Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1892

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1802. WASHINGTON OFFICE -513 Fourteenth st. Telephone Call. Basic m CEee 233 Editorial Rooms 242 TERMS OF ISL'IISCIUPTIOX DAILY BT MAIL, rI!T trlr. en month. ..................... .70 Xsi!y only, three months 2.00 X'ftJijr t'U r, one jmw KOO la!)r. locludicg sunfiay, on jear lO.(X) fcuxiuaytinJy. one year - wrrrx rraxisaiD bt agents. rillj. rrr -wrk. by carrier 15ets frnrilaj, alDcle copy 5 cts I;aii j aid fcundar, per wesk. by carrier 20 cu WKKKLT. reryror .....f loo Reduced Kates to Clubs. FntscrlbeirUh any of our numerous sgeata, or send nt senptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY. ixDXASArous. Irx rertoes sending the Jocrlal through the malls la lh L'lttted Mate shooM nut on an eiaht-page paper aoNX-CXST postsce Ptamp; on a twelve or sixteenpsire rarer a two-czht postage stamp. 1'oreiga ltage is oscally double tiu.se rates. Alt communications intended or publication in Vt it paper mutt, in order to recet re attention, beat companitd by the name and addrttt of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOCIINAL Can b found at tbe following places: 2ABIS American Excnarge La Paris, SO Bonlsrard do Capocinea. HEW YORK GUiey House and "Windsor HoteL rniLai)ZlPniA A. pTKemtjle, 3713 Lancaster arcane. CHICAGO rato er House CLNCEvNATI-J. B. Hawley A Ca, 134 Viae street v 2X)TJISVIIXE J. T. Eeeriag, northwest cornet. Itiid and Jefierson streets. BT. IX)TJia Union News Company, Union Depot end Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O-IUgjrs House and Ebbltt House. V Remember tho Republican primaries to-night. It is not tho Republican or tho mngwnmp press which is now scoring David Bennett Hill, but the out-and-out Democratic press of the West. And the way they are doing it is lovely to behold. It seems strange that Secretary Tracy or any man of experience could have ma do any promise upon tho assumption that a majority of the present House could have a patriotic or national impulse. While tho Sentinel and other freetrade and Cleveland organs are jumping on David B. Hill, a poll of the Democratic side of the New York Assembly showed fif ty-threo for Hill and four for Cleveland. The Sentinel' Washington correspondent telegraphs that there is a etrong prospect that Judge Woods will not be confirmed. Just about as strong as was the prospect that Bynum would be elected Speaker. One Isaac Pusey Gray is a silent but deeply interested spectator of the fight between the Cleveland and Hill editors. Tho swish of the deadly snickersnee of these fierce partisans is sweetest music to the ear of the Indiana Democratio claimant. - WriEN Secretary Blaine found that, owing to the illness of his wife, he could not attend tho Boston banquet, where he was booked for a speech, he sent word that he would send a letter covering some points of interest, but his own illness prevented that. Whatever form Democratic economy may take in this Congress, there is no danger that it will affect the appointment of favorite sons to committee clerkships and other soft places. This may cripple the public service, but the private service will not be interfered with. - As the repeal of an existing law does not restore the one which preceded it, as the new Senator Hill assumed, what sort of a statesman must he bo to make such an assumption, or does ho want no tariJT laws 1 David B. is making a ridiculous spectacle of himself in the national arena. -M Br a majority of 4,144 the voters of the city of Toronto, in Canada, declared against tho running of street cars on Sunday, and only ono newspaper advocated the, change. But the people of Toronto have never liad street-car service on Sunday, consequently they imagined that they wero voting against a dangerous innovation. TriE Philadelphia Press says the present epidemic of grip m that city is much moro severe than tliat which prevailed in tho winter of 1SS9-00. Daring the last five weeks the total number of deaths from the grip and its sequences have been 1,401. The death-rato for tho year throughout tho country will be far in advance of any previous year. Has any one heard of any advance in cutlery? Sheffield, England, reports a falling off of one-half in their trade since tho McKinley law was passed. The manufacture must have been transferred to this country without any change of price. As for Sheffield, "the markets of the world," upon which the free-trader delights to dilate, are open If they can bo found. Senator Hill is gracious enough to assure the country that his Legislature does not contemplate the takiogfrom tho people of . New York the right to vote for presidential electors. As the Michigan scheme of electing electors by congressional districts would insure the Republicans more than half the number to which the State is entitled. Mr. Hill's Legislature will not adopt that device. The Pittsburg Dispatch maintains that the greater part of tho smoko caused by tho burning of bituminous coal can bo abolished, to the great advantage of tlie consumer, by tho application of tho proper apparatus to the boilers. It bases this statement upon experiments in that city. One of the cases cited is that of a traction lino which has used a patent stoking apparatus by which smoke is practically abolished, with a saving of fuel during tho first year nearly sufficient to pay for the invention. Pkixce Itukiiiie, son of the former Emperor of Mexico of that name, and the adopted son of Maximilian, is now in Washington, where ho has made his home for some timo past. He is a little past thirty years old, and a man of courteous, soldierly bearing. He was an officer in tho Mexican army until, incurring the displeasnro of President

Diaz, he was court-martialed, cashiered and imprisoned. Soon after bis release ho came to Washington, where he has sinco resided and is well known In club circles. He fought very shy of an interviewer who tried a few days ago to ascertain if he had any connection with the Garza movement. He regards himself as a prospective candidate for Emperor or President of Mexico, but wellinformed Mexicans laugh at tho idea. Minister Romero says: "Iturbido has as much chance of becoming President of Mexico as he has of being President of the United States. It would be easier to found an empire in the United States than in Mexico. Iturbide is a young man, without the means, or following, or ability to make an attempt even toward political prominence. He is a pleasant gentleman socially, and ttiat is all." Iturbido sports an imperial name and a royal title, but that is probably as near as he will ever get to imperial power in Mexico, though he doubtless entertains dreams of that sort.

HILL AHD CLEVELAND. Recent events have made ex-Gov. Hill, of New York, a formidable candidate for President, so far as his party nomination is concerned. It has seldom happened that any man has come to the front as rapidly within a short space of time as he has during the last three months. Tbreo months ago Cleveland seemed to be far in tho lead, with Hill a poor second; now tho situation is reversed. It looks now as if nothing conld prevent Hill from having a solid delegation from New York, though whether that would secure his nomination is doubtful. Hill's rapid advancement during the last two or three months has been duo in part to his own skillful and audacious management and in par$ to circumstances which he had not much hand in shaping. Chief among the latter was the defeat of Mills and the election of Crisp as Speaker. Mr. Cleveland made a bad break in that matter by allying himself openly with a losing candidate. If he had kept out of that contest he would have been in vastly better shape at present. He assisted in so framing the issue that the defeat of Mills was the defeat of Cleveland. Hill did not deserve any particular credit for this, but he got the benefit of it. He enjoys the usufruct without having earned it. Next to the defeat of Mills, the event which has given the greatest boom to Hill and contributed most to bring him to the foro was the capture of the New York Legislature. This was largely due to his own audacity and to the unscrupulous use of Tammany methods. Hill is a political gambler. He takes desperate chances, lays big stakes, and generally manages to have the cards stocked so as to win. As an organizer and political strategist he has superiors in both parties; as a f ormulator of issues and policies he is contemptible; but as a bold and unscrupulous trickster ho has scarcely an equal. As politicians go, Cleveland is honest, and for that reason ho is at a disadvantage with such a man as Hill. Cleveland, as Governor of "New York, would never have tried to seize the Legislature as Hill has done. Wo doubt if he would even have consented to profit by a Supremo Court decision that was as plainly opposed to justice and right as that under which the Legislature has been stolen. Cleveland believes in popular elections and popular government, and wo doubt if he would take a political advantage under the decision of a court which overthrew and set aside a popular election. Hill would do that and a great deal worse. Cleveland cares as much for principle as ho docs for office, perhaps more. Hill cares nothing at all for principle, the possession of power and offico being with him a principle that overshadows all others. How little he cares for principlo is shown by his recent speeches, in which, attempting to foreshadow a national policy for his party, he advised the utter abandonment of the only principles it has. If the Democratic party is not in favor of free trado and free silver coinage, it is not in favor of anything. Hill advises it to declare that it is not in favor of anything. As between such a man as that and one who, like Cleveland, lashes himself to the mast of a principle and urges a fight to a finish, there is no room for comparison. Cleveland is honest, though wrong, and conscientious though misguided. Hill has not principlo enough to give direction to his course. Ho is like a vessel which cannot be steered because it has no headway. For tho sake of American politics and the Republican party we would far rather see Cleveland nominated for President than Hill. First, because, as above intimated, we regard Cleveland as much tho more honest and, therefore, the safer man of tho two, and if there is any possibility of the election of a Democratic President wo would rather see an honest though wrongheaded man than an able, unscrupulous trickster. Wo have never yet had a President of the Hill type, and it is to be hoped we never may. His nomination would be a distinct letting down in the standard of presidential candidates. His election would be the installation of Tammany methods in the White House. Any Democratic President is . bad enough; such a Democratic President as David B. Hill would bo a national calamity in more than a mere party sense. Another reason why wo would greatly prefer to seo Cleveland nominated rather than Hill is that the defeat of Cloveland would be a distinct triumph for protection. Whomsoever the Republicans may nominate he will represent that principle as much as McKinley did in Ohio. Harrison and Blaine are both strong protectionists, and both have tho conrage of their convictions. If Democracy means anything the Democrats ought to nominate a man who represents the opposite idea, and it goes without saying that no other man in the Democratic party does that quite as thoroughly as Cleveland. He is the kind of man the Republicans would like to beat. In beating Hill they would know they wero beating & political desperado and gambler, but iu beating Cleveland they would have the satisfaction of knowing that they were knocking out free trade.

In spito of his present eclipse in Now York we believe Cleveland the strongest man in tho Democratic party, and for that reason wo would like to seo him nominated. Wo do not think he could bo elected, but his candidacy would at least be respectable. If Democrats will take the Journals advice they will nominate him. Let them show for once that they have the courage of their convictions.

BUSAWAY MABRIAGES Iff INDIASA, The recent marriage in Jcffersonvillo of a twelve-year-old girl, who had run away from her home in Louisville with a man much her senior, has again brought the Indiana town into nnpleasant notoriety. Ontside newspapers are commenting severely upon the laws of the State that will permit the perpetration of such an outrage. They are evidently under tho impression that no marriage license is required in Indiana, but this is not the case. The law provides for a license and declares that such license "shall not be issued by the clerk without the consent of the parent or guardian, if there be any, it the female be within the age of eighteen or the malo within the age of twenty-one. When there is no parent or guardian, and the female has resided within the connty where license is sought to be obtained for one month preceding such application, license shall issue. An affidavit of tho facts as required to exist, mado by some disinterested person, shall bo sufficient justification of tho clerk in issuing such license." How this law is so successfully evaded in Jeffersonville and New Albany has never been explained. - Whether convenient persons, ready to swear to the legal age of the candidates for matrimony, are to bo found on any corner is not made known, but the fraud must frequently be manifest to the official issuing the licenso and to the minister performing the ceremony. There is doubtless in most cases nothing more than the freakishness of romantic young people to account for their resort to the Indiana Gretna Greens, and no harm is done 10 any concerned, but evil consequences are so frequent as to make it very desirable, for many reasons, that moro care and discrimination be used by the officers of the law and ministers of the gospel, and that the river towns be deprived of their doubtful prominence. Representative Holman is reported as saying that the final result of the proposition for the relief of starving Russians will probably be that a naval vessel will be detailed to carry the provisions. He is also quoted as saying: The tony naval officers will doubtless feel humiliated when they are degraded by having to do a little genuine work, and they will object, as thy did in 1817, when aid was voted to Ireland and they were compelled to use their war shins as freight boats. Hut our nary must do good for something. It is small business for a member of Congress to lend himself to tho vulgar work of slurring our navy. If the navy is not trongcr it is largely due to the cheese-paring economy and lack of patriotism shown by such members as Holman. As for the intelligence and bravery of the officers, it will be time enough to speak "contemptuously of them when they havo been tried and found wanting. They never have been yet. It is tho fashion of some people to speak slightingly of army and navy officers becauso they do not fight in time of peace; but they are always ready to respond to tho call of duty, and have never failed to acquit themselves well in time of war. We venture the assertion that there are no more capable naval officers in tho world than those of our navy, and if we should happen to get into a foreign war they would soon show what they are made of. Chairman Springer, of the ways and means committee, does not seem toknow his own mind very well in regard to free wool. Starting out with the idea that wool was raw material and should therefore be admitted free of duty, he at first proposed to admit shoddy and waste free of duty, also, on tho ground that they were nsed in tho manufacture of woolen goods. But, having discovered that shoddy and waste aro themselves the result of a process of manufacture abroad, he has concluded to leave the present duty on them of SO cents a pound undisturbed. Ho says, while he proposes to admit raw wool free, he wants American labor to "reap the benefit of every process necessary to convert raw wool into finished goods." If Mr. Springer will pursue his investigations a little further he will learn, perhaps to his surprise, that wool is no more raw material than is shoddy, wool being the finished product of the sheep-grower. The gentleman from Illinois seems to have very vague ideas in regard to raw material. The truth is, he is pretty raw himself. If ho can get a little spare time during the next fortnight he ought to devote a few hours to studying the tariff question. The Garza uprising in Mexico begins to look serious. President Diaz's proposition, conveyed through tho Mexican minister at Washington, that an agreement bo entered into by which Mexican troops might pursue Garza into American territory and American troops follow him into Mexico looks a little as if the Mexican authorities did not feel sure of their ability to suppress tho insurrection and would like to enlist the aid of the United States. If the Garza movement gains a little more strength and momentum it will become formidable. Governor Cami'dell, of Ohio, has signalized the closing days of his term by issuing a pardon to Newt Hawk, ono of the most notorious criminals in tho West. In 18S3 he was convicted of manslaughter under very aggravating circumstances and sentenced to tho penitentiary for sixteen years. Now, at tho end of nine years' service, he is pardoned. It is such acts as these that help to bring the administration of justice into contempt. Now that the Chilian difficulty is likely to reach a peaceable and satisfactory settlement Democratic papers are beginning to criticise tho firm stand taken by tho administration, and especially the naval preparation. The course of the

administration is characterized as one of bluff and bravado, while the costly naval preparations, they declare, were a needless waste of money. Snch criticism is very cheap. The fact is, it was the firm stand taken by tho administration and the expensive naval preparations that brought Chili to her senses and made a peaceable settlement of the difficulty possible. Tho Chilian minister at Washington has had the greatest difficulty in convincing his government that the administration meant business and that unless a satisfactory apology was made Chili wonld certainly be punished. He could see it plainly enough at Washington, but he could not make his government see it at Santiago. Finally he succeeded, and the result is a graceful back-down by Chili. The placing of our navy on a war footing has been worth all it cost in securing this result, and the effect will be felt for years to come. V

Advices from Russia indicate that famine is only one of many evils with which that country is affected, and it can hardly be said to be the greatest. The widespread poverty, the universal demoralization, the utter lack of hope, or motive, or desire to livo that prevails among the peasantry and middle classes aro more discouraging, even, than faroirie, and more indicative of desperate measures. It is enough to make an honest man's blood boil to think that while this hopeless poverty and misery prevail among the lower classes, the nobility and upper classes are rolling in wealth and the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year in maintaining an enormous army that eats the heart of the country and the life out of the people. The highly virtuous "independent" press is now rising up to protest against the redisricting of Ohio by the Republican Legislature. They acknowledge that the Democrats gerrymandered the State, but argue that it is better to leave it as it is that is, with an undue Democratic representation in Congress than, as they express it, to gerrymander it over again. This argument, on its face, has some weight, but it has none as against a fair redistricting, such as the majority of Ohio people want and such as the Legislature is in duty bound to give them. The fairest ort of apportionment by Republicans will be regarded as a gerrymander by the independents, of course, but thoir action in the matter should not be delayed on that account. TriE Prohibition committeo in Boston has adopted a resolution demanding of the State committee the name of the donor of the particular $1,500 'devoted to the compensation of the services of Sam Small in the late campaign. The local committee has ascertained that it did not come from the wealthy Prohibitionists who 'are wont to contribute liberally, and the report has gone out that the Democratic State committeo furnished tho money from the contributions of the saloon-keepers. Consequently a few sihecre men in tho movement aro determined to know about it The assertion of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, that the Bland act of 1873 revived the law of 1837 relative to coinage, which provided1 for the coinage of silver and gold brought to the mints, seems not to bo sustained by referenco to that law, the last section of which states that "all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with tho provisions of this tho Bland act are hereby repealed." As this clause repealed the free-coinage provision of tho law of 1837, if then in force, the Senator's assumption with such show of positiveness is ridiculous. The State Board of Agriculture has not shown any remarkable degree of indignation at the attempt to bribe one of its members in the matter of selecting a new site for the State fair, and the report of the committee is not a searching one. v While it Is pretty evident that the attempt was not successful, it is equally evident that it was made, and that the would-be bribers showed a criminal intent. For the vindication of the board and in the interest of public morals, the matter should bo brought to the attention of tho grand jury. Among tho facts which the Cleveland Leader mentions as those upon which the Legislature should choose a Senator to contest the seat occupied by Mr. Brice is the following: He has sworn in an affidavit attaohed to a bail bond executed in New York city that he was a citizen of the Empire State; and be has been elected an officer of the Ohio Society of New York, to which only bona fide residents of New York are eligible. If tho Republicans can present snch evidence as the above to prove that Mr. Brice is not an inhabitant of Ohio they would seem to have a clear case. Some indiscreet office-holders in Pennsylvania are doiDg President Harrison an injury, in assuming to be his special champions, by attempting to draw partisan lines between the President and Secretary Blaine. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. That is to say, it is all right and proper for the friends of Mr. Blaine to organize , clubs and draw lines in his favor, but when the friends of President Harrison do so it is "indiscreet." Quite a number of persons are promulgating this idea at present. TnE selections for county committeemen which are to bo made at tho primaries, this evening, should be with strict reference to tho fitness of the individuals for the position and the interests of the Republican party. A good committeo is a power in a political campaign, and all Republicans who wish to impress themselves on the organization of tho party should attend the primaries. The Republicans throughout the State will meet in their respective precincts to-day or this evening to elect members of tho county central committees and delegates to the district conventions which will elect the State committee. AH Republicans who aro interested in the party organization should attend these meetings. The caliber of the statesmanship of the Crisp side of the House is proclaimed by the proposition of Mr. Catchings, of tho committee on rules, not to print pri-

vate bills until reported, and then only twenty-four copies. This absurd proposition was discussed for an hour, when a man on the other side told the majority that about $60 would be saved by the Catchings scheme of economy, while thousands of dollars might be lost by the passage of private bills which members would not see if so small a number was printed.

To the Editor of the Inaianaiwlls Journal: 1. What dates did the bill pass both houses admitting North and South Dakota in the Union! 2. At what date did the President sign the bills! SlD. L The bill under which North and South Dakota were permitted to enter the Union was perfected by a conference committee of both branches on their respective bills, and the bill recommended by the committee was passed by both Senate and House Feb. 20, 18S9. 2. The bill was approved by President Cleveland. Feb. 22, 1SS9. BUBBLES IN THE AM. Then He Didn't Kiss Her. "Vhy good gracious: How you are blushing! M "I am not, either. It's only the reflection from your nose." Unparalleled. The road that leads to Heaven has No parallel, they say; For all competing lines, in fact, Bon just the other way. Did Tie Understand? "You most give up that horrible gum,M said he, "Because, if you don't, you mayn't marry me." Then tne crystal tears gathered In her bright eyes of blue, And she sobbed, I shall marry no man but chew.' lie Was Correct. "Might I Inquire." asked the city editor, in a soft, sweet voice, "why you describe the late Mr. Billiger as being six feet eight Inches long! Is not the word 'tall' good enough English for your fastidious taste!" "Not in this case," answered the new reporter, "Billiger was paralyzed and hadn't stood on end for fifteen years. See! " ABOUT PEOPLE AflD THINGS. Tnn latest phrase which Mr. Cleveland has succeeded in evolving from his inner consciousness is "indelible Ineligibility." Louis Kossuth is very sick at his home in Turin. He suffers considerably from asthma, and also has tronble with his eyes. The Queen is so favorably impressed with the picturesque turbans worn by her own Mussulman attendants that ahe has re- ? nested Lord Lansdo wne to restore the oldashloned Oriental head-dress whenever practicable. The boundary controversy between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, after two hundred years, has been finally settled. The early surveyors did not understand the variations of the xnagnetio needle, hence the quarrel Madame Deiaguerra, the widow of Don Pablo Delagnerra, who was a prommem figure in the early history of the State of California, is suing the city of Santa Barbara for the recovery of the plaza on which the City Hall stands, claiming the land by virtue of a grant made by the Ayuntamiento of the town in the forties, and confirmed in 1851 by the City Council. Mme. SorniE Zela, the operatio star, has sent home from Stockholm to her husband in Boston, Mr. . O. Achorn, a handsome Christmas present she received from the Swedish King, with whose family she is a favorite. It is an after-dinner coffee set of finest china, which tne King gave to his daughter Eugenia when she was married, and each piece bears the name of the princess in letters of gold. Dr. D. Scott Moncrieff, late medical officer of the Fourth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Walla Walla, has been engaged by Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Harvard University, chief of the department or ethnology and archaeology of the world's fair, to gather statistics and take measurements among the Yakima and Umatilla Indians, which are to be nsed in making a series of charts showing the physical characteristics of those tribes. The boutonniere fad, which has reached its zenith, has developed another tangent in deooration, undoubtedly suggested by the showy effect of the bunch of flowers in the button-hole. Whether this is or is not the inciting cause, it is a fact that recently a well-known society and club man in New York made an appearance wearing a miniature upon the lapel of his dress-coat. It was one of those rare specimens, about two inches in diameter, representing some grand-dame of his family that lived more than a hundred years ago. General Sheridan, whose famous raid of the Shenandoah valley in 1864 was made with a view to depriving Early's troops of the means of subsistence for1 their annoying excursions down toward Maryland, is credited with the remark that he meant to clean out the valley so thoroughly that thereafter "a orow Hying over it will have to carry his rations." But a letter of Gen. Grant to General Halleck. advising just such measures, and recently reprinted from official records, contains the phrase, "so that crows Hying over it for the balance of this season will have to carry their provender with them." Instructions to this eflect were sent to General Hunter in the valley before Sheridan was placed in command there. Sm Edwin Arnold is now criticised by a native Japanese living in this country, Yabake Sangm by name, for taking too "poetic" a view of people and things in Japan. The gifted Englishman, he says, erroneously attributes certain graces and virtues of the people in that kingaom to the influence of Buddhism; while Mr. Sangin insists that they adhere to the race, regardless of religion. Ho insists that the poet errs in saying, after praising the Japanese for their cleanliness, that they "have no towels, no sheets, no underclothes, no linen," in representing the jinrickshamen as living on a cup of tea and a small biscuit, instead of having voracious appetites, and in several other particulars. Another Tin-Plate Enterprise. New York Press. Tin-plate facts will not down to please calamity liars. On the contrarv, they insist on hopping np. The Loch Laird Estate and Mining Company, the James Ki ver Steel and Iron Company and the Cash Tinmining Company of Virginia have organized acompany with $2,000,000 capital, partly represented by 4.000 acresof tin ore land and 4,000 acresof iron ore land, to build a tin-plate-mill in that State that will turn out 600 boxes daily and employ 600 hands. We are going to make our own tin-plate in this country if the workingmen will say by their voice and vote tht the Democrats must keep their bands off. A Needed Law. Rising Snn Becorrter. There should be a provision of State law requiring a thorough examination of the books and accounts of every county, city and township officer every two years, and oftencrif necessary. Such a law would save much money for the tax-payers and save many an othcer from becoming a defaulter. In mauy large counties tho stealage is great and the party in power will not allow an investigation, as it docs not want an exposnre to injure the party and require bondsmen to pay np the stealage. Entitled to m ItenocainaUon. Union Citj Eagle. The opinion prevails in Randolph connty that General Harrison has made a good President, and that he is faily entitled to a rcuomination. Even those who admire James G. Blaine, among which number the Eagle should be classed, are fair-minded enough to acknowledge President Harrison's rights, and are willing to grant them. S900 WmIc for Ills Name. San Francisco Rprt. Mark Twain i getting $1,000 a week for the series of hfty-two letters be is writing from Europe. The work, on its merits, would be very dear at $100 a week. But that's what's in a name.

MILLS PREPARING FOR WAR

Notice Served on Crisp's Friends that There Will lie Trouble in the llonse. Xo Tariff ar Political Bills Will Be Allowed to Paw Mr. Blaine at a Cabinet Meeting Money Eefnsed by Mrs. Windom. MILLS WANTS REVENGE, And He Will Get It by Fighting Ithe Criip Tariff Programme In tb House. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 8. It is very generally conceded now by the principal representatives of both the Mills and CrisD wings of the Democratio party in tho House that the specific tariff bill programme will be an absolute failure, since Mr. Mills has given notice that his defeat for the sneakership "must be rebuked by the Democratio party or a large element will Abandon the party in the coming straggle." The letter of Mr. Mills from which this quotation is made was published here this morning, and was the subject of universal comment in both ends of the Capitol to day. It is regarded as conclusive evidence that Mr. Mills will not stand back and depend npon his friends in the House to avenge his defeat, bat will take a hand himself, if. indeed, ho is not the leader of the avenging wing of the party, Undar the present condition of aflairs among the majority of .the House it is not at all probable that there will be any tariff or pohtical billsof importance passed at this session. MIL BLAINE ON DUTY AGAIN. Attends a Cabinet Meeting and Examines Document at Ills Itcsldence. Washington, Jan. 8. Secretary Blaine attended the Cabinet meeting to-day. He arnved a half hour late, coming in his carriage by himself. He stepped from the carriage unassisted. The Secretary looked a trifle whiter than usual; his step is not quite so firm, and his whole bearing showed that he still felt the ill effects of his recent illness. Secretary Blaine, as usual, was taken up to the Cabinet room by means of the private elevator, and found the President and all the other members of the Cabinet in the room. He was warmly greeted on his rapid recovery. , Dr. Hyatt, Mr. Blaine's physician did not call at the house of hu patient to-day. The Doctor said this afternoon that he bad not seen Mr. Blaine since last evening, when he had fully recovered trom the attack of the day before. He then considered the Secretary so well that he told him he would not call again unless reqnested. The attack was bronght on by indiscretion in diet and lack of exercise, and with prudence in these respects it would not occur again. Dr. Hyatt, in conclusion, said he regarded the Secretary's general health as very good. The Secretary spent tho morning in his library at home with his private secretary, Mr. Dent, going over a number of documents which had been transmitted from the State Department for his examination. When a reporter saw bim he was engaged at his work with his usual zest. He said he felt quite well, and has been able to eat a satisfactory breakfast of bouillon and toast lie discussed with the reporter the sensational reports of his illness that had been printed. "Some years ago," he said, "I used to be quite sensitive concerning what the papers printed about my health, but I have quite got over that It does not disturb me in the least now." . SFItf REFUSED THE FUND. Mrs. Wlndom Would Not Accept Money Contributed for Her Benefit Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 8. An advertisement in the Washington papers, to-night, states that the landau and horses of the late Secretary Windom will be sold at auction to-morrow. This has led to the impression that the widow of the late Secretary was in straitened circumstances. When Mr. Windom died several of his intimate friends undertook to raise a fund which would place Mrs. Windom in something more than comfortable circnniitances. The Secretary left a small amount of property and money, bat it was not more than sufficient to allow the widow to live in the most frugal and modest way. Senators Washburn and McMillan started the ball rolling by putting down their names for $1,000 each, and several other wealthy Senators addea like amounts. Then the list was taken to the Union League Club, in New York, where Mr. Mills, the father-in-law of Whitelaw Keid, and Chauncey M. Depew and others added $1,000 items until the total was swelled up to about $25,000. It was intended that the total should not stop short of $50,0U0. An effort was made to keep the subscription secret so as not to distress the friends of Mr. Windom, and it is said that Mrs. Windom tinally concluded not to be the beneficiary of these generous gentlemen. MINOU MATTERS. Why Senator Teller Believes the Natives cf Alaska Should Be Supplied with IUlndeers. Washington, Jan. 8. Senator Teller intends to push during this Congress the bill he has introduced providing for the introduction of reindeer to the possessions of the United States in Alaska and the islands adjacent thereto. An excellent object lesson on the subject adorns his committeeroom on privileges and elections. It is a fine large robe made of the skin and fur of four reindeer. The fur is of a boautiful dark brown color. It is, the Senator says, perhaps the warmest fur known, and the skin makes excellent gloves. ' The fur is used by whale vessel mnn, .who find they cannot put on other clothing enough to keep warm, while two suits of reindeer fur afford protection from the most inclement weather. Mr. Teller thinks it would be an excellent article of clothing for drivers and others in the cold regions of the West The animals cost $10 each and their llesh and the milk' the live animals yield aro the principal food of the Laplanders. A considerable number of the natives on the Aleutian islands, belongingto the United states, have heretofore sub sisted on the sea-otter, bnt this source of supply will soon cease and Senator Teller thinks that not only commercial reasons (and he believes commercially it wonld be a paying investment), bnt humane consid erations, should induce the United htates to aporopnate SLj.OOO for the purchase of a Hufiicient number of reindeer to stock our Alaskan possessions. China's Protect Against Mr. Blair. Washington, Jan. 8. Inquiry among officers who would be acquainted with the fact, did it exist, fail to confirm the report, purporting to be a cablegram published in a New York paper to-day, that China had withdrawn her objections to ex-Senator Blair as minister from the United States to that country. No such information has I been received at the Chinese embasy here. ana as me protest againsi iir. isjair was transmitted to the homo government by the miuisier at this place it is likely that the notitication to the United States of a change of mind by the Bekin authorities would be made through Che Hame channel. It is said by nn otlicial who is enabled to speak by authority that there is Lot the remotest probability of the Chinese government changing its opinion as to the desirability of Mr. Blair as minister to that country. Toting- the Anti-Lttery Law. gtfdal to tie Indlsnarolls Journal. . Washington, Jan. S. A brief for the appellant was filed in the Supreme Court of the United States to-day in the case of Edward V. Horner, appellant vs. the United State and John W. Jocobus. marshal of the Uuited Stats for the Southern district of New York. This is a case to t"t the legality of the anti-lctterr law, the main contention against it made by Horner being

that it provides for the trial of a person charged with it violation in the ju licial district where the lottery matter mailed wa received. Horcer, it is alleged, mailed lottery circulars in New Yorkcity to places in Illinois. He was indicted in the latter State and an order made for his appearance before the Illinois conrt, and the United State Circuit Court for the Southern district of New York ordered him to be sent there for trial. From this decision he appealed. Another point made by Horner in bis brief is that tbe charges contained in the indictment do not constitute any offense under any of the statutes or laws of tbe United State and that tbe warrant for removal for trial under tho indictment is unauthorized and unlawful. Speaker Crlp ltec-overing. Washington, Jan. 8. Speaker Crisp's

health continues to improve. The Speaker yesterday afternoon dictated several leu ters, and to-day is feeling better. The fact that it has been deemed best to keep visitors from him has led Congressmen and others to think his condition more serious than it now is. A telegram was sent Jan, 1 to New York, to a son of Ur. Hinkle, the Americns. Georgia, family physician of Speaker Crisp, asking the Doctor, who win temporarily in New York, to come to Wash lugton to see the Speaker. Tbe son was not at his place of business, and the tel gram was not received for several days. Yesterday a letter was received in explanation of the delay in answering the toi gram. It also stated that Dr. Hinkle would come over as soon as desired. The Speaker's son telegraphed last night that Mr. Crisp was getting along niocly. that he expected to sit up soon. The telegram closed with! these trords: "Don't come over." Sherman Welcomed Back to Washington. Special to the InAisnapolis Journal Washington, Jan. 8. Senator Sherman was welcomed back to the capital by scores of Senators and members of the House, who not only warmly congratulated him, but filled his committee table with flowers. Even Mrs. Sherman is being congratulated npon the victory her husband won in his re-election, and at her reception to-day she was made to feel that the women as well as tho men have an inteicst in tbe reteu tion of John Sherman in the Senate. The Senator regards his victory as one for the present administration, as an effort was made, he says, to combine his own opponent with those of the President Surrendered Ills Pension CertlQeate. Washington, Jan. 8. Secretary .Noble has received a letter from an ex-soldier of Boston, in which he incloses a pension certificate which he says he voluntarily relinquishes, as he does not wish further assistance from the government. General Notes. Special to the InOianapclis Journal. , Washington, Jan. 8. Miss Beach, of Terra Haute, who has been with tho Misses McGregor, at the Elmore, for two weeks, returns home to-morrow. Mrs. W. D. Bynum, of Xo. 1S14 Nineteenth street, a nnoances that ahe will receive Saturday, assisted by Miss Bynum, Miss Brickner, Miss Brown and Miss Sxnith. Mrs. Harrison's first publio reception of the season will be held at the executive mansion to-morrow afternoon, from 3 too o'clock. Mrs. Harrison will be assisted by the wives of Justices Gray and Brewer. No cards are issued. John W. Canary, of Indiana, has enterod upon his dutiea as a page in the llou se. George H. Thoebe, of Covington, Ky., who defeated Speaker Carlisle for Congress in 1S80, and should have been seated, and who has been holding a minor positiou in the Honse, has been turned out and is an applicant for an immigraut inspectorship. Tho oSers of silver to the Treasury Department to-day aggregated 1.047.000 ounces, The amount purchased was 1,07,000 ounces at 94.43 and 94.50 cents. Mr. Tillman, the Washington correspondent of the Savannah Press, has been appointed clerk to the committee on E stents. Samuel P. Farr. of Missouri, has een appointed clerk to the House committee on labor, and A. Hebrard, of Louisiana, clerk to the committee on levees and improvements of the Mississippi river. The President has commuted to imprisonment for life at hard labor tho sentence of death imposed in tho case of Samuel Moore, the colored man convicted of killing .J abndorf, a fellow-prisoner in the jail of the District ot Columbia. Ho was sentenced to be hanged Jan. 15. The House committee on invalid pensions held its first meeting to-day and completed an organization. W. IL Wilson, of Wa bash, lnd., has been appointed clerk to tho committee. DISGRACING A GOOD NAME. What a Preacher Says Abont Lewis Garfieli, & Relative of the Martyred President St. Louis, Jan. a "Look out for Lewis Garfield, a 6econd cousin of the martyred ex-President," is tho sensational tenor of a letter received by Chief Harrigan to-day from llev. Thos. Daggett pastor of tho First Presbyterian Church of Bryan. O. It is written in a busineis-like way, having a tendency to show that the writer knows what he is talking about, and is written on one of the noto-heads of the Presbytery of Maumee. The story told is to the following effect: Lewis Garfield, alias Harvey Hill, has just been released after a two years term, for pick-pocketing, in the Ohio penitentiary Previous to that he served a sentence of eight years in one of the Indiana penitentiaries for burglary. When convicted of the last-mentioned crime he threatened to kill a woman npon whose testimony he wasconvicted, and thnt woman is now supposed to be in St Loui. Between his two terms Garfield searched for the woman, and again be has begun his quest Kev. Mr. Daggett says in his letter, after asserting his knowledge of Garfield's threats! "A few days ago he left Ohio, and 1 have learned that he went to St Louis. 1 fear that he has learned the woman's whereabouts and has gone there to murder her. I was in St Louis about two years ago and learned that the woman was living there, married ana well ott Lew must have heard of this, and if so his journey to your city is for no other purpose than murder. I knew the woman here. She went by the name of May Garfield, but she Was never married to Lew. Lew is a no account vagabond, and it would be well to prevent the crime by arresting him." No description of the man having accompanied the letter, the chief has nothing to work on. He has telegraphed back to the Ohio authorities for further information regarding tbe young man. and if the story told by Kev. Daggett is found to be tree a description of Garfield will be secured from tbe penitentiary in wh eh it is said he served nine years, and a search will bo made for him. Still Hunting for Neal Sims. Momi.E. Ala.. Jan. 8. A report was bronght there Tuesday by a hotel-keeper of Waynesboro, Miss., a town on the road between Wcmack Hill, Choctaw county, and ' Leake. MUs., that a posse of citizen bad overtaken Neal Sims and tlie two daughters of Boa Sims and' hanged Neal, and when the others resisted hanged them also. Next clsy cams a contradiction of the tumor by the slierin of Wayne connty, Mississippi, and later telegrams and letters make it absolutely certain that no lynching has takeu place, tho hunt for Neal Sims goes on, however, and if ho is caught be will be hanged. Tbe girls and their mother are at Womack Hill. The condition lmjKsed being that they shall remain there and not join the community of Simsitcs in Mississippi. It was rej erted to-night that Neil Sinii is surround d ina swamp and is almost certain t lo captured by the organized regulator that are alter him. Mre4t-"nr oiupnnlfi Own the Kartlu Drmn, Minn.. Jan. 8. Judge Hart, of tho District Court, has rendered a decision valuable as a precedent in street-railway cases. Ho !fcid'.-il that the Dnluth Streetrailway ComtKiny Lnd. under richt of eminent domain, authority to condemn privato property for street-railway lines. No case involving this quostion ever came up in Minnesota before as far as knowu.