Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, MARCH 4, 18S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. HEATH, Correspondent. MTW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beckman And Nmmu Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILT. One year, without Snnday f 12.00 Dne year, with Panday Fix months, wit hoat Sunday cno htx months, with Sunday 7.00 Three month, without Sunday 3.oo Three men ch, with Sunday....... 3--V) fme month, without Sunday..... loo &ne month, with Sonclay WZEKLT. rex year...... - .....fl.oo Reduced Rites to Clubs, 8nbarrihe with any of our numerous agents, or end subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIA.NAPOLIS, 1ST). THE IN D IAN A PO LJS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: lyONDON American Exchange In Europe, 440 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW TOBK Oiley House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 2735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI--. P. Hawley & Co, 1M Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot And Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Rlggs House and Efcbitt House. Telephone Calls. Bmsness Office 228 1 Editorial Rooms. 242 Ttiu is "Indiana day" at tho National Capital From and after to-day, it is President Harrison. Governor Hovet is pounding the life out of Democratic caucus legislation. Wind and weather permitting, thero will be a great time in Washington today. Indiana is at the front to-day, and the man from Indianapolis "will be recognised.After 12 o'clock to-day it will bo President Harrison and ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland fought to the last to maintain the surplus. That was the real motive "for his veto of tlic direct-tax bill. If Washington is not favored with good weather to-day, the chief of the .Weather Bureau will bo tho best abused man in the country. In adopting their plan of campaign, the Democrats in the Legislature would do well to remember that Governor Hovey is a fighter from wayback. A Governor with a backbone is an official the Democratic majority was not prepared for. Tho astonished members are now considering what is to bo dono fcbout it, , Under the circumstances, tho least tho British government could do was to order that the body of Piggott bo given a decent burial. To have neglected this duty to its late partner in crime would bo simply indecent, Piggott evidently recognized the fact that he was to be made the scapegoat for the sins of tho London Times and ths British government in the persecution of Parnell, and decided that death was preferable to an appearance in that role. TnE pnglish government evidently wants to talk about something else than the Times-Parnell-Piggott affair. For some time to come the public may look for a great deal of information about Afghanistan through the London news bureaus. Woman-suffrage bills were defeated, last week, in Maine and Idaho. Somehow the cause does not seem to be making any practical progress, although its advocates persistently term it a "movement," and even wax eloquent over the promising prospects. As a closing act of his administration, President Cleveland vetoed tho directtax bill; but how does it happen that ho did not round up with a few pension vetoes! It is not too late yet, however. Thero is time enough left for several performances of his favorito act. When President Cleveland vetoed tho direct-tax bill, did he clearly understand that he was depriving Indiana of $700,000, or more, which tho fingers of his Democraticbrethren of this State are itching to handle! . It will bo hard for tho hungry horde to forgive him for this. The wretched Piggott had betrayed his former iriends and had victimized tho late associates who were willing to profit by his villainy. Without a friend on earth, or a hopo for tho future, ho went in reckless desperation from this life to the next. It was a fit ending to nn ignominious career. Mr. Cleveland's veto of tho 'directtax bill will deprive Indiana of about $700,000 which would have been refunded by the law. In the present condition of tho State's finances this would come in very handy. The Senate passed tho bill over tho President's veto, br.t there is no probability of tho Houso doing so. A meeting has been called by a number of representative men of New York city for tho purpose of discussing plans "for introducing into New York tjio study of; history, and especially American history." It is interesting and encouraging to note the progress of intelligence and tho American idea in this benighted and semi-foreign region. If the Democratic majority in the Legislature can deprive tho Governor of the appointing power in the matter of selecting judges, etc., it ought to bo an easy thing to authorize Niblack and Green Smith to call an extra session, and thus enable the legislators and thoir fifty-eight door-keepers to draw pay until tho middle of April. !

Sir Joiin Lubbock, in his work on tho "Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of Animals," states that thero is one genus in tho crab family, the genus Mysis, rhicji possesses two ears in its tail.

Tho Indiana Democracy belong to, tho same family. The revolutionary majority in the present Legislature hears not tho storm that fronts it, and listens only to tho clamor of tho daughters of the horse-leech crying, "Give, give." It hears with its tail only.

PRESIDENT HABEISOS AHD HIS CABINET. Twenty-eight years ago to-day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated first Republican President. At that time Benjamin Harrison was a young lawyer in this city, already recognized, indeed, as a ycung man of very high qualities and great promise, but with his professional reputation yet to make. No doubt ho was ono of those who called on Mr. Lincoln during his brief stay hero on his way to Washington, and who listened to the speech of tho President-elect, so weighty and so carefully weighed. It is not likely the young lawyer had any premonition then that he might one day bo Lincoln's successor, and tho original Harrison man had not yet appeared to predict the event. To-day ho succeeds to the same high office so nobly filled by the first and greatest of Republican Presidents. The inauguration of General Harrison as President will bo tho culmination of . a steadily progressive career and ono in which every promotion has been the reward of merit. It will be the culmination because higher honor can no American citizen have; yet it can add nothing to the intrinsic merit of one who is worthy of it. The honor comes to General Harrison as tho natural result of natural causes of whichis uniform devotion to duty and the 'spotless purity of his life and character were as prominent as his rare mental endowments. Without these no other combination of circumstances could have brought about his elevation to the Presidency. In this regard his election is as much an honor to the American people as to him, for it shows that in choice of a President they gave due weight to personal qualities and Christian character. As President of tho United States General Harrison belongs to all the people, but his neighbors, and friends, and citizens of Indiana generally will still regard him as in a peculiar sense their President, and will watch his course with deepest interest. It is fortunate for them and for the State that the first President it has furnished should bo so admirably endowed and equipped to serve tho country well, and reflect honor on tho State. Tho natural solicitude of Indianians for the success of his administration will e accompanied by absolute confidence in his ability to cope with any situation, and in the perfect purity and patriotism of all his motives. After tho inauguration ceremonies President Harrison's first official act will bo tho nomination of his Cabinet, the men who will bo placed at the head of the several great departments of the government. Presuming that the gentlemen named in the current dispatches are to constitute his official advisers, the country is to bo congratulated upon the wisdom of his selections. Mr. Blaine has long been recognized as the favorite leader of tho Republican party. His great experience in public affairs and his eminent abilities make him the fitting head of tho Department of State. Mr. Windom has been for twenty-five years connected with national affairs; as Representative in Congress, Senator and Secretary of the Treasury he has proven himself worthy of the confidence of the people and thoroughly qualified to discharge the duties of tho position to which he is to be again called. Governor Proctor is a noble man, lawyer, soldier, Governor. Tho country could not produce a manbetter fitted for Secretary of War. Messrs. Tracy and Noblo, although not so well known to the country generally, are eminent in their profession, the law, They, too, wore soldiers, and served throughout the war with honor and distinction. As Postmaster-general, Mr. Wanamaker will take to that great business department those business qualities and habits, and that energetic management that have inado his name known throughout tho entire country, and that will restore the postal service to that state of efficiency and promptness it had before tho advent of tho Democratio mismanagement. The appointment of W. H. II. Miller, of this State, as Attorney-general is eminently wiso and proper. He is a good lawyer, the peer of any man in his profession, an able and safe counselor, qualified by natural ability, learning, and good judgment for the position. As tho law partner and close personal friend of General Harrison for many years, it is but natural that he should be selected. In Mr. Miller, General Harrison has assured the service, the advice, and counsel of ono whose fidelity ho has tested, and whose disinterested friendship has been proven by years of intimate association and fellowship. The appointment of Mr. Miller will meet the approval of the Republicans of Indiana. THE GOVERNOR'S VETOES. io recent veto messages of Governor Hovey form a series of very interesting and able state papers. They are all on the same line, and lead, by strict logic, to the position announced by tho Governor in the last one, as follows: I shall regard no one as a State officer who cannot show a commission under the following section of our Constitution: Section Cf Article 15: "All commissions shall issue in the name of the State, shall bo signed by the Governor, sealed by the State seal and attested by the Secretary of State." There is no mistaking tho meaning of this nor the Governor's position. Ho has assumed it deliberately, and will hold it firmly until the question is settled by the Supreme Court. To say that ho believes it will be decided in accordance with his views of the Constitution and law is simply to say that he believes he, is right. Many of tho best lawyers in tho State are of the same opinion, and all admit that tho Governor has presented his views and the arguments in support of them very strongly. The issuo is one of constitutional law. Tho Governor holds that the Legislature has no authority under the Constitution to appoint or elect incumbents of offices

which it creates, and that all 6uch officers must be either elected by tho people or appointed by the Governor, and in any event commissioned by him.. Ho declines to commission any officer elected by the Legislature to an office of its own creation. Tho question thus raised is a very important one, involving the constitutional prerogatives and functions of the co-ordinate branches of tho government. The fact that the Legislature has for many years been in the habit of electing officers to statutory offices, and that the practice has been recognized and sanctioned by both parties, proves nothing so far as tho question of its constitutionality is concerned. The question has never been raised before, but being raised, it should be thoroughly reviewed and definitely settled. If tho exercise of executive and appointing powers by tho Legislature is wrong, as the Governor believes, it is a dangerous departure from constitutional methods, and tho sooner wo get back on constitutional ground the better. It is a question of principle, not politics, and the decision of the Supreme Court, when made, will bo binding on all departments of the government and all political parties.

A DISGRACEFUL SITUATION. In ten days moro the term of tho Legislature will expire by constitutional limitation. The session began on tho 10th of January and will close on the 11th of March. Up to tho present time not a single appropriation bill has been passed and no steps whatever havo been taken towards improving the State finances, which are in a very embarrassed and critical condition. Governor Gray and Governor Hovey both made important recommendations to the Legislature on this subject. The former called attention to the fact that tho State was; pa ring $337,801 a year in interest, abouonfef ourth of its entire revenue, and he. recommended legislation looking to .large, reduction of this item. Ho also rjeconimended a tax of two cents on tho $100 to constitute a public debt sinking fund, tor be applied in payment of tho prihcipiiU oi the State debt, which is now $$,770j-.; G08. These recommendations wero madV on the first day of tho s'essiou. Moro than a week ago Governor ! Hovey .' sent a message to the Legislature, in which, after carefully reviewing tho financial condition of the State, he stated, that, in order to meet current expenses and impending obligations, it would bo : necessary to mako a loan of ntft less than $2,200,000. No attention has been paid to these important recommendations of Governors Gray and Hovey. Nearly tho whole time of the Legislature has been spent in political legislation to mako places for Democrats. Aj very small part of the time that has been devoted to any ono of theso partisan measures would have sufficed for the passage of tho important financial measures so imperatively demanded, but nothing has been done. Mr. Willard, chairman of tho ways and means committee, whoso duty it w as to havo prepared and introduced these measures, has been ono of tho ; foremost in putting through" caift partisan measures and unconstitutional bills to vest executive and appointing powers in tho Legislature. Instead of : attempting to economize, as tho insufficient revenue and depleted treasury of the State should havo suggested, the? majority have gone on creating offices,'' increasing salaries and incurring um: necessary expenses recklessly, as if there were a surplus in the treasury. And now they are scheming to force tho Governor to call an extra session, which l(e positively declares he will not do. It'is pro-. posed to try and force him to do so by repeating the act which makes tho last previous appropriation for the" Stdte institutions continuing. This apt wW' intended to cover tho case of a LegishW1 tnre failing to pass the appropriation bills, and has been found very usofulje! Tho Democrats now propose toreeal it, so that when tho present term! expires, without the appropriation bills being passed, tho Governorwill bo compelled to ctill an' extra cession for that piirpose The majority want to draw thftir ptr diem for another forty days, andj.th want longer time to fix up good sonemes The situation is disgraceful, bue'nii-' nently characteristic of tho n'tlihna Democracy. The responsibility vpll bo wholly theirs if the Legislature adjourns without passing tho appropriation bills. They cannot unload any part J)t jitoii the Governor. He has declared positively that he will not call an extrh session, and ho will not be driven $q do it. If the majority think they can force him to they will discover their mistake.1 , The Democratic members of tho Legislature know, if they have ever read it, that tho Constitution provides that no session of the General Assembly shall extend beyond the term of sixty-ono days, and that within that period they aro expected and required to pass tho appropriation bills and to provide the ways and means of carrying on tho State government. They have no right to expect that the Governor will call an extra session, nor have they any right to create an emergency requiring one. They have frittered away moro than fifty days of the timo allotted them in discussing and passing partisan measures. They havo neglected to do the things they should have done, and if they fail to provide for the absolute needs of the State government and benevolent institutions tho responsibility is upon them. They havo a clear working majority in both houses, tho Republican members are willing and ready to vote for all suspensions of tho rules and pass the necessary laws, and in tho iemaining days of the session thero is j'et time to enact tho needed legislation. If the Dcinocnttic majorities fail to do bo, upon them must rest tho blame, the suffering and the disgrace to the State that will follow. So far as' ono may judge from this distance, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland's treatment of General and Mrs. Harrison has been exceedingly polite and appropriate. When asked whether the Union jacks and tho ensigns of tho navy would have four new stars added in recognition of the four new States of tho Urion, Captain Ramsay, commandant of the Brooklyn

navy-yard, said: "The flags of tho navy will not bo changed to represent the four new States by stars until the final ratification of the act of Congress is made. It is not likely that new flags will bo made, but the four stars will he added to tho Union Jack and the blue field of the ensign."

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THLSGS. Washington peoplo aro earnestly taking hold of tho scheme for a monumental statu of W. W. Corcoran. Paris decrees that tho white carnation is the buttonhole liower formed under thirty. Those beyond that ago inns, wear a gardenia. A strong bond of friendship has been formed between Mrs. Cleveland and Miss Mildred Lee, daughter of tho famous rebel general. Ghn. Harry Baxkhead, a graduate of West Point, and the first commander who employed Buffalo Bill as a scout, is dying, at his liomo on Bergen avenue, Jersey City. He is sixty-five years old. Thomas Tur-PER, in 1G24, cleared and tilled a farm near Sagamcre, Cape Cod. Tho Tupper family aro still cultivating tho same .farm, it having been handed down from lather to son for six generations, but several shotguns have been worn out in planting corn. Dr. Ferguson, M. P., Niagara, will ask tho Canadian Federal Parliament, in a few days, for a large appropriation for a monument to mark tho last resting-place of tho victims of the battle of LundyV Lane, tho old battle-ground where tho British and American troops, during the war of 1812, are supposed to have fought a drawn battle. A very unpleasant surprise greeted Baron von Plessen, the German Consulgeneral at Pesth, on his arrival at Vienna, wherehehadgoneto celebrate the birthday of William II at tho German embassy. "When his boxes were unpacked, all his orders were missing After a long search they were discovered in the shop of a Vienna jeweler, to whom thoy had been sold by a thief. Rev. Dr. Jonx Hall, of New York, has hanging in his dining-room an oil painting of a Rocky mountain scene, with a deer conspicuously in tho foreground. Tho bainting was made by Albert Bierstadr, who once heard Dr. Hall preach from tho text, "As the hart panteth," etc. "You tainted in words tho picture, so to you it elongs," wrote Mr. Bierstadt, in making the presentation. i The Jewish community in London -will, says tho Jewish Chronicle, soon receive a rare guest in the person of a lady bachelor of arts, of the Bombay University, Miss Miriam Samuels. She is the daughter of a Persian merchant settled m Bombay, and has obtained her position at the university solely through private instruction. Misa Samuels intends to study modicino in London, with tho view of practicing as a doctor in India. Rarely has a woman changed her title 6p often, with only ono marriage, as tho wife of the former chairman of the London t Board of Works. She has been in turn: Miss Pennant, the Hon. Miss Pennant iwhen her father was mad Lord Penrhyn), jady James Hogg (when she became the , consort of Sir James Hogg). Lady M'GarelHogg (when her husband assumed that pre- ' nomcn on receipt of a fortune), and finallv i.Lady Magheramorne. r 'c Gladstone was invited by a Western editor to contribute an article on "Washington." Tho English statesman declined iu the following words, written on a postal :card: "I am much honored by your letter. But I cannot act upon it. Washington is a n6ble subject. I studied him forty years ago with lovo and admiration. But it is .Uot in my power now to renew the study, fc I should not liko to profane tho theme by thin & slovenly work." : M. Paul dk Cassagnac, the well-known Bonapartist journalist, is the most skillful duelists, and, knowing that ho can, as a .rule, "pink" his man, he has all tho courage of his convictions. Ono of his good traits of character is that ho rarely allows political animosities to interfere with the amenities of private life. Thus he and Henri jpochefort, of the Intransigeant, aro on the friendliest terms, although they do not Uparo each other in their respective journals. Prince Dhuleep Singh, son of the redoubtable but deposed Maharajah of Punjaub, Dhuleep Singh, is visiting New York. 'The young man's blood is of tho best, but the rule of their ancient fatnilv is over, and v Ion? with his brother he is an anglicized -Indian in tho English armv in Inuia. To 'his father was left among the rarest jewels ;?n inuia me iamoui ivon-i-noor uianiona, young Prince is accompanied by two English officers. In London thev call the .youth "Prince Astrachan," from tho style oi nia coat. Whatever may bo tho truth concerning r the present condition of tho health of the J Empresa of Russia, there can be no doubt , about the narrowness of her escape from death in the recent collision at Borki. The jacket which the were at that time was sent to Paris recently in order that it might be duplicated. The correspondent of the ; London Times writes: "I have been shown this garment, tne buttons of which are crushed by the collision, while on the left side there is a hole as large as the hand. This shows the violence of the shock, and it is diilicult to conceive how tho Empress escaped." Mrs. Ye Sang Jay and Mrs. Kong Sin He, tho ladies of tho Korean legation at Washington, have made a good impression upon society at the capital. The former is twenty-four years old, and tho latter nineteen. 1 hey aro pretty, petite, and do not look as though they had seen more than sixteen summers. They are not over four feet six inches in height. Thoy have picked up about twenty phraees of Engbsh,and their pronounciation of our language is charmingly peculiar. They are studying hard and hope to master our vernacular in a short time. Their facet are pale brown in color, their hair is jet black, and their features are delicate and pleasing. They dress becomingly. On the coldest day of this winter exSecretary Hugh McCulloch was observed by a Washington Post reporter making calls on foot and without an overcoat. He said: "At eighty years of age I do not need any extra wraps, and I have never worn an overcoat. I cannot se that I am not in as food health as ever. 1 can remember when used to ride horseback between Fort Way no and Indianapolis, and 1 could ride all day when the mercury was below zero without, having to get down, as others did, to warm my feet. I can remember when I thought a man old at fifty. Afterward I moved up tho limit to sixty. Then I con among your old men." COMMENT ASP OPINION. Let us have one country, one President, for tho present at least, with one policy for all Americans, North and South, black or white. Chicago Times. Leaving out the moral and mental aspects of the question, it needs no argument but experience to prove that convict idleness means a very heavy annual burden for the shoulders of the tax-payers. New York Tribune. As long as the Democratic party is controlled by its Southern wing, and therefore has to be ruled by Southern leaders, so long will it meet with public distrust and disiavor in all ita efforts to reform tho tarill'. Iowa State Rcgikter. Some of these line daye some imperial humbug will wake up to rind that he has misconstrued the patience of the United States and the slowness to anger of its peo1le. There are elements in this Samoa u usiness that may Jead to a considerable uupleasantness. Nebraska State Journal. The excellence to which the service was brought under successive Republican administrations was due to the continuance of competent men in the positionsfor which experience had qualified them. The public really was not aware what an admirable institution had been well nigh perfected

cluded that a really old man was seventy. Sometime afterward I changed my ideas about being old at eighty. 2ow I wonder

that anybody can consider eighty old. I don't feel any older in thought and spirit than I did when I was fortv. No, you mustn't look among us boys of eishtv for

until Democratic changes called attention to it by seriously impairing its former efiiciency. Chica go Tribune. The fact that the percentage of imports and exports transported in American vessels has decreased in thirty years to tho alarming extent of from 70 per cent, to 13 per cent, ought to be an inducement for a consideration of the ship-building industry with a view to finding and applying a remedy, Boston Advertiser. The civil-service law recognizes incompetency first of all as a ground of discharge, and we apprehend that no fear of the hue and cry which would follow tho discharge of Democratic mail clerks will prevent the coming administration from reorganizing tho railway mail service, and reinstating men who Rhouhl never have been removed. Kansas City Journal. Public office is a public trust, and the only way to practically maintain this principle is to exile from public iifo the men who are detected in violating the obligations of their stewardship. They should be black-listed and the record of their treachery preserved for future uso in the event of their again seeking political honors. Brooklyn Eagle. Samoa is not worth fihting about, and Germany knows it as well as we do. Bismarck would doubtless like to gain control of the Satnoun group for a variety of reasons; but ho does not want those islands badly enough to risk a war with tho United States on their account, especially with Boulanger coming so rapidly to the front in France, backed bv the party of revenge. San Francisco Chronicle. The present extradition laws of Canada are so defective as to make that country disliked throughout the world. Canada at present is to the United States what Belgium is to Europe a haven of rest and protection for the foulest and lowest of criminals. The extradition laws of both these countries are founded on traditions and precedents which were generally overridden and denounced m:my years since. Bullalo Express. If a black man shows the ability to use power he will probably acquire it. He must make himself, and we cannot unmake him. If hois satisfied to always remain a field hand, that is his business, and the race auestion thereby settles itself. But if he evelops executive talent, bnsiness capacity, political astuteness and skill hewill gravitate to his place, whether it is the counting-room or the rostrum. New York Herald. The dav has gore by when party patronage and the vigorous working of the spoils system is a positive, formidable element of party strength. The nu n who are now in the ascendency in tho Republican party, and are soon to be in the ascendency in the Nation, are, wo bolievo, pilectly sincere in thoir promises to idvanff) the reform. Moreover, they aro fori;in;;t? in having tho advantage that th'vr h.ve everything to sain in a political way ml nothing to lose )y carry in g out th;ii ph djy h'. Boston Journal. It has been tho policy of a Democratic administration, whici has encouraged the Southern brigadiers to pnvade their true sentiments with immmity. and. it is to the policy of a Democritio administration that we are indebted for the public prominence which men like Rc sser have dared to court. The peoplo who believe in a united country and the supremacv of the stars and stripes may well give thanks that a Republican like Gon. Benjamin Harrison has been elected President of the United States. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

THE STATE TRESS. Pungent Remarks About the Willard-Linck Incident and Other Legislative Matters. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: Fair-minded men will hardly hold Mr. Linck more culpable than Mr. Willard. Terro Haute Express: To strike a man after he has made a manlv apology is the act of a coward, and tho Democratic members of tho House are guilty of that very thing. Richmond Palladium: From a Democratic stand-point, "you are a liar" is parliamentary language, and no punishment can bo inflicted on a Democrat for using the words. But for reseuting the insult a Republican is suspended and fined $150. i Lafayette Call: What about the bully Willard, whoso foul mouth and scurrilous language, capped off by the epithet "liar," called forth tho blow what or him? Echo answers. Not a word of censure or rebuke for him, for he belongs to "our side." Columbus Republican: Linck was guilty of a breach of decorum and good manners, but when he apologized to Mr. Willard ana to tho House and admitted his wrong, a censure ought to have been sufficient. The Democratic majority aro carrying things with too high a hand. Fort Wayne Gazette: The action of the lower house of tho General Assembly in suspending Representative Linck for twelve days for his attack upon Kepresentativo Willard is simply tho culmination of infamy, and is the most outrageous and cowardly exhibition in which the Democratic ruffians of that body have yet engaged. Washington Gazette: Mr. Linck'e breach of decorum in resenting tho insult of Mr. Willard by a blow was no greater offense to the dignity of the House than that which was given by Mr. Willard when he applied tho disagreeable epithet. They were equally guilty, and to punish one severely while allowing the other to go scot free is the very height of cewardice on the part of the buskwkacking majority. Lafayette Courier: Admitting that Mr. Linck committed a very grave offense and that it was necessary to severely discipline him, wo earnestly protest that the action of the majority in expelling him, in addition to a fine of $150. was an unmanly and mean thing to do. He had apologized to tho House in a straightforward way and to Air. Willard personally, and the heavy punishment indicted upon him was a most shameful abuse of power. Muncio Times: Representative Willard must feel mean. If measured by the standard of honor that prevails among gentlemen, he falls beneath contempt. His conduct, in contrast with that of his assailant, Mr. Linck, after the episode in which both were to blame, was base. Had there been a spark of manhood in his make-up, he would have protested against the outrage upon tho man whose apology he had pronounced satisfactory and complete. Madison Courier: It was clearly wrong for Mr. Linck to lose command of his temper and strike the gentleman from Lawrence in tho face. This error he has publicly and Srivately admitted and apologized for. ut in all the talk alxMit the incident no one should lose sight of the essential truth at tho bottom ot the controversy. This was, and is, altogether in Lincky favor. Willard was the leader in a despotic and mean attempt to cut off all discussion of an important questiou. Moreover, in this tyrannical and arbitrary leadership he was needlessly offensive and insulting to tho minority, whose . parliamentary rights he was trampling upon. This explains why Linck and other Republicans were at the fighting temperature. Linck had cause to bo angry and indignant, and his offense is slight in comparison with that of Willard. Liuck'sblow, though unparliamentarily delivered, was in the interest of free speech and legislative right, and will doubtless be productive of good in the end. His constituents are of the opinion that he has already sufficiently apologized for his offense. The legislature and the Governor. Crawford sville Journal: Governor novey has given tho backwoods statesmen some lessons on the Constitution that they had not dreamed were in that instrument. South Beud Tribune: The anarchistic legislators aro discovering that General Hovey is Governor of Indiana, so far as his constitutional prerogatives go. There is nothing of the milk-and-water man about him. Logansport Journal: Governor Hovey is a formidable adversary and the indications are that when he gets through with the gang it will not be so handsome, but will know a good deal more than it does now. Partisan gang rule may be endured for a season in local affairs, but it don't go down well in a great Stato like Indiana. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune: Our sincere compliments to Governor Hovey! He is a trifle old-fashioned in his reverence for the Constitution, but there is no faith liko that of the fathers. The way he rushed into the breach and resisted the encroachment of partisan invaders, who would revolutionize and demoralize the Supreme Court, is sufficiently convincing that Governor Hovey is the rignt man in tho right place at the right time. Terro Haute Express: The Democratic Legislature has shown . that it respects neither the Constitution nor common decency in political legislation by passing the measure providing that tho Supreme Court commissioners should receivo their commissions biguedby the. Speaker of the

House, tho over-dene young Niblack, and tho Secretary of tho Senate, Green Smith instead of by tho Governor and Secretary of State, as required by the Constitution.

A TRAIN Or GOOD THINGS. Edibles Sent to Washington for the Inauguration LtaU. Philadelphia Record. Hotel-keeper Boldt was astonished last night when lie received a letter upon which was a skull and cross-bones and the warning that an army of half-starved tramp were going to derail his special train, which left last night for Washington with all the tons of provender that will be fed to the hungry throng at the inauguration ball, but he was restored to his normal condition when a party of svmpathizers informed him that there would bo aGattliug gun company on the cow-catcher of the engine to frustrate any such diabolical attempt Now that all the arrangements have been completed Mr. Boldt is tlianking his stars. He has erected within the past few days in the rear of the Pension Department building at Washington an edifice 200 feet long, which is as complete in its appointments as any modern hotel kitchen. He will be given from Saturdav noon intil Tuesday morning to occupy the premises, and he says ho will have to hustle to get out in timo. In the kitchen there aro lOtf electric lights, six steam boilers, large store-rooms and accommodations for. over 100 people. There will bo 300 servants of all kinds in the place, including 15 chefs. 10 head waiters and 23 cooks, besides all the dishwashers and other subordinates. A special train of four oars left for Washington at 11 o'clock last night, carrying all the croquettes, salads and game, and about forty kitchen hands. All the waiters will leave for Washington to-day. Mr. Boldt discovered a few davs ago that ho would need two carloads of bread, and he found that he could not hire enough teams in Washington to take them to the banquet hall in time. Consequently he chartered a number of bakers' ovens in Washington and all tho bread will be baked in that city. There will be 20,000 rieces of china in use during tho banquet. Falmer Will Be All Right, Anyhow. Washington Special to New York IleraltL During all the turmoil Senator Palmer sits serene. I met him this morning aud asked him if ho thought he was going into the Cabinet. "I am in the hands of (God' he replied. "I don't know whether I am poing to bo appointed or not. 1 wish 1 did know." "Do you want to be appointcdt" "Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. When I come up to the Senate and talk with the folks I think I do. When 1 go homo and talk to my wife I think I don t. And. however this .agitation results, I shall be able to shake tho President by tho hand and thank him for his kindness to a poor old farmer." Offensive Journalism. Washington Post. It is beginning to strike sensible people that some of our newspaper friends aro overworking the "Baby 3IcKee" business. Besides having a very strong 6mack of toadyism, it mnst bo annoying to tho child's parents. Mrs. McKco is, it is said by her iriends a sensiblo woman, whoso head has in no wiso been turned by her father's elevation. Like all mothers she loves her children, and if General Harrison finds comfort in his grandchildren it only shows him to be a man liko other men. but it certainly is not a matter for daily newspaper comment, which mnst be annoying to General Harrison and his familv. Something for Democrats to Think About. Boston Journal. Eight of the ten States admitted to tho Union within tho last half century went Republican at the lato election, and only two, Florida and West Virginia, were carried by tho Democratic party. The four now States of North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington will also unquestionably be Republican. It is a solemn auestion for our Democratic Iriends to poller why their party has been so unsuccessful in gaining control of these new accessions to the Nation's strength, and WI13' it should be forced to rest all its hopes of a reinforcement on Utah with its Mormon vote, and the illiterate, nondescript population of New Mexico. American Citizenship Appreciated. Ban Francisco Chronicle. The people of tho Territories shortly to be admitted to the Union aro wildly jubilant over the signing of the bill which will make them citizens of full-fledged States. There is a good deal of idle talk about American citizenship not being appreciated, but tho joyful demonstrations of tho people of Montana, Dakota and Washington 6how that if those who already enjoy its benefits fail to recoguizo them, thofio who have been unjustly doprivedof citizenship are not disposed to underrate its value. It Will Do. Minneapolis Journal. WThen General Harrison was in the Senate he said: "1 would like to have our navy made respectable, so that an American naval officer, as he treads the deck of a ship bearing the starry banner at her head, and looks upon her equipment and armament, may feel that she is a match for the proudest ship that walks the sea under any other flag." Same here. General. If that is to bo taken as an indication of your policy with respect to the navy, it will do. A Coincidental Fitness, rhlladetrhla Inquirer. Thero is pometbing in the eternal fitness of things after all. In pursuance of this tho National Bankruptcy Association is holding its annual meeting in St. Louis where less than a j'ear ago a somewhat similar organization metandnominatedGrover Cleveland for tho presidency. Peace to all their ashes. A Reform Work of necessity. Nebraska State Journal. Gen. Harrison may well bo oppressed by tho prospect before him. The unpleasant, yet necessary duty, devolves upon hiia of liring several thousand ot tho present incompetent postal clerks and appointing good ones as soon as possible. The postal service needs reforming, and that badly. Known Many Years Ago. ClevelanA leader. President Cleveland acknowledges that there were Democrats during the war whoso timidity was a national misfortune. Right yon are, Mr. Cleveland, but it seems to us that we found this out many years ago when the Nation's life was iu tho greatest danger. Astonishes the Dudl&h Hub. Boston Globe. And Harrison appeared in tho etreeta of Washington yesterday wearing a soft felt hat! Shades of Washington, and Adams, and Arthur! What manner ot man is this who has been chosen President of theso United States! Corn and Corn Trod acts. Washington Post. The com palace train from Sioux City will arrivo in Washington Sunday morning. Meantime the corn product of Kentucky are coming along in a sort of irregular, wo might say disorganized, manner, mostly in bottles. Where Our Campaign Adjuncts IlaTe Gone. "Washington Post. Well, tho man with the Harrison and Morton badges and tho man with the toy balloons have arrived. What on earth is the committeo waiting forf W hy doesn't it go ahead with tho inauguration! Randall's Opportunity. Chicago News. Sam Randall watches the retirement of the Democratichosts from office without auy signs of sorrow. lie Considers himself a first-class nucleus arouud which to build a new Democratic party. t - r The Meanest Kind of an lusnlt. Washington poat. We judge tho wind must he blowing from the west. We see air sorts of things with fringe on their trousers and glazed satchels in their hands, looking as if they had been blown into town. . A Social View of IU Boston Ilrrald. The Vice-president-elect has five charming daughters. Yes, we think it is going to be a successful administration. And a Little TarnUhed, Too. Philadelphia Inquirer. The departing Garland is a faded ilowts.