Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1595.

THK DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 29. 1890. Washlfli on Office 1410 Peoaslvao!a Avenue Telephone Calls. 2$os!nOfflce Editorial Koomi A W TER3IS OF SIHSClllPTIOX. tiAlLY BY JAlU rny only, one month , $ .TO J ai!y only, thre month IO Jailr only, on jar 8.00 XaUy, lD lnlin junJay, one year 10.00 fcunuay only, cn year 2.00 WIIH rrBM.HKU BY AGKNTA. Pny, per wrek. by mirier.. II els f unuay, tingle rvy & rti LJiy aul bunday, ptr week, by earner 20 cu WEKKLY. Per year . S1.0Q Reduced Rates 'to Clubs. Sabcrit with any of our numerous ageuta or send $ubscrli'tion to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, I nil. Imou MThltnt; the Journal through the malls In th Totted State niiouM put on an eiicbtpatfo paper a css-cxst postage stamp; n a iwcheoralxteeD-page I per a twk km jstj;e bUuip. loreign postage 14 Lsually double ttese rates. tT7"AIlcomrnunlatlon intended for pnbllratlon In tLis rper mint, lu t.rder to re-el?e attention, be accompanied by the name and addreM of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOIH.NAL Can be found at lh following places PAULS American Kxthauge lu rarla, 36 Boulerard de a pur In. Ki:V YORK GILtey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor Honse. CHICAGO Palmer Houne, Auditorium Hotel and P. O. ew Co., H Atlanta ktreet. CTSCDiNATI J. K. Haw ley St Co., 154 Vine street. LOTJISYILIX C T. Deerlng, northwest comer of Third and Jefferson su., and Louisville Book Co., Fourth are. fcT. Lulls Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C Rlj House, Kbbltt Hon, Wizard's Hotel tvA the Washington News Ki change, 14th rtreet. to. 1'enn. are. and P street. The dark days of the past week could have been utilized by Governor Matthews In preparing his boom to bear sunshine. The really wise Democrat who has a presidential bee In his bonnet is on the lookout lest the mantle of Mr. Cleveland should be thrust upon him. Senator Turpie Is In favor of "a shot which would go crashing through the grand seraglio." Who would have thought he was' so warlike? ' ' '"

It Is doubtful if the question of the distribution of garden seeds Is up to the level of a national issue.' aft some, men In Congress assume, unless the seed3 are of a better quality than they have the reputation of being. i. The Minneapolis Tribune says that the postofllce In that city receives from $C0,000 to $75,000 a year In goJd;ln the ordinary course of business. If all postofllces receive gold In the same proportion the aggregate would make a sum of which the government ought to avail itself. BSBSSSBBSBBSBlBBBBBBSBBSSBBBSBBSSBBSBHBBaBsaBBBBBB Mr. It. K. Mansfield, who has been chosen secretary of the Republican State committee. Is well known to political people in the State as the secretary of the State Lincoln League the past few. years. lie is a faithful and careful man who will give close attention to his duties. . The appearance of Col. "William R. Morrison, of Illinois, In the presidential field xJeed cause Governor Matthews, of Indiana, no anxiety. A rival candidate in every State In the Union will not Interfere In the least with his prospect of being President. The Republican nominee will see that." - We cannot go to war With Turkey to right the wrongs of Armenians, but we bave & right to demand that the American flag shall be respected in every quarter of the globe and that American citizens shall be protected in their rights, and wnen this demand Is made it should be backed up by such a demonstration of force as to make it effective. There is probably no foundation for the rumor that the European powers are preparing for a partition of Turkey, but It would furnish a happy solution of the Armenian question and be a distinct gain for civilization. It is to be remarked, however, that., the European powers act without talking, and their executive policies are not discussed in town-meeting fashion. In the present condition of the national finances such speeches as that of Senator Thurston yesterday are utterly Irrelevant. The crisis of the Venezuelan dispute has passed, and there is no occasion for such fiery philippics and shaking of gory locks as the Nebraska Senator .indulged in. Ills peroration is a notable specimen of oratorical bombast. Perhaps when the Senate has emerged from the present avalanche of gab ltjvlll address Itself to business. The people of Kansas , are having a practical object lesson in the superiority of a Republican business administration over a reckless Populist one. In the last eix months of the year 1S93 the aggregate expenses of the State charitable Institutions were $1,6S5. against $213,637 expended by the Populist administration In the corresponding period of 1894. During the same period there was a saving in the management -of the penitentiary of J10,7C making a total of $79,991 saved in the management of the charitable and penal institutions of the State In six months. Practical reform of that kind Is something the people can appreciate. The recent advance in the price of wheat, though it fell off some on Monday, is likely' to be followed by a further rise. The last report of the United States crop bureau states that the wheat crop of Great Britain was 22,700,000 bushels less than last year, a falling off of about one-third, and that oats were short 13,730,000 bushels and barley 3.7C9.C00 bushels, a total shortage in these crops of over 40.000,000 bushels. Advices from Russia report an aggregate shortage of 322,SOO,000 bushels in the cereal crops of that country. Including wheat, rye, oats and barley, while Argentine will have much less wheat than usual for export. These conditions make the prospect for a further advance in wheat fairly good, and from present Indications It may be still further Improved by a light crop In this country vsx year. The cashier of a national bank in St. Louis who has Just been sentenced to the penitentiary for five years for embezzlement said, after receiving his sentence, that although the books showed he was a defaulter, he never appropriated a dollar of any other person's money to his own use. "I have done nothing more," he said, "than every other cashier of a national bank is compelled to do. The president of a national bank has the cashier at his mercy and can put him in the hole any time he grants to. I was not prosecuted for

stealing money, but was persecuted because I fixed the books as I was required to do." Of course, it Is not true that the president of a bank has the cashier at hl3 mercy to the extent that he can compel the cashier to make a false entry or alter the books, but the foregoing statement suggests that there maybe more tampering with the books of banks than the public is aware of. TUB CHAIRMANSHIP.

The active but altogether friendly canvass for the chairmanship of the Republican State central committee has resulted in the re-election of Capt. John K. Gowdy, who Is to be congratulated on his success and this recognition of his former services, and the party Is to be congratulated that the contest has left no wounds to heal. The friends of Mr. Nebeker, his opponent, are not of that class that treasure malice at the success of a rival applicant for party honors, and they will be found willing co-operative workers for the welfare of the party, which means, in other words, the welfare of the State and country. The Journal has no cause to criticise Mr. Gowdy as chairman. On the contrary, it can cheerfully say for him that he has always been untiring in his devotion to the cause. Ills methods have been conciliatory rather than aggressive. Much of the usefulness of the chairman in the future will depend upon himself. If he does his utmost to heal the differences which preceded his election by freely calling into counsel the capable and willing party workers he will merit the place for which he has contended and render the party excellent service. In this he must take the Initiative. Indiana will go Republican this year whoever is chairman, and however he may do his work, if its convention courageously asserts the party's principles and places in nomination good candidates. The State committee can help by directing the campaign, but the result does not depend upon the chairman or upon any set of men. Good administration, tickets composed of good and capable men, and the preaching from the housetops the whole Republican doctrine In contrast with Democratic heresy and Incompetency are the agencies which" must be depended upon to win Republican victory. The usefulness of'the committee will depend much upen Its further organization, and, to be useful, it should avail Itself of the experience of the party's Intelligent men, and . specially, of those who have enjoyed the widest perspective. The question is not one of the advice of Mr. Gowdy's late supporters, but one of getting the Judgment of the ablest men of the party In every part of the State. TOWX-31EETIXG STATESMANSHIP. The discussion of the Turkish-Armenian resolutions In the House, if that can be called discussion which consists largely of random word firing at a distant and not very clearly perceived target, presents some features which, in spite of the tragic aspects of the case, are almost amusing. The resolutions before the House were Intended to be expressive of sympathy for the Armenians and of censure for the European powers signatory to the treaty Of Berlin for not performing their duty In putting a stop to the massacres. This opened &. wiaw field for oratory of the irresponsible kind and brought out some surprising state ments. The opening speech In favor or the resolutions was made by Mr. Qulgg, a member of the foreign affairs committee, who admitted at the outset that the United States had, as yet, no cause of action against Turkey herself. There was assurance from the State Depart ment, he said, that no American citizen had suffered in person, and as for the property of the American college that had been destroyed, Turkey fully recognized her liability. Therefore our inter est in the case was "purely humane." Humanity is altogether commendable, but governments and legislative bodies should not parade it too officiously. Mr. Qulgg said he wanted the European pow ers who were parties to the treaty of Berlin, which guaranteed protection to the Armenians, "to know that the Amer ican people are watching their derellc tlon." lie did not warn the signatory powers that the eyes of the people of the Fourteenth district of New York, were on them, but this was evidently what he meant. ' - Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, was not satisfled with a protest or a demand on the European powers to do their duty. He wanted Congress to instruct the Presi dent to give the Turkish minister his passports and at once terminate all diplomatic relations with that govern ment. "When reminded that it would be unprecedented to terminate all Inter course with a friendly power he shouted, "We want no friendly relations with murderers," and this fine outburst of in tern itlonal wisdom was applauded by the House. When reminded that our trea ties with Turkey enabled the United States government tp protect its citizens in that country he replied, "But they have not stayed the knife of the ruthless murderer." He failed to state, however. how the dismissal of the Turkish minister at Washington and the abrupt breaking off of diplomatic relations with Turkey would accomplish anything In the direction of protecting American citL zens or stopping the Armenian massacres. He wished that a new Peter the Hermit might arise in Europe, and said many other things that showed a high state of mental exaltation. Mr. Hardy, of this State, suggested that the United States should have been a party to the Berlin treaty, forgetting that that would have deprived us of all standing ground for the defense of the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Bailey thought that as the United States could have become a party to that treaty but declined to do so. It would not be proper for the United States now to charge the parties to the treaty with failing to carry out their obligations. Mr. Hardy asked. "Did the United States have an opportunity to be a party to that treaty?" and Mr. Bailey unhesitatingly answered, "It did." As nothing more erroneous or ridiculous than this could be said, the discussion ended then and there, and under the previous question the resolu tions were adopted. The Journal regards the whole discus slon as unwise and unfortunate. Perhaps there was no objection to Congress adopting resolutions deploring and con demnlng the outrages in Armenia and expressing sympathy with the sufferers though even this is outside of the held of legislative action, but It certainly should not arraign and scold European

governments for alleged nonperformance of duty. The resolutions will do no good

and will afford an opportunity for European governments to suggest to this government a strict observance of that part of the Monroe doctrine which pledges it to noninterference in European affairs. AX INCIPIENT REFORM. That civilized man Is a slave to his clothes is a fact too plain for dispute by any candid person, though it is not every man who is willing to acknowledge the truth. Some bear the tyranny so ab jectly that they even profess to love their chains. Men are actually found who declare that the high and boardlike linen collar is a most admirable and satisfactory form of neckwear even in midsummer; advocates of the merits of stiff Derby and "stovepipe" hats are numerous, while citizens those mostly quite youthful who affect to fi;id com fort and aesthetic attractions In the dress ''suit are not uncommon. But, for the most part, the male being accepts the decrees of fashion with secret pro test, though without faintest thought of outward rebellion. He knows that col lar and cuffs of sheetlron stiffness are instruments of torture, but has his dally struggle in donning them with never a move to escape from his thraldom. He submissively wears a stiff felt hat with a high crown or low, a narrow rim or wide whatever the shopkeeper assures him is the "very latest" and tries to assume an air of careless confidence which is contradicted by the sheepish consciousness that no head covering could possibly be less becoming. He arrays himself in his dress suit fully aware that he will be awkward and uncom fortable until he can lay it off, but is humble and even cheerful in the thought that It is the correct thing. He wears heavy woolen garments with the ther mometer at ninety, knowing that cotton or silk would be more sensible; he wears an abbreviated coat or one with tails almost trailing on the ground, trousers wide or narrow, with a crease or with out, as his tailor may elect. He has, in short, this average man, no mind of his own so far as his wardrobe Is concerned; he lacks the courage of his convictions, but follows an arbitrary rule as a sheep follows the rest of the flock through a hole In the fence. But at last there Is hope for enslaved man. One of his kind has risen In re volt a Congressman, and therefore a man of whom much may be expected. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, not only disre gards those behests of fashion that fail to please him, but boldly declares his defiance of them. Women ate often urged by condescending masculine men tors to find a style of attire becoming to them Individually, and, having done so, to adopt it permanently. If Mr. Bailey ever offered this advice to his female friends and relatives he is consistent enough to realize that it is equally ap plicable to his own case and to practice what he preaches. Years ago he found a style of black broadcloth suit that pleased him and was becoming to him What was becoming once must be so now, he naturally argues; at all events, it is still comfortable; he likes It, his wife like3 it, and he continues to get new salts of the same ancient cut as occasion requires. It suits him, and what he wears is nobody else's business so long as he conforms . to the law of the land and wears something, he eloquently proclaims. His colleagues and' lightminded society dudes may guy him if they see fit, but he will be independent, bo he will, though others be too cowardly to break their bonds. The circumstance that Mr. Bailey is from Texas may interfere somewhat with hl3 influence on his associates from the conventional and effete East, but at least he may show them what nerve and daring may accom plish, and thus pave the way for a re form movement that will eventually en franchise man from hampering fashions and so give his mental and physical powers the opportunity for development which they have hitherto lacked. Congressman Bailey's assertion, made on the floor of the House, that the United States had an opportunity to become a party to the celebrated Berlin treaty. but declined, will make some European statesmen smile If it ever falls under their eyes. It will be particularly amus ing to Lord Salisbury, who was one of the two British plenipotentiaries at the Berlin congress, Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield, being the other. It was after their return from the congress that Disraeli made use of a phrase which has become historic, that he and his "noble friend. Lord Salis bury," had brought back "peace with honor." The treaty may have secured peace, but it has never brought any honor to Great Britain. The congress which made the treaty consisted of twen ty plenipotentiaries representing Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Rus sia, Italy and Turkey. It would be in teresting to know what Mr. Bailey had, or thought he had, in his mind when he said the United States declined an opportunity to become a party to the treaty. This country has borrowed some good Ideas in politics and government from Australia, notably the ballot law, but it seems we can give them points In ralb road management. Hon. H. R. Mackay, commissioner of government railways at Melbourne, who visited the United States for the purpose of investigating our rail roads, expresses the opinion that in freights, fares and railroad accommoda tions generally the American people are favored above any other. "I only wish," he writes, "that our Australian govern ment roads approached the American standard in equipment and In business like care for the convenience of shippers and travelers." Yet thousands of per sons in this country want to go to Con gress or some State Legislature in order that they may distinguish themselves by attacking railroads, and other thousanas are very sure they ought to be placed under government control. The Hancock National Bank of Bos ton deserves the credit of being the first bank in the country to edopt a practical method of making the new government loan easily accessible to the people. Al though the administration calls it a "popular" loan. It has done nothing to make It so, and there Is reason to sus pect It is still playing Into the hands of a bank syndicate. The trouble with the loan thus far, so far as the people at large and small Investors are con cerned, has been first In understanding how to get over the red tape difficulties

of bidding, and, second, a lack of knowl

edge how to obtain gold with which to make the payments. The Boston bank does away with both of these difficulties by offering to take on Itself all the pre liminary work and clerical labor of mak ing out bids and furnish gold at cost and one-fourth of 1 per cent, premium. It offers to receive bids for the bonds in lots of $50 and upwards, accept paper currency In payment and furnish the gold for the ordinary broker's commis sion. The offer had only been published a few hours before the bank had orders In small sums for about $250,000 of bonds, and it expects a large increase. Some years ago the chaplain of one branch of the Legislature In an Eastern State was accustomed to address the leglators in his prayers for or against such measures as he might have an interest in. The Speaker, In course of time, became very much annoyed by this unseemly pro cedure. One morning, when the chaplain launched into an argument for a measure which, was assigned for that day, the gavel of the Speaker came down with a crash, as he said: "The chaplain will suspend; It is a violation of tie rules of this body for any person not a member to address it without Its unanimous consent." Thereafter the chaplain did not address the House. If what the papers say of the prayers delivered In Congress Is true, the presiding officers would put an end to something akin to blasphemy if they should call a halt on the advocacy of bills pending by the chaplains. If the chaplains should be required to confine themselves to the Lord's prayer it would be better. Four years ago the -Co-operative Town Company, of Tennessee, began business un der apparently favorable conditions, t Its body of men and women believed that co operation was the solution of all the ills of life. Now the organization is simply a matter of history. It began to wane as soon as the novelty wore off and. the de fects of individualism and selfishness be gan to appear. Seme would not -toil and some wished to do other work than that which was assigned them. The workers in time wearied of supporting the drones. The result is that another co-operative experi ment Is a failure. - Mr. Nagle, who has just been appointed United States marshal of Oklahoma, was a druggist when he lived in Kansas, but as soon as he reached Oklahoma last year he became a lawyer. Young men who want to enter the legal profession and rise in the world will please take notice, j If the three lectures of Mr. John Flske do not call out large audiences, It may be assumed that the lecture, which has been so long liberally patronized and so highly appreciated by intelligent and culture-seeking people, has had its day in cities. A Brooklyn engraver and printer, whose specialty was marriage certificates, has been forced to make an assignment. What has depressed the marriage market in the City of Churches? ;!? RUBBLES IX TIIC AIR. An Infant Prodigy. Hogan I hear th' kid has got so he can talk. Grogan Talk? By gorry.' he can bate his granddaudy swearla' how. A Carping' Cynic. "Of course, I think America is the great est country on earth. I. was born here." "I don't see how that fact supports your assertions as to its greatness." More than Everyday. "That young map Man is engaged to Is Just an every-day sort'erf a chap, isn't he?" "Worse than that." said Maud's sister. "The idiot calls twice a day." Cheap at the Price. "1 paid a dollar and a half for this seat," said the angry plebeian in the front row. "and I didn't come here merely to listen to your chatter." "My deah fellaw," suavely responded Chollie from the box, "theah aw persons who have gone to the expense of thousands and still were unable to get within hearing distance of any of ouah set. You have a bawgaln." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The widow of Sidney Lanier 13 giving public readings from her husband's poems. She has been successful, particularly in tne South. ' There Is a report to the effect that Mrs. Frank Leslie Is again to venturft on the sea of matrimony. Mrs. Leslie's friends are quite. convinced that the report is true, but Mrs. Leslie has up to date vouchsafed no information on the subject. It now leaks out that Alfred Austin, the new poet laureate, was' hot an admirer of his predecessor. "Mr. Tennyson," said he, patronizingly, is not a great poet, unquestionably not a poet of the first rank at all. but unquestionably a poet of the second rank." King Prempeh, of Ashantee, who has Just bowed the knee to the English, is something of a humorist in his way. He made only one condition before his complete surrender. ana mat was that on occasions or state he should be allowed to wear the uniform of an English colonel. Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, says he 13 a descendant of that Thorstein, son of Eric the Red. of Scandinavia, who is said to have maOe an expedition to Vineland (New England) in 1UC3. At a later period the family settled in England, and one of its members was Thurston, twentyeigntn ArcnDistiop or York. Mme. Mcdjeska's first visit to America was made In 187C, when, with her husband. she took a colony of Polish refugees to lands near Los Angeles, Cal. The colony did not prosper, and Mme. Modjeska returned to the stage to earn enough money to enable her country people to return to Europe. Her first engagement In America was played In San Francisco under the management of John McCullough. Cecil Rhodes has the powerful Jaw and the strong teeth that belong to men of his type. So great has been the iuck of this man that South Africans sometimes ask him to bite sixpences for luck. A young Englishman, during a recent evenlntr in Uohemla, produced the traditional crooked six pence from his pocket and told how Cecil Rhodes had bitten it. The possessor would not part with it for many times its value. M. Flammarion, in the course of experiments o tho radiation of spectrum colors, has made some Interesting observations on sensitive plants. Four plants sowh the same day- and of the same size were placed under glass, excluding respectively all but the red, green and blue rays, the fourth plant being under ordinary white glass. At the end of six weeks .the Ted" plant was twice as high as any of tne omers; tne "green came next, then the "white," while the blue had not grown the fraction of a centimeter. Another side of the story about the exodus of farmers from the West and Northwest to the South Is told. In the former region. It is stated In Nebraska papers that during the last three months more than a hundred carloads of Immigrant baggage and farm ing utensus have been received In Omaha. consigned to various points in Nebraska, by former residents of the State, who left some time since for the south and who are returning and are glad to be able to get back. This story relates that the farmers say they have fully satisfied themselves that the Northwest offers much better op portunities man can te xounu in tne south, an imngs consiaerea. The black expanse of waters like a shield; Ana suaaeniy upon its pauia sneen A ship was etched. In clear-cut stately lines And seemed to hang, a picture in tne sky. The bloomer girl sat on the fence To take a well-earned rest. For she had blked from early morn With unrelenting zest. "My bloomln lass, what ails the wheel?" A passing swain inquired. And, with a saucy smile, she said: Whv don't you see? it's tired!" New York World,

TWO BRAVE HOOSIERS

SENATOR TURPIE IIURLS ONE OP HIS SEVEX TOXGCES AT TURKEY, And Doldly Urge Congress to Send n Shot Into the Midst of the Wicked Saltan Seraglio. VOORHEES WARS ON GOLD AXD SAYS THE COUNTRY- IS NOW IX THE THROES OP A REVOLUTION. He Shoots Sarcastic Bolts nt John Sherman and Denounces the Demonetize of Cheap White Metal. WASHINGTON. Jan. 28. In the Senate to-day Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska, delivered an oration on the Monroe doctrine (printed elsewhere) and Mr. Turpie, of In diana, touched on the Turkish atrocities in a brief, but very energetic speech, in which he declared that the resolution just passed by Congress should be followed by a blow, a shot, which should crash through the Sultan's seraglio, sweeping back Mo hammedanism and advancing Christianity. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, who was until recently chairman of the finance commit tee, spoke in advocacy of the remonetization of silver and sharply arraigned those responsible for the elimination of silver from the coinage. Mr. Gray, of Delaware, urged tho advantage of a gold standard. His speech was notable in Its presentation of the fluctuation of prices, enowing them to result from invention and natural causes and not from silver demonetization. Mr. Clark, of Wyoming, spoke In favor of silver coinage. Another effort was made by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, in charge of the silverbond bill, to have the vote fixed for Thurs day. Mr. Hill objected, however, and Mr. Jones notified Senators to prepare for a test of endurance on Thursday, as he would ask them to sit until a vote was taken. A fruitless discussion of the resolution to in quire into the arrest of Eugene V. Debs occurred during the day, but action was deferred until to-morrow. The prayer ' of the chaplain to-day re ferred to the appearance of another star (Utah) in the constellation of States, and invoked the knitting together of the hearts of all the people of the Union for the ad vancement and glory of our beloved country. TURPIE'S WARLIKE SPEECH. Mr. Turpie, in presenting a petition con cerning tho Turkish massacres, said In the recent calamities the Armenians were charged with no revolt. They were charged only with being Christians. Their only crime was that they claimed and exercised the right to worship the Divine Creator of the universe. The time has come, said the Senator that there should be an official notification to Turkey and to the Mohammedan Church that there has been a decadence in their power to proselyte with the sword. "w navo already sent a message." said the Senator, referring to the concurrent resolution, "but the blow should follow. The message should be followed by a shot which wouid go crashing through the grand seraglio." Tne Senator urged mat it would oe a glorious day wnen tne destruction of this Turkisa power wa3 brought about. He would have the message3 aaa demands sent not only to the Sultan, but echoed through me mosques ana minarets. It should thun der until these murderers learned the pow er ana uavance of Christianity. The Sena tor urged tnat the Christian world might now be called upon to take up anotuer great crssade, arivlng back the rule of .ttohammedism and establishing the rule of Christianity. Mr. Turpie spoke with great earnestness and vigor, and his remarks attracted much attention. Mr. Alien gave notice of an amendment to the pending silver-bond bill, depriving the Secretary of the Treasury of the power to issue bonds unless the authority is granted by Congress. Mr. Call's resolution for an investigation of the arrest of Eugene V. Debs came ud a n t Mr. Call urged immediate action, saying mat tne laboring interests of the country desired the inquiry. Mr. Hill said that ordinarily he had had great respect for the laboring people of tho country. But he pointed out that no petitions had come from the representatives of these people. He had never heard that they desired this investigation. It might be that such an inquiry was desirable, but if so. it should be conducted by one of the regularly constituted committees, and not by a special committee. To that end, Mr. Hill offered an amendment, directthat the whole subject of contempt of court, as enforced by the federal judiciary, be investigated by the committee on Judiciary, and that a report be made as to what, if any, legislation was necessary. SENATE SEPULCHRES. Mr. Call dissented to the amendment. Was it intended to suppress this inquiry? he asked. These regular committees were "the sepulchres" of legislation. If action was to be taken, a special committee was the only means of accomplishing It Mr. Call spoke vigorously on the indignities and wrongs against Eugene V. Debs, becauso he had ventured to express opinions contrary to those entertained by a court. The Senator said this inquiry was vital to the preservation of civil hbt;i-ty and the inviolability of the personal rights of the individual. Mr. Hill urged that tihs was a Judicial question, and hence proper to be considered by the Judiciary committee. There was no need of mentioning this particular case, as the United States Supreme Court had passed on it and Congress would not bo likely to overrule the Supreme Court. Tho question now was as to a legislative remedy for any general e11 that might exist. Mr. Allen Interposed with a dissent to Mr. Hill's statement of the Supreme Court decision. He said the court held It had no jurisdiction to give the relief asked. It did not rule on the merits. Mr. Allen severely criticized Judge Woods, who committed Debs. Mr. Hill said he would not be put Into the attitude of opposing an inquiry. He paid a high tribute to Mr. Debs, and said the action he urged was with a view of securing appropriate legislative action. Mr. Allen created a flutter of excitment by asserting that. In his opinion, the express purpose of referring the resolution to a standing committee was to suppress and kill it. It was an adroit means of sending the resolution into the "dark caverns" of the Senate. The resolution finally went over to allow Mr. Thurston to address the Senate on the Monroe doctrine. Except for a brief pension speech, it was his first speech since entering the Senate, and he was accorded close attention. At 2 o'c'ock the silver-bond bill was taken up, and af er sjme skirmishing between H 11 and Chandler and jones, of Arkansas, in a vain effort of the last named to have Thursday at 2 p. m. fixed for a vote. Mr. Jones said: "Then I give notice that on Thursday I will ask the Senate to remain in session until this bill is disposed of, and I ask all Senators to come on Thursday prepared for such action." Mr. Wolcott said he hoped the physical test of endurance would not become necessary as a means of securing a vote. He pointed out that the friends of silver had been accused of opposing legislation. Nov it was the Senators from tho East who interposed opposition. Mr. Wolcott stronglv urged that the physical all night struggle be not resorted to. Mr. Clarke then addressed the Senate In behalf of silver. The Senator declared that the gold monometalllst has hypnotized the country with the diabolical influence of Svengall. VOORHEES'S "SHORT TALK." Mr. Voorhees rose for a "short talk," he said. He has seldom spoken of late, and was given close attention. He said the country was now in the midst of a revolution' brought on by those plotting against silver. It was this class which brought on panics, destroying the parity of the metals. The men who demonetized silver in 1S73 were, said Mr. Voorhees, "revolutionlsta" They sought to overcome the Constitution, the laws and the policy of a century. After tracing the constant use of sliver, since the government began, the Senator declared that the token or "sound money" tilled V

gold was a fraud. Silver was as much sound money as gold. It would effectually stop the raids on the gold reserve if the demands on the treasury were met by silver payments as well as gold. Mr. Voorhees sarcastically reviewed Mr. Sherman's fir.anclal record. Under his leadership, the Senator declared, the Republican party had broken faith with the soldiers, paying them with a depreciated paper money. The Ohio Senator believed in "sound money" for Wall street, but not for the soldiers. Mr. Voorhees declared that the gold withdrawals of the last twelve months was part of the conspiracy to compel the issue of interest-bearing bonds. Since the demonetization of silver panics had been frequent. Ruin followed in the train of demonetization; to enrich creditors at the cost of debtors was the invariable purpose in the contraction of the currency. Mr. Voorhees referred derisively to the anglomania which made England foremost In certain frlvllous social affairs and matrimonial bargains, and then condemned the prevailing tendency to bow to England in all financial legislation. The Senator recited the terms of the act of 1S93 repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. passed at a time when he was chairman of the committee on finance. That act, while repealing the purchasing clause, explicitly recited that the policy of the United States was for the coinage of both silver and gold without discrimination. Mr. Voorhees said that for nineteen years he had consistently maintained his attitude in defense of sliver, lie had first come to Congress on the issue of the restoration of silver. The Senator closed with a vigorous assertion of the capability of the Democratic party to deal not only with this great question, but also with the tariff, foreign affairs and all the important Issues of the day. Mr. Gray spoke of the advantages of a gold standard. It was the natural standard of the world, and mere legislative whim or fiat could not change the natural law. The Senator controverted the assertion that cheap prices had followed the demonetization of silver. He asserted that Invention and modern methods had brought about this reduction of prices. He contended also that low prices were for the benefit of the masses of the people. Mr. Call gave notice of a speech to-morrow on the bond bill. Mr. Teller to-day offered the following amendment to the pending financial bill: "That after the 1st of July, 18, all bank notes Issued by national banking associations shall be redeemed in coin when presented for redemption to tne national banking associations issuing the same, and any such national banking association failing to redeem its notes on presentation shall be dissolved.' Mr. Palmer presented resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Representative Remann, of Illinois, and, as a mark of respect, the Senate, at C:40, adjourned until to-morrow.

PASSED IN A HURRY. Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Dill Adopted ly the Honse. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The session of the House was brief to-day. Contrary to . general expectations, the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill precipitated no discussion whatever. None of the foreign complications was even mentioned, and the bill was passed in less than an hour. The appropriations carried by the bill are about $100,000 In excess of those appropriated for the current fiscal year. During the morning hour several bills were passed by unanimous consent. On motion of Mr. Fletcher a bill was passed granting to the Brainerd & Northern Minnesota Railroad Company a right of way through the Leach Lake and Chippewa Indian reservations, and on motion of Mr. Powers a bill to authorize the Sons of Veterana to wear the distinctive badge of that order on public occasions. A resolution for the employment of an additional clerk In the folding room was passed after a protracted partisan -debate, Mr. Dockery contending that twelve additional House officers, with annual salaries aggregating J15.875, had fceen created by the Republicans, while Mr. C. W. Stone maintained that the increase was only six, adding, "Five Democrats have been retained out of courtesy to the minority. If we are to be taunted because we have employed Democrats, perhaps we can find a way to dispense with their services." The House then went into 'committee of the whole (Mr. Grosvernor, of Ohio, in the chair) and took up consideration of the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The bill carries $1,637,008. Mr. Hitt, chair man of the committee on foreign arralrs, explained that the bill was practically a re-enactment of the present law with such Increases as the service required. An amendment was adopted, including in the X0O.00O appropriated for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries similar provision for American seamen on the coast of Alaska, Without further amendment the bill was passed. Mr. Grow had read in open house a bin appropriating sioo.ooo to aid in the establishment of schools for teaching articulate speech to deaf children. Mr. Hadley then announced the death of his predecessor, Frederick Remann, from the Eighteenth Illinois district. July 14, 1895. Appropriate resolutions were adopted, after which, at 2:45 p. m., the House, as a further mark of respect, adjourned. Undismayed. Because I built my nest so high. Must I despair. If a fierce wind, with bitter cry, Passes the lower branches by, And mine makes bare? Because I hung it, in my pride, So near the skies. Higher than other nests abide. Must I lament if far and wide It scattered lies? I shall but build, and build my best. Till, safely won, I hang aloft my new-made nest High as of old, and see it rest As near the sun. Dollle Radford. SPECTACULAR JUSTICE. Comparisons Between French and English Court Rooms. Paris Letter In London News. M. Cruppl, the procurator's substitute." in a paper on French Assize Court trials, uses the Old Bailey as a foil to set off the Assize" Court of the Seine. A sensational criminal draws to the Palais de Justice a brilliant crowd, who come to be stirred and amused, as at a ' playhouse. They expect alternations of weeping, laughing and blood-curdling horrors. At the Old Bailey there is nothing spectacular) The court 13 a dark, dingy hole, to whlcci narrow stairs and passages lead, justice is public, but the public vas not thought of by the architect. But the press is there, and its presence constitutes publicity. This hall of justice Is not as spacious as the least largo of the correctional courts of Paris. It Is meant for business merely. The one place where there Is elbow room Is the dock. The prisoner can move about there, stand up, sit down, come and go. Soldiers do not guard him. A warder sits in a little corner pew, and looks more like a scribe than a gaoler. One soon sees that the prisoner is a sacred and Intangible being. He discusses from his notes in the tone of a creditor claiming a debt, and he may well do so, for the proof of his alleged crime Is due to him. A table Is In the lowest part of the dark, dingy hole. Jammed around are counsel for and against. They are close to the Jury. Theatrical effects would be out of place here. The air is thick with the all-pervading London fog. Nobody gesticulates. No face lights up or shows any sort of animation. There is no rustle of elegant toilettes. M. Cruppl points out that the English judge Is witness of what witnesses say, and arbitrator, but never accuser. He respects every right of the accuser, and. if necessary, makes others do fo, too. Should he be nervous and cross, the counsel for the crown will be made to feel unpleasantly his temper. English barristers argue rather than plead. They are so close to the jury that if a barrister In a vehement gesture thrust forth bis p.rm he mijht knock over a Juror. The thing Is to show a proof or establish a point of law. and not to produce an effect. The Old Bailey Jurors seem better suited for their work than those of the Palais de Justice. Their questions to the accused an! to witnesses are clear and to the point. One cften wonders at their quickness, after the judge sums up, at agreeing on a verdict. Every Juror seems absolutely confident in the wisdom and fairness of the Judge. He is the sheet anchor. Witnesses may. have contradicted themselves and each other, counsel may have puzzled them, the prisoner's counsel may have Droved black white, and the Attorney-general strained many points, but the Judge is to declare what Is true and fair. He meddles with nobody, but keeps on taking notes until he has to sum up. A Juror feels his conscience may be at rest If he fellow the Judge In doubting a witness or doubting the whole case of the accuser. M. Cnpri further says it is well to understand Kr.g!and. but dangerous to Imitate her. because all her Institutions are of secular growth and racy of the soil. None of her Institutions Is n.ore worthy of studv than trial by Jury, which France has had for a hundred years, but without the Ensllsh Judge. Quern Victoria) Personality. Sir Edw'n AtnoIJ. In February Forum. The heart of gold, the will of Iron, the royal temper of steel, the pride, the ratriotism. tLd the deep piety of Victoria

has been enshrined la a small but vigorous frame, the mignonne aspect ofwhich -peclahy strikes those wo beholi,hf r for the first time in these her "chair days' It waa reported how, when Prince Albert was dying, he roused himself from a ptrioJ ol wandering to turn with Ineffable love to his spouse and sovereign, saying to her with a kiss. "Good little wife'.1 And when th Prince Consort was actually passing away, after those twenty-one years of wedded happiness. It was told how the yueen bent over him and whispered, "It is your little wife." at which last words the angel of death stayed his hand while once again the dear eyes opened and the dying Hps smiled. But though this be so. no one who has beers honored by near approach to her Majesty or has ever tarried in her presence, wiii fail to testify to the extreme majesty of her bearing, mingltd always with the most perfect grace and gentleness. He voice has, moreover, always been pleasant and musical to hear, and is so now. The hand which holds the scepter of the seas Is the softest that can be touched; the eyes which have grown dim with the labors of state for England, and with too frequent tears, are the kindest that can be seen. THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE.

Armenian Discussions Rouse Unusual Interest In England. London Special to bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. All over London to-day sandwich men paraded with the words: "Grover Cleveland, President of the United Slates," to advertise the fact that the world-famous Mme. Tuscaud had added the President to the collection of figures in wax. Mme, Tussaud's is such a place as the New York Eden Musee, but It Is very old. It contains two other Presidents, Washington And Lincoln, but Cleveland, is the first one to be shown during life, and the first one to be advertised in the streets by saniwica men. It may seem to be a trifle to mention this, but it is really a part of the great revolution, whereby what the newspapers call the shameful ignorance of England in regard to the United States In the past Is changing to an intimate acquaintance and keen interest. In the last six wttks yards, and even broadsides, of news of the United States were published daily in the papers which never used to give more than two inches to it once or twice a week. Already the President, his Cabinet. Lodge. Frye, Walcott, Sherman and Davis are familiar names in the mouths of Englishmen. American newspapers are also well known by constant reference and quotation. The peaceMit-any-prlce Journals, whicii were first quoted exclusively, are no longer referred to as representing Americas feviing. All this is part of the resolution to get acquainted with and show respect for the surprising country that suddenly threatened war and startled England out of her dream of an alliance of all English-speaking peoples. That dream is, not ended yet. Today every newspaper gives first place to that part of Chamberlain's Birmingham speech in which he said he wished England could "count on the powerful support and co-operation of the States in enforcing the representations which up to the present time we have fruitlessly made In behalf of those who suffer by Turkish tyranny and Turkish fanaticism," . Whether Chamberlain has had a hint from Washington sounding the British position, or whether he was himself putting out a feeler, no one here Is able to say, but everywhere Is read and heard that the only purpose of that speech was to advance this Idea of Joint pressure on the inhuman Turks. Thus we have made a double rtride forward In forcing England to take a respectful Interest in us and causing her to value us as a powerful nation, and changing her position from what Chamberlain calls her splendid Isolation Into one of formidable and even invulnerable power. THE AMERICAN JOKE IN ENGLAND. It Presents Insufferable Dieifrultlea to the Solemn, British Mind. Washington Post. Once more we find the British public struggling in the meshes of the great American Joke. It is a struggle of longstanding, of Infinite pathos, and of incalcuable vicissitude. When Mark Twaia wept at the grave of Adam, and Chauncey Depew told the Duke of Cambridge about the railway eating-house proprietor who wanted to know what was the matter with pumpkin pie; when Moses Handy said to the' Indignant Cockney who wanted to bombard New York, "What, again?" when. Marshall P. Wilder cracked his airy quips in solemn London clubs, it was merely presenting new difficulties to a national intellect which had been for years inextricably entangled la a web Oi hopeless rtVric!Mnn- Th tratredv had then been ninnini? through several generations and growing more formidable every day. Now comes ucan iioie, tne iamous -n-llsh clergyman, who not only preaches, but travels and writes books, with a pretty little poem which he found in the United States and memorized for the edification of his Inoffensive countrymen. It consists of only two verses, and runs as follaws: Little Willie from his mirror Sucked the mercurv U off. Thinking, in his childish error. It would cure his whooping cough. At the funeral, Willie's mother Smartly said to Mrs. Brown: 'Twas a chilly day for William When the mercury went down." Ti iron tl fm i n vchr rv!tpd It- On the occasion of a luncheon at which lean HOie was present, gravely expiainea mat it was only Intended In fun, and this explanation the Dean gravely passes on to his Iiritlsa readers; but we do not doubt that thousands of English people are at this moment solemnly wondering what Is to become of a people so frivolous and so irreverent as this. There are, Indeed, already Indications that the question will be taken up by .the British press and handled as another evidence of our moral degradation little, if any, less eloquent than the lynching business or the Venezuelan Jingoism. Mr. Bayard could render us great service in this emergency, but wo fear he Is not pleased with the country just at present. German-AmerIcunsH and Sunday. Bishop Doane, in February Forum. The denaturalizing of naturalized Americans back into the nationalities which they have left is an evil element in our country; to talk of German-Americans. Irish-Americans and every other sort of foreign Americans is wrong and bad. But when not only the ell national name is used, but the old national nature Is appealed to and the claim is made, for even a large and reputable uart of our citizenship, that it may imjort its foreign ways and notions into our American life, and either demand immunity from our law or compel us to conform our law to Its customs It becomes really Intolerable. This dangerous and destructive theory has taken possession of some of our Western cities, and wiped out the traditional ideas of our people, but we can hold our own against it yet awhile In the East. If these racial distinctions are to be maintained we hall never have any assimilated nationality of our own; and it is for us to see to it that we retain some Independent, national, American, characteristic ideas and institutions, to which those who seek the shelter of our country shall conform. The determination to fight the battle of the Boyre annually In the streets of New York; the readiness to fling the bombs of the Russian nihilist or French anarchist in Chicaso; the organization of a certain clan of certain citizens into a procession on Ht. Patrick's day; the Interpretation of the won! "I am an American" to mean, as certain recent events indicate, "I am a hater of England;" and now the proposal to introduce that phase of "the sanctity of German family life" which frequents the Wer garden on Sunday such things as those are poor promises of any unification of "all peoples and kindreds and tongues" into an American nationality. There aro German Americans. They cease to be Germans in, becoming Americans. Our civilization may be Germanic, because It unites ArgloSaxon and Teuton, but Germanic Is upt German. Hint to. the Church. Detroit Tribune. Sometimes when we are taunted with the decadence of religious fervor among the people, we are inclined to think of the way religion has taken to pursuing the pecple as If it had a favor to ask. and were not a positive benefit In life and a source of undoubted prollt. It is plain enough to see that the trouble began with the proper anxiety of the church to seem free and cpen to all who came, but that fact does pot excuse us If in our anxiety to mako the church stem free and open we have put it In tho position of a supplicant for consideration. Solveo Kansas City Journal. Some light on the question. "What shall we do with our ex-Prtsidents?" may be obtained by keeping an eye on Mrs. Dimmlck for a few months. Next! Detroit Tribune. It is established that the flying squadron has no orders and that Bob Ingersoll is not converted. We await tho further pleasure of the Unmitigated IJar. Why Hnrrlson Should Win. Chicago Times-Herald. Mr. Harrison ought to be able to win h'.s case In the Supreme Court. Of late he ha been very successful in his. argument"; to .the silk gowned.