Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1886 — Page 7

affairs of the railways. Personal and Local. H. B. Hammoud, receiver of the L, D. & S.i fc* turns to New York to morrow. Oajrlord Beach, general manager of the Beeline, is in the city on official business. E. A. Cooper, formerly superintendent of the ♦cdianapolis car works, has been appointed su|>erintendent of tne Union Bailway and Belt fcroad at Chattanooga, Tenn. ► W. C: Rinearson. district passenger agent of ♦he P., C. & St. L., has resigned to accept the fK>BUion of general Northern passenger agent e>f the Erie road, with headquarters at Buffalo, fee sncceediug Joe Bartlett, resigned. Persons who read the “bull" articles on the "Wabash rodd which appear from time to time in ♦lie New York Mail and Express would do well to bear in mind that Cyrus W. Field is one of ♦he largest stockholders of that paper. The Pennsylvania railroad officials take but little stock in the rumor that the Pennsylvania Kople wili be bidders at the foreclosure sale of e Illinois Midland on Sept. 30. Doubtless it IwiU be bid in by the first mortgage bondholders. There is one favorable feature in railroading f late worthy of mention; that is, that the number of employes is being gradually increased. On most Indianapolis lines there are now 5 to 10 per ceut. more men employed than there were tavelve months ago. The holiday travel of this Fourth was the largest of any year, it is said, since 1880 with (most of the roads, which indicates that people fcav* more money to spend, as when money is slose5 lose no branch of business feels it quicker than ocs railroad travel. The C.. H. & L have distribnled some five hundred cars on this division this week, preparatory to moving the wheat crop, which is very heavy all along the line. The company expect ♦o load some fifty cars per day for Toledo when ♦he new wheat begins to move. The meeting of the Middle and Western States Classification Association, called to meet mtftbe Bates House yesterday, were postponed maiil further notice. There were no representa♦ire of St Louis roads here, and that was assigned as the reason for the postponement. A good deal of interest is taken in the future pf the Chicago, St Louis and Missouri River raaseneer Association, which expires to-rnor-row. The meeting called for July 9 is looked forward to as an important event, that will gmsetbly throw oil upon the troubled waters. The rate at which the 1., B. & W. is taking frraut via Sandusky is disturbing east-bound rates somewhat. The manner it i6 done, howinver, does not admit of interference by the ♦rank-line executive committee, yet it promises mo lead to a demoralization in east-bonnd rates. Os late it is becoming quite fashionable for ixvnrds of railroad directors to appoint a general Auditor whose business shall be to check up Siuditers and treasurers. Especially are they attracted to examine vouchers. The person •mpwisted to fill this position is some veteran statistical accountant. Parties in quite respectable numbers left on ♦he several western trains at noon yesterday on the inarms’ ’’ excursion rates for KanK paints. One superintendent says, however, ♦it cost the railroad companies S2O per head kor every person which availed themselves of the low rate ($15.50) for the round trip. Am effort is to be made to brace np grain rates ♦o Toledo and Detroit to 6 cents per 100 pounds. tThe Wabash has already taken the initiatory atep in the matter. The U., H. & D. seems to bold hack. For some unexplained reason it is believed that wheat would as soon go to this (market at a 6 cent rate as at a 5-ceut rate. M. E. Ingalls, while in the city on Monday, Prdtred that general repairs be ’ made to the leleher & Sharpe Block. Among other thines. ♦he elevator is to be re-equiped with four new cabies, the engine to be rebuilt, and the speed of the elevator increased to treble its present movefcieiii He proposes to fill the block up with railVtoad offices as fast as practicable. The passenger department of the Richmond & system, E. B. Thomas roads, have ■sewed in book form a work entitled “where to turn'd the summer and how to reach the resorts tof Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia via the j’ietaiont lines." Mechanically it is very neatly gotten up, and in the numerous illustrations the ronuatic scenery on the road is prominently set 4forlb. The management of the 1., D. & S. are feeling ♦Unite nicely ovev the business the road is doing, smd they have reason to be elated. The earnngs far June were $28,774.88, against $24,152.91 or the corresponding month of 1885; increase kthi* year, $4,621 97. The increase for the wniurter ending June 30 was $15,276.28. in fsnoaUis as follows: April, $7,075.13; May, (KI.SW.IB; June, $4,621.97. While trunk-line freight rates are not as firm Ims they should be, there seems to be no danger %it may war. Each line is fearful of provoking ♦heeeemity of the other, and so, while there are constantly recuring leaks in the tariff, as soon as 4h*y are weil discovered they are puttied up. Pool commissioners credit Indianapolis roads with adhering closer to tariff than do the roads ktt Chicago, St. Louis or Peoria. The Union Railway Company expect that this ‘Wreck the city civil engineer will get his plans mad estimates for the viaduct and lliineis-street ♦asset so far advanced that the company will l:nt*sr what is expected of them. As soon as he Is ready Mr. Malott will get the presidents and £atrai managers together to take further action as to accepting the ordinances passed by Yhe city, and the commencement of the proposed improvement. There are three locomotive engineers on trains jruemag out of Providence who have held their r lrons over a quarter of a century, namely: George Payne, who has handled the throttle forever thirty-six years; Mr. Thomas Capron, freight engineer, who has stood at his post for ♦hirly-three years; and Mr. John N. Shay, a ■veteran engineer of over twenty-five years standing. now on the steamboat train, whose railroad ♦ife with this company Extends back thirty five >c*rs.

tt ft Hammond, receiver of the 1., D. & S. jrewl, and president of the 1., D. & S. company, says that unless the city of Decatur, 111., gives Din a right-of way through the city which will of his building on to Springfield, 111., within the next thirty days, work will be begun In building around Decatur. Property owners a tbo newly surveyed right-of-way, which leaves the 1., D. & S. main line some nine miles 4bw side of Decatur, are urging Mr. Hammond to take this route, and not only offer him the right-of-way, but, as well, intimate that they wittgive handsome subsidies rather than fail in jeeraring the extension through their townships. President Ingalls, of the C., I, St L. & C., on Menday, after passing through the immense fields of wheat, corn and oats which lined the L, I*. & S road its entire length, said: “This is a sight which Wall street should see. It would Toem railroad stocks and securities.” V. T. Malott, who accompanied the party as far as Decatur, came back more than ever impressed with the immensity of the crop prospects. He also xetarns impressed with the belief that the L, D. & S. is one of the best roads that a man often ratal over. The run from Indianapolis to Deeater was made in three hours and twelve tninvtas; distance, 152 miles. Out of this time thirtoen minutes is to be deducted for stops. Food for Thought, ’’•For three months, more or less,” says the Staton Herald, “there has been quiet, but persistent, buying of Dayton £ Iron ton stock by parties whose identity has been difficult to dissever. It has been given out that a small order only was in the market, but every stockholder of ■record is said to have been written to to see if be wodtd sell, and some thousands of shares are believed to have been picked up, report now says, by parties In the interest of Indiana, Bloomington & Western people. That the Dayton & I ronton road hat long been nnder the direction of Gen oral Manager Henderson, of the 1., B. & W. road, has long been a subject of comment. Referring to this matter, a correspondent writes: ‘How profitable it will be for the Dayton & Irontoe to be absorbed by the 1.,R & W., which baa petitioned for a receiver, is a matter for •peculation, as well as food for thought.'" Pooling Junction Points. ii order to include as much as possible of the -through freight going to the Western termini of the Eastern trunk lines, the Detroit and Toledo taftßUttcc* of the Central Traffic Association

have recommended district pools be made to include shipments from all junction points, those west of the main line of the Illinois Central to he included, according to their situation, in the St. Louis. Peoria and Chicago pools, while further east the following are recommended as district pool centers: Michigan City, Ind ; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Detroit, Mich.; Toledo, O.; Sandusky, O.; Cleveland, O.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Logansport, Ind.; Lafayette. Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Terre Haute, Ind.; Evansville, Ind.; Cairo, 111.; Louisville, Ky.; Cincinnati, 0., and Columbus, O. President McKeen’s Annual Report. Below are given the principal points of the annual report of Wm. R. McKeen, president of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis road, for the year 1885. This company owns a line from Indianapolis, Ind., to the Illinois State line near Terre Haute, 79.4 miles. There are 34.639 miles of the coal spurs and sidings, and 53.748 miles of ordinary sidings, making a total of 167.787 miles of track. The equipment includes 49 locomotives; 21 passenger, 5 postal, 11 baggage and 6 express cars; 349 box, 78 stock, 12 wood-rack, 97 flat. 1,140 coal and 23 caboose cars; 1 directors’ and one pay car and 43 service cars. The company also leases the St Louis, Vandalia fk Terre Haute, from the Indiana line to East St Louis, 158.3 miles, and the Terre Haute & Logansport, from Terre Haute to South Bend, 182.7 miles, but the reports of those roads are made separately. Its capital stock is $1,988,150; funded debt, $1,600,000. The report for the year is as follows: 1884-85. 1883-84. Decrease. P. C. Earnings $1,060,631 $1,127,388 $66,757 5.9 Expenses 747,212 804,606 57,394 7.1 Net earnings... $313,419 $322,782 9,363 2.9 Gross earnings per mile 13,358 14,199 842 6.9 Not earnings tier mile 3,947 4,065 118 2.9 Per cent of expenses 70.5 71.4 0.9 The earnings per train mile last year were 94.7 cents; expenses, 66.7; net earnings, 28.0 cents. The average train was 6.44 passenger or 19.28 loaded freight cars, 5 empty cars being counted as 3 loaded ones. Lucpinotive service cost 16.71 cents per mile run. Locomotives ran 1.58 miles to each revenue train mile. The cost of hauling a passenger car one mile was 2 49 cents; a freight car, 0.84 cent Os the freight car milage 64.1 per cent was of loaded cars. Through business furnished 60 per cent, of the passenger miles and 70 per cent of the ton miles. During the year 994 tons of steel rails and 39,931 new ties were used in renewals; 12 miles of track were re-ballasted. Two new iron bridges were built. Two new shifting engines were built in the company’s shops. The road and equipment were generally maintained in good condition. The decrease in the earnings for the year was due entirely to the very low rates obtained on the through business, which forms 60 large a part of the traffic of the road. The report of the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute has already been published. The Terre Haute & Logansport division extends from Terre Haute, Ind., to South Bend, 182.7 miles; there are 26.018 miles of sidings. The road was completed through to South Bend Nov. 24. .1884. The equipment includes 12 locomotives; 6 passenger and 3 baggage cars; 34 box, 6 stock, 16 flat, 593 coal and 8 caboose cars. There are also 136 leased coal cars on the road. The total earnings for the year were $434,246; expenses. $447,520; deficit. $13,274. The increase in expenses was due to increased train service and greater length of road worked—an average of 180.5 miles last year against 153.4 in the preceding year. The rental (25 per cent. of gross earnings) was $108,562, making the total loss for the year $121,836. The earnings per train mile last year were 67.2 cents; expenses, 69.2; loss, 2.0 cents per mile. Locomotive service cost 16.38 cents per mile run. The average tram was 3.05 passeneer or 12.50 freight cars. The cost of hauling a passenger car one mile was 3.54 cents; a freight car, 1.40 cent. Os the whole tonuage moved, 53 per cent, was coal. Local business last year furnished 70 per cent, of the ton miles, and 80.5 per cent of the revenue from freight, During the year 14.746 miles of track were relaid with steel, and 29,035 new ties were laid; 14 miles of track were ballasted. Anew iron bridge was built over the Wabash river at Logansport, and several wooden bridges were renewed A total amount of $45,20*2 was expended in improvements in road, and included in expenses.

Good Grounds for the Belief. As persons not well informed may think that the intimation that the 1., B. & W. f aside from the C., S. & O. lease troubles, could not long have steered clear of a receiver, is unjust, we publish below official figures concerning the earnings of the system. The fiscal year of the L, B. &W, ends on June 30. In order to show how the road’s earnings have been decreasing, we present the earnings statement for 1884-5 and of eleven months of 1886, which may indicate why the company is disposed to feel bowed down by weight of woe at the success of the Sandusky in the litigation just ended on the rental question. Year ended June 30, 1884-5. 1883-4. Decrease. Gross earnings $2,582,935 $2,901,653 $318,618 Operating expense 1,914,510 1,932.993 18.483 Net earnings $968,425 $968,560 $300,135 Interest and rentals 968,482 1,061,020 92,588 Deficit $300,057 $92,460 *5207,597 ‘lncrease. The company had a profit and loss balance, July 1, 1884, of $374,094, which was reduced by the operations of the year ended June 30, 138J>, as shown above, to $74,037. These figures indicate that, up to the beginning of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886, the road was not running with a great degree of profit. We have not the figures of operation for the year named, as it has just closed, but we have compiled from the weekly statements of gross earnings the approximate figures, which, for fifty one weeks, are $2,408,744. Estimating the last week of June, at $55,000, we have approximate gross earnings for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1886, of $2,463,744, $119,191 less than the fiscal year 1884-5. The operating cost was 74.1 per cent, in 1884-5, against 66.6 per cent, in 1883-4, an increase of 7.5. Allowing, however, that the operating cost has decreased this year, say to 70 percent., and we have net earnings of $739,123, or $70,698 more than in 1884-5, which would indicate a deficit of $229,359. Under the most favorable figuring, it thus appears that the road is in need of reorganization, apart from the expenditures which it has to make on account of the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland lease. W, W. Spencer To Be County Attorney. W. A. Ketcham will retire to-day from the county attorneyship. W. W. Spencer, late secretary of the Democratic county committee, will then become the legal adviser of the Democratic County Commissioners, while Sim Coy will continue to shape tbeir political actions. Sim, with this board, the care of the Bailey campaign and the chairmanship of the Democratic county committee, is overburdened with statesmanship just now. Notwithstanding all this he imagines he has another great task in the interest of humanity, and that is to secure the repeal or the cow ordinance. For a man who has neither a church nor a school-house in his ward, the responsibilities are doubly great. Mayor Den ay Gets an Appointment. The latest exposition enterprise is that of the three Americas, with headquarters at Washington. It is proposed to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the United States Constitution in this way at the capital, and also, three years later, the discovery of America four hundred years ago. A part of the great undertaking is to appoint to the Exposition Board of Promotion, mayors of cities that have a population of 25,000 or more. Mayor Denny yesterday was notified of his appointment to this board. Mrs. A W. Bkockaw. of Groton, Brown county, Dakota, used Alloock’s Plasters for fifteen years — completely cured of irregularity by using two plasters across the small of the back for seven days each month; also found them very efficacious in kidnev trouble; cured of a dull, heavy pain and pressure at the base of the brain by wearing an Alloock’s Porous Plaster at the back of the aeefc

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1886.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Prof. J. C. Branner, of the State University, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. A T. Alien have taken rooms at 107 North New Jersey street. Messrs. David and Geo. W. Powell have returned from their California trip. Miss Jennie Marine left yesterday for Richmond, where she will spend the summer. Senator Voorhees was in the city yesterday for a few hours. He left for Cincinnati at 3:50 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Webster, jr., have gone to New York for a few weeks’ sojourn during the hot weather. H. B. Smith and M. M. Matthews, of South Bend, former residents of Indianapolis, are in the city for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kern left last night on a trip of two or three weeks’ length, to Canada. They will visit Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. Mr. C. E. Schmidlap, so well and favorably known in Indianapolis insurance circles, is meeting with success in Chicago as the representative of Ducat, Lyon & Cos. Will C. David has gone to Lafayette, to act as assistant adjutant-general during the encampment there, which beeins July 26. Adjutantgeneral Koontz is in Elkhart Dr. A. C. Miller, of the New York Life, has been appointed manager of the Central Live Stock Insurance Company, which starts out so bravely. Dr. Miller’s long experience and success in life insurance must prove valuable in the work of organization and selection before him. District ‘Attorney Lamb, W. J. Craig, of the Sentinel, State Auditor Rice, Dr. C. N.’ Metcalf and W. A. Peelle have gone to Rockville, to attend the Democratic congressional convention of the Eighth district, to be held there to-day. Mr. Lamb is said to have 98 out of the 104 votes in the convention pledged to him. Mr. J. W. Lanktree has succeeded Maj. A. S. Helms as manager of the Indiana department of the United States Life Insurance Company; of New York. Mr. Lanktree is well known in this State as a persistent and successful solicitor, and he will not be slow in bringing the merits of his excellent company to the front. Hotel Arrivals. Denison: Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Gilmore, Springfield. Mass.; W. K. Smith, Union City; H. Green, John A. Sage, C. Strathey, New York; Matt M. Smith, Cincinnati; Grafton Johnson, Greenwood; W. C. Burk, Thorntown; J. R. Gray, Noblesville; W. V. Stuart, W. C. Wilson, Lafayette; T. N. Morden, Louisville; J. N. Huston, Connersville; U. Z. Wiley, Fowler; M. M. Matthews, South Bend. Grand Hotel: W. C. Burk, Thorntown; G. A. Bockling, Michigan City; John C. Nelson, Logansport; E. T. Stringer, Fort Wayne: Miss Grover, Miss Hamill, Terre Haute; W. H. Fleece, North Salem; J. V. LaGrange, Ellen LaGrange, Franklin; M. R. Woodard. Bloomingdale; C. A. Munson, Fort Wayne; Chas. Joseph, Crawfordsville; H. M. Atkinson, Wabash; A. E. Rogers, Clayton; Jas. A. New, Greenfield; W. B. Overman, Rockville; Thos. F. Davidson, Crawfordsville. Bates House: E. C. Howe, C. A. Henderson, Dr. C. E. Diven, Anderson; J. W. Wolford, Atwater; J. L. Mooie, Sandusky; D. L. Anderson, Greencastle: C. O. Piatt, Decatur; Wm. Grose, New Castle; W. H. McClure and family, GovJ. H. Kellogg, Troy; Warwick Miller and family, Louisville; Gao. N. Edgar, Union City; Simon Dodd, Marcedon; W. J. Cunningham, Lafayette; M. D. Crawley, Snllivan; A E. Wilson, St Paul; Geo. F. Stevens, Rochester; A. Keyes, Xenia; B. Sullivan, Bunker Hill; Chas. S. Kidder, Richmond.

THE CITY IN BRIEF. Mary H. Ruddell qualified yesterday as the executrix of James H. Ruddell’s estate.* The statement that John Bridges wa3 arrested ob Saturday for assault was a mistake. Emma_ Winkelman, an incorrigible, was sent to the Reformatory yesterday by Judge Clarke, William Wilson, aged eighteen, was arrested, at a late hour last night, for setting fire to the shed in Garfield Park, which was burned several weeks ago. Superintendent Thompson, of the work-house, shows the written orders of Judge Clarke for the release of John McCue and other parties turned out of the work-house. The lawn fete for the benefit of the South Side free kindergarten, will be given at the residence of Mr3. Alex. Jameson, corner Meridian and Vermont streets, Thursday evening. The regular monthly meeting of the commissioners of the additional hospitals for the insane was held at the Governor’s office yesterday. Only routine business was transacted. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to David S. Griffin and Katie Collins, Charles Etteuberger and Jessie Burke, James Burgess and Margaret A. Jones, John Gas way and Susie Roberts. Missionaries for Indianapolis, The Ladies’ Evangelistic Union met yesterday afternoon in the lecture-room of the Central Christian Church, Mrs. Dr. Haughton, president, Mrs. Sarah Wirts, secretary. The proceedings opened with singing the gospel hymn, “The Lily of the Valley.” Mrs. Judah, of the Californiastreet M. E. Church, led in prayer. The treasurer’s report was then read. A committee of three, Mrs. Niel, Mrs. Loftin and Mrs. Siddall, was appointed to revise the constitution and bylaws. The object of the Ladies’ Evangelistic Union is to work in the interests of the various evangelistic churches of the city, to carry the gospel and Christian help to places in Indianapolis where they do not now go, and to employ a city missionary, or missionaries, in tnis work. In the membership of the organization the following denominations are represented: Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists, Diseiples, Friends, United Brethren, United Presbyterians and German Methodists. Mrs. Dr. Haughton and Miss Anna Mills were put in nomination for the place of city missionary. The first ballot proved a tie. thirteen ballots being cast for each lady. On the second ballot Mm. Haughton was chosen, receiving fifteen votes, to thirteen votes cast for Miss Mills. Mrs. Rauehton’s election having thus vacated the chair, Mrs. K. Loftin was elected President. Mrs. J. R. Wood was elected vice-president Prayer was offered by Rev. E. L. Gautz, and the meeting adjourned. ■ ■ , m An Interesting Medical I aper. At the meeting of the Marion County Medical Society, last evening, Dr. R. Houghton read an unusually valuable and interesting paper on “Cerebral Injuries, Surgically Considered,” which was discussed by Drs. Chambers, Harvey, Ferguson, Morrison, Ferree, Brayton, Hadley and Cook, and was referred to the State Medical Society. Dr. G. V. Woolen, who has just returned from a course of study in England, was requested to present a subject next Tuesday evening, of his own selection. Dr. John Chambers agreed to read a paper the following week, on “Diseases of the Lymphatic System;” and Dr. Morrison upon the “Topography of the Convolution? of the Brain, and the present views as to their functions. It was decided not to adjourn for the summer, as the Council Chamber, the present place of meeting, is one of the coolest places in the city, and the summer meetings are always fairly well attended., • A New Elevator. ‘ The Virginia-avenue elevator owners, Elevattor “D,” yesterday filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. The Mutchner & Higgins Company, as it is called, iscompoaedof P. E. Mutchner, Wm. L. Higgins and W. M. Marsh, three thoroughgoing business men. Daring the past six months they have been improving the facilities of the place, until now they have one of the most complete eleystors in the West

They have recently put in new hopper and track scales, so flbat everything is weighed twice that goes into or comes oat of the elevator. Honor to Whom Honor Is fioa The Dakota Tribe of Red Men claims to be the banner tribe of the State, instead of tho tribe from Lebanon, as was stated yesterday. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. The Old Gentleman Squeals. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! It is all nonsense to scold about the old boy who wants his whisky or beer on the Fourth of July. The Fourth of July is the day for those stimulants, that make it possible for that old boy to ’rah for liberty, the same as the firecracker does for the small one. We know there is a State ordinance against the places where those stimulants are sold being open on the Fourth of July; but we like our police commissioners, who instruct the police to not molest those places, if only their back doors are open. So those stimulants would be not only permissible, but under the protection of the authorities, and would enable their devotees to raise steam high enough in the old bird’s whistle to screech out, in never ending strains, to “Hail Columbia.” One of the things that are not possible, is to have a Fourth of July without whisky, just as we had it when we were a boy, sixty years ago, and before such fanatical prohibs as Dr. Brown, U. L. See. and, later, chimed in, parrotlike, by Captain Ritter, began their nonsense against liberty and right. Whenever we come to have a Fourth of July without those old-fash-ioned accompaniments, then it will be time to fence in the American Republic. „In the meantime, here is to the Fourth of July, the patriotic old boy and whisky, small boy and fire-cracker — a gloriouscombination, despite the old-man-mor-alist who never felt his heart thump with patriotic emotion for the “day we celebrate,” nor sung to The Star-spangled Banner; “Long may it wave o’er the land of the free and tho home of the brave” (hie.) Long may they wave. A. S. Kingsley. The Proposed Temperance Convention. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal A State convention of temperance Republicans is a good idea, and if the convention itself is characterized by tho fraternal spirit shown in the call, published in yesterday’s Journal, it will be of advantage to temperance reform in, at least, two ways. In the first place, the free discussion of the temperance question by its friends will serve to show them what is the best method of fighting the liquor traffic. The plan which the convention may adopt cannot be foretold with certainty, but it is foreshadowed in that part of the call which says: “We demand the total suppression of the traffic in liquor as a beverage by State action, and pending this ultimate consummation, we recognize the right of the people in their respective counties, to deal with the question under the principle of local option, for suppressing the traffic in their midst, and each county should have the right by ballot to determine this for themselves; and where they will not suppress the traffic it should be compelled to bear the burdens it imposes upon society." A high license law with a local-option clause, and State prohibition when it shall have become practical, is not a bad platform. Os still more importance will be the discussion of the question, “How can we get this platform adopted by the people of the State?” We trust that this discussion will show to many the mistakes which they are making, so that their actions in the future may not be a hindrance, but a benefit, to the cause of temperance. The plan which seems best to those who signed the call is shown by the statements, that the convention is “not a partisan movement” and that they believe that “temperance reform, like all other moral reforms, must be advanced, if at all, through non-partisan action.” The signers of the calk do not intend, however, to foist this plan upon the convention, for they say, “If our political brethren differ from us in their plans and methods of accomplishing this reform, it is an honest difference,” and they go on to say that they desire discussion that they may discover what plan is b->Bt, This convention is a move in the right direction, for which reason it will now be in order for some third-party hypocrite to denounce it. K. K.

TIIE ELECTORAL COMMISSION. Why the Bill Was Passed—The Late David Davis and His Connection with It. “Observer,” in New York Sun. The Electoral-commission bill was reported in the Senate on the 18th of January, 1877. It bad been framed with great care by representative men of both parties to seem exactly balanced, but, of course, everybody knew that, while each party would put only its trusted men on the commission where this could be done, there was yet a fifteenth man to be named from the Supreme Bench, and he was to be selected by the four judges named in the WIL True, their names were not inserted, but the numbers of the circuits over which they presided were given, and this was exactly equivalent to saying that the Democratic justices, Field and Clifford, and the Republican justices, Miller and Strong, should select from among their associates the umpire upon whose decision the final result of the electoral count was to rest The Republicans have never learned exactly how Mr. Edmunds and his Republican fellows on the committee expected these four Judges to choose a fifth who should be even doubtful on Tilden. Field and Clifford were not of the material to choose a man who would be pleasing to Hayes, was much talk of a dead lock, and a final decision by lot. This seemed the only chance for Hayes. The Democrats were better situated. There was a man on the bench to whom they might safely turn, and that was David Davis. He had drifted away from the Republican party, and sought the Independent nomination for the Presidency in 1872. He was distrusted by the Republicans, and proportionately trusted by their opponents. But now could he be chosen to the Commission? Would not Miller and Strong stSnd out for one known to be against the Tilden view, just as stoutly as Field and Clifford would stand out against a possible Hayes man? No? Here comes a fact in justification of those Democrats who supported the electoral-commis-sion bill. The Democratic managers of those days have been severely reproached for that unfortunate measure. They could not well give their real defense, which was a good one, and that was that they had good reason to believe that Justice Strong would join with Field and Clifford in selecting David Davis as the fifth judge, the fifteenth commissioner, and the final utnpiro. Hence their zeal. The Republicans had no knowledge of this Democratic expectation concerning Judge Strong. There is no doubt that if David Davis would have accepted the place he would hnve been chosen instead of Judge Bradley. This statement is made advisedly, and those who believe it to be correct do not in the least degree impeach Justice Strong's integrity. Nor do they mean to sav that he had made a promise. His vote for Davis was believed to be as secure ns the votes of Field and Clifford, because of the nature of the case and of his relations to that gentleman. In Bloomington, 111., on the 22d of January, a public meeting was held, at which the electoral bill, reported four days before, was extravagantly E raised in a series of well-phrased resolutions. Uoomington was the home of Judge David Davis. On the 25th of January the electoral bill was passed in the Senate, and on the same day David Davis was elected a United States Senator from Illinois by a combination of five Independents with the Democrats in the This new tie between him and the Democratic party seemed no objection to him as a commissioner in the minds of the men Who wanted to see Mr. Tilden inaugurated. Up to this sime the Democratic cards had been well played. Now, let us see whether the Democratic managers at the Capitol proceeded with due caution under the new conditions. Would the election of Judge Davis to the Senate affect his eligibility or availability for the commissionership? If the Democrats had left that in doubt, and gone on with the electoral bill in the House, without first taking soundings, they wonld have been poor pilots indeed. Bat this they did not do. The electoral bill was taken up in the House about noon of Thursday, the 25th of January. Representative Payne, of Ohio, was in charge of it, and he asked and obtained unanimous' consent that the rote upon iu passage should be

taken at 3 o’clock of Friday, the 2Gth. The intervening twenty seven hours were taken up in a debate upon the bill. Meanwhile Judge Davis was asked whether bis election as Senator would deter him from assuming the responsibility if chosen one of the Electoral Commission. The answer was such as to satisfy the Democrats. Had it been otherwise, the Electoral-commission bill never would have passed the House. Why should the leading Democrats who were then in Congress remain under the imputation of having been fools to be tricked, or cowards to surrender, when they had really guarded every point? Os course, Judge Davis had given no assurance as to how he would decide; neither had Held nor Miller; neither had Clifford nor Strong. But that he would serve as one of the commission was the certain expectation of enough Democrats to have beaten the electoral bill if they had doubted him. As it was, the bill was passed, and the friends of Mr. Tilden were jubilant. The four Supreme judges were to meet on the 30th of January—four days after the final passage of the bill—for the purpose of deciding whether Tilden or Hayes should be President. If Strong should vote with Field and Clifford for Davis, Hayes could not invade the White House. The occasion was a momentous one. But before the time came to decide, Justice Strong announced the fatal fact that his friend Davis had positively refused to be voted for as one of the commissioners. The fifteenth member es the commission had then to be chosen from among the associate justices—Swavne, Bradley and Hunt. Many reasons have been assigned why Bradley was selected. The main facts I have sought to emphasize are that the Democrats believed that David Davis could be elected a commissioner and would serve, and that he only made his unwillingness known after he had beeu made a United States Senator by Democratic votes and had allowed the Democrats of the House to pass the electoral bill. Why suffer the tortures of biliousness when Hood’s Sarsaparilla will give you relief? Sold by all draggists. 100 doses one dollar.

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