Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889.

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Business Office 233 Editorial Booms 242 When Chicago detectives begin to arrest eacrfother on the charge of murder, there is ome hope that the criminals of that city will meet their deserts. Let us have no British interference with the Behringsea fisheries. Even American women will favor war when they come to understand that their future ownership of sealskin sacques is incolved. Is a bob-tail street-car a Democratic institution? It would aeem so. Ours was, and now comes a woman in New York and sues our Democratic Dan Lain ont for 5,000 damages received by being thrown off his bob-tail cars in that city. ' There are to-day no weak, weary and despondent members of the true DemocraSo7 Have you heard from Calvin iBrice lately; Judge, or Mr. Thurman, or Mr. Mills, or any of those gentlemen of wealth who "put up" so liberally during the late campaign! "We know that we have not trafficked our principles for success," says citizen Cleveland. Well, no. Such principles as the Democratic party had never counted for much in a horse trade, and whatever they may have been swapped for in the late political campaign, it was certainly not success. If the owners of tho Braidwood coal mines are ruined by Italian cheap labor, or rather by the cheap but lawless Ital ian laborers whom they imported, no one will pity them. The honest, peace-, able citizen-miners, however, are unfortunately the ones likely to suffer mostby the violence of the foreigners. m mm " The St. Louis Republic is still harpirfg on or against Governor Ilill as a presidential possibility, not only on account of his utter unfitness, but because he lives in New York. The Republic wants a Western candidate. Though it does not say so directly, it is quite inferable that it would be pleased with Dur late Governor Gray. If tho Journal could get the private ear of President Harrison it would whisper, confidentially, that he might avoid a world of unfriendly criticism by consulting the Democratic editors of the Nation. ,So far, he has done nothing that satisfies them. But, as we are not likely to have that private ear, we content ourselves by allowing him to do as he pleases. Probably it was not wickedness that caused Leonardtown, Md., to omit the holding of church services on last Sunday, the day President Harrison happened to visit the place. The existence of church buildings indicates that religious exercises are held now and then, but natives down in that region of country are too slow to think of engaging in divine worship as often as every seven 'Jays. Mr. Cleveland, it may naturally be fancied, rolled his eyes sanctimoniously when he declared, in the presence of the New York Young Democrats, that "we know that wo have not corrupted nor betrayed the poor with the money of the rich." Did he happen to have with him an itemized account of what was done with his ten-thousand-dollar campaign contribution and tho contributions of millionaires Whitney, Payne, Brice and others? TnE Voice is doing its best to drive Republican temperance men in Pennsylvania from tho support of the amendment, quoting from the New York Times and other mugwump and Democratic papers tho many falsehoods with which the National Liquor League's money is flooding the country, to at once defeat ;the amendment and disparago the Republican party. As to the latter, the Voice is cheek-by-jowl with tho Liquor League, though pretending to favor the amendment. First comes the report that the new Government Printer is driven nearly to insanity by applicants for positions in his department, and immediately after follows tho statement that the government printing building is so unsafe that it may fall down any day and kill a thousand people. The juxtaposition of these announcements is merely a curious coincidence, of course, because oh, well, because, very likely, tho building really is unsafe. The Cronin murder, at Chicago, has called public attention to the fact that ft very large per cent, of tho police force were born in Ireland, and arc members of one or another of the numerous Irish societies that are seeking to adjust Ireland's troubles from the shores of America. W'hetheror not further investigation shall connect the murder with one orniore of these societies, tho people begin to

think it about time that their official protectors have enough in hand when looking after home wrongs without taking a hand in the wrongs of Ireland.

THAT PBESBYTEBIAN DELIVERANCE. The "deliverance" of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, as reported . by telegraph in yesterday's Journal, deserves a more careful study than the hasty reader is likely to give it, for it relates to a current topic that is before the American people and must be met, one way or the other. Nothing can be gained by ignoring stubborn facts, such as are involved in this action, whether they "stand out" to the gaze of the world or not. One of these facts, whether it indicates wisdom or not, is that in the Presbyterian Church there is a unanimous sentiment against the liquor traffic as "the principal cause of drunkenness, pauperism, crime, taxation, lamentation, war and ruin to the bodies and souls of men." A second fact is that the difference In opinion is wholly as to names: one part being in favor of the "complete suppression," the other of "prohibiting entirely" the traffic; and as to the means of reaching this common end, one portion thinks, with Dr. Crosby, that in some localities, as in New York, a system of high license, with proper restraining conditions, is best, at least for the present, if not for all time; while others demand the immediate and entire prohibition of everything appertaining to it the manufacture and'-importation as well as the sale. Another very significant fact is that the word "prohibition" has been so used and abused since the "deliverance" of 1883 that a large part of the assembly decline to use it, and prefer to substitute an equivalent phrase, "complete suppression," rather than to even seem to countenance the formation of a political party called by the name of Prohibition. . Tho Journal calls attention to the facts here stated as to any other facts of current history. The absolute unanimity of such a body as the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, representing such a constituency, is not to be ignored in estimating the moral, not to say the material and political, forces of the times. This is the more significant because every ecclesiastical chief council that has met in the United States within tho last two years, except that of the Protestant Episcopal Church, has made substantially the same 'deliverance," showing only the same difference as to method. On the other hand, those representing' the saloon, whether retailer or wholesaler, or distiller, or brewer, are organized to resist this aggressive warfare against their business, with this advantage over their adversary they never dispute as to the details of their measures. WTiile they have the utter overthrow of prohibition as their ultimatum,- they accept and work for all that is in it, everything and everybody that promises the least help to their cause, with the further advantage that they have millions of dollars at their control, now likely to be reinforced by British gold, since English money is said to have bought up and consolidated nearly all the breweries of America. No intelligent American can fail to take notice of these passing events, and in the near future every citizen will take one side or the other of the controversy, with tho advantage on the side of the saloon, for the reasons just given their entire harmony and their greater money. Mr. Cleveland's speech at tho New York banquet was unquestionably the speech of a man who regards himself as a presidential candidate. It was a carefully-prepared effort, and so worded as to contain nothing that could jar upon the tender sensibilities of any of the local and national factions of the party. When ho spoke of the heresy that "may sometimes have crept into its organization," he added nothing to indicate what such heresy might be, and therefore avoided giving offense to the free-trader, tho high tariff man, and the mugwump. His expression of lofty sentiment and the assumption that his party is possessed of high principles were vague generalizations. They sounded well when uttered in sonorous periods, but nowhere touched upon the actual working policy of the Democracy. The effort can hardly be called a "key-note," since it enunciates no new ideas and outlines no line of party work. It is merely a eulogy of "true Democracy," whatever that may be, and a practical announcement that the speaker is ready once more to head his party's ticket. The New York Tribune, speaking of the inevitable issue in New Jersey the restoration of the late local-option law or its abandonment, by the Republicans, suggests that nothing can be gained by individual candidates or by the party in attempting to escape the issue. The Tribune says: "No army marches backward with success," and adds that its repeal through the failure of professed friends to temperance is no excuse for abandoning what was a good law. That issue will absorb all others in New Jersey this year, and if those who voted for Gen. Fisk last year will vote with him this year for this, the best attainable measure, little doubt remains as to the result. It is not necessary to remind the people of Indianapolis of the near approach of Memorial day, much less to urge them to observe it. The memory of the dead soldiers is alive in too many hearts to permit any neglect of the customary ceremonies, and were this not so the pathetic rows of graves at Crown Hill would serve as a perpetual re minder of a people's sacrifices and the duty of the living. Those graves will never lack for wreaths while any remain who cherish tho principles for which those soldiers fought. The New York Herald gives currency to a report that large European capital ists are investing in what they call "permanent1 holdings" in American real estate. Within a few weeks heavy pur chases have been made by them in New York city. They seem to have no pref erences as to? localities, so that they can buy cheap what promises to be product ive property. As a rule they prefer propeity already improved, but they are

not averse to unimproved lands if the price is low enough. This may all be very well as a boom for real estate for

the time being, but there lurks in tho scheme an immeasurable danger. It will be a sorry day for America when any considerable amount of our real estate shall have been converted into permanent holdings" for the benefit of a non-resident aristocracy. American lands must be held for homes for American workingmen. According o one of the publishing firms that presents a conditional bid for school books, the new law is indefinite in regard to paying for the supplies. Now, can it be possible that this law, too, has a hole in it? Of course, as the Sentinel suggests, it can be amended by the next Legislature; but, then, if the next Legislature is anything like the last what assurance have we that it can pass any measure not defective? And what is a Legislature worth, anyway, when none of its laws will hold together till they are printed? A few months ago Henry W: Moore, managing editor of the St. Louis PostDispatch, deserted his wife and ran away with Mrs. Norton, wife of a reputable St. Louis gentleman. They have since lived in New York in uneventful retirement, but have emerged from obscurity to announce their separation and to throw mud at each other. This result is a natural outcome, and would be a matter of no concern to the public if the wretched couple had not found it convenient to throw their mud through the aid of the newspapers. Certainly professional courtesy to an ex-editor does not call for publication of vulgar details of a vile scandal, but some of the great moral organs seem to have this idea about it. . Owing to the arbitrary manner in which the Iloboken, N. J., police arrested Mrs. Pohlman, whose lately departed husband instructed her on his death bed to keep her saloon open on Sunday, whatever the law might say, the Hudson County Liquor League issued an edict last Saturday for every saloon to close its front doors pn Sunday, and they were closed. What was done, if anything, was through the back or side doors. Tho New York Star saya the arrest of Mrs. Pohlman had a depressing effect on business. Whether a fondness for music tends to make woman more beautiful than she would otherwise be the Journal is not prepared to say It can truthfully say, however, that after the festival matinee, yesterday afternoon, the streets of the city contained more pretty girls to the square inch than they evor did before. An Iowa district court has decided that notes given for the Bohemian oats fraud are good in the hands of an innocent purchaser, though they would not bo in the original hands. Coming from a prohibition State, as he does, it may be assumed that Ruby, the new 'consul' to Belfast, is a gem of the first water. ; ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A Kansas bride received a barrel of salt as one of her wedding presents. , M. Carxot, President of the French Re public, in his youth Berved a regular apprenticeship in a carpenter's shop, and is a clever craftsman at that trade. Says a Paris correspondent: 'M. Ferry ; A. 11 TTi 1 If is last) growing oiu. J us uapuMUcertificate would noV carry him quite up to sixty, but his carriage, his bent head and his stooping figure give the lie to the official date of his birth." Mrs. Sheridan never appears in public,' but visits the ladies of the late General's military family, and her father and family. This little circle consists of Mrs. Sheri dan's sister, Mrs. Colonel Sheridan, Mrs. Colonel Kellogg and Mrs. Colonel Blunt. Historian Bancroft is now quietly domiciled at Newport, where he will do the best he can toward enjoying his eightyninth summer here below. With his books and his roses, and his happy temperment, Mr. Bancroft has had a life of successes and rational pleasures. "Most any pleasant day," says tho Ellsworth (Me.) American, "one can see a ttulkwhite horse driven through the streets of Winter Harbor at a lively pace. Should yon inquire his history you would be told that the horse was owned by D. B. Flint, of Boston, and was twenty-nine years of age, but ho was formerly owned by General U. 8. Grant, and was ridden by him on the field of battle." "Mr. William R. Wing," 6ays the New Bedford Standard, "has in his possession a harpoon which was taken from a whale captured in the Ochotsk sea last summer by the bark Capo Horn Pigeon. The iron bore the name of the ship Thomas Dickason. and was bright and sharp as when driven into his whaleship. It had broken off close to the shank and was imbedded in the blubber of the whale. The Thomas Dickason sailed from this port Nov. 2, 185rt, and was lost in the Ochotsk sea during the summer of 1SC9." One of the few genuine Cossacks to be found in New York may be seen in the office of the Russian consul. His name is Dr. Peter Popoff, and he came here from Cossackland. He bears the appearance of his race. He i9 lithe, alert, and of sanguine temperament. It is not known that ho was born on horseback, but, as he belongs to priestly stock, that may have been his luck. This Cossack is a scholar of rare attainments, and a man of the most placid disposition. He is a graduate of the University of St. Petersburg. The late Mary Crawford was sexton of St. Barnabas Chapel, New York, for nearly twenty years, and died at the age of eightyfour. Her position was no sinecure. She had to put on the chancel before and take ofl after every service the altarfurniskings, lecterns, carpet, and all the books for a eervice of 200 people. She cared for and kept clean the holy vessels and priestly vestments. She not only kent the missionary's room in order, but she prepared his lunch and tea, and helped him distribute the books from the library, and visited the sick. It was with great reluctance that she gave up any of her duties when compelled to do so by failing health and loss of sight. From his childhood, even when spoken of as "the wondrous child" at Glasgow when the panels of the doors belonging to the concert-room were torn out in the rush to hear him Carl Rosa always confessed that the aim of his whole life was the attainment of a place as leader of an orches tra. He had been eminently successful in his career. His marriage with Mile. Parepa was signally happy. He had fallen desper ately in love with tho beautiful Greek, and traveled with nerall through America with the Batemau company. During the iourney he talked so incessantly to persuade her to listen to his suit that at last, as she would say, "I was forced to accept him, or 1 Rbouid nave gone mad lor want of sleep." From the moment of his marriage everything went prosperously with him. Victor Hugo's residence in Paris, in which the venerable poet died, has become a place of pilgrimage for thousands of per eons daily, in this exhibition season, and tho house has been converted into a kind of museum, with a few relics. One-franc admission is charged, and the place is crowded from morning until night. But the furniture has been removed and the visitor has not the melancholy satisfaction of standing beside the couch on which tho fraud old Frenchman breathed his last, he old home of the poet at Guernsey, "Hauteville House," is the , one which con

tains all the family treasures, manuscripts.

etc. In the Paris house the visitors are shown an incredible number of caricatures published of Victor Hugo during his long career of more than fifty years. J. Scott Hartley, the sculptor, is mod eling a bust of Susan B. Anthony. The veteran woman suffrage leader is not a quiet sitter, her restless temperament caus ing freauent chancres of nrwpi. In spite of her three scoreyears and ten. Miss Anthony js full of vivacious talk and reminiscences of her many campaigns, making tho after noons in the studio in the Holbein building very interesting to favored visitors. She protessesto have no objections whatever to the taking of some artistic liberties with the portraiture. All her life long, she says, she has labored under the imputation of being exclusively . plain.' After years of discipline of this description to the natural feminine vanities, she thinks it is no more than jnst recompense that any memorial of her which may remain to posterity should present her features in as favorable a light as is consistent with recognition. CYCLONE IN KANSAS. A Destructive Cloud Passes Over Chase County, Killing and Injuring Several Persons. Emporia, Kan., May 28. A disastrous storm passed over Clements, Chase county, thirty-two miles west of here, about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Captain Brown and his daughter were killed, and his wife had a leg almost torn oil', and his son had an arm and a leg broken. It is reported that six or seven other persons were killed, but the wires are all down and no reliable information can be obtained. John Pantle. conductor of a stock train, who arrived in Emporia at 9 o'clock to-night, 6ays he passed through Clements mst after the cyclone, and in plain sight of part orits destructive doings. The cloud looked square, shaped like a house, with its lower portion surrounded bv a white cloud looking like steam, which seemed to riso from all around the main dark clouds. As it came through tho timber it cut a wide swath, apparently destroying everything in its patn, and when it struck the Cottonwood river it looked as if it was cutting paths through the river, piling up the water on both sides. He saw Captain Brown's stone house totally demolished, another with the roof and one side torn off, and still another, on a hill, lifted and carried from its foundations. He afterwards learned that the people in the latter house took to the cellar and all escaped uninjured. The storm crossed the railroad in three places, and seemed to have madqf' a partial circle, going over nearly the same path a second time. Pantle says that its path was about fifty yards wide, and that there is little doubt of much damage and more deaths having occurred further from the road. He left word at Strong City, and from there a special train will bo sent out with doctors and assistance. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. It Decides that the Temperance Question Must Be Kept Out of Foil tics. New York, May 28. At the opening of the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day Rev. Dr. Crosby said he was sorry to see tho protest he made against the temperance resolution recorded. His object in opposing the adoption of the sentiment was to prevent the church being dragged into the political arena. He offered a resolution setting forth that the action taken on the temperance question must not be construed as the indorsement of any political party. .This was unanimously adopted. The report of the special committee on education was then taken up. Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook, of Philadelphia, said he did not agree with the recommendations of tho standing committee, in which was condemned the practice of terming extraordinary, those eases where the age at entering upon collegiate studies was under twentyfive years. - He moved to refer that part of the report back to the committee, and urged the adoption of a resolution which provided for the appointment of a special tominittee of seven on increasing tho number of ministers. Rev. Dr. D. T.. Hamlin, of Washington, supported Dr. McCook's resolution. Rov.'Dr. John M. Worrall moved to have the matter referred to the joint consideration of the special committee and the committee on unemployed ministers. The motion was finally adopted in tho form of an appointment of the joint committee, with instructions to adopt any method of introducing ministers into the church other than those now in vogue. Rev. Dr. S. J. Nicoll was appointed chairman of that committee. .. Dr. Crosby got a motion adopted explanatory of the vote on the prohibition question which was taken yesterday. This motion was to the effect that while the vote favored prohibition it was not to be looked upon as expressing any political sentiment whatever. The Rev. Dr. Thompson, chairman of the centennial fund committee, announced that $616,000 had been raised for disabled ministers. The judiciary committee reported that in the case of the Rev. Dr. W est, who complained against the Synod of Minnesota for refusing to receive a complaint against the Presbytery of St. Paul, it suspended judgmentbecause the synod had not made a record of the transaction. Tho complainant was on hand, and spoke on his case, but when recess arrived it had not been settled. The case of Rev. Dr. West against the Svnod of Minnesota was continued at the afternoon session. A warm argument between the Re. Dr. Dickey aud the complainant in the case took place, but the matter was finally adjourned for a year, the synod in tho meantime being instructed to complete its record. The moderator announced that he had appointed Rev. Drs. Crosby, Hamlin, Dickey, Wade, Foster and Allison as the committee to visit President Harrison on the African slavery question. At tho evening session the place of the next meeting was fixed at Saratoga Springs on the last Thursday in May, 1890, in the First Presbyterian Church. By resolution, Rev. Dr. Thurber, of the Svnod of New York, and Col. Elliott F. Shepard were appointed delegates at large to the International Presbyterian Conference which will be held in Paris next September. Final adjournment was then taken. Congregational Societies. Boston, May 2S. The American Congregational Association held its thirty-sixth annual meeting to-day. The report of the directors shows that the debt has been reduced to $181,000. Rufus S. Post was chosen president. The annual meeting of the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society was also held here to-day. S. B. Capen, of Boston, was elected president. The annual reports show that 548 new Sunday schools have been organized, and about 2.700 grants of supplies made to need Sunday schools. . American Unitarian Association. Boston, May 28.- At the annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association, held here to-day, the president, Hon. Geo. S. Hale, was re-elected. The report of the treasurer showed an income of $83,010 and expenditures of $100,372. The deficiency had been mostly paid from the general fund. The invested funds include the general fund, amounting to $161,000, and other donated funds amounting to $O.000 and a balance on account of temporary investment amounting to $51,000. Concerted Action Against the Jesuits. Ottawa, Ont., May 28. An immense Protestant mass-meeting was held here last night to consider the Jesuits estates act. Speakers from Montreal and Toronto were present The Dominion and Quebec governments were condemnedthe latter for giving the Jesuits a foothold in the country, aud the former for permitting this to be done. Resolutions were adopted which advocated the taking of measures to insure united political action to secure and maintain perfect religious equality throughout the entire Dominion, and to assist in testing the constitutionality of tho incorporation and endowment acts of tho Quebec Legislature. A similar meeting was held at Montreal. . Independent Order of Good Templars. Chicago. May 28. The Supreme Grand Lodge of the World of the Independent Order of Good Templar began its biennial ncesion here to-dav with closed doors. The session will probably last ten days.

THEY COULD MAKE NO AWABD

But One Bid Received by the School TextBook Commission Under the New Law. Publishers, Not Liking the Conditions Imposed Upon Them , Refrained from Submitting Any Definite Proposals Law Not Practical. The State Board of Education, sitting as school-book commissioners, met in the office of the Superintendent of Publio Instruction, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of opening ' bids to furnish text books to bo used in the common schools of the State. All the members were present, and when the meeting was called to order the room of the Superintendent was well filled with agents for publishing houses, and men interested in education from various parts of the State. Until yesterday morning no proposals had been submitted, but just before the commissioners convened several communications from publishing firms and compilers were handed to the secretary, Professor Jones. After the board had been caUed to order, and before any of the envelopes had been opened, Silas T. Bowen, of the Bowen-Merrill Company, of this city, asked for information as to what exactions would be made under the bond required of contractors. The commissioners thought it would be unfair to give those who had filed no proposals the advantage of any explanation, other than that contained in the blank bond itself, but it was agreed that any person desiring to bid might do so before the envelopes were opened. Mr. Bowen had a consultation with his partner. Colonel Merrill, and then announced that the firm would not submit a bid. The communications in the hands of the commissioners werq then examined, the first being that of the Wherewithal Manufacturing and Publishing Company, of No. 247 Elbow-place lane, Philadelphia. It proved not to be a bid at all. simply a proposal to furnish a special chart system of instruction at a discount of 50 per cent, from the regular price-list. No bond accompanied the proposition, and no further attention was given it. The second communication was from the Harper Bros., of New York. It was not a bid in regular form, but a letter in which they stated that they believed their reputations as publishers was sufficient guarantee for any contract they might make. A pricelist of their publications was submitted, and they offered to exchange their books at reduced prices, and after their introduction furnish them to the board or any responsible dealer designated by the commissioners at a discount of 25 per cent, from the regular list. They also stated that they were willing to agree that if there should be any reduction in the price of books during the period of their adoption the schools of Indiana should have the benefit of it. As the proposition was not in the form required by law, the commissioners could do othing but lay it aside as useless. S Tho third communication was the cause of considerable amusement for the board. It came from J. D. Grant, of Grand View, this State, and was written on a single sheet of paper, around a square inclosing what was intended to represent the title ol the book to be furnished. Inside the square was this inscription and proposition as follows: "The best Grammar (U. 8.) in the State the clearest and most concise definitionsno unnecessary matter to fill in numerous illustrations and exercises much work in construction required the result of eighteen years teaching and study can have complete Grammar manuscript ready in three months this manuscript is o tiered to the school-book commission for the use of the schools of Indiana, in either elementary or comnlete form, for the sum of $500 each' A letter from Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., of Cincinnati, in which they gave their reasons for refusing to submit a bid, was then read. Among other things, the firm said: "It has been the belief that no responsible party would be found willing to bid under the conditions of .this law. Not only is the price lower than publishers have been able to supply books in competition with one another, out the method of sale through public officers is one that must be equally unsatisfactory to the publishers and to the State if the law should go into effect. It has been estimated by those competent to judge that the expenses of such sales to the State would be fully as E-eat as the cost of the books themselves, est, however, anyone should assert that we have combined with other publishers to prevent tho success of the law, we have thought it wise to prepare a form of affidavit such as is required under Section 2 of the law, in which we affirm that we are not directly or indirectly connected with any other publishing house or party to any compact, syndicate or any other scheme." Governor Hovey objected to the affidavit being received, on the ground that there was no bid, and therefore it was not a matter the commission could consider. He thought when the commissioners wanted any advice from the firm they could ask for it. For the time being the affidavit was laid aside; but later it was read for information. It was in the uual form, and stated that the firm was in no way connected with any trust, combine, agreement, etc. The only genuine bid submitted was from A. S. Barnes & Co., of New York. However, it was conditional, and the con ditions were of a character that could not be complied with by the board under the law. Tho prices fixed for books corresponded precisely with those fixed by the law, but tho firm would not agree to furnish any bond for the faithful performance of the contract. In a communication accompanying the bid the firm said that the books would be furnished at the prices named if the form of the bond was modified so that the firm would not be held responsible for technical defaults, and provided it was understood the contractors would not be called upon to furnish more books than the schools would actually absorb. "As the case now stands," the letter continued, we might be required to pave the State with text-books, for which we might receive no money, as we read the law." It was further stated that the bids on readers and elemerrtary geographies were made conditional upon the acceptance of the proposal as an entirety. It would be impossible, the firm said, for anv one to furnish these books by themselves, at the prices specified by law, without heavy loss, W. W. Williams and G. W. Michaels proposed to furnish their eystem of penmanship, comprising a series of six books, at 5 cents each. They did not oner a bond, but expressed a willingness to deposit $50,000 as surety for the performance or the contract according to law. N. Cropsy submitted a proposition to give the State a copyright on a book, entitled "Graded Exercises in the Fundamental Processes of Arithmetic," for a royalty of 10 per cent. on the- retail price. The last communication was a letter from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, asking that in the text books concerning physiology the effect ' of alcoholic stimulants upon the human system be illustrated, ana the communication was placed on file. The commissioners then adjourned for dinner. When the afternoon session began the commissioners were puzzled as to what steps should bo taken. It was evident that the result of the first advertisement had proven tho law a failure, and yet there were hopes that a second attempt might bring better results. The members tried to find some cause for the absence of bona fide bidders. Governor Hovey said that either the law itself was a failure or else tho bond required was too binding. The commissioners thought the bond was surely not too severe, and Attorney-general Michener did not think it would be wiso to reduce it, It was shown that any od6 firm furnishing all the books would receive from the State something over $fiOO,000, while the bond required was only for $250,000. The order of the commission was that a bond for the following amounts, respectively, would be required: For the full series of books provided for, 250,000: five readers, $90,Cft); two arithmetics. 85,000; two grammars. SSO.OOO: two geographies. omey-genera custom to require a bond for half the amount involved, while in many instances security for the full amount was taken. He thought any reduction would virtually give the contractors the power to furnish inferior books, and by so doing thev could nerhans

$50,000; two copy-books. $20,000; history. $10,000; sneller. $0,000: physiology, $10,000. TheAttomey-generalstatedthat it wan the

I save enough to pay the penalty in case suit

was brought. lie felt there was no way to protect tho State except bv a good bond, and by having resident tree-holders as security. After a great dal of discussion it was decided not to make any changes in the bond, except to stipulate that any accidental or unintentional minor violation of the contract should not subject the contractors to tho payment of tee full amount of the bond. It was thought the change would not weaken the security anv, and might be an inducement to some publishers to bid. The commissioners then took up the propositions submitted, when the bid of Williams fc Co., on copy-books, was discussed. It was decided to reject it, because the proper kind of a bond had not been riled, lhe agent of the firm stated that his principals would bo glad to have the bid rejected, and that another one would be substituted. Barnes & Co.'s proposal had to be rejected because its conditions were contrary to the law, and could not bo complied with. Finally, in order to give the business before the commission a fresh start, Professor Jordan moved that all proposals be rejected with the except iou of those in reference to compiling books. It was also included in the motion that new bids be advertised for. The motion prevailed, and Professors Jones and Parsons were appointed a committeo to look into the probable cost of publishing the arithmetic compiled by N. Cropsy. On motion of Professor Jordan the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Mr. LaFolette, Professor Jones andGovernor Hovey were instructed to again advertise for bids, the advertisement to be designated No. 2. It was decided that it should be inserted in the same papers as the farst ono, and that it 6hould begin on June 3 and run until July 1 at 3 o'clock p. m.. when the commission will again meet and tPn hula. As the act only appropriated 1,000 to be used in putting the law in force, upenntendent LaFolette said there might not be enough money left to pay for the advertisements, but he would try to make what funds he had for that purpose pay all the bills. The probability of receiving the proposals under a second advertisement was discussed, and it was agreed that if none were submitted it would be conclusive evidence that the law was a failure. It was also agreed that in case no bids were submitted and a contract made, there would be no possibility of securing the books in time to place them in the schools during the coming year. For that reason, and because the commissioners wanted to go away on their summer vacation, a proposition to postpone .opening the bids was made, but it wa6 deemed best by the majority to give the law a thorough and speedy trial. The commissioners do not believe they will receive bids in compliance with the provisions of the law, but they Bay willnot pronounce the law a dead letter until they have given it a fair triah "One or two publishers have complained about the nature of the bonds we require," said one of the commissioners, "but the fact is they cannot a fiord to furnish books at the prices specified in the act. Their object is to get the bonds reduced, if possible, and then furnish books of an inferior quality, or else they fear they cannot carry out a contract if they receive it. In that event, they would lite to be free from any liability. I have talked with quite a number of publishers who say they could not bid if no bond at all was required. All we can do is to advertiso for bids according to the provisions of the law, and if we do not receive any proposals the reflection is on the law, and not on us." T cannot see how the law can ever possibly be a success," 6aid another member. "Even if we succeed in f ettingbids accordidg to its specifications, ho books we will receive are certain to be of an inferior quality. The sample books sent us to-day were from ten to twenty-five years behind the times, and they are probably better than we can even expect to get under the law. I think Gov. llovey has suggested the only solution of the textbook problem. I thought so at the time he delivered his inaugural address, and now I am confident that he is right. He favors free text books, bought by the State or school districts, and loaned to the pupils. I believe the next Legislature willadOpt his recommendations, even if we should succeed in getting some acceptable bids under the present badly-framed law."

last evening, and unless a conference should be found necessary will not meet arain until July 1. DECORATION BAY EXERCISES. The Street Parade and Ceremonies at Crown Hill Will Be of Unusual Interest Tho prospects are that to-morrow's celebration, commemorative of Memorial day, will be one of the largest ever held in the city. Printed programmes of the exercises at Crown Hill will be issued to-day. No changes have been made in the line of march or the order of positions in the parade, with the exception of a few additions to the latter. The ceremonies at the cemetery will be conducted this year upon a different plan from the one that has heretofore been adopted, especially in the decoration of the graves. Tho flags will be set by the Sons of Veterans, while the Ladies' Relief Corps will strew flowers. Following this ceremony, two details from the Knights of Pythias and tho Grand Army of the Republic, consisting of fifty men each, will march separately on each side of the graves, followed by the Sons of Veterans. All will be furnished with bunches of cut flowers, and at a given signal these will be thrown into the air and allowed to scatter over the graves. Tho Indianapolis Light Infantry will fire the salute from tho hill as tho head of the procession passes under the arch at the east entrance of the cemetery, while the salute at the graves will be fired by Company A, Second Regiment, The German Veterans will participate in the exercises with their artillery, while the music will bo furnished by the Telegraph Glee Club and the Second Regiment Band, better known under its former title as the When Band. Ample accommodations for the transportation of the people to the cemetery haveHbeen made. The Citizen' Streetrailway Company has abandouodtne turntable at the entrance, and in iH place laid a circular track, which will entble cars to be constantly moving in a circuit to and from tho city. The Big Four' railway will run trains, leaving the Union Station at 1 and 2 o'clock in the afternoon, making stops at Washington. North and Seventh streets for passengers. THE MEETINGS AT ACTON. Services to Be Conducted on an Extensive Flan, Particularly as to Temperance. The Acton Camp-meeting Association, in annual session, met yesterday at Acton Park, with the largest attendance ever on the ground on a like occasion. Nearly all the cottagers from this city, Shelby ville, Greensburg, Franklin, Rush ville and other points were there. The officers elected wero: President, Rev. Sampson Tincher; vice-president. Rev. E. L. Dolph; secretary, George Wright; treasurer, F. 51. Dowden; superintendent, J. R. Budd. The vacancies in the board of trustees were filled by the election of Mesvsrs. Moore, of Lawrenceburg; Noble, of Franklin, and Gordon, of Rushville. The trustees reported that liberal arrangements had been made with the railway for facilities in reaching the grounds and for cottagers during the camp-meeting. The camp-meeting committee said that extensive arrangements had been made with bishops of the church aim noted evangelists East and West for tho special and general work dnring the three weeks of service, and that Francis Mnrphy and his Hons, at the . lose of the latter, would conduct for ten days or two weeks the gospel temperance work. Particular attention is being given to arrangements for this temperance revival, aud it is believed that it will result in national temperance meetings on Murphy's frrapel plan to be held at Acton 'annually. The Murphy temperance leagues and clubs from all section of tho country are expected to fend delegates to the coming meeting. No Sunday trains are to t rim to the camp-grouuds, but earlyjiiorning and late evening trains will be run on all other days, to and from the grounds, at half rates. Nearly all the ottagssarc rented, and many aro to be built. The outlook for the camp-meeting is roost promising. Dr. Keen will remain ia charge of the meeting .-: