Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1887 — Page 3
THE INDIAHAPOXiiS TOUBKAL, DITIuSDAY", JAHUAHY 12, 1087.
THE FORTY-NINTn CONGRESS
The Senate Continues to Debate the Cul loin Interstate Commerce Bill.
The Ilonsc Passes the Hill Creating & Department of Agriculture, and Talks Entertainingly About Pleuro-Pneumonia.
TOE SENATE.
Debate on the Interstate Commerce Dill A Vote To Be Taken To-Day. WasnixoTOS, Jan. 11. Mr. Dawes, from the eomniittee on Indian affairs, reported back, with Amendments, tbe House bill granting to the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company the right of way through Indian reservations in northern Montana and northwestern Dakota. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Cameron, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill for tbe relief of telegraph operators daring the war, Plaeed on the calendar. Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, from tbe committee on pensions, reported back the Senate bill to equalize the pensions to be paid to soldiers and sailors who became totally disabled. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Hawley presented a memorial of some residents of Washington county, Texas, stating that tbey bad been denied their rights as citizens by the authorities of to at county, and appealing for redress to the government of the United States. Referred. Mr. Sherman (by request) introduced a bill to reimburse the depositors of the Freedmen's Bank of Washington. Referred. Mr. Coekrill, from the committee on military affairs, reported back, without amendment, the House bill to release to the eityof San Antonio, Tex., for use as a public thoroughfare, certain
portions of the military reservation tnere, and
no more than .$200 could be charged; from a point east of Ogden no more than $150, and from a point east of Omaha no more than $100. Mr. Aldrich repeated his question in another form. Mr. Harris replied that it would depend entirely on whether the shipment of the Boston & Albany railroad was a continuous and through shipment, San Francisco to Boston. Mr. Aldrich Suppose it to be a through shipment. " Mr. Harris Then the short-haul provision would only affect that shipment, as I have already explained. It would fall within the last and lowest through rate made by that car, and for a short haul on that road there could not be more charged. Mr. Aid rich And the aggregate compensation received by tbe Boston & Albany road, in the one case, would be no measure, and no criterion of the actual sum to be charged in the other case. Mr. Harris gave no response. . Mr. Saulsbury spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Culiom. repeated the notice heretofore given by bim. that he would ask the Senate to remain in session to-morrow till the bill was disposed of. After an executive session, the Senate adjourned. THIS HOUSE.
in motion or Mr. Coke, the bill was considered
And parsed. On motion of Mr. Manderson, the House bill for tbe relief of settlers and purchasers of the publie domain in Nebraska and Kansas was taken up and considered, the question being on the substitute reported by the committee on public lands. The substitute appropriates $23,000 to reimburse the purchasers, homesteaders and pre-erootors who bad to pay for their lands to the Northern Kansas Railroad Company, Which was decided by the Circuit Court of the United States to have a prior title to the lands the basis of reimbursement being $3.50 an acre. After discussion the substitute was agreed to yeas 3, cays 17; and the bill, as thus amended, was passed and a conference asked. Tbe Senate then, at 2 o'clock, resumed consideration of the interstate commerce bill, and was addressed by Mr. Coke in favor of. the confer' ence report. The intelligent judgment of the country, he said, would approve it not because it was all that the people had a right to demand, or because it gave them justice, but because, although falling greatly below the standard in both these regards, it was a beginning a good long step in the riaht direction, which might be added to and supplemented in the future, and might be, by the ligbt of experience, perfected so as to be absolutely right and effective. The bill went no further than the English law regulating railroads, except that the latter did not prohibit pooling, but required such agreement to be submitted to the court of commissioner!, and to be absolutely free from injury to the interests of the people. It was strictly in line, too, with the principles of the common law. In conclusion, ha said that it remained to be seen whether corporate power was so intrenched in the Senate that tbe pending bill was to share the fate of its predecessors, . Mr. Harris, one of the three Senate conferees, made an argument in favor of the bill. The country, he said, had for more than ten years; and still demanded that the carrying trade be fairly and justly regulated by the government The construction sought to be given to the fourth section, as to the long and short haul, was simply absurd. . The plain meaning of the section was that the carriers should not demand a larger gross sum for hauling a car-load of grain or other freight over a part of its line than was demanded for hauling a similar car-load of tbe same class of freight over its whole line. One effect of it would be to put au end to those ruinous competitions for through freight known as "rate wars." When a railroad company was made to understand that the law prohibited it from cbareine a greater sum over a part of its line than it demanded for its whole line, it would be somewhat reluctant to commit the financial suicide involved in the through freight wars, in which rates were not infrequently fixed in an angry, unreasonable and reckless manner. It would allow a fair and
healthy competition, and would fix rates on its through traffic that would be the standard of its
maximum local rates. Mr. McPherson asked Mr. Harris whether.
in bis opinion, the natural and inevitable effect of the fourth section would or would not be to
increase the through rates.
Mr. Harris I am satisfied that the effect of
the bill will be to prevent what is known as rate
wars, which sometimes reduce through rates to
a ruinous point, and they ought to be prevented.
But, as to -honest, legitimate, fair and square through ratfitf. there is not, in my opinion, a single
feature of the bill that will necessarily increase
throueh rates. On tbe contrary, I think the
probabilities are that they will be lowered; but,
at ail events, they will be uniform and stable,
Mr. McPherson I am very mnch obliged to
tbe Senator for that answer. The inevitable,
therefore, is that unloss every railroad company in the country goes into bankruptcy the through
rates must be fixed at points that will give fair
and equitable compensation for tbe local bnsi
ne . In other words, the through rates must be equitable and compensatory. To da v. 90 per
cent, of all the exported products of tbe country
is carried by tbe railroads at rates which soarcely
pay tbe cost of doing the work. That is the thing which tbe Senator complains of that the through rates are too lew and that the local rates
are made comparatively hiirn, so as to pay dm deois. Now, if the local rate is made reasona
ble in the same sense the through rate is made
reasonable, the natural and inevitable conse
quence is that the through rate will be made greater. And what is the result as to our ex
ported products? Indir now controls the wheat
market of London. . Enzland has spent within a few years past $500,000,000 in constructing roads - to move grain from the wheat fields of India to the seashore. This has given cheaper food to England, and has compelled, id this country, a reduction of the cost of transportation to one-half a cent a ton per mile. Tbe plan which the railroads have adopted, of charging no more than the product would bear, is the plan that has moved the grain from the great grain fields of the West and put it in the London market in competition with India. Not to have reduced the rates would have been to put tbe corn of tbe West into the stoves for fuel, and to abandon the competition with India. Mr. Camden asked Mr. McPherson whether there was any reason why the grain shipper in West Virginia. Ohio, Indiana or Illinois should be discriminated against in favor of the grainshipper whose product was carried 2.000 miles. It occurred to him that the fact was lost sight of that there were other sections of the country
that supplied products for export besides the border and far Western States. Mr. McPherson replied that that discrimination was what he wanted to guard the Senator's constituents against There was no intelligent men who would not say that a rate from West Virginia to the seaboard as hich as the rate from Chicago would be- an unreasonable rate. Therefore, the natural and inevitable consequence woyi!'' be that through rates roust be increased, it order that there might be equitable and reasonable rates charged for the shorter dietance. Mr. Camden I think the bill will increase the throng h rates, because through rates are too low in proportion to local rates. Mr. Aldrich asked Mr. Harris whether the proportion of the through freight which the Boston & Albany railroad received on its California business would aet as a limit on its local rates. Mr. Harri?, in reply, stated that if, for instance, four groat companies between the Pacific and Atlantic fixed through rates per car at $200 k from San Francisco, $150 from Ogden and $100 from Omaha the rate would be (as be underitool the fourth section) that for a car-load to New York from a point east of San Francisco
Passage of the Agricultural Department Bill Vigorous Talk About Plearo-Pneuinonia. Washington, Jan. IL On motion of Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, Senate amendments were concurred in to the bill providing for a school of
instruction for cavalry and light artillery.
Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana, from the com
mittee on rivers and harbors, reported back the
resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to what steps have been taken to cause the removal of the sand-bar which has formed against the piers of the Vkksburg,
Shreveport & Pacific railroad bridge spanning
the Red river, at Shreveport, La. Adopted.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, reported back the
river and harbor appropriation bill, and it was referred to the committee of the whole.
On motion of Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin,
Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 3 o'clock, was set apart
for consideration of resolutions touching the death of Wm. T. Price, late representative
from Wisconsin.
Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, from the eommittee
on military affair, reported the Senate bill authorising the Secretary of War to accept certain lands near Chicago. Placed on the House cal
endar. Also, a Senate bill for the establishment
of a military post near Denver. Referred to tne committee of tbe whole.
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the committee
on revision of the laws, reported a bill to pro
hibit the appointment of congressional committees to attend funerals at the public's expense
outside the District of Columbia, and also to
prohibit the draping of public buildings in
mourning, except upon the authority or tne President. Placed on the House Calendar.
In tbe morning hour the House resumed, in
committee of the whole, consideration of the
bill for tbe erection of a publio building at
Charleston, S. C. The bill appropriates $100,000
for the purchase of the cite and $400,000 for the erection of the building.
Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, moved to rednee this
latter amount to $200,000, The city, he as
serted, was in its decadence, and in support of
this assertion he stated that between I860 and 1880 the white population had increased only
1,700, and between 1870 ana 1880 the entire increase of population was only 1,053, while, be
tween tbe same periods, the government re
ceipts from all sources bad steadily fallen off.
Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, thought that
Mr. Hepburn's statement was not a fair one.
In the period between 1800- and 1880 Charleston
had passed through all the misfortunes of four
years of war, and at the elose of the war grass bad been growing in her streets. As he did
not wish to imperil the Pill, be asked the com
mittee to agree to Mr. Hepburn's motion.
This was done, the committee rose, and the
bill, as amended, was passed.
The next committee on the list was the eommittee on Pacific railroads. Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, stated that it was the
intention of the committee to call up the Pacific
railroad funding bill, but as a portion of the morning hour had been consumed, he asked that
the remainder of the hour bo dispensed with before the committee was called. The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Springer) had submitted an amendment, which was not yet-printed, and
that gentleman was not prepared to speak today. He desired, by unanimous consent, that the previous question on the engrossment of the bill be removed, so that it might be open to
amendment and to two hours' debate. Mr. Dingle, of Maine, objected to the remainder of the hour being dispeused with. The Speaker stated that the committee on mines and mining had been passed over informally, and was entitled to be called before the committee on Pacific railroads. Mr. Clardy, of Missouri, thereupon, on behalf of the committee on mines and mining, called np the bill for the relief of Wm. McGarrihan. The merits of the McGarrihan claim were argued.
pro and con, some of the gentlemen taking part in the conversational discussion doing so for tbe
purpose of consuming the hour.-and thereby accomplishing Mr. Crisp's desire not to have the committee on Pacific railroads called. These tactics were successful, and the morning hour expired without action on the resolution. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State in regard to an invitation extended to this government to ap point a delegate or delegates to tbe fourth international prison congress, to meet at St Petersburg, in 1890, and commending his sueeeations to the favorable attention of Congress. Referred. On motion of Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, and in spite of tbe antagonism of Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, with the river and harbor bill, the House went into the committee of the whole Mr. Springer, of Illinois, in the chair on the bill creating a Department of Agriculture and Labor. On motion of Mr. Foran. of Ohio, an amendment was adopted increasing from $4,000 to $5,000 the salary of the Commissioner of Labor. The committee then rose and the bill was passed yeas 222, nays 20. It provides that there shall be at tbe seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Agriculture and
Labor, under the control of a Secretary of Agriculture and Labor and an assistant secretary. There shall be in the Department of Agriculture and Labor a division which shall be under the charge of a commissioner of labor, who shall hold his office for four years and until his successor shall be appointed, unless sooner removed, and shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year. The commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, to the hours of labor, the rate of wages, the cost of production of tbe articles produced, tbe earnings of laboring men and women, the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual and moral prosperity, and the bestmeans to protect life and prevent accidents in mines, workshops, factories and other places of .industry. The secretary is empowered to inquire into the causes of discontent which may exist between employers and employes within the United States, and he may invite and hear sworn statements from both such parties concerning the
matters in controversy. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, then called up the paval reorganization bill, but he was antagonized by Mr. Hateh with a motion that the bouse go into committee of the whole for the purpose of considering the bill amendatory of the act establishing a bureau of animal industry. Tbe recen t outbreak of cattle disease in Chicago, said Mr. Hatch, made it an imperative necessity that the house should pass the bill, for every hour's delay was dangerous. Mr. Swinburne, of New York, hoped that tbe bill would not now be considered, as it had never been considered by the committee on agriculture. Hr. Hatch declared that that statement was misleading. . The bitl had been considered in committee and a favorable report ordered. Mr. Hatch's motion was agreed to, and the houte accordingly went into committee of the whole Mr. Blount, of Georgia, in the chair on the bill stated. Mr. Hatch said that the present law was beneficial as far as it went, but that it did not go far t nough. It was inefficient, and inadequate to suppress the spread of pleuro-pneumonla, which, If not controlled by national legislation, would.
tn a short time, absolutely destroy the value of tbe cattle industry. Tbe danger could not be
overstated. The loss in dollars and cents to the people of the United States when tbe first gnn fired at Fort Sumter ushered in the Rebellion was cot greater than that threatened by the outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia. Proceeding to a
consideration of the detaus-of tbe bill, be stated that the changes consisted chiefly in the removal of the restrictions upon the Commissioner of Agriculture as to the employment of foree to enforce the law, and in empowering the Commissioner, with the eo-operation of tbe State authorities, under Stito laws, to condemn and destroy infected cattle. That right did cot exist under the present law, the Commissioner being unable to get possession of infected cattle except by purchase from tbe owner, and some of the States bad prohibited the Commissioner to enter for the purpose of enfercintr the law. It was provided in the pending bill that when a State refused or neglected to co-operate with the Commissioner, the President should declare that State in quarantine, and prohibit the transportation of cattle out of it Mr. McMillan, of Tennessee, Inquired whether a cow inflicted with pleuro-pneumonia waa not worthless. Mr. Hatch replied that it was worse than useless. Mr. McMillan further inquired why, if the cow was worse than useless, tbe Treasury should be called to pay the value of the animal before it contracted tbe disease. Mr. Hatch replied that this provision was based upon the experience of the most enlightened governments in the management of tbe disease for one hundred years. It was so easy to conceal the existence of the disease and so hard to detect it, that some compensation must be given to the owners of the infected cattle, or all the money which could be appropriated would cot stamp out the disease. Mr. McMillan Then you propose to induce any man who owns a herd of cattle afflicted with the disease to brine it in and sell it? Mr. Hatch Yea; the object is to induce any man who owns a herd of cattle afflicted with pleuro pneumonia to give immediate notice' the Department, in order that it might be condemned and destroyed. Mr. Morgan, of Mississippi, opposed the bill on the ground that it was vain and illusive, and would amount to nothing, it did not reach the evil which it was intended to reach, and was a mere myth. He agreed with the gentleman from New York Mr. Swinburne, who had submitted a minority report, that the disease should be treated in the same manner as disease among human beings, and that there was no more reason for the destrnction of diseased cattle than there was for the destruction of tinman beings when afflicted with tbe smallpox or yellow-fever. Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, inquired whether pleuro-pneumonia was a contagious disease. Mr. Morgan replied that it was a communicable disease. Mr. Butterworth suggested that if it could be communicated it did not matter much how it was termed. Mr. Morgan said that some diseases were contagious, some communicable, and some infections, but that the bill took in the whole tea party. He fnrther criticised the bill in that it authorized the President, on the recommendation of the Commissionerof Agriculture, to place a State in quarantine, which would virtually put it in the power of the Commissioner to suspend the commerce of any State. Mr. Swinburne, of New York, the member of the committee who presented the minority report, had that report read as part of bis remarks. In the report he says: "Both the original biil and the substitute, offered by the chairman of the committee on agriculture, re-enact the powers of the Commissionerof Agriculture, and extend them so that whenever.in the opinion of the Commissioner, it, is deemed advisable, he may appraise and slaughter the diseased and exposed cattle, and compensate the owners, by the original bill, at four-fifths their value, and, by the substitute of the chairman of the committee on agriculture, at three-fourths. The whole argument of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry is an effort to convince the Nation, and partieularly Congress, to whom be appeals for a large appropriation, that there is but one remedy, and that is the total extirpation of tbe diseased by slaughter. If such a system is to be adopted, we would recommend the changing of the name of the department from that of Bureau
of Animal Industry to bureau of butchery for
tbe destruction of the domestic animals of the United States, to be in charge of a corps of butcher boys who would be as well qualified for their positions as the present bead of the bnreau seems Competent for his. In this recommendation the chief advocates the very abEurd proposition that a liberal indemnity should be paid owners of cattle to report cases of sickness where a small indemnity leads to secretion of disease. A new feature in public ethics which requires a premium to be paid men to prevent violations of law. Aside from the legal question arising, as a matter of equity, it would be equally logical to ask the government to appropriate funds to reimhurse farmers for the loss of their stock by cyclones.
birds, rot or any other unforseen cause, because
such crops were the dependence of a family. We are firm in the conviction that this disease, termed pleuro-pnemonia, is a blood poison originating among cattie in stables and stockyards,
and we agree with the opinion of ex-Commissioner of Agriculture Loring that it can be
checked by quarantining in open, well-
protected fields, and that until stringent
laws are enforced to protect cattle
in tbe stables and stockyards, and in transporta
tion, and for providing them with proper food and water, the disease cannot be extirpated and
the public protected from diseased mats and
the poisonous milk of infected cows. We are of
the opinion that the disease is not increasing, bnt rather diminishing, as in New York and
Brooklyu, where stringent sanitary laws are en
forced and frequent inspections made. Believ
ing that the theory of inoculation has failed to
produce the desired results and that slaughtering as a means to extirpate is cowardly and un
wise, we are opposed to the appropriation asked
by the chief of tbe Bureau of Animal Indurtrv.
to be expended as he recommends in his report"
lending rurther dehate, the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
THE CITY IN BRIEF. The Vineennes Folding-bed Company, with a capital stock of $10,000, has been incorporated.
J. W. Fisher, the Virginia-avenue saloon
keeper, has been fined $10 and costs for dese
crating the Sabbath. He gave notice of appeal.
Marriage licenses were issued vesterdav to
Mallon Parnet and Lillie B. Brafek, Albert G. Machold and Lillie Kumbach.
The County Commissioners spent yesterday in
specting the poor-farm, west of the city, and will make, to-day, a formal report of what they observed.
Charles Cook, a single man residing at No.
222 Chesapeake street, a brakeman on the Kan-
KaKee line, rell under the cars near Zionsville, night before last, and was instantly killed. His body was brought here yesterday.
The Saturday Herald cf Feb, 1 will contain a
lithograph of the new union station, now under
going construction, together with engravings or the publio buildings and business enterprises of this City. It promises to be a verv fine illus
trated edition.
Mrs. Ida Garrett and William TTnv. arrested
last Saturday on a criminal charge, had their hearing before Mayor Denny yesterday. The only witness who appeared against the woman was her husband, and as there was no evidence against Kelly, the two were discharged.
Ollie Seibert the missing girl, who waa sun
posed to have been kidnaped by her mother on Sunday night, was found bv the police vester
dav at the residence of an aunt in the southern part of the city. She states that she left home
or ner own accord.
The grand iurv will adiourn on Thursday.
and it is said they have several important indictments to return. They have attempted to
make a very thorough investigation of the
Conaughton murder, and an indictment is expected by those who were before the jury as
witnesses.
None of the persons ininred in the I. & V.
railroad wreck, Monday evening, were seriously hurt, and, with the exception of Mr. G. T. Allen, all have returned to their homes. Mr. Allen is still at the Illinois House. The wreet was the result of a broken rail, and there is no blame of the trainmen for its occurrence.
Tbe Snow-storm Mining and Milling Com
pany, of Durango, Cpl., held its annual meeting yesterday and elected the following directors,
W. C. DePauw being the largest stockholder:
Levi Ritter, Indianapolis; Nelson Bradiey, Greenfield; Alex, a Ayres, Indianapolis; E. E. Pratt, Chicago; W. R. Craft, Indianapolis; a W. DePauw, New Albany. Charles W. Brouse. Indian
apolis; M. J. McCloskey, Durango, Cob
The Lace and Needle-Work Exhibit. The lace and needle-work exhibition at the
Bates Home was well . patronized yesterday. Several new pieces were received, among them a
piece of Chinese embroidery upon red-crepe, and a banneret of the same workmanship upon maroon satin. A handsome Persian-embroidered
frontal was received from Mrs. Lew Wallace and
a pair of fine window curtains from Mrs. Benja
min Harrison, The exhibition will be continued
until Thursday night, being open each evening until then.
A Celebrated Pianist's Visit
For the benefit of the orchestral fund of tbe National Musio Teachers' Association convention to be held here next summer, tbe Ladies' Matinee Musicale will give a concert on next Friday
evening, at Plymouth Church, assisted by Dr.
Louis Maas, the celebrated pianist, from Boston,
Mr. H. a Levi and Mr. W. T. Barnes, of this
city. The programme includes piano solos per
formed by Dr. Maas, among which are Liszt's "Rhapsody" No. 15, Beethoven's "Andante" in F,
Schubert's "Marche Militairen and Gottschalk's
"Tremolo Etude." Mrs. U. J. Hammond will take the solos in tbe two opening eemi-choruses,
"The Lord Is My Shepherd and "Charity," the
former the composition of Schubert and the
latter of Rossini. Mrs. Levering, Mr. Levi and
Mr. Barnes will sing Nicolao's trio "Tipraio
Padre," and Mr. Levi Abt's "My Heart Is Tby
tiome. '
A State Prize Corn Show. Arrangements are being made by the County Agricultural and Horticultural for a State prize corn show, to be held city on March 10 and 11. Premiums
awarded to eighteen different kinds of
Wants of Pnrdne University. Purdue University wants a piggery. It also
wants some new buildings and stock, and the
whole will cost $20,000. That's what the bi
ennial report of John S. Ratliff, president of tbe
board of trustees, says, and tbat amount, together with the annual appropriation, will make $44,000. It already costs about $50,000 a year to
keep up the institution, but the improvements
3eem to bo needed as it progresses m its work.
There were 315 pupils in attendance last year.
Another Delay In the Perkins Case. A telegram was received by Noble O. Butler,
clerk of the federal court, yesterday afternoon, from Judge Gresham, announcing tbatbe would not be here until Feb. 7, when be would come to try the Sturm case, and that he would decide
the Perkins case at that time. Commissioner
Van Burec. will cot resume his investigation until after Judge Gresham's decision has been rendered.
A Verdict for Damages Reversed. Farmer "Tuiok, of Wesley, Ind., bad five
horses, aggregating in value $1,000. They
were killed by an L, B. & W. train last July.
He sued for damages in the Clinton county
court and got a verdict but the company appealed to the Supreme Court, where the decision of the lower court was reversed yesterday.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Expenses of tlie Commercial Travelers' As
sociation.
To tne Editor of the Indianapolis Journals
In your report of the annual meeting of the
C T. A. of Indiana, held in this city on the 8th inst, your correspondent, doubtless uninten
tionally, does several of our leading business firms an injustice by reporting Hnlman & Co. as tbe most liberal contributors to the expenses
of the entertainment The facts are tbat the
resident members of the association were gener
ously aided by all of our wholesale merchants,
hotels, and many of the manufacturers; and
while none gave anything near the amount
named by your correspondent, Havens, Geddes
& Co., Brarnen, Serry &Co. , Joseph Strong,
Bennett, Kea & Co., the Terre Haute House and Hulman Co. each gave the same. Wo ask this correction in justice to these gentle
men, and on behalf the resident members re
turn to all who so kindly aided us our sincere
thanks. R. M. HoLtiNOSwoRTH,
Chairman Committee of Arrangements. Tebre Haute, Jan. 10.
National Bank Elections.
The meeting of the directors of the Meridian
National Bank was held yesterday afternoon.
They declared a dividend of 3 per cent, and in
creased the surplus fund $10,000, The election
of officers resulted in the choice of W. P. Gallup,
president; D. A. Richardson, vice-president, add A. P. Kopp, cashier. The directors are David
Macy, James E. Robertson, Charles Mayer,
Charles Scboll, D. A. Richardson, F. Fahnley,
R. S. Foster, A. Kopp. and Wm. P. Gallup.
The directors of the Merchants' National Bank
are James F. Failey, Chris. F. Bals, Paul II.
Krauss, O. N. Frenzel and J. P. Frenzel. The last-named continues as president, with Otto as
cashier. The usual semi-annual dividend of 4
per cent was declared.
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN1. Indications. Washington, Jan. 12, 1 a, m. Special indications for twenty-four hours from 7 a.m. for Indiana Fair weather; colder. For Indiana and Illinois Colder, northwesterly winds; fair weather. For Ohio Westerly winds; light anowe, followed by colder, fair weather. For Eastern Michigan Westerly winds; light snow, colder. Tor Western Michigan and Wisconsin Colder, northwesterly winds; fair weather, with a eold wave. Local Observations. - - Indianapolis, Jan. 11.
Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain 6 a.m.. .30.03 5 01 S'east Clear. 2 p. M... 29.76 24 75 S'east Cloudy. 9 p: M... 29.G2 26 83 South Cloudy.
Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature, 8. Snow-fall too small to measure.
General Observations. War Depaktment,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, lO P. V.
Observations taken at the 6ame moment of time at all stations.
STATIONS.
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New York City.... Washington City.., Vicksburg, Miss... New Orleans. La.. . Shreveport, La . Port Smith, Ark... Little Rock. Ark.. Galveston, Tex. Memphis, Term... Nashville, Tenn... Louisville, Ky ..... Indianapolis, Ind.. Ciueiunati, 0...... Pittsburg, Pa. Oswego, N. Y. Toledo, O Eseanaba, Mich... Marquette, Mich.. Chicago, III Milwaukee, Wis... Duluth. Minn St Paul Minn LaCrosse. Wis..... Davenport. Ia
Des Moines, la.
Keokuk, la , Cairo, III Springfield. Ill St. Louis. Mo...... Lamar, Mo........ Leavenworth, Kan Omaha, Neb Yankton, Dak Moorehead, Minn.. Bismarck, Dak....
Port Bnford, Dak..
tAsainiboine.M.T. Fort Custer, M. T. . Dead wood. Dak.... North Platte, Neb.. Denver, Ool
W.Las Animas. Col.
Dodge City, Kan.. Fort Elliott, Tex..
Tort Sill, Ind. T.... Fort Davis, Tex
iA Paso,-Tex Salt Lake City, U.T,
29.92 29.90 80.01 30.01
29.99
29.87 29.90 30.00 29.89
29.82
29.72 29.62
29.68 29.68
29.62
29.58
29.36
29.38
29.46
29.38 29 37 29.39 29.45
29.51
29.55 29.59 29.78
29.61
29.64
29.82
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29.66 29.57 29.58
29.64
29.54
29.40 29.52
29.63 29.81
29.79
29.80
29.87
29.81
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in this
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corn and
a cumber for the successful ladies who can best cook it It is also intended to collect statistics
of the corn crops in this State.
Interstate Commerce Kill How Not to Do It.
To tbe Ed'tor of the Indianapolis Journal:
I have read what purports to be this bill in
your iesne of the 6th inst I as one farmer pro
test against the passage of this bill. I agree
with the New York Tribune that it would put a
stop to competition among railroad carriers. It
would inaugurate a circumlocution office to
which the pen of Dickios could not do justice. It is a mess of verbiage not very creditable to a national assembly, and has been mistaken for a burlesque.
There can be little doubt that our courts
will decide the pools of the railroads to be not
only illegal, but criminal. The most important
legislation now needed is severe penalties against such conspiracies, giving all courts of record jurisdiction. We want no cumbersome machinery. Our courts, with the well-understood
principles of the common law, will suffice for
the present Mate the penalty for their violation" respectable. Keep your $100,000 in the
treasury. C. W. Barbour.
Tebre Haute, Ind. The Oldest Inhabitant.
To the Editor of tho liirlUnapons Journal:
I have recently seen the names of several dif
ferent persons who claim for themselves, or
throueh their friends, to be the oldest native res
ident of the State of Indiana, but none of those
that have come under my notice antedate the birth of Mrs. Matilda Beees, relict of the late
James Beggs, of Charlestown township, Clark
county. She was the daughter of James Drura-
mond, of said township, and was born June 8.
1WU, and was married to Mr. Beees in January,
1823. Sho has cimtinuouslr resided at the same
snot for sixty-four years that she was taken to
ny Jir. tseegs at tne time ot their marriage
never having resided outside of Charlestown
township. Mr. Bepgs died in January, 1878, he and hia wife having lived together fifty-five
years. James Wheatly. HiNiSBOao, Jan8.
Ayer's Hair Vigor, for dressing the hair and
promoting its growth; an indispensable toilet
Article.
The Kate of Speed, Pittebnre Chronicle.
Tbe Household says the comine eiri will walk five miles a dav. Now if it will tell us when she
will start, and how far she has to .come; we ehal know when to expect her.
Show Windows Plundered. Chicago, Jan. 11. Three men in a sleigh to
night drove up to P. Vonderhydt's jewelry store, on Ogden avenue, and while one of the
trio slipped a bar of cas pipo through the door
handles, pheventing egress, the other two smasned in tbe show windows and crabbed two
trays of pold watches. Vonderhydt, shut in by the gas-pipe bar, jumped out, headlong through
tne glass portion ot the door. Before Vonder
hydt could pick himself up. the thieves were in
their cutter and away. The jeweler's loss is
$1,500.
We notice that Tom, Dick and Harry are now
appearing with their grandfathers recipes for
couehs, etc., and seeking a fortune through ad
vertising, but tbe people know the value of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and will take no other.
THIS NEW YEAR
Finds us (as forty or more new years past have found us) still in the field and at the front of the music publishing business. We offer some
CHOICE MUSIC BOOKS,
Among which are to be found the following, which
teachers, amateurs and others will do well to examine!
SONG CLASSICS. By Rubinstein. Gounod. Las
sen, Jensen. Grieg and others. Price, $1. A splen
did collection of classic vocal music A large book, sheet-music size, beautifully printed and bound, anj containing about 50 carefully-selected gems, suitable for all kinds of voices. Many of the songs are favor
ites on the programmes of the best concerts. The
music ia not difficult.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF MUSIC. By J. C Macy. Price, $1. Containing short biographies of famous musicians, and a condensed and interesting history of music from the earliest days to the present time. All persons, old or young, will enjoy the book. . Portraits accompany the sketches.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLASSICS for the Piano. SI.
Very popular collection of the best music in easy arrangements.
PIANO CLASS rCS is a great favorite with good
pianists. Price, $1.
THE ROYAL SINGER. By L. O. Emerson. 60
cents, xtew singuig-school and choir book.
Send for our catalogue of music book's.
OLIVER )ITSON & CO.. Boston.
C. H. DITSON Ss CO.. 867 Broadway, New York;
GRAND HOTEL, INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Passencrer elevator and all modern conveniences.
Leading Hotel of the citv, and strictly first-class Rates.$2.50, $3 and $3.50 ner day. the latter orioe including bath. GEO. P. PFINGST. Proprietor.
SOCIETY MEETINGS.
MASONIC A. AND A. SCOTTISH RITE, ADONiram Grand Lodge of Perfection. Meeting this i Wednesday) evening, at 7:45 o'clock. N. R. RUCKLE, T. P. G. M. C. F. Hollidat, Secretary. SECRET LEAGUE MERIDIAN LODGE, NO. 19. All members are requested to attend a special meeting this evening, at 7:30, in lodge room, to make arrangements to attend the funeral of brother Lee H. Sylvester. All members in" good standing of other lodges of this order are invited to meet with ns. By order of the cardinal, A. P. MeCORMICK.
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ANNOjJNCEJENTS
R. J. J. GARVER HAS REMOVED HIS OP
fice to 126 North Meridian street
FINANCIAL.
Ml
McKAY, Room 11, Talbot & New's Block.
FINANCIAL MONEY ON MORTGAGE FARMS
I and city property,
C. E. COFFIN & CO.
WROUGHT IRON
PIPE
AND
FITTINGS.
Selling Agents for Natiowat Tub Wobks Co. Globe Valves, Stop Conks, Eapine Trimmings. PIPE TONGS, CUTTERS, VISES. TAPS, Stocks and Dies, Wrenchee. Steam Traps. Pumps, Sinks. HOSE, BELTING, BABBIT METALS f25-pound boxes). Cotton Wipinr Waste, white and colored (100-pound bales), and all other supplies used in connection with STEAM. WATER and OAS, in JOB or RETAIL LOTS. Do a regiilar steam-fitting business. Estimate and contract to heat Mills, hops, Factories and Lumber Dry-houses with live or exhaust steam. Pipj cut to order by steam power.
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75 and 77 S. Penn. St.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1887.
The Indianapolis Journal Las long enjoyed the distinction of being the leading newspaper of Indiana, and occupies a position among the great journals of the country equalled by no other In the State. The experience of the past has clearly demonstrated the necessity for such a paper in this field. The Journal has spared no effort or expense to give to the publio a . wide-awake, aggressive newspaper, and it now comes before its readers better equipped to serve them than ever before, and with the assurance that the high standard of excellence it now maintains shall not belowered in the future. The sessions of the National Congress and the State Legislature, and the important questions to be considered by both bodies, make a firstclass newspaper indispensable to every person. Tbe Journal's reports and reviews of tbe proceedingsof each will be full and accurate, prepared by its own correspondents and reporters. The work before the Legislature will attract more attention than has been bestowed upon a like body in many years, and is of the most important character, involving, as it does, the election of a United States Senator, the government of the State institutions, and other matters of unusual interest. The Journal enjoys facilities for receiving and. publishing the news of the day in every way superior to those enjoyed by any other paper in Indiana and equal to any in the country, being a member of both the great press associations, the reports of both the Western Associated and United Press being received at its own office, and presented to its readers. to the fullest extent The Journal is represented at Washington and '
New York, and other large cities, by tried and ef ficient correspondents of wide repntuation, who will furnish it with full and extensive accounts of all matters of public interest. The vigilance of these correspondents is a guarantee that the readers of the Journal will be kept fully informed in all that goes to constitute the history ef the period. In every town In Indiana, and such portions of adjoining States as are in its patronising field, the Journal isrepresented by a special correspondent, and great care is taken to see that the news of this section is given to the fullest extent possible. The city news will be given much more fully than by any other paper in Indianapolis, and reports of all occurrences will be presented with impartiality and completeness, by competent writers aud news-gatherers. In this department, as in all others, the Journal challenges comparison. Particular attention will be given to its market reports, financial and commercial, and the attention of bankers, merchants, brokers and all others interested in the markets is invited to the Journal's columns. The excellence of these reports has long been recognized; no other paper in Indiana bestows the attention upon this important department given by theJournal. Tbe decisions of the Supreme and local courts wDl be carefully reviewed by special reporters, and will be accurate and comprehensive. No attorney can afford to be without these reports, as in no other way can he keep so fully informed and abreast of the times. In addition to its news features, the Journal has secured the services of some of the best known writers in the literary field, among them many of the favorite contributors to the leading magazines of the country, who will furnish regular features. Their writingswill appear chiefly in the Sunday Journal, which, in point of excellence, has no rival in the State and nosuperior in the country. No expense will be spared, to make it retain its advanced position &mong the best journals of the period. THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. The weekly edition ef the Journal is a complete
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BOYS' CLASSICAL SCHOOL Eleventh year. Prepares for Harvard. Yale and all. other Colleges and Scientific Schools. Send for catalogue. Special instructors in Gymnastics. Voice Cut
; ture and Drawing. Primary department larero. attention to individual pupils. T. L. SKWALL, 1& cianapolis, lad. Separate school for girU.