Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 July 1886 — Page 1

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

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YOU WILL Regret it if you don’t buy one of the MODEL’S Regular sls and $lB Fine Suits, going during this week’s clearance sale for ®iO. Suits that were*slo and sl2, now $6.50 to SB. Boys’ Suits at $2.50 to $5, former prices $5 to $lO. $1.98 for regular $3.00 light-colored stiff Hats. JIODEL BUSINESS MEN’S TBOUBLES. The Kirkpatrick Assignment at Bloomington Begins to Grow Serious. Belief that the Provident FavinffS Bank Will Lose SIOO,OOO by 1 homson’s Defalcation —A Bank Officer Starts for Canada.

tpe.-ial to tho Indianapolis Journal Bloomington, 111., July 15. The assignment made ou Tuesday by A. D. Kirkpatrick, furniture dealer, grows more and more serious as it is investigated. The first report estimated the assets at $40,000 and the liabilities at $30,000. The schedule of liabilities was filed to-day, and foots $35,952, and it is believed that this will be •welled by several thousands before all are reported. The assets are now estimated at not more than $31,500, and It [is thought that these figures will shrink fully one-half, $23,000 being in merchandise, which must be sacrificed. The loss will not bo far from $20,000 to $25,000. The heaviest creditors are W. H. Miars&Co., Brooklyn, $8,740; J. V. Farwell & Cos., Chicago, $1,583: H. B. Claflin & Cos., New York. $2,580; National State Bank, of Bloomington, 111 , $3,193. Other debts run all the way from $S to SOSO. Forty or fifty furniture houses are on the list Within the past few weeks Kirkpatrick bad borrowed money from every one whom he could couch, most of the lenders taking only an I. O. (J., or at most a plain note. Some few got judgment notes. Dealers in Indiana are caught for about $f,300 mostly in small amounts. Among these are McClure, the Central Chair Company, Lauder & Freeze, A. W. Ott, of Chicago; the Rattan Company. Cort &po., Schatter„& Cos. and Thomas Madden, of Indianapolis; the Indiana Furniture Company, Connersville, Ind.; Thompson, Michigan City; the Lmwreneeburg Manufacturing Company and S. C. Dodd, Bloomington, Ind. The Broken Firm of Rivera & Cos, Nfav York, July 13.—J. De Rivera, formerly head of tbe sugar firm of J. De Rivera & Cos., which recently suspended, and father of 11. C. De Rivera, the present senior member of the firm, has written the following letter to Mr. Olcott, formerly the attorney for his son. The letter is dated New York, July 13, and is a3 follows: “I am so stricken down by the events connected with the failure of the firm established by me, and so many years part of my daily life, that I do not feel equal to a longer stay here, and I will return to my home on South Bass island, Ohio, near the village of Put-in-Bay, and hence I write my message to the creditors of my son’s firm, who hold notes to which I have put my name, to help my son, and as an accommodation to his firm. 1 have no other claims Against me except for a few trifling sums. My property consists of lands in Ohio and in Florida, the former under my own personal Buperintendent-e, and consisting of vineyards, orchards and woodland. I have also some uncollected claims. All that I now own and possess you can assure those holding notes with my name on is at their disposal, to be divided among them pro rata. As to the realizing of the property in Ohio, the greater value, in my opinion, will be obtained by nursing it carefully, and not by soiling it outright, which would be disastrous. Should tbe first plan be carried out, it is my belief—the dearest hope left to me in life—that my property will fully aod amply suffice to cover the claims of •very person to-day holding a scrap of paper with my promise to pay. Be kind enough to deliver this message in my name, aud, thanking sou in advance, I remain very truly yours, “J. De Riveba.” Mr. Olcott says, in relation to the absouce of El. C. Da Rivera: “I can only account for his ieparturo by supposing that he is insane. Certainly there is no other reason that I can Ihink of His assets are amply sufficient to •over ail his indebtedness, and his father is both tble and willing to pay all the notes that he has pdorsed for the firm.” Rutland, Vt., July 13.—The failure of J. Je Rivera Sc Cos., sugar merchants of New York, sas complicated two important industries of this tection. The Marble Company and the Poultney slate works have been obliged to tuspeud. Du Rivera is the principal stockholder In both companies. The Esperanza quarry is considered one of the most valuable marble demsits in Vermont, and will probably cave tho ompany from ultimate bankruptcy. The Thomson Shortage at St. Louis. St. Louis, July 13. —Mr. Carlos Greely, the largest stockholder of tho Provident Savings Bank, which failed yesterday, makes tho followng statement as to how that event was brooght ibout: “When the board of directors counted .he cashier's reserve fund, two weeks ago, preparatory to declaring their dividend, they found MO,OOO iu the bank vault Tbe night watchman Informed me, last evening, that Mr. Thomson intered the bank Duilding on Satordny evening *.t about 10:30 o’clock, and it was then undoubtedly that the cashier placed $15,000 of the fund n nia pocket, and tho greatest surprise to me is hat he did not appropriate the rest of it The '.rat discovery of this shortage was made last Friday by me, and it came about like this: Mr. jwain, the acting president of the bank, on that Jay came to my place of business and informed that the directors bad just loaned Thomson sß,ooo on 100 shares of Crystal Plate-glass Company stock, winch he had deposited as a,colJaJeraL Now, lam a director of that corporation, assisted in the disbursements of dividends, tnd I was in a position to know that Thomson lid not hold 100 shares of stock. Going immeto our treasurer, Mr. Barnes, I had him

WHEN INDICATIONS. Friday— Fair weather , stationary temperature . RUSH! BOY’S RUSH! We are selling White Vest Buttons, worth 25 cents a set, for ten cents, and THROWING IN A VEST! In other words, we are selling a complete White Vest, youth sizes (26 to 30), for TEN CE3NTTSI These goods are worth from 75 cents to $1.50; but we have had them some time, the lot is broken, and we want to be rid of them. COME AT ONCE. There are not many of them, and a good deal bigger lot than there is would not last long under such conditions. THE WHEN furnish me a list of the stockholders. In this list I found that on Oct 9, 1885, a certificate numbered 378, calling for one share of the capital stock, had been issued to Almon 15. Thomson. I called the attention of the board of directors to this, but Thomson explained that the other ninety-niue shares had been transferred to him but not yet delivered. He said, if the board wished, he would return the amount of the loan on Monday. When he did not show up Monday, my fears received a substantial acknowledgment of his crookedness. I wont to the bank, and by means of a microscope detected very plainly that the certificate bad been raised from one share to 100 shares, and that the date bad also been altered. A further examination of his books showed that his rascality had beer, going on since ISB3. Since that time ho had carried a fraudulent entry on tho foreign exchange account, involving $20,000. His total shortage will doubtless amount to $70,000. I agroe with the receiver, however, that the depositors will be paid in fall, even at tho expense of the stockholders. Tho bank will never resume operations. ” Another Rank Officer Goes to Canada. Chicago, July 15.—A special from Omaha says: “The Dundy County Bank, of Benkleman, Neb., failed yesterday. Beltzer, the president, skipped to Canada, and took with him about SIOO,OOO in funds and securities. Busiuess men and farmers feel the loss greatly, as many have lost the last dollar they had on earth. Several homesteaders had their littlo all in tho bank, and were to prove up to day. Many will have to abandon their claims. Tho greatest excitement prevails. Beltzer had transferred all his available property to his wife before leaving. Many Eastern banks and firms lose heavily. The bank was a private bank, the firm being McCarty & Beltzer. This firm was quoted in Bradstreet’s at from s3qp[)oo to $40,000, and their credit was very good. Benkleman is a town of about 300 people. It ia claimed that Beltzer took with him SIOO,OOO in funds -ami securities. It ia quite likely that a large portion of ’this amount was intrusted to him by Eastern parties to loan ;jut Tho details as to individual losers anti amounts have not yet been received. The bank only claimed a capital of SIO,OOO, and it is not believed by Omaha bankers that Beltzer could have taken SIOO,OOO, unless he has some Eastern money-loaners’ funds.” Heavy Failure in Texas. Galveston, Tex., July 15.—A special to the News says: “H. Spohn & Cos., merchants and ranchers, of Encinal Tex., have made an assignment. Liabilities, $72,000; assets, $170,000.

INSANE PATIENTS’ EYES. Result of an Interesting Examination by a Philadelphia Physician. Philadelphia, July 15.—A city physician, Dr. Louis J. Lautenbach, has been examining the eyes of the inmates in the State Asylum at Norristown and in the insano department of the Philadelphia Hospital, with results that are decidedly interesting. The examination was begun three years ago, and he covered the cases of 707 inmates, but as the- same individual has undertaken the examination of a similar number of persons who are mentally sound and healthy he will refrain from drawing conclusions until the latter task be accomplished. Os tbe total number examined there were twenty cases of cataract ana two cases of irritic deposits, leaving 083 as the number of patients examined ophthalmoscopically. Os tbese, 126 were nearly normal, leaving 549 as having some change visible in the eye. Tho percentage of the nearly normal cases was 19.85, and of abnormal 80.13. In 138 cases of melancholia forty were nearly normal. There were 104 cases of retinal hyperaemia, and seventy-five of retinal congestion, which Dr. Lautenbach states seems remarkable when it is considered that the class of patients examined are by no means great readers, nor do they use their eyes in trying occupations. In six cases of moral insanity and cranks examined no eye changes were observed in any of them. IDA CLIRK'S FOLLY. She Renounced Her Religion to Secure a Husband, and Her Lover Repudiates the Bargain. Special to tbe ludlauanolie Journal. Bloomington, 111., July 15.—0n last Friday Miss Ida Clark, a young lady of this city, became a convert to Judaism, tho ceremony taking place at the synagogue in the presence of. a large congregation. She became a convert in order that she might wed a young Hebrew named Holland. The wedding was set for this evening, but this forenoon Holland sent her word that the affair was off, and bo would not wed her to day or ever. He assigns no reason whatever. The affair has caused much comment and no little excitement, both in gentile and Jewish circles. ’Whisky-Selling at Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., July 15. —The injuctiou case of A. L. Bronck vs. tho city of Atlanta, seeking to prevent the interference of the police authorities with the sale of whisky, wine and beer by the quart, by the plaintiff, was tried yesterday before Judge Clark, of the Superior Court. He refused to grant an injunction, and the city will uow proceed to prosecute Bronck for violating the prohibition law. An Editor Sentenced to the Peniteutiary. Toledo, July 15.—Andre J. Bebent, one of tbe editors of the Sunday Democrat, was to day sentenced to serve one year in the Ohio penitentiary for printing an obscene sheet lie will be tried on three other indictments, and the State courts have several indictments ponding against him for black mail

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING-, JULY 10, 1836.

BAD HOOSIER DEMOCRATS. The President’s Warning to Office-Hold-ers and the Causes Leading to It. The Immediate Canse Was the Open and Defiant Violation of the Civil-Service Boles in the Fourth andTwelflh Districts. Grandfather Jones To He Again Investigated by the Civil-Service People. Why Pensioners Entitled to Twelve Dollars a Month Under the New Act Receive Only Thirty-Four Dollars the First Quarter. THE PRESIDENT’S ORDER. It Was Promulgated Recause Indiana Democrat ft Will Not Obey the Laws. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 15.—1 t transpires that President Cleveland was moved to promulgate his warning to office-holders, yesterday, wholly by reports of violation of tho civil-service law in Indiana. Reports have como to the President from Fort Wayne that Postmaster Kaough had neglected his official duties in working for the renomination of Representative Lowry, and that he is now violating the civil service Jaw in laboring for Lowry’s re-election; that he has solicited and collected campaign money from federal office-holders,, and is engaged in driving them into line for active service for Lowry and other Democratic candidates. Others of tho Lowry office-holders, it is charged by Democrats, as* well as Republicans, from that district, are guilty of these same offenses shown against Kaough. As many and as serious complaints reach tho President from Representative Holman’s district in connection with the latter’a renomination. It is shown that Holman’s officeholding underlings were sent out through the district from their - posts of official duty and made to perform work for Holman. Further, it is shown that removals have been made by wholesale from office by Revenue Collector Hunter and by postmasters in that district; that anti-Holman men were summarily dismissed and Holman men put into place; that several men who have positions as special agents of departments and whose fields of work are far outside of Indiana, were sent to labor for Holman’s renomination. Two or three pension examiners and Indian Inspector Bannister are cited. President Cleveland and the members of the Civilsepvico Commission are quoted as saying that the disregard of the civil-service law and reform in the districts of both Holman and Lowry is outrageous and calls for special attention. The violations of at least the spirit of civilsorvice reform at the postoffice in Indianapolis are spoken of at the White House These are flagrant and outrageous. Upon authority it is stated that Postmaster Jones Is a eubject for and will receive investigation by the Civil-service Commission. He has committed misdemeanors coming directly within the civil-service law, and is to be held accountable. Said an Indiana Democrat to the Journal correspondent to-night: “There was much excitement in the halls of the Postoffice Department to-day over President Cleveland’s proclamation to Democratic office-holders, and especially among Indianans of all parties, for it was pretty generally understood among the latter that the President was moved to issue his pronuuciamento because the Democratic officG-holders of our State, and especially of Holman’s district, had outrageously trampled upon tlie rights and liberties of the people there. It is known that Holman compelled every Democrat in office iu his district to turn out and work for his salvatidn harder than they would for their own. The friends of Mr. Cravens, who came out in opposition to Holman for the nomination, claim that their man would have succeeded in laying Holman on the shelf if they had not been compelled to fight the brigade of ‘official Hessians.’ The matter has rankled in their breasts ever since, and there is not much doubt here but that they furnished the President the matter on which his proclamation is based, in order to get oven with Holman and his gang for the tricks played on them and their candidate.”

THE MEXICAN TENSION RILL. The Senate’s Amendments of a Loose and Sweeping Piece of House Legislation. Washington Special. The Mexican pension bill, passed by the House on tho sth of April, under a suspension of the rules, by a vote of two to one and nearly twenty yeas to spare, was so ill considered that its amendment by the Senate became a matter of course. This work has now been performed, and it is fairly to be presumed that at least a part of the modifications of the Senate will be accepted. As passed by tbe House, Mr. Wolford's bill granted life pension?, at the rate of $8 a month, to “all the surviving officers, soldiers, and sailors who enlisted and served in tho war with Mexico for any period during the years 1845, 1846, 1847, and 1848, and were honorably discharged, and their surviving widows.” A proviso excepted from the benefits of tho act persons under political disabilities. No excuse can be mado for passing a bill thus worded, since the phrase “for any period” contained in it would entitle a man to a life-long pension who had only served twenty-four hours, and even the widow of such a man. The bill passed by the House in the Forty-eighth Congress. for a similar pnrpose, required a service of at least sixty days, or else participation in a battle; but under the one sent to tho Senate this year a recruit need never have been out of his native town or within a thousand miles of the Rio Grande to get a pension. The House bill further provided that where a soldier could not show his discharge papers, secondaty evidence would be permitted, possession of a land warrant, unless proved to have been obtained by fraud, being sufficient. The Senate has amended the bill so as to apply only to those who, “being duly enlisted, actually served sixty days with the army or navy of the United States in Mexico, or on the coasts or frontier thereof, or en route thereto, in the war with that nation, or who were actually engaged in a battle in said war. and were honorably discharged.” During tho House debate one member declared that “quite 40 per cent of all the eulistments were made after the last battle of tho war,” and that the majority of these final recruits never marched toward Mexico at all. If this statement be even approximately true, the present amendment is exceedingly important to the Treasuary. Again, the Senate does not give pensions to all surviving

widows, like the House bill, but only to those that “have not remarried.” Still another proviso is in these terms: And provided that every such officer, enlisted man or widow, who is or may become sixty-two years of age or who ig or may become subject to any disability or dependency equivalent to some cause recognized by tbepension laws as a suffie'ent cause for the allowance of a pension, shall bo entitled to the provisions of the act. except where such disability or dependency was incurred in aiding or abetting the late Rebellion. Finally, to guard against duplicating pensions, the Senate has provided that where persons edtitled under this law are already receiving pensions of less than $8 a month, they shall be entitled to the difference up to SB, and they shall have nothing at all under it if already pensioned at $8 or more. Some, at least, of these amendments the House will doubtless have to accept, in order to save the bill from defeat. Exactly how much the measure may take from the Treasury annually, if finally agreed upon and enacted, will depend on its ultimate shape; but it must, in any event, be several millions. The estimate of the original cost of the House bill by its leading advocates varied from four to eight millions for the first year, with a diminution thereafter. Some Congressmen thought it might only cost two millions a year, but others fixed the limit at ten. The aggregate cost, first and last,, was estimated at from sixty to seventy millions, or from forty to fifty millions under the sixty-day limitation. But, as has been said, tbese estimates must be revised under the various Senate amendments. The House bill bad mentioned particularly the years 1845 and 1848 as two of those during which enlistment and service for any period should secure a pension. The first blood was shed in April, 1846, when some Americans under Thornton were killed, and the last battle was fought the 9th of October, 1847, while tho treaty of peace was agreed to Feb. 2, 1848. In spite of t)ie existing differences between the action of the House and that of the Senate, the Mexican pension bill is nearer enactment than ever before. The amendments of tho Senate are very much tho same, except for requiring two months’ instead of two weeks’ service, as those which it added to the Townshend Mexican pension bill, in the Forty-eighth Congress. But the Senate at that time also added the famous Cuilom bill, pensioning Union dependent veterans, at an unknown cost, perhaps $50,000,000 a year. This swamped tho original Mexican bill for that Coneress. Now the Cuilom bill has been passed by the Senate as a separate measure, and accordingly does not come up to handicap the Mexican bill. The fate of this latter measure will be watched with the interest which the fifty millions involved and the momentous precedent of pensioning troops for mere enlistment deserves.

THE CLERKS’ SALARY GRAB. How tlie Extra Month’s Pay Abuse Has Grown In Receut Years. Washington Special. Senator Allison, in a speech delivered in the Senate on March 31, 1885, showed how tbe folly of giving an extra mouth’s pay had grown up in Congress. Prior to 187 Git had beeu customary to give the extra month’s pay to sessbn employes. The Democrats, being then in possession of the House, stated that the custom should be broken up. They broke it up by making a statute declaring that the long session should be considered as lasting seven months and the short one four months. As tho long session was usually less than seven months and the short one could not be more than three months, the employes got by statute what they had before received by special bill. Yet in 1879, after tbe law had been some time in force,,tbo House of Representative, being Democratic, gave its employes an extra month’s Day, which the Senate allowed, thus giving session employment months’ pay, instead of seven, for six mouths' work, and four months’ pay for three months’ work. About July 1, 1879, the House added all the employes on the annual rolls. This the Senate yielded. Again, on March 3, 1881, the House not only asked for an extra month’s pay for the session clerks, but for the annual clerks also. So the Senate made a similar de mand for its session clerks, and it was allowed, after it had been refused by the appropriations committee, on the motion of a Democratic Senator. Then the Senate began, iu 1881, to appropriate for the sessions clerks an extra month’s pay beyond that provided in the statutes of 1877, which provided that the sessions should convene for four months and seven months respectively, during the long and short terms. This was repeated the next year, the House employes all getting an extra month’s pay, while the Senate annual clerks did not receive it. The House brought in the same proposition the following year, giving an extra month's pay to all employes, including, however, the official stenographers, who receive $5,000 each a year. Not an employe was left out. In that year a Senator declared it to be a manifest injustice that employes of the House should receive more as annual compensation than wa3 paid to corresponding officers of the Senate, End an additional month’s pay. The Senate refused to grant tbe request of the House unless a like provision was made for the Senate. During that year—lßS3—a law was proposed for a joint commission from the two bouses to consider the question of salaries and compensation. The commission met aod failed to agree. Since that time the extra month’s pay has been voted in each house to all employes. The cost has been about SIOO,OOO yearly for both houses. If the act of 1877 is still in force, and tho House employes are receiving pay for seven months for a long session and four months for a short one. by statute the claim defeated by the vote of Saturday would appear to have been one to pay salaries for nine months, as this session has been one of about eight months in length. What becomes of tho statutory provision that the session should be considered as seven mouths in leugth?

LIQUIDS IN THE MAILS. A Rule Good for Patent Medicine Dealers and Residents of Prohibition States. Washington Special. Hitherto liquids or substances easily liquefiable, pastiles or confections, ink powders, red pep pers, oils, ointment, soft soap and articles of like consistency have been excluded from the mails under a regulation founded upon tho statute rendering non-mailable such matter as, from its former nature, is liable to destroy, deface or otherwise damage the contents of the mail-bag, or harm the person of those handling the mails. The changes in the regulations prescribe the conditions on which liquids not inflammable or dan gerous may be passed in tbe mails. Boston parties have been among the most active in endeavoring to secure this order. Persons interested in patents of cases to safely inclose liquids have also long been trying to get such an order. The regulation has. however, been drawn with such care as to include all existing patented boxes or any that may be invented that may serve the purpose. It is expected that owners of patent medicines will make great use of this new privilege. Dealers in perfumery will also be likely to take advantage of it, and it is expected that the express companies and the small local dealers will make the same objection to this regulation that they have to *he extension of the samples and the parcels post One large manufacturer, the department is advised, intends to avail himself of this new order by establishing a system of furnishing families throughout the Union with their weekly supply of yeast. There may be one curious result from this new order. It will bo possible, but expensive, for tho free-mm orator in a prohibition State to receive bis dram by mail while on tbe stump, and the local piohibition laws cannot interfere with him without obstructing the United States mails. The regulations permit tbe transmission of about four ounces, net weight, liquid measure, or about an ordinary tumbler full, at I cent the ounce. The wrapping would weigh two ounces. So that for C cents, in States where the laws are too severe and the dram drinkers are wealthy, it will be possible for them to receive their daily

rum in defiance of all local option or prohibitory laws. This, of course, is only a possible incident of the new regulations, which are designed to accommodate the general public. MINOR MATTERS. Treasury Employes Summarily Discharged for Discreditable Conduct. Washington, July 15.— Acting Secretary Fairchild to-day summarily dismissed a chief of division and two clerks in his office, for discreditable conduct in connection with examinations for promotions. It seems a chief of division had been instructed to prepare examination papers for a promotion in bis office, and, after doing so, surreptitiously furnished copies of. the questions to two of the clerks under him. This fact was brought to the attention of the head of the office, w’ho mado inquiry of the accused parties, and upon their denial ot the truth cf the charges, reported them to the acting Secretary as persons unworthy to hold positions under tho government. A high iu the Treasury Department states that he is convinced this practico has been long in vogue, and that the authorities are determined to put a stop to it so far as possible. General Black's Salary Restored. Washington Special. General Black is not to have bis salary docked, and for this he may thank a Republican. It was the Democratic House that cut the salary of the Commissioner of Pensions a thousand dollars a year. If a Democratic House would clip the salary of a Democratic Commissioner, it was not to be expected that a Republican Senate would come to his relief. There is hardly any Democratic official that tho Republicans have less love for than Black, because of the charges that he made in the annual report, last fall, that the Pension Office had been used by the Republicans systematically as a political machine. Consequently, when the salary of General Black was reached in tho legislative and executive salary bill there was no move made to put it back to the present figures. But presently the Senate reached tho salaries of other officials which the Democratic Houso had cut down, and on tho motion of Republican Senators the Senate voted to restore these to their present amounts. This left Black discriminated against Senator Spooner did not think this was fair, and moved to reconsider the vote whereby Black’s salary, as fixed in the bill, had been agreed to. With the holp of Democratic votes this motion prevailed, and the Senate then voted to put the salary back where it is now. Mr. Spooner got a wigging from some of bis political friends for coming to Black’s rescue, but he insisted that if the Republican Senators were going to rescue other Democratic officials against the economy of a Democratic House they should treat Black like the rest. The House to day concurred in the Senate amendment, and General Black’s salary is safe. A New Hearing ot La Abra Claim. Washington Special. Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana, has returned here to look after tbe interests of the La Abra claimants, who are contending for the distribution of the awards made under a convention between the United States aud Mexico in 1868, in spite of the fact that Mexico has persistently charged that fraud and perjury were nsed in obtainining the awards. The charges of fraud are made against the La Abra Silver Mining Company, a New York concern, chartered in 1865 Its purpose was to work out some ancient silver mines in the State of Durango, Mexico, which proved worthless, according to Mexican reports, but which the La Abra company claimed had to be abandoned on account of threats, imprisonments and seizures. The House anb-eorumiltee on foreign affairs reported to the full committee in favor of rehearing the claims in the United States courts. The amount involved is $600,000.

Nominations by the President. Washington, July 15. —The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Douglas W. Taylor, of Portland, Ore., to be surveyor-general of Oregon; Lewis Williams, of Missouri, to be commissioner for the district of Alaska, to reside at Juneau City; W. A. Selkirk, register of the land office at Sacramento, Cal.; Gilbert D. Williams, of New York, agent for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe agency, Indian Territory. Receivers of Public Moneys—Luke A. Burke, at Aberdeen, D. TANARUS.: William G. Hobbs, at Springfield, 3Io.; James N. Welsoh, at Detroit, Mich. Commodore James E. Jouett, to be rear admiral; Commodore John 11. Russell, to bo rear admiral; Captains John Irwin and James A. Greer, to bo commodores. Mr. Butler’s Mission. Washington Special. General B. F. Butler occupied a seat on the floor of the House to-day, and was beset at intervals for his autograph by the pages. He complied in every case. General Butler’s mission to Washington at this time is for the purpose of selling to the government, for $175,000, hi3 granite house near tbe Capitol. Miscellaneous Notes. Special to tbe Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 13. —Mr. Stockslager, Assistant Commissionerof the General Land Office, was suddenly taken ill at h;s desk, to-day, and had to go home. J. W. Siler, consul at Capetown, South Africa, and who has been stopping in Washington a few days, en route to the We3t, left for his home in Hendricks county to-night, accompanied by his wife and family. It is understood that Mr. Siler’s leave of absence in this country will bo extended several weeks, in order that he may give testimony before a court-martial which the Secretary of the Navy will convene to investigate charges of malfeasance on the part of a number of naval officers. The officials of the State Department say that the testimony which Consul Siler will give will be very sensational in its character. James Sample, of South Bend. who. a few months ago, resigned his position in the cashier’s room of the Treasury Department, to accept a position under ex-Treasurer Wyman, now a banker at Omaha, has returned here and resumed hi3 old place. The climate of Nebraska did not agree with him. Ho will be given a promotion soon. Changes have been made as follows in the time schedule of the star mail-route extending from Kokomo to Shanghai, Ind.: Leave Kokomo daily, except Sundays, at 2:30 p. m., arrive at Shanghai by p. m.; leave Shanghai daily, except Sundays, at 6 A, m.; arrive at Kokomo by 10 A. M. Special mail service from New Point to New Pennington, has been ordered discontinued. Luke A. Burke, of Ipswich, I). T , who was today appointed receiver of public moneys in tho United States land office at Aberdeen, D. TANARUS., formerly resided at Lafayette, later at Evansville, and was indorsed by tho Indiana delegation in Congress. Speaker Carlislo to-day received a dispatch from Cornwall, N. Y.. stating that Representative Lewis Beach was dying. mm Dying In New York City from Starvation. Nbw York. July 13.— Finckuni Rtngler, a Polish teacher of languages, came to this country six month# ago to make a fortune for himself and tho wife and two little ones he brought with Lira.- A short time ago tho wife died. To night the husband was found, by the police, lying on the piazza of a house, in the poorest part of the city. He was covered only by a woman’s undergarments. His two-year-old littlo girl tottered over him crying, and an elder child, a boy. played near by, with some tinsel ornaments from his dead mother’s dress. Ringler was dying from starvation. He was taken to a hospital, and the children turned over to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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PAYNE’S CASE IN THE SENATE . Presentation of Three Reports Concerning the Alleged Bribery in Ohio. The Democratic Members of the Privileges and Elections Committee Find that There Is No Ground for Ordering an Inquiry. Senators Teller, Evarts and Logan Evade the Issue on Technicalities, And Messrs. Hoar and Frye Present a Strong Argument in Favor of an Investigation— How the Three Reports Were Received. IN TIIE SENATE. How the Reports Were Received— A Warm Debate Certain When They Are Taken Up. £pecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 13. —Although it was pretty generally known here what the contents of the three reports on the case of Senator Payne, of Ohio, would be, not a little interest was manifested in thorn. Especially did everybody in Congress auxiously look for them. When they were presented iu the Senate, this morning, no one seemed to care for the report of the majority, that signed by the Democratic members of the committee cn privileges and elections, and not much inquiry was made concerning tne report signed by Senators Hoar and Frye, ih Republicans who asked that the charge of bribery against Payne be investigated. It was the report of Senators Evarts, Logan and Telle* that the clamor was for. There was a general curiosity as to the arguments these men would produce to sustain the position- they assumed. When it had been read by many of the Senators and Representatives, and they had repeated the gist of it, there was amusing comment upon it. The report was ju3t what Ohio Republicans anticipated—a cunning device, an ingenious loop hole. Conceding the conscientious convictions that led these Senators to their conclusion, they are being very roundly criticised tonight. The opinion is quite general that the Senate will, after all, order an investigation. The effect of the reports on Senator Payne was very noticeable. He seemed very chipper after the reports had been presented, and seemed to have a load lifted from his mind. When tho reports are called up for consideration, which will be within a week or ten days, a very spirited debate is expected, in which many personalities will be indulged in.

. HOAR AND FRYE. The Reasons that Impel These Gentlemen to Request an Investigation. To the Western Associated Tress. Washington, July 15 —ln the Senate three reports were presented in the Payne case. Tho report signed by Senators Hoar and Frye is as follows: . *•*"• **w**w*Mssr-f*> “The undersigned cannot concur with the report of the majority. The Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Ohio and the Republican committee representing the political party which, for much the larger portion of the last, thirty years, has contained a majority of the Voters of that State, have each addressed a memorial to the Senate, charting that tho election of the sitting member was procured by corruption and praying the Senate to cause an investigation into paid charges. Two gentlemen of high character and position, Messrs. Little and Butter worth, both now members of tho House delegation from the State of Ohio, tho former ’.ately Attorney-general of th.il State, appeared before the commit tee, declared their personal belief in the truth of tho charge, asserted that, in their opinion, the belief is entertained by a large majority of tho people of Ohio of both political parties, and asked to be permitted to lay belore the committee evidence to support it. Besides Messrs. Little and Butterworth, eight of the Ohio delegation in the House add their earnest request to the same effect, affirm that the investigation is asked hv a large majority in number and influence of the press of the State, say that additional testimony is in the possession of Messrs. Little and Butterworth, and express their beliof that ‘if opportunity is offt-.ed the charges of the Ohio Senate will be sustained by testimony to your full satisfaction.' Before the memorials above referred to were presented, there had been presented to the Senate, for its information, the evidence taken by a committee of the House of Representatives of Ohio, who were directed to investigate charges of corruption in said election, against four members of the present House of Representatives of Ohio, and the conclusions of the committee upon said evidence. Messrs. Little and Butterworth aleo produced certain affidavits and letters stating confessions of persons implicated and pointing to other sources where evidence would probably he obtained if lawful authority should be given by the Senate to procure it. We think ttiis presents a case where it is the duty of the Senate to permit the petitioners tc present their evidence nnd to authorize the issue of proper process to aid them in procuring the attendance of witnesses. ‘•The Constitution declares that each houso shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members. The Senate is the only court which has, or under the Constitution possibly can havo, jurisdiction of this question. Tht-re can be no trial, inquiry or adjudication anywhere else to which this inquiry is not totally foreign and immaterial. The courts in Ohio may exercise jurisdiction of the offense of bribery of or by an individual, but the question whether the result of an election of Senator was thereby changed can never bo before those courts. Either House of the Legislature may iuquire as to the personal turpitude of its own members, but the action which may result from such investigation must be precisely the same, whether other persons were or were not corrupted, and whether tho e'noice of Senators were or were not affected. As the Senato i9 the only court that can properly try this question, so tho charge is made, ir not in the only way it can be made, yet certainly in a way in which it can be made with most authority. The Legislature of Ohio is the representative of the dignity, interest and honor of the State. It appoints tho Senators of the United States, and if a vacancy in the office exist it must All it. It is supported in this charge by the committee, who are, under political customs. the organ of more than half the voters of the State concerned. “For the Senato to refuse to listen to this complaint, so made, would, it seems to ns, be, and be everywhere taken to be, a declaration that it is indifferent to the question whether its seats are to be, iu the future, tho subjects of bargain and sale, or may be presented by a few millionaires. No more fatal blow can be struck at the Senate, or at tho purity and permanence of republican government itself, than the establish nont of this precedent But the case does not rest alone upon the charge nnd the character of tho parties who make it, and who ask to be permitted to produce evidence in its support If it did, it in our judgment would bo enough. It is surely a strange answer to be given by a court to a suitor to say that it has already considered the question and decided the case before it is presented. But tho petitioners adduce strong 1 reasons to show probable cause that they can establish their case. The testimony