Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1892.

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XniLADELPniA-A.p7KemWe, 3785 Lancaster arenne. CHICAGO Palmer House CINCINXAT I-J. IU Hawley & Co.. 134 Vine street. X,ori.SYILI,E C T. Deering, fccrtfcweit corner Ihixd Afid Jcton street. ET. LOUI Union New Comranr. "Union Depot tr.d Joaheni liotcL WASHINGTON", P. CRlgss Ilouse and Etbitt Home. Since tho free-Bugarclanso of the Mo Kinley tariff act went into operation, April 1, 1801, 55 per cent, of all tho imports of the country have come into the country freo of duty. Paters which were led to believe that tho President ia opposed by the mass of tho sensible Republicans of Indiana, like the Cbi.ngo News, havo learned that they were deceived, and since Saturday have declared that the opposition to the President in his own State ia of little account. TnE Journal is the only paper that has published all the news concerning tho strike. It missca nothing relating to the interests of either side, and does not fail to give valuable information of special importance to the public the ignored third side. Now ia the time to subscribe. , TnE weather and the walking havo favored the strikers. Tho people havo been remarkably good-humored over their long walks, but if rain or slash had been the order of the past three days the humor would have taken on another color before the end of the first twenty-four hours. If what ex-Superintendent Steelo says is true, that excellent, holier-than-everybody, independent newspaper, the Indianapolis News, which for years has denounced its contemporaries as the friends of corporations, is in tho most unfortunate position in which a Pharisee was ever thrust. ' In Chicago tho market men are opposing the enforcement of a resolution which forbids tho nso of spring s?ales for weighing out their commodities. It is held that spring scales are affected by the temperature, and that the weight of an article depends very much npon tho way it is put npon the scales. Dr. Keeeet, of Dwifjht, has written a letter to a Louisville gentleman in which ho claims that the grip can be cured by asafcetida taken in four-grain pills four times a day. The remedy is, at least, harmless, except that its use might exile one from all human society. However, society has no charms for tho grip victim. One of the members of tho House is so enraged with the success of tho reciprocity feature of tho tariff that ho desires to eliminato it. Tho great gain of trade for tho people of the United States through reciprocity with Brazil and Cuba seems to enrage tlie free-trader who does not want this country to have an advantage. WniLE Chairman Springer and others are talking about putting off the silver question by calling an international conference, Mr. Bland has introduced his regular free silver-coinage bill in the House and had it referred to his committee, which ia in favor of free coinage, unless a sudden chango of heart has overtaken its members. If any one ever had an idea that Mayor Sullivan could bo made to be of any possible use to the people of Indiana in a time like the present they have not correctly estimated tho utter negativencss of his Honor. But when it comes to resolutions urging the improvement of tho Savannah river, his Honor is decided and emphatic. When the young Emperor of Germany insists npon the punishment of Socialists because they remain in their seats at banquets when his health ia proposed, on tho ground that it indicates a seditions spirit which may bo harmful, ho seems to have old-time ideas of the sanctity which long ago was believed to surround kings. Governor McKinley, of Ohio, found topics enough for an inaugural, and of a Tery practical character. Better highways, befitting the country's wealth, tho methods of taxation which will relievo homes and farms, the protection of railway employes and the apportionment of the State into districts which will afford a fair representation, are practical and timely topics. If it is true that Mr. Frenzel accepted his position as president of tho Citizens' Street-railway Company on the understanding that ho was to secure a new franchise by corrupt means, his further retention in that position by the directors of the company ia an insult to tho citizens of Indianapolis. If he ia guilty he must go. If it can be shown that the charges are false their originator should Inasmuch as the Governor in Louisiana controls the election machinery, and the machinery in the past has counted the votes as the Governor has wished, there seems to be no reason xshy the lottery ticket should not be de

feated, since Governor Nicholls leads the anti-lottery end of the party. In tho Republican parishes, a few years ago, not only were the Republican votes counted for tho Democratic candidates, but in a dozen cases hundreds rf Demo-" cratic votes wero returned in excess of the entire number of votes registered. Perhaps Democrats, backed with the money of the lottery, will not submit, as Republicans, v:ho are chiefly colored men, havo been compelled to, but so long has tho machinery been run, in tho Republican parishes, in the interest of the officials who namo the election officers that it seems that it might be used by Governor Nicholls to defeat the lottery element.

OPESINO A WAY FOB EETTLEIilOT. The proposition submitted to President Frenzel last night by tho striking employes of the street-railroad company, the full text of which will be found in our news columns, in the opinion of the Journal, places an entirely different aspect upon the existing difficulty from any yet presented. It is a material concession on tho part of tho men, and a commendable step in the right direction. At all events, it opens up a broad avenue for a mutually satisfactory adjustment . of the questions at issue, and its acceptanco will restore to the public tho transportation facilities so eadly missed during the last three days. Upon its face the proposition appears to be fair and reasonable, and it is to bo hoped that the company's officers may see their way clear to its acceptance. It appears to the Journal that this may bo done without loss of dignity to either party or the- abandonment of any position occupied up to date. The proposition provides, first, that the men shall return to work upon the basis existing prior to Jan. 1 and continue without interruption pending a final settlement of the troubles by a committee of tho men on one 6ide and Mr. Frenzel and the company's directors on the other; and second, that should these bo unable to agree tho matter be left for final settlement to a board of arbitration composed of the judges of tho Marion Superior Court, the men pledging themselves in advance to abide by the decision of tho board, no matter what it be. This will no doubt strike tho public as being a fair proposition, and tho insistanco on a technical construction of the exact rights of cither party should not be permitted to stand in the way of a speedy solution of tho trouble. THAT $150,000 APPBOf BIATIQg. The statements made by Mr. Steele, ex-superintendent of tho Citizens' Street-railroad Company, regarding- tho methods by which it was proposed to secure a new franchise are matters of grave importance to the people of Indianapolis. Mr. Steele asserts that upon the appointment of Mr. Frenzel as president of the company it was agreed by the directors that an appropriation of $150,000 8 ho ul d be put into the hands of Mr. Frenzel and certain associates, to bo used in obtaining the franchise. How this fund was to be used was not specified, but this was not necessary. Everybody knows that money expended for such a purpose must be used in tho way of bribery, and cannot bo used honestly. Where this bribery was to bo attempted tho Journal does not pretend to know. In pushing such an enterprise as tho one in question the support not only of the City Council and other members of the municipal government is needed, but the aid of more or less influential outsiders is desirable The Journal believesand hopes that a majority of the City Council is not to be bought; but men who would refuse a bribe may, innocently enough, have their scruples overcome by the arguments or pleadings of apparently disinterested citizens whoso eloquence has been discreetly and privately stimulated. But the question is not where tho money was to bo used. Tho point ia that it was to be used at all. The people of Indianapolis expect the men whom it has put in charge of municipal nflairs to protect the public rights. Tho reported discovery that means of the kind mentioned are to be used in furthering a project that concerns them at once creates the presumption that it is not a scheme that will stand upon its own merits, and leads to the belief that its success will be a sacrifice of tho public interests. Without entering into a discussion of tho character of tho franchise desired, it is enough to say that Mr. Steele's - statement will give rise to a distrust of and prejudice against the company hard to overcomo under its present management. Unless the statements are proved to bo false tho statements will at least cause tho closest watchfulness upon nil who are concerned in tho granting of the franchise. Tho Journal has no charges to make against any one, and will readily and willingly grant to all parties implicated the full and free .se of its columns to substantiate or refute Mr. Steele's statements. Tho matter is one that concerns the public, and it is due to them, as well as to tho accused and the accusers, Jthat tho tiuth, and the wholo truth, be made known. DEARTH OF DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER IN THE WEST. The talk of taking a Democratic candidate from the West has led to a canvass of the field to find a Democrat sufficiently "broad-shouldered," to use the phrase of tho New York Herald, to make a fair-sized national candidate. Once there were such men, but the persistent crowding out of prominent Democrats for tho party candidacy in the West in favor of New York has seemed to discourage broad statesmanship in thatpaity. Thurman, of Ohio,. was sot aside until ho has become too old. Mr. Hendricks was refused the first place until he died in the second, and Mr. McDonald was crowded to tho rear either by New York or the narrow men in his own party who would have, prevented his nomination wero he alive. The State of Illinois has several activo Democrats, and one of them, Mr. Morrison, is well np to tho presidential size, but ho' has devoted his energies of late

to fighting other Illinois Democratsjof smaller calibre. Mr. Vila3, of Wisconsin, is chiefly famous for a speech eulogizing General Grant, while Don Dickinson was recently beateu in hia own city by a scrub. Senator Carlisle is the one Democrat west of the Allegheuies whoso intellect and attainments fit him for the presidency, but for reasons which it is not necessary to state his party dare not nominate him. Indeed, if these did not exist, there is reason to believe that he would stand no better chance with his party managers in the Westand Southwest than did Mr. McDonald with that element in Indiana. None of these men now living aro seriously spoken of. The three Democrats in the West who are spoken of are Gray of this State, Palmer of Illinois, and Boies of Iowa. All wero Republicans in 1870, and the latter us late as 18S4. Each of them fell out of the Republican party because ho felt that he was not appreciated. Ex-Governor Gray has no national experience, and one but speaks the opinions of tho Democratic press outside of Indiana when he declares that he is not seriqusly considered as a possible candidate for the head of the ticket. Senator Palmer, of Illinois, was born Sept. 13, 1817. Ho will be in his seventy-sixth year before the election next November. Age should forbid his nomination. As for G overnor Boies, he can scarcely be regarded as a possibility. No man who was a prominent Democrat in tho West during the late war can be thought of as a candidate, because nil were in sympathy with tho rebellion. The truth is, the conditions of the West seem not to havo been favorable for tho development of Democrats of national size. As public men, they have attached themselves to a local hobby or heresy. They have mistaken local demagogy for broad statesmanship. Consequently, after looking over the field, Democratic leaders are forced to tho alternative of Hill, Cleveland or Gorman.

THE TESTIMONY OF ESGLISH WORKERS. Some one has sent the Journal a copy of the London Post of a recent date containing the report of one day's hearing of the section of the Royal Commission on Labor devoted to the textile trades. Some of the points of the testimony are of interest. The president of the Power-loom Weavers' Association of . West Riding of Yorkshire testified that the highest wages received per week by men were 24 shillings, or a littlo less than $C, and by women 18 shillings, or $4.50. Ho and other witnesses testified that tho wages wero so low that, although the Yorkshire weavers are as thrifty as any class of work people, it is impossible for them to save. The secretary of the Warp-dressers' Association of Bradford, tho scat of the great worsted industries, which havo found a market in this country tho past few years because of remarkable tariff decisions, said that their work was very unhealthy on account of the "fly" which filled the atmosphere and was taken into the lungs. When they had work they earned from 23 to 28 shillings a week, or $G.23 to $7. Workmen suffered frequently from bad ventilation, but they were afraid to complain. Mr. Drew, member of tho executive committeo of a weavers' association 'in Bradford, testified that women were employed more than men as weavers in that district, and that the average wage3 of both, "from year's end to year's end," was about 9 shillings, or a little less than $2.25 a week, and that the highest a weaver could earn was 16 shillings, or a scant $4 a week. There had been frequent strikes during the past two years because of reductions of wages. He believed that the half-time ago for children, which is now ten years, should bo raised to thirteen. The work people were in the depressed condition that they had little heart for anything, not being ablo to join labor associations for lack of the small amount necessary to pay the membership fee. Another member of a weavers' association in the Dewsbury district testified that, making allowance for stoppages, expert weavers did not earn over 12 shillings ($3) per week, and would not exceed 10 shillings ($2.50) throughout tho year. The following quotation from this witness's testimony will shock our Anglomaniacs: Old clothes and rags were largely nsed in the Dewsbury mills, and some of the hales of rags that came from abroad "were bo dirty and emitted such a bad odor that they frequently occasioned "shoddy fever." Tho above are not the "lies of the baron protectionistrobbersof thoUnited States," but the sworn testimony of men who work in English factories before a royal commission. It is, according to Roger Q. Mills, one of tho leaders of the end of tho Democratic party which proposes to stand by tho Cleveland freetrado platform, tho purpose of the Democratic party to put tho labor of the United States "on the same plane with the labor of Europe." Is not a plane where wages range from $2.25 to $G a week for expert weavers, full-grown men and women, a pretty low one for full-grown men and women in the United States! AJS IHTERKAII05AL SILVER CONFERENCE. A Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times ventures the assertion that tho President and his friends aro vexed because the Democrats have stolen a march on them by proposing an international silver conference, to be held at an early day. This would be amusing wore it not stupid. The correspondent and other Democrats talk of it as an original discovery of ex-Governor Hill and tho excitable Mr. Springer, of the House. They assume that while Republicans and silver advocates have been devising this and that scheme for years none of them ever thought of an international conference. It must therefore astonish them to learn that an international silver conference was held in Paris in 1878, upon the suggestion of the Republican Senate, and another in 1881,' appointed by a Republican President, and that one of the reasons why another has not been called ia that Mr. Manton Marble, representing the Cleveland administration, reported to Mr. Cleveland, as President, that it was not advisable for the United States to take tho initiative

again in calling another silver international conference. It may be in the nature of news to these correspondents, who seem to be selected for their ignorance of public affairs, to know that during the Paris Exposition an unofficial congress was held by invitation of the French government, in which the United States was not represented, In which the whole subject was discussed. Tho conferences which were held at the suggestion of the United States and France did not result in favorablo action, because England and Germany refused to co-operate,' being influenced largely by the belief that tho United States would commit' itself to the free coinage of silver, and thus relieve them from any participation in the work of restoring the white metal to full money power on the existing ratio of coinage for silver and gold. Except during the years that Mr. Cleveland was President, the Democratic party in Congress in most the States has been so zealously demanding the free coinage of silver that these governments have been encouraged to hold out against the policy of establishing an international ratio for tho coinage of both metals. If now the Democrats in Congress are ready to declare that the United States will not undertake to reStore silver to full money power alone by adopting a free-coinago law, but will co-operate with Earopo in so doing, they will have taken the-ground which the Republicans assumed in 1878. They will be fourteen years behind the Republicans in tho matter, but there. is hope for the Democracy when its leaders are only fourteen years behind the Republicans. The fear is that they are not now on tlyit ground, but will go on and pass a free-coinage bill which will encourage England and Germany to refuse further to unite in the much-desired Republican proposition of bimetallism by international, action.

Already in Washington the present lower branch of Congress has been stigmatized as tho "Nickel House." Not satisfied with spending two hours in a wrangle over printing the usual number of private bills for the members, it bad a second skirmish over the resolution of Mr..Blanchard, of Louisiana, chairman of tho river and harbor committee, declaring that river and harbor appropriation bills be not printed. Ostensibly this action will save tho treasury $2.40, but river and harbor appropriations have reached $23,000,000. The Republicans stood aloof aud let the Democratic majority wrangle over the proposition. When it came' to' tho question of voting 100,000 to carry the groin given by the West to starving peoplo in Russia, the mass of the Democrats voted against it, so that the vote in favor was not much more than that of the Republicans. It is safe to say that Dr. Graves did not dream that he would "have to bo hanged" when he sent that bottle of poisoned whisky from Boston to Mrs. Barnaby, in Denver. It is also reasonably safe to affirm that'if he had been tried in Boston no jury would have convicted him of murder in the first degree on tho evidence. They are hustlers in tho West in legal matters, ns well as other things, and havo no time to draw fine distinctions in cases of killing-. It is worth noticing that the persons in this Stato who are using Mr. Blaine's namo without his consent send their reports of what they claim they accomplished to tho New York Sun. Tammany's leading organ, rather than to some Republican paper in the East. Hitherto the New York Times has been favored with such misrepresentations as tho leading Cleveland organ. The Journal, it will be noticed, is furnishiug its readers with all the facts these bracing winter days; and some of these facts make very interesting reading. ' The conduct ofHbe police yesterday shows that all they need to make them thoroughly efficient in emergencies like this is proper authority back of them. The force" is all right, and not weak-kneed in the least. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. And now the court of Vienna is all in an upset by the reported engagement of tho, Crown Princes Stephanie to a wealthy American gentleman. James D. Hruce, otherwise known as "Jim Blaine," a Chinaman, has married Miss Josephine Neely, his American Sunday-school teacher, at Pittsburg. Catauixo Garza; who has set all , the Southwestern border by the ears, isayoung man of slender physique, nervous and lidgety, with dark hair and eyes, and a swarthy complexion. Clark E. Caiir. minister to Denmark, is traveling in Russia. He says that what has struck him most forcibly in the Czar's domains, next to see i up the poor people all clad in sbeepskius to ward ou the cold, was the feeling of order and perfect security that prevails. Congressman Hatch is said to have cured himself of a strong taste for liquor ten years ago by adopting Edmund Burke's cure-all of hot water. He drank quantities of it, and thinks he derived great benefit from it. It stimulated him without any of the reactionary effects that follow stimulation from drinking alcoholic liquors. Julia and Mary Howard, twin sisters. Pdied at their home in Wllkesbarre. Pa., on Thursday almost at the same time. Their deaths occurred on the same day of the year and at the same hour that they were born. They were sixty years of age, One was a victim of pneumonia and the other of dropsy. They had lived with each other always. Guy de Maupassant, whose mind has given away, according to report, is a man of medium height, solidly built, with the bearing of a sodier. He has a "Norma n" head a head with the line at the back extending straight up from the neck and his Lair is brown and wavy. He is a fane-looking fellow the French call him un tres joli trarcon and is popular with those he gives a chance to like him. Stanley is quoted by an Australian interviewer as disparaging Emin Pasha in these terms: "Emin is an utterly indecisive man a man with no mind of his own, very well learned, of course, in bugs and beetles and a most interesting talker on all matters of natural history. Yes. a charmingly interesting man, a good conversationalist a man just suited, for instance, for a lady's afternoon tea party." By the law of Prussia no prince of the royal family is allowed to borrow money, nor is any one permitted to lend him money. If any one does lend he cannot recover. Acting on this law, Frederick the Great never repaid any Prussian who had advanced him funds when he was heir to tho throne, for lie deemed that such a per

son had not only violated the law but ought to lose bis money for having done an improper action. A private letter received from Charles Emory Smith, our minister to St. Petersburg, recently, indicates that he will soon be on bis way to this country. When Mr. Smith was home on a vacation last fall he let it be understood that he did not intend to retain his post abroad for any great length of time. "It has been a very pleasant experience lor me," he said, "to hold an important diplomatic position abroad. It has enabled me to see and study European atlairs from an inside stand-point. I have also brushed up on my French, and acqnired a great deal of very valuable and nsefal information." Ruth Cleveland was baptized at Lakewood, on Thursday, by the Rev. Dr. Wilton Merle Smith, of the Central Presbyterian Church, New York, of which Mrs. Cleveland is a member. Only the minister and his wife and Mrs. Cleveland's aunt. Mrs. Wateral, with the servants of the house, hold looking in at the doors, constituted the christening party in the parlor of the cottage at Lakewood when the parents brought the baby to the font. Mr. Cleveland holding little-Kuth in his arms. She wore a dress of Valenoiennes lace, presented for the occasion by Mrs. Cbapin, and a necklace of amber beads, the gift of Mrs. Gilder. When Mr. Moody founded the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago two years ago. he did not expect that one of his pupils would be the daughter of an earl ana the daughter-in-law of a duke all combined in one person. Lauy Henry Somerset arrived in Chicago on Monday night, and, going to the Auditorium, requested that her coming should be made known to no one. Early Tuesday morning she was visited by Miss Frances Willard, and in. the afternoon, preceded by Miss Anna Gordon and Miss Hough, the two drove to No. 261 La Salle avenue, where Flat 3 on the second Moor had been engaged for Lady Somerset. She has gone to Chicago for the purpose of taking a coatee of study at the Moody Biblical Institute, and she will do nothing else while she is there. She is much interested in the work of the institute, and hopes to learn something from it. The only textbook used is the Bible. Oesti.e and sweet, BlytUe and merry. The child w ho Is born In January. Deinorest'a.

LIHBLES IN TUB Altt. More Information. Tommy Paw, what story is tho "story without a moralP Mr. Flgg A basement, of course. Lacking. "Your kisses do not seem to have the same spirit about them they had . once," complained young Mrs. Fitts. Of course not," said Mr. Fitts. "You could not expect them to since I have sworn off." . v He Doesn't Walk. If you meet a man with a haughty air, . With a sort of a proud, "don't-know-you' stare, And demeanor as cold as an Icicle; Who stands aloof from the commoner herd. And is hardly aware that a strike has occurred lie's the fellow who owns a bicycle. A Stndy iu Christianity. He would like to be a martyr, And is willing (as a starter) To lose a leg, or just an arm or two, For the glory of the cause, Nor would he even pause If his life should be exacted as a due; But the ooutributlon box (Which Is really "that which knocks"), Can, by just approaching, make him Tery bine. THE IIAIUIISUX ADMINISTRATION". It Has Been Conspicuously Successful, aud the President Should lie llenomluated. Lafayet to Courier. There is no violation of truth in the statement that whatever of opposition there is to the renominutiou of President Harrison ia captious and unworthy a well-wisher of tho Republican party. He has no doubt made some appointments that ought not to have been made, and he has quite likely failed to provide for some of bis friends who wero justified in Loping lor preferment, but however lamentable these acts of commission and omission, it ought to be granted that he has manifested a most commendable disposition to do tho best things possible, ull conditions considered. There ie no discounting the fact that the President has grown amazingly in the respect and udections of the peoplo since he assumed the discharge of his duties as the chief executive of the Nution. The ship of state has beeu piloted with a steady eye and a resolute hand. His administration has beeu dignilied, able, frank and efficient, notably tree from scandals aud above criticism of intrigue. The country has prospered, and the Republic is practically at peace witb all the world, while the honor of the Hag has been maintained with commendablo lirmuees. With the conditions tnatuow exist, the people will be blow to accept any arguments calculated to convince that a change iu the national administration is necessary or even desirable. The purchasing power of a stable currency is greater now than ever before in the couutry'a history aud the levy on imports is being reduced in a degree agreeably with the demands of a taritl for revenue and the proper protection for tbu rights and dignity of American labor. A formidable navy is being constructed, our coast defenses are being extended and perfected, the standing army is maintained in a manner equal to all ordinary requirements, improved mail facilities are being constantly expedited, and ail the arteries of the governmental system are responsive to the intelligent direction of the fountainhead and inspiration. All things considered, the administration has been conspicuously successful iu all its undertakings, and witb the splendid record it has made for honesty, fidelity and efficiency, the publie mind is in condition to accord honor to whom honor is due aud attest appreciation of positive merits by continuing the present regime for another four years, at least. That is the logical expectation, aud there is every reason to believe that that will be the inevitable consequence. Democratic Worries. Philadelphia Tress. hut while the Republicans are not distracted by the worries over the man who is to lead them in this year's campaign, the Demorats are not so fortunate. There are no clear indications as to whom the party will nominate. It is not necessory to tell any newspaper reader of the decline of Mr. Cleveland's prospects. One year ago he spread over the whole Democratio sky and lapped over a little outside, but to-day it is necessary to use a good sized telescope to find him. He is evidently sinking into the most "innocuous desuetude." Another fact apparent to every one is the prominence of ex-Governor HilL He is to-day the aggressive candidate in the Democratio tie Id. His moral tone is exactly on a level with his party's moral standard and his bull-headed uuscrupulonsness appeals to itsenthnsiastio admiration for the methods of the tough and the thug in politics, lie cares just as little for the methods by which he wins success as did Aaron Burr, and notwithstanding the harsh things that many Democratio papers are now saying of him there is not the slightest doubt that if ho is nominated they will heartily support him. Where Hill Is Hot Boss. New York Press. It is announced that Hill has declared war on the appointment of Mr. Kathbon as postmaster of Elmira, and will make a hot light against his confirmation in the Seriate. Mr. Hill forgets that he has not stolen seats enongh in the United State Senate to enable him to boss that venerable body it was the State henato of New York m which he had the seats stolen. Mr. Clereland Dropping Oat. New York Advertiser. If indications are not deceptive. Mr. Cleveland is growing weaker as a presidential candidate as the days roll around. If he looks over the held and sizes up the chances. Mr. Cleveland will, if , he is wise, conclude to stick to his large and lucrative law practice. ' Not tr lie Wanted to Be Truthful. Philadelphia lUeon! (Deia.) Iu the opinion of Itepresentative Dalzell. Harrison is the beat President we have bad since Lincoln. Could he not have made an exception in favor of the honest and wise administration of Cleveland!

THAT BIG FRANCHISE DEAL

Mr. Steele Reiterates DisStory and Tells a Few Other Interesting Things. Col. Terry's Remembrance of the Thing as Told to Ilim-Director Alltrton. Talks Very Wildly at Chicaea. The publication in the Journal yesterday morning of Mr. V. T. Steele's interview stating that John P. Frenzel, Courtland Van Camp and J. C. Shaffer had entered into an ageeement with the Chicago owners of the street railroads of this city to deliver that corporation a brand new franchise for $150,000 attracted great attention and elicited much comment. "There are a number of gentlemen," said Mr. Steele to a Journal reporter yesterday, 'who will say that I talked to them about this deal for a franchise some time ago. Some of these do not care to get into print now. others can bo interviewed. Mr. Fishback, who had Rome inkling of it as long ago as during the past city campuiffn.was fully enlightened by me on the 1st day of January. Col.Orau Ferry knew of this from me last September. Major Kichards, of the Indianapolis News, was spoken to by me on the subject at the time of the last New England dinner. The Major on that occasion said he felt that Mr. if olliday.xneaning the proprietor of the News, should know of the matter." "There appears to be a question of veracity involved." remarked the reporter. "Mr. Frenzel does not confirm your 6tory." MR. STEELE ON MU. FRENZEL, Mr. Steele laughed. "Mr. Frenzel.w he resumed, "said ho was an old friend of Mr. Allerton, one of the stockholders, you know. Mr. Frenzel is thirty-six years old and Mr. Allerton is probably sixty-fire years old. Yet this old friend, as I told yon yesterday, was very explicit in his demand for the minute-book of the company, to look it over and restrict the powers of Mr. Frenzel when he should enter npon his duties as president. Do you remember last winte. when Mr. Frenzel was a lobty member oi' the Legislature, opposing the street-railway company! On one occasion he was before a senatorial committee. Mr. Ferd Winter and Mr. Clay Allen were also present, Frenzel, in a speech to the committee, said he had a conversation with John P. Drake, proprietor of the Grand Pacific Hotel, of Chicago, a stockholder in the (Citizens' street railway, that he (Frenzel) bad recently seen him in Chicago, and Mr. Drake had said he was thoroughly disgusted with the way the company's affairs had been managed (under Shaffer), and had sold his stock, adding that if his hotel were run in the same way it would run into the ground in thirty days. President Shatfer at once wroto to John P. Drake, giving the substance of FrenzePs speech. Mr. Drake wrote in answer that he was not acquainted with Mr. Frenzel, had never seen him. had never had any conversation with him, and had not sold his stock. Thai letter was in Mr. Allen's possession for some time. In that same speech Mr. Frenzel charged that the Citizens' Street-railway Company had tried to bribe him (Frenzel). 1 asked Mr. Frenzel who of the street-car company had tried to do eo. This was in the presence of the committee. He made no answer. Later, alter Mr. Winter and myself had stepped out into the lobby, Mr. Frenzel came oat. I asked him the question again. It was you, sir,' he said, with great emphasis on the you.' I did not ask him how this bribing was to be done, but the company afterward placed a deposit in Mr. FrenzePs bank.'7 COLONEL PERRY'S REXJINISCEXCES. The reporter next hunted op CoL Oran Perry. "Yes," said the Colonel, "Mr. Steele talked to me of the deal for a franchise a good while ago. It must have been late last August or early in September. He had just come back from Chicago, immediately after Mr. Frenzel had been made president of tho company. Mr. Steele told me that a president bad been appointed, aud who he was would be known in a day or two. After the announcement was made to the public, in a conversation with Mr. Steele, I expressed my surprise as to bow it had come about. He then told me the arrangement had been made through Mr. Shaller and Mr. Van Camp, but that it would be for only a short time about sixty days. Mr. Frenzel had guaranteed to get a charter within tbfct time; that he (Mr. Frenzel) said ho controlled the News and Sentinel, aud stood closo to the Mayor and the Board of Public Works. Later on Mr. Steele told me that the company had extended Mr. Frenzel's time for the delivery of the charter. I understood from what Mr. Steele said that Mr. Frenzel was to get S'A),000. Perhaps I got that understanding because the three names were mentioned in the deal, aud 1 supposed the partners would share alike. 1 have talked some time ago to three different persons about the matter, J. . Klrlin, my chief clerk. W. P. Fishback and Charles Dennis. The statement 1 read in the Journal this morning ascotuingfrom Mr. Steele is substantially that he toid me over four months ago." A prominent lawyer was asked his opinion of the vigorous denials eiven to Mr. Steele's statements. This gentleman has long been familiar withatreet-raiiwav matters, and, while not averse to talking, does not caro to see his name in print at the present stage of the controversy. "I remember " distinctly." said thiseentleman, "that, during the city campaign, the charge was circulated that Mr. Frenzel was to get 50.000 for securing a franchise. Mr. Steele had talked and somebody had leaked. It is not a matter of ancient history that Mr. Kufus Maaee, Senator from Cass county in the. last Lesislaturo, openly charged that the president of the streetcar company, then Mr. Shaffer, had attempted to corrupt him. Kow here comes Mr. Frenzel. according to Mr. Steele, and his method is by no means nice. After fighting the company, after posing as the friend of the people, he goes over to the monopoly. Is it possible that after losing Mr. Coy we have another boss, again calling to mind the fable of the discontented frogs who, tired of good King Log, asked another ruler and Jupiter sent them King Stork, who proceeded to eat them up? MONEY COULD HE HETTER USED. "It occurs to me that if the company has 8150,103 to pay as a bonus for a new franchise, the better plan would be tor it to go m an open business-like way to the Hoard of Public Works and propose to give the money, not to any middlemen, but to the city direct. The company could say: There's $1.0,COO; mat will makeyour streets, aud you need not wait for taxes to come in. What is the necessity for all this secrecy and underhanded work? In bargaining with the city the company mightconsider three points. One of these would be a reduction in fares; another the payment of a certain percentage of gross receipts into the city treasury, and a third the payment of a license or tax of so much a year on each car. That the company has gone in a wrong way about getting the franchise will be admitted by a great many people, somo of them closely connected with the company. A well-known South Meridian-street merchant, to whom 31 r. Steele talked about this $150,000. told the story to Allen Conduitt, of the Hoard of Publio Works, notne time ago. Mr. Conduitt is reported to have said that if the statement made by Mr. Steele was correct that the company, so far as he (Conduitt was concerned, could not have a franchise while Mr. Frenzel was conneeted with it, "lint to come to tho credibility of Mr. Steele hs opposed to the two gentlemen who deny tho deal. Long be. ore any suggestion of euih a story as that given out by A;r. Steele there was a popular impression that the selecting of Mr. Frenzel to be presideut was with the sole view that he might, by tho methods ho has heretofore

used with legislative bodies, procure the coveted franchise. It should not be forgotten that gentlemen interested iu street-railway property in Chicago, a a class, do not look upon tho matter of bribery with the same honor that characterizes feome other people. It seemed just the thing to gentlemen in that Chicago atmosphere to go about procuring a lranchise in this covert way. Kvery thing giv3 strong probability to tht story told by Mr. Steele to the Journal. As llishop Hutler says in bis analogy, 'Probability is the guide of life.' "Some questions arise: Will Mr. Shaffer deny that he went to Chicago to he present at the directors' xueetinff mentioned by Mr. Steele? Will Mr. Van Camp deny that he knew on the Sunday precedingthe meeting that Mr. Steele was goiua to Chicago, although be had no conversation witu Mr. Steele on the subjectf Will cither Mr. Frenzel or Mr. Van Camp'deny that on tco Tuesday morning spoken of by Mr. Steele that they were together iu Chicago and had a conference with the directors? Will they deny that they went to the attorney of the directors in the Kookery building in Chicago and there had a conference in which an arrangement was made as to an effort to procure a lranchineT Take the whole story together, it is absolutely incredible that a man like Mr. Steele, who is not a professional novelist, could have invented a storv containing eo many particulars, and told it with so much circumstantiality and so many concurring facts." THE MAYOR AND HOARD. Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was asked, yesterday afternoon, by a Journal reporter, if he had read the interview with ex-Sa-perintendent Steele, in which the latter claimed that John P. Frenzel was made president of the Citizen's Street-railroad Company for a short time to secure a new franchise, and that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars' worth of stock had beeu set aside for that purpose, Before asking the question tho reporter had noticed a copy of the Journal, with the article referred to folded out, lying on the Mayor's desk. "I have not read it," said the Mayer, "but I have heard of it," "Is it not a fact." again asked the reporter, "that 3ou were informed that Mr. Frenzel bad umney to secure a franchise, and that for that reason nothing has been done by the Hoard of Public Works toward drawing up a new franchiser"' "No, sir; I never heard any such talk," said he. Awhile later President Conduitt was called upon by a reporter. He had read the interview. In response to the same inquiry put to Mayor Sullivan he said: "1 have heard it rumored that Mr. Frenzel was to receive a snm of money for securing a franchise, but it hadnoetlect with the board, because Mr. Frenzel Has not yet asked for a new franchise." "lias he never said anything about a franchise!'' "Well, he has talked to me informally, as he may have done to the other members of the board, to the eflect that he would like to have a new charter, but he has never put his desire in that respect in the foim of a petition presented to the full board for a charter. Consequently, a franchi.no lor the Citizens' company has not been considered by us." DIRECTOR ALLERTON TALKS AT RANDOM. QThe Chicago correspondent or the Journal telegraphs the following: Samuel W. Allerton was shown the Steele interview, and said: "It's all bosh. There is not a word of truth in it. The man Steelo is mad because we discharged him, and he has trumped up this story out of spite. He was getting $3,C0J a year, and began to think he was quite a big gun, and when we discharged him for reasons of our own, i&st summer, he was naturally 'taken ('own a peg or two. He wanted his pay up to next May as superintendent of the road. H) came up here and told me a pitiful story of his needs, and with tears in bis eyes bo begged me to pay him his salary for a time. I gave him 150 out of the kindness of my heart. Talk about oar wanting a new charter! Attorney-general Miller says our old charter is perpetual in its grants, and we don't want any new one. The fact is, Mr. Frenzel has been president of the road for now six months, and not the first thing has been done toward getting a new charter. We secured Mr. Frenzel for president simply because he was an Indianapolis man. All this talk about a new charter was the talk of Mr. Shaller. the former president of the road. He had some stock, and his scheme was to issue bonds and make more money, but we never thought of it seriously. The road is all right as. it is. I haven't the slightest idea what Steele means when he speaks of Frenzel's fighting us in the Legislature last winter. We never bad anything whatever to do with the Legislature." "Did the board of directors have any such meetings in Chicago last winter, and transact any such business with Messrs. Frenzel and Van Camp as Mr. Steele claims!" "Not to my knowledge." "Did Steele ever have any talks with you about Mr. Frenzel getting a new charter, and money being paid for the same!'' "1 may have had some talk with Steele last summer, but no talks such as he claims iu the interview, nor any shadow of a talk from which ho could make any such story. Why. we would be fools to call a cheap man liko Steele, whom we had discharged, into our confidence in a matter of such grave importance as that. In the interview you have shown Mr. Steele quotes me as president of the board of directors, which 1 was not; Mr. Fowler was. It is all a cock-and-bull story from one end to the other." Possibly director Allerton thought he was talking for only Chicago readers. Nothing could sound more absurd to the ears of Indianapolis people, familiar with the facts, than his sentence: "Attorney-general Miller says our old cbarter is perpetual in its grants, and we don't want a new one!' and again, "We never thought of it seriously." Again he 6ays: "Wo never had anything to do with the Legislature!" That is good. That big-paid lobby, witb representative Johnson at its head, was hired by the man in the moon, not by the street-railway company. That bribe ollered Senator Ma gee was just to get him to vote to abolish cigarettes, not to vote Against toe suburban street-railroad bill! When the Indianapolis peoplo believe all tLee things it will bo a great deal colder thau it is now.

SON'S OF NEW 10RK. Handsome Dinner at the Denlson House Touts by Distingtmhed Hen. The Sons and Daughters of New York, who are residents of Indianapolis, banqueted at the Deuison last night. The streetcar tie-up and the cold weather kept many away who had been counted upon to attend. A nine-course menu was served, after which a number of toasts were proposed and responded to. The president of the society is the Hight Key. D. H. Knickerbacker, bishop of, the diocese of Indiana. Preceding the reverend gentleman's came was the following verse: At the banqm t of the native sons of the Knickerbocker ftate. Is it at all surprising that wo should feel a proud content, Whe t it is our privilege, boatlnsr. to relate Th'.t we have a real Knickerbocker for our prctldcLt! The toasts and those who responded to them were: "The New York Hoys and Girls." A. If. Hovey; "DistingiiUhtd Men of New York." John L. (iriffitlm: "the Press," Fred L. Purdy; "Going West to Grow Up with theCouutrv," J. 11 Mavuarcl; "The State of Our Adoption." Gov. Ira J. Chase; "Henry Hudson, the Discoverer of New York." Prof. W. W. (irant: "Memories of the Old Home." Prof. W. Lemon; "The Church and the School." the Kev. H. A. Kdson: "Our School Days," George U Webster. m The Indiana I'f lmarle. Luuiavills Commtrcisi. The Hepnblicsn meetings held throughout Indiana on Saturday last prove that the next Hepublican delegation from Indiana to the national Kepubltcan convention will be solid for Harrison. There was hardly enough anti-Harrison feeling in any county of the Mate to cause a ripple of excitement. '1 he uieotitiKa were aa a rule we:l attended and enthusiastic, and indicato that the Keimblicans of Indian, are entering tne political field this year in good epiriU.