Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1895 — Page 4

'THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1895.

Til E DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JANUARY 29, 1895. WAShlNGTON OFFICE -1410 PEHHSYIVAH1A AVENUE Telepne. Calls. Business Office 23 EJorial Eooms... 242

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" KEW YOBK-Gilsey House. Windsor Ilotel and Astnr House. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Ketuble, cor. Lancaster avenud Baring st. . HJCAfi i palmer House.' Auditorium Hotel and P. O. News Co., Kl Adams street. C1XCJXNATI-J. It., Haley fi Co., 151 Vine at. v . LOUISVILLE C. T. Dctring, northwest corner of TMnl cud JHlerson ets and Louisville Book Co., ' Ubii oiulh avc. fcT Lot' lis Union Xews Company. Union Depot. WASH OX. 1. C Wggs House. Ebbttt House. Wlllard s Hotel and the Washington News Exclittugc, 14tli street, bet. Penn. are. aud J? street. . , , , ,, , , The President's recent ride with Senator Sherman seems to have had a good effect. , . . t. Probably the President cannot rally so many Democrats to vote for his latest financial proposition as he did to indorse his Hawaiian policy. There are so many things needing attention at the hands of the Legislature that it "cart well let those matters severely alone which are about right. Wise legislating consists as much in killing bad measures as in enacting good ones, but a faithful attention on the part of legislators is essential to both. ' " ', ' .; Will the actors whose union condemns Judge Woods for sentencing1 Debs boycott that judicial gentleman if he should want to buy a ticket to any of their shows? -' ' If the President had presented his last financial plan first, and as many ' Democrats in proportion to their num ber asKepumicans naa votea ior it it would now be a law. . . Mr. Cleveland's message Is decidedly panicky, and yet there is a general im- ' pression that the Congress which he so humbly begs to heed his words will take no action In the matter. , It Is gratifying to know that in the general industries of the country there are three times as many resumptions as shut-downs; even If wages do not recover the loss sustained by ' the Demo cratic blunder. When the President invited actor Tree, of England, to play in Washington he did the next best thing he could In imitation :of the command which royalty Issues ,to .an actor whom it wishes to see or hear. - In his greatest emergency Mr. Cleveland consulted John Sherman, and the result is a plan for commercial relief decidedly better than the- several he has recommended f before. Mr. ' Sherman Is a handyman to have in. the neighborhood.- : . Ordinarily the President contents himself with ."recommending" certain legislation by . Congress; sometimes he "urges" It, but In his special message of yesterday the President says, "I beg ; the Congress to give the subject Its immediate attention." Why not let ; the citizens of Jackson county determine for themselves the location of the county seat? If a substantial majority of them want the seat ff . goverpment to be at Seymour and are willing to foot the bills involved in the change the result of an election would settle the matter. The Legislature which can afford but 75,000for a home for Its needy veterans and their wives in two years cannot afford to add to the annual State . tax a perpetual levy of $200,000 a year for one educational institution which has a fund of half a million dollars derived from the taxpayers in addition to " an annual appropriation. - "If Abraham Lincoln or L lyases S. Grant were President now it would be understood that the present government of Hawaii . would receive the benefit of the full protection of the United States." Indianapolis Journal. . We have a notion that there is a certain distinguished citizen of Indiana who would accept the mext Republican nomination on a platform pledging that very kind of protection. Washington Post. The Post Js doubtless correct, and if the aforesaid distinguished citizen should be elected President he would not surrender Japanese students who. had sought American protection to be tortured and killed by heathen Chinese, fior would he lend himself to an intrigue for . the overthrow of the 'republic and the restoration of the deposed Queen in Hawaii; ' '." A correspondent puts the scheme to straighten the Kankakee on the same basis as the public schools and other institutions benefiting the whole people, and in' doing so he is In error. Except the small revenue that the State may , derive-" from an increased value of the lands as taxes, the people and taxpayers would not be benefited. The few men who own the lands and the speculators and contractors who were In it would derive groat benefit, but the State, that Is, the taxpayers, would foot , the bills. Already $75,000 has 'been expended in an attempt. to remove a ledge in Illinois eupposed to prevent a freer flow of the water of the Kankakee. If that attempt has been successful and accomplished what was claimed for it the fact has not been heralded. If $75,000 has been inadequate to remove a ledge, it is fair to assume that two or three million dollars would be expended in making new channels to straighten the Kankakee and In deepening the channel where a new one is not ( made. Of course a commission would report the scheme feasible, and; then there would be a repetition of what has taken place in a score of like instances .in: other States. Tha work

would be done at the State's expense, and all the people at large 'would derive would be an Increase of the State debt from one to five millions and the annual interest charge. If there is a profitable investment for capital in the straightening of the Kankakee it will be done by private enterprise. If it is not so done it will be because capitalists have ascertained that there Is no money in it. The era of State railroad and canal building has ended, ; and in this State disastrously. The river straightening is of the same family. THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL, MESSAGE

At last, and slowly, but. it is to be hoped, not too late, the President has reached a wise conclusion. His special message sent, to Congress yesterday is full of slgpificance in the evidence It affords of his appreciation of the impending financial crisis. It is significant, first, in Its wide departure from the views expressed in the President's message of December last, when he gave his "unqualified approval" to the Carlisle currency plan, and, second, in the unusual earnestness with which it recommends remedial legislation to relieve the present necessities of the government and maintain its credit. The whole tenor of the message shows that the President has had his eyes opened to the folly of currency tinkering when the vital need of the government is protection against the depletion of its gold re3eve and escape from conditions which are rapidly carrying it towards, if not bankruptcy, at least a ruinous impairment of its credit. A fair and candid judgment of the message compels the admission that its prevailing spirit is one of devotion to sound financial principles and an earnest desire to adopt right methods, regardless of party or political considerations. The President puts to Congress as a patriotic duty that of honestly and sincerely trying to relieve the situation, and he makes very plain the disasters that are likely to follow if this is not done. His statements concerning the see-saw operation by which the government is made to redeem greenbacks over and over again in gold, thus continuallydepleting its reserve and impairing its credit, are not new but they are strongly put. Referring to the operation of the vicious law by which the greenbacks are required to be reissued after being redeemed in gold, he says: "More than 300,000,000 of dollars in these notes have already been redeemed in gold, and notwithstanding" such redemption , they are all still outstanding." He might have added that under the ' present system these same notes might be presented and redeemed in gold a thousand times, absorbing the reserve- faster than the government could replenish It, and would still be outstanding as the basis of a new demand for gold. Y A continuance of this- policy could, have but one ending, viz., the elimination of gold from our currency system,, and the placing of the country on a silv. ver basis. No person having the welfare or honor of the country at heart could desire this. The President does not desire it. He says: "While I am not unfriendly to silver, and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with financial safety and the preservation of national honor and credit. I am not willing to see gold entirely abolished from our currency and finances." To avert this and other disastrous results he urges Congress to pass a. bill authorizing a large issue of 3 per cent, long-time gold bonds for the purpose of maintaining the gold reserve and the government credit and retiring and canceling the greenbacks and the silver treasury notes issued under the law of 1890. He would make the bonds payable in fifty years, for the excellent reason that "we off the present generation have large amounts to pay, if we meet our obligations, and long bonds are most salable." The bonds could, of course, be deposited by national banks to secure circulation, and the President recommends that they be allowed to issue circulation up to the face value of the bonds." A bill embodying these features was Introduced in the House yesterday. It ought to be promptly passed, but there is reason to fear it will not pass at all. The Journal hopes it 'will receive the solid support of the Republicans in both houses, and if it is defeated let the responsibility rest wholly on the Democrats. If this Congress fail to pass the bill or one embodying the same general features the President should call an extra session of the next Congress and trust to their patriotism and intelligence to rescue the government from its perilous position. LET WELL, ENOUGH ALONE. ' In tflis State, by the last report of the Auditor, 496 building and loan associations had 126,827 members, owning and carrying 692,155 shares of stock, representing an aggregate investment of $30.090,926.13, an increase of $2,552,864.19 over the year 1893, despite the hard- times.. Some have retired from business, but. no association has failed and many new associations have been organized. Commenting upon these facts and statistics, the late efficient State Auditor, Hon. J. O. Henderson, said: "The general condition of building and loan associations is healthy and the future is promising." These are not the words of one who is managing such an association, but those of an officer who has seen all their annual reports, and who, from his position, Is better able to speak understanding of their condition, general management and prospects than any man in Indiana. Moreover, with these reports before him and the communications of officers and shareholders he has made but one or two recommendations to the Legislature, and these in regard to official examinations designed to give to the investor every possible safeguard. Just , now, however, under the inspiration of those evidently actuated by eelf-interest, several wellmeaning men in the Legislature feel that It Is their mission to radically change the policy under which such a remarkable success has been attained and such absolute . security exists on yie ground that these associations are paying to, their officers extravagant compensation and are taxing their borrowing shareholders an exorbitant rate of Interest. Who has made complaint? Has the Legislature received petition's signed by thousands of such borrowing shareholders, of , whom there are 43,300? The Journal has several thousand patrons who are shareholders, many of whom, when" matters do not seem to them to be properly managed, are prompt to fxes their minds, yet lh

Journal-Jias not received a letter from one of these shareholders arraigning the management of building and loan associationsnot one. If there had been any particular grievance it would have received scores of such letters. The charge that the associations are extravagantly managed by the officers has no basis in fact. The salaries for the fiscal year 1894 amounted to $248.177.46 and the other expenses to $178.-960.14-total $427,137.60. During vne year the total transactions were $17,492,641. With these figures it does not require great skill in arithmetic to ascertain that , the cost of collecting, disbursing and generally managing the associations is 2 4-10 cents on each dollar. Considering the amount of work performed, the charge for expenses is very reasonable. . The Journal has but one Interest in the building and loan associations, and that is the security and the welfare of the 85,525 investing and the 43,302 borrowing shareholders. The State has no more important interest than these associations, and no institution which has and is doing so salutary a work for the financial and social well-being of tens of thousands of people. It has given them a purpose and a hope of better things. The building and loan association is doing its work so effectively that it would be worse than folly to interfere with the general features of the plan or to proceed hastily in a manner which would create distrust. While It is probable that irregularities exist in the management of a few associations which need a remedy, they must be clearly ascertained before the remedy is applied. It would, therefore, be wise for the Legislature to refer the matter to a committee to investigate, as such a committee can, with the assistance of the official In the Auditor's office who has all the reports and facts. But to rush headlong into legislation upon . the representations of Interested parties, where the interests are so general and so large, and the consequences may be so grave, would be little less than a crime.

USELESS RETICENCE. Following the custom that prevails in railroad circles, the Vandalia' officials were inexcusably slow and reluctant in giving out information yesterday concerning the wreck on that road. The accident occurred about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and at no time during the succeeding six hours was it possible to get any details of the affair at the Indianapolis end of the line. There had been a wreck, a relief train had been sent out, they understood that several persons had been injured, but could not give " names; they had no knowledge that any had been killed, the wires were occupied , with messages regulating trains, they 5 would make known any facts relating to the Injured, as soon as obtained, and so on, and so on. Making due allowance for the train dispatching necessary in such cases and the extra service required of operators and wires in properly protecting public and corporation interests, even the most gullible and confiding citizens must de-, cline to believe that he railroad company did not or could not, inside of six hours, secure the number and names of the persons killed and injured. Not to do so or to make an attempt to do so was an outrage upon an anxious and alarmed community throughout which a rumor1 of the disaster had quickly spread." The train was one reasonably certain to have a number of Indianapolis passengers. Many people living here either expected friends on that train or knew that they might be on board. To such people the uncertainty was torture, made all the worse by yague report's of the death ..or severe injury' of one and another well-known resident of the city or State. Fortunately,' the v Journal, knowing by experience that an official, report of the accident need not be looked for before next week, did not depend upon information from such source, but sent its own reporters to the scene, and is therefore able this morning to give full particulars of the affair. But this service td its readers does not lessen the blame of the railroad officials. It was and is always their duty in such cases to make known the details at the earliest possible moment in order to relieve the general suspense and anxiety. The least needless delay in doing so calls for the severest censure. As a mere matter of self-interest it would be wiser to show entire frankness. The obvious effort to conceal the facts at once creates suspicion that they are worse than represented, and in the long run helps to create the prejudice against these corporations of which their officers so loudly complain when damage suits or other legal proceedings are brought. The truth is sure to be known in the end at all events, and no good purpose is to be gained by withholding it for a brief time. . AVHO SHOULD BE TRUSTEES. The Journal takes no stock in the current gossip to the effect that a Senator is already a candidate for a wardenship of one of the State prisons, and that he has a candidate for .trustee who will be here to press his "claims." If it were true the outlook for reforming the Institutions on a nonpartisan basis would be dubious indeed. The wardenship of a State prison is a position requiring experience. Not one man in ten thousand fair business men has aptitude for it. "Not long since a State in which the management of its prisons had fallen into ill repute appointed a committee to find a warden. In another State the committee found a young man who had been successful as a deputy warden and employed him. His training made him a most efficient warden. He secured discipline, turned out incompetent subordinates, reduced expenses and put the prison on a business basis. Republican or Democrat, if a warden in Indiana has displayed capacity in managing the affairs of a prison and has not used it as a party machine he should be retained on business principles. As for trustees, any man who would spend his time to get an appointment to such a position with no sort of compensation in the salary clearly demonstrates his unfitness. There are in Indiana several hundred men of ' established business capacity and integrity who can be secured to accept the position of trus- ! tees, but they would not seek such posiI tlons. . While Governor Matthews's ' trustees are a decided improvement over the Democratic caucus trustees. - many of them are not big enough men for such responsible duties as devolve upon t such officers if they do their full duty.

The most unfit men in the world are those who ave shown so little aptitude or. liking for private business and employment that no one would think of intrusting them with his affairs, and who are idle when they cannot find a public place where a small salary can be drawn. Generally speaking, the men who are urged for such places because they ''need the compensation are unfft. Such men would do in subordinate places, but the men who must fill the trusteeships, if there is to be a decided change in the management of the prisons and the asylums, are those who have business capacity, resolution and integrity, with an ambition to serve the State with credit. No individual has any "claims" for such a position who does not possess these qualifications. CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT BILLS.

One of the bills for the apportionment of representatives in Congress which has been presented in the Senate and referred to the committee is open to the objection that the districts formed by it are not so nearly equal in regard to population upon which congressional apportionments ' are based as they should be. The First district, according to the census of 1890, contains 186,247 inhabitants; the Second, 198,866; the Third. 156,967; the Fourth, 161,326; the Fifth, 171,322; the Sixth, 161,494; the Seventh, 162,654; the Eighth, 156,074; the Ninth, 136,757; the Tenth, 167,9ti: the Eleventh, 165,771; the Twelfth, 162;255; the Thirteenth. 175,993. ' The population of the State in 1890 was 2,192,404, so that if the thirteen districts . could have an equal population each would contain 169,415 inhabitants. In the apportionment made nine of the districts have less than this average population and four have a greater number. Between the largest district, 198,866, and the smalkiet, 136,757, there is a difference. ,pd, f2.1Q9 "':t It must ' be evident that this will not do. Such an apportionment may not be a gerrymander in the sense that it favois one party more than the other, but an arrangement which gives 136,757 people in one district the same representation as another which has 198.866 inhabitants ia not an apportionment in anything like the literal meaning of the term. It may be very easy to cut down the Second and build up the Ninth by another arrangement of counties. Another bill presented in the Senate is open to the same objection in a less degree. Still, it begins by putting a population1 of 196,000 in the First district. It is "scarcely necessary to add that this work must be done with absolute fairness. Any sort of avoidable inequality in the' size of districts would make a new apportionment as objectionable in degree as is the present. The wishes and ambitions of individuals must be left out of consideration, while anything against which the charge of a gerrymander could be fairly made would bring swift And deserved punishment upon the Republican party, which Is pledged to fair apportionment. Sooner or later punishment follows all crimes against the ballot box and equal representation. If that punishment is not immediate it is all the more terrible when it does come, as the disaster of the Democracy last November in this State attests. ' . As a winter resort Indianapolis has its good points, but these would be increased by an order," strictly enforced, requiring snow to be cleaned" off the sidewalks. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Grammatical Dincuaaion. Young Arduppe-Is it r right to say "deem," or "consider," Mfss Arress? M1ss Arress On, both are allowable. For instance, I det;n you a very nice ooung man, but I cannot consider you at all. 1 Life- Saver. ' "I am astonished : that "a minister of the gospel should smoke cigarettes." "They saved my life when I was. a missionary. Every time the King of the Cannibal islands began to think of eating me, I would light a cigarette and make him so sick that he lost his appetite." Another Nnme. "By the way, Timminsrjwhat became of that play you put on the road?" "Oh I brought it, in. 1 think I'll give it a new title.', Guess , I'll call it the Waterbury.'' V , . "I'd like to know why." - "Because it only ran one day and then we had to wind it up." . It Failed. . "I thought I had a good scheme," remarked the museum manager, "but I might have known it would be a fizzle." "Tell us about it," said the actor out of a job. "It was just this:, I got a fast talking woman, see? and then offered prizes for any woman who could out-talk her. She wasn't so extra rapid In her gab, and I expected that any amount of local talent would down" her, but it wasn't a go." "Why not?" "I found out later an old married man told me that no gabby woman thinks she talks any faster or more1; than any other woman." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is announced that Elita Proctor Otis, the actress, is soon to marry Charles Howard Johnson, the artist. "There is but the difference of a letter between the beginning and the end of life." says Beerbohm Tree "creation and cremation." Miss Jnice French, "Octave Thanet," the story writer, said recently that she took great comfort In the fact that she could, if necessary, earn her living either as a typewriter and stenographer or as a photographer, or, best of all, as a cook. Mme. Modjeska's engagement at Lemberg has been extended twice, until it has become larger than that of any other star who ever played in Polish Galicia, She plays in her native tongue, and her Khare of the receipts for the first eighteen nights is reported to have amounted to almost $9,000. : ; Feb. 3 . has. been set apart by the National Woman's Christian .Temeprance Union officers for memorial services in the local unions ia honor of Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, president of the Mtchigan Woman's Christian Temeprance Union, and vice president of the national society. It is suggested that pastors be invited to join in the service. Though he has achieved a score of successes, a first night of one of his plays throws Sardou into a panic. His latest drama, "Gismondia," was a triumph, but when it was first produced in Pari the playwright did not have the courage to view it from the theater. On the contrary, he hid himself away in a neighboring cafe to await the ring of the telephone which was to announce victory or defeat. It is said that Gladstone in his younger days used to sing negro melodies with banjo accompaniment very, creditably. Recently Arthur Balfour won distinction as a parlor entertainer by acting as an amateur showman at VVhlttinghame. In his leisure hours Sir. Balfour cultivates both sport and learning very successfully. He is notably a good golf player, and he has become an authority on ghosts and other objects of psychical research. Harvard students who are preparing for the medical school -or to be directors of gymnasiums or instructors of physical

training are now taught a little about cookery. They need this knowledge of preparation and properties of food if they-are to prescribe for men in training for atheletlc contests, or for those who are building themselves up for gymnasium work. They go for class work to the Boston cooking school, and are under the instruction of Miss Farmer. They will learn all about gruels and simple beverages, eggs and oysters, toast and chops, etc., and in six weeks will have gained & knowledge that will be very useful in treatment of their paitents. "I'm going to elevate the stage," The manager did cry; "I have to, for the women wear Their hats so very high." Detroit Free Press. He died, and soon thereafter Appeared at Peter's gate, Which promptly flew wide open, . Without a moment's wait. The entries in his record, Tis true, were not the best. Bu t one there was which seemed to O'erbalance all the rest; Twas writ that from his sidewalk He never once had failed To clean the snow off promptly When winter's storms prevailed. Kansas City Journal. INDIANA AND OHIO.

Why So Mnch Difference In Taxation and Expense In the Two States? To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: While demands are being made by the managements of the State institutions for charities and other purposes for increased appropriations it is well to again remind our legislators of the glaring facts, already well known, that the lnrease of taxes and the increase of the State debt are so great, when compared with ten years ago, that a few actual figures or statistics would not be amiss. The total amount of taxes for all purposes for 1884 was $12,3J3,725, and in 4891 $17,700,000, there being an increase during the seven years intervening between the two dates of over $5,000,000, and more than $2,000,000 of this Increase was made on State taxes. By reference to the census report it is found the State taxes of Indiana for 1892 were $4,311,837, an unnatural increase over that of 18S0, while during the same time Ohio decreased her 'State tax $480,000, it being $4,181,140 in 1891. The following per capita cost of the inmates of our insane hospitals, compared to that of Ohio, shows that extravagance has been the order of the day. The expenditures per capita in Ohio insane hospitals for 1891 were: Carthage asylum $162.34 Athens asylum.... 130.39 Dayton asylum 154.03 Toledo asylum 125.49 Cleveland asylum 147.89 Columbus asylum. 179.15 The expenditures per capita in Indiana insane hospitals in 18il were: . s Central hospital .$J0LOO Northern hospital , 221.00 Eastern hospital, i 243.00 Southern hospital 3W.93 It will thus be seen that the average cost per capita for the Ohio patients was $158.69, compared with $227.58 for Indiana, Ohio having had during the year 1891 an average of 5,079 patients, at a total cost of $80s,988.22, making the per capita cost of support the amount given above, while Indiana patients numbered 2,349, and the cost of their support was $534,598.59, making the per capita cost of, support 1227.58. From these figures, taken from official reports, it will be seen that it cost Indiana almost $175,000 more during the year 1891 to support its insane patients than it did Ohio, almost enough difference to pay for transporting the patients to Europe and return. The population of both Ohio and Indiana increased greatly during the last decade, Indiana's increase being 10 per cent., or about 214,000. On behalf of the citizens of IndXana it should be quickly ascertained why it is that, despite the fact of Ohio's marvelous increase in population, bringing it up to 3,762,316 at the last federal census, the State can carry on its functions with $130,694.04 less State taxes than Indiana, while it at the same time has 1,479,912 more population. Does it not seem significant that at the same time Ohio was under-Republican management and Indiana's affairs were conducted by Democratic financiers? Another important fact is that while the State debt was $4,852,608 in 1884, it has since almost doubled, despite the fact that the taxes have been greatly increasing, instead of decreasing. The State taxes of Clark county have gone from $26,C0O to $44,000 since 1890. The report of ex-State Statistician Peelle shows that there has been a shrinkage in the values .of live stocks, corn and wheat since 1891 of $49,000,000. The people of Indiana are anxiously watching and waiting' for the result of the work of the- Indiana Legislature in regard to the matters herein mentioned, and the result will surely justify their expectations, The following table may also prove interesting in this connection: Total value of all taxable property in Ohio for 1892 $l,707t203,376 In Indiana for the same year... 1,249,807,899 The State taxes of 1892, levied on the basis of $1,707,203,376, in Ohio were: General revenue fund.. ....$2,388,629,50 State University fund 85,307.71 Common school fund 1,707,205.98 Total $1,311,837.23 The State taxes for Indiana for 1892, levied on the basis of $1,249,807,899, were: General revenue fund $2,249,&i.2l State University fund 63,490.39 Common school fund 1,999,692.63 Total -. .$4,311,837.23 It will thus be seen that the taxable property per capita in Ohio was $465, compared with $570 for Indiana, while the average State tax in Ohio is $1.14 and in Indiana $1.90. L. L. R. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jan. 27. The IVe and Salary Question. To the Editor of the Irdianapolis Journal: The fee. and salary question has been pretty thoroughly aired yet there are .some very potent points which have been overlooked by those who have sought to enlighten the public and which points I deem ought to be brought to the nofce of our lawmakers that they may act intelligently on the question, ad give due justice to the oppressed county officials over the State, who, judging by Howard county's officials, are living on short rations and wearing last summer's clothes. To properly administer a county office requires an extraordinary amount of brains and wisdom, judging by Howard county's incumbents, which brains and education cannot be found in the average citizen; hence, when the voters are so fortunate as to locate a fit subject his qualifications should receive proper recognition, which, judging by the universal sentiment prevalent among the poor, oppressed office holders, should be at least $10,000 a year and all expenses, etc. It seems that only those who have succeeded in saving the country back in the sixties and who have learned how to sing "Marching Through Georgia" and otherwise borne the political heat and burden of the day need ask for an office under the present regime, and, as the supply of such battle-scarred veterans is running low, we should appreciate their services by giving each a county office at at least $10,000 a year "and found." The question of clerk hire, too, cuts quite a figure, as in one case here, under my personal observation, it reaches the enormous sum of $65 per month for the deputy auditor, while the second clerk, who is also janitor, receives $7 per week all of this being paid out of $3,500 per year and fees, the latter amounting to at least as much more. This sum paid out for help leaves absolutely nothing to the county auitor at least very meagre pay and not at all commensurate with the talent required to administer the vast business. Notwithstanding the fact that Howard county has not a single ex-officer who is worth oyer $200,000, yet there are always a lot of ignorant fellows who are willing to try to run the business, anitious to sacrifice their time and talents, if the voters but elect them, yet this county has so far been fortunate In getting none but brilliant business men to lay down their talents on the altar of their county's welfare, although by some hook or crook tho city has been able to have its business attended to, and well, for less than a third what the county pays for the same work. How and why this occurs ia one of the inexplicable mysteries. There is one thing sure, however, and that is, unless the State lawmakers tome to the rescue and at least double the present lrsignincam salaries of $3,000 to $5,000 paid our county officials each, yearly, it will soon become difficult to fill the offices, as the reciulsite time and talent cannot be found in tho market and our offices will hav to go begging else be filled by plebeians who think $3 per day sufficient, and result- In a chaotic state of business, such as the employment or ignorant common people would undoubtedly result lnw Hy ail means iet our lawmakers take a step forward and if it docs raise our taxes a little they will bear ' it. rather than the poor oppressed otficw holders' children should go hungry anil ill clothed, as the presmt state of aff-ilrs promises. M. L. GARUIGUS. Kokomo, Ind., Jan. 28.

APPEAL TO CONGRESS

MR. CLEVELAND SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE. He Points Ont the Necessity of Immi dlate Enactment of sv Lavr to Stop the Outflow of Gold. HE SUGGESTS A MEASURE SAYS ITS PASSAGE IS NEEDED TO MAINTAIN THE RESERVE, And Asks Sllverites to Assist In Upholding the National Credit Consress Urged to Act at Once. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. President Cleveland to-day sent to Congress the following special message on the financial situation: To the Senate, and House of Representatives: In my last message I recommended consideration of the Congress to the condition of our national finances, and in connection with the subject indorsed the plan of currency legislation which at that time seemed to furnish protection against impending danger. This plan has not been approved by the Congress. In the meantime the situation has so changed and the emergency now appears so threatening that I deem it my duty to ask at the hands of the legislative branch of the government such prompt and effective action as will restore confidence in our financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal distress among our people. . Whatever may be the merits of the plan outlined in my annual message as a rem-, edy for Ills then existing and as a safeguard ! against the depletion of the gold reserve then in the Treasury, I am now convinced that its reception by Congress in our present advanced stage of financial perplexity necessitates additional or different legislation. With natural resources unlimited in variety and productive strength, and with a people whose activity and enterprise seek only a fair opportunity to achieve national success and greatness, our progress should not be checked by a false nnanacial policy and a heedless disregard of sound monetary laws, nor should the timidity and fear which they engender stand in the way of our prosperity. It is hardly disputed that this predicament confronts us to-day. Therefore, no one in any degree responsible for the making and execution of our laws should fall to see a patriotic duty in honestly and sincerely attempting to relieve the situation. Manifestly this effort will not succeed unless it is made untrammeled by the prejudice of partisanship, and with a steadfast determination to resist the temptation to accomplish party advantages. We may well remember that if we are threatened with financial difficulties all our people, in every station of life, are concerned, and surely those who suffer will not receive the promotion of patty interests as an excuse for permitting our present troubles to advance to a disastrous conclusion; It is also of the utmost importance that we approach the Dtudy of the problems presented as free as possible from the tyranny of preconceived opinions, to the end that in a common danger we may be able to seek with unclouded vision a safe and reasonable protection. THE REAL TROUBLE. The Teal trouble which confronts us consists In a lack of confidence, widespread and constantly increasing, in the continuing ability or ' disposition of the government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and apparent embarrassment attending the efforts of the government under existing laws to procure gold, and to a greater extent out of the impossibility of either keeping it in the treasury or canceling obligations by its expenditure after it is obtained. The only way left open to the government for procuring gold is by the issue and sale of boncis. The only bonds that can be so issued were authorized nearly twenty-five years ago, and are not well calculated to meet our present needs. Among other disadvantages, they are made payable in gold coin, instead of specifically in gold, which, in existing conditions, detracts largely and in an increasing ratio from their desirability as Investments. It is by no means certain that bonds of this description can "much longer be disposed of at a price creditable to the financial character of our government. . . The most dangerous and irritating feature c? the situation, however, remains to be mentioned. It is found in the means by which the treasury Is despoiled of the gold thus obtained without canceling a single government obligation, and solely for the benefit of those who find profit In shipping It abroad or whose fears induce them to hoard it at home. We have outstanding about $500,000,000 of currency notes of the government for which gold may be demanded; and, curiously enough, the law requires that when presented, and, in fact, redeemed and paid in gold, they shall be reissued. These same notes may do duty many times in drawing gold from the treasury; nor can the process be arrested as long as private parties profit or otherwise see an advantage in repeating the operation. More than $300,000,000. in these notes have already been redeemed in gold, and, notwithstanding such redemption, they , are still outstanding. THE BOND ISSUES. Since the 17th day of January, 1884, our bondfed interest-bearing debt has increased $100,000,000. For the purpose of obtaining gold to replenish our coin reserve two issues were made, amounting to $50,000,000 each one in January and the other In November. As a result of the first issue there was realized something more than $58,000,000 in gold. Between that issue and the succeeding one in November, comprising a period of about ten months, nearly $103,000,000 in gold were drawn from the treasury. This made the secondr issue necessary, and upon that more than $58,000,000 in gold was again realized. Between the date of the second issue and the present time, covering a period of only about two months, more than $69,000,000 in gold have been drawn from the treasury. These large sums of gold were expended without any cancellation of government obligations or in any permanent way benefiting our people or improving our pecuniary situation. The financial events of the past year suggest facts and conditions which should certainly arrest attention. More than- $172,000,000 in gold have been drawn out of the treasury during the year for the purpose of shipments abroad or hoarding at home. While nearly one hundred and tnree millions of this amount were drawn out during the first ten months of the year, a sum aggregating more than two-thirds of ' that amount, being about sixty-nine millions, was drawn out during the following two months, thus indicating a marked acceleration of the depleting process with the lapse of time. The obligations upon which this gold has been drawn from the treasury are still outstanding and are available for use In repeating the exhaustive operation with shorter intervals as our perplexities accumulate. Conditions are certainly supervening tending to make the bonds which may be issued to replenish our gold less useful for that purpose. An adequate gold reserve is, in all circumstances, absolutely necessary to the upholding of our public credit and to the maintenance of our high national character. Our gold reserve has again reached such a stage of diminution as to require its speedy reinforcement. The aggravations that must inevitably follow present conditions and methods will certainly lead to misfortune and loss not only to our national credit and prosperity and to financial enterprise, but to those of our people who seek employment as a means of livelihood and to those whose only capital is their daily labor. It will hardly do to say that a simple increase of revenue will cure our troubles, as the apprehension now existing and constantly increasing as to our financial anility does not rest upon a calculation of our revenue. The time has passed when the eye of Investors abroad and our people at home are fixed on the revenues of the government. Changed conditions have attracted their attention to the gold movement. There need be no fear that we rannot Day our current expenses with such money as we have. There is now in the treasury a comfortable surplus of more than $63,000,000, but it is not In gold, and therefore does not meet our difficulty. A WORD TO SILVERITE8. I cannot see that differences of opinion concerning the extent to which silver ought 10 be coined or used In our currency should interfere with the counsels of those whose duty it is to rectify evils now apparent In our financial situation. They have to consider the question of national credit and the consequences that will follow from its collapse. . Whatever Ideas may be insisted on as to silver or bimetallism, a Drooer solu

tion of the question now pressing on us requires a recognition of gold as well us silver and a concession of its Importance frightfully or wrongfully acquired, as a basis of national creait, a necessity in the honorable discharge of our obligations payable in gold and a badge of solvency. I do not understand that the real frk-n is of silver desire 'a condition that might follow Inaction or neglect to appreciate the meaning of the present exigency if it should result in the entire banishment of gold from our financial and currency arrangements. Besides the treasury notes, which certainly should be paid in gold, amounting to nearly $500,000,000, there will fall due in ll one hundred millions of bonds issued during the last year, for which we have received gold, and in 1907 nearly six hundred millions of 4 per cent, bonds issued in 1877. Shall the payment of these obligations ki gold be repudia;ed? If they are to be paid In such a manner as the preservation of our national honor and national solvency demands we should not destroy or even Imperil our ability to supply ourselves with gold for this purpose. While I am not unfriendly to silver, and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with the nnanacial safety and the preservation of (national honor and credit, 1 am not willing to see gold entirely abolished from our currency and finances. To avert such a consequence I believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly passed. I therefore beg the Congress to give the subject immediate attention. In my opinion the Secretary of the Treasury should be authorized to issue bonds of tha government for he purpose of procuring and maintaining a sufficient gold reserve ana the redemption and cancellation of the United States legal-tender notes and the treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver, under the law of June 14, 1890. . We should be relieved from the humiliating process of issuing bonds to procure gola to be Immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obligations for purposes not related to the benefit of our government or our people. The principle and Interest of these bonds should be payable on their face in gold, because they should be sold only for gold or its representative and because there would now he difficulty in favorably disposing- of bonds not containing this stipulation. I euggest that the bonds be issued in denominations of twenty and fifty dollars and their multiples, and that they bear interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent, per annum. I do .not see why they should not be payable fifty years from their date. We of the present generation have large amounts to pay If we meet our Obligations, and long bonds are most salable. The Secretary of the Treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to receive on tne sale of bonds the legal tender and treasury notes to be retired, and, of course, when they are thus retired or redeemed in gold they , should be canceled. '. COULD BE USED BY BANKS. f These bonds, under existing laws, could be deposited by national banks as security for circulation and such banks should be allowed to issue circulation up to the face value of these or any other bonds so deposited, except bonds outstanding bearing only 2 per cent, interest and which sell lu the market at less than par. National banks should not be allowed to take out circulating notes of a less denomination than ten dollars and ' when such as are now outstanding reach the treasury, except for redemption and retirement, they should be canceled and notes of the denomination of ten dollars and upwards issued in their stead. Silver certificates of the denomination of ten dollars and upwards should be replaced by certificates of denominations under ten dollars. As a constant means for the maintenance of a reasonable supply of gold in the treasury, duties on imports should be paid in gold, allowing all other duties to the government to be paid In any other form of money. I believe all the provisions I have suggested should be embodied in our laws if we are to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme provided for the increase of the1 circulating medium through the agency of national or State banks since they can easily be adjusted to such a scheme. Objection has been made to the issuance of interestbearing obligations for the purpose of retiring noninterest-bearing legal tender

notes. In point of fact, however, these notes have burdened us with a large load of interest and It is still accumulating. The aggregate interest on the original issue of bonds, the proceeds of which, in gold, constituted the .reserve for the payment of these notes, amounted to $70,326,250, on Jan. 1, 1895, and the annual charge for interest on these bonds-and those issued for the same purpose during the last V..-. 1 1Ar. IV iTi rl.nr. Tor. 1 Will fcCT frtJWtUW, uaLvifS 4 1 VI il .1.11, X, 1895. While the cancellation of these notes would not relieve us from the obligations) already incurred on their account, these figures are given by way of suggesting that their existence hac not been free from interest charges and that the longer they are , outstanding, judging from the experience of the last year, the more expensive they will become. ; ' - In conclusion. I desire to frankly confess my reluctance to issuing more bonds in the present circumstances and with no better results tnan nave lately iouowea that course. I cannot, however, refrain, from adding to an assurance of my anxiety to co-operate with the present Congress in any reasonable measure of relief, an expression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope for improving the situation or checking a suspicion o" our disinclination or disability to meet with the strictest honor every national obligation. OR OVER CLEVELAND. TROUBLE IN COLOMBIA. Troops Sent to One of the Interior- Departments Mr. Flint's Views.'; , NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Merchants of this city who do business in the South American republic of Colombia are not particularly alarmed at what may be the consequence, of the present reported revolution there. Mr. Charles R. Flint, of the importing houae of Flint & Co., of; this city, in speaking of the matter, said: "I do not think that the trouble will affect trade with this country very much, It may to some extent, but not very greatly. It is their way of changing policies, their idea of holding political i meetings. ovum Aiueuuau luuntries are inclined to hold our flag in awe. especially since the Benham incident in Rio harbor. Our agents have telegraphed us from Beunaventura, on the west coast, that there is trouble there, but no definite idea of its extent could be given. VThe three' greatest American interests In Colombia ar the Panama railway, which is owned nominally by the Panama Railroad Company, but really now belongs to capitalists in France, stock not being held to any great extent in this city; the Carthagena railway, which was recently built and connects tha Magdalena river with Carthagena, , and is owned by Boston capitalists, represented by Jefferson Coolidge & Co., of that city, alid the street railway of Bogota, which is owned by capitalists in this city, represented by M. C. Martin and Tunis G. Bergeu. Lieut. Henry iemly, a United States army officer, who is reported to be at the head of the military academy at Bogota, was assistant sergeant-at-arms of rhe International conference held at Washington, and there became acquainted with Carlos Continez Silva, who was one of the Colombian representatives, Cltna Coldoron, the Colombian consul in this city, was also a member of the Pan-American Congress. Consul Coldoron could not be seen in this cltv to-day in reference to the matter. A dispatch from Colon says: It Is, reported that serious troubles have occurred m the interior. Troops have been sent to Cauca, the largest 01 me u" Colombia. Two political arrests have taken PlAC1aVerispatch from Colon says: A revolution has broken out in the department of Cauca. Bolivar, Magdalena and Antloqua. Owing to the fact that the telegraph wires have been cut no accurate particulars are obtainable. It is known, however. that martial law has been proclaimed at Cartagena, and that a portion of the detachment of troops stationed at Panama have been withdrawn. The inhabitants here are depending upon American protection. Some of the leaders of the disturbance have been arrested. The United States cruiser Atlanta is coaling here and the United States cruiser New York is expected. A French war ship has been ordered to Colon. The rebels and the government troops had an engagement Friday at Pradera, department of Cauca. The rebels were routed. The government troops were commanded by Genera Id t'lloa and Angelo. Wur Ship to He Sent to Colomblu. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S.-The first official news of the revolutionary outbrealt in Colombia has reached the Navy Department In a cablegram from Captain Cromwell, of the Atlanta, now at Colon. H says he has learned that a revolution has broken out at Buenaventura, on the Pacific coam of Colombia.. Secretary Herbert, who had intended to send a war ship to ih.iu wjtira thereuooil CommunkMi tfii hv telegraph with the commandant lit Mure Island Navy Vara to learn how long it will take to put the Bennington in shapa for sea. If much time U required either the Alert or Hanger, now on the way to San Diego- will be ordered to Colombia.- '