Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895.

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It is not a pleasant spectacle for the people of Indiana to see their Governor no much under the "thumb of the chief spittoon ; cleaner of the Statehouse that he forgets the dignity of his office. , Each -recurring controversy between the.' Governor and Legislature in regard to the appointing power shows the necessity of having the question definitely settled on a permanentand enduring basis. " - - It would be an Insult! to our colored fellow-citizens engaged..in the whitewashing' business to call the minority reports on the two prisons whitewashing reports. They are concentrated .whitewash itself. - '"'". -' ." . It was the custom of Indians In early days to hold white women prisoners before them in making an attack to prevent the- enemy from firing. The Democrats seem to have adopted similar tactics Monday night when they made their forward movement in the Statehouse elevator. ' - ' The people Who are fdnd of political excitement need not grow apathetic now that the Legislature has adjourned. Let them clear the decks for the coming city campaign. . It is none too soon to think about It, . though the election does not come till October. The Constitution says that no bill shall be presented ..." to the Governor witnin two aays next previous to tne final adjournment of the General Assembly, but it does not contain any provision authorizing the Governor to retain bills until within two minutes before the final adjournment. The riot in New Orleans yesterday was one of the most disgraceful that has ever occurred in that city of riots. As far as can be gathered it was a premeditated, organized and murderous attack, by whites on colored workingmen with a view of . terrorizing and driving them out of the city. .The police-seem .to have acted disgracefully. Opinions may differ, in1 regard to the appointing power, but as to the issuance of commissions the Constitution is explicit. It says: "All commissions shall Issue in the name of the State, shall be signed by the Governor, sealed by the State sea! and attested by the Secretary of State." No person but the .Governor cart "issue a commission. Artemus Ward was willing to sacrifice all his wife's relatives on the altar of patriotism Governor Matthews was willing to waive the constitutional provision relative to the presentation of bills in the last two days of the session, but the executive prerogative of holding them till within five minutes of midnight the last day of the session he would never, never waive. Some tenderly sensitive persons are shuddering, for fear the Eastern press will say rude things about Indiana because the Legislature indulged in a crap before adjournment: V They suffer needlessly. " Let it be' ' understood at once that editors who criticise our Legis lature merely betray their own effeminacy and inability to understand harmless manifestations of manly vigor practical athletics, so to speak. ; The Ineaualities of legal Justice are strikingly shown in Norristown, Pa., courts,- where a poor colored wretch was sent to prison for four years for stealing half a dozen chickens and two bankers whose creditors had lost $112,000 through, their dishonesty received sentence of one year each. It is such proceedings as these, that help to create a contempt for law. and nothing is worse for a community than, the existence of such a feeling. -. V . . V ' There has noObeen a decent index of the journal and acts of any Legislature In this State for twenty-five years. It takes brains, intelligence and industry to make a good index, and the conjunction of all these qualities In an indexing clerk has been a verv rare occurrence. As a rule the Indexes have been pitched together in a most perfunctory and slovenly manner. The Legislature has paid a high price for the work and got miserable service. It is to be hoped those who have charge of the wprk this year will make an exception to the established rule. - The report of the majority of the Senate committee on prisons is so temperate and candid in relation to the well-known facts regarding Warden Patten that it is fair to assume that the charges affecting the validity and value of the bicycle syndicate contracts of the northern prison are entitled to consideration. In the iirst place, the law restricting the number of convicts which may be let to one company or Individual to one hundred. Is evaded by making two contracts covering 150 men. .-In the next place' but -re rvn heli on the part of the con- ' V'-i t" I " r 13 -:!:j'c-i by

a company composed of several men of well-known financial responsibility. All these men are not held by the contracts. The special privilege which the company is given by the trustees is a piece of favoritism which should be Investigated. The relations existing between some of the trustees and some of the silent partners in the syndicate, and the further fact that one of them Is a State officer and an appointee of Governor Matthews tend to strengthen the suspicion that the transaction is tainted with a sort of favoritism which is often called jobbery. ' ' ' "" - THE CO.VSTITITIOX SHOILD HE .'..'AMENDED.

The outrageous proceeding which marked the closing hours of the General Assembly emphasizes the wisdom of a suggestion recently made by the Journal for .amending the Constitution so as to provide for a longer term and two sessions of the Legislature. .The disgraceful occurrence of Monday night would not have happened had the session been permitted to continue ninety days. The constitutional "limitation to sixty-one days not only caused the failure of some Important. Jegislation -which could have been matured and passed in thirty days more, , but it opened the way and supplied the conditions for the disreputable trick which was attempted by the Democrats and the violent means of prevent-" ing It used by the Republicans. In addition to lengthening the term the- Constitution should provide for two sessions of each General Assembly. The first session, which might meet at the time now fixed by the Constitution, and continue,'-say, fifty or sixty days, should be given to the introduction, discussion and advancing of bills to a third reading, only such to become' law as should receive the votes of three-fourths of all the members of both. houses. ",Thi3 would permit' the passage at this session of nonpartisan measures of such 'general Interest and importance as to command support from both parties. Bills receiving a majority' of V the. votes in each house, but less than three-fourths, should go over till a second session to be held a few months later, when they should come up under prescribed conditions for. final action. The interim between the first and second sessions would afford time for .the jpublic discussion of suspended measures, give members a chance to ascertain the sense of the people and for the popular verdict to adjust itself. A' constitutional amendment on these general lines would insure the advantages of . a longer legislative session, embody the principle of the referendum and be a safeguard against such disgraceful occurrences as that of Monday night. . i I LIXCOLX'S . ATTITUDE IN 1SC4-G5. Mr. Henry Watterson, in g. communication printed in another column, cites some historical authority tending to support a recent statement of . his relative to Mr. Lincoln's attitude at the famous Hampton Roads peace conference in the latter part of January, 1864. The Journal expressed a doubt that Mr. Lincoln v-uld have said to Mr. Stephens, "Write 'union' at the top of that page and you may write below it whatever else you please," because it implied a willingness to accept peace on the basis of a restoration of the Union with slavery. Mr. Watterson now" say3 that "Mr. Stephens stated to many persons, myself Included," that Mr. Lincoln made the remark imputed ' to .him. Mr. Waiterson's statement ends discussion on that point. When he says that Mr. Stephens told him that Mr. Lincoln made the remark imputed to him there can be no doubt about it. There may still remain, however, a doubt as to the accuracy of Mr. Stephens's memory. It is a curious : fact that In his work "The War Between the States," in which he gives a very detailed account of the Hampton Roads conference, of which he says, "This is as full and accurate an account as I can now give of this conference from its beginning to .Its end," he 'makes no mention of such a remark nor anything like it.; He reports with apparent accuracy many things that Mr. Lincoln said, but nothing like this. Mr. Stephens's work was published in 1870, and If Mr. Lincoln really used the remarkable language attributed to him It is very strange that Mr. Stephens, m a detailed account written only fifteen years afterward, should have made no reference to . it. However, there can be no doubt that Mr. Stephens related the matter to Mr. Watterson just as the latter says he did. Mr. Watterson's original statement is partly justified in another point by evidence which had been overlooked by the Journal. It Is true that as late as Feb. 5, 1865, Mr. Lincoln did present to his Cabinet the draft of a message and proclamation recommending the passage by Congress of a joint resolution authorizing the President in his discretion to pay $400,000,000 to certain States therein named on the following conditions: . No part of said sum to be paid unless all iesistance to the national authority shall be abandoned and cease, on or before the first day of April next; and upon such abandonment and ceasing of resistance one-half, of said sum to be paid in manner aforesaid, and the remaining half to be paid only upon the amendment of the national Constitution recently proposed by Congress becoming valid law, on or before the first day ot July next, by the action thereon of the requisite number of States. In the draft of. the proclamation accompanying this resolution it was provided that: . War will cease -and armies be reduced to a basis of peace; that all political offenses will be pardoned; that all property, except slaves, liable to confiscation or forfeiture, will be released therefrom; and that liberality will be recommended to congress upon all points not lying within executive control. There Is nothing in this evidence to refute the contention of the Journal that "for more than a year prior to the peace conference Mr. Lincoln had fully determined that slavery "must go, and that at that conference he could not possibly have held out. either formally or Informally, any hope of a restoration of the Union with slavery." On the contrary, the proposition distinctly Bhows that whatever , else Mr. Lincoln was willing to do he would never consent to the restoration or continuance of slavery. ' Moreover, the proposition never was born. It was a Cabinet secret, and never became part of any official record. Secretary Welles says of It in his diary under date of Feb. 6, 1863: There was a Cabinet meeting last evening. The President had matured a scheme which he hoped would be successful in promoting peace. It did not meet with favor, but was dropped. The earnest desire of the President to conciliate and 'effect peace was manifest, but there may be such a thinfr as so overdoing as to cause a distrust or adverse feelinsr. Mr. Lincoln's Indorsement on the manuscript, according to NIcolay and Hay's history, was: Feb. 5, 1855. To-day thee papers, which explain themselves, were drawn up and submitted to the Cabinet and unanimously disapproved by them. ; Thus the record shows that the proc-

lamatibn never got beyond the stage of

being drafted. In closing this friendly discussion the Journal desires to add that nothing has been further f com its purpose than to impugn the motives of Mr. Watterson or question his loyalty to the truth of history or the memory of Mr. Lincoln. No person who knows him could do that. The Journal's first impression that his original statement was unauthorized has been very much modified. THE AUTOCRATIC GOVERNOR. The position of Governor Matthews relative to " the prison boards . is, at least, a novel one. He recognizes the validity of the act creating the new boards and proceeds to appoint, thus ignoring the manner of appointment prescribed by the same law. In other words, that portion of the law which pleases him- is binding, but that portion which does not he disregards. He may believe the method prescribed in the law for appointment is unconstitutional, but, unfortunately for him, that is not a question for the executive to determine, but for the courts. Instead of pursuing a line of action which will bring the question into court he arrogates to himself judicial functions by proceeding upon the ground that the law is unconstitutional. Having thus assumed to be the judge of the law and of executing such portions as please him he has absorbed both the legislative and judicial' functions of the government and made himself autocrat. He has left no question for the courts to settle. If he were discreet and sincerely desirous of sustaining his views, but not the views of his party in regard to the right of the executive to make such appointments, he would have devised some , method to bring the contention to the Supreme Court with the least delay. As it is, he has admitted that the prison boards are legislated out of existence, and at the same time he has appointed boards In violation of , the Jaw which legislated his partisan boards out of existence. Without the approval of the State officers, which the law makes the aopointive power with him, his boards can have no legal standing until the Supreme Court shall have decided that that portion of the law relating to the method of appointment is unconstitutional. On the other hand, the boards which four of the five members of the appointing board select will be the ones which have the law on their side. Consequently, to resist their authority until the Supreme " Court shall have declared it unconstitutional will be as open and flagrant a violation of law as would the violation -of an v other law, since the presumption is in favor of the constitu te tionallty of any law until the proper tribunal decides otherwise. THE CONSTITUTION CANNOT BE AVA1VED. In' the contention between Governor Matthews and Lieutenant Governor Nye the Journal believes the latter was right in his position relative to the passage of bills during the last two days of the session. The Governor had a rjght to feel annoyed at the failure of the Senate to pass the Roby prize fighting bill and the bill authorizing the Governor to suspend from office sheriffs who fail to do their duty in emergencies. Both of these bills should have been passed, and there was no good reason why the Senate should have failed to pass them before it became too late. But the Journal believes that the Lieutenant Governor's construction of the clause of the Constitution which says that "no bill shall be presented to the Governor within two days pext previous to the final adjournment of the General Assembly" was right. The language of this provision is too plain to require any searching after a hidden meaning. There is no authority for assuming that it is intended for the protection of the Governor and may be waived by him at his option. That this construction' has been put upon it many times and by different Governors does not make it right. The framers of t,he Constitution used words exactly, and if they had intended that this provision might' be waived by the Governor they would have said so. It is explicit and peremptory, and a Governor has no more right to waive it than he has to waive any other provision of the Constitution. The presentation of a bill to the Governor within two days next preceding the final adjournment of the General Assembly is a plain violation of the Constitution, and the waiver of a Governor cannot make it anything else. The Legislature might as well claim the ' right to waive the clause of the Constitution which requires a majority of all the members " in each house to pass a bill or the one which requires the vote on the passage of bills to be taken by yeas and nays. The Constitution cannot be waived. Last summer when Governor Matthews was trying to suppress the riots and enforce the law the Journal gave him Its earnest support, while the organs of fcis own party were opposing his course. The Journal then thought he had sunk" the partisan in the patriot; that as Governor he would uphold the lajv and enforce it. The Journal is sorry that it was deceived, and that he is still the ward politician. During the present session of the Legislature, as soon as -the bill was passed- to relieve his indorsements for money borrowed he took up the old banner of Democratic partisanship. Some of his official conduct within the past few days is without excuse or palliation. In his message upon the fee and salary bill he forgets that the Legislature is an Independent department of the State, drops back into the pedagogue and lectures the members as though they were an unruly set of school children and not bodies composed of men his equal in every character of intelligence and ability. He knew on Saturday that he would veto the Statehouse custodian bill, and he knew that the Cohstitution of the State, which he had sworn to support, gave the Legislature the right to pass It over his veto. Tet he did not return it until Monday midnight, when he knew that it would be a physical Impossibility for the Legislature to exercise the power given it by the Constitution. His acts and delays brought on the disgraceful scenes of that night, and he is responsible for what followed. We look again at the statue which we last summer thought was marble, and we find it simply mud. Rev. Thomas Dixon, jr., a Baptist minister of New York, has resigned from his pulpit, giving as , a reason that he wishes to devote his life to reaching the nonchurch going classes, and believes the machinery of a strict Baptist church a hindrance to the best work. He wjll hereafter recognize but tne one essen-

tial principle, vital faith In Christ, believing, he says, "that it is more important to lift many; men out of the ditch than to spend time making a few men Baptists." This may be denominational heresy, but it is very good sense and sounds Christianlike.

E. M. M Brazil, Ind. Regular and frequent examinations are it done away with in the public schools of this cf :y, but. for some years the same importai has not attached to them as formerly, pupils being promoted according to their recitations and standing In their classes. The examinations serve rather to fix the knowledge of the students than as absolute tests of their progress. This system is said to be in force throughout the graded schools of the State, but how far the old method Is being done away with In other . States the Journal is unable to say. Certainly the new rule must go into effect wherever modern progressive ideas prevail. It has been discovered that a Philadelphia, pastor seventy-five years old, and long considered a model of purity and morality, has lived a double life for many years, and that, as usual In such cases, the "other" life has been a very wicked one. The tribe of Jekyll and' Hyde In actual life seems quite large. . With Congress and the Legislature adjourned a chance offers to get something into the papers that will interest the people who do not. care for politics. Singular as it may seem, a few such people are living in Indiana. . It was very reprehensible in the athletic gentlemen of the House to play football with the Governor's secretary, and If the secretary had understood the rules of the game better his ribs would not now be so sore. . . ". ', Let no one fear that there will be nothing more of an , exciting character for the papers to print. Baseball looms up on the horizon and the prize ring offers promises. The Influence exercised by the Statehouse janitor over the Governor of the State rather detracts from the dignity and Importance of the latter official. Mr. Tim Griffin seems to have a strong "pull" on the chief executive. Has he been promising appointments to some of the Governor's friends? Tim Griffin has made a very good Statehouse janitor, but as a political issue he is hardly big enough to fill the horizon. In view of Timothy Griffin's ruffianly conduct Monday night it seems pertinent to ask: "Quia custodiet custodiem?" Descriptions of the Statehouse fracas indicate that the legislative participants were familiar with football tactics. BUBBLES IN THE Allt. More than Honor Left. Mrs. Watts So it was in the Chicago wheat market that you lost your all? Everett Wrest Yes, mum, all save" me honor and an elegant thirst. ' Various Ingredients. "Ain't there two ,m's in Inflammatory rheumatism?' " asked Slug 7. "There be," said Slug 11, who walks with a hickory cane; "and a large quantity of three-em dashes besides." Painful, but True. This fin-de siecle paradox Is forced on us at last: That the woman who'd have a future Must be one with a past. Beg pardon, but it had to be used to make the meter. A Wise Precaution. Mrs. Perry How contradictory all these papers are. I can't make head nor tail of them. I wish you would come to my aid and give me a real unbiased opinion of the last Congress.- '-'4 "..,.' ' , . " Mr. Perry AH right, my dear. Send the children out of the room and I'll begin. THE HAVWARD CASE. Three months Is long enough for Murderer Hay ward to lose his nerve and his unconcerned air. Pittsburg Dispatch. The verdict will be indorsed by the general sentiment of the public. It was an awful crime, and the murderer deserves the full penalty of the law. Baltimore American. Doubtless It will be appealed, and, indeed, It ought, to be. If half the testimony adduced against him is true Harry Hayward is what the dime novels used to call "a fiend In human form." But somehow it all seems too fiendish to be possible. Chicago Herald. The conviction of Harry Hayward for the murder of Miss Ging in Minneapolis was expected. It was the only thing to do. He has shown himself to be a vicious and dangerous person, and the life he led could only lead to State's prison or the scaffold. New York World. In this case, at least, the law looked beyond the actual deed of murder and re-, vealed the true source of the crime. The result of the trial is a signal illustration of guilt fixed where the true responsibility lay, and not upon the mere mechanical agency by which it was accomplished. Chicago Record. It Is a grewsome thought that the news that a human being, full of life and abounding activity, is to be ; put to death should be accepted by any. otner human being with satisfaction. Yet that is unquestionably the feeling of the whole community over the verdict of the jury In the case of Harry Hayward. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Hayward Is intelligent.' he belongs to a reputable family and his life, previous to this awful crime, was not such as to suggest the possibility of the result that has ensued. The only explanation seems to lie In the theory that the gambling habit took complete possession of him, undermined his moral nature and made him capable of doing anything to obtain money for the gratification of this controlling passion. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. - ''. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. More than 40 per cent, of the English people could not write their names when the Queen ascended the throne. The proportion in that condition has now been reduced to 7 per cent. . Herr Boeter, an ex-lieutenant In the German army, now says that vegetarianism is altogether too wide; we must be "fruitarians" if we wish to find sanitary salvation. His disciples live altogether on irult. It will cost a million drachmas to put the Parthenon, the Temple of Thesus and the other monuments in Athens damaged by last year's earthquake in a safe condition. An appeal for help will be sent out to all countries. Ellen Terry was forty-seven Feb. 29. In Coventry, where she was born, a brass plate on one house bears the Inscription: "This la the birthplace of Miss Ellen Terry," while on another house across the street is a similar plate marked: "This is the original birthplace of SMiss Ellen Terry." Alma Tadema spends about four months one one of his more finished pictures. To one that he thinks likely to be a masterpiece he is willing to give as many years, as was the case with the one' recently painted for a Berlin patron. This painting the artist packed fo- shipment with the greatest care with his own hands. Eight hundred years ago, In 1095, the first crusade was started, at Clermont, in Auvergne. The anniversary will be celebrated with great pomp this year, and the Pope has granted the indulgences of a Jerusalem pilgrimage to all who visit Clermont, "on condition that they pray for the return to Catholic unity of the separated Oriental churches." Recently In one of the banks in Dublin a box in the cellar actually fell to pieces from age. It contained a magnificent and very valuable toilet service of solid gold. No clew to the owner's Identity could be found anywhere, either on the box or any of the pieces of plate, which were simply, engraved with a cipher and a coronet. However, among the numerous other things found in the box was a gold casket and In this was discovered a packet of love letters of the time af Charles II. From

these resulted the discovery of the heirs of the original depositor, who were in very poor circumstances. The sale of the plate brought in a sum which was most welcome to the poverty-stricken descendants of - the once great family. President Faure of France is adding to his popularity by visiting the hospitals at Paris. He enters a hospital, speaks encouragingly to the patients, leaves money to be spent in wine and tobacco for their use and frequently goes into the kitchen to taste the food served to the inmates. Whenever he leaves a hospital he finds a crowd of citizens outside waiting to cheer him as he enters his carriage. Faure has set out to endear himself to the people at any cost. Of William James, professor of psychology at Harvard, and brother of Henry James, the Book Buyer says that few subjects lie nearer his heart than psychical research. "This absorbing interest," it is added, . "is misunderstood by many critics, and even by some of his friends. But unmistakably it is born of deep psychological insight and scientific spirit, unninehing sincerity and profound religious convictions. When asked lately what were the chief aims of his present studies he replied quickly, 'To find a balm for men's- souls.' " Dr. James is now president of the International Society for Psychical Research. "Thish rolling home," said Mr. Jones, "Would not be quite sho hard - If there weren't sho many curbstones My progresh to retard." New York Recorder. DRESSMAKER WORTH.

Worth, the famous man dressmaker, Is dead, but Worth costumes will continue to be the pride of all the girls. Chicago Inter Ocean. . Worth is dead. Fathers whose families run to daughters will vote for a new king of fashions who does not change his mind so often. St. Louis Republic. Perhaps If as much of good can be said about the rest of us when we come to go as has been said about the departed dressmaker of Paris, most of us will have no right to complain. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Mr. Worth Is deserving of much credit. He was a man with an idea. There are a few such in each generation. His Idea brought him both fortune and fame, which is more than many others get. Pittsburg Dispatch. Now that Worth is dead those in this country who have been accrediting their home-made dresses to him will have to select his Parisian successor or give their own dressmakers their just dues. Detroit Free Press. It was neither a heroic nor a manly career in which Worth sought and won distinction, but even the Worths and the McAllisters have their uses, and it takes ability, even genius, for a man to win distinction as a milliner. Brooklyn Times. Other geniuses will appear in the world of fashion, and some one of them ere long will dominate it as supremely as did Worth. Meanwhile it will be, in one sense at least, a relief that stage performers of the female sex can no longer assert their artistic excellence because their gowns were made by Worth. Chicago Tribune. In the death of Worth, the famous Parisian dressmaker, society, loses a most efficient servant. His sense of color and proportion was so thoroughly developed and so true that it amounted almost to genius, and his honesty and courtesy led to a strong personal friendship for 'him on th9 part of those he served. New York Mail and Express. SHREDS AND PATCHES. When the average man falls down stairs he blames his wife. Ram's Horn. The breezes of Wall street are not tempered to the shorn lamb. Puck. Ben' Johnson wrote a play called "The Silent Woman." but that was in another age. Cincinnati Tribune. Be neighborly. Never accuse a friend of his shortcomings. Go and tell them to his wife. Cleveland Plain-Dealer. ' Peace in the far East seems to be awaiting the completion of a trosseau for LI Hung Chang. Detroit Free Press. "Some men," said the boarding house mistress, "pay as they go. Others go before they pay." Philadelphia Record. A woman may not wear her heart on her sleeve, but the prevailing fashion shows her heart's in it. Philadelphia Times. A Nebraska Populist has been' appointed superintendent of the State Insane Asylum. He will feel at home. Philadelphia Inquirer. That tired feeling makes itself felt coincidently with ' the renewed chattering of baseball enthusiasts. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. , The larger the sleeves of ladles dresses the sharper becomes the toes of the shoes for men. The dude has to keep pace with the dudeine. Baltimore American. The man who never told a lie was the father of his country. Considering how his children act, there Is small encouragement for truth telling. Boston. Transcript. If actor Nat Goodwin isn't careful some enterprising temperance lecturer will be making propositions to him to go into the horrible example business. Kansas City Journal. A SILVER 11ASIS. What It Would Mean to Wage Earners and Salaried Mcu. Melville E. Ingalls. The dollar which the laborer gets in the manufacturing towns of Illinois or on the farms of Indiana is good in all the commercial market3 of the world, and with it he can buy his supplies and the necessaries of life for their value in gold, but if we were launched upon free silver he would have to buy his supplies and the necessaries of life upon the silver basis and trust . to getting hia pay advanced to correspond. It is this very fact to-day that labor is paid on a silver basis, that is oppressing and degrading the laborers in India, in Mexico and in South America and grinding it down to the lowest possible point. Are the working men and women with fixed salaries in this country going to submit to a like scheme of robbery? The capitalists can take care of himself, for with his wealth he Is able to o change his investments and make his contracts as noL,to . suffer- But, for the sake of the political adventurer, for the financial boomer who has struck bad luck, shall -we debase our currency, degrade ourselves to the level of a South American republic, and rob 9o per cent, of our people who depend for their support upon a fixed compensation? ' There can be no question. If ever it Is understood by the people, but tnat they will with practical unanimity be in favor of an honest dollar, and that dollar must be, as I stated in the beginning-, one that Is good in any of the commercial markets of the world, and one which, melted in the refining pot, will bring 1C0 cents wherever it is sc!d. There are some great epochs in the history of our country in which great advantages were securea for the masses. Prominent among them was the restoration of our credit and currency a century since by George Washington, aided by Alexander Hamilton, his great secretary of the Treasury. Another was tne defeat of the greenback inflation in 1874 by General Grant, and the resumption of specie payments later, when, perhaps he served, his country better than upon the battlefields of Virginia. Side by side with tnese achievements will be written the heroic efforts of Grover Cleveland to save our national honor from the assaults of the financial cranks of the present Congress. He may have made mistakes, we may not approve of the means used to accomplish the ends, but underlying all is the honest purpose and the courageous resolve which will be recorded in history and read with pride by future Americans long after the hand of oblivion shall have kindly obliterated the weaknesses and follies of uie present Congress. Two Views of tlie Same Thing-. Washington Capital. Speaking of State dinners, I happened to be making the Cabinet calls the day that followed the last State dinner given by Miss Morton to the President. Mrs. Cleveland and the members of the Cabinet. I wondered whether these dinners were a source of pleasure to the participants, and I asked one of the ladies who was a member of that circle if she enjoyed the dinner. "O, yes," she replied, "we all enjoy them so much; we are quite well acquainted with one anothef toy this time, and have so much in common to talk about we seem like one family. What is of interest to one is equally so to us all. and we have so many Jokes and some little bywords that would wholly mystify a stranger. And 1 am very sorry, as we all are, to have the dinners put an end to." At the next place that I called (a Cabinet home) I asked the hostesa how she njoyed the Cabinet dinners, whereupon she looked unutterable things and said: "O, I am so glad they are over. Just to think, we sat down to the table at eight o'clock last evening and did not get up until 11. Tired! Well, I should think ho. I am bo glad the season is over. Just to think of a few people who know each other as well as

i we or the Cabinet circle do. meeting as

often as we do and trying to maintain any- . tning liKe a conversation. Why, we know the same jokes and have told them a dozen times, and we have literally talked ourselves out until there is absolutely not an Idea left for us to discuss. Yes, I am heartily glad that It Is all over." I came to the conclusion that enjoying Cabinet dinners, and. Indeed, life in general, was a matter of taste and temperament after all. PAY FOR EMANCIPATED SLAVES. Letter from Mr. Watterson Concerning: Lincoln's Attitude in ISO To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you allow me space In the Journal to challenge your historic accuracy In the matter of Mr. Lincoln's proposed plan to pay for the Southern slaves . and at the same time to maintain the correctness of my own statement on that subject. You say that "Mr. Watterson makes a serious error as to tne date of Mr. Lincoln's joint resolution in favor of emancipated compensation. That resolution was sent to Congress March 6, 1862, Instead of 'In the winter of 1S61-5.' His proclamation of warning was Issued Sept. 22, 1862, and the emancipation proclamation Jan. 1. 1863. He never wrote or uttered a word in favor of paying Tor the slaves after the latter date." I should be guilty of a criminal perversion of history if I had made the serious error you ascribe to me. Mr. Lincoln did, as stated by you, send to Congress a message the 6th of March, 1S62, suggesting a Joint resolution pledging the government to "co-operate" with' "any State which may adopt gradual abolition of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid;" but he did also, Feb. 5, 1885, as stated by me, submit to his Cabinet a joint resolution, proposing the appropriation of "$400,000,000" to be paid "to the States of Alabama, . Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, - Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and "West Virginia." "The payment to be made in 6-per-ceht. government bonds and to be distributed to said States pro rata on their respective slave population as shown by the census of 1860," the consideration being that all resistance to the federal authority should cease "on or before the first day of April (1865) next.'-' See Letters and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln, pages 635, 636, also NIcolay and Hay's Life, volume 10, chapter VII, pages' 133 to 137, inclusive. He did at the same time submit the draft of a proclamation to be issued by himself, as President, when this Joint resolution should be passed by Congress. He did say (see authorities above quoted) to the confederate commissioners at Fortress Monroe that "he would be willing to be taxed to remunerate the Southern people for their slaves," and that he knew some "who were in favor of an appropriation as high as four hundred millions of dollars for this purpose," adding. "I could mention persons, whose names would astonish you, who are willing to do this if the war shall now cease, without further expense." This embraces all that I said, which your article controverts, no intimation touching the continuance of slavery having been made by me; but the statement that Mr. Lincoln said to Mr. Stephens "write 'Union' at the top of this page, and you may write below it whatever else you please," Mr. Stephens stated to many persons, myself included, Mr. Lincoln undoubtedly had in his mind the terms that Grant gave Lee, and that Sherman gave Johnston. It was the warm, cordial, affectionate expression, delivered by one old friend to another, personally and unofficially, neither understanding it to bea carte blanche to demand any unreasonable thing. I am sure you would do mo no injustice, nor mislead the readers of your great journal in so grave a matter of history. HENRY WATTERSON. Louisville, March 9. GRESHAM AND BRITISH CLAIMS. His Regrret Over the Failure to Grunt Exorbitant Damagei. Philadelphia Press. That was a remarkable revelation of Secretary Gresham's peculiar diplomacy which came to us by way of the British House of Commons a day or two ago. Sir Edward Grey, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, recited the history of the negotiations respecting the payment of the claims of British sealers for seizure, and then said that "Secretary Gresham had expressed deep regret at the unfortunate delay which had taken place in discharging the obligations of the United States." What business had Secretary Gresham to make any such expression? With what propriety does he communicate to the British government an implied censure on Congress? By what right does he assume a tone of apology respecting an attitude which the American Representatives have deliberately taken in defense of American interests? And with what fitness do w.e first hear from a British official in the British Parliament that our American Secretary is pronouncing the American attitude and action "unfortunate." Without going into minute details the essential and conclusive facts of this case can be easily grasped. Under the Paris arbitration our government is bound to compensate for damages sustained through the seizure of British sealers during the Bering sea controversy. The amount of compensation and th method of determining it were left to be arranged between the United States and Great Britain. The total claims submitted by Great Britain amount-. ed to $542,169.26. But this amount included prospective profits or speculative damages. A large proportion was based not upon actual damages, but upon estimates of Imaginary gains which might have accrued if there had been no interruption. It was based upon "probable catch," "estimated catch" and other contingent and fanciful items. It thus rested upon'conditions which were purely speculative. An analysis of the schedule shows that of the total amount $320,000 was on account of these claims for indirect and consequential damages, leaving only $220,000 due, according to the claimants themselves, for actual damages. This amount would be still further reduced by the additional fact that a very considerable proportion of the property seized belonged in reality to American citizens. And yet, in the face of these facts. Secretary Gresham proposed, without any Investigation or review, to pay a lump sum of $425,000 in settlement of the claims a sum more than $200,000 above the actual damages claimed and, of course, the British government eagerly accepted this remarkably generous offer. Happily, Mr. Gresham's proposition required the assent of Congress, and Congress upon full discussion with a clear statement of facts, refused its assent. It was amazing that the Secretary should enter, into an agreement which recognized the. principle and established the precedent of consequential damages. That principle had been distinctly rejected in the Geneva arbitration. It involves unmeasured and immeasurable liabilities. It is fruitful of dangers, and could not be admitted without entailing untold consequences. Indeed, all claims of this character were distinctly barred by the agreement between Great Britain and the United States before the tribunal of arbl-, tration. Congress rightly refused to sanction a proposed settlement which embraced this distinct wrong and this dangerous precedent. It would in itself alone have furnished sufficient justification for the rejection of the agreement, and when it became plain that the sum offered by Mr. Gresham was greatly in excess of any just indebtedness the duty of Congress was clear. The rejection of the agreement leaves the question to be determined by some other method. Mr. Gresham was bound to accept the decision of Congress and was bound to present the attitude of our country with dignity and honor. It is humiliating to find him making explanations to the British Foreign Office in terms which imply a censure upon another branch of our government, and information of this unworthy position of the American Secretary through an official expression in Parliament. Mr. Gresham had no business to use such language as he employs in speaking of the "unfortunate delay in diweharging the obligations of the United States. The "delay" Mines through his own unjustifiable action. He therefore can carry his head high and swagger and jest where a more human criminal would be trembling with fear and remorse. Such men. as he are of the type of moral monsters against whom society is never safe until death cuts short their career and terminates their almost infinite capacity for evil deeds. On Two Side of a. Question. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer is very glad to see the brilliant Boston Herald praising Consul-general Williams for his obviously proper efforts to protect American residents in Havana, but it is nevertheless forced to admit its inability to comprehend how the Herald can commend Mr. Williams's policy and at the same time approve of Secretary Gresham's course in rebuking Mr. Williams for what he has done. The Yankee backbone is falrlv nimble: but there will be a break in the Herald office xmless there la a realignment soon. . . . ' SoKgestlon to Harrison. PhilaJelphla Record. Ex-President Harrison's malady is a complication of the grip and pleurisy a bad

combination for a natient u1i,-,via m-ciii

i has been overworked. Whil in office Mr. Harrison recognized th necessity of occaHonal outings for his healths ake. His mistake In private life, it is to be feaxed. has been in falling to recognize that a law office can be as hard a grind upon th vitality as the presidential office-- mistake too common. with his countrymen, and by no means confined to the professional men, and one especially to be avoided la these days of grip and kindred maladies. WORTH'S METHODS. Hofv He Became Fashion's) ArbiterAmericans His Best Customers. New York Evening Sun. At the present time Worth's establishment employs about l,2u persons, and turns out between 6.000 and 7.CKW dresses and between 3.000 and 4.000 cloaks a year. M. Worth, wan assisted by his sons; M. Gaston Worth taking sole charge of the counting house, ami Ai. Jean Worth the technical part of th business, in which he bids fair to be a worthy successor of his clever father. vv ho." asked a visitor recentlv. "are your best customers?" "Well." replied Worth, "we send model drosses to all parts of the world, but I think Americans are the best clients." Mr wt!Lt. 13 real'y the origin of a fashion. M. Worth?" .''Well, it is difficult to enter into all the details which influence changes of style; but briefly I may say that, when a manufacturer invents any special fabric or design, he sends me a pattern, asking if I can make ue of It. -That fabric may require a severe style of dress, or. if light and soft, is adapted for draperies, puffing, etc. If the material pleases me I order a large quanity, to be specially made for me, and design my dresses accordingly. - "A purchase by a large firm f a great quantity of material influences other Lrms, and that material, and the style it is best suited to becomes the fashion. Then, again, the stage has great influence over fashion." ' "How do you arrange your designs?" "All my models are fret of all made in black and white muslin, and then copied In the material and coloring which I select. Our silks are specially woven for us. and our jet fringes cannot be got elsewhere." "And your favorite figure to design for?" "Ah. that's telling; but one of my Ideals Is Mrs. Brown-Potter's. I consider her one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen." "Are your materials very expensive, M. Worth?" "Not for the quality. We have them up to $60 a yard; but, then, they are tha finest quality, such as no other firm supplies." "Have you made many stage dresses?" "There is hardly an actress of note In the world we have not supplied; but wa do not make a specialty of theatrical costumea." Here is an account of a visit to Worth's establishment that appeared in a recent number of the Strand Magazine: "The picturesque old veteran was deep In consultation when I entered. It must have been on a question of trousseau that ha was laying down, the 'law, for the group surrounding him consisted of an elderly lady, a pretty young one and a very boredlooking young man. M. Worth was dressed In a dark, loose dressing gown, relieved with touches of blue, anU the right hand side bottom corner was lifted up and drawn through a button-hole a little abova the waste; on his heaxt he wore a mitreshaped cap of black velvet. Sometimes hia . gown is richly trimmed with fur. "The rooms where clients are received ara many in number, but plainly furnished, with counters for measuring material, and the floor is covered with carpet in imitation of tiger skin, in gray and black, with scarlet bordering. "Several young women are dressed la the latest style of morning, visiting, dinner and reception toilets, and are paraded in turn, this way and that, before clients, to enable them to judge of the effect of the garments when worn. "A stranger would be specially struck with the constant attentive supervision over all departments by M. Worth, and his two reception and fitting rooms; the beautiful finish and refined daintiness of all the work, and the daring originality which every model exhibits, whjeh only a creative, artistic mind could possibly think of. Above all, all the workrooms that I was freely permitted to" visit, as well as the kitchen, where the food is cooked for the many emthe master Tor those who work for him. . "At the top of the house is a studio, where all the models are photographed; and looking over the albums of costumes, extending back for many years, I had the pleasure of examining the most interesting ones, those especially typical of the most eccentric phases of female dress." 5,000 " PASSES FROM ONE ROAD. The Legislators of Kansas Very re in Their Deiuuudi, Topeka (Kan.) Journal. ."' -. " "I have Just written the four thousand nine hundred and ninety-ninth pass since " this Legislature convened," said ,. General Attorney A. A. Hurd, of the Santa Fe, last evening. It is Mr. Hurd who issues nearly all the passes "on account of legislation," and he sees that each member of the Legis- . lature is provided with a pasteboard which allows him to ride free on all Santa Fe lines during the session. The members are also given trip passes for- their friends when they wish to travel to or from Topeka purely for "legislative purposes." Mr. Hurd was in a happy mood. It 'was probably because the Legislature was so p-nearly ended. "It is strange, very strange," said he, "what excuses members do make to get passes. Often when a pass is applied for and it is not definite for what purpose ' it is requested, I write to the member and ask him what it is for, and he will answer, 'legislative purposes.' Some have asked for passes from Kansas City to the west line of the State, all on 'account of the legislative business.' I was asked for passes for a party ot men to Kansas City and return a day or two ago, and when I asked what particular legislation called them to Kansas City, they answered 'the Irrigation bill.' I told them that Kansas City was a good place to irrigate, but I would have to refuse the passes just the same. "A member of the Senate wanted a pass from some Western town to Topeka and return, and when I asked him whom it was for he said that it was for his stenograper's husband, who wanted to come to Topeka to visit his wife. The stenographer didn't see her husband, or if she did he paid his fare to Topeka, "I have just heard that some of the passes I have issued are being offered for sale on the streets. They use these trip Jasses which are given on account of 'legisatlve business.' As much as we try to accommodate them, you see how the favors are abused. "It may seem that I have Issued a great many passes, but two years ago there were at least twice as many given. We have been more strict this year." "Do the Populists apply for as many passes as the Republicans?" asked the reporter. "No, they do not; but all the members alike have the legislative passes. "Next year when the Legislature meets I am preparing a surprise. 1 have had a talk with the representatives of the other lines, and we have agreed to issue no trip passes whatever for 'legislative purposes.' A member will receive a. pass for himself and family, and that will end It. and his friends will have to pay their fare or stay at home. I think that the number of people who come to Topega will not be quite so large." . - A BISHOP nACIv OF A BAIL He Serves Imitation Beer, and Hopes to Cure Drunkenness. Chicago Special. The "Home Salon" is such a huge success that it is to be enlarged, and several other places like it will soon be started. The scheme was originated by the Bt. Itev. Samuel Fallows. D. D.. Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and every day the Bishop may be seen back of the bar hustling out the drinks with the foam dripping down the front of his clerical coat, or serving his customers with hash, kidney stew and pork and begins. The Bishop's idea is that he can cure drunkenness by selling counterfeit beer. He argues that most men drink beer, not for the alcohol that is In It. but as a beverage simply, and that the drunkenness that follows i the result of an unintentional excess. He also believes that drunkards who love alcohol can be cured of their thirst for tt hv drinkimr a non-intoxlcatlng substitute. Therefore, the Hifhop sells a beverage which he calls "beerette," and the drink is becoming very popular. The place has not been In operation two week, yet the average attendance per day has been 2.40. Four thousand persons patronized It on the opening day. Crowds throng the place- day and night, and Its promoters have difficulty handling the crush ani furnishing the drinks, which are becoming famous. The beer, or beerette, or bishop's beer, as it Is variously called, is, as explained by the expert German chemist who makes It, "a pure-brewed extract of hops and malt, and while there is no alcohol In it, any beer drinker will declare it to be a good drink and a closo counterfeit, without any of the bad effects of lager beer." Its exact composition, the chemist says. Is a secret which he intends to jealously guard. N Muat Be Mitiresaed. k Pittsburg Dispatch. . 1 Lieutenant Governor Nye must bs suppressed at all hazards. His utterances are the essence of sedition. He Is u. dangerous character. It Is probable he is nn iugrate, too, for he was elected as'a politician. Hut he has at last nhown his true colors. He has had the aucUclty to et up the Constitution as noirehins not to be trampled upon. It ii awfuL