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

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THE INDIANAPOLIS . JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JUNE 4, 1889.

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Fletcher & Co ThA Indianapolis Journal J.B. 3Ianur M. J. Osgood Cash A.J. Ball P. H. Race.. Indiana Urld;o Co., Miincio, Ind. .9100.00 . 100.00 . 10O.00 , fiO.OO . ftO.OO . 10.0O . 5.00 5.00 . 23.00 Indianapolis Journal Composing-room C. L. Divine $1.00 Frank Eckert 1 .00 IE.C. Divine 1.00 M. M. Halpin l.Oo John Rankin 1.00 A. Lo wry , James Gogan..., M. Green , J. w. Glover 50 50 no 50 50 SO 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 A. Q. Goo I win... E. J. Heck er. 1.001 John Flinn ;eorge L. V.'alls... l.oo 'HmrhMarsh 1.00 J. VT. Anderson... 1.00 ,W. Wiley. 1.00 tt. Hackleman... l.OO -obn Hamilton.... 1.00 W.I Evans 1.00 G.T. Watkins . Wm. Mc Do well ... James Alley Willis Hume A. Schleicher..... Wm. Keed FredEllkart d. Fcott 1.001 K. II. Lakln Frennnt Frey 1.00'Rex Buzan tied Tyler. 50!Oscir Thomas.... Albert Weber. Frank Ayres. A. C Lacey... 50 The saloon-keepers1 organization, through the Tammany bosses, have nominated the excise commissioners of New York city. Mayor Grant is areform Mayor. v. . . , i Pennsylvania will vote on getting prohibition into the Constitution two weeks from to-day, and two days later Rhode Island will voto on getting it oat. It took three-fifths of the voters to iget it in a little over a year ago,; and will now take two-fifths to get it out. There is nothing so easy a3 lying unless it is calling names. Neither can alter facts, and both will not suffice much longer to blind the people of the city to the natural-gas situation. Whon they get their eyes open they will wonder that their hindsight is so much better than their foresight. The morbid curiosity which leads sight-seers to the scene of, a great calamity- ma be natural, but it is not admirable. There is no room at Johnstown for any but those who go to carry aid or assist in dispensing it. Tho crowd of sight-seers has already become a nuisance to tho sufferers and a hindrauco to those assisting them. They should be treated as loafers and trespassers. ' A Democratic correspondent of the New York Times, writiug from Columbus, O., calls Lawrence A. Neal, one of tho leading candidates for tho Governor's place on tho Democratic ticket, "a representative of tho tag-end of the old Virginia oligarchy that for many years monopolized the best federal and State offices." That is hard on the Bishops, and the Pughs, and the Aliens, and tho Thurmans of that State. "Tagend" is good. President Harrison's promptness in regard to our interests in Haytl and Samoa, will commend itself to tho American people no less than his promptness in regard to tho Alaskan waters. It is only a question of time. Wo will have coaling and naval stations in Hayti, and soon secure Samana bay, which was lost to us during Grant's administration, not because it was not a valuable acquisition, but because there were some mistakes in the methods of getting it. . It has been the fashion in some quarters to sneer at Commissioner Tanner as a person quite lacking in qualifications for public office, but at the rate he is growing in public esteem his critics will soon bo completely silenced, if they aro not already. IIo seems to have a remarkable aptitude for saying and doing the right thing, and tho people will not think any less of him for his open and avowed sympathy with old soldiers. There is no danger of his violating tho flaw, and as long as he docs not do that he can hardly construe it too liberally in the interest of pensioners and pension claimants. The schemo of preventing the occasional overflows of tho lower Mississippi by great reservoirs in the mountains, which aro at tho same time to serve a valuable purpose in irrigating the deserts, will receive a set back by tho Johnstown experiment with .great reservoirs. Besides, we havo no imrcstote or these descrta anyhow.

They were onco inhabited by some nowcxtinct races who did nothing to perpetuate their exploits but build mounds. If they had built school -lionses and published books and papers, it would have saved a world of conjecture about them. The Journal is not in favor of. an appropriation for any such a scheme.

C02OHSSI0NER TAKEEB AHD THE BTTRPLU8. OnrAYffshington correspondent reports Commissioner Tanner as saying: I shall have no regard for the condition of the surplus in tho Treasury in considering applications for pensions. It will be my purpose to grant all just pensions, and to do it promptly, whether our next pension appropriation bill shall be increased from eighty to ninety millions, or from eighty to one hundred and sixty million dollars. Good for Corporal Tanner. Wo havo heard nothing more sensible and satisfactory from any public official than this. Of course it is what might be expected from a prominent official under an administration which reveres the soldier more than it does the surplus, but it is nono tho less gratifying to hear it. The Commissioner's disregard for tho surplus will doubtless strike some persons as very irreverent and shocking. Under the Cleveland administration the surplus was a sort of fetich. If not worshiped it was tenderly nursed and guarded with the utmost care. It was the apple of tho administration eye, tho brightest jewel in the Cleveland coronet. As a stock argument in favor of tho necessity of reducing tho revenue, and infercntially of free trade, it became in Democratic eyes a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Its increase became the chief object of the administration. Its preservation was more important than that of the national credit. Thousands of pension claims were permitted to go unheeded, and old soldiers to languish in poor-houses in order to protect the sacred surplus. Commissioner Black assisted in carrying out this scheme, as, of course, he had to ,do under an administration which made the preservation of the surplus the key-stone of its policy. It was necessary to bolster up the fraudulent theory of free trade. Under this administration the surplus will take its proper place. It will not be treated as a financial fetich. It will neither be worshiped, nursed nor feared. It will be treated as a natural incident indicative of national prosperity, not as a permanent condition indicative of national decay. If necessary it will be used for tho legitimate purposes of the government, as it ought to be. At all events, it will not be used as a bugbear or a false pretense. Commissioner Tanner reflects tho views of the President when he says that in considering applications for pensions he shall havo no regard for the condition of the surplus. In one of his campaign speeches General Harrison said: "Tho attempt has been made to use this surplus as a lever to overturn the protective system. The promoters of this scheme, while professing a desire to diminish the surplus, have acted as if their purpose was to in crease it in part by opposing necessary and legitimate appropriations." Ono of the most necessary and legitimate ap propriations is one sufficient to meet and pay ; all . just pension claims. If this prevents an increase of tho surplus, or even wipes'it out, let it do so. The sur plus could not be put to a better use. As Commissioner Tanner says: "The surplus can take care of itself; those who need pensions cannot." Some of our State exchanges contain the following, purporting to be an ex tract from tho United States postal laws and regulations: Removing from the county; and leaving a paper uncalled for. or refusing to take the paper from the postofflce while indebted to the publisher it prima f acio evidence of intentional iraud. Taking a paper from tho postofhee makes the party doing so responsible for the pay whether he is the subscriber or not, even when the paper is addressed to another party. Postmasters who neglect to promptly in form a publisher of a subscriber's rof usal or neglect to take a paper outot apostorace, or of the removal of such subscriber, leav ing a paper uncalled for, makes such post master responsible tor tuo amount due. Perhaps that ought to bo in tho postal laws and regulations, but it is not, nor anything of tho kind. . On tho contrary, that compilation says: "The liability of persons who take newspapers and periodicals, coming to their address, out of a postoflico for the amount of the subscription thereto, is not determined by any postal law or regulation. Tho postmaster's duty is to deliver the matter on request, or, if unclaimed or refused, to dispose of it as required by law," viz.: as waste paper, and notify the publisher. A publisher who sends his paper to n person who has not paid for it in advance does so at his own risk. The Sentinel copies tho following statement from tho New York Telegram: The latest development of office-holding creed comes from the federal bench. Judge Woods, the notorious judicial henchman of the Republican party, who directed his jury to pitch the bribery case against Dudley out of court, has been detected in the groveling act of soliciting signatures to a petition to place him on the Supreme Bench in the Matthews vacancy. The statement, like scores of others recently printed in Democratic papers concerning Judge Woods, is an infamous lie. He has not only not done what is charged, but he has done absolutely nothing toward seeking a place on the Supreme Bench. More than this, he has declined proffered aid in that direction voluntarily made by others. In this as in all other respects the course of Judge Woods has been in strict accordance with tho proprieties of his position. A Paris cablegram says that M. Rouvicr, Minister of Finance, has issued a circular reminding his subordinates that in addition to their official duties they aro expected to "use their influence in tho cause of the government." These instructions are understood to mean that during tho coming electoral campaign tax collectors, local treasurers and other officials of the Finance Department are expected to do their utmost to secure the election of candidates favorablo to the party in power. Tho publication of the circular has elicited severe censure from the press, but tho fact that it should be issued at all shows that wo aro ahead of France in our ideas of civilaervice reform and governmental methods. In the present state of public

opinion in this country no administration could do such a thing without being severely rebuked and probably defeated at the polls. In France they havo not yet learned that in a republic the party temporarily in power is not the government.

TriE Charleston News and Courier, one of the best of the Democratic press, says that Mr. Cleveland's speech, his key-note, "is entitled to a place among tho political classics," and that tho dinner was a political event, which Mr. Cleveland met like a man, and adds: "If the Democratic party fails to make Grover Cleveland its leader in tho campaign of 1892 it will repeat the stupendous folly in which it set aside Mr. Tilden in 1880 for General Hancock." Then, after saying that Mr. Cleveland will not decline the nomination if tendered him, it says: "He is the strongest man in the party to-day, as ho was the strongest man last year, and he will be the strongest man in the party and in the Nation in 1892." Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, of Georgia, who has been foremost of all Southern men in the education of the f reedmen, estimates that since 18C2 $17,000,000 havo bVn sent from tho North, through the Beveral church organizations, for their education, and that $37,000,000 have been applied through the school machinery of the several States. He sees an early and satisfactory solution of tho vexed race question through education. Already its effect in establishing law and order, and in promoting industry, and habits of thrift and economy is marked. General Armstrong, the principal of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural School, thinks that politics may as well be dismissed and the whole question be left with tho schools. SimeoS Coy's eighteen months' sentence in tho penitentiary has expired, and he has returned to this city to resume his seat as a Democratic member of the Council. His political followers gave him a cordial welcome, and he intimates that he will again engage in politics. His talk indicates that he does not feel he has done anything improper, and shows an utter lack of moral sense. He is, in fact, no worse than the Democratic councilmen who voted against expelling him, and who, last night, welcomed him to his scat. He will probably become a Democratic hero. The New York Sun calls President Harrison's purpose to protect American rights in the Alaskan waters "a gigantic enterprise." Of course it is, and it was for just such enterprises that the American people made him commander-in-chief of our army and navy. If the Democracy of 1841 had held out for "fifty-four forty or fight," instead of abandoning our rights in that country, there would now be no controversy about those waters. It is only a settlement of au old question dodged by tho Democratic party forty years ago or more. The brother in black has greatly disturbed tho Episcopalians in the Dioceso of South Carolina. They do not want him to be represented in the councils, of the church, but propose to establish a church for him exclusively." : irr thV Baptist Church and the Methodist Episcopal no distinction is made on the color line. What with political, and social, and religious ostracism the brother in black is in hard lines, but he is progressing all the same. Time will be a controlling element in settling this raco question. Some facts concerning the scene of the latVdisaster may be of interest. The reservoir which burst was fourteen miles above Johnstown, and .the valley is very narrow: The towns submerged, in the order of their location, were: South Fork, with 2,000 inhabitants; Mineral Point, with 600; Conemaugh, 2,500; Woodport, 2,000, and Johnstown, 28,000. There were m any scattered residences between these towns. The Cambria iron-works employed above live thousand men. Johnstown was one of the busiest towns of its size anywhere. It occupied the site of an old Indian town called Kickenopawling. About tho year 1791 an enterprising German, Joseph Johns (he spelled it Yahns) settled there, and the original title deeds of many of the town lots aro in his name. As this was the head of navigation of those seeking the Western waters, it speedily became a place of shipment for tho iron of Huntingdon county, and for the lumber and produce of the vicinity, as well as the emigration destinedfor the West. Arks and flatboats were then the only means of conveyance. In recent years it has beoome an important manufacturing point. Its tonnage over the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio roads was larger than the tonnage of many cities threo times its size. The Cambria Iron and Steel Company is ono of the largest iron and steel corporations in the world. It had its main rolling-mills, Bessemer steel-works and wire-works at Johnstown, though it also has works in other places, and owns oro and coal mines and leases in the South, and in Michigan and in Spain, besides its Pennsylvania works. In extent, productive capacity, scientific appliances and comfortable arrangements these works were probably equal to any in the world. Since 18S6 they have been run by natural gas. Their destruction will be a national loss. The recent alleged "outrage" in France, involving the arrest of three American ladies, who had been' shopping in Nice, is not likely to prove a serious affair. Mr. McLane, late minister to France, and just arrived in New York, says he did not hear anything of the case before he left Paris, and knows nothing about it. He says it is not an uncommon occurrence for French tradesmen of the tricky sort to try to annoy customers who order goods and then refuse to take them because the orders have not been properly filled. Under tho French law all a tradesman has to do in such a case is to make out an affidavit that the goods were sent to the customer, who refused to pay for them. There is no imprisonment for debt in the country, but the hotel of the customer is watched by a police officer, aud the moment he attempts to leave it to depart for some other place his baggage is seized. Then he must submit to the extortion, or deposit with the commissary of polico a sum equal to tho amount of the claim, and light it. Mr. McLane thinks it probable the American ladies were arrested under these circumstances. If 6o, however annoying it may have been, it will hardly cause any international friction. There is nothing new under the sun. The oldest inhabitant recalls tho fact that the

great black frost on June 3, 1S5S, killed all vegetation on the Atlantic coast. To the Editor of the'lndlanapolls Journal: To whom should application be made for a situation as railway postal clerkt I have a 12cent stamp in my possession. Above the head It has "Department ot Agriculture," U. S., and below "twelve (12) cents. We can trace It back for about forty-five years. This stamp is yellow. Can you tell us anything of the lssuel Is its value more than 12 cents! Subscribes. Pise Village, Ind. 1. Appointments to the railway mail service are made under the civil-service law. For further information write to general superintendent railway mail service, Washington. D, C. 2. The stamp is probably an official postage stamp, such as were used by the government departments a few years ago. You are mistaken as to its age. It has no money value. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What are the provisions of the new law concerning the sale of cigarettes to minors! ew- Maysville, Ind. o. n. b. It prohibits the sale, giving or bartering of tobacco, cigars or cigaretfes to any person under sixteen years of age, to be used by such person. Penalty attached. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Please publish the substance of the road law, with recent changes. w. s. s. Mansfield, Ind. The law is too long to print, and its provisions are not easily condensed. The last Legislature made no changes in it. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What are the provisions of the new squirrel law in this State 1 j. B. M. Mellott, Ind. It prohibits tho shooting or hunting of squirrels between Dec. 20 and June 1, next following, each year.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Brigadier-general Drum, who has just b'een placed on the retired list, is believed to be the first Private soldier that ever attained the rank of a brigadier-general in the regular army of the United States. Mr. Amasa Sprague, elder brother of the late Governor William Sprague, of Rhode Island, and once the owner of 810,000,000, has Just accepted an elect ion to the office of sheriff of Kent county, in that State, an office worth three or lour hundred dollars a year. The Sultan of Morocco is gradually beginning to understand that the world is not afraid of him. A diplomate who was received by him the other day kept his hat on during the reception, which took place in the open air, aud the Sultan did not rescut it. Heretofore he compelled diplomates to stand bareheaded before him while he sat on horseback. The effect of the London book sales during last year is to show that books, under certain conditions, are a profitable investment. The early edition of Pickwick brought double the original prices. The first Ruskins, or Sir Richard Burtons, or the early editions of Swinburne and Browning all sell well. Investments in very highpriced books, such as tho Caxtons, have been profitable in a proportionate degree. BniGiiAM Young, jr., has been flying quite high in Washington society, having a pleasant home and an agreeable wife, and entertaining liberally. Some meddlesome people, however, have investigated Mr. Young's matrimonial record, and society is shocked to learn that he has three wives aud families in Salt Lake City, while it is darkly hinted that some of the back counties are still to be heard from on the subject ' Prof. Sylvester, who came from . England to bo professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, is very absentminded. Calling on friends in Baltimore he inspected the pictures on the parlor walls, and coming to two striking-looking oucs, asked who thev were. "George and Martha Washington.' "Ah! friends of the family, I suppose." Afterward he remembered that there was a lather of his country, and apologized. Gen. Roger A. Pryor is one of the most striking-looking men to be met with in New York. Notwithstanding his long residence at the North he still preserves his Southern appearance. He is tall and thin, and his thin face is cleanly shaven. His straight, coal-black hair falls well upon his shoulders, and his keen eyes are relieved of their iierceness by the quizzical mouth below them. General Pryor dresses in black broadcloth, and the length of his coat-tails weirdly enhances his height. The awards of the Paris Salon have just been made public. No American artist gets a medal, and in each of the three divisions of the beaux arts a solitary "honorablo mention" is accorded to an American. The recipients of this distinction are: In painting. Miss Marietta Cotton, for a portrait; in sculpture, Frederick MacMonies, a pupil of St. Gaudens, for his "Diana," and in architecture, Whitney Warren, of New York, for designs and sketches. This is a lighter share of honors than usual for America. They had a swell wedding out in Tombstone, A. T., the other day, and among the gifts to the bride were a furnished house, a mule, a heifer, a barrel of beer, a cask of wine, some whisky, a cork-screw, and several sums of money, ranging from $25 to $100. This magnificent display of Arizonian bountv inspired the Epitaph to burst forth with this knock-down query: "We would like to know if these sort of presents don't everlast ingly knock the spots out of sachetbags, embroidered slippers, ornamental suspenders and fancy garters!" Here is an essay on Deooration day by a little Philadelphia school-boy: "Decoration day is for to Decora the soldier grave. Some year tho flowers are full and plenty, and have a great many .buds on. They don't have only flowers, but have icewater and have lemonaido to comidate tho people. In, every llower-pot they stick a llag in. After the flowers are put on the 6olaicr grave, they shoot over the soldier grave, they join them together, putting lour together, ano. leave them tnere till shoot again. Then they go and get a drink and go in a shady place and rest themselves." Mi38 Jane Coldex. the first woman elected a county councilor in England, is barely thirty-five years old, but her hair is snowy white. Tho expression of . her face is refined and gentle, and she wears picturesque and becoming costumes, which complete a very attractive personality. And yet, with all her gentle womanliness, no one has done peripatetic agitation more persistently than she. She has lectured and spoken all over the country on all manners of topics. Her name is, of course, a very valuable piece of political stock in trade. It cannot be said that she really speaks well, and she dislikes it above all things, and yet her name, her pleasant voice and her obvious sincerity and genuineness never fail to make an impression. She is certain to carry her audience with her. Miss Cobden lives alone in a cozy little house out at Hampstead. Two of her married sisters are well known in the artistic world, ono as the wife of Mr. Sanderson, barrister and artistic bookbinder, the other as tho wife of Mr. Sickert.oneof the cleverest members of the "impressionist" school. The farmhouse at Midhurst. Sussex, where Cobden spent his declining years, still remains in the family, and his political daughter has always made use of the connection to keep alive a little spark of local liberalism in the heart of one ot England's most Tory counties. COMMENT AND OPINION. All things now seem conspiring to the nomination, in 18ft3, of Grover Cleveland. It need not be said that Republicans are quite willing that they should so conspire. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Cannot the same zeal and consecration which have worked such wonders in Christianizing the rude peoples of the remote East accomplish something in the way of regenerating our neighbor, Hayti! Is not the matter worth considering! Boston Journal. It is exceedingly difficult forthis country to have any quarrels with foreign powers, for two good reasons. One is that there are really no points in which onr national interest comes into serious conflict with those of foreign countries; the other, that there is no foreign country that has the disposition to quarrel with us, or which

will not do everything that is reasonable, and fair, and just to settle anv such trouble that may ariseBoston nerald. In any view of the case the strongest dam confining a large body of water is dangerous where it faces on. a valley leading to a populous section of country. It is a great engine of death aud destruction waiting for an adequate impulse to develop its capabilities for awful mischief. New xork Evening Telegram. Capital and labor have their contentious here as well as elsewhere: and business and industry encounter depression as well as prosperity. But take this country as a whole, and there is no other spot on the face of the earth where labor is 6o well rewarded and where it is able to clothe, house and feed itself so bountifully. Albany Journal. We do not wish to be understood as implying that an absolutely unrestricted immigration can go on forever, or that there is now any warrant or excuse for admitting paupers and convicts to land upon our shores. But wo have a cheerful faith in the permanence of American institutions in tho hands of a composite people, which is everywhere steadfastly American in spirit. New York Tribune. The sentiment in favor of constitutional prohibition is not so strong in the Presbyterian Church as it has been in years gone by. It has been weakened by the thirdparty movement. Its indorsement is apt to be taken as an indorsement of a political party which has announced that as its sole end, and the conservative Presbyterian Church will not put itself in such a position. Kansas City Journal. WnEN there ceases to be a completely solid South there shall cease to be a practically solid North, and a newer and a nobler generation of Americans willstrengthen and broaden the foundations of liberty and union. In the wished-for day all true men of the South will rejoice over the triumph of Benjamin Harrison as they now at heart rejoice over the downfall of slavery and the restoration of the Union. New York Press. The prohibition farce is nearly concluded in Rhode Island. Both branches of the Legislature have passed a bill submitting to the electors, on the third Tuesday in June, an amendment ito the State Constitution Annulling the prohibitory amendment. There is no qnestion as to the popnlar sentiment on the proposition. Prohibition will be voted out of the State Constitution to stay out. Its brief existence in Rhode Island will have been prolific of fraud, hypocrisy and drunkenness but it has furnished an awful example of the eflect of intemperance in temperance work. Boston Transcript.

THE APPOINTING POWER. A Strong Argument in Support of the Position Now Occupied by Governor Hovey. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The public mind has been interested for many weeks over the vetoes of Governor Hovey, the decisions of the Supreme Court and the general discussion by the press. Let us consider .the situation as it is now. The Supreme Court has decided five cases sustaining the vetoes Holt vs. . Denny, Jameson vs. Denny, the Evansville case Hovey vs. Niblackand others, Griffith ex parte and two cases, Carson vs. Hovey and Riley vs. Hovey against the principles of the vetoes. The last-named case is now pending, with a petition for a rehearing, the judges having divided, three for Riley and two sustaining the Governor's vetoes. The principal question involved is as to the appointing power of tho officers of tho benevolent institutions. The General Assemblyatthe last session elected all tho officers of the benevolent institutions under acts passed over the Governor's vetoes, and the whole question turns upon the provisions of the Constitution. The Governor contends that the appointing power belongs to the Governor of the State, while tho General Assembly claims the right to elect all the trustees of said institutions. It is admitted by all the judges in the decision of the above named cases that the appointment to office is an executive function. In Holt vs. Denny, Judge Olds, who delivered the opinion of the court, said: To prescrlte the manner of election or ap pointment to an office is an ordinary legislative function. To make an appointment to office is an admin istrative function. In Hovey vs. Carson, Judge Mitchell said: The nower to make appointments to office is essentially and intrinsically an executive function. In which all the justices concurred. Justices Coffey and Berkshire held the same in the opinions delivered by them, and denied the right of the General Assembly to elect such officers. In the case of Holt vs. Denny, Judge Elliott said: lias the General Assembly the power to appoint local officers, county, township, town or city! Those who affirm that it has this power alhrm that it may take it from the people of the locality. This I deny. It is quite clear to my mind that the framers of the Constitution did not intend to confer any general appointing power upon the Legislature, but that it aid mean to abridge rather than extend tho power. In tho case of Riley, now pending for a rehearing, Judge Elliott uses the following language, which seems somewhat inconsistent: The governing officers of all the benevolent institutions , of the State may be rightfully appointed by the General Assembly. This is conferred by the "practical exposition," and some undefined and unknown provision of the Constitution not quoted. Now. what has been the "practical exposition" as to the benevolent institutions? From 1851 all the officers of these institutions have been changed by the parties in power, and have been knocked about like a partisan foot-ball. The dominant party has always sought to control them, and every ono has been changed from the appointing power of the Governor to be selected by the dominant Legislature two or three times for each institution. This has been termed by the court in Riley's case as "practical exposition." It will he thus seen that every Justice of our Supreme Court has decided during this term that "an appointment to office is an executive function." With this fact fully and clearly admitted, let us see what the Constitution provides: Sec. 1, Art. 5, savs: "The executive power of the f?tate shall be vested in a Governor." Here the whole power to appoint is fully vested in the Governor of the State, unless some other section of the Constitution should provide otherwise. The powers of the government are divided into three separate denartment-the legislative, the executive, including theadministrative. and the Judicial and no person charged with oilicial duties under one of these departments shall exercise any of the functions of another, except as in this Constitution expressly provided. 8eo. 1. Art. 3: The legislative authority of the State shall be vested iu the General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of RepresentativesSec. l.Art. 4. The Judical power of the 8tate shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in circuit courts and in such other courts as the General Assembly may establish. Sec. 1, Art. 7. The language of these sections is plain and unambiguous. The whole powers aro designated and vested in the respective departments, and nothing but an express provision can detract in the least from either. No implied power can derogate from either, and no "practical exposition" by the Legislature can change a constitutional provision. "Practical exposition" may change or modify a law, but it cannot infringe upon the express words of a constitutional provision, it is true that Justice Elliott, in the Riley case, now pending, said: The Constitution contains provisions which, if they do not do raoro, do at least supply color for the claim of the right of the General Assembly to appoint the governing officers of the benevolent ofiices of the State. Has it come to . this, that "color" drawn from some part of the Constitution not referred . to is to have the force of authorizing the enactment of laws contradicting and virtually repealing that part of Section 1, Act 3. which denies to the departments any of the functions of each other, except as in the Constitution is "expressly provided!" Where is the express provision which ha9 given tho General Assembly the power to eloct any member of either -of the benevolent institutions! What right has any court with tho above provisions staring them in tho face to talk abont "practical exposition," implied construction, or "color' of other sections, if there is no express provision authorizing the General Assembly to elect said officers? Several of the officers of said institutions have been created since the ..Constitu

tion was adopted in 1551. The 'Woman's - Reformatory in 1SG9. Institution for the Feeble-minded in 1879, House of Refugo inlK7: the insane asylums at Evansville, Richmond and Logansport, 18S3; State prison, at Michigan City, in 18T9. Is it possible that the framers of tho Constitution could have had this class of institutions in viewf Nobody ever doubted that tho General Assembly had tho power to direct tho manner in which all officers should be elected or appointed. The man

, ner is prescribed by law. from tho Governor to the constable, hut it was never dreamed by tho framers of tho Constitution that tho Legislature would assume the executivo and administrative power of electing or appointing the officers outside of tho (express rovisions contained in the Constitution, n our opinion they .would have the same right to elect all the officers of the State as they would to elect one, Justick. OCR FIGHTING STRENGTH. An Englishman Ridicules Us and Tells IIow the Republic Might Disappear. St. James's Gazette. You have recently drawn much attention to the attempts which the Americans aro making to develop a powerful navy, and 3'on have hinted that m a few years an addition may be made to the irreat potential lighting 6tatesof the world. I have passed a good mauv vears in America, and irom what I have seen there I have come to tho conclusion that you, m company with most Lnglishmen. entertain much too high an opinion of tho possible offensive power oTf ma unuea states. Now for one improvised cruiser that tho Americans could nut on the nr.in nr iha lakes, it is certain that wo could put at least twenty, and better ones at that. Their "cruisers' would be sininlv rnrm steamers armed and manned auyhow, just as they were during their civil war. Tho army of 000,000 to 500,000 would be com posed oi our old lncnds the "men with muskets." totallr iin.impn.ahl a t rlUipline," to whom plenty of good excuses for mutiny woum he supplied by the army conThe overcrrown Rennldio ic ottrnv fmm ltlerinsr and larrinc intfrt trim in disposed to split into halves and quarters, and the "shaking up" which a foreign war would pve its rather crazy institutions wuuiu ue an excellent opportunity for malcontent States to "get Iooms" from ono another. The vast Southern nnd W..trn ci-devant seceding States havo not forgotieu wuai lonowea me war, or the fact that they have been bled ever kinrA fnr ti. benefit of tho Northern capitalists and manufacturers who conquered, plundered, and uumucuiuoMu. inen inero is tue largo and increasing negro population, who feel that the end is not yet. and live in alarm and uncertainty, dreading the final issue peruaps massacre nnu asportation: anvthing in such a country and Bucb cmidi. tions being on the cards. Again, the agricultural population, iwo-Tniros at least of whom are foreigners from everv nation in Europe Germans preponderating wnnld not admire being conscripted to fight the English in order to please the politicians and oblige their Irish patrons. Then the Indians (reinforced bv considerable numbers of half-breeds and "Indian white men" who have married squaws and become affiliated with tho tribes or adopteyi into them) would be very likely they are all well armed with repeating weapon to take to tho war-path, having been, mercilessly cheated and swindled tor tho jjaat . inn i y s or &u, iu violation OI mo most solemn treaties. Some people maintain that the cowboys who. as Gen. Sheridan remarked: "Fight pretty well wheu they are drunk," and aro regular nomads, as averse to discipline as a Kurd or Red on in would hold the Indians in chock, but this is doubtful. The interests both of cowboys and Indians aro identical, as aro their pursuits, isoth hato the "grangers "or air . ricultural squatters, who continually pour in from the Eastern States, encroach upon, and Dreax up cattle runs ana reservations, and are a growing danger and menace both A. .1 J ill. 1 1 m iu reu men, uuu L.uuo-owners. a oig xoreign war would leave the latter a free of tho great cities might want lookinc after during the war, and the great labor asso ciations might probably take the opportu nity to put themselves aggressively in eviuence. irinaiiy, n cieieaiea. Humiliated, and discredited by a foreign power, especially if that power were Great Britain, it is all but certain that the Republic might disappear. A Neat Retort. Boston Transcript. The lato Peleg W. Chandler, who was hard of hearing, was one of the most effective of war-timo speakers. Every occasion illustrated his oloquence, and ono demonstrated the quickness of his repartee. At one meeting he was frequently inter runted by a blackguard at the rear of tho hall, who kept shouting: "Why don't you go yourself f:f For a time Mr. Chandler's deafness prevented him from catching the exact naturo of tho interruption of .which he had been for some time conscious. At last Mr. Chandler caught tho words of the disturber. Then, in the mildest accents, which emphasized the force.of the words, he said: "Young man. if my ears were n3 good as yours, and as long as yours, I shouldn't b& here to-nighL Walt Whitman at Seventy. riul&deTphla Record, Jane 1. Propped up in his movable nrm-chair, with his long white hair falling over his shoulders, his face ruddy with pleasure and his eyes sparkling with animation, Walt Whitman looked truly patriarchal as he sat amid friends, last night, in Morgan's Hall, Camden, and listened to praises of his work and congratulations upon his, attaining the allotted three score years anl ten. Abroad rolling collar, such as he is represented as wearing in all his picture, rufiles on his 6hirt-front and ruffies at hiv wrists, and an easy short coat, gave him a picturesque appearance among all his black-coated admirers. "The old man is looking better than I have seen him for some time." said ono of his Camden friends, and it was the universal opinion that ho seemed good for several more birthdays. m m Doesn't Go Far Enough. New York Press. "Tall Sycamore" Voorhees sends 20 to the striking coal miners in Indiana and once more repoats the well-worn free-trado argument to the eflect that Iweanso labor troubles exist under a protective tariff protection is a bad thing. "The condition of things," he says, "makes its own conclusive argument to every intelligent workman iu the United States." The Seuator should go further. Tho condition of thinga makes an argument equally "conclusive' against the sunshine aud summer rain and the waving grass. Strikes and lock-out come in spite of them alL An Unpopular Name. Vernon Censor. The Wisconsin Prohibitionist, published, at Madison, has changed its name to 'Th Northwestern Mail," assigning as reasorr for such chauge that tnero is such a. popular prejudice against the name that it cannot do business successfully. The consistency of this is shown in the past record of that paper, which has never lost an opportunity to brand every journal and individual as moral cowards who refused to look through its narrow view of matters and policy Why the rubllc Will Not Re Scared. Hartford Courant. The sensational newspapers may as well abandon the attempt to make the great American public's llesh creep by alarmia articles about impending collisions between American and Rritish cruisers in Alaskan waters. It doesn't creep worth a cent, and the reason is that the great American public isn't a look Why the Smiths Laughed. Dayton (O.) Jo nrnal. A Dayton clergyman recently startled his audience, which coutained u large con-, tingentofthe Smith family, by announcing several times distinctly: "And thri were no smiths in all Israel." At the lust assertion of this holemn fact a ripple of laughter ran around the church. He Cannot Outlive It. 8L Louis Olobe-Prrnocrat. Senator Voorhees has given the Indiana coal-miners but if he had given them fc million the fact would still remain that ho can never outlive the disgrace of his 1'opf erhtad record, as set forth on u certain ively occasion by Senator IngalK Not Engaged In Commerce. Puck. Strange aa it may seem, Sullivan is not a member of tho Boston Ho) ting Comjinjy

hand, and tho grangers might possibly a they say in Texas "h ar something drop.' The numerous Socialists and Anarchist