Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1894.

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Foreign postage imiMiaily double th- rate. ry All communications Intended for publication In tin pa jer musr. in onler tu receive attention, be accJtnp.iitel by the nimeainl address of the writer, k Till: IMHAXAPOLIS JO L H.N A L. Can t found at the following places: Pa HIS American KxchanKO in i'ariM, 36 Boalerard rte fa turn: e. NfcW YOHK Gllsej Ifou-e and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kerable, $733 Lancaster aTciioe. CHICAGO Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel. CINCINNATI J. It. Hawley 6c Co.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Pet-ring; northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C Itiggs House and Ebbitj HoiiH.'. It cannot be demed that the Democratic Senators are true to their trusts. President Cleveland cannot get over his chronic habit of trying to control legislation. Hereafter th antics of the Democrats In Congress will attract more attention than the late Mr. Debs. Does the Sentinel sustain the President's action In regard to the enforcement Of the federal laws? The middle-of-the-road Populists of Kansas were disgusted when Governor Walte, of Colorado, came to them In a Pullman car as a plutocrat. If th local A. It U. officers think the Dt-h3 strike Is still on they are mistaken, and may prevent pome well-meaning men from getting back to work. The silence of Attorney-general Smith Is significant, and at the same time It Is grateful as is a long Interlude In the practice of the trombone learner. Some day some of these people who are telling what great things Debs has done for labor will regain their senses and wonder how they could have been so absurd. The Sentinel, If It has failed to Indorse the President's enforcement of the laws, will make up the delinquency with gush over his denunciation of the Senate tariff bill. The President's letter to Mr. Wilson is x pathetic appeal for the Democratic rarty not to commit political suicide. And yet s President he has no right to interfere In legislation. The President may excuse himself for sending his remarkable letter to the House by saying that It was the enly means by which he can reach Democratic Congressmen, us they no longer call upon him. If Mr. Cleveland really desired or expected to Influence the action of Congress on the tariff bill why did not he write his letter weeks ago? Coming at this stage of the game It 13 suggestive of a late reform. "If what I have written is unwelcome," says Mr. Cleveland in his letter to Chairman Wll3on, "I beg you to believe in my good intentions." By the way, does not a proverb say there is a place paved with that material? When Mr. Cleveland says that the Democracy is disgusted because the Democrats In the administration and Congress cannot govern the country, he speaks for the whole country. The whole outfit is a past master of incapacity. To be consistent Mr. Cleveland would turn over the coal industry of the Virginias and eastern Pennsylvania, now supplying the Eastern market, to the Nova Scotia syndicate of his friends, thus turning thousands of miners out of employment or forcing them to Nova Scotia wages. The Journal would give more for the chances of the Senate bill than those of the Wilson bill, as six Senators, at least, are for a duty on coal and ore, and two are for a sugar duty, to say nothing of the action of Smith, of New Jersey, Brlce, of Ohio, and Murphy, of New York. The woman's suffrage campaign In New York has ended In a victory for the women, though not such as they hoped to achieve. The proposed amendment to the Constitution giving them the right to vote on school questions is really a recognition of the principle of woman suffrage and a considerable step in that direction. The women can still say the world moves. Those vt terans in Liberty, Cal., who have been to the trouble to thank Mr. Voorhees for presenting a service pension bill seem not to know the senior Senator of Indiana or his party associates, jiere in Indiana he and his party In Congress are known, and the Indiana veteran knows that there are not four Democratic Senators who would vote for a service pension bill. If all the delegate In the Indiana convention of the Federation of Labor had voted on the question of making Mr. Debs a candidate for Governor it is probable that that proposition would not have been Indorsed by three majority, and the committee which advised against it sustained. Put there is a grave probability that Mr. Debs may have an engagement which will render It impossible to be an effective candilute for Governor In 1W. The tariff controversy In Congress has reached an acute str.g , and as it Is wholly confined to the Democratic party Republicans can regard it with a good deal of composure. Assuming that there are Democrats from principle and free-traders from conviction, Republican sympathy should go with Wilson and his followers.

who are making an open, manly fight for what they regard as party principle. The others are mere traders and dickerers. slaves of trusts and political soldiers of fortune. Mr. Wilson is making a gallant, last ditch fight, and on general principles the Journal would like to see him down the Gorman wing of the party, but the chances are against his doing so. The struggle is more likely to end In a deadlock and the failure of Congress to pass any tariff bill. Whether it ends this way or In the passage of the Wilson bill or the Havemyer-Gorman bill. It will be equally disastrous to the Democratic party. THE PRESIDEXT'S HEM ARKAIILE LETT HI I.

Nothing that President Cleveland has ever written will attract so much attention as the remarkable letter which he has written to the chairman of the committee on ways and means, because it is without precedent in the history of the country. A Democratic House has passed a tariff bill, which the Senate finance committee has demonstrated will not afford adequate revenue. The Democratic Senate has passed a bill which every Democratic Senator, except one, voted for In caucus. It is the most Democratic of measures. Now, when these two bills are if conference, Instead of leaving the two houses to settle the matter and waiting until he can exercise his constitutional' prerogative to veto a bill, President Cleveland Indorses the House bill and condemns that of the Senate. There have been Congresses which would sharply criticise the President for making public a letter designed to influence action upon bills in conference. From the free-trade point of view, Mr. Cleveland's letter contains strong points, but it is against such a measure as the Wilson bill that the Northern States have protested by large majorities, because the free-tradeism of Mr. Cleveland will continue the hard times which began with his Inauguration. The Senate bill, so far as it relates to coal and iron ore, is a protest of Democrats against the free-tradelsm of the Democratic platform, because It is impracticable and will close American mines. The consistency of Mr. Cleveland regarding free raw materials will lead to ruin, while the inconsistency of the coal and iron Senators proves that free trade is not practicable. Mr. Cleveland has much more to say about the inconsistency of the coal features of the Senate bill than the scandals of the sugar schedule. There are those who will say that he cares Jess about sugar than he does to help the Nova Scotia coal syndicate of his friends. The country will regard the outcome of the President's action with deep interest. Can he defeat the Senate bill? Will Gray. Vilas, Mitchell and two or three other alleged administration Senators go back on their Democratic associates and vote for the Wilson bill? Evidently. Mr. Cleveland expects that they will, since he would scarcely have written such a letter if he had expected it woula have no influence. It 19 certain that there is no member of the conference committee, except, perhaps, Mr. Voorhees, who will yield, and yielding might be at the hazard of his Whisky Trust, to which the President makes no allusion. Suppose the new conference should agree to report the Wilson bill, would Jt pass the Senate? Senators like Gorman, Price and Smith say that it would not. It remains to be seen what will be the effect of the President's remarkable action. Only one thing is clear: The Democratic outfit in Washington 13 "between the devil and the deep sea." DEIIS IX THE HANDS OF THE COUHT. Eugene V. Deb3 is under indictment for obstructing mall trains and interfering with the movement of trains engaged In Interstate' commerce, and he Is also under arrest for contempt of the United States Court in violating the injunction issued by it against interfering with the business of certain railroads. It is the latter charge on Which he was committed to jail pending a hearing next Monday. The only question for the court to decide in this case will be whether Debs has placed himself In contempt. The order of the court was issued on the 3d of July, and it commanded Debs and others by name to desist and refrain from in any way or manner interfering with or hindering any of the business of some twenty different railroads named in the order. Following is an extract from the order: And Eugene V. Debs and all others are hereby enjoined and restrained from sending out any letters, messages or communications, directing, inciting, encouraging or instructing any person 'to interfere with the business or affairs, either directly or indirectly, of any of the railroads named above: or from persuading any of the employes of said railroad companies in the employment of the companies to fall or refuse to perform the duties of their employment. When Debs was brought into court on the charge of contempt for violating this order he refused to give the reasonable bail fixed by the court and went to j ill pending the hearing of the case. He will, of course, plead not guilty and Insist that he has neither done nor advised anything unlawful. This Is a common practice with people who either do not know the law or think they have a special dispensation for violating it, but courts are apt to take a different view. Of course. Debs did not, with his own hands, wreck any trains, uncouple any cars, turn any switches or tie up the traffic of any railroad, but he did not have to do this to violate the order of the court. Its language was" very comprehensive, and, as the passage above quoted shows. It restrained him, as president of the American Railway Union, from sending any letter or message to any person urging them! directly or indirectly, to interfere with the business of the railroads or refuse to perform their duties. A copy of this order was served on Debs on the date of its issue, yet what did he do? On the 4th of July he sent dispatches to local officers of the American Railway Union at eight different points directing them to order out all the men under their control on different lines. "Have every man stand pat," he said in several of these dispatches: "troops cannot move trains." July 6 he sent a dispatch ordering a strike to seven different persons and places on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railway, thirtyone different persons and places concerning the Union raclflc, thirty persons and places

concerning the Northern Pacific, twentyfour on the Santa Fe system, seven on the Illinois Central, seven to different persons and places concerning the Rock Island, seven on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, eleven on the Wabash, five on the Chicago & Alton, two on the Burlington, seven on the Chicago & Great Western, two on the Wisconsin Central, seven on the Big Four, one to Alexander Shield, Hammond, Ind., on the Monon system, one on the Erie system and two on the Michigan Central. All of these roads were named in the restraining order of the court. In these dispatches Debs urged the strikers to stand firm, assured them of protection and told , them not to fear the troops. "Tie up roads that Insist on handling boycotted cars;" "Full protection guaranteed to all who assist;" "Do not be frightened at troops, injunctions or the subsidized press;" "Pay no attention to rumors from corporation lickspittles;" "Every true man must quit now and remain out until the fight is wtn;" "There are not scabs enough in the world to fill the vacancies;" "We are gaining ground and will surely win;" "The marshal cannot injure you; he Is simply assisting capital to enslave his brother;" "Stand erect, proclaim your manhood; labor must win now or never." All these expressions, and they might be multiplied, are taken from dispatches sent by Debs after the order of the court was served on him. That they openly and flagrantly violate the order is too plain for argument. The court cannot change the law and it does not possess the pardoning power. It can only construe and apply the law. As Debs Is plainly guilty of willful contempt he should suffer the. penalty, as some of his deluded followers have already done. In other words, he should go to Jail, as he undoubtedly will. A POTEXT CAUSE OF LAWLESSNESS. Now comes a story of cruel whipping from Brown county. The pretext is not given. As a matter of fact, there can be none. If people violate the laws, there is a remedy by lawful methods. Whlte-capism is violence and it is cruel. It is the work of ruffians who would not be lawbreakers if the laws were enforced. There Is no reason why the laws should not be enforced in every county in Indiana; but they are not in many of them, and because they are not life and property are not secure therein. The sheriffs, the prosecuting ofllcers and other local officers arc chiefly responsible for this lawlessness. In the recent disturbances in this State the sheriffs are mainly responsible for the violence which made it necessary to call for the militia. Except at Hammond, and possibly one or two other points, a resolute sheriff. Intent on doing his duty, could have crushed out the turbulent element at the outset, as did the police here. In several counties sheriffs have encouraged mobs and violence by expressions of open sympathy with the violators of the law. The militia would not have been needed in Sullivan county had the sheriff been such a man as the sheriff should be. The most of the troubles at Roby and Hammond, first and last, can be charged, I rT a if fairness, to an inefficient sheriff, in sympathy with the lawless. The sheriff in Clay county, if there is truth in any part of the reports which have appeared In the papers showing his willful disregard of the duties of his office, has done much to encourage lawlessness. Some things reported concerning him are so outragaous that the Journal cannot credit them for instance, the report that he permitted the friends of the boys who were convicted of stoning the railroad engineer to death to take them out of Jail and celebrate their escape from the gallows, joining in the festivities himself, is too incredible for belief. Governor Matthews ha3 set an example in the enforcement of the laws which has won for him the. respect of all the best people of Indiana, if it has not made him popular with certain party leaders. It is an example which should be generally followed. Probably the Governor would have done as he has if the Constitution did not limit his service to one term, but that restriction Is calculated to free an official from the personal considerations which a second term may create. If the services of sheriffs and like officials were limited to one term of four years there would be a better enforcement of the laws. The oneterm sheriff would not wink at White Cap

outrages, nor would he Identify himself with lawlessness to insure a re-election. That change In regard to such officers has been suggested, and it certainly should be discussed. Hut. whatever may be done, there Is no more potent promoter of lawlessness than the weak sheriff and prosecuting officer and the officials who will pander to the lawless to secure votes. THE CATHOLIC CIIIHCII AXD LIQUOR SELLERS. If the statement in regard to Mgr. Satolll's definition of the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the liquor traffic be true it is likely to be followed by interesting results. The statement Is that Mgr. Satolli has sustained Bishop Watterson, of Ohio, in excluding from church recognition all Catholic societies that have liquor dealers or saloon keepers among their officers. It Is said that in announcing his decision the Papal delegate says: The liquor traffic, nnd especially as conducted here in the United States, is the source of much evil; hence, the Bishot) was actinc within his rights in seekin to restrict it. Therefore, the apostolic delegate sustain Bishop Watterson's action and approves of his circular and regulations concerning saloons .and the expulsion of saloon keepers from membership in Catholic societies. . . - . The Importance of this decision will be appreciated when it Is remembered that there are numerous Catholic societies in this country, seml-rellgious, social or charitable, none of which has ever drawn the line of membership against saloon keepers, and not a few of which have officers engaged in that business. ' The effect of the decision is to require all such socleties to depose such persons from tt-ir official positions on pain of being placed under the ban of the church. logically, the decision means that liquor dealers and saloon keepers should not even be admitted to membershlo in Catholic societies, indeed, logically, it would mean that they should not be recognized as members of the church, for if they are not fit to be officers or members of Catholic so

cieties how can they consistently be recognized as members of the church? The authorities of the Catholic Church are not in the habit of deciding questions of this kind without considering the consequences, nor of hesitating to follow their decisions to their logical results. If they do so in this case it will exclude from membership In Catholic societies, if not in the church, a large number of persons whose eligibility has not been questioned heretofore. Incidentally, it may prove to be a great gain for the cause of temper

ance. Vice President Howard, of the American Railway Union, who is now resting in the Cook county jail, does not propose to be outdone by Debs and Sovereign in picturesque talk and flamboyant assertion. He is reported as saying: Here Is a letter I have received telling of evidence that most of the freight car burning here in Chicago was done by the two men in the employ of the General Managers' Association. Two committees saw the men on the night of the big fire going through the yard with a hand car loaded with inflammable waste, which they lighted and systematically threw among the cars. A conversation was overheard between the men from which it was gleaned that they were paid $200 down and were to receive $200 more when the job was done. On Its face this statement is preposterous, and unless it Is sustained or evidence offered that Howard had some reasonable ground for making the statement, he wil be set down as the champion liar. If he can prove it he will render a public service and give the courts good cause for putting some of the railroad managers behind the bars. The bankruptcy bill passed by the House is defective in that it only provides for voluntary bankruptcy and Is limited in Its operation to two years. In other words, It is for the benefit of debtors only and ro restricted In Its duration as to be of little benefit to anybody. This is shifty legislation. A national bankrupt law should recognize the rights of creditors by providing a Just system of Involuntary bankruptcy and should be allowed. to exist as long as its usefulness continues. Mowbray, the English Anarchist who arrived in New York a few days ago, has evidently tried to steal a march on the Board of Immigration by taking out his first citizenship papers. It remains to be seen if this will protect him from being treated as an undesirable immigrant and sent back to the old country. The authorities ought to make a test case of this and give European Anarchists to understand that our doors are not open to them. In appointing Congressman Breckinridge, of Arkansas, minister to Russia, Mr. Cleveland has established a precedent that will give him a lot of trouble. After next November there will be a great many Democratic ex-Congressmen out of a Job asking for executive favors. Terhaps the other Breckinridge will have to be provided for. Epitaph. Hie Jacet Eugene V. Debs; Tempus fugit and glory ebbs: , -Greatness tickled his diaphragm, 1 And he cried "boo" at his Uncle Sam. "Oh. I like to see a game of ball, you know; a good, clean game; but I never was one of those lunatics so wrapped up in the home team that he can talk of nothing else." Anyway, we didn't come down the toboggan slide. We simply fell off on our collective neck. IILUULES IX THE AIR. She Doubted. He I heard the other day that ice cream and soda water were Injurious to the complexion. What do you think of It? She I don't believe a word of it. Married women .don't have 'any better complexions than girls. And She Paddled. Mrs. FIgg Tommy, have you been swimming without my permission? Tommy Nome. I just went into the water and did a little paddlln', that's all. "I'm glad you suggested it. I'll just do a little paddling myself." The Growl of n MtoKynlt. The Advanced WomanThe first thing we women will do when we get the chance will be to take that odious word "obey" from the marriage service. The Chronic Bachelor You will do nothing of the kind. It would deprive the women of the pleasure of making the promise with a mental reservation. The Too-Late Sinner. All up and down the street he wandered, Naught could he do but roam; Sadly on his bitter fate he pondered. For he had not come in when he ought to, and his wife objected, and in consequence he found himself in the situation of the Indianapolis ball team that Is to eay : He found himself shut out at home. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD TIIIXGS. United States Treasurer Morgan now owns the table upon which Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Mrs. Mllllcent Garret Fawcett has presented to Newnham College a collection of photographs of babies whose mothers had a college education. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, and his captains of either sex have been officially declared to b3 ministers of religion within the meaning of the law. It is said that since his lectures on the "Ascent of Man," which have been put into book form. Professor Drummond's name has been dropped from both Chautauqua and NorthlUld. They fear that he la. too much of an evolutionist. Another lord has drifted into trade the Earl of Harrington (known as an enthusiastic collector of snuff boxes), who has ojened a fruiterer's shop in London. It will be supplied from his gardens, which are among the finest in England. An Ingenious inventor has provided himself with a pair of bicycles for his feet. The wheels are about four Inches In diameter and are strapped to his feet like skates. They have rubber tires and glide over the concrete pavement with great ease. They are very superior to the common roller skates, and the owner moves along almost as fast as the bicyclist. Nobody who writes to Queen Victoria and wants the letters to be read must fold them. The proper thing to do is to write on good paper and send the letter in an envelope which fits the paper. Thz mistress of the robes destroys all letters which are folded, unless she thinks them of any Importance, and thin she writes to the sender telling him or her how to send his or her letter so that the Queen will give it her attention. The American pilgrims to Lourdes, where they will visit the famous shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, started from Brooklyn Wednesday morning. There ar 115 In the party, of whom about one-fourth are Brooklyn people. None of the party Is crippled or seriously affected in health, but many petitions for the sick will be carried by the party and will be laid upon the altar at the shrine. The members of the rarty will each wear a silver badge. The number of the party is limited by the arrangements made for tha trip.

SENATE WAS IGNORED

No Tariff Message Received from President Cleveland. Action of the House on the Bill Reported by Mr. Voorhees and Notice Given ) that It Will Be Considered To-Day. AX ARKANSAS DEM. HONORED Clifton R. Breckinridge Appointed Minister to Russia. Andrew D. White's Retirement Due to Illness Speculating Senator Said to Be Threatened with Arrest. WASHINGTON, July 19. When the Senate met to-day Mr. Allen Introduced a resolution calling on the Secretary of State for information as to whether any office or bureau has been established on Ellis Island, New York harbor, or any other property of the government for the purpose of furnishing information to Italian or other Immigrants relative to employment, and whether the expense of the bureau is borne by the United States. It was sent to the committee on Immigration. The Senate agreed to the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill.' The Indian appropriation bill was taken up and the question recurred on the amendment of Mr. Squire, removing the restrictions to the sale of the lands of the Puyallup Indians. A motion by Mr. Harris to lay the amendment on the table was carried. Mr. Voorhees, the Senate manager of the conference on the tariff bill, rising to a privileged question, asked that the House message on the tariff bill be laid before the Senate. Mr. Voorhees stated that he was commissioned to say that the bill had been under full and free conference and the conferees had not agreed to the amendments adopted in the Senate, and that the Senate conferees insisted on their amendments. Having consulted with gentlemen on both sides, he said, he should ask to have the bill lay on the table, to be taken up for consideration to-morrow immediately after the reading of the journal. Mr. Hill thereupon gave notice that at that time he should move to instruct the conferees to place coal and iron on the free list and that he would, at the same time, submit some remarks on the question. Mr. Manderson inquired whether there was not also a communication from the President on the subject. "None that 1 have," replied Mr. Voorhees, and the motion to lay on the table was then agreed to. When the tariff bill had thus been disposed of, the Indian appropriation bill was again taken up. The most important amendment was offered by Mr. Shoup, under instructions from the committee on Indian affairs, directing the President to appoint three commissioners to allot in severalty the lands of the Uncompahgre Indians in Utah and to negotiate with Uintah Indiqpis in Utah for the allotment of their lands in severalty and the relinquishment of all lands not needed for this purpose. An amendment was agreed to directing the Secretary of the Interior to inquire Into the propriety of discontinuing the Indian contract schools as rapidly as possible without intertering with the education of the Indian children and to report at the next session of Congress an estimate of the cost of substituting government schools for all the contract schools now existing. A further amendment was adopted appropriating $15,C8tJ due the Wyandotte Indians, to purchase lands in severalty from the Quahpah Indians in Indian Territory for absentee Wyandotte Indians. The bill was then passed. At 5:43 p. m., the Senate went into executive session and shortly thereafter adjourneu. The proceedings in the Senate to-morrow are expected to be of unusual interest. It is hardly probable that many of the Senators will express any personal resentment, but there are expected to be some very emphatic declarations against a change of front by the Senate, especially from the conservative Senators who are regarded as responsible for the most pronounced Increases made in the bill. It was understood before the letter made its appearance that several of these Senators, including Messrs. Gorman, Smith and Brice, had announced a purpose to state to the Senate that only the Senate bill could pass, and to say in giving their reasons for this view that the bill had been the result of ih most careful deliberation on the part of the members of the Senate; that It had been found to be the only bill that could pass when the Jones amendments had been arranged in the Democratic caucus, and that an attempt to change It materially at this late day would prove that there had been no modification of sentiment since that time. Senator Hill has announced an Intention to take advantage of the President's position and influence to make another effort to secure a recession by the Senate from its amendments for a duty on coal and iron ore, and he Is said to believe that he will double the vote which his proposition received when first advanced. During the afternoon there were several conferences among the Democratic leaders, and at first there was a disposition to refuse further conference on the tariff bill. This was advised by quite a number who felt very much aggrieved at the course taken in the House. The Hepublican steering committee has held a meeting, and the general opinion was expressed that it was good policy to allow the Democrats to do most of the talking on the subject. SEW MINISTER TO RUSSIA. Clifton R. DrecklnrldKe Succeeds the Hon. Andrew II. White. WASHINGTON', July 19.-The President to-day nominated Clifton It. Brecklnrrdge, of Arkansas, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia, vice Andrew D. White, resigned, on account of ill-health. The causes leading up to the appointment are well known among Mr. Breckinridge's friends. He was one of the foremost advocates of President Cleveland's policy of repealing the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act. This action proved to be unpopular in Mr. Breckinridge's district, and he was defeated for renomination in the congressional convention held a few weeks ago. At the time Mr. Breckinridge was absorbed in tariff work and could not go to Arkansas to attend to his Interests. His letter at the time, stating his public duties here were paramount to his private interests at home, attracted much attention. It was soon after his defeat for renomination that Mr. Cleveland began considering the advisability of nominating him to the Russian mission. Mr. Breckinridge has been conspicuously identified with the House tariff bill of late, and throughout Chairman Wilson's severe illness and absence in Mexico Mr. Breckinridge was looked upon as his personal representative. While the bill has been in conference Mr. Breckinridge has taken much of the arduous work off Mr. Wilson's shoulders. Mr. Breckinridge is a native Kentucklan, but went to Arkansas in 1S70 and engaged in cotton planting and the commission -business. He has served continuously In Congress for twelve years, except when unseated on a contest in the Fifty-first Congress. He has taken high rank in Congress, and is regarded as a man of line scholarship, polish and .literary attainment. No time has been set for M Breckinridge to take his new post, but an arrangement has been made by which Mr. White will continue in the office until such time as Mr. Breckinridge can relinquish his congressional duties and reach St. Petersburg, the understanding being that Mr. Breckinridge will continue in the House until the tariff bill is settled. SEXSATIOXAL STORY. Speculating Senuttir Aceuwed of Perjury nnd Threatened with Arrest. NEW YORK. July 3. The Herald's Washington dispatch says: "I was told today that, despite the denials of speculation and the sworn statements of Senators who had bean called before the investigating committee, it could be proved that In three instances, at least, speculation had been engaged in. and that tha three Sen

ators referred to had been guilty of prjury. An interesting story is going the rounds to-day a story so startling In its details that it Is almot rust belief. I was told of a man here in Washington who has in his possession the original broker's contract whereon one of the Senators a prominent one at that contracted to buy sugar when it was down to S3, Just before iti phenomenal rise. It was said that Interested persons short on sugar, and who had been squeezed in the process of manipulating the market, or because they did not have the inside tip, had lost an Immense amount of money and had determined to break the sugar schedule at all hazards. The mot Interesting part of tha story is the way in which they Intend to set this schedule aside, and I am told that It Is by no other process than by the arrest of a certain Senator on a charga of perjury. "In a criminal case of this kind. It is said, stock brokers would be compelled to show their books in court, and the persons back of this scheme say they can prove, not only by the evidence they now claim to have, but by what they coull thus lay bare, that somebody had been doing soma tall lying before the investigation committee. It is thought that this particular Senator, rather than submit to such proceedings, would undo the work it Is said he has assisted in doing, and through the influence he is said to wield sugar would be placed on the free list and the men short of the stock would recoup their capital dropped while they were on the wrong side of the market." Will Investigate. WASHINGTON. July 19. Senator Gray, chairman of the Sugar Trust Investigating committee, said to-day: "The committee decided on Monday to investigate the new charges that were made in a New York paper. The committee is not waiting for Senator Lodge to begin the investigation, but is watting for him for the purpose of making a report. The report will be made as soon as he returns. There was no difference in the committee or vate upon the matter of investigating the new charges, nor is there any truth in the reports that Senator Lindsay nnd myself, were against reopening the Investigation. In fact, I made the proposition myself." IIAXSIIIlOlC.irs MILLION.

Possible Deadlock. Over the Itusslan Thistle Appropriation. WASHINGTON, July 19. There bids fair to be something of a deadlock between the conferees on the agricultural appropriation bill over the Senate amendment carrying $1,000,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle in the Dakota. Senator Hansbrough won a long legislative fight and one which looked at times like a hopeles one when he succeeded in getting his plan tacked on as an amendment at the twelfth hour and carried by a narrow majority. Early this session the Senator from North Dakota entered upon his crusade against the thistle, Introducing a bill to give the sum appropriated to kill it, but the bill met with defeat in both the House and Senate committees. Governor Shortridgo came from North Dakota to urge Congress to do something for the State in its flgiU. It was represented that the government owned large tracts of land infested by tha weed, and that the nature of the plant W3 such that unless it was totally cleared away its eeeds would be carried by the winds and all efforts of the farmers towards clearing their own lands would amount only to suppression and not to extermination. Secretary J. Sterling Morton wrote a letter opposing the government aid asked for on the ground that it savored of paternalism, and recommended that the work should be done by the States or individuals rather than the general government. Incidentally he made a humorous suggestion that in view of the fact that stieep would eat the thistle the Dakota farmers might abandon wheat growing and turn their attention to raising sheep. Hhs suggestion was taken seriously In some quarters and led to correspondence between the Secretary and members of the House committee on agriculture. After wrestling with this question for some time the House committee killed the bill, their action being influenced by certain persona, who wrote that they considered other weeds more destructive In Dakota than the thistle, mt the point of paternalism was the chief reason for the action. The Senate committee followed the action of the House in reporting adversely upon the bill, but finally Senator George, fts chairnrSn, was induced to change his position on the representation that the government was a large hindholder in the thistle-ridden nection, and the bill was tacked on as an amendment to the regular agricultural bill. Economy in appropriations has been generally enforced in the House this session. The thistle appropriation is the largest addition made to any of the regular House bills, and the committee on agriculture is talking defiance to the senatorial raise. Still, Senator Hansbrough may win in the end. ORDERED TO HLl EFIELDS. The ew Cruiser Columbia AV111 Assist the Marblehend.v WASHINGTON, July 19. The mall steamer which arrived at New Orleans yesterday from the south brought advices directed to Secretary Herbert by Captain O'Neill, commandlni? the United States Marblehead, stationed at Bluefields, Nicaragua, and these were promptly telegraphed to Washington. Just what Capt. O'Neill had to report the Secretary would not tell, but It was undoubtedly corroborative of the press dispatches. That the Secretary regarded the matter as b?ing very Important was shown by his action In Immediately calling Into consultation Admiral Ramsay, chief of the Navigation Bureau, and Admiral Gherardl, commandant of the New York navy yard. As a result orders were forwarded to Captain Sumner, of the cruiser Columbia, now at New York, to prepare the vessel at once for sea and sail. for Bluefields. Coaling has begun already, and. according to the report madj to Secretary Herbert, the vessel should be under way in the course of a day or two. Supposing that the Columbia should get away from New York Saturday morning, she should arrive at Port Royal, W. I., on the 25th, and, stopping only long enough to take a fresh supply of coal, she should be off Bluefields on the following Friday or Saturday. She cannot go into the bay there, as she draws twenty-six feet elent Inches of water, and she probably will be obliged to lie about twelve miles from the town at anchor in the open sea. Secretary Herbert says she will not relieve the Marblehead, but that both vessels will remain on the station, so that ons can always be on guar4 while the other runs down to Port Limon to coal. What the Incowe Tnx May Yield. WASHINGTON, July 19. Senator Hill has received a long letter from Worthlngton G. Ford, chief of the Bureau of Statistics, in which he dates that th possibilities of the revenue Xhat can be raised from the income tax ranges all the way from $12.000.0UO to $39.O0O.ouo. He thinks the latter figure 1s the highest that can possibly be hoped for. and the last few years the collections would fall below J15,Cm,000. He also expresses the opinion that the revenue which will be collected on private incomes will not be more than sufficient to pay for collectior Another Arbitration Rill. WASHINGTON. July 19. An arbitration bill has been introduced by IUrt sentatlve Ikert. of Ohio, who would have a permanent salaried officer styled chief of arbitration, with an assistant, acting with the Commissioner of Labor and Governor of State, the board would Fettle all questions of labor and capital under the jurlsdlctln of the United States, and when appealed to by both parties its decrees would have the effect of those of a court. fiold Flowing Out Aguln. WASHINGTON, July 19. The cash balance In the treasury at the close of business to-day was $121,947,771, of which 4S3.707 was gold reserve. Contrary to general expectations the exportation of gold seems to have again set in. Ye-terJay the engagements for export amounted to $SCrt,ooo and to-day to $1.25V. of which $250,000 will go to Canada Genera! ote. Special to the Indanapo'is Journal. WASHINGTON. July 19. Consul-general Morss arrived here to-day. After transacting some business with the State Department he will leave for Indianapolis. While the Senate committee on Territories has virtually decided to report bills for the admission of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, the prevailing opinion is that the bills will not be considered during the present session of Congrvss, unless the session shorld be prolor.g-d beyond the expectation of a majority of Senators. The House committee on Pacific railway voted to-day. 10 to 5. to report the Ileilly bill for the adjustment of the debts of the Central and Union Pacific railroads. The Senate, in executive session to-day. made public the following confirmation of Indiana postmasters: Nun McCullick. at Montpeller; Wm. 11. Llghtle. at Ga City.