Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1889 — Page 4

THE INDLVNAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILT. One year, without Sunday $12.00 One year, with Sunday '. H CO Fix months, without Sunday 6.00 Mx months, with .Sunday 7 00 Three months, without tjunday 3.00 Thre monthsf with Snnday - a..V One month, without Sunday l.oo One month, with Sunday 1.3) WEEKLT. Ter year fi.ro Reduced Rites to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents, or end subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can bo found at the following places: LONDON" American Exchange In Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard dea Capucine. . NEW YORK Gilaey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. cniCAGO-Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOT IS VI TJLV. C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson street. 8T. LOUI&-TJnion News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL 7ASniNQT0N, D. C.-RIggs House and Ebbltt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 The people of Indiana are beginning to realize the utter worthlessness of the late Legislature. Natural gas for domestic purposes is a great acquisition, but free gas for factories would be the making of the city. The movement for free natural gas for factories is a final test of local enterprise and public spirit. It should not bo allowed to fail. . . Sullivan's steal having been officialljannounced as exactly $47,920, the Journal feels authorized to say that if he or his bondsmen will pay in the $47,900 the county will call it square. And now Murat Halstead is talked of as a candidate for the United States senatorshipin Ohio. If ho were elected, wouldn't it strain the "courtesy of the Senate" a trifle to accept him as a brother! " It is no longer a question what bills passed by tho lato Legislature are defective, but it has come to this: "Will any of them stand a test!" As they drop out, one by one, tho nature of tho final answer seems hardly a matter of doubt. ' As it happened there was no woman on whom tho blanio for clerical omissions in the bills passed by the late Legislature could be placed, so, as tho next best thing, the men who ought to have been responsible have fastened it upon a boy. "Whes tho f roe-gas project is successfully carried out, and outside manufacturers are invited to profit by the privilege, citizens of Indianapolis can no longer complain that no inducements have been held out to foreign capitalists to place their money here. The fact that the mere advertisement of our movement for free natural gas for factories has attracted 60 much attention from capitalists and investors outside demonstrates its importance. The success of the movement would be of inestimablo value to the city. In Mount Gilead, 0., the Republicans nominated for Mayor a Bon of the Democratic candidate for tho same office. The young man was elected, and received the largest majority on the Republican ticket. Another evidence that the Republican party is the party of progress.

If any member of tho Democratic majority, contemplating the bungling work of the Legislature, is moved to inquire, "What will tho harvest beF just tell him to wait until tho next election. When he crawls out from under the ruins of his party he will indulge in no further queries. TnE City Council did rigjit in repealing the perpetual franchise of the Cable Street-railway Company. If competition is wanted in tho street-railway business it may readily be provided for without going to such lengths. No company should have a perpetual right to occupy the city streets. Will the News please open its eyes and desist from its favorite occupation of crying "fire" when there is no fire, long enough to answer a plain question! Does it really think that Indianapolis has done anything to attract foreign capital or to show that outside investments are wanted here! The public may expect news of the lynching of four negroes at Columbia, S. C, in a few days. They are to bo taken thero for trial on a charge of crime, and at last accounts tho Governor had ordered out a militia company to escort the sheriff and "protect" tho negroes. If the prisoners were white, the law would take its course, and they would be acquitted, but being black we look for a lynching. And so, according to Clerk Newkirk, it is a door-keeper who is responsible for the defect in the coal-screen bill. When tho thing is sifted down, perhaps it will bo found that the spittoon-cleaners or the janitors drew up the saloon-license bill, the street-improvement bill, tho loan bill, and the rest. The character of much of the legislation indicates tho application of intellects of about tho spittoon-cleaner grade. Advices from State Treasurer Lemcke, now in New York, indicate tho failuro of the State loan, which he went there to negotiate. The German Savings Bank, which had taken the loan, has rescinded its action on account of tho alleged unconstitutionality of tho act authorizing the loan. Making all duo allowance for tho proverbial timidity of capital, we are constrained to believe there is some other reason for tho bank's action than the one given. The same

conditions, no question as to its validity ever being raised. None would have arisen in tho present case had it not been hunted up and raised by the bank.' It remains to be Been whether the loan can still be placed, notwithstanding this unfortunate complication.

THE "SHnrNIKQ" METHOD IH FINANCE. The unfortunate condition of theStato of Indiana to-day is tho direct result of the willful mismanagement of the State finances by the last four Democratic Legislatures. These ' Legislatures made extravagant appropriations, anc. purposely neglected to provide by taxation the funds necessary to meet the demands upon tho treasury created by the appropriation bills. They have piled up debt upon debt, and have compelled the State officers to resort to tho "shinning" methods of tho improvident business man to meet them. They feared to go before the people with an increased tax levy, and yet were willing to be extravagant in expenditures, with the hope and expectation of throwing the blame of extra taxation upon a Republican Legislature. The Republican Legislatures they knew would be debtpayers instead of debt-makers, and the Democrats would charge the increased levy upon the Republicans, and would seek party advantage thereby. This has been their course in tho past, and they expected like results in the future. The probable failure of the late loan bill to induce capitalists to take the bonds of the State brings discredit upon the State, and demonstrates the ignorance, partisanship and folly of the lato Democratic Legislatures. UHSATISFAOTOSY SELECTIONS. Tho action of the State Board of Agriculture, yesterday, in tho nomination of the live-stock commission to the Governor, under the new law, was not in all respects such as will commend itself to tho intelligent stock interests of tho State. The nomination of Hon. Adams Earl will be heartily commended. He is not only a representative live-stock breeder, but is known, and commands the confidence of all sections of tho State. Mr. Bowman, of South Bend, is not so well known, except in northern Indiana, where ho stands well as an agriculturist. But Mr. Hall, of Rush county, is neither known nor a representative breeder of 6tock. This is anew measure, and if the State board hopes to popularize it, they cannot afford to constitute the commission in part, even, of men not representative of the agricultural or live-stock interests either. But tho worst feature in these nominations, and the one which will probably wreck the movement, if not corrected at once by wiser action, is the utter ignoring of more than half tho largest live-stock interest in tho State. The short-horn cattle men have not a representative on the commission as nominated, and yet that interest is more than double any other in tho State, as to numbers engaged in it, intelligence and in tho capital invested. It has a large and popular State organizationj and many county and district associations. Furthermore, here in Indiana the national association was organized, and from influences started hero were organized the State associations throughout the Western States. And yet, this interest is utterly ignored in the organization of this cattle commission. In Illinois and other States this interest was represented by its strongest men on like commissions, where tho Governors were intrusted with the appointments. Under our new law the State board nominates and the Governor appoints. But neither the board nor Governor can afford to ignore the greatest stock interest in tho State. OUB SAM0AN POLICY. The recent terrible disaster at Samoa gives new interest to tho approachiug Berlin conference. Tho suggestion has been mado that the disaster might have a subduing effect upon Germany, and perhaps put a quietus on Bismarck's aggressive diplomacy. This is not. at all likely. National policies and plans are not permanently interrupted by such incidents. Deplorable as they are in their loss of life and as a cause of family mourning, they cut no figure in international affairs, least of all with an iron man like Bismarck. If Germany has had serious designs on Samoa, 'and if her colonial policy contemplates a permanent establishment there, she will not bo swerved from her purpose by the loss of a few 6hips and a few score of men. Bismarck has not yet fully shown his hand, but whatever his policy was before tho lato disaster it will continue to be, and this government must be prepared to adopt and maintain an equally definite policy. Tho question on our sido is not one of territorial acquisition or of establishing a protectorate in Samoa. It is simply one of maintaining Samoan independence and preventing tho conversion of tho islands into a German colony. This is in accordance with our first policy, and is fully justified by our interests in the Pacific. It is in harmony with tho spirit of the Monroe doctrino of not permitting either tho actual interference or tho threatening encroachment of European nations in American affairs. In 1823, when the Monroe doctrino was first declared, wo had no interests on tho Pacific coast or in transpacific commerce, and no expectation of ever having any. But tho conditions have wonderfully changed and there is as much reason now for our opposing a German lodgment in Samoa as thero would bo for our opposing British aggression in Mexico. Wo are directly and largely interested in maintaining tho independence and neutrality of Samoa and in asserting our treaty rights there. Not only aro wo fully committed to this course as a matter of sentiment, but our interests demand it. In the extension of our transpacific commerce, sure to take placo in tho near future, free access to these islands, and tho control of a safe harbor and the establishment of a naval and coaling station thero will be indispensable to us. These rights are secured by existing treaty. If tho independence of Samoa is preserved the j .'will bo recognized and can bo utilized but not otherwise. It therefore seems. to be very plainly tho duty of

tho United States commissioners to the Berlin conference firmly and uncompromisingly to insist upon the independence of Samoa. If Germany will not agree to that, it will be, proof that she means mischief.

. . 0UE PBOSPECTTVE NAVY. The Navy Department is likely to be a very busy one during the present administration, and the expiration of President Harrison's first term will probably find the United States with the strongest navy it ever had. The weakness of our navy at present is more in the character of our vessels than in their number. It is conspicuous in the latter respect, but even more so in tho former. The next few years will show a marked diflerencO in both respects, and especially in tho capacity of our navy for effective warfare. Two new vessels the Yorktown and Vesuvius have recently been completed, and made successful trial trips. Two more are nearly completed. In addition to these, recent appropriations of Congress devolve upon this administration the construction of a new armored vessel ol 7,500 tons displacement, an unarmored cruiser of 5,300 tons, two others of 3,000 tons each, three not exceeding 2,000 each, a siibmcrging monitor of 3,000 tons, an additional vessel of tho Vesuvius class, and two gunboats of 1,200 tons each. All these are to bo up to the highest standards of their various types in respect of naval architecture, equipment and speed. Tho appropriations for their construction amount to $11,000,000, exclusive of armament. The act also provides for a coast-defense vessel and a sub-marine torpedo boat which will cost $2,000,000. In addition to this nst of vessels not yet contracted for, there are five double-turret monitors, two armored vessels, six unarmored cruisers, and one fast torpedo-boat now nearly completed, and to be finished this summer. Tho entire number will probably bo completed during the next four years. They aro sufficient to form a considerable navy themselves, and, added to that wo now have, will bring our navy up to very respectablo proportions. Tho construction of these vessels and their armament will involve a largo outlay, am keep tho Navy Department during tho present administration very busy. Senator Vest, of Missouri, has suddenly taken high ground in regard to foreign appointments, and he voted against the confirmation of Messrs. Reid and Halstead on tho ground of their extreme partisanship, and in justification of his vote, says: "I regard the foreign appointments as belonging to tho same class as the judiciary; tho men selected to fill them should bo as free from partisan bias as possible. No man, in my opinion, should be sent to represent this country at any foreign court who will not represent the whole country. Messrs. Reid and Halstead cannot bo said to do that." Vest was a member of tho Confederate Congress, and is notoriously bitter and vindictive. During the last administration ho never hesitated to vote to confirm to foreign appointments ex-con-" federates, who, liko himself, had tried to destroy the government, but, when tho names of prominent Northern editors aro sent in, he opposes them on tho ground that they do not represent the whole country. If Vest and his like had succeeded in their plans, there would have been no "wholo country" to represent. Hon. George H. Pendleton, present Minister to Germany, was Payne's opponent in the senatorial contest when the latter bought his way in. Pendleton was also father of the present civilservice law. Tho suggestion has been made that it would be a neat bit of politics for President Harrison to leave him at Berlin. The Chicago News says: Tho President would do well to leave him there as tho representative of the government by way of entering a dignified protest against the settling of personal grudges iu tho Senate at the expense of his appointments. Mr. Pendleton as well as Mr Halstead represents the respectable sido of the famous Ohio senatorial light. No on questions his ability. Besides, as the father of the civil-service law, his retention wo.uld bo very fitting. The suggestion indicates the drift of current comment. With it goes another, that tho President may nominate Mr. Halstead again during the recess of tho Senate to take his chances of confirmation next winter. Tho Journal is willing to leave the matter to tho President, confident that ho will do the right thing in the right way. TnE State of Iowa seems to be in a highly sound and solvent financial condition. The State Treasurer has just called in $7o,000 of outstanding warrants, and $220,000 more will be called for April 25, making a total of $415,000 of outstanding warrants redeemed in six weeks. When the last-named batch is paid off the floating indebtedness of the State will bo reduced to less than $75,000, which maybe increased some during tho summer by current appropriations, hut will bo all wiped out by the fall taxes, leaving the State out of debt by Jan. 1, 1800. This is a marked contrast to the embarrassed situation in this State caused by Democratic financiering. The South Bend Tribune says it has reason to believe that the recent dragnet proceedings against Republicans for alleged violations of the election law were conducted in the interest of Marshal Hawkins. It claims to have information that up to the time these proceedings were commenced Hawkins was only $35 ahead for his three years' work. Something had to be done to make the office pay him, and what better than to tnimp up charges against Republicans all over tho State, alleging violation of election laws. Witnesses were subpenaed by hundreds, and Hawkins's fees amounted to several thousand dollars. The young women who wanted to attend Columbia College, New York, have objected to tho annex system adopted at Harvard, and insist upon equal privileges. Tho trustees have for many years opposed all movements in the direction of co-education, and tho announcement that they have decided to build a college for women, with separate but enual educational advantages, indicates that tho pressure for admission

was such that they could no longer resist, and therefore decided upon a compromise. Even ' old-time college trustees may fall in-line with modem progress if they are pushed a little. . ; TnE Atlanta Constitution strongly commends the' appointment of. Hon. A. L. Scruggs, of Georgia, as minister at Venezuela. It says, "his recorcl is flawless, and his political course has been free from patisanship.,' It,' praises his diplomatic skill, and concludes: "Tho new minister's scholarly, attainments, experience," in public affairs and high character eminently qualify him for the appointment, and it i not likely that thero will bo any opposition in any quarter." mmmm If thero is an act in tho late Legislature that is constitutional, wc have not yet heard of it. Columbus Republican. . Thank Heaven, their adjournment was.

Or the two "feather-weights'' who fought at Koutts, ind., on Sunday, before an admiring crowd, one is reported as having his eyes closed, a rib fractured and his left arm strained; the other has a fractured jaw, hands that are "knocked out," and internal injuries. This is what is known as a "manly" sport, and perhaps it is, since no other than the human' animal beats another to jelly merely for the diversion of his fellow-creatures. The spectators of the Koutts fight are impatiently waiting until the contestant s are sufficiently recovered to pound each other again. It is something to have it definitely settled that explorer Stanley was alivo and well on the 4th of last September. A good many things may have happened since September, hut the world has fallen into the habit of expecting success in Stanley's undertakings and will prefer to think of him as safe until the opposite is proved. Mr. James Renhian is quoted as saying of defaulter Sullivan: "I trusted him completely. It was liko a snake charming a bird." This representation of the suffering bondsman and ex-cham of the county clerk as an innocent, trusting little bird is one of the most unique pictures the public has been asked to gaze on for some time.

ABOUT FEOfLE AND THINGS. King Milan's last official act was to decorate his cab-driver. Hungary fears a shortage of farm laborers and forbids emigration. . Mr. and Mrs. L. Q. C. Lamar, jr., will spend next year in Europe; she studying art. Stepniak, the novelist, is said to be one of the best orators on the other side of the ocean. Miss Cleveland has had so much trouble with servants at her orange plantation in Florida that sho has closed up tho house and taken rooms at a hotel. TnAT high theosophist, Colonel Olcott, has gono to Kioto, where the Japanese Buddhists have received him coldly. They say that he preaches a doctrine utterly at variance with theirs. Zachariah Chaffee, widely known as the trustee of the Sprague estate, died at Providence on Saturday in his seventyfourth year. He was prominent in many financial institutions throughout the country. The English courts hold that when a man writes asking another to "favor him with a check" for a bill, the intent is that the check is to be sent by post, and the creditor is liable if the check is lost in the mails. Lewis Hayden, the best known colored citizen of Massachusetts, is dying. He was born a slave in Kentucky in 1811. He escaped in 1844, went to Boston, and became one of the prominent directors of the underground railway. Joe Jefferson, the actor, who is now writing a history of his life, will in that work tell howmuch of spiritualism he really believes. He was once a confirmed believer in the faith, but grew somewhat skeptical because he caught several mediums at their trickery. TnE freshest "American beauty" is said to be Miss Daisy Newman. She is a California blossom, and is "making a stir in. Berlin under tho protection of a distinguished baron of stupendous wealth, a friend of tho Emperor," which is somewhat vague and puzzling. J. Edward Pfeiffer, who lately died at London, was a warm advocate of collegiate education for girls and also of woman suffrage. He left nearly $500,000 to his wife, Emily Pfeiffer, the English poetess, with the request that at her death it should bo used for the advancement of women. Hon. Wiiitelaw Reid and family expect to sail for France on the Bourgogne on May 4. In the meantime his brother-in-law, Mr. Ogden Mills, expects, after locating his own family in London, to run over to Paris and make suitable arrangements for the legation and tho private rosidenco of Mr. Reid. A writer in the Sheffield (Ala.) Enterprise says: "Within the last two days, in one single lesson, little Helen Kellar has so acquired tho telegraphic alphabet as to be able to converse readily and quickly, by tho taps peculiar to tho system, with any person understanding it." This little girl is eight years old, deaf, dumb and blind. Miss Sandford, professor of rhetoric in tho Minnesota State University, is going to take a hand in training journalists. She will select nine of the best writers in her class who will write on various topics of general interest, in the editorial style, and Professor Sandford will trv to secure space in one of the St. Paul papers for their insertion. The latest criticism upon Miss Amelie Rives's "Quick or the Dead?" is rather fresh, from the Athenaeum: "Miss Rives's execution shows ail the faults of a want of training, but in other respects she is superior to other minor American novelists in the same way as a nigger minstrel is superior as an artist to a school girl singing a drawing-room ballad." Cardinal Haynald, the Hungarian prelate, was leaving his hotel to go to his carriage, a few days ago, when a child begged him for alms. He felt in all his pockets without finding a coin, and, seeing a richly.dresscd woman passing, beckoned to her, asked forher purse, and taking from it a liberal sum bestowed it upon the child. Then ho thanked the woman gravely, and, entering his carriage, was driven away. Mrs. Richard Perkins, of Bostou, has presented to tho Bostonian Society a threcpago letter that John Hancock wroto from London on March 2, 1761, to Rev. Daniel Perkins, of Bridgewater, In it Hancock said: "I shall with satisfaction bid adieu to this grand place with all its pleasurable enjoyments for the more substantial pleasure I promise myself in the enjoyment of my friends in America; The greatest estate in England would bo but a poor temptation to me to spend my days here." Twenty years ago Charles Harton mysteriously disappeared from Fredonia, N. Y. Tho papers advertised him far and wide, and after several months of weary search he was given up for dead. The other day his brother Frederick , a resoected citizen of Erie, Pa., received a letter from him post-marked Sydney, Australia, which stated that after a three years' whaling voyage the missing brother had located in Australia, where he had amassed a fortune, which he now invites his brother to come and enjoy. ' Rear Admiral Louis Ashfield Kimberly, who commands tho Pacific squadroi and is now among, tho shipwrecked

e orn April 2, i$30, at Troy, where his father was then a phj-sician with a good practice. In 1SH3 his father removed to Cook county, Illinois, where the Admiral's family now live. He is a good specimen of physical manhood, is six feet in height, well proportioned, and quick in ail nis movements. His wife is a daughter of Captain Cushman, of the navy. srniNG opening. Sweet Flora trips across tbe lawn, A radiant ray of light. Her pown was made lv Gray & Dawn, Her gems ly Day A 2ight; Her bonnet came from Dew A Son, A film of Groen and Gold. Witlijeweled daggers slantingrun Through lace by Frost and oM! Her voice, by Robin, Thrush A Co., Is trained to every part; And Cloud A Sunbeam sent the glow That caps Cosmetic's art! Her perfume, by It. Butus made A sweet and subtle thine In pink and white, from Hill A Glade, I or this Spring Opening! Philadelphia Inquirer. COMMENT AND OPINION. Tiie collapse of the Indiana and West Virginia election cases is as signal a failure in its way as the reform administration that deiormed everything it touched. Cleveland Leader. The Halstead case can hardly be used as a wedge with which to make a split between the President and the Senate, and the Democrats and mugwumps who are peeking to use it in such maimer are fooling their timo away. Washington Post. The sons of eminent sires are just as much entitled to political preferment, when they havo proved their ability and integrity, as anyone else who has done the same. The sons who have not that ability or integrity should be mercifully kept in tho background. Any other rule of action is a departure from the principles of democracy toward those of privilege. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is evident now that there will bo a concerted movement, supported by all sections, to aid our carrying bm iness on tho ocean, and especially expand our trade with the countries to the south of us. The present administration is heartily in sympathy with the movement, and it will succeed. The improvement of our foreign trade will add greatly to the general prosperity. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The truth is that if people are not born wise and prudent, if the experience of life does not teach them to obey the laws of thrift and foresight, which have brought competence to a very small minority of the human race, there are no laws and no schemes devisable by man which can compel them to imitate that minority. They must work out their own salvation in their" own way. New York Sun. An honest, fearless and outspoken press is more essential to the existence of tho government and the permanency of free institutions than is a Senate which descends to abusing its prerogatives to wreak vengeance on courageous critics of its corrupt members and its shirking of plain duties. The people want free pnblic discussion more than they want fossilized and pusillanimous Senators. Minneapolis Tribune. TnE idea that belief in free trade is evidence of culture and of a mind superior to the provincial influences of a crude country like America has bad a great deal to do with the acceptance of free-trade doctrines among our so-called cultivated classes. It is time for our great institutions of learning to find professors of political economy who are not mere parrots, and who look at tho world from an American stand-point. Louisville Commercial. Large salaries do not always command the services of large men, and some of tho Congressmen, wo are told, are enabled to save more than half of their pay. They have their mileage and fat perquisites that smile at them from the contingent fnnd, and if they cannot snpportlife on this, they have the shining example of Senator Chace before them. They can resign and give their places to men of a more economical turn of mind. Atlanta Constitution. The action of the Senate in the Halstead case is made especially conspicuous by .the knowledge of the struggle now going on in the German Reichstag against the attempt of Emperor William and Bismarck to more completely muzzle the German press, and the minister who goes to Berlin with the approval of the Senate will carry with him a moral that if learned and appreciated by the German legislators is apt to have a very depressing effect upon their endeavors to make head against tyrannical dictation in their own country. Baltimore American. When tho Democratic party came into power, thoy saw their opportunity, and they improved it. Special pains were take to send free traders to important consular posts abroad, and they were given to understand what was expected of them. Ho by the suppression of some facts, and the distortion of others, by twisting and omitting and juggling with figures, the Democratio consuls managed to send home some lively free-trade documents, which as oiheial reports could bo published at government expense and be extensively circulated. Dos Moines Register. Many bravo American seamen have gone down to "watery graves," and two, perhaps three, of our splendid ships, are total wrecks. The loss of property, great as it is, is nothing when we think of the great loss of human life. Germany's loss is reported much more serious than ours. What will bo the result of these unwilling, unexpected sacrifices? Are the differences between the disputing nations buried with tho dead! Some will see in tho terrible disaster a terrible lesson. What will tho costly sacrifice bring? Peace? Better friendship? More enduring patience? Who can tell? Detroit Tribune. For the first time in six years the Republican party is now in control of both the executive and legislative branches of the government. Much needs to be done that as heretofore been impossible to accomplish on account of conflicting policies. The country should not be compelled to wait for essential action until more than a year of President Harrison's administration has expired. Thero is a settled Republican policy which, for tho benefit of tho wholo country, it is necessary to apply as soon as possible to the revenue ami money a flairs of tho government. These are arguments in behalf of an early meeting ot Con Kress which have their force. Philadelphia Inquirer. JA3IES BROWN POTTER'S "WIFE. The Actress and Her Husband Are Ukely to Lead Separate Lives. Brooklyn Eagle. I am told on what seems good authority that Mr. James Brown Potter has, in technical language, put himself iu the hands of his lawyer. This is not generally known indeed, I believe this is the very first public mention of it. Such a step on his part has, of course, beeu anticipated for a long time, but no definite assertion has previously been made. Mr. Potter has been rather a puzzle to the public. It was known that while he was an enthusiastic supporter of his wife's amateur ambitions, he was just as enthusiastically against her indulging them in a professional maimer. Indeed, he invoked the power, and it is no inconsiderable one, of his entire family, including its bishops and other dignitaries, to dissuade her from this step. But after she had taken it he stood by her, and, while evidently anxious to discourage her and indnce ner to relinquish her theatrical schemes, he did not permit any criticisms of her to be made in his presence, and gave her very valuable countenance by continuing on friendly terras. He could not make up his mind to abandon her while she was still poor and making fruitless efforts. But "Cleopatra" put au end to all that. Financially it has been a great success, and Mrs, Potter has made money, and will undoubtedly make more. That makes it certain that sho is a definite fixture upon the 6tage. Her husband feels that alio no longer needs him to stand by her. Sho has money of her own and can do without him, aud all possibility of her eventually abandoning her career and returning to him is at an end. This puts him in a very different position, not in tho eyes of the world, perhaps, but in his own, and the chivalrous feelings which prompted him to stand by her so long as she was unsuccessful have no longer a raison d'etre. So. under the circumstances, I can very well understand his deciding upon a divorce. This is rather a new view to take upon Mr. Totter' attitude, but if it is a true one it is greatly to his credit, and it really seeins to explain the apparent contradictions of his conduct. It is said that the plea for divorco will be made on the ground of desertion and incompatibility, and there will bo no defense made, tho divorce being allowed to go by default. . t

people at Samoa, mny bo aptly called th "Admiral of the Blues." He was bon

THE BONDS NOT RECEIVED

Under the Loan Act the German Savings Rank Thinks It Cannot Carry Them.' It Accepts, However, the Interest Bonds, but the State Officers Say It Has Not Acted Fairly Views of Mr. Butler. Fpeci&l to the Inliauaiollfl Journal NEW YoiiK, April 2.-Tho German Savings Bank, acting on advice of counsel, has refused to accept Indiana State bonds of the last issue, $700,000 of which it vras awarded on March 23, on a bid of $1.77. The legality of the loan was questioned by tho bank's attorneys at Indianapolis, and President Bissinger is not disposed to invest the bank's money when there is tho least question as to the validity of tho bonds. State Treasurer J. A. Lemcke had a conferenco with President Bissinger at the bank this afternoon. He read the opinion of tho Attorney-general of Indiana, , who declares that the Legislature had full authority to pass the act without violating tho restrictions of the Constitution, and also exhibited a letter written by Governor Hovey, Who Shares tho Opinion Of tbe Attorney-general. President Bissinger readily accepted $070,000 of 5-10 bonds, paying 3 per cent., which were issued under the law for payment of the Stale debt, but tho 700,000 of the last loan, he said, he could nob buy until tho doubt as to their legality was cleared away. The last bonds are 2-5s and pay 3 per ceut. interest. President Bissinger expressed his regret at being forced to this decision, as he admitted to the State oflicial that tho bank considered Indiaua'a bonds excellent investments and would most readily accept another loan, if no question was raised as to their validity. State Treasurer LemcKowasmuchdisappointedovertho decisive action of tho bank, and wired the Governor the result of the conference. Mr. Lemcko has not abandoned all hopo of negotiating tho bonds, and will remain in the city for several days in the hope of securing a satisfactory arrangement with tho bank. President Bissinger declined to make a statement as to tho position of the bank, ho maintaining that as the bank held no invalid bonds the public should be satisfied. But have you given your final decision in the matter of the Indiana loan?'' he was asked. . "I can say nothing about the bank's transactions. If you were a depositor or had dealings with tho institution I would readily explain our position; but mough, has already been said about the deal." State Treasurer Lemcke, who was found attheGilsey House, was in a more communicative mood. He said: "Owing to tho closeness of the political fight in ' Indiana, neither party has been disposed to add a particle to the tax-levy, and as a result tho State has been forced to neglect tbe institutions for the insane and the blind. The State has just completed three new insane asylums and tho Mate-house, which, I think, has been honestly built, and which would havo cost double tho amount expended most anywhere else in the country, necessitated the raising of 2,000,000.- Tho Soldiers' Homo at Knightstown has been, rebuilt, and the Asylum for Feeble-minded Youths, at Ft. Wavne. has called for more funds. Tho State "Normal School, at Terr Haute, which has been rebuilt, has also called for money. All these requisition were to have been met by the new loan. If the bonds are not negotiated considerable inconvenience Will be caused. It is a mistaken view of Indiana's financial condition which prompts the statement that her credit is not tho best. Tho State has never had any difficulty in negotiating loans, and premiums have almost invariably been received. There is a good and substantial reason for this. Outside of what wo owe the school-fund, the State's indebtedness amounts to only 2,000.000. and this on taxables amounting to $00,000,000. The question of the State's credit cannot be raised in this case. Tho trouble all results from a little legal quibble." What WiU Probably He Done. Governor Hovey received information by telegraph from State Treasurer Lemcke, last evening, that the German Savings Bank of New York city had declined to receive the State bonds. The lateness of tho hour at which tho telegram was received prevented any extended consultation as to what action should bo taken by tho State, but Attorney-general Micheuer thought it likely that tho loan would bo readvertised and fresh proposals invited. Tho award thereon being made, tho question of tho validity of tho bond could then bo taken to the Supreme Court in a suit brought to enjoin their issue. Thero is a very decided feeling among tho State officers that the German Saving Bank has not acted fairly in the matter, and that tho objections raised by it havo been prompted by a desire to escape payment of tho premiums which it saw lit to oiler in order to 6ccuro tho award. "The bank got from this office a certified copy of tho act under which the loan was oilcred," said Secretary of State Grillin, yesterday, "sometime before it put in its bid. If it had any doubts as to the sufficiency of tho act, and tho bonds oilcred under it, that was the time to havo settled them one wav or tho other. Instead of satisfying itself then and either drawing out of the contest, or putting in a bid by which it was prepared to stand, it make's an otter which is high enough to prevent successful competitors, and then refuses to make it good, claiming that tho loan act, which it had in its posessiou be-' fore its bid was made, is a defective one." It is probable that in tho reletting of tho s bonds, the German Savings Bank will ha,' held liable for any loss or difference between the last award and any succeeding, one and in addition to this it is thought the State will have a claim upon the deposit of 5.000, made by the bank with Winslow, Lamer it Co., as a guarantee that it would carry out the award if made to it. Tho prospect of further delay in tho matter of obtaining the loan, while it may occasion some considerable inconvenience, not likely to stop or even clog tho wheel of government. The worst elfects of tho neglect of the Democratic managers in the last Legislature to make nroper financial provision will probably fall upon the helpless wards of tho State who are confined in "the benevolent institutions. The State prisons aro helf-Mipportiug, hut if there are no means for carrying on the asylums, the only way left will be to return their initiates to the counties from which they came. Iu any event. Governor Hovey expreed his determination yesterday not to give tne last Legislature opportunities for further mischief by convening it in extra session. "its attempt to restrict the payment of salaries until appropriations for particular institutions are paid," ho said, is revolutionary and will be so declared by the court before next November, which is the timo fixed for it to go into effect. With its revenues available for carrying on its government the State can get alone, and if some of tho public institutions have to bo closed, tho peoplo will know whom to blamo for it." The Meaning of Casual. To the IMitor of the Imlianayoli Journal; The implication in your editorial of thi . morning touching the controversy over tho loan act of March 11, lSb'J, is that, in our opinion holding tho act unconstitutional, wo have rut a strained interpretation upon tho word's "casual deficits in the revenue," and that wo havo based our opinion upon a clossa aud unwarranted technical construction of the words of the Constitution. You say: "But casual has auother meaning than that given above. According to Webster, it also means 'coming without regularity occasional.' Worcester defines it as occasional,' 'not constant.' In this sense the present deficit is casual." In which sense did you mean? That it is not constant and that it does not come with regularity? The fact that deficit in tho revenue in Indiana are constant and 1reiueditatcd, and foreordained h.V th legislature, and that such deficits instead of being occasional, are constant and rega