Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOIIRNAI r FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1895.

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TUB IXDIANAFOL1S JOIKSAL " Con be found at the following places PAK if American fcxchanpe lu Paris, 30 Boulevard te 'aimiue. . KKW YORK-Gilaey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor House. ' PHILADELPHIA A. P. Ketnble, cor. Lancaster ave. and liartna- t . . 'CH1CAW-I'almer Honae. Auditorium Hotel and P. O. Kewi Co., 01 Adams street. CINCINNATI-. B. Ila"wley fc Co, 104 Vine St. LOTJISVILLK C. T. Peering-, northwest corner of Third and JefTeraon Uk, auil Louisville Book Co, 85J Fourth arc. BT LOUIS Union News Company, Union Pepot WA8HINOTON. P. C. Riggs House. Ebbltt House. Wlllarrts Hotel and the Washington. News Exchange. 14th street, bet. Penn. ave. and V rtreet. All must admit that the Republican Legislature has got an excellent start. . Speaking of bills offered in the Legislature, there is consolation in the fact; that, while many are offered, few will be passed. The Journal learns with pleasure that its comments concerning the alleged illiteracy of the Governor of Delaware were based on erroneous information. Senator Hill's boom for 1896 is launched at a dangerous time. There will be many killing frosts before the voice of the bluebird is . heard , in the land. ,-. ' . 'H- , : Now that an incompetent President-, has resigned In France, Mr. Cleveland has a-precedent; but, then. Vice President Stevenson would succeed. It would be of the frying-pan-into-the-flre remedy. - ' - ' . - " - It is evident that the efforts of the Democrats in the Legislature will be mainly' devoted to trying to put the Republicans J'in a hole." but it is also reasonably' certain that they will not succeed. Whatever else may be said of it, the verdict- nf th 1urv in the Smith case proves, that Juries can be obtained in ... .l.IV, V.l!.. V. should be' made odious by, the full penalties of" the law. When Senator Gorman admits that his tariff act has caused a deficiency of nearly $100,000,000 a yeaY and none of his party denies it he and they should declare a purpose to devise and put in . force measures to fill the vacuum. ' One of I the best things yet done by ; the Legislature is tne action maiung n impossible in the last hours of the session to railroad through big extra allowances to clerks and employes. It was time that that mossbacked steal should be stopped. The latest bank defaulter hails from Dover. Ni H. He cot $100,000. but he has been ten years at it. But all the while he has been living at the rate of $10,000 a year , on a $2,000 salary a fact whlc.h seemed not to attract the attention of the so-called directors. By indefinitely postponing the bill to, abolish capital punishment the Senate declared . .against the prevailing emotionalism which has well nigh created a condition of public sentiment that the enly life taking to which there is serious objection is the life of the murderer. John Burns announces that he is coming buck, to America next autumn, giving as his reason that "nowhere in the world " ls there Craore need of the -Englishman's helping hand." If there be t'o law to prevent, this blatant agitator from again invading the United States, real worklngmen ishould rise and demand the .enactment of one by Congress. " The ,, report s'of the House judiciary committee on the 'number and salary of employes was good as far as it went, but it did not go far enough. The number of employes, should have been still further reduced and 'the pay of all, in-v stead of a part, scaled down. But if the report is the best that can be done in the direction of. retrenchment it should be adopted without delay. The crisis in France seems to have passed. The election for a new President, though naturally accompanied by some excitement, seems to have been conducted strictly according to constitutional methods, and the result was reached with . very little delay. The , new President has a difficult task before him in obtaining a; working Cabinet and harmonizing factional differences, and for the "peace of France it is to be hoped he will prove equal to the situation. ... : It is evident the ways and means committee of the national House ot Representatives is afraid to report a bill increasing the tax on beer. No doubt the brewers are holding a club over their heads as they did last session. A member of the House who saw the letter which leading brewers sent the committee last summer 'savs it stated that the Democratic . party owed its success in the, , campaign of .1892 in no small decree, to money contributed by the brewerr, and . that the ' brewers would take any action, by the Democrats proposing to increase the . beer tax as evidence that the party wanted no more aid from that source. The law in this State makes public officials liable on. their bonds for all public . moneys that come- into their hands.' and that Is the extent of their liability. No public official is required' to account for and pay over amounts received, by him as interest on public moneys loaned to or deposited in a bank.': This does not seem good morals, but' It Is the law. In a Butt against a county, treasurer la vol v Ins: this Ques

tion the Supreme Court held that when a public officer has compiled with the terms of his official bond by keeping the public money safely during his term of office, by paying It out when legally required during his term or accounting for and paying It over to the proper authority at the expiration of his term he has done all that the law and the terms of his bond require of him. "The money which he ... receives," said the court, "becomes his own money, and when he has accounted as required by law and by the terms of his bond nothing further can be required of him." The same rule applies to the State Treasurer. The theory of the law is that public money coming into the hands of a public official is absolutely under his control and his responsibility for its safe keeping is absolute, but if he meets all demands during his term of office and makes a full accounting to his successor at the expiration of his term of all moneys that have come into his hands his liability is ended.

OFFICIAL DELINQUENTS. The too frequent failure of county and township officers in making the returns and returning to the State the funds belonging to It for which the Attorney-general , is paid 12 per cent, for collecting, and the practice of township trustees holding back considerable amounts of school funds which they use for their benefit was the topic of conversation a few days since by a half dozen men representing both parties. All admitted that it is a serious evil, and one Democrat who holds an appointment under the Governor declared that the custom of holding back and using funds intrusted to officials for expenditure had become so general that it was generally expected. The Journal is loath to believe that this statement can be true. There may be a great . deal of such delinquency, but that the holding back of funds due the State, the county and the schools is so general as to be a custom seems incredible. If it has., become so general that the people expect nothing else it betrays a deplorably condition of public sentiment.' Nevertheless the fact that the late Attorney-general collected of unexpended school funds the sum 6f $336,000. including his commissions, in two years indicates that this practice is too near a custom to be tolerated. It is claimed that if the State did not make it the duty of the Attorney-general to collect these dues to the State the officers holding the money would use it as their own year after year and eventually become the possessors of "some of it. It is further asserted that if the Attorney-general did not send out e: perts to discover these delinquencies the State would obtain but a small portion of them. ' If this is true, and there is reason to believe that it is, it is time that some drastic measure of reform should be adopted and applied to put an end to an abuse that tends to teach the people that no man is expected to be honest in public position, and ' that the phrase "public trust" has become ob-' solete. ' ' . It would seem that men, familiar with the system of public business could devise a scheme which would make it very unpleasant for officials to , hold public money which should be turned into the public treasury or expended for the purpose for whicU it was designed.' Experts should be employed to hunt up the delinquencies and compel the delinquents to disgorge,, and the delinquents should be punished..- It should be made, a felony to thus withhold public money, and if there is no law making it so now, one should be passed and the Attorney-general should be charged with its enforcement and a fund 'provided for the purpose. V This may be deemed harsh Judgment, but if it is so regarded it is because we are so accustomed to such delinquencies that they have lost the offensiveness which is attached to breaches of trust between man and man in matters of business. The business agent who withholds money always loses employment and is often sent to prison. "The frequent .defalcations by county officers are largely due to the loose notions regarding the use of rfublic money. MORE OF THE POLICY OF INFAMY. There seems to be no end to the trickery of the administration in Hawaiian affairs. The latest that has come to light relates to the proposed British cable to the islands. In '"his message to Congress on Dec. 3, 1888. during his first term. Mr.-Cleveland said: . In the vast field , of Oriental commerce now unfolded from our Pacific borders no feature presents stronger recommendations for congressional action than, the establishment of communication by submarine telegraph with Honolulu. The geographical' position of the Hawaiian group In relation to our Pacific States creates a natural interdependency and mutuality of interest which our present treaties were intended to foster, and which make close communication a logical and commercial necessity. When this was written Secretary Gresham called himself a Republican and the policy of spite towards the Harrison administration had not yet been invented. President Harrison in his first message also urged the importance of cable communication with' Hawaii, and in 1S91 a bill was introduced to incorporate an American company for the purpose. , The committee which reported the bill . made a strong report in its favor. The report urged the importance to the United States of establishing cable communication with Hawaii for political as well as commercial reasons, and said there was no room to doubt that unless an American cable was .laid soon an English cable from Vancouver would be laid. They spoke of the importance of the measure as a means of extending our commerce on the Pacific ocean and in Australia, and added: "We think that unless such action as is proposed in the bill be taken at this session the danger is great that a large proportion of that trade and commerce will be diverted to Canada and England." Secretary Blaine gave his sanction to the measure, and in a letter to the committee dated Jan. 22. 1891. said: I have no doubt of the great importance to the United States in possessing cable communication with Hawaii. Besides subserving the close interests which we maintain with those islands and tending to exert a positive and potential influence on the political autonomy of the Hawaiian group, such a cable would be a necessary factor In a great scheme of direct communication with China and Japan, and with Australasia by way of the Samoan islands. The prediction that if the United States did not soon establish cable communication with Hawaii Great Britain would do so is being verified, and, strange to say. President Cleveland is asking Congress to further the ' British scheme. A few days ago be sent to

Congress certain ' dispatches from our minister at Hawaii, of which he said:. They disclose the fact that the Hawaiian government desires to lease to Great Britain one of the uninhabited islands belonging to Hawaii as a station for a submarine telegraph cable to be laid from Canada to Australia with a connection between the island leased and Honolulu. Both the Hawaiian government and the representatives, of Great Britain in this negotiation concede that the proposed lease cannot be effected without the consent of the United States for the reason that In our reciprocity treaty with the King of Hawaii he agreed that as long as said treaty remained in force he would not lease or otherwise dispose of or create any lien upon any port and harbor or other territory in his dominion or grant any special privilege or right of use- therein to any other power, state or government. I hope the Congress will see fit to grant the request of the Hawaiian government and that our consent to the proposed lease will be promptly accorded. This is in marked contrast with Mr. Cleveland's " recommendation in 1888. quoted above, and the change can only be accounted for on the theory that the new policy of spite has necessitated a reconstruction of his views. As the Harrison.. administration favored a United States cable to Hawaii it would not do for the second Cleveland administration to do so. and to head off any further movement in that direction he recommends that Congress shall promote the British scheme. It will be observed that in his recent communication to Congress the President expresses the hope that it will "see fit to grant the request of the Hawaiian government and that our consent to the proposed lease will be promptly accorded.". It is asserted by those who have read the correspondence that the government of Hawaii has not asked the United States to consent to the proposed lease to Great Britain, and tnat the suggestion is the result of a conference between British commissioners and Secretary Gresham in which he assured ! them that the United States would make no opposition to the laying of a British cable. It is probable that when all the facts come to light they will make another interesting page in the history of the policy of infamy.

When the matter shall have been considered the Journal is confident that the members of the Legislature who have felt it their duty to make an effort to have the soldiers' home located at Lincoln City, in Spencer county, will see that such a project is impracticable. Here are the facts: In April, 1892, the State encampment, after full discussion, selected with great care one member from each congressional district to invite counties or cities desiring to aid in the location of such a home in. their vicinity to submit propositions and to accept the most favorable offer. The announcement was made in every county, and ; was generally known. A half dozen offers were made, and, after visiting each locality and considering the offers, the proposition of Lafayette and Tippecanoe county was accepted, and that city and county made good their liberal pledges. At the next meeting of the State encampment in Evansville in April, 1893, the committee made a report of Its action, and that action was unanimously Indorsed and Lafayette officially declared the place for the home. A deed of the property was secured and the money pledged was paid over to the (committee and is now on interest for the benefit of the fund. Because of large general appropriations the revising committee did not. put the appropriation practically voted by both branches of the last Legislature in the regular appropriation bill. Last April the State encampment ratified the action and unanimously instructed its committee to ask both parties to pledge themselves to vote an appropriation such as the Indiana department of the Grand Army had asked for, which they did in their State platforms. Such is the history of the movement for the soldiers' home. In view of the facts, and that the Grand Army already has a deed of the land and the money of Tippecanoe county, the members from the First district, who have favored a change, can but see that a great injustice and a long delay would result if the location were changed. At the reception of the South Side Republican Club Senator Haggard repeated his views to the effect that the Republican platform of 1894 should be ignored and strictly partisan control exercised over ; the benevolent and ; correctional Institutions. He was followed by Senator Wishard, who took the other side, declaring that the party which violated a . pledge so often repeated ; would forfeit public confidence. He further declared that better results ! could be 'obtained if these institutions . were put upon the basis of business principles, "When Mr. Wishard ended his remarks he was loudly cheered by an assembly made up of earnest and. working Republicans. And he is right; the Republican Legislature would inflict a serious injury upon the party by repudiating its pledges. - BUBBLES IX THE AIR. The Cheerful Idiot. "I wonder," mused the Cheerful Idiot, "if the Britisher's custom of turning to the left has anything to do with his using 'Haw' as a favorite expression?" None deigned to answer. Two Styles of "3iew Women." 5 . "I want to introduce you to Mrs. Belladonna. She is ono of the 'new women,' you know." . "Ah. Which kind the woman with a past or the one with a future?". Theae Slushy Days. - "I want to see the Secretary of the Navy," said a wild-eyed man who wandered into the City Hall. Two policemen started toward him. "Oh, I'm no crank," he explained. "I .want the man they used to call the street commissioner." Had Her There. "Ha," . she hissed, or gasped, to be more circumstantial. She held in her hand a long black hair. "Whose is it?" she demanded to know. "I found it on your coat sleeve." "It: is yours, my dear," said the man, conscious in his own rectitude. "But It is black, and mine is blonde." "Qf course. But this one got on my coat last week." Baffled, yet unconvinced, she strode from the room. The common opinion that Paris is the capital of France is incorrect. The Constitution makes Versailles the legal capital. and the sessions of the Senate and Assembly are held in the historic palace at that place. Versailles is about eight miles from Parts, and is a place of great attractions and historic interest. The Due D'Orleans, pretender to the throne of France, who is supposed to have left England on Wednesday to meet his supporters in Belgium, is a . son of the

Comte De Paris, who died recently, and a great-grandson of King Louts Philippe. He visited this country in 1890 with his father, who served a year on General McClellan's staff during the civil war. The Duke Is twenty-five years old and .very popular with the royalists in France, who are strong enough to keep up a constant agitation without any possibility of success. CASIMUl-FERIEirS RESIGNATION.

Presidents, may come and Presidents may go, but the French Republic is likely to run on forever, or at least for many years yet. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The President of France has resigned. It will not be necessary for the United States to quarantine against presidential resignation. Cincinnati Enquirer. Courage and ability united would quickly dispose of the ' marplots who now masquerade as statesmen in the Chamber of Deputies. Baltimore American. In the meantime Casimir-Perler has behind him the one stable force Jn France the army. And the army is as sound as a bell on the question of public order. New York Evening Sun. The resignation of M. Perier is a confession that he was unable to cope with hfs socialistic enemies, who have pursued him with bitterness since he became President. Cincinnati Tribune. The monarchists are already talking of grave complications, but it is to be expected that a republican concentration will bring order out of the present confusion. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The statements of the Prime Minister and the address of the President show the weakness of the present system of government, and the crisis may force consideration of amendments looking to a clearer definition of the powers of the executive and the judiciary. Chicago Inter Ocean. It may be that the President is a weak man and unable to stand the pressure- of the situation, but it may be, on the other hand, that he i3 seeking to apply a heroic remedy and compel politicians by the menace of danger to abandon their silly foolery and rise to a realizing sense of what the situation demands. Chicago Tribune. A weak, nervous and ' hysterical individual is not the sort of President needed In France now, and 'we do not doubt that M. Caslmlr-Perier will be replaced to-day by a man more fitted tor the duties he has deserted. There are no indications of disorder or revolution in France, and the republican regime is not likely to be disturbed. Louisville Commercial. Never did a man set out more auspiciously than the late President, his way to office bedewed with teas for the brave and .practical patriot who had been slain in the gentle performance of his duties. Never did popular favorite more speedily show that the congress had erred in its choice, and had elected a poseur President instead of a statesman. Chicago Herald. He may have felt it necessary to arrest the attention of the people of France to the necessity of choosing between the existing Constitution and the revolutionary programme outlined by the majority of the Chamber of Deputies. It is inevitable that he should be censured for resigning at this time, but his critics should point out what course he ought to have taken. Louisville Courier-Journal. In resigning because' of the. bitter opposition of the radical and socialistic journals of Paris . to an administration railway measure,' President Casimir-Perler has shown the white feather. His imprudent action will tend only to consolidate and embitter the enemies of, the republic and give heart to the Royalists for a resumption of their plots for the restoration of the monarchy. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. 1 He was elected to that office because of the oncoming of that struggle; to be the leader of the present order and its bulwark against those who, . would, overthrow it. He was looked uptm. 4as the "strong man," the man of bulldog tenacity, the man of unwavering courage and indomitable will. And yet the Instant he reaches the serious part of the work he was chosen to do he shrinks from it and resigns his place. New York Tribune. ' . The courts couid not take notice of a tithe of the insultsi and libels daily flung at the President, and, in fact, at all authority.5 The situation is the more aggravating, since the President of the Republic lacks, under the Constitution, the essential elements of office the mandate of the people and real power. , He is only a splendid figurehead; the dispensers of power are the small number of men embraced in the Cabinet. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. ! THE INDIANA PRESS. By all means let's have an investigation of Green Smith and his office. It looks as though "there was a nigger in the woodpile" when a man can accumulate a fortune in four years from fees and salary. Bluffton Chronicle. v The Republican majority in the Indiana Legislature has started out well. Let each member stand firmly on the platform on Which he was elected, and he will not only receive the commendation of the taxpayers," but he will serve -his party well and insure for it a continuance of power. Fort Wayne Gazette.- -,. .;. :!, The proposition to investigate the office of Attorney-general, while filled by Green Smith, will mett the hearty commendation of the people of the State. The investigation ought to be thorough if only to let the people know what proportion of the school funds was absorbed by the late Attorneygeneral under the head of fees and commissions. Richmond Palladium. Legislative appropriation bills have a way of becoming larg at each recurring session of the Legislature,: and with the increase in wealth and population a necessity seems to exist for larger expenditures. It is therefore greatly to the credit of the present State Legislature that the legislative appropriation bill carries less by $5,000 than that of the last Legislature. Muncie Times. The various congressional aspirants who are attempting to arrange the congressional apportionment law so as to keep themselves In office should not forget that-the common people have an interest in these matters, and should be consulted about the districts as well as candidates. The congressional districts ave not plantations to be farmed out, but geographical divisions arranged to further the ends of good government. Vernon Banner-Plain Dealer. The Legislature does well in cutting the force of doorkeepers to about one-half the number the Democrats employed, but it does ill in keeping the compensation at the old figure $3 per day. No doubt 25,000 good Republicans in Indiana capable of performing the work as well as those appointed would be glad to do it for $3 which would be about right. But if no greater mistakes are made than this the people will be satisfied. Rockville- Republican. The Indianapolis Journal objects to the Indiscriminate granting of changes of venue in criminal cases. The Tribune is with the Journal on that proposition. A law should be passed that' would regulate the matter. Upon the simple affidavit of a worthless criminal one who very often is not believed when he goes upon the witness stand afterwardthat he cannot obtain justice, a change of venue is granted when everybody knows well that the change is asked for simply to gain time and throw obstacles in the path of the prosecution. Evansville Tribune. , But few people outside of "those who follow the legal profession" ever see the laws enacted for their government, and therefore have no opportunity to "keep advised" as to the scope and meaning of changes in the old or the provisions of the new laws. If the people were governed by a star chamber, they could scarcely be kept in profounder ignorance of legislation than they are under the system that now prevails. The tax that would be necessary to lav every enactment of the General Assembly before every citizen in his favorite home paper would be a mere bagatelle to the aggregate expense of litigation that comes to citizens and State from lack of knowledge of the laws. Brook vi lie American. An effort will be made in the Legislature to investigate. the condition and workings of the various State building associations of this State. A year or more ago the Chronicle declared that the promise of several of these institutions could not be realized if they treated their stockholders fairly. Now there are compl&inta coming in that the stockholders are not getting what they expected. The expense account of some of these concerns is . criminally extravagant. One-tenth of one per cent, of the face value of each share is deducted monthly from the dues, which means a "rake off" of from 10 to 13 cents. Thus all the profits go

to the managers, sme of whom are growing rich at the expense of the stockholders. Marlon Chronicle.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. . An elaborate celebration of the 250th anniversay of the establishment of the first public school in the world was held at Dedham, Mass., on Friday last. Mrs. Arthur Stannard (John Strange Winter) is very superstitious and always carries two scraps of gray fur inside the neck of her dress as a talisman. Recent experiments made at the University of Dorpat showed that women have a finer sense than men for discriminating temperatures and electric stimulL Lieutenant Nicholas Savin has died at Saratov, in Russia, at the age, it is asserted, of 125. He must have been considerably above a hundred, for he entered the French army in 1798, ninety-six years ago. At Williams College a new system of grade has been established by vote of the faculty. A student's standing in his work Is now represented by the letters A, B, C, D and E. in place of the old method of "very high, high, high medium, low, medium and low." Baron Hirsch, the Jewish multi-millionaire and sportsman, lives in a most frugal manner amid the profusion of costly dainties which he offers to his guests. He drinks only mineral waters, eats plainly and retires to bed at 10 o'clock, leaving his guests to follow his example whenever they like. The badge of the Philadelphia Women's Health Protective Association, two ends of scarlet and gray ribbons, with a silver broom to pin them on, is thus explained by one of its wearers: "The scarlet means danger, you know, and the gray, dust, and the broom that is what we mean to do." In the prime of life Christina Rossettl was a tall, somewhat gaunt figure, with olive complexion inclined to sallowness, and dark, striking eyes. She was better looking in old age than in middle age. She once made the singular confession to a friend that she had never in her life seen the sun rise. The course recently adopted in order to check the periodical overflow of the Hoang-Ho was strictly typical of Chinese methods of administration. Inasmuch a3 the river god had already been honored with a temple, nothing better occurred to the wise mandarins than to recommend the erection of a shrine to the "Golden Dragon" and his sprites, who live in the marshes upon the river bank. And when Li Hung Chang, the "Bismarck of Asia," had knocked his head in the dust before the new altar of the "Golden Dragon" the security of the dwellers along the IIoang-Ho was deemed assured. So successful was the Denver Woman's Club in its editing for Christmas day of the Denver News that the management of that newspaper has made it an offer of permanent editorship. From a column and 5 a half to two columns of the Sunday issue of the News has been placed at the disposal of the club, to be filled with whatever is desired by the clubwomen. This offer was reported and enthusiastically accepted at the last meeting of the club and an editorial committee was at once appointed to take charge. At the same meeting it was announced that $1,000 had been cleared by the efforts of the club at Its holiday newspaper work. SHREDS AND PATCHES. A man's second love is generally worth more money than his first. Puck. Every man despises pink teas, whether he is . invited or not. Atchison Globe. Man is of too noble and too high a birth to be a slave to his body. Seneca. The author of beautiful snow Issued a large edition this trip. Detroit Tribune. Conversation is an art In which a man has all mankind for competitors. Emerson. A Democratic nomination out in Ohio is becoming a great man-seeker. Washington Post. Grip is a mighty mean disease. The visum rarely can die when he wants to do so. Chicago Dispatch. Prisoner Your Honor, this policeman, struck me. New York Magistrate For how much? Washington Star. It begins to look as If the only way for Americans to reach the European meat market is to raise horses. Detroit Tribune. One of the things that the. Democracy is badly in need of at present is a sure cure for sore head. Philadelphia North American. I wonder why it is that we alwas like that kind of preechin the best that makes the feathers fly on somebody else. Silas Ganderfoct. President Cleveland says that he is going to call an extra session. That is about all on which he has a "call." New York Mail and Express. Colonel Ingersoll says that not even the Lord can give Congress wisdom. It is quite evident that the Lord hasn't done so up to date. Kansas City Journal. Messrs. Cleveland and Carlisle need not feel alarmed at President Perler's resignation. The malady is not necessarily contagious. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "When it comes to paying campaign assessments," says the Manayank Philosopher, "the deeper you are in politics the more you are out." Philadelphia Record. DELAWARE'S GOVERNOR. He Is the Peer of Ills Predecessors,' and Has Been Grossly Slandered. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: It is a matter of surprise and regret that a Republican paper so carefully and ably edited as is the Journal should fall into the error editorially of accepting and promulgating the Democratic canard . that Hon. Joshua H. Marvil, the recently ina'igurated Republican Governor of Delaware, "can neither read nor write." The report is sensational and false, but is in full accord with the treatment by Bourbon Delaware Democracy of every Republican of . any prominence in public life in the State. An indignant Legislature has passed condemnatory resolutions, also providing for investigation as to the authorship of the article. But after you trap a skunk what can you do with it? It is possibly true that no Governor of the Diamond " State since Governor Saulsbury, whose two brothers of acknowledged less ability for thirty consecutive years represented the State in the United States Senate, has written his own State papers. The views and ideas of the Governor are framed and shaped by the Secretary of State, a lawyer, or such Is the popular belief. Of the Hon. Nathaniel B. iSmiehers, ex-Secretary of State, ex-representative in Congress, and Governor Marvil's Secretary of State, Senator Frye, of Maine, said In a speech at Dover, last fall, that he "was proud to be introduced to so large and intelligent an audience by the best constitutional lawyer in the United States." Delaware's honor is safe in the hands of such men. Delaware's Governors are chosen, as a rule, from among her retired business men and farmers, men respected and honored for their moral worth and business capacity, though they may not have had the advantages of a classical education. The ablest Governor that Delaware has had for years, the Governor who was more of a statesman and less of a political trickster than any other, was a Democrat, whose love of letter writing and poor orthography gave amusement, occasionally, to such as dwell more on form than substance. In Christian character, in moral worth, in business integrity, in intellectual capacity, Joshua H. Marvil is the peer of any Governor Delaware has had for over thirty years, and in educational qualification he is the equal of most of them. It is certain he will never disgrace the good name of his State, nor "open the prison doors to such criminals as pledge support to his faction and his party." For twelve years, if not for nearly twice that time, Delaware has been Republican on a fair election, but it has been held by the Democrats through manipulation of election machinery and unfair laws. With a constitutional provision for the payment of a poll tax as a voting qualification, Democrats have been given tax receipts, "free, gratis, for nothing," while Republicans have had to fight to get them, to hunt the collectors at the midnight hour and in secret rooms in Philadelphia hotels, in districts posted with false notice of smallpox, etc. Certainly. Republicans in Delaware and other, border States have suffered enough at the hands of the enemy and merit words of encouragement rather than censure from those who should be their friends. If you will watch tne course of Governor Marvil. his appointments, his public uct, his private life if you choose, you will find cause for commending Delaware Republicans In their choice of a candidate for Governor, notwithstanding the false statements and accusations of Democratic penny-a-liners. A BLUE HEN'S CHICKEN. Indianapolis, Jan. 17.

ARBITRATION SCHEME

MEASURE OF BROAD SCO . FRAMED BY ATTORNEY-GENERAL, OL.NEY. Introduced in the House by Representative MtCann as w Substitute for Mr. Wright's Bill. NEW IDEAS INCORPORATED PROVISION MADE FOR STOPPING PROLONGED LABOR DISPUTES. Petition for a Writ of Error in Behalf of Debs et al. Denied Decision Against Obstinate Witnesses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. A labor arbitration plan has been devised by Attorneygeneral Olney and was introduced, to-day, by Chairman McGann, of the House committee on labor. It is intended as a substitute for the one framed by Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright, as a result of the labors of the Chicago strike commission. In several points the bill is more . far-reaching in its propositions than any that has been brought forward. The terms "railroad" and "employe" are defined in the bill, and the latter class includes those working on cars operated by the carrier under lease, making the carrier responsible for their acts, as though they were employed directly by him. The wages paid to employes. It is stipulatd, shall be reasonable and just. In case of wage controversies the chairman of the Interstatecommerce State Commission and the chairman of the labor organization shall communicate with the parties, endeavoring to effect an amicable settlement, and if this mediation falls the controversy may be submitted to a " board of arbitration, of which the chairman of the Interstatecommerce Commission shall be chairman, and which shall consist also of one commissioner chosen by the employer and one by the , labor organization to which, the employes directly interested belong; or, if they belong to more than one, by that one which specially represents employes of the same grade and class and engaged In service of the same nature as the employes in the controversy. Where two or more classes of employes are interested, their organization shall agree on their representative. Other features are: First The parties shall stipulate in writing that, pending the arbitration, the existing status shall not be changed. Second That the award shall be final unless set aside for error of law apparent on the record. Third That the parties shall . faithfully execute it, and it may be enforced in equity so far as the powers of a court of equity permit. Fourth Employes dissatisfied with the award shall not quit work without three months' notice in writing. Fifth. The award shall be continued in force for two years and during that period no new arbitration between the same parties on the same subject shall be had. After filing the award with the clerk of the United States Circuit court of the district in which the difficulty occurs thirty days shall be allowed for filing exceptions in matters of law, after which it shall go into effect if no exceptions are taken. If they are taken it goes into force ten days after their decision. If an agreement of arbitration shall be entered into by employes individually instead of organisations the board shall not be created unless the chairman is satisfied that they represent their associates. During that time it would be unlawful "for organizations or employes to order, aid or abet a strike or boycott, or to leave their employment without giving thirty days notice in writing, nor can they be discharged without thirty days notice except for causes mentioned. Violations of this provision are made a misdemeanor, punishable by $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment. Membership in Incorporated labor organizations it is provided shall be terminated by indulgence in lawlessness, violence, destruction of property, intimidation or threats by members durmg Btrikes, but they are not to be held Individually liable for debts of the organization. The employes of roads managed by receivers appointed by the federal courts shall have the right to be heard through the officers of their organizations or their representatives in Che federal courts or questions affecting the terms of their employment. Employers who make it a condition of employment that men shall not be members of any labor organization, or discharge or threaten to discharge men for such membership, or discriminate against them because of it, or enter into contracts compelling the men to contribute to any fund for charitable, social or beneficial objects or, after discharging men, conspire to prevent them from obtaining employment shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $100 to $1,000. If disputes threatening to injuriously affect the Interests of the people of any section are not submitted to arbitration the Attorney-general, the bill provides, shall be authorized to apply to the District Court for receivers for the railroad to take possession of the property and run It In the interest of the public and may make the employers and employes and any persons or organizations, aiding or abetting them, parties to the suit. Mr. Olney' s Statement. Mr. Olney accompanied the bill sent to Mr. McGann, at the latters request, with a statement of his views on the several provisions of the original bill and his reasons for such new matter as had been incorporated in it. The Attorney-general's statement starts out by disclaiming for every one save himself any responsibility for the views contained in his letter. His first objection is to what might be called the Pullman clause, which Is too obviously aimed at Mr. Pullman to be otherwise construed, but hitting as well every other manufacturer of cars. The vital objection to the clause Is that a manufacturer of cars Is not engaged In Interstate commerce and does not become so engaged, whether he sells or lets cars to a carrier who is, and any attempt to bring hfm within the act must prove abortive and tend to discredit the act generally. On the other hand, Mr. Olney Is of the opinion that every person engaged in operating a car used in interstate commerce ought to come within the act. It is the Attorney-general's judgment that the permanent standing commission provided for by the bill for all cases is not only not needed, but would be of less value than a special commission provided for each case as it may arise, as it is not believed that controversies are likely to occur so often or to be so serious as to require the establishment of the cumbersome and costly machinery provided for by the bill. Once such a commlsison is established it will never be got rid of. The objection that this commission might be needed for the purposes" set forth in Section 3, that the conditions of employment subject to the act may be investigated and ascertained, Mr. Olney meets with the suggestion that the Interstate-commerce Commission, as at present constituted, might with equal satisfaction obtain all the information called for, and. acting with the Commissioner of I.abor. it might properly be charged by a special act of Congress with the duties of mediation and conciliation, for Section 8 of the bill. "That arbitration should be resorted to for the settlement of controversies between employers and their em ployes," Mr. Olney says, "need not be discussea. ine umy anernauve is inaustriai wars, and they are as illogical as brutal, and as wasteful as the wars by which international disputes are often accompan led." Assuming arbitration to be both desirable and needful. Mr. Olney contends that its tribunal should be a special body organ-, lzed on fixed principles with reference to each part in either case as it arises, rather than a permanent body with general jurisdiction over all cases. The machinery of arbitration, he think?, should not be put in motion at the instance of one or more isolated Individuals, but only at the instance o a class, that is, of a whole body of employes performing the same business, and of the same grade, in order that all may be represented in the proceedings and all be found by their results. The

effect to be given to the enfocement eff it Mr. Olney regards as matter of very great consequences. CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED. "In the first place," he say?, "the arbitration tribunal is not Judicial in character, but administrative it does not pass on rights, but rules of business expediency and policy. The courts are not adapted to decide questions of the rates of wages, of the hours of employment and other lika matters. To Impose such duties on them is to load them with functions for which they are not fitted at the cost of the dls- . charge of the functions for which they are fitted. The award, therefore, should be Impeachable in ' the Circuit Court only for errors of law apparent upon the record, and should be filed in court only for, that purpose. "In the second place, as respects the enforcement of the award, two considerations are involved. One is a definite time during which an award shall be in force and not revisable by another award. Such a time Is essential, because no business can be satisfactorily conducted unless the conditions T"t rflovnnahlv ut a K!a nrl nApta1?v.

An award, therefore, should not be capable of being reopened by a fresh arbitration for a period of at least two years. "The other consideration relating to the enforcement of the award arises from tha fact that one of the parties is a common carrier; will, indeed, almost Invariably ba a railroad corporation. That is, one party affected by the award ia an employer who is legally bound to continue to do business, however displeased with an award. The other party affected by the award, on tha other hand, Is in the position of employes generally, who may quit work at pleasure. This one-sided operation - of the award is inevitable, and can be counteracted only In part by making the submission provide that employes dissatisfied with an award shall not, therefore, quit work until tha expiration of three or six months' notice, or of such other time as may be deemed sufficient to give the employer a reasonable opportunity to supply their places. Such a term of the award would not, of course, be specifically enforceable cannot! be m&da to work atgainst his will any mora than a horse can be made to drink. Neither would it be expedient, probably, to make a refusal to work under such circumstances punishable by fine or Imprisonment. The most to be expected of a submission containing such a term would be that mora or less employes, from motives of expediency or of honor, would govern themselves by conditions which they know had no effective legal sanction. "No bill of this nature can be regarded as complete which does not anticipate and provide for a condition of things in which arbitration is a failure, either .because not resorted to or because not acquiesced in, and in which the controversy reaches a stage of heat and violence, causing or menacing great public mischiefs. When an industry is of a strictly nrivattf character the quarrels of employes and employed, so long as they do not result in a breach of the peace, do not interest the public generally and may be left to go on indefinitely, even to the entire exhaustion of the parties and to the complete ruin of the industry itself. But the industry this bill deals with is of a public character and has sc often een pronounced by the courts. It la wise .o facilitate the speedy and peaceful settlement of the differences of those engaged in it. But the paramount duty is to tako care that it shall go on at all hazards. Grievances are to be redressed, of course, with all the promptness which their investigation will permit. But in the interim these public interests must no, suffer and tha business concerned must go on with the least possible interference. Tha bill therefore should contain a section to the effect wherever, either before arbitration or after arbitration, or without arbltation, strife between employers and employes engaged in the business covered by the bill threatens to altogether obstruct or to seriously hinder the transactions of the business, the Attorney-general, on behalf "of the United States, may by proper bill in equity ask for an injunction restraining such obstruction or hindrance of sucbj business and call for the appointment of receivers to take charge of the business ani property involved until the controversy is settled." AGAINST DEBS. Writ of Error Denied by the United States Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Jan. tf.-The Supremo Court of the . United States" to-day denied! the petition of E. V. Debs et al., participants in the big strike, for a writ of error. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion, and said it was the unanimous opinion of the court that the writ would not lie. With reference to the application for habeas corpus leave was granted to file a petition, and a rule was entered making it returnable on the 28th inst. There was no written opinion, and the proceedings were confined to the briefest possible statement. Attorney Darrow was present, as the representative of Debs and his associates, and Assistant Attorney-general Whitney represented the government. . Mr. Darrow construed the order with reference to the habeas corpus as in effect the granting of the petition, but other attorneys present ex pressed the opinion that the order left the matter in Its present status until the argument could be heard on the 28th. DEMURRERS OVERRULED. Recalcitrant Senate Witnesses Must Plead to the Indictments. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. All the demurrers entered by the defendants to the Indictments' returned by the grand Jury against President Havemyer and Secretary Searles, of the American Sugar Refinery Company, broker Seymour, of New York, and correspondents E. J.. Edwards by Judge Cole in the Criminal Court and the defendants requiredt to plead to the indictments. The cases Will probably now go direct to the United States Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus following a plea of not guilty by the defendants. In the . two "cases against Edwards and Schrlver, the newspaper correspondents, the court said the only additional features to the stock brokers' cases were first as to the relevancy of the particular questions put to the newspaper correspondents and second whether they should be excused from answering on the ground of privileged communications. As to relevancy. Judge Coles stated that both witnesses testified they did not have personal knowledge of the matters published, but claimed to have information from persons understood to have personal knowledge of the matter, and the other "was a question pertinent to the Inquiry as to their informant's name." The court ruled that it was pertinent as to me information being a privileged communication. The court said it does not appear that either correspondent refused to answer on the ground that it might incriminate a question which the court might have considered. "It has never been contended before in a court of Justice." said the court, "that a newspaper editor, reporter or correspondent, or any one engaged in the newspaper business is to be considered a person with whom a confidential communication may be lodged and' be protected as between an attorney and client or priest and confessor. There could be no more dangerous doctrine than that a newspaper might obtain information, the effect of which might work great injury and detract from the reputation or character of a party or body, and that the claim of privileged communication might then be made. That rule would be very demoralizing. There being no law to that effect which the court could follow, the demurrer In both cases must be therefore overruled and the defendants must answer by pleading to the indictment." The court then took up the cases of tha Sugar Trust officials, Messrs. Havemyer and Searles, and it held that the questions asked them as to amount contributed by the corporation to campaign funds were pertinent and proper. The question was, said the court, whether pending legislation had been affected by the fact that the Sugar Trust, so-called, had made a large contribution to the campaign. As a general proposition It Is undoubtedly true that Congress has not the right to inquire as to contributions made by a corporation. But the influence of legislation by such contributions is another question. Now, if the action of tfre Senate and of particular Senators had been controlled by contributions, then the committee had the right to inquire into it and the amount of the contribution was of very grave importance. These witnesses answered evervthlng up to the question, of amount. Aboue this Congress had the right to inquire and these gentlemen should have answered. The contention that the Senate committee had no right to inquire because the contribution appeared to be local and not national was declared to be immaterial. It is said to be probable that the defendants will now be surrendered bv their bondsmen pleading guilty and placed technically In jail, being under the custody of the United States marshal, and that the next procedure will be to apply to . the United States Supreme Court for t writ of habeas corpus. Shot ller llitibnad. " JACKSONVILLE. III., Ian. 17. Fred Wiegand went home intoxicated last night and threatened his wife. In a tit of desperation she seized a revolver and shot him through the chin, with probably fatal effect. As Mrs. Wiesand stood by the bodv of her husband she, was seized with remorse and tried to take her own life, but was prevented. Wle&and is a butcher.