Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1884 — Page 3

THE TARIFF DISCUSSED. A Plain, Common-Sense Explanation of the Benefits of Protection. Hon. Peter S. Kennedy, of Crawfordsville, spoke on Saturday at Logansport, to an immense audience, and in his speech paid special attention to the tariff. He said: A tariff is a toll collected of foreigners who bring commodities from abroad to sell in our markets. Our custom-houses are simply so many toll-gates at which foreign manufacturers and importers are compelled to stop and oay a certain specified sum per yard, pound or ton, called a specific duty, sometimes a specified per cent, on the value, called an ad valorem duty or tariff. There were doubtless many incidental evils connected with our protective system, as there are with all human plans and contrivances. Man’s works are all imperfect. Even the weather, which is God’s work, is complained of more than the tariff. If one sits down to study our system of transportation by rail, he will think of many incidental but unavoidable evils connected with it. Engines blow up, bridges break down, trains fly the track and roll down embankments; by these accidents hundreds of lives and thousands of dollars’ worth of property are annually destroyed; yet nobody had proposed to abolish transportation by rail on account of the incidental evils connected with the system. The real question to be solved is, is the tariff, or protective policy, as a whole, beneficial to the country? Will the country prosper more with it, or without it? The speaker then showed by citations of numerous and well-authenticated facts that the constant tendency of a high tariff was to cheapen many commodities of general use, and at the same time to keep up the wages of labor. Every new mill and every new factory made an additional demand for educated, highpriced labor and hence made wages higher. Every new mill and every new factory afforded an additional source of supply, and hence made manufactured articles cheaper. The law of supply and demand governed the price of everything. The more demands there are for labor, the higher wages will be. The more commodities we make the cheaper they will become. A few years ago salt was selling at $2.60 per barrel; under the constant stimulus of twenty years’ protection it has gone down to sl.lO per barrel. At the same time the salt industry has been so extended as to afford labor at good wages to thousands of people who would, in the absence of this great industry, have been forced into idleness and want. So with sugar. Under the Republican policy of protection to our sugar industry the price of sugar had constantly gone down, till it is now cheaper than it has ever been in the history of the country. Sugar that sold in 1858 at twelve and a-half cents a pound is now selling at seven cents per pound. It has been the uniform and constant rule that a tariff on any commodity of foreign production, which we can make here, has made the commodity cheaper.

THK TARIFF AND MANUFACTURES. But our Democratic friends say, if this is so, how does the tariff benefit our manufacturers? How are those who make a commodity for sale benefited by having its market price reduced? The question is put in such a way as to mislead the unthinking. When we say the tariff lessens prices, we mean, of course, the exorbitant prices at which wo were compelled to purchase a giveu commodity of foreigners before we made it in this country; and when we say that the tariff keeps up prices, we mean the prices at which foreigners sell when they try to smother manufacturing enterprises in the country by selling commodities for a time for less than it costs to make them,even with their cheap labor. This is all plain enough to one who wishes to understand it. Let me illustrate the point, however, so that all who are not willfully blind may see it. England and other foreign countries have one element tj:at enables them to make cheap goods, which we do not have, cannot get, and ought not to have if we could get it—that is, cheap labor. We cannot, therefore, carry on manufacturing in this country in competition with these for- *> 0 n countries without protection. Without protection they could and would break down and ruiiyevery manufacturing enterprise in America which competes with them, or compel our laborers to*work at foreign wages. When foreigners supply us with a class of commodities which we do not make, they designate the price at which we must buy of them; and,meeting with no competition here, they naturally enough sell to us at the most exorbitant prices. A wry few years ago England was shipping us what is called encaustic tiling for floors, for which we paid $1:25 per square foot We made no encaustic tiling in America Congress put a high duty on the article, and a few capitalists concluded to try their fortunesin the business hers There is now a large manufactory at Indianapolis which is selling encaustic tiling for 40 cents per square foot, and it is of better quality than any we ever got from England at $1.25 per square foot Now the tariff on this tiling enabled us to start and maintain the manufacture of it here, and it kept England from selling her tiling so low as to break down the American works. The manufacturers here compelled England to put down her price to reasonable figures, and at the same time the tariff enabled our manufacturers to sell at such prices as would yield them a fair profit, because the English manufacturer could not nay the tariff and undersell them without greater loss than they could bear. Now what was accomplished by the tariff in this case? First, the price of encaustic tiling was reduced from $1.25 per square foot to 40 eents per square foot. Second, the American capitalist was enabled to start and maintain the enterprise in American, and third, anew demand was made for educated American labor at high wages. And these are just the benefits of a protective tariff in every instance where we start anew industry here. The history of the Bessemer steel business affords another most forcible and striking illustration of the point in question. Before we commenced the manufacture of Bessemer steel rails, only a few years ago, England sold us steel rails as high, I believe, as $l6O per ton. Now we have steel rails made in abundance in this country at less than SSO per ton. I know it is said the tariff did not produce this result. Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, of New York, who appeared before the Tariff Commission in 1882, as the advocate of the New York Free-trade League, claimed that the reduction was due to the expiration of the period of Mr. Bessemer’s patentright, and to improved machinery and improved methods of manufacture. But the royalty charged by Mr. Bessemer for the use of his patent was only' $2.50 per ton, and as to the improved machinery and improved methods, they were of American origin, and owe their very existence to the tariff policy of the United States, which started the manufacture of Bessemer steel rails in this country. THE SUGAR INTEHE3T. Mr. Kennedy discussed at length thp proposition of the Democratic party to reduce the duty on sugar. Nothing, he said, could be more disastrous to a large number of capitalists and laborers than a reduction of the tariff on sugar at this time. And besides, a tariff that would discourage the production of sugar in this country would be sure to result in higher prices for sugar than prevail at the present time. Sugarmaking in tills country was virtually obliterated by the civil war, and we had to depend almost exclusively on foreign countries for our supplies of sugar for several years after the suppression of th rebellion, and sugar remained high; but under the stimulus of our pi esent tariff rates, which were adopted soon after the close of the war, and some local bounties offered for tho production of sorghum sugar, the sugar industry of the country has greatly revived, and as a consequence the price of sugar is growing less. Just prior to the commencement of the war, Louisiana alone was making about 300,000 tons of sugar per annum. In 1882 tho sugar industry had so far revived that she produced in that year nearly onc-half the quantity she had been producing before the war. Now sugar plantations are now being constantly opened in that State. Some have been opened in Texas. That State also has been found to possess a large areii adopted to tho grewth of sugar. Texas is now producing more than fi million dollars worth of sugar annually. Capitalists are opening sugar plantations in Florida. It is confidently believed.-by those who are Well informed on the subjecWhat there are enougn sugar producing lahds in the South to supply the entire demand for sugar in this country. Besides this, it is now certain that largo quantities of excellent su*ar can be made from the amber cane in the Northern States. In 1882 the Rio Grande Sugar Company, of New Jersey, made about 500,000 pounds of merchantable sugar, which was Bold to the refluers at .seven cents per pound. Another manufactory is in successful operation at Cuafiipaign, .til., and Others in Kan

s: s. Under these circumstances would it not be the most consummate folly in us to reduce the duty on sugar, and thereby discourage and retard these great enterprises which promise us cheap sugar, abundant employment for labor and additional markets for our surplus farm products? We are' now annually importing from abroad about $100,000,000 worth of sugar. Had we not better make it at home and thereby furnish employment to our own dependent people? It is conceded by those who clamor for free trade in sugar that the removal of the duty would at once crush the sugar industry of this country, which has to compete with the Chinese ana slave labor of Cuba. During the investigations of the tariff commission, in 1882, Mr. Ira Bursley, of New York, a wholesale commission merchant, was summoned before the Commission to give information in regard to the practical working of the tariff. He stoutly argued for a total removal of the duty from sugar. At the conclusion of his address Commissioner Boteler put to him this pointed question: You recommend that sugar shall be admitted free, with the assurance and knowledge that if we admit it free it will entirely strike down the sugar interest of Ijouisiana, and also the interest of the Northwestern part of our country, where they are making sugar from sorghum. In short, the whole sugar interest of the United States? Answer—Yes sir; I do. The interrogatory placed Mr. Bursley in an awkward predicament, but he could not do otherwise than answer it as he did. 1 cite this circumstance to show that the whole animus of those who are clamoring so loudly for a removal or reduction of the duty on importations is the destruction of American enterprises, and the consequent increase Os foreign importations, which will enable them to grow rich on the profits of a commerce which benefits none but themselves and foreign producers. The people of Indiana are interested in two ways in building up the sugar industries of this country. They want cheap sugar, and they want additional home markets for their surplus farm products. If the people of Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, with the aid of our Northern sugarmakers, could produce the additional $100,0000,000 worth of sugar annually consumed by our people, would it not be better for all in this country except, perhaps, the importers of foreign sugars? If this additional $100,000,000 worth of sugar were made at home, it would certainly create a very great demand for labor and supplies of wheat, corn, bacon and many other things of Northern growth. One thing is certain: we must build up home markets for our surplus wheat or quit raising a surplus, for we can no longer depend upon the European markets for the sale of wheat. In the last ten years the exports of wheat from British India have increased from 3,000,000 to 40,000,000 bushels, while the quantity produced in the United States has increased in the last forty years from 4 1-3 to 10 bnshels annually per capita of our population. In the last sixteen years the wheat-growing area of the United States has been doubled. Besides, the constant invention of efficient machinery is making the raising and handling of wheat a very easy thing. From these facts it must be apparent to everyone that if we cannot build up home markets, by diversifying our industry, we shall be so completely overrun with wheat that it will rot on our hands.

DEMOCRACY AND THK TARIFF. Mr. Kennedy discussed at length the position of the two parties on the tariff question. In 1864 the Democratic platform was as mum on the subject of the tariff as Cleveland's letter of acceptance. In 1868 the Democratic national convention declared in favor of “a tariff for revenue upon foreign importations, and such equal taxation under the internal revenue law as will afford incidental protection to domestic manufactures, and will, without impairing the revenue, impose the least burden upon and best promote the great industrial interests of the country.” In 1872 the party had so far wandered away from this doctrine igid become so much impressed with free-trade ideas, that its national convention of that year resolved as follows: ‘'Recognizing that there are in our midst honest but irreconcilable differences with regard to the respective systems of protection and free trade, we remit the discussion of the subject to the people in their several congressional districts.” In 1876 they demanded “that all custom-house taxation should be only for revenue;” in 1880 they declared for “a tariff for revenue only;” and in 1884 they declare that “all federal taxation shall be exclusively for public purposes.” Here is one clear omission and five distinct attempts in twenty years to state the position of the party on the tariff question. And now, if anybody can tell from these rejieated enunciations what the position of the party is, he will be entitled to the credit of possessing a wisdom higher than human wisdom. Fortunately, however, we are not without the means of finding where it stands. It may shuffle in plat-form-making, but its vote in Congress on the Morrison bill fixes its position beyond doubt or cavil. The Morrison bill of last winter simply proposed a horizontal, or indiscriminate reduction of 2$ per cent, of all duties. And this was just as sensible as would be a general order from a physician to go through a hospital of five hundred patients, and without making any inquiry as to their several diseases and condition, give the same kind and an equal quantity of medicine to each one. This is the way our wise Democratic, doctors propose to cure the tariff of its ailments. The bill was denounced in Congress as the joint product of stupidity, laziness and demagogism. But this is not the worst of it— it was the child of a foreign intrigue designed to retard the growth of American manufactures. It sprang from the brain of the Cobden Free-trade Club, of London. In 1880 one Mougredien wrote a pamphlet for the Cobden Club, a whole ship-load of which were sent to this country and distributed among farmers in the West The pamphlet closes with these significant words: “Let the American farmers give their support to no candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives who does not pledge himself, if elected, to propose, or at least to vote for a reduction of 5 per cent every year on import duties until the whole is abolished.” Following up this very idea, Mr. Hewitt, while the Morrison bill was under discussion, said: “I would begin at tho foundation, and by removal of duties from the materials which enter into the protected industries, prepare a way for the gradual and final abolition of the duties on the finished products.” Here wo find Mr. Hewitt and the Cobden Free-trade Club, of London, urging precisely the same result by methods only slightly different Both advocate the abolition of all duties—all protection. It wilf be observed that tho Democratic convention of 1872 said that the party was hopelessly divided with regard to “the respective systems of protection and free trade,” not with regard to protection and “a tariff for revenue only,” or a “tariff only for revenue," or ‘-‘taxation for public purposes exclusively,” but was divided with regard to the merits of protection and free trade. This difference made itself manifest when the Morrison bill was under consideration; hut the free-trade faction prevailed in the Democratic caucus, and adopted the Morrison bill as a Democratic caucus measure. • The caucus was. however, unable to get tho bill through the House because it was opposed by the solid vote of the Republican party and the protection wing of the Democratic party. Every Democratic member of the House from Indiana, however, voted with the free-trade faction for the Morrison bill. The two factious met again at Chicago, in national convention, and were divided in about the same proportion as they were in Congress on the Mornson bill—tho protection faction hopolessly in tho minority. A platform was adopted, the meaning of which no wisdom can interpret; but we know it was fqvored and accepted by the free-trade wing, and denounced and opposed by the protection wing of the party in their national convetion. To more fully Illustrate the absurdity of tho principle of the Morrison bill, the speaker referred to the manufacture of white earthen ware in this country. Tills, he said, was substantially anew industry here. Owing to its insignificance, it Was wholly overlooked in tho tariff of 1861. In 1863, by virtue of certain favorable circumstances growing out of tho war. the industry became of great importance. After a full and careful examination, the Tariff Commission of 1882 reported in regard to this industry that it was turning out table-wnro—plates, cups, saucers, pitchers, ate.—quite as good as any from abroad; that the prices of sueh wares had greatly fallen in consequence of the American competition with the foreign products; that our manufacturers were now furnishing one half of the whole amount of such wares annually purchased for use in the United States, but that owing to its insufficient protection and the high wages it had to pay, compared with European wages, it was on the decline, and that without an increase of duty it could not much longer withstand the efforts of foreign manufacturers to destroy it. But not withstanding all this the Morrison bill proposed to reduce the small

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duty on this ware, and destroy the industry entirely. Indiana is especially interested in the manufacture of this ware, because, as I am informed by Prof. John Collett, our very able and learned State Geologist, one single county in the State has enough of the clay from which it is made to supply the entire demand for dishes in the United States for an indefinite period. And he authorizes me to say that the quality of the clay is better than that of any similar clay to be found elsewhere in the world. Why should we cripple and break down, by unwise legislation, an industry which promises so much for our State in the future? In view of all these things, is it any wonder the industrial classes are rising almost on mass against the Democratic party? PERSONAL MENTION. State Senator Lindley, of Rockville, is at the Bates House. Mr. C. E. Kregelo returned yesterday from Illinois and Wisconsin, where he has been visiting. Hon. Barnabas C. Hobbs, candidate for Superintendent ot Public lustruction, was in the city yesterday. He is actively at work in the can vass. Hon. Thomas H. Nelson was in the city yesterday, just returned from Lafayette, where he addressed the biggest political meeting ever held in that city at this stage of the campaign. Mr. Will Iglehart, of Evansville, is in the city. Miss Eleanor Iglehart, his sister, who has been traveling in Europe with Miss Alma Holman, professor of modern languages in Do Pauw University, is en route home, and he expects to meet her here to-day. Lieutenant Frank L. Denny, U. S. marine, returned to his home in this city, yesterdny, after a cruise of three years on the U. S. S. Quinnebaug. Lieutenant Denny is a son of Hon. James C. Denny. He will remain here among his friends for about three months. Hotel Arrivals. Denison: W. S. Crossman, John W. Bisljop, New York; Thos. H. McElroy, C. J. Hurdy, Chicago; R. M. Fraser, Cincinnati; H. W. Hibbard, St Louis; Andrew Warren, St Louis; C. E. Tripp, Cleveland; W. R. McKeen, Terre Haute; O. A Simmons. Ft. Wayne; H. H. Hanna, Detroit; J. A. Todd, Boston. Hotel English: M. W. Magunn, Joseph Bailey, .J. W. Wilson, C. J. Jackson, Capt H. Snow, j. Q. Johnson, Tom Dowling, Eph Marsh, William Ward Cook, A. J. New, R. A Black, Jesse Williken, W. A. Scott, H, H. Strickland, Greenfield; Geo. A. Carr, B. Baker, Charles W. Thompson, Boston; Will Davidson, Columbus. Grand Hotel: E. C. Malsby, Richmond; D. T. Taylor, Portland; R. D. Brown, Wilmington; W. W. McFarland, Connersville; Willis Hickman, Spencer; F. A. Hyatt, Vincennes; M. C. Barnes, Crawfordsville; S. O. Knapp, Frankfort; E. E. Smith, Lafayette; J. J. Welsh, Greenfield; T. H, Hood, New Castle; W. W. Durand, Bloomington; P. H. McCormick, Columbus. Bates House: C. M. Scott, Crawfordsvill; Robert M. Allen, Detroit; G. D. Potch, Philadelphia Edward Baily, New York; Shelby Compton,; Grand Rapids; M. N. Mayer. Grand Rapids; Mrs. C. T. Doxey, Anderson; Harvey McCaslin and wife, Franklin; A. G. . Smith, North Vernon; J. J. Durneling, Chicago; J. C. Kefaber. Dayton, O.; D. Weiskoff, Cincinnati; W. T. Turpin, Greenville, O.; M. Marks, Cincinnati; B. S. Koll, Salem, O.; P. B. Olmstead, Chicago; C. C. Shoemaker, Philadelphia; F. J. Duffield, New York; H. G. Fosdick, Liberty; C. F. Scofield, Boston; F.’Eden Stoltz, Philadelphia; E. C. Werstemley, Newark, O.; H. H. Toby, Dayton, O.; A. J. Smith, Cleveland, O.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. — A marriage license was issued yesterday to Anthony J. Lauck and Margaret Klee. The board of managers of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum meet at 9 this morning in the institution. The argument on the demurer of the defendants in the Blaine-Sentinel libel suit, will begin before Judge Woods this morning at 10 o’clock. The County Commissioners met yesterday, and spent the day in examining hills. The jail hill for August is $2,098.40, and that of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum, for the three months ending yesterday, $2,342. Burglars made an ineffectual attempt to enter the residence of David Munson, on Park avenue, early yesterday morning, but were frightened away by the merchant policeman, who fired several shots at them. The second monthly meeting of all the young people’s Christian temperance unions of the city will be held this evening in the Vanee Block. A full attendauce of members and friends is requested. Sinker, Davis & Cos. have instituted three suits on notes against the Stockman Ice Machine Company, the demands being S7OO, $1,600 and SI,OOO respectively, and Sidney N. Johnson has instituted proceeding supplementary to execution against the same company for $l5O. George W. Ramsay was charged yesterday with robbing Adolph Baumann, a stranger from Dayton, Ohto, stopping at the English Kitchen on South Illinois street, of $75, and was arrested by patrolman Isaacs. He was fined for vagrancy, there being no evidence upon which he could be convicted of the robbery. The ladies of the Sixth Presbyterian Church will give a lawn party to-morrow night at the residence of Mrs. James Somerville, corner of Merrill and Alabama streets. At the same time and place a fair will be held by the ladies of the sewing’society for the sale of their products for the purpose of getting a carpet for the church. The friends of the church are invited. The Art School. Last year's attempt in this city at an art exhibit and an art school was a success. The attempt was a great one. The school was founded, was well attended, and paid its own way. The exhibit was good and effective, and paid expenses. This year the school begins with additional means of success. Mr. Macdonald, who has given perfect satisfaction, bringing forward his pupils with great rapidity, and infusing into them his own industry, energy ana enthusiasm, will continue to conduct the school, assisted, if a large water-color class enters, by Mr. Erwin, of Chicago, a first rate water-colorist, and by Mr. Steele, who will soon return from Munich, and a sight of whose works is looked forward to quite eagerly by all picture-lovers. A class in modeling in clay will be formed, and all who have a gift that way are asked to join. Discriminating Thieves. The house of Mrs. A. M. Byrkitt, No. 129 Ash street, was entered by thieves during her absence, yesterday afternoon, and several pieces of jewelry, besides some valuable silver tableware, were carried away. The house was thoroughly ransacked, and such things as the thieves did not care to take wtfre thrown aside in aheap. The head of a kitten which had been left in the house, was cut off. < . w ——- A Base Bali Agreement. A New York special gives some important base ball news. By an agreement reached recently New York will have no American Association club next year, and Philadelphia no League club. The Metropolitans will unite with the Athletics, with the exception that Roseman,Orr, Esterbrook and Keefe will go to the New York League club. Bvf,ry day adds to the great amount of evidence as to the curative powers of Hood’s Sorsaparilla. Letters are continually being received from all sections of tliq country, telling of benefits derived from Vhis great medicine. It is nnequaled for general debility and as a blood purifier, expel'.'.ng every trace Os scrofula or other impunl-;. Now is the time to,take it Made by C. I. flood A CO., LoWeil, Maas. BoM by all di-iggists. ;

PROCEEDINGS OP THE COUNCIL. Tlie City Officials Authorized to Make a Loau of sso,ooo—Miscellaneous Matters. The City Council met last night. The city bill posting was awarded to John Fohl on his bid to do tho work and pay the city for tho privilege $17.75 per month, he to pay a year in advance. The other bidders were John Edwards, $161.50 per year for privilege; Harbisou & Abrams, sl3 per month; T. V. Alsop, $15.25 per month. The city engineer submitted an estimate of cost of protecting tlie south bank of White river from the present crib to the point where the roadway has been washed away: Estimated cost of rip-rapping $9,187.50 Estimated cost of piling 0,155.10 The report was received and filed. The city attorney reported that he had the record in the ease of Henry Emmelman against the city, in which a judgment of S7OO was obtained for the drowning of plaintiff’s son in an excavation at Pleasant run, prepared for an appeal to the Supreme Court, which action he recommended be taken. The report was adopted. The cnief fire engineer was granted leave of absence to attend the annual convention of chief fire engineers, at Chicago, on the 9th inst. The superintendent of the City Dispensary reported total expenses of Dispensary, for August, $301.58. John C. Shoemaker, publisher of the Sentinel, gave bond in $3,500 for the faithful performance of the city advertising contract. The city engineer reported the following estimates: To fianway & Cooper, for improveprovements on Indiana avenue, from West to St. Clair street, $4,375.47; to Richter & Twiname, for improvements on Vermont street, from Liberty to Noble, $591.06; to Charles S. Roney, for improvements on North street, from Noble to Pme, $354 57; to J. L. Spaulding, for improvements on Eighth street, from Tennessee to Mississippi. $248.20; to same for improvements on Bismarck street, from Sullivan street to Virginia avenue, $230.04; to same for improvements on Dillon street, from Harrison street to English avenue, $261.53; to Richter & Twiname, for improvements on Park avenue, from Massachusetts avenue to St Clair street $1,170.80; to Wm. Freany, for erecting two lamp-posts on Greer street, $34. The estimates were adopted. THE CITY OFFICERS* REPORT. The city treasurer reported the following balances for Sept I: General fund, including $60,000 sent to New York for interest $137,248.36 Tomlinson estate 64.841.74 Additional City hall fond, 45.749.94 Sinking fund 30,627.03 The city clerk reported orders drawn during the month of August amounting to $36,902.07. The report of the board of pnblic imurovements in the following improvements was concurred on: That the street commissioner be directed to bowlder or put crossings on Union street between McCarty and Morris; to fill up Wilkins street at the old bed of Pogue’s run; to lay double stone crossing on the south side of Vermont street across Alabama and Massachusetts avenue; to fix grade of east gutter of Illinois street from McNabb to South street; to place double stone crossing at first alley north of New York street on west side of Illinois street. The recommendation of the city engineer that Thos. S. Tallentyre he appointed rodman, vice Wm. H. Fink, was approved. The street commissioner reported the total expenditures in his department for the month of August, $5,582. • A remonstrance signed by property holders against grading and paving with bricks the sidewalks of Douglass street, between Indiana avenue and North street was presented. The ordinance for the proposed improvement was ordered stricken from the files. Mr. Spahr moved to reconsider the action taken in removing Wm. H. Fink from the place of rodman and the appointment of Thomas S. Tallentyre in his place. Mr. Trusler moved to lay the motion on the table. On this the vote stood, ayes 10, nays 13. A motion was then made to reconsider, on which the vote stood, ayes 12, noes 11. The matter was again referred to the board of public improvements. The Board of Health reported sixty-six deaths for the last half of the month of August. An ordinance was passed for the erection of a bracket lamp on the first alley north of Washington street, between Illinois and Meridian streets. The judiciary committee recommended that the assessments of the city against E. Swart for $10.08; Christian Hilgenberg for $96.42, and the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for $39.20 be refunded, less the school funds portion. Adopted. A resolution was passed ordering the street commissioner to repair the sewer on South Illinois street, where it runs through the tunnel, at a cost not to exceed $l5O. It was moved that all ordinances on the muchvexed water question (the disagreement between the water company and the plumbers) be referred to the water committee, where both parties would be heard and the matter settled. The motion passed. The following was adopted on recommendation of the finance committee:

A TEMPORARY LOAN AUTHORIZED. "Resolved, By the Common Council and the Board of Aldermen that the city treasurer, the consent of the finance committee having been given, shall be and he is hereby authorized to make a temporary loan in the name and on behalf of said city, m anticipation of the current years’ revenues, of not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, the same to be borrowed at any time said treasurer may ueed funds to meet the current expenses of said city, and to be payable not later than April 1, 1885, provided, however, that no obligation shall be given on behalf of said city for money borrowed under the authority of this resolution without the oity receives the full sum of the money expressed in said obligation, it being the understanding that any and all discount for the loan of said money shall bo borne by Isaac N. Pattison, or if interest be exaoted at any rate that it shall be paid by said Pattison; said obligation shall not be discounted to said city, nor draw interest as to her; and. ‘ Resolved, farther. That the mayor and city clerk are hereby authorized to execute the obligation given for the loan in the name and ou behalf of said city, and for the payment of any such obligation so given, the faith of Indianapolis is hereby irrevocably pledged.” The committee on streets and alleys were, on motion, directed to examine the most practicable route for opening a street in ImManola, from Washington street north to the Lafayette road, and at the next meeting of Council present necessary papers for opening and condemning ground for said street Ordinances were passed appropriating money for the payment of sundry claims in the fire department, city hospital, miscellaneous, central station-house, metropolitan police, $14,000; street repairs, $5,000. A remonstrance was received from property holders, protesting against awarding contract under the ordinance for building gutter and curbing sidewalk of St Joseph street, between Delaware and Alabama streets. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. An ordinance was passed authorizing Fred Gansburg to lay a switch from the Belt railroad to his coal-yard, crossing Gatling street Ordinances were introduced for the erection of lampposts, and for the grading and bowldetingof Bolleiontaine avenue from Christian avenue to Home avenue. A motion carried that the owners of bill boards on all bridges and other public property be directed to remove them at once. The motion that a public fountain be placed at the southwest corner of Tennessee and South streets was referred to the proper committee. A motion was adopted that the markebmaster be directed to remove all Wagons and the curbstone stands on Washington street into the square known is the West Market square. A motion was adopted that the railroads in terested be directed to put a stoho culvert four feet in the clear along the gutters on both sides of South Mississippi street under their tracks. A resolution introduced by Mr. Spahr, that the Indianapolis Water Company be notified to lay water mains on Broadway, betwoen Christian and Home avenues, hydrants to bo located by the chief fire engineer, was referred to the committee on water, ■ * It was moved and carried that George Merritt

be appointed commissioner of Military Park, to serve without pay. The motion to reconsider the action of the Council regarding the vacation of ground at the corner of Fifth and Illinois streets was tabled. Messrs. Benjamin, Thalman, Spahr, Mack and Downey were appointed a committee to investigate the manner in which bridge contracts were let. Tho Council then adjourned. MEN AND WOMEN IN A FREE FIGHT. The Opening of a New Saloon Draws a Riotous and Disorderly Crowd. Nearly one hundred and fifty men ami women, white and colored, old and young, and the most abandoned of their kind, attended the “grand opening of George Zapfs saloon, at the corner of West Ohio and Columbia streets, last night. “Free beer” was the advertised attraction, and it had its usual effect. By 10 o’clock the crowd had become so great as to more than fill the place, and so noisy that their yells and ribaldry could be heard for many squares. Colored men and white women, white men and colored women indulged in a wild dance, and the spectators cheered and hooted vigorously. An hour later fighting commenced and soon became general; hut the crowd was so dense that nobody was seriously hurt, and no weapons were used. A telephone message was sent to the central station, and Superintendent Lang, Sergeant Quigley, Officers Spears, Meek, Brady, Shaffer, Bruce, Lowe, La port, hurried to the place and prepared to arrest the principal offenders. The crowd threatened resistance, and for a time the officers were driven hack by a shower of bricks. They forced their way in and captured ten people—six men and four women-r----aud while loading them in the patrol wagon they were again assaulted. Bruce and Brady were each hit with bricks, and Spears was knocked down and struck twice with a club. However, the prisoners were secured, taken to the police station and locked up. On the way tlie women shrieked, cursed and yelled vociferously, and the men added to the general clamor by singing. By the time the officers returned tho crowd had greatly dispersed, hut eleven more were arrested. In all twenty-one were locked up, including the proprietor, George Zaps, his bartender, Albert Zaps, and the following: Lizzie Harris, Lotta Johnson, Imura Hardin, Lizzie “Gall.” Hannah Watson, Carrie Mountjoy, Maud Watson, Lone Lowe, Harry Wheeler, William H. Banks, William Randolph, John Edmonds, John Parker, Ai Luther, John Harris, and. Charles Martin. Edmonds and Zaps gave bond and were released and tho remainder were locked up on charges of being prostitutes, associating with prostitutes and disturbing the peace. The Mountjoy was put in the dungeon, because she was so turbulent and quarrelsome. It was a disgraceful gathering, and one that would probably have re suited in much bloodshed, had not the police acted so promptly. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, 1 Office of the Chief Signal Officer, / Washington, Sept. 2. 1 a. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Generally fair weather; slightly warmer: variable winds. For the Upper Lake Region—Partially cloudy weather and local rains, followed by clearing and fair weather; south to west winds, shifting to northwest; slightly warmer, followed by cooler weather.

Local Observations. Indianapolis, Sept. 1. Time. Bar. jTherHum. Wind.! Weather Ran. 6:24 a. m. . 30.02158.5 73 Calm. Itw! 10:24 a. M.. 30.03(73.2 44 SE Clear 2:24F.M.. 29.95*78.3 34 S Fair 6:24p.m.. 20.92(76.51 42 S iClear 10:24 p. M.. 29.95-69.4 51 S (Clear Maximum temperature 78.3* minimum temperature, 55.4. General Observations. War Dkpatment, 1 Washington, Sept. 1, 10:24 p. m. j Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. s$ | 3 ii F r? | STATIONS. || : 3>= 3 ? St • "S’ : I : III; Bismarck,. Dak.. . 29.62 61 NW Clear. Cairo, 111 30.00 69 SW ... . Clear. Chattanooga, Tenn Chicago, HI 29.85 69 8 Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.02 69 SE Clear. Columbus, O Davenport, la 29.83 71 SW Clear. Deadwood, Dak 29.70 64 W Clear. Denver, Col 29.75 75 S Fair. Des Moines, la 29,73 71 Calm Clear. Dodge City, Kan 29.75 73 SK Clear. Ft. Assiniboiue, Mta Fort Buford, Dak... 29.57 60 W .Fair. Fort Custer, Mont.. 29.51 66 SK Clear. Fort Elliot, Tex 29.77 76 S ..... Clear. Fort Gibson, Ind. T. Fort Sill, Ind. T Galveston, Tex 29.90 84 SE Clear. Indianapolis, Ipd... 29.95 69 S (Clear. Indianola. Tex | Keokuk, la 29.82 70 8 IClear. La Crosse, Wis 29.66 72 S Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.76 74 N IClondy. Little Rock, Ark.... 29 05 72 SE -Clear. Louisville, Ky 29.98 69 Calm (Clear. Memphis, Tenn 29.99 72 XE ...-(Clear. Moorehead, Minn... 29.65 62 SW Clear. Nashville, Tenn [29.96 71 NK .....IClear. North Platte, Neb . 29.75 68 SE IClear. Omaha, Neb 20.74 74 W Clear. . Pittsburg. Fa. 30.02 64 N (Clear. San Antonio, Tex j Shreveport, La 29.93 76 NE (Clear. Springfield, IU 29.90 67 S Clear. St. Louis, M 0..,... 29.93 72 SE Clear. Stock ton,, Tex 29.85 75 SE dear. St. Paul Minn 29.65 68 SW ....Clear. Vicksburg, Miss 29.90 75| N Clear. Yankton, D. T 29.73 66 Calm jClear. NewOrleans, La.... 29.89 Bl| E Clear. Las Animas, Col 29.73 75! NW Threat’g Fort Smith, Ark.... 29.89 72jCalm ICkr. Salt Lake City, U. T 29.68 70 Calm Pair. El Paso, Tex 29.81 80| W (Fair. Mr. Rankin’s Young Women Ushers. New York, Sept. I. —At Mr. McKee Rankin’s Third-avenue Theater, the English fashion of having female ushers was introduced. Seven daintly attired young women escorted the spectators to their seats. They are an improvement over the masculine article iu the matter of celerity and politeness, bat thev offer dangerous temptations for impressionable young men in entro acts. The first night a number of the latter made ineffectual attempts to flirt with Mr. Rankin's maidens, to the evident amusement of many observers. The True Way to Cure Corns. Apply Dr. Wing’s great Corn and Bunion Remedy every night and morning for three days. Druggists, 25c, and Browning & Sloan. DIED. BARBOUR—Dr. Samuel Barbour, at his residence, No. 216 North West street, at 3:15 Monday afterboon. Further notice of the funeral will be given. C. E. KREGELO & WHITSETI’, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS, No. 77 North Delaware Streot. Telephone connection at office and residence. Carriages for weddings and parties. AUCTION SALES. TTUNT& McCURDY. RRAL ESTATE AND GBiT JL A eral Auctioneers, No. 88 East Washington street. Stocks of merchandise in city or country bought outright for cash. _ FOR RENT. FOR RENT—NEW STORE-ROOM, 15x45, OKLlav and stable; good stand for a grocery. West Indianapolis, opposite school-house.

MJB IRON WPIPE WSttk FITTINGS. Selling agents for National Tnbe r JP HB P—l Globe Values, Stop Cock*, 15nHS BLi3 8L ne Trimmings, PIPE TONGS, BJjS \m\ Gutters, Vises, taps, Hpf Stocks and Dies, Wrenches, BHU IBi Steam Traps, Pumps, Sinks, re 1 \SI hose, belting, babbit r-js-j IRj METALS (25-pound boxes), ly i Cotton Wiping Waste, white RSI | *nd eolored (100-pound bales), Ii &| and all other supplies used in com lp3§ j S! nection with STEAM, WATER : i. ' feJK and GAS, in JOB or RETAIL Wt LOTS. Do a regular steam-fitr MB Ffit ting business. Estimate and f Pg eontract to heat Millsj Shops. w Factories and Lumber Dry Houses with live or exhaust P steam. Pipe cut to order by I I iKNIGHT&IILLSON HJ ij 75 and 77 S. Penn. St. KRUSE & DEW ENTER. Successors to Thao. Kruse, Lafayette, Ind., MANUFACTURERS OF Kruse’s Patent Wrought Iron WARM AIR FURNACES And School-room Ventilating Stoves. Registers . and Ventilators, No. 54 South Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis. (Established 1835.) TEASDALE’S DYE HOUSE, 265 Walnut Street, ci^rcnsnsrA.Ti. Ladies’ Dresses Cleaned or Dyed without ripping. Gents' Clothing Cleaned and Dyed. Goods bv express. WM. R. TEASDALK. BILLIARDS ■ Manufactured by JLfSchulenburg Mfg. Cos. BRAND RAPiDS? ET ” ,T Em SAGINAW.

SOCIETY NOTICES. Masonic— capital city lodge no. 312, f. ■ andA.M. Stated meeting this (Tuesday) evening, Sent, 2, at 7:50 o'clock. JOHN H. HEAVEN, W. M. A. L. Stoner, Secretary. BENJ. BOOTH, PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT—PRO fessional and tradesmen’s books opened, posted or balanced, weekly or monthly, and monthly trial balance rendered. Investigations and examinations carefully made. Good city references. Room 60. Vauoe Block. AW NNOUNCEMKNT—THE CHAMPION REMEDY for Colic in Infants, Summer Complaint, Flux or Cholera Infantum, Ih\ Brunker’s Carminative Balsam, is challenged against any remedy in the United States for SSOO. Its reputation is unparalleled. Perfectly harmless and pleasant to take. For sale by all druggists. Laundry.— sam kee, no. 7. Indiana ave nue. Old shirts 10 New Bhirts l'ilgc Collars, per dozen 30e Cuffs, per pair 5c Ladiesare requested to give ns a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed. _ _ WANTED. _ WANTED— TO BUY CLAIMS ON INDIANA Banking Cos. D. H. WILES, Room. 1, Odd-fel-lows' Block. W" ANTED—AGENTS--IT WILL PAY ANY IN telligent man or woman wanting profitable employment to write for my illustrated circulars and terms of agency for the celebrated Missouri Steam Washer, which, by reason of its great intrinsic merit, is meeting with such phenomenal success. J. WORTH. Seventeenth street and Franklin ave., St. Louis, 'Mo. FOR SALE. __ FOR SALE ARGAND burner, SECONDhand, in good condition. 71 WestdSeventb st. IJIOR SALE—ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR ' the Weekly Indiana State JournaL Send for it FOR^SALE— HOUSES AND LOTS B ALL parts of the city. BARNARD & SAYLES, 75 and 77 East Market street. I‘x>R SALE^PECLUTBARGAINS IN SECOND-’ hand or new Engines. Boilers, Saw-mills, Heading and Stave Machinery. HADLEY. WRIGHT A CO., 113 and 125 S. Tennessee street, Indianapolis. 130 R SALE— THREE-FIFTHS OF THE CAPITAL stock of the Herald Company, a joint stock company owning the Anderson Herald, one of the best county papers in Indiana. For particulars address CHARLES L. HENRY, Anderson, Ind. I3OR SALE—STOCK OF "HARDWARE IN ONE of the most prosperous towns in sonthern Kansas; population, 4,000; county-seat; store established ten years; good, clean stock, aljput $9,000; splendid prospect for fall trade; owner wishes to sell on account of ill-health. Address WILLIAM E. CI.AKK, Independence, Kan. FINANCIAL rilO LOAN—MONEY—ON CITY PROPERTY. K. 1 C. HOWLETT, 8 Condit Block. ONEY TO LOAN AT LOWEST RATE OF INterest E. B. MARTLNDALE A SONS. ONEY AT THE LOWEST - IATES OF INTER est. J. W. WILLIAMS & 00., 3 and 4 Vinton Block. T' lb LOAN—MONEY, ON FARMS OR CITY property, at a low rate of interest. D. H. WILKS, Room 1, Odd-fellows’ Block. FIRST-MORTGAGE NOTES BOUGHT. LOANS made on the installment plan, by FRANCIS SMITH & CO., 86*9 East Market street. EWHJj FURNISH MONEY ON FARM SECUrity, promptly, at the lowest rates for long or short time. THOS. 0. DAY & CO., 72 East Market street. ___________ FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. IJOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR FARM—- ’ steam grist mill; two run 42-inch French buhra, 16-inch middlings buhr, brush machine, purifier, new cloths, good engine and boiler, frame building, neverfailing water, including twelve aeres of land on new railroad; all in good repair and doing good business —56,000. Also, for sale, two small farms; 80 sera* prairie and 13 acres timber; good house, orchard and stable; |,e, Also, 1) acres miles

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