Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 189H.

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From Greenfburg and Terre Haute come'reorta that well-known Democrats: are acting with the Republicans. .Later on the paper which keeps a record of, these changrs can give Buch news a standing head. - Those who best know ex-Senator Piatt, of New York, assert that it Is the ambition of his. life to be Secretary of the Treasury, and those who know most about such things are confident his great dehlre will not be gratified. The proposition of Mr. Chamberlain, of the present Ministry , in Great Britain, proposing free trade between the mother country and her colonies and a tariff for the rest of .the world, is regarded as an abandonment of the free trade of Cobden. If the special advices from Cuba are well founded, the prospects of the insurgents were never so promising as now. These statements are that the ineurgents have more than 23,000 well-disciplined and fairly" clothed 'and equipped men. large supplies of clothing and arms having been received recently. The Financier, of New York, tells the New York Post, .which has attributed the deplorable condition of, the woolen irdustry to "war scares,1" that the real difficulty is the deficit in the revenues, "which seems preferable to a surplus if it is created to bolster up an economic ' theory that has been exploded whenever given a popular test." Agricultural development in the Argentine Republic the past two or three years resembles that which was going on in the Mississippi valley twenty years ago. The acreage of wheat has risen from" 3,703.000 acres In 1S93 to 7,246,000 in 1SD3. It is said that the cost of raising wheat in that country Is 25 per cent. less thaain the United States. In twe wards in Chicago notices were sent to 5.8S8 names which were registered as voters because they were suspected of being fraudulently registered. Ia two wards only 318 persons responded to the notices to establish their right to vote. The others were stricken from the rolls. V Tammany in the glory ' of its power could not surpass that record. Several newspapers which have not supported . Governor McKlnley's candidacy see many signs that the Ohio man's .tide has reached its highest point and will henceforth recede. They claim that the methods employed in Illinois have caused a reaction, and that. McKinley will not get nearly as many delegates as seemed probable a week or ten days ago. Some one in Indianapolis has been telegraphing a Cincinnati paper that Its effort to "smoke out an expression of the candidates on the financial question is generally approved.' On the contrary, it was regarded as an example of s upe serviceable impertinence to try to give the impression that such men as McKinley.. Allison, Reed. Morton and Quay, who are on record against the free coinage of silver, are now suspected by the people. Russia can very well afford to resume specie payments, which were suspended In l&Zo. The product of the gold mines of that country, which has increased In recent years, has been accumulated by the government, reaching, at the close of 1?34. $278,902,000. It has I?ued a papor currency aggregating J726.418.000, which will probably be floated at par by this large stock of gold. By specie resumption the large volume of gold which has been hoarded for years will be added to the stock of money. Silver will be used as a subsidiary coinage with a limited legal-tender power. SSSHBMBBSSBBMSjeBBSBBBSJSBBSaBSSSSBBBBSSBBSBBBBSBISBBBBBSBlBBBBSilBBBBSB The reports to the effect that Great Britain and Germany are again on excellent terms are not sustained by the facts. All that Germany has done Is to give the British consent to use the Egyptian fund for its Soudan expedition, which It did to gratify Italy and Austria. The German press abuses Great Britain and all things English just as it ' has been doing for months. Russia Is openly taking Port Arthur, and has the support of Germany in so doing, while any movement of Great Britain in South Africa to strengthen Its position win be resisted by Germany and its allies. The treasury receipts for March to Saturday" night were $24,000,000, which is down to the low level of 1S91. The two remaining business days will bring the aggregate up to $26,000,000, which, is much short of the expectations of Secretary Carlisle's Mlcawbers, who'now admit a deficiency the present fiscal year of $27.000,000, or $10,000,000 more than the Secretary estimated in his last report. Wellinformed financier predict tnat the deficit of the fiscal year will be more than $23,000,000. All of which goes to prove that the $40,000,000 revenue bill which the House passed and the Democrats and silverites strangled is needed. A prize was offered "by a leading advcrrtt? cf diver in England to the person ' . ) C" 'l cive the ttst explanation of

the causes which gave China and India an advantage over England, and it was won by the British consul at Shanghai. But while the essay of the consul affords the believers in silver their best arguments, the other side have found consolation In the following statement In its pages: Wages In the gold-using countries have, through ihe appreciation of gold, become 100 per cent, dearer than they were relatively to 'silver wages; and the manufacturer In the silver-standard countries can obtain his labor at half the cost which he formerly paid. This statement, made by a careful observer in one of the silver countries, is commended to the attention of .wage earners, and particularly to those leaders of labor organizations who have indorsed the free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States alone. That done, wages would be reduced .40 or 50 per cent, in purchasing power. It is passing strange that so intelligent men as those at the head of the great labor organization of the United States cannot see the disaster in which the placing the" country on a silver basis would involve wage earners. A SUGGESTION TO DEMOCRATS.

"Some time ago it was announced that a systematic, effort would be made by Democratic leaders to delay the impending collapse of that party by hypodermic injections of ' Jeff ersonism, to be administered in different localities at meetings held on the birthday of that illustrious man. . . v The Journal is very anxious that such meetings may be held in Indiana if they could be devoted to reviews of ' what Jefferson' wrote during his life "rather than to -that spontaneous Democratic oratory so general among Democrats in this State - who have taken the sage of the .Wabash. . Senator Voorhees,- for a model. The anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, which not one Indiana Democrat In a thousand can tell offhand, draws near. As some Democratic communities may be Incited to hold such meetings, the Journal will state that the anniversary of Jefferson's birth is April 13. , The only active element in the Democratic party in Indiana Is that which has espoused the cause of the, silver -mine owner and Is earnestly laboring to turn the country over to silver monometallism. That element is noisy If not active; and it Is sad to think that the more harmful the project the greater Is Democratic effort in Its behalf. It Is possible, barely possible, that the dormant or apparently dormant sound-money element might render some assistance to that cause if they would take charge of a series of meetings for the purpose of showing the opinions of Jefferson on some phases of the money question. Jefferson was a sound-money man, and he gave attention to all questions which came up In his time. When the question of the ratio for the basis of the coinage system was, under consideration Mr. Jefferson , gave much attention, to It. Among' other things, he spoke of the ratio as follows: 4 The prooortion (ratio) between the values of geld and silver is a mercantile problem altogether. Just principles will lead us to disregard . legal proportions (ratios) altogether,, to inquire Into the market price of gold in the several countries with which we shall principally be connected ' in commerce and take an average from them. There is enough of the y lews of Jefferson id the effect that the coinage ratio must conform' to the market ratio, or relative 'price of the two metals, to furnish the basis of a good speech for any Democrat who aspires to be worthy of the Jeffersonlan brand, but the foregoing is sufficient to prove that there is not a particle of Jeff ersonism about , those Democrats who go up and down the State howling for the .free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to" 1." As the result of Jefferson's Investigation of the respective market values' of the two metals he came to the conclusion that the coinage value, based upon the market value of the metals, should be "14 for 1," as he put it. but subsequently agreed that it would be more likely to insure us both metals for money, if the proportion or ratio should be established at 13 for 1. If he were living to-day and the question of ratios should be discussed he would, regarding the matter as "a mercantile problem altogether," make the ratio about 30 for 1. This Is not the Voorhees Idea, but no man who has read Jefferson's opinions could regard the silver Senator as a Jeffersonlan Democrat of any degree. If Jefferson were alive to-day he would brand the advocates of the silver mine owners scheme as Populists. ' If the sound-money Democrats of Indiana have any courage whatever to make even a protest against, the folly and injustice of the rampant silverite Democracy in the State they might do some good by meeting April 13 to reiterate the money ideas of Jefferson. THE DELAWARE SENATORS II I P. The question involving the right of a claimant to a seat in the Senate which is unoccupied Is one of the highest privilege, and has the right of way in preference to any other. The case of Mr. Dupont, who claims to have been elected to represent Delaware in the Senate, still awaits the action of that body. The question has been so ably discussed that further discussion can give no light to those who are to decide It. It will be remembered that the Republicans had a majority in the last Delaware Legislature. But for a somewhat notorious person named Addicks that able Republican, Mr. Higglns, would have been re-elected. Addicks held enough votes to prevent an election until the last day of the session. In the meantime the Republican Governor had died, and the presiding officer of the Senate, who succeeds to the office of Governor in the event of death or resignation, became acting Governor, and is now, by reason of the death of the Governor, filling out his term. The senatorial contest went on until May 9, 1S93, the last day of the session, when the most of Addicks's supporters broke away. Mr. Dupont received thirty votes, and all the other candidates received twenty-nine, had not the acting Governor, Mr. Watson, taken his seat in the Joint convention and had his name called. The supporters, of Mr. Dupont claim that when Mr. Watson assumed the duties of the office of Governor he thereby ceased to be a Senator, and consequently had no right to vote for United States Senator. Mr. Dupont having received the votes of thirty of the fifty-nine men who were properly qualified to vote, his friends claim that he was properly elected Senator. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, made an argument of gTeat force, r;rovins that no man can exercise

the functions of an executive and legislative oHice at the same time, and that when the Governor died the President of the Senate ceased to be a legislator and became Governor, just as would the Lieutenant Governor in a State which has "such an office. It is contended by the Democrats, Senator Turpie making the argumeot, that the Legislature of Delaware Is the sole judge of the qualifications of Its own members, and that it is not competent for the Senate to.Jnquire Into the rights of individuals to sit in a Legislature, otherwise it might be obliged to go back of the returns and act as Judge of elections. These are the main features of the case, in which it appears that Mr. Dupont has the best of It. The Republicans are ready to vote on the question, and if they can have their way a vote may be taken to-day or to-morrow. It has been intimated that Mr. Dupont Will be given the seat. . PRACTICAL fSES OP LIBRARIES.

In the Worcester, Mass., public libraryis a department of inquiry where any man, woman or child may apply for answers to questions of all kinds. At first one person was assigned to the work, but soon assistants were needed, and now a dozen are employed trained experts, as the librarian expresses It, in the answering business. lie says he finds them of great value to the people, adding that the, library has come to be, on pleasant days, a second edition of a school room, in which the children and pupils of the high schools employ their time with voluntary diligence, with entertainment and with great profit. Every employe of every public library is called upon more or less for information concerning the character and quality of books, but it is often the case that attendants know but little of the volumes they handle beyond what is to be learned from the catalogues., In every wellmanaged library, as in that of Indianapolis, one or more employes are assigned to the work of assisting students in their researches, but perhaps in no other is the inquiry department as extensive as In the one at Worcester. That a bureau of this sort Is useful no one can doubt. A great library is of unlimited benefit to those who know how to use it, but this knowledge means a preliminary education which a majority of people do not possess. A wealth of literature is sealed to them because they do not know how to get at it. It is not school- children alone who need guidance through the Intricacies of biography, history, science and philosophy. Even encyclopedias and dictionaries are formidable mysteries to many ' persons unaccustomed to their handling. The innumerable questions that come to newspapers to be answered are not always, nor perhaps often, asked merely because the inquirer wishes to save himself the trouble of investigation, but usually because he is not familiar with books of reference or written authorities on the specified subjects. It is probable that if he knew how eadly he might follow up the topic he would gladly do so and thus acquire more than the bare outline of the facts he is seeking, which is all the newspaper can afford space for. If every public library were understood by the public to be a place where information of all sorts to be found In books were to be had for the asking, and tha,t. Inquirers were welcome as pupils in a school, It would be more of an educational itltution than now. A JOLT FOR MEDICAL ETHICS. Medical ethics got a decided Jolt In the case of Mrs. Kitson, mentioned in London dispatches. The attendant physician thought he had ground for the belief that his patient, who moved in his own social circle, was not the sort of person with whom he wished his wife to associate, and so warned that lady against her, and also took it UDon himself to inform hi3 patient's father-in-law her husband being out of the countryof her supposed immorality. She sued for damages. The physician came into court and claimed that his communication to his wife and the lady's relatives was privileged, and that he had a right to make it. Other physicians, of course, supported his assertion, according to the custom of members of the profession when one gets Into a tight place that any one of the rest may fall Into sooner or later. They boldly declared that it was within the discretion of any physician in England, on his own responsibility, to disclose a secret without consulting a patient if he deemed it his duty for the protection of his wife or family, or in the case of crime. Much evidence was brought in to show that this was a part of their professional privileges, but the Justice did not take kindly to the system of ethics and pointedly observed that if every medical man in the kingdom testified that he had a right to betray confidence under certain circumstances it would not alter the law or his responsibility under the law. He then charged the Jury accordingly, and. that body promptly brought in a verdict of $60,000 damages against the too loose-tongued doctor. Medical ethics was always a-mystery to he average layman and sometimes a source of entertainment, but this suit seems to clear up at least one thing, namely, that however high and mighty are the rules the doctors set for themselves they cannot rise superior to the law of the land. That so sacred a code could be knocked to pieces so easily by a court had probably not occurred to the gentlemen concerned. At all events, with the vision of that $60,000 verdict before them, they wilthereafter keep their secrets to themselves. Millionaire D. O. Mills, of New York, has begun the construction of a hotel to cost $700,000, ' which will be run on an economic basis for the benefit of working-people who cannot pay the prices of the better hotels, and which will be far superior to the boarding houses which such people are compelled to make their homes. This will be one of several hotels of that character Mr. Mills proposes to build which goes to show that a millionaire can make himself very useful. DUmtLES IX THE AIR. Knully Annwerod. Sharke-Do you know what I would do if I had oil Gotrox'j money? Darke I know what ycu wouldn't do; you wouldn't give it back to Gotrox. A IlleMwinK rinxll Hear about Smeers? He has been cufferlng with the St. Vitus dance for more than a week. D'Auhyr Lucky dog! He can turn out posters to perfection now. can't He?. The Infallible Test. Watts JIow ca.n a man tell which is the best bicycle, Td like to know? Potta Buy one. After ycu have had It a

week it will bo the best wheel in the market. It always works that way. Something of '"Weight. "Where's Bill Clark this morningr, asked the head bookkeeper. "He sent word to..the office this morning that he had a hgay cold," said the second bookkeeper, s" " VOhl .When I saw him Jast night I was almost ure he hid a heavy load of some klna, but'I did not think it was a coll." HARRISON' TALK. Look out for Benjamin' Harrison. He is going to be a very thoroughly talked-about man thia spring. Washington Post. We do not consider Mr. Harrison an inspiring figure, but he looms Iike'a Titan beside McKinley. New Ycrk Evening Post. There Is the possible contingency that a deadlocked convention might lead to the presentation of Harrison's name at the last moment, but the chances are that the winner is already in the field. Philadelphia Times. The attempt, to drag .Harrison back into the presidential contest with a view to weakening McKinley in Indiana shows the desperate straits to which the bosses are driven. The attempt, it is hardly necessary to say, will be a lailure. Mr. Harrison is mot pulling out chestnuts this year especially no; at the behest of bosses wno are trying to defeat the will of the people. Kansas City Journal. - The remark attributed . to Gen. Benjamin Harrison, that "there Is a difference between being drafted and' volunteering," is accepted as confirmation of the statement so often made that te ex-President is still In the presidential race, and Is not without hope that the convention may find it necessary to nominate him as the man least likely to produce discord in the party, Washington Special, in Chicago Post. One of the most conservative members of the New York delegation, who Is anxious for the nomination of Governor Morton, but doubtful as to his prospects, said to a Sun reporter that there was a growing sentiment in New York for Harrison. He said: "I am as loyal to Governor Morton as any man on earth to-day, and I would rejoice to see him nominated, but I regret to see that he does not gain much strength outside the State. The same may.be said of all the other candidates, perhaps, with the exception of Mr. Reed. While I believe that some of the McKinley enthusiasm Is manufactured to order, it cannot be denied that he is getting a very dangerous lead over the other men. It begins to lcok as if the man who took up Blaine at the eleventh hour in 1892. with the hope of , defeating Harrison, may now turn to Harrison and attempt to make him play the Blaine role against McKinley." T ashlngton Special, in New York Sun. . ,

. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The foot of Ouida Is perfect. Summer and winter alike, it. 4s encased in open, buckled shoes, which prevent ir from becoming contorted by unnatural pressure on the bones. Her hand, too, is faultless in, shape and proportions. When Count Herbert Bismarck telegraphed to his father, Prince Bismarck, tjiit his latest baby was a girl, the Prince telegraphed back: "Have patience. Marie was only a girl." Marie was the Prince's first born, and then came two sons. Boston admirers iOf iihe jate Rev. S. F. Smith, author of ;"Arnerlea; will honor his memory by erecting a bronze tablet on Parkstreet Church, bearing the names of Dr. Smith and Lowell Mason, one of the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston. s - , Queen Victoria "r has,' only, once or . twice availed herself of the -privilege of driving down the middle of Rotten row a prerogative belonging exclusively to the reigning sovereign. From this ancient privilege came the name "Route due Roi," contracted into "Rotten Row." v' : Modjeska, who Is' spendlbg a few days In Chicago, en route to her California ranche, has recovered somewhat from the grave illness which prostrated her In Cincinnati several weeks ago, but she is still feble and greatly emaciated. She will probably never appear on the stage again. . Mollle Pitcher, the revolutionary heroine. Is burled at Carlisle, Pa., and the Philadelphia branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution's trying to persuade the people to permit the removal of the remains from that city : to Gettysburg, where she Is to have a monument.." - The London Lanqet -has ! received, .the following production ''from"' medical man, to whom it was sent by: a child: ''Dear Dr. ; I would be very pleased If you would let me have a Baby for -i guinea. We want it on the 4th of Febry for Mother's birthday. We would like it fat and Bonny,. with blue eyes and fair hair. We Children are going to give it to her ourselves .please answer at once. Yours sincerely. Archie . P. S. Which would be the. cheaper a Boy or a A story Is told in an Irish paper illustrating ,the curious absence of the sense of humor In the late Mr.. Parnell. At the original" constitution of the Land League a certain Mr. A. J. Kettle was In the chair. It fell to Mr. Parnell'8 lot to move a vote of thanks to the chairman. In the course of which he said: "I need hardly observe, gentlemen, that in Ireland the name of Kettle is a household word.'S It was plain indeed, he afterward, confessed .so much that he had not the faintest Intention of making a Jain, and though everybody elso saw the oke, nobody dared to laugh. Tolstoi's hands are: large and rough. Ilk those of a laborer, and do not look a3 if they were ever usd," for, writing. A recent visitor from Vienna found him living and working in a room, provided .with only the mcst necessary furniture, and without anything to adorn the walls. He was revising the proofs of a new book, and expressed his pleasure that the censor, had at last allowed the performance of., his play, "Wlasty Tmlj" ("The Power of Darkness.") He is living, at present, at Moscow but expressed his conviction that country life was better for both body and soul than city life. The Green Bag says that Judge Gary has a dry wit with him that is occasionally the cause of his grim court room being pervaded by very audible tittering. The other day one of the attorneys was airing his Indignation. He had been robbed, yes. sir. robbed. It wasi shameful the way things went right there under the eyes of the law. Finally Judge Gary noticed the fuming and fretting one. "What's the matter, now V he asked. "MatterIt's a confounded outrage. Had my overcoat stolen right from this room." The Judge smiled a little. "Overcoat, eh?" he said. "Pah! that's nothing. Whole suits are lost here every day." . The Shadow of n Great Rock. The pathways of Thy land are Utte changed Since Thou wert there; The busy world through ther ways hath ranged. ... And left these bare. The rocky path still climbs the glowing steep Of Olivet, Though rains of two millenniums wear It ideep. Men tread it yet. " . Still to the gardens o'er the brook It leads, Quiet and low. Before his sheep the shepherd on it treads. His voice they know. The wild fig throws broad shadows o'er it still, As once o'er Thee: Peasants go home at evening up that hill To Bethany. ' And as when gazing Thou didst weep o'er them From height to height. The white roofs of discrowned Jerusalem Burst on our sight. These ways were strew'd with garments once and palm. Which we tread thus; Here through Thy triumph on Thou passedst calm ' On to Thy cross. The waves have washed fresh sands upon the shore Of Galilee; But cherished on the hillsides evermore Thy paths we see. Man has net changed them In that slumbering land Nor "time effaced; Where Thy feet trod to bless we still may stand; All can be traced. Yet we have traces of Thy footsteps far Truer than these; Where'er the poor and tried and suffering are. Thy steps faith sees. Nor with fond sad regrets Thy steps we trace: Thou art not dead! Our faith is enward till we see Thy face And hear Thy tread. And now wherever meets Thy lowliest band In praise and prayer, There is Thy presence, there Thy Holy Land , Thou, Thou art there! Lyra Anslicano.

BLOWS AT RAILWAYS

SEVERAL HARD RAPS GIVEX HV THE FEDERAL SUPREME COt'RT. Another Decision Vpholrilnpr the Long-nnd-Short-IInnl Clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. TWO CONSOLIDATION CASES GREAT .YORTHERX AXD NORTHERN PACIFIC CAXXOT COMBINE, Neither Can the Louisville & Nashville and the Chesapeake A Ohio Southwestern Import Rate Case. . WASHINGTON, March 30. An opinion was rendered by the Supreme Court to-day in the case known as the long-and-short-haul case, involving the validity of the provision of the interstate-commerce act prohibiting a higher charge for a short than for a long haul, appealed from the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth circuit. The appeal was taken by the railroads. Its title was the Interstate-commerce Commission vs. the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad Company, the Western & Atlantic Railroad Company and the Georgia Railroad Company. The decision of the court below was affirmed In the main, the opinion holding that in cases of shipments from one State to another on through bills of lading railroad companies could not exempt parties and give them special rates. Justice Shlras delivered the opinion of the court. The case involved the construction of the fourth section of the interstate-commerce act. The dispute concerning, this matter Is one that has been continually arising In various parts cf the country, and it has been of great public importance as well to the interests of commerce as to the railways of every part of the country that the question be put at rest. . There was also drawn in question in the case the very important question of the power of the Interstate-commerce Commission to fix maximum rates in cases properly brought before It, as distinguished from a mere decision that a particular rate is excessive. The three railroad companies are the connecting roads running from Cincinnati to Augusta, Ga. This litigation began through the complaint cf a seller of buggies at Cincinnati to the Interstate-commerce Commission that , the rates to Augusta at the end of the Georgia railroad and to Sociai Circle, which was a point on the Georgia railroad fifty miles below Atlanta, were such as "to unfairly discriminate against Social Circle. Thb Texas Pacific and the Atlantic & Western roads claimed in their answer that the rate to Social Circle could only be made by the consenrxf the Georgia road, on which it Is located. The Georgia company admitted that the rates to Social Circle were th rates to Atlanta, plus the rate from Atlanta to Social Circle, and contended that they were not unreasonable, the rate to Atlanta belr.g less than it should be because of the icompet:;ion with lines from that city td Baltimore. A CONTINUOUS LINE. ' In his opinion Justice Shiras stated that the real question at issue was whether the various railroad companies engaged in the traffic from Cincinnati to Augusta and Social Circle,' were so engaged under a common control management or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment within the meaning of the interstate-commerce act, and the conclusion of the court, he said, was that they were so engaged. The Georgia. Railroad Company, one ot the parties involved, had set up the claim that as Its road lay wholly within the State of Georgia, it did not fall within the scope of the act. The court refused to accept this view and Justice . Shiras adds that when this company entered into the carriage of foreign freight by agreeing to receive the goods by virtue of foreign through bills of lading and to participate in througn rates and charges, it thereby becomes part of a continuous line, and thus became amenable to the interstate-commerce act. "We do not perceive," he continued, "that the Georgia Railroad Company escaped from the supervision of the commission by requesting the foreign companies not to fix anv rates, for that part of transportation which took place in the State of Georgia, when the goods were shipped to local points on its road. It still left its arrangements to stand with respect to Its terminals at Augusta and to other designated points. Having elected to enter Into the carriage of interstate freight and thus subjected itself to the control of the commission it would not be competent for the company to limit that control in respect to foreign traffic to certain points on its road and to exclude other points. Further on in the opinion, he said: "We hold that when goods are shippeu under a through bill of lading from a point in one State to another and when such goods are received in transit by a State common carrier, under a conventional division of the charges, such carrier must be deemed to have .subjected its road to an arrangement for continuous carriage or shipment within the meaning of the interstate-commerce act." It follows, he says, that it is within the Jurisdiction of the commission to consider whether the Georgia, company, in charging a higher rate for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, was or was not transporting property in transit between States under substantially similar circumstances and conditions. He adds that there is no provision In the law empowering the commission to .fix rates." Justice Shiras also took occasion to reprimand the practice of railroad companies in withholding the larger part of their evidence from the Interstate-commerce Commission in proceedings by that commission and by first producing it in the courts. Consolidation Knocked Out. Justice Brown delivered the opinion of tlie court In the cases of S. Pearsall vs. tha Great Northern Railway Company, and alro of the Louisville & Nashville Railway Company vs. the Comonwealth of Kentucky as to the right of parallel and competitive railroad lines to consolidate, holding, in the case of the Great Northern," that it could not, under its charter and in opposition to the act of the Minnesota Legislature of 1874, be consolidated with the Northern Pacific, as was sought to be accomplished. Justices Field and Brewer dissented in the case. The case comes from the district of Minnesota. It was a bill in equity filei by Pearsa'4 as stockholder In the Great Northern Company against the company under the laws of. the Territory and the State of Minnesota to enjoin it from entering into an agreement with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, under which the property and franchises of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company were to be purchased. It appears that the Great Northern was originally incorporated under the name of the Minneapolis & St. Cloud Railroad Company. The original charter granted the company the right to connect with any railroad running In the same general direction and to consolidate its stock. or frachlse with that of any other railroad, and the question presented to the Supreme Court was whether the company could be deprived of this rieht'bv a. subseauent Apt nf tha itata Tcr. Islature inhibiting the consolidation, lease or purcnase oy any railroad or the stock, property or franchise of any parallel or competing line. The Legislature having passed such a law in 1874, the court answered the question is the affirmative. The court says that it was competent for the Legislature to limit the charter and to "declare that the power it had conferred on the Minneapolis & St. Cloud Company, to consolidate its interests with those of other similar corporations, should not be exercised, so far as applicable to parallel competing lines. Inasmuch as it is for the interest of the people that there should be competition between parallel railroads. The Legislature," It continues, "ha the right to assume in this connection that neither road would reduce Its tariff to a destructive or unprofitable figure, or to a point where either road would. become valueless to Its stockholders, and the object of the act In question is to prevent such a combination between the two, as would constitute. a monopoly." ... , Continuing, the court, throusb 'justice Brown, said: "Whether the ccnkolldatlon of competing Lnea will necessarily result in gjx iacresso of rates, or ryLsthcr such con

solidation has generally resulted fn a detriment to the public Is beside the question. Whether it has that effect or not It certainly puts It In the power of the consolidated corporation to give it that effect in short, puts the public at the mercy of the corporation.. There is, and has been for the past SCO years, both In England and this country, a popular prejudice against monopolies in general, which has found expression in innumerable, acts of legiflauou. We cannot say that such prejudice is not 'well founded. It is a matter on which the Legislature is entitled to pass Judgment. There are, moreover, thought to be other dangers to the moral sense of the community incident to such great aggregations of wealth, which, though Indirect, are even more Insidious In their Influence, and such as have awakened feelings , of hostility, which have not failed to find expression in legislative acts." The consolidation of those two great corporations would, said the court, unavoidably result in giving the Great Northern a monopoly of all the traffic in the northern half of the State of Minnesota, as well as of all transcontinental traffic north of the line of the Union Pacific, against which public regulations would be but a feeble protection. The act of the Legislature of 1S74, he concluded, undoubtedly reflected the general sentiment of the public, that their best security is in competition. The decision of the Circuit Court was, therefore, reversed and the case remanded. THE L & N. and C. O. & S. W. CASE. In the Kentucky case a like opinion was rendered as to the attempt to consolidate the Louisville & Nashville road with the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern road. The opinion, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals enjoining the consolidation was affirmed. The broad question Involved in the Louisville & Nashville case was the right of one railroad company to acquire control cither by purchase or consolidation of the property of another company whose lines are parallel with its own, the Louisville & Nashville and the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern lines- being parallel between louisvllle. Ky., and Memphis, Tenru The Constitution of Kentucky recently adopted prohibits purchase under such conditions, and the suit as originally brought by the commonwealth of Kentucky ask for an injunction against such proceeding, invoking the Constitution. The Kentucky court granted a perpetual injunction-and when the case was taken to the Kentucky Court of Appeals the decision of the court below was affirmed. The case was brought to the United States Supreme Court by the railroad company on a writ of error, the company alleging an entire dlstegard of the provisions of its charter, granted by the State in, 1830, long prior to the adoption of Kentucky's present Constitution, which. In explicit terms, without saying anything about parallel lines, gave the right to "purchase and 'hold any road constructed by another company." The State court held that the State had a light to repeal or modify the charter. The United States Supreme Court, as one ground of its opinion, declared that the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern, under its charter, had no right to sell to a competing company. The court recites that the Louisville & Nashville company, by the charter of ISoO, was authorized to construct a railroad from Louisville to the Tennessee line, and by an act of 1S34 was given power to unite with any other road connecting with it upon such conditions as the two companies might agree. The Important p6wer to purchase or consolidate with another line cannot, the court holds, be Inferred from any such indefinite language as "to unite or connect with such road." As to the contention with assumption of a right to forbid the consolidation of parallel and competing lines in an Interference with the power ot Congress over Interstate commerce, the court says, the same remark may be made with respect to all police regulations of Interstate commerce. All such

regulations interfere, directly or . indirectly. more ones, witn commerce between states, in the fact that they impose a burden on the Instruments of such commerce, and add something to the cost of transportation, by the expense Incurred in conforming to such regulations.. These are, however, like the taxes Imposed upon railways and their rolling stock, which are more or less according to the policy of tha State within which the roads are operated, but are still within the competency of the Legislature to impose. In reply to the argument that millions of dollars have been invested in the securities of the company upen the faith of what was supposed to be Its admitted powers, it is sufficient to say, the court holds, that, in making such investments capitalists were bound to know the authority of the company under its charter and to put the proper construction upon it. In conclusion, the court holds as follows: "First, that a general right to purchase or consolidate with other roads was never conferred upon the Louisville & Nashville company; second, that the Chesapeake company was never vested with the power to consolidate Its capital stock, franchises or property with that of any other road owning a parallel or competing line; third, that, conceding that the requisite power existed fn both the above companies. Section 201 of the Constitution of 1S91 was a legitimate exercise of the police power of the State, and forbade sucn consolidation." Imported Goods Rate Case. Justice Shiras handed down the opinion of the court in the case of the Tea as Pacific Railroad vs. the Interstate-commerce Commission, appealed from the Circuit Court of Appeals for- the Second circuit and known as the Import rate case. The opinion of the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Circuit Court, which held that it was Illegal to charge less on imported goods than on domestic articles. The effect of the opinion is to continue the alleged discrimination in the interest of foreign shippers. This case grew out of a proceeding begun in 1S31 before the Interstate-commerce Commission by the NewYork Board of Trade and Transportation against a number of railroad companies, among which the Texas Pacific company was not included, though it was afterwards included. It was claimed that an unjust discrimination was made by railway lines starting at the eastern seaboard of the United States in favor of goods coming from abroad under a joint ocean and railroad tariff and against domestic traffic originating at the seaboard and going thence to Western terminals, and carried under, substantially similar conditions from the seaboard westward, but the discrimination often amounted to 60 per cent, in interest of the foreigners and that there were no circumstances or conditions relating to imported traffic which could Justify any difference In rates between Imported t rattle transported to any place In the United States from a port of entry and other traffic from such port. The Texas Pacific company admitted that it carried imported goods at lower rates than these it had contemporaneously charged for like goods originating In the United States, and not Imported from Europe, and alleged that It did so because through shipments from a foreign country to the interior of the United States differed in circumstances and conditions from shipments originating at the American seaboard, bound for the same Interior points. It claimed that the controlling forces which made the rates that it saw fit to charge were the water lines from Europe to the Pacific coast. This case was an appeal by the Texs Pacific company from the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second circuit. The first point decided in it Is to the effect that the Interstate-commerce Commission Is a coroprate body, with legal capacity to be a plaintiff or defendant in the federal courts. Coming to the main point of controversy. Justice Shiras said that, as the purpose of the Interstate-commerce act was to regulite commerce, it was reasonable to suppose that it was Intended to cover the entire field of commerce, and that the scheme of regulation would not be restricted to partial treatment of the subject. "It could not be readily supposed," he said, "that Congress intended when regulating such commerce to Interfere with and interrupt much less destroy sources of trade and commerce already existing, nor to overlook the property rights of those who had Invested money in the railroads of the country, nor to disregard the Interests of consumers, to furnish whom with merchandise is one of the principal objects of all systems of transportation. It was, he said, flalniy contemplated that in construing the nterstate-cemmeree act there should be a tribunal capable of determining whether the services rendered by the railroads are "like and contemporaneous." He said the commission had Justified Its action in denying the right of railrcad companies to discriminate in favor of foreign shippers wholly on its construction of the act, and had concluded that 4t was constrained by the law to regard foreign and domestic traffic as aUke In kind under substantially similar circumstances and conditions. In this construction thcommisslon had erred. Ir was not Intended that the commission should regard the con. plalnts of enly one class of the community. On the contrary, the commission Is to consider net only the wihes of the shippers o? the large cities, but also the desire and advantages of the carriers In securing special forms of traffic, and the interest t the public. He did not accept the view that In this constitution Congress had any purpose to reinforce the provisions of the tariff law. Tbese laws, he said, differ wholly in their objects from the laws to regulate commerce, and -added: 'The efforts of the commission to deprive the. inland consumers of Che advantage of through rates and thus to give an advantage to the traders nd mtnufacturers of the large seabord cities seems to create , the very mischief which It -was one of the objects of the act to remedy." Summing up. the court concluded: "That the purpose of the Interstate-commerce act la to promote commerce; that in passim upon questions under it the commission or the courts is empowered to consider all the circumstances and conditions tht reasonably eply to the situation, and thit in th exercise of its jurisdiction the tribunal nuiy and sulJ conrldtr the lejltlcuta ii::rc2j

of all concerned; that amor.? the.e circumstances. In cases whether of foreign or comestlc traffic, competition is a very impur tant one; that the commission's order under the law should have the iromotkn of conmerce in view, with the purpose ofien;nnc Ing the welfare of the carriers and consumers as well as that of the trader. 21 said that, as the cafe was presented in tn court below, there 'was no Intimation that the Inland rates were unreaonible. anj, consequently, there could be no proptr Cognizance taken cf hi point. The mere fact that the disparity between through and local rates was considerable dil not of it self warrant the court in fixing th.it such duparitr constituted an undue dif rimination. mucn less did it Justify the court in tlnding that the entire difference between the two rate was. undue or unreasonable, (specially a there was no person, firm or corporation complaining that he or they had bwn aggrieved by such a .li?parUy. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Harlan and Brown dissented from the o;tnJo:i of

the court and Justice Harlan delivertxl a. vigorous dissenting opinion. He said the interstate-commerce act contains no provision for schedules to be printed and kept open to public inspection of freight shlppvd. from a foreign country to be carried on a through bill of, 1-ding to some place In the United States and he thoutht the.rvason for the omission was that Congress did not intend the rates to be charged by our carriers in such cases should depend on rates established abroad from ocean tran?rortation. It was evident that the Interstatecommerce Commission had taken this view of the matter in Issuing Its order permitting foreign goods the same footing in inland transportation a? domestic wares. Reviewing the case, he showed that while the Texas Pacific charged 1J7 cents per hundred pounds -on foreign freights from New Orleans to San Francisco. It charged on domestic articles from I2.b& to J3.7l, depending: upon the character of the goods, which was In all cases, however, the same as thco on which only 51.07 was charged for fore:rn goods. The question waa, ho said, whether the Texas Paciflo could consistently wlia the act of Ccngress charge a higher rale for thf transportation of goods smarting? frcm New Orleans and destined for Sam Francisco than for the tranrxrtatlon betwer the same places of goods of the samekind in the elements cf bulk, weight, value. and expense of carriage, brought to New Oriuins from Liverpool on a through bill of ladimr and to be. carried to San Fran cisco. "If." he said, "tbla question be announced in the atfirmatlve, if all the railroad companies whose lines extend from the Atlantic seaboard across the continent indulge- In like practices; if such didcrim!nati",; against American goods by Amcricj railways, acting with foreign companies, is consistent with the act of Congress, .then the title of the act should have been 'One to regulate commerce for the benefr. of foreign mi-Jiufp.cturers and dealers and to the injury of American industries' Justice Harlan said it was clear that the ocean lines were not subject to the inter-stat6-c!nunerce law. while the railroad compri':'"! were. There was, on the contrary. .;w explicit declaration that the terms of the '-t aply to- the transportation of prop, rty ""shipped from a foreign country to any j la?: in the United States and carried t uc!t place from a port of entry either Is the United States or an. adjacent foreign country." He said he was unable to find any authority for the . commission to take into consideration the rates established by ocean lines as affecting the charges that may be made by a tiarrler for transportation over its routes. "It is," he sard, "apparent from the evidence in' thi3 case that many American manufacturers, dealers and localities in almost every Use are the) competitors of foreign manufacturers, dealers and localities for supply! n j the wants of American consumer at ln;r.o" places In the United States and that u;er domestic bills of lading they se,t . 4 tequire irom American earners like s-.Tvice as foreign competitors in order to pl1 their gods with interior commerce. To deprive them of this right was to violate the statute, and such a deprivation would obv.ou?ly unjust as to shock the gvVi'.MiM of lust ice of all of the reorle 'oi te country except the few who would TftCVto the immediate and direct benefit .? x." It seemed to him that any othr' Irrpretation placed It In the poww of the rU?TAds to do a gross Injustice enblin thes corporations to place American industries at the feet of foreign capital and foreign combinations, a result never contemplated by Congress. Tne decision of tne court below In the case of Rues vs. Telfener, involving title to 1,160,320 acres of land In EI Paso county, Texas, was reversed by the Supreme Court to-day, and the case remanded for a new trial. Justice Field read the opinion of the court In this case. The case of the Boyden Power Brake Company VS. the Westinghouse company, involving the validity of some of the Westiri .- house patents, was advanced on the dockt: to be heard the second Monday of the next term. BEREAVED SALVATIONISTS. : Death of the Tacker-Booth Infant and the nooth-IIellhergr Girl. NEW YORK. March SO. At -Salvation Army headquarters to-day a cablegram was received from London announcing the death of the Infant child of the Booth-Tuckers. The child, which was but six weeks old, was taken ill after the embarkation cf its parents on board the steamer St. Louis at rt .1 A - J A - 1 - A .W.A - MS - A Duuinampian, ana a itit am 10 uiai t-acuu caused the father to return to London. Mrs. Becth-Tucker, however, was too ill to be taken off the eteamer and came on to America, arriving at this port on Saturday. Commissioner Booth-Tucker, believing the child was out of danger, sailed on the Majestic last week. Immediately after receipt of the news of the Booth-Tuck;r child's death there came to the Salvation Army headquarter word that 'the daughter of Mrs. Booth-llHI-beig, in charge of the Indian province, had died yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Booth-Hell-berg have been in the Punjab, where the child expired, ever since the recall of Mr. and Mrg. Booth-Tucker from the Indian command, two years ago. AHEAD OF THE EAST. The Pacific Const Hn Alrendy Had Its Easter Sunday. TACOMA, Wash., March 30. It was Easier Sunday yesterday on the Pacific flope, although probably not more than half a dozen people knew it. These who did know it are ambitious arironomers and mathematicians. They find that the first full moon after the spring equinox put in an appearance oft this coast shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday night, and it is a fact that the firft Sunday alter the first fulf. ; moon after the spring equinox Is Easter Sunday the world over. But in this peculiar case, said -to be the first instance cf the kind since the beginning of the Christian era. cr.ly this part of the Pacific slope has its Eisten Sunday a week in advance of he rest of. the world. When th mcon filled Saturday right, reckoning by Pacific coast time, it .was already Sun lay In tNew York and Ixndon. Consequently, for the East and the remainder of the world, excepting the Pacific coast, thq first Sunday after the first full mcon after the spring equinox will not arrive until next Sunday. SOT ROENTGEN'S DISCOVERY. Cathode Rays Known to the Chinese 3Iany Centuries Ago. . BUTTE, Mont., March. SO.-pJohn Magulre, manager of Magulre's Opera Hou?e and antiquarian ot considerable note, has unearthed what he believes to b the fact that cathoJe or X rays were known to Chinese many centuries ago. He found in the Londcn Philosophical Journal of 1W2 an arcount of a curious Chinese mirror which had th power to reflect on a screen, by the aid of the sun's rays, objects on the back of the mirror, the mirror blag male of Chlnwe silver, a combination of tin and copper. The Journal stated that there were but a few cf the mirrors twen in existence, rd that-they were evlder Jy the remain cf a lest art. RODE INTO A SCHOOLIIOL'SE. An Indian PanUhed for Attrrnptlnjr tm Break l'i n Dance. PERRY, O. T.. March V-At Horseshoe i3end sclipclhouie.'on th? Arkansas river, a drunken Osage Indian ro-e b'uf borne J.nto th building during a dance. Several ycur.g wemen fainted and were badly hurt in the tamptde wnkh followed. In a gcn;ral fight that cniucd when -a half dcien ycu:;g mea ttmpt(d to eject the I id lan. who at on his horse In the cenltr cf tie room. Caii Bradly. William Hopper, Simeon Penshiil. l.udlcw Mitchell and Mifsts Nettle, IVrjhall ar.I L-ena Kicner were hurt in the rrray. T.to Indian was kicked and beaten into ::wer.biiity. One young lady was fatally hurt by the horse running over her. Two Women Drowned. ItrtlSTOL, Ten.. Marh 30.The South Atlantic & Ohio railroad Ueiot at Gate ciiy, Va., was destroyed by lightning. Ttvo bridges cf the road, cross. nt the Hobton river, were washed out of Ure by thp- l i tide. Two Tvc-r.T.. r.zrr.? ur.....ov;n, i frdrowned. Thrir t.-Jlirs t;c r?r-vr J. Lie flci. t:i (l::.) rrrat C.z-zl) tj izny.