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THIS l.DIA.APOLIS JOLRXAL Can be found at the following places: r.'EW YORK-Windsor llottl and Astor Houie. CHICAGO-raliiio House fcnd r. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI-J. It. Hawley & Co.. K4 Vine fctr?t. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., S Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASIIINC.TO.V. D. C.-Rlxss House. Kbbltt llwuse. Willard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between I'cun. avenue and F street. There arc Indications that Representative East Is in danger of mistaking himself for a co-ordinate brunch of the government. If there should be any infringement upon the copyright of Mr. Bryan's book he would probably be more in favor of government by Injunction. The present Legislature stems very firm In its determination not to grant any special privileges or create any rings, political, educational or otherwise. The bill before the Kansas . Legislature providing new- penalties for profanity is evidently intended to silence those who are uure to curse FopulLst mismanagement. The fact that the governments of both Germany and, France have Increased the export bounty on sugar shows the imiortance of the beet-sr.gur interest to those nations. In the Eastern States labor unions are Indorsing the House immigration bill because they have discovered that it will keep out a horde of competitors in an already crowded labor market. It does not take long for members of a new Legislature to size up the lobby nuisance. If it cannot be abolished entirely, it should, at least, be debarred from the Moot; of either house during sessions. At this distance It seems that in the State of New York Governor Black might have found a. man for insurance commissioner whose appointment would not have called forth a protest from all the prominent Republican papers in the State. It 13 the opinion of several lawyers who have given much attention to legislative apportionments that the bill adopted by the Republican caucus complies with the requirements of the Constitution as indicated by the recent decisions of the Supreme Court. The, chief objection to the. immigration bill which the House has passed Is that husbands who can read and write cannot bring to our shores their wives who may not possess such accomplishments. Rather than lose the bill, that portion should be stricken out. v . Again there is talk in Washington of changing: Inauguration day from March 4 to April 30. The change will not be mace this, year,- but an effort will be made to make the change to apply to future inaugurations. Washington was first inaugurated April CO. The treasury statement for January chows that the net cash balance was ?215,Co2,i2). but it is borrowed money obligations redeemed with gold for which bonds wjtro sold. Resides, the deficit for January was .&2,395, and for the seven months or the fiscal year $4a.S."a,T02. Able congressmen who poo-poohed the recent monetary conference in this city are profoundly impressed with the importance of another international conference on the silver question. Their statesmanship is of the kind that overlooks important interests at home and goes hunting visionary ones abroad. The statement that it will cost 00.Qu0 to give the Southern Hospital for the Insane a proper sewerage system is incorrect. The highest estimate made was $13,000, and if the city of Evansville will permit the use of Its main sewer it will be somewhat less By some mistake an extra cipher has been added to 0.000. Senator Squire, of Washington, did not Co over to silverism until quite a time after the St. Louis convention. In the hope of re-election he went to the support of Dry an. Ills Influence did much to give the State to the Populists, who showed thei appreciation by electing unother man to the United States Senate. ' In making his foreign appointments Pres ident-elect McKlnley should remember that the country has outgrown the crude and vealy stage when it used to be thought that any person was good enough for a foreign appointment, and. if he was par ticularly 'Incompetent i?nd worthies, "the foreigner the better." We have learned at last that the credit of the government ami our reputation and standing us a nation are largely dependent 0:1 the character of tho representatives we send abread, not only a3 embassadors and ministers, but as consuls. The former should be typical American gentlemen, able to hold their own In any society, and the latter should bo typical American business men, fit to represent the commercial interests of a great commercial jeople abroad. Mr. Mc Kinky will not make any mistake if he puts the applications for foreign apiKlnt tuent under his administration through several thorough sittings. The action of Governor Mount in vetoing; two bills creating new courts is a Xifw de partur? in State legislation. Although many ruch bill have been passed In late years, it i not recalled that one has encountered objections from a Governor. This line or exc-cutive action had become po uniform as in Itself to suggest the need of a change Ther can be no doubt that some of the Ciw courts created In recent years were

unnecessary, and the prevailing sentiment in favor of keeping down expenses and against creating new offices Is sufficient reason why such bills should be subjected to the closest scrutiny. The Governor supported his action with strong reasons, ana It is to the credit of the House that it recognized their strength by refusing to pass the bills over the veto. Indeed, the out

come Is equally creditable to he executive ind the Legislature, showing a desire on he part of both to work together on the ine of judicious, and. In this case, judicial economy. 3iit. GACiirs nirrici lties. The Journal has expressed its unqualified approval of the appointment of Lyman J. Gage as secretary of the treasury. All thing? considered, geographical location, personal character, financial experience and ability to inspire confidence in the business world, it is an ideal appointment. Rut Mr. Gage will not have plain sailing as secrcary of the treasury. On the contrary, he will encounter embarrassment, 'restrictions and difficulties of the most serious kind. and to which, as a business man and presdent of a, great bank, he Is an entire stranger. As bank president, with a board of elircctors working In perfect harmony with him. his will is law and his financial experience and trained executive ability have free scoie. As secretary of the treas ury he will find himself hedged In by laws whose existence he has never j et had occa sion to be aware of, by elepartmental forms ind traditions, and by a mass of detail methods such as Inevitably accumulate' in z. great government department. In some respects his will will le law as much as it has been in the bank, but in many respects when he would exercise his discretion he will run against some act of Congress or some solid wall of tradition that will pre vent him. He will even rind that in the greatest of government elepartments there are bureaus and subbureaus that he scarcely ever heard of and whose operations he knows nothing about, though as head of tho department he will be officially responsible for them such, for example, as the Lighthouse Roard. the Coast Survey, the Life-saving Service, the Bureau of Immigration and others which have no re lation to finance. Mr. Gape may find it very Irksome to have to meet duties and responsibilities of this kind, but he cannot escape them, and the worst feature of it all is that the manner of their performance is regulated by law, custom and tradition, which leave very little room for the exer cise of the qualities bo Is most noted for. It is not unlikely that these multifarious tluties for which he has had no previous training may prove very irksome to him and that he will find himself wontlering why a minister of finance should have to look after details of a bureau of engraving and printing, of the inspection of inland steam vessels and the management of marine hospitals. No doubt -Mr. Ga?e will find his chief pleasure in grappling with the difficult problems of government finance and in trying to serve tho country on some of the lines which he has marked out for himself. Rut even here he will be hampereel by laws and the makers of laws. He will find that Congress has left com paratively little room for eliscretionary ac tion by a wise and able secretary of the treasury, and that it has shut, locked and double-barred the door against some most necessary reforms. He will find that some of the financial reforms which he regards of prime importance and which he hopefor the good of the country to accomplish cannot be inaugurated without legislation by Congress, and when the necessary legislation is asked for he may find a dozen financial quacks heading as many different factions and all pulling in different directions. This is one of the results of the mischievous policy of committing executive duties to a legislative body and putting Congress in control of our financial system, as we have for the last thirty-live years. These are some of the difficulties that Mr. Gage will encounter. They are numerous and great, and yet his success in other difficult positions justifies a belief that he will succeed in this. If he could only be assured of the support and co-oieratIon of Congress there would be no doubt about it. Of all the difficulties he will encounter Congress will probably prove the greatest. PKFFEIl OX FINANCES. Senator and soon to be ex-Senator Peffer. of Kansas, has an article in a current periodical on "The Cure for a Vicious Monetary System." It is something gained when a statesman of the Populist school admits that our present monetary system Is vicious, but the trouble is they generally regard Its worst features as its best, and its only redeeming one, namely, the gold standard, as its worst. Mr. Peffer is evidently pretty much of this opinion. He argues that our present monetary system Is fundamentally wrong because it is regulated by the gold standard, and his remedy is the free and unlimited coinage of gold and sliver at the ratio of 15 to 1. In support of these views he serves up a rehash of the free-silver arguments of the last campaign which has a flavor of funeral baked meats. Mr. Peffer does not seem to have noticed that since the election even Mr. Bryan has not once spoken of the free coinage of silver at lti to 1. which everybody knows would mean silver monometallism, but confines his stale and flat speeches wholly to the advocacy of bimetallism. But Mr. Peffer does not seem to be quite sure whether the best remedy for our present vicious system Is free silver coinage or the abandonment of metallic money altogether and the substitution of "credit," as he calls irredeemable paper money. We will let him speak for himself: You might as well undertake to havd a ton of hay on a bicycle as to ek a hundred billion dollars worth of business on a hundred million dollars worth ef gold coin. The only wav a gold standard can be securely maintained is to use no more credit paper of any kind whatsoever than could be redeemed in gold if all were presented for payment at one time; and that, we all know, is utterly impracticable. As lefore stated, we have not gold enough to supply more than 1 per cent, of our daily needs for money. Wo use $S2 worth of private credit. $J worth of government credit and $2 worth of coin in every $100 worth of business we transact with the national banks. The simple truth Is. we have long outgrown the metallic money system, and we shall have to invent something better. If men want to trade in gold, let them do so: that is In every way legitimate; for gold is a commodity, and a useful one in many ways. Rut. as the New York Board of Trade said in u resolution. Dec. !. IV', "a sound credit system Is n necessary element to th" stability of confidence." Money. In whatewr form, is but ciedit coined. The wise thinir for us to do is to "-stabl.sh a sound credit system;" and there is no credit among us equal to that of the government cf the I'nited States. That, wisely used, is sulFielcnt for all monetary purposes. The positive manner In which these statements are made might lead one to suppose that Peffer known what he Is talking about, but that would 1m? a great mistake. He seems to have a vague idea tint the amount of business done In the country is measured by tho amount of gold coin, and yet

he admits that 9$ per cent, of the business of the country Is done on credit. As a mat

ter of fact, there is about $000,000,000 of gold coin in the country, while the annual business amounts to a great many thousands of millions. The total bank clearings last week were 61,000.000. This is at the rate of $19,97:1.000.000 a year, and this represents only the text cities that have clearing houses. Peffer says: "The only way a gold standard can be securely maintained is to use no more credit paper of any kind whatsoever than could be redeemed in gold if all were presented for payment at one time." In other words, according to this retired statesman and self-made financier, the parity of paper money with gold can only be maintained by keeping dollar for dollar of gold for its redemption. If Mr. Peffer should conclude to establish a national bank, and from all accounts he and his family must have made nearly enough money during his term to do so, his practice will le very different from his preaching. When he cornea to look into the subject, if he ever does, he will find that the parity of paper money w ith gold can easily he maintained with a redemption fund very much less than dollar for dollar. Rut, after all, Mr. Poller's favorite remedy for our monetary ills, the one in which he has most confidence, is tho discarding of the gold standarel entirely and issuing an unlimited amoimt of irredeemable paper currency. To have all the qualities of a sound currency, and to be really ideal money it must be Irreeleemable. "Money in whatever form," says Peffer, "is but credit colnenl;" thrrefore, let us have an unlimited Issue of coined credit in the form of irredeemable paper. This is Peffer's farewell message to the American people on the monetary question, and honest men will not regret that it is. The surest euro for our vicious monetary system would be the permanent retirement from public life of all financial ejuacks and demagogues of the Peffer school.

VARIATION' OP LOCAL TAXES. The report of the State Board of Tax Commissioners contains some statistics regarding the tax levies of counties and townships which should be of Interest. The levy In each county for county purposes is given. The feature of these levies is the wide difference in counties. In Henry county the levy Is but 13 cents on each $100; in Randolph county it is 13 3-6 cents; in Greene, 22 cents; in Lagrange, 22 3-6 cents; in Hamilton, 23- cents, and in Marion it is 23 cents. In Martin the county levy is the highest 73 cents on each $100; in Spencer and Brown it is 70 3-G cents; in Harrison, G3 cents; in Crawford. C3 cents, and in Daviess, CO 5-6 cents. Thesfj are the lowest and the highest. Doubtless the levy is higher in some counties than others because of the purchase and maintenance of gravel roads and the larger expenditures necessary for bridge's. Probably county buildings recently completed may cause the rates In certain counties to be temporarily higher. Still, it is a very wide range from 1j cents In Henry county to 75 cents in Martin. The levies, including State, county and township taxes in the same county, show even greater discrepancies than does the comparison of townships. In round numbers the State levy Is 30 cents on each $100. In Allen county the township and county levies range from 70 cents to $1.37; the low est. In Renton county, is 00 cents, and the highest. $1.73. Tho lowest levy in Clay county is Dl cents, and the highest in any township Is $1.03. The lowest jn Martin county is $1.C3, and the highest is $2.33. In about half the countless a wide elifference is noted in the different townships, while in the other counties the taxation by town ship varies but little. In the figures above given the State levy is deducted, leaving only the county and township levies. The levies for elifferent purposes In the eli 'erent townships show a wide range. Rut four of twelve townships in Adams county have a levy for school tuition, while in Allen county the levy varies from 3 to 40 cents on each $100. In Cass county the tui tion levy ranges from 8 to 23 cents. But live of nine townships in Crawford county have a tuition levy, and in the others it is small, that of Whisky Run township being 3 cents, or about the average. Rut three of the ten townships in Martin county, where the county levy is so high, have a tuition levy. Generally In the counties In which the levies are highest for county purposes, the tuition levies are the smallest. The highest township levy for tuition is that of Stoney Creek. Henry county. The levies for roads vary somewhat from county to county, but inside the different counties are quite uniform. A study of the State, county and town ship levies which this report presents makes it evident that the taxation which is a burden is that imposed by local officers in counties and townships. A VERY WEAK ARCil'JIEXT. Like the arguments of the counsel of the Citizens' Street-railroad Company, Senator Gostlin in his minority report can see tnc side of the company, and that only. That the citizens of Indianapolis have the remotest right to impose any restrictions upon a foreign corporation which uses its streets, without rendering any compensa tion, he does not admit: In fact, the whole drift of his argument is for the Citizens Street-railroad Company anel against the citizens. If his tloctrine is sound, a corpo ration can secure a charter from the Legis lature which will permit it to enter upon the streets of a city, use the larger part of the lest of them without paying anything for the privilege, tax the citizens whatever the managers may see fit for transportation and generally ignore tho general rights and desires of the people. The franchise of the streets of a city like Indianapolis is worth many thousands of elollars a year to a company operating the Inventions for cheap motive power. Ry the Gostlin theory there can be no such thin; as a franchise. A company can purchase a charter of another company for a million dollars. Issue two millions of bonds on the property, and no authority, not even the Legislature, can interfere to prevent Its extorting tolls of the people which will pay interest on three millions' obligations costing only one million. The senator compares the property in ordi nary steam railways in their right of way to the Citizens' Company, saying that if the charter of the latter can be terminated, that of the former can be. To the senator there may be no difference between the two kinds of roads, but most other people know that steam railways have purchased and ptdd for their right of way, while the Citizens' Street-railroad Company has never paid a cent for the miles of the streets of the city which It occupies to the great incon venience anil exiense of the taxpayers who own the abutting property. The Legisla ture should not terminate the right of a steam railway company to the land which it luis purchased, because It is the property of the corporation, but the Citizens' Streetrailroad Company has never paid a eiollar for Us xisht of way over the public streets.

Tho streets are- the-property of the city.

and for that reason the city should have the power to say when any company shall cease to use them. If one company refuses to pay a toll to the' city or to give cheaper rates of transportation, and another company will promise so to do, the city, which owns the streets, in equity should have the right to make a contract with such company and terminate the other. Much is said about the property of the Citizens Company, as if it were all the prop erty in Indianapolis which is sacred. Half at least of the railway property is what is known as water or wind, while the property of the people In the streets has cost Its taxpayers actual money; consequently, they have a better right to control the street than a foreign corporation with its halfvalue property, particularly when the corporation has never intimated a willingness to pay a dollar for the use oMhe streets or even for their paving. mi. it ice's m:vest theory. Dr. J. M. Rice has a paper in the Feb ruary Forum in which he discusses the ad visability of securing economy of time in teaching by making certain branches of study incidental rather than formal. Sum ming up, the question he presents is, can reading, spelling , penmanship, grammar and language be taught In connection with and somewhat subordinate to science or 'nature" studies and the various other branches that now crowel the public school curriculum apd give the pupils a smattering of many things? It seems reasonable at first thought to believe that the child might learn both to spell anel to speak correctly while was relating his information concerning, say, the growing of plants, or that he might become proficient in penmanship while writing out what he had learned of literature. Undoubtedly the youngsters do Improve in all these directions while pursuing their miscellaneous studies, but it is probable that experienced teachers will smile at Dr. Rice's theories. They know that though the child improves in spelling. penmanship and form of expression with much incidental practice, a long and steady preliminary elrill in those branches alone is necessary before they can be used to ad vantage in connection with general sub jects. The child's mind Is not a sponge which absorbs all that is poured into it; ... . there must be a process of mental ellgestion, and this necessarily Implies a limitation In the quantity of pabulum that can be used. Methods of teaching-are seldom so perfect as to be incapable of improvement,, and all suggestions and theories tending to such improvement are interesting, but the trou ble is that theory has "too much to do with the system now in vogue. It has not al ways been fitted to the child: the child, too often, has had to be bent to its require ments. Rut if all the studies now In the common school course are to remain economy of time in mastering them is surely necessary, and in. experimenting Rice's ideas may be found fry have a value. It appears from the records of the state 1 auditor that about;" 53,000 was used last year to pay special judges who held courts in the place ef those regularly elected. There Is official information to the effect that on several circuits judges have done a good eleal of swapping circuits, which enables them to charge; extra for their serv ices. III RULES IX THE AIR. ! -T I, . . ' ! I A Careles (incus. "What is that saying of Hamlet's about an eager and a nipping air?" "I elunno. Who was he talklnj about a new policeman?" The IJeeelver. "Hew in the world could you tell that old Mrs. Viddcr that she had a complexion that reminded you' of a peach?" "I meant a dritd .peach." Mudge I think ft woman on a bicycle is one of the ugliest sights there is. Yabsley She isn't half as disgusting a spectacle as a fellow on a tandem with your own best girl. ' , Rightly Offended. "If the fellow were not beneath my no tice," said the colonel of the policeman who had moved him on, "I would wreak the vengeance of a Kentuckian and a gentleman on him. The idea of his calling me a mug:" "I don't wonder you feel hurt," said the friendly sympathizer: "a mug is something that holds leer. Why didn't he call you a demijohn?" INDIANA NKYVSPAPKIl OPINION. The statement of the presidents of the de nominational colleges of Indiana meets the hearty approval of. Greencastlo people. There should be no legislation in Indiana that would give " nnequal advantages to State Institutitns. and the nonstate presidents are right in protesting. Greencastle Banner-Times. The danger Is not to men in the use of the cigarette, but to the boy of twelve years and over. Their chief recommenda tion to the young boys lies in tho cheapness of the. article. Afterwards the drug that is employed to saturate the paper becomes a necessity almost to the user and the habit is fixed. It is safe to say that not one cigarette smoker out of ten but that will admit that he Is sorry that he has become addicted to their use. For the sake of the small boy the cigarette should be taken out of his reach. Columbus Republican. The fact Is that the Christian, Methodist. Quaker, Presbyterian, Raptist and other denominations that . support colleges are taxed in effect twice fr the same thing, and those who are so earnest and untriring in the effort to establish a larger unconstitutional draft upon the State treasury for the supiort ami expansion of the State eollege would do well to reflect seriously before they go further, otherwise they will realize at no elistant day that an interdenominational compact of such force will have been reached to wipe out all State educational Institutions in Indiana. Noblesville Ledger. The State Roard of Education should be entirely free from any particular institutions. Schools anel colleges should be given equal advantages, and this will not likely be elono so long as the board is constituted as it now is. The supporters of the Geeting bill are the representatives of the State Institutions who would pet the benefit of an educational trust as this measure provides for. Also the members of the State Beard of Education, whose official powers wtuld be enlarged to the extent of giving th m almost complete control of the educational affairs in the State. It is quite easy to understand why these inople would be In favor of the measure. Seymour Republican. The Legislature should not stop with the Vandalla investigation, because the first attempt to obtain the figures has failed. The seeming opiosition ofthe receiver of the road to an investigation makes one the more Imperative, for a legislative body tannot aiTord to have the rights of the people It represents defied by any corporation. It is probably the intended policy or the company or ecmpanies to delay the Investigation until too late In the session to make its completion possible. The seeming efcort to block the progress of the inquiry looks as if the claims, of the State were recognized bv them as well founded. The matter should In pushed and the truth should be known. Lafayette Courier. Building and loan associations are somewhat alarmetl over the freedom with which legislators discuss their relation to public interests. No doubt these associations have done a great eleal of good in our Cities and have been ttte, means of securing to thousands of families homes of their own. who, without uch agency

would now be paying rent for the roof that shelters them. But there is no doubt that abuses have sprung up that must be guarded against. The difllculty lies in this, that when regulation begins it is liable to go to extremes. Let it not be forgotten that these associations were formed and are adapted to do a great and beneficent work. Bar the abuses, but conserve the great purpose of these associations. Fort Wayne Gazette. In the State was fairly divided on political lines, but the population has so shifted around and the gas belt territory made such large gains, both in population generally and voters particularly, that an apportionment cannot be based on that election. In 1S?0 and 1S52 there were Democratic landslides, while in Ptfl and 1KH the Republicans swept everything, with even greater majorities. Political lines have changed very much in the past four years. There are now new alignments, ami as they are entirely unknown, they do not form a good basis for an apportionment. The only fair basis and the one that ought to be taken is the only one that Is known this year, namely, the number of votes in each county. With this as a basis the apportionment will necessarily be a just one. and the one that carries the State by a fair majority will also carry the Legislature, just as it ought to do. Greenfield Republican. It is to bo hoped that the Legislature will not listen to the demand that comes from some quarters that the State levy for school tuition shall be increased from 11 cents to K cents. This demand comes from those counties where they draw from the State much more than they pay in, and of course they would like to have the more wealthy counties assist them in their shortage. The Indianapolis Journal's point of objection is. therefore, well taken when it says "that the amount raised by an elevencent levy on the present taxable property brings more money than did the sixteencent levy under the previous valuation. The State now raises more than half the money expended by townships for tuition. Many of them obtain from the State $3 where they pay $1 toward that tax. Besides, all cities are now paying for school, street and other improvements twice or three times as much on each $100 of taxable property as do the townships in which those men live who ask that cities shall pay more of the money which they pay as salaries to teachers." Crawfordsville Journal. FOR MISS ANTHONY.

The Fnmoun SnfTrnKlnt Given Opportunity to Meet TLejtnlatorM. A notable gathering was the reception given last evenlng by Mrs. May Wright Sewall in honor of Miss Susan R. Anthony. On arrival the guests were met at the tloor of the drawing room by.frs. Sewall, who then took them to the end of the room, where, on a small platform, were Miss Anthony and Indiana's distinguished woman, Mrs. Zerelda Wallace. It was a reunion for many of the friends who have worked in temperance and suffrage and with others it was a first meeting with the two women who have dono so much public work. The wall back of where the honored guests stood wa? draped with the national flag and a second flag, with stripes of red and white and a blue ground on which were four silt Ftars, to represent the four States of the Union in which suffrage prevails. The accessories of the entertainment included a round of four rooms, in which particular friends of the hostess of the evening presided at tables adorned with flowers and from which refreshments were served. The guests invited to meet Miss Anthony Included the members of the-Legislature and their wives, the members of the Local Council of Women and a number of personal friends. Later in the evening Mrs. Sewall asked all of the guests to the drawing room and introduced "the General." a favorite name for Miss Anthony. Mrs. Sewall explained the meaning of the suffrage flag, which is not a sign of treason, but a sign of unity. One star, particularly large, stood for a State which has had woman suffrage for thirty years, and the large blue field is of size sufficient to allow the placing of forty-one stars more, one for each State and as many Territories jus shall exist. Miss Anthony gave a characteristic talk, full of good points and delivered with earnestness. She recounted the good effects which have come from a number of movements originated by women. One in Denver is' a house for women in want or In sin. In telling of the work that had been required to secure police matrons, she said that if men were arrested, cared for. tried and were accompanied everywhere through all of the imprisonment by women, and never knew or saw a man through it all. that they would be lonesome, at which there wn sign of the appreciation of the humor and sarcasm of the speaker's way of putting the matter. She told of a petition in NewYork, signed by 600,000 women. It never created a. ripple in the Legislature, but that many men's names would have made a great stir. It has been a labor of years with earnest women to secure the rights of property and other rights which they now possess. It is a matter of rir;ht and justice that the women should have the ballot and the plea as advanced by MHs Anthony was one that was warmly applauded when she took her seat. ,,In ile,Yr words Mrs. Sewall introduced Mrs. Wallace, who said that she had not always been a suffragist, and then she told how she had been left a widow with children to support, and when she saw them growing up and knew that within the sound of the voice there were houses of evil she tremhleel for them and she went before the Legislature and made a speech on the temperance eiuestlon. In strong terms she referred to the speaker of the House at the time, who left his chair, took the floor and in his remarks said that the members of the Legislature were not there for conscience but for their constituents, and that the constituents were in favor of the liquor license. "At that time I became a suffragist," Mrs. Wallace said. She believed that the men of the Nation want to do right by the women. The funda mental principle of democracy is that men snan give women the right to have a word to say in the government of the nation. "It is not the eiuestlon of woman's riirbts it is not the question of suffrage, it is the question of doing right for humanity's sake, said she. The fire ami strength of Mrs. Wallace's words and her manner of raying what she thought ousrht to be done by the men of the countrv for the better government, showed that her heart beats strong for the work. After the two talks a remark was made that the men had no oportunity to defend themselves, and F. T Roots, of the House of Representatives. gave the conventional talk of "how the women are right. God bless 'em." Another informal hour and then good nights were said. To-day Mrs. Sewall will have Miss Anthony. Mrs. Wallace. George W. Julian and Mrs. Ida A. Harper for luncheon. This evening Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dean will give a reception for Miss Anthony, and to morrow she wiu leave for her home, in Rochester. Miss Anthony, with the close of January. concludeel her professional engagements.! From here she will go to her home, in Rochester, accompanied by Mrs. Ida A. Harper, and together they will write the biography of the iormer. Miss Anthony has had the upper story of her house arrangeel for a workroom, and there are a dozen or more trunks full of letters relative to the public work in which she has been engaged ior more man miy years. tme f the letters and elocuments are more than sixtv years old. For eiuht months Miss Anthony labored In the State of California for suffrage previous to the close of the last campaign. The cause was won in near ly all parts of the State, but not in San Francisco, and the majority there decided the cause against suffrage. Working with Miss Anthony was Mrs. Ida A. Harper, formerly ot tnis city, in tne cioe com Danionshin of the eight months the two de cided on the work which they are alout to undertake. It is expected that a year will scarcely see the completion of the labor, but when It is done it will be the record of the life of the woman who has been more prominently j?ngagetl in public work for the advancement of her sex than any other. Miss Anthony has probably made more public addresses than any other liv ing woman, and even last year in tne eignt months In California she spoke every night. and freouentlv durtnrr the day in different places, and all of this at the age of nearly seventy-seven, a birthday which she will pass this month. A Coreiin Jlisalonnry Talk. Rev. Samuel A. MofTett talked yesterday to the ladles of the missionary socitics of the First, Second. Tabernacle. Fourth and Memorial Churches in the lecture room of the Second Church on missionary life In Corea. Mr. Moffett has been a missionary to Comi for seven years. He talked or the arlv work in Corea and the trial endured by the first missionaries. It takes two years to learn the language. Mr. Moffett is a native of Madi-on. Ind.. and Is home on a. visit. He will return to Corea to re sume his work, and will go by the eastern route, through Europe. Last evening Mr. Moffett t.poke at the Seventh Presbyterian Churcn.

OFFICE OF SECRETARY

INTERESTING HI ATT Ell CONTAINED IN THE REPORT OF V. I. OWEN. A Controversy with n Rnflrond Classifying: the Old Record Legislative Suggestion. The report, of the secretary of state will be out of the hands of the printer in three or four days. Advance sheets have been issued containing the secretary's Introduction to the report. The Inttoe.uctlon touches uion a number of topics of interest. It is peculiarly Interesting in its reference to the records of the office, which are far and away the most valuable archives In pessesslon of the State. Secretary Owen is making an effort with the limited force at his command to classify and index till the early records of the ofllce. which have in former years fallen into much confusion and is trying to trace the lost records, some of which are, no doubt, mixed with a couple of carloads of stuff that was dumped Into the vault under the auditor's office when the Statehousc, was occupied first. The introduction to the report is as follows: I have the honor to submit herewith the biennial report of this ofllce. covering the period from Nov. 1. 1S94. to Oct. 31. lv.;. Under the act of 11 the office has become a source of increasing revenue to the State. The income for the fiscal year has been $61.125.5.1. Ry the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of the State vs. the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Company et al. the State was deprived of a fee of $23,000. which the ofllce contended and still contends is due the State. On the 6th of June. lSf.4. the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company anel the Chicago & Indiana Coal Railway Company consolidated, and thereby became the Chicago & Kastern Illinois Railway Company, having an authorized capital stock of $23,000,000. The articles of this consolidation were presentee! for tiling on the 7th of June, lOi, but upon the demand of the State's fee. the one-tenth of 1 per cent. $23,003. were withdrawn. The tie 'With the State, notwithstanding it has been called upon to comply with the statute and receive a franchise? for the lawful transaction of its business, but It has continued to act as a common carrier, and is do:ng so at this time under its consolidation of June C. lxlU. The action Instituted by the State for the recovery of the statutory fee averred that the consolidateel corporation articles were filed when presented to the secretary of state for that purpose. The railway company answered that It withdrew its articles on demand of the fee of $23.0x), and that a presentation of articles does nl constitute a filing. The e-ourt sustained the contention of the railway company, deciding the fee not having been paid, the articles were not filed, as the payment of the fee was a condition prennHlent to riling. Other contentions on behalf of the State were not considered by the court. DOING BUSINESS ANYWAY. As a result of this decision the railway company is exercising all the privileges and benefits of Its consolidation. The attorney general will next proceed by quo warranto, and it is believed the company will be ultimately enjoined from further operations within the State until the fee Is discharged. ' It is clearly the intent of the law that a comoration shall not do business in this State without securing a franchise from the State, and the filing of incorporation papers with a county clerk, as proposed by the company in question, cannot operate to grant sucn autnoruy. 11 is mrm. turther intent of the act approved March. 11 nmendntorv to the act of Marcn, IVjI. to put in motion all the power neces sary to bring eiereuci inron""",0,,s l" .-, i-ttiti nf thir franchise fees. Tho amended act has not received a construc tion by the Supreme Court. The amended law provides that, until the articles are filed in the eUlice of the secre tary of state, and a certificate aenvereni 10 tne representative of the corporation, it has no ngnt or aumomy ij wu.-nir.-n.m,;n eh Stat and that anv contract. V 1111.11 v-. ----- T 111 made by It is utterly void. It would be a J . . . , 1 1 ...I.E. .... ...otlW salutary aid in ueaunK wnu i"'iu corporations if the individual actors were held criminally responsible by further providing in the law that the d irectors or other oiflcers in control, who do. or direct the do ing, of any business ot tne proposes cyiporation. before the said filing and receiving of a certificate of incorporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to line or imprisonment. The statute provides no specific mode for it., .n.nintinn f :i rnrnonitlon and a proper notice thereof to the public It does provide that corporations V. tion. forfeiture or otherwise, shall be cont "Sed bodies corporate for three years after the time they have elissolved for the purpose of winding up their affairs, but not for the continuance of corporate bus - ness. uncertainty ana iuiuumum arisen as to the proper action n a voluntary corporate dissolution, and 1 recommend that the Legislature Provide that a corporation on its dissolution shall file announcement thereof, under its ( proper seal with the secretary of state, and -with the proper county recorder, and that from , he Il-iv of the filing of said notice of dissoluiwi vutence for the performance of corporate .'business shall cease. &rch,"ea f , conation are ., . . -i ... ..oti...t nn rt-vn inner in tne oiii. hut when a franchise to organize be a just basis of taxation. In such event the State snouio , ia..- -,7 to determine, the vaiue . -7- lcetly the end thai iii-y " ' listed on the tax l'Plh"tes THE KOVKMHiat .m, win l,e found in this report a tabu lated statement of the vote of Indiana at the November election ot in-. 101 dentlal electors, state-officers, congressmen Legislature, judicial and other officers of the State, articles of incorporation, comrni"'ons issued, executive appointments, pardons, remissions, requisitions, warrants and proclamations; the enumeration of IS for legislative and congressional purpo-es and general information of a political na'"Vi't". i- v.iu heen the r.ractice of this office 'to acce pt the certified vote frorr 1 tne counties 01 the maie as mm-wi ... and in this matter me xaw n.s "7; '"'- lowed. But as tho returns of were filed In this office and made of record k ..,,kt. rwf nmiinn! and errors apppearca on the face of the papers. I presumed Im all Instances to call the attention of the proper officials to the apparent omission or 1 . . i.... in Mf.ri" it-t errors, ine resun: was "'"-."', stance except one It was disclosed that throuuh clerical error the figures had been omitted or erroneously made, as surmisea bv this office. The lar.t of the corrected re -rAAivwi Mt this cfiice on Dec. This correspondence his brought considerable delay 10 i-um - . tabulation of the vote, ana ai i. I'V"'; .-.t p -..w-M- 1 ,im confident that he fliuren now 'submitted may be relied tne nj,ures nu. ,,-t-,t h.ih upon a:? correct aim m ...v.. the vote as cast in in" u.n.n ivumi. "VR -0il . ul M-ith also the report of Mr. Thomas J. Carter, c.erk of the bureau or miblic printing, biding and stationary. Mr. U"L,ip" enuiPTH-el for the duties of his o!fic. and has brought to their "'l"rn " . Ia- - - r ............... ,.r..l dUrh-irire a luteuiy "i i-u'i''- " ness in evrrv detail which, united to his Sereeable Nrlng in their discharge, has distinguished him " I u ible clelKS ever in imu'1 . iiia rnnrt U verv comoiete and dis closes the efficient management he has brought to the office. , USELESS I'Kl.M i.Mi. Thi statute provides for the publication of 1.609 copies of the Documentary Journal. Air than half of these ultimately una lodgment In the basement of the Statehouse. The report or tne c.cr 01 ine prjutn'linnrd discloses that 1,000 copies of the last Documentary Journal were Issued, and in lieu of the remaining number an increase u!1, made in the number of the reports or various state officers, for which the re: U a large elemand. I have the honor to suggest that the ruture ls.ue of the Documentary Journal be limited to COO copies, and that there be pointed of the several reports e-on&tituting that journal .7)0 additional copies. Under the statute 2.rJ copies each of the Supreme and Appellate Court Reports are to be publl?hed. The appropriation bill of the last Iepi-d iture provided fc r the publication of l.'rfW copies of the Supreme Court Reports and 1.0 of tilt Appellate Ojurt Report. A quest'.on arose as to whether the appropriation or the -statute should be obeyed. The attorney trsnercl decided that the appropriation controlled nnd his ruling has been observed. I conclude that the j-MgUlaturo viil at thla e-sblon harmonize

the statute fixing the number of reports to be Issued and the appropriation for thefr publication. The report discloses the expenditure ef a large and iucrvair.g sum of money for printing under the department of the superintendent of public instruction. The clerk cannot r-rlb the limitations for this printing and the State Board of Printing, however well equipped to d-e i 1e upon printing expenditures in n general wav. may justly hesitate to consent to providu printed matter of a technical and scientific character. Involving the expenditure c large sum1 of money, whn the beard without substantial knowhdee of the necessity and importance oi the publications. Indiana has the best common school system of any State In the Union, and the superintendent of public instruction is the director and overseer of its operations. Tho function of teaching in the common s hooU is a real part of the administration of st:ito affairs. The officer in all the State who eomcs closest to the life of the people is the scheolmaster. He has a place at every family circle and. conjointly with the parents, builds the character of the growing family, and frames the dcstlnv of tho future sovereigns of the State. This function, so valuable and important. Is loselr under the direction of th superintendent of public instruction, and that ofiicer should, therefore, be granted the fullest sujh rvision of tho method... upon" which the t l!iciency of its administration largely depends. I have the honor to recommend that th legislature make for the Department of Public Instruction a specific appropriation for the maintenance of that office, including the issuing of publications connected with the administration of that office, tho bill finally to le passe-d upon by the Stata Printing Roard in the usual way. STRAIGHTENING Till. Rl.CORDS. The early records of this office were kept under a crude and imperfect system, according to which there was but little or no classification, cither in records or indexes. The early papers anil recortis of the office should be classified and indexed according to subjects. Many valuable papers of the office, because of their age and the frequent handling, have become badly damaged and will soon he wholly destroyed if not copied and. subject to some special effort for their preservation. Many valuable papers are not on file In their proper places, n is probable that in the long courhe of years these papers hav been misplaced in the ordinary nnftine of business. The papers are most probably in some of the files, but are not to be readily found as business requires. This elisorder is very largely elue to the frequent moving of the oflicc. together with its records. It is fairly inferred that on this account many valuable papers Indonging in the secretary's office are lost In a vast numler of unclassified papers in tho vaults of the Statehouse basement. There has ne-ver been a general overhaul Ing and straightening out of these records for the reason that since the neeel of such work has been manifest, the lalor and time required for the work have been such that the clerical force ef the secretary's officeallowed by law has been Inadequate to its proper performance In connect lem with tho regular duties of the office. lut it cannot bo longer delayed. I have therefore legun the werk of systematizing, classifying, and Indexing these recerds. This will bo carried forward as rapidly and as far as can be done with reference to the current duties of the office. Rut the larger iirt of the labor I cannot hope to accomplish for the reason above suggested. I would respectfully sugj-rcst to the legislature certain recommendations made by my predecessors. Corioratitns hereafter formed should be required to record the certificates of tncorIoration Issued by this office In the offices ef the clerks of the counties in which tho home offices of such corpe)rations are located. Xotaries public and justices of the peace shouki be required to file In the office of tho secretary of state the certificates of tho county clerk that they have eiualilied according to law. Owir.R to a largely increased demand for the acts of the legislature, provision should le made for the prtntinR and distribution of a greater number than heretofore. Tho Increasenl elemand shows a greater interest of the people in the legislation of our State. They should be supplier! with more copies of the acts, that they may know more of the laws by which they are governed and of the actions of their representatives. A more definite, law should be enacted regulating the admission and operations of foreign corporations doing business in this State. In some instance- home corporations are placed at a manifest disadvantage as compared with those from other States.

In many States foreign corporations are required, at least, to file In the office of the secretary of state a copy of the ir charter of corioratIon. and In' some a duly eertified and authenticateel copy of the law under which organized. GAS JET OIL WELLS. A Girl Burned liy One Mr. Pear-urn Explanation. The family of Dr. W. R. Clarke, of Senate avenue, had quite a scare last Tuesday evening 'resulting from a burning flow of oil In the gaspipos, such as has been noticed lately in several similar cases. When Grace, tho doctor's daughter, lit the Illuminating gas In her room, to do which sho had to stand on the bed, a stream of burning oil shot up to the ceiling and fell back on her shoulders. Her cries brought her parents ani the gas was turne-d off at tho expense of a burned thumb. When tho elaughter jumped from the bed, some of the oil was burning on her dress and her hair was slightly tinged. There was a patch of burning oil a foot long on tho b-el clothes, which was easily extinguished. After the pipe had cooled the doctor lit the gas again, taking the precaution to hold a board underneath, and the fireworks we ro repeated, but soon burned out. Some think that this and ether recent cases of tho kind are caused by the mixing of natural gas in the pipes with ihe artificial gas, but the company denies that this is the fact. John R. Pearson, of the lndianaiolis Gas Company, yesterday said It was the result of the recent cold weather, which has caused the naphthaline. ;t product of the carUm in the gas. to freeze and form incrustations in the pipe, instead of passing out. as usual. It is the melting and Igniting of this substance which causcj the streams of burning oil noticed. THE FEBRUARY CLASS. High School Commeiieement I.xerclutu Next Tue'udny. The commencement exercises cf the February cJass of the Indianapolis High School will le held Tuediy evening. Feb. 9. Tho ypeakers will be Jessie Bowman, France.. Defrees and Grace Gookin, of the rank list. Edgar Eckhouse, Elmer Scott and Ethel Brown, chosen by the class, and Mary Pierson and Louise Van Dyke, e lioxn by the teachers. The class includes: Lulu Adams. Olive Aughinbaugh. Rosie Barry. Bessie Rod inc. Jessie Bowman. Emma Browder. El hid Brown. Frank Burns, .ooie j.uMineii. r.nz Flam l.eToeri raioui. iu-m ..-. .m. (irace Gookin. Dove Hall. Laurel Hley. Georgia Holland. Nellie Holme- Myri K.- -logg Fried Krul.. Mary Minor. Belie. Moon. Mercy Moore. Donald Mortis Caroline Norton. Edith Oslon.e. Mary Person. Ida Pingpank. Mary uinn. e.Mha Ran-, ney. William BiW. Eltnc r Scott leste S... brell. Gertrude- SeHg. Debbie bhlpmai. 11 Sonnenl ercer. Bertha Stdnhaucr. t. corgi; ni:T Todd. Walter Tw-lmiK Ie.uise Van five. Alice Vincent. Opal VM: Olga Schcll.-chmidt. Saturday alti moonclas. day will tx cd served In'HIfih School Hall. Eleetoral Retnrnw Properly Hande. At the ofllce of the seen tary of rta a credence t given a report that the ociI Indiana, -electoral returns have not yt reached Washington. Tiie deputy se-etay says that on Jan. 11 the electors' m. .1 required by law. wl,h A. C. Harris a uS man. the vote was cast and the hm were made out and signed. He saittht a copy whs mailed to the fpeaker ttf: Houe ef Itepresntatives at WaJ-hUtL and that Henry G. ThaT wis sehird convey the returns to Washington i son. The only business oi the set-r.r:4 Office was to receive-ter.d tabulate th vf for lectors. This was done and the.Go crnor issue-! bis certificate.'. j A. C. Harris said he knew of no dty f had" neglecteel in the matter. He dcfslt( one copy with Noble Butler, clerk ' tt I'nlted States District Court; a sce.nj e-oj had Wen delivered to the jKistmaflr f? transmission to Wa.ddazton. and th tbl copy was given to II. G. Thaer. tie .( pointed inessngtr. Mr. Harris said vn neither cf the copies sent was rctiv at Washington it was the duty of tb ge ernment to koihI s special ines.-ei.ter a.i. t, r.-. thu .ii-iv I'erwfit eI will t till V1J iui hi - - ... . clerk of the Unite., States D.ittict UjurJ

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