Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, ERIDAY; JANUARY- 16, 1891.

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eompanied ly the name ana address of thevrriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can fee found at the foHowlnf places: PARIS American Exchange In Paris. 38 Boulevard Os Captmnes 2JEW YOKK-Gtlsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA-A. P. Kemble, 1735 Lancaster arenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley 4 Co., 154 Tine street LOUISVILLE OL T. Dering", northwest corner Third an 4 J efier son streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Pepot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON. D. C.-IUfff a Hoane, and Ebbltt Hooae General Miles has shown himself to be the right man in the right place. The close of the Indian trouble is Yery different from what everybody expected ft month ago. The one Democrat in the land who will deeply deplore the attitude of his party on the silver question is Grover Cleveland. 'Between the present Senate and the next House the national banks have a great deal to expect, but it is of an adverse nature. We should like to hear from Judge Niblack in regard to the nullification of the Australian ballot law by the Democratic, majority in the Senate. Even the New York lierald is of the opinion that Lord Salisbury has made a mistake in "his unprecedented application to the Supreme Court of the United States." Those persons who have been worrying for fear General Miles is not man enough to handle the Indians will now learn that they have been fretting to no account. " Of the two Democratic organs in this city one openly defends the shameless violation of the Australian ballot law by which McHugh was counted into the Senate, and the other is vociferously silent. If the Democratic Legislature does cot pass an act relieving farms and homes of a part of the burden of taxation it will be because it willf ally refuses to avail itself of the measures presented by Republican members. Toe Indian population of the country is 244,074, nearly one-half of which are self-supporting. It seems that the other half could be made so in the course of a few years if put upon reservations upon which crops could be raised. If Eastern emigration during the last ten years has crossed Indiana to stop in Illinois, there was inducement enough in the fact that this State bad a Democratic debt of $8,500,000 and generally Democratic legislatures, while Illinois had not a dollar of debt and was safely Republican. It is edifying to learn from New Orleans that the recent prize-fight there waa witnessed by "four thousand leading citizens," and that "one of the ablest and most respected citizens of New Orleans" was referee. No wonder the Louisiana lottery is regarded in such a community as a great public benefactor. As long as the Democrats control the election machinery of this State there is no guaranty for honest elections under the Australian ballot law or any other. They have disregarded every election Jaw that ever was passed, and their action iu unseating Senator Orborn shows thoy have no regard for the present law. Senator Inoalls did not attempt to make an argument in favor of free roinage, for which reason his Speech is all the better. He is too bright a man to seriously enter into an argument to show that it is good policy for this country to attempt alone to take all the silver in Europe and make it as good as gold. - The letter of Father Craft should settle all controversy as to the responsibility for the Wounded Knee fight. He was a close eye-wituess of the whole affair, and he says the Indians fired first, and the troops only when they were compelled to. Ho says, moreover, that tho troop s "acted with the greatest kindness and prudence." TnosE who favor an expansion of the currency by free silver coinage would do well to reflect that it would inevitably drive gold out of the country, thus causing contraction to the amount of several hundred millions, and the place of every gold dollar would be filled with a silver dollar containing considerably less than A dollar's worth of silver. The trustees of at least three of the insane hospitals have legal advisers who are paid regular salaries. The salaries are not large, the whole not exceeding $2,000 a year, but so long as the State has an Attorney-general who has one or more able assistants, would it not be well for the Legislature to forbid the employment of other lawyers to do their work! The Indian war seems to be at an end. Yesterday the entire body of Indians who have been slowly moving towards the Pine Ridge agency came in, bag and baggage. This is equivalent to a surrender on the basis of the terms already outlined. In executing these terms great

caro will have to be exercised that tho Indians are justly dealt with, and the government should give General Miles large discretion in carrying out his promises. His excellent management at every stage of the business thus far justifies a belief that he will be equal to any emergency that may arise. Meanwhile it is fortunate that a change of agents has occurred at Pine Ridge, to as to seenre in that position the services of an experienced army officer in carrying

out General Miles' plans. WHAT THE SENATE'S 8ILVEB VOTES SHOW. The votes in tho Senate on the finance bill, Wednesday, present some interesting features. One of the most noticeable of these is that the solid South is for free and unlimited coinage of silver. With the exception of Mr. Gray, of Delaware, no Senator representing a Southern State voted against free coinage. Mr. Gorman, of Maryland, the Democratic leader, would have been glad to limit free coinage to the product of our own mines, but his party in the Senate would not support him. Mr. Stewart, of Colorado, would have been pleased to secure such a provision, but he could not find the necessary support on the Republican side. Nevertheless, his evident desire to secure such a concession shows that it is not free coinage for the silver of the world that the Senators from the silver States are anxious about, but the gold price of silver for the product of their own mines. Another equally significant feature of the proceedings was the substitution of a simple free coinage amendment for the amended bill, thereby striking out the proposition reducing the amount of bonds which a national bank shall carry in order to retain its charter. This proposition was carried as an amendment by a single vote, but the assault upon the national banks was led by Mr. Vest, of Missouri, and for the time he and his party led the Senate, followed by the silver State Senators and thoe of Kansas and Nebraska, where there is a decided sentiment in favor of free coinage. Still another significant proposition showing the real parpose of Southern Senators in the event they could secure control, was the amendment of Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, repealing the tax of 10 per cent, per annum imposed upon the circulation of State banks. This tax is all that stands between a sound national currency and the vjcious system of irredeemable paper issued by State banks which has resulted in the robbery of the people of two-thirds of the States by the failure of banks issuing such bills. The sectional and really pronounced leaders in the South would like to destroy the national banking system, even when the banks no longer issue notes. , The vote on Mr. Plumb's proposition to issue legal-tender treasury notes to make good the circulation of the banks as fast as the latter is retired yeas 26, nays 40 shows that the element in the Senate which would issue paper money, with no coin behind it for its redemption, is in a decided minority, as it should bo. It is worth while to call attention to the fact that when the Vest proposition was substituted for the Senate bill the section providing for a commission to confer with the leading nations of Europe regarding the restoration of silver to full money power by fixing an international ratio for coinage was lost. The Senate bill, being simply a freecoinage measure, will go to the House committee on coinage, which is understood to be hostile to free coinage, as it was during the last session. This, however, is a matter of minor importance, as the Vest bill will not become a law. The controlling business and financial interests have no fear of such legislation; consequently, confidence prevails in business circles, and every day the money market is growing more favorable to the borrower. 0TJKTY TEES AND SALARIES, The fee and salary question is one of the most important that will come before the present Legislature. The evils of the present system are so patent and have continued so long and become so onerous that the people are determined to have a change. And there ought to be, for the present system is thoroughly bad. Under it the people have been most unconscionably plundered. The emoluments of oftice have become a source of political corruption, and the people have been bled by party favorites and court-house rings to the utmost limit of endurance. Whether the present Legislature will accomplish any practical reform in this matter remains to be seen. There will be vigorous opposition from the county officers, and unless the majority are watched very closely they will enact some measure of sham reform, drafted by tho county officers themselves, that will make a great show and pretense of reducing a few little fees while leaving the big stealings untouched. This would be in accordance with the Democratic record on this question and with Democratic reform in general. The Journal is of opinion that a law should be enacted fixing the maximum limit of county officers' salaries, the same to be paid out of fees fixed by the law, and the officer to be allowed a per cent, on all fees collected in excess of the maximum salary. Each officer should be required to make a quarterly report of fees, and failure to do so, or making a false report, should be a penal offense. Suppose, for example, that the maximum salary should be $2,000, with 25 per cent, commission on all fees collected in excess of that sum. In some counties the fees might not reach the maximum, and in that case the officers would only receive the fees collected. In many counties they would collect more than the maximum, and would receive a commission on the excess over $2,000. Suppose the clerk of Marion county collects $15,000 a year in fees. He would receive the maximum salary of $2,000 and 25 per cent, on $13,000, or' $3,250, which would bring bis annual compensation up to $5,250. This is enough for the clerk of Marion county, and this would leave $0,750 to bo paid into the county treasury. Applying the same figures to each of tho five county offices gives $49,750 to

be paid annually into the county treas-.

ury after each officer had received $5,250. Suppose the fees of each office in the ninety-two counties of Indiana average $4,000 a year, making an aggregate for" five offices of $1,840,000. In this case each officer would receive a salary of $2,000 and 25 per cent, on $2,000 more, making in all $2,500, and there would be left $090,000 to be paid into the county treasuries. This is a rough average. In some counties the officers would receive more than the maximum of $2,000, while in others they would receive less, but in every case the county treasuries would get the excess of fees over the maximum salary and commission. On this basis a law could bo framed that would be uniform in its .operation and fraud-proof. This cannot be done on the basis of population. That is a shifting basis and is not a sure criterion of litigation. Mr. Edward Atkinson, the wellknown Democratic statistician and political economist, thinks the solid sense of the West is against the free coinage of silver, and that in due time it will make itself felt. He adds: If the Democrats in the Senate hive not the sagacity to defer action, and now permit themselves to be committed by vote upon the free coinage. tLey will probably throw away their chance to carry many Eastern States, and they will not gain anything in the West. It is to be hoped that they will not justify again the charge which has been so often made against the Democratic party, that it has a wonderful capacity for throwing away its opportunity when success is right within its grasp. : If the Democrats do this thing they will simply take over the stigma from the Republican party of having admitted half a dozen new States, with two Senators each, which have hardly population enough to elect two members to the House of representatives, were they all together, through whose influence this measure Is now forced upon the country. Can it be possible that a great party, led by men of brains and capacity, will permit itself to bo used to its own destruction, in this manner at the instance of a superficial call for a bad measure of free coinage, which none know bettor than many of these men themselves has no standing in right or reason, and is not sustained by the solid sense of tbe West any more than it is by the solid sense of the East? Well, they have done it in the Senate, and will do it in the House if they can get a chance. The reports of Eastern savings banks will not be pleasant reading for ?the croakers, for the reason that in no recent year have the deposits been as large as the past. Maine added $3,804,081 to its deposits the past year, carry-: iug the total to $47,781,106, and 8,829 to" its depositors, making the total 140.521 That is, nearly one person in four living in Maine is a savings-bank depositor.1 The showing in New Hampshire is still, better. The deposits last year amounted to $8,426,428, making the total -$05,-727,019, and the total number of depositors was 159,783 in a total population of 376,530. For a State which is held up as a warning of decay, this will do very. well. The deposits of the savings banks of Connecticut were increased $6,035,713 during last year. Thus.it, seems that three Eastern States, having a population of 1,783,&47, added $18,266,223 to their savings-bank deposits last year. And yet the calamity shouters will tell us that the masses are growing -poorer each year. j TnE man in the Senate who wastes the most time in talking and talkfng iojriot ' body is Mr. Morgan, of 'Alabama, i He can talk hours about nothing, and desires to make four or five speeches upon the same question. Last week, after he had taken hours on the financial bill, he demanded more time, and in that time' read the speech delivered by the. late Senator Beck until he was physically exhausted, when Mr. Pasco, of Florida, continued the reading. There was no excuse for this waste of time. The' speech is in the Congressional Record. Not a single Senator listened to the. readingnot one. Indeed, during the greater part of the time not over six Senators were present, and not one of them listened. And yet if any measure js suggested to stop this puerile waste of time, which has become a disgrace to the Senate, it is denounced as an attempt to strangle debate! . " : ; The danger of "negro supremacy," as' preached in Mississippi and South Caro-' lina, is all bosh. It is Republican supremacy that the Democrats down there stand in terror of, and it is to preserve the Democratic domination first won by the shotgun policy and other methods of violence that efforts to disfranchise the blacks are made. The Charlt ston News and Courier frankly acknowledges that if the negroes would only vote the Democratic ticket there would be no thought of disfranchising them, when it says: ' We are glad to know that the colored people np Isorth are beginning to join wjth the colored people down South in their allegiance to the Democratic party. It will never do to talk about disfranchising the negroes now. They are learning how to be Democrats very fast all over the country, and, with proper activity in pushing the campaign of education, we have no doubt that the colored voters can be induced to vote for Cleveland at the next election. TnE mugwump and even the freecoinage papers admit that Senator Sherman's speech against free silver coinage is "powerful." His speech and those of Senators Allison and Aldrich are a convincing exposure of the fallacy of free coinage as provided by the Senate bill. Their opponents had no answer to make. The New York Times complains that there have not been moro of these speeches. There are few men in the Senate who can make them, and they are Republicans. - The seating of McHugh in the State Senate was in accordance with a Democratic conspiracy throughout the State to lay the foundation by throwing out disputed ballots to count out Republicans and count in Democrats. This plot was formed in the spring before the general election, when instructions were issued as to the political advantage to be gained by electing township trustees, who are also election officers. Professor Koch's explanation of the discovery and composition of his lymph is very scientific and yet very simple. His discovery was, like many others of great pith and moment, tho result of patient investigation, pursued by scientific methods along natural lines. There is nothing about it that savors of empiricism or guess-work. The statement that the lymph was in part an extract of gold proves to have been pure romance. It is simply a glycerine extract derived

from the pure cultivation of tubercle bacilli. One of the most valuable features of his explanation is the light it affords for the pureuitof similar investigations in tho case of other diseases.

The anxiety of the French peasants to invest in a government loan is a sign of faith In France, but not necessarily of faith in the continuance of the republican form of government. In all the various changes in France no form of government has ever attempted to repudiate the financial obligations of its predecessor. Herein lies the chief source of France's magnificent credit. From a party stand-point Republicans will bo entirely satisfied to have young Mr. Belmont become New York's Democratic Senator. He is a man of moderate ability and of immoderate self-conceit, which made him most unpopular among his party associates in two Democratic Houses. ' The able Democratic editors who accused the Journal, last October, of exaggerating the Eastern insane hospital, horror for political effect might find excellent cause for taking back their words by reading the testimony offered in the trial of attendant Wood at Richmond. A Democratic Senator who voted for free silver coinage said: "We want to bother Harrison and Cleveland, and a free-coinage bill will do that tor both." A statesmanlike motive, that, for a vote on a financial measure affecting sixtyfour million people. It is given out that Richmond, Vs., society people intend to snub President Harrison and Secretary Blaine by failing to invite them to the grand assembly ball, which is tbe event of the season there. The cause of the snub is that the administration on certain public questions is, in the opinion of the Richmond four hundred, antagonistic to the welfare of Virginia.1 To make the cut deeper, it is the purpose to invite Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. President Harrison and Secretary Blaine will doubtless be cut to the soul if they ever tind out about this; but in the goodness of their hearts they can draw comfort from the reflection that, after all, the Richmond people are of a singularly forgiving disposition. Everybody remembers how rudely Mr. Cleveland snubbed them in the last year of his administration, but they are willing to swallow the insult and let bygones be by-gones if he will only help them' make mouths at somebody else. Nice, chivalrous people, those F. F. Vs. TnE records of the Massachusetts Civilservice Commissioners show that of 1,044 persons who successfully passed its examinations 1,031 had only a common-school education, and that the average age of be successfnl competitors was 83.47 years, showing that the charge that only college or high-school graduates just out of school are the successful competitors is not true. Late advices from Brazil state that the adherents of the ex-Emperor, Dom Pedro, have given up all hope of his restoration and are awaiting the publication of his translation of "The Arabian Nights," which is expected to .take a high place in Portuguese I literature. It is not every deposed emperor who, when his royal occupation is gone, can find solace in literature. - inERE is a movement on foot among the fish commissioners of different States to induce the government to erect a huge aquarium at the World's Columbian Exposition for the display of American fish. In case that is done, as doubtless it will be, Indiana should bespeak a section for her splendid variety of nativo fishes. To the Editor or tho Tnrtlanapolls Journal: Did R. G. Ingersoll ever run for Governor of Illinois! 2. Does not the Journal think it would be a good thing to retire those Senators who have been in the United States Senate from twenty to thirty yeara and put young Republicans in their places! 3. Has there been a resolution offered in Congress to deprive the colored men of tbe right of suffrage? A Reader. Bargersville. Ind. No. He was once Attorney-general of Illinois, but never ran for Governor. We think it would be an excellent thing to retire Senator Voorhees and some other Democrats who have been in the Senate a longtime, and fill their places with young Republicans, but we do not think it would be wise to retire John Sherman or Senator Allison for younger men. No resolution of the kind referred to has been introduced in Congress, hut Southern Congressmen have declared the willingness of the South to submit to a reduction of their representation in Congress if the colored men could be deprived of the suffrage. To the EUtor of the Inllanaioll Journal; What was the date of the first United States treasury notes Reaper. Cicero. Ind. The first act authorizing tbe issue of United States notes was passed July 17. 1861, and under it $50,000,000 of notes were issued in Angust and the months following. Tbe.se were called demand notes, being receivable for customs, and payable on demand in gold. They never, depreciated. The first issue of. legal-tender notes, or greenbacks, was under an act passed Feb. 5,1802, X'i tit TMItor of the Indianapolis Journal: Po you know of any expedition from any point In this country to any point in Palestinel if so. when to start, and from what point and to what point! What is the fare from New York or Philndclphia to Jerusalem, Palestine, and what time Is required to make the trip! A Reader. Knights ville, Ind. We do not know of any such expedition. We do not know the fare from New York to Jerusalem. The time consumed in making the trip would depend on various contingencies. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. It Probnbly Is. Wibble Yes; I can tell a Boston man by his walk. Wabble Sort of a bean stalk, eht A Scoffer. Mrs. N. Peck Here is something pathetic in to-day's paper. A man in Kansas died, and his faithful wife followed him in less than four hours Mr. N. Peck I suppose she couldn't let him out of sight any longer, eh J . Enterprise. ' ' When It cornea to enterprise," said the man with the straw-colored goatee, "Chicago takes the rake. ' of Maid the other man. "Yes. Twas in business there myself once. Hadn't opened up more than three days before a fellow came around with a lot of monkeys and one thing and another that he offered to put into my window free ofchare if I would guarantee him the poeket-pk-king privilege in the crowd it would collect. Oh, Chicago's a business town! . Unconsidered Trifles. To a rank ouuider it aprears that our friends, the mugwumps, are unduly exercised as to ; rover's possible standing on the frte-colnape-of-silver question. There It n't the slightest doubt as to the Prophet's attitude'on the frco coinage of phrases. Phrases are speech; speech Is silver. Therefore P. J., of Bippus, Ind., is hereby Informed that

red and blue are complementary colors, where the husband's nose and the wife's feelings are involved. . It's the victim of a skin deal who knows how to sympathize with the skinned eeL In the struggle for life the man of striking peculiarities is not in it against the man of kicking peculiarities. '

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TnE Martha's Vineyard Herald exclaims: "What a beautiful thing a genuine unwanhed 'Rosebud' Indian must be." The Federation of Women's Clubs has a membership of sixty-eight clubs, representing twenty-three States of the Union. Mrs. Hodgson Burnett is said to be the most popular woman writer in -Paris, and many of her oooks have been translated into French. A boston publisher says that he still sells 0,000 copies a year of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Several seasons ago he got oat a special edition of the book and sold 60,000 copies of it At a late review in Germany the Empress led her own regiment past the Emperor. It is said to have been the proudest moment of his life. The yonng man is fond of theatricals in his plans. The Royal Geographical Society of England has advanced 31,000 to Theodore Bent for an exploration of tbe ruins found recently in M&shonaland, East Africa, which, it is suggested, may be King Solomon's mines. Mrs, Garfield is said to be overwhelmed by her correspondence. Letters come to her from every Dart of the country rand on every conceivable topic Every communication she receives is given careful attention, and frequently a pleasant letter of some length is sent in answer. A life of Thomas Paine is in course of preparation by Moncure D. Conway, who is sure to do full justice to that remarkable lover of liberty and fnend of America, whose real character is gradually emerging from the clouds of slander with which well-meaning piety had enveloped his memory. The writer who has been dear to children's hearts for many years under the pseudonym of A. L. O. E. (A Lady of England), and whose real name is Miss Tucker, is a busy worker among the zenanas of northern India. She is said to be a charming old lady, and to be devoted to her mission work. Prof. Harriet Cooke, professor of history in Cornell, is the first woman ever honored with the chair and equal pay with the men professors. She has taught in Cornell twenty-three years, and is now interested in the deaconesses movement and making investigation into that and other charitable work. Frau Sophie Salvanius, an able German woman of letters, has issued an appeal to her countrywomen to reform those national modes of education which consider girls simply as future wives and housekeepers. Their present training, she says, leaves German women without individuality and with pitifully low ideas of life. Time and experience often have a tendency to make men conservative, aud responsibility has the ell'ect to make men cautious. President Diaz began his political career while an officer in the army by heading an insurrection. He kept on in that line uutil he reached the presidency, but is now the most conservative politician in Mexico. ; There is a pastor in Boston who, according to the Congregationalist, added to his usual over-stocked list of Sunday notices an announcement to the effect that a certain young lady was very anxious to secure piano which was to be given away by vote. The congregation was actually requested to go to a certain street and number the next day. severally and individually, and vote in her f aver. Grant Allen, a Canadian by birth, has won a prize of 1,0C0 for the best novel, in the competition recently announced by a member of, Parliament George Newnes.' Several hundred novels were in competition. Mr, Allen's "What's Bred in the Bone won. -It is doubtless only an incident that its title suggests Mr. James Payn's famous novel of twenty years ago. Wilhelmine, the ten-year-old Queen of Hollaud, mourns in white gowns for her father. She is not allowed to wear even a dot. of black or colors in her house costumes. At all court festivities she will have her face covered with a white pointed-lace veil. In the open air she will wear a little round black hat and overgarments faced with black fox, instead of with silver gray, as formerly. Edison, the electrician, has more the look of a country grocer than a than of science, and he can cheerfully submit to be bothered by a lot of children without showing any annoyance at having his mind abstracted from deeper studies. And he is just as happy patching np the fractured inhabitants of a child's Noah's ark as he is when trying to make the telephone a selfrecording machine. The members of the senior class of Columbia College propose to place a memorial window in tbe library when they are graduated, and the subject will be Alexander Hamilton, one of the early graduates. Sophocles is the subject of "the window given by '85, and the only other memorial of the sort there is to Mary Parsons Ilankey, the first woman given the degree of bachelor of arts in course by the college. KuDYAitn Kipling is coming to this country in the spring. He is now preparing the way by publishing a series ot articles on tbe United States. They are the results of biaobservations and impressions of a former visit. He is coming to a hunting tour in tbe West before he goes to India, where he expects to spend much of his time during the n)xt few years. Mr. Kipling's father is a clever artist, and has prepared a series of elaborate illustrations for bis son's book, "Black and White." In the university circles of Germany there is great regret over the death of Prof. Reins, of Leipsic. A few months ago he went to Crete at tbe head of a scientilio expedition, and had made valuable discoveries, lie diappeartd suddenly, however, and for a time no trace of him could be found. Recently his body was discovered in the midst of a small lovm nar onefof the villages on the island. Eleven arrests have been made already in connection with the murder. The Greeks by that he was killed by Turkish soldiers, who mistook him for a Greek spy. The Republican Opportunity. Boston Transmit. This surrender of theDemocratio party to free coinage will prove the Republican party's opportunity it embraced by a consolidation of tbe party's old platform on an "Honest Dollar," at the right time and in the right way. It will prove a more potent lever to move popular sentiment so eoou as tho pinch comes that must inevitably follow sucb a violation of approved financial principles than all other influences combined. Alter the silver speculators have reaped their harvest what will they care for tbe losses of other sections of American society or tbe disarrangement of business and values generally? The party that cannot be held responsible for these disturbances wilt, in the end, prove the fortunate orgauization. The Apology Is Accepted. Yoangfltown Telegram. We played boforeour time upon the question of harmony among liidiaua Republican 8. The Indianapolis Journal printed a srnopsis of Governor Uovey's message before it was delivered, which received no editorial comment. The next day it was published in-full, and to indicate the delightful state of amity existing, it is only iiecessary to quote the first sentence of the Journal's editorial: "The Governor's message has every merit that such a paper ought to have.'1 ' Sa 1" sE" ' Seems to lie in the Democratic Dlood. Memphis Appeal Will it not occur to the legislative mind that there is omethingwrongwith the laws, when in the period of ten years the people discovered there was something wrong with two of their treasurers? Why is it that, in the face of uuequivocal statutes to the contrary, treasurers, accounted honest mn when elected, proceed at once to loan out the people's money for the sake of pocketing the interest? . .

POLITICIANS IN THE SENATE

Democrats Deprive the LientenantGo7eroorofKihttoAppoiotaCoiDmittee. PtrtlRan Fds of the Majority Accomplished by Eecttjkidering a Concurrent Isolation and ach Talk About Conflict of Dot its. The Fricndsof Those Who Kickto Death Insane People Stand Firmly by Them. Jio Fair Investigation ot the Killing of Bloant Pos8ibleas Long &j the Senate and Honss Are Democratic More Bills. A PARTISAN MAJORITY. Democratic Senators Want All Committees to Suit Their Purposes. The Indiana Senate appears to have got started wrong yesterday morning. Whose fault it was will probably never be known. The trouble commenced when Senator Ewing presented a resolution setting forth that one clerk was entirely inadequate for the third group of committees and asking authority to appoint another. The point of order was raised that such appointment was in violation of "the statutes. The sumo point had on two or three other occasions been raised, sustained, appealed from and the appeal sustained. The Chair this time announced that he had already gone on record on this question of employing help in violation of law. His position was known, but it was useless to sustain the point. Several remarks and xnotious were enterjected, tbe clerk was instructed to call the roll on Senator Ewings resolution, and, strange to relate, there was a majority against it. Half the Senators did not understand for what they were voting. A few, after voting, realized what they had done and changed their votes, but the resolution had been defeated, and the man whom Senator Ewing had hoped to help to a job will have to seek employment elsewhere. The Senator was much disgusted, and lapsed into an of air of gloom. TAXING COKI'OltATlONS. Senator Msgee then called up the joint resolution passed yesterday looking to tho taxing of corporations and inheritances for the purpose of moving its reconsideration. The reading clerk went to work on something supposed to be tbe document wanted, but a few lines showed that he had a report of the Hendricks Monument Association, and Senator Magee began to givo the merits of the resolution. In a few minutes the missing resolution was found and read. It provides for a committee of nine, rive to be appointed by the Speaker of the House and four by the President of the Senate, to inquire into and report a bill providing tor the taxation of corporatians and inheritances that these objects may pay their equitable share of the expenses of the State government. Senator Ma see gave as his reasou for moving its reconsideration that theeth ct of the resolution was to usurp the f uuctious of the finance committee ot the'Sonate and the ways and means committee of the House. He behoved those committees had the right to go at the solutiou of the tax and hnance questions in their own way, and this meddling of outside committees was resented as an impertinent interference. Senator Hubbell thought the appointment of the committee contemplated would not imply any usurpation of the privileges or functions of the finance or ways and means committee. The purpose of it was simply to investigate the question of taxing corporations and Inheritances, which investigation would go far toward facilitating the work of tbe . committees on finance and ways and means. The Senator said further that ho thought he saw in the proposed reconsideration a move to deprive the President of the Senate of tbe poor privilege of appointing the Senate members of the committee rather than a disposition to resent interference with the duties of the finance aud ways and means committees. Senators Hays and Mount opposed tbe reconsideration of the resolution, arguing that the present financial condition of the State, with a debt of over 3,500,000, an annual deficit of over u half million and an empty treasury, tbe committees on finance aud ways and means should have all the assistance that could possibly be extended thm. Senator l uike reminded the Kepublicans that they had umue tiie campaign on the State debt issue, tbe party had been laid to rest, and he objected to the dangling of the dry bones of tbe party before the Senate. Senator Hays regretted to have ruliled the serenity of Senator Burke by a reference to the State debt subject, bnt the question of debt and finance was paramount to every other question before the General Assembly, and the Kepublicans would continue to call attention to it. The resolution was reconsidered by q strict party vote, and a motion to non-concur prevailed. INSANE HOSPITAL INVESTIGATION. The warmest debate yet had in the Senate occurred yesterday afternoon over a proposition to investigate the liichmond insane hospital. Tbe House having adjourned tbe Sebate aiales and floor were crowded with spectators the desk of each Senator having one or more seated at it, while the reporters were hemmed iu. The matter came up in the shape of a concurrent resolution introduced by Senator liyrd. It was sandwiched between whereases" and "therefores," couched iu delicate terms calculated not to wound tbe delicate sensibilities of- the ward-heelers at Kicbmond who, aro wont to kick the ribs of insane patieuts. There was ruuning tbrongh the document a vein that credited the Dcinocratio party with the origin, construction and ownership of the insane hospitals and other benevolent institutions of the State. The resolution provided for a committee of two Democrats and two Kepublicans of the Senate, three Democrats and two Re publicans of tbe House, who should investigate tbe abuses alleged to have occurred at Richmond, and report to the General Assembly. Ihe members to. constitute this investigating committee were to be appointed by the Democratic chalimen of the committees on benevolent institutions in the House and Senate, Seuator Sbockuey proposed a substitute to the liyrd reoluiion. It sets furth the fact that one James A. Wood.au attendant at the Kicbmond insane hospital was charged with the murder of one Thomas J. Blount; that two other, attendants were charged with brutally kicking and beatiug auother patient; that other brutal acts were charged, and that the attendants generally were uulitted and unqslihed for their duties; wherefore, "it was asked that an investigating committee be appointed composed as that proposed by Senator Byrd, but that the Kepublicans should be permitted to select their own members. Senator Yaryau called attention to tbe fi.ct that Wood was now on trial at Richmond; that the trial was drawing out a large amount of evidence bearing upon the cbse, and that the proposed investigation shoeld be postponed until that trial had ended. He argued that if the committee went to Kicbmond while the trial was in progress it would be ditbcnlt to obtaii wit neesea, and the work of the committee would be delayed and obstructed. Senator Magee, who is the most liberal partisan on the Democratic side, was opposed to any investigation. Tbere were no formal charges against tbe Richmond hospital management, he said, and he was opposed to the investigation of a mem rumor. He arraigned the Indianapolis Journal for having devoted whole columns of spice to the Richmond episode, 'and declared that the wide publicity given be mutter by the Journal and the Republican press of the State was not from any wish to correct au abuse- or right a wrong, but purely and entirely for the purpose of manufacturing party capital, lie believed the Richmond hospital management was clean and pcre, and he hoped tbe proceedings to investigate would be tabled. Senator Yaryan reminded toe Seaato