Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1894 — Page 4

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PA HIS American Exchange in Paris, 36 Boulevard !e l"aj u lnei. NEW YOltK Cillsey House and Windsor Hotel. nilLADELrillA-A. P. Kenible, 3735 Lancaster amine. CHICAGO Palmer Ilouae, Auditorium HoteL CIXCIXNATI-J. It llawley & Co.. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. leering, nortliweat corner of Thud and Jefferson streets. fcT. LOUIS Union Xew Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs House and Ebbitt liOUtf. Why not. try the thing called compulsory arbitration on the President and Senator Gorman? For a political upstart and accident, Congressman Conn, of this State, is getting more free advertising and doing a larger ousines3 on a smaller capital than any other man now in public life. The Cleveland cuckoos seem not to have heard the suggestion of a 43 per cent, ad valorem duty on sugar as a substitute for the Senate scnedule, and that there is little difference between the two. It Is unfortunate for the majority of the School Board that three-fourths of the taxpayer believe that if the proposed Highschool purchase is made it will be done to benefit the sellers and not the city. When the Republican city controller can sell four-per-cent bonds at a premium, should not the Democratic majority in the School Hoard be able to get a par loan for sixteen years for less than 4? percent? Mr. Debs gives the Impression that he would be delighted to have compulsory arbitration applied to the dozen federal courts which have demanded his presence on the basis that he will never fool with another strike. Those excellent gentlemen who are devoting themselves to interviews and pledging delegations for a Republican candidate for President in 1K are too previous and too emotional. The battle thi3 year is to elect a Republican 'House and prepare for the election of a half-dozen Republicans to the Senate. - Inquirer: David Turple is the name of the man who is attempting to fill the other Indiana seat in the Senate. Since the remarkable Aldrlch episode, three months ago, Mr. Turpie's remarks have been confined to the roll calls, where hl3 name is always recorded with those whom the Sentinel calls "traitors." In Japan there is said to be one way of saluting a superior, another way of saluting an equal, and still another way of saluting an inferior. As these various methods are not described it is Impossible to say in which ef these several lights they regard the Chinese when they salute them with guns and torpedoes. The board of regents of the Wisconsin State University have appointed a committee to investigate the charge made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction that the teachings of Processor Ely, of the State University, are socialistic In character. There can be no doubt of that, and as little that they are mischievous in their tendency. Wherever Mr. llemenway, the Republican candidate for Congress in the First district, goes he makes a most favorable impression as a young man of character and ability: He will be elected, and in Congress will be an honor to his district a distinction which many Democrats In the district declare that Mr. Taylor has failed to attain. In all this tar i ft wrangle there Is no mention of the interests of the people. Of the Chicago platfo-m. the welfare of the Democratic rarty, the probable triumph of one faction over anotner. the interests of the different trusts we hear much, but of the great business interests of the country nothing. Was it for this Fiat the people put the Democratic party In power? The general manager of the Pullman company says that during the strike it has not charged its late employes any rent, though t'hey have continued to occupy the Pullman houses, and has continued their fuel, light and water supplies. There might have been a selfish motive in this in the desire to regain the services of skilled employes when the strike should end, and yet it was liberal treatment. The position of the American people for six months past might be compared to that of the owner of a house watching a contest between two rn.ois. one of which proposed to destroy his property outright, while the other would only partially wreck it. No matter which of the warring Democratic frt!ons wins In the present content the business Interests of the country will suffer enormous damage. The Hon. Charles Gerard Conn, who Imagines that he is representing the Thirteenth Indiana district in that body which, by custom, i called the House of Representative, knows just how a man feels a'iId has undertaken to sit on two high vtiioU and conies down between them. First he would not take the Democratic nomination;- then he would be glad of It, and when he got it he would not accept it unless he was permitted to make a platform in which Cleveland and the enforcement of the laws of the United States were denounced. He thought by this move

that he would catch all the Democrats and all the Populists and that element which is hostile to both parties favoring the enforcement of the laws. It was a grand scheme if it had worked, but it failed; for the Populists have nominated a candidate and sworn him to stick. That candidate will capture all voters who do not believe in the enforcement of the laws. While not agreeing with the President, there are many Democrats in the Thirteenth district who will not vote for Conn. And so it happens that the Elkhart statesman, whom his enemies deride by saying he has presidential aspirations, is on his back between the two stools which he tried to cover while gazing at a silent brass horn factory and the calamity of a political career which will close March 4, 1K)5.

Till: TAHIFP DC AD LOCK. There Is no change in the situation at Washington. One day one set of men, to whom the wish is the father of the thought, go about saying that there are signs that the S?nate conferees are weakening, and as an indication of it they say that at the lait meeting these con ferees were silent and thoughtful. There are more Democrats In the House who would like to have the Senate yield than In the Senate, and they have more time to talk, and consequently can transfer more Impressions, hopes and predictions to the correspondents than can the few Democratic Senators who are not so much in the corridors. When, however, a correspondent meets a Senate conferee or a Senator who can speak for them he brushes aside the hopes and hopeful predictions of the House peopl? as something too idle to waste time over, and simply remarks in the briefest words; "There has been no change on the part of the Senate conferees and I am confident there will be none." And the same is true respecting the House conferees. They stick to the President and the Wilson bill. So the conferees are as far apart as they were when they first met, and each side Is more determined to hold out because personal bitterness has Increased and leader is arrayed against leader. Will the conferees get together? No one can tell; but the Indications are that they will not unless the Democratic House caucus instructs its conferees. There seems no probability that a controlling element in the Senate will go back on a Senate caucus bill for whl.h a bare majority was secured only because of the concessions made in it to which the House and the President object. If Congress passss a bill it will be because the matter shall be taken out of the hands of the present conferees by the action of House Democrats. It may be added that there seems no chance whatever for the Wilson bill, and if a bill is passed it must be the Senate bill with practically Inconsequential changes. TRAITORS AD TRAITORS. Among the illuminated banners carried in the procession of the American Railway Union In this city on Tuesday night was one inscribed "A traitor to his country is bad, but a traitor to the cause of labor is worse." This has an epigrammatic form, and was probably regarded by the person who devised it as a happy expression of a great truth, but really it is a false and vicious declaration. What constitutes treason to the cause of labor? It has not been long since Eugene V. Debs, chief engineeer of the recent strike, denounced as a "scab" Mr. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, because the latter would not order a sympathetic strike to sustain the American Railway Union. Was Mr. Arthur, then, a traitor to the cause of labor because he declined to order the engineers out In furtherance of Debs's scheme? And how about "scab3" themselves? Is it treason to the cause of labor for a worklngman to say, "I think too much of my wife and family and of my own independence to put myself in a position where I may be ordered out on a strike against my better judgment by a numerical majority, many of whom have nobody dependent on them and no stake In the preservation of law and order?" From the organized labor point of view that makes a worklngman a scab, and therefore a traitor to the cause, but, really, is that a fair or honest view of the case? No man who respects honest labor, much less one who earns his bread by it, should be -called a traitor to the cause because he does not belong to a labor union. A man may be a good citizen without belonging to any political party and a good Christian without belonging to any church. Is he a traitor to the cause of labor because he does not belong to the union? There are a great many persons in ihls country, constituting, in fact, a large majority of ell the people, who do not believe in the wisdom or efficacy of strikes and boycotts, and who regard it as an outrage that strikers should attempt by force and violence to prevent other laborers from taking places they have voluntarily vacated, and should resort to the destruction of property and the tying up of railroad traffic to carry their points. Are persons who hold these views traitors to the cause of labor? In the opinion of the Journal, the real traitors to the cause of labor are those who make their living out of it by organizing strikes, by preaching hostility to capital, and by fomenting discord between employers and employes. Types of this class are Eugene V. Debs and James 11. Sovereign, neither of whom has done an honest day's work for years, and who receive good salaries for stirring up strife and organizing strikes. These men have not sense enough to know that when they boycott the railroads they boycott labor itself. A recently published statement of. the total annual expenses of ten of the principal railroads of the country, including the New York Central, tie Pennsylvania Central, the Erie, the C, 15. & Q- and other extensive systems, shows that more than 60 per cent, of their total expenses are for labor. The ten railroads named in the list distribute among their employes Jltt.OoO.On) a year. War on the railroads Is war on labor, and those who order It or lead In It are traitors to the cause of labor. As for the American Railway Union, its rrlme object was to make war against the old labor organizations, and to this end it admitted to membership

any dead beat, tramp, vag-.bond or., tough who claimed to have ever been a railroad employe. It was organized simply and exclusively as a striking machine, without any of the mutual benefit features that characterize the old organizations, such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the firemen'?, the trainmen's and the switchmen's unions. It had no expenses but those of "the executive department" which included officers' salaries and a strike fund. In short, it was organized to make war on; labor, and Its president and other executive officers were and are traitors to the cause of labor. From another point of view the motto under consideration announces a most vicious doctrine. Whatever constitutes a traitor to the cause, of labor, and however bad he may be, a traitor to his country is worse. Any society or organization that places itself above the country and holds loyalty to its interests as a higher virtue than loyalty to the government is a villous and dangerous organlzat' . The Journal docs not 'believe that labor unions' gtnerally are organized on this basis, or that a majority of their members would indorse the sentiment of the motto referred .to, but the parading of such a sentiment is none the less reprehensible. The motto should have read, "A traitor to the cause of labor is bad, ' but a traitor to his country is

worse. CAUSB OP GOLD SIIIPMKXT. Gold is leaving the country at the rate of nearly a million dollars a day. The importation of goods has not been so light for years, and the two great staples which Europe buy 3 here were never so cheap, namely, wheat and cotton. Doubtless the Sugar Trust Is sending out . some gold to purchase raw sugar in anticipation of the passage of the Senate bill, but not such quantities as the shlDments of the past month indicate. ' "What is the cause? American securities afe being unloaded by European holders and European Investments in the United States are being disposed of. And why? Because the prudent investor has lost faith in he future of the Republic because of the conduct of the Democratic administration and the Democratic Congress. They believe that one ot the tariff bills will become a law. So far as the general Industries of the country are concerned it makes little difference which. No general manufacturing property and no stocks save those of two or three' trusts will be worth as much If either of those tariff bill3 becomes a law as they would under the McKlnley law. This is because, when a considerable portion or the general merchandise of the country now and heretofore made at home shall be made in Europe, the values in the homes properties must shrink. Railroad, insurance and like stocks have shrunk in value because of the loss of the volume of transportation which prevailed during the operation of the McKlnley law. The production of pig iron the last fiscal year was 40 per cent, less than it was during 1892. In this single item the shrinkage of railroad values is Indicated. If pig Iron shall be largely made abroad hereafter, this shrinkage will be permanent, because iron goes to build factories, railroads,, and to open new "enterprises. There can be no doubt about it. Democratic incompetency in Washington and the uncertainties which it involves Is the prime cause of the export of gold. It will continue in some degree if either of the tariff bills over which the Democrats are fighting becomes a law. It would cease if this calamity of a Congress would adjourn without passing a tariff bill and go home. ltXIFIXtt 31 R. II VM M. Under the caption "Brutal Misrepresentation" the Democratic State organ, for which the Attorney-general Informed a prominent lawyer, not long since, that he was writing a series of editorials, stigmatizes the following statement, attributed to Representative Bynum, as the wickedest kind of a slander; It is difficult for the people throughout the country to understand the motives of many who are demanding that the House stand firm. Many who are urging this course. I am convinced, are doing so to defeat the income tax. The representatives of the Sugar Trust are equally anxious that no bill shoud pass. Under the Senate bill the trust would receive a protection of a little over $1,000,000 a year, while under the existing law it receives over $20,00,OCO. The Sentinel knows that these are the views of Mr. Bynum. It makes -the assault upon the statement, knowing that Mr. Bynum made it, and uses the correspondent as a mark. It sftiould know that the opinion was expressed in a general press dispatch' a few days since as Mr. Bymim's, namely, that it is better to pass some bill Chun none. Since Attorney-general Smith informed a prominent lawyer that he tiad been writing certain editorials for the Sentinel and thus shaping Its policy, the source and animus of this attack are understood. ' Greene Smith is an all-round aspirant for Governor and Senator, and sees in Bynum, as in Governor Matthew3, a competitor. Hence this knifing of Mr. Bynum under the cover of the statement of a correspondent. What the Sentinel has to say about Bynum's misrepresentation of the effect of the Senate sugar schedule Is true. It will increase the protection of the Sugar Trust But why feign thl3 indignation about the sugar -schedule? Does not 'the Sentinel know that If the coal duty were stricken out of the Senate bill Mr. Cleveland would gladly let the sugar schedule become a law? If it does not, all disinterested spectators of the Democratic tariff row know that such Is the case. In the same article the Sentinel works up a great deal or armiciai indignation over trusts and the money power in Congress. Does not the Sentinel know that a paper which permits the Attorney-general to write its editorials, with his record of fee grabbing, has no right to talk of the infamy of Democratic trusts? There is nothing in Washington more infamous than Green Smith'. fee grabbing. The Democratic member from the Fifth district. George William Cooper, 13 report ed to be pestering members of the House ; about abi;i which he conceives will win , votes for him as a trust-smasher.' As outj lined. It is a proposition to enact a law j which will enable any person, upon the J presentation of evidence to a United States district attorney, to have a suit brought

for damages against any trust. Mr. Cooper knows that such a bill, if passed, will amount to nothing, but thinks he may be able to parade before those whom he regards as Ignorant voters In the Fifth district as the champion of the people. The Journal warns Mr. Coop?r that that sort of cheap demagogy has had its day in Indiana. The chances are that if the Democrats pass a tariff bill, Mr. Cooper will vote for a schedule satisfactory to the Sugar Trust The New York Evening Post Is much shocked over the anarchistic views recently expressed by sundry college professors and thinks they ought to be rebuked and taught a lesson. The ownership of the gored ox makes the difference. .When college rrofessors advocate free trade the Post is immensely gratified and make haste to quote them as exponent? of the most advanced thought; but the chances are ten to one that the same college freetraders are also Anarchists. The college professor Is notoriously unpractical, and his anarchy is merely his free-trade theories gone to seeo. A Wrd's-eye view of the Atlantic ocean at thin time would show large vessels steaming and sailing from the various

sugar-producing countries of the world towards New York. These vessels are laden with sugar. Even' day that the tariff deadlock is prolonged brings some of them into New Y'ork and adds to the assured profits of the trust. As the duty on sugar which the Senate Is insisting upon will take effect as soon as the bill passes, it is to the interest of the trust to delay the passage as long as possible. Those demagogues who are trying to make a poitlcal party out of organized labor seem not to have considered that the membership of all such organizations does not exceed a million men, while the total of all "wage earners and those engaged in professional and personal service In 1S90 was 17,600,000. There are 450,000 carpenters in the country, of whom 57,000 belong to j the unions, while only 20,000 of the 120,000 machinists belong to regular organizations. Latest concerning the tariff situation: The House will win; the Senate will win; the House will back down; the Senate will back down; the conference committee will agree; it will disagree again; a compromise bill will pass; no bill at all will pass; the end is in sight; there is no sign of agreement; the President will never surrender; the President will advise his friends to yield; and so on for quantity. The New Y"ork constitutional convention has disagreed with the report of the com.mittee recommending that there be no limitation on liability for death through 'negligence by railroads. This means that the present limitation to $5,000 in such cases will continue. The constitutions of at ''east four States, viz., Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Wyoming, prohibit the Legislature from limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for injuries to persons or property, leaving the question of damages In all such cases to the Jury. Under the present Constitution of New' Y'ork. and as it is likely to continue, a jury may award any amount of damages for injuries, but not more than $o,000 in. case of death. ' A writer in the Philadelphia Times tells an Interesting tale of the private scrap "book kept by Mr. Cleveland during his first administration. According to this account the most attractive feature of the book is the department devoted to clippings about his family. At first these all related to Mrs. Cleveland, but after baby "Rose" arrived a great number of the press comments had her for their theme. Inasmuch as baby "Rose" did not arrive until after the first administration had been ended for a year or so, and as her name is hot Rose, the story has some defects that, in so worshipful an administration paper as the Times, should have called for the editorial blue pencil. The French police have, found the cask 'which contained the $50,000 ot stolen gold, but the thieves have got the coin. It was an exceedinKly adroit piece of work, and .the robbers seem to have been remarkably successful in covering their tracks. j A school census of Chicago, just completed, shows a total population of 1,567,727, of whom 943,092 are native-born and 618.5C5 are foreign-born. The latter represent twenty-eight different nationalities. 1U I1I1LES IX THE AIR. A Puzzling; Question. "Mamma," asked xthe little girl, "does it make any difference which side of the needle I put the thread in from?" Xot (i Citt mliler. "So you do not consider a man who bets on the races a gambler, eh?" "Naw," said Mr. Hicarde. "He's no gambier. He3 a sucker." A Disciple of Grover. :Mrs. Flgg Tommy, have you been at the sugar bowl again? Tommy Maw, the sugar question Is entirely too delicate to be approached in such a sudden manner. Unavoidable. "Er my dear," said the young husband, "isn't it Just a little ah crowded, with your mother living with us?" ."I know it is," answered the bride, "but poor Fldo'is so lonely without her." Mlfljurigeri. "How much is this here goods worth?" asked the woman with the business eye. "Eighteen cents a yard," replied the merchant. "Gimme ten yards." The merchant cut oft the goods and remarked' to himself:-"Clear loss of 6 cents a yard. I thought she was only a shopper." AIlOtT PF.OPLE AXD THINGS. As a general rule Madame Sara Bern hardt hold3 that an actor or actress should retire from the stage at the age of fifty, although she confesses that she has seen many who should have disappeared at the age of five and twenty. Until recently Madame Pattl most successfully hid from the public the knowledge that one of her hobbies is the collection of daggers and similar pointed weapons Most of them are small, and each has a history. Some of the tiniest c-he uses as hairpins. The wreath of flowers sent by the Czar of Russia to be placed on the coffin of President Carnot cos, according to French papers, $1.6V); 'that from the King of Italy cost $Cu0, and that from the Queen of England $!. The flowers presented by Baron Rothschild cast $1,100. The number of millionaires in England is nc;t so great as one might believe. According to the report cf the Income oax ofTiclils there 'are In England seventy-one persons with an annual income of $250. 0"W, over l.bxt draw $.7.(J') annually, and only about ten thousand have an Income of $10,(00. Foreign papers say that the head of the Corean traitor, Kim-ok-Kium. which the government Intende-d to exhibit in all provinces, was stolen a few weeks ago while the watchman who bad it In charge was asleep. The King has offered a big reward for the dUcovery cf the thief. It la eaid

that since the theft the father, wife end daughter of the conspirator have been beheaded. Many people fancy that Mme. Melba was the first Australian-born lady to achieve fame on the European operatic stage. But when Mme. MeTba was only an infant in arms a young Australian teuiy named Lucy

Chambers had succeeded In conquering the ; audience at La tVala. Milan, t-'ne sube- : quently made an operatic tour through the j capitals of Europe, and everywhere met ; with flattering demonstrations of popular i regard. Mme. Chamber3 has just diel in Melbourne, where for more than twenty years she had been busily engaged in teaching. How to reduce the temperature of the body without risk during this torrid weather is a question of no small Importance. A writer in the New Y'ork Press gives some directions Which may prove practical: "Nothing is better than to hold pieces of Ice In the palm of each hand, wrapped in ordinary brown paper. The Ice melts slowly, and the blood in the palms is close to the surface. Another excellent tiling Is the ice collar, on Invention of my own, which has often prevented congestion of the brain. Take a rubber tube an inch in diameter, fill It with cracked ice end Jofin it with a screw nut around the neck. It is hidden by the collar, has little discomfort, is available for hours and keeps the head cool and clear." Mrs. Maria Vanderbilt, widow of William H. Vanderbilt, is a quiet, retiring sort of woman, who allows her son to attend to her financial affairs. Her daughters are more self-assertive. These women are each worth at least $15,000,000. Mrs. EWott F. Shepard, Mrs. Sloan, Mrs. Seward Webb and Mrs. McK. Twombley each received $10,000,000 from their father, and have grown steadily richer since he died. Each of these women is possessed of strength of character and marked individuality. They manage their own money and spend 4t In their own way. Mrs. Shepard has built several houses and has endowed beds In hospitals find scholarships In women's colleges. Since her husband's death she has taken in hand the fitting of her son for business life, and there can te no toubt that this will be done thoroughly. Mrs. Shepard's sisters ere very like her. All are liberal, but all use their great wealth with the ekill and discrimination that has always characterized the Vanderbilt men and women. IT WAS A BUNCO GAME GORMAX'S -VIIITK HOUSE CALL, BEFORE HE MADE HIS LATE SPEECH. Cleveland's Friends Think the MaryInnder Songht to Trap the President, but the Scheme Failed. Washington Letter In New York Evening Post. Last Monday there occurred one of the most theatrical scenes ever witnessed in the United States Senate chamber. "Dramatic" is the word commonly used, but that It Is too dignified to describe this episode will be seen from what follows. While Mr. Gorman was standing on the floor of the Senate In the attitude of a Tombs lawyer preparing to make a hypnotized jury believe that black was white; while he conjured up a pathetic break in his utterance and a suggestion of choking back an outburst of teats; while he was manufacturing a mock indignation which Imposed or. no intelligent spectator; while he was pulling up his coat sleeves and throwing back his head, and calling his witnesses to the stand, one by one, to tell their own stories in their own way, all this time his henchmen were circulating among the newspaper correspondents the story that he had just come from the White House, where he had served notice of his purpose, and where the President had pleaded and threatened and tried every art to dissuade him from making these damaging revelations. The story put into circulation was very circumstantial that the President had asked for the Interview in the hope of heading off the speech, and that the meeting between the two great men had been arranged by Secretary Lamont. Mr. Lamont's name was chosen to play this part in the story unquestionably because the Secretary has always favored a policy of conciliation and harmony within the party, and the public would be more likely to accept the theory of his intervention on this account. The scheme worked well. Many were deceived by it To this day newspapers in various parts of the country are still printing the statement that Mr. Cleveland played the suitor and that Mr. Lamont acted as go-between. This is wholly false. It is unjust alike to the President and to the Secretary of War, neither of whom did what he has been accused of doing. There are two documents in existence unless Mr. Gorman, in his prudence, has made away with them wnich cut an important figure in that day's theatricals. One is a note from the President to Mr. Gorman; the other is a note to the same man from his partner in the bunco business. Senator Brlce, of Ohio. To understand their bearing it will be necessary to rehearse a few incidents. Messrs. Gorman and Brice perceived Xrom the popular enthusiasm wnlch the president's letter to Chairman Wilson had aroused throughout the country that something must be done to save themselves Xrom rout. In the first place, the public must be made to believe tnat the President was frientened at a pending disclosure of his duplicity; in the second place, the Presj'leni must be made to oeueve that he had blundered in carrying his criticism so far, and that the Senate compromisers had a real ground for their grievance against nim. if they could thus induce the President to weaken never so little, immediately following the circulation of a story that he was frightened, the combination would pause a moral revulsion among the people, to the damage of the President and, as a .conseauence. to the advantage of Messrs. Gorman and Brlce. PLANNING THE GAME. Accordingly Mr. Brice laid siege to the President. He did not hint that Mr. Gorman was about to attack the administration; he did not suggest that the attack be headed off before it was too late; he -dwelt entirely upon the injustice unintentionally done Mr. Gorman and the other compromisers by the President's letter. It would be a just, as well as a kindly act, on the President's part, he urged, to Invite Mr. Gorman to the White House and talk the situation over .with him, merely to show the Senator from Maryland that the severe phrases of the letter to Mr. Wilson were not to be interpreted as a personal affront Mr. Cleveland reads the newspapers enough to know what a bunco game is. He scented one at once. No man of intelligence, he reasoned within himself, could honestly interpret his letter as having any other meaning than that which it bore upon its surface. If any man did accept it as a direct affront to himself it must be because of a pricking conscience. If any one knew what the letter said and meant. and still persisted in putting another interpretation upon it, that man was merely a meddlesome fellow seeking a quarrel, and hi3 feelings deserved no consideration. He was disinclined, therefore, to pay any attention to Mr. Brice's advice. But Mr. Brice was not to be got rid of so easily. He persisted. He pleaded with the air of one who had a strong personal Interest In the issue. Thl3 put a somewhat different face on the affair. What Mr. Cleveland did not think it worth while to ilo f.ir his own sake, and what he saw nr I reason for tloinsr on irf-npral nrinflfl he was willing to do as a matter of good nature If it Would make Mr. Brice any more comfortable. So he wrote a note inviting Mr. Gorman to call a short note, but long enough to have this significant beginning: "At the earnest solicitation of your friend. Senator Brlce" Unless Mr. Gorman has destroyed that note or given It away, it Is now in his possession. It will make an interesting "exhibit A" to put into an appendix to nls famous speeech of Monday last when he publishes It in pamphlet form an xi Republican campaign document, for it tells quite a little story of itself, and stamps with the brand of falsehood the statements set in circulation by the Senator's friends that the President sought the interview on Monday morning at the instance of a member cf his Cabinet, and because he dreaded the "revelations" of which he had been warned. But there is still another letter which will maKe Interesting reading in view of all that the country knows now. It may to copy Mr. (Jorman's lawyer-like style of dealing with his foes before the bar of public op.nion be marked "exhibit B." WORKED WELL AT FIRST. The first half of the Brice-Gorman scheme had apparently succeeded to the satisfaction of Its authors. The President had been induced to send in some way no matter

how for Mr. Gorman, and th press had been duly set upon the scent by an Industrious dissemination of this news enveloped In an alluring cloud of theatrical mystery. The next stage was to Impress the President, a stolid min. with a pernicious habit of pooh-poohing scares and an Irritating indisposition to admit that he Is wrong when the whole American people agree with him that he Is right. He must be made to think that there were great lions in the path of tariff reform, and that the senior Senator from Maryland and the Junior Senator from Ohio were honestly enlisted In an effort to overcome them. So

a plan was. hatched, of which the cost of execution was limited to a sheet of paper. an envelope and a fee of a quarter of a dollar to a special messenger. Mr. (lorman presented hlmseir at xr.9 White House. Mr. Cleveland received him pleasantly, as he alwavs receives his visitors. They sat down and talked over the situation in perfect good humor, the President maintaining that, even admitting th Inability of the friends of tariff reform to get a bill through the Senate except by making broad arrxirent concessions. they had now reached a place where the' could strike some hard blows fcr Democrat ic principles if they were really in earnest. Mr. uorman s response to this was a pla that he and his associates had accomplished wonders in carrying the bill as far as they had without Its being wrecked, an I that so far from its being now out or danger, there "was not an hour, day or night, when something was not liable to happen to undo all the hard work of five months. The President looked politely incredulous. The Senator glanced slyly at the clock; there were still a few minutes remainlr before the bit of prearranged stage busi ness was done. He therefore plunged in again and made the same point In a slight ly altered form. Then came the climax. A ran at the door. An attendant entrs. bringing a note which has Just been lelt at the White House by a special messenger. The Senator is apparently engrossed In his argument. He assumes that the note must be for the President, and at nrst ignores the fact that the attendant has paused be side his chair and is holding the note out to him. "Oh. it Is for me?" he exclaims, with an air of surprise as genuine as if it had been the subject of several dress rehearsals Defore the mirror. He runs his eyes over the superscription. and his brow darkens with Delsarte's firsiquality expression of foreboding. In an instant he has ripped off the envelope and devoured the contents of the sheet Inside. CLEVELAND DIDN'T BITE. "This illustrates what I have been saying," he remarks with a voice full of anxiety, as he passes the note to the Presi dent Mr. Cleveland read it without visi ble agitation. It is from Senator Brice, a very hurried scrawl, urging Senator Gorman to hasten to the Arlington Hotel and meet the writer as soon as he can get away from the White House. New and serious complications have just come to Mr. Brice's knowledge, which threaten th whole tariff reform programme with irretrievable ruin unless they two can devise a solution. Dl the Pesldent reel and totter panicstricken? No. Did he beg Mr. Gorman to forget the horrid Wilson letter, and offer to take it all back if Brice and he and tha rest would get together and fix things up before it was too late? Not at all. Did he propose to wash his hands of the whol business, express his regret that he had ever attempted to meddle with it, and pledge himself to sign any bill Congress could be induced to send to him? Not by any means. He simply said he was sorry that the tariff managers in the two houses of Congress seem to find so many difficulties in the way of reaching an understanding, wished them better luck In the future, and hoped that the new and serious complications alluded to by Senator Brice would not prove so threatening at closer view. And so there was nothing left but for Mr. Gorman to bow himself out and all the way ud to the Capitol curse the lucK which threw in his way such a slu?gjsh, unimpressionable creature as this Buffalo lawyer. By the time he had reached tha Senate chamber he was at a white heat. He had set out with the idea of making a rather vigorous speech, but the positive venom which poured into it as he went along was an afterthought Read in the light of these facts, which can be supported by documentary proofs if Mr. Gorman dares produce them, thi record of last Monday's business by tha senatorial bunco firm stands thus: 1. An interview granted by the Intended Victim to the Senior Partner, in response to the beseeching appeals of the Junior Partner. 2. A d'ecoy letter from the Junior Partner to the Senior Partner, delivered to the latter at the hour and minute agreed upon, in the presence of the Intended Victim. 3. Decision of the Intended Victim who turns out not to be such a preclov.s Innocent as they took him for-that he doesn't care to invest 4. Desperate resolve of the Senior Part--per to smash things generally, in order to avenge himself upon the Intended Victim. Moral: The Sugar Trust had better dispose of its present bunco ovtnt at a sacrifice s.nd hire a more competent firm of steerers. LOVE'S RL'Dli AWAKEMXG. The Vice Prealdent's Eldent Dnuuhlep Separated from Her Betrothed. New York Special. . A Washington special to-night Rays: Miss Mary Stevenson, the eldest daughter of the Vice President, would now, bui for the firmness dislayed by the Vice President and his son Lewis, it is said, be enjoying a honeymoon as Mrs. George F. Curtis instead of inhaling the breezes at Bar Harbor, separated from her lover. As it is, Mr. Curtis, a clerk in the law library of the United States Supreme Court, has nothing to show for two months of ardent devotion to the Vice President's daughter, except one diamond engagement ring and the unpleasant reflection that his fondest hope can never be realized. Mis Stevenson first met Mr. Curtis in May. Mr. Curtis is poor, but he has a good family name and excellent prosieets professionally. His ancestors for three generations won distinction in the T:i"d states navy. His grandfather, Stephen Casin. of Pennsylvania, received a ,u.d medal for distinguished bravery at the battle of Ticonderoga. Young Curtis is a graduate of Georgetown University, and has been admitted to practice before tha United States Supreme Court Afcer two-inontiis' counsnip It was whispered about that trey were engaged. Miss Stevenson acopted Curtis's pnotograpa and a ring. The Vice President did not look with favor on the love making nor did his son, Lewis. Mr. Curtis, accompanied by his friend. Cadet Tompkins, of the navy, called at the Vice President's hotel one evening and left a note for Miss Stevenson, Inviting her to Join Mrs. Senator Bianchard's picnicking party to Great Falls the next day. Failing to receive any answer he called the following, morning and left a second note. Later he learned that neither of his messages had been delivered and he sent u his card. Lewis Stevenson came down r response to It and called Mr. Curtis aside, saying: "Let's take a walk. 1 want to have h talk with you " In the conversation that followed Mr. Curtis was told that his attentions to Ml. Stevenson must cease; that the Vice President desired it and would enforce his order personally if it were not complied with. The day following Lewis Stevenson met Mr. Curtis, returned his ring and photorraph and warned him not to do anythlny tnat would incur the wrath of the ic 1 res Id en t The Stevenson family then lett town. Mr. Curtis has sought through a mutual friend, to re-establish communication with Miss Stevenson. Nothing has come of this mission so far. Mr. Curtis to-day declined ta discuss the love affair with Miss Stevenson or even admit that he knew any member of the family. The Vice President and his son were surprised that the affair had reached the ears of the public. They were not prepared 19 make any statement to-day. Fncts About Japan. Boston Transcript Many persons, commenting on the war in the East, speak of Japan as "the plucky little kingdom.' "little Japan," and ue other phrases indicative of belief that tha most enlightened, energetic and best-organized state ot tne Pacific Orient is puny in dimensions. To these commentators Japan is a dwarf that has boldly, perhaps Imprudently, faced a giant, has thrown down a tiny glove as the gage of battle, and has Invited a contest In which the most conspicuous thing will be the littleness of one of the contestants. Passing as a kingdom for the Japanese empire is an empire, and that form of government was no. chosen at haphazards, but sprung from conditions of national existence- it may bs added that Japan 13 not in ropu:atlon or area particularly small among the nations of the earth. The subjects of the Emperor of japan number more than forty million souls. This Is a population considerably In excess of that of Italy or France. Tha area of Japan Is 147.055 square miles, twot.nirds the area of France, more than the area of the United Kingdom or Italy. To such a power the epithet 'tittle" is certainly not applicable except in compari.-rt with such mammoths anion? nation as China and' Russia and these United States. Nor when we compare the modern organization of Japan's military and naval force with those of China. 13 he contest sj unequal as it seems. 1 rue. China has modern armor-clads. mannel by crews forme! under the instruction of European officer!. ' but the question always Is. will a Chinese i crew fight? That is a question to whlcn this struggle may afford an answer. The Chinese lack that power of adaptability the Japanese possess, and c-onK-nue;it;y their attempts to acquire the European military methods have rarely survived tue absence of the Instructor.