Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7, 1891.

THE DA I L Y J OURNAL WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7. 1601. VASlllGTON OFFICK A13 Fourteenth at. P. S. 1IIATH, lorTri oedttt. Telephone Calls. Euinf Offlce 233 Editorial Room 2t2 TEKM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BT 1LAIL, Ou year, without Sunday .- flifO One year, with Similar .... U oo Hx months, witln.nt sanday -0O Mx montb. with Suirtay 7."0 Three month, without Sunday 3 no Three month, with Mi n day 3.V) One month, without Sunday l.W One month, with Sunday 1.20 Delivered by carrier In city, 25 cents per week. WEEKLT. . Per year f 1 00 Keduced Ratea to Claba. finbwrlbe with any cf oar numerous agents, or and aatxtcription to the . JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, .INDLIXAPOLIS, l!CD. Ferrous Aetfdlnz the Journal through the mails In the L'nitrd States shraM put on an eifrht-vatre paper 05K-CENTjM)te( ump, on a twelve or HiteeuYFm vmorr tvc-cext pontage stamp, lore.gn ioaitage la usually doutle these ratea. All communication intended for publication in (his pajter must, in order to receive attention, beaetompanied by the name ana address of thevcriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PAIIIS American Exchange In Paxil, 34 Boulevard d Capncines NEW OUK-Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. nilLADELPHIA-A. V. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. R. TJawley A Co..lW Vine, atreet LOUISVILLE d T. Derlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOU 13 Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL Washington. V. C Bljrjra House and Ebbitt House. Members of the Legislature who desire to have the Journal delivered each morning at their hotels or boardlnic-houses will please leave their names and adlrees at the Journal countingroom, comer of Circle and Market streets. No British vessel ever attempted to catch seals on the Retiring Bea daring Russia's ownership of Alaska. It would bo a bweet boon for Grover Cleveland if the silver question could be got out of the way before 1892. What the Marion people do not know about gas after all tho able speeches have been made to them at the boom meeting to-day no fellow need hope to find out. - i -1 - TnE difference between a Democrat and a silver-mine-owner is that the former favors free silver coinage for political reasons and the latter for personal reasons. TnE lou lest applause which the eight Senators who turned against their Republican associates cn Monday will receive will be from those whose hatred of tho Republican party is most bitter. TnE shout of triumph which will come tip from the votfi-suppressing Democracy of the South over tho victory won for it by eight Republican Senators should lead them to wonder if they have not made a great mistake. The peace people, who, in quiet times, argue against tho existen'co of a standing army, have not been heard from since tho Indian troubles began. We may not need a large army, but a little one is a great convenience at times. The eight Senators who disregarded their party pledges on Monday have not only disgraced themselves,, personally and politically, but will find that their action has not furthered their own Eel fish ends. Treachery never pays in the long run. " The New York Press calls attention to the fact that tho duty on dress goods valued at 16 23 cents a square yard in the foreign market is 20 13 cents, and that the same goods are selling in New York at retail at 10 23 cents a yard. In this case the tariiT is not a tax. Newspaper readers who take any stock in rumors sent from the Indian country about battles and massacres not sent by , official authority can have no realizing sense of the financial stress of the imaginative correspondent in a boundless country and who is paid on space. It is interesting to note that the Senate majority means to "rush things' from this time on. It really makes very little difference what it does during tho rest of the session. No rushing will offset its past slowness and wavering imbecility, unless it should choose to nisi? into tho river and drown itself. Some people seem to think the government furnishes the Indians with arras. This is absurd. They procure arms from private traders just as other persons would, and, under existing laws, the government has no power to prevent them from doing so. If they are to be disarmed Congress must so direct, and provide means of doing it. The English newspapers seem to be trying a game of bluft on their own account in the Rehring sea matter. It is just as well for them to understand, first as last, that the American eagle, which has never been stampeded from its rightful perch by genuine roars of the British lion, will not so much as nutter its wings at these imitation growls. The silver ring in the Senate is throwing its time away. A measure hatched up by it and tho Democratic contingent is pretty apt to face certain death in the House. The financial affairs of the country are righting themselves with remarkable rapidity, and the only people likely to sutTer from lack of further silver legislation are the speculators who loaded np with the white metal. The Kansas Alliance frankly avows the fact that it proposes to be the real law-making power of the State, so long as it has a majority of the Legislature. Rills have to bo first drawn up and passed upon by the Alliance meetings before they can hope to get through tho Legislature. Tho American people are not likely to submit long to government by secret conclave, even though it be farmers who presume to attempt the innovation. Fort years the American cattlo trado with Belgium has been hampered by a regulation which compelled shippers to keep tho animals quarantined at Antwerp forty-live days without suitable provision and at great expense. Minister Terrell, when his attention was

called to the injustice, opened a correspondence with the Belgian government on the subject, and at once secured a reduction of the duration of the period of quarantine to ten and fifteen days. This did not satisfy the American minister, and lie asked for a further reduction, basing his request upon the ground that the rigid inspection of' all cattle shipped under the recent act of Congress made the exportation of diseased cattle impossible. In response to this Tequest tho Belgian government, Dec.

19, issued a decree reducing tho quaran tine of American cattle to five days. This concession, secured by the eflbrts of the indefatigable American minister, is of great importance to the cattlegrowing industry as American cattle are in great favor in Belgium, and the trade has been increasing in spite of the long and expensive quarantine. POLITICAL TBE2CHEEY AND TRADING. For the first time in its history the Republican party has been betrayed in the houso of its friends. For the first time in its history, through the treachery of so-called Republicans, it goes upon record as opposed to a measure just and righteous in itself, and to which the party is pledged by its traditions, its platform and the very law of its being. It has been the pride and boast of the party that it stood for the equal rights of all men, for universal suffrage, for a pure ballot, for honest elections and a fair count. Eliminate these ideas and their corollaries from the record of the Republican party and there is very little left to justify its existence. It has accomplished many grand results and achieved many splendid triumphs, but they have all had their inspiration in something much higher than party expediency or party success. Now, for the first time, through the cowardice of some and the treachery of others elected to high place as Republicans, the party is put in tho position of falsifying its record and betraying its principles. Not only was the national elections bill in accordance with Republican traditions and principles, but it was just and right in itself. Moreover, the party was committed to the passage of such a measure by solemn pledges in its platform and before tho people. Of the platform adopted in Chicago, in 1883,' no declaration was stronger and none elicited more hearty approval from Republicans than the one which demanded a free ballot and an honest election law. For these reasons it was tho sacred duty of the Republican party to enact it, or, at least, to try in good faith to do so. To their credit be it said, the Republicans of the House did their duty in this as in other respects. All honor to them for standing by the principles and pledges of tho party. The failure and treachery came where we had a right to look for even loftier devotion to principle and higher regard for party honor. A dozen defeats by tho Democracy would not havo been so disastrous or so humiliating as this betrayal from within our own ranks. Of course, the elections bill is dead, at least for tho present. It will revive again, because its passage will eventually become an absolute necessity to the maintenance of free government, but its revival may be a long way off. Things will go from bad to worse, and finally reach a point where the dullest person can see that it is a matter. of life and death to enact a national elections law. Then the measure will be revived, and, if there is virtue enough, patriotism enough and vitality enough left in public lifo to secure its passage, it will be passed. Otherwise the end of free government and of elections of any kind will be but a little way off. For the present, however, the elections bill is dead. We, deplore its defeat, and es pecially the manner of jt, but we recognize the fact that, slain in the house of its friends, it is no longer a live issue. The treachery that killed tho measure is made still baser by the motive that lay behind it. It was to give precedence to, and, if possible, secure the passage of a bill providing for free and unlimited silver coinage. This measure is as much opposed to the policy and traditions of tho Republican party as the other was in harmony with them. Next to its devotion to equal rights and equal suffrage, the proudest pages in the record of the Republican party are those which record its devotion to sound finance and an honest currency. At every critical point in the financial history of tho country it has stood like a 6tonewall for these principles, while the Democratic party has as invariably attacked them. The salvation of tho country is as much due to the financial policy of tho Republican party as to its war policy. Tho Democracy first tried to destroy the government and then to destroy its finances. To-day they favor free silver coinage, without regard to sound financial principles or the probable effect of such a policy on national prosperity or credit. If they know anything of the financial bearings of the case they do not care, but it is more likely that they neither know nor care. That the Democratic party should favor any reckless financial measure is not surprising; but it is humiliating to see so-called Republican Senators going back on the traditions of their party to vote for a measure so freighted with danger as tho free coinago of silver. If tho measure passes Congress we trust the President will veto it, and veto it in such terms as will leave no doubt where tho Republican party stands. Regarded simply from a parliamentary point of view, tho maneuver executed in the Senate was one of the smartest things ever douo in Congress. For clearness of conception, suddenness of development, promptness of execution and completeness of result, it has never been surpassed. It required no great brilliancy to plan it, and when once it was ascertained that the treachery of certain Republican Senators could be counted on, it was not difficult of execution. All that was necessary was to make a rush and follow it up. The opportunity presented itself when Senator Harris was called to the chair. This gave them a temporary advantage which they were quick to improve, and they did it very effectually. It wtaa

smart trick, and, unlike many Democratic proceedings, it was neither revolutionary nor unparliamentary. They simply saw their opportunity and utilized it, though, of course, they could not have done so without the aid of Republican deserters.

TEE BEHBIHQ BEA AFFAIS. The papers relative to the Behring sea controversy which the Presideut has sent to the House contain no new feature, and certainly no new demand, ns some of the anglomaniac papers in New York and other Eastern cities have assumed. The attempt to make it appear that the administration has changed its ground, and is not now willing to arbitrate, is not sustained by tho facts. The present administration, as well as its predeces-. 6ors, holds that when the United States government bought the Russian possessions in North America it purchased all the privileges in the adjacent waters which had for fifty years been conceded to Russia. ' Now, as in the past, the administration is desirous to submit to arbitration all questions bearing upon that assumption, which are stated in the President's message to the House, as follows: What were the rights exercised by Russia in Behring seat How far were they conceded by Great Britain! Was Behring sea included in the Pacific ocean? Did the United States acquire allot Russia's rights? What are the present rights of the United States? And if the concurrence of Great Britain is found necessary, then what shall be the protected limits and close season? . The British government, it seems, desires to submit questions to arbitration which practically ignore' the claims of the United States to the seal fisheries based upon purchase from Russia. The administration cannot make such a concession at the outset if it hopes to retain the respect of the civilized world and to maintain its position as a first-class power. Tho bluster of the English papers and their misrepresentation of the American people and the administration count for nothing. The assumption that the American people are not in accord with the administration upon this controversy is a different thing, and is without foundation. Two or three papers which have made haste, before the issue has been stated, to take sides with the British government are no more American than is the London Standard or the Pall Mall Gazette. The American people, regardless of party, will sustain the administration in standing by the rights of the United States in this controversy. The weakness of the British position is betrayed in the refusal of that government, thus far, to arbitrate upon the basis of the claims of the United States. If bur government cannot establish, before a proper tribunal, the rights in Behring sea which it claims, and which Lord Salisbury declares to be preposterous, why is he afraid to have that claim submitted? The fact that he refuses to submit the American claim to arbitration will lead most people to suspect that he fears that our government can make good its claim of jurisdiction over the waters ceded to the United States by Russia. It is safe to say that the administration is as reluctant to disturb the present relations with Great Britain.' as any administration can honorably be, and that it will make every effort to secure an adjustment which is consistent with the honor of the Nation and the rights of the American people, but it will not be frightened into the sacrifice of honor or the surrender of rights by the misrepresentation of anglomaniacs in this country, or the bluster of British newspapers. It is not a good administration to scare. ' A manufacturer in this city has sent the Journal a trado circular in which the following statement is made: . The United Alkali Company (limited) has ' practically absorbed all the soda-ash plants in Great Britain. This combination has, been the means of advancing prices some 2 per 4enL during the last half of 1800. The present prices, without question, will' be advanced npon daring the first five months of the new year, as the directors of that company state in their stock prospectus that they "expect satisfactory returns to the shareholders from the avoidance of undue competition which has prevailed between the various manufacturers." These returns, figuring $3,175,000 annual profits on share and debenture capital of 42,500,0CC, show an extreme percentage for English investors. , Here is a British trust formed to control an article of general use in the manufacture of woolens for scouring. The duty has been and is so light that no extensive soda-ash industry has been established in this country. Realizing this, and that they could control the supply and the price, the combination was made which put up prices 20 per cent., and will advance them still further. This is one of the' "free raw materials" of which we have heard so much, and which we are told by revenue reformers should be placed on the free list. But for the low duty soda ash would be produced in this country in larce quantities, but with the powerful competition and low duty the production has not been undertaken. The result is British monopoly, combination and high prices. Should the manufacture be now undertaken in this country, soda ash would be sent here at prices which would ruin producers here, and then the prices would again be advanced. But the free-trade paper wiU never allude to this British trust. y The proposition to abolish the Board of Aldermen, under the new city charter, savors of impulsive legislation. The American idea in all important legislative bodies is to have two branches, each acting as a check on the other. The expense of a Board of Aldermen is small compared with the advantages gained by revising hasty legislation. Being elected by larger constituencies, they represent broader ideas than the councilman, and can afford to be more independent. If they were elected by the entire city it would be better still. Ward boundaries are of no use in city government. It appears that the relieving of Gen. Forsythe was preliminary to the appointment of a board of inquiry into his management of the battle at Wounded Knee, which has already been done. It is not quite clear whether the special point of inquiry is the disposition of troops which made it impossible to cross fire without killing one another or whether it is the alleged unnecessary killing of Indian women and children.

In either case it seems due to General Forsythe that an inquiry should be made, and that he should be given an opportunity to vindicate his management. The conditions of Indian warfare are peculiar, and in this case they were complicated by treachery and surprise. General Forsythe is an able, experienced and gallant officer, and it is exceedingly probable, as it is earnestly to be hoped, that he will bo able to justify his conduct in every respect.

Several free-trade papers havo assailed the managers of the Edgar Thomson steel-works, in Pittsburg, because they did not advance the wages of a part of the employes, who &truck a short time since. These papers go on to assume that the employes should have their share of the increased profits due to the recent tariff law. It is sufficient answer to say that the Edgar Thomson works produce steel rails, and that the tariff law reduces the duty on rails from $17 to 313 per ton a reduction of nearly one-third of the duty. If the free-trade assumption is true -that wages should be raised with an increase of duties then, by the same logic, wages should be reduced when the duty is cut down. The Edgar Thomson works have made no redaction, although the demand for steel rails is anything but active just now. ' If the appropriations for the Indians have been, reduced to the starvation point Congress is responsible for it. The following table shows the amount by which the estimates of the Indian Bureau have been reduced in different years by Congress: 1879 $105,000 1880 55.000 1881 95.000 18S6 $300,000 18$7 200,000 1888 100,000 1889 No reduction l&DO 100.000 18U1 50,000 1882 25.0O0 1883 275.000 1884 275,000 1885 375,000 It will be observed that the reductions during the Cleveland administration were greater than at any other time. If the present trouble is due in any part to that cause it has been working for many years. ' It would be a surprise if the anglomaniac New York Times did not assail the administration for its position npon the Behring sea question. The importers' organ declares that the American people will not be led to war by Mr. Blaine over the sealing question. There is yet no need to talk of war, and those who do it are anglomaniacs on this side of the water who are ' anxious to surrender in advance. They should remember that the United States can as ; well afford to go to war to sustain its rights as Great Britain can to ignore them. The Indian situation grows more critical daily, and everything points to a bloody battle in the course of a few days. Unless the present drift of events is providentially changed, it is difficult to see how such a catastrophe can be avoided. It is to be hoped the military preparations for the encounter are adequate, though it is evident that the hostile Indians greatly outnumber the troops concentrated against them. Emma Abbott's 8tage Life, In reading of the untimely death of Emma Abbott, many people will wonder why, with the great wealth she had accumulated, she should have remained so long upon the stage, enduring its irregular and laborious life. . It will not do to charge her with the desire to acquire greater wealth, for with her capital and well-known business abilities, she could easily have made greater gains than would come through her profession. Neither is it just to ascribe her action to "the love of applause and excitement, as is commonly done in the case of Bingers and actors who -show a reluctance to abandon public life. It was undoubtedly something beyond this that influenced her an influence not open to criticism. When a man devotes himself to business it is commonly with the understanding, tacit or expressed, that when he has attained a competence he will at least lighten, if he does not give up, his labors, and will engage in more congenial pursuits. When this time arrives it generally turns out that he is fitted for businsss and nothing else, and that complete leisure means discontent and unhappiness. What is true of business is much more so of the professions, for a successful professional man has a genuine love for his work, and this, added to the habits growing out of years of practice, renders him loath to give it up for any cause. This feeling is especially characteristic of musicians for a reason that may be easily explained. The life of a musician is peculiarly isolated. There are few, if any. callings that so absorb the time, and energy, and interest of their follower i ears ox preliminary study are necessary to fit the singer for the stage and it must be close, unremitting study, with no intervals for rest or pleasure. Study and practice do not end when publio iife begins, but are continuous if the artist is conscientious and ambitious. This necessity, and the further need cf placing special safeguards about the health, removes such persons from the usual conditions and surroundings of every-day life, in a great measure, and they Jive in a world of their own. When, as in Miss Abbott's case, they are constantly traveling and remain in no place long enough to form social ties, the isolation becomes more complete. Since the death of her husband Miss Abbott has been entirely alone, and it ought not to be surprising that she sought comfort and relief from sorrow in the occupation most congenial to her. i r Almost daily the Journal receives news from some point in the State of a child burned to death, and it is always the same story. The toddler bus been left alone in the house, and its dress has caught tire from an open grate or stove. Terrible as is their grief, parents who are careless enough to leave a child of three or four years alone in the house with an open fire are hardly deserving of sympathy. Judging from the wild and conflicting rumors from Pine Ridge that burden the wires every night now, that army of Washington correspondents must have arrived at the seat of - war. If they should come in collision with the hostilos it is to be hoped that no quarter will be asked or given on either side. In view of all the facts that have floated to the outside world concerning the Oklahoma legislators, the strenuous and successful efforts of the Guthrie sheriff to save one cf them from being lynched seems rather a waste of euergy. It is not often that the death of a theatrical or operatic artist evokes as general an expression of sincere regret and genuine respect & that of Emma Abbott has done.

The reason is obvious. In addition to be

ing an artist of more than ordinary merit. she possessed the private virtues and gen uinely honest traits of character which are far more endearing to people in general than mere stage attractions or even gifts of genius. If Miss Abbott had not been a true woman as well as an artist, her death would have elicited comparatively little comment. Mr. Horace Parrott yesterday left at the Journal office a sample tin-can made of American tin by Norton Brothers, Chicago. The tin is of better quality than ordinary. ' BUBBLES IX TIIE AIR. So He Called It " "Oh, paw, is that a mountain! asked Tommy Flpx, as the train passed a rather abrupt elevation. "No; it's only a bluff," answered his parent. A Serious Drawback. When a Sioux Indian wishes to express In hit own language "1891, A. D.," he has to say -Kektopawinge wanji sunl opawisge shakdogan sunt wika chenina nupchewunka suni wanjina. Is it any wonder Brer Lo has been so backward in adopting white civilization! A Side Line. Flint College Chum And how are you gettlngl Second Chum Only moderately. I am preach ing out here In the country for $300 a year. First Chum Three hundred goodness, man, can you live on that! Second Chum Oh, 1 do some literary workpatent medicine certificates, you know. Unconsidered Trifle. The dome of the Kansas 8tate-house la. to be surmounted by a $10,000 statue' of Ceres. The goddess will wear sandals but no socks. The millennium cannot really be declared on until no in an is too poor to afford a lawsuit. There Is much in a name. It has been a heap of money in the dove's pocket that he rhymes with "love." The Arizona orator who used the expression "At one fell swipe" may not have been strictly classical, but he made himself understood. A touch of love makes the moat matter-of-fact man a poet, or, what amounts to the same thing, makes him think he is a poet. . The national Prohibition oommittee has Issued a call for $3,000 a month. Almost anybody would be willing to swear off for that amount ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ralph Ingalls, the second son of the Senator, will finish his 'course of study at the Colombia Law School next spring and will go into the office of William Evarts in New York city. Ellsworth, the eldest son, who is also a lawyer, prefers to remain in Kansas. Mrs. May French Sheldon, who is to lead an expedition to the Congo in Stanley's footsteps, is a physician of no mean ability, and has also won a repntation as nn author and sculptor. She has an enviable position in literary and scientific circles in London. Webb C. Hates, the ex-President's son, lives in Cleveland, where he is rated a keen and successful business man. He is treasurer of one corporation and a stockholder in several others. He is a bachelor, and ocenpies handsome apartments in the east end of the city. The Hollanders are so mad because people have twitted them with being ruled by a little girl that they have got the high court to rule that the sovereign of Holland is King Wilhelmina. The title will be rather awkward when King Wilhelmina comes to get married. King Albert of Saxony is sixty-two years old. and has been on the throne for seventeen years. He is a huntsman of note, ana is at home in the forests of the Bohemian frontier. The hunting dinners at which he presides recall the great feasts that his ancestors had on similar occasions. Queen Victoria is said to believe that the house of Orleans is unlucky, and does not wish their had luck to overcloud her family. She has also, says a correspondent, a clear view of the necessity of not being on bad terras, through the fault of ber own house, with the French republic Senator Irbt, of South Carolina, is the descendant of a fine old Southern family. His father, who was at one time Lieutenant-governor of the State, was a successful lawyer and planter, and left a fortune of $400,000. On his mother's side the Senator's liue rnns back to several noted orators and heroes of revolutionary days. Dr. Henneage Gibbes, of the Michigan University, the man who has helped discover a consumption cure to rival Dr. Koch's, has a daughter who is a mighty hunter. He, too, loves out-of-doors, and with his child is often seen tramping a held with doc and gun. The two are familiar figures on the hills and fields about the Michigan Athens. Senator Sherman is a very slim man. He is six feet three inches' high, but only weighs 150 pounds. But he knows how to live, and does not look older now than he did twenty years ago, though he is sixtyseven years old. He has "bright, black" eyes, and it is known in the Senate that he can see into a question as quickly and as far as any other person. Miss E. O'Duffy, a young woman about twenty-one years old, is one of the largest importers and dealers in wild animals in this country. She is the daughter of a Dublin druggist, and has a natural liking for the business. Miss O'DutTy is not the first of her sex to enter this calling, for some of the most successful dealers in birds and animals in Europe are women. Egg-nog is undoubtedly the '.accessor of the "wassail," as Brande tells us that "the wassail bowl was carried around on New Year eve." Whence the delicious beverage derives its name is not clear. Some insist it is so called because in concocting properly it is necessary to "knock" the eggs with a spoon in beatiug up, and that on the thoroughness of this depends the quality of the "good cheer." The probability is that the name is from the old English "nog," which, according to Swift, meana "ale." The Duke of Nassau and Grand Dake of Luxemburg is a very rich man, as, in addition to his enormous estates in Germany and Austria, he possesses a very large fortune. He is the ownor of the finest cellar of German wines in the world, and has all his life expended a large sum every year in maintaining his stock. The Duke is the owner of the famous Steinberg vineyard, near Kudesheim. He has obtained the reputation of being one of the best judges of wine in the world, and seizes every opportunity of expressing his opinion that no man can possibly be injured by drinking wiue freely, if only the liquor is of unexceptionable quality. The wife of Stanley is still a very patriotic Englishwoman. While she and her husband were in Chicago, the other day, a reporter noticed that when Stanley happened to refer to the superiority ot a certain article of American manufacture over English goods of the same order she quickly entered into an argnment on the subject. Subsequently, to au interviewer, she said: "No, I do not want Mr. Stanley to go back to Africa and shall try to persuade him to remain in England. But, of course, if he is anxious to return I shall willingly go with him. He certainly has endured enough for one man in that country, and ought not to go there again. He doesn't even know himself whether he will take another trip to Africa, and we are not bothering ourselves by thinking of it." Pointer for William. Philadelphia Inquirer. Kaiser William has been asked to stand sponsor for a joiner's son and has consented, lie had better ascertain whether the joiner is named Duvail. and if so almost any member of the United States Senate can give his Imperial Highneas a pointer or two. Suggestion to Tariff IUforn,er. Washington Tost. Small-pox has appeared in a most virulent form along th Mexican bonier. It is presumed that some of the college-bred tariff reformers will advocate its free admission because it is cheap.

KATUBAL GAS'S MAGIC WORK

Marion's Wonderful Development Sinco the Discovery of tho New Fnel. Vftji and Means of EcoDomizing It to Ba Discussed To-Daj's Meeting the Starter for a Big Exposition Project for 1S9L Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marion, Ind., Jan. 6. To-morrow will be a red-letter day in this "the queen city of the smokeless region." Hospitality is in the air, and the welcome to the expected guests will be most open aud cordiaL The reason for the proposed meeting lies in the fact that while the natural-gas interests have increased to such proportions as to assume a great place in the industrial world there is a tremendous waste of this subtle 11 aid, chiefly by means of flambeaux, and thinking business men and manufacturers do not think it right to fly iu the face of Providence by a wasteful use of this good gift. All over the country, in the gas region, at nearly every farm-house may be seen a flambeau with a great pillar of fire, a restless ever-moving giant of fiatnelighting np the heavens by night and scarcely ever extinguished by day. Each one of these burns enough gas to supply a 6mall factory, and while there is no thought among tho sanguine men of Marion that the gas will give out in a lifetime, they are determined to provide against woeful want by cutting oft willful waste, and the matter, to that end, will be brought, by force of opinion, to the attention of the Legislature. Another object of the meeting is to encourage fraternal relations among the cities of the gas belt, as notwithstanding that -they are lively competitors their interests are to a treat extent identical. This meeting is intended also to be the forerunner of an industrial natural-gas exposition to be held at Marion in June and July, 1801, at which will be exhibited the various products manufactured by this gas. and at nbich many processes of manufacture will be exemplified. This bright and beautiful city claims a Eopulation of twelve thousand, and having ad but 4,800 population at the time of the discovery of gas, shows the most remarkable growth ot any place in the smokeless region. There are upwards of forty factories, big and little, with a total ol more than three thousand employes. Tho list of factories need not be given in detail. but among the most prominent, and to show the diversity of manufactures in this industrious place, the following may be named: Malleable iron-works. Sweet, Clark &, Co., manufacture nearly two hundred tons of iron per month into various implements, andj employ 300 bands; Marion window-glass-works, seventy iivo employes; Cios-, by . Taper Company, using twenty tons of straw daily, seventy-five employes; Marion flint-glass-works, making exclusively Hint glassware for druggists, oOO employes; Barton bell-works, mauufacturiog everything in the bell line from ringing sleigh-bells to the deep-voiced tire bell, 40 employes; Parmeuter Crayon Company, manufacturing over thirty millions of chalk crayons a year, for which much of the material comes from Europe, twenty-five men. Skewer-works, supplying meat skewers to nearly all countries, furnishing three-fourths of all the hickory skewers made on earth, the output being SOO.OOU.000 a year, eighty employes; Marion stove-works, sixty employes; Studebaker, Yon Behren & Co., manufacturers of wagon and carriage . material and building stuff, sixty employes; Stewart, Estep & Co., window-glass-works, 800 employes; Canton glass-works, tine table and stained ware, 100 employes: Keller & Mead, furniture, 100 employes; Marion pulp-mill, GO employes; Wise & Nelson, makers of barrel-hoops, 80 employes; knitting-mill. 100 machines. l'JO employes; Marion pressed-brick-works. 100 employes. In addition to this there are several brickyards and a dozen tile-works, employing, perhaps, all told, 2TjO men. There are a dozen factories that were located here before the discovery of eas. Each of these has been enlarged, and the working force has been correspondingly increased. The Westerman rolling-mill is now completed and will begin work in about thirty days. This will employ three hundred men. The Normal College, which started here eighteen months ago. is now one of the most flourishing educational institutionsin Indiana and has nearly 180 pupils. The Soldiers' Home, with its magnificent buildings, attracts great attention, though not yet completed. There are between seven hundred and eight hundred veterans "at home" in this beautiful place. The surrounding grounds are capable of high adornment. Many fine business houses and residences have been erected during the season just closed, all testifying to the solid prosperity pi the city. To-morrow morning the committee of reception, forty in number, bubdivided into smaller committees, will be kept busy receiving the 6 a pec ted guests as they arrive. There is a belt road around this city, formed by 'the Clover-leaf railroad (Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City road), and this road will. In the afternoon, show the visitors to the factories that are ' on its line. There are thirty of them, and the one hundred guests who will be here will have full opportunity to see what is going on in this busy community. Theto guests will come from Indianapolis. Chi cago, Toledo. Cincinnati, Louisville, Columbus, St. Louis and from various .cities in the Indiana and Ohio gas' belt. , Among the prominent people who will be here are Governor George W. Steele, of Oklahoma; Col. A. L. Conger. Akron, O.; Hon. George M. Bailey, Uullalo, N. Y.; Monroe Seiberling, of Kokonio; one of the wealthiest manufacturers in the United States; Hon. William Beatty. of Toledo, O.; Col. John G. Clarke. Capt D. F. Allen, of Frankfort: Augustus L. Mason. Indianapolis; Churl H. Harris, editor Toledo Commercial; II. Balsley, of Findlay, O.; I. N. Miller, superintendent of the Panhandle. Hichinond, .Ind.; Maj. Chas. F. Doxey and Hon?vas. L. Henry, of Anderson. Inere will also bo a party of thirty or more from New York, including some newspaper tople. Upon the return o the v iuy from visiting the factories an iufunoU reception will be given by Mr. J. S. Ludlum. president, and George E. Meyers, secretary, of the Board of Trade. At 9 o'clock in the evening a banquet will be given in the Board of Trade rooms in the court-house, one of the handsomest buildings in northern Indiana, and which never fails to extort the admiration of visitors. Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, will preside at the banquet and Mayor George H. Moore will deliver the address ot welcome. Governor Hovey, vfh had been invited to be present, has sent his regrets. He will not be here on account of the convening of the Legislature. Responses to the toasts will be made by Hon. Hiram Brownle, of Marion: Hon. Geo. M. Bailey, of BuOalo; lion. GeorgH I Maoii, of New York; Mr. John C. Ochiltree, Mr. W. D. Weaver, of Marion: Mr. Monroe Seiberling, of Kokomo, and others. The California Mm I)Uter. Sandreas, CaL, Jan. ft The accident which occurred, yesterday, in the north shaft of the Utica mine, at Angel's Camp, resulted in the death of eight men. XL a skip, with the miners aboaid. wan coming up for dinner. When within 150 feet from the top of the shaft the cable patted at the reel, letting the men, skip and one hundred feet of cable fall into the sump at the bottom of the shaft, a distance of four hundred feet. The names of the killed are: Joe Carter. William Case, Daniel Dennison. Tom Conovich. John Demaris, DaveMcCann. 1. Trupech and J. Bnstano, four of whom are married and have families. The bodies presented a sickening sight, being fearfully mutilated. The sump contained about fourteen feet o water. It is but little over a year ago that a cave-in occurred in the same mine, burring sixteen men, and the work of recovering their bodies had nearly been accomplished when this second disaster took place. Rough Experience of a Steamer. London, Jan. 7. The National line steamer Spain, Captain Gritlitha, at London, from New York, reports having exBerienced a very rough voyage. ea 20, two days after leaving New York, she encountered a severe storm, during which a tremendous sea swept over the vessel, carrying away the cattle-pens and washing live head of cattle overboard. She lost her reckoning for five days, owing to a dense fog which prevailed whilo tht steamer was off the Scilly islands.