Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1887 — Page 7

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THtJRSDAT, JA1STUAHY 27, 1887.

THE FOETY-KINTH CONGRESS

The Senate Orders nn Inquiry Into the He.cent Alleged Outrages in Texas. Debate on the Bill Establishing Agricultural Experiment Stations Action on the Riier and Harbor Bill in the House. THE SKNATE. After Debate, an Inquiry Into the Alleged Texas Outrage Is Ordered. , Washington, Jan. 2G. The credentials of Senators Gray of Delaware, Dawes of Massachusetts and Coekrellof Missouri, for the fnll term commencing March 4, 1887, were presented And placed on file. Mr. Morgan, from tho committee on foreign relations, made a report on the petition of William Webster, a citizen of the United States, with a resolution stating that after dne examination of the matters presented in the petition end of the evidence in support of the claim for indemnity from the British government for land in New Zealand, purchased by him in pood faith from native chiefs, and duly conveyed to him before the government of Great Britain acquired sovereignty over that country, the Senate considers such claim to be founded in justice, and to deserve the cognizance and support of the povernment of the United States; also, requestintr the President to take such measures as. in his opinion, may be proper to secure to William Webster a just settlement and final adjustment of this claim. The resolutions were placed on the calendar. The Senate proceeded to consideration of the resolution reported yesterday by Mr. Iloar, instructing the committee on privileges and elections to investigate the allegations made by three residents of Washington county, Texas, as to their being driven from their homes, compelled abandon their property and deprived of the right cf suffrage in that county, M-r. Cote opposed the resolution. He was not averse, nor was the State of Texas, to an investigation of charges properly made against the State Involving a subject over which Congress hadf jurisdiction. But he protested that the proposed investigation was into a subject fiotwithin the iurisdiction of Congress. The "State of Texas had State autonomy. Her Con Btitution and laws were in full force and opera Hon. bhe could redress all grievances, per sonal or otherwise, occurring within her bor flers. The subject was one peculiarly within the jurisdiction of the state, and that resolution was an intermeddling with something belonging Bolely to the State and outside of the jurisdic tion of the general government He gave a historv of the case, to the eSect that a respectable white Democrat had been shot by a colored man at the polls near Brenham, Tex.; that three colored mn had been arrested and placed in iail, charged with that crime; that a mob bad taken them out of jail and hanged them, and that the three petitioners Hackworth, Moore and Schultze who had been prominent In influencing and deluding the negro copulation there, had supposed their lives to bo in danger, and had fled the country. That was all there was in it. ne had received to-day a telegarra from D. C. Gidding, of Bren ham, formerly a representative in Congress from Texas, stating that the three petitioners were of the worst type of scalawags; that they had been tnainly instrumental in stirring up strife between the races, and were charged with instigating the murder referred to of a man named JBoItonj; that they were not driven from their houses, nor were their lives threatened, but tneir own guilty consciences had caused them to leave the country for the country's good. He submitted that the Senate Bhould not adopt the resolution, because to do ; would be to allow the fair fame of one of the States of the Union to be aspersed with out testimony. It would be an injustice which should not be tolerated in the Senate. Mr. Hoar defended and advocated the resoln tion. The three petitioners, he said, represented that they were men of property, of wealth; that they had been earning their living in peaceful, lawful and honorable ways, and that they had been driven out from their homes on American toil. The were residents of that countv; nobody denied that. They were now refugees and exiles; xtobodv denied that. As to the statement that col ored men had killed a peaceful, respectable white Democrat who had gien no offense, that was not a very probable statement Such things did not often occur in Texas, or elsewhere. The fact was that the roan who was killed was discuisf d as a Ku-klux. Mr. Coke denied that statement, and said there was not a word of truth in it. Mr. Uoar reasserted his statement, ana re ferred to the fact that Senators had spoken the ottier dav of war . against a foreign power be cause of the seizure of some fishing vessels, and he asked whether the right of an American citi zen was less sacred in the eye of the American Congress whca It happened to be violated on American setl. , Mr. Saulsbnry (a member of the committee) projected against the committee on privileges und elections being made the dumping ground for everv scalawag who chose to go there and innke charges agfiinst his neighbors. Mr. Edmunds advocated the resolution. air. L.U8US la memoir or trie committee) op posed itas a "waving of the bloody shirt a little in edvance of the tmnal season." It was simply n protiositiop to make politioal capital. Mr. Hawlev advocated the resolution. He did not rognrd th question as one which the Senate was at liberty to consider or to set aside as it Chose. I ne power to maice tne proposed lnves- . tigaiion was not only unquestioned but irresisti ble. Mr. Evarts (a member of the committee) sustained the resolution, and argued that there -could be no better time than the present for making tne investigation. It was of great im portance to the country, to the State of Texas, end to the Southern people, that now., when there was an opportune tyto prove, under the authority of the Senate, that this was a mere "waving of the bloody shirt," it should lo so. air. Jtauisonry oaerea an amendment requir ing the Investigation to be conducted in Wasbington count). Texas. Mr. Hoar oooned the amendment The ones tion should bo left to the discretion and judg ment of the committee. The amendment was rejected yeas 28, nays ' Mr. Call opposed the resolution as an attack on the very life of the government and Ameri can institutions. It was a declaration that the Senate of the United States separated widely from the sympathies of the people believed that the people in the different States and communi ties could not be trusted. The vote was then taken, and the resolu tion was adopted yeas 31, nays 26, as follows: YEAS. ' Aldrieh, Hale, Blair. Hn.wley, Bowen, Hoar, Ohace. . l-if.-alla, Cheney. Jon (Nev.), Conger, McMillan, Cntlotn, Mshone. FJmunds, Manderson,. Evarts, Miller, Farwoll, ' Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill, Piatt, Sabin, Sawyer, 8well, Sherman, Spooner, Teller. Willinms. Wilson (la,) 31. ye. NATS. Reek. Gibson, Berry, Gorman, Slack born. Gray, Brown, . Hampton, Call, Harris, Pavne, ru?h, Ransom, Sanlsbury, Vance, Vest, Walthall. . ke, Jor.e (Ark.), ,olqu!.tt. Kenoa, ustls. Aicl'herson, Whitthorne. 2G. George, Morgan, The Senate then resumed consideration of the bill to establish agricultural experiment stations In connection with the agricultural colleges established under the act of July 2. 1802. Mr. Morgan stated his objection to the bill to e that it did not plaee any control over the subject within the power of the several States. He thought that the control of the agricultural colleges and of the proposed experiment stations should be placed entirely iu the hands of the 8taUs. Mr. Vest denied that tr.re was any general uprising among the aericul'iirirta of the eountry In favor of the bill. He had written to the ComBisttotier of Education for information as to the number of students in the land rrant colleges ke were actually studying agriculture, and he ad received a communication giving figures oa

that point He proceeded to read from this communication, showing that a very small pro

portion of the students at these agricultural col leges were studying agriculture. The figures in Alabama were 19 out of 145; in Arkansas, cone out of 83; in California, 5 out of 243; in Colorado, 7 out of G9. and sc on. Statements showing that these statistics were misleading were made by Messrs. George, Frye, Berry, noar, Biair, Ingalls, Teller and others. Mr. est 6aid be had resorted to the best source of information on the subject the Conimissioner of Education: if the statistics fur nished were not grossly false and misleading, they made a lamentable showing as to the interest taken by the people of the United States in agricultural education. Mr. Morrili, the author of the original agri cultural college bill, explained what the object! or that bill was. It bad never been intended that students at those colleges should graduate as farmers. They were intended for the double purpose of teaching agriculture and the mechan ic arts. After a long discussion and the offering of, and voting on, a large number of amendments, Mr. Hawley offered a substitute for the bill, and on his mot ion the bill ami substitute were or dered printed, and the matter went over till tomorrow. lue railroad attorney bill was then taken up, and Mr. Berry obtained the floor to discuss it, but the Senate immediately went into secret session, and. when the doors reopened, ad journed. THE HOUSE. The River and Harbor Hill Engrossed and Heady for Final Action. Washington, Jan. 26. The Speaker laid be fore the house a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury submitting estimates of the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation to meet the expenditures required by the Mexican pension bill. Referred. The Secretary of the Interior estimates that $4,063,104 will be re quired for the first yearly payment of pensions, and afcks for an appropriation of $257,000 for an increased clerical force. The Senate fisheries bill having been laid before the House, on motion of Mr. Belmont, of New York, it was referred to the committee on foreign affairs and leave granted that committee to report at any time. The granting of leave to report at any time required unanimous consent, but thero was apparently no disposition on the part of any member to make an objection. The right to report at any time carries with it the right of immediate consideration, and the bill will have the right of way in the House as soon as it has been passed upon by the commit tee. Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, submitted the con ference report upon the army appropriation bill, and it was agreed to. On motion of Mr. Catchings, of Mississippi, a bill was passed providing for holding terms of United States courts at V icksburg. Mr. Pavson. of Illinois, from the committee on public lands, reported back the resolution requesting the Secretary of the Interior to procure the opinion of the Attorney-general whether any further legislation is necessary to prevent the unlawful fencing of public lands. Adopted. In the morning hour, Mr. Sadler, of Alabama, on behalf of the committee on private land claims, called np the bill authorizing the exam ination, approval and patenting of certain unconfirmed land claims in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama, and Missis sippi, south of the thirty-first degree of north lattitude. The bill was strenuously op posd on he ground that it was vicious, inas much as it confided the decision of the validity of claims to large tracts of land having an origin in grants from the French, British or bpanish government, to registers and receivers of the land offices, or the Commissioner of the General Land Office, without any right of appeal to the courts. ,The morning hour expired without ac tion. After a brief struggle for preeedenceabetween the plenro pneumonia bill and the river and har bor appropriation bill, the latter proved success ful and the House went into committee of the whole Mr. McMillen, of Tennessee in the chair on that measure. Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, offered the follow ing amendment as a substitute for the entire bill: "That the eum of $7,500,000 is hereby ap propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which may be expended by aboard of engineers, consisting of the Chief of Engineers and the four engineers now senior in Bervice. either for the repair, preservation, con struction or completion of such public im provements of rivers and harbors as snail, in their judgment, afford practical and important facilities by water for interstate commerce. Mr. Hepburn raised the point or order that the substitute was not in order until the original bill had been considf red by paragraphs. . The Chair overruled the point of order on the ground that it came too late. After 6ome further debate the substitute was agreed to 140 to 27 and it was reported to the House. The previous question was ordered yeas 163, navs 64. Mr. Dingley, of Maine, rising to a parlimentary question, inquired the effect of a retnsal, on the part of the House, to agree to the substi tute. The Speaker replied that the original bill wouid ther be before the house for action. Mr. Dingley suggested that not one line of that bill had been considered in committer of the whole. The fc-peaker replied that that was a ma iter over which he had no jurisdiction. He must be governed by the report of the committee of the whole, which had reported the bill with the rec ommendation that a substitute be adopted. If that substitute were not agreed to, the question would be on ordering the original bill to a third reading. Mr. Willis hoped, in view of this ruling, that the substitute would be rejected. The substitute was rejected yeas, 46; nays. The original bill was then ordered engrossed and read the third timo yeas, 143; nays. 87 and the previous question ordered on the final pass age or tne bill. Mr. Hepburn demanded the reading of the en grossed copy, and as the bill had not been en grossed the House adjourned. Heal Estate Transfers Instruments filed for record in the recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 P. M., Jan. L'6, 1887, as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, Room 23 ..Etna Building: Eliza M. Coffey and husband to William J?. Lockstand, lot 8 in William Braden's subdivision of Brett. Braden $ Co.'s addition to Indianapolis $575.00 The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Companv to Jane A. Geisendorf. part of section 3, township 15 north, of range 3 east 275.00 The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company to Jane A. Geisendorf, part of section 3, township 15 north, of range 3 east 225.00 Joseph B. Phipps and wife to John W. Ray, lot 37 in Allen & Root s north addition to Indianapolis 1,000.00 Merrick E. Vinton and wife to Millard F. Jared, lot 1 3 in Ruddell s Glen wood addition to Indianapolis John Q. Van Winkle and wife to Charles L. Clark, lots 3 and 4 in block 163, in Brightwood Wm. T. Fitzgerald et al. to Julia L. Fitzgerald, part of lot 23 in Ovid Butler's north audition to (llege Corner, in In 200.00 1,200.00 dianapolis 3,000.00 Louisa kregelo and husband to Dan S. - Jordan, lot 2W in Spann & Co.'s first Woodlawn addition to Indianapolis .... 1,500.00 Iteuon tord and wife to Dan B. Jordon, lot U05 in John S. Spann & Co.'s first Woodlawn addition to Indianapolis .... 500.00 Conveyances. 9; consideration $3,475.00 Itevlvat at Fletcher-Place Church. Dr. Tevis is still holding revival services .at Fletcber-place Church, and there are many seekers at the altar every evening. Dr. Curtisa, former pastor of the church, will preach this evening. The Debility Produced by Malaria And tbe disease itself are effectually remedied by the Liebig Company's Coca Beef Tonic. Be ware of irritations. "My patients derived marked and decided benefit from It" says Prof. J. N. Carnochan, M. D., LL D.; 6urgeon-in-chief New York State hospitals, etc., etc. Invaluable in dyspepsia, biliousness! sleeplessness.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

Personal and Local. The -I, D. & S. earned the first twenty-one days of thi3 month, $30,259. Increase over earnings corresp- vding three weeks 1S86, $5,946. General Manager Beach, of the Bee-line system, will tc-day hold a conference in this city with the several division superintendents. F. A. Peters succeeds John U. Brookman as a director in the Chicago & Eastern Illinois board not J. E. Knapp, as stated in the Journal yes terday. Geo. W. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, who has been in the city for a few days, returned to Philadel phia last evening. The Grand Iiapid3 & Indiana road is showing very handsome earnings of late. The first half of January an increase over the corresponding period of 1886 of $12,321 is shown. Every day brings new converts to the inter state-commerce bill among railroad men. After awhile, if this thing keep3 on, the common car-. riers may be the best friends of the bilk William Harrison, nephew of General Ben Harrison, has been appointed agent of the B. & O. Kankakee Dispatch at Chicago, the appointment to take effect on the 1st of February. The Lake Erie & Western road seems to be getting out of the mire in a financial way. The earnings of the road the first half of January exceed those of the corresponding period, 18S6, $17,000. The Bee-line has been carrying 22 per cent of the east-bound business out of Indianapolis thus far this year, which means that they are earning about 27 per cent, of the revenne, aB 90 per cent of the business they forward is highclassed freight. It is more than probable that the general offices of the Lake Erie & Western road, which two years ago were removed from Lafayette to Bloomington, III, will be moved back to Lafay ette. At least, this movement is under favora ble consideration. New Albany Ledger Superintendent Black, of the J., M. & I. railroad, has proved himself, since the commencement of his administration, a most competent and popular official. The business of the road has largely increased under his excellent management. TheC, I.. St. L. & C. earned the third week in January $52,158.05. Increase over earnings corresponding week, 1886. $5,618.05. In the three weks, ending Jan. 22, the road earned $IoJ,207.76, an increase over earnings the correspond ing period, 1886, of $18,767.76. Ed Woleber, assistant cashier at the Bee-line office, has resigned, and goes to Milwaukee, Wis., to take the position of cashier in the American Express Company's office. S. C Baxter, chief clerk of the west-bound business, is promoted to assistant cashier of the Bee-line. Indianapolis railway officials have been noti fied that the Chicago roads have again pledged themselves to maintain existing east-bound rates to the letter. These notices have become so common that the general freight agents glance at them and they are dropped into the wastebasket An idea of the volume of traffic carried by the B. & O., Kankakee Dispatch, is shown in theif weekly statement An average last week of ninety-five cars pefr day was turned over to the Baltimore & Ohio road at Farkersburg, which is certainly a good showing for aline which is still a "yearling." Terre Haute Gazette: Captain Fitch and ten of his class in civil engineering at the Polytechnic have gone to Newton, 111., where they will survey for a new railroad line from Newton to Effingham. The road is a connection of the Big Four, running over the I. & I. S. narro"v-gauge from Columbus, Ind., to Effingham. The rumor is again current that a portion of the white-mail service between New York and St Louis is to be transferred from the Pennsyl vania to the Vanderbilt lines. The fact that the Bee-line people are building several heavy pas senger engines and four white-mail cars of an improved pattern tends to strengthen the report H. J. Jewett, ex-president of the Erie, is prominently mentioned for one of the commissioners under the interstate-coninerco bill. Should he happen to get then, unless he is something more than human, he will eet even with the managements .of the ronds which did him dirt, as the expression is, when he was prominent in railroad circles. The Indianapolis & St. Louis road, Eastern di vision, shows an IncreaRe in earnings tbe second week of January of $3,316, the v estern division an increase of $3,319. It is certainly grat ifying to note that ail the Indianapolis roads are showing a handsome increase in earnings with the opening of the new year, and that the out look is favorable to its continuance. H. H. Stirapson, a well-known inventor, died on Sunday last at Lancaster, Mass., at the age of eighty-four. In 1827 he made the suggestion to a railroad engineer that the flanges on the wheels of the cars should be on the inside instead of the outside, a suggestion that was followed out with important results, the profits of which, however, Mr. Stimpson never reaped. The percentage of the Wabash in the eastbound pool out of here is dropping, which indicates that Judge Cooley has stepped on some of the schemes by which the line was securing so large' a per cent of the business out of Indianapolis. Judge Cooley promised Commissioner Doherty that as soon as he could get round to it he would give the matter attention. The fact is that Judge Cooley is a strong advocate of the maintenance of rates. Shippers of dressed beef are pressing their de mands for an independent classification for dressed beef. At present beef is not classfied. but is taken at 75 per cent above live stock rates. The object in bringing the question be fore the classification committee is no doubt for the purpose of laying the foundation for an ap peal to the Interstate Railway Commission as soon as the bill just passed by the United States Senate has become a law. The purchasing committee of the Wabash are still in a dilemma regarding their reorganization scheme. All their former plans are blighted through the recent litigation, and they have asked the litigaats to name on what terms they are willing to reorganize. "It is questionable" says a prominent attorney, "if the parties who are fighting the reorganization scheme themselves know what they want, unless it be to raise h 1 and give the courts something to do." The J., M. & I. company has succeeded in effecting an arrangement with the representatives of the heirs of the late Edwin Marsh by which it obtains the right of way for its double track over the disputed property at New Albany. The company was unable to make any satisfactory settlement with Mr. Marsh during his lifetime, and had concluded to use only a single track along the line of his property. The right of way for the double track has now been secured. The reports that, as a consequence of - the Atchison's Chicago extension, the Missouri "Pacific will also add a Chicago line to its system, are iadicative of the fierce fight which is bound to occur for the immense business now beginning to show itself in the Southwest The Atchison management has all along been strengthening itself in every possible way, and will " soon stand ready to demand, either bv wav of Chicago or the Southern outlets, its fair share of the traffic which is so largely an outgrowth of its own enterprise. Commissioner George R. Blanchard, of the Central Traffic Association, is expected to return from New York to-day. The Inter Ocean says: "He will then, no doubt personally ex plain the facts connected with the peculiarly unbusinesslike stand taken by several of the lines in the Peoria committee, which is not quite as dead as some people believe. Mr. Blanchard will not be obliged to explain that, because M. L. Doherty resigned the position of joint agent at Indianapolis, to accept a similar office at St. Louis, the Central Traffic Association will at once c.se to live, or by the grace of a few kind genii, be allowed to thrive for the remaining days of this week." The Journal frequently receives inquiries regarding the prospects of the building of the Indianapolis & Eel River road, an enterprise which has been talked of for some five years. With the exception of grading a few miles west of Cloverdale nothing of importance has yet been done. Chief Engineer Devore still is confident that the road will be built and says that arrangements are now in progress to secure the money with which to build the road the present year, but this statement has been made so often that it has a "chestnut" flavor. The impression has prevailed all along that the originators of the scheme expected that the Pennsylvania Company, which owns tbe L & V., would be alarmed

over the attempt to parallel their line and would buy off the projectors. But instead of being alarmed the Pennsylvania people at once offered to sell them the L & V. road for lets money than they could build the I. & E. R. road for. With, in the last year or two, however, the business of the L & V. load has developed so handsomely that the Pennsylvania people think better of the property. The more the interstate-commerce bill is talked over, the more diversified seems to be the opinion of its intent. A conference will be held before long by the pool lines to determine what concerted attitude may be taken by them in case the bill is signed . by the President It is the general impression that the companies will at the earliest opportunity seek from tbe United States commissioners to be appointed under the bill their interpretation of tbe long-and-short-haul, and the anti-pooling sections of the bill, before any definite action is taken liable to disturb the existing state of affairs. The tenor of the remarks of the officials of the sleeping-car companies does not indicate an early

consolidation. General Porter, vice-president of iae ruiiroan, is quoted as saying: "A consolidation of the two companies has been talked of, but the evens seems to be no nearer now than when the talk began. No plan of consolidation has ever been formulated. I do not believe that a consolidation is probable." Dr. iW. Seward V ebb, the president of the New York Central Sleeping-car Company, said: "I hear the story aoout the consolidation. There is Dothing to it Two years ago there was talk of such a thing, and the two parties came near together. Now we have receded and are further apart than ever." While pools may become a thing of the past with the going into effect of the interstate-commerce bill, the opinion prevails among prominent railroad men that associations of the roads for mutual protection will be established, and it does seem reasonable that the railroads will consider it essential to their well-being to oorttinue the co-operative arrangements existing, regardless of the prohibition of the division of earnings between the lines; and, inasmuch, under the generally accepted construction of the long-and-short-bf.ul clause, the failure to maintain rates at competitive points will force a reduction from local stations, it needs no prophetic powers to discern that the railroad companies will lend their energies to. if anything, a more complete system of organization regarding competitive tramc, from motives of self-interest ine rennsylvama and toe Vandaha lines are contemplating the making of several changes in the running time of their passenger trains and the making of two of them limited express trains. As now proposed, the fast express going east will pass through Indianapolis at 6:30 A. M. instead of 4:30 A, M., as now, leaving St. Louis two hours later, but landing passengers in New York at 6:30 a. m. the second morning out from bt. ijouis, or, in other words, the run from St. Louis to New York will be made three hours quicker than it now is. Coming west, the train wnich is now scheduled to reach Indianapolis at 10:20 p. m. will reach here at 8:30 p. m. and St Louis two hours earlier than it now does. Both these trains will be known as limited trains be tween New York and St. Louis, and a number of stops now made by these trains will not be made by the limited trains. Trains Must Run to IWcLeansboro. Mount Verxon, I1L. Jan. 26. The State Su preme Court has reversed a decision given in 1886 by the same tribunal, and peremptorily or dered the Louisville & Nashville railroad to run trains to the original depot built by tbe company at McLeansboro. In 1863 the electors of Hamil ton county subscribed $200,000 of the capital stock of the Southeastern railway, on the condi tion that it would forever maintain a depot within the corporate limits of McLeansboro. The road finally passed into the control of the Louisville & Nashville, which company claimed not to be bound by the original charter, and has for several years stopped its trains at a depot about a mile outside of the city limits. Suit was brouent on behair or tne electors, and, after a second presentation, resulted "in the defeat of the railroad company. Chief -justice Scott and Just ices bheldon and Craig dissent Strengthening a Shaky Pool. Chicago,1 Jan. 26. G. J. Grammer, traffie mafoger of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville rai'vroad, stated to-day that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Blanchard saying General Manager Talmage, of the Wabash road. had ordered the Wabash balances in the Peoria pool, up to Dec. 31, to be paid forthwith. The Peoria, Decatur & Evansville, Mr. Grammer said, would therefore pay what it owed in the Peoria pool. He added that Commissioner Blanchard would at once arrange a conference with the Rock Island officials, and endeavor to have them cancel their notice of withdrawal from the pool, thus removing all ground for the recent prediction that the troubles of the Peoria organization would speedily disrupt the Central Tramc Association. The Ohio Kiver Pool. Chicago, Jan. 26. The executive committee of the Ohio River Pool met to-day, and reached an agreement on the division of percentages on what is known as the Sixth pool. This latter governs all the rough business with lines south or tne unio river, and tne arrangement gives the lines from Chicago to Cincinnati and Louisville 54 per cent, of the traffic, and those to Cairo and Evansville 46 per cent It was, also. agreed that the pool should be continued until the interstate law went into effeot. some future pclicy, in the meantime, to be determined upon. THE RECORD OP THE COURTS. Supreme Court Hon. Byron K. Elliott, Chief-justice. The following opinions were rendered Jan. EVIDENCE TAX DEEDS. 26: 11973. Jacob Wines vs. Thomas Woods, ad ministrator. Kosciusko C C. Reversed. El liott, C. J. Where one who receives a quit claim deed has notice that the land has been sold, it is sufficient to deprive him or title as against a prior unrecorded deed held by a purchaser in good faith. In order to prove a cove nant broken, it is not enough to prove that the conveyance was made under the provisions of a statute; but it must also be proved that the par cel of land was embraced within the provisions of the law. Where tax deeds made in Wisconsin are offered in evidence, their validity and effect are to be determined by the law of that State. MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETY BENEFICIARY. iza Masonic Mutual Benefit society vs. Mary Burkhart Marion S. C. Reversed. Mit chell, J. A designated beneficiary in a certifi cate of membership of a society organized for charitable purposes or for the mutual benefit of its members may be changed without the con sent of tbe beneficiary, subject to the organic law and the regulations ot the society. 12374. I., B. & W. Railway Company vs. Stebbins Quick. Clinton C. C Rehearing de nied. 10578. William Lang et al. vs. Hannah Dam nier et aL Allen C C. Certiorari issued. Superior Court. Room 1 Don. Napoleon B. Taylor, Judge. State ex rel. Ida Ballard vs. John Spray; on bond. On trial by jury. Room 3 Hon. Lewis 0. Walker, Judge. Lue J. Mull vs. Emma Muegge et al.; foreclos ure. Judgment for Sl,92b. William C. Jones vs. John E. Sullivan et al; damages. On trial by a jury. NEW SUITS. William J. Shinn vs. Joseph McLain et aL; suit on account Demand, $600. The State of Indiana vs. Abraham Sagalosky and W. F. A. Bernhamer; suit on bond. De mand, $600. Ida S. Fletcher vs. Charles S. Walter; fore closure. Demand, $1,000. Incendiary Fire In a Grocery. Robert George's grocery, corner of Third and Raiho&d streets, was burned early yesterday morning. The fire was the work of an incendi ary. The oil-tank exploded, and the flames spread all over the room. The entire loss is $800, fully insured. I'VjE been cured of a bad case of rheumatism by using one bottle of Salvation Oil, and I cheerfully recommend it as the best linament ever made. Mary Clark, Maltby House, Baltimore, 10.

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

The Lieutenant-Governorship. O the Editor Of tho Indisnanolia JonrnnV. I have uot long resided in Indiana, but in that little time have noted the commotion, wide spread throughout the State, in relation to the manner of "providing for the occasion" resulting from the resignation of the last duly-elected Lieutenant-governor. I have heard many good arguments, both "pro and con," and was much surprised to hear a member of the present House assert that the State Constitution was silent in such case. This led rue to look up the Constitution, and a copy published in 1870 was found. Assuming it to be unamended, I have tried to read it carefully, and reach the followine con clusion, to-wit: General Robertson is not legal ly entitled to fill the unexpired term of General Manson, nor is Mr. Smith legally entitled to sit as President of tho Senate. Article V, of the State Constitution, relates to the btate officers, arranging for their elections, stating their terms, defining their powers and providing for contingencies. Section 2 of said article plainly says. "The Lieutenant-governor shall hold his office four years," and Section 4 as plainly says, "The official term of the Lieuten ant-governor shall commence on the second Monday in January, 1853, and on the same day every fourth year thereafter." It then follows that Oeneral Manson's official term cannot ex pire until the second Monday in 1889. though he did terminate his connection therewith by resig nation during the last recess or the tieneral As sembly. Section 10 declares that "In case of the removal of the Governor from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the duties of the office, the same shall devolve upon the Lieutenant-gov ernor; and the Oeneral Assembly snail, by law, provide for the case of the removal from office, death, resignation or disability, both of the Governor and Lieutenant-governor, de claring what officer shall then act as Governor, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or -a Governor be elected. Note that this section does not, in any event, refer to the filling of the vacancy occasioned by the death, removal or resignation of the Lieu tenant-governor; that it is inoperative except when both offices are vacant, and that, tinder it, the General Assembly takes no power, except in case of removal from office, death, resignation or inability to serve of both the Governor and Lieutenant-governor; and, as if, by the framers of the Constitution, it were deemed necessary to more definitely cover just such vacancy as that created by the resignation of the Lieuten ant-governor, ' and now, in the ab sence of amendments. legally exists, Section 18 of the same article -declares that "when, during the recess of the General Assembly, a vacancy shall happen in any office, the appointment to which is vested in the Gen eral Assembly, or when, at any time, a vacancy shall have occurred in any other State office lother than the Governor I take this to mean, the Governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, whieh shall expire when such successor shall be elected and qualified." There is no clause in all this Constitution which gives tbe General Assembiv even the slightest shadow of the right to appoint a Lieu tenant-governor in any ease, whether to fill a vacancy or not. Section 10 only conferring on that body power to appoint a Governor, and that only when both offices are, or shall be, for cause, declared vacant in such case, even, the Governor so appointed would, not only through his right but from imposed duty, by Section 18, be called upon to appoint a Lieutenant-governor until a successor be elected and qualified. Mow, the Constitution, having so dearly es tablished the term of the Lieutenant-governor, so definitely fixed the date of its commencement, General Manson having been a State officer, other than the Oovernor, and be having re signed during a recess of the General Assembly, it was, under said Sec 18, not only the privilege of the Governor, but his plainly defined duty, to appoint some to serve whose term should expire when a snccessor was duly elected and qualified, The Constitution makes General Manson's term begin the second Monday in January, 1SS5, and expire the second Monday in 1889. He could, at any time, by resignation, terminate his connec tion with such office, but in no way could its term expire but by lapse of time, before which no other than the appointee of the Governor, can legally wear its honors or assume its duties. Nor has the Governor yet become legally ab solved from his duty as defined in See. 18. The vacancy occurred during a recess of tne Jbegis lature, in which case the General Assembly has no power in any case to fill a vacancy, and the mere fact that the Governor delayed in this case is no reason why that body should assume to per form a duty so plainly devolving upom him. W ILLIAM 11. DONAUOE. Indianapolis, Jan. 24, 1S87. The Fight Against the Suffrage Thieves. To the Ed' tor of the Indianapolis Journal; The magnificent fight you have made against the tally-sheet forgers, plug-uglies bums and thieves of the Democratic party, entitles you to distinguished consideration at the hands of all your fellow-citizens who love law and order. Through your efforts the rape of - the ballots has been rebuked in your city, and the will of the people has been asserted; but the good work will not be folly accomplished until tbe guilty men are safely lodged in the penitentiary. These disreputable fellows, however, are only the instruments in the bands of the skilled artists who are running the Democratic machine. They are fellows unknown of God and despised of men. who are perfectly willing to go to jail or to the penitentiary to save a friend, who is willicg to pay them liberally for their immolation. The way you have dealt with these "scoundrels" has met with the entire approbation of the good peo ple all over the btate. The course ot tne journal in tne legislative muddle has been in perfect keeping with its fearless, manly course of the past, and the indig nation it has felt and expressed at the course of the Republicans in the benate and House who compromised with "treason and traitors" who were seeking to thwart and destroy State Con stitution and laws, is shared not only by Repub licans but all good people here. I notice that Mr. Dresser, of Tippecanoe, in this morning's Journal, says the compromise was made in the interest of Jaw and order. Is it in the interest of law and order to stand idly by and see a howling, drunken mob overriding law and tramp ling constitutional rights in the dusti Is it in the interest of law and order to submit to an outrageous usurpation of the second executive office in the State by a blatant bully and thug? Is it in the interest of law and order for the loyal representatives of the people to submit to political indignities that are insults to his manhood, and which bring him into contempt and contumely among his neigbbers and friendsT Is it in the interest of law and order, in any event, to recognise law lessness, rebellion or treason? Our Republican friends made an unfortunate and serious blun der. They not only held the key of the situa tion, but they were acting in the broad suelight of constitutional right, and they should have stood firm and unwavering, though every tile on the Capitol bad been an armed political Demo cratic devil It is humiliating to Republicans all over the State to know that men who bore their banners to a glerious victory, and against a fearful odds. in November, were driven from the picket line in January at the first approach of tbe enemy, virtually surrendering the glorious results achieved in November without, as It were, tiring a gun. A HUMILIATED OLD bOLDIEB. Cbawfoedsvillii, Jan. 24. ' The Soldiers' Orphans Home To the X4tot ot the Indianapolis Journal - The bill now before the General Assembly ap propriating a large amount of money for the building of a State Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home suggests the history of such institutions under State management The uniform expe rience is that they are neglected, mismanaged and abused. The notorious history of our own State Orphans' Home is tbe most conspicuous example in point It has been a record of children huddled, regardless of sex. in tireless rooms, underfed, poorly clad, starved. and even debauched. Pennsylvania bas tbe same record. There the children were found to be so underfed, so literally starved, that their little frames were hardly, more , than skeletons. What better than a' repetition of -this

wide experience Could we expect were we to appropriate more money to a' State institution of this kind! Such institutions should be in the hauds of th national government These children are the wards of the Nation. It was for the salvation, of national life that their fathers died. Maintained and controlled by the federal government the proper management of these homes would be assured. The shocking abuse which has existed in almost every bucU institution under State control would cease. Besides this, the federal government is fac abler, financially, than the State government Our State is already heavily burdened with taxa tion. Bat in the vaults of the national government the millions of our enormous surplus is rusting in idleness. Why should cos that sur plus build our Soldiers' Orphans' Homel The money is ready; it would cot add to our taxation. More than all, the control of these institutions by the government would insure their proper care. The Nation is the proper, and certainly the ablest guardian of tbe soldier's orphan. And when we reflect that the Union volunteer was a national soldier, fighting under a national flag, for a national cause, and not a State soldier, under a State flag, this suggestion becomes all the more appropriate. A Soldier. The State Soldiers Monument. To the Editor of the Indiananolls Journal:

The evident purpose of the member of the Legislature who introduced the bill providing for the erection of four State monuments, at as many different points, is to pave 'the way for opposition to an apnronriation at all foe this purpose, although the gentleman's party pledged itself through its last State convention to support the measure. It furthemore shows the unreasonable jealousy some of the mem bers never loose an opportunity of airing, when anything is proposed that will beautify and adorn our capital city. No other point shoul4 be thought of in connection with the building of. not 'a monument. which would at best represent an investment of dead capital, but a "memorial hall" should ha erected on Circle Park in such form as to utilize it for centuries to come as the militarv headquarters of the State. A building with 'an assembly room wnich will answer for the annus! meetings of the Grand Army while it exists. And wnere all our "old battle-flags," baptized in the blood of our comrades, can be collected and preserved, and where the archives and other effecU of the G. A. R. can be placed and cared for by the State, and kfpt in view of our children's children for generations to come as reminders of the price of liberty and free government to oh people. On a monument but a few names of prominence could necessarily appear, while a hall can be eo arranged, into the walls of which tablets can be placed for each county, on which the names of every officer and soldier from each county in the State killed during the wat can be engraved. A memorial hall can be made to express a thousand times more than a monu mental shaft Both of the greafc parties, in theif last platforms, expressed themselves in favor of this measure, snd the unanimous sentiment of the surviving comrades of our State is now In favor of one grand monument or a memorial hall that will be an honor to this great State, an honor to the heroic dead who gave her an imperishable name and a teacher , of patriotism and love of country to our sons and daughters generations after we have passed away. I am one of those who believe in building up and beautifying our capital city, and that Circle Park, in Indianapolis, is the only place in tne fctate tnat snould be taken into considera tion as a site for the proposed monumental hall. Every comrade in the State ought to at once urge tbe members of the Legislature to pass the bill appropriating not less than $200,000, and commence the work as soon as plans can be prepare and accepted. C A. Poweb. Teerk Haute, Jan. 26. Clerk of the Printing Board.' To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Your reference to the appointment of Mr. Frank Fish to the clerkship of the Printine Board, this morning, is neither wise cor fit, for these reasons: Mr. Fish is a Republican, and, eertainly, has the same right to aspire to this place as any other man; he is well qualified; his character is unimpeachable. The fact that ha was appointed by the votes of Democrats ought not to be fatal. Most people, even Republicans. will accept votes when they can get them honorably. If the Democrats have happened upon a fit appointment, there need be no such urgency as to hurl the incumbent out at noon the next day. Let all things be done decentlv and in order. I submit, further, this manner of speaking is not the way to hold a man and his friends to the party. Mr. Fish and his friends (and he has friends) are as good Republicans as anybody, and, therefore, ought to receive fair treat ment at the hands of Republicans. John S. Spann. , "Helpless Case." , I have been given np by my friends and physicians as a hopeless case of consumption. Have found nothing that gives me as much and speedy relief as Gooch's Mexican Syrup. Thomas Lantery, No. 193 Hopkins street Cincinnati, O. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, ' When she became Miss, she clung to Caetoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Office Depot Quartermaster. St. Louis, Mo., January 17, 1887. Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject to the usual conditions, will be received at this office, and at tho oIQce of the disbursing officer of the Quartermaster's Department at Louisville, Ky., until 11 o'clock a. m.. central time. 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