Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1897 — Page 8

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A PARING OF SALARIES . GOVERNOR'S SUGGESTIONS TO TRUSTEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS. * Conference Held xvitli Them A'ester(litj—Different Prices Paid for Supplies— Meeting’ of Boards. Upon the invitation of Governor Mount thirty-two of the thirty-eight trustees and members of boards of managers of the various state benevolent and penal institutions met the Governor at the executive offices yesterday morning to talk over the question of expense of the institutions. The discussion was not public and was entirely informal. The Governor opened the meeting by declaring that he had called them together in order that they might have a general exchange of views that would be conducive to saving money in the conduct of the institutions. In looking over the itemized vouchers that had been filed in the auditor's office he had been struck with the fact that wages or salaries for the same kind of service varied in the different institutions and that prices for the same supplies varied considerably. If one instituton was getting a certain kind of service or a certain line of supplies cheaper than the others he believed it would be a benefit to the others to know’ how it was obtained. Ho had no desire to indulge In petty cheeseparing or to in any wise eriftple the service in any of the institutions, but he believed it the duty of all of them to exercise an intelligent economy and to sec that none of the people's money was needlessly squandered. He desired that the trustees should have a thorough knowledge of the details of management in each institution and not leave the matter entirely in the hands of the superintendents. The Governor went into the conference with figures at hand to illustrate his arguments in favor of a reduction of the expenses of the institutions. He said that !t was his opinion that if the trustees use the proper care and practice intelligen economy that they could save the State from $35,060 to $40,000 annually. He said he had examined the pay rolls of the institutions and had examined the institutions themselves that were located in and about Indianapolis and found this to be the case. He called attention to the fact that the office of matron in some of the hospitals is superfluous. He poiiited out that the work of the matron could be easily done by the housekeeper and that at the Central Hospital for the Insane the wife of the superintendent received a salary of sb--000 a year as a matron. The matron of the Northern Hospital receives SSOO, but at the Southern Hospital there is no matron. The wife of the superintendent of the Soldier..' and Sailors' Orphans’ Home receives a salary of $lO a month and the wives of the superintendents of Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Home for Feeble-minded Youth at Fort Wayne receive salaries as matrons. He furnished the following pay roll from the Central Hospital of the Insane as a sample of the salaries paid to the employes of the hospital: Superintendent. $2.00u a year; matron, sl.000 a year; rive physicians, at SIOO a month each: housekeepers, from $25 to SSO a month: steward, $l9O a month; storekeeper, $75; bookkeeper. $75; secretary, $75; record clerk. $35; druggist. S7O; ushers, two at $lO and three at $25; butcher, S4O; florist. SSO; two assistant florists, $25 and $2"; fifteen night watchmen and policemen, $35 to $25 a month; baker. $45: two assistant bakers, $35; engineer, $100: assistant engineer, S4O; tireinan. S3O; electrician. $55; coachman, $25; gardener. S4O; seven cooks and waiters, from sl4 to S2O; attendants and employes, sl2 to S3O. The employes are furnished with board and washing outside of their salaries. The engineer of the Deaf and Dumb Institute receives $65 a month, the assistant engineer S3O and the electrician S4O. The carpenter draws a salary of S6O and an assistant S3O, while the ilorist is paid S9OO a year. It is suggested that combinations be effected in tlmse departments so that some of the offices be abolished. The bookkeeper of the Home for Feeble-minded Youth draws S9O a month and a stenographer S2O. At the Blind Asylum the bookkeeper draws SUK) a month and it is said that the work does not occupy him more than two or three hours a day. The Governor suggested that his pay be reduced to SSO. TinGovernor did not make any commands or demands of the trustees, hut simply made the recommendations to them to do this work for economy’s sake. After the meeting adjourned several of the boards met separately and agreed to follow the suggestions as closely as possible at the next meeting of their boards. The Vlr Ship Announces Itself. The air ship is coming this way. it has passed over half tire big cities in the country and now Indianapolis is to get a view of it. Itis scheduled to arrive at 10 o’clock to-night. The appended letter received at the Journal office lust night announces that the aerial craft will be visible for “about a minute.” The envelope in which the note was inclosed bore the postmark of the t’ineinnatl X- Chattanooga Railroad postoffice. The epistle dated "In the hills near Higli Bridge. Ky., May 25, 1897,” read: "If you want to get a good scoop look out for us about 10 o’clock Saturday evening. We will turn the searchlight on for about a minute as v e pass over the city.” This was signed "Yours in fact. Tire Airship.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1897

TEN YEARS IN PRISON BANK WRECKER JOHNSON SENTEN( ED BY Jl DOE BAKER. . He Will Be Taken to tin* Penitentiary nt Columbus, 0., Monday to Begin llis Term. COOL NERVE STILL WITH HIM COURT GIVES HIM THE LIMIT OF THE LAW ON ONE UOl NT. * John It. \\ llnoii'x Plea and Johnson's* Statement—Court’s Remark* in Sentencing the Banker. John F. Johnson, the Logansport bank wrecker, was yesterday morning sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Columbus, 0., by Judge Baker, of the Federal Court. The courtroom was crowded with spectators. Johnson was brought in from the jail at 9 o’clock by the United States marshal, accompanied by his wife and attorneys. His wife occupied a seat close to him at one of the attorneys’ tables. He appeared as unconcerned as any of the spectators and displayed no emotion whatever. His wife was heavily veiled, and no agitation in her mind was shown by any outward signs. Johnson sat quietly in his chair until the judge commanded him to come forward and receive sentence, ami then he walked calmly to the bar of the court. The only tears shed in the courtroom were by ex-Senator Rufus Magee, one of his attorneys, who stood it as long as possible and then left the courtroom. The long indictment was read by District Attorney Wishard, and then Bank Examiner Caldwell made a statement to the court that has already been published. He said that the amount of Johnson's peculations is $364,500, outside of the $100,090 rowed by Johnson from individuals on his personal credit. Mr. Caldwell said; “On the 19th day of May I began the exciminution of the State National Bank of Logansport. In the afternoon of the 19th Mr. Johnson confessed to me as to the various some of which 1 had discovered. The first discovery I made in the bank, to which I called his attention, was the 'dummy' or forged paper of business hrms of Logansport, to the amount of $201,000 as I have it. The next morning Mr. Johnson called on me at my hotel, and, in the presence of two of the directors of the bank, admitted still further shortages which I had not then discovered, $61,500 of which he said was concealed in the cetrlficate of deposit account of the bank, and, as he remembered, $40,000 or $42,000 in the individual ledger. My verification, of these books so far reveals the $61,500 in the certificate of deposit account and $27,000 shortage in the individual ledger. I have still further found from outside sources certificates of deposit of s7s,ooo—one of $50,000 and one of $25,000 issued by Johnson without authority of the board of directors, and without the making of any record on the books of the bank between the dates of May 6 and May 12.” “Was there any actual deposit of monev corresponding with these certificates V” asked the court. “These certificates were discounted by correspondent banks in Chicago and New York and then checked against by Johnson and the money appropriated to his use. 111 other words, the issuing of the certificates was without record or authority of the board of directors, and there was where the irregularity first occurred. The total amount which I finci at this time from my verification of the books of the bank is $364,500. There may be more which 1 mav find later.” * "Had you any information from Mr Johnson that the amount is larger?” asked Mr. Wilson. "I understand from Mr. Johnson the amount is larger.” S4OO oo9?” h ° not state that 11 was nearer "Yes, sir.” ‘‘Did he make any attempt to conceal the situation from you? Has he not tried to be candid with you?” “After the examination he admitted everything and told me more than I knew.” , he turned any property over to the bank? "Yes, sir; something like $120,000, according to the inventory of Mr. Johnson's lie:ures. ” "Have you any knowledge of the actual value: inquired the court. “Only from business men of Logansport to whom 1 have gone for information. They conservatively place the value at about $190,000.” JOHNSON’S STATEMENT. John R. Wilson, one of the attorneys for Johnson, then read a number of affidavits sworn to by many Logansport citizens, attesting Johnson's good character in everything outside of his present crime. Ho presented the following signed statement by Johnson;

“To the Court—l feel that I owe it to the court, who is to pass sentence upon me, and to the stockholders and creditors of the State National Bank of Logansport to make a statement in connection with the plea of guilty which I have entered to the indictment in this case. “In February, 1892, I was chosen president of the bank to succeed my father, who had recently died; my serious financial difficulties began with the death of mv father; upon an investigation of the condition of his estate I ascertained that he was insolvent, and because of his identification with the bank and believing it to be for the interests of the bank I assumed all of his liabilities and his assets were turned over to me. I believed at the time that his Habilities amounted to $136,000 and that his assets, consisting largely of real estate, w'ere about $90,000. Subsequent events demonstrated that his liabilitie/ were largely in excess of $136,000. This large liability, together with others of a domestic character resulting from family relationships, imposed a severe annual tax upon me, aggregating about $20,000 each year. Prior to my identification with the bank I had been in the grain business at Logansport; 1 continued this latter business up to the day of closing the bank. The money not consumed in carrying the burdens resulting from the assumption of the liabilities above referred to was lost in speculating in the grain business, particularly in Chicago, Detroit, Toledo. Os course, it was not my intention to wreck the bank; on the contrary, my hope was to save myself and my creditors. “L have never speculated in mines or mining stock, and in all my exerienee 1 only acquired $2,000 in any mining venture. I have never invested a cent in any marl beds. I have now none of the proceeds of th< se speculations. “For me to say, in this connection, looking back over the past, that I regret that 1 pursued the course which I have pursued may not carry much weight. Nevertheless, no person who suffers by this bank and my conduct can or ever will experience the suffering that 1 have brought upon myself and that I have brought upon my wife and my child. 1 am 111 the hands of the court to receive such punishment as in the mercy of the court it may see fit to administer.” ’ MR. WILSON’S PLEA. After reading this statement Mr. Wilson addressed the court on Ltehalf of his client. “Your Honor, 1 just desire to add a few words to this statement,” said he. “Asa lawyer practicing at this bar I believed that it was candid and fair to the court who had to pass sentence upon this plea of guilty to put tho court in possession of the situation; and that was the disposition, I can assure the court, of Mr. Johnson. We have tried to do so. It is difficult to conceive of a more painful situation than that which encompassed the defendant in this ease when, as a young man in 1892, just a little over thirty, upon the death of his father he assumed the responsibilities which have here been described. He staggered along under that load. He carried it to the best of his abilitv. He determined to extricate himself. He had been in the grain business. He appropriated the moneys of others in that effort. There is the crime. He confesses it. He has none of the proceeds of this venture. From his boyhood, in every relationship of life up to this time, as a son. as a husband, as a father, as a neighbor, and as a citizen, as attested by those who have known him from this childhood, he has deported himself, with the exception of this transaction, as becomes a man of character. That character was not assumed, may tt please the court. It was not hypocritically acted for the purpose of

WAWASEE INN. * " Lake Wawasee, I ml. Located near the Michigan line and on top of the great continental divide. Thret hundred feet above Lake Michigan. Yachting, boating, bathing and fishing. Hart's Orchestra plays for hops nightly. Opens June 1. For rates and information address MARCUS G. STIM MEL, Lessee and Manager. Wawasee, Ind. inviting confidence for the purpose of betraying it. This good name 1 submit, may it please the court, has a right in this dark hour to come by his side into this court and plead with the court for mercy. In the light oft His character I submit that he has a right to ask this court to accept his statement that in his wrong doing, criminal as it was, the motive was the hope, delusive as it may have been. the belief was that "he could extricate himself and pay off the liabilities that he had been carrying through these years. He failed. It is for your Honor to determine whether this conduct, under the law in the light of these circumstances, is the most flagrant and vicious possible: whether or not this conduct merits that full penalty of the law which is ten years in the penitentiary or to say. whether or not there may' not be some mitigating, qualifying circumstances which a just and honorable and merciful judge may take into consideration. And let me say, may it please the court, that I believe if the court does see and can tind mitigating circumstances here and will take them into consideration it will act in mitigating the agony and the suffering of two innocent people •who are involved in this matter, his wife and his child.” MR. WISHARD’S STATEMENT. ‘‘Do you wish to say anything Mr. Prosecutor?” asked the court. Mr. Wishard replied: “Well, your Honor, the indictment and the statement of Mr. Caldwell discloses the magnitude of this offense. The plea of Mr. Johnson’s good character and good reputation is no defense to the charges that are made against him here, and while he has thought possible to redeem the good name of his own family and to prevent the publicity of his father's indebtedness, it works an awful hardship on several hundred people at Loganspovi. The man’s intelligence, his ability to understand and know what he is doing ought to be the criterion by which he is to be judged. Your Honor sentenced a man a few minutes ago to a year and a day in the penitentiary for passing a 50-eent piece and five 10-cent counterfeit pieces of money. If that is the proportion, if the punishment is to fit the crime, your Honor can do nothing less than to give Mr. Johnson a sentence of ten years.” “You may come forward, Mr. Johnson,” commanded the court, and Johnson quietly walked from his seat and stood facing the judge. “Have you anything that you wish to say to the court as to why the court should not proceed to pronounce judgment on your plea of guilty?” "Nothing whatever; no. sir, except what has been said,” replied the prisoner in an almost inaudible voice without displaying emotion.

COURT PASSES SENTENCE. Judge Baker then proceded quietly and impressively; “From the statements of your attorney and from the sworn statements of your neighbors,” said the court, “it appears that you have in their estimation always borne an upright and blameless life. You have occupied a prominent position. Y r ou have achieved in the community where you lived a reputation for intelligence, ability and integrity that induced those who owned the stock of the State National Bank of Logansport to select you as a director, and your character, your intelligence, your business ability, induced those four directors to make you president of the bank and to give you charge of it. Y'ou conducted it. It appears that you knew at that time that by reason of the unfortunate business situation of your father’s estate and the agreement that you had entered into in the family settlement that you had made with your mother and brothers and sisters, that you were staggering under a heavy burden of debt—a burden of debt apparently largely disproportionate to your ability ever to meet it. It is not at all likely that the directors of the bank and the stockholders who owned the stock in that bunk would have consented to place you in practical charge and control of that institution, of their money ami the money of the people that came into it if you had frankly disclosed to them the situation that you were in. And so far as the court can see the first deviation from the line of upright moral conduct was when you concealed in your own breast the condition in which you were, a condition that you knew disqualified you for the position of president of the bank. Now an officer of a bunk and especially a president who is trusted not only by his board of directors and the stockholders, but is trusted by the people whose money he received, occupies a position of trust and confidence of the highest and most sacred character. “It is impossible for the court to conceive that an honorable, right-minded man could voluntarily accept a position that would more strongly appeal to his conscientious conviction of right doing than the position of president of a bank. The rich and the poor come to him and put their hard-earned gains into his hand. They do it on the faith that he is an honest man. They do it on the faith that no earthly consideration will swerve him by a hair's breadth from the line of his duty; and to betray such a trust as that is in a moral sense one of the gravest derelictions from moral duty that the court can conceive of. To take a man’s property who has not intrusted it to him, to go out and take it by force, by violence, by a wrong, is comparatively less shocking in its moral qualities than it is to take advantage of the man w'ho has trusted you as his friend, who has trusted to your honor and integrity; then to have betrayed that trust makes the moral delinquency of the offense far greater than where an equal amount of property is taken by violence or by stealth. I cannot conceive that the fact of a man’s own personal interests, the fact that he is staggering unde? a debt, has any real justification or excuse for obtaining money and property which his friends and neighbors trust and confide to his integrity, and which he then turns around and appropriates to his own use. Nor does the negligence of the board of directors or the carelessness of bank examiners—because it would seem that both the board of directors as well as bank examiners, have been derelict in their duties here—afford any excuse for the moral obliquity of the course that you have pursued. THE CULTURED CRIMINAL. “Now it is a terrible thing for a man who has achieved, and doubtless deservedly achieved, a position in society as a. man of character, of intelligence and business sagacity, to make a shipwreck of his life by turning into the pathways of crime. 1 have myself much more sympathy for the ignorant man whose moral perceptions are blunt, who is led into crime, than I have for the man of culture, or brains and business ability who leads a double life, concealing the truth from his neighbors, and by virtue l of that concealment obtaining possession of their property; because it is entirely apparent to the court if you had let these people who signed this affidavit as to your previous good character know' just the situation in which you were, and had given them even the remotest inkling of what you were doing, there would not have been one of them w r ho would have trusted a dollar to your keeping. “Now the only serious question that the court has in this character of cases is to determine the measure of punishment. Punishment as the court views it. and in the assessment of sentences the court in some measure is actuated by that view—is not always determined by the length of time that a man stays in prison. Men are sent to prison for periods of time where the punishment is merely nominal for the reason that they are so constituted mentally and morally that they do not feel the sting of incarceration in a state prison. There are other men who are sentenced even for shorter periods of time to whom the incarceration is but a very small fraction of the pain and suffering that comes from confinement. It is the ever-present thought to the sensitive mind of blasted hopes, of a ruined life, and above all undoubtedly the thought that there are other hearts that bleed with anguish as well its his own. “Now under this statute, under which you have been indicted, every separate offense is made punishable by imprisonment of not less than five nor more than ten years, in this indictment there are a number of separate offenses charged. The court would have the power, if it thought proper, to infilet a separate and cumulative sentence upon each count in the indictment. That, however, would be entirely disproportionate to the measure of punishment that in my ludgment ought to be inflicted. But I do 'think, and it is the judgment of the court, that the court would not perform the full measure of its dutv if it did not assess upon you the full punishment of the law for one infraction of it. So that the sentence of the court is that you be imprisoned In the state prison at Columbus. 0., for the period of ten years, and that the marshal be charged with the execution of that sentence.” TO < OU TIBI S MOM) VY . Johnson Hum m Half-Hour Talk lIIn V\ He. After the court had pronounced sentence upon Johnson there was a general dispersion 9t tho big crowd in the courtroom.

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Johnson retired to his seat, where lie shook hands with a number of people from Logansport who desired to bid him good-bye. He was calm and apparently unmoved, though he begged one or two of his friends to forget these painful scenes and remember him as he was in brighter days. When the crowd had thinned out somewhat the prisoner, his wife and attorneys accompanied Marshal Kercheval to his office, where there were several papers to which Examiner Caldwell desired his signature. Ihe nartv retired to the marshal's private office, where the gaping crowd was shut out, and here the business was transacted with dispatch. While In this room Johnson sat at the marshal's table with precisely the same air he had when he sat at his own desk at the hank, and signed the papers desired. While he was here S. P. Sheerin and one or two other Logansport people called and bade him good-bye. A bit later the pusoner asked if he could have a private talk with his wife, and they were left together in the room for half an hour. At noon he was returned to the jail. He will be taken to Columbus on Monday. Not Intended fur Caldwell, In the remarks of Judge Baker, when passing sentence on Johnson, he took occasion to refer to the negligence of bank directors and bank examiners in the case, but it is understood that the court s reference to bank examiners was general in its scope ;uid did not apply to Mr. Caldwell who. the officials say, has done excellent work in bringing about the punishment of the peculating bank president. “Johnnie” Johnson’s Ways. Chicago Times-Herald. Young Johnnie Johnson, the Logansport banker who seems to have piled up a shortage of half a million dollars, has many acquaintances in Chicago, and all agree that he always was “one of the best boys imaginable.” Until the recent exposure he was regarded as a model young man, w ithout a bad habit of any sort. But it appears ho was a thoroughbred in his own line ot rascalitv. after all. Shortly before the crash came, and before any one suspected the truth concerning him, he went to one of his boyhood friends and borrowed SB,OOO on his own personal acknowledgment, all tiiat his friend had managed to save through manv y6ars of hard work. Afterward the latter visited him in jail and reproached him for delibertately defrauding a friend. “Well my dear boy,” drawled Johnson, ”1 couldn’t think of accepting money from my enemies, you know.” WALLACE FOR SENATOR

CAMPAIGN TH AT Fit lEN OS' OF THE AUTHOR ARE MAKING. Others Who Will Probably Contest the Honor with Him—Candidates on Democratic Side. * The friends of Gen. Lew Wallace have formally launched him as a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed Senator Turpie, whose term expires in 1899. The formal announcement was made by General Wallace’s home paper, the Crawfordsville Journal, and the Republican press of the State has very generally echoed the favorable things there said about him. At the last senatorial election the friends of General Wallace put forward his name during the last three weeks before the session of the Legislature began and he received seven or eight votes in the caucus. His friends did not make an active canvass and his name was put forward more for the purpose of making a beginning for the next time than in the hope of acquiring any great strength in the Legislature of 1897, which had ham admittedly elected in the interest of Mr. Fairbanks. General Wallace’s friends declare that he cares for but one term in the Senate. They would regard this as a fitting honor to round out a career that has been great in war, in diplomacy and in literature. In prosecuting his canvass they have laid out a different plan from that followed by Mr. Fairbanks, one that is possibly not so tain of success, but one that requires much less time and labor. The Republican organization in 1890 fell into the hands of Mr. • Fairbanks quite naturally as being about the only Republican of lirst-rank prominence left in the State, after General Harrison. Mr. Fairbanks nursed the organization during the succeeding years of Republican depression, and when Republican success came it was so thoroughly under his influence that it was an easy matter for his friends to control the legislative nomination and make him senator. The friends of Wallace- will not seek to control the organization, though they are upon friendly terms with it and are confident that while its influence will not be cast for their candidate it will not be used against him. Nor is it their intention to endeavor to make legislative nominations in his favor. They understand thoroughly his popularity with the people of the State and are depending upon it to carry him through. The idea has been suggested to them of asking the state convention to nominate, and it is possible that this may be done, as it is pretty certain that the name of Wallace would add strength to the Republican campaign throughout the State. As vet General Wallace is the only senatorial candidate announced upon the Republican side. Os those who were in the race last winter Messrs. McKeen and Brownlee are permanently out, but exRepresentative J. F. Hanly, of Williamsport, and Judge R. S. Taylor may be candidates. There is much talk to the effect that Representative George W. Steele, of Marion, will be a candidate, and if lie is he will probably be the leader of the field against Wallace. However, General Wallace's friends believe there is only one man in the State, aside from General Harrison, who could give him any trouble. This is Governor Mount, who has acquired popularity among the masses since lie assumed office in January. However, Governor Mount would not for a moment consider running in opposition to Wallace. They are neighbors and close friends of years’ standing and Wallace w as one of the most powerful factors in Mount's political success. Their relations are such as to preclude the possibility of a clash. The Democrats uo not concede the election of Turpie’s successor to the Republicans. The next Legislature is still a tiling <>f uncertainty. At the hist session a legislative apportionment act was passed and it was very carefully drawn to keep within the lines of the recent anti-gerrymander

decisions of the Supreme Court. Another act was passed repealing the apportionment of 1885, tiie only one left upon the statute books by these decisions. Thus it is not likely that the new apoprtlonment will he attacked in the courts, but' it does not give the Republicans any particular advantage and the complexion of the Legislature will be determined by the result in Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Evansville. These three cities almost invariably go the same way in an election and they are very uncertain. There has already been much talk among the Democrats concerning the senatorship, but all the various aspirants are waiting until Senator Turpie shall make some announcement of his intentions. With him out of the way ex-Governor Matthews. John Gilbert Shanklin of Evansville and John W. Kern of this city will certainly be candidates. Shanklin will be a candidate anyhow and it is possible that all of them will be in the race whether Turpie chooses to stand as a canuiuate again or not. Jf thev do the present senator would have rio chance whatever of winning. He has never had any hold upon the Democratic machine in Indiana and a very slight one upon the people. Indeed, nobody was more surprised at the prominence given to Senator Turnie in the councils of the silver crowd at Chicago last summer than were the Democratic politicians from Indiana. When he is at home he lix’jes the life of a recluse, sees hardly anybody and makes no effort to he friendly with those whom he does see. He has no taste whatever for practical politics and is particularly unknown to the younger generation of Democratic political workers in the State.

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