Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1SS0. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU P. 8. II EAT H, Correspondent. rEW YORK OFF1CE-I0i Temple Court. Corner Bwkman ami Naywu streets. TEIL5IS OF SUHSCIUTTION. VXTLT. i Onejfar.withont Snnday -$1: DnoTMr.wlth Snnday - Fix months, without bandar - mx month, "with Sunday . Thrte months, wlthont SnnAaj .". 1 Lre month, with SnnUr One. month, without Snmtay l.oo One month, with Sunday L'JO WEEKLY. peryrar $1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. RnbJMTibc with any ot our numerous agents, or send iRbwriptloiis to THE JOURNAL. NEWS PA PER COMPANY, I M) 1AX APOLId, I5D. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL Can T found at the following places: J XiNDON American Exchange in Europe 449 fctrand. PARIS-American Exchange In Pari, 35 Boulevard dea Capuclnes. UZVf YORK Gilsey Ilonse nd Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A- P. Kernel, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO raimer House. CINCINNATI -J. P. Hawley A Co., 154 Vine street. XOTTIRVTLLT! C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third ami J efferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HottL TVA8TIINGT0N, D. C Rkjrps House and Ebhltt House. Telephone) Calls. , Business Office 238 Editorial "Rooms 242 Secretary of State Bayard was as "bold as a lion in the case of little Hayti, but is afraid to "take a dare" from any larger country.

A complete roster of the employes of the Senate and House shows they cost $585 per day. The door-keepers alone, twenty-eight in tho Senate and twentynine in the House, cost $285. TnE Philadelphia Pressr noticing General Hovey's recommendation for freo text-books says: "This is the tendency, and it is on the whole a wise one. The system has undoubtedly worked well in this city." ' Or course there will be no registry law. Registry laws, properly enforced, area great protection against election irands; but the prevention of election frauds is not what the anarchist majority in the Legislature is after. Me. Bayard doubtless regards it as very annoying that a crisis in the 8arapan affair 6hould have arrived while be was still in office. He may really be obliged to decide upon some positive, aggressive action, which will be a great trial to a man who doesn't dare to pit the United States against any country bigger than Hayti. Tnx prospects are that there will bo few territorial Governors for President Harrison to appoint, but such Territories as are not fortunate enough to achieve the honors of statehood this year should by all means have their federal officials chosen from among their own citizens. President Harrison should make good Mr. Cleveland's broken promises in regard to this matter. TnE Evansville Courier, approving the gag law and other revolutionary measures adopted by the Legislature, says: "It is plain that the Democratic majority in both houses is composed of men who realize tho importance of making this session of the General Assembly conspicuous in our history as a business 6cssion." They have already made it conspicuous, even among Democratic legislatures, for lawlessness. Secretary Whitney thinks it is time for this government to establish a definite line of policy in regard to the Samoan matter. If, as 4 Senator Frye says, J the entire tenor of the instructions sent to the United States consuls has been : 6ueh as to encourage tho Germans to further outrages and insults, ic will appear to most people that the time for establishing "a definite line of policy" was much earlier in tho administration. There is no dpubt that tho Legiala- . ture intend. to enact tho Curtis bill into a law, the object being, in the first instance, to provide places for a lot of hungry Democrats, and with the ulterior purposo of controlling the elections in this county, hoping thereby to continue their control of tho Legislature through the Senators and Representatives from this county, and from tho districts of which this county forms a Senator Morrill's bill for the con- . ftruction of a national penitentiary 6eems to be justified by circumstances, i At present the general government has do prison, and convicts under United States law are confined in State prisons. This can only be done by consent of the States, and some of them have always objected on account of the extra trouble and expense of taking care of United States convicts. The number of these 'uquite considerable, and constantly increasing. Senator Morrill's bill proposes the purchase of ICO acres of land within three miles of Atchison and tho con- ' itruetion of a prison that will meet all the necessities of the government for ir.&ny years to come. The resolution submitting a prohibition amendment to the peoplo of tho State is expected to bo passed in both houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature this week. If passed, a special election will be held nest June. Such an election will entail a cost to the State of 8250,000 or more, but ir. is desired to separate tho question from politics as completely as possible, and have it decided upon its merits :t matter which would bo difficult to do in the partisan excitement of a general election. Thcro is a wide difference of opinion among the politicians of the State as to whether tho amendment will bo carried or not, but the prevailing belief is that it will be a close fight and tho result doubtful. Tnc Democratic caucus will nominate a State Librarian before a bill looking to tho improvement of the library is considered;, but if tho members havo ny regard for public demands, they will bear in mind that such a measure is fceedf ul, and will select a candidate

capable of being something more than a mere custodian of books, which is all the position now amounts to. Governor Gray has called attention to tho importance of building up the library; the Indiana Historical Society two years ago prepared a bill providing for its regulation and increase; the Central Labor Union has asked that the Legislature increase the library appropriation, and various agricultural, horticultural, cattle-breeding, and other industrial associations have, from time to time, passed resolution's favoring such action. If the State in to have a library, it should bo one worthy of the name, and adapted to public needs. THE SAMPAN TROUBLE. Tho troubles in Samoa have reached an acute stage, and may lead to serious complications. With our present information, it looks as if the Germans were clearly at fault, and as if their aggressive colonial policy had led them into the commission of acts not to be tolerated between friendly powers. . The Samoan islands, sometimes called Navigators1 islands, are a group in the Pacific ocean, about four hundred miles northeast of the Fiji islands. They are directly in the route of the steamship lino from the Pacific coast to Australia, and are very convenient for us as a coaling station. Of the thirteen islands which constitute the group, only three are habitable, the rest being little more than barren rocks. These three have a sparse and mixed population. The natives number about 50,000, and are partially civilised. Of the few thousand foreigners the Germans outnumber all the rest, but tho English and Americans aro pretty well represented. The foreigners have all been attracted by tho agricultural and commercial advantages of the habitable islands. Tho principal city, Apia, is managed by a municipality controlled by tho consuls of Great Britain, Germany and the United States. For several years past tho natives have desired the United States to assume a protectorate over the islands. They made their wishes known during President Grant's first administration, and ho sent a special agent there, Mr. Steinberger, to investigate the matter. Ho reported from tho islands that the chiefs were desirous that tho whole group should bo protected by the United States. No immediate action was taken by our government, and in 1875 the first native King was chosen, and Mr. Steinberger became his Prime Minister. Nothing ever came of the protectorate business. During the last few years Germany has been making special efforts to strengthen her foothold in the islands. This has led to an aggressive policy, in which the German consul, backed up by German men-of-war, hasbecome an active meddler in the native politics of tho island, culminating finally in a revolution. A war among the natives would be an insignificant affair if it were not that it affords an opportunity for European intermeddling and for antagonizing international interests. This may not have been Germany's original policy, but it is the position into which she seems to have drifted or to have )een forced by the aggressiveness of the Germans in Sa'r.oa. It may be that the German consul and naval officers have been acting without orders, but if so they have gone great lengths and assumed great responsibility. They havo taken sides in the local revolution . and espoused the cause of the reigning King, Tamasese, to an extent that seems to have made them reckless of consequences. The result is considerable bloodshed, brutal attacks on American and English citizens, the wanton destruction of property owned by Americans, and deliberate insults to the American tlag. The leader of the revolutionists, Mataafa, has a large majority of tho natives with him, and would soon settle the local trouble but for the intervention of tho Germans. Unless the accounts aro greatly exaggerated, their treatment of American citizens and the American flag has been very exasperating, to say the least.

APPEALS TO THE 8UP&EME 00UET. Ex-Judge Downey, discussing the methods of relieving the Supreme Court, attributes the accumulation of work in large part to the increasing number of appeals, and this in turn to tho fact that a great many lawyers do not know the decisions of the court. He makes tho remarkable statement that probably not more than one-half the lawyers in tho State possess the reports of the decisions of tho Supremo Court "They take their cases up," says Judge Downey, "on points which have already been decided against them, or they take the appeal and present the caso to the Supremo Court in such an unskillful manner that they do not get a decision on the points which they had in view." Judge Downey's statement amounts to a charge of professional ignorance and incompetence against half tho so-called lawyers in the State. He has been in a position to know, and quite likely he is right. If it is true, as he says, that half the lawyers in the State have not the reports of tho Supremo Court, tho question arises, what kind of libraries havo they, and if they do not know the decisions of their own State, what do they know! We have no doubt Judgo Downey's arraignment of tho legal profession in Indiana is mainly correct. There aro a great many so-called lawyers in this State who are a disgrace to a profession once called learned, and which still offers the most inviting field to men of intellect and attainments. The profession s crowded with men who have no business in it, men who do not know the law, who have no aptitude for learniug it and no capacity for attending to business. Such men lower the dignity, the honor and the emoluments of the profession, and bring it into public disrepute. Less than half of the so-called lawyers in Indiana could easily attend to all the legal business in the State, and with much more satisfactory results than at present. The other half, including most , of those who have not tho reports and do not know how to present a case to the Supreme Court, should be employed in something else. But it is not ignorant lawyers alone who i ro responsible for a great many

appeals to the Supreme Court which never ought to be made. Ignorant judges must bear their 6hare of the responsibility. A good lawyer often has to appeal a caso in order to have reversed the wrong ruling of tho court below. A competent judgo who knows the law and how to administer it can go very for toward making his decisions final. But not all ourjudges aro competent, and between ignorant lawyers and incompetent judges appeals multiply and justice is delayed. Two things that would undoubtedly tend to relievo the Supremo Court by diminishing the number of appeals are, first, elevating tho standard of the legal profession, both bench and bar, and second, a judicious limitation of the right of appeal. A large proportion of the cases that now go to tho Supremo Court never ought to go there. Again, Judge Downey says: "Tho statute authorizes the Supreme Court when they affirm a judgment to award damages to the appellee. It is probable that the exercise of this power more frequently and more fully would deter parties from appealing, especially in cases where there are no merits in the appeal." If the Supreme Court has this power it should exercise it with a large degree of freedom and severity. It would bo an excellent way of punishing an ignorant lawyer, and his client as well, for putting his case in incompetent hands.

In its desperate efibrt to make a point on Judge Woods, and to conceal the fact that his original charge, on the point in question, was in effect onty a reading of tho statute and tho supplemental charge an interpretation, the Sentinel has resorted to false quoting, as for example the following: The latter clause of the section makes anyone guilty who counsels bribery. This clause makes it an offense for anyone to advise another to attempt to commit any of the offenses named in this action; so that while it is not a crime to make tho attempt, it is a crime to advise another to make the attempt. If A attempts to bribe 13 that is no offense under this statute, but if A advises B to bribe C, then the one who commends or gives this advice is an offender under this law. The true reading and context, as given in the same report which tho Sentinel misquotes, are as follows: The latter clause of the section makes anyone who counsels to bribery guilty. The section does make it an offense to in any manner counsel, aid or assist in the bribery of a voter or in committing any other offense named in the section. , In order to understand the word "attempt" in' its exact force, as contained in the last clause of this section, it is necessary to insert or supply the word 4to" before "attempt," so that the clause will read in this wise: . And, so read, this clause makes it an offense," etc. These words, "And, so read," and tho preceding sentence, it is evident the Sentinel suppressed, because, tohave given them would have been to expose its own misrepresentations. As tho Journal has already demonstrated, the A, B, C proposition, so often quoted, in its effective words, is simply the words of tho statute. In further support of the interpretation put upon this statute by Judge Woods an exactly similar statuto in England has been construed in the same way. The act of Parliament, 24 and 25, Vict., c. 94, p. 2, makes it a felony to "counsel, procure or command any other person to commit any felony;" and this is held to include only those cases in which the felony persuaded to is committed. (Regina vs. Gregory, Law. Rep., 1 c. c. 77, 10 Cox., c. c, 459; Bishop, Crim. Law, 7th ed Sec. 670.) i The Boston Herald recently called attention to the fact that the relations between the President and Vice-president of tho United States havo almost invariably been strained, if not unpleasant. Tho explanation of the fact is supposed to bo that tho Vice-president, being the legal heir apparent to the presidency, is regarded with distrust and jealousy by the incumbent of the higher office. If this is true, it is not very creditable to the Presidents who have entertained that feeling. Under tho Constitution the Vice-president's position and relations to the government are as clearly defined as those of tho President, and while in a certain contingency ho might succeed to the office, this circumstance does not seem to furnish auy just ground for jealousy or distrust on the part of the President. Perhaps tho fact itself is exaggerated. The New York Sun, commenting on-tho Herald's article, thinks that in tho caso of Gen. Harrison and Mr. Morton no such unpleasant experienco need bo feared. It adds: "We believe that General Harrison possesses a very lovel head and a judicious temper; while, on the part of Mr. Morton, wo are sure there will bo found a breadth of judgment and a discretion of action which will make it impossible for the chief of the administration to treat him with distrust or antagonism." Tho Sun is right. There will be no guch feeling as that referred to in the next administration. Tho President-elect is much too broad and just a man to harbor so unworthy a sentiment, and the present relations between him and tho Vice-president are such as to preclude the idea of any unpleasant interruption. If the bill raisiug tho Agricultural bureau to an executive department becomes a law General Harrison will bo tho first President to havo a Cabinet of eight members instead of seven. This is on the assumption that ho would appoint a Commissioner of Agriculture with that end in view and ask him to ( attend Cabinet meetings. There is noth ing mtho Constitution or laws requiring him to do this in regard to any member of the Cabinet as now constituted, but custom has defined who shall compose it. It is to be hoped that the proposed change in tho status of tho Agricultural Department will not lessen its efficiency or usefulness. There has been a good deal of complaint heretofore that the department was too little practical and too much visionary and theoretical. Perhaps there may have been some ground for this complaint, but there can be no doubt that on tho whole the department has been of gTeat service to the agricultural interests in a variety of ways. The aim should bo to make it still more practical and useful. Whether this will be accomplished by raising the rank of the department remains to be seen. If

doing this plunges it into partisan politics it will be an injury rather than a benefit to the interests it is intended to promote. The Board of Public Works and Affairs provided for in the Curtis bill, for tho government of this city, is to be elected by the Legislature. There is no requirement that the members of tho board shall be freeholders, or even property-owners or tax-payers of tho city; nor is there any provision in the bill for getting rid of them should they prove dishonest, unfaithful, or incompetent. Yet this board, thus elected, and so cjnstituted, has power, under the bill, to levy a tax of not to exceed 75 cents on each $100, in addition to the taxes now authorized to be levied by law. The board is empowered to disburse the money raised by these levies as it may see fit. No provision is made for auditing tho expenditures of the board. Truly, this is a wonderful bill; and what prospect it foreshadows for tho growth of taxes, if not improvements in the city!

TnE St. Louis Globe-Democrat advises General Harrison to disregard tho suggestion to appoint some representative Southern Democrats to office, and adds: "No President has ever yet done himself or tho country any good by be stowing favors upon representatives of tho party which opposed his election' We do not think the editor of tho GlobeDemocrat should lose any sleep over this matter. General Harrison is a Re publican, with all tho term implies. A Boston paper speaking of a female member of the Cornell senior class who has filled a pulpit somewhere in the West for tho past two summers says: "If it is unusual for a woman to preach in the East, it is as unusual to hear a man in many parts of the West." In "many parts of the West" it is unusual to hear any sort of a preacher, owing to the fact that many parts of that boundless region consists of wide stretches of uninhabited territory, but wherever two or three families are gathered together there tho peripatetic preacher of the male sex is sure to turn up and the female gospeller is as raro as a white black bird. Queer idea these Boston people have Of tho "West." In an account given of the formation of the Loyal Legion, during the session of that body in this city some weeks ago, the statement was made that of the three founders of the order, but one, Mr. Peter D, Keyser, was the only one now living. Mr. T. Ellwood Zell, of Germantown, Pa., writes to correct this statement, and ears he has the pleasure of being one of the three and the equal pleasure of being alive." Mr. Zell contributes a paper on the "Organ ization of the Loyal League" to the United bervice Magazine for February. Theodore Roosevelt thus summarizes his ideas on the immigration question: "Two men are equally harmful to us. The man who persists in regarding himself, not as an American or a New Yorker, but as an exiled -representative of some foreign race, and the man who, instead of trying to make .ail of us good Americans, tried to restrict the term American to thoso born in thte country." tfb the Eilltor of the Indianapolis Journal. Was there ever a property Qualification lnw advocated by any statesman of Indiana. If so bywboin. " ' Querist. GASrowy, Ind. iVado not remember that any Indianian of prominence ever publicly advocated ouch a measure. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal; Please state how many timber aecnta are an ointed by the government and where they are employed. c. w. J. workitowx, ind. , Do not know. Write to the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS, TnE stamp collection of M. Ferrari, eon of the late Duchess of Galliera. contains about 2,000,000 specimens, and has a market value of $1,UU0. Rev. B. P. Raymond, Ph. D D. D., lato president of Lawrence University, at Appleton. Wis., has accepted the presidency of the Wesleyan University. Empress Frederick, of Germany, must obtain the permission of her son, the Emperor, before she can accept the 82.000.000 bequeathed her by the Duchess of Galliera. TnE next Russian minister to Washington will probably be Prince Cahtacazene, a descendant of the usurper of that name who made himself Emperor of Constantinople away uack in The Rev. Anthony Swensson, of Detroit, is tho first Swede to become a Roman Catholic priest since tho Reformation. Out of a population of 6,000,000, Sweden has only 2,000 Roman Catholics. Shelby county, Missouri, has a minister who for usefulness breaks the record. In one day, last week, the Rev. Charles McAnally preached two sermons, married two couples and set three broken ribs. John Swinton, the veteran New York journalist, has recovered the sight of one eve and is on the road to restored health. Itecent bequests to his wife have placed him beyond renewed danger of want. The Princess of Wales is meagre in her milliner'. Tho other day she was having some hats made for hcrdauRhters, and took her own material to be made up. She seldom gives much more than i0 shillings ($0) for a bonnet. Prof. E. A. Pare, of Andover, who led the action against Professor Smyth for heresv, is now an old man with smooth face and long gray hair. In cold weather he wears a heavy shawl about his shoulders over his overcoat. A monument to Washington is to bo erected by the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, tho total cost of which is estimated at about $300,000. The desisraer of the monument is Schinimerling, of Berlin. Legally, there is no such city as Memphis. Some years ago the State Legislature took away its charter and named it "The Taxing District of Shelby County." The citizens are now tired of this cumbrous name and want the right to use their old name. Mu. Spurgeon, the celebrated Baptist preacher, is unable to take exercise at Mentone because of the swelling of his feet. It was frequently his custom, or rather his necessity, to preach to his London congregation with one leg resting for support on a pulpit chair. What's in an executive name! The Governor of Illinois is a Fifer; of California, a Waterman; of Arkansas, an Eagle; of Colorado, a Cooper, and New Jeraey has a Green executive. A Fowle cackles over North Carolina, and a Heaver works for Pennsylvania. New York (Ira phic. The name of the Arab leader at Suakim is sometimes, but incorrectly, called Osman Digma. It is properly Osman Digna; or, as the natives there pronounce it, Dikna. Tho second name is from the Arab "dikn," meaning a beard, and was given to Osman on account of tho heavy beard that adorns his chin. The young Emperor William is extending his army reforms to the boots of the officers, n has commanded them to discard the pointed to, and return to the old German style of high-heeled, square-toed boots. He is also remodeling the style of

the epaulet; and, in anticipation of his coronation, has directed an alteration in the shape of tho old royal crown, which ho considers too high in the arch. At Niskayuna, N. Y., last Wednesday, a Harrison and Morton pole, from the top of which waved a small Hag, was broken by the hard wind. The broken part fell and lauded in the -rronnd. standing upright, with the Hag still waiving, in the yard of a neighbor who had denounced the pole during the campaign. Sin Robert Burnett David Morier, P. C, G. C. M. G., K. C. 1$., LL. D., the British diplomatist, whom Count Herbert Bismarck and the "reptilo press have been slandering so ferociously, isa splendid physical specimen of manhood, lie is over six feet high, finely proportioned, and full of dignity and energy. Weston Dobson. a pioneer . operator in the anthracite coal regionsof Pennsylvania,. died a few days ago and was buried on Saturday. He was worth over $0,000,000. Ills pall-bearers wero thirteen m number, and the average wealth each represented, was nearly 3,000,000. tho total wealth of the thirteen being 100,000,000. Cardinal Layigerie has brought over from Africa two graceful gazelles as a present to Leo XIII; they have been housed in a corner of the Vatican gardens, and the Pope never takes his dailv walk among the vines and shrubs, which, he himself has imported, without stopping in front of the inclosures where the animals have become quite tame. . BY6ome strange mischance Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has never received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater. Recently he penned a formal application to tho Harvard authorities for that honor, signing himself: ! AM, yours respectfully, Oliver Wendell Holmes' As a jpenalty for his waggery the authorities, it is said, proposed to put the genial humorist through a strict examination before giving him the coveted degree. Every express train running between Berlin and Hamburg now carries a van fitted with tho network apparatus which is used in English traveling postoffices, which apparatus throws out from the down trains a bag of letters or dispatches at Friedrichsruhe for Prince Bismarck, while a similar bag is taken in by the up trains as they rush through the little station on the Sachsenwald, which is within two hundred yards of the schloss. It is reported that the Pope never allows a lire in any of the eight rooms of the Vatican which ho inhabits. These rooms are, with the exceptions of the library, small and low. and the Pope's habits are so simple that he does not even require a dining room, but takes his meals in his bedroom or in the library. The other dav . the bedroom was moved to a higher lloor, as the room in which the Pope had hitherto slept was converted into a private chapel. On one of the oOicials remarking that the npSer rooms would be too hot for habitation uring tho summer months, tho Pope quietly replied: "Then 1 shall have my bed put into the library."

COMMENT AND 0PISI0X. Whenever insurance companies are compelled to pay the face of policies in event of total loss, they will take good care that the policy does not represent more than the value of the property. Omaha Republican. It is a fortunate thing for the country that at stated periods the Democratic party reveals itself as one without either sense or conscience, as unscrupulous as it is ienorant and incompetent. New York Tribune, Three months ago the Democrats in Congress wouldn't have dared to tell Mr. Mills they could do without him. The fact that over twenty of them have done so now roves that even Democrats do occasionally ve and learn. Iowa State Register. To postpone conferring statehood on the Northwest Territories until after the 4th of March would involve no serious injury to anybody, but the mischief accomplished by admitting New Mexico,' with its mongrel, ignorant and alien population, would be grave and irreparable. Boston Journal. If we are to obtain our share of the ocean carrying trade wo must throw around our shipping the same protection which our other great industries enjoy, and, either by means of bounties or discriminating duties, make up to owners of American ocean-going vessels the extra cost of their well-paid American labor in the ship-yards, on deck, and in the engine-room. Boston Journal. The trunk-line pool made the West Shore possible. The Iowa and other pools ottered a premium to any capitalist who would build new roads to snatch part of the traffic in the Northwest. When the public finds it has to support two roads, and to pay interest on two sets of bonds instead of one, the public concludes that the pool is a bad thing in the end, both for the people and for the railroads. New York Tribune. The first kick is said to be somewhat startling in its character, the second kick becomes annoying, and the third one, being expected, is soon dismissed from the mind. That illustrates the position of the United States in the trouble with the German navy off the Samoan coast. Under Secretary Bayard our foreign policy has been of such a negative character that we have lost respect both at home and abroad. Louisvillo Commercial. We have said that the Southern question in its present aspect is more a social than a political one, but we must still hold that the dominant race in the South has not overcome its prejudice against the colored man so far as to do him justice socially, and the social and political aspect of the case become at times so mixed that Southern politicians of the Democratic party do not appear to us to be free from responsibility in the matter. Boston Herald (Ind.) The American Indians, before they were gathered upon their reservations, were humane as compared with this Kemper county white mob. which has paralyzed the Mississippi authorities and is killing innocent men, women, and children, and burning their little homes which they have secured by years of toil and economy, without the shadow of provocation except that the victims have had the misfortune to be black. Chicago Tribune. The gift of statehood is too precious to be traded oft' in the jumble of an omnibus bill. It is a franchise to be conferred as soon as a right is proven, and not before. In Dakota the right is proven, and therefore the franchise should be conferred. In Washington, Wyoming, and Montana the right awaits proof, though there is reason to believe that good proof is at hand; when it is produced the franchiso should follow it. Chicago Inter Ocean. Let the South produce more mannfactnrers, more business men, more agriculturists, and fewer professional politicians, and tbe conditions so often complained of will adjust themselves. This applies not only to the South, but to othersectionsand communities that RUtfer from useless agitation and unnecessary foreboding. Where thrift and industry abound, with the accompanying development of nature's resources, peace and prosperity will naturally prevail. Washington Post. Suggestion from a Reformer Martha's Vineyard Herald. While everybody 6ecms inclined to vproffer advice to tho 'Sphinx at Indianapolis, urging various reforms we will lay aside our modesty and suggest that one of the best reform's he could establish would bo the abolition of public handshaking at receptions. People may talk of tariff reform and Catholic ascendency, but here is a subject of vast moment for the good of humanitv that requires all the moral force of the SpVmx to combat, and we think he is built in the right way to stop the evil. A Sale Itule. New York Graphic The way to build up the Republican party does not lie in tho direction of promulgating lies about its leaders. The Republican party has reason to bo grateful for the exertions of numbers of men who aro being thoughtlessly or maliciously misrepresented and abused at tho present time. It is a Kafe rule for a Republican to stand by any Republican who is the subject of Democratic or mugwump attacks. New Field for Protection. PittAburg Dispatch. '. The Cabinet roorback is now displaying its ability to thrust the campaign lie 'into the shade, mat report that Andrew Carnegie was to be Secretary of Interior is the last product of the sort. As it came from abroad, it indicates tho necessity of protect ing the home industry against the pauper Cabinet constructors of English journalism.

THE WEST VIRGINIA SENATE

The Deadlock Finally Uroken by Hit Election of R. S. Carr as President. lie Is Under No Hedges to the Democrat, and Will Act with the LimWicans on Party Questions Goff Nominated for Senator. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Charleston, W. Va.. Jan. 21. The lona dead-lock in tho State Senate was broken late this evening, and tho Legislature is ai last organized and ready for business. R. S. Carr, Republican, was elected president on the 127th ballot. The election was. th result of a compromise, aud Carr received .the entire Democratic vote, except two, aud nearly the wholo of tho Republican vote. It is not a victory for either side, and may involve tho complexion of tho next United States senatorship from this State. It is Carr's own victory. He mado the fight saw his lines broken 125 times more than once admitted his defeat, but never quite lost heart. Since tho beginning of the light he has had numbers of dickers and deals with both Democrats and Republicans, always preferring to negotiate with the Republicans because he is a Republican. He isaman of robust physique and curly black hair, topped off with a soft felt hat, which gives him a rakish appearance that attracts to him men as a good fellow. He says he is under no pledgo to the Democrats, and will go with the Republicans on all party questions. It is possible he may bo tho Governor of West Virginia for tho next two years. If tho sign do not fail, it is probable General Goff will slip into the senatorship with Can's help, and, under the Constitution of this State. the President of the Senate would assnmo the duties of the Governors otHce. This i what Carr has been playinc for. It is said that tho dead-lock, which was due to the Democratic refusal to compromise, was engineered bv Governor Wilson in the hopo that he could prolong it until tho end of the session and thus prevent the election of a United States Senator, and that hf would have the chance to make an appointment to till the vacancy. The Legislature will go into the election of United States Senator to-morrow. Th Republican caucus to-nisht nominated Goff. The Democrats have bcin holding- a conference, with tho intention of resolving it into a cansus. but owing to opposition which was developed against Senator Kenna, they have beeu unable to do so. Eight, members are represented as refusing to support him should he be nominated, and a repetition of the dead-lock of two years ago seems imminent. The report that there will be a dual government in this State has been killed by the. election of the President of the Senate, who will become Governor of the State March 4, if Goff or Fleming, who are now contesting, be not seated. The Constitution of the State provides for this case, Seward Is Not a Candidate. Auburn. N. Y., Jan. 21. Tho name of Gen. W. H. Seward, son of Lincoln's Secretary of State, having become involved irk Cabinet speculations, he spoke to-day. when questioned about it, thus: Thave not been, am not and shall not be a candidate for a Cabinet position, or for any other position in President Harrison's, administration. I cheerfully accepted the. position at the head of the Republican electoral ticket in this State, and I havo discharched that trust. I am now givinc my time and thoughts to my business, and propoge to continue doing so. I think I fully appreciate the advantages of being a. private citizen, and I expect to live up to. my privileges in that respect." The Alleged Bribery lu Minnesota. St. Paul, Jan. 21. The legislative inves tigating committee to look into the stories of bribery in connection with tho senatorial caucus last week has been in session all tho afternoon and awav lato into the night. A i i Breat many persons nave neen examineu. ut there are no reliable reports of what occurred, tho committee meeting being strictly a secret one. 1 he bribery charce are made not alone acainst Washburn, but also against Sabin. All sorts of sensational reports nave ueencurrcnr.anu is ciaimeo. and pretty generally believed, that it is all a scheme to bring a'pout a bolt of tho caucus, nomination. Loose Legislation In Dakota, St. Paul, Jan. 21. Tho Pioneer Press learns of a somewhat sensational development in tha Dakota Legislature, at Bismarck, to-day. A resolution introduced today, for an investigation of tho appropriation for the Jamestown insane asylum, two yars ago, caused an investigation ot tho records, to-night, by ra correspondent, who finds that an appropriation ot l'.UO00was asked for. The House decided on $102,000, while the Senate voted in favor of $153,000. The Senate appropriation was made, tho bill being signed by theofticersof thellouso and approved by the Governor, although the House had not passed it. Clarkson Is Non-CommittaL Chicago, Jan. 21. J. S. Clarkson, of 'Dcs Moines, was in Chicago to-day on his way to the national capitah According to a local news agency, a story is out that tho members of the Republican national committee determined to support one of their own number for the Cabinet. They selected Mr. Clarkson. Senator Qnav declining, and have been calling General Harrison's attention to him without eliciting any satisfactory reply. Mr. Clarkson was non-committal to-day on this question, as he has always been since the election. Senator McPherson Renominated. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 21. The joint Democratic caucus to-night nominated John B. McPherson, for United States Senator by 2 votes to 18 for Leon Abbett. The Republican caucus decided on Jlon. Wm. J. Sewell, of Camden, at its nominee, he receiving 2$ votes to 9 for George A. Halsey, of ewark. m Six X.lTe and a Tag and liars LoaL. Boston, Jan. 21. The crew of tho tug Morse, ashore and a total loss on Harding's Ledge, were landed safely this morning I3 the Hull life-waving crew, except Herman Carloton, a fireman, who was drowned while trying to reach shorn in a small boat. Two seamen of the barge Josephine, which the Morse had iti tow, were drowned. Captain Lound, of uho barge Banyan, p.Iso in tow. was saved. Hih crew weni down with the barge. The Josephine is also a total wreck. The crew of the Banyan who wcro lost numbered fonr. Two men .were lost from the Josephine Peter Bergen, steward, and Charles Birohesson. The captain and mate managed to frnt ashore by clinging to fragments of wrec&age. They had h serere experience. The rescue of the seventeen men from the Morse makes a total of fortyfive lives saved by tile heroes of Hull th winter. Woman Assaulted by Tlire Men. Concord, N. II.. Jan21. Mrs. David Call and her son, of Franklin, the latter aged sixteen, attended pravtur-meeting at Hill. N. H., last night. While returning home in a carriage, throe men overtook their team in a lonclv place called "Hi nlf,A f,nSht" ened the boy awav. dragged Mrs, tall mto the woods and assaulted hrr. Thro luon. two of them brothers naured Ballon, and one named Lovcring. nged from nineteen to twenty-one years, who worlt in Iranklin. were later arrested by Constable Rotveil. of Hill, and confessed th ir guil. They were arraigned this morning and held lor the grand jury. Mrs. Call is in a precarious condition. Lawyer Takes Ills Li t. Boston, Jan. 21. Hon. Charhts J. Brooks, a well-known lawyer of this ci.y, committed suicide, late this afternoon, in the Quincv House, boon after 4 o'clock ho entered the toilet-room aud tired a bullet through his head. Mr. Brooks had not been in tho best of health lately, and is said to have lost considerable money in a hotel venture in iStowe. Vt. Mr. Brooks served in tho State Senate, was a member of last year's Common Council, and was reelected this year from Ward U. He was about forty-three years of age, and leaves a widow, his second wife, whom he married five mouthi aoa.