Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891.

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A U com m n ications in tended for publ iration in this paptrmust. in order to rtenre attention, beatcompanied by thename ana address of theteriter. THE IN D IAN APO LIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 38 Bonier ard de Capncmea NEW YOKK-Gilsey(Housa and Windsor HoteL P1I ILADELPII I A A. p! Kemble, 3735 Lancaster arenas. . CHICAGO Palmer House. t CINCINNATI-J. R. Haw ley Cj Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C T. TTing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and ftotitfcern HoteL Washington, l. a mggn -House and Ebbitt House. Members of the Legislature who desire to have the Journal delivered each morning at their hotels or boarding-houses will please leave their names and addresses at the Journal countingroom, corner of Circle and Market streets.' The statement of the Democratic press to the effect that General Miles has said that the Indians were starved into hostility is not true. The bringing of the free-silver bill to the front has not had any effect to improve the price of silver bullion. On the contrary, it has rather declined. The odium upon the silver bill is that it got standing in the Senate by an odious and treasonable combination with the party which champions ballot-box frauds. As no Democratic State Treasurer in the South has defaulted during the past three months, the leaders may hope that they will reach springtime without such a customary event. Senatorial courtesy is a very handy thing for Democrats on the floor, but they seem to forget all about it when, by tho exercise of this same courtesy, they are called into tho presiding officer's chair. Ten years ago the country was very prosperous, and there was no thought of a scarcity of currency. Yet since 18S0 the circulation has increased about 00 per cent, and the population not quite 23 per cent. ssasasssssiiisaaasis The failure of a British firm which has been conspicuous in buying up breweries is, announced, but at the prices paid for some of the plants in this country the only wonder is that they did not suspend earlier. TriE Chicago Tribune says Indiana is full of farmers who do not indorse the McKinley law, and that" "the machine, headed by the Indianapolis Journal, is trying to read them out of the Republican party." Oh, no; they are out now and we are trying to read them in. . Republican advices from Springfield, 111., are to the effect that the belief is that General Palmer has no possible chance of election to tho United States Senate and that the election of Judge Lindley, president of the F. M. B. A. and a Republican, may be expected. Two weeks ago the free-trade papers were howling over a report that the Glass Manufacturing Association had decided to advance the price of that article 20 percent. The association has just declared that the prices will not be changed. But the howl will be kept up all the same. People who are disposed to be unhappy over the alleged contraction of tho currency should tako notice that during the month of December it was increased 24,199,310. The United States never had as much currency as it has to-day. There is no lack of currency except when lack of confidence causes it to be tied up. If it . is a fact, as stated by a correspondent, a few days since, that it is quite a general custom for incoming county treasurers to accept the book ' statements of assets without counting them, it is high time the Legislature should look into the matter. It is, too astonishing to credit. Still, it is better to have full knowledge. People who accuse the English newspapers of being entirely devoid of humor have evidently never read any of their comments on American politics, which are nothing if not amusing. What could be more exquisite, for instance, than the assertion that Mr. Blaine is conducting the Behring sei negotiations with a view to "catching the Southern vote"! TriE report to the effect that Senator Carlisle is of opinion that Hon. W. R. Morrison, of tho Interstate-commerce Commission, and of horizontal tariff-bill fate, is a better man for Democratic candidate for President than is Mr. Cleveland is one of the significant indications that the leaders of the Democratic party in the South and West are not in accord with the Democratic voters. The State lioard of Agriculture yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution asking tho Legislature to enact a law providing for the proper representation of tho State at tho Chicago Columbian Exposition. Tho resolution was adopted with the understanding that the Legislature would be asked to appropriate $200,000, and some members of the board would have favored considerably more There was but one sentiment expressed, and that was that Indiana must do her whole duty in tho matter of representation at tho exposi

tion, and that it must be done in no niggardly or halting way. Tho action of the State board ought to make the farmers in the Legislature solid for a liberal appropriation. The Journal is of opinion that it should not be a cent less than 8200,000, and that is too little rather than too much.

ADVICE TO THE FIFTY-SEVENTH GEUEBAL ASSEMBLY 01' ISDiASA. Be as unlike all previous Democratic Legislatures as possible. THE BEHEISQ BEA DISPUTE. A few anglomaniac papers attempt to make the point against the administration that it has put itself in the wrong by refusing Great Britain's -proposition to submit the Behring sea controversy to arbitration. This is an unfair and unpatriotic view of the case. This government has no more declined arbitration than the British government has. Lord Salisbury proposed one basis of arbitration a palpably unfair one and Secretary Blaine declined it. The latter then proposed another basis of arbitration, embracing all the points in controversy, and that was not accepted by the British government. So far as the question of arbitration is concerned, this government clearly has the best of it. It has offered to arbitrate tho whole question, but is not willing to arbitrate part of it. Another point on which an attempt is made to misrepresent this government is in the assertion that it claims that Behring sea is a closed sea. It makes no such claim, and never has. The extent of its claim is that during a short season of each year it has a right to exercise . rolice supervision over the waters of Behring sea for the purpose of protecting the seal fisheries and preventing their extermination. There is no claim to the exclusive navigation of Behring sea, nor anything of the kind. Canadian or British vessels may enter and sail the sea for any legitimate purpose whatever except to kill seals daring a certain season. Thisjs not ah assertion of a right to exercise control over the high seas, but the assertion of a right to protect valuable property from destruction. And Mr. Blaine offers to submit to arbitration the question whether the United States has this right or not. Our issue in the matter is with the Dominion of Canada, just as it was in the fishery question. Great Britain has no interest in the matter beyond sustaining the poaching claims of Canadian vessels. In fact it is largely to the interest of England that the seal fisheries should not be exterminated, as the handling and curing of the skins is all done in London, and it makes quite a large business. At the recent rate of destruction the seals will soon be exterminated and there will be an end of all business growing out of the fisheries. The obj ective point of the United States is to protect its own property and save a large industry for the world. England's contention is for the right of Canadian vessels to trespass in Behring sea and destroy the seals by wholesale in the breeding season. This is the worst kind of poaching, and little short of piracy. The claim now set up by Canada and maintained by England was never made while Russia owned Alaska. During all that period Russia claimed and exercised exclusive control over the seal fisheries, and no poacher ever entered on those waters. Russian companies had an exclusive right under imperial charter to take seals in Behring sea, and neither Canada, nor England, nor the United States ever questioned it When the United States purchased Alaska they succeeded to all the rights of Russia, and for nearly twenty years, from 18G7 to 1886, the exclusive right and control of the United States over the seal fisheries was undisputed. It is too late now to raise a question as to rights which were exercised without question by Russia and the United States continuously for nearly a hundred years. The position of the United States in this matter is impregnable, and it has been maintained by Secretary Blaine with signal ability. THE LATE SPECULATIVE PANI0. In an article on the late financial crisis, in the North American Review, Henry Clews shows that it was the culmination of & few years of unprecedented indulgence in speculative financiering in Great Britain, and of speculative railroad construction in this country. From the beginning of 1888 until October, 1600, 485,000,000, or $2,425,000,000, was subscribed in Great Britain for corporate stocks, loans and trusts, of which 376,000,000 was in stocks and loans in South America. There has been a mania for taking stock in finance, investment and trust companies in England. British speculators have gone to the ends of the world and formed enterprises, and sold their alleged securities in the home market They came to this country and invested in certain properties at prices which caused astonishment, but these ventures were conservative compared with those made in South America. In this country, from 1879 to 1884, tho mileage of railroads was increased 48 per cent, or 40,759 miles, which was capitalized and bonded for $2,720,000,000, while the true amount of capital invested against these issues was, by Mr. Clews's estimate, less than half that sum. There came a collapso for two years, but in 1S87 the country ,was embarked in another railroad-building boom, by which the then mileage was increased 25 per cent, representing nearly f 2,000,000,000 more of capitalization and bonds, or a total of $4,009,000,000 during the decade, thus doubling tho railroad investments of the country. As the stocks paid no dividends, and, in many cases, the interest on bonds was in default, it was only a question of time when the men holding these securities would try to realize on them. Public sentiment acts and reacts. It was acting in favor of these investments when they were purchased without heed, and it reacted when, in October,' there was a sudden and extreme break in prices of securities of the speculative classes, both in London and New York, because of a general effort on the part of the holders to sell them. The result was that from ten to twelvo million dollars'

worth cf American railroad stocks and bonds came back from London to New York in early November. Simultaneously there was a movement in England to realize on the South American securities, and this raorment exposed the weakness of tho great house of Baring Bi others, which added to the general distrust, and would have ended in widespread disaster but for . the support of tho Bank of England and other banking institutions. But the fall in the prices of the rro paying-value stocks and other securities compelled the holders to sacrifice them, and led the banks to refuse loans to those who had been carrying them. Banking-houses loaded with such alleged properties went down. Confidence was lost and the savers of money locked it up till the storm passed over, causing stringency. Quite a number of manufacturing and mercantile establishments, which were upon a sound basis, but which tpixst always depend upon bank credits to carry their business, were forced to suspend, but on so sound a foundation was the general business of the country that the speculative panic did not seriously affect it.

GESERAL EOESI TEE'S SUSPEXSIOff. The Chicago Times censures the administration for relieving General Fprsythe during a campaign, and charges it with trying to make a scapegoat of him for its own shortcomings. "Such a proceeding," says the Times, "is the resource of timidity and blundering, that where success is assured takes the credit and when disaster results makes a victim of the officer in the field." This was written under the supposition that the administration had ordered the relieving of General Forsy the, but now it appears the administration did nothing of the kind. The published correspondence shows that the first suggestion questioning General Forsythe's management in the affair of Wounded Knee came from General Miles. He said: "It is stated that the disposition of the four hundred soldiers and four pieces ot artillery was fatally defective; that a large number of soldiers were killed and wounded by the fire from their own range, and that a very large number of women and children were killed in addition to the men.1' On the strength of this suggestion from General Miles the President directed General Schofiold to request General Miles "to cause an immediate inquiry to be made and report the result to the department" General Miles construed this as an order for a court of inquiry, and1 replied that it was "just the action he had anticipated and taken." In ,other words, he had already relieved General Forsythe and appointed a board of inquiry. But he misconstrued General Schofield's dispatch. It was not intended to order a court of inquiry, but simply an inquiry by General Miles himself in order to determine whether the charges against General Forsythe called for any further action. In addition to misconstruing the order from Washington, General Miles seems to have anticipated it It is an unfortunate misunderstanding, but certainly no blame attaches to the, administration. ' -vC. A HOME APPLICATION. The petition of the merchants in Logansport to the Legislature praying for I a law to put a tax upon outsiders who go up and down the State selling "bankrupt stocks' of goods at prices with which regular dealers cannot compete, should bo denounced by every freetrade paper in Indiana. The Indianapolis News, of all others, as the ultra freetrade organ, should lead off at once in denouncing this effort of the resident and tax-paying merchants in Indiana to hamper tree trade and keep up prices. Every argument in favor of free trade sustains the free admission of outside hucksters and distributors of bankrupt stocks. The free-trade cry that tho people have a right to purchase in the; cheapest market, and that no restrictions should be placed on trade, can be raised in favor of the venders of bankrupt stocks stocks stolen from jobbers and manufacturers by men who are said to make bankruptcy a regular business. The merchants in all our cities and towns may plead that they own property, that they pay largo taxes, extend favors to the people, employ local labor in their business, spend their money in supporting their families in the places where they do business, and contribute to the support of schools, churches and local charities, but this is the plea of the manufacturer which the free-trader scouts. The home merchant will plead that ho buys bis goods of reputable houses at tho lowest prices and sells them as low as he can and meet his expenses and make a decent living, while the peripatetic dealer 'in "bankrupt stocks" 6ells goods which are secured below the market price, either by fraud or forced adjustments with creditors at 25 or 50 cents on the dollar, and can make a !arge profit by selling them at prices below tho cost of production. A few years ago it was discovered that an extensive system of traveling "bankrupt stocks" was sustained by a branch of the combination which stole the goods from warehouses and cars. Frequently, in New York and other large cities, quite extensive establishments have been discovered for the reception and distribution of stolen goods. Those who cry for the cheapest goods in the world, knowing that their cheapness is due to starvation wages paid to the producers, cannot consistently object to cheapness secured by other methods of robbery, and methods which do not necessarily involve human suffering. As for the protectionists, they must to a man, support the petitions of the Logansport and other dealers to have a tax imposed upon transient dealers in bankrupt stocks. The protectionist says: "The home merchant lives here; his property is with us; he pays taxes on his stock beyond the tax imposed upon most other property; he patronizes our own people and supports our institutions. Therefore he has claims upon the community, and more than that if he is ruined, and all liko him, tho business of the town will be injured and labor will not have employment. Besides, no goods are cheap and no trade advantageous which cripples legitimate traffic and puts a

premium upon irregular trade." The protectionist, therefore, says to the Legislature: "Put a tax upon transient dealers for the market value of their stocks and compel them to pay in advance, or impose any regulation which will place upon them the same burdens which the local dealer is required to bear by existing laws." He .would protect home people and enterprises; the freetrader would ignore both to get cheapness, no matter how attained.

TUESDAY'S REPUBLICAN 00NTEBEKCE. The Republican conference of Tuesday was in the main entirely satisfactory and fruitful of good results. The attendance was quite large, embracing representative Republicans from various parts of the State, and the prevailing sentiment was strongly in favor of thorough organ nation and aggressive action. This feeling found expression . in the recommendation of Mr. John K. Gowdy, of Rushville, for chairman of the State central committee, followed later by his unanimous election. Mr. Gowdy has had considerable experience in politics, and there is reason to believe that he will make an excellent and efficient chairman. The only unpleasant incident of Tuesday's meeting was a speech by Mr. W. T. Brush, of drawfordsville, in which he took it upon himself to say that the only way for Republicans to carry Indiana was by the free use of money; that the State had been previously carried by this means, and that it could be done again, notwithstanding the Australian ballot law. There is no law to prevent Mr. Brush or any other man from making a fool of himself, but he had no right to insult such an assembly as that of Tuesday by talking in that way. His remarks were repudiated in the conference, as they will be and ought to be by Republicans everywhere. Any Republican who gives utterance to such sentiments speaks for himself alone. The Republican party does not indorse them nor the methods to which .they point. Mr. Go,wdy was not elected chairman to carry out any such ideas or suggestions, and if it had been supposed that he indorsed them he would not have been elected at all. He is not the representative of such ideas, nor that kind of politics. The Republicans of Indiana are in favor of honest elections in this and every other State, and they expect to win by honest methods or not at all. The Springfield Republican, referring to the experience of tho Chicago Tribune correspondent at Carrollton, Miss., thinks that "possibly the correspondent's life was never in danger," but ventures to say that "enough is certainly known to warrant the assertion that in parts of Mississippi law, and order, and political tolerance and regard for the rights and lives of men are no greater than prevail among the cowboys and cut-throats of the Indian Territory." Inasmuch as the crimes of all kinds reported from the Indian Territory are, as compared to the Mississippi recci-d, about in the ratio of one to one hundred, the Republican may certainly regard its assertion as perfectly safe and unlikely to offend any of its Southern friends. Encouraged by this daring criticism to further comments, the New England organ of independent thought expresses the brilliant opinion that "when the people of the other States begin to regard this sister in that light and govern themselves accordingly, wo think she will gradually come to her senses." Considering that political murders have been almost every-day occurrences in Mississippi for twenty years, and that in many districts the life of a Northern man who fails to suppress his political opinions is nnsafe, and that, crimes against the suffrage are boastfully and openly committed every year, it might be thought that the people of other States had long since learned to look upon Mississippi as a community in which the cut-throat element rules. They have, in fact, long since formed such opinion, but no "independent" dough-face seeking to curry favor with the party that permits and encourages such outlawry dares to admit the truth. Every fresh batch of statistics relating to losses by fire indicates that carelessness and real stupidity are large factors in such destruction of property. For instance, the loss in ,the United States and Canada dui lug December, 1888, was $9,936,390; in December, 1889, $7,304,800; in December, 1890, $12,880,000. There is no reason why fire losses should be nearly twice as large last December as during December, 1889. Again, the total loss in the United States and Canada during 1890 was $106,998,345, against $131, 949,250 in 1889 a falling offiu value of nearly 24 per cent The enormous waste of property by fires can be realized in the statement that during the last five years the losses, as far as ascertained, aggregated $G08,102,516. In view of such facts as these it would seem that organizations to prevent carelessness in regard to fire would be as effective to prevent loss as insurance companies to make it good. Complaint has been made of the poor quality of the new small greenbacks recently issued by the government, the allegation being that the paper is poor, easily frayed and soon broken. The Secretary of the Treasury explains it by saying the demand for the notes was so urgent that they were issued in a damp and green condition, this in turn being due, to the fact that handpresses were used instead of power presses, and therefore the work could not be done fast enough. Now, the hand-presses are in use because Congress insisted on substituting them for power machines. The pretense was that the hand-presses would do better work, but the real motive was a demagogic one. Thus the cause of the defective greenbacks is directly traceable to tho demagogy of Congress, as are many other evils in our administrative system. The time has long gone by when the meeting of the State Legislature made a noticeable ripple in the social or business life of Indianapolis. Legislators may come and may go, and, with all their door-keepers andjhangers-on, with all their self-importance, their powwows and their efforts at statesmanship,

the people of the capital city do not heed them while they stay nor miss them when they go. In the economy of the State a legislature seems to be an unavoidable evil, but it is an absorbing object of interest to very few persons indeed.

During December moro than sixtyone thousand dollars was paid in Chicago as internal revenue tax on oleomargarine. The law which was expected to kill or cripple the manufacture of the article, and which was passed by demagogues for that purpose, seems to have had no effect Oleomargarine has come to stay, and as long as it continues to be a tolerably satisfactory substitute for butter, and considerably cheaper, people will buy and use it There is very little butter used nowadays in hotels, restaurants and boarding-houses. It appears that Oct. 1, 1886, the volume of money in the country was $1,264,900,000, and on Oct. 1, 1890. it was $1,498,000,000 a gain of $221,000,000 in four years. There was- no complaint of stringency in 1886, but on the contrary, the vaults of banks were full of money. Since that time the increase has been 19 per cent, which is more than double the ratio of the growth of population in the same period. For some time past the country has been favored with reports from Washington of the proceedings and conclusions of the "Wage-workers" Political Alliance of the District of Columbia. The impressive name carried considerable weight, and when it was announced that this or that measure affecting large interests had been drafted or introduced in Congress by the "Wage-workers' Political Alliance of the District of Columbia" people rather expected to hear something drop. The organization had its spokesman, in either branch of Congress, and its name rang sonorously through both ends of the CapitoL Bat it has received a backset Investigation proves that it consists of only two persons, viz.: J. S. Cowden, formerly of St Louis, and Mrs. Charlotte Smith, editor of the Working Woman, ' a labor organ. These two constitute the entire membership and fill all the offices of the "Wage-workers' Political Alliance of the District of Colombia." This beats the "Three Tailors of Tooley Street To try a clergyman for heresy because he believes in the doctrine of evolution, which seems to be the offense charged against the Rev. Howard Macqueary, of Canton, O., is a sad waste of ecclesiastical zeal. In these days, when the theory of evolution is accepted by the great body of intelligent and educated men in and out of the church, the attempted punishment of a minister who chances to avow his belief does more to undermine the faith of the intellectual public in religious organization than any course that could be pursued. The church must keep pace with the educational progress of the age and adapt its teachings to the new discoveries of science, or it will lose far more than it can gain by the very hopeless .attempt to force beliefs. The millionaire whose will is not contested is the exception in these days. It is a little curious that men with money to give away are, according to their interested relatives, so apt to be nndnly influenced by designing and selfish persons. Poor men can go down to tb;.r graves with minds clear and firm to the last, but mill ionaires seem prone to lose their wits. TnE Talleyrand memoirs would be of intense interest to those able to read between the lines, but they are all dead. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Joumab . What is the population of Indianapolis according to the late census I Beadeb. 107,445. ' BUBBLES IN THE AIR. S A' Woman's View of It. Mr. Wlckwire Potts has a wife to be proud of. Be tells me she dresses solely to please him. Mrs. Wlckwire I don't doubt it She wears awfully cheap clothes , , No Escape. A man may be to Lis wife's faults blind,' Or, leastwise, to the heft of them, But should she be to words inclined, Alas! he can't be deaf to them. " On the Quint. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, -Who never to himself hath said: "Were I rewarded as my Worth, Pd own the big and bloom in earth! m in- - I - . Envy. . .. Wlckwire You're Just too late, Yah sley. Mudre has just finished singing ''Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. You missed a treat. Yabsley Oh. he had to treat before you would let him sing, eat Another Hawkthaw. Patrolman They've just took a floater (out of the river with & cross marked on his forehead, with a talfe. I Chief Start right out and arrest every man that isn't able to write his name. Firmly Fixed. ) First Investor I wasn't able to get arounto the meeting last night. Did they succeedltn getting the flying-machine company on a sorjd basis at last! Second Investor I suppose you might call fit that. The inventor told us he wasn't able yet to get the blamed thing off the ground. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Dr. James Croll, the first to explain the movement of the gulf stream, has died at the age of sixty-eight, a distinguished Fel- , low of the Koyal society. TilK physicians of Berlin assert that their practice has fallen off 25 per cent since Koch's operations began, and consequently they demand from the government free lymph. The Wellesley College girls have been measured, and the average waist measure of the 1,100 students was found to be 24 210 inches. Physicians say this is too small for health. Mr. SruRGEON gives but little time to the preparation of his sermons. He sits in his study a coupleof hours with his face buried in his hands, then goes to his desk, jots down a few headlines, and then he it ready for the pulpit. John W. Mack ay, following a generous custom that he set some years ago, authorized General Manager Ward to give every employe of the Commercial Cable Company in this country and in Europe half a month's salary as a Christmas present Lord Tennyson is in excellent health. His son, Hallam Tennyson, writes that, notwithstanding the severe weather and his advanced age, the poet laureate, who is staying at Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, takes his usual walk every day. Jeanne Hugo is to be married to AIphonse Daudet's son atPassay, Paris, Jan. 15. M. Jules Simon will make a speech on the occasion of the union of the granddaughter of France's noblest old poet to the son of the charmiue providential novelist. At least one ruler of the minor states of Germany has the courage to show his con tinued regard aud love for Prince Bismarck. The Grand Duke of Mecklenbnra-Schwerin sent a life-sized portrait of himself to the ex-Chaucellor as a Christmas gift ' This display of good will is significant in the lace ot the tact tnat tne emperor did no send his usual congratulations 'and goo

wishes to the Prince on New Year's day. The neglect of friends in Germany to congratulate one another on the first day cf the year is tantamount almost to a complete severance of their relations. Miss Eh ket, who became the Baroness Zedletz Lippe on Monday, is one ot the wealthiest heiresses in America. In her own right she is an enormously wealthy girL Her father is worth about $15,000,000, so that ehe will eventually inherit a fortune. Allan Arthur, son of the late President has been in England for some time, where he is very popular in society., He had grown portly, and is as handsome a man as his father was. After another year abroad Mr. Arthur will return to Kew York and take up the practice of law. George Bancroft is still seen on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, pleasant days, his arm in that of a friend or attendant walking at a good pace and conversing constantly. He has entirely lost his memory of immediate events, dates, etc, and his mind is gradually passing away, as tho minds of thousands of other intellectual men have gone before. Ed Howe, the Kansas newspaper man and novelist, has been offered 8100 for tho original manuscript of the "Story of a Country Town, the novel that made him famous. And yet, according to the Kansas City Times, "there were lots of nights while Ed was writing the story that ho would have taken 50 cents for the wholo business and throwr up the job.' A clergyman in central New York has felt it bis duty to withdraw from the ministry, and this is the grandiloquent way in which he announces tb e fact: "For awhilo my tongue shall be silenced and my pen Ealsied. I shall drop into the great sea ot umanity and be lost to hearing and to sight. But I have no complaint With grim eye and solemn lip I am determined to meet the ghoulish future, whether fated an Iehraael or an Abraham, plaintless and I trust without a moan.' What is likely to prove one of the most remarkable sales of paintings ever held in America will take place in the disposal of the second collection of Mr. George L Seney in the assembly room of the Madisonsquare Garden, New York, in February. The sale will be managed by the American, Art Association. The lirst collection of Mr. Seney was sold in March, 1885, and the 285 works brought, at Chickering Hall, 400,910. The Queen of Italy wore a costume ot extraordinary magnificence at the recent opening of the Italian Parliament which was also most becoming to her style of beauty. The dress was of violet satin, exquisitely embroidered, over which was . thrown a short violet velvet mantle of slightly darker shade. The bonnet was of. forget-me-not blue velvet covered with, gold lace and adorned with a plume of pale blue feathers, fastened with an immenso pearl diamond clasp. The Queen also wore ear-rings of pearls, diamonds, and such ropes of pearls in three rows as would have enchanted Lothair. Bishop John P. Newman is to take a prominent part in the quarter-centennial Methodist jubilee, to be held in New Orleans. It was in 18C4 that Dr. Newman was first sent to New Orleans by Bishop Scott at the request of President Lincoln, to take charge of the Methodist churches in that region. "The celebration,' says the Southern Christian Advocate, "will be hld in the largest ball in New Orleans, and Bishop) Newman will b the orator of the day. Ho will speak on The Future of the Negro Race.' The festivities will include a ban-, quet. Starting from New Orleans, Bishop Newman will enter upon his duly-aesigued visitations through about nine conferences in the West aud iSoutbwest. He will go to Texarkanaand Fort Smith, in Ark Arm theuoe to Omaha, Neb., and through Nebraska and Iowa. He will preach, lecture : and make appointments for the local ministers for another year, lie will visit colleges, attend missionary conventions and ministerial associations, and will dedicate churches."

THE BETKAYAL IN THE SENATE.

To say that Republicans are ashamed a n mortified over weak-back Republicaq United States Senators putb the case mildly. Chicago Inter Ocean. , The sharp practice and breach of faith by which the election bill was shoved aside for the inflation biJl would not be tolerated or indulged in tin regard to club 1 business, or in intercourse between members, in any reputable social club. Louisville Commercial. i For the present, at least, there is a rift in the clouds, and the South may enjoy an interval of hope. The con ntry is far more interested in the discussion of the Nation's financial welfare than m force bills, and it is quire billing that; it shall proceed. Memphis Appeal (Deni.) There may be some spasmodic attempts to galvanize a semblance of vitality into the force bill; but this revolt of the Western Republican Senators against it is likely to result in its speedy and formal burial. The people kicked the life out of it last Novsmber. Philadelphia Record (Dem.) The force bill is dead be3'ond any hope of resurrection, and its advocates should make the best of the situation. It is useless to quarrel with facts. More than half of the Republican masses are opposed to legislation of that sort, and their influence is makincr itself felt in the Senate. St Lcuis Globe-I)emocrat Free coinage and : Democracy havo knocked out the force bill. Hoar and Harrison are beaten, and the unrighteousness? of admitting unqualified new States has brought its curse upon its authors in tho desertion of McConnell, just sworn in from Idaho, and his colleague, Shoup. Kansas City Times (Dem.) By a vote cf thirty-four to twenty-nin the force elections bill was decently buried out of sight yesterday. It bad been dead for some time. There is not the remotest chance ot its resurrection, the ie cisive vote by which it was laid aside denoting that a majority of the Senators aro tired of it, and want no more of it, either now or hereafter. Philadelphia' Times (Dem.) The manner in which the elections bill was side-tracked merits the condemnation of all Republicans. It has every appearance of a distinct bargain with the Democrats by eight Republicans, by wLich the silver bill was to be pustied to the front It looks entirely too much like a deliberate ale of Republican prinoiples and a barter of Republican pledges for silver. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Although the defeat involves a loss of prestige to the Republican leaders, it is by no means clear that gettiu a rid of the load will net be for th benefit f the party. It will enable it to discard its policy of trying to revive an old and definitely abandoned line of action; and to give' its attention to new issues by passing meajmres on curren

cy, bankruptcy, copyright, and corporation questions which will comgnand the pablio support. Pittsburg Dispuach (Ind.) A party can stand defeat, it can survive disaster, it may triumph over great odds, but no party can keep power or win it when it displays cowardioe in the discharge of a plain, clear, nnmistaknble and admitted duty. Eight Republican Senators yester day prevented the ma marge ot sucnaauty. ri a ill . A - v a. . : aneir vote will raise me iwoer question ia iuillionsof earnest Republicans, "Of what tise is a party which' cannot protect tho Constitutional rights c f its own members tvhen it is in full control of the national egislation!" Philadel phia Press. The spectacle presented in the Senate, esterday afternoon, is not one that Reublicans generally can view or speak of vith patience. IJght members or tne inaamw .1 -i 4 . a with tKa F lamnrrati in r-ntini So remove the elections iuui zrom tne Tavorble place which it has occupied on the calendar from the opening of the session. ud to give precedence to the financial mat ers which in the eyes of some Senators are nore important. A com bine of this kind an only end in disaster i o the Republicr.es 1 ' t;i. do engage in it-ew jtuii. nuuuo. Doubtless the charge will be made it has alreadv been presaged that: the Republican Senators who lolted the federalelections bill betray e d their party for a me&t of pottace in the shape of more silver legislation. Iuso tar as some of these Western Senators are disposed to financial heresies in the fiscal policy of the Nation, they will be subject to the criticism that all opponentsof honestmoney hould receive. Silver legislation is still in tlto future. What rejoices the country to-duy is that a vicious partisan measure one' fraught with great dauger to a reunited .Republic- has been, stilled before it could become a law. Chi cago Newt (Ind.)

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