Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1893 — Page 2

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about the atnonnt of this balance, and it is estimated that SlO.OCO.OOO in contracts will Le payable in lfclU, which would brinjr tho real working balance down to $7.b52.407. Too expenditures on account of pensions, .estimated in this statement for tho next fiscal year, amount to3ltM.831.250. or an increase over the amount which it is estimated will he spent for pensions this tiscal year of onlv $3,4'.V-!kX In a separate statement showing the contract liabilities existing Dec. 21. Ii02.lt is stated that the liabilities on contracts on existing appropriations is 473..2, of which it is expected that &5.'J)D.!3 will bo expended in the fiscal year lt9 and SlO,Si9.037 in the fiscal year lb'Jl. Very little is allowed to the sinkinc fund in these estimates, and a supplemental statement places the estimated balance duo tho fund J une CO. lfeS4. at Z J3.C61.6S7. BANKRUPTCY BILL KILLED.

Back' Kllgore Kicked It to Death In the House A Typical Tammany II rave. Washington, Jan. 25. Filibustering against the bankruptcy bill was inaugurated to-day by Mr. Gilgore. of Texas. In tho first place, he insisted on the reading of the journal in fall. Then he objected to the approval of that document, end an hour. was consumed before it was. finally agreed to as a portion of the records of House. He was ably seconded in his endeavor to defeat the bankruptcy bill by Mr. Pieree. of Tennessee, who supplemented his every filibustering motion with another which was calculated to prevent action. and the filibustering continued. "Another wasted day." was the comment of the Republicans, and their comments were echoed by a majority of the Democrats. But the few Democrats opposed to the bankruptcy measure held firm, and the House adjourned without action, thus exhausting the two days assigned to the judiciary committee and the bankruptcy bill. There was an amusing scene in the House this morning, prior to the meeting. A fullblooded Indian Chief WolB.of the State of Washington was seeing the sights of the capital, and. of course, his steps tended towards the large building located on Capitol Hill. Here he was taken in charge by Frank Gorman, an employe of the House, who has a humorous side to his nature. The gaudily bedecked chief, with feathers waving over him. and who used a miniature feather duster as a fan, was escorted to the chair and took the Speaker's leat. He occupied it withtdignity. although he was somewhat at sea as to the use of the gavel. He mistook lit for a pipe and the end piece went naturally to his mouth, lie was corrected and made several attempts to callgthe House to order. A facetious member a Democrat, of course luggested that this was the first savage ho had occupied the Speaker's chair Bince Ibe retirement of Speaker Heed. He was then escorted to Bourko Cockran's seat, nd amid the laughter and applau.se of all present, figured for ten minutes as a typical Tammany brave. When the n ibusters had warmed up to their work against the bankruptcy bill, Mr. Keed. in his dry manner, suggested (hat the House should recognize the fact that publio business was in the hands of a minority. Since the House could not transact publio business, why not let it adjourn, and permit members to go about their own business? Mr. J. D. Taylor, of Ohio, made a point of order that the proceedings then in progress were derogatory of the dignity of the body and, therefore, not permissible. This kind of conduct was not in 'keeping wlth the dignity of this House, or any other House. "If you said any other bouse.'7 suggested Mr. Heed, "it would be right, but idrawlIn jrly) not this House." There was not, continued Mr. Taylor, a town meeting in New England, the home of the present occupant of the chair (Mr. O'Neill, of Mass.,) where there would be permitted such absurd and even disgraceful proceedings as tho House was witnessing to-day. There were but a few weeks of the session remaining, and there was a tremendous calendar. Yet one man who lived in Texas could prohibit all business. The very Indians (and here Mr. Taylor pointed to Chief Wolff in the gallery) could do better than this. Laughter.) Mr. Wilson, of Washington, protested against the gentleman from Ohio Insulting bis constituents. Laughter. And so it went on irrelevant debate and filibustering motions until Mr. Oates yielded to the Texas "kicker" and his assistants. Tho filibustering has killed all possibility of any bankruptcy legislation in this Congress. 81 COMAS AND IIALFORO CONFIRMED. Former as a District of Colombia Judge and the Latter as Paymaster. Washington, Jan. 23. Tbe opponents of Mr. McComas have been beaten and the ex-Congressman will be permitted to take bis seat as associato justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. At 1 o'clock this afternoon the Senate went Into executive session, with a determination on the part of the Republican Senators to confirm the nomination of Mr. McComas before adjournment. The case was in charge ot Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, who, in behalf of the judiciary committee, moved that the nomination be contirmed. The opposition, however, desired to be heard, and was heard at length. More than four hours were consumed in the debate. The opposition to the nominee in the Senate was based almost entirely upon the ground that Mr. McComas was not a resident of the District. The Republicans replied to the Democrats on this point, by referring to the precedent established by Mr. Cleveland in his District and territorial appointments, and assorted that Mr. Cleveland might feel disposed to again ignore bis party's platform declarations in that respect and select the best-tittcd men for federal appointments regardless of residence. When it came to a vote there was no attempt to filibuster, and th rosult was decisive, the vote standing 34 for continuation to 13 for the opposition. Because of a failure to adopt thb usual resolution notifying the President of the confirmation the result was not formally announced at the conclusion of the session. It was announced to-night that the Senate had also confirmed the nomination of Elijah W. Halford to be major and paymaster in the United States army. GIVING "SUBS A CHANCE. Important Order by the Postmaster-General Concerning Promotion of Letter-Carriers. Washington, Jan. 2. The Postmastergeneral has issued the following order: As substitute letter-carriers are required to bo in attendance at free-delivery offices (ometiuies for a year or more) at an annual salary of $1 and tho pro rata compensation of any carrier whoso route they may be required temporarily to serve, before au opportunity occurs for promotion, and as tho reinstatement of letter-carriers who may have voluntarily resigned, or been removed for cause, delays tho promotion of tne poorly-patd substitutes, reinstatements should, in equity and pood conscieD"), bo reduced to the minimum: it Is therefore rdered: First That the voluntary resignation of u let-ter-carrlir shall be a bar to his reinstatement at any oftice where there may be a substitute in tho service, und to any class above the six-hundred-dollar grade. Second A letter-carrier will not be removed, except for violation of. postal laws and regulations, or for some caue affecting injuriously the efficiency of the service or his Integrity as a citizen. Third A letter-carrier removed for cause will not be reinstated unless the charges upon which his removal was base 1 are disproved. Fourth No appointments of letter-carriers at free-delivery ottices will bo made, except from the substitute list, until that list Is exhausted, and promotions from said list shall be in tho order of their seniority. SXINOR MATTERS. Dr. Eastman Suspended from Acting as Phy sician at 11 r ltldg Agency. Washington, Jan. 5. Secretary Noble to-day addressed a communication to the Commissioner of Indian Afiairs setting forth his conclusions in the matter of tho trained relations which have for some time cxitted between Cant. J. Leroy Drown, U. S. A., acting Indian agent at 1'inoKidge, and Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a Sioux In dian, the agency physician, concerning which there had been a very wide invest! gation made by the Interior Department, Charges of a serious nature had been made by each of these parties against the other. Mrs. Elaino Goodalo Eastman, the white wife of Dr. Eastman, has vigorously sustained her husband in tbe con troversy, and as vigorously de

nounced Captain Drown, who charged Dr. Eastman with insubordination, refusal to obey his orders and with attempting to weaken Captain Ilrown's authority with the Indians. Dr. Eastman's charges against Captain Urown were, in substance, that he was tyrannical, overbearing and generally unfitted to fill tho position he holds, and in this he has had. to a great extent, tho support of Commissioner Morgan. Tho Secretary's conclusion is that the good of the service requires that Dr. Eastman shall be suspended from acting as physician at Pino Kidge agency, and that nuletg Dr. Eastman can be assigned or appointed to another that he is willing to acce pt, within the njxt fifteen days, ho must resign or he will be removed. Work for Retired Army Officer. Gpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. . Senator Man derson and Representative Chapman have introduced a bill to authorize the President to detail army officers of the retired list to serve as Indian agents and superintendents, inspectors and special agents at Indian schools, and to require the officers to serve. This would relievo the officers on tho active rolls of the army from duty, as Indian agents, a duty irksome to the officers and unpleasant to the Indians. It would also employ the minds and hands of the retired officers and relieve them of such opportunities as Gen. John A. Newton has embraced to serve the interests of a foreign government in a civil capacity and work against the interests of American citizens of the United States government. The bills introduced by Manderson and Chapman 'propose to give the retired army officers full pay when assigned to duty with the Indians. Senators Did Little Work. Washington, Jan. 25. Neither the antioption bill nor the Cherokee outlet bill, which have the alternate right of way in theSenato, had any show of consideration to-day. The hour of the session was taken up in routine matters, none of them entitled to be regarded as of much public interest. The only exceptions were the introduction of a bin for the admission of Utah as a State, and an amondment reported from the committee on naval aifairs and referred to tho committee on appropriations, looking to a further increase of the navy. Tho rest of tho day's session from 1 o'clock up to adjournment passed behind closed doors, and was devoted to the question of whether the nomination of Mr. McComas as one of the judgos ot the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Bhould be confirmed.

Commander Johnson Dtainlsaert. Washington. Jan. 25. Commauder ITenry L. Johnson has been dismissed from the navy, lie was tried before a general courtmartial at Mare Island navy-yard, in December last, on three charges, the principal one of which was, in official language, ."Through negligence, suffering a vessel of the navy to be run upon a rock aud hazard ed." The vessel was the Mohican, which Johnson commanded, and the grounding took place oil the Alaska coast. She was the first vessel to which he was assigned after a suspension ot several years for the same offense, for which ho was dismissed. Tbe court fonnd him guilty of the three charges preferred, and sentenced him to dismissal. Secretary Tracy approved the findings, and this action was confirmed by President Harrison. Jurists Suggested for Associate Justice, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WAbiiiNGTON, Jan. 25. A report was cir culated at the Capitol, to-day, that the President would nominate Secretary John W. Noble for the Supreme Codrt vacancy. The rumor was sufficient to cause a num ber of prominent Democratic Senators and a few Republicans to say that the nomina tion of General Noblo could not possibly be confirmed. Tho President will probably make a nomination to fill tbe vacancy, but it Is generally believed that tho nominee will be Judge Pardee or Judge MeEnnry, Republicans, of Louisiana, or Judge Jackson, a Democrat, of Tennessee. Judge Golf, a West Virginia Republican, who is popular among Southern Democrats, is mentioned for the vacancy, but not seriously. General Notes. Special to the Indlanapotta Journal. Washington, Jon. 25. J. W. Moreyhun was to-day appointed postmaster at Ovid, Madison county, vice W. L. Moreyhun, resigned, and W. M. Howe at Rugby, Bartholomew county, vice J, Blades, resigned. The Houso committee on military affairs has reported favorably the Patton bill to remove tbe charge of desertion from tho military record of Edward J. Butler, a drummer boy of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers. G. W. Hood, of Indiana, is attheEbbitt. Callers were rather numerous at the executive mansion to-day. Mr. John Scott Harrison, brother of tho President, got in from Baltimore in time for breakfast. Mr. Robert McKee came a little later, and Gen. Daniel Macauley was also among the morning visitors. Mrs. Henry F. Blount, formerly of Indiana, gave a luncheon of ten covers yesterday, at her fine colonial home. Tho Oaks," to meet Mrs. Ingle, of Evansvillo. The decorations were all in green, by means of ferns on the table and pines about the parlors and dining-room. Some lemon-trees, containing ripe, yellow fruit, were advantageously placed in the corner of the dining-room. Miss Jannetto Halford was one of the most charming hostesses of the day at her reception. She wore a pretty house dress of Persian brocade, edged with dark-red velvet. Her curst. Miss Morrowappeared in a French gray crepo. combined with blue. The dainty apartment was besieged with callers, whe came early and remained late. An enjoyable dinner party was given by' Major and Mrs. W. II. Michael, at their home. No. -15 North Capitol street, last evening, in honor of Miss Zada McKee, niece of Capt. Thomas II. McKee, of Indiana. Twenty covers were laid, and at each plate was placed a souvenir card in water colors bearing au appropriate poetical quotation. The President and all members of his Cabinet find a large group photograph taken to-day, preparatory to their oificial separation in a little over five weeks' time. When Treasurer Nebeker returns to Washington from Indiana Mr. James W. Whelpley, the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, will resign bis position. Mr. Whelpley will become first vice-president of a trust company in this city. Chief-justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court o? the United States, and Associate Justices Blatchford. Brewer and Brown, and Marshal Wright. Clerk McKmna and other attaches of the court left for Macon, Go., to-night, to attend tho funeral of the late Jnstice Lamar, which will take place Friday, the 27th mat. Dr. Johnston paid his usual night visit to Mr. Blaine this evening. He said that Mr. Blaine was resting comfortably, sn tiering no pain, and there was no appreciable change in his condition. Losses by Fire. Brooklyn, N. Y. Jan. 25. The Grandview Hotel, at Fort Hamilton, was burned early this morning. Thirty people were asleep in the building at the time, but all escaped with their lives, some having to jump. Loss. S1C0.00G. An explosion of photographic chemicals caused the fire. Boston, Jan. 25. Fire this morning destroyed the upper portion of the building No. 31 to r5 Union street, occupied by the Walker & Pratt Manufacturing Company as a stove and steam-heating apparatus factory and warcrooins. Loss. $KU,CC0; insured. Rutland, Vt Jan. 25. At Fairhaven, "the Slate City.' so called in Rutland county, a dozen buildings valued at 75,000 were burned this morning. Condition ot Winter Wheat. Chicago, Jan. 25. To-morrow's Farmers' Review will say: "Reports have been received from the corn spondents in twelve Mates on the condition of tbe wiuter wheat. In Illinois winter wheat Is in from fair to good condition generally. In Indiana about 10 per cent, of tho correspondents report the condition of, wheat as good, 12 per cent, report fair, and the rest poor. This is the condition in which it went into winter quarters, since which there has been little change. Cattlo are in good condition but very tew are being shipped, taking tho Stato as a whole.11

TIED WITH A DOUBLE KNOT

Marriage of 'the Kaiser's Sister and Trince Frederick Charles of Hesse. Ci?il and Keliziona Ceremonies Performed The Quaint FackeltanzKevired How the Bride, Princess Margaret, Was Dressed. ROYAL GERMAN WEDDING. The Emperor's Youoi(eit SUter and Prince. Frederick Charles Married. Berlin, Jan. 25. The whole city was decorated with fiags last evening andhis morning in celebration of the wedding of the Princess Margaret, youngest sister of the Emperor, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. It rained most of the morning, but at 10 o'clock the sun came out and before 4 o'clock, the hour for the civil marriage, tbe streets were dry and crowded with sightseers. The civil ceremony was performed Dy Count von Wedel, of the royal household, in the hall of the Empress Frederick's palace. Tho brido and bridegroom were taken to tbe Schloss through cheering crowds which had lined the route since 10 o'clock this morning. At the Schloss all the royal personages gathered in the Chinese cabinet to see the Kmpress Augusta Victoria place the bridal crown upon the Princess Margaret's bead. Prince Frederick Charles and his bride then led the procession to the chapel, where the religious ceremony was to be performed. The bride wore a gown of white silk and crepe du chine, ornamented with spray of white daisies, and caught at the waist with a gold girdle. He only jewelry was a diamond necklace. The Empress Augusta Victoria wore drap d'argent, embroidered with gold. The Kmpress Frederick's gown was of gray damask, with a velvet train. Court Chaplain Dryander awaited the bridal party at the altar in a bower of palms and chrysanthemums. The Princees Margaret made her responses urmiy, but in snob a low toue that only those in the front scats heard her voice. As the couple exchanged rings the artillery in the Lustgarten bred thirty-six salvos. The ceremony was followed by the wedding banquet, after which catno tbe fackeltanz. Chancelor Von Capnvi was excused by the Emperor William from participatiug in this dance. The banquet was served in the White Hall. After it tho guests took places under the canopy of the throne, and the others ranged themselves to the rightand left in asemi-circle.in order of rack. Twelve ministers of state, bearing wax candles, then began the fackeltanz. They invited the bridal couple to danco and escorted them round the room. The bride then invited the Emperor to dance and tho bridegroom invited the Empress. After the couples had made the circuit of the room, twelve pages took the torches, banded them to others, and the ceremony was continued by the royal guests until it merged into a t general danoe. Finally pages led the procession. escorting the young couple to the door of the bridal chamber. The mistress of the robes distributed garters among the gentlemen and tbe celebration was ended for the night. Tbe revival of the fackeltanz. a quaint custom of Prussian weddings, has caused 'some adverse comment, as it is be lieved hardly to become the dignity of ministers of state to lead in it. GENERAL FOR El GIT NEWS. Tbe Alarqnla of Dufferin Explains Britain's Egyptian Policy to France. Paris, Jan. 5. The Marquis of Dufferin, British embassador, has delivered to tho French government a note as to the increase of the British garrison in Egypt. He assures the government that the increase does not imply any modification of previous assurances in regard to tbe conditions of the British occupation or any change in the policy heretofore pursued by Great Britain. M. Waddington, French embassador, in London, has been instructed to ask tho Eurl of Roseberry, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to specify tbe in cidents in Egypt which have caused Great Britain to take the recent extraordinary steps. The French press continues to display deep indignation regarding tho attitude assumed by England. The Debats says that the action of England is a direct provocation to France, and that Groat Britain must explain her intentions. The Figaro says that France ought to retaliate lor England's course by occupying Taugiers. The Republic Francaise declares that Europe will not allow tho Khedivo to become a blind vassal of England. IIU Mother Was Not n Crois-Ured Tllndoo. Dublin, Jan.. 5. Pierce Mahoney. formerly a Parnellite, M. P. for North Meath, is determined to prove that his mother was not a "cross-bred Hindoo" as alleged by Mr. Matthew J. Kenny, anti-Parnellita member for Middle Tyrono, in an address delivered on Snnday, which allegation led to Mr. Mahoney giving Mr. Kenny a black eye yesterday. Mr. Mahoney is, therefore, publishing the pedigreo of his lamily, from the beginning of the last century, m order to show that there fs no Hindoo blood in tho stock and that therefore his mother, could not have been a "cross-bred Hindoo." The publio is greatly interested in tbe discussion and Parnellites and anti-Parnell-ites are almost as much excited over the cross-bred Hindoo question as they aro on the subject of the GrShea divorce. Cholera Itred by Local Conditions, Berlin, Jan. 25. Five fresh cases of cholera and two deaths were reported atthe Xietleben insane asylum up to C o'clock this afternoon. At Trotha, where tbe disease appeared yesterday, eight new cases have occurred to-day and three of the persons previously attached have died. The authorities ot Halle have received a letter concerning the eDidernio from Professor Pettenkefer, of Munich, who considers the outbreak at Nietleben an illustration of his theory that cholera is bred by local conditions of soil and water rather than by an imported bacillus. , Two Mine Disaster. Vienna, Jan. 25. All hope of rescuing alive the men who wero entombed by the explosion of fire-damp in tho mine at Dux, Bohemia, yesterday, has been abandoned. An investigation of the list of employes reveals the fact that 1C0 uit a lost their lives in the disaster. City of Mexico, Jan.25. An accident has occurred in tho Conception mine at Atorio, in the state of San Luis Potosi. Fire broke out. in the main shaft, which caved in, occasioning a heavy loss of life. Thirteen corpses havo already been recovered. Justifying- Da L.es-p. Paris, Jan. 25. In the Panama canal trial to-day Maitre Barboux resumed his argument in defense ox the senior and junior Do Lesseps. He contended that both Ferdinaud Do Lessens and Charles De Lesseps were perfectly justified in doing their utmost to maintain the confidence in the Panama-canal scheme in the hope of averting menacing dangers. Mr. Barboux may conclude his address to-day. Fifteen Killed and Thirty Hurt. St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. A passenger train, on the railway from Wilna to Minsk, to-day ran into a freight train that had been stopped by a heavy snow-bank in front of it. Fifteen persons wero killed and thirty seriously injured. Cable Note. Signor Tugiuini. the Italian minister to Brazil, ban been instructed t demand from the Braziliau government satisfaction for the outrages committed last summer upon Italian sailors aud residents atSautos, during a riot which occur red there. Five worklngmen at Teotha boasted that they could drink all the Sas! water they wished, despitn the orders of local authoritieHto the contrary. On Sunday they drank the water as it catno from the river, and Wednesday all hve were prostrated with Asiatic cholera in its worst form. Sheedy end Corbett Exchange Compliments, Cuicaoo, Jan. 25. In an interview at Now York. to-day. Pataey

Sbeedy scored James J. Corbett for issuing his recent pronunciamento and declared that the champion could not choose his antagon ists. but must light whoever accepted his challenge. When Corbett was shown the interview to-night he said: T am at a loss to understand why Sheedy should atttack me unless he wishes to gain notorioty for himself. The idea of Sheedy posing as a reformer of pugilism or a reformer of anything is ridiculous. He is a short-card gambler, a man who has all his life made bis living off the credulity of suckers. Hn is a moral wrecker, aud tbe spectacle of Sheedy on a high moral platform is absurd. 1 want no more talk with tbe fellow, and I will have none. He amounts to nothing and his talk amounts to nothing."

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A plan to burn Hampton. Va., was frustrated by the arrest of half a dozen of the conspirators. Sidney Smith and Willie Buff, of Martin's Fsr O., were drowned in tho Ohio river while skating. While rabbit hunting near Ridgefarm, 111., Aaron Ireland accidentally fatally shot John Fitzgerald. Nothing of a sensational-nature was developed yesterday in the trial of Robert Beatty for complicity in the Hoinotead poisonings. An impressive memorial service was held yesterday at the Peatody Normal College, Nashville. Tenn., in memory of ex-President R. B. Hayes. In a tenement house fire at Jersey City, N. J., last night, Matthew Bhgh was probably fatally injured by jumping and his six-year-old daughter seriously hurt by inhaling iiames. Frank D. Henscben, who shot and seriously wounded Miss Alice Bruce at St. Louis, Tuesday night, aud afterwards committed suicide last night, was secretly married to Miss Bruce on Deo. 0 last. John B. Davis, of Chicago, fell down stairs in tbe Driard Hotel, Victoria. B. C, and received injuries from which ho died. Mr. Davis was one of the heirs of the millions left by Judge Baker, of Montana. A colony of Texas negroes is en route to Oklahoma, supplied with bosus certificates, which profess to give tho head of each family 1C) acres of land in the Cherokee strip. The negroes paid $5 foreach certificate. Last April Dr. D. K. Pearsons offered Chicago Theological Seminary 8100,000 on condition that tho .directors would raise S0,000 by tne 1st of Mav, 1804. He now oilers a bonus of $50,000 if they will secure 100,000 by the 1st of November of the current year. William Conley, the father of Miss Sadie Conley, who married jockey Mooney at Chicago, is not a millionaire, but a clerk on a small salary, according to a St. Louis disdatch. The family do not reside in a fashionable quarterof the city, but keep boarders in an unpretentious part of town. The dry-goods merchants of New York city are "opposed to the continuance of the purchase of silver bullion by the Uuited States government, and favor the immediate repeal of tbe Sherman bullionpurchasing act of 1890 by the passage of a law for that purpose, to go into eilect at once." COLD WAVE TO-NIGHT, With Winds Shifting to Northerly. Predicted by the Weather Uureau. Washington. Jan. 5. For Indiana and Illinois Generally fair; colder; cold wave by . Thursday night; winds shifting to northerly. For Ohio Fair; except local snow near the lakes; colder; cold wave by Thursday night; easterly, shifting to northerly winds. General Conditions The storm central Tuesday evening over lower Michigan has advanced to the Maine coast. A trough of low pressure extends from the North Pacific coast to Oklahoma. The principal area of high barometer is located north of Montana, and the barometer is high from the eastern lake region to the. South Atlantic and east gulf coast. A severe cold wave has overspread the Dorth. whore tbe temperature has fallen from 20 to 0. This evening tho temperature is 30 bolow zero in the middle Saskatchewan valley. The line of zero temperature reaches southern South Dakota, and the line of freezing weather is traced through northern Kansas. The cold wave in the Northwest has been attended by high winds and snow. Local snows have occurred in the lake regions and New England; elsewhere the weather has been fair. Generally fair weather is indicated for the Atlantic coast. In the central valleys the weather will be unsettled, and tbe cold wave will probably extend over the Mississippi valley and the Southwest Dy Thursday night. Local Weather Report. IxniANAroLis, Jan. 23.

Tunc, liar. Thcr. Ji.II. Wirul. Wcattur. i'rec 7a. m. 30.22 18 84 N'west Cloudy. O.OI 7r.M. 30.15 30 bS S'east Clear. 0.00

Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature, 17. The following is a comparative statement of tho temperature and precipitation for Jan. 25: Tern. Pre. Normal 28 O.ll Mean 25 0.01 Departure from normal 3 O.IO Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1. 321 0.13 C. F. U. WArFENHANS, I Local Forecast Official. JUSTICES' AND WITNESSES' FEES. A Claim that Feac Justices and Witnesses Are Unfairly Treated1 in ihe Laws. To the Editor ot tho Indianapolis Journal: Is not Section 1C?S, of the Revised Statutes of 1SS1, unconstitutional! This section says the prosecuting attorney's information of criminals shall be based upon the affidavit of some competent and reputable person. The prosecuting attorney looks the papers over that the justice of the peace files with tbe clerk when a criminal has been bound over. lie then makes a good and correct affidavit, and has the atliant testify to and sign it before tbe grand jury. His information is based on this affidavit only. When the prisoner receives a sentence of fine and costs, bis attorney looks the papers over, but ilnds no papers and no costs of the justice mentioned in the information, then he asks that no such costs be allowed; therefore all such costs are ruled out. Other sections provide for the costs of a justice's examination. Sec t5T)5 says the justice shall have pay for every warrant issued. Sec. IS'.tS says the constable shall have the same fees for handling the prisoner as the shed It for like services. Iglehoart says in his treatise that justices should send up the costs the same as in civil cases, yet Sec. 1678 cuts oil all costs. The tirst words of tbe Constitution are: "We declare that all men are created equal." The GOth section of tho Constitution says: "No man's particular service hhall be demanded without just compensation," Would not it bring us more on an equality if Sec. 1678 wero amended so as to speak of the transcript from the justice of the peace and his witnesses, so that the prosecuting attorney can bane bis information upou the allldavit and tho transcript! Again, I would like to nsk if Section 1503 is constitutional It says the witness fees in Circuit. Superior and Criminal courts shall be $1.35 vtr day. The witness may get his board at tbe cheapest boarding places in the town where such courts are held, subtract his hoard bill from his witness fee. and what is his compensation! In our county it is 25 cents per day. and he must pay the money for his board and take, time for his fee. .Is this a just compensation! The t-Cth section of the Constitution says: "No man's particular service shall be demanded without jnst compensation." If tho law would provide for tbe board lor witnesses, $1.25 would be more of a just compensation. Again, if our Constitution could be amended so as to support a criminal fund, that is, where a criminal is tried and found guilty of a crime that is punishable br tine and costs, let this line bo deposited in the criminal tund. and when the criminal i not tilled, let the costs of such courta be paid fnm thin criminal lniia would such an amendment bo any detriment to the right of the criminal, and would not it be in accordance with the 66th section of the Constitution! C. 11. Sandeks, J. P. Lowell. Inch. Jan. 21. .

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ELOQUENT DISSERTATION By Mr. James Lane Allen, Noted Novelist, Before tbe Contemporary Club. Literature Here, He Says. Is in Evolution Our Writers Are Building Foundations No Eommc? in Iand U ithout a Shadow. There was a full attendance of. tho Contemporary Club last evening, Mr. James Lane Allen, the Kentucky story-writer and essayist, being the lecturer of the occasion. Mr. Allen's subject was "Evolutionary Princioles of American Literature." His paper showed close thought and careful study into the causes which tend to discouraso the production in America of the highest literature. He spoke with much earnestness and eloquence, and was listened to with the closest attention. The French, he said. and the Germans have a national literature in which they take pride. If Englishmen, through some upheaval, were forced to migrate to another land they would take their literature with them as one of their choicest possessions. Americans, on tbe contrary, have no faith in American'genius or American literature. They often prefer other literatures than their own, and towards their own take an attitude of par tial ignorance, partial acceptance and partial opposition. If they were to leave their own land they would take their trade and their politics and tbe literature of England. This luditlerence of cultivated Americans to the work of native writers is deadening to the development of letters. Even if tbe work produced is not the highest as compared with that of older civilizations, they should at least recognize the fact that literature here is in evolution, and that the authors are laying in obscurity and with patient toil the foundation of a greater literature. It would be greater even now if not bora under tho shadow of iudirlerence. In one hundred years no raco ever produced a great national literature. After Englishmen began the process of literary evolution it was seven hundred years before Chauoer appeared, two hundred more before cjhakspeare came, and who in his own day cared even for bhaKspearel Behind the Homerio period what unknown men were trodden down by indifference! Centuries benoe, when our Chaucer has arisen, later our Shakspeare and later our Thackeray and our Tennyson, we shall appreciate the labors of our literary artists. Now, in the beginning aro two lines of development among writers. In one direction writers turn to foreign material, to the classics, to the scenes and subjects with which foreign authors make ns familiar. As illustrations of this class the lecturer mentioned Crawford VZorooeter." Wallace's "llen-liur," Lafcadio Heme's "Chinese Ghosts." Even Hawthorne, who has produced the most distinctively American fiction, said there was difficulty in writing romance in aland where there was no shadow. Our abounding material prosperity is not conducivo to poetry and sentiment. The other class of writers drew material from native sources, and of these authors Mr. Allen men tioned a long list, beginning with those of tbe early century and ending with Walt Whitman, whose "Leaves of Grass" be declared to be tbe most stupendous expression of tbe American idea yet made. The war gave an impetus to American literature and to its more general acceptance. Te Nation's consciousness was aroused then and patriotism was excited. A nation's art must bo comprised within a nation's life, and material lor the art products cannot be borrowed. In the case of Americans, however, they havo tbe advantage of inheriting all of English litera ture, and whatever use they make of that as a model for their own is their right, At present the movement and growth of Amer ican literature is widespread, but is re solved into many little movements appertaining to diiierent localities. It is almost athing of States. Whatoue authordescribes as an episode of life in one State could by no possibility have happened in another. Eggleston's "Hoosier Schoolmaster" and its characteristics would not fit the soil of Ohio. The traditions of the States di tier. But it is not a question of material. Material for literature, for great poems or novels, exists where human nature is. What is wanted is men with genius to deal with tho material. Creative laculty is the want, and it needs but little to work with. Material is scant in great masterpieces of genius. Tbe tragedy of the passions goes on forever, and is ready for the dramatist who will set it forth. Tbe times do not produce such writers beoause our nature docs not recognize beauty or art among thexssentials ot life. Men who toil for the beautiful are the only class to whom no rewards aro otlered. We have no academy for our living artists, no Westminster to inspire with reverence for tbe dead. American writers are confronted with lives of poverty and great sacrifices, and the prospect is discouraging to talent. Another check to the progress of literature, even if other conditions were favorable, is tbe false idea of literary art that now prevails. Formerly it was an uunatural, strained sentimentalism. now it has gone to the other extreme a false realism. The soul of nature is not to bo found in it. It is the materialistic spirit of the age that causes this, but it is passing. Two things abide imagination and faith and through these will beauty yet be created. a m Lickin the Wrong ISoy. r the EtUtor ot the In.lianaolU Jouraali You have heard, no doubt, of the sohoolboy who, under tho wholesome regime of old times, burst into an irrepressible laugh as the blows fell thick aud fast upon his devoted back. A little ansered and very much perplexed by this unusual procedure, the master stayed his baud long enough to ask what ho meant by laughing so. 44Jist 'cause I can't help it, mister; you see, you're whippin the wrong boy. It wasn't me that done it, 'twas the other feller," was the explanation. I couldn't help thinking of that boy as I laughed over tho lampooning I received in this morning's Journal for saying that tho paper read by Dr. John, of DePauw University, on prayer and answers to prayer, before tho Methodist preachers' meeting, last Mouday, was too good to appear in the daily papers among the miscellaneous matter that iinds its way into them. The only lack of parallelism betweeu my case and the boy's is that nothing of the kind was said by me or greeted with "aniens" by the preachers. In makiug the motion to request Dr. John to publish his paper in the lorm of a small bound book, which conid be preserved and reread. 1 said it was too tfood a paper to be limited to that meeting, or to other audiences that might be favored with it. or only to daily Drit-crs with their miscellaneous conteuts. ftlwars read in a hurry, and then thrown aside, or to the religious weeklies, or even to tho more permanent form of a papercovered pamphlet. Here is where tbe "ntnena" came in. indorsing tne thoucht that tbe importance of tho question dis cussed and the ability or its discussion no manded a more permanent form tbau any nf tht mh transient methods. The mistit of the reporter is the result of not tfiving close attention to what was said, and he puts the "aniens" in tbe wrong place, and reminds me of a luuny misiit that bappeued at a Methodist meeting, in this city, nearly two-third- of a century ago. It was before total abstinence was lnaistedupon as a Methodise virtue, and. as

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