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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW * SON. *?■— 1 - 1 - —-*=■■ ■ WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. II bath, Correspondent. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1886. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION, TEEMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BT THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including 5unday.......... 14.00 Bix months, by mail 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three by maiL 3.00 Three monfbs, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) .25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) .One year SI.OO I>ess than one year and over three months, 10c per .month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agent* 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 Exchango in Europe, 449 Strand. * PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des C&pucines. .NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 This is a reform administration. If you don't believe it, ask Mr. Bynum and Barnoy Conroy. The United States Citizens' Law and Order League will meet in convention in Cincinnati in February. It is not known that any delegates from Vincennes will be present. Francis Murphy, the celebrated temperance apostle, concludes that it is about time for temperance people to put some burdens upon the liquor traffic. A sensible conclusion. A MAN has been arrested at Kokomo and ■ taken to Illinois on a charge of grand larceny. *Wby not compromise the charge by appointing him to the railway mail service at Indianapolis? Mr. Vilas will probably regard Mr. Barney Conroy’s services in the penitentiary and othl&r prisons as the result of “indiscretions. ” He’s a good enough reformer to supplant a Union veteran. Mr. Creklman is a regular benevolent society in himself. Just let a poor, needy man go to him for employment and he gets it, and no questions asked. Your Democratic “worker” knows his friends by instinct.

There is good reason why Pension Commissioner Black should "stand by his guns” in such awful silence. If they are loaded, as he claims, be had better fire them off now and give the country and himself a rest. Inquiring Stranger: Yes, there are some Democrats in Indianapolis who have not been in the House of Refuge or the penitentiary; these persons, however, do not stand any chance of getting into the postal service. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, very strongly and pertinently opposes the unconstitutional and dangerous proposition of Senator Sherman respecting the settlement of the count of a disputed electoral vote for President It is easier to awaken popular interest in the erection of a Y. M. C. A. building than in a monument for a deceased politician. 'The American people are practical, and want to put their money where it will do the most good. The Postmaster-general cau find nothing in Mr. Dowlhig’s boast of having acted as a briber worse than indiscretion. It is just the kind of ‘•indiscretion’' that would be blazoned to the world if a Republican were guilty of it. Great is Reform, and Cleveland is its prophet. The four contesting Democratic senators before the Ohio Legislature profess to desire ft thorough investigation of the alleged election frauds at Cincinnati, but waut to vote on them! The accused will please be seated in the jury-box and assist in making up the verdict. Congressman Bynum does not want to bear the cross alone. Conroy’s appointment was recommended by the leading Democrats of the city and State. It was, in short, a representative Democratic appointment, and Mr. Bynum properly and justly objects to shouldering all the blame. And, by the way, Mr. Conroy’s appointment will be revoked. The Board of Aldermen very sensibly declined to concur with the Council’s proposition to turn Tennessee street into a race-course, end very inseneiblj declined to recede from its Indefensible action respecting members who fcliould appear in their seats drunk. The Board insists that it is essential to have a rule on that subject, evidently expecting a number of members to disgrace themselves. With no wish to apologize for the awful crime committed by Calvin Simpson, near Henderson, Ky., in murdering Mrs. Graves, we cannot refrain from declaring his speedy lynching a murder, nothing less. Superficially, the evidence indicates that the fellow was

insane. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and his every act reported was that of a madman. Hanging him without a chance to determine his mental responsibility wa3 murder, and it is quite safe to say that the leading lynchers were murderers by instinct. This is true in nine cases out of ten, and the probabilities are that it was in this instance.

HE. CLEVELAND’S COLLAPSE. The campaign of 1884 is not so far away that its salient features have been forgotten. It is not so long ago but it is recalled that the Hon. Grover Cleveland was set up as the model of official integrity. He was the Great Man of bis day, the Reformer, a man of such force of character whose virtues were “that tower of strength which stood four-square to all the winds that blow.” It was in the nature of sacrilege to hint that he was probably no better that many another man that could be named. The Democrats saw in him the sincerity of Jefferson, the austere honesty of Jackson; and the mugwumps saw even more, for they insisted that he was a lusus natune, a man vastly better and stronger than his party. While many Democrats seemed to glory in the fact that his private character was smutched, the mugwumps were only too glad to condone a “little thing like that” in order to promote a man destined by a kind Providence to do so much for civil-serv-ice reform. If any confirmation of this anteelection cause for adulation were needed, it was presented a year ago last December in an open letter, penned on the blessed Christmas day. George William Curtis, chief of the mugwump sanhedrim, positively could not contain himself in peace; his ecstatic soul must find vent, or burst from very joy. Confident that he possessed the only genuine white elephant, he could not wait for the grand parade day, still some two months away, and must Deeds put the sacred beast through some of his paces, for the delectation and reassurance of the faithful, and no less for the confusion and overthrow of such as had the temerity to still question in their hearts. That letter, as intended, was a clincher for all that bad been said in behalf of this marvol of virtue and fixedness of purpose. Replying to a leading question, put to him by a man professing the profoundest admiration for him, and for the purpose of being able to say “I told you so,” Mr. Cleveland unhesitatingly and unqualifiedly committed himself to the impartial enforcement of the civil-service idea, and wished it understood that the principle would be carried out wherever practicable in appointments not under operation of tho rules. Ho emphatically stated that no officer would be or should be removed, except for “cause.” Had Mr. Curtis intended his letter as a trap, he could not have caught his victim more neatly, nor put a larger skeleton in his political closet. A little more than a year has elapsed since that letter was paraded with such a flourish of reform trumpets, and not a year has yet elapsed sines this paragon of politics has been in position to put his ideas into effect. The ashes from the crater of Vesuvius did not bury Pompeii any more completely than have this man’s acts overwhelmed his professions. The mugwump ideal is in the dust; the gilding is abraded, and he is of the commonest clay. From voluntarily pledging himself to observe the spirit of the civil-service rules in all his appointments he has rapidly reached that point where ho not only casts discredit upon them, but refuses to offer any explanation why he does so. In his letter, which was really an extraofficial proclamation, he declared that no officer should be removed but for cause. It would be a reflection upon the intelligence of the public to point out even a few of the most flagrant violations of this pledge. Hundreds and thousands of the best men in the public service, men who had established their proficiency and probity by long terms, and their places, in many instances—too many to begin to particularize—have been filled by the appointment of penitentiary graduates, exthieves, and others better fitted for enforced than honorable service to the public. The man who thirteen months ago so egotistically promised to deliver this country from immaginary evils, as well as the few real ones that in the nature of things could not at once be eradicated, has failed. He could hardly havo done worse had he tried. And to cap it all, he steps back upon what he is pleased to terra tho presidential prerogative, and refuses to give the cause for which removals havo been made. From what lias been revealed in the first year’s service of this unknown man it is apparent that he is either dishonest or possesses none of the characteristics of a strong man; he either purposoly misled the friends of reform during and after the campaign, or he has since become the tool of the manipulators of his party. Taking the latter as the more charitable view, what have the betrayers of the Republican party gained in the election of this man? Have the civil-eorvice rules been honored? No man can honestly say they have. Instead of the manly stand he promised in defense of reform Mr. Cleveland has been captured bag and baggage, and in compliance with the commands of the machine men defies all comers to discover why certain unexceptionable officers have been removed. Never was betrayal meaner; but the recreant Republicans can not claim that they were not wained. The Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, of Boston, has undertaken to investigate without expense to the applicant those advertisements which offer women “work at home,” with the promise that the labor will be lucrative. Many of the firms so advertising

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are swindling institutions which adopt various plans for securing money from women without adequate return.. The letters received by the union from all parts of the country show the methods of the rascals, and how wide the field in which they find their victims. Firms of this sort exist in every large city, but Boston seems to be a favorite location for them. With all their fraudulent methods, however, they manage to keep within a limit of the law which prevents direct prosecution. The union can do nothing more than to warn women against sending their money tq these establishments for “samples,” “materials,” etc., but in doing this they accomplish a good work. It is almost enough to make one despair of self-government to see such proceedings as are now rife in Columbus going on in an intelligent State like Ohio. The report well says that what occurred there yesterday is generally considered disgraceful by men of all parties. There can be no question of that. Surely there must be decency and good sense enough among a majority of the leaders, both Republican and Democratic, to bring the unseemly wrangle to a creditable end, and that promptly. It is to the last degree infamous that the Democrats will unite to a man in the effort to protect in their usurped seats four men, whose title rests upon bare, bold-faced fraud and forgery; but if they will, we see no other course for the Republicans to pursue than to act with dignity, as well as courage, and not contribute in any degree to the illegal and revolutionary character of the proceedings. Let the Democrats, who are seeking to benefit by a notorious and confessed crime, enjoy a monopoly of that sort of conduct A FELLOW by the name of W. A. Imes writes a letter to the Bozeman Chronicle, of Jan. 20, in which he says that the Indianapolis Journal denounced as false and slanderous the charges made against Judge Pollard, the man appointed to succeed General Coburn as Associate Justice of Montana. Mr. Imes writes a lie. The Journal never did anything of tho kind. So far as we know the charges are well authenticated. They are Vouched for by entirely reputable men, and some of them seem to be backed up by unimpeachable court records. The Journal said that if the half of the charges could be substantiated, Pollard was not only unfit to be a judge, but was unfit to practice law before any respectable court in any decent community. Judge Pollard has gone to Washington to meet the charges made against him. In the name of an honorable profession it may well be hoped that ho can refute them; but it is not true that the Journal has, in any wise, relieved him from their burden, because we have no information on the subject.

Senator Sherman suggests that members of the Legislature be chosen from single districts. That is, in the case of Cincinnati, for instance, instead of the entire city voting for ten representatives and four senators, he would have it divided into ten representative and four senatorial districts. This would remove the incentive of being able to steal fourteen seats by cheating in one or two precincts. Mayor Denny fined a saloon-keeper, yesterday, for violating the law by selling liquor on Sunday, and added to the fine thirty days’ imprisonment in the work-house. That’s the way to do the business. The liquor-seller who violates the liquor law does so purposely and defiantly. In every case the extreme limit of the penalty should be inflicted upon him. Mr. Cleveland informs a Southern editor that he wants to make a trip through the South as soon as he gets leisure. As soon as the Democratic congressmen find this out, they will rise as one man and tell Mr. Cleveland that, so far as they are concerned, he may as well go now and stay all summer, and that he “never will be missed.” A feature of the annual dinner of the New York Sorosis Club last week was the attaching of names of well-known members of the society to dishes on the menu, as “consomme ala Croly,” “cotelettes ala Van Horn,” etc. A glance over the bill-of-fare shows red-headed ducks as one of the delicacies, but the originator of the personal feature valued his life too Highly to make them ala anybody. All the women at the banquet were little ducks, of course; but no one would willingly be heralded as red-headed. Just at a time when prohibition of whisky is gaining ground in Georgia and South Carolina, the newspapers of those States are encouraging a boom in tobacco culture. The tobacco raisers will do well to make their cigars and fine-cut while the sun shines and the fates are propitious. Just as soon as the women of tho country get the whisky question disposed of, they mean to turn their attention to tobacco and destroy it, root and branch. Miss Cleveland will lead the crusade. It is reported that Mr. Julian Hawthorne and his brotber-in-law, George Parsons Lathrop, are about to start a weekly paper, devoted entirely to song and story. If tho story department is to be filled with Mr. Hawthorne’s heavy fiction, the postage bills will swamp the paper after one issue. Mrs. Maud Miller-Mackaye-McCormick, the erratic daughter of the still more erratic poet, is now living in a little up-stairs backroom, which serves as salon, boudoir and cuisinier. She is writing a story. Alas! She’s been tolling a good many, too. The Philadelphia carpet-weavers are on a strike —on the warp path, in fact. This joke is a little ancient, but being good three ply ingrain, we have concluded to tarn it and make it do another season. Henry Ward Beecher told his congregation recently that he woaid send his wife to a certain society meeting in the church, adding, “there is

discipline in my home, and if I say go, she goes.” This remark is quoted as showing that Beecher is not henpecked, but experienced observers know that it is always the henpecked man who talks so bravely when away from home. Rev. Mb. Petersen, of St Paul, is said to be the owner of some rare old volumes, belonging to that period when books were so valuable that they were chained down to prevent their being stolen. Perhaps Mr. Petersen is making a collection of old city directories. The daughters of the president of Princeton College walk twenty miles to do their shopping; They’ll compel the old gentleman to move to town yet. Mr. Talmaoe preached on tho advisability of marriage on Sunday, and “Rev.” Sam. Jones on “Escape for Your Life.” Now, which shall it be? I'LL sing of a fino young gentleman of elegance and fame, He's known at the State’s prison, Barnoy Conroy is his name. He’s going to handle mail-bags, Oh! he’s sure to win the day; He’s a Democratic worker, And all the rounders say: There goes the man for this administration, There goes tne man who can take his own part; He’s a slugger, a heeler, he can fill most any station; Oh! Barney Conroy, you’re the pride of our heart. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Oliver Wendell Holmes says he has arrived at the ago when he can sit at homo and “expect to be visited like a Chinese god.” “In my opinion,” says a citizen, “if the government would ston running up them there durned cold-wave flags, we'd soon have some respectable winters.” Jupiter, the god, not tho star, has been found at Shershal, Algeria. A fine marble statue, two meters high and in excellent preservation, has been exhumed there. Prohibition and total abstinence are two very different things. In one day, recently, there were 800 jugs shipped from Paducah, Ky. f to precincts without saloonß in adjacent counties. Word comes from Siberia of the death of Dr. Wevmar, who was once the personal medical attendant of the present Czar, bat was sentenced to exile for complicity in the assassination of Mezzeneff. Society in Malta is so high-toned that nobody is allowed to attend the opera barefooted. All opera-goers, according to the local papers, “must at least wear a pair of lisle-thread socks without any patches.” New York Sun: Customer (in restaurant) — “Waiter, this chicken soup has feathers in it.” Waiter—“ Yes, sah. If vo’ want soup made outen chickens dat am old 'nough to be bald, sah, yo’ ’ll have to go to some odder ’stablishment.” Mme. Patti, at Vienna, received on the stage a Christmas gift in the form of a tree, the branches of which were interlaced with a golden chain, each link of which bore in diamonds the name of an opera in which the prima donna had appear ed. When W, S. Gilbert was asked whether “Batch” was composing anything just now, “No, madarne,” Mr. Gilbert replied, with perfect imperturbability; “ ‘Batch’ hasn’t composed anything for years. He’s decomposing just now.” In connection with the anti-Chinese movement in Sacramento, the Bee announced that it would print the names of all white women who desired to take in sewing, and many responded. Then it made a similar offer to washerwomen, and not one was heard from.

The London journals note the demise of Sig. Bartolucci, father of the Marchioness of Tweeddale, and well known in a certain section of society. Bartolucci wag rather of the “Awful Dad” style of parent, and, though amusing from his eccentricities to his friends, was somewhat dreaded by his connections. In criticising a recently published volume of Talmage’s sermons, the Churchman says: “For extravagance of ianeuage, poverty of thought, reckless dealing with sacred things, general misinformation and tinsel ornament, disguising the most obvious platitudes, we can back these sermons against any others ever put in print.” Mbs. James K. Polk has found it necessary to say, in denial of a newspaper misstatement, that while she has the highest respect for the Catholic Church, she is and always has been a Presbyterian, and was ouce called a Blue Presbyterian, because she then thought it right to forbid dancing. Her husband was a Methodist, and most of his family Episcopalians. The Shah of Persia leads a very simple life. He occupies himself with affairs of state in the morning; he then takes his midday meal, eating frugally, and generally of one dish only. He rarely takes wine, generally eats alone, and never attends state dinners. He reads a great deal, and writes poetry which his people say is superior to that of Hafiz. Philadelphia’s latest society fad is a “progressive luncheon.” Four persons sit at each table, and at the end of each course change positions, in the manner of progressive euchre. Another freak is for the guests at a dinner party to sit in the parlor, instead of at the dinner-table, and have the courses served while they indulge in rcsthetic conversation. Mrs. Leiter, of Chicago, is cutting an enormous dash at the capital, according to a correspondent. Except General Sheridan, nobody has met with anything but amiability from her. General Sheridan's set-back occurred at a dinner at the Leiter mansion, when Mrs. Leiter cruelly reminded him that he was eating his oysters with the wrong fork. The hero of 100 battle-fields collapsed without a groan. “I have the highest authority,” says Atlas, in the London World, “for contradicting the very extraordinary and very foolish story which appeared in the St. James's Gazetteabout ‘aproject of marriage’ between the Princess Victoria, of Prussia, and Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria. There never has been any such 'project/ and there is no foundation whatever for the story, which is a pure fabrication in every particular.” Miss Katherine Bayard, whose death has plunged social Washington in gloom, had studied, among other things, the Romany language and made the acquaintance of many gypsies, with whom she was a great favorite. Meeting one of her gvDsy friends on the street in Baltimore, Miss Bayard said to her, in Romany: “Well, Mary, what have you been doing since I last saw you?” and Mary responded, with perfect coolness: “Stealing, miss.” In October, 1884, Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt gave $500,000 to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city. His generosity is to be supplemented by his second daughter, Mrs. William D. Sloane, and her husband, who have agreed to erect a maternity hospital upon part of the property purchased by the funds given by Mr. Vanderbilt. There will be accommodations for twenty-five patients, and it will be called “Sloane’s Maternity.” It is specially provided that all the beds shall be free, and there will be no restrictions. “'iES,”said a Frenchman in Paris, recently, “I was walking in Placo Vendome when a poor woman, with two children attracted my attention. They were suffering. I stopped them. The husband had died that morning and they were penniless. I went to their home and there 1 saw the poor father. I gave them money and left the homo of sorrow. I thought when I reached the street that I had not given them enough, and I mounted the three flights of stairs. I knocked at the door and the poor dead father opened it * I left.” La Follette & La Follettk is the name of a law firm at Madison, Wis. One member is now the youngest representative in Congress, and the other is his wife. They are both graduates of the Wisconsin State University. They

are, in personal appearance, a youthful pair and of small stature. Mr. La Follette has a large bead, pale complexion, heavy auburn hair, and the “search-you-through” expression in his brown eyes. Mrs. La Follette would be taken anywhere for a pretty girl, rosy and blonde, whose dimples and smiles suggest a happy, light-hearted character, but as little of the woman lawyer as it is possible to imagine. She is now attending law lectures at Washington. A DULL THUD. Slip, slop, splash. In a mixture of snow and mud; And the swell who tries to cut a dSS Sits down with a thickening thud. —New York Morning Journal. COMMENT ANI) OPINION. Bismarck’s affection for the United States is only surpassed by his satanic majesty’s love for holy water. —National Republican. The Cleveland Socialists are getting ready to uprise. After they are uprisen, who will pay for the drinks?—Philadelphia Record. As between the Ohio Republicans and the Ohio Democrats tho country has but one opinion: Tho devil take the hindmost —Washington Post Brer Rabbit seems to be the ideal statesman of the British political managers just at this time. “Brer Rabbit, he lay low.”—Springfield Republican. Wk have heard a good many words said in favor of alcohol, wine and beer. But we never heVrd a man who could say a single good word for a saloon.—Tho Voice, Prohibitionist. England is not quite ready to recognize the inpendence of Ireland, but the other nations of the world are. England will catch up with the procession after awhile.—Philadelphia Press. If Perry Belmont doesn’t know any more about foreign affairs than he does about American politicians, the dignity of this Nation had better be put on ice.—Philadelphia Times. The free-traders who are counting on a majority in the House for the forthcoming Morx-ison bill are either deceived themselves or practicing deception. The majority against the proposition will be about forty-six.—National Republican. Is it the opinion of the Springfield Republican that the modern mugwump ought to hunt up his grandmother? And what would he do with the poor old lady if he found her? Would he put her through a competitive examination?—Atlanta Constitution. The renewal of the rather threadbare cry of “dynamite outrages" looks as if the Tory government is still disposed to leave an excuse open for a resort to the policy of coercion, when other methods of keeping itself in power have failed. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Wok to the Republic when the government shall begin to do everything for the people and the people to do nothing for themselves! That black day will eome when Congress authorizes the government to do the telegraph business of this country.—New York Sun. The point has been reached where the workingmen may secure any legislation they really desire, so long as they permit themselves to be led by the most sensible and intelligent of their number. The so-called labor question is gradually finding its solution.—Minneapolis Tribune. This, then, is tho plan of battle. Salisbury will go out; Gladstone will go in, whipping his party into line and endeavoring to crown a long public life by persuading Englishmen that Ireland ought to be treated justly after eighthundred years of sneers and persecution.—New York Herald.

Railroad passes which save members of the Legislature the expense of paying their fares in going to and from the capital are an exact equivalent for tho money the travel would cost. They constitute a bribe precisely as much as would the money if it were sent iustead.—New York Times. The intelligent people of the country have made up their minds respecting the value of the services of all the leading generals of the war. That estimate is very noar correct. Why, then, undertake to change that estimate by the publication of charges which most thinking men will believe to be false because they were not made years ago?—Boston Journal. When Dick Thompson, of Indiana, was made Secretary of the Navy, someone called upon Mrs. Thompson to congratulate her upon her husband’s elevation to the head of the Navy Department. She could hardly believe that tho news was true, and said to her visitor: “Why, Richard isn’t fit to be Secretary of the Navy—he can’t even swim.”---Detroit Free Press. The senators from Missouri are moved to irritation by the treatment they recently receiyed from the President. Senators Eustis, Vance, Beck and Voorhees also have reminiscences of bringing away their pride from the White House in their pockets. But the trouble is with them. They should not annoy and pester our greatest official, after insisting on making him such. —New York Tribuue. For some years to come—indeed, until some issue arises which excites the public as the slavery issue did—it will be unsafe to reckon that States will always vote by the book. In excluding this or that Territory because of its politics, a dominant party may be really depriving itself of future allies. And there can be no question but the best way to make a community hostile is to deprive it of what it considers its rights.—San Francisco Chronicle. Washington contended thatin all cases where the Senate had any doubts it was bound to ask him for his reasons before taking final action, and why should not Cleveland do the same? It is his privilege, of course, to refuse to render any reasons, but when he does so for the purpose of “defending the presidential prerogative” he exposes himself to the same suspicion which has so long clouded FalstaiFs reputation for candor and sincerity.—Chicago Tribune. Labor really needs no governmental protection against capital in this country. It has a formidable organization behind it, vast political influence to be utilized whenever occasion demands, and in all efforts animated by fairness and reason it enjoys the irresistible support of popular sympathy. So far as concerns its relations to capital, labor is quite able to stand alone. In fact, it is strong to that degree in which it needs self-restraint rather than assistance.—New York Star. The new English bankrupt act aims to punish frauds, breaches of trust and unjustifiable extravagance, while at the same time it affords inducements for the insolvent trader to stop business when he finds himself in a failing condition. This is the kind of legislation demanded in the United States. A uniform bankrupt law is needed; but it should not be one tending to restore the condition of things which prevailed under the act of 187 G—a measure which became so intolerable in its working that its repeal was absolutely demanded.—Chicago Tribune

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. General Logan’ii Objections to Secret Meetings of the Senate to Transact Business. Interview in Now fork Herald. “I cannot say what happened in executive session. But this I can sap, that I have always beoD, and hope I always shall be, opposed unequivocally to the consideration of the people’s business in secret pession. In a republic, where the.perpetuity of its institutions depends upon the intelligent and loyal support of all its citizens, it is not right to close the doors of the Sen* are chamber and deliberate in secret. In my judgment, executive sessions are an abomination in the eyes of the people, and ought not to have place under our republican form of government ” “Do you think. Senator, there is any hope for the consideration of executive business with open doors?” “I was going to say,” replied the General, “that the views of Mr. Sumner did not make mo a convert to his way of thinking. My hatred of the system in vogue existed before he ever spoke about it. It is not American in its intention or results. Os course, I am only expressing mv own convictions, and I am sorry to say there are only a few senators who think as I do. For that rerson I do not see any prospect for rescinding the rules which require all executive business to be considered in secret sessions, and further puts the seal of secrecy on what is said and done at such sessions. Probably if a motion was made to amend the rules it would receive 9orae votes from Republican senators—not many, but more than I should think would come from the Democratic senators.” “You do not see, then, any chance even for a debate in public on the question of considering nominations in open session?” “No, not even a debate; for that, too, would be held to relate to the privacy of the Senate, and

as the majority would oppose any attempt at innovation the probability even of hearing the matter discussed is about as remote as an amendment would be to the rules abolishing executive sessions.” “Perhaps tho public may soon have tho pleasure of having some constitutional qnestion discuped relating to the alleged difference of opinion about the tenure-of-office act and tho power of removal?” “I do not know how such a debate can come about in open session unless unon some resolution offered in open session. The nearest step to that is the resolution of Mr. Morrill in regard to payments to unconfirmed collectors of internal revenue. Possibly the answer of the Secretary of the Treasury may give rise to a discussion about what constitutes a vacancy. But any other discussion would take place in secret session.” “If the President should refuse to give the Senate certain papers called for by a resolution, would that let the public into the galleries?” “The only instance I can imagine when Ruch an issue would arise would be where a committee of the Senate had been denied certain papers called for and should appeal to the Senate for its judgment as to what should be done to obtain them. If the papers related to removals or suspensions that would be executive business, and would be so treated in its consideration by the Senate, as the rules now require."

PROHIBITION WITHOUT POLITICS. Christ Crucified Long Enough; Time To Do Something with tho Devil, Youngstown (O.) Special. Francis Murphy is not a political Prohibitionist. At almost every meeting of the mission just closed in this city he took occasion to bring that fact to the front. He believes that the man who drinks whisky is first responsible for the evil results of its use. The man who rents the room bears the next blame: after him comes the retail dealer, and it is a long time before the manufacturer is reached. He has no objection whatever to stopping the use of whisky as quickly as possible. His whole euergy for the last fifteen years has been given to that‘end, but he has another object, which goes inseparably with this —rescuing the users of drink and making bright and happy the homes of the drinkers. Mr. Murphy's idea is that these objects can be instantly secured by closing the mouths of the consumers. The law can never do this. It must come from personal appeals and persuasion. This pledgesigning crusade has, therefore, been carried on in Europe and America with that. end. Pledges were signed in Philadelphia by 95,000 persons; in Cleveland by 30,000; in Youngstown by 6,300, otc. Being asked a few days ago what disposition the Prohibition party men have manifested toward him in his work in this and other States, Mr. Murphy said: “They have shown little sympathy with me. Three or four members of the Prohibition party at Wooster, one in Cleveland, and one in this city have given me some assistance, but tho greater number have been greatly displeased. They wanted to influence men by the law and not by moral suasion. The organization of the Prohibition party to promote the cause of temperance in tho State is, I believe, the worst thing that could happen. It makes a divided house. We must divide on something else. The very power by which temperance work has been made a success is absolutely killed by the party. Men and women who have joined themselves to the Prohibition party declare that the people who refuse to join with them are immoral, and not content with that they have endeavored to prevent gospel temperance work. Letters have been written ahead of me warning temneranco people not to invite me to their city, lest by my coming I should destroy their organization.” “Would it not seem just. Mr. Murphy, to impose some burdens on the liquor traffic?” “That is the very thing to do. It is time to put a burden on it. We have been crucifving Christ long enough. It is time to do something with the devil. If a man buys a keg of ale, a few boxes of cigars and a do.;en empty oyster shells to starts bar-room, and if you offer to tax him for it, people raise their hands in holy horror. The enactment of the Scott law would be the most helpful act of legislation that could, be done to day to assist the people. It would be grading law to assist public sentiment The idea in the temperance work before has been to grade law past public sentiment—putting the cart before the horse. No legislation will be respected in this country unless it is common-sense legislation. “The General Assembly must not ask the people to do the impossible. It mast make it easy for them to do right, and cease to legislate the inhabitants of the Commonwealth into criminals. I visited, in company with Rev. Mr. Avery, many of the bar-rooms of this city. We found some near the mills such as I have never seen in any other city. Women in small houses give pone room for selling drink, the wives themselves, while their husbands are at work, dealing it out to their customers. Their children are reared in this atmosphere. The devil is brought into their presence, and they are mads acquainted by their own lechery and sin. Such places as these could not exist under the Scott law. It is our duty to protect these people. Their families are naturally moral, and under favorable circumstances would develop high orders of honesty, sobriety and Christian character. ”

THEY HAVE COME TO STAY. A Few Reminiscences, Coupled with Good Advice for the Future. Chicago Tribuno. “We are in the house of our fa f her9,” remarked Mr. Wise, of Virginia, “and we have come to stay.” You are right, Colonel—you have come to stay. There was a time when you thought differently—you believed the time had come for you to go. But the maternal slipper and the paternal palm have taught you that stav you must. Your Uncle Samuel also wrestled with you mightily, and prevailed. You were gone a short time. You ate with the hogs, and put up with the husks that they refused, you prodigal! You spent your substance in riotous living. Yon were a terrible looking old tramp, Mr. Wise, when you returned to the house of your fathers. Disinfectants were used on your person, Mr. Wise, and a sulphur bag was hung round vour neck: you were washed and made clean,'and your lean stomach was filled up. You will never forget that lesson, Mr. Wise; forget that the old man’s arm is as vigorous as ever, and his natural strength has not abated. He is as resolute as he was the day that he took you across his knee. The old man’s wrath is deadly when once aroused. You have come to stay Your father insists that you shall stay. Ileknows that you are not naturally capable of going out into the wide world and wrestling for a living. He is glad to hear that you have made up your mind to stay. It gives an impression that* you hßve more sense than he gave you credit for, and shows that the school of experience—which is the only one in which such as you will take lessons —has done you some good. But you mustn’t inflate yourself with the idea that *you are better than the children who staid at home and attended to their business. You are no match for the the big, strong boys who hunted you up when you ran away. Tarry at Jericho, Mr. Wise, until your beard grows. You can never be the heir apparent; but, if you behave yourself, you can share in the division of an estate uneqnaled for richness. Don’t hunger after rich puddings and exquisite dishes. Humble pie is the best for vour constitution; and, if you don’t like it, conceal the fact. Don t allow the old man to see you making wry faces over it. The old woodshed where he interviewed you is still standing. General Wallace and General Halieck. To the Kditor of the Commercial Gazette: Such of the telegrams, reports, etc., given by General Boynton in your paper of yesterday, as relate to the correspondence between Generals Halieck and Grant in the interval between General Early’s appearance in the Shenandoah valley and his appearance before Washington, are certainly news to me. They also tend to relieve General Halieck from that part of my opinion which makes him guilty of a treasonable suppression of intormation in his dealings with President Lincoln and General Grant, inducing the latter to resort to initiative measures in defense of the city so singularly out of keeping with his character. These circumstances, aaded to the gravity of the charge against General Halieck. make it my duty to go to Washington for ft persona! inspection of all documents there to be found pertinent to the subject; and I will do so as soon as my present engagements permit. In the meantime, I respectfully request a suspension of judgment in the matter. Lew Wallace. Jan. 23, 1886.