Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1895 — Page 4

THE' INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,' THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1895.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOCKXAL Can be fouml at the following places 2AK1U American Kxchangeiu I'aris, S Boulevard te Oaimrines. . ... KEW YORK Gilsey House. Windsor Hotel and A Ur rionae. yniLAlJEl J'HtA A. P. Keinble, cor. Lancaster ave.aud BHrins at. CHICAGO l'Hlinr House, Anilitorium Hotel ami P. O. News Co., 81 Adams street. CIKCl NNATI J. K. Haw ley Co, 154 Vine St. LOUISVILLef C. T. Peering, northwest corncTot Third and Jefferson ats., auil LouUvtlie Book Co, 80a Fourth ave. ex LOUIS Unto a News Company, Union Depot. WASHING! OX, 1. C Wipgs House. EbliittHousc, Willurd'a Hotel ami 11m Washington News Ex. ehange, 14th Htreet. bet. I'eiiti. ave. and V street. If there Is an extra session of Congress It will be because the Democrats make it necessary. If there Is no association of county officers In the State' that will attempt to'advise the Legislature, It is the best advertised fake in the country. The members of both branches of the Itepubllcan Legislature will look to it that the men selected for secretaries, clerks and custodians of papers have the best reputation for honesty. Congressman Springer is a very elastic statesman, and Is probably equal to the task of Introducing a new currency bill as often as the folly and impracticability of his old one shall be demonstrated. To have Mr. Goff, who has so skillfully laid bare corruption in New York city for the Lexow committee,, take 'a' chief soat in the Criminal Court of thaf city for a long term will not delight the lawbreakers. . J., , All ' the ' stories to the effect that the JCepubltcans In the House will not assist the Democrats to pass a soused-currency bill may be pronounced false." The trouble is that the Democrats, or any. considerable part of them, cannot agree to support such a bill themselves. A long period will intervene between the present time and the next election' time enough for the party committees In counties to get together and agree upon a policy which will result In making campaigns less expensive to candl-, dilates.. The committees of both parties are convinced that , much' money is v-asted, going Into the pockets of those who can render not services if they WOUld. t ; ..to. - f . -:.!, i .. .... . If less than two hundred of 4,765 pen sion cases specially selected because of a suspicion of fraud were really found to be fraudulent, tnd 118 of these were found to be the frauds -of notaries, attorneys, witnesses, impersonators and impostors, it stands to reason that the charge of Mr. Cleveland that "thousands of neighborhoods have their well-known- . fraudulent -pensioners'! i is not sustained. The 'person who has written Senator , Voorhees assuring him that seven-tenths of the people of Indiana are in favor of the free coinage of silver on the ratio of 16 to 1, for the advantage of the silver-mine millionaires, was quite confident of his election on the Marion county Populist ticket on Nov. 6. When the votes were counted that ticket had less than 1,500 In a total of over forty thousand votes. 1 , , - . A compilation of, murder statistics shows that in 1893 there were 6,615 murders committed in the United States, while in 1894 there were 9,800. The aggregate and the increase are ' both appalling, but a still more startling fact is that during the year 1894 only 132 per- , sons were hanged in. the United States. The figures indicate an alarming increase of crime and point to the lax administration of law as a proline cause. A well-known Washington correspondent , says " that no private citizen was . ever Intrusted with a "more delicate and Important mission than that which takes ex-Secretary Foster to Asia, as the future not only of China and Japan, but of all European Interests, will depend largely uron the terms of peace he.can secure. The correspondent adds that it is un honor which has never before been conferred by ; one nation upon a citizen of another. ; The oolltlcal situation in Tennessee is complicated. Evans, Republican, is elected by seven hundred votes on the face of the returns, and the Constitution requires the presiding officer of a joint convention of the Legislature to declare that fact. The Legislature, which is Democratic by a small majority, will be asked by Governor Turney's friends to declare the office vacant until the election can be investigated, Turney hold-, ing on. Evans and his friends hold that' Turney must take action to oust him, if at all, by legislative investigation. Evans wilK his friends claim, be sworn in and proceed to act as Governor, Ignoring the action of the Legislature. There may be two Governors, and the United States Court may be called upon to settle the matter. Some of the Democratic leaders, who are all in Congress, are averse to the programme, of Turney and his supporters. No more disreputable story has been told in regard to the duplicity of the recording officer of any legislative body than that which comes from Democratic sources regarding the clerk who had charge of the fee and salary bill pending its passage. That such an official should lock up such a document in a desk and disappear to prevent its passage is about as flagrant an outrage as a man holding his responsible position could commit. That it was secured by breaking ooen the desk and passed was' a victory over the lobby. That the, bill was afterward tampered with indicates that the clerks from top to bottom were

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the tools of the lobby rather than the officers and servants of the General Assembly of Indiana. Instead of rendering the service to ' the Legislature for which they .were liberally paid, they turned traitors-to the Legislature and the State. And yet some of the "same mea were honored by the succeeding gerrymander Legislature.

POLITICAL HUMBUGS. : As illustrative of the reckless and vindictive mendacity of the Pcpulist leaders in- this State, as elsewhere, is the charge made by some members of its committee in connection with their demand for the right to have watchers at the polls, that the two old parties "divided the Populist vote between them." There may be a few hundred, possibly a few thousand people in Indiana who are so ignorant as to believe that the seven officers in each of the 3,063 precincts in Indiana or in any number of them would or "could openly agree to divide the votes cst for the Populist candidates between the two parties which they represent, but it seems incredible. In order to do so, one must believe that all of the 21,441 citizens of Indiana selected to superintend the Voting and to count and return the votes are willing to make themselves perjurers. That is too much. Indeed, it is much more reasonable to believe that more than twenty thousand of .these officers would utterly refuse to commit such a barefaced crime, and that in not over sixty-three of the 3,063 precincts coujd seven men be found who would agree to divide a small vote equally between the parties to which they belonged. . A large part of them might be sharp in their decisions affecting the legality of certain ballots because of the stamping, but men in Indiana are a long way from that general corruption which would be necessary to Insure a combination to divide the Populist vote between the two parties. Any extended plan would involve an agreement between the State chairmen, and through this the county chairmen and members of every county committee. Such an , assumption would be preposterous to any man whose intellect is not unbalanced. , . - ; . The Populist leaders, moreover, make this charge in the face of the fact that the " Republicans fiercely resisted the change in the law by the Legislature of 1891, by which Watchers for all parties were excluded from the polls, and in the last Legislature were persistent in their eorts to have the law so changed that representatives ; of each party may be present during the -counting of votes, making1 a' protracted fight in the Senate, which occupied a good part of three sessions. All that goes for nothing with these conscienceless demagogues, who are not even honest In their advocacy of the free coinage of silver because they are the remnant of the old Greenback party,' which left the other parties, for the most part, because they were not given offices. The money they believe in is paper-mill money in vast issues, never to be redeemed. Two States" have tried Populism Kansas and CoIofado--and in them members of their own party-have proclaimed thaf their t inefficiency and rascality . have been withoutva parallel In the history of the States. In Kansas, so many of the Populist reformers out of office turned thieves Jt office that they, fought each other in the public institutions for plunder. ; In both States the people sent the Waite and Lewelling administrations to the rear, and with them all of the political humbugs of the Jerry Simpson variety, except one. In view of these experiences, intelligent people will view with disgust the reform pretensions of the same sort of political humbugs in Indiana. . AN IIVTEXAULE POSITION. The controversy "between the Governor of Kentucky and an Ohio Judge, relative to the extradition of a colored man charged with crime, presents an entirely new question. The facts, briefly stated, are as follows:- A few days ago a deputy sheriff from Kentucky arrested, near Cincinnati, on a warrant issued by Governor McKinley upon a requisition from Governor Brown, of Kentucky, a colored man named Hampton, who was under indictment for a crime committed in Kentucky. Hampton refused, to accompany the officer. He said he was willing to go back if he could be assured a fair trial, but he had reason to believe he would be lynched. When the case came before Judge Buchwalter, of Cincinnati, he declined to order Hampton's surrender without an assurance from the Governor of Kentucky that he would be: protected against mob violence. The Judge said: I, have sent two colored men back lately, one to Georgia and one to Kentucky. Although the wftense of the latter a peddler, was only shooting at somebody, he was taken by a mob out . of the Burlington Jail and hung to a tree. I determined then 1 would never send another prisoner South unless I had assurance he would be protected from a mob and giverr a fair- trial. 1 must have a letter from Governor Brown and the sheriff of your county to ..at effect. 'As the Judge was firm in his position the deputy sheriff returned to Kentucky to try and get the necessary guaranty from the ,' Governor. In this, however, he is not likely to succeed, as Governor Brown's statement published in the Journal yesterday indicates very clearly that he will not comply with Judge Buchwalter's conditions. Eliminating from his statement the portions which do not bear directly on the point at issue, he said: 1 Judge Buchwalter's condition for returning Hampton, that the Governor of Kentucky and the sheriff shall first give a written guarantee that he will be protected - from mob violence, if true aa reported, contravenes the Constitution of the United States, which requires the States to surrender fugitives from justice. It assumes authority not thought of by Governor McKinley and annuls Governor McKinley's warrant as well aa violates federal law. The logic of such a decision, if made rule! would be to make Kentucky fugitives from justice an asylum in Ohio. The Journal is of opinion that the Governor is entirely right in his view of the case. The Constitution of the United States says that "a person . charged in any State with crime who shall flee from Justice and be found In another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the crime.''- The extradition laws of the different States make It the duty of the Governor of a State In which a fugitive from Justice is found to honor the requisition in due form of the Governor of the State from which the person has fled and to issue a warrant for the person's arrest. He is then , taken before the Judge of a Criminal Court, who. by the examination of witnesses, shall ascertain if the person arrested be the fugitive demanded . and mentioned in the Governor's warrant, and If satisfied o

his identity he shall order him to be delivered up to the officer who is demanding his rendition, unless it shall appear in evidence that the person is wanted for some crime committed in the State where he is found. With this exception the only question for the judge to determine is that of, the identity of the person arrested with the person named in the Governor's warrant. That done, he cannot refuse to order the person to be delivered up to the officer who is demanding him. The Judge has no right to affix any conditions to the order of sArrender. Even the Governor cannot do that. The only ground on which the Governor of one State can refuse to issue a warrant for the arrest' of a fugitive from justice on the requisition of the Governor of t another State is that the alleged fugitive is held to answer for some crime committed in the State where he is found. Unless this cause for refusal , exist the Governor must issue his warrant for the person's arrest, and it must be unconditional. -If the Governor cannot issue a conditional warrant of arrest much less can a judge affix a condition to his order of surrender. If this could be done one judge might name one condition, and another judge another condition, and the extradition laws of the States would be paralyzed. If an Ohio judge could require a guaranty that a prisoner would not be lynched, an Indiana judge might require a condition that he should not be confined in an unhealthy jail, and an Illinois judge that he should not be deprived of tobacco. The Constitution of the United State3 does not contemplate any such frivolous Interference with the surrender of fugitives from justice. ' , It is. of course, the duty of the Governor of Kentucky to see that all persons in that State are protected, from mob violence, and that all persons charged with crime have a" fair trial, but it is no part of the duty of the Governor or of a judge in another State to dictate to him in the matter. Judge Buchwalter's position is not tenable, and he will soon find that he has made a mistake. -

A POLICY OV DISASTER. On New Year's day Mr. Nelson Morris, of Chicago, the largest exporter of cattle and beef in the United States, received a cablegram from his agent In Antwerp, stating that the Belgian government had prohibited the importation of live cattle, on the alleged ground that pleuropneumonia is prevalent in this country.( This closes all the ports of continental Europe to American cattle and beef products, Austria, Germany, France ' and , other European countries having already taken similar action. The reason given for this action is a mere, pretext. The authorities of European governments have abundant means of securing correct information and they must know perfectly well that pleuro-pneumonia s not prevalent in this country, and that no danger could arise from the importation of American cattle and beef. The real cause of the act is resentment on account of our new sugar tariff. In other words, it is a direct result of the Wilson bill. Mr. Morris, who. by the way, is a Democrat, is reported as saying: . The Belgians base their action on the danger of pleuro-pneumonia infection. This, I am satisfied, is only an excuse. Cattlemen know there is no pleuro-pneumonia to speak of in this country. Belgium is merely following the lead of Austria, Germany, Fran?, and other European nations. In taking retaliatory measures against the United States for th abolition of the reciprocity treaty under which their sugar industry had prospered. Where It will end I don't know. But, for the time being, it has killed the export of cattle. I had a steamer load of beeves all ready to sail from New York to-day for Antwerp, but the receipt of this cablegram compelled me to wire the captain to wait for orders. , .. In reply to a suggestion 'that Secretary Morton had said that the shutting out of American cattle and beef was the work of the Agrarian party, Mr. Morris saii: "Mr. Morton is a free trader and a politician and naturally wants to make the best showing possible for his party. The fact is, these foreign countries we have been talking about don't like our new sugar tar.ff and are making us understand it by hitting our cattle industry. Mr. Morton also says our exports of live stock and live stock products 4o Germany have not amounted to much since 1890. All 1 will say in this connection is that American exports of cattle and dressed beef alone aggregate $100,000,000 a year, and England has not been our best market, either. In this total of $100,000,000 I have made no allowance for packed or pickled goods, hog product or mutton. What the amount of our trade with these Items included would be I am not prepared to say, but it would be something enormous. Thus the disastrous results of the repeal of the reciprocity treaties and the ill-advised duty on sugar are accumulating. Mr. Morris estimates the value of the American cattle and dressed beef trade at $100,000,000 a year. Our foreign trade in hog products was as much more and our Cuban and Brazilian flour trade was very large and rapidly increasing. Two years of Democratic blundering have ruined this trade, and the end is not yet. THE DECLINE IN RAILROAD RATES. From time to time statisticians have presented figures showing the gradual decline in the rates of transportation charged by railroads, and while they prove conclusively that in no branch of industry has the fall in prices been more marked, they do not so clearly put the fact before the eyes of the average man; as the records kept by the railway, reporter of the Journal since the close of the war. These records show that the cost of transporting a car of live stock from Indianapolis to New York in 1865 was $150; in 1870 it was $100; in 1875, $85. It stood at that figure until the interstate-commerce law went into effect, when rates were based upon tonnage rather than car. wrhich makes the present cost for transporting an ordinary car of live stock from this city to New York $52. This is a decline of 651-3 per cent.; but percentages do not so clearly set forth the decline as the bare fact that it costs but a fraction more to ship three cars of live stock to New York now than it did one in 1S65. When the quality Of the service is considered the comparison is all in favor of the present time. During the last year for which there are statistics the average freight charge in the United States per ton per mile was 97-100 of one cent. The Prussian is the lowest freight rate in Europe, and that is 1.32 cents per ton per mile. This is where the government operates the. railroads. Railroad experts who have carefully computed the results of the wide differences In rates have found that If American roads had received, in 1892, the lowest rates paid in European countries, their net , earnings would have been $370,000,000 larger than they were, which means that the net earnings In 1892 would have been $72S,638.520, instead of $358,638,520. These facts should be considered carer'fully by those who have been led bye

falsehoods of hungry, demagogues to believe that the railroads are great monopolies, out "of which a few men become millionaires from their earnings. The fact that the entire net .earnings of the roads in 1892. the last year on record, were considerably, !es than 1 per cent, on the stock, and that two-thirds of the stock received no dividend, , refutes the vaporfhgs of such agitators. They should also .convince, those- well-meaning people who are urging the theory of government ownership and management for the reason that in countries where all the conditions are, most favorable for cheap transportation and government operation, the rates are more than 35 per cent, higher than v in the United States. , t : The .present sharp competition between through lines from the East to the West has forced rates to so low a figure that they cause, in many cases, discriminations against those In the interior who make the same goods as are imported, but the passage of a carefully guarded pooling law "will have a tendency to do away with that injustice and otherwise be .advantageous to local traffic.- - r. ; ,- i

If the New York Legislature passes, as it is expected to, what is called the power of - removal bill, , and a bill abolishing the ponce justices and authorizing the " appointment of magistrates instead, -it -will place an immense patronage in Mayor Strong's hands. The employes of the city number more than seventeen thousand and Its pay roll amounts to about $1,000,000 per month. At present, the Mayor's patronage amounts to ?tJ5,200 a year, but if the laws above referred to are passed, they will give him the direct appointment to. offices whose salaries aggregate $1,737,000 a year. Among these are the city chamberlain, $20,000 a year; corporation counsel, $12,000;' four police commissioners, $5,000 each; three fire commissioners, three ' commissioners of charities and corrections, two health commissioners, three dock commissioners and three tax commissioners, each $5,000 a year; nine city magistrates, $8,000 each; five justices of general . sessions, $10,000 each, and so on. These departments employ in the aggregate several thousand clerks. Other departments that are expected to be reorganized are. the public administrator's office," with a pay roll of $12,200; the Board of Excise, with a pay, roll of $137,800; the park department, with an office staff paid $17,900; the department, of docks, with an office force receiving $17,300; the Board of Assessors, with a pay roll of $14,800; the Board of Education, with a pay roll for clerks and superintendents of $77,764, and the aqueduct commission, with a pay roll for clerks and engineers of $117,000. Bearing in mind that the city employes number more than seventeen" thousand, it will be seen that the work .''of ; reorganizing the government will be an, enormous one and the Mayor's responsibility very great. ' The" Hon. Harnlltoh Fish, Republican nominee for Speaker of. the New York Assembly, Is a son of the deceased statesman of that name, apd as , private secretary to his father when the latter was Secretary of State tnder President Grant. BUBBLES IN.: THE AIR. So He 31lsrht. "Going to the masquerade?" J'No. Got no costume." "In that case, I would advise you to go as Li Hung Chang.";' ; - II ruin Strain. "What has become .pf. Chollie? I haven't" seen him for nearly iweek," : "The poor boy is "laid up with' brain strain. He undertot1 devise af plan whereby fox huntingt.pould be carried on indoors." iHe Understood. . "How long Is it golnfjto take them fellers to toon up?" axioqsly sked Uncle Josh. "They are" not tuhing.'V explained his niece. "They are playing Wagner. Haven't you ever heard of the music of the future?' "Oh, I aee now. They air aimln' to represent the weepln' ' an" ' waUIn' ahd gnashin of teeth." V u,";,t7' V;,. The Western View. . "It is horrible, the way you have treated the red man," said the Eastern lady. "Why don't you make some attempt to civilize him?" ;. "'Tain't no use,", responded, the gentleman from Kansas. "Ain't much' use in tryin' to civilize a critter that can't raise a beard." r And then he had td'"pjt"in fifteen minutes making it clear that' white members of the sex feminine were not included in his sweeping condemnation; THE IXDIANA PRESS. The Republican . editors of Indiana are preparing to attack the incoming Legislature with a trong plea to change the libel law now upon the statute books. They believe that any one who will bring a libel suit against a newspaper should be required by statute to give a cost oond to insure a standing in court. This would be an Improvement upon the present system and should be adopted. Anderson Bulletin. Th3 agent of the Standard Oil Company at Portland has sent out another of his periodical "failure-of-natural-gas" articles. Mr. Jordan, natural! gas inspector for Indiana, has made' another trip to the natural gas belt and repeats himself about the decresed force. At the same tim the Standard Oil Company has invested $6,000,000 in natural gas plants in the Indiana field within the past three months and are negotiating for more. Muncie Times. Adjutant-general Bobbins, . of our State militia, is a poorly-paid official considering the work he has to do and Its responsibilities. Under his excellent management our State soldiery has been lifted to a condition of efficiency that it never attained before. He- Is clearly the right man in the right piaca. It is constantly improving as we know by our New Albany company, and is now capable of serving the State in an effective manner. New Albany Tribune. So many things have been suggested for the Legislature to do during its short session of sixty days that many of them cannot be reached and few done according to demand. But whatever Is done or not done, the members will make no mistake in practicing the most rigid economy, nor when in doubt in. deciding on that side. This is no time -to incerase appropriations or to put on foot costly" new enterprises to be paid for out of the public treasury. Rushville Republican. ? The subjects of speakers at the Jackson day banquet, Indianapolis, have been announced. "The Future Mission of the Democratic (Party What Shall We do to ba Saved?" is the one assigned to Robert C. Bell, of Fort Wayne. He might well say that the party had but one mission, that is to hold office according to the Jackson Idea, for what benefits may accrue from a pecuniary point of vlaw. As to the last clause of the subject, there is nothing at hand in written or unwritten law to throw any light on the query. The Democratic party has the appearance of being past redemption. South Bend Tribune. The discussion of State educational institutions, now so general throughout Indiana, suggests the fact that the crying educational need in this State at present is not so much for more or larger Institutions of higher learning, as for good academies which will confess the name. We have some very fair preparatory schools in this State 'Which have assumed" mors ambitious but less truthful titles. - There are less academies in Indiana than universities. What the State needs more than a Chicago or Michigan university is a Phillips Exeter or a Glenns Falls. Those who have charge of our college entrance examinations will enthusiastically testify to this fact. It will bey impossible to raise the standard of our institutions of higher learning, which is a more important consummation than the swelling of their lists of matrlcjuates. until several first-class acade

mies send better equipped students to enter the freshman classes of our colleges and universities. Terre Haute Tribuns.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Professor Hadley. of Yale, is charged with being a Malthusian, because he commends 'the prudent man who works hard, invests wisely and does not marry until he knows he can support a family. M. Rouvler, the ex-Premier of France, began his career as a clerk in the counting room of a Marseilles merchant, a Greek named Zaafiropoulo. This merchant died recently, an old man and a millionaire, and out of his fortune he left M. Rouvler $10,000 "as a token of esteem." Elihu Vedder, the artist who is visiting in New York, will run down to Florida before sailing for Italy. Mr. Vedder is said to be a charming conversationalist. His face is ruddy and hair snowy. He and his family refer to the RubaiyUt of Omer Khayyam, which he illustrated, as O. K. M. Naundorff, who as Louis de Bourbon is claimant for the throne of France, advertises in a Paris paper for "a situation of any kind," and alleges as his fitness for a position that he speaks .French, Dutch, English, German and Italian, -and has had a military experience in Holland and in Africa. Henri Houssaye, the new member of the French Academy, wrote his first book when, he was nineteen. He is a distinguished Hellenist, His father, Arsene Houssaye, wrote a satire on the "Forty Immortals," which was entitled the "Forty-first Seat," and enumerated those who deserved a place in the academy but never got it. Berlin has now its ladies' club, founded under the patronage of Empress Frederick and named for her "The Victoria." It possesses a fine library, a. grand piano and comfortably-furnished rooms, but no cuisine, meals, however, being supplied from a restaurant next door. Early closing is the rule, lights being turned out at 10 p. m. "H." writes to the London Times as follows, in connection with the death of R. L. Stevenson: "Seven years ago I lay ill in San Francisco, an obscure journalist, quite friendless. Stevenson, who knew me slisr'ntly, came to my bedside and said, M suppose you are like all of us; you don't keep your money. Now, if a little loan, as between one man of letters and another eh?' This to a lad writing rubbish for a vulgar sheet in Oaiifornla." In Vienna a man died recently who had his heart on the right side, and almost all his internal organs, milt, liver and intestines, were found to be opposite to their usual places. Deceased never felt an Inconvenience from this derangement. He learned of it accidentally several years ago and offered to sell his body to the British Museum for the immediate payment of a good round sum. but the offer was declined. The cause of death was consumption.- - This season's crazes in Europe have been collected by an Italian editor. In England It is clay modeling, the chief victims being Mr. Gladstone and Sir William Harcourt; in Paris it is riddles, in Italy and southern France It is jumping beans, painted to represent prominent persons; they jump best on hot plates. In Belgium they have slow smoking races; the pipes are. filled with half an ounce of tobacco each, and the winner Is he who can hold out longest without relighting. The record so far is sixty-seven minutes. When lovely woman leaves the trolley Before the trolley stops. Lovely woman stoops to folly And lovely woman flops. Philadelphia . Inquirer. JUG TIM B KB DEAL. Americans Secure SOO.OOO Acres of Valuable Forest In Novn Scajtu. NEW YORK. Jan. 2.-The Brooklyn Eagle -says.: One of the largest lumber deals on record has just been completed. It includes the purchase of 860,000 acres of Nova Scotia timber lands, together with sixteen lumber mills, all in operation, and with established markets in England. The syndicate which is back of this Is composed of unusually strong men in the financial . world. Tney include Charles R, Flint and II. B. Holllns, of New York; Chafile L. James, of James & Abbott, of Boston ; W. A. Boland, of Boston; W, A. Taft, head of the . export lumber company, Boston, and Louis A. Hall, one of the leading lumber men of Michigan. The company is to be known as the Domin--Ion Lumber Company, limited, and is organized under the laws of the province of Nova Scotia. Its capitalization is several millions of dollars, but accurate information on that point cannot, be atcerta-ined, as those interested are noncommittal. For the last two years the syndicate nas been negotiating with Benjamin F. i-'ears-on, of Halifax, who had secured options on the property. The company has had "cruisers" on the land for months under the direction of Mr. Hall and George A. Crawford, counting trees and making estimates or the productiveness of the property. When the new tariff bill, which provides for free lumber where there formerly had been a $2 duty on it, went into effect, the negotiations were pressed, more vigorously and can now be said to be completed. The principal kinds of trees which will be cut are spruce, pine, hemlock, beech, maple and birch, and in all the 860,000 acres it is said there is scarecly one which is unproductive. There are many rivers running through the lands. Along these rivers 340 miles of water front !s secured. The title to the property, which is in fee simple, is by grant traceable to toe crown and is free from all incumbrances. Agencies will be continued by the company in England and new ones will be opened in the United States and In France and North America. SELFT-GOVERNlNfcr COM JIUNITIES. Decision That Fixes the Status of Indian Territtwry Natives. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2. In the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Judges Caldwell and Thayer on the bench, an interesting decision was rendered to-day as to the liability of an Indian tribe to be sued aa a nation. It was the case of George S. ; Thebes, who sued the Choctaw tribe for $110,349 for professional services rendered the nation in lobbying In Washington. The defendants demurred to the complaint on J the ground that the federal court in the Ind.an Territory had no jurisdiction of the persons of the oe.endants, or of the subject-matter of the action. That court sustain. d u.e cemurier and this court atiirrru the judgment. The decsion, which i by Judge Caldwell, discuss. a tne status of the seve al nat.cns and fays that it saems to have been tr.e policy of Congress to regard them as s.lf-goveinin? commun t.es. i hay are not sovereign States, but so far as regards suits brought against them, the policy m to place tnem on the plane of Independent States. A State without Its consent cannot be sued by an Individual. Congress might have allowed the nations to be sued, but it has never done so. THE FAIR MILLIONS. Plan to Contest tlie Will Crank Wait. Idk for Miss Virginia. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. Charles Fair's legal advisers propose a plan by which he can contest his father's will and not jeodardlze his Interests by running afoul of the forfeiture clause. The scheme is for Mrs. Oelrichs and Miss Fair to guarantee that if Charles Joses the suit and forfeits his share they shall equally share with him in the remaining two-thirds of the trust revenue. It is thought Mrs. Oelrichs will not like the Idea of leaving the management of the estate to the trustees.. A crank has been haunting the Palace Hotel day and night, waiting for Miss Virginia Fair to arrive. He is poorly clad and about thirty-five years old. He says he has important business with Miss Fair, but declines to discuss its nature. "llonaiua" Walker Dying-. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 2. Jonas Walker, who made in the mines millions, which he subsequently lost In Eastern speculations, is dying. He was identified in Nevada mlntng enterprises with Fair, Flood, Mackay and O'Brien. He built a marble palace in Philadelphia and entertained there lavishly for a time. He is now poor. . Perilous Trio Proposed. ' YUMA. A. T., Jan. 2. Capt, J. A. Mellon is having two boats built in San Francisco, which he will take bv rail to Green river. Wyo., in April, and, assisted by five river-men, will descend the Colorado river to Yuma and the gulf. Captain Mellon has been running steamers on the river thirty-two years and intends to make his trip of three thousand miles in aevenjeen days. Col. Robert Stanton and Mair Pawi ell and their parties are the only omH , who have made the dangerous trip through I' the rapids, , ......

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THEIR OWNERS OWN OVER-OO PER CENT. OF THE COUNTRY'S WEALTH. Statistics Prepared by the Census Ofllce Seeds for Nebraska Drought Sufferers Capital Notes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. The Census Office made public to-day a report showing that the owners of farm3 and homes, regarded as substantially the land owners of the United States, own more than" 90 per cent, of the wealth of the country. Of the white owners and tenant heads more than 51 per cent, are owners; of the negroes more than 17 per cent.; of mixed white and negro parentage, 25 per 'cent.; of Indians, 65, and of the Chinese and Japanese, 14. The white owners of farms and homes that are free of mortgage form 71 per cent, of all white owners; of the negroes, S9; of those of mixed parentage, 87; of the Indians, 96, and of the Chinese and Japanese, 97 per cent. The percentages . of ownership are slightly higher for women than for men, and free ownership is also higher among women, except with the Indians and Chinese and Japanese. The results for farm proprietors show that 72 per cent, of the whites are owners, 21 of the negroes, 29 of mixed blood, 79 of the Indians, and oyer 10 per cent, of the Chinese and Japanese, while for homes 39 per cent. of the whites are owners, more than 15 of the negroes, 23 of those of mixed blood, 53 of the Indians and 14 of the Chinese and Japanese. The white farm owners who are free of mortgage are 71 per cent, of all white owners; negroes, 90; of those of mixed parentage, .89; Indiana, 95, and Chinese and Japanese, 87. The corresponding figures for homes are nearly the same. In the fifty-eight cities of fifty thousand population and over almost 25 per cent, of the white proprietors are owners and not quite 9 per cent, of the . negroes. For farms and homes 53 per cent, of the native proprietors are owners; from Austria-Hungary, 41 per cent.; from Canadj and Newfoundland (English), 47; from Canada and Newfoundland (French), 31; Vaks and England. 46; France, 47; Germany, i2; Ireland, 44; Italy, 15; Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 61; Russia and Poland, 31; Scotland, 45, and from all other countries over 47 per cent. The native farm proprietors are exceeded in ownership by the natives of all of these countries, except. Italy, whose percentage for native owners is 69, and for the Italians 68; and the highest percentage is 87 for the Irish. Ownership is more prevalent among native than .among foreign-born proprietors in the case of homes than it is among- farm proprietors. Of the native 'pro prietors of homes, 41 per i-ent. are owners aim tae low est perLt-iiise i eii ci-emmi, me ownership of homes for place of birth is 12 for the Italians. The ownership of homes in the eight principal cities is nearly as great among the foreign-born as among the natives. Among the native home proprietors in these cities 23. per cent, are owners. Tne highest percentage being 32 for the Germans and the lowest 6 for the Italians. The results of the inquiry as to nativity of parent? of the white native farm and home proprietors shows that for farms and homes 55 per cent, of the proprietors who have both parents native born, are owners, and 4S per cent, of those who have one or both parents native born. The percentages for farm owners having both parents native born is 69, and in the case of homes 42 per cent. The total for both sexes and for farms and homes show that of the proprietors under twenty-five years of age 20 per cent, art owners: from twenty-five to twentynine years, 28 per cent.; from thirty to thirty-four years, 37; from thirty-five to thirtynine years, 42; forty to forty-four years, 49; forty-tlve to forty-nine years 53; fifty to fifty-four years, 57; fifty-five to fiftynine years, C3; sixty years and over, 63 per cent. Percentages are generally somewhat higher for women than for men. Farm ownership is more prevalent at, all ages than home ownership. Almost 35 per cent., of farm proprietors under twenty-five years of age are owners and the percentage increases with age up to 83 per c-enu for owners of sixty years and over. Among home proprietors of less than twenty-live years of age, 13 per cent, are owners, and the percentage Increases without interruption to 58 per cent, for owners of sixty years and over. Ownership is more prevalent among women who are farm and home owners and homes of tenant families' than among men, the ownership of the women being represented by 57 per cent, and the men 46. The women exceed the men also In the fiftyeight principal cities, where of the male home proprietors 23 per cent, are owners ami of the female 31 per cent. One reason for the difference between the figures for the two sexes Is the custom that makes the husband instead of the wife the head of the family. The ownership of farms and homes is divided between the two sexes in the proportion of 81 per cent, to the males and 17 to the females. Slightly more than one quarter of the 2,928,671 owned homes of the United States are owned bv women and about one-tenth of 3,142.746 owned farms. DROUGHT SUFFERERS. ' Seerelury Morton Will Furnish Seeds to Nebraska Farmers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Secretary Morton and Chief Clerk Maccualg, of the Agricultural Department, both of whom are Nebraska men, do not believe that the distress in their own and adjoining States amounts to a famine, although they recqgnize that there Is much suffering in that section on account of short crops. Secretary Morton is a pronounced opponent of any exercise of paternalistic functlou by the government, but he is doing all that he can, consistently, through the department, to relieve tho want existing in t4ie West. In a recent letter on the subject. Chief Clerk Maccuaig says: "The department Is in receipt of several communications from representative people In the West and also In the East asking aid from this department to the seeding of the Western farms In the spring. In all cases the writers were Informed that the department would be glad to nend garden seeds, such as it has for distribution, to alL applicants from drought-stricken districts, to help them at least do a little gardening in the spring, and the Secretary has kindly ordered his whole quota of seed to be solely devoted to the Western sufferers if lists of names and addresses are sent to the department. The quantity sent to each person must, necessarily, be small, but the aggregate, amounting to over two million papers of Meeds, judiciously distributed, ought to be of some assistance next summer. This does not, however, help them througn the winter months, and I have no doubt that the philanthropist will find a fruitful field for charitable acts In this afflicted portion of our common country." . SO OVERTIME. -4Instructions to Poxtmasters at AH Delivery Ofllce. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Strict instructions to postmasters at all delivery offices to prevent further overtime claims of letter carriers were . Issued to-day by Assistant Postmaster-general Jones. Superintendonts of stations, superintendents of carriers, carriers and all clerks who record carriers' time are threatened with removal for failure to tnproughlyacqualnt themselves with the new rules within a month. The rulss prohibit carriers from reporting prior to schedule time and from remaining at desks or in the working room during any interval or "swing" between the trips or at dinner intervals and remaining after reporting from the last trip o the day. Carriers are required to record the exact time consumed daily, but all service rendered must be recorded and the practice of filling out the entire report at the close of the day is to be discontinued. Any attemot to conceal the fact that overtime Is being made A-ill result In the- removal of the offender, regardless of rank. Attempts to expand the actual working time by carriers on routes requiring less than eight hours a day is prohibited. Men detailed exclusively in collections will not be allowed to enter the work room of the office, except to deposit their collections. The performance of clerical work by carriers Is also absolutely prohibited. - - Trying to Save a Murderer's Neck. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Lawyer Semple Is running a race with death for the life j of his client, the condemned murderer. "Dorle" Lambert, whose excutlon Is set for to-morrow at Camden, N. J. He arrived here early to-day and called on Justice Shlras, of the Supreme Court, whose circuit extends over New Jersey. Mr. Semple contends that l.ambert, who was sentenced to hang on Dec. 1, and reprieved by the Governor until Jan. 3, is legally dead antly cannot now be executed, or. In other words, that the reprieve operates us a pardon, t Judy tfhlrss refused jo take any aion

in the matter at its present stage and referred Mr. Semple to Judge Dallas, of Philadelphia, judge of the third Judicial court. If Pudge Dallas should refuse to act then the case can be referred to the kiuprcme Court on a writ of error. Meanwhile time Is running away rapidlv and Lambert may be executed before Mr. Semple tan lind Judge Dallas. Uncle Sam's Ilntldlng; at Atlanta. , WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Proposals were to-day opened in the" office of the supervising architect of the treasury for the labor and material required for the erection and completion of the government building for the cotton States and international exposition at Atlanta, Ga, Tha government . building is to be situated at the northern end of the group of mali buiidings, fifty feet above and overlooking the central plaza, around which thev ar to be arranged. The building generally ia to be 181 feet by i6l feet in size with central ins on four sides, each sixty-one feet nd projecting ten feet from the gen ,ne or the building, making tha exti dimensions Sol by 281 feet. The bullw ig is to be constructed of wood frarn- . ing, sheathed outside and covered with clapboards and shingles. The entire wood woilc exposed In the interior Is to be dressed. I'atents Granted Indlanians. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Patents hav

iuuiaun. jinam j. &BLitey, xuvansviue, means for and method of filtering oil; Charles M. Collins, South Bend, means for recording pressure of water; James M. Greer, Plymouth, churn; Charles Hassenmiller, New Albany, horseshoe;" Michael E. ' Howard, Indianapolis, can capping machine; Horatio Hunt. Swltz City, common school writing cabinet; George E. Knaub, Vincennes. combined door and frame for grain cars; Arthur Plerson, Danville, corn planter: James J. Wcod, Fort Wayne, constant current -dynamo; Andrew Vount, Indianapolis, .pressure regulator for' gasburning stoves, etc.; Ferdinand O. Cross, Bedford, building block. , Needs of Indianapolis to He Ignored. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. There is no hope) for a new public building at Indianapolis) at this session of Congress. Representative Bankhead, of Alabama, chairman of the commltee on public buildings and grounds, announces that so determined is the opposition of Chairman Sayres. of tha appropriations committee, to any expenditureof money except for the necessary expenses of the government that the publia buildings commltee Will not even make an effort to obtain a special day for consideration of the bills on which it has mads a favorable report. Similar announcements may be expected before long from other chairmen of committees whose billa call for appropriations, such as private 1 claims, war claims, revolutionary claims, etc. f'Alll tklfl I II AM arat V II rn ' I ! nark aW asa WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Secretary Carlisle to-morrow will give a hearing to" a committee of the Sugar Importers' Association of New York on several customs ' questions afTecting their Interests. One of the questions to be argued will b that of determining the value of imported Kiigars. " The present law fixes an ad valorem rate and in no case is the Value of the sugar to be rated lower than the Invoice price, it : will be contended that In many cases ' the Invoice price is higher than the polariscop test would warrant. The committee will.' ask that some uniform method of determining value be adopted. Among the importers who will be present are George Mosle, . chairman, and John Farr, secretary of the committee. , I, Kew Money Order Offices. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. International money order postofflces will be established " in Indiana on Jan. 7 as follows: Clinton,. Vermillion county; Winamac, Pulaski county. Dotnestlc money order cilices: Nelmer, Steuben county; Ingalls, Madlwn county; Toto, Stark county; Vera Cruz, Wells county. Limited money order offices: Brewersville, Jennings county; Eden, Hancxk county; Fletcher, Fulton countv: Marysville, Clark county; Oik, Pulaski county; Paradise, Warrick county; Radner, Carroll county; Twelve Mile. Cass county. Love and Life." WASHINGTON, Jan.' 2. The question of the disposition of Watts's famous painting "Love and Life" has been settled. It will hang on the walls of the Corcoran art gal-., lery to-morrow; The President -to-day issued an order turning the picture over to the Corean gallery until such time as th proper authorities of the government shall ask for Its return. General Notes, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. Colonel J. G. Chandler, assistant quartermaster-general, has been placed on the retired list. Principal Chief Harris and Delegates Duncan and Thompson from the Cherokee Indian Nation, Col. Grayson, representing the Creeks, and several other Indians from Indian Territory were at the Interior Department to-day 'and had an interview with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning. It Is expected that the nomination of Col. Normon Lleber, to be Judge Advocategeneral of the army to succeed General Swaim, retired, will be sent to Congress to-, morrow. Colonel Lieber is at present acting Judge Advocate-general, a position he has filled since 18$!.' r It was sakL at the Capitol that Lycurgus Dalton. postmaster of the House of Representatives, is Improving very slowly. He is still confined to his house and lias not been able to 'discharge his duties at the Capitol for eeveral monthta. WILL ICE 1U UN TO POWK'.;. Disabilities of Whltevray Removed by the Newfoundland Legislature. ' ST. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 2. The bill guaranteeing the notes of the Union and Commercial banks wan, with trifling amend-, merits, passed by both Houses of the Legislature to-day. To-morrow the Governor will give his assent to the measure and It will then become a law. A bill was also passed placing the value of the gold sovereign at $1.86, the same as the Canadian and American standards. The lower house passed a bill removing the disabilities of Sir William Whlteway and his followers who were convicted of corrupt practices, and Sir William will return to political life, taking the leadership of his party," which is now in power. The opposition has filed a formal protest with the Governor, and has also forwarded a copy to the English government showing that, the bill 1 unconstitutional and detrimental to the Interests of justice. It is not expected that the measure will receive royal assent, even though it should ba passed by the upper house. The government Is charged with manipulating the bill for the winding up of insolvent companies with a view to getting the liquidation of the Commercial Bank into their own hatidd. The hearing of the charges against the directors of the Commercial Bank was begun to-day. These directors were arrested last week, being accused of issuing a false statement of the bank's affaire. They were subsequently released on bail. At the hearing to-day it was shown that bonds that were included among the bank's as-tets had really been assigned to the London and Westminster Bank. A further hearing of the cate was adjourned until next Tuesday." The accused renewed their bond. The government has announced that it has negotiated - a loan with the Bank. of. Montreal and will obtain sufficient specie to pay the salarl?H of the government employes and to meet pressing interest claims. The amount of the loan U reported to bo $500,000, to obtain which it is alleged the government pledged securitiea held a.-i the only collateral for the safety of the puWlo .. . ..i i. . I . nr.. . . . - for the appointment of a royal cominisi-jn... to examine Into the affair of Newfoundland is receiving numerous signatures. Th; Governor will be urged to move In the matter without delay. The French consul has protested against the passage of the bank-note guarantee bill, owing to the loss that will le sustained by French citizens throughout the country. The bill guarantees the notes of the Union Bank at 80 cents on the dollar and these of. the Commercial Bank at 20 cents. mm m mm ,imm,m u i - i . -X Fatal Duel in Meslcu. MATAMORAS, Mexico, Jan.2.-A duel has taken place here between CoK Manuel Perez De Leon, paymaster In the Mexican army, and Manuel Cardenas, wealthy merchant of this city. Each man fired three shots. . and In the . third round t.l. le Leon waa shot through the head.. Trou ble had been brewing wiween me. men ior some time, and the affair of honor was he result. Cardensa has been- arreted.,

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