Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUHNAl SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5f 1894.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1804.

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Can te found at tbe followluRilacea: IAH1S Ainerlcan Exchange in Paris, 30BouIeTrd n Caiui-lie. 2 EW YOliK-Gilsey Houoea&d Wradaor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster uTrcoe. CHICAGO ralnoer House, Auditorium IIottL CEsdNNATI-J. R. Hawley &. Co.. 154 Vine street LO U 1 8 V ILLF C. T. During; uorthweat corner of Tbird amlJeftf raon atrrta. 6T. LOUIS Union New Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, J).' C.-RJgS House ami Ebbitt llou. The Democratic meeting in Louisiana Is only the first rumbling of thunder that -will be heard all round the sky before long. t The papers at the national capital which have already selected the next House seem to forget that therewill be voting In November. Missouri Democratic leaders are so scared that they will import a large number of Democratic orators to help them keep the rank and file In line. Governor I'tck, having been renominated by the "Wisconsin Democrats, he will be defeated by an emphasis which will brand him as the bad boy of the Badger State. The Vermont returns." show that the Populist and Prohibition tickets did not re- , cefve so many votes as in 1S30. And yet the former promises great things In the East Did Mr. Bynum put into his text-book for Democratic campaign speakers that speech of his suggesting that British wages be raised 13 per cent, and American wages . be lowered to that level? The Grand Army post In Maysville, Ky., has passed a resolution declaring that it will withdraw from, the organization If the National Encampment should Indorse ti?e Cleveland pension policy. There Is no possioility of such an Indorsement. 'The Sentinel has always advocated a duty on raw sugar.". So says the Sentinel. The 40 per cent, tax on raw sugar it now advocates. Such a tax means tha i-the pricl of sugar shall be 40 per cet.' higher than A raw Btrgar were free, -"Will the Sentinel Tho Sentlbel mentions as evidence of Democratic prosperity the resumption of the glass works at Anderson and that "all the window-glass factories in the gas belt will te running by the 15th." That is true, and every one of them under a cut of 22 Va per cent. In wages. One reads in the correspondence of outBide papers that the Democratic leaders count upon the joint debates to help them out, not because they expect Captain Myers to stand up to Mr. Owen, but because they expect It will unify the, party. That is, while the rank and file will not attend a Democratic meeting they will go to a Joint meeting and there be won back to the straight ticket! MaaaHaMaHaBMBsaaiMaMBaM Now that the world has been officially notified of the fact that Indianapolis has the best and fastest , race track In the United States, it should also remember that the city is located in the midst of the Indiana bluegrass belt, and is the natural center of a horse-breeding region. Indiana is Decorum noieu tor us line wo.-ses, ana whenvhe facts are properly understood its capital ouht to become a favorite place for horse training and speeding. m m mmam M mmmmamm mm mm sassM m am mm m The action of the Memphis grand Jury In returning Indictments for murder in the first degree against four persons connected with the recent lynching of six negroes , is commendable and surprising. It is the first time that such an indictment has ever been returned in the South, and candor requires the admission that far too few such have been returned In the North. If these Indictments shall be followed with a prosecution of the dsfendants vigorous enough to show a determination to convict them if guilty It will be greatly to the credit of the Memphis authorises. The action of the Knights of Pythias in discarding the German ritual is on national and patriotic lines. The question Involves something more than a point of society usige and has an Important bearing on the. . assimilation of the foreign element in our population. At a time when many cities are doing away with German instruction In the public schools, and when public entiment Is so clearly In favor of preserving the English language In its purity it tvould be strange if a society so peculiarly American In its origin, purpeses and meth0 Is as the Knights of Pythias should permit the use of Its ritual In any other than the English language. German-Americans r.tgiit to be glad of so gooi an opportunity of Increasing their English vocabulary as is afforded by the habitual use of the Pythian ritual In English, and while the first effect of the action may be disappointing to them they will be pretty sure, on reflection, to acknowledge Its wisdom. On Monday Maine will vote for Governor, 1 Legislature and membfrs of Congress, tt is a Hiate In which the Democracy usually makes a fight, and In which this year the administration has a good many federal officers to help it. As is often the case, ths Democrats are making a still hunt, and the Republicans have had a speaking campaign of but two weetfs. "While the RrubllcAiJS are ure to Cffry th State.

the majority In Maine, as In Vermont, will ferve to show the drift of popular sentiment this year. In recent years the vote for Governor, which is the best test, has been as follow: Year. Rep. Dem. Pro. Pop. 1Sv3 79.S33 CtXA 3.122 1K" C4.214 4.S51 2.91 1SJ2 C7,bTJ ui,u78 3.732 3.005 The Republican plurality in September, 1S32, was 12.331, which is a fair vote, being presidential year; consequently, any considerable Increase of the Republican plurality must be regarded as an indication of popular sentiment. A plurality of nearly29.000 will be larger than for many years In a September election, and must be regarded as evidence that the tide is running Irresistibly toward . Republicanism. Maine is one of the States whose industries have been hit hard by the Democratic tariff law. It is also in so close proximity to Canada that it will feel the competition. Therefore, it is safe to say that the good news from Maine will not be for the Democrats. ML.V WHO UEMEMIIEIl I1YXU3I.

Among the employes In manufacturing establishments who ent protests to Mr. Bynum against the Wilson bill in December, 1533, were the men and women employed In the Merritt woolen mill. Mr. Bynum could r.ot present these petitions in silence, but he felt called upon to write them, as he did other petitioners, an impertinent and insulting letter which he also sent to the Democratic press. In the letter to the people In the Merritt mill, Mr. Bynum Inserted the following: The printed form of the petition, with blanks to be filled with name3 of State and postofiice, as well as of the firm In whose employ the petitioners are engaged, convinces me that the same was not the voluntary act of those whose names are attached, but the Inspiration of those who have long been the recipients of an unjust system of taxation and who, rather than surrender their power to extort contributions from the sreat mass of the people are now engaged in the cruel work of threatening their employes with a reduction of wages or a los3 of employment should the proposed measure become a law. The organized effort now being made to intimidate Representatives and drive them from the support of a great principle only demonstrates to what base ends selfish greed will resort to accomplish its objects. . When the above was read at a meeting of the employes a great deal of indignation was expressed. Mr. AVillard, who circulated the petition, said at the meeting that the Merrltts had neither suggested the sending of the petition, nor did they see it after it had been signed, lie, appealed to those present to say whether or not any of them had been urged to sign the petition. Then a free expression of sentiment was made by the employes. "1 have worked rn this mill twelve years," said one, "and George Merritt has never threatened me, and I am not his slave." "I have voted for Bynum," said another, "and Mr. Merritt has known it, and yet he has treated me always as one man should another." Charles Bullard said: "Mr. Bynum has insulted us. and for one, 1 feel that he 3hould be denounced.". Charles Kastner said: If we are slaves, as Bynum says, why have I staid here all these year3 and never known It? We know something- about this tariff question ourselves. We know that when Mr. Merritt has a full trade we have full work and go id wages. Weknow that this is the first yer In years that wt have been on half time. After over twentv expressions of the import of the above had been given, a committee was appointed to report resolutions o be' sent to Mr. Bynum to Indicate to him the feeling of the employes regarding his letter. That committee presented the following, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we, the employes of George Merritt & Co., do hereby most emphatically denounce the letter of Representative W. D. Bynum in reply to our petition to use his Influence and vote against the passage ot the Wilson bill. We sent In that petition according to our own convictions and . denounce his statement as a base insult that it was, in any sense, compulsory. We are worklngmen and women, f reeborn American citizens and not slaves as you would brand us. and are working- for the Interest and cood of ourselves and employers, who are not slave-drivers, and for the United State3, and not for foreign countries. We denounce the Wllscm bill as a whole, and shall use every possible means to have It defeated, as. In case it becomes a law. It will ruin many industries and result in les3.work and a generally lower scale of wages. The fact that this occurrence of last January was recalled by a wage-earner. Indicated that the hundreds of workers who sent petitions of this character to Mr. Bynum to present have not forgotten his gratuitous insults. Hundreds of them will remember . them and take vengeance in the voting booths next November. SENATOR VILAS AS A FALSIFIER. In his keynote speech, delivered at Milwaukee, Senator Vilas adopted a different line from that of his celebrated cuckoo speech In the Senate. In the latter he attempted to show that; Mr. Cleveland was a little the greatest man that ha 1 ever trod the earth, while In the Milwaukee speech he undertook to prove that the Republican party Ijj responsible for all the; evils that have befallen the country during Mr. Cleveland's administration. Ih this, as in the other speech, he had to drav largely on his imagination for facts, but as imagination Is Senator Vilas's strong point thl did not at all embarrass him. The opening statement of his speech was as follows: Forebodings of the present disastrous conditions were appar?nt hi 1S44, when President Arthur sought the help of Hugh McCuUoch, soliciting him to take charge or treasury Mr. McCulioch .replied that the most h could do was to postpone the evil day until after tlife close of the Arthur administration. For an ex-Cabinet officer and United States Senator this Is pretty bold lying. President Arthur did not seek thw nelp of Hugh McCulioch; he simply offered him he Secretaryship of the Treasury near the close of his administration, and Mr. McCulioch accepted the position. The statement that he said "the most he could do wasto postpone the evil day until after the close of the Arthur administration" is without a shadow of proof, and may be- set dovm as one of Senator Vilas's flights of Imagination. The kind of disaster that wa.threatened during the last year of President Arthur's administration may be inferred from the following extract from the article on United States finances in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia for 1SSS: The surplus in the treasury at the close of the fiscal year, over and above nil accrued liabilities, was . about $103.000.M)X It was about $il.(xM0 when the year began. The average monthly surplus has l.n twice as great during as during 1S.7. and tho highest amount has been nearly double the highest aggregate of the preceding year. ' Public debt statements show that the

amount of cash in the treasury Jan. 1, 1SSI, J

was 73,374,200, and oi Jan. 1. 1SS3. it was J432.475.17G. Yet Senator Vilas says Mr. McCulioch was made Secretary of the Treasury during the laat four months of Mr. Arthur's administration to stave off disaster! After showing how Mr. Cleveland had preserved the country from destruction during hl3 first administration, and how prosperous the closing year of his administration was, Mr. Vilas said: This was the inheritance of thrift and management the Republicans took from the Democrats wh?n President Harrison assumed the presidential office In March. 1883. Never came heir more happily to a rich estate from wise and prudent ancestor. During the first two years of their administration out of the money left them by the prudence of their predecessors the Republicans reduced tite public debt $20,527,656.10. hut even this was less by nearly sus.G'JO.wo than the reduction by th? Democrats. In September. 1S01, the four-and-one-half-per-cent. bonds fell due, but there was no money to pay them, and it became necessary to effect an extension of over J20,0W,00o, which are still unpaid. In this statement Senator Vilas dishonestly seeks to create the impression that the total amount of the public debt paid during the Harrison administration was 526,527,606,10. As a matter of fact It was- reduced I239.074.2CO, and the annual interest charge was reduced $11;CS1,6S9. Senator Vilas tries, to create the impression that over $20,000,000 of the four-and-one-half-per'-cent. bonds which fell due in September, 1891, were extended because there was no money to pay them. As a matter of fact they were extended because the holders preferred a two-per-cent. rate of interest to the cash. If Senator Vilas wished to be accurate and truthful he could have found by re-ierenee to the public debt statementthat during the Harrison administration there were paid of the four-and-one-half-per-cent. bonds $137,477,700: of the four-per-cents., $121,318,800; of the four-per-ccnt. refunding certificates, $47,700; total, $239,074,200. This was a reduction of more than 30 per cent. In the debt, whereas the present administration has increased it nearly 10 per cent. THE "IXFAMY" TARIFF ACT. Representative Bourke Cockran, of New Tork, is the only real Democratic orator 4n the House representing a Northern State. He is the Democrat of all others whom the Indiana party leaders desired to have come here in October, 1S92, and say a word for Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic cause. He voted for the Wilson bill, but he refused to vote for the act to which the Sentinel has applied the name "Defiled Bill." Mr. Cockran made a speech before the surrender vote of the House making the Senate bill a Democratic law, in which there are expressions which make plain the Democratic opinion of. that measure. Replying to Mr. McMUlin's assertion that the Senate bill is better than the McKlnley law he denied that such was the case, and proceeded: There is a more vital point at Issue here; and that is whether the American Congress Is to legislate, or whether some unknown, unmentlaned force can block the wheels of legislation and make the repreisciuaiucs vi intr inrujMe rower in me uusi Vand surrender, they know not to whom. Referring to the speech of Chairman Wilson, Mr. Cockran said: Confessing that he has been deserted by those in whose support he has every reason to Confide," he asks us to record our betrayal of every principle which the House undeV his leadership has maintained. Speaking of the Senators who had said "the Senate bill or none," the New Yorker shouted: We accuse them of treason under our breaths, and now we are invited to make them leaders. We accept their treason as our standard; they are not discredited as much as we are. We are hopelessly discredited, because our cowardice makes our surrender disgraceful. After declaring that the McKlnley law Is a better measure than the Senate bill because it gives protection equally to all and can be defended by the believers in protection, he denounced the present law as one giving "protection in spots." Referring to. the fact that the Democracy' has denounced all protection as "robbery," he. said: We who know what protection really is (robbery) when we give It to a few individuals and deny It to others, or when we bestow it among citizens In unequal proportions, are committing a crime with our eyes wide open.- Our Representatives have fallen prostrate berore the frowning wall of special privilege and craved leave to make their submissl-n without striking a blow.. We kre asked to surrender not to poweful reasons, but to some nameless enemy and to debase ourselves before men who act not as a part of the American Congress. This remarkable speech by a Democrat has f or its closing the following sentences: If we are to swallow this obnoxious bill, if we are to take to this article of diet which the gentleman from Georgia has described, then in the name of fair play. In the name of propriety, in the name of decency, in the name of American liberty and American freedom, let the gentleman from West Virginia name the 'men at whose hands we must take the dose, tell us to whom we are surrendering, tell U3 who they are who constitute the new force In this government to which we are compelled to pay tribute, tell us fully and without reserve the character of the action which he asks us to take, that we may Judge the depth of the Infamy into which we are invited to descend. And . yet the democratic papers In this State and the Democratic orators are engaged In trying to make the people believe that it is really a gxd measure and should be indorsed by the people. AX ECHO OF THE GREAT STRIKE. The trial of Eugene V. Debs and other officials of the American Railway Union for contempt of court does not excite much popular interest. It shows how fast we make history and how little vindictive the American people are that within a few weeks nfter a strike that tied up the railroad traffic of half the continent and required military force to suppress It. the trial of the leaders should excite less interest than yesterday's horse race or last night's fire. Yet these men are charged with a very grave offense and their trial may result in settling some very important questions. It is understood that If the case goes against the defendants in the Circuit Court they will appeal to the Supreme Court on grounds that will lead to an adjudication of the mooted question regarding the injunctlonal powers of federal courts under the interstate-commerce law. and. Incidentally, of the rights of labor. Among ether points the constitutionality of the interstate-commerce law will be attacked on the ground that the "enjoining of a crime and then the punishment of the offend ers summarily for contempt of court is a virtual denial of trisl by jury, which Is secured .by the Constitution. Judge Woods overruled this point with very little ceremony, saying he did not see how the present case differed from any other contempt

case, but the point was reserved and will figure in the appeal. Most of the time of the trial thus far has been consumed in an effort to Identify the telegrams sent by and to Debs during the strike. There were 9,000 of these telegrams produced in courts and although Debs's name was signed to most of them, the signature was In type-letter, and It was found almost impossible to trace them to him. Thus far only one in the entire number produced in court has been in his handwriting, and there is a possibility that the government may fall to make technical proof on this point. The real struggle will come in the cross-examination of Debs, when the prosecution will attempt to lay, a foundation for a complete demonstration of his connection with all the telegrams to which his name is appended. The fact that the Sentinel continues to publish comparisons of the prices of sugar a year ago and now, often crediting them to the Journal, forces the conclusion that it counts upon the ignorance and stupidity of its readers and resorts to deceit. The prices which the Journal has taken from the secretary of the Indiana Grocers' Wholesale Association, relating to, the present sugar crop, and which are affected by the Democratic tariff, if has not published and will not publish, because they show the Increased price, due to a duty of 42t per cent, on refined sugar. Here are the New York wholesale figures, which the Sentinel does not give Its readers: Price Price Increase Grade. June 1. Aug. 25. percent. Granulated $1.00 $5.00 25 Standard A.. 3.75 4.75 26 2-3 Ideal gold XC 3.56 4.56 28 These are the brands In general use. The wholesale price has advanced more than one-quarter, yet the Sentinel dare not make that statemenv, but seeks to make its readers believe that adding 40 per cent, to the cost of raw sugar will not cause an advance of the price. It dare not state that whereas twenty-two pounds of granulated sugar were purchased for a dollar In this city June 1, only seventeen pounds can now be got for that money. Here is an increase of 1.34 cents a pound, which is Just a fraction short of 30 per cent. Such facts about sugar the Sentinel dare not print. But It cannot fool its readers; they buy sugar, and In buying learn the duplicity of the Sentinel.

An address was delivered before, the social science gathering at Saratoga by Mr. F. B. Sanborn, of Massachusetts, on the relation of American millionaires to our social system. Referring to a visit he made to the city of Pullman he said: I had not been an hour there before I was convinced it was nothing -but egotism petrified, a brick allegory of the most Intense cupidity. Everything there Is "facts," as In Dickens's "Hani Times;" everything is toil, everything is gain; there Is nothing for amusement nor for gayety. Everybody labors for Pullman & Co.; they drink, eat and sleep only for them. !'Pullman" left on me the final impression of a huge mausoleum. Silence, as of death; reigns there; nowhere is there a smiling or a joyous visage; even the flower beds have the air of funeral decorations. In reality this town Is nothing but a shop where they make millions. The speaker seems to have, diagnosed the Pullman disease correctly. It was corporate greed and selfishness that left no room for tHe action of individual liberty or ambition. There, 13 merit In co-opera-tion and something to commend In municipal socialism, but the Pullman experiment embodied all the evils of both systems without any of the; redeeming features of either. If its originators ever deluded themselves into the belief that it contained any element of philanthropy or was founded on rlitfit socikl principles there is no longer any Justification for the delusion. The affairs of the town of Pullman should be wound up and the experiment of converting men Into helpless and hopeless machines should be abandoned. The fact that no Democratic paper undertakes to explain the unfortunate remark of Secretary Myers that "the President Is the best friend the soldier has", may be-accepted as an indorsement thereof. That excellent Democratic paper, the Durham (N. C.) Globe glories In the "expressions of Mr. Cleveland, eaying that the President slapped the dirty beggars, called pensioners, in the face." "Coal must be put on the free llst'.says the Democratic State organ, and adds, "that is the issue in Indiana." It is only an issue as Democratic tariff tinkers make it so. Neither mine owners, 'mine operators, miners, manufacturers nor private consumers want free coal in Indiana, ABOUT PEOPLE AXD TIIIXGS. John D. Rockefeller is said to have given his daughters to understand that they are not to be great heiresses. The bulk of his property will go to a number of public Institutions. Vermont claims to have the oldest lawyer in New England. He is Daniel Roberts, of Burlington, now in his eighty-fourth year and still actively engaged in the practice of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1832. Nearly all the monarchs in Europe have their lives insured. The most notable exception Is the Russian Emperor. The companies would not insure him, regarding his chances of long life as being extremely hazardous. Jennie Finch, who was stolen from her home in Grand Rapids eighteen years ago by gypsies, and aho long afterward secured her liberty by accident, has just returned to her brother and sister In the . Michigan town. ( , The Common Council of Stejnhubel,' Silesia, has elected, for the protection of the village, a night watchwoman. She la said to be stalwart and resolute and takes a motherly interest in various small boys who are out o nights. Figaro (of Paris) says there Is a distinct, peculiar, unmistakable. Irrefutable, characteristic "English smell." "An indistinct mixture of Windsor foap, seasalt, morocco and old boots." The English sniff in reply, and say the answer Is soot. At present there are 135 women studying medicine in Paris, of whom only sixteen are natives of France, the largest number being Russians. On the other hand, of 164 women attending the faculty of belles lettres 141 are French women. The Countess Cora Slocomb di Brazza Savorgnau is at Newport doing what sh? can to promote the Interests of the Italian lacemakers. She had charge of the Italian Oueen's laces at Chicago, and obtained thirty-seven medals-out of fifty exhibitors. Mme. Demont-Breton, the painter, was recently enrolled in the Legion of Honor. Th only other French woman so honored is Rosa Bopheur. The ne member of the Legion is the daughter of the famous painter Juls Breton, and the wife of the painter Adrien Drmont. It is not generally known that when a person falls into the water a common felt hat can be made use of as a life preserver. By placing the hat upon the I waier. rim oown, with the arm around It, I pressing It pilghtly to the breast, it will i bear a man up for hours. - j M. Deloncle's grand project of constructI Ing for the Paris exposition of 1900 a.huge telescope, which will bring the moon within a meter of the earth, is. according to

the Figaro, far from having been dropped. The cost of constructing the gigantic lens which will tx required will be defrayed by M. Blschoffshelm, the well-known and wealthy astronomer. People who are disposed to grumble about high prices should be thankful that they do not live in the town of Forty-mile Creek, on the Yukon river, Alaska. The town Is the largest in the placer -gold mining district, and flour sells for 1 cents a pound, while bacon brings AO cents, beans are firm at 20 cents, butter is strong at '5 cents, ad dried fruit is worth 25 cents a yound. f . The center of the earth. As Sancho Panza found it. Was between his donkey's feet And the world i evolved around It. We an have little worlds With the point we're on. the center. Whether we re the pompous landlord Or his very humblest renter. Our sorrows are the greatest. Our own sayings the most witty. If we could be the mighty lawyer Or the weakling worth no pity. We all have our own troubles. But they're heaviest to bear With a mighty lot of people. When they've nothing nice to wear. Gas City (Ind.) Journal, f amwmaaammamaMmmmammmammmamamammmamamammmmamaamwamm DIDDLES IX THE AIR.

Veterans. "Call him a veteran Joke writer? . Why, he Is not more than twenty years old." "That Is so; but his Jokes are veterans, all the same." Unfit for Recognition. Chappie Deah boy, you are getting nearsighted. Didn't you see Miss Bikes bow to you? , Chollie I did, but do you think I can afford to recognize any one whose bloomers bag at the knees? Didn't Know Enough. "It Is too bad your picnic was spoiled by rain,", said the sympathizing gentleman. "I always like to see the police have a good time." "Oh, we didn't git wet." said officer McGobb. "They was plenty of sheds on the ground, and we all got under thlm ixcipt the detectives." Full o the. Year. Along the roads and traveled ways The weeds are limp and dusty. The yaller shoe its glaring hue Has lost and now Is rusty. The next year's butterflies have spun Their soft and silken cloisters, - And the death rate Is growing great Among 'the helpless oysters. The autumn air, and haze, and smoke Make one symphonic blending. And Wabash chills and doctor's bills Presage the Summer's ending. K. OF P. PEIZE MONEY WASIIIXGTOX UXATILE TO PAY THE "WIXXERS IX FILL, And In Xow Try Ins: to Hoh i ho II rat Indiana Regiment of the $500 Awarded It. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-There threatens to be some unpleasant features in connection with the payment of the money promised as prizes at the drills at the recent encampment of the Knights of Pythias. It will be remembered that of the prize fund of $9,000 only abput $6,000 was forthcoming ' whep the prize-winners lined up to receive their awards. They were compelled " to accept a portion only of the money they had won, and . to accept the assurance of the committee that the balance would soon be forwarded to them. Some of the prizes went to Indiana divisions. The committee seems adverse to paying the $300 prize awarded to the First Indiana Regiment, Colonel Heiskel commanding. The command had no competitor, the only other division entered withdrawing the day before the contest.. The judges awarded the prize to the company as being the only one on the field, but it was developed that the committee does not regard their action as justifiable. It is alleged as an argument against paying the money that the Indiana Knights drilled under the new tactics, which had not been officially promulgated, and on this technicality the prizes may be withheld. A vigorous debate was had on the matter, and it was finally decided to procure a statement from the judges before making the award. Colonel Heiskel claims that he acted under the orders of the major general In executing the drill, and General Carnahan Indorses his defense. The .matter has roused considerable feeling. Mid It is probable that this will be intensified before it is fully settled. The general opinion of the committee, as nearly as can be learned, is against paying the prize money. But half the prize money has been paid to the different victorious divisions, but the committee is confident that the entire amount will be raised by the end of the month. The Supreme Lodge is nearing the close of its sessions. A movement was started to-day to erect a monument to Major Itathbone, the founder of the order, who is burled at Utica, N. Y. Washington lodges will endeavor to raise a fund to purchase the hall which was the birthplace of the fraternity. The Supreme Lodge to-day set aside the action of the supreme chancellor and major general of the Uniform Rank In dishonorably dismissing from that rank T. D. Crichton, of Fresno, CaL, on the ground that he had not been given a hearing. Much interest is taken In the case in the West. This action still leaves the case open for the preferring of charges. Delegate Russle. of Indiana, of the Supreme Lodge, is he only member of the committee appointed to consider the ritual who is opposed to the abolition of the German rite. He was outvoted In committee, however, by four votes, and the consequent prospect is that the German lodges will be compelled to surrender. The threat made by i.veral of the German lodges to secede rather than abandon their mother tongue seems to be without serious import atter all. The Supreme Lodge has, apparently, headed off all attempts at secession by dissatisfied lodges. At the last session of Congress, the order of the Knights of Pythias was quietly given a charter under the laws of the United States. Nothing was thought of this national incorporation at the time, but it now appears that the step was taken with a view to meeting the very contingency that has now happened in the threats of the German lodges.. The anti-German clement claims and, apparently, with accuracy, that the recent law Incorporating the order will prevent any secession of the German knights If they wish to continue in the Pythian order. No lodge, they claim, which refuses -to adopt the ritual or any of signs laid down by the Supreme Lodge can adopt the name or the form of the Pythian knighthood. Secession means extinction as a lodge of the order of Knight3 of Pythias. This shrewd flank movement of the anti-German element has startled the threatening seceders and there is, consequently, a prospect of surrender. The subject is of deep interest4n Indiana and the neighboring States where trie Pythian order 13 strongest and where the Germans form a larre and Imoorta-u eminent of the order. The liquor question In tne order bids fair to be compromised by birring the future admission of liquor dealers, into the order and refusing readluission to any member who, after leaving the order engages in the prohibited traffic. Will Xot Par it. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. The local executive committee of the K. of P. encampment to-night decide! not to pay the i30v) drill prize awarded to the First Indlan.ipolia battalion. Colonel Heiskell commanding, because the company did not conform to the drill orders or Gentral Carnahan. Col. Heiskell declares he will carry the matter to the Supreme Ixjdge. and. if necessary, to the courts. The Supreme Lodge has adopted the report of the committee on board of control of the endowment rank, recommending that no insurance shall hereafter be paid to beneficiaries of suicides. That Tlrel MuKivnmn Feeling. New York Times. The fountains of order and of all our sanctities are being poisoned hourly. The very earth, its stability distrusted by us, skeins to ur.vlulace unlr o ; iet T e skies to grow darker and darker, and the siais oy wmch we ust-ii to .tu die one by one going out. We hear in the twilight, so 111-omeneJ. a. clamor of voices but ail speak different things. We are harassed by inexplicable fears, but no counsels reassure i' for more than an Instant a fleetto instant. . . - ,

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HOW I1ISKOP 51 0 "Wai AN GOT 5IOXCV OXCL3 TO BUILD A .MISSION. Interesting; Interview with the Senior 3Iethndiat Dtahop on Affairs in China, and Jnpau. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Sept. 7.-BIshop Bowman, of St. Louis, who has been spending a few days with relatives here. Is very familiar with the Chinese and Japanese dispute. He is one of the fourteen bishops in the M. E. Church in the world, and It fell to his fortune, about twelve years ago, to be sent .to China to hold a conference. At that time the M. E. Church held a conference every four years in China, but since then it has grown so that it holds one even year. Bishop Nlnde is over there now, and in the past month was to have held a conference in Corea, the seat of th? present trouble, but whether he managed to get there or not, because of the trouble by war. Bishop Bowman had .not heard. "I stayed In China and Japan," said the Bishop, "four or five months. At that time there was no indication of war between the two countries. My personal experience gave me an Insight Into the characters of the two peoples, and the fundamental differences. I am under the impression that China will come out successful. It has many times the population of Japan, and its resources are nearly inexhaustible. This, of course, is upon the presumption that the war will settle the matter, but I really believe it will not. I look for a friendly interference on the part of European countries, and I believe by this means everything will be properly adjusted and peace restored. It is decidedly to the interests of Europe to do this, for it has a large commerce with the Oriental nations; this commerce is being badly injured by the war, and if the war continues It will for the time oeing be ruined. So I believe European nations will take the matter in hand and settle it. The settlement that I look for is that Corea will be given her independence. Heretofore she has been under Chinese rule, and her interests and location are such that a connection longer with the Chinese empire would not be to the Interests of all. COREAN CHARACTERISTICS. "Corea is a peninsula bordering on and north of China proper. Japan lies east of It, and across the sea two or three hundred miles. From thl3 geographical position you would think that Corea's position would easily be Identified with China's, but this is not so. The people living in the middle and in the south of China constitute the marrow of the kingdom, and they are not in sympathy with those of the north. The Mongolians living to the north have for a century proven a menace to the empire by their continual attacks, and these have made a breach between the two peoples of the same race. The Mongolians have settled in the north of the empire, and have become the dominating people there. They are by many odds the most numerous of the inhabitants of Corea. io the breach between the Chinese proper and the Mongolians has resulted in a difference of interests between the north and south of the country, and, Jf it continues, promises in time, if it dofs not now, to break the empire that is too inflexible to be so vast. The differences in the habits and enstoms of the two peoples are not great, but tnir political relations have caused the trouble. The Japanese are as dissimilar to the Mongolians as are the Chinese, but they are friendly to them, because they have never been afforded a reason for being otherwise. Then again, interests of Corea lie as much with Japan as China. While Corea borders China, it is vet many hundreds of miles into the Interior of the empire, and it is much easier to have communication with Japan by sea than tho central part of the empire bv land. So it is not to the interests of Corea nor to the world to have it bound up with the Chinese empire. W.he-n discussing the comparative characters of the Chinese and Japanese Bishop Bowman likened the one to the G?rmans and the other to the French. "The Chinese," he said, "are a very conservative, slow-going people. It is difficult to get them moving, but, once in action, they have a great momentum and are hard to stop. Their civilization has been the result of a gradual growth for centuries, and the few new movements they do adopt are such as they are positively certain will prove advantageous. On the other hand, the Japanese are enthusiastic, and from their nature progressive. They have no veneration for the old, and adopt movements because they are new. They are the people of all the East that are given to experiment. Now in this conflict I look for the Japanese to be successful from the start They have been. But in the end, when the Chinese are fully awakened and bring to bear their enormous forces and momentum I look for the Japanese to be easily defeated. Of course, that Is again on the assumption that the difficulty will be left to the War for termination. Another great advantage that accrues to the Chinese Is that the war promises, in the end, to be fought on their soil, and this will require the transportation of troops across the water by the Japanese." EASTERN CIVILIZATION. "Regardinr, the civilization of the two peoples," continued Bishop Bowman, "I would not say that the Japanese have the advantage. They are more progressive. It is true, but conservatism Is Just as prominent a factor In civilization as progression. The advancement of the two peoples during the last century has been very reat. but I would not say that one had gained more than the other. Japan has kept pace with the Western countries, and one result of this is that the opening of the war finds the country well equipped for it. China, on the other hand, has always lived within its own walls, expecting no serious conflicts, and prepared for none. It Is caught napping, but a few weeks can put it on a good footing, and then Japan's early preparations will not amount to so much." The Bishop tells many interesting stories of his observations while In China. He was at a supper once with a mandarin and a merchant; it was composed of thirty-three courses, and each course had from three to four dishes. He says he tasted everything in every dish, and was pretty well filled when he got through. After the meal the mandarin gave him an envelope, te'.llng him not to open it until he went to i is hotel. When he opened it he found four checks amounting to $10,000. which a letter accomrvanvlnsr them asked to be used for thev building of a mission in th town. Once, when he was riding along a back street, he saw a Chinaman cooking meat for a restaurant. The fellow took a pan of water, washed his hands, face and feet, and then threw the water in to Voil with the meat. He supposed it was because he had no more water, but this was not so; the river ran not more than one hundred feet away, and by a little exertion he could have gotten plenty of water. Bishop Bowman hardly thinks thi3 characteristic of the people, but such occurrences are frequent, and the civilization is at best rather degraded. While in Calna a large hospital was completed, which was built largely with funds furnished by the present Secretary of State, or the official that corresponds to the Secretary of State in this country. Bishop Bowman dedicated the hospital. The wife of the officer had been very 111, and she was at the point of death when an American lady pnyslcian took the case and cured her. The gift was an act of gratitude for this. Opium Smugglers) Cnptnred. ST. CLAIR, Mich., Sept. 7. John Jacobs and John Green, said to be members of a gang of smugglers, with headquarters at Windsor, were arrested at 2:30 o'clock this morning. The prisoners crossed the river in a rowboat with two trunks and about six hundred pounds of opium anJ were nabbed by detectives who had been laying in wait lor them. The opium was obtained In Toronto. The capture is believed to be an important one, as the prisoners are -thought to l? experienced hands in the Importing busings with many big consignments cf poppy Juice to their credit in the past. Frupoaeil Trip Around the World. IVEW YORK. Sept. 7.-D. O. Mills has started for San Francisco, whence he will sail on a voyage around the world. He goes to the Sandwich Island. Japan, China and India, reaching Egypt in January. There he will be Joined by Mr. and Mia. Vt'nitelaw Held, who are to sail tor Glbraltw in November, and after a few weeks in the south of Spain and on the north ctwst of Africa are to make their way to Cairo. The united partv ha chartered u steamer for the Nile anil will go up to the second cataract. On their reurn they will take camels and cross the desert to M.vunt Senai. entering .Palestine

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with tha of the J'd of Galilee and Damascus They will probably reach Paris and Jx:Kon by May and be back In New York by June. CIRCUS ATTACH Hi). Ei-CIiief jlnsiciaii of Forcpanch's Show Sues for SlO.oiM) Damajr?. SPRINGFIELD. 111., Sept. 7. To-day, at Gibson City, United States Marshal Brinton seized Adam Forepat..rh's circus on a -writ of attachment issued by Judge Alln, 6f the United States Circuit Court. In favor of George Courw late chief musician, who filed a pult for JlO.OflO damages In court here for personal injuries received at the hinds of the proprietors of the Fhow, who, he alleges, brutally assaulted him. set a hound on him at Almi. Kin., and disabled him for life. He claimel the circus would leave the State to-night. TARIFF LAW HOLINGSECTIOX ."5 COXSTRIED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASIIIY. Cnftloma Officers Xot Required to Ganjre or Mrnaure Each Article t Appointments by the President. WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.-Secretary Carlisle this afternoon Issued an official circular regarding the marking, etc.. of goods under Section 5 of the new tariff law. In regard to which much 'uncertainty of construction has existed.', After quoting the section In extenso. the Secretary says: "This section differs from Section 6 of the act' of Oct 1. 1SD0 (McKlnley law). In requiring a statement f the quantity of, contents and in withholding delivery of goods until' they shall be duly marked, etc. In order to afford a reasonable iimo for compliance with the above section, it will be enforced, so far as relates to the statement of quantities, only upon merchandise shipped from abroad after Aug. 28, 1894. "The department holds that the Indication of the country of origin, under thia section, need not necessarily be restricted to the declaration ct the name of such count ry, but may accepted under whatever form, provided the goods contain unmistakable evidence of their origin, without misleading marks or signs. "It is further held that the requlremni In respect to 'quantity of contents' applies only to packages and not to separate articles. To Interpret the section otherwisa would Involve the 'measurement of every spool of cotton and the gauging of every bottle of wine. It may be inferred that the purpose of this enactment was the protection of the consumer from loss throuch fraudulent overstatement of the numbers or quantities of articles contained In any Imported package offered for sale. Certain classes of goods are. respectively, put up in packages of recognized and uniform quantities. A mere inspection of suh packages will suffice to determine the fact of their conformity, or nonconformity, as the case may be, with the established practice of the trade. If the former condition, is manifest, no further 'indication of th quantity of contents is needed As. for example, ordinary bags of coffee and barrels of flour have regular sizes and capacities, and do not require explicit statements in order to Indicate the quantity of contents. "It Is the purpose of the department so to construe the section that without on evasion of its provisions unnecessary obstruction and hardshln to Importers m.iv be avoided. "Chief officers of the customs are herebv authorized to decide. Jn accordance with the above Instructions, without reference to the departments, questions arising under the administration of the section abovj specified." The Secretary of the Treasury having received official information that Canada imposes no export duty and no discriminating stumpage dues on lumber, logs, timber and other articles mentlonel in the free lumber schedule of tne new tariff act. has Instructed collectors of customs to admit such articles free of duty when imported from Canada. Cannot Withdraw Illds. , WASHINGTON. Sept 7. The Attorney, general has given an opinion to the Navy Department which Is of great Interest to all persons wno do business with the government by contract The question at issue was whether persons who had subm'tted proposals to the Navy Department In response to public advertisement could legally withdraw them before the date fixed for their opening. This has been allowed before under opinions of previous Attorneygenerals, who have ruled that such proposals might properly be withdrawn nt any time prior to the hour fixed for their opening. The practice, however, has not worked well, as in several instances it was found that the bids withdrawn 'n this way were really more satisfactory than thos that remained. Attorney-general Olney takes issue with his predecesscrs in jthis matter and holds, in effect, that a proposal once submitted to the depaitment In response to a public advertisement is beyond recall, and that the maker is bound by tho terms of his proposal In the event of Its acceptance by the department Appointed ly the President. WASHINGTON, Sept 7.-The Preside V r ca -m n .-1 A 4 Via svl 1Mfl ft fT raAC 01 O TM Wll ntments: Thomas B. Teter, of West Virginia, to be Indian agent at Fort Allegheny, Ida.; Marshall Pettit, of Pennsylvania, to be Indian agent at Kalmath agency. In Oregon; Richard McCloud, register of tho United States land office at Durango, Col.; Col. Thomas B. Edwards, register of the land office at Hugo. Col.; Frank Ewing, receiver of the land office at Hutro, Col.: Col. John Thompson, surveyor-general of Wyoming; Francis E. Rice, receiver of lh land office at Lander, Wvo.; John A. WiU Hams, register of the land office at Lander. Wyo.; Peter Couchman, Indian agent at Cheyenne River agency. In South Dakota. Peter Couchman was heretofore commissioned as agent at Forest River agency, in South Dakota. The name has been changed to Cheyenne River, necessitating a new appointment. Arrests hy PostofTice Inspectors. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Unusual activity among postofiice inspectors has been shown during the past two days. Two Important arrests of violators of the postal laws were reported yesterday and two more were announced in official di!atches to-day. Just before midniht lat night Inspector Moore, of the Philadelphia division, caused the arrest of louls A. Droffner. general delivery and stamp clerk at Willlamsport. Pa., for stealing ordinary mail with valuable contents. Droffner made a full confession and has been held In 12.000. Inspector Cochran caused the arrest of A. L. Naples at Mulberry, Kan., fur violation of the Kreen-goods law. An examination was held at Fort Scott this afternoon. Out of Mcnraguu's Clutches. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Information has been received at the State Department that the two Americans banished from Nicaragua for complicity in the Mosquito rebellion are now in Costa Rica. It is said that these men were well satisfied to accept tha terms of banishment without demanding a trial or asking the protection of the United States minister to remain in Nicaragua. General Xotcs. WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. -Assistant Sec retary Uhl has received a letter from Sec retary Gresham, who was In Chicago when he wrote. Secretary' Gresham Intends to leave In a few days for his farm, where hs will spend a few days. Mr. Uhl expects Secretary Gresham to return to Washington next week. . Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Martha Helm, formerly of Mantle, ti.e wife ot M. A. Helm, were held to-day at lit r late home on Fim street Rev. George; o. Littler, -forme r.'y of Fort Wayne, delivered a touching UiFCourbe. The Interment waa made in tne congresior..il cemetery. Lycurcus Dalton, of Lawrence county, portmafcter of the House of Reprcsi-nti-tlves. was hastily su.7i;r.jr.eti back to Washington by the iilnes of hi young daughter, who has a severe attack of tvpt'oll fever. Mr. Dalton himself has nearly re-cr-veied from his trituat iline?d of last spring. The cah lalane in the treasury to-d.iv wa8 J127,7.'y.4n, of which $'..-.777,257 was gold reserve. Tne Bureau of Immigration to-day forwarded to the several commissioners of Immigration at the various ports of in United States daailci descriptions r.f tweaiy-six Anarchi.:s rccniiy rxpcllel from France and b&ll'veJ to U tu route u the United State.

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