Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUiINIh SATURDAY, JANUABY 8, 1887.

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'TnE spectacle of a drunken judge on the bench is not a pleasant one. Immediate im poachment and removal would be eminently proper. v The sanctimonious regard of Democratic fliee thieves and vote stealers tor prayer one of the most remarkable developments the time. for is of THE pious indignation of the Sentinel over the interruption of the Bishop's prayer is very edifying when contrasted with its blasphemous Vulgarity of. Wednesday. ' " 1 TffrEVES and burglars should provide themselves, with a chaplain or a prayer-book before starting out on their excursions, so as to open their robberies with prayer. "TRUE trrit in a hisrh cause," is what the i Sentinel calls Green Smith's usurpation. Many a highway robber has shown a3 much "grit" iu equally as good a cause. 'TBS BenKsel seems to be greatly disturbed over the presence of Senator Harrison in the city. Will it be kind enough to tell the pub lic what Senator , oorhees is doing here?' Mr.. I1ekr1 George's new paper will be what is called y'spicy." The first article is one of nine columns in length. That's the wav to make a llewspaper go to the papermilJ. Instead of a coy of the Revised Statutes, Ihe Door-keeper should provide the Democratic majority in the Ssnate with prayer-books?, so thev can onen tl&ir impious thefts with prayer. ., CtfeHMAN-K. Davis will be the new Senator v from Minnesota, to succeed Senator McMillan, and F. B - r Stockbridge, of Kalamazoo, will be the Michigan. succe&sor of Senator Conger, of Revolutions never go backward, and the one in the State Senate is no exception to the rule. That one is moving forward so rapidly that the men eneineeeinz it will break their necks before long. One dav the Sentinel embellishes itself with the choice remark "Damn thir enwardeotd&Hfln.d tb. ifiri-'goes Into .cataleptic de "nunciations of alleged disrespect for prayer The Sentinel is as comic in its profanity as it is in its religion. The Sentinel says the Democracy of Indiana have been made to feel the whip in the past. Their next sensation will be the toe of the Popular boot, in the form of an adverse majority about ten times a3 large as the people gave Robertson over Nelson last fall. The thieves' organ talks about the impiety of the Republican Senators during Bishop Knickerbacker's prayer. The piety of ' the thieves' organ is like that of an Italian bandit who says his prayer while committing a rob bery and crosses himself before doing murder. SrEAKiNG of the Lieutenant-governor cori lest, Senator oorhees says: "We have won a victory, and we do not propose to be vio lently depnvod oE its fruits." The victory was not won at tho polls; it is the "victory" of political cut-throats over the Constitution and law3. The revolutionists ought to have gone home last night, but for some reason the bulk of them remained here, and were engaged in a secret caucus at the Grand Hotel until midnight, in company with such eminent statesmen as Daniel W. Yoorhees and his pals from Washington City. A conservative Eastern paper fears that with twenty Legiblaturea in full blast the bu&iness of law-making will be overdone. J. here is no fear ot such excess in Indiana vhile the Democratic Senators are setting nslde more laws in a day than could be passed in an entire session. MR. hue, of Knox county, a Democrat and formerly State Senator, is one of the Vest lawyers in Indiana. Senator Winter, in Us protest against Smith's usurpation, cited oenator v xeho g action under similar cifcum-

lances.' As President pro tern, of the Senate of 1873, he declined to occupy the chair

or take any part in organizing the Senate of 1881, although the Lieutenant-governor was absent, Lieutenant-governor Gray having become acting Governor. Yet Senator Viehe declined to act as President of the Senate at the opening of the session of 1881, although he had been elected to the position at the previous session. But Mr. Viehe is a good lawyer and an honest man, while Green Smith is something very different. IH THE HATURE OF SUGGESTION. Would it not be well for the conspirators and revolutionists to tako a little time for sober reflection, if it is possible for the men drunken with the lust of power to give sober reflection to anything? It is barely possible that in their criminal haste they have gone faster and further than they will wish they had. ".,.. . In the first place, have they thought that it will be somewhat dangerous for any bonded officer of the State Auditor or Treasurer to pay any money out of the State treasury on bills or warrants passed and ordered by a Sen ate constituted in violation of law? State Ireasuier-elect Lemcke vesterdav wa3 compelled to notify State Treasurer Cooper that in accepting the public funds from him on the 9th of February next, he could not safelv recognize warrants or receipts for moneys paid out about the legality of which there would be a question. Captain Lemcko cannot afford to take any risks, how ever much the present Democratic Auditor and Treasurer might like to aid and abet the revolutionists in their revolution. In the second place, have the revolutionists stopped to consider that it will put the benev olent and public institutions of the State to very great inconvenience and hardships to go without money? It is all very nice and inter esting for a brutal majority, with a bully at their head, to violate the Constitution and set aside the laws in doing what seems to be for the benefit of partisan schemers; but when it comes to paying out public moneys by a bonded officer the conditions are not precisely the same, it tnis-nt be well tor the revolutionists a to spend a few moments in a prayerful consid eration of this point. Then, again, have the revolutionists stopped to think that the whole record of their pro ceedings, in so far as it may involve the elec tion of a United States Senator, will come in review before the Republican majority in the United States Senate? The office-thieves and bullies may think they have elected a United States Senator and gained a great party ad van tage by their violent overthrow of the Consti tution and the laws; but when the proceedings come to be reviewed by the Senate of the United States they may find that they have committed all their crimes and wrecked their party in the State for nothing. Every step in tne proceeding will nave to oe scrutinized by a body that will not likely be in har mony with revolution, and which will not have deep and profound sympathy with the- scan dalous scoundrelism that has thus far characterized the action ot " the Democratic majority. We venture this suggestion for the benefit of the hot-headed burglars and their corps' of distinguished advisers now in the city from the national capital. And once more: Governor Gray, in his message that was read to the Senate yester day, shows that the State cannot possibly get along without either an increase of taxation or borrowing money. The Governor advises the latter course. The Republican House of Representatives will hardly favor an increase ,or taxation. About now mucn monev do tne revolutionists tnins tne . 1 J J II 1 1 State of Indiana could borrow in Eastern markets ou bonds issued under a bill, the validity of which would be questioned every where, and by at least one-half of the people of the State? It may be worth while for the revolutionists to thiuk on these things. ' Revolution is an edged tool, and children and fools should be careful how they play with it. MORE OF THE CON SPIRAOY, The Democratic majority in the Senate yesterday gave another exhibition of the spirit and purpose of the revolutionary plot in which they are etfgagJ. On Thursday, after the consummation of the illegal organization of the Senate, a committee was appointed, all tho revolutionists concurring, to wait on the Governor, and inform him that the Senate was organized. In the afternoon the committee reported that the Governor would deliver his message to the two houses on l nuay, at j.u:uu voiuch. a. jm.., uu iu Democratic member of the committee making n i - t. m.O -1 r 1.1. the report moved that the Senate proceed in a body to the hall of tho House, for the pur pose of hearing the Governor's message. The motion prevailed, all the revolutionists voting for it. Yesterday this action was revoked. As soon as the morning session opened, one of the gang moved to reconsider the vote of Wednesday in regard to going into the hall of the House to hear the Governor's message, and by a unanimous vote of the revolutionists it was ordered to be reconsidered, and was then voted down. This shows,1 first, secret deliberation and concert of action on the part of the conspirators: second, erives a further revelation of the scope of their plot;' and, third, reveah their guilty counsciousnes3 that they are engaged in an illegal work, and arc filled with the cowardly fear that always pos sesses men engaged in the commission of crime. The refusal to go to the hall of the House to hear tho Governor's message U without

precedent, and would be a gross discourtesy

to the Governor, unless there was some understanding between him and the revolutionists in regard to it. On Thursday they fully intended to go to the House to hear the message, and the Governor expected them ao to do. On Friday they revoke their decision. This clearly snows tnac tne leading conspirators and the Governor had held a caucus, and decided that the success of their plot, of which Smith's usurpation is leading factor, required them to avoid a joint session for any purpose, even for the ordinarily courteous one of hearing the Governor's message. They feared some trap or ambush by the Republicans they knew not what, but something. Their guilty con sciences made cowards of them, and they saw danger where there was none: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. The conspirators were afraid to perform a plain, simple duty, required by immemorial precedent and even by common courtesy to the executive of the State lest something might happen to make the currents of the conspiracy turn awry. However, the considera tion of courtesy to the Governor can be omitted, as he was doubtless a party to the pro ofing, as he hopes in some surreptitious way to profit by Smith's usurpation, the continued success of which requires that the Democrats should act like a gang of fugitives from justice. And so, it having been decided in caucus that there might be some unknown danger in their going to the hall of the House, the'y revoked their action of Thursday and de cided not to go. The message was read to the Senate by the Clerk, by the order of Senator Smith; but in the House there was no official, communica tion, of the document, and the Representa tives are without the information the Consti tution savs the executive of the State shall furnish to the law-makers. If the conspira tors, including Governor Gray, can stand this sort of trifling with the public business, the Republicans certainly can. In the meantime, we are glad the revolutionists are going ahead as they are. The people are getting a per feet understanding of their spirit, and what they would do if they could. We are in fa vor of letting them have all the rope they want. That they ' will succeed in hanging themselves there can be no question. But, as a mere matter of humanity, we could sug gest that thev take a less violent method of committing suicide. THE SCHOOL REVENUESlhe public are tor the hrst time made ac quainted with the condition of our city school affairs by the report of a special committee of the School Board, printed elsewhere in the proceedings of the meeting of that body las evening. The report shews that the citv school revenues are IS. 25 per cent, less than they were ten years ago, while the school enrollments have increased 60 per cent., requiring constantly increasing expenditures in the way of additional buildings and teachers. The decreased city funds arise from tho de creased property appraisements, which are ten millions less than that of ten years ago, and the School Board is limited by the law to a levy for school purposes of 20 cents on the $100 valuation. The report notes the fact that Indianapolis alone, of all the school corporations of the State, is so limited, and that all others may levy more than three i times this sum, and that they all do levy more; that Center township, outside of Indianapolis, levies 29 cents, and that many cities ranking with Indianapolis require a much larger sum. The report cites these facts as showing the cause of the rapid increase of the city school debt. It states that the debt, bonded and floating, will be over $200,000 on the 1st of July next. The board, in the adoption of this report of the condition of school affairs, calls attention to the necessity for increased revenues, if the schools are not to be seriously impaired, and also recommends the funding of the debt, and the creation of a sinking fund for its payment. The facts given and the recommendations of the board are worthy the serious thought of our citizens, and this candid and frank statement ought to and will command it. Senator Voorhees s.ays in an interview: "In my opinion the elect jon of a Lieutenantgovernor last fall was a nullity, and Mr. Robertson has no sort of title to the office." So far as Senator Voorhees's opinion on the legal aspect of the case is concerned it counts for very little, as it doe3 on any controverted point of law. As for the political aspect, we remark that Senator Voorhees was chairman of the Democratic convention that nominated John C. Nelson for Lieutenant-governor. It never occurred to him then to question the opinion of the Democratic Attorney-general that there was a vacancy in the office, nor did V - T " 2 . 11 i. ne open nis mouta auriDg tne entire canvass on the question. Senator Voorhees's wisdom on this subject is in the nature of a subsequent revelation. Now, will the Democratic House of Repre sentatives vote Major Kidd five or ten thou sand dollars for contesting a seat to which the committee say he has not and never had any possible claim? When the contestant in such a case is lett to bear his own expenses, the fun of contesting will bo greatly decreased, and there will bo fewer men to engage in the pastime. AN Ottawa, Ont, dispatch confirms the rumor that Lord Lansdowne, Governor-general of Canada, has been offered a seat in the .Drm&u uaomefc xxe aooiinea tne otter, on the ground, as stated to an interviewer, "that was not pieyared abruptly to sever his cou-

nection with the Dominion government." Lord Lansdowne was a Lord of the Treasury in the Gladstone Cabinet from 1863 to 1872, and then Under Secretary of War until 1S74, In 18S0he became Under Secretary for India, and resigned after holding the office for a few months, owing to a disagreement with Mr. Gladstone on Irish affairs.

Green Smith, acting as President protem. of the Senate, decided on Thursday that the Senate could not adjourn until Monday, because it conflicted with the constitution in being more than three days. Yesterday the same man decided that the Senate could ad journ from Friday until Tuesday, precisely the same length of time he held unconstitutional the previous day. Such is a speoimen of the necessities of revolution Why was it necessary for the Democratic committee on elections to wait until nearly the last month in the term to decide the con test between Major Kidd and Hon. George W. Steele? If Major Steele had not been so hand somely re-elected, would that fact have had any influence upon the judicial -minded committee? - A "BRANCH" is a term often applied to a stream of pure water; but this i3 not what is meant when one speaks of a branch oi the Legislature. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Well, no, not, at any rate, if one speak3 of that branch of the Indiana Legislature which is under control of the Democratic revolutionists. Ovu duty to the public compels us to repub lish the following editorial from yesterday's Sen tinel. It is not the best of the series thus far, but it sizes well up with the average of the epileDtio deliverances of our esteemed contempo rary: 4 "true grit in a high cause. "At last! "The Democratic backbone has stiffened. "The action of the Democratic majority of the Senate yesterday was gloriously brave. The Republicans met with disastrous rout The Democrats every man of 'em stood to their duty. "To Lieutenant-governor Smith all honor is due. He was the man for the emereenov. The Republican conspirators were paralyzed at the outset The thirty-one Democrats stood as one man against the robbers. We would invite the attention of the Democrats of the State to the spectacle. S?e what can be achieved when there 13 union, when there are no traitors, when nobody hangs back, wnen nobody temporizes. It was, indeed, a red-letter day in the history of the party in Indiana. v "The adoption of Rule 10 was the very thing that ought to have been done. It meets the exigency fully. Behind it the Democratic cause is safe. The Republicans protested and squirmed, and filled the air with their lamentations. Let them rave! Verily, the time haa come at last when i Democrats have been found who know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain them. The foul conspiracy by which it was sought to rob the-Democrats of their honestly-won majority of two has met the opposition of determined men, who will uphold the honor of the Democratic party. For once the bulldozing tactics of the Republican leaders in this State failed. Democrats have been found at last who are not to be frightened by Republican swashbucklers, who can swing the whip when they hare it in hand. That whin the Democrats of Indiana have been made to feel in the past There must now be no compromise, no concession, until the Re publicans shall call for quarter. "lhe Democrats or the Mate have had to suf fer from traitors and malcontents and selfish schemers within their own camp. It had besun to appeajnajtihe cause or the party was railing because tnlem; but suddenly there are raised up thirty-one good men, and true, who came most gallantly and most gloriously to the restcue. "Let the bells be rung, and the camp-fires lit upon the hill-tops. Let the trumpet to the cannon speak, that the people may know the glad tidir.es. "Democrats of the Senate, we salute you." Tiie Chicago Times has a long article upon the Sentinel's attack upon the Supreme Court, which concludes as follows: "Actuated by a corrupt motive (but whether corrupt or pure is immaterial), certain party bosses prayed the court to do what? To arrest and suspend the operation of a positive law. To estop an instrument of the law from performing a mere ministerial act which the law expressly commands him to nerform. To control the ac tion of another and independent part of the Constitution by paralyzing one of its constituted instrumentalities. If the judicial power may enjoin one 'mere custodian' of the election returns from delivering them as the law commands, it " may the court will say) enjoin all the others namely, the clerks of counties and the members of- the Legislature to whom duplicates of such papers areintrusted for delivery to the Speaker. Effectively, then, It is in the function of the judiciary to assume dominion over both the administrative and the legislative parts of the Constitution, suspend constitutional governmpnt, and subordinate all the public powers to tbe will of ' a bench of judges. And this, effectively, is what some vicious, seif-seeking partisans at Indianapolis asked tbe Indiana court to do for their accommodation. And be cause the court refused to become an instrument of their revolutionary purpose, their blackguard organ blower, shaking his brutal fist at the judsres, cries: 'Damn their cowardly souls!' "Probably never, in this country, has there been witnessed a more disgusting manifestation of the vulgarity and brutality that denote a large inheritance of ancestral barbarism and a low state of civilization in this villainous attack of an Indiana party organist upon the Indiana court. Probably in no other section of the re public, and certainly in no other section north of the Ohio river, couid a publication of a stvle so disgraceful to American civilization find sup port, or a writer so vicious and depraved be countenanced by any but criminals and vaga bonds. The toleration of a press so licentious and of a public writer so vile, in that section, is a convincing proof of the proximity of a l&rge part of the inhabitants to the status of bar banana-" ; An alert New York "paper thinks it detects "Mr. Blaine's adroit hand" at the bottom of the Andover controversy. -There is nothing surpris ing about this. It 13 generally understood that Mr. Blaine favors a "second chance"' of making his calling and election sure. COMMENT AND OPINION. It is shrewdly suspected that editor Grady is a Republican in disguise. Minneapolis Tribune, If taking Dakota into the Union would warm her up and stop the coid waves, she ought to be let in. Chicago JournaL A Russian bond located in the strong-box of a tier man capitalist turns out to be a powerfu peacemaker. t juouis Jrost-L'ispatch. It is plain enough that in regard to Kansas judgment will have to be reserved nntilthe drug stores as weu as the saioons have been really prevented from selling liquors freely. New l orn Tribune. Remove the war taxation; wipe out the internal revenue; take off the taaes which it levies and collects. Then there will be no iurolns to threaten derangement to business, no locking up of money which should be circulating among the people. New York Sun. j We do not believe in prohibition, either in theory or in practice. The principle of the Maine law is all wrong. In its principal operation it has been proved to be deplorably ineffectual as a temperance measure. If we believed that the principle was all right, we nevertheless should not favor the adoption of a prohibitory law in this State, because we should

have no confidence in the possibility of enforcing It. If we believed, on the other band, that prohibition could be enforced, we should oppose tbe system because It would be oppressive, unjust and restrictive of personal rights. New York Sun. "I want a Bible," said a tall, gaunt woman, stepping into a bookstore on Woodward avenue. "Do you want the revised edition?" inquired the clerk civilly. "I ain't pertikeler. 1 jes' want one in the house so 111 have a safe place to keep my specs in. A family Bible that won't never be meddled with is the kind, I reckon." She got it Detroit Free Press.

T11E BUSINESS OUTLOOK. The New Tear Starts with Higher PricesApprehensions That Inspire Caution. New York, Jan. 7. R. G. Dun & Co. furnish the following weekly review of trade: The new year opens with higher prices. Wheat has advanced 1 cent this week, on sales of 25,000,000 bushels. Oir has advanced 1 cent, on sales of 10,000,000 barrels. Cotton rises 11-16 cent with moderate transactions. Coffee, iron and silver are higher. Corn and oats have been a little weaker, and large realizing by foreigners has checked tbe tendency to advance in stocks. But the expansion of currency and investment of large dividends received and profits realized tend to lift prices for the present in spite of fears regarding legislation. Since Aug. 1 the Treasury has added $22,497,088 to the gold certificates outstanding, and $20,682,626 to the silver certificates, and about $7,000,000 to the standard silver dollar. Bank circulation has decreased $10,029,461, and the legal tenders not in the Treasury have diminished over 5 per cent, not counting the addition to gold in circulation. Following an expansion of about $500,000,000 since 1878, this make the circulation per capita the largest ever recorded. . It is now to be noticed that silver dollars begin to go back to the Treasury in place of small certificates issued, and the government, during the past week, has taken in as much money as it has paid out, in spite of half-yearly interest payments. Combination at Washing-1 ton makes reduction of the revenue at this session improbable, and the accumulation of surplus threatens disturbance after July I. Uver eight thousand miles of railroad were built last year 1,500 in the Eastern and Southeastern States, and over four thousaud miles in Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, Minnesota and Texas. Hence thejrise in iron; Pittsburg prices advanced $l on WTdnesdry, though the pro duction now exceeds half,, million tons every month. The association's official report makes the output 2,950,000 tons for the last half of 1886. This powerful impulse toward prosperity, merchants fear, would be taken away if the interstate commerce bill should discourage railroad building. In business circles the apprehension of a set-ba?k as a consequence of high through rates tor western products, ana an arrest of railroad building, strongly influence calculations for tho future. The failure of a arge cattle-raising company illustrated a recent suggestion as to the evils of overproduction and control of transportation lines. In the Southwest failures have been unusually numerous, in other sections not more than might be expected for the first week of the year. Collec tions are generally satisfactory, and the increns me number oi buyers give greater activity here in the dry goods trade. Coal advances be cause of an important strike of handlers. Boston shipments of boots and shoe3 for 1886 were 2.875,316 cases, against 2,678,364 in 1885. Wool sales at Philadelphia were 19,000,000 ponnds less than in 1885, but New York imports of foreign wool were 18.900.000 pounds larger, Higher prices here for wheat and cotton also im ply belief that production will be curtailed next year, as a result of unsatisfactory returns to farmeip. Railroad earnings in December on twenty-one roads exceeded those of 1885 by about 13 percent, and bank exchanges for the year show larger transactions than ever, except ing m parts of the South. lint railway foreclosures, as reported by the Chicago Railway Age, exceeded in 1S86 those of any previous year, including forty-five roads, with $373,000,000- of stock and bonds. The late decision of an "Ohio court in validating the first mortgage on the Nickel-plate road is used to ex cite the distrust of foreign investors, apparently with some effect Foreign exchange has advanced, and ship ments of gold hither are suspended. Colorado reports its output of precious metals $4,294,688 greater in 1.8S6 than in 1S85. lhe failures during the last seven davs num ber, for the United States, 271; for Canada, 28; total, 299, against 273 last week, and 263 the week previous. The increase arises in the South, where the failures are exceptionally numerous, thoueh not important Estimates for the year of he production of pigiron are as follows: Charcoal iron. 413.129 cross tons; anthracite iron, 1,830,115; bituminous iron. 3,391,375; total, 5,634,618 gross tons, being a lit tle more than 1,500.000 tons more than last year. an increase of 33 per cant. Failures Yesterday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomin'gton, 111., Jan. 7.-To-day F. H. Helm, a wholesale confectioner of this citv. con fessed judgments aggregating $7,000. The sheriff, on going to the store, armed with the execu tions, found that Helm bad last night sold the store to John Gray, and that Gray was In possession. Doubtless there will be a legal scram ble for the assets, which consist wholly of the stock of goods. Cincinnati, Jan. 7. R. Rothschild's Sons, manufacturers and dealers in furniture, carpets and household articles, Nos. 292 and 294 West bixth street, with branches in Chicago and Kan sas City, assigned to-day to Adam A. Kramer. They claim assets of $200,000, with liabilities of only half that sum. The assignment is precipitated by the Continental Bank of Chicago, which attached goods here last evening to secure its claims. The creditors are mainly here, in Chicago and the West San Francisco, Jan. 7. The wholesale drug firm of J. Greensfelder & Co. haya assigned for the benefit of their creditors. The firm carried a stock estimated at over $100,000. Their liabilities are not yet known. The failure is due to the reduction in the prices of goods dealt in by the firm. New York, Jan. . 7. John Wilson's Sons, clocks, assigned to-day to John Wilson, without preferences. The estimated assets of the suspended firm are $78,000 and the liabilities are about the same amount San Francisco, Jan. 7. Gustave Abrahamson, dealer in ladies' fancy goods, made an assignment to-day. Liabilities, $58,000 of which $20,000 are due 000. Eastern creditors; assets, $25,The Susceptible "Runnel." Letter in LousviUo Courier-Journal. I was intro'duced to Miss Nellie Ahem, one of the leading Democratic candidates, in her re-eeption-rosas at the Grand Hotel, She is avry inteuieent young tady, with pleasing features, and wears eye glasses. She spoke hopefully of her prospects. "The Librarian," said she, "is elected in joint convention, just as the United States Senator is, and as our party has two majority, we rely on the courage of our legislators to preserve that majority." Said I: "You are the first candidate for Librarian it has been my pleasure to meet, Miss Ahern. Pray let me inquire if the other candidates are, as a rule, good-lookna. . "Myself I have pot seen all of them," replied Miss Ahern. "But two of them are very prtty, indeed. They are Miss Stackhouse and Alias Pendleton. 1 hope you will meet them, for they are sweet, charming girls. "There are several widows among tho cumber," she added archly, after a pause. I imagined that rtbought my heart beat a little faster. . The Gallant Kentuckians. Special to Louisville Courier-Journal. In th Senate a few ladies obtained admission to the floor, but were unable to secure seats. I dp not desire to reflect upon the gallantry of the Hoosier Senators, but in Kentucky I have seen every seat in the Senate occupied by a lady, while the Senator entitled to the seat stood on foot beside the fair occupant aud murmured of t nothings in her ear between the points of order he addressed to the Speaker. Last Shriek of a Lost Cause. Ch"4ro Inter Ocean. The Sentinel's outburst Is the last despairing shriek of , bt cause. It is a quarter f a century too Into for such hideous indecency to go unwhippe of public scorn. Brick Pomeroy never soiled paper with such profanity in his uncleanest period of journalism. Tha rowdy

ournal under Mr. Jefferson Brick's ' manage

ment never perpetrated such an atrocity. It t no excuse on behalf of the Sentinel that tba writer was drunk: it doesn't mend the matter if the whole force was drunk.. So obscone a blander could never have been committed in a whole regiment of intoxicated gentlemen. And a flavoring of gentlemanly essence is a necessity of successful journalism. The Sentinel is guilty of a crime against American cewspaperdom and American society. It should be tabooed from decent offices and decent parlors until it makes humble and large apology. STATE LEGISLATURES. i n-iiii i i . - Scenes In the Republican Caucus That Nom inated Stockbrldso for Senator. Lansing, Mich., Jan. 7. On the roll-call at the Republican senatorial caucus, two Republicans were absent Senator Campbell andN Repre sentative Grinnell, of Detroit Senator Giddinga put Francis B. Stockbridge in nomination, and dozen members of tbe caucus indorsed him. Senator Babcock, of SanUao county, nominated Omar D. Conger, and spoka feelingly of the Senator's services in Congress and his eighteen y ears of pub lie 1 if e. ' 'Senator Conger,' he said, "has filled the position he now occupies with marked ability, and it is the duty of the Republicans of Michigan to remember his career and re-elect .him. He was a judge in Michigan, Speaker of tbe House in Michigan, Congressman for six consecutive terms, and for six years has been a Senator. He has beeu in public life for twenty-six ears, and tbe people of Michigan owe him a debt of gratitued that can never be repaid, except by the impulses that now prompt us. Let us," continued Mr. Babcock, "honor Senator Coneer with a re-election." After a , good deal more speech-making, at which the large crowd became impatient, the caucus proceeded to ballot, there were four candidates named Stockbridge, Conger, Lacey and Fitzgerald, and 89 votes were cast The first ballot resulted: Stockbridge, 34; Conger, ' 23; Lacey, 10; Fitzgerald, 7. The remainder were scattering votes; Jay Hubbell got 4, Gov ernor Fairchild 2, and the rest were placed around at the rate of one each. The result was a disappointment all around. Stockbridge did not get all he expected; Conger got more than even his friends yesterday were willing to concede him; Lacey's friends were surprised at his meagre vote. : : '.' -'- The second ballot resulted: Stockbridge, 37; Conger, 21; Lacey, 14; Fitzgerald, 8; Hubbell, 4 scattering, 5. At this Stpckbndee's friends cheered wildly; he had gained 3. On tbe other hand, Conger had lost 2 and Lacey gained 4. From the second to the ninth ballot there was very little change. " After the ninth ballot it began to be seen that the lines were breaking. One of Lacey's men got up and proclaimed himself for Stockbridge. There was great excitement and confusion, and everybody was on his feet In the midst of it all. the tenth ballot was ordered. Quiet was maintained with difficulty, and the ballots were counted amidst suppressed excitement When the announcement was made that Stockbridge had 46 votes, nobody waited to beat! more. Jay Hubbell instantly jumped to his feet and moved that the nomination be made unanimous by the caucus. One of Conger's friends warmly seconded the nomination, and the struggle was over. ' , Francis B. Stockbridge was born in Bath, Me., in 1826. In 1847 ho came to Chicago and was employed as a clerk at a lumber dock. He saved some money, joined some lumbermen at Saugatuck, Mich., started a mill or two, and in 1850 went to Saugatuck to live. He failed in business twice, but hobbled along until 1863. In 1869 he went to the Mhichigan House of Representatives as a member, and in 1871 was elected State Senator. Since then Mr. Stockbridge has been deeply interested In politics. Right after the Chicago fire he began to maka money. He does not say exactly how, but it is understood that the rebuilding of the great city gave him his chance. In 1873 ho went to Kala-" mazoo to live. His mills at Saugatuck were running night and day, his firm in Chicago were finding a market hourly, and he was looking for new nelds or pine, etc At this period Mr. Stockbridge hunted up all his old debts and' paid them, and not one dollar of either of his bankruptcies was allowed to stand against him. He is now reputed to be wqgth $750,000. He and Mr. McMillan, of Detroit, are the life and soul of the Republican party in Michigan, and Mr. Stockbridge is at the head of the party in the western part of the State. Colonel Stockbridge is well known in Chicago. His family are now spending the winter there, and he has large lumber interests in connection- with Chicago men. Colonel Stockbridge is a large, finelooking man, full of beaming good nature, and famed for his broad views and whole-souled lib erality. One secret of his popularity in Michigan is that he has helped hundreds of men in business and aided scores in other ways some, perhaps, who were undeserving. There is a saying in Michigan that Stockbridge is on everybody's note and everybody's bond. He began his canvass for the senatorship last summer, and was ahead of everybody in the field. His only real opponent has been Conger. , Pennsylvania's Coming Senator. Matthew S. Quay is a native - of Dillsburg, York county, Pennsylvania, where he was born Sept 30, 1833. His father was a Presbyterian clergyman. The son graduated at Jefferson College, Washington county, Pennsylvania, when seventeen years old. He read law, went South, and lectured and taught school in Texas. When he returned to Pennsylvania in 1854 he practiced law" in Beaver county until elected county prothonotary, which office he held by reelection until he resigned to enlist in 1661. Then he was ordered to Harrisburg, and made private secretary to Governor Cnrtin. A year later tba Governor commissioned him Colonel of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Infantry. Colonel Quay soon fell a victim to typhoid fever, which so reduced bim in strength as to compel his resignation. In 1863 Governor Curtin appointed him military secretary and superln1 tendent of transportation and telegraph, ne resigned in 1865 to accept a seat in the Legislature, where he early became a leader; but was defeated for Speaker in 1867, on the ground of being ex-Governor Curtin's candidate. Shortly after ha "became secretary of the Republican State central committee, proving so efficient in several campaigns that Governor Hartranft made him Secretary of the Commonwealth the most lucrative position under the State government Afterwards he was appointed recorder ot Philadelphia, and a year ro last fall elected State Treasurer by a surprisingly large majority. Ha is a quiet, slow-going man, apparently, to the public, but ia known bv his more intimate friends to be a very hrd worker, with remarkable energy and vitality, and a Etftt?snjoa with qualifications to make him a very valuable adjunct to the Pennsylvania contingent in Washington. Misers Fcrish of Starvation. Philadelphia. Jan. 7. Two misers. Joseph Perry, aged seventy-three, and Robert Price, aged sixty-five, were found starved, this morning, in their miserable abode in a basement at 1025, Locnst street, where they had lived more than thirty years. They had never held any communication with their neighbors, and the fact of their death was learned Bfely after It had been noticed that they bad not been seen to leave or to enter the place for a week. This led to the ponce being notmea, ana, upon tn anirtm,eny being broken into, the dead bodies of the misers were round, jsotnmgjs though "t was generally NothingJ.3 known pf their affairs, I generally ribortud In tbe neighborhood that thev had money in various banks. Jewelry and stock worth a few hundred dollars were found among Perry's oiectfi. He in known, however, to have owned real estate worth from $100,000 to $200,000. Price was a carpenter by trade, and had very little money. Perry was in business forty years ago. It appears that death was due as much to cold as to starvation. A Non-S wearing Organization, Chicaoo, Jan. 7. The Non-swearing Knights is the title of a new organization which is rapidly taking in the employes f the railroads centering in this city, from presidents to brakemen. Its objects are embraced to one sentence: "The object of this association is to abstain from profanity." Circulars will be sent this week to prominent railroad men in New York, Boston, Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other- Kastern points, asking them to co-operate with the move?; meat with the view of staking it a national on

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