Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1892 — Page 4

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A 11 eommvnieations intrndtd for pitbliration in (1, it pajr invtt, in ol der to rteetre alien turn, be actvmpanud ly the name and addrttn of the vcriler. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be found at the following places: X'ARIH American Exchange la Paris, 80 Boulevard rte Capnclnps. KEW OKK GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. p! IT emtio, 3733 Lancaster arenas. CII I CAG O Palm er noose CINCINNATI J. It. Ilawley & Co., 134 Vine street ZX)riSVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest comer ah:rd SDdJcSerson streets. KT. LOUIS Ur.fon News Comrany, Union Depot scd southern HoteL VAPIIINGTON, D. O IUggs Ilocse and EbMtt House. The New State Central Committee Rooms Republican State Committee,) In dianai'O Lis, Jan. 253. To the Republicans of Id (liana: The newly-e!ected Republican Etate committee will meet for organization of said committee an I the transaction of other business coming before the same, on Jan. 28th lnaL, at the Deniaoa llouse, at 2 o'clock r. m. Invitation is hereby extended to the Republicans in the several districts to meet in general conference, at 1 o;clock, on that day at said place. Let thereto . a good attendance. John K. Gowdt. Frank m. Milliean. Republican press rlease copy.) , The death of. Justice 'Bradley makes another important appointment for President Harrison. His record in this regard has been without precedent. The question is raised whether one should write Chili or Chile. Tho former U the Anglicized spelling, while the latter is used by the Chilians themselves. A NU31BER of prominent Democrats in this city could be named who feltgreatly relieved, yesterday morning, when they eaw that Indianapolis would not have the Democratic national convention. Chicago papers, along back, have boon saying that it would bo indelicate for the city of tho world's fair to strive for the Democratic national convention. Kot7 that Chicago has gobbled the convention there is no sign that tho citizens feel indelicate. The Washington correspondent of the Sentinel declares thatlndianapolis Democrats are moro than satisfied with the action of tho committoo in giving the convention to Chicago. If they feel that way, what in the world did they go to "Washington for! It will not do to unload the responsibility of frost-killing the tender plant of ex-Governor Gray's presidential prospects at Washington upon Mr. Erwin. Doth Mayor Sullivan and Editor Moras were on the committee to explain things to tho Uill-Gormau-Brice triumvirate. iaa aSS-SBMB fj SfJSJBI MB m , So long as tho memory of Thursday's Republican district conventions lingers In tho rather slippery mind of the general correspondent, ho will not send tegular dispatches to his mugwump and Democratic papers setting forth the unpopularity of tho President in his own Stato. Out in Kansas an Alliance roan desires to run for Governor on a platform of hi3 own make, the principal demand . of which will bo that railroads shall carry passengers across tho continent for a cent a pound, because that is the price paid by newspaper publishers per pound as postage. Will thoso New York papers which ere abusing Patrick Egan, minister to Chili, and are repeating the falsehoods of the British press give tho dato of the official Chilian dispatch to tho United States government intimating that his recall was desired by the present Chilian authorities? It is asserted that tho Democratic House will revive the rule of permitting the engrafting of general legislation upon appropriation bills in order to forco tho enactment of measures which would be rejected upon their own merits. Tho last House prohibited the making of such amendments to appropriation bills. Commissioned Wright, of tho United States Labor Bureau, declares, as tho result of investigations held from time to time, that the conditions of labor in this country have never been better than at tho present time, and that there is a continual tendency to improvement. This being tho case, why not let well enough alone? ' Mn. Bretz, tho new member of Congress from the Second Indiana district, baa introduced a bill to pension all persons who served in the home guards in tho loyal States, during tho war, and who received injuries while in tho line of duty. There are probably some persons of that kind in Mr. Bretz's district whoso rotes ho wants. TnE Whisky Trust, which has been a great offender, is to bo proceeded against Tinder the Sherman anti-trust law. Small distillers have been ruined by this growing trust in order to control production and price. People have not paid much attention to it or realized its injustice, for the reason that whisky production is not an industry which appeals to the highest senso of justice. Representative Toji L. Johnson, of Ohio, being naked for his views in regard to tho trouble with Chili, said: "I am a great deal more interested in solving some of these knotty problems at home. In other words, tho death of two sailors is not a question that concerns me as much as the report of the tQla xrho filaxr a to death in cm own

land." Sir. Johnson is a rampant freetrader and means to imply that people are starving in this country on account of the McKinley bill. He is more concerned in promnlgating this idea than he is in vindicating the national honor. THE SUfiOICAL INSTITUTE DISASTER. The burning of the Snrgical Institute, with its terrible loss of life, is such a catastrophe as may happen in any building where hundreds of persons sleep In upper stories. Hotels, insano asylums, hospitals, infirmaries and all similar buildings are subject to such calamities, and it has only been a few years since a surgical institute in Buffalo, N. Y was destroyed by fire with considerable loss of life. Under our system of bnilding and fire protection such calamities seem to be unavoidable, though each one emphasizes the need . of better building laws, better architecture, more rigid inspection and better means of escape. In the present case tho horror of the calamity was greatly intensified by tho fact that many of the inmates of tha building were helpless cripples or invalids, who could not have escaped had the means of escapo been tho best that could have been devised. Tho building was not well adapted to the purposes of a hotel or lodging-house, and yet there is no evidence that this fact figured in tho catastrophe. Tho victims wcro burned because they could not avail themselves of the means of escape that did exist. Tho fact that the fire started in the lower part of tho building and burned it.) way upward weighed heavily against those who were sleeping in upper stories, many of whom were probably stupefied by smoke before they awoke to a senso of danger. It has been said that the building was as 6a fo against fire as hotel buildings generally. It should have been a great deal safer. Tho helpless condition of the patients demanded that itshoiUd be. It has been a fact commented upon for years that tho buildings destroyed were not suitable for tho purposes to which they were devoted; and yet experience has demonstrated tho fact that few buildings, however modern, are safe against a midnight fire. If the building was known to have been unsafe, where was the building inspector that he did not either condemn it outright or compel such changes as would make it 6afe? Where were the city authorities that they did not take cognizance of the reports of previous city officers affecting itf Tho investigation to bo made by tho corouer should be made most thorough, and responsibility for this terrible disaster fixed whero it justly belongs.

JU8TICE BRADLEY, Justice Bradley, whose death occurred yesterday, was a man of strong character and distinguished ability. His early education was obtained under difficulties, but in the end he acquired a broad and liberal culture, lie excelled as a mathematician, and even after ho went on the Supreme Bench used sometimes to indulge his tasto for labors in the field of higher mathematics. Ho also possessed a considerable degreo of literary culture, and some of his addresses and articles contributed to cyclopedias showed literary workmanship of tho first class. As a lawyer ho ranked high. He had achieved great success in tho profession beforo his appointment to the Supreme Bench in 1870, and his opinions as a member of that court furnish a lasting monument of his legal learning and intellectual grasp. "During his membership of the Supremo Court," says ex-Justico Strong, a former member of tho court, "a very largo number of cases have been brought into it involving questions arising out of the civil war, the reconstruction and other acts of Congress, the constitutional amendments, the difficulties and controversies of railroad companies and other subjects. In no former equal period have as many cases of supremo importance been decided by that court. Many of them were not only novel, but intricate and difficult of solution. In the investigation and decision of all of them Judge Bradley bore a distinguished part. His mind is remarkably analytical, capable of discovering and appreciating occult though important distinctions. Added to this, his legal learning is so large and accurate, his acquaintance with English and American decisions so extensive, and his habit of looking beyond tho rclo for the reason or principlo on which it is founded so constant that his opinions have been of high value. Those opinions appear in more than forty volumes of the Supreme Court reports, beginuing with Oth Wallace. Many of them are notable alike for the importance of the subject discussed and for tho manner of tho discussion. In patent cases Judge Bradley exhibited marked abilitr, his natural aptitude for comprehending mechanical devices qualifying him unusually for such cases. His opinions in maritime cases, in cases relating to civil rights and habeas corpus, in suits upon policies of insurance, and in cases in which statutory or constitutional construction has been required, aro specially noteworthy a3 able and instructive." No better estimate could bo desired of Justico Bradley's professional ability and judicial services than these strong expressions from one who served ten years with him in the same court. Justice Bradley was eligiblo to retirement on full pay, and probably would have resigned soon had he lived. THEOBY ASP PRACTICE. "The president of the Indiana Woolgrowtrrs' Association," said one of the members to the Journal yesterday, "declared in his address that the present tariff is essential to the well-being of the sheep industry; yet a year ago he declared that general free trado was what he believed to be tho best for the country. This change of sentiment," continued tho member of thoassociation, "seems to us somewhat remarkable." On the contrary it is not the least remarkable. The free-trader wants free trado when he goes to market to buy, because ho believes that it will insure him the cheapest goods. When he goes to market to sell tho products of hi skill and labor, he wants the same advantages which other people, seeking their own

interest, desire. The Eastern freetrader who manufactures woolens wants free wools, but desires protection on his goods. The Virginia free-trader wants free trade when he buys clothing,' but ho demands protection against the slave labor of Cuba on his tobacco and against tho very cheap labor of Spain on his iron-ore. Tho South Carolina free-trader demands the free markets of the world when ho buys clothing, iron goods, etc., but when he takes his rico to market ho wants a market where tho cheap labor of India will not bo an equal competitor, and demands a duty on fine raw cotton to keep out other producers. The free-trader who is a woolgrower will denounce protection on the street-corner and ezpatiate upon its outrages beforo the country-store audiences, butwhen the wool duties of the McKinley law are threatened he lifts tip his voice in a demand for continued protection, and declares in resolutions that "it is idle to talk about raising sheep in this country to compete with South Africa, tho Platto country or Australia, where tho laborers are semi-barbarous," and "protests against the government establishing a policy that shall degrade the American husbandman, flockowners and agriculturists generally to the level of semi-barbarous and pagan laborers." Tho free-trader who is a literary man or publisher, while abusing and ridiculing protectionists in Congress, has been demanding for years a copyright law to protect him. In fact, the only "consistent free-traders aro those who havo nothing to sell in the open markets of tho world. Tho Wool-growers1 Association of Indiana is not an annex to the Republican party. It contains Democrats as well as Republicans. No party spirit influenced them in putting out the emphatic demand for protection in their resolutions. Some of them, as Democrats, may vote, next November, for the party pledged to put wool on tho free list; but when, as practical men, they consider the interests of a great industry, they are like Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Henry Clay and Governor McKinley full-grown protectionists.

Unless Senator Toiler's bill for tho. admission of Utah as a Stato was introduced by request it is difficult to imagine his motive. As a Western Senator and one who is, presumably, acquainted with the condition of affairs in Utah, he certainly cannot believe it is fit to be admitted as a State. A large majority of the inhabitants aro Mormons, many of them foreigners of the most ignorant class, and all of them hostile to the government. While polygamy has been partially broken up, it has not been wholly eradicated, and there is reason to bolicvo that if a way could be found to restore it under a State Constitution, it would be done. Utah should be kept a Territory until a decided majority of the population are anti-Mormon and until a healthy public opinion has been established that will put polygamy under a permanent ban. There are some rotten boroughs among the Western States already, and the number should not be increased by the admission of ytah. Governor Flower has appointed Isaac H. Maynard a judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Maynard is tho man who did Governor Hill's dirty work in capturing the Stato after the late election. He has butlittlo reputation as alawyer, and his political associates have been of the disreputable sort. The New York Tribune says: A rank and unprincipled partisan, the willing tool of the worst gang of political rascals which has enme to the front in the Democracy since the rotten Tweed eras conspicuously destitute of the temperament, the poise, tho sobriety of judgment, nnd, above all. of the unassailable rectitude of purpose, which are demanded in the wearer of the ermine, the protrusion of Maynard into the highest court of the chief State of the Uuion is a travesty upon justice. Governor Hill has succeeded in plunging the politics of New Yorjc into a very filthy cesspool. The New York Sun administers a stinging rebuke to those Democrats who would make partisan politics a factor in tho treatment of the Chilian question. It snys: Those mugwumps and professed Democrats who are now suggesting, as directly as they dare, that it would be a political blunder for the Democratic House of Representatives and lor Democrats outside of Congress to extend to General Harrison's administration full and hearty support in the controverts with Chi!!, deserve to be taken out and f hot into an ash barrel, or at least to havo their naturalization papers taken away from them. The past century has produced nothing more contemptible than thoir argument that if there should be war the Kepnblican party would gain glory and advantage thereby, and that expediency, therefore, requires of Democrats an attitude toward Chili different from what it would naturally bo if a Democrat now occupied the White House. The newly-selected Republican State central committee will meet on Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Denison House, for organization and transaction of other business. The date for tho Stato nominating convention will bo one of the important questions to bo considered, and Republicans generally are invited to attend and participate in a conference. The invitation of the chairman and secretary is printed elsewhere, and the importance of tho occasion will, it is hoped, draw a largo number of Republicans to the capital. Those Democrats who declared to the national Democratic committee that Indiana is a very doubtful State, and that the holding of tho convention in Indianapolis would insure the Stato to the Democratic ticket, may now find consolation that both Chicago and St. Louis gavo their largest Republican votes and majorities after Democratic national conventions had been held in them The failure of F. C. Davenport, a Boston importer of tin-plate, is attributed to the fact that he was carrying a very heavy stock of tin, imported previous to the operation of tho McKinley law, with a view of profiting by the expected rise in tho price. The rise did not como and ho got caught. He ought to suo tho tin-plato liars for damages. At a recent meeting of the Philological Association of DePauw University a remarkable paper was read by Dr. Edwin Post. It was an original investigation, from Roman literary and artistic remains, of the gladiatorial missio, or sign of mercy.

The conclusion reached was new, and sapported by strong proofs, both direct and inferential. Dr. Post is one of the most practical and accurate Latin scholars in the West, and much of the material for this paper was collected during his stay in Rome. Other papers read before the society dnnng the year have been on a comparison of Hindoo and Chinese inscriptions, by Dr. Cnrtiss, And on the present literary movement in Spain, by Miss Mmnetta Taylor. The Journal's report of the proceedings of the Eighth district Republican convention contained the name of "ex-Representative U. Johnston." It is hardly necessary to say that ex-Representative James T. Johnston was the gentleman intended to be mentioned. Mrs. Howe, of "Women's bank" fame, who died in Boston this week, declared before her death that she did no swindling. The swindler, she said, "was my husband's brother's wife." What a grudge Mrs. Howe must have had against that woman! To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If the government pays $0,000,000 bounty on sugars and It sells for 2 cents a pound less, by what amount does the surplus saving exceed the "bounty! . f. m. ii. It wonld be impossible to ascertain the saving to the people by the reduced cost per pound of sugar, for the reason that a large quantity of molasses imported is turned into sugar, of which no account is made in the statistics. The duty collected on sugar and molasses for the fiscal year 1SS0 was 8,806.437, which was paid by the consumers. Assuming that the $9,000,000 of bonnty is paid by the people, the difference between the duty heretofore collected and the bounty wonld be the money saved to the consumers of free sugar, namely, $45,SC6,4S7

PUOi: MANAGEMENT. Report of State Officers on the Condition of the New York Life Insurance Company. New York. Jan. 22. The report of the superintendent of insurance on the condition of the New York -Life Insurance Company was filed to-day. The examination shows, that the company bad assets of 2120,710,691 on Jane SO, 1S91, the date chosen by the examiners, and a surplus of $11.703,0-; G, the latter item divided as follows: on general account, $0,038,180; on tontine accumulations, 3,070,533. This examination of the company grew out of charges of reckless management and corrupt, extravagant and fraudulentpraotices made against tho o flic era and trustees, particularly apainst the president, Mr. Wm. H. Beers. Tho charges were made upon the responsibility of the then cashier. Mr. Theodore M. Banta. The 13anta charges were originally made four years ago and an investigation was made at the time by a committee of trustees, whose report favored the management. A New York newspaper unearthed the Hanut charges, wnich were first published in this city last summer. After their publication. Mr Banta renewed his old charges and added new ones. The trustees of tho company finally asked for the official examination, which bus just been concluded by the deputy superintendent of insurance. Michael Shannon. Although the New York Life Insurance Company is thoroughly solvent, its surplus shows a shrinkageof three or four millions. No charge of insolvency has been made at any time, however, the charges relating wholly to the practices and methods of the oilicers. In the introductory text preceding Mr. Shannon's report, Superintendent James F. Pierce says that "A state of affairs exists in the company's agency management calling for the severest criticism and condemnation, and which, if continned, must prove ruinous to the company." lie retVrs especially to the heavy indebtedness of astute, the accounts of the Spanish-American department being overdrawn f5yo.00O. L. C. Van Uxum & Co. $570.000, and S. Llinkelspiels834y,O0O, being upwards of $1,500,000 by these three agents alone. Superintendent Pierce says the management has been guilty of gross neglect of its duties. The charges of illegal payments to a trustee for tbo purchase of securities, of heavy losses on llolbrook Hall, the Plaza Hotel and other investments appear to be sustained. The superintendent adds that tho remedy for the abnses named must be found in "the orderly nnd appropriate processes provided by our laws." Mr. Pierce also says: "Mr. Shannon presents facts that leave no doubt on my mind that several hundred thousaud dollars should be added to the indebtedness of agents, on account of large allowances improperly made, and iny review of the facts convinces me that the whole agency business In all its features and relations to the company, and the results therefrom, were entirely in favor of the interests and profits of the agents and against those of the company, and the managements were guilty of gross neglect iu their duties in permitting such continuous deviation from ordinary business roles to the great loss of the company." The company owns real estate in the States of New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska and iu Montreal, Canada. Paris, Herlin, Vienna and Amsterdam. The nggregato value of this real estate is estimated at SH.OOO.OO. fcieventyseven parcels of land are situated in the State of New York; titty-livo in New Jersey; four in Missouri; four in Minnesota; two in Nebraska and one in each of the foreign cities named. Within the past three years the company has completed office buildings in the following cities and at the costs set opposite each: Minneapolis, 81,007. 050. 23; SSt. Paul. 3790,890.15; Kansas City, 81.742,(557.78; Omaha, Sl.lS8.CJl.bf: Montreal, $791.341.53. The net rentals from these buildings have not, thus far, brought in fair return for the money invested, and there is no immediato prospect that they. will prove as profitable, as the investments of life insurance companies should. Mr. Hanta declared that the company has paid many thousands of dollars in the shape of black-mail to prevent exposure of charges of misconduct in this management. To this Mr. Shannon replies: "The trnth of this charge- is admitted by officers. Several thousand dollars were paid to one Joseph Howard for the purposo of sappredsing the publication of articles that he had prepared attacking the management of the compan'." Two otherchargesmadeby Mr. Banta Were: "The president has directed tho purchase and sale of millions of securities without the knowledge-of the finance committee, in some cases purposely withholding information of intended nalo bocause he knew it would be objected to. He has directed tho sale of securities without consent of the finance committee through on member of. tho finance committee, with the agreement the prolit of transaction should be share! by said trustee." Mr. Shannon is of the opinion that the exigencies of tho case demanded such action. The Burned Ships Probably Carried OIL Nsw York, Jan. 22. A cablegram from London says: "Tue steamer Ejryj tl n, which arrived this morning, reports puMiuc. on Jun. Itf. In latitude 48, longitude Iff, a vessel enveloped In names, supposed to be an Americnu ship loaded with petroleum. This 1$ probably one of the vessels previously reported." At the othen of tho shipping agents of the Standard Oil Coin pany it was enld to-lay that there was a .number of oU-laden vessels on the ocean from this iort. Tho steamer Allegheny left this port Jan. I for Marseilles with l.'JSO.OoO callous of crude oil. She would bo In about the locality reported on the tlato mentioned, hue carried a crew of thirty-rive men. The steamer Willkotnen left on Jan. C. 8!ie had a crew of thirty-eiht men. The oil-laden steamer Bear Creek left Philadelphia for London Jan. C. Sir. Davis .Will Control Kxhibits. Chicago, Jan. 22. Director-general Davis, of tho world's fair, will he allowed to install exhibits as he may choos la the world's fair tuiildIntra. This was agreed upon at a conference last nUht between the director-general and the committee on rules and regulations of the board of director. The result wm a victory for Colonel Davis over the stand tsKen by President ilaer that the directory should reculate the general arrangement of the exhibits. She Hanged Hertelf and He Toole Polnn. R0 4N0KE, Va., Jan. 'J'i Miss Delia Nicholson, of Franklin county, hanged herself to tii limb of a tree near her houv. Her sweetheart, a younjr man named rtitktiard. took poUou a- n after and died. The young lady's parents objected to the marriage of their daughter and Vinkhard.

CHILI DECIDES TO APOLOGIZE

Minister Montt Instructed to Assure President Harrison to that Effect. Amends Will Be Promptly Mads for the Oat rage on the Baltimore's Sailors and for the Insults to the Stars and Stripes, Report from Another Source that Euan's Eecall Das Been Formally Requested. Charged ly the Chilians irith Hating False He ports forthe Purpose of Creating Trouble How the Minister Was Dogged by Spies. PREFERS TO APOLOGIZE. Chill TVIU Make Amends for Der WrongsMinister Egan's Recall Demanded. EpeeisI to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 22. Your correspondent learned to-night through official channels from the Chilian legation that Minister Montt has received definite instructions to assure President Harrison and Secretary Blaine that a proper apology and other amends will be promptly made by Chili for the wrongs committed upon American sailors and the insults heaped on this government. This will put an end to the controversy and make war out of the question. The President has his message on the Chilian question ready, and expects to send it with the correspondence to Congress on Monday. This he deems due to Congress and the public in any event. The United Press agent here says: The recall of Minister Egan, the rumor of which was mentioned last night, was formally requested of Secretary Blaine today by Minister Montt. It is said that the Chilian government bases its xequestfor the recall of Minister Egan on the allegations that the American minister has been guilty of making representations to Washington that were deliberately false and engaging in intrigues for tho purpose of creating trouble between the United States and Chili. "The publication of the correspondence with Chili," said a gentlemen who is acquainted with it, "will conclusively disprove the assertions of the Chilian government. Mr. Egan has kept this government fully advised of the progress of events in Chili since his arrival there, but he has done so without partisan basis. The members of the United States government who are familiar with his condnctfully approve it, and President Harrison and Secretary Blaine are fully in accord in the estimation with which Mr. Egan is held. This action on the part of. the Chilian government, which is the tirst official indication of its dissatisfaction with Minister Egan. will have a tendency to precipitate a crisis in the relations of the two countries. It is taken in official circles to indicate that Chili does not intend to make reparation or apology for the Baltimore incident unless it can attach conditions which will preserve tho pride of the government of that country and enable it to retain the respect and support of tho people, who would resent an unqualified apology. MAY BE RECALLED. "In accordance with the rnle of diplomacy. Minister Egan may be recalled from Santiago; but it would not indicate in the least any rellection upon his course by this government. He will come home, it is said, if he comes, only because his attitude as minister of the United States at Santiago has been so loyal and aggressive that it has incensed the interests at that court, antagonistic to those of this conntry, which were sutliciently powerful in inUuence thereto ask his removal. Advices, from Santiago show that the American residonts in Chili are in sympathy with Mr. Egan and that other foreign residents wonder how the United States can continue friendly relations with a government, tho minister of which holds such adverse sentiments as those which have been expressed there. "Another reason which, it is said, was alleged for asking for Egan's recall was the note sent to the Chilian government by Mr. Egan on Oct. 26. which Senor Matta designated as aggressive in design and violent in language. This was the first official notice taken by Egan of the Baltimore atlair, and it was prepared by express instructions of Assistant Secretary Wharton, under aate of Oct. 23. This letter of instructions was the one generally attributed to President Harrison, and Mr. Egan's note to SSenor Matta was an almost exact reprodnction of the terms employed in it. This incident, under the conditions prevniiinn. comes perilously near a suspension of communication between the two countries, and the developments of the next day or two will be awaited with much interest." The Star this evening says: "According to the last attainable information the foundation forthe change of opinion which rumor experienced from war to peace is that Chili suggested to this country that about six weeks more time should be allowed her within which to determine wnether or not he will make an apology. No promise of reparation is made, but it is broadly asserted that Chili will do what she thinks is right after having exhausted her inquiries. It is said that Mr. Blaine regarded this as sufficient to warrant the delay on the part of this conntry which was suggested, hut that the President did not agree with him on this point. If. as reported, the Chilian government is about to ask through Minister Montt for the recall of Minister Egan the request is not likely to be granted. It can be said that under uo circumstances will Mr. Egan'be recalled while the relations between the United States and Chili are strained as at present. President Harrison is entirely eatisficd with Mr. Egan's course as our representative and has ststed this repeatedly in private conversations." It was stated at the White House this afternoon that the death of Justice Bradley was announced at the Cabinet meeting to-day and it was decided to adjourn at once out of respect to his memory. The so'ssion was thereforo somewhat shorter than usual. The Chilian affair was tho 6oIe topic under consideration. A telegram was received at ihe Navy Department to-day announcing tho arrival of the cruiser Charleston at San Francisco from San Dieao. The vessel will be docked and prepared for immediate service. Secretary Tracy was asked at a late hour to-night ns to the correctness of the report that Mr. Egan's recall had been requested and he replied that it was entirely untrue. IKEY II ATE AMERICANS. Plenty of Evidence that Chili Has No Love for the .United State Egan's Experience. New York, Jan. 2. The correspondent of the Associated Press at Santiago de Chili, under date of Dec. 23. writes that the nowspapers at that time were criticising severely the United States. In view of the fact that Minister Matta had made official statements practically charging tho American minister with being guilty of intrigues and of giving false information to his government, Minister Egan at that time was holding no official communication with the government of Chili, and had notified the State Department to that effect One hundred men were engaged iu spying about the American and Spanish legations while the refugees were there. Threats bad been made to burn out Minister Egan. and at his request tho government provided him with guards, but it is believed they alse acted as spies. Continuing, the correspondent says: "There has hardly been a diy during the past week when some one who has been leaving the American legation has not been annoyed by the espionage of these men, and even Minister Egan himself has been subjected to it. Four days ago Frank W. Egau, the son ot the minister and the acting secretary of the legation, was leaving the house

in broad daylight, when he was stopped only a few steps from the door by one of these spies, who grasped him roughly by the arm and gave him into the hands of two policemen who were standing near by. The policemen recognized him and informed the spy that he had made a mistake. The spy accordingly allowed Mr. Egan to depart, though he o tiered no apology for his error. Minister Egan notified the State Department of the arrest of his son, and stated that the present attitude of the police and the police agents was most offensive. Two days later two other persons were arrested. They had been visiting the refugees. The Argentine minister, who Is the dean ot the diplomatic corps iu Santiago, called at the American legation a few days ago. and was greatly incensed at the presence of the policemen and spies. He declared that their presence vras an outrage upon every legation here, and he assured Mr. Egan that he intended to call at the Moneda and make an official protest to the Minister ot Foreign Relations. Notwithstanding all these circumstances. Mr. Matta, the Minister of Foreign Kelations, has declared, and the government of Chili has declared with him, that the United States legation was not being annoyed or harassed, and that there were no spies stationed there by the government. The only relief which Minister Egan has been able to obtain was an intimation from Minister Matta, in an official letter some weeks ago, that the spies and the police and the annoyances were creatures of Mr. Egan's imagination. Mr. Kennedy, the British minister, has been among those who have expressed views on the matter entirely favorable to Mr. Egan. Mr. Kennedy has also stated within the last week that he has informed bis government that Minister Egan's career in Santiago has been not only entirely honorable, but also marked with great ability. More persons havo expressed their confidence m the American minister, and their disapproval of the conduct of the Chilian government since the publication of Minister Matta's telegram to Montt, than have dared express snch views at any other time during the last eight months. "The presence of the Baltimore in Valparaiso harbor for three months following the war is spoken of by tho Chilians as a menace. The attacks upon tho cruiser's sailors by the mob and the polioe is spoken of everywhere as a 'druuken row.' and Captain Schley is charged with having made gross exaggerations in his report to the Navy Department. Minister Egan is accused of harboring a band of rogues and criminals' na refugees in the American legation. No American is desired on these shores, and the American government and the whole American people are said to be possessed of a wicked desire to make war upon Chili and humiliate her before all the other South American republics. These are the views which aro entertained by the people of Chill to day, and there is every reason to believe that they are the views which are entertained by the government of Chili. It is difficult for any one not in this country to understand the state of feeling which exists here, a state of feeling which has led a nation into placing the worst construction possible upon several incidents which ocenrred in a time of civil war and in arriving at a conclusion which can be supported only by blind prejudice, and which no amount of reason cau alter. The Congressional army came down from Iqniaue last August in tho full belief that the United States had been its enemy throughout the entire struggle and when the battles near Valparaiso had been fought and won a crusade was started against everything Amen an, notwithstanding the fact that the Unitod States Minister had done more for the Congressional party during the war than all the other diplomates in Santiago." JOHN L IS AN AMERICAN.

Interesting Interview with the "Die Fellow' on the Trouble with ChltL . Butte. Mont. Jan. 22. John L. Sullivan has some views on the Chilian trouble. He was seen by a reporter last night. Tho slugger was asked what he thought should be done by Uncle Sam. "Well,w said he, with a flash of indignation in his eye, T think the Americans should go down and blow the little bully out of the waters. We have stood too much of her impudence already. She has insulted the United States and endeavored to lower the standard of American citizenship. She ought to be whipped. Tho United States ought to take her and make 'her a coaling station. 1 seo that England oilers to be a peace-maker. She has done all the dirt and would like to make suckers out of the Americans. But while speaking of England I want to eay that I admire her for one thing aud only one. She protects her citizens at all places and all times under the English flag. In this respect I think America should follow her example nnd protect American citizens under the stars and stripes, the only Hag' that represents freedom and true manhood." "Mr. Sullivan, bow does America as a nation compare with foreign countries?" "How docs she compare! Why, bless you, my son. she is tho only conutry. They can have all the rest lam an American aud would rather be in a pest-honse in America than live in a palace in any other land under the sun." Th He Used in Case of War. Philadelphia, Jan. 22. Shipping circles in this city were stirred np to-day over a report that the government had Impressed the American line steamship Ohio, to bo used In oase of war. Tho report was strengthened by the fact that orders were given r. 5 to take aboard the carpo for the vessel that vas lying on the docic and that instead coal was being rapidly put iu. The officers of the steamship company admitted that the Ohio bad been taken off her regular trip between this port and Liverpool, but they declined to say for what purpose she wAs to be used. They were careful, however, to eay that she had not been chartered by tho government. From another reliable source it was learned that without doubt the Koveruiuent has exercised its rljfht to take possession of any merchant vessel sailing under the national Han for its own ue when war or the probability of war demands it, aud under this law has impressed tho Ohio. It was also learned from the same source that the Ohio will take aboard four hundred tons of coal as ballast, und on Monday or Tuesday next proceed to New York, where sho will llo until the present difficulty with Chill h?s been arranged suthsf aotorily or war Is declared. Cull It Cold-ltlooded Murder. El Taso, Tex., Jan. 22. Lieutenant McCrea reached this city to-day, en routo from Ban Francisco to Washington, having been called there by telegraphic orders from the government, to report on the troubles with Chili. The Lieutenant is an officer of the Baltimore who suffered Indignities at the bauds or the Chilians. To a reporter Lieutenant McCrea said the only proper thing for this country to do under existing circumstanced is for the Secretary to send an ultimatum to Chili to salute tho United State Hag and pay iudemulity, and in case of her refusal, toiesort to measures that will compel her to comply. The lieutenant Is very einphatlo In expressiug his opinions of the wrongs perpetrated upou his crew, and denounces the killing of the sailors of the Jlalliuioro at Valparaiso as cold-blooaed murder. FIUST K.IN IX .FOUR YEARS. The Long Brought in Darango, Mexico, Broken, to the Joy of the Starving .People. Special to the Icdlanspu U JourniL Durango, Mexioo, Jan. 22.--The prolonged drought that is causing such intense sufi'ering throughout tho Stato of Durango among people and stock has at last been broken. Bain has been falling he re for two whole days, and it is still coming down in torrents. This is the first rain that has fallen here in four years. The excitement of the people, particularly the lower classes, on account ot the down-pour, cannot be described. In this city the streets are thronged with the halffamished hordes, who are giving vent to expressions of delight in every conceivable manner. The Catholic cathedrals are crowded at all hours with devout worshipers, who areotlering tip their thankfulness to Divine Providence for the blessing in sending rain. The sutlering. however, among the people is tsr from being over. The present rain will greatly benefit next season's crops, bnt they will not be ready to harvest until next August. Between now aud that time thousands of people in tho state will die of starvation tinle the government continues to give them aid. One hundred thousand bushels ot corn have already been abided here from the United States, but it y nearly all been distributed and used. It is estimated that it will require no lees than 5GO.00O bushels to prevent suffering among the people of this city and immediate surrounding sections.

HOST OF A11GRY DEMOCRATS

Contestants for tbe Convention Threat en to Make it Hot for the Hill Gan. All Say Thej Were MBnnccedH in an Outrageous Manner and Claim that Chicago W&i Selected Weeks Ago as the Mecting-Hace. Leon Bailey and Other Democrats Invited to Appear Against Judgo Woods. Their Depositions Xot Acceptable to the Sen ate Committee Colonel Bright on Indian:; Republicans and the President IT WAS A CONFIDENCE GAME. Contestants for the Deinoeratlo Convention Claim to Have Ileen "Haiiooed. El f clsl to the In&anapohs Journal. Washington, Jan. 22. It would he hard to find a sorer lot of Democrats than were the delegations of "boomers' who have been here this week in behalf of their various Cities forthe Democratio nominating convention. There is not the mere disappointment of men who have failed in accomplishing their purpose. They are full of angry resentment, and are not hesitating to talk right out They charge that they have been "buncoed'' in a most outrageous way, and they cite tbe manner in which every city was given a large nambet of votes at the committee meeting last nig it as the undouhtablo proof. It is now known that the managers of tho Democratio partr. Senators Gorman, Hill and Brice, discussed the various cities, and procured private and confidential information regarding the capacities of every one of them several weeks ago, and that they then decided that Chicago was the only place "which could properly provide the necessary accommodations for a national convention.' Senator Brice, out of his own unfortunate experiences of knew how little faith could be place! in the rainbow promises of a great Demjcratio uprising in the Northwest nnd when they heard the bitter compUints of leading Republicans regarding Minneapolis, the doomof all the Western cities was sealed. The representatives of the various cities, however, feel Jhat they should have been to Id in advance that the city bad been selected, and that the committee meeting was to be merely a ratification1. Thy feel that in coming herewith their blare ot trumpets and their spread-eagle oratory, that they have made themselves supremely ridiculous before the country, and they resent this treatment. The Cleveland men are particularly bitter, and swear vengeance against Hill. It is safe to say that Senator Hill cau h ive no hope of a single vote in States which have been disappointed in the location of the nominating convention. Milwaukee wua looked upon as tho. Cleveland city, and its defeat is tbe second great blow which has been dealt Mr. Cleveland and his hopes since this Congress assembled. Unquestionably, the Mil waukco workers are the bitterest in their denunciations of HilL He had some friends in the delegation when it came here, but every one of the crowd was cursing hiui when tho delegation started back to Milwaukee this afternoon. The Indiana committee are sorer to-day over their sorrowful defeat than they were last night It is now known that when Indianapolis got twenty-two votes on the eighth ballot, sho was no nearer the goal, in reality, than when she bad but one vote, for it was prearranged that each of the contestants was to get a complimentary voto so large that it could smell success, but not touch it It is probable now that the Indiana delegation to Chicago will be quite solid for Mr. Cleveland. The Indianapolis committee will arrive home at 1 o'clock on Sunday altcrnoon, leaviug here at :') to-morrow afternoon. Call for the Convention. Waphinot y, Jan. 22. Tho Democratic national committee has issued this call: The national Democratio committee, at a meeting held this day in tho city of Washington. 1). C, has appointed Tuesday,, the 21st day of June, 102. as tho time, aud Chicago as tbe place of holding the national Democratic convention. Lach State Is entitled to n representation therein equal to double tho number of tho representation to which It is entitled In tbe next electoral college, and each Territory and the District of Columbia all havo two delegate. All Democratio and conservative citizens of tbe C nlted Mates, irrespective of taet political associations and differences, who can tinlle with us iu tbe effort for pure, economical and constitutional coTerntnent, aro cordially Invited to Join us in sending delegates to tho convention. Calvin 8. Buicl, Chairman. BniOK P. BnEERIN, Secretary. WOODS CASE DELAYED. Dailey and Other Democrats Will De Allowed to Vent Thslr Spite on the Jndge. fcTfcUl it tbe Indianapolis Jotima'. Washington. Dec 2i Senator Voorheea occupied the entire session of the Senate committee on the judiciary this morning in talking against .the confirmation of Judge Woods. He entered into the minutest details of the Coy and Dndley cases, charging Woods with. having railroaded Sim Coy to the penitentiary, and with having repressed every effort to find an indictment against-Colonel Dudley. He took np every step of Bailey, Clay pool and tho other partisans in the Dudley atlair. and made specification of alleged partisan rulings. At tho conclusion of his statement be requested the committee to permit him to file depositions from a number of gentlemen who had to do with the eflbrts which were made to tind indictments against Colonel Dudley, but tho committeo preferred to see the witnesses and ask them questions. The gentlemen who have statements to make were preferred in person. Senator Voorhces then said he would request them to appear in person before tho committee if time was given. The committee ad journed nntil next Friday, when Leon Baile3 Judge CJaypool and possibly one or two other Indiana Democrats era expected to appear before the committee to go over the same ground that Senator Vooihees has covered. The eilect of the work to-day will simply delay action. This is understood to be the only hope of Senator Voorhecs. who wonld dignity tho charges by sccuriniz delay in committee action. Judce Woods is to be supplied with a complete digest of the charge, that be may answer tbem seriatim, either iu person beforo the committee or by maiL l'KAISE F1I031 A DEMOCRAT. IIow Cot Ilrlght Tiews the Ilea nit of the Dlatrlct Jlcetlnc In Indiana, . Eperialto the Indianaio:i Journal. Washington, Jan. 22. "I should think the political friends of President Harrison would rind much in tbe resultsof thedistrict conventions in his State yesterday to be proud of," said Col. Richard Bright to the Journal correspondent this afternoon. Col. Bright is one of the stanchest and bestknown Democrats in Indiana, and bis Democracy is of a very pronounced character. "I notice." continued the Colonel, "that every committeeman selected is a Harrison man, through and through. Indiana Republicans are now certain to be solid for the renomination of President Harrison in the Minneapolis convention, and I want to add right here,'' and the Colonel raised his voice to nn earnest pitch, "that it would have letn a disgrace to the Bepublicans of Indiana if they had refused to stand by th;r President. General Harrison is stronger today with his party in Indiana tbao he w.ts in lbSS. Furthermore, he is stronger hv fore the party at large. His administration has removed all adverse criticism or doubt as to his ability or integrity. He ti