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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1895.

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In rler to receive, attention, be acwmpaiiiert by the name and aIlrens of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOlilXAL fan le found at the following places PARKS AnierU.an hxiuaiitte lu Parte, 30 Boulevard lie t apiiclticM. M-;w YUKK Gilxey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor llotiHe. I'll 1 1. A IELPH I A A. 1'. Kemble, or. Lancaster ave. and llariug Ht. . CHtCAfio- Palnier" Houw, Auditorium Hofc'I and P. o. News Co., vi Adams Ktreet. " . CINCINNATI J. It. llaw ley A Co., 134 Vine street. LOUISVILLE O. T., iJewlnir, northwest corner of Thin) and Jetferfon tU., and Louisville Hook Co., 35tf Fourth ave. 8T.,-JX)t'I.SUuIon New Company, Union Depot. "WASHINGTON. 1). ' C kTrh House. Kbbitt House, Willarrt'g Hotel and the WaMiitiKton News Exchange, 1Kb Mtreet, bet, I'enn. ave. anil r' street. . Senator Voorhees savs he Is opposed to j the Nicholson bill from principle. Olv principle yes, just so; principle! "I cannot understand why the German people should make such a fuss over Bismarck's birthday. The American people didn't celebrate mlne."-:-G.C. : I2x-Congressman Springer, the new Judge of the Indian Territory, has reached Vlnita and had a public reception. He . will not get , terrapin and champagne down there,' but a territorial Judgeship beats nothing. . . The Marlon Chronicle, noticing the placing of a colored man on a jury in Madison county, says that in Grant county it is not unusual to find white men, negroes and Indians on the same jury. This? is. fairly, typical of the red, wUite and blue. . r- . The Democratic papers that made merry because they were sure Governor Md'rton was to be a mere tool of exSenator Piatt are now constrained to admit that he has a good deal of backbone, himself, and controls the office he .was elected to fill. Rx-Congressman Holman is said to be of the opinion that there will not be-another international silver conference. Mr." Holman is entitled to his opinion, but he must be very.'dull if he does not tse. that the sentiment in favor of International action and bimetallism is growing rapidly in Europe. Cuban residents of New York, Boston and other Eastern cities are preparing tor send reinforcements of men as well as money to the revolutionists. They seem to he operating cautiously and with a desire not to bring on further :. complications between the United States and fjpain, but any filibustering movement will be likely to" have thqt effect. , : A Washington dispatch says the first thing to engage the attention of Mr. .Wilson when he assumes charge of the Postofflce Department will be the filling tf a score or more of presidential offices. Jt is the old story the public interests must give way to the dispensing of patronage. The postal service badly needs bracing up, but it will have, to shuffle along while the new Postmaster-general fills the offices. Attorney-general Olney is sound oh the question of the constitutional, right of the national government to enforce national laws! In ' his speech in the Debs case he - expressed surprise that criticisms of the, action of the administration during the Chicago riots of 1S94 should have made it necessary "to publicly proclaim the trite and familiar principle that for the execution of national functions every foot of every State is national soil and national property.,", ' ; : The .St.' Louis Globe -Democrat deprecates the popular ignorance on the currency question, and thinks a campaign of education is needed., "Demagogues." it says, "like those who founded the Greenback part'yShd like those who are at the head of the Populists and of their annex, the new stiver party, play upon this ignorance for their own selfish purposes." That is true, as witness the efforts to advertise and circulate such books as that mentioned in another column. There are many Indians in the United States, and especially in the Indian Territory, whose incomes exceed $4,000 a year, and the question has arisen whether, they are subject to the Income tax. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue holds that they are not, provided they are continuing their tribal relations and living under the community system on reservations and deriving income from Indian farming and grazing lands. This is one of the advantages of being an Indian. The board of regents for the soldiers' monument' suggested by Attorney-gen eral Ketcham Gen, Lew Wallace, Judge Hadley, of Danville, and T. C. Steele, of this city ought to be highly satisfactory to all who have the best Interest of the monument at heart. The military, the financial and the artistic interests would, under their management, be well handled. Mr. Steele is thoroughly conversant with the work already accomplished, having been an adviser of the old board from the beginning. He is an artist of the first rank, and if his services can be secured to superintend the construction of the groups of statuary features of the jreat memorial which are the most Important of all It will be ah assurance that the work will be properly performed, and a gratifying settlement of a controversy" that may otherwise refciilt in cheapening and vulgarizing what ought to be a great work of art. Contractors rhnve Bo far been unable to collect anything from the Unitt-d states gTjverriment' for work done In

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In a letter -to the Board of Public Works ex-Representative Bynum suggests that the board arrange with. contractors to assign their claims against the government to the city, Implying that such claims might then i be considered, but reference to practice of the past gives a gloomy outlook for Individual contractors obtaining anything for their claims and carries a suggestion of rather bad commercial morality as administered by the present administration, of which Mr. Bynum has been a conspicuous " part. We shall never come to our best estate until the government adopts, as honorable methods in paying its debts in the States as are made and provided by statutes for their citizens. Mr. Bynum has so far lacked either the influence, the inclination or the motive ' to make him effective in obtaining necessary legislation to bring the government into its honest and proper relation to the system of Improvements for which the citizens of Indianapolis have so generously taxed themselves. FI.YAXCIAt, QXA CK 15 It Y. The attention of the Journal has been called 'to a book entitled "Coin's Financial School," which Is being industriously boomed, from Chicago and extensively circulated in the northern part of this State. It deals, -or pretends to deal, with the currency question. The book itsel is printed in flashy style, profusely illustrated with pictures, .many of which are vulgar and all of which are vile, and is appropriately bound In yellow paper. It belongs to the class of yellow-covered literature . of various kinds which are treated as nuisances. In all well-regulated newspaper offices and Either deposited in the waste basket or sent to the paper mill. TheJjook is a vicious attack on honest money and a direct appeal to the prejudice, the ignorance and the avarice of superficial readers and disjointed thinkers. One of Its pictures, which is evidently deemed so clever that it appears in the text and on one of the outside (covers, Is of the "average business man." It represents him with wheels in his head, which are worked by a string from the rear held .by a hand labeled "banker." From this it may be rightly inferred that "Coin's Financial School" does not appeal to Intelligent business men or even to the average business man. It appeals to those who regard banks' as inventions of the devil, bankers as public enemies and successful business men as their willing dupes and allies who believe in honest money and a sound currency because the bankers tell them to. . The character of the book may.be judged from the fact that it opens with a forgery. The first page contains a tawdry picture of "Columbus discovering America," with the following statement: At the Christian era the metallic money of the Roman empire amounted to $1,8X),000,000. By the end of the fifteenth century it had shrunk to .'00,000,000. tDr. Adam Smith informs us that in 1433 the Erlce of wheat in England was 2 pence per ushel.) Population dwindled, and commerce, arts, wealth and freedom all dis-. appeared. The. people were reduced by pov-" erty and misery to lie most degraded conditions of serfdom and slavery. The dlsintesration of society was almost complete. :Hlstory : records no ;su;.h disastrous transition as that from the Roman empire to the dark ages. The discovery of the new world by Columbus restored the volume of precious mtals, brought with It rising prices, enabled society to reunite its shattered links, shake off the shackles of feudalism and to relight and uplift the almost extinguished torch of civilization. Report United States Monetary Commission of 1878. This is a barefaced forgery. The "United States monetary commission of ISTS'V undoubtedly refers to the "international monetary conference" which was held in Paris that year and attended by commissioners on the part of the United States." They were appointed under an act of Feb. 28, 1878, and the conference met in Paris on the 10th of August. Their report to the President is dated Oct. 17. 1878. It does not i contain a- word of the foregoing alleged extract nor anything at all like it." Neither Is th matter found in any other report by any other monetary commission or ' in , any official report whatever. It is either a willful forgery or has been accepted at second or third, hand by the author of this book as genuine. In' either case It is a fair index of the character of the book, which Is conspicuous throughout for its brazen assumptions, glaring misstatements and dishonest juggling with facts and figures. There is much to be said in favor of bimetallism and the free coinage of silver on ah international basis, and there is reason to believe that the problem is rapidly approaching a solution on that line, but the Interests of silver cannot, be promoted by such wretched travesties on truth and reason as "Coin's Financial School." S.HALL INTERNATIONAL l'OLITICS. The publication of the text of Great Britain's demand upon Venezuela discloses a case of international , peanut politics. When it was first announced that' she had sent an ultimatum to Venezuela it was stated that in demanding the appointment of a commission to assess the damages to British subjects she had expressly stipulated that no citizen of the United States should be on the commission. 'This was followed in a day or two by a cablegram from London that "the statement that Great Britain stipulated that no citizen of the United States should be a member of the commission mentioned is inaccurate." If inaccurate at all it was only in form. The text of Great Britain's demand requires Venezuela to "agree to the constitution of a commission to assess the loss sustained by British subjects in their property or goods in the reserve owing to the action of the . Nicaraguan authorities, such commission to be composed of a British representative, a Nicaraguan representative and .a jurist, not a citizen of any American state, to be selected by agreement between "the Nicaraguan government and the government of her Majesty, and, failing such agreement, by the President of the Swiss republic." The only ground on which this can be claimed not to be a discrimination against the United States is that it excludes all the South American states, but this ia manifest! a subterfuge. The South American states are always at swords' points, and there is not the slightest probability that Nicaragua "would have desired a South American commissioner, while there Is every reason to believe that she would have desired one from the United States. By her stipulation Cr.?at Britain makes sure that the third commissioner shall be from a European state, thus, with her

own commissioner, Insuring a preponderance of European influence, and she accomplishes the exclusion of the United States without using express terms. Her , action Is a slight upon this government

and a stab at the principle of free and fair international arbitration. .' LITEHAKY KVEXT. AT CHICAGO. The editors of the Chap Book, which is published in Chicago, gave a "literary tea" one day this week to which "all the leading authors, writers and literary lights" of that city were invited. This designation of the guests will not give the outside public much idea of their personality, because the public ' has to think hard and rake ' over the ground carefully before it can call the name of even one Chicago literary light above the range of a tallow dip. They may be there; they must be there, else they would not be having a "tea" given to them, but so few faces emerge from the Chicago literary fog after closest observation that the wonder is how enough were got together to make an intellectual festivity. The countenance of Hamlin Garland glimmers vaguely out of the dark Garland who writes tales bearing a realistic live-stock flavor; there is Eugene Field, who produces miles of wootsy-tootsy verses and in idle , hours heaps ridicule on the city that pays him a living; there is James E, Kinaella let not James be forgotten who permits no day to go by when he does not turn his merry machine and' supply the Chicago, papers writh lines on topics to suit. His charming pastoral "When Rosey Pours the Tea" was doubtless inspired by the Chap Book's wassail bowl or, rather, cup. And, yes, there is Mr. Chatfleld Chat-field-Taylor, whose new book, "Two Women and a Fool," is said to have a Chicago man for a hero whether a literary man or not is not announced. But, at all events, the Chicago literati met and had tea. There is no reason to suppose that the term "tea" was used by the persons in charge of the affair to conceal a stronger beverage. It could not have been congressional cold tea because there is nothing in the Chicago literature that has blown beyond the city limits to suggest aught but the mildest of Chinese tipples. The Benevolent Order of Shipping Clerks of Kansas City lately gave a "highly enjoyable pink tea" for gentlemen only, according to local society reports; but pink tea for gentlemen only has a suspicious, suggestiveness, and, though without official information on the subject, the Journal ventures the assertion that the Chicago literary lights did not consume pink tea. They are too light for that altogether. What they did do. without doubt, was to meet together, tell each other how great they were,pretend that they had read each other's writings and were filled with admiration for them, ask each other if- they had read "Trilby," and In the intervals of swapping flattery to drink really and truly tea from pretty little cups. It i3 just lovely that they can get together In ' this way, and if the tea and the mutual admiration have the effect of toning up their literary productions to a level ;that will enable them to break Into the Western Association of Writers it will be lovelier still. . By the death of Stoughton A. Fletcher Indianapolis loses one of its oldest native-born citizens and one of its purest and best of any nativity. There are very few men living in me city, who were born here a3 early as 1831, and none born here or elsewhere who better bore without abuse the grand old name of gentleman than Stoughton A. Fletcher. Some of the older citizens who knew ljis parents can easily understand from whence he derived the qualities that made him so manly and so true, so gentle and so tender, so admirable In all that goes to round out character. It is a great thing for , a man to live in the same community sixty-three years, to die in the town where he was born and to leave behind him a record as conspicuously clean as that which marks the summing up of Mr. Fletcher's life. He would not have had his friends claim that he was a great man. He did not seek notoriety or power, never held office and was not ambitious for distinction of any kind except the love of his friends, the respect of his neighbors and the willing tribute of all to his absolute integrity and high sense of commercial honor. A worthy son of a most worthy sire, he was true to his ancestry, true to his family and friends, true to all the demands of good citizenship and true to his own high standard of thinking and acting. It befell him to pass through great vicissitudes : of fortune, but whether he moved in the full sunshine of prosperity or amid the sometimes lowering clouds of adversity his was the same gentle, noble, strong and lovable nature. Hi3 life is his record, and the character he leaves behind him is a monument more enduring than brass. day was a "woman's edition" of forty pages. The telegraphic and other news departments were handled by the regular force, and are, therefore, in good shape, the women not making the mistake of attempting to master the details of routine work for a single day's service. The rest of the forty pages are made up of advertisements, of which there are a goodly number essays, stories, poems and "pieces" of various sorts. The general impression, gained from a hasty glance over the pages, is that they are pervaded by an awful solemnity. The writers were evidently weighed down by a sense of tremendous responsibility and the seriousness of a great occasion. The seven essays which fill the seven columns of the editorial page are appallingly profound, but the same absence of frivolity and humor is noticeable throughout the paper. There Is but one exception a single column of jokes contributed by Mrs. Emma Carle ton, whese tendency to look on the humorous side of life is well known to readers of this paper. BUt that Is a single lonely column. The rest are portentous, awful. Their depressingly didactic and serious character and the ambitious themes treated suggest, indeed, many sessions of a woman's literary club rolled into one. But, nevertheless, it is, all things considered, a very creditable edition. In particular are the advertising pages to be commended. They are of the sort to bring joy to the heart of a business manager, or, as in this instance, the treasurer of a benevolent society. The ladies who solicited these ads evidently spared no time and energy and let no business man escape. It Is possible that some critics, stiy the W. C. T. U., might hold that their zeal exceeded their discretion when they set apart so much space in which to sound the praise: of sour-mash rye and bourbon whiskies, but such, critics would fail to consider that the time has not com when Kentucky ladies will deliberately boycott the great Kentucky product, especially when there Is money la

It for orphans.. ; "Perhaps it will come before Colonel Watterson gives up his paper again to the women.2 One forty-page edition of this kind will last a long time. One million pounds of sugar came in from Hamburg in the steamship Remus to Philadelphia. One hundred cases of arsenic were also shipped In the same vessel. During the voyage a storm washed off the hatches and damaged the cargo, and it is feared caused some of the arsenic to mix with the sugar. The sugar was for the Spreckels refinery, which declined to receive It and threw it back on the underwriters hands, who, in turn, unloaded it on the customs authorities on account ot the duties. These authorities having no especial use for a million pounds of sugar seasoned with . .arsenic, are submitting samples of it to chemical analysis to decide definitely as to its condition. What they will do with it in case it is found to bo tainted is rot "known, but presumably they wlll dump it in the Schuylkill and not sell it to the lowest bidder. But even if no traces of arsenic are found and It is passeu as pure, nervoi Phlladelphiar.s will feel inclined to laker no sugar in their coffee for a time. The Louisville Courier-J ji irnal of WednesSchool Commissioner Appel is going to sell his property and remove . his family, beside being away from the city most of the time himself,, but he doesn't see why he should not continue to hold his place on. the School Board. Mr. Appel has evidently taken a lesson from Mr. Martindale in the art of misrepresenting a district. The latest complication growing out of a Chicago divorce occurred a few days ago, when a divorced wife acted as bridesmaid at the marriage of her former husband to another woman. This is civilization as practiced in Chicago. , ' T ' : Attendance at Oklahoma prayer meetings is accompanied by some risks, as the shooting of a pious brother shows. It should be made a rule out there that revolvers be given up at the-door. ' . For a man whom, total abstinence people were wont to cite as a horrible example fifteen years ago, Prince Bismarck has held out fairly well. v . lJlUnLES I THE A1K. The Corn fed Philosopher. "This century,'!, said, the cornfed philosopher, "will be remembered chiefly as the era pf the bloomer and the boomer.'. Sprlnjf Effect. Spring has come. A Pretty picture Is she, as she: trips elate, And it's time to, .give your grip cure The more pleasing name of "bait." lie Wlobed. "Saved! Saved!" shouted the heroine. "By ginger," said the man who was well down in the front,,;"! wish them remarks of hern applied - ' to' . the thirty cents 1 give up fer this here seat, I do." . C'hniiKC Ordered. "I guess I'll have one of those Methodists broiled to-day,"" said the King of Mbwpka. "May U please tyour Royal Highness,' ventured the high chief steward, "the Pres. byterian batch is much' the fatter." v "You do what fi!teU-you,"; thundered the monarch. "I,haye-Jieen eating Presbyterians for a week now, and the court physician has ordered a change of diet." The U. A.-'lt. tireetinar. When foul Rebellion's felon hand Profaned the flagsour fathers bore, And drenched the fair fields of the land With brothers' blood, from shore to shore; When widows wepfor dear ones dead, And'Freedm Khrekeci" in dire alarm, Who to tne'Xatlon'sreicffelBped, - With fearless front, fron town and farm? Who raised anew that banner brave, ! With patriot pride its folds unfurled On field and flood, f on land and wave, And dared the treason of the world? Brave G. R. the; fame' Is yours, And yours the meed in deathless story; The Fathers' structure Ptill endures, And o'er it floats the same "Old Glory." ' Indianapolis,' March 28. ' J. G. 1XDI YNA PRESS OP1MO.V. Tho Banner Times believes in the enforcement of all laws, liquor and, others, and believes that the best way to do that is to t,onir nn Kq. noptv n t b h fiMvfMi thft State

k ' LAV tV 1,1 r It . J . J . w.u - - - - e- i all the'g'ood temperance legislation it has ever had. The Republican party nas uone this, and while not perfect, it is tbe'best law and order league we know of. The people of the State, ctun serve metr country no better than to support the Republican party. Greencastle Banner Times. .In the opinion of a large majority of the good people of Howard county the Republican party is a,i good citizens' league, a mighty good one; too,' the best in fact in existence to-day and there is none better in sight. While it cannot lay claim to perfection it is wise enough to comprehend that it would not be materially aided in acquiring greater virtue and merit througn any Counsel offered by a select organized few Democrats, Populists and Prohibitionists. Kokomo Tribune. We do not give a tinker's dam who the enemy is, or haw many , there are of them, or what language they speak. We believe, In defending the flag W believe in avenging insults. We believe in resisting encroachments. . We believe . in the Monroe doctrine. Let us call a halt to the further division o-Venezuela, and not only this, but let us restore the old boundaries in that country.- Let us go after that apology from Spain. Let 'us clear up the Bluenelds matter .Let the eagle scream and scare away all meudieis with affairs on this entire hemisphere. Brookville Americn. The IndianapoJis Journal suggests a constitutional amendment in reference to legislative sessions which grows in favor the more it is. considered. Its proposition is "first, to substitute moderate salaries for a per diem compensation, thus removing the monev temptation to long sessions, and then provide that each General Assembly, elected biennially as .now, shaJl hold two short sessions instead of one long one, with .an interval of five or six months between in which suspended legislation or measures, of doubtful propriety should be discussed by the press and people. No bill should be passed at the first se?sion except by the voles of three-fourths, of the membeis of both houses, and none should be introduced or considered at the second session excent such as had received a majority of the votes in bath houses at the first " session." There would be several advantages in such a reform, and among ' the most important would be tne opportunity given during the interval between Bet-siona for popular discussion of measures propose!. The people would have free access to their representatives and ample time fc taJk with them fate to face about bills introduced. The second session woulct be ?imply a record of the popular verdict, and the members being on salary Instead of a oer diem, it would probably not be a long one. Monticello Herald. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Gen. John A. McClernand, "after serveral months' illness, is able to be about once more. It is stated that one thousand epic poems have alerady been received by the New York Herald in competition for the great prize. Greece was never in it -for a minute with the. United States of America. On the 13th ' of this month the coffin of Victor Hugo was placed in a sarcophagus in its final resting place in the vaults of the Pantheon of Paris. The niche filled bv Victor Huko's coffin is in a solitary vault in which the late President Carnot lies. Miss Dora Wells is owner and purser of the Puget sound steamer Delta, which runs, from Whatcom to the San Jaun inlands and Victoria. B. O. She makes contracts for freight, collects fares and sometimes takes ahand in navigating ihe vessel.. . A million florins was the penalty recently paid by the Austrian Baron Konigawater for changing his religion. He was a Jew, who married - a Catholic wife: hia father in hia will imposed the conditloss that if

he became a. Christian he should pay 1,000,000 florins to Jewish public charities. He has now become a Catholic and has paid the forfeit. An association of ex-slaves Is to be organized in. Alabama. A wealthy negro contractor, himself once In bondage, is at the head of the movement, and his intention Is to exclude all negroes who were born In freedom. If the Alabama organization proves successful it Is proposed to extend it over the South until it takes In all the "before-the-war" negroes who are able and willing to Join It. Mr. Vaux was conservative, even for a Philadelphlan. He 'never went to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, he never got into a street car and never traveled by rail by night. He was never inside a theater and shunned soft-seated chairs sensible there, by the way. At his suburban home he loved to sit on the sharp top rail of a fence not so sensible. Mr. Vaux was of Quaker stock, but he attracted attention by his bearing and his dress. He despised overcoats and umbrellas and he always wore patent leather pumps in the street. There is talk of making Mrs.. Lease a reform candidate fpr, the mayoralty of Wichita, Kan. The other day the Wichita Beacon tried to draw out Mr. Lease on the question, but ail It got was the following diplomatic deliverance: "Mr. Lease was seen at noon and stated that he had not been downtown much of late and had not heard of the report. - He smiled and seemed pleased when informed of the association of his wife's name with the mayoralty candidacy, but said that he would wait until 'mother came before expressing any opinion on the subject.". She was a frisky, gay soubrette. He was a manager. He married her, and then, you bet. He didn't manage her. ' . Philadelphia Inquirer. Life Is earnest, aye, a tussle And the men who don't feed flies Get upon themselves a hustle, And they always advertise. .Philadelphia Inquirer. SHREDS AND PATCHES.

You never like some people until they are out of town Atchison Globe. LI Hung Chang has relied too much on his yellow jacket. What he wants is a coat-of-mail. Syracuse Standard. Spring can be said to be almost here. The tornado has begun business in the South. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It really seems that Bismarck has a divine right more powerful even than Emperor Willie's. Philadelphia North American. When a man refers to a woman as an old flame of his you can generally gamble that he has been fired. Philadelphia Record. The chances are at least seven out of ten that in presidential nominations the unexpected will not happen. Boston Advertiser. Ethel Have you any very ' expensive tastes, Charlie? Charlie Well; I don't know I'm very fond of you. Buffalo Express. The devil like3 to hear some men talk in church. One of them $ the man who puts rotten apples in the bottom of the basket. Ram's Horn. . There Is a gentleman In the city postofflce who wears elevens, 'large size, on his feet, and he is spoken to and of now as Trilby. Washington Capital. From now until the great political "ccaventions meet presidential tickets will be set up at the rate of three per week. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Spoons And will my ducky trust me In everything when, we are married? She Everything, Algy, provided you don't ask for a night key. Scribner's. We are a cheerful people. Witty two years of Democratic misrule ahead we are already beginning to talk of the good times coming. New York Mail and Express.- . "Papa gave me two pennies to put In the plate in church." "Do you know . who those pennies were for?" "Course I do; for the organ man. I heard the music." Life. The Siamese are said to have a superstitious dread of odd numbers. We presume that is why the .amese twins were not triplets. New York Mail and Express. If LI Should Die. Washington Special. Confidential advlce represent the condition of the wounded Li Hung Chang to be much worse than the press dispatches make it appear. Ho is said to be in a critical state, and in diplomatic circles it is remarked with regret that if he should die It would keep China back a hundred years. His recent prominence in construed to foreshadow the ascendancy of the native element which, under the long and earnest teachings of Prince LI, has begun to show a spirit in harmony with the spirit of modern civilization. , With LI on'earth and alive this revolution might be effected peacefully. With the great statesman dead the country could hardly be prevented from bloody internal wars, with the chances strongly in favor of a continuation of the policy of darkness and Isolation. Upon mat one life, now in the balance, depends the fate of China. Others may conclude peace negotiations, but there is no man in the empire equal to the stupendous task of giving it the proper start on the path of progress. Nothing at this moment moves the diplomatic corps in Washington to greater Interest than bulletins and inside news touching the physical condition of Li Hung Chang. The Other Side of llimarck'B Work. Philadelphia Press. ; If in this universal chorus of Teuton praise the only dissonant note comes from the Reichstag, which has declined to vote its congratulations, history will probably deal more fairly with the representatives of Germany than current criticism. Like Richelieu, Prince Bismarck found his country weak and left it strong; found it divided and left it united. Like Richelieu, Prince Bismarck found the central authority impotent, resisted or unrecognized, and he has left it paramount. ; But like the great Frenchman of the seventeenth century who gave France a position held until Bismarck appeared, the great German has pushed aside parliamentary government, restricted the liberal development of his land and given the sovereign, his government and ' its administration overmastering influence. The struggle is not over; but In it, thanks to Prince Bismarck, victory and supremacy have been thus, far with the Kaiser and his ministers. Each decade sees in Germany a more relentless restriction of free and liberal action, and the pending law goes beyond all past attempts. A fair estimate of Prince Bismarck's work cannot be made without considering -this worse share of his work. Soldiers In Havana. LInplncott's. The military are en , evidence at every turn. At the wharf so many soldiers are pacing to and fro, or lounging listlessly about, that it gives one mo impression of having landed at a military post, rather than a commercial seaport of some S.'jO.OO') people. It requires some time to get away from this impression. Almost every fifth man one meets wears a military dress of some sort: barracks and fortresses ara strewn about the city and Its outskirts ad libitum, and bands ot marching men and the sounds of martial music are encountered from morning to night. ChlneMe. Nomenclature. New Y'ork Mail and Express. In speaking of LI Hung Chang, the New York Sun falls into the common error, of using Chang as the Viceroy's surname. The Chinese nomenclature is exactly the reverse of ours. In China the family namo cornea first, the given name second or third. Li Hung Chang's family name I Li. The Hung Chang was bestowed on him thirtyone days after his birth. It would be as correct to ppeak of Walter Queer Grchain as Mr. Walter, as to speak of LI Hung Chang as Mr. Chang, and they are both diplomats who are jealou of their names. The Name Wmh Most Apt. New York Sun. t There Is a genius in this town who was recently called upon to finJ an appropriate name for a small and active tug boat. The peculiarity of tha problem consisted in the fact that the tug boat was to pull, pilot, convoy and generally superintend certain fast, unwieldy, inertacraft of the sort known as dumping scows; tubs which make no headway if left to themselves, and which carry a cargo of woruiles;mesR, but kick up considerable fuss In aoing through the water. The genius promptly named the tug boat the Daniel a. Lamont. Speaking of llronse Paint. Nw Y'ork Commercial Advertiser. There Is no reason why a line should be drawn between a really nude figure and a figure that appears to the spectators to be nude. Of course, the law is not interested in maintaining the dignity of the drama If It were there would be writs, served on a Kood many of the places of amusement but it Justly regards clothes, and clothe that do not simulate nudity, as essential .o public moral!1. Where there ground enough to question the lawfulness and deceucy of an exhibition, there Is grouud enough to suppress it.

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CLEVELAND PLANNING TO ION OK E THE WOLCOTT HESOLUTION. If Another Monetary Conference Be Called the Uruaaela Delegate May - lie Sent Dark to Europe. WHAT NICARAGUA MUST BO TEXT OF HRITAI.VS ULTIMATUM REGARDING PROCONSUL HATCH. The Proposed InveMtlgratlon of the Route of America' Bis; Canal Coming: Pofftofflce Chanse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, March 28.-Presldent Cleveland Is quoted as seriously doubting . his authority to accept an invitation to the possible international 'monetary confer ence to which the German empire Is expected to invite the Unite Statss to send delegates next fall. The President has frequently expressed his anxiety that some conference may .be called at which something definite will be accomplished in the line of International bimetallism, the only practical solution of the silver problem, ' but he ia now said to be deeply impressed with the views advanced by Judge Culberson, of Texas, in the interview with the Journal correspondent printed on March 18. Judge Culberson Is one of the House delegates and his. legal standing is well known and recognized. In that interview Mr. Culberson reluctantly gave It as his belief that the solution of the sundry civil bill authorizing, the appointment of tRe. delegates and appropriating $100,000 for their expenses was so worded that it practically prevented any exercise of discretion by the President and limited him entirely to the appointment of delegates to a conference called for the specific purpose of securing a fixed relative value bitween gold and silver as money by means of a common ratio and with free coinage at such ratio. The President is not authorize-?,, under the strict construction of the resolution, to appoint delegates to any conference called for any other purpose. Judge Culberson's views are said to have been informally discussed at the last Cabinet meeting, but owing to the absence of Attorney-general Olney, who was before the Supreme Court , in the Debs case, no opinion could be obtained as to the legal accuracy of Mr. Culberson's attitude. .. It is not believed that Germany or any other country will call a conference such as is described in the Wolcott resolution, though it is regarded as almost certain that invitations to an international conference of some kind ' will be received. Much of the nature of the invitation of the " German government will depend on the results of the greater commercial congress to b held In . Berlin on April 4, at which all the commercial bodies of the German empire will be represented. From advance expressions or opinion of some of the leading German manufacturers and! financiers, all of . whom express a stron aversion to any tampering with the present monetary system of the empire, it Is believed that nothing definite can be hoped for from the next conference. Mr. Cleveland will be very loath to let the United States go unrepresented at any gathering of nations for the discussion of the future of silver. It has been rcptatedly suggested of late that the Brussels conference of 1802 never formally adjourned sin difc and that it Is in effect only taking1 a recess. Much of the $100,000 appropriation for that conference remains unexpended and it nas, therefore, been intimated tnat it the proper law officers of the government, partlculary of the treasury, point out to Mr. Cleveland that the invitation he may rccel is not worded in accordance with the Wocott resolution, that he will then request the American delegates to the Brussels conference to represent this government at the Berlin meeting, regarding the latter conference as the adjourned session of the Brussels meeting. Tho American delegates to Brussels were Senators Allison, of and Jones, of Nevada; Representative McCrearv, Professor Andrews and Banker Cannon Thpy are undoubtedly as able a body lu? the delegates appointed by the House and the Senate. Judge Holman said today that he did not believe any conference, would be held. L BRITAIN'S ULTIMATUM. Text of the Demand on the Republic of Nicaragua. WASHINGTON, March 28. The ultimatum issued by Great Britain to Nicaragua has been given out here. It is addressed by Earl Kimberly to Senor Barrios, minister of Nicaragua. The document then gives a historical resume of the situation in the Mosquito Testrve; practically as already published In the English and American newspapers during the last six months. After reciting the expulsion of pro-Consul Hatch and other Englishmen the document says: ','., "General Cabezas alleges that Ml. Hatch harbored Chief Clarence for purposes hostile to Nicaragua. On this 1 have only to remark that the chief; being in fear for his life, was, by the advice ot Captain Clarke, commanding her Majesty's ship Magicienne, received by Mr. Hatch In his hou?e on the 11th of May, but when the chief reassumed hi3 position as. Mosquito chief, on the 6th of July, Mr. Hatch requested him to cease to reside In his house, and he accordingly left. I do not know that there are any other points in the documents which you have communicated to me of sufficient importance to make it necessary that I shoulJ especially notice them. I have only to request that vou will, without delay. Inform tne Nicaraguan government that her Majesty's government cannot : admit that any adequate or reliable evidence has bien produced to Justify the arbitrary and violent action taken against the Queen's subjects. They hold the Nicaraguan Kovcrnincui iv sponsible for these proceedings, and they must require them to pay the sum fit 13,tJv) on account of their action in arresting, imprisoning and expelling these British subjects; further, to cancel unconditionally the decree of exile issued against them, and to agree to the constitution of a erommisslon to assess the los3es sustained by them in their property or gootls in the retttrve owing to the action ot the Nicaraguan authorities, such commission to be composed of a British representative, a Nicaraguan representative and a Jurist, not a citizen of any American State, to be selected by agreement between the Nicaraguan government and the government of her Majesty, and failing such agreement, by the President of the Swiss republic. The finding of the commission to be by a majority, and the awards to be final, and to be paid within three months of the conclusion of their labors. "Besides the cases cf British subjects arrested In the Mosquito reserve there are those of others who have suffered at the hands of th Nicaraguan authorities, namely. Arthur E. Sykes, of Sheffield. England, who had been working for a year in the Mosquito reserve as an engineer, and waa serving in the capacity cn board the Buena Ventura when, on the night of the 3)th of July, he was forced at the point of the bayonet by Nicaraguan soldiers to get up eteam and take a party of them down the river to the Bluefie'.ds bluff, and was. on arrival there, fortunately released by the captain of the I'nited States ship Marblehead; also, Mr. Joshua E. Gay, a Jamaican, settled In Great Corn Inland, who, early In the vc-ar lal. was beaten with the fiat of a sword for refusing to perform military service and then made to serve. There la further unwarrantable seizure of the British schooner Angelia by the governor of Corn island and tne detention of her owner and crew. For theae outrages her Majesty's government must also have satisfaction, and they require that the sum of 300 be naid as indemnity. "In previous letters which. I have addressed to you I hive explained that her Majesty's government U not..- prepared to discusa any queiUioa with regard to th ; treaty ef Managua and the rv-ent proceed Ins In the Mo,)uUo reserve until this mati ter of the arrest and imprisonment of BrltI ish subject h.t been disposed of. . . ."To avoid ur.y misunderstanding on th subject 1 think It ris lit to inform you that

to this determination her Majesty's government Intends to adhere, hut as soon as the demands which I have made In my present note have been satisfied I shall be prepared to receive and consider In a' friendly spirit any representations on these questions which the Nicaraguan government may desire to make to hor Majesty's government."

NICARAGUA EXPEDITION. Commissioners Will Examine t lie Canal Route This Spring-. WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Messi. Warner Miller. Smith Weed, Hitchcock and 4 Bartlett. of New York, called on the Presl-, dent. Secretary Gresham and Secretary .Lamont to-day. In connection with the appointment of the committee to examine the Nicaragua canal route, as provided for by a clause in the last sundry civil approprlatlorf bill. This clause makes an appropriation of $30,000 for the purpose of ascertaining the feasibility, permanence and cost of construction and completion of tho canal . by the present route, and provides for th 4 appointment of a commission to be composed of one army engineer, one naval en-v glneer and one civilian expert, to visit and. inspect the canal. The work la to be done under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State, and the President Is to ap- ' point the commission.' The latter ia also authorized to suggest any deviation from tuc yicwui uc nuii uiey may ucem ueslrable. The calls on the President and Secretaries Gresham and Lamont disclosed a. general desire to appoint the commissioners and equip an expedition to Nicaragua at the earliest day practicable. No. names were mntlnnpd tw tti rfinnl rl.--irm ty places as : commissioners, nor had any names yet been considered by tha executive officers. It was definitely understood that the, appointments would be made soon. The $20,000 appropriation will do no more than pay salaries, leaving the great bulk of the expense for transportation in this Inaccessible regkm, road making, provisions, . etc.. to oe supplied from other sources. Besides , ...... v . -j Eituiiiii nuin vi rui rj ing, examining soils, etc. All of these expenses the canal officials gave assurances of meeting. At the conclusion of the conference Chairman Bartlett, of the executive committee, which has recently reorganized tha company, outlined the project of the' work. "It is- most desirable," said he. "that the expedition start at the earliest day practicable. The rainy season begins in May and lasts until November, during which, time the rainfall Is as high as four and five Inches dally. This and the climate will make it hard for a man untried to the locality, but it will not be an Insuperable obstacle. The desire Is to complete the . work this summer, In order that a report may be ready next December. It will require an organization almost equal to an expedition, to the heart of Africa. Roads along the route have been cut already, but are overgrown with a dense tropical folUge. Then there are lagoons which will compel the party to cfty boats overland. Supply dennts will .iv ' In hi sf a VtllsViarl ntAiif every five miles and communication maintained with the base of supplies. The company is willing to aid the government by providing the means for this extensive work. The purpose of Congress appears to be to secure a comprehensive investigation. ' of the route rather than a survey, as a survey woum ue a worn or years, w nen the commission Is organized It will be put in posseseion of all the drawings, details, etc., of the last and best survey, which Is now generally accepted. It will take some weeks for the commissioners to familiarize themselves with this Intricate work. The - . 1. 1.. Ml . , V. ... n or four months. The rest of the time will , be required for preparing the notes of the Investigation and 'making a report." Mr. Bartlett was asked if tho pending trouble between Great Britain and Nicaragua would embarrass the work or threaten United States Interests in the canal. "Not In ; the slightest," said he. "There la sure to be an amicable adjustment of that controversy. At one time there was some talk that Great Britain would intervene and build the canal if we did not. but that time is past. The British Influence is in no danger of being exerted In Nicaragua to the prejudice of the United States. Great Britain has her commerce, und ia satisfied to keep it.'f Mr. Bartlett said the new of- - nutria piau niiAa iiiw . - ized company would be announced at an early day. The reorganized company, he added, had succeeded in freeing tho company from debt and putting. It pn a stable basis. : ' UISSELL AND WILSON. The , Outgoing Postmaster-General Coaching III Successor. WASHINGTON. March 28. Postmastergenefal BIssell and Mr. 'Wilson, the ex-Representative, who succeeds Mr. BIssell, held another long conference at the department to-day. They went over the routine of the department and discussed generally the duties of the office and the methods of work in the service. The change does not take place until next Thursday, when Mr. Wilson will take the. oath of office, but he has manifested his intention to become thorougly acquainted with his duties before assuming charge. Mr. Blssell's plans immediately following his retirement have not been finally determined, but it Is probable that he will remain In the city until the latter part of April. .. ' There are now about forty presidential postofflce appointments pending, and ' it is probable that considerably more than a score of these will be left for Mr. Wilson to act on. The principal offices to be filled are Cincinnati and Cleveland. O.. where there are bitter contests. Ex-Governor Campbell and other political -leaders from the Buckeye State are now in the city presumably In connection with these office; and the marshalshlp and district attorneyship in the two cities. Other, cities are Seattle, Wash., the home of Senator Squire, where a prolonged fight has been made; Providence, R. I,, the home of Senator Aldrlch, where an appointment haa been long pending, and Ellsworth, Me., the home of Senator Frye. The appointment of an assistant general superintendent of the railway mall service will also fall within the patronage of Mr. Wilson. The office pays ',000 a year and traveling expenses,' and has been vacant since the promotion of diaries Nellson, of Maryland, now Second Assistant Postmaster-general. The office almost Invariably has been filled by pro-, motion from within the service, and the Postmaster-general has refrained from filling the place until he could find name one whom he considers especially flitted for the position. THE INCOME TAX." Uuconllrmed Rumor thai the Latr Will Ue Declared Unconstitutional. ' WASHINGTON, March 18.-There was a. general Impression about the Capitol to-day that a decision would be handed down by the Supreme Court In the income-tax cases on Monday, but it could not be traced to an authoritative source. There was also a re4Viat el-i. rl0rtatnn urnilltl ha or)v,l, tA the law, but as the court's deliberations are secret, there Is no way of learning what th decision really will be. Treasury officials agree In the opinion that the Income tax applies to foreigners owning. any kind of property In this country, whether rexidents or nonresidents. They point out that the law l specific and clear on this point when It declares that the tax shall be pa.d on the gains, profits and Incomes from all property owned and of every business, trade or profession carried on in the United States "by persons residing without the United States." The first part of the Ilrnt section provides that the tux ph.jll be paid by "every citizen of th United State, whether residing at home or abroad, and every person residing therein," and then follows the provisiem to persons "residing without the United State." Section 31 of the act provides that unless the tax payer "b a citizen of the I'nited States he shall pay only on that part of the Income whi"h It derived from any source in the UnlterU'States." These pr ovist! on. , it Is contended, clearly show It to be the Intent of Congrefs 4o tax foreigners raiding outstdn of the United States, on Incomes realized vii ull projerty, whether real or personal.' in the I'nited State, anil unless en.ioinc-d from doing so, the government will .proceed to collect It In the regular way. ;v EX-CONSIL WALLER'S CASE. Hon, John M. Lungaton Working, lu Behalf of Hi Client. WASHINGTON. March 2S. Hon. John M. Iangston, who for some years paat. has been the counsel for ex-Conul John U Waller, of Kansa.-, was at theStale Department to-elay to ascertain If -any news had been received cHUiAU.v of the re-ported sentence of his client to twenty years ..Imprisonment In Madagascar. Mr. Larsgton. thinks It about time that cable advices were received, but In ths he JJ3MUrfjitd. for up to noon nothing had come to the department. Certarn documents aid letters