Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1897 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; W EDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1897.

THE DAILY JOURNAL AVKDNESDAY. .JANUARY 0, 1M7.

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All communications intended f r publication this pajr iku'I, in rr-l'r lo receive iittrnti"n. be accompanied by the nair.e and ad ires of the n riter. tiii: INDIANAPOLIS joirnal Can be found at the follow Ins p!a-cs: NlAV YORK Windsor Hotel an! Aster House. CIIIW;c Palmer llcuhe and I. O. Xews Co., :i7 iHi.rborn street. CINCINNATI J. II. Ha '. Icy & Co.. U4 Vine Mrept. .... LoriSVILLK C. T. I'eerinsr. northwest corner ft Third an.l Jf1-r:4rn trels. and louuville iXok Co.. ZH Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS U: kn News Company, Union Iepot. V.ASIHNCTN. D. r.-B:?gi Houfp. Kbhltt House. Wi'Iarda Hotel and the WarhlnKton Nh Kxchanjre. FVt:rteentli stieet, between Fern, avenue an l F street. This is a well watered country, and there la a lake for every defaaiMng bank officer who prefers that to 'a prison. Now that Col. Tom Johnson lias got control of the entire street-railway system of Detroit, he and Governor Pingree can proceed to contest for the earth. The country eloes not lose anything-by the suicide of unfaitiiful and dishonest bank officers. Their tribe cannot decrease too fast. One may feel sympathy for their families, but none for them. Philadelphlans p. re trying h;inl to have music taught in their public schools. It is reaily distressing to people of a progressive community like this to ??e how backward some of the down-East cities are. Mr. Wanamaker Is said to have spent ?W.0o) on one batch of mail to further his senatorial aspirations. With all his experience !. Wanamaker ou;;ht to have knov n that fills form of advertising never Controller of the Currency Eckels does well to call public attention to the fact that latest reiorts show the national banks In all the leading comminercial centers of the country to be exceptionally strong and deserving of confidence. The practical consensus of foreign au thoritles that the world's visible supply of wheat Is diminishing, with a prospect of short crops next year in some of the leading countries, increases the probability of a steady advance in price. Dollar wheat Is among the possibilities. The collapse of the Bryan lecture tour scheme seems . to have relegated that individual to tho obscurity from which he sprang to "electrify" the Populist side of the Chicago convention. If it were to do over again perhaps even the Bryanltes would decline to be electrified. Rev. Ian Maclaren "Watson praises Yale College because It Is so English. American home life because It is so English, and the manners and methods of . the very rich Americans because they are so English. Mr. Watson is a Scotchman. Is he contemplating a lucrative lecture tour in Loudon and thereabouts? Every youngster who reads English will be delighted to know that the reported disappearance of Robinson Crusoe's Island Is untrue and that the veritable cave which the immortal sto.T describes Is still there. But that drunken ship captain who could not lind the Island did give the juvenile world ii painful sensation. When two newspapers disagree about the advisability of a proposed public work. like cutting down the courthouse grounds, it is not necessary that one of them should make it a personal matter and become scurrilous. Still less does such a disagreement justify mendacity. The statement that the Journal opposed tho Australian ballet law is a fats hood. It is well enoush to remember that the country Is still under Democratic rule. If t there are as many b.i;ik failures during the last throv months of the MoKlnley administration or a niall f rat t Ion l part a many during the whole of the next administration a-s then have been during the present one, then let the next administration lo held r"onsIlile and condemned. But it should not Ik- judged in advance. Jen. Francis A. Walker, who died yesterday, was a man of marked ability. Ho won hl? hr:t distinction as a soldier, having served with high honor during lh war of the rebellion and be.vme distinguished afterward as a teacher, publicist, i)olitical economist and IncumLcr.t of several hniortant Rices. Wherever he was placed he showed rare ability. His writings have been valuable contributions to current discussion, and his death is a public loss. Sensible Americans do not want the government to pick a nuarrel with Spain or f embark In a war of sympathy on account of Cubit, but at the same time they do not WHiit the government to tolerate any vlola- - tlon of the rights of American citizens. The State Department, should make prompt snd thorough investigation of every case of the kind reported, and the power of the government should l brought iut-j instant action to assert protection where it Is due. There must be no trompllng on the rights cf American citizens. The good people of Kendaliville. thi3 Slate, are Fomewhat shocked to find that a prominent citizen, recently deceased, sold his body fifteen years ago to a local physician 'for elJnchir'.g the transaction by a regular contract. U was rather an uncanny deal, but more reputable than that of the Kcntucklan who died recently atter directing that his body rhoiiM Ik pickled In whisky. Ho far aj tht? legal aspect of the case Is coucer.a-di a man probably has a right to make any disposition of his body after death that is not opiosed to public iiealth or morfcjx. We gather from the porr.what disjointed and hysterical uturunces of the News that it Is In favor cf paternalism In local Covei nment, but It hasn't got Itself well In I ztL It wants to socrd tl7.pp) of the pub-

11c mone at once In Riving men work at dicing up the courthouse yard, and several hundred thousand dollars (borrowed money) a little later, in order to put more men at work in parks, but it doesn't approve of the centennial scheme because it is too expensive. This is inconsistent. The affair would cost a lot of money and the benefit of the general public is problematical, but it would assuredly put money in the pockets of a lot of mm who are "hungry for It." and what more forcible argument does the News want than that? Till: WASTE OF Ol lt PUBLIC LAM).

No doubt many readers of the Journal were astonished at the figures presented a day or two ago from the report of the state auditor of Minnesota relative to the enormous waste of the public lands In that State by grants to railroad companies. They showed that In the aggregate more than 2O.0C0.00i) acres had been thus granted by Congress and state legislation, the present estimated value of which is $103.fA.( These grants aggregate nearly one-half the entire area of the State of Minnesota and nearly two-thirds that of Indiana. The auditor calls attention to the fact that many of the grants have lapsed or have been forfeited by the grantees through violation of contract, ' and recommends that suit be brought to recover them. Posse-ssion Is nine points of the law. and It is doubtful If any of the lands w'.ll ever be recovered. A true history of the disposition of the public lands of the United States would te a surprising story of lack of foresight, reckless legislation, wanton dissipation of national wealth, and, too often, of greed and corruption. Such a history can never bo written. The subject is too great and the materials too scattered, and too many of the contemporaneous facts are obliterated. It would be different from any other narrative ever written, because there has been nothing in the world's history at all comparable to the reckless disposition of our public lands. Perhaps it was partly inevitable in the necessary subjugation and rapid peopling of the continent, but if it were to do over again, in the light of experience. It could be done far more wisely and with incalculable gain to the government. Reference Is now nad to the land grants to corporations, though there has been almost as much recklessness ami waste in dealing with Individuals. The grants to coriorations include canal as well as railroad companies, and Indiana heads the list. The first grant of public, land ever made by Congress in aid of a public work was to the Wabash and Erio canal, in 1S27. This grant and two others in 1SU ami 1S43. respectively, aggregated 1.70r..sil acres, of which lay in Ohio and 1,4:.27D in Indiana. From lSi'7 to IStW Congress granted to different canal companies a total of 4.105,1S; acres in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. It is not known if one of them is now In existence. One of the grants In 1S28 was "iOO.ow acres 'Tor general canal purposes." Nothing more was ever heard of General Canal. Probably the land was not worth a grtat deal at the time of the grant, but it was at least worth holding on to. The. land grants for educational purposes, though not always wisely managed, can be commended em the whole. There have been grantetl for public schools In the different States 00.0u0.u00 acres, for universities 1.2sr.000 acres and for agricultural colleges I,(W).nu0 acres. No fault can be found with these land grants. But far exceeding all other grants combined and bewildering by their number and magnitude are the land grants made by acts of Congress to States and corporations for railroad purposes. The Rrst grant of this kind was made Ia 1S50. to the Illinois Central Railroad, and was for 2.50:.,0."3 acres in Illinois. From 1S50 to 1S70 Congress passed i:0 acts granting lands to railroad companies. The footings of these grants are not accessible, but they embraces some hundreds of millions of acres. The Union Pacific got 12.000.000 acres; the Kansas jracilic, .000,0"0; tho Central Pacific, 8.000.000 acres: the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 3,000.000 acres; tho Northern Pacific, 47,0.0X) acres; the Southern Pacific. 9,520.000 acres; the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, l,r20,0o0 acres; the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, 2.200,2t)7 acres; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, 1.2G1.000 acres; the Hannibat & St. Joseph, 71,941 acres; the Iowa Falls & Sioux City. 1.226,163 acres; the Chicago & Northwestern. l,lG4.00o acres; the St. Paul & Pacific, 1.2iS,CCS acres, and so on. The grants named include but a small number of those made, and their aggregate value is beyond computation. Something could be said in defense of the policy as a necessary means of developing tho country by the construction of railroads, but there can be no doubt that it has been accompanied by a great deal of recklessness and waste. Agricultural lands of great value and mineral eloposits representing incalculable wealth have been scattered right and left like, waste paper. It is teo late to reform the past, but some lessons might yet be learned for the future. MIOl LI Hi: HHl'llAl.i;!). The statement that (Jovernor-elect .Mount will recommend the repeal of the Metropolitan police law of 103 will tend to confirm popular judgment as to the general soundness of his views and his desire to establish correct principles of government. The law referred to is wrong in principle and never should have been enacted. In its present form it is an outgrowth of the earlier law, and Its evolution shows the tendency of a wroiig principle to perpetuato itself. The Legislature of lSJvi passed an act providing that all cities in the State of 2i.0u0 or more inhabitants, according to the census of lsxo. should have a bourd of Metropolitan police commissioners, to 1h? appointed by thetlovernor, secretary, auditor and treasurer of state. This applied only to the cities of Indianapolis and Kvansville, and virtually took one Important departmc nt of the city government out of the hands of the people and place d it in thoe of the Governor and State officers. The bill was opposed by the Journal at every stage on grounds of policy as well as principle, and its final passage was characterized xas "the most Infamous act of an infamous Legislature." it was vetoed by Governor Porter for reasons which could not be answered, and the only attempt to answer them was the passage of the bill over the veto. The measure was supported by the Indiana polls News. The legislature of l amended the act so as to extend Its provisions to "cities having an enumeration of children letwecn the ages of six and twenty-one years of II.oni an,i over, as shown by the oflictal returns of such enumeration made by th several county superintendents of this State to the superintendent of public instruction for the year lm" This took in Torre Haute. The bill was vetoed by Governor Ilovey and passed over his veto. A bill passed at the same session creating In all cities in the State of 50.O09 population and less than 1J,OJ0 a board of MetroiolItan police and lira

commissioners, to be elected by the common councils, became a law without tho signature of the Governor. Finally, in 1V.C, eame the culminating outrage, in the shape of th Mcilugh bill, which created a board of Metrdpolitan poliee commissioners in every city of the State having morr than PUi-o population and less than S.1.000, said commissioners to be appointed by the Governor. It struck down home rule In all cities of that class, eleven in all, and placed an important branch of their local government in the hands of a remote authority. Its undoubted object was to give a Democratic Governor power to build up a political machine and establish a sort of bossism which could be used for iersonal or political purposes, as occasion required. That Governor Matthews has used it for political purposes and to advance his personal ends no person will deny. Thus, by a series of vicious measures, all on the same wrong line, the Metropolitan police bill of applicable to Indianapolis only, culminated in the bill of embracing eleven cities. The fact that it has worked reasonably well In some cities Is not to the point. Perhaps u law making all the mayors in the State appointive by the Governor and removable by him at pleasure would work an Improvement In some towns, but that Is no reason for Its enactment. The Metropolitan police law should be repealed, and loc.il self-government restored to the people from whom it has leeii taken away. If they abuse it let them take the consequences, but let them have it.

PROFIT SHARING. On the clay before Christmas the clerks of the Carolina Savings Bank, of Charleston, S. C, were called Into the president's room and informed that the directors of the bank had determined to make a division of the profits of the institution during the newyyear among the clerks in proportion to their salaries. The effect of this, they were told, would be that each clerk, in addition to his regular salary, might receive as a bonus an extra amount In cash of from 10 to .10 per cent, upon his salary. Thus every clerk In the bank would be directly Interested in the continued success of the bank, and while working for the bank hewould be working for himself as well. After listening to the statement the clerks expressed themselves as highly gratified and were unanimous in declaring that in the future they would work together more earnestly than ever for the continued success of the bank. This form of co-operation Idea is not new, but, so far as the Journal knows, this is the first time it has been introduced in the management of u bank. It differs from the plan adopted by the Illinois Centra! Kailroad Company, yet it Is based on the same principle and aimed at the same result. Under the Illinois Central plan any employe may purchase stock in the road on installments, paying to the company j or multiples of that sum at one time, and receiving his certificate of stock when the market price has been paid in. Until he receives his certificate the company pays him a fair rate of interest on his money, and as soon as he has paid for one certificate he may begin the purchase of another. Although the plan was first broached only a little more than three years ago. nearly 10 per cent, of the employes of the company are now stockholders In the road and the managers report a surprising increase of efficiency in all departments. It Is not altogether creditable to a man that he should be more industrious, economical and attentive to duty when he is working for himself than when he is working for another on a salary, but human nature seems to be built that way. The Illinois Central plan seems to be working equally to the satisfaction of the company and its employes. A recent interview with Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, president of the road, reports him as saying: The plan was first broached just before the panic in lsMI. One of the most gratifying evidences of returning confidence, and of the closer relations now subsisting all over the country between employer and employe, is the growing interest which our men have taken in this matter during the last few months. The opportunity for buying shares, which was at first extended to the employes of the Illinois Central, has since been given, on the same terms, to those of the Yazoo t Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, and of the Chesapeake, Ohio &. Southwestern Railroad Company. There are about 22.000 names on the rolls of the three companies. Of these there arc to-day registered, as owners of one or more shares. 217 officers and employes, this, of course, exclusive of the directors. The number of those who have made partial payments on account of one share is 1.53. Total interested 1.747, or about S per cent, of those employed. The company's proposition amounts to an offer to buy the shares in the market at the current price, and to give each subscriber a "call at that price upon one share, which he is at liberty to take or not. as he sees fit, when his payments, with 4 per cent. interest added, aggregate the original price at whl-i his share whs purchased. You will not fail to notice that there is no element of charity in the proposition, but simply an offer, on the part of the company, to let the men help themselves in the hope of thereby further cementing the cordial relations which exist between them ?ind the corporation, and perpetuating them for the common good. The advantages of the plan are obvious. Besides making the employes more faithful, industrious and economital it must Introduce an element of steadiness and conservatism in the management very advantageous to the road. The moral effect on employes must be good in promoting economy and thrift, and when a man finds himself a capitalist, though a small one. he will soon come to have contempt for demagogues and agitators who denounce ml capitalists as robbers and public enemlcf.. GKHMS I1Y Till: TOX. Colin, a celebrated bacteriologist, says a single germ could, under favorable conditions, multiply in three days to 4.772.000,000.0: and make a mass weighing 7,."00 tons. Science, it will thus be seen, becomes more and more alarming. Not only does it hold up to a terrified world the individual germ of malevolent purpose, but it now furnishes him in bulk. A few millions or billions more or less do not signify, because the human mind has such limitations that, except in the matter of dollars, the term million Is comparatively meaningless. Rut a ton of germs Is another matter.. There is always the hope, if not the possibility, that the able-bodied human being may successfully cope with a single member, however evil-disposed It may be. but when tho microbe swells up Into pounds and then into tons It presents a front so threatening that unfortunate humanity can only look about helplessly for a refuge. But where shall such refuge be found? Is there safety even in the woods from the diabolical germ that will grow with the rapidity of a snowball rolled down bill when a thaw begins? Is there any germicide warranted to dispose of a monster capable of attaining a 7.rton weight in three days? Is there no way in which unhappy man can escape such creatures except by so drenching himself In carbjlic acid or other dreadful antiseptic, that no microbe wllh a sensitive stomach will come near him! Heretofore many persons have felt that they preferred microbes to tho antidotes, but If the horrible creatures arc to fall on him by the

ton he will probabiy have to submit to becoming a walking apothecary shop regardless of the feelings of his sensitive associates. However, if they . are all driven to carl-olic acid also, that prev ailing odor may become in time as "pleasant to them as violets. But it ought to be made a penal offense for a scientist to announce the discovery of a new variety of germ until he Is ready to tell how to destroy It without making life hideous not only to the man it alights on, but to the surrounding populace. I refill Work of Women ClubM. It is only now and then that the outside public is favored with a glimpse of the work that is being, accomplished in our numerous women' lit entry : clubs, and these glimpses afford so great1 edification as to arouse the appetite for more. For reasons best known to the organizers these clubs are close corporations, and the literary light which they produce Is not permitted to shine in sight of the world and only escapes through the chinks and by accident. It was a gleam of this sort that brightened many a breakfast table yesterday when the Journal's readers learned of the discussion that had taken place in the Minerva Club on the question, "Was it Best for England for Elizabeth to Remain Unmarried?" The majority of iTea'emaklng up this community are sa bufily Engaged in the groveling occupation of making a living, and are so absorbed in the affairs of the period they live in. that they have no time In which to consider, much less to decide, such profound and important problems of an age gone by. Women's clubs know very well, and prove it by their programmes, that there Is nothing really "literary" or worth their consideration which does not belong to a time before they were born. They are particularly fond eif browsing around among the early Greeks and Romans, and dearly love to meander down through the middle ages. The Elizabeth period is dangerously modern, but still It affords good pasturage for an enterprising club, and this the Minerva Club seems to be. For this question of Elizabeth's marriage is one that had never been settled to the satisfaction of whatever portion of the world had ever stopped to think about It, and it is highly gratifying to know that the Miner. as resolved to leave no doubt on the subject. Thoy decided, if the Journal's reporter was correctly informed, that It would have been better for England If Elizabeth had married. The arguments upon which they base this conclusion are not known, but it is enough to have the fact. It Is true that to the observer who has not the privilege of club membership it may seem that It would have made very little difference, on the whole, whether the royal lady In question married or not, inasmuch as she was a . person of very determined character, upon whose course of action a husband would have but little influence. Moreover. ' some carping critics may urgo that as it is' now tco late for. her to remedy the mistake, and as it was her privilege to remain unmarried If she liked, the discussion of the Minervas was not important, though It may have been highly "literary." They nay( also wonder that as the original Mlnt-rva was a maiden goddess, as well as the goddess of wisdom, her modern prototypes should fall to approve of one who so closely followed her example. But this is superficial comment. The probability is that if .Elizabeth had only been so fortunate as to have had Minerva clubs in hrr day she would have been so Impressed by their verdict that she would forthwith have proposed marriage to some eligible party and the course of English history would have -been changed. It Is bringing discussion down dangerously near to current and. .unlitcrary topics, but now that their hand Is ii The Minervas might decide whether it would have been better for England if Victoria had never married, Incidentally taking the testimony of taxpayers on the subject. It can hardly make any real difference now, but It will be interesting to know what might have been if Minervas could have their way. Oh. we if can't get along without Ihe women's clubs. Evidence accumulates that they are great institutions.

Ill IUSLKS IS Till: AIR. In the Y4mtculnr. Teacher Will some little boy kindly give a more modern versioji of the saying that there is no rose without a thorn? Flddsy Dey is no push widout a knocker. A Hero. "He Is a hero " ' "I never saw one who was not an insufferable egotist " "Of one of tho greatest scandals " "Introduce me; do!" A nullify. . "If this weather keeps on," said Mr. Flgg, "there is a good chance of the river being frozen over." ',..' "It won't be as good as the first freeze, will it, paw?" asked Tommy, his infantile mind bearing recollections of warmedover meals. Compared In All Hex treiict. "No. sah." said the. colonel, "there is nothing like the good old religion of our fathers. There has been many a substitute attempted, salt, but the results, sah, have been glnerally as disastrous as the attempts of misguided pussens to make substitutes fo' the good 61u Rourbon, sah." IM)IA.A NEWSPAPER OPINION. The most popular thing the Legislature can do Is to scale down expenses. There are Plenty of leaks that ought to be stopped. Economy and retrenchment should be the motto. Muneie Times. When the Republican party pledged Itself to do all it could for the promotion of international bimetallism it meant what it said, and will not miss au ; opportunity in that respect. Shelbyville "Republican. If the coming Indiana Legislature docs all that is expected of it in the way of reforms the members who compose the majority will Ik- entitled to golden crowns and their names should form a roll of honor for the edification of generations to come. Lafayette Courier. The people of this country are much smarter than William J. Bryan ever dreamed they were. He has always professed to have great confidence in the people, but he never fully comprehended popular intelligence until he undertook to work off a dry and uninteresting lecture on them at ?l a head.' Lafayette Herald. The Republican party will be held responsible for the work of the incoming Legislature, and republican" members thereof should get right down to harmonious work for the best interests of the State, carefully consider and pasj u 11 needed legislation and complete their work during sixty days. There Is no' time'1 to waste In any kind of wranglhi.-Urt, Herald. The management of the State University says now that the request for J2.Vi.000 for that institution will not be"" urged. This statement is not made, however, until the opposition to such extravagant demands Is made manifest. The people are beginning to understand that they are supporting an institution at great expense which is no letter than a number of private educational institutions in the State. Seymour Republican. When the government gets in debt by bad management, borrows money, ugr,vs to pay a high rate of interest and all such things as naturally follow bad financiering, no seusible man expects all. this to be wiped out In a few days, "-. The tide may be changed and trade get better, times brighten up and the flood tide start our way In a very short time, but to fully restore what we have lost by the great mistakes of ls.2 It will require years. Bloomfield News. Alout twenty years ago a township trustee In this county had eleven sehoolhouses under his charge. He . purchased two dozen stove drums. ''ftff'Vhleh he paid, or rather the taxpayers paid. $10 each, being thirteen more drums than there were

sehoolhouses. The drums were worth alout fc a piece. It is to prevent this kind of business that we have a law on the statute books compelling trustees to make an itemized statement of their expenditures. Tipton Advocate. The Kosciusko County Teachers Association is urging on the county commissioners the advisability of setting aside some room in the courthouse to be used for the preservation of curiosities that are always accumulating, some of them being of decided value. This Is not a had idea. In every county curiosities and relics of historical interest accumulate, and. If preserved systematically, would in a short time make a most valuable county museum. Logansport Journal. County officials are not so much to blame for the high and outrageous public expenses as are the general mass of voters who do not care enough about it to raise a rcw. LH taxpayers take more lnterestin such affairs, then the oflicials will cease buying in such enormous quantities things they do not need and paying such extravagant prices. What we need is an enlightened and active civic virtue and pride that will not silently aceiuiesce and allow such abuses to continue. Greencastle BannerTimes. During the recent session of the State Teachers Association thirty-two out of ninety-two county superintendents met in the Criminal Court room at Indianapolis, and, by a vote of 19 to 12, passed a resolution indorsing State Superintendent Geeting's bill making a State license or previous occupancy of the position the necessary qualification for county superintendents. This ought to be entitled "a bill to retain Democrats in office." A majority of the superintendents now in office are Democrats, and in many counties throughout the State there would be practically no

one outside the superintendent qualified to hold the osition uruler this law who would likely be an applicant. Connersville News. REINHART AND HflNLEY ON TZIIAL FOIt VIOLATING THE INTE It ST ATE-CO .11 M E R CE LA Y. E.Y-Prcldent ami Ex -Traffic .llnnngcr of Ihe Snnta Fc Road Charged with'Tiiy meiit of Ilelmtca. CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-ln the United States Court Judge Grosscup to-day took" up the trial of Joseph Reinhart, ex-president, and John A. Hanley, ex-trattic manager of the Santa Fe road, for alleged deviation from the established freight rates of the road. The Indictments against the men were found over three years ago. Tlij' -were based on shipping transactions during the summer and fall of 1802. The particular shipments are one of seventy-eight carloads of cattle, sent from Kansas City by Isaac Thompson. The regular rate was then 23MTcr' per hundred pounds. The indictment charges that Reinhart and Hanley gave a rebate of fri a car to Thompson. The second is an alleged shipment during the summer and fall of 1S02 to the G. II. Hammond Packing Company, and the paymemt fo W. F. Jenkins, the manager of the company, of a like rebate of $5 a car, the payment having been made Oct. 12, 1S2. In the prosecution General Black, the United States district attorney, is assisted by James H. Shields, of Dubuque, la., special attorney for the Interstate-commerce Commission. The defense is represented by W. S. Forest and James W. Duncan. A jury was secured early in the afternoon and the trial begun by the statement of the attorneys for the commission. The government indicated it was not sure of its grounel against Reinhart. In his opening statement to the jury Attorney Shields, for the prosecution, said he would prove the two deviations from the rate as set forth In the Indictment. He coupled the name of Hanley with the proof that would be submitted, but said nothing as to Uelnhart's part, except that the latter was at the time of the commission of the two alleged offenses auditor of the road. Senator Duncan, representing the defense, waived an opening address to the jury, moved that Reinhart be discharged from the indictment, on the ground that the government had failed to connect his name with Its statement of what it intended to prove. Judge Grosscup asked Attorney Shields if he could prove that Reinhart had anything to do with the deviations of the rate. The attorney for the government replied that he knew of no particular connection to which he might refer, but he did expect to show during the taking of the evidence that Reinhart was a party to the transactions. "Do you expect to prove that Reinhart was in Illinois at any time during the history of these transactions?" inquired Senator Duncan of Attorney Shields. "We can show that he was not." Before Attorney Shields could reply Judge Grosscup said: "The government will certainly have to prove that. If Reinhart was not in the State of Illinois at the time he could not be guilty. I will let the matter stand, however, until after the government has in its proof." The first witness was H. G. Taylor, a former live-stock agent of the Santa Fe Railroad, and the witness on whose evidence the indictments were found In October, W-l, was placed on the stand and proved a good man for the sustaining of the charges of the indictment. He was direct and positive in his evidence against Hanley. but admitted that he knew nothing against Reinhart. He claimed to have been und.r Hanley's direction, and was subjected to a long cross-examination by the defense. His testimony was not shaken in the least. The cross-examination of Taylor took all the afternoon and will be resumed in the morning. CRUSADE AGAINST SIN. Moody, 3InrttnollI, Jonen nnd Murnliy FlKlitini; the Devil at Ronton, BOSTON. Jan. .". The war of four worldfamed workers against the world, the flesh and the devil in Boston began yesterday in earnest when D. L. Moody, Archbishop Martineili. Sam Jones and Francl3 Murphy opened the crus'ade meetings. The greatest of the meetings was held in Tremont Ternpte R was practically a continuous meeting from 10:30 o'clock this forenoon until late this evening, conducted by. Mr. Moody. P-normous throngs attended, and many hundreds were turned away. It has already been found necessary to adopt a system of free tickets to prevent jams at the temple. Mr. Moody was here twentyone years ago and conducted a month's revival that was the wonder of the tim'. and the indications are that the present one will eclipse the other. Mr. Moody seemed to be In his lest form as to voice and eloquence to-day and was thoroughly characteristic. He will conduct two or three meetings each day. Sunday excepted, for a month. FATEFUL TUNE. People nt l'nola, Knn., ProteM AKuiust a Iiuiid'n HlKh Key. TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. .".One of the most peculiar rccjuests ever made of a town council was presented in th form of a petition by tho citizens of Paola this evening. The ieople ask that the Council pass ap ordinance prohibiting the brass bar.u from playing a certain piece of music, onepart of which Is in a very high key. Tho reason for this strange re-quest is based on the accidents which happened in that city recently. An aeronaut gave a balloon ascension. The balloon rose to a distance of several hundred feet, the band played the tune and when It struck the high key the man fell and was killed. On Christmas ve the band was encaged to lurnish the music for a Christmas entertainment in one of thi- churches. One part of the programme arranged for Santa Claus to come into the church through the skylight in the roof. He was holing to a rope and when twentv feet from the floor the hi nd struck the high key. Santa Claus fell and will die from his injuries. Tvo Children Frozen to Heath. FARGO. N. IX, Jan. r. Two children of John Pettit. of Hunter, were frozen to death In Sunday's storm. The father has been in Fargo for three days, but detaiis cannot le secured. The blockade by the blizzard is greater than at first estimated. No trains have reached Fargo f'nn any direction since Sunday morning. One started East over the Northern Pacific early this morning, but has not reached Glynndon, twelve mile away, by noon. Many legislators aro snow bound.

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CATTLE I EN" AND FARMERS MAKE CONFLICTING STATE M ENTS. Tariff Ilrnrtnsrn Accorded to the Agri cultural Interest Result iu Several Interesting; Tilt. MEXICAN STOCK RAISERS WANT TO DRIVE THEIR CATTLE ACROSS THE BORDER FREE. Statement of Fruit nnd Rlee Grovrer. Seed .Men, FUIi Dealer, Salt Importers nnd Manufacturers. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. The agricultural schedule of the tariff law, which was considered to-day by the ways and means committee, inspired statements from the representatives of a wide range of industries. There was a conflict between Mexican cattlemen and Congressman Curtis, of Kansas, over the effect on cattle and beef production in this country of the Wilson rates. Representatives of Pennsylvania and Virginia granges asked for bounties on agricultural products. The Massachusetts fishermen and fish dealers and the salt importers and New York producers had interesting tilts. The Southern rice growers argued the necessity of higher protection and similar arguments were presented by California fruit growers, Philadelphia seedsmen and maccaronl makers, while importers of Bermuda potatoes and onions wanted con cessions, wool. To-morrow will be cjevoted to The first speaker was E. II. Rockwell, of Warren, Pa. Mr. Rockwell is a cattle raiser, grazing In both Mexico and Kansas, and he opposed high duties. The McKinley rate on cattle, he said, was prohibitive and had injured the farmers of Kansas, who were benefited by International grazing. Herds W"e taken to Kansas for periods of from six to eighteen months. Ist year tho Kansas farmers wert paid $22,000 for grain by tho cattlemen and this year the amount would be $10,000. In addition to which much was paid for labor. Another cattleman, M. M. Sherman, of Sellna, Kan., represented that two-thirds of the cattle imported from Mexico into the United States were owned by Americans. Mr. Sherman thought that high duties osf cattle had been decided on by Congress tokeep out Canadian, competition, without thought of the Mexican business. He argued, as Mr. Rockwell had. that the chief object of the law was to Injure Americans who had invested their money in Mexico. "Then you think that the tariff should bo governed by the nationality of the producers of goods?" Mr. Grosvenor asked. Mr. Sherman assented to this, whereupon Mr. Grosvenor inquired what effect this system would have on imiorted goods In other lines. Incidentally, the witnesses stated that American labor was the cheapest in the world, which statement provoked a laugh until he explained that in the cattle business one American woul do the work of two Mexicans. Asked why he had removed to Mexico. Mr. Sherman i'aid because of the lack of ranges here. Chairman Dlngley said there were plenty of ranges In Colorado. Wyoming and other vY'estern States. It was impossible to acquire title to ranges in this country, was the answer, and moreover, said the witness, the American laws gave a man's competitors. the advantage of all the improvements he introduced into his business. In Mexico the cattlemen owned their ranges. Mr. Tawney questioned him as to why importations from Mexico had Increased from 3.000 a month under the McKinley law to 14.000 under the Wilson law. He replied that this was largely due to congestion in the market, but for various reasons Mexico never could become a competitor of the United States. CURTIS SPEAKS FOR KANSANS. The' next speaker was Representative Curtis, of Kansas. He said that he represented the district in which more Mexican cattle were fed than any other In the United States, and In behalf of the American cattle raisers, feeders and farmers of Kansas, he asi.ed to have restored the duty of $10 a head on all cattle one year old and over, and $2 a head on calves less than one year old. In the first twenty-one months of the Wilson law Su.000 cattle had been imported Into the United States at an average value of $2.50 a head, paying 51 cents duty each. The cattlemen of Kansas had been unable to raise as good stock as formerly because of the importations of Mexican stock. The consumers of beef had been fed a poorer quality under the Wilson law than ever before. If Congress restore the. duty Kansas would pledge herself to produce her share of cattle without raising the price of beef. . Representative Turner, of Georgia, asked Mr. Curtis if he would sacrifice the revenue of $432,000 produced from cattle." "Re-venue can be raised on other Items." was the reply, "as it has been heretofore by Republican legislation. There never has been any trouble about revenue under Republican administration." "Then you are for a duty for protection only?" "I am for protection and revenue. And I would have a duty absolutely prohibitory on every agricultural product that can be raised in this country. Kansas would like duties on hay. oats and flax seed. "How about silver?" "A large duty on silver would be a good plan." Representative Bowers, of California, declared that the Wilson law kiiled the cattle business in California, flooding the State with Mexican cattle. Iabor was ,7) cents a day in Mexico. He combatted the statements of the cattle raisers that but few of tho Mexican cattle Imported were sold, being brought in for feeding. Not more than one in ten -were imported for feedinp. Mr. Bowers, in behalf of California fruit growers, asked for higher duties on ltuits. The $lf.ooo,oco worth of fruit imported annually, ho said, might be grown by Americans. He suggested duties of 3 cents a pound on raisins, plums, prunes and all dried fruits, and 2 cents a cubic foot on oranges. Americans were peculiar about some things, and preferred foreign wines and fruits at higher prices, just as some of their daughters preferred libertines and gamblers, because they had a foreign label. Ho read petitions from raisin growers of Fresno and other places. Senator Perkins, of California, presented the memorial recently adopted by the State fruit growers organization. In addition to the recommendations of Mr. Bowers, he asked for duties on nuts ;nd Lima beans and chicory, and that the duty of the Wilson law on cocoa nuts be dropped. The duty asked on Lima beans was 50 cents per !' pounds, on raw chicory cents a pound, and on manufactured the present rate of 2 cents. A duty on earl barley was asked THE ALMOND INDUSTRY. The almond growers of California were represented by T. B. Armstrong, of Camio. He stated that from 512.CJfrt.Oi0 to Sio,(W.(m was invested in the business and from 20.000 to SO.OeO hends employed. The business hud been brought to the verge of bankruptcy by the Wilson law, and an Increase of rates from 3 to cents was asked. David Lubin. of California, made a brief speech in advocacy of export bounties on agricultural products. Grand Master Rhone, of the Pennsylvania State Grange, advocated protection for the farmers. While the leather manufacturer was tloubly protecte-d. a Republican Cngress had placed raw hides on the free list, refusing to give the America u farmer thf same protection given the manufacturer. A Republican Congress had reduced the duty on wool and a Democratic Congress had placed wool on the tree list. The farmen; knew that protection could not elo for them what It did for manufacturers. It could not add a tent to the prlo of wheat or flour. There fore, the only protection for the farmer against the cl'.eap lalor of the world was by export bounti-s on corn, cotton, wheat and other pre-duets. State Senator G. C. Brown, of Pennsylvania, h memlK-r of the legislative committee of th Krange, presented a memorial from that lody. It asserted that tho.-"prices of many agricultural products were below the cost of production, and tjttat tho openlns

of tho Siberian Railway by Rusria would open great tracts of land to be cultivated by machinery, which would reduce the prices of cereals. Exjiort Ijounties were asked. At the afternoon session a commit tee consisting of Burnet lmdreth. W. F. Drew and W. A. Burpe. of Philadelphia, representing the seed farmers. Importers and laborers, asked that the present ad valorem rates be changed to specific dutie-s levied by the bushel or pound. Edward N. Loomis. for the produce merchants of New York, asked for a lower duty on Bermuda onions and iot.ifoes dur ing March. April and May than during the rest of the year. Representative Blue, of Kansas, spoke for a duty on cattle which would accomplish the practical exclusion ef the lower grades. Mr. W. B. Sutton, formerly of the diplomatic service, recommended an ad valorem tariff on cattle. If Mexican cattle wore again barred out Mexico would retaliate against our hogs. Mr. Tawney called attention to the fact that the discrimination against hogs was continued. Mr. Sutton asked him to consider American investments in Mexico. SOUTHERN RICE GROWERS. The rice interests were represented by a large parts'. Th; delegation included Theodore C. Barker nnd Samuel G. Stone anJ Isaac Bull, of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce; Fred G. Ernst and Emil Dupre. of the New Orleans Board of Trade; Charles A. Lowrey, Myron Abbott and C. L. Grlppcn. representing the planters of youthwest Louisiana, and George G. Bauer, of Lake Charles. La., Board of Trade. The stokesman. Thomas J. Barker, said that the industry was absolutely dependent on protection. In the two Carolines, Ixulslana and Georgia the crop had been reduced one-half by the reduction of the .ariff on account of the competition of Asiatic cheap labor. The opening of new lands in southwestern Ijouisian and Texas promised to supply the market cf the United States with proper stimulus. An article called ."1111eleaned rlce" was evading the duty nnd should be barred out. In answer to Mr. Turner, the witness said that there bad been a large increase in the crops In th'j past few years. The duty asktd was 2 cents a pound on cleaned rice (present rate B4) and on uncleaned V.i (present rate S-10 cents.) Mr. Ernst spoke of the necessity for a more strict classification of varieties of rice. Maccaroni was represented by A. J. Toomy. of New York, a manufacturer In raw materials. The restoration of the McKinley rate of 2 cents a pound instead of the Wilson 20 per tent, ad valorem was asked. Franklin Woodruff, of Brooklyn, an importer of salt, held that a uuty on that product fell heavily on the Southern States and New England. He was subjected to a lively cross examination by Messrs. Payne and Grosvenor and declared that under "the Wilson law the Syracuse salt was more largely sold In New York markets than the foreign article. Mr. Payne Has not the effect of the "Wilson bill been to take the making of most of the salt consumed In this country from American workmen to give the business to foreigners? Mr. Woodruff It may have had that effect. Mr. Tawney What has been the difference in price? Mr. Woodruff About equivalent to th.i difference In the tariff. The American salt industries were reprc sented by Edward W. Brown, of New Yrk. who stated that, they would be satistteel with the re-enactment of the McKinley rates, except the concession of free salt for curing meats for export. The fishing Interests were represented by Charles H. McCue. of Gloucester. Mass.. who announced that he spoke for 37.VH) deep-sea fishers, manning 6.400 vessels in 18?2. and for 153.900 other fishermen. They desired duties of three-fourths of a cent a pound on mackerel and halibut, one-fourth on cod more than the Wilson rates and one-half on skinned and loned fish. The other side of the question was presented by B. F. Butts, wno said that ho represented ;ixty firms in Boston who wished the continuance of the present tariff rates. Fred W. Kelsey, chairman of a committee of the Florist Club, of New York, presenteel a resolution asking a duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem on plants, bulbs, cut flowers and clippings. Representative Wilbur, of New York, presented statements from the hop growers asking for 15 cents a pound duty on hops, and from the National Hay Association for $4 a ton duty. , . The committee adjourned at 4 o clock. The NV00I Growem' Hill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. After being In session much of the day and evening, the wool growers committee agreed upon tho form of a bill to be presented i) the ways and means committee. Its features are embraced in tho memorial of the Farmers' National Congress, adopted at its session at Indianapolis last November and later agreed on in this city in Decemb-r Iat. In brief, it asks Congress to impose on merino wool and wools oi the mutton brevJs of sheep, unwashed. 12 cents a pound; on other wools. 8 cents a pound; double duty on all If washed and treble if scoured. It provides that Australian and similar wools of light shrinkage in scouring, as shown In native condition, shall be deemed washed. Wool in any other than ordinary condition of whole fleeces shall be subjected to- double eluty. and defines what shall be deemed scoured wool. One feature of importance was added to tho bill, namely, asking the imposition of 1 cent a year additional duty on the merino and mutton unwashed wool until the duty readies 15 cents per pound. The CnnndlnnIIenrlnBr. OTTAWA. Jan. 5. E. B. Eddy, of the Eddy Manufacturing Company, of Hull, Quebec, along with H. S. -Crane, of New Market, Ontario, appeared before the Tariff Commission to-day and asked an Increase of the duty on woodenw-are from 25 ier cent, to 25 per cent., so a to make It the same as the duty now imposed by the United States. Mr. Eddy asked tor a similar increase of the duty on pajw r bags. He also asked that an export duty be placed on pulp wood of $1 a cord, fo as to make it prohibitive $2 would not suffice. Canada should attend to Its own interests and pay no attention to what the t'nttod State would say about the imposition of thu duty. WICKED AS H. H. HOLMES. Frank Butler Omred -with Killluf? Many People In N'eiv South NYule.

VICTORIA, Jan. 5. When the steamer Gevanhllda arrives at San Francisco, whither she is now en route with h carRO from New South Wale?, the detectives who arrived here to-day by the Mlowera will arrest the criminal of the century, a man named Frank Butler, wiih a half dozen aliases, who Is wanted for one of the most remarkable series of crimes on record, which were committed In New South Wales. His trade was apparently butchery and his practice was to advertise for a partner with 10 to go prospecting, take him into the wilderness. shot him. after he had dug a trench that was to serve as his (the victim s own grave, bury the body and return to the city to repeat the operation. Twice bodies have been discovered, those of the two last victims leing A. O. T. Preston and Captain lee Weller. Butler assumed the latter's name In getting passage to America, and these murder have been positively fastened on him. He went about his fiendish werk with the titmost eeolness, Weller's murder and burial being within ten feet of traveled trail?, and he went to the 1 rouble to present part of the murdered man's property to n peor tramp, on whom he expected suspicion to fall if the murder were discovered. HIS ACCOUNTS STRAIGHT. Suicide of the Trennrer of n Plttbura Saving luslittitlon. PITTSBURG. Pa.. Jan. .-.. Christian Schauer, jr., treasurer of the Nation's Rank for Savings, committed suicide some time last night. His lody was discovered thl morning banging from the-barters in the closet of the AllKheny Gymnasium. The president of tie- Iwnk says Ir.s teounts are straight, the auditing committee, having Just completed the audit for the past ya. Schauer has not beeu in KOod health for a year and was very moro-e. It Is thought this was the cause of the sulciuc. JUMPED A TRESTLE. PnxeiiKer Train V reeked mid FluPeople Hurt, One Fntnll). CARSON. Ia.. Jan. 5.-A psenscr train on the Burlington road Jumped a trestle entering the city to-da Five people were Vully injured, one. of them fatally. They are: John Surles, conductor; Robert Ad. Kins. Henderson. Ia.. fatally; S. W. bimb, expressman; Mls May Paul. Henderson; CurtU Currau. brakeman.

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