Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1887 — Page 4

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THE DAILY JOUKN AL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2G, 1837. WASHINGTON OFFICK 313 Fourteenth St, P. S. IllATH, Correspondent.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIiNAL On be found at tha following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Taris, 35 Boulevard de Capucines. NEW YORK Ge-lney ITouf e and Windsor Hotels. CJirCAOO Palmer IIous-. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVlLT:E-C. T. Dearicg, Third and Jefferson streets. northwest corner 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union and Southern Hotel. Depot WASHINGTON. D. lloue. C. Riggs House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. ....238 J Editorial Rooms. Business Office. ...242 M'mbert of the General Aitembly wanting the Journal faring the regular tension thould leave their tnbtcriptiont, t:ith iXxrerlionn at to where thf-u detirelo receive the paper, tt the Journal Own ting-room. The American codfish ha3 been vindicated. As n tail-twister Senator Ingalls is entitled to the whole bakery. Ik the language of commerce, it is getting to bo something of a long haul. The Supreme Court of the State has upheld the constitutionality of the law for the reguluvion of the practice of medicine. It ouht to be remembered, in the discus sion of the question of the senatorship, that Representative Robinson is a Democratic Greenbacker. He was elected as a Democrat Senator Barrett righteously declared, yesterday, that no longer should free speech be denied upon the floor of the Senate, and immediately moved the previous question Senator Barrett, it is useless to remark, is a Democrat. Mit. Justice Gray, of the United States Supreme Court, declines to sit in the hearing of the Bell telephone case, because he has two sisters, two brothers and six cousins who own telephone stock. They own in the aggregate &02 shares. Tnc Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that the State Normal School, at Normal, is not a State institution, but a private "eleemos ynary corporation, and as such has no legal claim on the Legislature for support. The iecision is the result of protracted litigation And so, according to Congressman Byuura, forgery is to be a ided to the list of Demo cratic eins perpetrated during this session of the Legislature to secure the election of a United States Senator. The bogus dispatch t - t. - 1 i i-l.-i. L 1L. fault of the nimble-minded person who wrote it Mr. Inoai.LS wanted to be eure whether the report of the committee on foreign affairs meant war before he sailed in, and then he sailed. If the British lion .will take the trouble to cast her eve .over Mr. Insalls's neither -fain t nor feeble remarks, she wil learn precisely what the majority of Amcri can people think about her. The Lafayette Call, after remarking tha Lesrisluture makes laws for the courts to idmtnister, asks, witn some excitement am :nil;.gtiat"n, ''Can the courts force an officer on Jhe Legislature?" Without going into the !eg:il merits of the question, it must be ad mitted that they can and do. For particulars, see Green Smith and other compromisers. New Jersey Democrats have undertaken ;ven a more revolutionary plan than their In diana brethren to elect a United States Sena tor. They propose to go ahead and vote for Senator even before the Legislature is or ganized. Leon Abbett must want to cool his beels in the ante-room of the Senate chamber iven worse than Mr. Turpie, who seems willing to take an election by the vote of a man who has no more right to vote on the question than a convict from Michigan City. We remarked yesterday that the passage of the retaliation bill by the Senate would doubtless cause considerable comment in Canada md England. A Tcronto dispatch says the news caused much excitement among Canadian shippers, and 1 ad greatly intensified the feeling against the Canadian government. As a general election for members of the Canadian Parliament is pending.it is believed u strong pressure will be brought to bear in favor of a prompt settlement of the question on a bssi3 favorable to the United States. . The Evansville Journal is disposed to look favorably upon the celebrated compromise, otherwise known as the surrender, because "from the way in which matters were going previous to the compromise it was easy to see that the session would be barren of useful results and frittered away in quarrels." To measure the justness and weight of this observation, it is only necessary to note the peace and harmony which now reign, and the readiness with which the members of the Assembly unite in bringing about "important legislation." THE Governor of the Slate, and the Auditor cf State, whose term of office expired at midnight last night, got together yesterday, accepted the resignation of Mr. J. B. Maynard, ' clerk of the printing board, and proceeded to elect a Democrat to the office. Secretary of State Griffin, of whose department the clerk : an attache, protested, but that was

all the good it did. The, dirty

ittle scheme vent through for all it was worth. Of course, so soon as : Auditor Carr reaches his office this morning he and Griffin will hold a meeting, and turn the intruder out neck and iieels. - This may not be in strict keeping with "law and order," but it is what any man would do who had the spirit of a mouse. The election was a pusilanimous performance, and the Republican officers should elect their own clerk before 12 o'clock to-day. There need be no "compromise" in this matter. THE EIGHT OF PETITION, Senator Smith has added to his other claims to notoriety that of trampling on the right of petition. Hi3 arbitrary ruling and conduct in regard to the remonstrance of Jackson coun ty citizens was more than an insult to them it was a denial and defiance of a long-estab-ished right, and one which, by regularly-organ ized parliamentary bodies and legal presiding officers, i3 universally recognized. The public has probably observed that, in carrying out the role of usurper, Senator Smith finds it necessary to make frequent and offensive use of arbitray power. This is a necessary incident of his position. A man who is legally elected to office has no" occasion to resort to the arbitrary exercise of power. As no per son questions his right or title to office, he is under no necessity of constantiy asserting it, and, as the law defines the limits of his power, he is not apt to transgress them. With a usurper or pretender it is otherwise. Realizing that he has no title, he feels obliged persistently to assert it. Aware that he is all the time in the wrong, he is constantly on the alert to repel supposed attacks upon his alleged rights. This makes him atrcressive, and in stead of being careful of the rights of others, as a man rightfully in a position of power is, he is conspicuously regardless of them. A usurper is srenerally a tyrant. The necessities of his position make him w. Mr. Green Smith illustrates this every day. No man in his position who felt that he had reached it by strictly honorable and honest methods, and that he represented honorable and honest men, would make the arbitrary use of power that he does. His denial of the right of petition is a conspicuous instance. There is no more interesting passage in our political history than the great fight and signal victory won in Congress by John Quincy Adams for the right of petition. It was a leading incident in the early stage of the anti-slavery agitation, when Democracy and , slavery were bosom friend3 and partners, and -when together they at tempted to stifle discussion and prevent the people from being heard in the halls of Con gress. For some years they measurably suc ceeded in doing this, but when John Quincy Adams took the matter in band the wheels began to turn the other way. It .was a long and stubborn fight, but in the end the opponents of the right of petition were routed and the principle was established as firmly as the hills, that the right of petition is inviola bly sacred. When Mr. Adams began the fight Congress had adopted rule3 intended to stifle discussion just as the Democrats in the Senate have done but in the end he smashed the rules, and compelled a Congress of slaveholders to receive and treat respectfully petitions for. the abolition of slavery, and even for the dif solution of the Union. And when the 6laveholding Democrats attempted to pass a vote of censure on him for sending up to the Speaker a petition purporting to come from slaves, he defied and beat them, and triumphed again. Yet, fifty years later, a Democratic presiding officer in the Indiana Senate, exercising an arbitrary power in support of a revolutionary plan, dares todeny the right of petition, not to slaves, but to freemen, to men asking not that the laws be set aside, but that they be observed. The manner in which Senator Smith did this was as outrageous as the act itself. Without even a motion that the petition be rejected, he interrupted the clerk, forbade it to be read, and ordered the clerk to "fold it up and lay it on the table." The paper was an expression of opinion by citizens politically opposed to the presiding officer, and censuring the course pursued by him and his party in the Senate. That it was , severe, or even intemperate, in language has nothing to do with the case; it should have been read, and if found offensive the Senate could have returned it to the send ers. To suppress it by an arbitrary ruling of the presiding officer was simply adding anoth er to the outrages that have marked the re cent career of the senatorial mob. A QUESTIONABLE BILL. Senate Bill 48, introduced by Senator Schloss, of Vigo, is a slap at the coroners that will not be relished. It requires that before an inquest is held an affidavit shall be filed by some citizen, thus cutting off immediate ac tion on the part of the coroner, and permit ting time to elapse in which evidences of crime may be entirely wiped out. Ordinarily the coroner acts on report and information A funeral might be conducted before an af fidavit is filed and sworn to. . The bill essentially cuts off all coroner's deputies and clerks, by requiring that the coroner shall himself take the testimony in all coronial inquests in writing. So far as fees are concerned, it reduces the office to a mere bagatelle and leaves it, as Coroner Wagner said, .nof worth the powder to blow it up. For tha first day in a case $4 is allowed and $2.50 for each day thereafter, instead of $10 the first day, according tolhe present law. Coroners are almostin variably physicians, and cannot afford to go to the extremes of a county to sit two or three days on a case at the wages of a day laborer, and 5 centa mileage, which the bill provides. The bill repeals all former laws,

and declares an emergency. In Marion coun

ty it would reduce the office to about $500 a year, and compel the resignation of any competent man. While apparently in the interests of economy and reform, the bill is sub versive of all effort on the part of the coroner to determine crime and the cause of death, and should be promptly sat down upon. It is clearly against public policy. The majority in the Senate relaxed their iron-clad rule yesterday so far as to allow the minority to present a report in the McDonaldBranaman case. The report wa3 presented by Senator Dresser, on behalf of himself and Republican colleagues on the committee, and was an able and exhaustive review of the case. It showed much care and labor in its prepara tion and reflected credit on its framers. Without at present going into the details of the report, we may remark that it demolished the manufactured case against Senator McDonald and demonstrated beyond doubt, first, that he was wrongly and illegally unseated: and. second, that even if he was guilty of bribery, as charged, . Branaman was even more guilty, and could not, by any pretense of law or justice, be held entitled to the seat. There is, of course, no probability that the Democrats will reconsider their action in the case, but the minority of the committee deserve public thanks for making the record so clear. And it should not be forgotten that it is by the votes of such manufactured members of the General Assembly as Branaman that the Democrats are proposing to elect a United States Senator. On the general principle that "where there i3 so much smoke there must be some fire," the prospect of a general European war seems to bo growing imminent. ' It would puzzle a whole faculty of Philadelphia lawyers to tell what it i3 all about, but that Europe is all excited and apprehensive to an unusual de gree is very apparent. Military preparations on a tremendous scale are going forward, the news from all quarters has a belligerent tone, ST ana war seems to ne in tne air. mere 13 no special cause, but an accumulation of chronic grievances; no particular spot sorer than the rest, but a general irritation. That is to say, among the governments, the rulers, the crowned heads and the military authorities The people are quiet enough, or would be if let alone. They have nothing to make Jay going to war. On the contrary, they have much to lose and suffer by it. It is the-freak of some ruling family, the imaginary rights of some dynasty, the ambition of some prime minister, or the pet scheme of conquest and territorial extension buzzing in the bonnet of .some king or emperor, that make3 a general war imminent. The New York Herald prints a large num ber of opinions from railroad men and ship pers relative to the operation and effect of the interstate-commerce bilL They illustrate the old copy-book legend, "many men pieman y minds, " for no two are alike. From the mass, however, we cull one point worth noting. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Central, in the course of a pretty long interview, said: "All this fuss and worry over the bill does not disturb me very much. I have seen this country go to ruin so many time3 that I have about concluded that it can't be ruined. Every four years it has gone to ruin regularly. When first hegau to make stump speeches I be lieved that from my heart, and always said so. 1 know more now.' Good for Mr. Depew. His head is level on the main question. This country is not wagged by the railroads, nor by any other interest, however large, nor by any political party, how ever powerful. As Mr. Depew says, it is al ways going to ruin, but somehow or other it always manages to pull through and come out better and stronger than ever. Senatoii Campbell has a card in the News, last night, which fairly shows the absurdity of the proposition that the courts cam interfere with the legislative department of the gov ernment. Mr. Campbell repeats his hithertoexpressed opinion that the Marion Civil Circuit Court had no possible jurisdiction in the Lieutenant-governor case, and, of course, then, the writ issued against Colonel Robertson was absolutely invalid. Mr. Campbell concludes his card by saying: "lam one of those who, while entertaining the greatest respect for the judiciary, believe in holding it strictly within its constitutional limit, and of leaving each of the other departments absolutely unrestrained in the exercise of their constitutional rights. There was a time in the history of " this country, within the memory of many men now living, when the federal judiciary was under. the influence of the slave power to such an extent that a man of color was not recognized as a citizen who had any rights that a court "was bound to respect. Judges are human, audit is an historic fact that political questions, when submitted to judicial tribunals, are ! almost universally decided according to the political bias of the judges who pronounce the opinion. Speaking of the protest of the people of Jackson county against the outrage of unseating McDonald and seating Branamau, the correspondent of the Courier-Journal says: "Ihis is on a par with the action of the Kepubhcan majority in the House, which resolved one. day that, the courts and common sense to , the contrary notwithstanding, it - intended to recognize Col. Bob Robertson, and no other, : as Lieutenant-covepnor. The next dav th Re publican majority backed down, and was verv glad to recognize Careen brmth, the leal Lieutenant-governor, as the presiding officer of the joint convention. That is the Democratic understanding of the case. Commissioner Edoebton is reported to have used profane and violent language when Le heard that the Civil-service Board had been publicly accused of corrupt practices. The irate old gentleman from Fort Wayne even.

went so far in bis excitement as to threaten that Oberly would go out and shoot the

"wicked liar and slanderer" in bis tracks. If Mr. Edgerton and his associates have really been guilty of no favoritism or partisan rulings, or other crookedness, there is really no cause for such fierce indignation. The Commissioner should quiet down before it occurs to the public that he doth protest too much. In publishing an article purporting to give an account of the inception of the so-called "compromise," the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette used as a headline. "It Had the Unqualified Approval of General Harrison." Senator Harrison was not consulted upon the terms of the agreement, and did not know of it until told upon the street, after it had been agreed to and made public in the joint convention. This is simply the statement of a fact, and is made upon our own knowledge. The fact was published at the time the agreement was given to the public - The Republicans of the State of Indiana elected at least seventy-six legal members of the Legislature, and could and should elect the United States Senator. Journal. - The election returns didn't show it. On the contrary, they showed that the "other fellows" were the "seventy-six" party. News. And the "returns" showed that Albert Ayres had been elected criminal judge and Frank Morrison coroner in this county. But they are not holding those offices now. 1 The United States Senate rejected the resolution proposing to submit a woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution," by a vote of 16 to 34. The affirmative vote was entirely Republican; every Democrat who voted was recorded in the negative. " Turpie was Speaker of the State House of Representatives in 1875, the session when the Baxter local option bill was repealed, and the Liquor-dealers' Association bill passed. Turpie acted in the House chair, with his gavel, much as Green Smith now does in the Senate. The late Gen. W. H. H. Terrell wrote and published the following impromptu in the Journal of Feb. 8, 1875: " 'mister speaker!' "Our Machinist Again. "Steadfast he stood, gavel in hand. The bill to pass that caucus plan'd, Each 'option' move went by the board As if 'twere idle wind he heard; All, save 'license,' was tabooed And thus he showed his Turpie-tude." At the Baltimore charity ball the President informed a society young man that he had never danced because be "never had time to learn." Nonsense; he had plenty of time when he was a young man playing at studying law, or later when he was sheriff of Erie county or mayor of Buffalo. He has had plenty of time to learn to dance if he wanted to. If he had devoted a few of the hours he gave to playing old sledge or practicing on a clay pipe to the terpischorcan art, he could dance now as well as Secretary Lamar or Postmaster-general Vilas. Where there's a will there's a way. Mr. Cleveland might have been a much more accomplished man as to his legs if he had wanted to be. "Ruddygore, or the Witch's Curse," Gilbert and Sullivan's latest effort in the comic opera line, was roundly- hissed during it3 first presentation, and the critics pronounce it a dreary failure. It will not do for the American public to decide from this that the work is worthless, however. . The fact that the authors successfully guarded against robbery, and for the first time since the production of their joint plays gave the first presentation without the disadvantage of previous appearance of the same in garbled 6hape. mar have irritated the dramatic fraternity and led to adverse criticism. Such things have been known to happen before. Judging from the fuss some of the Washington correspondents are making over the new baby in Secretary Whitney's family, that in fant's arrival must have been heralded by a brass band. Considering the manner in which less important events in that household are celebrated, not to have had a band and not to hare notified reporters would have been to neglect and slight the little Whitney. This, as has been re marked previously, is the era of "Jefferson ian simplicity.". ' Governor Fitzhuoh Lee, of Virginia, was banqueted in St. Paul by the Magnolia and Opossum clubs, of that city. Surely there is something in a name. The magnolia is the queen of Southern flowers, and the opossum the most toothsome of marsupial quadrupeds. COMMENT AND OPINION. The Republicans of Indiana discarded the joker and picked np a nine-spot And if they are not euchred it's a wonder. Detroit Tribune. Give the Democrats the senatorship and they would then demand the State offices in the name of "law and order. r Lafayette Journal. Mr. Henry George proposes to smash the American tariff, properly rights the world over and the Catholic Church. This is a big contract for a man of Mr. George's size to take. New York Tribune. Ring the alarm and sound the tomtom! Let us inscribe a codfish argent and a herring gules upon our banners, and proceed to teach Canada that we propose to fish and cut bait anywhere unon this continent where we .want to. Cincinnati-Enquirer. General Grant's faults were many, but his fame is the common heritage of his country. It rests on a sure foundation, and over his shortcomings we should rightly cast the mantle of charity. As the tree fall3, so shall it lie. Grant's life is written in deeds that are not to be forgotten. Louisville Coarier-Journal. General Boynton was prodding hia pencil into Logan's dead body before the widow's tears had dried upon his face. Now he has turned his swill bucket into General Grant's Coffin. This is a nost shameless desecration of the graves of two great soldiers. The ghoul who robs a cemetery to keep the dissecting knives of medical colleges busy stands out pure and undefined against such a background of baseness as Boynton has been guilty of. Louisville Commercial. Senator Green Smith-, the Democratic usurper in the Indiana Senate, has been suggested as the right man to fill the Bulgarian throne. This is a good suggestion if the purpose is to make summary disposition of the fellow. If Mr. Smith cut such capers on the Bulgarian throne as he ha3 been cutting in the Indiana Senate there would be a sudden decrease in the population of Bulgaria, and the world would be the better for it Chattanooga Commercial No, Indeedy. Philadelphia Times. The latest news from-Indianapolis furnishes new proof that Che caucus does not always caulk. IIow the Democrats 1'ut It. Shelbyville ltmocrt. "Let's go in and take a little compromise" is the way they pat it nowv

THE SO-OAlLED tlOMPBOMISE

Col. Calvin Cowgill Expresses His Re, gret, Not Being Misled About Its Other Condemnations by letter and OtherwiseThe Views of the State Press Upon the Legislative Surrender. Hon. Calvin Cowgill Expresses His Tiaws. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: When I read an account of the compromise by which it was agreed that Green Smith should be recognized as one of the officers of the joint convention of the two branches of the General Assembly to elect a United States Senator, I bowed my head in sorrow, and had intended to maintain silence in regard to what I conceived to be a grievous blunder on the part of the Republicans. Since, however, I have observed an attempt members publican and to on the part of some Republican of the Legislature and one Renewspaper, to justify the act, condemn the Journal for the firm but dignified manner in which it expressed its disapprobation of the same, I deem it highly proper that any Republican entertaining the views that I do should express them without re serve. . 1 believe that Colonel Robertson was legally elected Lieutenant-governor of the State. And I further believe that the only tribunal having any lawful authority to decide a question of that kind had passed upon it, and declared his election. And when, in pursuance of the counting of the votes of nearly 500,000 electors of the State, by the authority invested by law to perform the act, and the declaration then made of his election, he proceeded to take the oath of office and enter upon the duties thereof, not only in the presence of but with the sanction and approval of every Republican member of either branch of the General Assembly, it was their doty to stand by what they had done, and to sustain the Lieutenant governor in the official capacity that they then recognized and sanctioned. Neither the fact that revolntionists threatened or that bullies and blackguards fumed and swaggered should have deterred anyone from unflinchingly doing what hie judgment dictated or his conscience approved. Believing, as I do (and, so far as I am informed, every Republican member entertains the same opinion), that the Marion Circuit Court was utterly without jurisdiction; and that the question it attempted to decide belongs exclusively to a co-ordinate branch of the State government, and not to the judiciary, I should have firmly insisted that as a law-maker of the State, sworn to support the Constitution, I should utterly disregard the orders of a court that attempted to divest the body of which 1 was a member of the prerogative that I believed to be exclusively lodged with it by the instrument I had sworn to support. It is not my purpose, however, to enter into a discussion of these questions, but merely to express the hope that there will be no further attempt to justify the unfortunate compromise by talking of peace and order, and obedience to law, etc. Peace cannot be purchased at va price so dear. The man who knows his riehts, and that has the conrasre to maintain them against the menaces of the bully, is less likely to be disturbed than he who sacrifices principle with the hope of avoiding contention. In my judgment the course that the Journal has pursued has been eminently proper and right, and as one who believes in standing by the right, let the consequences be what they may, I tender it my thanks. Wabash, Jan. 25. ' C. Cowgill. A Common-Sense View of the Question. To tho Editor of tha Indianapolis Journal. Not being a lawyer, I have to depend on a common-sense view of our troubles, and from this stand point I heartily indorse every proper effort to maintain the rights of the people actine under the forms of law. I think the time for that man Smith to have acted was when tho Governor ordered what holaims was an illegal election. lie should Lave filed injunctions and restraining orders in every county of tho State to prevent the county officials from conforming to an illegal command of our chief executive, and, if possible, have prevented the people, who are the sources of all power, from acting in their supreme sovereignty and consummating an act that could never be subverted or reversed but by the same sovereignty. The truth is, nobody is wronged, and there can be no wrone unless the whole people of the State have violated the Constitution of the United States or some law of the Coneress of the United States. I believe no one claims that we have done either. Whom did Senator Smith wrone when he obeyed the Governor of Indiana and exercised the franchise of a free man of Indiana, and, with his neighbors and fellow-citizens, went and voted for a Heutenant-govercor? Or Judge Ayree: whes and where did he receive such an accession of new light as to reverse his decision in November? For he voted then that it was leeaL Bo did all the judges, and all the Senators, and all the lawyers, and all the farmers, all the laborers, and all from the professions; so that if there is a wrong, who is there to cast the first stone? But there can be no wrong. The whole people of a great State have arisen without a dis Bentinc voice, and under the form of law filled an office that was vacant by electing Colonel Robertson Lieutenant-governor. Governor Gray, as our chief executive, should see that no afterthought of political tricksters, mutiny or pretended judicial . orders thwart for one hour the will of the whole people of the State by preventing Lieutenant-governor Robertson from the full and free exercise of every and all the functions of his office. Or, if he is'so inconsistent as to refuse to protect the people in their riehts . after ordering them to elect a LieutenaDt-governor, then, in that case we should ask the government of the United States to see that we have a Republican form of State government, and be permitted under the forms of law to fill vacancies in State offices by popular elections under the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Indiana. C. W. Stewart. Danville, Jan. 24. t The Plea fur Harmony. To the Editor of fhe Indianapolis Journal: There seems to be a very urgent desire on the part of the "compromise" Republicans of the Legislature to purge themselves of contempt of the people of the State. Two reasons for the course taken by them are apparent One is boldly and eagerly seized upon and put forward as being sufficient, and that is ''harmony." As long as the English language can furnish words, and those words can be strung together in a glossy string of sentences, so long will we always have elorious tribute paid to the beauties of harmony. It was always so. It will always be so. What fervid appeals were made to the man Jesus and his ministers to cease their , disturbing controversy with the world and to go away and bo silent, so that there might be harmony. How easily could the one great etep in civilization the Reformation have been delayed for centuries, all in the Interest of harmony. Had Luther held his tongue and pen, and shrunk back from the terrors of the Inquisition, and quailed before kings and popes, and conceded vital principles and surren dered up fundamental trusts, harmonr wouia nave spreaa ner gentle wine over the world, and the liberty of conscience would have been suppressed for many a dark century. How foolish were the stem old patriots of 76. Think of the harmony they could . have enjoved had they only been wise enough to see" that a penny or so on a pound of tea and a stamp on a piece of paper was really nothing to have a fus3 about. But, very foolishly, they insisted that m me paying or the tew cents of tax and the use of the stamped paper a vital principle would be couceded and surrendered, aad rather than this they starved and froze, and fou?h and suffered for many a weary year. Had they possepsed th wisdom of our modern statesmen we would now be honored with our Lord-governor from England na our ruler, and we would also be allowed, on stated occasions, to kiss the hand of the Queen. What stupendous and criminal folly actuated the great Lincoln in tenaciously holding to the

great principle of one government for one people when all he had to do was to concede it to se

cure narmonyi - Harmony purchased by the surrender of the right is always a dear purchase, and it remains to be seen if the present compromise of the Republicans of the Indiana Legislature will be an exception. The aecond reason for the ' surrender, but one which is carefully ignored but yet very apparent, is that the Republicans were very badly frightened. Shades of Oliter P. Morton deliver us! Wm. L Hall, f , Gessik, InL, Jan. 25 ' ' - ' ' . ; In Distress of Mind. fo the Editor of th Indianapolis JonrnHi; I am much distressed in mind, 60 that sleep departs from me, or refuses to come, which U worse. I have been ihinkfng of a possibility. Suppose Colonel Robertson is not the Lieuten ant-governor; then, suppose . that Governor Gray should go to the Senate, or to the a&yium for the insane, or go over Jordan; then.wbatl How would it read? Certainly not, "Green Smith, Lieutenant-governor, acting Governor as Lieutenant-governor Baker wrote it, when he acted as Governor; for Green Smith is not now, never was, and never will be Lieutenant-gov ernor. How then? would ue write it. ;ireen Smith, Senator from Jennings, President pro , tern, of the Senate, when theJSenaJels in session. now acting GovernorF That would not be oftd: but who would act as President of the Senate in such a case, and what would Jennings county do for a Senator, in case of war with Canada, now imminent, and the Indiana Legislature should be called in extra session to protect our nortnera borders. Would Jennings have to go unrepre sented on the floor and in the chairl Would the acting Governor lay aside the robes gubernatorial and resume the gavel? . Then who would be Governor! Or would he close the Governor's office long enough to preside in the Senate, and open it of evenings? Then suppose the benate should elect another President. ' In that esse Green Smith would not be the President pro tem. of the Senate, consequently he would not be acting Governor, for the law does not make an ex-President the acting Governor. Then, too, what would become of old Jennings conntyt If she ehould elect a Senator md she cannot afford to be unrepresented in case of war that might complicate things. Would not the Senator, President, acting Governor have to be lively to flop from one thine to another as occasion demanded? n would be in a worse fix than the "upperglottis," in the hypothetical case. A traveling lecturer on anatomy was once enlightening a backwoods audience on the wonderful structure of the human frame. Said he: ''There is a little flap just at the upper end of woosen called the upperglottis. Its office is to close one throat when you are swallowing solids and the other when you are swallowing liquids " "WhewP" said some fellow on a back seat. "You don't mean to contradict me? said the lecturer tartly. "No, not that; far be that, from me," answered the man on the back seat. "I was just a-thinkin' how all-fired fast that blamed thing would have to flop when a fellow is eatin' mush and milk." The Senator from Jennings, acting as Senator, and as President of the Senate, and as Governor all at once or in rapid succession wouldn't he have to flop all-fired fast to keep ut? It is that which keeps me wake o' nights. U. I See. Comments of the State Press. IT THINKS GREEN SMITH "PRESIDES.. Madison Courier. Those at a distance cannot well judge of the difficulties and perplexities which have beset the Republican members of the General Assembly ' in meeting the usurpations and brutality of the Democratic members. For this reason we do not feel inclined to censure harshly the comprov mise by which Green Smith was allowed to pre-, side over the joint assembly. The Senate was invited to come to the House, and they came. There is no law defining who shall preside at the joint convention, although the precedents have invariably awarded this privilege to the Lieutenant-governor. The Democracy should have yielded here, but they did not. They were arrogant, brutal, and ready to precipitate a bloody row. We have confidence in the courage of the' Republican members, and while it is possible they have made a mistake, they have probably done as well as men trying to keep within tha law and avoid bloodshed could have done. STATE AUDITOR RICE'S HISTORY OF It. Loganeport Journal. ' ' ' " State Auditor-Rice was in the city yesterday. In a 'conversation with the Journal reporter at the Panhandle depot, this morning, hef stated that it was his conviction that Turpie would be elected Senator by Tuesday, at the furthest. "He would have been elected on Saturday, if Sayre had not arbitrarily declared the . joint convention adjourned," said Mr. Rice. "Robinson showed signs of weakenine, and if another ballot had been taken I believe we would have secured him. As that compromise is patched up, it is next to impossible' to secure more than one ballot each day, if the Speaker does not desire it" "W ho got up that compromise?' "Senator Johnson, of Wayne , county, and Green Smith. They got together and agreed upon it" FAIRLY REFLECTED REPUBLICAN SENTIMENT. Varaw Times. The Journal can rely upon it that it has fairly reflected Republican sentiment throughout the State in reference to the shameful surrender as shown by the uncalled-for compromise with toe usurpers in the Legislature. The indignation in the party ranks on the reception of the news was very great, and . the expression was very general that the party had either been seduced from duty by promises of a questionable eharaercj, w cue nic luicnk uiauv y uiu xsnmucraiio senators 10 unseat every ltepuoncan in in at body induced some of them to believe they would l.-.no their litila nffiffa CiYt fn a Htnnt nt the old time vigor and spirit of the party. THE EXPLANATION DOES NOT EXPLAIN. Seymour .Republican. This "explanation' is in no sense satisfyine to the Republicans of the State, They fail to see the virtue or value of a "compromise" which gives the opposition the very ultimate thing asked for, and which "comproimses iiotning, oniy tne mannooa&na courage of Republicans without profiting them in the least Besides this it is a puerile and pusillanimous acknowledgement that Green Smith is the de facto Lieutenant governor, and as such that he may sit in judgment over the deliberations of the joint assembly, although he is only a bold usurper, stationed where he is by tho brutal force of a majority vote. ABREAST OF THE PEOPLE'S THOUGHT, Seymour Republican. If our Republican friends who became parties to the "compromise" of the honor, and dignity, and courage of the ublicans of the State ;t1 - . . - l . . - m t i v.c bviuiuua UL IUU (SHUTnal, they will learn that that piper is not alone" in "denouncing" that base and unnecessary expedient As the above paper says, "Unless a newspaperis in haru"-- . with the instinct and thought of its party :f the people, it is as powerless as a b , That the Journal is abreast of the "ins', ...and thoucht" of its party in this matter there is no question. THE DEMOCRATS WERE REVOLUTIONISTS. RushviUe Graphic. Every Republican member of the Leeislatnre, who was in favor of the compromise with Green bmith and his gang, will be remembered as compromising away the rights of tiie Republican party. All the acts of the Democratic Senators were revolutionary and Green Smith a usurper, and the Renublicau members would have been honored by their constituents u tney naa risen np as one body and denounced the acts of Green Smith and his gang in such a manner that no motion could have been recognized. ' A QUAKER EXPLANATION. Lafayette Call. . Senator Dresser communicates a card to tha Courier, defending the Republicans in the Legislature for making the "compromise, n the sum r.nd substance of which is that the Democratic Senate had determined to come over to the House anywav, and if it had not been for the "compromise'' they would have raised a row; aud it was to avoid the row that the Republicans surrendered. This explanation would not be so surprising had it come from our Quaker friend. Job Osborn. WANTS TO HEAR FROM ITS SENATOR. Elkhart Independent. . Senator Mon, from Warsaw, desires the Times of that city to say that hs was in no manner connected with the compromise, nor even consulted in regard to iL Now let ns hear from Senator Paris, of Goshen, as at some time or;