Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL t THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1880. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Corresjondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman ami Nassau Street. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION DAILY. Ons year, wlthnnt Fncday f 12.00 ' One year, wiUi Snnday 14 oo flx montlia, without Sunday 6 00 Plx month, with Sunday : 7 no Three month, without Snnrtay 8.00 Three roonthsf wit h Sunday 3..V) One month, without Sunday.. 100 One month, with Sunday 1-20 WIKKLY. Per year fl-00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. SubflcrTbe, with any ot our numerous agents, or end subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIANAPOLIS. INP. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PATUS-Amerlcan Exchange in Paris, S5 Boulevard ties Capuclnea. NEW YORK GUsey II once and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. riHCAGO Palmer noose. CINCINNATI-J. P. nawley A Co, 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON", D. C. Rlffgs IIouvn and Ebbltt House. - Telephone Calls. Business Office sa Editorial Booms 242 When Mr. Cleveland discoursed so profoundly on "our people," it is hardly to be supposed that ho meant "we centennial people7 The fatiguing duties o the centennial being ended, the President has returned to Washington, to find rest and repose with the office-seekers. Our State exchanges are beginning to note the arrival home of returning Oklahoma boomers. They all tell the same story of rough and tough experiences, and are all glad to get back to Indiana. The American people do not know how patriotic they are until a special occasion excites them and each man discovers that his impassive, unemotional neighbor is quite as full of loyal sentiment as himself. TnE sum and substance of the whole matter is that Washington was a great man, and the country of which he was first President is a great country, and Americans don't care who knows it. Eloquent or dull, this is what each and all the 30th of April orations amounted to. Could citizen G rover Cleveland have been making a sly dab at the mugwumps when he said in his banquet speech, "Ill-natured complaints of popular incompetency and self-righteous assertion of superiority over the body of the people are impotent and useless? ' It seems very much like it. TnE Fourth of July was discounted by the proceedings in New York. Participants in that celebration, when asked to take part in any ceremonies on the Fourth, will b apt to refer to the doings of April SO as covering the ground and making further demonstrations superfluous, at least for this year. Take it all around, the New "xork celebration was a tremendous affair, and exceeded all expectations. The committees of arrangement are to be congratulated on having carried out the details so successfully. The flurry made by the few exclnsivo and would-be aristocratic snobs among the managers served only to amuse the public, and interfered in no way with the proper transaction of business. Mr. James Russell Lowell grumbled because the toast, "Our Literature," to which he responded, was placed last on the programme of the centennial banquet, and intimated that this indicated the place occupied by the subject in general estimation. This complaint is very ill-timed, in view of the fact that a valuable and profound literary work has just been issued by Hon. Jeremiah M. Rusk, Secretary of Agriculture, a field where literature is commonly supposed to have the least appreciation. The work in question is a treatise on "Hog Cholenu" TnE great celebration in New York closed yesterday with a civic, industrial and commercial parade, which, in extent and elaborateness of display, was quite up to the standard of the other proceedings. It was fitting that the great commercial metropolis of tho country should symbolize its first hundred years of growth under tho Constitution by an exhibition of its industrial resources and trade guilds. A remarkable feature of yesterday's parade was the prominence of foreign societies and tho elaborateness of their decorations the Germans, as usual, excelling in this respect. Whittier hits never been a favorite in the South, and his selection as centennial poet was not pleasing to tho supersensitive souls who continually fear that Northern men will say something to stir up "sectional feeling." Even these, however, will hardly be ablo to find fault with the poet's reference to the civil war, unless, indeed, they object to the term "erring children:7' Forgive, forget, O true, and Just, end brave, Tho stotin that swept above thy sacred grave, For ever In the awful strife And dark hours of the Nation's life. Through the llerce tumult pierced his warning word; Their father's voice his erring; children heard. Surely there is nothing in these lines to offend the most captious of Southern critics. . It seems that there has been some unfavorable comment in New York on the fact that Indiana, tho President's State, was not represented in the recent celebration by a suitabio delegation of her citizen soldiery. All the States contiguous to New York and some more distant ones were thus represented, while Indiana was conspicuous by its absence. The criticism is only partly deserved. Indiana has no organized militia to speak of. Prior to tho last Legislature the State had no militia law worthy of tho name, and, consequently, no militia. There are a few independent companies but tney have received no assistance or encouragement from tho State, and,

practically, there has been no regimental organization. Tho members of these companies aro mostly young men in business, who drill for recreation or exercise, and who cannot well afford to leave their business and go on long trips at their own expense, without any assistance from tho State. The Journal has often, in years past, urged the passage of a good militia law as a matter of State pride and public policy, but without success. At last, however, we have such a law, and, in duo time, may hope to have a well-organized militia. Meanwhile, we may remark, that if any serious emergency arises calling, for men, Indiana will be represented.

THE rSEE-OAS MOVEMENT. Tho movement for free natural gas for factoiies has reached a point where all that is needed to insure success is well-directed energy and effort. Of the feasibility of the undertaking, from a practical and business point of view, there is no doubt. Neither is there any doubt as to tho immense benefit the city would derive from it. Free fuel for factories, added to our. other advantages, would make this the most attractive city in the United States for manufactories, and in a 6hort time it would bo the best advertised and most talked about. No other city of equal size and other advantages is so favorably situated for procuring gas, and no other could offer free fuel to factories at so littlo trouble and expense. And we have got to do it in order to hold our own against other enterprising cities in the natural-gas region. It would be the making of the city, and as far as can be judged, from the present outlook it is the only thing tbat will enable it to compete with its neighbors. When an enterprise involving so much and approved by everybody has reached the point where nothingbut alittlewelldirected enterprise and concert of action are necessary to its success, these ought not to be lacking. It is our understanding that all the land-owners along tho Belt-road are favorably disposed, and that the prospect for inside subscriptions is good. Now is tho time to act. There are 6ix months before frost, and if this matter is taken hold of in tho right spirit we ought to be ablo by tho 1st of November to announce to the world that Indianapolis offers frco gas to manufactories. This matter concerns tho whole city and all its people. How would it do to give it tho indorsement of a public meeting! V i HAMILTON AND JETFEES0N.

Mr. Depew's eulogy of Alexander Hamilton, in his masterly and eloquent oration, has evoked unfavorable criticism in some Democratic newspapers. Speaking of tho adoption of the Constitution, Mr. Depew said: Success was due to confidence in Washington and the genius of Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson was the inspiration of independence, but Hamilton was the incarnation of tho Constitution. In no age or country has there appeared a more precocious or amazing intelligence than Hamilton. At seventeen he annihilated the president of his college upon the question of the rights of the colonies, in a series of anonymous articles which wero credited to the ablest men of the country. At fortyseven, when he died, bis briefs had becomo the law of the land, and his fiscal system was. and after a hundred years remains, the rnlo and policy of our government. He gave life to the corpse of national credit, and the strength for self-preservation and aguresBive power to the federal Union. Both as an expounder of the principles and as an administrator of the affairs of government he stands supreme and unrivaled in American fu'story. His eloquence was so magnetic, his laugnnge so clear and his reasoning so irresistible that he swayed with equal ease popular assemblies, grave senators and learned judges. He captured the people of the whole country for tho Constitution by his papers in the Federalist, and conquered the hostile majority in the New York convention by the splendor of his oratory. Mr. Depcw was careful in his eulogy of Hamilton to place Jefferson on the same plane of greatness and patriotism", though he does net dwell upon the hitter's character and services to the same extent as ho does on those of tho former. The Louisville CourierJournal treats it as an attempt to put Hamilton above Jefferson, who it insists was the master mind of tho period. "All that was original," says the Courier-Journal, "all that was distinctive, all that was different, was the work of Jefferson. Hamilton simply formed and put in operation the machinery of government, and, as a political carpenter, a political mechanic, he had no equal." This gives Jefferson the place of a great statesman and Hamilton that of a great executive officer. This is in accordance with the traditional policy of belittling and misrepresenting Hamilton as ono of the founders and greatest leaders of the Federal party. So he was, and therein lies ono of his greatest services to this country. Jefferson was not a member of the constitutional convention, nor in tho country when it was framed and adopted. We hardly see how it can be claimed that he was the ruling spirit of a period during which he was absent from the country. His patriotic services had been conspicuous in other years and other ways, but they were not in this. In 1784 ho was appointed minister to England, and in 1785 minister to France, and at both courts ho rendered important diplomatic services. He did not return to America till 1780, when the Constitution had already been adopted. Its adoption did not meet his full approval. He wrote from France that ho did not know whether tho good or the bad predominated in it. He had nothing to do with making it or securing its adoption, and when he took a place in Washington's first Cabinet it was as an unyieldingadvocateof State sovereignty and decentralization, or, in other words, as an auti-federalist. In all probability if he had been in the country When the Constitution was submitted for ratiiicationj'he would have opposed it as earnestly as Washington and Hamilton favored it. In this way, while a member of Washington's Cabinet, Jefferson became the leader of a party opposed to Washington's political ideas and principles. His open sympathy , as Secretary of State with citizen Genest, tho French revolutionist emissary, led to a rupture with Washington which, in connection, with other matters, ended in Jefferson's leaving the Cabinet. In the constitutional convention the three delegates from New York were

Alexander Hamilton, Robert Yates and John Lansing. Yates and Lansing dissented from ono of the early decisionsTbf tho convention and withdrew. They did not sign the Constitution when completed, nor support it before tho people. Hamilton remained in the convention, the only delegate from New York, and was a leader in tho debates. After the convention adjourned he began the publication of the 6eries of papers entitled '"The Federalist," which had a powerful influence on the public mind in favor of tho adoption of the Constitution. Ho became the recognized leader of the Constir tution party in New York, and was a member of the convention which finally ratified it by the narrow vote of 31 to 27. So strong in New York at that time was the anti-constitution party, which a few years later became the Democratic party. Hamilton's services during this entire period were of such a character as fully to justify Mr. Depew's statement that he was "the incarnation of the Constitution,"- and we do not 6ee how this can be considered a reflection on Mr. Jefferson, who was abroad during the entire period of its formation 'and only came home to become one of the leaders of the anti-constitution party. That 'part of Mr. Depew's euJogy which relates to Hamilton's services as first Secretary of tho Treasury is moderately expressed and eminently deserved. No Secretary of the Treasury, since his time, has shown greater ability to cope with financial difficulties. Ho originated our whole fiscal system and organized the Treasury Department so completely that it has undergone but littlo change since his day. His theory and construction of the Constitution have grown steadily during tho last hundred years, and have been fully vindicated by time and experience.

ANTI-SALOON LEGISLATION. It is stated that General Clinton B. Fisk, third-party candidate for . the presidency in the late campaign, has had enough of that variety of politics and will return to his old allegiance. This change of base is doubtless due to a combination of causes and has cono about gradually, but the immediate and decisive reason for the disclosure of his intentions is the recent action of the New Jersey Democracy in overthrowing the local-option and high-license law passed through the efforts of Republicans two years before. The Legislature of that year was nearly evenly divided, and tho license bill, though opposed by a majority of the Democratic members, received enough support from that side to secure its passage. This law met the approval of all but the prohibitiou-or-nothing people among the temperauce element, as the most effective measure then obtainable, General Fisk being. opb of the most active ' - workers ; in its behalf. Tho temperance sentiment is strong among Democrats in certain parts of New Jersey, but not sufficiently so to influence legislation to any great extent, and ; tlie consequence was that the whisky ring had no troublo in gaining control of the Democratic majority at the last session and procuring tho passage of amendments that practically repealed. tf latr:; This, too, in entire disregard of advantage derived by that party by the (nomination of a national prohibition ticket, and the consequent loss of strength by Republicans of the State. Common sense should have suggested that this repeal of the best temperance law New Jersey ever had was not good policy, but the rule that common sense deserts tho Democracy when in power proved true here, and the Legislature stopped at nothing in its eagerness for, temporary gain. General Fisk, who is a power in his State, and presumably speaks the sentiments of all earnest and intelligent temperance people, now sees the folly of a division of forces, and proposes an alliance of temperance hosts "to do battle against the cohorts of evil headed by the Democratic whisky ring of tho State.7' Ho announces that he has put on his war-paint and will do his utmost to overthrow the ring, and adds that tho Prohibitionists, after mature deliberation, have determined to temporartty yield some of their demands "for the sake of defeating the infamous conspiracy against tho wcl-, fare of respectable citizens." He also expresses his belief that the same course will be adopted by the Prohibitionists of other States. This means nothing more nor less than that tie Prohibitionists finally see the futility of attempting tho accomplishment of their purposes by separate party action, and recognize the fact, that their only hope is through alliance with Republicans. Republicans will gladly welcome their aid in the work of overthrowing Democratic saloon rule. With them something practical may be brought about in New Jersey, and the samo may bo said of this State. If the third-party people will unite with tho Republicans in electing an anti-saloon Legislature, Indiana may be put in line with other States two years from now by the enactment of a high-tax, local-option law, or 6imh other restrictivo measures as may seem most practical. Only by doing so can they rescue the State from the disgraceful control of the Democratic whisky ring, which is not less powerful hero than in New Jersey. To the Editor ot the Indlanajiolis Journal: Please answer the following questions: 1. What is tho estimated change Id the electoral vote of the several States after the census of lSUO has been taken! '2. What will be the probable effect of the census on the political status of the negro? 3. If the negro had nis vote cast Rnd counted outh of Maon and Dixon'A line, and east it solidly for the Republican party, what Southern states would be Republican! ULOONINGTOy, lud. A Kepcblicax. 1. The electoral vote of a State depends, of course, on the number of its Representatives in Congress, and this, in turn, on the apportionment. The present House has S25 members, and tbo ratio is one member for each 151,912 of population. Congress may change one or both of these factors. Under the next census some States will show a much greater increase than others, while some may lose a member of Congress. It is impossible to predict what the result of the next apportionment will be. 2. That is a matter for Congress to decide. 3. This question cannot be answered without knowing how many white Republican votes are habitually counted our. By the census of 1S80 Mississippi and South Carolina had more colored voters than white, and Florida and Louisiana had very nearly

as many. With a fair election and honest

count these four States would certainly give Republican majorities, and possibly two or three other States. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sir Julian Pauncefote's name is pronounced without any vowels, thus PncT t, ' Ox Friday. May 24, Queen Victoria wiU celebrate her birthday. Ehe was born in 1810. A Buffalo bachelor has a memorandum book In which he keeps the name of every girl he has ever ki.sed. lie had 923 names on the list the last Ume he counted up. Miss N. Trotek, a teacher in the San Francisco schools, succeeded in retaining her position and keeping the fact of her marriage a secret for live years, when it was revealed by a divorce suit. Woman-flogging exists as a punishment In tho Transvaal. AU the South African press is violently opposed to it, but only recently a woman was sentenced to receive fifteen lashes for using ODscene language. i a lie. . xi. vjickoi.v iuur:iuu ucucit uus uuui ly resigned the Protestant Episcopal bishopric ot Ohio, for the duties of which ill health has long incapacitated him. His successor wlU be chosen this month, at Toledo. Mr. Cleveland has decided to sell the fine horses and carriages which ho kept in the White House stables and at Oak View. Being now a plain citizen of Jeflersonian sinlpUcity, he win ride on Dan Lamont's street-cars. l Ex-President Cleveland is said to havered marked that one of the only things which made him truly regret his defeat for a second term was tbat he would not be able to play the august rolo now being performed in New York by President Harrison. Damala, the actor who married Bernhardt, and soon wished ho hadn't, is dying by inches from a disease caused by mixing his morphine and brandy. He was handsome at the time of bis marriage, and "the assassin Pranzini looked enough like him to have been his brother." Mrs. Sidney Lee, mother of General Fitzhugh Lee, Go vcmor of Virginia, has lately submitted to the cutting away, of a part of the iris of one of her eyes with the hope of saving the sight thereof. Otherwise tho poor lady will be blind, for the sight of the other eye was lost some time ago. Henry Denison, a young New Englauder of thirty-live, is said to be the most influential foreigner at the Japanese court. He acts as the adviser of the State Department at Tokio, and the Mikado has given him a tine house and court rank. His name is Lot Penis, it win be noticed, but Denison. At Willlarasport, Pa., Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Cook was called on to testify concerning a Bible record that her son was born in September, 18G7 he having voted on age in November last. She testified that she made the entry herself in 1867. Then lawyer Parsons showed that the Bible was piloted in 1875. Dr. Hay, of Pittsburg, whose shirts had grown strangely tender at a Chinese laundry, suspected that they were bleached with chloride of Ume. As a test he sent a handkerchief Inscribed with silver marking ink. When it returned he found the mark converted Into chloride of silver, thus conflrniiug his belief. George .Washington was an enthusiastic Mason. In a letter to the Rhode Island Masons he says: "Being persuaded that a Just application of the principles on which the Masonfe fraternity is founded must be productive of private virtue aud public prosperity. I shall always be happy to advance the Interest of the society and to be considered by them as a deserving brother." A man hopelessly lost in the bush in South Australia, after wandering about for four days, came upon tho telegraph line between Adelaide and Fort Darwin. He hadn't strength to go furtber, but he managed to climb a pole and cut the the wire. Then he made himself as comfortable as possible, and waited. The plan worked well. . The telegraph repairers were sent along the line, and they came to tho wanderer in time to save his life. Denmark has a new and unique society. It is called the "Celibacy Assurance Society," its object being to provide for women who can't or won't marry. Premiums begin at the age of thirteen and end at forty. At the latter age an unmarried woman receives an annuity for life. If she marries at any time after taking out a policy, she forfeits all claims on the society. The profits of the society are expected to be enough to provide well for members who never marry. The Kev. Dr. H. B. Macartney, Anglican Dean of Melbourne, has just celebrated his ninetieth birthday anniversary. He is one ot the best-known, and, notwithstanding his great age, one of the most vivacious, walkers and speakers in Melbourne, ne rarely uses glosses, and stiU more rarely resorts to notes as aids to memory when speaking. He possesses wonderful vitality in his small, spare frame, crowned with the snows of time, and It is quite an cvery-day spectacle to see hira walking down Collins street. Melbourne, as briskly as any of the young bank clerks or civil servants who love to show then paces in the Melbourne PlccadiUy. Mr. G. A. Sala relates a comical story of one of his Maori experiences, which arose out of the natives seeing a naked Englishman enjoying himself in a hot spring bath. For some reason, which no mortal creature can comprehend, tho natives had got It into their heads that the Englishman must bo Lord Koselwry, and they inquired, with an air of tenderness, whether this was not the case. Mr. Sala assured them that it was not necessary that every naked Euglishinan should be Lord Koebery; whereupon he asked what was the probable ago of the gentleman. Mr. Sala said, modestly, that he ventured to guess two hundred, whereupon the natives left him with great awe, and were heard discussing, with gravity, tho history of the naked Englishman, who was not Lord Kosebery, but who was two hundred years old. COMMENT AND OPINION. Wrm no desire to be offensively partisan, we remark that it is pleasant to begin the second century since Washington with" a Republican President. New York Tribune. It is pretty certain that a State that insists on compulsory education must, to a considerable exteut." interfere with the natural liberty of the individual as it is professedly guaranteed by democratic institutions. Nebraska State Journal. Local option by counties will secure prohibition In as much territory as will State prohibition, and the high tax and regulatory law will restrict the liquor traffic In those counties that reject prohibition. And that Is better than free whisky. Detroit Tribune. . We are to do good to others by doing good to ourselves and by inviting tuein to partake' of our prosperity. We are neither to force our system upon the rest of the world nor to imitate other systems. We are to develop America by American methods. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is a time for rejoicing, not for forebodings; but there Is never a day nor an hour when the people of H free country, glorious in its history and it promise, can te too mindful of its welfare, and of their relations with the state and with their feUow-inen. Cleveland Leader. When it comes to choice between dealing in futures on boards of trades and in "bucketshops," and In discriminating between gambling as carried on openly and secretly, it is difficult to see Just where the Missouri Legislature has erred in passing a bill prohibiting an dealings in margins. Evening Wisconsin. If the people want only good appointments, let them recommend only good candidates. They have the matter largely in their own hands; aud thev cannot fairly complain if bad selections aro made when they are so willing to affix their names to every petition that is placed before them. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The vitality and utility of republican institutions depends upon the character of the people, and when, by any means, the average or intelligence and public spirit is decidedly reduced, by one means or another, recourse will be had to expedients which are antagonistic to the American ideal of a free government. Boston Herald. TnE traditional policy of America in foreign affairs is so colorless that it almost amounts to no policy at all. When we insure the protection of Anieti'au citizens aud American property outside of our boundaries , we have reached the substance of a reasonable ambition. Any step beyond that is hedged about with periL SpringHeld Republican. Confidence may be felt that the American commissioners will contend for a settlement on the basis of existing treaty stipulations and the rights of the Samoans. The interests of the Unitf d States and the fulfillment of this Nation's moral and political obligations require such settlement, and will be satisfied with nothing short of it Utica Herald. TuorsANPS of city idlers would benefit "labor" and encourage "capital if they would work half os bard to secure themselves a farmer's independence as they do to secure a latorer's dependence of 1.50 per day. Let farming be made fashionable and idling and striking detestable and half the ills of which we complain will tiouble us no more. Minneapolis Tribune. A small fraction of the urban population can be easily won over to the Henry George doctrine, but it can never become powerful, even in the great t enters of population, where it will make the moot noise. In the country it can never gain many converts, for the farming community will not consent to a revolution whicl) would place nearly all tu burden of taxes upon their land. Cleveland Leader. The People Did It. Boston Herald (Dem ) The Voice. Prohibition organ, says the amendment was defeated by tho Republican machine in Massachusetts. We are inclined to think the Voice accords the Republican machine altogether too much crodit. The people did the business.

UNJUST KULESOF THE IIOUSE

Democrats Determined to Stubbornly Eesist Attempts at Changing Them. The House Journal Clerk Proves Incompetent in Certain Work, and Is Compelled to Ask Ilis Predecessor for Assistance. The Public DebtJieduced Over Thirteen Million Dollars During April. Secretary Blaine Not Seriously 111 The Kailway Mail Service Nearly Reformed What the Silver Men Will Ask of Congress. , THE HOUSE RULES. Democrats Will Make a Stubborn Fight Against Attempts to Change Them. Jreclal to Uie Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May 1. The most serious question now'before the Republican members of the Fifty-first Congress relates to the change of rules which must he made to govern the House of Representatives. There is no question that if the committee on rules is not entirely abolished, its prerog utives will be so greatly curtailed that 15 will be only a committee in name. It has arrogated to itself so much power that it had absolute control over the action of the Hoase in the last two Congresses, and it was found that the hands of everybody were tied. It is now proposed that such rules shall be adopted as will make it impossible for any member of the minority to create or maintain a deadlock, and, at the same time, the rules must not be so framed as to make it possihle for a hare majority to change the standing rules, as the Republican majority will be too close to admit of anything venturesome. The Democrats have already given notice that they intend to resist with all their power the Republican proposition to recognize the power of the ballot in the South, and keep men not entitled to their seats out. If there is the slightest loophole, the Democrats will institute a deadlock at the outset and stop proceedings for months. They have proposed to defeat the adoption of the direct-tax 'bill. t They will, also, in the second session of the Fifty-first Congress, filibuster against legislation to carry into effect tho reapportionment of Congress under the eleventh census. All these things must be guarded against. Instead of making it possihle for a bare majority to change the rules at any time after it gets a favorable report from tho committee on rules, it is proposed that only the rules desired by the majority shall be adopted, and that it shall be necessary to have a vote of twothirds of the members of the House in order to change the rules. There will be a long and heated struggle at the beginning of the session in October or December over tho adoption of a set of rules, and it maybe that the Democrats will, under the present rules, inaugurate a deadlock which may last for months. They are in bad blood. AN INCOMPETENT INDIANTAN. House Journal Clerk Compelled to Humiliate Himself and Give Credit Where Due. Fpeclal to the Indianapolis J JurnsL Washington, May 1. There is $1,000 added to the money paid the journal clerk of the House of Representatives, for the compilation of a digest of the rules which govern the House, and the Constitution of the United States. Some years ago the old journal clerk, Harry Smith, made a very complete digest of the rules and the Constitution. It occupies between four and five hundred pages, and being published upon the authority of Congress, is used as a standard, governing legislatures and all deliberative or legislative bodies in the United States. At the convening of the Fiftieth Congress there was a demand made by Indiana Democrats to have Journal Clerk Smith removed, in order that Judge Robinson, who had occupied the positiou of journal clerk to tho Indiana State Senate, should bo given the place. Speaker Carlisle yielded, and Smith's official head went otf. Soon after Robinson took charge of his office, complaints were made that gross errors were occurring very frequently in the journal of the House, ami that it would bo useless for future reference. Smith saw that there would be great dissatisfaction over his successor, and he quietly went to the Librarian of Congress aud had his digest copyrighted. When the duty of preparing the digest devolved upou Robinson, a few weeks ago, he simply took a copy of Smith's digest, and, altering it slightly, handed it in to the Public Printer for reprint. The latter official told him that It was copyrighted, and that even the f overnment had no right to appropriate it. Jobinson was in a dilemma. lie could not prepare such a digest, if he had the time or disposition, and to hire some one who knew how to do the work would be to make the thing unprofitable to him. So he was compelled to humiliate himself by going to his predecessor and asking permission to have it reprinted. Smith consented, but stated that in the preface it would be necessary to make a statement showing who was the author of the work; that he would not permit a man who had taken his own position in the manner it was taken to boldly appropriate his work. Robinson then wrote out a preface, in which he gave Smith tho full credit of the work, and lauded him as an officer to the highest pinnacle. He then presented him with a handsome gold-headed cane. The incident has caused a good deal of comment at the Capitol, TI1E PUBLIC lFiJlT. It Is Reduced Over 813,000,000 During the Month of April. Washington, May 1. Tho reduction in tho public debt during April past amounted to 13.078,234. and for the ten months of the current fiscal year, $G3,979,22S. The total debt to-day, less cash in tho treasury, is $1,101,605,428. Of this amount 4903,028,003 is'interest-bearing debt, made up in round numbers of $076,000,000 four-per-cents. $148,000,000 four-and-a-half per cents, $04,500,000 Pacific railroad bonds, which, since July 1, 1SS., have been classified as bonded indebtedness of the government, and 814,000.000 navy pension fuud three-per-cents. The net cash, or surplus, in the Treasury to-day is $05,667,150. against $.4,00G,S96 a month ago. The gold-fund balance has decreased about $0,000,000 during the past month, and to-day amounts to 19,158,1)11, and the silver-fund balance, exclusive of $;,000,000 of trado-dollar bullion, has decreased less than half a million, and how amounts to $21,059,084. The government receipts during April aggregated $31,458,799. or a million and a life If more than in April, lbss, while the expen ditures were in April, 1888. C-W TBI arr.init Of fli'n Cfl MR. IJLAINE'9 HEALTH. He Is Not Suffering from Paralysis, as Reported, but Hat an Attack of Lumbago. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Washington, May 1. "Reported here that Secretary Blaine has had a stroke of paralysis." These startling words come by wire from New York this morning, and when known in official circles created quite a flutter of excitement.' Mr. lilaine was at that moment quietly reclining in his room at the Xormandie. "Make the denial so positive," said his private secretary, when shown the dispatch, "that the story can go no further. There is not the least truth in it. Mr. lilaine suffers from lumbago, and has been suffering from it for a week, but he is being relieved rapidly. He has had nothing that even was remindful of paralysis, and will be at his desk in a day or two." Mr. Blaine's bloodless color, and the fact that he was not well enough to enjoy 'at-

tending the celebration in New York, has caused a few of his friends, after seeing him this week, to refer to his health in rather alarming words. He is quite as well as usual, and will, barring unexpected misfortune, be at his ofiicial desk years hence. TTIE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE.

Nesrlj All the Changes Necet sary to Maka It Efficient Hare Ueen Made. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May. 1. "By to-morrow morning I hope to have my index made up, and to be able to tell what has been done. Till then I have curiosity as well as anxiety to know the results of the work done within the past two weeks," said Superintendent Bell, of the railway mail service. "I think about all the changes necessary to make the ser ice efficient and satisfactory to the people have been made, but if not, decapitations will continue. The Civil-service Commission can furnish us postal clerks now, inasmuch as. the great bulk of them put in4 of late are the old Republicans who were turned out. The service will be better from the very start, and I have inaugurated new systems for making up tho mails on trains going into large cities, bv which it will be assorted, ready for carrier delivery, as soon as it arrives at the postoffice, which will make distribution more rapid and satisfactory." A few Congressman who have been waiting to have changes made are fearfnl that their demands have not been attended to, but when the results are known it will be seen that since all changes were made with a view to improving the service, Superintendent Bell has performed wonderful work. WHTTE REPUBLICANS IN TOE SOUTH. Congressman Houk Scouts the Idea of Forming Such a Party There. Special to New York Worl & Representative Houk, of Tennessee, whose district embraces more whites than any other Republican district in the South, and who has been very prominent among, those, who havo frequented the White House in the interest of the Republican party in the South since the accession of Harrison, poohpoohs the idea of a white Republican party in the South, and only wants the Northern Republicans to keep their fingers out of tho Southern pie. . Commenting upon the white Southern Republican proposition to-day, he said: "That would be performing 'Hamlet' with Hamlet left out, in most Southern States. No such nonsense will receive countenance among Tennessee Republicans. But we are fully convinced that the principles iuvolved in a policy of a protective tarirt will finally constitute the opening wedge with which to burst tho solid South. In other words, the material prosperity of the people is becoming of more importance, especially in the mineral belt, than the gloomy sentimentality and prejudices growing out of the war and its memories. The people of the border States, at least, are beginning to look forward instead of and Alabama. "The Southern Republicans are not disgruntled with the course of the administration," he said, "although tboy would liko to see the distribution of oflices hastened. I will say in that connection, however, that there is one thing of which a great many Southern Republicans complain, and that is the intermeddling of Northern Senators and Representatives in tho matter of Southern appointments to local offices, and that in nearly every instance against the native element. I don't think there are many Northern Senators and Representatives who are in the habit of doing this, but there are some who are not satisfied with choking our people off from the general delivery of important places, but think it their business to superintend the appointments to the local offices in the South. "Why," said Mr. Houk. "I ha o found indorsements in the departments by Northern Senators and Representatives urging the appointmentof Tennesseeans tolocal places. The applicants were men of whom they could know nothing, and from whom they lived at least from hvo hundred to three thousand miles. Now, we Sout hern Republicans are vain enough to think we know more about the politics and people of onr own State than do theso Northern gentlemen, some of whom live beyond the Rocky mountains." MINOR MATTERS. What the Advocate of Free Silver Coinage Will Demand from the Next Congress. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, May L Representatives from some of the silver States and Territories have been around the Treasury and at tho WThite House during the past two weeks, feeling the pulse of the men in power as to the sentiment in favor of free silver coinage. The subject was discussed with great earnestness in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, but it had little show in tho last Congress. It has been argued that it would be just as sensible to establish mints where iron, tin, copper and other metals could bo taken, and, under a. standard set up by law. molded into bars representing so much money, as to permit this to be done with silver. The advocates of free coinage argue tbat since silver and gold are the lawful money standards of this country and the world, those who have the crude material should be permitted to take it to the United States mints, and on the principle of having wheat or corn ground at tho mill, have it made into mone3' at a certain cost, which will cover the expense of minting. At the Treasury Department it is argued that there is not a dollar's worth of silver in a silver dollar, and if free coinage is established it will be necessary to recoin all of the silver in existence, ana that this will cost millions of money, and un one will be benefitted. The object of the people from the silver States and Territories in demanding free coinage is to elevate the silver market and more firmly establish the silver basis. While it is reported that President Harrison and Secretary Windoui look with a degree of favor upon tho free coinace project, there is no reason to believe that the Fifty-first l3ongress will authorize free coinage, as tho same old arguments are used against it with renewed vigor. New Indiana Postmasters. Washington, May 1. The following postmasters were appointed to-day: Jesse Ml Chenoweth, Gattle C round, Tippecanoe county, vico W. lilue; Wni. II. stestb, Iiruokston. White county, vice 8. H. Poirt.ll; Lyman I Iryer, Dayton. Tirpecanoe county, vice t. W. Fairmaa; Chas. o. Hpeucer, Demotte, Jasper county, vice M.M.Tyrer; rfimpscm bliarn.Kllett!viile, Monroe county, vice M. M. Wintiehl. removed; John Ptepbcs. (ilenn Hall. Tippecanoe county, vice Bainuel Mustard, removed; aujucI Barron, Kempton, Tipton count v, vice John M. licese, removed; Louisa Zaring, k hided, Johnou county, vice F. M. Keppart, removed; Chas. I:. Lawton, Kewanna, Fulton county, vice J. l. Howell, removed; Bamuel H. (iodmau, Montmorencl, Tippecanoe county, vice Henry Kneale, removed; Wm. Warner. Octagon, Tippecanoe county, vice J no. W. Jackon, rcined; Wm. II. Vaudiford, Providence, Johifson county, vice John M. Simpson, removed; Kobt. 21. Itanta, Kocklauc, Johnson county, vice Wm. Harden, removed? Geo. Alexander, Roiuney, Tlppecanoo county, vice J no. P. Ojrloby, removed; John W. Tanner, Roselawn, Newtou county, vice Tlieo. II. Weht, removed: Jesse Ballard, bmith's Valley, Johnnon county, vice John M. Thompson, removed; Frank A. fctoie, fetone' Crosinc, Johnson county, vice John J. Ruh, removed; John W. Adklns. Tenl. Jaswr county, vice C. C. Jonen, removed; C. L. Vancleave, Trafalgar, Johnson countv, vice J. O.U hire, removed; II. II. Illusion. W hlteland, Johnson connty, vice J. F. bomb, removed. The Rush for Little Poatofflces About Ended. Special to the Iiidiauajjolis Journal. . , ; Washington, Maj 1. There was no cessation in the activity around Assistant Postmaster-general Clarkson's room. He continued to receive delegations, examine applications, and write the cheerful word "Appoint" or shako his head iu refusal. There was a great deal more writing than head shaking, however. The rush for changes in fourth-class postotlices is pretty nearly over. Tho bulk of changes on account of partisanship havo been made. Those for flagrant incompetency have also been made to a large degree. The knotty questions and complicated contests are being taken up. Mr. Belmont Gran tenl Leave of Absence. Washington, May 1, The State Department has granted to Mr. Perry Belmont. United States minister to Spain, leave of absence for the purpose of attending

backward. And by the border States I mean Maryland, the two Virgiuias, tbo Carolina. Kentucky. Missouri. Tennessee.