Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1892.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER C, T302.

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All communications intended for publication in this paper must, in order toreenre attention, beaotompamed by the name and address of the tenter TIIK INDIANAPOLIS JOUUNAL. Can be found at the folio win places: X-AUrs American Kxchauge in Paris, 33 Bonlarard tie Capuciuea. KEW "YOB K G llacy Hon and Wlndaor Hotel. rillLADELriHA-A. iCKesabls, 8735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. R, Hawley A Co., 154 Tine stmt LoinsviLLE C. T. Ixrrtn, northwest oorner of Third andJcSeraon sireU. m BT. LOUIS Union News Co, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. CIUggs Hon sad EbtUJ House. For President. UIINJAMIN HAKKISON, of Indiana, For. Vice-President, Willi KLAW Hi:iD. of New York. The collapse of tho Peopled party in Ihe Florida election proves, as it did in Arkansas, that it has no hold in tho tSonth, even where the Republicans do Dot put up n ticket. No day passes that one or more of tho older citizens of Indianapolis does Dot 'como to this office and relate his experience with State-bank currency. As yet not one of them wants any more of it. Does any sensible man in Indianapolis or other Indiana manufacturing center believe that labor will be as fully employed and wages as good if any considerable portion of its production should be transferred to Europe by a chance in the tariff? The abuse of candidate Shiel by men who never earned a dollar outside of office-hold bp, and who could not get $5 worth of goods on credit in this city, will help a man who has the brains to make money and the heart to help every deserving cause that asks his aid. A patriotic man could vote for n man for Vice-president who went with his State into the confederate army, but he cannot consistently, vote for ono who went into the cowardly Golden Circle, against the sentiment of his State, to assault the Union cause m the rear. Mil. Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Fairchild, who recommended the contraction of tho currency in one of his annual reports by calling in and destroying the $346,800,000 of legal tenders or greenbacks, favors the State-bank plank of tho Democratic platform. When a Governor, elected by Democratic votes, is prevented from finishing a speech criticising party management by tho throwing of rotten eggs by Democrats, as was the case in Tennessee, it is fair to assume that only one party is tolerated in tho Democratic States of the South. While Democratic stumpers are declaring that tho reciprocity feature of the McKinley law is of no account the commercial interests of Great Britain and Germr.ry have raised a loud cry of alarm and have taken steps to break it down. They are better informed than tho free-trado stumpers. This is the ihst time in tho history of parties that one has undertaken to destroy manufacturing enterprises which will give employment to thousands of men and millions of capital, and this is tho first congressional district in the rountry in which one of these industries Is located whose member has declared war on it. A Republican farmer in this county nrho employs quite a number of hands has been plied by Democrats with the irgument that protection is against his interest because it increases wages and makYs it difficult to get farm bands. This is characteristic of a party which is all things to all men, and has no honest views oh any question. During the fiscal year 1S92 the values of farm prodnceexportedweroincreased over those of 1S90 as follows: Bacon, 819,000,000; beef, 812,000,000; live cattle, $10,000,000; cereals, $150,000,000. Tho decided increase in meat products is due largely to the removal of the prohibition of France and Germany , upon the importation of American hog products. Tiie Philadelphia Record notes tho fact that all the great institutions of learning in this country arc entering thp Dew academio year with largely increased freshmen classes. Nothing is each a sure sign of general financial prosperity as tho crowding of colleges. It is another proof of the benefits of a protective tariff, & circumstance, however, that the esteemed Record neglects to mention. In his speech to the Democratic clubs in New York, Mr. Cleveland had not a 'word to say about free trade, free silver coinage or the wild-cat bank plank in the Democratic platform, but ho came out strong on "tho preservation of the Constitution of tho United States," "the autonomy cf the States," "the self-government and freedom of elections," and "the contagious plague of extravagance in the public service." What a monumental fraud he is! "If the advocates of free-silvor Coinago could experience its operations and effect as I have done they would be completely cured." Tho speaker was awellknown citizen of Indianapolis who spent several years in Mexico, engaged in tho banking business. "Mexico," he

continued, "is on an exclusively silver

basis, and it has free coinage. Any person who has nine hundred dollars worth of silver bullion or bars can send it to tho mint and have returned to him $1,100 in silver dollars, not a cent being charged for coinage. Silver coin is very abundant, and is nominally par in Mexico, but. if you want exchange on the United States you have to pay from 2o to SO per cent, for it. I do not wonder our silver-mine-owners all want free coinage; it would be big money in their pockets, but ruin to other people." THE KTINLEY LAW AND FOREIGN CONVICT LABOR. While the Democratic House, when it was framing the Mills bill, in 1688, prevented the adoption of any clause prohibiting or in any way increasing the duty on goods produced by foreign con vict labor, the Republican House and Senate, in 1S90, made such a proposition a section of the bill, which reads as follows: Section 51. That all goods, wares, arti cles of merchandise, manufactured wholly or id Dart in any foreign country by convict labor, shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and tho importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is Authorized to prescribe each regulations as maybe necessary for the enforcement of this provision. Pursuant to the above provision, the Secretary of the Treasury, in all forms for the importation of goods, requires tho importer to swear that his particular invoico contains no goods which are the product of convict labor. ' This section of tho McKinley law, ns well as all others, every Democratic member of the House from Indiana voted against when he voted against tho McKinley bill. They all showed their hostility to the proposition by voting time after time, in committee of the whole, in 18S3, ncainst it, no matter in what connection or form it was presented. 'Mr. Bynum was ono of those Democrats and a member of the committee on ways and means who assisted in framing the Mills bill When the Republicans came to frame a bill, in 1890, one of its original sections prohibited the importation of tho products of convict labor. THE ROTTEN-EGG ARGUMENT.' When rotten eggs were thrown at General Weaver and Mrs. Lease in Macon it was claimed by the Democratic press of the State that the incident was not one peculiar to tho South, but that the outrage might have been perpetrated by hoodlums anywhere, and the People's party candidate was criticised for refusing to speak again in Georgia, thus laying the responsibility of the affair upon the State. Since then these two speakers have met with a similar reception in Richmond, Va., the head center of Southern aristocracy; and Governor Buchanan, the People's party candidate for re-election, has been rotten-egged by a Tennessee audience. It will do no good for Thomas Nelson Page, James Lane Allen and other Southern writers to sound the praises of the "New South" so long as it retains so many of tho objectionable characteristics of tho old South. The same intolerance, prejudice and ignorance exist thero as in former days, as these incidents prove. Untl the Democratic leaders permit light, even of the dim sort disseminated by tho People's party, to shine into the dark places the same conditions will prevail. So far as mere party supremacy is concerned, this may not matter, but where free speech is domed thero can be little material progress. Settlers will not go in from the Nofn, capital will shun the region, and the Southern States will remain as they have always been tho most backward, unenterprising and unattractive part of the country. Those rotten eggs will reach further and do more execution than was meant. Hox. Wayne MacVeagh, in searching for reasons to justify his desertion to the Democracy, falls foul of the silver question in this fashion: The Republican party ought to be an honest money party, and it would be if it could; but while it demanded increased bounties for its favorite manufacturers it could not refuse increased bounties to the "silver-producers, as the votes they control were probably necessary to the passage of the MoKinley bill. The poison of a debasod currency is making itself daily more and more felt in every channel of basinets And finance, and it is inevitably driving gold oat of thecbuntry and leading us to all the evils of a fluctuating and, therefore, dishonest currency, based upon silver alone. Is tho man a fool, or does ho think other people are fools, that he attempts to hold the Republican party up as the advocate of a debased currency and the Democratic party as the defender of a sound currency! Is Mr. MacVeagh utterly ignorant of political history, or docs he take other people for ignoramuses? There is not a man of ordinary intelligence in tho country, except, perhaps, Mr. MacVeagh, who does not know that tho Democratic party has been on the wrong side of every financial question during the last thirty years, and that at the present time it poses all over the West and South as the friend of free-silver coinage. The troublo with MacVeagh has always been 'that his intellect is bred down eo lino ho has no common sense. The absence of President Harrison from tho Columbian celebration in New York and the dedication of the world's fair in Chicago will bo a great disappointment to tho people, and will detract materially from the interest of both occasions, but tho painful circumstances that prevent his attendance will be accorded full weight. Nothing connected with his own comfort or convenience could keep him away from theso celebrations, but tho critical and perhaps fatal illness of Mrs. Harrison makes it imperative that he should remain with her. There are some duties in life to which the highest pnblicdut'us and engagements must yield. Where Wayne MacVeagh is known his declaration for Mr. Cleveland is not a surprise, and attributing to him any personal political influence is regarded as absurd. Mr. MacVeagh has not been in accord with the Republicans for years. He was hostile to General Grant, and did Mr. Rlaino no good, even if he voted for him, which is doubtful. A son-in-

law of tho late Simon Cameron, he has been hostile to him and his son in politics for years. He supported Garfield because ho was opposed by the influence of the Camerons and Grant influence. Now a special partner in the Cleveland law firm, and always a grumbler, he naturally supports him.

The following is an extract from an interview with Representative Bynum, published in tho Sentinel: The Republican party has always commanded the support of the conservative business interests of this country. This element is more powerful to-day than ever before in oar history. Great commercial interests have grown ud within the last few years, involving tho investment of millions of dollars, the operators of which care nothing tor politics 60 that they can be assured of a stable and honest administration of affairs. This wan said before the opening of the present campaign, and was intended as an argument for the nomination of Mr. Cleveland, the idea being that he was the only person who could compete with Harrison for the support of the business classes. Tho candidates and the platforms are now before tho country, and it is worth while for business men to ask themselves if there is any reason why tho present prosperous condition should be overturned. Mr. Bynum says: "The Republican party has always commanded the support of the conservative business interests of this country." So it has, Mr. Bynum, and we think it will continue to do so. . No, American ever advanced more rapidly to the front as a graceful, forcible and effective public speaker than Hon. Whitelaw Reid, Republican candidate for Vice-President, has done. When nominated he was known only as an excellent writerand occasional afterdinner orator. Since then he has delivered perhaps a dozen speeches, beginning with a good ono and improving every time, until now no speeches arc listened to or read with more pleasure than his. Mr. Reid has fully vindicated the wisdom of his Domination. Harper's Weekly kindly explains that the "independent voter" supportthe Democratic party at present because "in it Governor Hill's kind of 'honorable American politics' has suffered a crushing defeat." In viow of the several facts that Tammany, Hill's stronghold, is in charge of the Democratic campaign, that the holy Cleveland has made a deal with that corrupt organization, and that tho independent-voter element is snubbed and shoved into the background, this explanation is a trillo thin. A' Democratic speaker down in Georgia refers to the People's party in theso variegated terms: "The Populists are a rainbow gang; they are many-hued. They are red with the red of communism, blue with the blue of woman suffrage, and black with tho black of negro domination." When tho leaders talk in this way, is it any wonder that the listeners arm themselves with decayed eggs when they go to hear tho Populists! Iris of very little consequence whether there are parades or not if tho earnest Republicans in places of business, factories and mills are putting in their efforts to bring out a full Republican vote.. Sin. JoiixGoddard, oi Greensburg, Ind., enjoys the unique distinction of being the only man that ever lived who gained possession of a meteoric stone by a decision of the courts. This is how it happened: Mr. Goddaid owns a farm in Iowa on which there is a tenant. About two years ago an aerolite fell on the farm,, burying itself in the ground. The tenant dug it up and sold it, after which Goddard brought suit to recover it on the ground that it belonged to him as owner of the land. The lower court decided in his favor, the case was appealed, and now the Supreme Court of Iowa has athrined the decision of the lower court, holding that as the aerolite fell from the heavens and buried itself in ttie soil it , became part of the realty, and belong to the owner of the land. This settles the law of meteroic atones. x A Kentucky hen has laid an egg with "G. C."on it in raised letters. Its owner thinks tho letters mean "Grover Cleveland," and are an omen of that person's sucoess, but, perhaps, they stand for "Kin cocktail" It was a Kentucky hen. To the Editor of the Jnaianaooils Journal: rieaso cive the names of the States that constitute tbe Northern States. Kepcblican. The term is comtnoulr applied to all tho States which were not slave State at the opening of tho civil war. POLITICAL .NOTE AND COMMENT. Tun New Yoric Union Printer supports Harrison for President. Tun Milwaukee Sentinel says that "Wayne MacVeagh voted for Mr. Cleveland in TS8,.and is a mugwump. The "Ameer of Straddlctown" is the name given by the irreverent Chicago Mail to Mr. Cleveland since his letter of acceptance whs issued. Sincr the outbreak of the Topeka Democrats against fusion, Kansas Republicans declare that the only question is the size of the Republican majority. ' Mr. Dana, of the Now York Sun, has sailed lor Genoa, and Governor Hill refused to call upon Mr. Cleveland. Such is the new variety of harmony. The Republicans of New Jersey appear to be making the liveliest campaign this year that is going on in any State, and many leaders are confident of carrying it for Harrison. Democrats, according to the New York Recorder's correspondent, admit that liarrison and Reid will carry Massachusetts by twenty thousand, but the Republicans claim thirty thousand. , The Connecticut town meetings, which are always held the first Monday in October, are considered favorable to the Republicans in the State at large. Local issues, Loffeter, enter into each contests. Ex-Senator Ingalls has decided to spend his entire time until election day in Kansas, and has written to the Republican committees in New York and Nebraska declining to speak in those States. One of the documents which the Democratic national committee is sending to induce voters to vote for free trade is a petition which the tailors of the country sent to Congress, asking lor more protection. The final Republican demonstration of the campaign m New York will take place on Saturday, Oct. 2'.. The big Democratic parade wiil take ptaceon Saturday, Nov. 5, thus reversing the order of four years ago. M it. Detew does not believe that women are at all efficacious in political campaign work. They were, during the war. ho 6ays, because the subjects then were sentimental. "Now we have come down to solid fact. I think it is of little nse for a womnn to stand upon a platform and talk upon the tariff.

reciprocity and the money question, or any other of the leading issues." Senator Fuyk has remarkable staying powers as a campaign speaker. He made twenty-three speeches in succession in Maine, and bis voice is none the worse for it. He has now gone West, and has been announced tor more dates than he can possibly hll in Missouri. Kansas. Nebraska uud the Dakotas. For one day be is billed to speak in three towns, morning afternoon and evening. . 4 According to tne New York CommercialAdvertiser, a politician who trustworthiness is beyond dispute met a Tammany, leader m Washington the other evening who, in a moment of exhilaration, remarked: "Cleveland shall not carry New York. The Hill politicians are. it is true, speaking a good word for the candidate, bat they will nil have their little knives well sharpened and handy on election da v. Don't make any mistake about that. The supremacy of Hill and the Hill type of Democracy in fhs Empire State must and will be demonstrated very forcibly on Nov. 8."

BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Rank Injustice. "I am getting tired of this Injustice," said the tripper to the barrel. "You are the one who gets loaded, and then I get pulled on account of it." There Is a Difference. lie Jiow, I admit that I am no angel She 2sol 8o that was not what papa meant when he said you were something of a highflyer. How the Klot Began. Isn't this a campaign of education!" asked the casual caller. "I guess so," answered the busy man. "Why!" "Oh, uothin only It seemed to me that the tin horns were not getting their share of footers this year." A Qaeatlnn of Happiness. 8ne You must be happy when you slug that way. He Indeed! Cannot one sing without being happy I the At any rate, you must be exquisitely happy, compared with those who listen to you. A Limited 1111. "The women of our church Intend giving a series of alphabet suppers,", said Mrs. Cloeeclutch, in her best "please-may-l-have-a-dollar" voice. 'What the dickens is an alphabet supperl" growled her amiable lord. "Why, a supper where the name of each of the articles begins with the same letter. For JnBtauce, there may be beans, bread, butter, berries" "Yes, I see," growled Mr. Closeclutch. Then, after a moment's thought, he added: Look-a-here. 'If you are goin; into any such nonsenf e as that, I want you to iake tbe letter X for your nlcht." . (JKESHAM'S ATT1TDDK. Judge Grksiiam is one of those unfortunates who can never foraive the Republican party for not accepting and promoting them at their own valuation iiufialo Commercial. Although it is said that Judce Gresbam is not prompted by personal differences in his present course, it is safe tosay that he cousiders Uenjamin fiarruon an uutit person to hold the presidency. St. Louis PostJJispatch (Dem.) Thk Gresbain defection on a personal matter does not otlset the acquisition of George Ticknor Curtis on a matter of principle. Thon. Mr. Curtis was never a candidate for the presidency. Brooklyn Standard-Union. We are sorry to Jose Judge Gresham from the Republican party, but such defections are not a miracle, and they do not seriously inlluence the (treat movements of politios. He is by mature lurgelyociallstio in his ideas, as many an honest and able man has been. Boeton Advertiser. If he should vote for Cleveland, tbe fact would be of no consequence. Every newspaper reader knows that Judge Gresham has a personal grievance aaainst tho President; and a man who changes hiapolitics because his own estimate of himself is not accepted by others will not carry .much weight. Philadelphia 1'ress. Tun New York World is very poor authority for ' the statement that Judge Gresham will vote for Cleveland. Hut the matter is of little consequence. As a com promise between running on tho Alliance ticket tor President mid doing nothing, a vote lor Cleveland, rotten bank currency and ruined industries might answer. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. To repress the fact that his Gresham's relations with President Harrison have long been strained would be disingenuous. The pains at which Republicans are to note this fact as the caute of his "coming out" acd the care taken by the Democrats to ine st that the fact is not tho cause unitedly uUverlise the fact itself. It were falsity to denv and lolly to ignore the fact. Brookljnaule(Dem.) The Republican National Convention of 1888 soured Gresham, and up to that time ho was steadfast in bis faith. That is the secret of Judge Gresham's opposition to President Harrison, and he does himself an injustice if (as reported by his lneuds) he imputes the change of heart to the tariit question. It was the same disappointment that drove William II. Seward around tho world aud Salmon P. Chase into the Democratic party. Springfield (O.), RepublicTimes. ' For many years Judge Gresham was regarded as a firm advocate of Republican principles, and it is difficult to conceive bow a man of his training, associations and habits can be willing to sustain tbe Democratic party in the present national contest. Yet the Judge would probably be consulting his own "personal comfort" in many ways by making a tiual choice as to the politioal camps which would land him amongst the followers of Mr. Cleveland. Philadelphia Telegraph. If Judge Gresham takes such a steo, it will be interpreted throughout the country, no matter what reason he may assign, as the result of personal feeling against the Republican party for failing to nominate him for President in 18S8, aud against the President. Mr. Harrison not only obtained the nomination in lbZ8 which Gresham coveted, but he failed to appoint the latter to the seat ou the Supreme bench now held by Judge Brewer. The man who changed his political belief because of personal pique is not likely to have a numerous following. Toledo Blade. State I'rens Comment. So long as Gresham poses as a menace to the party, allowing all other parties to use his name as against us, he is hurting the party more than though he was an oat and out Democrat. We are tired of (Jreehaiu's political cholic Brazil Enterprise. Judge Guesiiam has had as many warm friends in Crawfordsvillo as in any other locality in tho United States; but not a single one of them will follow him ipto tbe Democratic camp. We say this after having acquired accurate knowledge on the subject. Crawfordsville Journal. If Judge Gresham should now abandon the party which has always honored him. whose latest principles he championed and whose highest favor he coveted, but failed to win, ho would sutler inestimably in publio esteem, and nobody could account for his course on any hypothesis honorable to him. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. Theke is no reason to doubt the report that Judge Gresham has declared in favor of Cleveland for President, and there is less reason for professing surprise that he should have determined upon such a course of action. It is rather lamentable, however, that he should seek to excuse himself on the cround that he cannot indorse the Republican party as it is now constituted. The apology is Ambiguous and gauzy. The party, in every esseutial particular, is identically the same as it was wbft Judge Grfsham professed loyalty by appealing for support for the nomination for i'resi-. dent, and it is plain as a proposition can be made that his alleged change of heart was not brought about Dy promptings which involved principle, but is the direct and

sole result of personal pique and spite. Lafayette Courier. Judge Guf.su am cannot escape the imputation in the public mind that be is actuated by personal dislike of President Harrison and that being so his act in voting for Cleveland will not have a net result of loss of votes for the Republican candidate. More likely it will have the reverse etlect. Few. very few Republicans will desert their party to follow-him. He has bad many admirers and warm personal friends,, but they are not likely to abandon their party allegiance when their party's issue is the one they believe in. , Rut his decision and the use the Democrats will endeavor to make of it will stimulate Republicans to renewed etlorC Terre Haute Express. If the rumor that Judge Gresham will vote for Cleveland turns out to be well founded, tbe distinguished jurist will certainly place himself in a very unenviable light. He has been honored by bis fellowRepublicans of this aud other States, with a respect and appreciation that few publio men have enjoyed. There is nothing in the present attitude of the party or its receut declaration of principles to warrant its abandonment by one who has stood by it for so many campaigns. The inevitable conclusion will be that the Judge's courso has been inlluenced by personal disappointment or personal dislike of President Harrison, his more successful rival for politicalfavor. Anderson Herald.

AN IMPORTANT VETKKAN MEETING. The National Encampment of the Union Veteran Leeion Hre Neit Week. There is a good deal going on now, but there can never be so much that the people of Indianapolis will not have time to welcome an organization of veterans. Next week, as has been frequently stated, the National Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion will hold its annual meetings here.There will be large delegations from all the larger cities of the East, and these have already engaged quarters at the hotels. The one thing.which the committee of the local camp is chietly anxious about now is tbe decoration of the leading streets like Washington and portions of Tennessee, 11liuois, Pennsylvania leading into it At the meeting last night this committee adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That this committee earnestly request the occupants of the buildings on Washington street to recognize our guests of the National Encampment by decorating them on Tuesday, Wednesday aud Thursday. The sessions of the encampment will be held in Tomlinson Hall, where there will be a camp-lire of rare interest Wednesday evening. Thursday eveumg the Indiana Commandery of the Loyal Legion will show their appreciation of the visiting veterans by a reception and collation in Toinlinson Hall. Thursday afternoon there will brt a procession in charge of Major Ross. But the urgent matter is that of decoration.' CITY. AFFAIRS. . Sin all Street-Improvement Contracts X.et by the Hoard of Works. The Board of Public Works had a rather dull session yesterday morning. About tbe most important business was the opening of bids for publio improvements as follows: Forgradiun ami paving with, brick the roadway 01 Tennessee street, from the north property line of South street to a point 240 feet north, Capitol Paving and Construction Company Cnnton repressed brick, $V5 per foot on each side; Wabash Clav Company brick. $8. Fulmer it Seibert Canton repressed brick, ST.Oo; Wabasb Clay Company bricK, 7.&. Robert Keunington Canton repressed brick, Wabash Clay Company brick, $7.f0. Robert Kennington being the lowest bidder the board awarded him the contract at $7.r.O per foot, Wabash Clay Company brick and stratified euro to be used. For grading and paving with brick the roadway of New Jersey street, from a point on a line drawn from the southwest corner of square SI to the' northeast corner of square ICO. to tho north property-line of South street: Capitol Paving and Construction Company Canton repressed brick. S.'J5 per loot, each side; Wubash Clay Company brick, $3.00. Robert Kennington Canton repressed brick, $S..)T; Wabash Clay Company brick, $H.5Q. Fulmer V. Sei bert Cantor? repressed brick, $f.75; Wabash Clay Company or Malvern brick, S8.40. Fulmer fc Seibert were awarded the contract at S.4f per lineal foot, each side. Wabash Clay Company brick to be used, and stratified curb. For grading and graveling the first alley north of Elizabeth street, from the east property-line of Douglass street to the west property-line of the second alley east of Douslass strest: George H. McCaslin 51 cents per lineal foot, each side; Fisher & Tallentire. 35 cents; P. L. Phillips, co cents; Daniel Foley, 28 cent?; John Greene. ii7l4 cents; George V. McCray, 27 cents. George W. McCray being the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him the contract. For grading and graveling the first alley east of Douglass strest, from the south or west property line of Indiana aveuue to the north property line of the first alley south of Indiana avenue George H. McCaslin, S'iMt cents per lineal foot, each side; Fisher & Tallentire, 6 cents: Daniel Folev, 25 cente; P. E. Phillips, 23 cents; John Greene. 21 and 18 cents; George W. McCray. la cents. George W, McCray was awarded the contract. , For grading and graveling the roadway, grading una paving with brick tbe sideWalks of Clitlord avenue, from the eat curb line of Tecumseh street to the west curb line of Jollerson avenue (south) Geo. H. McCaslin, per lineal foot, each side; Daniel Foley, $2.13; Fulmer & Seibert, $1.93; Fisher fc Tallentire. ?1.P: P.E.Phillips. SLl'J. P. E. Phillips was awarded the contract. For grading and graveling the roadway, grading and paving with brick the sidewalks of Clitiord avenue, from tbe west curb line of Jeiierson aveuue (south) to the east property tino of Keystone avenue (south) George H. McCaslin. $U2 per lineal foot, each side; Fisher Sc Tallentire, $1.81; Fulmer k Seibert, 81.6'JL Fnimer &. Seibert being the lowest and best bidders, the board awarded them the contract. For grading and graveling the roadway, grading and paving with brick tbe sidewalks of Eureka aveuue, from the north property line , of Michigan street to the toutb property line of Clitlord avenue Geo. H. McCaslin. $ I. K per lineal foot, each eide; Fulmer 5c cseibert. 2l.b4; Fisher fc Tallentire. $l.t0; Daniel Foley, gl.CO; John Gresne. $1.55; E. Fuebnng V: Co., $L1L Obstruction of lltiftlnesft Street. There never has been a time in the history of the city when the business streets were so much obstructed as they have been lately. The street-car company had Pennsylvania and Washington streets torn up and blockaded during the State fair, and now Meridian street looks liko a gravelbed. In the meantime, the street-car company goes ahead disregarding the orders of. the Board of Publio Works to make its tracks conform to the grade of the streets. Municipal Note. . The city controller yesterday paid the police and fire forces. The pay-roll amounted to $10,000. The board yesterday ordered the engineer to prepare the necessary papers for a big sewer in Fast street and adjacent thoroughfares. A petition was filed1 with the Board of Public Works yesterday for the permanent improvement of Central avenue, from the State ditch to Seventeenth street. No action was taken. Charles Scholia was granted permission by the board to lay cement sidewalks in front of o? aud ott Indiana avenue. James B. Black in front of JM North Pennsylvania street, and the English Lutheran Church, on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania and Walnut streets. !pnlli Knights Wanted. The committee on parades in tbe Columbian demonstration movement yesterday decided to call for sixty volunteer horsemen, to be costumed us Spanish Kuigbts, apd to take i art in the night parade. Citizens volunteering to give their services and their own horses will have :he costumes furnished them. They are desired i .to report to General Kneller, who will be i marshal of the night parade.

TIIEY WILL TAKE ACTION

Meeting of the State Organization of Building and Loan Associations. A Good Deal to Be Feared from Vicions legislation Address Made byllernbrTS A Legislative Committee Appointed. A special meeting of the State organization of Indiana building and loan associations was held yesterday in tbcagneultural rooms of tbe State-house. There were about thirty-five associations represented by secretaries, attorneys or other delegates. Tt.e meeting was called ta coiAider the interests of building and loan associations of Indiana in reference to the existing laws and the possible action of the next General Assembly ot Indiana in reference to what is so well known as the "poor man's bank.". Tbe subject was discussed in relation to taxation and legislation by the president, Charles Martindale, Judge Koyse, of Terre Haute, and others, and the president was authorized to appoint a legislative committee of seven, who shall look; after the interests of Indiana building and loan associations before the next Legisla tore. The drift of tbe cense of tbe meeting was that morels to be feared from vicious legislation, which is therefore to be prevented, than is to be gained by certain legislation abont which there is some unity of approval. President J. D. Johnson, of Kokomo, entertained the meeting with a paper ou the general interests of building and . loan associations. He said thea are 50,100 ' people in Indiana holding membership in the associations, and of theso SOO.UOO are wage-earners. 25,000 arc children and a large number are women. The rest are capitalists, or men of wealth, bet-king saft investmeuts. The aotual capital stock of tbe associations, he said, is 70,000,000. In order to foster this growiug source of State and private wealth, bo ursed that there should be more uniformity of plans. Mr. Johnson then considered the three plans in operation, the termination, which yielded to tba serial, and then the "Dayton" plan, which is. he said, tbe best, and is rapidly proving the most popular. The chief objects, ho said, of the Dayton plan are to furnish a cheap money to borrowers, to provide for tbe privilege of paying as fast or slowly as the share-holder desires, to reduce rates of dividend to reasonable amount, to provide a surplus, to allow members withdrawing all that they have paid m. and to provide a nickel savings bank. Mr. Johcsou advised that only a reasonable rate of iuter est or dividend be promised investors. A high rate, he said, is a mistaken policy. lu the Davton plan the stockholder becomes a series by himself and ean maturs his 6tock at any time. The president theu referred to the national associations as menace to tbe State associations and ai promoters ot impossible schemes. It ll time, he said, to shut them out of the State. All associations, he said, should hie reports of the business done during each year. Of the S44.POO members in the state Association 55 per cent, are depositors and 45 per cent, are borrowers. The total uumber of loans, in Indiana is 95.OU0, averaging $700 each. Of these, C8, &00 were made to build of buy homes. Tbe figures iven are not such as give encouragement to the calamity howlers. Only one association had lost money by theft during the year, $OJ being stolen from tho eafo. A. IL Hovey, of Indianapolis, read 'a paper on taxation as it allects associations in Indiana. He said that the laws of Indiana on this subject are fair and just. Under their provisions the total loans bud increased from $3.2M,Slot in 18J0. to 3,852,4i7 in lt&2, or 175 per cent. Charles Martindale. of Indianapolis, read a paper on legislation. AmericauB, he said, rely too much on legislation, but it would be well, h said, to provide for oompulsory annual reports He thought the legislation, of the future would relate to three thingssecurity, equality and taxation. He was opposed, he said, to the scheme to create the othce of State examiner, and instanced the inetliciency of tbe State Insurants Bureau in support of his position. Papers were ulso read by Henry S. Rosen thai, of Cincinnati, editor of the Cooperative News; by A. L. Gutheil, of Winchester, on the "Serial vs. Perpetual Plan." and by A. B. Irwin, of Rushville. on "Fines, Their Use and Abuse," Ihe drift of sentiment was adverse to fines. The association adjourned subject to the call of the president. DEATH OF COL JAJIES 11. RICE. It Occurred Early Yesterday Morning CoL Kick's Political Streneth. Col. James II. Rico died a. few minutes before 5 o'clock yesterday morning at the Grand Hotel. His death at that time was not a surprise, his friends and relatives having been prepared to hear of it at any moment. Those having the funeral arrangements in charge announce the following programme: The body will He in state at the Grand Hotel from 7 to 12 a. m. Co-day. and may bo viewed by friends. An opportunity to view the remains will also be open lrom 2 ta 9 i'. M.. at the home of Mrs. Ryan, on Nortli Mississippi street. The pall-bearers to escort the body to Mrs. Ryan's home a ro" Thomas Taggart, J. W. Kern. Myron I. King. A. C. Ayres, J. O. Henderson, John F. Henrjepsy. A. G. Smith, George F. Miller aui Joseph T. Fanning. They are requested to meet atKrcgelo& Whltsett'sat 1 P. M. The train bearing the body to New Athany will leave Friday at 8 a. m. The bedy :i 1:.. i.. .....a.. . i , vt l. . . (wtii lie iu niftio tutir iruiu i . u ciuck. lu o, rtrevions to the funeral. The honorarr pall-bearers to accompany the remains are) Hon. John E. Lamb. Terre Haute; Hon. Frank Burke, Jefiersonville: Hugh Dougherty, Blutlton; Otto Gresham, Brace Carr, S. R. Holt. William Nichols, of Indianapolis, and Hon. Perry Blue. Sullivan. At New Albany local friends of the deceased will take charge of tbe body. The Hendricks Club last eight appointed a committee to prepare a memorial tribute as follows: J. O. Henderson, J. P. Dunn, A. G. Smith, J. B. Mavnard. V. M. Barkus. The following members were appointed to accompany the cortege to New Albany: S. E. Morss. Thomas Taggert. J. O. Hen. dersou, Leon O. Bailey, Dr. Metcalf. John 1L Wilson. Victor M. Back us. T. L. Sullivan, Harvey D. Vories, Charles Daugherty, l;qwsrd Hawkins. John Carlin. P. II. McNeils, Albert Gnril, Timothy (iriflin. Albert Sahm. Joseph T. Fanning, W. W. Short, James L. Keach. L. A. Helms. J. B. Maynard, Charles M. Cooper, Chris N. Steiu, Myron D. King, James M. Cropsey. W. A. Peelle. jr., James B. Curtis. Millard F, Cox, August M. Kuhn, John Debusb. Maurice Donnelly, Capt James McIIugh. In the death of Colonel Rice the Democratic party in Indiana lost one of its best men. His political knowledge w as greater than that posssned by any other tnan in his party, and that accomplishment was due. no doubt, to his excellentjuemory of faces and names. Once he met a man, be never forcot him nor his place of residence, and this faculty made him very valuable to the Democratic political managers. In his death, too, Cleveland has lost probably bis greatest political opponent in this State. Colonel Rice practically led the Democratio forces opposed to Cleveland's nomination in Indiana, and.when he realized that his nomination whs assured he left the Chicago convention in disgust and returned to this city. He was opposed to Cleveland's nomination because he felt that he could not be elected. It is recalled now that upon Colomd Rice's return from Chicago, three or four days before the nominations were made, he declared that the ticket would be Cleveland aud SteveDsnn. Such accurate prophecies as this, covering a period of many years, was what brought politicians pot only at home, but abroad, to rely almost' implicitly noon his judgment regarding local and State elections. Lo'ii Like It. Boston Transcript Jnl ) It is to be hoped that Mr. Cleveland does not mean to apologize for his conrteis treatment of Fred Douglass in tbe latin's ouicial capacity as Register of Deeds; tut bis letter to the Atlanta Constitution squints a little that way.