Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1SS9.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Uaion Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O Riggs House and Ehbltt House. Telephone Call. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 Reform is necessary. Tex notorious Dr. Harrison got away just in time. It is dangerous for a county clerk to fool with a trust fund. The law does not provide for counties engaging in the poultry business. Marion county has a first mortgago lien on a largo amount of poultry. t Tnz relations between Messrs. Gapcn and Sullivan seem to be somewhat complicated. If it should turn warm before the county realizes on its poultry and eggs, somebody would suffer. A chattel mortgage on eggs is not very good security at this season of tho year, unless they are hard-boiled. If the relations between Mr. Cleveland and some members of his Cabinet are so 6trained, why doesn't he resign? If the Sullivan failure breaks up tho Marion county and Insane Asylum rings, the people will have reason to bo thankful. It is hardly probable that Hon. Solomon Claypool will appear as counsel for the defense in the case of the State vs. Sullivan. As has been frequently noted, crime mores in waves. The embezzlement wave has struck Indianapolis with considerable force. An article in an Eastern paper headed "The Oyster in Politics" does not, as might bo supposed, have reference to Secretary Bayard, but to tho annual oyster war in Maryland, which is now "on." It turns out that Klein, the American newspaper man, with a German name, who has been figuring in the Samoan business, is an Englishman by birth. Ho is well educated, and had a good reputation in newspaper circles. The Democratic legislators continue to display a violent antipathy to a registry law. If there is one thing to which they are more strongly opposed than another it is a reform law of any sort that really reforms. Of course no measure of real benefit to the tax-payers could bo expected to meet the approval of the Democratic majority, and of course the committeo recommended tho indefinite postponement of the bill prohibiting the teaching of German in the public schools. TnE demagogues and small-fry statesmen from the back counties were afraid to vote to abolish German in the schools. They are the same typo of statesmen who are afraid to repeal the $100 limitation on the dram-shop license. They have not the moral courage of a louse. President Cleveland, having decided that Leon Bailey was unfit for tho position of United States district attorney, the course of Mr. Claypool in re taininghim as his deputy, and giving him charge of the business, is open to criticism from friends of the administration as well as from citizens who knew Bailey for a scalawag before the President did. It seems to be the opinion of tho treas.ury raiders in the Legislature and their local organ that one geography, or grammar, or arithmetic is as good as another, and that books compiled by mentally decrepit party hacks are in no wise inferior to the works of scientists and literary men. The law-makers might receive an access of information ontus point by interviewing the experienced teachers of the community. It is now proposed by ihe Democratic majority to give a board of public works absolute charge of the Indianapolis streets, lighting and watv contracts, and to place tho police and fire departments in charge of a metropolitan commission, the two boards to bo chosen by the Legislature, but their successors to b appointed by tho Mayor. It would fciniplify matters, and bo for tho benefit of the city, to put the Mayor in control at once, but to do this might deprive needy members of the Democratic gang of a chance at the Indianapolis treasury, and tho hungry ones must bo provided for. TnE Democratic scheme for stealing and creating offices for Democrats now embraces five commissioners for the Supreme Court, to be filled by played-out Judges; three trustees for each of the live State benevolent institutions, and a Joint president for all of tho boards; two members of a board of public works for this city and for Evansville; chiefs of ihe police and fire departments in both rities; five commissioners to ettperin-

tend tho printing and publication of

Stato school-books, and five experts to compile the books. It has also been decided to take from the Governor tho appointment of Stato Geologist, Coal-oil Inspector, Mine Inspector, and Board of Health. Tho rascals are. too modest. They should claim tho right to elect all tho executive oflicers in the State, and a new Supremo Court, composed exclusively of Democrats. When one of them was asked, yesterday, what ho thought tho people would say to their programme, ho answered, "The people bo damned." That is Indiana Democracy. THE SULLIVAN FAILURE. Tho financial embarrassments or misfortunes of a private citizen, incurred without criminal or dishonest practices, are alway3 to bo regretted, and hardly a proper matter of newspaper comment. Where tho law is violated or public interests imperiled, the case is different. The failure of Mr. John E. Sullivan presents some features in which' the public is directly interested. Asa political manager, long time head of a political ring, purveyor and contractor for tho Insane Hospital, jointly indicted with Coy and Bernhamer for tho tally-sheet forgeries, and clerk of Marion county, tho public has some interest in his affairs. Whilo we do not exult over Mr. Sullivan's private misfortunes, we cannot refrain from saying that his failure has some bad features in connection with public affairs. Whether all or tho worst is known, wo cannot say, but the facts already revealed show a very rotten condition of affairs in tho court-house. Mr. Sullivan has had both hands in tho county treasury, and has had tho freo uso of the people's money in his private business. How much of It has gono to promoting Democratic "good schemes,9' including the defense of Coy, Bernhamer and Sullivan in the courts, will probably never bo known. As Dr. Harrison said when he loaned Sullivan money out of the Insane Hospital contingent fund, "tho boys are hard pressed." It appears that Loftin's predecessor loaned Sullivan about $15,000, and Loftin has loaned him $6,000 more out of tho county treasury. To cover this indebtedness Loftin holds mortgages on real estate and dressed poultry to the amount of $15,000. How much these assets will realize remains to bo seen. No doubt fuller investigation will disclose other bad features. A DISCUSSION of the diplomatic appropriation bill in the Senato has led to tho usual talk about abolishing the whole diplomatic system, etc. Senator Plumb said our foreign representatives 'in recent years had "not supported the dignity and simplicity, of American citizens. They had been idlers and loungers, and wall flowers at receptions." Ho favored abolishing tho whole foreign service. This is rather reckless talk. Senator Plumb's arguments do not go so much against tho system as against tho kind of persons sent abroad. Probably we could get along without any foreign representatives, but international usago requires them, and if wo expect to keep our place among the nations, and move in good socio ty, as it were, wo must observe civilized usages. If it is worth while for other governments to send ministers to Washington it is equally so for us to send ministers abroad. As remarked before, tho objection is not so much to the system as to its representatives. The fact that unlit and unworthy men have been sent abroad is rather an argument against our form of government and our mode of selecting representatives, than against the diplomatic system. It is an argument for a better system of appointments, and a higher standard of qualifications, rather than for abolishing the service. It is not at all likely that we shall have war with Germany. The real basis of good feeling between the two governments is strong, and that between tho people is stronger still. No doubt the Samoan matter cun and will be settled without war. But if events should unfortunately or unexpectedly take that turn tho United States would havo powerful allies. Bismarck's intimation in the Reichstag that Germany and England wero acting in concert does not count for much. England would not side with Germany in a war against the United States. If sho did she would lose Canada in no time. No party or Ministry in England would dare to incur war with tho United States to further Bismarck's colonial policy. England would remain neutral. France and Russia would bo allies of the United States, and while we were licking Germany on tho ocean and chasing her ships and commerce off the seas, France and Russia would give her all sho could attend to on land. Such speculations are fanciful, but in the improbable event of war that is about the way it would shape up. Rhode Island has a prohibitory law, and under it the city of Providenco has 520 places in which liquor is openly sold. A 6tato of things like this is its own commentary on the folly of passing a law which tho sentiment of tho community cannot enforce; but tho lesson is not heeded, and the prohibition-or-nothing people in other States go on obstinately trying to substitute their own impracticable plans for restrictive laws already in force or hindering the passage of measures that are more efficient in limiting the sale of whisky than prohibition, which is too often another name for free whisky. The Providence case is a rather more striking instance of the failure of the law than another that has been noted, and should at -least make some impression on the prohibition mind. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Jcdob Hockwood Hoar, who is the legal champion of iron-clad orthodoxy In the famous Andover case, is a Unitarian. The Iter. Edward Everett Hale wants the government to pension all school-teachers who have faithfully served for fifty consecutive years. Prof. William D. Klub, superintendent of the MIssouil Deaf and Dumb Institution, who has just resigned, has tilled that position fcr thirty-seven years. The Inventor of porcelain, Johann Friedrich Bottler, Is to have a monument at Meisen, in Baxony. The model has Just been completed by 1 1 err Emmerich Andresen. Tho cost 1$ estimated at 500. Harriet Beechee Stowe, remarks the Epoch, has been an Industrious writer, and she has lived inexpensively always, yet she has never earned more than $2,300 any year of Lcr life, and Lcr

yearly Income from her books Is now much less

than !s:,ooo. iier husband leit ner some means, and she has saved a part of her earnings. Tiik discovery has Just been made that Daniel Boone was ouce a member of tho Virginia Leg. islaturo. His manv biographers never suspected it, and it was reserved for a newspaper man to bring it to UehL Princess Maetjia ExGLETicnorr. a member of the Russian nobility, is lecturing In New York on the ways of her countrymen, and Is not only in the lecture field chiefly ior"whattbere is in it ' for her, but frankly says so. The present Sultan is one of the most enthusiastic chess amateurs in Europe. lie will play the fame for hours without intermission, and will not allow any matter of state to Interfere with tho problem in which at the time he is engaged. The ravages of time upon Mr. Jay Gould have recently become visible in his face and frame, and In his fast whitening beard. He was always a man of gravity, but that trait has become more marked within the past year than ever before. Last year tho Tope received from "Peter's rence" $1,500,000; from interest on capital invented abroad, $300,000, and from other sources alout $100.000 besides $100,000 in cash jubilee gifts. His total disbursements aggregated about $1,700,000. Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania.who is spending the winter In Beaufort county Fouth Carolina, is so delighted with the climate and the hunting and fishing that he is paid to bo negotiating for the purel-a.se of a sea island plantation for a winter home. Over one hundred and 6ixty women matriculated at a Philadelphia woman's medical college last year. They represented nearly every nation on the earth, some being from China and others from Australia, while there were two or more from every fctato in tho Union. Jonx Stewart Kennedy, of New York, who has purchased tho whole of his family estates from Sir Douglas Stuart, U a Fcotchman who made his fortune in America. The estate numbers 33,500 acres, including some of the best grouse moors in the Highlands. Or tho four women who received the Crimean medal from Queen Victoria, one, Mrs. Newton, of Toronto, is alive. She was a nurse all through tho Crimean war, and was shot through the knee in a trench before the Bedan. The Queen herself pinned the medal on her breast. Tub working-women of Mexico have been celebrating tho anniversary of tho foundation of their mutual benefit association by a series of concerts. Whenever any special phase of sentiment or enthusiasm is umicrmost in the Mexican heart it seems to need either music or flower displays to express itself. William D. How ells, the novelist, will be in New York for the remainder of tho winter season. The family have taken a flat, and the short, stout figure of the author, with its dark, beardless face, slumbrous-looking eyes and the large round head that rolls a little on a short, thick neck, is frequently seen In places where literary people congregate. Six years havo passed since Gambetta died. Nothing, it is said, has been altered in his bedchamber. Tho bed on whi ch he battled with tho destroyer is strewn with flowers laid on It by loving hands, and on the walls still hang tho withered wreaths, thenumber of which increases every year. Hi old friends are fond of dwelling on his cheerful temper, his joyous laugh, his character, so free from bitterness and rancor. IIexiiy Villard used to be as merry as a cricket vhen he was a newspaper scribbler. lie grew grs ve as an owl when he was president of the Northern raciflc railroad. lie became mum as an oyster when fortune turned her back on him. Now, when he again sees the sunshine, he has undergono another change and Is impassive as a Turk. But he says that his happiest days since ho left the Alps were those in which he made a beat as a reporter. Ix a few months the King of Spain will cele" brato his third birthday in a style befitting his exalted babyhood. The nonsense that is written about this royal toddler Is astonishing. It is stated as a remarkable fact that bis manner is simple and natural, and that he appears to have no nign opinion or nimseir and his heritage. It is even remarked that he says "Ah goo'7 with almost n plebeian intonation, and that be shows a most democratic fondness for lump-sugar. Count Herbert Bismarck is obtaining an nncnvlable reputation for boorishness. At the recent imperial banquet in Vienna, it is said, he ate so gluttonously that he had no time for conversation with his neighbor, tho Prince of Ilohenlohe. At Pe8th, while visiting a Hunsrarian club, he stirred up much ill-feeling by tactless remarks regarding Austrian politics. Ho is ambitious to be considered "achip'of the old block," but he has more of his father's brusqueness than of his ability. . . M. JosEni Martin, the French explorer, is to leave 6t. Petersburg for Pekin. Thence he will proceed along the Chinese waU, traversing the high tablelands in order to arrive at the eastern part of Thibet, to the south of Lake Koko Nor, and to penetrate, if possible, to Lhassa. ne will then pass through Yunnan and Annan. An eventual junction with the expedition of Colonel Pevtzotf, the probable successor of General Prjevalsky, Is supposed to bo the aim of M. Martin's exploration, which is said to be exclusively scientific. COMMENT AND OPINION. . - ! To carry the theory of cheap transportation to a point which deprives populations from transportation altogether is the height of unwisdom. There is a happy mean that must be found before the railroad problem is solved for tho West. Omaha Republican. , ' Boulanqer is a soldier of fortune. Ho has everything to win and precious little to lose. The use he shall make of his Increased power may be good it is more than likely to be bad. Such men as he are not usually depositories of, the best interests of republics. Buffalo Express. Tiierc should be required of imigrants such a property qualification as will cut olf tho stream of cheap laborers coming here to impoverish our workingmcn, and if we mistake not the tendencies of tho times, such a requirement will be made before very many years. Los Angeles txpress. -When Kniffhts of Labor attempt to brintr em ployers to their terms by any kind of forcible or violent interference with men who nave taken the places they have left, they should bo treated precisely like any other riotous persons and madtt to understand verv ouioklv tho nsn and the power of an organized police. New York Times. We want no war, especially not with Germany. In a little while we will have a President who knows what war is, and that it is not lightly to be entered into, and that it is easiest to bo avoided by being ready to meet it If it comes, and by deal ing fairlv ourselves and insisting nrmly and without bluster on fair dcalingln return. Louisville Commercial. There are rich Senators, Just as there are rich Representatives; but in the case or either house it is undoubtedly true that nine out of ten of tho statesmen who possess great fortunes have earned their money themselves by the exercise of those qualities of energy, industry and enterprise which have likewise made them prominent in politics. New lork bun. This country cannot afford to run the slightest risk with regard to the national possession of such a highway across the Isthmus of Panama. Should it be built, it might become the key to victory in a contest with foreign nations, and in any event it would be a powerful auxiliary in the possession of a country at war with the United states. Baltimore American. The Republicans wiU find that tho path of obvious duty is also tho path of self-interest. It is their duty to make every reasonable effort to reduce the revenue without delay, and they have a bill which will greatly reduce the revenue w hile not abandoning protection. It is a good thing for them to demonstrate that they are able to devise such a measure, and that on such a measure they are united. New York Tribune. A secret treaty is not secret any more than secret sessions of the Senate are secret, and wo are astonished and humiliated that Secretary Bayard, as a representative of the Democratic party, should place himself in the attitude of making a secret treaty, guch a course is undemocratic and un-American, and it is to be hoped that no other American Secretary will be placed in this attitude. Atlanta Constitution. We have been slapped by Canada, kicked off the sidewalk by Hayti, and snubbed by Germany. We take it all, and take It eo patiently and eo deliberated, that by the time our government g'-ts good and m& there wiU be nothing left to nrht over. There is souio consolation in the thought that we shall have a government of ideas, of principles, and of courage to assert its rights after the 4th of next March. Los Angeles Tribune. What the United Statc3 needs to bear in mind is this, that in dealing with foreign nations the ability to hold our own Is the surest guaranty of continued peace, and that a navy essential to the maintenance of our rank and dignity as the foremost nation on earth. War or no war, wo cannot afford to be unprepared any longer, and not a day, an hour, should be lost In setting on foot preparations for the construction of a navy which shall be superior to that of any nation on tho globe. San Francisco Chronicle. Ballot-box reform Is all right, but there Is danger of the enthuMaatio reformers getting tho business into a muddle. Laws upon th subject should be as simple as possible. The voter tdiould be required to cat an honest vote, and it is right that Lis vote should bo honestly counted. No puzzling, vexatious form should be impose! upon tho honest citizen. His privileges and duties should bo plain and easily understood. Whatever intricacies and troubles there may bo should be reserved for tho transgressors. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The MoraL Boston TleraM. When you havo a debt to pay to an old friend, don't steal the money to pay itt olf with. This seems to he the moral of tho latest half a million irregularity.

STATUS OF SAMOAN AFFAIBS

Senator Sherman Makes a Statement of Our Connection with tho Islands, He Does Not Believe in Menacing Any Tower, but Thinks the United States Ought to Exert Its Authority Over Pagopago Bay. Washington, Jan. 20. Immediately after the executive session of the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Shermau addressed that body publicly in reference to his position on the Samoan question. After describing the location, population, etc., of the Samoan islands, ho said: Tho attention of the United StaUs had been early called to these islands, and a special agent was sent there, who afterward became minister to tho King of Samoa, and who made a treaty between tho United States and Samoa. That treaty was made in 1878, and was signed by Mr. Evarts and the King. Its second article gave to the United States tho privilege of entering and nsing the harbor of Pngopago, and establishing there a coaling and naval supply station, and its fifth section provided that, in case of differences with other nations, the government of tho United States would employ its good offices in adjusting such differences. This, Mr. Sherman said, was the basis of the right of the United States to occupy and hold, and to establish in the harbor of Pagopago a station for coal and other naval supplies. Writhin a year or two afterwards, somewhat similar treaties had been mado with Ger many and Great Britain, by which thoso governments obtained like privileges in other portions of the islands. So that, Mr. Sherman said, each of these three great commercial nations secured by treaties, following each other rapidly, privileges somewhat similar in character, but in different localities each securing a coaling station and harbor. Mr. Sherman went on to speak of a further arrangement mado shortly afterwards, and which was, ho 6aid, very im portant. It had been entered into by Great Britain and the government of Samoa but the German and American governments were also included in it by which tho town and district of Apia were coiistitnted into a municipality, and were declared to be neutral territory, where caen ot tno three nations might establish their store houses, their workshops, and all other buildings necestary for carrying on their traffic in these islands. This territory of Apia was now known as the capital of tho Samoan islands, and was set aside for com mercial purposes, the government of Samoa being practically excluded from it. Tho municipal board consisted of the German, English, and American consuls. This treaty or agreement had not been submitted to the Senate, but had been signed by the English consul, and by the captain of the American ship-of-war Lackawanna. It had been, acted upon by all threo nations as in the naturo of an agreement for tho possession and occupation of that neutral territory. Mr. Sherman next referred to the treaty of the 6th of April, 1880, between Germany and Great Britain, by which a sort of delimitation was established for the jurisdiction of each government in the Polynesian group, with a disclaimer that this partition should apply to tho Samoan islands. That, ho said, was tb leeal status to-dav. for no other arrangement or agreement had ever been made in a formal way that affected, in any degree, the rights of the several parties. He did not intend to . go into a detailed history of events in bamoa. It was enough to say that there was always a sort of nuasi-war existing there between several branches of the people. It was a strange government. controlled largely by family ties, somewhat aristocratic, with contentions alwavs exist ing between the various chiefs, lie would rot dwell upon the painful features of that civil war, out it seemed to be the general opinion of all the American consular agents w ho had been sent there to examine into the nature of their government that tho neoide were totally unfit to conduct a regu lar, formal government. But that civil war had continued until finally, in 1883, by the aid of the consuls, it was settled bv an agreement that Malietoa should be King and Tamassas vice-king. Soon after that settlement, other difficulties had arisen, and a movement had been made to annex tho Samoan island to New Zeland. Malietoa "sending a humble appeal to Queen Vic toria, asking for such annexation. The German government however, bad remon- : strated in the most vigorous manner against it; insisting that it would be a violation of the treaty. Mr. Sherman finally brought tho history of events to the conference m Washington. between Mr. Bayard and tho British and German ministers, and to the sending by each of thera of an agent to the islands to obtain iurther information. He said that it was manifest that the rebellion of Tamasses had been organized by the German consul, and bv a German named Weber, who was at the head of a largo com mercial house. He mentioned the ar rival of a German lieet at the islands some time in Mav, 1880, and spoke of an in sulting letter from tho vice-admiral to Malietoa, in which he addressed him not as king, but as head chief. It was after these insults to the king, that United States Consul Greenbaum raised tho United States flag, at the request of Malietoa, over tho public building in Apia. For a time, he said, the practical effect of that action, unauthorized as it was. had been to check the action of the German local authorities. After the German fleet had sailed away, tho German and American consuls had again joined in a declaration that Tamasses never had been recognized bv either of them as a king, and that Ma lietoa was king. This action had been whollv without anthoritv. and Mr. Greenbaumfs part in it had, very properly, been disavowed by the American government. He had no more right to assert a protectorate there than the German 01J English consul had. It was while the agents ot the three conferees Mr. Bayard and the English and German ministers wereengaged in obtainin cr information that the German govern ment deposed Malietoa and set up Tamases. This was the worst feature of the case, necanse at this very time the negotiations were going on, on a sound, just and honest basis, for the restoration 01 the status quo. There were indications, he thought, that the English government was coinciding with the German policy. He was not stating the facts for tho purpose of saying who was wrong or who was right, or whether Germany was justified in tho mnrse which she had pursued. He could not say, however, that ne found in the papers any justification for Germany. Prince Bismarck, whose strong and imperial will was shown m all of his communications. asserted the eaual rights of each of these governments, but insisted, as a matter of policy, that it would be better to place the custody of the islands under the control of ono of the powersand as Germany had the largest property interests there. that it would be best to place it under Ger man control and power. As to the newspaper correspondent Klein, who had been nlavinsr knight errant there. the government of the United States was in no wav responsible for him. The state ment of the man himself, although somewhat vainglorious in style, shows that ho . . . 1 ? i 1 1 AX 1- 11.. nau notmng to uo wiin in auacn uu me German sailors. He sympathized with those who wero in rebellion against Tamasses, went along with them as a news paper man, ana possibly tooK a nana in ir, but the United States covernment was in tio sense responsible for him. He (Mr. Shennanhdidnot know whether ho was a native born or a naturalized citizen. Summing uo his lone speech. Mr. Sher man said that the first thing to be done was for tho United States to assert its nowcr in the occiiDancv and possession of the bar of Paeonaco. That ought to bo done itnmediatelv. It did not need war to protect a nation's richts. The mere asser tion of those rights, the due regard for them, the expenditure of money there, tho storing of coal there, the calling of vessels there, all of these things were assertions f nower far more influential than the protocols and diplomatic correspondence. Mr. George The amendments do not TDHtinrft warj. do thev? Mr. Sherman I do not think it necessary to menace anyone. I believe that a straightforward, manlv negotiation should be ntTvd intft between these three great iimcori. It would be a shame and n d!K!rrnee t our civilization and

Christianity if we could not agree upon some mod of government ior those islands. Whatever tho news-

Situation that would justify on the part of either natiou a breach of tho. peace until every effort is exhausted to bring about a on thArn 1C Tllll 1 1 1 II U A LA every effort is exhausted to bring abouta f rr . 1 .111 nf t IiA ronquiet ana peaceiui seiununn trovcrsv. First, we want to assert and maintain our right to a station at Pagopago. and nobody will call that right in question. Next, we ought to do what we promised to do employ our good othoes 10 settle the difficulties of this people. Therefore, I am willing to voto any sum of money to enable tho President to conduct negotiations, to make surveys of the harbors and in TAt bfttpp information in relation to those islands. I am willing to J?? JU8nnJ place it at tho discretion of Mr. jwevwaim or Mr. Harrison, and I havo no doubt that tho power thus given to send ngents there, and to send shins there, will bring about a IKIIUIU 111 liiVJ MUV.Un..' " - , prompt solution of this small controversy. In Aid of a Native Government. Washington, Jan. 20. Representative Morrow, of California, to-day introducea for reference the following joint resolution: Kesolved. That the present condition of affairs at fcamoA requires that this government snouiu aid the people of those Island.- in securing uu in dependent native government, rreo rrom im claims of territorial junsaiciion or any tuiv au )K)ver, and to the end that this purpose may op epeedllv ana enectuany accompnsueu, iue a indent of'the United States is hereby requested to insist on the restoration or afl'airs on 6ald Islands as tho same existed at the time of the convention between the representatives of the governments of Germany, Great Britain and the United States, held in the city or asnmgTon, m j uue aim o uij , lh87; that he further aid in securing a settlement of the pending dittlculties at Samoa on a satisfactory and solid foundation, and in the restoration of peace and good order under a responsible native independent government, with a court of competent jurisdiction to determine laud titles and such other claims and controver sies of foreign residents as may be property cognizable by such a court, and that he take such further steps as may be necessary to protect the rights of this government and its citizens in said Islands. Mr. Hayard Says There Is No Casus Belli. Baltimore, Jan. 29. In a special dis patch to the Sun from Washington, a num ber of obscure and doubtful points in the Samoan complications are explained by statements from Secretary Bayard. Mr. Bayard says that Germany has given this country no casus belli, that our flag has not been insulted or American property destroyed, and that the whole question is, shall this country assert, the independence of Samoa by force of arms, if need be, against German aggression! As this involves the question of peace or war, the determination of which resides with Congress, the whole subject has been referred to that body, the President not leennp autnonzeu to take further 8tep3 which might precipi tate hostilities. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Two men, Anderson and Benton, were rowned in the Mississippi, near Fountain Citv. 111., on Wednesday. They were ndm S on an ice-noat wnen a sun susz 01 wim carried them into an open channel of the river. Mr. William Ilenrv Baldwin, aged tweurv-eieht, son of William H. Baldwin; sr., ot Woodward, Baldwin & Norris, a Baltimore firm, committed suicide yesterday by shooting himself at Savage, Howard county, Maryland. Mr. Wr. K. Vanderbilt's yacht Alva ar rived at Baltimore yesterday from Wilmington, Del., to take on provisions. It is reported that she will be joined hero by Mr. Vanderbilt and family and proceed on a trip to the west indias. MAm V VAAA Iff . ill 1 1 v& xa u V.UUI h K died yesterday from the effects of cocaine. A few years ago he began experimenting with the now drug and became a honeless victim, although he was a man of fine health and a physician of excellent stand ing. A telegram from Rinlev. 0..6avs that Ed ward Chancy, formerly of Cincinnati, but now representing a Golumbus, U., drug house, has been missing at that place since t nday last, lie left the hotel to sell to druggists and left his samples at Fulton's drug store. He was a man of good habits. William B. Rogers, the Pennsylvania railroad engineer who was asleep on his engine when a collision occurred, last week. near Columbia. Pa., and caused the death of conductor John C. Ryan, was yesterday arrested, charged with involuntary man slaughter. He cave bail lor a lieanntr. The fireman, who it is alleged was al60 asleep at me time, win aiso do arresxeu. Sensational Court Scene. St. Louis. Jan. 29. There was a sensa tional scene in Judge Nonnile's court to day. Ed Kelly, alias Slatterv. charged with highway robbery, and a desperate character, had just consented, through his attorney, Joseph Furlong, to accent a tenyear term in tho penitentiary for his crimes. I en years!' asked Judge aonuiie, hesitatingly, as he was about to impose that sentence on the man. Kelly, seeing what was coming, struck savagely at Fnrlone. and tho latter reeled backward, stunned by a powerful blow de livered over his left ' eye by the desperado. His mouth was "hurt, too, by tho prisoner's thumb. Mr. Furlong was picked up and taken to a wash-room to bathe his head, blood trickling from his whiskers meanwhile. The ten-years' sentence was imnosed. and the nrisoner went bark to jail, to be brought out again later to be tried tor robbing an Olive-street car-conductor, named Pat Cnllen, of all his fares and his watch. This charge would havo been passed but for his assault on Furlong. Judge Normilo made the sentence fifteen years, so it cost Kelly just five years to strike his attorney. School Children Frozen to Death. Aberdeen'. Dak.. Jan. 29. News has reached h ere that two school children per ished in tho storm Friday night, and that a third is not expected to survive the exposure. Their names were French, and the party consisted of two little bovs and an older sister, aged eighteen. The French family lives about twelve miles east of Hitchcock. When taken to school bv an older brother in the morning, the children pruuuseu u wan uniu ne came ior tnem at night. Children belonging to other families were taken home, but theso refused proffered assistance, saying they would stay in the school-house all night if their brother did not come. It appears he did start, but could not make his team face tho storm and gave it up. After waiting till dusk they started home, but lost the road and wandered in the deep snow until exhausted. W hen found in the morning the two little boys were dead. Tho girl was severely frozen and is unconscious. If she survives sho will lose the lower nortion of br 1imh and possibly one or both arms. Preparing: to Enforce Prohibition. Ft. Dodge. Ia.. Jan. 29. Tho vinlntinna of the prohibitory law in this city have causcxi oovernor Larrabee to interest himself m its enforcement. Sheriff Adams has received the following letter from tb Governor: My attention has been freonentlr open violation of the Iowa prohibitory law in your county by numerous persons residing in Ft. Dodge, and the places where this violation has occurred have been desismatwl. names a dozen places. 1 If the countv officials uo not Pee inai ine law is enforced, tho proper steps will be taken to enforce it. Wm. Larrabee, Governor. This letter is but a forernnnerof stringent methods to be adopted throughout tho Mate for the enforcement of prohibition, owing to recent agitation regarding its nonenforcement. 3Iurderer Tanto Arrested. Lansing, Mich., Jan. 29. Voting August Tanto, who attempted the triple murder at Delhi. Saturday night, was captured at 1 0 clock tins morning by Deputy Sheriff Ferguson, of Mason, and a posse, in a tamarack swamp near Okemos. about eight miles from the scene of tho tragedy. He had been sleeping in barns at night . and hiding in the swamps during the daytime since the murder. 1 ho officers say he confessed to tho shooting, and said that ho did it because the btockal family had been talking about him, He was taken to the county j ail at Mason. Cardiff and Jackson Will Fight. Minneapolis, Jan. 29.-Patsey Cardiff tp-day signed articles of agreement to light 1 eter Jackson, tho colored pugilibt of California, in April. The fight will beto a finish JJLioTfil g.lov?' ?t Mle roon of the California Athletic Club m San Francisco. The iT,1,Iiner?111 rccc S-VXX) and the loser 500. i e aKreenieut the men are prevented S?lt55,l-llg-I,artl1 uy other fight with2SiJPfS51,M,?n club -Cardiff has gone into active training, ;

ELECTION Incomplete Returns Indicate that IV, IS YirtflriniK Omr Po. 11 15 ' lCluriOUo U Ver 1 arrett, ' And that He Has Carried the Dittm-u , Majority Ranging from 500 to 1,00(Ut, as to the West Virginia SituaticaT Special to the InHanajolis Journal. Evansvillk, Ind., Jan. 29.-Th tNk . election in the First congressional dirf called by Governor Gray for the r. of filling tho unexpired term of Gorl? Hoveyin the Fiftieth Congress, T importance to tho Republicans, a.f candidates who made the race for the 1 term last November were placed in v arena to again measure swords, u Frank B. Posey, of Pike county, claims tv" election of last November, though oa face of tho returns, and by rift of a certificate issued by ex-GoverT' Gray, Judge Parrett, of Vanderburg, claim to a seat in Congress as the Re sentati ve from this district. The DemocLT could only show a majority in the district of twenty votes, and the contestant in ti case, Frank B. Posey, claims to hare eri dence sufficient to 6ecure him the 6eat ' Congress on a fair trial. All the necesaal! steps for contest have been taken. It may bo safely said, at the ti. of this writing, that Mr. Posey not only succeed General Hover not, ouiy Hueeeeu uenerai Hover i the Fiftieth Congress, but that he will .1 a II. es ic y succeed him in tho Fifty-first Congresi . the Congressman from the Hirst district 15 Indiana. . The returns of the tw.L01 precincts of this city show thai but teZl cent, of the total number of vote ra.pfr November were cast to-day for the il candidates. In November Posev tarru5 this city by 159 votes, but lost in oSSjl townships enough to reduce hismajoritviJ the county to 74. To-day, Posey's uiajoritr in the city is o. and a computation ct the returns of twenty-five precinct in this ; county shows a net Republican gain of S3 votes. Democrats concede tkl election of Posey, and tho only thing want. ing is a gathering in of official returns fa establish tho magnitude of his majority which will not bo less than 500, and mar twenrr.f votes, and sixteen at Dale, in the county. Ho also carried Posey coantrbr from 100 to 300. In November, Judge Pii rett carried that samo county by somethinz over 200 votes. Cannelton gave parrett a majority oi 87 in November and 14 to-dar Posey's gain. 73. ' Tho vote in Posey county for Congrew. man at the special election to-day was vert light, hardly 50 per cent. In Black town, ship, in which Mt. Vernon is located, firs out of six precincts give Posey 255 niajoritr against 18(5 in November. The precincts U hear from will probably pive him a sssaU majority. Smith township gives Parrett 63 majority, against 99 in November. Presort indications are that Posey has carried th county. The weather was verv disagreeable, which perhaps caused the falling off ia the vote. The' TTest Virginia Dead-Lock. Special to the Iudiasapolla Journal. Charleston, Jan 29. General GofTi return notice was served on Judge Flenitj in the governorship contest to-night It specifies over two thousand illegal vofri cast for the Democratic candidate, ad claims that the true vote will show Golf plurality is 2,5S7. It also specifies numer-. ous cases of intimidation at the polls. In joint session to-day the vote on United States Senator was: Golf, 40; Kenna,SP; Barbco, Grcenbackcr, 3; ex-Govcmor Jackson, 2; ex-Senator Summerville and Mr. Livelj 1 each. Number of votes cast, 86; necessary to choice, 44. It was thought that all Democrats would vote for Kenca to-day v as the caucus nominated him last night, but the vote shows that Vanpelt Flourney, Dorr and Merrill, Democrats, did not stay with the decision of the caucus. It is believed that Mr. Kenna will be elected to-morrow without doubt. The Recount in the Fifth California District. San Francisco, Jan. 29. A recount of the voto cast for Congressman in the Fifth district at the recent election has been ia progress here for several weeks, and is al most completed. According to official re turns, Clunie, Democrat, had a majority over Phelps, Republican, of 5L The Fifth district comprises a portion of San Francisco and three outlying counties. The recount is confined to city precincts, but Clunie has reserved the right to have the vote in the county precincts recounted if lie so desires. Sixty-seven city precincts, out of a total of eighty, have been recounted so far, and Phelps has made a net gain of 88. lie inquires but 14 more vote to overcome ClunieTs maj ority. Senator-Fleet Washburn Critically I1L . Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 29. Senatorelect W. D. Washburn, the millioiiair miller, is reported critically ilL Immediately after the caucus that nominated him he had to take to his bed, and to-day it became known, through an intimate friend of tho family, that at a consultation of physicians, this morning, his condition was pronounced dangerous and his recovery extremely doubtful. The reception winch was to have been tendered him at the W est Hotel has been indefinitely postponed. Balloting In Arkansas. Little Rock, Jan. 29. Both houses of ths General Assembly at noon balloted for United States Senator to succeed James H. Ber rv. The voto in the Senate stood: James. II. Berry, 29: Powell Clayton, 2; ThomM Fletcher, 1. In the House: James H. Berry, 74: Powell Clayton, 12; Isom P. Lanier, 3; E. W. Rector. 1. Widow and Children in Distress. St. Louis. Jan. 29. Mrs. Anna Bas. widow with three small children, slept ia week for four ninhts on the ground in tns rear of a tumbledown tenement which m had formerly occupied. The rent was onij S5, and failing to pay this she was t victed last Tnesdav. Her possessions consisted 01 a 6tove, some bed clothing and kltaP5 utensils. These were tossed out in the Df yard. She placed her children uudertw clothes, and went about the streets apply; ing for work. Repeated refusals renderea her almost insane, and all she could do wa to beg a morsel of food for the children. Thev slept in the open air from Tnesajy until Sunday night. Saturday night tn temperature fell to five degrees above zero, and at 3 o'clock in the moraine & P1,cr. man stumbled on the family, huddled up in the bed-clothes with the snow beatin down upon them. They were taken caij. of by the police, and a fund is being raia for hem. Defeated Candidates Lodged In JJl . Charleston, S. C, Jan. 29. W. J. jHmr per. the regular Republican candidate 1 , robate judge for Beaufort county m jej ate election, was defeated bythecoWreo. Republican candidate on the fusion tiCKj; He and other defeated condidatescoiitestcu the election and carried the case bjtoro . Judge Aldrich, who decided against tha. and advised them to surrender the recwu. of their offices to the successful fn?0 AVhipperand his confederates remu obey tho order, and were comraittea u contempt. Whipper and Granan.candidate for coroner, have been ,flSrte jail. The other defeated candidates na avoided the service commitment. . defiantly says he will stay, in jail "V4Vt case has been determined by the ni- . court. Meantime the county clainianis Beaufort are in trouble because thjyjj not get their money until the Dl11 ar. settled and the records have been w rendered to the proper custodian. Hating at New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 29.-The y. clear and cool and the track heay to J First Race-Oue-half mile. . Jond. in hftv-niuo seconds; Electricity co Gabe C. third. . A Second Race Three-fourths pi Hawleywonin 1:231-2; Wild Boyecc Kensington third. .T- cThird Race Five-eighths of a .rr gardless won in 1:121-2; Lord Gros second, Florine third. . cf Fourth Race Fifteen-sixteenths mile. Doubt won in 1:05 1-2; Moorua ec Mirth third.

FIBST DISTRICT

reach i,uou. leiegramsto-ni gut from Rock port, Spencer county, say Posey lucrea"

his majority of last November