Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1833.

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TltK J N 1)1 A N A I'O L I S JOURNAL. Can 1 e for:nd at the following places: PA HIS American Eachange In Paris, 36 Boulevard rte Capueines. NEW YORK Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. . CHICAGO Falnier House. CINCINNATI J. It. Hawley A Co 154 Yine-street. LOUISVILLE-C.T. Deering. northwest corner of '1 Lira acl Jt-fierscn at rec ta. 6T.LOUIS Union Newa Co., Union Depot. WASHINGTON", D. C. Biggs House and Ebbltt House. The more ships the United States has like the Indiana, the less the chances of war. Hereafter the iirst issue in Indiana is the restoration of representative government. Drunken with their excesses, the Democratic majority is rushing on headJong. Even the Sentinel condemned the gerrymander. Here in Indiana, whore Democratic legislators are increasing o dices and salaries, the pledge of Senator Gorman to reduce the number of officers sounds very funny. Thk New York Suu regards . it as the culmination of Mr. Cleveland's lucky career that he is to be afforded the opportunity of annexing the Hawaiian Islands. It remains to be seen whether he will be equal to the opportunity. In Mississippi, a Democratic minority maintains supremacy by robbing 100,000 colored Republicans of the ballot, but in Indiana a Democratic Legislature deprives fifty thousand whito Republicans of participation in the legislation of the State by a gerrymander which works disfranchisement. The car-coupler bill is intended to prevent v class of accidents by which seven thousand railroad employes are killed or injured every year. The pen with which President Harrison signs the bill ought to go as a treasured souvenir to the largest labor organization in the country. It is the Democratic New York World, one of the claimants for the position of organ-grinder-in-chief to the incoming administration, which says that "in forming his Cabinet Mr. Cleveland selected some of the best poker players in the country.7' And it might have added that one of them derives a snug and quite regular revenue therefrom. The Journal has received a circular from Johann Hon', of Berlin, Germany, Mating that in consequence of the high tariff placed by the McKinley law on certain malt preparations manufactured by him he has established a branch manufactory at Newark, N". J., for the manufacture of his goods for the American market and that they will be sold cheaper than before. This 6ccms to be in the nature of another vindication of the much vilified and much lied about McKinley bill. The Indiana, the most powerful war vessel afloat, was so called in honor of the State which gave President Harrison to the Nation. Thus his citizenship in the Hoosier State has caused its name to be honored in a way that will make it familiar throughout the civilized world. The contract for this great war ship and for her two sister ships, the Massachusetts and the Oregon, was awarded . in November, 1S00. The tirst is launched and the others are rapidly approaching completion. There could bo no better evidence of the capacity and equip- ' ment of American shipyards and steel works. Thus wherever tho great war vessel goes she will, if rightly underitood, be n reminder of the protectivo policy which, favored by an Indiana President, has resulted in the establishment of shipyards that can turn out such work. It is entirely proper that President Harrison's return to the home which he left four years ago to assume the duties of President of tho United States should be marked by a nonpartisan reception nnd welcome from bis fellow-citizens. If there ever was a time when partisan differences should be laid asido and tho feeling of American citizenship given free expression it is on such an occasion as this, when a retiring President who has served his countrj faithfully and well returns to resume his placo in tho private walks of life. Partisan politics Aside, the most bitter Democrat must admit that Harrison has made a good President, and that his administration has reflected honor on the Stato. His return to thiscity on Monday next should be made the occasion of a demonstration which will cheer his heart and give him to understand that his fellow-citizens are not unmindful of the fidelity with which he has discharged his great trust. Whatever difference of politics there may be between tho retiring and incoming Presidents it is evident that they respect each other and aro quito disposed to observe all tho proprieties of their respective positions. It is announced that President Harrison will entertain Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland at dinner in the White House on the evening of March 3, and a letter from Mr. Cleveland has been published intimating hit wish to the committee on inauguration arrangements that he might ride to

the Capitol in the same enrringe with President Harrison. It is also stated that tho latter has written to Mr. Cleveland expressing his desire to extend all needful assistance in acquainting him with the status of current business and to do whatever may be necessary to make his accession to office agreeable. This exchange of courtesies i honorable to both men and in keeping with tho dignity of the great office which one is about retiring from and the other about assuming.

TEE LATEST AND GREATEST OUTRAGE, Tho refusal of the majority of the House to have the gerrymander bill discussed, and the unfairness of Speaker Curtis in turning a deaf ear. to Republicans who desired to discuss the most important bill that can como beforo a legislative body in putting the demand for the previous question, thus ignoring Republicans who first addressed him, constitute one of the most shameless outrages upon legislative procedure that can be found in the history of parliamentary bodies. A bill fixing the representation of the people in a legislative body transcends all others in importance, because upon a fair and constitutional apportionment rests tho coruerstono of popular government. The majority in the Legislature knows that tho bill which was gagged through tho House yesterday is not a constitutional and .fair apportionment. A dozen of thoso who have supported that measure have privately admitted that it is a gerrymander. When the majority applied the gag which shut off discussion of the bill it confessed that its provisions could not bo defended. Not content with applying the gag to the minority so far as discussion was concerned, the Speaker declined to permit Republicans to briefly explain their votes. When Mr. Lindcmuth undertook to speak a word, the majority raised a yell to drown his voice, and when Mr. Sulzer insisted on making his protest, a doorkeeper was sent to thrust him into his seat. For this brutal outrage Speaker Curtis is largely responsible. He has, on previous occasions, violated parliamentary rules, counted minorities as majorities titno and again, and in every possiblo manner played the conscienceless dictator, but yesterday ho capped the climax. Ho may win the applause of a small body of followers, but ho has forfeited the respect of every fairminded man in Indiana. Ho and his fellow-conspirators in the overthrow of representative government in Indiana may shout over their victory now, but ono of these days the people who believe in decency and fair methods will rise up to rebuke the ruffianism which disgraced the Indiana House yesterday morning. REFUSED TO AMEND AN UNJUST LAW. The Senate yesterday tabled tho bill to amend tho Grubba libel law in the interest of newspapers. The bill, which was introduced by Senator Magee, proposed to amend tho present law eo as to allow a publisher, in case of a libel suit, to submit in evidence any subsequent publication in the way of retraction, explanation or apology to disprove the allegation of malice. This just and reasonable amendment to tho law was refused, tho amendatory bill being, on tho motion of Senator McHugh, laid on the table. This action is a denial of justico to the press. The present law makes publishers liable in heavy damages for a libelous or defamatory publication which may have been foisted upon them by interested parties or have come in the way of regular correspondence, and been published without uny mnlico whatever and supposing it to be true. The publisher is denied tho opportunity of showing that he did not know the publication was libelous and that ho had no malice. A man who is charged with passing counterfeit money is permitted to show that he had no guilty knowledge that it was counterfeit. Guilty knowledge is a necessary element of most crimes, yet under the Grubbs law publishers who are made defendants in libel suits are denied the opportunity to show that they had no guilty knowledge or malice. . Senator McHugh, of Tippecanoe, led the opposition to the amendatory bill, and took occasion to denounce American newspapers and newspaper men in very strong language. Judging from tho tono of his speech, we should say that with a little training in Russian methods he would make a very good censor, of the press, of the kind he seems to think it needs. Ho is doubtless smarting under the deserved lashings he has recently had on account of some of his Satanic legislative schemes, and took this method of getting even with the press. It was a mean and cowardly revenge, and the press will not forget him, nor those who voted with him against amending the Grubbs law. CAN DEMOCRACY BE RENOVATED? Just now the Cleveland and mugwump editor beholds a now Cleveland party 'as the result -of his administration. It is to be made up of the beet elements in the' Democratic party and such other voters as tho wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's policy will attract to it. In the vision of the Cleveland editor it will sweep all things before it. As a dream all this is beautiful, but as a practical achievement the conditions aro adverse and the precedents are not calculated to inspire confidence. These excellent gentlemen tell us that Mr. Cleveland's policy will cause the ignorant thousands of Tammany Hall, the mercenaries of Ross McLaughlin and the thousands of vicious voters who carried Chicago for Cleveland and put even Democratic decency to shame in the Chicago primaries on Monday, to forsake the new Democracy. In New Jersey the race-track Democracy controlling that State ill bo shed, and in Indiana the men who devise gerrymanders and mako tax-eating a growing industry will bo ignored. Generally, those Domocrata who believe in tho long time slogan, "to the victors belong the spoils," and thoso who adhere to tho silver and like heresies which have infected tho Democracy of the South and West will bo ignored. As a proclamation, this has an attractive sound. Such a purging would

surely renovate the old Democracy, but it would never again be of any use on election day. The Democratic party which cannot control the solid South on race injustice, and free silver coinage, and Tammany, McLaughlin and Carter Harrison's thousands in the large cities will not be a potent factor in politics. Like Samson, it will be shorn of its power. Nor can a free-trade Cleveland party expect to win many thousands from tho ranks of tho Reoubiicans. In all Indiana, a thousand men who voted the Republican ticket Inst fall cannot be found

rwho will rally under the gonfalon of Judge Gresham. It is not probable, however, that Mr. Cleveland and his followers have such renovation of the Democratic party in view. That Mr. Cleveland does not admire tho mass of men who will strive to get office from him during the next three months is an open secret, but it is not probable that ho will seriously undertake to organize a Democracy upon specifications furnished by Carl Schurz, Wayno MacVeagh and Judge Gresham, as he must know that a renovated Democracy could not carry a Northern State. JEITERSOS'3 INAUGURATION. An esteemed exchange, discussing Democratic simplicity, brings out tho time-honored legend about Thomas Jefferson's first inauguration, when, as the story goes, he rodo to the Capitol on horseback, without any attendants, tied his horse to the palings which surrounded tho yard, walked into the Senate chamber and toot the oath of office as unostentatiously as a country 'squire. Nobody knows how tho story originated, and no proof of its truthfulness has ever been cited. It is, doubtless, ono of those myths which, once established and popularized, are never given up. The truth is that more importance was attached to forms and ceremonies in the early days of the Republic than now. Street parades and popular demonstrations were not common, because tho population was sparse and scattered, and there was no means of bringing people together. Besides, the people had not learned how to organize and handle such things. Bat they did the best they could, and it is safe to say that Jefferson's inauguration was made as impressive as the means at hand would permit. The following account is taken from the Aurora of March 11, 1601: At an early hour on Wednesday. March 4, the city of Washington presented a spectacle of uncommon animation, occasioned by the addition to its usual population of a large body ot citizens from the adjacent districts. A discharge from tho company of Washington Artillery ushered iu the day, aud about 10 o'clock the Alexandria company of riflemen, with the company oF artillery, paraded in front of the Treatdent's lodgings. At 1 o'clock Thomas Jeiierson, attended by a number of his fellow. citizens, among whom wero many members of Congress, repaired to the Capitol. Ills dress was, as usual, that of a plain citizen, without any distinctive badge of otlice. Reentered the Capitol under a discharge of artillery. As soon as he withdrew a discharge of artillerywas made. The remainder of the day was devoted to the purposes of festivity, and at night there was a pretty general illumination. This contemporary account makes no mention of Jefferson's riding to the Capitol on horseback, etc., as doubtless it would have done had such been the fact. On tho contrary, it shows that ho was accompanied to the Capitol by "a number of his fellow-citizens, among whom wero many members of Congress," and that there was a. good deal of cannon-firing. It is thought worthy of remark in this account that "his dress was, as usual, that of a plain citizen,without any distinctive badge of office." As Jefferson was a civilian and not entitled to wear any uniform or badge of office, one is at a loss to know why his appearauco in citizen's dress should have been thought worthy of notice. However, the horseback stoiy will probably survive, although there is not a pafticlo of foundation for it. The reader of the Chicago Democratic nnd independent newspapers must have been more than surprised when ho learned that Carter Harrison had received the Democratic nomination for Mayor by a two-thirds vote. For weeks the Democratic papers of largest circulation have been assailing Harrison and ridiculing'the idea of his nomination. Hesing, the German editor, who claims that he carries the German vote in his pocket, has fought Harrison with all his power. Nevertheless, in the face of this powerful opposition, Harrison went into the convention with two-thirds of tho delegates and practically secured his nomination by acclamation. How did he do this? By manipulating the slum element of the city. The primaries were a series of riots, in which tho organized toughs of the city, led chiefly by Harrison's henchmen,.cniTied everything. The decent Democratic voter took very little part in the primaries. In fact, in many precinctshe would have incurred bodily injury to have done so. The slum element in Chicago learned its power last November, when it carried the city by" a majority which gave Mr. Cleveland the State. The success of Carter Harrison, tho most skillful organizer of tho rough element in Chicago, is a natural result of the election in November. It is possible for taxpayers and decent men to unito and rescue Chicago from the rule of the groggery, the gambler and the lawless, but they must unito solidly upon somo man who can defeat the candidate of the vile element which was made voters last fall to make Cleveland and reform, victorious. DoUDTLESS one of President Harbison's most pleasant duties in the closing days of his administration will be signing the car-coupon r bill, which, after long and stubborn opposition, finally passed the House?. In signing the bill the President will have the satisfaction of consummating a measure the passage of which he urged in every one of his annual messages to Congress. The measure is distinctly in the interest of that class of railway employes whoso lives were endangered by accidents in car-coupling, and which are of very frequent occurrence. It requires that within five years from thodateof its passage every interstato railroad in tho country, that is, ever railroad running from one State into another, ahall be supplied with tho latest approved safety appliances in tho way of car-coupling,

and any road not so supplied at the end of five years shall be equipped by tho In-terstate-commerco Commission tat tho expense of the road. Tho Northern railroads were not opposed to the measure, although they doubted tho wisdom of it. The opposition to it camo from the South, and was confined to the Democratic side of the House. Its passage is a signal triumph for organized labor. Seventy-eight Democrats voted against it.

Notwithstanding the pressure of important business in the closing days of Congress tho Senate wasted an hour listening to a speech by Senator Turpie against a bill providing .how far from tho soldiers' homes intoxicating liquors may bo sold. On this text our junior Senator made a long speech against sumptuary legislation. It is a fine old themo and lies very near tho Democratic heart. Tho Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says: Tnrpie overwhelmed the Senate with his stores of learning. He can read the Scriptures in the original Hebrew, can point out the errors of tho Greek version, expose the mistake of the Latin translators, andean put to confusion almost any professor of tbeolozy. He has a thin, piping voice, and when he gets excited he emits a series of shrill calls like those of tho blue jay. The correspondent fails to mention oue of Mr. Turpie's rare accomplishments as recorded by ono of his Indiana admirers. Ho can read Junius in the original. In one of the poorhouses of tho State is a man who served three years in the field, becauso he is helpless from paralysis. Ho can get no more than $12 pension a month, which is not enough to keep himself and wife out of the poorhouse. Shall he remain there, or will the Senate to-day authorize a soldiers' homo where ho can spend tho rest of his days at less public cost than in the poorhouse? There are hundreds of such cases. Again, Indiana gets thirtyfive thousand dollars' worth of real estate by tho provisions of the eouliers' home bill, which can be turned to good use after it 6hail not bo needed for veterans and their wives. Leaving the promptings of gratitude and patriotism out of sight, the soldiers' home would be a good investment. A number of the citizens of Detroit tendered a dinner to Mr. II. T. Thurber prior to his departure to assume the duties of private secretary to President Cleveland. In declining the compliment on the ground of lack of time, he wrote a somewhat effusive letter telling how he came among them fresh from college, how their "helpful encouragement" had strengthened and sustained him. and how deeply touched he was by the expression of their regard. "I recognize," he said, "that as an individual I am not entitled to such distinguished consideration, and that this tribute is to the office to which I have been called." In conclusion he said: I am so sverwhclmed by the suddenness of the call and the senso of my own untllncss for the great responsibilities, that your kindly consideration and encouragement to uie will always he a eolace of comfort. If absolute fidelity to him whom I am called to serve may win approval, tor this I pledge my honor and iav life. Mr. Thurber seems to tafce himself very seriouslj. He is almost as consecrated to dnty as Cleveland himself. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: ' Does the act of the Legislature extending the terms of officers of city governments apply to all cities! m. i b. To all cities except fudianapolis, Evans ville and Fort Wayne, which have special charters. The number of inhabitants has nothing to do with it if it is a city; that is, if the town is organized as a city, with a Mayor and Council. Rkader: Address your inquiry to TimesUnion, Jacksonville. Fla. Tli 5TAU i'KEcS. A bill to repeal the McHugh law extending the term of city otlicers two years has been introduced in the House of Representatives. The bill should pass. Muucie Times. The Democrats of the Legislature have decided in caucus to re-enact the late gerrymander in this State. The principal reasons given for this course are the desire of the Democrats to show their contempt for the Supreme Court and to vindicate Green Smith. Richmond Palladium. Tins is the last week of the Legislature, and Attorney-general Smith's fat job has not yet been investigated. He probably never earned $2,500 a year as a practicing lawyer, but is making half as much as the President of toe United States out of his otlice. Democracy is a tax. Kushville Republican. The return of tho Allen county "statesmen" from the Legislature next week will not be heralded by bands of music and a paltue from the Fort Wayno liilles and Zollinger battery. On the contrary, the "statesmen" will doubtless endeavor so to time their coming that they will reach the city ou midnight trains. Fort .Wayne Gazette. If the Item understands the metropolitan police bill which has passea the State Senate and may pass the Hoase, it is not a reform measure, but a partiBau one. It is not based on true civil-service principles, but npon more spoils for the hungry and thirsty. It is another of McIIuuh's radical bills which strike at the heart of local selfgovernment a doctrine ostentatioatdy appropriated as the peculiar property of the Deinocratio party. Richmond Item. Thk Deinocratio members of the Legislature have decided to re-enact the present unconstitutional apportionment law. lie it said to theoreditof Senator Seller and RepreseutativeAder that they protested loudly against the direct slap at the bupreme Court iu leaving such outrages as Clay, Putnam and Montgomery, Clinton, Tipton and Madison. Clark and Jefferson, Clark. Scott and Jennings, and Sullivan, Vigo and Vermillion on the map. but it did no good. We shall now see whether they have the independences vote against the bill. Crawfordsville Journal. Tiiekk is loud complaint from all parts of the State against the McHugh act, and it is to be hoped that in the interest of decency and good government tho bill to repeal will pass. Municipal government in the United States is the disgrace of free institutions. What, we see in Indiana Is no exception to the rule. It is dangerous to extend the term of cliques and rings by which most of the cities of the Mate are ruled. The people should bo given a chance to better their condition at least every two years. The people of the State demand that this corruot lnw be stricken from the statute book. Vincenues ComlDcrciaL Cleveland Uon'c Give . Toledo Commercial Clevelandsay.i very emphatically that he doesu't care a d what the Democratic press has to sav of his Cabinet selections. The obese prophet in apparently emulating the example of Vauderhilt, who was credited with a like expression regarding the general public. A 3XiM t He Wntchtsil. Lafarette Call. The Legislature will be perfectly safe in repealing immediately ever bill that Senator John i. McHugh has nuoceeded in getting enacted into luw, and adversely affect uo worthy interest. There la a private "ax" to bo ground by every one.

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ANTI-OPTION BILL SHELVED Hulls and Hears Veed Fear Xo Rostrictive Legislation by This Congres?. Representative natch Defeated Yesterday in an Attempt to Pass the 5Ieaurft Under Saspensicn of the Rnle3 of the House. Shprman's Uond Provisions Cat Out of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Hill. Executive Session of th Senate fit Which Findhy's Nomination Was Formally Re--jectedclatement of the Treasury. N'O UAIt TO "PUTS- AND "CALLS." The Antt-Option lttil Killed by the IleTusal of the House to Connhter It, Special to tho Xnitlarapoiu Journal. Washington, March 1. Tho anti-option bill was practically killed in the House today. Colonel Hatch, the chairman of the committee on agriculture and the father of this bill, has made a long and earnest tight for its passage, which has failed of success only At the last moment. The vigor of his battle has commanded the admiring respect ot his opponents. Tho time of the House was consumed principally in considering a motion made by Mr. Hatch to suspend the rules and pas the bill. The debate was limited to half an hour, and as the time was doled out in two or three minute portions there was no opportunity to discuss the measure as it deserved to be discussed. Mr. Hatch made the longest speech, and that din not excoed eight minutes. He then, stating that 'he had done his best to promote the interests of the farmers, left the subject to the House and the HouMe decided by a vote of 172 to 14 not to agree to Mr. Hatch's motion a twothirds vote being necessary under a suspension of the rules. When Mr. Hatch moved to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendments to the anti-option bill. Mr. lireokmridge, of Arkansas, raised a poiut of order iu behalf of the Sibley tent bill. Tho peaker overruled the point of order and Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, demanded a second on Mr. Hatch's motion. The demand was seconded 163 to 7. The opponents of the measure, as a rule, dechued to vott ; and it wan more tbau half an hour before Mr. Hatch was able to muster a quorum. The halt hour's debate ou the bill was then entered. Mr. Fucston supported the measure, declaring that it was in tho interest of every business niau, whether he were a farmer, a mechanic or a merchant. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, said the farmers wanted this legislation. He did not claim that this legislation would give the farmers the measure of relief that they expected, but it would Iree them from eoiue of their trouble. Mr. Taylor, of Illinois, agreed with the gentleman that the farmer was an intelligent man. and if ho were intelligent he did not need this legislation to protect him. There was not 10 per cent of the farmers in favor of this bill. Mr. Culnniings characterized the bill as one that swept over all rotate lines and proposed to give the government ot the United States the power to interfere with individual contracts in the States. Mr. Coombs contended the bill would cut us oil from foreign markets. Mr. Hatch finally closed the debate. He denied vigorously that ho had not been vigilant m pressing the bill. He had proposed it on every occasion. His work was ended. He had stood by this mesHure as loyally and truly as he had ever done to anv conviction o; his manhood. Now it was with the representatives of the people of America. Let them make their own reoord. Hut as sure as the world existed this proposition could not be defeated today. It mii'ht be delayed, but it was ;s sure to come Irom the demand of the people as the sun was to rise and set every twenty-four hours. At the close of Mr. Hatch's speech the vote was taken with the result noted above. The Senate amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill were then nonconcured in and the bill was sent to conference. Tho conference report on the District of Colimbiu appropriation bill was agreed to. The war claim for tho relief of William and Mary Colleg was passed yeas, 110; nays, Mr. Stump moved to suspend the rules and pass the Chandler Senate bill to facilitate the enforcement of the immigration and contract labor laws, but there was opposition made to the motion by Mr. Crain, and the House adjourned. SENATORS HACKED DOWN. Itefused to Insist on Itetntlon of the Uond Amendment in th Sundry Civil ISitl. Washington, March 1. The postotlice appropriation bill came before the Senate to-day, and was discussed to some extent as to the route of tho Southern fast in nil. That question was not disposed of when the conlerence report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was presented. Tho report led to a long financial discussion on .the Sherman bond amendment, the result being, however, that the amendment was receded from by the Senate. Outside of these two appropriation bills the Senate had before it in the morning hour the MoGarrahan bill, which went over, however, without action, and the Hudson river bridge bill, which was taken up by a vote of lib' to 24, but disappeared when the conference report was taken up a result which rankled in the mind of Mr. Hill and led that Senator to upbraid Mr. Allison lor his share in tho legislative struggle. While the Mcliarrahan bill was under consideration. Senator Morrill mentioned beuator Wilson, of Iowa, among others, as having an interest iu the claim. Mr. Wil son indignantly denied the suggestion that he had now or had ever had any interest, directly or mdirectly, in .the McGarrahau claim. Any oue. he said, who asserted that he had. uttered a positive and uuqualitied falsehood of the worst character. W hen the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was presented, Mr. Allison made an explanation of the report, and stated that, in relation to the bhermau bond amendment he would, in order to test the sense of the Senate upon it, move to recede from it. Mr. Sherman explained and advocated the amendment. It had been, he said, submitted to the incoming Secretary of the Treasury, who had gone ' before the finance committee, and bad there stated the reasons why. iu his judgment, it might become important for him to have the power to issue bonds cheaper than four-per-ceut. bonds. Mr. Carlisle had then expressed a hone and belief, in which he Mr. Sherman was inclined to concur, that it might not be necessary to issue uny bonds. ' Mr. Sherman digressed, in order to pay a compliment to Mr. Carlisle, saying that he knew no man in tho United Slates better tilted to hold the otlice of Secretary of the Treasury. He went onto say that, when he otiered the bond 'amendment, tie bad no expectation that there would be any opposition to it. The pretension that it repealed any other provision of the resumption law was absolutely unfounded. If Congress now denied to the Secretary the power to sell bonds, it would cripple the goverameut, and tbosi whose fault it was would be responsible to the people. There wan now in the vault of the treasury a great mat of silver bullion. It it were coined It would undoubtedlr disturb parity and 'bring about a panic He had heard a good dol about bankers and plutocrats, and, what is the word? ;old bus: but, said he, there are no greater gold bugs iu the world than owners of silver mines, in proof of that, he read lrom a Nevada paper a notice of an itfcfSrKie!it of ti") cent per. share, "payable immediately in United StatH gold coin." Mr. Sbeiman's f peech wn replied to by Metsre. Stewart, Wolcott and 'idler, Mr. Teller expressing hH bdtef th.it no bonds, whether 1 per cent, or li per cent., wo.ild

be issued by the incoming Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Gorman slated ttat he hsd full authority for s lying that the bond amendment had ben reportea after consultation with the Presidcntand with the next Secretary of the Treasnrj. Hut it was possible that the sundry civil appropriation bill would be defeated if tee amendment was insisted upon. v Mr. Shernwii 1 certainly would not insist Upon any amendment, however strongly I favored it. which the other hoiihe resolutely opposed, or which, if insisted ou, would result in defeating an appiODristioa The vote was taken and the Senate, without a division, recedod from the Sherman amendment. , The conference report was acrecd to, ana a further conferense was ordered on several amendment which liAd not been finally disposed of. Tho btninepa of the Senate was then suspended cud. after paying fitting tribute to the memory of the late Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, the Senate adjourned. S03IINATIONS CONSlDlIItKIK

The Senate Holds an Kzorutivn Session Hope for Finrilnr end Little for Hmh'tr. Washington. March 1. After three ineffectual attempts to got an executive session, tho Republican were successful today, the understanding being, however, that nothing of a disputedcharacter should be considered, and uu efiort was made to reconsidtr the vote by which the nomination of John V. L. Findlay, of Maryland, to bo Chilian arbitrator, was rejected. Tho ciTort was not a very hearty one. and met with failure. Mr. Sherman made the motion to reconsider. It is said that no formal vote was taken, and the rejection ot tho nominee was subsequently made public Tho tacit agreeuient regarding disputed nominations did not prevent the preliminary steps being taken in the Hanchett nomination. An soon as the executive oet siou begun this nomination w r.i referred to the judiciary committee, and before it was ov ir t he committee held a meeting on then cr and, by a strict patty voto, reported the nomination favorably. This was as far is the matter could proceed today, aud Republicans admit that there is little hope of the confirmation of Mr. Hatictett. The nomination of Dennis T. Kerby, to be captain in the army, whictt was protected against by army otlicers stationed in Detroit, was irit ncted upon, Jumes K. Cockran, of Nebraska, was cmfirmed as consul general at San Salvador. It is said that another attempt will be made to hold an executive session ff r the purpcto of clearing up the calendar as quirk as possible. The President sent to the Senate, to-davf the following nominations: Trtixton lleale, of California, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consulgeneral of the United States to Roumania, seryia and Greece; Genio M. Larabertson. of Nebraska, to be arbitrator ou the patt oi the United iStata under the treaty for a claims commission coi.ciuried between tho United States and Chili. TltEASUllV STATEMENT. Condition of the 1'ultlie Finances Debt In, creased $615,109 Durintr Febrnarv. Washington. March 1. A sliaht increase of the net debt of the United States wai the resnlt of the operationsof the Treasury Department in February, as shown by tho statement issued this afternoon. TheexaoD amount was ei5.?uv, inade up as follows: Increase of interest-bearing debt, $fiU); decrsaseof non interest-Learing debt, 6321,8)1; decrease of cash iu the treasury. Sl.UC,.. DSO. The balances of the several classes oi debt at the close of business Feb. 2S wero: Interest-bearing debt. 5 5,o24.CJ; debt oa which interest n ceased since maturity, 82.035 5; debt benrnij no interest, o.D12.U7; total. .tt,:M.7.V There was in the treasury at iha same time u total of i7i'r4,::;2.2fv; of. cash. rn gold was $.17,t;V2,M7. aghast S.t8bJ7.5i at the close ot the previous raonta; pap.-r, &V5'j7.27o, which was 6:0.o3?.fcUO thv month, previous, nnd Sl5,rl,503 of deposits in na. tional bank depositories, etc.. a decrease ol $.M.'4,:J07. Against this volume of cash thera were outstanding rol,82S,o4( coin and currency certificates and treasury notes, and S3$,IG532 miscellaneous liabilities, such as national bunk-note redemption fuua, disbursing otlicers' balances, etc., leaving a cash balance on haud, including the l0O 0 000 gold reserve, of 8l-4.r.S.Os7. This was rrl.lStUi&O less than at the close of the previous mouth. The receipts for the month were $'0,lOJ,i2, and the expenditures $31,677.454. General otej. Special to the IndlsnapolU JnnraiL Washington, March 1. MaJ. E. W. ITalfonl, who leaves Washington for New York on Friday night, sails for Paris ou the etenrner La Gascogne at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. Ills address iu Paris will be at the Continental Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Sutton, of Ixganport. are In the city for a week or two. Mr. Sutton is the editor of the Daily Heporter, of Loiransport. Mrs. W. NT. Dunne, of Fowler. 1 eluding tho winter with the family of Joacph Larue, of tho Pension Otlice. Iltilert I Wilhite, of Crawfordsville, has arrived and will be the gue&t of Captain Wilhite, of the Pension Ollice, for a week. Senator ilhfgius to-day Introduced tn the Senate n hill to (rive effect to the Preldeuts iecommendation to Congress touching the Canadian railways. It repeals Article -1) of the treaty ot Washimrton andaUo repeals the statutes which permit troods to be shipped iu Dond between United iwtati's ports; which permit conmlar Healing of cars and which exempt railroad cars or vehicle.' Irom Inspection. Senorltomero. Mexican minister to the United States, returned to Washington to-nlirht after an absence of 6.nue months, accompanied by a son of President Diaz. The icinistcr is here oil leave of absence. The President to-day appolutel Richard J. Olesby. jr., son of ex-Governor Oulesby, of 11Uiiois, a cadet at large at West Point. WAR BEGUN" IN EARNEST. Ccop Skirta Alleged to Have Can cl a Serious Riot in a Tennessee Church. Milan, Tcnn., March 1. In attempting to Introduce the crinoline fad into the rural district of Daden. Mrs. Sanders caused a tight in the church last Sunday. In entering the church the cumbersome skirts brushed against several person?, nnd An. dew Watson made a remark which insulted the lady, who informed her husband. A fight ensued, the relatives and friends of both parties engaging in the battle. Women fainted, children screamed, and pandemonium reiuned supremr. Many emerged with broken and bleeding heads, vowing vengeance. Several of the parties are gunning for each other, and the crinoline fad Is oa the decline. Combine of Itottle Manufacturers. Pittsburg, March . A big combination ot glass-bottle manufacturers has been formed, and niuB factories in ttm vicinity will soon lo abandoned. Tho combination will be known as the Pittsburg Glass Company, and will includo Wightman A Co., McKee V. Go.. Cucnincham (To., McCully A: Co. and OuniRou A Co. Today representatives of the alove concern vUited and inspected the old Walter farm near Elizabeth, with a view to its purchase. On this site, which has been determined upon, the company will erect a muiniuotli I'ias-bottle plant. 'Iha companv will aUo build a town, which will t called Watson. The capital stock of the new concern! $1,000,000. Mne factories located here will be removed to the now site.. A plate-cia factory of immense proportions will also bo built at that place. Wrtbntli Switchmen ItebiifTed. St. LoriP. March 1. The switchmen's grievance committee of the Wabah system has met with a rebuff. Presenting a demand lor piy for tho dinner hour whenever men wero coiujtelled, by circuiustai ces to work a whole or pjirtof that hour, the committee received fromSuierlntcndent Macee a refusal to accede t the remet, or to recommend to (Jerieral Manager Haves that it be granted. Oran t hief .'. i;. Wilson, who came here to aid the local grievance committee, has returned to Chicago. Mrs. J. C. lllaine, Jr., uod Her Sick Child. New Ym:u. March 1. A tnornlnjr paper siys: The Hoard of Health has decided that Mrs. James (. Itlaine, jr., and her t!ve-year-ol I son, who 1 ill with scarlet fever, must be- allowed to remain in tho New Yor e Hotel. Ah the hotel is now deserted and all the c;rjH-t and furniture ready for n ovlng out tao place present a desolate appearance, fho water and ca have been turned olt, and at .nij;ht the mother continues her lonely waten by candle lU'ht, Lolated a if la a wilderness. Srrike of V ( iid Carriaf-s 3Iakers C:iir.u;t. March 1. About five hundred union waron and carrince woiUer employed l y ihe Kiiitba'l aud StudclMker companies ch'eiiy. strut k fvd.iy. They wanted u nine in tend of ten-hour day, and au incrcaieof 10 per cent iu par ou u!eco work.