Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895.

Til E DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 0. 1893. Washington office-hio Pennsylvania avenue Telephone Calls. Business Office... 2'itf I t-ditorla! Kooms ,.242 T Kit MS OF Sl'HSCRIPTIOX. DAILY BY MAIL. I inlly only, one month $ .70 Jmily mily, three months "- laily oiily. one year . H.00 j'aiiy, inuliKiiuK im.iay, one year.. lO.tio fciiDilay oily.onu year -.00 WIIEJJ FUKXIHHED BY AGENTS. I'aily per lci-efc, I y carrier ...15 ctn tMinilay, nitiglo copy. 5 cts Laily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 eta WEKKLV. Tor year...... $1.00 Reduced Itateii to Clubs. Rul.wrilio with any of our numerous agent or send aulmcriytious to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, lad. Persons sending the Journal through the mail in the L'ulteil fctates should put on an elicht.paee paper a ONE-clnt pontage stamp: on a twelve orslxteenlagn ilr 'nv-CKvr postage stamp. lorel'U Voittagu is usually double these ratos. fFAll communications intended for publication In thin paper nniKt, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the. name and etltlrt s ot the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can Vti found at the following places rA UIM American Lxcuaiifre in fans, 36 Boulevard de Capiietnes. NEW YOKK-Gilsey House, Windsor Hotel and A star House. PHlLAPKLPHiA A. P. Kemble. cor. Lancaster ave. and Baring Ht. CHICAGO 1'alnier House, Auditorium Hotel and P. O. .News Co., 01 Adams street. CINCJNNATI-J. K. Hawlej & Co, 154 Vine St. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest oornerof 'I bird and Jefferson aud Louisville Book Co., 350 Fourth ave. 6T LOU IS Union News Company, Union Depot WASH I NGTON, I. C Klggs Houso, Ebbltt Honse. Wlllartl's Hotel and the Washington News Kxchange, 14th street, bet. Fenn. ave. and street. It is right to learn from the enemy. If the time ever comes that the Repub-. llean party in this State shall be as badly knocked out as the Democrats were last November we trust they will hold a wake over the corpse with as much apparent cheerfulness ahd hope for the future as the Democratic banqueters showed last night. The. world moves, and even commonweal Coxey learns something. Last year he undertook to petition Congress "in boots" and insisted on the right of his army of tatterdemalions to camp on the steps of the Capitol. This year he Is content to follow the course of other citizens and ask the House and Senate committees to give him a hearing in support of his financial scheme. The forthcoming report or the Secretary of State of Ohio will contain statistics showing that the aggregate price of farm lands sold within the State during the year 1894 was $3,000,000 less than the game lands would have brought in 1893.. At the same rate of shrinkage the total loss to the farmers of the entire State for the year would aggregate $50,000,000. This represents the shrinkage caused by the Cleveland panic. "Bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him." With the jail doors opening for his reception, the late "President" Deb?. says: "I have more Injunctions tha.i a mogul engine could haul, but I hold them and the judges who issued them in sovereign contempt." And yet, with this anarchistic utterance on his lips. Debs has the audacity to express a belief that the President will pardon him.

The fact that the. people in several counties of the State have made and are making notable progress in the construction of good roads shows that our present road laws. If intelligently administered, do not hinder such progress. The difficulty lies more with . the people than with the laws. The laws may need amending in some respects, but it would not be wise to adopt a cumbrous and expensive system of road improvement far in advance of public sentiment. . There was an unusual scene in the House yesterday, and it must have been an exciting one. when a Democratic member .openly denounced the President for his attempt "to usurp this entire government to himself." Mr. Sibley's references to the lobbying and coercive policy of the President and his attempts to buy measures through Congress with patronage need not have excited the ire of cuckoo members. The fact is notorious, and they might as well deny that the Potomac river flows past Washington. The informal action of the Republican Senators relative to the FoustRlnear election contest shows a commendable disposition to consider the case fairly and decide it on its merits. The Democratic practice of deciding election contests practically without a hearing and invariably in favor of themselves, which has prevailed in this State In past years, should not be adopted by the Republicans. It should be the aim of the majority in this Legislature to make a record for fair dealing and honest methods which shall be conspicuous by' contrast with past Democratic records. State Senator Roverud. of Minnesota, though Norwegian by birth, seems to be pretty well indoctrinated with Americanism. When Governor Nelson, of that State, solicited his support for United States Senator on the ground that they were both Norwegians the Senator replied: "I was but fourteen years old when I came to America, and believe I am on American. I have run for office a good many times in Houston county, and always as a Republican, not as a Norwegian. I never asked a living man to vote 'for me because of my nationality. Norwegians and Swedes, Irishmen and Germans and American born citizens as well have always been my friends. I am an American citizen." That is a platform of true American citizenship in si nutshell. Aforeign born American citizen who asks for political, support on account of his nativity has no right to complain if he encounter opposition on the same ground. The better part of two days was consumed in selecting a jury in a murder trial now in progress in this city, and even move time than this is sometimes consumed in getting a jury. The law in this State is that in prosecutions for capital offenses the defendant may challenge peremptorily twenty jurors and the prosecution the same number. Then there are eleven causes for which either Uh may challenge any Juror, and there is iv limit to the number of challenges that may be made for cause. "This places it within the power of counsel to consume a great deal of time In selecting a. Jury in a murder case, and as It Is the first line of battle In the trial it is generally stubbornly contested by both sides. It is a Question whether the

number of peremptory challenges by both sides ought not to be reduced and whether some of the causes for challenge should not be amended so as to prevent the needless consumption of time in getting Juries in capital cases.

Till-: I1ENEFITS OF HAN KS. The discussion of a currency, or, more ! properly, a banking bill In the House excites the demagogues In that body and elsewhere to repeat their stale denunciations of Wall street and bankers as if they are one and all hostile to the i people. It is pure demagogy, and . it seems impossible that those who resort to it do not know that such attacks are a miserable device to prejudice the people against those who now. In every place having a thousand inhabitants, make a business of collecting the money held and unused by individuals, so that It can be made available for the larger business of communities. If the demagogues who make such talk in Congress and at the street corner and exploit it in the newspapers imagine that the people believe their wretched drivel about national banks, grasping money lenders and money sharks they are mistaken. The people for the most part have learned better. Every quarter the thousands of pensioners who get their pension checks cashed without charge by Indianapolis banks, while others who denounce banks charge them 25 cents, have learned that bankers and banks are most considerate of their convenience. - As a matter of fact, the bank and the banker have provided the chief agency for the cheapening of rates of interest and for economizing the use of real money. The greater part of the" money which is loaned upon mortgages comes from the savings and life Insurance institutions, which in turn have received their funds in trust for the hundreds of thousands saving small sums from their earnings. We were once taught by the demagogue to believe that the money aa invested belongs to the millionaire, but we have now learned better. But it is in economizing the use of money and in the vast expansion of production and traffic which such economizing makes possible that the usefulness of the. system of organized banks is demonstrated. More than 92 per cent, of all the larger business transactions of this country are settled by the use of bank paper. The movement of merchandise, exports and Imports of the United States, Great Britain, France and British India from 1886 to 1890 aggregated $36,204,527,385, but the movement of specie necessary to effect those exchanges was only $2,717,334,783. or 7YS per cent, of the value of the merchandise exchanged. Eleven other countries bought and sold merchandise to nearly the same value during the same period, using only $940,000,000 of specie in the transactions, or 2.6 per cent. That is, only $2.60 in cash were used to buy and sell $100. worth of merchandise. To further show the increasing power of. banks to economize the use of money it can be stated as a fact that It took 17 per cent, of the value of the merchandise In specie to effect the buying and selling from 1860 to 1864, against 7 per cent, between the same countries in 1886-90. It would be Impossible to transact the. present volume of international trade if 17 per cent, of specie instead of 7 per cent, were necessary. This saving of money in merchandising is due. to the increase of banking power throueh organization among the leading nations. In view of such facts as these the man who says in Congress or in Indiana that the people have no interest in a bill before Congress which will affect the organization of a system of banks through which exchanges are made by the representatives of money that is, drafts, checks, bills of lading and bills of exchange, deserves to be labeled "ignoramus." CHANGES OF VEX IE. The Legislature ought to consider the propriety of amending the law in regard to changes of venue in criminal cases. The law contemplates that every criminal action shall be tried in the county where the offense was committed unless there be some exceptional reason to the contrary. The theory of the law is that a change of venue is taken to obtain a fairer trial than could be had in the court where the indictment is found, but, as a matter of fact, most applications for change of venue are made for delay and to defeat Justice. In most instances the change is granted on the unsupported affidavit of the defendant that he believes he cannot have a fair trial in the county where he has been Indicted, and in capital cases it is made obligatory on the court to grant the change on such affidavit. In all cases It involves heavy costs to the county from which the change is taken, and in many it results in expensive delays and the ultimate defeat of justice. It is a rare thing that public feeling or prejudice against a defendant is so strong as to justify a change of venue, and it ought not to be possibie for him to get a change on his unsupported affidavit. There would be no injustice in requiring the defendant's affidavit to be supported by those of at least two other credible disinterested citizens of the county, who should be subject to examination by the court as to the matters contained in their affidavits. And it ought to be made the duty of the prosecuting attorney to resist the application for a change and meet the affidavits on which it is based with counter affidavits or the testimony of witnesses in rebuttal of the allegations of the defendant. The granting of the application for a change should in all cases be left discretionary with the court after hearing, such testimony. A PRACTICAL REFORMER. Too. many of the women who have come into prominence in public life during the past half century have been the advocates of some cause whose interests they have pushed with intemperate and impolitic zeal. No matter how meritorious any project may be, how desirable any given reform or philanthropic undertaking, its advancement and chance of success may be hindered by the injudicious course of its champions. The public is so constituted that a perpetual dinning into Its ears of one refrain is sure to become distastelul; the harp of a single string is a very tiresome instrument. People may be far from hostile to temperance or equal suffrage or equality before the law, or to the amelioration of the condition of the Indian, the negro or the heathen Chinee, but they rebel after a time against the ceasele3 repetition of appeals for their support and approval

and the reiteration of. arguments whose Soundness they have never denied. Instead of the favor which might have been won, a prejudice arises against the proposed reforms that is harder to overcome than the original apathy. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is one of the few women who never made this mistake. She was a suffragist, a temperance woman and the advocate of every movement that would tend to advance the industrial,' political or social position of men or women. She was deeply in earnest, but her distinguishing quality was common sense, and she knew when to urge any particular reform and when to desist. She did not waste her energies in violent upbraiding of those who disagreed with her or in too frequent repetition of her views on a given topic. She presented those views with eloquence when occasion offered and left them to make their own way, passing on to other topics. It was this versatility and adaptability that made Mrs. Livermore one of the most popular of public speakers, but it also prevented her from being classed as a leader in any one line of reform work. She was a temperance woman, but the temperance societies, of late years at all events,, did not put her forward as a representative, perhaps because she did not work well in their somewhat hampering harness. She favored equal suffrage, but many others were counted before her, yet it is probable that not one woman in the long list of those who have come to the front 'since she was a pioneer has wielded as much influence as she in promoting each of these movements. It was not only her Io;ric and her eloquence that were effective, but her calm dignity and freedom from the emotionalism and sentimentality which have caused criticism of many other women in public life. She was herself an admirable proof of what women might become. Her practical services to the country in the sanitary work during the war would have given her a place in public esteem with nothing further added, but her announced retirement from all public work is a matter for regret. ' She can take her rest, however, with the serene consciousness of having "done what she could," and of having done it well. REPORT OF THE STATE AUDITOR.

The annual report of the Auditor of State shows a decided improvement in the State's finances over recent years, and contains some recommendations worthy of careful consideration by the Legislature. When the Auditor says that before the passage of the present tax law "not only was the public debt increasing steadily year by year, but the State was compelled to borrow money to meet the interest on the debt" he virtually censures the policy which was followed by the Democratic party for many years and which is largely responsible for the present debt.. The present tax law has at least the prime merit of yielding a much larger revenue than any previous law, anC' any attempt to amend should be in the direction of improving it. The report shows that the State delft has been reduced $910,000 during the last two years, and that on the 14th Inst, a further payment of $400,000 will be made,- making a total reduction of $1,310,000 in a little more than two years. This is a great improvement on Democratic financiering for many years past and sets a . pace which the Republican party must try and surpass or at least keep up with. Of the $910,000 already paid, $740,000 was derived from the refunding by a Republican Congress and President of direct State tax levied and collected during the war. The Auditor's recommendations relative to reducing the general levy and the school levy should receive careful consideration. The Republicans are pledged to a reduction of taxation as well as expenses and should make an earnest effort to do both. The recommendation relative to an increase of the sinking fund should also have careful consideration. In a general way it must be admitted that the State finances during the last two years seem to have been wrell managed. The report of Controller Trusler to the City Council places the financial affairs of Indianapolis not only in a clear, but a favorable light. It not only shows the aggregate expenditure for threequarters of the ye a-. but the amount spent from each fund. He not only shows the debt of the city, but that under the present management, instead of accumulating, it has been reduced $104,000. When Mr. Trusler came into office the city had $600,000 of overdue bonds bearing 7.3 per cent, interest. These he has not only refunded at a rate of 4 per cent, and a premium, but he has refunded $409,500 of 7.3 per cent, bonds that fell due during the past year at 4 per cent. That is, $1,009,500 of the city's debt, more than half of it, has been changed from a 7.3 per cent, to a 4 per cent, rate of Interest, with a premium of nearly $20,000. The only weak spot in the city's finances to-day is the delinquent taxes, which are increasing every year. This is a defect which should be remedied in some manner. If it is because the county treasurer does not receive sufficient compensation for the collection of city taxes to remunerate him some method should be devised which will insure a collection of such taxes within a reasonable limit. It is very certain that a delinquency of $115,894.50 is excessive. As that delinquency is 12 per cent, over that of the year before, an immediate remedy should be devised unless the people who pay their taxes are to be made to pay those of the persons who do not. So far as the officers of the city are responsible the finances of the city, as the controller's report plainly shows, are in a much better condition than when the present administration went into power. The rescuing of the city's credit, periled by $600,000 of overdue bonds, and placing them and $409,500 more at a rate of interest 3.3 per cent, less than the city has paid for years is an achievement to be proud of. The nomination and election of State librarian is often postponed until late in the session, but the members of the Legislature must see the propriety of making an early decision. Of the army of candidates for the office many are women, and a majority, if not all. are persons of small means who cannot afford to remain at the hotels to electioneer for themselves, and on whom even a delay of a week or two will work a hardship. It is useless to urge these candidates to go to their homes and await the action. of the assembly. No one will go

while any remain on .the ground, and it j will save trouble for all concerned if

speedy attention is given to the, matter. Already the legislators are seeking how to avoid the applicants, and the presence of the latter in such numbers in the hotel lobbies, where they waylay the unwary members or others who may aid them, partakes-of the nature of a scandal. Office seeking is honorable only when conducted with dignity and without the sacrifice of self-respect or the respect of others, and in the scramble for this particular office both are in danger of being lost. It would be quite as reasonable and proper to make the presidency of the State University a question of party politics as the office of State librarian. The latter position should be filled once for all by a competent person selected with primary reference to present and prospective qualifications, and thereafter no change should be made for political reasons. The present librarian of Congress was appointed in 1864, and his eminent fitness for the position was such from the beginning that no Congress since that time has thought of making a change. To make the librarian's office a political one comes as near as possible to reducing partisan politics to an absurdity. Congressman Sibley is quoted as making the very inelegant remark in his attack upon Cleveland that the time had come when there should be "something more than brains, belly and brass to the government." But who ever said there was brains? "What's the fun of .being rich?" exclaims a New York paper. "Think of Hetty Green, one of the richest women in the world and one of the most unhappy." This , is a forced assumption. Has Hetty ever said she was unhappy, or given any Indication that she Was not enjoying life? It is, true that her method of enjoyment is not in the spending of : money, which most people regard as the most .desirable end and aim of life to those who have it to spend. Hetty saves money. She skimps and starves and dresses like a beggar, but why suppose that she does not take pleasure in doing these very things? Why assume that she does not revel in the knowledge of the power her wealth gives her? She uses that power not for philanthropic purposes or for securing the luxuries of life, but for harassing and injuring her enemies or those she fancies such. Such a course indicates a small soul and a narrow conception of the us'.s of money, but it is her chosert road, and she no doubt takes all the pleasure she Is capable of in following it. No on need worry about Hetty Green's unhappiness. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore ought to be pretty well known, even to Intelligent compositors, after her public career of forty years, but when the account of her retirement to private life is condensed to a threeline paragraph and her name transformed to "Levering" in an Indlanapols paper, she has reason to meditate on the transitory nature of, fame. It is said that not less than a dozen Tennessee men are at work constructing flying machines. Tennessee men differ from the psalmist who would that he had wdngs like a dove, for then he would fly away. When they want to get out of the State and haven't , the" railroad fare they proceed to make wings. Now that another yacht race has been arranged for next season between the British and American clubs, loyal Americans will hope that Mr. Gould will not hoodoo the vessels belonging to this side. " HI I1BLES IX THE AIR. ; Uncalled, for Advice. "You ought to shave oftener," said the barber. "What's that to you?" gorwled the victim. "You haven't any idea that I am coming back, have you?" Ail) thing; for n n Excnae. Mrs. Closephist Aren't you going to let me take Johnny to see the trained lions? Mr. Closephist Gracious, no! Do you want him to lose all the moral effect of the story of Daniel in the lion's den? i Not a Foil View. Mudge There was a girl sat beside me in the car to-day who had the prettiest foot I ever saw. Yabsley Did she have a pretty face? Mudge I can't tell you. I couldn't see over ifbr sleeves. Forging to the Front. From the Plunkville Bugle: "Old Bill Jones says that the first man who tries to annex his ten-acre farm to this town will be shot. Are we to let the Greater Plunkville movement be thus nipped In the bud, or are we to pick old Bill up by the slack of the pants and dump him in the car of progress regardless of his obstinacy? Let the good work go on." MR. CHEEK'S CLAIM. An American "Who Want Slam to Pay $1,000,000 for Damages. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. Among the arrivals in. this city yesterday was S. J. Cheek, of Bangkok, Slam, who ,1s en route to Washington in connection with a $4,000,OoO claim for damages against Siam. The case is sensational and has been pending before the State Department for some months. The trouble is over a ten years' concession to Dr. M. A. Cheek, formerly of Oakland, for handling the teakwood of Siam: Thus far the whole case has been the subject of secret correspondence between the two governments, but as Cheek is now personally going to see Secretary Gresham he sees no reason for keeping it quiet any longer. On the steamer on which Mr. Cheek arrived are sundry documents from the Siamese government to Secretary Gresham. Escape of a. Diamond Robber. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8. Frank Smith, a notorious diamond robber, escaped from the workhouse this afternoon. He was arrested here Nov. 4 and sent to the workhouse for vagrancy. His term was up to-day. Officers were here to taka him to Chicago, where he robbed Berthaur's jewelry store of $4,000 worth of goods Oct. 30. He had also served a term in the Ohio penitentiary for holding up a train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad in which he secured $20,000. Pending the arrival of extradition papers orders were given to keep Smith at the workhouse and not let him get out of his cell. In defiance of the orders a guard took him out to dinner. While he was in the yard he disappeared. No one appears to know how he got away. He had shackles on at the time. Luidlnw's Caae on Trial Again. NEW YORK. Jan. 8. The work of selecting a jury for the third trial of the action of William R. Laidlaw to recover $100,000 damages from Russell Sage, on the ground that Sage made a bomb shield of Laillaw, was begun before Justice Patterson, of the Supreme Court, to-day. On the first trial Justice Andrew dismissed the case, holding that Laidlaw had failed to show that Sage had removed him from a place of safety. At the second trial the jury brought in a verdict of $25,000 damages. In both cases the general term ordered a reversal. Erastu WlmunVi Appeal. NEW YORK. Jan. S. Krastus Wiman's appeal from his conviction for forgery in the second degree was argued before the general term of the Supreme Court to-day. The appeal was argued by General Tracy in behalf of Wiman. One of his points was that Judge Ingraham. before whom Wiman was tried, had refused to charge the jury that they were to decide if Wiman had made the indorsement with criminal intent. Assistant Attorney-general Lindsay argued for the people. Decision was reserved. .

SIBLEY'S DOUBLE ACT

IX DEPENDENT DEMOCRAT CREATES A SENSATION IN THE HOI SE. He Scalps Grover Clevelttnd in One Sentence and Perforates the Carlisle Bill in Another. TOM JOHNSON ALSO SPEAKS HE CHARGES HIS PARTY WITH ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT FHAl'D. The Measure, He Says, M ould Permit Dishonest Bankers to Reap it HarvestClose of the General Debate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. This was the last day of the general debate on the currency bill in the House, and the opponents of the measure had. their inning. All the speakers, except Representative Cox, of Tennessee, antagonized the bill. The feature of the day was the speech of Mr. Sibley, who made an attack on the President and arraigned the Democratic party generally for drifting away from its traditional moorings. His speech created much confusion and and a good deal of a sensation. Mr. Tom Johnson, of Ohio, also created a stir by affirming the proposition that the bill either created a monopoly to issue the legal tender money of the country, or was a failure which would give dishonest bankers, under the law, opportunity to defraud the government. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, made an earnest speech against the bill from the standpoint of free silver. The other speakers were Messrs. Beltzhoover, W. A. Stone, Morse and Coffeen. The first business called up in the House to-day was a resolution from the committee on rules authorizing the appropriation committee to insert a clause In the sundry civil appropriation bill authorizing the transfer of, the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., from tu jurisdiction of the War Department to the Department of Justice. Opposition was made by Mr. Kroderlck, wfio asserted that the question had been before the military committee, and contended that the House was entitled to a report on the proposed change, for which he saw no reason. The plan was explained by Mr. Curtis, who contended that soldiers sent to the prison for minor offenses were subjected to evil associations. The resolution, after some debate, was adopted. The debate on the currency bill being resumed, Mr. Beltzhoover gave notice of an amendment. It proposes a section to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to fund treasury notes which may remain in circulation after the first day of August, 1895, which were issued under the acts of Feb. 25. 1865, July 11, 1832, March 3, 1863, and July 14, 1890, by issuing bonds to an amount not exceeding $5O0,G0O,OGO, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States after five years, payable twenty-five years from date, with interest at 3 per cent., payable semi-' annually in gold. The bonds are to be of such denomination, not less than $50, as the Secretary may determine on, and to 'be sold at not less than par for gold or for treasury notes. SIBLEY'S SPEECH. Members flocked around Mr. Sibley, a Pennsylvania Democrat, when he began a characteristic address against the bill. He was applauded when he said: "If ever a rebuke was needed to one who has attempted to trample down the prerogatives of the people, it is needed for him who has attempted to usurp this entire government to himself. The time has come when there should be something more than brains, belly and brass to this government." He referred to George III, and said that it had been given out that any one who voted against his bill would incur the displeasure of the King. Four days after the repeal of the Sherman act, members had told him that they had been promised revenue oollectorshlps if they would vote for repeal. "The gentleman makes a very broad assertion," interrupted Mr. Coombs, who also asked Mr. Sibley to mention names. "I went three days ago to a member and asked him to allow me the privilege of calling him up here," replied Mr. Sibley. "He said, 'Mr. Sibley, you will place me in a bad position with my constituents,' but," continued Mr. Sibley, "within ten feet of me sits a man who heard him make the statement that he had been offered federal offices for his vote." "Do you conlsder it fair," asked Mr. Coombs, with perceptible tremor in his voice, "to make so grave a charge against the administration and not give names and places in order to permit a defense?" "Every man is the guardian of his own conscience," declared Mr. Sibley. "Already the padlocks have been on my lips too long, and I intend to throw them off." "When were the padlocks put on your lips?" interjected Mr. Outhwaite. There was great confusion and excitement following the question. "I have not thrown them off before," continued Mr. Sibley, "because I hoped to see the administration redeem its promises, and I did not wish to utter a rebuke when there was hope of honest performance." Mr. Outhwaite had pushed forward and again uttered his question: "Who put the padlock on your lips?" Mr. Sibley hesitated for a moment and then with intense earnestness, said: "Let me tel the gentleman that I am not talking to-day to men who believe In going to hell in a handcar instead of to heaven, supported by truth. Let me tell him also that I am not adressing men who believe more in a bobtail flush than a contrite heart." A shout of applause and laughter greeted the statement. Mr. Sibley proceeded to relate the experience of Dionysius, when he was again interrupted by Mr. Outhwaite. - "Was it Dionysius who put the padlock on your lips?" Mr. Sibley made no reply and proceeded to address himself to the details oil the pending bill. Mr. Sibley was frequently interrupted by questions, and when he demurred from answering, because he had been given notice, he said, that his time would not be extended, although not a man spoke in favor of the gold trust of the world who was not given unlimited time." Mr. Pence asked that he be permitted to finish, but Mr. Outhwaite objected. POOR OLD SHIP OF STATE. "We saw our distinguished executive, after the election of 1892," Mr. Sibley continued, "hie himself away for recreation. Where on earth did he go? To the classic shores of Hog Island. The Bible says that when they are set at liberty each man will go to hi3 own place. Where, did he go? To Buzzards' Bay. And ever since the old ship of state has been bumping her nose Into Hog Island and foundering in the waters of Buzzards' Bay with prosperity but a cable's length away." There was a panic being precipitated by the vultures of the banks, Mr. Sibley shouted, besides which the last panic was a gentle zephyr to a shrieking cyclone. He had figures which he had prepared last June and which, at the solicitation of friends, he had refrained from using, showing that the banks and trust companies could not pay 80 cents on the dollar. The administration haa so carried out the Democratic declaration that parity of all kinds of money should be maintained, that all other kinds but gold had become mere promissory notes but payment in gold. Speaking of his Democratic principles, Mr. Sibley said that if he got into what he supposed was p. mahogany wagon and found it was veneered basswood being driven over a rocky road by an inexperienced driver, he would jump out and would not care much where he landed. He drew a picturesque sketch of Democrats sitting around banquet halls to-night worshiping at the shrine or Andrew Jackson and talking theories as different from his as the throne of hades is from the fruit of the Tree of Life, and if Andrew Jackson's spirit were to appear, it would, he concluded, kick over the table and banish those apostates in disgust. Mr. Cox, a Tennessee Democrat, followed with a careful argument in favor of the biil. He pointed out the many evilrf of the present system, and explained at length his view of the results of the Carlisle plan if put into operation. Mr. Stone, a Pennsylvania Republican, quoted the remarks of Secretary Carlisle to the judiciary committee that he would pay government expenses from any money in the treasury, and sal 1 he supported the Secretary in that course, and explained that as no money paid into the treasury was classified -the Secretary could not know whether what he was paying was the pro

ceeds of the bond sales or not. He did not think the pending bill would relieve the treasury and the situation, nor did he, in; fact, believe that the retirement of ell greenbacks and treasury notes would check ; the demand for gold. If gold was required j for corfmerce gold would be secured, if not I from the treasury, then from private holders. There was no reason why there should be a scarcity of gold. There were $540,000,000 in gold in this country held by banks and rrivate holders. The difficulty now was . that the Democratic party'was too cowardly '

to meet tne present and growing aenciency by authorizing the issue of a low-rate bond to tide over the present emergency. OPPOSED BY TOM JOHNSON. Tom Johnson, of Ohio, followed Mr. Sibley's lead with a caustic speech in opposition to the measure. At the outset he said he thought he owed an apology to the House for speaking against a bill which was dead as this was. However, Mr. Johnson explained why he believed the bill, if it could be enacted Into law, would prove a monstrous failure. He denied that the bill was designed to take the government out of the banking business, and asserted that no bill could be devised for sound currency Issues which would not place them under government supervision and, in effect, make them alternately redemable by the government. It was the office of government to furnish money. This bill proposed to confer on banks without limit a right that could only be conferred on a monopoly. It gave them a monopoly, or it was a failure. He attempted to demonstrate that the bill would confer the same monopoly on the franks that the Bank of England and the Bank of France had. This was true because the greenbacks and treasury notes on which circulation could be taken out were limited in number. There were but $475,000,000 of these notes. When they were deposited for circulation the monopoly would be complete. Mr. Johnson sketched a scheme by which a dishonest man, entirely within the terms of this bill, could make $52,500 in two week3 by starting a bank. "Could that not be done under the present law?" asked Mr. Springer. "No. sir," replied Mr. Johnson, "because he must . deposit $114,000 worth of bonds to get $90,000 in circulation." "Could not the Canadian banks perpetrate the same frauds?" asked Mr. Springer, returning to the assault. "No." replied Mr. Johnson, "because the Canadian system is a government monopoly." Mr. Morse made a brief speech in opposition to the bill, and then Mr. Bland, the leader of the silver Democrats of the House, took up his cudgel against it. He spoke with great feeling. This bill, he declared, was an attempt to temporize with a great Issue. He called attention to the Democratic platform of 1892, the pledge to settle this financial question on the lines of bimetallism. Step by step he traced the course of those who, he alleged, were carrying out a conspiracy first, the repeal of the silver purchase law, and now the consummation of their pians. Mr. Bland predicted if this bill became a law that the greenbacks would disappear, and to secure the gold standard silver would be entirely eliminated. In conclusion Mr. Bland protested against the bill in the name of outraged Democracy. "Neither this House nor this administration is the Democratic party," said he, "and I appeal to the masses of Democracy to reorganize on the lines of the principles of Jefferson and Jackson." (Applause.) Mr. Coffeen concluded the debate for the day in opposition to the bill, and at 5 o'clock the House took a. recess until 6 o'clock to-night, when, under a special order male yesterday, the bill prepared by the pension committee for the codification of the pension laws will be formally read. A MARVELOUS DEVICE INVENTOR IlERLIXER'S NEW SOCNDPRODICING MACHINE. It Is Called the "Gramophone," and the Voice Is Etched on n. Zinc Disc How It Operates. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Mr. Emil Berliner, whose name has been so prominently before the public recently through the decisions of the Boston courts, which have declared his patent of the telephone transmitter pu'blic property, is hard at work on a new electrical invention which promises to be as startling and as far-reaching In its practical applications as was his transmitter. Mr. Berliner is at present in Washington, and ha3 a laboratory on Pennsylvania avenue. Speaking to the Journal correspondent of the Berliner suit and Judge Carpenter's recent adverse decision, Mr. Berliner said: "We will carry our case through the various stages up to the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Carpenter dicided against us on purely technical points, and we are not despairing of the final result. There seems to be a general misapprehension In the public mind as to the practical results of Sr defeat, If we are finally defeated. Only e transmitter becomes public property, in that case, and the only practical result will be that the public will be at liberty to build individual telephone lines between two points. We still hold so many undisputed patent rights on the most essential features of the switchboard and other details of the telephone system that there is no possibility of independent telephone systems such as now do work in all the cities." But Mr. Berliner's present attention is devoted to a sound-producing machine that he styles a "gramophone." The name is hardly a happy one, for it at once suggests either the "phonograph" or the "graphophone," two rival talking machines which, like most ingenious electrical devices, have promptly found their way into the courts. But Mr. Berliner states that the principles involved in his gramophone are radically different as regards the technical manipulation of the machine. The voice record of the gramophone 13 an etching, done in metal, generally on thin, polished zinc discs. It forms a spiral line running from periphery to within a few inches of the center. A disc seven inches in diameter will hold about 350 spoken words, or one of Soussa's marches, or two or three verses of any popular song or a recitation like the "Village Blacksmith." WHAT THE MACHINE DOESj The Journal correspondent heard some of the gramophone productions a day or two ago. Some of the effects are almost incredible. A church bell sounded so naturally that any one standing -outside the room In which the machine was played would have been unable to say that it was not a bell. There was a musical reproduction of the well-known picture, "Yankee Doodle, or the Spirit of "78." The drums and fife approaching from a distance, and then marching past the window, the shouts of the crowd in the street, the cheering for General Washington, the fife and drums all the while being distinctly heard until they fade away in the distance it seems hard to grasp that all this is an etched line, pushing along a needle point as the plate slowly revolves and transmits the sound vibrations to a diaphragm of German silver. There seemed to be no end to effects. Songs from "O, Promise Me," to "Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back," cornet duets, marches played by a full band, Shakspeaiean recitations and ordinary conversations between two or more persons, all were reproduced In a tone a3 distinct and clear as human speech. There was an interesting experiment tried to test the strength of the machine's utterances. A friend living in Georgetown, a suburb of Washington, was called up by telephone, and a conversation just held between Mr. Berliner and the Journal's correspondent repeated from the gramophone, which, for the sake f the test, was held several feet away from the telephone. The Georgetown end of the telephone showed by its comments on the conversation after hearing it that every word must have been enunciated clearly enough to have been distinctly transmitted over the telephone wire. Technical descriptions are always tiresome, and there is no reason why a technical statement of the principles of the gramophone should be an exception. Still a word or two about this process of etching the voice. Every one has learned from practical observation that a thin film of fat will protect a firm substance from becoming wet. Every one. too, knows by this time the principle of sound vibrations as exemplified ?n the diaphragm of a telephone. Now these two facts ar combined, in making a voice etching on a gramophone. Suppose you should want iorne statement transmitted to a distant friend in your own voice. This was the way it was done to the Journal correspondent: A polished slno disc was coated with a fatty film and placed on a small turntable. Near by was the diaphragm of a telephone and attached to it was a fine flexible steel pen. tipped with a sharo

iridium point.' The point was adjusted so as to press against the fatty film on the zinc plate. , ETCHING THC SOUNDS. The remainder was simple. As th Journal correspondent spoke into the diaphragm,' just as he would into a, telephone, a spiral wave of the words was reproduced by the needle point on the fatty surface of the plate caused by the movements of the needle as it was agitated by the vibrations of the diaphragm. The zino plate was, of course, turned sideways and revolved during the speaking to enable the needle to find continually a fresh film. The disc was taken next and placed In an acid bath a process familiar to every amateur photographer. The etching traced by the needle is eaten into the zinc by tho acid, leaving the rest of the plate- untouched. After twenty minutes' immersion the plate is taken out of the bath, washed, and the record of the voice shows on the plate, imperishable and almost indestructible. If copies are desired, they can be easily made in hard rubber. The whole thing seems too simple to have escaped Invention or rather discovery all these years. To reproduce the words spoken and etched on the plate, it is placed on a turntable of a reproducer, an arm holdirg a needle point like the one which made the etching is adjusted to the disc, the needle dropped into the etched lines, the turntable turns the disc, and the voice comes out again as often as you wish. It is unnecessary to point out the possibilities of entertainment and of actual usefulness which the eventual development of the gramophone suggests. The machine Itself is a comparatively small affair, scarcely larger than a typewriter, and it is said by Mr. Berliner that it will eventually be put on the market for not less than $25. That, however, is In the future. Mr. Berliner has spent more than three years In bringing the machine to itspresent tate of perfection. As it now stands, the sound is loud and distinct enough for an ordinary house, no matter in which room the gramophone stands. But the Inventor's present studies are directed to increasing the range of the sound. The toy known as the "pantograph" an apparatus by which a drawing is enlarged by a series of leversIs familiar to every one. Mr. Berliner has in preparation a special pantograph, by means of which the etched record of a small plate automatically is transferred to a larger plate and the record of the voice Is traced in enlarged proportions. The purpose is obvious. Larger waves mean larger sounds, and if his experiments are successful Mr. Berliner's gramophone ought to furnish an entertainment for a large hall or a theater. There is no limit to the size of the disc. It is as easy to etch a zinc disc for a talking doll as a twenty-four-inch disc for a concert machine. An amusing incident occurred one afternoon last week. Mr. Richard Mansfield was playing here, and in answer to many requests had announced ' a special matinee performance of his new comedy, "Arm and the Man." An hour "before the matinee he visited Mr. Berliner's rooms, accompanied by his wife and one or two members jof the company. Mr. Mansfield prides himself on his scholarly Interest in the scientific progress of the day. He was deeply interested in the gramophone and had record after record made of his own speeches and of Miss Cameron's. Meanwhile the audience had gathered In the theater. Two o'clock came and went. A messenger was sent to Mr. Mansfield's private car (Mr. Mansfield never stops at hotels), but ro one knew where he was to be found. There was no help but to dismiss the audience after keeping it on one pretext or another until after 3 o'clock. ' Mr. Mansfield strolling leisurely out of Mr. Berliner's laboratory about that time met the audience as it was leaving the theater, and, being unknown, was enabled to hear some frank comments as to the cause of his nonappearance. Mr. Mansfield had no "voice record" made of any of the comments. L. G. DENVER'S STR ANGLERS.

Inconsistent Stories Told ly the Tvro Frenchmen I'nder Arrest. DENVER, Col., Jan. 8. The more the stories told by Alphonzo Lemalre, or Charlea Gulchard, wh',ch is his rear name, and Victor Monchanln, regarding the Market-street strangling cases are investigated, the stronger becomes the suspicion that they have been concerned in the Interest of "Les Chevaliers d' Amour," the French Macquereaux, who have been suspected of the murders. Last night Monchanin and Gulchard were brought face to face. They were questioned, badgered and bullied for four hours. They were also allowed to bully each other. They repeated In detail the accusations they had already made against each other, each punctuating the others' language with an occasional "You're a liar." There are discrepancies as to the dates and on other points In the stories of the men which tend strongly to discredit them. The two stories, agreeing as they do in so many points, look as though they had been prepared and carefully repeated and carefully rehearsed by Monchanin and Guichard before going to the detectives. Moreover, John W. Williams, a negro, now comes, forward with a statement that he overheard Monchanin and Lemaire discussing in the street the proposed murder and robbery of Marie Contassiot, but he says the conversation took place Nov. 29. whereas the murder was committed Oct. 28. Monchanin is a native of Lyons and has been fifteen years in this country. He has been two years in Colorado and worked in the Palace Hotel at Cripple Creek before he came to Denver a year ago last October. He is a carpenter by trade, but claims to have worked at mining. Charles Guichard was born at Morlax. on the Bretagne coast, and has followed the sea the greater part of his life. He came to America in ISM. About two months ago Guichard wanted Sergeant McPhee to give him a gun and policeman's badge, as he said he could find the stranglers. He was drunk at the time and McPhee threw him out of the police station. ONTARIO ELECTIONS. Mnnieipal Candidates. Sapported bjr the P. P. A. Generally Successful. TORONTO, Ont., Jan. S.-Interest in the municipal elections held throughout the province of Ontario yesterday was principally local. The Protestant Protective Association, an organization similar to the A. P. A. in American politics, is very strong in some parts of the province and had several candidates in the field who were elected. In other districts the P. I A. cast its strength with the candidate which It thought most favorable to their views. As between a Conservative and Liberal nominee the former generally secured the P. P. A. vote. In Toronto there was a split in the V. P. A. and as a result Mayor Kennedy, who was the P. P. A. candidate last year, when he had a majority of 4,500 votes, was returned over exMayor Fleming to-day by only twentyfour votes. In Hamiiton, A. 1). Stewart, the P. P. A. candidate, was reelected Mayor. Other returns are: Ottawa, A. I. Borthwick, Conservative, by 9;; London, J. W. Little, Conservative, by 130; Kingston, Clarke W. Wright, Liberal, by 200. Km n Off with Her Coachman. NEW YORK, Jan. 8. The World prints the following from Boston: Miss Isabella F. Bigelow, who possesses in her own right over $75,000, to-day accompanied her colored coachman, Charles W. Harris, to the Brookline police court, where he waa charged with improper relations with her. He was held in $2,000 bail. Miss Bigelow is about twenty-three years old and belongs to one of the leading families In Worcester. She was well educated and for two years was a leading favorite. On the dath of her father, who was a millionaire, she came Into a fortune of over $75,000 and immediately left her home with Harris. She was Induced to leave Brookiine some time ago, after the birth of a child. She has just retutrned and the arrest was made in order to get her to leave town again. Will Search for Cycler Lena. BOSTON, Jan. 8. Robert Bruce, of the staff of the Bicycling World, of this city, will, within the next fortnight, start for southern Turkey In search of Frank Lenas, who, in June, I8it3, set out to make a trip around the world on bis wheel, len waa last heard of at-Tabrez,' on May 3, 18M. The State Department haj- made efforts to find the man, but without success. Mr. Bruce, who Is twenty-one years of age. is weil known as a rider of, pluck and endurance. He Will go from ' Boston to Havre, thence to Constantinople : by stcHmer, and expects to reach the Turkish city within two weeks after leaving France. Woman Assaulted by -Women. DETROIT, Jan. S. Mrs. Chas.Wataon was found, last ni?ht, gjgfed and unconscious, in a barn adjoining the residence where she Is employed as housekeeier. Later she recovered sufficiently to state that she was assaulted by two .women who thrust a vial of liquid into her mouth, bound her and left her apparently dead. Her clothes were saturated with kerosene. Who her assailants were 1 juls yet a mystery.