Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth SU p. 8. Heath. Correspondent. KEX7 YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner BeekmAn and Nassau Streets. TE1UXS OF smiSCKIlTION. DAILY. One year, withont Fan day fl2.00 On year, with Fnnlay 14 00 8ix momlm, without Sunday 6.00 81x months, with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without Sunday 100 Three month at with Sunday 3JJ0 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEEKLY. Per year fl 00 Reduced Rates to Clubs, gnbscritu with any of our numerous agents, or tend subscriptions to THIS JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, ixn. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can found at the following place: LONDON-American Exchange la Europe, 443 Btracd PARIS American Exchange m Parts, 35 Boulevard dts Cap acmes. NEW YORK Ollsey llouse and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPniA-A. pT KemMe, 3735 Uneuter avenue. CHICAGO Palmer noose. CINCINNATI J. P. JIawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOTJI8VILIX-C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ... 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Souttem Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C. KlgfCS Mouse and EDbitt II0U86. Telephone Cavils. Business Office 223 Editorial Rooms 242 The Journal Relief Fund. The Johnstown sufferers are in need of money, and there is no danger that too much will he subscribed. The Journal will continue to acknowledge and forward whatever sums may be entrusted to it, and persons in the city and throughout tho State who desire to contribute to the assistance of these stricken people are urged to at ouce send in such sums as they may feel able to devote to this cause. All money received will bo sent directly to Chairman McCrary, of tho Pittsburg relief committee. The Journal fund now stands: Received June 3 $470.25 Received June 4 459.0 l-eceived June 5 279.00 Yetterday's IUctipts. Cash. Indianapolis $1.00 Cash, Indianapolis 3.00 V. M. Blank. Indianapolis 5.00 "Unknown" Indiana.iolis 5.00 Carter fc Lee. Indianapolis 10.0O John 8. Spann, Indianapolis 20.00 Cash, Indianapolis l.OO Additional Journal Composingroom 2.50 $47.50 Total $1,256.55 June 4 Remitted to Wm. McCrary, chairman relief fund, Pittsburg. Pa $300.00 June 5 Remitted as above... 300.001,100.00 Balance for next remittance $156.55 Little has been said about tho destruction of animals in the Johnstown Hood, but it must have been very great. A dispatch mentions the bodies of hundreds of horses as forming part of tho accumulated debris at ono point. The Johnstown calamity is one that calls for liberal giving. Every man and woman in Indiana, according as they may bo able, should contribute to tho relief of the survivors of the greatest disaster the country has known. The need is urgent, and no time should bo lost. It has teen a long time since through mails between the East and West have suffered a3 great interruption and long detention as during tho last few days. It will test the resources of the Postoffice Department to get them straightened out again, but people understand the situation and are not complaining. Tiie father of young Tascott, the supposed murderer, says that if ho knew where the fugitive was he would have produced him long ago, as they are able to prove conclusively that he was not near the the Snell house on the night of the murder. Tho father may be mistaken, but it is just as likely the Chicago police have been pursuing the wrong man all these months.

Two negroes living near Osyka, Miss., were lynched by a mob of white men a few days ago, and their bodies riddled with buckshot. The lynching seems to have , been done on general principles. The victims were not charged with any specific crime, but are said to have been "bad negroes." This is a new plank in the Democratic platform. If it were applied to bad whites as well, there would be an end of the solid South. Certain Republican members of the City Council are gleefully saying that the Journal has been compelled to retreat from its position on the proposition for increasing the saloon license to the limit of the new law. In order that these Republicans and all others may make no mistake about this matter, the Journal takes occasion to repeat that its. influence will bo cast in opposition to the re-election to Council or Board of Aldermen of any Republican member who votes against the proposed increase. The Superintendent of tho Census has issued a circular addressed to the medical profession throughout the country, requesting their co-operation in tho furnishing of vital statistics. The Census Office is prepared to furnish registration books, or "physicians' registers," to professional applicants, and hopes to receive returns from fifty thousand practitioners. The work on their part will, of course, bo gratuitous, but it is of a kind that most physicians will be glad to render. The tabulation of the statistics and preparation of this branch of tho report will be done by Dr. John S. Billings, surgeon United States army. In all probability the next calamity to fall on the Conemaugh valley will be a pestilence. Tho conditions for it exist to an alarming degree. The waterboaked ground, the misasmatic exhalations, decaying vegetable matter and putrefying bodies, human and animal, f umish all the elements for a harvest of death. The overwrought and exhausted condition of those who have survived the flood, already half dead from fright, exposureand Rtarration, makes them peculiarly subject to attack from disease. The situation seems to call for tho appli cation of prompt and heroic hygienic measures. The disposition of the corpses is a matter of pressing importance. If the weather grows warmer, or even con tinues as warm as it is at present, it will bd iia?OMible to remove the debris and

discover tho corpses before the work of decomposition shall be far advanced. This will add a new peril to the situation. If it can be averted by cremation there should bo no hesitation in resorting to that. Justice to tho living may require it. It may even prove a protection in the future; for the hasty and perhaps shallow interment of so many corpses may prove a prolific source of disease hereafter.

JOHKSTOWH'SUEQEIiT HEED. There is no danger of more money being contributed for the relief of tho Conemaugh valley flood-sufferers than tho exigencies of the occasion demand. Philadelphia has raised nearly $CO0,0O0; New York more than half as much. Pittsburgh liberality has been especially commendable, over $200,000 having been sent from there. Cleveland has generously contributed about $40,000 in cash, besides sending several train-loads of provisions. From as far South as Jacksonville, Fla., comes the news that several thousand dollars have been sent to the relief of tho distressed . survivors, and the generosity of the whole country has been remarkable. When, however, we consider the statement made by experienced contractors that it will require ten thousand men thirty days to clear away the debris before Johnstown will be in condition for rebuilding, the magnitude of tho undertaking can be in a measure appreciated. Thousands of people have lost everything they possessed, and a vast sum will bo required to collect and bury the dead, and feed, clothe and maintain tho survivors until the ruined works in which they were employed will again afford them a living. Indiana and Indianapolis have done well, but they can givo still more liberally. Every dollar counts. Dimes go to make dollars, and there are few so poor as not to bo able to contribute something. Let everybody lend a hand. All sums sent to the Journal office will bo accounted for and promptly forwarded to the proper committees. INDIANA BONDS AND INDIANA CAPITAL. Our State officers have advertised, as required by law, for the refunding of our 83,005,000 school bonds, at not over 3 percent. There are several features of this transaction that are deserving attention, and some deserve criticism. First, there is tho rate all bids above 3 per cent, are to be rejected. That must strike an old-timer as something remarkable. Thirty ' years ago government ten-per-cent. bonds went a-begging, and, just before the close of Mr. Buchanan's term, had to be sold direct from tho Treasury Department at such a discount as to make tho government pay 13 per cent., while now government bonds aro in demand at 3 per cent. Thirty years ago privato loans commanded never less than 12 per cent., and often twice that, whether made by banks or individuals. How came this change? Nothing like it has ever occurred in any other nation. Tho answer is plain. About thirty years ago tho management of monetary and commercial affairs was wrested from tho party whose financial and commercial policy for tho preceding thirty years had culminated in that form Df bankruptcy which is indicated by those murderous rates of interest. No one Republican measure can, howover, bo credited with these results, for every purely financial measure so interlocks with monetary and commercial measures that each helps or retards the other. The whole must be regarded as a system of several companion measures, which embraces tariff and tax, coinage and currency, and banking and commerce. This system, which in less than thirty years ha s doubled the price of wage labor and cheapened every product of labor, except farm products, and which has reduced tho rate of interest about 70 per cent., may be claimed as purely Kepublican . At every stage, from the issuing of the first demand note to the very latest amendment of tho national banking system; from tho first Republican tariff to tho latest Republican amendment of it; from tho first internal revenue measure to tho latest modification of it the Democratic party, a9 such, has opposed every measure in tho system which has made such a condition of economic affairs possible, though occasionally a Randall has risen above tho party and lent his influence to them. And yet, when, for years, that party had control of both branches of Congress it dared not disturb one of these measures, and when, at last, it proposed to bein with the tariff it was promptly rebuked by the -American people. Tho question now disturbing that party is whethcr-it shall renew this attack or not. $no feature of this business deserves sharp criticism. Tho blame is not with the officers, however, but with the law. With millions of home capital seeking a 3 per cent, investment, it is wrong to make these bonds purely for the New York market. What signifies tho filing of bids hero if they must be opened only in New York? And what is a 3 per cent, bond that is taxable 2 per cent., the average rate of municipal and State tax rate? Neither State nor corporation derives any revenue from these bonds when sold in New York. How New York capital can evade New York taxation is not material to the issue it does, and that is sufficient, and because it does it can afford to take our 3 per cent, bonds at a premium while our millions remain uninvested, and for the most part untaxed. The Journal has heretofore referred to this and proposes to keep it before tho people of Indiana until the bonds of Indiana shall be the safety deposit, tho savings bank for the thousands of thrifty .and frugal people who save a little from their daily earnings. State bonds bearing 3 per cent, interest, in denominations of $50 aud small multiples of $50, not to exceed $500, fnot taxable, would find purchasers among laboring men and women, and bo of inestimable value for guardians and administrators, and for litigants pending the settlement of estates or the decisions of courts. The law could easily provide against the absorption of these securities by banks or largo capitalists, and for their salo without any expensive

middlemen. Let those who mold public opinion on such subjects carefully study this problem. Tho Journal called tho attention of the late Legislature to it, but it involved too much statesmanship to divert that body from its partisan schemes. , Tho delusive provision of receiving bids at home, for home capital, is as near as it could approach tho idea.

Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, says that uqder no circumstances will he ever advise or sanction another strike. He makes this remarkable statement in face of the fact that he is a candidate for re-election. To members of the order he said, by way of explanation: "My reason for this decision is two-fold. -In the first place, I am opposed to strikes on general principles. In the second place, to strike would be practically suicide, for, owing to the inexorable laws of supply and demand, and the large number of unemployed engineers in the country, it would take but an exceedingly 6hort space of timfe to fill your places." Mr. Arthur is a man who has the courage of his convictions. His position in regard to strikes has no doubt been reached after long and careful deliberation. It is a wise and conservative view. Strikes may sometimes be justifiable, but they are almost always unwise. It is with strikes as with war, of which they are indeed a modified form; as good, or better, results can be obtained at much less expense by arbitration. It will probably astonish most people to learn that the expense of running the new State-house is $4,000 more than tho combined salaries of the Governor and all the State officers. Such is tho fact. A statement printed elsewhere shows the annual expense of the State-house to be $20,040, while all the salaries above named aggregate only $16,500. At this rate our State-house is an expensivo luxury. This outrageous extravagance is the result of Democratic legislation. The State-house is loaded down to the guards with Democratic stipendiaries. Think of paying $9,000 a year for fifteen janitors and $5,400 a year for six assistant engineers. If tho people do not open their eyes at thif revelation of Democratic extravagance they must bo very sleepy. Thk work of collecting money in Indiana for the relief of ,tho survivors of the Johnstown calamity has been begun in a satisfactory manner, but there is already a visible slackening in the receipts. Johnstown needs money to aid in cleaningits streets, in burying tho dead, and in providing for the immediate wants of tho living. Tho Journal hopes that the cities and towns of Indiana will do their full share in this noble work of charity. Send in your contributions, big or little; the dime is as welcome as the dollar, and there is no danger that there will be too many of either. An officer of the Missouri Pacific railroad at Hannibal, Mo., has been convicted in the federal court for discriminating, in freights, contrary to the interstate-commerce law. Tho commissioners having failed to enforce the law, suit was brought; in the court, and conviction was the result; Since this case has thus resnlted, tho Chi-' cago Board of Trade has had five officials of the Michigan Central indicted for tho same often se. This is regarded as only a. beginning. A. firm of Washington attorneys have received tho following letter from a client in Tennessee: Gentlemen Will von Please send the first name of Mrs. President Harrison, and oblige. On tho nlpht of May 24 John Shootman's wife pave Dirth to a trio of babies two hoys and a girl, I named one of the boys Benjamin and the other! Harrison, and cue mother wants airs. Harrison's name for the girl. It is fair to infer that John Shootman is a Republican. The Society of the Alumna3 of the Wesleyan College at their last October meet ing elected Mrs. Brown, wife of the presi dent, an honorary member. At the meet ing last Tuosdayher name was erased on tho plea that her election was unconstitu tional. There is but ono living honorary member, tho widow of the first President Wilber. ; ' A glass urn was placed in front of S. M. Wanamaker's store, in Philadelphia, last Monday, and guarded by a policeman, into which $CU9.11 were dropped by passers-by between 10:S0 in the morning and 5 p. m., for the Johnstown sufferers. One American Arm owns 17,000,000 acres of land in the peninsula of California, now belonging to Mexico. Thisfirm is active in trying to have the United States buy that peninsula, but nobody else seems to care for it. Two of tho graduates of Harvard College who have been helped by the scholarship fund, have returned the amount they had received, which goes into the fund to help others. ABOUT PEOPLE AND TIIIXGS. Kate Chase Sprague is writing a bi ography of her father, the late Chief-justice Chase.' She also contemplates publishing a volume of personal memoirs. HirpoLYTE, the winner in the Haytien contest, is a most inveterate smoker. He is never without a strong, black cigar between his lips. He has, perhaps, heard of General urant. 'For every five girls you put into busi ness offices," says a New Yorker, "you will make three old maids. They will be annre ciated for their work, just as boys are, but the3 will lose the inllueuce of their sex over men." -., Queen Victoria's autograph is a rare sight in America, but there is one in tho Public Library of Chicago. It appears on the ily-leaf of an elegantly-bound copy of the Life of the Prince Consort," which was presented to the library by the distinguished authoress, with her compli ments. M. Henri Rochefort belongs to one of the oldest of noble French families. But he has discontinued the titles, and as his sons are not legitimate, they cannot claim them, so that when the pamphleteer and journalist dies they will lapse.'' Strange to sa3 tho last of the line who. bore tho title, Henri Rocbefort's fat her. died some twenty years since in a lowly garret .iu absolute Oliver Woodiiouse is said to be the oldest ollice-holder in Connecticut. He entered the Hartford postottice more than forty years ago, and for more than a gener ation has been one of the chief advisers of the succeeding postmasters. He is an authority on all mail routes, and savs he remembers when the California letters were sent by way of Panama 'at a cot of 40 cents each. Ax a sale of old coins in London the other day the famous "petition" silver crown piece of Charles II, tne masterpiece of Simon, brought the extraordinary price of 000. The last time it was sold it was

bought by Mr. Bieber, in 1831, for 215. It is said to have been given by Charles II to

pave it to Lord Oxford. In 1742 it was bought for 20 by Martin Folkes. ""Washington has a number of accom plished swordsmen who are dovotees to the art," says ono of the newspapers of that city, "but the most prominent is the Brit ish minister, Sir Julian Pauncefote. He formerly used the foils considerably, but for the past few years has had no one with whom to practice. Recently, though, he has taken again to the exercise, and during the summer expects to have a number of fencing bouts with Professor Hall, at the batter's academy." Mrs. Annie Besant. the Socialist, has great popularity and influence among the Radicals of London. There is, says a writer, a wonderful magnetic attraction about her. Her face in repose can hardly do canea handsome, but when animated. her dark Irish eves dash lire. aud. as one of her lady friends once said, "She has one of the sweetest smiles 1 have ever seen." Her short, curling hair, and the somewhat pe culiar attire whicli she aliecte, add to the individuality of her appearance. But her eloquence is, after all, her greatest attrac tion. It is said that M. Gounod, the composer. who is a man of intense religious convic tions, once spent an hour upon his knees praying for the conversion of Sarah Bernhardt, in that lady's presence. Sarah's response was snort but not very sweet, ana at last she had to turn him out of her house. Gounod's countrv house was threat ened during the Franco-Prussian war. Trustirg to his fame for defense, he put up the following inscription: ' lho house of Charles Gounod, the composer of 'Faust.'" 15ut tho marauding Oernians burnt it to the ground all the same. About ten years ago some wealthy young women of Berlin formed an anti-manying club, each member pledging herself not to marry under penalty of a fine of 1,000 marks. The club started with twentythree rembers. and soon had thirty-one. Then an epidemic of marrying broke out. and the marks began to pour into the treasury as the fines were paid. This year at the general meeting there wat. but one member left, and she had 28,000 marks remaining of the paid-up tines. By advice of ai i ir. me cx-memners, tnis sum was aiviuea mio two parts, one to co to the Berlin hospitals and the other to the last member. Carlos Montezuma, a full-blooded Apache, whose Indian name wasWas-sa-jah, was captured as a lad by Pimas, in 1ST0, and two years later was sold by them to a photographer, who took Montezuma to Chicago and adopted him. Since that time he has lived in the Lake City and continuously attended schools and colleges until last rnontn, wnen negraduatea irom a meaical college, and tho degTee of bachelor of science was conferred on him. He is now a practicing physician. On centennial day he delivered the oration in one of the leading educational institutions in Chicago. Harold P. Brown, the electrician who is in charge of the arrangements for carrying out the law for tho execution of the death penalty by electricity in New York, is a slender, blonde young man, with a very pleasing expression of countenance, and an almost perpetual smile. Tho way he got into the killing-machine business, says the New York Sun, was through his enthusiasm in opposing the use of the alternating current in practical electrical work. He was so determined to prove that the alternating current is deady that ho jumped at the chance of killing a man for that purpose. Admiral Porter lately held a state din ner in Washington, and Ah Sin, a Chinese servant, was assigned to duty in attend ance p t tho door. In his country a visitor's rank i3 indicated by the size of tho card, and a huge yellow one means the presence of a prince. The small bits of pasteboard 1 1 . L X P T received oui scam couriesy irom An cm, but when the gas collector. presented his bill the celestial's demeanor underwent a change. The long yellow slip captured Ah Sin. and with profound salaams he bowed the astonished gasman into the presence of the amazed family and irate head of the navy. It is stated that Mrs. Joseph Chamber lain, neo Endicott, is much disgusted with the freedom which pertains to conversa tion in what are considered the most select circles of English society. Her Puritan blood cannot stand certain features of din ner gossip popular m London. Not long ago she left the table of a noted peeress because of some remark which was made. Tho guests were astonished, but it is said that lueen Victoria thoroughly approves of Airs. Chamberlain's course. JVhatever the Queen may decree regarding court dress, she does not believe in having conversation cut decollete. Mr. Harry Furniss is about to have his portrait painted. It came about in this way. In his lecture on protraiture, Mr. Furniss stated that frequently when a painter charged 800 guinea 8 for a portrait, 00 were for his name and 200 for the portrait, and that he knew plenty of young men without ' names who could produce quite as good a work of art for the 200 guineas. Since making that statement Mr. Furniss has received a number of applications for the names and addresses of these clever young men, who do not charge for their names. In reply, Mr. Furniss furnished a name, commissions ensued, and as a 'return, the artist is painting his patron's portrait. COMMENT AND OPINION. When a real election is at hand, the mass es of the Democracy have a sincere preference for victory, and for a candidate and platform that will mean victory. Besides, they have no further use for a Pharisee like Cleveland. . They have tried him, and they don't want him any more. New York Sun. America has reason to be proud of her debut in European politics, but at the same time it is to be hoped that the occasion for interference may not arise again soon. Our inllueuce is unquestioned, but the less occasion there is for its exercise the better it will be for the United States. San Francisco Chronicle. The execution of the chiefs of the Haymarket conspiracy extinguished every spark of anarchistio plot in Chicago. The execution of the conspirators, if conspirators there be, in the Cronin murder, will extinguish the last spark of quasi-political plot for murder in the United States. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The countries of civilization in the early days of the world's history are now largely covered by tho sands of the desert, or abandoned to the bats and owls. It may only be by a cautious appreciation of the dangers which attend our mode n life, and an intelligent provision against .hem, that we are to be spared a similar fate. Boston Herald. Ik coal and ore were admitted to-day free of .duty, and. by the way, the Mills bill did not touch the tari ft' upon either the causes which occasioned the depression ot our iron industries would continue to operate. These causes are geographical, and incident to the processes of manufacture, and are not connected with the tariff. Boston Journal. There must be something radically defective in a system of municipal government in which its police owe an allegiance to secret organizations superior to that of their oflicial position. A Chicago police otlicer, sworn to assist in the preservation of the public peace, animated by a hatred of foreign origin, does not hesitate to plan a murder to avenge some offense, real or fancied. Chicago Herald. The whole trouble in Alabama and the other cotton States is the laziness of the whites and their determination to live off the toil of others. It is part and parcel of the old heridity of slavery, and, until that policy is changed, Alabama farms will continue goiug to decay. White immigrants are not likely to be attracted by such conditions. The remedy will be found when tho lazy whites go to work and pull up "the briers that are cumbering the garden of beauty. Chicago Tribune. There is nd reason to suppose that there Uro not other dams besides that at Johnstown which are storing up death and ruin for some future day. It will be a criminal negligouce if we are not led to deal with this subject in a less hap-hazard fashion, and in a more scientific, not to say humane, spirit. The sacrifice of perhaps 10.000 lives in an hour is a visitation the like of . which has seldom been seen in the history of the race. We ought to learn somethiug from it New York Tribune.

FRAUDS IN EXAMINATIONS

The Civil-Service Law Grossly Violated by'-Kew York Customs Officials, Political Backine of More Value Than Standing at the Head of the List Appointments Yesifirday Oberly's Resignation. CIVIL-SERVICE FRAUDS. An Instance of How Examinations Were Conducted in the Interest of Democrats Only. Washington, June 6. The Civil-service Commission has completed its report on tho results of the recent investigation made by it into certain matters connected with tho examining board of tho New York customhouse. The report says: "The Civil-servico Commission having concluded in part their investigation into the recent management of the New . York custom-house, so far as the behavior of the local examining board and tho question of the proper observance of the civil-service law as regards entrance examinations are concerned, find that the recent management of the examination for admission has been characterized by great laxity and negligence, and on the part of some of the custom-house employes, by positive fraud. The clerk of the board himself testifies that certain of the examinations were farcical, in character, and it has been clearly shown that, at least in one case, an applicant for admission had his papers written for him by another person; that applicants have sometimes found out the questions in advance, owing to the loose way of conducting the examinations, and have sometimes been given the examination papers beforehand by custom-house employes for personal, political and pecuniary considerations. Accusations have been mado to tho commission showing that the practice of keeping the markings and the list of eligibles secret has given rise in the minds of applicants to the suspicion, whether well or illfounded cannot now be said, that those who were without political backing did not receive justice. As an instance, one Michael Hart passed an examination for opener aud packer, standing at tho very head of the list, with a mark of 05 per cent., as the book shows, yet not only was he never informed that he had passed, but even his constant inquiry at the office, as ho asserts, failed to procure him information. This instanco is but one of many that satisfy the commission of the wisdom of making the list of eligibles public; for, though doing so is attended by certain disadvantages, it nevertheless operates as a guarantee of good faith on the part of examining boards and as a powerful preventive of fraud." ' . , MINOR MATTERS. The President Distributes a Number of Offices In Various T-ocaHtles. Washington, June 6 The President made the following appointments' to-day Chas. G. Williams, of Watertown, D. T., to be register of the land office at Watertown, D. T. M. W. Hunt, of Salem, Ore., to be a commissioner in and for the district of Alaska, to reside in Oonalaska, in the place of Robert S. Anderson, who declines the appointment, j . " Dana C. Lamb,' of Wisconsin, to be a special agent to make allotments of lands in severalty to Indians, etc. John D. Miles, of Lawrence, Kan., to be A commissioner to negotiate with the Cherokee and other Indians for the cession to the United States of certain lands, as provided by the act of Congress, approved March 2, 18S9, in the place bf John H. Baker," who declines the appointment. " ; To be collectors of internal revenue: Albert B. White, of West Virginia, for the district of West Virginia; Wm. A. Allen, of Tennessee, for the Second district of Tennessee; David A. Nunn, of Tennessee, for the Fifth district of Tennessee; John Peters, of Nebraska, for the district of Nebraska. Examining Surgeons May Testify. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, June ft Soon after Mr. Black assumed the duties of Commissioner of Pensions he issued an order to examining surgeons, prohibiting them from giving any statement or affidavit to a claim for pension without tirst asking permission from the Pension Bureau. This order has been in operation for nearly four years, and it is found that besides being useless and without reason it has acted as a bar to tho business of the office and has caused much needless delay in the examination of applications for pensions. Recognizing theso facts Commissioner Tanner to-day issued the necessary order to examining surgeons to declare the ruling of Commissioner Black void. The Commissioner states in his circular that he is unable to find any, reason or law to prevent a man, simply because he is an examining surgeon of the bureau,' from testifying as to any matter within his knowledge, provided this information was not acquired in his official capacity. Mr. Oberly's Resignation. Special to tho Intuanapolls Journal Washington", June 6. Hon. J. H. Oberly, of Illinois. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to-day handed his resignation to the President. The resignation is to take effect July 1, and although it has not been accepted, as erroneously rumored, he expects to be be relieved of the duties of hisoffieo with the close of the present fiscal year. There are several applicants for the position. Among them are Mr. King, of Ohio; Mr. Butler, of Tennessee, and Mr. Morgan, of Rhode Island. It is said that the prospects of the latter gentleman for securing the appointment are exceedingly good. Mr. Oberly will rest for awhile after turning over his office to his successor, and then resume his old profession, the newspaper business. Ho is undecided yet as to where he will locate, but will probably go back to his old field in Illinois. Indiana Pensions. Pensions have been granted to the following-named Indianians: Original Invalids James Noland, Tlirmas B. Ohaver, Jures C. Ogle, . Wtuv, Win. M. L ser, Chas. T. Ayres, Jnrr.es Welch, William Reynolds, Tcotnas Callahan, Benjamin F. Niuent. Increaee Hiram Wool. Ilober McNew, James II. Kelly. Wm. M. Allion. Wm. II. Malott. Thomas Meds, George (ierrard, Walter H. Gibson, George Logan, John Ahbott, John Green. Hrnry Fogle. Archibald Cranston, Stephen K, EUiotU Reissue and Increase Samuel Elliott. Original Widow, t t". Brothers and sisters of Zlmri F. Hariden; America .. mother of Isaac W. Almon; Julia, widow of John Moore; A'enah. mother of David M. Snyder, Edward, father of Jot ph E. Wolburn; Mary M., widow of Thomas II. hirange; Mary E., widow of Henry Thomas; Joshua, father of Wm. II. Briner. Treasury Holdings and Circulation. Washington, June ft A statement preparer! at the Treasury Department 6hows that there was a net decrease of $16,730,003 in circulation during the month of May last, and a net increase of 1,973,910 in money and bullion in the Treasury during the same period. The principal loss in circulation was in gold certificates. United States notes and national bank notes, and the principal gain in Treasury holdings was in standard silver dollars. United States notes and gold coin in the order named. The total circulation June 1 is stated at $1,S97,470,751, and the total money and bullion in the Treasury on the same date, 80C4.C92.230. Preparing to Go to Deer Park. Washington', June ft Mr. and Mrs. McKee have postponed their trip West from day today on account of the condition of the roads, but will probably leave by tomorrow afternoon's train for Indianapolis, as they are anxious to complete their preparations for settling at Deer Park for the summer. Mrs. Harrison is actively engaged in making rinal arrangements. Tho cottage on the mountains is already in complete order for their reception. Arrival of Mrs. Ualford. Special to th Indl&n&pGlia Journal. Washington, June ft Mrs. E. W. Halford, who was on her way to Washington when the Hoods swept over Johnstown and vicinity, and who has since been in that neighborhood, unablo to get to her homo

because of 1 1 cV r transportation, arrived in this citj tls evening on the 13. A: O. limited. lieneral Notes. Special to ; i IT!ianaxo!s journal. WASH!.r.aox, June ft Representative Owen left i t 3 o'clock this afternoon for his home at Loganuport. He secured a number of appointments w hile here, and left in a happy mood. Mrs. M. I:. McCullongh and daughter, Miss Kan! , -atted to their home at Anderson .ifernoon over the B. & O. Miss Mt Ciliorv V has just finished a specinl course in xi m the classics at the KeemarCclhT . Ila-t rstown. Md. The coin-

men ce:mi t ceAis? were held yesterday. The following ifoarth-class postmasters Kimraell, Land, Whitley count v. Bond acceptances to-day: One hundred dollars coupon anc. $1C,.'0 registered four-and-a-halJs at $1.00 At the request of Secretary Proctor,, Brigadier-general Townsvnd (retired) bus', officially identified the larce Hag now on; exhibition in the Secretary's orace as that which draped tho casket of President Lincoln. The Secretary of War has decided to purchase as the site for Fcrt Omaha a tract of 510 acres of land about eight miles from Omaha, which can be bad for about 7,000. Mr. iSid Conger, of Flat Rock, arrived in Washington last night. To-day he called upon President Harrison and enjoyed a pleasant drive with him through tho Soldiers' Home. A CHEAP BID FOR VOTES. The Effort of the Democracy to Buy the Support of the 3Iiners in This State. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brazil, Ind., June ft Of conwe. Mr. Voorhees's letter accompanying his twentydollar contribution to the miners' relief fund was not written for political cflect, nor was it published for political effect. The public, however, may judge for themselves in this matter. The truth is. a concerted movement is on among Democrats to contribute to this fund. Hon. E. Voorhes Brookshire, Congressman for this district, the next day following the publication of Mr. Voorhees's letter forwarded $20. Later ex-Governor Gray sent $20. If these gentlemen sent letters, they havo not been pullished. Tho meeting of prominent Democrats in Indianapolis to-morrow night, to bo addressed by State Senator Byrd (Democrat), Mr. Bynum and others, is but another step in this concerted action. Doubtless considerable money will be raised at th-t meeting and elsewhere among Democrats who may not be able to attend. The Democracy of Indiana ought to contribute liberally toward the relief of the miners. 'Iheir action in the last and preceding Legislatures disturbed the harmonious relations existing between the operators and the miners by so embarrassing the operators as largely to force them from the national conciliation order, and to a reduction that has led to this strike, and possibly still greater hardship and privation. The Democratic party will have to pour out ; money like water to repair tho wrong done the miners, and the sooner they begin and the more they give the better. "This inonev, however, would not be charity it would be repairs for injuries done aud loss inflicted. , But the fund now raised is neither charity nor repairs simply. In the very worst and most corrupt sense, it is purchaso money, contributed by Democrats, as Democrats, for the purpose of making Democratic votes. Tne In izil Register hows up tho infamous scheme in the headlines, "Are tho Miners Cattle, to Be Bought with a Price!" The infamy of the scheme appears in tho effort to make political capital out of the misfortunes of tho poor. But what do tho miners say about it! They are hungrv and destitute, and are soliciting aid. They are not in a position to refuse bread. So far as they are concerned they accept it as charity and are thankful. But they are men, if they are poor and destitute; and are quick to appreciate and resent an insult. And there is no greater insult for a true American than that implied in an attempt to buy his vote. There are no better Americans in this country than the hard-working miners in this section. Driven away from their native homes by want and starvation. under free-trade oppression, they came to America to obtain the higher wages, with better social advantages, consequent on protected industry. A man that will forsake home and journey thousands of miles across ocean and land to engage in work as slavish and perilous as coal mining, is a man a prince among men th hope and glory of the Republic, and the political party that waits to insult him in his hunger and want by offering him bread to accomplish that which argument and reasoning fail to achieve. may as well draw its winding sheet about it and crawl into its ignominious grave. For is not his cause that of every honest workingman in this country! But one thing is leit now, and that is for the Democrats to claim Hislop, tho alleged suicide, as a martyr to free trade, slaugh' tered by a high protective tariff. His three houses and lots here, and his $3,000 of lifo insurance, would be a trifle against tho theory, but perhaps these facts can be lied down for the timo being. In direct contrast to this blatant demagogy, and even political crime, is the action of Republicans in tho matter of tho miners' relief. They are giving their monev. and giving it liberally, but not as Republicans, and without letters inculcating political doctrine. Fab. THE CLIFF-DWELLERS. Lieutenant Schwatka's Report of Residents and Their Habitat in Chihuahua. ' Deming, N. M., June ft Lieutenant Schwatka arrived here to-day. His party has been successful beyond all expectations in their explorations, and especially in southern Chihuahua. Here living cliff and cave-dwellers are found in great abundance, as wild as any of the Mexican tribes found at Cortez's conquest. Tho abodes they live in are exactly similar to the old abandoned chff-dwelfings of Arizona and New Mexico, about which there has been so much speculation and so much money spent in investigation. It was almost impossible to get near them, so wild and timid are they. Upon the approach of white men they lly to their caves or cliffs, by notched sticks placed against the face of the cliffs if too steep, although they can ascend vertical stone faces if there aro'the slightest crevices for their lingers and toes. These cliffdwellers are sun-worshipers, throwing their new-born children out in the full ras of the sun the first day of their lives, and showing many other forms of devotion to the great luniinarv. They are usually tall, leau and well formed, their skin oeing blackish-red. much nearer the color of th negro than the copper-colored Indian of the United States. Lieutenant Schwatka claims that nothing has heretofore been known about tbe6 people, except by the half-Indian mountain Mexicans, and thinks his investigation will be of immense anthrophobgical and archaeological value. He estimates the cave and cliff-dwellers to be from three to twelve thousand in number, armed only with bows, arrows and stone hatchets, and .they will furuish enough work for a year or two for a half-dozen expeditions. Schwatka pronounces the scenery of the central Sierra Madres as stupendous beyond conception. The grand barranca of the Urique equals, if it docs surpass, the grand canyon of th Colorado, while the arroyo of the churches is the most beautiful sculptured rock, of fifteen to twenty miles in length, probably, in existence. n Killed a Icputy and Paid tlt In&lty. PuncK.r.L, I. T., June ft For a week several deputy marshals of Pnrcdl have been on tho trail of Cornelius Walker, tho notorious negro horse-thief of Indian Territory. Yesterday the marshal corralled Walker m a negro hut thirty miles west of Paul's Vnl. lev, in4 the Chickasaw Nation. Upon going to the door, Deputj' Marshal Williams wr.s held up by Robert and Clem Franklin, while walker shot aud instantly killed him. Walker was instantly shot by the other marshals, and the Franklin brothers were arrested and brought to Paul's Valler station, where they were chained untii Ukcn to Faris, Tex., for trul

for Indian. were appointed to-day: fc. C Whitman, Cliypaol, Kosciusko coiintv; M. N. Steele. Greenville. Floyd couutv: L. L.