the Chicago convention. There are several applicants for the appoint- . ment. Among the most prominent are District Judge Blodgett, of Chicago; Judge Bailey, a member of the Appellate Court of Illinois, and Judge Dyer, of Wisconsin. Tho Illinois delegation is about evenly divided between Blodgett and Bailey; the majority, however, appear to support the latter. Is Gresham a Candidate? Washington Speciat to Chicago Tribune. The interest in tlie reported probable resignation of Judge Drummond has been revived by tho arrival here of what appears to be an authorized statement that he intends to retire next month. The first point to he settled is whether Postmaster-general Gresham is a candidate. He said to-night that he knows nothing more of the retirement of Judge Drummond, of. the Seventh judicial district, than that which he lias seen in the papers. “Judge Drummond,” he said, “has frequently-talked to me of his intention to resign during tho last three or four years, but I do not know whether he has finally determined to do so or not. Tlie dispatches, however, seem to be authentic, and I suppose he has finally concluded to retire.” “It is asserted, Judge, that you are a candidate for the position. Is there any truth in the story?” “That is nothing but newspaper talk. I havo not written Judge Drummond a line upon the

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subject, and have no idea of tho intentions of Judge Drummond or any of tlie others interested in the position.” It will take a person of much judicial acumen to ascertain from this statement w hether Gresham is a candidate or not. He certainly did not deny that ho might he. Some of Gresham's friends have been confident for months that he would ultimately be appointed Drummond's successor, but they did not expect that Drummond would resign so soon. MR. LYNCH’S CAMPAIGN. No New Developments, ami Non© Expected Until Saturday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington. Jan. 30.—There have been no developments to-day in Mr. Lynch’s campaign for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, although the Indianiaus have not been idle. Senator Harrison and Representative Peelle called upon the President to day in the interest of Mr. Lynch. The President said it was a little early yet for him to say what he would or would not do, but gave them to understand that as soon as Secretary Folger returns from his home at Geneva, N. Y., where lie has been for several days, and he could confer with them, ho would give them an answer. Mr Folger is expected here to morrow, and it is not improbable that some information will be learned about Saturday. Indianiaus are confident that Mr. Lynch will be appointed. There are other candidates, but none of prominence. As to Mr. Lynch, the corof the St. Paul Pioneer Press sent tlie following td'iifs paper tC *" v,,t ’ “The Indiana delegation called upon tm> t dent, to-day, in the interest of A. D. Lynch, as a candidate for tlie vacancy occasioned by the resignation of John C. New. There w r ore no promises extracted from the President’s lips, but the delegation fancied a certain tenderness of tone in the President’s remarks about the weather, which tills them with hope of success. Mr. Lynch is a very sedate-looking party, of apparently fifty years of age, with gray, shortcropped beard, and with a genteel countrybanker air about him. His voice was low and pleasant as he discussed his chances for tho Assistant Secretaryship this evening. He said he had heard of no opposition, unless it was Governor Fletcher, of Missouri. The Indiana people here, without exception, were for him, and General Gresham and Senator Harrison head his extensive list of friends.” PAYING PENSIONERS. Views of Commissioner Dudley as to Paying from the Treasury. Special tc the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 30.—1 tis not true that Commissioner of Pensions Dudley favors the proposition to abolish the pension agencies and pay all pensioners direct from the Treasury. On the contrary, he advocates the present system as generally satisfactory. He has addressed a letter on the subject to Representative Washbum, of Minnesota, a member of the committee on appropriations, giving his views in detail. Since 1877 the number of the agencies has been reduced from fifty-seven to eighteen. The experience afforded agents, he states, enables them to pay the largest number in the shortest possible time. There are now about 315,000 pensioners. The quarterly vouchers upon which they are paid are prepared by the pension agents and sent to them through the mail before the payment becomes due. If it were possible to have every voucher executed and in tlie hands of agents on the day the pen s’on becatie due, tho whole roll of pensioners could be paid inside of five days. He says he would consult the convenience of pensioners, who should receive their pensions expeditiously, and not be subjected to a delay of from one to four weeks. Among the thousands of pensioners, he says, are an indigent class who suffer from a delay of even a day or two. In the large cities, where pensioners appear in person to receive their money, they are so anxious for it that they call sometimes before daylight and wait for the agents. Many of them suffer more from hunger and want of clothing, he thinks, than from wounds or disease. The agencies save a great deal to pensioners in the matter of exchange, as they would have to suffer discounts in case of payments direct from the Treasury. As to the question of economy by paying all pensioners from the Treasury, the Commissioner says they cannot be paid as cheaply as now. He thinks it would require forty more clerks, at an aggregated salary of $40,000, and that it would be necessary to either construct another building here, or pay SIO,OOO or $15,000 annual rent; besides, postage would cost $25,000, and checks $99,000, additional each year. He estimates that the average delay by payment from tlie Treasury would he forty-five days. The disadvantage of this is at once apparent. This could he obviated, of course, by providing a temporary force of clerks. If the proposed plan of paying one-third of the pensioners each month should he adopted, he says it would necessitate an entire change of records in the third auditor’s office, and he believes it might throw them behind a year in the work. During the last year the cost per SIO,OOO disbursed on account of pensions was $4.78, while it cost from S2O to $25 for each SI,OOO disbursed through paymasters. It is improbable, Mr. Washburn thinks, that the appropriations committee will recommend a change in the manner of paying pensioners. TYSON’S REMOVAL. Rumor that the Charges Against Ex-Speaker Keifer Were Sustained. Washington, Jan. 30.—The sub committee of tlie House committee on accounts, which has in charge the investigation of the circumstances attending the removal of one of the official stenographers of the House by ex-Speaker Keifer, met to-night, and after reviewing the testimony, unanimously agreed upon a report, to he submitted to the full committee to-morrow. After the meeting, however, the chairman of Die sub-com-mittee was informed that some furl her testimony would he presented on behalf of Mr. Keifer, ami will consequently withhold tlie report for the present. Members of the sub-committee decline to say what is the character of the report agreed upon, in advance of hearing further testimony to be offered. It is understood, however, the sub committee finds the charge made against Keifer, that he removed the stenographer Tyson in order to give the latter’s place to his nephew, is true, and also finds that Keifer’s nephew performed no services whatever in return for the salary paid him since the appointment. THE MURRAY CASE. Congressman Whit© Testifies to Alleged Irregularities Under Marshal Murray. Washington, Jan. 30. —Representative White, of Kentucky, testified before tlie House committee on expenditures in the Department of Justice to-day with reference to his assertions in the House last week concerning the present Governor of Utah. He referred to tho charges of irregularities in the office of Mr. Murray while United States marshal of Kentucky, and said the government had been wronged out of

thousands of dollars in consequence of expenses incurred by fruitless aud unnecessary prosecutions against citizens of tho State by which they were harassed and embittered against the government and its officers. False, fictitious charges for guards had been made, and numerous proseon'. ons had been instituted for the most trivial violations of law, ami tlie arrested parties taken from remote parts of the State to Louisville, pas ©jig en route commissioners who could have heard their cases on preliminary examination. This, was done, he said, not in the interest of the government, hut apparently for no other reason than to make costs. A Louisville dispatch says: A petition was circulated here to-day praying President Arthur to reappoint Eli H Murray Governor of Utah. It expressed confidence in Governor Murray’s honesty, ability, ©tc.; says that if any irregularities occurred in his office they were through the acts of others, and that the attacks were instigated by Mormons. Tho petition is being signed by the most prominent citizens, irrespective of politics. _ PROPOSED RETALIATORY LEGISLATION The Secretary of State Advises that- No Immediate Action Re Taken. Washington, Jan. 30.—Secretary Frelinghuysr.i has addressed to the President a communication, which he lias transmitted to the House of Representatives, in response to the resolution asking for papers relating to the exclusion of American hog products from foreign countries. He submits to the President copies of all pertinent flatter found of record in the Department of State, and gives in detail tlie history of the exclusion of American meats from France, Ger man;, and other European countries. In March, ]BBI, the Secretary says, the Department of State prosecute-’ ~examination i r the various phases of the pork industry of the West©!** States, which resulted in establishing the fact of the entire healthfulness of the pork product. The filets thus elicited warranted the department in representing to the foreign governments that the prejudicial judgment against swine export of this country was ex parte .and unfounded. When it was ascertained that Germany was about to issue an order for its total exclusion, the President notified the imperial goyemfuent of his intention to appoint a comDvssion to examine the whole subject and invited if to send experts hither to act with tlie commission. Tlie invitation was declined. The President has since appointed the commission then contemplated. It is composed of a representative of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Professor Charles F. Chandler, a representative of the Chicago Board of Trade. E. SV. Blaichord, and two members nominated by the Commissioner of Agriculture, F. D. Curtis, of New York, and Professor D. E. Salmon, the whole under the chairmanship of the Commis sioner of Agriculture. In point of scientific competence and elevated impartiality the formation of the commission peculiarly" fits it for the execution of its responsible task. To it should belong in a great measure tlm shaping of the policy of this government towards the pork question in its domestic or foreign aspects. In view, therefore, of the prominent part which the results reached by the pork commission must necessarily play in the further treatment of the question by the'executive or by Congress, the Secretary feels it incumbent upon him to advise that the President recommend that Congress abstain from any immediate legislative action until after the report of the ccTnmission. which is soon to be presented before it The Secretary further says that the question to he carefully, frankly, and honestly met, is: Whether prepared meat products exported from this country are injurious to the public health. We believe they are not. and have so represented. Should it appear that the meat products of this < ©1 try are, as we believe iliem to be. not deleterk&s but p* ‘motive on.-*alth, it is believed those friendly nations which put forth decrees inhibiting the importation of our meats would annul those decreases. If. however, in the face of clear proof, elicited both at home, and abroad, that our products are free from disease, or communicable germs of disease, proof of which might be established to a demonstration by actual inspection, as well as supported by a knowledge of the precautions, which surround tlie raising and packing industries here, any nations with which we are on terms of intimacy and amity should, by legislation, discriminate against the trade of this country, rather than protect the health of their people, it would then be the province of the executive to call the at tention of such nations to the provisions of the treaties, with the confident expectation that those treaties be respected. It seems very plain that our policy in any event should be to prove that our meat products are wholesome. This the absence of trichiniasis in this country, and particularly in our army and navy, where meats are constantly used, goes far to demonstrate. WHITE HOUSE EXPERIENCES. General Sherman Reviews the Troubles of Some of Our Presidents. Washington Letter. When General Sherman was here the other day getting over the “head” which the Clover Club put on him in Philadelphia. I heard him talk very freely on the subject of the great office. He spoke of his quiet home in St. Louis, his love of ease and leisure, with time to do what he wanted to do without thinking that he was neglecting something important; his easy circumstances in a worldly sense, his active, sacrificing life, his sixty-four years of age, the few vears of health that would naturally remain to him, the good name he held in the country, and his honorable place in history. “What,” said he, “would the presidency be worth to me in tlie face of these things? I would not take it if every voter in the country asked me. What does it entail? Look back and see if I could afford to take it. even were it offered to me—and on this point 1 think my friends have an exaggerated idea, for I do not believe the country is very much concerned as to whether 1 am a candidate or not. “1 will not,*' he continued fl only try to give his ideas, not his words), “speak of Pierce or Buchanan. We will begjn with Lincoln—a great and noble man. Well, what was his fate? No man ever went through four years of such suffering. His anxiety nearly drove him mad. His early sufferings, his struggles with fortune —they were as nothing. Finally, when it seemed that a little peace and quiet were coming to him, he died with a bullet through his brain. Os course, he made a name that will he imraor tal. But is that compensation for all his suffer ings and troubles and an assassin’s bullet through his head? “Then came Andrew Johnson. Where was his peace of mind and where is his fame? Mind you, I am not selfish enough to say that a man’s comfort and ease ought to he considered when he can be of service to his country. I did not act on that principle at the beginning of the war, but I well know that I could not make a better President than ten thousand other men. Well, Mr. Johnson was impeached, and came very near being convicted of high crimes and raisde meanors. For myself. 1 believe he was an honest man. He left the White House a poor man. and died in obscurity in a little village of Tennessee. Tell me, where was his compensa tion? “Following Johnson came tlie great soldier, General Grant. Every man, woman, and child in tlie country revered his name. He was fore most among tlie soldiers of tlie world. He never lost a battle. He had an honored position for life, greater, as I think, than the presidency. The salary made him independent. No taint had ever rested on his fair name. He was cheered and flattered wherever he went —undoubtedly the most popular man in the country. Well, what was the result? lie became President and served a term of eight years of misery in the White House. He left it a poor man, and many people (most unjustly, believe me,) lost confidence in him. Whore is he now? Instead of enjoying the fruits of his great services to the country, instead of being the general of the

army, instead of being the foremost man in the country, he is fighting the hulls and bears on Wall street. Surely that ought not to be.” The next President was Mr. Hayes. The reader will excuse me, hut I can’t help laughing when 1 think that such a man was ever President. I don’t even remember what General Sherman said about Hayes, and so I will fill in by remarking that Mr. Hayes was nothing to start with, and that to-day, alter four years in the White House, ho is more obscure than ever. “The next President,” continued General Slier man, “was Garfield—a great, big. noble hearted fellow, who could have occupied a high position in the public service and in popular regard for twenty years. In an evil hour he became President. His domestic, relations were destroyed by the official anxiety that came to him. He had no time for domestic intercourse. He was wor ried almost to death. He was in office scarcely four months when he, like Lincoln, was shot by an assassin. Whence comes his compensation? The country reveres his name, and his picture is in every house: hut where is the life that is cut short? Where is the poor widow? Where are the little sorrowing children that he loved to play with and help in their lessons? “In the case of Mr. Arthur —a conservative, careful man—he is yet to go out of office. He has friends right and left, but his bed is not one of roses. There are thorns even there. He is bothered all the time by small things that never ought to reach the President, and is far from happy. When his term is out he will go into dignified retirement. ” “Now, why should If want the 'presidency? I can not serve the country. I can not do anything that other men may not do. At the eud of four years, were I President, I should be hated by half the country, though I might have tried my best to be a good and faithful officer. There i.s nothing iu it, my friend, and nothing could induce me to take it.” HON. JOHN OVERMYER. His Views as to me cmTnrrnuii ami 7 '‘spects of Indiana Republicans. National Republican. Hon. John Overmycr. chairman of the Republican State central committee of Indiana, stated last night that work had beer, begun in his State in the matter of preparing for tlie approaching campaign. He said: “The county conventions are now being held, and everything is going smoothly. The district conventions to select delegates for the national convention at Chicago, Will be held on tho 10th of April, and on the 17th of that month, just one week later, a State convention will he held at Indianapolis to select the delegates at large.” “ Alio will be the Republican candidate for Governor?” “That it is unsettled, and we are glad of it. While we have plenty of available candidates, there lias been no disposition on the part of any of them to crowd to the front and precipitate a contest. The convention to nominate will be held June 19—after the result of tlie ■Chicago convention shall be known—and we expect to have no difficulty in selecting a man who will carry the State.” “How will Indiana stand in the presidential campaign, with the tariff as tlie leading issue?” “In the very best possible shape. We do not ask for anything better than tlie nomination of McDonald as the Democratic candidate and a tariff issue. We will carry the State beyond all shadow of a doubt.” “What preparations are tho Indiana Democrats making for tho campaign?” “Well, they have been confronted with conflicting ambitions in the organization of their State committee, and will probably offend several gentlemen when they select a chairman. Then the leaders in the State tire rivals for a place on their presidential ticket. McDonald wants it, Hendricks hopes to get it, and English has not yet been placated. At the recent editors’ banquet at Indianapolis, Mr. English made the leading speech of the occasion, and + hern was much in it to indicate a decided dissatisfaction on his part with the plans that were advanced for harmonizing matters.” “How about the second place on the Republican presidential ticket? Will Indiana have a candidate for it?” “If lie is wanted, yes. But there will he no crowding for it. If it should ho determined that we are to furnish a Vice-president, then whoever is regarded as the best man for the place will be supported by a united delegation.” THE FITZ JOHN PORTER CASE. The Debate in tlie House To Be Closed by Mr. Phelps. Washington, Jan. 30. —The Fitz John Porter debate will be closed on Friday, or at tlie latest on Saturday. In tlie course of tlie debate last Sat urday, Gen. Slocum, who has charge of the bill, interrupted Mr. Horr to say that he had in his possession original letters of Gen. Garfield, saying he was in favor of the commission. Gen. Slocum said further: “These letters will be produced before this house by a gentleman on your own side and one whom you have confidence in.” It is learned that tlie Republican to whom Gen. Slocum referred is Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, who is to close the debate in defense of Porter. General Slocum, on moving the previous question,, yielding his hour to Mr. Phelps, who was selected as an old friend of General Porter, and bet ause the latter has since the war been a resident of New Jersey and the district which Mr. Phelps represents in Congress. It is understood that the friends of General Porter have placed in Mr. Phelps’s hands private letters and other new evidence of a notable character which will flatly and authoritatively contradict the various assertions made by the opponents of tlie Porter hill in courxo of debate. MINOR MATTERS. The Attendance at tlie State Dinner at the White House. Washington, Jan. 30. —Tho President gave the first state dinner of the season at the White House this evening. The East Room was beautifully decorated for the occasion with tropical plants, ferns and exotics, the Marine Band being stationed at tho further end of the room. President Arthur, assisted by Mrs. McElroy, received tho guests, who were as follows: The Secretary of State and Mrs. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of War and Mrs. Lincoln, Secretary of tin* Navy and Mrs. Chandler, Postmaster general and Mrs. Gresham. Attorney-general and Mrs. Brewster, Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Teller, Speaker of the House and Mrs. Carlisle, General and Mrs. Sheridan, Admiral Porter. Senator and Mrs. Vance, Senator and Mrs. Harrison, Senator and Mrs. Conger, Senator Sawyer, Senator Sewell, Senator Aldrich, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hiscock, Mrs. H. W. White, Mrs. Edw. N. Kinsley. Miss l Lucy Frelinghuysen, Miss Gresham, and Bishop Simpson and wife. Secretary Folger is absent from the city. _ A Tariff Bill To Be Presented Shortly. Special to tlie I ri'liunapolia Journal. Washington, Jan. 30.—The ways and means committee has not yet prepared the tariff bill. They have only got so far as to agree upon a horizontal reduction of 20 or 25 per cent. It will not be long before they bring in their hill. A member of the committee said to day that it would he before tho House within ten days or two weeks. Mr. llolmnn’K Land-Grant Resolution* Special to the Indiauapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 30.—“1t is passing strange tome,” said Congressman Cobh, to day, “what Judge Holman meant by offering that straddling resolution the otheiVlay declaring the forfeiture of railroad land grants. It, in fact, meant nothing more than a straw on a stream, which shows how the current runs. It may have been an occasion for a test vote on the land forfeit ures, but the only real good I can see in it was [Continued on Second Pago*]

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ENGLISH POLITICAL ISSUES. Franchise and Land Law Reform tl.v Great Questions of the Hour. Utterances of John Bright on the Scheme Presented hy henry George. Which He Pronounces I mpracticahle. The War with El Mahdi Will Not Interfere with Reform in Egypt. Marquis Lome on the Condition of Canadian Finances —Party of American Travelers Attacked by Knrdish Brigands. ENGLISH STATESMEN. John Bright’s Objections to Henry George’s Land Scheme. London. Jan. 30. —John Bright addressed a large meeting at tlie Forward Liberal club, in Birmingham. He said that after the franchise measure, tho most pressing question for reformers in Parliament would be reform of tin land laws. He utterly condemed Henry George’s land propositions, saying D were most extraordinary and impra-r and the wildest ever imported by arxlN VJfJinventor. Mr. George's frtr NationalTnbt *hto uuheard of genera’ ° Works Cos. o^^ r * Briht K^S^S^SSS. immeasurable evils S ’Wrench^ possible, ho declared, to tram Trap-. Pumps, Sinks, tion ms „in„ :<• ... , -idONE. D&LTIX, BABBIT lion ensuing n METALS (25-ponnd boxes), everywhere was into < ottem Wiping Waste, white department. Mr. . ; m.J colored (100-pound bales), , 1 , , . , i\ and all other supplies used m con been charged withe nec ti*u with STEAM, WATEK can that he wi and GAS, in JOB or KLTAH .. .. . . ... ~ : LOTS. Do a regular steam-fi English institutions. 1 11v; business. Estimate az aggeration. It was note contract to heat Mills, Shop scheme, although Amerifactories and Lumber D in America, although therein c c ii . • Pino cut to older L. of acres of land m America state. It was surprising that trial of tlie scheme had been made there, fj T C'ON of here, where Mr. George was a stranger. - After an eloquent reference to the civil war in the United States, iu which tlie North quelled slavery, Mr. Bright declared it would be as great cruelty, folly and injustice to confiscate the property of landlords, as to attempt to again make the freedmen in America slaws. Mr. George’s plan, the speaker said, was simply an insult to the common sense and honesty of the English people; nevertheless, the system of land tenure must he altered so as to enable tho land to come gradually and note urally into the hands of those most requiring and desiring it, most able to pav for and best able to work it for the public advantage. It would he easy to abolish the laws of primogeniture and entail, and to facilitate the transfer of land Englishmen should try these reforms before attempting wild and extravagant schemes. Mr. Bright’s remarks were greeted with cheers. Joseph Chamberlain, president of the Board of Trade, also spoke. He pointed to the fruits of his bankruptcy act? and the patents act, and promised to do something during the ensuing session to stop the scandalous waste ot life at sea .wing to badly equipped vessels. Mr. Chamberlain also said that. England is not going to allow the war with El Mahdi to interfere for a single moment with the projected reforms and improvments of the institutions which England is making every effort to develop in Egypt, and by which it is hoped security may be given to Egyptian liberty and the people educated for independence and self-government Tho Marquis of Salisbury, Conservative, in a speech at Hertford, said ho would decide upon liis course during the coming session of Parliament, when he had seen tin* measures which the government proposed should be dealt with. He thought the people should he first consulted concerning so large a measure as franchise. A BATTLE I M MIN ENT. The Rebels Concentrating Near Triukitn, Where the Egyptian Forces Are Quartered. Cairo, Jan. 30.—Baker Pasha, with I .<>oo troops, landed at Trinkita on Monday, and an additional body of 2,000 landed on Tuesday, completing tho force for tho relcif of Tokar. Nearly 20.000 rebels are. between Trinkita and Tokar. The first battle will probably bo fought where Captain Moncriff, the British consul at Suakim was killed by tho rebels, seven miles distant, as tlie rebels are mass ing at that point. Small bodies of the enemy which approached within four thousand yards of the camp were shelled by the British gunboat Sphinx. Gen. Gordon has arrived at Assouan. • Osman Dinga is ill. A Call for Assistance. Khartoum, Jan. 30.— A soldier has succeeded in getting through from Rufoz. Ho reports that Sala Bey is hard pressed, and requires men and ammunition. The Sheikhs ir the vicinity have received a letter from General Gordon, asking them to come in. It is feared tlie summons is now too late. Tli* Malidi Denounced. Tripoli. Jan. 30. —Sheikh Senoussi and bis tribe, recently reported to be advancing to join El Mahdi, have not only not joined El Malidi. hut decreed that lie is a false prophet and an adventurer. and that Mussulmans must on no a© count follow him. _ CHINESE GORDON’S STICK. An Old Artilleryman’?* Reminiscence of the Campaign in Chinn. New York Tribune. “Although I actually served under ‘Chinese* Gordon,” said the captain of a National Line steamer to a reporter, “yet the truth is I never exchanged words with him hut once, and that was when I went to him for a commission in tho Imperial service. That was in IKG3 or 18<U,1 forget which. I was chief officer on a vessel that came into Shanghai, and I left her. determined to join Gordon. All the, young fellows at that time were crazy to join Gordon. So 1 went to General Gamble, at Shanghai. He was in reality only a captain in her Majesty’s forces, hut was acting under Gordon as quartermaster-general. He gave me a chit, or letter of recommendation, to the great man, and l went up the river in a sailboat, a native craft, to Quin San, where he had his headquarters. 1 had learned that all Europeans who had any knowledge of gunnery were appointed as lieutenafits with a pay of $l4O a month, to say nothing of the chances of *ioot,’ picking up things, you know, in a captured town. AN lien I got to QuinSon I found where liis place was. ll was a largo Chinese house with a court--yard round it. There was an orderly outside the dour, who asked wliat I wanted. I said that i wished to see General Gordon. He went into the room, and coining hack told me to go in. The famous man was in a white shirt and white trousers, and his r**d sash lay upon a hit of carpet on tho floor. Ho was at a desk studying over a map. 1 stood iu