Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 1G, 1893.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1S93.

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CXifCirfKATI J. B-lTawlcy & Co.. 151 Vine street. HriSVIIX C. T. Peering, rorthwest corner of 2 turd aiid Jtrrtrson trtta. fcT, LOUIS V nion Neira Co, TJn'on Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C P.iS nouso and Ebbltt Houae. Aftee the Civil-servico Commission Kcts through with Mr. Donham ho may cot look as handsome, bat be will know more. , Jeert Simpson is denouncing Drenchers because, as ho says, 00 per cent, of them are Republicans. The Simpson figure is too high; but all good preachers should be Republicans. TriE Jour mil warned Mr. Donham several days ago that when ho undertook to Ignore the civil-service law he would tun against a snag. Some peoplo can only learn by experience. "WnEK Senator Yoorhces says that tho Postmaster-general "sustains Donham at every point" he doubtless draws oq hi3 imagination for his facts. Wait till the Postmaster-general learns the leal facts. f It appears that while 43,079 farms in Michigan were under mortgage in 1SS8, only 03,931 were mortgaged, in 1800 all of which is fortunate for the farmer, but bad as bad can bo for the professional calamityite. It is duo to civil-servico reformers Foulfco and Swift to say that they did not lose any time in mobilizing themselves when the Terre Haute postoflice war opened. They have got all the materials for a first-class case and will probably mako it interesting for tho ldministration. Novr if the coming Congress will extend the Geary act to cover all thoso peoplo whocomoto this country tolivein squalora fewycars while they accumulate a few hundred dollars by underbidding Americans, or thoso who would bo Americans in tho labor market, China could find no fault. We do not want tho Chinamen, but the shiploads of people coming from Italy and Austria to remain ft few years, live on next to nothing? and carry home money which other men would expend in purchasing tho products of the country, aro just as objectionable. If Mr. Donham, postmaster at Tcrro Haute, will turn to Section C31, page 03, of tho last edition of tho Postal Laws and Regulations, ho will learn that . "letter carriers are appointed by the Postmaster-general on the nomination nnd recommendation of tho postmaster." On tho sarao page ho will find tho fol- , lowing: "Applications for appointment jit postoIUces in tho classified postal service must bo made rtponn blank form prescribed by tho Civil-servico Commission, and furnished, upon request, by the examining board therefor, and when properly filled out must bo returned to them. It is needless to seek tho aid of a member of Congress or other influential person to seenro an application paper or an examination." There is no thine in tho postal laws and regulations exempting tho Terre Hauto oflico from the operation of these rules. The Journal has received from tho American Protective Tariff Leaguo a series of excellent letters written b'y employes of manufacturing establishments, scttingforth tho calamities which will overtako tho labor and tho industries of tho country if a revenuo tariff shall be enacted by tho incoming Congress. Tho Journal believes that all theso workingmen predict will como true, yet it can see no earthly uso in printing these letters now. It is liko locking tho stable after tho horso is gone. It will not deter the importers and the idealists from carrying out their pledges. Last September and October tho Journal was filled with just 6uch facta as theso letters contain. Nevertheless tho wage-earner, and particularly tho men employed in protected industries, voted for Cleveland and a tariff for revenue only. Yoting for it, it is presumed they want it and will not bo satisfied until they como into equni competition with tho half-paid labor of Europe. There is no school quite so in structive as experience, even if the taxation 13 high nnd tho rod is applied with n vigorous hand nnd an unrelenting spirit. The "Wasliinjrton press agents have furnished their patrons with a long dispatch setting forth the perplexities which surround the proposed visit of Infanta Eulolia, of Spam, to tho United States as tho guest of the Nation. Tho country is told that this young lady and her sponsors do not expect that tho President will meet her in New York nnd tako her to the White House, but tho representatives of tho Spanish govirnment insist that alter tho Princess Bhall have called on tho President, it is acourtesyduo tho Infanta that tho President should return tho call. To tho average mind, such a proposition should : involve no complication. Mr. Clovelaud bavins issued a proclamation ban

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ishing from his presenco tho "boys who stood in th trenches" day nnd night for three months prior to his election, will havo time in which to make a live minutes1 call upon tho young woman. There is no reason to beliove that any office seeker in Washington is so desperate as to waylay Mr. Cleveland with a petition while ho is making this call. is said that unless the Infanta

is shown this courtesy she will not deem it r.roncr for her to attend the world's fair. No doubt tho Infanta onld mifs a great deal in not seeing tho greatest show on earth," but that is a matter of minor consequence. Chicago wants the Infanta. Thus far, Chicago has had no end of dukes and lord?, and a surfeit of barons. They no longer draw: butn Snnnish roval nrincess w r r m would fill tho White City for three days, and would make Chicago the Mecca of icierican snobdnm for tho season. And et.this Washington correspondent tells s that the representatives of tho United u States and Spain havo thus far failed to reach a satisfactory understanding rearding the programme of courtesiee to o exchanged between the President and tho Infanta while she may be in Washington. What a momontousquestion! What solemn hours there must bo during which the minister from Spain nnd Secretary Gresham thoono in Spanish nnd the other in English discuss the consequences of tho propriety or impropriety of President Cleveaud returning tho call of tho Infanta Eulalia of Spain, and yet the American people go about their ordinary affaire ust the same! THE BEDFORD LYNCHING. Tho outbreak of mob violence at Bed ford was a most deplorablo a Hair and adds another to tho list of lawless acts which havo already marred tho reputation of tho State. Lynch law is never justifiable or defensible in a community where the courts aro open and the machinery of justice is In operation. It can only be justified in a community where tho courts havo proved corrupt or powerless to enforce tho law, or where crime has become so rampant as to be beyond tho reach of legal methods of cure. This condition of things does not exist at Bedford, where thelynchingoccurrcd, nor in tho adjoining county of Jackson, from whence the lynching party came. The courts thero are open and the machinery exists for the enforcement of law, and yet crime is not prosecuted or punished thero as it ought to bo. Why is this? Jackson and Lawrenco counties lift in what might be called a crime belt. For many years past Daviess, Martin, Lawrence, Jackson and some adjoining counties havo been tho scene of more or less lawlessness, and havo furnished an amount of crime out of all proportion to their population. Seymour was tho headquarters of tho Rono gang, whose feats of enmo almost rivaled thoso of tho James brothers. Many murders and train robberies have been planned or perpetrated there. Only a few days ago tho Journal contained an account of a murder . committed there beginning with "Another murder has been added to the list of crimes which have, in past days, stained tho name of this city." In that case the sheriff only averted a lynching by spiriting tho murderer off to jail in an adjoining town. And so it has been for many years, until the namo of Seymour has become almost synonymous with unpunished crime and acts of violence. Other counties in tho crime belt have been not far behind. Somo of them havo become notorious for Wbitc-capism, others for horso stealing and others for arson. Incendiary fires havo become so frequent in somo of these counties that insurance companies have ceased to take risks on farm buildings. Some of theso crimes havo been traced to tho Whito Cappcrp, but tho officers of the law have shown no zeal in prosecuting them. And right hero probably is tho secret of tho evil and the main cause of the growth of crimo in tho counties that constitute the crimo belt. The laws have not been enforced and crime has not been adequately punished. Tho fault is with the courts, judges, prosecutors and juries. In other words, it is with tho people. A stream does not rise higher than its source, nnd criminal laws are only rigidly enforced when tbo peoplo demand and insist upon it. They cither create a moral sentiment that brings about tbo enforcement of law or they permit an oppoeito sentiment to grow up and overpower the sense, of justico that ought to reside in every community. Sometimes justico is debauched and tho law paralyzed .by and through party spirit. Year after year a dominant party, controlled, by greed of office, or by a gang of corrupt courthouse politicians, elects to oflico men who aro in sympathy with the criminal classes weak-kneed judges, corrupt prosecutors and sheriffs, who will aid in organizing juries to acquit. Wo do' not say this state of things exists in all the counties named, but it certainly has existed in some of them, nnd it has contributed materially to tho increase of crime. Tho murder of conductor Price was cold blooded, and tho circumstances indicate that it was premeditated; yet, in spite of the aggravating circumstances, the justico of tho peace at Bedford, before whom tho jnurderer had a preliminary hearing, fixed his bond at $2,o00. This in itself shows that the justico had no proper sense of justico f n.l no conception of tho criminality of crime. Ho was, probably, a political or personal friend of tho muiderer's father, who fctood by with $2,500 in his pocket ready to give tho required bail. The justice was only Reared into doing his duty by the threat of tho railroad men present, that, if ho released tho murderer on bail, they would hang him to the nearest tree. It is such Dogberry as this Bedford 'squire who pave the way for lynch law by trifling with justico and pandering to crime. This shocking event, deplorablo as it ie, is but" tho natural culmination of causes which havo been operating for many years. Its lesson is that the time has come when tho decent peoplo of tho counties in tho crime belt must unito for the enforcement of law and tho pun

ishment of crime by regular and legal methods. Let them, if necessary, discard all party names and lint s and make all other political issues subordinate to that of putting in office honest, bravo and fearless men who will become a terror to evil-doers, and who will purify tho atmosphere of thoso counties by enforcing tho law ss it hns never been enforced there before. And when they aro elected let the people stand close behind them and sustain them in tho discharge of their duty.

CONSTITUTIONALITY OP THE GEARY ACT. The Supreme Court has obliged the President and Secretary Gresham by giving them a prompt opiniou in regard to tho constitutionality of tho Chinese exclusion act, but Mr. Cleveland and his Secretary cannot regard that opinion as in any sense complimentary to their legal acumen or as affording them any escapo from the blunder they committed when they suspended an act of Congress. The court, with thro dissenting opinions, has affirmed tho constitutionality of tho Chinese exclusion act. It was tho opinion of the lawyers of tho Six Companies that tho act is unconstitutional. Upon that opinion tho President and his Cabinet surprised the country by declaring the law suspended until the court should pass upon its constitutionality. Perhaps it would bo more exact to say that, the President and Secretary Gresham having surprised tho country by sending "my commissioner" to Hawaii to override the regularly appointed minister of the United States to that government, in defiance of tho plain provision of the Constitution, intelligent people aro prepared for any unconstitutional outbreak of Mr. Cloveland and his advisers. - If the Suprt.no Court had sustained Mr. Cleveland aud his advisers in their judgment that the law is unconstitutional, their suspension of the law could have been defended in part on tho ground of their superior wisdom regarding it; but now tho defenders of tho administration can do nothing of the sort. It has not only suspended a law in violation of the Constitution, but it hns put itself in an attitude of hostility to the law before the world. Howover, the court having set aside the opinion of tho President and Judge Gresham, ns it. has been wont to dc, it may bo assumed that the administration will now proceed to enforce the law, since it is scarcely possible that it will further suspend the enforcement of a law which tho Supremo Court has declared to be constitutional. The enforcement of the law threatens serious consequences. The Chinese government has always been averse to the policy of shipping its subjects to this country for a few years, to return with a sum of money which, to a Chinaman, is a fortune and a source of wealth for tho Six Companies. But the continued policy of discrimination against Chinese laborers which the United States has followed with measures of increasing severity is said to have finally aroused the anger of tho rulers of China, who are men of high intelligence and spirit. An exclusion act confined to tho subjects of tho Emperor of China is a stigma before tho world upon his people which ho will resent, and, probably, with retaliation. There aro many Americans in China. The leading churches havo had missionaries there for years, and there are American colonies in its large cities. It is altogether probablo that, even if tho Chinese government does not adopt a policy of retaliatory exclusion, the Chinese people, who havo always been hostile to the presenco of foroigners, will break the restraints of the government and mako it impossible for Americans tolivein that country. The people of the United States cannot complain if China adopts what may be called a responsive policy. Whatever the outcome of tho Terro Hauto postoffico war may bo, it has been useful in calling public attention to tho standard of political morals that prevails among tho Democratic bosses there. Prominent among theso nro Senator Yoorhees aud his local henchman and mouthpiece, John E. Lamb, behind whom is a gang of hungry and thirsty spoilsmen, tho liko of which can hardly bo found anywhero else outsido of Tammany. With all tlu'60 statesmen politics begins and ends in spoils. Their theory is that he serves tho country best who serves the Democratic party best, and that tho way to servo tho Democratic party is to put Democratic workers in office. From tho Yoorhees-Larab point of view, as taught and practiced in Terre Hante, this is nil thero is in politics. In their" extreme anxiety to get possession of tho postoffico they have mado a national spectacle of themselves. Tho Terro Haute Express says: In the great haste to get Mr. Oreiner ont and Mr. Donhsm in, special messenger have besn sent to Washington and the nenior Senator of Indiana, the favored lrtend of Cloveland. the learned chairman of the finance committee of the United States Senate, has dropped his aftairsof Mat to hustle around tho departments to net Mr. Greiner out of office, sooner hy a month, by a week, a day. yes. an hour, than any pleaof law, justice or bnsinoasrequires. Politicians of Importance ran up to tho depot 'to mail Mr. Dcnham's application for commission, telegrams were sent, and anything was done that could b done to throw Mr. Greiner out of his ofiice a few days or hours sooner. In nil this rushing to nnd fro there was no thought of serving any public interest. Tho only object was to get possession of a few littlo clerkships and to run in a few Democratic letter carriers before the civil-service examinations were held. To accomplish this Mr. Donham has violated the law ami defied the department authorities nt Washington in a manner that should insnro the prompt recall of his commission. The long series of congresses to beheld thin summer in connection with the world's fair opened yesterday with the World's Congress of Representative Women. This congress will continue during the entire week. In a large sense it represents the idea of woman's progress and her moral and intellectual statns at the present time. It will be beyond comparison the most, notable gathering of women ever assembled, embracing distinguished representatives of every department of woman's work from various parts of the United States, and from England, France. Ger-

many, Switzerland, Russia, Finland, Italy, Canada, Dohemia, India and Sooth American states. There will be present many women whose names are familiar in pro gressive circles in both hemispheres, and it can hardly be doubted that the meetings and discussions held dnrtng the week will give a distinct impetus to woman's work throughout the world. The Colombian Liberty Bell, in which so many people are interested, will be cast in Troy, N. Y June 8. It is estimated that 100,000 persons have donated, or will aonate some bit of sacred or significant recollection to its composition a coin, a metal heirloom, a bit of ore, a trinket. On the surface of the bell will be engraved the names of famous exponents of freedom and the dates of histono episodes that mark the world's progress.

Tiiekk are olubs in connection with Harvard University at which a student may obtain a week's board at $2 or less. This faot reminds the iew York Advertiser of General Harrison's prophecy in his address before the Chautauqua Assembly, that his auditors would live to see the day when it would be within the means of every deserving poor boy and girl in this country to obtain a complete education. To the Editor of tlm Ictiaiiauolls Journal: 1. Was the act which broueht the steamships City of New York and City of Taria under the American flax a special act. or are its provisions open to no other vessels! What result has followed the enactment of the so-culled shipping bill of the rirty-tirst Congress! 3. What has been the Increase or decrease In tho vommo of our trade with Brazil since tho negotiation of our reciprocity treaty with that country! A ItEAiJEK. 1. It was a special act. 2. Quite a num. ber of ships have been building for engagement under the shipping act, but the probability of repeal under the present administration has interrupted the progress which would have been made. 3L There was an inorease of exports to Brazil, the last fiscal year, compared with the last year before the arrangement, of 'd per cent., in spite of the fact that trade was very dull in that country. The increase of exports to Cuba was CS per cent. To tho Editor ot tlo Indianapolis Jonroah In the Uchrlng sea arbitration, who constitute the high court and who are tho English counsel P. L.C. The Baron De Courcellcs, of France; the Viscount Venosta, of Italy; M. Gram, oflsort way; Judge Harlan and Senator Morgan, of the United States, and Lord Justice Ilannen and Sir John S. D. Thompson, of Great Britain, constitute the court, and Sir Charles Russell, Sir W. II. Cross and Hon. C. Robinson, of Canada, are the British counsel. Co the Eutor of th In.liauaiMIa Journal: 1. What per cent, of tbo couvicts In the State prisons are females, and what per cent, are married! 2. Where can reports containing suck Xaot3 be obtaiued! s. K. 1. The last report shows that about 10 per oent. of convicts of the State prison grade are women, but reports showing the social relations have not been received. 2. Send to the United States Census Bureau, Washington. BUIJEIiE3 IX TUB A 1 2. Poor, SuffArtfic Woman. Mr. Lushforth I believe I've irot 'em again. Mrs. Lushforth I hope you will havo snakes, or monkeys, or some sort of menagerie animals. Those mice you had the last time made mo so nervous that I Could hardly sleep. 'ot a Desperate Case. Mrs. Potts- I will glre you something to eat If you will tako this soap and water and give your face a good washing. .' Hungry nicpins Not much. 1 may be purty hungry, hut, thank the Lord, I ain't starvin' yet. Her Tender Heart. 'I'm mijzhty glad that it Is coming on warm weather agin." said good old Mrs. Uenderby. "Them statoos without hardly any clo'es on la Thompson's yard acrost tho way has done nothing but give me one case of shivers artcr another all winter." . i . More Information. Tommy Paw, why do they call reople vrho come over to this country "Immigrants" Instead of "cmirantsl" Mr. FIgff Oh, that la on account of the way In which most of them pronounce the word. The majority are Irish, you know. Something of a Freak. Mr. Wlckwiro Why aro you always saying somcthlog spiteful about Mrs. fclmmonst She seems to me tov be one of tbo sweetest dlsposltioned women that ever I have met. Mrs. Wickwlro That is hecause you are not acquainted with her so well as I am. She is twofaced from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. THE KLCENT BANK FAILURES. The trouble with tho Western bucketshop banks was that there wasn't 'any money in the buckets when the shops went broke. Philadelphia Times. ZtMRt Dwiggixs is the Western banker whose several banks aro at present somewhat undor a cloud. Unfortunately there is not much in tm name to restore confidence. Commercial advertiser. ( The experience of the Dwiggins syndicate indicates that a wholesale banking business fonnded on a deiicit is a risky venture. lHit is there no law to protect innocent depositors from such rotten financial structures? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The mushroom banking system built up by the mushroom Columbia Bank was an excrescence on the sound banking system of tho country. .and its elimination is a help, rather than a hindrance. :o the maintenance of full businoss confidence. Louisville Commercial. i Their collapse means disaster and perhaps fore snflering to the people of their localities whose money they had on deposit, bnt it is unlikely to have any serious eilectnpou tho general financial sitnation, except in so far as rapid succession of even unimportant bank fnilnres tends to impair confidence. New York World. 11k could not help his name, of course," but if Zirarl Dwiggins had kept it a little more to himself instead of scattering it broadcast over tho West, it would have been money in tho pockets of a great many peoplo. and perhaps in his own. His folks worked the vowel i for all it was worth, and be worked ou for still more. New York Tribune. It is the class to which Dwiggins belongs which will take advantage of the proposed change in our banking laws to establish at every cress-roads their buckot-shop banks, if the term is admissible, and proceed to the grinding out of paper promises to pay in a mighty llood, to the infinite damage of our business iutt rest and the certain loss to the people. New York Advertiser. Ur to tho present time tho revelations concernina the manner in which Mr. Zimri Dwiggins organized Western bonk6 have had a most demoralizing e fleet upon tbo reputation of such men as Napoleon Ives. Compared with the manner in which Dwiggins "promoted" things on no capital apparently but wind, their methods were decidedly amateurish. He had a regnlar corner in financial winds. Philadelphia Times. It appears that Zimri Dwiggins, the financial genius who developed this system of branch banks upon the capital stock of one small bank, was also the architect of its mm. As president of the Columbian National Bank, of Chicago, Dwiggins not only drew out its funds to the full legal limit on bis own account, bat used its money to sustain several speculative undertakings in which he was interested. -rPhiladelphia Inquirer. M Oumnakily such a series of bank failures as were reported from the West, yesterday, could happen "only in a time of panic Bat these failures have an aspect

that is almost humorous. Papor that other bankers were shy of was discounted, profits figured up largely, and for o period this hanking by wholesale appeared to prosper. Thursday the Chicago branch, which held the creater part of the stock and fands of the tributary banks, failed, and since then the others have been tospling orer like a row of bricks. New York Mail and Express.

ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. The Infanta Kulalie has a husband. Prince Antoine d' Orleans. Mn. Seloxs. who gets a medal from the Koyal Geographical Society this year, is believed to have killed more elephants than anyone else. lie is popularly reearded as the original of Kider Haggard's Allan (Juatermam. It is said that Mary E. Wilkins uses no note books to help her write her stories, full as they are of photographically minute detail. "I don't believe I think many thoughts." she says; "1 just write them." Miss Wilkins has recently refused to write on a subject requested by her publisher. "How to Be Happy Though Poor." beoause Bhe says she is convinced of the impossibility ot happiness under those circumstances. Metternich said: "In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it was pleasant to speak, i. e., who keep to the subject, do not repeat themselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who do not listen tr their own voice, who are cultivated enough not to lose themselves in commonplaces, and, lastly, who possess tact and good taste enough not to elevate their own person above the subject," The activity of the Philadelphia S. P. C. A. led it to send a note of warning to a theatrical manager, in the course ot whoso play a "kitten is brought upon the stags aud swung around by the tail, and by one paw, and cries pitcously." Subsequent investigation led to apologies, and the recommendation that a clause be inserted in the programme, "This is not a real kitten." The "property" kitten has thus certainly reached the highest art in acting. A remarkably complicated but united family of fifty persons, representing three languages and races, resides near Florence. Several years ago three English sisters married Italians. One sister secondly married a Frenchman, and their daughters married Italian cousins. The three English grandmothers are, therofore, aunts to each other's children, and double great aunts to each other's grandchildren. Also the sisters-in-law are all tirst cousins to each other's husbands, and to one another. Mrs. Lizzie C. Jones Rogers was the guest of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment Association at its recent dinner., She exhibited tho costume she wore in 1SC1, when she was adopted as the daughter of the regiment, the skirt was of silk, striped in red, white and bine, enlivened by contrast with a dark velvet jacket of Spanish cut. The bat was trimmed with feathers and ribbons of red, white and blue. The canteen presented to her in Baltimore, July 17, 1861, by officers and privates was also exhibited. Mrs. Rogers is the daughter of General Edward F. Jones, once colonel of the regimeut. The flirt who on beings susceptible preys And delights lu her power to deceive Approves of tho fashion in gowns nowadays bhe has room to laugh in her sleeve. New York Press. CAPITAL BANK'S AFFAIRS. It Now Seems Certain that Depositors Will Lobs Nothing by It. ' President V. T. Malott, of tho Indiana National Bunk, and Henry Eitel, of Bradstreet's agency, have been called in by Special Bank Examiner Young to aid him in determining the condition of the Capital National Bank. The services of these gentlemen will probably be of great value in closely estimating the aotaul worth of the bank's paper. The necessity for a receiver is becoming more remote as the examination proceeds, and voluntary liquidation is now the method proposed for ending the bank's a Hairs, although the directors are confident they con resume. The examiner may suggest a voluntary liquidation to the Controller of the Currency. Cashier Doherty believes the bank officials can better wind up aiiairs, if the institution is to be closed, than a receiver could. Director Chambers claims that the bank could realize a half million dollars in a few days if desired. The bank ouiciais show that they have 50,0C0 in paper that can be converted into cash within live days and $150,000 in paper that can be realized on in a month. Then there are &S0.000 in cash on hand and 200.000 in other banks, including the SbO.OCO with the Chemical National, of Chicago. A half million is owed to other banks, and if the bank was to open again some arrangement would probably be made with them to stave off some of these claims for a period. The bank has a little Premier steel works paper, bat it is insisted that tbo remainder of the million in paper held is of high rating. The . depositors in the Capital will not lose anything by thosuspension. The capital 6took, the surplus and a 100 per cent, assessment under tho law on the stockholders stands between them and loss. State Examiner Packard Is still assisting Mr. Young. President Wilson yesterday denied a report that the State Treasurer of Illinois recently drew out 8100,000 in State funds from the Capital wbfeb bad been placed there by his predeoeasor. Mr. Wilson's brother. There was another report to which Mr. Wilson took exceptions. This was to the effect that the Capital sent $12.000 a few days bofore the suspension to the Gas City Bank, of which Mr. ilson is also president, and that the Gas City Bank held baok SOOO which it was about to send to the Capital. Mr. Wilson said he had no knowledge of any snob transaction. CITY COMPANY'S SUIT. It Will File Complaint Against the Citizens Company To-Day. The City Street-railway Company will hie suit this morning to compel the Citizens' Street-railway Company to remove its tracks from the streets granted the former company Dy tho city, to compel it to name its policy in regard to the same and to compel it to define its position relative to the length of the franchise under which it is now operating. The City company served notice on the Citizen's company some time ago to remove the tracks irom the streets which will be named in the complaint and gave the latter company until noon of May 13 to comply with that notice. That time expired Saturday, with the Citizens' company having paid no attention to the demand. The snit will be tiled in the Marion Circuit Court nnd the attorneys will ask that it have an immediate hearing. Judge Elliott and A. C. Harris, the City company's attorneys, were busy all of yesterday getting the complaint ready, and the clerk in the former's otlice was nut to work ou it as soon as the stroke of midnight announced that Sunday was of the f vast and Monday had begun. At 6 o'clock ast night there were several points in the complaint on which the attorney bad not yet decided, and the evening was spent in discussion off them. President Mason, of the Citizens' company, was told late last night of the proposed tiling of tbe suit by the opposing company, and when told what its provisions were, gave vent to a prolonged whistle. He said that be did not care to talk about it until he had seen tho complaint and become conversant with its exact provisions. Work of lh Citizens Company. The Citizens' company will present to the Board of Public Works, Wednesday morning, its plan for lowering the Illinois-street tunnel, and will ask the board to act on it at once. The other work of the company is being kept going as fast as men can be got to do it. The largest force is concentrated on the Shelby-street and Garriald Park route, the company beiua desirous of get ting that line completed bnmioo as possible. Men are also working on Maryland and Bellefontaine streets, sua others will be put on the booth ide assoouas permission has been given to pass through the tunnel.

WUBK OF THE CITY SOLONS

Franchises for the New Tracks of the Uif Four Approved by the Council. Death of the Boiler Inspection OrdinanceGarbage Contract Let to Richard Lieber Bids fcr Improvements. The Council met in regular session last night with eighteen members present. President Murphy and Mr. McGufUn being the absentees. Before the meeting convened, in tho office of the city clerk, quite a lobby, which had assembled in behalf of the proposed improvements of the Grand Hotel, had its tlinc at the councilmen. One or two members of the tire department were also present, agitating the passage of the ordinance regulating the pay of certain members of the department. Among other things provided in this ordinance is that tho clerk of the chief shall reoeive $10 a month extra for services so rendered, and Sam Neat captain of the headquarters chemical engine, who has always done that work, was busy urging its passage. President Murphy being absent, the chair was filled by Mr. Raasmann. When, in the regular order of business, the reports from the otbeial boards were called for. the clerk handed in aeverai from the Board of Publio Works. The first two of these were the coutraots giving the right to the Big Four railroad to remove its tracks from Delaware street and to connect them with those of the Union Railway Company at a point near there, and to build a doable track system from Louisiana street to the city limits along its present right of way, but in a more concentrated manner. Mr. Gasper moved for a suspension of rules, and that they be taken up for passage at once. and it was carried, the contracts being approved. The other communication was a contract which the board has entered into with the United States Encaustic Tile Works Natural-gas Company, which gives it the right to lay its lines over certain streets in the city. The routo proposed is as follows: Beginning at tbo lnternection of Meridian an J Twentieth streets, thenoo vre6tto the tlrst alley west of Mississippi street, tnence ouUide the city limits south to the intersection of Twelfth street in said alley where it re-enters the limit, continuing to the first alley south of Seventh street, west in said alley to Howard street, west in Sunmer street to tho first alley west of Howard street; also a two-inch lino in Howard street north from fcumner street to seventh street. Tne contract also requires that the company put up a bond of 25.000 for the faithlul performance of the provisions of the contract, and the names of Jackson Landers, J. J. Cooper and John Picken appeared as sureties. J. J. Cooper is president of the company and John Picken is secretary. The company will pipe gs for the use of the enoaustio works only. The ordinance was referred to the committee on streets and alleys. Chairman Halloran, of the fees and salaries committee, reported back the ordinance relating to the regulating of the salaries of the members of the lire department, with the recommendation of the committee that it pass. This ordinance Is an amendment to the one recently passed, and provides for the raising of the pay of linemen from J2.'J5 per day to f VX) and an additional payment of 810 per month to the clerk of the lire chief, the salaries of the rest of tho force remaining as they have been. When it was introduced Mr. Costellorose to his feet and entered a vigorous protest. He said that he thought it was about time that this business of raising the pay of firemen was stopped, and that he thought they were getting all they were entitled to now. This brought a warm retort from Mr. Gasper, and in the muddle which ensued Mr. Rassmann succeeded in getting a motion to iupend the rules through, and the ordinance was passed. The committee on safety and comfort reported back without action tho boiler inspection ordinance, and it went into the tin box of the clerk without any comment. This ordinance is the particular pet of Mr. White, and bas been pending before the Council in varied forms for the past six months. It practically met its death last night. Mr. Colter introduced an ordinance giv ing the Grand Hotel Company the right to build a portico in front of its building on South Illinois street to extend the whole width of the sidewalk, in conformity with the plans for remodeling that building. The ordinance was passed under a suspension of rules without a dissenting vote. The hotel people say that they intend erecting a portico wbich will cost gll.wj, and which will be an ornament to the thoroughfare on which it is located. Mr. Cooper introduced a resolution to change the name of Tennessee street to that of Capitol avenue, and it was referred to the committee on streets and alleys. Mr. White, in the midst of a good deal ot laughter, introduced a resolution to demand of the Board of Publio Works that it repair the clock in the Council chamber. It was adopted. Mr. Lant introduced an ordinance providing for the regulation of traftio on streets which are being improved, and which makes a fine of 8100 or imprisonment for thirty days possible to any person who shall drive upon them without the permission of the contractor. It was referred to the committee on streets and alleys. Garbage Contract Lt to .leber. As had been requested, Richard Lieber. representing a syndicate which bid on the proposals of the city for the construction of a garbage plant, met with the members of the Board of Publio Works, yesterday morning, and tho contract was awarded to him for the sum of 10,900 per year for the term of the contract, which is ten years. The board followed out the policy which it has reoently adopted in . transacting its business, and the closing tip of the negotiations with Mr. Lieber was made behind closed doors, in star-chamber session. Even when the board appeared from its inner room its members refused to say whether or not the contract had been formally closed up or not, and the papers relating to it were kept carefully out of sight. Mr. Lieber's bid, being a considerable sum less then either of the others, they ranging as high as 81.00) per year, the board is bound to accept it, providing that it is satisfied that the process of tho Lieber concern is all that has been said for it, and of that Mr. L,ieber satisfied them yesterday. The plant proposed to be erected will be a crematory which, its patentee claims, will dispose of night soil and garbage equally well and in the best sanitary method possible, It is what is known as the Bilhnger process, and was invented by a man of that name. The persons interested in the deal are the same as are connected with the Western chemical works. Herman II. Sielken, Theodore Stempfel, Charles Biltinger and Kicbard Leiber. It is the intention of the gentlemen to incorporate themsuives into a company for the purpose of building and operating the furnaces in this and other cities, and they will probably do so to-day. The board and Mr. Leiber yesterday discussed the site for the proposed plant, but if they arrived at any deoision would not make it public It is understood that the board will not make it public nntil the ground has been procarcd, for tho reason that it fears people living in that neighborhood will raise something more than a wordy objection to having a garbage furnace so near to them. Street and Srer Contracts. The Board of Public Works at its meeting yesterday morning opened the following bids on publio improvements and awarded these contracts: Por paving with asphalt the roadway of Walnut street from Meridian to Tennessee street: Warren-fcharf Asphalt l'avinjc Company. Krauite euro, l.tr', oolitic $4.07 and stratlued and Parkhurst ir'Ltf'i. Western J. viae and Supply Company. ooUtio 4 tS and nt ratified and l'urkburst .?4.3. The board awarded tho contract to the last bidd-r. For ihe ron:rnction of a local sewer In Miami street, from Ataama street to Delaware street: Daniel Foley. $-'.5; (Jantherg Honey. II! C. Mouej-, 1.55; William liossert, ?1.4; T. T. bbcehan, 1.1 ). T. T. Sheehan being the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him tho contruct at per lineal foot For the coiiftriirtlon of a local aewer In the tlrt alloy north of Ohio street, from Fast street to n point 17 fwt wert: Daniel Foley, if Gansberg k Honey, $1.50;

It. r. Dunning. $1.30: 11. C, F.oney, 1.30; WUUara Bos?f rt, $1.1 ; T. T. thcehaa. cents. T. T. Sheehan btsing the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him the contract. ( For the construction of a local swer In New Jersey street, from Morrison street to ilotna avenue: Daniel Fcley. 2; William Insert. $1.78: II. C. Honey, $1.73: Capital Faring and Construction Company. $1.1,8; (JanaUerg fc Honey, $1.04; A. Bruner. $1.50; It. V. Dunning. $1.35; T. T. theehan, $1.15. Tim T. Sheehan being the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him the contract at gl.15 per foot. For the construction of a local sewer In MIauI street. Xrom Fast street to a point 755 lineal leei eat: Daniel Foley. $1 90; fiansbfrg Alloner. $1.61 II. C l:oney. 1.3l; William leert. $1.37. William Bossert being the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him tht contraot. For the construction of a local sewer in Pesrl street and other street and alleys, from Mi-

u siren io caaioruia street: Tim T. Sheehan being the lowest and best bidder, the board awarded him the contract at (1.75 per foot For the construction of a local sewer in Walnut street, from Alabama street to the first alley west of New Jersey street: Daniel Foley. $1.60; Oansberg & Roney, $1.51; IL C. Uoney, $1.31; A. limner, $1.25; William Boseert, $1.21; Tim T. Sheehan. $1.10, Tim T. Sheehan being the lowest and lest bidder, the board awarded him the contract at $1.10 per foot Marrfand-Street ltlds Rejected. The board rejected all bids it had re ceived for raving with asphalt Maryland street, from Pennsylvania street to Kentacky avenue, and has ordered theeQgineei to prepare no w papers for the same improvement, with the exception that the new papers call for the paving to be the whole widthof the street, including tha irt. car tracks which are now being laid by the Citizens' company, the width to bo sixty ieek The engineer was also ordered to prepare papers for paving with asphalt the roadway of Pennsylvania street, from Washington 6treet to Maryland street the whole width of the street, including the strsetcar tracks. Iturna Goes Back to the Citizens. The resignation of Michael J. Barns as street commissioner has been handed to the Board of Pnblio-Works, to go into effect to-morrow. He will accept a position as road foreman of the Citizens Street-railway Company. Mr. Burns has been in the office which he Is about leaving for about six months and has given universal satisfaction with what be has accomplished. President Martin J. Murphy, of the Common Council, has been prominently spoken of as his successor. Mr. Muiphy is at present out of town, but his friends say that he will accept if the position is offered him. Sale of Market Stalls. The stalls at the East market were, sold for the ensuing year, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Publio Safety. A new appraisment had been m&,3e, but the boardssaed a notice that the people now occupying the stalls would have first refusal of them, providing they were willing to pay the new price, Every stall in tho market proper and the meat market was taken by Its former occupant, and one or two empty ones in undesirable places in the meat market were also sold. The total revenue to the city from the rental of these talis will be $12,716. Another Track for the nig Fonr. The board made and entered into a contraot with the Cleveland. Cincinnati Chicago & St Louis Railway Company grant ing them the right to connect their track! with ' the tracks of the Indianapolis Union Railway Company at or near their crossing at Delawars 6treet in consideration of tho removal ol certain other tracks of the railway comEany. The contract as approved by the oard. was transmitted to tho Council tot action. " Municipal Notes. A petition for sprinkling of the street! around Gartield Park was received by the board and tiled. A remonstrance was filed against the improvement of the south sidewalk of Irwin street frora Bellefontaine street to Cornell avenue. Ordered filed. Warren Tabs and Helen J. Tate filed with the board a remonstrance against assessment of benefits made for construction of East-street main sewer. No action taken. The Indianapolis Water Company was granted permission to enter Circle street, at its intersection of West Market street and in front of property owned by W. IL English. A remonstrance was filed by interested property owners against the-vacation of any portion of Nineteenth street from Illinois street to Tennessee street, No aetion by the board on remonstrance. Ordered filed. The telephone company was ordered to remove its poles on Tennessee street, op posite'Lorraine Hall, to the edge of the curb, so as not tointerfere with the cement pavement which is about to be laid on that thoroughfare. LIFE USDKttlTKlIERS. State Association Meets and Klects Officer Question of llebatws. The Indiana Association of Life Underwriters met last night, at the Denison House, in pursuance with a circular letter sent ont last week. The letter announced that the association is now legally incorporated under the laws of the State, and can enforce its rules tbroagh the courts of the State when necessary. The thought and hope is expressed that the provisions of the association, as now incorporated, will secure the long-desired result of prohibiting the practice of rebating wbich. it is said, bas so long demoralized the bnsiness ol life insurance. There were a number ol companies that responded to tne call and were represented at the meeting last night The list included the following: Mutual ol New York. Equitable of New York, tht New York L.ife. the Northwestern, the Penn Mutual, the Michigan Mutual, the Phunix Mutual, the Etna, the Massachusetts, the Atlas of Indiana and the John Hancock. Otbcers were elected as follows: Fresi dent D. U. fcbideler; vie president. F. It Davenport; secretary, C. E. Newlin; treasurer. J. Q. Bsrcus; chairman of the eiecu tive committee. C. t. Warbnrton. The intention of the organization is said to be to provide against discrimination ai between applicants for insurance. This, in plainer English, is that agents are to b prevented from giving the applicant a rebate from the commission of the agent, which is said to be a pernicious practice. The penalty for an infringement of lh rule is a fine of 200 per cent of the total amount of the premium. The association provides for the protection of the insured by making it finable to make false representations to the applicant. I'lrn InMiranew Men Meet. The local fire insurance association held a meeting yesterday afternoon to discuia several proposed cbanges in the association rules. The matter of increasing rates was not broached, and it is theopinion of insur ance men that rates will cot be increased in the fall, although Manager Allen, of the association. aid yesterday that the losses up to date were U) per cent heavier than they were for a corresponding period last year. This increase, however, may in part be attributable to the growth of the city and the accompanying increase In the number of risks. Any change in rte must come from Local Commission No. 1. at Cincinnati, under whoso jurisdiction Indianapolia is placed. Died at the Hoepital. E. B. ltyder. an aged man residing at No. 80 Scath Delaware street died yesterday afternoon at the City Hospital. He was removed to the hospital last week at the solicitation of his neigh bors. who claimedithat be was not being cared tor at his hoin. Th physicians, however, refute this rumor and fltate that the patient could not be induced to take his medicine and that It was .with much dilliculty that he was treated at all.

Daniel Foley, $a.50; Capital Paving and Construction Company. $J.0J: II. C. Honey. $l.i?; li;anberr & itoney, j?l.y2; WMlaiu liossert, $1.5; Tim T. Sheehan. $1.75.