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THE DAILY JOURNAL. irr jno. c. new,* sox. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1885. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. ■SMS INVARIABLY IV ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BT THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. Oae year. by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Bix months, by mail 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including 5unday........ 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) .25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Per copy Scents One year, by mail | $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (W'EEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Jjhm than one year and over three months, 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YOItK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. 11. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Doaring, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUTS—Union News Company. Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The Hendricks Memorial Journal. Copies of last Thursday's Journal, containing the complete account of the death of Vice president Hendricks, can be had at the counting room, loose, or in wrappers ready for mailing. BHELBYVILLE was faithful to Mr. Hendricks to the last. Ali the town came to the funeral. Sarah Bernhardt, it seems, has lately “swooned” on the stage twice in one evening. A plain, common fainting-fit would have no chance of being mentioned in a cable dispatch.

At a hanging at Norwich, England, the head of the condemned man was pulled from the body. In England but few spectators are allowed to witness an execution, so that this horrible occurrence was not made a spectacle for a curious and motley crowd. King Tiikbaw is getting scared. If he had not killed off so many of his own and his 500 wives' able-bodied relatives ho might not be bo short of help when he finds it convenient to resist the hated Britishers. Relations are Sometimes inconvenient, but it really isn’t good policy to bury them alive or burn their •yes out with hot pokers. The Mrs. Morgan who, according to her administrators, gave something like half a million dollars to her pastor, the Rev. Mr. Conkling, during her lifetime, is the same lady whose collection of orchids was lately sold for $20,000 —$180,000 less than they cost. If the fascinating Mr. Conkling had been included in the lotaud auctioned off, who knows, now, but the heirs of the estate might have * got their money back. lie is evidently a rare exotic. It is sneeringly remarked by an unregenerato exchange that oue of the fruits of the Rev. Sam Jones's revival meeting in St. Louis was the $3,500 collection on Sunday. This, certainly, was one of the fruits, and indicates more plainly than anything else that Mr. Jones's evangelizing process is the genuine thing. When conversion reaches a man’s pocket, it shows more clearly than any other outward sign that he has been truly “revived.” By the returns of tho election, as purged of .their fraud by the Superior Court of Cincinnati, all the Republican candidates for representative, with the exception of Robert Harlan, are elected. They will be admitted to their seats, and, together with the four senators, who w r ill likewise be admitted at an early date of the legislative session next month, the Republicans will have a decided majority on joint ballot—too large for the Democracy to attempt any of their trading tricks by which they hope to defeat the re-election of John Sherman for tho Senate.

Many voices were heard yesterday to express a wish that it might have been expedient for Mr. Cleveland to bo present at tho funeral, but on all sides the wisdom of his course in deciding to remain in Washington was acknowledged. While all the people of Indianapolis would have been gratified to see the chief magistrate among them to do honor to the memory of one of their citizens, the feeling that it was far better that he should not yield to his inclination, and run the risks of a journey under tho peculiar circumstances, was universally admitted. The Georgia local-option law is to be taken into the United States Court to be tested. On the application of Paul Jones, an Atlanta liquor-dealer and importer of wines, and of {Cincinnati parties interested in the Atlanta brewery, Judge McCoy, of the United States District Court, has granted a writ of injunction temporarily restraining Ordinary Calhoun from counting the ballots cn't or declaring tho result of the election of last Wednesday. The local-option law prohibits the sale of all

but native wines, but it does not prohibit the importation of foreign wines, and it has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that a permission to import carries with it the right to sell. The Cincinnati parties appear in court as having their vested rights destroyed, and they propose to test the constitutionality and validity of the law. There is a prospect of a stubborn legal fight, the result of which will have an important influence upon the solution of the great liquor problem, not only in tho South, but in the whole country. Whichever way the District Court decides, tho question will undoubtedly go to the Supreme Court for final decision.

THE CAUSE OF DEATH. There has been considerable dissatisfaction expressed by medical aud scientific men that there was no autopsy held in the case of Mr. Hendricks. Here is a man holding the second place in the gift of the first Nation of the earth struck down by death, and as to the cause of that death there is nothing to bo announced to the world except the guesses of an ordinary but reputable practitioner of medicine, who did not look upon his case as in any sense dangerous, and who waa treating him for apparently trivial ailments. No one was more surprised at this sudden death than the family doctor, and his statements throw no light upon the case whatever, except that there were a few simple and not infrequent symptoms of disorder in Mr. Hendricks's case, which were met intelligently with appropriate remedies. A little mustard and soda to stimulate and correct a disordered stomach; a dry cup as a method of depletion, at the distinguished patient’s own suggestion; a simple enema of oil and treacle, to relieve intestiual turgidity and fullness; bromides, the safest sedative, to produce rest and sleep, sum up the medical treatment as detailed by his physician, who had no doubt he would be out the next day, and in Washington by this time. This is all the medical and therapeutical history we have of the day’s illness preceding Mr. Hendricks’s sudden death. But there is a history back of all this —a rumor of a slight paralytic stroke when at Hot Springs, a few months since; a history of a fall on the back of the head, with concussion of the brain, ten years ago; also, the expressed opinion of Drs. Parvin and Yandell that Mr. Hendricks was the victim of an attack of senile gangrene. To be sure, this diagnosis Nvas laughed off by some and opposed by others. The trouble with the toe was said by one to be only a boil, and boils were the heritage of the family. Others of the half dozen physicians who saw the case said it was not a true senile gangrene, but a plain case of deepseated erysipelas, which had destroyed the toe, and was only a local and easily-limited disorder, due to pressure of the boot, and not dangerous or characteristic of any grave constitutional condition. If a common inflammation, whether erysipelatous or not, well and good; strength of body and mind and a ripe old age are possible with all the possibilities of high political preferment. But if a capillary stagnation, indicating a fatty, feeble heart, not able to propel the blood with vigor into the remote vessels of the extremities, was the real cause of the disease of the toe, the sloughing off of the first joint of that member was a signal of the gravest import It waa an announcement to the eminent counsel employed iu the case that the conservative force in the frontiers and outposts of the bodily citadel had been overmastered, the food supply cut off, and a part left to perish. This gangreno of the toe meant, to Drs. Parvin and Yandell, a possible calcification of the arteries, a loss of their elasticity, a roughening of them which would at last interfere with the smooth and regular flow of ' the blood, induce tho formation of clots, which, in time, would become detached and suddenly be swept along with the blood and obstruct the ways of life. It is quite probable that tho physicians were right, in spite of Mr. Hendricks's vigorous protest, and that his case is only another proof of the statement common among medical men, that a man is no older than his arteries. It is safe to say that Mr. Hendricks was apprehensive, and has for several years felt that there were great odds against him. Had his name come to the first instead of the second place, his physical condition would have been a matter of still greater moment And it is not at all improbable that the prognosis given by his physicians of probable early and sudden death may have been an element working against his high political ambition—to be, if not the first, the second President of the party he always served with such steadfast devotion. It is quite possible that Mr. Hendricks died from hemmorrhage of the brain, as Dr. Fletcher suggested. He may have died of paralysis of the heart, as was also suggested. The latter is regarded the more likely from his position when found, as evidently not a muscle bad moved. Certain poisons also produce almost immediate death, although all the moral surroundings refute such mere speculation. Certainly an autopsy would have revealed whether the death was at the brain or at the heart, and under any ordinary conditions a coronial investigation would have been made. The interests of science and the defense of his physicians certainly were reasons enough for lidding an autopsy. There has been no satisfactory answer, either legal or professional, to tho query what was the cause of the Vicepresident's death. The same public interest and power which determines the way and method of his funeral, his embalming and the taking of the plaster mask, should have had

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authority to put at rest for all time the speculations and theories now so rife as to the cause of Mr. Hendricks's death. The pageant attending the funeral of the late Vice-president passed off, yesterday, creditably and with becoming solemnity. Those in charge of the affair are entitled to the greatest credit for the smoothness with which everything worked, there being no semblance of a hitch from first to last. Special thanks are due to General Knefler and the superintendent of police for the perfectness of the plans and tho preservation of the best of order despite the large crowds of people thronging the stree ts. Indianapolis, and Indiana, and the Nation have paid due and proper respect to a distinguished citizen and a high official. The elaborate and complete account which the Journal presents is of an event which marks an important day in tho history of the city and the State. Mr. Blaine having been seen during the past week in close conversation with the expostmaster of Augusta and with a gentleman known to local fame as the Fire-eater of the Penobscot, tho Democratic statesmen of Maine are firmly convinced that he is working up some scheme in regard to the presidency of the Senate which will bring the man who is elected to that office under subjection to himself. For a man who, as the Democratic and mugwump organs are so fond of repeating, is dead and buried clear out of sight, Mr. Blaine is capable of causing the earth in his vicinity to rock with unexampled violence. Mugwump newspapers are pleased to express gratification over the fact that the Republican press shows no disposition to drag up dead controversies in commenting upon Mr. Hendricks, but, on the contrar}-, treats the memory of the dopartod adversary with kindness and courtesy. When it is remembered that tho worst abuse heaped upon the late Vice-president during and since the last campaign was that found iu the columns of the mugwump papers, and that “partisan” dislike found no such bitter expression, the brazen effrontery of comments of the sort mentioned can better bo appreciated. In consequence of Mr. Hendricks's death the Democrats require thirty-nine senators instead of thirty-eight to pass bills or confirm appointments obnoxious to the other side. —Springfield Republican. The Vice-president had nothing to do with the confirmation or rejection of appointments to office. Allen Cummins, of Mt Vernon, Ky., was killed by a falling limb while ’coon-hunting, on Sunday night. His uncle was killed in exactly the same way just twelve years before, to a day, and it is said that his grandfather also went that way. In time, the Cummins family will not take much interest in ’coons.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ellen Terry, the actress, is so much out of health as to distress her friends. Prince Amadeus, of Italy, ex-King of Spain, is notorious for his numerous amours. M Hi lb Elizur Wright was Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts he was offered SIO,OOO a year by certain insurance men if he would resign. He declined the offer. Gen. Robert Williams, Assistant Adjutant-gen-eral, U. S. A., who married the beautiful widow of Stephen A. Douglas, has been very 111 at Fort Missoula, M. T. About twenty young men of Newton, Kan., havo formed a club having for its purpose the lessening of the expense attached to living. They expect to make it for about $2 a week. A justice of the peace in Croton, Conn., was obliged, not long ago, to content himself with a kiss from the bride in lieu of a marriage fee. He has now put up a placard, ‘‘Terms cash." A statue recently discovered in the bed of the Tiber proves to be a Bacchus. He stands six feet high, is cast in bronze, with ivory eyes, is exquisitely modeled, and in excellent preservation. PAULINE Luoca is singing the shrewish Katharine's part in “The Taming of tho Shrew," at the Imperial Opera in Vienna. This opera, by Goetz, will be heard in the American cities in tho winter now at hand. Mmk. Modjeska has sent to the New Orleans Exposition a doll dressed by her own hands as the Scottish Queen Mary, and the costume is an exact copy in miniature of her own dress in the last act of “Mary Stuart." An Illinois farmer left a can of nitro-glycerine on the table of his cottage. It is supposed the cat pushed off the can, for after a tremendous explosion she was found clinging to a tree 500 yards away, nervous, but almost uninjured. A donkey which there seems every reason to believe was more than a hundred years old died lately at Cromerty, Scotland. Since 1779 it had been in the family of a Mr. Ross, aud how old it was when it came to that family is not known. Rutland papers tell tho story of a farmer in that neighborhood, a widower, and well-to-do, who, not long ago, wrote to a woman near by whom he had never seen, describing his oircumstances. He told her that if he did not hear from her to the contrary within two weeks he would call with a minister and marry her. No letter came, and he carried out his threat at the appointed time. The following sentence, written by Alfonso, the late King of Spain, in the autograph album of Miss Foster, the daughter of our last minister to that country, will be read with special interest since his death: “Ala Senorita Foster: El gefe del pais de la tradicion y los remerdos, que es un etusiasta admirador de las gigantescas creaciones de la libre America, del pais del parvenir.—Alfonso, Marzo, 1884." The translation of this is: “Tho chief of the country of tradition and memorios—who is an enthusiastic admirer of the gigantic accomplishments of fre3 America, the country of the future." MrruRUS Pasha, who has been the Turkish min* istei or embassador at the court of St James since 1851, is about to retire owing to his great ago, as he is now seventy-eight. He is a native of Crete, belonging to an old family in that island, by race a Greek, and a member of tho Greek Church. A Christian representative of a Mohammedan power in a Christian country, he has discharged his high functions in a manner perfectly satisfactory to the'successive Sultans who have deployed him. Ho is a man of the highest literary cultivation, speaking several modern languages; and a good classical scholar. His translation of Dante into modern Greek attests the solidity of his acquirements. He will bo succeeded in England by Rustem Pasha, also a Christian. Some years ago the late ex-Governor Coburn went to Dead river to take charge of the drive. While there some of the drivers saw a duck in the stream, and they thought it would be a fine feather in their caps if they would capture the bird and present it to their employer. Accordingly, one fine afternoon several of them set out, and, after long and wearisome toil, they captured the uufortunrte bird. Just about that time

the boss hove in sight, but never a word did he utter. At night the bird was duly presented to Mr. Coburn, who received it, and, taking it in his hands, began to stroke its feathers, remarking: “You are a fine bird, and probably cost mo between S3O and $ 10." That was all that was said, but no more of the crew left their work to catch ducks for the boss. While King Humbert, of Italy, was shooting, rocently, in the park at Monza, his gun missed fire, and when he put in another cartridge and fired he received such a shock that he thought the gun had burst and broken his arm. It is thought that the first bullet had not issued from the gun, and the second occasioning a block, it was only the excellence of the gun that prevented it from bursting. COMMENT AND OPINION. Logan’s right to bo the President pro tom. has the indorsement of his party and of nearly onehalf of his countrymen as expressed in the vote of the Electoral college.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The prohibition movement in Georgia is a menace to the political solidity of the South. For that reason, if there were no others, its growth is full of promise to the cause of intelligence and progress.—Philadelphia Press. Courage is always on the side of those who are in the right. When vigorously attacked by moral sentiment, organized vice, which lives upon public robbery, will tremble as the aspen leaf, and disappear.—Cincihnati Commercial Gazette. If the Hoar bill, which the Senate passed, had not been defeated in the House, the presidential succession would have been wisely provided for, and the President could have gone to Indianapolis without risk of any danger to the continuity of any part of the governmental mechanism.—National Republican. If the Sheridan scheme were adopted and carried out, every Indian family in the far West would be able to live comfortably, and without work, the remainder of their days. There are not fewer than five million white men in the country who would be glad to exchange places with the nomads on these terras.—Denver News. The reasonable Probititiouist, bearing in mind that the real purpose of a prohibitory law is to decrease or abolish the consumption of liquor, would not imnose on any community a greater decree of prohibition than it could enforce, aud in this way might insure the best results possible under the circumstances.—Chicago Tribune. The tendency of our time is to make religion less austere to those who profess it and more attractive to those who do not. The billiard table ought to be enlisted on the right side in the struggle between the coffee-house and the dramshop, and not abandoned to the enemy of mankind or charged with the sins of its abuse. —Chicago News. Sin ever treads close upon the even step of well-doing, and the vilest dens disgorge their habitants on occasions whou all that is noble and exalted would seem to rebuke infamy and make it skulk back abashed to its dark retreat. A carnival of thieves at the funeral of Hendricks might well inspire the pencil of Dore if he wa3 living.—Louisville Commercial. The doctrine that private property should bo inviolable except for the public good, and that oue man’s private right should not prevail over the private right of| another, is a Magna Charta principle. The contrary was not dreamed of a few years ago. But the old doctrine has gradally been breaking down, and it is not now so fully recognized as formerly.—Denver Republican. Say, for instance, that a strike and the usual accompanying boycott be unjustly enforced. Will the employer be permitted to indemnify himself for his losses by assessing a tax on the wages of his employes? Hardly. Yet it is a poor rule that will not work both ways, and, it may be added, such a rule is sure to injure its inventors in the long run.— St Louis GlobeDemocrat

Public office is a pnblio trust.. Confidence that the dead himself, could he speak, would declare that, under the “peculiar and delicate” circumstances, fidelity to this trust forbids the President’s exposure to the risks of travel and prohibits his absence from Washington till Cougress is organized, is the highest tribute of esteem that can be paid to Vice-president Hendrick’s memory.—New York Herald. The man who aspires to be a statesman without first becoming a politician may fit himself for the chair of political economy in some college, the editorship of some independent Republican newspaper, or even for a place on the Civil-service Commission, but he will never be a statesman. Mr. Hendricks was both politician and statesman. He was trusted by the people because he trusted them.—St. Louis Republican. If the staid Episcopal Church can employ unwonted agencies for the refreshment of the religious life in such a way that they neither degenerate into extravagance nor pass away in smoke when the newly-kindled fires are spent, it is fair to hope that much may be accomplished, at least in Protestant circles, in giving the sacred things of religion greater meaning and a closer relation to ordinary life.—New York Times. When Congress meets a resolution is sure to be introduced defining the relative powers of the federal legislature and the heads of depart ments. It is not to be tolerated for a moment that the head of a department shall have the right to say whatfclaws he will execute and what laws he will neglect. No responsible member of any justify the assumption by a Cabinet office?of the right to sit in review on an act of Congress.—San Francisco Chronicle. A SURPRISE FROM THE PRESIDENT. Rumor that He Will Recommend the Purchase of the Sandwich Islands. Washington Special to Detroit Tribune. Upon tho reassembling of the Senate President Cleveland will have an important surprise to lay before it to be acted upon in secret session. It is nothing less than the offer of Kalakaua to sell his kingdom of Hawaii to the United States. It is known that the Sandwich Islands have been in the market for a number of years, and, when King Kalakaua visited Japan in 1881, he made an informal offer of his dominion, but the Mikado would not then consider it. Since then, however, Japan has sent over 2,000 colonists to Hawaii to work upon the sugar plantations for the purpose of determining if those islands were a suitable place of residence for a portion of its people. This offer of sale Is not mere rumor, for the Gerraau Official Gazette contained an item, a few weeks ago, hinting at the same scheme. And only last week his Excellency J. M. Kapeua, tho Finance Minister of King Kalakaua, was in Washington and had several long interviews with President Cleveland and the Secretary of State. Governor Kapena, as he is called, was seen by your correspondent and interrogated concerning the proposed sale of Hawaii, and was dumfouuded that the scheme had leaked out to a newspaper man. He was very reticent, and politely declined to confirm the rumor, but from the significant hints which he dropped it was plaiuly seen that his mission here was of the highest importance as affecting the future of the Sandwich Islands. He is now en route home via San Francisco. It is understood that the money, in case of a trade being consummated, would' be distributed as follows: Half a’million dollars to each of the thirteen members of the Hawaiian House of Nobles and one million to each of the royal family —viz.: Kiug Kalakaua, the Queen, the Princess Lillinokalaui, Princess Lilkelike, and the Dow ager Queen Emma. In addition to the money King Kalakaua demands a plantation of 8,000 acres of land, a# nearly in a compact body as possible, in the southern portion of California, and to be free from taxation forever for himself and descendants He would then desire to become a citizen of the United States. The painful fact has been patent for several years that King Kalakaua is not a popular sovereign at home, and of course his people are entirely ignorant of any proposition for soiling them out. Perhaps the King could not deliver tho goods, but it is well known that the 60,000, all told, in his dominion would gladly hail annexation to the United States. Bonfires would be lighted ou every hill to celebrate the glorious event. The dominion could be governed as a Territory, and each of tho eight islands could send a delegate to the United States Congress. Hawaii is 2,100 miles from San Fraucisco. American gold coin is used mostly as currency, it already being legal tender there, and the exports aggregate a value of $8,000,000 annually, the chief products being sugar and rice. The United States has for years controlled nearly all the Hawaiian trade, and American merchants are located all over the domiuioa.

THE SENATE PRESIDENCY. The Question of Succession To Be Determined by a Republican Caucus. Senator Logan Constantly Growing: in Favor —Facts as to the Alleged Disability of Logan and Sherman. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washinqtox, Dec. I.—At the conference of Republican senators, which will be held on Thursday evening, the question of a successor to the late Vice president Hendricks, as presiding officer of the Senate, will probably be determined. Four years ago, when the parties were more evenly divided, it will bo remembered that Mr. Bayard was chosen for this place at first, but that after a few hours tho Republicans secured the aid of David Davis, the independent senator from Illinois, and made him their presiding officer in place of Mr. Bayard. The candidates whose names are most frequently heard here at present are Senators Edmunds, Sherman and Logan. Mr. Edmunds has already filled the position, and has acquitted himself with dignity and grace, although he was, perhitps, a little too punctilious in small matters to be an ideal presiding officer. Senator John Sherman has a great many warm supporters, and were it not for tho fact that this is an extraordinary occasion, it is likely that he would be chosen as the compromise candidate, owing to the rather extensive ill-feeling on the part of the friends of Mr. Blaine to the Vermont senator, who declined to take an active part in the campaign of a year ago. Ever since General Logan’s name was mentioned in this connection he has been growing in favor with Republicans in Washington. There is little doubt that if members of tho House had to elect the officer, Senator Logan would be chosen by a vast majority of the Republican members. As it is, senators who have been seen, while not disposed to express their preferences to any great extent, preferring rather to await the action of the caucus, are quite favorably disposed towards General Logan, and his chances seem to grow as the days pass. A Republican senator, referring to the contest to-day, said: “With so much good material to choose from, it is difficult to decide. It seems to me, however, that it would be an exceedingly graceful thing, on the part of the majority of the Senate, to •place in the chair one who has been so cordially supported for this same office by the party throughout the land. General Logan’s congressional career has been a decidedly marked one, aud it will not surprise me to find the caucus practically unanimous iu his support.”

Edinnnds’s Position—The Question of Eligibility. Washington Special. A prominent Republican senator said to-night: “I am firmly convinced that Edmunds is not a candidate for President of the Senate, and will not be under any circumstances. I have had no talk with him since my arrival here, but last December, when Logan came back to Washington, Edmunds proposed to several of the Republican senators that he should withdraw from tho presidency of the Senate, so as to admit of the election of General Logan. Mr. Edmunds, at that time, said he thought it was due the General, who had been tho candidate of his party, and was therefore entitled to the best place that his Republican associates in the Senate could give him. But you know that Logan became almost immediately entangled in the legislative fight in Springfield and was forced to go away from Washington. He did not come back at all. If he could have remained here,Mr. Edmunds would certainly have withdrawn in his favor. I am sure that Mr. Edmunds does not care for the place. He held on to it for a certain period, just as any one would who would get into it. If General Logan were to be elected to morrow and he were to become heartily disgusted with the duties of the place within a week he would hold on to it as a matter of pride during one term of Congress at least. lam sure that the Edmunds influence will be for Logan. I am certain that it will not be for Sherman.” “Do you think there is anything in the point that Logan cannot be a candidate because it is necessary before he is sworn in to elect someone else as a President in order to have the proper official administer to him the oath of office?” “There may be something in the point, but it is a technical one, so easily met that it is not worth considering. It wili not have the slightest bearing on the result. When the senators meet in caucus next Friday or Saturday, if they agree upon General Logan it will be very easy for Senator Edmunds to take the chair for five or ten minutes and then give way. You know there is no term|bf office for President pro tern. He holds at the pleasure of the Senate. If it be the Senate’s pleasure to elect a President for ten minutes,and then through a mutual understanding change him; it can be easily done. I see there has been some criticism in New York of the Republican senators because they failed to elect a President pro tem. last spring. They wero unable to do this. The failure to elect was not their fault When there is a Vice-president the Senate never elects a President pro tem., except during his absence. It has been the custom for Vice-presi-dents to give way, so as to permit such elections to take place before the close of the session. Mr. Hendricks was not out of his seat one moment during the last special session. It was intimated to him that the Republicans would like to have an opportunity to elect a President pro tem. If there is any fault in the failure to so elect, that fault was exclusively Mr. Hendricks's." “Do you think, as a matter of fact, that Logan will be elected?”

‘•I do not see how there can bo any question about it. There is no contost thus far. The Edmunds influence is for Logan, and none of us here have heard in any direct or positive way that Mr. Sherman is a candidate. The public, of course, does not understand the Senate’s conservatism in such matters. A senator who should stoop to make a canvass for himself, or ask a fellow-senator to vote for him, would lose caste directly. We will all get together the latter part of this week and talk it over, and then settle it according to the majority, I think you will find that Logan will have a pretty vigorous support from the Republicans who have been advanced on the committees, and who would have to give wav and make room for him if he i3 not elected President. You see, Logan has no place on the committees, and he is a man of such long experience there that he is entitled to a first-class chairmanship and good position upon the first class committees. I know that 1 would cheerfully give way for him if need be.” The talk of this senator fairly represents the average sentiment among the Republican senators. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, who ought to know as much about his colleague’s position as anyone, said very positively to a caller tonight that Mr. Edmunds would not be a candidate. The Vermont senator is in favor of Gen. Logan. Mr. Morrill cortainly could not be for John Sherman. It will bo remehabered that he had a strong fight with him last spring. Mr. Sherman declined to serve upon the finance committee because Mr. Morrill would not resign the chairmanship of the committee to him. Gossip About General Logan. T. C. Crawford, in New York World. General Logan, who is regarded as the coining President pro tem of the Senate, is about fiftyeight years old. The date of his birth is not given in the Congressional Directory. He belongs to the tough and hardy stock of Western pioneers. There are few men in public life to day who have his health and Btrong physical vigor. His hair is still as black as it was when he was a young man. There is hardly a gray thread in it. His mustache is beginning to bo quite gray. The intense blackness of his hair has led many to think that it might be dyed

But there are enough gray lines ia it to show that this supposition is baseless. Like all men who have preserved their physical health for a long period of years the General lives simply. He has never been a drinking man. Ho smokes in a moderate way, and is temperate in his eating. He is not very fond of swell dinners. Senators are invited out more than any other class of officials in Washington. Many senators, whose deaths have been attributed to overwork, owe the shortening of their lives to excesses at fashionable dinners. Where one attends three or four set dinners ft week there is a constant temptation to eat and drink too much. A man who can go through several \V ashington dinner campaigns without going down deserves as much congratulation an the soldier who comes out whol9 at the end of ft blooay campaign. General Logan does a great deal of manual labor. In the settling of his house, which he bought this last summer, he did every day. for • long time, several hours of carpenter work. He has a shop fitted up in one of the wings of the house, and there he has trimmed off refractory doors and done many jobs of bard physical work. The bulk of the sodding around the house was done by him in the early morning hours of last summer. The large hen-house and the doghouses back of the house are triumphs of hia carpentering skilL This active exercise has evidently done him as much good as his success m his senatorial campaign. He looks as well this fall as he has at any time since he has come to Washington. The lottery character of American politics is well illustrated by the changes which have taken place in General Logan’s fortunes during the.last six months. Last spring he was ont of office, and engaged in what appeared to be at that time an almost hopeless struggle for reelection t-o the Senate. lie had no properly, except a house in Chicago, and if he had failed at Springfield would have had a hard struggle to make up an income in the legal profession. By this I meaii that he had no practice established, as he had not given much, if any, time to the regular practice of law since he has been in public life. When he was elected senator at Springfield his bad luck changed. He returned to Washington, and in the dullest season of the year bought a handsome real estate property for $20,000, in a location where real estate wa* just beginning to move up. This property be bought entirely upon credit, as he had no money to make even a first payment. The rent of his house in Chicago is sufficient to pay tho interest and taxes upon the sum due on this property. As the Logans live plainly, the Senator expects to be able to pay for this house in the course of time from the moderate savings of his salary. The increase of $3,000 a year attached to tho acting Vice-president's office would probably enable birn to pay for his house during the three years. His book promises well, his publishers say. His real estate purchase this year promises to realize for him within the next fivo or six years three times what he gave for it- Tho change between his condition last spring and this fall is one of the sharp and marked contrasts which are so often presented in the lives of energetic, self-reliant men who refuse to succumb to bad luck.

FIGHTING AND PRAYING. Hand-to-Hand Conflict Between Polish Won*, en and a Number of Dotroit Policemen. Detroit, Dec. I.—For some time past there has been trouble in St. Albert’s Polish Catholic Church in this city. Serious charges have been made against the priost, Father Kolasinski. On Sunday Bishop Borgess sent for the books of the church, which were refused, Father Kolasinski endeavoring to get his congregation to sign a paper expressing confidence in him. Thi ’move precipitated trouble, aud it was necessary to call in the police to keep the peace. This morning the trouble culminated in a pitched battle between tho police and several hundred women of the congregation. Yesterday Father Kolasinski turned over the books of tho church, having been deposed by tho bishop. Fathers Jaworski and Dombrowski were put in temporary charge. Police Captain Mack this morning took a dozen policemen to the church to prevent disturbance. Father Jaworski attempted to hold early mass this morning, but tho congregation ejected him from the church, locking the doors after him. On their arrival tho police were assailed, and one arrest was made. The crowd was ordered to disperse, but refused to move unless the police preceded them. Tho police thereupon charged on the throng. The women fought desperately, using umbrellas and firsts vigorously, and sobs and shouts mingled. While some fought, others knelt on the stepo and prayed. After a hard fight of twenty minutes the police were victorious. TILE ARREST OF GENERAL SIIALER. He Waives Examination, and Bail Is Fixed at slo,ooo—He Protests His Innocence. New York, Dee. I— -Gen. Alexander Shaler, who was arrested last night, charged with having accepted a bribe to influence his vote as ft member of the armory board, in connection with the purchase of armory sites in this city, was taken to the office of Recorder Smith this morning. Ex Mayor Edson, also a member of the armory board was present, and expressed hia desire to become surety for General Shaler’s appearance when wanted. District-attorney Martine would not accept Mr. Edson as surety, because he had no real estate in this State. A consultation took place between the counsel and the General, after which one of the lawyers said that Shaler would waive examination. The bail was fixed at SIO,OOO. To the question if he had anything to say to the charge, the General wrote: “Under advice of my counsel, I reserve whatever I have to say until my trial, except to emphatically declare my innocence.” General Shaler sat up all night at police headquarters, in company with his two sons-in-law. Callers began to arrive from early in the morning, and were admitted to a conference with the General. Many of the callers were military men. Up to the time the General went down to the recorder's be had a constant stream cf visitors, who proffered their sympathy and services. The grand jury will investigate the matter tomorrow.

A Base Ball Deal. Providence (It. I.) Special. The amount paid for the Providence franchise by the Boston association was SO,C>OO and the check was signed to-day. Washington next year will have Hines, Gilligan, Farrell and Radford of the Grays. Denny to day refused to go with Boston and has signed with the New Yorks. The announcement is made that the franchise of the Providence Base Ball Club has been sold to President Soden of the Boston club personally. This is not a League or a Boston club affair, but it is a private transaction between Mr. Sodon and the management of the Providence club. Mr. Soden will have control of the players who were reserved by the Providence directors. liadbourn has affixed his signature to a contract to play in Boston next season. Dailey, one of the catchers, will also play in Boston. It is about as good as settled that Farrell will go to Phila* delphia, but where any of the other players will locate is unknown. Bob lugersoll on Kendricks. Pittsburg Dispatch. I was shocked to hear of Hendricks’s death. He was a great man—great in his genial, generous disposition and his many social qualities. He was a man of far more than ordinary executive disposition, and of unblemished personal reputation. But what a Democrat ho was! As I beard ons of the boys put it, "Ho was a yard wide and wove under water.” Queer Things, Indeed. Puff, do Express. A Cleveland clergyman, who used to preach iu Buffalo, thinks it a t©rriblo indictment against the theater that—as ho says—"vice is no drawback to the popularity of the actor. Whop Joseph Emmet became known as a confirmed drunkard he drew twice the audience ho had before." Verily, brother; and when Parson Downes, of Boston, became notorious as a convicted adulterer, his congregation quadrupled in size. Popular taste is indeed a queer and degradod thing.