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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892.

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Tan be found at the following places: i'A IUH American Exchange in Paris, 36 Boulevard de Capnclnes. t yEW YORK Gilsey Ilouse and Windsor noteL ' riTILADELPniA A. TTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CIXCIXXATW. B. Ilawley & Co, 154 Vine street. - LOUISVILLE C. T. D 'in g, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOUIS Union News Co., Union Depot. WASniXQTOX, D. C. Eiggs nouse and Ebbltt House. It is entirely eafe to predict that no message of Mr. Cleveland's tvill ever be attacked or criticised by tbo British press. . When tbo monument commissioners get through marring it they should label it "A monument to everything in general and nothing in particular." The free-trade papers in this country and all the Democratic organs do not like the President's message any better than the British newspapers. They are all of a kind. . Tnz road congress has been a good advertisement for Indiana, but a general system of good 'roads would be a far better one. That would give the State a genuino boom at homo and abroad. It is gratifying to Republicans to note the fact that while Democratic papers criticise President Harrison's message, none of them eay that it is commonplace, while several that aro capablo of judging declare it is able. TnE New York Post sneers at Postmaster-general Wanamaker's business fiy referring to his "bargain-counter." Sneering at men engaged in trade may be the correct thing for the Anglomaniac, but it is bad form in this conntry ' TnE official returns of the recent election in New York show that Mr. Cleveland lacked considerable of getting a majority of the votes cast. The total vote was 1,858,413, of which Cleveland received 654,500, Harrison C09.197, ' Bidwell (Pro.) 86,029, Weaver 17,674, while the Socialists cast 16,433 votes, and there were 23,703 scattering and blank. Mr. Cleveland lacked 24,707 of a majority. "It will be impossible to got a dollar for new public buildings,'' Mr. Bynum is reported as declaring in Washington. He is doubtless correct in his judgment, but why should ho make the announcement when he has a bill on the calendar making an appropriation for a muchneeded publio building in Indianapolis a building whose construction is demanded, not only by the convenience of a largo city, but by practical economy? Some commotion has been caused in whisky circles by the announcement that the trust has advanced the price from $1.15 to $1.20 rer gallon. The advance took effect on Wednesday, It was at first supposed that it was a speculation made in expectation of Congress increasing the tax, but there is better reason to believo it wus tho result of a shrewd move on the part of the trust to raise tho price of its product. It first bought up nearly all the Kentucky whisky in the market, which is produced by distillers not in the trust, and, having thus got a corner on tho market, it advanced the price. The indications are that pork will bo higher this winter than it has been for some years past. Hogs are scarce and there is no reserve supply to be thrown on the market, as there is of wheat and corn. The low prico of hogs for tho past two or three years seems to have induced farmers to neglect them, henco the present scarcity. Tho farmers have erred in not raising enough hogs, just as they have erred in raising too much wheat. Hogs aro nearly twice as high now as they were a year ago this time, and average considerably lighter. Their scarcity will make the packing business light this season, and pork will bo high. Governor McKinley docs not propose to retire from politics, at least not just yet. To a friend who asked him if he would be a candidate for rehoniination next year he replied that so far as his own desires are concerned he would prefer not to be, "but," he added, 'tho present conditions force tho tariff as the issue between the parties next year. If the Republicans of Ohio como to think that this should indicate my candidacy for a second term I will not refuso to lead them. Should a majority of my party desire my renomination I would accept, and would make tho most earnest campaign of my life." William McKinley, jr., is a manly man ind has tho courage of his convictions. "The Lost Surplus" is the headline which tho Louisville Courier-Journal puts over the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. "Tho lost surplus," which was accumulated for a political purpose during the Cleveland administration and deposited in favored banks without interest, has been applied to reducing the public debt and interest. The man who calls that losing money is an idiot. President Harrison jut the case well in his message when he said: 'If there are any who still think that

tho surplus should have been kept out of circulation by hoarding it in the treasury or deposited in favored banks without interest, while tb&government continued to pay to these very banks interest upon the bonds deposited as security for the deposits, I am content to leave the argument where it now rests."

QOVEEHMEKT FIHAKCE3. Whatever the political complexion of the administration may be, every patriotic American, be he Republican or Democrat, must wish to see the government finances ably and successfully managed. The credit of the government is something in which all are interested, and no ono can wish to see it impaired by a failure to meet its obligations or to discharge its full duty to the people. No one wants to see the government cramped for means to meet its legitimate expenses, and still less does any ono wish to seo a deficit. While a failure to secure the necessary revenue or to meet the obligations of the government might injure the party in power it would also injure the credit and prestige of tho government, and no good citizen desires to see that happen. In short, the management of government finances and the discussion of Questions relating thereto should be conducted on strict business principles and without reference to partisan politics. The incoming administration will find the government finances in good condition. True, there will be no largo surplus in the treasury, but a cash balance of $20,902,000, exclusive of the reserve fund of $100,000,000, which, it is estimated, will exist on the 80th of June, 1803, is a very healthy one, and if tho present prosperous conditions continue the available surplus at the close of the fiscal year is much more likely to exceed than to fall short of this amount. This supposes that business will not be materially interfered with or the present revenue of tho government lessened by new legislation. Tho necessary expenditures of the government will bo greater during the present fiscal year than they were during last, and it will be necessary to provide for more revenue. During the last fiscal year the revenues from all sources were $425,603,200.22, and tho expenditures for all purposes were $415,053,800.56. It is estimated that the revenues for the present fiscal year, ending Juno SO, 1893, will bo $403,336,350.14 and the expenditures $401,336,350.14. These estimates are based on a continuance of the existing order of things, as obviously it would be only wild conjecture to adopt any other basis of estimate. It is the business of a financier to deal with conditions and not with theories. The Secretary of tho Treasury presents the estimated receipts and expenditures for the present fiscal year in a few large items, as follows: Receipts from customs $108,000,000.00 From internal revenue 1U5,000,000.00 From miscellaneous sources.... 20,000,000.00 From postal service 80.330,350.44 Total estimated revenues $463,333,350.44 The expenditures for the same period are estimated as follows: For the civil establishment 9103,000,000.00 For the military ectablishment.. 40,000,000.00 For tho naval establishment.... 31,000.000.00 For the Indian service. 9,000,000.00 For penaions 153.000.000.00 For interest on the rublic debt,. 26000,000.00 For postal service bO.336,350.44 Total estimated expenditures.$4Gl, 336,350.44 The postal service will be nearly selfsupporting this year, and, if all goes well, will be entirely so next year. The estimated receipts from this source for the next fiscal year aro $85,121,305, which, it is estimated, will exceed the expenditures by nearly $1,000,000. It will be observed that much the largest single source of revenue is customs, or tariff, duties. No material reduction can be made in this without providing for an increase from internal revenue, which would probably mean an increase in the tax on whisky. Tha? would be the most natural way of providing for an increase) of revenue, as it would bo less felt and more easily collected than any other. It would fall on a product capable of bearing it and the machinery for. its collection already exists. The restoration of tho duty on sugar would add very materially to tho revenues, but it would be an unpopular thing to do, and probably will not be done. The great problem that will confront tho next administration and none can deny that it will be a very difficult ono to solve will be how to reduce taxes and still maintain or increase the revenues. The government must have just so much revenue every year, and tho amount is likely to increase for many years to como. The Democratic party is under solemn pledges to tho people to reduce taxes, and it is under a bond to fate to raise not only as much revenue as the Republicans have been raising, but even more, for more will be required. How to do it and how not to do it is tho question that confronts them; how to increase tho revenue without increasing taxes. MB. LASGSDALE'3 DISCOVEEY. The defense, which Commissioner Langsdale has made of the changing of the purpose of the soldiers' monument is painfully weak when his intellectual acuteness is taken into consideration. There is one feature that is decidedly original, and that is found in the statement that "the Union cause would have been lost but for the soldiers trained in the Mexican war who entered the Union army and helped to organize it." Now, the world understands the real cause of the overthrow of the rebellion if they accept the infallibility of Captain Langsdale. It is a fact th.it quite a number of Mexican veterans helped organize tho federal army in the States of Indi-' ann, Illinois and Ohio, and their services were of tho highest value, but outside of those States t uch men were few, indeed, being chielly graduates of West Point, who had retired, like Grant and Sherman, but pressed to tho front at the first call. But there is another difficulty with Mr. Langsdalo's theory. It is well known that ten Mexican veterans went into the confederate army where one went into the Union army. If these huudreds had not better organized the Southern army at the outset than did the tens who aided in the organization of the Union army the latter could have overthrown the rebellion in six months.

It seems, therefore, that Captain Langsdale's Mexican argument proves too much. Commissioner Langsdale points out tbo fact that in tho files of the Journal can bo found the statement that two sides of the astragal "will" bo devoted to the Mexican war, 1840 1848." This is said to bo in an advertisement, and attracted no attention at the time. In Commissioner Langsdale's report to Governor novey, dated Nov. 10, 1600, the j following description of "Astragal No. 1" i is given in a notice to contractors which is signed by George J. Langsdale and dated Sept. 23, 1S00: This astragal is to represent tho years of the civil war, and will be placed twelve leet below the capital of the mam shaft, extending entirely around its four sides. Its dimensions shall be: Width, six feet;

length at bottom, inside measurement, for eich face of the shaft, thirteen feet and five and one-bait inches; top, thirteen feet and one and one-half inches; total measurement of astragal at lower line, lifty-three feet and ten inches. On each of the bveral faces of the monument one of the legends. "18C1," "1SG2," "lso3," ISO." will appear in the order named, the figures to be oiutlicit-nt size to be read from the earth beneath. Tho astragal is to be delivered at the monument, ready for setting, by the first day of March. lb'Jl. . It is doubtless true that the above was changed, and that some notice was given thereof, but the first real knowledge that any veteran had of it was when tho figures were put in place. If the chango was officially announced in any report to tho Governor it was not made public before the figures were put on the monument. An net of Congress requires the presidential electors of each Stato to meet In the capital thereof on the second Monday in January and cast their votes for President and Vice-president. Before this law was enacted most of the States had laws requiring tho electors to meet on the first Wednesday in December, but of course the national law supersedes the State laws. The Kentucky electors, however, duly impressed with the necessity of maintaining the dignity of a sovereign State, met in Frankfort on Wednesday and went through the farce of casting their votes for Cloveland and Stevenson. A Frankfort special to the Louisville Courier-Journal describes the proceedings and adds: The electors decided to return here on the second Monday in January and to go through with the same proceedings, that the federal law as well as the conflicting btate law may be complied with. They also privately advised their messenger to delay carrying the vote to Washington till after the January meeting. Somebody should have informed the electors that when a State law "conflicts" with a United States law it does not "go.M Perhaps, however, they only wanteifan excuse for making two trips to the capital and drawing per diem twice. m' It is reported that the ritie which was adopted by tho officers of the Gorman army as the best that could be found has proved to be of no value little better than 60 many clubs. Still the whole army is armed with them, and the change means a largo cost. This goes to show that such things are not donebetter by a government which exists by the alleged divine right of kings than they are done here. Our army officers have not been quito so swift to adopt new models, but it has secured ono of the best arms in, the world. If it is true, as reported, thatthe rifle of the German in-: fantrv is worthless what a neriod this' would bo for Franco to get even with its! old conqueror! The Sentinel of yesterday contained ' owi-r a column of matter devoted to an attempt to ridicule such veterans as Commander Chcadle, Commander Tucker and others who have taken a prominent" part in regard to the Mexicaniziug of the! soldiers' monument becauso they are offi-j cial representatives of the Grand Army, and the Union Veteran Legion. Mr.; Cheadlo enlisted Aug. 18. 1802, and; served until the close of tho war, and. Mr. Tucker enlisted Dec. 11, 1801, and served forty-seven months. It'is questionable taste to sneer at men with continuous accords in the ranks like tho gentlemen named and others who were alluded to. Tun world's fair committee on woman's work in Indiana have called a public meeting of women in this city to discuss the various phases of the work and to urge act ive co-operation on the part of all who are interested in having an exhibit from this Stato that will x compare well-with others, and of which citizens may be proad. Id some of the Eastern States, notably Massachusetts, women are preparing a display whose extent and character will, they assert, be a surprise and revelation to that part of the pnblio which has not acquainted itself with the part that women, are taking in the arts and industries. Indiana is not behind any other State in the enterprise, business qualities and achievements of her women, and shonld not fail to demonstrate this progress at the fair. The committee, however earnest and active it may be. cannot accomplish this end without the assistance of all concerned, and all women should at least attend the meeting to learn what is expected of them and what it is proposed to do. TllK PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. It must bo said that Mr. Harrjson takes his humiliation as gracefully as could be expected. New Yor. Evening Post. It is the calm, dignified worthy paper of the chief magistrate, but it is, at the same time, the bold, nnquailing trumpet-blast of the beaten but undismayed chief tain. Philadelphia Press. Demockats and assistant Democrats . flinch at the President's scorching words, end Republicans admire the courage and consistency of the strong man who stands right up to his convictions in defeat. Boston Journal. 9 The President goes to the country on his record, and whatever carpers and cavillers may thiuk it incumbent on them to say, it is a record that will borrow lustre by inevitable contrast as the years pass. Philadelphia North American. Pkesiuknt Harrison's message outlines the affairs of a great Nation as no small man coul'i loir. He has an appreciation of tho United States, what the country is and what it may be, that show both the quality of the statesman and the seer. Hartford Courant, Taken as a whole tho paper is one of the best that has emanated from the White House in manv administrations, and it will do more to cause the incoming party to keep in line for the welfare of the whole Ration than any argument that mav be made in Congress. knusas City Journal It is a pleasure to eay that President Harrison will go nut of office with theconfidence of the people unimpaired in his personal integrity and desire to promote the

public welfare. The people stand ready to overlook all other failings . in a man who does his best according to his light. Philadelphia Record (Dem.j It leaves nothing unsaid that shonld be said, and says nothing that requires unsaying as to the work of the administration which isnow about to close, andthe record of which, notwithstanding the adverse verdict of the lite election relative to the main issue of the campaign, is essentially clear and clean throughout. Washington Post.

INFECTED WITH MOTHS. California Flour-Blill3ubjeeteI to Great Loss by a Fest That Spins Strands of Silk. Sax Francisco, Cal., Dec, a Tho Morning Call has been investigating the subject of the presence in the flour-mills of this city and State of the Mediterranean flour-moth, and it deolares that it has already become analartmng pest, resulting in the loss of thousands of dollars to a number of large establishments, and that it will result in still greater loss before very long. The statements are based mainly anon interviews with W. G. Johnson, professor of entomology in Stanford University, and with r number of flour manufacturers. They state that there is hardly a mill in the State which is not affected by the moth, and thai all efforts to eradicate it have been unsuccessful. The moth is continually spinning straudsof silk in great quantities, which not only get into the Hour but also clog the machinery so badly that the mills are obliged to shut down temporarily. Professor Johnson, who has made a careful study of the subject, savs he has discovered that the moth propa gates more rapidly in this climate than in Canada, the Eastern States and other colder countries where it has appeared. He expects that the disastrous etlects of tins moth will be very apparent in nearly all the mills of the Stato before the end of another year. m PROPOSED POLAR EXPEDITIONS. Two Scherfulrd to Start in the Spring and Another Under Consideration. New York, Dec. & Two expeditions are scheduled to start on an exploring tour to the polar basin next spring, and it may bo that a third will be fitted out. A remarka ble fact in connection with the proposed enterprises is that no two of them will be conducted on the same plan. Dr. Nansen hopes to drift in tho ice to the desired latitude in a specially contrived eraft, Lieut. Peary believes he can only succeed in reaching the edge of the ice-cap by sledging it over the mainland,, while other arctic navigators incline to the opinion that the plan that oilers the best possible results is that suggested by Commander Cheyne. of the English navy, viz.: sailing over the icepeaks by balloon rather than through them in ships. Tho first of the proposed expeditions to m ike for the frozen seas will be that of the North Greenland Exploration Society, which will be partially fitted out by the Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, and will be directed by Lieut, Robert F. Peary. sf--The Whereness of Ills Atness. New York Advertiser. The .telegraph brings the interesting news that Mr. Thomas Watson, of Georgia, made his appearance at 11:15 a. m., yesterday, on the floor of the House, wearing the tired 1 jok of a man who had unsuccessfully wrestled with a street-sweeping machine, while at the same time Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, tbo transcendentalism who so ably handled the question of the Wherenessof His Atness at the last session, was on deck as "peart" and chipper as a jaybird. All this is explained by the fact that Thomas the Heformer has been given leave to stay at home, right in the heart of Mr. Cleveland's Cradle of Civil Liberty, while the wicked Cobb is billeted for the haven of the Fifty-third Congress, where the Watsons cease from tronbling and the Cobbses are at rent. "Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges." A Powerful Presentation. New York Commercial Advertiser. It is impossible, however, to read the calm and dignified references to tbe tariff' iu the first part of the message-without realizing how important a part was played in the recent canvass by the long illness and death of Mrs. Harrison, which prevented the President's active participation in the discussion. His array of figures demonstrating the enormous growth of tbe wealth of the country iu ten years, and his deductions from them present a masterly and irrefutable argument, and his reflections upon the discontent which reversed the government's policy might well have prevented the catastrophe of November hud they been submitted three mouths ago. Indiana Timber lor the World's Fair. ( Etenhen Re put U nn. Hon. A. W. Hendry shipped to Purdue University, last Friday, twenty-four pieces of timber, twelve varieties. This is his second shipment, the first to be exhibited nt tbe world's fair in its natural state and tbe last is to be prepared at the university in Lafayette, lnd.. for exhibition in the forestry building of the world's fair. The wood will be prepared to show in each piece, heart and eapwood by four plant-s, transverse, radial, oblique, and tangential. A section of limb from each tree is to be prepared in the same way. On a polished surface of the trunk is to be painted a seed and leaf of the tree. An Improvrmentyon English Millionaires. New York Commercial Advertiser. The London press, always ready to criticise anything American, jumps on Gould's grave with ghoulish glee, so to speak, (jould had his weak points, but he was inlinitely moie useful to the world than any of the rich nobodies of England we can recall. In addition to this, he accumulated his own fortune, and few of them did. We will probably not bo able to satisfy the London newspapers with any strictly American product until we present them with American tree trade. An Early Session. Washington Post If our Democratic brethren have reasons for tbe'faith that is in them, let them also have the courage of their convictions. An early session is indispensable to the proper performance of their promises to the country. That tbe contract is a large one, involving much labor and careful deliberation, is only an additional argument for taking time by the forelock. The Postofflc Department. Philadelphia Times (Lera) The Postofhce Department nnder Mr. Wunaruaker has been managed, outside of the mere partisan features which necessarily determine every administration of that office, on the' same broad-gauge business basis that he would administer any business enterprise, and he exhibits most gratifying results of his efforts. Not the Only One. Philadelphia Inquirer. President Harrison evidently believes that the Democrats will have a sweet time increasing the 'prosperity of the country by adopting legislation that must result iu the reduction ef wages. And he is not the ouly one who thinks so, either. A TYerd of Advice. An.1ersoa Times. If the soldiers' monument commissioners are incapable of carrying out tho wishes of Indiana soldiers they should resign. Three oc fonr men should not tiy in the faces of one hundred thousand men. m m m nfore and After. JCewport lioosier State. Before the election Mr. Cleveland wrote that tbe iouth was the "cradle and guardian of civil liberty." After tbe election he said: "I am disgusted with tbe Southern office-seekers." One Thing Settled. Chicaco Tribune. There may be some difference of opinion as to what is the national hymn, but at this writing Mrs. Lease is, undoubtedly, the national her. Meaning President Harrison. New Ytrk Advertiser. The American people may well regret parting with a publio servant at once so faithful, so patriotic- and so capable.

SUITS AGAINST UNCLE SAM

Interesting Points from the Annual Report of the Attornej-General. War Claims Aggregating $400,000,000 Filed Afjainst the Government, and thend lias Not Been Reached Recommendations. Washington, Deo. a Attorney-general Miller has made a report to Congress in regard to the business of the Department of Justice during the last fiscal year, showing that tbe business of tbe department is continually and largely increasing. This increase, he says, is most noticeable in the business before the Court of Claims. The reference to that court for investigation and findings of claims for the taking and injury to property of persons assuming to have been loyal during the war, such claims being already between niue thousand and ten thousand in number, and in amount aggregating nearly 8 k)0. 000,000, and still moc.0 recently the duty imposed upon that court of trying claims for Indian depredations, such claims already hied being over eight thousand in number, and aggregating over $33,000,000, are very suggestive of the growing work of the department. Mr. Miller reviews briefly the work of the United States Supreme Court, and says he is glad to be able to report that, as the result of the organization of the Circuit Court of Appeals, the' number of cases in the Supreme Court is being reduced. He also refers to the business before the Circuit courts, and suggests that some provision be enacted by Congress for tho payment of district attorneys for services in these courts, so that it will not be left to the discretion of the Attorney-general. The necessity for such discretionary oction. he says, ought to be by legislation reduced to the minimum. This whole eubject of the management of the government's business in the Circuit Court of Appeals ought to have the careful attention of Congress. In regard to the business of the Court of Private Land Claims, he says that there have been tiled in that court since its organization a total of forty-three cases, in forty-two of which the government is defendant and iu one plaintiff. Of these cases thirty-seven are from New Mexico and three from Arizona. Tbe total number of acres of land claimed m the .New Mexican grants aggregates 2.00,05 acres; in Arizona grants, t7,o'J5. Of these cases seven have been tried and final deerees of confirmation rendered covering 2GS,o(l acres. The Attorney-general, in regatd to Southiu claims, says: By the report of the Assistaut Attorney-General having charge of the business of the government in the Court of Claims other than that pertaining to Indian depredations, a largely increased volume of work durlnc tho pan year is shown. Under the act of March 3, 18 o, known os the Bowman act, -48 cases were disposed of durins: the year, the aggregate of claims covered by said cases being '-'.dttfJ'JD. In 153 of these cnes findings were made against the government for an atrsrexate sum of $485,546. The claims of this claae, growing out of the alleged tuking of supplies and other property during the war. are asuiu1:r enormous proportions. They already utr: rebate nearly -i JO.OOO.OOO, and the department has reliable information that a multitude of additional claims, aggregating very larce sum., are being prepared to be filed and pushed against the treasury. That a very lare proportion of tnese claims have no just foundation, cither in fact or law. beta? presented by persons, or the representatives of persons, who were not loyal to the government during the war. is every day made clear in the evidence in their defense. Unless Congress shall put some new barrier between the treasury and these claims, it is impossible to predict the amount the government may bo called upon to pay thereon. Under the general and SDeoial jurisdictions SS7 cases, claiming over $20,000,000, were disposed of during tte past year. Iu 13 73 of these casos decisions were made in favor of the claimants for an aggregate of a little over 1 1,590,000. ; TRENCH SPOLIATION CASES. During thevpast fiscal year decisions were made in the French spoliation cases in favor of the claimants aggregating $SS9, 054, and the total amount allowed up to this date in 710 cases is $3,241 Tho total number of the petitions which have been filed aggregate about $10,000,000. Up to Nov. 1 8,5'Jt claims had been filed under the Indian depredations claims acts, representing in all $33,151,050. The aggregate of such claims die posed of it, $1,373, 757. The amount of judgments recovered on such claims is a little more than 33 percent. of the demand. Mr. Miller recommends that provision be made for the construction of tbe three prisons authorized by the Fifty-hret ConI gress. The total number of United Status prisoners in custody during the year was 3,000. The number of convicts pardoned by the President during tbe year was seventy-one, out of 755 applications. Sentences were commuted in ninety-two cases. The Attorney-general 6 ays the Texas boundary case, involving tho title to 1,517,000 acres of land embraced in the territory lying at tbe southwest corner of Oklahoma, is being pushed by the government as rapidly as possible, and the defendants have promised to assist iu speeding tho case to final hearing. He reviews briefly the litigation in the Dell telephone case and also the litigation for the enforcement of the provisions ot the act of Aug. 7, 1888, requiring all railroads receiving subsidies lrom the United States to establish and operate their own telegraph lines. The Attorney-geueral discusses the decision of Justice Harlan in the case of the United States against tbe railroads and telegraph company pending in the Circuit Courts of tbe United States tor the Northern district of California. He says: In view of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of tho United states in the case of bhaw vs. the Quincy Mining Company it may well be questiouwd whether the broad proposition contended for relative to tbo inhabitancy of the corporation will te finally sustained by the Supreme Court. The result reached may be sustained upon another ground argued before Mr. J ustioe Harlan, but not passed upon by him, viz.. that tbe ordinary rule would not apply in a case in which the United States i? a complainant. I desire to renew the recommendation contained in my last report that Section 1 of the act: of Auk. 31, 18sS, bo amended by inserting the proviso in italics, alter the word "inhabitant," in the following sentence, namely, "and no civil suit shall bo brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant. Provided, that any foreign corporation may be sued in any district where it may be found, process to he served as in iiko cases iu the btaie where said suit or action is brought touch an amendment would restore the law to what it was for a century prior to the act of March 3, 1837, and would impose on these corporations a liability to be sued corresponding to the right they enjoy to sue as plalnUffs. and to remove suits in which they are defendants. In many localities these great corporations have au unwarranted influence among the people who Hi e summoned as jurors in the Stats courts, and it is not just that the Southern Fad Ho company, which though chartered in Kentucky, docs not own any property iu that tetate. and has no olbces or ohlcers there, except a mere' clerk, but which operates vast lines of railroads in tho State of California, where it holds and ooutrols millions of dollar ot property, and holds its directors meetings and maintains its general otlioes, shall be exempt from suit in the United States couns in California and the litigant be required to go to Kentucky to enforce his claims, and after obtaining a Judgment there (if he is fortunate enouch to tlnd any person upon whom to obtain service), be compelled to go to California aud sue there upon the Judgment or decree in the State courts. The Attorney-general details the action takenby him for the enforcement of the act "to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies,'' and says: It has been found In all cases Investigated that great care and skill have been exercised in the fonuation and manipulation of these combinations so a to avoid the provisions ot this statute, and, as has been seen in the proceedings growing out of the ludicttneuts in Massachusetts, those eflorts have not been without success. It is hoped, however, that in the easts commenced tho validity of this statute and IU applicability to the abuses which have become Very commou in the business of the country, under the uaine of trusts, may be demonstrated If so. the investigation made and the evidence accumulated incases where no proceedings have been commenced will be raluable. The only constitutional question of any importance decided against tba government, the Attorney-general says, was tbe one raised in tbe Counselman case, under the interstate-commerce law. The Attor

ney-general renews the recommendations made in his last annual report for federal recognition of degrees in the crime of murder, for remedial legislation for Alaska, for the correction of the evils of tho fee system, and for tbe allowance of writs of error in criminal cases. On this last mentioned subject the Attorney-general nays that, as the law now stands, it is in the power of a single district judge, by quashing an indictment, to defeat auy criminal prosecution instituted by tha government, and to annul a against the government any criminal statute enacted by Congress, and there ia no possible remedy or way to right tbo wrong. TEN PASSENGERS INJURED

The Lone Ilranch Express on the Jersey Central Crashes Into the Local. Hear of the Lattrr Train Telescoped and Om Woman Fatally Hurt and Nine an Sericuly Dae to a Ferry-teat Cillhion. Jersey City, N. J., Dec 8. There was a shocking accident at the Danforth-avenua station of the Jersey Central railroad today noon. A Long Branch train crashed into tbe rear end of the Easton local, Jelescoping the rear car, fatally injuring one woman aud seriously injuring nine other passengers of the same coach. Tbe aocident was due to a delay of forty-five minutes to the train, caused by the Jersey Central railroad ferry-boat crashing luto a transportation boat in the fog in New York bay. The injured are as follows: John T. Fiiuulf, advertising agent, Jersey City, compound fracture of the legs. Gko. L. LAMjioN.or Elizabeth, . J., compound fracture or t be legs. Miss (JiLttov, of Elizabeth, '. J., lacerated about the bod-, and Injured Internally. She may die. Oiilando Demurest, of Greenville. N. J., injured nbout head and legs, and luierually. li. C. CiiLVtu. of -New York, nose broken and injured about the body. Jah. Boss, of Bound Brook, head cut, hip injured aud back strained. S. M. HtKMiFii of New York, head cut, arm injured and back hurt lyOLis Zlllnkk, of New Y'ork, injured about head and body; severe scalp wound, and left arm fractured. F. J. Ml'llkh, of Tlalnfleld, X. J., back injured and nose broken. U. K Kl'nyox, of rialnfield. X. J., injured about head and hips. W. I. Park, of lied Bank, X. J., lost two toes off ritfht foot, head cut and arm injured. The story ot the accident, as learned from, tbe oihciuls of the road at -the actual scene, is as follows: At half-past 11 o'clock the Washington flyer, Easton local and Long Branch express trains leave tbe foot of Liberty street. A dense fog hung over the river, and the terrv traffio was being carried on with tbe usual carefulness. The Central ferry-boat had reached midstream and was steaming aloug slowly when suddenly oneof the Central company's heavily-laden transportation boats loomed uo before the ferry-boat, and before the engines could be reversed there was a terrible crash. The passengers rushed wildly about lrom side to side of the boat, and the greatest confusion prevailed. (Quietness was finally restored, and it was then discovered that. the front -rail of the ferryboat had been carried away and a few windows broken. The panic-stricken passengers were huddled together iu the ladies' oabin, shrieking and crying, when the captain appeared among them and assured them there was nothing to fear. The boat proceeded more slowly to Communlpaw, and arrived there fifteen minutes late. Tbe tbr trains were quickly made up, and the Washington flyer was The first to draw out of the depot. Then followed the Laston local, in charge of engineer Wol-' verton. of Elizabeth. The Washington train bad passed Dauforth avenue within five minutes at a territio rate of speed. Engineer Wolverton was running more cautiously, and had scarcely passed Danforth avenue when a rear brakeman discovered tbe body of a woman lying on the track, k about hfty yards below the station. He pulled the bell cord, and the crew hurried back to care for the supposed injured woman. The discovery was quickly made that the woman was sick, and had fainted and fallen on the track, and had not beeu strnck by the train. The crew returned to the train, which lay about 150 yards below the depot, and the signal to start was given. The train was scarcely moving when the Long Branch train rushed out of the fog. and, before the collision could be averted or warning given, crashed into tho rear car of the Easton train. JUMPED OFF THE UROOKLI.V BRIDGE. Prrilons Leap of a Virginian That PesnUrd ia Nothing Worse tban a check and Ducking. New York, Dec. 8. Daniel McLaughlin, a blacksmith of Koanoue, Va.a jumped ouT 'the Brooklyn bridge this afternoon into the East river at a point just beyond tho pier of tho Brooklyn side. "By a strange coincidence the police boat Patrol was coming along the river at the time. Policemen lially and Tully, who were on it, saw the man as he leaped toward tie water. When he 6truck. head first, tbe boat ba I got within forty feet of the spot. As soon as the man rose to the surface the patrolmen fished him up into the boat lie waa unconscious. They then took him to tbe police station, where, ho recovered consciousness. There were no bruises on McLaughlin's body, but as he was faint, and had presumably received lr al injuries, he was removed to the bers-street Hospital. Examination . hospital developed the fact that ' ad not bus- . taiued a mark as a resnl his perilous jump. However, he is euttering from severe shock and from the effects of the water in his system. The physicians say be will recover within a day or two. At 2 15 this afternoon the roan hired a cab from the stand on High street. Brooklyn, and asked the driver to take him across the bridge. He paid his fare before starting. When the vehicle was within -twenty or thirty yards of the Brooklyu tower tbe young man jumped out, scrambled over the railing, and, balancing him self fc? an instant, jumped. After repeated attempts to get McLaughlin to tell why he tried to kill himself, he muttered out something abor.t persons being after him, trying to take bis life. From this tbo police drew the conclusion that he was insane. Silversmiths Form nv Trunt. New York, Dec. 8. Samuel Uutermeyer, of the firm of Uuggenheimer & Uutermeyer, has announced that tbe projected combination of silversmiths has been affected, the organization being incorporated nnder the laws of New York. The combination is to be known as "The Silversmiths' Company." Tho authorized share capital is $12,000,000, and the company it authorized to issue debenture stork entitled to 8 per cent, interest or divided to the extent of SS.OOU. Edward Holbrook. general manager of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, say a that the chief purpose of the organization ia a uniformity of method among tbe leading companies, especially as regard tho quality of the material used. m m m Ellis Island 1'mployra to 11 Reduced. New York, Dec 8w There is consternation on Ellis island to-day over tbe report .that a number of tbe otucers and employes are to bo removed on tbe score of economy. The expenses of the immigrant bureau art defrayed by the head tax on immigrants, and since the twenty-day quarantine order was issued the number of immigrants arriving has dwindled so that tbe tax is quite small. A big deficiency in connection with the island confronted the Secretary of the Treasury, and be has decided something must be done to economize. Establishing a Little Africa, Kansas City, Dec. 8. Henry 1. Wolfe, of Kansas City, Kan., a mem ler of tbo Hoard of Trade, has bought one thousand acres of land near that city on which be proposes to colonize all ot the negroes ct the town into a self-snpportina village. The colored element of Kansas City. Kan., is in a bad way, and with the coming of bad weather will be almost all dependent on the city. Houses will . probably be put up at once and in tbe spring gardens will be set out. Forty thousand dollars has been subscribed.