Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1896.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, FEHRITAIIY 10, 1S90. Washington Office 1419 Pennsylvania Aveone Telephone Call. Batton-e I Editorial Roomi A S4 TEIU2S OF SLUSCIIIPTIOX. DAJLT BY MAIL. rny only, cne morita ; $ () J13.V.T onlr. three mouthd J.00 Pally only, on ywr fc.00 Iai:jr, lsrlucur.g .sun!aj-, one year 10.00 fcacdaj oUy, one j ear 2.W wmh rrRrcisnti by -awexts. Pallr, rr f K. ty carrier- 15 eta Funuay, ilngle copy 5 eta lUy iuid fcundajr, per week, ty carrier 2u eta WEIKtT. Ptrrear...... I1.C0 Ilednced Rates to Clubs. Rutwrlb with any of our numerous amenta or tend ffttbtcripUons to 11x9 JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Intl. rerson vending the Journal through the tnaOa In the Culled states MiouM put on an elght-paice paper a xi-ce?t posta? Ft amp; n a twelve or Bitteen-paae japer a two-cent postage stamp. Foreign postage u fcually doutle tnese rates. rJTAU communications intendM for publication In tLis paier mast. In order to rwrlre attention, be accompanied ty the name and addreM of tlie writer. TUG 1XDIAXAPOLIS JOL'UXAl Tan be found at the following iIare TA IUS American HxcLange in larU, 36 Boulevard de cpue;n. 25 XW 70KK-0Ilsy House, Windsor HCad and Astor House. - CHICAGO Palmer How, Auditorium Hotel and P. O. Sew Co, VI Adams street. CISCrNNATIJ. XL Haw ley Co., 154 Vine street ID UI S VTIXK -C T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson bu., and Lou 1st tile ttook Co., 3M Fourth aTe. ST. IvOClJ Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.-Rkrg House. Ebbitt House, Wlllsrd's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, 14th ctreet, bet. Penn. are. and t street. The restoration of conflaence by the bond subscription is a fresh illustration of the efficacy of the gold cure outside of the Keeley patent. It may come about, after all, that Senator Blackburn is a bigger man in the Democratic party than Carlisle, the leading Democratic papers and the platform of the Kentucky State convention. sBMSssMsasssBBSssssasasss The New York Tribune says "the Senate of the United States is nothing If not conservative." There Is nothing conservative in Its substitution of a free silver bill for the House bond bill, or in Its general obstructiveness. If money Is to be borrowed for the tmlldlng of schoolhouses it would be wise to wait a little and then to Issue bonds to be disposed of as a popular loan rather than to repeat the RIcketts performance, as one of the members of the School Board has suggested. If the House loan bill had "been promptly passed by the Serrate a popular loan would have been put upon the market, and at least 115 would have been realized for $100,000,000 of bonds instead of a ecant 112. Here is a loss to the treasury of J3.000.000, which may be charged to the advocates of free coinage of silver. Between the estimates of the Nicaragua Canal Company's surveyors and those of United States commissioners there is a difference of over $63,000,000. That difference is more marked -when the former estimate is given at $S9,S33,660 end that of the government surveyors at $133,472,893. Such a marked difference in the cost of the canal will probably cause

further facts are presented. Quite a sensation was caused in Berlin on Saturday by a Socialist speaker tn the Reichstag who, referring to the Emperor's pet scheme for a large increase of the navy, called him "the most dargerous, h.eedles3 naval enthusiast in the world, who' is capable, by a single phrase, of causing millions of dollars of needless expense." The Emperor will doubtless keep his eye on the speaker end bid? his. time to get even. The State census of Minnesota, taken last year, shows the population of that State to be 1,574.613 a gain of 0.03 per cent, in five years. Every county in the State shows an Increase of population. During the year 1S3I 542,220 acres of public lands and 119,076 acres of railroad lands passed into the hands of bona fide 6ettlers. It is one of the most prosperous and progressive States in the Union. It is also surely Republican. The Governor of the State of Chihuahua has addressed a letter to the principals and managers of the fights which it was proposed to hold on Mexican soil, Informing them that they will not be tolerated, and has ordered 1,000 trocp3 to patrol the border during the days on which the fights are scheduled to occur. Having been warned out of had better call it a draw and go home. The Senate acted wisely, there is reason to believe, In refusing to scatter the appropriation bills among the committees having under consideration the particular subjects for which appropriations are recommended. The Senate, at best, is Inclined- to increase the amounts named by the House. For many reasons it seems wiser to have the appropriations committee, headed by Senator Allison, take charge of all the bills appropriating money. . Justice Brewer, president of the Venesuclan boundary commission, " has entered a warm denial to the reports that the commission is wasting time and money and accomplishing nothing. He cays it has done a great deal of hard preliminary work and is cleaning everything up thoroughly as it goes along. Of the $100,000 appropriated for the expense of the commission he says only (10,000 has yet been passed to Its credit, and but little of that Nas been usd. Wisconsin taxpayer have been burdened with the expen&e of tha support ot tramps who are put in the county Jails as vagrants. Thrifty sheriffs and Justices of the peace have, in some counties, made the arrest and sentencing to Jail of tramps a Quito extensive and profitable industry. Tramps soon learn of these counties and ; flock to them to be arrested and sent to Jail during the inclement season. - A few counties have built houses near stone quarries for the confinement of tramos. They put them at work, with fair diet, at breaking stone for the highways. If the tramp who may, be said to be conscientiously opposed to doing any fort of labor refuses to break stone he is put in a dark cell and fed on bread and water until he conI A. -. J n.lnnlnlt , C1UUCS III SUiiVUUcr 1113 yi ygv ll 11 1-4 break stone In crder to get full meals and enjoy the companionship of associates.' The tramp is net given tobacco, nor Is he furnished newspapers to read. Zllz routine is vorl "eat and sleep.", A rill coaveatloa fc been called to con

sider the question of compelling the professional tramp to earn his bread by the sweat of hi3 brow. If Wisconsin hits u;-on some plan which will make tramping a precarious vocation, other States will not be slow in adopting it. There Is the professional tramp and the man who travels because he cannot get employment. The professional tramp is at once a burden and a menace to the security of property. DKFEXDIXG THE SYNDICATE DEAL.

For the second time Mr. Cleveland has shown that he is not absolutely impervious to public opinion and criticism. The first time was when he suddenly determined to offer the present Issue of bonds as a popular loan, being driven to that course by the press, though at the same time he predicted the failure of the loan in that form and intimated that It would result In vindicating his syndicate deal. Now, since the amazing success of the loan has called public attention anew to the vicious features of the former transaction, Mr. Cleveland tries to forestall the censure which he sees coming by offering a defense of the syndicate deal. He says in an interview that he has never had reason to question the wisdom of that arrangement under the conditions then existing. "That contract," he says, "helped us out at a time when forty-eight hours' delay might have produced serious results." The Morgan syndicate transaction was of Mr. Cleveland's own arranging. Not a member of hig Cabinet had any knowl edge of it until his special message of Feb. 8, 1S93, announcing the consummation of the deal, was sent to Congress. It was said at the time, and not denied, that even Secretary Carlisle's first Intimation of the contents of the message came to him over the government wire between the Capitol and the treasury. The message informed Congress that "the details of an arrangement have this day been concluded with parties abundantly able to fulfill their undertaking, whereby bonds of the United States, payable in coin thirty years after date, with interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, to the amount of a little less than $62,400,000, are to be issued for the purchase of gold coin amounting to a sum slightly in excess of $63,000,000." Thus the syndicate obtained, for a little less than 104, $62,000,000 of bonds for which the government ought to have received at least 112. On the 20th of February, twelve days after the bonds were awarded to the syndicate at 104V6, it offered one-half of the whole amount for sale in New York at 1124. and half in London at the rate of 227 sterling per $1,000 bonds. The subscriptions in London were $590,000,000 and in New York $200,000,000, and the price advanced in New York to 120 and remained at about this figure for some months. Yet Mr. Cleveland now says he has "never had reason to doubt the wisdom of this transaction under the conditions then existing." The conditions existing at that time did not differ materially from those existing now. Both Issues of bonds were made under the pretense of maintaining the gold reserve, but really to make good deficits in the revenue caused by Democratic mismanagement Then, as now, the gold reserve had been reduced by daily withdrawals to a point below the danger line, and there was a necessity for prompt action and good financiering, but there was no more necessity for the administration to throw Itself into the arms of a syndicate, then than there is now. Mr. Cleveland says: "That contract helped us out at a time when fortyeight hours delay might have produced serious results." That is his panicky way of putting things. The call for the present loan was issued Jan. 8. the bids were opened Feb. 5, and the treasury will get relief inside of thirty days from the time the call was Issued. Mr. Cleveland would have the country believe that a year ago the treasury was so nearly bankrupt that it could not have run thirty days pending the placing of a popular loan, and that it was therefore necessary to make a secret deal with a syndicate. He asks the people to believe too much. FALSE PROPHETS. The New York Mall and Express puts the utterances and predictions of the New York Evening Post and itself into the deadly parallel column. The Mail and Express, which is Republican, has insisted that the loans for which the government may ask should be placed at home under conditions which would make it possible for individuals to purchase bonds. The Evening Post, whicn has been in sympathy with the administration and the Morgan syndicate, did its utmost to defeat the success of the so-called popular loan. Wnen the consultations between the President's representatives and Mr. Morgan leaked out and there was a general protest against another deal with the syndicate, the Evening Post, which so often speaks for the President, in its issue of Dec. 20 said: Where can we look for new supplies? To a popular loan? The people have greenbacks and silver certificates and every kind of money except gold. The few who have any goll laid away will hold to it now because they will expect a premium by and by. A popular loan might bring plenty of paper money, but that would not help to maintain specie payments. This sort of prediction and comment was continue!, and the proposition for a popular loan was opposed until the President surprised the country by Issuing a proposal for bids for a popular loan; then the Post began to predict Its failure, and kept it up until within a week of the opening of the bids. Jan. 6 it said that "a loan taken in this way would not answer the present requirements of the government," and "nowhere Is there heard an intimation that the popular loan will prove a success." About this time reasury officials were making the same predictions. Jan. 7 the Post said that "In all probability the treasury will have to fall back on Mr. Morgan's syndicate." and that "It Is a good thing that all thi3 loose and ignorant talk about a popular loan should be set at rest forever by a clear and unquestionable illustration 'of its fallacy." Jan. 9 the Post declared that "It is pretty well established to the satisfaction of wellinformed persons that the loan will not be subscribed for by the g?neral . public, and that "it 1 doubtful whether $3,000,000 of it will be taken outside of the Morgan syndicate." As late as Jan. 27 the Post said that "the popular loan was financially a mistake." When it la considered that the Post and other New York papers predicted the failure of the popular loan, that the Secretary of the Treasury and other

treasury officials at the outset expressed fears of Its failure, and that the advocates of the free coinage of silver were doing their utmost to shake the faith of the people in the ability or the purpose of the government to redeem its bonds in the money of commerce, the wonder is that the predictions of Mr. Cleveland's free-trade newspapers did not come true. DEMOCRATIC SEXTIMEXT AGAINST FREE SILVER COINAGE.

The recent action of the Democratic editors of this State in laying on the table a resolution indorsing the attitude of Senators Voorhees and Turpie on the silver question has been construed by some as simply Indicating a wish not to open , the silver question. Possibly that may have had something to do with the action, but It is certain that a large number of Indiana Democrats and a considerable proportion of the party press decidedly disapprove of the action of the two Senators in supporting the free silver bill. There is more or less anti-free silver sentiment In the Democratic party all over the State, but It is particularly strong in the northern part. The Michigan City Dispatch (Democratic) says: "There Is no use denying the fact that Democrats very generally in this part of Indiana condemn the action of Senators Voorhees and Turpie Jn supporting the free silver bill. The sentiment in Michigan City is almost unanimously in favor of, sound money." The LaPorte Argus, also a Democratic paper, says that much the same conditions exist in that city, and it believes that "both Senators have distinctly lost bj it," meaning their recent vote. The Argus continues: This is certainly the case in this locality, where there is a general expression of surprise over the vote of Senator Turpie and thei condemnation of the vote is quite emphatic. In the case of Senator Voorhees, his voto was expecieJ, but it is none the less condemned and the condemnation is practically universal. The people here with very rare exceptions believe the free coinage of silver as advocated can mean nothing but the single silver standard of value, and that a most serious disturbance of business would follow its adoption. Hundreds and probably thousands of Democrats would oppose It bitterly in all possible ways. This seems to be notably the case among German?, but It is true to a large extent with all nationalities. No doubt the same conditions exist to a greater or less extent throughout the State. There are a great many Democrats as well as Republicans in this State who are in favor of an honest and genuine bimetallism on a basis that will assure and maintain the parity of silver with gold, but who regard the free coinage bill recently passed by the Senate as unsound, vicious and dangerous. The late Hon. W. H. English, if he had lived, would have been found among these, and if his party had adopted a free silver platform he would, as he did on some other occasions, have refused to go with it. , Messrs. Voorhees and Turpie are greatly mistaken if they think the preponderance of sentiment even in their own party in this State is in favor of the free coinage of silver under existing conditions, and they may yet have to account to the people for the recent vote by which, as far as they could, they took Indiana out of the list of sound money States and aligned it with the Populist States of the South and the rotten silver boroughs of the West. A COSTLY EXPERIMENT. The los3 to industry by the Cleveland experiment aggregates many millions, but its cost to the Nation before all the bills are paid will be half a billion, without counting the loss to Industry. In two years the administration has issued or called for bonds as follows: February, ISOi $30,000,000 November, '. fi0,ow,ouo .February. 1835 62,315,000 February, 100.COO.000 Total - $2G2.215,000 The two issues of $50,000,000 each bear 5 per cent, interest and have ten years to 'run. The interest on these will be $50,000,000. The lean of a year ago and the one which has Just been taken have a life cf thirty years. On these the interest will be $194,778,000. The whole cost of the Cleveland experiment, principal and Interest, the past two years can be stated as follows: Bends, 3s, ten years ..$105,003,000 Interest, ten years 50.O00.0C0 Ttnnfls. 4s. thirtv vears li.31o.000 Interest, thirty years 194,778,000 m Total $507,093,000 Thl3 is .the result of the "change" which the people voted in 1892, but which they repudiated in 1894. In a time of peace the public debt and the Interest thereon has been increased half a billion dollars. The like of this has never been known in any country during a period of profound peace. And yet, with all this borrowing of money, the revenues are so Inadequate that the leaders In the House feel that they cannot appropriate sufficient money to build or begin the building of adequate public buildings in the capital city' of one of the larger States of the Union. And when the'Senators who were instrumental in bringing about this era of deficiency and borrowing are asked to assist in passing a revenue bill they propose to kill it by voting to weigh It down with a free coinage amendment. Thus, while the experiment is costly, those who are responsible for it seem disposed to make It even more costly than it has been. Representative Hall (Democrat), of Missouri, was at one time one of the most Influential leaders of the Farmers Alliance when it was in the business of. politics. When it came to the point where that organization was to be the basis of a new party, which is now known as the Populist, he ceased to be an active member, but he was an outspoken and rather loud-voiced advocate of the free coinage of silver. During the past year, however, Mr. Hall has been giving the subject candid consideration, and as a result has come to the conclusion that fres coinage of the white metal would involve the country in ruin. Having come. to that conclusion, he declared his change of opinion in the House on Saturday. Being taunted with a change, he declared that he preferred to be right than to being consistent like heathen and the. lower animals. If men would be honest with themselves there would be fow silver advocates outside of those Interested in silver mining. Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, who has become self-constituted leader of the forces of free coinage since he was overtaken by financial disaster, has obtained the signatures of sixteen Senators to a proposition in favor of free silver and protection. In this proposition, which these Senators have signed, there is no threat whatever that they will make free coinage of silver the condition of protective tariff legislation, yet Mr. Barker has cent out a circular letter to manu

facturers based r, upon that proposition, declaring that if they do not use their Influence to secure the free coinage of silver those sixteen Senators will not vote for any protective tariff bill. As most of the Senators whose names are attached to the Barker proposition have announced that they will vote for the House tariff bill and are opposed to attaching a free coinage amendment to it, it is evident that Mr. Barker is making very wild threats. A member of Congress who 13 serving a second term said a few days ago: I have been hero Just long enough to get on to the way of doing things, and I am impressed that this is a business as different from- any other as that of a lawyer, merchant or manufacturer. Yet I suppose that as soon as my two terms are up a half dozen or moro candidates will clamor to succeed me. The-district would not appreciate the change if the successor could take hold where I leave off. But he must begin where I began, and by the time he is familiar with his duties as I am another will be proposed to take his place. Yet the dear people will wonder why it is the legislation in which they are interested does not go through. Everybody who knows anything about congressional methods knows this to be true. The people are great losers by frequent changes in their Representatives without cause. The two-term practice Is fundamentally wrong. A widespread and earnest movement for the arbitration of all disputes between the United States and Great Britain has sprung up in this country. Conferences of representative business men have been held In some of the leading.' .cities East and West, and It is expected that a delegate meeting will bo held soon In Washington to bring the matter before Congress. William E. Dodge, the well-known merchant of New York, who Is at tho head of the movement In that city, says, "It is by no means local; It seems to have sprung out of the American heart generally In response to similar action taken in London. It really seems that, so general and pronounced is the sentiment of our leading men in behalf of arbitration, that the day 13 upon us for settling the arbitration, question forever as between Great Britain and the United States." The second bi-monthly bulletin of the United Sflites Bureau of Labor, authorized ty the last Congress, contains special articles on the poor colonies of Holland, tho industrial revolution In Japan, digests of several State labor reports, abstracts of tho reports of trades unions in Great Britain and the recent tendencies In that country in regard to wages and hours. It Is a valuable publication. The Mayor and Council of Chicago have issued invitations to a large number of representative men In the South to attend a convention in Chicago on the 19th Inst, to discuss plans for a proposed exposition of Southern products in that city. The Atlanta exposition was supposed to be a fairly good one of Southern product?, but it was too far from Chicago to be quite the proper thing. The resignation of Mr. T. H. McLean from the management' of the Citizens' Street-railroad Company Is regretted by the large body of citizens who can recall the excellent results of his administration, not the least cf which Is witnessed In the greatly improved personnel of the company's service. One by one the old professionals are having places made for them by the Tas-

gart regime. If men are needed for inspectors of -public works those having experience in something ( else than drawing salaries should be selected. Many Grand Army" posts throughout the country celebrated on Saturday night ,the seventy-sixth anniversary of the birth of General W. T. Sherman. The 8th of February is more honored now than the Sth of January. N A. W.' lit: Cuba is about 731 mi'es long. Its average' width is about eighty miles, and the island contains 43,319 square 'miles. It is 150 miles from Yeaccsln, Cuba, to Sable, on the Florida'oast,' The population is about 1,500,000, of which about 750,000 are what are called naturalized : whites, 610,000 are colored,.' slavery having been abolished in 1S70, and-there are also about 35,000 coolies and 20,000 Spaniards among the population. It has no government .of Its own, but Is under Spanish rule, which may be caid to be a constitutional government. The insurgents destroy property because it belongs largely to men who sustain the Spanish government. The. mass of the people are evidently united "against Spain, but many of the planters and merchants who reside in Havana sustain the Spanish government, as do all those; who hold official position. C. C. W., Emison: In the course of a speech Mr. Voorhees extolled McClellan and Hancock. Mr. Ingalls, who was evidently awaiting such an opportunity, praised Hancock as a soldier aql denounced McClellan. He then passed on to criticise Cleveland, who was then President May 2, 1S3S for his appointment of ultra Confederates who had not been amnestied. Senator Voorhees, in reply, sneered at tho, military record of Ingalls, whereat, with" all lhe material at hand, he presented Senator Voorhees's copperhead record. Voorhees lost his temper and made a dreadful spectacle of himself, calling Representative James T. Johnston, who was sitting near Ingalls, a liar at the same time that he applied the epithet to the Kansan. . . BUBBLES IX THE AIR. Prlle. Watts That is a pretty good story you tell, but tt won't work. Weary Watkin3 Course it won't. D'you spose I'd be traveling around with it if it Cld? The Cheerful Idiot. "The legends say," said the historical boarder, "that Solomon controlled the world and conquered his enemies by means of a ring of peculiar properties." "H'm." the Cheerful Idiot hastened to say. "Our politicians work In a good deal the same way." It Did Xot AVorlc. "You," said the careworn individual, "are the man who toid me that the right way to succeed politically was to trust the people." "I am," admitted the theoretical ph'losopher. "Well, I done it. And not one of 'era will pay up. And the sheriff's got my saloon. And I'm goin' to lick you." And brute force once more triumphed over philosophy. The Color Question. "Git away fum heah." said the old man, testily. "I doan want no yaller nlggah pesticatln around me. "Seo here," said the young mulatto man with tho toothpick shoes, "does you believe de Bible?" "Mcbbo you bettah sinuate dat I doesn't." "An does you believe dat man is made of clay? Of cou'se yo' does. If you believes de bock. Well, us yaller men is fine meerschaum. De color shows It." As the "yaller man" walked off. the old man mutterol something about how "dat imperent young limb's back would a ketched it 'fo de wan!" ' ThotnnM Xelnon Page nt Home. Washington Letter. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson -Page aro taking an aetivo part in society, but the famous author has by no means slighted his literary work, but devotes the greater part of his time to hla Htudy. Mr. Pa has a len," to which ho retires every morning and works hard, while in the' afternoon he

takeg some recreation in the open air. His labors for some time past have boen on short etories. He has also about half completed a long novel, and It is likely that one of his prettiest fictions he may in the near future fashion into a play, itacmlllan, publisher, of New York, has asked. Mr. Pase for a history of Richmond, and If he can, find time such a volume may bo forthcoming from hi3 pen. He also intends to write a life cf General Nelson, so it is easily to be seen that he has his hands full for some time to come. Mr. Page is a believer in saving time and in his workroom has three desks, paper, pen and ink in all of them, so that he can sit down at any place and write without interruption. Mrs. Tage. who is a very handsome lady, is very popular In society, and the home of the author is an ideally happy one. The new home, which will be on New Hampshire' avenue, will not be finished till a year from this coming fall. THE APPORTIOXMEXT QLESTIOX. It 13 to bo hoped that no serious complications will arise out of this condition of things. The Republicans must accept tha test under the act of 1SS3. Newton County Enterprise. Justice to the people of Indiana demands a fairer apportionment than that of 18S5. Let tho Governor convene the Legislature to the end that Justice may be done. Greensburg Review. The Herald Is favorable to an election under the apportionment cf 15S3, but there must be an Ironclad agreement with the Democrats that the Green Smith performance will not be repeated again. Anderson Herald. Governor Matthews's duty dees not He in the direction of hurting his party. It would not take him long to discover the necessity of convening the Legislature if It would work his party an advantage. Warren Republican. There never was as good an opportunity for an honest, constitutional apportionment as the present, and Governor Matthews misses a great opportunity by declining to Join in insisting upon such an act. Kokomo Tribune. The R-ipublicans of Indiana can elect the next United' States Senator oa the apportionment of 1SS5, but a special session of the Legislature shoufid De called so that a fair act could be passed that would nearer fit the present needs. Union City Times. An apportionment law that wduli stand the test of the courts could be framed and adopted in a week. In refusing to call the. Legislature for that purpose Governor Matthews shows that he Is more for the party than for tho people. Clay County Enterprise. Governor Matthews will be derelict In his plain .duty if he does not call the Legislature in special session without delay. He cannot afford for a fancied political advantage to throw us back oa a law that was made to suit conditions ten years ago. Cannelton Enquirer. Does Governor Matthews think It safe to go Into an election under an alleged law that may be overthrown the day before or the day after the vote Is cast? The Governor will fail in a sacred duty to the people of Indiana If (he does not call the Legislature in special session. New Albany Tribune. Confusion is sure to re!gn supreme unless the Governor shall have lhe courage and patriotism to rise above the mere partisan and call the Legislature together for t.e enactment of an apportionment law which shall accord wrth tne principles laid down by the Supreme Court. Steuben Republican. Governor Matthews is satisfied that the 1S&5 apportionment act is sufficiently Democratis that he doesn't care to have a new one on Just and equitable lines. Never mind. Even on this antiquated partisan gerrymander, even by Democrats admitted to be unjust, the Republicans will sweep the field. Decatur Journal. The people of Indiana, regardlesj of politics, w-ant a fair apportionment and-do not believe that the provable expense has anything to do with the Governor's declining to yield to the people's wishes. For a man with presidential aspirations, the Governor is neither acting wisely for his State, for himself nor for his party. Rujhvllle Graphic. If the Legislature was Democratic the Governor would not hesitate a moment la calling it together to pas3 an apportionment under which a legal Legislature could be chosen, but he is insisting that the Republican party and the people shall deliberately acquiesce In electing an illegal legislative body simply to favor the Democratic .party. The fair thing for Governor Matthews to do is to call an extra session. But' whether he docs or not there Is little doubt that the Republicans can' control the next Legislature anyway. With nineteen hold-over Senators we have a good start, and all indications point to a general Republican victory next fall. Rcckville Republican. The Governor has a very good, reputation for fairness, but as he ds a presidential candidate he may be expected to make "grandstand plays" at the dictation of the Democratic bosses from now until after the Demo;ratlc convention. However, the executive will have no enviable time of it playing hide and seek with what is his plain duty. Petersburg Press. If the voters of Indiana are forced to elect the next Legislature undar the law of 1SS5, they will express their opinion of the Democratic policy that has forced that conclusion in language that will reach the dullest ears. As a matter of partisan politics the Republicans can ask nothing of the Democracy that would insure a larger Republican victory. Eilkhart Review. If the Governor refuses to convene the Legislature to apportion the State in harmony with the decision of the Supreme Court, the people will hold him and his party responsible for the Iniquitous gerrymander of 18S5, and for a law, in view of the phenomenal Increase of population in the gas belt and other parts of the State, outrageously unjust. Owen County Journal. The apportionment law of 1883 is clearly unconstitutional, but under this law the next General Assembly will have to be elected unless the Governor convenes the Legislature in special session to enact a legal apportionment law. That the Governor should do this no fair-minded man will for a moment deny. This is the only way out of the difficulty. Columbia City Commercial. Governor Matthews has said he win not call an extra session of the Legislature for the purpose cf passing an apportionment law thit will enable the voters of Indiana to be Justly and constitutionally represented by the representatives they may choose. The Governor Is in danger of exchanging what credit he may have had as a statesman for that of a Democratic politician. Pendleton Republican. The legislative apportionment act of 18S5 Is, In the opinion of the Supreme Court, unconstitutional and void, and that court would declare It to be so If the opportunity were given it. And yet. Governor Matthews, with a full knowledge of this fact, declares that, so far as he is concerned, the next Legislature for this State shall be elected under that unconstitutional law. Vinccnr.os Commercial. The refusal of Governor Matthews to call a special session of the Legislature for the single purpose of passing a constitutional apportionment bill Is not to his credit. The fact that the Legislature Is Republican In both branches is his excuse, however much he may attempt to disguise It. The present chaotic condition of our legislative districts is easily remedied, but only by a special session. Marion Chronicle. The best way to clear up the muddle would probably be for the Governor to call a special session cf the Legislature elected In 1894 to pus: an apportionment bill, but the Governor of the State has hastily declared that under no circumstances will he call a special session thu3 letting merely partisan reasons govern ills action, ratlter than the best interests of the people of Indiana. Rising Sun Recorder. One of -two things must necessarily be done, the election this year must be held under thelSSSact or the Governor must call an extra session of the Legislature to pass a new apportionment law. The responsibility is with Governor Matthews at this Juncture, and his discharge of it will demonstrate hi3 ability or incapacity to meet a condition that requires statesmanship and political honesty. Muncle News. The Governor could call the Legislature together and pass a fair apportionment act, but he is not broad and liberal enough to d j so. With a Republican Legislature and a Democratic? Governor we should be able to secure a fair apportionment. If Governor 'Matthews wire to call th Legislature together he would shev hirifelf to be a man above the mass of his party In the Si"te, but he is too partisan for thai. Greenfleu Republican. The Republicans will guarantee Governor Matthews thit if the Legislature is assembled In special session, nothing will be undertaken except the passage of an apportionment bill in strict compliance with tho injunctions imposed by the Supreme Court and with strict regard for the rights

of all the people. If the Governor will not consent to such an obviously fair proposition, it will then be In order to have the law of lsS. declared unconstitutional. That will precipitate a crisis which will throw the burden of consequences on the executive, and he will be forced to abandon tho obstinate position he has taken or else assume the responsibility cf permitting the Mate to drift into a condition of anarchy. Lafayette Courier. The Governor's action places him befors the public as saying: I will not call a srecial session of a Republican Legislature, notwithstanding the law under which the election must be held is as clearly unconstitutional as any thai nas been passed upon by the Supreme Court, and will necessarily bo very unfair, especially in the gas belt, where population in some Instances Is nearly one-third greater than when that law was enacted. Portland Commercial. The changes of population since lSSaliave made the act of that year peculiarly unjust to many localities of the State, and cannot be fair and equal. In this emergency but one proper course remains for the Governor, which is to call the Legislature in special session for the purpose of passin? a just and equitable apportionment law. The crisis is such as to override the matter of expense, and in no other manner can the many vexatious and troublesome questions Involved besatisfactorily settled. Gibson County Leader. Governor Matthews has definitely decided not to call the present Legislature together In special session to enact an apportionment law, or to remedy the inequalities of the act of 1SS3. under which the election must now be held. It is to be regretted that he will not do so. for the demand for a fair and just apportionment Is such that all consiieration of partisanship or practical politics should be brushed aside, that a spirit of patriotism of broad and liberal statesmanship may control. Middletown News. By the Supreme Court's decision it is plainly Indicated that the apportionment law of 1SS3 is also unconstitutional, and will be declared so whenever attacked In the courts. With this In view it is plainly the duty of Governor Matthews to convene the Legislature in special session for the 'enactment of a new law along the lines laid down by the court, and, when he fails or refuses to do it, then he loses the reputation he has enjoyed for honesty and fairness In the administration of his duties as Governor of the State. Connersville Times. The highest authority in the State has plainly intimated, if not said, .that the law of 1SS3 is unconstitutional, and In view of this, it is tho duty of all good citizens to demand a law that conforms to that great Instrument. This is the place and now is the time to take a firm stand, and an immediate appeal should be taken. There is time enough If we move promptly, to get a decision, and if the law of 14S5 is held to be bad, which it certalnlly will be, the Governor, by the force of circumstances, will be compelled to convene the Legislature. Frankfort News. The court has decided that the present Legislature has the power to pass a new apportionment, and, plain!', this would be the proper thing to do. It is what was done In Wisconsin and Michigan under similar conditions. We have been under the lmpress:cn that our Governor laid Claim to a high order of statesmanship and patriotism. There is net much of either, however. In allowing a law that he knows to be unconstitutional and that will likely brtns more trouble and expense, to stand on our statute books when he could remedy the evil by calling an extra session. Huntingburg Argus. Some people have been deluded into the belief that the Governor was better than his party, and there is reason to believe he preferred to cultivate rather than dissipate the Impression, but his attitude on this question t3 so untenable on any other than rank partisan grounds that the mask can no longer deceive even the unwary. He and he alone can settle this matter to the honor and credit of the State. He can provide for a Legislature representative of the people, a constitutional Asrembly competent to enact laws that the people and the courts will respect. He can choke partisan howls into silence. Ills patriotic duty is plain. New Castle Courier. . If the Republicans should bring suit to test the constitutionality of the law of 18S3 and it was knocked out, as it doubtless would be, then the Democrats would attack the 1873 law, and the probabflities are that there would be no stop until all the legislation on the subject, back to the adoption of the Constitution, was set aside. The easiest way out of the muddle would be to call a special session of the Legislature and make a new and legal apportionment, but as the present Legislature Is strongly Republican, Governor Matthews could not throw aside his partisanship, even to settle so seriou3 a question, and says that he will not convene that body. The only thing left for the Republicans is to attack the law of 1&S3 or make th9 fight under it with the expectation that the peoplo will be with them. Attica Ledger. We have Governor Matthews's specific declaration that he will not deny the holdover Senators tenure of office. That alone Is not satisfactory, but since then the publication by the Democratic State central committee has been made that it will respect the validity of the holdover Senators' positions. There can be no agreement without confidence, and we must, and, doubtless safely can, abide by these promises of the Governor and the committee. The mooted attacks on the constitutionality of the act of 1SS5, at the present juncture, to make confusion worse confounded, could never have been very seriously entertained. Such a course would be folly and would be dangerous. If not suicidal. We cannot enter into litigation. We must have a fair and peaceable election and quiet seating of the members, and this must be promised by both parties. Terre Haute Express. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS.

A statistical person who says he has careifully investigated the subject says that, with the exception of William Henry Harrison, all Presidents of the United States have had blue eyes. The infant Princess Olga, of Russia, bids fair to become the most idolized royal or Imperial baby in all Europe. Her mother writes: Everyono except ourselves seems disappointed that baby was not a boy. But for us there is no question of sex; our child is simply the gift of God." Alexander Bull, son of Ole Bull, the violinist, played on his father's famous violin at a festival given In honor of the violinist's birthday in Minneapolis recently. Statues are soon to be erected in honor of Ole Bull's memory in Minneapolis and in his native town of Bergen, Norway. An editor in Graz, Austria, had his skull photographed by Professor Roentgen's progress, but absolutely refused to have the picture reproduced or shown to any but men of science. The effect startled him so that it was a long time after he saw tho photograph before he could sleep In peace. Princess Beatrice can be haughty or Democratic as the case demands. A workman who was recently sent down to Osborne with a bicycJe for one of the young Battenbergs addressed Prineem Beatrice as "Mum," and on leaving remarked cheerfully, "Good evening, mum," and "Good evening, sonale." And nothing came of it, either. The Christian Intelligencer calls attention to the fart that "age is at a premium In all the professions except the clerical. In the sick chamber and In the court room experience counts for somthlne; In the pulpit it counts for nothing. To treat sin-slck souls requires more skill than to treat diseased bodies, and skill Is the ripe fruit of experience." Speaker Reed, who is very fond of literary work, has written an Introduction to tho works of Henry C"ay, a complete edition of which Is r.oon to appear. Mr. Reed Is a great admirer of Henry Clay, and sppnt much time on the famous Kentuckian's life and works before penning the introduction referred to. William McKinley, Jr., 13 to write the conclusion to the publication. It Is relgted that Baron de Rothschild, of Paris, once called Guzman Blanco the richest man In the world. When the Venezuelan dictator protested against the compliment RothscIM retorted: "You are surely the richest man In the wcrld. for who elso has estatts comprising CxVxXi square miles of territory? Who elst has an income c-f tt7.000.000? Who ei!?e has 2.&XMW slaves?" Uuzman was not elow In aceing the point. Senator Tillman is known to the negroes of South Carolina as a "seben 'lebcn chile" that is to say, he is the eleventh child of his father, who was the seventh child of Senator Tillman's grandfather. This combination 1 regarded as superlatively lucky by tho superstitious negroes, who look upon Tillman as a "man of diSiiny," and hence not to be opposed with any prospect of success. Tillman'a luck has become i)roverhIai in South Carolina, and his rlends say that ho has never known de-

feat In any undertaking s!nce his boyhood. His nr and determination have carried him through many rlacts where anther man would have failed inferably. Ho 13 in hi fiftieth yrar. and lived on th old family farm up to 1K0. when hs was lectfd Governor. th firs: oHice he rvtr hrM. ji lost one of his eyes as a result of an accident while swlmminar when a boy. It was about 177S In Massachusetts that the first woman. Mistress Abigail Adams, asked for the rUht of suffrage. Miss Mabl E. Adam, cf Qulncy, In that SSiate, who has Jut been elected to th school board, and who Is one of the leading orator In the political equality caus, is said to be one of her defendants. .Mi Adams is a student as well as a speakor and writer, and has givm considerable time and thought to the domestic relations and conditions of American society at the present time. THE XEW LOAX.

What thf Government Xcedss la Xot Gold, but IU'vrnue. N New York Sun. Tho generUl jubilation over the success of the administration iii disposing ol its SiJO.OJO.OOO of four-per- ent. tonds has led some people Into talking remarkable nonsense upon the subject, r.e.t the least onppicuous of which If. easing the loan a "popular" loan, and c.'Almtng that the numerous bids for it demonstrate the acmand for it among the jworJ at large. The bids amount in r.-inber to less '.han 4,40(), and an inspection of t:cm lcws that. only 3i$ were for $1.0u) and le.j. th; others being made in larger sum." almcjt exclusively by bUnkc-. banks and financial institutions, or i.e bidders making these 3i8 small bids, Si were outbid by J. P. Morgan and othrr V.'.dl-rtrect men, so that only seventy-&evtn of them will get any of the bonds, and th3 total amcun alloted to them will not b tr.O1). ConsioorIng that the adult population of the country Is 25.0U0.00U and upward, the loan has. therefore, proved an) thing but "po-p-jlar.'1 Tho truth Is, that the comiotltion for the bonds has come almost entirely from among professional dealers In such securities, who want them to sell again at a profit. Their future success or want of success in thus disposing of 'them is ull that will determine the degree cf popularity that government bonds enjoy with the investing public; and It is premature to exult over It Just yeL The primary purpose of the loan was to acquire gold to replenish tho dwindling reserve in the treasury. That it will accomplish that end Is not by any muna cler. If our credit balances abroad, created by sales of bonds to European buyers, or by our exports of cotton and grain, or by ?he purchase of our various ecurKles by foreigners who have recovered 'Confidence in us; If by these agencies we draw gold from Europe instead of exporting it. then the treasury gold balance will grow and not diminish. If, on the contrary, we continue to owe money abroad and are required to pay it, the replenishment of the treasury gold balance through the new loan will have as little stability as it has shown heretofore. What the replenishment will actually be It is impossible to tell. The Secretary of the Treasury has provided no safeguards. By the terms of his offer he has left the gold the treasury acquires absolutely at the mercy of every speculatively inclined Individual who has the means to avail himself of It. If the price of. exchange makes it profitable to ship gold, nothing can prevent the gold from going out of he treasury. S3 much for the relations of the treasury to the drawers of exchange; but what of the relations to the treasury's gold of the successful bidders for the new loan? Mr. Carlisle, requires of each bidder, on the acceptance of his bid, a paj'ment of 20 per cent. In gold. In return therefor the bidder is entitled to receive bonds to the extent of 20 per cent, of the amount bid for. Mr. Carlisle has imposed no obligation on the bidder to take the remaining 80 per cent, of his bid or any part of It. If the bidder finds that It would be unprofitable to take any more bonds at the price he. cannot be compelled to take them. Surely never before in the history of the treasury was there recorded a proceeding so unbusiness-like. Any speculator with two hundred and odd thousand dollars could bid 112. for Instance, for Jl.000,000 of the loan, receive his m,000 in bonds, sell thera at the market price, of say 116, and then draw the gold for his next installment from the treasury, and continue the process o long as It might afford a profit, until his whole subscription of M.OOO.000 should be exhausted. The only protection that the loan enjoys against such predatory operations lies in the business honor and integrity of the subscribers, and in the stability of. the market for the bonds. That stability will probably be maintained In spite of the undisguised efforts of the silver conspirators In the Senate to destroy it. -It will be seen, therefore, that the desire of the administration to Increase Its gold resources depends for its gratification in a measure upon the character of the successful bidders; and in that, so far as It has been ascertained, there la much that Is reassuring. Had the loan gone to the Morgan: .syndicate, as originally proposed, the result would have been free from any doubt or danger. In the first place none of tho gold to pay for the bonds would have been drawn from the treasury. It would have, been provided from external . and foreign sources. In the second place, tho drawers of exchange would have taken their respective allotments of the bonds at the price named, and accepted the profit on the transaction in lieu of that derived from their customary shipments of gold. In tho third place, the loan would have had the visible and tangible re-enforcement of a second hundred millions in reserve and reaay for any further emergency. These considerations Indicate conclusively that the Morgan syndicate would have handled the loan with more advantage to the government than has accrued from offering it for public competition. That is to pay. the government woull have gained possession of the gold and been aided to retain it for at least a fixed1 and definite period. As the matter stands to-day. the only logical certainty is that the government will get between six and seven millions more in greenbacks than the Morgan syndicate would havo given it in gold. . All of this In no wise Impairs the fundamental and unalterable truth that what the government needs is not gold, but a sufficiency of revenue. Nevertheless, If It will In a blind. stupid, and unlr.structM fashion plunge into the mazes of financial error, assert a solvency that It notoriously does not enjoy, and engulf u all in the turbulence of Its own incapacltj'. far be It from us to withhold our praise for the support accorded to it, and for confidence of tho country In itself. DOCKIXG THE IXDIAXA. She XVIII Tent the Capacity of tho Port Royal Plant. Harper's Weekly. A substantial notion of what the Indiana, battled with on her speed trial will be shown when, in a few days, that ship goes Into the newly finished dry dock at Port Royal, S. C: then, too, can be guaged how much more might have been added to her1 splendid performance and the -exchequer of her builders had she gone forth with her bottom wholly freed of aquatic vegetation. The dock, a wooden one, was b-gun three years ago, and, with certain needed alterations suggested bv the test-docking of the monitor Amphltrite, ha been pushed to completion within the present year. The structure has an extreme length of 46 feet, a floor or bottom length of 4U feet and lin extreme breadth of 97 feet, with a variation of 2.5 feet between tho ordinary spring and the heap high tlds. A peculiar feature of the dock is the tar concrete filling behind the sides, or altars, by which the basin is made practically water-tight. Two centrifugal pumps, with a mean Individual discharge of nallons a minute, will drain the dock, requiring for that service something over an hour and a half. With certain inodillcations demanded by the Navy Department, the dock was built, after the plnn3 of (). Von Nerta, bv Justin McCarthy, the contractor, both Washingtonlans. , . , To-dav thh dock I? the only completed one in the United States able to take in one of her first-class battle h!ps. and the trateglc meaning of this becomes moro marked when It is known that the next nearest Is that at Halifax. Nova Scotia, which, by the law of neutrality and the limited time allowance, would be denied u in a season of hostilities. The admission of the Indiana will try to tho utmost the possibilities of the dock, an l establish the soundness of a very vital factor in the maintenance of our llne-of-battle's etficiency. while widening our resourcesdesiderata stronrly emphasized by Chief Constructor Hlchborn In his paper on "Experience Gained with Our New Steel Ships." Xot n "Free" Speech. Detroit Free Press. General IIarrion really does not need the presidency of tho United States In order to keep the wolf from tho ioor. For that two-hours' speech he maJc 1efore- the Supreme Court of th United States the other dav. ho received JI0.fo. or tl a wori. It is 'hard to see how silence In Kllcn when a man can sell tal'.c at thsse figurrs. SUrptlelfcin. Detroit Tribune. We don't believe Mns. Frank Leslie is jroIng to be married by somebody. We don't believe the war n lrlt la as strong as that. Right Idea. Philadelphia Record. The American people simply came to the conclusion in the bond matter that now w&a tho time to subscribe.