Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1891 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1891.

Tisions, it ia declared, shall sot apply to any ca.se now pending where there is an existing lawful contract"expresa or implied." THE DAY IN THE SENATE,

Xtebate and Action on the French Spoliation Claims and Copyright IU1L Washington; March S. In the Senate, this morning, as soon ai prayer was oflered by the Chaplain and the journal of yesterday read oy the secretary the galleries were cleared and the doors closed for an executive session.. The doors were reopened at 10:05, when the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken up, and all the amendments that had been agreed to in committee of the whole last night wero agreed to in bulk by the Senate, except as to four that were reservedincluding the French spoliation claims and the Pacitic road claims. Mr. Plumb offered an amendment appropriating $30,000 for the relief of the citizens of Oklahoma who have been rendered dostitato by the unexampled drought of the pat season. Agreeato. Mr. Plumb desired to have an amendment oflered and agreed to distributing among the various departments of the government a number of Cec bus Office clerks whose employment is about to cease, but Mr. Edmunds objected on the ground that jt was purely a legislative subject, and that it interfered with the operation of the civil-service rules, those clerks not having Lad to go through the forms of civil-service examination. The first of the reserved amendments, as to payment to the Pacitic railroads, was ogreed to without a division. The next reserved amendment was that for the payment of the French spoliation claims. Mr. Edmunds made the point of order that every one of them was purely a private claim, and had no business on an appropriation bilL Mr. Sherman said he had examined the 1 question when he first went to Congrats, and that he had come to the conclusion that there was neither a legal nor a moral obligation for them on the part of the United States. He still entertained that opinion. Mr. Evarts made an argument in support of the justice of the claims, and gave a brief historical review of how they wero usedby the United States government as part payment to France in the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. So far as he heard and knew the French spoliation claims that were represented in the city ol New York had come down by inheritance to their present holders. The discussion was carried on at much length by Messrs. Stewart, Hoar, Edmunds, fcpoouer, Morrill. Daniel, Blair and Hawley, tho latter declaring that in very few things was he ashamed of his country, but that this wa9 one of them. Finally, Mr. ;oruin. having appealed -to Senators to stop the discussion and to pass the bill before it was too late, the vote was taken, and tha French spoliation claims was agreed to yeas, 41; nays, 14. 4 EXTRA PAY FOR EMPLOYES. The last reserved amendment was that striking out of the House bill a ' paragraph -TYii couth's extra pay to oCicers and employes of the Senate and House borne on the annual or on the session rolls. The amendment was disagreed to, and the paragraph was retained yeas, 24; nays, 3S. Mr. Faulkner moved to add to the paragraph the words "And the official reporters of the Senate and House." Mr. Halo 1 move to add to that the words. "Senators and Representatives in Cougress." If th$ business of Congress be to add continually to the compensation of officials of both bodies there is no reason why that of Senators and Representatives should not be added to. Subsequently Mr. Hale withdrew his amendment, with the remark that he had not intended it seriously. Mr. Faulkner's amendment was agreed to. Mr. Stowart offered an amendment to reimburse to the States of California, Oregon and Nevada moneys expended by them in the suppression of the rebellion 2.455,STO to California, 5224,520 to Oregon and $404,040. to Nevada. The amendment was agreed to without a division. Mr. Carlisle offered an amendment to the extra mouth's pay paragraph so as to include employes in the law department of the congressional library. Agreed to. Mr. Daniel moved to insert a paragraph directing the Secretary of the Treasury to resettle ana pay the claims of the 8tates of New York, Pennsylvania, Iel aware Virginia and South Carolina and the city of Ualtiniore on account of advances made in the war of 1812, and appropriating $2,500,000 for that purpose. The motion was agreed to yeas, 23; nays, 22. The bill was then passed and sent back to the House with the Senate amendments. The conferenca report on the diplomatic &nd consular appropriation Dill was presented and. agreed to. On tho pension appropriation bill the conferees reported that an agreement had been reached. Mr. Allison explained that the disagreement had been over an amendment adopted by the Senate, that provision limiting fee of pension attorneys to 2 in caso of increased pensions. He moved that the Senate recede from that amendment. Rejected. The Senate asked for further conference. The conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill last night was agreed to. ACTION ON TIIE COPYRIGHT BILL. The conference report on the copyright bill was r. resented, explained by Mr. Piatt and agreed to. No agreement had been reached on the Sherman amendment and the Ingalls amendment. Mr. Piatt moved t bat the Senate recede from them. Mr. Sherman argued in support of the amendment. Mr. Reatzan argued against the motion to recede. If tho Senate should rucede, then he hoped that the "iniquitous1 hill'1 would be defeated. A division on Mr. Piatt's motion having been called for, the question was taken first on the motion to recede from the Sherman amendment The motion was defeatedyeas 22; nays S so the Sherman amendment was insisted on. Tho eamo course was taken with the Ingalls amendment without a division, and a further con fereucn was ordered. The following bills were taken from the calendar and passed: Senate bill appropriating $100,000 for extending and repairing tho military quarters at Fort Abraham Lincoln. Neb. Senate hill to incorporate the National Conservatory of Musio of America. The Senate then proceeded to consideration of House pension bills on the calendar. After passing about sixty such bills, that business was laid aside temporarily. A resolution was reported and agreed to directing the committee on finance to ascertain in every practicable way, and to report from time to time the eflect of the taritt laws upon the imports and exports, tho growth, development and production, and prices of agricultural and manufactured articles at home and abroad, and upon wages, domestio and foreign, with author ity to alt at such times and places as the committee may deem advisable. Mr. Manderson was appointed a member or the committee on rnles in place of Mr. ingalls. resigned; Mr. Caseyja member of the committee on agriculture, in place of Mr. Blair, resigned; and Mr. McPherson, a member of the select committee on tho Pacmc railroads, in place of Mr. Hearst, deceased. A resolution to pay ex-Senator McDonald of Arkansas bis pay as Senator from March it iiu no was paic, was reported and agreed to. A resolution, similar to the one in the case of ex-Senator McDonald of Arkansas, was reported from the committee on contingent expenses in the case of ex Senator arnet of Alabama. Objection was made tc the resolution, and it was pjacou uu mo caienuar, ana a motion was made to reconsider the McDonald resoluuuu. iuo ccuaie men went into execntive session, ana at C p. M. took a races till b o'clock. PENSION BILLS RUSHED TIIROUGII. Vhen tne eenate met at 8 o'clock the passage of House pension bills on the cal tridarwas continued. The calendar waj cleared, mafcing 1G0 in all passed to-day, iueir possaKo uu occupying much moro than one hour. A concurrent resolution to print ten thousand copies of the testimony taken before the coinage committee of the House was objected to hy Mr. Teller oa the grounu tnat it wan worthless and mislead nig. l hose wno oesired to understand the question nao other sources of reliable in formation, ino testimony semd to have been taken for the purpose of obscuring

and hiding the truth. The objection was

sufficient to defeat the resolution. The Senate insisted on the Hawaiian cable Amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, and agreed to a further conference, Mr. Hale stating, in reply to a question by Mr. Cockrell, that that was the only matter in dispute be tween the two houses. Mr. Gray moved to take no House bill for the transfer of the revenue-cutter service from the Treasury Department to the naval establishment. Agreed to yeas, nays, 23 and the bill was taken up for con sideration. Mr. Gray spoke in favor of it Mr. Cock rell opposed the bill but yielded tho door, and the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was presented. After debate tho vote was taken and the conference report was agreed to. ine conierence. report on the postoince appropriation bill was then presented and agreed to. TUB COPYRIGHT BILL AGAIN. The conference report on the copyright bill was then presented, read and explained by Mr. Piatt. He said it was the only agreement that conld be reached, and that a failure to agree to it would be equivalent to a defeat of the bill. .' If the report were tnat free (two agreed to it books which list under the would provide were on the McKinley bill copies) conld be imported free of dutv. It left out Mr. Sherman's amendment. It left everyone at liberty to import two copies of aforeign book by paying the duty on them, and it left newspapers and magazines to be imported provided they did not contain copyright matter. That was all that there was to the agreement, and it took the place of all that the Senate bad been quarreling about. Mr. Sherman said that, in other words, the Senate conferees had surrendered what had been twice voted for ny decisive majorities of the Senate. He mentioned the fact that, contrary to parliamentary usage, a majority of the Senate conferees had been made up of Senators opposed to the action of the Senate on the bill. That was rather a peculiar organization of a conference committee. The effect of the proposition, as it now stood, was to make copyright an exclusive monopoly. It also took the heart and life out of the Ingalls amendment, and he would vote against it Mr. Hiscock, the second conferee, defended the report, and Mr. Gray, the third conferee, stated the reasons why he had not signed it. Mr. Allison here presented the conference report on the pension appropriation bill. It was agreed to, and the discussion on the copyright conference report was continued. Finally the vote was taken and the conference report on the copyright bill was agreed to yeas, 27; nays, 19. The conference report on the agricultural appropriation was then, at 12:45 o'clock, presented and agreed to. At 1:15 the Senate proceeded to executive business. After the doors were reopened Mr. Ingalls called attention to the necessity of making provision for the payment of $3,000,000 bonds of the District of Columbia falling due on July, 1891. and July. 1892. The Senate had made provision for them in the District of Columbia appropriation bill, but it had been left out in conference. The House bad just passed a bill, which he asked the Senate to pass now, for the issue of bonds in sums of $100, $500 and $1,000, to be designated as tenyear funding bonds of the District of Columbia. They are to pay 3q per cent, interest, to be payable in ten years, and redeemable after two years, and are to be exchanged for the bonds falling due. After a short discussion the bill was passed without amendment The House bill to transfer the revenue-cutter sorvice having been again taken up, Mr. Sherman moved to postpone its further consideration till the first Monday in December next, and Mr. Chandlerprotested against the unjust treatment to which the bill had been subjected. Mr. Gray yielded the floor to Mr. Pasco, who, at 2:25 a. m., moved to reconsider the vote agreeing to the conference report on the copyright bill, and also moved that the House be requested to return the bill to the Senate. The vote was taken on the latter motion. and resulted yeas, 13; nays, 22 no quorum. Mr. Allison suggested that the call for yeas and nays be withdrawn, and that no other business be done except action on conference reports. Mr. Piatt How will that leave the copy right bill! Mr. Allison I don't know. ? At 3 o'clock this morning a quorum had not been secured. HOUSE PROCEEDINGS. Wearisome Debates on Conference Keports Hawaiian Cable Knocked Oat Washington, March 3. When the House met after the recess, this morning, it found that the wear and tear of the heavy work of the last few days had told heavily npon the reading clerks and their voices, as they read the various measures , sent to them. were almost inaudible. Mr. Cutcheon of Michigan submitted the conference report on the bill to increase the number of the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers. As agreed to the bill provides for eleven members, and names the following in addition to those already appointed: Edmund N. Morrill. Alfred J. Pearson. William 13. Franklin, John C. Black. Geo. W. Steele. James Burnett, J. II. Bonebrake and Francis Fessenden. The report gave rise to some discussion. Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio desiring to insert the name of Samuel S. Xoder, of Ohio, for that of James Burnett, and Mr. Bon telle of Maine warmly criticisiUg the conference for dropping the name of General Farnham and inserting that of Francis Fessenden, although tbe latter was his personal friend and a brave and gallant soldier. Pending action Mr. Bntterworth of Ohio nreseuted the conference report on the legislative bill. An agreement is reached on all questions, except the Senate amend ment making Senators7 clerks annual employes. The report was adopted and a further conference ordered. The House then resnmed consideration of the Cutcheon conference report, and it was agreed to yeas, 124; nays, 123, tho Speaker casting the deciding vote. lhe feenate amendments to the agricult ural appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and a conference : was ordered. The Senate amendments to the deficiency bill were also non-concurred in. and a confer ence was asked for. Tbe Speaker appointed Messrs. Funston. Putrslev and Hatch as conferees on the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Morrow of California presented a disagreeing conference report on the pension appropriation bill, and a further conference was ordered. HAWAIIAN CABLE ITEM REJECTED, Mr. Hitt of Illinois submitted the conference report on the diplomatic-and consular appropriation bilL Mr. Hitt stated that the only subject which had been in dispute was the Senate amendment relative to the Hawaiian cable. The proposition as it now stood reduced th cost from $3,000,000 to $2,250,000 and provided that tho government of the Hawaiian Islands should pav one-third as much as our own. It fnrther provided that the United States government coald at any moment take the whole property on payment of tbe actual cost of construction. After debate the conference report was rejected yeas, So; nays, I'M. Mr. McCreary then oflered a resolution instructing tho conferees on tbe part of the House to insist on theirdisagreement to the Hawaiian cble provision. Agreed to. Messrs. Cannon, Peters and Breckinridge of Kentucky were appointed conferees on the deficiency bill. Mr. Cannon presented the conference report on the sundry civil bill, and it was agreed to. The House then took a recess until 8:20 p. M. In spite of the inclemency of tbe weather, the galleries of the Houne were packed to their utmost capacity when the House met after the recess, and hundreds of persons, unable to obtain ingress, surged through the corridors. The Speaker laid before the House Senate joint resolution amending the act establishing circuit courts of appeals by providing that such courts shall hold their first session on the third Tuesday in Juno, Ibid. Mr. Caswell of Wisconsin offered an amendment providing that nothing in the original aot shall be held or construed in anyway to impair tbe jurisdiction of the Supreme Court or any circuit of the United States m any caso now pending before

it, in respect to any cause wherein a writ of error or an appeal shall have been is sued from or taken to the said court before July 1, ial. Mr. McMillin of Tennessee said this House had opened in confusion, had continued in confusion, and it looked as if it would end in confusion. There was but one consolation, and that was that to-morrow the country would say: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord.'1 Laughter and applause. The amendment was agreed to, and the joint resolution, as amended, was passed. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was agreed to. Mr. Funston of Kansas submitted a disagreeing report on the agricultural appropriation bill, and with it a resolution to the effect "that the House ask for a free conference.7' After a very noisy and unintelligible discussion the resolution was adopted. The report was agreed to, and the bill was returned to the conference. The conference report on the pension appropriation bill was agreed to. Mr. J. S. Taylor of Ohio moved to suspen d the rules and pass the bill to provide for a commission of four persons on tho subject of alcoholio liquor traffic. The motion was deelared carried by 0 to 54. SPINOLA CALLED TO ORDER. Mr. Spinola of New York, in speaking against the bill, recurred to his favorite subject of the erection of the monument

to the memory of the victims of ships. Holding roses, he said. the British prison np a bouquet of that he would place it as. a wreatn on tne grave of his dead measure. Owing to the marble heart of the Speaker, who steadfastly refused to recognize him, the bill could not be called np. Some day, after the Speaker was forgotten, there would be sucn a thing as a hereafter. When the time came when tbe Speaker was to ascend the golden stair he would be told to take the Dath to tbe left. ILaughter. The Speaker The gentleman is out of order. Mr. Spinola I am trying to be in order. The Speaker Tht gentleman is out of order. Mr. Spinola What would put me in or der! I Laughter.) The Speaker (sternly) The gentleman must confine his remarks to the question before the house. Mr. Spinola I will yield the floor to my colleague, Mr. Fitcb. Mr. Fitch opposed the bill, contending that it was a humbug and a piece of buncombe. The motion to suspend the rnles and pass the bill was defeated yeas, 97; nay, 120. On motion of Mr. Grout of Vermont a bill was passed to provide for tbe payment of tbe bonds of the District of Columbia, falling due on tbe 1st of July, 1891 and 1892. Tho conference report on the Indian apnropriation bill was agreed to. The Senate amendments to the army reorganization bill were con-concurred in, and a conference was ordered. Mr. Simonds of Connecticut submitted the conference report on the copyright bill. After a brief debate the conference report was agreed to yeaR, 127; nays, 77. Applause in tho gallery. The bill now goes to the President. The House was still in session at 3 o'clock this morning. COTTON-MILLS BURNED. Destructive Blaze at New Albany Involving a Loss of 87,500. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New Albany, Ind., March 3. Fire, which started in the engine-room of the New Albany cotton-batting-mills to-night, almost destroyed that establishment. The place is a mile from the nearest enginehouse, and the fire spread rapidly before the alarm could be answered. After four hours' hard work on the part of the firemen the flames were subdued. The loss will amount to about $7,500. fully insured, but with what companies is not known. About eighty men will be thrown out of employment. The plant was destroyed by fire about eight years ago. Street JDars Destroyed. Sioux City, la.; March 3. Fire was dis covered early this morning in the armature room of the street-railway company's electric power-house, and it soon spread to the car-room. The' building was badly damaged; fourteen motor cars and five passenger cars were destroyed, and as many more badly damaged. Loss. 30,000, fully covered by insurance. ' TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. South Dakota will hereafter vote under the Australian system. At Wilmington, DeL, Mrs. Frances Burkes Roch, daughter of millionaire Work, of New York, has been granted a divorce. The Connecticut Assembly is squabbling about paying $o00 for Governor Bulkeley's expenses at the Sherman funeral, with his staff. The famous, colt Gregory, by Macaroon, dam Abundance, the property of C. Sattler, of New York, is paralyzed in his hindquarters, and will have to be killed. The colt was valued at $15,000. Ex-Chief Bushyhead, of the Cherokee Nation, has secured an injunction against the troops removing himself or employes from the Cherokee btrip, where the ex-ohief is operating stone-quarries. At Macon, Miss., yesterday, William Ford, manager of the canning factory at Booneville, Miss., was shot and killed by J. E. Rives, a young lawyer. The parties belong to leading families. ' George Hathaway, the man who shot and killed ex-Aldt rman William Whalen in a saloon brawl at Chicago some weeks ago, has been found guilty and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. A St. Lonis paper eaye that the New York Biscuit Company is preparing for a fight against the American Biscuit Company by the establishment of a three-hnndred-thou-sand-dollar crackery factory in St. Louis. It is stated that in accordance with arrangements made before Senator Hearst's death the horses of the Hearst stables will rill all engagements. The colts in California will be shipped East, and at the end of the season will be sold. At Lima. O., Mrs. Fred Neldhausmyer, aged about thirty, went suddenly insane over the continued illness of her babe. In a tit of desperation she grabbed the babe from its bed and rushing to an 'open cistern jumped in. Both were drowned. Politz, the man who made a partial confession in thellennessylmurder caso at New Orleans, was identified at the trial yesterday as having been present at the time of the shooting. Baznetto and Scatfedi were again identified as having been present at the shooting. George R. Davis, director-creneral of the world's fair, is snflering from pneumonia at ins nome in Chicago. A member of the family said to-day that Colonel Davis had a severe attack of la grippe last winter, and that doubtless has something to do with his present illness. A four-round glove contest between Bob Fitisimmons and Jack McAuliffe has been arranged at San Francisco. The conditions are that Fitzsimmons. to win, vrill have to knock McAulitte out in the specified time. If he stays the four rounds Lc will be declared the winner and will receive 75 percent, of the receipts. Their backers have each posted 81.000 to insure the appearance of the men in the ring. Burned IIimlf to Death. Angelica. N. Y March 3. Charles D'Autiiment. of this village, has been in illhealth for some time, bis mind being affected. Making a pile of hay on his barn floor to-day, he set tire to it and laid himself upon the burning mass and was burned to death. Charles D'Autriment, a son of the deceased, is a prominent lawyer in Duluth, and wasnt one time a prominent member of the bar at Elmira. Frozen to Death. Great Falls. Mont., March 3. -Te bodies of tive men who were frozen, on the extension of the Great Northern, have been recovered. There is nine feet of snow at the summit, and the weather is terribly cold. This makes seven victims of the storm so far recovered. The men frozen were all laborers, and their names are unknown. It is feared many more have perished.' Victory for Republicans. Rochester, N. Y March 3. The first time since twenty years ago a Republican Board of Aldermen was elected here to-day. "That tired feeling" i s entirely overcome by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives a feeling of buoyancy aud strength to the whole system.

GENERAL WASHINGTON NEWS. Concluded from First Fage. .

dropped from the docket of the Supreme Court, never to bo revived again, yesterday, when tbe new bill became a law. It was, of course, the intention of tbe framers of the bill to have them transferred from tbe docket of the Supreme Court to the dockets of the new courts established tinder the act, but no provision was made for such a transfer. When the President noticed these defects he sent for Mr. Edmunds and called attention to them. Mr. Edmunds had nothing to do with the framing or the passage of the act. as it was absolutely in the charge of Mr. Evarts, but he prepared a resolution to correct tne bill and it was passed to-nicht. JUNOR MATTERS. Ohloans Who Want and May Possibly Secure Federal Appointments, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March aThere was a lot of talk around the Capitol to-day about Obioans getting- a number of prominent appointments soon. A lot of the aspirants, a dozen probably, happened to meot in Secretary . Foster's office this morning. They all sought Secretary Foster's assistance. Representative Thompson is being urged for a judicial place, lie is mentioned hy Ohio Republicans for appointment under the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Representative Grosvenor will likely get a dace. It is not believed, however, that le will be appointed assistant Secretary of the Treasury. there being already so many Chioans in that department. Representative Wickham is being Imshed for a place on the newly-created and court. Representative Williams is strongly recommended for appointment in the consular nervice. Chief of Postoffice Inspectors Rathbone is mentioned for Fourth Assistant Postmaster-general. But it is improbable that another assistant Postmaster-general would be taken from Ohio, First Assistant Whitfield being from Cincinnati. The Granger Senators. Bpedsl to tbe Indianapolis JoornaL Washington, March 3. The Republican Senators who were not busy to-day with the closing work of Congress, occupied their time interviewing Senators-elect Kyle, of South Dakota, and Pfefier, of Kansas. They attempted to ascertain whether, since both of these men are classed as free-traders and advocates of unlimited coinage, it is worth while to otter them seats on the Republican side of the chamber. There is a fear that these new statesmen will try to "work" the Republicans as did Mr. Riddleberger, of Virginia accept the hospitalities and patronage of the Republicans and their organization till their votes are needed and then go over to the Democrats. The Republicans are a lit tle wary about this time, and do not intend to be cauaht with chaff. What is to be done with the new production of South Dakota and Kansas will be the subject of a Republican senatorial conference. Unless there is an extra session of the Senate, which is wholly improbable, these men will not take the oath and become active Senators till Congress convenes in December next, so that there is time yet for developments. Nominations and Confirmations. Washington, March ' s. The President to-day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Wm. R. Leeds, to be United States marshal for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania; G. Harrison Smith, collector of customs at Cape Vincent, N. Y. PostmastersAlfred T. Anderson, at Cleveland, O.. and Edwin Aldncn, at Canton, O. Dean W. Hammond, receiver of pubho moneys, at Mmot, N. D.; Thomas E. Olsgarde, register of tbe laud office at Mmot, N. D.. and Jay Lynch, Indian agent at the Yakima agency. Washington.The Senate, in executive session to-day, confirmed the following nominations: W. D. Tillotson, of W ashmgton, to be consulceneral at Kanagwa: J. W. Love, of Nebraska, consul at San Salvador. H. C. Ide, of Vermont, land commissioner in Samoa; W. R. Leeds, United States marshal for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania; Joseph Pinkham, United States marshal for Idaho. Patents Granted Uoosler Inventors. Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Washington. March Jl-Pa cents were issued toHoosier invehtorsto-day as follows: Charles Bew, Angola, ' drink-mixer and ice plane; Charles A. Blume and D. Lanum, Colfax, steam engine: Archibald G. Bowman. Jolietville, assignor of one-half to P. S. Woods, Lebanon, clothes-pin; August F. Chable and E. W. Roberts, Marion, Kan., assignors to Said Chable and J. C. Price. Evansville, sad-iron heater; Jessie B. John son, Indianapolis, car truck; Joan b Mauis, assignor of three-fourths to B. Carr, II. M. Lafollette and- E. J. Robinson, Indianapolis, mail-sack dropper and mailsack crane; JohnN. Roberts, Indianapolis, desk curtain; Otis D. Tliornpson and H. F. Smith. Elkhart, sweeper; Thomas & Tweedy, Knightstown, assignor to C. Crabbs, Toronto, Canada, fence. Proposed Addition to the White Home. Washington, March S. Mr. Milliken, of Maine, from the committee on publio build ings and grounds, to-day reported favorably a bill for the erection of an extension to the White House in accordance with plans proposed by Airs. Harrison, ine plans contemplate using the present mansion as a private residence and the erection as an ad dition of an official wing on the west side of the present building, the addition to be a counterpart of the original structure and connected with it by colonnades and con servatories, the whole structure completed to cost not more than $&0,(XX). i Coincidence as to the Philadelphia Mint, Nkw York, March 3. A Washington special to the Evening Post says: "There is an interesting coincidence to be noted in the case of the bill which was passed yesterday for the erection of a mint in Philadelphia. . President Harrison will sign the bill to-day. which is the one-bun dredth anniversary of the day on which President Washington signed originally establishing tbe mint delphia.'' General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. the bill at PhilaWashington, March 3. T. A. Cook was to-day appointed postmaster at New Rich mond. Montgomery .county, vice F. Cornell, resigned. Mrs. J. B. Kent, of Frankfort, who has been attending the Woman's National Council, has left for her home. Mrs. Harrison and the ladies of the White House are anticipating going over to Balti more at an early day for tne purpose of vis iting the Walters gallery. ' Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. McKee spent an afternoon at tbe orallery last season, but as Mrs. Russell Harrison was unable to accompany them on tbat occasion the coming trip is planned for her benefit. Tha Secretary of the Treasury has award ed a gold life-saving medal to Capt. Alfred Mitchell, of Buffalo, N. Y., in recognition of his great courage and remarkable skill in saving the captain and twelve of the crew of the steamer Annie Young from tho nerils of the sea in October last. The Treasury Department to-day paid out $9,500,000 for pensions, completing the $30,000,000 required on that account for the quarter ending to-morrow. The Treasury surplus has, accordingly, been reduced to S15.000.000. Thomas J. Sherman, of Marion, and Wm. R. Stewart, of Delphi, have been admitted to practice before the Interior Department. having complied with all the required reg ulations. Governor Steele does not expect to leave for his home in Marion to-morrow afternoon. He has been detained here by delavs in Oklahoma legislation. Frederick Loftin, private secretary of Senator Turpie, has been seriously ill with typhoid fever for two months, but he has suflicientlv recovered as to bo able to leave for his home at Frankfort, with Mr. Cheadle. this week. Representative-elect Dan Waugh. of Tinton, is here with his wife, and are the guests of Mr. Hendricks, on .bast Capitol street. Children Perish by Fire, Chicago, March 3. Hans Peter Jacobson, fourteen years old, and his sister who is not yet tive, were partly burned and partly suffocated to death in their home at No. 447 West Huron street, shortly before midnight last night Their, pArenU pat

them to bed at 7 o'clock and then went to the theater. By the explosion of a kerosene lamp the house caught tire. but. the flames . were not noticed until nearly midnight. A fireman rushed into the bcrning residence and carried out the children, bnt before a doctor could arrive they died in the rescuer's arms. The parents arrived on the scene just as the children died. Mrs. Jacobson was prostrated by the event, and is in a precarious condition. THE LAND-FALL OP COLUMBUS. a On What Part of the New World Did Its Great Il!aoverer First Set Foot? PlntA, in New York Sun. Bulletin No. 1, put forth by the Bureau of the American republics, at Washington, as a hand-book of these Republics, has for its frontispiece the picture of a waste of water, rimmed in the distance with a low shore line, and entitled "Watling's Island the First Land Seen by Columbus." There is something attractive in this terse

decision, supported by no further comment, v of a question whicn, during some generations, has aff orded scope for much difference of opinion. What was that island on which Columbus, watching about 70 o'clock of tbe night before the ever-memorable Oct.' 12, 1492, saw a light rising and falling? Many people will cudgel their memories in vain to identify Watling's island with this long-sought shore. They will, perhaps, think of the land which Columbus piously called San Salvador as being called Cat islaud, following their Washington Irving and their Humboldt. Or they may have accepted the conclusion reached by F. A. de Varnhagen, a quarter of a century ago, that Mayaguana was the island on which Columbus landed, and which, as is known, tbe natives at that time called Guanahani. Then we find advocates of the claims of Samana, and again of Turk's island for this honor. Indeed, the islands that have claimed to be the landfall of Columbus recall by their number the diversity of view as to the date of his birth, which covers, in the controversy, a period of tsn or fifteen years. But after all, it is bnt natural that a group or chain as extensive as the Bahamas or Lucayoi, stretching along several hundred miles and containing several hundred larger or smaller members, having some close resemblances in size and general appearance, should yield more than one which corresponds to a certain extent with the description in tbe diary or logbook of the great navigator. This is the more intelligible, since the Spaniards depopulated the islands in order to work the natives in their mines elsewhere, so that all local tradition of the original landing place died out. Nor did the Spaniards again colonize them, while the English oc cupation did not follow until 1629. More than ninety years ago, however. Munoz suggested that Wat ling's island. hich is about fifty miles E. S. E. of Cat island, was the true Guanahani or San Salvador of Columbus. During half a cent ury afterward this new claimant made lit tle headway agsinst the belief that Cat island was better entitled to the honor, but in the laot thirty-five years, with the more precise methods or geographical in vestigation, the claim of Waiting's island has been revived and substantiated m a way to make it irresistible. First A. B. Becher insisted npon this view, and Peschol, Daniel, Major, Petermann, and others have followed it. With the competition practically sifted down to Cat, Samana and Waiting's, the last named has now almost eclipsed the other two. One of the most recent and exhaust ive of tho recent original investigations of the subject was that of Governor Blak9, while Governor of the Bahamas, a few years ago. lie mane several cruises among the islands of which he had official charge for the express purpose of studying this Question. With the log-book of Columbus to guide him, he followed the explorer's course as nearly as possible, a draughts" man sketched the outlines of the various shores and tbe Governor's wife made water color drawings of the scenery. He also studied the dangerons currents against which the early explorers had also to contend. By a process of elimination, one after another of the isl ands was rejected as failing to fully satisfy the description given hy Columbus, while Watling's island wholly agreed with it It had the lake in the center, the fertile soil, the reef encircling it except at the capacious harbor with its narrow entrance. and the bluff hard by. Snch an independent study, together with the conclusions of the ceofltraohers who had not themselves seen it. no doubt entitles Watling's island to be definitely considered as the spot seen when the mvf ul cry of "Land!" was raised, and. indeed, it has been officially named can. Salvador. The present Importance ox this matter is increased by the project of Castelar and others to make a combined voyage of ves sels from tbe old world to tbe new in Sep tember and October. 1892. a leading feature of the honors paid to Columbus. Nat urally there should be a common agree ment as to the island recognized as the San Salvador of the great discoverer. Researches relating to the place where Columbus landed will grow in interest and impor tance during the next few years. A feature of the coming celebration might well be that of erecting upon the spot a monument, which, in such an out-of-the-way place. need not be pretentious and elaborate, but should be impressive and enduring. WAR PREDICTED. General Butler Thinks the Time for Another War Is Near at Hand. WashlnRton Special to St Louis Globe-Democrat. Ben Butler, who has been, in Washington a good deal of late, believes the time is ap proaching for the United States to have anotner war. lie delivered nimselt or tnis opinion while discussing the Canadian question, but declined to further connect the opinion with the subject of conversa tion. When asked: . "Lo you tmnk tne 'country beyond our northern boundary will ever be ours?" the General was not ready with a positive an swer. "it it ever is." said ne. "it will be in one of three ways by gift, by purchase or by conquest. When we consider tbat in the vast country beyond the Canadian line lies by far tne larger part of the fresh water of the entire globe, ana that it is fully 4(J per cent, of the territory over which floats the British flag, the man of intelligence will have some idea of the prospect of our get ting the country as a gift from .Lugland. and he will be instrncted, also, as to the probability of our getting it by purchase. As to oar obtaining it by conqnest. that is a great question, which men may study at their leisure." Then General Butler drew attention to the fact that ever since we began to have a history every generation has seen the United States engaged in war. "Unless tbe inexorable logic of nistorv is about to fail, the time when we will have the next war on our hands is not far off. With whom or about what it will be I do not attempt to say. It may be slow and somewhat out of time in coming, bnt tbat come it will is the certain lesson of all our history. It may solve the Canadian prob lem, or it may not nave anything to do wltn it Be that as it may, the fact remains that the almost boundless country stretching northward from the Canadian line is a vast empire, of superb climate, great capabili ties for commerce and population a territory that is rapidly developing at tbe present, time, and is bonnd to develop still more rapidly from this time forth." As to reciprocity between Canada and the United States, the General was willing to admit its likelihood at a comparatively early day, but as to a change o ags he would venture no prediction as to ie long future even. He did not see much to warrant it in the immediate future. On tbe silver question General Butler is not saying much for the public ear. beyond that he is for the free coinage of the products of America as a proper measure of protection to American miners and a legitimate home interest. He fels-a deep interest in agriculture and the effort it is making in its own behalf. On this and other developments of public opinion General Butler is a close observer of the signs of the times. On some of these he will be heard from in due time. While here the General devoted considerable tme to collecting and arranging materials for his history of his own life and times, upon which he has been for some years engaged, and which is progressing satisfactorily. Tragedian Keene Serlomly I1L Kansas City, March 3. A local theatrical manager to-day received word from Thomas W. Keene's manager at Vicksburg. Miss., tbat the emiuent tragedian had cancelled all engagements lor the present season on account of his serious illness. Morements of Steamers. London, March S. Sighted: Majestic, from New York. Bremer Haven. March 8. Arrived: juida, from ow ypit ,

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F. X. SANITY !ND INSANITY. Symptoms by Which the Mental State May Be Known. Medical Record. Next to insanity itself the saddest thing in the world is the way in which the publio regard it The grossest ignorance still prevails concerning mental disease, for super stitions concerning tbe more complex and finer things are the last to be given np. While the idea of demor.iao possession has in a measure departed, the notion of dis grace attendant upon such possession still remains. lo know wnat insanity really is might materially abate the public honor of it, and raise mental aliena tion to tte socialzstatns of small-pox. typhoid fever, and measles. The late Dr. George M. Beard once read an important paper on "The Symptoms of Sanity and the Diagnosis of Insanity." This naner. he stated, had a two-fold obiecL 'First, to show what a sane man is, in order to answer the question. "How can yon tell a sane man when you see him!" The second object of the paper was to reconstruct tbe subject of insanity on the basis of evolution, to carry evolution into psychology, the law . of evolution being the greatest generalization the human mind has ever reached. According to; Dr. Beard "the symptoms of insanity are as follows: L Activity of the instinct ol soil-preser vation. 2. Adaptation to environment. a Correspondence of character to age and station. 4. Kememberable consciousness. Whoever responds to all these tests is sane.no matter now in in ooay or mina. lie who does not respond to these tests is an insane man. no matter how well he may be in body. It is possible for the mind to be impaired to a degree that is not necessarily serious, as in hysteria, hypochondria, neurasthenia, etc. But suflerers from these disorders usually retain activity of the instinct of self-preserv: tion, adaption to en vironment, correspondence of character to age ana station, ana rememberabie con sciousness. Symptoms of mental disease begin from above downward, beginning with the tips of the branches and blossoms. The symp toms of insanity appear in the following J order, the later acquisitions hrst disap pearing and then tzie earlier: . l. mere is a aeenne in manners tnat is. minor morals; then more extensive moral decline. . 2. Decline in. tbe power of originating thought. 3. Decline in tho power of acaniring thought. 4. Decline in the memory of recent events. 5. Decline in the memory of old events. Thus it will be perceived that there can be no insanity without moral decline. The law of proportion, which is tbe law of. right conduct as well as of beauty, ceases to exist r act, as a point of view, gives way to mirage and dream. And between dreams and sane living there is a great gulf fixed. Insanity has been defined as "a disorder in tue power or adjustment ox the organism to its environment." It is the manifestation in speech or conduct of disease or detect of the brain. So-called mental dis eases are simply groups of symptoms. One of tbe symptoms of a diseased body is men tal alienation. Whatever the real natnre of mind may be. it is so intimately allied to organism as to be practically inseparable from it during life. The world confesses that it knows not tho construction and nature of spirit. But physical facts abound. and a fair knowledge of inseparable mind and bodyinseparable while life tolds matter together and of their nnity oi expression may be had for the earnest seeking. When the signs of sanity and of insaidty are more a part of everyday education, manifestations in speecn or conduct of disease, or defect of brain, will cease to be a disgrace. Then the insane will no longer be an outcast, but tbe recipient of best intelligence and tenderest care, like the weak ling of a family upon whom is bestowed infinite attention, and to whom is given tho choice of chances. THE TURK AND HIS WIVES. The Koran Allows Illm but Three The Ea naclis and Their Duties. Chicago Tribune. "The Turk is not the man of many wives he is commonly believed to be. It is an exception rather than a rule for the men of Turkey to have more than one wife. The lower classes never have more than one. It is only the wealthy pashas who have two or three wives, the latter number, according the Koran, being legally allowed to every Mussulman." This is what Carlos Rivcro, a Spaniard, has to say about life in Turkey. Sig. Kivero is engaged in the China trndeat Constantinople, and calls the Turkish metropolis his home. "1 have lived several years at Constantinople," continued the traveler, who speaks excellent English, "and have been as close an observer of Turkish harem life as it was possible for an outsider to be. The number of wives legally allotted to every Mussulman is exclusive of any number of slaves and concubines. Slaves and concubines are not found in the homes of the lower classes. Tbe middle classes keep slaves, but the heads of these households rarely have concubines. "But when 1 say that polygamy is an exception, I do not mean that thero are not numerous harems in the empire, for there are. The Turk, however, who is at tbe head of the harem does not have the royal time and many privileges one is led to suppose. He pays the bills, though. He calls on his wives wheu it is convenient for them to receive him. ISo acquaintance, however slight, must he have withothers than those of his own harem. Sometimes - he cannot enter his own house. When a ladv calls on one of his wives she leaves her slippers outside the harem door. Should the husband observe them he knows ladies are visiting, and therefore ho must take a stroll aroend the block, smoke a cigarette, or do something else until tbe fai. Mer has departed. "If in a public squi r a bazaar he should happen to see. me of his own women he is not permw.ed to recognize them even if they are squandering his money on something that would be of no use to any one. lie may see one of his -wives paying fabulous prices for silks and i'ewels and know the bills will be s nt iim, but he must not object in public What he says or does at some subsequent time 1 know not of, but there is no law I know of that prevents him from blacking her eyes or pulling her hair when he gets her in her apartments at the harem." "How are the poor eunuchs treated! Sig. Kivero was asked. "Poor eunuchs!" remarked the traveler. "The people of Turkey don't think the eunuchs are abused creatures, and they are not. Their life is one perpetual picnic. They are the greatest personages in the harem; their power is almost absolute; they are captains of the girls, and when the latter become unruly the eunuchs are tbe ones to chastise them. They , whip the girls with rods when tbeoflense committed is serious enough. But they are the most hideous-looking creatures in Turkey. They have repulsive faces, short thick necks, and generally long letrs. They are haughty and overbecring in "their manners, aud when escorting their mistresses through the streets plainly demonstrate their contemptibledisposition when clearing the way for the pets of the Padishah. They slash about discriminated with their 'courbatch and make things generally unpleasant for anybody who is not on tlte lookout. Besides being paid princely salaries the eunuchs squeeze all the money thej" can out of the inmates of the harem and large fortunes are amassed by them. "Mutes are still employed by the Sultan as guards or att attendants. This class is not obtained from an taylam ox anything of

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All trslus connci at Terre Haule. Tliroua sleeper m ll.-oop. m. train. Orennoaatle and Terre Haute A ceom'datlon. 4:00 pra. Arrive from l Louis. 346 sm. 4:16 am. 'i.60 pm, 6:'t7 lm, 7:45 pm. Terre Haule and GreencasUe Acoom'datlon. 1 0:00 ata. 81oeplnff and Parlor Cars are run on through traiaa. For rates and information appljU) ticket ai;nta ef the oompauj, or W, F. ilHU-NNEU. Uiatrict Pas saucer Agent TIIE VEST IB U LED ZbJr PULLMAN CAR LUfB. 1 1 - 1 Lun nrulA.KA.ro Lis. Ko. 38 Hon on acq, ex. Sunday. 5:1S rm No. 32 Cldoafo lAm- Pullman VesUbolad eoaenea, paxXr and dining ear. d&ilr.... .11:25 ant Arrive In CfuoAfu &: 1U m. No.34-ClilcaoNU'ht Ktu, Pullman Veitttaled coach t and sleHra, dailr .12:40 ant Arrive In Chicago 7:i am. ARhlYK AT tAULlSArOLU. No. Sl-VeiiibiuX !Hlr. . 2:20 pa Ko. 3S Vestibule, daUj 3:45 ata Ho. 3y HoDon Ami, ex. BnnAay 1O.40 aim No. 4 Local freight leaves AUbama-at, jinl a 7:05 am. 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EL, WH Eloek, Opp. Toitoffite. jj , Pre-etnlnenUy tbe lealiuj; busiu-s university forty-f.rst rear; no vacations; students en tor at any time; Individual instruction by strouff faculty of ea Eeriencod teacher complete facilities far book-keep g. business practice, ban win, short-baud, typewriting, penmanship aud Knjrtiah training; diploma free at graduation; railroad. Industrial, tiritfea:ual and business offices suypUod with help; elegant til oa trated actalocrue tree. that kind, bnt are manufactured. That brutal practice of cutting out tongues of youthful eunuchs in order to obtain attendants in the offices wher official Dullness is carried on is still as popular as eter. The youths are not onlv deprived of means of speech, but everything 5lse is clone to keep them in a state oi ignorance. The? are never permitted to read or "write. This is no 'Arabian Nights' romance, but a deplorable truth." A Model for Mr. Thienes. rielcna Journal. The District of Columbia cigarette law forbids sale or gift of cigar, cigarette or tobacco in any form to any one under sixteeu on penalty of line from $2 to $10. or imprisonment from tive to twenty days. Use of tobacco by those under sixteen in any public place is lined from Si to $5. Columbia sets & good examplo to the rest of tho Union, and is bringing ud her children with care and sense. Dealers in nicotine say the law against Bales to minors w practically adead letter everywhere else, because the boys who want to auck the poison of th cigar ettes find no difficulty in getting some unscrupulous mau to buy for them. Evidence that the Law Ia a Good One. Chicago News. A large number of the Mormon taints are said to be leaving Utah for the purpono of funding a new colony in old Mexico, where they may practice the tenets of their church with impunity. No better illustration ot the beneficial effects of the United States laws against polygamy can be furnished than this one. The easiest way to stamp out a national blot is to stamp it out. May Save a ITrap of gro-KIIHnr. Nebraska JocrnaL The Arkansas Legislature has passed an "election-reform" bill that will save the Democracy of tbat Mate a great deal of trouble. It provides that tho'whole conduct of elections shall be placed in the bauds of men appointed by the Governor, who is at liberty to select every one of them from bia own party if be ao deairea. It will simplify things wonderfully. Tired of the Fad Already. Minneapolis Tribune. Present indications foreshadow the resubmission of the prohibition amendm nt to the people of outh Dakota at tho next election. Free whisky is growing tiresome to the level-headed texncerance people of that State, nud they will probably substitute high license or local option at the earliest opportunity. Their Preference for PreIdenL Minneapolis, Minn.. 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