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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NBW A SOX, Washington office—sis Fourteenth st. P. S. lIIATH, Correspondent. FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1886. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. JKRMS INVARIABLY IV ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. £ne year, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.(X) Six months, by mail 6.00 ?ix months, by mad, including Sunday 7.00 hree months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including SuruJsy 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 (WEEKLY EDITION.) |ne year SI.OO Less than one year and over three months, 100 per *onth. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take Karly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for eir work. Address JNO. C. NEW Sc SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON —American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIflk-American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotel* CHICAGO—PaImer House. UTNQINNATI—J. P. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street SiOUISVTLLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest eorner Third and Jefferson streets. NT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 It was a great day for the Grand Old Man. The free coinage bill was killed in the House yesterday. The fear is expressed in the East that Grandfather Jones did not do his full duty on Monday last. Our report from London of the great incident in Parliament yesterday is a marvelous feat of telegraphy. Bids have just been opened for putting a new tin roof on the White House. The constant downpour of Democratic criticism of the administration must be what riddled the old roof. Continuous dropping will wear out a stone. According to the daily cablegrams, Mr. Gladstone’s voice (< has been causing him some trouble” for several weeks past. Yesterday the difficulty took a turn, and his voice caused great trouble to a large number of his opponents.

“GUILTLESS but unfortunate” is what At-torney-general Garland’s friends say about him. Translated into the language of the street, this would read “Not a knave, but a fool.” Between the two horns of the dilemma, there is not a great deal of choice to a man of spirit. The Boston Herald, in an absent-minded moment, asserts that the best brains of New England do not tend toward politics. This may be the uuvarnished truth; but what will the New England mugwumps, who are trying to run the politics of the universal earth, lay to the confession of their organ. As two dollars is acknowledged to be the market price for Democratic votes in Indiana, the question naturally arises, what were the fancy prices alleged by the Cincinnati Enquirer to have been paid for them in this city last Monday? The rates must have ranged 2rom, say, $2.25 to $2.60 in close wards. The trustees of Vassar College have at last •hosen a president for that institution, which has been without a head for a year. Rev. James Taylor, a Baptist minister of Providence, R. 1., and “a young man of great promise” has been agreed upon as the man of all others to lead the Vassar girls in the way they should go The tariff-reformers are now trying to dispose of their stumbling block. Mr. Randall, by putting him into the Cabinet. Congressman Morrison, it is believed, would view the promotion of his associate to the secretary>hip of the Treasury without a pang of envy. The trouble is, they are not sure that Mr. Randall is willing to be disposed of in that way. As usual, the oratorical contest last night was the occasion for a disgraceful episode. As 4he Journal has said for the last two or three years, the college authorities of the State should peremptorily squelch this annual performance. There is nothing good in it. Oratorical contests in each institution are well •nough, but this public rivalry breeds the big Itead, whioh is usually big enongh in colXegians, and dissension, of which there is Usually too much between fraternities. Dr. Ely, the instructor in political economy in the Johns Hopkins University, has trrltten an “open letter” to the Knights of Labor, in which he advises them that if they will eome out in support of civil-service reform a solution of their troubles may be reaohed. The way this removal of difficulties is to come about is by the election to Congress by the Knights of men in favor of civilservice reform. These Congressmen will put telegraphs, railroads and other monopolies into the bands of the government, which will then employ them, presumably upon their own

terms. Being government employes, with everything in their own hands, they will have no more need for strikes, and we shall all have peace henceforth and forever. If the Knights, after adopting this advice, neglect to head their congressional ticket with Dr. Ely’s name, they will do injustice to a man with a great mind. Mr. Gladstone had the civilized world for an audience yesterday. The scenes and incidents of the occasion, as given in our cablegrams, make an historic picture that is seen but seldom, and which stirs the heart to its profoundest depths when it is seen. The tribute to the Grand Old Man, in so far as it had a personal cast, was a magnificent one, enough to put an inextinguishable halo about the head that has been uncovered to so many political storms, but which ia now the chief feature in a convulsion greater and more far-reaching in its consequences than any that ever rocked and swayed the British empire. The ovation to the Premier as he passed from his home in Downing street to Westminster far outdid the theatrical demonstration that greeted Beaconsfield at Charing Cross when he returned from Berlin as the apostle of “peace with honor. ” But the cheers that filled the streets of London and the palace at Westminster, and which are now reverberating around the whole round earth, have in them much more than honor to Mr. Gladstone. That matchless man could be the wizard of oratory he is; he could be the scholar he is; he could be able to range the literature and science of the world as he is; he could be able to embellish the English tongue with his writings and speeches as he is, and yet not evoke the enthusiasm that greeted him yesterday. The applause that preceded and followed him into the House of Commons was because he was the embodiment, for the time, of a principle that finds an echo in the heart of • all true men and lovers of freedom everywhere, whether iu England, Ireland, America or in the islands of the sea. The cheers that entered into Mr. Gladstone’s ears yesterday had in them the moral quality of that shot of the embattled farmers that was heard round the world.

It is not worth while now and here to attempt to discuss the details of the measure presented to Parliament by Mr. Gladstone. Indeed, he himself says the bill is merely tentative, and that he throws it into the House for consideration and discussion, and for the possible evolution of a plan that will attain the desired object. But it is worth the saying that revolutions never go backward; and the revolution set on foot by the Irish parliamentary party, and given such a tremendous impetus by Mr. Gladstone yesterday, will never stop until it has turned and overturned, and brought equal and exact justice to the misgoverned people in whose interest it has been undertaken. We are not optimistic enough to think, either, that home rule will come without much misgiving on the one hand, and without much cause for misgiving on the other. The Irish people will not, all of them, prove themselves fit for self-government in a day; but Mr. Gladstone has predicated his measure upon the only sure and enduring foundation, and through the quicker or slower processesof education, and of development, and of evolution, the time will come when Ireland shall have fully exchanged beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. It will be Mr. Gladstone’s crown of glory that he has contributed so greatly to the enfranchisement and disenthrallment of a great and generous people. The workingmen of the District of Columbia have passed resolutions expressive of their sentiments on the bill now pending in the House of Representatives, and they unqualifiedly condemn the cowardice of public men in apparently being afraid to express their honest convictions on questions affecting the welfare of labor. It is disgraceful that so many men are afraid to say what they really believe lest they fcvfeit their chance of political preferment. There are many men who knowingly favor vicious legislation, and who encourage men in doing unlawful things, in the fear that unless they do they will lose favor in their sight. Every man, and especially every legislator, should act conscientiously in the grave matters of legislation for the public good. There should be the fullest and fairest consideration allowed and invited ou every question, no matter who is interested. Cowardly legislation cannot be honorable legislation. The man who has not the moral courage to stand up for what he believes to be right is unfit for the position, and should get out of the way for men who will legislate for time and not for transient popularity. In this free country every man should feel perfectly free to express his convictions on every subject involving the welfare of the people. The man who attempts to interfere with or to prevent free speech is the enemy of the country’s institutions and can be the friend of no man. When free speech is successfully boycotted then is political liberty at an end. The Mormon women of Utah have memorialized Congress in a pamphlet of twelve octavo pages. They complain of the injustice of the Edmunds law, and insist that its enforcement “has been made the means of inflicting upon the women of Utah immeasurable sorrow, unprecedented indignities, of disrupting families, of destroying homes, and of outraging the tenderest feelings of human nature.” They also declare that the law has been so construed as to bring penalties to bear on the innocent, and give instances in which wives

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and daughters were subjected to insult and indignities by officers in search of too-much-married husbands. It is not unlikely that in the pursuit of polygamous elders the federal officials have at times omitted some of the courtesies of polite society in their communications with the women of the households, but it can hardly be supposed that the aggrieved females will secure much sympathy, either from Congress or the people, by the recital of their wrongs. It is what they get by being polygamists, and an unfeeling public will be apt to say that what they get they deserve. Under Republican postmasters a very great number of the clerks and employes in the Indianapolis postoffice were Union soldiers. The present. Democratic postmaster has been in office just about one year. In that time he has removed from service under him eighteen Union soldiers, viz.: E. P. Thompson, W. W. Welling, J. 0. Wheat, Levi Hand, Wallace Foster, Hans Blume, Wm. Blake, J. M. Wilmington, H. J. Bratton, Jos. Rnemele, J. B. Wirt, E. N. Eddy, R. P. Craft, Benj. Crane, H. P. Lockwood, Jacob Mattern, Jas. Eades, Geo. F. McGinnis. Some of these men were badly wounded and disabled in the military service. Very few soldiers are left in that office. While Union soldiers have been so numerously removed, it is also true that not a single Union soldier has been appointed to a place by the present Democratic postmaster. It is also said that not a solitary -Republican has been appointed in that office under the civilservice examinations had from time to time. The reader can make his own comments. A Democratic organ professes to regard the slight interest felt by the public in the Pan-electric investigation as an indication that the people took no stock in the charges against Mr. Garland. This is far from being the proper view of the matter. The general indifference arises partly from the conviction that the investigation was meant to be, and is, a farce, but primarily for the reason that the opinion of the public concerning Mr. Garland was already formed from the facts previously admitted and which no explanation can modify. The public believes that the Attorney-general is a man lacking in a sense of personal and professional honor and propriety, and no amount of whitewash which the friends of the administration may bestow upon him will remove this impression.^ The Philadelphia Inquirer, which claims to be something of an authority on religious matters, regards this as a mad world because the fact that Messrs. Jones and SmaH each received $3,000 for four weeks’ preaching in Chicago is charged against them as something disreputable, whereas, the more money an actor can carry away from a city tkd higher he is esteemed. If, as the Inquirer seems to imply, an evangelist is to be put on the level of an actor who plays, not for public good, but for what there is in it for himself, derogatory comment of the sort referred to will soon cease. It is because of a lingering, but, it seems, mistaken notion that a man who goes about preaching the gospel to the world should not be “on the make” that these criticisms have arisen.

‘Chaplain Milburn informs the Lord, in a prayer of considerable length and of florid language, that the country is in great danger of destruction; that new evils are coming to light every day, and that our boasted civilization is stained with blots as dark as death. The parson could have shortened his speech and have covered the same ground by simply calling the attention of the Deity to the fact that the country is afflicted with a Democratic administration, and by requesting to be delivered from evil The blind man is a man of too many words. No one would have thought of believing the rumor that Secretary Manning's illness was precipitated by a quarrel with the President had not the denials been so oft-repeated aDd so much more emphatic than the occasion called for. The friends of the two gentlemen do protest so strongly, however, against the truth of the story that there really seems to be something in it. Rev. Db. Marine preached a sermon on Sunday last, in Trinity Church, Lafayette, on what he called “important matters which immediately concern the kingdom of God, the peace of society, the health of the state, and the security of our homes.” The Call prints a somewhat full abstract, saying that “the leading thought of the sermon was that tht> country is safe as long as the people are right; and that to keep the people right there must be education, of mind and of heart, to lift UDthe lowly, and bring down the exalted to realize the equality and brotherhood of man, and strip off that false pride of a worldly and unchristian aristocracy, of money or of mir.d, whioh would draw the skirts close around it in shrinking from personal contact with the common people. He has that faith in the people which every patriot should bare. It was a strong and eloquent presentation of the subject.” One paragraph of the discourse is specially worth reprinting, as follows: “The movement of humanity in healthful channels of business, of social and moral activity, is the condition of prosperity in the world. The attempt to neutralize the power of the people by ignoring them, by obstructing the current of their thought and influence, by trying to hold them back in silence, whether by t bayonets or ecclesiastical edicts, has always been most foolish and perilous. Kings have found it dangerous to build a throne of gold behind a dyke of oppressive legislation. All the hills of human life feed the pent-up flood of popular feeling, till dyke and throne are floated off on a tide of common ruin. Church tyranny, although it built its embankments of cathedrals whose crypts were full of martyrs’ bones, could build nothing strong enough to endure the shock of wave on wave of dark, and troubled, and persistent human thought and life. Against these hoary walls of authority and superstition that tide of human life, so sweet and so pare if you rightly permit or direct its flow, beeches despotic aud irreverent if yon throw it back on it-

self; and then it will sweep the bones of saints, And the pictures of martyrs, and the hats of cardinals, and the cassock of the priest, as ruthlessly as it would dash through an embankment of mud.” The New York Sun xnonras over the very deplorable fact that slang is dreadfully common io this western world of ours, and so it is. It cites the all too-common use of such words as “young feller,” ‘‘boss,” “Johnny” and “Cully,” and says that the English for “Say, young feller,” “Say, boss,” etc., is “I beg your pardon, sir.” That is the American English of it, but if the Sun wishes to give the “English” of it as it would be used in England it must shorten it into “Beg pardon.” The more formal “I beg your pardon” would at once betray the American. Regardless of the fact that the President has appointed a horrid man, and a Kentucky colonel at that, to be Governor of Utah, the Philadelphia Press continues to urge Miss Kate Field for the position. The plain truth is that Miss Field has been snubbed by the administration. It is the duty of the Press, as her champion, to demand an apology from the rude person in the White House or to have r-r-revenge. The explanation is made that the President has not visited Secretary Manning since his illness simply because it has been deemed advisable to keep all visitors away who would in any way excite the patient. Colonel Lamont has called on the invalid daily, however, which fact goes to confirm the impression that the Colonel is a very unexciting, not to say soothing, person. New Jersey has a united milk producers* protective association. The outside public is left in the dark as to whether it is the cows or the owners of the pumps that have combined against rival beverages. COMMENT AND OPINION. It would be a good thing for the Knights of Labor if they could put their Irons in the fire and keep him there.—Philadelphia Press. When everybody and his wife have been voted a pension, both houses should take a recess. They must be tired.—Philadelphia Times. Dr. Talmage says that truth is becoming scarcer every day. He has been reading the Cincinnati papers.—Atlanta Constitution. While the strikers are standing firm and renewing hostilities, Jay Gould is probably making lots ol money selling Missouri Pacific.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Conviction is said to precede repentance in the reformation of a sinner. The same seems to be true of a New York alderman.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Mexican pension bill, which passed the House yesterday, will, it is estimated, take about $50,000,000 off the “surplus” for next ye?r. —New York Mail and Express. The conservative, common-sense masses of the American people will make mincemeat of Socialists whenever they put themselves across the path this Republic is traveling.—Memphis Avalanche. It is the nature of the Democratic party to quarrel with whatever policy is patriotic and reputable, and its political opponents may well desire that the practice shall be noisily continued.—Boston Advertiser. Now that Tyndall, Lubbock and Huxley have all put themselves on record, they have succeeded in establishing a practical demonstration of how unscientific a scientific man is likely to be when his political prejudices are trodden upon. —Pittsburg Dispatch. It is said that Mr. Cleveland, after reading Senator Ingalls’s speech, exclaimed: “I am almost persuaded to beoome an offensive partisan.” Three or four millions of Old Hickory Democrats would cheerfully help him to keep that persuasion warm.—Brooklyn Eagle. If civil-service reform is not pulled down into the mud and destroyed by the partisans who profess to be its disciples, it will be because its real friends outside the civil-service reform associations are stronger than its enemies inside such associations.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Judging from the recent action of the Democratic majority of the ways and means committee, many of our American statesmen maintain, with the obstinacy of Englishmen, the absurd proposition that cheapness is the only and sole aim of human existence. Philadelphia Press.

The Integrity of the Knights of Labor and the well being of the workingmen are by no means the same things; and the turn the strike has now taken is for the dignity of this particular organization and not of the workingmen. It is a very unfortunate turn for the organization. —Brookly Union. The labor arbitration bill just passed by the House of Representatives allows the arbitrators to compel the production of the books and papers of railroad companies, but prohibits them from compelling the production of the books ami papers of any labor organization. Is this equality before the law? We should say not.—New York Sun. With three members of his Cabinet in the hospital, the Democratic Senators and Representatives damning the administration, and the elections all over the country going Republican, Mr. Cleveland is not fiuding things in that lovely state that a man who is said to be contemplating matrimony would like to hare them. —Chicago Mail. When law is defied, no matter in what cause, all other issues must be put aside until the supremacy of the law has been vindicated. The authorities of Missouri, Illinois and Texas, representing two parties but one authority, that of a great self-governing people, are bound to suppress this rebellion against the laws without delay or compromise, and at any cost.—New York Tribune. The Knights of Labor mieht as well accept the situation and tako anew start, being careful in the fnture to avoid the mistakes of the past. The wild rhetoric of their denunciation of Jay Could denotes a frenzy that has been brought about as a result of their own mistakes and is in pathetic contrast with the confidence with which they set out on a strike which they did not assign to his alleged injustice.—New York Times. Knights of Labor have a right, as well as other men have, to refuse to work on terms offered them. But they have no moral right to make a strike upon punctilio, and no legal right to prevent other men from taking the places they vacate, no right to “kill” engines, or blockade tracks, or in any other way to prevent the railroads from carrying on the commerce of the country merely because the companies have not humbly asked their peqpi&sion. —New York Commercial Advertiser. The large ownership of property by Mr. Gould may be against him, but we do not see that be is worse than a land monopolist He keeps his money in rapid circulation. Is that an objection? He bets high on the United States. Is that a crime? He appeals to the law. Should that offend? Many strikes may reduce his income —and that would not be severe punishment, for his diet is simple as that of a child and very sparing, and there is many a workingman as well dressed as he. If public opinion is to be turned agAinst him so as to drive him to better courses of life, something stronger in the way of statement than the recent proclamations will be required.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Moody to Succeed Jones. Chicago, April 8. —A committee, of which Rev. Dr. Barrows is chairman, has been appointed by the evangelical ministers of this city to proceed immediately to Charleston, S. C. t for the purpose of inviting Dwight H. Moody to come to Chicago and continue the work begun here by Sam Jones and Sam Small. The intention is to have Mr. Moody conduct a series of mammoth meetings here, commencing April 18. Treasure Trove. Cape Girardeau, Mo., April B.—The heirs of Mrs. Emily Kendall, who died here about a month ago, had quite a windfall On her death $350 in gold was round sewed up in a cloth in her bed. and it was supposed that it was all her money, but yesterday, while they were selling her personal effects at pnblic vendue, they found an old tin-can which contained $2,500 in paper and gold.

THE WARDER-STEALEY CASE Senator Harrison Did All the Work in Connection with the Appropriation, And Jeffersonville People Might Have Kept Their sl,2so—Stealej Completely Vindicates Himself by a Straight Story. Messrs. Howard and Bynum Differ as to the Causes of Monday’s Defeat. Chaplain Miibnrn Warned To Be Cautions in His Prayers, Else He May Come in Contact with Rules Governing the House. THE JEFFERSONVILLE LEVEE. Senator Harrison's Testimony—Mr. Stealey Fully Vindicates Himself, jpecial to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 8. —Senator Harrison testified to day before the committee investigating the charges of bribery against Warder and Stealey in connection with the Jeffersonville levee appropriation. It was shown by Senator Harrison’s testimony that he inaugurated and executed the movement which succeeded in procuring the appropriation. He did all of the work before the Senate committee, with the assistance of his colleague, and said there was no attorney heard of by him in tbe matter, and none was needed. Senator Harrison’s testimony practically closed the prosecution, the chairman announcing that tbe committee had no more witnesses. Then the defense began. Mr. Warder first testified. He told how he got the $1,260, and produced receipts from £2. N. Hill, an attorney of this city, for that amount, for legal services and advice given in support of the levee appropriation. His statement about how the money was raised, transmitted, reimbursed, etc., was not materially different from that of other witnesses. He denied having benefited himself in the slightest by the $1,250, and stated most jfbsitively that every dollar was paid to and retained by Hill, who, he declared, had rendered -valuable services in giving advice. Warder completely vindicated Stealy. He said Stealy had advanced to him [Warder] the $250 to pay Hill as a retainer, and that he IWarderl had instructed Shuler, at Jeffersonville, to send the amount to Stealy, explaining that it was to pay tbe loan. Warder proved to be a very capable witness, but Stealy seemed to impress the committee more favorably than any witness that has testified. Stealy is a very nervous and sensitive man, and the pain this investigation was causing him was visible at tbe most casual glance. He told all about his connection with this matter in an unhesitating and forcible manner, and impressed the committee that he was telling the truth. He said the only thing he had to do with the money transaction was to advance the $250 to Warder to pay the lawyer, and to receive that amount hack. He had nothing to do with the employment of the attorney. Warder came to him one day when the wisness was very busy, and told him about being authorized by citizens of Jeffersonville to employ an attorney, and told him about Hill, who, Warder said, he believed would render good service. The witness concurred in the suggestion, and Hill was retained. The witness had no idea the money for ttie attorney was to come out of the city treasury at Jeffersonville. He understood it was to he paid by certain well-to-do citizens, and he therefore had no special interest in tha amount paid for legal advice, and did not care how much or little it was. About six weeks before this investigation was ordered Mr. Stealey went to the bedside of Henry Watterson, at Louisville, the latter being very ill then.. It was upon a visit at that time, at Jeffersonville, that he offered to reimburse the city in order to avoid an investigation. He told J. H. McCampbell, of the Citizens’ National Bank, that if it was only the money the city wanted he would pay it himself rather than be smirched by a disgraceful investigation. He believed, however, it was persecution or black-mail that had prompted certain of his enemies at Jeffersonville in bringing about the investigation. Stealey said he would have preferred to pay twice the amount involved rather than subject his family to the humiliation and notoriety of this investigation. Besides, he was clerk to Speaker Carlisle, and regretted the notoriety on that account, because it might embarrass that officer. Mr. Staaly made a very favorable impression, and it Is generally conceded that he has completely cleaned himself of the weight of the investigatijr. How Warder will come out cannot be stated. The committee does not seem satisfied that Attorney Hill rendered any service in securing the appropriation. The investigation will be completed very shortly. An effort will he made to impeach ex-Mayor Glass, and subpoenas have been issued for John Gatheright and Messrs. Reed and Merriweather, who are expected to testify in reference to the alleged proposition of Glass while a guard at the State prison at Jeffersonville, to report for a stipulation a less number of criminals at work than really were emp.oyed. Glass says he does not fear impeachment, and will rebut doubly all testimony offered in this direction. _

MONDAY’S -ELECTIONS. Congressmen Howard and Bynum Give Differing Reasons for Democratic Defeat. Snecta! to tliS Indianapolis Journal Washington, April B.—A local paper to-day has a long interview with Representative Howard, of the New Albany district, and another has a lengthy intorview with Representative Bynum, of the Indianapolis district, about the result of Monday’s municipal elections in Indiana. Mr. Howard lays the blame at the door of the administration. He says: “It does not surpriso me, this defeat; the Democrats are completely disappointed and disgusted. I know it by correspondence with my constituents. I expected what has happened. I know what keeps a party together; you cannot do it by giving the prizes to our opponents. No political party can ever afford to give away even the meanest office in its control A party can only gain support by rewarding its supporters when it has power. If you disappoint a single Democratic candidate by keeping a Republican in office, you violate a vital principle of party action and party government, and you cannot see the end of it. Tne influence of such an error is widespread, and is sure to recoil upon whoever committed the blunder." “How about Democrats who are not aotive politicians?” “Not only Democratic workers, but Democratic voters are disappointed," replied Mr. How-

ard. “The offices are wanted for the party which has been victorious at the polls, by those who are not candidates for them, as well as those who are. Democratic workers are disappointed, I know they are, to that extent that they are indifferent, if not hostile, and to that extent tha party is disorganized. The only way to rally the party, and the only way in which it can hold its own in the coming elections, is for the members of the Forty-ninth Congress and the candidates for the Fiftieth to admit freely that things aro not as they ought to be—that the administration is a disappointment.” Mr. Bynum labors to show that the result in Center township, Indianapolis, does not disclose a Republican victory when compared with the vote for Blaine. He says the election has no material significance, and that the Republican success, which consists simply in olecting their man to a place which has been filled for two terms by a Democrat, is not due to any discontent with the national administration. The real trouble, he says, was on account of things purely local. “The township trustee has ah most absolute power,” says Mr. Bynum, “levying taxes, regulating schools and having absolute control of the poor fund, and this leads te irregularities and charges of corruption. It wa* charged that the last Democrat who served at township trustee was mixed up In an issue o! fraudulent township orders (known as Indians bonds) about which there has been so much scandal, and there had been charges of mismanagement, etc., which led to a change. It is customer] for the two parties to alternate in holding this office.” MILBURN’S PRAYERS. The House Chaplain Warned that He Ha] Come in Conflict with the Rules. Special to the Indianapoliß Journal. Washington, April B.—A New York member of the House stated to your correspondent, a few minutes after Chaplain Milburn delivered his prayer at noon on Monday, and in which tha Chaplain deplored the baseness of such corruption as the Broadway franchise steal; that there had been a great deal of complaint made to the Speaker during the last ten days about what they termed the “sensational prayers" of the Chaplain, and that the Speaker had spoken to the minister on two occasions. The last time he cautioned the Chaplain against going too far in his prayers, lest he become personal, and stated that he was subject to a point of order. This is the first time on record, I am told, where a Chaplain has tread upon the toes of members of the House or Senate to such an extent that complaint was mads and the prayer offerer threatened with a point of order. It is stated that the Chaplain, when told by the Speaker that he was probably going too far, and had better curtail his enterprise, said that whenever his sense of duty led him beyond the sensibilities of the members he only wanted to be informed of the fact, and that no point of order would he required; that he would vacate his position. There is great necessity for some plain talk in the House of Representatives from the Chaplain, because three-fourths of the members seldom attend any kind of religious service, and onethird never go into a chnrch. About one-third of them participate in all the modern dissipations, and yet they feel that they have a kind of license and are very much cut in feeling when any one. especially the Chaplain of the House, with a few hundred dollars a year, deigns to call them to a halt It was all right for Chaplain* Milburn to talk very plain for a while, hut there is no need of denying the fact that he has gone a little too far, and has put the House ltt such a humor that his exhortations will have less effect than they might otherwise have had. However the feeling at this time may be, it is predicted by a number of gentlemen well informed on the subject, that Mr. Milburn will not be in his position many weeks.

THE FALL OF BLACK. His Charges Not Substantiated, and the Investigation a Failure. Bpscial to the IndianaDolis Journal. Washington, April B.— The investigation into the charges made by Commissioner of Pensions Black against the management of his office by Colonel Dudley has practically failed. Other meetings of the committee will be held, and General Black may be able to testify, and possibly other witnesses will be examined, but se far as substantiating any of the material allegations is concerned, the investigation has been a most miserable failure. It has been discovered that every case General Black has brought before the committee to prove bis charges was discovered subsequent to the time when the charges were made, thus showing that when he made his charges be had no assurance that he could furnish proofs for them. In fact, he has acknowledged upon cross-examination in every instance where he has brought forward a case, that he did not base his charges upon facts set forth in that case or upon disclosures made by an examination of the case. General Black has become what is known as a political adventurer, and hereafter when he makes an assertion the country will take It with not only a very large grain of allowance, but with the understanding that it is absurdly false. It has been stated within the past two or three days that the minority of the committee was, so far. unwilling to submit a re- ( port should the investigation be terminated abruptly at any time. This is hardly probable, however, as the Democrats on an iarestigating committee have never been known to be so frank as to acknowledge a defeat, and General Black will insist that something be said for him when a report is finally made. Colonel Dudley says that unless something more tangible if shown than has already been proven he does not feel called upon to appear on the witness stand. In other words, he does not think that anything has been proven that ought to he disproven. Survivors of Rebel Prisons. Washington Special. The pensions committee is looking up the figures of the number of survivors of rebel prisons who will be benefited by the hill ordered to be reported for their help. They find only about 20.000 a fair estimate of the surviving prisoners who were imprisoned sixty days or more, estimating that one half of those living at the close of the war are now dead. Miscellaneous Notes. Special to the IndianaDolis Journal. Washington. April 8 —Capt W. D. Wiles, of Indianapolis, is in the city. The argument of the Kidd-Steele contested election case before the House committee on elections has been postponed till next Monday. The Senate committee on public lands to-day directed Senator Berry to report the new Hot Springs bill. It is an elaborate measure, the chief feature being a provision directing the leasing of the permanent bath houses at an annual rent of not less than S4O a tub, until 1807. The leases made under tbe act of 1878 are declared canceled. The Honso committee on judiciary to-day instructed Representative Oates to report favorably his bill to reneal those sections of the Revised Statutes prohibiting tbe payment of pension or allowance of claims of any person who was not loyal to the United States during the last war. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Smith today received a letter from Tacoma, W. TANARUS., signed F. C. Miller, M. D. The writer asks to be appointed as reservation physician, and says that if Mr. Smith wili secure him the appointment he will forward him a draft for SIOO to reimburse him for his trouble. The Assistant Secretary replied that no person fit to hold any office would make the proposition contained in the letter. and that he had inclosed a copy of it to tbe Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the expression of opinion that the writer is unfit for any appointment. John D. Bent has been appointed receiver of the First National Bank of Wahpeion, D. T. The President has withdrawn the nomination of Timothy A. Byrnes, to be Indian agentat Yakima, W. T. Baron Tennyson has been in great distrees over the sickness of his second eon, Lionel, wh contracted the Indian fever during h‘s recent visit to Earl Dufferin. but at latest account* ill* young man was m a fair way to recovery.