Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS . J OURN AL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1890.

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LOUIS Union News Company., Union Depot and bonthern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Rlg-gs House and Ebbltt House,. Governor Hill: "Oh that mine enemy would write a book." But, Governor, if he keeps on writing letters, that will do just as well. Has any official statement ever been made of the exuet purpose to which the funds being collected in America by the Iris 1 parliamentary party are to be applied! . The gold-standard Cleveland organs in the East, like the Boston Herald, have no fear that Mr. Cleveland's views on the silver question have been changed since he was President. , An independent paper . which has heard of the disfranchisement of 125,000 voters hj the Mississippi constitutional convention, and has denounced it, has not yet been found. It is common talk in "Washington that Senator Ingalls will talio occasion during the coming session to pay his re? spects to ex-President Cleveland in a way that will leave the Stuffed Prophet in a thoroughly disintegrated condition. One by one the newspapers and politicians of the South are deserting Cleveland for the Hill banner. If tho Democratic paity ever feels itself strong enough to get along without the mugwump element, : Cleveland will not be "in it." ; Evidently those who aro trying to depose Parnell from the leadership of the Irish party have undertaken no small job. It s said that he has absolute control of the parliamentary fund from which forty-four of the members draw their pay. WMWMsJMWMsMsWMj - 1 - When the 1st of April comes and the prico of sugar drops one-third, to the price paid by all the rest of the world, iha nn'nnlft tuiII Irnntxr what fiillr liarft those papers are which are now talking about the burdens imposed upon the masses by the new tariff law. V TnE Bplit in the Liberal party and the extinguishment of Mr. Gladstone's prospects of a return to power are said to be hailed with delight by European absolutists. It is not often that the folly and weakness of one man have had such important consequences as those of 3Ir. Parnell are likely to "have. The Supreme Court of Minnesota decides that, if railroads require it, passengers must show theirtickets before entering a train, and that the gate-keeper who seized a ticket-holder as he passed through the gate without presenting his ticket did not render the company liable for damages even if, by being detained, the would-be passenger lost the train. Democratic papers are now saying that the pension list must bo revised, and reformed "thoroughly and severely." The cloven hoof shows itself early. Everybody knows that the Democratic party has no affection for Union veterans, but its professions of love havobeen loud, and mere regard for appearances would, it might be thought, suggest a concealment of its real feeling a little longer. - - DuRr;the last fiscal year tho exports of th Iominion of Canada were $90,749.14 r and the imports $121,858,241. The exports to the United States were $40,522,810 and the imports from this country were $52,291,973. The total trade with tho United States was $92,800,000 and with Great Britain $91,750,000. The excess of imports over exports of $25,000,000 is not a flattering showing for Canada. It seems that the feud between the Briton and tho Irishman was tho cause of the defeat of Governor Brackett in Massachusetts. The British-American Association in Boston, which controls seven thousand votes, voted, solidly against Governor Brackett because ho had often expressed sympathy with the Irish cause and refused to participate in tt meeting of British held on the Queen's birthday. People when .they become American citizens should drop their antiAmerican prejudices. - Seven, ministers of tho Reformed Presbyterian Church in Pennsylvania are about to' bo tried on the charge of heresy and insubordination. Their offense consists in advocating a change in the church discipline, which' prohibits voting. The reason given for this prohibition is that the Constitution of the United States is a godless instrument, and therefore any participation in politics is wicked. Such a doctrine as this, in the present ago of the world and in a republic, seems out of joint with the times. flBHBHBflBBBBBBBBBBjajSSVSlBWBB1BalBlBBlSBBSBlSSiBlBSB9 The chairman of tho directors' of the South Carolina penitentiary . has announced a plan for the employment of a

portion of the prisoners, which is that the Stato purchase lands on the Wateree river which are nearly worthless because frequently overflowed, and use the labor to build levees and then cultivate tho plantations, which would bo a source of profit to the State. That may do in South Carolina, but if it should bo attempted in a .Northern State it would overthrow the party responsible for it. The bringing of a large body of convict laborers in open competition wjth general labor and convict production into the market with individual enterprise which pays good wages has always, and justly, been odious in Northern communities.

THE HEETINQ OF COSQRESB. . At noon to-day the second session of the Fifty-first Congress will begin. The second message of President Harrison will be the first thing in order, and then the work of the session, which will end March 4, will begin. It cannot be as important as that of the last session; still, some of it is very important. The appropriation bills are to be passed that is the first duty. Tho Senate has before it several important measures which have passed tho House, among which are the federal election bill, the bogus lard bill, several labor and immigration bills, the bankruptcy bill, and several others. The House has the Senate bills to promote foreign commerce, the bill refunding the war tax of 18G2-3, and a few other measures. The most important new measure to which the attention of Congress will be called is that apportioning representation to the States upon the eleventh census. Mr. Dunn ell, chairman of the committee to which the matter has been referred, has prepared a bill which will probably be reported at an early day. It has been given out that the Democrats will assail the census when the apportionment bill comes up, or even before, on the ground that tho count in New York city has been defective. At any rate the measure promises to be the one over which there will be a sharp contest, to the end that it shall go over to tho next Congress. It should be disposed of before adjournment. There is a difference of opinion as to the general policy which the Democrats in the House will pursue. A few weeks ago it was proclaimed that, in both branches, they would delay and prevent the passage of the appropriation bills, to the end that the President may be forced to call an extra session of the Fifty-second Congress, but there is reason to believe that the wiser men and cooler heads have discountenanced this scheme and that those who ' have been inclined to it at first have met with a change since they have sobered off sufficiently to see that their victory was negatively rather than positively won. There is but one thing for Reoublican members to do, and that is to be present during the session and thus insure a Republican quorum. t Nothing but illness should keep them from performing their contract with the people when elected. They owe it to the country to which they gave new legislation last session and to the Republican party. If Republicans will see to it that there is a quorum of Republicans iu the House, and the Republicans in the Senate will not permit talking against time by Democrats, all of the measures upon which the party representatives agree can be enacted. Republican absenteeism can be regarded as little better than desertion from an army in the presence of the enemy. INTERSTATE BOUNDARIES AND JURISDICTION, Considerable apprehension is felt in Ohio lest a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in a case in which this State was a party may lead to serious consequences in Cincinnati and other cities situated on the north bank of the Ohio river. The case referred to was the controversy between Kentucky and Indiana as to the jurisdiction over Green River island. The main features of the case have been set forth in the Journal heretofore, but. the question of its bearing on the cities and towns in other States has not been raised before. Briefly stated, Indiana claimed jurisdiction over Green River island because it lay nearest the Indiana shore of the Ohio river, whilo Kentucky asserted her claim clear across the river to low-water mark on the north side. Kentucky's title came through Virginia, the contention being that as Kentucky continued to be a part of Virginia after the cession of tho Northwest Territory to the general government, and as by the terms of that cession Virginia retained jurisdiction of the Ohio river across to low-water mark on the north side, therefore Kentucky had the same title. Tle Supreme Court, in a decision rendered some six months ago, sustained the claim of Kentucky. The decision caused some surprise, because tho commonly received opinion among laymen and lawyers had been that each State had jurisdiction to the middle of the river; This seems to be the equitable and common sense view, but the decision of the Supreme Court sustained Kentucky's claim to jurisdiction clear across the river to low-water mark on the Indiana side. The apprehension now felt in Ohio is duo to a possible effect of the decision which was not thought of when it was rendered. As Ohio and Indiana were both included in the Northwestern Territory ceded to the general government, and as Kentucky and West Virginia lio south of Ohio, separated only by the Ohio river, it is plain that every principle of law which applies between Indiana and Kentucky applies also between Ohio on one side and Kentucky, and West Virginia on the other. In other words, if Kentucky has a good title through Virginia to low-water mark on the north side of the Ohio river as against Indiana, then Kentucky and West Virginia have the same title as against Ohio. The result would be to give Kentuck and West Virginia , jurisdiction over valuable ground and improvements in several Ohio river towns, the title to which has never brcn questioned heretofore. The matter is of sufficient gravity to havo enlisted the attention of the Governor and Attorney-general of Ohio, who will probably take steps, if not too late, to havo the State of Ohio made a

party to the suit between Indiana and Kentucky. Ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio, denies the validity of the claim made through Virginia, and says: - The reasons for making the median line of a stream the boundary between private properties are intinitelv stronger when it comes to nations and States. Cincinnati has. six or eight miles of river front, on which she has built levees and public landin and onr mercbantaand manufacturers have made docks, coal chutes, etc. If the . ancient meandered line of the low-water mark be rigidly renewed, the whole commercial front of this great city may possibly be held to be cut off from Ohio by Home narrow strip sufficient to fence us in. If Kentucky prudently does not urge such a claim, we may still hold our territory rather by sufferance than by title of a better kind. Railways have-been built up and down the river on the Ohio shore. It can hardly be possible in the nature of constructions of such a sort that they have not trenched upon the water-line. Shall a qno warranto in Kentucky forfeit their Ohio charters and .rights of way? Kentucky companies plant bridge piers so close to Ohio that the value of adi'acent property is destroyed. Must -the ventucky jury on the opposite shore have sole jurisdiction to assess damages! Sappose the war of secession had resulted in the independence of the South, and ' the Ohio hid been the boundary, as the South claimed? The idea of a boundary on the north shore would have made peace forever impossible. The river is too important a highway of commerce to permit any separation of jurisdiction except in the middle of the stream. It has always been admitted that such also is the general rule of law; but an exceptional interpretation is claimed exactly where the reasons for the rule are most overwhelming. There conld have been no good reason for Virginia and Kentucky controlling the whole river, and it cannot be supposed that the cession of Virginia saved such jurisdiction for bad reasons. I believe the publicists of the world would be shocked to see the claim of Virginia recognized as a rule of law. V,. - This puts the case very clearly, and the argument applies as strongly to Evansville, New Albany, Madison, Lawrenceburg and other Indiana cities and towns on the Ohio river as it does to Cincinnati. Of course it applies to every town in Ohio on the north bank of; the river. If Kentucky's claim is established it would cover all the wharves and river improvements which extend out beyond low-water mark , on , the north side of the river, and would also, give Kentucky criminal jurisdiction of offenses committed on the river, south of low-water mark. In short, the establishment of this claim might lead i to. serious embarrassment in many ways. The decision of the Supremo Court in the Green River island case rests mainly on a dictum of Chief-justice Marshall, laid down in a case decided in 1820. The Chief-justice said: . When a great river is the boundary between two nations or States. If the original property is in neither, and there be noconvention respecting it, each holds to the, middle of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river within its own domains, and the newly-created State extends to

the river only. The river, bowever.Y.is jts,. This statement . is not sustained by. any authorities, but on tha strength of it Chief-justice Marshall held in thpJ CAUPt hflforo him that VirfdniiiVi inrisdic tion extended to low-water mark on tho i - - north side of the Ohio, and the Supreme Court now follows that decision. It is somewhat remarkable that in 3a case of so much interest, and involving, possibly, such grave consequences, neither the Supreme Court nor cdunsel in tho Green River island case se'eW to have questioned the title of Virginia. It seems to have been taken for granted that Virginia had a good 'titfe'to the1 Northwestern Territory, and that when she ceded it to the general government she still retained jurisdiction o e Ohio river. But it is plain that itlVir ginia's title to the Northwestern JjCrrttory was not good, the present claim df Kentucky falls to the ground. i?Tl title has been disputed, though 'ot inl any recent case. Nearly fifty years agrj Samuel F. Vinton, one of the ablesjKlawjy yers Ohio has' ever produced, publisheda pamphlet in which he criticisjjti the? Supreme Court of the United Jates for having accepted the: claim 'pt Virginia to the Northwestern Territory? without investigation, and declared that it was not sustained by history. Mr.'-' Vinton took the position, and fortified ' it by historical proofs, that Virginia had'; never acquired title to the territorynorthwest of the Ohio river' either. bjfi" conquest or by charter; that the only royal charter under which she ever could have claimed it was revoked in 1C24, and that during the period immediately following the revolutionary war thexilaim of Virginia to this territory wasdt rec ognized either by other S totes or by the general government. On this line Mr. Vinton made axvery strong argument: to' prove that Virginia never had any claimf to the territory northwest of the Ohio river, notwithstanding the fact that she ostentatiously ceded it to the general government. This phase of tho case is of sufficient importance to be carefully investigated, . ' f TESTIMONT FROM ABROAD. We reprint from the Cardiff Western, Mail the main points of an interview with Joseph Maybery manager of extensive tin-works near Cardiff, and chairman of the Association of Tin-plate Manufacturers. Mr. May bery-recently spent two months in the United States, and this interview was had with him on his return to the old country. The main points of interest in it are his admission that tin-plate can be successfully manufactured in this country under a protective tariff, and undoubtedly will be unless the result of the recent elections shall deter capitalists from embarking In the business. He says" "the main difficulty is the high rate of wages," but that a fair rate of protection will obviate this. Questioned as to the probable result of the McKinley bill on the tinplate business in Wales, he said, "If the .House of Representatives had continued Republican there is no doubt that capitalists would have immediately invested money for the erection of . mills of all kinds." The entire interview shows that Mr. Maybery regarded the result of the recent elections as a great victory for British interests. In this connection we print the following extract from a private letter written by a former resident of .this city, who now lives in Cardiff. Ho says: Cardiff being the center of the tin industry, the probaule outcome of the election was fully diseased, not only by the newspapers published here, but on the streets and in the railway cars. The all-absorbing talk was. will tho Republicans win? If so, good-bj to the tin trade of Soath Wales with America, and at America takes about 80 per cent, of the output my Republican

ears have had to stand a lot, I can assure you. I hope .when the .countrv has had a little more time to think what benefits will occur through the adoption of the KcKinley bill that a reaction will take place, and that the Kepublicans will sweep the decks at the next election.

FouRTn Auditor Lynch, of the Treasury Department, repudiates the idea that the recent Republican defeat was due in any part to the disaffection of colored Republican voters. Hfe says: From what I have been able to learn the colored voters North, South, East and West never supported the Republican party more solidly than In the recent election. Republican defeat, therefore,1 was not due to dissatisfaction among colored voters. That there are some disappointed candidates for office among the voters of that race is no doubt true, but I venture the assertion that, relatively apeaking. this state of things is much less true of the colored than of tho white Republicans. AVith the general policy of the administration the colored Republicans throughout the country are satisfied. So far as appointments to office are concerned, they are not unreasonable in their claims upon the administration. . They know that all the worthy and deserving among them "cannot be appropriately provided for, and whenever the fact is made clear to them that the race has not been discriminated against in the distribution of the patronaee they are satisfied. The present administration has appointed more colored men to office than any previous administration, and, what is more to the point, it has been careful to appoint men that the colored race can be proud of. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says: Senator Voorhees observed to me after he came back, to Washington: "We had a fairly easy time in Indiana, though hard work is the law of politics in our State. The Kepublicans were beaten by their tariff , bill. Taxes made the first grievance of the American people and caused them to become a nation. He who lays taxes upon the people must be a reflecting man and consider well their temper. An old fellow in my town went to a hardware storo just before election. He was one of those incurable Republicans from away back. He ; wanted to buy a circular, saw and was given the price. lie said with confidence . that such was not the price, because he had been buying those saws for a long time. However, the hardware man said: All that class of goods has gone up from 7 cents to 11 cents a square foot; it is the result of the tariff. So lias everything in this hardware store gone up. . We are not making the prices for you, my friend, but Congress has done it, and the saw-maker charges us according to the new scale.'. Tho old fellow went out, and that saw was cutting hira in two. Of course, he delivered his .vote against his own party." Which goes to show that Senator Voorhees's friend, the hardware-dealer, is a scamp. The McKinley bill makes no change whatever in the duty on circular; saws, hand-saws, mill saws or any other kind.- 'v : . The Philadelphia Record complains that too many banks are officered by expert clerks and cashiers who are without commercial or industrial training. A great banker," it says, is necessarily a great merchant, and a great merchant is fitted for any business, for; he understands it all. As a notable illustration of this latter statement the Record might have used the case of John Wanamaker. Because Mr. Wanamaker was a practical business man, accustomed to the control of great and complicated interests and affairs, he was able to understand the postal system and its workings within the briefest possible time, after that department of government service was placed under his management. As a consequence ho has from the. beginning directed his .attention to -Jt V ' ' - At 1 tne improvement 01 me service, ana it has attained an efficiency unknown during any former administration. A great merchant certainly seems, according to results in this instance,' to be fitted for any business. TnE Supervising Architect of the Treasury, who has charge of all public buildings, will ask Congress for an appropriation of $125,000 for electric wires in buildings now in'process of construction. He says that the advance made in lighting buildings by electricity has so thoroughly established the convenience and superiority of the electric light that modern structures are incomplete without tho system, and it has become a necessary equipment in the completion of public buildings. During ; the last year twenty-one public buildings were completed and provision has been made for the construction of twenty-seven additional buildings. The total number of buildings completed and occupied is 250, and there are one hundred buildings for which sites have been acquired, but tho work on which has not yet been commenced. Sixty-nine buildings are now in course of construction or extensive repairs. All of which goes to show that Uncle Sam is a pretty extensive builder. General Knapp, the veteran chairman of the Republican State Central committee of New York, was asked the other day if, in view of the recent Democratic victory, he would advise retreat and a concession to Democratic clamor in delation to the tariff, national elections and silver legislation. His reply was: A thousand times no! The hope and strength of the Republican party is iu progress, in fidelity to principle, in adherence to the- protective policy and the equality of all men at the ballot-box. On these lines New York State will vote for the Republican candidate for President in 1892, and he will be elected. The Democratio epithets hurled at Republican measures are far less lurid than they were when' Lincoln was President, or when Grant stood for brave and honest legislation. They are summer breezes compared with the storm blasts which fell upon the party in the time of Garfield and-Arthur. The moral, manly, ; pfjgressive forces which bore sway,, then are still masters in this land, and they will not submit to the despotism of Tammany Hall and Mills, of free-trade fame, or the hosts whose ideal of government seems to be obstruction. , During the fiscal year which ended June J0, 1800, the United States imported from Great Britain merchandise to the value of $180,488,956, and exported to that country products valued at $444,459,000. The increase of tho value of exports over the previous year was 17, per cent, and that of imports was only 4 per cent. This disparity has been going on for years, yet, with such facts -before them, alleged statesmen like Carl Schurz stand up and declare that we cannot Bell to another country unless we take enough of its goods ic exchange to make the traffic .barter. Swapping is chiefly confined to jack.knives and spavined horses. ' The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, in an editorial on the political situation, says: "What favored the Democratic cause in November last so signally was the fact that merchants raised prices.

on the goods on hand .no matter what the? cost, and brought the evils of the tariff instantly home to the people!" No Democratic paper in the North dares to tell the truth like this.

The statement of an Eastern politician to the effect that the delegations of New York and Indiana will be for Hill is premature. ' Ex-Governor Gray's aspiration for the vice-presidency is a large-sized factor in the disposition of the Indiana delegation. He is tho Sitting Bull of the Indiana Democracy. Mrs. Kendal, the English actress now in this country, tells a reporter that she has been made an honorary member of every woman's club in the United States. This assertion suggests the ancient story of the man who declared that he bad seen a thousand cats fighting on" the roof under his window, but, when pinned down to1 factw, insisted that there were two, anyway, "and would not come down, another cat. -Sirs. Kendal has, perhaps, been elected to membership in one club. TnE city of Cincinnati is in luck again through the liberality of one of her publicspirited citizens.- Mr. J. G. Schmidlapp, president of the Commercial Club and of several other organizations, has presented the city $50,000 toward a permanent fund for free music in the parks. The experience of Cincinnati shows that one liberal action of this kind is an incentive to another, a fact we hope' to see practically demonstrated in Indianapolis some time. The penetrating cold just now prevalent in the East compels the Brazilian visitors to cut their visit short. The admiral says: "My sailors are not used to the cold, and it tells on them very severely on account of the fact that they have come up out of a hot country. If I stayed here as long as I contemplated a number of my men would be stricken down with pneu xionia." Jay Gould has not been invited to attend the Farmers Alliance convention at Ocala, Fla. Possibly he may not know much about increasing the volume of currency, but he could give the convention valuable points on how to get hold of most of the money already in circulation, and, after all, that is the sort of knowledge that is most generally craved. For a place of its size Knightstown seems to have been .harboring an undue proportion of 'crooks.,' The notion that the smaller a town is the nearer it approaches the condition of paradise was lbng since exploded, but 296 gamblers are really more than so reputable a place as Knightstown could be snspected of harboring, ! The American Folk Lore Society, which" has just been holding ii& annual session in New York, devoted considerable time to discusbiug 'Nanibojou among the Ojebways and -Mi ssissa gas." We commend the subject to Western debating societies and literary. plubs. -: , ' If foot-ball should ever develop into a popular professional game Constantino Buckley Kilgore, of Texas, could draw a salary that would make "King" Kelly and "Buck'' Ewing turn green. TnE greatcause of Irish home rule has suffered by the failure of Mr. O'Sbea to establish home rub in his family. "Great oaks," etc. ' BUBBLES IN THE AIR. '.; . , A Graduate.' Simmons Are you a college graduate? ' Tirqrains No; I am a sweet-girl graduate, five self-appointed sisters :' -' "C I've. . Household Hints. . , "Dyeing at Home' is treated of in a late house- . hold magazine. The writer neglects, however, to advise the subject to remove his boots. ' Conclusive Evidence. "What a pretty girl Jimson's type-writer must . be," mused Watts. "I never saw such an outrageous lot of misspelled words in a business letter before In aU my days." - - ! . 1 n A Promised Reformation. Citizen You ought to be ashamed of yourself' a great, strong fellow like you are going around c begging. ' - " '. ' Beggar I am a goin' to quit soon as I git some decent togs. I kin borry, then. t The He Girt." . , ,j Mannish Young Woman Well, old gentleman, when you get through staring at me, I hope you'll quit. .' . . . Old Party I didn't mean to annoy you, Pin sure. But you remind me so much of my boy away at college. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. ;. Mrs. Shaw, the whistler, is in Europe piling up a fortune in defiance of the old proverb about girls and hens. Mr. Gladstone Is apparently the only important man in England who has' the consciousness of being without sin,' and therefore he burls a bowlder in the direction of Mr. Parnell. - "No ragamuffin is ever ' vulgar or common," avers Mrs. Stanley, "and if ,the pictures render him so it is the , fault of the artist." The London gamin is more poetio evidently than his American cousin. Teddie Goodwin, six years old, of Camelia, Ga., is a little hero: The gown of his two-year-old sister caught fire, and, with commendable presence of mind, he tore off his jacket and smothered thellames.' Canox Newbolt, who is to be Dr. Lid; don's successor at St. Paul's, London, is a high churchman, and an impressive and fairly eloquent preacher. He has been successful as principal of the Ely Theological College. Autographs of recent Presidents of the United States bring 81, a Western collector says. Garfield's is quoted as cheap as $2, while Lincoln's will bring $10. A Lincoln letter, written early in the war, has been sold for $50. T. C. Crawford who has been living in Puria for a couple of years on his share ' of the princely profits of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show, has returned to his old home at Washington, and has begun doing newspaper work again. . An old elm in the academy yard at Exeter, N. H., set out by Daniel Webster when a young student there, and known to all old students and townspeople as the Webster elm, was cut down recently. It was entirely dead. Its wood is in great demand for souvenirs. Representative Lanham, who has been re-elected from the Eleventh congressional district of .Texas probably the largest in the country represents nmty-seven counties that are said to exceed in area ten States. One of the counties in his district is 1,000 miles by rail from his home. . 'It appears from the souvenirs, of lb Baron do Barante, which are about to bo published, that Talleyrand fled to America menaced by ,4 be reign of terror, his worldly wealth consisting of 25 louis d'ors. and that Madame De Stael prevented him from committing suicide by obtaining for him a post. ' - ... "Alarm Fritz" isn't a very dignified title, to apply to the Emperor of Germany, but that is the name he is known by in the German army ouaccount of his habit of arousing, tte garrisons in the middle of the night. The tars in the navy are no more careful of his dignity, since, they refer to him as "Gondola Billy." Does civilization contribute to the health of the people! It Is said that the death rate among the . Indians wbb aini to livo like whit people is three times that of

those who continue to livo a semi-wild life ThePawr.ee tribe has lost more men by lung troubles in the last ten years than il lost in battls during the previous thirty. Tiik religious circles of Washington art greatly surprised over the report that Mra. Leland Stanford, of California, has become a convert of the Catholic Caurch. Mrs. Stanford has si ways been considered one of the strongest pillars of the Methodist denomination in this country. She and her husband have donated thousands of dollars toward building churches for ibat denomination all over the United States.

TIN-PLATE-MAKING IN AMERICA. The Obstacles Are High Wages and Dealt Inspired by the Result of the Elections. Cardiff Western MaiL - Mr. Joseph Maybery, manager of the Old Castle tin-plate-works, Llanelly, and chairman of the Association of Tin-plate Manufacturers, returned to Llanelly from America on Thursday evening, completing to the day a two montnV absence from home. Mr. Maybery 6peaks in glowing terms of the hospitality of the American people, and of the graceful facility with which they rendered the sojourn of their visitors a highlypleasurable one. Well known in metallurgical centers of South Wales, Mr. Maybery naturally met in the States, especially in Pittsburg and its neighborhood, emigrants who knew him at home, and in conversation with 6ome of these he found that, although in the landof their adoption they earned high.wages. they yet preferred the old world labor conditions, to those of the new, and more than one was prepared to take the return voyage if his passago were paid. In the States they earned higberwages, it was vrne, but employment was more adventitious than in their native country. Work was carried on at high pressure while orders were on the books, and no effort at equalizing the output was attempted; but when crders flagged the works were stopped and the men thrown out of employment. Before Mr. Maybery left for the States he was known to regard American competition as an exceedingly probable contingency; in fact, not long ago he was one of several Llanelly manufacturers who spoke out strongly against the adoption by the public boards of Llanelly of a large water-works scheme, involving the expenditure of some 00,000. Cunous to know whether these fears had been strengthened or minimized, .our Llanelly correspondent hastened to interview him, with the following result: "You have come to interview me," remarked Mr. Maybery, and I pleaded guilty to the soft impeachment, offering in extinuatiou of (the crime the statement that my fellow-scribes had been on the same quest since the return boats had touched the Liverpool quays. ' "Yes, I have observed 6o from the newspapers, and a great deal more or less to the .point has been said on our American visit. 1 believe that the less we have to say calculated in any way to lead the Americans to suppose that we think very lightly of the tariff the better, because I am afraid it may be a serious matter. I don't know what the result of these elections may be . they may put a different color on affairs. Bat before the elections 1 certainly looked upon the matter as being very serious. 1 felt convinced that the Americans were going to make their own tin-plates, and I believe the will row to some extent, but very probably the unexpected turn things have taken may check the erection of mills for somo time." "Will America create a native industry in tin-plates?" "The turn matters have taken at the election may hinder it to some extent, but that they will eventually make their own tinplates I am quite certain. There are no climatic obstacles." "Are there any obstacles?" "The main difiicuity is the high rate of wages, but the climate is no difiicuity, because they work in the iron and steel-works summer and winter, all the year round, without let or hindrance. If it were not for the decided Democratic turn the elections have taken, I should have no hesitation in saying that tho Americans would at once set about erecting works for the manufacture of tin-plates; but they may now hesitate; as it is quite possible the' Senate will become Democratic and the decision ot tue late congress oe reverseuv : . , "But the present elections cannot effect . such a change for some years!" "One-third of the Senate retire every two years, so it takes six years before the Sen ate can be entirely changed. It might, therefore, take four years before the Senate became sufficiently Democratic to consider the question of canceling the late bill." . "Do you think that the present Democratic proclivities of the electorate will deter American capitalists from entering into competition with us!" "I am inclined to.think they will try the experiment on a small scale, but not on the lines of a large scheme.' Of course, this is altogether conjecture, because they hardly know what they will do themselves until the voice of the country has Deen thoroughly heard." In the course of further conversation Mr. Maybery explained that the new bill pro vided that, if (beginning with 1802) at the end of five years, the Americans cannot show that in one year they had made onethird of the tin-plates they consumed, tho tin-plate clause in the new tariff shall be abandoned. He was not certain whetlCt the duty on tin-plates had yet aroused so much public attention as that o:i other articles. "Were it not for this Democratic turn in publio opinion the new bill would, then, be a serious menace to the tin-plate industry of South Wrales!" "If the House of Representatives had continued Republican there is no doubt that capitalists would have immediately invested money for the erection of mills of all kinds." "South Wales capitalistsT" ' "I don't think 6o; not for any time, at any rate." "Before you left for America you opposed at a Llanelly public meeting the expenditure of a large snm of money on a now water-works until the fate of the tariff bill was decided. Were it not for these. elections I presume the fears you then expressed would now be accentuated!" "Undoubtedly. At the present moment it is somewhat doubtful what the result may, be, and even now it may be injudicious to expend a large sum of money on additional water-works unless they are an immediate and absolute necessity." Mr. Maybery went on to state that af tex June there would be a considerable lull in .the trade, because consumers would make the most of their stocks in hand and reduce them to the very last box before they made any purchases. He expected, therefore, a great dearth of orders after June. Of course, it would be next to impossible for the Americans to put up sufficient mills to supply their own requirements in the course of next year, and they would have to come into the market to have their requirements supplied; but for some time after June next there would bo a considerable lull in the demand. "I suppose the Americans are confident that they can create the industry there!" "They are perfectly sanguine as to that. I was told by a gentleman of considerable knowledge and a leading engineer that he fully believed that at the end of two years the Americans would make all the tinplates they required, but I don't know what his views are now in view of the present elections." "Do you think they will materially economize in the manufacture by the substitution of machine for hand labor!'' I don't think they will not to any great extent. They may in the finishing department construct machines for cleaning the plates, and thus sate tho labor of the girls "and women, but I don't think they will bo able to devise any means of reducing the hand labor to any great extent in the other departments." , Mr. Maybery then went into the TebaU Snestion. The rebate would, of course, be ecidedly in favor of the consumer of tinplate for canned goods and the South Waif t manufacturers who supplied America with that class of plato. lie could not definitely give the exact proportion of plates re-exported in cans, but a large quantity of the plates remained in America. He would not advocate any tactics of retaliation on the part of South Wales makers; better far to pursue the even tenor of their way, and manufacture as cheaply as possible by reduciug the cost in every possible way. from coal to the finished product. Coal and teel would have to come down. "And then we might compete with then, I suppose!" "I think so; for a good many years tt tro rate."