Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1890 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1890

THE DAILY JOURNAL

MONDAY, JUKE 16, 1S0O. WASHINGTON OFCTCE-513 Fourteenth tU P. 8. IIEXTH. Correspondent. Telephone Calls. Business Office 223 EtUtorUl Room .......242 TIU1S OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BT MAIL. Cue year, without Sunday fllOO One rt at, with Sunday 14 00 Mx Months, without Sunday S.00 fix months, with Sunday 7.00 Thrre months, without HumiAy ' 8.00 Tfcrte months, -with Sonday 3.80 Cue month, wlthont Sunday 1.00 Jx month, with Sunday 1.20 JJeilvered by carrier in city, 25 cent per -week. WEEKLY. Per year. tLM Reduced Itates to Club. Fnbscribe with any oloux numerous agents, or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, ISDLUUPOLIS, I5D. Persons sending the Journal through the malls in .tte United S tatts should put on an efght-tage paper a 05K-CXXT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteenZtK paper a two-cent postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in Viis paper must, in order to receive attentkm,br accompanied by the name and addrcis of the writer, - THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUliNAL Can te found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 448 Errand. PARIS -American Exchange In Paris, SS Boulevard des Capuclnes. NEW YORK GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. i Kemble, 37S5 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO ralmer nouse. CINCLNNATI-J. P. H&wley & Co., 1M Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. feT. LOU If Union News Coxnpsny, Union Depot and Soathern Hotel. Washington, d. c Riggs House and Ebbitt House. - Will the Democratic State convention indorse the Sentinel's patent-booth job7 Thero seems to be a great Democratic principle involved. The calamity-howlers are not so active as they were three months ago, which shows that the country's general prosperity has reacted on them. iNDiAXAroLis's growth in population will meet the expectations of its people if every resident is counted once by the census-taker and no more, but ho must be counted once. The attempts of the Indiana delegation in the House to get more than S50,000 for the repair of the arsenal in this city were not crowned with success, but $50,000 is a good bit of money, after all. Someuodv ought to get up a patent Bcheme for instructing people how to vote under the new election law, and charge $10 a head for the information. The Sentinel has shown how it can be done. It will strike business men that the President did the right thing when he vetoed a bill appropriating $40,000 for building a postoffice in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on the ground that the present building used for that purpose is rented for $275 & year. ' The loans of all the national banks in Massachusetts are not two-thirds of the deposits of the savings banks, thus jus-' tifying the recent statement of Mr. Henry V. Foor-that "in Massachusetts the real lenders of ready money are the working men and women." We have the only patented booth, and any one infringing on this patent will be prosecnted to the full extent or the law. Price, $10 per booth. Sentinel's Circular. The able circular from which this is quoted says nothing about the tariff being a tax, and does not scream, "pown with the robber barons." This was probably an oversight. A Milwaukee merchant sets forth at length the hardships which will come to the people who purchaso linen goods if the McKinley bill is passed,' declaring that prices will be advanced SO per cent., but he rather gives his argument away when he informs the public that, having laid in a largo stock of such goods, he will continue to sell at the old prices. . TnE organs of Senator-elect Brice are busy asserting that the Ohio courts have decided that he does not owe back taxes in that State. The Cleveland Leader says that this is not the case, and that what the court did decide was that the Jaw requiring the payment of five years' back taxes is unconstitutional. The law, however, requiring him to pay four years' taxes is in force, and if Mr. Brice is not required to pay the taxes he is not a resident of Ohio and cannot serve as Senator. Several Democratic papers in Maine which" advocated the resubmission of the prohibitory amendment to the people are very angry because the proposition was voted down in the Democratic State convention, and the leading Democratic paper, the Bangor Commercial, declares that the proposition was defeated by tho fraudulent counting of the prohibition president of tho convention. Fraudulent counting is a Democratic resort, but it is not often that a Democratic paper will declare that such is the case. TnE School Board election on Saturday resulted in tho re-election of the present members who were candidates. In other words, the board remains unchanged, and so will its action on the question of German instruction unless the question is reopened by so mo parliamentary trick and the previous action reversed. This is not likely to be done, though it may be. Tho result of Saturday's election is really a defeat for those who opposed tho action of tho board, as they inaugurated tho fight and made it it on that line. If they continue the agitation it will result eventually in abolishing German in the schools entirely. TIieke is nothing doubtful about tho temper of the Republican county couveDtioii3 now being held all over Indiana. Everywhere they are crowded with enthusiastic men, and everywhere the sound Republican administration of President Harrison, the McKinley bill, the conference pension bill, and other of the more prominent Republican measures pending in Congress aro heartily aDDroved. Aside from this unity of feeling upon the national party policy there is a conspicuous absence of local divisions and factional disagreements that often endanger party success, even

when there is no question of the feeling upon larger issues. Happily, all such "old scores'' were settled early in thol spring-, and the Indiana Republicans are in shape to meet" the enemy with closed ranks and a determination to win.

CONSTITUTIONALITY. OF LOCAL OPTION. For some years past, ever since the local-option method of dealing with the liquor trafiic in this State has been agitated, a persistent effort has been made to convince the people that such a law would bo in violation of the State Constitution, and therefore invalid. Leader; of the third-party prohibition movement have been particularly active in their efforts to create this impression. Some of them, not being lawyers, have contented themselves with boldly asserting that such a law would be unconstitutional, without attempting to prove it. Others, claiming authority as lawyers, have declared in speeches and in print that the Constitution was plainly opposed to local-option legislation, and that the Supreme Court had so held. The object was to produce the impression that no local-option law could be enacted in this State that would be sustained by the courts, and consequently that prohibition was the only feasible method of dealing with the liquor traffic. For many years past no good lawyer has doubted the constitutional right of the Legislature to enact local-option laws, but the efforts of third-party leaders to create a different impression have been so persistent that it has been thought advisable to settle them and the question once for all. This' is effectually done by the opinion of Hon. John M. Butler, .of this city, indorsed and supported by a number of prominent lawyers in different parts of the State. These opinions, published in the Journal this morning, dispose of the question completely, and leave nothing more to be said in the way of argument. That of Mr. Butler is framed with his usual ability, and his conclusions are supported by an overwhelming array of authorities. The ar- " guinent of the anti-local-option people has rested entirely on two decisions of the Supreme Court,rendered nearly forty years ago. Mr. Butler shows that these decisions never were good law, that the current of decisions for at least twenty years has been steadily against them, and that both have been overruled by later decisions in this and other States. He shows further that the principle of local option has been recognized and embodied in many laws, the constitutionality of which is unquestioned, and that the doctrine asserted in the old cases relied on by the antUlocal-option people has been ignored by the Legislature and courts for more than a score of years. Finally, ho quotes decisions from nine teen different States showing that the constitutionality of lo cal-option laws under provisions similar to those of our Constitution has been repeatedly affirmed by the Supreme Courts of those States. Mr. Butler's opinion and con clusions are fully indorsed by those of the other lawyers referred to, all of whom are well known in the profession, and who represent both political parties. These opinions will bo accepted by all fair-minded men as conclusive. They really end discussion on the subject. Hereafter no person who reads these opinions, whether lawyer or not, will venture to assert that a local-option law would be unconstitutional in this State without inviting the charge that he is either dishonest or incapable of understanding an argument. ' TEE SILVER SITUATION. An indication of the change which is going on in the country in regard to the use of silver as money is tho statement of Mr.' Henry -Clews, the well-known New York banker. He says that as a result of the silver legislation here, and that which is uromised, London has lost tho power to dictate the silver market, and, as the result, the white metal has advanced from 41 1-2 pence, a few months ago, to 49 pence now. The interest of the London merchants has been and is tp keep the price of silver bullion low, for the reason that in their India trade a large gain is realized by buying silver bullion at a low price and having it coined into rupees, which are legal tender in India. But since the largest market has been made in this country for silver by tho present coinage law, the price is controlled here rather than in London. The United States is the largest producer of silver, and when the law is so changed that we shall require our entire product for money, the general scarcity in the rest of the world will enhance tho price. It has been stated for years that there is a large surplus of silver in Europe, and particularly in Germany, where it is held by the government as the result of demonetization a few years ago. . That amount has been stated at $300,000,000, but Mr. Clews says that it is $90,000,000. The price of silver, as before stated! is advancing. Tho silver dollar, about the time of the meeting of Congress, was worth less than 75 cents as bullion, but is now worth 83 cents. If this advance has resulted from the expectation of a larger use of silver as money it may be confidently expected that tho intrinsic value of thp "dollar of the daddies" will approach very nearly that of the gold piece bearing . that mark. CUB GOLD COINAGE. Congress has authorized the Director of the Mint to change the designs of the silver coins, but it is said tho gold coins will not be changed in any respect. Our gold coinage seems to be hedged about with a sort of sacredness that is noi accorded to silver. It is very good money, and tho present coins aro quite hand some, but the assumption that they are perfect while tho silver coirjs all require remodeling seems somewhat forced. Why should gold forever be the line lady in the parlor and silver be compelled to play the part of Cinderella in the kitchen? There is one chango in our gold coinage which might be ruado advantageously, and that is the recoinage of a large proportion of the 20-dollar gold pieces into smaller gold coins, say $5 and $2.50. Our gold coins are double eagles, or 20-dollar pieces: eagles, half

eagles, 3-dollar pieces, quarter eagles

and dollars. Onlv a comparatively small number of 3-dollar gold pieces have been coined, and the Director of tho Mint, in his last annual report, recommends their discontinuance on the ground that theyserve no useful purpose, and are not demanded by the business public. The discontinuance of the coinage of 1-dollar gold pieces is also recommended. Our total coinage of gold from the foundation of the government to Juno 30, 1889, was of double eagles, or 20-dollar pieces, $1,000,800,840; of eagles, or 10-dollar pieces, $198,004,C70; of half eagles, $191,083,715; of 3-dollar pieces, $1,C12.254; ; of quarter eagles, $28,495,385, and of 1-dollar pieces, $19,469,433. It is not easy to see why tho coinage of 20-dollar gold pieces should so far exceed that of all others combined. It is a beautiful coin, but it is notthe people's coin. It does not enter largely into popular circulation. If the object of gold coinage is to popularize gold and make It a largo factor in the currency and business of tho country, it should be coined in smaller denominations. The 5-dollar and 21-2-dollar gold pieces are beautiful coins, and are handy, convenient and popular. They could be made far more popular by coining more of them. Tho duty of fixing the allotments or proportionate amounts of - the different denominations to be coined is left to the Director of the Mint, but Congress could easily regulate tho matter if it chose to do so. It could also direct a re-coinage of a considerable portion of the 20-dollar pieces into $5 and $2.50 pieces, thus popularizing gold, increasing the actual currency of the country and strengthening our monetary system. Tho $20 gold piece is a coin for sub-treasuries, banks and millionaires. We need more gold in .tho pockets of the people. . ANOTHER JOB. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journals Inclosed find circular of Sentinel - Printing Company in reference to election booth. I am constructing a booth, and I would like to know what their patent covers, atd if you can inform rne. I would bo greatly obliged to you for the information. Some of the friends of the Sentinel company claim that thoy have the exclusive right to manufacture election booths and thnt no other person can, or, in other words, that the County Commissioners must adopt their booth. Of course, I think that the commissioners, under tho law, can provide the compartments, or booths, suitable .for the purpose, without consulting the Sentinel company. Any information you may be able to give me will be thankfully received. Henry Uardnek. Andrews, Ind., June 14. Tho foregoing letter was received through the mail. Accompanying it was a circular concerning a "Patent portable voting booth under tho Ausi alian system of elections," of which the Sentinel company is represented ajs sole agents for the United States." Tho circular is addressed to county commissioners, and sets forth in detail the merits of what is termed "a complete porta ble voting booth." It is illustrated witl cuts showing drawers, slides, curtains screens, drops, etc. County commisr sioners aro reminded that all elections are now held under the Australian 1lotlaw, and' that it will boeconomyT to procure these booths. Across the face of thi. circular, printed in large red letters, is the statement that "We. have the only patented booth, and anyone infringing on this patent will be prosecuted to the full extent of tho law." The public is also informed that "agents will call on county boards in ample time to arrange for the election of 1890, and all correspondence on the subject is requested to be addressed to the Sentinel Printing Company, this city. Answering tho question of our correspondent, in the first place we will say that no particular form of voting booth is required by the new law, and that he! or anybody else can construct one or as many as ho pleases. Any board of county commissioners can devise their own booths and have them constructed to order, so they comply with tho law. No board is obliged to' buy. tho Sentinel's patent booth, and failure to use it will not bo legal cause for challenging any person's vote or the result of any election. We have suspected for some time that the Sentinel's apparent zeal in support of the Australian ballot law was not wholly disinterested. In fact, wo had an intimation some months ago that there was a patent election-booth ring forming, and that its headquarters would not be far from the Sentinel office. It seems the intimation was well founded. It is unfortunate that the two measures enacted by tho last Legislature for which the greatest merit was claimed as measures of reform, viz.: the school-book law and tho Australian ballot law, should have been immediately followed by the formation of speculative rings, and it is somewhat remarkable that the Sentinel should have become the organ of both. The Franklin Republican, whose editor heard Senator Voorhecs's speech recently delivered at that place, says: - Mr. Voorhees did denounce all organizers of the Farmers' Alliance and insulted every member of that organization in Johnson county. He said they were creating dissensions among the farmers. Mr. Voorhees denies having said anything of the kind. The only way to avoitf controversies of this kind is to take him down in short-hand, as the Journal did at Bloomfield some time ago. Ho was very effectually taken down that time. In tho present case, as there is an issue of veracity, or memory,, perhaps it might be well enough to have some affidavits of those who heard him at Frankliu. The time to preserve evidence is when it is fresh. The use of coffee is generally forbidden to dyspeptics, and it is commonly regarded as injurious to digestion. Dr. E. C. Scguin, in the New York Medical Journal, says there never was a greater medical delusion. The trouble is, he says, that people do not know how to obtain the good effects of co flee. They ftrut spoil it in the making. and then spoil it again with cream and sugar. Dr. Segnin says: Some eight or ten years ago I began to suspect that the reason 'why breakfast cottee disagreed was because it composition made It a liquid favorable to fermentation. The cup of coffee -which almost every one takes at breakfast (and tea at breakfast or lunch) .is a mixture of coffee, ridiculously weak usually, milk' or cream, and sugar. This "cup of coffee' Is unquestionably bad for dyspeptics, and perhaps not over digestible for any one. After my return from Europe In 1833 1 began giving dyspeptic- patients good

strong coffee, without milk, cream . or sugar. ! .!. l.o..!. n tv ,..,., .-si-.. !

nitu lucit uicnaiUBt ui iULUfc ui r auu icij little bread (no other farinaceous food, of course.) It was at first difficult to Induce patients to make the trial, as they were so prejudiced by former medical statements that coflee was bad for their digestion ahd for their "nerves." The results were extremely gratifying, and I have gradually made it a part of my diet regime for all patients suffering from evident fermentative dyspepsia, with or without catarrh, and from so-called nervous dyspepsia. I direct that they shall take one large breakfast cup of strong (dark brown) coffee, made without boiling, not too hot. without sugar, cream or milk, with their breakfast. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator VoonnEEs will deliver the address at the Valley Forge celebration next week, Thursday. If he comes to this conntry next fall Sir Morell jtf cKenzie will lecture on other than medical subjects. Akron, O., has a pious citizen who has read tho Bible through eighty-seven times. He is great in an argument. Asia and Alaska were probably united at one time. They are now at the nearest point only forty-live miles apart. Lewis Kalstox, a Cherokee," is the first Indian to be granted citizenship under an act of Congress approved May 22, 1890. General Butler and Governor Brackett are at the head of a movement in Boston for the erection of a memorial hall in honor of Wendell Phillips. "Be sure and spit on the floor," is the sign placed near the cuspidors in tho Minneapolis federal building by the longheaded custodian. It is said, to be wonderfully effective. Eev. Virgil Maxey, a Baptist minister, and nephew of ex-United States Senator Maxey, of Texas, is going to try the experiment of elevating the stago by acting six evenings in the week and preaching on Sunday. ' The young Duke of Portland does not appear to have lost his mascot Last year his stable bagged over half a million dollars in stakes, and this season he has already won four of the six great races run on the English turf. Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, who has just been appointed professor of Greek, at AVellesley College, is a graduate of Cornell, -and while there won a Greek prize at an intercollegiate competition, where there were over sixty other competitors. Mr. William O'Brien's Russo-IIebraic bride consecrates herself and fortuueto the Irish cause, and will accompany him, a few months hence, to America, in company with John Dillon, on a lecture tour for the cause. They will probably arrive early in September. The lafo Herr Sigg, of Zurich, was in early life an acrobat. His performances so pleased the Kiug of Siam that that mon arch appointed him lord high summersaultturner or something of that sort and afterwards Lord High Chancellor of tho kingdom. A lady of St Paul, Minn., the mother of threo young children, after trying about a dozen nursing-girls with very unsatisfactory results, advertised for a boy to tako care of her children. She obtained one, and he possessed more good qualities than all the nurse-girls combined, giving perfect satisfaction. . Kino Milan, late ot Servia, was severely snubbed during his recent stay in Vienna, everybody court, diplomatic officials and people being sick to death of him and his alt airs. The Linperor refused to grant him audience, having been thoroughly scandalized by stories of Milan's eccentric proceedings in x'aris. It is reported from Rome that there are alarming fissures in the dome of St Peter's. About 'a century ago a similar state of t'ungs was remedied by encircling the .omowith a stroug band of metal. The band was heated and its contraction on cooling was found to be sufficient to close up tho cracks. LudwioLewerstroem, "the black rider," who for twenty-four years carried all of Prince Bismarck's official messages between tho Wiihelmstrasse and thfj Palaco Unter deu Linden, and retired from duty at the same time with his master, has been taken into the service of Chancellor Von Caprivi. uosta kica's latest scheme lor raising money and the purpose for which it is to be raised are novel, to say tho least A new theater is wanted at the capital, ami an export duty has been placed by congress on couee in order to raise the necessary money. However, as only 200,000 is needeil for the purpose, the tax will not last long. Animals are supposed to know what to eat, but they do not always justify theopin ion men hold of them. The cow, for in stance, is a very poor judge of wholesome food. A Crawford county. Pennsylvania. cow took a fancy to the fresh paint on the fence in which the bovine was pastured and licked off a sufficient quantity to kill her. The British censns will be taken in 1891. The cost of the census of Great Britain in 1881 was 172.000 for a population of 26.000. 000. For England and Wales tho cost per 1,000 of the population w as L las 5d in lbGl, rising to 15 5s 7d in 1371, and 6 12s Cd in Vsii, ine number ot enumerators was nearly 35,000, and in 1891 the number will not be far short of 40.000. The telephone must have a new role of usefulness scored for it. Sir Humphrey do Trafford, near Manchester, has. perhaps, the finest kennels in England, the kennelman's house adjoining them. From each kennel a telephone arrangement leads to the kennelmau's room, so that when any dog is noisy at night the keeper can epeak to him so as to be heard without leaving his room. The marriage of Mr. Stanley and Miss Dorothy Tennant is fixed definitely for the 12th ot July, wedding presents now in from all parts of England, often from peo nle of whom neither Miss Tennant nor Mr. Stanley has ever heard. The story that Miss icnnant is tne original ot Miiiais s well-known picture, "Yes or no," is denied. but it is added that she was the original of another picture of the same artist. The German Emperor has summoned be lore mm ior investigation a young negro prince. Known' as Alfred Bell, from the Cameroon conntry, west Africa, who had been sent to Bremen to learn the trade of a carpenter, and who is alleged to have joined a gang of socialists and Anarchists. f Bell should turn out to be really a Socia 1st he will not be allowed to return to the Cameroons for fear of corrupting the natives. Mr. George Ebkrs. who has long been a confirmed invalid, recently celebrated his silver wedding in his romantic home, at Tutzing. on the borders of the Starnberg lake. Mr. Alma Tadema and his wifo went from London expressly to oiler their congratulations to their old friend; his former pupils sent him a life size statue of Champollion; . and at dessert Mr. Ebers read a romantic poem he had composed in honor of his wife. ' The Supreme Court of the United States has recently decided that failure to protect a foreign patent dated prior to an American patent does not invalidate tho American patent This decision, coming from the Supreme Court, is of the greatest value. It is estimated that it will make a net saving to inventors in this country of over $10,000,000 per annum, and it certainly will lift a geat load from those who unintentionally have taken out their patents in a, foreign country prior to making application for them at home. A rich Australian widow with an income of $125,000 a year is the fashionable sensation in London. Tier story illustrates what can be got out of a silver mine in New South Wales. Tho lady's husband paid 120 for certain shares in this mine. , When he died not long ao the shares were comparatively valueless, and he thought he was leaving his yonnc wife in destitution. Shortly after his death the shares rose snddenly to a price no marvelous that the widow sold one-half of hershares for 100,000. and is now receiving 25,000 aunually from tho others. The eccentric Anglican monk known as "Father Ignatius" is on his i way to this country. Ho comes here for his health, but while here he will conduct a number of "missions," Hi real name is Joseph Leycester Lyre, and he comes of an old Cornish family.' He was born in 137 in Loudon, and before ho was twenty-ono hobegarfio show pre-Refoitnation tendencies. InlS&i

he began a movement to establish monkish

order of St. Benedict. But his efforts in . . ... . tnis uirection nave met wttn mtie encour agement irora the Anglican dlgnataries, who generally regard him as an amiable crank. TI1E STATE PKESS. What Its Editors Are Saving About Current Political and Other Questions. that there is room for but ono flag in this country. Up with the stars and stripes! Lebanon Patriot: Cleveland evidently considers himself the onlv "original nackage" owned by the Democracy, and he is "on tap" at all times. Huntingburg Argus: The Kepublican party may not do everything for the soldier that was expected, but it has done all that ever has been done, and will do all that ever will be done for him. Marion Republican: There is not the least doubt that free trade would be good for the worldtat large, good for tho houso of Hapsburg. good, for Gladstone, good for the Potiphers, but not for Joseph. , Decatnr Journal: The country believes that any measure which the Democrats vehemently oppose must bo a first-rate measure to adopt This is on of the rea sons why the federal election bill will pass. Washington Gazette: The Gazette does' I not advise murder as a cure for crime, but if a largo reward was offered for each White Cap, dead or alive, a speedy end would be in ado to the outrages of these dare-devils. Lafayette Courier: The people are gradually getting their eyes open to the impositions that have been practiced upon them by the book trust, and the sentiment in favor of free text-books is growing proportionately. Marion Chronicle: Voorhees. in his Franklin speech, went so far back in history as to attack Alexander Hamilton. Yet it would bo shaking the bloody shirt to quote the treasonable speeches delivered by Senator Voorhees only twenty-five years ago. Rushville Graphic: And now comes the irrepressible Daniel of the Wabash and ays he didn't say the least thins: against the Farmers' Alliance at his speech at Franklin Tuesday. Daniel can say a thing and then swallow it without ever batting his eyes. Shelby Kepublican: The dire results predicted in and since 1878 as likely to follow depreciated silver coinage have not come along, and there is less fear of free coinage than there was,- but still the country is not ready for it. and in financial confidence opinion is everything. Huntington Herald: Judging by what we can see in free-trade papers, manufacturers are tho greatest curse and the most outrageous imposition ever inflicted upon this country, and yet there is not a city, town, village or cross road in the United States that is not after all it can get. Evansville Journal: Amongst the important duties of the next Legislature will be the essential modification of the new election law. Its intent is laudable, but the people will not longendnre its inquisitorial and restrictive methods. The country precincts will be the first to protest vigorously. New Carlisle Gazette: The Western farmer is not fool enough to think he can forever continue to mortgage his farm to pay interest on previous mortgages, yet this is just what the Indiana Democratic legislatures have been doing. The day will come when the debt of Indiana must ho paid, and this coutinual borrowing to pay off accumulating indebtness must stop. Winchester Herald: As everybody is not happy .and prosperous, . and never can be, there is a Democratic party. It is composed of the conservatives, the pull-backs, the srowlors, the grumblers,' tho kickers, the discontented, tho disgruntled, the dissatisfied, the disappointed. It is an aggregation of political dyspeptics, and its giant stomach is ever sour. . Brookville American: Those guileless Republican Congressmen who fell into the Indianapolis Sentinel's -trap, and wrote letters on the tariff, should not complain at the full measure of misrepresentation and abuse they are now receiving from that free-trado sheet And they have not complained, so far as we know.but are taking their punishment like little men. Franklin Republican: Senator Voorhees had evidently been given the tip. The De mocracy of this county are awakening to the fact that tho farmers are locating tho cause of high taxes at the doors of the Democracy of Johnson county and the State of Indiana. High salaries, extravagant appropriations and incompetent management of county and State affairs are the causes of high taxes, and not the tariff. These take 810 from the pockets of the farmers where the tariff does not take 1. : Gibson County Leaden So far as Gibson county is concerned, it does not require statistics to refute the calamity shrieks about the impending bankruptcy of the farmers of the country. No man who travels through this county, meets the well-fed and prosperous-looking farmers, and sees their comfortable homes, could be deceived for a moment by any such bosh. The aver-, ago Gibson county farmer docs not care much about fashionable haberdashery or tailor-made clothes, but if there is anything good going the rounds in the way of home comforts he generally has it Possible Removal of the Mint. Special to Philadelphia Inqnlnr. It was discovered to-day that there is a movement ou foot in the House to make the bill to sell the old United States Mint at Philadelphia, and to purchaso a site and erect a new one, the grounds for abolishing the Mint at that city and its transfer to the national capital. It appears that part of the plan is to take down the present building and remove tho cut-stone work of the outer surface and re-erect it here on a plan covering an enlargement in harmony with the present architectural design. The leaders in this hostile movement make a pretense of disinterestedness by saying the Mint was established at Philadelphia because it was then the capital of tho Nation. Tho Pennsylvania delegation will have to look to their laurels, or they will lose the Mint, and it will betaken to Washington or Now York. The proposition to remove it to New York has been urged, but now that largely increased facilities commensurate with the inevitable increased coinage of silver are required, the opposition to Philadelphia will be formidable. It is not improbable that in the revival of this question of a new sit6 and building the opponents of Philadelphia will concentrate ; on either New York or Washington. Bad News for Calamity Shrlekers. Kansas Citv Times (Dera.) "Farmers down in Harper county aro happy " said Mr. S. A. Darrongh. of Anthony, Kan., at the Coates House yesterday. "Wheat is half cut and is fine. It will ran about twenty bnt-hela to the aero, which is not quite so heavy as last year, but it will net the growers more money because they are not obliged to sell. Last year they sold it almost before it was put in the shock, hut this year they have monev enough to carry it for a timo at least The condition of the farmers can be judged by their purchases Iu Anthony last month nearly one hundred self-binders were sold, many for' cash, tho balance with a good cash payment Then they have paid cash for their twine. This is an important item to a man who cuts three hundred acres of grain with CO cents to 1 per acre for twine. Then, again, last year where I loaned sums of $75 to $100, this year I loan from $25 to $50." She Came Out Ahead. Richmond Palladium. The ability of women to do men's work, at least as rapidly as men can do it is just illustrated in the case of Miss Lillian L. Cash, of this city, who was the only enumerator appointed to take the centms in this county. Miss Cash completed tho work in her district yesterday, coming ont ahead of all the other, and doing the work thoroughly and well. - The Tall 8jcmore Fear. Cincinnati Tost. Senator Voorhees is said to be rousing the echoes of tho Wabash with the charge that theParmers' Alliance is an auxiliary of the Kepublican party. Fear that the alliance may hold the balance of power in the election of a United States Senator probably has something to . do with Mr. Voorhces's action. The President's Veto. The Independent President Harrison has earned the thanks of the whole country by the veto of another extravagant nublic-building bilL .

LEGALITY OF LOCAL-OPTION

lion. John M. Butler Plainly Shows that Such Legislation Is Constitutional. lie Reviews the Question at Length ajid Cites Authorities in Support of His Position Indorsed by Many Prominent Lawyers. Thero aro many persons in Indiana who contend that local option will not stind the test of the courts; that 6uch legislation would be declared unconstitutional. At the request of friands of local option the Hon. Johu M. Butler has devoted considerable time to the preparation of an opinion on the legality of local-option legislation, and the result of his labor is herewith pre sented: Tho cround upon which the opponents of a local-option law base their objections i that such a law would conflict with the following provisions of the Constitution, narcely: Art. 4, Sec. 22. "The General Assembly shall not pass local ot special laws in any of the followli.g enumerated cases, that is to say: "For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors; "Regulating county and township business; 'Forthe assessment and collection of. taxes for State, county, township or road purposes; "Providing for supporting common schools and for the preservation of school funds." Art. 4, Pec. '23. "In all the cases enumerated in the preceding section and in all other case where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the Mate." Art. 1, Sec. 23. "No law shall be passed, tho taking efl'ect of which shall be made to depend upon any authority, except as provided In this Constitution." Art. 1, Pec. 20. "The operation of the laws shall never be suspended, except by the authority of the General Assembly." These provisions of the State Constitution have been repeatedly construed and passed upon by the Supreme Court of Indiana. If the decisions of that ourt were uniform, and without conflict. It would be easy to closo this opinion at once by citing adiudicated cases and decisions coveriug the constitutional question Involved. But, unfortunately, the decisions of the Supreme Court on the points Involved In an answer to your request are not uniform, but are irreconcilably conflicting. This conflict of decisions renders It proper and, perhaps, necessary to reView the leading decisions in which the above- . quoted provisions of the ConstituUoa have been construed. I3y a law enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved March 4, 1853, it was provided "that no person shall retail spirituous liquors except for sacmmental, mechanical, chemical, medicinal or culinary purposes, without the consent of a majority of the legal voters of the proper township who may cast their votes for license at the April election. (Acts 153. p. 87.) , This, it will be observed, was, in effect, a localoption law. In Maize vs. The State, 4 Ind., 342, decided Nov. 21). 1853, the Supreme Court of Indiana held this provision above quoted nnconsUtutional. on the ground that it m as in conflict with Sections 25 and 20 of Article 1, and also with Sections 22 and 23 of Article 4 of the Constitutionwhich are the sections above quoted. liy Section 130 of the free-achool law enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiaua, approved Juno 14, 1852, it was provided: "The voters of any township sball have power At any general or special meeUnp to vote a tax for tho purpose of building or repairing school-houses, and purchasing sites therefor, providing fuel, furniture, maps, apparatus, libraries or increase thereof, or to discharge debts incurred therefor, and for continuing their schools after the public funds shall have been expended, to any amount not exceeding in all 50 cents on each $100 of property, and 50 cents on each poll." In Greeucastle Township vs. Black.5 Ind.,557 to 577, decided Nov. 12, 1&54, the Supreme Court of Indiana held this provision last quoted unconstitutional on the ground that it was in conflict with the sections of the Constitution above quotedparticularly with Sections 22 and 23 of Article 4. , If these decisions correctly interpreted and construed tho Constitution, it Is very evident that a local-option law would not be valid and constitutional. Under these decisions, and the decisions of other cases following their lead, a good and wholesome law regulating and restricting the tranic In intoxicating liquors, and embodying the principle of local option, was stricken down; nnd the free-school system of Indiana was crippled and partially paralyzed. These decisions, even if they were still held to be correct interpretations of tho Constitution, would be of little or no value in behalf of that class of temperance advocates who believe State prohibition of both manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors to be tho only proper method of dealing with the subject, and who profess to .believe it a sin to regulate and restrict the trallio The vublic sentiment aroused by the decision In the case of Maize vs. the State, supra, resulted In the enactment of a prohibitory law by tho Legislature of 1855. This prohibitory law was npproved Feb. 1C, 1855. and took effect Juno 12, 1855. On Oct. 30, 1855, in the habeas corpus proceedings of Herman vs. the State, before a judge of the Supreme Court, this prohibitory law was held unconstitutional. (Herman vs. tho State, 8 Ind.. 515.) Again, on Dec. 20, 1855, in the case of Bebeo vs. tho State, G Ind., 501, the full bench of the Supreme Court of Indiana held this prohibitory law unconstitutional Judge Gookins alone dissenting. ... These decisions holding tho prohibitory law of 1855 unconstitutional are based upon such CTonnds as. If correct would make it well nigh impossible to so amend the Constitution as to make it supoort a nrohlbltorv law. Ther hold, in ef fect, that the prohibitory law is In direct conflict with the foundation principles of civil government as embodied in the bill of rights. How it could be possible that the Supreme Court of Indiana could ever have so held seems now - amazing and incomprehensible. A comparison of these decisions of the Supreme Court of Indiana, rendered in 1853. 1854 and 1855, with more recent decisions of that ocurt. will satisfy the most skeptical that the world moves and moves rapidly. It would now be very difficult to find any lawyer, either in or out of Indiana, who would undertake to defend the decisions in Maize vs. The State and Greencastle Township vs. Hlack, supra, as Just and correct interpretations of the State Constitution. They have been, either In express terms or by direct implication, repeatedly overruled by the Supreme Court, while tho Legislature has. in the face of tbee decisions, and utterly ignoring them as correct interpretations of the Constitution, enacted many important statutes, now la force and unquestioned, embodying precisely the 'same principles that were embodied in the laws stricken (.own by these decisions. The grounds upon which the local-option law of 1853 and Section 130 of the free-school law of 1852 were held unconstitutional were: 1. That they were local laws: 2. That they were not "of uniform operation throughout tho State." '3. That the taking effect of these laws was made to depend upon a popular vote, and that, therefore, legislative authority was vested in tho voters of the several localities or municipal subdivisions of the State. Neither of these objections will stand the test of reason or authority. A local law is a law affecting only a definitely described and lifiiited portion of the State, and that cannot have any force or effect in any other portion of the State. The ordinary and usual meaning of the word "local" is. "pertaining to a place, or to a fixed . or limited portion of space;'1 "limited or confined to a spot, place, or detinito district." The universal rule for the construction and Interpretation of constitutions is that the words ruust be taken in their ordinary and usual sense and meaning. Henco it 1 easy to seo that a lavr that crants precisely the 6amo rights, privileges and Immunities to every portion and subdivision of a State, and to every resident and citizen of tho State, cannot 1k a local law in tho venee la which the words are used In the Constitution. A local-option law applving to the entire state cannot, therefore, 1h obnoxious to the Constitution on the ground that it would be a local law. The very words "local-option law" clearly lndi-. cnte tbat the law cover the entire Mate, crantinp thft urintr Hrbt. nrivileirrs fllld immunities nla rtf thn StttA. hilt that it trivfS tO the people of the different localities aud subdivisions of the State the riht to exercise an option regarding the manner In which they will ue the rights, privileges and immunities granted by the law. The objection that local-option laws cannot be "of uniform operation throughout the State" U wholly untenable. A law is of uniform operation throughout the,. State whenever it gives precisely the eamo rights, privileges and Immunities to all the people of the State and to every locality and subdivision of the State. The people of one locality may use the ngnis. privilege ana immunities granted by the law in one way, the people of another locality may use. tho same rights, privileges and Immunities in another w ay, but that does not prevent tho law granting these rights privileges nnd Immunities from being olunllorui operation throughout the Htnte. It operates with periect uniformity because It grants the same rights, nrivilc cc and itniii unities to a.11 the people or the fctate. wholly irrespective or locality. Neither 1 It true that tho tailng eflect of localoption laws is made to rtepeml itjon a popular vote; nor that such laws veut legislative authority in the voters of separate localities or muck lpul subdivisions of the ftate. lo cnucc to put iDto forte, repeal or susend the law. When a law containing local-option provisions is pa$(d by tho LKislaturo and apxroved by tho tJovcmor, and baa been dulv published if it has no emergency clause it goes into full force ara takes effect, and continues in full eflVct and operation, Jut as any oilier law docv Uresis equally upon every portion of tho State, a:ul gives to every voter of the Slate the same rights prtvlleccs and immunities that it rivcstony I. one voter of the fetate. The voters vl the evrai lAll.llHoa V . loirliMtll'A aiitlmHf V 11 A PTl TO them. They cannot modily, amend, repeal or supcn( d tho law; it remains m ru;i Torre and uniuspended. Ai that the voter .of i