Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1891 — Page 6

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MARCH' IF 1891.

MONON DEAL CONSUMMATED

W. L. Brejfoglo Succeeded by General Thomas as President of the Road, The Former Made Assistant to the Latter Xetr Directors Chosen Not to Ba llerged Into the Terminal and L . W. Sji tenia, The committee, consisting of John Greenongh and Gen. Samuel Thomas, completed the examination of the Louisville, New Albany fc Chicago property last week. John Grcenongb. who attended to tho examination of the finances, returned to New York on Thursday, and General Thomas, who examined the physical condition of the company, returned on Friday. Tho directors of the Louisville, New Albany 6t Chicago met to receive the report of tho examination on Friday, but there was apparently eoine hi ten, for no announcement was made by the syndicate as to whether the iyndicate would carry out the agreement to advance tho $2,000,000 necessary to relieve it from its pressing debts. Tho directors met again Saturday, but without action. Yesterday the syndicate announced its readiness to make the loan. and. in accordance with the conditions already agreed to, the entire board handed their resignation over to John Greenougb. The resignations of eight of the old board woro received, and the foilovriuir directors were elected, in their places: Gen. Samuel Thomas, John Greenoueh, Calvin S. Brice. Frank K. Btnrpis, James E. flrannia, W. A. C. Ewen and K. K. fclbley. The old directors who 1 bold ovor are: W. L. Urevfogie, 21. 21. Campbell, John B. Hushes. Hubert B. Shaw and E. D. Hawkins. Dr. Breyfocle resigned from the office of president, and General Thomas was at once elected to succeed him as president of the company. John Greenough was elected vice-preaident, and Dr. Breyfogle was then made assistant to President Thomas. After tho directors' meeting was over the vicepresident stated that it would continue to be operated as an independent system, and that its alliance with friendly connections would be continued. Nothing in the way of forming & new traffic agreement was dono, but tho resolution authorizing the clas;ntation of directors was rescinded. It is btated that the syndicate obtained control, not by buying "the bonds, but simply by lending $2,000,000 on $2,800,000 of treasury bonds ami $1,400,000 on stock. 2t is aJao stated that the Fast Tennessee company provided 1.200,000 of the total loan. In discussing the change in the directory and presidency of tho Monon, a superintendent of another road said to the Journal rerorter yesterday that it does not mean that the property will deteriorate, lie said It was not the policy of the Tho mas-15 rice management to squeeze out dividends for stockholders regardless of maintaining the hvsical condition of their roads. The ake Lrie & Western, said the oflicial, is a good examplo of their idea of handling railroad properties, Presidents Thomas and lirice always say to the men whom they place in charge, as in the case of General Manager Bradbury: We put yon there, tirst, to operate the road on business principles, using every dollar above actual op. erating expenses and fixed charges in improving its physical condition and properly equipping the line, whether it takes three or ten years; then, when it reaches a point where the earnings will justify the paying of dividends to preferred or common stockholders, pay them, but not until the road is safe for running over at any required speed, and the road properly equipped to handle the business promptly and satisfactorily to the patrons of the Hue." These instructions General Manager Bradbury has carried out to the letter, andbnt few properties are in as good shape as is tho Lake En & Western to increase its earnings in the years to come. The programme of the Breyfogle management has been much in the same direction. An attempt was made, however, to push improvements faster than the earnings wonld justify, but notwithstanding this had not the' Breyfogle management a floating debt of over $700,000 to look after, which was inherited from a former management, the situation financially wonld not have been by any means as unfavorable aa at the present time. Tho $2,000,000 will enable the L., N. A. & C. company to liquidate all its lloating debts and leave S4O9.OC0 to nso in carrying on such improvements are really necessary. Then, it is expected tho earnings will pay all fixed charges andoperatingexpenses, and in due time leave something for the stockholders. Insinuations of Hate-Cutting. A Chicago dispatch says: If east-bound freight rates are not being cot, how does it happen that the so-called wsak lines manage to get away with the bulk of the busi sees everywhere! This is the question that is bothering the traffic officials of Eastern railways. The statement of east-bound shipments for last week shows that the proportion of the business secured ly the Nickel-plate was just double that which fell to the Lake Shore, and that the Chicago & Erie also made a better showing than the leading Vanderbilt lines. It wonld be hard to convince the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central and tho Fort "Wayne roads that at equal rates they could not command the lion's share of the traffic, and as their position seems reasonable, it is no wonder that considerable credence is given to the reports of rate manipulations on seaboard shipments. The Chicago & Grand Trunk continues in the lead of all competitors, bnt nobody seriously accuses that road of cutting rates, as the secret of its success is well known to all who have watched its course in relation to local shippers. It is the policy of the Chicago & Grand Trunk to take sides with its patrons in any controversy between them and the railroads, and the result is that no Chicago road stands as well with shippers generally. It is just now reaping its reward for the position it took last summer, when, by espousing the cause of the shippers, it succeeded in killing the nonnegotiablo bill of lading, which the Western roads tried to force into general use. The shipments of Hour, grain and provisions from Chicago to the seaboard by the lines of the Central Traffic Association last week aggregated tons, against 43,SoO for the preceding week, an increase of 1,059 tons, and agaiust for the 6ame period last year, a decrease of 15,241 tons. The Vanderbilt lines have carried 51 per cent. of the business, the Pennsylvania lines 10, the Chicago fc Grand Trunk 27, and the B. it O. 6 per cent. Slight Decline In Freight Morement The train records show that C45 fewer loaded cars were received and forwarded at Indianapolis in the week ending March 23 than in the week preceding, which is attributed to the bad weather and the condition of the country roads. East-bound, while the movement is lighter than in tho corresponding period of 1S0O, the rates are so much better maintained that the business yields better results financially. Kather a light east-bound through business is looked for in the next thirty days and a heavier traffic through May, as usually all surplus wheat and oats are placed on the market at that time, making room for the new crops, which now promise well. Although the middle of April is tho time of resuming lake navigation, it is hardly probable that much will be done before Mayl. Freight men say that while there is less grain to go forward in the immediate territory on Indianapolis lines, the shipments from more distant points later on will more than make good the bhortaye of crops in the territory which furnishes the businets to' tho midland lines. The shipments of lire stock continue in excess ot tboselastyear, the export denand seemingly being the prominent factor in the movement. West-hound a slight decrease in heavy freights is looked for after April 1, as the shipments of sugar will drop to a minimum. In first-class freights the tonnage is now considerably in excess of March, ltttt. The west-bound business of March did much more to nolo the trunk line than did the east-bound business, as fully as many loaded cars were brought West as were forwarded East Ncrth-and-aouth roads are cci05 a good business, but it has been un

favorably allectd, as has local traffic, by the heavy rams of late, which interfere with getting tho various prodncta to tha rnilway stations so bad are the country roads. In north-bound business fruits and vegetables of the Southern State form an important item. South-bound the shipments of ice and hog products are still quite large. The most marked improvement, however, is in shipments of grain and provisions to points southeast from here in the Virginias and Carolina. Local business doubtless will improve as soon as tho roads and weather become more favorable. Below is given the number of cars received and forwarded at Indianapolis in the week ending March 23, as compared with tho corresponding weeks in previous 3' ears:

H fi 3$ 3 3-k : s : j 5. a -a o a 1 t -t r . 132 238 870 323 132 264 30C 401 US 308 843 907 252 247 490 23 12C 421 641 600 C22 4S8 1,110 973 430 2f-S 70S 448 CSS 631 1,327 1,447 782 627 1.31C 92$ 51 1,123 1,641 0C3 6SV 1,227 2,116 1,672 1,534 1,238 2,772 2,341 888 l,77fr 1,757 8C2 842 1.704 1,937 84 C tSb 1,731 2,037 3.00C 9.7GJ IP.861 l,203

Same of Itocd, 1 N. A. Sc C, AlMlne,..., I., I. fc Q C.,n. & D. (Ina'pTsdi.) L. E. & W f r. & v t. 1 LouVe dlv ""M Chicago dlv 1 Ind'n'llsdlv Columbus dlv Teorla div... Big Four J Chicago div. lines 1 Clncln'atldlv 8t Louis div. Clevel'nd dlv VandallAv.. Totals P.00C In the corresponding week of iss9 there were handled at this point 16, ISO loadod earn, and in 18S8 15,110 loaded cars. There were transferred over the Belt road, last week, 14,120 cars, against 13,070 in the corresponding week of 1&X). Belt road engines last week handled BOG car-loads of live stock, against 629 in the corresponding week of lb'JO. The Troublesome Jacksonville Southeastern s Fresh complications have risen to prevent an immediate arttlenient of the cutting of passenger rates botween St. Louia and Chi cago by scalpers handling tho tickets of the Jacksonville Southeastern road. A meeting was held at Chairman Finley's office, in Chicago, yesterday, by the renresentatives of the linos in interest to hear tho report of the chairman on the situation. Ho said the agreement of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe to become responsible for the conduct of its St. Louis connection and to seo that its outstanding tickets were removed from the market by March L'G, as demanded by the Chicago fc Alton, had been carried out. He was about to report that all such tickets issued by the J acksonville Southeastern had boon taken up and canceled, with the exception of fourteen mileace books and thirty-six one-way tickets, which, in Mr. Finley's opinion, was not a sufficient nnmber to disturb the market. After this showing' it was expected that an agreement to restore rates to the former basis of 87.50 botween Chicago and St. Louis might be easily reached, but tho Alton was ready with a new charge to otlset the good effect of what has been accomplished. General Passenger Acent Charlton, of that road, said he was reliably informed that at the beginning of the present year the Jacksonville Southeastern had entered into a contract with certain parties by which it was to furnish them with live thousand one-way tickets between St. Louis and Chicago at $5 each, the tickets to be delivered in bulk or in blocks of live hundred per month. This announcement caused a sensation. The Atchison people, who represented the Jacksonville Southeastern, were not able to refute the charge, aud Mr. Charlton refused to entertain a proposition to advance rates until satisfactory evidence could be furnished that the contract did not exist, or had been canceled. It was finally agreed to refer it to Chairman Finley, who is to make an investigation and report results at the earliest practicable date. Personal, Local and General Notes. The Wabash baa appointed M. L. Becker its freight claim agent, vice II. T. Linehey, resigned. F. Hasted, superintendent of the D. & M. division of the C, H. &. D., was in the city yesterday. W. T. Midlam has been appointed agent of the Empire line at Cincinnati, to take etfect April 15. Oscar Murray, traffic manager of the Big Four, left for New York last night, to be absent several days. C. J. "Worthington, mechanical engineer of the Big Four lines, has gone to Scranton to arrange to remove his family to this city. Charles E. Maokean has been appointed agent of the Empire line at Minneapolis, Minn., vice A. C. Smith, resigned, to take effect April 1. E. 0. McCormick. general ticket and passen cer agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, spent yesterday in the city on official business. Tho reduction in iron rates took effect yesterday, and the freight men are looking for a big boom in this class of freights before the week closes. A Stevens, late general freight agent of the Terre Haute & Peoria road, will tomorrow take the position of general agent of the Mackey lines at St. Louis. F. M. Peelar, general superintendent of the Toledo & Ohio Central road, who is in poor health, has obtained six weeks' leave of absenoe and will spend the time at Hot Springs. Harry Crawford, president of the Indiana Midland railway, closed a contract at Lebanon yesterday for cross-ties, to be used in extending the road from Waveland to Brazil. Work on the new bridge of the Peoria & Pekin railroad across the Illinois river is being pushed, and it is expected it will be ready for nso in thirty days. The bridge is built of iron, in six spans 150 feet each in length. Instead of discharging men in the shops of the Pennsylvania Company at Indianapolis, they will work ten hours five days of the week, and bnt five hours on Saturday, This is Superintendent Darlington's idea of the best method to reduce shop expenses. Yesterday a letter was received from William Greene, general manatrer of the Big Four lines, in which he states that in the short time that he has been at Hot Springs he has been greatly relieved of his rheumatic troubles, and that in a short time he will return in good health. The local passenger men are of opinion that the move to do away with the homeseekers' excursions to Weetern points will not be successful, but it will probably lead to some arrangement to make the tickets more iron-clad in character, so that less demoralization shall follow their nse. . If the economical methods of operating Indiana railways which have been in force h! nee the first of the year are continued through the twelve months, it is predicted that the roads of this State will bo operated on a, lower per cent, of their gross earnings than in any year of their history. If the Louisville, Now Albany & Chicago management wishes to keep tho good will of the traveling salesmen, and, in fact, the public generally, they will put on a morning tram out of Indianapolis, at least as far north as Monon. Such a train would enable the company to cut out a number of stops which the vestibule train is obliged to make. Train 21, coming West over the Pennsylvania lines, on Sunday made the run from Colnmbus in four hours and thirty minntes. Tho train-sheet shos that, deducting time for stops and slacking speed, the run was made in three hours and forty-tive minutes: distance. 188 miles. From Columbus to Bradford ten cars were hauled in the train; from Bradford to Indianapolis six cars. The plans and specifications for a grand central station at Kansas City have been completed.and approved. Under the trainsheds will be fourteen tracks. Instead of an iron arch over al) the tracks there will be a low, separate covering for each track, built of iron. The architect thought that a big arch would not stand the high winds which sometimes prevail at Kansas Ctty. A. M. Stimson, general agent of the freight department of the Big Fonr, who has been indicted by the grand jury for violating the interstate-commerce act, will be in the c'ty on Thursday to give the proper bond for his appearance in court whenever the case comes up for a hearing. The Big Four people cay that the charge is trumped up by a competitor as splto-work. The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is spending a considerable sum ot money in replacing wooden structures over streams on the Indianapolis division with more substantial ones. An iron bridge resting on stone abutments has just been completed over the east fork of Whitewater

river; another will be completed near Arlington, this week, over Little Blue river, and the bridges over Sugar creek, near New Palestine, and over Muddy creek, east of Arlington, are to be rebuilt at once. The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton -and the Lonisvillo, New Albany & Chicago managements are studying to improve their train schedule between Cincinnati and Chicago with the taking effect of the summer time-table, and it is probable that the ran will be made a half or threequarters of an hour quicker than it now is. Should this be done, the Pennsylvania Compunys threatens to put on a train between Chicago and Cincinnati and Chicago and Louisville which will eclipse all former schedules as to time. A much faster train between Indianapolis and Louisville has already been decided upon. It is intimated that, with the taking effect of the Pennsylvania Company's summer time-schedule, the running timo of trains Nos. 20 and 21 will be shortened at least another hour. As these trains are now scheduled the rnn from hero to New York or retnrn is made in twenty-four hours, and the Vanderbilt lines and the Big Four make the run in twenty-four hours and ten minntes. So long as the Vanderbilt lines and the Big Four were two hours longer than tho Pennsylvania in making the run between these points the latter company rested easy, but the present time annoj's them somewhat CUILIXGS FR03I THE COURTS. Appellate Judge to Dispose of Cases as Ilapidly as Possible. . The Appellate Court will be in session again to-day, and from now on cases will be disposed of as rapidly as it is possible for the judges to pass upon them. Chiefjustice Black has been hard at work for several days past, and the rest of the judges have not been idle, so that the stream of opinions may be expected to How almost any day. Alleged Breach of Contract. The Miiburn Gin and Machine Company, of Memphis, Tonn., filed a complaint in the SuDerior Court, yesterday, against the Jenney Electric-motor Cocjnany, for damages amounting to 000. It is alleged that a contract was made with defendant for an electric-Jightplant,which was to be paid for with machinery, boilers, and other articles manufactured by the plaintiif. In the final settlement it is stated the defendant did Dot allow the full account of the machine company. ' Will Recommend a Dividend. Receiver Henning will file in Judge Taylor's court, this morning, a roport concerning the transactions of his trust in connection with the Indianapolis Car and Manufacturing Company. He will recommend that a dividend of 7 per cent, be declared, and further report that, in a reasonable time, another dividend can bo obtained. Trial of a Hank Teller. Charles H. Hitter, the Evansville bank teller, accused of embezzling 77,000 of the funds of the First National Bank of that Elace, will be tried there April 7. his case aving been transferred yesterday from the federal court here to the April term of the same court there. The Bash Case Nollled. The caso in the federal court against Julius C. Bnsh for violation of the internal revenue law was yesterday nollied. The Court Record. SUPERIOR COURT. Boom 3Hon. Lewis C. Walker, Judge. Mary J. French vs. George W. French; divorce. Granted on grounds of abadonment. Kew Suits Filed, Mary E. Slenker vs. Henry C. Slenker; divorce and custody of children. Cruelty. Miiburn Gin ana Machine Comnany vs. Jenney Electric Motor Company: damages; breach of contract. Demand, $600. CRIMINAL COURT. Hon. Millard F. Cox. Judite. State vs. George Kandolph; assault and. battery. Plea of guilty. Fined Si with' costs. l State vs. William Green; grand larceny. , Trial by court. Faying Off Postal Clerks. Assistant Postmaster Thompson was a busy man yesterday. From early morning until late last evening he was engaged in paying off the postal clerks on the Panhandle, Indianapolis & Vincennes, Lake Erie & Western. Jetferaonville, Madison & Indianpolis, and the Peoria division of tho Big Four (west). There are 185 of these clerks running on the roads named, and they received 815,800 for March. The task of making their envelopes each month is not a light one. Noticeable Real-Estate Purchases. Clemens Vonnegut, jr., has purchased from Henry Schnull a house on North Alabama street, near Ohio. The price paid was $10,000. Ann V. Ferguson has sold hsr property on Ohio street, west of Illinois, to It. W. Piel for $11,000. The price is at tho rate of 8300 per front foot. ' ' Iteal-Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in tho recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twentyfour hours ending at 6 r.M., March 30,1891; as famished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, Hartford .Block, No. 84 East .Market street: . ' J. B. Hasllngcr to Katie Ulrica, lots 29 and 30 in Ray's subdivision of outlotl50 $3,000.00 B. B. Minor to Otto Btechhan, lot 75 In Butler's addition 3,800.00 Henry Schnull to Clemens Vonnegut, jr., part of square US 10,000.00 R. Ler:o to AV. F. Bchrmann, part of lots 271 and 272 in fipann 3c Coa eecond Woodlawu addition 1,500.00 Ann V. Ferguson to H. W. Piel, weat half of lot 14 in square 46 11,000.00 J. A. Denny toM. A. Thompson, lot 14 iu McClaiu's subdivision of lot 4 In square 13 iu Hubbard et aL's southeast addition 850.00 M. A.' Thompson to C. E. Jxpsi!on, eant half of lot 50 in Ilanna'a heirs' addition 1,700.00 M. A. Thompson to J. A. Denny, west half of lot 50 in Hanna's heirs' addition 1,800.00 M. A. Thompson to W. C. Denny, rest half of lot 4 iu square 5 in Hubbard et als southeast addition 1.835.00 M. A. Thompson to L A. Vandeman, east half ofJot 4 in square 5 la Hubbard et aL'e. southeast addition 1,800.00 M. A. Thompson to A. F. Denny, lot 31 in Loekwood & McClaln's southeast additiou 1,200.00 M. Matthews to B. C Moore, part of lot 14 In Morgan, trustee's, subdivision of Fletcher's east addition . . . 700.00 A. It. Hervey to W. J. Bopert. lot 7 In Johnson's E&at Washington-street addition 2.400.00 W. Lceruan to R. Leeman. rart ot the east half of the southeast quarter of section 33, township 15. range 2 1.400.00 T. Jutzl to C. Schellert. lot 52 In Coburn's aubdi vision of oatlot 1 82. . . . 2,000.00 E. B. Martindale to C. L. DeWitt, lot 32 In square 12 in Lincoln Park .... 1,200.00 S. Weisenburper to C. G. Dixon, lots 143 and 149 in Talbotfs addition... 3,500.00 R. Leeman to W. Leeman, part of section 33, township 15, range 2 3,000.00 W. Leeman to V. C. Leeman, part of the southwest quarter of beotion 34, township 15, rane 2 1,400.00 J. 8. Spann to M. M. Coppock. lot 350 and part of lot 357 in Bpann k Co.'g second Woodlawn addition 1,500.00 C. B. Oakes to K. V. F.iehie, lots 7, 8 and 9 in Atkins & Terkins's University Flace addition 4,300.00 T. C. Vinton to C. A. Sapper, lot 53 In Woodruff's subdivision of Morris's addition 500.00 Conveyances, 22; consideration. ...$60,385.00

ARMY AND SA VT SUPPLIES. The Government Jiuying Jtoyal Unking Potcder. New York Trttrans. Largo purchases of Baking Powder have recently been made by the United States government. In one lot 0,000" pounds were bought of the Royal Baking Powder Company. For many years the government has given its orders for Koyal Baking powder in preference to all others, it being found that this is the only baking powder that will keep and retain its strength in tho various climates to which it is sent by the department, Whenever the government wants the most trustworthy article and the best in quality it prefers the Royal, as this brand was found to be superior to all others in leavening power by the oflicial chemical tests, made at the instance of the gorernment, in the Agricultural Department, at Washington,

NATIONAL APPB0PBIAT10NS

Ex-Congressman Cheadlo Reviews the Work of the Fifty-First Congress. Why the Appropriations Exceaded Those of Its Immediate Predecessors Its Action Was Not Wasteful nor Extravagant. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: I have read the recent interview of the Hon. W. D. Bynum, of the Seventh district, in which he characterizes the Fifty-first as tho "billion-dollar Congress," aud then tries to create the impression that it was extravagant beyond measure with the people's money, and, therefore, unworthy the respect of the Nation. He would have tho country believe that the Democratic members of that Congress were opposed to every form of extravagance, and that they were at all times tho special champions of economy in public expenditures. The record of the Fifty-first Congress has been completed, and by that record it must be judged. . Those conversant with the facts know that thcro existed good roasons for nearly every increase. I appeal to that record, and ask to be beard in a plain statement of facts taken from it to show inst why the appropriations made by the rifty-lirst were required to be much larger than those made by the Fiftieth Congress. I will premise that statement with the suggestion that it does not necessarily follow that increased appropriations mean extravagance in pubho expenditures. That question will depend entirely upon the character of the appropriations made, and not upon their amount. Keeping in view this fundamental truth, let us, in the spirit of fair play, examine the character of the appropriations made by the Fifty-Urst Congress in which there are increases over tho amounts made by the Fiftieth. First The item in which the largest increase occurs is that of pensions. The increase in pensions is $113,812,351.09. Why this largo increase? The record shows clearly tho reason. The amount required has been steadily increasing year by year. The amount appropriated by the Fiftieth Congress for the liscal year ending June 30, 1889, was $89,000,000; and yet. in the face of that record fact, and with the further knowledge that thousands of claims then pendiug were simply awaiting the appropriation of the money to pay them, the only thing in the way of their allowance; and with the full force ot the office, then 1,542 employes, at work in adjudicating new claims, what did the second session of the Fiftieth Congress do to meet this demand? What amount of money did it appropriate for th next liscal year that ended June 0, ISM? The merest tyro knows that if it required $S9,COO,000 for the year ending Jnne 0, 1889, that, with an otiice force of 1,542 persons adjudicating new cases, it would require more than $89,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1890. Honest people may be loath to believe it. but it is true that, in the face of these record facts, only $31,000,000 waa appropriated, 8,000,000 less than tho preceding year. Is it any wonder, then, that a large deiiciency should, have occurred that year? or will any fair-minded person claim that it is evidence of extravagance in public expenditures because, when a deficiency of $25,321,007.35 did occur, that the Fifty-Urst Congress made an appropriation to pay it? , I was a member of the Fiftieth Congress and know that Mr. Bynum and his party were asked to make a proper appropriation for pensions that year, and that - they refused, saying that the- Fifty-first could make it It is no fault of the Republican party that it did occur. Can Mr. Bynum say as much for his party? WHY THE INCREASE WAS NECESSARY. The official roport of the Commissioner of Pensions for the year ending June 80, 1890, shows that more than $38,000,000 were required that year to make the first payments on claims allowed that year. This sum is unprecedented in the history of the office. There must have been a cause; and 1 want to say that one was easily found. Tho Cleveland administration had systematically held np claims that called for large amounts on first payments, and dumped them npon the Harrison administration for final settlement, and when these claims were finally allowed, as they should have been long years ago, the appropriation was necessarily increased. The Pension Onlce estimates that the sum of money required for first payments this year will be 818,000,000 less than last year, and is conclusive upon the reason for the largo amonntfor first payments last year. Again, the Republican party had promised to enact a pension law tnat would care for all our disabled veterans and for all the widows and orphans of onr dead soldiers. The Fifty-firsc Congress redeemed that promise by placing upon the statutebooks the act of June 27. 1890. Will Mr. Bynum, or any other Iudiaua Democrat, pretend to claim that to make the appropriation of money required to carry into effect that just pension law is. or could bs, a wasteful extravagance of the people's money? The Nation had promised to care for him who fell in battle and for him who lost his health, and for their widows and orphans. Twenty thousand of these heroes were in the almshouses of the North, while the surplus of the treasury was loaned without interest to the banks, to be by them loaned to those whose money it was at interest. Fifty thousand and more of the widows of our dead comrades were in penury and want. Tne act of June 27, 1890, reaches all of these and provides for them. 1 should liko to see the photograph of the Indiana Democrat, who aspires to be a leader in our State, who will oven pretend that, to keep the most solemn pledges of the government to the men who risked their lives in its defense, and to their loved ones, even if it does require a large sum of money, could be a wasteful extravaaauce of the peoples money. Notwithstanding all that has been paid out. for pensions, the records of the Pension Office show that there are still unadjudlcated the claims of over fifty thousand poor widows of our dead comrades, all of whom are in poverty, for I beg every reader to remember that they mnst bo in poverty, and wholly dependent npon their own labor for a living, before they can be pensioned under the act of June 27,1890. Therefore, until all these poor widows are cared for, and until all onr disabled soldiers are pensioned, the Nation will not have redeemed the pledges made by Lincoln to care for those who lost life nnd health, and for their widowr and orphans. There is one fact that should be engraven npon the heart and memory of every citizen: The total expense of pensions to date is less than on-half the interest expense on the war debt to date. I think tne honest conviction of a very gTeat majority of the people is that the 81 13,312.351. 60 increase of appropriations, made necessary to carry out existingpension laws, cannot be tortured into achargeof wasteful extravagance. Every consideration of public policy demands that these pensions be paid. National honor requires that every promise made to tho Soldiers shall be redeemed every promise to every soldier and to his family; and I submit that national honor is and ever must be held to be above and beyond any question of cost. THE TOSTAL SERVICE 1NCHEASE. The next largest item of increase is in the postal service. The marvelous growth of the South and West required a large increase in order to give the people proper postal facilities. I am quite sure that the principal reason for the general complaint against the postal service under the Cleveland administration was caused by the niggardly appropriations, and not by the employes. The total appropriation for the postal service by the Fifty-first Congress was $150,133,921.00, and yet the receipts come within about $12,000,000 of equaling that sum; so that the amount to be paid out of the Treasury is only just about one half of the increase, which amounts to $22,CCS,S43.GS. The next largest item is in the sundry civil. No man knows better than Mr. Bvnum that every increase in this 'bill was imperatively required by every consideration of honesty in the administration of the government. I will mention a few of the large items of increase: Eleventh census, $2,700,000: Mississippi river and special harbors, $1,051,200; national homes for disabled soldiers.

81,620.000; publlo land surveys, $780,000; world's fair, $408,000; public buildings, $5,20 1,830. 7H. The total amount of increase of this bill is $15,530,499.72. Every increase was demanded either Imperatively by neccisity or by a wise execution of pubho duty. The next increase is that caused by a return of tho direct tax of 1SC1. that was collected from the loyal States, and some parishes and counties only of the States in rebellion. Every consideration of publio policy demauded that one or two thiugs be doue first, that all of tho tax be collected, or. socoud. that the portion of the tax collected be refunded to tho States, counties, parishes, and, in some instances, the individuals, from whom it was collected. The condition of tho publio treasury was such that the tax was not needed; to collect the balance from the Southern 8tatcs would have been a great hardship upon the people of those States; therefore, public policy, justice and fair play demanded that the part of the tax collected be refunded, and an appropriation of that sum was made, amounting to $15,727,000. of which $708,000 comes to our State. Will any Indianian claim for one moment that the Fifty-first Congress should be held guilty of a wasteful extravagance of tho people's mouey for refunding to them $708,000 of the direct tax of 1861? One item in which occurs an increase of $7,307,146.70 la the Indian appropriation. Of this sum $3,000,000 is the claim of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians for a supposed equity in certain lands in the Indian Territory. Mr. Bynum and the Democratio party cannot well afford to charao Republicans with this claim, when the Record vote shows that of the thirty-six votes for it in the Senate twenty-live were cast by Democrats and only eleven votes were cast for it by Republicans, while of the twentythree votes cast against the claim in the Senate all were Republicans; white in the House, when Mr. Cannon moved to instruct the Mouse conferees not to agree to the claim, upon a call for the yeas and nays, seventy voted yea. sixty of them being Republicans and only ten Democrats, while of the 102 who voted against Mr. Cannon's instruction fiftynine were Democrats and only forty-three Republicans. Tne Record shows that the Democrats fastened that $3,000,000 item on the bill, and by that record we must stand or fall. One other large item of increase is in tho navy. I voted against it I do not believe in an expensive navy of modern ships, be-' cause no modern war vessels, except our monitors, nave ever been tested in battle, and it remains to be seen whether any modern war ship can withstand the force of modern projectiles. Yet the demand from our seaboard cities for protection was so great that the increase was made. Time alone can tell whether the money has been wisely or unwisely expended. This increase amounts to $14,042,344.09. The increase of one and one-half millions in the Agricultural Department is due to the transfer of the Weather Bureau to it, and to the increased necessities of that department, and every cent of the increase can be justified npon every principle of an economical administration of the government. One other item is the amount required to pay the bounty on sugar grown in this country, together with the increase in cost of the Internal Revenue Bnreau to prepare for its payment. Suppose, for the sake of argument, we place it at $10,000,000. What then? This, and nothing more; the people, by the payment of this sum are relieved from the payment of an annual tax burden of $55,000,000 npon sugar. It will be a remarkably cold day, and late in the afternoon of that day, when Mr. Bynnm can show that it is an act of extravagance to pay ten millions and thereby be relieved from the payment of fifty-five millions of taxes. LOCATING THE RESPONSIBILITY. The foregoing are nearly all of the increases in appropriations. It is true the sums are large; it is equally true that the Republican party is in no way responsible for the conditions requiring them. The largest part of the increase grows out of the war, and is for pensions and the refunded tax. Neither the pensioners nor the Republican party are responsible for that war. Lincoln, our President, pleaded with the people not to go to war. He told them they could have no oath recorded to destroy the Union, while he should nayo the most solemn oath recorded to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. The South forced the war upon Mr. Lincoln, and then the loyal North awoke and went to work to save the Union. I protest now against any man charging the Fifty-first Congress with wasteful extravagance because they honestly redeemed the pledges made by Lincoln and those charged at that time with the administration of the government by caring for all disabled heroes and the widows and orphans of those who have died, even if it does require an increase of two hundred millions. Mr. Bynnm calls the Fifty-first the "Billion Dollar Congress." I have no doubt th&t tho tariff law enacted will give to the laborers of the Nation, in the next fifteen years. an additional profit of $1,000,000,000. I am strengthened in that opinion by the fact that tho old law enabled the laborers of tho six New England States, New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania, to earn, and save, and have on deposit in their savings banks, on the 1st of last January, S 1,00,000,000. This vast sum of money is the best possible answer that can be made in favor of a policy that is made to protect our people and enable them to save a sum greater than all the savings of all the laborers on earth. Tho failure of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses to make proper and sufficient appropriations compelled the Fifty-first to make large and unprecedented appropriations. I have shown for what purposes they were made. Of the total inerease, nearly $153,000,000 were required to pay pensions, refund the direct war tax and provide for proper postal facilities. The other increases were either made by Democratic votes or were rendered necessary by the exigencies of the public service. I repeat, the character of an appropriation decides whether it is an extravagant or a necessary one. I invite, by every studen. of the history of this country, the most searching investigation into the character of the appropriations made by tho Fiftyfirst Congress. I challenge a comparison of the items appropriated for by the Fortyninth and Fiftieth Congresses with similar ones provided for Dy the Fiftyfirst. No Republican. no man who loves his country and believes in fair play, need bo alarmed abont the result. The Fifty-first Congress did more than make appropriations. It enacted an American industrial policy that will bless and prosper our people. It enacted the most magnificent pension law that was ever written. It has provided for an increase of about sixty millions of money, based upon silver, and which will be maintained at par with the world's standard. It has increased and revised onr federal judiciary so that justice may be speedily administered. It removed taxes of forty-live millions net a year on sugar. It defined the limit of the commerce power between the States and the point at which the police powers of .the State inheres, thus making it possible for the States to control the liquor traflio and thus preserve to the people the right of local self-government. To-day every mail carried to Europe1 goes in foreign ships. The Fifty-first Congress adopted a policy that will soon place a share, at least, of these mails in American ships. It was broad, national and catholic in its policy. It knew no Sonth, East, Westor North. It was American throughout its sessions and in all its acts. Its work will stand the test of time, and in all its great policies will win the respect and conudence of the Nation as the results of its legislation begin to be seen and realized. They laugh best who laugh last, and that is why Republicans are beginning to smile. J. B. Cheadle. Fhaxkfokt, Ind., March 30. - What aa "Inch of Rain Means. Few people can form a definite idea of what is involved in the expression, an inch of rain." It may aid such to follow this curious calculation: An acre is equal toG,2?2,C40 square inches: an inch deep of water on this area will be as many cubic inches of water, which, at 227 to the gallon, is 22,000 gallons. This immense quantity of wator will weigh 220.000 pounds, or 100 tons. One-hundredth of an inch (0.01) alone is equal to one ton of water to the acre. Where X.abor Agitation Harts. New York Recorder. 4You say, madam, that yon have been injnred by labor strikes? What line of business are you in?" VI married a striker.'1

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