Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1895 — Page 4

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THE 1KDIAKAP0LIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1895.

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WHIard's Hotel and the Washington News Lxchanee. 14tii street, bet. Penn. ave. and F street. The cuckoos come up to their work in Washington having the appearance of men who do not relish it. While bo many officials and excellent citizens are demanding an increase of appropriations all round, there are at least 500,000 people in Indiana who are opposed to an increase of taxes. If Indianapolis had a representative in Congress it might at least have a fair chance with other cities of securing an appropriation for its much needed public building. There is Mr. Bynum, to be sure, but Mr. Bynum never did represent his district, much less this part of it. An Eastern weekly paper predicts that the name of General Miles will be presented to the Republican national convention, and the Cincinnati Tribune believes that he would create great popular strength. . Probably General Miles would prefer to remain at the head of the army a place he is sure of for years in a few months. How would It do, one of these days, for a body of strikers to try the experi-, ment of following peaceful methods and avoiding all violence;? The novelty of the procedure would be likely to bring them into public favor, whether their cause was good or not. And then, -perhaps, they might win. , The bill presented by Mr. Moore in the House, which provides that the vote of counties shall be canvassed by a board composed of men selected by the parties casting 1 per cent, or more of the vote, has much to commend it. In the first place, it will save every county from $100 to $3,000, and wiil insure the presence of men of both parties. Thereport that Claus Spreckels is behind the royalist outbreak in Hawaii is not cause or surprise, but the further announcement, in a Washington special, that the Cleveland Hawaiian policy is the plan of the Sugar King, and is the result of campaign operations in which Spreckels . and ihe campaign managers were the chief agents, is at least suggestive. The ' Brooklyn strikers had a just grievance and ' an excellent chance of gaining their point up to the fatal moment when they began to use violent methods. At that moment public sympathy left them, and If they should win now, which seems unlikely, their victory would lack that moral backing which is essential to permanent and genuine euct cess. The Democratic organ is greatly troubled about the hold-over Senators in the. proposed apportionment, 'which leads one to assume that it is laboring under the delusion that they will be got rid of if the present gerrymander stands, or that it has been the custom to drop such Senators whenever a new apportionment is made. The nineteen Republican Senators who will hold over are the terror of the Democracy. To listen to the tales of the discharged employes , who desire to get even with Dr. Edenharter by assailing his management of the Central -Hospital seems Worse than useless, since there may be tlmUl superintendents who will retain worthless men and thus destroy discipline in order to escape complaint. Again. what can such men know of the management of a hospital,- assuming that they are honest? Hon. Luelen Baker, who has been nominated for United States Senator by the Republicans of the Kansas Legislature, is a younger brother of Judge Baker, of the United States Court of this district. lie is about forty-eight years of age, and has for years been one of the most" successful lawyers in Kansas. He is rather of the type of the late Senator Plumb than of ex-Senator Ingalis. He is well qualified to take rank with the best men Kansas has had in the Senate. It is an encouraging indication when a Southern Democrat stands up in Congress, as did Mr. wockrell. of Texas, the other day, and declares that "at this late day this generation should not be called upon to pay a million dollars of claims which, to say the least, are doubtful, and which have been slumber-, ing'. before the committees and the departments for nearly a quarter of a cen- . tury." Equally significant is hremark' of Mr, Dockery, of Miobourl, .when he declares that he "would abolish the committee on war claims and eall.the war closed so far as the payment of louses growing out -of It is concerned." Yesterday a bill was discussed and recommitted to a special committed In the Senate which provides for the appointment by the county commissioners of a humane officer in every county in which there Is a humane society, who shall be paid from $100 to $S00 a year. Of course the commissioners have discretionary power; but so great is the pressure for public employment that a humane society would be formed in every county, and the lives cf county commissioners

would be made a burden to them until a humane officer should be named. The salaries of these officers would be but a part of their compensation, as each could tax up mileage, so that the compensation would be doubled. The devices of the tax-eater are many, and if the committee having this bill to revise are not very clever they will fix another officer upon every county In the State. CHRONIC FAULT-FINDERS.

A few weeks ago the so-called independent press was condemning the Republicans in Congress because they would not take the initiative in formulating financial schemes. It was such a conspicuous illustration of, blind partisanship, we were told, that the one hundred and twenty Republicans in the House would insist on sitting with folded hands while the Democrats were wrangling over the Carlisle currency bill. These excellent editors ,did not tell the public what the Republicans should have done beyond what they said they would do vote for any measure which commended itself to their Judgments. Perhaps they would have had the Republicans join in the Democratic melee over the administration's currency bill. Perhaps they would have had them attend the Democratic House caucus, which bound nobody and which accomplished nothing. Perhaps they believed that the Republicans have some magic power by which they could bring all of the Democrats, not fifty of whom reallv favored the same scheme, to give united and vociferous support to a sound money measure. As none of these editors told the public what they expected the Republicans to do, .we shall never know the quality of their wisdom. A few days , ago, however, Senator Sherman presented a financial measure designed to relieve , the Treasury. It was a simple and effective measure an issue of 2 per cent, bonds, redeemable in five and payable in thirty years. Now, what do these independent ' editors do? Call the Democrats 40 support the measure? Nothing of the kind. One of them declares that the Sherman bill is bad. and should not be passed, because the bonds are redeemable in gold. Another condemns it because the bonds are not of so small denominations as to make them a popular loan. Another condemned it because it contained no provision for the retirement of greenbacks. When all of them have spoken, not one of them will sustain the Sherman bill. And yet it is a measure specially designed to combine all the discordant elements by its simplicity and secure its passage. This is the reception the first effort of the Republicans to solve the present difficulties of the Treasury has met at the hands of the independent press. If it has any influence whatever it would be thrown against any simple but effective remedy. Fortunately it has no influence upon legislation, , because, when not finding fault, it is fantastic. FLAGS FOR SCHOOLHOl SES. The report of the House .committee favoring an indefinite postponement of the bill providing that the American flag shall be floated from every school house in the State naturally excited a lively discussion among the members and aroused opposition but the Journal believes that 'the committee: acted wisely. The fact that the passage of such a measure would involve an annual outlay of $75,000, or a sum greater or smaller, is not the first and most important thing to be considered. If the purchase of flags by the State would teach patriotism to the rising generation, and if there were need that . patriotic sentiments should be thus semi-officially inculcated, the cost of the undertaking should not figure for ' a moment as-an objection. But there Is no proof that this need exists. Already, as the testimony of the members and the result of investigation Bhow, a flag flies over nearly every school house in Indiana. In many instances the banner was the gift of some public spirited citizen of the locality; in many more it was obtained by the contributions and efforts of the children themselves. In every case, whether it came by individual 'presentation , or through penny collections, there can hardly be room for doubt that more interest was taken in it and a greater sense of personal possession felt by all the young people concerned than if it had been a part of the regulation school furniture, like the maps on the wall. In every case where the flag has been raised there have been speeches, songs and other formal exercises in which the children have participated, and which could not fail to teach a patriotic lesson. They might have these exercises if the emblem came from the State as so much bunting, but the chances are that they would be more perfunctory and less impressive ;li adds to the effectiveness of the lesson of patriotism to permit the children to manifest the stirring of the sentiment by a little effort of their wn. Like the old soldiers, they. will love the flag the better when they have done something for it if it is but the earning of a dime towards its purchase. At all events, the legislators who voted against the bill cannot rightfully be accused of a lack of proper, sentiment. They knew that the wave of patriotism which manifested itself in a renewed love for the Stars and Stripes, and which began to sweep over the country five or six years ago, being given a powerful impetus by General Harrison'sfervid eloquence, has not yet begun to die away. It can be depended on to inspire the souls of Indiana children for a long time to come without aid from the State. THK BRECKINRIDGE LESSON. Colonel Breckinridge is said to be greatly humiliated and chagrined over the failure of his lecture tour. The experience has given him the first real understanding of the opinion held of him by the community. He believed that as i: orator he could always command attv ntion, and evidently, also, he held to fie theory that such Fins as those of vhich he was guilty would be overlooked and forgiven In a man, especially in a man of talent and prominence. It is a very common theory, and the subject of frequentand profound discourse by reformers and others. It is rare that the chief social .ice is considered without lamentation over the alleged fact that a single standard of virtue for men :tnd women does not exist, but that men are received into the best society and most guarded family circles and their evil conduct condoned, while their female associates are cast Into outer darkness. Women are

constantly condemned and berated on '

the charge of thus ilscrimlnating between sinners. The accusation had more basis once, perhaps, than it has now. Mr. Breckinridge s case is an impressive object lesson, teachfrg the falsity of the theory at the present time, and the fact that no man can defy the moral law with Impunity. ; Its importance as a lesson can hardly be overestimated, but those whose sight goes beyond the surface of things had no need for such a proof of the incorrectness and injustice of the hackneyed assertion that a rake has no difficulty in entering good society, and is a favorite rather than otherwise even with good women. The proof of this is fpund on every hand. Immoral men are no doubt to be found in the most select circles, but they conceal their vices to the best of their ability, knowing that if they do not doors which they most desire to enter will be closed to them. Instances are frequent where -nen once of good social standing are tabooed for immorality, just as offending women are tabooed, and if such men seem to escape a deserved stigma oftener than the women it is because they can so much more readily hide their misconduct from the knowledge of the public. When they are found out they suffer social ostracism as their erring sisters lo. It is because they " take care not to be found out that to the few people who are aware of their guilt, and who assume that the public knows of it, the double standard of conduct seems to exist. As a matter of fact there is no such double standard in respectable, self-respecting society. to dispose: of dei'exdest CHILDREN. The Journal has on several occasions favorably mentioned the proposition of the State Board of Charities for the establishment of a State school for dependent and neglected children. If it were to be simply an immense home, Into which such children would be collected and retained until sixteen years of age, the Journal would oppose the scheme, because It believes that such bringing up unfits for the battle of life. It is not designed to make the school an asylum, but rather a center of distribution, where the children will be retained a brief period on their way from the poor houses and orphan asylums, to be physically and morally cleaned up before being sent to homes in private families. It is believed that such a school will greatly expedite the process of relieving the tax-payer of the support of hundreds of children who, under existing conditions, must spend several years of the most impressible and plastic period of their lives in county or local institutions, where more of evil than of good is usually found. No public institution can ever be so good as the private home for the bringing up of the young, and no place can be so evil as are poor houses, where contact with the idle and vicious cannot be prevented. No ignorance can be so deplorable as the education received where these waifs are put under the control of those who are the lowest bidders for their maintenance. Prom these neglected and dependent children, as they advance in life, come a large part of the wayward, the shiftless and the vicious who burden and contaminate society. So long as the present system prevails these people will furnish "the larger part of the recruits who crowd the reform schools, the reformatories, the workhouses and the penitentiaries. It is proposed to keep'those who are now poorhouse children and a burden out of the poorhouses, and from being a prolonged public charge, by taking them to the State school, where they will be given a course of training which will fit them to enter respectable homes to take them out of the bad environment and place them where they will be well brought up. Such a school is not an experiment. Several States have tried it, and the trial has been most satisfactory. While the State home has been open in Michigan the number of children supported by taxation has been reduced 50 per cent,, while the population of the State has increased 60 per cent. With substantially the same population as Indiana, Michigan supported less than 300 children by taxation last year, the cost being less than $45,000. Last year Indiana supported about 1,800 children bv taxation at a total cost of $173,000. The bill which has been presented to the Legislature calls for quite an outlay at the outset $150,000 for equipment and $10,000 for grounds. This is for the plant to make a saving to the counties of a large part of the present outlay, which, under the system In vogue, does little more than pay for their maintenance, while the workhouse children are advanced from helplessness to worthless viciousness. The aim of this plan is to take them away out of such conditions In early life, and make them self-supporting and decent. The bill providing for factory inspection contains some good features, but a measure which creates eighteen officers, with salaries aggregating $24,700, .to . say nothing of mileage charges, is too much, unless it !s. the policy of the State to support all who can get offices at large salaries. Factory inspection is necessary to some extent, but most manufacturers, for their own interests, will not have unsafe buildings and machinery. So far as the employment of children is concerned, it is altogether probable that labor organizations would report such violations of law to a State officer. If factory inspection is necessary make it an 'adjunct to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, and 'use the money for it whichhas been devoted to the publication of a large and useless volume every two years, issued too late to be of use If It contained anything of value. Temperance people in T ermont have for years been drinking a variety of hop beer which they fondly believed was entirely free from alcohol. At all events, if they did not believe it they drank it with enjoyment1 as a temperance beverage, and said nothing. Now comes a prying member of the W., C. T. U. who never did like beer, anyway, and has an analysis of this hop decoction made, which shows it to contain a percentage of alcohol only a small fraction less than that in genuine lager. She says she is now going to prosecute the manufacturers of it and prevent its sale in her prohibition State. While she is doing this'the innocent people who have made the befit of it as the only safe drink will probably regret that while they were about it they did not drink a better article In the shape of real beer. , The discovery by some prying Detroit person of a; building there t In which forty Italian families are living with thirty people to & room seems to taXl iat U s.acd

in that city for some sort of smelling, renovating or other committee." And yet another Caarornia millionaire's will is to be contested. California millionaires would save trouble by cremating their effects previous to 'their departure for the eternal crematory. , Reader, Ekin, Ind. : .The census of 1R)0 made the center of population twenty miles east of Columbus, Ind., a point in the southwest part of Decatur county. BUBBLES LV THE-AIR.

"So Mldan. , "That was lucky old duck," mused Mr. Hungry Higgins. "that everything he touched turned o gold. Everybody I ever try to touch turns to ice." ; A Discredited Proverb. "It is the empty wagon that makes the most noise," said the man who delights to talk in aphorisms,.; . . .. . , . "Well, what of that?" retorted the other man. "It is Just the other way with a man. He makes the most noise when he is full." . Bad Scheme. "I hear your church fair proved . a failure." "It did. The church across the way started a bargain counter, and though the women were willing to let their husbands come to our' affair, they took all the money to the other people." The Cheerful Idiot. "Do you know," said the Cheerful Idiot, . "that it ia the easiest thing in the world to tell whether a man is going out on a journey or returning by the way he carries his valise?" ; , , .v "I never thought of that," said the youngest boarder. "What is the difference?" . .-. ) The Cheerful Idiot settled himself a little firmer in his chair and gloated a moment before answering. . . . , . . "It is just this way," he went on. "When a man is going away he carries his valise toward he railroad station and when, he is coming back, he carries it in the other direction." - THE BROOKLYN' DISORDERS. It is decidedly- unpleasant that a city like Brooklyn should be in the hands of the military, but it is infinitely better than to be in the hands of the mob. PUtsburg Commercial-Gazette. In Brooklyn the street-car corporations seem to have been unjust in dealings with the labor corporations, and the sympathies of the people are with the labor corporations as long as there is 110 violent resistance of the law. Louisville Commercial. The pending question is whether a company which is ready to run cars for the transportation of the public shall be enabled to do so without having its motormen attacked, its property injured and the lives of passenger , endangered. New York Evening Post. The only lesson of the Brooklyn strike is that of the Debs strike, the Homestead strike and all similar strikes. They settle nothing. They do not remove the wrongs and oppressions of labor. They are an evil without a recompense. They retard instead of advancing the cause of labor. Chicago Herald. . The situation in Brooklyn emphasizes the con-elusion of the wisest labor leaders that, save under very exceptional conditions, strikes are a failure, and that some other remedy for lalor's ills must be sought. It is a situation as intolerable to the lover of justice as riot Is intolerable to the lover of good order. Chicago Times. They (the strikers) are setting an example of lawlessness far more, dangerous than that of which they complain. They are resorting to revolutionary methods against those to whom they must In the end look for relief. They are doing far more injury to their cause and to themselves than to any one else. Detroit Free Press. The : situation in Brooklyn is that of a boly of rioters acting, or pretending to act, under orders' of a.1 trades' union, and acting in defiance of law. The duty of the authorities of the city of Brooklyn and of the State of New York is to employ every agency under the r command for the vindication of law. Chicago Inter Ocean. Obviously, the condition precedent is that the public peace and order shall be restored and maintained. That. Is the only way to settle the trouble. The lawless violence inflicted with impunity upon men engaged in operating the cars is the chief obstacle. That stopped the settlement will come immediately. New York Times. Order - will be restored. What is to be done to that end will be dqne. To be done well, 'twere well it be done quickly. The challenge of violence to law has been met. To violence should be given cause to rue its challenge. Order is first. Other things are afterward. Order is before either liberty or justice, ; for without it liberty is dead and justice is the slave of violence. Brooklyn Eagle. When the Brooklyn trolley men prove that their strike Is a strike, and not a riot, then the public may be able to consider their statement that the intolerable outrage of a stoppage in Brooklyn's street-car traffic must be -ascribed to the strikers or the companies. While an extra policeman or a single soldier has to be on duty to keep the peace all other questions and sentiments must Btay swallowed uy In indignation at the threat of violence. New i'ork Sun. , . ; ABOUT PEOPLE A.D THIXGS. It appears that notebooks are quite common in the Japanese army jtmong1 both soldiers and coolies. They keep regular diaries, and take copious notes of everything they see. The sense of touch Is dullest on the back, quickest on tongue and finger tips. Try it with two pins held a little way apart. Two distinct sensations are felt upon the tongue, only one upon the back. The Empress Eugenie, in her English home, 1s constantly beselged by applicants for assistance. These come chiefly from France in the form of begging letters, most of them in the name of religion. "We consider," sail a life insurance expert the other day, "that a woman who is In good health at the age of forty-five is likely to outlive a man of the same age, because she 1s apt to be more temperate and is less liable to .Accident." Lady Florence Dixie has become president of the Association Football Club for Ladles, recently organized in North London. At present the practice of the club is conducted in private, but the ladies, who are most enthusiastic, intend very shortly to invite the public to attend. A story illustrating Ruskin's whimsicality i3 given by . the New York Tribune on the authority of a friend of the great writer. "One morning," he notes, "as we were coming: out of chape!, he said to us. I ouerht nt to have come to chapel this morning.' We asked him, in some astonishment, why? He said, 'I am going to write a critique on 's picture in the Academy, and I want to be in a perfectly diabolical temper. " There are twenty-nine widows on the pension rolls of the government receiving $100 or more a month, and if the House agrees to the Senate bills giving $100 a month to the widows ,of Generals Banks and Thomas Crittenden, the list will embrace thirty-one names. Most of these are widows of distinguished- army and navy officers and receive the $100 a month allowance. Bat the sum of $168 a month goes to the widows of Genera's. Los:an, McClellan, Fremont. Crook and F. 1. Blair, and Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan and Mrs. Divid D. Porter pet $208 a month pens!on, wVle the two livintr widows of Presidents, Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield, receive $UC or $3,000 a year. O. let us not vituperate. For he who does repents, E"n those who can't be gentlemen Can keep from being gents. ? Washington Star. 1 Passv watched outside the hole, Ard mousey staid inside: A vptv w'se precaution, by Which Mousey saved his hid. Pussey went away, and then Mousey grew so slack In vigilance, tie went outside And the cat came back. Detroit Fre Press.

A RUMOR OF BOODLE

SENATOR BOYD TELLS O THE REMARKS THAT WERE MADE TO HIM. He Wa Told ot a Prominent Coanty Officer's! Saggentlou that a Thousand Dollars Be Given Him. SCORING FOR CLEVELAND PRESIDENT DENOUNCED IN A RESOLUTION' OF THE HOUSE. Representative Statesman Mukrs n Fine Speech Finer Bill Killed Proceedings of Both Houses. The talk about the County Officers Association attempting to secure favorable fee and salary legislation has brought In Its wake one or two rumors about attempts to use boodle, the presumption being, in light of the circular issued by that association, that a large sum has been raised. A story was told in the corridors of the Denison last night that an attempt had been made to influence Senator Boyd, who recently introduced a. fee and salary bill In the Senate. Senator Boyd -was seen last night and the following questions put to him: "Has any officer of the County Officers Association offered to influence you in any way in matters respecting legislation?" "No officer of the association," said Senator Boyd, "has come to me with anything of that sort. It Is true that a man came to me and made some remarks which excited my indignation. I promptly told him what I thought of any attempt of the kind and warned him never to speak of thj subject to me again." "What were his remarks to you?" "As near as I can remember, this man called on me and said, in the course of the conversation: 'Mr. So and So (naming a prominent member of the association) said the other day that there was no reason why Boyd, who is a poor man, should not have a thousand dollars in order that he may have a little more than enough to pay his board during the session.' They knew I was a poor man well enough, but they didn't know the character of the man they were trying to deal with. I indignantly resented the remarks, and have heard nothing further about the matter. "I can read in the newspaper head lines some of the thoughts of the editors, but I want to say that this bill which I have in troduced has not been drawn ur in the Jnterests of any county officers whatever. l have endeavored to make it just, both 10 ine omcers ana taxpayers alike. 1 doubt if the bill will pass, as I have since found that there are several inequalities in it, but It may be that these will be amended. The bill, I think, is founded on a fair population raito, with these minor exceptions which I mention." "Then there has been no advantage shown any particular office either in your own county or otherwise?" "There have been no favors shown anywhere. Dr. Tucker, of our county, who Is president of the association, and who is a county officer, has not personally asked me to increase his salary at all. I know that Dr. Tucker has spent considerable time organizing the association, but he has never asked me to give the association any aid in supporting legislation. I have a great many letters from county officers explaining the workings of their offices to show the rate of compensation to which they think they are entitled. In a number of cases elaborate statements have been prepared." Mr. Boyd stated that the Marion county officers had shown no effort to influence legislation in any way. DENOUNCED THE PRESIDENT. Mr. Statesman Rousts Mr. Cleveland to u Beautiful Brown. That proud bird of freedom, the American eagle, soared in the elaborately decorated chamber of the lower house yesterday, and to Mr. Stutesman was the honor given of turning the eagle loose. Mr. Stutesman fathered a resolution denouncing the Hawaiian policy of the Cleveland administration, and in the few minutes that followed a good old brand of patriotism was uncorked. Mr. Stutesman, in speaking on his resolution, outdid Cleveland himself in coining a catchy phrase for a situation. The Cleveland-Gresham policy was declared to be one "notoriously weak and infamously imbecile." The resolution, said Mr. Stutesman, was not one for political claptrap or buncombe, not one to excite partisan prejudice, but a means of expressing the sentiment of the people of Indiana on a policy which brought indignity to the American flag. It was fit that a representative body of the people should so express the sentiment of the people, - The Democratic members, unwilling to put themselves on record condemning their erstwhile turgid idol, sought, without argument of any kind, to avert the obloquy as long as possible by sending the. resolution to the committee on federal relations. Hope dawned on this federal relations committee, for here was the only opportunity it has had, or probably will have, to get a bill or a resolution referred to It during the session, but the majority promptly disposed of the resolution, and the faint hope of the committee vanished. Mr. Merritt wanted the motion to refer laid on the table, and as such a motion would carry the resolution with it, the Democrats tried to take advantage of the parliamentary point by siding with Mr. Merritt. The majority, however, refused to table, and then a vote was taken directly on Mr. Stutesman's resolution, which was carried by a strict party vote, all the Democrats being recorded against it. The result: 75 ayes, 15 noes. Mr. Pettit was given an opportunity during the parleying to make a patriotic speech. The resolution, as adopted, Is as follows: "Whereas, A bloody revolution has recently taken place in the Republic of Hawaii, brought about indirectly by the menacing and hostile attitude of the United States government, as at present administered, toward the ertort recently made in those islands to take a step forward in the march of human progress by Bubstltutlng a republican government for a despotic and venal monarchy, therefore, be it "Resolved, That this 'House condemns in unqualified terms every phase of the policy of the present administration on the Hawaiian question. "That we particularly denounce the unpatriotic and un-American action of the Special commissioner endowed with paramount power by the President, in lowering tne standard of American dignity and patriotism by hauling down the flag at Honolulu. "That it ia the sentiment of this House that a ship of war should be kept at Honolulu, and that no part of the rights and privileges secured to the United States and Hawaiian government should be abandoned or waived to enable any other government tosecure a foothold or to lease any part of the Hawaiian Islands. "That we favor the speedy annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States on the terms of the treaty ratified by the administration of Benjamin Harrison." FLAG BILL KILLED. The American flag came, in for a share of the proceedings in another respect. The bill drawn up by Wallace Foster, and introduced by Mr. Van Arsdel. requiring the American flag to be displayed on school houses, with ceremonies at certain times in the year, was recommended for indefinite postponement by the committee to whom it was referred. The House concurred in this. The bill proviaed for the display of tne flag- on a number of occasions when in many parts of the State tne school are not in session. The annua cost would be about $75,000 If the 1 became a law. As it ia, a large number of the schoolhouses have flags.' The report on the soldiers home project occasioned a considerable discussion. It

was the committee on military affairs that made the report, and while there vas no opposition among the members, apparently, to the founding of the home, there was a feeling that the committee on ways and means should examine every important bill that carried an appropriation with it. The military affairs committee cut the appropriation in the bill from $150,000 to $100,000. A motion was made to refer the report to the ways and means committee and to this the gentleman from Tippecanoe county took exceptions. Mr. Baker showed that every item of expenditure contemplated was set down in the bill in plain figures. Lafayette had been selected by a Grand Army committee, after investigating all the available sites and considering the offers made by the different cities. Mr. McBeth. in speaking of the bill, said that after a comparatively few years the home would revert to the State for other purposes, as all the old soldiers would be gone. Then, he added, facetiously, tt might be used for a home for feeble-minded politicians." Members of the committee on ways and means thought they were the proper ones to scrutinize the bill. i lr. Stutesman agreed with them, disclaiming nr attempt to kill the measure. Mr. ailea thought it proper as a business measure to have his committee pass on the bill. He also declared that thre was no intention to stifle the bill. Finally the report of the committee on military affairs was turned over to the ways and means committee. AN INSURANCE ARGUMENT. An argument arose later in the morning between Mr. Wflloughby and Mr. Moo-2 ever an insurance bill of Mr. Moore's which the judiciary committee had reported favorably, and several warm remarks were pi-ssed. Incidentally, much was said bout the greed of the Insurance monopolies. Mr. Moore had the bill referred to his own committee. It makes the formation of Insurance compacts by foreign fire companies operating in the State unlawful, and prohibits combinations for the purpose of ra'Fing rates by any of these outside companies. Mr. Willoughby wanted me bill to be sent to the insurance committee, which he thought was the proper one, and he made this suggestion, although the bill was ready for a second reading. He said the bill was an Insufficient one; that It oractlcally barred foreign insurance companies, and contained provisions that would give Indiana companies a monopoly of the entire business, as they were not prohibited from forming compacts. The life insurance companies, he thought, were orthy of more attention, as they were pilL:K up immense assets by maintaining high rates of life insurance. Mr. Willoughby made a very strong speech. Mr. McBeth, cf White county, had pronounced vl?ws, which he was fearless in expressing. Mr. M'-ore had intimated that the lnsunn-.e committee wanted to throttle the bill. Mr. White thanked him for the compliment. Mr. Willoughbv said he knew of Indiana companies being in the insurance trust. The l. use refused tc recommit the Dill. Many of the committees reported progress on their work. The judiciary committee's report .was outlined in the Journal yesterday morning. The constitutional convention resolution was killed and the Jeffersonville Gretna Green bill was recommended. Mr. Ross, of the committee on township business, said his committee had Indefinitely postponed two bills, one relating to township boards in charge of township expenses and the other concerning a dog tax amendment. Under a decision of the same committee, Mr. Hamrick will , not have the pleasure of referring to the county poor house in Hendricks county as the "county home." The committee on cities and towns recommended Mr. Holloway's bill incorporating tobacco warehouse comDanies. and Mr. Dinwid

dle's bill knocking out prize-fighting under the guise or "contests or science ana sKin. Mr. Kamp's insurance bill, with the exception of one clause providing for organizing mutual cyclone and storm insurance companies was killed. The one clause was sent to the insurance committee, with the recommendation that it be incorporated with the existing law. The committee on agriculture said the Remington hedge fence bill found favor, with the exception of one clause, which was amended. Where a complaint is filed for cutting a hedge fence It must be made by an owner of adjacent ground. Merrltt's noxious weed bill came back from the agriculture committee with an amendment, taking in toll roads as well as free ones. The Indiana Academy of Science found a friend in the education committee, which decided to ask the printing of the academy's proceedings and documents not exceeding $2,000 a year. The rights and privilege committee favored the voluntary association bill of Mr. Pettlt, which permits doctors to organize for protection from malpractice suits. The bill appropriating $3,000 for . erecting tablets to the Indiana soldiers on the Gettysburg battlefield was indefinitely postponed. All the reports of the committees, with the exceptions noted, were concurred in by the House. NEW BILLS INTRODUCED. -The following are the bills introduced yesterday before adjournment: McGeath of Blackford To amnd proceedings in c'v:l cases. Longwell ot Cass To amend act conc?.ning elections. Amending an act in proceedings in civil cases. O'Brien of Clay Creating State Board of Aibitration. . Allen of Daviess To confirm appointment of. George Julian and Wm. Melloy as cornnrpsioners for the State and proviling compensation. .Nfcwhouse of Decatur To amend .ici ''nCernlng estates. To encourage agriculture tml horticulture Card will of Floyd Limiting the amount 0? taxes to be levied by county oommistuners in counties of more than Kve thousand people. For the registration of titles to land. Stotsenberg of Floyd Preventing mutual life and accident associations from deJ.ieting moneys paid in by members. Two building and loan association amendments. Hessler of Fountain Authorizing incorporated towns to pay for water for fire purposes. Loring of Fulton Concerning election of county superintendents. Hamrick of Hendricks Concerning election of county superintendents. Appropriating $9,600 for Reform School for Boys to purchase more land. Giving justices of peace right to imprison in misdemeanor cases. Crozier of Jefferson To abolish office of water works trustees. FEATURES OF THE BILLS. The following are the features of some of the bills introduced yesterday in the House: By Mr. McGeath Counts for murder in ithe first or second degree can be Joined with voluntary manslaughter and -conviction made upon any of them. Involuntary manslaughter cannot, however, be connected with these. Mr. Longwili A change in the election law, enabling candidates to print their own tickets, the voter to seal the ticket in an envelope while secured by the screens of a booth. Mr. Longwili Providing for changes of venues in civil cases, as follows: Where the judge has previously been an attorney in the case, or is interested in it; where the judge is of kin to either party; where odium is attached to the applicant in the county or where the opposite party has undue influence over the citizens of a county; where there is local prejudice or where the county is a party to the suit; where the conveniences of wftnesses and the interests of justice would be subserved; where the judge of the court would be an important witness for the party making the application; where an affidavit is made showing bias, prejudice or interest of the judge in the case. Mr. Newhouse Changing the law f descents; half the property. to go to the surviving widow or widower, where there are no children, and the other half to go to the parents of the decedent. The half to go to decendent's surviving brothers or sisters, if the parents are dead. If the estate is under $2,000, all of tt goes to the widow or widower. Mr. Newhouse Giving county commissioners the right to buy land for agricultural fairs, where petitions are signed by twenty-five property owners; the limit of expenditure to be $10,000. Mr. Cardwill A bill making county recorders the registrars of land titles. After an examination by two lawyers appointed by the recorder the title is registered, and after rive years tt cannot be attacked. The svstem is known as the New Zealand one. Mr. Stotsenberg Preventing mutual benefit associations and building and loan associations from using dues of members to pay current expenses. It is claimed that a number of these mutual benefit associations are operating under the building and loa association law without right. SMITH'S DAY OF RECKONING. It Grnilnally Approaches Judiciary Committee's .Meeting. Green Smith, the fee grabber, and his office will be subjects for legislative investigation. The judiciary committee decided yesterday to recommend to the House the appointment of a commission to take up an investigation of the office of Attorneygeneral and of State Treasurer. The oilginal resolution in the House called for a committee of seven, but the judiciary committee decided on three from each House, a Democrat from each branch to be among the investigators. It was deemed only fair to have the minority represented. Another important matter the committee on judiciary considered was the resolution of Mr. Cardwill, proposing a constitutional amendment looking towards machin voting-

In the State. In order to have the matter discussed by the House the committee decided ' to report favorably on the - resolution. Mr. Cardwill made a speech explaining his resolution. He said that in Floy.1 county the aver&ge cost a precinct under the present election law was $69. while under a system of machine voting the cost would be $34 less, and only half the number of preclncu would be needed. Tha cost of the machines, which are now oa exhibition in New York, is about $:0 eah, and Mr. Cardwill thought It might be possible to get one of them here for exhibition purposes. A test was recently made in New York with a ticket containing sixtycandidates, and it Is said the machine) worked admirably in expressing the voters choice. K. . . Another resolution looking towards a constitutional amendment met the approval of the committee. It was that of Mr. Dinwiddie. requiring five years residence in this -country as a qualification for voting. 1-oreigners can vote In Indiana under the present law when they are not even citizens of the United States. The Bohannon bill, making a rata of interest above 6 per cent, usurious, was lail aside for indefinite postponement. Th Thomas bill, concerning landlord, and tenant, was passed favorably in committee. A like action was taken on Senate Bill 47, for the relief of Shoals. Ind. Mr. Holloway's bill for the licensing of stationary engineers will be recommended. It creates a board of three examiners, each to serve in a district and examine applicants. The Governor is given the power of appointment, and the fees, each applicant paying $3 for examination, will g to make up the compensation of the examiners, none of whom are to receive more ' than $1,200 a year. All boilers in towns or cities of more than five thousand inhabitants must be Inspected. CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS. Proposed Penalty Subject of a Lively, Senate Discussion. The subject that occupied most attention, in the Senate yesterday was the report ot the committee on judiciary, on Senator McCutehan's bill providing more stringent penalties for carrying concealed weapons. The McCutchan measure provides a find of not less than $500 and imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than six months for the offense. The majority report of the committee recommended the indefinite postponement of the bill, and a minority-report, signed by Senator Parker, recommended its passage. Senator McCutchan entered an emphatic protest against sending his pet measure to the waste basket, and made an earnest plea for the adoption of the mir nority report. He argued in its favor that the mildness of the concealed weapon's law and the laxity of its enforcement were the cause of two-thirds of the murders la the State. There were, in his county, ha said, three red-handed murderers awaiting trial, whose offenses would never havd been committed if there had been a rigorous law against the fasnion of carrying concealed weapons. Senator Newby, speaking for the majority report, said tne present law was sufficient if it was properly enforced, and-he was opposed to encuuiucting the statute books with any more laws that would be dead letters. Nearly every one took a turn at the bill, and the Kentucky method and the Texas method were exploited and dissected. As favoring tha enforcement of a comparatively miid measure and showing how a stringent measure la Ignored, it was cited that the State of Kentucky has one of the severest concealed weapons laws in the country, and yet the fact was that in no State in tha Union did as many people carry dirks and revolvers as in Kentucky. Senator McCutchan defended his Kentucky neighbora from the aspersions cast upon them and described them as a hospitable and delightful people, but always ready to shoot. A motion was made to recommit the bill for the purpose of making certain amendments suggested, but the motion was voted down and the minority report was adopted. Another measure that provoked a discussion of great length and vast range was Senator Shiveley's bill providing for the appointment of humane inspectors by county commissioners. There was a majority report from the judiciary committee recommending the indefinite postponement of this bill and a minority report in its favor. Senator Shlveley, speaking in favor of his bill, said there were numerous instances of cruelty Inflicted on the helpless confined In the county Jails and infirmaries, the punishment of which, through the efforts of a humane officer, would have a tendency to check similar acts in others. Senator Newby spoke against the bill, and stated that if the proper officers did their duty, cruelty would be prevented, and acts of cruelty would be punished, but ho did not" believe the people would fndorso the creation of what, to him, seemed to bo a useless office. If there must be humane inspectors, said he why not also saloon inspectors, and horse thief inspectors and lynching inspectors? He was as much opposed to cruelty at. any one else, but there were already officers sworn to protect . tha weak and helpless, and he did not .bellevo that the appointment of any more officials would have the tendency to decrease the amount of cruelty and wickedness in tha world. The bill was, finally .recommitted to a special committee composed of Senator) Shiveley. Ellison, LaFollett, Gifford and Holler. After prayer had been offered in the Senate, yesterday morning. Senator Ellison was recognized and introduced a resolution which was referred to the committee on corporations. The resolution recites that, during the last year, there has been a bitter conflict between labor and capital, and that the Issue between the two elements wa3 now enlisting the best thought of ttja country. Congress was looking around for a way to solve the labor problem. The laws of the State of Indiana, so . far as they bear on the labor question, were de clareJ to be abreast of those of any other State, but still additional legislation might he needed. It was, therefore, asked that the committee on corporations make an investigation and report whether it was advisable to apooint a State board of arbu tration, or whether there was any other legislation necessary to secure to the laboring classes their rights, or to give to capital greater security. Senator Newby Introduced a resolution, which was adopted, providing for the printing of two hundred copies of each bill, excent in such cases as otherwise provided. Senator Houghton presented a resolution authorizing the conyTnittee on elections to hold sessions at the cities of Huntington and Bluffton for the purpose of taking- evidence in the election contest case of Foust against Rinear; also authorizing the committee to summon witnesses and administer oaths. The resolution was adopted. NEW SENATE BILLS.

NV. II. Drapler's Claim for Printing Proceed,nR-s Appears Again. The following bills were introduced: By Senator Alexander Defining the rights of second wives in decedent's estates: authorizing judges to appoint stenographers in all cases where either litigant demands it; amending the act regulating the recording of wills. By Senator Bird Providing for the registration of does. By Senator Boord Amending the law concerning public offenses and their punishment. , By Senator Cranor Apportioning the State for congressional purposes. By Senator Collett Appropriating $100,000 for the maintenance of the Logansport Hospital for the Insane for the year ending Oct. 31. 189, and $105,000 for the year ending Oct. 31, 1837; appropriating $25,000 for tha construction of annexes at the insane hospital at ixgansport for the confinement of violent prisoners; to amend the road law; making the Twenty-sixth judicial circuit to consist of Adams county; creating the Fifty-seventh Judiclar circuit to consist of the county of Jay and authorizing the Governor to appoint a Judge and a prosecutor for the Fifty-seventh Judicial district. By Senator Duncan Regulating changes O? vonce. By Senator Humphreys To amend the net relative to the printing and binding of the acts. By Senator Kern, by request To pay W. H. Drapier for brevier reports for the Fifty-first. Fifty-second. Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth General Assemblies. Bv Senator McOutchan To pay Stephen A. 'Blake $2,934.04' expended in excess of contract on public buildings. By iienator McDonald To amend the ditch and drain law. By Senator Newby To amnd the law concerning proceedings in civil cases; to reimburse Robert P. Overman for $1,419, amount expended by him on bulldinc of the State in excess of the contract price. By Senator Self Ta amend an aci con- -cerning nubile offenses. By Senator Seller To amend the act relating to the bidding in of lands mortgaged for school loans. 1-- Senator Seller Requirtng township tru ees to keep a record of all orders issued: prescribing what disposition shall be made of the printed acts of the Legislature; amending the statutes governing proceedings in civil cases: regulating the. disposition to be made of the printed acts. By Senator Shlvely To protect inn keepers and hotel men from t'ead-oeat patrons;" to take depositions for the probate of wills. By Senator Stuart A fee and salary bill. By Senator Sweeney Compelling insurance companies to p 1 the full amount of a policy where the destruction of pros-

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