Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1886 — Page 1

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WHEN INDICATIONS. Friday— Local snows , nearly stationary temperature, followed during Saturday by colder weather ‘MATOS?’’ Said a noted English nobleman once, U I don’t wear any!” There is where he differed from Americans. We have drawers in imitation camel’s hair, heavy silk-bound, all sizes. They are worth 50 cents a pair. You can have them for 20° You can have an Undershirt to match for another 28 cents. We make this great cut in price because we have too many of this particular pattern. You can save money by buying now, whether you need them or not, for they will probably cost more next fall when you will need them. WHEN

GREAT BARGAINS! AT THE MODEL’S CLEARANCE SALE To day we offer 500 dozen Standing Linen Collars at 10 c PER DOZEN. Regular price was 10c and 15c each. 1 - BWinter Caps worth 25c go for YOc. Jerseys very cheap. BWKE MODEL

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NEW YORK’S WORST LANDLORD. Appalling Condition in Which Some of Trinity Church’s Property Was Found. Niw York, Jan. 7. —Last November the Constitution Club anpointed a committee to examine into the condition of the tenement-homes of New York city. Last evening Dr. Gunn, chairman of the committee, made a verbal report to the club. Be said: “I have learned that Trinity Church is the owner of the worst tenement-houses in the city. Trinity Church has the universal reputation, I fled, among the wretched people who are forced to live in such places, of being the hardest and meanest landlord in New York. The policy of the Trinity Church corporation is to never make repairs on a tenementhouse, but to let it actually fall to pieces, until no one, however wretched, ran live in it. Then the corporation tears it down and builds a store or warehouse, or a comKratively expensive flat-house. It never spends i money to improve the condition of the poor. I may seem to be making sweeping accusations, but I know whereof I speak. Let any one who wishes to verify my statements go to the buildin* No. 34 Laight street, which is owned by Trinity Church, and is Inhabited by 200 peopie. ,On the ground floor on the Laight-street side is a liquor store, although Trinity Church professes never to rent to liquor-dealers. The building is in the most terrible condition imaginable. The floors of the halls are covered with filth from overflowed sinks and closets. The halls are so dark that it is almost impossible to see one’s hand before one's face. The stairways are broken. The skylights on the top floor are kept fastened, and how any humau beings can live in such a den it is difficult to imagine. No. W atts street is another tenement-house Pawned by Trinity Church, and rented to its occupants directly from Trinity Church office. My ■attention was called to it by an outbreak of scar Htet fever some months ago. The father of the gick children went to Trinity office and complained of the defective plumbing. He was told that if he didn’t like it he could get out. The eellar, gentlemen, was filled a foot deep with * sewage that had leaked from the broken sewer pipes. The floors of the halls were so covered with filth from the same source that it deadened f-the sound of one’s footsteps. The Board of Health was notified, and was forced to order k Trinity to make some repairs, as scarlet fever was a contagious disease.” €3ol. 8. V. B. Crugar, controller of the Trinity Church corporation, says that of the places men tinned by Dr. Gunn, only one belongs to Trinity; Uiat the eburch keeps its property in repair, and i does more for its tenants than most of tenement (proprietors W Some favor a tariff for revenue only, and some ■a tariff with incidental protection, and some a tariff for protection, per se; hut a l&rge majority favor the free use of Salvation Oil for cuts and

THE DE FREYCINET CABINET. Complete List of the Gentlemen Who Succeed the Brisson Ministry. The New Cabinet Creates No Enthusiasm, and the Prediction Is Made that Its Lease of Power Will Be of Brief Duration. Irish Loyalists Fearful Lest Home Rule Be Granted the Nationalists. Additional Information as to the Destitution n the West Coast of Ireland—lllness of the Princess of Wales. THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. List of the Cabinet as Reorganized—Prediction that Its Life Will Be Short. Paris, Jan. 7.—The new Cabinet was announced in the Official Gazette this afternoon. It is as follows: M. De Freycinet, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Sarrien, Minister of the Interior. M. Sadi Carnot, Minister of Finance. M. Goblet, Minister of Public Instruction. M. De Mole, Minister of Justice. M. De Velle, Minister of Agriculture.! General Boulanger, Minister of War. M. Auber, Minister of Marine and the Colonies. M. Barhaut, Minister of Public Works. M. Granet, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. The composition of the new Ministry creates no enthusiasm. The Cabinet will, it is believed, be short lived. A meeting of the new Cabinet was held this afternoon, at the residence of President Grevy. M. Lockioy will also have charge of industrial affairs. The control of Tonquin, Annara, Cambodia and Madagascar has been transferred from the Ministry of Marine to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. M. Lockroy, the new Minister of Commerce, accepted at the last moment. His acceptance was due to the fact that M. Do Freycinet had relinquished his purpose of appointing M. Fallieres Minister of the Interior, the Radicals having objected to such appointment M. Lockroy will secure the support of the Radicals for the support of the government. It is expected that General Boulanger, the War Minister, will recall General de Courcey from Tonquin. M. Aube, Minister of Marine and Colonies, is opposed to a progressive colonial policy. AL De Mole and Barhaut Ministers of Justice and of Public Works, respectively, have not heretofore taken leading political positions. M. Clemenceau is pleased with the new Ministry, and .has promised to give it hearty support. M. Rochefort advocates giving the Cabinet a fair trial.

THE HOME-RULE AGITATION. Irish Loyalists Apprehensive of the Possible Action of the English. London, Jan. 7. —At a meeting of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union, to-day, Maj. F. J. Saunderson, Loyal member of Parliament for the north division of Armagh, made a speech in which he said he feared that the Radicals would conHomo Rule to the Nationalists. If home rule should be granted, the Loyalists, he said, would be compelled to be up and fight; otherwise their throats would be cut. Col. T. Waring, member of Parliament for the north division of Down, also spoke. He said that if the government intended cutting the Loyalists adrift he prayed that it would at least leave their hands untied, so they might render a good account of themselves. The Telegraph says that the Earl of Kilmore, who is an Irish representative, a peer, and a Conservative, will, early in the coming session of Parliament, make a motion to the effect that the office of Lord-lieutenant of Ireland can be abolished with advantage. The Dally News says that a resident of Dublin, who has been making inquiry there concerning the opinion of tho Protestant ministry in that city on the subject of home rule in Ireland, learns that many Protestants do not oppose home rule.

THE STARVING ISLANDERS. A Case of Destitution Illustrative of the General Condition of the People. London, Jan. 7.—Mr. Frederick Bossy, the Cable News relief commissioner of the West of Ireland, has succeeded in reaching Innisboffin island, which had been ent off from communication with the mainland by storms of wind, hail and enow. Id a telegram jnst received he stated that the condition of many of the islanders is even more pitiful than has hitherto been reported. The previous reports by Mr. Brady, Mr. Davitt, and others were based upon observations made some weeks or months ago. Since then the supply ot even the poorest kind of food has greatly decreased, and the distress has been intensified by severe snow-storms. Mr. Busay instances one case of destitution which, he sajs, is by no means exceptional, bub is fairly typical of hundreds of cases on the island. A fisherman named Davis, who has a wife and eight helpless children, had his fishing season ruined by storms and the defective character of his boat and tackle. He cultivated a small patch of land, which was planted with potatoes. The potato crop almost entirely failed, the crowing vegetables being soaked by drenching rains which penetrated the peaty soil. All the potatoes dug, even including those which were put aside for this year’s seed, have long since been eaten, and the usual food of the family now consists of thin barley broth, potato parings and se&weed. Such a luxury as a scrap of meat has not been seen in the house for months. The pigs of any comfortable farmer fare much better than this family does. Three of the children are prostrate for the lack of food. The others are pinched and worn with hunger. The mother does all the spinning and knitting that she can get to do, but the maximum amount that she can earn is two shillings per week. The father is absent begging for work or food. The mother says she is only trusting to the mercy of God to enable them to survive the winter. KING ALFONSO'S LOVES. A Royal Scandal Which Is Furnishing Gossip for All Spain. Madrid, Jan. 7.—A scandal growing out of the irregular amours of the late King Alfonso, which was winked at during bis life, and was suppressed by common consent after his death, is now giving trouble to his executors. The yonng King is said to have had many affairs of gallantry with various kinds of ladies, especially daring the period of 1878-9, intervening between the death of Queen Mercedes and his marriage to Queen Christina. It was at this time, when the royal widower was not yet twenty-one years old, that be met the Senorita Borghi, who was then a singer of light roles in the Opera Comique, of Madrid.

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His patronage obtained for her a splendid en8 a cement at the Teatos Real, and she soon ecame the rage among the young bloods of Madrid. King Alfonso had hitherto only visited the senorifa occasionally, but he became annoyed at the swarm of admirers, and he established her in a small castle near Madrid, and became her sole protector. A few months later he was married to the Archduchess Maria Christina, of Austria, and his visits to the Borghi castle became less frequent Senorita Borghi has a child of which she claims King Alfonso was the father. The child is a boy, and is several months older than the baby queen, Mercedes. If he had been born in wedlock the question of the Spanish succession would speedily be settled in his favor. The senorita does not claim that the boy xs legitimate, but she is making a stout fight in his behalf. She has sued the King’s executors for the maintenance of herself and son in suitable state, and she produces various documents in which King Alfonso promised to give her the castle in which she 1 ived and to make suitable provision for herself and child in any event The executors say that the child’s claim is baseless, and that the pretended letters from King Alfonso are forgeries. It is probable, however, that the matter will be privately compromised to avoid a posthumous scandal affecting a King of Spain. FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Why the Work of Widening the Suez Canal Is Delayed. Paris, Jan. 7. —The work of widening the Suez canal is delayed, owing to the refusal of the Egyptian government to sanction a modification of the treaty so as to allow the interest on the proposed loan of £1,000,000 to be paid out of the loan itself, instead of from the canal, as stipulated by the treaty.. A further ground offered by Egypt for her refusal is that the concession to M. De Lessens for the canal provides for a width of forty-four metres, and that the projected increase to sixty-six metres is a deviation therefrom. The object of Egypt’s refusal is supposed to be a hope that *it will eventually get an indemnity for consenting to the widening of the canal. The absence of M. De Lesseps from Egypt will also cause further delay in the settlement of the difficulty. The King of Bavaria's Latest Freak. London, Jan. 7.>-The King of Bavaria is indulging in anew freak which may have serious consequences of international importance unless great care is exercised. He has left his domains incognito, and is now in Paris. He travels under the name of Herr Ludwig, and his personality is not suspected by most of those with whom he has come in contact in Paris. If the public should get word of his presence it is probable that the rage of the people would be aroused, and that the city would again be the scene of a violent anti-German demonstration. Mr. Pendleton’s Alleged Defamer. Berlin, Jan. 7. —Mr. F. Raine, the United States consul-general in this city, denies that he is in any way connected with the Cincinnati correspondence defaming Mr. Pendleton, the United States minister to Germany. Mr. Raine says he has quitted editorial life and has written nothing for the press since last May. The whole matter appears to him to be a plot of evil-minded persons. He says his relations with Mr. Pendleton are of the most friendly nature. The French and the Panama Canal. London, Jan. 7.—The Times’s Paris correspondent says: ‘‘The French government will, at the request of the Panama Canal Company, send M. Rousseau to inspect and report on the condition and prospects of the Panama canal. If the report is favorable, a loan will be granted the company to push the work to completion. If it is adverse, the enterprise will be allowed to collapse, and the government will assume the responsibility.” _ % Massacre of Christians In Tonquin. Paris, Jan. 7.—General De Courcey, commander of the French forces in Tonquin, telegraphs the War Office as follows: “During the latter part of December rebels destroyed the Catholic houses at Ughean, Aunam, and killed a French missionary and five hundred native Christians. A column of French troops were sent in pursuit of the rebels. It overtook and routed them, and captured their arms and ammunition.” Illness of the Princess of Wales. London, Jan. 7.—The Princess of Wales is prostrated with a serious illness. The symptoms were developed last week, and were attributed to pleurisy. The appropriate remedies were administered, and the disease was arrested. Sir Oscar Clayton, surgeon to the Prince of Wales, is in constant attendance on the Princess. France and Madagascar. London, Jan. 7.—A dispatch from Tamatave says: “The negotiations for the settlement of the differences between France and Madagascar are still in the elementary stages. The Malaeassy officials stubbornly reject some of the conditions recently submitted by France, and it is expected that the negotiations will end in failure. ”

Cable Notes. The marriage of Miss Gladstone will take place in London on Feb. 2. Comte de Alfred Frederick Pierre Falloux, French politician and author, is dead. The Australian harvest is over. Ninety thousand tons of wheat will be available for export. A band of Nihilists recently broke into the postoffice at Rostoff and stole 13,000 roubles and many important letters. The Pope intends to send a letter to Emperor William, asking him to grant to Catholic missions in Germany the rights that Protestant missions enjoy. The returns issued by the English Board of Trade show that during the month of December the imDorts decreased, as compared with that month of last year, £1,930.383, and the exports decreased £635,675, as compared with December of 1884. St. Jackson at Columbus. Columbus, 0., Jan. 7.—The prospects are that the bauquetof the Jackson Club, to-morrow, will he a grand success. The hall is being elaborately decorated, and all the arrangements will be concluded in due time. A letter has been received from President Cleveland as to the manner in which the accomplishment of the “greatest good to our people” can be had, and he adds: “No nigher mission was ever intrusted to a party organization, and I am convinced that it will be honestly and faithfully performed by a close sympathy with the people in their wishes and needs. " Disappearance of Charles M. Allen. St. Louis, Jan. 7. —Mr. Charles M. Allen, superintendent of the Olive and Market-street railways, left his home, last Saturday evening, to go to Kansas City to see his sick mother, since when, up to a late hour to-night, ho has not been heard of. It appears that Mr. Allen has been suffering from nervous depression and insomnia, caused by overwork, for some time past, and it is thought he has wandered away during temporary aberration of mind. Losses by Fire. New Orleans, Jan. 7.— Johns’s restaurant, No. 19 Union street, was burned last night. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. The fire is still burning, but apparently under control. Philadelphia, Jan. 7.— A fire occurred this morniDg in the third story of 715 Sansom street, and the adjoining house. A boy four years old, the son of Mrs. Hardin, the ianitrees, perished in the flames. The financial loss is slight. Suffocated by Gas from a Coke Stove. Pittsburg, Jan. 7.— Gabriel Bachter and his son Joseph, aged fifteen, were suffocated tonight by gas from a coke stove used in drying plaster in anew house,

HOWTO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Yalnable and Interesting Testimony Concerning Our Financial Danger. International Action in Relation to Silver Can Only Be Secured by Prompt Suspension of Coinage by the United States. A Discouraging Coolness Arising Between Messrs. Bynnm and Holman, Cansed by the Action of the Former on the Question of Changing the Ilouse Rules —Other Washington News. THE SILVER QUESTION. A Solution Can Only Be Reached by the United States Suspending Coinage. Washington, Jan. 7. —The President, to-day, iu answer to a resolution adopted by the Senate on Dec. 9, transmitted copies of the correspondence showing the action taken by him to ascertain the sentiments of foreign governments in regard to the establishment of an international ratio between gold and silver. The correspondence is accompanied by a letter from Secretary Bayard to the President, in which he say 8, in part: “It has been the object of this department and its agents, whilst avowing our readiness to co-operate, not so much to impress our own opinions and wishes upon others as to obtain well-considered and independent views from the most influential, responsible and competent sources, in ofder to lay before Congress, first, the actual status of the metallic currency in the various European countries; secondly, the intentions and policies of those governments in relation to the subject, with details of their action up to the present time. It is believed the accompanying letters, from the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, Frauce and Germany, respectively, summarize and convey the true condition of the opinions and the intentions of the governments and people to whom they have been severally accredited.” The letter then mentions the designation of Mr. Marble as a confidential agent to obtain information upon the subject, and says no separate report by Mr. Marble has been made, because the results of his investigations appear fully in the letters of Messrs. Phelps, McLane and Pendleton. The correspondence opens with a letter from Secretary Bayard to Manton Marble, notifying him of bis designation to visit Europe upon the mission above indicated. Letters were also addressed to our ministers at London, Paris and Berlin, notifying them qt Mr. Marble’s visit, and asking their co-operhtion. A reply was received from Minister Phelps, under date of London, Oct. 20, 1885, in which he gives the result of conferences by himself and Mr. Marble with the leading members of her Majesty’s government, and says: “From these as well as other sources, I am satisfied that the British government will inflexibly adhere to their past and present poliev in respect that they will not depart from the goldstandard now and so long established; that they will not become a party to any international arrangement or union for the creation of a bimetallic standard at a common ratio between gold and silver, for the purpose of making both an unlimited legal tender; nor adopt such double standard in Great Britain. On this point both political parties quite concur, and I believe if either were to attempt to introduce a departure from the existing money standard, it would be driven out of power by the force of public opinion.” A reply from Minister McLane at Paris, dated Oct 1, 1885, expresses his opinion that, “while France would gladly receive the intelligence that the United States would adopt the French ratio of 15J of silver to 1 of gold, no consideration of future consequence could induce her to adopt tho American ratio of 16 to 1; still less would she adopt any higher ratio to assimilate the present commercial value of silver with the value of gold, nor Would she consent, at any ratio, now to permit an unrestricted or even a limited coinage of silver at her mints. The present "purpose of her government and people is to maintain, if possible, the two metals at their present ratio of 15$ to 1 in domestic circulation.and international exchange.” Mr. McLane says that the facts obtained naturally suggest that the United States, the greatest gold and silver couutry in the world, should snspend its silver coinage in order to utilize it, not only for circulation, but as part of its treasure. Minister Pendleton, in his reply, dated Berlin, Oct. 19, 1885, gives his conclusions briefly, as follows: “The adhesion of Germany to an international bimetallio union, such as was proposed by the United States and France, in 1885, can scarcely be expected, it seem 9 to any limit of time now to be predicted. The co-operation of Germany in such a union may be sought with fair hopes of success whenever it becomes pos sible to include in such union England and Russia, the former of which seems to cleave to gold, while the latter staggers under the evils of a depreciated and largely-fluctuating paper money. The adhesion of England, at least, is certainly now. and would probaly, for an indefinite period, be regarded by Germany as a sine qua non.” w Consul-general Walker, in a letter to the Secretary of State, under date of Paris, Aug. 20, 1885, reviews in Retail the changes of sentiment of foreign countries in relation to monetarymatters, as shown in the proceedings of the monetary conference, and expresses the opinion that nothing will so much hasten the adoption in Europe of the monetary policy which we desire to have adopted, as the suspension of silver coinage in the United States. The correspondence also includes a copy of the agreement entered into by the Paris monetary convention, the essential parts of which have been published. w

BYNUM AND HOLMAN. A Slight Coolness Arises Between Two Distinguished Democratic Congressmen. Special to tbs Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 7.— To-day the Journal correspondent called the attention of Representative Bynum to the recently published interview with Representative Holman, who is quoted as saying Mr. Bynum voted against a proposition to change the rules of the House without knowing what the proposition was, etc. Mr. Bynum said: “I did not see Mr. Holman’s interview until recently. I did not make up my mind on the subject of a change of the rules until I had heard the question fully discussed.. I then concluded to support the report of Messrs. Carlisle, Morrison, Reed and Hiscoek. The report proposed

to strike out of Rule 21, Clause 3, the following provision: “ *Nor shall any provision in any such bill or amendment thereto changing existing law be in order, except each as. being germane to the sub-ject-matter of the bill, shall retrench expenditures by the reduction of the number and salary of the offices of the United States, by the reduction of the compensation of any person paid out of the Treasury of the United States, or by the reduction of the amounts of money covered by the bill; provided, that it shall be in order to further amend such bill upon the report of the committee havine jurisdiction of the subjectmatter of such amendment, which amendment being germsne to the subject-matter of the bill shall retrench expenditures.’ “I was opposed to this principle of legislation for a number of reasons. Beiug an Indianian, it is but natural that I should think the modes of legislation in that State were the best. Every law in onr State can embrace but one subject, which must be expressed in the title. To me it appeared to be entirely out of order to tack on to appropriation bills amendments changing and repealing laws foreign to the subject Under the old rule, the committee on appropriations could refuse to appropriate money for the payment of just claims, and there was no way of getting them before the House, because no amendments were in order except they decreased expenditures. Last session the appropriations committee refused to pay the claim of Mr. Haywood, for improving Market street in frontof the postoffice, in Indianapolis, and there was no remedy—the action of the committee, however arbitrary, was a finality, because if it had been sought in the House to have the sum inserted it would have been objected as not being a 'reduction of the amounts of money covered by the bill.’ “The report of the committee,” continued Mr. Bynum, “was sustained by an overwhelming vote. Mr. Holman demanded the yeas and nays, and upon a count by the Speaker we failed to get them; he then demanded a count by tellers. I voted against his amendment, and when it was fully demonstrated by a count by the Speaker that be was defeated four to one, I did not think it was necessary to spend an hour calling the roll. All I wish to say is that I represent the Seventh district, and while I do so I propose to vote as I please upon all questions, keeping nothing in view but the interests and welfare of my constituents. So far as Mr. Holman’s campaigning before the people, in this question, is concerned, if he could not make a better showing than he did in the House it would not be necessary for anybody to oppose him. I also favored a distributing of the appropriation bills, because I thought a division of the power, labor and responsibility of the committee on appropriations between the several committees proposed would facilitate legislation and give to private individuals a better show for their rights. The objections advanced by Mr. Holman, that a distribution of the labor would increase expenditures, I did not think tenable. While I favor economy, lam in favor of the government paying her honest debts and opposed to reducing appropriations at the expense of the laboring classes. On account of the very economical views of the committee last session, Mr. Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, last spring, was compelled to reduce the wages of ,the laborers employed in public buildings throughout the country 30 per cent. There are a number of claims due soldiers for back pay, bounty, etc., that cannot be paid because the committee on appropriations of last session refused to appropriate sufficient money. It may be that appropriations will be increased; I have no doubts but they will, but not unnecessarily so.”

A SHAMELESS CLAIM. The Attempt of James Monroe’s Heirs to Obtain Money from the Government. Washington Special. A few years ago it occurred to some remote relatives of James Monroe, once President of the United States, that they might make som6 money out of their relationship, and they got a bill introduced into Congress giving them a sura equal to Mr. Monroe’s half pay as a lieutenantcolonel of the Virginia line from March 3, 1783, the close of the revolutionary war, to July 4, 1832, the date of the ex-President’s death. The bill did not travel very very far on the path toward enactment, and to-day it was reintroduced by Senator Cockrell, who explained that he did it by request; that he had always voted against such bills, and should vote against this one. The legal representatives, as they style themselves, of James Monroe stand a very small show of gettingthe mouey they are after. Under various resolutions of the Continental Congress officers of the revolutionary army became entitled to half pay for life from the close of the war. The officers wanted capital to begin civil life with, and the citizens were jealous of a pension list additional to the invalid pensioners, so the officers memorialized Congress to eive them a lump sum equal to full pay for five years in 6 per cent securities, instead of half pay for life. Congress agreed to the proposition, and the officers commoted their claims for half pay on terms entirely advantageous and satisfactory to themselves, and until their children and grandchildren were grown up no further claims on their behalf were heard of. At various times in tho last fifty years descendants of revolutionary officers and descendants of their sisters, cousins, and even aunts, have represented that this commutation was forced upon the officers, and was disadvantageous to them, and bills have been introduced giving the heirs or next of kin of such officers tho half-pay they would have been entitled to had they not commuted for an immediate payment equal to five years’ full pay. In February, 1876, Senator Morrill made a report on a bill of this kind, which gave a foil history of the action of the Continental Congress and of the army officers, and showed the preposterous character of the claims of the next of kin, many of whom are descendants of remote connections of the officers concerned, and not a few of whom are descended from Tories or Englishmen. But in regard to the present bill there is the farther objection of Senator Morrill that James Monroe was never a lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army. He did report for duty to General Washington, and was by him sent home to Virginia to raise a regiment, but he never raised it, and never was a colonel or lieutenant-colonel. The pay of a lientenant-colonel was $720 a year. Half pay from 1783 to 1831 would be $17,280.

MIN OR MATTERS. A Movement for an Inquiry Into the Charges of Bribery in the Case of Senator Payne. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 7.— There is a movement quietly taking form here, by the aid of certain Ohio Republicans and Democrats, to bring on a thorough investigation of the means and steps •which culminated in the election of Henry B. Payne, United States senator from Ohio, in place of George H. Pendleton. It is openly charged here and in Ohio by Democrats, as well as Republicans of the Buckeye State, that Payne’s election was secured by means of the baldest and boldest bribery; that scores of men, who were elected to the Ohio Legislature as avowed partisans of George H. Pendleton, were induced by bribes of money to throw over Pendle ton, and vote for Payne. It is to be hoped that a thorough investigation of this dark episode in Ohio politics will be entered upon at once, and, if Payne was elected by bribes, that he will be ignominiously expelled from the Senate. Mr. Vance and Civil-Service Reform. Washington Special. Senator Vance does not believe in civil-service reform, and he is not disposed to believe that anybody else really believes in it So he has introduced a bill to repeal tho law. “I am not one of those who think that the fodder ought to be given to the ox that does no work, nor am I in favor of putting in office the shirk who does not belong to any party, and who Ares away at one or the other just as it happens to suit him. lam not in favor of potting mugwumps or [Continued on Second Page.]

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COMMITTEES OF THE EOUSE. The Anxiety of Members Relieved by Announcement of the Selections. Mr. Randall Retains His Place at the Head of the Appropriations Committee, and Mr. Morrison Is Chief of Ways and Means. Indiana Receives More than Usnal Consideration from the Speaker, Both Republicans and Democrats Sharing in the Good Things at Mr. Carlisle’s Dis-posal-List of the Appointments.

INDIANA’S SHARE. The Hoosier Delegation Fares Better than Usual at the Speaker’s Hands. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 7. —lndiana received ber due portion of consideration by Speaker Carlisle in forming his committees. Altogether, the Hoosier delegation fared better than that of any other State. It has more prominence and more positions than any other delegation of the same jiumber of men. General Browne was returned to the ways and means committee, wiih an advancement of position This is what the General has wanted, and he will bo very well satisfied with it. Mr. Cobb, who is retained as chairman of the public lands committee, is delighted, as he has won quite a reputation in public land matters, and expects to figure more prominently in this Congress than ever before. Colonel Matson goes back to the chairmanship of invalid pensions, a prominent committee, and one for the duties of which he is well adapted. Mr. Holman takes third rank on appropriations, where he has been heretofore, and is given second place on American ship building, which may have important duties to perform, since subsidies for the establishment of American lines of steamships are talked of. Mr. Howard, of the New Albany district, is given positions on two prominent committees, which is unusual for a new member. He goes on the hanking and currency and claims committees. Mr. Bynum is ou the coinage, weights and measur63 committee, which, since the agitation of the silver question, is one of the most important committees in the House, and on the commerce committee, which has s,lways taken high rank among the committee. Judge Lowry is second on the electioas committee, which is about the fourth committee in importance in the House, and is made chairman of the committee on expenditures in the Treasury Department—a committee of no importance whatever, as it seldom meets and has no duties to perform worth mentioning, but which gives him a clerkship to dispose of. Maj. Steele stands at the head of the Republicans on the military affairs committee, the choice of positions to him. He did not want any other place, and is therefore suited perfectly. He is one of the best posted men on military affairs in the House, and is takes as authority in such matters. Judge Ward is second on postoffices and post-roads, a committee which, since it will have the formation of an appropriation hill, is on) of the most prominent and one having the most far-reaching influence of any in the House. Judgo Ward does not need any more committee duties, but he is given a place on expenditures in the postoffice department Mr. Kleiner ranks fourth on the Mississippi river and third on war claims, on which committee is Mr. Johnston, who is also on Judge Lowry's committee on expenditures in the Treasury department Mr. Owen desired to go just where he was assigned—on public buildings and grounds, where he can best serve his constituents, and especially in looking after the interests of his bill providing for a public building at Logansport. He also has a position on the military committee. Mr. Ford is at the end of/ the committee on the District of Columbia, where he cannot serve his constituents, and has a place on revision of laws, an inconsequential committee.

THE CO3IPLKTE LIST. Names of Members of House Committees, as Announced by the Speaker. To the Western Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 7. —ln the House, to-day, on the conclusion of the call of States for introduction of new bills, Speaker Carlisle read the list of committees. The first name on each committee is that of the chairman. Tho complete list is appended. Committee on Ways and Means—Messrs. Morrison of Illinois, Mills of Texas. Hewits of New York, McMillan of Tennessee, Harris of Georgia. Breckinndee of Arkansas, Mayberry of Michigan, Breckinridge of Kentucky, Kelley of Pennsylvania, Iliseock of New York, Browne of Indiana, Reed of Maine, McKinley of Ohio. Appropriations —Messrs. Randall of Pennsylvania, Forney of Alabama, Holrnan of Indiana, Townshend of Illinois, Burns of Missouri, Cabell of Virginia, LeFevre of Ohio, Adams of New York, Wilson of West Virginia, Canuon of Illinois, Ryan of Kansas. Bntterworth of Ohio, Lone of Massachusetts, McComas of Maryland, Henderson of lowa. Coinage, Weights and Measures Messrs. Bland of Missouri. Lanham of Texas, Seymour of Connecticut. Hemphill of South Carolina, Norwood of Georgia, Scott of Pennsylvania, McCreary of Kentucky, Bynum.of Indiana, James of New York, Rockwell, of Massachusetts, Little of Ohio, Felton of California, Fuller of lowa, Toole of Montana. Rivers and Harbors—Messrs. Wills of Kentucky, Blanchard of Louisiana. Jones of Alabama, Murphy of lowa, Gibson of West Virginia, Stewart of Texas, Carlton of Michigan, Cachings of Mississippi, Glover of Missouri, Henderson of Illinois, Bayne of Pennsylvania. Stone of Massachusetts, Burleigh of New York, Grosvenor of Ohio. Markham of California. Foreign Affairs—Messrs. Belmont of New York, Clements of Georgia. Cox of North Carolina, Singleton of Mississippi, Worthington of Illinois, Daniel of Vermont, McCreary of Kentucky, Crain of Texas, Rice of Massachusetts, Wait of Connecticut, Ketcham of New York, Phelps of New Jersey, Hitt of Illinois. Naval Affairs—Messrs. Herbert of Alabama, Hewitt of New York, Wise of Virginia, Ballentine of Tennessee, McAdoo of New Jersey, Norwood of Georgia, Lore of Delaware, Sayers of Texas, Harmer of Pennsylvania, Thomas of Illinois, Goff of West Virginia, Boutelle of Maine, Buck of Connecticut Pablic Lands —Messrs. Cobb of Indiana, Henley of California, Van Eaton of Mississippi, Forao of Ohio, Laffoon of Kentnoky, Stevens of Missouri, Landis of Illinois, Mcßae of Arkansas, Strait of Minnesota, Anderson of Kansas, Paysoa of Illinois, Stephenson of Wisconsin, Jackson of Pennsylvania, Voorheos of Washington Territory. Territories—Messrs. Hill of Ohio, Springer of Illinois, Spriggs of New York, Burns of Georgia,