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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and fcouUiern Hotel. WASHINGTON. D. a-BIggi nonse and EbDltt Telephone Call. Ba9inu8fflce 238 Editorial Rooms 242 If Senator Barrett honestly wants to "purify politics," let him begin by introducing a bill to abolish tho thieving Democratic majority in tho Legislature fif tho face of tho earth. TnE San Diego Union urges lion. Eli H. Murray, formerly Governor of Utah, for a Cabinet position. So far as remembered, he is the only aspirant bearing tho talismanic name of Eli. But will ho get there! TnE pipe-line bill before the State Senate is classed under tho head of natural-, gas legislation, but it should go with tho Curtis bill, and bo entitled "An act providing new means for tapping tho Indianapolis city treasury." It rras a hard pull to get tho Democratic Representatives to agree to tho bill calling for tho decent burial of pauper Union soldiers. An amendment providing for tho burial of all Union veterans within five years would proba,bly have met with instant approval. TnE school-book ring of which tho Journal is an active and useful member Is the ring that intends to fight, early and late, tho proposition to supply tho Fchools of Indiana with text -books compiled and edited by Democratic politicians for the promotion of Democratic theories of government. Representative Darnell thinks if all tho bills introduced in tho House should pass it would be dangerous to bo alive. Worse than that. If all the bills should pass, tho people of Indianapolis, at least, would firid life not worth living. Moreover, many of them couldn't live, since it would take all their incomes to pay their taxes. It they have not a Democratic board of public works in Richmond, Va., they have a Council that answers tho same . purpose. A dispatch says they have decided "to pass upon the political proclivities of ston e-cutters, mechanics and all other laborers hereafter employed to work on the new city hall." Of course, this means that none but Democrats need apply. It illustrates the quality of Democratic friendship for labor, apart from politics. TnE Sentinel publishes as editorial an article written by some outside scribbler in which tho Journal is represented as the organ of tho school-book ring. The outside scribbler' evidently represents another ring. . He knew ho lied when he asserted that this paper is the friend of a school-book monopoly, and the editor of the Sentinel knew it was a lie when he printed it. There is a ring at work on the school-book question which, if it carries its point, tho people will find they have got out of tho fryingpan into the fire. The people of Indiana may as well make up their niind that there will be no restrictive temperance legislation at this session. The most of them did reach that conclusion when a Democratic majority was found to be elected, but a few deluded souls, who believe that a Democrat would consider the wants of the citizens of his district when in conflict with the policy of his party, have the lesson to learn that so many have learned before thom, namely, that whatever individual members may be, the Democratic party of Indiana is a freewhisky party, and will never bo anything else. The Evening News is an excellent little paper in some respects, but it makes a mistake now and then in trying to divide its opinions up evenly so many on one sido and so many on the other in order to be truly "non-partisan." In the State library matter, for instance, tho Journal pointed out two years ago tho foolishness of making a library board of the State Board of Education. What the Journal opposed it was unwisely assumed would be approved by tho Democratic organ, and tho balance calling for an opinion for that side, tho educational board scheme was advanced again. Unfortunately for the calculation, the plan met with unexpected opposition on the Democratic side also, and the little "independent" sheet is left with a misfit opinion on hands. It is hard lines. A curkent item says a body of citizens, white and black, of Carlisle, Pa., numbering some two hundred, propose to walk to Washington, masquerading as slave-owners driving black slaves, and to participate in the inaugural ceremonies. We would hardly suppose that Carlisle contained two hundred idiots of that stamp. If they go to Washington as described it is to be hoped they will receive no recognition from tho managers of the inaugural ceremonies beyond a permit to walk homo again. Tho object and intent of a public inaugural ceremony is to give dignity and eclat to

a great stato occasion, and to appeal impressively to tho popular imagination in itsrelation to the government. Inthisrespect it is worth all it costs. But tho dignity of a spectacular display must not bo lowered by tho admission of coarse and meaningless features like some that havo been suggested, and of which the above is a conspicuous example. Wo presume tho managers will take care to exclude variety-show features. THE SCHOOL-BOOK QUESTI0H. Tho Mullinix school-book bill is thoroughly bad; there is not a singlo gleam of practical common business sense in it from tho enacting clause to tho final period. This bill provides for tho election, by tho present Legislature, of live commissioners; of course, they will bo Democrats of the Gren Smith variety, 6ince no prerequisite qualifications are provided for in the bill. These commis

sioners shall select three other Democrats from within the State to compile the school-books that shall be used in the schools of Indiana, from the lowest to the highest grades. The commissioners are each given a salary of $5 per day and authority to draw from tho school fund in the State treasury any amount of money they choose to purchase all presses, typo and other material to print all such books, maps, etc. They are given authority to employ a superintendent, printers, engravers, book-binders, etc., at their pleasure, to organize and equip a great job-printing house. All of wliich is wrong in principle, and, if tried, will be found expensive and disastrous in practice. Instead of lessening tho cost of school-books, the result would no doubt bo to largely increase the cost to purchasers, or to tho school fund. The State cannot wisely engage in the printing of its school books under any such provisions of law. Such an establishment would soon'become an asylum for impecunious Democrats and a hot-house of fraud and corruption. The school books prepared by such cheap and inexperienced experts as the bill contemplates would, no doubt, be tho very poorest in quality. It is safo to say that tho business capacity and competition of tho rival pub lishing firms in the country havo brought to their aid, in the compilation of school books, the best educational talent in tho country; that they have employed schol ars and educators whose services could not be procured at $5 a day, the limit allowed by this bill, and that from some of these infinitely better books could bo purchased than 6uch as these cheap experts could or would prepare. It is probably a fact that the schoolbooks cost too much; that the cost is a serious burden upon parente and guardians; and that it is tho duty of the legis lature to provide, by, law, some measure to mako the books free to all children, or, at least, to bring tho cost down to tho very lowest possible price. The great considerations aro to procuro the very best possible books at tho lowest possible cost to tho State and to the children, neither of which ends can be attained under this bill, cr any one like it. Tho Journal has no particular plan to acconipUsh these very desirable aims; there are no doubt sev eral ways in which both objects can bo 'attained. . For instance, to secure tho best books, the Superintendent of Public Instruction might very jroperly bo empowered to call to his assistance the county superintendents of schools, city and town superintendents, high-school principals, and such other teachers of acknowledged ability in the State, which body of trained and intelligent edu cators could select one or more of each class of text-books, viz., spelling-books, readers, arithmetics, etc., as being the best, or worthy to enter into competi tion. Then let the State advertise for bids for the purchase of these books in such quantities as may be required to supply the schools. Some such plan would enable the State to 'purchase tho . books for cash at a fair price, and at a small margin over actual cost. Tho books then could be distributed, through the county superintendents, under proper cafeguards, either free or at actual cost to parents and guardians. Practical and expe rienced teachers are, no doubt, best ad vised as to tho merits of books, and it is the experience of all business that com petition and cash payments will procure the best articles at the lowest figures. If there is a combination among publish ers, or a school-book trust, such open purchase by tho State would be tho easi est way to break it, and tho publicity with which every step in selection, pur chase and distribution is taken would prevent jobs and collusion. A BLOW AT LOCAL OPTI02T. If there is a principle of government that is thoroughly democratic in the best sense, and eminently just and fair, it is the principlo of local option as applied to the regulation of the liquor traffic. Local option is another name for homo rule. It recognizes tho small est civil subdivision of the State as tho unit of the Statv, and the people in their primary capacity as tho source of all power. It also recognizes them as capable of self-government and entitled to it in regard to the most important social question of tho age. It would do away with tho irregularities and possible injustice of a system enacted by a majority of tho entire mass of voters for a mi nority of the entire mass, and would rel egate tho control of their own affairs and their own interests, in this regard, to the peopljo of the respective localities. Local option is the fundamental principle and germinal idea of popular govern ment. Tho Democrats in the Indiana House of Representatives have, by a unanimous vote, refused to recognize the principlo. Tho joint resolution introduced by Mr. Brown, of Henry county, declared, after a suitable preamble: That tho coinmitteo on temperance be. and it is hereby instructed to report a hill giving to the people of this State, in their several localities, the rifjht to. determine whether or not intoxicating liouors ahull be sold therein. This is in accordance with the Republican State platform, which declares in favor of "legislation on the principle of local option, whereby the various com-

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munities throughout the State shall, as they deem best, either control or suppress tho traffic in intoxicating liquors." If there is any fairer, better, or more democratic principle than this we should like to hear of it. Mr. Henry's resolu tion was hardly read beforo a Democrat moved to lay it on tho table, and, under the operation of the gag-law, this was done without giving the Republicans a chance to say a word in favor of it. Every Democrat in the House voted to lay tho resolution on the table. This is a denial of popular rights and the funda mental principles of popular govern ment. It is equivalent to saying tnat the people in tk'iir primary capacity are incapable of self-government, and that they have no rights that Democratic majorities are bound to respect. It is an attempt to continue the rule of the Liquor League, and to keep the saloon in poli tics, by denying to tho people of each community the right to 6ay whether they will have them or not. It is another evidence of tho readiness of tho Democratic party, at all times and under, 11 circumstances, to bo the dog orT;itho liquor interest, and to lick tho sores, of the uram-shop Keepers. EMBARRABSINQ THE ADMINISTRATE .1' r m t A Washington special to the St-.Louis Republic outlines a plan of action1 de cided upon by Democratic ofTice-qljders under tho incoming administration It will bo remembered that soon after! tho result of the election became known a number of high Democratic officials somewhat ostentatiously announce their intention of resigning promptly on tho 4th of March. This was to bo done partly, as they gave put,' to embarrass tho new administration a very ridiculous idea, by tho way and partly, because they expected to have to walk the plank very soon, anyhtfw. Butrtihey have reconsidered the matter, and' are not as anxious to embarrass tho ailfiilnistration as they were; or, rather.hey propose to do it now in a different itray. Instead of resigning they propose, to hold on, and tho idea seems to boxwning on tho Democratic mind.ilthat this course may embarrass tho admin istration more than tho other. It xs,our candid opinion that tho administration will be equal to either emergency?;. Tho Republic's correspondent says tho; matter has been thoroughly canVassed among Democratic officials, andjtbey have concluded not to "play into'veneral Harrison's hand" by resigning. Their line of action seems to have?assunied something like tho dignity ;o a party policy. Thus we are told: t M Word has quietly gone forth from -'the Democratic leaders that Democratic officials must hold on to their offices until they1 ' are removed. There will be no re sijrnationiexcept of Cabinet officers and diplomatcsl If President Harrison wants to stock" tho offices with Republicans, he will have1 to assume the responsibility of discharging competent officials to make places for them. The officials will not plav into his hands by resigning. This will bo the rule if the. Democratic leaders can so influence it all' over the country. Postmasters, marshals. United States attorneys, customs officers, revenue collectors, treasury agents, department officials here, and, in fact, all the officials will hold their places until they are re moved, i ' It was hardly necessary for a prophet to arise to predict tho action of ., Deny); cratic office-holders in this regard, and equally unnecessary for the party leaders to instruct them as to their diiy. Few will die and none will resign. We do not think, however, that the higher department officials and heads of bureaus in Washington can reasonably hopMto; hold their positions long after the 4th of, March. They are not embraced inthe civil-service law, as all tho clerks r ud; subordinates are, and, though confifm.edj by tho Senate, aro not commissioned: for any specified time or term of yfcArs.j The spirit of the 'civil-service lawcbn-j templates that officials of tMsffftjllo' should be in harmony with the admfhis-j tration and give it something more tan the perfunctory support implicit Jby, drawing a salary. In short, there is idmost as much reason why the hejaida of department bureaus, not embraced; jnj the civil-service law, should be nVpolitical harmony with the administration ag there is why tho Cabinet officersirsIrould be. Mr. Cleveland changed all fhe$e otj ficers soon after coming into officeyhiniself, or as fast as he could get arouVtq them. The removal of tho presont incumbents will bo in strict ac(,rncej with the letter and spirit ofthofclvil service law. Wo do not belioWy istration to any great extents Genera Harrison is very self-possesscn'A o easily embarrassed. r.rurwi i .J IT Several bills have been introduced in tho present Legislature imposing additional restrictions and oblia&rjs ujpon coal-mining companies in- this r State. There is danger that some of-'thrisebjilsj may operate to the detriment of the coal- -mining intcrestsof the State; both 'to. mine-owners and operatives.11 Al'Teport from the "Bureau of Coal StatlslHcsof : Chicago, shows that there wasji' falling, offin tho receints of Indianacoaiin'tnat city in the year 18S3 of 122,62 Vion solas'

compared with the recciptstilor-jithOj year 1887, while for tho same jetiod there were increased receipts, afjjcoil; from Ohio and Illinois mines amounting, to CC0,921 tons, resulting, it ft claimed, from tho discrimination againHf thef coll companies by tho laws of fi1iiaiiHjij3 compared with the laws of . j.p'hjp.nd Illinois. Mine-owners and opertlyj&.aro all interested in adding to the, oujtpfu of the mines in the State. If anyJawsjKro needed for the protection of miners tbey should be passed, but there is .neither sense nor necessity for merely tjuu combo legislation. . TnE announcement that some European governments are exercised and irritated by the proposal on the part of the United States to strengthen and enforce its foreign immigration laws should not deter our government in the least from doing whatever its interests require. Recent investigations by a congressional committee have developed some startling abuses under our present immigration laws. There is conclusive evidence that somo European governments havo for a considerable length of time been, sending their paupers and criminals to this country. The hospitals, alms-houses and prisons of New York and other Eastern cities bear . abundant evidenco to tho existence of this pracI

tice, and it is by no means certain that the alarming increase of crime throughout tho country during tho last fewyears is not largely due to it. Everybody must havo noticed that tho character of our foreign immigration has, during the last few years, undergone a chango decidedly for tho worse. The proportion of criminals, paupers, suspects and undesirable classes has decidedly increased. Tho evidence shows that the European authorities havo been encouraging and assisting this kind of emigration, thus making a kind of penalcolony or Botany Bay of tho United States. It needs no argument to prove the right and duty of government in tho case. This undesirable immigration should be stopped immediately, and the way be effectually barred against its resumption. It is not a question of the interests of other governments, but simply and solely of our own 'interests. There is no room for sentiment in the case, and no question of reciprocity or international comity. It is simply a question of protecting ourselvcVland taking care of our own interests, without regard to the interests or wishes of other governments.

The fechool board of Louisville has decided to abolish the teaching of German in the public schools after June 1. The voto ori'the resolution to do this was 23 to 1. It was done as a measure of retrenchment and economy, the school fund being "impoverished and tho board in debt. 'f he abob'tion of German makes a saving of $30,000 a year. The Louisville Commercial compliments the school board fot doing its duty in tho face of the usual partisan and race clamor, and says: Jj'In voting to abolish the teaching of German, tho board only voiced tho wishes-of the great majority of this community. . If put to a popular vote, tho demand for its abolition would bo overwhelming." It is only a question of time, and not very long time either, when tho 6amo thing will be done in all American cities. Tho abolition of German in the schools is no injustice to the Germans, nor any imputation upon their generally excellent character as citizens. It is simply, recognising the fact that in an English-speaking country tho public schools should be conducted on an English-speaking basis, and that with an overloaded school fund and an overcrowded school course, . no foreign language' should be allowed to absorb any part of the money or time that rightly belongs to English. German in the sch&ils must go. It is better that tho Territories deserving statehood should wait than that tho condition of their entrance into the Union should be the admission of New Mexico, als; ; Mr. Mandersonand other Republican rhembers of the Senate committee aro rigtt in opposing tho admission of New Mexico on account of the character of hV population. Tho great part of tho people there aro foreign, not in tho sense of being alien to tho soil, but in bodng out of sympathy with American institutions, and not likely to become. "Americanized" until after much longer association with the better class of settlers. In addition to the Mexican, In -tlianLand half-breed population, large Mormon colonies have established them -pelves in the Territory within the past ,tjvro or threo years, and form another obgoctionablo element. New Mexico should ;fpmainon tho outside for several years et ifAX O'Rell's now book about "Brother ' Jonathan" and his country contains some bright things, because it is written by a bright man; but a Frenchman is not better Qualified to give an estimate of the American character and a description of the country and its customs, after a trip of six (.weeks, than is an Englishman. Conse1 duently this work is as gross a libel upon .ojuaenca auu Americana as any ever writc Jten by a foreign tourist It is a flighty, . flippant, Frenchy effort, and is not worth serious attention in any quarter. Taxing tho baby's rattle" is what tho free traders say the advocates of an increased tariff on tin plate are doing. This is very pathetic, or would bo if it were hot Jtoit the fact that it is really better for the ibabythat the tin rattle should be taxed 'away out of his roach. Tin rattles aro not at all the proper things for infants use, and .'jfree traders will do well to bear this in ajniud. Theatrical reader: No; Fanny Davensport, the actress, did not practice for her I great act of rolling off a lounge and dying Mn "Fedora" by tumbling into an Indianapolis natural-gas trench. It is another lady of the namo who has sued the city for lJdamages incident to an encounter with one of those trenches. .ft : is And so the President's inaugural ball is to be in the nature of a serial at least, there are to be several editions, and no two, "of course, precisely alike. What will the ' Iethodist ministers say to this long drawnout agony T i, . ' To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: i.. Did General Grant ever offer A. T. Stewart a Cabinet position, and If so, why was it not accepted! T . M.A.J. liOSEVILLE, Ind. (, In forming his first Cabinet, General Grant sent in the name of A. T. Stewart as becretary of the Treasury. An act of Congress of 1789 provided that no person should hold the office of Secretary of the Treasury who was engaged in carrying on tho business of trade or commerce as an importer. At the request of President Grant the Senate proposed to repeal the law, or to pass a special act exempting Mr. Stewart from its operation, hut pending euch action he, in deference to tho law, declined tho proffered position. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Empress Frederick has collected 24,000 newspaper obituaries of her husband. Du. Charcot, the famous French doctor. is opposed to the admission of women to his proiession. . A man can hire a house in Japan, keep two servants and live on the fat of the land. an ior a mue over a monm. Mr. Abraham Huxsaker, an ancient Mormon, died a few days ago at Ogden, U. T., leaving an interesting family of five widows, forty children and 10 grandchildren. Judge L. D. Thoman, formerly one of the civil-service commissioners, who left Youngstown about a j'earago to practice law in Chicago, is reported to be hopelessly stricken with softening of tho brain. Jay Gould has been ordered to the South by his physician, Dr. John P. Munn. Preparations havo been in progress for. the trip for some little time and a start will be made almost immediately. His younger children will accompany him as far as the Whito Sulphur Springs, iu Virginia. While no

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great peril threatens Mr. GouldV Hf his physician will insist on an extended tour through the semi-tropics.. . . . Philip Armour, the king of pork-packers, is estimated to bo worth $50,000,000. and is growing ri:her everyday. Ho lives in a modest house on Prairie avenno in Chicago, and is at his desk every morning before uio clock strikes 7. A new industry in Florida, irhich is making considerable headway under the encouragementof Northern capital, israising flowers for tho manufacture of perfumes. Musk and damask roses, jessamine, violets, J llies and jonquils yield rich harvests under cultivation. , ul love mankind. I think no man should be harmed for his opinions. I love tho truth. I will seek it diligently, and when found, m.iko it known to others." This was the oath of tho Leather Apron Club, founded bv Benjamin Franklin when ho arrived at the age of twenty-one. TnE Rev. Mother Mary Aloysius O'Connell has just died in her seventy-third year, in the St. Bedo's Convent of Mercy, Sunderland, England. She came from Cork in 143, at the foundation of the convent, and continued in charge until her death, fclio was a cousin of tho great Daniel O'Connell, Totrrnixo the politics of the Imglien poets, a London paragraph says: Only one of the leading English poets is a Socialist William Morris. Tennyson is a LiberalUnionist so strong as to be almost a lory. ltrnu-nitKr rlrwvsn't. ciire anvthinz about pon tics, and Swinburne grows more conserva-; tive every year. Mns. Mary Lowe Dickfxson carries tne responsibility of two positions at the Den ver university. She holds tho mil professorshinin literature, or more properly belles letters, as her work includes more than literature or language, ami hhu u has the direction of tho woman's work in the university. William Gillespie Blaine has had to retire from tho Jesuit order at Santa Clara, Cal., where he had been two years study ing for the priesthood, owing to tho develInner affection. The voung ecclesiastic is the son of James . BlaihVs favorite sister, who died soon aft er the defeat of lbM. Students beforo being admitted to the University of Mississippi are required to appear before a board of professors and answer whether they have any firearms about tnem or wnetucr some person or pi?isoushadany iu keeping for them. If so, they must be delivered up before the appllcants aro ueciarou iun biuucuib. Mrs. Blaine is kept a close prisoner to her rooms at the Normandie in Washington, in attendance upon her son, Walker.. His broken limb is beginning to knit, and the operation makes the patient restless and unwilling to let his mother out of his sight for any length of time. Mrs. Blaine is consequently compelled to decline social invitations for the present. Artist Whistler, the eccentric pugilist, is an American but is not fond of his native land. He is a slender man, with a delicate face and a nervous manner. When ho first went tw London ho made up his mind to take a 6hort cut to notoriety. How well ho succeeded is well known. As years havo gone by he has learned the science of advertising to perfection, but his latest escapade shows that he has exhausted praiseworthy methods of attracting attention. The Czar of Russia is an enormous eater.' He "considers three pounds of meat and two quarts of champagne a very light luncheon His dinner would be sufficient for three men of ordinary digestive ability. His insomania is due to his gormandizing, but he prefers sleeplessness to dieting. He smokes constantly and altogether lives an existence which would kill any man devoid of an iron constitution. His "health is further menaced by thirteen court physicians, five court surgeons, two oculists, one dentist and four medical specialists. COMMENT AND OPINION. The manifest injustice of keeping Dakota out, and the belief that its admission means at least two more Republican Senators, is the reason, or rather the excuse, for the Democratic omnibus bilL Springfield Republican. Democratic organs used to insist that there could be no peace until the colored vote is divided. There is a gruTring impression in the South that the real solution of the Southern problem is in the division of the whito vote. Springfield (I1L) Journal. Whatever may be the ontcome of the Samoan troubles, the pusillanimity of the Cleveland administration the truckling to great nations, and the undue haste to punish weak ones will form a page, and sot a creditable page, in American hislory. Peoria Transcript. Is it not high time for some display of aggressive energy and old-fashioned American patriotism in the premises, of some vigorous determination to maintain the honor of our insulted flag at any hazard, without deferring to tho slow, motions of diplomatic negotiation! Washington Post. The United States cannot take up arms in defense of Samoa in the face of a formal declaration of war bj; Germany. We may attempt intervention in an amicable way, but that is all. It is a very shrewd raovo on the part of Germany, and one which it is not easy to seo how io get around. San Francisco Chronicle. It is not astonishing now that Americans in Samoa should be treated with wanton disrespect and violence, that their rights should be invaded, the American flag shot down and trampled upon, as no disposition has been manifested on the part of our government to maintain its dignity. Cleveland Leader. It is a pity that the Democrats could not have shown, in the last session that they will control the House, enough ability to rise to the level of statesmanship and offer a measure presenting the standards of population, wealth and enlightenment, which should admit any State to the Union. Pittsburg Dispatch. The Democrats of the nouse included Jew Mexico fur no other reason than to defe. the measure and nut off the admission of the Dakotas, Washington and Montana. It is the same old Democratic trick of trying to defeat a meritorious measure and at the same lime have their votes recorded in its favor. Detroit Tribune. . F his unspeakably contemptible administration has a gram of manhood left, it will know how to defend the honor and flag of the Ration. e do not want any more letters from Mr. Ba3'ard. This time we want our, men-of-war sent to the place where business awaits them, and where their f rfbuneT6 a chance to 6Peak.-Miuneapolis one attempts to deny that there is great need of improvement in election methods and that is enough. Whether thtf that party will gain most or lose tionof insignihcant importance; a party W vll v111 ?Pn. 10Uest e and fair ballot New lork Tribune. !Ivce8,1)el?n? to tho Nation, and not to individuals. It is the right of every reniiixeu to nil, and it is the dntv of evrrv nn SS (,.lgtheplaCe3from whieaappomtments to ?vearv V,SVe Wml fa,r cSeraJPon to eerj case which comes before theni 1 his is what they were all placed in SoSl tion for, from tho President dowmJcincTnl nati Commercial Gazette. uoincmtro eirex uur philanthropy goes a good way but wo triotism amf snlf of At?? if a,11(i self-preservation to nrotert form zournl i?-Vasion A dSS There is not the slight fullv measnro t, J? p 01 statesmen who fiiii.v uitdsure the pmiMinm.nA. . vi men tr tr-iin w 1 10 lose and nothmcr I".fli. ' " v "aveno merchant. tirai 01, wane Gernvmv'a io ., - ii v tion for the outrawl in 5Vm; ? licJVleast as pi oinpi Tand aSplS m thi0111 aJ

THE SENATORIAL ELEClioJj

Minnesota's Legislature Spends thelh ' in Investigc-tting Alleged Bribery, The Ilonsc Takes a Keccss and the Sena1 v publicans Finally Vote for WashW Elections in a dumber of Other BtatcsT St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 22. TheSocaN nouse committee to investigate the char-, of bribery in tho recent senatorial -nrA in eniin until . . n rr.i in 4hia ninniinc Time strictly secret, and all reports of whatxr going on inside the committce-roomr a! unreliable. Various sensational stor have been i current, but no positi statement has yet been made from tb' committee. .There has been a btro ' feeling that the investigation is a 6cheir to defeat the action of the caucus, and th ! a combinatidn of Democrats and bolti Republicans would elect some persoa yet prominently before tho Legislature a candidate. Yesterday the House decided by resolution to voto for Senator, anVtt noon to-day the matter came up. uVi hour the Houso committee was not read to report, and tho question was whether tl' Houso should vote now or await the resr? of the investigation. A warm debate aroused, it being held on one side that a vot! was required to-day by the Constibj. tion, and on tho other sido that ti law and right was for a postponement txnn the committeec could report. The commit tee's report gave no idea whether anvthin, criminal had yet been discovered. Krn,Z tion to lay tho committee's report on tU table and that the committee hediscliarrri was lost. Tho motion to re-commit the rt iaiiiut iiiuiuu to allow them amendment a recess uniii to-morrow adopted by a vote of r3 to k Although tho Washburn leaders W hard to prevent the recess, it seems tltt those who voted for the recess, most o! them, did so in order to hear the reported the investigating committee before vorir.. show that he is entirely free from t io charge of bribery. Senator Sabin'a fnen ! feel much the same way. and allinn that iU evidence can bo brought against the ra-i they supported in caucus. Senator Duel man, who nominated Sahin in the caucn does nofrbelievo any of t lie allegations ! bo proved, and expresses the expectatioi of voting for Washburn to-morrow ritk the majority of tho members of theLegb latnro. The Senate considered the bribery riarta in a secret session of two hours'ttonar duration1 to-day, and tho partial repoi made to them comprised charges vrhick Senator Buckman, iu an eloquent fpeecj, said were "made by men whoso character! would not bear close investigation." Set tor Ward, another strong Sabin man, and a member of tho investigating commit! announced that both Washburn and gabii had been implicated in the charges maU and' he would voto iof neither. The snl stance of tho partial report offered by thj committee was that one man has heei offered :a good government position if 1 would vote for Sabin, another claim? i to have been offered $1,000 t vote for Washburn, while a thirl said the Washum men gave hlj wine until he was so drnnk he did not know -whether he received any money cj not. The Senators grew warm and eloqueuj over this report, but no conclnsion wai reached and they finally adjourned until I o'clock to-night, at which hour the execr; tive session was continued to consider tb remainder of the committee's report. Tfc Senate continued in executive session fro i 8 o'clock until 10:30 when a brief recess tui taken to allow the reading clerk to rest his voice and tho Senators to get some frei air. At 11:15 o'clock the doors of the Senafc were opened, the pending question bcicj the election of United States Senator. S?tator Daniels who presided at the RepnV lican caucus, nominated Gen. W. D. ambnrn. Senator Crandall said howasindnnU about the propriety of voting for W. M Washburn, and made this statement to e tplain the voto he would cast. Senator Keller, an independent Democrat said the Senate had already decided th.jt there was no corruption: ho wanted purit j. loyalty and truth, aud desired to vote for new man. No nomination was made by the Dem crats, and they refrained from voting. great many of the Senators explained the f votes. Senator Edwards, of the inrfstr gating committee, said the SeDate has bet l listening all day to "perjured testimony. Tho ballot resulted: Washburn, 24; E. 3 1 Wilson, 2; Knute Nelson, 1. The vote vi completed at 12:15, and the Senate ad journed. . Cullom "Will Succeed nimselfl Washington, Jan. 22. Senator Callwi" has received the following congratnlAtorf telegram, signed by the chairman of ti Senate caucus committee, the joint cancrl committee and the House caucus commits on behalf of tho Republican members of tui Illinois Legislature: By the vc te of every Republican member of tt Thirty-sixth General Assembly, in Jeict ratio on Thursday, Jan. 10, you were unanlfflonwy and by acclamation nominated as the Bcpuoucai candidate to be your own successor. anco with the win cf the ieople, and oytnt toi of every Republican member of the Letf jajw you have thU dayb?cn re-elected Lnitedj Senator from Illinois, and that happy nut be formaUy announced in the Joint J? morrow. Conveying, as this does, a corniaj ur dorsement of vour olllcial acts, and by tit voir imity with which you were chosen, an ifiojfj which has seldom, if ever, been bestowed nr any of the distinguished men who hare prfc you, we tender you our sincere conrrarui-f aud the kindest wishes of the people we rcp sent. Senator Cullom also received the heart congratulations of his fellow Senators. Voting in New Jersey. -Tiientox, N. J., Jan. 22.-Both branch of tho Legislature proceeded to the election of a United SAates Senator this coding in separate sessiVns. In the Senate - ballot resulted: Mcpherson, J!? eTl?H; & In the House the result was McPhcrson.Sewall, 28. Thofonu.il ballot will be Ag in joint session, when Senator MOW will be elected for ano ther term. Mr. riumb Receives Tnanlmon Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22,-United S Senator Preston B. Plumb was relief to-day, receiving the rmanimous vcu the Kansas Legislature. The one cratin tho Senate and four lexot ir 11 members ot the House c iccu- fTCr This is the first time a &r"?t0!,Ja given a unanimous vote in Kansas. Result in Oregon. , . B Salem, Or.. Jan. 22.-Botl nocfCS" -o3 Legislature took a vote in sdrarate for United States Senator this 0T Dolph, tho present incmnlHit, re sixty-seven votes. Governor? ja (Dem.), eighteen, scattering. J?rKOrro Houses wiR meet in joint sessiouto-n-and declare Dolph elected. Mr. Coke Rc-Elected. i AUSTIN, Tex.,'Jan 22.-The Stnax Houso to-day re-elected Hon. CV it :0a. United States Senator without opv w Tho two houses meet in joint sccrmorrow to cast tho ballot. nthpr Elections. j Raleigh, N. C.t Jan. .- lature to-day. Hon. Mat W. Vfv'i& elected United States Senator for 1 . JttJt beginning March 4. 1SS9. The 1X8 . is largely Democratic on joint bauo-Then-ton. N. J.. Jan--leite twenty-live vears of age. lie

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commit resulted m a tic vote 43 to43-ana tho Speaker voted in the aflirmative, re-

commiiiiug me report, i ue motion tn

several 6irong wasnmirn men voted but it is claimed their ballots Trill be clt for him to-morrow. This claim is based

uie iuii ucuci mui uio iu vesriirarinn i

R. McPhcrson, who was United States Senator, is the ! i l from New Jersey to wcnwatui rfi ho remains throuch his cemm lte have been in the fruited Mc$ Vorkii eighteen years. He is !.re irrfT v2x

3ix years old.