Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1896 — Page 4

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' TUE IXDIAXAPOLIS JOUUNAL Can be fousl at the following places FA RIS American JiicLange la 1'arU, 38 Boulevard da Capurtnes. SKW YOKK ensey House, Windsor lloiel and Aator House. CUICAGO-Filrr.fr House, Auditorium Hotel tad P, O. ews Co., hi Adams street. CI5C1XNATI V . XL DawlTy A Co, 154 YlM stmt JLOUISTILLE C T. Deerlng, northwest corner of Third and JeSerson stt., and Louisrllle Book Co, 254 Fourth ave. ET. L0U13 Union Newt Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON, t. a Rlt House, Ebbttt House, wiuaxd'4 Hotel and the Washington h'ewi xcLs Uth street. Let. reun. are. and Jf' atrtet At last accounts the United States Senate had not entered upon a discussion of the silit In the Salvation Army nor introduced any resolutions of sympathy on the subject. SSSkSBBMSBMSSHMSMSSSBBSBBSaaaHMM If the spirit of the Republican convention In Ohio Is an Indication of the character of the party division outsiders hear eo 'much of, let -the work of party division extend to other States The citizens of St. Louis seem to be determined to do the fair and even the generous thing by the Republicans In regard to a hall for the convention. For one thing:, St Louis Is a Republican city. It is probable that the forty-two crates of crockery upon which duties were paid in this city Wednesday tok the place of a similar quantity of such ware made in Ohio and other States before the duties were reduced. If the friends of the several candidates opposing: Governor McKlnley were as wlse.as are those of Senator Allison they would be careful not to say anything which the Ohio man's friends would remember with resentment. Somebody seems to have taken advantage of the temporary absence of the New York visiting: statesmen to spring a McKlnley boom la Buffalo. The statesmen should have battened down the hatches when they left. Nearly all the Iemocrats In the House voted to retain and continue the postoffice spying system on letter carriers. It must have been distasteful to many of theta, but they felt obliged for party reasons to sustain the course of the administration. Some of the .best newspapers In the. country are sustaining Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, In his efforts to reduce the Incidental expenses of the Senate. There seems to be an opportunity for the Senate to give an object lesson in practical economy. Several papers have appealed to the Republicans of the Kentucky Legislature to go to the support of Carlisle with the fiound -money Democrats. As the soundmoney Republicans are fifty odd and the sound-money Democrats are a dozen, there would be. les3 walking in "going over" for the Democrats to come to the. Republicans. A New York Democrat having expressed to the. World a desire to have the birthday of Andrew Jackson made a holiday, that paper responds that there is danger that too many holidays In honor of patriots may interfere with the business of the country, but, that every Illustrious patriot may have his day, it suggests an "all patriots day" after the precedent of "All Saints day." Tillman, Turple, Vest and Vcorhees, voting together in the Senate, could have their names smuggled into the all patriots day by their friends. The Ohio Republican platform says: The Republican party stands for a reciprocity that reciprocates, and which does not yield up to another country a single day's labor that belongs to the American workingmen. It stands for international agreements which get as much as. . they give on the terms of mutual advantage." It would have been easier to Bay "wo favor the re-establishment of the reciprocity treaties negotiated during the Harrison administration and since repealed, from which the country reaped so great benefit" Ex-Governor McKInley's Independent organ, the Chicago Times-Herald, will not do his cause any good by frequently alluding to the present Congress as an impotent" body. As a matter of fact, the House has done much good work, and would do much more If it was not satisfied that it would be wasted. The Republican House Is the best in every way that has been In Washington for years. The trouble is with the Senate, for which no party Is responsible unless it be the free colnage-PopulIstlc "combine," made up of the Southern Democratic, the silver State "and Populist Senators. ) SSSHSBBSlSBBBBBBBSaBBSSSaSSSHMSBSSSSSSBSBBSBBSSSSBiaaaaSBaB A number of leading Democrats of Arkansas have Issued an address to the Democratic voters of that State, in which they are urged to instruct their delegates to bolt the Democratic national convention unless It shall declare for free coinage of silver. Their plan 13 to hold a sliver convention In June in St Louis and nominate a. Democratic ticket which "will sweep everything west of the Hlue Ridge and south of the Potomac." As the Ulue Ridge rises south of the Potomac, the geography of these benighted ' leaders of the Arkansas Democracy Is ' as defective as is their knowledge of money. The lawlessness and violence about the Kentucky Legislature growing out of tha deadlock in electing a United States Cenitor show to what dangerous and turmful extremes prUranjhip. afUr it

has parted company with the spirit of fairness, will carry men. Of course, the Democrats become reckless at an early stage In the strife and resort to violence, but that fact only makes the matter worse. The Journal calls attention to the lawlessness and violence not to cast reproach upon a sister State, but as a warning to the leaders of both parties In Indiana to try to come to an understanding over the apportionment while reason may hold sway. TUB SILVER QtKSTIO.V AT ST. LOUIS.

Circumstances and events make political issues; parties only deal with them as they come up. They exist In actual conditions and In the popular mind before they are recognized by political conventions, and the latter can.no more create them than they can suppress them. Thus circumstances and events have made protection and reciprocity the leading Issues before the American people at present, and they will undoubtedly be the controlling issues In the next presidential election. Nothing short of domestic revolution or foreign war could turn the popular mind from studying the object lessons of the last few years and contrasting the present era of hard times with the universal prosperity that prevailed during the last . administration. The people are firmly convinced that the change is due to the abandonment of protection and the repeal of the reciprocity treaties, and they are determined to re-establish those policies. But if the tariff question Is sure to be the dominating issue in the next campaign the currency question, or, to be more exact, the silver question, is sure to be next In importance. In some important respects it, resembles the tariff question. Both are domestic questions, and in ordinary times domestic questions are always more Important than foreign ones. Both have a direct bearing on the prosperity of the country, and both come home to men's business and bosoms. No citizen , of the United States can escape from the effects of a wrong settlement of the tariff and currency questions any more than he can from the air he breathes. In one respect the currency question In its present phase is even more important than the tariff question, since tha party that takes the most commendable stand upon it will command the bulk of the so-called independent vote. Thlck-and-thln partisans will vote with their party anyway, but there Is a very large number of voters who are comparatively Independent of party ties, and whose action is determined by the attitude of the different parties on what they . regard as the most important Issue of the day. At present most of these independent voters give' the place of first importance to the silver question, . and they will vote with the party which, in their opinion, makes the squarest and frankest declaration on this question. As most of this class of voters axe intelligent business men who do their own thinking, they are opposed to cheap money in every form and in favor of a sound and unfluctuating currency resting on a gold basis. It follows, of course, that they are opposed to the free coinage of silver on the obsolete and impossible ratio of 16 to 1, and will vote with the txartv that makes the most dis tinct r1frliratlrin to that effect. I As the Republican national convention will meet nearly'a month before the Democratic convention, one on the 16th of June and the other on the 7th of July, it will have to take the' initiative on this question. Whatever its action may be, the Democratic convention will have the benefit of it in shaping Its own. If the Republican convention takes a cowardly, evasive or equivocal position on the silver question, or one that 4s unsatisfactory to independent voters and business men, the Democratic convention may seize the position which the Republicans failed to take and make a successful bid for the support of the class of voters referred to. This is not likely to happen, because, even If the Republican party should do the wrong thing, the Democratic party Is not likely to do the right one; but it might happen. At all events, the Republican convention ehould not open the way for it. It should render it impossible by making a declaration on the silver question so natfooted and unequivocal as will at once Insure the support of the entire, independent and floating business vote of the ixmntry and compel the Democratic convention, to take opposite ground. The Republicans should force the fighting. The earliest Republican conventions of the year show some disposition to befog the question with glittering generalities. The declaration of the Ohio convention that "we contend for a currency of gold, silver and paper that shall be as sound as the government and as untarnished as its honor" may mean anything or nothing. A question of business should be met in abuslnessllke way and treated In the language of business. The last Republican convention in New York, that of 1S93, said: "We declare bur unalterable opposition to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. Any inflation of the currency of the country by degrading the standard of value to the silver basis is distinctly repudiated." This is better than the declaration of the Minneapolis convention, and that of the next Republican national .. convention should be no less explicit and unequivocal. It should be a ringing resolution without any silver ring. TUB KENTUCKY SCNATOIUAL SITUATION. It now seems almost certain that the Kentucky Legislature will adjourn without electing a United States Senator. The session began Jan. 7, and, being limited to sixty days, exclusive of Sundays, will expire next Monday, the 16th Inst The act of Congress relative to the election of Senators requires the two houses of the Legislature to meet in Joint assembly each day at noon and take at least one ballot, and this will probably be done during the remaining days of the session unless It Is prevented by a I general fight, of which there seems Im minent danger. In duration the deadlock has only been equaled once in the history of the country. In the senatorial election In Delaware last year 217 ballots were taken. The first ballot was on Jan. 15, and the final one only a few minutes before the hour on the day set for the adjournment of the Legislature, May 9. During that contest one member of the Legislature died, while two have died during the contest in Kentucky. The latter presents come very regrettable features. Its effect has been to make the session a dismal failure.

For all the good the Legislature has done it might as well not have met at all, and the good it has left undone is beyond conception. For a working Legislature there was a great 'field for reform and for legislation that would have proved very beneficial to the State and advantageous to the Republican party, for, while the Republicans have not a majority of the Legislature, they could doubtless have succeeded in enacting some useful legislation if the deadlock had not Intervened and paralyzed the session. As It Is, the record will be one of impotence bordering on disgrace. The expiration of the session without electing a Senator will create a singular situation. Senator Blackburn's term will expire March 3, 1897. The law makes it the duty of the Legislature of each State which is chosen next preceding the expiration of a senatorial term to elect a Senator to fill the prospective vacancy. The next legislative election In Kentucky will not occur till November, 1S97, so that .if the present Legislature does not elect a Senator there will be a vacancy from March 3, 1897, until the next Legislature shall meet in January, 1898, and during that period Kentucky will have but one Senator. So far as the country is concerned It can worry along a little while without "Joe" Blackburn in the Senate, and even Kentucky would not lose anything worth mentioning. THE - PLATFORMS OF TAVO CANDIDATES.

' Republican conventions in two States which have presented candidates for the Republican nomination for President have made platforms. In Ohio the platform is a declaration of principles, while in Iowa the public career of -Senator Allison has been presented as a living exposition of Republican achievement and purpose. . There Is no marked difference in the opinions and declarations of the two platforms. On the leading issue of the campaign, the protection of American industries, the tariff policy for which ex-Governor McKInley's friends declare, is that to which the friends of Senator Allison assert that he has given his influence, his voice and his votes. The declarator of the Ohio Republican convention, which. It has been said, with how much truth the Journal cannot tell, was prepared by ex-Governor McKlnley himself, reads as follows: We contend for honest money; for a currency of gold, silver and paper with which to measure our exchange that shall be as sound as the government and as untarnished as its honor; and to that end we favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money, either in accordance with a ratio to be fixed by international agreement, if ;that can be obtained, or under such restrictions and such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parities of values of the two metals so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. On the other hand, the Iowa Republicans, In making the public record of Senator Allison their platform, say: He has been favorable to a true bimetallism, and he has at all times labored to maintain an abundant currency of gold, silver and paper, made Interconvertible and equal to the best currency of the commercial world. He has demanded for the business of the Nation a currency equitable and stable, free from the osci.iatlcns so dangerous to business interests and so unjust to the wage earners of the Nation, whose thousands of millions of annual wages and many thousand millions of credit In savings banks, and other forms, constitute them the great creditor class of the Nation. : As platforms there Is no essential difference between the two. The bimetallism which the Republicans In both States demand is the only one there can be the use of both metals as legal-tender money on a basis of interconvertibllity, or under such conditions that, five standard silver dollars will purchase as much value as .will a five-dollar gold piece. The free and unlimited coinage of silver bullion at the present market value of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would bring the country to silver monometallism, Just as surely as a law declaring that the 422,000,000 of standard silver dollars should no longer be a legal tender would place the country upon a basis of gold monometallism. While adhering to the use of silver as legal-tender money, the Republicans who present ex-Governor McKlnley say that any coinage ratio which the United States may adopt for the two metal3 must secure "the parities of value," which means that the commercial value of the two metals which are put into dollars must be the same. The Iowa Republicans insist that the money for which Senator Allison has always contended has been "equal to the best currency of the commercial world.'" When platforms are made by the Republicans of other States which will present candidates who , are more than "favorite sons" for the purpose of delivering delegations they will express essentially, the same views as those to which attention his been called. There will be a very small element In the convention, which may desire to declare for gold monometallism, and also an element from the silver producing States which will Insist In vain on such a coinage of silver as will force the country to silver monometallism, but the great mass of the convention probably seveneighths of It will see that the national council of the party declares for "sound money," meaning gold, silver and paper, whose dollars shall have equal purchase power. It is evident that when the House shall have passed the postofllce appropriation bill there will be no money in it to pay the expense of the system of espionage which the present Postmister-general Instituted against the mail carriers. There was no general dereliction which warranted it, and without a general Inefficiency a system of dogging the 1 footsteps of every one of several thousand men to hunt up cause for reprimand or "docking" is an imputation upon the honesty of every man who delivers mall. It Is undoubtedly necessary to look after a few men, but this should be done by order of the postmaster under the direction of the superintendent of carriers. Better than any agent sent from another State, the superintendent of carriers In any city should know when a carrier Is not making his distribution within a reasonable period or is doing his work, carelessly. To look after men against whom charges have been made or whose performance of their work affords ground to suspect them of unfaithfulness or incapacity is a duty, but to perform it it is not necessary to put a spy upon the track of every carrier In the United States and to increase the expense of the postal service thousands of dollars a year to pay men whose Interest it is to find delinquencies lest they be discharged. The postmaster who has the ambition to win the approval of a

community, an! who, by reason of the civil-service act has no favorites to protect, can be relied upon to see that the carrier service is efficient The proposition to increase the compensation of railway postal clerks, now before the House, should be given the force of law. Compared with any other service which the government receives, it is most inadequately compensated. The lowest copying clerk in a department, requiring the most ordinary ability and imposing no tax upon the mind, is paid as much as the" lowest grade of postal clerks, while the third-class clerk, whose duties are technical and do not cause the strain upon the mind resulting from the rigid requirements of a postal clerk, receives a higher compensation. It is not only a vocation involving unusual risks of life and limb and the severest physical strain, but one which compels the man who retains his place ty be able to make his mind a gazetteer of the country. Comparatively few men can pass an examination, and fewer can hold the places after trial, so exacting are the demands of the service. Measured by the quality and character of the service, a chief clerk in the postal service should not be pjrid le?s than $1,800 or $2,000 a year. It is now proposed to make the highest compensation $1,500. It is not enough, but any advance is a recognition of the faithfulness and efficiency of a body of men whose good service has done much to Improve the mall service during the ' past fifteen years. The greater New York bill, which has passed the Legislature and which it is understood Governor Morton will approve, provides for the appointment of a bipartisan commission to formulate a charter, and If it is approved by the Legislature a Mayor of the new city of New York will be elected in November, 1897. The consolidation will Include New York and Brooklyn, all their suburbs and parts of two counties, with a present population of about 3,400,000. Aside from partisan considerations, which seem to, have figured largely In the proceeding, the bringing of so large a population under one municipal government is a "measure of doubtful wisdom.

HUDDLES IN TUB AIIl. Plain Sailing. "And now.", said Mr.' Hica'rde to himself, as he deftly sequestered, All the aces, "and now we will clear the decks for action." By Indirection. "It is real mean of you to say that Maud is ridiculously thin," said, the Sweet Young Thing. "Though I must admit," she continued, "that an X-ray photograph of her probably would beveasily recognized." It Would Seem So. "What In thunder do you mean!" shouted the hotel man, "by calling 67 instead of 76? Another break like that and you will lose your Job." ',-VV "I really fear soliloquized the porter, "that I have missed iny calllng., Amused Him. "Ho, ho, ho! Haw, haw, haw!" roared Mr.. Dismal Dawson, laying down his day before yesterday's paper." "What Is It?" asked Mr. Everett Wrest. "Story about a bloke bein beat out of $40 800 beers by a guy he paid it to to git him a Job of work. Mystery is to me, though, how a man who would pay for a chance to wprk was' ever smart enough to git $40." - MAGAZIKH HOTES. The Illustrated American of March 14 contains a two-page illustration of the Indiana Soldiers Monument as it now appears. There is also a picture of the crowning figure, together with an article describing the structure in detail. Donahce's. Magazine contains a pleasant chapter of reminiscences of the late W. J. Florence, the actor. A sketch of the new England . story-writer, , Mary E. Wllklns, giving more details of her life than have before appeared, .Is a feature of the number.. .-; ... . .-. r . r ,A patriotic society with a novel purpose is described in the Match number of the American Historical Register, which Is the official organ of (the patriotic-hereditary societies. The organization, whose headquarters is in Philadelphia, is . called the Ceramic Club, and Its object is the "publication" at regular Intervals of pieces of I American patriotic pottery. It is proposed to issue free to each member four pieces of such potttery a year. Membership is restricted to fifty persons,, each of whom must be a member of some patriotic-hereditary society. As a natural consequence of this limitation and excluslveness, the pottery from special designs will bo greatly coveted by outsiders. The idea of making it is, however, a good one, and may be easily followed by other cluts. A writer in Poet-Lore undertakes to answer the question as to what poetry has done for the world, and offers this as a part of its service: "For a great multitude it has been, it is, an uplift strong and mighty, resting the soul au the view of a sunset, singing to the heart as thj watera sing to those who rock in ship's cradles. To them the poet's verse-framed thought comes like a mighty lever raising them from drudgery, kindling in the bush and tangle of care the divine fire that illumirates all sordid things and defies the grind of routine. To how many, also, has the portrayal c f temptatirn and its overcoming in a rhythmical force and measure that beat itself all unbidden upon their brain brought a coronation of - self-victory, the inspiration of all experience for good!" A writer In the Chautauquan on vulgarisms in English speech makes this classification: "When you hear people of a certain grade of culture speak complacently of 'our (crowd and make a point cf saying Yes, ma'am and 'No, ma'am' . to their elders; when you hear them talk about frequenting 'enjoyable occasions' and meeting their 'gentlemen friends,' or, worse still, their fellows, you may be pretty sure that the gentlemen friends and the fellows In question call their outer garments their 'pants' and 'vest;' that they keep their friends 'posted as to the news, and sometimes, after business hours. dispose of the 'balance' of their time by calling on their 'lady friends' or reading a novel by 'the Duchess. " This same writer was much shocked at hearing a young gentleman "engaged in commercial pursuits" describe his fiancee "best girl." he called her to a "lady friend" as a "nice, refined, cultivated and elegant party!" ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. Stowe's early writings were published under the name "Christine Crowfleld," which Is said to have been an invention. George Ebers, the German novelist, is one of the most notable of recent converts to Buddhism. Professor Ebers is one of the prefcundest Orientalists in the world. GeneraL Booth's tour'of northern India Is said to have been one of his greatest successes. At Gujarat he addressed the largest meeting of Salvationists ever held in India. It is stated that Modjeska gave her now famous compatriot, Paderewskl, his start In the musical world. She heard him play and advanced the money needed for his musical education. It is a pretty story, whether strictly true or not." - After her labors In the South are complete!. Mis3 Frances 13. Willard as president of the world's W. C. T. U., will go to Ensland with Lady Henry Somerset. At present the W. C. T. U. has branches In fifty countries, and it Is now twenty-two years old. In Germany a city of 25,000 people which has not heard "Lohengrin" Is a curiosity, but Worms had that ( distinction until recently. It Is rather curious, for, as the city of Nibelung legend. Worms Is more closely associated with the Wagner operas than any other except Nuremberg. About ISO letters awaited Dr. Jameson on his arrival at Plymouth, England. Many

of them contained offers of marriage. One was from a lady of good position, who asserted that her friends considered her still handscme, but 6he was the mother of two marriageable daughters. She informed Dr. Jarreson that he could have his choice of the three. One who recently dined with Cecil Rhodes thus describes him: "He Is a tall, rather stout and lumberingly built man, sandy a3 to complexion, and with a big, round face, seemingly quite devoid of expression. The nose and mouth are large, but not impressive, the eyes small and dull. The whole effect t3 that of a man who never had an original thought n his bulging head." An erican candy Is proving very successful in England, where the confectioner's art is at a low stage. An American traveler reports that "an English candy store, called a 'sweetmeat shop.' Is a terrible sight; everything looks sticky, nasty and largely colored with obviously unhealthy substances. Also, there seems to be little, if any, attention to keep these 'sweetmeats' fresh, and the price? at which they are sold 20 cents a pound almost precludes their being made of good materials." When JIme. Melba was In Washington recently she met Speaker Reed In the Capitol. "Why don't you have a fight here?" she said to him In a laughing protest VI would much rather see a fight than hear a speech." "Then, why didn't you let roe know you were coming?" said Speaker Reed, gallantly. "I would have had a fight for your special delight, and if you will only wait I will go on the floor and start a row this minute." But Mme. Melba couldn't wait, and the Speaker's offer came to naught. The hens of China lead busy lives. When not engaged In hatching out a brood of their own kind they are put to the additional and novel task of hatching fish eggs. Chinese cheap labor collects the spawn of fish from the water's edge, places It in an empty eggshell, which is then hermetically sealed with wax, and places it under the unsuspecting sitting hen. After some days the eggshell is removed and carefully broken, and the spawn, which has been warmed into life, 13 emptied Into a shallow pool well wanned by the sun. Here the minnows that soon develop are nursed until strong enough to be turned Into a lake or stream. If I was sure that Nell would be Content to share my lot, I'd seize the opportunity To tell the hopes I've got. But I'm not sure she will not say, When I ask her to con it, "Just hold the lot until the day You've built a house upon it." Philadelphia North American. THE NICHOLSON LAW.

Good Results It Hn Had In Many Counties of the State. Indiana (Baptist. . So far as we are aware, Indiana his not had since the days of the "Baxter law" a temperance measure so practicallv effective as the present Nicholson law. Theoretically a prohibitory law would be better, but practically that Is best which under existing conditions accomplishes the most. As Washington Gladden truly says, we should for ourselves as individuals be satisfied with nothing short of the ideally perfect, but in legislation we are obliged to accept, and common sense warrants us In accepting, what is possible, even though less than best Some of the leading Prohibitionists, in their State convention the other day, exhibited a zeal not tempered, as it seems to us, by knowledge when they denounced the Nicholson law as we quote the reported utterance of a prominent member "a sham and a fraud." This reminds U3 of the physician who would rather sacrifice his patient than his 'pathy. As to the effectiveness of the Nicholson law, many saloon keepers have been compelled to take out a retail license under It who sold under the $25 government license before, and many have been driven out of the business altogether. The Good Citizens' League has reports showing that in forty-one counties of the State there are 166 saloons less than there were six months ago, and that in 438 townships there are 271 which have no saloon at all. Of the saloons existing in these forty-one counties, fully one-third of the entire number are in Marion county alone. This Is, of course, owing to the large number In the city of Indianapolis. Six other counties have almost as many more. Thus one-third of the entire number of existing saloons is scattered through five-sixths of the number of counties. Wherever the liquor traffic has not been . similarly curtailed Is due to the Indifference of the temperance people themselves in not taking advantage of, the law, or to wholly exceptional circumstances. We understand that, in Gibson county the leading men of Princeton, without respect .to political party, and Including several of the attorneys, have cooperated with each other in having the law carried ou i, and have been eminently successful, not only In the city of Princeton itself, but throughout the county The very best law will not enforce Itself. The Millionaire Roadmaster. New York Letter. The friends of Mr. H. H. Rogers, the Standard Oil millionaire, have been a little Interested, and some of them, perhaps, amused by the report that he had been elected roadmaster of the town of Fair Haven, Mass., and that he had accepted that humble but important post. But politicians here remember that a better known man than Mr. Rogers, although nqt so rich a one, was, after he had been twice Governor of New York State, and once Democratic candidate for the presidency, chosen roadmaster of a little town near Utica, N. Y. That was Governor Horatio Seymour, and he was very proud of that little office and wa3 the most efficient roadmaster that town had ever had. Complimentary to 31 r. Hanly. Lafayette Sunday Times. j I am glad to learn that the member of Congress from this district, Mr. Hanly, is making a decidedly favorable impression in Washington being recognized as one of the really working members. He is upon two of the most important committees of the House naval affairs and claims and his close attention to the affairs of these committees and familiarity with the business before them has given him, particularly for a new member, influence and prestige. And this induces me to say that it Is a pity thero are not more members of this kind the real business of Congress being transacted in the committee room, and not by blatant bellowers on the floor of the House. How to Improve. Detroit Tribune. The West does very wrong to get mad when President Cleveland tells the missionaries It is very horrid. The news L, of course, a scoop on the West, but it ought not to show temper Just for that. If the West Is wise It will lose no time in meeting face to face the condition of which the President speaks. The best thing to do, -we guess. La to Import a few pairs of mugwumps from the East, who ;will multiply and replenish the earth, and act as a leaven of holiness in the lump of the unregenerate. ' A Qnefttlon to Answer. Washington Post. Those gentlemen who are clamoring to have the civil-service rules extended to our consular service should make an effort to explain the inferiority Of the English consular service. The English ' service is moss Rrown wirh civil-service restrictions, and the English press claims that it is not near as efficient as the American service. Here is a logical hurdle for the civil-service riders to experiment with.- ' Herbert and the Flas. New York Commercial Advertiser. It must be exceedingly pleasing to old federal soldiers to learn that the delicate duty of rearranging the stars in the flag has beai left largely to Secretary Herbert. The last time that Mr. Herbert lent, his valuable aid to an attempt to rearrange the stars In the flag it was along about ls$l-65 he met with many discouragements, aad, was finally forced to give it up entirely. In Ilehalf of the. Poor. Philadelphia Press. 4 It Is a pity that a semi-colon stands between the poor of the United States and free trade in diamonds. The patriotic desire of the Democrats to let every citizen get his diamonds cheap ought not to be spoiled by mere rhetoric. Give them another chance! Strange. Philadelphia Times. Virginia is one of the few States that have no candidates for President. It's strange that the mother of them shouldn't have a favorite son. So It lists. Boston Transcript It must be conceded that Spain has cted far better towards our country than we should un4er equal provocation. Why Speak Tbasf Philadelphia North American. We are now threatened with a freah outbreak of the Claude Matthews boom. No, Tkey'Won'tl Detroit Free Press. . Oh, the proofreaders won't do a thing to the Afcytslalani.

SPEAKER REED'S CLUB

METHOD ADOPTED TO DEFEAT THE RIVER AND II ARDOR DILL. To Be Driven Back Into Obscurity Every Time It Doba Up by Measures from Privileged Committees. COLEMAN DENIED A SEAT MIL JOHNSON'S ItEPOUT IN FAVOR OF BUCK ADOPTED BY THE HOUSE. Election Frauds in Southern States Ventilated by Mr. Llnney In n Forcible and Original Manner. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, March 12. Mr. Johnson, chairman of election committee No. 2, made the unanimous report of his committee on the contested election case of Coleman versus Buck In the New Orleans district The report was promptly adopted by the House. It is understood that, all the three election committees have determined to clear their dockets as promptly as 'possible of cases where there will be unanimous reports, thus reserving for a later period In the present session the cases where there will be debate on both sides In the House. The reason is obvious. Speaker Reed is anxious to have Congress adjourn by the 1st of June, or even by the middle of May If possible. He has the business of the House in such shape that this Is easily possible. Only one committee threatens trouble. This is the rivers and harbors committee. In spite of the Speaker's Imperative orders for a modest river and harbor bill, with five or seven millions as the maximum limit the committee's bill has already risen to the normal proportions of all previous river and harbor bills, that is to say, it is nearer twenty millions than fifteen. If the bill ever gets before the House In its present shape, not even Speaker Reed can prevent its passage. Hence, the simpler way of killing it is by threatening to oppose it with a bill of higher privilege until the committee cuts it down to EUit Mr. Reed's ideas. Under the present rules, only three committees are privileged, with . a consequent authority to demand precedence of consideration at any time. These are the ways and means, the appropriations and the elections committee. The two first-named committees have 'practically completed their work for this session, for the ways and means committee has had little to do, and the appropriations committee has been so industrious that its work is nearly through. Of the appropriation bills, the urgent deficiency, the army, the diplomatic, the Naval Academy and the pension ' bills are already laws. The agricultural, the Indian, the legislative and the postofllce have all passed the House, and are In conference or in the Senate. There remain to the House only the fortification, the naval, the sundry civil and the District of Columbia bills, only the two latter coming from the appropriations committee. With these bills Mr. Reed will antagonize the river and harbor and the thousand of other bills carrying appropriations. If the appropriation bills do not suffice, then the elections committee must come to the rescue. Thus between appropriations and elections, objectionable and expensive legislation will be barred. Today, there being no appropriation bill ready, elections committee No. 1 called up the Aldrich-Robbins case, and thus took up the day. The elections committee. No. 2 is ready with the Benoit-Boatner case whenever a day must be filled in. While the appropriations committee Is getting ready the Invalid pensions committee will be given a chance to pass some needed pension legislation. Meanwhile, every Influence will be brought to bear on the river and harbor committee to cut Its bill down to Speaker Reed's wishes. But with how much success remains to be seen. Proceedings off the House. WASHINGTON, March 12. In the House to-day during the morning hour a bill was passed extending the time for completing a brldgo by. the Union Railway Company across the Monongahela river. On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, a resolution was adopted by which the claim of Coleman, Republican, of the Second Louisiana district, to the seat of Mr. Buck, Democrat, was decided In favor of the latter. Then Mr. Daniels called up the contested election case of Aldrich vs. Robbins," from the Fourth Alabama district in which the Republicans recommended the seating of Aldrich. Three hours and a half, he said, were to be allowed on each side, for argument Mr. Moody denounced in forcible language what he termed the crimes against honest elections in Alabama. He was applauded frequently, and, in concluding, declared it the duty of the House to say to those persons who were striving for an honest ballot that "no man shall come here and hold a seat with garments so reeking with crime as to defile the very atmosphere which we breathe." Mr. Bartlett defended Mr. Robbins, going into the testimony in detail. The speech of Mr. Llnney, a North Carolina Republican, in favor of seating the contestant, was the, feature of the day. His denunciation of election frauds was most vehement. "Fraud on the ballot box," he said, "was the red-eyed daughter of high treason." It was, he said, the one great menace to the Republic. The report of the minority itself showed that in one county Robbins received 3,177 fraudulent votes. "Why," said he, "there has never been anything like it in heaven or this side of hell." He quoted an affidavit filed in support of the contestee In which the form Df oath taken was "so help me over the fence." (Laughter.) He read, to the great amusement of the House, questions propounded to witnesses and their answers in regard to the votes of certain persons. " 'Did you know Jo Williams? " 'Yes, sah, he's been dead ten. years "There," said Mr. Llnney, addressing the Democratic side, "is a .spectacle for you Democrats, a man who was a good Democrat all his life and then voted again ten years after death. (Laughter.) " 'Yes, I knew him. replied another witness. ' 'Where did you see him last? was the query. " 'Swinging to the branch of a tree in 1S33. He was a Democrat "J do not attack Mr. Robbins," said Mr. Llnney, "but vicious methods, and I say wither the hand that attacks the ballot box: let it wither and die as if it had touched the ark of the covenant." (Applause.) Mr. Royse, of Indiana, closed the debate with a speech in favor of seating Mr. Aldrich. At 5:10 o'clock the House adjourned. HUNTINGTON IS A TARTAR. Members of the House Quls the Parifle Rail Tray 3Ingnnte. WASHINGTON. March 12. The House committee on Pacific railroads to-day listened to a statement by C. P. Huntington similar to that made before the Senate committee In advocacy of a plan of settlement of the Pacific railroad Indebtedness. In concluding his address, Mr. Huntington remarked extemporaneously that no man was so anxious as he to see the roads pay 100 cents cn the dollar; that It was the last great work of his life. He was doing only small things now, and he hoped to see all his affairs oa a solid basis. If he equaled the record of his great grandfather he had yet thirty years of life. In' discussing the public opinion of California Mr. Huntington said that the- great majority of the people favored the funding plan, and added: "There are perhaps a hundred men la California against us; smart fellows, too, because they havs always sot a llrlzs without working. They

have a grievance, because they were dismissed from the pay roils at my sugxeatlon. and they want to get back, but they won't." "Dut Is it not significant" Mr. Roatner asked, "that every member of Congress from California but one is irrevocably oppesed to this plan?" "They have a grievance, most of them." was the reply. "One man who run aga'nst Mr. English said, when Mr. English cams here, that if we had given him a little help he might have made it. We told him we were out of politics." Mr. Huntington was sure the committee was not interested In these personal matters, and remarked: "I don't want to say what these men tell me personally," referring to the Congressmen. Mr. Harham had told him that rates were, too high, but did not even know what the rates were. "Hut the press of California seems to be solidly arrayed against your Mr. Boatr.er suggested. "Seven-eighths of the papers are for u., "Mr. Huntington replied. "The California papers ar:- mixed. 1 never read them. The Examiner Is against us strong. The Chronicle that's a great paper that la fair, I am told. The Post is fair." There was a rather warm passage at arms between Mr. Arnold, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Johnson, of California, when Mr. Johnson asked Mr. Huntington to specify whac were the grievances to which he referred. "Johnron wants a bill of particulars." Mr. Arnold observed Jocularly. "He is after a campaign fund." This Irritated Mr. Johnson, who declared with some warmth that he was not after any campaign fund; that he was perfectly familiar with ail the situation and did not care to have the dirty linen of California washed In Congress. Mr. Arnold said that the local issues of California need .not prevent a fair adjustment of the relations between the government and the Pacific roads, an the hearing ended. NOT ENOUGH CARU TAKEN. Foreigners Have Been Able to Seeure Plans' of Oar Fortifications. Wr AS H I NG TON, March li European army and navy officers who have visited the United States have frequently expressed surprise at the publicfty with which all of the operations of our War and Navy Departments have been conducted in marked contrast with the practice la Europe and especially on the continent, where great precautions are always observed to prevent foreigners from obtaining any Information that can possibly be of value and can be concealed from them. Recently, however, the attention of our officers has been drawn to the obvious indiscretion of thus permitting foreigners with whom -we rslgat at a moment's notice be at swords' points to profit by the expensive experiments we have b?cn making in the development of war material, and the immediate effect was the determination by the Navy Department to discontinue the practice of admitting represent .Ives of other nations, either visitor or residents In Washington as attaches of legations, to the teots which are conducted at the Indian Head prbving grounds. Now the War Department is likely to follow suit, as the result of certain publications in .newspapers Indicating a suspicious degree of activity on the part of representatives of some of tne European powers. Under the regulations of the department It Is not permitted to any foreigner to enter one of our military posts . and take notes or plans of the fortifications. Rut in some cases, notably at Sandy Hook, owing to the absence of a suitable guard, it has been comparatively easy to secure Information as to the general characteristics of the place, though no one except the pupils ' under instructions In the torpedo classes have the secret of the submarine mines and torpedo locations and each one of thess Is placed under oath not to divulge It However, It was possible not long ago for a metropolitan newspaper to publish plans of the fortifications of New York harbor, showing the general features and the location of great guns and this had the effect of arousing the officials of the War Department to the necessity of more rigorously enforcing the rule intended to prevent Just such information from falling Into the hands of foreigners. Therefore it is probable that Instructions will go to the commandants at each post to be more careful in the matter of admissions to the posts and, in addition, there will be a more cautious editing of the matter that is published in the official reports of army ofilcers and given to the public, especially in the treatment of new devices and appliances of a warlike nature that It might be regarded as proper to keep ourselves agalnat an emergency. WATERWAY FOR IilG SHIPS. Dill to Inrorpornte the Maritime . Canal off North America. WASHINGTON, March 12. A bill to 'incorporate the Maritime car.al of North America, to connect the Hudson river and the great lakes, was introduced to-day in the Senate by Senator Han?brough, of North Dakota, and In the House by Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin. The incorporators of the company are Daniel H. Burnham, L G. Fisher and O. D. Wetherell, of Chicago; qjuther Allen, of Cleveland; F. L. Vance, of Milwaukee; L. R. Hurd 'and R. J. Wemeyss, of Superior; W. B. Dean and Patrick Kellj', of St. Paul; Luther Mender&alL G. G. Hartley and T. W. Hugo, of Duluth; James Andrews, of Pittsburg; Henry G. Burleigh, of Whitehall, N. Y.; John Bogart. C. H. Dutton, 1L E. Slaven and G. Stover, of New York, and Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y. The capital stock Is to be 110.000,000, and a bond issue of $2,000,000 is provided for. The canal system for which the bill provides includes canals from the heal of the tidewater navigation of the Hudson to Lake Champ'ain; frcm the head of Lake St Francis to the St Lawrence river above the Long Sault rapids; from Lewlston. on the Niagara river, to a point on the river above the falls, and authority to deepen and widen the Champlain and Hudson canal is asked. The channels are to be twenty feet deep, to permit two cf the largest vessels drawing twenty feet to pass, and the locks are to admit vessels f0 feet long ai.d sixty-five feet wide. The plans are to be approved by a board of five engineers, appointed by the Secretary of War, the canal is to be under the control of the Ir.ttrstat?commerce Commission, and the government is by the bill authorized to take possession of the property on cne week's colice by paying the value of the property. Speaking of the bill. Senator Hansbrough Bald: "Although the persons seeking this charter have a broad and liberal charter for a hip canal from Lake Erie to the Atlantlo through Canada, granted by the Dominion government, with the privilege of using and enlarging the Welland canal, which is very important and that such a route is immensely cheaper than one on American son to the seaboard. It Is true that Secretary Flower drafted a charter for an exclusively American route, and induced the company, as I am informed, to do nothing in Canad until It should be demonstrated whether a similar .charter could be secured from the Congress of the United States." A GeorclHii May Resign. WASHINGTON, March 12. It Is probable that Assistant Attorney-general John L Hall will tender his resignation to the President within two months. Judge Hall has Just returned here from Atlanta, and he said to-day that while he had not yet resigned, he may do so later in the spring. He has been offered the general couaselshlp of the Georgia Southern & Florida railroad. Mr. Hall denied that Secretary Hoke Smith, who represented the bondholders In the recent foreclosure of the mortgage on the road, had any knowledge of the prospective appointment until after the offer had been made, and. in stating that the mt ;r h4 no political significance. Judge Had said. I have no thought that Secretary Smith will become a candidate, and I have no idea that he has had any thought of entering the race -for the senatorshlp. He frequently has been urged by his friends to do so. but has rev r given his consent." Judge Had Is a clo-e friend and fellow-Georgian of the secretary, who. at the beginning of his administration, secured his appointment to take charge of the legal affairs of the Interior Department. Tie contract between the Georgia Southern & Florida and Its present general counsel expires May 13. and sixty days' notice of termination of th- contract is required Judge A S Little, of Columbus. Ga.. in all probability wm be Mr. Hall's successor In the Interior Department. . Domestic Exports. WASHINGTON. March 12.-The statement of domestic exports Issued to-day by the . Bureau of Statistics shows that the amount of breadstuffs exported during last February was tl3.017.iOS, an lncreare over February. 1303. of nearly 100 per cent For the eight months ended Feb. CD the exports of breadstuffs amounted to P2.5SS.912. as compared wlth-n.J79.23 for the same period last year. The cotton exports during last month amounted to !22,35V.Si. n?aint 13.2C8 817 during February, lsui. For the tix months ended with February, however, there was a decrease of about 3l0.5O0.0o9 from ths figures of the same period in The exports of m'neral oils for February amounted to S3.97S.a". an Increase of about fcx).00l For the eight months the exports amounted to HL204.!iC3. aa compared wi:h t2S.Sl7.fi2 for the same period last year. The exports of crovldona during February a-;re;xud tlV